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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: INN (InterNetNews)
Message-ID: <RDL.94Dec30174359@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 22:43:59 GMT
What is needed to install INN on NEXTSTEP?
Robert
From: gj@rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl (Geert Jan van Oldenborgh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail.cf for SLIP connection?
Date: 30 Dec 1994 23:46:33 GMT
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <3e264p$37v@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
I SLIP into the university terminal server with dymanic addresses, and would
like to be able to mail via my work computer to the outside world. This works
fine with sendmail.subsidiary.cf, except that the return address is set to my
home computer (which is unknown to the university). Does anyone have a
sendmail.cf which sets the return address to the mailhost at work? I tried
hacking at it, but sendmail syntax is not for the faint of heart...
Thanks in advance,
G.J. van Oldenborgh,
gj@rulgm0.leidenuniv.nl
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: 3.3 Mail shortcomings?
Date: 30 Dec 1994 21:36:38 -0800
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <3e2ql6$dtp@samsara.circus.com>
References: <3dv4v6$igd@news.cais.com>
In article <3dv4v6$igd@news.cais.com>, <ted@cais.com> wrote:
>Hi.
>
> Though MIME is a great feature of 3.3 Mail, I'm scratching my head
>as to why other 'obvious' functions of a decent mail UA aren't in it such
>as quoting original message in replies and including signature files (like
>pine)..
>
> The folks at NeXT were great in helping me do .sig files using
>terminal services but we're all stumped on how to do quoted replies.
Wait a minute... what's wrong with selecting the text, and then choosing
"Services->Terminal->Wrap and Reply"? This is what I do all the time!
It does format things to a little bit narrower (I think 60 columns or so),
but I've never found this to be a problem....
Upon examination, this service is doing the following:
fmt 55 58 | sed "s/^/> /"
I changed this to accept Rich Text as well, with no problems.
So... what kind of a system are you on where this isn't working, and
what did you do to it? :)
>Grateful for any help...
Well, this is the oldest one in the book, but "it works just fine on my
system"...
>Ted Okada
>Director
>Washington Bureau
>Food For The Hungry Int'l
>
> \ o / _ o __| \ / |__ o _ \ o / o
> | /\ __\o \o | o/ o/__ /\ | /|\
>./.\...|.\../).|....(.\../o\../.)....|..(\../.|.../.\.../.\.
>Ted Okada
><ted@cais.com>
-Adam Beeman
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From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can you save my butt? (hostname change)
Date: 31 Dec 1994 05:45:50 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3e2r6e$8gh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <KAOKI.94Dec29133605@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
In article <KAOKI.94Dec29133605@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
kaoki@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kenichiro Aoki) writes:
> >>>>> On 27 Dec 1994 15:44:13 GMT, art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) said:
> I am pretty sure Art is right. Just changing /etc/hostconfing in
> NS won't work. (At least in some versions of NS3.x) I also had
> the problem with Emacs.app. I also used HostManager, added an
> alias and was fine. A friend of mine changed his
> /etc/hostconfig, got himself in a mess (won't boot properly) had
> to do a single user boot and put the hostconfig back to its
> original form. I think it has to do with the fact that netinfo
> keeps the hostname in localhost->name.
^
| (just not true in a proper netinfo db)
# niutil -read . /machines/localhost
ip_address: 127.0.0.1
name: localhost
serves: ./local
- in a simple config i.e. standalone, or as a netinfo client, HOSTNAME is
applied into the running kernel with 'hostname', and becomes part of the
net interface config; netinfo merely has a host entry and IP which may
coincide with it. It otherwise is not part of netinfo - unless the machine
is NETMASTER.
Be advised that if your host is also a netinfo master, the host
name is stored in the binary file (here showing a hex dump on the first
few lines - skye is set up as a NETMASTER, and the file indicates it so):
203 [10:26pm skye]:/etc/netinfo/network.nidb>xd -c Collection | head -4
0: 00 00 00 00 03 FF FE E4 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 06 | .....~d........
10: 6D 61 73 74 65 72 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0C | master..........
20: 73 6B 79 65 2F 6E 65 74 77 6F 72 6B 00 00 00 00 | skye/network....
30: 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 04 | ................
This means that if you want to change the name of the server, you
either have to choose a name with the same length (so you can patch
the Collection file easily), or save all of your netinfo db to flat
file form, and blow away the /etc/netinfo/network.nidb directory
and rebuild from scratch (i.e. using virgin hostconfig file and local.nidb
filesets, which can be found in /usr/template/client/etc...).
--
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: treed@bmt.gun.com (Timothy Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Booting NS 3.3 Intel off non-primary SCSI disk, CD-ROM?
Date: 31 Dec 1994 04:59:48 GMT
Organization: Black Market Technologies, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3e2og4$d87@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
Keywords: 3.3 intel boot cd-rom
Hi,
We're having a problem installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Gateway 66V with an Adaptec
2740 EISA SCSI adapter, ATI Ultra Pro, and a PAS16. The boot disk in this
case is the fourth disk on the SCSI chain with a target ID of 3. Although the
documentation and boot help screen (? at the boot: prompt) says that it's
possible to install NEXTSTEP on a non-primary disk, /etc/fstab seems to always
have / on sd0. This confuses NEXTSTEP and prevents the system from mounting
root read-write. Questions:
* Is this a bug?
* Has anyone successfully installed NS on a non-primary SCSI disk, and how did
you do it?
* How can I boot Intel in single user off the CDROM so I can fix /etc/fstab
myself? This is not documented for Intel as far as I can tell.
As an aside, we've installed DOS, Windows, WFW3.11, Chicago, NT, OS/2 v2 and
Warp beta, and even Solaris 2.4 on this system with absolutely no problems. We
actually had to change the IRQ of the Adaptec from 15 to 11 to get the CD-ROM
installation to function. Argh!
Thanks,
Tim
From: pgd@algonet.se (Per Lindqvist)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Exploding electric components
Date: 31 Dec 1994 10:06:10 GMT
Organization: AlgoNet Public Access Node, Stockholm
Message-ID: <3e3aei$aos@aristotle.algonet.se>
References: <3c52ca$edg@news.cs.tulane.edu> <DDG.94Dec9171805@sun86.cci.com> <D0pGyp.KpJ@news.cis.umn.edu> <1994Dec13.010042.25983@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <13DEC199410164822@cvax.psi.ch> <6ypxkmoZjG8H072yn@msen.com>
In <6ypxkmoZjG8H072yn@msen.com>, brain@msen.com (Jim Brain) writes:
>I learned about this fact the hard way, as you say. Mistakenly picked up the
>largest EL cap in my spare bin to make a quick 7805 PS. Had 18VAC comin'
>in, but (you guessed it), cap was less. (10 or 15 V I think).
>
>Plug in, power looks OK, start to test, then POP!!!. That paper just went all
>over the cirsuit. As you say, took ages to get it all out. Scared me to
>death (was in a small room with bad acoustics, so the BANG seemed HUGE.)
I was once sitting and working on my PC computer. Suddenly there was a big
*** BANG ***. First I thought that it must have been some kid playing, so I looked
out the window -- not one person there.
My second thought was that it must have been something electric, and I waited for what
would come next, and sniffed the air for the smell of burning electric components.
Nothing.
I really could not figure out what created that loud bang. The power did not go away,
the computer did not stop, and nothing more happened. Capacitors can explode, but they
leaves a mess on the circuit board, and the computer would not continue to work with
such a fault.
Weeks later, when I opened up my computer for a completely different reason, I located
a strange half-blown up component on the motherboard. It turned out that the CMOS battery
backup NiCd accumulator was the component that exploded. The funny thing is that it still works.
As for exploding components. I have an audio amplifier that used to sit in a PA-system.
It was reported to me that it does not work anymore, and I replaced it with something else.
When opening up the box, on one of the PC-boards I saw something that looked like a
black crater. Aha, a blown-up electrolytic capacitor, was my immediate throught.
But on closer inspection it turned out that ALL components within an area on that pc-board
had exploded without trace. Resisitors, capacitors, transistors. Everything that was left was
some pieces of wires that they were soldered on the pc-board with.
So ALL components are able to explode.
The loadest bang probably comes from NiCd-accumulators or maybe electrolytic capacitors.
The biggest mess comes from electrolyctic capacitors, that when exploading smears the
victinity of the PC-board with a conductive ETCHING liquid. It will immediately shortcircuit
the nearby electronics, and left on its own will also etch away the leads on the components.
(Yes, I have seen that also)
From: pgd@algonet.se (Per Lindqvist)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: sysadmin purity test! (xposted)
Date: 31 Dec 1994 10:28:23 GMT
Organization: AlgoNet Public Access Node, Stockholm
Message-ID: <3e3bo7$aos@aristotle.algonet.se>
References: <3c0ufb$qet@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <1994Dec9.142817.24207@proximus.north.de> <wimlD18HIC.7pB@netcom.com>
Have you ever had to step into a computer to fix something?
Have you ever had a big-size (14 inch) disk drive make a massive head-crash?
Or: Do you know what you see though the glass window of mainframe disk drive
after a massive head crash?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: Can you save my butt? (hostname change)
Message-ID: <D1oxMz.3wC@trapac.com>
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
References: <KAOKI.94Dec29133605@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <3e2r6e$8gh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 19:47:22 GMT
In article <3e2r6e$8gh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
>203 [10:26pm skye]:/etc/netinfo/network.nidb>xd -c Collection | head -4
> 0: 00 00 00 00 03 FF FE E4 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 06 | .....~d........
> 10: 6D 61 73 74 65 72 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0C | master..........
> 20: 73 6B 79 65 2F 6E 65 74 77 6F 72 6B 00 00 00 00 | skye/network....
> 30: 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 04 | ................
>
>This means that if you want to change the name of the server, you
>either have to choose a name with the same length (so you can patch
>the Collection file easily), or save all of your netinfo db to flat
>file form, and blow away the /etc/netinfo/network.nidb directory
>and rebuild from scratch (i.e. using virgin hostconfig file and local.nidb
>filesets, which can be found in /usr/template/client/etc...).
Huh?
Why not edit this information using NetInfoManager.app? Open the
root domain, double click on the "/" entry, and change the name
there.
And where can I get xd from?
>
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
From: tmeyer@mcs.com (Tom Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail.cf for SLIP connection?
Date: 31 Dec 1994 23:09:47 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <3e4obs$219@News1.mcs.com>
References: <3e264p$37v@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
In article <3e264p$37v@highway.LeidenUniv.nl> gj@rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl
(Geert Jan van Oldenborgh) writes:
> I SLIP into the university terminal server with dymanic addresses, and
would
> like to be able to mail via my work computer to the outside world. This
works
> fine with sendmail.subsidiary.cf, except that the return address is set
to my
> home computer (which is unknown to the university). Does anyone have a
> sendmail.cf which sets the return address to the mailhost at work? I
tried
> hacking at it, but sendmail syntax is not for the faint of heart...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> G.J. van Oldenborgh,
> gj@rulgm0.leidenuniv.nl
If you can't wait until 3.3 NeXTMail (which lets you set the Reply-To
address), here's what I did to my sendmail to let me send mail from my home
machine. All it does is tack your real domain name onto any 1 token address
(I'm assuming you've got a standalone machine):
good luck.
-tom
** substitute your mail relay host for 'kitten.mcs.net'
# major relay host
DRkitten.mcs.net
CRmailhost
** substitute the domain you want for "mcs.com"
Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
S11
R$- $@$1<@mcs.com>
R$+@$- $@$1<@mcs.com>
From: Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: sysadmin purity test! (xposted)
Date: 01 Jan 1995 13:38:50 GMT
Organization: SINTEF RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway
Message-ID: <STEINAR.HAUG.95Jan1143850@runit.sintef.no>
References: <3chbnr$sql@genaz.athena.livjm.ac.uk>
<3ckue0$gqo@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
<3cog65$cha@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3dpeku$9f@Hadrian.Boers.no>
In-reply-to: mrr@Hadrian.Boers.no's message of 27 Dec 1994 17:16:30 +0100
> >>Did you ever "ifconfig en0 down" while logged in from a remote host ?
>
> Was the host in another timezone? Another country?
> Did you have to make the plane trip there to fix it?
Did you ever upgrade Sunlink X.25 on a host far away (in another
country), said host being reachable only via (you guessed it :-)
X.25?
Steinar Haug, SINTEF RUNIT, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
Email: Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no
From: gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Booting NS 3.3 Intel off non-primary SCSI disk, CD-ROM?
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 15:03:20 -0800
Organization: iRock.Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <gj-0101951503200001@gj.irock.com>
References: <3e2og4$d87@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
In article <3e2og4$d87@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>, treed@bmt.gun.com wrote:
> We're having a problem installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Gateway 66V...
> Questions:
>
> * Is this a bug?
>
> * Has anyone successfully installed NS on a non-primary SCSI disk, and
how did
> you do it?
I did it. There is a NeXTAnswer available on the subject. You need to install
NS 3.3 on the disk with it connected and configured as the first SCSI Device.
I'd disconnect all other drives for the install. Then, after all is finished,
you can mod fstab to reflect the new drive location, then you can move it.
I boot from a floppy using "sd(1)mach-kernel".
--
"G. J." at iRock.Communications[TM]
mailto:gj@irock.com <http://www.irock.com>
The small 'i' is for interactive,
and the WWW stands for Wacky, Wacky, Wacky!
From: gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 15:05:05 -0800
Organization: iRock.Communications
Message-ID: <gj-0101951505050001@gj.irock.com>
In article <3dmujg$6e@news.blkbox.com>, steve@talus.com wrote:
> We noticed that it was dog slow more than two months ago and we _did_
> mention it to NeXT. Their comment was that _they_ hadn't noticed any
> problems and basically blew us off. They also told us that no one else
> had reported a similar problem. Hmmmm. So much for reporting bugs.
It's slow and jumpy (window drags) with the Diamond Stealth 64 PCI
(S3 964) too. Kind of a bummer that WinNT 3.5 video performance
flys on the same card and NS 3.3 sludges along. The color looks
good though and the OS gives the white box a really cool look!
--
"G. J." at iRock.Communications[TM]
mailto:gj@irock.com <http://www.irock.com>
The small 'i' is for interactive,
and the WWW stands for Wacky, Wacky, Wacky!
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Booting NS 3.3 Intel off non-primary SCSI disk, CD-ROM?
Date: 1 Jan 1995 16:02:26 -0800
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <3e7fqi$k3e@samsara.circus.com>
References: <3e2og4$d87@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
Keywords: 3.3 intel boot cd-rom
In article <3e2og4$d87@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>,
Timothy Reed <treed@bmt.gun.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>We're having a problem installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Gateway 66V with an
>Adaptec 2740 EISA SCSI adapter, ATI Ultra Pro, and a PAS16. The boot disk
>in this case is the fourth disk on the SCSI chain with a target ID of 3.
>Although the documentation and boot help screen (? at the boot: prompt) says
>that it's possible to install NEXTSTEP on a non-primary disk, /etc/fstab
>0. This confuses NEXTSTEP and prevents theimary SCSI disk, CD-ROM?
>system from mounting root read-write. Questions:
>
>* Is this a bug?
I don't know if it's a "bug" per se, since it might be that you intend to
make the disk a primary one, later... and that's how things do get set up.
I agree things could definitely be a little more clear. It could be a bug...
it could be a lack of documentation on how to install on a non-primary disk.
Anyhow, the following should be enough to get you going, and if there's not
a NeXTAnswer on this issue yet, perhaps someone will write one shortly.
>* Has anyone successfully installed NS on a non-primary SCSI disk, and how
>did you do it?
The trick is that until you've got your fstab fixed, you have to specify your
root device from the booter's prompt. This can be done by putting
"rootdev=sd3a" as a boot parameter.
Another problem, of course, is where to put the NEXTSTEP booter; if NEXTSTEP
isn't on your primary disk, then of course your booter might not be found,
or it might not be looking on the right disk by default. What you can do is
make a boot floppy which has the nextstep booter on it, by typing
"disk -b /dev/fd0a" as root. For the time being, you can use your install
boot floppy's booter to get up and running.
For this particular situation, it sounds like you need to stick a boot floppy
into the drive, boot up, and at the "boot:" prompt, type
"sd(3,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd3a". Once you fix your fstab,
"sd(3,a)mach_kernel" should do the trick.
>* How can I boot Intel in single user off the CDROM so I can fix /etc/fstab
>myself? This is not documented for Intel as far as I can tell.
Booting off the CD into single user mode is not fun, because if your root
device is the CDROM, then you're fairly handicapped, what with no writable
/tmp, /etc/mtab, etc... Fortunately, the "rootdev=sd3a" will override
/etc/fstab's entry for the root device, and this should be unnecessary. To
boot single user mode, you just need to add a "-s" to your boot parameters.
If you still need to boot off the CDROM in single user mode, then the procedure
is as follows:
1. insert nextstep install boot floppy and power up.
2. at the boot: prompt, you need to specify "-s". If you want a
writable root device, then "mach_kernel rootdev=sdNa -s" where N
is the drive you want.
3. You'll be prompted for the device drivers disk, etc, just as if
you were doing a fresh installation.
4. Once you've picked device drivers, instead of going into the final
steps of preparing to install, you'll be dumped into sh since you
specified "-s".
Again, you probably won't need to do this... but it's nice to know it can be
done.
>As an aside, we've installed DOS, Windows, WFW3.11, Chicago, NT, OS/2 v2 and
>Warp beta, and even Solaris 2.4 on this system with absolutely no problems. We
>actually had to change the IRQ of the Adaptec from 15 to 11 to get the CD-ROM
>installation to function. Argh!
Hm, yeah, the adaptecs usually ship with a default IRQ of 11, and
unfortunately that's what NEXTSTEP presumes unless told otherwise. To further
this, I don't believe you can tell NEXTSTEP otherwise until after you've
gotten the system installed. However, if you want to put it back, just
launch Configure.app, and set the new IRQ, then save your configuration, power
down, and change the IRQ on the adaptor before rebooting.
>Thanks,
>Tim
I hope this has been helpful...
-Adam Beeman
--
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From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN (InterNetNews)
Date: 1 Jan 1995 16:20:49 -0800
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <3e7gt1$k9r@samsara.circus.com>
References: <RDL.94Dec30174359@world.std.com>
In article <RDL.94Dec30174359@world.std.com>,
Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote:
>What is needed to install INN on NEXTSTEP?
>
>Robert
Patience.
Time.
A compiler.
The ability to read documentation.
Some knowledge on the internals of the OS are helpful, but not required.
I did this once before, and it turned out all I needed to do was change one
master configuration file. Unfortunately, I had to do this by trial and error,
and each time the compile fails, you have to change this configuration file,
and start recompiling from scratch all over again. Also, I no longer have
the configuration file, because it was for someone else's machine.
The general recipe is as follows:
1. Skim over the installation directions.
2. Edit the configuration file to what seems appropriate.
3. Begin the compile.
4. When the compile bombs, search the configuration file for options that
might be related to why the compile failed.
5. Edit the configuration file and toggle some options the other way.
6. Go back to step 3.
7. If it compiles, install it. I think you have to create a news account or
group... don't remember.
8. Read the dire warnings about the configuration files, and disregard them.
9. Set up your newsfeeds file.
10. Go?
Hope this is at least somewhat helpful. I was up to step 8 after about 4
hours, but it would have been less time if I'd done the compiling on a faster
machine.
-Adam
--
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// Adam Beeman \\ I wish I could speak for my employer //
// Home = buddha@circus.com \\ Work = Adam@NeXT.COM (Contractor) //
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From: scott@atlanta.com (Scott M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail.cf for SLIP connection?
Date: 2 Jan 1995 00:50:13 GMT
Organization: Internet Atlanta
Message-ID: <3e7ik5$im7@metro.atlanta.com>
References: <3e4obs$219@News1.mcs.com>
In article <3e4obs$219@News1.mcs.com> tmeyer@mcs.com (Tom Meyer)
writes:
> If you can't wait until 3.3 NeXTMail (which lets you set the
Reply-To
> address), here's what I did to my sendmail to let me send mail from
my home
> machine. All it does is tack your real domain name onto any 1 token
address
> (I'm assuming you've got a standalone machine):
>
> good luck.
>
> -tom
>
> ** substitute your mail relay host for 'kitten.mcs.net'
>
> # major relay host
> DRkitten.mcs.net
> CRmailhost
>
>
>
> ** substitute the domain you want for "mcs.com"
>
> Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
> S11
> R$- $@$1<@mcs.com>
> R$+@$- $@$1<@mcs.com>
I was able to do this by changing $w to my desired Email hostname in
sendmail.subsidiary.cf:
[...]
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
#Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
# Set hostname to go to POP server <--- LINE ADDED
Dwatlanta.com <--- LINE ADDED
# major relay mailer
DMether
# major relay host
DRmailhost
CRmailhost
[...]
I changed the mailhost alias with netinfo instead of naming the mail
host in the config file.
--
Scott M. Jones Atlanta, GA, USA
scott@atlanta.com (NeXTmail, MIME accepted)
sjones@netcom.com (MIME accepted)
From: kcd@babylon5.jumpgate.com (Kenneth Dyke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Date: 2 Jan 1995 02:45:07 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3e7pbj$6d5@news1.best.com>
References: <gj-0101951505050001@gj.irock.com>
Keywords: 3.3, PCI, VLB, Video
In article <gj-0101951505050001@gj.irock.com> gj@irock.com ("G. J.") writes:
> In article <3dmujg$6e@news.blkbox.com>, steve@talus.com wrote:
>
> > We noticed that it was dog slow more than two months ago and we _did_
> > mention it to NeXT. Their comment was that _they_ hadn't noticed any
> > problems and basically blew us off. They also told us that no one else
> > had reported a similar problem. Hmmmm. So much for reporting bugs.
>
> It's slow and jumpy (window drags) with the Diamond Stealth 64 PCI
> (S3 964) too. Kind of a bummer that WinNT 3.5 video performance
> flys on the same card and NS 3.3 sludges along. The color looks
> good though and the OS gives the white box a really cool look!
I'm also having performance problems with the Diamond Stealth 64, but I'm on a
VLB system and not PCI, so I wonder if it's a more general 3.3 display
problem... :( I've tried removing the PCI support drivers (someone else
mentioned that it was supposed to speed things up on non-PCI systems) but that
didn't improve things any. Sounds to me like something got botched in the DPS
subsystem. Ugh. The screwball part is that it's just color windows that are
slow. One would think that 32-bit deep color windows would be the easiest to
drag around as (I hope) they're stored in RAM in the same format that the
graphics cards all use.
-Ken
--
Kenneth C. Dyke | GCS/E d-(---) H s !g !p au a- w+ v(-) C++(++++) P- L-
kcd@jumpgate.com | 3- UIX++++$ E--- K- N++ W--- M--(-) !V -po+ f Y+ 5++
NeXTMail and MIME Ok | j- G' tv b+ D+ B- e+ h+ u**(---) n----(---) y++(*>**)
IRC: Nyx | PGP Public key available via finger | "Just one fix." -Ministry
From: nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Exploding electric components
Followup-To: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Date: 2 Jan 1995 04:56:31 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <3e811v$1egg@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
That reminds me of one of my favorite warning messages:
"WARNING: Use of this program may damage your monitor hardware"
-- from vgaset, a linux utility
-nate
--
Nate Sammons <nate@vis.colostate.edu>
System Administrator - CSU Computer Visualization Laboratory
http://www.vis.colostate.edu/info/staff/nate
From: mark@nextstep.dorm6.nctu.edu.tw (Lin Yi-chih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Date: 2 Jan 1995 09:09:29 GMT
Organization: Dep. Computer Sci. & Information Eng., Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3e8fs9$egr@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
References: <3e7pbj$6d5@news1.best.com>
> I'm also having performance problems with the Diamond Stealth 64, but
I'm on a
> VLB system and not PCI, so I wonder if it's a more general 3.3 display
> problem... :( I've tried removing the PCI support drivers (someone
else
> mentioned that it was supposed to speed things up on non-PCI systems)
but that
> didn't improve things any. Sounds to me like something got botched in
the DPS
> subsystem. Ugh. The screwball part is that it's just color windows
that are
> slow. One would think that 32-bit deep color windows would be the
easiest to
> drag around as (I hope) they're stored in RAM in the same format that
the
> graphics cards all use.
I use ATI mach32 VLB card. The performance for display is just
O.K -- a little bit slower, but the disk performance is something
down. I use DPT 2022 EISA SCSI card and find the "seeking" pefrormance
is much slower in BenchMark and the system is slower when I use CD-ROM.
I do not know if I can use the old DPT driver in 3.3. Since the
poor performance in Disk Controller, the overall performance is more
slower.
Mark
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN (InterNetNews)
Date: 02 Jan 1995 01:47:52 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan2014752@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <RDL.94Dec30174359@world.std.com> <3e7gt1$k9r@samsara.circus.com>
To: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
In-reply-to: buddha@samsara.circus.com's message of 1 Jan 1995 16:20:49 -0800
<buddha@samsara.circus.com> writes:
>In article <RDL.94Dec30174359@world.std.com>,
>Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote:
>>What is needed to install INN on NEXTSTEP?
>>
>>Robert
I think we can do a bit better than the shot gun approach.
## $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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
Subject: Re: NetInfo securiety ? Any ?
Message-ID: <D1nJoI.B7@shinto.nbg.sub.org>
Sender: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
Organization: STEPeople's home. (A NUGI member)
References: <3drs22$hft@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 01:48:18 GMT
In article <3drs22$hft@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
Lemson) writes:
> Huh? You have to be root in order to change the netinfo database,
> unless there is a _writers property in the directory in question.
>
Hi1
Well..I should have mentioned that I am aware of the _writers. I am
thinking about someone writing a program.
(Btw. I am missing the _reader entry...??)
Now the big question is. Can someone bypass all the authentication ?
See, the NILoginPanel's method runModal:inDomain: does tell you YES/NO
but you don't have to care !
The process of authentication seems too much dependant on the application
you are using. So write your own..bypass the security ?
ni_status ni_setpassword(void *handle, ni_name password)
Sets the password for the session to password. By
default, no password is
....well why do the docs endup like that ? no password is what ?
...I don't understand that!
ni_status ni_setuser(void *handle, ni_name username)
Changes the username associated with the session. By
default, the username is the one associated with the
user-ID that was used during the UNIX login process.
Now where is the problem for a normal user to write an application that
does set the ni_setuser to root ? This function does not require a
password !??
The setpassword is no associated with setuser as far as I can tell.
Any idea ?
Aloha
Tomi
P.S: Maybe this should go to c.s.n.programmer...
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From: bill@umsa7.umd.edu (Bill Sudbrink)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re^2: Exploding electric components
Date: 2 Jan 1995 16:38:14 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3e9a5m$d1f@umd5.umd.edu>
References: <3e811v$1egg@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons) writes:
>That reminds me of one of my favorite warning messages:
>"WARNING: Use of this program may damage your monitor hardware"
> -- from vgaset, a linux utility
>-nate
That reminds me of the time that I won an EGA monitor (back when
they were expensive) in a bet with the guy that sold hardware to
the company that I was working for at the time. He didn't belive
that you could damage a monochrome monitor with a program. I
wrote a program to fiddle with the timing registers on the mono
card and poof, bye-bye monitor. Got a really nice puff of smoke
that really stank out it as it died.
Bill
>--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Message-ID: <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <gj-0101951505050001@gj.irock.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 22:22:07 GMT
>One would think that 32-bit deep color windows would be the easiest to
>drag around as (I hope) they're stored in RAM in the same format that the
>graphics cards all use.
Actually, I have come to believe that the problem is with translating from
one color depth to another. If you open a 32 bit window, like a WetPaint
document, it drags very smoothly. Open a 16 bit windows in 32 bit, and it
lags very sadly.
The workspace uses 12/16 bit icons, doesn't it?
In any case, you can help things a bit by using a color depth preferences
dealie and setting stuff to 8 bit, if you don't always need color. It helps,
but I'm still going to trash NeXTStep unless NeXT fixes this.... and soon!
Everybody who has this problem, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUG NEXT. They need to
know that it's not just a fluke.
Perhaps we should make a list for them of everyone on the net who was seen
Video performance drop considerably - I gather that NeXT seems to think
the problem is not very widespread...
Let me know if you're having the same troubles; and with what video,
drivers, etc... Strength in numbers?
Mark
Schwettmann
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From: gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: i/o errors
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 15:25:56 -0800
Organization: iRock.Communications
Message-ID: <gj-0201951525560001@gj.irock.com>
I'm getting a random slew of i/o errors on the partition NS 3.3 is
installed on (white), when reading from that HD partition. Since there
is no Unix equiv of CHKDSK, is there any NS 3.3 util available to
check the disk structure for errors?
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From: kcd@babylon5.jumpgate.com (Kenneth Dyke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Date: 3 Jan 1995 03:34:39 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3eagkf$kc5@news1.best.com>
References: <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com>
Keywords: 3.3, Video, possible explanation?
In article <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com> schwett@netcom.com writes:
> >One would think that 32-bit deep color windows would be the easiest to
> >drag around as (I hope) they're stored in RAM in the same format that the
> >graphics cards all use.
>
> Actually, I have come to believe that the problem is with translating from
> one color depth to another. If you open a 32 bit window, like a WetPaint
> document, it drags very smoothly. Open a 16 bit windows in 32 bit, and it
> lags very sadly.
I think you might have nailed it. I just tried dragging around a 32-bit
jpeg file in a window approximately the same size as my Mail folder and it's
significantly faster. Dragging the Mail folder window really dogs. It
looks like the translation that really got broken was the 12-bit to 24-bit
because shell windows and such still drag quickly. I suppose I could try to
see how well 8-bit grayscale windows drag around. [I just tried it and
eight-bit still flies right along].
> The workspace uses 12/16 bit icons, doesn't it?
>
> In any case, you can help things a bit by using a color depth preferences
> dealie and setting stuff to 8 bit, if you don't always need color. It helps,
> but I'm still going to trash NeXTStep unless NeXT fixes this.... and soon!
Well, I like NEXTSTEP too much to trash it over this little annoyance, but
I do think a bug report is in order.
> Everybody who has this problem, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUG NEXT. They need to
> know that it's not just a fluke.
Agreed.
-Ken
(Otherwise an extremely happy camper with 3.3.)
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Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
From: glamm@i10.msi.umn.edu (Bob Glamm)
Subject: Re: Exploding electric components
Message-ID: <D1t95w.GG9@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <3e811v$1egg@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 03:49:30 GMT
>That reminds me of one of my favorite warning messages:
>"WARNING: Use of this program may damage your monitor hardware"
> -- from vgaset, a linux utility
>-nate
Argh. That brings back heinous memories. I managed to destroy a 14" NI
monitor trying to set up a @#Q*$ Diamond SpeedStar 24X to run X.
Of course, when the monitor bandwidth is 65MHz, and I programmed it for
80MHz, I didn't quite expect it to destroy itself. Just push the
limits a little bit. ;) That was 4 weeks, $100, and 4 calls to CTX.
CTX also screwed up the repair, BTW.
Bob Glamm
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HOME PHONE (612)623-9437 | Minnesota Supercomputer Institute
From: tmeyer@mcs.com (Tom Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: configuring HP 4MP printer on Intel
Date: 3 Jan 1995 05:01:28 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <3ealn8$r6u@News1.mcs.com>
So I go buy an HP 4MP printer today. Since it was kind of on a whim (I go
to dinner at my parents' house and my dad goes "wanna go buy yourself a
laser printer ?"), I bought the printer not really knowing what types of
cables I needed. I get home and I try to use the centronics-to-parallel
cable I bought. Hooks up OK, but PrintManager only lets you attatch to a
serial port or SCSI port (w/ NeXT color printers only) so I'm kinda screwed
right now.
Can anyone help me out ?? I think I'll have to do one of 2 things:
1) buy a dual serial port cable and attatch my modem and the printer to the
same port. I just won't be able to print while I'm using my SLIP
connection, I guess.
2) get a bus mouse (what the hell is a bus mouse anyways ? does it just
attatch to the parallel port ?? Do I have to buy some kind of special
card?)
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Right now I've got a
rather expensive paperweight sitting on my desk :-)
thanks,
tom meyer
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
tmeyer@mcs.com
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POP3 server for NeXTSTEP
Date: 31 Dec 1994 20:13:42 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3e4e1m$lhs@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Can any point me at a POP server for NeXTSTEP. I have checked the FAQ
and ftp sites. Is there a POP3 server available for NeXTSTEP?
Reply by email if possible.
Dave
email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
EMBL, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring NeXT interface for emacs 19
Date: 2 Jan 1995 12:09:04 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3e8qd0$i1u@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Can anyone point me in the right direction in configuring the NeXT
interface for Emacs so that the scroll bar is wider than the default.
Also how do I add more defintions for filename extensions that use
Emacs. ie how do I get Emacs.app to be a named app for .doc or any
other arbitrary file extension. At present there seems to be a fixed
list of extensions. I would like to change this.
Dave
------------------------------------------------------------------
David Grindrod
NMR System Manager
EMBL
Meyerhofstrasse 1,
69117 Heidelberg.
Tel: 49-6221-387554 (Work)
49-6221-387183355 (Home)
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
NeXTMail: Accepted but MIME prefered.
HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Re: cryptor bundle for 3.3 ?
Message-ID: <D1sMIn.3Mt@rna.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <D169p9.AA6@ilink.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 19:37:35 GMT
Eike Dierks writes
> Where is it ?
It just works.
--Gerben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Need HP C2490A-300 disktab entry
Message-ID: <D1tn43.4KL@rna.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 08:48:02 GMT
Normally you don't need a disktab entry on a NEXTSTEP system. The tools inquire
parameters from the disk. But one parameter they don't inquire/can't inquire,
that is the rotation speed. This implies that all file systems on hard disks
are optimized at the default of 3600 rpm. Current drives are mostly 5400 rpm
and my new HP drive is even 6400 rpm.
The only way to solve this is by installing a system on another hard disk, and
then create a disktab entry for the HP disk on that system and then BuildDisk
(which includes the mkfs) on the HP disk. A long workaround. But I cannot edit
disktab on the CD-ROM ;-)
So, if someone can send me a disktab entry for the HP C2490A-300...
Yours,
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Unexplained behavior relating to NetInfo
Date: 3 Jan 1995 13:57:44 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Message-ID: <3ebl4o$l6j@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Keywords: netinfo, uknown host
I would greatly appreciate any help on this:
I noticed this behavior despite the effort to start with a completely new
netinfo database. It all started when I was configuring my cube for ppp
and then noticed this behavior. I disabled ppp started with a new netinfo
and configured the machine as a stand alone machine by using the
HostManager.app.
Here's what I see:
1. At boot time after "status file service deamons:" the system waits for
about 4 minutes before it goes on and then the message "autonfsmount:
can't get my address bootpd.d" shows up despite the fact that prior to
this the machine has read the hostconfig and assigned host the intented
host name "dendro87".
2. After bot up and root login, the netstat and nidomain commands from a
shell pauses for 4-5 minutes before they come back with a response.
nidomain after the delay returns:"uknown host -dendro87"
3. The netinfoManager app stays with its icon highlighted in the lauching
mode also for 4-5 minutes before the main windoe appears for the local
domain. HOWEVER, this windoe is titled "local@No Host Name Registered -
/". Do not forget that the host name has been defined in hostconfig and
the host variable has been assigned to the intented one ("dendro87").
4. When I ping dendro87 I get the "uknown host" message but when I ping
with the IP address declared in hostconfig, I get 0% packet loss.
THE QUESTION IS: Why NetInfo does not see the hostname (if this is how you
interpret the behavior in point 3 above) and how do I correct it.
Does the delay in netstat and nidomain mean that it tries to find it name
and it fails? Are all this normal ? If NOT how do I correct them?
Anxiously waiting for replies,
--jm
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|Dr.John Michopoulos (yanni)| Tel: (202) 767-2165 or -2189 |
| Research Scientist | Fax: (202) 767-9181 |
| Naval Research Laboratory | e-mail: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil |
From: allen@atienmh.sph.jhu.edu (Allen Y. Tien), Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail
Date: 3 Jan 1995 16:20:01 GMT
Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Message-ID: <3ebtfh$b03@jhunix1.hcf.jhu.edu>
After upgrading to 3.3 on a NeXTstation I can no longer send mail - the
system can't find the nameserver. Does anyone know what got messed up
from the upgrade?
This is the typical result:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
554 Bedirhan Ustun<ustun@who.ch>... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer
from name server)
Thanks,
Allen Tien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: tim@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh)
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Message-ID: <D1u9L9.10J@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu>
Keywords: 3.3, Video, possible explanation?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Continuing Professional Programs
References: <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com> <3eagkf$kc5@news1.best.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 16:53:32 GMT
While you are "bugging NeXT" about a fix for video performance, how about
a fix for EDIT Print -- a single page file always prints an enpty second
page. It has been this way for far too long IMHO.
--Tim
--
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tim@aplcenmp.apl.JHU.EDU |8713 Briarcroft Lane
|Laurel, MD 20708-1355
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing master netinfo server
Date: 3 Jan 1995 17:37:05 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ec201$18pr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
It's time to upgrade the machine that acts as master netinfo
server. I'm going from NS 2.2 to 3.2. Since these things always screw
up, I thought it better to have another machine acting as the master
server before upgrading the current master.
Before I shoot myself irrevocably in the foot anyone have
suggestions to offer on the following?
1. Log into current master netinfo server (arafel).
Open domain of new master server (fenris). open machines/localhost.
Edit serves property. Add new value ./network.
2. Open / directory in / domain. Edit master property.
Change arafel to fenris.
3. Login to new server.
rcp -r arafel:/etc/netinfo/network.nidb /etc/netinfo
4. Kill nibindd on new server
Start new instance of nibindd on new server.
At this point the old server is a clone master server, correct?
Any gotchas? I know of the change in the structure of the
NextPrinter local entries, and the addition of netinfo exports. Any
other reasons to not have a 3.2 machine serve a network database created
on a 2.2 machine?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lpr: Command line vs Print Panel
Date: 3 Jan 1995 18:22:59 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ec4m3$dnm@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
What's the diff between printing from the command line via lpr and
printing from the print panel. I've had several cases recently of
machines that were quite happy to print from command line, but would
hang for 20 seconds when printing from a the print panel, and come back
with a 'Can not connect to printer daemon' message.
Does the print panel invoke a different daemon?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: ACI_INC@news.delphi.com (ACI_INC@DELPHI.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Date: 3 Jan 1995 13:44:49 -0500
Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
Message-ID: <3ec5v1$dnu@news2.delphi.com>
References: <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com> <3eagkf$kc5@news1.best.com> <D1u9L9.10J@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu>
Keywords: 3.3, Video, possible explanation?
tim@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh) writes:
>While you are "bugging NeXT" about a fix for video performance, how about
>a fix for EDIT Print -- a single page file always prints an enpty second
>page. It has been this way for far too long IMHO.
> --Tim
>--
That is news to us! Never seen this problem in the last 4 years. Check
your printer!!!
Karlheinz
>Tim Pugh |MicroCALL Services
>tim@aplcenmp.apl.JHU.EDU |8713 Briarcroft Lane
> |Laurel, MD 20708-1355
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can you save my butt? (hostname change)
Date: 3 Jan 1995 18:32:27 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ec57r$dnm@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <KAOKI.94Dec29133605@ps1.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <3e2r6e$8gh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> <D1oxMz.3wC@trapac.com>
Karl Kraft (karl@trapac.com) wrote:
: In article <3e2r6e$8gh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
: >203 [10:26pm skye]:/etc/netinfo/network.nidb>xd -c Collection | head -4
: > 0: 00 00 00 00 03 FF FE E4 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 06 | .....~d........
: > 10: 6D 61 73 74 65 72 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0C | master..........
: > 20: 73 6B 79 65 2F 6E 65 74 77 6F 72 6B 00 00 00 00 | skye/network....
: > 30: 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 04 | ................
: >
: >This means that if you want to change the name of the server, you
: >either have to choose a name with the same length (so you can patch
: >the Collection file easily), or save all of your netinfo db to flat
: >file form, and blow away the /etc/netinfo/network.nidb directory
: >and rebuild from scratch (i.e. using virgin hostconfig file and local.nidb
: >filesets, which can be found in /usr/template/client/etc...).
: Huh?
: Why not edit this information using NetInfoManager.app? Open the
: root domain, double click on the "/" entry, and change the name
: there.
You can, -- if the master server is running. However if it isn't, then
any clone server looks at that master property, and says, "That's not
me. Read only access"
You may be able to get around this by running hostname mastername
then making your changes, then running hostname newname afterword.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Message-ID: <schwettD1uF7x.Bnu@netcom.com>
Keywords: 3.3, Video, possible explanation?
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com> <3eagkf$kc5@news1.best.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 18:55:08 GMT
kcd@babylon5.jumpgate.com (Kenneth Dyke) writes:
>looks like the translation that really got broken was the 12-bit to 24-bit
>because shell windows and such still drag quickly. I suppose I could try to
>see how well 8-bit grayscale windows drag around. [I just tried it and
>eight-bit still flies right along].
>Well, I like NEXTSTEP too much to trash it over this little annoyance, but
>I do think a bug report is in order.
I really LOVED 3.2, but, I don't *need* NeXTStep, really, and the video
performance in 3.3 on my system makes it altogether unpleasant to work with...
>> Everybody who has this problem, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUG NEXT. They need to
>> know that it's not just a fluke.
>Agreed.
Well... I hear from NEXT that they ARE aware of the problem, that they
DO know that it's not a fluke, and that they are working on it...
This is enough for me, for now, so I'm not going to fdisk that drive
just yet.
Happy New Year, all!
Mark Schwettmann
--
schwett@netcom.com --- mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
"
a smile cartooned tooth for tooth, you said irony was the shackles of youth
"
From: cummings@mendel.Berkeley.EDU ( Michael P. Cummings )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail address problem
Date: 3 Jan 1995 20:45:19 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Message-ID: <3ecd0v$4vo@agate.berkeley.edu>
We are experiencing a little problem with my mail address. Perhaps
people out there can help with a fix. Our complete e-mail address does
not appear in the From: field of the header and therefore people cannot
simply reply to our messages, but instead have to type the entire e-mail
address. We are using NS 3.2 on NeXT and HP hardware, with one machine
designated as postmaster.
For example, my e-mail address is mike@mws5.biol.berkeley.edu and our
/etc/reslov.conf file looks like this -
#
# BIND data file.
#
domain biol.berkeley.edu
nameserver 128.32.206.9
nameserver 128.32.136.12
nameserver 128.32.136.9
nameserver 128.32.206.12
nameserver 128.32.130.3
However, the address that appears in the header is mike@mws5.biol.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Mike
_____________________________________________________________________
Michael P. Cummings voice:(510) 643-6299
Department of Integrative Biology fax:(510) 643-6264
University of California mike@mws5.biol.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140 cummings@mendel.berkeley.edu
From: Jeff Kidd <jeff@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gettytab for 9600 hayes
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 15:48:44 -0500
Organization: University System of Georgia (PeachNet)
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950103154502.742A-100000@gcnext>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I need some help setting up a hayes ultra 9600 as a dialup modem
I can't get the gettytab for the thing right...
Can some one Email me there gettytab that has a simular settup....
NeXT 68040 this NeXT Serial Hardware cable
Hayes Ultra 9600
NeXT Step 2.0
thanks
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeff Kidd | OS/2 3.0 Warp Speed.......
CSC Major | jeff@gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu
Team OS/2 | jeff@compass.gac.peachnet.edu
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From: hash@cs.umd.edu (Kevin Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trouble understanding PNI configuration for servers
Date: 3 Jan 1995 19:31:37 -0500
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Message-ID: <3ecq99$gdd@jujube.cs.umd.edu>
Keywords: PNI SLIP SL/IP TransSys Louis Mamakos NeXT
Help! I need to get a SLIP server running on our NeXT box running NeXTStep
3.2. PNI is supposed to be able to do this.
However, the documentation is really vague on how to get the machine to
answer a call and accept incoming SLIP connections. Can anyone give me tips
or instructions on how to set this up? I already installed the package
and modified the config files. I also created a new user, "pni1" with all
the correct specifications. Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Please respond via email.
Thanks,
Kevin Hsu
Proxima, Inc.
From: tmeyer@mcs.com (Tom Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: configuring HP 4MP printer on Intel -- HELP !!!
Date: 4 Jan 1995 02:56:53 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <3ed2pl$bom@News1.mcs.com>
References: <3ealn8$r6u@News1.mcs.com>
Yesterday I said :
> Can anyone help me out ?? I think I'll have to do one of 2 things:
>
> 1) buy a dual serial port cable and attatch my modem and the printer to
the
> same port. I just won't be able to print while I'm using my SLIP
> connection, I guess.
>
> 2) get a bus mouse (what the hell is a bus mouse anyways ? does it just
> attatch to the parallel port ?? Do I have to buy some kind of special
> card?)
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Right now I've got a
> rather expensive paperweight sitting on my desk :-)
>
> thanks,
>
> tom meyer
> tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
> tmeyer@mcs.com
Well, several people responded to me, and pointed out that if I installed
the ParallelPorts drive at address 0x378 (IRQ 7), the Parallel Port would
appear as an option in the PrintManager config panel. It did, so I set it
to use the port, powered off the machine, connected the printer, turned on
the printer, and booted the machine (as several people recommended).
However, upon booting I get the following messages:
IOParallelPort not allocated: controller not detected at address 0x378
_IO(something): no such device unit 0
When I try to test the printer via PrintManager (I wasn't expecting it to
work), I get the following in my console:
Jan 3 20:36:01 darker_wave Server:laser_wave[212]: Cannot open output
device '/dev/pp0': No such file or directory
I then checked to make sure the port was enabled on the motherboard (via
the jumpers - it was. The only thing I can maybe see wrong is that in the
system BIOS setup screen, you can choose the "LPT" port address for LPT1,
and your only choice is "3BCH". I didn't see this address in the available
addresses in the configure.app
Can someone please help me out ?!?!?
thanks,
tom meyer
tmeyer@mcs.com
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
312-554-5967 (w)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: brad@instep.wimsey.com
Subject: Intel EtherExpress PRO with 3.3
Message-ID: <1995Jan4.021718.1447@instep.wimsey.com>
Sender: usenet@instep.wimsey.com (usenet)
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 02:17:18 GMT
According to NeXTanswers article 1791 the Intel EtherExpress PRO
network interface card is supposed to be supported with 3.3
Yet when I install the driver Intel82595NetworkDriver.config
it does not show this PRO card as one that I may select/configure
from Configure.app.
Can anyone help me out here?
--
Brad Head <brad@instep.wimsey.com>
Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: SUMMARY: host unknown problem
Message-ID: <D1uuL3.5LL@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 00:27:03 GMT
Here's the summary to my question as stated in Goeff's reply. I
found that doing the kill -HUP worked, but there's got to be a
better way. Peter Nitezki suspects something wrong in the
netinfo database - I still looking. Thanks to all that
responded!
Begin forwarded message:
From: Geoff Brunkhorst <gbb@woz.mayo.EDU>
Reply-To: brunkhorst.geoffrey@mayo.EDU
> Upon upgrading to 3.3 last week I've lost my (next 040
> cube) ability to resolve host names and (if needed)
consult
> with a nameserver listed in resolv.conf.
Does nslookup still report good resolutions?
> I've looked at the changes done to sendmail.mailhost.cf,
> rc, kern_loader.conf and inetd.conf and haven't found
> anything that seems related to the host unknown problem.
>
> I'm not real familiar with how a name is resolved so I'm
> not sure what steps > to take to find the problem. So,
any
> ideas?
>
I have noted on 3.3beta that lookupd is very sensitive now. You
may
want to start your slip line up, and then kill -HUP the lookupd
process.
the pid of lookupd is in /etc/lookupd.
lookupd is what negotiates the netinfo, NIS, and DNS datafeeds
for
things like gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr().
---
- 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
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 94 11:33:04 -0700
From: "Allan A. McKinnon" <allan@atropos.dpic.bc.ca>
Do you hang for about 60 seconds then come back with the host
unknown message?
Who's slip you running?
I've got the same problem with 3.2 using MorningStar PPP.
Seems to be a bug in gethostbyname() which can't resolve who to
ask, netinfo or your DNS.
I have more on this from a previous next-managers thread if your
interested.
allan
---
************************************************************
Allan A McKinnon B.Sc.(Pharm), M.Ed.
Supervisor, Data Bases
B.C. Drug & Poison Information Centre - Offsite
623 - 28th Avenue South
Cranbrook B.C. Canada
V1C 3J9
E-mail: mckinnon@dpic.bc.ca (NeXTMail Welcome)
Phone: 604.426.6910
Facsimile: 604.426.7005
"Engineering the illusion of simplicity"
************************************************************
Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Nitezki <nitezki@nidat.sub.org>
You miss to tell us where the hostnames use to be stored in your
location. Sounds as if you're running DNS, right?
Have an eye on hostconfig and resolv.conf and browse NetInfo (in
the machines section, I suppose) for strange settings.
--
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 | pgp & NeXTmail ok! # up to the Net.
Peter 1,3-5
Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Nitezki <nitezki@nidat.sub.org>
> Hi Peter, no where not running DNS... I'm the only tcp/ip
(NeXT cube)
> connected to the lan - most everyone else uses netware... I
uucp to
> netcom over my own modem...
>
> thanks for the suggestions, I'll have to go hunting...
>
In this case the machines section in the NetInfo database lost
the entries for the hostnames in question or else has a
different scheme for alias resolution and handling of fully
qualified domainnames. In any case NetInfo is the place to look
for.
Thanks again.
--
Fred Schenkelberg
From: rmharris@clark.net (Richard M. Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to set up Marble SLIP so it Works?
Date: 4 Jan 1995 04:18:56 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3ed7jg$s48@clarknet.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: SLIP Netinfo
OK, I give up. I have had a copy of Marble Teleconnect SLIP for 6
months. Every time I try to set it up to access my SLIP account
something goes wrong and it hangs up in the reboot, looking for my
Internet server, which of course SLIP has not yet dialed. Is there a
guide to setting up the networking to go from standalone to dialup TCP/IP
without getting tangled up with the non-existent ethernet? (The
documentation that came with the SLIP is less than usful in this regard.)
Thanks.
--
*** Mike Harris booknet/rmharris_ltd
phone: (703) 356-1686 fax: (703) 356-5431
e-mail: booknet@rmharris.com, r.m.harris@ieee.org, rharris@clark.net
From: gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: configuring HP 4MP printer on Intel -- HELP !!!
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 22:43:27 -0800
Organization: iRock.Communications
Message-ID: <gj-0301952243270001@gj.irock.com>
References: <3ealn8$r6u@News1.mcs.com> <3ed2pl$bom@News1.mcs.com>
In article <3ed2pl$bom@News1.mcs.com>, tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com wrote:
> However, upon booting I get the following messages:
>
> IOParallelPort not allocated: controller not detected at address 0x378
> _IO(something): no such device unit 0
I get the same error on my Micronics M54Pi P90 System. I asked NeXT about this.
I was told there is a report of "Gateway" brand computers with Micronics board
having this problem. I was told it was fixable by setting the LPT address to
0278 (LPT2). NS 3.3 then saw the port upon boot, but I still couldn't get
it to work. Any other ideas...anyone???
--
"G. J." at iRock.Communications[TM]
mailto:gj@irock.com <http://www.irock.com>
The small 'i' is for interactive,
and the WWW stands for Wacky, Wacky, Wacky!
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: configuring HP 4MP printer on Intel -- HELP !!!
Date: 4 Jan 1995 06:47:37 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3edga9$q8v@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <3ealn8$r6u@News1.mcs.com> <3ed2pl$bom@News1.mcs.com> <gj-0301952243270001@gj.irock.com>
In article <gj-0301952243270001@gj.irock.com>, G. J. <gj@irock.com> wrote:
>In article <3ed2pl$bom@News1.mcs.com>, tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com wrote:
>
>> However, upon booting I get the following messages:
>>
>> IOParallelPort not allocated: controller not detected at address 0x378
>> _IO(something): no such device unit 0
>
>I get the same error on my Micronics M54Pi P90 System. I asked NeXT about this.
>I was told there is a report of "Gateway" brand computers with Micronics board
>having this problem. I was told it was fixable by setting the LPT address to
>0278 (LPT2). NS 3.3 then saw the port upon boot, but I still couldn't get
>it to work. Any other ideas...anyone???
>
I had to change my GW 4dx2-66v to lpt2 at 0378 (not 0278) to get the
printer to work. If you've munged seriously with the printer configuration
you might want to verify you have the correct address and irq-7, for
NS 3.2. Printer has to be ON and connected at boot time.
--
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: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: SEAGATE Hawk 4 Drive fails to initialize
Date: 4 Jan 1995 14:55:19 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Message-ID: <3eecsn$l2i@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Keywords: hard disk, seagate, hawk 4
A new external ST15230N (Hawk 4 Seagate) is being recognized during the
boot sequence but after booting when I went for initializing it (when
asked by the alert panel after logon) I came out with disk error!
Even when I tried to run "disk -i /dev/rsd1a" it returns an error 1.
Is there any info anywhere oon how to configure this drivr for black
hardware ander 2.1 and 3.x ?
--jm
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|Dr.John Michopoulos (yanni)| Tel: (202) 767-2165 or -2189 |
| Research Scientist | Fax: (202) 767-9181 |
| Naval Research Laboratory | e-mail: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil |
From: pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu (Pat Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Floppy Format
Date: 4 Jan 1995 15:34:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <3eef6t$ncr@mark.ucdavis.edu>
I am running NS 3.2 and when I initialize a ED (4MB) it formats
down to 2.5 MB instead of 2.88MB that it use to when running 2.1.
IS this noremal for NS 3.2 or is something wrong?
thanks
pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: SEAGATE Hawk 4 Drive fails to initialize
Date: 4 Jan 1995 15:53:56 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Message-ID: <3eegak$m9l@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <3eecsn$l2i@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
In article <3eecsn$l2i@ra.nrl.navy.mil> yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil
(John Michopoulos) writes:
>
> A new external ST15230N (Hawk 4 Seagate) is being recognized during the
> boot sequence but after booting when I went for initializing it (when
> asked by the alert panel after logon) I came out with disk error!
>
> Even when I tried to run "disk -i /dev/rsd1a" it returns an error 1.
>
> Is there any info anywhere oon how to configure this drivr for black
> hardware ander 2.1 and 3.x ?
>
I just found the NextAnswer 1533 that recognizes a bug on the Builddisk
App and provides a fix. It seems that an entry for the drive in the
/etc/disktab file is needed. Does anybody have one ready for this one?
(Seagate ST15230N, 4.2 Gb).
Anxiously looking for your kind responses,
--jm
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|Dr.John Michopoulos (yanni)| Tel: (202) 767-2165 or -2189 |
| Research Scientist | Fax: (202) 767-9181 |
| Naval Research Laboratory | e-mail: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil |
From: bernhard@pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Bernhard Mayr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: .NeXTdefaults.L
Date: 4 Jan 1995 16:10:51 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3eehab$737@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Today I decided to reorganize my Next and moved the home directories from
/usr/home/~ to /users/~.
This worked, in principle, ok. There are some applications which have to
be told the new path, e.g. the Fiend.app (dockextender) where the extended
dock had to be reenterd.
One app didn't make the change at all: cassandra.app. On launch a panel
appears with "can't create /usr/home/bernhard/.cassandra", because the
directory does not exits any more. But how to tell this the app?
I think that this has to something with the "~/.NeXTdefaults.L"-file where
the old path still can be found. But whenever I try to correct the path in
".NeXTdefaults.L" nothing works at all. I could however remove the whole
".NeXTdefaults.L", but I do not like this, as I have a very well
configured account.
Is there any possibility to erase all memory pointing to the old path
without erasing ".NeXTdefaults.L"? I like the cassandra.app a lot and
would therefore like to use it again!
Please mail any suggestions to the above adress.
Thanks,
Bernhard Mayr
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From: robinson@next532-2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Scott Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: How do I completely restore a single-HD system?
Date: 4 Jan 1995 16:33:19 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Message-ID: <3eeikf$q7c@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>
The Setup:
NS/FIP 3.2
PC Clone, with either DPT or Adaptec SCSI board, and:
a single internal hard disk
Exabyte tape drive, model 8205
CD-ROM drive
Single 1.44 MB floppy drive
How do I _completely_ restore one of the above systems that was saved using
dump? By "completely", I mean that I want the HD to be restored to the same
condition that existed before the dump; therefore, the HD cannot be used during
the restore process. Once installed, these systems will be managed by people
with even less SysAdmin experience than I have (if that's even possible ;-).
Complications:
1. using this particular model of Exabyte tape drive requires that "mtset" be
run before accessing the tape drive.
2. the "restore" program on the CD-ROM is broken (loses the SUID bits), so the
patched version must be used.
Possibilities:
1. Use the Installer floppy to boot the CD-ROM into single-user mode, with the
hope of being able to run mtset and the patched restore from floppy after
initializing the internal HD. A good try, except that the boot sequence in
this method DOES NOT register the floppy devices (fc0, rfd0a, fd0a) following
the SCSI bus reset (as a normal boot process would). Is this normal? How can
I access the floppy after such a boot. Even the example given in the CD-ROM's
/etc/rc.boot (below) fails, with a "dev/fd0a no such device" message:
/etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp
2. Build my own custom boot floppy, that contains just enough to be able to do
mtset and restore. Is there even a hope of having enough space on a floppy to
do this?
Solution #1 wouldn't be so bad, if there is just some magic incantation that
would bring the floppy to life. Solution #2 would be even easier for my
non-technical end users... Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
--
J. Scott Robinson Computer Sciences Corp.
EMail: robinson@next532-2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Flippin like a pancake, poppin like a cork...
From: pdell@pharos.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Paul Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: inexpensive NeXTMail connection
Date: 4 Jan 1995 17:33:33 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Sender: pdell@pharos (Paul Dell)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3eem5d$77u@news.bu.edu>
I would like to receive NeXTMail at home. I would like to get an inexpensive
account on a local internet provider. What would I need to configure & install
to get this to work via modem. Also, does the provider have to do anything
special?
Thanks
Paul Dell
pdell@bu.edu
From: gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOS Partitions under NeXTStep
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 11:19:27 -0800
Organization: iRock.Communications
Message-ID: <gj-0401951119270001@gj.irock.com>
Could someone please direct me (by email if not approp for posting)
re: the specifics of DOS FAT Partition recognition under NS 3.3?
My DOS drive is formatted:
8MB Non-DOS OS/2 Boot Manager
30MB DOS Primary FAT "C" partition (Visible under NS 3.3)
1400MB DOS Extended FAT partition split between 2 logical drives "D and E".
Also, for the newbie in me... what qualifies a question for posting here,
instead of the misc. NeXT newsgroup?
--
"G. J." at iRock.Communications[TM]
mailto:gj@irock.com <http://www.irock.com>
The small 'i' is for interactive,
and the WWW stands for Wacky, Wacky, Wacky!
From: wrb@biostr.washington.edu (William Barker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: JetPilot recommendation
Date: 4 Jan 1995 19:28:02 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <3eess2$i91@news.u.washington.edu>
I had no end of problems trying to make printing work between a Dell
590/XL pentium machine and a HP-4MP printer via the parallel port. While
the NeXT printer test page worked just fine, anything more substantial
would invariably hose the machine. To make matters worse, there wouldn't
be any indicators of what went wrong--no log file entries, panic boxes,
etc. It just died ungracefully.
I spent a month troubleshooting this problem. I finally gave up, returned
the HP-4MP, added 2MB of memory to an old HP-2P+ I already had, and bought
JetPilot 1.6.
Printing work like a charm now. Everything I've thrown at the printer has
printed, including all the test prints that would crash the -4MP.
If you're in the market for a printing solution, JetPilot is worth
considering. You can order it by email, and they fax|email the
registration info back pronto.
Sign me,
A satisfied customer with no ties to JetPilot's creators.
bb
--
Bill Barker
Biological Structure, SM-20
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
(206) 543-7315
"In Wine there is Wisdom, In Beer there is Strength; In Water is
Bacteria." --Old German Saying.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Any gcc support for HP NeXTSTEP?
Date: 4 Jan 1995 21:08:18 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3ef2o2$d4k@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I am looking for a version of gcc later than 2.5.4 for HP NeXTSTEP. I
have tried compiling the latest version I have installed on black
hardware (2.6.1) and this does not compile and install.
Thanks for any help.
Dave
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NMR System Manager
EMBL
Meyerhofstrasse 1,
69117 Heidelberg.
Tel: 49-6221-387554 (Work)
49-6221-387183355 (Home)
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
NeXTMail: Accepted but MIME prefered.
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From: adenison@next.com (Allen Denison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO with 3.3
Date: 4 Jan 1995 19:58:49 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3eeulp$al@rosie.next.com>
References: <1995Jan4.021718.1447@instep.wimsey.com>
In article <1995Jan4.021718.1447@instep.wimsey.com> brad@instep.wimsey.com
writes:
>
> According to NeXTanswers article 1791 the Intel EtherExpress PRO
> network interface card is supposed to be supported with 3.3
> Yet when I install the driver Intel82595NetworkDriver.config
> it does not show this PRO card as one that I may select/configure
> from Configure.app.
>
> Can anyone help me out here?
>
>
> --
> Brad Head <brad@instep.wimsey.com>
> Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
> Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA
The mechanism that allows us to put this information out on NeXTanswers in
a timely manner is in the process of being fine-tuned. Just like any
system, we haven't resolved all of the glitches yet. As far as we know
right now, the following NeXTanswers have varying amounts of incorrect
information:
1735_ATI_Mach64_Driver_Overview.rtf
1748_SMC_EtherCard_Elilte_Ultra_16_Driver_Overview.rtf
1791_Intel_82595_Chipset_Driver_Overview.rtf
We are currently working to rectify this. If you have any questions on
the TRUE supported hardware of these drivers in the meantime, feel free to
send mail to ask_next@NeXT.com.
Please let us know of any incorrect information in NeXTanswers in general
by sending mail to nextanswers-request@NeXT.com. We will make sure that
any of these types of problems are then fixed.
Thanks,
Allen Denison
SupportLine/NeXTanswers Manager
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley)
Subject: Toshiba 3501 usable for HP & Sparc?
Message-ID: <1995Jan4.204346.23866@nimno.wpa.com>
Sender: john@nimno.wpa.com
Organization: Workgroup Productivity Associates
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 20:43:46 GMT
I currently have an HP 712/60 (with no CD ROM) and plan to buy some sort
of Sparc later this spring. I would like to buy the new quad-speed 3501
and use it with both boxes. Does anyone have any experience with this
drive with respect to using it to load NS? I would like to avoid having to
buy 2 separate CD ROM drives, as well as avoid having to buy an expensive
proprietary OEM version 3401 just to be able to load software. Surely
there are others out there who share this concern?
Thanks.
John Bartley
john@wpa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Next printers and pcnfs
Message-ID: <1995Jan4.212049.4641@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 21:20:49 GMT
I'm trying to use a NeXT print from a PeaSea using PCNFS.
My NeXT is a pcnfsd server, NetInfo server, and printserver, with both a
local, and network printer set up in NetInfo; it also exports
/usr/spool/pcnfs.
When I run "net printers" on my PeaSea, I get a message telling me that
the current pcnfsd server has no printers defined.
My understanding is that PCNFS rpc's 'lpstat -t' on the pcnfsd server, to
get a status on all the printers. NeXT doesn't have lpstat. Am I on the
right track, should I get or write lpstat? Is there a better way to print
from PCNFS?
From: silbar@roadrunner.com (Dick Silbar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tom Meyer's question on parallel port and HP-4MP setup
Date: 4 Jan 1995 21:20:14 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <199501042023.UAA14611@beep.roadrunner.com>
> The only thing I
> can maybe see wrong is that in the system BIOS setup
> screen, you can choose the "LPT" port address for LPT1,
> and your only choice is "3BCH". I didn't see this address
> in the available addresses in the configure.app
I don't recall you mentioned what Intel-CPU machine you are using.
On this Epson NX it was/is necessary to go into the SetUp utility
(hit the <F2> key) at the start of the bootup. The choice here was
to choose the parallel port to be LPT2 (yes, LPT2) at 0x378. That
works with the HP-4ML (and the HP-DJ560C).
Dick Silbar
WhistleSoft, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Subject: Does Morningstar PPP work with NEXTSTEP 3.3 black?
Message-ID: <D1wr15.17C@genoa.com>
Keywords: PPP, NEXTSTEP
Sender: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Organization: Genoa Software Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 01:05:29 GMT
Ever since I upgraded to NS3.3, morningstar PPP does not seem
to communicate with any other host but the PPP peer.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Did the NEXTSTEP 3.3 upgrade break MST PPP?
(it could be something else at my site I suppose)
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
From: pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu (Pat Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax Help
Date: 5 Jan 1995 04:38:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <3eft3r$d56@mark.ucdavis.edu>
installed NXFax and it does not work--the NXFax monitor says
"Looking for Driver"--the installation process said that installation
was sucessful. I usually use my modem with kermit--is this whwere the
problem lies? thanks in advance
pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu
Why do I need NXFax driver? Why don't the drivers that come
with the machine ie Mix Fax Modem work?
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting global limit on memory usage?
Date: 5 Jan 1995 05:01:09 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <3efuel$7d3@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
I assume there must be a fair number of people who agree with me that the Mach
swapping system is a terrific pain in the neck. We run a lot of programs that
dynamically allocate large chunks of memory, say, greater than 50 meg on
occasion. If the memory allocation exceeds the hi water mark or the available
disk space, the machine is hosed and must be reset with command-alt-*. To me
this is an inexcusable botch.
Anyway, what I want to know is: is there a way to globally limit the total
memory that can be allocated by a process? I know how to use the 'limit'
command with /bin/csh, but what about for Apps run from the dock or the
browser? Is there a way to prevent the stupidity of someone attempting to
open the kernel binary (or some other large binary) in Edit.app, which will
hose the machine, by limiting the amount of memory that Edit.app can allocate?
Thanks.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | University of California, Santa Barbara
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | http://ccmrc.ucsb.edu/
From: wmorse@erasure-sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RZSZ for HP?
Date: 5 Jan 1995 07:15:19 GMT
Organization: Emory University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3eg6a7$ln2@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
Has anyone gotten RZSZ to compile for HP NS? I have been having
a tough time with it.
Thanks for anyone's help!
--
William Morse
ITS
Emory School of Law
From: root@inselnext (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two Nics in Nextstep Intel Box
Date: 5 Jan 1995 07:30:14 GMT
Message-ID: <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I like to install two network cards in a Intel Box, connecting to
different Network with different IP-Adresses.Also i like to connect
over one of this Nics to our inhouse Novell-Network. Is this possible
and is there somebody around here which know how to do this with
Nextstep (Version 3.3)
From: bernhard@pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Bernhard Mayr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: .NeXTdefaults.L, THANKS
Date: 5 Jan 1995 08:38:21 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3egb5t$orn@news.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <3eehab$737@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Please no more comments. The problem was solved.
Thanks to all who mailed me
-Bernhard Mayr
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From: mgais@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at (Mansuet Gaisbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Wanted] Public domain X11R[45] Server for NextDimension !
Date: 05 Jan 1995 09:18:44 GMT
Organization: IICM, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MGAIS.95Jan5101844@pluto.tu-graz.ac.at>
Hi NeXT gurus out there!
I got a NeXTCube with a NeXTDimension graphics board running
NeXTStep 3.0. Now i am looking for a public domain X11R[45]
server, to use the cube as an X-terminal.
Does anyone know where to get one?
Thanks in advance
Mansuet
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From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Two Nic s in Nextstep Intel Box
Date: 5 Jan 1995 11:51:37 GMT
Organization: Xexos Ltd, London
Message-ID: <3egmg9$1o2@xexos.xexos.com>
References: <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch>
In article <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch> root@inselnext (Operator) writes:
> I like to install two network cards in a Intel Box, connecting to
> different Network with different IP-Adresses.Also i like to connect
> over one of this Nic s to our inhouse Novell-Network. Is this possible
> and is there somebody around here which know how to do this with
> Nextstep (Version 3.3)
Can't be done. I've never actually bothered trying, so there might be a way to
hack it, but everytime I've asked NeXT they say Can't Be Done.
It would save us a lot of headaches too.
--
Mark Chamberlain +44 171 237 4535
Xexos Ltd fax +44 171 231 0844
London mark@xexos.com
From: jan@altus.no (Jan Bratbak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup problem
Date: 5 Jan 1995 13:43:02 GMT
Organization: UniNett
Message-ID: <3egt16$ssj@ratatosk.uninett.no>
Can anyone please help me with this backup/tar problem:
Backing up an NFS mounted harddisk to tape with these commands:
cd /
mt -f /dev/rst0 status
/bin/tar cf /dev/rst0 ./tfk ./dd
produces these messages in the log:
next1> more daily.log
Wed Dec 14 04:01:42 GMT+0100 1994
Generic SCSI tape drive, residual=0
Sense Key = 0x06
Sense Code = 0x28
Sense Byte 0x13 = 0x70
Sense Byte 0x14 = 0x79
Sense Byte 0x15 = 0x72
Sense Byte 0x16 = 0xdb
tar: Read error on ./dd/144wp/144wp.org: Invalid argument
tar: Read error on ./dd/117wp/117wp_d.dat: Invalid argument
tar: Read error on ./dd/BACKUP_TFK/01wp/01wp.pps: Invalid argument
tar: Read error on ./dd/BACKUP_TFK/01wp/01wp.pps1: Invalid argument
tar: Read error on ./dd/BACKUP_TFK/02wp/02wp.org: Invalid argument
tar: Read error on ./dd/BACKUP_TFK/02wp/temp/02wp.u.pps: Invalid argument
tar: Read error on ./dd/x144wp/.nfs51AE: Invalid argument
Wed Dec 14 07:01:41 GMT+0100 1994
The interesting thing is that the problem seems to be inconsistent. It does not
concern the same files from day to day.
Jan
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From: woden@max.net23.csuohio.edu (Lord of Asgard)
Subject: How do I use my cube as a router??
Message-ID: <1995Jan5.131717.11026@news.csuohio.edu>
Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Cleveland State University
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 13:17:17 GMT
Hello Out-There
I have been running TransSlip on my trusty old cube for many moons now
with no problems... but I am vexed by a change that I wish to make with
the system. I have attached a PC to it using the 10-Base-2 coax
connection. Works fine between the PC and the NeXT, ditto the NeXT and our
campus network via SLIP, but I can't get out from the PC through the NeXT,
and traceroutes from the campus show things stopping at my cube.
I have tried it the other way, using the linux box as the "router",
enabling IP Forwarding so that it will pass the packets from ethernet to
slip port and vice versa. That works fine, but I really want to use the
cube as the router.
arrggghhhh
I have looked around and can't seem to figure out how to enable the IP
Forwarding on my cube. I know that I have read this question here before
(many moons ago when I was first setting up my SLIP link), but alas I did
not archive those questions or any possible answers. I have looked around
and found only references to this type of network configuration.
Is there a FAQ or other document ?? or does anyone have this working that
could clue me in to what I have not done or done wrong ??
Thanks in advance
--
woden@max.net23.csuohio.edu * http://max.net23.csuohio.edu
"the avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to
vote..." Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5
From: fletcher@dr_sews.nrl.navy.mil (Charles Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP and name servers
Date: 5 Jan 1995 09:21:09 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Message-ID: <3egv8l$57@nova.umd.edu>
Keywords: SLIP, network, name server
I need some help--
I have a NeXTstation running 3.0 and the public domain SLIP (Loiue's)
though a Xyzel modem. It has been running fine for a long time now,
but I recently developed the following problem:
If I try to connect to the net (rlogin, ftp, etc) the SLIP usually
does an autodial and connects. But if the modem fails to connect,
then thereafter I get something (from the local name server ??) like:
tsinext37%> rlogin nova.umd.edu
nova.umd.edu: unknown host
Now this has happened before, but it usually times out after awhile
and everything is fine (usually 30 minutes or so). But now it has been
going on for days. Here is what I continue to get:
tsinext37%> rlogin nova.umd.edu
nova.umd.edu: unknown host
tsinext38%> telnet nova.umd.edu
nova.umd.edu: Host name lookup failure
FTP behaves the same as rlogin. If I manually bring up the SLIP (slipup)
and use the (numerical) IP address, everything is fine--sometimes I can
even use a name address. But once I slipdown, I am back to the same
situation--any attempt to rlogin (or whatever) using a name is intercepted
locally (??) and refused (so the SLIP isn't even trying to dial out).
Any ideas on what is happening and how to correct it would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Charlie
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From: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Subject: Re: HELP: Unexplained behavior relating to NetInfo
Message-ID: <D1xwH4.3A2@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: netinfo, unknown host
Sender: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
References: <3ebl4o$l6j@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 16:04:37 GMT
>At boot time after "status file service deamons:" the system waits
>for about 4 minutes before it goes on and then the message "autonfsmount:
>can't get my address bootpd.d" shows up despite the fact that prior to
>this the machine has read the hostconfig and assigned host the intented
>host name "dendro87".
I've got a similar problem with my NSFIP system running 3.2 with
Intel EtherExpress 16C connected to our university hub.
At boot time, I get "autonfsmount: can't get my address ", even though
hostname and the internet address are correct. Mail works
from most sites (some sites cannot reach my address, perhaps for same
reason...). Also, talk gives "talk: next1: Can't figure out network address"
as an error.
The system is configured for local NIS domain only, since it is the
only NeXT box in our lab.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
=======================================================================
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9218
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery sharad@neuro-sun.neuro.umn.edu
University of Minnesota shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
=======================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Subject: UPS.. which is best?
Message-ID: <D1xwu6.3FC@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: uninterruptible power supplies
Sender: shanb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 16:12:27 GMT
Hello,
I am bringing by trusty 'station home and need to deal
with the noisy power situation in my house. there also
seem to be random power outages 2-3 times per year, usually
while i am working of course.
Any suggestions for reliable uninterruptible power supplies?
Currently, I am looking at an APC SmartUPS and a TrippLite SMART
system. Pros/Cons? Since I only need to protect the 'station,
I assume that a 250-400 VA supply system will be sufficient.
(i don't need to supply the NeXT laser printer, do I?)
Thanks,
Sharad
=======================================================================
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9218
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery sharad@neuro-sun.neuro.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
=======================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com (Tom Meyer)
Subject: (more) HP 4MP / ParallelPort driver problems
Message-ID: <1995Jan5.160403.15635@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 16:04:03 GMT
probably boring you all to tears, but....
I've finally got my parallel port talking to my new printer after doing
the following:
- change the BIOS setting to LPT2 / 378H IRQ 7
- installed the new ParallelPortDriver (Par.config, v.1.1) from
NextAnswers
- got the HP 4MP ppd file from Adobe
What happens now is that I get PostScript timeouts every time I try to
print. I've change the source for the drive to supposedly set the timeout
longer the 2 seconds, but when I try to print, the debugging messages I've
also enabled still say that the timeout is 2 seconds. It's timing out on
the "close" of the pp0 port, if that makes a difference.
I've also tried all the permutations of the actual printer config settings
I would think matter (Parallel port speed, "Advanced Functions", Dedicated
PS vs. Auto "perssonality" switching) and nothing seems to help.
Anyone got any ideas ??
thanks,
-tom
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
tmeyer@mcs.com
From: rmasse@unix.cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem w/ 3.3/3.2 & Connor Tape
Date: 5 Jan 1995 16:41:40 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3eh7g4$24k@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
References: <3egt16$ssj@ratatosk.uninett.no>
Keywords: Connor Tape SCSI
I've been beating my head against a problem with a Connor
CS250Q SCSI tape drive on my Gateway P590 with an Adaptek 1542C
SCSI Controller. The SCSI bios sees the drive, and I've tried it
as device #1 and #5 (both unique), but the NeXT kernel does not see
the tape. (that is, no tape shows up when watching the verbose boot
'-v') also: tar tf /dev/rst0, tar tf /dev/rxt0, tar tf /dev/rxt1,
and tar tf /dev/rst1 all yield: /dev/r?t?: No such device (where
? ? are 's', 'x', '0' or '1'... depending on the try)
The device special files are all there in /dev with major numbers
of 34 and varying minors... I assume this is all correct.
I've reloaded the User 3.3 scsi tape driver kit and the driver
appears installed. I've called Connor and they seem to think that
the autosense that's part of the NeXT boot sequence *should* see the
drive. That is they *claim* to work under NeXT Intel with the factory
dip switch settings. Does anyone know of any special required settings
for Connor tape drives or tapes in general?
Idears welcome.
Regards,
Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
From: elitman@glue.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Two Nic s in Nextstep Intel Box
Date: 5 Jan 1995 19:04:10 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <3ehfra$s0d@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
References: <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch> <3egmg9$1o2@xexos.xexos.com>
On 5 Jan 1995 11:51:37 GMT, Mark Chamberlain (mark@xexos.com) wrote:
# In article <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch> root@inselnext (Operator) writes:
# > I like to install two network cards in a Intel Box, connecting to
# > different Network with different IP-Adresses.Also i like to connect
# > over one of this Nic s to our inhouse Novell-Network. Is this possible
# > and is there somebody around here which know how to do this with
# > Nextstep (Version 3.3)
# Can't be done. I've never actually bothered trying, so there might be a way
# to hack it, but everytime I've asked NeXT they say Can't Be Done.
Sure it can. Simply plug them both in. If you need IP forwarding (i.e. you're
not using the box as a firewall) reconfig the kernel variable
_ip_forwarding to 1. I have code to do this somewhere, or could write
something if necessary. I think there might even be something on
sutro.sfsu.edu. Also of interest in 3.3 is an _promiscuous variable - if/when
time permits, I'll investigate this further and report on the results.
I've done it with 2, but I would hypothesize that the only limit is the number
of available slots in your PC. Keep in mind that RIP (used by routed) doesn't
grok variable subnet masks.
This should be added to the FAQ.
--
Eric A. Litman Viaduct, Inc. (301) 587-0600
Senior Vice President Silver Spring, MD elitman@eng.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Subject: HP ScanJet IIcx and a SyQuest 270 = problems. Why ?
Message-ID: <D1wKLo.o6@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 22:46:36 GMT
Hi,
I have an external SyQuest 270MB (ID3) directly attached to the SCSI
Adapter (Adaptec 1542CF). Attached directly to the SyQuest, I have a
ScanJet IIcx (ID6) that's terminated with the terminator that came with
the ScanJet (SCSI I).
Now the problem is that when I try to use my SyQuest, it reports lots of
hardware problems (I/O) and screws up my files. When I disconnect my HP
ScanJet and put an active Teminator on the SyQuest (SCSI II), the SyQuest
the works like a dream.
When the two are connected, if the SyQuest doesn't work, the ScanJet works
perfectly.
It is too much of a drag to connect and disconnect the two (I have to shut
down the machine before that).
Wouldn't there be a way to correct this ?
Do I need to buy another terminator for the ScanJet ?
Does anyone have any clue about this ?
Thanks to e-mail me your answers. I'll post a summary
---
Dr. Jacques GARBI
TOUGA MANAGEMENT Ltd.
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone/Fax : 011 41 21 648 44 07
NeXTMail : jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
From: dave@meena.feinberg.nwu.edu (David A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: problems with new drive
Date: 5 Jan 1995 20:03:34 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ehjam$p5k@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Howdy everyone,
I have a small but important problem.
I have a NeXTStation running 3.2. It's internal disk is a Seagate and
recently I purchased a Micropolis 4110. I've installed the Micropolis
into an old Sun Shoebox and have it up and running. The Micropolis
is at SCSI address 2 (although I've tried others and it shouldn't matter
anyway). NextStep mounts it at sd1 and I have the following entries in my
/etc/fstab file:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /Nexus 4.3 rw,noquota, 0 2
My problem is with file ownership. Whatever files I copy to the
Micropolis drive, their ownership changes through some magic applied by
NeXTStep. I have several users all writing data to the disk but
after a period all the files appear to have the same ownership.
Does anyone have any clues what's going on? As far as I know I followed
all the correct proceedures for adding a drive.
Thank's in advance,
dave
From: dougm@azrael (Douglas McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HP NetServer
Date: 5 Jan 1995 20:41:07 GMT
Organization: Abbott Laboratories
Message-ID: <3ehlh3$goh@kelso.abbott.com>
Recently I saw a post asking if anyone had any experience installing
NEXTSTEP on a HP Netserver LF/LM. I lost that article, but I am also very
interested in knowing if anyone has had experiences with these machines.
I took a look at one a year ago and found them to be excellent server
systems and would love to have NEXTSTEP running on one.
Post or email me your experiences.
-doug
dougm@woodstock.abbott.com
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From: stephen@gcm.com (Stephen Slayton)
Subject: Re: Booting NS 3.3 Intel off non-primary SCSI disk, CD-ROM?
Message-ID: <1995Jan5.190406.25099@gcm.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Sender: usenet@gcm.com (Cnews Administrator)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
References: <3e2og4$d87@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 19:04:06 GMT
See Next doc 1487_booting_from_an_alternative_hard_disk_drive.txt. I used
it to install without trouble.
If I recall correctly, you have to set the SCSI disk to be device 0
for the initial install, e.g. SCSI id 0. You then have 2
choices. Either boot from floppy, and get prompted for the SCSI device
to boot off, or create a 7 meg boot partition on your primary (boot)
drive, then configure it to point at your SCSI NeXT disk. When you boot,
you will be asked to run NeXT or DOS.
Interesting I-Hate-Bill-Gates Story With A Lesson:
My NeXT install went fab. But when I installed DOS above my 7 meg
partition, the DOS install script offered to format my C: drive (the
remaining 333 megs). The last message I saw was "None of Your Data
Will Be Affected". I accepted, and after formatting my DOS partition,
it also formatted my 1 GIG SCSI drive holding NeXT! Nice going Bill!
It did leave my 7 meg partition alone, so I shouldn't complain.
About your comment that your machine also runs DOS. Great, great, great.
Of course DOS has no ability to let you boot into anything else. Were
it not for utils of other OS's, you could never install DOS with anything.
Stephen
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS Partitions under NeXTStep
Date: 5 Jan 1995 21:05:08 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ehmu4$121@rosie.next.com>
References: <gj-0401951119270001@gj.irock.com>
In article <gj-0401951119270001@gj.irock.com> gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
writes:
# Could someone please direct me (by email if not approp for
# posting) re: the specifics of DOS FAT Partition recognition under NS
# 3.3?
# My DOS drive is formatted:
#
# 8MB Non-DOS OS/2 Boot Manager
# 30MB DOS Primary FAT "C" partition (Visible under NS 3.3)
# 1400MB DOS Extended FAT partition split between 2 logical drives
# "D and E".
NS will recognize ONE primary partition. That's what it's doing in
your case, so what you're getting is correct. There is no way to get
NS to recognize multiple DOS partitions on a disk, or logical
partitions at all.
joe
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is anyone successfully using a Seagate 1 Gig drive on a Gecko?
Date: 5 Jan 1995 23:53:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <3ei0qm$ark@cs.ubc.ca>
Specifically, a Seagate ST31200N on a HP 712/60, 712/80i, or 712/80?
If you are, can you please let me know:
1. the firmware revision of the drive (listed in the boot messages
that appear in /usr/adm/messages: "grep SEAGATE /usr/adm/messages".)
2. if you have a floppy drive, and whether it's factory-installed,
or you installed a 3rd party floppy drive yourself.
If you are having problems with this drive or are getting errors like:
io error on pagein (bread)
io error on pagein (bread)
Raise RDR exception 1 code a subcode 15f7a8
also please let me know.
I'll summarize and post responses.
Thanks,
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
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From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Mac -> NeXT Printing, HOW?
Message-ID: <D1xnur.JA@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting - (Kent L. Shephard)
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 12:54:27 GMT
how do I get my Mac to print to my NeXT with
the Mac running TCP/IP on an ethernet network with
the NeXT?
Kent
--
/* "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and */
/* no slave that has not had a king among his." ---- Helen Keller */
/* Kent L. Shephard ----- K. L. Shephard Consulting */
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From: razor@net23.com (Razor)
Subject: PROBS WITH SERIAL PORT AND CANNON BJC-600E
Sender: news@news2.new-york.net (Network News)
Organization: Misconfigured client newsreader
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 02:51:11 GMT
Message-ID: <D1yqLD.9qv@news2.new-york.net>
Hey all..
I recently got a cannon bjc-600e color inkjet printer. I immediately
downloaded and installed DOTS unlicensed. It printed fine, except with a line
through everything. Then I bought a color license from DOTS and installed it.
However, on turning my INTEL NS 3.2 System off an then back on (hard reset)
It would no longer recognize pp0 when booting. It said IO_Parralel_Port not
found. When I soft rebooted it found it, but now I can't print at all
anymore... Anyone have any idea what the problem is? Please email replies to
razor@net23.com
Thanks
--
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From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and name servers
Date: 6 Jan 1995 06:24:36 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3einn4$3eo@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <3egv8l$57@nova.umd.edu>
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Charles Fletcher (fletcher@dr_sews.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: I need some help--
: I have a NeXTstation running 3.0 and the public domain SLIP (Loiue's)
: though a Xyzel modem. It has been running fine for a long time now,
: but I recently developed the following problem:
Are you talking about TranSys Dialup ? They have a newer program TransSys
PNI. It works very nicely.
: If I try to connect to the net (rlogin, ftp, etc) the SLIP usually
: does an autodial and connects. But if the modem fails to connect,
: then thereafter I get something (from the local name server ??) like:
: tsinext37%> rlogin nova.umd.edu
: nova.umd.edu: unknown host
If your modem didn't connect, how do you exepct rlogin to resolve an
external host name ? First check /etc/resolv.conf to see which nameserver
is the first one and make sure its IP address is correct.
: Now this has happened before, but it usually times out after awhile
: and everything is fine (usually 30 minutes or so). But now it has been
: going on for days. Here is what I continue to get:
: tsinext37%> rlogin nova.umd.edu
: nova.umd.edu: unknown host
: tsinext38%> telnet nova.umd.edu
: nova.umd.edu: Host name lookup failure
: FTP behaves the same as rlogin. If I manually bring up the SLIP (slipup)
: and use the (numerical) IP address, everything is fine--sometimes I can
Use the IP address with telnet or rlogin you mean ? This strongly suggest
name resolving problem. Can you do nslookup nova.umd.edu ?
: even use a name address. But once I slipdown, I am back to the same
: situation--any attempt to rlogin (or whatever) using a name is intercepted
: locally (??) and refused (so the SLIP isn't even trying to dial out).
If you only have couple host you frequently connect to, put them in your
netinfo database, hosts section. This should work as a quick fix until
you can get nameserver problem fixed.
From: vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be (Christian Van Oudenhove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Appleshare on NX3.3 ?
Date: 6 Jan 1995 15:16:41 GMT
Organization: Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ejmsp$rq7@sci3.sri.ucl.ac.be>
Hello, Netusers
I just upgraded from NX 3.0 to 3.3 and I am
surprised not to see anymore the Appletalk client
software:
- no AppleTalk.pkg on the NEXTSTEP_3.3 CD
- no Apple anymore in my preference.app
- no visibility on my Ethertalk
I feel so more confused that the NX 3.3 doc says in :
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/11_MixedNet.rtdf
"NeXT computers come with client software that
allow them to access files and printers on an Appletalk
network."
Somebody can tell me if something was wrong in my upgrade
or if there is a lack in the CD ...?
Thanks in advance
-------------------------------
Christian Van Oudenhove - Universite Catholique de Louvain
Institut de Statistique - Voie du Roman Pays, 34
B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve - BELGIUM
Tel : 32-10/47.30.48 - Fax 32-10/47.30.32
E-mail : vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be - (NeXTmail welcome)
From: powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: DOS install wipes out NS Disks!! was Re: Booting NS 3.3 Intel off ...
Date: 6 Jan 1995 16:22:27 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <3ejqo3$ce7@wave.aoml.erl.gov>
References: <1995Jan5.190406.25099@gcm.com>
In article <1995Jan5.190406.25099@gcm.com> stephen@gcm.com (Stephen
Slayton) writes:
> My NeXT install went fab. But when I installed DOS above my 7 meg
> partition, the DOS install script offered to format my C: drive (the
> remaining 333 megs). The last message I saw was "None of Your Data
> Will Be Affected". I accepted, and after formatting my DOS partition,
> it also formatted my 1 GIG SCSI drive holding NeXT! Nice going Bill!
> It did leave my 7 meg partition alone, so I shouldn't complain.
Same thing happened to me but two 1 gig external SCSI drives were wiped
out and it was a week before everything was restored to normal from
backups!!!!
--
Dr. Mark D. Powell
Research Meteorologist, CCM (Swimmer, Windsurfer, user of NEXTSTEP)
NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply)
Miami, Fl 33149 Voice (305) 361-4403 Fax (305) 361-4402
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Two Nics in Nextstep Intel Box
Date: 6 Jan 1995 18:04:37 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ek0nl$si@rosie.next.com>
References: <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: makemail 2.5d
In article <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch>, Operator <root@inselnext> wrote:
>I like to install two network cards in a Intel Box, connecting to
>different Network with different IP-Adresses.
This works, but is not supported.
Add the cards with Configure. Use /etc/iftab to set addresses for
the cards.
Again, this is not supported.
--Dan
--
Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in building 1
From: whizer@cs.uoregon.edu (John Boyd Candlish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: How do I completely restore a single-HD system?
Date: 6 Jan 1995 12:56:53 -0800
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
Message-ID: <3ekaql$126@comix.cs.uoregon.edu>
References: <3eeikf$q7c@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>
I'm looking for a solution to this problem myself.
An additional difficulty needs to be mentioned ... /dev/rxt0 must be
writeable before it can be patched by the `mtset' program.
I belive there's a NextAnswer on `booting from an alternate hard drive'
that tells how to build the boot floppy you need.
my .02
jCandlish
.
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Do you want SoftPC 4.0 (protected mode) for m68k/HP NEXTSTEP?
Date: 6 Jan 1995 23:12:31 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3ekiov$p04@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: SoftPC,m68k,HP,NEXTSTEP
Hello all,
I am compiling a list of users of SoftPC for m68k (and HP)
hardware running NEXTSTEP who want to be able to run SoftPC 4.0 (protected
mode). Insignia says that the market is a dead-end for black and too
young for HP. So I want to see if there are enough of us out here that may
give Insignia a reason to make the port. They are working on protected
mode for the other Unix OS's and Mac and it should not be to hard to get
it moved from white NS to black NS (and HP). Please email me your name
organization and upper bound for price that you will consider for the
product and the number of licenses you need. I will forward this info to
the marketing manager here in the US. If you are behind some kind of
firewall please find some way to get the info to me. I think it is best
not to flood the News with this so send the info to me. I will respect
everybody's privacy. I will send the list to Insignia in two weeks.
Alan
PS. recruit a friend!
------Format--------
Name Org. Price/unit. Units/Black Units/HP
A. Barhorst Texas Tech U. $200 US 1 1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vrotney@netcom.com (William Paul Vrotney)
Subject: Creating SupraFax modem type under NS 3.2
Message-ID: <vrotneyD214ty.Bvr@netcom.com>
Fcc: ~/rmail/sent
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 09:53:58 GMT
When creating a modem entry using the PrintManager App, instead of selecting
the available modem types is it possible to add a SupraFax modem type? If
so, how does one do this and is any extra software needed and/or available?
--
William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schurch@pages.com (Sean Church)
Subject: Re: Two Nic s in Nextstep Intel Box
Message-ID: <D20EDG.J1@pages.com>
Sender: schurch@pages.com (Sean Church)
Organization: Pages Software Inc
References: <3ehfra$s0d@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 00:22:28 GMT
In article <3ehfra$s0d@mojo.eng.umd.edu> elitman@glue.umd.edu (Eric A.
Litman) writes:
> On 5 Jan 1995 11:51:37 GMT, Mark Chamberlain (mark@xexos.com) wrote:
> # In article <3eg766$on7@aragorn.unibe.ch> root@inselnext (Operator)
writes:
> # > I like to install two network cards in a Intel Box, connecting to
> # > different Network with different IP-Adresses.Also i like to connect
> # > over one of this Nic s to our inhouse Novell-Network. Is this
possible
> # > and is there somebody around here which know how to do this with
> # > Nextstep (Version 3.3)
>
> # Can't be done. I've never actually bothered trying, so there might be
a way
> # to hack it, but everytime I've asked NeXT they say Can't Be Done.
>
> Sure it can. Simply plug them both in. If you need IP forwarding (i.e.
you're
> not using the box as a firewall) reconfig the kernel variable
> _ip_forwarding to 1. I have code to do this somewhere, or could write
> something if necessary. I think there might even be something on
> sutro.sfsu.edu. Also of interest in 3.3 is an _promiscuous variable -
if/when
> time permits, I'll investigate this further and report on the results.
>
> I've done it with 2, but I would hypothesize that the only limit is the
number
> of available slots in your PC. Keep in mind that RIP (used by routed)
doesn't
> grok variable subnet masks.
>
> This should be added to the FAQ.
OK. I saw this and started drooling (tm).
Imagine...
a Firewall system with the NeXT GUI (among other things).
;-)
You know, other companies make money selling basic Firewall systems. Big
money.
Maybe it will be possible with Sun's implementation of OpenStep.
Hmmm.....
--
Sean Church Pages Software Inc
schurch@pages.com 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
(619) 492-9050 x 221 San Diego, Ca. 92124
Systems Engineer, Network Administrator, chief cook and cable boy...
From: fischer@mango (Michael Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: .NeXTdefaults.L
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 7 Jan 1995 03:56:33 GMT
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-8285
Message-ID: <3el3dh$cqu@babyblue.cs.yale.edu>
References: <3eehab$737@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Bernhard Mayr (bernhard@pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
: I think that this has to something with the "~/.NeXTdefaults.L"-file where
: the old path still can be found. But whenever I try to correct the path in
: ".NeXTdefaults.L" nothing works at all. I could however remove the whole
: ".NeXTdefaults.L", but I do not like this, as I have a very well
: configured account.
: Is there any possibility to erase all memory pointing to the old path
: without erasing ".NeXTdefaults.L"? I like the cassandra.app a lot and
: would therefore like to use it again!
Use dread to find the entry with the old path, then use dwrite to
update it or dremove to eliminate it altogether.
==================================================
| Michael Fischer <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu> |
==================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: Creating SupraFax modem type under NS 3.2
In-Reply-To: vrotney@netcom.com's message of Sat, 7 Jan 1995 09:53:58 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Jan7143621@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <vrotneyD214ty.Bvr@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:36:21 GMT
>>>>> "William" == William Paul Vrotney <vrotney@netcom.com> writes:
William> When creating a modem entry using the PrintManager App,
William> instead of selecting the available modem types is it
William> possible to add a SupraFax modem type? If so, how does
William> one do this and is any extra software needed and/or
William> available?
William> -- William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
The answer depends on what model of SupraFax you have. If the one
you have supports Class 2 then you will be able to use your Supra
to send and receive faxes with DFax, NXFax or mgetty+sendfax.
If your modem only supports Class 1 then you must resign to the
fact that there is no Class 1 driver for NS. You could try to
adapt FlexFax (PD fax driver) that works on Sun Silicon graphics,...
(but not on NS until now).
Look in your modem manual to know which class it supports.
Then I can help you more.
Francois Magnan
--
****************************************************
** Francois Magnan : magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca **
** Dept. Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal **
****************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mandrews@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Subject: ET4000/w32p 8 bit color?
Message-ID: <D21v8D.60H@fragile.termfrost.org>
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:24:13 GMT
Anyone have a driver yet that does 8 bit color on an ET4000/w32p card?
(Hercules Dynamite Pro VLB)
--
-- Mike Andrews -=- mandrews@wittenberg.edu -=- root@fragile.termfrost.org --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Mail.app, SLIP, and NS3.3
Sender: news@news2.new-york.net (Network News)
Organization: Misconfigured client newsreader
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:40:32 GMT
Message-ID: <D21vzK.CGC@news2.new-york.net>
I've just upgraded to NS 3.3, and have found that Mail.app won't send mail! I
can receive OK, but as soon as I try to send a message, it eventually bounces
back with "Returned mail: Host unknown". The modem appears to try and send a
packet (perhaps trying the nameserver?) but it doesn't receive any packets. All
other SLIP functions work just fine.
My configuration is NS3.3, Mail.app from 3.3, Developer 3.2, SLIP-920904
package, running on a mono NeXTstation (8/500). My modem is a SupraFax (which
doesn't really live up to the name "Fax" with the lack of a driver...) v.32bis.
My SLIP connection is to a 386BSD machine with TIA.
I'd appreciate any help. I know of at least one person out there with the same
problem, so posting to this group would probably be best.
Thanks!
Matt
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From: hsing00@mik.uky.edu (harinder singh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next/ Mach " No more Processes"
Date: 6 Jan 95 16:03:51 GMT
Organization: University of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Message-ID: <hsing00.789408231@mik.uky.edu>
Summary: Error Message " No more processes"
Keywords: Next Mach Processes
Hi,
I have an interesting problem on Next/Mach adminstration. On my
system each user has a limited quota of processes ( Could anyone let me know how
to change it?) at times some of the users cannot run any processes on their
accounts and the system gives an error message " No more Processes".At that
time a ps -augx by me does not list any process for that user except the current
shell.To rectify the problem I have to reboot the system. Can anyone suggest
the cause and an elegant solution to this problem.
Thanks in advance, any help would be highly appreciated.
Harinder
email harry@ms.uky.edu
From: waynem@gold.interlog.com (Wayne Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems Sending Mail - Netinfo Timeout
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 17:14:37
Organization: Interlog Internet Services -Voice (416) 975-2655 -Data 515-1414
Message-ID: <waynem.3.00113EE4@gold.interlog.com>
Summary: Problems Sending Mail - Netinfo Timeout
Has anyone experienced any problems with Netinfo timeouts while sending mail?
I'm connected via PPP on a standalone machine. I'm able to retrieve POP mail
using popover.app. When I try to send mail, mail hangs and the console
reports a Netinfo timeout. I'm using the sendmail.mailhost.cf file with my
provider's mailhost name; I've also tried sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf with
the same results. I've also tried making the Email changes suggested in the
NeXTStep Network and System Administration Guide.
Admittedly, my knowledge of Unix is somewhat limited, so I may be missing
something very obvious. Any suggestions would be much appreciated (I really
hate having to switch to Windows to send mail!)
waynem@gold.interlog.com
NeXTMail Accepted!
From: andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com (Andrew Abernathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app, SLIP, and NS3.3
Date: 7 Jan 1995 23:25:17 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <3en7st$4e6@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
References: <D21vzK.CGC@news2.new-york.net>
In article <D21vzK.CGC@news2.new-york.net> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew
Hocker) writes:
>
> I've just upgraded to NS 3.3, and have found that Mail.app won't send
mail! I
> can receive OK, but as soon as I try to send a message, it eventually
bounces
> back with "Returned mail: Host unknown". The modem appears to try and
send a
> packet (perhaps trying the nameserver?) but it doesn't receive any
packets. All
> other SLIP functions work just fine.
Did your sendmail.cf get updated in the upgrade process? If
so, you'll need to edit the new one and replace the
'mailhost' definitions with the name of your mailhost (should
be able to find that name in the old copy of sendmail.cf,
which the upgrade should have saved). Alternatively, you can
define a host with HostManager for your mail host and give it
an alias of "mailhost" - thus avoiding this problem in the
future, but leaving yourself vulnerable to the possibility of
your mailhost's IP address changing.
(Note that sendmail.cf is actually a link - edit the
linked-to file as appropriate.)
--
andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com (Seattle area)
12206 131st Place NE, #E-75 Kirkland, WA 98034
(NeXTmail / MIME / MS Mail spoken here)
I don't speak for McCaw. I can barely speak for myself.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: How to monitor security problems?
Message-ID: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 02:24:14 GMT
How do we monitor security problems on the system, like attempts to
login as root? When I attempted to login to NS FIP 3.2 over the
network, I got a message that I could not login as root from that
terminal. But when I went to look at the system log,
/private/adm/messages did not have any record of the attempted
login.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: mgilula@localhost (Marshall F. Gilula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app, SLIP, and NS3.3
Date: 8 Jan 1995 04:14:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3enors$1t4p@tequesta.gate.net>
References: <D21vzK.CGC@news2.new-york.net>
Matthew Hocker (hocker@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: I've just upgraded to NS 3.3, and have found that Mail.app won't send mail! I
: can receive OK, but as soon as I try to send a message, it eventually bounces
: back with "Returned mail: Host unknown". The modem appears to try and send a
: packet (perhaps trying the nameserver?) but it doesn't receive any packets. All
: other SLIP functions work just fine.
check out your sendmail.cf, anyway and see if what it
turned out to be in 3.3 is different or not.
-73-
Marshall
: My configuration is NS3.3, Mail.app from 3.3, Developer 3.2, SLIP-920904
: package, running on a mono NeXTstation (8/500). My modem is a SupraFax (which
: doesn't really live up to the name "Fax" with the lack of a driver...) v.32bis.
: My SLIP connection is to a 386BSD machine with TIA.
: I'd appreciate any help. I know of at least one person out there with the same
: problem, so posting to this group would probably be best.
: Thanks!
: Matt
: --
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From: dcl@mercury.interpath.net (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: INN - anybody got a binary?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 01:18:43 -0500
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
Message-ID: <dcl.789545515@mercury>
Anybody got INN or CNews to work on a NeXT? I have need for a news server
on my NeXT (16 megs, Cube 030, NS 3.0) but have tried with no success.
I've currently got CNews on the machine, and I used addfeed to add my
feeder machine, but I still get this:
400 You do not have transfer permission
I'd rather have INN anyway, but I still can't get it to compile. I know
somebody asked about this a few weeks ago, but I didn't need it then (nor
did I foresee the need), and my newsserver doesn't have those articles any
more.
Can anybody help me?
Daniel
--
Daniel C. L'Hommedieu / dcl@Interpath.net
Interpath Technical Support
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Multicast support anyone? NeXT?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 06:42:22 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3eo1ge$10qj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Keywords: RFC-1075, DVMRP, MBONE
Does anyone have any comments on pursuing NeXT to include
true MULTICAST support per RFC-1075 DVMRP in future releases?
(part of my 1995 wish list)
Since the Mach kernel is not modifiable in the typical BSD way
by ordinary mortals (as we can do with Ultrix or SunOS), NeXT
themselves would have to build true MULTICASTING in from the start.
(Please!)
Then I could get mrouted and MBONE utils working to use several
video/audio conferencing tools (wb,vat,iv, etc), which I see as
the next leap in internet connectivity (and as well a great way
to avoid long distance telco charges, and even air-fares for people
who otherwise would have to travel to conferences, meetings, talks,
etc).
There is some indication that multicasts can be accepted in the kernel:
(a hack similar to setting ipforwarding up - original skeleton code
thanks to Eric P Scott):
# ./setmulticast on
# ./setmulticast
_en_accept_multicast is on
but that doesn't do much, since none of the socket opts for
doing the real stuff exist in the kernel, or in the includes:
# ./mrouted -d 4
debug level 4
mrouted version 2.2
setsockopt IP_MULTICAST_TTL 1: Invalid argument
(arg! not even to the point of trying DVMRP ...)
What I would like to see are defs in <netinet/in.h> similar to:
#define IPPROTO_IGMP 2 /* group mgmt protocol */
#define INADDR_ALLHOSTS_GROUP (u_long)0xe0000001 /* 224.0.0.1 */
#define IP_MULTICAST_IF 2 /* in_addr; set/get IP multicast interface */
#define IP_MULTICAST_TTL 3 /* u_char; set/get IP multicast timetolive */
#define IP_MULTICAST_LOOP 4 /* u_char; set/get IP multicast loopback */
#define IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP 5 /* ip_mreq; add an IP group membership */
#define IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP 6 /* ip_mreq; drop an IP group membership */
#define IP_DEFAULT_MULTICAST_TTL 1 /* normally limit m'casts to 1 hop */
#define IP_DEFAULT_MULTICAST_LOOP 1 /* normally hear sends if a member */
and especially a #define IFF_MULTICAST for en0 to allow something
like what's available on our SGI:
jever 6% ifconfig ec0
ec0: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,FILTMULTI,MULTICAST>
inet 129.128.7.114 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 129.128.7.255
How about it NeXT?
--
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Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: Laserwriter NTX & NeXTstep for Intel
Message-ID: <vwalkerD22xwL.41F@netcom.com>
Sender: vwalker@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 09:19:33 GMT
Keywords: Laserwriter II NTX IBM 80486 printing NeXTstep
Cc: vwalker@netcom.com
Hi folks, I have a standard 80486 computer running NeXTstep, to which I
need to attach a Laserwriter II NTX printer. I want to connect them by
their serial ports. I don't have the manual for the Laserwriter, and the
NeXTstep documentation didn't help me. I tried connecting them together
using a standard IBM-type serial cable, but no luck. Do I need to use a
null-modem cable, or some other fancy trick? I don't want to spend a lot
of money to get this working, if I can avoid it. Your help is greatly
appreciated!
Vic Walker
vwalker@netcom.com
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to monitor security problems?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 17:39:36 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com>
Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: How do we monitor security problems on the system, like attempts to
: login as root? When I attempted to login to NS FIP 3.2 over the
: network, I got a message that I could not login as root from that
: terminal. But when I went to look at the system log,
: /private/adm/messages did not have any record of the attempted
: login.
SU attempts are logged in /tmp/console.log whether they succeed OR
fail. Wierd place, I know, but that's probably what you're after.
--
| Rex A. Dieter | Research Associate |
| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to monitor security problems?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 11:02:14 -0800
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <3epcrm$5e9@samsara.circus.com>
References: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com> <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu>
In article <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
>Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
>: How do we monitor security problems on the system, like attempts to
>: login as root? When I attempted to login to NS FIP 3.2 over the
>: network, I got a message that I could not login as root from that
>: terminal. But when I went to look at the system log,
>: /private/adm/messages did not have any record of the attempted
>: login.
>SU attempts are logged in /tmp/console.log whether they succeed OR
>fail. Wierd place, I know, but that's probably what you're after.
The answer to all of this lies in syslogd and the /etc/syslog.conf
configuration file. See the syslog and syslogd man pages for details...
Basically, this is the program which directs these messages to the console
or the messages file as you specify. You can easily change it to place your
messages elsewhere, or to do other actions during various system events.
There is one little gotcha with this file which bit me once. If you use
spaces instead of tabs between the fields then that particular entry won't
work, and will print an error message during system boot.
Hope this helps...
-Adam
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From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN - anybody got a binary?
Date: 08 Jan 1995 11:52:17 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan8115217@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <dcl.789545515@mercury>
To: dcl@mercury.interpath.net (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
In-reply-to: dcl@mercury.interpath.net's message of 8 Jan 1995 01:18:43 -0500
<dcl@mercury.interpath.net> writes:
>Anybody got INN or CNews to work on a NeXT? I have need for a news server
>on my NeXT (16 megs, Cube 030, NS 3.0) but have tried with no success.
>I've currently got CNews on the machine, and I used addfeed to add my
>feeder machine, but I still get this:
> 400 You do not have transfer permission
>I'd rather have INN anyway, but I still can't get it to compile. I know
>somebody asked about this a few weeks ago, but I didn't need it then (nor
>did I foresee the need), and my newsserver doesn't have those articles any
>more.
>Can anybody help me?
>Daniel
>--
>Daniel C. L'Hommedieu / dcl@Interpath.net
>Interpath Technical Support
INN works like a champ. 3.2. I can say that this compiles on >=3.0
## $Revision: 1.40 $
##
## InterNetNews configuration file.
## Note that if you leave a field blank, you must have the trailing tab!
##
##
## 1. MAKE CONFIG PARAMETERS
## Where the DBZ sources are, from C News. INN has a (maybe old) copy.
#### =()<DBZDIR @<DBZDIR>@>()=
DBZDIR ../dbz
## If you have a parallel make, set this to "&"
#### =()<P @<P>@>()=
P
## C pre-processor flags
#### =()<DEFS @<DEFS>@>()=
DEFS -DNeXT -I../include
## C compiler
#### =()<CC @<CC>@>()=
CC cc
## Does your compiler properly do "char const *"? Pick DO DONT or DUNNO
#### =()<USE_CHAR_CONST @<USE_CHAR_CONST>@>()=
USE_CHAR_CONST DO
## C compiler flags
#### =()<CFLAGS @<CFLAGS>@>()=
CFLAGS -pipe -fstrength-reduce $(DEFS) -g
## C compiler flags to use when compiling dbz
#### =()<DBZCFLAGS @<DBZCFLAGS>@>()=
DBZCFLAGS $(CFLAGS)
## What flags to use if profiling; -p or -pg, e.g.
#### =()<PROF @<PROF>@>()=
PROF -pg
## Flags for the "cc -o" line; e.g., -Bstatic on SunOS4.x while debugging.
#### =()<LDFLAGS @<LDFLAGS>@>()=
LDFLAGS -g
## If you use the standard NNTP way of connecting, where is the library?
#### =()<NNTPLIB @<NNTPLIB>@>()=
NNTPLIB
## If you need to link in other libraries, add them here
#### =()<LIBS @<LIBS>@>()=
LIBS
## How to make a lint library; pick BSD, SYSV, or NONE.
#### =()<LINTLIBSTYLE @<LINTLIBSTYLE>@>()=
LINTLIBSTYLE NONE
## Flags for lint. AIX wants "-wkD"; it and others don't want "-z".
#### =()<LINTFLAGS @<LINTFLAGS>@>()=
LINTFLAGS -b -h -z $(DEFS)
## Some lints insist on putting out the filename and other crap.
## Possible values:
## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.aix
## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.osx
## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.sun
## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.sysv
## LINTFILTER
#### =()<LINTFILTER @<LINTFILTER>@>()=
LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.sun
## How to install manpages; pick SOURCE, NROFF-PACK, NROFF-PACK-SCO, or NONE.
#### =()<MANPAGESTYLE @<MANPAGESTYLE>@>()=
MANPAGESTYLE SOURCE
## Where various manpages should go
#### =()<MAN1 @<MAN1>@>()=
MAN1 /usr/local/man/man1
#### =()<MAN3 @<MAN3>@>()=
MAN3 /usr/local/man/man3
#### =()<MAN5 @<MAN5>@>()=
MAN5 /usr/local/man/man5
#### =()<MAN8 @<MAN8>@>()=
MAN8 /usr/local/man/man8
## Ranlib command. Use echo if you don't need ranlib.
#### =()<RANLIB @<RANLIB>@>()=
RANLIB ranlib
## YACC (yet another config control?)
#### =()<YACC @<YACC>@>()=
YACC yacc
## Ctags command. Use echo if you don't have ctags.
#### =()<CTAGS @<CTAGS>@>()=
CTAGS ctags -t -w
##
## 2. LOGGING LEVELS
## Facility innd should log under.
#### =()<LOG_INN_SERVER @<LOG_INN_SERVER>@>()=
LOG_INN_SERVER LOG_LOCAL6
## Facility all other programs should log under.
#### =()<LOG_INN_PROG @<LOG_INN_PROG>@>()=
LOG_INN_PROG LOG_LOCAL6
## Flags to use in opening the logs; some programs add LOG_PID.
#### =()<L_OPENLOG_FLAGS @<L_OPENLOG_FLAGS>@>()=
L_OPENLOG_FLAGS (LOG_CONS | LOG_NDELAY)
## Log a fatal error; program is about to exit.
#### =()<L_FATAL @<L_FATAL>@>()=
L_FATAL LOG_CRIT
## Log an error that might mean one or more articles get lost.
#### =()<L_ERROR @<L_ERROR>@>()=
L_ERROR LOG_ERR
## Informational notice, usually not worth caring about.
#### =()<L_NOTICE @<L_NOTICE>@>()=
L_NOTICE LOG_WARNING
## A protocol trace.
#### =()<L_TRACE @<L_TRACE>@>()=
L_TRACE LOG_DEBUG
## All incoming control commands (ctlinnd, etc).
#### =()<L_CC_CMD @<L_CC_CMD>@>()=
L_CC_CMD LOG_INFO
##
## 3. OWNERSHIPS AND FILE MODES
## Owner of articles and directories and _PATH_INNDDIR
#### =()<NEWSUSER @<NEWSUSER>@>()=
NEWSUSER news
## Group, for same purpose
#### =()<NEWSGROUP @<NEWSGROUP>@>()=
NEWSGROUP news
## Who gets email about control messages? (Usually same as NEWSUSER)
#### =()<NEWSMASTER @<NEWSMASTER>@>()=
NEWSMASTER usenet
## Who gets email on the Path line?
#### =()<PATHMASTER @<PATHMASTER>@>()=
PATHMASTER not-for-mail
## Umask to set.
#### =()<NEWSUMASK @<NEWSUMASK>@>()=
NEWSUMASK 02
## Mode that incoming articles are created under.
#### =()<ARTFILE_MODE @<ARTFILE_MODE>@>()=
ARTFILE_MODE 0664
## Mode that batch files are created under.
#### =()<BATCHFILE_MODE @<BATCHFILE_MODE>@>()=
BATCHFILE_MODE 0664
## Mode that directories are created under.
#### =()<GROUPDIR_MODE @<GROUPDIR_MODE>@>()=
GROUPDIR_MODE 0775
##
## 4. C LIBRARY DIFFERENCES
## Use stdargs, varargs, or neither? Pick VARARGS STDARGS or NONE.
## You need vfprintf and vfsprintf if not NONE.
#### =()<VAR_STYLE @<VAR_STYLE>@>()=
VAR_STYLE VARARGS
## If you don't have <string.h>, set this to "mystring.h"
#### =()<STR_HEADER @<STR_HEADER>@>()=
STR_HEADER <string.h>
## If you don't have <memory.h>, set this to "mymemory.h"
#### =()<MEM_HEADER @<MEM_HEADER>@>()=
MEM_HEADER <memory.h>
## What is a file offset? Usually long or off_t. *Must be long for now!*
#### =()<OFFSET_T @<OFFSET_T>@>()=
OFFSET_T long
## What is the type of an object size? Usually size_t or unsigned int.
#### =()<SIZE_T @<SIZE_T>@>()=
SIZE_T int
## What is the type of a passwd uid and gid, for use in chown(2)?
#### =()<UID_T @<UID_T>@>()=
UID_T int
#### =()<GID_T @<GID_T>@>()=
GID_T int
## Type of a pid, for use in kill(2).
#### =()<PID_T @<PID_T>@>()=
PID_T int
## Generic pointer, used by memcpy, malloc, etc. Usually char or void.
#### =()<POINTER @<POINTER>@>()=
POINTER char
## Worst-case alignment, in order to shut lint up
#### =()<ALIGNPTR @<ALIGNPTR>@>()=
ALIGNPTR int
## What should a signal handler return? Usually int or void.
#### =()<SIGHANDLER @<SIGHANDLER>@>()=
SIGHANDLER void
## Type of variables can be modified in a signal handler? sig_atomic_t
#### =()<SIGVAR @<SIGVAR>@>()=
SIGVAR int
## Function that returns no value, and a pointer to it. Pick int or void
#### =()<FUNCTYPE @<FUNCTYPE>@>()=
FUNCTYPE void
## Use BSD4.2 or Posix directory names? Pick DIRENT or DIRECT.
#### =()<DIR_STYLE @<DIR_STYLE>@>()=
DIR_STYLE DIRECT
## Use flock, lockf, or nothing to lock files?
## Pick FLOCK, LOCKF, FCNTL, or NONE
#### =()<LOCK_STYLE @<LOCK_STYLE>@>()=
LOCK_STYLE FLOCK
## Do you have <unistd.h>? Pick DO or DONT
#### =()<HAVE_UNISTD @<HAVE_UNISTD>@>()=
HAVE_UNISTD DONT
## Do you have setbuffer? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_SETBUFFER @<HAVE_SETBUFFER>@>()=
HAVE_SETBUFFER DO
## Do you have gettimeofday? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY @<HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY>@>()=
HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY DO
## Do you have fchmod? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_FCHMOD @<HAVE_FCHMOD>@>()=
HAVE_FCHMOD DO
## Do you have setsid()? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_SETSID @<HAVE_SETSID>@>()=
HAVE_SETSID DONT
## Does your (struct tm) have a tm_gmtoff field? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_TM_GMTOFF @<HAVE_TM_GMTOFF>@>()=
HAVE_TM_GMTOFF DO
## Does your (struct stat) have a st_blksize field? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE @<HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE>@>()=
HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE DO
## Use waitpid instead of wait3? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_WAITPID @<HAVE_WAITPID>@>()=
HAVE_WAITPID DONT
## Use "union wait" instead of int? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<USE_UNION_WAIT @<USE_UNION_WAIT>@>()=
USE_UNION_WAIT DO
## How to fork? Pick fork or vfork.
#### =()<FORK @<FORK>@>()=
FORK vfork
## Do you have <vfork.h>? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_VFORK @<HAVE_VFORK>@>()=
HAVE_VFORK DO
## Do you have symbolic links? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_SYMLINK @<HAVE_SYMLINK>@>()=
HAVE_SYMLINK DO
## Do you have Unix-domain sockets? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN @<HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN>@>()=
HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN DO
## Does your AF_UNIX bind use sizeof for the socket size? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<BIND_USE_SIZEOF @<BIND_USE_SIZEOF>@>()=
BIND_USE_SIZEOF DONT
## How should close-on-exec be done? Pick IOCTL or FCNTL.
#### =()<CLX_STYLE @<CLX_STYLE>@>()=
CLX_STYLE IOCTL
## How should non-blocking I/O be done? Pick IOCTL or FCNTL.
#### =()<NBIO_STYLE @<NBIO_STYLE>@>()=
NBIO_STYLE FCNTL
## How should resource-totalling be done? Pick RUSAGE or TIMES
#### =()<RES_STYLE @<RES_STYLE>@>()=
RES_STYLE RUSAGE
## How to get number of available descriptors?
## Pick GETDTAB, GETRLIMIT, SYSCONF, ULIMIT, or CONSTANT.
#### =()<FDCOUNT_STYLE @<FDCOUNT_STYLE>@>()=
FDCOUNT_STYLE GETDTAB
## If greater than -1, then use [gs]etrlimit to set that many descriptors.
## If -1, then no [gs]etrlimit calls are done.
#### =()<NOFILE_LIMIT @<NOFILE_LIMIT>@>()=
NOFILE_LIMIT -1
## Do you need <time.h> as well as <sys/time.h>? Pick DO or DONT.
#### =()<NEED_TIME @<NEED_TIME>@>()=
NEED_TIME DONT
## What predicate, if any, the <ctype.h> macros need
#### =()<CTYPE @<CTYPE>@>()=
CTYPE (isascii((c)) && isXXXXX((c)))
#CTYPE ((c) > 0 && isXXXXX((c)))
#CTYPE isXXXXX((c))
## What's the return type of abort? Usually int or void.
#### =()<ABORTVAL @<ABORTVAL>@>()=
ABORTVAL 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: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to monitor security problems?
Date: 08 Jan 1995 11:54:36 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan8115436@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com>
To: westes@usc.com
In-reply-to: westes@netcom.com's message of Sun, 8 Jan 1995 02:24:14 GMT
<westes@netcom.com> writes:
>How do we monitor security problems on the system, like attempts to
>login as root? When I attempted to login to NS FIP 3.2 over the
>network, I got a message that I could not login as root from that
>terminal. But when I went to look at the system log,
>/private/adm/messages did not have any record of the attempted
>login.
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Hmm. Are you sure there was no record?
Did anything go to your console? It should also go to
/usr/adm/messages not /private/adm/messages btw.
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From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app, SLIP, and NS3.3
Date: 08 Jan 1995 12:43:59 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan8124359@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <D21vzK.CGC@news2.new-york.net>
To: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
In-reply-to: hocker@ritz.mordor.com's message of Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:40:32 GMT
<hocker@ritz.mordor.com> writes:
>I've just upgraded to NS 3.3, and have found that Mail.app won't send mail! I
>can receive OK, but as soon as I try to send a message, it eventually bounces
>back with "Returned mail: Host unknown". The modem appears to try and send a
>packet (perhaps trying the nameserver?) but it doesn't receive any packets. All
>other SLIP functions work just fine.
Sounds to me as though you have a different sendmail
configuration.. Did you have to customize it originally whilst under
3.2? Also what about /etc/resolv.conf and your netinfo database? Are
these the same as from 3.2?
>My configuration is NS3.3, Mail.app from 3.3, Developer 3.2, SLIP-920904
>package, running on a mono NeXTstation (8/500). My modem is a SupraFax (which
>doesn't really live up to the name "Fax" with the lack of a
driver...) v.32bis.
DFax supports Supra's.
>My SLIP connection is to a 386BSD machine with TIA.
>I'd appreciate any help. I know of at least one person out there with the same
>problem, so posting to this group would probably be best.
>Thanks!
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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: limit command in csh does not work
Date: 8 Jan 1995 19:20:12 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <3epdtc$nf7@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
In NextOS 3.2, the limit commands 'datasize', 'stacksize', and 'memoryuse' do
not work in the csh shell. I wrote a simple program that malloc()'s any size
chunk of memory based on the command line argument. I set the limit command
to various amounts for all three of these, but no matter what values they were
set to, malloc() never failed when I ran this program.
Am I misunderstanding the use of these? How can I put an upper limit on how
much memory is dynamically allocated by a process?
Thanks.
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From: bhardwaj@cuug.ab.ca (Dharam Bhardwaj 282-6486)
Subject: Re: NXFax Help
Message-ID: <D23rGt.D0I@cuug.ab.ca>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 19:58:04 GMT
References: <3eft3r$d56@mark.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: Calgary UNIX User's Group
Pat Martin (pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: installed NXFax and it does not work--the NXFax monitor says
: "Looking for Driver"--the installation process said that installation
: was sucessful. I usually use my modem with kermit--is this whwere the
: problem lies? thanks in advance
: pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu
: Why do I need NXFax driver? Why don't the drivers that come
: with the machine ie Mix Fax Modem work?
I am faced with the same problem as Pat is. I used to use my Zyxel
strictly for faxing using Nxfax until one day I downloaded some files
using kermit. Next thing I know... NxFax Monitor is saying 'Looking for
driver' and just sits there... and I have not installed any OEM drivers.
Coincidentally or not, ever since my M68k fails to power off
(normally), I have to force it via Cmd~. It seems a couple of processes
(they seem fax related) are still running..
I have been looking into this nuisance since early Dec. Apparently,
somewhere in the NxFax docs. they talk about changing some settings if
the modem is going to be used for other than faxing. Of course, I am
still
searching, guessing, so I could be barking up the wrong alley.
BTW, how do I access Mix Fax?
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From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <ROBERT.95Jan8115436@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
Control: cancel <ROBERT.95Jan8115436@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
Date: 08 Jan 1995 20:06:49 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan8200649@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
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From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax Help
Date: 8 Jan 1995 21:58:45 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <3epn6l$c3@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <3eft3r$d56@mark.ucdavis.edu> <D23rGt.D0I@cuug.ab.ca>
bhardwaj@cuug.ab.ca (Dharam Bhardwaj 282-6486) wrote in comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>Pat Martin (pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
>: installed NXFax and it does not work--the NXFax monitor says
>: "Looking for Driver"--the installation process said that installation
>: was sucessful. I usually use my modem with kermit--is this whwere the
>: problem lies? thanks in advance
>: pmartin@landau.ucdavis.edu
>
>: Why do I need NXFax driver? Why don't the drivers that come
>: with the machine ie Mix Fax Modem work?
>
>
>I am faced with the same problem as Pat is. I used to use my Zyxel
>strictly for faxing using Nxfax until one day I downloaded some files
>using kermit. Next thing I know... NxFax Monitor is saying 'Looking for
>driver' and just sits there... and I have not installed any OEM drivers.
>Coincidentally or not, ever since my M68k fails to power off
>(normally), I have to force it via Cmd~. It seems a couple of processes
>(they seem fax related) are still running..
>I have been looking into this nuisance since early Dec. Apparently,
>somewhere in the NxFax docs. they talk about changing some settings if
>the modem is going to be used for other than faxing. Of course, I am
>still
>searching, guessing, so I could be barking up the wrong alley.
>BTW, how do I access Mix Fax?
>
This just happened to me and I did two things.
1. I removed the /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa file
2. I rebooted, restarting the driver.
Things are now working again as normal.
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From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Multicast support anyone? NeXT?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 15:40:41 -0800
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <3ept5p$6gh@samsara.circus.com>
References: <3eo1ge$10qj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Keywords: RFC-1075, DVMRP, MBONE
In article <3eo1ge$10qj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
<jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>Does anyone have any comments on pursuing NeXT to include
>true MULTICAST support per RFC-1075 DVMRP in future releases?
>(part of my 1995 wish list)
I don't know how it's implemented, but there is now support for IP multicast
in 3.3.... I guess we'll see what we get in terms of header files when 3.3 dev
comes out.
Have you tried this on a 3.3 system yet?
>James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
>Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
>Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
>University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
>Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
Hope I've been helpful...
-Adam
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sta@logibec.com
Subject: Multi-OS installtion
Message-ID: <1995Jan6.180606.5437@logibec.com>
Keywords: NT NS
Sender: news@logibec.com
Organization: Logibec Groupe Informatique Ltee, QC, Canada
Distribution: World
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 18:06:06 GMT
Could someone please direct me is it possible to have Windows NT & NEXSTEP
installed on the same machine and how ?
sta@logibec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Re: How to monitor security problems?
Message-ID: <westesD24Cz6.4uw@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
References: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com> <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 03:42:42 GMT
Rex Dieter (rdieter@math.unl.edu) wrote:
: Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: SU attempts are logged in /tmp/console.log whether they succeed OR
: fail. Wierd place, I know, but that's probably what you're after.
My su attempts seem to go into /private/adm/messages. It's just the
attempts to *telnet* in and *login* as root that are not getting
recorded.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Re: How to monitor security problems?
Message-ID: <westesD24D4s.55B@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
References: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com> <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu> <3epcrm$5e9@samsara.circus.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 03:46:03 GMT
Adam Deishu Beeman (buddha@samsara.circus.com) wrote:
: In article <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
: >Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
: >: How do we monitor security problems on the system, like attempts to
: >: login as root? When I attempted to login to NS FIP 3.2 over the
: >: network, I got a message that I could not login as root from that
: >: terminal. But when I went to look at the system log,
: >: /private/adm/messages did not have any record of the attempted
: >: login.
: The answer to all of this lies in syslogd and the /etc/syslog.conf
: configuration file. See the syslog and syslogd man pages for details...
: Basically, this is the program which directs these messages to the console
: or the messages file as you specify. You can easily change it to place your
: messages elsewhere, or to do other actions during various system events.
This is my /etc/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 *
local0.notice;local0.debug /usr/spool/mqueue/POPlog
Attempts to telnet in and login as root are rejected, but they do not
show up in /usr/adm/messages (symbolic link to /private/adm/messages).
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From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: HELP: "talk" does not work in 3.3???
Date: 9 Jan 1995 03:54:20 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3eqc1c$oad@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I am having the following problems in 3.3 and Terminal:
wjabi@libra> talk hall@yvonne.arch.cuhk.hk
You don't exist. Go away.
wjabi@libra> talk wjabi ttyp2
You don't exist. Go away.
wjabi@libra> cat /etc/utmp
consolewjabi j/ wjabi@libra>
wjabi@libra> who am I
wjabi@libra> whoami
wjabi
wjabi@libra> who
wjabi console Jan 8 22:31
wjabi@libra>
Can you help? "Talk" is very important to me.
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Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2069
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From: Paul Kim <trout@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to monitor security problems?
Date: 9 Jan 1995 05:35:40 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3eqhvc$a8s@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <westesD22EoE.5GJ@netcom.com> <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu> <3epcrm$5e9@samsara.circus.com> <westesD24D4s.55B@netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-User: trout
In article <westesD24D4s.55B@netcom.com>, Will Estes <westes@usc.com> wrote:
>Adam Deishu Beeman (buddha@samsara.circus.com) wrote:
>: In article <3ep80o$dh6@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
>: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
>: >Will Estes (westes@netcom.com) wrote:
>: >: How do we monitor security problems on the system, like attempts to
>: >: login as root? When I attempted to login to NS FIP 3.2 over the
>: >: network, I got a message that I could not login as root from that
>: >: terminal. But when I went to look at the system log,
>: >: /private/adm/messages did not have any record of the attempted
>: >: login.
>
>: The answer to all of this lies in syslogd and the /etc/syslog.conf
>: configuration file. See the syslog and syslogd man pages for details...
>: Basically, this is the program which directs these messages to the console
>: or the messages file as you specify. You can easily change it to place your
>: messages elsewhere, or to do other actions during various system events.
>
>This is my /etc/syslog.conf:
[syslog.conf deleted]
>
>--
>Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
I don't think the problem is with his syslog config. As far as I know, the
'login' that ships with NS doesn't log rejected login attempts. That's why
allowing root logins (rlogins) is a security hole (check your /etc/ttys file
for the word 'secure' in an entry). You should force users to log into their
non-priveleged account and then 'su' from there ('su' DOES log failed
attempts).
There are a couple of solutions. One is to get a program called log_daemon.
I believe this has a version of 'login' that will log failed attempts. The
other solution is to get tcp_wrappers. This package records all tcp connections
(including login) with the remote host and, if the remote user if has an
ident daemon installed at his/her site, the username. You can get it at
ftp.win.tue.nl. I believe that log_daemon is there as well. I'm not sure as
I haven't used it (though I have used and highly recommend the tcp_wrappers
package).
Note that the two packages are not exclusive of eachother. If you're really
paranoid, install both.
paul kim
trout@denizen.com (Nextmail ok)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Re: cryptor bundle for 3.3 ?
Message-ID: <D235y0.2oI@blackmaus.com>
Sender: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: Blackmaus Design, Inc.
References: <D1sMIn.3Mt@rna.nl>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 12:13:11 GMT
In article <D1sMIn.3Mt@rna.nl> gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
> Eike Dierks writes
> > Where is it ?
>
> It just works.
>
> --Gerben
Yeah, but unfortunately it doesn't work for MIME messages. :(
I wonder if this can even be done...
---
Dino Bagdadi
Blackmaus Design
dino@blackmaus.com (NeXTmail & MIME)
PGP key available on request.
From: Shannon Holland <holland@catapent.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 Academic Bundle contains 3.2 Developer?
Date: 9 Jan 1995 08:41:39 GMT
Organization: Catapult Entertainment
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3eqss3$f12@news1.svc.portal.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
so after installing the next essentials, etc for the academic bundle of
3.3 i began installing the developer kit. after getting a bunch of
errors, i noticed that the version for the developer kit was 3.2???
i presume that this is a mistake and i should call next to get the real
version?
from the docs it says that installing mismatched versions is really bad.
is this so? (ie can i install 3.2 developer while waiting for 3.3
developer?)
thanks!
shannon
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 (poor video performance)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
Date: 9 Jan 1995 11:26:55 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3er6hv$3h2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <schwettD1su4v.D0J@netcom.com> <3eagkf$kc5@news1.best.com> <schwettD1uF7x.Bnu@netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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schwett@netcom.com wrote:
: kcd@babylon5.jumpgate.com (Kenneth Dyke) writes:
: >looks like the translation that really got broken was the 12-bit to 24-bit
: >because shell windows and such still drag quickly. I suppose I could try to
: >see how well 8-bit grayscale windows drag around. [I just tried it and
: >eight-bit still flies right along].
Well, it seems there are some unhappy users out there. The problems might be
related to the graphics card / driver and to the PCIBus-driver
I'm very happy with my NXFactor of 2.32 on my Elsa Winner 2000pro 4MB PCI
and Pentium 66 in 8 Bit Color at 1536x1132. I had to remove the PCIBus
driver to double the performance, but now it flies.
NXFactor is about 1.3 in 16 Bit 444, about 10 percent slower than under 3.2.
Haven't tested true color yet. The only pity is that my user defined monitor
timings don't work anymore. Have to bug Elsa about this....
: >Well, I like NEXTSTEP too much to trash it over this little annoyance, but
: >I do think a bug report is in order.
Yes. There's something wrong with the PCIBus driver.
: I really LOVED 3.2, but, I don't *need* NeXTStep, really, and the video
: performance in 3.3 on my system makes it altogether unpleasant to work with...
Which graphics card do you have?
: >> Everybody who has this problem, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUG NEXT. They need to
: >> know that it's not just a fluke.
Yes.
Cheers,
Axel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: mmoreton@madge1.demon.co.uk (Mike Moreton)
Subject: Re: Do you want SoftPC 4.0 (protected mode) for m68k/HP NEXTSTEP?
Organization: Madge Networks
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 08:36:45 GMT
Message-ID: <D24qLB.Dny@madge1.demon.co.uk>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
References: <3ekiov$p04@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Alan A. Barhorst (alan@osci.me.ttu.edu) wrote:
: Hello all,
: I am compiling a list of users of SoftPC for m68k (and HP)
: hardware running NEXTSTEP who want to be able to run SoftPC 4.0 (protected
: mode).
It might help you in your campaign if you get your terminology right (-:
SoftPC 3.0 on m68K already gives you protected mode - that's why it can run
Windows in Standard Mode. Protected mode was first introduced in the
Intel 286 processor.
I think what you're after is 386 emulation (which basically gives you 32
bit instructions, plus paging) and which allows you to run Windows in
Enhanced Mode.
Good luck!
Mike.
--
All present and future standard disclaimers apply
From: frank@wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR
Date: 9 Jan 1995 12:11:26 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3er95e$p0f@prakinf2.PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Keywords: NeXTSTEP on INTEL, KEYBOARD-ERROR, Installation, INTEL
HELP!!
We installed NeXTSTEP for Intel on a P5-Board using an Adaptec
A1540 SCSI-Controller.
The System boots correctly.
After running the kernel the keyboard is without any function.
We can't use it anymore.
Rebooting dosn't eleminate the error (advise from I-Guide).
Thanks in advance
Klaus-Dieter Seeber
klaus-dieter.seeber@wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What's the proper way to Dump?
Date: 9 Jan 1995 04:56:04 -0800
Organization: Zach's House
Message-ID: <3erbp4$m5o@crl10.crl.com>
Summary: How should one go about backing stuff up?
Keywords: backup, dat
So, I've figured out how to set the block size and dump data to the dat
tape drive and even restore it (although I haven't tried a full restore
yet), and I'm wondering what is the proper way to do a backup?
BACKUP:
Should I shutdown the system to single user? Should I leave the machine
alone while it's dumping? I really want to be able to restore the entire
system from a tape.
RESTORE:
And in case of a total system explosion, how do I boot from the CD-ROM to
restore the hard drive from tape (I have an Intel machine)?
Is there anyone out there that has some good experience in these matters
who could give me some advice on how to keep a good total system backup
in case of a catastrophic failure?
TIA!!
Zach
From: mark@nextstep.dorm6.nctu.edu.tw (Lin Yi-chih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Do you want SoftPC 4.0 (protected mode) for m68k/HP NEXTSTEP?
Date: 9 Jan 1995 14:29:13 GMT
Organization: Dep. Computer Sci. & Information Eng., Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C
Message-ID: <3erh7p$1rt@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
References: <D24qLB.Dny@madge1.demon.co.uk>
In article <D24qLB.Dny@madge1.demon.co.uk> mmoreton@madge1.demon.co.uk
(Mike Moreton) writes:
> Alan A. Barhorst (alan@osci.me.ttu.edu) wrote:
> : Hello all,
> : I am compiling a list of users of SoftPC for m68k (and HP)
> : hardware running NEXTSTEP who want to be able to run SoftPC 4.0
(protected
> : mode).
>
> It might help you in your campaign if you get your terminology right (-:
>
> SoftPC 3.0 on m68K already gives you protected mode - that's why it can
run
> Windows in Standard Mode. Protected mode was first introduced in the
> Intel 286 processor.
>
> I think what you're after is 386 emulation (which basically gives you 32
> bit instructions, plus paging) and which allows you to run Windows in
> Enhanced Mode.
Where can find the demo version of SoftPC 4.0 for Intel?
Anybody use it to run Matlab?
Mark
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Academic Bundle contains 3.2 Developer?
Date: 9 Jan 1995 15:37:20 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3erl7g$kho@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <3eqss3$f12@news1.svc.portal.com>
In article <3eqss3$f12@news1.svc.portal.com> Shannon Holland
<holland@catapent.com> writes:
> so after installing the next essentials, etc for the academic bundle of
> 3.3 i began installing the developer kit. after getting a bunch of
> errors, i noticed that the version for the developer kit was 3.2???
>
> i presume that this is a mistake and i should call next to get the real
> version?
>
> from the docs it says that installing mismatched versions is really bad.
> is this so? (ie can i install 3.2 developer while waiting for 3.3
> developer?)
>
> thanks!
>
> shannon
NS 3.3 Developer won't be out until 2nd quarter of this year. I know of
some sites that have recently received the beta...
--
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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: stevef@aom.bt.co.uk (Steve Fosdick)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail8 & mailer problems
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 9 Jan 1995 16:38:15 -0000
Organization: BT Access Operations and Maintenance
Message-ID: <3eropn$sh2@icarus.aom.bt.co.uk>
References: <3dvqj0$4c3@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Shane M Zatezalo (szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
> I'm trying to use my own "mailer" program with Sendmail8. (NS 3.0)
>
> If I send mail from the machine (galadriel)
>
> echo "test" | /usr/lib/sendmail root@tap.fnet.org
>
> the mail is processed a-ok by the mailer & is put into the spool directory.
>
> If I login to a remote system, and send mail to root@tap.fnet.org
> nothing shows up in the spool directory!!
>
> Though the mail _is_ received. (it is in the logs and is marked as SENT):
The sent mark means (as far as I know) that sendmail called you
mailer, fed it the message as stdin, and you mailer returned exit code
zero. This does not mean that you mailer didn't have problems, it
depends how it is written.
The most likely cause to my mind is that when sendmail is deliverying
a message from the local system in runs as the same user who invoked
it, while if it is deliverying a message from incomming STMP it runs
as the default user (normally daemon). You can make sendmail call the
mailer as root always - it is one of the mailer flags.
--
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Voice: +44 1473 642987 BT WEB: FOSDICK S J
Fax: +44 1473 644607 BOAT: FOSDICSJ
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From: billf@amiserv.xnet.com (Bill Froelich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SMTP mail between NeXT and SCO
Date: 9 Jan 1995 16:33:00 GMT
Organization: XNet - A Full Service Internet Provider - (708) 983-6064
Message-ID: <3erofs$65v@flood.xnet.com>
Keywords: SMTP Mail SCO
I am currently tring to configure NeXT to accept SMTP mail from my
SCO Unix machine that is acting as my internet gateway. Is there
something special I need to configure on the NeXT box to get it to
accept the mail?
Any help or pointers in the right direction would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks in advance
--Bill Froelich billf@cstech.chi.il.us
System Administrator
Client Server Technologies, Inc.
From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: canon input overrun on tty3072????
Date: 9 Jan 1995 17:31:16 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <3errt4$3chh@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
hi gang.
Jan 9 08:05:33 redfish mach: tty3072: canon input overrun
Jan 9 08:05:33 redfish mach: tty3072: canon input overrun
Jan 9 08:05:39 redfish last message repeated 123 times
..
Jan 9 08:12:41 redfish last message repeated 2661 times
Jan 9 08:12:41 redfish mach: tty3072: canon input overrun
this from a NeXT color slab. is my floppy dying? anyone seen
this before? is there a fix?
thanks!
kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: HELP: "talk" does not work in 3.3???
Date: 9 Jan 1995 18:43:18 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3es046$2ju@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <3ers57$luj@core.symnet.net>
>Wassim M. Jabi writes
> I am having the following problems in 3.3 and Terminal:
>
> wjabi@libra> talk hall@yvonne.arch.cuhk.hk
> You don't exist. Go away.
The fact that "talk" is not working is a symptom of my
problem not the real cause. Here is my theory on what
is happening:
Under NS3.2 starting a Terminal shell generated
a ttypX entry in /etc/utmp which somehow identifies
who is logged in at what terminal.
Under NS3.3 Terminal does not do that anymore.
The result is that talk (when I initiated it)
tells me that I do not exist.
Even if I use ytalk, the responder to my talk
request will not be able to "see" my terminal
and know where I am logged in. It will fail
saying that my machine is refusing messages.
The solution might be to use "Stuart" instead
of Terminal. I'll have to try it.
--
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Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2069
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu NeXTMail & MIME friendly
From: blumoose@bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu (David W. Gotthold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: "talk" does not work in 3.3???
Date: 9 Jan 1995 19:22:16 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3es2d8$7pv@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <3es046$2ju@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
In article <3es046$2ju@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) writes:
>>Wassim M. Jabi writes
>> I am having the following problems in 3.3 and Terminal:
>>
>> wjabi@libra> talk hall@yvonne.arch.cuhk.hk
>> You don't exist. Go away.
>
>The fact that "talk" is not working is a symptom of my
>problem not the real cause. Here is my theory on what
>is happening:
>
>Under NS3.2 starting a Terminal shell generated
>a ttypX entry in /etc/utmp which somehow identifies
>who is logged in at what terminal.
>
>Under NS3.3 Terminal does not do that anymore.
>The result is that talk (when I initiated it)
>tells me that I do not exist.
>
>Even if I use ytalk, the responder to my talk
>request will not be able to "see" my terminal
>and know where I am logged in. It will fail
>saying that my machine is refusing messages.
>
>The solution might be to use "Stuart" instead
>of Terminal. I'll have to try it.
>
>--
>Wassim M. Jabi (313) 936-0229
>Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
>2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2069
>wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu NeXTMail & MIME friendly
I had a similar problem a few months ago, here's what I came up with. It
applies to talk used with Stuart. Talk with terminal still worked on my
machine.
It's actually in the manual for Stuart, just where it's supposed to be.
Stuart doesn't setuid root to write stuff to some log, instead it uses a
program called slog. The permissions on mine were wrong.
For more info, look in the manual (Info > Manual) under troubleshooting ->
talk doesn't work and under Installation -> slog There it will explain
about slog and how to fix it.
To fix mine, I just su'd to root then
# chown root.tty slog
# chmod 6755 slog
Good luck, I hope this fixes yours too.
(I noticed it was a Stuart problem, because when I telneted in, I was able
to use talk with the standard shell.)
David
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(512) 416-9171...................................Austin TX 78704
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stephane@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Stephane Etienne,SE,,,OCT96, )
Subject: XWindows with NextStep
Message-ID: <D25n2E.H82@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Keywords:
Hello,
Sender: news@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Network News)
Organization: Dept. of Computing Science, Glasgow University, Glasgow.
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 20:18:13 GMT
I have recently acquired NeXT V3.2 and a DEC Pentium 90Mhz works-
tation. Since before that I was developing under X, I was
delighted to find a free version of X running under NeXT. I am
talking about MouseX. Unfortunately, all the binaries I managed
to get were compiled solely for m68k processors. I therefore de-
cided to get the whole stuff from MIT (R5), to apply the relevant
patches (both from MIT and for NeXT) and to recompile the whole
tree). The compilation was performed without any major troubles.
However, after having installed the whole stuff, the X server
(NextX.color) refuse to launch. I got this error message:
> Unable to open /dev/vid0 for read/write
The entry of this device follows:
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root 13, 0 Oct 22 1993 /dev/vid0
If i try to read/write ("cat /dev/vid0" or "cat > /dev/vid0") on
this device, I get:
> /dev/vid0: No such device.
I verified from the code of the xnext server and indeed when it
tries to open this device, I get errno = 19 which means no such
device. If I do an "ls -alu /dev/vid0", I obtain as a result that
the device is never used. NeXT certainly never use it. I have
tried many things but none have worked. Any ideas anyone ?
Configuration:
Configuration:
DECpc XL Server 590
NeXTStep 3.2
SCSI 2giga hardrive
Number9GXEPro 4 Megs
EtherExpress16C
A clue maybe. The video card I have should allow me to get a
resolution of 1280x1200 or something... Unfortunately, it does
not work very well. The only configuration which works ok is the
supervga mode:
1024x764 32bits color
At better resolution modes, the screen gets fuzzy at the bottom a
bit like a crypted program on tv. We assumed that it was maybe a
problem with the screen ( since it is not the one we asked for )
for more information about the configuration, here follow parts
of the contains of the file in /var/adm/messages
Jan 7 03:28:05 mousa mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Eth
ernet"
Jan 7 03:28:05 mousa mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:aa:00:5d:d1:4a
Jan 7 03:28:29 mousa reboot: Reboot complete
Jan 7 03:28:37 mousa loginwindow[208]: loginwindow: Checking for DOS partitioned
disk
Jan 7 03:28:45 mousa loginwindow[214]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Wo
rkspace.app/Workspace
Jan 7 03:28:46 mousa Workspace[214]: logged in
Jan 7 04:01:31 mousa netinfod[105]: netinfo server exiting
Jan 7 04:01:38 mousa netinfod[104]: netinfo server exiting
Jan 7 04:01:41 mousa lookupd[114]: restarting lookupd
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 22:08:07 PDT 1993; root(rcb
uilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: physical memory = 128.00 megabytes.
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: using 255 buffers containing 1.99 megabytes of memory
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: available memory = 122.35 megabytes. vm_page_free_cou
nt = 3d2d
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: CPU: EISA id 10a32001
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: DriverKit version 320
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: PCKeyboard0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: PS2Mouse
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Host adapter board type: 0x45
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Adaptec compatible host adapter at irq 11
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd0: SEAGATE ST12550N 0013
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sd0a
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 2040 MB
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd1: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-4101TA 0064
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sd1a
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come ready..............
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: sd1: Disk Not Ready
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: fc0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: fd0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: fd0a
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: event0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: rootdev 600, howto 0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: com0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: pp0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: Beep
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Display: Mode selected: 1024 x 768 @ 76 Hz (RGB:888/3
2)
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: Display0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: Registering: en0
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: EtherExpress16C at port 300 irq 10
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Eth
ernet"
Jan 7 04:06:32 mousa mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:aa:00:5d:d1:4a
Jan 7 04:06:53 mousa reboot: Reboot complete
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with yp under NS 3.2
Date: 9 Jan 1995 19:47:36 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3es3sp$qpk@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Suddenly my netgroups don't work.
e.g.
arafel exports /u/arafel to spacenexts2
phobos is a member of spacenexts2. Ypcat netgroups confirms this.
phobos gets 'access denied' when trying to mount /u/arafel.
Going back further, netgroups.byhost and netgroups.byuser have 1024 length
.pag files and 0 byte .dir files.
going back further yet
revnetgroup < /u/home/adm/etc/netgroup
gives nothing.
Piping it to od, thinking that it's all unprintable, gives me 000000.
Finally in desparation, I try moving the file back to /etc
THERE it works.
There is no mention anywhere in the documentation that revnetgroup must
be run on a file on the local machine. (Doesn't matter that my host has
root access to that other machine's file system.)
And it works if it's a symbolic link on the local system pointing at the
non-local file.
And there are NO warnings. revnetgroup just quietly does it's thing.
So when phobos asks to mount /u/arafel, arafel looks up phobos in
netgroups.byhost to see if phobos is indeed a member fo spacenexts2,
Because revnetgroup turned out an effectily null output the .byhost map
has no entries, so access is denied.
I did some tests with revnetgroup from NS2.2. It has the same problem.
AARRRG!
On other things, makedbm under 3.2 has a problem with keyfield only
maps. The only one that is in this form by default is ypservers.
No matter what you do you will get a bad servers map.
The solution to this was to add a false second entry. Doesn't matter
what it is I suspect. Just put some whitespace, and a second entry.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: rmasse@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: uname on NEXTSTEP
Date: 9 Jan 1995 20:20:48 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3es5r0$4la@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Keywords: uname
Is there an equivalent utility to uname(1) under NEXTSTEP?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: henry@trilithon.com (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Laserwriter NTX & NeXTstep for Intel
Message-ID: <1995Jan9.182927.9098@trilithon.com>
Sender: henry@trilithon.com
Organization: Trilithon Software
References: <vwalkerD22xwL.41F@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 18:29:27 GMT
In article <vwalkerD22xwL.41F@netcom.com> vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
writes:
* Hi folks, I have a standard 80486 computer running NeXTstep,
* to which I need to attach a Laserwriter II NTX printer.
* I want to connect them by their serial ports. I don't have
* the manual for the Laserwriter, and the NeXTstep documentation
* didn't help me. I tried connecting them together using a
* standard IBM-type serial cable, but no luck. Do I need to
* use a null-modem cable, or some other fancy trick? I don't
* want to spend a lot of money to get this working, if I can
* avoid it. Your help is greatly appreciated!
You didn't state whether you're using the DIN-8 connector or the
DB25 connector. You probably did, implicitly, except I don't know
what a ``standard IBM-type serial cable'' is. Anyway, here are
the pin assignments.
Eight-pin mini DIN-8 RS-422 Port
Pin Signal Description
1,3 SG Signal Ground
4 TxD+ Transmit Data +
5 TxD- Transmit Data -
8 RxD+ Receive Data +
9 RxD- Receive Data -
IBM-compatible DB-25 Plug LaserWriter DB-25 Plug
Signal Pin Pin Signal
Shield 1 ............ 1 Shield
TxD 2 ............ 3 RxD
RxD 3 ............ 2 TxD
RTS 4 ............ 4 RTS
CTS 5 ............ 5 CTS
DSR 6 ............ 8 DCD
GND 7 ............ 7 GND
............ 20 DTR
The other aspect is that you need to set the DIP switch on the
printer. Here are the DIP switch settings:
Switch 1 Switch 2 Meaning
UP UP LocalTalk---RS-232 port disabled
DOWN UP Serial ports at 1200 Baud
UP DOWN Serial ports at 9600 Baud
DOWN DOWN RS-232 at 9600 Baud; RS-422 at 0 Baud
Switches 3 and 4 can probably be ignored---they're for strange
stuff like Diablo 630 and HP LaserJet emulation modes.
Switch 5 Switch 6 Meaning
DOWN DOWN XON/XOFF
UP UP XON/XOFF
DOWN UP ETX/ACK
UP DOWN DSR
Basically, you should be able to get by with switch 2 DOWN and
all the other switches UP.
........ Henry
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can NS3.3 CD-ROM be exported from SunOS 4.1.3?
Date: 9 Jan 1995 21:48:14 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3esauu$k6@news.tamu.edu>
Keywords: NS3.3,CD-ROM,SunOS
Can the NS 3.3 CD-ROM be exported from SunOS 4.1.3 (to do an upgrade over
the net)? I tried mounting it as 4.2 and hsfs without success.
Thanks!
--
Walter C. Daugherity Dept. of Computer Science
Internet,NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University
uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station,TX 77843-3112
---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
From: scott@cocacola.whoi.edu (Scott A. McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sybase help needed
Date: 9 Jan 1995 17:24:04 -0500
Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Message-ID: <3esd24$4sp@cocacola.whoi.edu>
I recently gained access to some sybase servers here and I'd like to
try my hand at developing databases on my NeXT -- however, I'm not
sure what I need on the sybase server side to make it all work.
If someone could point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it..
I have a username, and a password on the sybase server, but am unsure
how to make the DBModeler recognise it (I have updated /usr/sybase/interfaces
to have an entry to the right machine, but i suspect that is not enough)
Thanks!
Scott
--
Scott A. McIntyre
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: "talk" does not work in 3.3??? (SOLVED)
Date: 9 Jan 1995 22:31:59 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3esdgv$5qv@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <3es046$2ju@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Thanks for all who responded. The solution was indeed
hinted to in the Stuart.app manual (setuid to root)
which many consider a security hole. In any case,
what I had to do was very simple and was suggested by
Scott Hess:
basically, Terminal must be setuid root:
something like:
hostname> ls -l /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 237568 Aug 20 1993
/NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal*
If it is not like that, one must do something like:
hostname> su root
Password:
hostname# chmod u+s /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal
That fixed it for me. Be careful, there seems to be
a lot of hazards to doing this, always consult someone who
knows if you don't (that's what I did).
--
Wassim M. Jabi (313) 936-0229
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2069
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu NeXTMail & MIME friendly
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stephen@rhodes.demon.co.uk (Stephen Rhodes)
Subject: PNI slip and NS3.3
Message-ID: <D25y3C.B5D@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:16:23 GMT
I have just upgraded to NeXTStep 3.3 and a day or two later upgraded TranSys
PNI slip to version 1.13. I have discovered that this program which works
perfectly after the computer has been rebooted refuses to restart once it has
been killed -- it complains that it `cannot register with portmapper'. PNI slip
gave me no trouble, whatsoever, under the two previous releases of NeXTStep,
and I am using exactly the same configuration files, scripts and hardware. I am
not certain whether release 1.12 portrayed this behaviour on NeXTStep 3.3 as I
only ran it a couple of times but thinking back I think it did. All router,
port etc. settings seem to be as one would expect.
Is this a feature of NeXTStep 3.3, PNI v1.13 on something stupid I might have
done and got away with before,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ripley!johnb (John L Bergquist)
Subject: mail icons
Message-ID: <D26J0x.1oJ@ripley.org>
Sender: johnb@ripley.org (John L Bergquist)
Organization: The Rathole
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 07:48:32 GMT
Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out how to make icons for people
on remote systems (i.e. a domain-style address like person@company.com)
show up in Mail.app when I select their message.
Any help is greatly appreciated...
-John
(WWW: http://slag.capmkt.com/)
From: Colin Allen <callen@spot.colorado.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with 3.2 Reinstallation
Date: 10 Jan 1995 05:54:02 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Message-ID: <3et7dq$fpj@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>
Originator: callen@spot.Colorado.EDU
I have been running 3.2 on a 66Mhz Pentium (from Eclipse). The system
has been stable for 4 months, but today it started to act up. After a
number of kernel panic crashes -- Failed instruction exception (2,d,0)
-- and then some problems with the Workspace Manager, including that
it would crash when I tried to log in with some users, but not others,
I decided that I had best reinstall NEXTSTEP from the CD-ROM. The
reinstallation process went fine until the panel where you are
supposed to select a language and a keyboard. At this point the
system just hangs. The mouse/cursor is frozen on the screen and the
OK button does not respond to the Return key. I have done the
reinstallation twice with the same effects. What am I doing wrong?
Please help!
Thanks.
Colin Allen, Asst. Prof \0/ 1994-95 address (Aug. 1 on)
Philosophy, Texas A&M Univ. _@_ EPO Biology, Univ. of Colorado
College Station TX 77843-4237 X Boulder CO 80309-0334
_______(409)845-5660_________ ^|^ _________(303)546-6552________
--
Colin Allen, Asst. Prof \0/ 1994-95 address (Aug. 1 on)
Philosophy, Texas A&M Univ. _@_ EPO Biology, Univ. of Colorado
College Station TX 77843-4237 X Boulder CO 80309-0334
_______(409)845-5660_________ ^|^ _________(303)546-6552________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Do you want SoftPC 4.0 (protected mode) for m68k/HP NEXTSTEP?
Message-ID: <1995Jan9.155415.2157@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <3ekiov$p04@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 15:54:15 GMT
In article <3ekiov$p04@hydra.acs.ttu.edu> alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A.
Barhorst) writes:
> Hello all,
> I am compiling a list of users of SoftPC for m68k (and HP)
> hardware running NEXTSTEP who want to be able to run SoftPC 4.0 (protected
> mode). Insignia says that the market is a dead-end for black and too
> young for HP. So I want to see if there are enough of us out here that may
> give Insignia a reason to make the port. >
> ------Format--------
>
> Name Org. Price/unit. Units/Black Units/HP
> A. Barhorst Texas Tech U. $200 US 1 1
Keep in mind that Insignia already has a product for Unix workstations that
will shortly support protected mode applications -- SoftWindows 2.0. If you're
running OpenStep on one of these platforms, you'll be able to use SoftWindows
for your PC emulation. That leaves pretty much only the m68K platform out in
the cold, and I can't see Insignia spending resources on dead hardware.
Serge J. Goldstein
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: sfnet.atk.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT mail with MIME support?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 10 Jan 1995 10:40:08 +0200
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi
Message-ID: <OTTO.95Jan10104004@tukki.jyu.fi>
Where should I look for something reasonably NeXTmail compatible, with
support for MIME and other modern enhancements for example for alternate
character sets. I'm currently running NS 3.2, does 3.3 help here?
--
/* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (V.32bis/USR-HST,24h/d) */
/* Mail: Cygn.k.7 E 46/FIN-40100 Jyvaskyla/Finland, ICBM: 62.14N 25.44E */
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aaron@dirigiste.com (Aaron Herskowitz)
Subject: [Q] Low-Cost Backup Solution?
Message-ID: <1995Jan9.191144.5294@dirigiste.com>
Sender: aaron@dirigiste.com (Aaron Herskowitz)
Organization: dirigiste Investment Management Co.
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 19:11:44 GMT
I am looking for a low-cost removable media solution for performing
backups. I am used to DAT drives, but don't want to spend $2000 on a
2.5 GIG tape drive. I currently have 1 GIG of disk space and don't need
a backup to fit on one "tape".
I am running NS 3.2 (soon to be 3.3) on a NS Turbo.
Are Bernoulli drives a good alternative?
Please e-mail suggestions/comments/experiences and I will post a
summary.
Thanks,
Aaron
--
Aaron Herskowitz, Director of Management Information Systems
dirigiste Investment Management Co.,Cleveland, Ohio
aaron@dirigiste.com [NeXTmail & MIME Welcomed]
Voice: 216-573-0900, Fax: 216-573-1430
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uname on NEXTSTEP
Date: 10 Jan 1995 16:14:09 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3euboh$dj8@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3es5r0$4la@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Roger E. Masse (rmasse@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us) wrote:
: Is there an equivalent utility to uname(1) under NEXTSTEP?
Well...
From my sole sys V system (A stardent titan)
DESCRIPTION
uname prints the current system name of the UNIX system on
the standard output file. It is mainly useful to determine
which system one is using. The options cause selected
information returned by uname(2) to be printed:
-s print the system name (default).
-n print the nodename (the nodename is the name by which
the system is known to a communications network).
-r print the operating system release.
-v print the operating system version.
-m print the machine hardware name.
-a print all the above information.
Ok.
-s NS equivalent is hostname
-n I'm uncertain as to the diff between this and -s.
-r
-v
-m NS equivalent is arch, I think.
eg
#>hostname
fenris
#>arch
m68k
--
=> 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: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: No more processes...
Message-ID: <D2770J.2u7@cfa.org>
Organization: CANS
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:15:32 GMT
We're running into this message far too often now. It was cute for a
while, but the while is now gone. We've seen this on several hosts now
that are primarily serving as ip servers.
With a home-brew DO tool we were remotely monitoring a PC yesterday that
had 57 tasks and 100 threads and refused doing one thing more. Even if we
were able to telnet in, we couldn't get a shell or run any commands. That
same host right now 67 tasks and 108 threads and it's more than happy to
let me read news and even post this.
Can anyone provide any insight as to how we can fix this? Even a hint of
what to watch for would be excellent.
peter
--
peisch@cfa.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: 3.3 sendmail configuration
Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (TWI News Administration)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:57:40 GMT
Message-ID: <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
After installing 3.3 from scratch on a computer in a small NetInfo net I
got problems with sendmail. All computers in the NetInfo network use
sendmail.subsidiary.cf. The NetInfo hosts sit in a larger non-NetInfo
network, and mailhost is a computer outside NetInfo.
With the new sendmail config, all mail went well except mail from
outside the computer addressed specifically to this computer, for
instance user@duti614b.twi.tudelft.nl. Such mails went up and down for
the maximum number of hops between duti614b and the mail server. After
replacing the new sendmail.cf with the old one, the problem
dissapeared.
The diffs are:
duti614b [5] /etc/sendmail> diff sendmail.subsidiary.cf.3.3
sendmail.subsidiary.cf.3.2
103c103
< Troot agent daemon uucp
---
> T root agent uucp
197c197
< Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnuP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
---
> Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
214c214
< Mether, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
---
> Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
241c241
< Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
---
> Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
Anyone any clue?
Dimitri
--
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Delft University of Technology | NeGeN |
| Fac Applied Math & Computer Science| NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland |
| Dep of Statistics, Probabilitistics| NiNe |
| and Operations Research | NEXTSTEP In the Netherlands |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
From: newberry@news-server.engin.umich.edu (byron lee newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Server/Host Problem
Date: 10 Jan 1995 15:15:30 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Message-ID: <3eu8ai$svb@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
Hello,
I am very new to the NeXT administration world and have a basic
(I hope) question. We have a network of 5 NeXT stations here at
our university and until recently they were working well. Now it
seems that each machine is acting individually. The first machine
(I'll call NeXTA for simplicity) is the server. It is set as the
NetInfo Master in the hostconfig file. The other machines are all
clients. However, the netinfo database on NeXTA does not seem to be
accessed by the other machines. If I add a user to NeXTA, that user
can only login on NeXTA. The users have been added at the "/" level
and should (I think) be able to login on any of the five machines. The
same problem can be seen using the "nidump passwd /" command. If I
am on NeXTA, I get a list of all users. If I am on anyother machine I
get an incomplete listing of users. As I said I am new to administration
and the job has been dropped in my lap. I hope I am missing something
simple. ALL help is greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Byron N.
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Hårseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to change what app. opens which files ?
Date: 10 Jan 1995 16:32:08 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <3eu99o$g1r@byleist.ifi.uio.no>
I would like to have Emacs open some files when mouse-clikking them,
but when i use inspector to change the app., only Edit is available; so
how do I extend this list ?
Arne
(arneha@ifi.uio.no)
From: doug@cominco.mineral.ualberta.ca (Doug Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT 2.0 - Panic shutdowns
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 09:55:12 PST
Organization: University of Alberta, CANADA
Message-ID: <3eud96$rhd@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
I am running two NeXT machines (NeXTStep 2.0, pizza boxes with 8MB
ram). The main machine has a 400MB internal and a 1.2GB external drive
while the second one has a 100MB internal drive. I am using Beame &
Whitesides' nfs software to mount user space on DOS boxes. The NeXT with
the small drive has a printer attached and is used primarily as a print
server. At the most I have 6 users nfs mounted at any one time.
Most of the time things work fine except occassionaly the system
shuts itself down with the following message:
Sound0 at 0x200e000
root on sd0
master cpu at slot 0
panic:(Cpu 0) zalloc
NeXT Rom monitor
panic:NeXT Mach2.0 Wed Nov 21 12:46:53 PST 1990
/ph1_sources/projects/mk 1.08/1/RELEASE
Killing all processes panic (Cpu 0) zalloc
NeXT Rom monitor 2.2.6.3
panic>
I am hoping someone can give me some idea as to what the problem
could be. It looks to me like it may be a memory problem and if it is, is
it bad memory or not enough memory?? Thanks for any and all help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: Server/Host Problem
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.170838.9445@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3eu8ai$svb@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:08:38 GMT
byron lee newberry writes
> Hello,
>
> I am very new to the NeXT administration world and have a basic
> (I hope) question. We have a network of 5 NeXT stations here at
> our university and until recently they were working well. Now it
> seems that each machine is acting individually. The first machine
> (I'll call NeXTA for simplicity) is the server. It is set as the
> NetInfo Master in the hostconfig file. The other machines are all
> clients. However, the netinfo database on NeXTA does not seem to be
> accessed by the other machines. If I add a user to NeXTA, that user
> can only login on NeXTA. The users have been added at the "/" level
> and should (I think) be able to login on any of the five machines. The
> same problem can be seen using the "nidump passwd /" command. If I
> am on NeXTA, I get a list of all users. If I am on anyother machine I
> get an incomplete listing of users. As I said I am new to
administration
> and the job has been dropped in my lap. I hope I am missing something
> simple. ALL help is greatly appreciated.
Sounds to me like when UserManager was used to create the user accounts
and the panel appeared which asked the admin to select the type of user,
Local or Network, you selected Local, and this was done on NeXTA. I don't
know if it's possible to convert a "local" user account to a "network"
account--you may have to create them anew and copy their home directories
over.
Denise
--
Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v.: An activity similar
Swiss Bank Corporation | to banging one's head against a wall,
Chicago, IL | but with fewer opportunities for
(312) 554-6298 | reward.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: ccuilla@ccdd.com (Chris Cuilla)
Subject: Compiling TaylorUUCP on NEXTSTEP?
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.160520.5310@ccdd.com>
Sender: ccuilla@ccdd.com
Organization: Chris Cuilla Design & Development
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:05:20 GMT
Does anyone have any tips about the proper modifications to the standard
TaylorUUCP source distribution so that it can be compiled under NEXTSTEP?
Thanks in advance.
--
Chris Cuilla
Chris Cuilla Design & Development
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Jane
Subject: Re: Do you want SoftPC 4.0 (protected mode) for m68k/HP NEXTSTEP?
Message-ID: <D273rs.Koo@isltd.insignia.com>
Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com (Usenet News)
Organization: Insignia Solutions Ltd
References: <3ekiov$p04@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Distribution: World
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:16:39 GMT
Alan A. Barhorst writes
> give Insignia a reason to make the port. They are working on protected
> mode for the other Unix OS's and Mac and it should not be to hard to get
> it moved from white NS to black NS (and HP).
I am presuming, (as in Mike Moreton's post), that you actually mean 386
emulation rather than protected mode. In that case it is certainly not a
simple porting exercise to move any SoftPC for white Intel hardware to
black 68k, or indeed HP. SoftPC on white h/w uses V86 mode, ring 3 and O/S
services to provide what is actually a fairly FirmPC on a real Intel
processor. The 68k product is a much more standard software emulation.
...Jane
Newsgroups: sfnet.atk.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: NeXT mail with MIME support?
In-Reply-To: otto@tukki.jyu.fi's message of 10 Jan 1995 10:40:08 +0200
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Jan10154010@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <OTTO.95Jan10104004@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:40:10 GMT
>>>>> "Otto" == Otto J Makela <otto@tukki.jyu.fi> writes:
Otto> Where should I look for something reasonably NeXTmail
Otto> compatible, with support for MIME and other modern
Otto> enhancements for example for alternate character sets. I'm
Otto> currently running NS 3.2, does 3.3 help here? -- /* * *
Mail.app in NeXTStep 3.3 supports MIME.
Francois Magnan
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****************************************************
** Francois Magnan : magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca **
** Dept. Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal **
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: 3.3 Academic Bundle contains 3.2 Developer?
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.062326.3766@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3eqss3$f12@news1.svc.portal.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 06:23:26 GMT
In article <3eqss3$f12@news1.svc.portal.com> Shannon Holland
<holland@catapent.com> writes:
> so after installing the next essentials, etc for the academic bundle of
> 3.3 i began installing the developer kit. after getting a bunch of
> errors, i noticed that the version for the developer kit was 3.2???
>
> i presume that this is a mistake and i should call next to get the real
> version?
>
No, this is perfectly ok. NS 3.3 is only a User release, double FAT for
Motorola and Intel. Waiting for NS 3.3 Developer might overextend your
patience since it was announced just recently (to the astonishment of all
of us who thought 4.0 would be the next full release coming soon). Beta
versions might be available in about half a year.
> from the docs it says that installing mismatched versions is really bad.
> is this so? (ie can i install 3.2 developer while waiting for 3.3
> developer?)
>
Question to Radio Erewan ;-)
Answer: Yes, in principle. But you might think twice if you have to wait
an extended period of time, otherwise.
Seriously, NeXT made sure all software in NS 3.3 was linked with the
libraries in NS 3.2 Dev. So there is no (serious) pitfall to be expected.
--
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 | pgp & NeXTmail ok! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Andretzky@MB3.TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uname on NEXTSTEP
Date: 10 Jan 1995 21:27:02 GMT
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz-Zwickau, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3euu37$ilo@otto.mb3.tu-chemnitz.de>
References: <3es5r0$4la@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
In article <3es5r0$4la@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US> rmasse@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us
(Roger E. Masse) writes:
> Is there an equivalent utility to uname(1) under NEXTSTEP?
yes there is something:
---------8<-----------
#!/bin/sh
#
# uname
#
# Author: Jim Vlcek, ByteWare Consulting (uunet!molly!vlcek) 3 Dec 1993
# Tweaked-By: Larry Blische (lkba!lkb@uunet.uu.net)
# Warped-By: Tom Hageman (tom@basil.icce.rug.nl) 8 Dec 1993
#
# An attempt to implement a SysV-ish "uname" under NeXTStep 3.x
#
# Options
#
# -s Print the operating system name
# -n Print the node name (essentially, the hostname)
# -v Print the operating system version
# -r Print the operating system release
# -p Print the host machine's processor type
# -m Print the machine hardware name
# -a Print all the above information
#
# Non-SysV options
#
# -i Print the host identification number (hostid)
#
case "$*" in
"") set - -s ;;
*-a*) set - -s -n -v -r -p -m ;;
esac
for arg
do
case $arg in
-s) system="NEXTSTEP" ;;
-n) node="`uuname -l`" ;;
-r) release="`hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*NeXT Mach \([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p'`" ;;
-m) mach="`hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*Processor type: \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`" ;;
-p) processor="`hostinfo | \
sed -n 's/.*Processor type: [^ ]* (\([^)]*\).*/\1/p'`" ;;
-v) version="`tail -1 /usr/lib/NextStep/software_version`" ;;
-i) hostid="`hostid`" ;;
*) echo $0: Usage: $0 [-asnvrpmi] >&2 ; exit 1 ;;
esac
done
echo $system $node $version $release $processor $mach $hostid
---------8<-----------
HTH
Christian
--
Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: TU Chemnitz - Zwickau |
Phone: ++49 +371 531 2130 | Fak. Maschinenbau/Verfahrenstechnik |
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mail: Andretzky@MB3.TU-Chemnitz.DE | D-09009 Chemnitz |
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: How do I force a DAT to play the header cleaner?
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Date: 10 Jan 1995 21:46:08 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan10214608@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <ROBERT.95Jan10193834@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
CC: cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu
CC: pvr@wiis.wang.com
<robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk> writes:
>I wish to have my DAT drive play the head cleaner that I shove in.
>Does it do it automatically upon insertion? ie. when it seeks?
>or do I need to manually invoke it?
>I have a WangDAT Model 1300 Rev 02.1 device.
>Obviously, I need some way to making sure the drive doesn't rewind
>after each use of the cleaner? How do I do this do I need to invoke my
>own SCSI commands to do this?
>Is the hardware smart enough about this? Or should I just write
>protect the tape or something?
>--
> "Oh no, actually darling I don't have time for games."
> (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
> (ASCII for text only messages)
I've just spoke to a very helpful person (Peter Hayward) who was
nice enough to give me a bit more information about how DAT drives
work.
Well earlier my DAT head cleaner didn't work because the drive didn't
recognise the media. Admitately, the head cleaner isn't DDS but we
compared headcleaners and I punched in a hole which I think convinced
my drive that it was in fact a head cleaning medium.
Here's what I did.
1. write protected the head cleaner.
2. punched in the following hole.
If you hold the tape as you would be inserting it and then turn it
over so that the tape end is still facing the drive you will notice
the following holes.
o o O o o o o
Now my audio head cleaner came configured with
o o O o o o o
^
this hole deep. ie. not closed. (the left most being write protect)
however I made it so that it was.
o o O o o o o
^ ^
(I'd like to know specifically what each hole means..
this, or write protecting the head cleaner convinced my drive that it
was in fact a head cleaner and that it should play and then eject
(without rewinding). I was most impressed.
Peter earlier posted information about SCSI_LOGSENSE...
If you have the software/knowledge you should print out the tape log
in from the reserved area at the front of the cartridge using the
SCSI LOGSENSE command. This usage log contains counts of the number
of times the tape has been used, total data written, read and write
error rates etc. Updating this log is the reason it takes 20 seconds
to unload a tape. (Note that a write protected tape is unloaded
immediately).
I'd like to look into this further. Does SCSI TOOLS support this?
robert:/Users/robert/archives>ls -al /usr/local/bin/scsi* 21:42
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2632 Jul 24 15:08 /usr/local/bin/scsiinquire
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1852 Jul 24 15:08 /usr/local/bin/scsimtset
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 9292 Jul 24 15:08 /usr/local/bin/scsiselect
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 4484 Jul 24 15:08 /usr/local/bin/scsisense
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 4484 Jul 24 15:08 /usr/local/bin/scsisense1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1356 Jul 24 15:08 /usr/local/bin/scsisetmtd
--
"Oh no, actually darling I don't have time for games."
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Reinitializing nmserver for ppp
Message-ID: <D27Ax3.G0u@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:51:02 GMT
Sometime over the past year I recall a mini discussion around here about
getting nmserver to recognize a PPP/SLIP interface, so one can do -NXHosting
and PDOing over the serial link. I didn't save the info, and now I need it.
What sort of thing do I have to do? Just saying "nmserver" seems too simple...
Note that I don't currently care about NetInfo, although info on that might be
useful someday.
Replies through email are fine.
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: penrose@wendy.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does or will NeXTstep support Multiple Ethernet Interfaces?
Date: 10 Jan 1995 22:07:54 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <3ev0fq$6p8@network.ucsd.edu>
Keywords: PA-Risc,gateway server
Hullo!
We are considering an HP machines as a new network gateway/server
machine for our network. To do this without the additional expense
of a dedicated router, we need the machines operating system
to support more than one ethernet interface. Can NeXTstep on for PA-Risc
do this?
Chris Penrose
penrose@ucsd.edu
From: Colin Allen <callen@spot.colorado.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System keeps crashing --HELP!
Date: 10 Jan 1995 20:20:10 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Message-ID: <3euq5r$bss@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>
Originator: callen@spot.Colorado.EDU
I have been getting a series of workspace manager crashes and kernel
panics. I have reinstalled the entire OS from CD-ROM, and the problem
persists. The WM crashes leave DPS error messages in
/private/adm/messages, usually of the "Error writing to device"
category. After a WM crash it is sometimes impossible to login
without rebooting first. The kernel panics involve instuction
exceptions. Could this be a hardware problem?
These problems started yesterday afternoon. Prior to this the system
had been stable for 4 months.
System details: Pentium 66Mhz/Premiere PCI Motherboard; IBM 1 Gig SCSI
Disk; TEAC CD-ROM; 16 MB RAM; Diamond Stealth 64; NEXTSTEP 3.2.
All suggestions welcome!
Thanks.
Colin Allen
--
Colin Allen, Asst. Prof \0/ 1994-95 address (Aug. 1 on)
Philosophy, Texas A&M Univ. _@_ EPO Biology, Univ. of Colorado
College Station TX 77843-4237 X Boulder CO 80309-0334
_______(409)845-5660_________ ^|^ _________(303)546-6552________
From: kelly@shogun.nersc.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hardware Password
Date: 10 Jan 1995 23:00:44 GMT
Organization: National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ev3is$rhh@cronkite.nersc.gov>
Will someone please tell me how, or where to find instructions,
to remove a hardware password for a NeXTCube. My bosses, bosses,...
has messed up his netinfo database and the cube hangs when netinfod
aborts during boot. When I try 'bsd -s' it asks for a password, so
I am stuck for the moment. Unless there is some other way around
this that anyone can mention.
Please respond to wadsworth@nersc.gov as I will be gone for a week.
Thanks.
--
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: ed_chubin@vanguard.com (Ed Chubin)
Subject: Re: No more processes...
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.221858.12945@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <D2770J.2u7@cfa.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:18:58 GMT
In article <D2770J.2u7@cfa.org> peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch) writes:
>
> We're running into this message far too often now. It was cute for a
> while, but the while is now gone. We've seen this on several hosts now
> that are primarily serving as ip servers.
>
> With a home-brew DO tool we were remotely monitoring a PC yesterday that
> had 57 tasks and 100 threads and refused doing one thing more. Even if we
> were able to telnet in, we couldn't get a shell or run any commands. That
> same host right now 67 tasks and 108 threads and it's more than happy to
> let me read news and even post this.
>
> Can anyone provide any insight as to how we can fix this? Even a hint of
> what to watch for would be excellent.
Are you running Fiend.app. There was a bug fix posted and a new version.
> peter
>
> --
> peisch@cfa.org
--
Edward H. Chubin Ed_Chubin@Vanguard.com (NEXTMAIL accepted)
Senior Software Engineer, Vanguard Software Corporation
The meaning of life:
#define YOUR_STUFF_HERE { money++, fun++, friends++, memory-- }
for ( day=0; ; day++ ) YOUR_STUFF_HERE /* !cores */
#include <VSC/disclaimer.h>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Ralph_Jung@Radical.Com
Subject: Problems with mail under NS 3.3
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.204515.4102@radical2.radical.com>
Sender: news@radical2.radical.com
Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:45:15 GMT
We are having problems with mail under NEXTSTEP 3.3. Mail seems to be
getting stuck and/or lost in the mail queue. The symptoms are:
1) Issuing a mailq command shows stuff in the mail queue after UUCP.
Mail Queue (1 request)
--QID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
AA01181* 912 Mon Jan 9 17:34 somewhere!Ralph_Jung@Radical.Com
bug_next@next.com
2) Issuing a ps auxww | grep mail command shows a couple of sendmail
processes for each entry in the queue.
root 1185 0.0 1.1 1.70M 328K Db SW 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -ee
-fsomewhere!Ralph_Jung@Radical.Com -i bug_next@next.com
uucp 1186 0.0 0.8 1.70M 240K Db S 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -ee
-fsomewhere!Ralph_Jung@Radical.Com -i bug_next@next.com
root 168 0.0 0.9 1.70M 272K ? S 0:00 -accepting connections (sendmail)
3) The mail message may or may not eventually get processed. It seems
that killing the sendmails allows the message to eventually go out.
We haven't changed anything other than going from NEXTSTEP 3.2 to 3.3.
System Configurations
NeXT 68040 Cube / NeXTStation Color Turbo
NEXTSTEP 3.3
Taylor UUCP 1.05
NXFax 1.04.1 / 1.03
ZyXEL U1496E V6.01 Modems
Any suggestions on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
--
Ralph Jung ( Ralph_Jung@Radical.Com )
Radical System Solutions, Inc. NeXTmail/MIME accepted
System/Network/Database Design, Development, Consulting
rad~i~cal \'rad-i-kel\ adj. - marked by a considerable departure from
the usual or traditional: EXTREME
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: How do I force a DAT to play the header cleaner?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 10 Jan 1995 19:38:34 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan10193834@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
I wish to have my DAT drive play the head cleaner that I shove in.
Does it do it automatically upon insertion? ie. when it seeks?
or do I need to manually invoke it?
I have a WangDAT Model 1300 Rev 02.1 device.
Obviously, I need some way to making sure the drive doesn't rewind
after each use of the cleaner? How do I do this do I need to invoke my
own SCSI commands to do this?
Is the hardware smart enough about this? Or should I just write
protect the tape or something?
--
"Oh no, actually darling I don't have time for games."
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Subject: Re: 3.3 sendmail configuration
Message-ID: <D27Gns.tA@basil.icce.rug.nl>
Originator: root@obelix.icce.rug.nl
Sender: tom@basil.icce.rug.nl (Tom R.Hageman)
Organization: Wary Wolfs
References: <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:55:04 GMT
In article <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
writes:
> After installing 3.3 from scratch on a computer in a small NetInfo net I
> got problems with sendmail. All computers in the NetInfo network use
> sendmail.subsidiary.cf. The NetInfo hosts sit in a larger non-NetInfo
> network, and mailhost is a computer outside NetInfo.
>
> With the new sendmail config, all mail went well except mail from
> outside the computer addressed specifically to this computer, for
> instance user@duti614b.twi.tudelft.nl. Such mails went up and down for
> the maximum number of hops between duti614b and the mail server. After
> replacing the new sendmail.cf with the old one, the problem
> dissapeared.
>
>
> The diffs are:
>
> duti614b [5] /etc/sendmail> diff sendmail.subsidiary.cf.3.3
> sendmail.subsidiary.cf.3.2
> 103c103
> < Troot agent daemon uucp
> ---
> > T root agent uucp
> 197c197
> < Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnuP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
> ---
> > Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
> 214c214
> < Mether, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
> ---
> > Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
> 241c241
> < Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
> ---
> > Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
>
>
> Anyone any clue?
Hmmm... According to my sendmail manual (albeit 8.6.9) the relevant mailer flags
are:
s Strip quote characters off of the the address before calling this mailer.
u Upper case should be preserved in user names for this mailer.
It's probably the local mailer that rejects the username, and seeing
that it's missing the 'u' flag in 3.3 sendmail.cf my guess is
that the username contained upper case characters (so it was probably
a mail alias). Did you define all-lowercase versions of your mail
aliases? I guess that would solve your problems too.
--
__/__/__/__/ Tom Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> [NeXTMail accepted]
__/ __/_/
__/__/__/ "...to baldly go where no one has gone before."
__/ _/_/ -- star trek TNG
From: rob@lighthouse.com (Rob Kedoin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting NeXT File Systems On Sparcstation Problems
Date: 10 Jan 1995 23:31:08 GMT
Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ev5bs$h0c@lighthouse.lighthouse.com>
Keywords: NFS, Solaris, NeXT
Today I was trying to mount a file system from a NeXT-NFS server onto a Sparc 5
running SunOS5.4 and I'm running into problems.
When I try to access the file system from the Sparc I get messages about the
NFS server becoming unavailable. Additionally, when I looked on the NFS server,
I noticed these messages in /usr/adm/messages repeated over and over:
Jan 10 15:05:38 trieste mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
Jan 10 15:05:38 trieste mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 198.211.238.40
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong ?
Thanks in advance,
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: imdat@irex.de (Imdat Solak)
Subject: Password for IREX-Agent Demo-Release
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.221134.1018@irex.de>
Keywords: irex,agent,demo,username,password
Sender: imdat@irex.de
Organization: IREX Software AG, Hochreit 7, D-83329 Waging, Germany
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:11:33 MET
Hello,
I did a really big mistake which I try to fix by posting:
When I put IREX-Agent on the ftp-server ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de I
forgot to mention the public username and password for the demo release
of IREX Agent.
I had a lot of people asking me for it. Now here is it:
Username: agent
Password: agent
If you want to check IREX Agent just log in as "agent" into it and setup
new Users (if necessery).
Sorry for the inconvenience ;-)
Again, if you have any problems with the app just send me an e-mail
(imdat@irex.de) personally or to irex@irex.de
Imdat
--
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phone: +49 8681 694-0 * fax: +49 8681 694-200 * mail: imdat@irex.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: Re: No more processes...
Message-ID: <D2841E.8oz@cfa.org>
Organization: CANS
References: <D2770J.2u7@cfa.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 04:09:03 GMT
Following up to my own post:
We're running 3.2 on all the hosts. The hosts are primarily doing net
services (gn, ftp, telnet, etc.).
Someone has suggested that we're running out of pty's or threads, but this
would only be if 'ps' wasn't reporting things properly. Is there a chance
that 'ps' is munged at all?
Peter Eisch (peisch@cfa.org) wrote:
: We're running into this message far too often now. It was cute for a
: while, but the while is now gone. We've seen this on several hosts now
: that are primarily serving as ip servers.
: With a home-brew DO tool we were remotely monitoring a PC yesterday that
: had 57 tasks and 100 threads and refused doing one thing more. Even if we
: were able to telnet in, we couldn't get a shell or run any commands. That
: same host right now 67 tasks and 108 threads and it's more than happy to
: let me read news and even post this.
: Can anyone provide any insight as to how we can fix this? Even a hint of
: what to watch for would be excellent.
: peter
: --
: peisch@cfa.org
--
peisch@cfa.org
From: lcs@shore.net (Harold Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PNI slip and NS3.3
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 23:55:15
Organization: North Shore Access
Message-ID: <lcs.2.0017EC79@shore.net>
References: <D25y3C.B5D@demon.co.uk>
In article <D25y3C.B5D@demon.co.uk> stephen@rhodes.demon.co.uk (Stephen Rhodes) writes:
>I have just upgraded to NeXTStep 3.3 and a day or two later upgraded TranSys
>PNI slip to version 1.13. I have discovered that this program which works
>perfectly after the computer has been rebooted refuses to restart once it has
>been killed -- it complains that it `cannot register with portmapper'. PNI slip
>gave me no trouble, whatsoever, under the two previous releases of NeXTStep,
>and I am using exactly the same configuration files, scripts and hardware. I am
>not certain whether release 1.12 portrayed this behaviour on NeXTStep 3.3 as I
>only ran it a couple of times but thinking back I think it did. All router,
>port etc. settings seem to be as one would expect.
>Is this a feature of NeXTStep 3.3, PNI v1.13 on something stupid I might have
>done and got away with before,
I have had exactly the same experience. Perhaps it has something to do with
the fact that PNI 1.13 added a multicast feature, although I don't really know
enough about the details to determine whether this is at all relevant.
Harold Leach
lcs@shore.net
-------------------------------------------
Harold H. Leach, Jr., Esq.
Legal Computer Solutions, Inc.
107 Union Wharf, Boston, MA 02109
e-mail: lcs@shore.net
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Compiling TaylorUUCP on NEXTSTEP?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 11 Jan 1995 10:46:12 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3f0ctk$re6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <1995Jan10.160520.5310@ccdd.com>
Chris Cuilla (ccuilla@ccdd.com) wrote:
: Does anyone have any tips about the proper modifications to the standard
: TaylorUUCP source distribution so that it can be compiled under NEXTSTEP?
For 1.05 just say 'configure; make', maybe you should look into policy.h
to get the paths and logfiles the way you prefer.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // Navigator - System administration, Consulting, Troubleshooting
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
more? // http://s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/wenzel/mow.html
From: faustex@infinity.ccsi.com (Mike Cheselka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP on digdug, and gcc/g++
Date: 11 Jan 1995 00:34:29 -0600
Organization: Commuter Communication Systems
Message-ID: <3evu5l$ops@infinity.ccsi.com>
What is the FQDN for digdug, I can't remember it, so I haven't been able
to grab the latest copy of ppp for my NS3.2 '040 cube.
Also, does anyone have a wise words about this version of ppp?
Is there a binary of kermit out there for NS3.2?
Thanks!
From: ambi@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 bugs/crashes - HELP!!
Date: 11 Jan 1995 06:39:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <3evufs$acs@news.bu.edu>
Hi folks, I installed NS 3.3 on my P90 about 3 weeks and lately the system
keeps crashing. I've *never* had these kind of problems before dating
back to NS 2.0 days... The problem is the system keeps having kernel
panics for no *%&$^# reason! Tonight it has paniced 3 or 4 times when
compiling a program (if it matters the files are on an NFS link). It's
also been crashing at other random times as well.
Is anyone else running into this? I have no idea where to look. I only
bought 3.3 because I figured it would be faster, give better PCI support,
and be more reliable. It seems I was wrong on all three accounts.
I did a 'ps' command and I noticed something weird:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
ambi 537 28.9 6.6 2.00G 2.11M p3 RW 0:01 /lib/i386/cc1objplus
/usr/t
root 538 5.4 2.3 2.20M 744K p1 R 0:00 ps aux
ambi 196 4.5 19.5 9.04M 6.25M ? SW 0:20 - console (WindowServer)
root -1 4.4 25.3 54.6M 8.10M ? U 0:25 <mach-task>
root 0 1.0 25.3 54.6M 8.10M ? R N 5:36 (kernel idle)
ambi 539 0.6 0.6 1.73M 200K p1 S 0:00 more
ambi 535 0.3 0.8 2.18M 256K p3 SW 0:00 cc -g -O -Wall
-DASCII_CLIE
root 217 0.2 3.1 4.59M 1016K ? SW 0:03
/NextApps/Terminal.app/Term
ambi 278 0.2 1.0 2.70M 344K p3 SW 0:01 make ascii
root 123 0.1 0.0 1.70M 0K ? S 0:00 (biod)
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root 120 0.0 0.0 1.70M 0K ? S 0:00 (biod)
root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task>
root 111 0.0 0.5 1.73M 176K ? SW 0:00 (lookupd)
root 181 0.0 0.0 3.80M 0K ? SWN 0:00 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd
root 132 0.0 0.2 1.66M 64K ? SW 0:00 (autonfsmount)
root 187 0.0 0.2 1.70M 56K ? SW 0:00 update
root 191 0.0 0.0 1.63M 0K ? SW 0:00 (cron)
root -1 0.0 25.3 54.6M 8.10M ? S < 0:00 <mach-task>
This is on a machine that has only been up less than 10 minutes. The
mach-task processes are the things I thought are odd, especially the
two with a reported size of 8.10M and one of them even is using 4.4%
of the cpu!! How is this possible??
Please help or explain an easy way to downgrade to 3.2 and get my money
back!
Thanks,
Mike
ambi@world.std.com
From: starksm@mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reinitializing nmserver for ppp
Date: 11 Jan 95 02:30:22
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <me.95Jan1123022@valkyrie.mcs.com>
References: <D27Ax3.G0u@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Keywords: nmserver
David,
send the nmserver a USR2 signal. This is done in the rc.net at boot time incase additional
interfaces were added after nmserver was started:
#
# Finally, let nmserver know the fruits of our network configuration endeavor.
#
pid=`ps cax | egrep nmserver | awk '{print $1;}'`
if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
echo "Reinitializing nmserver's network portion"
docmd kill -USR2 $pid
fi
~
From: gloger@dbulm1.uucp (Jochen Gloger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: external hard disks on NS/FIP (how many??)
Message-ID: <1995Jan11.170439.658@dbulm1.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 95 17:04:39 +0100
Keywords: scsi, hard disk, NS/FIP, network
Distribution: world
Organization: Daimler-Benz, Forschungszentrum Ulm
Hi,
I want to use an INTEL machine which is running with NS/FIP as a file system
server in a heterogenous NEXTSTEP network (black, white, HP) and I would like
to get an answer to the the following questions:
1) What is highest number of external SCSI hard disks which I can connect to
the machine. Are there any problems relating the maximum length of the SCSI
cables (any experiences)??
2) What is the maximum size of a single SCSI hard disk in GByte which I can
use on an Intel machine. I have heard that with NS/FIP the maximum size is
limited to 1GB (instead of 2GB with the black hardware). Is this correct??
3) Any recommendations for fast SCSI hard disks on Intel machines (NS/FIP)??
Thanks in advance for any hints.
Kind regards
Jochen
===============================================================================
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: gloger@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Subject: Anybody have NS -> NS PPP working?
Message-ID: <D28MJ2.1nB@tor.hookup.net>
Sender: damonc@tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Organization: Damon F. Cooper
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 10:59:26 GMT
I'm having trouble getting PPP up between 2 NS (Intel) machines...I get
connected, and communication is definitely coming across the line (see
debug log of "calling" machine below), but the PPP link fails and I get
some messages in the /usr/adm/messages file that indicate that both sides
are unable to "see" the other over the link...
The configuration on the remote (calling) machine works fine when calling
an Internet provider but calling another NS machine running the same
PPP-2.2 fails....
Has anyone been able to do this, and could I get a copy of your scripts?
Thanks in advance!!
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
======================
CONFIG:
- Mux 1.5, 16550 UART's on both machines
- ZyXEL U1496E modems on both machines
- NXFax 1.04 on both machines
- Remote (calling) machine name/domain name/IP/netmask:
damonc / tor.hookup.net / 165.154.11.65 / 255.255.255.0
- Local (answering) machine name/domain name/IP/netmask:
damonc / aetnacan.com / 192.251.166.138 / 255.255.255.0
- /usr/adm/messages from both machines (identical):
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: PPP configuring Interface with:
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Name: ppp
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Type: PPP over generic TTY
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: MTU : 1500
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach:
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Unit 0... Successfully attached.
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Unit 1... Successfully attached.
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Packet Decompression will be done outside
interrupt handler
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: PPP-2.2 (NeXT LKS) Installed
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: LKS Version $Id: if_ppp.c,v 1.24 1994/11/21
05:10:15 perkins Exp $
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Bug reports to Steve Perkins
(perkins@cps.msu.edu)
============================
- "pppup" script on remote (calling) machine:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/pppd bsdcomp 10,10 lcp-echo-interval 15 \
lcp-echo-failure 5 -crtscts defaultroute kdebug 17 debug modem -pap -chap
\
connect '/usr/local/bin/chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO
DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" "AT" "OK" ATL1M0DT8648062 TIMEOUT 120 CONNECT
"" ogin: ppp assword: ppp PPP' \
/dev/cufb 19200 lock
=============================
- "ppp.remote" script on local (answering) machine (triggered by use as
login script for user "ppp"):
#!/bin/csh
echo Starting PPP
/usr/bin/mesg n
/bin/stty -tostop litout
exec /usr/local/bin/pppd local kdebug 17 debug defaultroute bsdcomp 10,10
\
lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 5 19200
==============================
RESULTS:
- Remote (calling) machine /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug:
Dec 17 10:40:48 damonc pppd[1864]: Connected...
Dec 17 10:40:49 damonc pppd[1864]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 17 10:40:49 damonc pppd[1864]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb
Dec 17 10:40:49 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:19 damonc pppd[1864]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Dec 17 10:41:19 damonc pppd[1864]: Connection terminated.
===============================
- Local (answering) machine /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug:
Dec 17 10:47:36 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:39 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:42 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:45 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:48 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:51 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:54 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:57 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:48:00 damonc pppd[6639]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Dec 17 10:48:00 damonc pppd[6639]: Connection terminated.
DEBUG INFO:
- Remote (calling) machine /usr/adm/messages
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x0 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66 98
fe 66 98 fe 06
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18 e6
66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
==========================
- Local (answering) machine /usr/adm/messages
Dec 17 10:42:00 damonc su: SU to news by root on (null pointer)
Dec 17 10:43:00 damonc su: SU to news by root on (null pointer)
Dec 17 10:47:00 damonc last message repeated 2 times
Dec 17 10:47:31 damonc mach: ppp0: missing UI (0x3), got 0x1e
Dec 17 10:47:31 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:31 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 1e 1c 1f 1f 0f 4f 1f 2f 3f ff fa
c9 ff 3f 3e 0e
Dec 17 10:47:34 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 0e 0e ef ff ff 1e 1c 1e 1e 0e 4e
1e 2e 3e fe f8
Dec 17 10:47:37 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 29 ee f9 3e 0e 0e 0e ef ff ff 1e
1c 1e 1e 0e 4e
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 1e 2e 3e fe f8 29 ee f8 f9 f9 f8
98 ef ff 1e 1c
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 1e 1e 0f 4f 1f 2f 3f ff fa c9 7b
9a
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 18 fb ff 8b 44 8b 8b 87 a7
8f 97 9f 65 fe
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: ppp0 input: cb 7b 99
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:46 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 98 ef ff 1e 1c 1e 1e 0e 4e
1e fe fc e8 3e
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 2e db 3f 3e 0e 0e 0e ed ff ff 1f
1c 8b 8b 83 a3
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 8b 93 9f 65 fe cb 7b 99
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 18 fb ff 8b 44 8b 8b 83 a7
8f 97 9f 65 fe
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: cb 7b 99
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 19 fe ff 1f 1c 1f 1f 0f a3
8b 93 9b 65 fa
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: cb 7b 98
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 99 ef ff 1f 1c 8b 8b 83 a3
8b 97 9f 65 fe
===================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <@helka.iif.hu:szergej@inflab.bme.hu>
From: szergej@inflab.bme.hu
Sender: <szergej@inflab.bme.hu>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 17:12:05 +0100
Message-ID: <0098A2A3.6D6934C0.15851@inflab.bme.hu>
Subject: "Network is unreachable"?/Wrapped Return-Path in email. why?
Hello,
I have two small (and probably easy) questions, although I have not any idea
how to approach its fixing:
1. At any try to reach FTP/Web/ping resources out of the campus network, I
got "Network is unreachable". At the same time in the campus it works
fine. resolv.conf seems to be ok, at least the same with other blacks'
that doing well outside campus. Any hints?
2. Our outgoing emails do not have full complete Return-Path address. they
comprise only "uname@next-1b" cutting ".manuf.bme.hu". Due to this we have
some inconvenience with lists (such as LISTPROC) that look after this field.
I would appreciate any comments,
Sergey.
Budapest Technical University
From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need PPD file for new HP Color Laser Jet
Date: 11 Jan 1995 20:40:28 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <3f1fns$6gt@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <D298ys.3B7@tor.hookup.net>
I ended up answering my own question. The Windows driver diskette that comes
with the printer contains this file - but - you have to install it to a PC in
order to get it. It gets loaded into c:\windows\system as part of the
install.
Overall, the printer install was far easier than I had imagined. Just configure
the IP info on the printer, then go into PrintManager.app and add it.
NS 3.3 supports HP JetDirect using PrintManager (good idea NeXT).
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Subject: Re: Server/Host Problem
Message-ID: <D2883t.84E@genoa.com>
Sender: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Organization: Genoa Software Systems, Inc.
References: <1995Jan10.170838.9445@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:47:53 GMT
Denise Howard writes
> I don't know if it's possible to convert a "local" user account
> to a "network" account.
it is.
you can copy directories around in NetInfoManager.
just open both domains (network and local),
select the directory you wish to move
(/users/whoever in local domain)
and drag from the well into the network domain well.
(and then delete from the local one)
this works for one directory at a time,
so you might want to do something using nidump and niload
if there are alot of directories to move.
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: uname on NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <1995Jan10.194013.20045@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <3euboh$dj8@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:40:13 GMT
In article <3euboh$dj8@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Operator) writes:
> Roger E. Masse (rmasse@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us) wrote:
> : Is there an equivalent utility to uname(1) under NEXTSTEP?
>
This assumes you have a "getopt" routine in /usr/local/bin. You can pick one
up from rs@mirror.TMC.COM.
#!/bin/csh -f
# Shell replacement for the uname command
################################################################
set argv=`/usr/local/bin/getopt mnrsva $*`
if ( $status != 0 ) then
echo "$0 [-snrvma]"
exit 1
endif
set t=(`/usr/bin/hostinfo | sed -n -e '2s/:.*//p' -e 's/Processor
type:.*(\(.*\))/\1/p'`)
unsetenv SYSNAME ARCH NODENAME RELEASE VERSION
if ( $#argv == 1 ) then
set SYSNAME
else
foreach i ($argv)
switch ("$i")
case -m:
set ARCH
breaksw
case -n:
set NODENAME
breaksw
case -r:
set RELEASE
breaksw
case -s:
set SYSNAME
breaksw
case -v:
set VERSION
breaksw
case -a:
set ARCH NODENAME RELEASE SYSNAME VERSION
break
endsw
end
endif
if ( $?SYSNAME ) then
echo -n $t[2]
set PRINTED
endif
if ( $?NODENAME ) then
if ($?PRINTED) echo -n " "
echo -n `hostname`
set PRINTED
endif
if ( $?RELEASE ) then
if ($?PRINTED) echo -n " "
echo -n $t[3]
set PRINTED
endif
if ( $?VERSION ) then
if ($?PRINTED) echo -n " "
echo -n 1
set PRINTED
endif
if ( $?ARCH ) then
if ($?PRINTED) echo -n " "
echo -n $t[4]
endif
echo ""
Serge J. Goldstein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bobh@hoqub.ho.att.com (Bob Herbst)
Subject: Need Help w/ 3.3 on PCI Pentium
Message-ID: <D29EBG.J21@nntpa.cb.att.com>
Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:59:40 GMT
I tried installing 3.3 last night on my Pentium machine but had
a problem.
Configuration: 90MHz Pentium; ISA/VLB/PCI buses; 512K External cache
64 MB RAM; Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI; ATI Graphics Ultra PCI
ProAudio Spectrum 16 Sound; 2 GB Seagate SCSI; NEC 3XI CDROM
2 serial & 1 parallel ports.
After specifying the Adaptec 2940 for both the HD & CDROM controller
the system attempts to start, but quickly; after the NeXT screen boot
manager screen comes up, gives me an error like:
Adaptec 2940: Cannot Config Space
Cannot detect SCSI controller or CDROM drive
it then goes no further.
Does anyone have a clue?? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
--
==============================================================
Bob Herbst Tel: (908)949-5338
AT&T Bell Labs E-mail: bobh@hoqub.att.com
Holmdel, NJ
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Latest version of Stuart.app?
Date: 11 Jan 1995 22:17:58 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f1lem$q5f@masala.cc.uh.edu>
Can someone point me to the latest version of stuart? Thanks....
--
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: bbs.america@loa.com (BBS AMERICA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Run a BBS? Want full Internet for $24.95/mo?
Message-ID: <8A1646B.06140000B7.uuout@loa.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 18:51:00 -0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Log On America, Inc.
Hello there! Right about now you're probably wondering just what it is
you've gone and downloaded. Well, first off, I'll be honest with you...
if you're not a SysOp, it's more than likely just something to upload
to various BBSes for the credit. But, if you're a SysOp then you have
heard all the rage about the Internet that's come up recently. I'll bet
you even considered looking into getting full access Internet for your
own system! Well, more than likely you eventually realized that full
access Internet was way too expensive for your BBS to support.... Until
now.
Log On America is now offering full access internet for any BBS in the
nation for the amazingly low price of $24.95 per month. That's right,
this is no joke... All you need is a BBS and at least 2 modems... It's
simple, you merely set up the transport door (included as CST54.ZIP) to
run from your BBS software. Once you contact us, we will give you the
LOCAL phone number that you will need and set up your account.
Here's how it works. Your users call your BBS as normal, when they run
the Cyberspace Transporter door, it will have your user wait while it dials
Log On America. Your user will then get full access to Telnet, FTP, Finger,
Whois, World Wide Web. Using the Telnet client, your users can access IRC,
MUDs, schools, libraries, and more! With FTP, millions of files from all
over the world become available! Easy-to-use hypertext interfaces make
surfing the Internet simple with Gopher and the World Wide Web! You can
find out information about both people and systems with the Finger and
Whois clients! For as much time as you care to allow them... Then, when
the user types EXIT, the software will drop carrier and return control to
your BBS -- without the user EVER SEEING Log On America. It's that easy!
For more information or to sign up, you can contact us by any of the
following:
Phone: (401)453-6100 M-F 9a-5p EST
Fax: (401)459-6222
BBS: (401)459-6200
E-Mail: david.paolo@loa.com
Mail: Log On America, Inc.
3 Regency Plaza
Providence, RI 02903
ATTN: Internet BBS
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From: sefcsik@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Bela Sefcsik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP Setup
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:00:02 LOCAL
Organization: ITS, UWO
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <sefcsik.1.000AD736@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>
I am trying to set up a UUCP connection, between my Intel NeXTSTEP and the
school computer. I set up the necessary files L.sys and L.devices, according
to the instructions that came with NeXTSTEP in the Admin library.
However, when I try uupoll, the remote host name is not recognized.
Is there something else I need to modify, or maybe there is a conflict between
UUCP and the system setup I have for PPP?
From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Need PPD file for new HP Color Laser Jet
Date: 11 Jan 1995 17:04:39 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <3f1337$kon@transfer.stratus.com>
Hi,
If anyone knows where I can find a PPD file for the new HP Color Laser
Jet, please post it or send me email. We just received ours and I'd like to get
it working as soon as possible.
Thanks for any info you may have.
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: jsickel@sickel.com (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo quirks
Date: 12 Jan 1995 00:11:27 GMT
Organization: Radian Corporation
Message-ID: <3f1s3f$d4u@zippy.radian.com>
Keywords: NetInfo
I've been getting netinfo errors the past couple of days and don't
know what to do about them. The situation is that I get:
syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
especially once I try doing something that makes request to NetInfo.
The problem is that my host is the only netinfo host on the network,
and it's set as netmaster. From Hostmanager, it's checked to only
use the local net and Bind to network server IS NOT checked.
Where do I get pointers in order to fix this problem?
Jeff Sickel
jsickel@sickel.com
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT mail with MIME support?
Date: 12 Jan 1995 04:30:53 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f2b9t$6su@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <OTTO.95Jan10104004@tukki.jyu.fi>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin
otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
> Where should I look for something reasonably NeXTmail compatible,
> with support for MIME and other modern enhancements for example
> for alternate character sets. I'm currently running NS 3.2, does
> 3.3 help here?
Yes, it helps a lot. The most noticable improvements in NS-3.3
(for me) is the new version of Mail.app. Among other things, it
includes MIME support (and still also has NeXTmail support, of
course). It has many other improvements, too. It is very nice.
For me, the new Mail.app is almost worth the entire cost of the
upgrade to NS-3.3.
One other nice thing is that you can order NS-3.3, and install
the new Mail.app without installing anything else from NS-3.3.
You have to be careful while doing it, but if you have some
reason for *not* installing NS-3.3 (and I do, on some of my
NeXTSTEP machines), you can still take advantage of the new
Mail.app.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: bbs.america@loa.com (BBS AMERICA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <8A1646B.06140000B7.uuout@loa.com>
Control: cancel <8A1646B.06140000B7.uuout@loa.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 18:51:00 -0400
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Message-ID: <cancel.8A1646B.06140000B7.uuout@loa.com>
SPAM Cancelled by MAPS 1.1
From: albrecht@uni-paderborn.de (Paul Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3. 3 and Mail over PPP
Date: 12 Jan 1995 09:26:32 GMT
Organization: University of Paderborn
Message-ID: <3f2sk8$210@news.uni-paderborn.de>
Keywords: NS 3.3, mail, ppp, PPP, Mail
Hello!
I'm working with an Pentium running NS 3.3 . Over a modem line i can connect to
a ppp-server at our University. With a popper (POP3) i can receive my mails from
the mailserver, but i can't send a mail with the mailprogram from NS.
Can somebody give me a hint to solve the problem? Is there an entry in the file
"/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf" which has to be changed?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Paul
---
Paul Albrecht
University of Paderborn
Department of Theoretical Engineering
email: albrecht@uni-paderborn.de
From: rmasse@unix.cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Accessing ROM monitor
Date: 11 Jan 1995 17:42:30 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f15a6$60k@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
References: <3einn4$3eo@clarknet.clark.net>
Keywords: booting
Well I've hosed myself and managed to make my system hang
during bootstrap while it's trying to mount NFS file systems...
My documenation says in order to boot to single user I must
type 'bsd -s' at the ROM monitor NeXT> prompt. It also says to get
to there I must hold down the Command key (right - ALT on my Gateway)
and press tilde '~' (without shift) after "Testing System". Even with
'-v' (verbose boot) at the boot prompt I don't beleive
that I've seen 'Testing System' at all, and needless to say I've
continually typed right-ALT-~ fifty or more times during bootstrap
with no apparent effect. Is there anyone out there that can throw
me a life preserver? :(
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Subject: Re: Need PPD file for new HP Color Laser Jet
Message-ID: <D298ys.3B7@tor.hookup.net>
Sender: damonc@tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Organization: Damon F. Cooper
References: <3f1337$kon@transfer.stratus.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:04:04 GMT
In article <3f1337$kon@transfer.stratus.com>
cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson) writes:
> If anyone knows where I can find a PPD file for the new HP Color
Laser
> Jet, please post it or send me email. We just received ours and I'd like
to get
> it working as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks for any info you may have.
>
>
> Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
FYI...this should point you to it...
=========
Copyright 1994 by NeXT Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
NEXTSTEP
Title: Postscript Printer Definition Information
Entry Number: 1367
Last Updated: 1 April 94
Document Revision: 494A
Product Vendor:
Adobe Systems, Inc.
+1 (415) 961-4400
Keywords: Printer, PPD, Adobe
Overview
Postscript Printer Definition files, or PPD files, contain information
about the specific features supported by a printer. An application needs
this information to make use of these features. For example, for an
application to be able to select the upper or lower paper tray of a
printer that has two trays, it needs a PPD file for that printer
describing the two-tray capability and the commands necessary to select a
tray.
A number of PPD files are provided with NEXTSTEP. The default NEXTSTEP
installation includes the most common files. Additional files are
available on the NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. If you have a printer for which NeXT
does not supply a PPD file, you may be able to get the PPD file from Adobe
Systems, Inc. or from the printer vendor. You can then install the file
and use it with NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP can use PPD files in Macintosh and DOS
formats (DOS format is easier to install).
If a printer does not appear in PrintManager, the PPD file for the printer
has not been installed. There are three places to look for PPD files:
First, install the additional PPD files from the NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. See
"Installing PPD Files from CD-ROM" below.
If your printer is still not listed, see if Adobe supplies a PPD file
for your printer. See "Obtaining PPD Files from Adobe" below.
If Adobe does not have the PPD file for your printer, check with the
printer manufacturer. See "Obtaining PPD Files from Printer Manufacturers"
below.
If you obtain a PPD file from Adobe or the printer manufacturer, you need
to install it so that NEXTSTEP can recognize the file. See "Installing
PPD Files Not from NeXT" below.
Where PPD Files Go
NEXTSTEP Release 3
You can put PPD files in several different locations:
/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes, ~/Library/PrinterTypes,
/HostLibrary/PrinterTypes, and /LocalLibrary/Printertypes. Which directory
you should use depends on where you got the PPD file and who needs to
access the printer.
If you need to modify the PPD information for a printer, put the
modifications in separate files that "include" the standard PPD
information using the *Include directive. The NEXTSTEP 3.2 Printing
release note contains full details on how to name these custom files, as
does NeXTanswer #1073, "New Options in Printing." However, please note
that there is an error in both of these documents. The custom files should
be placed in .../PrinterTypes/CustomPrinters, not .../PrinterTypes/Custom
as the release note and NeXTanswer indicate.
Installing PPD Files from CD-ROM
NEXTSTEP Release 3
Every NEXTSTEP system and upgrade comes with a CD-ROM disk containing the
entire user release. This makes it easy for users with the basic software
configuration to copy files from the CD-ROM onto their system from
/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj.
NEXTSTEP Releases 3.0 and 3.1
To install all PPD files in these releases, install the Documentation
package, located in the /NextCD/Packages folder on the CD-ROM.
NEXTSTEP Release 3.2
PPD files in Release 3.2 are located in two packages: PrinterPPDs and
ImagesetterPPDs. Both of these packages are located in the
/NextCD/Packages folder on the CD-ROM.
Obtaining PPD Files from Printer Manufacturers
Your printer manufacturer should have a current set of PPD files for all
of its PostScript printers. Most printer manufacturers have disks with PPD
files ready to send out on request. Call your printer manufacturer to
find out about distribution methods for PPD files. In the meantime, your
printer manufacturer may be able to suggest a PPD file for a comparable
printer that you can use.
If your printer manufacturer offers a choice between Macintosh and DOS
formats, choose the DOS format. You can use DOS files under NEXTSTEP by
changing just the file name. To use Macintosh files, you need to translate
them first (i.e., substitute newline characters for the carriage returns
that the Macintosh uses at the end of lines. You can use public domain
utilities to perform this translation, or use the UNIX command tr).
Obtaining PPD Files from Adobe
Receiving PPD Files via FTP from Adobe Systems' File Server
If a PPD file is publicly available from Adobe Systems, you can get it
through Adobe's automated server. This server is available via Internet
anonymous FTP or via e-mail.
For anonymous FTP access, use the following information:
hostname: ftp.adobe.com (130.248.1.4)
username: anonymous
password: any (use your e-mail address)
PPD files are located in pub/adobe/PPDFiles. The directory also contains a
text file, Filename.MAP, which lists the available PPD files and their
corresponding file names. If your printer is not listed in Filename.MAP
then Adobe Systems does not currently provide a PPD file for your printer;
contact your printer manufacturer to obtain a PPD file.
Receiving PPD Files via Electronic Mail
To obtain PPD files via e-mail, send a specially-formatted e-mail message
requesting the PPD files.
If you have Internet or America Online e-mail, send an e-mail message to
this address:
ps-file-server@adobe.com
If you use CompuServe, send an e-mail message to this address:
>INTERNET:ps-file-server@adobe.com
If you use UUCP, send an e-mail message to:
{sun, decwrl, apple}!adobe!ps-file-server
No matter which service you use, to get a list of available PPDs, your
e-mail message should contain the following command:
index PPDFiles
The mail server mails back a list of PPDs available from Adobe Systems.
The list contains the PPD filename, version number, and corresponding
printer name in the following form:
APTOLLW1.PPD 3.0 Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 v2010.130
AP_NTXJ1.PPD 3.1 Apple LaserWriter II NTX-J v50.5
etc.
If you do not find your printer on this list, then a PPD file for that
printer is not available from Adobe Systems; contact your printer
manufacturer for a PPD file. If you find your printer on the list, then
your next step is to send an e-mail requesting the PPD file, as follows:
send PPDFiles AP_NTXJ1.PPD
You can list more than one PPD file on a line, separated by spaces. The
mail server sends you the requested PPD files via e-mail. Copy the
contents of the e-mail and paste them into a text file, which will be the
PPD file. You can give the file any name, but we recommend using the name
that you obtained from the index list.
Installing non-NeXT PPD Files
NEXTSTEP Release 3
If your printer manufacturer offers a choice between Macintosh and DOS
format, choose the DOS format. You can use DOS files under NEXTSTEP by
changing just the file name. To use Macintosh files, you need to translate
them first (i.e., substitute newline characters for the carriage returns
that the Macintosh uses at the end of lines. You can use public domain
utilities to perform this translation, or use the UNIX command tr).
NEXTSTEP works only with PPD files that have proper names. PPD files sent
out on DOS floppy disks are not usually named properly for NEXTSTEP. You
can get the proper name by examining the PPD file itself.
1 Copy the DOS file onto a NEXTSTEP file system before you change its
name.
2 In the header information of the PPD file, look for an entry
something like this:
*ModelName: "AGFA AccuSet"
3 Make the name of your NEXTSTEP PPD file the same as the model name,
replacing spaces with underscores (_) and slashes (/) with percent symbols
(%). Then, append the extension .ppd to the file name. For example, the
above model name would translate to the file name AGFA_AccuSet.ppd.
4 Copy the appropriately named file into one of the
...Library/PrinterTypes folders, and you should be up and running with
your new printer type. (You may have to quit and restart PrintManager to
get it to recognize the new PPD files.)
Legal Notes
Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which
may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand and product
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Portions of this document copyright 1994 by Adobe Systems.
--
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
[NEXTMAIL: OK]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ericc@asteroid.lysis.ch (Eric Chaubert)
Subject: NetInfo clone server
Message-ID: <D2AFEL.2ns@eunet.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:20:44 GMT
I just got a question about NetInfo clone servers. Is the clone server
suppose to take over automatically the main server functions when the main
NetInfo server is down.
By function I mean for example the automatic host recognition and the name
services for example.
Here I have a main and a clone NetInfo server but when the main server is
down I can't boot any machine. They all hang up waiting for the network,
even if the clone is running.
Am I expecting to much or my clone server is just not working properly ?
Thanks in advance for help.
--
Eric Chaubert / Lysis SA Cotes de Montbenon 8
Radio Software Development 1003 Lausanne / Switzerland
Phone: (+ 41 21) 312-91-91 E-Mail: ericc@lysis.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Re: 3.3 sendmail configuration
Message-ID: <D28997.HJ@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
References: <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 06:12:42 GMT
Advice.. Dump NeXT 3.3's sendmail and install Sendmail 8.6.9.
-Alby
Dimitri Tischenko writes
> After installing 3.3 from scratch on a computer in a small NetInfo net I
> got problems with sendmail. All computers in the NetInfo network use
> sendmail.subsidiary.cf. The NetInfo hosts sit in a larger non-NetInfo
> network, and mailhost is a computer outside NetInfo.
>
> With the new sendmail config, all mail went well except mail from
> outside the computer addressed specifically to this computer, for
> instance user@duti614b.twi.tudelft.nl. Such mails went up and down for
> the maximum number of hops between duti614b and the mail server. After
> replacing the new sendmail.cf with the old one, the problem
> dissapeared.
>
>
> The diffs are:
>
> duti614b [5] /etc/sendmail> diff sendmail.subsidiary.cf.3.3
> sendmail.subsidiary.cf.3.2
> 103c103
> < Troot agent daemon uucp
> ---
> > T root agent uucp
> 197c197
> < Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnuP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
> ---
> > Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
> 214c214
> < Mether, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
> ---
> > Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
> 241c241
> < Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
> ---
> > Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
>
>
> Anyone any clue?
>
> Dimitri
>
> --
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
> +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
> | Delft University of Technology | NeGeN |
> | Fac Applied Math & Computer Science| NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland |
> | Dep of Statistics, Probabilitistics| NiNe |
> | and Operations Research | NEXTSTEP In the Netherlands |
> +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
From: davida@macbeth.umd.edu (David M. Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with 'talk' under NS3.2 (black HW)
Date: 12 Jan 1995 10:41:26 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3f3ij6$5f3@macbeth.umd.edu>
Hi there,
We're having a problem with 'talk' on a NeXTStation mono recently upgraded
to v3.2. Whenever you invoke a talk request, you get the basic talk screen,
but it immediately exits again, leaving this message at the top of the
screen:
[Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)]
Now, I had this exact same problem on a DECStation 3100 I also control, and
the culprit was a typo in the /etc/hosts file - I mistyped a period as a
comma. Once fixed it worked fine. I checked these files and found no such
error:
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/hostconfig
I checked all of these files for non-printing control chars, but found none.
I also checked /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services, but found no obvious errors
there either.
Any ideas where I should look? I assume it's just a simple typo again, but
the trick is to find it.
We also wonder if it had anything to do with attempting to confingure/install
the mdqs package, since they both do port/socket-intensive stuff. Could the
installation have munged a file that both talk and mdqs use? I'll poke around
some more...
Thanks for any help,
David Arnold (301)405-7636 Inet: davida@umd5.umd.edu
Consultant, CSC Bitnet: davida%umd5.umd.edu@cunyvm
University of Maryland NeXTmail: davida@anagram.umd.edu
College Park, MD 20742 http://syrinx.umd.edu/~davida/
From: mdiehn@warren-wilson.edu (Michael J. Diehn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.www.users,comp.infosystems.www.providers,comp.infosystems,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: ANNOUNCE: SysAdm survey (2nd call)
Date: 12 Jan 1995 16:39:37 GMT
Organization: Warren Wilson College
Message-ID: <3f3m09$qi4@inxs.ncren.net>
Second call for System Administrator survey.
If you have anything to do with running a computer system,
network or service, please fill out the survey at the following
location on the WWW:
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/nss/sysadm.html
You will need access to the World Wide Web and a web browser
that supports forms. The survey takes about five-ten minutes
to complete and contains a link to directions for using forms.
If you've already done it, thanks very much, and please ask
your friends and co-workers to do it also. If you maintain
a set of web pages, I'd be very grateful if you would install
a link to my survey on a frequently used page. Email me if you
give my survey a link, and I'll credit you in my paper and
then notify you when I deactivate the survey.
Regards,
Michael Diehn.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael J. Diehn, SysAdm --\\-- mdiehn@warren-wilson.edu
Warren Wilson College --//-- http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~mdiehn
Swannanoa, NC (USA) --\\-- Don't just do something! Sit there!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Mike.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael J. Diehn, SysAdm --\\-- mdiehn@warren-wilson.edu
Warren Wilson College --//--
Swannanoa, NC (USA) --\\-- Don't just do something! Sit there!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Stephane Etienne <stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Hard links with NeXTStep
To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Message-ID: <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Sender: stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Organization: Computing Science Dept., Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland
Resent-From: usenet@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Errors-To: usenet@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Distribution: uk
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:36:17 GMT
Hello,
Does anybody out there knows how to get rid of Hard links
created with NeXTStep v3.2. I have tried rm(1), rmdir(1), unlink(2),
rmdir(2), remove(3s). None of them worked. The hard link was created
with link(2).
Thx,
Stephane.
From: pgriffin@phys.ufl.edu (Paul A Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting DOS partition under NEXTSTEP?
Date: 12 Jan 1995 17:24:01 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Message-ID: <3f3ojh$875@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Keywords: DOS, NEXTSTEP
I am having a problem mounting a dos partition under NEXTSTEP,
and would be gratefull for any hints. My configuration is:
NS3.2, ncr810 scsi card,
device 0 = 200 meg swapdisk (labeled "swapdisk"), 800 meg dos
device 1 = 1000 meg nextstep
The 200 meg swapdisk partition of disk 0 mounts automatically via the
rc.swap script at boot time. It also has the file
/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table with the line:
"Kernel" = "sd(1)mach_kernel"; <-- this makes ns boot from disk 1.
I cannot get the dos partition to mount. The mount command:
"mount /dev/sd0b /dos" complains:
mount: /dev/sd0b on /dos: No such device or address
mount: giving up on:
/dos
The mount command: "mount -t dos /dev/sd0b /dos" says
mount: /dev/sd0b on /dos: No such device
mount: giving up on:
/dos
Is there a solution to this problem, or is it impossible? I
could not find this in NeXTAnswers.
Thanks,
--Paul Griffin
pgriffin@phys.ufl.edu
From: pgriffin@phys.ufl.edu (Paul A Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting DOS partition under NEXTSTEP?
Date: 12 Jan 1995 18:57:45 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Message-ID: <3f3u39$anp@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
References: <3f3ojh$875@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
In article <3f3ojh$875@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> pgriffin@phys.ufl.edu (Paul
A Griffin) writes:
> I am having a problem mounting a dos partition under NEXTSTEP,
> and would be gratefull for any hints. My configuration is:
I should also point out that I have already installed the
DOSFileSysPatch.pkg.
Thanks,
--Paul Griffin
pgriffin@phys.ufl.edu
From: avoltmer@berksys.com (Andy Voltmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Moving files from Netware Drive to NFS Drive
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:40:59 +1000
Organization: Berkeley Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <avoltmer.11.001F42BE@berksys.com>
Keywords: NFS, Netware
I am trying to write a script that will run as a cron job that copies files
from a Netware Server/Drive to a mounted NFS Drive. My problem is that I can
not seem to figure out the mount commands to mount both drives automatically
when my script runs and then unmount them. Can anyone provide me with a hint.
I have read the mount man page but it the commands report authentication
problems. Thanks.
-Andy Voltmer
Berkeley Systems, Inc.
From: 01canay@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Password problem/Need help
Message-ID: <1995Jan12.235327.39180@orion.bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 95 23:53:26 -0500
Organization: Ball State University
I'm a graduate student working on a project to set-up a WWW server on a
NeXT cube running NeXTStep 2.0. My problem is that no one has used this system
for at least a year and no one knows the password for the root account. I can
get into two user accounts, but those accounts don't have the authority to do
many of the things I need to do. Does anyone know of a way I can get by the
password protection scheme. I'm fairly new to UNIX and have tried everything I
know how to do. The only thing I can think of to do is to boot off the optical
disks and hope that nobody has password protected the root account. My fear is
that the opticals aren't working properly as I've had no luck mounting them so
far.
I understand that this may seem a little suspicious. This is a
legitimate request. I'm not attempting to do anything dishonest. This graduate
program has a lot of people and projects going on and apparently someone just
forgot the password. I'm trying to track down alumni that may have used the
Next, but that process is taking a while. Thanks in advance for any assistance
you can offer.
Sincerely,
Chad A. Nay
From: tpg@trillian.hps.com (Terry Gliedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Route issue between NeXTs and Linux
Date: 12 Jan 1995 23:01:40 GMT
Organization: HomePage Services, Commercial Services on the Internet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f4cck$4jn@cedar.mr.net>
I have a Linux machine on the Internet (xxx.50) that is connected via the ethernet
to two others on the same subnet (a router, my gateway, xxx.1, and a NeXT
at xxx.3).
The xxx.50 machine can be accessed by all other machines in the Internet.
But it cannot access the xxx.3 from NeXT. I've spent many days on this and
have not made any headway. Hence, I am bothering you good people.
On the Linux machine I have these routes in place:
~> netstat -nr
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
198.87.45.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 3 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 12 lo
0.0.0.0 198.87.45.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 15117 eth0
On the NeXT machine these are the routes in place
# netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refcnt Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UHF 0 0 lo0
198.87.45.3 127.0.0.1 UHF 0 0 lo0
default 198.87.45.1 UGF 3 233 en0
198.87.45.0 198.87.45.3 UF 0 28 en0
I questioned the routing for 198.87.45.0 because to my eye, this should
end up being routed on 198.87.45.3 which is routed on the local loopback.
I'm told, however, that there are several other NeXTs in similar configurations
which all work just fine. So I guess I don't understand how routing works.
Looking at the ARP caches on both machines show that xxx.3 has entries
from xxx.50, but xxx.50 has never seen a packet from xxx.3. This makes me
think there is something on xxx.3 that is routed wrong. ??
Anyway - to my questions (I'm really getting desparate here):
Has anyone had any problems routing packets between NeXTs and
Linux? (I am running Slackware 2.1.0, kernel 1.1.73).
Any other more subtle and bizarre problems (like packets from
3COM 503 cards don't work) ?
None of these make any sense. Thanks for your time. I didn't want to admit
I cannot lick this puppy, but I need to get this up. Or else.
--
===================================================================
Terry Gliedt tpg@hps.com tpg@mr.net MIME OK 507/356-4710
HomePage Services http://www.hps.com
From: hliu@ennex3.eng.utsa.edu (HANG LIU )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP !! the clour monitor was dead.
Date: 12 Jan 1995 21:33:39 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at San Antonio
Message-ID: <3f477j$ppf@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
Keywords: color monitor
We have a cub with a color monitor and a bw monitor. They worked well
before. Yesterday, the color monitor was dead suddenly when somebody tried
to login.So we switched another color monitor. But it just worked a few
minutes and was dead again. I mean only the monitor's screen was gone.
Does anyone have some idea about this.
Thanks in advance
Please mail to hliu@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: lsof on HP?
Message-ID: <D29vnq.K1s@cfa.org>
Organization: CANS
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 03:02:36 GMT
Does anyone have a compiled version that works on HPs? I've tried 3.05 to
no avail though the same code complies and runs perfectly on i386 and m68k
arch's.
3.2, and the permissions on /dev/kmem looks just like the others:
0 crw-r----- 1 root kmem 3, 1 Jul 13 1994 /dev/kmem
Anyone have any tips or the prog?
peter
--
peisch@cfa.org
From: jimra@aol.com (JimRA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem installing 3.3 Intel
Date: 13 Jan 1995 03:19:09 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <3f5d1t$3dh@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
References: <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com>
The only suggestion I have (that may or may not be useful :) is that Next
seems to have this predilection of making their users keep their devices
in 'factory default' configurations. For example, to install on a 1540C
from scratch you have to reset the card to be irq 11, dma 5, etc. Take a
look at nextanswers and see if they have a specific mention of what they
are expecting.
JimRA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bobh@hoqub.ho.att.com (Bob Herbst)
Subject: Problem installing 3.3 Intel
Message-ID: <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com>
Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:32:19 GMT
I am having a difficult time in getting NS 3.3 to install on my
Pentium based PC. After selecting the driver to use for both the
hard drive and CD-ROM, the installer attempts to start the install
but quickly complains that it cannot detect the SCSI host adapter
or the CD-ROM drive. BTW: DOS & windows work fine!!
Here is the configuration:
Pentium 90 w/ ISA/VLB/PCI
64MB RAM
2 GB HD Partitioned 50-50 DOS,WIN/NeXT
NEC 3xi CD ROM (Internal)
1.44 MB FD
Adaptec AHA 2940 PCI SCSI Adapter
ATI Graphics Pro 4MB PCI video
PAS 16 Sound
I called NeXT, but they have not really been much help at all.
Anyone else have good/bad experiences installing 3.3 in a like
system?? This was a new install not an upgrade... maybe I should
have kept my Gateway 2000 66MHz 486.. it worked ..
Thanks,
Bob Herbst
--
==============================================================
Bob Herbst Tel: (908)949-5338
AT&T Bell Labs E-mail: bobh@hoqub.att.com
Holmdel, NJ
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@TU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hard links with NeXTStep
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 12:22:14 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950113121851.20274E-100000@hphalle10i.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
On Thu, 12 Jan 1995, Stephane Etienne wrote:
>
> Does anybody out there knows how to get rid of Hard links
> created with NeXTStep v3.2. I have tried rm(1), rmdir(1), unlink(2),
> rmdir(2), remove(3s). None of them worked. The hard link was created
> with link(2).
Maybe I'm wrong here, if so please excuse:
(I'm always mixing up hardlinks <-> softlinks :-) )
Hardlinks do provide an internal counter on how many other programs do
access the link. So if any program is accessing the link, you can't
remove it (although the original file will stay intact and only the link
will get destroyed).
Hope this helps,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Subject: Re: NetInfo clone server
Message-ID: <D2BtCp.ox@genoa.com>
Sender: alex@genoa.com (Alex Blakemore)
Organization: Genoa Software Systems, Inc.
References: <D2AFEL.2ns@eunet.ch>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 04:19:37 GMT
Eric Chaubert writes
> I have a main and a clone NetInfo server but when the main server is
> down I can't boot any machine. They all hang up waiting for the network,
> even if the clone is running.
SHORT ANSWER
put the following line in /etc/hostconfig on each of the netinfo server hosts
NETMASTER=-YES-
Its probably a good idea to hard code the hostname and ip address in
/etc/hostconfig for those servers also (but leave it automatic for most
ordinary hosts)
LONG ANSWER
you probably only have a bootp daemon running on the master.
bootpd looks info up in netinfo and doles it out to booting hosts, but is
otherwise separate. so normally you want all network netinfo servers to also
be run bootpd, but really any machine can run be a bootp server.
if there are no bootp servers on the net, any machine that gets its host name
and address automatically wont be able to boot.
the only place I've seen this described is in /etc/rc
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem installing 3.3 Intel
Date: 13 Jan 1995 10:58:11 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3f5mc3$14jn@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com>
Bob Herbst (bobh@hoqub.ho.att.com) wrote:
: I am having a difficult time in getting NS 3.3 to install on my
: Pentium based PC. After selecting the driver to use for both the
: hard drive and CD-ROM, the installer attempts to start the install
: but quickly complains that it cannot detect the SCSI host adapter
Check your SCSI bus termination. Is the 2940 plugged in a master PCI
slot? If this does not help, I'd try a different CD-ROM for test purpose.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // Navigator - System administration & Consulting
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
more? // http://s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/wenzel/mow.html
From: Lennart_Lovstrand@NeXT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 sendmail configuration
Date: 13 Jan 1995 00:14:29 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3f4gl5$th@rosie.next.com>
References: <D27Gns.tA@basil.icce.rug.nl>
In article <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl
(Dimitri Tischenko) writes:
> After installing 3.3 from scratch on a computer in a small NetInfo net I
> got problems with sendmail. All computers in the NetInfo network use
> sendmail.subsidiary.cf. The NetInfo hosts sit in a larger non-NetInfo
> network, and mailhost is a computer outside NetInfo.
>
> With the new sendmail config, all mail went well except mail from
> outside the computer addressed specifically to this computer, for
> instance user@duti614b.twi.tudelft.nl. Such mails went up and down for
> the maximum number of hops between duti614b and the mail server. After
> replacing the new sendmail.cf with the old one, the problem
> dissapeared.
>
> The diffs are:
> [...]
Hmm, are you sure that this is the problem? It sounds more to me like you
replaced the symlink in /etc/sendmail to point to sendmail.subsidiary.cf, but
didn't restart the running sendmail daemon. I believe that the upgrade by
default will cause it to use the sharedsubsidary configuration file. If this
is what happened, then that would explain why only messages coming in from
other machines were forwarded to the mailhost since this is normal behavior
for sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf.
As for the person who suggested using sendmail 8.6.9 instead of the one
supplied with NEXTSTEP 3.3, would you please be so kind as to explain exactly
how this would solve this person's problem? I'm not trying to stop anyone
from installing sendmail v8 -- far from it -- but pretending that it's a
panacea that will solve all the world's sendmail problems is foolish, at the
least. By all means, if you need sendmail v8 and know what you're doing, go
for it. If not, I suggest using what comes with the release -- whatever
version number it might have. We try to make sure that it's always up to
snuff when it comes to security fixes or any other major problems. If you
think that we aren't doing a good enough job, just let us know.
Cheers,
--Lennart Lovstrand
NeXT Software Engineering
--
Disclaimer: All characters in this posting are fictional. Any resemblence
between this posting and an official statement from NeXT is coincidental.
Slight side effects may be experienced. Void where prohibited by law.
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No more processes...
Date: 13 Jan 1995 01:39:08 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <3f4i3c$7f9@alf.uib.no>
References: <D2770J.2u7@cfa.org> <D2841E.8oz@cfa.org>
I've never seen this message, but hear of it often. As an
ameteurish attempt to see if I could run out of processes
I started all of the *.app's on my machine at the same
time (I know, not a very good test, but I was curious :-)
No problem. My machine is on 24h and networked via SLIP,
is often up for months between reboots (to clean up in swapfile)
but I've yet too see this. I'm curious what could cause this...
Regards,
--
Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life
NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Norway | edmtl@edb.uib.no (NeXTmail)
From: Steve Turnbull <turnbull@datarev.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Faxing from the command line
Date: 13 Jan 1995 02:24:21 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <3f4o8l$cr8@nic.ott.hookup.net>
I know there was a thread on this subject recently. But I would
appreciate receiving any information on this subject.
Basically I wish to connect to a server running NS 3.3 from a remote
system and have the ability to check for any faxes that have come in
and then transfer them to the remote system for viewing etc. I would
also like to have the ability to create a document on the remote
computer and copy the file to the NeXT and then use the command line
to fax the document.
If there is enough interest, I will summarize and post back to
this group.
Thanks !
Steve Turnbull
turnbull@datarev.com
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to turn off burst header page on HP LJ4M+
Date: 13 Jan 1995 14:41:28 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3f63eo$kj2@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On every job I send to a HP Laserjet 4 M Plus, I get a page containing
job name and user id. I would like to turn this damn page off, but don't
know how.
If I print via lpr -h, I don't get the burst header page, but how I tell
the NeXT printing system to use lpr -h?
My printcap looks like this:
Laserjet_4M_Plus: \
:_nxfinalform:lp=:rm=laserjet1:rg=laserjet:lo=lock: \
:if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver:sb:sd=/usr/spool/netnp: \
:ty=HP LaserJet 4 PostScript 600DPI s:
Thanks,
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 0172 39 00 348 (privat) 030 314 73 327 (uni) \~/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: Re: 3.3 sendmail configuration
References: <D27Gns.tA@basil.icce.rug.nl> <3f4gl5$th@rosie.next.com>
Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (TWI News Administration)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 12:44:49 GMT
Message-ID: <D2CGqp.59D@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
In article <3f4gl5$th@rosie.next.com>, <Lennart_Lovstrand@NeXT.COM> wrote:
>In article <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl
>(Dimitri Tischenko) writes:
>> After installing 3.3 from scratch on a computer in a small NetInfo net I
>> got problems with sendmail. All computers in the NetInfo network use
>> sendmail.subsidiary.cf. The NetInfo hosts sit in a larger non-NetInfo
>> network, and mailhost is a computer outside NetInfo.
>>
>> With the new sendmail config, all mail went well except mail from
>> outside the computer addressed specifically to this computer, for
>> instance user@duti614b.twi.tudelft.nl. Such mails went up and down for
>> the maximum number of hops between duti614b and the mail server. After
>> replacing the new sendmail.cf with the old one, the problem
>> dissapeared.
>>
>> The diffs are:
>> [...]
>
>Hmm, are you sure that this is the problem? It sounds more to me like you
>replaced the symlink in /etc/sendmail to point to sendmail.subsidiary.cf, but
>didn't restart the running sendmail daemon. I believe that the upgrade by
>default will cause it to use the sharedsubsidary configuration file. If this
>is what happened, then that would explain why only messages coming in from
>other machines were forwarded to the mailhost since this is normal behavior
>for sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf.
Maybe I was not clear enough describing the problem.
I installed NEXTSTEP from scratch on the computer I mentioned.
sendmail.cf pointed by default to sendmail.subsidiary.cf. The behavior
I described appeared with the default configuration.
After I replaced the link with the (non-modified) 3.2 version of
sendmail.subsidiary.cf and re-started sendmail, the problem dissapeared.
Dimitri
--
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Delft University of Technology | NeGeN |
| Fac Applied Math & Computer Science| NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland |
| Dep of Statistics, Probabilitistics| NiNe |
| and Operations Research | NEXTSTEP In the Netherlands |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: Re: 3.3 sendmail configuration
References: <D272w4.LsD@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> <D27Gns.tA@basil.icce.rug.nl>
Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (TWI News Administration)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 12:49:05 GMT
Message-ID: <D2CGxt.5tp@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
In article <D27Gns.tA@basil.icce.rug.nl>,
Tom R.Hageman <tom@basil.icce.rug.nl> wrote:
>Hmmm... According to my sendmail manual (albeit 8.6.9) the relevant mailer flags
>are:
>
>s Strip quote characters off of the the address before calling this mailer.
>u Upper case should be preserved in user names for this mailer.
>
>It's probably the local mailer that rejects the username, and seeing
>that it's missing the 'u' flag in 3.3 sendmail.cf my guess is
>that the username contained upper case characters (so it was probably
>a mail alias). Did you define all-lowercase versions of your mail
>aliases? I guess that would solve your problems too.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, the user name contained no uppercase
characters and was not a mail alias.
--
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Delft University of Technology | NeGeN |
| Fac Applied Math & Computer Science| NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland |
| Dep of Statistics, Probabilitistics| NiNe |
| and Operations Research | NEXTSTEP In the Netherlands |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
From: brian@vermeer.physast.uga.edu (Brian L. Olmsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking CD-ROM
Date: 13 Jan 1995 16:30:21 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Message-ID: <3f69qt$c4l@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>
How do I allow access to a NeXT CD-ROM drive attached to one NeXT Station
to other NeXT Stations over the ethernet? Please send a copy of the
response to my e-mail address. Thank you.
--
Brian L. Olmsted
Research Associate
University of Georgia
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Athens, GA 30602
Internet: bolmsted@hal.physast.uga.edu
NeXT mail: brian@rembrandt.physast.uga.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stephane@mousa (Stephane Etienne)
Subject: Re: Hard links with NeXTStep
In-Reply-To: Stephane Etienne's message of Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:36:17 GMT
Message-ID: <STEPHANE.95Jan13184710@mousa>
Sender: news@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Network News)
Organization: Computing Science Dept., Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland
References: <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 18:47:10 GMT
In article <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk> Stephane Etienne <stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk> writes:
Hello,
Does anybody out there knows how to get rid of Hard links
created with NeXTStep v3.2. I have tried rm(1), rmdir(1), unlink(2),
rmdir(2), remove(3s). None of them worked. The hard link was created
with link(2).
Thx,
Stephane.
Sorry. I forgot to mention that I was talking about hard links on
directories and not on simple files.
Stephane.
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help needed to send and receive mail
Date: 13 Jan 1995 18:10:34 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Message-ID: <3f6fmq$69v@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Keywords: mail
My next will send but not receive mail I'm on the net at a university.
Any ideas??
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
From: plongsi@falcon.inetnebr.com (Pohl Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Accessing ROM monitor
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 13 Jan 1995 23:38:06 GMT
Organization: Synergy Communication Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f72su$7bf@legba.synergy.net>
References: <3einn4$3eo@clarknet.clark.net> <3f15a6$60k@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Roger E. Masse (rmasse@unix.cnri.reston.va.us) wrote:
: Well I've hosed myself and managed to make my system hang
: during bootstrap while it's trying to mount NFS file systems...
: My documenation says in order to boot to single user I must
: type 'bsd -s' at the ROM monitor NeXT> prompt. It also says to get
: (munch)
There is no ROM monitor on Intel machines. You have to type -s at the
boot: prompt when you machine is starting to come up.
--
____/| | Pohl Longsine, OpenStep Software Developer
\ o.O| GPF! | "I don't do Windows."
=(_)= CTLALTDLT! | plongsi@inetnebr.com (Internet Nebraska)
U (Bill Gates, The Cat) | NeXT & MIME mail formats accepted.
From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Date: 14 Jan 1995 00:12:31 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <3f74tf$1buh@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
References: <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>
>1. Max out your SCSI disk activity. Running 3 or 4 concurrent
>"cd /; tar cf - . >/dev/null" works for me.
>
>2. Select "Check for Disks" under your Workspace Manager "Disk" menu.
all i have to do to freeze up our dual boot 715/75 is... well,
nothing. it freezes on it's own anytime between booting and
10 min up and running. every time. so basically, NeXTSTEP
is unusable on it.
tech support thinks it might have to do w/ the ethernet card. after
trying for almost an hour to log in as root before it froze, i finally
did it and set it to not look for netinfo server and to remove the
ethernet card with the configure app.
now it won't boot ns at all. oh well...
grrrrrrr
kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
From: scott@atlanta.com (Scott M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem installing 3.3 Intel
Date: 14 Jan 1995 01:17:16 GMT
Organization: Internet Atlanta
Message-ID: <3f78ms$c56@metro.atlanta.com>
References: <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com>
In article <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com> bobh@hoqub.ho.att.com (Bob
Herbst) writes:
> I am having a difficult time in getting NS 3.3 to install on my
> Pentium based PC. After selecting the driver to use for both the
> hard drive and CD-ROM, the installer attempts to start the install
> but quickly complains that it cannot detect the SCSI host adapter
> or the CD-ROM drive. BTW: DOS & windows work fine!!
>
> Here is the configuration:
>
> Pentium 90 w/ ISA/VLB/PCI
> 64MB RAM
> 2 GB HD Partitioned 50-50 DOS,WIN/NeXT
> NEC 3xi CD ROM (Internal)
> 1.44 MB FD
> Adaptec AHA 2940 PCI SCSI Adapter
> ATI Graphics Pro 4MB PCI video
> PAS 16 Sound
I was helping someone who was trying to get an Adaptec EISA card
installed (model 2742) but otherwise had your same problem. The
trick was to install it in slot 4. I'm not sure about PCI cards but
you might want to try the card in all possible slots.
--
Scott M. Jones Atlanta, GA, USA
scott@atlanta.com (NeXTmail, MIME accepted)
sjones@netcom.com (MIME accepted)
From: scott@atlanta.com (Scott M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem installing 3.3 Intel
Date: 14 Jan 1995 01:17:28 GMT
Organization: Internet Atlanta
Message-ID: <3f78n8$c57@metro.atlanta.com>
References: <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com>
In article <D2B7pv.10t@nntpa.cb.att.com> bobh@hoqub.ho.att.com (Bob
Herbst) writes:
> I am having a difficult time in getting NS 3.3 to install on my
> Pentium based PC. After selecting the driver to use for both the
> hard drive and CD-ROM, the installer attempts to start the install
> but quickly complains that it cannot detect the SCSI host adapter
> or the CD-ROM drive. BTW: DOS & windows work fine!!
>
> Here is the configuration:
>
> Pentium 90 w/ ISA/VLB/PCI
> 64MB RAM
> 2 GB HD Partitioned 50-50 DOS,WIN/NeXT
> NEC 3xi CD ROM (Internal)
> 1.44 MB FD
> Adaptec AHA 2940 PCI SCSI Adapter
> ATI Graphics Pro 4MB PCI video
> PAS 16 Sound
I was helping someone who was trying to get an Adaptec EISA card
installed (model 2742) but otherwise had your same problem. The
trick was to install it in slot 4. I'm not sure about PCI cards but
you might want to try the card in all possible slots.
--
Scott M. Jones Atlanta, GA, USA
scott@atlanta.com (NeXTmail, MIME accepted)
sjones@netcom.com (MIME accepted)
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Date: 13 Jan 1995 21:13:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>
1. Max out your SCSI disk activity. Running 3 or 4 concurrent
"cd /; tar cf - . >/dev/null" works for me.
2. Select "Check for Disks" under your Workspace Manager "Disk" menu.
The instant I click "Check for Disks", all disk activity stops and the
SCSI activity light on my disk flashes briefly once every 1 and a half
seconds. Then after 20 seconds or so, either everything freezes and I
need to pull the plug or I get a panic window:
IO error on pagein (bread)
and very occasionally:
SCSI Request Timeout ....
This happens on our 712/60 with a Seagate ST31200N (rev 9410), with or
without the floppy drive installed, and with or without external SCSI
devices attached.
This disk is listed in the HP Compatibility Guide as being verified to
work with NS 3.2 (ST31200N rev 8714, tested by HP)
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (Royce Howland)
Subject: Re: NS 3. 3 and Mail over PPP
Message-ID: <1995Jan13.204439.14650@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <3f2sk8$210@news.uni-paderborn.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 20:44:39 GMT
In article <3f2sk8$210@news.uni-paderborn.de> albrecht@uni-paderborn.de
(Paul Albrecht) writes:
> I'm working with an Pentium running NS 3.3 . Over a modem line i can
connect to
> a ppp-server at our University. With a popper (POP3) i can receive my
mails from
> the mailserver, but i can't send a mail with the mailprogram from NS.
>
> Can somebody give me a hint to solve the problem? Is there an entry in
the file
> "/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf" which has to be changed?
One way to do this is to make sure you are configured to use the
"sendmail.subsidiary.cf" version of sendmail.cf, in the
/locations/sendmail directory of NetInfo. Then add your network's mail
server as a host using HostManager, and give it an alias of "mailhost".
The sendmail configuration should then work seamlessly for you, for
out-bound mail.
--
Royce Howland, Object Systems Group
howlandr@cadvision.com
Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (PanCanadian Petroleum)
I speak, but not for OSG or PCP.
From: mstatz@cei.net (Mark Statzer)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Exploding electric components
Date: 2 Jan 1995 19:24:00 GMT
Organization: World Link, Inc
Message-ID: <3e9jsg$9dm@ren.cei.net>
References: <3c52ca$edg@news.cs.tulane.edu> <DDG.94Dec9171805@sun86.cci.com> <D0pGyp.KpJ@news.cis.umn.edu> <1994Dec13.010042.25983@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <13DE <3e3aei$aos@aristotle.algonet.se>
In article <3e3aei$aos@aristotle.algonet.se>, pgd@algonet.se (Per Lindqvist) says:
>
>In <6ypxkmoZjG8H072yn@msen.com>, brain@msen.com (Jim Brain) writes:
>>I learned about this fact the hard way, as you say. Mistakenly picked up the
>>largest EL cap in my spare bin to make a quick 7805 PS. Had 18VAC comin'
>>in, but (you guessed it), cap was less. (10 or 15 V I think).
>>
>>Plug in, power looks OK, start to test, then POP!!!. That paper just went all
>>over the cirsuit. As you say, took ages to get it all out. Scared me to
>>death (was in a small room with bad acoustics, so the BANG seemed HUGE.)
>
>I was once sitting and working on my PC computer. Suddenly there was a big
>*** BANG ***. First I thought that it must have been some kid playing, so I looked
>out the window -- not one person there.
>My second thought was that it must have been something electric, and I waited for what
>would come next, and sniffed the air for the smell of burning electric components.
>Nothing.
>
>I really could not figure out what created that loud bang. The power did not go away,
>the computer did not stop, and nothing more happened. Capacitors can explode, but they
>leaves a mess on the circuit board, and the computer would not continue to work with
>such a fault.
>
I had a AC-DC ( Basic Electronics ) teacher in college that used to
demonstrate the power of a cap hooked up bass-ackwards by taking
nice, big, thumb-sized electrolytics and clipping them to a zip cord,
slinging it over the front of the table, and plugging it in.
...It made you remember to check polarity on caps....
Mark Statzer
KASN TV 38 Little Rock
mstatz@cei.net
From: taustad@oslonett.no (Thomas Austad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using SLIP with NeXT
Date: 14 Jan 1995 02:37:42 +0100
Organization: Oslonett public access
Message-ID: <3f79t6$jk@hasle.oslonett.no>
Are there any free programs that provides a DailUp SLIP connection?
I looked around, but the only program that seem to do this is SLIP_xxxx,
but its old (from 1992) and does not have the Intel binaries I need.
I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a Pentium. Thanks for any help! Please mail
me at taustad@oslonett.no
Th.A.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Garbage collecting and runtime Qs
Message-ID: <ezimmerm.8.0010C84A@UWyo.Edu>
From: ezimmerm@UWyo.Edu
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 16:46:49
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Wyoming
Salutations!
I'm a newer NeXT user and would like to know weather or not I should leave
my Cube (OS3.2) on all the time for late night garbage collecting stuff. I've
left it on once or twice since I've had it (3 months) and I wasn't awoken by
disk thrashing or anything. It seems that there is a lot of drive activity
when the machine is booted up and when a user logs in.
So, does a NeXT need to be on all the time like some other UNIX machines?
Thanks,
Gene
ezimmerm@uwyo.edu
From: longsg01@slowhand.nmb.com (Gary Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: configuring HP 4MP printer on Intel
Date: 14 Jan 1995 04:33:41 GMT
Organization: Norwest Mortgage Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f7k75$pj3@slowhand.nmb.com>
References: <3ealn8$r6u@News1.mcs.com>
In article <3ealn8$r6u@News1.mcs.com>, tmeyer@mcs.com (Tom Meyer) writes:
|> [munch] I bought the printer not really knowing what types of
|> cables I needed. I get home and I try to use the centronics-to-parallel
|> cable I bought. Hooks up OK, but PrintManager only lets you attatch to a
|> serial port or SCSI port (w/ NeXT color printers only) so I'm kinda screwed
|> right now.
Not true. Print Manager only gives you those options if you havn't installed the Parallel Port Driver.
1. Log in as root.
2. Launch Configure.app
3. Click on the "Other Devices" icon (a Question Mark over a PC)
4. Install the Paralell Port Driver.
5. Be happy!
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mac -> NeXT Printing, HOW?
Date: 13 Jan 1995 18:54:27 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3f6i93$5au@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
References: <D1xnur.JA@infoserv.com>
In article <D1xnur.JA@infoserv.com> kent@infoserv.com writes:
> how do I get my Mac to print to my NeXT with
> the Mac running TCP/IP on an ethernet network with
> the NeXT?
>
>
> Kent
I, too, would like to know this trick. Thanks. Karen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: Need Help w/ 3.3 on PCI Pentium
Message-ID: <D2CqE0.110@onevision.de>
Sender: usenet@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <D29EBG.J21@nntpa.cb.att.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 16:13:11 GMT
In article <D29EBG.J21@nntpa.cb.att.com> bobh@hoqub.ho.att.com (Bob
Herbst) writes:
> I tried installing 3.3 last night on my Pentium machine but had
> a problem.
> ...
> After specifying the Adaptec 2940 for both the HD & CDROM controller
> the system attempts to start, but quickly; after the NeXT screen boot
> manager screen comes up, gives me an error like:
>
> Adaptec 2940: Cannot Config Space
>
Sounds like your BIOS isnt fully PCI-PlugnPlay compatible...
Try to get a newer BIOS ....
( just installed a system with a 2940...)
Hope it helps
Hans
From: longsg01@slowhand.nmb.com (Gary Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Multicast support anyone? NeXT?
Date: 14 Jan 1995 05:58:42 GMT
Organization: Norwest Mortgage Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f7p6i$r71@slowhand.nmb.com>
References: <3eo1ge$10qj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Keywords: RFC-1075, DVMRP, MBONE
In article <3eo1ge$10qj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>, jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
|> Does anyone have any comments on pursuing NeXT to include
|> true MULTICAST support per RFC-1075 DVMRP in future releases?
|> (part of my 1995 wish list)
As I understand it, IP Multicast, as a part of BSD 4.4, is now
included in NeXTSTEP Release 3.3.
I am not, however, familiar with it's programming interface.
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help needed to send and receive mail
Date: 14 Jan 1995 06:25:19 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3f7qof$1vj@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <3f6fmq$69v@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
JIM KOCH (jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu) wrote:
: My next will send but not receive mail I'm on the net at a university.
: Any ideas??
This could be external or internal problem. First you want to make sure
whichever machine is responsible to direct traffic on you net know about
your machine's hostname and IP address. Login to another machine and try
nslookup to query your next's hostname. If the name server don't know
where is you next, your problem is external.
Now while still login to that other machine, try to send a e-mail
manually with telnet <next IP address> 25. If this manually sent e-mail
reach user on your user on next, your setup on next is probably O.K.
Otherwise, something is not set right on your next.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: ytalk on NS3.2 over PPP
Message-ID: <D2Dt6H.CzI@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 06:11:04 GMT
I'm pretty confident that NeXT's talk is busted, so I grabbed ytalk from
ftp.cs.orst.edu. My cube is connected to the world through Steve Perkins'
PPP v2.2. PPP works well for everything (OmniWeb is very nice!), but not ytalk.
ytalk never finds a daemon on other machines--it says "no talk deamon on
<whatever>" I tried changing the timeouts in socket.c (it was giving the other
daemon .5 secs to respond, as far as I could tell--I tried bumping that to 5)
and it didn't work.
I haven't given up yet, but I thought I would check what others have found.
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: precipi!neekibo (Hugues RICHARD)
Subject: NS3.3 kernel stability
Message-ID: <1995Jan13.202436.260@precipice.fdn.fr>
Sender: neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - Dijon, France.
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 20:24:36 GMT
Hi everybody,
A while ago, I found a small program called "crashme". It is used to test the stability of a kernel by setting random pointers and them calling them, writting any memory zone, ...
NS3.0 crashes afer 15 seconds,
NS3.2 crashes after 30 seconds,
Solaris 1.x crashes after 2 hours because of a... file system full (the log file really *exploded* but the kernel was still OK !).
Since I still havent NS3.3, I can email it if someone wants to test NS3.3 kernel robustness (NeXT claims its better than its predecessors). Just don't forget to post results...
The source code is 13Kb, normal compilation is 57Kb and "-object" compilation is 6KB...
Hugues.
,
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK)
------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: brian@vermeer.physast.uga.edu (Brian L. Olmsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mac -> NeXT Printing, HOW?
Date: 13 Jan 1995 21:18:42 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3f6qni$lf4@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>
References: <D1xnur.JA@infoserv.com>
In article <D1xnur.JA@infoserv.com> kent@infoserv.com writes:
> how do I get my Mac to print to my NeXT with
> the Mac running TCP/IP on an ethernet network with
> the NeXT?
>
>
> Kent
> --
> /* "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and
*/
> /* no slave that has not had a king among his." ---- Helen Keller
*/
> /* Kent L. Shephard ----- K. L. Shephard Consulting
*/
In the LaserWriter print dialog select to save as a postscript file. I
then send this file to the Next lpr daemon over ethernet using one of the
following Mac applications: lpr1.2 or LPR (the second one is part of
lpDaemon3.3.3). I believe they are both freeware. Both crash at times when
there is a lot of network traffic.
---
Brian L. Olmsted
Research Associate
University of Georgia
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Athens, GA 30602
Internet: bolmsted@hal.physast.uga.edu
NeXT mail: brian@rembrandt.physast.uga.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: NeXTstep and Linux file systems
Message-ID: <vwalkerD2Dzrr.31F@netcom.com>
Summary: Getting NeXTstep & Linux file systems to work together
Keywords: NeXTstep Linux file systems compatability
Sender: vwalker@netcom.com
Cc: vwalker@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 08:33:27 GMT
Hi, Vic Walker here. I have been working a lot with both NeXTstep and
NeXTstep systems, and would like to be able to transfer files between the
two systems using floppy disks. However, NeXTstep does not seem to
recognize disks with the Linux file system on them, nor does Linux
recognize NeXTstep's format. I could format them as DOS diskettes, but
then I am limited by DOS's 8.3 naming file naming conventions.
I know that Linux can read more than one type of Unix file system. I just
need to get it to read one more, NeXTstep (or vice versa.) Does anyone
have any good ideas on how to make that happen?
Thanks very much for your help, I appreciate it. Feel free to post to
this newsgroup, but I'd also appreciate it if you could respond via EMail
too, as I don't always get over to this newsgroup as often as I'd like.
Vic Walker
vwalker@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: Hard links with NeXTStep
Message-ID: <D2BLL1.Jvs@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 01:31:48 GMT
Stephane Etienne <stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk> writes
> Does anybody out there knows how to get rid of Hard links
>created with NeXTStep v3.2. I have tried rm(1), rmdir(1), unlink(2),
>rmdir(2), remove(3s). None of them worked. The hard link was created
>with link(2).
rm(1) works fine for me.
--
Bob Cook bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Networking a NeXT to a Sun SS2?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 14 Jan 1995 12:37:01 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Jan14123701@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
CC: treed@gun.com,belka@il.us.swissbank.com,szh@zcon.com,mark@xexos.com
I have a nextstation color and a sparc 2 ...
All my efforts to get them to talk together have been without
success. This is probably due to a lack of understanding network
issues.
Here's what I've done.
I have a 10 base T transceiver with cross over cable. (What does it
mean if the polarity light on the transceiver is on? (twisted pair))
The line and power lights are also on.
On the next I have..
root:/Users/robert>nidump hosts / 11:43
192.42.72.1 steffi.dircon.co.uk steffi
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
192.42.172.2 audrey
Steffi is the NeXT
Audrey is the Sun.
my /etc/hostconfig is as follows..
#
# /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=192.42.72.1
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
netstat -r
root:/Users/robert>netstat -r 12:29
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 2 394 lo0
192.42.72 steffi.dircon.co.u U 8 2008 en0
root:/Users/robert>ifconfig -a 12:29
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 192.42.72.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.72.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
NOTE: I also have a dialupip account (host 193.128.226.1) which is why
when I start up SLIP the netstat -r looks like. Note: the default
points to my providers host at the moment.
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
193.128.226.1 steffi.dircon.co.u UH 0 0 slip0
localhost localhost UH 2 394 lo0
steffi.dircon.co localhost UH 0 0 lo0
default 193.128.226.1 UG 1 21 slip0
192.42.72 steffi.dircon.co.u U 8 2119 en0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On the sun I have..
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.42.72.2 audrey loghost
netstat -r
localhost localhost UH 4 180 lo0
192.42.72.0 audrey U 2 82 le0
(Do I need "default"?)
ifconfig -a
le0:flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 192.42.72.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.42.72.0
ethernet ethernetaddress
lo0:flags:49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So with this set up I get.
root:/Users/robert>ping audrey 12:33
PING audrey: 56 data bytes
nothing comming back.
and that's only in one direction.. I haven't tried anything from the
Sun yet.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Is there any good reference material that I could read to increase my
understanding about these issues? ORA?
--
"Oh no, actually darling I don't have time for games."
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
(ASCII for text only messages)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schurch@pages.com (Sean Church)
Subject: Need folks to look over my PNI install / NS config docs
Message-ID: <D2DH3p.803@pages.com>
Sender: schurch@pages.com (Sean Church)
Organization: Pages Software Inc
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 01:50:13 GMT
Hi all!
I just slapped together a document covering PNI installation on stand
alone NeXTSTEP (vs 3.2 ) systems, (including setting up the OS to work for
this situation with NetInfo running as a stand alone client with the SLIP
connection configured as user-demand controlled) and I need some
knowlegable folks to read it and tell me where I've derailed myself.
;-)
Instead of posting it as RTF and makeing the bandwidth Nazi's come after
me next week, could you drop me an email at : schurch@pages.com if you
feel kind enough to read through this and give me some feedback?
Thanks!
P.S. : It's will be an RTFD NeXTMAIL document, unless you ask for asci
mail...
--
Sean Church Pages Software Inc
schurch@pages.com 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
(619) 492-9050 x 221 San Diego, Ca. 92124
Systems Engineer, Network Administrator, chief cook and cable boy...
From: plongsi@falcon.inetnebr.com (Pohl Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: REQ: PPP installation help
Date: 14 Jan 1995 12:19:28 GMT
Organization: Synergy Communication Inc.
Message-ID: <3f8fgg$kto@legba.synergy.net>
I am in the process of installing PPP 2.2 on my Intel-based machine.
Installation of the package and the creation of the links goes according
to the README file. However, when I use Hostmanager.app to create
the /etc/hostconfig file that allows my machine to recognize a network,
my machine hangs upon reboot. I get the following messages:
Mounting remote file systems
Starting file service daemons: (it hangs at this point. My
response after 10 min: ^C)
exportfs: Can't open /etc/exports: No such file or directory
Starting network daemons: inetd (hang, ^C) printer
Starting NeXT services: pbs (Hang, ^C, hang ^C...
I then boot into single user mode and replace the old version of
the /etc/hostconfig file. Here is what the new one looks like
(the one that causes it to hang.)
HOSTNAME=in116
INETADDR=199.184.119.116
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
I can't figure out why it's trying to mount remote file systems.
If it's supposed to do this, I can't figure out what /etc/exports is
supposed to look like, or what should create it. Or maybe that's
not the problem at all.
*HELP!*
--
____/| | Pohl Longsine, OpenStep Software Developer
\ o.O| GPF! | "I don't do Windows."
=(_)= CTLALTDLT! | plongsi@inetnebr.com (Internet Nebraska)
U (Bill Gates, The Cat) | NeXT & MIME mail formats accepted.
From: c4craig@csn.net (Craig Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tcpdump or equiv. for NS/FIP
Date: 14 Jan 1995 17:29:11 GMT
Organization: Colorado Supernet
Message-ID: <3f91l7$tg@news-2.csn.net>
What is available for snooping on network packets
like tcpdump? Thanks.
Craig Anderson
craig@c4.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Mac to NeXT printing problems
Message-ID: <D2DJ8o.9F@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting - (Kent L. Shephard)
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 02:36:24 GMT
I have InterPrint on the Mac which is an lpr client and it
tries to send the file to print on the NeXT.
The problems is that I get an error that says
"LPR open fails (spooler may be disabled)" on the
Mac side.
I can see the Mac using ping, etc.......
and the Mac can see the NeXT using NCA Telnet.
What's the problem on the NeXT side?
It seems to be on the NeXT side.
lpd does seem to be running on the NeXT.
Mind you, I have a PC running PC-NFS running with
no problems at all printing.
Kent
--
/* "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and */
/* no slave that has not had a king among his." ---- Helen Keller */
/* Kent L. Shephard ----- K. L.
From: rainer@wmax62.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhoefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTstep and Linux file systems
Date: 14 Jan 1995 20:22:17 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <3f9bpp$ihs@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <vwalkerD2Dzrr.31F@netcom.com>
Vic Walker writes
> Hi, Vic Walker here. I have been working a lot with both NeXTstep and
> NeXTstep systems, and would like to be able to transfer files between the
> two systems using floppy disks. However, NeXTstep does not seem to
[snip]
Sorry, I don't have any info on this, I got the same problem. I have an old
SyQuest555 hooked to my NeXTStation (very nice for backup) and a Linux system
at home. Is there a way for Linux to mount a NeXT filesystem or vice versa?
> Thanks very much for your help, I appreciate it. Feel free to post to
dito.
rainer@picard.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de
----------------------------------
"Um Energie zu sparen,
wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels
vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." (... there are so few german sig's :)
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Message-ID: <790112510.6@cs.york.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jan 1995 19:41:50 GMT
References: <3f9a75$r2u@samsara.circus.com>
buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman) writes:
> In article <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>, Chris Roehrig <croehrig@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>1. Max out your SCSI disk activity. Running 3 or 4 concurrent
>>"cd /; tar cf - . >/dev/null" works for me.
>>
>>2. Select "Check for Disks" under your Workspace Manager "Disk" menu.
>
> That's an interesting one. Unfortunately (or, fortunately) it falls into the
> "Doctor, it hurts when I drop a brick on my foot" category of bug. Unless
> this crash has happened to someone who wasn't trying to stress the system
Not quite - o.k., the 'tar' he mentioned was excessive, but all he said
was 'max out your scsi activity'. A large fileserver will do that, or
the sort of recursive find that seems necessaryu to the rid of '.nfs' files
every night will also chug the disc quite miraculously. I can quite happily
think of a lot of curcumstances where I might eb doing the above... for
instance whe we re-installed 3.0 a week or so ago I had
several 'tar' processes running to backup /usr/local /LocalApps /LocalLibrary
and a couple of other directories. Doing a 'check for disks' to look
for a floppy to put some of the mor important files onto it (e.g. the fstab
for the discs I just tarrred onto) seems quite feasible.
-pete french.
[and whilst I'm reminded of the other week - how come it takes so long to
re-ionstall 3.0 off CDROM. It takes about 6 hours on black as opposed to
2 hours on white... using the same SCSI disc ?!, I would have thought the
speed was i/o limited by the scsi CDROM rather than any processor speed]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Subject: PPP Problem (NEXTSTEP to NEXTSTEP Only)
Message-ID: <D2E7AG.1Gy@tor.hookup.net>
Sender: damonc@tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Organization: Damon F. Cooper
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 11:15:51 GMT
I'm having trouble getting PPP up between 2 NEXTSTEP (Intel) machines...
Note that connecting from PPP 2.2 NEXTSTEP to an Internet provider with
terminal servers and Morningstar PPP __WORKS *GREAT*__.
It's between two machines running PPP 2.2 NEXTSTEP I have the problem. I
have received several notes from other people experiencing the same...
Has anybody tried this? Does your "ppp.remote" script look like the one
below?
I get connected, and communication is definitely coming across the line
(see debug log of "calling" machine below), but the PPP link fails and I
get some messages in the /usr/adm/messages file that indicate that both
sides are unable to "see" the other over the link...
The configuration on the remote (calling) machine works fine when calling
an Internet provider but calling another NS machine running the same
PPP-2.2 fails....
Have you been able to do this, and would you mind forwarding your
"ppp.remote" script?
Thanks in advance!!
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
======================
CONFIG:
============================
- "ppp.remote" script on local (answering) machine (triggered by use as
login script for user "ppp"):
#!/bin/csh
echo Starting PPP
/usr/bin/mesg n
/bin/stty -tostop litout
exec /usr/local/bin/pppd local kdebug 17 debug defaultroute bsdcomp 10,10
\
lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 5 19200
=============================
- "pppup" script on remote (calling) machine:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/pppd bsdcomp 10,10 lcp-echo-interval 15 \
lcp-echo-failure 5 -crtscts defaultroute kdebug 17 debug modem -pap -chap
\
connect '/usr/local/bin/chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO
DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" "AT" "OK" ATL1M0DT8648062 TIMEOUT 120 CONNECT
"" ogin: ppp assword: ppp PPP' \
/dev/cufb 19200 lock
=============================
- Mux 1.5, 16550 UART's on both machines
- ZyXEL U1496E modems on both machines
- NXFax 1.04 on both machines
- Remote (calling) machine name/domain name/IP/netmask:
damonc / tor.hookup.net / 165.154.11.65 / 255.255.255.0
- Local (answering) machine name/domain name/IP/netmask:
damonc / aetnacan.com / 192.251.166.138 / 255.255.255.0
- /usr/adm/messages from both machines (identical):
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: PPP configuring Interface with:
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Name: ppp
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Type: PPP over generic TTY
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: MTU : 1500
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach:
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Unit 0... Successfully attached.
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Unit 1... Successfully attached.
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Packet Decompression will be done outside
interrupt handler
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: PPP-2.2 (NeXT LKS) Installed
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: LKS Version $Id: if_ppp.c,v 1.24 1994/11/21
05:10:15 perkins Exp $
Dec 17 01:53:38 damonc mach: Bug reports to Steve Perkins
(perkins@cps.msu.edu)
==============================
RESULTS:
- Remote (calling) machine /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug:
Dec 17 10:40:48 damonc pppd[1864]: Connected...
Dec 17 10:40:49 damonc pppd[1864]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 17 10:40:49 damonc pppd[1864]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb
Dec 17 10:40:49 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc pppd[1864]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ef1fe8d> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:41:19 damonc pppd[1864]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Dec 17 10:41:19 damonc pppd[1864]: Connection terminated.
===============================
- Local (answering) machine /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug:
Dec 17 10:47:36 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:39 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:42 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:45 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:48 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:51 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:54 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:47:57 damonc pppd[6639]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x2ed34b43> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Dec 17 10:48:00 damonc pppd[6639]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Dec 17 10:48:00 damonc pppd[6639]: Connection terminated.
=============================
DEBUG INFO:
- Remote (calling) machine /usr/adm/messages
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x0 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66 98
fe 66 98 fe 06
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18 e6
66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:40:58 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:01 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:04 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:07 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:10 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:13 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 00 f8 e6 e6 e6 60 06 98 fe 66
98 fe 66 98 fe
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 06 98 fe 86 78 e6 66 98 fe 06 18
e6 66 18 e0
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0 input: fe 66 18 e6 86 18 f8 86 1e
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x86 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:16 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 86 e6 80 66 e6 18 e6 86 60 e6 06
86 e6 86 60 86
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 98 f8
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0xfe (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:41:17 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
==========================
- Local (answering) machine /usr/adm/messages
Dec 17 10:42:00 damonc su: SU to news by root on (null pointer)
Dec 17 10:43:00 damonc su: SU to news by root on (null pointer)
Dec 17 10:47:00 damonc last message repeated 2 times
Dec 17 10:47:31 damonc mach: ppp0: missing UI (0x3), got 0x1e
Dec 17 10:47:31 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:31 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 1e 1c 1f 1f 0f 4f 1f 2f 3f ff fa
c9 ff 3f 3e 0e
Dec 17 10:47:34 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 0e 0e ef ff ff 1e 1c 1e 1e 0e 4e
1e 2e 3e fe f8
Dec 17 10:47:37 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 29 ee f9 3e 0e 0e 0e ef ff ff 1e
1c 1e 1e 0e 4e
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 1e 2e 3e fe f8 29 ee f8 f9 f9 f8
98 ef ff 1e 1c
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 1e 1e 0f 4f 1f 2f 3f ff fa c9 7b
9a
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:40 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 18 fb ff 8b 44 8b 8b 87 a7
8f 97 9f 65 fe
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: ppp0 input: cb 7b 99
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:43 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:46 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 98 ef ff 1e 1c 1e 1e 0e 4e
1e fe fc e8 3e
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 2e db 3f 3e 0e 0e 0e ed ff ff 1f
1c 8b 8b 83 a3
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 8b 93 9f 65 fe cb 7b 99
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:49 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 18 fb ff 8b 44 8b 8b 83 a7
8f 97 9f 65 fe
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: ppp0 input: cb 7b 99
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:52 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 19 fe ff 1f 1c 1f 1f 0f a3
8b 93 9b 65 fa
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: ppp0 input: cb 7b 98
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: Flushing complete
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: ppp0: garbage received: 0x31 (need
PPP_ALLSTATIONS 0xFF)
Dec 17 10:47:55 damonc mach: FLUSHING....
Dec 17 10:47:58 damonc mach: ppp0 input: 31 fc 99 ef ff 1f 1c 8b 8b 83 a3
8b 97 9f 65 fe
===================
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Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
[NEXTMAIL: OK]
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTstep and Linux file systems
Date: 14 Jan 1995 21:31:13 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3f9fr1$3rh@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <vwalkerD2Dzrr.31F@netcom.com>
One way to retain filenames is to use gnutar (with compression) onto DOS
8+3 floppies, which both systems can read. Pathetic, but the best I could
come up with.
Yes, I would love to have more accessibility of the NS filesystem, either
from DOS or linux, even if it were read-only. Nothing we can do...
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance (ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu)
AGSM at UCLA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer)
Subject: Re: NeXTstep and Linux file systems
Message-ID: <D2F1nC.GIw@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Keywords: NeXTstep Linux file systems compatability
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <vwalkerD2Dzrr.31F@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 22:11:36 GMT
As of right now, there is no common disk format between Linux and NS
except DOS (and an alpha Mac driver for Linux, I think). Since NeXT
is unlikely to write an ext2 filesystem driver, your best bet would be
to ask around the linux newsgroups to see if anyone is writing a
Berkeley FFS driver for linux. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was
working on it, somewhere.
As a workaround to the 8.3 DOS filename problem, I just use tar. That
way, I have to make my tar filename 8.3 compliant but don't have to
worry about filenames within the tar archive.
Dave
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dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia
NeXTmail ok
From: sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu (David A. Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: INFO request: best 650meg or 1gig optical drive for NS
Date: 14 Jan 1995 22:36:10 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University - Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f9jkq$dof@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Hi, all.
I am looking for either a 650meg or 1gig optical drive to use as a
backup mechanism for my slab. I'd greatly appreciate any
recommendations, wornings, or just general comments about which
model(s) may be best, worst, etc.
Cheers,
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sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Mach IPC over PPP/SLIP solved
Message-ID: <D2FE1A.GKn@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 02:39:09 GMT
I couldn't find the answer to this when I needed it,s o i thought I'd post it
here. Steve, maybe it should go into the NeXT PPP distribution?
Anyway, I found out about giving nmserver the USR2 signal kick, but it still
didn't work. Credit goes to Dan Crimmins <djc@autumn.com> for explaining it to
me. Apparently nmserver et cal gets confused when sending its Mach IPC packets
and sets the sender IP address to that of the ethernet interface. Not
surprisingly the other end won't be able to get at this, often.
So, the ethernet IP address must be set to something that the other end ca
at. For machines connected only through SLIP/PPP, the easy thing to do is set
the ethernet IP address (using HostManager) to be the same as your assigned
PPP address. This creates all sorts of fun problems itself, since the kernel
thinks it can talk to the other end of your PPP link over ethernet. I solved
this by downing the ethernet interface ("ifconfig en0 down") which seems a bit
drastic, but it does work. I'm not sure what would work for situations where
another machine "at home" needed to be connected to the "main" ppp machine
through ethernet--I'm not blessed with enough ethernet-capable machines to
experiment.
BTW, -NXHosting over a 14.4Kbps PPP link is pretty painful. Remember the
first time you used an 8Mb '030 cube under 1.0 with a slow disk? Well, worse
than that. Seems about equal to X, based on non-scientific playing.
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam Deishu Beeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Date: 14 Jan 1995 11:55:17 -0800
Organization: The Marshmallow Peanut Circus
Message-ID: <3f9a75$r2u@samsara.circus.com>
References: <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>
In article <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>, Chris Roehrig <croehrig@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>1. Max out your SCSI disk activity. Running 3 or 4 concurrent
>"cd /; tar cf - . >/dev/null" works for me.
>
>2. Select "Check for Disks" under your Workspace Manager "Disk" menu.
That's an interesting one. Unfortunately (or, fortunately) it falls into the
"Doctor, it hurts when I drop a brick on my foot" category of bug. Unless
this crash has happened to someone who wasn't trying to stress the system
until it crashed, but was indeed trying to get some legitimate work done, then
it's probably not a big deal; there are quite a few ways you can deliberately
crash the system.
You can always throw large, heavy objects at the computer and see what happens.
If you don't want to run the risk of physical damage, you can also try some
entertaining things like the following shell script which will totally wedge
up ANY (unix-based) system:
---
#!/bin/csh
while (1)
echo "HA HA HA"
$0 &
end
---
Nonetheless, I do concede that both of these weaknesses are bugs...
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From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multicast support anyone? NeXT?
Date: 14 Jan 1995 22:16:09 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f9if9$83@filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <3f7p6i$r71@slowhand.nmb.com>
In article <3f7p6i$r71@slowhand.nmb.com> longsg01@slowhand.nmb.com (Gary
Longsine) writes:
> In article <3eo1ge$10qj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
> |> Does anyone have any comments on pursuing NeXT to include
> |> true MULTICAST support per RFC-1075 DVMRP in future releases?
> |> (part of my 1995 wish list)
> As I understand it, IP Multicast, as a part of BSD 4.4, is now
> included in NeXTSTEP Release 3.3.
It's included allright. It'll give us a chance to cook something for the
MBONE project...
Filip
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From: 01canay@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Thanks for the help...
Message-ID: <1995Jan15.023150.39272@orion.bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 95 02:31:50 -0500
Organization: Ball State University
Thanks for all the help everyone here offered on my password problem.
I'll try those tips tommorrow. I look forward to being able to offer help to
others once I can get a Web server up on the NeXt. Please feel free to offer
any advice about accomplishing this task if anyone has ever pulled this off
before. Thanks again.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ekraft@netcom.com (Erik Kraft)
Subject: Re: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Message-ID: <ekraftD2Fo79.2qr@netcom.com>
Summary: Possible drive failure?
References: <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 06:18:44 GMT
croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) wrote:
>
> [how to crash a 712 by maxing SCSI access deleted]
>
> Then after 20 seconds or so, either everything freezes and I
>need to pull the plug or I get a panic window:
> IO error on pagein (bread)
>and very occasionally:
> SCSI Request Timeout ....
>
This happened to me on my 040 Cube. It got progressively worse until
my hard drive crashed, and I mean *crashed* hard. Once the replacement
drive was installed, this pattern of SCSI problems disappeared.
>This happens on our 712/60 with a Seagate ST31200N (rev 9410), with or
>without the floppy drive installed, and with or without external SCSI
>devices attached.
>
Ahhh, SeaCrate. Been there, done that, got a different hard drive.
>This disk is listed in the HP Compatibility Guide as being verified to
>work with NS 3.2 (ST31200N rev 8714, tested by HP)
>
Maybe there is a bug in the Compatibility Guide :-)
Disclaimer: I don't got a 712.
--
erik kraft
NeXT programmer / 3do programmer
ekraft@netcom.com
From: Shannon Holland <holland@catapent.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP for NS 3.3?
Date: 15 Jan 1995 09:31:18 GMT
Organization: Catapult Entertainment
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3faq16$inl@news1.svc.portal.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
i have just installed a NS 3.3 system, but it's now getting very lonely
as it has no one to talk to....
i have seen several references to ppp in this group. where can i get ppp
for NS?
thanks in advance!
shannon
From: amigagod@grove.ufl.edu (Todd Andrew Vierling)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Exploding electric components
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Date: 15 Jan 1995 16:42:47 GMT
Organization: University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Message-ID: <3fbja7$di6@cutter.clas.ufl.edu>
References: <3c52ca$edg@news.cs.tulane.edu> <DDG.94Dec9171805@sun86.cci.com> <D0pGyp.KpJ@news.cis.umn.edu> <1994Dec13.010042.25983@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <13DE <3e3aei$aos@aristotle.algonet.se> <3e9jsg$9dm@ren.cei.net>
I once had an exploding component -- a BIG one, in fact. It was a Seagate
ST-251 20mb MFM drive. I had it outside a computer case because it was acting
up. I powered up the computer, and after about 10 seconds, the top of the drive
blew off completely, landing on the floor. To this day I still have no
explanation for it.
BTW - Please note the modified Followup-To.
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: PPP Problem (NEXTSTEP to NEXTSTEP Only)
Message-ID: <790188043.0@cs.york.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jan 1995 16:40:43 GMT
References: <D2E7AG.1Gy@tor.hookup.net>
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper) writes:
> It's between two machines running PPP 2.2 NEXTSTEP I have the problem. I
> have received several notes from other people experiencing the same...
>
> Has anybody tried this? Does your "ppp.remote" script look like the one
> below?
I run 2.2 between 2 NeXT's - one port being steves, one being a port
of 2.2 that I'm working on independently. Steve's code or ours just
drops in interchangeably at either end, so preseumably my scripts will
work in your environment. I either call the remote machine using a direct
piece of wire as a connection, or else call a terminal server using a modem
and telnet in. In both systems the login script at the far end is the same:
#!/bin/sh
OPTIONS="-as a0000 escape ff bsdcomp 15 mru 552"
/usr/bin/mesg n
if /etc/ifconfig ppp0
then
/bin/echo pppok
else
/bin/echo pppbad
sleep 3
exit 1
fi
/bin/stty pass8 pass8out -tostop -tandem
exec /etc/ppp/pppd $OPTIONS `hostname`: netmask 255.255.254.0
The test on the ifconfig is to make sure that ppp is installed on the box
and running - my connect scripts look for 'pppok' and abort on 'pppbad'
after login.
The password file entry is :
pppcon:iWUyPVkH9hPpI:30:20:PPP account:/etc/ppp:/etc/ppp/pppgo
The script I use to connect to the machine (over the phone) is:
#!/bin/sh
RATE=19200
DEVICE=cufb
OPTIONS="modem -as a0000 escape ff bsdcomp 15 mru 552 $*"
CONFILE=`pwd`/phone-skerry
CONPROG="/usr/local/bin/chat -v -f $CONFILE"
rm -f /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/*
echo Using options $OPTIONS
echo Using connect $CONPROG
touch /aseg4/pete/nextbin/chat
/pppd $OPTIONS lock connect "$CONPROG" netmask 255.255.254.0 /dev/$DEVICE $RATE 2> /dev/console
The only difference for the direct connection is that I remove the 'modem'
option and call out on cua. This works with both Muc installed and the
standard NeXT serial drivers.
Hope this helps...
-bat.
From: success@cyberquest.com (Jason Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Procmail/SmartList
Date: 14 Jan 1995 23:37:03 -0800
Organization: CyberQuest BBS
Message-ID: <3fajav$mgc@starbug.cyberquest.com>
Does anyone have the modifications so procmail compiles on NeXT? I have
no idea what version of the OS is currently running.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wolfs@fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu
Subject: Counting the number of pages printed by users.
Message-ID: <1995Jan15.143440.1@fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory
Date: 15 Jan 95 14:34:40 -0500
I am trying to be able to count the number of pages that various users of my
NeXT system print. I have followed the instructions of the NeXT manual, but
the page counter seems to stay at zero. Does anyone know how to set this up ?
Frank Wolfs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gsl@netcom.com (Greg Lindholm)
Subject: Problem Mounting an MSDOS partition
Message-ID: <gslD2GvGw.LFo@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 21:53:19 GMT
I have NS/FIP (3.2 then 3.3) with 2 IDE drives, each drive
has a small MSDOS partition. I just recently added the second
drive to the /etc/fstab and now the MSDOS partition on that
drive doesn't get mounted.
How do you get NS to mount the MSDOS partion? I have tried
added the following (one at a time) to the /etc/fstab with
no luck.
/dev/rhd1h /ms-dos-64 dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 0 2
/dev/rhd1h /ms-dos-64 dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 1 2
/dev/hd1h /ms-dos-64 dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 0 2
/dev/hd1h /ms-dos-64 dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 1 2
Here are the before and afters of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.
>>>BEFORE<<<
/etc/fstab
==========
/dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
# df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/hd0a 381459 306624 36689 89% /
/private/vm/swapfile 381459 306624 36689 89% /private/vm/swapfile.front
/dev/rhd0h 20336 14232 6104 70% /ms-dos
/dev/hd1a 337195 168348 135127 55% /Disk
/dev/rhd1h 65348 63366 1982 97% /ms-dos-64
/etc/mtab
=========
/dev/hd0a "/" 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/private/vm/swapfile "/private/vm/swapfile.front" swapfs rw 1 2
/dev/rhd0h "/ms-dos" dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 1 2
/dev/hd1a "/Disk" 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2
/dev/rhd1h "/ms-dos-64" dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 1 2
>>>AFTER<<<
/etc/fstab
==========
/dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/hd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
# df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/hd0a 381459 306645 36668 89% /
/dev/hd1a 337195 168348 135127 55% /Disk
/private/vm/swapfile 381459 306645 36668 89% /private/vm/swapfile.front
/dev/rhd0h 20336 14232 6104 70% /ms-dos
/etc/mtab
=========
/dev/hd0a "/" 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/hd1a "/Disk" 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/private/vm/swapfile "/private/vm/swapfile.front" swapfs rw 1 2
/dev/rhd0h "/ms-dos" dos filesystem=DOS,fixed,rw 1 2
Please email me any help or sugestions.
Thanks in advance.
---
Greg Lindholm
BlueSky Software
gsl@netcom.com (NeXTMail & MIME happily accepted!)
PGP 2.6 key available via finger.
Fax: (818) 541-1984
From: root@nukestep.mit.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: icon of new users is a folder instead of home
Date: 15 Jan 1995 22:37:32 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3fc83c$oh3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
When I create new user accounts, the icon
for that user shows up as folder instead
of a home. How do I change the account so
that the home icon displays for that user?
Thanks,
--Greg
From: crath@bnr.ca (Christopher Rath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Date: 15 Jan 1995 22:38:41 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <CRATH.95Jan15173841@bcarh3b5.bnr.ca>
References: <3f6qef$9od@cs.ubc.ca>
In-reply-to: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca's message of 13 Jan 1995 21:13:51 GMT
We had a similar problem on a drive attached to one of our Sun's.
Whenever there was excessive amounts of disk activity on the drive, it
would hang the SCSI bus. When we tried moving the drive to other
machines, the same behaviour was always exhibited. We returned the
drive to the manufacturer and had the controller board replace; this
rectified the problem.
Christopher
--
=== Christopher Rath ===== crath@bnr.ca ===== (613) 765-3141 ===
Bell-Northern Research |
Box 3511, Station `C' | ``Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless
Ottawa, ON K1Y 4H7 | gas which, given enough time, turns
FAX: (613) 763-4101 | into people.'' --- Henry Hiebert
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: A guaranteed way to crash your 712
Date: 15 Jan 1995 23:09:30 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <3fc9va$pus@cs.ubc.ca>
References: <3f9a75$r2u@samsara.circus.com>
In article <3f9a75$r2u@samsara.circus.com> buddha@samsara.circus.com (Adam
Deishu Beeman) writes:
> That's an interesting one. Unfortunately (or, fortunately) it
> falls into the "Doctor, it hurts when I drop a brick on my foot"
> category of bug. Unless this crash has happened to someone who
> wasn't trying to stress the system until it crashed, but was
> indeed trying to get some legitimate work done, then it's probably
> not a big deal; there are quite a few ways you can deliberately
> crash the system.
I should have added that simply logging onto the console is often enough
disk activity to cause Workspace Manager's automatic "Check for Disks" to
crash the machine. In other words, our 712 crashes fairly frequently when
somebody logs on or uses the floppy drive.
Not acceptable.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: neil@office.demon.net (Neil J. McRae)
Subject: Re: Networking a NeXT to a Sun SS2?
Message-ID: <D2H285.KKG@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
References: <ROBERT.95Jan14123701@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 00:19:17 GMT
: Is there any good reference material that I could read to increase my
: understanding about these issues? ORA?
I have never used Next at all, However the Sun looks to be setup fine.
Check that you have the correct netmask in /etc/netmasks. Also if you don't
have it TCP/IP System Administration by Craig hunt is a handy book.
Regards,
Neil
--
Neil J. McRae. Demon Internet
neil@demon.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer)
Subject: Re: Procmail/SmartList
Message-ID: <D2H60G.J8p@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <3fajav$mgc@starbug.cyberquest.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 01:41:04 GMT
In article <3fajav$mgc@starbug.cyberquest.com>,
Jason Wade <success@cyberquest.com> wrote:
>Does anyone have the modifications so procmail compiles on NeXT? I have
>no idea what version of the OS is currently running.
As far as I know, procmail-3.10 compiles without modification under NS
3.x. It used to compile cleanly under 2.x - and may still - but I
can't confirm this because I haven't compiled it under 2.x in a long
time.
Dave
--
David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia
NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley)
Subject: Using mail over ppp and an internet provider
Message-ID: <1995Jan16.021739.6238@iitmax.iit.edu>
Keywords: ppp internet provider mail
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 02:17:39 GMT
Hello world,
I have an account with an internet provider. I have the name of their
news server. I am running ppp on my home machine which is a standalone.
I have gotten other internet programs to work such as Omniweb (Yeah!),
gatorFTP, etc..
Now I am trying to get mail to work. I would like to be able to use
Mail.app for sending and receiveing mail.
Can you give me any pointers on the main changes that I have to make?
Do I have to muck with sendmail? sendmail.cf?
Where do I insert the name of my provider's mail server (SMTP)?
Thanks for any initial pointers.
Chris Conley
cconley@mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 12:13:32 CST
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Message-ID: <9501160413.AA18361@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Subject: Help 2 GA Hard Disk with NeXT
Hi There,
Has anyone known how to install NeXT3.2 or 3.3 into a 2 GA hard disk?
Thanks in advance.
Jackson Technologies
Jamie Lien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <lre@mendota.com>
Message-ID: <9501151926.AA01376@expresso.mendota.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: "Louis R. Eagle" <lre@mendota.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 95 11:26:30 -0800
Subject: inn on black
Anyone have any reasons why I should not install inn, rather than
c-news, under NS 3.3 on Black?
Any gotchas or words of wisdom I should know about building and
installing it?
thanks.
Louis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <lre@mendota.com>
Message-ID: <9501151926.AA01382@expresso.mendota.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: "Louis R. Eagle" <lre@mendota.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 95 11:26:38 -0800
Subject: smail on Black
Anyone have any reasons why I should not switch to smail under NS
3.3 on Black?
Any gotchas or words of wisdom I should know about building and
installing it?
thanks.
Louis
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multicast support anyone? NeXT?
Date: 15 Jan 1995 18:15:37 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fboo9$j0i@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3f9if9$83@filtronix.eunet.be>
filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) writes:
> longsg01@slowhand.nmb.com (Gary Longsine) writes:
> > jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
> > |> Does anyone have any comments on pursuing NeXT to include
> > |> true MULTICAST support per RFC-1075 DVMRP in future releases?
> > |> (part of my 1995 wish list)
> >
> > As I understand it, IP Multicast, as a part of BSD 4.4, is now
> > included in NeXTSTEP Release 3.3.
>
> It's included allright. It'll give us a chance to cook something
> for the MBONE project...
NeXTSTEP developers who are interested in Multicast support might
want to check into NeXTanswers numbers 1702 and 1703. These are
in directory NeXTanswers/Patches/IPMultcastHeaderPatch_3.3pr2,
if you're roaming around the NeXTanswers heirarchy.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <wlien@jack09.jacktech.com.tw>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 16:04:51 +0800
From: Weiming Lien <wlien@jack09.jacktech.com.tw>
Message-ID: <9501160804.AA00411@jack09.jacktech.com.tw>
Subject: Help: how to set up DNS server in NeXT
Cc: root@jack09.jacktech.com.tw
Hi,
Could anyone kindly show me how to set up a DNS server in NeXT.
Thanks in advance.
Jackson Technologies
Jamie Lien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aaron@dirigiste.com (Aaron Herskowitz)
Subject: SUMMARY: Low-Cost Backup Solution
Message-ID: <1995Jan15.184949.14397@dirigiste.com>
Sender: aaron@dirigiste.com (Aaron Herskowitz)
Organization: dirigiste Investment Management Co.
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 18:49:49 GMT
Summary for "[Q] Low-Cost Backup Solution?" posted to csn.sysadmin on
1/9/95:
I would like to thank the following people for responding to my post:
Arne Christian (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
Ron Peterson (ronp@cs.wisc.edu)
David M. Wood (dmwood@sst.nrel.gov)
Paul Tognato-Haddad (paul@pth.com)
Neil Greene (neil@bMD.com)
Stefan Scheffler (stefan@mms-gmbh.de)
Tom Tuling (tom@relief.com)
Carl Lowenstein (cdl@mpl.UCSD.EDU)
Victor Mark Kalyuzhny (vmk@cadence.com)
Richard King (King_Richard@pcp.ca)
In general there are a lot of choices out there and I need to
familiarize myself with current tape drive technology and evaluate my
needs before I make a purchase. I just got the latest copy of Byte
Magazine yesterday and in their "Coming Next Month" section they listed
a review of 47 tape drives, so I am going to wait it out until then to
make a decision.
Here is a quick run-down of what I got out of the replies to my post:
1. Bernoulli disks are too expensive for the storage you get.
2. WangDAT drives were mentioned as something to stay away from.
3. SafetyNet was suggested for backup software.
Suggested Drives (in no particular order):
1. HP SetStore 2000i (~ $1025)
2. HP 35470 and 35480 (1.8 GB)
3. Archive Python DAT (2 GB, ~$900) [suggested by 2 NS users]
4. Archive Viper 150 (250 megs on a DC5250 @ 6megs/min)
5. Archive 4540 DAT (2 GB)
6. Exabyte 8200
[original post]
I am looking for a low-cost removable media solution for performing
backups. I am used to DAT drives, but don't want to spend $2000 on a
2.5 GIG tape drive. I currently have 1 GIG of disk space and don't need
a backup to fit on one "tape".
I am running NS 3.2 (soon to be 3.3) on a NS Turbo.
Are Bernoulli drives a good alternative?
Please e-mail suggestions/comments/experiences and I will post a
summary.
Thanks,
Aaron
--
Aaron Herskowitz, Director of Management Information Systems
dirigiste Investment Management Co.,Cleveland, Ohio
aaron@dirigiste.com [NeXTmail & MIME Welcomed]
Voice: 216-573-0900, Fax: 216-573-1430
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: smail on Black
Message-ID: <790248993.3@cs.york.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 1995 09:36:33 GMT
References: <9501151926.AA01382@expresso.mendota.com>
"Louis R. Eagle" <lre@mendota.com> writes:
> Any gotchas or words of wisdom I should know about building and
> installing it?
Not under 3.3., no - but it compiles and works fine under 3.0. You
neet to use the next2.0 stuff. I didn't use the netinfo aliases stuff.
Here are the diffs between my EDITME file and the file as distributed.
$ diff EDITME-dist EDITME
173c173
< #OS_TYPE=next2.0 # NeXT NeXTstep 2.x (and 3.x)
---
> OS_TYPE=next2.0 # NeXT NeXTstep 2.x (and 3.x)
247c247
< #DRIVER_CONFIGURATION=arpa-network # include bind router
---
> DRIVER_CONFIGURATION=arpa-network # include bind router
451a452
> HAVE=BIND
715a717
> SMAIL_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/smail/bin
741c743
< #SMAIL_NAME=/usr/lib/sendmail # common convention
---
> SMAIL_NAME=/usr/lib/sendmail # common convention
790c792,793
< LIB_DIR=/usr/lib/smail # common convention
---
> LIB_DIR=/usr/local/smail/lib
> #LIB_DIR=/usr/lib/smail # common convention
792d794
< #LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib/smail
806c808,809
< UTIL_BIN_DIR=$LIB_DIR # common, same as LIB_DIR
---
> UTIL_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/smail/util
> #UTIL_BIN_DIR=$LIB_DIR # common, same as LIB_DIR
853,854c856,857
< SECOND_CONFIG_FILE= # common for non-NFS systems
< #SECOND_CONFIG_FILE=/private/usr/lib/smail # convention for NFS systems
---
> #SECOND_CONFIG_FILE= # common for non-NFS systems
> SECOND_CONFIG_FILE=/private/usr/lib/smail # convention for NFS systems
908c911
< ALIASES_FILE=/usr/lib/aliases # compatible with sendmail
---
> #ALIASES_FILE=/usr/lib/aliases # compatible with sendmail
910c913
< #ALIASES_FILE=aliases # for file under LIB_DIR
---
> ALIASES_FILE=aliases # for file under LIB_DIR
914,915c917,918
< #ALIASES_TYPE=dbm # compatible with sendmail
< ALIASES_TYPE=lsearch # for sites without dbm(3x)
---
> ALIASES_TYPE=dbm # compatible with sendmail
> #ALIASES_TYPE=lsearch # for sites without dbm(3x)
Hope this helps...
-pete french.
From: rene@rkt.prz.tu-berlin.de (Rene' Kulschewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: smail on Black
Date: 16 Jan 1995 11:29:39 +0100
Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin
Message-ID: <3fdhqj$ka4@rkt.prz.tu-berlin.de>
References: <9501151926.AA01382@expresso.mendota.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Louis R. Eagle (lre@mendota.com) wrote:
: Anyone have any reasons why I should not switch to smail under NS
: 3.3 on Black?
: Any gotchas or words of wisdom I should know about building and
: installing it?
Works like a champ.
I had no problems building/installing it.
Regards
Rene'
--
____________________________________________________________________________
<rene@prz.tu-berlin.de> Rene' Kulschewski <rene@rkt.in-berlin.de>
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@TU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.com.sys.next,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT FAQ
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 14:13:33 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950116140134.26082A-100000@hphalle2d.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
No, this isn't a new NeXT FAQ!
BUT: I'm currently recompiling the old FAQs and inserting new stuff to
compile a new FAQ. I am pretty sure that I can't maintain such a big work
very long, so I need _YOU!_
The current status of the FAQ: ready to post, waiting for registration of
news.answer. Includes only old stuff but rewritten in texinfo so there
are .dvi .ps and .html files available.
I need YOU for helping me with:
- sending me submissions you want to be included in a FAQ. (I just
can't read all the articles in all newsgroups...)
- collection news and writing articles about NeXT hardware specific
topics (comp.sys.next.hardware newsgroup)
- collecting news and writing articles about NeXT/UNIX specific topics
(comp.sys.next.sysadmin newsgroup)
- collecting news and writing articles about NeXT software specific
topics (comp.sys.next.software newsgroup)
- re-reading my prepared articles (I'm German and do _lots_ of mistakes
when writing in English)
Hopefully at least two people are willing to help me, because I'm only a
student and just don't have the time to hang around with FAQ work, also
I'll do me best.
Greetings, Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
From: tpg@trillian.hps.com (Terry Gliedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fixed/Var tape drive on 3.2
Date: 15 Jan 1995 14:43:57 GMT
Organization: HomePage Services, Commercial Services on the Internet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fbcbd$eha@cedar.mr.net>
I was able to backup my 3.1 files on my Wangtek SCSI tape drive by
finding "setmtd" in the scsitools package (sets the drive in the
correct mode). Then I did a scratch install of 3.2 (no Developer)
and now when I try to use the same tape drive I get "I/O error".
Again I am using the same setmtd program. So I think there is
something different about SCSI tape drives between 3.2 and 3.1.
I looked all through the stuff NeXT provides and did a more
casual search at ftp.cs.orst.edu. So what's the secret?
Thanks in advance.
--
===================================================================
Terry Gliedt tpg@hps.com tpg@mr.net MIME OK 507/356-4710
HomePage Services http://www.hps.com
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Errata: NeXT FAQ
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:22:09 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950116170435.8628K-100000@hphalle10d.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
1) EXCUSE ME:
I misconfigured PINE wrong, therefore the FROM: line contains garbage.
To contact me, write to
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Anyway I fixed the bug and everything should work fine now.
2) People who want to help, should include a subject line like:
FAQ: helping on <(de.)comp.sys.next.*>
I would like to have people watching one newsgroup carefully for FAQ
related topics. Currently I'm watching _all_ newsgroups on the fly :-)
3) People who want to send submissions to the FAQ should include a
subject line like:
FAQ: submission
4) I'm planing an e-mail service. People who like to get the FAQ by e-mail
should e-mail me with the following subject line:
FAQ: subscribe
I'm not sure wether I can convince my system administrator so maybe
this service might get canned :(
5) The FAQ is going to be posted _monthly_. A biweekly change log is under
construction. The first FAQ will be posted as fast as news.answers has
registrated the NeXT FAQ. Therefore the first time a FAQ will be posted
regularly might become the 01.03.1995. I'll hope to post a pre-release
in February.
Sorry for the trouble and
thanks to the people who helped/are going to help me,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: jlc@trax.cb.att.com (John L. Chmielewski)
Subject: Re: PPP Problem (NEXTSTEP to NEXTSTEP Only)
Message-ID: <D2I88p.B9s@nntpa.cb.att.com>
Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration)
Organization: AT&T Maitland, Florida
References: <D2E7AG.1Gy@tor.hookup.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 15:26:49 GMT
In article <D2E7AG.1Gy@tor.hookup.net>,
Damon F. Cooper <damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net> wrote:
>I'm having trouble getting PPP up between 2 NEXTSTEP (Intel) machines...
>
>Note that connecting from PPP 2.2 NEXTSTEP to an Internet provider with
>terminal servers and Morningstar PPP __WORKS *GREAT*__.
>
>It's between two machines running PPP 2.2 NEXTSTEP I have the problem. I
>have received several notes from other people experiencing the same...
>
>Has anybody tried this? Does your "ppp.remote" script look like the one
>below?
>
>I get connected, and communication is definitely coming across the line
>(see debug log of "calling" machine below), but the PPP link fails and I
>get some messages in the /usr/adm/messages file that indicate that both
>sides are unable to "see" the other over the link...
>
>The configuration on the remote (calling) machine works fine when calling
>an Internet provider but calling another NS machine running the same
>PPP-2.2 fails....
>
>Have you been able to do this, and would you mind forwarding your
>"ppp.remote" script?
>
>Thanks in advance!!
>
>Damon F. Cooper
>damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
>
>
>======================
>
>CONFIG:
>
>============================
>- "ppp.remote" script on local (answering) machine (triggered by use as
>login script for user "ppp"):
>
>#!/bin/csh
>echo Starting PPP
>/usr/bin/mesg n
>/bin/stty -tostop litout
>exec /usr/local/bin/pppd local kdebug 17 debug defaultroute bsdcomp 10,10
>\
>lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 5 19200
>
>=============================
>
>- "pppup" script on remote (calling) machine:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>exec /usr/local/bin/pppd bsdcomp 10,10 lcp-echo-interval 15 \
>lcp-echo-failure 5 -crtscts defaultroute kdebug 17 debug modem -pap -chap
>\
>connect '/usr/local/bin/chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO
>DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" "AT" "OK" ATL1M0DT8648062 TIMEOUT 120 CONNECT
>"" ogin: ppp assword: ppp PPP' \
>/dev/cufb 19200 lock
>
>=============================
I run PPP 2.2 between two systems with NEXTSTEP/FIP, and experienced
the same problems that Damon describes. I was able to eliminate the
them by removing the two echo commands from the pppd script.
Remove the following from your script:
lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 5
and it should work. On my systems, with the echo commands in the scripts,
the ppp link would start 1 out of 3/4 times. Without the echo commands in
the script, ppp starts up every time.
John L. Chmielewski
jlc@attmail.com
From: afm@math.ethz.ch (Andreas F. Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mux Driver and NS3.3
Date: 16 Jan 1995 16:56:31 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <3fe8fv$fug@elna.ethz.ch>
Hello everyone,
I have successfully upgraded a NS3.2/Intel system to 3.2, but I have
run into a small problem: the Mux driver is installed correctly, and
I can use it to dial out (something I'm doing right now...), but when
someone dials into my machine, it hangs the machine completely. Only
a hardware reset seems to help. Does anyone know what is the real problem
and who to fix it? Thanks for any suggestions and have a nice day
Andreas
-------------------------------------------------------------
Dr Andreas Mueller <afm@othello.ch>
Bubental 53 Voice: +41 55 637125, Fax: +41 55 637126
CH-8852 Altendorf, Switzerland
-------------------------------------------------------------
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Do you want SoftPC 4.0 (i386 ) for m68k/HP NEXTSTEP? (final post)
Date: 16 Jan 1995 17:21:01 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3fe9tt$5fp@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: SoftPC,i386,m68k/HP
Last week I wrote:
: Hello all,
: I am compiling a list of users of SoftPC for m68k (and HP)
: hardware running NEXTSTEP who want to be able to run SoftPC 4.0
(protected
: mode). Insignia says that the market is a dead-end for black and too
: young for HP. So I want to see if there are enough of us out here that
may
: give Insignia a reason to make the port. They are working on protected
: mode for the other Unix OS's and Mac and it should not be to hard to get
: it moved from white NS to black NS (and HP). Please email me your name
: organization and upper bound for price that you will consider for the
: product and the number of licenses you need. I will forward this info
to
: the marketing manager here in the US. If you are behind some kind of
: firewall please find some way to get the info to me. I think it is best
: not to flood the News with this so send the info to me. I will respect
: everybody's privacy. I will send the list to Insignia in two weeks.
: Alan
I am refreshing the thread. I stand corrected on the terminology,
protected mode is i286 class, I meant i386 class emulation. Anyway, at
the end of this week I will forward the list to Insiginia. At present, I
estimate about 100 copies of m68k are desired and 5 HP versions (not much
of an incentive for Insignia so far!). PS tell a friend or a reseller
that might get request for these apps.
Alan
From: ragnar@ismennt.is (Gudmundur Ragnar Gudmundsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ISO 8859/1
Date: 16 Jan 1995 17:44:28 -0000
Organization: Islenska menntanetid
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3feb9s$ihg@rvik.ismennt.is>
Summary: I would like to change ASCII table
Keywords: Characters ISO 8859
Hello from Iceland
In Iceland we use the ISO 8859/1 code table for maping
letters of our language. The ASCII table of the Next does
have the letters we use but not the same byte codes.
So I would like to change the ASCII table.
Can I do this?
Regards
ragnar@ismennt.is
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multicast support anyone? NeXT?
Date: 16 Jan 1995 20:49:25 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fem4l$7b@filtronix.eunet.be>
In article <3fboo9$j0i@usenet.rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A.
Drosehn) writes:
> NeXTSTEP developers who are interested in Multicast support might
> want to check into NeXTanswers numbers 1702 and 1703. These are
> in directory NeXTanswers/Patches/IPMultcastHeaderPatch_3.3pr2,
> if you're roaming around the NeXTanswers heirarchy.
I know, but my MBONE-related project is not until I have full InterNet
access through ISDN for which I will first need to finish my driver for
ZyXEL's 'Parallel Port Interface' for their 2864I.
Filip
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILTRONIX
A programmer's think-tank - info@filtronix.eunet.be (NeXTmail OK!)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: allen@atienmh.sph.jhu.edu (Allen Y. Tien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: worrisome console message
Date: 16 Jan 1995 22:14:15 GMT
Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Message-ID: <3fer3n$348@jhunix1.hcf.jhu.edu>
I have been getting the below messages on the console.
This seemed to be related to socket functions, and was persent when
running GatorFTp and NewsGrazer. How bad is this? Should I get a service
contract on the NeXTStation?
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110
Thanks,
Allen Tien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Tunnelling to Localtalk networks
Message-ID: <D2InJM.M1n@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 20:57:21 GMT
Greetings all:
Anyone know of any utilities to "tunnel through" to
localtalk/appletalk networks? I'd like to be able to see mac printers and
filesystems that are hanging from the tcp/ip network.
Mario
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: neekibo@precipice.fdn.org (Hugues RICHARD)
Subject: Re: NeXTstep and Linux file systems
Message-ID: <1995Jan16.200815.310@precipice.fdn.fr>
Sender: neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - Dijon, France.
References: <D2F1nC.GIw@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 20:08:15 GMT
In article <D2F1nC.GIw@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) writes:
>
> As a workaround to the 8.3 DOS filename problem, I just use tar. That
> way, I have to make my tar filename 8.3 compliant but don't have to
> worry about filenames within the tar archive.
Just tar to the device (/dev/rfd0b) instead of tar ing onto a FileSystem and
all your limitation will disappear... And you'll really get 1440Kb onto your
floppy (not even 1 byte less ;-).
Hugues.
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK)
------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: csh broken for glob/eval?
Date: 17 Jan 1995 00:46:28 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ff414$grr@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I don't understand:
# set echo
# eval `tset -Q -s`
eval `tset -Q -s`
tset -Q -s
set noglob
setenv TERM vt100
setenv TERMCAP
d0|vt100|vt100-am|vt100am:do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED:le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m:md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:is=\E[1;24r:rf=/usr/lib/tabset/vt100:rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=2*\EM:vt#3:xn:sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:
unset noglob
# eval `tset -Q -s`
eval `tset -Q -s`
tset -Q -s
set noglob
setenv TERM vt100
setenv TERMCAP unset noglob
setenv: Too many arguments.
#
Apparently it works only if I set noglob before doing the tset, even
though the tset issues a set noglob.
Explanations?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: kuper@glue.umd.edu (William Kupersanin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: talk on 3.2 cube
Date: 17 Jan 1995 00:46:51 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <3ff41r$ig8@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
I've just upgraded my cube to NeXTStep 3.2 and I'm having problems
with talk. When I try to talk to someone either on or off of the
machine, here is what I get......
[Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)]
Nibindd and portmap, are running happily. (If they even make a
difference here.) Name resolution is being done. And other networking
applications seem to be fine. Can somebody point me in the right
direction?
--Willie
From: jtodd@ss1.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using mail over ppp and an internet provider
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 17 Jan 1995 02:08:53 GMT
Organization: Digital Express
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ff8rl$e8r@news1.digex.net>
References: <1995Jan16.021739.6238@iitmax.iit.edu>
All that I had to do on my machine was alter /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf so
that two lines were different than what I had as my 3.3 distribution:
# major relay host
DRmail1.digex.net
CRmai1.digex.net
That's it. Make sure you are pointing at the proper machine;
mail1.digex.net is the machine on our network that spools mail when
connections are down. To find out what machine your MX box is, try using
nslookup. (Instructions: type "nslookup", type "set qt=mx", type your fully
qualified machine name, eg "foo.bar.com" - nslookup will then spit back a
bunch of machines. The lowest numbered preference machine upstream is the
one that you should point to.)
JT
Chris Conley (thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu) wrote:
: Hello world,
: I have an account with an internet provider. I have the name of their
: news server. I am running ppp on my home machine which is a standalone.
: I have gotten other internet programs to work such as Omniweb (Yeah!),
: gatorFTP, etc..
: Now I am trying to get mail to work. I would like to be able to use
: Mail.app for sending and receiveing mail.
: Can you give me any pointers on the main changes that I have to make?
: Do I have to muck with sendmail? sendmail.cf?
: Where do I insert the name of my provider's mail server (SMTP)?
: Thanks for any initial pointers.
: Chris Conley
: cconley@mcs.com
--
John Todd - Field Sales/Technical Entropy Supervisor - jtodd@digex.net
Digital Express Internet Providers - 1-800-969-9090 x307 = sales info
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help needed to send and receive mail
Date: 17 Jan 1995 02:28:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Message-ID: <3ff9vp$ekq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <3f7qof$1vj@clarknet.clark.net>
JIM KOCH (jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu) wrote:
: My next will send but not receive mail I'm on the net at a university.
: Any ideas??
If your routing information is ok and you still cannot receive mail, your
campus mail server may be redirecting all mail to your domain to a central
mail server. Thus, mail sent directly to your machine will never get
there. Also, sending mail to an account on your NeXT that is not
"registered" with the central mail server will bounce with an unknown user
error.
--
Alvin Jee
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
Using the Internet since 1984
From: cs@kau1.kodak.com (Craig Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System keeps crashing --HELP!
Date: 17 Jan 1995 15:21:52 +1100
Organization: Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <3ffgl0$cdm@bud.kau2.kodak.com>
References: <3euq5r$bss@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Colin Allen <callen@spot.colorado.edu> writes:
>I have been getting a series of workspace manager crashes and kernel
>panics. I have reinstalled the entire OS from CD-ROM, and the problem
>persists. The WM crashes leave DPS error messages in
>/private/adm/messages, usually of the "Error writing to device"
>category. After a WM crash it is sometimes impossible to login
>without rebooting first. The kernel panics involve instuction
>exceptions. Could this be a hardware problem?
>These problems started yesterday afternoon. Prior to this the system
>had been stable for 4 months.
>System details: Pentium 66Mhz/Premiere PCI Motherboard; IBM 1 Gig SCSI
>Disk; TEAC CD-ROM; 16 MB RAM; Diamond Stealth 64; NEXTSTEP 3.2.
I have been experiencing similar problems on and off for the last 6-8
months with both 3.1 and 3.2 installations. I believe that the problems
are related to race conditions on the motherboard backplane, although
all I have to support this is suspicion.
I have worked around the problem by reducing the speed of the machine,
through the CMOS parameters. Try increasing the wait states on memory,
disabling write through caching, decreasing the bus speed, whatever
else your board allows, and then enable them again as the system becomes
more stable.
This is a proverbial pain, and I welcome any other suggestions myself.
Just for curiosity: what SCSI card do you have? I use an Adaptec 1542C,
and I suspect this beastie to be the culprit.
--
========================================================================
Craig Smith (61 3) 353 2471 cs@kau1.kodak.com
Office Imaging Division Kodak (Australia) Pty Ltd
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to setup an anonymous ftp
Date: 17 Jan 1995 06:54:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu>
This must be a FAQ. But could you point to me where I can find
instructions to
set up an anonymous ftp site?
Thank you.
--
Feng Liu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-824-3105 Fax: 714-824-8585
From: hbarker@rhiannon.dsms.sanmateo.ca.us (harold barker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uname on NEXTSTEP
Date: 14 Jan 1995 21:22:59 GMT
Organization: Dark Side of the Moon SoftWare
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3f9fbj$htt@tusk.dsms.sanmateo.ca.us>
References: <3es5r0$4la@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Here is my take on uname, it is not SYS V or BSD, but a little of both.
----------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# uname for a next machine only tested on black hardware
# History:
#$Log: uname.next,v $
# Revision 1.6 1994/10/15 03:58:49 hbarker
# Made -v -r work like a sun, -v only returns the minor number and -r
does both
#
# Revision 1.5 1994/10/05 05:27:27 hbarker
# Synced version numbers to 1.5
#
# Revision 1.4 1994/10/05 05:24:57 hbarker
# Install updated to /Tools/rdist for dsm
# Uname: fixed bug in output that put spaces befor or after a word.
#
# Revision 1.3 1994/08/28 00:56:28 hbarker
# added rcs header info
#
#
# 94.01.01 hbarker created.
# 94.02.12 hbarker 1.0.1 Added syslog
#
$DEBUG = 0;
$SysLog = 1;
$Version = "1.6"; # Current version of this program.
require "getopts.pl";
if( $SysLog != 0 ) {
eval 'require "syslog.pl"';
if( $@ ) {
if( $DEBUG) {
print STDERR "[$@]\n";
}
$SysLog = 0;
} else {
&openlog($0,'pid','user');
if( $@ ) {
if( $DEBUG) {
print STDERR "[$@]\n";
}
$SysLog = 0;
}
}
}
# The commands that we will run to gather information about this host
$ArchCommand = "/usr/bin/arch";
$HostIdCommand = "/bin/hostid";
$HostInfoCommand = "/usr/bin/hostinfo";
$HostNameCommand = "/bin/hostname";
# Set the default values
$BoardRev = "unknown";
$HostId = "unknown";
$HostName = "unknown";
$OS = "NeXTStep"; # This may clash with the uname(2) from
NeXT but i can not get it to compile to test.
$OSRelease = "unknown";
$OSVersion = "unknown";
$ProcessorSpeed = "unknown";
$ProcessorType = "unknown";
$SystemType = "unknown";
$NumArgs = scalar(@ARGV); # Get the number of command line args
before Getopt torks it.
&Getopts( 'ahimnsrv' ); # Process command line args
# If help is requested, do it.
if ( $opt_h ) {
&usage; # Will never return
}
# If nothing on the command line do the default
if( $NumArgs == 0 ) {
$opt_s = 1; # Do the default thing.
}
# To print all information we need to force the command line args.
if( $opt_a ){
$opt_i = 1;
$opt_m = 1;
$opt_n = 1;
$opt_s = 1;
$opt_r = 1;
$opt_v = 1;
} # end -a command
$HostId = `$HostIdCommand`; # Run hostid command and retain the
output
chop($HostId); # Remove the trailing new line
$HostName = `$HostNameCommand`; # Get the hostname for this machine
chop($HostName); # Remove the trailing new line
# Get operating system version and CPU type
open(HOSTINFO, "$HostInfoCommand|") || die "$0: can not open
$HostInfoCommand\n";
while (<HOSTINFO>) {
if( /Board revision: (0x[0123456789abcdef]*)/ ) {
$BoardRev = $1;
}
if( /NeXT Mach (\d*)\.(\d*.?): / ) {
$OSRelease = "$1\.$2";
$OSVersion = $2;
}
if( /Processor speed: (\d\d)/ ) {
$ProcessorSpeed = $1;
}
if( /Processor type: (.*) \((\d*)\)/ ) {
$ProcessorType = $2;
}
if( /System type: (\d)/ ) {
$SystemType = $1;
}
} # end of while input from HOSTINFO
close(HOSTINFO);
# Make a list to be printed
if( $opt_s ) {
push( @junk, $OS);
}
if( $opt_n ) {
push(@junk, $HostName);
}
if( $opt_r ) {
push( @junk, $OSRelease);
}
if( $opt_v ) {
push( @junk, $OSVersion);
}
if( $opt_i ) {
push( @junk, $HostId);
}
if( $opt_m ) {
push( @junk, "$SystemType.$BoardRev/$ProcessorType.$ProcessorSpeed" );
}
# Display the requested information
print STDOUT join(" ", @junk), "\n";
exit(0); #Exit, return ok
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------
# Print out a nice usage message and terminate with a generial error (1)
sub usage {
print SDTERR "\n";
print STDERR "$0 Version $Version, Maichine Identification.\n";
print STDERR "Usage:", "$0 ", '[-ahimnsrv]', "\n";
print STDERR " -a\n";
print STDERR " Print all information.\n";
print STDERR " -h\n";
print STDERR " This usage message.\n";
print STDERR " -i\n";
print STDERR " Print the host identification number or
system name\n";
print STDERR " -m\n";
print STDERR " Print the machine hardware name.\n";
print STDERR " -n\n";
print STDERR " Print the nodename.\n";
print STDERR " -s (This the default action.)\n";
print STDERR " Print the operating system name.\n";
print STDERR " -r\n";
print STDERR " Print the operating system release.\n";
print STDERR " -v\n";
print STDERR " Print the operating system version.\n";
print STDERR "Notes:\n";
print STDERR " The machine hardware name (-m) is taken from the
output\n";
print STDERR " of the hostinfo command, and can be broken down
as follows.\n";
print STDERR '
"SystemType"".""BoardRev""/""ProcessorType"".""ProcessorSpeed"',"\n";
print SDTERR "\n";
exit( 1 );
} # end of usage
#
# Print a Message someplace
sub emsg {
if( $SysLog != 0 ) {
&syslog('info', "$Version: @_");
} elsif( $DEBUG != 0 ) {
print STDERR "@_\n";
}
} # end of emsg
# End of file uname
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From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: WANTED: Insight 21MB floptical (info/purchase)
Date: 16 Jan 1995 17:57:10 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <3fe8h6$5q6@alf.uib.no>
Hi.
I saw a post recently on c.s.n.m for a cube system, which included what
was described as an Insight 21MB floptical (a la the famous PLI Floptical
vapourware device). I replied to the poster, without getting an answer,
and hope someone here knows where I can get more information about this
product (email, fax, tlf, and/or address).
Any information or expereinces with this unit are also appreciated.
My system: 040 Cube with 16/1.0GB, NS3.3 (3.2 developer).
I sold my Optical a year or two ago hoping to buy a PLI Floptical -
it never made the market and I've been living dangerously without
and means of backup (well, I use a SLIP link for important things)
or file transfer/exchange. If this unit exists and is reasonably
priced I'd like to know where to get one.
As always, please e-mail replies, a summary will be posted if theres
interest.
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 (NeXTmail)
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Errata 2: NeXT FAQ
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 13:02:37 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950117125800.27534C-100000@hphalle9g.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950116170435.8628K-100000@hphalle10d.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950116170435.8628K-100000@hphalle10d.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
I've got a posting/reply by Nathan who was/is the original author of the
NeXT FAQ. I thought he stopped working, but he didn't! (see Re: NeXT FAQ)
Because of his posting I've stopped my work. I suggest all the people who
already replied to me to send their submissions to Nathan. I'll forward
all articles I got already to Nathan.
Sorry for the inconvinience,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: gfd@megatel.de (Olaf Reins)
Subject: NFS trouble after upgrading to NeXTSTEP 3.3
Message-ID: <1995Jan17.091513.10987@megatel.de>
Sender: news@megatel.de
Organization: megatel GmbH, Bremen, Germany
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 09:15:13 GMT
Hi,
I've some trouble with the automounter on a sun sparc (SunOS 4.1.2). It's
started with automount /Net -hosts and works fine as long as the NeXT exporting
a filesystem is running NeXTSTEP 3.2. If it runs 3.3, I've to export the
filesystem with root access for the sun, otherwise it won't be mounted.
Any ideas ?
--
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SMAIL : megatel GmbH Wiener Str. 3 28359 Bremen, Germany
VOICE : x49-421-22095-23 FAX: x49-421-22095-16
From: plongsi@falcon.inetnebr.com (Pohl Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: REQ: PPP installation help
Date: 17 Jan 1995 08:00:29 GMT
Organization: Synergy Communication Inc.
Message-ID: <3fftet$j48@legba.synergy.net>
References: <3f8fgg$kto@legba.synergy.net>
Pohl Longsine (plongsi@falcon.inetnebr.com) wrote:
: I am in the process of installing PPP 2.2 on my Intel-based machine.
: (munch)
: HOSTNAME=in116
: INETADDR=199.184.119.116
: ROUTER=-NO-
: IPNETMASK=
: IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
: NETMASTER=-NO-
: YPDOMAIN=-NO-
: TIME=-NO-
The problem turned out to be specifying my IP address in the /etc/hostconfig
file. (I got some e-mail from Mr. PPP himself saying that I should have
asked him before I went to usenet, as the instructions indicate. Sorry
about that. I would suggest that anybody else who has problems talk to
him instead. His support is quick and friendly.) He suggested using
127.0.0.1 as the IP address, which allowed the machine to boot.
The real IP address can then be set as a parameter to pppd in the pppup
script. I'm still having other problems, apparently because my machine
is a standalone machine, but I'm working them out with the source of the
software.
Thanks to all who responded.
From: buzz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Hard links with NeXTStep
Date: 17 Jan 1995 13:33:36 GMT
Organization: Berlin University of Technology
Distribution: uk
Message-ID: <3fggsj$2t7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk>
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In-reply-to: Stephane Etienne's message of 12 Jan 1995 23:36:17 MET
In article <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk> Stephane Etienne <stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk> writes:
Hello,
Does anybody out there knows how to get rid of Hard links
created with NeXTStep v3.2. I have tried rm(1), rmdir(1), unlink(2),
rmdir(2), remove(3s). None of them worked. The hard link was created
with link(2).
fsck(8) or
clri(8) (but it is not in the normal NeXTdistibution)
Hope this helps
Bastian
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From: silbar@cantina.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How back up DOS partition from NEXTSTEP crontab? SUMMARY; MYSTERY
Date: 17 Jan 1995 08:05:35 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9501171405.AA07265@cantina.lanl.gov>
Greetings,
Back before the end of December I posted (essentially):
> I want to back up my DOS partition to DAT tape,
> preferably automatically with a crontab entry. The
> 'dump' utility will not work, as it complains the DOS
> partition has a "bad magic number". However, 'tar' will
> work, at least manually, by going to a C-shell command
> line and typing (from /)
>
> tar -cf /dev/nrst0 /ms-dos_6 .
>
> (The file system /dev/rsd0h is mounted at /ms-dos_6).
> Putting this in the c-shell script that dumps the NEXTSTEP
> partitions during the cron job each morning, my dumplog says
>
> tar: /ms-dos_6: No such file or directory
>
> This happened even with
>
> /usr/etc/mount /dev/rsd0h /ms-dos_6
>
> in the script.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me on this? Are DOS partitions
> mounted in some funny way?
There were two different suggestions. OKERSON@ndadsb.gsfc.nasa.gov (I
don't know his or her first name) said (also with some editing):
> The answer, in case you *really* wondered, is "Yes."
>
> DOS partitions are usually "auto-mounted". Mounting one
> manually involves using the following formula:
>
> # /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/DOS.util -m /dev/rsd0h /ms-dos_6
> fixed writable
>
> (That's all one long line - neglect the forced carriage
> return above.)
>
> Of course, you could also tar and gzip the DOS disk onto
> your NEXTSTEP disk and then dump that. It might be
> faster.
So, I put that in the script, before the tar statement in place of the
mount statement. And got the same error message the next morning.
In view of what I write below, it is not clear this DOESN'T work, but
by this time I had suggestions from Paul Verket and Bryan Nevis to try
/usr/etc/mount -t dos /dev/rsd0h /ms-dos_6
to do the automount. Since this looks simpler, I've been trying to go
this route. My dump_level0 script presently contains
echo " ***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***" >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
# need to mount the /ms-dos_6 directory
/usr/etc/mount -t dos /dev/rsd0h /ms-dos_6 >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
/usr/bin/sleep 30
/bin/ls -l ms-dos_6 >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
/bin/tar -cf /dev/nrst0 /ms-dos_6 >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
date >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
The "ls -l" is for diagnostic purposes; the "sleep" was put in because
it didn't seem to work the first time and I wondered if the machine
hadn't finished the "mount" before it entered the "tar".
Well, the point of this summary is SOMETIMES IT WORKS, and SOMETIMES
IT DOESN'T. Here is what the dumplog file said up until day before
yesterday:
***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***
mount: /dev/rsd0h on /ms-dos_6: No such device
mount: giving up on:
/ms-dos_6
ms-dos_6 not found
tar: /ms-dos_6: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 15 03:53:07 MST 1995
Then, WITHOUT CHANGING THE SCRIPT IN ANY WAY, the next day it said:
***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***
mount: /dev/rsd0h on /ms-dos_6: Device busy
mount: giving up on:
/ms-dos_6
total 223
drwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 Nov 9 1993 123r23
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 1155 Jan 14 01:25 autoexec.bat
...etc. ending with
Sun Jan 15 07:30:29 MST 1995
That is, no error message. Repositioning the tape and doing a "tar -tf"
shows that the tar was successful.
This morning I again had a successful tar of /ms-dos_6, again without
changing the script. Since I promised Paul to post a summary when I had
two successful tar-jobs, here it is. Nonetheless, it is a MYSTERY to me
where this sometimes works and sometimes does.
Dick Silbar
From: drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to setup an anonymous ftp
Date: 17 Jan 1995 15:18:26 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3fgn42$8jo@mordred.gatech.edu>
References: <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu>
Feng Liu (fliu@uci.edu) wrote:
: This must be a FAQ. But could you point to me where I can find
: instructions to
: set up an anonymous ftp site?
Do a man on 'ftpd'.. The instructions are in the man pages.
: Thank you.
: --
: Feng Liu
: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
: University of California, Irvine
: Irvine, CA 92717
: phone: 714-824-3105 Fax: 714-824-8585
--
Dave Rinker
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
CSX Transportation. Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Internet: gt2780a@prism.gatech.edu -- NeXT Mail welcome
From: msander@bnr.ca (Michael Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dial-in problems on mono-turbo slab
Date: 17 Jan 1995 17:52:25 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MSANDER.95Jan17125225@bcarh85b.bnr.ca>
It's been a long time since I've tried/needed to dial into my slab. Now
that I need to again, I find it doesn't work. I upgraded to NS3.2 about
a year ago, but for the life of me I can't remember whether I tried dial-in
since then or not. One things for certain though, it _used_ to work!
My setup is: Mono Turbo Slab and a Microcom 14k4 modem on cufb and a 1200
baud Hayes compatible on cufa. Does someone have an 'idiots guide to
making their slab accept dial ins'? I read and made all of the settings
that the man pages suggest but so far no luck.
Here's a sample of the output I get from a dial-up attempt.
CONNECT 9600/REL - MNP
xþxxþxxxxxxþxxþxøxxàøxøxøxxàxàxxxxxþxxþxþxxþxøxxxxxþxàxøxþøxþxxþxàøxàø
This garbage continues as long as I stay connected. Arghh!
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also if I need to provide more info
let me know.
-Michael
--
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ISDN Data Services (613) 765-3715
Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Ottawa, Canada
"These opinions are mine ... which is good 'cause no one else wants 'em"
From: iggjacob@sgi15 (Jacob Nielsen (c898594))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ISO 8859/1
Date: 17 Jan 1995 17:28:26 GMT
Organization: DTU
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fgunq$2dr@unidhp.uni-c.dk>
References: <3feb9s$ihg@rvik.ismennt.is>
You could change the character table (Emacs for NEXTSTEP can do it)
but why ? I guess you have text in ISO 8859/1 and want to read it on
your NEXTSTEP machine or exchange text between your NEXTSTEP machine
and some other thing, right? Get 'recode', a UNIX program that can
translate between almost any characterset. (yes, NEXTSTEP is included)
The source for 'recode' is available at a GNU site near you (for
Iceland, I guess this is a good one: ftp.denet.dk)
Gudmundur Ragnar Gudmundsson (ragnar@ismennt.is) wrote:
: Hello from Iceland
: In Iceland we use the ISO 8859/1 code table for maping
: letters of our language. The ASCII table of the Next does
: have the letters we use but not the same byte codes.
: So I would like to change the ASCII table.
: Can I do this?
: Regards
: ragnar@ismennt.is
Regards,
Jacob
--
Jacob Nielsen
iggjacob@bbar.dtu.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Survey: How stable is your NS 3.3/m68k environment?
Message-ID: <D2KF68.2HI@rna.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 19:51:44 GMT
I'd like people to answer this questionnaire. Stability is defined as no
freezes or panics.
I'll post results in a week or two.
================================================
My NS 3.3/m68k system is:
rock solid
pretty stable
pretty unstable
very unstable
(choose one)
Remarks:
(Like in case of troubles, what your system
is like and what software you use, so that we can
look for things that troublesome systems have in
common
================================================
---
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.
Coordinator NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Groups International
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to setup an anonymous ftp
Date: 17 Jan 1995 19:54:02 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fh78q$niu@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu>
In article <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes:
> This must be a FAQ. But could you point to me where I can find
> instructions to
> set up an anonymous ftp site?
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Francisco State University
Lines: 56
In article <1991Jul16.221827.28207@news.media.mit.edu>
adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes:
>How can you configure your NeXT to accept anonymous FTP logins?
Create a user called "ftp" (*not* "anonymous"); the easiest
way to do this is from the command line:
echo "ftp:*:9:-2:Anonymous FTP:/ftp:/bin/false"|niload passwd .
(yes, you can specify a different NetInfo domain, it doesn't
have to be the local one)
Create a home directory--the name doesn't matter. If you
have a 2-partition system, it's probably a good idea to
create it on /clients. This directory should be owned by
root (not ftp).
Create the following directories:
~ftp/bin
~ftp/etc
~ftp/etc/zoneinfo
These should all be owned by root, and protected 555.
On 2.x systems:
# cp -p /bin/ls ~ftp/bin
If you're still running 1.0/1.0a, retrieve pub/NeXT-ls.tar.Z
by anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230]--NeXT's
version won't work on 1.x systems.
# cp -p /etc/zoneinfo/localtime ~ftp/etc/zoneinfo
ls needs this to display times properly.
You may wish to create a ~ftp/.hidden file and/or a ~ftp/.forward
file.
Create other subdirectories as needed. I don't recommend
making ~ftp world-writeable!
>Is it possible to allow, say, only 10 anonymous users FTP'ing at once?
This takes more effort (you'd have to modify ftpd to keep track
of the number of anonymous logins). 4.3-reno's ftpd adapted for
NeXT 1.0/1.0a/2.0/2.1 is available from sutro.sfsu.edu as
pub/ftpd-src.tar.Z
Deciding which criteria to base restrictions on is a more
difficult exercise. Limiting the number of concurrent FTP
sessions is probably only a win if there's a very narrow IP pipe
between you and the outside world; I doubt it would provide any
significant conservation of machine resources.
-=EPS=-
---
Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics
fax: 313-764-2364 Univ of Michigan
http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
From: sac52716@saclink1.csus.edu (John K. Estrada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: x-windows
Date: 17 Jan 1995 20:22:54 GMT
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Message-ID: <3fh8uu$jla@news.csus.edu>
From: sac52716@saclink1.csus.edu (John K. Estrada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: x-windows
Date: 17 Jan 1995 20:43:34 GMT
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Message-ID: <3fha5m$jla@news.csus.edu>
References: <3fh8uu$jla@news.csus.edu>
the students at are school have access to a next computer that
has been abandoned. no person acts as a system administrator anymore. i
probably can get access to passwords for superuser status from previous
persons. what i would like to do is get an x-windows system going to
teach others the basics of using x-windows and unix in general. any help
would be useful, even telling me to hunt down another system's
administrator. but i would like to know what the lay person could do to
accomplish my goals. sorry for the first blank post.
john estrada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer)
Subject: IBM drives incompatible with Nextstations?
Message-ID: <1995Jan18.013410.6540@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
Organization: The University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 01:34:10 GMT
I ordered a new 540mb hard disk to replace the 239mb Seagate currently
in my Nextstation. It came Macintosh formatted, and the Next has no
problems reading the Mac file system, but when it comes time to try to
build a system on the disk, there's nothing but a stream of write errors.
Eike "eike@ilink.de" Dierks gave his experiences with what is apparently
a similar drive in comp.sys.next.hardware:
>I have trouble connecting a IBM 0664 M1H 2 giga byte hard disk to a
>NeXTCube. When I try to install a filesystem I get:
>
>sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 1
>[...]
>sd3: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 9
>sd3: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
Mine is model DSAS 3540 and is 540mb (and at /dev/sd1), but otherwise gives
exactly the same errors. Is there hope for my drive, or is my only choice
to return the thing and try to find a Quantum instead?
Eric
enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: How to setup an anonymous ftp
Message-ID: <1995Jan17.152206.24451@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 15:22:06 GMT
Feng Liu writes
> This must be a FAQ. But could you point to me where I can find
> instructions to set up an anonymous ftp site?
It's really much easier than one would expect. Everything you need is in
the man page for ftpd--check it out.
Denise
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Swiss Bank Corporation | to banging one's head against a wall,
Chicago, IL | but with fewer opportunities for
(312) 554-6298 | reward.
From: root@borg.paradigm-shift.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with mail...
Date: 18 Jan 1995 05:06:21 GMT
Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina
Message-ID: <3fi7kd$ino@redstone.interpath.net>
I have always stated, I am not a programmer.
I have gotten my SLIP connection up, I can only receive mail, I cannot
send...REMEMBERING that I am not a programmer, anybody have an explainable
solution to what I am experiencing?
Dave
either dave@borg.paradigm-shift.com or paradigm@mercury.interpath.net.
From: delisle!mikel (Michael Lemire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mux Driver
Date: 17 Jan 1995 14:31:57 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Regional Network
Message-ID: <3fgkct$gqi@cedar.mr.net>
Keywords: Mux Driver
Can anybody point me in the direction of a compiled version of the Mux
driver? I am running on Next Intel 3.3 and have 2 serial ports.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: Can't load help files anymore !!!
Message-ID: <D2IBt3.1A8@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 16:43:51 GMT
Hi,
On many applications, whenever I click on Info->Help, a panel pops out
telling me : "TIFFany2 must be linked to libIndexing in order to load
help" (in TIFFany's case, of course).
Now, I don't know what that libIndexing is and it never bothered me before
I upgraded to NS 3.3. Since then, I can't load help files from many apps
because of that problem.
Could anyone help and tell me how to link my apps to libIndexing ? Don't
forget to tell me WHAT to link to libIndexing and how to do that.
Thanks a lot
---
Dr. Jacques GARBI
TOUGA MANAGEMENT Ltd.
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone/Fax : 011 41 21 648 44 07
NeXTMail : jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
From: rbz@metronet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP Setup
Date: 18 Jan 1995 14:48:15 GMT
Organization: Texas Metronet, Inc 214/705-2901, login info
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sefcsik@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Bela Sefcsik) wrote:
>I am trying to set up a UUCP connection, between my Intel NeXTSTEP and the
>school computer. I set up the necessary files L.sys and L.devices, according
>to the instructions that came with NeXTSTEP in the Admin library.
>However, when I try uupoll, the remote host name is not recognized.
>Is there something else I need to modify, or maybe there is a conflict between
>UUCP and the system setup I have for PPP?
When you type uuname, what do you get back? These are the valid names that
UUCP recognizes. They will be the names in L.sys.
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From: idscoord@sw.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Error occurred while linking driver DPT2012
Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:03:01 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fjaj5$o2n@transfer.stratus.com>
Keywords: Nextstep3.2
NeXTStep3.2 on 486/66:
I believe there is a bug in the DPT driver (see below); it seemingly has
crashed my kernel and disk.
Apparently there is a fixed driver from ftp.next.com. In what directory?
Please tell me how to install.
Thanks in advance,
--Brian
brianw@isis.com
508-490-6540
..had a message like "kernel error: type c to continue or r to
reboot"
This is about the third time in a week this message has appeared.
I typed r, and now I cannot boot this PC in NeXTStep3.2 nor in DOS.
The errors (at boot time):
"Error occurred while linking driver Floppy:
rld(): Floppy symbol (objc_msgSend)'s n_sect field (0) is greater than the
number of sections in this object ()
Error loading driver Floppy
Reading config: /usr/DEvices/DPT2012.config/Instance0.table
Loading binary for DPT2012
Error occurred while linking driver DPT2012:
rld(): DPT2012 symbol (_objc_msgSend)'s n_sect field (0) is greater than
the
number of sections in this object ()
Error loading driver DPT2012
Errors encountered while starting up the computer.
Pausing 5 seconds...
Starting NEXTSTEP
[...infinite hang...]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: BSD syslog source?
Message-ID: <D2LzoK.1Ln@cfa.org>
Organization: CANS
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 16:02:47 GMT
I need to define some more services and the only code I can find off the
net (Archie) is POSuX and I can get it to compile and run, but it tends to
panic the host every couple days.
Where is a good souce for source I can roll out?
Thanks,
peter
--
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From: russell@math.mtu.edu (Russell Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems with NextStep text object
Date: 18 Jan 1995 16:23:09 GMT
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Message-ID: <3fjf9d$1i3@news.mtu.edu>
I have persistent troubles with an 040 cube running NextStep 3.1. The
built-in text object seems to go flaky; at that point any use of
mouse-based editing in a text field crashes the app. Seems like some sort
of buffer problem: mousedown is OK; mouseup crashes any app.
Anything will crash: login panel, Workspace, any app. Keyboard editing
works fine; that's how I'm writing this. Interestingly, in FrameMaker I
can use mouse-based editing in the main text window (or in any frame with
text in it), but if I edit text in any panel, such as to change a point
size or a paragraph tag name, Frame crashes too.
Perhaps Frame doesn't use the simple text object for its text frames, but
does use it in panels.
Has anyone encountered this, or have any clues? Rebooting does not seem to
fix the problem, though it sometimes goes away.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
From: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TIP and dialout problems at 14.4k
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 16:43:00 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <matthias.3.32.2F1D4514@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I bought a used NeXTstaion '040 this September, and since then have been
trying to get it to dial out at 14.4k because here at OSU all our net
connections in the rooms are through SLIP only. :( I have not been able to
get it to work. I modified the REMOTE file (I think that's the right
file) but have still had problems. TIP dials and when it connects it says
"Bus Error" and stops. It seems as though data is coming through too fast for
the COM PORT or maybe it just exceeds the 9600 baud of the terminal shell. It
will only work properly at 1200 Baud. Needless to say that is unacceptably
slow. Has any one else had this problem? My NeXT books make it sound like it
should be easy to get it to work. Also, is there some package that combines
dialing out and SLIP? I currently have a non-registered version of
SLIPCommander, but I don't quite understand how it's supposed to work. Help
on these issues is much appreciated. Thanks. E-Mail response is preferable.
Karl N. Matthias
Ohio State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dirk@bernard.pfm-mainz.de (Dirk Lembens)
Subject: Do you know any ISDN card for NSfI ?
Organization: PFM News & Mail, Xlink POP Mainz, Germany
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 17:17:38 GMT
Message-ID: <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE>
Keywords: ISDN Intel
Sender: news@news.PFM-Mainz.DE (Owner of the news)
Does anyone know about a ISDN card running under NS for Intel?
Please send all infos to
dirk@bernard.pfm-mainz.de
Thanks!
--Dirk
From: stufduff@albion.unmc.edu (Sean W. Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NSF and Walter Scott
Date: 18 Jan 1995 14:42:45 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Message-ID: <3fj9d5$87d@netserv.unmc.edu>
Keywords: NFS
Last week when Walter Scott flooded we noticed some strange things with NFS and
had to unmount all NFS mounts on one of our systems. If anyone has some ideas
about what could have caused this behavior I'd like to hear 'em.
Sean (I did WHAT?) Duffy
stufduff@albion.unmc.edu
From: ragnar@ismennt.is (Gudmundur Ragnar Gudmundsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ISO 8859/1
Date: 18 Jan 1995 21:59:48 -0000
Organization: Islenska menntanetid
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fk30k$ash@rvik.ismennt.is>
References: <3feb9s$ihg@rvik.ismennt.is> <3fgunq$2dr@unidhp.uni-c.dk>
Thanks for the info but.....
iggjacob@sgi15 (Jacob Nielsen (c898594)) writes:
>You could change the character table (Emacs for NEXTSTEP can do it)
>but why ? I guess you have text in ISO 8859/1 and want to read it on
>your NEXTSTEP machine or exchange text between your NEXTSTEP machine
>and some other thing, right? Get 'recode', a UNIX program that can
>translate between almost any characterset. (yes, NEXTSTEP is included)
It's not just some but all the system I would like to change.
Email, Web pages, Telnet, print, etc. all using ISO 8859/1
(ISO latin 1) on all other UNIX system in Iceland.
I could put some kind of filtering on the Apps and utils
but that is not a good idea I think. I have worked on converting
other systems (non UNIX) for ISO and the only thing to do is
get in and do the changes on the system. Then it is only a matter
of the utils/apps being open for 8 bits.
What do you for example do to use Greek? The Next does not have
it's chars in its ASCII table.
Regards
Gudmundur Ragnar
From: me@blennie.nrl.navy.mil (Ivan the terrible)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer networking
Date: 18 Jan 1995 18:53:02 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Message-ID: <3fjo2e$3rv@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Keywords: printer network
I have a mixed network with two Next machines. The next cube has the
original laser printer on it. The other Next machine is an HP712. How do I
set up the netinfo so that I can send print requests from the HP712 to the
cube? Also if it is possible, how do you set up other UNIX boxes to send
print requests to the cube? The other UNIX boxes are Linux machines.
Ivan
From: Luke J Bennett <lb44+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Networking
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 16:42:18 -0500
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <Yj7Mgu600iUvA6cz4c@andrew.cmu.edu>
Hi all;
I will be buying NeXTstep for intel 3.3 shortly, and I'm wondering
if anyone could tell me if it's possible/how to mount a remote AFS disk
and run some X applications this way. I called NeXT, and they didn't know
(at least the people I talked to didn't.) Any help would be appreciated.
-Luke
From: andcz@sunrise.pg.gda.pl (Andrzej Czy/zewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help NeXTWizards!
Date: 18 Jan 1995 22:23:59 +0100
Organization: Politechnika Gdanska
Message-ID: <3fk0tf$kgm@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
Help me, please, my NeXT Turbo station provides
a server for whole department.
This machine reboots properly, however the login
window does not appeare. The last message is:
reboot completed and the mouse cursor appears.
Do not know what to do. I tried to find corrupted
files in the single user mode, but without success.
Andrzej
Technical University of Gdansk, Poland
e-mail: andrzej@next.elka.pg.gda.pl
:w
.
:w
From: Luke J Bennett <lb44+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Networking
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 16:49:10 -0500
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <Uj7MnK_00iUvI6ckBM@andrew.cmu.edu>
Silly me... would someone mind directing me to the FAQ?
-Luke
From: brent@spontany.rahul.net (Brent J. Krawchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Xnext startup problems
Date: 19 Jan 1995 01:17:40 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fkejk$qhi@hustle.rahul.net>
Hi there,
I'm trying to run Xnext, (using Xfe frontend) and i get the message:
-------------
failed to set default font path
'/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
-------------
the path seems correct (this is where the fonts were installed)
and using Xnext -dp doesn't make any difference.
Anyone run into this problem before?
thanks
-Brent
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From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to setup an anonymous ftp
Date: 18 Jan 1995 22:41:27 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fk5en$r4r@news.iastate.edu>
References: <1995Jan17.152206.24451@il.us.swissbank.com>
Denise Howard writes
> Feng Liu writes
> > This must be a FAQ. But could you point to me where I can find
> > instructions to set up an anonymous ftp site?
>
> It's really much easier than one would expect. Everything you need is
in
> the man page for ftpd--check it out.
>
> Denise
The one additional comment to be made is that if you are going to be
runnin anything "fancy" in terms of your site, then you should go out on
the net and get yourself a good FTP daemon. The WUSTL one is the best,
and installs straightforwardly under NEXTstep.
Hope this Helps --- Tom
--
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-5543
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
From: park@isl (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS (pre) installation questions
Date: 18 Jan 1995 22:37:54 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Message-ID: <3fk582$2kg@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hello Everyone.
I have questions about installing NSFIP.
1) Can I install it on a DOS logical Drive ? To be
more specific, I have a hard disk that has primary
partitions and a extended partition. I use some of
the extended partition for DOS use and reserved some
free space inside the extendded partition for NS.
Can I use it for NS installation ? Or should I designate
the whole extended partition for NEXTSTEP ?
3) Does anybody know if I could use OS/2's bootmanager
to boot NEXTSTEP after installing NS ? If, yes,
would you let me know how I can do this ?
Thank you very much.
--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
From: ACI_INC@news.delphi.com (ACI_INC@DELPHI.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NSFIP with 2 Ether Card Question???
Date: 18 Jan 1995 15:12:30 -0500
Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
Message-ID: <3fjsne$6l3@news2.delphi.com>
I am looking for some info on setting up a NEXTSTEP PC as a router. We
currently have a machine booting with the Intel and SMC Ethernet card.
The system recognizes the 2 ethernet cards. After a boot, netstat -r gives:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 3 1446 lo0
default cno U 0 0 en0
195.195.195 cno U 26 49503 en0
default 0.0.0.0 U 26 0 en1
I changed the IP address for en1 with ifconfig to 195.1.1.20, but
apperently that is not enough since ping cannot send any packages on the
new subnet. Adding a routing enterence for 195.1.1.0 doesn't help either
since by default this enterence is added to en0 and not to en1.
I would appreciate any help in getting this to work!
Karlheinz
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: AFS and 3.3?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 19 Jan 1995 07:30:21 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <3fl4ed$c5m@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hello,
my question is quite simple - is there someone who managed to run 3.3 and
AFS on a black NeXT? If so, please get in touch with me - I kinda need
that. Thanks.
Waiting for a miracle,
- Stan
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| SU Computer Science | Loonquawl. "Is that all |
| Box 2642, Stanford, CA (415) 497 4396 | you've got to show for |
| stanj@cs.stanford.edu | seven and a half |
| NeXTmail / MIME anytime welcome! | million years' work?" |
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From: sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Permissions & Ownership of hd1a - help
Date: 18 Jan 95 22:49:54 EST
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <1995Jan18.224954.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
I'm running 3.3 on an Intel box with two IDE drives and am having a problem
with ownership and rights on the secondary drive. After a fresh boot, the
first user to log in (via the window server) receives total and complete
ownership over the second drive (hd1a). For example, if user 'jsmith' logs in
first, if a 'ls -lag' is done the user and group are 'jsmith nogroup'.
I'd like to set up restrictions on that drive but as soon as a reboot is done,
all settings are lost. Currently, I'm logging in as root first, checking the
restrictions I need, and then logging out.
I've tried to convince the system to mount hd1a as it does hd0a, but all I've
been able to achieve is having hd1a checked by fsck on startup.
How can I have the drive mounted by the system on bootup, just as hd0a is
mounted, so that all permissions, ownerships, etc. are preserved?
Thanks for any help.
Scott Davenport
sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
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From: deniseh@mcs.com (Denise Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fixing your header
Date: 19 Jan 1995 03:58:05 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3fko0e$e4k@News1.mcs.com>
References: <3fkb8i$f44@redstone.interpath.net>
Operator writes
> As you can see, my system is set up (SLIP) and showing only root@borg
> which is the name of my machine...
>
> Is there more than one place to fix this?
Hi Dave--
Are you using NewsGrazer? If so, select its Preferences and pull down the
popup list to Post. You need to fix the "From:" address.
Denise
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From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System shutdown and database integrity?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 12:55:25 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <3flnft$dft@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
We didn't yet have problems with this, but we could have some in the
future :-)
We use to shut down our machines with 'halt' from NMI (NeXTs Mini
Monitor). We have Sybase and Poet DB servers running on one machine. Are
these server daemons shut down gracefully? Or is there a certain danger
that they are killed and leave the database in an inconsistent state?
One more question: If we replace the system command 'halt' with a shell
script that first attempts a soft shutdown of the DB servers, is this
shell script invoked by the NMI command 'halt'?
If you send answers or suggestions by email, I'll post a summary.
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 12:03:45 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Joachim Kainz <jkainz@segi.ulg.ac.be>
Subject: ATI & PAS Produce Unresolvable Port Conflict?
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950119115919.46471A-100000@aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be>
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Since I updated to 3.3 Configure displays a conflict with the ports. I
claims that my ATI-card and the PAS-soundcard both use port 0x5cee. The
ATI panel shows that it uses port 0x100 and PAS uses 0x388. Changing a
value does not resolve the conflict.
Any hints?
Joachim
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Tel: ++32-41-669496
Fax: ++32-41-669498
From: jfreeman@yussel.interramp.com (Joe Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp throughput
Date: 19 Jan 1995 12:43:35 GMT
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3flmpn$fea@www.interramp.com>
Keywords: ppp performance ppp2.2
I've been playing with the excellent ppp2.2 off of duq.edu and have some
throughput questions.
Equipment:
PP 14.4 modem
NS Turbo
Baud rate: 38400
Provider: PSI InterRamp
FTP throughput: 3.95KB/sec
The modem is doing compression and the PPP software is doing compression so
I would think that it would be a little higher but 40Kbit sounds pretty
decent.
Does this seem like a good number?
Would an intel box do better?
<joe>
Joe@FreemanSoft.com
From: plongsi@falcon.inetnebr.com (Pohl Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mux Driver
Date: 19 Jan 1995 13:33:06 GMT
Organization: Synergy Communication Inc.
Message-ID: <3flpmi$igh@legba.synergy.net>
References: <3fgkct$gqi@cedar.mr.net>
Michael Lemire (delisle!mikel) wrote:
Rumor has it that it is on ftp.duq.edu. I have never been able to make
a connection to this site. (still working with my service provider on
that one.) I have a copy, and will mail it to you. It won't work
with 3.3, though. A fix is comming, I hear.
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\ o.O| GPF! | "I don't do Windows."
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U (Bill Gates, The Cat) | NeXT & MIME mail formats accepted.
From: philipp@dameron.res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple NextStep partitions? Can it be done?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 17:08:20 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, FRANCE
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fm6a4$bh4@enst.enst.fr>
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Keywords: partitions, file systems
Hi.
I recently suffered a disk crash on my Maxtor MXT-540S and
benefitted from the tragedy to replace my noisy/slow disk by a quieter,
faster (and importantly) much cooler IBM 1.08GB driver. So far, so
good.
I also wanted to install NS 3.3 (I have NS 3.2 currently), but
since many of the programs that I run are also compilable under NS 3.3,
I wanted to do the following:
1) create a 3.2 developer partition of about 300MB
2) create a swap zone (partition) of about 80MB
3) create a 3.3 developer partition of about 300MB
4) create a user files partition of about 300MB
5) create a DOS/Windows partition of about 120MB
The idea being that I would either boot off of 1) or 3), and mount
4) in either case, and use 2) as the swap zone.
My reasons for wanting to do this are: a contiguous swap zone gives
better performance that a fragmented swap zone, since it cuts done the
amount of seeking to non-adjacent cylinders, and that it is easier to
do daily/weekly dumps of *just* the user files, and then only monthly
or bimonthly dumps of the system directories.
In short, better performance and easier dumps.
I don't care if I end up loosing 10-15% of my disk space. At $529 for
1GB, I can't complain.
Anyone know how I can go about this? The fdisk utility under NS
doesn't
seem to want to let me have multiple NS partitions on the same
disk
(unless they are multiple UNIX sub-partitions in the same DOS
partition).
I can use just type '1' to boot of the first NS partition, and
or whatever,
from the boot manager, but having two partitions online at the
same time--
how to do it?
Please reply directly by mail and I will summarise.
Thanks,
-Philip
P.S. It seems that the 3.3 and 3.2 boot managers are incompatible?
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT CD-ROM
Date: 19 Jan 1995 21:01:54 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <3fmk02$3jk@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Is there a driver that I can get /use to use a NeXT CD-ROM on a Macintosh?
I tried using the default AppleCD-ROM driver.. It does not work...
Can anyone suggest another FREE/CHEAP driver??
--
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screen Scape - Display Larger Area
Date: 19 Jan 1995 21:03:40 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <3fmk3c$3kk@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Is there any way to increase the size of the images displayed with
ScreenScape.app? I would like to get a larger % of hte screen. I would
be willing to lose resolution if neccessary..
--
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
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From: laroche@sig.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exploding electric components
Date: 16 Jan 1995 14:46:26 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris France
Message-ID: <3fe0s2$v3@enst.enst.fr>
References: <3fbja7$di6@cutter.clas.ufl.edu>
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Not just electronic components blow up. According to S. Tap, drummers do too.
J Laroche
From: tokumaru@spock.usc.edu (Phillip Tokumaru)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone compile GCC 2.6.x for NS/HPPA?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 08:21:05 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: tokumaru@spock.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fm3hh$cb6@spock.usc.edu>
Has anyone gotten GCC 2.6.3 up and running under NEXTSTEP for HPPA?
Phillip Tokumaru
ptok@cave.usc.edu
From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.2 and internal modems
Date: 19 Jan 1995 16:23:09 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Message-ID: <3fm3ld$oc6@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>
Dear All
I have an Intel box with 2 com ports and would like to use
an *internal* fax/modem with NS3.2. The fax/modem is
configured as com3 in DOS.
Is it possible to use internal modems with NS3.2?
If yes, is there a driver that I can get hold of to drive my
BocaModem 14.4?
Thanks in advance
Richard
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From: waldemar.lysz@ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AFS and 3.3?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 16:32:03 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3fm463$d9m@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3fl4ed$c5m@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
In article <3fl4ed$c5m@nntp.Stanford.EDU> stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman)
writes:
> Hello,
>
> my question is quite simple - is there someone who managed to run 3.3 and
> AFS on a black NeXT? If so, please get in touch with me - I kinda need
> that. Thanks.
>
> Waiting for a miracle,
> - Stan
> ---
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I am also waiting for the answer to this question. Thank you .
=============================================================================
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waldemar_lysz@ualberta.ca | Computer and Network Services
Tel.: (403) 492-9306 | Unix Group
Fax.: (403) 492-1729 | #144 General Services Building
| Edmonton, Alberta T6G-2H1
From: waldemar.lysz@ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AFS and 3.3?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 16:32:25 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3fm46p$d9o@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3fl4ed$c5m@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
In article <3fl4ed$c5m@nntp.Stanford.EDU> stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman)
writes:
> Hello,
>
> my question is quite simple - is there someone who managed to run 3.3 and
> AFS on a black NeXT? If so, please get in touch with me - I kinda need
> that. Thanks.
>
> Waiting for a miracle,
> - Stan
> ---
--
I am also waiting for the answer to this question. Thank you .
=============================================================================
Waldemar D. Lysz | University of Alberta
waldemar_lysz@ualberta.ca | Computer and Network Services
Tel.: (403) 492-9306 | Unix Group
Fax.: (403) 492-1729 | #144 General Services Building
| Edmonton, Alberta T6G-2H1
From: Brian Dear <70034.1062@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fujitsu installation HELP needed
Date: 20 Jan 1995 06:05:16 GMT
Organization: Coconut Computing, Inc.
Message-ID: <3fnjqs$ov2$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>
I have a 040 NeXTCube with original internal 340MB HD.
We just bought a Fujitsu 1 GB SCSI drive from MegaHaus,
a U.S. mail order firm.
Following the instructions in the NeXT Administrator's
Manual for adding SCSI hard disks to NeXT machines,
I added the machine to the SCSI chain of peripherals.
The other two external SCSI devices are a NeXT CD drive
and a PLI Superfloppy, both of which have worked fine
for years.
When I rebooted the cube with the new Fujitsu turned on,
the cube booted fine, recognized the Fujitsu (I'd set it
to be SCSI ID 4 -- the CD ROM is 5 and the SuperFloppy, 6)
no problem. But then a whole bunch of SCSI error messages
started scrolling on my Monitor screen -- all pointing
to a problem with SCSI ID 6, which is the SuperFloppy
(and which has a switch on the back for SCSI Termination --
which I'd set to "ON" -- the SuperFloppy was the last
device in the SCSI chain, and the Fujistu external
drive was not terminated).
The cube was seemingly ignoring its own error messages
and continuing to boot up but I felt I should stop the boot
with all of these messages so I did, which caused a panic.
I did a shutdown, turned everything off, disconnected
the Fujitsu from the SCSI chain and rebooted and now
the cube is happy and everything came up fine.
SOOOOOO....
The question is: what is wrong with the Fujitsu? Is it
possible that the MegaHaus people have a jumper set
inside the SCSI enclosure such that the drive is
terminated when it shouldn't be?
I want to ultimately make our new Fujitsu the new
booot disk for this cube, and make the cube's old internal
disk a sort of secondary backup drive (for swapping, and
archival of non-critical stuff). Any suggestions from
anyone out there who has already gone through this whole
procedure sure would be welcome!
Thanks in advance for your help.
-- brian dear
coconut computing, inc.
brian@coconut.com
From: ambi@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! 3.3 FIP constantly crashing!
Date: 19 Jan 1995 00:31:05 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <3fkbs9$1cu@news.bu.edu>
Hi, this is my second request for help on this. Since I've installed 3.3
my system has constantly had kernel trap crashes. It's most annoying to
say the least! I've never had any problems in any previous releases.
The system crashes primarily when 'intensive' things. It constantly crashed
on the linking stage of a big program I was compiling. It's also crashed
when I was installing Create and it's crashed a few times when trying to
run SoftPC.
The messages it gives in the tiny little 'kernel trap' window don't help
at all. It writes a lot of stuff like 'frame' and then a bunch of hex
numbers. A lot of stuff scrolls through the window before I can read it
as well.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm running 3.3 on a Pentium 90 PCI, Diamond
Viper 2MB video card (a *real* dog), Adaptec 1542CF SCSI, Intel EtherExpress,
Pro Audio Spectrum. About the only software consistently running other
than the OS is PNI SLIP.
Can anyone help! I'm getting *very* frustrated!!!!
Thanks,
Mike
ambi@world.std.com
From: pfp@marmeladinger.adv.magwien.gv.at (Peter Pflaeging)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATI & PAS Produce Unresolvable Port Conflict?
Date: 20 Jan 1995 08:32:10 GMT
Organization: Gemeinde Wien MD-ADV/Ma; A-1010 Wien; Austria
Message-ID: <PFP.95Jan20093211@marmeladinger.adv.magwien.gv.at>
References: <Pine.A32.3.91.950119115919.46471A-100000@aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be>
In-reply-to: Joachim Kainz's message of Thu, 19 Jan 1995 12:03:45 +0100
In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950119115919.46471A-100000@aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be> Joachim Kainz <jkainz@segi.ulg.ac.be> writes:
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 12:03:45 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Joachim Kainz <jkainz@segi.ulg.ac.be>
Since I updated to 3.3 Configure displays a conflict with the ports. I
claims that my ATI-card and the PAS-soundcard both use port 0x5cee. The
ATI panel shows that it uses port 0x100 and PAS uses 0x388. Changing a
value does not resolve the conflict.
I've got the same problem. Here's the solution:
Edit /NextLibrary/Devices/ProAudioSpectrum.../Default..... (don't know the exact path, my machine's at home!)
Delete all Port addresses except the first two, reconfigur the system and everything should work!
-peter
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From: kraven@keystone.westminster.edu (Keith A. Arner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk Quota Messages
Date: 19 Jan 1995 20:23:49 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Public School District
Message-ID: <3fmhol$g9n@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us>
Is there any convienient way of informing a user through the GUI when
they exceed their soft quota?
Keith
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From: scott@volta.ee.ucla.edu (Ryan Scott)
Subject: Re: icon of new users is a folder instead of home
Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon)
Message-ID: <D2o343.BtK@seas.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 19:21:37 GMT
References: <3fc83c$oh3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Organization: School of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA.
In article <3fc83c$oh3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, root@nukestep.mit.edu (Operator) writes:
> When I create new user accounts, the icon
> for that user shows up as folder instead
> of a home. How do I change the account so
> that the home icon displays for that user?
>
> Thanks,
> --Greg
Make sure that "Large file system" in Preferences.app (Unix sec.) is not
checked. When this option is selected to speed the file reading process
it does not look at directory types.
--Ryan
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting NeXT Printer default to 300dpi
Date: 19 Jan 1995 19:49:12 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3fmfno$kn@netnews.upenn.edu>
Is there a way to make the default resolution of a NeXT Printer 300dpi
instead of 400dpi.
I think I remember seeing a way to do this with dwrite. Something like:
dwrite System PrinterResolution 300
-dave
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Do you know any ISDN card for NSfI ?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 19:24:51 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fmea3$6h@filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE>
In article <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE> dirk@bernard.pfm-mainz.de (Dirk
Lembens) writes:
> Does anyone know about a ISDN card running under NS for Intel?
> Please send all infos to
Not yet. Wait until ZyXEL releases their 2864I. I'll be releasing a driver
for it's 'Parallel Port Interface'.
Filip
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hoessml@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Michael Hoess)
Subject: Problem with Mgetty/Seria
Message-ID: <D2pq0x.6sw@news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Sender: news@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 16:34:08 GMT
Hi !
I have a problem with Mgetty and user-logins via serial comport.
I'm using NS3.2/Intel and Mux 1.5(?) as COM-Driver. While Mgetty itselfs runs
fine (FaxReceiving, ModemAnswering, DialOut) and also UUCP and PPP have
no Problems, I think I will become mad with setting up a interactive login.
When a human user logs in, Mgetty spawns to /bin/login and then its all over.
The screen-output is garbled. Some characters are sent correctly, but most
are garbage. (The Password-Prompt looks kind of this: Pýüswoæt: )
Also carrier-detection does not work completely. If I use rlogin instead of
/bin/login as login-program, the screen-output is allright, but
CarrierDetection and ZModem-Transfers to the NeXT do not work.
Please give a hint how I can solve this problem...
Thanx
M. Hoess
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: NeXT -> Mac printing
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Jan19194308@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon)
Organization: ICAPB, Edinburgh University
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 19:43:07 GMT
The reversed seems to be quite possible, but is there any way I can
print from a NeXT to printer on AppleTalk or whatever is it is?
-Magnus
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The University of Chicago
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From: hubert@samson (Hubert B. Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WindowServer exceptions - software and/or hardware problems?
Date: 20 Jan 1995 16:00:36 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Message-ID: <3fomn4$41s@netserv.unmc.edu>
Hello. We have two NEXTSTEP/Intel boxes that are giving us particular problems.
The WindowServer keeps up and dying on them. The 2 in question are out of a
batch of 15 or so machines and none of the others have this behavior.
Here are the syptoms:
1) User is working merrily away and POOF the windowserver just craps out. The
message log reveals:
(Here are two example episodes)
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: WindowServer: Exception caught: PS-108.
1 on host `foobar', user `homer': Illegal instruction (SIGILL),
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: [ eip = 0xb963c1
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x49596
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x3753
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x49596
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x3753
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x49596
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x3753
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x49596
Jan 12 12:38:08 foobar WindowServer[202]: , from 0x3753
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: WindowServer: Exception caught: PS-108.1 on host `foobar', u
ser `homer': Software exception (no corresponding signal),
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: [ eip = 0xe0a408
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x56f0a
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x3784
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x56f0a
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x3784
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x56f0a
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x3784
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x56f0a
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: , from 0x3784
Jan 19 12:17:52 foobar WindowServer[303]: ]
Jan 19 13:48:44 foobar WindowServer[2317]: WindowServer: Exception caught: PS-108.1 on host `foobar',
user `homer': Memory access exception on address 0x175f: protection failure (SIGBUS),
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: [ eip = 0x175f
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x49596
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x3753
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x49596
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x3753
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x49596
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x3753
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x15ed1
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: , from 0x19394
Jan 19 13:48:45 foobar WindowServer[2317]: ]
Now foobar might run for 2 days without this happening. Foobar2 uses mainly our
custom applications and WordPerfect (yeah, I know). foobar above uses mainly
WordPerfect. Can software spewing bad Postscript kill the windowserver like this?
If so, then why aren't the other boxes doing this? Is this bad RAM or VRAM?
(This happens repeatedly, so the users are getting pretty irritated at this
two boxes).
Hubert Hickman
hubert@delilah.unmc.edu
From: sysop@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rousseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP SPARC prerelease
Date: 20 Jan 1995 16:42:39 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fop5v$hj4@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>
Are there any representatives from NSsparc prerelease sites here?
I have NSsparc PR1 and am trying to determine the proper video
framebuffer for use with the (3) supplied drivers.
I suspect the TurboGX+ (after speaking with a Sun engineer), but
I need firm confirmation. The video card is nearly $4000!
Thanks,
Mike Rousseau
SHL Systemhouse
303 449-2870 x153
rousseau@bou.shl.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: walisch@woyceck.in-ulm.de <Hanno Walischewski>
Subject: UUCP and SLIP
Message-ID: <D2LCyp.HtH@woyceck.in-ulm.de>
Sender: walisch@woyceck.in-ulm.de (Hanno Walischewski)
Organization: Private UUCP site
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:01:37 GMT
Hi all,
recently I installed SLIP on my black hardware (NS 3.2) and everything works
fine with one exception: I want a mail to <someone@someplace.my-domain> be
delivered via uucp. If I append a <.uucp> to the address it works, but if I
make a reply to an incoming mail I sometimes forget to append the <.uucp> and
the mail will not go out.
Can someone please give me a little hint?
Thanks a lot
Hanno
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From: jrifkin@chronos.ucc.uconn.edu (Jon Rifkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail Problem Help
Date: 20 Jan 1995 14:42:33 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Message-ID: <3foi4p$es5@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Could someone please help us. We have a Next Pizza Box running system
3.0. We can telnet, ftp, etc to anyplace we like on the Internet, but
we are having problems
sending mail.
(1) We can send to machine on our subnet.
(2) We cannot receive mail from that machine.
(3) We cannot send mail outside our subnet.
What do we need to do? Configure some files someplace? We have looked
at sendmail.cf but cannot find any problems that we understand (we are
not real experienced at this).
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange Mail Problems
Date: 20 Jan 1995 16:35:01 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Keywords: Mail
My next pizza box (ver 3.0) is able to send mail only to the local server.
I can telnet or ftp to or from it everywhere. When mail is sent to it, it
never arrives. I do not know enough about the sendmail.cf file to know if
the problem is there.
Any ideas
Thanks Jim
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From: michael@clxgraph.com (Michael Rutchik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Date: 20 Jan 1995 19:40:39 GMT
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fp3jn$htu@nntp.crl.com>
References: <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
In article <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk (Magnus Nordborg) writes:
> Hi,
>
> here is another printing question. How does one simply enable
> PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the Windows apps do not
> produce PostScript?
We've had reasonable luck getting .ps files from any Windows app by
printing to a file using the Windows print driver.
However, we do rely heavily on Tailor to clean up the postscript so it can
be opened by Preview.
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Defaults problems
Date: 20 Jan 95 14:44:23
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <tm8025a.95Jan20144423@scotty>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
I am having a problem with my defaults database. Well I think it my database. Here is what is happening. I have apps that should be opened when I double click on a file in the fileviewer. Example: Opener. When I ran it the first time all files with certain extensions would automatically start Opener. A .gz file would have an icon and when double clicked would start Opener and decompress the file. OmniImage did the same thing. When I doubleclicked a .gif it would start OmniImage and show me the f
ile.
I looked in the inspector and the only icon it goves me for tools is the Edit.app. There is nothing else there.
I am running black 3.0
Thanks for the help.
Torrey McMahon
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
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From: magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon)
Organization: ICAPB, Edinburgh University
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 18:52:56 GMT
Hi,
here is another printing question. How does one simply enable
PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the Windows apps do not
produce PostScript?
Thanks,
-Magnus
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Department of Ecology and Evolution
The University of Chicago
Temporary address:
magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk (NeXT mail welcome, PGP key via finger)
ICAPB
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King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3JT
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From: me@nextww.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de (Werner Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mounting NeXT File Systems On Sparcstation Problems
Date: 20 Jan 1995 22:28:44 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fpdes$cf0@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <3ev5bs$h0c@lighthouse.lighthouse.com>
In article <3ev5bs$h0c@lighthouse.lighthouse.com> rob@lighthouse.com (Rob
Kedoin) writes:
> Today I was trying to mount a file system from a NeXT-NFS server onto a
Sparc 5
> running SunOS5.4 and I'm running into problems.
>
> When I try to access the file system from the Sparc I get messages about
the
> NFS server becoming unavailable. Additionally, when I looked on the NFS
server,
> I noticed these messages in /usr/adm/messages repeated over and over:
>
> Jan 10 15:05:38 trieste mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
> Jan 10 15:05:38 trieste mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from
198.211.238.40
>
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
I am struggling with exactly the same problem.
It only occurs with Sol2.4(=SunOS5.4). Solaris2.3 is o.k.
Files can be accessed , e.g. by 'cat', but commands like 'ls' or 'pwd'
fail.
Strange enough, there is no similar problem when mounting files from older
Sun's running Solaris1.1 or files from an IBM RS600.
I have asked Sun-support in Germany about this. It was new to them. They
are still working on this, but I have doubts it will lead anywhere.
Solaris2.4 is supposed to boost network performance. Maybe they tuned it
up too high.
I hope there is somebody on the net who knows more about this
regards Werner
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From: ning@benard (Ning Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: AppleShare doesn't work
Date: 20 Jan 1995 21:11:55 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <3fp8ur$lsd@newshost.lanl.gov>
Hi,
I tried to make the AppleShare to work for my NeXT running
NS 3.0. I enabled the AppleTalk and restarted the machine
several times( incl. reboot, boot, power on), but got only
as far as locating the Mac on the subnet -- user authentication
just bombed when the correct user name and password were typed
in. Most of the times though the AppleShare dir under Net is
just empty. Does anybody know why? I'd appreciate reply to
my account. If if turns out to be a problem of interest, I'll
summarize. Thanks!
-Ning
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ed_chubin@vanguard.com (Ed Chubin)
Subject: Re: No more processes...
Message-ID: <1995Jan19.210428.28762@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <D2841E.8oz@cfa.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 21:04:28 GMT
In article <D2841E.8oz@cfa.org> peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch) writes:
> Following up to my own post:
>
> We're running 3.2 on all the hosts. The hosts are primarily doing net
> services (gn, ftp, telnet, etc.).
>
> Someone has suggested that we're running out of pty's or threads, but this
> would only be if 'ps' wasn't reporting things properly. Is there a chance
> that 'ps' is munged at all?
>
> Peter Eisch (peisch@cfa.org) wrote:
> : We're running into this message far too often now. It was cute for a
> : while, but the while is now gone. We've seen this on several hosts now
> : that are primarily serving as ip servers.
> : With a home-brew DO tool we were remotely monitoring a PC yesterday that
> : had 57 tasks and 100 threads and refused doing one thing more. Even if we
> : were able to telnet in, we couldn't get a shell or run any commands. That
> : same host right now 67 tasks and 108 threads and it's more than happy to
> : let me read news and even post this.
> : Can anyone provide any insight as to how we can fix this? Even a hint of
> : what to watch for would be excellent.
> : peter
> : --
> : peisch@cfa.org
>
> --
> peisch@cfa.org
Well I can think of 2 things at this point:
1. You have a process that is starting other processes, maybe too many. This
is not so likely because you have measured and looked at them.
2. You need to have you kernel recompiled with a greater capacity. I think mach
allows this, I know many BSD kernels (4.3, SunOS 3.x,4.x) need to be recompiled
when many processes need to run. I know BSD kernels have a fixed size on
process tables even though there may be enough memory and CPU time.
I would investigate 2 since it may not be difficult to perform.
How often is this happening?
GoodLuck
--
Edward H. Chubin ed_chubin@vanguard.com (NEXTMAIL accepted)
Senior Software Engineer, Vanguard Software Corporation
The meaning of life:
#include <VSC/disclaimer.h>
#define YOUR_STUFF_HERE { money++, fun++, friends++, memory-- }
for ( day=0; ; day++ ) YOUR_STUFF_HERE /* !cores */
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Xnext startup problems
Date: 19 Jan 1995 23:49:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fmtqo$m51@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
References: <3fkejk$qhi@hustle.rahul.net>
In article <3fkejk$qhi@hustle.rahul.net> brent@spontany.rahul.net (Brent J.
Krawchuk) writes:
] Hi there,
] I'm trying to run Xnext, (using Xfe frontend) and i get the message:
] -------------
] failed to set default font path
]
'/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
] ,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
] Fatal server error:
] could not open default font 'fixed'
] -------------
] the path seems correct (this is where the fonts were installed)
] and using Xnext -dp doesn't make any difference.
] Anyone run into this problem before?
] thanks
] -Brent
This is an 'xset' error, not a Xnext error. Try cd'ing into /usr/lib/X11/fonts
and running 'mkfontdir *'. Then rerun X using the xinit program at the command
line rather than using Xfe -- easier to see error messages this way.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | University of California, Santa Barbara
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | http://ccmrc.ucsb.edu/
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Defaults Problems---Part II
Date: 20 Jan 95 16:44:44
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <tm8025a.95Jan20164444@scotty>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Well I did some poking around and found out the file that is not being sourced or written to or read correctly is ~/.NeXT/suffixes3_0.wmd.
I went in and manually copied some information from an other account and the extensions are still not being read correcty. They still do not come up in the Tools inspector either.
This has me stumped. Any ideas would be appreciated
Torrey McMahon
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
(Here is the first part of my post for those interested)
I am having a problem with my defaults database. Well I think it my database. Here is what is happening. I have apps that should be opened when I double click on a file in the fileviewer. Example: Opener. When I ran it the first time all files with certain extensions would automatically start Opener. A .gz file would have an icon and when double clicked would start Opener and decompress the file. OmniImage did the same thing. When I doubleclicked a .gif it would start OmniImage and show me the f
ile.
I looked in the inspector and the only icon it goves me for tools is the Edit.app. There is nothing else there.
I am running black 3.0
Thanks for the help.
Torrey McMahon
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: AFS and 3.3?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 22:19:57 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fmoid$cc9@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3fl4ed$c5m@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) writes:
> Hello,
>
> my question is quite simple - is there someone who managed to
> run 3.3 and AFS on a black NeXT? If so, please get in touch with
> me - I kinda need that. Thanks.
>
> Waiting for a miracle,
I suspect it won't work, and furthermore I suspect that Transarc
isn't likely to produce a version for NS/m68k-3.3. I would be
very happy to be proven wrong, of course.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange Mail Problems
Date: 20 Jan 1995 22:21:39 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fpd1j$4o@mordred.gatech.edu>
References: <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
JIM KOCH (jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu) wrote:
: My next pizza box (ver 3.0) is able to send mail only to the local server.
: I can telnet or ftp to or from it everywhere. When mail is sent to it, it
: never arrives. I do not know enough about the sendmail.cf file to know if
: the problem is there.
: Any ideas
: Thanks Jim
I had a problem with NS3.0 sendmail on my cube. My solution was to get a
copy of sendmail 8.6.9 and compile it (I had few if any problems compiling it)
Apparently the copy of sendmail that came with NS3.0 is buggy.
--
Dave Rinker
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
CSX Transportation. Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Internet: gt2780a@prism.gatech.edu -- NeXT Mail welcome
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 BuildDisk bug--I think its small, No?
Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:14:47 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fpckn$h51@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Hi, All
I really need to use builddisk (its the only app that will let me
build onto a 1024b/s HD on an intel machine) and have run up against its bug.
Now, I ran the app anyway, and all seems to be fine except its missing
a link in the /private. Mainly a Devices link to ..Drivers/i386.
So, I naturally just copied the proper link from the another drive and
after rebooting everything SEEMS to work fine.
However, I'm fearful that other and perhaps both more dangerous and
sublime errors might exist with the resultant NS Drive made by BuildDisk 3.3?
So the question is: Is the only problem with NS BuildDisk 3.3 the
missing link in the /private directory? And if it is more serious than that,
Does NeXT have plans to release a fixed version? And if so, When?
Thanks very much, Later, John
From: Troy Jacobson <jacobson@epd.engr.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cost of Upgrades
Date: 20 Jan 1995 22:46:30 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3fpeg6$sjp@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Hello,
I have NS/FIP 3.2 Academic Bundle and am thinking about
upgrading. What I'm not sure about is the situation with
not having the upgrade for the Developer half ready.
Right now I could go purchase the 3.3 Academic bundle
for $283 or I could order the upgrade for $200.
What will happen when the developer comes out? If I get
the regular upgrade, I assume that I need to pay again
for the Developer. Will the same apply for the Academic?
Or will I get the new developer for it at no cost?
Thanks
Troy
jacobso6@facstaff.wisc.edu
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fixed/Var tape drive on 3.2
Date: 19 Jan 1995 11:29:06 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3flie2$sb0@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <3fbcbd$eha@cedar.mr.net>
In article <3fbcbd$eha@cedar.mr.net>, Terry Gliedt <tpg@mr.net> wrote:
>I was able to backup my 3.1 files on my Wangtek SCSI tape drive by
>finding "setmtd" in the scsitools package (sets the drive in the
>correct mode). Then I did a scratch install of 3.2 (no Developer)
>and now when I try to use the same tape drive I get "I/O error".
>Again I am using the same setmtd program. So I think there is
>something different about SCSI tape drives between 3.2 and 3.1.
>
>I looked all through the stuff NeXT provides and did a more
>casual search at ftp.cs.orst.edu. So what's the secret?
>Thanks in advance.
>--
Well, it would help to have some more system details. In lieu of that
this is my experience.
With 3.2 and my own WangTek 6130 Tapedrive there are several pitfalls.
This is on a GW 2000 66v dx2, Buslogic 445S controller.
1) The blocksize problem, which setcmd or similiar fixes.
2) Some operations needless block processes, ie: rewind.
3) Adaptec Driver generally worked okay, but some DDS tapes don't.
3m works, Sony dont. Next's Buslogic Driver didn't work for
tape I/O (as in your example). 3rd Party Buslogic didn't either,
even after extensive testing and debugging. I personally suspected
that something in the kernel was broken. Granted Next's Driver
for the 445C, was not tested on the 445S. I've tried two different
firmware versions for the 6130.
4) In 3.3 the Adaptec (and Next's Buslogic I think) work okay, with the
following caveat. Next's version of setcmd (mtblocksize) tries to figure
out the correct blocksize. The 6130 reports stranges block sizes, so
you should fix the size in the rc.(whatever) where it runs. The
problem with blocking processes has been fixed.
I'd like to but haven't tried the new firmware and/or third party
Buslogic Driver under 3.3.
My drive reports the following with SCSI inspector
Inquiry Command
SCSI Target #: 6
Device Type: Tape-Drive
Vendor ID: WANGTEK
Product ID: 6130-HS
Revision: 4G16
ANSI Standard: X.131-198X (SCSI-2)
Relative Addressing: No
32 Bit Wide Transfers: No
16 Bit Wide Transfers: No
Synchronous Transfers: Yes
Linked Commands: Yes
Tagged Command Queuing: No
Soft Reset: No
Device Configuration Page
Change Active Partition: No
Change Active Format No
Active Partition: 00h
Active Format: 00h
Write Buffer Full Ratio: 128
Read Buffer Empty Ratio: 128
Write Delay Time: 0 ms
Data Buffer Recovery: Not supported
Block Indentifiers: Supported
Setmarks: Recognize/Reported
Velocity Control: Default
Stop On Consecutive Marks: 0
Recover Buffer Order: Not applicable
Report Early Warning: Not reported for READs
Gap Size: 00h
End of Data Definition: Logical unit's default
End of Data Generation: Enabled
Synchronize at Early Warning: Synchronize
Buffer size at Early Warning: 0000h
Data Compression Algorithm: No compression (00h)
Some people have not had good things to say about the WangTek 6200/6130
series. YMMV.
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
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From: Troy Jacobson <jacobson@epd.engr.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Info on SoftPC 4.0
Date: 20 Jan 1995 22:55:21 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3fpf0p$stp@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Will SoftPC 4.0 work reasonably well with this setup:
MS Office pro (word 6.0, access 2.0, etc.)
1GB DOS partition
NS 3.2 or 3.3
16 MB memory
I haven't upgraded from 3.2 yet, so I haven't had the
chance to test this for myself.
Thanks
Troy Jacobson
jacobso6@facstaff.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Mac -> NeXT Printing, HOW?
Message-ID: <D2Ixu3.3t5@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting - (Kent L. Shephard)
References: <3f6i93$5au@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 00:39:38 GMT
In article <3f6i93$5au@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
writes:
#In article <D1xnur.JA@infoserv.com> kent@infoserv.com writes:
#> how do I get my Mac to print to my NeXT with
#> the Mac running TCP/IP on an ethernet network with
#> the NeXT?
#>
#>
#> Kent
#
#I, too, would like to know this trick. Thanks. Karen
InterPrint from InterCon.
it's $150 and will allow the NeXT printer to be seen in the
chooser on the Mac.
Email info@intercon.com for more information.
Kent
--
/* "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and */
/* no slave that has not had a king among his." ---- Helen Keller */
/* Kent L. Shephard ----- K. L. Shephard Consulting */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richardh@asysa.demon.co.uk (Richard Hutchinson)
Subject: NFS problems with NS3.3/Intel
Organization: Advanced System Architectures Ltd.
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:25:40 +0000
Message-ID: <RICHARDH.95Jan20142541@gussie.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
We have just installed 3.3 on our Intel machines (both 486 and
Pentium) and are now experiencing _abysmal_ response from filesystems
mounted over NFS.
The output from nfsstat indicates an unacceptable proportion of
request retransmissions -- below is a typical example:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Server rpc:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
43356 0 0 0 0
Server nfs:
calls badcalls
43356 0
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read
61 0% 9293 21% 90 0% 0 0% 6640 15% 18 0% 24037 55%
wrcache write create remove rename link symlink
0 0% 380 0% 61 0% 47 0% 35 0% 5 0% 0 0%
mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 2622 6% 67 0%
Client rpc:
calls badcalls retrans badxid timeout wait newcred
4979 7 433 5 440 0 0
^^^^__________________^^^
Client nfs:
calls badcalls nclget nclsleep
4972 0 4972 0
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read
0 0% 1031 20% 0 0% 0 0% 738 14% 73 1% 3045 61%
wrcache write create remove rename link symlink
0 0% 0 0% 5 0% 15 0% 5 0% 5 0% 0 0%
mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 37 0% 18 0%
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The (minimal) documentation available to me suggests that this
indicates a problem with the network hardware, but this has not
changed between 3.2 and 3.3. The network cards we use are 3Com
EtherLink III, and the mount options specify rsize/wsize of 1024 and
NFS timeout of 0.3s. The only thing that's changed are the drivers...
Has anybody else seen anything similar? Has anyone any suggestions as
to the cause of the trouble and how we might get around the problem?
Thanks in advance.
____________________________________________________________________________
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From: estone@cybernetics.net (Ed Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT 68040/Mach OS httpd server
Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:46:39 GMT
Organization: Cybernetx, Inc.
Message-ID: <3fostv$647@jabba.cybernetics.net>
I'm setting up httpd on the aforementioned machine. I would like to set
up two or more domains on one server...
The result would be http://www.abc.com goes to abc.html and
http://www.xyz.com goes to xyz.html, all transparent to the reader.
If anyone has experience with this under Mach, I would appreciate hearing
from you (please email to me).
Thank you
--
-- ----------------------------
Ed Stone
estone@Cybernetics.NET
----------------------------
From: ambi@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPD file for Sharp JX-9460PS
Date: 19 Jan 1995 04:47:43 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <3fkqtf$70k@news.bu.edu>
Can someone mail me the PPD file for the Sharp JX-9460PS printer or
point me in the proper direction to find one?
Thanks,
Mike
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NISing to a Sun SPARC2 with NFS?
Date: 21 Jan 1995 00:28:08 -0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <3fpkeo$1u4@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
I have my NeXT NFS'd off a Sun Sparc2.
Currently, I'm noticing the files created on the network file system
are different from the root filesystem on the Sun.
Observe..
robert:/Users/robert>nidump passwd / 0:19
root:PASSWORD:0:1:Operator:/:/usr/local/bin/zsh
nobody:*:-2:-2::/tmp:
agent:*:1:1::/tmp:
daemon:*:1:1::/tmp:
uucp:*:4:4::/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico
news:*:6:6::/usr/local/spool/news:/usr/local/bin/zsh
sybase:VUhIohhDIveWw:8:8:Sybase Administrator:/usr/sybase:/bin/csh
bin:*:2:3::/bin/:
robert:PASSWORD:21:20:Robert Nicholson:/Users/robert:/usr/local/bin/zsh
robert:/Users/robert>nidump group / 0:19
wheel:*:0:root,robert
nogroup:*:-2:
daemon:*:1:daemon,root
sys:*:2:
bin:*:3:
uucp:*:4:
kmem:*:5:
news:*:6:
ingres:*:7:
tty:*:8:sybase
operator:*:9:
staff:*:10:root
other:*:20:robert
ppp:*:45:
On the Sun I have the following flatfiles in /etc
audrey# cat /etc/group
wheel:*:0:
nogroup:*:65534:
daemon:*:1:daemon,root
kmem:*:2:
bin:*:3:
tty:*:4:
operator:*:5:
news:*:6:
uucp:*:8:
audit:*:9:
staff:*:10:root
other:*:20:
+:
audrey# cat /etc/passwd
root:PASSWORD:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
nobody:*:65534:65534::/:
daemon:*:1:1::/:
sys:*:2:2::/:/bin/csh
bin:*:3:3::/bin:
uucp:*:4:8::/var/spool/uucppublic:
news:*:6:6::/var/spool/news:/bin/csh
ingres:*:7:7::/usr/ingres:/bin/csh
audit:*:9:9::/etc/security/audit:/bin/csh
sync::1:1::/:/bin/sync
sysdiag:*:0:1:Old System
Diagnostic:/usr/diag/sysdiag:/usr/diag/sysdiag/sysdiag
sundiag:*:0:1:System
Diagnostic:/usr/diag/sundiag:/usr/diag/sundiag/sundiag
robert:PASSWORD:21:20:Robert
Nicholson:/External1/Users/robert:/bin/csh
#+::0:0:::
----------
If I create a file on the root filesystem on the Sun.
I get.
audrey# touch bla
audrey# ls -alg bla
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 Jan 21 00:20 bla
if I do this on the mounted parition that's shared b/w the NEXT and
the Sun _on_ the Sun. I get.
audrey# touch bla
audrey# ls -alg
total 13
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Jan 21 00:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:11 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 17 07:56 Users
-rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 0 Jan 21 00:21 bla
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Jan 16 23:48 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Jan 17 07:56 nextstep
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 17 23:04 sunos413
I suspect this is due to the above files being out of sync?
In any case I'd like to resolve this by using NIS on the Sun.
Is it possible to simply set my SS2 up as an NIS server serving my
NeXT as the client?
Do I _need_ to have a NIS slave in the scenario?
I am slowing wading my way through the ORA book which is proving to
be a good read.
--
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From: me@nextww.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de (Werner Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Postings about problems between NeXT and Sun-machines disappear
Date: 21 Jan 1995 12:24:56 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3fqueo$7gf@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Keywords: NeXT, NFS-Server, SunSPARC
hello newsreaders,
I am presently struggling with the fact, that after upgrading to
Solaris2.4 in my mixed environment of NeXT-Motorola and Sun-SPARC machines
the NeXT's stopped working properly as NFS Fileservers for the SPARCS.
Since a mixed environemnt like ours is probably quite common, I posted a
description of the problem to comp.sys.next.software in the hope, that
somebody on the net has already reached a better understanding.
Strange enough my post disappeared after having been there for about 10
minutes. When browsing through comp.sys.next.sysadmin yesterday, I found
another post describing the NFS problem. I replied to
comp.sys.next.sysadmin describing my present understanding. Today i
recognize, that both posts, the original and my reply have also
disappeared.
I believe the problem is serious enough ( it ruins our whole setup of user
files) to allow exchange about this in a comp.sys.next group, especially
since this NeXT's seem to be the only machines producing this problem.
Werner Wetzel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
References: <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Jan20232527@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon)
Organization: ICAPB, Edinburgh University
In-Reply-To: magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk's message of Fri, 20 Jan 1995 18:52:56 GMT
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 23:25:27 GMT
RTFM! :)
(Sorry, I am not used to dealing with anything but Unix...)
--
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology and Evolution
The University of Chicago
Temporary address:
magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk (NeXT mail welcome, PGP key via finger)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: Re: NeXT 68040/Mach OS httpd server
Message-ID: <D2qIz5.7Kp@cfa.org>
Organization: CANS
References: <3fostv$647@jabba.cybernetics.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 02:49:34 GMT
I would register both domains to the same ip, as you probably have to, and
then advertise/publsish the appropriate URLs as:
http://www.abc.com/abc.html
http://www.xyz.com/xyz.html
I would then make sure that httpd's default page (index.html, or whatever)
have pointers that point to the appropriate page should they the browser
fail to remember the page name, but still be capable to direct folks to
the right page they probably came to visit.
peter
Ed Stone (estone@cybernetics.net) wrote:
...
: The result would be http://www.abc.com goes to abc.html and
: http://www.xyz.com goes to xyz.html, all transparent to the reader.
...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mataylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Mike Taylor=)
Subject: Trouble with serial port logins
Message-ID: <D2rovB.5x1@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 18:04:22 GMT
I've got a white NEXTSTEP system, and I'm trying to get one
of my serial ports to work as a login tty.
I have four serial ports. The first one is on the old NEXTSTEP
driver, and the other three are using Mux 1.5. Port c is the one
I'm trying to set up. It works fine with kermit and ppp.
I've tried following the NeXTanswers document on serial ttys, but
I haven't had any luck.
I was wondering if anyone else has had any success with a simular
system. If so, please let me know.
--
/\/\ike Taylor
mataylor@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATI & PAS Produce Unresolvable Port Conflict?
Date: 20 Jan 1995 03:30:50 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3fnapa$q4h@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <Pine.A32.3.91.950119115919.46471A-100000@aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be>
In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950119115919.46471A-100000@aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be>,
Joachim Kainz <jkainz@segi.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>
>Since I updated to 3.3 Configure displays a conflict with the ports. I
>claims that my ATI-card and the PAS-soundcard both use port 0x5cee. The
>ATI panel shows that it uses port 0x100 and PAS uses 0x388. Changing a
>value does not resolve the conflict.
>
Check the more recent NeXTanswers. There was mention of this problem,
related to ports reserved for SoftPC Full screen access and how to
defeat it if SoftPC wasn't a factor in your life.
Jerry
--
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: gj@irock.com ("G. J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NSFIP (pre) install questions
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:15:30 -0800
Organization: iRock.Communications
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <gj-2101951115300001@gj.irock.com>
References: <95Jan19.083724@EE.Stanford.EDU>
In article <95Jan19.083724@EE.Stanford.EDU>, park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang
Ju Park) wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
>
> I have questions about installing NSFIP.
>
> 1) Can I install it on a DOS logical Drive ? To be
> more specific, I have a hard disk that has primary
> partitions and a extended partition. I use some of
> the extended partition for DOS use and reserved some
> free space inside the extendded partition for NS.
> Can I use it for NS installation ? Or should I designate
> the whole extended partition for NEXTSTEP ?
>
> 3) Does anybody know if I could use OS/2's bootmanager
> to boot NEXTSTEP after installing NS ? If, yes,
> would you let me know how I can do this ?
No only can you not do what you stated above, but you should
really consider dedicating a seperate SCSI drive to NSFIP.
Make sure that drive is the only one in your machine when
you install NSFIP. I run 5 OS on my P90.
1. MSDOS 6.22
2. OS/2 Warp 3.0
3. Linux
4. Win/NT 3.5
5. NSFIP 3.3
The safest this is to use boot loading floppies for Unix and
andvance OS on a multiple OS config system.
Warp's Boot Manager is good for Warp and MSDOS only.
--
"G. J." at iROCK.Communications[TM]
mailto:gj@irock.com <http://www.irock.com>
The small 'i' is for interactive,
and the WWW stands for Wacky, Wacky, Wacky!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <D2rp66.5qK@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting - (Kent L. Shephard)
References: <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 18:10:54 GMT
In article <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk> magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk
(Magnus Nordborg) writes:
#Hi,
#
# here is another printing question. How does one simply enable
#PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the Windows apps do not
#produce PostScript?
#
#Thanks,
#
How much do you want to spend.
Basically you need some TCP/IP softtware that will
allow you to use the PC as an lpr client.
Sun PC-NFS will do this, which is what I use and
I also use the NeXT as a file server.
Kent
--
/* "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and */
/* no slave that has not had a king among his." ---- Helen Keller */
/* Kent L. Shephard ----- K. L. Shephard Consulting */
From: park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NSFIP (pre) install questions
Date: 19 Jan 1995 16:38:20 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <95Jan19.083724@EE.Stanford.EDU>
Hello Everyone.
I have questions about installing NSFIP.
1) Can I install it on a DOS logical Drive ? To be
more specific, I have a hard disk that has primary
partitions and a extended partition. I use some of
the extended partition for DOS use and reserved some
free space inside the extendded partition for NS.
Can I use it for NS installation ? Or should I designate
the whole extended partition for NEXTSTEP ?
3) Does anybody know if I could use OS/2's bootmanager
to boot NEXTSTEP after installing NS ? If, yes,
would you let me know how I can do this ?
Thank you very much.
--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
From: brian@cs.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: loginwindow keeps dying!
Date: 22 Jan 1995 01:13:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <3fsbg8$23o@galaxy.ucr.edu>
I have a really big problem. My system is a 60Mhz pentium with a 3COM
networking card and an internal IDE drive (I'm also using the standard VGA
driver). When the loginwindow comes up after a reboot, I can type in the
username, but when I press return, the loginwindow disappears before I can
type in the password. Then after about 20 seconds of a grey screen, the
ROM monitor comes up and says this:
WindowServer: Exception caught: PS-108.1 on host `roadrunner`, user `root`: Memory access exception on address 0x130: protection failure (SIGBUS)
---------------------
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: [ eips = 0x6c54
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0xff9c2
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x10fbe8
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x10a330
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x798d3
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x789f7
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x78aad
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x10a64e
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: , from 0x78d4a
roadrunner WindowServer[199]: ]
loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
---------------------
then the login window appears again...
If I then try to type in anything, the loginwindow disappears again, the ROM
monitor comes up again and the same exact message is displayed
After a couple more seconds than machine crashes and I get:
------------------------------
Kernel panic exception (6,3,1)
Waiting for remote debugger connection.
(Type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
------------------------------
Note: This machine was working fine for 6 months until just a couple days ago.
When the machine does comes up (and I don't touch the loginwindow), I can
login in remotely just fine. I can stay logged in until the problems
with loginwindow showed above causes the machine to crash. I can also login
to "console" from the loginwindow (using console for the username). But
eventually the machine crashes for the same reasons.
For the short time that the machine it up, if I'm logged into it, nidump
work fine for both local and network information. However, other clients
(on black hardware) in the same network cannot use nidump to display this
machine's netinfo information. they just hang and the following message
appears in their syslog:
Jan 21 17:02:30 baez syslog: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable to receive; errno =
Connection reset by peer
Does anyone have ANY ideas why the loginwindow progam can't find the
WindowServer port?
---
Brian Harvey * brian@cs.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside * theharv@csld.ucr.edu
http://cs.ucr.edu/~brian/ (NeXT Mail preferred everywhere!)
From: brian@cs.ucr.edu (Brian Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: loginwindow keeps dying!
Date: 22 Jan 1995 01:27:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <3fsc9v$2s8@galaxy.ucr.edu>
References: <3fsbg8$23o@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Brian Harvey (brian@cs.ucr.edu) wrote:
:
: [stuff deleted]
:
Following up to my own post, I forgot to add a message that appeared in the ROM
monitor when my machine crashed:
:
:
:
panic: (Cpu 0) vm_fault: absent or active or inactive or not busy after
main loop
: Kernel panic exception (6,3,1)
: Waiting for remote debugger connection.
: (Type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
Hope, maybe this weird message helps somebody realize what my problem is!
Thanks for any help or suggestion you can suggest!
---
Brian Harvey * brian@cs.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside * theharv@csld.ucr.edu
http://cs.ucr.edu/~brian/ (NeXT Mail preferred everywhere!)
From: treed@bmt.gun.com (Timothy Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Date: 22 Jan 1995 04:56:35 GMT
Organization: Black Market Technologies, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fsoi3$qo5@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
References: <MAGNUS.95Jan20232527@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Keywords: windows printers
You'll have to do more than just read the Windows(tm) manual to print from
Windows to a NEXTSTEP printer:
* You can 'upgrade' to NT, which includes an lpr client. Since NT only
supports UPPER CASE print queue names, you'll need to make sure that you have a
printer name in all caps to print to.
* You can install Super TCP (and probably other TCP/IP stacks for Windows)
which was, for me, really unpleasant to install but works once you get it in.
PC-NFS from SunSoft also includes an lpr client but I'm not positive about
that.
Note that Windows 95(tm) does not include an lpr client or many Windows TCP/IP
stacks, so you may be out of luck (until the next beta release, maybe) if
you're running that.
Once you go with one of the above, then you may define a PostScript print queue
in Windows.
Hope that helps,
Tim
In article <MAGNUS.95Jan20232527@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk> magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk
(Magnus Nordborg) writes:
> RTFM! :)
>
> (Sorry, I am not used to dealing with anything but Unix...)
> > here is another printing question. How does one simply
> > enable PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the
> > Windows apps do not produce PostScript?
From: kuper@glue.umd.edu (William Kupersanin)
Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Security under NextStep 3.2
Date: 22 Jan 1995 04:56:40 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <3fsoi8$n5k@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
I have taken oven a small network of boxes recently upgraded to
NextStep 3.2. I am wodering if anyone knows of any security issues
specific to NeXTStep 3.2
Thanks,
--
William Kupersanin
Computer Science Center
University of Maryland College Park
From: hoff@pluto.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GNU mt on 3.3 - problems?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 00:05:29 GMT
Organization: German Research Center for Information Technology
Message-ID: <3furs9$vaj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Summary: GNU mt suddenly misbehaves on 3.3
Hi all,
if anybody is using GNU mt (latest version) on a 3.3 Intel system, I'd be
glad to hear from you, especially if you have encountered problems since
the 3.3 upgrade. My tape drive doesn't grok "mt -f /dev/rst0 retension"
anymore, and since I'm currently using a certain beta SCSI driver, I don't
know whom or what to blame: the SCSI driver, the 3.3 tape driver or mt.
Unfortunately, NeXT's supplied mt doesn't support the retension command,
so I'd like to use the GNU mt. It used to work under 3.2..
Thanks for any hints,
Holger
--
Holger Hoffstaette // [eMail sendTo: @"hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de" NeXTMail: YES];
From: cs@kau1.kodak.com (Craig Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Error occurred while linking driver DPT2012
Date: 23 Jan 1995 10:09:23 +1100
Organization: Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <3fuoj3$edk@bud.kau2.kodak.com>
References: <3fjaj5$o2n@transfer.stratus.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Keywords: Nextstep3.2
idscoord@sw.stratus.com writes:
>NeXTStep3.2 on 486/66:
>I believe there is a bug in the DPT driver (see below); it seemingly has
>crashed my kernel and disk.
>Apparently there is a fixed driver from ftp.next.com. In what directory?
>Please tell me how to install.
>Thanks in advance,
>--Brian
>brianw@isis.com
>508-490-6540
>..had a message like "kernel error: type c to continue or r to
>reboot"
>This is about the third time in a week this message has appeared.
>I typed r, and now I cannot boot this PC in NeXTStep3.2 nor in DOS.
>The errors (at boot time):
>"Error occurred while linking driver Floppy:
>rld(): Floppy symbol (objc_msgSend)'s n_sect field (0) is greater than the
>number of sections in this object ()
>Error loading driver Floppy
>Reading config: /usr/DEvices/DPT2012.config/Instance0.table
>Loading binary for DPT2012
>Error occurred while linking driver DPT2012:
>rld(): DPT2012 symbol (_objc_msgSend)'s n_sect field (0) is greater than
>the
>number of sections in this object ()
>Error loading driver DPT2012
>Errors encountered while starting up the computer.
>Pausing 5 seconds...
>Starting NEXTSTEP
>[...infinite hang...]
I am not sure that you should be so quick as to blame this on the DPT
driver. I am seeing similar problems occasionally while trying to install
NS3.3 on my 486/66, except the errors I get involve the SerialPort
driver, and I'm using an Adaptec 1542C SCSI card.
NS appears to be remarkably sensitive to PC hardware, especially during
its boot phase. I'm busily changing hardware bits in an attempt to
isolate this problem.
--
========================================================================
Craig Smith (61 3) 353 2471 cs@kau1.kodak.com
Office Imaging Division Kodak (Australia) Pty Ltd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jmast@ets.com (John Mastrolia)
Subject: Re: Fixing your header
Message-ID: <D2t9xG.D6y@ets.com>
Organization: ETS, Inc.
References: <3fkb8i$f44@redstone.interpath.net>
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 14:36:51 GMT
In <3fkb8i$f44@redstone.interpath.net> root@borg (Operator) writes:
> As you can see, my system is set up (SLIP) and showing only root@borg
> which is the name of my machine...
> Is there more than one place to fix this?
> Dave
If your domain is not correctly written in the message header, you'll
have to re-define a few macros in the sendmail.cf file. O'Reilly &
Associates has a nice book on configuring sendmail "sendmail" by
Brian Costales with Eric Allman & Neil Rickert.
I assume you have the link /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf pointing to the
correct file for your installation (typically sendmail.subsidary.cf) and
have the mailhost correctly identified in netinfo and your routing tables.
Making changes to the header is relatively trivial.
Hope this helps
--
John Mastrolia * While most peoples' opinions change,
ETS,Inc. * the conviction of their correctness
Sys Admin * never does.
jmast@ets.com *
From: afied1@pblea.uni-paderborn.de (Alfred Fiedler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: 17" NeXTstation color monitor wiring diagram?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 08:24:23 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Message-ID: <3fvp3n$mk2@news.uni-paderborn.de>
Hello everybody,
now its my turn and my 17" NeXTstation color monitor died but I hope not
for ever.
Maybe someone is able to post me a wiring diagram. Therefore against all
odds I might get the opportunity to repair it (Yes, I am an electrical
engineer).
Any help will be expected at
Fax.: +5251 603443
E-mail: afied1@pblea.uni-paderborn.de
(NeXT-mail welcome)
From: armes@tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: problems with NextStep text object
Date: 22 Jan 1995 00:56:29 GMT
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fsaft$sob@discovery.ectds.com>
References: <3fjf9d$1i3@news.mtu.edu>
Keywords: text object
In article <3fjf9d$1i3@news.mtu.edu> russell@math.mtu.edu (Russell Reid)
writes:
> I have persistent troubles with an 040 cube running NextStep 3.1. The
> built-in text object seems to go flaky; at that point any use of
> mouse-based editing in a text field crashes the app. Seems like some
sort
> of buffer problem: mousedown is OK; mouseup crashes any app.
>
..
I believe this is a known NeXT bug. The textobject has a hard-coded
internal buffer that is limited to... I think 32K. I ran into this when
some of our users started crashing our app by pasting mega-documents into
our text windows. However, we are workng under 3.2, so yours may be
another problem.
I seem to recall the trace ended in one of the selection methods that is
attempting to re-select the data that was just pasted in.
Hopeully helpful,
Jim
#--------------------------------------------------------#
# Jim Armes | I've got a Dentium and you do not #
# Matrix-Man | nahh nahh nah nah nahhhh... #
# <my opinions> | (Darn division errors... ;) #
#Trident Data Systems| but IiiiiM a lumberjack and I'm ok#
# armes@tds.com |I sleep all night & I work all day.#
#--------------------------------------------------------#
From: Karsten Heinze
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WIDE SCSI with NS3.3 ?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:24:45 GMT
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g0e7d$eqd@pyrrhus-f.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Keywords: WIDE SCSI
Someone runs a Wide SCSI harddisk on a Adaptec 2940W with NS3.3 ?
Please send me a mail.
Thank You.
- Karsten
--
*****************************************************************
Karsten Heinze
Tel.: +49/172/3763092
Fax: +49/37296/15056
e-mail: Karsten.Heinze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (NeXT-Mail/MIME)
*****************************************************************
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John Nicol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to move an existing Netinfo server to another machine?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 06:07:36 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <3fvh38$s50@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
I would like to move an existing Netinfo server (running NEXTSTEP
3.2/Motorola) to another machine (running NEXTSTEP 3.3/Motorola). My
Netinfo setup has two levels.
What is the recommended procedure to perform such an operation? The only
notes relative to this question that I could locate were a NeXTAnswer note
from the 2.x days.
On another tack, if one wants to use the bulk create/account template
features of 3.3 User Manager, then must the Netinfo server and the target
home directory servers be running 3.3? I tried to use this feature from a
3.3 system (where the Netinfo server and the target home directory host
were running 3.2) and the 3.3 User Manager just crashed.
Thanks very much for any insight.
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gfd@megatel.de (Olaf Reins)
Subject: strange netinfo problem
Message-ID: <1995Jan23.101400.6228@megatel.de>
Sender: news@megatel.de
Organization: megatel GmbH, Bremen, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 10:14:00 GMT
Hi,
after upgrading to NeXTSTEP 3.3 the netinfod for the network database shows a
strange behavior. It works for some hours, and then all of a sudden eats up all
the cpu time.
syslog reports the following:
Jan 23 07:35:58 megatel lookupd[129]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed
out
Jan 23 07:36:03 megatel lookupd[129]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed
out
Also a sun sparc mounting the file systems of this NeXT reports errors like
Jan 23 10:59:34 sun01 automount[120]: megatel: exports: RPC: Timed out
Does anybody have an idea what might cause this. Beside the upgrade to 3.3
nothing changed in our network environment.
Any hints appreciated
--
Olaf Reins
NeXTMAIL : gfd@megatel.de
SMAIL : megatel GmbH Wiener Str. 3 28359 Bremen, Germany
VOICE : x49-421-22095-23 FAX: x49-421-22095-16
From: cs@ecs.co.at (Christian Starkjohann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with Mgetty/Seria
Date: 23 Jan 1995 11:01:02 GMT
Organization: EUnet EDV DienstleistungsgesmbH, Wien
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g029e$ccq@c2.eunet.co.at>
References: <D2pq0x.6sw@news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Originator: cs@servus
In article <D2pq0x.6sw@news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
hoessml@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Michael Hoess) writes:
> I have a problem with Mgetty and user-logins via serial comport.
> I'm using NS3.2/Intel and Mux 1.5(?) as COM-Driver. While Mgetty itselfs runs
> fine (FaxReceiving, ModemAnswering, DialOut) and also UUCP and PPP have
> no Problems, I think I will become mad with setting up a interactive login.
>
> When a human user logs in, Mgetty spawns to /bin/login and then its all over.
> The screen-output is garbled. Some characters are sent correctly, but most
> are garbage. (The Password-Prompt looks kind of this: P swo t: )
> Also carrier-detection does not work completely. If I use rlogin instead of
> /bin/login as login-program, the screen-output is allright, but
> CarrierDetection and ZModem-Transfers to the NeXT do not work.
This seems to be a problem due to the two interfaces to the serial driver: the
usual bsd-sgttyb-structure and the posix termios-structure. Since mgetty has to be
compiled with the -posix flag, it uses the termios-structure. On the other hand,
login is a bsd-process that uses the sgttyb-structure. But this structure is never
updated in mgetty and the first ioctl in login, the one that switches off echoing
for the password, sets the line to it's default parameters which is 7 bit with
parity. I have inserted this quick-and-dirty hack into mgetty.c just before the
call to login_dispatch():
{
#include <sgtty.h>
struct sgttyb sg;
int bit = LPASS8 | LPASS8OUT;
if(ioctl(STDIN, TIOCGETP, &sg) < 0)
perror("mgetty: ioctl 0");
sg.sg_flags &= ~(EVENP | ODDP);
if(ioctl(STDIN, TIOCSETP, &sg) < 0)
perror("mgetty: ioctl 1");
if(ioctl(STDIN, TIOCLBIS, &bit) < 0)
perror("mgetty: ioctl 2");
}
This also updates the sgttyb-structure and works fine for me. To react correctly
to carrier-loss, you have to use the device /dev/cudf?, which is a Mark Salyzyn
special device.
Both problems are due to a incomplete posix-support for the tty by NeXT!
BTW: I have a couple of tools to integrate mgetty-faxing into NEXTSTEP. If you
want to try them, mail me.
Bye, Christian.
--
Christian Starkjohann <cs@ecs.co.at> or <cs@ekpds1.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ed_chubin@vanguard.com (Ed Chubin)
Subject: Re: Hard links with NeXTStep
Message-ID: <1995Jan20.143110.2781@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <STEPHANE.95Jan13184710@mousa>
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:31:10 GMT
In article <STEPHANE.95Jan13184710@mousa> stephane@mousa (Stephane Etienne) writes:
> In article <22127-0@vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk> Stephane Etienne
<stephane@dcs.gla.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody out there knows how to get rid of Hard links
> created with NeXTStep v3.2. I have tried rm(1), rmdir(1), unlink(2),
> rmdir(2), remove(3s). None of them worked. The hard link was created
> with link(2).
>
> Thx,
>
> Stephane.
>
> Sorry. I forgot to mention that I was talking about hard links on
> directories and not on simple files.
>
> Stephane.
From the unlink(2) man page:
The path argument must not name a directory. Applications
should use rmdir to remove a directory.
[EPERM] The named file is a directory.
From the link(2) man page:
Both pathnames must reside in the same file system-linking
across file systems is not permitted. Further, for BSD
applications, the existing argument may not name a directory
unless the calling process' ID is that of the super-user.
POSIX applications can never link a directory.
I would be interested in the errno if I were you. As you can see, there may be
multiple reasons.
1. You must be root.
2. You can't be using POSIX.
I imagine this should be a local file system. I would be pretty sure that
NFS wouldn't support that either.
--
Edward H. Chubin ed_chubin@vanguard.com (NEXTMAIL accepted)
Senior Software Engineer, Vanguard Software Corporation
The meaning of life:
#define YOUR_STUFF_HERE { money++, fun++, friends++, memory-- }
for ( day=0; ; day++ ) YOUR_STUFF_HERE /* !cores */
#include <VSC/disclaimer.h>
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making SCSI disk bootable?
Date: 22 Jan 1995 18:30:53 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3fu88t$r8u@news.acns.nwu.edu>
When, I originally installed NS/I on my machine, I was using an IDE
and later added a SCSI. I've been using the SCSI as the root partition,
but still basically boot off of the IDE via setting the kernel flags
as "hd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a". This is a somewhat messy as I
deal with both the IDE and SCSI drives when changing the configuration
of the system. Because of PC hardware limitations, I am forced to
use the bootstrap routine on the IDE disk, but when I try to use
the kernel flags "sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a" I get some messages
to the effect that several of the configuration files are not accessable
and a complaint about fast symlinks not being implemented.
From this I assume that the bootstrap routines were not installed on
the SCSI disk when I originally setup the scsi disk. {My original
SCSI controller Bios did not support the full size of the disk > 1GB, my
current controller does.}
A check with fdisk on the SCSI shows:
starbase:1# fdisk /dev/rsd0h
NeXT fdisk v1.02
Device: /dev/rsd0h
No partitions in use
Unused Blocks Start Size
-------------------------------
Free Space 0 1024
So my question is how do I configure or fix things to make the SCSI disk
bootable. There are some options in fdisk that look like that they could
be used to install use /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 on the boot sector
only. Will that be sufficient to cure the above condition without
having to reload the entire SCSI disk? Since this looks like a dangerous
operation, does anyone have the exact flags, order and format to use in
this case?
My own guess would be:
fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setAvailableToNeXT -useBoot0 -bootsectorOnly
Any other suggestions or feedback appreciated.
TIA
Jerry
--
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: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 disk requiremants
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:16:21 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <950123131621.790AACUQ.malc@white>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I note from some of the release blurb (cf NeXT's WWW pages) that NS 3.3
"requires" 120MB of disk space for installation.
Is this just for Intel? If not, how are people coping with slabs etc. with
100MB disks? We have a couple of these beasts, and I'm concerned that
if/when we upgrade we'll suddenly have to buy bigger disks too...
Have fun,
mmalc.
posn. research facilitator
where institute for language speech and hearing
sheffield university
c/o department of computer science
regent court
211 portobello street
sheffield s1 4dp
england
vox (+44) 114 282 5594
fax (+44) 114 278 0972
email m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome
Micro$oft mail at a push
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is this true, NeXT copy protection of NS?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 15:07:25 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g129t$ig2@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Someone (sorry I forgot who) sent me email with this explanation for why
BuildDisk 3.3 doesnt work (BTW, I still dont have an answer if the only problem
is the one link, it seems to work otherwise).
>if I remember correctly, the manual of the 3.3 upgrade said that the
BuildDisk.app will not work correctly in 3.3. I think they are not going to
fix this because this keeps the people from copying NeXTStep illegally.
You definitely seem to need the CDs to install NeXTStep.
I know that they say its broken, but to NOT fix it for copy protection reasons
is really dense? First off, its just as easy to install NS from OD as it is
from BuildDisk. BuildDisk has only a couple advantages:
1) it can build onto 1024b/s drives, which the CD program cannot (and is why I
need it).
2) for sysadmin people who frequently need to make 'experimental' NS disks to
try out weird things, and its more convient to do this within NS so you can
set Instance0.table's in the same session etc.
But, for a one time pirated copy it makes no sense, just as easy to make a
one time copy from a CD ROM??? Whats even more bizarre, why if they didn't
want people to use BuildDisk to copy things, would they leave a broken copy
on the CD? Why not just take it off completely.
Anyway, I cant imagine who would bother to pirate NS? Its so huge that you
really do need to buy it for all the manuals, and the backup CD for in case
things go wrong...
If this is true, it is truly bizarre?!
Later, John
From: Frederick_Haibach@brown.edu (fred haibach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:54:48 -0500
Organization: Brown University -- Providence, Rhode Island USA
Message-ID: <Frederick_Haibach-2301951254480001@alfred.chem.brown.edu>
References: <3fmk02$3jk@nic-nac.CSU.net>
In article <3fmk02$3jk@nic-nac.CSU.net>, vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
(Victor Quevedo) wrote:
> Is there a driver that I can get /use to use a NeXT CD-ROM on a Macintosh?
>
> I tried using the default AppleCD-ROM driver.. It does not work...
>
> Can anyone suggest another FREE/CHEAP driver??
The Apple drivers only recognize official apple products. If you consider
$60 reasonable, try FWB's CD-ROM toolkit. (One good source is the Internet
Shopping Network. Point Omniweb to http://shop.internet.net) This is
what I use, and it makes a single-speed Sony CD-ROM drive usable even for
the 1992-3 Apple demo CD-ROM.
G-luck,
FgH...
From: jpc@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Broadcast biff on NeXTstep 3.3?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 10:37:13 -0600
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Message-ID: <3g0lvp$h4i@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>
Keywords: biff comsat NeXTstep broadcast
I'm not a NeXT user, but there is a NeXT on our network that has been
upgraded to NeXTstep 3.3. Whenever mail arrives for anyone on that
computer (including root), it sends out a BIFF UDP packet to the
broadcast address!
Is there a way to turn that off? (No, "biff n" doesn't do anything to
stop the broadcast.)
--
J. Porter Clark porter.clark@msfc.nasa.gov
NASA/MSFC Flight Data Systems Branch
From: alxs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Alexander Sparkowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unknown IP-Packages HELP
Date: 24 Jan 1995 19:35:59 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3g3kqv$jsi@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
High,
some days ago I connected my computer running NSfIP to the Internet using an ISDN
link. The problem I have are three ip-packages which are sent every 10-20 minutes so
that my router sets up an ISDN-link.
I don't know how I can find the source of theese packages. I tried to find something
like tcpdump for NeXTSTEP but I didn't find it.
Can someone please help me? I don't know how I should pay my phonebill if there is an
ISDN-link every 15 minutes 8-)
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alxeander Sparkowsky E-Mail: alxs@cs.tu-berlin.de
10559 Berlin, Germany alxs@klex.in-berlin.de <NeXTMail welcome>
From: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPD: Use non-postscript pritners?!
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 16:37:35 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <matthias.3.36.2F23DB4F@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I recently saw some people asking questions about files for PPD, and it
seemed to me like it allowed you to use no-postscript printers on NeXT
machines. If this is the case, I would be VERY interested. Could anyone tell
me exactly what this is and where I can get it? Thanks
Karl N. Matthias
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
Subject: Mounting a SUN-disk on a NeXT
Message-ID: <PD.95Jan23233714@horus.sics.se>
Sender: news@sics.se (Dr News)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:37:14 GMT
I'm trying to mount a SUN-disk on the local SCSI-bus from
NeXTStep/SPARC on a SPARCstation-5. Since NeXTStep expects a BSD 4.3
file system it doesn't recognize the SUN-disk. It failes to find a
recognizable label. The disk was labeled using SunOS 4.1.3.
Any suggestions? I prefer to keep the SUN-disk as it is, since I want
to be able to boot the SS-5 from it at times.
Please reply with email, since I rarely read netnews, as well as
posting to the group if the reply is of interest to everyone.
Thanks in advance,
PD
--
--
Per Danielsson pd@sics.se
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
N59.24.20, E17.56.53 "You got the UNIX-book.. Coool.."
From: pchien@www.tor.hookup.net (Chao-Ping Chien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can setup my 'From:' line for Mail.app
Date: 24 Jan 1995 01:34:31 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <PCHIEN.95Jan23203431@www.tor.hookup.net>
I have just upgrade to 3.3 and notice that when every I send mail to net
my 'From:' line alaways missing my domain port, can some one tell me how
to setup this.
any help are appreciate.
Ping.
--
--
Chao-Ping Chien, DBA
Trimark Inv. Mgmt Inc.
Canada
pchien@trimark.com
pchien@tor.hookup.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: richardm@cd.com (Richard Masoner)
Subject: Re: Mux Driver
Message-ID: <D2vr1z.5u1@cd.com>
Organization: Central Data Corp., Champaign, IL
References: <3fgkct$gqi@cedar.mr.net> <3flpmi$igh@legba.synergy.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:41:58 GMT
I picked mine up from sonata.cs.purdue.edu.
Richard
--
"Weird dreams are God's way of apologizing for inventing logic."
--Paul Clinton, _Outside_ magazine.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to move an existing Netinfo server to another machine?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 17:28:56 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g3dcp$bvj@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <3fvh38$s50@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <3g1ikd$ek@amazon.sf.psca.com>
: <snip, snip>
: 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 am administrating a NS3.2 NETINFO 2 tier network of NeXT machines
(instead of the classic 1 tier with one large root domain). I have
seen people reference this "master" property (and "clone" BTW too), but
I have yet find it. Exactly WHERE is it? What is the topmost "/" in
the / domain? I think I either don't understand or this description is
wrong or vague.
Either way, I have a / master, 2 / clones, 2 sub-domain masters (only one
of them is cloned). I can't find a "master" or "clone" property anywhere.
If I don't have it, why haven't I had problems? BTW, I HAVEN'T had any
network problems.
If someone can clear up my confusion, I would appreciate it.
--
| Rex A. Dieter | Research Associate |
| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gjackson@mbuna.umhc.umn.edu (Gary Jackson)
Subject: Re: HELP! 3.3 FIP constantly crashing!
Message-ID: <D2w4G8.1x0@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <3fkbs9$1cu@news.bu.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 03:29:01 GMT
ambi@world.std.com wrote:
[ stuff deleted ]
: The messages it gives in the tiny little 'kernel trap' window don't help
: at all. It writes a lot of stuff like 'frame' and then a bunch of hex
: numbers. A lot of stuff scrolls through the window before I can read it
: as well.
: Anyone have any ideas? I'm running 3.3 on a Pentium 90 PCI, Diamond
: Viper 2MB video card (a *real* dog), Adaptec 1542CF SCSI, Intel EtherExpress,
: Pro Audio Spectrum. About the only software consistently running other
: than the OS is PNI SLIP.
[ more stuff deleted ]
Do you know what type of serial port UART is on you PC ?
I am going to guess that due to the 'frame' message that you
mentioned you are getting some serious port overruns and with my
white box that would crash NS 3.2 frequently. Check out the file
in /usr/adm/messages.
The fix is easy...get a serial card with a high speed port
ie a 16550A and install the lastest version of the MUX Serial
drivers. That solved all my problems with SLIP and general random
crashes.
Hope that helped....Gary
gjackson@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (NeXT Mail Welcome !)
From: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ghostscript Printer and Blackbox
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 19:13:42 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <matthias.3.38.2F255166@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have recently spent several hours going through the installation process
following the information I found on cs.orst.edu for installing ghostscript as
a printer driver for a HP Deskjet 500. I then ran into a problem near the end
of the process. Can I run ghostscript over the serial port instead of the
parallel port? The author must have written it for an Intel machine, because
I clearly have no parallel ports on my NeXTstation '040. I was willing to try
it anyway, just to find out, but then I tried to recompile the
HPColorCorrect.app because I needed a Motorola executable and lo and behold,
no compile. I guess it is also for a more recent version of the operating
ssytem and two slider objects are not included in the version I have(3.0).
Can anyone tell me what to do hear? Help is much appreciated.
Karl N. Matthias
Ohio State University
From: Patrick Stein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unknown IP-Packages HELP
Date: 25 Jan 1995 11:13:40 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g5bp4$31v@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
References: <3g3kqv$jsi@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In article <3g3kqv$jsi@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> alxs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Alexander Sparkowsky) writes:
> High,
> some days ago I connected my computer running NSfIP to the Internet using an ISDN
> link. The problem I have are three ip-packages which are sent every 10-20 minutes so
> that my router sets up an ISDN-link.
> I don't know how I can find the source of theese packages. I tried to find something
> like tcpdump for NeXTSTEP but I didn't find it.
> Can someone please help me? I don't know how I should pay my phonebill if there is an
> ISDN-link every 15 minutes 8-)
Did you install the NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL ? :v)
---
gimme a smile :) - jolly
===================================================================
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office : ++49 +89 -211 06 70 Centrum fuer Informations
private: ++49 +89 -950 57 34 und Sprachverarbeitung der
Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen
===================================================================
"Nobody know's which is the golden packet" - fedex
===================================================================
From: kickaha@math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian Boonstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Prob FAQ: How to cnct black <-> nonNeXT postscript printer?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 19:16:04 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
Message-ID: <3g3jlk$ms1@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
I have a DEClaser 1152 (PS level 2, EIA-232, Localtalk or miniDIN-8
cnxns) and a NS COlor with the RS423 serial port. I run NextStep 3.0
which I got with a right-to-upgrade license (i.e. no CD-ROM). I don't
have PPD files for non-NeXT, non-Apple printers, e.g. this DEC.
My questions are:
1) Should the "Unknown" printer type work OK and if not, where do I
find/how do I make a PPD file? Does NeXT have a software archive?
2) If I buy one of those Localtalk-Ethernet bridges, will that make it
easy for the NeXT to talk to the printer over a piece of thinnet, or
will routing cause me trouble?
3) I tried my null-modem cable (made according to the specs in
Appendix B of the SysAdmin docs) both with and without hardware
handshaking set up. The printer apparently never saw a single
bit. Printer specs list pni 8 as unused and pin 6 as Data Set Ready
(for the DB-25 EIA-232 port). If I make a cable with this correction,
should that let them talk to each other?
I'd be happy with a pointer to an archive with help for this...the
only thingh I've got is a 1992 NeXT FAQ that didn't help a lot.
BKB
--
Brian K. Boonstra (313) 763-4541 kickaha@umich.edu
"My strength is as the strength of ten because my code is pure."
From: berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Broadcast biff on NeXTstep 3.3?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 17:09:48 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <3g3c8s$pd@news.rwth-aachen.de>
References: <3g0lvp$h4i@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>
Originator: berg@bolgolam.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
J. Porter Clark <jpc@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>I'm not a NeXT user, but there is a NeXT on our network that has been
>upgraded to NeXTstep 3.3. Whenever mail arrives for anyone on that
>computer (including root), it sends out a BIFF UDP packet to the
>broadcast address!
>Is there a way to turn that off? (No, "biff n" doesn't do anything to
You could install "procmail" as the local delivery agent on that
machine. Procmail does everything the old /bin/mail delivery agent did
and it does not send the biff UDP packet to the broadcast address.
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz
--
Sincerely, berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
From: luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can setup my 'From:' line for Mail.app
Date: 24 Jan 1995 13:26:26 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9501241838.AA16556@alleg.EDU>
I have just upgrade to 3.3 and notice that when every
I send mail to net my 'From:' line alaways missing my
domain port, can some one tell me how to setup this.
I can suggest something in the way of a 'hack' but there may be (and
probably is) a better answer.
Assuming you use /usr/lib/sendmail, put the following in an ASCII
file and make executable:
#!/bin/sh
sed 's/OLD FROM INFO/NEW FROM INFO/g' | /usr/lib/sendmail "$@"
make sure you get the entire From line, ie
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat>
Yes, theoretically you could change this to show any name you wanted,
but there are other ways of finding out who really sent the mail, so
it would not work as an anonymous way to send email.
any problems/questions, feel free to email me.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma Email: luomat@alleg.edu Allegheny College
NeXTstep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
From: rfrancis@sf.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to move an existing Netinfo server to another machine?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 17:46:05 -0700
Organization: Paradigm Systems, San Francisco
Message-ID: <3g1ikd$ek@amazon.sf.psca.com>
References: <3fvh38$s50@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
In article <3fvh38$s50@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
John Nicol <jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca> wrote:
>I would like to move an existing Netinfo server (running NEXTSTEP
>3.2/Motorola) to another machine (running NEXTSTEP 3.3/Motorola). My
>Netinfo setup has two levels.
>
>What is the recommended procedure to perform such an operation? The only
>notes relative to this question that I could locate were a NeXTAnswer note
>from the 2.x days.
>
>On another tack, if one wants to use the bulk create/account template
>features of 3.3 User Manager, then must the Netinfo server and the target
>home directory servers be running 3.3? I tried to use this feature from a
>3.3 system (where the Netinfo server and the target home directory host
>were running 3.2) and the 3.3 User Manager just crashed.
I've given this to people that needed to change the IP addr of their
NetInfo server, and never had any complaints. You need to basically
do the same thing, just make the new machine a clone first. Make sure
the new network.nidb's are writable as well. So this isn't entirely
complete, but there should be some useful info in it for you.
-rob
---
Rob Francis
Paradigm Systems http://www.sf.psca.com/Hyplans/rfrancis/
Rob_Francis@sf.psca.com
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.
From: shess@icicle.winternet.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is this true, NeXT copy protection of NS?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 18:44:23 GMT
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SHESS.95Jan24124424@icicle.winternet.com>
References: <3g129t$ig2@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
In-reply-to: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu's message of 23 Jan 1995 15:07:25 -0500
In article <3g129t$ig2@gandalf.rutgers.edu>,
kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) writes:
>Someone (sorry I forgot who) sent me email with this explanation
>for why BuildDisk 3.3 doesnt work (BTW, I still dont have an answer
>if the only problem is the one link, it seems to work otherwise).
>
>if I remember correctly, the manual of the 3.3 upgrade said that
>the BuildDisk.app will not work correctly in 3.3. I think they
>are not going to fix this because this keeps the people from
>copying NeXTStep illegally. You definitely seem to need the CDs
>to install NeXTStep.
>
>I know that they say its broken, but to NOT fix it for copy
>protection reasons is really dense?
Hmm. Before we all run off half-cocked, let's have some concrete
data? You appear to be basing this copy protection theory on your
own statement "I think they are not going to fix this". You've
presented no evidence for this statement. Perhaps, as is traditional
with programming, the bugs found their own way in and the programmers
didn't intend to put them there.
I think at least _some_ benefit of the doubt is in order, here,
--
scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/")
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From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is this true, NeXT copy protection of NS?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 20:42:27 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g4aa3$3h0@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <3g129t$ig2@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <SHESS.95Jan24124424@icicle.winternet.com>
shess@icicle.winternet.com (Scott Hess) writes:
> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) writes:
>>Someone (sorry I forgot who) sent me email with this explanation
>>for why BuildDisk 3.3 doesnt work (BTW, I still dont have an answer
>>if the only problem is the one link, it seems to work otherwise).
>Hmm. Before we all run off half-cocked, let's have some concrete
>data? You appear to be basing this copy protection theory on your
>own statement "I think they are not going to fix this". You've
Its not my own statement, someone sent me email to this effect. But since
then I have received information contrary to this falicious 'copy protection'
theory. Im sorry if I caused any confusion, I was just voicing my concerns
based on poor information given to me.
Later, John
From: wkwong@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Waihon A Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help: Reformat NeXTSTEP SCSI disk to DOS
Date: 24 Jan 1995 20:54:02 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3g3pda$r8d@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Hi All,
I have added a new disk to my NeXT/PC and I would like to format the old SCSI
NeXTSTEP startup disk for DOS. After I format the disk and install DOS, it still tries to start the NeXTSTEP with the following message:
NEXTSTEP BOOT1 V3.3.3.0
Anyone knows how to remove the booting sector and replace it?
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From: asoto@wsc.com ( Andre L. Soto )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PNI 1.13 dial on demand
Date: 25 Jan 1995 02:56:09 GMT
Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3g4eka$rdn@cerberus.wsc.com>
I have PNI 1.13 installed on NS 3.2. It works great when I manually start
the pni daemon. I want to set up pni so when I attempt to make an outside
connection (ftp, NFS, ping, etc) it starts automatically. I think this is
referred to as dial on demand.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advanced.
Andre L. Soto
asoto@wsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 15:23:42 CST
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Message-ID: <9501250723.AA07686@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Subject: Help: A3 printer and 2-byte font
Hi there,
Anyone experiences with A3 printer for 2-byte font as its output?
I know there is pakckage eXTRAPRINT which possibly provides solution.
However, NeXT3.2 does provide QMS2000 printer entry, and it is A3
printer. Do I have to purchase an additional package to sovle my
problem, or there does exist other alternatives instead.
Jackson Technologies
Jamie Lien
From: jkrause@osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Jon Krause)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help getting Epson 570 to work with NS 3.2
Date: 24 Jan 1995 19:08:55 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JKRAUSE.95Jan24110855@osiris.hmc.edu>
I am looking for a way to get an Epson 570 to work with NS 3.2. I am told
that under 3.1 this was possible using the Epson 510 configuration, but this
does not appear to exist for 3.2. BTW while I am an experienced UNIX admin
I am new to NeXT Step. I am still finding my way around its particular
quirks (please assume only UNIX not NS knowlege in answers).
-Jon
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Network & UNIX Systems Manager
Pitzer College, Claremont CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stephan@rodion.muc.de (Stephan Wacker)
Subject: Re: How to change what app. opens which files ?
In-Reply-To: arneha@ifi.uio.no's message of 10 Jan 1995 16:32:08 +0100
To: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Hårseth)
Message-ID: <STEPHAN.95Jan25212928@rodion.muc.de>
Sender: stephan@rodion.muc.de (Stephan Wacker)
Organization: Transmogrifiers Ltd.
References: <3eu99o$g1r@byleist.ifi.uio.no>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:29:28 GMT
On 10 Jan 1995 16:32:08 +0100, Arne Christian Hårseth (ACH) wrote:
ACH>
ACH> I would like to have Emacs open some files when mouse-clikking them,
ACH> but when i use inspector to change the app., only Edit is available; so
ACH> how do I extend this list ?
ACH>
ACH>
ACH> Arne
ACH>
ACH> (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
1) You can make Emacs the default application for opening any document:
dwrite Workspace DefaultOpenApp Emacs
2) I'm using Emacs 4.0 which offers to open the following extensions:
.y .l .el .tex .bib .C .cxx .cc .text .mh .cc .m .h .c
If your files fall in these categories you should get Emacs 4.0.
3) You could also try to add another entry to the __Icon/__header
section in your Emacs.app/Emacs using segedit(1). -- I've tried
it, but segedit doesn't like my Emacs.app/Emacs :-(
4) You can get the `Unknown' application which can be configured to
open any file in any application (via open -a Emacs), e.g. from
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/Unknown.N.bs.tar.gz
or any other NeXT archive (including sources).
Hope that helps
Stephan
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From: richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.2 and internal modems
Date: 24 Jan 1995 22:50:50 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Message-ID: <3g408a$kgc@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>
Dear All
In order to try to get my internal BocaModem (16550FA UART) working,
I installed an instance of Mux serial port driver as /dev/cuc,
leaving /dev/cua and /dev/cub (my two serial ports) to, be driven
by the NeXTStep SerialPorts driver.
The modem will dial up and connect to a SLIP server, but the
connection speed is wrong (2400 - it connects at 19200 under Windows)
and it dies after a few minutes of use.
If anyone is using Mux to drive an internal modem , I would very much
appreciate hearing from them.
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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: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: NetWare
Date: 24 Jan 1995 23:23:20 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3g4258$654@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Hello,
Since I've upgraded to 3.3 I can't see files on any Netware
servers at my site but I can print. Also Netware disconnects from any
server I'm on fairly quickly, thus I must constantly log in to the server
to print. Can someone point me to a resolution of this problem. For the
machines on my net that are still running 3.2, Netware works is fine.
Thank you!
Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wave!roger@svusenet.ubs.ch
Subject: Re: How to install MANY fonts?
Message-ID: <1995Jan25.172715.19649@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch>
Keywords: fonts
Sender: news@svusenet.ubs.ch
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland (Zuerich)
References: <D2xpAt.9F7@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 17:27:15 GMT
In article <D2xpAt.9F7@news.cis.umn.edu> klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (James
P Klett) writes:
> I searched the FAQ's but was unable to find an entry on how to install
> many fonts. I had about 200 fonts and I just added another 300 or so
> to my LocalLibrary/Fonts folder but for some reason I cant get the
> system to recognize them. I remember there being something like a 250
> font limit, but I cant remember the hack for getting around that.
--
You should use buildafmdir. See the man pages for more information. Here
is my Font directory:
svfinf10% ls -1 | grep '\.font' | wc -l /LocalLibrary/Fonts 18:22
435
svfinf10% /LocalLibrary/Fonts 18:23
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Roger Meyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (James P Klett)
Subject: How to install MANY fonts?
Message-ID: <D2xpAt.9F7@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 23:57:48 GMT
I searched the FAQ's but was unable to find an entry on how to install
many fonts. I had about 200 fonts and I just added another 300 or so
to my LocalLibrary/Fonts folder but for some reason I cant get the
system to recognize them. I remember there being something like a 250
font limit, but I cant remember the hack for getting around that.
Any help will be appreciated,
Thanks, JIM
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From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail - sending large messages efficiently to multiple recipients
Date: 24 Jan 1995 23:31:10 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3g42ju$3h2@shelob.afs.com>
We have a beta test cycle coming up for WriteUp and PasteUp, and I need
some advice for the best way to email large messages to groups. When we
were connected to PSI via UUCP, we would send the message to PSI once,
who would in turn forward it to the recipient list. Now that we have our
own full-time SLIP connection, I think our sendmail will contact each
recipient individually and send the entire message, over and over, until
each person has it. Correct?
This sounds like an awful lot to transfer at 28.8. Is there any way to
gang everyone together once on the way out, and have the individual drops
occur closer to the final delivery points? Or are we just screwed here?
How do large mailing lists handle this problem?
One thought that occurred to me was to have our access provider set up
a mailing list for us. We would send the message once to that alias
(say, WriteUp@netaxs.com), then they would reforward to the entire list.
Is that a possibility, assuming they are willing to go along with it?
You would think this arrangement would tie them up _less_, since their
connection is much faster than ours.
All advice gratefully appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--
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Stud Hombre Cybermuffin | of intelligent, informed computer
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greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | without lives.'" -- Dave Barry, 2/6/94
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies)
Subject: Re: Do you know any ISDN card for NSfI ?
Message-ID: <D2xILn.17q@gurke.ping.de>
Sender: usenet@gurke.ping.de
Organization: Legalize THC
References: <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE> <3fmea3$6h@filtronix.eunet.be>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:34:35 GMT
filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) wrote:
>In article <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE> dirk@bernard.pfm-mainz.de (Dirk
>Lembens) writes:
> > Does anyone know about a ISDN card running under NS for Intel?
> > Please send all infos to
>Not yet. Wait until ZyXEL releases their 2864I. I'll be releasing a driver
>for it's 'Parallel Port Interface'.
That doesn't sound like an ISDN card, but an ISDN Modem (controlled via AT
commands, no CAPI).
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From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies)
Subject: Re: NS3.2 and internal modems
Message-ID: <D2xIz0.18E@gurke.ping.de>
Sender: usenet@gurke.ping.de
Organization: Legalize THC
References: <3fm3ld$oc6@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:42:36 GMT
richarda@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Achmatowicz) wrote:
>Dear All
>I have an Intel box with 2 com ports and would like to use
>an *internal* fax/modem with NS3.2. The fax/modem is
>configured as com3 in DOS.
>Is it possible to use internal modems with NS3.2?
Sure, why not?
>If yes, is there a driver that I can get hold of to drive my
>BocaModem 14.4?
You don't need a modem driver, you need a serial port driver. As far
as I know, every internal modem is controlled via COM port. Your
machine thinks your internal modem is an external modem + serial port.
The Mux serial driver works better than the NeXT driver. Note that the
latest release of Mux works only with 3.2. not with 3.3.
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 15:15:55 CST
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Message-ID: <9501250715.AA07353@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Subject: HELP: Boot sector in PC-based NeXT
Hi There,
When the machines is booting, and the message "...type d for DOS and n
for NeXT..." is gone somewhere. Has anyone known how to get it back?
Jamie Lien
From: ppregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Pregler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: HELP: Mail.App 3.0 offline mailgrepping?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 25 Jan 1995 13:25:28 GMT
Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria
Message-ID: <3g5jg8$n00@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Hi all,
I should set up Mail.App on a NeXT (running 3.0) in a way that a
secretary can read the mails of her boss too. I am no NeXT-expert and
this thing has practically no real documentation. So the easiest
solution for me seemed to be the following setup: They share the
Active.mbox (I assume/hope Mail.App does some locking for it). Only
problem is that new mail will be included only by the Mail.App of the
boss, i.e. the secretary can only handle old mails. Is there any way to
start the MailFetch-program that seems to be part of Mail.App from the
command line? I found no documentation on this and if I just try it out
it simply doesn't find an obscure port to connect to. Of cause, any
other ideas are welcome too :-).
-Peter.
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die jederzeit willkuerlich erzeugt werden koennen -- Ebbinghaus.
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Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
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From: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEC CD ROM Drive Busy light blinking
Date: 25 Jan 1995 15:51:39 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3g5s2b$64r@shelob.afs.com>
Keywords: CD ROM
I have an Intel Pentium 60 Mhz PCI system with an Adaptec 2940 controller
chained to a NEC CD Rom and then a Seagate 31200N drive. I'm running
NS3.3. The CD Rom's busy light and the tower's drive light pulse/blink
until a CD is inserted. The disk mounts and reads fine. When the system is
booted in DOS, this "pinging" of the CD Rom does not happen.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg
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Anderson Financial Systems, Inc.
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email: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
From: sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu (David A. Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disktab entries needed for Seagate ST15230N (Hawk 4)
Date: 25 Jan 1995 23:03:36 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University - Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g6lc8$d0s@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Hello, netland.
I am in need of disktab entries for the Seagate ST15230N disk (a
4.3gig device). If anyone else is using these with a NeXTstation, and
can provide this info and any other needed configuration data, I'd
sure appreciate it!
TIA,
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From: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: strange netinfo problem
Date: 26 Jan 1995 20:30:34 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <3g90pa$r2s@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
References: <1995Jan23.101400.6228@megatel.de>
In article <1995Jan23.101400.6228@megatel.de> gfd@megatel.de (Olaf
Reins) writes:
> Hi,
>
> after upgrading to NeXTSTEP 3.3 the netinfod for the network database
shows a
> strange behavior. It works for some hours, and then all of a sudden
eats up all
> the cpu time.
>
> syslog reports the following:
>
> Jan 23 07:35:58 megatel lookupd[129]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed
> out
> Jan 23 07:36:03 megatel lookupd[129]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed
> out
>
> Does anybody have an idea what might cause this. Beside the upgrade to
3.3
> nothing changed in our network environment.
Exactly the same is happening for us:
Jan 26 03:21:25 thecube syslog: NetInfo connection failed for server
129.187.148.200/network
Jan 26 03:21:31 thecube syslog: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed
out
Jan 26 03:21:36 thecube syslog: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed
out
Jan 26 03:25:20 thecube lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Jan 26 03:26:35 thecube lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection failed for
server 129.1
Any ideas ? This happens at night, so all I see, is that nobody can login
in the morming. Very unfortunate.
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: icon of new users is a folder instead of home
References: <3fc83c$oh3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <O> <D2o343.BtK@seas.ucla.edu>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:03:10 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Jan25.140310.1351@proximus.north.de>
In article <D2o343.BtK@seas.ucla.edu>,
Ryan Scott <scott@volta.ee.ucla.edu> wrote:
>In article <3fc83c$oh3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, root@nukestep.mit.edu (Operator) writes:
>> When I create new user accounts, the icon
>> for that user shows up as folder instead
>> of a home. How do I change the account so
>> that the home icon displays for that user?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Greg
>
>Make sure that "Large file system" in Preferences.app (Unix sec.) is not
>checked. When this option is selected to speed the file reading process
>it does not look at directory types.
Strangely enough, I have it checked (yes, as root, too) and still the
home dirs are displayed as home icons... The manual just says that large
filesystems are displayed faster but not how this is done. So I guess
Greg has another problem.
Gerhard.
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From: shon@WordPerfect.com (Shon Vella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rlogin problems
Date: 25 Jan 1995 23:19:02 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc
Message-ID: <3g6m96$4oc@volcane.wordperfect.com>
I'm unable to rlogin or telnet into my NeXT running 3.2, and so far I've
not been able to figure out why. When I try it lets me enter the password
and appears to validate it ok and I get the 'Last login ...' message,
but then I get a 'Connection closed' message. This only seems to happen
when csh is the default shell, and it doesn't appear to me that it is even
getting as far as the executing .cshrc. I probably have changed
something or deleted something that I shouldn't have but I haven't
a clue what it could be. Anybody have any ideas?
Shon Vella
Novell, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <D2zDCy.5vu@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3g1g1b$jos@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 21:36:33 GMT
In article <3g1g1b$jos@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes:
> Magnus Nordborg (magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
> : Hi,
>
> : here is another printing question. How does one simply enable
> : PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the Windows apps do not
> : produce PostScript?
>
> : Thanks,
>
<munge>
Means that to print the user has to print from the application,
> then print from the user space. Pain it the butt, but it sure beats
> sneakernet.
Hey, there's a great hunk of shareware for windows called an lpr
spooler. It creates new ports in the win.ini that you can print to. It
takes the print output and fires it out across the net using lpr (lpq and
lprm are involved here with a graphic interface too). If the attempt fails
it trys again in a user specified amount of time. This is winsock compliant
software.
Look at http://www.lcs.com/lpr.htm for info on lpr clients for
winsock.
Look at http://learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/wintcpip.html for how to
get winsock going under windows and about other neat software for it. Geez,
this stuff makes windoze almost appear like a real o/s. :-)
Mario
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Accessing PhotoCD using PLI CR-ROM drive
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 21:43:35 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <RS76KC3.jadamski@delphi.com>
I have a PLI CR-ROM drive attached to my NeXTstation color, but can't access
PhotoCDs. The PLI drive I have has the Toshiba inners, and suppose to have
PhotoCD capibility. Called PLI tech support, no nothing about NeXT, said
must be a software problem.
I have NS 3.3 loaded and I copied the /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs and made
sure all the promisions are set okay.
I purchased the drive in later part of '93 expecting to get a PhotoCD in the
future, got one late last year, tried under NS 3.2, no luck, and got busy on
other things. Now I have some time and want to get it working, so any
suggestions of what next to do, will be welcomed. I tried the CD in a Mac
and can pull up the pic's, so think it's okay.
jadamski@delphi.com
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From: sali@tamika.rockefeller.edu (Andrej Sali)
Subject: modem login NXFax
Message-ID: <D2zuHs.ABH@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Sender: usenet@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 03:46:40 GMT
Could somebody please tell me how to enable a modem login and receiving
faxes via NXFax 1.3, without having to switch between the two modes. I
have a NeXTstation with NS3.2. With the /etc/ttys entry
ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" dialup on
NXFax says it is not accepting any faxes when this entry is ON. It works
fine when this entry is OFF, but then I cannot login via a modem because
NeXT is not accepting data calls.
Thanks, Andrej
From: drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Deleting root's files?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 15:51:44 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3g8geg$5pc@mordred.gatech.edu>
References: <D2zv18.85E@ritz.mordor.com>
Steve Borrelli (borrelli@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: It seeems that my user file can delete files belonging to root. Can anyone
: clarify this behavior to me?
: localhost> ls -al
: total 1443
: drwxr-xr-x 2 steve 1024 Jan 25 22:28 ./
: drwxr-xr-x 21 steve 2048 Jan 25 21:16 ../
: -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Jan 25 22:28 test
Looking at the above directory, the FILE belongs to root, but the DIRECTORY
belongs to 'steve' (who I assume is the user that can delete the file).
Therefore, 'steve' has permission to erase files in that directory (i.e.
change the directory structure).
Now, if you had the reverse, say:
: drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jan 25 22:28 ./
: drwxr-xr-x 21 root 2048 Jan 25 21:16 ../
: -rw-r--r-- 1 steve 0 Jan 25 22:28 test
Then 'steve' could change the file test, but not erase it (becuase root
owned the directory).
--
Dave Rinker
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
CSX Transportation. Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Internet: gt2780a@prism.gatech.edu -- NeXT Mail welcome
.forward -> drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu -- Until 3/18/95
Date: 26 Jan 1995 16:32:00 +0100
From: kris@black.schulung.netuse.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_K=F6hntopp?=)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <5ealicNJnrB@black.schulung.netuse.de>
References: <D2zv18.85E@ritz.mordor.com>
Subject: Re: Deleting root's files?
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Organization: Orga-what?
> How is it that I can destroy files belonging to root? My
> account is a member of group wheel, but the permission is
> still 644. This is only a single user system at the moment,
> but that may change in the future.
To delete a file in UNIX you do not need ownership of the file,
but you need w and x rights at the directory the filename is
stored in. That is, to delete a file in the root directory you
need w and x right in the root directory /.
Ownership and rights of the file are ignored, because it is not
the files inode that is to be changed, but only a directory
entry in the containing directory. You need the x right in this
directory to be able to enter the directory and you need the w
right to be able to modify the directory.
In NeXTstep the permissions of / are 777, wich is a bug. These
permissions should be at least 1777, if not 755. Permissions of
1777 change the behaviour of the unlink(2) system call: In this
case there applies one additional condition for the unlink(2)
system call to be successful: You have to be either root (EUID
== 0) or owner of the file to be deleted (EUID == UID of the
file). 1777 are correct permissions for all tmp-Directories for
example.
Directory-Permissions of / should not be less than 755 in any
case. Especially x-rights for everyone are necessare to be able
to resolve pathnames correctly. Try the following: Open two
terminal windows. In one window become root. Do not close this
window in any case unless you have restored AND VERIFIED the
correct permissions of /. In the other window become a regular
user.
Now change / to 700 in the root window and try "ls" in the user
window. The system is not even able to execute the ls command:
The user has no right to begin pathname resolution in the /
directory. This means, no absolute pathname can be resolved any
more. Execution of any loadable command fails.
Directory permissions of 711 in / allow pathname resolution,
but the missing r rights forbid listing of the contents of /. A
"ls -l /" gets the ls command loaded, but the opendir(3) of ls
fails. Listing of directories below / work, although you have
to know the names of this directories before.
Restore AND VERIFIY the correct permissions of either 755 or
1777 in the root directory before you terminate your root shell
(I chose 1777 for my single user system and would have chosen
755 in any multi user environment).
Kristian
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From: leon@Cleopatra.hna.com.au (Leon Garde)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exploding electric components
Date: 24 Jan 1995 23:53:25 +1100
Organization: the Hunter Network Association
Message-ID: <3g2t85$2g8@cleopatra.hna.com.au>
References: <3fbja7$di6@cutter.clas.ufl.edu> <3fe0s2$v3@enst.enst.fr>
laroche@sig.enst.fr (Jean Laroche ) writes:
>Not just electronic components blow up. According to S. Tap, drummers do too.
>J Laroche
the bridge rectifier in my 386's power supply decided to
detach itself from the pcb, in a very violent manner,
a few months ago.
certainly scared me , I thought it might have been the
hard drive I keep news on :) (that was probably drawing
much power, thus causing the component to breath out .. )
leon
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lgarde@scorch.hna.com.au
From: hoff@lache.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Do you know any ISDN card for NSfI ?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 16:16:41 GMT
Organization: German Research Center for Information Technology
Sender: hoff@lache (Holger Hoffstaette)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g8ht9$rel@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE> <3fmea3$6h@filtronix.eunet.be> <D2xILn.17q@gurke.ping.de>
In article <D2xILn.17q@gurke.ping.de>, tini@gurke.ping.de
(Constantin Szallies) writes:
>filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) wrote:
>>In article <D2M2pE.4sK@news.PFM-Mainz.DE> dirk@bernard.pfm-mainz.de (Dirk
>>Lembens) writes:
>> > Does anyone know about a ISDN card running under NS for Intel?
>> > Please send all infos to
>
>>Not yet. Wait until ZyXEL releases their 2864I. I'll be releasing a driver
>>for it's 'Parallel Port Interface'.
>That doesn't sound like an ISDN card, but an ISDN Modem (controlled via AT
>commands, no CAPI).
CAPI 2.0 (according to ZyXEL's press info).
This thing will be -quite- different from other so-called 'modems'.
(I just hope they don't botch the german ISDN modes, with compatibility
and everything one has to worry about..sigh)
Holger
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From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Do you know any ISDN card for NSfI ?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 18:29:49 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g8pmt$7i@filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <D2xILn.17q@gurke.ping.de>
In article <D2xILn.17q@gurke.ping.de> tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin
Szallies) writes:
> filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier) wrote:
>>> Does anyone know about a ISDN card running under NS for Intel?
>>> Please send all infos to
>> Not yet. Wait until ZyXEL releases their 2864I. I'll be releasing a
>> driver for it's 'Parallel Port Interface'.
> That doesn't sound like an ISDN card, but an ISDN Modem (controlled
> via AT commands, no CAPI).
It is a modem and a card but in this case it didn't matter. Many don't
care if it's a card or a modem, for as long as they can use with their
favourite NeXTSTEP.
Filip
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From: rzw1@cornell.edu (Rafael Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP software for Intel?
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 11:31:58 PST
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: rzw1@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <3g8irg$f3l@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Does anyone know of SLIP software (preferably shareware) that will
run on intel hardware?
Thanks in advance
Rafael
From: ried@garfield.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: S:bibtex front-end
Date: 26 Jan 95 15:39:32
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <ried.95Jan26153932@garfield.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE.theo-phys>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Hi folks,
I'm searching for something that helps me editing my bibtex-files. There are nice things for X11 like bibview or xbibtex.
Is there anywhere a port for NS ?
please send e-mail. I'm not observing this group.
stef
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E-Mail : ried@garfield.theo-phys.uni-essen.de __/___/
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Project : working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals
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From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: 3.3 sendmail configuration (SOLVED)
Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (TWI News Administration)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:07:09 GMT
Message-ID: <D309Bx.3Br@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
Well, actually, I've been unable to reproduce the behavior. Looks as
if something else was a problem. Rectifications are due.
Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand, Tom Hageman and Robert La Ferla for their tips.
Dimitri
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| Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
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| Fac Applied Math & Computer Science| NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland |
| Dep of Statistics, Probabilitistics| NiNe |
| and Operations Research | NEXTSTEP In the Netherlands |
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From: Neil Greene <neil@bMD.com>
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <1995Jan26.225840.6477@bMD.com>
Sender: neil@bMD.com
Organization: benchMark Developments, Inc. (314-872-2907)
References: <D2zDCy.5vu@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:58:40 GMT
In article <D2zDCy.5vu@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca
(Mario Stargard) writes:
> In article <3g1g1b$jos@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes:
> > Magnus Nordborg (magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
> > : Hi,
> >
> > : here is another printing question. How does one simply enable
> > : PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the Windows apps do
not
> > : produce PostScript?
> >
> > : Thanks,
> >
We have both Chameleon from Netmanage and FTP's PC TCP/IP printing to NeXT
laser printers as NFS mounted postscript printers. Works perfectly fine.
These are two commerical solutions and you can pick the one of your choice
depending on other features like mail, news, etc.
---
Sincerely,
Neil Greene
---------------
benchMark Developments, Inc.
11970 Charter Oak Parkway, St Louis MO 63146
Phone: 314-872-2907 / 800-872-3131
Email: Neil@bMD.com [NeXT/Mime mail accepted]
From: mark@taliesin (Mark Imbriaco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing to NeXT from a Mac.
Date: 26 Jan 1995 12:30:18 GMT
Organization: Internet Presence & Publishing
Message-ID: <3g84kq$sgl@news.ip.net>
Hi, I'm trying to configure a Powermac running MacTCP in our
office to be able to print to a NeXT laserprinter connected
(surprisingly enough) to a NeXTcube. I have managed to get
an lpr program running on the Mac, and I'm able to print using
it, but I'd rather have a desktop printer that I can print out
of applications with. Any clues on how to do it?
mark
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From: Eric_Litman@nxstep.com (Eric A. Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail - sending large messages efficiently to multiple recipients
Date: 26 Jan 1995 12:19:23 -0600
Organization: Viaduct, Inc.
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9501261818.AA01378@nxstep.com>
In article <9501260645.AA14331@afs.com> Greg Anderson wrote:
# Another quick question about sendmail: We are starting a
# beta test cycle for WriteUp and PasteUp, which means we will
# be mailing a bunch of large messages (several megabytes
# each) to a list of users. When we sent mail through UUCP to
# PSI, it was a single-shot mailing from our perspective. Now
# that we're directly on the net, I assume that our firewall
# host's sendmail process will attempt direct point-to-point
# delivery, in sequence, to each member of the list. Correct?
You could do this:
#!/bin/sh
mconnect netaxs.com << GOBBLE
MAIL FROM:<Greg_Anderson@afs.com>
RCPT TO:<user@host>
RCPT TO:<user1@host1>
RCPT TO:<user2@host2>
DATE
message with headers here
\. <- this is a single period at the beginning of a line, without the backslash
QUIT
GOBBLE
The easiest way to send this message is to create a local alias called Beta,
which simply points back to yourself. After composing and delivering the
outgoing message to beta, quit Mail.app and copy the mail spool file into
the script above. Save the script, set the execute bit, and run it. This
will send the message once to your provider, who will then forward it off
to however many users you need to send this to.
An alternate to this would be to redefine $R in your sendmail.cf to point to
your access provider's mail server. Note that it's important that this be
an A or CNAME record, as with 3.X sendmail, an MX record here would be
unreliable.
Best of luck.
</eal>
--
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elitman@nxstep.com Viaduct, Inc. Silver Spring, MD
From: Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: su.computers.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rehashing the NetInfo Database
Date: 26 Jan 1995 18:44:11 GMT
Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g8qhr$on@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Is there anyway to get the NetInfo database to rehash, and
concatenate all of the 'extension_*' files into one?
The Residential Computing NeXTs at Stanford are used by
a large number of people, and have about 24,000 accounts on them.
After long periods of use, a large number of 'extension_*' files
( > 5000) build up in the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb directory.
This has the effect of slowing down bootup (network_init) so
badly that it sometimes can take 10-15 *hours* to reboot one of
the machines.
The only fix I have found to this so far is to delete all
of the extenion_* files, along with the 'Collection' file
where the nidb is stored, and restore it from
/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb. I then have
to niload all of the modifications we've made to our
nexts, including the 24,000+ users. Just niloading that many
users take about 18 hours.
With 40 of these old black pieces of hardware, I clearly don't
have enough time to be doing this on a continuing basis. Thus,
does anyone know of a way to rehash all of the information in the
extenion-* files back into the Collection file?
Hardware specifics:
NeXT cubes and slabs (black) running NS 3.0.
Many thanks!
Dane Spearing --- Residential Computing --- Stanford University
dane@rescomp.stanford.edu -- (415) 723-4800
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~dane/dane.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: borrelli@ritz.mordor.com (Steve Borrelli)
Subject: Deleting root's files?
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 03:58:20 GMT
Message-ID: <D2zv18.85E@ritz.mordor.com>
It seeems that my user file can delete files belonging to root. Can anyone
clarify this behavior to me?
localhost> su
Password:
localhost:1# touch test
localhost:2# exit
localhost:3#
localhost> ls -al
total 1443
drwxr-xr-x 2 steve 1024 Jan 25 22:28 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 steve 2048 Jan 25 21:16 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Jan 25 22:28 test
localhost> rm test
rm: override protection 644 for test? y
localhost> ls -al
total 1443
drwxr-xr-x 2 steve 1024 Jan 25 22:29 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 steve 2048 Jan 25 21:16 ../
localhost>
How is it that I can destroy files belonging to root? My account is a member
of group wheel, but the permission is still 644. This is only a single user
system at the moment, but that may change in the future.
_steve
--
Steven Borrelli borrelli@ritz.mordor.com
NeXT, MIME mail formats, finger for PGP key, blah blah blah
From: bkowal@aludra.usc.edu (Brian A. Kowal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Station will not power down
Date: 26 Jan 1995 14:17:14 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: bkowal@aludra.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g971a$18k@aludra.usc.edu>
I have a NeXT Station (040) that has problems when I power down. I
hit the power button (or type "halt -p" in a terminal window), the
machine powers down, but then instantly repowers back up. There is no
way to turn off the computer except for pulling the power cord out of
the wall.
This started to happen after I removed the CPU battery for 6 hours.
Thanks in advance for any advice on my problem.
Brian A. Kowal
kowal@usc.edu
From: jtodd@ss2.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install MANY fonts?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 23:27:48 GMT
Organization: Digital Express
Message-ID: <3g9b5k$pth@news1.digex.net>
References: <D2xpAt.9F7@news.cis.umn.edu>
James P Klett (klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
: I searched the FAQ's but was unable to find an entry on how to install
: many fonts. I had about 200 fonts and I just added another 300 or so
: to my LocalLibrary/Fonts folder but for some reason I cant get the
: system to recognize them. I remember there being something like a 250
: font limit, but I cant remember the hack for getting around that.
: Any help will be appreciated,
: Thanks, JIM
: --
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: James P. Klett klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The hack that I remembered was to get a buildafmdir program from a 2.1 or
older disk that you have laying around. This is how I do it, at least, and
I have 500+ fonts currently.
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Date: 24 Jan 1995 00:01:47 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3g1g1b$jos@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <MAGNUS.95Jan20185256@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk>
Magnus Nordborg (magnus@mimer.cap.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi,
: here is another printing question. How does one simply enable
: PC's to print to a NeXT? Is it possible when the Windows apps do not
: produce PostScript?
: Thanks,
Yes you can.
Define a plain postscript printer in windows.
Set it up, having it print to a file.
Edit eitehr the system.ini or the win.ini and insert the line
Cntr-D=0 (Check the syntax on this. It's in one of the README
files that comes in windows.)
Now get and install NCSA telnet, which includes an lpr command.
Write a batch file that looks for the print file, sends it to
the printer, then deletes it.
Attach that batch file to an icon.
Means that to print the user has to print from the application,
then print from the user space. Pain it the butt, but it sure beats
sneakernet.
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Current version of Omniweb?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 00:04:03 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3g1g5j$jos@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I very cleverly replaced by 0.6.something version of OmniWeb with
0.7.5.4. Of course the new version doesn't work.
It also points to an incorrect ftp site.
And the 0.7.5.4 is the only version currently on ftp.cs.orst.edu.
Pointer to a current version appreciated.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange Mail Problems
Date: 24 Jan 1995 16:43:22 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g3anb$8vf@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
References: <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In article <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu
(JIM KOCH) writes:
> this is a test post from anchor
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange Mail Problems
Date: 24 Jan 1995 16:43:45 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g3ao1$8vg@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
References: <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In article <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu
(JIM KOCH) writes:
> this is a test post from anchor
.
.
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange Mail Problems
Date: 24 Jan 1995 16:45:39 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g3arj$8vi@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
References: <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In article <3foonl$f97@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH) writes:
> this is a test post from anchor
.
.
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as
nails!
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From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail SOLUTION - sending large messages efficiently to multiple recipients
Date: 27 Jan 1995 05:20:48 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3g9vrg$19jh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3g94vt$b17@shelob.afs.com>
In article <3g94vt$b17@shelob.afs.com> Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H.
Anderson) writes:
..
> sendmail will do way too much work at way too low speed. It turns out the
> easiest way to accomplish this is to add the fast site to each recipient's
> mail path For example, if the list 'WUBeta' consisted of
>
> foo@bar.com
> mumble@zork.com
> fidgit@willies.com
>
> for each name, just tack on the path to the exploder:
>
> foo@bar.com@netaxs.com
> mumble@zork.com@netaxs.com
> fidgit@willies.com@netaxs.com
This syntax is BOGUS BOGUS BOGUS! (breaks the RFC822/976 addressing rules)
FYI, intellignet MTA's will bounce it all back to you:
expn foo@bar.com@netaxs.com
250-Error in "foo@bar.com@netaxs.com" RFC822/976 address:
250-
250- foo@bar.com
250- ^-Extraneous program text
250-
554 illegal address syntax: <foo@bar.com@netaxs.com>
Use instead the following proper address syntax:
foo%bar.com@netaxs.com
mumble%zork.com@netaxs.com
fidgit%willies.com@netaxs.com
This will give you the desired result:
expn foo%bar.com@netaxs.com
250 smtp delivery to netaxs.com for <foo%bar.com@netaxs.com>
Also, I would caution you not to utilize an explicit forced
routing to a mail gateway without first asking for that mailgateway's
permission, especially if your list is large. Smart MTA gateway
routing software can configure abusers out > /dev/null or just
deny SMTP transactions from an abusive site!
--
James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab
Computing/Networking Phone : (403) 492-8226
Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
From: dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au (Richard West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sending mail via a remote machine
Date: 27 Jan 1995 05:40:14 GMT
Organization: Monash University
Message-ID: <3ga0vu$j9k@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Summary: How to send mail via a remote account across a SLIP link
Keywords: SLIP sendmail remote account mail
Hi,
I've at last got a slip link going into uni using PNI SLIP 1.11. However, I
would like to be able to compose mail off-line and automatically send mail up
and pull it down when I SLIP in. I have tried PopOver, but it didn't work as
I don't think our machine at monash has POP or IMAP. I can see that to get
mail I would just copy direct from the spoll directory into mine (which I
already do).
But is there any way to automatically send out mail from my machine through
my uni account (is it possible to do this by modifiying some sendmail file?).
Thanks,
Richard (dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au)
:-)
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from Windows to NEXTSTEP
Date: 27 Jan 1995 19:46:20 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3gbiic$hag@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <D2zDCy.5vu@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> <1995Jan26.225840.6477@bMD.com>
One of the advantages of the ncsa telnet package is that you don't have
load any drivers. lpr loads the driver, runs, and unloads it when it
exits. All the other solutions I've looked at require a resident driver,
which in turn reduces the amount of space that windows progs have.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: SWHX76A@prodigy.com (Brian Pinto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Error Message 554 Service unavailable...
Date: 25 Jan 1995 22:53:10 GMT
Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g6kom$7no@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com>
Reply-To: bolinger@cel.cummins.com, pinto@cel.cummins.com
Problem: sendmail: 554 Service unavailable
Looking through the c.s.n.sysadmin archives on sonata.cc.purdue.edu, we
found many posts on this topic. Although there were a few suggestions,
most were vague or incomplete. In addition to reading the sendmail manual,
we are posting here to gather more information...
We basically want to connect one stand-alone machine to the net using
a SLIP access provider. The provider has assigned us an IP address and
given us the addresses of the gateway and domain server. The machine
should function when the SLIP connection is down.
Here's our setup:
HW: i486 Eclipse
USRobotics Sportster 14400
residential phone line
SW: NS3.2 for intel
free TransSysPNI SLIP pkg
network: none (stand-alone machine)
hostname: localhost
SLIP name: logikos2.ping.com
domain: ping.com
Changes so far:
1. Left NetInfo hostname as 'localhost'.
2. Setup PNI SLIP. (note: this removes the 'serves ../network' property
for the local NetInfo domain.) Now we can ping, rlogin, and ftp to
absolute addresses. Cannot receive mail.
3. Added NetInfo aliases of 'logikos2' and 'logikos2.ping.com' to
localhost.
This solved unknown host problem. Still refuses mail with "544 Serv...
"
The sender gets bounced mail from the MAILER-DAEMON@ping.ping.com
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to logikos2.ping.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 554 <bolinger@logikos2.ping.com>... 554 Service unavailable
554 <bolinger@logikos2.ping.com>... Service unavailable
4. Changed the sendmail.cf value for local domain re: Next Sys Admin
manual.
Now it is sendmail.mailhost.cf. This had no effect on incoming mail.
5. Added /etc/resolv.conf file --> "domain ping.com nameserver 166.78.1.
2"
no effect on mail. removed it.
<now I'm stuck>
Some basic questions...
Why would a plain install of NS3.2intel not want to receive email?
Where is this newsgroup archived? (other than sonata)
Where is there a good description on how to configure a stand-alone system?
Where are good FAQs on Nextstep?
Why is this "554" problem so common?
If you tell me to RTFM, could you please specify which manual and which
page?
If there's one thing I learned from the archives, it's not to futz with
the administration of a UNIX box. I'd better know what I'm doing
before
doing it. I just want to get it right.
Much obliged,
Eric Bolinger
Brian Pinto
P.S: PLEASE REPLY TO: boliger@cel.cummins.co or pinto@cel.cummins.com. I
use Prodigy for Usenet access only.
No NeXTmail either :(
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax and modem login
Date: 27 Jan 1995 15:17:48 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gb2qs$tgj@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <D31CDL.Cwp@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Andrej Sali writes
> This is just a followup on my NXFax question. One can do both faxing and
> modem login if the corresponding serial port is turned off in /etc/ttys
> and the appropriate entries in the NXFaxMonitor Preferences menu are
> turned ON. This would be easy to find out if I had NXFax 1.04 (which I
> should) because the instructions in this latest version are great.
>
> I'd also like to say thanks to Rick Damon of Black&White Software (they
> are the guys who are selling NXFax) who responded to my query
immediately.
> If only all companies were like this ...
Agreed. B&W have always been very helpful. They quickly sorted out my
problem with using the same modem for Fax and slip logins (it was the
modem's fault, and a ROM upgrade fixed it). With a suitable modem,
NXFax will decide if an incoming call is FAX or data, and if it's data
it'll spawn a getty to handle it and stay out of the way. I have
my black Turbo set up this way, with NXFax and PNI slip. It works like
a charm with my Supra 288 modem.
----------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept.
Network manager, Web manager and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/finleyg.html
From: jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing from NeXT on another network machine
Date: 27 Jan 1995 06:54:06 -0500
Organization: The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gamsu$f2i@thor.tjhsst.edu>
I'm running an '040 NeXT version 2.1. We've got an Apple Laserprinter hooked
up to one of the machines on our network, and I'd like to set the NeXT up to
use that printer, but don't really know how I'd do this. Any ideas?
-John Harding
NeXT System Administrator, TJHSST Computer Systems Research Lab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: King_Richard@pcp.ca (Richard King)
Subject: Mouse not recognized loading NS 3.3 on PCI system
Message-ID: <1995Jan26.185605.26490@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 18:56:05 GMT
When installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my PCI machine, installation went great
until the point where it reboots. While it rebooted without hanging, it
did not recognize my Logitech MouseMan serial mouse, connected to the
first serial port.
The motherboard is PCI/VESA/ISA.
Other cards in the system were an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller (PCI), a
Diamond Stealth 64 (PCI), a ProAudio Studio (ISA), as well as the multi-IO
card containing 2 serial ports, a parallel port and a [disabled] IDE
controller (VESA).
Any ideas on how to solve the mouse problem? Without it, I can't proceed
through the installation.
Side Note: the video seemed to work find in VGA mode with the exception of
2 wide, red, 1 character high bars across the bottom of the screen. I
assume those will go away once I get the machine configured.
Either email or post, if email I'll test and summarize.
Thank you for your time,
Richard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jbright@stimpy (Jason Bright)
Subject: Re: NEC CD ROM Drive Busy light blinking
Message-ID: <D2z5J3.M6p@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3g5s2b$64r@shelob.afs.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 18:47:27 GMT
Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com wrote:
: I have an Intel Pentium 60 Mhz PCI system with an Adaptec 2940 controller
: chained to a NEC CD Rom and then a Seagate 31200N drive. I'm running
: NS3.3. The CD Rom's busy light and the tower's drive light pulse/blink
: until a CD is inserted. The disk mounts and reads fine. When the system is
: booted in DOS, this "pinging" of the CD Rom does not happen.
: Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
The light is blinking because the OS is constantly checking to see if a
disk has been inserted (I remember on my old amiga, the floppy drives used
to make a ticking noise when empty because the OS was constantly polling
them). When you insert a disk, the OS does the mounting, etc , and it
shows up nice and clean in the WS Manager.
DOS, on the other hand, doesn't have a clue (or care!) whether a disk has
been inserted or not. It will happily try to read from the drive whether
there is a disk inserted or not- how many times have to tried to read
something from a floppy and gotten the old 'abort, retry, fail' error
because you specified the wrong drive?
Basically, if the drive is attached, DOS assumes that there is media in
it, until it tries and fails.
This isn't a problem with your system (my Cube + NEC Intersect exhibits
the same behaviour). It's just life.
later
j
jbright@stimpy.carleton.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Subject: Re: NS3.2 and internal modems
Message-ID: <D31vvD.2HI@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Organization: UNIX drivers'R'Us
References: <3fm3ld$oc6@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk> <D2xIz0.18E@gurke.ping.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 06:11:37 GMT
tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies) writes:
>The Mux serial driver works better than the NeXT driver. Note that the
>latest release of Mux works only with 3.2. not with 3.3.
Mux V1.6 is sitting on ftp.cs.orst.edu in the submissions directory (it may
have moved elsewhere), and works on NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Yahoo!)
Enjoy -- Mark Salyzyn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SIPP & PPP
Message-ID: <1995Jan25.091446.39170@cc.usu.edu>
From: mike@hobbs.chem.usu.edu (Michael Emmel)
Date: 25 Jan 95 09:14:46 MDT
Distribution: world
I ame getting A NS/I box for home and want to run SLIP or PPP on it any
body will to give me some general info on SLIPP amd PPP.
1.) Must I have a slip server at the other end of the connection. right
now I log in through a VMS system to reach my NeXT machines running 2.1
Thanks Mike.
From: tshores@unlinfo.unl.edu (thomas shores)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: removing master boot record
Date: 25 Jan 1995 22:31:02 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3g6jf6$g9f@crcnis3.unl.edu>
From within DOS (assuming you have a recent >=6.0 version) type
"fdisk /mbr <Enter>". This should do it.
Tom Shores
From: Eric_Litman@nxstep.com (Eric A. Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A Beginner's Guide to NeXTSTEP Security (WAS Re: Security under NextStep 3.2)
Date: 26 Jan 1995 13:39:44 -0600
Organization: Viaduct, Inc.
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9501261938.AA01437@nxstep.com>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin on 22 Jan 1995 04:56:40 GMT kuper@glue.umd.edu wrote:
# I have taken oven a small network of boxes recently upgraded to
# NextStep 3.2. I am wodering if anyone knows of any security issues
# specific to NeXTStep 3.2
Yes, there are a number of holes. This is by no means a comprehensive
guide to NeXTSTEP security (wait for my book), but it should provide
you with a reasonably good starting point.
First, install the sendmail patch from NeXTanswers (ftp.next.com). This fixes
(at least) 3 discrete sendmail holes whereby a user can easily gain root
access.
Second, chmod 755 /, as there is a small hole in /etc/rc which can be
exploited to gain root access with a world writable root directory.
Third, chmod 755 /NextDeveloper/Demos, as this directory is world-writable
and is in root's path.
Fourth, there are a number of directories in NetInfo with a writers property
of *. These are Bad Things in an open computing environment, and should
either be removed or have their value changed from "*" to "root". I believe
there is something called 'fixni' or 'fixnetinfo' - something to that effect -
published by NeXT to simplify this task. Again check NeXTanswers for this.
Fifth, there is a bug in NeXT's implementation of portmapper whereby NFS
filesystems can be exploited when an NFS server exports its directories to
itself. If you use NFS, be careful of the machines you put into the exports
list.
Sixth, the PublicWindowServer capabilities of the window server can be
readily exploited if on. Discourage your users from setting this option -
you may even wish to actively enforce this by writing a script to change the
value to NO nightly. Similar problems exist with PublicSoundServer.
Beyond this, there are a number of basic security considerations. Run Crack
on your password file regularly. Run COPS or a similar package from time
to time. Avoid Paul Vixie's neat-o cron. Grab tripwire and install it. Pick
up the latest version of tcp_wrappers and avoid the complex features.
Log all syslog auth events to a remote host. Run Loginlog or something
similar to record all logins to syslog. Monitor the security-related
newsgroups and mailing lists. Don't use overly descriptive hostnames. Etc.,
etc., etc.
Moreover, you may wish to bite the bullet and pay the upgrade cost for 3.3.
NeXT made a good-faith effort to correct a number of the security problems in
previous versions of NeXTSTEP, and provides you with a more solid base to
work with.
Software Locations:
tcp_wrappers: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_7.1.tar.gz
Crack: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/crack4.1.tar.Z
COPS: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/cops_104.tar.Z
Loginlog: ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/security/loginlog.c.Z
Tripwire: ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/COAST/tripwire.tar.gz
</eal>
--
Eric A. Litman President & CEO 301.587.0600
elitman@nxstep.com Viaduct, Inc. Silver Spring, MD
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail SOLUTION - sending large messages efficiently to multiple recipients
Date: 26 Jan 1995 21:42:21 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3g94vt$b17@shelob.afs.com>
References: <3g42ju$3h2@shelob.afs.com>
Gregory H. Anderson (me) writes
> We have a beta test cycle coming up for WriteUp and PasteUp, and I need
> some advice for the best way to email large messages to groups. Is there
> any way to gang everyone together once on the way out, and have the
> individual drops occur closer to the final delivery points? Or are we
> just screwed here? How do large mailing lists handle this problem?
Thanks to everyone who supplied helpful hints about mailing large messages
to multiple recipients in the most efficient way. For those who expressed
interest in this problem for their own purposes, here's what we are going
to do. It's quick, easy, and painless.
Everyone agreed that we should try to find a fast and well-connected site
for the final 'explosion' of the list, because otherwise our local
sendmail will do way too much work at way too low speed. It turns out the
easiest way to accomplish this is to add the fast site to each recipient's
mail path For example, if the list 'WUBeta' consisted of
foo@bar.com
mumble@zork.com
fidgit@willies.com
for each name, just tack on the path to the exploder:
foo@bar.com@netaxs.com
mumble@zork.com@netaxs.com
fidgit@willies.com@netaxs.com
Our local sendmail (standard NeXT) notices that all the recipients share a
common path, so it sends the data upstream once, with multiple receipts.
Hope this information proves helpful to others with the same problem. I'm
glad it was so easy to resolve, and doesn't require advance arrangements
with other parties.
--
Gregory H. Anderson | "Internet: a giant international network
Stud Hombre Cybermuffin | of intelligent, informed computer
Anderson Financial Systems | enthusiasts, by which I mean 'people
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | without lives.'" -- Dave Barry, 2/6/94
From: stanifor@helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Named pipes?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 20:31:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <3g90qs$bo9@mark.ucdavis.edu>
Is there any way to have a named pipe under NeXTstep? It doesn't
seem to come with the OS. It seems to me that it would be possible
to write a device driver to support them - has anyone done this?
The reason I ask is that I want to run a script to process some of
my syslogd output. At present, it seems all I can do is write
it to a file. I can read the file periodically of course, but
I'd prefer to process the logs in real time. Any suggestions?
Stuart.
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stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu | UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616
(916) 752-2149 - work | and
(916) 756-8697 - home | N St. Cohousing Community
Home page is http://everest.cs.ucdavis.edu/~stanifor/home.html
From: phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 / Fn-Keys in Terminal.app gone?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 16:56:00 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <3gb8j0$dbe@sun1.uni-essen.de>
Summary: Looking for function keys in Terminal.app
Keywords: NS3.3, Terminal.app, Function-keys
Dear admin community,
after upgrading to NS v3.3, I found out the hard way, that the nice
way to get function keys in Terminal.app by hitting the Alternate-key
together with a number-key from the top row of the keyboard has vanished.
It has been replaced by some obscure properties like scrolling the window
up or toggeling through the windows etc.
One can get PF1 to PF4 from the numerical keypad (on the number keys 1 to 4,
not in the top row as would be the position on a real vt100), but where
are F5-F12 useful e.g. for tn3270 to an IBM mainframe, where you really
should have those function keys.
The preferences for this featuregroup (vt100-emulation = command-3) also has
changed in a strange way. Where I once could decide, whether to have
Alternate-and-a-key simulate the function keys or use the 'alternate' meaning
on the keyboard (more interesting for users with foreign keyboards, like the
German one, where some important characters (like '@' :-) ) are put there) by
clicking a radio button, now appears some text about using "dwrite Terminal
Meta 27" to change the behaviour. First this is a step back to clicking and
secondly this sequence doesn't seem to have any influence on Terminal's be-
haviour.
Does anyone know how to get the function keys back with Terminal.app of
NS 3.3? Is this really a bug or a feature? Anyone notice a difference
after the dwrite? Have I set a/some preferences wrong? I'm puzzled!
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
Uni-GH Essen, Physics
phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: greg@afs.com
Subject: sendmail - Any known problems connecting to LISTSERVs?
Message-ID: <1995Jan26.050025.13787@afs.com>
Keywords: sendmail listserv
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 05:00:25 GMT
Me again with another sendmail query. Are there any known problems with
the standard NeXT-supplied sendmail connecting to LISTSERVs? There are
two jobs stuck in our mailq, both targeted to LISTSERVs (one is on
kentvm.kent.edu, the other is psuvm.psu.edu). For both jobs, the defer
message is:
MDeferred: Connection reset by peer during HELO wait with kentvm.kent.edu
The weird thing is, we continue to receive mail FROM these listservs
(the undeliverable message is an unsubscribe request). And we can ping
the specified hosts. So it's not a general connectivity problem.
Anyone have a clue? Again, thanks in advance.
Greg Anderson
greg@afs.com
--
Gregory H. Anderson | "Internet: a giant international network
Stud Hombre Cybermuffin | of intelligent, informed computer
Anderson Financial Systems | enthusiasts, by which I mean 'people
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | without lives.'" -- Dave Barry, 2/6/94
From: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo across routers ?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 20:49:02 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3gbm7u$ocs@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
A net of NS/FIP computers I am going to look after is spread across two
subnets connected by a router.
Is it possible to have one Netinfo-Server for both subnets, i.e. can
the Netinfo packets be sent across routers ?
If yes, should there be a Netinfo clone in the other subnet ?
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sali@tamika.rockefeller.edu (Andrej Sali)
Subject: NXFax and modem login
Message-ID: <D31CDL.Cwp@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Sender: usenet@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Rockefeller University
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 23:10:32 GMT
This is just a followup on my NXFax question. One can do both faxing and
modem login if the corresponding serial port is turned off in /etc/ttys
and the appropriate entries in the NXFaxMonitor Preferences menu are
turned ON. This would be easy to find out if I had NXFax 1.04 (which I
should) because the instructions in this latest version are great.
I'd also like to say thanks to Rick Damon of Black&White Software (they
are the guys who are selling NXFax) who responded to my query immediately.
If only all companies were like this ...
Regards, Andrej
Newsgroups: su.computers.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jcruz@bart.inescn.pt (Jose Manuel de Magalhaes Cruz)
Subject: Re: Rehashing the NetInfo Database
Message-ID: <D32Dpx.7x2@animal.inescn.pt>
Sender: news@animal.inescn.pt (USENET News System)
Organization: INESC-Porto, Portugal
References: <3g8qhr$on@nntp.stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:37:09 GMT
In article <3g8qhr$on@nntp.stanford.edu>,
Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>Is there anyway to get the NetInfo database to rehash, and
>concatenate all of the 'extension_*' files into one?
>
>The Residential Computing NeXTs at Stanford are used by
>a large number of people, and have about 24,000 accounts on them.
>After long periods of use, a large number of 'extension_*' files
>( > 5000) build up in the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb directory.
>This has the effect of slowing down bootup (network_init) so
>badly that it sometimes can take 10-15 *hours* to reboot one of
>the machines.
>
>The only fix I have found to this so far is to delete all
>of the extenion_* files, along with the 'Collection' file
>where the nidb is stored, and restore it from
>/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/local.nidb. I then have
>to niload all of the modifications we've made to our
>nexts, including the 24,000+ users. Just niloading that many
>users take about 18 hours.
>
>With 40 of these old black pieces of hardware, I clearly don't
>have enough time to be doing this on a continuing basis. Thus,
>does anyone know of a way to rehash all of the information in the
>extenion-* files back into the Collection file?
>
>Hardware specifics:
> NeXT cubes and slabs (black) running NS 3.0.
>
>Many thanks!
>
>Dane Spearing --- Residential Computing --- Stanford University
> dane@rescomp.stanford.edu -- (415) 723-4800
> http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~dane/dane.html
--------
Dane,
I do not know how to help you (or if it is possible at all),
but of one thing I am sure. You're running a version of the OS
that was released 2.5 years ago. You, at Stanford, should
upgrade to NS 3.2 or 3.3; maybe the answer lies there :-)
Jose'
---------jmcruz@fe.up.pt-------
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Report: SoftPC 4.0 for Black and HP, 2 wk survey finished.
Date: 27 Jan 1995 20:19:55 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3gbkhb$2ds@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: SoftPC
All,
I finished the survey last weekend. I got 92 requests for a
version of SoftPC 4.0 for HP PA and Black. I sent the info to Insignia
and NeXT. I'll let you know what I find out. Thanks for the replies.
Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: How do I use the new NS3.3 screensaver stuff in loginwindow.app?
Message-ID: <D306CA.1DJ@rna.nl>
Sender: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:02:34 GMT
See subject. there is a preferences panel, but what can be set there and what
formats etc are unclear to me.
Thanks,
--
gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: longsg01@slowhand.nmb.com (Gary Longsine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NSFIP (pre) install questions
Date: 28 Jan 1995 01:28:00 GMT
Organization: Norwest Mortgage Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gc6j0$qvj@slowhand.nmb.com>
References: <95Jan19.083724@EE.Stanford.EDU> <gj-2101951115300001@gj.irock.com>
In article <gj-2101951115300001@gj.irock.com>, gj@irock.com ("G. J.") writes:
|> In article <95Jan19.083724@EE.Stanford.EDU>, park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang
|> Ju Park) wrote:
[munch]
|> > I have questions about installing NSFIP.
|> > 1) Can I install it on a DOS logical Drive ? To be
|> > more specific, I have a hard disk that has primary
|> > partitions and a extended partition. I use some of
|> > the extended partition for DOS use and reserved some
|> > free space inside the extendded partition for NS.
|> > Can I use it for NS installation ? Or should I designate
|> > the whole extended partition for NEXTSTEP ?
You will need to become more familiar with the basic concepts regarding partitioning of disks. You can start by reading the MS-DOS help on the "fdisk" utility, but take care to ignore and completely forget everything you ever saw about "DOS Logical Drives" They are EVIL.
Things to keep in mind:
1.) MS-DOS is neither bright, nor hospitable. In other words, DOS does not play well with others. It can only boot from the first partition on the first drive. DOS sometimes initializes non-related partitions on non-related drives when installing (so make a backup of your other partitions before installing DOS).
Aside: The "smartest" one, by this measure must be OS/2, which is capable of doing exactly the distasteful feat that is described above by San Ju Park: Booting from an "extended" dos partition... yee-uhu-uhuhu-eeek! It gives me the willies to even think about it. Never even _think_ about doing this, even thought you can, with OS/2. Like "doublespace," thinking about this too long can damage your file systems and destroy valuable data.
2.) If you have both IDE and SCSI drives in a machine, the system BIOS almost always forces you to boot from the first IDE device that is found. Any real partition on the first device can be made bootable. An MS-DOS "Extended Logical Partition" is not a real partition, it is a kludge from the evil empire (man fdisk under NeXTSTEP 3.2)
3.) You can use the DOS "fdisk" utility to partition the first DOS partition. However, you should use the NeXTSTEP fdisk, or the OS/2 fdisk, for all other partitions. Either one works fine.
|> > 3) Does anybody know if I could use OS/2's bootmanager
|> > to boot NEXTSTEP after installing NS ? If, yes,
|> > would you let me know how I can do this ?
Yes, I've done it. (However, I recommend that you use the NeXTSTEP boot manager, which takes up 1MB less space on your disk, and works more elegantly with all Operating Systems.)
If you must however, the OS/2 boot manager also works for Linux. However, NeXTSTEP (stubbornly?) installs a boot manager of it's own, which works in a different way than the OS/2 boot manager. The effect is unsettling, but it does work. What happens, is that the OS/2 boot manager loads the NeXTSTEP boot manager. From here you can select NeXTSTEP, or any of the other bootable systems.
It's a bit like one of those Star Trek episodes where there are two copies of the same {whatever_it_is} and you have to pick one to get back to "your" universe...)
Someone needs to write a nice boot management utility which knows about the various boot management strategies and replaces them all with a coherent, unified boot manager. This is not a "one banana" task.
|> Not only can you not do what you stated above, but you should
|> really consider dedicating a seperate SCSI drive to NSFIP.
|> Make sure that drive is the only one in your machine when
|> you install NSFIP. I run 5 OS on my P90.
|>
|> 1. MSDOS 6.22
|> 2. OS/2 Warp 3.0
|> 3. Linux
|> 4. Win/NT 3.5
|> 5. NSFIP 3.3
|>
|> The safest this is to use boot loading floppies for Unix and
|> andvance OS on a multiple OS config system.
I don't agree. I've had various combinations of these operating systems, and Solaris for Intel, (up to 4 on a machine) running on several different types of machines. I've never had to configure UNIX to boot from a floppy, as a standard configuration. (Of course, one must boot from floppy to install, and this applies to OS/2 and NT as well.)
|> Warp's Boot Manager is good for Warp and MSDOS only.
Although it behaves oddly, it does behave predictably, and can be used with other Operating Systems.
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: forbidden dread /dwrite data base in NS3.3
Date: 27 Jan 1995 21:59:16 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3gbqbk$9m6@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
After upgrading to NS 3.3, I am having the problem that dwriting/dreading
no longer works as a user. NeXTAnswers is quiet on dread/dwrite, and no
obvious file seems to contain this data base (perhaps it changed
read/write permission)---looked with strings on /usr/bin/dremove.
Any idea?
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: su.computers.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rehashing the NetInfo Database
Date: 28 Jan 1995 01:40:18 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3gc7a2$b68@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3g8qhr$on@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu> writes:
>Is there anyway to get the NetInfo database to rehash, and
>concatenate all of the 'extension_*' files into one?
>The Residential Computing NeXTs at Stanford are used by
>a large number of people, and have about 24,000 accounts on them.
>After long periods of use, a large number of 'extension_*' files
>( > 5000) build up in the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb directory.
>This has the effect of slowing down bootup (network_init) so
>badly that it sometimes can take 10-15 *hours* to reboot one of
>the machines.
>Hardware specifics:
> NeXT cubes and slabs (black) running NS 3.0.
Under 2.x, netinfo had a smaller record size in the collection file,
and caused a lot more of the records to be extension_ files (in fact,
the average user file size was larger than this record size, so it
did always make one file for each user).
I suggest that you examine the records that are getting extension_
files and see why they are so long. Maybe you're storing some bit
of information that you don't need. On our master netinfod server,
we have a 'diskquota' property that actually throws it over the
limit too. I just checked, and there are over 3,000 extension files
in the top level domain hierarchy.
Practically all of our records are between 290 and 310 bytes. I'd
guess that the default record size is now 256 bytes !
Yikes, I hadn't realized that.
I guess that's because it only takes about 20 minutes for the
netinfo daemon to start for that database.
I quote from the 3.x release notes:
x The disk format for NetInfo databases has changed to
increase the default record size. In most cases, this reduces the
number of files in a database by about 90 percent and decreases the
cost of large searches by about 25 percent. Release 3 NetInfo is
compatible with both new and old database formats, and all versions
of NetInfo can be used together on a network, regardless of the
revision level or database format of the individual servers. All
configurations, including master and clone servers which use
different versions of software and different database formats, are
supported.
Marc or others: does this change in 3.3, please ?!!???
--
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University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Neil Greene <neil@bMD.com>
Subject: Odd utmp/wtmp behavior
Message-ID: <1995Jan27.063052.3352@bMD.com>
Sender: neil@bMD.com
Organization: benchMark Developments, Inc. (314-872-2907)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 06:30:52 GMT
One of our machines does some very strange utmp/wtmp logging. It
correctly logs the incoming connections and then just decides to drop them
for some reaon or another. Any suggestions??
> wolverine% w ~
> 12:26am up 1:18, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 0.79, 0.75
> User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
> neil ttyp0 12:25am -zsh // Cool
> wolverine% w ~
> 12:26am up 1:18, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 0.81, 0.75
> User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
> neil ttyp0 12:25am -zsh // Cool
> wolverine% w ~
> 12:26am up 1:18, 0 user, load average: 0.88, 0.78, 0.74
> User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what // Gone
---
Sincerely,
Neil Greene
---------------
benchMark Developments, Inc.
11970 Charter Oak Parkway, St Louis MO 63146
Phone: 314-872-2907 / 800-872-3131
Email: Neil@bMD.com [NeXT/Mime mail accepted]
From: Ben Garvey <garveyb@ucs.orst.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: !!HELP!! IBM compatible >>> NeXT printer
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 23:23:07 -0800
Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950127231614.10808B-100000@ucs.orst.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Can anyone assist me in connecting a model N2004 SCSI drive
printer to an IBM compatible PC so I can print files? The parallel port
doesn't work(with a cable), nor does a SCSI host adapter, although it
recognizes the protocol of a Canon BJC-820 printer. Do I need special
cables, special software, or does this mean I need a NeXT system of some
sort? Please help, the printers self test all work excellent.
Ben >> send responses to garveyb@ucs.orst.edu
From: bbense@spelljammer.stanford.edu (Booker C. Bense)
Newsgroups: su.computers.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Rehashing the NetInfo Database
Date: 27 Jan 1995 06:53:22 -0800
Organization: Stanford Networking
Message-ID: <3gb1d2$5as@spelljammer.stanford.edu>
References: <3g8qhr$on@nntp.stanford.edu>
In article <3g8qhr$on@nntp.stanford.edu>,
Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>Is there anyway to get the NetInfo database to rehash, and
>concatenate all of the 'extension_*' files into one?
>
>The Residential Computing NeXTs at Stanford are used by
>a large number of people, and have about 24,000 accounts on them.
>After long periods of use, a large number of 'extension_*' files
>( > 5000) build up in the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb directory.
>This has the effect of slowing down bootup (network_init) so
>badly that it sometimes can take 10-15 *hours* to reboot one of
>the machines.
>
- This man not improve things, but have you tried
nidump -r /users / > /tmp/foo
niload -r -d /users / < /tmp/foo
- The raw netinfo files are editable/readable ascii.
- Also, I'd try sending email to ask_next@next.com .
- Booker C. Bense : bbense@networking.stanford.edu
From: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Intel: Is ethernet card required for SimpleNetworkStarter or SLIP?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:40:41 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3gb0l9$dji@shelob.afs.com>
Keywords: ethernet
Whenever I use SimpleNetworkStarter.app to enter Host name and IP address,
my Intel Pentium 60 Mhz running NS 3.3 hangs during boot at "Starting file
service daemons".
Is an ethernet card required to set these hostconfig values? I don't need
the box on a network, I just want to run PNI SLIP.
I'm really starting to miss my NeXTstation!
Frustrated and confuzed,
Greg
--
Gregory L. Mutzel, 215-653-0911
Anderson Financial Systems, Inc.
NEXT/MIME mail accepted
email: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
From: Michael Pizolato <michael@afs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail SOLUTION - sending large messages efficiently to multiple recipients
Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:56:46 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gb1je$dks@shelob.afs.com>
References: <3g9vrg$19jh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes
>In article <3g94vt$b17@shelob.afs.com> Greg_Anderson@afs.com
>(Gregory H. Anderson) writes:
>..
>>sendmail will do way too much work at way too low speed. It turns
>>out the easiest way to accomplish this is to add the fast site
>>to each recipient's mail path For example, if the list 'WUBeta'
>>consisted of
>>
>> foo@bar.com
>> mumble@zork.com
>> fidgit@willies.com
>>
>>for each name, just tack on the path to the exploder:
>>
>> foo@bar.com@netaxs.com
>> mumble@zork.com@netaxs.com
>> fidgit@willies.com@netaxs.com
>
>This syntax is BOGUS BOGUS BOGUS! (breaks the RFC822/976 addressing
>rules)
>
>FYI, intellignet MTA's will bounce it all back to you:
>
>expn foo@bar.com@netaxs.com
>250-Error in "foo@bar.com@netaxs.com" RFC822/976 address:
>250-
>250- foo@bar.com
>250- ^-Extraneous program text
>250-
>554 illegal address syntax: <foo@bar.com@netaxs.com>
>
>Use instead the following proper address syntax:
>
> foo%bar.com@netaxs.com
> mumble%zork.com@netaxs.com
> fidgit%willies.com@netaxs.com
>
>This will give you the desired result:
>
>expn foo%bar.com@netaxs.com
>250 smtp delivery to netaxs.com for <foo%bar.com@netaxs.com>
For further info, the following is from the NS3.2 Admin docs, Appendix
D, Address Syntax section:
amm Local user or alias amm
amm@rhino amm on the computer rhino in the
local domain
rhino!amm amm on the computer rhino reached
using UUCP
amm@rhino.UUCP amm on the computer rhino reached
using UUCP
rhino!hippo!conure!amm amm on the computer conure reached
with UUCP through rhino and then hippo
amm@Rhino.COM amm in the domain Rhino.COM
amm@flyer.Rhino.COM amm in the domain flyer.Rhino.COM;
often, this is the computer flyer in
the domain Rhino.COM
@Rhino.COM:amm@Tute.EDU amm in the domain Tute.EDU, reached
through the domain Rhino.COM
amm%rhino.UUCP@Tute.EDU amm on the computer rhino.UUCP reached
through the domain Tute.EDU
amm%Rhino.COM@Tute.EDU amm at Rhino.COM reached through Tute.EDU
>Also, I would caution you not to utilize an explicit forced
>routing to a mail gateway without first asking for that mailgateway's
>permission, especially if your list is large. Smart MTA gateway
>routing software can configure abusers out > /dev/null or just
>deny SMTP transactions from an abusive site!
Good advice on all counts.
Michael
--
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Suite 207 Vox: 215/653-0911
909 Sumneytown Pike
Springhouse, PA 19477
From: chrisdos%ppp@rmii.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help!!! Gateway 2000 66V Installation IDE problem
Date: 28 Jan 1995 04:28:47 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Message-ID: <3gch5v$gds@potogold.rmii.com>
When attempting to install nexstep 3.3 on my PC, the installation will quit at the
point where you are to select which hard drive to install nextstep on. I have an IDE
drive installed which will work fine under DOS and OS/2, but the next installation claims
there are no harddrives on the system. The system I am using is:
Gateway 2000 66V
Buslogic 445C SCSI conrtoller
I've triple checked the terminations.
Chinon 535S CDROM drive: set to ID 6
420 MB Western Digital IDE drive
ATI Ultra Pro Graphics Card
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
E-Mail chrisdos@rmii.com
no nextmail yet.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: benst@stuyts.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: How to open app on second monitor?
Message-ID: <D31Evo.1yL@stuyts.nl>
Organization: Stuyts Engineering Haarlem BV
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 00:04:35 GMT
Hi,
I am running a NeXT Dimension with a second, b/w monitor added. I was
wondering if there is a way to specify that an app should open its window on
the b/w screen in stead of on the Dimension. Some apps, like Terminal,
remember their window's position on the second monitor, but others like Edit
always open their window on the main screen.
Any ideas? Is there perhaps a dwrite or a command line option to accomplish
this?
Thanks,
Ben
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Anyone using CAP on an m68k NeXT?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 23:18:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gbv0o$rp9@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
Is it possible to run CAP on m68k NeXTs in Native Ethertalk mode? The default
configuration does not do so, but it seems to think NeXTs are all running OS
2.0, so the Configure script may be out of date.
If someone is doing this, could you please contact me about how to configure
for this?
Thanks.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | University of California, Santa Barbara
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | http://ccmrc.ucsb.edu/
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Accessing PhotoCD using PLI CR-ROM drive
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 18:16:50 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <hu04irC.jadamski@delphi.com>
References: <RS76KC3.jadamski@delphi.com>
To give more detail of what happens when push in the PhotoCD into my PLI drive,
below is what the Console displays. After it checks HFS_XFER, it spits out the
CD.
Disk is Write Protected
probing for cdaudio
probing for mac
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
probing for HFS_XFer
Not sure if this give anyone, any ideas.
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From: kickaha@math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian Boonstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: How to wire this serial cable?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 23:11:03 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
Message-ID: <3geiu7$3n6@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
I'm trying to connect my 'station to my DEClaser 1152 over the serial
port. Appendix B of the docs gives wiring instructions for a few
cables, so I've been trying to use it to no avail. It uses DTR-style
hardware flow control (not RTS/CTS)
The printer doesn't use pin 8 but used pin 6 as Data Set Ready. App B
says that DTR from the NeXT should go to pin 8 (DCD) which I assume means
Data Carrier Detect, so I tried wiring DTR from the NeXT to pin 6 on
the printer. Is this bad? Something is not working. With this
exception I have a cable exactly according to the specs for a DTR flow
control cable, as listed in App B.
I need help! Can some kind soul tell me how all this should really be wired?
The printer specs
(for its EIA-232 DB25 port):
Pin Signal Direction
--- ------ ---------
1 Not Used None
2 Transmit Data Out
3 Receive Data In
4 Request to Send Out
5 Clear to Send In
6 Data Set Ready In
7 Signal Ground None
8-19 Not used None
20 Data Term Ready Out
and (to be complete) for the NeXT:
Pin Signal
--- ------
1 DTR
2 DCD
3 TXD
4 GND
5 RXD
6 RTS
7 RTXD (Timing or something)
8 CTS
The cable I have now:
1 (DTR) -----> 6 (Data Set Ready)
2 (DCD) -----> 5 (CTS)
3 (TXD) -----> 3 (RXD)
4 (GND) -----> 7 (GND)
5 (RXD) -----> 2 (TXD)
6 (RTS) -----> 20(DTR)
7
8 (CTS) -----> 4 (RTS)
taht's about all I know. Help!
--
Brian K. Boonstra (313) 763-4541 kickaha@umich.edu
"My strength is as the strength of ten because my code is pure."
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to install MANY fonts?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 03:46:05 GMT
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gcelt$on4@news.ycc.yale.edu>
References: <3g9b5k$pth@news1.digex.net>
In article <3g9b5k$pth@news1.digex.net> jtodd@ss2.digex.net (John Todd)
writes:
> The hack that I remembered was to get a buildafmdir program from a 2.1 or
> older disk that you have laying around. This is how I do it, at least, and
> I have 500+ fonts currently.
Ah NEXTSTEP, such state of the art in so many ways, yet lacking
in some many others. What an embarrassment, this stuff has been
broken for *years* now.
Perhaps even worse is the fact that one can't organize fonts into
sub-directories in any reasonable fashion. Pathetic.
--
Nathan Janette
Systems Manager, Axel T. Br nger Lab
Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Voice: 203 432 5065
Fax: 203 432 3923
From: jas@phaedra.engr.ucdavis.edu (jas schaaf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting Nextstation after power outage
Date: 25 Jan 1995 22:07:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JAS.95Jan25140737@phaedra.engr.ucdavis.edu>
We're running a Nextstation with NS 3.0. Can someone point me to a
FAQ or tell me how you can bypass the softswitch on the station such
that it reboots once power is returned to the workstation?
Respond via e-mail please.
Thanks in advance.
J. Schaaf
jaschaaf@engr.ucdavis.edu
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From: jklinke@aeon.ucsd.edu (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [INTEL]128MB RAM on DEC XL590?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 19:17:21 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <3ge581$fki@network.ucsd.edu>
Hi everybody,
I just added another 64MB RAM to my DEC XL590 (for a total of 128MB) but
NS only recognizes a total 65MB on bootup and in the Workspace->Info->Info
Panel. The boot memory test (also the HIMEM memory test under DOS) counts
all 128MB and says they are ok, so what's the problem here?
Any help appreciated,
jk <jklinke@ucsd.edu>
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: Mail.App 3.0 offline mailgrepping?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 13:26:52 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g87us$t5@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3g5jg8$n00@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
In article <3g5jg8$n00@alijku06.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
ppregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Pregler) writes:
}~
}~ Hi all,
}~
}~ I should set up Mail.App on a NeXT (running 3.0) in a way that a
}~ it simply doesn't find an obscure port to connect to. Of cause, any
}~ other ideas are welcome too :-).
}~
}~ -Peter.
}~ Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
}~ Peter Pregler / RISC, University of Linz, Austria
}~
Peter,
For INCOMING mail, have the Boss's mail come in to a mail
address that is an alias for a "group" including both
the boss's actual E-Mail address AND the Secretary's
E-Mail address. This would allow the boss to still
possibly receive private E-mail.
For OUTGOING mail, have outgoing messages archived to
the same E-Mail mailbox - must be readable and writable
by both, probably a soft-link in ONE of their ~/Mailboxes
directory to the outgoing (archive) mailbox in the other.
Bruce
sendmail is doing, however. If your domain
is missing from your From: line, it is possible that sendmail is not
finding your domain name when it starts up.
Where it should get that name varies a log according to your
configuration. It could be from a domain server, it could be
part of your hostname (echchch), or it could even be set
in /etc/rc.local with an explicit call to /bin/domainname.
Bruce
From: andcz@sunrise.pg.gda.pl (Andrzej Czy/zewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Optical drive for Turbo Station ?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 18:22:54 +0100
Organization: Politechnika Gdanska
Message-ID: <3gduhe$9ne@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
Hallo NeXT Wizards !
I have some Canon optical drives. I would like to attach
one to my server (black hardware NeXT Turbo satation).
Have anyone some experience how to do it ?
Please, advice me. My e-mail is as follows:
andrzej@next.elka.pg.gda.pl
(Technical University of Gdansk, Poland)
I would be very much obliged for suggestions from you.
Regards,
Andrzej
:w
.
:w
:x
From: alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound problems HPPA
Date: 21 Jan 1995 03:50:23 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <3fq09v$q91@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
Hi,
We have an HP 712/80 that has problems playing sounds. Things are
generally OK apart from frequent crackles and splats. They appear worst
when one sound plays a short time after another. This is especially
annoying when several beeps sound one after the other. The HP 712/60
doesn't exhibit this problem. Has anyone else observed this? Is is a
bandwidth problem on the 80? Anything else?
Alastair
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Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility
From: linkphil@aol.com (LinkPhil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Request for pcnfsd version 2 for NS 3.3
Date: 27 Jan 1995 17:27:12 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <3gbs00$2kl@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
The pcnfsd version 2 that I compiled under NS 3.0 does not work under NS
3.3.
Can a kind person who has compiled this daemon as a fat binary please
provide it to me?
Many thanks,
Richard Phillips
LinkPhil@aol.com
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Deleting root's files?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 01:09:34 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3g9h4f$10e@rosie.next.com>
References: <D2zv18.85E@ritz.mordor.com>
Steve Borrelli writes
> It seeems that my user file can delete files belonging to root.
> Can anyone clarify this behavior to me?
> localhost> ls -al
> total 1443
> drwxr-xr-x 2 steve 1024 Jan 25 22:28 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 21 steve 2048 Jan 25 21:16 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Jan 25 22:28 test
> localhost> rm test
That's how UNIX works. Deleting a file requires write access to the
directory. The ownership and permissions on the file are immaterial.
This is consistent with the UNIX philosophy that "everything is a file".
The directory is a "table of contents" file. When you delete a file, you
are just editing the directory.
In your example, steve has write access to the current directory:
drwxr-xr-x 2 steve 1024 Jan 25 22:28 ./
So steve has control over what's inside the directory.
--
Marc Majka
From: kickaha@math.lsa.umich.edu (Brian Boonstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solution: Where to find PPD files
Date: 28 Jan 1995 22:46:35 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
Message-ID: <3gehgb$3bg@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
Summary: ftp.adobe.com
A couple days ago I asked for help in locating PPD files (in
particular, for the DEClaser I'm trying to hook up). The most uselful
suggestion I got was to get them from somebody who has the latest
version of the OS. This turned out to be impossible for me.
I ftp'ed to ftp.next.com hoping to find them there - they're not, but
they do have 32 megs of NextAnswers along with the info that it is
possible to search them on the World Wide Web. So, I got on (ugh!) a
Mac and pointed Mosaic at http://www.next.com and lo! I found
NextAnswers.
ObCutToTheChase: PPD files for basically any printer under the sun (or
NeXT) are available from ftp.adobe.com in pub/adobe. Once you download
it (get the Mac variety) you need to strip ^M from the ends of
lines. Use something like:
> tr -d '\015' < PPDfile.ppd > tmpfilename
> mv tmpfilename /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/PPDfile.ppd
Note that 15 is octal for decimal 13, which is ^M (I had to read the
manpage three times to see the word "octal" there).
--
Brian K. Boonstra (313) 763-4541 kickaha@umich.edu
"My strength is as the strength of ten because my code is pure."
From: root@itsnet.com (Dr. Destiny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cube won't shut down?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 15:49:38 -0700
Organization: Internet Technology Systems
Message-ID: <3gehm2$2q5@destiny.itsnet.com>
Hi,
I just inheireted this old '040 Cube, and it has a slight problem:
It seems whenever I try to shut it off using the power button, it
won't shut off. Ever. It just gives me a grey screen. I have to
unplug it.
Can anyone help me figure out why this is and make it right?
John Kennedy (no relation) Systems Admin, Internet Tech Systems
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* "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking--*
* --Voltaire *
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From: rbz@eversoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: forbidden dread /dwrite data base in NS3.3
Date: 29 Jan 1995 00:50:35 GMT
Organization: Texas Metronet, Inc 214/705-2901, login info
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3geoor$kq0@feenix.metronet.com>
References: <3gbqbk$9m6@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Keywords: NextStep 3.3
ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
>After upgrading to NS 3.3, I am having the problem that
dwriting/dreading
>no longer works as a user. NeXTAnswers is quiet on dread/dwrite, and
no
>obvious file seems to contain this data base (perhaps it changed
>read/write permission)---looked with strings on /usr/bin/dremove.
>Any idea?
>Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
I found that I had to do a 'chown -R myaccount myaccount', where
myaccount is the name of my user account. Some of the files in
.NeXT had changed to being owned by root, the defaults database
being one of them.
Rodger Zeisler
rbz@eversoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: HELP: Canon object.station netinfo problems
Message-ID: <D2y5AE.1Bw@relief.com>
Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Organization: Relief Consulting & Development
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 05:44:37 GMT
Hi all:
I've got a Canon object.station 41 and a Palm-Hub ETHER-H9+ 10B-T hub that
I'm trying to get to talk to my NeXT, and it isn't working.
I've got a Color slab that's the netinfo server, and a cube that's connected
to it by coax. I just got the hub and 10B-T cabling, so I connected the
canon to the hub, and the nub to the coax. The coax is terminated correctly.
The Canon boots, and finds the server long enough to
--
John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com
Relief Consulting & Development (206) 743-3953
4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!!
Edmonds, WA 98026-4433 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: HELP: Canon object.station won't talk to netinfo.
Message-ID: <D2y5x0.1F4@relief.com>
Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Organization: Relief Consulting & Development
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 05:58:12 GMT
Sorry about the previous incomplete post. Hit the post button too soon.
The story so far:
NeXT slab as netinfo server. Cube connected to slab via coax.
Canon machine connected to Palm-Hub ETHER-9H+ hub, which is connected to the
server by coax. The coax is terminated correctly.
The symptoms:
Canon comes up, gets its ip address and hostname from the netinfo server, but
stalls when it tries to run lookupd. Several console messages saying that
it's timing out trying to get to netinfo, RPC timeouts, etc.
What I've tried:
I tried booting the cube through the hub instead of the coax -- boots no
problem.
I tried replacing the netinfo and hostconfig on the Canon with a clean one
from /usr/template/client -- still no good.
I checked to see that the trusted_network property on the server matches the
ip address that is assigned to the Canon -- it matches.
I tried turning on logging of lookupd to the console, and the first message
is a getservbyname call. If I <control-C>, it goes on and tries to run ntpd,
and there's a corresponding log message from lookupd, but it still hangs.
Does anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this? I'm going to try
connecting another Canon to a different network with the same hub, but I
won't be able to do that until thursday at the earliest.
Please reply via e-mail, because PSI crashed yesterday, and news is
incredibly slow as PSI tries to catch up on its 20 hour backlog....
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
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From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail SOLUTION - sending large messages efficiently to multiple recipients
Date: 27 Jan 1995 18:18:15 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3gbdd7$e3n@shelob.afs.com>
References: <3g9vrg$19jh@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca writes (in response to my posting about
posting efficiently to mailing lists):
> > foo@bar.com@netaxs.com
>
> This syntax is BOGUS BOGUS BOGUS! (breaks RFC822/976 addressing rules)
>
> This will give you the desired result:
>
> expn foo%bar.com@netaxs.com
> 250 smtp delivery to netaxs.com for <foo%bar.com@netaxs.com>
I apologize for propogating bad advice on this topic. James' syntax is
of course correct. I can tell you, however, that I tried this on our
local configuration before posting my article. The double "@" syntax does
not cause any problems for the standard NeXT rulesets, or for whatever is
running on our access provider's Sun. But if it's out of compliance with
the RFCs, it should certainly not be encouraged. See what happens when
you let an application programmer muck about in the system utils? But of
course, all you sysadmins out there knew that... 8^)
> Also, I would caution you not to utilize an explicit forced
> routing to a mail gateway without first asking for that mailgateway's
> permission, especially if your list is large. Smart MTA gateway
> routing software can configure abusers out > /dev/null or just
> deny SMTP transactions from an abusive site!
True. But again, in our case, all traffic ultimately goes through our
access provider anyway, so we're actually doing them a favor by forcing
it through a higher-bandwidth exploder than our 28.8 SLIP connection.
I would never be so rude as to bogart time on an unrelated mailhost. 8^)
--
Gregory H. Anderson | "Internet: a giant international network
Stud Hombre Cybermuffin | of intelligent, informed computer
Anderson Financial Systems | enthusiasts, by which I mean 'people
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | without lives.'" -- Dave Barry, 2/6/94
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: aalto@nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto)
Subject: Whats different between NS 3.0 and 3.2/3.3
Message-ID: <1995Jan25.010035.15022@nmt.edu>
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 01:00:35 GMT
I recently bought some black hardware (a mono 25MHz '040, and a 25MHz
'030 that i will be running with a terminal).
The '040 has a minimal install of NS 3.2 on its 105 mb HD. I also
have the CD of the developers version of NS 3.0.
I am wondering what the differences between NS 3.0 and 3.2 are. Should
I install 3.0 on my 2.1gb hard drive, and just use it because it is
the full developers release, should i continue to boot the '040 off of
3.2 but use the 3.0 utilities that i dont have for 3.2, or is there a
big enough difference, enough bugs, etc, that I should start looking
around for a copy of NS 3.2 or 3.3.
Also, I am setting up a local network with these machines. I am
planning to use one of the two NeXT's as the file server (it will get
the 2.1gb drive). The network will consist of 3 pc's running DOS,
os/2, or Linux, and the two NeXT's. I will also have a slip connection
at 14.4kbps from one of the NeXT's to the net.
My Question is, which of the next's should i use as a file server for
best performance. I am thinking that i might use the 25 mhz '030 as a
file server, because it is running from a terminal, and will not have
much usage at all. Not having to display graphics, and have
interactive usage should keep the load quite low on it. Both the
NeXT's have 8mb, but i could expand the '030 to 16mb.
Thanks,
Eugene Aalto
aalto@nmt.edu
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Busted Telnet -- any good solution?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 22:22:27 -0800
Organization: Zach's House
Message-ID: <3gfc73$qpo@crl5.crl.com>
Summary: Broken Telnet
Keywords: broken telnet
Hi,
Here's a problem that has been driving me crazy for over a year...
Why is it that when I telnet to the NeXT machine (actually NS/I on a 486)
the Return key seems to be treated as ctrl-j, and ctrl-c explodes the
entire telnet session? This doesn't happen when I telnet to other
machines. This makes it really difficult to use pine and elm, etc,
because every time you hit Return, Pico tries to reformat the paragraph.
Is it the telnet daemon? That's my best guess at this point. Does anyone
know if I can go get another telnet daemon and compile and install it? Or
is there some other fix?
I've tried:
stty -extproc
which does help a little... *whatever* that command does at least fixes
the screen, but it doesn't really fix all of the problems.
TIA
Zach
From: rzw1@cornell.edu (Rafael Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dynamic IP assigment using TranSys PNI SLIP software
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 12:39:29 PST
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: rzw1@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <3ggjuq$j7i@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
I am having difficulty getting my SLIP connection up. I am using TransSys
PNI SLIP software and have managed to modify the "annex" example so that
my machine logs in.
Dispite however, the "ifconfig" (or any one of a hundred other things
I tried) I get nothing in the way of network capabilities (not even
a ping). I suspect the problem may be in the "annex" script or in
something I have neglected to do in setting up network stuff on my
machine.
If someone out there is using PNI in this way successfully, I would
greatly appreciate some pointers.
Thanks
Rafael
rzw1@cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: NeXTStep answering the phone
Message-ID: <vwalkerD35rsE.Jy9@netcom.com>
Summary: How to get NeXTStep to answer and talk to modem
Keywords: modem tip ttys getty
Sender: vwalker@netcom.com
Cc: vwalker@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 08:33:49 GMT
I'm trying to get a NeXT machine running Version 3.2 to answer dial-in
calls. I read the Sys Admin manual, set the autoanswer register to answer
after one ring, and fiddled with /etc/remote and /etc/gettytab to make it
work, but not much luck. I did succeed in getting the modem to answer the
phone, but nothing appears on either the caller's or host's screens, other
than the modem's "CONNECT" message. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Feel free to post your answers here, but I'd also really
appreciate it if you would also EMail me directly at vwalker@netcom.com
Thanks very much.
Vic Walker
vwalker@netcom.com
From: jpross@dac.neu.edu (Joe Prosser x4576)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextCube and arp?
Date: 30 Jan 1995 01:51:06 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JPROSS.95Jan29205107@netmgr.dac.neu.edu>
I have a NeXT cube '030 running NS2.0 (I just got it) and I have
it on a 10base2 network with my pc running FTP 2.3. When I try to ping
the cube from my pc, I get an ARP failure, but when I look at the cube's
arp table (arp -a) I see an entry for it? when I try to ping the pc from the
cube, I don't even get the arp entry. Do I have Netinfo screwed up? is
there anyway I can diable it and just use the /etc files?
Any help would be appreciated,
Joe Prosser jprosser@neu.edu
Northeastern University
From: hlin@hntp2.hinet.net (Heng-Yi Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Happy New Year! Help fix NetInfo problem (under 3.3?)
Date: 29 Jan 1995 11:49:46 GMT
Organization: HiNet
Message-ID: <3gfvcq$a5s@serv.hinet.net>
Summary: "No writes allowed; all objects are read-only. Aborting."
Happy The Chinese Year of The Pig! (1/31)
NeXT Sysadmin Experts:
I have a simple problem that's puzzling me. The situation is that I
need to delete several machines from my Netinfo database (machines
that I'd previously added wrongly!). I tried running HostManager.app
and NetInfoManager.app. When I wanted to 'save to domain' the
deletion, it always says something like 'NetInfo error destroying
machine; No writes allowed; all objects are read-only.'
I also try nidump & niload with niload saying 'cannot write props in
#1' or some such. I've almost gone to the point of directly writing
over the files /etc/netinfo/local.nidb/*.
What am I missing? Could you please correct my oversight?
Similarly, I have trouble modifying my NXFax options (rings to pick
up, speaker volume etc.) via the 'Modify' button in PrintManager.app
-- always says 'cannot remove ZyXEL_NXFax' a while after I clock 'OK'.
I don't recall having this problem before 3.3.
I am on a standalone black machine, with NS3.3 running PPP2.2 &
NXFax1.4 on ZyXEL U-1496E. The netinfo database and the NXFax driver
were created & installed under NS3.0, before the upgrade to 3.3
Any pointers would be very much appreciated!
--
Best regards,
Heng-Yi Lin
hlin@c4.hinet.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: charmides!bubi (Burghard W.V.Britzke)
Subject: Icon.app on NS3.1
Message-ID: <D36MxC.62@charmides.in-Berlin.DE>
Sender: bubi@charmides.in-Berlin.DE (Burghard W.V.Britzke)
Organization: BeNG - Berliner NeXTnutzer Gruppe
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 19:46:24 GMT
Every time when I start my Icon.app, it writes the following
on the console and stopps:
Jan 29 20:42:35 charmides Icon[191]: Pasteboard lookup failed on host
charmides: (Netnameserver: name not checked in)
Jan 29 20:42:36 charmides last message repeated 12 times
Jan 29 20:42:36 charmides Icon[191]: Invalid default font name: Helvetica
Jan 29 20:42:36 charmides Icon[191]: Pasteboard lookup failed on host
charmides: (Netnameserver: name not checked in)
(I installed the 2.1 shared libs and patched them)
der Burghard
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT Station will not power down
Date: 29 Jan 1995 12:36:51 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gg253$qtv@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <3g971a$18k@aludra.usc.edu>
Brian A. Kowal (bkowal@aludra.usc.edu) wrote:
: I have a NeXT Station (040) that has problems when I power down. I
: hit the power button (or type "halt -p" in a terminal window), the
: machine powers down, but then instantly repowers back up. There is no
: way to turn off the computer except for pulling the power cord out of
: the wall.
I have the same problem with one of our NeXT Stations. Ideas anyone?
--
| Rex A. Dieter | Research Associate |
| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
From: rjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rupert Hollom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Print permissions problems - help !
Date: 29 Jan 1995 16:43:19 GMT
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Message-ID: <3gggj7$rui@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
I have got a NeXT 400DPI laser connected to a NeXT cube, I can print
OK when I am logged in as root but when I log is using my own ID the
job appears in the queue as shown by Print Manager but never manages
to get out of the printer. If I log out and back in again (leaving
the job in the queue) it will print if I log in as root.
Any ideas what could be causing this anyone ?
Cheers Rupert.
From: meyergru@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sound problems HPPA
Date: 30 Jan 1995 12:35:35 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <3gimen$cfb@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <3fq09v$q91@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
To: alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz
In article <3fq09v$q91@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>, alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes:
|> Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
|> Lines: 18
|> Distribution: World
|> Message-ID: <3fq09v$q91@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
|> Reply-To: alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz
|>
|> Hi,
|> We have an HP 712/80 that has problems playing sounds. Things are
|> generally OK apart from frequent crackles and splats. They appear worst
|> when one sound plays a short time after another. This is especially
|> annoying when several beeps sound one after the other. The HP 712/60
|> doesn't exhibit this problem. Has anyone else observed this? Is is a
|> bandwidth problem on the 80? Anything else?
|>
Well, actually, I _do_ have the noted problems on my 712/60 (aka crackling).
The worst problems occur with ATC compressed sounds, which cannot be
decompressed correctly on HP PA-RISC. NeXT knows about these problems,
I have got an affirmative answer to a bug report to the 3.2beta (some time ago).
Which is not to say that they are going to fix it (nor the opposite), they
simply told me, that "...we now know that we have serious problems in that
area...".
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: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install MANY fonts?
Date: 28 Jan 1995 19:32:43 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <3ge64r$n3q@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <D2xpAt.9F7@news.cis.umn.edu>
In article <D2xpAt.9F7@news.cis.umn.edu> klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (James P
Klett) writes:
|>I searched the FAQ's but was unable to find an entry on how to install
|>many fonts. I had about 200 fonts and I just added another 300 or so
|>to my LocalLibrary/Fonts folder but for some reason I cant get the
|>system to recognize them. I remember there being something like a 250
|>font limit, but I cant remember the hack for getting around that.
|>
|>Any help will be appreciated,
|>Thanks, JIM
|>
|>--
|>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|>James P. Klett klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu
|>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hi,
I have some 1700+ fonts on my system, but I had to split them out in three
different directories, as there seem to be a magic limit around 565 fonts
entries in one directory. I use the buildafmdir from NS2.2, and that works just
fine..
best
Michael
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_____________________________________________
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Editor in chief of DANNUG NEWS & DANNUG HOT!
ColorSupport Manager Rank Xerox Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
From: fxg@gondor.imib.rwth-aachen.de (Felix H. Gatzemeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ethernet / NetInfo Problem
Date: 30 Jan 1995 10:49:31 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <FXG.95Jan30114931@gondor.imib.rwth-aachen.de>
I'm trying so set up a tiny network of 2 NeXTstations (1Mono,1Color). They're
supposed to work independently, occasionally sharing files and a printer.
Independence is a target since they will be up rarely (private machines).
Both machines are running NeXTstep 3.2, installed from scratch.
The connection is via ThinWire Coax.
1. Ethernet problems
ifconfig reports on both machines flags=63 (iincludes UP,RUNNING) and correct
IP addresses. ping and any other net-accessing software produces a 'The
network is down or you computer is not connected to it' -- message.
I switched cables and Terminators and checked the resistance of the latter. I
will be inviting another host into this setup to ping-test the interfaces if
nothing else works, but that is quite an effort.
Q: Is there any program to test the Ethernet layer?
2. NetInfo problems
I configured the Mono as a NetInfo server, serving ./network and mono/local,
which works. In network/machines, both hosts are well-defined (as far as I
can tell, there doesn't seem to be any documentation on this).
In a misquided effort, I configured the Color as a Client. Bad Thing, since
a) the hosts are to run independently and
b) no request gets through to the server
But I just can't reverse this step! The host never finds a root domain. From
/etc/hostconfig, it takes its hostname and IP address, but when I start
NetInfoManager.app, all I get ist "local@No Hostname Registered". This is
somewhat understandable, since local/machines only contained localhost and
broadcasthost. Alas, adding 'color' with IP address and ethernet address
didn't help.
Copying etc/netinfo from /usr/template/clients did not help.
Copying /etc/netinfo from the distribution CD-ROM did not help.
Q: How is a standalone NetInfo setup organized?
Thanks
--
Felix
(fxg@(Pool.Informatik|ImIB).RWTH-Aachen.de
NeXT-Mail ok, but slow)
From: dcl@mercury.interpath.net (Tech Support--Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and sendmail
Date: 29 Jan 1995 18:07:34 -0500
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <dcl.791420049@mercury>
References: <3ggu8i$lb5@ns.fast.net>
Keywords: ppp sendmail
Well, I'm going to reply with what I do know, and if it helps you, great.
If not, sorry!
naj%fraxinus@fast.net writes:
>HOWEVER, debugging mail connexions has not been pretty. Having been told
>by my provider that my smtp relay host is <relay.hostmachine> I plugged
>that name into the DR and CR lines of sendmail.cf (the
>sendmail.subsidiary.cf file, not sharedsub or mailhost versions). While
>connected with PPP, outgoing and incoming mail moves swiftly over the net.
Well, I use sendmail.subsidiary.cf too, but I don't define a mailhost at
all. I guess I could, but I don't. And I have no trouble with mail
either. But then, I don't queue outgoing mail. When an outbound packet is
generated on my machine, the connection is established.
I think I have an idea of what's wrong with mail not getting back to you.
A traceroute to your hostname reveals:
--------------------------------
[...]
11 annex-abe1.fast.net (198.69.204.253) 105 ms 105 ms 107 ms
12 clink1.fast.net (198.69.204.1) 106 ms 106 ms 106 ms
13 annex-abe1.fast.net (198.69.204.253) 107 ms 108 ms 108 ms
14 clink1.fast.net (198.69.204.1) 109 ms 108 ms 108 ms
15 annex-abe1.fast.net (198.69.204.253) 113 ms 111 ms 110 ms
16 clink1.fast.net (198.69.204.1) 113 ms 109 ms 110 ms
17 annex-abe1.fast.net (198.69.204.253) 112 ms 118 ms 112 ms
18 clink1.fast.net (198.69.204.1) 113 ms 113 ms 111 ms
[...]
29 annex-abe1.fast.net (198.69.204.253) 112 ms 118 ms 112 ms
30 clink1.fast.net (198.69.204.1) 113 ms 113 ms 111 ms
--------------------------------
This is probably why the only address that works for you is:
user%machine@fast.net
Have your network supplier check your configuration. I don't know aobut
their setup, but with ours, when a user's machine is not online, you get
something like this:
------------------------
1 hathaway.interpath.net (199.72.1.241) 182 ms 155 ms 157 ms
2 * * *
3 *^C
------------------------
You don't get packets flying back and forth between a few machines...
As far as having a bad return address, set variable Dm in sendmail.cf if
you want, or...better yet...what does
/bin/domainname
return? It should return "fast.net". This should fix the return address
problem.
Have you tested mail to
user%machine@fast.net
user@machine.fast.net
while you're on-line?
Dare I mention POP mail? With an MX record, your mail would always go to
the mail host, then you'd never have to worry about being online. Your
address would be slightly different, but notheless it should always work.
Corrections and additions requested.
Daniel
--
Daniel C. L'Hommedieu / dcl@Interpath.net
Interpath Technical Support
From: rbz@eversoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP and sendmail
Date: 29 Jan 1995 23:08:27 GMT
Organization: Texas Metronet, Inc 214/705-2901, login info
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gh75b$r7p@feenix.metronet.com>
References: <3ggu8i$lb5@ns.fast.net>
Summary: How do I resend mail on a ppp link
Keywords: Next sendmail ppp mailq
naj%fraxinus@fast.net wrote:
>HOWEVER, debugging mail connexions has not been pretty. Having been told
>by my provider that my smtp relay host is <relay.hostmachine> I plugged
>that name into the DR and CR lines of sendmail.cf (the
>sendmail.subsidiary.cf file, not sharedsub or mailhost versions). While
>connected with PPP, outgoing and incoming mail moves swiftly over the net.
>Erroneously addressed mail bounces back almost immediately. However, any
>mail composed while offline, gets chucked into the queue and it may or may
>not eventually bounce back depending on whether my machine just happens to
>be connected at a time when sendmail tries its (almost) hourly attempt to
>deliver.
>Is there anyway to tell my system to pump queued mail across at a time I
>am connected (to add as part of my pppup script or to add as a chron)?
'/usr/lib/sendmail -q' will cause any mail in the mail queue (use 'mailq'
command to see what is in the queue) to be resent!
---
Rodger (NeXTMail Welcome!)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Rodger B. Zeisler Internet rbz@eversoft.com
Everest Software Corporation Work (214) 437-7636
4347 W. Northwest Hwy, #851 Fax (214) 437-7600
Dallas, TX 75220-3864 Home (214) 517-4884
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Subject: Cont.: How can setup my 'From:' line for Mail.app
Message-ID: <1995Jan29.125609.1898@silicium.fdn.fr>
Sender: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Organization: MICRO REPONSE - MONTIGNY, FRANCE.
References: <3g8784$sd@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 12:56:09 GMT
In article <3g8784$sd@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com> Bruce Gingery
<bruce@TotSysSoft.com> writes:
> In article <9501241838.AA16556@alleg.EDU> luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J
> Luoma) writes:
> }~ I have just upgrade to 3.3 and notice that when every
> }~ I send mail to net my 'From:' line alaways missing my
> }~ domain port, can some one tell me how to setup this.
> }~
> }~ I can suggest something in the way of a 'hack' but there may be (and
> }~ probably is) a better answer.
> }~
> }~ Assuming you use /usr/lib/sendmail, put the following in an ASCII
> }~ file and make executable:
> }~
> }~ #!/bin/sh
> }~ sed 's/OLD FROM INFO/NEW FROM INFO/g' | /usr/lib/sendmail "$@"
> }~
> }~ make sure you get the entire From line, ie
> }~
> }~ From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat>
> }~
> }~
> }~ Yes, theoretically you could change this to show any name you wanted,
> }~ but there are other ways of finding out who really sent the mail, so
> }~ it would not work as an anonymous way to send email.
> }~
> }~ any problems/questions, feel free to email me.
> }~
> }~ TjL
>
> That won't override what sendmail is doing, however. If your domain
> is missing from your From: line, it is possible that sendmail is not
> finding your domain name when it starts up.
>
> Where it should get that name varies a log according to your
> configuration. It could be from a domain server, it could be
> part of your hostname (echchch), or it could even be set
> in /etc/rc.local with an explicit call to /bin/domainname.
>
> Bruce
>
I'm interested by this problem but when I "man" for the domainname
command, what I can read is:
...
Currently, domains are ONLY used by the yellow pages.
...
So, I'm not a guru in Unix but is there really a relation between
domainname and sendmail?
Yannick Cadin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Subject: PPP NS => NS Working! (But "ping" problem)
Message-ID: <D36zoK.15u@tor.hookup.net>
Sender: damonc@tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Organization: Damon F. Cooper
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:21:56 GMT
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 17:31:34 GMT-0500
From: damonc (To: hookup!perkins%cps.msu.edu)
To: hookup!perkins%cps.msu.edu
I got PPP NS=>NS over modem WORKING! The problem was lurking in my
/etc/gettytab file on the receiving (answering) machine:
# NXFax dialup on port B
NXFaxB:ap:p8:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach / NXFax (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400:
and the line speed requested in the "ppp.remote" script was 57600. I
don't understand why NXFax entered "38400" in the gettytab of the one
machine and "57600" in the gettytab of the sending (calling) machine, but
I'm just sorry I didn't discover this earlier...I was beginning to digress
into the investigation of tty innards. Both machines have dual 16550 FIFO
UART's.
Replacing the "38400" in /etc/gettytab and "ppp.remote" with "57600"
results in the machine answering the phone, but no "login:" is visible.
Leaving gettytab alone at "38400" and setting the requested speed in
"ppp.remote" to "38400" allows the calling machine (talking to it's serial
port at 57600) to negotiate with the answring pppd daemon.
Whew!
Unfortunately, I have moved from one problem to the next...after the
pppd's complete negotiation and the defaultroute is in place at both ends,
I can only ping (using IP address) the answering machine.
No other machine on the network of the answering machine can be pinged.
I realize that name resolution relies on being able to get to the
resolving machine by IP address (in /etc/resolv.conf) so I need to be able
to ping the name resolver machine before resolution works.
Has anybody had this problem and beat it (or just have a suggestion)?
The "calling" machine has no network card, just a modem; the "answering"
machine has modem and is connected to a network.
Mucho appreciated.
---
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
[NEXTMAIL: OK]
--
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
[NEXTMAIL: OK]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc
From: damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Subject: Kernel Panics with 3.2 + Parallel Port 1.1 + PPP?
Message-ID: <D36zsq.16L@tor.hookup.net>
Sender: damonc@tor.hookup.net (Damon F. Cooper)
Organization: Damon F. Cooper
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:24:26 GMT
I have been experiencing kernel panics on NS (Intel) 3.2 when using
PPP 2.2.0.1.8 (patch level 2 and below) and the Parallel Port 1.1 driver
from Christian Starkjohann <cs@ecs.co.at>...
Happens whether or not the PPP link is up (driver just has to be
loaded)...
I can print about 1-2 pages (aproximately 1/3 of a 141K data file (PCL
printer codes) before I get a
==========================================
"Kernal Trap"
Failed instruction exception (2,d,150000)
Waiting for remote debugger connection.
(Type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
==========================================
If I remove the PPP driver, the kernel traps _almost_ disappear altogether
(once every 10-20 LARGE print jobs).
Anybody else experienced this? Is there a workaround? (The drivers from
NeXT don't work at ALL...)
Thanks in advance,
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
[NEXTMAIL: OK]
--
Damon F. Cooper
damonc@damonc.tor.hookup.net
[NEXTMAIL: OK]
From: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: forbidden dread /dwrite data base in NS3.3
Date: 30 Jan 1995 18:56:42 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <3gjcpa$33r@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
References: <3geoor$kq0@feenix.metronet.com>
In article <3geoor$kq0@feenix.metronet.com> rbz@eversoft.com writes:
> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
>
> >After upgrading to NS 3.3, I am having the problem that
> dwriting/dreading
> >no longer works as a user. NeXTAnswers is quiet on dread/dwrite, and
> no
> >obvious file seems to contain this data base (perhaps it changed
> >read/write permission)---looked with strings on /usr/bin/dremove.
the files are:
~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.D
~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L
> I found that I had to do a 'chown -R myaccount myaccount', where
> myaccount is the name of my user account. Some of the files in
> .NeXT had changed to being owned by root, the defaults database
> being one of them.
The funny thing is, I have the same problem on an intel machine,
but as user root !! I checked the permissions of the files, they
belong to root, and are writeable by root.
Whenever I do dread -l, I get "Cant read database"
dwrite doesnt work either.
The Defaultssystem Preference module works, though.
Strange !! Any ideas ???
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From: Eshin John Godfrey <egodfrey@unix.infoserve.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: uucp,sendmail admin
Date: 29 Jan 1995 22:17:43 GMT
Organization: Infoserve Technology Ltd.
Message-ID: <3gh467$ot4@news.infoserve.net>
I have a 68040 cube w/o floppy drive.My uucp/sendmail are bust, and not being a unix weenie,
I want to reconfigure them using a user-friendly graphic front-end or similar idiot-proof package.
Is there anything out there that I can download and run to do this for me without having to become a
propellor-head first. Please reply by email. Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: TWO Q's : Configure.app freaking, dwrite for 8 bit color?
Message-ID: <schwettD371Lp.9Br@netcom.com>
Keywords: dwrite configure 3.3
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 01:03:25 GMT
Now that 3.3 is running for me, reasonably well (well.. sort of...) the
little things are bugging me.
To combat the pitiful performance of 16 bit windows in a 32 bit mode, I
was using the color depth dwrite. It works just fine for 2 bit grey,
8 bit gray, and sometimes 32 bit gray. However, eightbitrgb does not
do anything.
Is the a new syntax for "dwrite appname NXWindowDepthLimit EightBitRGB"?
Secondly, (and more seriously, I think) configure.app has done some very
strange things. It crashes very frequently. Quite often it shows up
with no devices listed in the SCSI or Network section. Upon boot, I don't
see the 824X0 driver (the new one) getting loaded.
I thought my installation was a bit messed up, so I reinstalled last night
and got essentially the same results. In fact, Configure.app crashed on the
INITIAL configuration while still in 640x480... Of course it just
restarted.
I have looked at the Instance0.table and Default.table, and everything
appears just fine.
Upon boot, I get (frequently, but not always) a "string parse error"
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Mark Schwettmann
--
schwett@netcom.com --- mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
"
a smile cartooned tooth for tooth, you said irony was the shackles of youth
"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Printing from PC-NFS
Message-ID: <1995Jan27.221623.8359@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 22:16:23 GMT
I'm trying to print from Sun PC-NFS 5.1 on my NeXT cube running NS 3.3 I'm
using pcnfsd that comes with NS. Unfortunately the NeXT pcnfsd is version
1.0, and PC-NFS requires version 2.0.
I tried compiling the pcnfsd source that came with my PC-NFS distribution
diskettes. It compiles OK, but when I try to run it, it crashes.
Is there something I have to set in the source, or a compile flag that I
have to set? Is there a working version of pcnfsd v2.0 on an ftp archive?
Any help would be appreciated:-)
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to make an automatic reboot on an Intel machine ?
Date: 3 Feb 1995 12:57:12 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3gt978$6gc@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <D36xp9.84@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
JacquesGarbi wrote:
: Hi,
: Is it possible to automatically, at 4am, reboot the machine ? If I don't
: reboot it from time to time, my Intel-Pentium-NS 3.3 machine slows down
: because of many different things. Rebooting it just cleans everything up.
: What I would love is an automatic reboot at 4am so that when I come to the
: office, the machine is clean.
: Can I do that ?
I think it should be possible to run a reboot command from crontab at
4 am every day.
See man crontab or man cron
and man reboot for further information.
Axel
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NeXT as a router?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 3 Feb 1995 02:58:53 +0200
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi
Message-ID: <OTTO.95Feb3025851@tukki.jyu.fi>
What do I need to do to get my NeXTstation to start routing traffic
from the local ethernet to a PPP serial port and back? Please reply
by email, I'll summarize if there is wider interest.
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From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 3 Feb 1995 13:04:11 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3gt9kb$6h8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote:
: Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
: rebooting the system ? NFSManager.app always tells that you have to do
: a reboot for the changes to take place, and thought the new properties
: immidiately appear in NetInfo (nidump exports .), they aren't active
: yet.
: Since this is possible with other OS, too, there's certainly a way to
: do this with NEXTSTEP, too, manually, not ??
If you change your local exports, NFSManager is able to change the
exports without rebooting. I think it does this by using the exportfs
command.
I use two diffenrent ways:
1) start NFSManager remotely on the machine you want to change the
exported filesystems. This might not be an option because of security
constraints (You have to enable Public Window Server for this).
2) After having changed the exports, log into the remote host
and issue exportfs -u; exportfs -a as a privileged user.
Cheers,
Axel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: Re: 3.3: Preferences->LoginWindow->ScreenSaver
Message-ID: <D3F0wI.tB@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - markets VirtSpace(tm), Faxcess(tm), UUCP-EZ(tm) and other NEXTSTEP software.
References: <3grrdk$hvg@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 08:29:06 GMT
The extension is
CanonScreenSaver.loginbundle
Workspace will report this as a folder, but Preferences.app
will see it correctly.
Ian
PS be aware that the bundle can not be of class
screensaver as that is now part of loginwindow.
In article <3grrdk$hvg@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak) writes:
> Hi.
>
> Has anybody successfully convinced NS3.3 to use a different screensaver
> (BackSpace?) for the loginwindow?
>
> I can't figure out what extension the set... browser is looking for.
>
> Robert
>
> --
> Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
> MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
> ---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
From: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [SUMMARY] Re: NEC CD ROM Drive Busy light blinking
Date: 30 Jan 1995 22:15:35 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3gjoe7$1pu@shelob.afs.com>
Keywords: NEC
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article I wrote:
>
> I have an Intel Pentium 60 Mhz PCI system with an Adaptec 2940
> controller chained to a NEC CD Rom and then a Seagate 31200N drive.
> I'm running NS3.3. The CD Rom's busy light and the tower's drive light
> pulse/blink until a CD is inserted. The disk mounts and reads fine. When
> the system is booted in DOS, this "pinging" of the CD Rom does not
> happen.
Thanks from all the help. Here are the answers that I received from
numerous people. Names are being withheld in respect for their privacy.
..
This is scsi bus "polling" - it is how NeXTSTEP on Intel machines
determines, for example, when you've mounted a CD-ROM, so that you don't
need to click on "Check for Disks" whenever you insert one. Sorta crude,
but it works...
There is no way to turn this off from the driver. This behavior is due to
kernel SCSI code. I would just leave a data CD in the drive if the light
are very bothering.
The drive is sent a command every second to test if a CD has been
inserted (auto-detect). It seems that the the busy light on your CD-ROM
goes on if a 'TEST UNIT READY' command is sent. In most of the cases this
light goes on only if there is a media access.
..
Thanks again
-Greg
--
Gregory L. Mutzel, 215-653-0911
Anderson Financial Systems, Inc.
NEXT/MIME mail accepted
email: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: How do I change the label on a SCSI drive?
Date: 3 Feb 1995 19:22:49 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3gtvq9$9fe@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <rbzD3D0nF.KJE@netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Rodger B. Zeisler (rbz@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have initialized a SCSI drive on my Next cube. This is not my boot
: drive. I want to change the label for of the disk from from "abc" to
: "def". I tried using the /usr/etc/disk command as follows:
: /usr/etc/disk -L def /dev/sd1a
: but I got an invalid ioctl messages back.
use
/dev/rsd1a
Axel
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From: root@inselnext (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Apple Client
Date: 3 Feb 1995 07:49:31 GMT
Message-ID: <3gsn6b$8an@aragorn.unibe.ch>
How may i start the Apple-Client on Nextstep-FIP if there is no Apple
Sign in Preferences
Michael Noack
Inselspital bern
Switzerland
mn@insel.unibe.ch
From: silbar@cantina.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 'mount -t dos ...' inconsistencies
Date: 3 Feb 1995 08:10:19 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9502031408.AA07040@cantina.lanl.gov>
Greetings,
In my nightly crontab I call a (csh) script which contains the lines
echo " ***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***" >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
/usr/etc/mount -t dos /dev/rsd0h /ms-dos_6 >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
/bin/ls -dl /ms-dos_6 >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
/bin/tar -cf /dev/nrst0 /ms-dos_6 >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
date >>& Users/silbar/dumplog
preparatory to doing a tar of the DOS partition to tape (at the end
of dump's of my NEXTSTEP partitions). The problem is, the dumplog file
shows me that this sometimes works:
***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***
drwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 Feb 2 03:53 /ms-dos_6
Thu Feb 2 03:58:47 MST 1995
and sometimes it doesn't:
***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***
mount: /dev/rsd0h on /ms-dos_6: No such device
mount: giving up on:
/ms-dos_6
/ms-dos_6 not found
tar: /ms-dos_6: No such file or directory
Fri Feb 3 03:54:25 MST 1995
I changed nothing (that I'm aware of) in the crontab or script that
would make this difference (which has been happening, back and forth,
over the last month). [Details: NS/I 3.3, Epson NX.]
Does anyone know what's going on here? Do I need to specify other
options in the 'mount' command as well as '-t dos'? Thanks in advance,
Dick Silbar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@khaos.com (Karl Hanzel)
Subject: Unattended power-on?
Message-ID: <1995Feb3.060728.419@khaos.com>
Sender: karl@khaos.com
Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 06:07:28 GMT
I've tried posting to .hardware and .programmer with no success.
Does anyone know how Preferences.app effects the unattended power-on? I'd
really love to know how that works. Presumably it writes to a special
hardware address, and furthermore, there is special hardware to support
it. Is this only a black-slab feature?
My interest is in having my machine power itself on regularly, without me
having to mouse my way through Preferences for each occasion.
Thanks a bunch for any insights.
*----->
Karl Hanzel
Boulder, Colorado...
Home: karl@khaos.com (NeXT/MIME compliant); (303)443-6602
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <paul@Praktos.be>
From: Paul Janssens <paul@Praktos.be>
Message-ID: <9502030847.AA00242@hercules.Praktos.be>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 09:44:55 +0100
Subject: Re: UTP without hub?
Thanks to all who replied
Now for another question: the thing doesn't work (as yet :-)
Lemme describe the hookup at home:
I got a NextStation running 3.0 at one end, and a Mac with an
ethernet Nubus card (oops, failed to mention this before). Got them,
on general advice, connected with a single UTP cable, wires 1&2
switched with 3&6, the others straight.
The troubleshooting booklet delivered with my mac ethernet card says
the green light on my ethernet card should burn, but it doesn't (just
flashes during power-on), so the hardware or net is not working
properly (and don't bother to check the software says the booklet).
So
1) my ethernet card is malfunctioning, my cable or connectors are
faulty, or I failed to wire them properly. Gonna triplecheck this.
2) This no hub setup doesn't agree with the apple way of ethernet.
(This won't surprise me at all.)
3) Something else I missed?
anyone ever tried this particular configuration before and can help
me out or offer advice? and could someone point me to an applicable
mac newsgroup (thank you very much!)
PS: am I correct in deducing I will only get the appletalk icon in
Preferences if I can connect to an appletalk network, or is my
filesystem maimed?
Thanxs,
Paul, getting tired of running around with 800K floppies :-)
(paul@praktos.be)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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education system - BG saying
From: rfrancis@sf.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 2 Feb 1995 23:43:16 -0700
Organization: Paradigm Systems, San Francisco
Message-ID: <3gsja4$oem@amazon.sf.psca.com>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
>rebooting the system ?
Yes, just do "exportfs -av" as root. Anything that needs updated will
show be listed as "re-exported".
-rob
---
Rob Francis
Paradigm Systems <URL:http://www.sf.psca.com/Hyplans/rfrancis/>
Rob_Francis@sf.psca.com
From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Floppy disk formating ?????
Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:23:28 GMT
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Sender: gee@obelix (Gregory W. Gee)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gtla0$72k@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Are there any plans on upgrading the ist of floppies that black
hardware can read.
DD HD ED
DOS x x ?
NeXT x x x
MAC x ? ?
When are the missing holes going to be filled in? This hasn't changed
in a long time.
Thanks.
--
****************************************************************************
Greg Gee The G-Man gee@csd.uwo.ca
Honours Computer Science, gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario gee@syslab.csd.uwo.ca
>>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< NeXT Mail accepted
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/mandas/uwo/members/gee/
****************************************************************************
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT sendmail talking to LISTSERVs - followup
Date: 1 Feb 1995 22:21:39 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3gp1hj$8op@shelob.afs.com>
References: <3gogsu$81b@shelob.afs.com>
Earlier today, I wrote
> I still haven't figured out why the NeXT-supplied sendmail won't talk
> to certain LISTSERVs. You may remember my previous post in which I
> described the following error: [etc]
Thanks to all who wrote with advice, and particularly to Dan Grillo at
NeXT for diagnosing the problem. There was a TCP bug in 3.3 PRERELEASE 1
that affected a number of programs, including (apparently) sendmail. We
upgraded to 3.3 final over the weekend, so I just tried another message
and it got through OK.
--
Gregory H. Anderson | "Internet: a giant international network
Stud Hombre Cybermuffin | of intelligent, informed computer
Anderson Financial Systems | enthusiasts, by which I mean 'people
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | without lives.'" -- Dave Barry, 2/6/94
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Drives > 2GB
Message-ID: <D3EC75.Fw@trapac.com>
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 23:35:28 GMT
I'm about to buy a 3.5 GB Hard Drive, and I recall some discussion
a while back about problems with drives larger than 2GB. Should
I not buy a drive this big, or will it work?
I'm using 3.2 or 3.3, and I have at least 2GB of stuff to put on it.
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
From: fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up bootpd for non-NeXT's
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 03 Feb 1995 22:45:45 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <FXARS.95Feb3134545@dev103.acf-lab.alaska.edu>
I am trying to set up a generic bootpd server using a NeXT running
NEXTSTEP 3.1. I have no experience doing this at all. According to
the man page,
# host htype haddr iaddr bootfile
tc101g 1 02:60:8c:06:35:05 36.44.0.65 seagate
this is an sample entry that's supposed to be in the /etc/bootptab
database file. The bootfiles are supposed to be located in a default
directory /private/tftpboot/. The only file there that seems to be
applicable is mach.
In addition, the bootparamd man page implies that netinfo is supposed
to be provide bootp services (which it is for our NeXT clients) for
non-NeXT machines as well.
Any advice out there? How would I configure or compile files for
/private/tftboot/? For example, the mach file is a binary file.
Thanks in advance. Oh yeah, I take email, but I also have the
courtesy to read the group if I post a question.
=== Al
From: ridgway@rutherford.ucsd.edu (Doug Ridgway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! I broke something badly...
Date: 3 Feb 1995 04:40:38 GMT
Organization: Intstitute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gsc46$f7l@network.ucsd.edu>
Originator: ridgway@rutherford
I was attempting to modify a printer entry in NetInfo to allow a remote
printer on a non-Next machine to work. I was running NetInfoManager
as root using OpenSesame while logged into my account. I believe that
the last action I took before system failure was deleting one of the
properties of that printer. After that, Workspace started acting
funny: most of the icons dissappeared from my shelf, and the
selected file was no longer displayed as an icon, just the white selection
box. Nothing worked, so I rebooted. After a fsck, the system is in the
following state, which is unchanged by further reboots.
1) root can log in normally.
2) When either 'me' or 'ridgway' tries to log in, the system shuts the login
panel as if the login was successful, but it reappears after a delay
of several seconds.
3) Anyone else who logs in get to a clear screen with a dock with the
Workspace icon and four of those question-mark-terminal-application-
unknown icons. All have the three little dots indicating non-running
applications, even Workspace. Double clicking on the Workspace icon
produces a panel which explains ``That application does not contain
software for this computer.'' This behavior also held for a test user
I created after the problem began.
4) root cannot su to ridgway, the error message is something like
'No shell!'. Nor can I rlogin or telnet from another machine, it closes
the connection after a seemingly normal login.
5) All the users directories are still there and seem uncorrupted. I can
successfully log in from a neighboring machine which shares my home
directory with the sick machine.
The machine is a Nextstation Color (non-Turbo) running 3.2. Also on the
local network is one other Next, which (I think) shares no NetInfo
information directly, and a variety of Suns and other things. The Nexts
in particular are inconsistenly administered in a ``if it's not broke,
don't fix it'' manner, and are only partially integrated with each other
and the Sun network. There is no current backup of the administrative
information before I mucked with it (yes, I know). Since root can log in,
and no user files seem to be corrupted, my current recovery plan would be
to a) copy all user files to another place b) reinstall from scratch.
Any better ideas would be dearly appreciated. Or any guesses as to what
I did, I have no idea.
doug.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schurch@pages.com (Sean Church)
Subject: Sendmail blues...
Message-ID: <D3G0JD.2LG@pages.com>
Sender: schurch@pages.com (Sean Church)
Organization: Pages Software Inc
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 21:18:48 GMT
This is for all those folks out there who have ever had to muck with their
Sendmail.cf file...
Yeah, it's blue's. Forgive me. I wrote this for a pal of mine who's busy
<I can't say, they'll shoot me> at <can't do it>...
It's raw. I just broke my guitar out of the closet after a 6 year divorce
of the soul...
;-)
Chords (bear with me, I'm trying to remember it all...)
E G Am Bm (or something like that...). My fingers know it, I just have to
make sure of what I speak...
Later!
**************************************************************************
It's one oclock in the morning,and here I'm still down at work.
There seems to be a problem : The mailservers gone berzerk...
My eyes are red from reading; Eric Allman what would you do?
It's been hours since I have eaten, drinking coffee that tastes like
glue...
chorus : I got the blues...
those low down header rewritten' blues...
I got the spool area deleteing,
root permission cheating,
forwarding loop repeating,
non-message reading Sendmail blues...
It started late this evening, I was heading out the door...
My mail reader was wheezing, and I didn't know what for..
A simple check of the server, and my worst nightmare came true...
all email had been forwarded to a POP that nobody knew...
<chorus>
My mailbox was deleted, or so the workspace said..
and all my inbound messages would probably end up dead...
And what of that message to my boss? Just where would it land?
Had the domain been rewritten, would it end up in Japan?
<chorus>
(slow it down here...)
I got the stinky ruleset cheating,
Random header reading,
User group impeding,
TCP socket leaking,
Upper management bereaving Sendmail blues...
**************************************************************************
Why'd I post this here?
And where else would you post a half baked blue's song about Sendmail?
;-)
--
Sean Church Pages Software Inc
schurch@pages.com 9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
(619) 492-9050 x 221 San Diego, Ca. 92124
Systems Engineer, Network Administrator, chief cook and cable boy...
From: waqar@charlie.secs.csun.edu (Waqar Malik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: ROM Monitor Problem...
Date: 4 Feb 1995 02:21:30 GMT
Organization: Calstate University at Northridge
Message-ID: <3guoba$mnr@dewey.csun.edu>
Keywords: ROM Monitor, Password, Cube
Hi everybody,
I have a hand me down 040 cube, I want to install the new OS on
it, but the ROM Monitor is asking for password, an no body here
seem to know what that is, is there a way to reset the password,
or a way arround it.
PS If any body know that location of the FAQ?
Thanks
--
Waqar Malik waqar@secs.csun.edu
School of Engineering and Computer Science wmalik@huey.csun.edu
California State University, Northridge 818.885.3919
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8281
From: dan@au.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 3 Feb 1995 04:40:55 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3gsc4n$j2a@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Gregor Hoffleit writes
> Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
> rebooting the system ? NFSManager.app always tells that you have to do
> a reboot for the changes to take place, and thought the new properties
> immidiately appear in NetInfo (nidump exports .), they aren't active
> yet.
>
> Since this is possible with other OS, too, there's certainly a way to
> do this with NEXTSTEP, too, manually, not ??
>
I think you only get this message if you are adminstering the exports of
machine X from machine Y. The solution I use is to login on machine X,
su to root and issue "exportfs -a"
If you're on machine X running the nfs manager app, I think it can do this
for you, but not from X to Y.
--
L. W. "Dan" Danz (WA5SKM) NeXT Mail: ddan@au.stratus.com
Senior Technical Consultant VOS Mail: Dan_Danz@vos.stratus.com
Asia Pacific Support Center Telephone: +61 (2) 954-0655
Stratus Computer Pty Ltd Fax: +61 (2) 954-0012
99 Walker St. North Sydney 2060 NSW Australia
From: dchan@dchan.earthlink.net (Derek Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mux and 3.3
Date: 4 Feb 1995 07:20:28 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3gv9rt$ph6@moon.earthlink.net>
Keywords: Mux, serial ports, 3.3
I just upgraded to 3.3 and have found that the Mux driver doesn't seem to
work anymore. I've got my system configured for a serial mouse on COM1
and my modem on COM2. I seem to have been able to get the Mux driver to
load by editing my SerialPort's Instance0.table to load COM2 at the COM4
address and IRQ, then configuring Mux to COM2 addresses (if you remove
COM2 completely from the SerialPort Instance0.table the machine won't
complete its boot sequence, then it's an adventure in single user mode).
Anyway, the end result is COM2 is real flakey (I get alot of bad packets)
under Mux.
If anyone has any suggestions/solutions I would be greatful. Thanks.
-Derek
PS - I also tried recompiling Mux under 3.3 but that didn't change things.
From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 04 Feb 1995 02:32:02 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Feb3213202@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In-reply-to: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de's message of 2 Feb 1995 12:48:46 GMT
<flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
>Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
>rebooting the system ? NFSManager.app always tells that you have to do
>a reboot for the changes to take place, and thought the new properties
>immidiately appear in NetInfo (nidump exports .), they aren't active
>yet.
Screw NFSManager.app. Roll up yer sleeves ;-).
niload exports .
/mydirectory/to/export -rw=whoever
^D
exportfs -va
(If you didnt already have *something* exported, you'll need to do this
to start some daemons)
rpc.mountd
nfsd 4
>Since this is possible with other OS, too, there's certainly a way to
>do this with NEXTSTEP, too, manually, not ??
No need to thank me, just throw cash ;-).
- darcy
--
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er
so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. Gentlemen in England now abed
shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods
cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
From: Bryce_Jasmer@NeXT.COM (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 4 Feb 1995 19:04:09 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3h0j39$109@rosie.next.com>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes:
>Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
>rebooting the system ?
Read the man page for exportfs(8). And if you haven't exported filesystems
before on that machine, you should start rpc.mountd and at least four
instances of biod.
-- Bryce
From: walter@itchy (Walter A. Kehowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTTeX.pkg
Date: 4 Feb 1995 23:56:53 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <3h1485$qcj@lynx.unm.edu>
Also look in labrea.stanford.edu for NeXTTEXup and e-math.ams.org for the
latest tex versions.
Walter A. Kehowski
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John Nicol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: autonfsmount external disk
Date: 4 Feb 1995 07:31:50 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <3gvah6$leo@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
In the '/ - Imported Directories' window of NFS Manager I see the
following entries autonfsmounted on the mount point, '/Net':
NFS Server Remote Directory Local Directory
machine / /Net/machine
external /phoneme /Net/machine/external
where 'external' is an external SCSI disk attached to 'machine'. 'machine'
is running NEXTSTEP 3.3 and the netinfo server is running NEXTSTEP 3.2.
The options for both mounts are read/write, background, run setuid file
under owner, retry until server responds.
Both file systems are exported read/write.
When I access /Net/machine on a remote host the directory,
'/Net/machine/external', does not appear.
If I remove the autonfsmount entry for external and issue a command of the
form, 'mount machine:/external /external', on a remote host, then the
mount succeeds.
Is there any procedure whereby the external disk can be made to appear to
the remote systems on the autonfsmount point '/Net/machine/external' and
the '/' directory of 'machine' is also autonfsmounted?
Thanks very much for your help.
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC
jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail)
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John Nicol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: autonfsmount external disk
Date: 4 Feb 1995 07:40:22 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <3gvb16$lgs@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <3gvah6$leo@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
In article <3gvah6$leo@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca> jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (John
Nicol) writes:
> In the '/ - Imported Directories' window of NFS Manager I see the
> following entries autonfsmounted on the mount point, '/Net':
>
> NFS Server Remote Directory Local Directory
> machine / /Net/machine
> external /phoneme /Net/machine/external
>
> << deleted correct part of previous post >>
Oops. The remote directory for 'external' above should be '/external'.
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC
jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail)
From: rfrancis@sf.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 3 Feb 1995 18:50:58 -0700
Organization: Paradigm Systems, San Francisco
Message-ID: <3gumi2$8jt@amazon.sf.psca.com>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <3gt9kb$6h8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In article <3gt9kb$6h8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
Axel Habermann <kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>2) After having changed the exports, log into the remote host
> and issue exportfs -u; exportfs -a as a privileged user.
You actually don't need to do the 'exportfs -u' first. Just doing a
'exportfs -a' will re-export existing exported filesystms as well as
exported newly added entries.
-rob
---
Rob Francis
Paradigm Systems <URL:http://www.sf.psca.com/Hyplans/rfrancis/>
Rob_Francis@sf.psca.com
From: emstech@sound.music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Novell & UNIX on the same machine ?
Date: 3 Feb 1995 16:43:06 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3gtmeq$qv6@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Hi,
Is it possible to have UNIX and Novel service on the same machine ?
Is their a NetWare "SERVER" package for NeXT ?
Or maybe someone knows a UNIX platform that will support both.
Thanks,
Alain Terriault, SysAdmin
Music Faculty, McGill University
From: Scott A Douglass <sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: loginwindow and WindowServer
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 16:49:55 -0500
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <EjAzO3K00iV442TqxD@andrew.cmu.edu>
I'm suddenly getting the following error when my machine tries to boot...
... data&time info ... loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
This error appears just after the update and cron daemons are started.
Does anyone know how I can mend this problem? I'm looking through my
system admin manual for 3.x but I can't seem to find anything.
Help!
Scott Douglass
_________________________________________________________________________
Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Office: (412) 268-3409
Internet: sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu
From: dalia@khan.syr.edu (Apurva F. Dalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Connecting a Second Terminal to Intel 486 running NS3.2
Date: 3 Feb 1995 20:45:24 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, USA
Message-ID: <3gu4l4$odg@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi,
I have a Intel 486 running NS 3.2. I want to connect another "dumb"
terminal to one of its ports (ttya or ttyb). I have a very old IBM
terminal with a keyboard. Please let me know how i can do this.
Thanks in advance.
From: cs@kau1.kodak.com (Craig Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Mouse not recognized loading NS 3.3 on PCI system
Date: 6 Feb 1995 08:18:52 +1100
Organization: Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <3h3fbs$2u7@bud.kau2.kodak.com>
References: <1995Jan26.185605.26490@pcp.ca>
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King_Richard@pcp.ca (Richard King) writes:
>When installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my PCI machine, installation went great
>until the point where it reboots. While it rebooted without hanging, it
>did not recognize my Logitech MouseMan serial mouse, connected to the
>first serial port.
>The motherboard is PCI/VESA/ISA.
>Other cards in the system were an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller (PCI), a
>Diamond Stealth 64 (PCI), a ProAudio Studio (ISA), as well as the multi-IO
>card containing 2 serial ports, a parallel port and a [disabled] IDE
>controller (VESA).
>Any ideas on how to solve the mouse problem? Without it, I can't proceed
>through the installation.
>Side Note: the video seemed to work find in VGA mode with the exception of
>2 wide, red, 1 character high bars across the bottom of the screen. I
>assume those will go away once I get the machine configured.
I've seen identical symptoms, i.e. the VGA video mode with the two red
lines at the bottom. They went away when I replaced the I/O board and
SCSI card. I discovered that the I/O board I was using only had one 16550
port (on COM2) and I had the mouse on COM1. Replacing the card with one
that has TWO 16550s seems to have made things much more stable.
I replaced the AHA1542 with an AHA2742, since I have an EISA machine and
figured that a SCSI controller that is native to the system bus would
be a good idea. If your I/O card is a VESA card, maybe a check to ensure
that NS supports it might be in order?
Since replacing these two cards, my NS3.3 install attempts have stopped
displaying any device driver errors. Now, it simply hangs on the reboot.
Sigh.
--
=============================================================================
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From: vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be (Christian Van Oudenhove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] no driver for #9GXE64Pro VLB ?
Date: 6 Feb 1995 07:39:24 GMT
Organization: Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3h4jnc$2s1@sci3.sri.ucl.ac.be>
Hello, Net Users
Having seen that the #9GXEPro video card was in the list
of supported interfaces for NS 3.3, I bought such a card with 4MB
for my PC Local-Bus motherboard....
Unfortunately, I realised too late that the original drivers for
this card expected a PCI bus type! So, I tried to manage (without
information) with the Configure.app parameters but unsuccesfully.
Can anyone tell me how I can configure the driver to let this
card recognised, or how I can get the specific driver for NS 3.3
if any is required ...
Thanks in advance ...
-------------------------------
Christian Van Oudenhove - Universite Catholique de Louvain
Institut de Statistique - Voie du Roman Pays, 34
B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve - BELGIUM
Tel : 32-10/47.30.48 - Fax 32-10/47.30.32
E-mail : vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be - (NeXTmail welcome)
From: ptb@b65152.student.cwru.edu (Paul Buchheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Install 3.3 via nfs or hd?
Date: 4 Feb 1995 06:02:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <3gv59l$5es@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Is it possable to install NS 3.3 for intel from a second hard drive
(copy the CD ROM to the drive, then install. Worked for OS/2) or via
NFS from another computer?
Thanks
! Windows is not the answer. Windows is the question. "No" is the answer.
@ ptb@po.cwru.edu
# ptb@b65152.cwru.edu
$ Thank you, drive through.
From: Lars Immisch <limmisch@t42.ppp.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! I broke something badly...
Date: 5 Feb 1995 22:01:04 GMT
Organization: myself
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3h3hr1$baf@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <3gsc46$f7l@network.ucsd.edu>
In article <3gsc46$f7l@network.ucsd.edu> Doug Ridgway,
ridgway@rutherford.ucsd.edu writes:
>Any better ideas would be dearly appreciated.
I did encounter some very strange behaviour once when I somehow ?$#!
corrupted my
defaults database. Try renaming .NeXTDefaults.* to something else and try
logging in.
If that fails, you have to go the hard way: Boot up single user (bsd -u)
and trash
local.nidb (I always forget where it is). Restore the default from the
template directory
and start up multiuser (sh rc.local &)
Good luck.
Lars
From: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mux and 3.3
Date: 5 Feb 1995 13:32:08 +0100
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <3h2gg8$1m7@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
References: <3gv9rt$ph6@moon.earthlink.net>
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Keywords: Mux, serial ports, 3.3
dchan@dchan.earthlink.net (Derek Chan) writes:
>[Mux no longer works after 3.3 upgrade]
>If anyone has any suggestions/solutions I would be greatful. Thanks.
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/next/i486/Drivers/3.3/Mux-1.6.tar.gz
>PS - I also tried recompiling Mux under 3.3 but that didn't change things.
Why should it, with the same developer stuff? Better get the Mux update!
--
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From: viggo@diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get to dos partition on boot disk ?
Date: 6 Feb 1995 14:51:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
Sender: viggo@njord.diku.dk
Message-ID: <3h5d2b$ndp@odin.diku.dk>
Hello.
How do you access a dos partition on the same disk as NextStep boot from ?
There seems to be nothing in the documentation about it, except from the
fact that i can be done.
(I'm running NS 3.2).
--Allan
--viggo@diku.dk
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Top for HP?
Date: 6 Feb 1995 08:20:27 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3h4m4b$g9a@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Has anyone managed to get the top program to work on HP NeXTSTEP yet?
Although it compiles ok, and I can create multi-fat binaries it gives
segmentation fault when I try and run the program.
Dave
------------------------------------------------------------------
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EMBL
Meyerhofstrasse 1,
69117 Heidelberg.
Tel: 49-6221-387554 (Work)
49-6221-387183355 (Home)
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
NeXTMail: Accepted but MIME prefered.
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From: jtodd@ss1.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next to Appletalk
Date: 5 Feb 1995 19:31:34 GMT
Organization: Digital Express
Message-ID: <3h392m$pci@news1.digex.net>
References: <netnewsD3Dqsr.B8B@netcom.com>
jpmeia@netcom.com wrote:
: Hi, does anyone know of a product that will enable me to connect an Intel
: machine running NextStep3.3 to an Appletalk network?
: Thanks, JP
: jpmeia@netcom.com
I don't know what you mean exactly by "connect" but if you want to use NFS,
there is a product called NFS/Share by Intercon that I've got working
currently that seems to fit the bill. It allows my Mac to share
NFS-exported volumes on my NeXT. They show up as desktop icons depending on
what I have mounted from the NeXT. You'll have to compile and run bwnfsd,
but it's a matter of typing "make bsd" on the NeXT.
Hints: for bwnfsd to work with full support (nfs, lpd) you will have to
export a single volume to your own NeXT. bwnfsd loops back to itself to
make sure that the volumes are mountable, and it does this by trying to
mount a volume onto the computer that it's running on... yes, kind of
stupid, but that's the way it works, according to some ex-employees of
Intercon.
ftp://ftp.intercon.com/intercon/sales/Mac/Demo_Software/NFS_Share_139.hqx
You'll have to call 800-468-7266 to get a temporary password, but hey, it's
a nice product.
--
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Digital Express Internet Providers - 1-800-969-9090 x307 = sales info
From: Troy Jacobson <jacobson@epd.engr.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 'mount -t dos ...' inconsistencies
Date: 6 Feb 1995 22:48:30 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3h68vu$lt@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <9502031408.AA07040@cantina.lanl.gov>
Oops. Forgot to clarify something.
In the last post, I was referring to the mount errors (device
busy, and so forth). The first thing I would look at is at
the times when you get the errors, if the disk would already be
mounted (by the Workspace manager, and probably under a different
name).
Hope this helps.
Troy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: Even parity vs Null?
Message-ID: <vwalkerD3K44G.7KG@netcom.com>
Summary: I need modem to answer with Null parity. How?
Keywords: Null Even Parity Zmodem dialup NeXTStep 7 bits 8 bits
Sender: vwalker@netcom.com
Cc: vwalker@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 02:26:40 GMT
I am new to NeXTStep, but have the job of setting it up on an Intel
machine for dial-up by remote modems for a school district, for students'
use. I have managed to get a modem to answer and give me the system
prompt, and to login and move around. But it insists on answering using
Even parity and seven data bits protocol. If I can't make an eight bit
connection, I can't get file transfers with ZModem or any other protocol
except for Kermit, and that's very slow. Is there some way to convince the
system or the modem to answer the phone and make connection using 8 bits,
Null parity, and 1 stop bit, the same as most other PC systems?
By the way, is there an sz/rz package available for NeXTStep, since it
does not seem to come with one?
Thanks very much for your patience and help. In addition to posting your
answers in this newsgroup, if you would send your answers directly to me
via email as well, I'd appreciate it. I don't get over to this newsgroup
very often.
Vic Walker
vwalker@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: World Wide Web server for NeXTStep
Message-ID: <vwalkerD3K4nz.8K8@netcom.com>
Summary: Is there a World Wide Web server I can run on my NeXTStep?
Keywords: WWW Worldwide Web NeXTStep
Sender: vwalker@netcom.com
Cc: vwalker@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 02:38:23 GMT
Hi, another question. I'm setting up a NeXTStep system for a school
district, for use by students and possibly others. They would like to
make this system into a node on the World Wide Web. Is there any World
Wide Web server software, either commercial or shareware/freeware, that I
can run on NeXTStep? If so, where can I get it?
Thanks for your answers. Could you please respond by email, as well as
posting to this newsgroup? I don't get over to this newsgroup very often.
Vic Walker
vwalker@netcom.com
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXTSTEP on PowerPC/PowerMAC
Date: 6 Feb 1995 07:27:32 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3h4j14$g9a@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I am considering purchasing a machine to run NeXTSTEP from home. Obviously
a normal Intel processor would be ok, but I am quite interested in the
new PowerPC/PowerMAC were you can buy a 486 board. Does anyone have
any experience with installing NeXTSTEP on the PowerPC/PowerMAC and
exactly what I need to but to run both MAC (or DOS) and NeXTSTEP on
the same machine (rebooting obviously). I
As normal thanks for any information in advance. If possible please reply
by email.
Dave
------------------------------------------------------------------
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NMR System Manager
EMBL
Meyerhofstrasse 1,
69117 Heidelberg.
Tel: 49-6221-387554 (Work)
49-6221-387183355 (Home)
Email: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
NeXTMail: Accepted but MIME prefered.
HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: How to install MANY fonts?
References: <3g9b5k$pth@news1.digex.net> <3gcelt$on4@news.ycc.yale.edu> <ensuingD3EG15.E0G@netcom.com>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:05:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Feb6.230529.28663@proximus.north.de>
In article <ensuingD3EG15.E0G@netcom.com>,
Ensuing Technologies <ensuing@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <3gcelt$on4@news.ycc.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
[...]
>>Perhaps even worse is the fact that one can't organize fonts into
>>sub-directories in any reasonable fashion. Pathetic.
>Another good one Nathan. And again, please don't let the fact that you
>are wrong stop you from complaining. Fonts can be placed anywhere in
>the file system you desire. By default, the appkit looks in only three
>places, but that can be changed.
But I guess that's not what Nathan wanted....
What he really (and not only him, me, too) needs is to cluster the fonts
in the Fontpanel into subdirectories. You see, I have a couple ;-) of
fonts installed as well, and if I need a special fornt, it takes (a
lot of time for the panel to pop up, but that's another story) quite a
bit for me to scroll to the proper place. Wouldn't it be fine to be able
to arrange the fonts like
Serif/Times/TimesTen/SC & OSF
Italic
....
Times Europe...
Times New Roman...
Times...
....
Garamond/AdobeGaramond...
ITSGaramond...
....
Semiserif....
Modern....
....
You get the impression?
Up to now you only can cluster them editing the font files directly, but
this is generally a BAD IDEA (tm), as you have to change the name of the
font. (Doesn't make too much sense to have TimesTen named as Times
when it's not the same, does it?)
To put it into one sentence: The fontpanel should be more easily related
to the fontname and its structure should be definable...
Jau, Gerhard.
EXTASE AN.
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From: jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp (Jim Kieley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gated for NeXT?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 7 Feb 1995 07:24:57 GMT
Organization: Miyazaki International College
Message-ID: <jim-070295164553@macde-1.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp>
This relates to a recent post questioning how to use a NeXT as a router.
Has anyone compiled gated on black hardware? If so, what version and what
changes had to be made?
Jim Kieley
Miyazaki International College
jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: mataylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Mike Taylor=)
Subject: Dialup login problems
Message-ID: <D3Avs4.FC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 02:48:04 GMT
I'm trying to get a dialup line going on my Pentium NEXTSTEP box, but I'm
not having much luck. I have logins accross NULL modems lines working fine,
but I can't get them to work with the modem.
I have tried initializing the modem manually and then rebooting. What
happens is that the "tr" light on my modem is off after reboot, and the
modem will not auto-answer even though the modem display says that
auto answer is on. If I use kermit and quit, the light stays on, and
the modem will answer, but once it does, nothing happens. All of this
time, the 'ps' command shows that the getty is running on the proper port.
If anyone has mastered the fine art of setting up a dialup line, please
let me know. I've pretty much used up my meagre store of clever ideas.
--
/\/\ike Taylor
mataylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
From: bungi@nisqually.omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anybody done a multicast make on 3.3 yet?
Date: 5 Feb 1995 14:01:04 -0800
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <3h3hr0$2o7@nisqually.omnigroup.com>
References: <JBRYANS.95Feb1141426@tern.csulb.edu>
Take a look at NeXTanswer 170[23]. These describe how to patch your 3.3
User/3.2 developer machine to support multicast. Essentially it boils down
to replacing in.h. I've used multicast (built some examples off the net, a
multicast ping program and a multicast test suite) and both appeared to
work fine. I've started on some other projects using multicast, but
haven't worked up the energy, in the face of paying work, to complete them
yet :). Oh well, someday.
jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes:
>In particular, has xtnp3 been made w/multicast on 3.3, or do we have to wait
>for 3.3 developer to be released?
>Will 3.3 developer have a functional mmap capability?
>Jack
--
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Omni Development, Inc.
http://www.omnigroup.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kent@infoserv.com
Subject: Re: ROM Monitor Problem...
Message-ID: <D3KwJt.2Fw@infoserv.com>
Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard)
Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting - (Kent L. Shephard)
References: <3guoba$mnr@dewey.csun.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:40:41 GMT
In article <3guoba$mnr@dewey.csun.edu> waqar@charlie.secs.csun.edu (Waqar
Malik) writes:
#Hi everybody,
#
# I have a hand me down 040 cube, I want to install the new OS on
# it, but the ROM Monitor is asking for password, an no body here
# seem to know what that is, is there a way to reset the password,
# or a way arround it.
Open it up and pull the battery from the motherboard.
Kent
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dirk@cicero.ping.de (Dirk Olmes)
Subject: Re: Mux and 3.3
Message-ID: <D3Ln4q.Hq@cicero.ping.de>
Sender: dirk@cicero.ping.de (Dirk Olmes)
Organization: NeXT Club Schwerte, Germany
References: <3gv9rt$ph6@moon.earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 22:14:49 GMT
In article <3gv9rt$ph6@moon.earthlink.net> dchan@dchan.earthlink.net (Derek
Chan) writes:
:
: I just upgraded to 3.3 and have found that the Mux driver doesn't seem to
: work anymore. I've got my system configured for a serial mouse on COM1
: and my modem on COM2. I seem to have been able to get the Mux driver to
: load by editing my SerialPort's Instance0.table to load COM2 at the COM4
: address and IRQ, then configuring Mux to COM2 addresses (if you remove
: COM2 completely from the SerialPort Instance0.table the machine won't
: complete its boot sequence, then it's an adventure in single user mode).
: Anyway, the end result is COM2 is real flakey (I get alot of bad packets)
: under Mux.
:
: If anyone has any suggestions/solutions I would be greatful. Thanks.
which version of Mux did you use ??
The latest one is 1.6. I compiled it last week on 3.3 and it works since then
wihtout any problems.
If I remember correctly, earlier versions won't work with NS 3.3
so long,
-dirk
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* dirk@cicero.ping.de (NeXT-Mail please) *
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From: Troy Jacobson <jacobson@epd.engr.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 'mount -t dos ...' inconsistencies
Date: 6 Feb 1995 22:39:12 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3h68eg$b1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <9502031408.AA07040@cantina.lanl.gov>
> Greetings,
> The problem is, the dumplog file
> shows me that this sometimes works:
>
> ***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 Feb 2 03:53 /ms-dos_6
> Thu Feb 2 03:58:47 MST 1995
>
> and sometimes it doesn't:
>
> ***File system rsd0h == /ms-dos_6***
> mount: /dev/rsd0h on /ms-dos_6: No such device
> mount: giving up on:
> /ms-dos_6
Hello,
In my experience, I get this message when
A) The disk is partitioned with a NeXT
partition that was mounted during
the boot process.
B) The DOS drive/partition is already mounted.
Which may happen automaticaly when a user
is logged in.
Troy Jacobson
jacobso6@facstaff.wisc.edu
From: Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mux and 3.3
Date: 7 Feb 1995 15:52:14 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3h84ve$r72@shelob.afs.com>
References: <3h2gg8$1m7@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
> [..] Better get the Mux update!
>
Has anyone tried TransSlip PNI 1.13 SLIP software with NS 3.3 (Intel) and
the Mux serial drivers? Successfully 8^)?
-Greg
From: Richard Puga <puga@maui.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep Dual IDE Controler Booting..How??
Date: 4 Feb 1995 20:23:59 GMT
Organization: Maui Research and Technology Center (MRTC)
Message-ID: <3h0nov$9v1@lawelawe-f0.mrtc.maui.com>
I have an Intell P-90 Mother board with Neptune chipset and dual
on board IDE controlers.. I got Next Step installed on the drive but
the only way I could do it was to put it on the first IDE controler as
a single drive system...
I need to know if there are drivers to support dual IDE controlers..
and if so what are they and where do I get them..
I want the NeXT Drive to be the fourth drive in the system and I also
want to add the drive to Os/2's Boot Manager.. I have recived
Instructions on how to do this from this news group ...So far what I
have done is create a small DOS partition on the drive and boot
manager now see's the partition but will only boot DOS and will
not add the Next Partition nor will it load the Next Boot Utility
when booting from Boot manager.. it will however boot just fine if I
do not use boot managager and run it as the primary dirve on the
first controler...
I think the bulk of my problem is the fact that Next cant see the
second IDE controler.. and if worse comes to worse I can boot Next
off the install disk and just tell it which drive too boot from,
Providing that it can see the drive on the second controler..
If anyone can help me with either of thease problems I yould
apreciate it if you could either post to this news group or
send me e-mail.....puga@maui.com.
Thank you
R. Puga
puga@maui.com
From: jstock@next.com (Jim Stockford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo database format and performance
Date: 6 Feb 1995 23:41:55 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3h6c44$143@rosie.next.com>
References: <3h5vtk$po@rosie.next.com>
In article <3h5vtk$po@rosie.next.com> majka@next.com (Marc Majka) writes:
> ...If you are administering a large network, or even a small one, it's
worth
> your time understanding how NetInfo servers work together to create a
> lookup hierarchy. The on-line System Administration documentation has
the
> basics. If you want to know inner details of how NetInfo works, read
the
> Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP In Focus. It's available from NeXTanswers
> (document numbers 1270 - 1282, and 1337 - 1338). Other issues of
NEXTSTEP
> In Focus have contained NetInfo related articles that you might find
> interesting and useful. Training in NEXTSTEP System Administration and
> Advanced NetInfo is available from NeXT.
>
The Summer '93 issue of In Focus comes with NEXTSTEP 3.3 (check
Digital Librarian, Sys Admin bookshelf or
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NEXTSTEP_In_Focus/*
--jim
From: Bryce_Jasmer@NeXT.COM (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 7 Feb 1995 16:29:55 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3h8763$k3@rosie.next.com>
References: <3h0j39$109@rosie.next.com>
I wrote:
>Read the man page for exportfs(8). And if you haven't exported filesystems
>before on that machine, you should start rpc.mountd and at least four
>instances of biod.
Oops, make that nfsd instead of biod.
Bryce
From: es@gj (Eric_Stumpp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using Dos partition
Date: 7 Feb 1995 16:47:36 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <3h8878$rd4@transfer.stratus.com>
Hi,
Is it possible to take back for NeXT an existing DOS partition without
re-install it ?
Eric
From: 01canay@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Cube won't boot...help
Message-ID: <1995Feb7.114424.40863@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 95 11:44:24 -0500
Organization: Ball State University
Hello again. I'd like to thank all of you again for the previous
assistance all of you gave me on my password problem. I currently have a much
tougher problem that I'm not sure can be fixed.
When trying to boot up the NeXT Cube (68030), the ROM Monitor comes up
fine, but then I get an error message such as:
sdmach () file not found :boot failed
My firm belief is that the hard drive (SCSI disk 0, 660 MB) is toast. I
had to shut the Cube down the other day because it was acting up. I did the
normal power down procedure and now I can't get past the ROM Monitor. bsd -s is
no help and I can't seem to get the system to boot off the optical disks.
Anybody got any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
From: peter@nextlectic (Peter Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: nntp installation, any comments?
Date: 1 Feb 1995 12:05:14 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3gntdq$qp5@sundog.tiac.net>
Keywords: nntp
Does anyone have any words of advice/caution about installing nntp on a
NeXT? I'd really like to retrieve my news at a more convenient time...
like 1:00am for later reading.
as always, email is appreciated.
-peter
peter@nextlectic.tiac.net
From: eugene@raddi (Eugene Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Date: 7 Feb 1995 23:22:16 GMT
Organization: Computer and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3h8vb8$k7s@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Hi
I was wondering if a colour slab could be operated without a
monitor. The monitor's in the shop for a couple of blown
transistors on the HV supply. The slab *was* being used as a SLIP
server, and I'd like to get it back into service soon. However,
I'm told the monitor probably isn't going to be back for a
month or so. Is running without a monitor possible, or is it one of
those things that make people wince.
Thanks for the suggestions
Eugene
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Department of Radiology Brain, and long words bother
University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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From: dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au (Richard West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with PNI-Slip hanging machine
Date: 6 Feb 1995 06:56:11 GMT
Organization: Monash University
Message-ID: <3h4h6b$bjl@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Summary: PNI-SLIP version 1.11 hangs my machine sometimes - please HELP!
Keywords: PNI-Slip 1.11 SLIP hang serial port driver
Hi,
I'm using PNI-SLIP v1.11 which seems to work well while I use it in terminal
windows (I've got 4 going at the moment), but when I try to use any sort of
graphical NS app such as OmniWeb, GatorFTP, NewsGrazer or Alexandra my
machine HANGS! (i.e. the whole screen freezes) within a few minutes of me
using the app - not at the same place, but generally when I try to do a few
things at once (e.g. edit a document or view an image while the program is
doing something in the background. This takes me back to my
windoze daze which I do not want to re-visit with NS. I'm running Version
3.3 for Intel Hardware on a Dell 486/DGX and am using a Microsoft Mouse
through the PS/2 connector. I have my modem operating through COM1.
Does anyone have any idea on what's causing this or what I can do to solve
this problem - I have tried NEXTAnswers to no avail looking for some new
serial port driver, and have been reticent to upgrade PNI as I have heard
reports in this newsgroup of problems between 3.3 and PNI 1.13.
Any help or info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Richard West dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au
(NeXTMail, MIME & ASCII accepted)
:-)
From: konrad@stieltjes.smc.univie.ac.at (Konrad Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: World Wide Web server for NeXTStep
Date: 7 Feb 1995 18:14:20 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Vienna, Dept. of Statistics, OR and Computer Methods
Message-ID: <3h8d9s$qh6@infosrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
References: <vwalkerD3K4nz.8K8@netcom.com>
Vic Walker (vwalker@netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi, another question. I'm setting up a NeXTStep system for a school
: district, for use by students and possibly others. They would like to
: make this system into a node on the World Wide Web. Is there any World
: Wide Web server software, either commercial or shareware/freeware, that I
: can run on NeXTStep? If so, where can I get it?
I'm running cern httpd 3.0 on a variety of NextStep machines, both
black and white. they compiled right out of the box, and are
quick and versatile.
In fact, cern httpd is by far my most favorite http server around!
it's available from http://info.cern.ch/ somewhere, or at least
that server contains the pointers to the ftp site (sorry, don't
have the information handy right now).
chees,
//konrad
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From: fscdo@aurora.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP and NeXTSTEP
Date: 8 Feb 95 04:28:26 -0900
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Message-ID: <1995Feb8.042826.1@aurora.alaska.edu>
I recently purchased a pentium 90 box, running NS 3.3. I have access to
an internet link that supports SLIP. Where can I find a good SLIP program
for my machine? While we're at it, is there any modem software at all that
comes with this OS besides fax software?
Thanx,
Chris Odom
From: fred@odin.univ-lr.fr (Frederic Bret)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Date: 8 Feb 1995 14:48:49 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <3halkh$dp5@hp_univ.univ-lr.fr>
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes:
> Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
> rebooting the system ?
You can try /usr/etc/exportfs -a as root. It works ...
--
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Centre de Ressources Informatiques
E-Mail:frederic.bret@cri.univ-lr.fr
Universite de La Rochelle Tel. : +33 46 45 82 30
17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1 Fax. : +33 46 45 82 45
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: NetInfo database format and performance
Date: 6 Feb 1995 20:13:40 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3h5vtk$po@rosie.next.com>
There's been some discussion about NetInfo's database format and NetInfo
performance in these groups recently. I thought I'd add a few comments of
my own.
There was a question about "rehashing" a NetInfo database by removing all
the "extension_nnn" files. This was supposed to improve performance. It
doesn't. It just damages the database. If you are having performance
problems, it's not because of the size of the database or the number of
extension files.
NetInfo databases (e.g. /etc/netinfo/local.nidb) contain a big file called
either collection or Collection. If it's "collection" (lower-case "c")
then it's a 256 byte format database. If it's "Collection", it's a 512
byte record format. We changed the format in NEXTSTEP 3.0.
The [cC]ollection file contains all directories that will fit in a
fixed-length record (256 or 512 bytes). If a directory grows too large to
fit, it gets its own separate file named extension_nnn, where nnn is the
directory ID number. Records are stored sequentially in the [cC]ollection
file. There is no hashing or fancy indexing.
Deleting all the extension files just deletes all records that are bigger
than the fixed-length size of the [cC]ollection file. It will probably
produce absolutely horrible NetInfo configuration errors.
If you are experiencing poor NetInfo performance, it's almost certain that
something is wrong with your configuration. There are many large sites
running multi-level NetInfo domain hierarchies with thousands of systems
and good performance. Performance can always be improved, and we're
working on it, but it's pretty darned good as it is.
Just to prove the point, I set up a three-level NetInfo hierarchy on a
test network here at NeXT. I created 25000 users in the root domain, and
stuffed lots of extra junk in each user's account record to force it to
use an extension file. The database has 25004 extension files and is over
43 Megabytes in size. The master for the root domain is on a 25MHz
NeXTstation running NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Booting the system takes 1 minute and 55 seconds.
If I force the server to check its database during reboot (as it will
after a dirty shutdown, or if you remove the "checksum" file before the
server starts) it takes an additional 13 minutes 53 seconds to boot.
Logging in as any of the 25000 users in the root domain takes 14 seconds.
If you are administering a large network, or even a small one, it's worth
your time understanding how NetInfo servers work together to create a
lookup hierarchy. The on-line System Administration documentation has the
basics. If you want to know inner details of how NetInfo works, read the
Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP In Focus. It's available from NeXTanswers
(document numbers 1270 - 1282, and 1337 - 1338). Other issues of NEXTSTEP
In Focus have contained NetInfo related articles that you might find
interesting and useful. Training in NEXTSTEP System Administration and
Advanced NetInfo is available from NeXT.
--
Marc Majka
#import <std_disclaimer.h>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: matthew@marble.com (Matthew Stecker)
Subject: Re: Update NFS exports without reboot ?
Message-ID: <D3n597.EIG@marble.com>
Sender: news@marble.com
Organization: Marble Associates, Inc.
References: <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 17:43:55 GMT
In article <3gqkbe$1o8@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes:
> Is it possible to update the NFS server's exports table without
> rebooting the system ?
Yes,
as root:
meson# exportfs -u /* Unexports currently exported fs's */
meson# exportfs -av /* Re-export fs's as described in netinfo */
This should do the trick!
Matthew Stecker
Marble Associates, Inc.
matthew@marble.com
From: fscdo@aurora.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel 3.3 questions. Can anyone help?
Date: 7 Feb 95 16:40:52 -0900
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Message-ID: <1995Feb7.164052.1@aurora.alaska.edu>
I'm running 3.3, Pentium box, PCI motherboard...
Here are some questions I'm grappling with. Please forward all replies
to my email address: fscdo@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu. Thanx...
1) Where do I find a driver for my Advanced Gravis Ultra Sound Max snd card?
Right now I'm using the "system beep" driver. It sucks.
2) I have a SCSI CD-ROM drive running off of my sound card. It should work
as a normal SCSI controller, except the drive is in a fixed location and
its SCSI id can't be changed. (it might not be 2, 3, 4, or 5.) Why
won't NeXTSTEP recognize it? Is there any solution?
3) My screen refresh rates seem weird. (I'm using a 64 bit cirrus graphics
card.) I heard there is possibly a buggy PCI controller chip on my
motherboard. Any truth to this?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bbaker@technom.com
Subject: Need PCMCIA modem for NEC Versa
Message-ID: <1995Feb7.230700.1266@technom.com>
Sender: bbaker@technom.com
Organization: Technom Enterprises, Inc.
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 23:07:00 GMT
Greetings,
I have an NEC Versa laptop, running NEXTSTEP 3.3, and I'd like to find a
PCMCIA data/fax modem for it that will be compatible with Black & White's
NXFax software. I already have a Megahertz XJ1144, but I'm told there are
no drivers available for it. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Brian Baker.
bbaker@technom.com
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mux and 3.3
Date: 8 Feb 1995 09:29:00 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3ha2ss$ous@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3h2gg8$1m7@marsu.pilhuhn.de> <3h84ve$r72@shelob.afs.com>
Gregory_Mutzel@afs.com wrote:
: > [..] Better get the Mux update!
: >
: Has anyone tried TransSlip PNI 1.13 SLIP software with NS 3.3 (Intel) and
: the Mux serial drivers? Successfully 8^)?
Yes.
Me!
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eike@ilink.de (Eike Dierks)
Subject: ? Drivers for fast ethernet for NS/FIP & NS/HPPA ?
Message-ID: <D3pE35.AoD@ilink.de>
Sender: usenet@ilink.de
Organization: i.link Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, Berlin
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 22:49:52 GMT
Are there any drivers available for fast (i.e. 100MBit/s) Ethernet for
NS/FIP ?
What about HPPA ? Any boards/drivers for that ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: How to add a network printer under 3.1?
Message-ID: <1995Feb8.205702.2504@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 95 20:57:02 GMT
We have an HP LaserJet 4 printer which is on our local ethernet. We are
trying to configure a NeXTstation (running 3.1) to use this printer.
In 3.1 it seems that there is more printer information in Netinfo, than
can be described by a printcap file. I'm mystified as to how to do the
Netinfo setup for a networked printer. PrintManager is useless---it only
knows how to add a printer that runs off of the serial port.
We have been able to make it work partially, by using a printcap entry
with a 'rm' entry which uses one of our Sun workstations as a print
server. (The NeXT-supplied documentation explains how to do this.)
However, we would like the NeXT itself to be the print server.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
g.
From: levine@oclc.org (Eugene Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swap space
Date: 9 Feb 1995 10:30:30 -0500
Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Message-ID: <3hdcem$lkv@oclc.org>
How does swap space work in NeXTStep? If my browser says that I have 100M
left, is the swap space part of that or can I use all 100M of that space?
thanks,
-gene
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From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Advanced NetInfo Classes Offered
Date: 9 Feb 1995 19:37:33 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3hdqtt$10m@rosie.next.com>
(Yes, this is a blatant advertisement. I hope you agree with me that
the topic justifies the note. Also, apologies if this shows up twice:
it appears our news system stumbled...)
NeXT is offering two sessions of our Advanced NetInfo class. The
first will be in Redwood City, California, February 22-24; the second,
in McLean, Virginia, March 1-3.
Content of both classes will include:
- NeXT's model of a NetInfo network
- NetInfo terminology
- The domain hierarchy
- IP addresses and protocols
- Binding and connecting
- Special properties
- Command-line programs
- Daemons: what, where, why, how
- The NetInfo protocols
- Analyzing NetInfo packets
- Updates and update propagation
The classes are designed for people with at least six months'
experience administering a NetInfo network of reasonable size (at least
three levels, at least several dozen computers). We'll expect you
have at least passing knowledge of the IP protocol suite, and that
you've attended one of our Network and System Administration classes
(or have equivalent experience).
We recommend you read the Summer, 1993 issue of _NEXTSTEP in Focus_
(available in hard copy from NeXT, and available in soft copy through
NeXTanswers and through my home Web page).
To register for either of these classes, call us at 800-955-NeXT,
or +1-415-780-2922.
(And, if you're wondering when we'll offer the class again, we don't
know: it's not scheduled on a regular basis.)
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
http://www.NeXT.COM/~amarcum/
From: hcole@zia.nrcabq.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen notification of "TALK" request?
Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:18:15 GMT
Organization: Engineering International Inc., Public Internet Access
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hdta7$npb@mack.rt66.com>
References: <3hdq9n$kse@mack.rt66.com>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3hdq9n$kse@mack.rt66.com> you wrote:
> Normally when someone attempts a "talk" request, a little
> message comes up in your shell window informing you of the
> request. However, if you're not running a shell, you can't
> be notified. I'd like to write a little utility that would
> inform me of an incoming talk request using a panel that pops
> up on the screen.
Well, following up to my own post, I see that this is handled by
the talk daemon. I guess I'll hack on the source for that a while
and see what happens...
Suggestions or comments still welcome.
- HRC -
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From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Speed boost for drives spinning at 5400 rpm?
Date: 09 Feb 1995 16:58:52 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Feb9115852@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <D3q0z7.8M9@trapac.com>
In-reply-to: karl@trapac.com's message of Thu, 9 Feb 1995 07:04:19 GMT
<karl@trapac.com> writes:
>From my faded memory:
>A while back, someone discovered that disk always assumes a 3600
>rpm drive. By editing the disktab (?) you could change this and
>would pick up a speed improvement.
This was my bogosity. Yes, NEXTSTEP always assumes 3600, and "disk" is
broken, so that it always reports 3600, but because they use a latency
value of 0 for the disk, the bug never has a chance to affect the
operation of your disk.
So, don't worry about it, because if you newfs -v -r 5400, or whatever,
then it won't help you any because of the latency value.
- darcy
--
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so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. Gentlemen in England now abed
shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods
cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen notification of "TALK" request?
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 95 16:48:06 CST
Organization: University of Missouri, Columbia
Message-ID: <17340EC75S86.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
References: <3hdq9n$kse@mack.rt66.com> <3hdta7$npb@mack.rt66.com>
> Normally when someone attempts a "talk" request, a little
> message comes up in your shell window informing you of the
Click up Workspace Manager/File Viewer, then Command-capital C.
-gj
From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dread / dwrite not working for root under 3.3
Date: 10 Feb 1995 00:25:47 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <3hebqb$ve2@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hi Netters...
Just installed from scratch 3.3 User 3.2 Developer in a Pentium 90 and I'm
running into a stupid problem. "dread" and "dwrite" don't seem to be
working (at least for the "root" user). I read a post some time ago
stating that permissions on the Defaults Database had changed from "root"
to the user. But this is the "root" account itself! Permissions seem to be
just fine. The error returned is "dread: Can't open defaults database".
Found nothing pertinent in NextAnswers...
Anyone else running into this problem??
Thanks for any help!
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: jpross@dac.neu.edu (Joe Prosser x4576)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ifconfig and "RUNNING" flag
Date: 09 Feb 1995 19:11:55 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JPROSS.95Feb9141156@netmgr.dac.neu.edu>
When I run ifconfig en0, i get:
en0: flags=23<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS>
inet 129.10.1.23 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 129.10.1.255
I should get:
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 129.10.1.23 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 129.10.1.255
Anyone know why?
Joe Prosser
jpross@netmgr.dac.neu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: Swap space
Message-ID: <1995Feb9.183153.27227@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3hdcem$lkv@oclc.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 18:31:53 GMT
Eugene Levine writes
> How does swap space work in NeXTStep? If my browser says that I have
100M
> left, is the swap space part of that or can I use all 100M of that
space?
> thanks,
> -gene
Swap space is just a file. You can use all 100M. As your swap space
grows, the amount of available space on the disk shrinks.
From: hcole@zia.nrcabq.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screen notification of "TALK" request?
Date: 9 Feb 1995 19:26:47 GMT
Organization: Engineering International Inc., Public Internet Access
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hdq9n$kse@mack.rt66.com>
Normally when someone attempts a "talk" request, a little
message comes up in your shell window informing you of the
request. However, if you're not running a shell, you can't
be notified. I'd like to write a little utility that would
inform me of an incoming talk request using a panel that pops
up on the screen.
Does anyone know what port talk is using?
Thanks for any information and/or advice.
- HRC -
,,,
(o o)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOO~~(_)~~OOo~~~
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From: kostya@osd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Date: 9 Feb 1995 20:42:35 GMT
Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA
Message-ID: <3hdunr$16r@kaleka.seanet.com>
References: <3h8vb8$k7s@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca>
In article <3hc8ru$kmg@kokusai.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp>
jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp (Jim Kieley) writes:
#In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3h8vb8$k7s@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> you
#wrote:
#> Hi
#>
#> I was wondering if a colour slab could be operated without a
#> monitor.
#
#A color slab should work fine without a monitor. You do need a working
#sound box though. B/W machines without a sound box have to have a
monitor
#(or a non-trivial hardware hack) to boot.
We have a B/W 030 cube running without a monitor with a VT100 on serial
port as an alternate console. Pin 1 and 2 in display port are connected
through 2 220Ohm 10W resistors (in parallel). To start it up pin 6 should
be momentarily shorted to the ground (that serves as a power button). I
don't know if same resistors will work for B/W slab, since it's not my
invention.
Also, color slab will perfectly work with any SVGA color monitor, that can
work on NeXT frequencies and resolution (many multysync monitors that
support up to 64kHz horizontal frequency can). You only need to make a
proper connector - a hardware hack. I had seen color slab working with
Hitachi monitor just fine.
Date: 9 Feb 1995 22:29:01 GMT
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From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install MANY fonts?
Date: 7 Feb 1995 19:57:35 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <3h8jbf$fn6@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <ensuingD3EG15.E0G@netcom.com>
In article <ensuingD3EG15.E0G@netcom.com> ensuing@netcom.com (Ensuing
Technologies) writes:
|>In article <3gcelt$on4@news.ycc.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan
F. Janette) writes:
|>>Ah NEXTSTEP, such state of the art in so many ways, yet lacking
|>>in some many others. What an embarrassment, this stuff has been
|>>broken for *years* now.
|>
|>It's been fixed since 3.2. But don't let facts stand in the way of a
|>good story. I have had well over a 1000 fonts installed at one time.
|>
|>>
|>>Perhaps even worse is the fact that one can't organize fonts into
|>>sub-directories in any reasonable fashion. Pathetic.
|>
|>Another good one Nathan. And again, please don't let the fact that you
|>are wrong stop you from complaining. Fonts can be placed anywhere in
|>the file system you desire. By default, the appkit looks in only three
|>places, but that can be changed.
Hi,
How can you tell the system to look elsewhere for more fonts, other than the
three common directories, ~/Library/Fonts, ~/LocalLibrary/Fonts and
~/NextLibrary/Fonts????
Just curious as I have +1700 fonts, split in between those 3, and I sure would
like to know of a better way!
Best
Michael
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Editor in chief of DANNUG NEWS & DANNUG HOT!
ColorSupport Manager Rank Xerox Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
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From: dickw@wilma.eng.monash.edu.au (Richard West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: HELP : PNI 1.13 & Mux under 3.3
Date: 10 Feb 1995 00:32:18 GMT
Organization: Monash University
Message-ID: <3hec6i$d85@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Summary: Help with timeout on PNI 1.13 and Mux running under NS 3.3
Keywords: TranSysPNI 1.13 Mux serial driver NEXTSTEP 3.3 timeout
Thanks to advice from the net I've got the Mux serial driver running with
PNI 1.13 (almost). The only problem is that I get the following messages
when PNI connects :
TTY tty: Trying to call xxx-xxxx (mannex)
dialer: Start of dynalink dialing script, dialing xxx-xxxx
Modem firmware version is '14400'
Dialing (DTMF) xxx-xxxx ...
Connected: CONNECT 14400
TTY tty: Dialer succeeded to xxx-xxxx
source /etc/pni/support/login-mannex.tcl
Begin monash annex login
tty: recvChars: timeout waiting for ready
tty: recvChars: timeout waiting for ready
tty: recvChars: timeout waiting for ready
tty: recvChars: timeout waiting for ready
TTY tty: Login to xxx-xxxx with mannex failed Couldn't autobaud annex: prompt from annex terminal server
Couldn't autobaud annex: prompt from annex terminal server\n while executing\n"error "Couldn't autobaud annex: prompt from an...
TTY tty: Drop DTR on serial port
Where xxx-xxxx is the number of my slip server and mannex is a login script
which is a modification of the standard annexe script with the user
verification taken out as my provider has anonymous slip.
An help would be appreciated as the Mux driver seems great - had no problems
at 38400 using kermit.
Thanks in advance,
Richard West dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au
Life's too short to Windoze (NeXTMail, MIME & ASCII accepted)
:-)
From: root@n2ehg.198.7.0.124 (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: need system help
Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:41:46 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3hg50a$9in@news.panix.com>
I was working with a friend to make some changes to my system and as a
result screwed up a few things that unfortunately I cannot resolve and I
am at my wits end, hopping for a bit of help ....
I am running 1 turbo color slab (n2ehg/server) and a dimsion cube
(laser/client). Using ver3.3 NS
My network user account (myles) seems ok.
However the following problems occur as root on the server:
the hostname n2ehg, will not show in the login pannel(used too) I checked
hostconfig seems ok and the preferences pannel, checked off show above
only as root, I get no Services(listed) nor in preference are their any
listed
the prefs such as mouse speed for example will not save if I log out it
seems to revert back to default
under root I ran terminal.app made some color changes , these will not
save if I log out
I tried removing the .Next but had the same problems
I am hoping both that the above are stemming from a interelated/simple to
fix problem, and would greately appreciate any help as this newbie is
stumped!
Thanks in advance for all you help
myles
reply to : myles@panix.com (NO NeXT mail ) ####################################################################
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From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cube locks up (NS3.2) HARD!
Date: 9 Feb 1995 12:38:44 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Lines: 18
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hd2ck$228@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com>
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Just recently, my cube (Businessland + 68040 upgrade) has started to HARD
lockup. The only signficant change is adding a second SLIP interface
(TransSLIP version 920207) and starting to run named
The lockup seems to occur after a couple of hours of activity, but has
occured while unattended in the middle of the night.
The erratic nature is making me think that it COULD be a failed filter
capacitor in the power supply passing a spike or something. Lockups are
HARD (no Command-~ nor Command-Command-~ to break out of it) - mouse
pointer freezes where it is...
Anyone who has solved an oddity like this... I'd appreciate E-mail at
<tss@TotSysSoft.com> or <bgingery@WyomingCOM>
Thanks,
Bruce Gingery
From: peer@gaia.hanse.de (Peer Sandtner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Suddenly: Can't change speaker volume
Date: 10 Feb 1995 18:54:43 GMT
Organization: private SiTE
Message-ID: <3hgcpj$ep@gaia.hanse.de>
Hello!
I've a weird problem with NS 3.3 black:
I cannot change the loudness anymore. Both the preferences settings and
the keys on the keyboard don't work (even as root) and I'm sure that it
has already worked with 3.3.
But when I use my account on a networked Intel GX the preferences slider
works.
Any help would be appreciated.
Peer
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Jahnstrasse 18 MIME, NeXTmail
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!!
Message-ID: <1995Feb10.152223.7238@rivers>
From: Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!!
Date: 10 Feb 95 15:22:21 CST
I am so frustrated with this problem. I have looked and did
everything I have found on NeXTAnswers and still no luck. What
problem you may ask? Well thank you for asking...
The problem is every once in while(okay from five seconds to a
day)at least one of our machine on the NeXTStep cluster falls(I really
mean fall) off the net. It could be talking to a machine in Frace or
just the server itself. What is the usual symptom is that the
computer access the network or network server and just spins the
cursor for a finite period of time usually going towards infinity. If
you try to start up another app(since most are on the server) it is
almost a promise that it will lock up the WorkSpace Manager..... If
you do a rup or rusers the computer is not physically listed during
that time and can not be pinged. Sometime the computer comes back on
the net. But most of the time (especially if it was the server) it
requires a reboot for it to communicate with the outside world again...
Our Hardware....
P60- From Gateway still with floating point error :|
PS/2 Mouse(From MickeySoft) that Jumps around :(
Diamond Viper Video Card
EtherCard PLUS Elite16 Series SMC card...
Adaptec 154(2?)C revision
16/32 megs of memory(WS/Server)
We have tried taking out NFS info to various other platforms
(linux and suns) and the locking up persisted. Right now it is
currently only NFS to the server.. We did lower the buffers on the NFS
to a very low number and we are still getting the lock up...
ANY SOLUTIONS WOULD MAKE US HAPPY(but it has to include
running NeXTStep)!!!!!
This is driving many students batty right now and they will
give you eternal thank you....
Brian.s.Mogged@uwrf.edu
.Signature and Spell Checking not included due to budget cuts.....
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: embedding fonts in output
Date: 10 Feb 1995 14:53:09 -0800
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Message-ID: <3hgqol$3vm@crl5.crl.com>
We're sending off Postscript files to a prepress outfit,
and using some 'non-standard', though Adobe brand, fonts.
The guy at the prepress place says I can embed the unusual
fonts in the postscript output file, so they don't have to
worry about font mismatches when they output on their
equipment.
The save-to-file panel for the print panel includes a pop-up
for 'Chosen Printer/Include Fonts', 'Postscript for chosen
printer', and 'Normal device-Independent Postscript'.
None of these options seem to include the font outline
information in the .ps file that I can see.
So is it possible to embed the font information in the
output file, and if so, how do I do it?
--
Don McGregor | "Oh yeah!? You and what industry standards group!"
mcgredo@crl.com|
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 9 Feb 1995 22:21:09 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
The 2Gig file limit in NS is really annoying. I need a single 4 gig partition
for my work and now I find this cannot be done under NS. NS, under NS 3.3
just breaks your drive into equal pieces <2Gig. I imagine this is REALLY
annoying for anyone using RAIDS. But it also affects regular users who have
larger than 2Gig drives. I imagine its a real pleasure to have a 9 gig drive
and need to break it up into 5 pieces! Or worse yet, a 40gig RAID that must
be split into 20 pieces--it's gotta be a bad joke?
Anyway, an OS as demanding as NS should be able to view much larger drives
as contigous single partitions. I understand that this is a limitation of
Unix, but I know some flavors of Unix have overcome this 2gig partition
limitation. Is it possible to recompile source from these other more refined
Unix's for use under NS so one could use more than a 2gig partition?
Would it be possible for NeXT to patch NS 3.3 to deal better with this?
Is this a problem for anyone else or am I alone in this boat :-)
It really does remind me of the MSDOS 32meg HD limitation :-)
On another note, does anyone know how to get NS to mount multiple partitions
automatically? When I log in, my drive only mounts partition a, not b & c.
Also, if I manually mount b & c both come up as 189meg partitions, when one
of them is in fact a 2gig partition. Further, WM.app reports my 4gig drive
as being 189meg under the info panel...why would this be?
Here is the disktab that I used, it should make 2, 2gig partitions and one
189 meg partition....
#1024b/s
SEAGATE|SEAGATE ST15150N|SEAGATE ST15150N 001700:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3712:nt#21:ns#56:ss#1024:rm#7200:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#2097152:sb#2097152:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
:pc#2097152:sc#194295:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#8:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD:
Later, Thanks, John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Subject: Using swapdisk for other purpose?
Message-ID: <1995Feb10.214609.5131@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 21:46:09 GMT
I just set up a swapdisk (with BuildDisk). It has a little
extra space I would like to use for backups of my main disk.
Any reason I shouldn't?
Tim
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Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bbaker@technom.com
Subject: The -b option to enscript
Message-ID: <1995Feb10.182145.5873@technom.com>
Sender: bbaker@technom.com
Organization: Technom Enterprises, Inc.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:21:45 GMT
Greetings,
I'm trying to use the -b option of enscript to change the header on faxes
sent with the "fax" script. I can get my new header to show up, but I
lose the page numbers. Is there a way to include the items from the
default header into my custom header?
Thanks,
Brian Baker.
bbaker@technom.com
From: doyle@pion.lanl.gov (Mark Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: can't find my procmail
Date: 10 Feb 1995 20:07:41 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hgh2d$k4k@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <3hg1lv$gqk@cutter.clas.ufl.edu>
In article <3hg1lv$gqk@cutter.clas.ufl.edu> statman@stat.ufl.edu
(Charles D. Kincaid) writes:
>I installed procmail in my system a long, long time ago (thank you,
>again, Carl for your help). Now I was talking to our regular sysadmin
>about procmail and he didn't believe that I had it set up. So, I went
>to show him, but I can't find where it is set up. It's not referred to
>in my sendmail.cf, in my rc or rc.local and I don't have a .forward.
>I do a ps -auxww | grep procmail and it's not there! Where else can I
>look? I know that I use it. I have a procmailrc that funnels mail from
>certain lists into the appropriate mailboxes using appnmail. I'm
>baffled. I know it should be somewhere, but I can't find it. Can anyone
>help me? Please?
From the procmail examples/advanced file:
2. Procmail as an integrated local mail delivery agent
---------------------------------------------------
Completely integrating procmail in the mail delivery means that
mail is delivered as normal, unless a .procmailrc file is present
in the home directory of the recipient. This will be completely
independent of the fact if a .forward file is present. This will
not break anything, it just makes the use of procmail easier because
people are not required to start up procmail from within their
forward files. Creation of a .procmailrc file will suffice.
The generic way to accomplish this (works with sendmail, smail and
any other mail system that uses a local mail delivery program that
takes the mail-to-be-delivered on stdin and the recipient(s) on
the command line, with or without the "-d" option) is this:
Move your current local mail delivery agent (e.g. /bin/mail,
/bin/lmail, /usr/lib/mail/mail.local, etc.) out of the way, and
create a (symbolic or hard) link from there to procmail, as in "ln
/usr/local/bin/procmail /bin/lmail".
Beware, however, that if you are using this method, /bin/mail can
*only* be used to deliver mail. On many systems /bin/mail has
several uses (also to read mail or check for mail). So, it would
definitely be preferred if you could edit the invocation of /bin/mail
from within your mail transport agentto invoke procmail instead
(with appropriate flags, if needed). Special directions detailing
this process for some of the more popular MTAs are included in
sections (2a) and (2b) below.
In addition to needing root privileges upon startup, on some systems
procmail needs to be sgid to daemon or mail. One way to check is
by looking at the current mail delivery agent (usually /bin/mail)
and to mimic its permissions, owner and group. If you're not quite
sure, just type "make recommend" and some suitable recommendations
will be made for your particular environment.
The same might apply to the "lockfile" program, in order for it to
be able to create and unlink lockfiles in the mail spool directory
it might need to be sgid to daemon or mail, not to worry however,
"lockfile" will not enable users to abuse the sgid/suid-ness.
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. procmail will only start up a process when you actually are
receiving mail I believe.
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: set up for WWW server
Date: 11 Feb 1995 17:09:45 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hir0p$1ka@news.iastate.edu>
Keywords: WWW, connect, accept
I'm trying to get a home page for the WWW set up on my NeXT, but when I
try to go to it from somewhere else I get a "System call 'connect' failed:
Connection refused" error. Does anybody know how I can get my machine to
accept connect calls?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: dcl@mercury.interpath.net (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Telnet broken on NSFIP 3.2
Date: 11 Feb 1995 16:24:10 -0500
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
Message-ID: <dcl.792537600@mercury>
References: <D3sw1x.CtG@ritz.mordor.com>
I would suggest that zeus.fi.mckinsey.com doesn't know how to get to you
(as in, no route). But you say that pings come back, and that name service
works. This gets me. Not that I'm any "routing guru" - but I have a good
idea how it works.
Can you ping the problem machine from somewhere else? Can you traceroute
to it?
I've never seen the NetInfo problem you describe, so I don't know what
would cause it.
Daniel
hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker) writes:
>I've got a problem with Telnet:
>tremblant> telnet zeus
>Trying 157.191.21.210... Connected to zeus.fi.mckinsey.com
>Escape character is '^]'.
>... and then it hangs. I can log in from another machine, I can ping this
>server, and the nameservice is working fine, but I can't telnet in. What's
>wrong?
>Furthermore, I can't log into this machine (157.191.2.233) from another.
--
Daniel C. L'Hommedieu / dcl@Interpath.net
Interpath Technical Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!!
Message-ID: <1995Feb11.162904.7254@rivers>
From: bm01@uwrf.edu (BRIAN MOGGED)
Date: 11 Feb 95 16:29:04 CST
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
References: <1995Feb10.152223.7238@rivers>
Help!IntelMachineNetworkLockUps!!! wrote:
<Great the news machine is screwing up the headers...>
I apologize for the NNTP server screwing up the header.. We
are having the network lock up problems on NeXTStep 3.2.. On Intel..
Sorry about not including this crutial infromation...
It has been a bad week!!!
--
Brian.s.Mogged@uwrf.edu
.Signature and Spell Checking not included due to budget cuts.....
From: jtodd@ss2.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Date: 11 Feb 1995 22:11:44 GMT
Organization: Digital Express
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hjcn0$605@news1.digex.net>
References: <3h8vb8$k7s@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> <3hc8t5$kmh@kokusai.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp>
Jim Kieley (jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp) wrote:
: In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3h8vb8$k7s@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca> you
: wrote:
: > I was wondering if a colour slab could be operated without a monitor.
: A color slab should work fine without a monitor. You do need a working
: sound box though. B/W machines without a sound box have to have a monitor
: (or a non-trivial hardware hack) to boot.
: Jim Kieley
: Miyazaki International College
: jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp
Not true about non-trivial. It is in fact VERY trivial to get most (note
that special word, "most") greyscale NeXT machines to boot "headless."
Modify /etc/ttys so that the window server does not start (there are
instructions in the /etc/ttys file; it consists of commenting out one line
and uncommenting another)
In your ROM monitor, ensure that your machine does not do a sound test at
power up.
Also in your ROM monitor, make serial port A your alternate console so that
you can attach a terminal to your machine if something isn't working
right...
De-attach your monitor, but leave the cable in place. Now simply short out
pin 6 to ground momentairly, and the machine will power on, and boot with no
problems.
If you have an "old" style cube that you want to boot, it may need the
following hack to put load on the power supply. Please note that not all
cubes need this; I have a cube that I regularly use headless as an OD backup
server with no difficulty or hardware hassle.
From: onyxcat@unm.edu (The Onyx Kitten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Booting an 030 without a monitor
Date: 1 Jan 1994 16:04:13 -0700
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Sender: onyxcat@unm.edu
Message-ID: <2g4vhd$gdi@vesta.unm.edu>
References: <2fv80p$rk7@vesta.unm.edu> <1993Dec31.123425.12647@free.fdn.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: vesta.unm.edu
Thanks for the help everyone - the 030's up and running fine without the
monitor now :-) And thanx to the people who sent me pinouts for the
NeXTBus! (and it seems we have most, if not all, the 12 Slab Power pins
figured out).
I apparently do have an "old" CUBE - attaching (to the DB-19 Monitor out)
a 20 Ohm, 20 watt resistor between pins 12 and 13 (-12v and GND), then
touching a 450 ohm resistor to pin 6 and GND get's it going just fine.
Happy NeXT hardware hacking!
Cliff
onyxcat@unm.edu
--
John Todd - Field Sales/Technical Entropy Supervisor - jtodd@digex.net
Digital Express Internet Providers - 1-800-969-9090 x307 = sales info
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: Telnet broken on NSFIP 3.2
References: <D3sw1x.CtG@ritz.mordor.com> <dcl.792537600@mercury>
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 00:28:19 GMT
Message-ID: <D3v2n7.LA8@ritz.mordor.com>
In article <dcl.792537600@mercury>,
Daniel L'Hommedieu <dcl@mercury.interpath.net> wrote:
>I would suggest that zeus.fi.mckinsey.com doesn't know how to get to you
>(as in, no route). But you say that pings come back, and that name service
>works. This gets me. Not that I'm any "routing guru" - but I have a good
>idea how it works.
>
>Can you ping the problem machine from somewhere else? Can you traceroute
>to it?
>
>I've never seen the NetInfo problem you describe, so I don't know what
>would cause it.
The machine can be reached fine from other machines on my subnet... strange!
Matt
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From: drarick@panther.weeg.uiowa.edu (David Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Automatic logout on black 3.2
Date: 12 Feb 1995 02:27:44 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hjrn0$3ed@nexus.uiowa.edu>
Is there an application/script/whatever that can be run at startup that
will logout a user after a predetermined idle time? I work in an office
where people seem to enjoy logging in and walking away, and for security's
sake, I would like to avoid this problem. Any ideas?
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From: bac-ground.icsi.net!ernie (Ernesto Baca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app question
Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:49:13 GMT
Organization: ICS (9.95 SLIP/PPP 4.95 Shell)
Message-ID: <3hg5e9$l1d@picasso.ICSI.Net>
Keywords: mail ppp receive
I just got my PPP connection up. I have tried sending and receiving
messages using Mail.app and notice that I can send but not receive
these mailings. Can someone direct me as to which way to look. Any
hints as to what I may be missing? Appreciate your help.
--Ernie Baca
--ebaca@delphi.com (please answer to this address)
--ebaca@icsi.net (I cannot receive mail at this address)
From: drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Pop server binary (moto)
Date: 12 Feb 1995 08:06:52 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3hkfis$60b@mordred.gatech.edu>
Anyone know where I can find a pop server compiled for Motorola? I found a
copy of source for NS, but it requires 3.2 and I only have 3.1. I also tried
to compile the generic unix source, but it doesn't seem to work properly.
Thanks,
--
Dave Rinker
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
CSX Transportation. Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Internet: gt2780a@prism.gatech.edu -- NeXT Mail welcome
.forward -> drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu -- Until 3/18/95
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Restricting Telnet To NeXTSTEP
Message-ID: <westesD3vsq1.439@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 09:51:37 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom17.netcom.com
Short of using a firewall, does NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP have a mechanism
for restricting which machines on the local net can telnet to it?
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 10:41:33 +0000
Message-ID: <1995Feb12.104133.5283@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(John Kheit) writes:
> The 2Gig file limit in NS is really annoying. I need a single 4 gig
partition
> for my work and now I find this cannot be done under NS. NS, under NS
3.3
> just breaks your drive into equal pieces <2Gig. I imagine this is
REALLY
> annoying for anyone using RAIDS. But it also affects regular users who
have
> larger than 2Gig drives. I imagine its a real pleasure to have a 9 gig
drive
> and need to break it up into 5 pieces! Or worse yet, a 40gig RAID that
must
> be split into 20 pieces--it's gotta be a bad joke?
>
> Anyway, an OS as demanding as NS should be able to view much larger
drives
> as contigous single partitions. I understand that this is a limitation
of
> Unix, but I know some flavors of Unix have overcome this 2gig partition
> limitation. Is it possible to recompile source from these other more
refined
> Unix's for use under NS so one could use more than a 2gig partition?
It would be a convenience if NeXTSTEP supported larger partitions.
However, you can mount large partitions that are served by an NFS server
on NeXTSTEP clients, and I suppose that NeXT would argue that NeXTSTEP
isn't a server OS.
One possibility, that I haven't investigated personally, is that the amd
automounter supports "union" mounts, combining directories on a mount;
this might do what you want.
> On another note, does anyone know how to get NS to mount multiple
partitions
> automatically? When I log in, my drive only mounts partition a, not b &
c.
You need to update /etc/fstab to allow for the extra mounts. Only the
first partition is automounted (different meaning of automount <sigh>) on
login.
Paul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Subject: Re: dread / dwrite not working for root under 3.3
Message-ID: <1995Feb12.000922.8829@silicium.fdn.fr>
Sender: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Organization: MICRO REPONSE - MONTIGNY, FRANCE.
References: <3hebqb$ve2@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 00:09:22 GMT
In article <3hebqb$ve2@nntp.Stanford.EDU> nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
(Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano) writes:
> Hi Netters...
>
> Just installed from scratch 3.3 User 3.2 Developer in a Pentium 90 and
I'm
> running into a stupid problem. "dread" and "dwrite" don't seem to be
> working (at least for the "root" user). I read a post some time ago
> stating that permissions on the Defaults Database had changed from
"root"
> to the user. But this is the "root" account itself! Permissions seem to
be
> just fine. The error returned is "dread: Can't open defaults database".
>
> Found nothing pertinent in NextAnswers...
> Anyone else running into this problem??
> Thanks for any help!
> -- Fernando
> nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
I'm not a wizard but I think, surely, you have changed something in the
root account using UserManager.
To confirm this, open the root account in UserManager and verify the home
field. If you have "/root", that is the problem.
Because I have changed a lot of things in one of my systems, I had the
same problem (not on the others). I read many informations using
NetInfoManager and I have found this "joke" on the root account. I have
corrected this and now it works fine. (I'm sure that is really the problem
for me because I have reproduced it. I repeat, you open the root account
with UserManager, you change anything you want and you save. The result is
that automatically, UserManager wants to add "root" for the home directory
path which was "/" before. Many bugs in the new UserManager!)
Yannick Cadin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch (E. Baranzini)
Subject: Re: Disktab help needed: ST15230N
Message-ID: <1995Feb12.065107.368@muscat.pr.net.ch>
Sender: ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch
References: <3hfvut$317@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 06:51:07 GMT
In article <3hfvut$317@news.cs.brandeis.edu> sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu (David A. Sinclair)
writes:
>
> Hello, all.
>
> I am having a little trouble generating a disktab entry for my new
> ST15230N (4.3gig SCSI-2) disk. Some of the data needed in the disktab
> entry is NOT listed in the data file Seagate provides on the disk.
> Specifically, how does one determine what the front and back porch
> numbers should be? And what about the 3 alternate group numbers (ng,
> gs, and ga)?
>
> If anyone already HAS a working disktab entry for this device, or can
> shed some light on these questions, I'd dure appreciate some email or
> posted help!
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> David A. Sinclair -
> ASCII email: sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu NeXTmail: circe@id.wing.net
>
NeXTanswers 1533_initializing_and_partitioning_big_disks (former QA495)
is a detailed "how to" guide.
Here is my disktab, but beware, it is for a 1024 bytes/sector formatted disk.
And You will have to modify it following your needs (I have 5 partitions, but
a minimum of 3 is required):
ST15230N_1024|SEAGATE ST15230N_1024:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3992:nt#19:ns#59:ss#1024:rm#5411:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#512000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#512000:sb#512000:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
:pc#1024000:sc#716800:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#8:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD: \
:pd#1740800:sd#1536000:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#8:dd#4096:rd#10:od=time:\
:id:td=4.3BSD: \
:pe#3276800:se#1150000:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#8:de#4096:re#10:oe=time:\
:ie:te=4.3BSD:
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From: jsickel@sickel.com (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: set up for WWW server
Date: 12 Feb 1995 16:15:26 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <3hlc6u$crd@matlock.mindspring.com>
References: <3hir0p$1ka@news.iastate.edu>
Keywords: WWW, CERN
In article <3hir0p$1ka@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> I'm trying to get a home page for the WWW set up on my NeXT, but
when I
> try to go to it from somewhere else I get a "System call 'connect'
failed:
> Connection refused" error. Does anybody know how I can get my
machine to
> accept connect calls?
[chop]
Are you using an httpd server? If so, make sure your configuration
scripts are correct. It can be a hassel if they are not. You'll
probably need to look for something like:
PASS * /<some path>
I've set my httpd.config to something like this:
UserDir Library/public_html
Pass /* /usr/local/www/Web/*
that way, any thing in my ~Library/public_html directory is
accessable from the browsers (providing my machine is connected to
the Net and I have protections set correclty. You might want to
start by looking at http://info.cern.ch/ and checking out their
instalation documents.
jas
jsickel@sickel.com
From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2GB limit on drives?
Date: 12 Feb 1995 20:10:38 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3hlpvu$hlv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
what's all this business about limits on the size of hard drives? i am
considering buying a 4gb drive this week and am a bit disturbed to hear
about this supposed limit. what do i do? if i have to partition, how do i
set things up so that its done correctly for the particular
geometry/operation of my new drive? thanks for any help. email
appreciated. -michael.
From: slq07@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't get my address -- Net problem?
Message-ID: <1995Feb12.150921.41430@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 95 15:09:21 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
A researcher came here from another University and brought a NeXTstation,
running NS 3.0, with hime. He could not get it connected to the net and
asked me to help him. When the machine boots, it hangs as it starts the
file service daemons, particularly the autonfsmount daemon, giving the
error "Can't get my address", or at least something very close to that.
I commented out the autonfsmount stuff and go the error starting the
network daemons. I have seen this problem once before on a NSFIP 3.1,
but didn't have time to figure it out, and it was not that important at
the time. This researcher will only be here a couple of months and
needs his maching connected to the net. Any help you might be able to
give will be appreciated. Thanks.
Dayne Medlyn
slq07@cc.usu.edu
From: cooncat@wombat (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 Q's: 3.2 client under 3.0 server? Get rid of Power Off button? (black 3.2)
Date: 13 Feb 1995 00:51:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3hmafe$ctb@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
I have heard that it is possible to have a 3.2 client running off
of a 3.0 server. Is this true, and if so, are there any issues?
Also, is there a way to get rid of or disable the Power Off and
Restart buttons on the login and logout panels under 3.2?
The environment is 100% NeXT, no intel-based workstations.
Please email the address below and thanks for any suggestions in advance.
--
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
NeXTmail: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
"Life is what happens when you're making other plans."
--John Lennon
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
From: rueiwun@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ruei-wun Tu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Question]:Forgot root password -- Help!!!
Date: 13 Feb 1995 10:02:54 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Unix Users Group
Message-ID: <3hnaoe$m4m@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
Hello,
A friend of mine forgot his root password. I am wondering if there
are any ways to solve the problem except re-install the entire system.
Thanks in advance...
Rueiwun Tu
rueiwun@gas.uug.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't get my address problem???
Message-ID: <1995Feb12.144917.41428@cc.usu.edu>
From: dayne@glind.physics.usu.edu (Dayne Medlyn)
Date: 12 Feb 95 14:49:16 MDT
Keywords: daemons network net
A researcher came here from another university and brought a NeXTstation,
running NS 3.0, with him. He had trouble getting it connected to the net,
so he called me. I spent a while trying to get things working, but to no
avail. As far as I can tell, everything is set up right. There appears
to be some sort of problem with the file service daemons. As the machine
boots up, it hangs as it starts the file service daemons. At first it was
hanging on the autonfsmount stuff giving the error "Can't get my
address!", or at least very close to that. I commented that out to just
try to get it up, but got the same problem with the network server
daemons.
I have experinced this once before at a place I worked at, but didn't have
time to play with it and it wasn't needed at the time. This researcher
will be here only a couple of months, and needs his machine with access to
the net. Any insight you can give me will be much appreciated. Thanks
Dayne Medlyn
dayne@glind.physics.usu.edu
From: jsickel@sickel.com (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reply-To: & Return-Path help please
Date: 13 Feb 1995 00:37:44 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <3hm9ko$s3l@matlock.mindspring.com>
Keywords: Mail
For a while now I've been tinkering with my mail configurations to
try to get over a particular problem. Any suggestions are greatly
appreciated.
My current configuration:
NeXTSTEP at home (yes!) on a network
Current Internet provider set for PPP on dialup
my hostname: sehjas
my domain name trough Internet provider: sickel.com
Since my hostconfig does not have a domainname specified (I'm only
using Netinfo and DNS (created a resolv.conf file)) I'm trying to
configure my system for outgoing mail where the Return-Path and
Reply-To fields will be: jsickel@sickel.com instead of
jsickel@sehjas.sickel.com.
Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?
All I want is everything going out from my network to be set to
@sickel.com, no matter which machine it's on.
Regards,
Jeff Sickel
jsickel@sickel.com
By the way, NewsGrazer's preferences set everything up the way I
want.
From: object@crl.com (Robert Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Putting NeXT machine on Internet
Date: 12 Feb 1995 20:59:54 -0800
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest]
Message-ID: <3hmp0a$o9b@crl3.crl.com>
Does anyone know how I can put my NeXT machine on the internet? I am
looking to get a SLIP or PPP connection (which is better?). Is there a
body of knowledge out there somewhere I can tap to do this? Also, I have
some NeXTMail that was sent to me on my DOS machine. How can I read this
on my NeXT machinge (send it to myself? uudecode/tar -xvf it?) ?
Thanx (I'm just a developer!) ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: charmides!bubi (Burghard W.V.Britzke)
Subject: Re: Icon.app on NS3.1 (summary)
Message-ID: <D3rs2w.2wG@charmides.in-Berlin.DE>
Sender: bubi@charmides.in-Berlin.DE (Burghard W.V.Britzke)
Organization: BeNG - Berliner NeXTnutzer Gruppe
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 05:47:19 GMT
>I wrote
>Every time when I start my Icon.app, it writes the following
>on the console and stopps:
>
>Jan 29 20:42:35 charmides Icon[191]: Pasteboard lookup failed on host
>charmides: (Netnameserver: name not checked in)
>Jan 29 20:42:36 charmides last message repeated 12 times
>Jan 29 20:42:36 charmides Icon[191]: Invalid default font name: Helvetica
>Jan 29 20:42:36 charmides Icon[191]: Pasteboard lookup failed on host
>charmides: (Netnameserver: name not checked in)
>my question is: what is going wrong?
I got three answers:
one of them helped me to fix the problem:
here it is:
-Icon in combination with the older shared libraries doesn't support
-certain semantics of the NS3.0 Speaker/Listener security stuff,
-which goes through the pbs server ... in any case, try turning on
-Public Window Server and seeing if that fixes the problem. Of
-course, that opens up other, entirely different problems, but hey,
-you win some, you lose some.
der Burghard :-))))
From: pwilson@awinc.com (Peter D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Black 3.3 Problem
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 95 14:28:34 PST
Organization: dflora systems inc
Message-ID: <3hm1tn$635@kelowna.awinc.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Since installing NS3.3, my system has been hanging quite regularly. It
seems to be related to NXFax. After installing NXFax 1.04 The problem has
certainly lessened but is still annoying.
It has something to do with Modem activity (and maybe Screen Savers ..
both BackSpace and Next's own. The other day I was dialing in from my NT
machine to the Next and things were going fine until the Screen Saver
kicked in .. the Next hung. It also hangs during uucico sessions to my
mail feed... I get uncompleted XQT's which are processed on the next call
out.
Any Fixes ? Is anybody else experiencing these problems.
Thanks,
peter
peter@dflora.com
pwilson@awinc.com
From: wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: URGENT - are there 3.3 drivers for miro graphics cards?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 16:04:42 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hnvuq$j10@news.tuwien.ac.at>
A friend of mine (he doesn't have a net account, so I'm asking for him)
spent quite a lot of $$$ on bringing his box up to NS standards; amongst
other components, he bought a miro 20SV graphics card. Now he upgraded to
3.3, only to be told by the guys at the local miro rep that there are no
drivers available and they wont be writing any (remember: one can't use
the 3.2 drivers, which the company supplied all right).
Is this true?
Can anyone give me a pointer to the miro ftp site?
ys
Alexander Wilkie
--
///////////////////////////////////
// Alexander Wilkie //
// wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at //
///////////////////////////////////
From: david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UTP without a hub
Date: 13 Feb 1995 09:50:38 GMT
Organization: EUnet GB
Message-ID: <3hna1f$dnm@marble.Britain.EU.net>
References: <9501300951.AA00410@hercules.Praktos.be>
Keywords: UTP HUB
In article <9501300951.AA00410@hercules.Praktos.be> Paul Janssens
<paul@Praktos.be> writes:
> Anyone know if I can connect two machines with a single UTP cable
(no
> hub, just the two machines)
>
> Please email me, I don't follow the list
>
> Thanx
>
> Paul
Hi,
To make a point->point utp cable just twist pairs 1 & 3 and 2 & 6
---
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions plc Phone: (+44) 1702 551010
351-359 London Road Fax: (+44) 1702 551515
Hadleigh Email: david@onestep.co.uk
Essex (NeXTMail/MIME ok)
SS7 2BT
England
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black 3.3 Problem
Date: 13 Feb 1995 16:29:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ho1cs$r8d@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <3hm1tn$635@kelowna.awinc.com>
In article <3hm1tn$635@kelowna.awinc.com> pwilson@awinc.com (Peter D.
Wilson) writes:
> Since installing NS3.3, my system has been hanging quite regularly. It
> seems to be related to NXFax. After installing NXFax 1.04 The problem
has
> certainly lessened but is still annoying.
> It has something to do with Modem activity (and maybe Screen Savers ..
> both BackSpace and Next's own. The other day I was dialing in from my NT
> machine to the Next and things were going fine until the Screen Saver
> kicked in .. the Next hung. It also hangs during uucico sessions to my
> mail feed... I get uncompleted XQT's which are processed on the next
call
> out.
>
> Any Fixes ? Is anybody else experiencing these problems.
>
Several NS black users have experienced kernel panics and hanging
under NS 3.3. These problems seem to be caused by some sort of contention
problem involving a serial port. Since increasing NXFax's ResetDelay
defaults variable value to 10 seconds (the default is 2 seconds), I have
had no kernel panics which used to occasionally occur after receiving
incoming mail via Taylor uucp. This in no way suggests that NXFax is the
problem, but it seems to provide a workaround.
---
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NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Cubic Solutions Fax: +1 408 335 2515
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From: Donald E McCollam <mccollam@snow.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot0: Missing OS
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:24:24 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona, CCIT
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950213091038.9810B-100000@snow.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I have a dual boot NS/DOS P90 system. DOS and the NS boot partition are on
sd0 (SCSI id 1) and NS itself is on sd1 (SCSI id 2). Everything worked fine
in NS3.2. I had some problems upgrading to NS3.3 because I changed my SCSI
card from NCR-based to an Adaptec2940. Now whenever I turn the machine on
the boot0 process displays a "Missing OS" message regardless of what I key.
(I do see the "d for DOS, n for NEXTSTEP" message; but if I type any of
the legitimate responses (d, n, 1 - 4) OR if I type nothing, I get the
Missing OS message. I never see the "in 5 seconds" message.)
Right now, I have to boot via the install diskette. I've read everything on
booting from NeXTAnswers. I've re-installed boot0, etc. Can someone
(NeXT are you listening?) please tell me 1) what's wrong and 2) how to
restore the normal boot process.
BTW, I've double & tripple cheched Instance0.table on sd0a. I think the
failure occurs before the table is referenced. It's like another part of
the boot process is missing. What does boot0 do if I type "d"? (Fail in
my case; but what SHOULD it be doing?)
Please respond by e-mail (although you might want to post here too).
Thanks.
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 16:04:48 CST
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Message-ID: <9502130804.AA03454@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Subject: Help:Boot-up message disappear?
Hi There,
By unknown reason, there is no more message of "n for NeXT and d for DOS"
while I boot up the system. Has anyone known any solutions to this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Jamie Lien
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago, ADN Computer Center
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 17:48:28 CST
From: Manish Shah <U53516@uicvm.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <95043.174828U53516@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Data Retrieval for NeXT?
Hey all,
I was wondering if there were any utilities that could retrive accidently delet
ed data for Intel-NeXT? <Shareware or otherwise>.. if other wise, how much is i
t?
Thanks a lo
t
Manish...manish@babe.math.uic.edu
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PCI DPT2024 w NS3.3 - Solution
Date: 13 Feb 1995 02:37:50 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hn28e$sm3@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Ok, I asked and asked and asked, and no one seemed to know how to make this
work, NeXT said tough cookies, why don't you just wait son...
As always, you do this at your own peril, I didn't say any of this :) I take
no responsiblity for your actions. I will not be responsible for any
consequential or incidental damages--my lawyer told me to say that :)
So I munged about and figured out how to get the DPT 2024 (I guess any of the
PCI variants) working.
I called DPT and they said set the address away from auto to 3884 or some such
thing (the EISA address) and use the EISA driver. This didn't work.
But then I decided to try it as an ISA device. Here's what you do:
Step 1.
Set your DPT to adress 0x170 in BIOS
Step 2
Make sure all the rest of the settings on the card are set up properly...
I.E. IRQ 15 edge etc. etc. see NeXTanswers
Note, on some mother boards (on mine in particular) jumpers must be set to
enable edge mode to work. Both the CMOS and motherboard must be set to edge
enabled for this to work--and I thought PCI was supposed to make things easier!
Step 3
Use the DPT ISA driver included in NS
Thats all there is to it!
From: hoff@pluto.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: URGENT - are there 3.3 drivers for miro graphics cards?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:04:42 GMT
Organization: German Research Center for Information Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hoaga$r4p@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <3hnvuq$j10@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Alexander Wilkie (wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
>A friend of mine (he doesn't have a net account, so I'm asking for him)
>spent quite a lot of $$$ on bringing his box up to NS standards; amongst
>other components, he bought a miro 20SV graphics card. Now he upgraded to
>3.3, only to be told by the guys at the local miro rep that there are no
>drivers available and they wont be writing any (remember: one can't use
>the 3.2 drivers, which the company supplied all right).
>Is this true?
I MOST definitely hope this isn't true, and that your local dealer just
talked complete bull. In the german newsgroup someone from miro Germany
said that there _will_ be new drivers for 3.3, that they are working on it
etc.pp. I remember seeing some 3.3-ready drivers on their BBS for the newer
cards; my Crystal 32S PCI works fine with the 3.2 driver, so all I'm waiting
for is 8-bit support and additional screen modes.
>Can anyone give me a pointer to the miro ftp site?
miro is in Germany. A german company with FTP ?? You must be joking. :-(
They do have a support BBS from which you can download drivers & info,
though.
Holger
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From: barton@ozbek.demon.co.uk (Barton Friedland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo timeouts and Harware errors
Date: 14 Feb 1995 00:11:25 GMT
Organization: Camilla Lowther Management
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hosfd$ns@lowther.demon.co.uk>
A number of problems are occuring on a NeXTstation I have:
NETINFO TIMOUTS
Feb 13 09:54:11 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
driver_connect message failed: timed out(-203)
Feb 13 09:54:28 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo waking
Feb 13 11:02:24 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 13 11:02:28 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
Feb 13 11:02:44 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 13 11:03:01 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
Feb 13 11:13:30 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 13 11:13:37 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
Feb 13 12:11:30 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 13 12:11:38 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
Feb 13 12:11:54 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 13 12:12:11 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
Feb 13 12:15:31 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
Feb 13 12:15:35 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo waking
Pings to this machine are fine. NetInfo is constantly going to sleep and
waking. Does anyone know what causes this and / or how to fix it?
HARDWARE ERRORS
Target 1: HARDWARE ERROR; block 4ee30H retry 1
Target 1: HARDWARE ERROR; block 4ee30H retry 2
This problem occurs regularly too. Any ideas here?
Thanks...
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From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Da####################################################################
From: kjellman@cc.Helsinki.FI (Janne P Kjellman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: autonfsmount
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:16:29 +0200
Organization: University of Helsinki
Message-ID: <3ho45d$sud@karhu.Helsinki.FI>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I'm having trouble mounting remote disks (server is Windows
based Tropic NFS-Server) with autonfsmount. Everything works
fine with 'mount -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 pentium:/f /tmp/f',
but autonfsmount just wont work. I have dropped read/write
sizes to 1024 bytes via 'expert options' in NFSManager.app,
but I get 'xdr_bytes: out of memory' in Tropic NFS-Server.
NextStep version is 3.2, Windows is 3.1 with Trumpet winsock
2.0. Any clues?
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From: afm@math.ethz.ch (Andreas F. Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ptroff no working?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 16:26:12 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <3ho174$qeb@elna.ethz.ch>
Hi,
I recently upgraded a NS/FIP machine to 3.3, but now printing
manual pages with man -t doesn't work any longer. pscat complains
about trouble reading .ct file:
: lear:~[155]$ pscat
: pscat: trouble reading .ct file
Does anyone have an idea what could be broken? Thanks in advance
Andreas
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Dr Andreas Mueller <afm@othello.ch>
Bubental 53 Voice: +41 55 637125, Fax: +41 55 637126
CH-8852 Altendorf, Switzerland
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From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:03:22 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hoadq$q4@rosie.next.com>
References: <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
In article <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(John Kheit) writes:
# #1024b/s
# SEAGATE|SEAGATE ST15150N|SEAGATE ST15150N 001700:\
# :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3712:nt#21:ns#56:ss#1024:rm#7200:\
# :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
# :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
# :pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
# :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
#:pb#2097152:sb#2097152:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
# :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
#:pc#2097152:sc#194295:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#8:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
# :ic:tc=4.3BSD:
You've got your b and c partitions starting at the same place on the
disk (block #20971520). I'm not suprised that you're having problems.
joe
From: sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu (David A. Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Which 4mm DAT drives work well with NS?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:13:58 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University - Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hob1m$sug@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Hello, all.
I am looking for information on 4mm DAT drives that work
out-of-the-box with NeXTstation hardware. Do any of the WangDAT
models work? Others? Any info on which models work well, or are to
be avoided, is much appreciated.
Cheers,
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
David A. Sinclair -
ASCII email: sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu NeXTmail: circe@id.wing.net
From: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using swapdisk for other purpose?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:40:28 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Message-ID: <3hocjc$1cv@linus.mitre.org>
References: <1995Feb10.214609.5131@princeton.edu>
In article <1995Feb10.214609.5131@princeton.edu>,
Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>
>I just set up a swapdisk (with BuildDisk). It has a little
>extra space I would like to use for backups of my main disk.
>Any reason I shouldn't?
>
No hard and fast evidence, but I partioned my swapdisk and used
the other half as a netboot partition for an additional NeXT. I
ran with this configuration for about a year, and all during that
time I was getting mysterious system crashes on my netboot ser-
ver (the system with the partioned swapdisk). It may simply have
been the extra overhead of "non-swap" traffic to the swapdisk;
or it may have been something else, but it was a real pain. My
recommendation is don't do it. Leave the swapdisk to be just a
swapdisk.
- 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 |
| |
| "We have entered the era of trickle-down compassion" - Rev. F.Chruch |
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From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Which 4mm DAT drives work well with NS?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:12:05 -0600
Organization: TYBRIN Corporation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hp015$2ao@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com>
References: <3hob1m$sug@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
David A. Sinclair (sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu) wrote:
: I am looking for information on 4mm DAT drives that work
: out-of-the-box with NeXTstation hardware. Do any of the WangDAT
: models work? Others? Any info on which models work well, or are to
: be avoided, is much appreciated.
Avoid the WangDAT 1300. It works with black hardware just fine, although
you will not get the status messages that you should when using
SafetyNet. Also be aware that the Talus driver under NS/FIP 3.2 in
conjunction with the WangDAT 1300 is a NO GO. Access to the DAT drive
will instantly freeze the computer (in this case a DEC XL).
Trey
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From: bladex@is.net (Robert Klingsten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cube 3.2 won't boot - help!
Date: 14 Feb 1995 02:37:41 GMT
Organization: The Fishpond
Sender: bladex@mail1.is.net
Message-ID: <3hp51l$l1v@news1.is.net>
To echo a couple other posts: I broke something bad! Here's what I
did:
I got NS 3.2 User installation CD-ROM (with the boot floppy) to
install a bunch of pieces that were missing when I got the system. Ok,
so I boot off the floppy and it asks if I want to initialize the disk
first before doing the install. I say ok, it initializes the drive
(105mb HD) and appears to install the system. Then, I try to reboot
from the HD when prompted, and I get dumped into the monitor with
"Default boot device not found." I figure no problem, fix that later
and enter "bsd(0,0,0)". I get back "SCSI ID0, LUN 0" or something
and a moment later I get "Exception #4 (0x10) at 0x438000" and the
NeXT prompt.
If I "bfd -s" I can boot off the CD-ROM and even mount the "sd0a" on
a directory to access it. So what do I have to do to repair the
problem? I have no idea what the problem is. It was working fine
before doing this installation. Did the format not work properly? I
tried it twice to the same result.
I really appreciate any info! Thanks!
Rob
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Prudential Bank & Trust, Incorporated | bladex@is.net
2 Concourse Parkway Suite 500 |
Atlanta, GA 30075 | "TTFN! Ta-Ta for now!"
(404) 604-7942 | - Tigger
From: dcoyle@kakapo.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ? painlessly shifting exported directories
Date: 14 Feb 1995 08:38:11 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3hpq5j$ldh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I need to shift some directories, namely /Users and /local/Web, to a
new, external hard drive. What is the best (and safest) way to do
this, without (wishfully) having to redo anything in NFS or NetInfo?
Can I move them, and then simply create links in the present locations
pointing to the new locations? That sounds too easy to be true.
Of course, _first_back_it_all_up_.
David A. Coyle
MPI_Kernphysik
dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: Which 4mm DAT drives work well with NS?
Message-ID: <D3yywE.9DG@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
References: <3hob1m$sug@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <3hp015$2ao@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 02:57:50 GMT
In article <3hp015$2ao@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com> trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) writes:
>David A. Sinclair (sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu) wrote:
>
>
>: I am looking for information on 4mm DAT drives that work
>: out-of-the-box with NeXTstation hardware. Do any of the WangDAT
>: models work? Others? Any info on which models work well, or are to
>: be avoided, is much appreciated.
>
>Avoid the WangDAT 1300. It works with black hardware just fine, although
>you will not get the status messages that you should when using
>SafetyNet. Also be aware that the Talus driver under NS/FIP 3.2 in
>conjunction with the WangDAT 1300 is a NO GO. Access to the DAT drive
>will instantly freeze the computer (in this case a DEC XL).
>
I have used both an Archive DAT and a Sony SDT 5000. I much prefer the
Sony. Its faster and has a nicer mechanism. Both drives work out of
the box. I'm still trying to locate the command to turn off compression
on the Sony so that it can create tapes that the Archive can read.
The Sony can automatically sense the Archive's tapes and read them
fine. They are both about the same price, in the $800 to $900 range
depending on your supplier.
Steve
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From: msander@bcarh85b.bnr.ca (Michael Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UTP without a hub
Date: 13 Feb 1995 19:56:20 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Message-ID: <MSANDER.95Feb13145620@bcarh85b.bnr.ca>
References: <9501300951.AA00410@hercules.Praktos.be> <3hna1f$dnm@marble.Britain.EU.net>
In-reply-to: david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk's message of 13 Feb 1995 09:50:38 GMT
In article <3hna1f$dnm@marble.Britain.EU.net> david@ffcsas.demon.co.uk writes:
> Hi,
>
> To make a point->point utp cable just twist pairs 1 & 3 and 2 & 6
What about a thinnet solution? Can I just run a single RG-59 between the
two boxes, no tees, terminators, or anything? I'm trying to connect an old
sun 3/60 to my slab so that I can use the tape drive on the sun. Has anybody
done something like this?
--
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ISDN Data Services (613) 765-3715
Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Ottawa, Canada
"These opinions are mine ... which is good 'cause no one else wants 'em"
From: pchien@pchien.tor.hookup.net (Chao-Ping Chien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lookupd keeps putting my system to sleep
Date: 14 Feb 1995 00:16:15 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <PCHIEN.95Feb13191615@pchien.tor.hookup.net>
References: <D3t4M3.86M@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us>
In-reply-to: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us's message of Sat, 11 Feb 1995 02:34:19 GMT
Have you try to send a SIGHUP to lookupd, This will cause lookupd flush
internal cache, and restart again, more info can be found from man page
and NextAnswer <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1275.htmld/1275.html>.
Ping.
--
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Trimark Inv. Mgmt Inc.
Canada
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pchien@tor.hookup.net
NeXTmail welcome, MIME ok
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ? painlessly shifting exported directories
Date: 15 Feb 1995 02:39:43 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3hrphf$7nr@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3hpq5j$ldh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
David A. Coyle (dcoyle@kakapo.mpi-hd.mpg.de) wrote:
: I need to shift some directories, namely /Users and /local/Web, to a
: new, external hard drive. What is the best (and safest) way to do
: this, without (wishfully) having to redo anything in NFS or NetInfo?
: Can I move them, and then simply create links in the present locations
: pointing to the new locations? That sounds too easy to be true.
What I just did is:
(e.g.)
cd /
gnutar cf - Users | (cd /NewLocation ; gnutar xf -)
mv /Users /Users.org
ln -s /NewLocation/Users
: Of course, _first_back_it_all_up_.
No need to back it up, because you still got the original.
Axel
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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Restricting Telnet To NeXTSTEP
Date: 15 Feb 1995 06:47:43 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3hs82f$eci@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <westesD3vsq1.439@netcom.com>
westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>Short of using a firewall, does NeXTSTEP 3.2 FIP have a mechanism
>for restricting which machines on the local net can telnet to it?
Simply compile and install the TCP_Wrappers package from
ftp://ftp.cert.org or lots of other places. It compiles for
NEXTSTEP very easily.
--
David Lemson (217) 244-8833
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 15 Feb 1995 06:51:35 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3hs89n$eju@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca>
terry@arcane.com (Terry Wilcox) writes:
>In article <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
>(John Kheit) writes:
>>On a side note, it seems that the 2gig limitation will remain with
>>us even into NS4. Why, well it seems as though NeXT's profiled
>>
>>Well, This doesn't make me all too happy a camper. I wonder if
>>this is a
>I can't think of many operating systems that don't have that limitation.
>AIX 4.1 claims not to. OSF/1 on Alpha may not (I'll check today). NT
>doesn't have it.
AIX 4 certainly does not have the 2 GB limitation. Its limitation
depends on the block size you set, but can be in the thousand GB
range. I have personally set up a 4 GB filesystem over 3 disks in a
volume group on AIX 4.1.1.
Solaris 2 certainly allows large FS's, as well. We have a 9 GB RAID
filesystem on one of our SPARCCenter machines.
The fact that NEXTSTEP has the 2 GB limit doesn't bother me too much,
as long as it knows what to do when I hook a 4 GB disk up to it
(partition it into two). As someone said, it's not a terrific
server product.
--
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University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: p00078@psilink.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Are there 3.x drivers for Adaptec AIC7770 Controllers ?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 16:26:33 -0400
Organization: Personal Acct. with Commercial Service Provider PSI
Message-ID: <3001796738.1.p00078@psilink.com>
In-Reply-To: <3hnvuq$j10@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject says it all...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!!
Message-ID: <1995Feb14.164724.5533@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <1995Feb14.124301.916@ittpub>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 16:47:24 GMT
writes
> Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!! wrote:
> > I am so frustrated with this problem. I have looked and did
> >everything I have found on NeXTAnswers and still no luck. What
> >problem you may ask? Well thank you for asking...
>
> > The problem is every once in while(okay from five seconds to a
> >day)at least one of our machine on the NeXTStep cluster falls(I
> really
> >mean fall) off the net. It could be talking to a machine in Frace or
> >just the server itself. What is the usual symptom is that the
> >computer access the network or network server and just spins the
> >cursor for a finite period of time usually going towards infinity.
> If
> >you try to start up another app(since most are on the server) it is
> >almost a promise that it will lock up the WorkSpace Manager..... If
> >you do a rup or rusers the computer is not physically listed during
> >that time and can not be pinged. Sometime the computer comes back on
> >the net. But most of the time (especially if it was the server) it
> >requires a reboot for it to communicate with the outside world
> again...
>
> > Our Hardware....
> > P60- From Gateway still with floating point error :|
> > PS/2 Mouse(From MickeySoft) that Jumps around :(
> > Diamond Viper Video Card
> > EtherCard PLUS Elite16 Series SMC card...
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Try a different set of Ethernet cards for the Intel machines on your
> network.
>
> > Adaptec 154(2?)C revision
> > 16/32 megs of memory(WS/Server)
>
> > We have tried taking out NFS info to various other platforms
> >(linux and suns) and the locking up persisted. Right now it is
> >currently only NFS to the server.. We did lower the buffers on the
> NFS
> >to a very low number and we are still getting the lock up...
>
>
> > ANY SOLUTIONS WOULD MAKE US HAPPY(but it has to include
> >running NeXTStep)!!!!!
>
> > This is driving many students batty right now and they will
> >give you eternal thank you....
>
> >Brian.s.Mogged@uwrf.edu
> >.Signature and Spell Checking not included due to budget cuts.....
>
> --
> Mike Davis.
> miked@ittpub.nl
I have the same problem. It's not the NeXT hardware or software. It's
probably a bad router of ethernet concentrator somewhere one your network.
My problems go away for several weeks when the network people power cycle
their hardware, but it comes back and disrupts me for a day every once in
a while.
Some SUN FDDI hardware is known to cause this problem. If you have SUN
with FDDI contact SUN to get replacements, because they had a defective
batch that caused this same problem.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
From: vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be (Christian Van Oudenhove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Hang-up with NFS server not responding ...
Date: 14 Feb 1995 16:27:17 GMT
Organization: Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hqll5$rj2@sci3.sri.ucl.ac.be>
Hi SysAdmin s
The following problem leaves me upset ...
Somebody can suggest me the key-action ?
I have installed NS3.3 on an Intel and made
the connexions to the NETINFO server and to the
NIS domain server.
At boot time, the PC receives the right IP address,
net mask and hostname, and recognises the right NIS domain
after that, boot starts network daemons : portmap, routed,
netinfo, ypbind, lookupd, ntpd
and mounts the remote filessystem (some fs from the
netinfo-server, some others from the the NIS server);
an unbreakable hang-up then happens when starting the inetd
with the message "NFS server not responding still trying".
I can rlogin on this PC from an other machine as a user
and see the expected filesystems from the local mount.
I don t see anything wrong in the Netinfo definition of
this PC regarding to other client machines.
Thank you for any suggestion that could help me to
settle this machine conveniently on the net.
-------------------------------
Christian Van Oudenhove - Universite Catholique de Louvain
Institut de Statistique - Voie du Roman Pays, 34
B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve - BELGIUM
Tel : 32-10/47.30.48 - Fax 32-10/47.30.32
E-mail : vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be - (NeXTmail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!!
Message-ID: <1995Feb14.124301.916@ittpub>
From: miked@ittpub.nl (Mike Davis)
Date: 14 Feb 95 12:43:00 WET
References: <1995Feb10.152223.7238@rivers>
Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!! wrote:
> I am so frustrated with this problem. I have looked and did
>everything I have found on NeXTAnswers and still no luck. What
>problem you may ask? Well thank you for asking...
> The problem is every once in while(okay from five seconds to a
>day)at least one of our machine on the NeXTStep cluster falls(I
really
>mean fall) off the net. It could be talking to a machine in Frace or
>just the server itself. What is the usual symptom is that the
>computer access the network or network server and just spins the
>cursor for a finite period of time usually going towards infinity.
If
>you try to start up another app(since most are on the server) it is
>almost a promise that it will lock up the WorkSpace Manager..... If
>you do a rup or rusers the computer is not physically listed during
>that time and can not be pinged. Sometime the computer comes back on
>the net. But most of the time (especially if it was the server) it
>requires a reboot for it to communicate with the outside world
again...
> Our Hardware....
> P60- From Gateway still with floating point error :|
> PS/2 Mouse(From MickeySoft) that Jumps around :(
> Diamond Viper Video Card
> EtherCard PLUS Elite16 Series SMC card...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Try a different set of Ethernet cards for the Intel machines on your
network.
> Adaptec 154(2?)C revision
> 16/32 megs of memory(WS/Server)
> We have tried taking out NFS info to various other platforms
>(linux and suns) and the locking up persisted. Right now it is
>currently only NFS to the server.. We did lower the buffers on the
NFS
>to a very low number and we are still getting the lock up...
> ANY SOLUTIONS WOULD MAKE US HAPPY(but it has to include
>running NeXTStep)!!!!!
> This is driving many students batty right now and they will
>give you eternal thank you....
>Brian.s.Mogged@uwrf.edu
>.Signature and Spell Checking not included due to budget cuts.....
--
Mike Davis.
miked@ittpub.nl
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCI DPT2024 w NS3.3 - Solution
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 15 Feb 1995 10:49:20 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hsm7g$m0u@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3hn28e$sm3@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
John Kheit (kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: Step 3
: Use the DPT ISA driver included in NS
: Thats all there is to it!
Resulting performance? Like PCI or like ISA?
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: URGENT - are there 3.3 drivers for miro graphics cards?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 15 Feb 1995 10:50:59 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hsmaj$m0u@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3hnvuq$j10@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Alexander Wilkie (wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
: A friend of mine (he doesn't have a net account, so I'm asking for him)
: spent quite a lot of $$$ on bringing his box up to NS standards; amongst
: other components, he bought a miro 20SV graphics card. Now he upgraded to
: 3.3, only to be told by the guys at the local miro rep that there are no
: drivers available and they wont be writing any (remember: one can't use
: the 3.2 drivers, which the company supplied all right).
: Is this true?
Not at all. The 20SV works perfectly with the 3.2 driver. Anyway, there'll
be a 3.3 driver with 8bit color support soon.
: Can anyone give me a pointer to the miro ftp site?
They only have a BBS.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Which 4mm DAT drives work well with NS?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 15 Feb 1995 10:53:18 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hsmeu$m0u@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3hob1m$sug@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
David A. Sinclair (sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu) wrote:
: I am looking for information on 4mm DAT drives that work
: out-of-the-box with NeXTstation hardware. Do any of the WangDAT
: models work? Others? Any info on which models work well, or are to
: be avoided, is much appreciated.
The WangDAT 3200 works like charm in my NS/I system. It should work
with black hardware as well.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
From: hoff@pluto.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 devices on 1 IP no. ? (PPP)
Date: 14 Feb 1995 23:25:13 GMT
Organization: German Research Center for Information Technology
Message-ID: <3hre4p$ejl@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Howdy all,
I just tried to set up the PD PPP package. Worked like a charm, installation
was straightforward. I can even reboot without problems :-)
The only thing I have have to fight is not as trivial as it may sound.
Setup:
Amiga <-Ethernet-> NS/Intel <-Modem-> Institute (Annex)
n1 (NFS) n2 (PPP) n3
..where n1 and n2 are official IP addresses given to me by my sysadmin,
and n3 is the terminal server I connect to.
NFS between Amy and NS worked without problems before.
For the trained eye, the problem is easy to spot: my NS box has two
interfaces (en0 and pp0) but only one IP address available.
Starting PPP and logging into my own NS system over the PPP link works
fine; however, as soon as I try to set the default route, en0 is chosen
as the default interface, which is of little help, since it looks into
the wrong direction.
My question is: do I really need another IP address, or is NS able to
'share' IP numbers among several interfaces? My Amy's TCP/IP stack does
this automagically, and I've been told that this ability is a BSD network
code feature, so I guess NS should be able to do it, too - right?
All hints most welcome.
Holger
--
Holger Hoffstaette // [eMail sendTo: @"hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de" NeXTMail: YES];
From: penrose@wendy.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT: anti-server mentality will hurt business
Date: 14 Feb 1995 20:39:29 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <3hr4e1$7sp@network.ucsd.edu>
References: <1995Feb12.104133.5283@seer.demon.co.uk>
Keywords: ethernet interface, file systems
Paul Lynch said:
> It would be a convenience if NeXTSTEP supported larger partitions.
> However, you can mount large partitions that are served by an NFS server
> on NeXTSTEP clients, and I suppose that NeXT would argue that NeXTSTEP
> isn't a server OS.
In less than five years, with the current multimedia hype, 4-10 gigabyte
filesystems will be commonplace on the desktop. NeXTstep should adjust
its filesystem to handle it or have yet another serious
desktop flaw from their shortsided "anti-server" mentality.
The fact that NeXTstep can't handle multiple ethernet interfaces,
such that a NeXTstep machine can't act as a network gateway is
also a really annoying "anti-server" lack. I am tired of having
to administer a lone, underutilized SunOS (and soon HP-UX) machine
as a gateway, when the machine, with a little coding by NeXT, could be
active and running NeXTstep.
Chris Penrose
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
penrose@ucsd.edu
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: trumpet.questions,comp.protocols.ppp,biz.univel.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Was there a bug in the "original" PPP specifications?
Followup-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Date: 15 Feb 1995 01:27:42 +0200
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi
Message-ID: <OTTO.95Feb15012741@tukki.jyu.fi>
I've now come up with the following type problem on several widely differing
ppp platforms. When transferring large amounts of data (using most of the
transfer bandwidth), it seems some intermediate layer of the PPP protocol
somehow gets confused about the flow control status on that connection and
shuts up more or less permanently. Other connections over the same PPP link
continue to function perfectly.
I've seen this problem on an old NeXT implementation, on Univel Unix and
the latest on Trumpet Winsock 2.0b. A Linux expert friend of mine tells
me that an earlier Linux implementation also suffered from a similar problem.
Is there a common root problem to this symptom in some of the "original" PPP
specifications or maybe a specific free implementation? What has changed?
--
/* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (V.32bis/USR-HST,24h/d) */
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From: swekla@ee.ualberta.ca (Brent Swekla )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo timeout with TransSys PNI
Date: 14 Feb 1995 01:07:16 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3hovo4$ets@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Here's my problem: the first time I bring up the slip link after a reboot,
any attempt to send mail fails, with the following message appearing in
the Console window:
Feb 13 17:20:50 shady sendmail[223]: NetInfo timeout connecting
to local domain, sleeping
If I take the slip link down gracefully, and then start it up again, I get
the following message:
Feb 13 17:21:57 shady sendmail[223]: NetInfo connection to local
domain waking
and miraculously, the mail is sent out, and everything is fine. Anybody
know what is going on? Is there a fix?
I am running TransSys PNI 1.11 on NS3.3 the way PNI likes it (non -
netinfo or whatever). I tried installing 1.13 but it gave me even more
trouble.
--
Brent Swekla "Sleep furiously."
swekla@ee.ualberta.ca PGP public key available on request
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pmy@virginia.edu (ProtoPete)
Subject: Re: /dev/tty?
Message-ID: <D41v1I.16C@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <D40Ip0.84p@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:27:18 GMT
David Evans writes
>>"echo foo > /dev/tty" does what you'd expect it to do if you're
>>logged in at the console. However, it doesn't work if you're coming
>>in remotely. Instead, you get:
>>
>> /dev/tty: cannot create
> Works fine for me--how are you defining "remotely"? Serial port or pty?
pty. If I'm rlogin'd (rlog'din?) to a NeXT and do the echo thing, I
get the "cannot create" response. How'd you do it for your test?
--
Peter M. Yadlowsky | Hard, relentless rain
Information Technology & Comm. | The shop-pent programmer frets
University of Virginia | With relentless bugs.
pmy@Virginia.EDU | - after Shoha
From: dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu (Deep Medhi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: advice/help: going from NS 2.1 to 3.3 (on black)
Date: 14 Feb 1995 14:53:23 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Message-ID: <3hqg53$2tq@kasey.umkc.edu>
Well, I finally got NS 3.3 and am about ready to load to my
NeXTstation. It appears that I can't upgrade from my present 2.1. Has
anyone figured an easy way to save present setting on 2.1 (without
manually saving each and every system/network related file) for use
with 3.3.
Also, I am going to be using an external scsi CD-ROM drive for
loading 3.3. How do I do setup so that my machine *first* recognizes
this external CD-ROM drive? (or, do I have to worry about that)
Anyone's experience in moving from 2.1 to 3.3 on above and other
related issues would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Deep Medhi
Univ of Missouri-Kansas City
Email: dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu
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From: img@ai.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Subject: data segment overlapping-- please help
Message-ID: <IMG.95Feb15162302@broom.ai.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:23:02 GMT
Hello,
Suddenly i cannot link on my 68040 next slab, running NS 2.1
and gcc 2.3.3. I get errors during linking which are something to do
with data segements overlapping with libsys_s.a.
What does this mean; what causes it; and of course, what can I do!
Please help if you can. Many thanks.
-ian green
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Here is a transcript
gcc2.3.3 -v -ansi -g -Wall -o simulate simulate.o templates.o lib/detectlib.o lib/shapelib.o lib/displaylib.o lib/generallib.o lib/contactlib.o lib/movelib.o -lXaw -lXt -lXext -lXmu -lX11 -lm -lXt
Reading specs from /usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/next/2.3.3/specs
gcc version 2.3.3
/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/next/2.3.3/ld -o simulate -lcrt0.o -L/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/next/2.3.3 -L/usr/local/gnu/lib simulate.o templates.o lib/detectlib.o lib/shapelib.o lib/displaylib.o lib/generallib.o lib/contactlib.o lib/movelib.o -lXaw -lXt -lXext -lXmu -lX11 -lm -lXt -lgcc -lsys_s -lgcc
ld: __DATA segment (address = 0x68000 size = 0x41c2000) of simulate overlaps with __DATA segment (address = 0x4010000 size = 0x4000) of /usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib
ld: __DATA segment (address = 0x68000 size = 0x41c2000) of simulate overlaps with __OBJC segment (address = 0x4014000 size = 0x2000) of /usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib
collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status
*** Exit 1
Stop.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: img@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Subject: data segment overlapping-- please help
Message-ID: <D41ux4.FFn@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:24:39 GMT
Hello,
Suddenly i cannot link on my 68040 next slab, running NS 2.1
and gcc 2.3.3. I get errors during linking which are something to do
with data segements overlapping with libsys_s.a.
What does this mean; what causes it; and of course, what can I do!
Please help if you can. Many thanks.
-ian green
----
Here is a transcript
gcc2.3.3 -v -ansi -g -Wall -o simulate simulate.o templates.o
lib/detectlib.o lib/shapelib.o lib/displaylib.o lib/generallib.o
lib/contactlib.o lib/movelib.o -lXaw -lXt -lXext -lXmu -lX11 -lm
-lXt
Reading specs from /usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/next/2.3.3/specs
gcc version 2.3.3
/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/next/2.3.3/ld -o simulate -lcrt0.o
-L/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/next/2.3.3 -L/usr/local/gnu/lib
simulate.o templates.o lib/detectlib.o lib/shapelib.o lib/displaylib.o
lib/generallib.o lib/contactlib.o lib/movelib.o -lXaw -lXt -lXext
-lXmu -lX11 -lm -lXt -lgcc -lsys_s -lgcc
ld: __DATA segment (address = 0x68000 size = 0x41c2000) of simulate
overlaps with __DATA segment (address = 0x4010000 size = 0x4000) of
/usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib
ld: __DATA segment (address = 0x68000 size = 0x41c2000) of simulate
overlaps with __OBJC segment (address = 0x4014000 size = 0x2000) of
/usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib
collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status
*** Exit 1
Stop.
From: irving@Wolfe.NET (Irving_Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is MAB Getting Out Of Hand?
Date: 15 Feb 1995 03:48:12 GMT
Organization: WOLFE Internet, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon WA 98070 +1 206 463 9399
Message-ID: <3hrths$b0@news1.wolfe.net>
The latest Opener prompts this question:
-rw-r----- 1 irving staff 3018261 Feb 14 04:07 Opener_3.2_MAB.tar.Z
-rw-r----- 1 irving staff 3888877 Feb 14 04:26 Opener_3.2_MAB_utils.tar.Z
Bringing these into my Internet provider (which all Seattle
Nextstep people should be using because it's really better -- ask
how if you care), they came at only 8K per second even though we
have two rather lightly loaded T1s, because of a tight bottleneck
at orst.
Taking them to my Next at home was slower, because I'm connected by
modem.
Do multiple files between 3 and 4 megabytes make any sense, even in
a world where more and more people are using frame relay or ISDN?
I only needed the m68k Next version, not the three others. But I
did need the bug fixes and the use of gnutar.
There must not be more than a few hundred sites in the whole world
that run Nextstep on more than two architectures. Do we all need
to bring in an extra 4MB of worthless junk to save a vendor from
publishing four versions or to satisfy Next's hunger to feel
accepted?
How's about everyone stops this right now? If the CIA or Chrysler
needs pentagram binaries, why the devil can't those few ask the
vendor for them or create them themselves from separate binaries?
And let the rest of the world download a single megabyte!
Soon, the internet will die (as we know it) because the subcriminal
providers like Compuserve and MSN don't care about its culture and
the traditional users got so piggy about things being flat-rate and
sort of free that they ate bandwidth faster than it could be
produced, encouraged by Next's silliness to be really, really
wasteful. The _is_ a goose that lays golden eggs, but even if
you're only stupid enough to eat the egg, not dumb enough to eat
the goose, the poor goose will die, pining for its offspring.
Sorry about this, I know I've lost it. But SEVEN MEGABYTES for a
silly little system utility! Wow! You guys are nuts!
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From: mandrews@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: (black) Panic during backup to Archive Python DAT
Date: 15 Feb 1995 00:50:59 -0500
Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH
Message-ID: <3hs4o3$dm@fragile.termfrost.org>
Twice tonight, and once last week, while doing a backup of my three disks
on my NeXTstation to my Archive Python DAT, I've been interrupted by
Feb 14 22:11:20 fragile mach: panic: (Cpu 0) dma_list: zero pfnum
once while on the third disk, and then while on the second disk. This used
to happen very occasionally about half a year ago or so too, but I didn't do
backups as frequently. Now that I'm doing them more often, it's showing up
much more (disproportionally so, it seems).
What I do know is:
This isn't new in 3.3, because I was running 3.2 when this happened before.
dump and gnutar both trigger the panic (I use dump now).
I'm not 100% sure of the older error messages but I'm almost positive it
was a DMA related error.
It's really hard to do nightly backups like this, and I KNOW someone else
is using an Archive Python DAT (non-compressing 2 gig) on a non-turbo
mono slab with the standard 400 meg internal disk. :) Maybe not with
two full height 600 meg externals of different brands, but...
It isn't dying in the same spot on the same disk, so it probably isn't
a bad disk block. Besides, it dosen't ALWAYS crash, and successful
backups never log any SCSI errors.
It dosen't matter if anyone's logged in on the console, so nothing really
oddball like the DSP should be in the way. I think I even got it to die
in single user mode once under 3.2...
This recent rash of panics has all been with brand new tapes, too, but I
did have some before on tapes that had been used a few times, and I've
successfully written to some of these virgin tapes. You wouldn't think
that would matter, though... I wish I could find a pattern in all of this.
Oh, and if anyone has better suggestions for length and density to use instead
of "dump 0usdf 20000 20000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rsd1a", let me know... :)
Thanks much... Sorry if this is a little incoherent, but I've been up late
messing with this thing. :)
--
-- Mike Andrews -=- mandrews@wittenberg.edu -=- root@fragile.termfrost.org --
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From: Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (Royce Howland)
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Message-ID: <1995Feb14.162337.5374@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 16:23:37 GMT
In article <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(John Kheit) writes:
> On a side note, it seems that the 2gig limitation will remain with us
even
> into NS4. [...]
>
> Well, This doesn't make me all too happy a camper. I wonder if this is
a
> fair customer profile? I know I'm not their typical corporate profile
so what
> I need is fairly irrelevant, but I wonder if this this bothers anyone
else?
Well, I can see that perhaps a 2GB partition size limit might be bad news
for a small group of people dealing with huge files, but I find even my
system's single-partition 1.2GB drive gives me the shakes sometimes:
visions of dwindling inodes, filesystem fragmentation, and filesystem
corruption following system crashes. :~)
I'm from a tradition that prefers lots of filesystems rather than a few
monster ones. So my beef is that NEXTSTEP doesn't adequately support
multi-partition disk configurations. Looks like both extremes of disk
management style are out of luck.
(And yes, I used to manage my NS installations with multiple partitions
despite the relative lack of ease in doing so. I just finally got tired
of the hassle, especially when upgrading to new revs of the OS, so I gave
in and switched to a single partition. I've been lucky so far...)
--
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howlandr@cadvision.com (home, NeXTmail OK)
Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (PanCanadian Petroleum, NeXTmail OK, 403-268-6503)
I speak, but not necessarily for OSG or PCP.
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From: pmy@virginia.edu (ProtoPete)
Subject: /dev/tty?
Message-ID: <D406xH.82w@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:48:53 GMT
"echo foo > /dev/tty" does what you'd expect it to do if you're
logged in at the console. However, it doesn't work if you're coming
in remotely. Instead, you get:
/dev/tty: cannot create
I believe this to be in contradiction to behavior described in the
man pages (man 4 tty). Is this a bug or a feature? Any way to work
around it? While I'm at it, who do I call/write at NeXT to ask these
kinds of questions?
--
Peter M. Yadlowsky | Hard, relentless rain
Information Technology & Comm. | The shop-pent programmer frets
University of Virginia | With relentless bugs.
pmy@Virginia.EDU | - after Shoha
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From: frank_m@sat.mot.com (Mark Frank)
Subject: network is unreachable?
Organization: Motorola Satellite Communications
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:55:28 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Feb14.185528.27161@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
I am trying to run a NS PC in a Sun environment.
I am able to access Sun machines having similar IP
addresses to my own:
mine : aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
others: aaa.eee.fff.ggg
The problem is when I try to ping Suns having
different IP addresses:
others: www.xxx.yyy.zzz
I get: 'network is unreachable', even though these
Suns are reachable from the Sun side. What do I
need to do? I have tried looking in the System
administration manual, but haven't found any help.
There appears to be a domain server on the Sun side,
but I don't know how to use it from my Next.
- Thanks, Mark
p25231@email.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: 2 Q's: 3.2 client under 3.0 server? Get rid of Power Off button? (black 3.2)
Message-ID: <D40EC8.Ds2@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <3hmafe$ctb@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:28:55 GMT
Jessica L Mosher writes
>Also, is there a way to get rid of or disable the Power Off and
>Restart buttons on the login and logout panels under 3.2?
You can replace /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app with the 3.0 version. I
assume it works with 3.2 since we use the AFS version of 3.0 with our 3.2
systems.
--
Bob Cook bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: /dev/tty?
Message-ID: <D40Ip0.84p@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <D406xH.82w@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 23:02:59 GMT
In article <D406xH.82w@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>,
ProtoPete <pmy@virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>
>"echo foo > /dev/tty" does what you'd expect it to do if you're
>logged in at the console. However, it doesn't work if you're coming
>in remotely. Instead, you get:
>
> /dev/tty: cannot create
>
Works fine for me--how are you defining "remotely"? Serial port or pty?
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: rgc@jujube.cs.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is MAB Getting Out Of Hand?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 15 Feb 1995 17:27:34 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Message-ID: <3htdi6$3rq@mimsy.cs.umd.edu>
References: <3hrths$b0@news1.wolfe.net>
Irving_Wolfe (irving@Wolfe.NET) wrote:
[comments about MABs getting too large]
How about someone writing a tool in Perl to strip away architectures you
don't need. This way you can un-fatten the code before you download
(assuming you download it to an intermediate UNIX site).
BTW, an alternative to FAT code might be a psuedo (p-like) code that gets
compiled and optimized for each CPU on the fly at runtime. A PhD thesis has
been done on this for Oberon, but I don't know how feasible it is for NS. My
guess is that it is probably not worth it, since disk space is so cheap,
internet bandwith will increase quickly, and the total number of CPUs
will probably always be < 6 or 7. Still, it is a slick idea.
--
Ross Cutler
University of Maryland, College Park
Internet: rgc@cs.umd.edu
From: kris@xmission (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using reasb on a Maxtor 660 FH
Date: 15 Feb 1995 17:46:32 GMT
Organization: XMission Public Access Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <3htelo$fjt@news.xmission.com>
It seems my Maxtor 660 external disk has developed a bad block. Whenever
I log in I get this error:
Feb 14 15:50:56 silicon mach: sd2: Media Error; Retrying.
Feb 14 15:50:56 silicon mach: target:4 lun:0 op:Read block:13702
I fired up a terminal window and tried to reassign the bad block. Here's
the result:
silicon:6# /usr/etc/reasb /dev/rsd4a 13702 -r
Could not open /dev/rsd4a
The man page for reasb says that some disks can't respond to reasb. Is
this the error that results when this is the case? If not, what am I
doing wrong using the reasb command?
I'd appreciate it if someone with experience with reasb could tell me
their thoughts. This bad block has wiped out access to my home directory,
with unbacked-up data.
--
Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: terry@arcane.com (Terry Wilcox)
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Sender: terry@arcane.calgary.ab.ca (Terry Wilcox)
Organization: Arcane Systems Ltd.
Originator: arcane@server02.tcel.com
Message-ID: <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca>
References: <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 13:55:06 GMT
In article <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(John Kheit) writes:
>On a side note, it seems that the 2gig limitation will remain with
>us even into NS4. Why, well it seems as though NeXT's profiled
>
>Well, This doesn't make me all too happy a camper. I wonder if
>this is a
I can't think of many operating systems that don't have that limitation.
AIX 4.1 claims not to. OSF/1 on Alpha may not (I'll check today). NT
doesn't have it.
Anybody else?
The 2gig limit is a fact of life in most 32 bit OS's. NEXTSTEP is no worse
than most other operating systems in that regard.
Terry Wilcox
--
Terry Wilcox (terry@arcane.com)
Arcane Systems Ltd.
Makers of the ThreadKit and the TabletKit
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dthmpsn@Trimark.com
Subject: NS, OS/2 and Bootmanagers
Message-ID: <1995Feb13.152133.28439@trimark.com>
Keywords: NeXTSTEP and OS/2 and Boot
Sender: news@trimark.com
Organization: Trimark Investment Management, Toronto
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:21:33 GMT
Hi all!
Since my last posting I have installed OS/2 Warp on the new SCSI
drive. Currently I have configured the system as follows:
OS/2 Boot manager and system on the new drive (SCSI ID 0)
DOS and NeXTSTEP on old drive (now SCSI 1)
The OS/2 boot manager is configured to boot from all 3 OS'es. The
problem is that when the NeXT parition is selected it starts the NeXTSTEP
boot manager (boot1 v1.28) and then hangs, presumably because it is
looking for files on the first disk! The question is what should I do now?
Is there a way to remove the NeXTStep boot manager and have NeXTSTEP boot?
I would like to leave the OS/2 boot manager as I prefer the menu approach
to selecting OS'es!
Thanks for any help offered!
Dave Thompson
dthmpsn@Trimark.com
From: root@isaac.msfc.nasa.gov (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help...NS3.3 BIFFing the network
Date: 15 Feb 1995 14:51:05 GMT
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Message-ID: <3ht4cp$aiv@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>
I recently installed NS3.3 on my Nextstation, and have since received
complaints that it broadcasts biff packets to the network (mixed) whenever
it receives new mail. Is there something I can do to correct this? Biff
is set to n already.
Michael Flora
NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center
From: hoff@pluto.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 14 Feb 1995 15:20:47 GMT
Organization: German Research Center for Information Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hqhof$kqu@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <3hoadq$q4@rosie.next.com> <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
John Kheit (kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu) wrote:
>Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) writes:
>>You've got your b and c partitions starting at the same place on the
>>disk (block #20971520). I'm not suprised that you're having problems.
(This made me wonder why John was having problems in the first place :-()
>On a side note, it seems that the 2gig limitation will remain with us even
>into NS4. Why, well it seems as though NeXT's profiled customer either has
:-(
>Well, This doesn't make me all too happy a camper. I wonder if this is a
>fair customer profile? I know I'm not their typical corporate profile so what
>I need is fairly irrelevant, but I wonder if this this bothers anyone else?
Yes. NEXTSTEP is becoming legacy-ware OS-wise. I don't know exactly
what NS 4.0 will provide in terms of a better UNIX under the hood,
but I _do_ know that ISVs and consultants here in Germany *lose customers*
because of these unnecessary restrictions: no native Oracle, no native
Sybase, stone-age 2GB limit, no fail-safe file system (not even possible
for 3rd parties - no fs API!), no quota, no MP, no faster networking,
no ISDN/PhoneKit, no Spec 1170 compliance..you name it, NS doesn't have it.
Makes you wonder when IB will support Object-COBOL because A Really Large
And Rich Company requested it.
Holger
--
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From: stefano@lii.unitn.it (Stefano Longano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Are there 3.x drivers for Adaptec AIC7770 Controllers ?
Date: 15 Feb 1995 11:41:02 GMT
Organization: Laboratorio Ingegneria Informatica, Univ. Trento
Message-ID: <3hsp8e$3j@itnsun4.lii.unitn.it>
References: <3001796738.1.p00078@psilink.com>
p00078@psilink.com writes:
>Subject says it all...
Yes, it's called 274x or 284x in the install program, it depends on the bus.
Unfortunately it seems to be buggy. In my case it's unable to find the
controller which is in EISA Slot 9. My guess is that the 274x driver
searches only the first 8 slots, or worse yet it expects the controller
to be in a predefined slot, but unfortunately I can't change mine, since
it's in the motherboard (I own an ACER Altos 7000).
As always your mileage may vary.
Ciao
Stefano
--
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Dipartimento di Informatica | Home: stefano@angmar.sublink.org
Universita' di Trento | Office phone: +39 (464) 443135
Via Zeni 8, 38068 Rovereto (TN) |
From: kris@xmission (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting NTFS partitions
Date: 13 Feb 1995 23:34:09 GMT
Organization: XMission Public Access Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <3hoq9h$nd4@news.xmission.com>
I'm starting to use Windows NT 3.5 more and more, and it would be nice if
I could mount an NTFS partition on my local disk while running NEXTSTEP.
This would give me the ability to share files much more easily with my
colleagues, as well as to use long file names, to achieve higher
performance under NT, etc.
Also, since I have multiple partitions on my disk, it'd be nice I could
mount *all* of them, not just the first primary partition. That way I
could access a DOS partition and an NTFS partition without having to copy
files to the DOS partition, then boot DOS (ugh) or NT (fine) to move the
files to the NTFS partition.
I've read release notes of the DOS file system patch, and NeXT says
mounting multiple partitions isn't supported, but I don't remember if it
said anything about mounting NTFS partitions. Anyone figured out how to do
this? Is this in the pipeline for the next revision of NS?
--
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: lookupd under 3.3 is broken
Message-ID: <D420no.FCG@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <D3t4M3.86M@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 18:28:35 GMT
In article <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us>,
Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>I've played around some more, and it seems that whenever lookupd can't
>complete some sort of lookup, it retaliates and causes any calls to
>exec (by any process) to block indefinitely. It also only does this on
>the computer that is acting as the DNS server. It's almost as if you
>can't run lookupd and named on the same computer.
I've finally gotten lookupd to stop timing out by playing around some
more with my DNS server, however, now lookupd occasionally decides to
stop communicating with the DNS and will start to insist that none of
the names it should be looking up exist.
I can go into nslookup and do a lookup on the names in question,
getting an immediate result, but when I try to get lookupd to tell me
the IP address, it insists that the host doesn't exist. If I wait a
little while and try again, sometimes lookupd figures out it should be
talking to the DNS and is able to look it up. Other times I have to do
a kill -HUP to get lookupd to wake up.
I didn't have these problems until upgrading to 3.3. 3.2 was working
ok. Am I going to have to downgrade?
--
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Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558
<fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> MIME ok, NeXTMail tolerated
From: root@isaac.msfc.nasa.gov (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone had BIFF problem with NS3.3?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 22:09:28 GMT
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Message-ID: <3holao$7h9@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>
I recently upgraded by Nextstation to NS3.3. It is connected to a mixed
network, and I have received complaints that it broadcasts BIFF packets to
the network whenever mail arrives. Has anyone else had this problem?
BIFF is set to n. I never encountered this problem under NS3.0.
Michael Flora
NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UTP without a hub
Date: 15 Feb 1995 18:42:03 GMT
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3hthtr$ud@rosie.next.com>
References: <MSANDER.95Feb13145620@bcarh85b.bnr.ca>
In article <MSANDER.95Feb13145620@bcarh85b.bnr.ca>
msander@bcarh85b.bnr.ca (Michael Sanderson) writes:
# What about a thinnet solution? Can I just run a single RG-59 between
# the two boxes, no tees, terminators, or anything? I'm trying to
# connect an old sun 3/60 to my slab so that I can use the tape drive
# on the sun. Has anybodydone something like this?
You need the tees and terminators. It just doesn't work without them.
joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wargaski@wah.is.rpslmc.edu (Robert E. Wargaski Jr.)
Subject: Q: what are dump parameters for 2GB DAT?
Message-ID: <1995Feb13.195023.2594@rpslmc.edu>
Summary: don't know dump parameters for DAT
Keywords: dump, DAT
Sender: news@rpslmc.edu
Organization: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:50:23 GMT
Hello,
I've just started working on NeXT administration at our site, and
I'm trying to straighten out the backup situation.
I have a PLI-brand DAT unit, and would like to know if anyone
would be able to supply the ``dump'' parameters for this (presumably)
standard 2GB tape unit. I'm running 3.3 on a NeXTstation TurboColor.
Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I've poked around for this info
in several places and haven't been able to find it.
Cheers,
Rob
--
Robert E. Wargaski Jr. wargaski@is.rpslmc.edu
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 15 Feb 1995 18:36:25 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hthj9$oqo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3hem35$ju1@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <3hoadq$q4@rosie.next.com> <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
John Kheit (kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) writes:
: >You've got your b and c partitions starting at the same place on the
: >disk (block #20971520). I'm not suprised that you're having problems.
: Yup, that was it as far as having a missing 2gig partition ;)
: Thanks to all those that showed me the error of my ways.
: On a side note, it seems that the 2gig limitation will remain with us even
: into NS4. Why, well it seems as though NeXT's profiled customer either has
: a huge server which in fact can have a great big partition--which is net
: mountable onto a NS client--and so has no need for larger local partition !)
I sure hope not. We have a 10 GB raid on a server, and both workspace
and df treat it strangely depending on how much space is used.
Basically sizes wrap around so that you end up with crazy things like
-121% used, -12344567 blocks free.
And there was an engineer here on Campus giving a talk about some of the
problems on designing the next generation of disks. Talking about
evacuating the disk chamber, and running the heads only a few angstroms
from the platter. 100 GB on a single disk.
Which of course is necessary. Digital photographs take up 18 MB each
(uncompressed) at reasonable resolution. CD's hold 600 MB each. A 100
GB disk could hold 160 CD's -- At last decent delivery rates. The EOS
space mission will be dumping several *Tera*bytes of data per day.
I think the time has come to have two word disk addressing.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: coppinj@ny1d0129iwk (John Coppinger)
Subject: rstatd updates
Message-ID: <COPPINJ.95Feb14124309@ny1d0129iwk>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:43:09 GMT
I've noticed that polling for machine stats using NEXTSTEP's rstatd
yields updated results only every 15 seconds. Under SunOS, rstatd
stats seem to be updated every seconds. Can anyone shed some light
on why this is the case and how I can up the granularity?
Thanks,
John Coppinger
coppinj@swissbank.com
From: devin@dogpatch.suite.com (Devin Cambridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hard Drive Mount's
Date: 14 Feb 1995 21:57:55 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <3hr913$247@bilbo.suite.com>
Keywords: NFS exports, Hard Drives.
I'm trying to nfs mount several disks connected to several machines on our
network. I also want to export the root directory (on another disk, but
same machine) so that, form the network, you can see all the files on that
particular machine. For example, if I were to make the mountpoint at /Net
for machine biffer with external disk smaug (mounted on biffer at /smaug),
I could:
cd /Net/biffer/smaug
or
cd /Net/biffer/etc
ls
/etc
/usr
.....
/smaug
I have done the following:
1) made the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab for /smaug
2) exported / and /smaug
3) mounted / and /smaug at /Net on the server (using
Netinfo unsorted view of the mounts, entering in
/smaug before /)
4) rebooted the server
5) rebooted biffer
Now I did the above example for sever machines and only one worked.
The machines that didn't work are able to see their own external disk, but
the disks are not visible from /Net. (ie I can change to /smaug if logged
into machine biffer, but can't see the disk from the server or any other
machine.)
ANY SUGGESTIONS?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: /dev/tty?
Message-ID: <D4225K.Bv4@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <D40Ip0.84p@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> <D41v1I.16C@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:00:55 GMT
In article <D41v1I.16C@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>,
ProtoPete <pmy@virginia.edu> wrote:
>David Evans writes
>
>>>"echo foo > /dev/tty" does what you'd expect it to do if you're
>>>logged in at the console. However, it doesn't work if you're coming
>>>in remotely. Instead, you get:
>>>
>>> /dev/tty: cannot create
>
>> Works fine for me--how are you defining "remotely"? Serial port or pty?
>
>pty. If I'm rlogin'd (rlog'din?) to a NeXT and do the echo thing, I
>get the "cannot create" response. How'd you do it for your test?
>
Like this. skaro is a NeXTcube; bcr4 is a Sparcstation.
Script started on Wed Feb 15 13:54:33 1995
skaro:/Users/dfevans> rlogin bcr4
Last login: Wed Feb 15 13:57:53 from skaro.uwaterloo.
SunOS Release 4.1.3 (BCR4) #1: Wed Apr 20 12:40:50 EDT 1994
You have mail.
bcr4:/bcr2/u/dfevans> rlogin skaro
Last login: Wed Feb 15 13:53:30 from bcr4.uwaterloo.c
[1;24r
foo
skaro:/Users/dfevans>
logout
Connection closed.
bcr4:/bcr2/u/dfevans> logout
Connection closed.
skaro:/Users/dfevans>
script done on Wed Feb 15 13:54:53 1995
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: irving@Wolfe.NET (Irving_Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer Choice Disappearing
Date: 15 Feb 1995 22:20:51 GMT
Organization: WOLFE Internet, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon WA 98070 +1 206 463 9399
Message-ID: <3htuo3$m7a@news1.wolfe.net>
Lately, I have to choose a printer when I want to print. It
doesn't seem to remember my last choice. This seems to be true
even within a single login session.
I'm sure it's my fault (changing something improperly) but I have
no idea what I did. Can someone help, please?
Thanks!
- Irving
--
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Send your POSTAL address to Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com for free information.
Irving_Wolfe@WOLFE.net 206/463-9399 x101 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd
WOLFE Internet Access, L.L.C. fax extension 108 Vashon, WA 98070-7399
From: smg@orb.com (Sam_Goldberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 Black NFS Identity Crisis!!
Date: 13 Feb 1995 21:08:47 GMT
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <3hohov$r35@nntp.crl.com>
My Netinfo server is importing and exporting NFS directories not as NeXT
volumes, but as DOS volumes!! This is true both on the master server, and on
the slaves. When I click on them to access the contents, SoftPC comes up.
Feh!
Examination of the Mounts subdirectory under netinfo shows no problem.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? Help!
--
Samuel M. Goldberger
smg@orb.com
Spherical Solutions
47 Myrtle Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-383-2919--voice
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo timeouts and Harware errors
Message-ID: <1995Feb16.091343.44494@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@woodstock (Robert Frank)
Date: 16 Feb 95 09:13:43 MET
References: <3hosfd$ns@lowther.demon.co.uk>
barton@ozbek.demon.co.uk (Barton Friedland) wrote:
>A number of problems are occuring on a NeXTstation I have:
>NETINFO TIMOUTS
>Feb 13 09:54:11 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>driver_connect message failed: timed out(-203)
>Feb 13 09:54:28 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo waking
>Feb 13 11:02:24 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>Feb 13 11:02:28 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
>Feb 13 11:02:44 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>Feb 13 11:03:01 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
>Feb 13 11:13:30 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>Feb 13 11:13:37 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
>Feb 13 12:11:30 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>Feb 13 12:11:38 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
>Feb 13 12:11:54 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>Feb 13 12:12:11 aboah WriteNow[4704]: netinfo waking
>Feb 13 12:15:31 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out
>Feb 13 12:15:35 aboah FaxReader[4520]: netinfo waking
>Pings to this machine are fine. NetInfo is constantly going to sleep and
>waking. Does anyone know what causes this and / or how to fix it?
"mee too" - only that in my case the machine is a HP with NEXTSTEP3.2. This machine also keeps loosing nfs mounted
directories.
I, too, would be interested in any ideas as to what this could be.
-Robert
---
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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
From: jheidelo@next1 (Jason Heideloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OmniWeb and nmserver
Date: 16 Feb 1995 01:43:20 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <3huajo$dqe@mustang.alleg.edu>
Lately, we have been having problems with NEXTSTEP machines "spinning
forever." When the problem occurs, it is possible to kill application
processes however starting applications is impossible. One is able to
telnet to these machines without any problems and if one reboots the
machine, the problem is corrected. Today, we finally figured out that
nmserver dies. We thought about the problem for quite some time and
decided that the problem could be with OmniWeb. It seems that the
problem started around the time we intalled version 0.9.2. We have
since removed OmniWeb from the network hoping that this will solve the
problem. It will be interesting to see if OmniWeb is in fact causing
the problem.
I noticed someone else posted an article in comp.sys.next.bugs and
comp.sys.next.sysadmin about his Intel machines locking up? Has
anyone else been experiencing the same problems?
I will post my findings.
---
Jason Heideloff
Systems Manager, Technical and Network Services
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA 16335
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: Menus for remote dial-in
Message-ID: <vwalkerD42M5E.5rB@netcom.com>
Summary: Any good menu programs out there for remote users?
Keywords: menu program gnu linux dial-in
Sender: vwalker@netcom15.netcom.com
Cc: vwalker@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 02:12:49 GMT
Hi, Vic Walker here. This might seem like a dumb question, but please be
patient. I need a good menuing program to use on NeXTStep on the
terminal screens.
Why, you ask, would anyone want to use a menuing program on NeXTStep,
which already has such a pretty GUI? The reason is because almost all
users will be dialing in remotely or will be logging in using dumb
terminals. This is going to be just like a regular UNIX system for them,
without the advantages of the NeXT interface. The dial-in callers will
log in using PCs running DOS or Windows, with some kind of terminal
emulators.
I have found a rather nice menu program that will run on Linux, which
would meet my needs. I'm trying to port it over to NeXT's operating
system right now, with limited success. Are any of you aware of some nice
freeware/shareware/gnu or inexpensive packages that would let me set up
simple menus for inexperienced callers who want to pick up and send mail,
read newsgroups on the Internet, etc?
Thanks very much for your help, and your patience. In addition to posting
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From: philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.question
Subject: Tools or advice for partitioning large SCSI disks? (and creating disktab entries)
Date: 16 Feb 1995 16:04:28 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, FRANCE
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Hi. First off, please excuse the cross-posting. It wasn't
clear which group
was the most appropriate.
I have a PC that I run UNIX on and although it's NextStep, the
problem is
the same for 386bsd and Linux...
I have partitioned my disk (a 1.038G IBM DPES-31080) into 4 partitions
of different sizes. These are "DOS" partitions. I need now to
create a
disktab entry that corresponds to the physical characteristics
of my disk
(heads, sectors/track, tracks, cylinders, etc) as well as the
partition
start and size data...
Is there a program that reads the DOS partition information, gets the
drive characteristics, and generates /etc/disktab entries or
data suitable
for making a disktab entry?
DOS tells me that my partitions are as follows:
Start Size
32 704480
704512 163840
868352 704512
1572864 544768
And that my disk looks like:
Sides = 128 (?)
Tracks = 517
Sec/Track = 32
Usable sectors = 2117631
Running scsimodes on the drive tells me otherwise:
SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a
Drive type: IBM DPES-31080 !t S31H1
512 bytes per sector
108 sectors per track
4 tracks per cylinder
4903 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
50 spare sectors per cylinder
8 alternate tracks per volume
2118143 usable sectors on volume
Also, the documentation from NeXT (NeXTanswers #1533) that tells
me that
I need to set the front porch to sector #320, and the beginning
of the
boot region to sector #64, which doesn't coincide with what DOS
is telling
me...
I'm dazed and confused. Anyone got a handle on this or a utility for
creating disktabs? Thanks, and please reply directly...
-Philip
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Switchboard dialing strings (NS3.3)
Date: 14 Feb 1995 18:22:37 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <3hqost$ii8@alf.uib.no>
I just moved my computer (Cube) to my new job - to dial out with
my ZyXEL I need to get a dialtone out first (by dialing "0" first).
I'm sure there's a way to make this happen automagically for at
least NXFax, but haven't found out how. Instead of going into
my adressbook to change all the entries to start with "0," there
must be somewhere to set a prefix - yes? Maybe I should rather
do it in the modems hardware settings? Anyone who knows, please
e-mail me!
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 (NeXTmail)
From: shepherd@pathfinder (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't login (missing user shell)
Date: 16 Feb 1995 15:42:42 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hvrpi$9dp@bilbo.suite.com>
References: <3go46l$ed9@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In article <3go46l$ed9@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> mauriti@cs.tu-berlin.de
(Frank Hartlep) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I deleted the me account on a BuildDisk-fresh system disk
> and now I can't login to root because loginwindow doesn't seem
> to be able to exec the Workspace Manager. The error message
> is: "This account does not have a user shell. You can start
> /usr/local/bin/tcsh etc.". I changed root's home directory and
> login shell to tcsh (the path is ok) before, but I can't see
> any relation to the error. Could somebody explain me what's missing
> or wrong on the disk? So far I couldn't start successfully the
[snip]
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
Make sure you have an entry for tcsh in the file /etc/shells
Scot
--
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-- "The REALLY nice thing about not planning is that failure comes
-- as a complete surprise and is not preceded by long periods of
-- worry & depression!"
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From: shepherd@pathfinder (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Faxreader, Printmanager, and mailed notices...
Date: 16 Feb 1995 15:57:22 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <3hvsl2$9mm@bilbo.suite.com>
I have a system that suddenly quit sending Fax notices(mail) after
sending a fax. Also corresponding to the times that the app would
apparently be trying to mail the notice these messages appear in syslog
and /usr/adm/messages:
Feb 15 17:48:30 warlock sendmail[6335]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: queuename:
Cannot create "qfAA27726" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": Permission denied
Note that we are not having any other mail problems, nor have we made
any changes to mail. Any ideas???
Scot
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-- "The REALLY nice thing about not planning is that failure comes
-- as a complete surprise and is not preceded by long periods of
-- worry & depression!"
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From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: lookupd under 3.3 is broken
Date: 16 Feb 1995 16:57:54 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Feb16115755@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <D3t4M3.86M@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D420no.FCG@nvc.cc.ca.us>
In-reply-to: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us's message of Wed, 15 Feb 1995 18:28:35 GMT
From: bennett@cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: lookupd under 3.3 is broken
Date: 16 Feb 1995 00:57:28 -0600
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Message-ID: <3hut0o$rck@mp.cs.niu.edu>
References: <D3t4M3.86M@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D420no.FCG@nvc.cc.ca.us>
In article <D420no.FCG@nvc.cc.ca.us>,
Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>In article <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us>,
>Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>>I've played around some more, and it seems that whenever lookupd can't
>>complete some sort of lookup, it retaliates and causes any calls to
>>exec (by any process) to block indefinitely. It also only does this on
>>the computer that is acting as the DNS server. It's almost as if you
>>can't run lookupd and named on the same computer.
>
The solution is to avoid putting host name and address info into
NetInfo. The DNS system is where such information belongs anyway.
NeXT should distribute a version of the resolver library with
NeXTSTEP that does *not* query NetInfo. That library should be the
default version and if NeXT wants to distribute a version like what
comes with NeXTSTEP now, it should have a different name and not be
used unless the system administrator chooses to use it instead of the
good one.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
Systems Programming
Computer Center
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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* Internet: bennett@netmgr.cso.niu.edu bennett@cs.niu.edu *
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
* "The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in *
* controversy."--John Jay, First Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court *
* in Georgia vs. Brailsford, 1794 *
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From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 16 Feb 1995 18:28:08 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
|> wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
|> what do admins of other systems think of this?
|>
|> rupert
sounds about right here.
Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
SGI's with IRIX 5.3 are not too bad. pretty reliable although I have been
dealing with a bad space ball on one fore months (the sgi tech. has replaced
almost the entire system and reinstalled several times). They come by default
with a strange one partition disk and repartitioning is not all that easy. I
would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: jkv@sware.com (Joseph K. Vossen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 16 Feb 1995 19:06:13 GMT
Organization: Internet Atlanta
Message-ID: <3i07n5$qp7@metro.atlanta.com>
References: <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca>
In article <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca> terry@arcane.com (Terry
Wilcox) writes:
[stuff deleted]
> I can't think of many operating systems that don't have that limitation.
> AIX 4.1 claims not to. OSF/1 on Alpha may not (I'll check today). NT
> doesn't have it.
AIX 4.1 supports file systems up to 64 GB; they are based on a 64 bit
value (a "long long").
--
Joe Vossen
jkv@sware.com
From: rwigmore@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 17 Feb 1995 00:46:26 GMT
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
: upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
Not a flame by any means, but at the start of January our brand new SPARC
1000 came online (it arrived in August and they spent the time inbetween
updating/customizing it). It has 1/4 GB of real memory, 2 CPUs, and a
"storage array". It ONLY handles our email (PINE) users (ie. no compilers,
stats, database, etc. software - JUST email).
The machine will grind to almost a halt at between 60-80 users - but it can
run okay with 120 users - but only for a while. It was running Solaris 2.3
in January, but they upgraded to 2.4 in an attempt at "fixing up" the problem
we are having. 2.4 did not fix up anything.
So, and again, this is not a flame - if people with 5+ years of experience
with SUN systems/technology cannot get a (about the same as a model 590)
SPARC 100 working well after 6 months of trying, just how "simple to take
care of" can those systems be?
Any and all suggestions welcomed! :-)
Ron,,,
Who only has three choices - if I can't use VM, then I'll settle for AIX! :-)
From: soward@pop.uky.edu (John Soward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Inetd stuff
Date: 16 Feb 1995 18:38:28 GMT
Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services
Message-ID: <3i0634$7vg@service1.uky.edu>
References: <3ht9sj$ogi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
In article <3ht9sj$ogi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> night@b65215.student.cwru.edu (John
L. Millard) writes:
> Hello, hello...
>
> I think it's neat how when NeXTStep boots up everything loads up as
> standalone via the rc files, but sometimes I would like to yank a few of
> those out of there (sendmail for instance) and move them to inetd.conf,
> where the daemon will move resident ONLY when necessary.
>
> Is there some reason I should not make this change? Some reason perchance
> why everything is found within rc files, and only a few nominal user daemons
> such as talk, telnet, and ftp are found within inetd?
>
> Thanks for any tips, etc!
Sendmail should not be run from inetd, neither should most of the things that
aren't already...Sendmail, for example, needs to keep track of things when
there are no connections, it also needs to keep track of it's own
children...that is if you are receiveing mail from two sources at the same
time, two sendmails will be running...they need to know about each other.
(actually 3 would be running but ;-)
--
John Soward 'The Midnight Sun will burn you up'
University of Kentucky -the Cure, Piggy in the Mirror.
soward@pop.uky.edu (NeXT) <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~soward">JpS</a>
From: mike@ceramics.cmpe.ubc.ca (Michael C. Cam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Which 4mm DAT drives work well with NS?
Date: 14 Feb 1995 20:56:20 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3hr5dk$37j@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <3hp015$2ao@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com>
In article <3hp015$2ao@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com> trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey
McClendon) writes:
> Avoid the WangDAT 1300. It works with black hardware just fine, although
> you will not get the status messages that you should when using
> SafetyNet. Also be aware that the Talus driver under NS/FIP 3.2 in
> conjunction with the WangDAT 1300 is a NO GO. Access to the DAT drive
> will instantly freeze the computer (in this case a DEC XL).
>
I have been using a WandDat 1300 with SafetyNet on a CanonObject.station
for some time now with no problems.
..Mike.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: abstine@visix.com (Art Stine)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 01:34:45 GMT
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In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
SGI's with IRIX 5.3 are not too bad. pretty reliable although I have been
dealing with a bad space ball on one fore months (the sgi tech. has replaced
almost the entire system and reinstalled several times). They come by default
with a strange one partition disk and repartitioning is not all that easy. I
would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
--
I guess everyone has their own experiences/opinions... I find that
SunOS & OSF/1 to be really easy and straight forward to deal with... but
I guess it depends on what kind of background you have (BSD vs SysV).
I find the SysV type systems (Solaris 2.x, HP/UX, etc) a real pain to
deal with. AIX is kind of a weird hybrid, but at least SMIT (their system
mgt tool) does pretty much everything for you...
As far as DEC not being close to Unix, I have no idea what you are talking
about here... OSF/1 is a nice clean Unix product... Closer to the various
standards than everyone else currently...
-art stine
visix software
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two Q's
Date: 15 Feb 1995 01:10:03 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3hrk9b$a71@paladin.american.edu>
Two quick, but dirty, questions concerning.
1) Has anyone been able to log into a Novell 4.1 network using the Novell
apps in the 3.3 system? I have tried everything I know how but can not get
anything to work.
2) Is anyone using Lexis/Nexis over the terminal. You can telnet to
Lexis/Nexis instead of using the supplied software but it asks you for a
terminal type before you enter any search requests. My problem is that no
matter what terminal setting I try, vt100, tty, etc, nothing will set the
terminal up so it echoes what I type. All of the keys work Just no
keyboard echo. Could this be a shell setiing I have not looked at?
Thanks for any help.
Torrey McMahon
From: torsten@eirah.ping.de (Torsten van Beeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: Black Hardware vs. IBM 1GB disk
Date: 17 Feb 1995 02:15:23 GMT
Organization: Torsten's Ideenschmiede
Distribution: world
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Referenc####################################################################
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is MAB Getting Out Of Hand? - Options
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Date: 16 Feb 1995 03:27:01 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
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irving@Wolfe.NET (Irving_Wolfe) writes:
> The latest Opener prompts this question:
>
> -rw-r----- 3018261 Feb 14 04:07 Opener_3.2_MAB.tar.Z
> -rw-r----- 3888877 Feb 14 04:26 Opener_3.2_MAB_utils.tar.Z
>
> Do multiple files between 3 and 4 megabytes make any sense,
> even in a world where more and more people are using frame
> relay or ISDN?
I don't think MAB is getting out of hand, in fact, I'd be happy
to see a few more architectures added... :-)
However, I do think we have to consider other ways to organize
things on the FTP servers. I have a script which splits apart
an application into separate architectures, and also creates
gnutar/gzip archives of the results. I tried it on the new
Opener, and got:
-r--r--r-- 899256 Feb 15 21:31 Opener-3.2-H.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 809104 Feb 15 21:31 Opener-3.2-I.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 795534 Feb 15 21:32 Opener-3.2-N.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 859967 Feb 15 21:33 Opener-3.2-S.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1934640 Feb 15 21:30 Opener-3.2_NIHS.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 476459 Feb 15 21:27 Opener-3.2_NoBin.tar.gz
Compare that to the tar.Z version of the same thing (the "NoBinaries"
one is just there for reference, I was curious what the result
would be). With the above strategy, anyone who wants a single
architecture can just get it. Anyone who wants more than one
architecture would have to get the MAB file, and then thin it down
to the ones they were interested in.
The penalty is for the disk space on the FTP site. The tar.Z file
takes up about 3 million bytes, while the above layout takes up
about 5.3 million bytes. So, the above uses up about 75% more disk
space on the server, but it should save a *huge* amount on the CPU
and networking load at the ftp site. Most people would only need
to transfer 800,000 bytes, instead of 3,000,000. The numbers would
come out differently for other packages, of course.
So, what do people think?
At the very least, I do think we have to kill the "MAB" designation,
as it just isn't informative enough. That's what the "NIHS" is for
up there, so people know *exactly* which architectures are in the
MAB binary.
Of course, a significant part of the savings up there were also
because I used "gzip" instead of "compress". Maybe that's one
change that we should decide to make. NeXTSTEP comes with gzip
now, so people should be able to handle that.
> How's about everyone stops this right now? If the CIA or Chrysler
> needs pentagram binaries, why the devil can't those few ask the
> vendor for them or create them themselves from separate binaries?
> And let the rest of the world download a single megabyte!
Well, one thing to remember is that some people might very well
be buying just NeXTSTEP User, so we should not assume everyone
(or anyone) has the development environment to compile programs.
I don't care what platform people are buying into, it makes sense
to have the binaries for that platform available.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: devin@dogpatch.suite.com (Devin Cambridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Invisible disks
Date: 15 Feb 1995 19:09:53 GMT
Organization: Suite Software
Message-ID: <3htji1$kbo@bilbo.suite.com>
Keywords: Hard Disks NFS Mount
I am trying to mount several machines with external hard drives on a sever
so that I can see both the root directories and the disks from every
machine. For example, lets take a theoretical machine sherlock with
external disk mounted at /watson. The root directory / and the disk
/watson are then exported with NFS manager. These are then mounted on the
server hound at /Net. Thus a ls -l /Net/sherlock should yield all of the
directories on sherlock, including the directory(disk) /watson.
Now I have done the same thing for every machine and it worked for only
two machines. The other machines, however, do not show the disks.
However, the disks are visible from the machines that they are physically
connected to.
Here is a step by step process of how I performed the mount:
1) mounted the disks on the machines
2) exported the / and /disks with NFS manager
3) entered the mounts in NetInfo (/ domain) making sure
to enter the /disk mount before /.
4) rebooted the server
5) rebooted the hosts
From: wegmann@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank Wegmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [NSfIP 3.2] regular kernel panic
Date: 16 Feb 1995 12:23:37 GMT
Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <WEGMANN.95Feb16132338@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Setup: NSfIP 3.2 with TransSys PNI 1.9beta, smail-3.1.28, imap-3.5
Host : 486/33 noname, working for nearly a year without any problems
Connection to the net via an Annex box by a 14.4 modem (leased line)
The host is mainly used as mail server for about 250 students with an
average of about 6-10 users at a time. Everything was fine til about two
days ago, when suddenly the machine was getting slower until it was
merely creeping. Suddenly the kernel panicked with exception (6,3,1).
In the system log (/private/adm/messages), there is a bunch of
messages like these:
Feb 16 12:52:33 slf1 mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-900)
Feb 16 12:52:33 slf1 mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
The only event that may have caused any trouble, was a sudden overload
of mail, when due to unproper configuration of a mailing list, where
many of our students participate, *lots* of mail (about 1,000) tried
to get thru. smail then forked child processes, those forked other ones
so in the end there were well about 40 smail daemons and the system
finally broke down. But I don't know if this is really responsible for
the panic.
I *have* to get the system stable within two days and am unsure what
to do best. I got two options: installing a new smail and replacing
the current PNI beta by an alpha PPP. I don't know if this might help
and especially I don't know what those kernel messages really mean.
I'd greatly appreciate any hints.
Frank
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From: mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 09:35 PST
Organization: Division of Biolgy, CALTECH
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References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
In article <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse) writes...
>and no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone.
Well there must be some crazies out there. You can buy one now from Aspen
Systems and rumor has it that Nekotech is finishing up the firmware that
will let their new systems run it too (possibly also available as an
upgrade to their old systems.) All of these machines will run WNT or OSF/1
or VMS, and if you've got the bucks for three different system disks and
all of those OS's, you can switch between them on the same machine by just
rebooting. Kind of handy for developers who work in all three OS's, they
only need one workstation instead of three.
Regards,
David Mathog
mathog@seqvax.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lookupd under 3.3 is broken
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 01:38:06 -0800
Organization: Pandamonium Reigns
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To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3hut0o$rck@mp.cs.niu.edu>
On 16 Feb 1995, Scott Bennett wrote:
> The solution is to avoid putting host name and address info into
> NetInfo. The DNS system is where such information belongs anyway.
> NeXT should distribute a version of the resolver library with
> NeXTSTEP that does *not* query NetInfo. That library should be the
> default version and if NeXT wants to distribute a version like what
> comes with NeXTSTEP now, it should have a different name and not be
> used unless the system administrator chooses to use it instead of the
> good one.
Agreed completely.
So, what to do to get NeXT's attention?
How about writing a worm (using SMTP for injection) that stuffs a NeXT's
mailer queues with hundreds of messages with domain names that constipate
NetInfo, and posting the source code?
I've complained about this problem for *years*. NeXT just doesn't seem to
care. With any reputable vendor, public humiliation would be enough, but
it seems that NeXT is not a reputable vendor.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin Wang (The Scarecrow))
Subject: Re: Any Mice available to replace non-ADB mouse?
Message-ID: <1995Feb18.011004.162086@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu>
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 01:10:04 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin rdurham@ads.com writes:
>Looks like the cable of the non-ADB mouse for my 3 year old ColorStation
>is going bad. Does anyone know if there are any commercially available
>mice that are *compatible* with the NeXT non-ADB version? Better yet,
>does anyone have a source for those mini-din plugs that the Mac and NeXT
>both use? They seem kinda hard to come by in the DC metropolitan area.
>Thanks in advance.
If you only need a cable to be fixed, buy a mini-din extention cable.
Trying to solder one of those mini-din connectors is a pain in the ass, and
very unreliable. Just take the extention cable and chop off one end.
Otherwise, if you need a mouse to be completely replaced...
gopher://gopher.stolaf.edu/0R2307843-2312607-/Internet%20Resources/St.%20Olaf%20Sponsored%20Mailing%20Lists/NeXT-Managers/archive%3A%2023-Mar-92%20to%2029-Dec-93
says...
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From: pclip@is1.vub.ac.be (CLIP PAUL)
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Subject: Summary: Need a NeXT mouse
To: next-managers
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 12:10:24 MDT
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Hi,
I asked a few days ago about how to cope with defective mice.
Thanks to all who replied, here is a summary of the most pertinent,
informative, etc comments.
John Karabaic (John_Karabaic@NeXT.COM) wrote:
Mice are becoming a scarce commodity. It's possible to hook up any serial
mouse to our keyboards and have 'em work, since they all work on the same
principal. In fact, our mouse is identical to the Microsoft Mouse. Sometimes
you may need to do some rewiring. The wire layout is in the User's Reference
Manual.
Jessica L Mosher (cooncat@ella.mills.edu) sent this bit of info:
If your NeXT is one of the ones that was made right before NeXT
stopped making hardware, you may be able to use an Apple mouse with
it. It was my understanding that the last series of computers NeXT
made will work with Apple peripherals such as the ergonomic keyboard.
You're probably already aware that NeXT has sold out all its hardware
support to Bell Atlantic. I know that Bell Atlantic got all of NeXTs
spare parts as part of the deal, so you may be able to purchase a
mouse from them. Recently I was able to purchase screws for the back
of my cube from them.
A number of people sent in Izumi Ohzawa's instructions for using a
Logitech mouse with the NeXT (thereby proving that Izumi's words of
wisdom are now part of net-lore 8-)
>> We have a dead mouse on a (slightly older than one year
>> old) Turbo Color Nextstation - it double clicks when
>> pressed once. How does one get a new one/get this one
>> repaired? Can Bell Atlantic help with this? Any other
>> ideas?
>
>However, there is a Logitech to NeXT wiring for hooking up Logitech
>bus mice to a NeXT keyboard. I don't have it right now. Anyone?
I have replaced 3 NeXT mice with Logitech MouseMan Bus mouses.
I chopped off the cable and soldered an 8-pin Mini DIN connector
to the cable. It works fine.
I had to reverse Xa Xb in the wiring diagram posted RTF by Sean Luke
some time ago.
For Logitech MouseMan, Bus, my wiring is:
8pin Mini DIN Color of Logitech mouse cable (pin# inside
the mouse body)
1 Black (4)
2 Brown (7)
3 Red (8)
4 Orange(9)
5 Yellow(10)
6 Gray (3)
7 Green(1) + Purple(2)
8 White (6)
Left and Middle buttons are wired together to become Left button for
NeXT.
One drawback is that Logitech MouseMan-Bus is a bit more sensitive
than the NeXT Mouse so the pointer moves too fast, and none of the
Preferences' 5 speed settings work right for the Logitech.
To slow down the pointer to my taste, I have the following in a
shell script.
dwrite NeXT1 MouseScaling "4 1 1 8 2 9 4 10 7"
Disclaimer:
Use this info at your own risk. If you blow the mouse port or
the mouse itself, you alone are responsible.
I had to throw away the PC plug-in card that came with the
bus mouse. I wonder if you can just buy the mouse by itself
without the adapter card.
--
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)
Finally this from Paul Lowe (paul@qubert.ucr.edu):
We've had problems with mice in our NeXT labs and have found
that the wires internal to the mouse get ripped from their solder.
You might try taking your mouse apart and resoldering joints before
spending any money!
There it is, thanks again for all your help and I hope this will
come in handy one day...
Regards,
Paul Clip.
pclip@is1.vub.ac.be
(No NeXTmail please)
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 17:26:43 CST
From: idpt633@tpts1.seed.net.tw (PC_user)
Message-ID: <9502160926.AA05441@tpts1.seed.net.tw>
Subject: Help for ethercard under white NeXT
I have NeXT3.2 running in pentium with Intel Express16. It works fine
before until my colleague takes the adapter out and back. Now it would
show the following message even I try other Intel ethercard,
IP Protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
en0:Ethernet address 00:aa:00:14:40:06
<3>objc error: EthernetExpress 16 does not recognize selector
-reserveDebuggerLock<3>
Panic: (cpu0) objc:fatal error
...
kernel panic exception (6.3.1)
Waiting for remote debugger connection
(Type 'c' to configure or 'r' reboot)
I do not what 'c' is for since it never works in any sense, and the
system would do the fdisk latter after you press 'r'.
I check both Intel ethercard with its softset.exe under DOS, and both
cards are fine. I even could use them to ftp to other machines under
DOS, so the problem might go to NeXT OS. If I modify IRQ setting under
DOS, then the messages coming out "adapter not found", but I have the
system booting up without network access.
Does anyone has any idea what is going on? Thanks in advance.
Jamie Lien
From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 17 Feb 1995 22:28:35 GMT
Organization: Wellfleet Communications, Billerica, MA
Message-ID: <PSMITH.95Feb17172835@lemming.wellfleet.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
<ABSTINE.95Feb16203445@hummer.visix.com>
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In-reply-to: whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA's message of 17 Feb 1995 17:00:59 EDT
Cc: whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA
%% Regarding Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN;
%% whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA (Whitney de Vries) writes:
wdv> AIX's Journaled File System is a big plus. Switching back to
wdv> fragile file systems on other OS's is like taking a walk back
wdv> into the past when unix used to be a Ken Thompson's OS for
wdv> games.
If you want a hardened commercial UNIX filesystem you should check out
the one on DG/UX. Solid.
Plus you can grow 'em, shrink 'em, and chop 'em up, not all of which you
can do with AIX's JFS (at least not 3.4.x, which is what I have). DG/UX
beats AIX hands down in every way, IMHO. Except in popularity,
unfortunately for them ;) :)
--
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Senior Software Engineer Bay Networks, Inc.
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From: deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 01:28:01 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratories (NRL)
Message-ID: <3i3if1$jgh@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu>
In article <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu>,
Ben Marcotte <ben@chinook.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
>: In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
>: |> wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
>: |> what do admins of other systems think of this?
>: |>
>: |> rupert
>: sounds about right here.
>: Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
>: upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
>
>(cough cough sputter sputter - pick myself up off the floor)
>
>What color is the sky on your planet?
Red..... and yours ?
>
>Solaris - easy, reliable? You can use those three words in one sentence?
>It has been the biggest pain in the *ss for us!
sorry. I can recommend a few good admins.
>
>For me it constantly feels like Sun is working too hard on the toys for the
>OS (Wabi, SDK's, etc...) and not enough on the basics. By basics I mean:
By basics I mean networking, kernel, standards, libs.
>
>1) Sol 2.1 through 2.3 can't keep utmp[x] records straight. Try
>'finger -l' on someone and you'll see all their previous logins (that
>have been logedout) on any ttys (ptys) that someone else has not used yet.
>I have heard that 2.4 has the same bug.
haven't seen that one, but then I have installed 101318-59, 101533-03,
and 101615-02 patches.
>
>2) The lp services have a number of problems. The
>/var/spool/lp/system/pstatus file is not correctly formatted. By default,
>the banner page is turned on _AND_ turning it off in admintool doesn't
>turn it off _AND_ Sun tech support couldn't even tell me how to turn it
>off. It wasn't until someone on comp.unix.solaris was complaining about
>the same thing and got a response (finally) that we found a solution (you
>have edit the /etc/lp/interfaces/[printername] file by hand and change
>nobanner="no" to "yes"). We recently had our printer power cycle on us
>which should not have caused too many problems for a fault tolerant OS, but
>instead Solaris let the device drivers in the kernel get corrupted and we
>were forced to reboot the system (and, no, restarting the printer daemons
>did absolutly nothing).
I have a sparc printer on our main server. Just power-cycled it for
kicks. no problems.
>
>3) Have you followed any of the threads in comp.unix.solaris on setting
>up a modem for dial-in? I challenge you to find anyone on that group who
>will say that it is easy to "maintain, configure, install, and upgrade" a
>bidirectional modem on a Sparc. I've been trying for months to get ours to
>work under 2.3 and I have not been able to get anything out of it.
too many GUI admins on that news group for me.
>
>4) Lets not forget that Solaris 2.1 was shipped with a completely unusable
>copy of xdm. I call that releasing your beta copy NOT releasing a
>"reliable" product.
>
>There are many more problems that a quick glance through the sun
>newsgroups would reveal.
Oh I am sure there are lots....... like why ps -aux craps out.
>
>: SGI's with IRIX 5.3 are not too bad. pretty reliable although I have been
>: dealing with a bad space ball on one fore months (the sgi tech. has replaced
>: almost the entire system and reinstalled several times). They come by default
>: with a strange one partition disk and repartitioning is not all that easy. I
>: would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
>: really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Care to explain why OSF/1 does not meet you standards but an OS with the
>problems I listed above does? I tend to think that a system that can't
>even keep track of who is logged in correctly is not a complete Unix!
a few patches will get you along way. Course there are those that think no
patches means no bugs, when it really means no solutions.
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From: night@b65215.student.cwru.edu (John L. Millard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Inetd stuff
Date: 15 Feb 1995 16:24:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <3ht9sj$ogi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hello, hello...
I think it's neat how when NeXTStep boots up everything loads up as
standalone via the rc files, but sometimes I would like to yank a few of
those out of there (sendmail for instance) and move them to inetd.conf,
where the daemon will move resident ONLY when necessary.
Is there some reason I should not make this change? Some reason perchance
why everything is found within rc files, and only a few nominal user daemons
such as talk, telnet, and ftp are found within inetd?
Thanks for any tips, etc!
-- John
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: lookupd under 3.3 is broken
Message-ID: <D43xqG.AH0@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <D3t4M3.86M@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D3tDt7.9wJ@nvc.cc.ca.us> <D420no.FCG@nvc.cc.ca.us> <3hut0o$rck@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 19:20:40 GMT
In article <3hut0o$rck@mp.cs.niu.edu>,
Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
> The solution is to avoid putting host name and address info into
>NetInfo. The DNS system is where such information belongs anyway.
> NeXT should distribute a version of the resolver library with
>NeXTSTEP that does *not* query NetInfo. That library should be the
>default version and if NeXT wants to distribute a version like what
>comes with NeXTSTEP now, it should have a different name and not be
>used unless the system administrator chooses to use it instead of the
>good one.
That isn't the problem I'm having anymore. The problem is now the
lookupd chooses to not even try to lookup a host name via DNS. It just
abondons the lookup. Then if you give it a minute and try again, it
will perform the lookup quite happily. If I try the lookup manually
(via nslookup) I never have a problem and can always get the info.
--
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Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558
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From: schwett@differencengine (Mark Schwettmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange logout crash; WetPaint + WM.app ??
Date: 16 Feb 1995 22:18:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3i0j00$7g2@agate.berkeley.edu>
This is an odd one...
When I try to start WetPaint.app, the system logs out to a console
type window with a blue background, and then proceeds after a few
moments to a login panel.
An examination of the console.log reveals the following:
>Feb 16 13:43:45 differencengine syslog: NXMiniApp: Cannot get
> bootstrap port : 1102
>*** Cannot get task port of process 284 (error 5)
>Feb 16 13:43:45 Workspace[275]: Cannot make connection to
>/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/AppFinder.tool
>Feb 16 13:43:45 Workspace[275]: Cannot create tool app finder tool
Any ideas? I've replaced WetPaint.app with the original from the
distribution CD-ROM, so I doubt that is the problem.
The only unusual thing I've done lately was use segedit to replace
the NeXT icon for .tiff files with my own.
Is this a bad idea? I've checked all the owners and permissions
in WM.app, and they appear normal.
Thanks!
Mark Schwettmann
mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT: anti-server mentality will hurt business
Date: 16 Feb 1995 19:38:11 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i0r5j$buh@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <1995Feb12.104133.5283@seer.demon.co.uk> <3hr4e1$7sp@network.ucsd.edu>
Keywords: ethernet interface, file systems
Another depressing and irrelevant factoid. Even the Mac OS has a 4Gig limit.
I mean, jeez, the mac can see larger partitions...makes you wonder, no?
>Paul Lynch said:
>> It would be a convenience if NeXTSTEP supported larger partitions.
>> However, you can mount large partitions that are served by an NFS server
>> on NeXTSTEP clients, and I suppose that NeXT would argue that NeXTSTEP
>> isn't a server OS.
>In less than five years, with the current multimedia hype, 4-10 gigabyte
>filesystems will be commonplace on the desktop. NeXTstep should adjust
>its filesystem to handle it or have yet another serious
>desktop flaw from their shortsided "anti-server" mentality.
Later, John
X
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Moving the server - potential probs?
Date: 16 Feb 1995 21:12:54 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3i0f4m$4a6@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
We have 3 slabs:
1 NS Color - 32 megs ram - Acts as server
- HP printer on serial port
- 430 meg int hd, 250 meg external
1 NS Mono - 32 megs ram - dialup modem on port A
1 NS Mon - 8 megs ram
both mono's have 105 meg hd's.
The employee who uses the NSmono 32 meg machine is leaving
for another job.
The NS Color machine is used 8 hrs/day by our Secretary (for scanning,
printing... etc etc. 'everything').
What I would like to do is make the Mono into the server,
therefore freeing up her machine of all the duties.
I would like to upgrade all three to 3.3 (we just got the upgrades
in today).
Then swap the 430 meg drive (in the server) and the 105 that is in
the NS mono.
The problems, as I see them, are that the NFS mounts and the netinfo
information are effected by the ethernet addresses and names of each
machine.
The _names_ of each machine will also swap with the swapping
of the drive. (as well as the IP addresses) so as to keep things
simple with OSU's nameserver.
ANY help would be much appreciated. The smoother I can do this the
better.
--
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From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: IP Problems... en0*?
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 19:48:35 GMT
Message-ID: <D43z0z.M4F@ritz.mordor.com>
I've got a problem that I've posted before, and I've got more
information. Briefly, I can ping and nameservice works fine, but telnet,
ftp, etc lock after saying "connected". My routing table has been
verified as correct, but when I do "netstat -i", I get lo0, en0, and then
two lines with en0*'s as the interface. Both these last two lines are
getting packets routed through them... but neither has a destination or
an address.
Curiously, routed does not start with the startup of this NS3.2 Intel
system. Where do I configure it so that it does? I manually started it,
but to no avail (it runs, but doesn't help my problem)
In a word... help! I've talked to the network guru of my company and he
can't solve anything. Although he's not familiar with NS, he does know
BSD and NS is very BSD-like... isn't it? If not, what are the
differences, in regards to networking?
Finally, how do I disable Netinfo altogether? I suspect that it's the
culprit, but I don't know. There are no other Netinfo machines on our
network.
Thanks in advance!
Matt
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Missing DOS partition
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Feb16161203@darwin.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Department of Ecology & Evolution, The University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 22:12:03 GMT
I have installed NeXTstep 3.3 on a PC with a 1 GB SCSI disk. When
asked during the installation how I wanted to partition the disk, I
specified an 80 MB DOS partition. I now have NeXTstep up and running
on a 930 MB partition, but there is no sign of the DOS partition. In
/private/adm/messages the following is found:
Feb 15 12:25:05 darwin loginwindow[194]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk
and that is all. Any clues? I have checked NeXTanswers and all the
online docs, but this particular problem is not mentioned.
Thanks,
-Magnus
--
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Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
email: Magnus_Nordborg@uchicago.edu
tel: +1.312.702-1093 (office)
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From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: Missing DOS partition
In-Reply-To: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu's message of Thu, 16 Feb 1995 22:12:03 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Feb16163415@darwin.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Department of Ecology & Evolution, The University of Chicago
References: <MAGNUS.95Feb16161203@darwin.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 22:34:15 GMT
I just wrote:
> I have installed NeXTstep 3.3 on a PC with a 1 GB SCSI disk. When
> asked during the installation how I wanted to partition the disk, I
> specified an 80 MB DOS partition. I now have NeXTstep up and running
> on a 930 MB partition, but there is no sign of the DOS partition. In
> /private/adm/messages the following is found:
> Feb 15 12:25:05 darwin loginwindow[194]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk
> and that is all. Any clues? I have checked NeXTanswers and all the
> online docs, but this particular problem is not mentioned.
I looked a bit further, and discovered some more relevant info.
First, using "fdisk", I find:
NeXT fdisk v1.02
Device: /dev/rsd0h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 80 -
NEXTSTEP 80 930 Active
Fdisk main menu
----------------
1) Create a new partition
2) Delete a partition
3) Set the active partition
4) Show disk information
5) Quit without saving changes
6) Save changes and quit
Enter 1-6: 4
Partition Table
----------------
Act H S Cyl Id H S Cyl Begin Size
--- - - --- -- - - --- ----- ----
0 1 1 0 6 3f 20 4f 20 27fe0
80 0 1 50 a7 3f 20 3f1 28000 1d1000
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Disk Information
-----------------
Disk statistics according to device driver and bios:
device: 1011 Megabytes, 2069860 sectors
bios: 1010 Megabytes, 2068480 sectors
cylinders = 1010, heads = 64, sectors/track = 32
The only thing this tells me is that the DOS partition exists (but why
do bios and device have different info?). Another clue might be this,
from /private/adm/messages:
Feb 15 12:25:41 darwin mach: BLC interrupt: bad status 30
Feb 15 12:25:41 darwin mach: sd0: INVALID STATUS (internal error) : FATAL ERROR
Feb 15 12:25:41 darwin mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:1014064 blockCount:16
Feb 15 12:25:41 darwin mach: IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
I have no idea if this is related. I would really appreciate help,
-Magnus
Device: /dev/rsd0h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 80 -
NEXTSTEP 80 930 Active
Fdisk main menu
----------------
1) Create a new partition
2) Delete a partition
3) Set the active partition
4) Show disk information
5) Quit without saving changes
6) Save changes and quit
Enter 1-6: 5
--
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
email: Magnus_Nordborg@uchicago.edu
tel: +1.312.702-1093 (office)
tel: +1.312.667-5331 (home)
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From: kris@xmission.xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP : Only root can login a machine!
Date: 18 Feb 1995 04:08:22 GMT
Organization: XMission Public Access Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <3i3rrm$hcl@news.xmission.com>
References: <3i3c82$98q@news.ecn.bgu.edu>
Don Y. and I were just talking about this one the other day.
According to a CERT advisory that you can find on NeXTanswers, this is
a symptom of a hacked NeXT machine. Search for "writers" on NeXTanswers
using your favorite Web browser, and it should turn up.
This same problem can be caused by improper permissions on
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app, which should be set suid root. But this
prob should show up in /usr/adm/messages.
When my machine was attacked about a year ago, I the only way I could
recover was to reload the OS, a draconian solution. Perhaps there is another?
........................kris
Hosung Kim (bshk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
: Only root have permission to login a NeXT machine.
: I'd like to give the login permission to other users.
: How can I do that.
: Please help me!
: Thank you.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!!
Message-ID: <1995Feb16.124003.925@ittpub>
From: miked@ittpub.nl (Mike Davis)
Date: 16 Feb 95 12:40:03 WET
References: <1995Feb14.124301.916@ittpub> <1995Feb14.164724.5533@il.us.swissbank.com>
(Raul Alvarez) wrote:
> writes
>> Help! Intel Machine Network Lock Ups!!! wrote:
>> > I am so frustrated with this problem. I have looked and did
>> >everything I have found on NeXTAnswers and still no luck. What
>> >problem you may ask? Well thank you for asking...
>>
>> > The problem is every once in while(okay from five seconds to a
>> >day)at least one of our machine on the NeXTStep cluster falls(I
>> really
>> >mean fall) off the net. It could be talking to a machine in Frace
or
>> >just the server itself. What is the usual symptom is that the
>> >computer access the network or network server and just spins the
>> >cursor for a finite period of time usually going towards infinity.
>> If
>> >you try to start up another app(since most are on the server) it
is
>> >almost a promise that it will lock up the WorkSpace Manager.....
If
>> >you do a rup or rusers the computer is not physically listed
during
>> >that time and can not be pinged. Sometime the computer comes back
on
>> >the net. But most of the time (especially if it was the server)
it
>> >requires a reboot for it to communicate with the outside world
>> again...
>>
>> > Our Hardware....
>> > P60- From Gateway still with floating point error :|
>> > PS/2 Mouse(From MickeySoft) that Jumps around :(
>> > Diamond Viper Video Card
>> > EtherCard PLUS Elite16 Series SMC card...
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Try a different set of Ethernet cards for the Intel machines on
your
>> network.
>>
>> > Adaptec 154(2?)C revision
>> > 16/32 megs of memory(WS/Server)
>>
>> > We have tried taking out NFS info to various other platforms
>> >(linux and suns) and the locking up persisted. Right now it is
>> >currently only NFS to the server.. We did lower the buffers on the
>> NFS
>> >to a very low number and we are still getting the lock up...
>>
>>
>> > ANY SOLUTIONS WOULD MAKE US HAPPY(but it has to include
>> >running NeXTStep)!!!!!
>>
>> > This is driving many students batty right now and they will
>> >give you eternal thank you....
>>
>> >Brian.s.Mogged@uwrf.edu
>> >.Signature and Spell Checking not included due to budget cuts.....
>>
>> --
>> Mike Davis.
>> miked@ittpub.nl
>I have the same problem. It's not the NeXT hardware or software.
It's
>probably a bad router of ethernet concentrator somewhere one your
network.
>My problems go away for several weeks when the network people power
cycle
>their hardware, but it comes back and disrupts me for a day every
once in
>a while.
>Some SUN FDDI hardware is known to cause this problem. If you have
SUN
>with FDDI contact SUN to get replacements, because they had a
defective
>batch that caused this same problem.
>Hope this helps, and good luck!
Our problem *seems* to be related to the ethernet cards. Most Intel
machine're using SMC cards and their performance over the network is
dreadful. A couple of us use Intel cards and everything's fine.
--
Mike Davis.
miked@ittpub.nl
From: soward@pop.uky.edu (John Soward)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 17:31:34 GMT
Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i2mhm$jq7@service1.uky.edu>
References: <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
We received a "server" from HP, supposedly "just what we needed" to be our
mail-news-web server...it a HP9000/800 G30 (847) with 512Meg of RAM and 2 RAID
arrays each on their own Fast-Wide SCSI-2 bus...
I am completely disappointed with it. I've ran countless benchmarks on the
drives in all 3 "supported", and some non-supported modes, and the best I can
muster is around 750K/sec writes and 1.6M/sec reads. Our SS20 with a single
drive can double that. On top of that the current HP-UX allows only 4G
partitions, so we can't have a single 8G partition for news...and it sure is
great to have all that RAM...I increased the number of I/O buffers, but now
when sync comes around to dump them, the machine basically locks up for about
30secs...pop mail clients time-out trying to connect...not so cool.
--
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University of Kentucky -the Cure, Piggy in the Mirror.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rwyatt@netcom.com (Robert Wyatt)
Subject: Re: 3.3 panics
Message-ID: <rwyattD46HL4.84I@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.950215231255.300A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 04:24:40 GMT
Sender: rwyatt@netcom15.netcom.com
In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.950215231255.300A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
>Well, so besides the fact that silly 3.3 needs to be rebooted once a week
>or so because the swapfile grows to eat up all three disk space, there's
>a new reason to consider 3.3 to be a loser:
>
> panic: assert_wait: already asserted event 0x40b0aec
>
>I've had this happen several times with 3.3 since I installed it. Today's
>happened only 15 minutes after I was forced to reboot because I ran out of
>disk space because of the swapfile growing bug.
>
>I wonder when it will dawn on NeXT that they are not selling a Macintosh,
>and that it really isn't acceptable to require multiple reboots in a day.
I have to agree. Since I installed 3.3 on my Intel system, the machine
seems *less* stable than before. Totally unacceptable if you ask me. I
am really beginning to wonder if NeXT cares at all.
-Rob
From: armitage@u.washington.edu (Armitage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disks eject on logout ;(
Date: 16 Feb 1995 20:27:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <3i0cf5$7n@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: disk removable eject
Is there any way to stop removable disks (like CDROMS & SyQuests) from
ejecting upon logging out? I vaguely remember reading something on this
subject long ago, but I can't remember what the deal is...
Thanks!
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From: rod@netb82.bah.com (Roderick H. Durham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Any Mice available to replace non-ADB mouse?
Date: 17 Feb 1995 05:04:49 GMT
Organization: Booz-Allen & Hamillton
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i1aph$o7@booz.bah.com>
Looks like the cable of the non-ADB mouse for my 3 year old ColorStation
is going bad. Does anyone know if there are any commercially available
mice that are *compatible* with the NeXT non-ADB version? Better yet,
does anyone have a source for those mini-din plugs that the Mac and NeXT
both use? They seem kinda hard to come by in the DC metropolitan area.
Thanks in advance.
-rod
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From: will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 10:11:43 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
Message-ID: <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>,
Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> wrote:
>wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
>>
>> In article <3hrqmi$d6u@pith.uoregon.edu> ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte) writes:
>>
>> I haven't seen much mention of DEC here yet. Which brings me to a point,
>> why are so many people religiously attached to Sun's? In my current
>> search for a new workstation, they rank at the bottom of my list for
>> performance and OS reliability. I have not yet gotten to play with a Dec
>> Alpha yet, but from the numbers and the discussion about them in the
>> various user support newsgroups, I would currently rank DEC first.
>>
>> I have admined every major workstation (Sun3, Sun4, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM,
>> DEC Alpha, DEC Station, Linux, SCO Unix) and let me tell you DEC ranks
>> real low on my list. The recent release of OSF1 V3.0 is a licencing
>> nightmare. Only two users are allowed to login at once (root does not
>> count) under the default licence. A licence has to be purchased for
>> each additional user. These licences are yearly, so good paperwork
>> has to be kept on the machine. Then, the little quirks of keeping
>> them running.... I have a DEC alpha loaded with 3.5 internal drives,
>> and it has a heat problem. This was a suprise to the DEC Engineers,
>> and they only offered advice was move it to a colder room or get some
>> of the drives out. We also run some pretty intensive programs on the
>> DEC, and a single STAGS (Statistical Analysis Program) can bring the
>> machine to its knees, with nothing else running (above system
>> software). The DEC support people have alot to learn about customer
>> support!! The ONLY DEC persons who seemed to want to help when I
>> called was a Licencing person (Chris Kelley) who helped me through my
>> nightmare of upgrading licences.
>>
>> As far as HP, SGI, or IBM (no one seems to have mentioned
>> RS/6000's either), the race for second is too close to call. HP's and
>> IBM's have higher floating point performance. SGI's have better graphics
>> performance (of course). None of these systems seems to have a large
>> advantage over each other in price, but all have much higher
>> price/performance ratios than the Alpha's.
>>
>> If you want a really good price/performance ratio, I would
>> suggest a Pentium based machine. A P5-100 pulls in SPEC numbers better
>> than the entire Sparcstation 5 line and is comparable with the 150Mhz
>> Indy, the Sparcstation 20 model 51, or the RS/6000 models C10 and 41T.
>> And there are more OS's to choose from (WinNT, many SVR4's, many bsd's).
>>
>> I would appreciate hearing anymore that anyone has to say on this subject.
>>
>> I think a major issue you are not seeing is the man hours to support a
>> machine. A lot of people like Suns because the Administration of them
>> is rather easy. SGIs, a little more difficult (IMHO), but I have
>> found that the customer support bends over backwards. I had problems
>> with the IRIX 6.0.1 FORTRAN compiler, and within a few hours, I had
>> one of the Developing programmers helping me with my problem. He
>> found the bug in the compiler, and gave me a work around, I lost all
>> of 4 hours work on this problem.
>>
>> My bottom line is this, I support several different arcitectures, as
>> well as a testing facility, so my admin time is limited when we are
>> under full scale testing, so I want machines that have proven
>> reliability. For me, Suns and SGIs are at the top of the list....
>> You really have to equate supporting the machines in any
>> price/performace ratio you look at. (again IMHO)...
>>
>> Wayne
>what do admins of other systems think of this?
>
> rupert
I have joined this thread a little late, but I would add Clones. The
only clones I have worked with are Sun clones from Tatung (which are
better than Suns, IMHO) but Tatung also makes a PREP box which is
basically an RS/6000 clone. I don't know of any HP or SGI clones,
and no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone.
Will
--
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# not just a good idea, # BHP Petroleum (Americas) Inc.
# it's the law. # Houston, Texas
# # will@starbase.neosoft.com
#
# These are my views and do not necessarly reflect the views of BHP !
From: whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA (Whitney de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 17 Feb 1995 21:00:59 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <ABSTINE.95Feb16203445@hummer.visix.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com>
AIX's Journaled File System is a big plus. Switching back to fragile
file systems on other OS's is like taking a walk back into the
past when unix used to be a Ken Thompson's OS for games.
-- Whitney
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 21:12:40 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i33g8$at7@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
In article <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>, rwigmore@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore) writes:
|> Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
|> : Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
|> : upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
|>
|> Not a flame by any means, but at the start of January our brand new SPARC
|> 1000 came online (it arrived in August and they spent the time inbetween
|> updating/customizing it). It has 1/4 GB of real memory, 2 CPUs, and a
|> "storage array". It ONLY handles our email (PINE) users (ie. no compilers,
|> stats, database, etc. software - JUST email).
|>
How many disks in the Sun RAID?
is it NFS serving for other systems?
is it a router?
does it serve DNS, NIS+, NIS, WWW, ftp?
|> The machine will grind to almost a halt at between 60-80 users - but it can
|> run okay with 120 users - but only for a while. It was running Solaris 2.3
|> in January, but they upgraded to 2.4 in an attempt at "fixing up" the problem
|> we are having. 2.4 did not fix up anything.
If the machine is really only used for email, I would check to make sure there
are no mud's running on it, etc.
check what your network load. you may be overloading it and not the machine.
you say 60 to 80 users and they only run pine.
clarknet (a local provider in the area) has a SS20/612 that can handle that
kind of load with no problem. It is still running solaris 2.3. They plan
to upgrade it to 2.4 and 712 cpu's soon though. There is almost never less
than 50 users on their machine and usually over 100 users. The users on
that SS20 do not just run mail either. Do you have patch 102119-01 installed?
what other patches do you have installed?
|>
|> So, and again, this is not a flame - if people with 5+ years of experience
|> with SUN systems/technology cannot get a (about the same as a model 590)
|> SPARC 100 working well after 6 months of trying, just how "simple to take
|> care of" can those systems be?
not a flame here either but just because someone has 5 years of experience
does not mean they know all that much. I have turned down many applicants with
more years of experience because they were not up to speed with modern tech.
|>
|> Any and all suggestions welcomed! :-)
|>
|> Ron,,,
|> Who only has three choices - if I can't use VM, then I'll settle for AIX! :-)
|>
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 16 Feb 1995 12:19:00 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Message-ID: <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov>
wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
>
> In article <3hrqmi$d6u@pith.uoregon.edu> ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte) writes:
>
> I haven't seen much mention of DEC here yet. Which brings me to a point,
> why are so many people religiously attached to Sun's? In my current
> search for a new workstation, they rank at the bottom of my list for
> performance and OS reliability. I have not yet gotten to play with a Dec
> Alpha yet, but from the numbers and the discussion about them in the
> various user support newsgroups, I would currently rank DEC first.
>
> I have admined every major workstation (Sun3, Sun4, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM,
> DEC Alpha, DEC Station, Linux, SCO Unix) and let me tell you DEC ranks
> real low on my list. The recent release of OSF1 V3.0 is a licencing
> nightmare. Only two users are allowed to login at once (root does not
> count) under the default licence. A licence has to be purchased for
> each additional user. These licences are yearly, so good paperwork
> has to be kept on the machine. Then, the little quirks of keeping
> them running.... I have a DEC alpha loaded with 3.5 internal drives,
> and it has a heat problem. This was a suprise to the DEC Engineers,
> and they only offered advice was move it to a colder room or get some
> of the drives out. We also run some pretty intensive programs on the
> DEC, and a single STAGS (Statistical Analysis Program) can bring the
> machine to its knees, with nothing else running (above system
> software). The DEC support people have alot to learn about customer
> support!! The ONLY DEC persons who seemed to want to help when I
> called was a Licencing person (Chris Kelley) who helped me through my
> nightmare of upgrading licences.
>
> As far as HP, SGI, or IBM (no one seems to have mentioned
> RS/6000's either), the race for second is too close to call. HP's and
> IBM's have higher floating point performance. SGI's have better graphics
> performance (of course). None of these systems seems to have a large
> advantage over each other in price, but all have much higher
> price/performance ratios than the Alpha's.
>
> If you want a really good price/performance ratio, I would
> suggest a Pentium based machine. A P5-100 pulls in SPEC numbers better
> than the entire Sparcstation 5 line and is comparable with the 150Mhz
> Indy, the Sparcstation 20 model 51, or the RS/6000 models C10 and 41T.
> And there are more OS's to choose from (WinNT, many SVR4's, many bsd's).
>
> I would appreciate hearing anymore that anyone has to say on this subject.
>
> I think a major issue you are not seeing is the man hours to support a
> machine. A lot of people like Suns because the Administration of them
> is rather easy. SGIs, a little more difficult (IMHO), but I have
> found that the customer support bends over backwards. I had problems
> with the IRIX 6.0.1 FORTRAN compiler, and within a few hours, I had
> one of the Developing programmers helping me with my problem. He
> found the bug in the compiler, and gave me a work around, I lost all
> of 4 hours work on this problem.
>
> My bottom line is this, I support several different arcitectures, as
> well as a testing facility, so my admin time is limited when we are
> under full scale testing, so I want machines that have proven
> reliability. For me, Suns and SGIs are at the top of the list....
> You really have to equate supporting the machines in any
> price/performace ratio you look at. (again IMHO)...
>
> Wayne
what do admins of other systems think of this?
rupert
From: strange@zk3.dec.com (Steve Strange)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 14:30:45 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <STRANGE.95Feb17093045@squeeze.dec.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
<WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov>
<3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
In-reply-to: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil's message of 16 Feb 1995 18:28:08 GMT
In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
> would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
> really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
Huh? Please provide your definition of UNIX.
Steve
--
Steve Strange
Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH
DCE DFS for DEC OSF/1 -- Development
strange@zk3.dec.com
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: NeXT/Linux file systems
Date: 18 Feb 1995 01:52:11 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3i3jsb$e8g@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
I have both a notebook (no docking station) and a NS/FIP machine.
Because I like a command line interface on 640*480 screens, I am
running linux on the notebook. My problem is that I would like to buy
a small (3.5"/1") SCSI hard disk to transport/use the same files under
both systems.
Is there hope for Linux in the future to be able to read the BSD 4.3
FFS that NeXT uses? (Unlikely for NeXT to support linux file systems,
I guess.) I just cannot go back to 8+3 filename limitations by making
the volume a DOS FAT system.
/ivo
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance (ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu)
AGSM at UCLA
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCI DPT2024 w NS3.3 - Solution
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:21:33 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i30gd$lco@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <3hn28e$sm3@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <3hsm7g$m0u@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>: Step 3
>: Use the DPT ISA driver included in NS
>Resulting performance? Like PCI or like ISA?
Its tought to say, since I just got my pentium and never used ISA SCSI on it
before...but here is what I'm getting on my Barracuda 4 without the write
cache enabled-- 1.5meg/s writes, 1.5meg/s reads - using iostat with 128meg
file and 1024block size.
I'm sure the final driver will improve this, not to mention enabling write
cache--which for now with this hack I'm reluctant to do.
Later, John
From: grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 05:59:32 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Message-ID: <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
<WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov>
<3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
<msuzio.792974686@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>
In-reply-to: msuzio@tiamat.umd.umich.edu's message of 16 Feb 1995 18:01:08 -0500
I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used in
the past.
On monday, I took delivery of three DEC multiprocessors (2100-500's,
aka Sables). By monday afternoon, I got one 2-CPU machine up, running
the AMD automounter, using BIND, doing SENDMAIL, exporting and
importing NFS files, using passwords and the like. This took about 1
hour, which was mainly involved in installing C++, Ada, DCE,
ObjectBroker (CORBA), etc etc from CDrom.
On tuesday, I cloned the next system & took delivery of 2 Alphastation
4/233's and started getting them set up.
By thursday, not only had I done all my other jobs (teach, serve on
mindless committees), but we had already sucked down massive
simulation cycles on the alpha cluster, including the one that
dual-boots and an OSF/1 and W/NT box.
I found V3.0B easy to deal with. I used to use (& manage) Sun machines
many eons ago, and I think the DEC stuff is pretty straight-forward.
I admit, I didn't do any fancy stuff like set up the RAID file system
(I did use the DEC log-structured file system), but really, to argue
that OSF/1 "isn't unix" or isn't robust is pretty silly. It's more
UNIX-like than anything I've used in 15 years of UNIX-dom, but some
parts are better.
From: lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Peter S. Lakanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MAIL> Unknown Host - HELP!
Date: 16 Feb 1995 23:39:01 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <3i0nml$t1p@mailer.fsu.edu>
I have a NeXT cube with NS 2.1x (vina.cmr.fsu.edu). It is on a subnet
with a SUN (otto.cmr.fsu.edu mail aliased to cmr.fsu.edu). I can get
mail into vina but I can't get mail out of vina - I get unknown host
errors.
In my naivete, it seems to me that I am not properly
connected to a mail router. Is this a reasonable conclusion
to make?
One more thing: if I send mail from vina to my account at otto
as lakanen@cmr.fsu.edu (remember that alias) it gets returned,
but if I send to lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu it works fine.
What does all of this mean?
Thank you in advance for your help.
--
========================================================================
Peter Lakanen | I AM A CLUB DJ. I AM A RE-MIXER. I USE A NeXT.
lakanen@cmr.fsu.edu | ARE THERE ANY OTHER DJ's OR MUSIC INDUSTRY PEOPLE
(904) 877-0305 | OUT HERE? PLEASE CONTACT ME. THANX.-------------
========================================================================
From: jmack@skye.phys.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 devices on 1 IP no. ? (PPP)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 06:08:26 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3i42sq$1438@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3hre4p$ejl@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
In article <3hre4p$ejl@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> hoff@pluto.darmstadt.gmd.de
(Holger Hoffstaette) writes:
> Howdy all,
>
> I just tried to set up the PD PPP package. Worked like a charm, installation
> was straightforward. I can even reboot without problems :-)
> The only thing I have have to fight is not as trivial as it may sound.
>
> Setup:
>
> Amiga <-Ethernet-> NS/Intel <-Modem-> Institute (Annex)
> n1 (NFS) n2 (PPP) n3
>
> ...where n1 and n2 are official IP addresses given to me by my sysadmin,
> and n3 is the terminal server I connect to.
> NFS between Amy and NS worked without problems before.
>
> For the trained eye, the problem is easy to spot: my NS box has two
> interfaces (en0 and pp0) but only one IP address available.
> Starting PPP and logging into my own NS system over the PPP link works
> fine; however, as soon as I try to set the default route, en0 is chosen
> as the default interface, which is of little help, since it looks into
> the wrong direction.
>
> My question is: do I really need another IP address, or is NS able to
> 'share' IP numbers among several interfaces? My Amy's TCP/IP stack does
> this automagically, and I've been told that this ability is a BSD network
> code feature, so I guess NS should be able to do it, too - right?
You should be able to run both en0 and ppp on the same IP (I do just this on
my slip machine), but you must do a few things first:
1) add a name and number for your subnet into the networks '.' netinfo db
(this will allow you to more easily delete the default route later on)
for example, my subnet entry on my slip machine is arbitrarily named:
skye-alberta 129.128.7
2) configure /etc/hostconfig so that the HOSTNAME,INETADDR,IPNETMASK, and
IPBROADCAST are appropriate (same as your ppp interface). Make SURE that
ROUTER=-NO-
3) append route add/delete lines to the end of /etc/rc.local as follows
- with ppp you may need to do this before ppp is configured:
(my config here; change the entries to match your system
skye is my slip machine; lassie is another local machine on thin-net)
# setup routing for local ethernet but slip to network
# re-route for local ether/slip bridge on slipserver
#
# add a route through en0 to other host(s) on the local en0 wire
# in format: route add your-other-local1 your-host 0
/etc/route add lassie skye 0 >/dev/console 1>&2&
# delete the default entry created when en0 was first configured:
# in format: routed delete subnet-destination your-host
/etc/route delete skye-alberta skye >/dev/console 1>&2&
routing table should then look similar to the following:
(phys-sgw is the SLIP gate I use on local slip host skye):
86 skye# netstat -ar
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
skye localhost UH 15 2701869 lo0
localhost localhost UH 3 1503 lo0
lassie skye UH 5 380708 en0
phys-sgw skye UH 0 3473 slip0
default phys-sgw UG 4 126722 slip0
This will effectively set your ppp machine up as an internet router
for your other machine, and keeps your default route to your ppp gateway.
in your particular case (use your real hostnames of course):
/etc/route add Amiga Intel 0
/etc/route delete <your-subnet-name> Intel
then your 'netstat -ar' output might look logically like:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
Intel localhost UH 15 2701869 lo0
localhost localhost UH 3 1503 lo0
Amiga Intel UH 5 380708 en0
Institute Intel UH 0 3473 pp0
default Institute UG 4 126722 pp0
--
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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
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
From: elitman@glue.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Inetd stuff
Date: 17 Feb 1995 18:37:08 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <3i2qck$ahc@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
References: <3ht9sj$ogi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <3i0634$7vg@service1.uky.edu>
On 16 Feb 1995 18:38:28 GMT, John Soward (soward@pop.uky.edu) wrote:
# Sendmail should not be run from inetd, neither should most of the things that
# aren't already...Sendmail, for example, needs to keep track of things when
# there are no connections, it also needs to keep track of it's own
# children...that is if you are receiveing mail from two sources at the same
# time, two sendmails will be running...they need to know about each other.
This is misleading at best. Sendmail runs quite nicely under inetd, and gives
you the added advantage of greater logging/access control via tcpd. The
only real concern is setting the x and X options to reasonable numbers either
as part of sendmail's argument vector or in your sendmail.cf:
# load average at which we just queue messages
Ox8
# max allowable load
OX12
Unfortunately, sendmail as shipped through 3.2 tended to overlook these values
in certain circumstances.
</eal>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: UNDELETE? (directory is now lost!)
Message-ID: <1995Feb17.213947.6437@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3i2p0r$bb2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 21:39:47 GMT
Shane M Zatezalo writes
> Is there anyway to undelete under NS 3.0?
>
> Our secretary just deleted a directory that was
> created since our last backup - and she needs
> the files that were in there.
>
> Ugh... so the question is, is there any way
> to recover any of the data? The directory was
> on an external drive, and as far as I know
> has not been written to since the deletion.
>
> (btw, she command-r'd them, so they were 'destroyed'.
Sorry, you're S.O.L.. This is one of those hard-learned facts of life in
Unix systems in general, not simply NeXTSTEP.
Denise
--
Denise Howard \/ howardd@swissbank.com
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From: abstine@visix.com (Art Stine)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 19:45:54 GMT
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In article <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse) writes:
I have joined this thread a little late, but I would add Clones. The
only clones I have worked with are Sun clones from Tatung (which are
better than Suns, IMHO) but Tatung also makes a PREP box which is
basically an RS/6000 clone. I don't know of any HP or SGI clones,
and no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone.
There are several companies already doing Alpha 'clones' ... btw, why
do you think "no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone" ?
-art stine
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From: dwright@myhost.subdomain.domain (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2GB limit on drives?
Date: 15 Feb 1995 15:32:49 GMT
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Michael Raskin Andrews (mra@mit.edu) wrote:
: what's all this business about limits on the size of hard drives? i am
: considering buying a 4gb drive this week and am a bit disturbed to hear
: about this supposed limit. what do i do? if i have to partition, how do i
: set things up so that its done correctly for the particular
: geometry/operation of my new drive? thanks for any help. email
: appreciated. -michael.
I too am completely unhappy with NeXT's support of drives....
I have a DEC DSP 3210 that totally and completely failed all comptibility
tests with NeXTstep, even with a disktab entry from them! After 4 months
of trying to get that to work, I switched to a Seagate HAWK 2GB, and
that worked great with buildisk, however, it wouldn't multi-partition,
and it wouldn't copy anything but the basic OS. AND try getting a
DOS and NeXTstep partition on the same machine.
Well, after fighting with NeXT for 4 months (this is on 3.2) they refused
to give me 3.3......
SO! I'm going back to good ol' Linux unless someone can tell me
how to get any of this mess to work.
-Darren
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 15 Feb 1995 15:51:44 GMT
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Terry Wilcox (terry@arcane.com) wrote:
: In article <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
: (John Kheit) writes:
: > <...>
: >Well, This doesn't make me all too happy a camper. I wonder if
: >this is a
: The 2gig limit is a fact of life in most 32 bit OS's. NEXTSTEP is no worse
: than most other operating systems in that regard.
The 2GB limit is builtin to BSD UNIX, which NeXTstep is based on.
All BSD Unices have the same problem. Are you proposing NeXT modify
themselves away from the standard?
Practically speaking, I can't see any reason to absolutely NEED a partition
larger than 2GB. Obviously, this isn't a reason not to support large
partitions, however. I, too, think it is a silly limitation, but I also
don't think it is NeXT's fault.
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Q's: 3.2 client under 3.0 server? Get rid of Power Off button? (black 3.2)
Date: 15 Feb 1995 15:56:31 GMT
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Jessica L Mosher (cooncat@wombat) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I have heard that it is possible to have a 3.2 client running off
: of a 3.0 server. Is this true, and if so, are there any issues?
: Also, is there a way to get rid of or disable the Power Off and
: Restart buttons on the login and logout panels under 3.2?
to disable the Power Off and Restart buttons, issue as root:
dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES
--
| Rex A. Dieter | Research Associate |
| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: fishbowl@frodo.pic.net's message of 18 Feb 1995 07:54:25 GMT
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 11:00:11 GMT
World.std.com (The World) is an SGI Challenge XL with 8x200MHZ R4400s,
512MB, 5xSCSI (3 F+W, 2 F), etc. We also have an SGI CHallenge L with
4x100MHZ, 256MB, 3 SCSI, etc as a news server and a FDDI between them.
We're running IRIX 5.3.
I'm surrounded by various other Suns, BSDI, AIX.
For big machines the SGI is an awesome powerhouse. We still have a few
nits with the FDDI tho found a workaround, they're working on it, but
any problems are down to things like that, the FDDI is in production
so hard to complain too much, it works.
For desktop personal computing at a reasonable price I like BSDI on an
x86 (hard to beat the price), if you need fancy (graphics,
multi-media) then an SGI desktop. But I suppose if you need access to
a lot of general-purpose apps a Sun desktop is still something to
consider.
I used to be a big Sun/SunOS fan, owned a lot of Suns in my day (and a
few Solbourne multis, Sparc, SunOS), but once they went to SVR4 it
didn't seem to matter much compared to something like IRIX (also
SVR4), and it was clear to me Sun was going thru pains changing over
to SVR4 that I didn't want to share that with them. IRIX was about 2
years ahead of them on SVR4 and, more importantly, SVR4/SMP. Maybe
some day when they get it figured out I'll consider a big Sun again, I
think Sun remains an interesting company, it's too bad they managed
the switchover to SVR4 so poorly (IMHO, but follow the money.)
We let DEC bid an Alpha but at the time (late last spring) they didn't
even have a multi in production so that was the end of that, they said
they'd have one soon but we couldn't afford to be an early adopter for
a mission-critical app. I'm still nervous about DEC to be blunt, too
many years of schizophrenia, are they going to dump Unix and run to NT
or something? Or just do both (oh yeah "openVMS" too) poorly and war
internally to the detriment of their customers? I dunno, always seems
to be like that.
I've found SGI support to be good, certainly responsive, mostly
effective even, and I'm a pretty fearsome customer when it comes to
support having run large installations, including Unix, for around 15
years. SGI seems to be nicely focused on just turning out reasonable
systems without the b.s. First time in years I haven't had a vendor
telling me that, well, *I'm* not like their "real" customers (ya know,
if you do db's the vendor is more interested in CAD/CAM, if you do
science they wish you were a db site, etc)...this is refreshing.
AIX? You couldn't pay me enough...
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From: michaelb@hobbie.bocaraton.ibm.com (Michael Rogero Brown (Sys Admin))
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 20:49:15 GMT
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Steve Strange (strange@zk3.dec.com) wrote:
: In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
: > would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
: > really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
: Huh? Please provide your definition of UNIX.
Yes, that a bit of a strange comment. Some would say OSF/1 (which DEC is
using instead of Ultrix) is more Unix then AIX.
I hope this is not another "if it's not SVR4, it's not Unix" type argument.
Personally if its based on either SVRx or BSD, its Unix in my book. [as if
I decide what;s Unix or not. :)]
Spec 1170 is now supposed to be the determining factor of "unix or not", but
when I hear things like IBM's plans on getting OS/400 to pass 1170, it makes
me wonder. [don't know anything about os/400, except that I wouldn't think it
Unix]
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From: vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 07:29:49 GMT
wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote, in part:
>> I have admined every major workstation (Sun3, Sun4, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM,
>> DEC Alpha, DEC Station, Linux, SCO Unix) and let me tell you DEC ranks
>> real low on my list...
And Vic replies:
Wayne, have you worked with NeXTStep (I found this note in a NeXTStep
newsgroup), and could you give me a comparison with linux? I'm trying to
set up a NeXTStep-based UNIX network for a high school district. Trying
to get NeXTStep to do ANYTHING I want has been like pulling teeth. I have
set up Linux on my own computer, and have found installation, maintenance,
and just plain working on the computer to be much easier with Linux than
NeXTStep. Have you (or any of you other gentle readers) had similar
experiences?
Our main reason for using NeXTStep is because NeXTStep is commercial, and
so ought to be better supported than Linux (not sure that's true, though,)
and because it supposedly has built-in support for database management.
After working with NeXTStep for several months now, I'm beginning to think
we made a mistake.
Your opinions, folks?
Thanks much. Please respond via E-Mail, as well as in this newsgroup,
because I don't get over this way that often.
Vic Walker
vwalker@netcom.com
From: fishbowl@frodo.pic.net (fishbowl)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 07:54:25 GMT
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In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>,
Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> wrote:
>wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
>>
>> In article <3hrqmi$d6u@pith.uoregon.edu> ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte) writes:
>>
>> I haven't seen much mention of DEC here yet. Which brings me to a point,
>> why are so many people religiously attached to Sun's?
Suns have widespread support, for applications that (gasp) aren't available
for linux. If you can put the gnutils, a decent shell, and proper X11R6
instead of openwin, it's a nice stable platform with great horsepower,
awesome network performance, and high-performance video hardware (not to
mention the big flat screen :-)
>> search for a new workstation, they rank at the bottom of my list for
>> performance and OS reliability.
I wish I could get SUNos, Slowlaris is sucking here, in a big way. Sun
wants more than my budget for an upgrade. I've moved my archive / w3 server
to a linux 486dX100 with an adaptec which appears to outperform the sparc-5
significantly.
I would like to run a filesystem benchmark, but I can definitely say that the
local bus adaptec and a 1g Seagate out dos the sparc significantly.
I would like to run a filesystem benchmark.
>>I have not yet gotten to play with a Dec
Ditto, but one of our consultants does. The thing about RISC machines is
that to do the same work, they require that you have much more memory than
on x86 machines. I know that among the first things I want to know before
buying a workstation would be: Does it use regular, available on the street
at street prices, 72-pin SIMM's, or does it use some proprietary chip? On
a RISC machine, you are going to need RAM; and thanks to the PC market, some
RAM is a lot cheaper than others. I also like the idea of having disk drives
interchangeable with the rest of my SCSI boxes. Consumer-market SCSI drives
are fast, reliable, and relatively very inexpensive.
>> I have admined every major workstation (Sun3, Sun4, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM,
>> DEC Alpha, DEC Station, Linux, SCO Unix) and let me tell you DEC ranks
>> real low on my list. The recent release of OSF1 V3.0 is a licencing
>> nightmare. Only two users are allowed to login at once (root does not
>> count) under the default licence. A licence has to be purchased for
>> each additional user. These licences are yearly, so good paperwork
>> has to be kept on the machine. Then, the little quirks of keeping
>> them running.... I have a DEC alpha loaded with 3.5 internal drives,
>> and it has a heat problem. This was a suprise to the DEC Engineers,
>> and they only offered advice was move it to a colder room or get some
>> of the drives out. We also run some pretty intensive programs on the
>> DEC, and a single STAGS (Statistical Analysis Program) can bring the
>> machine to its knees, with nothing else running (above system
>> software). The DEC support people have alot to learn about customer
>> support!! The ONLY DEC persons who seemed to want to help when I
>> called was a Licencing person (Chris Kelley) who helped me through my
>> nightmare of upgrading licences.
>>
>> If you want a really good price/performance ratio, I would
>> suggest a Pentium based machine. A P5-100 pulls in SPEC numbers better
>> than the entire Sparcstation 5 line
My $0.02 on this, I think the 486/100 will also. In my application it
definitely does. Overall performance is greater than a P5 box we have. The
bottleneck is the memory bandwidth and the disk controller. PCI disk transfer
rate is faster than anything I've seen, I must admit.
>> I would appreciate hearing anymore that anyone has to say on this subject.
I hope you don't mind my biased ravings. I'm having a find time
to X11r6 finally running on my home machine! And on the net full time!
>> A lot of people like Suns because the Administration of them
>> is rather easy.
That almost made me cry! Don't let my boss see that?! In a relative way, if
you can say ANY \u\n\i\x administration deserves the moniker of 'easy'
As far as I'm concerned, it is always a challenge. The learning curve never
stops...
SGIs, a little more difficult (IMHO), but I have
Now I am gonna cry! We're getting one or maybe two SGI's in, and I will
have to deal with them!
>> one of the Developing programmers helping me with my problem.
They are rightfully proud of their achievements.
>> I want machines that have proven
>> reliability. For me, Suns and SGIs are at the top of the list....
My linux servers and my sparc's are competing for uptime records. Most of
the reliabiliy problems in my shop result from human error. I find the
linux systems to be easy to "see" and work with; system V, very lofty and
mysterious. I have to be superstitious because I'm always logging in as su. on
a gateway/nameserver with 800 users.
In my opinion, linux b/w gnu software is a relatively easy system. I believe
it leads to fewer errors made by administrators. (Me)
If I could find a combination of ethernet card/driver/kernal pl that satisfied
me, I would put the pc against the workstation any day. As you see, my
applications do not require massive speed, but they do benefit from
'horsepower.' The nature of the motorola architechture is simply better
in many respects to (What should I call it? PC? intel? isa?)
Sincere, sleepy regards,
James McGill
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From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tcp Wrappers on NS
Date: 17 Feb 95 16:21:46
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The only problem I had with the tcp wrappers was that I got a couple compiler warnings. Otherwise the wrappers work very well. Especially the new banners option. Make sure you take a good look at the makefile though. It will explain what all of the options do and what not/to turn off.
Torrey McMahon
From: tml@hemuli.tte.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 18:43:40 GMT
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Maybe this discussion could be summarized: "I like what I have used
until now, this new brand of machine we just got sucks."
--
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland,
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 15:13:45 GMT
In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>,
Butch Deal <deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
> upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
Hmmm. Not my experience. I'm not really thrilled at DEC's system admin tools,
but the software is delightfully free of unexpected gotchas other than the
licensing ones. SunOS (Solaris 1.x) was reasonably good, if a little old.
Solaris 2.x has proven to be a nimgthmare, with no end of porting problems
and gratuitously different system administration interfaces. We have been a
System V shop for some time, with the SunOS stuff off the edge, and I'm pretty
familiar with BSD. Solaris isn't either. OSF/1 is pretty straight BSD with
a little System V admin stuff on the edge.
> DEC's don't
> really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
If Solaris is your definition of UNIX, I'd love to see UNIX get a little
closer to DEC.
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From: david@onestep.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Which 4mm DAT drives work well with NS?
Date: 18 Feb 1995 12:36:42 GMT
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In article <3hp015$2ao@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com> trey@hsv.tybrin.com
(Trey McClendon) writes:
> David A. Sinclair (sinclair@cs.brandeis.edu) wrote:
>
>
> : I am looking for information on 4mm DAT drives that work
> : out-of-the-box with NeXTstation hardware. Do any of the WangDAT
> : models work? Others? Any info on which models work well, or are
to
> : be avoided, is much appreciated.
>
Hi,
We have used on m68k and intel Sony (SDT-4000 or 5000), WANGDAT
(2300, 2400) and a couple of HP models that I forget the numbers of.
Best to use DDS2 drives for greater storage and speed. Also try
SafetyNet from Systemix for the best archive and retrieval software
your ever likely to see. (safetynet@systemix.com)
---
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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 15:10:00 +0100
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bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>I used to be a big Sun/SunOS fan, owned a lot of Suns in my day (and a
>few Solbourne multis, Sparc, SunOS), but once they went to SVR4 it
>didn't seem to matter much compared to something like IRIX (also
>SVR4), and it was clear to me Sun was going thru pains changing over
>to SVR4 that I didn't want to share that with them. IRIX was about 2
>years ahead of them on SVR4 and, more importantly, SVR4/SMP. Maybe
>some day when they get it figured out I'll consider a big Sun again, I
>think Sun remains an interesting company, it's too bad they managed
>the switchover to SVR4 so poorly (IMHO, but follow the money.)
This strikes me as odd. SGI was mainly a SVR3, not SVR4 system It was
definitely not SVR4/SMP. SGI is SMP as has a more experience with that
than Sun. But SGIs MP servers have much the same problems as Suns.
Starting with IRIX 5.x SGI is moving toward SVR4 but isn't still their yet,
Solaris 2.x has more of SVR4 than SGI. (And I especially don't like the
way SGI dumped all of BSD in libc, which makes writing portable programs
on SGIs extremely hard, not to mention the fact that it each version
of ld(1) I used under IRIX 4.x was extremely broken to some extent)
I agree with the statement that Sun didn't manage the tranistion well.
It took so long, it seemed they had to release an unfinished product.
Solaris 2.x has gone a long way since and 2.3 has proven to be
very reliable for us.
Casper
From: bladex@is.net (Robert Klingsten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! NS 3.2 black won't boot
Date: 18 Feb 1995 15:32:45 GMT
Organization: The Fishpond
Sender: bladex@mail1.is.net
Message-ID: <3i53ut$t1n@news1.is.net>
I tried to install a fresh 3.2 User onto the 105mb Quantum that came
with my Cube (that was working before this). When the install
completes and I reboot from the HD, with 1-2 seconds of the "Loading"
screen, I get dumped into the monitor with the message "Exception #4
at 00x438000". I've tried running the install again on that HD, put
in a NEW, much larger Quantum, moved SIMMs all around, etc...etc...
Nothing fixes it - I *am* able to boot off the floppy/CD combo into
single-user mode.
Can anyone help me with this??? Thanks!
Rob
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(404) 604-7942 | - Tigger
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 15:41:52 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.Z7GH1.QH3@nmti.com>
In article <id.Z7GH1.QH3@nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|> In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>,
|> Butch Deal <deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
|> > Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
|> > upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
|>
|> Hmmm. Not my experience. I'm not really thrilled at DEC's system admin tools,
|> but the software is delightfully free of unexpected gotchas other than the
|> licensing ones. SunOS (Solaris 1.x) was reasonably good, if a little old.
|> Solaris 2.x has proven to be a nimgthmare, with no end of porting problems
|> and gratuitously different system administration interfaces. We have been a
|> System V shop for some time, with the SunOS stuff off the edge, and I'm pretty
|> familiar with BSD. Solaris isn't either. OSF/1 is pretty straight BSD with
|> a little System V admin stuff on the edge.
just enough to make it a pain in the...
this just makes it neither. You can't sit on the BSD/SYSV fence
forever.
It seems that all the people that do well with BSD just have a reall hard time
with solaris 2.x. Solaris 2.x is one of the closest SYSV OS's. I have
managed networks that were all BSD but I started out on SYSV and my personal
machines are SYSV, except one lowly sun3/60. Course I lone the 3/60 to a
friend and keep the SYSV machines for myself. :)
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Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UNDELETE? (directory is now lost!)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 17:02:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3i596h$f5d@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <3i2p0r$bb2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1995Feb17.213947.6437@il.us.swissbank.com>
In article <1995Feb17.213947.6437@il.us.swissbank.com>,
Denise Howard <howardd@il.us.swissbank.com> wrote:
>Shane M Zatezalo writes
>> Is there anyway to undelete under NS 3.0?
>>
>> Ugh... so the question is, is there any way
>> to recover any of the data?
...munch...
>> (btw, she command-r'd them, so they were 'destroyed'.
>
>Sorry, you're S.O.L.. This is one of those hard-learned facts of life in
>Unix systems in general, not simply NeXTSTEP.
That's not entirely true. If you've really not done any writes to the disk
since the erase, the data is still there.
Not that getting it back will be easy. I have recovered data from files
I rm'd under nextstep. I did not mount the drive, and instead opened the
device as a file, grepped through it (Love perl) in 10K chunks, found
the data, wrote out the data from a few K before the start of the data
for about 100K, then edited the file that I had written out.
Not easy, but possible.
Check out comp.sys.unix FAQs. This is a VERY common question.
Kurt
From: aetc@cerfnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 18:12:29 GMT
Organization: AETC
Message-ID: <3i5dad$kvn@news.cerf.net>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu>
Summary: New chip design will dominate
Keywords: chips
In <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu>, mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog) writes:
>Well there must be some crazies out there. You can buy one now from Aspen
>Systems and rumor has it that Nekotech is finishing up the firmware that
>will let their new systems run it too (possibly also available as an
It's all moot anyway, 5 years from now *all* UNIX machines will be running
the Intel-HP PA-RISC-P8 chip, just because of economies of scale... :-)
Tony Burzio
AETC
San Diego, CA
From: louie@va.pubnix.com (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 18 Feb 1995 13:27:20 -0500
Organization: Pubnix Access Systems (Virginia)
Message-ID: <3i5e68$p48@pub01.va.pubnix.com>
References: <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca>
In article <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca>,
Terry Wilcox <terry@arcane.com> wrote:
>
>The 2gig limit is a fact of life in most 32 bit OS's. NEXTSTEP is no worse
>than most other operating systems in that regard.
Operating systems based on 4.4BSD have size_t being 64 bits long; meaning
you can have really large file systems. This means you have to fix all
the code that assumes that ints and longs are the same size, and that
don't pass variables of type size_t to and from lseek().
It's been done: go get BSD/OS from BSDI, Inc, or NetBSD or FreeBSD, all of
which are using the new file system code, have the new networking code,
etc, which is missing from NeXTSTEP. (They also seem to have working
serial drivers, too!)
Louis Mamakos
From: jsickel@sickel.com (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 Intel install w/ DPT2122 figured out
Date: 18 Feb 1995 18:36:23 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <3i5en7$9lm@matlock.mindspring.com>
Keywords: DPT, NEXTSTEP 3.3
Since I've been having problems with my DPT 2122 4meg cach controler,
I ended up getting another 3gig disk and wanted to install a fresh
3.3 version on it. I've finally figured out what to do so the system
doesn't hang once you reboot to complete the install.
Details include:
fixing Default.config, System.config, DPT2000.config
by entering as single user before finishing the install.
If anyone want's me to post a more detailed description, let me know.
Jeff Sickel
jsickel@sickel.com
From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 18 Feb 1995 18:53:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3i5fo7$j7o@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <3i4v3o$d1s@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
| (And I especially don't like the
| way SGI dumped all of BSD in libc, which makes writing portable programs
| on SGIs extremely hard, not to mention the fact that it each version
| of ld(1) I used under IRIX 4.x was extremely broken to some extent)
We can't win on this one. When we had a seperate libsun and libbsd, we had
an unending stream of complaints about this 'non-standard' arrangement
(literally thousands of complaints and questions on the net and to support).
Oh well.
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those from which all excess weight has been | Silicon Graphics
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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
Message-ID: <D44s7z.3CLp@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 06:19:11 GMT
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <msuzio.792974686@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks
I guess some of you haven't seen our Visual System Management tools
that ship standard on AIX 4.1 and as a RPQ for AIX 3.2.*, if I
remember correctly. Real cool and makes lots of common system admin
stuff a breeze especially for people from the PC world, but only for
AIX.
--
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+ Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com +
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+ URL: http://cactus.org/~woan/ +
From: knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 08:10:00 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i1lko$ri0@fido.asd.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <msuzio.792974686@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <D44s7z.3CLp@austin.ibm.com>
In article <D44s7z.3CLp@austin.ibm.com>, woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald
S. Woan) writes:
|>
|> I guess some of you haven't seen our Visual System Management tools
|> that ship standard on AIX 4.1 and as a RPQ for AIX 3.2.*, if I
|> remember correctly. Real cool and makes lots of common system admin
|> stuff a breeze especially for people from the PC world, but only for
|> AIX.
|> --
And of course you should not forget the absolutely amazing
IndigoMagic admin tools for IRIX-5. I speak from an totally
unbiased point of view, of course :-)
Martin
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From: Ami Varsanyi <ami.varsanyi@nola.mcdermott.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:18:47 GMT
Organization: McDermott, Inc.
Message-ID: <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <ABSTINE.95Feb16203445@hummer.visix.com>
Until a month ago I cared for all SGI boxes. Now I'm in an AIX
environment. Prior to working with SGI's, I worked with SunOS.
Comparing the three, I would have to say SGI's are the easiest
to babysit, Sun coming in second and IBM third. I have been
pleasantly surprised at how robust AIX is after hearing many horror
stories from my peers. But it's "robustness" has led to complexity
that SGI and Sun don't have. And, of course, IBM just HAD to do
some things differently than everyone else.
-Ami Varsanyi
Paranet, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Linux file systems
Message-ID: <1995Feb19.043914.2601@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 04:39:14 GMT
References: <3i3jsb$e8g@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <3i65tg$97d@deadbird.db.erau.edu>
Also sprach andrew@amelia.experiment.db.erau.edu (Andrew Anderson) (<3i65tg$97d@deadbird.db.erau.edu>):
+---------------
| The xiafs, if I remember correctly, is an extension of the SCO
| UNIX filesystem.
+------------->8
You remember quite wrong: xiafs is an extension of the original Minix
filesystem. But it's an *incompatible* extension.
SCO Unix uses the Acer Fast File System (AFS), which is not related to the BSD
FFS but instead is a derivative of the old 7th Edition filesystem (via S51K).
More recently, Enhanced AFS (EAFS) adds things like symlinks and long file
names --- but it's still basically a V7 filesystem. (EAFS filesystems with
long file names won't magically show up with long file names if mounted on
systems which support AFS but not EAFS, however; then again, since the magic
numbers differ they porbably wouldn't be mountable anyway.)
++Brandon
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Linux development: iBCS2, JNOS, MH MLS '96 (I do hope!) ~\U
From: kraem@paris.wi.germany.ibm.com (Frank Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Feb 1995 11:47:37 GMT
Organization: IBM Wiesbaden, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i22cp$gro@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <msuzio.792974686@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <D44s7z.3CLp@austin.ibm.com> <3i1lko$ri0@fido.asd.sgi.com>
In article <3i1lko$ri0@fido.asd.sgi.com>, knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) writes:
|> And of course you should not forget the absolutely amazing
|> IndigoMagic admin tools for IRIX-5. I speak from an totally
|> unbiased point of view, of course :-)
it is so *Magic* that after a failed -> build new kernel -> reboot
procedure -> build new kernel -> reboot.....the sceen is magic black
(guess I made a mistake - that's for shure)
Rebooting to make some small changes valid is early 1970 Unix....
.....but indeed it is faster than AIX rebooting !!
-frank-
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From: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Subject: Re: Saving root's preferences?
Message-ID: <1995Feb17.094224.3137@silicium.fdn.fr>
Sender: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Organization: MICRO REPONSE - MONTIGNY, FRANCE.
References: <3i0fm1$1qp@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 09:42:24 GMT
In article <3i0fm1$1qp@nntp1.u.washington.edu> armitage@u.washington.edu
(Armitage) writes:
> I can't seem to save preferences for root (Intel 3.3); when I make
changes
> (say, to enable the right mouse button or have Terminal start on login),
> the changes disappear next time root logs in. It seems to work fine for
> other accounts. Anyone have an idea why? Thanks!
> --
I repeat here an email I have sent recently (Hi Myles :-)
Informations below are valid ONLY if you have changed something in the
root account with UserManager in 3.3:
All problems you have depends on UserManager bug. Now, when you modify a
data for the root account, anything, UserManager automatically changes the
home path of root from "/" to "/root". Most time, you don't see this and
confirm when UserManager ask you to save new informations.
In fact, applications store their preferences in 2 binary files, both
forms entity that we name "default database" (located in
~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.D and ~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L, the character "~" is
a Unix shortcut for home directory of the current user.)
dread and dwrite are Unix/NEXTSTEP commands to access to this database
"manually" under Terminal. Service information are stored in folder
"services", always in ~/.NeXT.
You can understand, because "/root" folder does not exist, that
applications can not access prefs and services (because they search in
/root/.NeXT/something).
I think the simplest solution to change the "wrong" home directory of root
is to launch NetInfoManager in the NextAdmin folder (normally, the local
netinfo domain is automatically opened in the window which is displayed on
the screen), you chose "users" in the browser, then "root", you double
click on the name "root". A new panel is displayed and you have access to
the root account information. You can now select "home" then its value
(normally "/root") and in the field under the browser, delete the word
"root", so you must only see "/". Press the return key to valid and save.
Close applications and log out Workspace session. Finally log in, and if
the change is correct, you can save all prefs you want.
Sorry if you know many details that I explain above but I prefer to give
you more than less precision.
Yannick Cadin
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From: msuzio@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Mike Suzio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 16 Feb 1995 18:01:08 -0500
Organization: Univerisity of Michigan - Dearborn
Message-ID: <msuzio.792974686@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
If a general opinion is wanted, I'll offer a few short sound bites on this.
I work in a facility with just about every workstation configuration under
the sun (no pun intended) - Sun (Sun OS and Solaris), SGI, HP, DEC Alpha,
IBM, Cray, Sequent, etc. In the past, I've worked extensively with SGI's
and Suns in smaller support environments (less than 20 users).
I'd say that for small groups without a lot of time to spend on system
administration, SGI's are the best. They have a lot of "point and click"
administrative tools that make a sysadmins life easier, and very good
on-line documentation. It's not perfect, but I managed to get a group of
scientists setup with a couple of SGI's that they could self-administrate
after I left my sysadmin position - I was able to render myself unneeded
because the machines were pretty much no-brainers to administrate.
SGI is also very good on the "power" scale - the machines are fast (I/O
subsystem speed almost always helps, no matter what you do), and the
Challenge/Onyx server line very nicely integrates with the smaller desktop
systems.
HP machines also come with a very good sysadmin GUI tool (sam). Overall,
the machines are way complicated (IMHO). I wouldn't recommend them for
a novice sysadmin. They are decently powerful machines with good graphics,
however (my department uses mostly HP machines).
Sun's are easy to administrate for more experienced admins (it takes a
while to be a good Sun geek, but after you get the basics down it's
smooth sailing). As far as I know, no tools are shipped with Suns like
you get with SGI's or HP's. Still a very solid system however, and I think
Sun offers very attractive pricing to educational customers (which is why
they seem to dominate the college market).
DEC's are pretty low on my list, and are a marginal machine type in our
company. They are fast, no doubt - but the OS is yucky to the extreme (DEC
OSF 3.0 is the worst of OSF/1 with some extra stuff DEC seems to think is
nice), the support is unresponsive, and it's a bitch to get most of our
software (CAE applications) to compile and run cleanly on the machines.
Hard to find third-party support for DEC machines, too (whereas we can get
most any kind of software for the other platforms we support).
IBM machines are OK - I have nothing good or bad to say about them. They
don't exactly give me a thrill, however.
- Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Operator@xbrcom.qc.ca
Subject: cron problems
Message-ID: <D42AsI.KJ@xbrcom.qc.ca>
Sender: root@xbrcom.qc.ca (Operator)
Organization: XBR Communications Inc.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 22:07:29 GMT
I have a script in csh that runs find from de command line but
when it is included in crontab.local it act diffirently.
the part that bugs is :
shlock -p $$ -f tmpfile
echo ${status}
wich give me 0 from the command line and 1 from cron
What's missing...?
From: hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans van Hoesel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 18 Feb 1995 21:21:59 GMT
Organization: RuG Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry
Message-ID: <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu>
Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used in
: the past.
: On monday, I took delivery of three DEC multiprocessors (2100-500's,
: aka Sables). By monday afternoon, I got one 2-CPU machine up, running
: the AMD automounter, using BIND, doing SENDMAIL, exporting and
: importing NFS files, using passwords and the like. This took about 1
: hour, which was mainly involved in installing C++, Ada, DCE,
: ObjectBroker (CORBA), etc etc from CDrom.
: On tuesday, I cloned the next system & took delivery of 2 Alphastation
: 4/233's and started getting them set up.
: By thursday, not only had I done all my other jobs (teach, serve on
: mindless committees), but we had already sucked down massive
: simulation cycles on the alpha cluster, including the one that
: dual-boots and an OSF/1 and W/NT box.
This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
1) the system comes pre installed
2) when booting the first time (after only 5 minutes of unpacking)
it asks you for a machine from wich you want to use the configuration
ans - asuming you have one configured - it works. in ten minutes
3) installing the other stuff (C++ fortran, nfs etc) takes another
hour (because the cd ain't any faster; not because the work involved
which is nearly nothing)
4) starting automount, exporting disk etc is just a matter of a few
click with your mouse in the graphical admin programs.
Using a remote printer is as simple as dragging it from the find-tool
(which locates resources on other machines) onto your desktop. The same
method can be used with disk or remote tape drives.
So infact your are ready in ten minutes with the extra stuff in 2 hours.
you know what, I'm biased because I love their machines.
-frans
Frans van Hoesel //// hoesel@chem.rug.nl
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 09:02:00 +0100
From: Clemens_Perz@3w2ibel.fido.de (Clemens Perz)
Subject: Remote Printing on Next Laser
Message-ID: <MSGID_242=3A1000=2F512.1_b582cd98@Fido.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Fido.DE domain gateway (IN e.V.)
Hi out there!
Can someone, who works in such an environment, please post a list of the
settings to be in Netinfo, when I want to use the Next Printer from
another Un*x Machine? Does that feature use the hosts.lpd or hosts.equiv
or is that information included in the Netinfo Settings?
I've got a Cube still with System 2.2 if that matters.
Thanks a lot
Clemens
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From: pmealey@unix.atk.com
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, <deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil>
writes:
> In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner
<rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
> |> wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
> |> what do admins of other systems think of this?
> |>
> |> rupert
SGIs bite!
My staff and I manage a collection of about 40 SGIs, 40+ HP700s, 10+ HP800s,
and about 90 Suns. I personally spend about 5 hrs a week on the Suns, 2 other
admins work on the HPs, and myself and another admin work on the SGIs. The
man-hours devoted to HPs are a little skewed because on the 800s and about
10 of the 700s we run "production" databases that we seem to be constantly
moving around --both the database and the hardware. The other 30 or so 700s
are in use for engineering applications and don't need much attention.
The SGI and Sun hours are also a little skewed because a bunch of them are
in "closed" secure areas --so no network, auditd running, we have to go in
there to work on them, etc.
Anyway, we spend a disproportionate amount of time on SGIs just keeping them
running. We have been trying to migrate to 5.2 and then 5.3 for a few months
now without much success. The objectserver has a memory leak (real bad in 5.2,
not so bad in 5.3) that requires us to reboot the boxes on a very regular
basis (once a day at 5.2, once or twice a week at 5.3). SGI tells us that we
are unique with the problem at 5.3 and it has something to do with our NIS
environment. I have a hard time believing that our environment is unique.
All our boxes (Sun, HP, SGI) are in the same NIS domain and we make heavy
use of the automounter, so you can log into anything and you only have one
homedir. We have a few Indys which only run version 5, and 4.0.5whatever was
not really intended to be run on Indigo 2s, so we really need to do this
migration. We have replaced about 15 monitors, 4 motherboards, and a power
supply on the 18 Indigo 2s we have. We also spend about $80,000 annually on
SGI software support. Yikes. I am happy with all of our older SGI hardware
running 4.0.5x, they run like champs with little or no attention needed, its
just the new stuff that sucks.
My gripes with HP mainly have to do with their high cost and trouble getting
third party stuff to work on their hardware --although they have been getting
much more "open" lately. I also tend to complain about the difficulty getting
common freeware tools to compile --although it is getting much easier and
there is a great archive site at ftp.cae.wisc.edu for already ported HP stuff.
I don't have too many complaints about Sun, but that probably is because we
haven't done the Solaris thing yet --we haven't needed to. But because I
haven't upgraded yet, I will probably benefit from all the pain that others
have gone through. I have been running Solaris 2.x for about a year on my
workstation, but I'm the only one who has it. I should be well trained by
the time we do migrate, and I don't forsee a huge problem.
SGI does a great job running ProEngineer and some of our mechanical analysis
tools, but the admin time on them is big. Sun CPU performance stinks, but
I am hoping they do something about that before our price/performance manager
types overrun us with HP and SGI purchases ( 3 news Suns, 20+ SGIs, 20+ HPs
in the last three years). I would have to give HP the thumbs up for overall
usability. They kick butt on the apps we run, and their 9.0[3,5] is pretty
easy to take care of. Lets hope they don't screw it up with version 10.
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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: casper@fwi.uva.nl's message of 18 Feb 1995 15:10:00 +0100
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 23:14:58 GMT
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
>bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>I used to be a big Sun/SunOS fan, owned a lot of Suns in my day (and a
>>few Solbourne multis, Sparc, SunOS), but once they went to SVR4 it
>>didn't seem to matter much compared to something like IRIX (also
>>SVR4), and it was clear to me Sun was going thru pains changing over
>>to SVR4 that I didn't want to share that with them. IRIX was about 2
>>years ahead of them on SVR4 and, more importantly, SVR4/SMP. Maybe
>>some day when they get it figured out I'll consider a big Sun again, I
>>think Sun remains an interesting company, it's too bad they managed
>>the switchover to SVR4 so poorly (IMHO, but follow the money.)
>
>This strikes me as odd. SGI was mainly a SVR3, not SVR4 system It was
>definitely not SVR4/SMP. SGI is SMP as has a more experience with that
>than Sun. But SGIs MP servers have much the same problems as Suns.
Yer showing yer age, how long has it been since 5.x started shipping?
A few years?
At any rate, the new IRIX 5.3 seems to have reached a new level of
maturity in SMP, parallelized networking internals, etc. They still
need to do some work on their pty performance (probably actually
related to streams) but this is fine with 200+ people online. I hear
Sun's SS2000 systems (comparable in market niche to my Challenge XL)
can't do anything like that tho Solaris 2.4 may have helped, adding
CPUs doesn't help (ie, money doesn't help, that's frustrating!) There
are also a lot of niceties like 8GB partitions (and an add-on from
SGI, XFS, that cranks that up to some unthinkable number as well as
adding some other features, ask them.)
I also like being able to go to 36 CPUs on the Challenge if and when
the day comes, vs 20 on the SS2000, tho I'll guess that likely when
that day comes Sun has figured out a way to double the CPUs so they'll
be comparable. In all honesty a max of 20 would serve us right now and
for the next year or so, but hey I like big.
>Starting with IRIX 5.x SGI is moving toward SVR4 but isn't still their yet,
>Solaris 2.x has more of SVR4 than SGI.
One man's bug is another man's feature :-)
>(And I especially don't like the
>way SGI dumped all of BSD in libc, which makes writing portable programs
>on SGIs extremely hard, not to mention the fact that it each version
>of ld(1) I used under IRIX 4.x was extremely broken to some extent)
Well, forget 4.x, we may as well be talking about SunOS 4.x bugs if
that's the measure.
>Solaris 2.x has gone a long way since and 2.3 has proven to be
>very reliable for us.
Are you running any large-ish multis? SS1000s or SS2000s?
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From: rwigmore@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 18 Feb 1995 23:06:17 GMT
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i5uh9$14bl@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca> <3i33g8$at7@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Ironically, our SC1000 crashed when I was first trying to send this out. :-)
So, I get to type it all in again! :-(
Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: In article <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>, rwigmore@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore) writes:
: |> Not a flame by any means, but at the start of January our brand new SPARC
: |> 1000 came online (it arrived in August and they spent the time inbetween
: |> updating/customizing it). It has 1/4 GB of real memory, 2 CPUs, and a
: |> "storage array". It ONLY handles our email (PINE) users (ie. no compilers,
: |> stats, database, etc. software - JUST email).
: How many disks in the Sun RAID?
"iostat -x 30" says 21 (I had thought there were 24?) Only two are running
with busy/svc_t level above 30%, 50 ms. That'll turn into a problem once we
can get > 200+ people on the box, but right now, it is not *the* problem.
Some disks are not being used yet, but it is a new box so ...
: is it NFS serving for other systems?
Yes, about 5 GB (each) from 2 RS6000 model 580s and it has about 8 GB NFS
mounted on each 580. nfs_ninode has been set to 20000. The 580's will have
100-150 users (each) when they too end up getting high load averages. Last
semester that was normal, since everyone could only login to the 2 580s. I
think it's safe to say that activity on one box can slow down another, but
not always. And, a 580 can end up with high load averages even when the
SC1000 is running fine, but it is more that the SC1000 gets busy, and then
a 580 gets busy.
"netstat -s" says there are a lot (10%+) fragmentation/reassemble/duplicate
packets and udp socket overflows. I'm going to have them reduce the rbuf
and wbuf sizes down to 2K. There were/are token ring "xmit/recv" type errors
being issued - they had them checked out, and they said everything was okay
with the SC100's token ring adapter. The network is okay - tuning on the
580s got rid of "congestion errors", but the SC1000 is still getting some.
"netstat -s" on the 580s gives "nice" numbers now.
The "dmesg" command shows:
$Feb 18 16:36
$tr0 at sbi0: SBus0 slot 1 0xc00000 and SBus0 slot 1 0x0 and SBus0 slot 1 0x400000 SBus level 4 sparc ipl 7
$tr0 is /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/tr@1,c00000
$ip_rput: DL_ERROR_ACK for 29, errno 1, unix 0
$ip: joining multicasts failed on tr0 - will use link layer
$broadcasts for multicast
I've been told those are "okay", but "error messages make me nervous", so...
: is it a router?
No - not a router
: does it serve DNS, NIS+, NIS, WWW, ftp?
Only FTP - either to/from other sites, or up/down from PCs.
Although, we do have 18K users in our password file. I think that might be
*a* factor since logins/rsh seem to take a while. AIX lets us use "hashed"
passwd files - I'm told Solaris does not. Last semester they used to use NIS
(580s only), but stopped due to security and network load reasons.
Would running with NIS+ - only on the SC1000, the 580's would not be NIS
slaves - gain us any advantages from using NIS's "hashed passwd" files?
NB: NIS is *really* nice, but the performance/response times seems to be
inversely proportional to the number of logged in users.
: |> The machine will grind to almost a halt at between 60-80 users - but it can
: |> run okay with 120 users - but only for a while. It was running Solaris 2.3
: |> in January, but they upgraded to 2.4 in an attempt at "fixing up" the problem
: |> we are having. 2.4 did not fix up anything.
: If the machine is really only used for email, I would check to make sure there
: are no mud's running on it, etc.
Only email and (oops!) news (tin). A (nologins allowed) 350 handles the news
feed and DNS. News can only be read from the SC1000. The SC1000 receives
all incoming mail, but it and the 580s can send out mail.
"w" says there are no "heavy CPU users" on the box - during the high load
periods. "top" says it isn't user generated load, either.
: check what your network load. you may be overloading it and not the machine.
The network (token ring only - no ethernet) traffic is about 150 p/s, with
peaks of maybe up to 500. The 580's have been tuned to handle 1500 p/s by
"pre-allocating" the needed "network" resources. "tr_nbufs" has been set
to the maximum(?) of 400.
Are there no other tuneables for network (non-NFS) stuff on Solaris? AIX
lets us set extra stuff. Our SC1000 can die with 60 users, but run fine
with 120. I'd say it's on the network side (within the SC1000) of things
and when "a condition/event" occurs, that's when the SC1000 goes crazy in
its efforts to keep things running. I formed that opinion when we were at
2.3 (CPU bound, "mutex stalls" were the norm), but now we just keep getting
load averages of 25-100 when we have 60 people just reading email! :-(
: you say 60 to 80 users and they only run pine.
: clarknet (a local provider in the area) has a SS20/612 that can handle that
: kind of load with no problem. It is still running solaris 2.3. They plan
: to upgrade it to 2.4 and 712 cpu's soon though. There is almost never less
: than 50 users on their machine and usually over 100 users. The users on
: that SS20 do not just run mail either.
Let 'em know the stats are different! "mpstat" was showing "mutex stalls"
when we were running 2.3 - also, the number of minor faults were much higher
then with 2.4! I'm not too certain what other numbers are different - I've
only been working with Solaris since 1995. :-)
: Do you have patch 102119-01 installed?
I'll ask on Monday.
: what other patches do you have installed?
Ditto. :-)
(diplomatic comments with which I agree deleted! :-))
Ron,,,
I've read Adrian Cockcroft's book - a few times - I hope I'm not embarassing
either of us! :-)
From: bshk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Hosung Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP : Only root can login a machine!
Date: 17 Feb 1995 23:41:54 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Message-ID: <3i3c82$98q@news.ecn.bgu.edu>
Only root have permission to login a NeXT machine.
I'd like to give the login permission to other users.
How can I do that.
Please help me!
Thank you.
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From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Problems with nfs mount from NeXT to Sun
Message-ID: <1995Feb17.224414.1120@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Keywords: nfs buggered
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 95 22:44:14 GMT
My machine 'theorem' is a NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.1 (4.3 BSD),
which exports a directory to a Sun workstation ('clara') running UNIX(r)
System V Release 4.0.
The following does not work:
clara# mkdir /mountpoint
clara# mount -F nfs -r theorem:/exportdir /mountpoint
clara#
(Actually, the mount appears to work, according to every query; but if one
tries to list the directory, it just hangs.)
It worked one time, mysteriously, but I haven't been able to get it to
work again. What could be wrong (incompatible versions of nfs?)
Please reply by e-mail. Thanks!
g.
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Date: 19 Feb 1995 15:27:43 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3i7o1f$7ui@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Eike Dierks (eike@ilink.de) wrote:
: The downside:
: - No windowserver thus no printing or faxing on a headless machine (trying
: to start the window server crashes the machine)
Not mine. Printing works fine. Haven't tried faxing though.
: - Trying to play sounds crashes the machine
No. It just doesn't play.
There must be different machines out there or you did something wrong.
Mine works perfectly without monitor (but not _with_ monitor 'cause
I blew the video output :-()
Btw. it's a black mono slab.
Cheers,
Axel
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From: schwett@differencengine (Mark Schwettmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "frame ... called" kernel traps! HELP!
Date: 19 Feb 1995 10:48:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3i77lh$ol5@agate.berkeley.edu>
Another in the list of ENDLESS 3.3 problems:
I'm runnning a Pentium90 System, PCI EISA motherboard, 32MB RAM, 2940 equiv., etc etc...
Perhaps once or twice a day, the system pukes with a little tiny window in which is
written:
frame 3468f34 called by 1012d0 args
2047e0d 0 17a43a 3468 f90
... repeated a few times, with different numbers
Memory Access Exception 1,1,c2047e0d
I *think* it happens mainly during heavy disk and serial port activity, but I
haven't been able to confirm that. I'm using the standard NeXT serial driver
at 19200 with the latest PPP.
Has anybody seen this? Is it really just a generic panic? Any ideas?
Many Thanks..
Mark Schwettmann
mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu NeXTMail OK
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From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: panics with taylor uucp 1.05 on black hardware
Message-ID: <D44KJu.475@relief.com>
Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Organization: Relief Consulting & Development
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 03:33:29 GMT
Unfortunately, I didn't keep the thread about taylor uucp causing system
panics under 3.3.
Was there ever any resolution to the problem? What were the solutions that
people were trying that worked, or at least seemed to work?
Thanks,
John
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From: andrew@amelia.experiment.db.erau.edu (Andrew Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: NeXT/Linux file systems
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 19 Feb 1995 01:12:16 GMT
Organization: J.R. Hunt Memorial Library at ERAU
Message-ID: <3i65tg$97d@deadbird.db.erau.edu>
References: <3i3jsb$e8g@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Ivo Welch (ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Is there hope for Linux in the future to be able to read the BSD 4.3
: FFS that NeXT uses? (Unlikely for NeXT to support linux file systems,
: I guess.) I just cannot go back to 8+3 filename limitations by making
: the volume a DOS FAT system.
Just a thought...what about an xiafs file system or a minix filesystem?
Does NEXT support either of those?
The xiafs, if I remember correctly, is an extension of the SCO
UNIX filesystem.
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| Novell Network System Administrator "Making the impossible |
| Linux System Administrator possible -- daily!" |
| I don't speak for ERAU, and God knows I don't want them to speak for me! |
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Installing tapestreamer
Message-ID: <1995Feb19.120228.22144@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3i2cp1$kii@gymir.ifi.uio.no>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 12:02:28 GMT
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3i2cp1$kii@gymir.ifi.uio.no> you wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I just received my Tandberg streamer tape station but can't make it
> work. Do I need to install it somehow in NS?
>
> The AutoSCSI Utilities config. program for my BT445C SCSI-card reports
> the streamer at SCSI id 5 (the default which happens to be free).
> When I boot NS the bootprocess doesn't report anything about the
> tapestreamer (is it supposed to?).
> When I run tar tvf /dev/rxt0 (or rxt1) I get the message "tar:
> /dev/rxt0: No such device".
> I am running on NS 3.2/FIP and the streamer is external. All configs.
> are set to default.
>
> Can someone please help me?
>
>
> Arne
>
> --
> (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
> --
> (arneha@ifi.uio.no)
Using Configure.app add the SCSI streamer support driver in the "Others"
config.
Hope that helps.
Fabien
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From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:37:05 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i31dh$ns5@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <3hpi0o$f3k@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <D3ztBv.7IF@arcane.calgary.ab.ca>
terry@arcane.com (Terry Wilcox) writes:
>The 2gig limit is a fact of life in most 32 bit OS's. NEXTSTEP is no worse
>than most other operating systems in that regard.
The MacOS, for one has 4gig limit. Kinda makes NS look real bad when the
MACOS is more powerful in any way--IMHO.
Later, John
X
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCI DPT2024 w NS3.3 - Solution
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:42:06 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i31mu$opn@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <3hn28e$sm3@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <3hsm7g$m0u@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <3i30gd$lco@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) writes:
>wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
>>: Step 3
>>: Use the DPT ISA driver included in NS
>>Resulting performance? Like PCI or like ISA?
>Its tought to say, since I just got my pentium and never used ISA SCSI on it
>before...but here is what I'm getting on my Barracuda 4 without the write
>cache enabled-- 1.5meg/s writes, 1.5meg/s reads - using iostat with 128meg
>file and 1024block size.
WOOPS, that should be 1.5meg writes and 2.5meg reads!!!!
Later, John
X
From: mike@ceramics.cmpe.ubc.ca (Michael C. Cam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Recovering OS2 partition
Date: 17 Feb 1995 21:45:37 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i35e1$15p@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Hi,
I have a hard disk partitioned for DOS/OS2/NEXT (100 + 100 + 800 = 1000
MB) and would like to recover all of my OS2 partition to be used on the
NEXT side. Is this possible without having to lose information on the
hard disk?
--
..Mike.
___________________________________________________________________
| |
| ___ ^ ... /\ BEAUTIFUL |
From: ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 17 Feb 1995 20:44:26 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Institute of Neuroscience
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
: |> wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
: |> what do admins of other systems think of this?
: |>
: |> rupert
: sounds about right here.
: Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
: upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
(cough cough sputter sputter - pick myself up off the floor)
What color is the sky on your planet?
Solaris - easy, reliable? You can use those three words in one sentence?
It has been the biggest pain in the *ss for us!
For me it constantly feels like Sun is working too hard on the toys for the
OS (Wabi, SDK's, etc...) and not enough on the basics. By basics I mean:
1) Sol 2.1 through 2.3 can't keep utmp[x] records straight. Try
'finger -l' on someone and you'll see all their previous logins (that
have been logedout) on any ttys (ptys) that someone else has not used yet.
I have heard that 2.4 has the same bug.
2) The lp services have a number of problems. The
/var/spool/lp/system/pstatus file is not correctly formatted. By default,
the banner page is turned on _AND_ turning it off in admintool doesn't
turn it off _AND_ Sun tech support couldn't even tell me how to turn it
off. It wasn't until someone on comp.unix.solaris was complaining about
the same thing and got a response (finally) that we found a solution (you
have edit the /etc/lp/interfaces/[printername] file by hand and change
nobanner="no" to "yes"). We recently had our printer power cycle on us
which should not have caused too many problems for a fault tolerant OS, but
instead Solaris let the device drivers in the kernel get corrupted and we
were forced to reboot the system (and, no, restarting the printer daemons
did absolutly nothing).
3) Have you followed any of the threads in comp.unix.solaris on setting
up a modem for dial-in? I challenge you to find anyone on that group who
will say that it is easy to "maintain, configure, install, and upgrade" a
bidirectional modem on a Sparc. I've been trying for months to get ours to
work under 2.3 and I have not been able to get anything out of it.
4) Lets not forget that Solaris 2.1 was shipped with a completely unusable
copy of xdm. I call that releasing your beta copy NOT releasing a
"reliable" product.
There are many more problems that a quick glance through the sun
newsgroups would reveal.
: SGI's with IRIX 5.3 are not too bad. pretty reliable although I have been
: dealing with a bad space ball on one fore months (the sgi tech. has replaced
: almost the entire system and reinstalled several times). They come by default
: with a strange one partition disk and repartitioning is not all that easy. I
: would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
: really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Care to explain why OSF/1 does not meet you standards but an OS with the
problems I listed above does? I tend to think that a system that can't
even keep track of who is logged in correctly is not a complete Unix!
: --
: #include <std/*>
: The Butcher
: Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
==============================================================================
Ben Marcotte ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (503) 346-4592
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Re: embedding fonts in output
Message-ID: <D461ut.n9@blackmaus.com>
Sender: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: Blackmaus Design, Inc.
References: <3hgqol$3vm@crl5.crl.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 22:44:53 GMT
In article <3hgqol$3vm@crl5.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) writes:
> The save-to-file panel for the print panel includes a pop-up
> for 'Chosen Printer/Include Fonts', 'Postscript for chosen
> printer', and 'Normal device-Independent Postscript'.
> None of these options seem to include the font outline
> information in the .ps file that I can see.
If it was a snake, it would have bitten you already! :)
Select the option:
"Chosen Printer/Include Fonts"
Depending on what app you are using (we use Virtuoso 2), you might even use the PPD file
for the imagesetter of the pre-press house.
Good luck.
---
Dino Bagdadi
Blackmaus Design
dino@blackmaus.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
From: bff@csn.net (Brendan Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tcp Wrapper on NS
Date: 17 Feb 1995 20:10:41 GMT
Organization: Colorado Supernet
Message-ID: <3i2vs1$4oh@news-2.csn.net>
I want to install tcpwrapper on my Turbo (3.0). Has anyone done this and
are there any gotchas involved to be aware of?
Thanks
Brendan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: borrelli@ritz.mordor.com (Steven Borrelli)
Subject: HELP! Hard drive mangled, fsck useless.
Keywords: fsck, NeXT
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 21:48:58 GMT
Message-ID: <D47txn.FBH@ritz.mordor.com>
Help!
My Girlfriend (who lives somewhat far away) is having problems booting up her
NS partition. This is a P90 with an IDE drive. The DOS partiton is fine,
but every time she tries to start NeXTstep she gets(note this is from our
phone conversations and may be different from the real output):
IDE: READ multiple errror status=0x59 error=0x40 cyl=0x30b sec=0x2e drhd=0xb
IDE: READ multiple errror status=0x59 error=0x40 cyl=0x30b sec=0x2e drhd=0xb
IDE: READ multiple errror status=0x59 error=0x40 cyl=0x30b sec=0x2e drhd=0xb
/dev/rhd0a: cannot read:blk581024
/dev/rhd0a: unexpedted inconsistency: run fsck manually.
reboot failed...!
faking root mount entries:
it then dumps her into single user mode.
We've run fsck manually which wanted to delete a bunch of files in
/dev, which we eventually did. (even tried running more it than once and
using fsck -y), but still we get this error after we halt the system and
start it up again. I really don't know what else to do when 'fsck -y' fails.
The files that are mangled are all in /dev, by some coincidence. She's
assured me that the wasn't running anything funny that would make parts
of the the /dev directory get trashed. Most of her use is Kermit, PasteUp,
and Create.
We've tried various combinations of fsck and MAKEDEV NeXT, which always
brings the same i/o errors. Interestingly, MAKEDEV std does not
produce errors. My main concern is with fsck's inablilty to patch over
(or even eliminate) the errors on the disk and let me build the
drivers again.
If anyone has any ideas, please please please let me know. We're both
gettting frustrated and she needs to get work done on this machine.
thanks!
_steve
--
Steven Borrelli borrelli@ritz.mordor.com
NeXT, MIME mail formats, finger for PGP key, blah blah blah
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eike@ilink.de (Eike Dierks)
Subject: Re: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Message-ID: <D487HI.6Eq@ilink.de>
Sender: usenet@ilink.de
Organization: i.link Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, Berlin
References: <3hjcn0$605@news1.digex.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 02:41:41 GMT
The downside:
- No windowserver thus no printing or faxing on a headless machine (trying
to start the window server crashes the machine)
- Trying to play sounds crashes the machine
From: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SoftPC 4.0 with TCP/IP and other questions
Date: 19 Feb 1995 22:05:52 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3i8fc0$fno@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Can somebody out there help me with enabling TCP/IP and WINSOCK with
SoftPC 4.0 :
I tried to load ETHERSPC.COM right after LSL.COM, but it does not load
properly (complains about missing IPX support for Ethernet 802.3 frames,
if my memory serves me right).
Do I have to change NET.CFG ?
What I want to do is load ISIPXODI and ISTCPIP afterwards, which apparently
don't load properly if something went wrong with ETHERSPC.COM.
I guess I don't have to tell TCP/IP about the local configuration then, as
TCP/IP is already configured for NEXTSTEP 3.3 ?
Is that all what is needed to enable WINSOCK under Windows ?
Can I run Windows in pseudo-enhanced mode then ?
BTW, what is this pseudo-enhanced mode anyway, any chance it might be
replaced by true enhanced mode ?
Should I get hold of the SoftPC manuals (they seem to be lost) ?
A lot of questions, but I would appreciate any hint !
Thanks, Ernst.
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From: stern@physik.tu-chemnitz.de (Michael Sternberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 19 Feb 95 22:44:07 GMT
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz-Zwickau, FRG
Message-ID: <stern.793233847@tpdec1>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.Z7GH1.QH3@nmti.com> <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
>It seems that all the people that do well with BSD just have a
>reall hard time with solaris 2.x.
I back that up definitely. Started with Ultrix (BSD), though ;-) We
have now Alphas with OSF/1 in the lab and I find them rather easy to
administer and doing work with. Apart from the licencing trouble
already mentioned here.
We got a Solaris machine as a front end to an analysis system here.
The printed doc kept strict silence on sys admin stuff like
networking or hardware access. Instead, it explains what a keyboard
is and what "cp" and "mv" do. The system related man pages appear
either terse or poetic to me. I was called to repartition the disk
because it contained no separate /var with its 16Mb root pretty full.
(Ok - this is not Solaris's fault).
Took some time to find the proper command:
fmthard - populate VTOC on hard disks
This command cannot even handle the output of its counterpart
prtvtoc(1m).
Greetings, Michael
--
"Who disturrrbs me at this time?" << Zaphod Beeblebrox IV >>
Michael Sternberg http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~mst Theoretical Physics III
sternberg@physik.tu-chemnitz.de LabPhone: +49(0)371 531 3148
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: File Used By Configure.App?
Message-ID: <westesD48519.F47@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 01:48:45 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom7.netcom.com
What is the file and location where Configure.App stores its
information? If I am going to make a potentially unstable change to
the system hardware configuration, can I just make a copy of this
file and restore over it if something goes wrong?
The specific case is that I'm testing a higher video resolution, and
I'm not sure if my monitor will sync correctly. As a worst case, I
would like to turn off the monitor, telnet in, and replace the old
configuration file via a command line operation.
Finally, what are the best cards that support 1280x1024x256 under NS
3.2 FIP? Is there any card that has a NS driver that will give
1600x1200x256?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: tiff to gif converter?
Date: 16 Feb 1995 20:40:30 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i0d7u$gj@news.iastate.edu>
Does anybody know of a tiff to gif converter that will preserve the alpha
of a pic?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
****************************************************************
From: armitage@u.washington.edu (Armitage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Saving root's preferences?
Date: 16 Feb 1995 21:22:09 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <3i0fm1$1qp@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: preferences
I can't seem to save preferences for root (Intel 3.3); when I make changes
(say, to enable the right mouse button or have Terminal start on login),
the changes disappear next time root logs in. It seems to work fine for
other accounts. Anyone have an idea why? Thanks!
--
===========================================================================
| Peter (Z-Man) Zatloukal | Power is knowledge. |
| <armitage@u.washington.edu> | (Hacker motto) |
===========================================================================
From: proberts@clark.net (Paul D. Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 19 Feb 1995 16:31:42 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3i7rpe$i99@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <ABSTINE.95Feb17144554@hummer.visix.com>
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Art Stine (abstine@visix.com) wrote:
: In article <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse) writes:
: I have joined this thread a little late, but I would add Clones. The
: only clones I have worked with are Sun clones from Tatung (which are
: better than Suns, IMHO) but Tatung also makes a PREP box which is
: basically an RS/6000 clone. I don't know of any HP or SGI clones,
: and no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone.
: There are several companies already doing Alpha 'clones' ... btw, why
: do you think "no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone" ?
Motorola currently makes a PREP line that runs AIX 4.x, as well as
(*ugh*) NT.
Bull either makes or re-badges RS/6K stuff too.
Paul.
: -art stine
: visix software
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Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions
proberts@clark.net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact."
PSB#9280
From: grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 19 Feb 1995 16:42:01 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Message-ID: <GRUNWALD.95Feb19094202@foobar.cs.colorado.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
<GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu>
<3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
In-reply-to: hoesel@chem.rug.nl's message of 18 Feb 1995 21:21:59 GMT
>>>>> "FvH" == Frans van Hoesel <hoesel@chem.rug.nl> writes:
In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
FvH> So infact your are ready in ten minutes with the extra stuff in 2
FvH> hours. you know what, I'm biased because I love their machines.
--
Well, in fact, the systems came pre-installed with OSF/1 V3.0B. The
extra time was installing the layered products (i.e., things not
normally instlled, like the CORBA implementation), and installing
local things (e.g., we use the 'amd' automounter locally rather than
the 'automount' mounter).
So, in fact, the system "worked" in 10 minutes, but it didn't conform
to our local conventions & didn't have Corba, ada or C++ installed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Any Mice available to replace non-ADB mouse?
Message-ID: <1995Feb19.103909.2245@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3i1aph$o7@booz.bah.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 10:39:09 GMT
In article <3i1aph$o7@booz.bah.com> rod@netb82.bah.com (Roderick H.
Durham) writes:
| Looks like the cable of the non-ADB mouse for my 3 year old ColorStation
| is going bad. Does anyone know if there are any commercially available
| mice that are *compatible* with the NeXT non-ADB version? Better yet,
| does anyone have a source for those mini-din plugs that the Mac and NeXT
| both use? They seem kinda hard to come by in the DC metropolitan area.
| Thanks in advance.
|
Repost of some earlier answer to the same question (there's rarely
something new on earth ;-)
> From: jkarab@exNeXT.com (John Karabaic) Newsgroups:
> comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Logitec Trackman
> Mouse Replacement for Non-ADB NeXT Computers Date: 30 Aug 1994
> 15:23:38 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 19 Sender:
> sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID:
> <3400vq$mn8@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: jk@exNeXT.com
> NNTP-Posting-Host: digifix.digifix.com
>
> For those of you with non-ADB rodents which are ready to become
> scratching post accessories for your feline companions, I've
> uploaded to
>
> ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/documents/LogitechTrackManTrackball
> Replacement.ps.gz
> ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Documents/LogitechTrackManTrackball
> Replacement.ps.gz
>
> and
>
> http://www.stepwise.com/NEXTSTEP_Usenet/FAQs/MouseReplacement.htmld/
>
>
> the instructions on how to replace your NeXT mouse with a Logitec
> TrackMan (and possibly MouseMan) *BUS VERSION*. You should be
> reasonably handy with a soldering iron to attempt this.
>
>
>
> John S. Karabaic, jk@exNeXT.com, 513 825 6266, 513 825 0443 (fax)
> Senior Software Engineer, Vanguard Software Corporation
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Switchboard dialing strings (NS3.3)
Message-ID: <1995Feb19.105644.2307@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3hqost$ii8@alf.uib.no>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 10:56:44 GMT
In article <3hqost$ii8@alf.uib.no> edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
> I just moved my computer (Cube) to my new job - to dial out with
> my ZyXEL I need to get a dialtone out first (by dialing "0" first).
>
Assuming you run version 1.03 (or later) there are two defaults that are
of use:
NXFax WaitForDialTone NO in case you got a distinctive dialtone
NXFax DialPrefix "0w" to get the dial prefix work correctly
...and yes, they are poorly documented, but the guys at Black&White
Software are the most responsive software people I've ever dealt with.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Bryce_Jasmer@NeXT.COM (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking For Volunteers
Date: 21 Feb 1995 00:07:41 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ibasd$7ta@news.next.com>
References: <3iaibf$152@rosie.next.com>
Oops, sorry about that. Brain fart. I had the wrong group selected when I hit
"New post." I meant to select an internal newsgroup. Please ignore.
Bryce
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS33 loginwindow.app Custom Screen Saver---Me To!
Date: 21 Feb 1995 00:17:14 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3ibbea$dmb@paladin.american.edu>
References: <SOWA.95Feb20133621@netcom5.netcom.com>
In article <SOWA.95Feb20133621@netcom5.netcom.com> sowa@netcom.com (Erik
Sowa) writes:
> Anyone know anything about what makes a screensaver compatible with
> 3.3's loginwindow.app as advertised by the new loginwindow Preferences
> panel? I suppose one could ask the same question about the Custom
> Authenticator and the Custom Login UI...
>
> --
> Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
I also am curious about the new authenticator and custom login UI fields
in preferences so if anyone knows anything I would love to hear it.
Torrey McMahon
From: knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 07:32:30 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
In article <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil
(Butch Deal) writes:
|> In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans
|> van Hoesel) writes:
|> |> Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
|> |>
|> |> : I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used
|> in
|> |> : the past.
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
|> |> 1) the system comes pre installed
|>
|> yeah with everything in one large partition!
|>
This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
Martin
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From: will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 19 Feb 1995 12:54:27 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
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In article <STRANGE.95Feb17093045@squeeze.dec.com>,
Steve Strange <strange@zk3.dec.com> wrote:
>In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
>
>> would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
>> really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
>
>Huh? Please provide your definition of UNIX.
>
> Steve
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Is it true that Solaris 2 is really VMS under the covers? :) :) :)
Will
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 13:13:24 -0500
From: Dan F Hurley <dfh@guitar.ho.att.com>
Message-ID: <9502201813.AA09925@guitar.ho.att.com>
Subject: Printing to nextprinter from command line
Hi.
I have a black Motorola machine with a black Next printer attached
and would like to print a postscript file to that printer from unix
shell. I tried
pslpr < file.eps
pslpr -p'/dev/np0' < file.eps
and nothing happens. There MUST be an easy way to do this.
Any advice would be appreciated.
thanks
Dan Hurley
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: remote printing
Date: 20 Feb 1995 11:46:11 -0800
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Message-ID: <3iari3$na2@crl8.crl.com>
I've got a a machine using another machine's printer
via the usual printcap entries. This is on Black
hardware, and the printer is a NeXT Printer.
But the print panel that comes up doesn't include
the manual feed options. Is it possible to include
these, or does that require that the printer be
locally connected?
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From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 20 Feb 1995 19:44:45 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
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References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
|> Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
|>
|> : I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used in
|> : the past.
|>
|> : On monday, I took delivery of three DEC multiprocessors (2100-500's,
|> : aka Sables). By monday afternoon, I got one 2-CPU machine up, running
|> : the AMD automounter, using BIND, doing SENDMAIL, exporting and
|> : importing NFS files, using passwords and the like. This took about 1
|> : hour, which was mainly involved in installing C++, Ada, DCE,
|> : ObjectBroker (CORBA), etc etc from CDrom.
|>
|> : On tuesday, I cloned the next system & took delivery of 2 Alphastation
|> : 4/233's and started getting them set up.
|>
|> : By thursday, not only had I done all my other jobs (teach, serve on
|> : mindless committees), but we had already sucked down massive
|> : simulation cycles on the alpha cluster, including the one that
|> : dual-boots and an OSF/1 and W/NT box.
|>
|> This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
|> 1) the system comes pre installed
yeah with everything in one large partition!
|> 2) when booting the first time (after only 5 minutes of unpacking)
|> it asks you for a machine from wich you want to use the configuration
|> ans - asuming you have one configured - it works. in ten minutes
This is only for your personal window setup.
|> 3) installing the other stuff (C++ fortran, nfs etc) takes another
|> hour (because the cd ain't any faster; not because the work involved
|> which is nearly nothing.
make sure you install them in the right order though.
|> 4) starting automount, exporting disk etc is just a matter of a few
|> click with your mouse in the graphical admin programs.
|> Using a remote printer is as simple as dragging it from the find-tool
|> (which locates resources on other machines) onto your desktop. The same
|> method can be used with disk or remote tape drives.
it only locates recources on other SGI systems. The sgi solution to remote
printing is an rsh for the lp system.
|>
|> So infact your are ready in ten minutes with the extra stuff in 2 hours.
on a sun, unpack it, hook up the cables, plug it in, put the MAC address
in the ethers map and run add_install_client on the server, then turn on the
new sun. This is for a dataless configuration which most sun admins use
(saves alot of disk space and admin head aches). Diskless is similar. If you
whant the machine to be diskfull it is the same as dataless. Get the patch
scripts from Casper Dik, and you can add all the patches to the dataless and
diskfull clients as they install. In fact I just installed solaris 2.4 on 26
dataless Suns. Took about an hour. Good deal of that spent walking from room
to room to turn on the machines. Thats not just the base OS thats full
install, all the latest patches (downloaded this morning from sun), all the
sun add on software (compilers, SDK, WABI, etc) and all the third party
software.
|>
|> you know what, I'm biased because I love their machines.
|>
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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <1995Feb20.134930.21561@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: The Internet
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 13:49:30 GMT
rwigmore@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore) writes:
>Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
>: Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
>: upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
>Not a flame by any means, but at the start of January our brand new SPARC
>1000 came online (it arrived in August and they spent the time inbetween
>updating/customizing it). It has 1/4 GB of real memory, 2 CPUs, and a
>"storage array". It ONLY handles our email (PINE) users (ie. no compilers,
>stats, database, etc. software - JUST email).
>The machine will grind to almost a halt at between 60-80 users - but it can
>run okay with 120 users - but only for a while. It was running Solaris 2.3
>in January, but they upgraded to 2.4 in an attempt at "fixing up" the problem
>we are having. 2.4 did not fix up anything.
>So, and again, this is not a flame - if people with 5+ years of experience
>with SUN systems/technology cannot get a (about the same as a model 590)
>SPARC 100 working well after 6 months of trying, just how "simple to take
>care of" can those systems be?
>Any and all suggestions welcomed! :-)
I've seen many reports that Sun's big servers (SS 1000 etc.) don't
work good, especially that they're unstable with OS releases that are
OK on `normal' machines. I don't use big Sun machines and the
workstations I run definitvly don't have the problems that are
reported for the servers.
The question is: Are the high-end-servers of SGI (or HP, DEC) really
better or are there fewer bug reports because they're not used as
often?
I cannot resist to beleive that *all* such MP-high-end Servers have
problems and that the high-volume workstations run better for all
vendors.
I'd like to see success reports from SGI's challenge (or similar
machines from other vendors) here.
BTW, Sun's performance is worse than HP/DEC/IBM especially for
flaoting point. But a SPARC clone usually beats other workstations in
price/performance easily when you need mostly integer performance.
Martin
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From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Differences between TRANSYS DIALUP-IP and PNI ?????
Date: 20 Feb 1995 02:24:27 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario
Message-ID: <3i8ugr$lkb@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
does anybody know what the difference is between the two TRANSYS
packages (DIALUP-IP and PNI)?? What are the real differences? I have been
running DIALUP-IP for quite a few months with no problem and little
configuration. Is PNI just the new name for TRANSYS DIALUP-IP.
The question to ask after all of this is, should I switch to PNI?
DIALUP-IP has all the necessary parts including inactivity timeout and
connection on demand of network.
Some clear thought on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I am using a black turbo slab with 3.3 and 16Mb RAM if it matters.
Thanks.
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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@di.epfl.ch>
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 19 Feb 1995 10:15:37 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Message-ID: <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <ABSTINE.95Feb16203445@hummer.visix.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com> <3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Originator: monnier@didec9.epfl.ch
In article <3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
Whitney de Vries <whitney@christie.Meakins.McGill.CA> wrote:
] AIX's Journaled File System is a big plus. Switching back to fragile
] file systems on other OS's is like taking a walk back into the
] past when unix used to be a Ken Thompson's OS for games.
Well, AIX isn't the only unix with an advanced file system.
It's actually getting common to offer a log-structured FS addtionnally
to plain UFS. It's so much faster to reboot and to repartition !
Stefan
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From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Date: 20 Feb 1995 07:49:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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References: <D487HI.6Eq@ilink.de>
In article <D487HI.6Eq@ilink.de> eike@ilink.de (Eike Dierks) writes:
> The downside:
> - No windowserver thus no printing or faxing on a headless machine
(trying
> to start the window server crashes the machine)
> - Trying to play sounds crashes the machine
Can't one use lpr from a remote machine so it can be used as printer
server?
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
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From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange logout crash; WetPaint + WM.app ??
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 12:30:25 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
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I suspect that this the answer, but it might save others a bit of work:
I recently started using 8-bit rather than 16-bit colour: for some reason
WetPaint doesn't seem to like this, and bombs horribly, taking everything
with it, complaining of excess DPS errors. I've reported this to
Lighthouse, and sent them a TIFF which crashes the system as soon as you try
to open it in WetPaint. Maybe, however, it's just my system (object.station
41) -- has anybody else experienced this?
(Before you try, remember to ensure that you've saved everything and won't
be annoyed if your system does go down! :-)
Have fun,
mmalc.
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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:40:31 GMT
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Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks
In article <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@di.epfl.ch> wrote:
>Well, AIX isn't the only unix with an advanced file system.
>It's actually getting common to offer a log-structured FS addtionnally
>to plain UFS. It's so much faster to reboot and to repartition !
IBM was the first of the big players to offer this (contributed this
to OSF) and in the latest rev, we also offer inline compression along
with some more tuning parameters.
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From: mbrown@austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:57:43 GMT
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Organization: IBM Corp., Austin TX
> michaelb@hobbie.bocaraton.ibm.com (Michael Rogero Brown (Sys Admin)) writes:
>Spec 1170 is now supposed to be the determining factor of "unix or not", but
>when I hear things like IBM's plans on getting OS/400 to pass 1170, it makes
>me wonder. [don't know anything about os/400, except that I wouldn't think it
>Unix]
Welllll, let's talk about this. UNIX is supposed to be an "open" system,
huh? Well, to me that means a published set of APIs and behaviors that
*anyone* can implement.
If OS/400 (AS/400) can meet the published requirements (and BTW,
"Spec1170" is about as SVID3 as you can get, more like SVID3++), and
apps written for UNIX can prot and run on it with little or no change
(the same state that different UNIX flavors are in today)....
...then what is the problem?
1170 covers the basic *commands*, so that shouldn't be it.
It covers the basic header files and dev tools....
Sys Admin is different? Big Deal. Most every non-UNIX-geek will tell you
that the current state of UNIX administration is summed up in one word
"incomprehensible". Let competition flourish, maybe someone will come up
with something better. How many of us here actually use and like the
SysV accounting disaster, that dates back to 5.0 and the Western
Electric Black Book?
File systems different underneath? Competition came up with JFS (and
others) -- let it continue unless you *want* to go back to "good old
UNIX" hope-fsck-gets-my-files-back.
Folks, that fact the systems like the AS/400 are moving towards UNIX
APIs is a *win*win*win*.
cheers,
mark
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From: Bob Rein <pcf@halcyon.halcyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 08:49:56 -0800
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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On Sun, 19 Feb 1995, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> >We are currently looking at either at Sun or HP to run an Oracle database
> >application. Any comments on the SMP capabilities of Sun?
>
> I'm not running an SMP Sun right now. I think the best advice would be
> to find a few good reference sites to speak with, Sun or Oracle (or
> perhaps the net) should be able to point you at some.
I have received a little input on the net and it has been somewhat
favorable for Sun servers, but it appears users have not been too happy
with earlier versions of Solaris. It looks like version 2.4 is more
stable, but I believe they haven't ported the SAP manufacturing package
to 2.4 yet and are using Oracle 7.0.16.?
>
> My understanding is that that Sun considers their SMP systems as a
> platform for Oracle a high priority, so you're barking up the right
> tree. I wouldn't exclude SGI's Challenge systems in your review
> (unless there's some other reason.)
>
The SGI box looks pretty good, but I don't believe the SAP guys have
ported to that box or that SGI has not provided a competency center to
work with there product.
> -- > -Barry Shein
>
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From: deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 20 Feb 1995 20:53:53 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Message-ID: <3iavh1$eqi@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <id.Z7GH1.QH3@nmti.com> <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <stern.793233847@tpdec1>
In article <stern.793233847@tpdec1>,
Michael Sternberg <stern@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>We got a Solaris machine as a front end to an analysis system here.
>The printed doc kept strict silence on sys admin stuff like
>networking or hardware access. Instead, it explains what a keyboard
>is and what "cp" and "mv" do. The system related man pages appear
what printed doc's do you have? try the answerbook.
>either terse or poetic to me. I was called to repartition the disk
>because it contained no separate /var with its 16Mb root pretty full.
>(Ok - this is not Solaris's fault).
>Took some time to find the proper command:
>
> fmthard - populate VTOC on hard disks
>
>This command cannot even handle the output of its counterpart
>prtvtoc(1m).
try format. It works pretty much like the Sunos format program.
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From: ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
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Date: 21 Feb 1995 17:48:58 GMT
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Message-ID: <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
I was going to forgo this particular religious war, but ... I'm feeling
masochistic ..
Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>, knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) writes:
: |> In article <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil
: |> (Butch Deal) writes:
: |> |> In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans
: |> |> van Hoesel) writes:
: |> |> |> Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: |> |> |>
: |> |> |> : I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used
: |> |> in
: |> |> |> : the past.
: |> |> |>
: |> |> |>
: |> |> |> This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
: |> |> |> 1) the system comes pre installed
: |> |>
: |> |> yeah with everything in one large partition!
: |> |>
: |>
: |> This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
: |> remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
: |> exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
: |> a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
: |>
: sure but it doesn't beat a small root partition that DOESN'T fill up.
: There are a few places all over that anyone can write to. When you have
: one partition, what you really have is a large root partition with several
: places anyone can write to. Home directories are in the one partition as well.
: pretty easy till fill up the large partition with your user partitions there
: as well as a few temp dirs.
How do you suggest setting up a small root partition that doesn't fill
up?
--
- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
"I'll drink a toast to bold evolution any day!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Linux file systems
Message-ID: <D4D1v8.I2x@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
References: <3i3jsb$e8g@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <3i65tg$97d@deadbird.db.erau.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:30:06 GMT
In article <3i65tg$97d@deadbird.db.erau.edu>,
Andrew Anderson <andrew@amelia.experiment.db.erau.edu> wrote:
>Ivo Welch (ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
>: Is there hope for Linux in the future to be able to read the BSD 4.3
>: FFS that NeXT uses? (Unlikely for NeXT to support linux file systems,
I haven't tried it, but there is an alpha read-only UFS implementation
for Linux. The biggest problem will probably be that I have understood
(mistakenly?) that the NeXT-UFS filesystem is written with big-endian
integers...you might have to do some careful byte swapping to read it.
Scott S. Bertilson
--
From: werme@alingo.zk3.dec.com (Eric Werme)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 95 13:09:11 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <werme.793372151@alingo.zk3.dec.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
>Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: By monday afternoon, I got one 2-CPU machine up, ... This took about 1
: hour, which was mainly involved in installing C++, Ada, DCE,
: ObjectBroker (CORBA), etc etc from CDrom.
>This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
>3) installing the other stuff (C++ fortran, nfs etc) takes another
> hour (because the cd ain't any faster; not because the work involved
^^^^
> which is nearly nothing)
>So infact your are ready in ten minutes with the extra stuff in 2 hours.
^^^ ^^^^^^^
>you know what, I'm biased because I love their machines.
You must love some interesting clocks, too.
--
Eric (Ric) Werme | werme@zk3.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corp. | This space intentionally left blank.
From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 20 Feb 1995 00:41:00 GMT
Organization: MacroModel Development Group, Chemistry, Columbia U., NY, NY
Message-ID: <3i8oes$b20@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <3i4v3o$d1s@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <3i5fo7$j7o@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
In article <3i5fo7$j7o@gazette.engr.sgi.com>,
Dave Olson <olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
>| (And I especially don't like the
>| way SGI dumped all of BSD in libc, which makes writing portable programs
>| on SGIs extremely hard....
>
>We can't win on this one. When we had a seperate libsun and libbsd, we had
>an unending stream of complaints about this 'non-standard' arrangement
>(literally thousands of complaints and questions on the net and to support).
If this is a battle that's worth winning, one way to go would be to
supply a "-svr4" load flag. This would load a library purged of bsd-isms.
This idea is very much in the spirit of the "-ansi" flag to "cc".
-P.
--
************************ The secret of life: *************************
*Peter S. Shenkin, Box 768 Havemeyer Hall, Chemistry, Columbia Univ.,*
* New York, NY 10027; shenkin@columbia.edu; (212) 854-5143 *
************* If you find a loose thread, don't pull it. *************
From: Bryce_Jasmer@NeXT.COM (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking For Volunteers
Date: 20 Feb 1995 17:09:03 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3iaibf$152@rosie.next.com>
I have set up a new news server. The name of it is news.next.com or
just news. I'm looking for people to test it out and see if there
are any oddities with it. The main things I want to know are if your
posts make it out to the net, and if new articles are arriving in a
timely fashion (not 4+ days old).
Note that since this is a new server, the article numbering has
changed and your old .newsrc file is no longer valid. You might want
to run the script below to wipe out the record of article numbers
that you have already read. (If you don't do this, you won't see news
for a long time because your .newsrc will say that
comp.sys.next.advocacy has been read through article 43567, and it
will be a long time before the articles on news.next.com get that
high.)
Another thing to note: rosie is going away soon so everyone will have
to convert at some point. The sooner you convert, the easier it will
be.
If you notice problems, please send me email.
Thanks,
Bryce
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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From: jason@vermeer.physast.uga.edu (Jason Anthony Carreira)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: anyone know about zsh?
Date: 20 Feb 1995 22:28:00 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Message-ID: <3ib51g$rq9@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>
Keywords: help
Hi,
I'm hoping someone (one of you NEXT Guru's), can supply me with some info
on shells. I've recently started working on a NEXT machine (never used one
before, so be gentle), and I noticed that the shell (yes, I actually use
the shell once in a while) they are using is *gasp* csh! I suggested
upgrading to tcsh, but my employer did some checking and found a reference
to a shell called "zsh", which is supposedly newer and better. I've never
heard of it, personally, and was unable to find a version built for the
Next on the net (at either the common Next sites, or using archie). Has
anyone out there installed this? Is it good? Is there a place with a built
version that I can get to, or will I have to get the unbuilt version, and
let my boss build it (I wouldn't know how)? Thanks for any help...Please
respond in e-mail as well as replying, as I don't read here too often
(over my head, you know).
Jason Carreira
From: Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions: HP-SGI-SUN-WinNt-Os/2-??
Date: 20 Feb 1995 22:42:57 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Message-ID: <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net>
what i originally wanted to know also:
1. are "standard" machines (pc's) capable to keep track with
proprietary risc machines (servers - workstations).
2. is it worthful to bother about configuring unix if
winnt sets up without doing anything "manually" (nearly ;) )?
3. is the difference in ease of administration (if this is true)
and efficiency worth the price difference ?
4. whats about software for the different plattforms
(ease of use - stable - price - public domain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de's message of Mon, 20 Feb 95 13:49:30 GMT
Message-ID: <BZS.95Feb20173202@world.std.com>
Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Organization: The World
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
<WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov>
<3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
<3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
<1995Feb20.134930.21561@wavehh.hanse.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 22:32:02 GMT
From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
>The question is: Are the high-end-servers of SGI (or HP, DEC) really
>better or are there fewer bug reports because they're not used as
>often?
Feel free to telnet to world.std.com and login as new (no password)
and create an account. If you use it less than one hour we won't even
charge you anything.
World.std.com, the oldest public access internet system, is an SGI
Challenge XL with eight 200MHZ R4400 CPUs, 512MB, etc, running IRIX
5.3. The news server is an SGI Challenge L with four 100MHZ R4400,
256MB. They're attached across a FDDI. We currently have about 10,000
customers.
Seeing is believing.
>I'd like to see success reports from SGI's challenge (or similar
>machines from other vendors) here.
You got it.
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 18:23:09 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3idb2d$kl7@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>
In article <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>, ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley) writes:
|> I was going to forgo this particular religious war, but ... I'm feeling
|> masochistic ..
jump right in :)
|>
|> Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
|> : In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>, knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) writes:
|> : |> In article <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil
|> : |> (Butch Deal) writes:
|> : |> |> In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans
|> : |> |> van Hoesel) writes:
|> : |> |> |> Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
|> : |> |> |>
|> : |> |> |> : I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used
|> : |> |> in
|> : |> |> |> : the past.
|> : |> |> |>
|> : |> |> |>
|> : |> |> |> This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
|> : |> |> |> 1) the system comes pre installed
|> : |> |>
|> : |> |> yeah with everything in one large partition!
|> : |> |>
|> : |>
|> : |> This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
|> : |> remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
|> : |> exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
|> : |> a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
|> : |>
|> : sure but it doesn't beat a small root partition that DOESN'T fill up.
|> : There are a few places all over that anyone can write to. When you have
|> : one partition, what you really have is a large root partition with several
|> : places anyone can write to. Home directories are in the one partition as well.
|> : pretty easy till fill up the large partition with your user partitions there
|> : as well as a few temp dirs.
|>
|> How do you suggest setting up a small root partition that doesn't fill
|> up?
|>
Don't let people write to root areas.
use seperate partitions for areas that people need to be able to write to.
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 28747 11651 14226 45% /
enterprise:/usr 480919 106418 326411 25% /usr
enterprise:/export/exec/kvm/Solaris_2.4_sparc.sun4c/usr/kvm
96031 26390 60041 31% /usr/kvm
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s5 19213 1894 15399 11% /var
swap 75016 8 75008 0% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s3 38281 7937 26524 23% /cache
/cache/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/enterprise:_export_raid1_SunOS_5.4_opt
28799866 21723379 6788489 76% /opt
/cache/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/enterprise:_export_raid1_SunOS_5.4_local
5839484 2253140 3469556 39% /usr/local
/cache/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/enterprise:_export_raid1_SunOS_5.4_openwin
28799866 21723379 6788489 76% /usr/openwin
enterprise:/export/enterprise1/mail
968662 65053 806749 7% /var/mail
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com (Michael I. Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 02:40:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3ie878$g1s@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com> <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <D4DKwI.CL9@world.std.com>
bfc@world.std.com (brandon f chubb) writes:
>You're right about Mail working better! (Thank you)
>But..
>world% which mail
>/usr/ucb/mail
>world%
>I would think /usr/ucb/mail would be Berkeley mail. Isn't it?
Well, since /usr/ucb is not a part of IRIX, you'll have to ask Barry
what he put in there. :-)
-- Michael
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anybody have expect running?
Date: 21 Feb 1995 08:54:04 -0500
Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3icr9s$p7m@king.mathworks.com>
Hi netters!
I'm having some problems getting "expect" to work. I have
tcl 7.3 installed (from WavesWorld), and expect-5.13. I keep
getting a message (when trying to run an expect script) about
a problem with the file /usr/local/lib/tcl/init.tcl. There is
a link from /LocalLibraries/tcl/ to /usr/local/lib, so the paths
are correct.
My hunch is that expect is not up to date, or something on the
NeXT (3.3 Black) is making it grumpy. Can anyone help??
As always, email is apprectiated.
-peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Parallel Driver *SOMETIMES* loads... !!?!@!
Message-ID: <schwettD4Dq0M.F8J@netcom.com>
Summary: Now you see it...
Keywords: pp0 3.3 flaky
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 02:09:58 GMT
Sender: schwett@netcom11.netcom.com
Hi All.
My printer was working just fine, and then I changed comsething, and
now the pp0 driver only loads SOMETIMES.
Changes:
removed Etherlink III
added Cogent EM960C (Yay! Getting 700k/sec+ on TP!)
made SerialPorts.config a 1 port driver
added Mux 1.7 for my modem on COM2
When the driver does load, it prints just fine.
Any suggetsions?
Running 3.3 on an AiR PCI/EISA 90mhz pentium motherboard, etc. etc...
Thanks,
Mark Schwettmann
mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
--
schwett@netcom.com --- mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
"
a smile cartooned tooth for tooth, you said irony was the shackles of youth
"
From: fietze@kagcpd01.ag01.kodak.COM (Roman Fietze)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 09:43:20 GMT
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
Message-ID: <FIETZE.95Feb21104326@kagcpd01.ag01.kodak.COM>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
<WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov>
<3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
In-reply-to: will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM's message of 17 Feb 1995 10:11:43 -0600
In article <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse) writes:
I have joined this thread a little late, but I would add Clones. The
only clones I have worked with are Sun clones from Tatung (which are
better than Suns, IMHO) but Tatung also makes a PREP box which is
basically an RS/6000 clone. I don't know of any HP or SGI clones,
and no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone.
Sure, and hundreths of companies made 286 clones and loaded them with
MESS-DOS. This is no argument. Decisions what to buy are mostly made
by people who do not have the technical background, or are just some
bean counters who count the initial costs and not the lifetime
costs. I tell you, it's not easy to buy what you think is good when
you are working in a big company. Our company bought hundreths of PC's
with MS-Windows and MS-DOS and I tell you I have and had a hard time
to defend our SCO/HP environment for embedded systems SW development
(sure including textsystem and other comercial stuff and all the nice
things that come with any UNIX like mail, WWW, ...).
Roman
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From: jor@krynn.solace.mh.se (Joakim Rastberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 10:30:24 +0100
Organization: Solace Computer Club, Sundsvall, Sweden
Message-ID: <jor.793358739@krynn>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i0rl2$14j7@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>
rwigmore@acs.ryerson.ca (Ron Wigmore) writes:
>Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
>: Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
>: upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
>Not a flame by any means, but at the start of January our brand new SPARC
>1000 came online (it arrived in August and they spent the time inbetween
>updating/customizing it). It has 1/4 GB of real memory, 2 CPUs, and a
>"storage array". It ONLY handles our email (PINE) users (ie. no compilers,
>stats, database, etc. software - JUST email).
>The machine will grind to almost a halt at between 60-80 users - but it can
>run okay with 120 users - but only for a while. It was running Solaris 2.3
>in January, but they upgraded to 2.4 in an attempt at "fixing up" the problem
>we are having. 2.4 did not fix up anything.
Do you by any chance have SUN's DECNET solution installed? That sorry
excuse for software can make any Sol2-machine into a worthless piece
of 8-times-a-day crashing junk!
Speaking from experience.
joakim
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We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.
From: schwett@differencengine (Mark Schwettmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange logout crash; WetPaint + WM.app ??
Date: 20 Feb 1995 20:08:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3iasrc$frc@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3i0j00$7g2@agate.berkeley.edu> <950220123025.2542AACUK.malc@daneel>
mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
...
>I recently started using 8-bit rather than 16-bit colour: for some reason
>WetPaint doesn't seem to like this, and bombs horribly, taking everything
>with it...
You know; that must be it. It didn't even occur to me when WetPaint
started working again that I had just switched back to 32 bit color.
Lighthouse - Hello?
M
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disk space won't update
Date: 21 Feb 1995 00:31:55 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ibc9r$pat@news.iastate.edu>
Whenever I delete files from my tmp directory, my disk space won't update
until I restart. What is going on here and how can I fix it?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
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From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: NeXT/Linux file systems
Date: 21 Feb 1995 01:33:54 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3ibfu2$6dn@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <3i65tg$97d@deadbird.db.erau.edu>
Suggestions I got were:
[1] just use the external disk to tar to a DOS disk partition. This fails
for me because my notebook has a 200MB internal disk only, and my SCSI
disk needs to contain 1.5GB worth of files.
[2] Use NFS. This fails for me, because I do not have a linux box next to
my NS machine, or vica-versa.
[3] Write it yourself. This fails for me, because I have minimal OS
programming expertise. (Look at my job description below.)
[4] Try ufs-0.3.tar.gz. It is a beta, read-only version right now. You
have to change the searched location of the Superblock to 160 instead of 0
and 96, as it mainly a BSD filesystem. Inspect the readme and the source
for details. (Thanks to Alex Keiblinger.) I am planning to try this soon.
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance (ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu)
AGSM at UCLA
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 105 Sysquest + DPT 2021 ISA + NS/i 3.2 = ???
Date: 21 Feb 1995 02:54:45 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ibkll$ipl@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
References: <3ib4os$dv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
Sorry to followup my own post but I got the darn thing working, what
I had to do was boot up the system without a disk in the syquest
and then put in a disk after I logged in I was able to format the disk
no problem. There was 1 strange thing though, I can't format more than
one disk per login, is this to be expected?
jehu
From: gregan@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help on PC-NFS to a NextStation
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 18:01:30 GMT
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (401) 884-9002 GUEST [telnet ids.net]
Message-ID: <3iboj7$6fo@paperboy.ids.net>
I'm trying to run PC-NFS from my DOS machine, using my NeXTStation as the
NFS server. I was able to connect to a Sun workstation using the PC,
so I believe to be OK (after reconfiguring to talk to the NeXT). However,
I can't seem to get the PC to find the NeXT NFS server. I've run
the SimpleNetworkStarter.app, and also tried ypinit with changes to rc.local.
If anyone can give me any clues, I'd appreciate it. Thanx in advance.
Greg Arzoomanian
gregan@ids.net
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: xanim for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 21 Feb 1995 04:20:55 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ibpn7$bf@news.iastate.edu>
Does anybody have some form of xanim that will work with NeXTSTEP without
X-windows?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
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* --------------------------------------------------------- *
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****************************************************************
From: drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help on PC-NFS to a NextStation
Date: 21 Feb 1995 08:12:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3ic799$9il@mordred.gatech.edu>
References: <3iboj7$6fo@paperboy.ids.net>
gregan@ids.net wrote:
: I'm trying to run PC-NFS from my DOS machine, using my NeXTStation as the
: NFS server. I was able to connect to a Sun workstation using the PC,
: so I believe to be OK (after reconfiguring to talk to the NeXT). However,
: I can't seem to get the PC to find the NeXT NFS server. I've run
: the SimpleNetworkStarter.app, and also tried ypinit with changes to rc.local.
: If anyone can give me any clues, I'd appreciate it. Thanx in advance.
: Greg Arzoomanian
: gregan@ids.net
Find a program called pcnfsd and add it to your rc.local, this will enable
the proper authentification on your NeXT that the PC can understand.
Works from my PC running something like PC-NFS (public domain). I can also
mount my NeXT printer from my PC running Windows (sort-of works with some
applications :)
--
Dave Rinker
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
CSX Transportation. Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Internet: gt2780a@prism.gatech.edu -- NeXT Mail welcome
.forward -> drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu -- Until 3/18/95
From: rbinder@droopy.imag.fr (Robert Binder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Run rsh commands
Date: 21 Feb 1995 10:40:55 GMT
Organization: IMAG, Grenoble, France
Sender: rbinder@droopy (Robert Binder)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3icfvn$lt3@imag.imag.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
We have a NeXT (ver 3.3) connected to a Sun os.
I can't run the rsh commands . I get an error message from the NeXT :
Protocol error, NeXT_Machine closed connection.
Anyone, can help me ? Thanks a lot.
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From: 3sunlife@interlog.com (Wilf Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions: HP-SGI-SUN-WinNt-Os/2-??
Date: 22 Feb 1995 05:19:58 GMT
Organization: Interlog Internet Services -Voice (416) 975-2655 -Data 515-1414
Message-ID: <3iehhu$h4s@steel.interlog.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
In <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
>what i originally wanted to know also:
>
>1. are "standard" machines (pc's) capable to keep track with
> proprietary risc machines (servers - workstations).
Not a chance as far as up time is concerned. The HP9000 is solid and have
been up for more than a year without any problems. The Pentium 60 have been
up and down at least twice a month. For the $$ amount we saved on hardware,
we paid it right back on down time.
>2. is it worthful to bother about configuring unix if
> winnt sets up without doing anything "manually" (nearly ;) )?
Even though NT intalls easily, it doesn't mean it will run optimally with
the default install configuration. In the end, you spend the same time
with unix and NT. I'd stay with unix for it's better supported with more
software and cheaper overall.
>3. is the difference in ease of administration (if this is true)
> and efficiency worth the price difference ?
Unix is better for the simple reason it's been available longer so better
tools are available. As for NT, give it another 3 years to catch up.
>4. whats about software for the different plattforms
> (ease of use - stable - price - public domain)
Except for ease of use, this is definitely where unix wins. Unix is more
stable, cheaper and with more software available. After a year of waiting
and listening to MS FUD, we gave up on Microsoft Exchange Server and went
with HP OpenMail.
regards,
WL
Disclaimer: views expressed are mine and do not represent my employer.
All other standard disclaimers apply.
From: knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 07:38:08 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iepl0$o9d@fido.asd.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com> <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <D4DKwI.CL9@world.std.com> <3ie878$g1s@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <BZS.95Feb21220330@world.std.com>
In article <BZS.95Feb21220330@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry
Shein) writes:
|>
|> From: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com (Michael I. Gold)
|> >>I would think /usr/ucb/mail would be Berkeley mail. Isn't it?
|> >
|> >Well, since /usr/ucb is not a part of IRIX, you'll have to ask Barry
|> >what he put in there. :-)
|>
|> It's just a symlink to /usr/bsd/ to ease the transition.
|>
Which has no "mail" in it, at least under IRIX-5.2/5.3. So, where
does "/usr/bsd/mail" come from on your system :-)
Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Changing Video Resolution Destroyed Preferences
Message-ID: <westesD4C0MH.Ir4@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 04:03:52 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom20.netcom.com
I just changed my ATI Ultra Pro from 1024x768 to 1120x832. After I
rebooted the machine, every userid that I logged in as had its
preferences, including the Workspace Manager Preferences that sets
the all-important toolbar, reset to its defaults.
Does changing the video resolution always reset the values in your
~/.NeXT directory? Why!?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: cjmace@amoco.com (cjohn mace)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 20:20:17 GMT
Organization: Amoco Production Company
Message-ID: <3idhu1$1sr@tabloid.amoco.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>
In article <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>,
Paul 'Shag' Walmsley <ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu> wrote:
>How do you suggest setting up a small root partition that doesn't fill
>up?
No /var, no /tmp and no files or directories with 777 permission, or owned
by anyone other than root/bin/sys/.... Thus, a root filesystem that doesn't
fill up.
>- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
cjohn mace
cjmace@amoco.com
ps-of course quotas would probably stop 99% of the full single partition
systems.
From: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com (Michael I. Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 20:51:54 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com>
bfc@world.std.com (brandon f chubb) writes:
>The SGI 'mail' utility has a funny habit of skipping every other message
>if I'm reading and deleting each one. This is just berkely mail -- nothing
>fancy. Works fine on OSF, Sun OS, Solaris, the Intel Unices, and any other
>Unix I've tried.
Methinks you're running /bin/mail (SYSV) instead of /usr/sbin/Mail
(BSD). /bin/mail is *not* "berkely" mail. Try:
alias mail Mail
and all will be well.
-- Michael
P.S. /bin/mail is not broken, it just has a different interface with
which you are apparently unfamiliar.
From: will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 19 Feb 1995 13:28:26 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3i864q$89a@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu>
In article <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu>,
David Mathog <mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu> wrote:
>In article <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse) writes...
>>and no one in their right mind would make an Alpha clone.
>
>Well there must be some crazies out there. You can buy one now from Aspen
>Systems and rumor has it that Nekotech is finishing up the firmware that
>will let their new systems run it too (possibly also available as an
>upgrade to their old systems.) All of these machines will run WNT or OSF/1
>or VMS, and if you've got the bucks for three different system disks and
>all of those OS's, you can switch between them on the same machine by just
>rebooting. Kind of handy for developers who work in all three OS's, they
>only need one workstation instead of three.
>
>Regards,
>
>David Mathog
>mathog@seqvax.bio.caltech.edu
>Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
Well, at least IMHO, you're right, there are crazies out there.
To make it as a clone vendor you have to have some advantage (delivery,
configuration options, whatever) plus a price advantage of about 30%.
There has to be a big enough market in the first place for you to take
maybe 2-5% of that and still make money. You can save money by bending
your own sheet metal and making your own boards, but beyond that, the chips
and stuff cost pretty much the same. You might be able to save money
on labor, but the labor-saving advantages of insertion technology, robots,
etc. tend to accrue to the volume leader.
DEC is pretty much selling OpenVMS (aka EmptyVMS) systems to its installed
base. Maybe they are selling OSF/1 machines to some small crowd, but
regardless, there is no comparison to the market share of a Sun or
Intel-based leader. So the question is, what are Aspen Systems or
Nekotech going to get 2-5% of and how is that going to pay off better
than putting that effort into yet another Pentium system?
DEC spent a lot of time, money, and effort pissing off the Unix community
in the not too distant past. There are a lot of companies that aren't
going to let them back in very easily. They are going to have to make
sales on mission critical third party software, and I don't think they
are making the sales to these developers that they did in the old VMS
days.
On the other hand, who would have guessed tha Sun would fail to go for
the jugular by discontinuing their solid, robust, popular operating
system and going to a new system, now in its fifth beta release, just
in time for DEC to survive long enough to get back into the fight?
I believe that it is not enough to be the best bang for the buck. To
make it these days you have to be the lowest price in the minimum
performance range that will get your customer's job done. Sun is NOT
successful because they are good. They are successful because they
are _good_enough_ and cheap. This success lets clone makers in because
they can be _just_as_good_enough_ and even cheaper. DEC is, at least
at present, NOT good enough and certainly not cheap enough. This
gives clone makers no where to go.
As to whether Aspen and Tkotech are crazy, I guess that's for their
financial backers to decide.
Will
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# it's the law. # Houston, Texas
# # will@starbase.neosoft.com
#
# These are my views and do not necessarly reflect the views of BHP !
From: kennedy@cdfsga.fnal.gov (Robert Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 panics: what to try next?
Date: 20 Feb 1995 14:38:23 -0600
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iaujv$gdk@cdfsga.fnal.gov>
Hello,
Since upgrading my non-Turbo m68k NeXTStation to NS 3.3, I
have experienced fairly regular kernel panics when a PPP connection
is up. While this did happen once before the upgrade, it now occurs
roughly once per six hours at irregular intervals. The panic box says:
MMU: invalid descriptor during table walk
I have read in another context that NS 3.3 tends to trip some problems
with the serial port on m68k NeXTs when the port is running at 56k.
My question is: Is this kernel panic a known problem with NS 3.3?
Are there any suggestions as to how I can best follow-up on the cause
of the problem if it is NOT a known problem?
Thanks,
Rob Kennedy
Rutgers/CDF/Fermilab
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: 105 Sysquest + DPT 2021 ISA + NS/i 3.2 = ???
Date: 20 Feb 1995 22:23:24 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ib4os$dv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I just purchased a 105 MB syquest drive for doing backups and
other stuff but I am having troubling getting it to work. After
the workspace or BuildDisk recognize the disk and prompt for a
label it comes back with the error it was unable to write
the label. I tried both settings on the syquest disk and the
read only setting made the disk popuot before I ever got
the chance to look at it. I tried this both logged in as
root and as my little old self. I think the termination is
OK, no odd harddrive/scsi errors.
Has anyone got a syquest drive to work with a DPT card?? Is
there some magical invocation I forgot? Other than this little
problem NS seemed to handle the addition nicely.
Thanks
Jehu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: sowa@netcom.com (Erik Sowa)
Subject: NS33 loginwindow.app Custom Screen Saver
Message-ID: <SOWA.95Feb20133621@netcom5.netcom.com>
Sender: sowa@netcom5.netcom.com
Organization: Wahoo 5
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:36:20 GMT
Anyone know anything about what makes a screensaver compatible with
3.3's loginwindow.app as advertised by the new loginwindow Preferences
panel? I suppose one could ask the same question about the Custom
Authenticator and the Custom Login UI...
--
Erik Sowa (sowa@netcom.com)
From: sldq1@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: File Used By Configure.App?
Message-ID: <1995Feb19.131932.42193@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 95 13:19:32 MDT
References: <westesD48519.F47@netcom.com>
Organization: Utah State University
In article <westesD48519.F47@netcom.com>, westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
> What is the file and location where Configure.App stores its
> information? If I am going to make a potentially unstable change to
> the system hardware configuration, can I just make a copy of this
> file and restore over it if something goes wrong?
All of this stuff is stored in /usr/Devices. For every driver you have
installed there is a bundle file stored in here that contains information on
how that driver is configured. There is also a "special" bundle called
System.config that configures the whole system.
Inside of these bundles (get at them by using the "Open As Folder" from
Workspace) are a number of files, the actual drivers, and a couple of settings
files. There are basically two settings files, Default.config and
Instance0.config. These two text files tell the system how to configure that
device.
Config.default file contains the settings that are used when you boot your
machine and at the "boot" prompt enter "config=Default". This is a really
handy method of getting your system back to a known state if you mess things up
trying new drivers, settings, etc. But _MAKE SURE_ booting in this fashion
works _BEFORE_ you start messing around. If you have added drivers since you
installed NEXTSTEP (especially SCSI drivers) you may not be able to boot!
The Instance0.table settings in each of your drivers and System.config contain
the settings for how your drivers/system is currently configured. When I get a
machine configured so that it is working well, I will go in and edit the
Default.table files so that they match my current settings so that booting with
default settings will work properly. But be VERY careful when you do
this...for obvious reasons.
> The specific case is that I'm testing a higher video resolution, and
> I'm not sure if my monitor will sync correctly. As a worst case, I
> would like to turn off the monitor, telnet in, and replace the old
> configuration file via a command line operation.
The above info should help you in this so that you do not need to telnet in,
which in some cases, might not be possible anyway.
Also, be careful when trying new resolutions and refresh rates, you could
potentially damage your monitor. Check your monitor's manual to make sure it
will do what your are asking it to do.
> Finally, what are the best cards that support 1280x1024x256 under NS
> 3.2 FIP? Is there any card that has a NS driver that will give
> 1600x1200x256?
In 3.2 I do not think so. I believe 256 colors is an option only with the new
3.3 drivers.
I hope this little overview helps. If you want the real story on drivers,
check out the NextDeveloper document:
../OperatingSystem/Part3_DriverKit/Concepts/4_Configuring/Configuring.rtfd
Good luck!
John Zollinger
Proactive Consulting
sldq1@cc.usu.edu
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: panics with taylor uucp 1.05 on black hardware
Date: 17 Feb 1995 16:43:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3i2jnh$hmi@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <D44KJu.475@relief.com>
In article <D44KJu.475@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
writes:
> Unfortunately, I didn't keep the thread about taylor uucp causing system
> panics under 3.3.
>
> Was there ever any resolution to the problem? What were the solutions
that
> people were trying that worked, or at least seemed to work?
>
I was experiencing these kernel panics which seem to occur only on
black hardware, and possibly only when Taylor uucp and NXFax are both
running under NS 3.3. Those using the uucp shipped with NS don't appear
to have this serious problem.
My "solution", arrived at with the help of NXFax support (they ALWAYS
try to help) and Gerben Wierda who has (had?) also been having similar
problems, was to increase the NXFax defaults variable, ResetDelay. This
variable is owned by <hostname>_fax and is accessible by root only.
ResetDelay determines how long NXFax waits after the serial port is
freed after a hang-up before resetting the modem (and thus writing to the
serial port). The default 2 seconds is apparently too quick resulting in
NXFax writing to the serial port before the serial port driver is "ready",
whatever that means :-) I haven't experienced a panic since increasing
ResetDelay to 10 seconds.
---
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NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
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From: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS)
Subject: MS-Windows driver to use with NeXT 400 DPI laser
Organization: Motorola
Date: 22 Feb 1995 08:11:37 MST
Message-ID: <1995Feb22.152157.23994@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Hello, does anyone know what is a good printer driver to use with
the 400dpi LevelII NeXT printer on MS-Windows ? I rerouted my print-
output via LPR to my next, and it is working fine using a
Calcomp-Colormaster postscript driver, just i am not able to
select 400dpi, only 300 is supported.
BTW, HP3SI postscript driver was not working, i got postscript error
messages and filter missing messages out of the printer when printing.
Thanks muchos, Joachim
From: sdroll@troi.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Droll Sven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: xanim for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 22 Feb 1995 13:30:35 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ife9r$kb@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <3ibpn7$bf@news.iastate.edu>
In article <3ibpn7$bf@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> Does anybody have some form of xanim that will work with NeXTSTEP
without
> X-windows?
> --
> *******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
> * Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
> * --------------------------------------------------------- *
> * He who throws mud loses ground. *
> ****************************************************************
Motion.app plays .xmovie- und .anim-files
MPEG_Play.app plays .mpg-files
no prog known that plays .mov-files
Both programms should be availible at almost every ftp-server.
--
Sven Droll __
______________________________________________________/ / ______ __
sdroll@wmax68.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/
/_ _/ _/
"...and I see your schwartz =====\_/=======
is as big as mine" (Dark Helmet) LOGOUT FASCISM!
___________________________________________________________________
NeXT-mail welcome ;-))
From: nigel@access.digex.net (Nigel Tzeng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 17:40:42 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <3idq5a$omq@access1.digex.net>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu>
In article <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu>,
Ben Marcotte <ben@chinook.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
[snip]
>
>(cough cough sputter sputter - pick myself up off the floor)
>
>What color is the sky on your planet?
>
>Solaris - easy, reliable? You can use those three words in one sentence?
>It has been the biggest pain in the *ss for us!
Given the choice a lot of sysadmins I know would rather have 4.1.3 machines
than Solaris machines...
>For me it constantly feels like Sun is working too hard on the toys for the
>OS (Wabi, SDK's, etc...) and not enough on the basics. By basics I mean:
In theory 2.4 is stable. We have 2.3 and it's semi-stable...stable enough
to lull you into a trusting stupor and then crashing on you just before
a major demo.
[snip]
>2) The lp services have a number of problems. The
>/var/spool/lp/system/pstatus file is not correctly formatted. By default,
[snip]
>nobanner="no" to "yes"). We recently had our printer power cycle on us
>which should not have caused too many problems for a fault tolerant OS, but
>instead Solaris let the device drivers in the kernel get corrupted and we
>were forced to reboot the system (and, no, restarting the printer daemons
>did absolutly nothing).
Heh...if it even lets you try to restart the daemon. The official fix
from Sun (I presume it's the official fix since a tech read it off to
me :) is to go into your printer spool directory and delete the contents.
I presume its the same problem you have since it happens to us when our HP
gets cycled when the MIO card gets flakey. The caveat is our lp is set up
to go through another machine (a 4.1.3 machine).
>3) Have you followed any of the threads in comp.unix.solaris on setting
>up a modem for dial-in? I challenge you to find anyone on that group who
>will say that it is easy to "maintain, configure, install, and upgrade" a
>bidirectional modem on a Sparc. I've been trying for months to get ours to
>work under 2.3 and I have not been able to get anything out of it.
I got great working notes regarding this issue when I ordered PPP software
from Morning Star. I actually haven't tried to do dial in yet but there
is a longish section on figuring it out on Solaris.
>4) Lets not forget that Solaris 2.1 was shipped with a completely unusable
>copy of xdm. I call that releasing your beta copy NOT releasing a
>"reliable" product.
Well...so did AIX.
>There are many more problems that a quick glance through the sun
>newsgroups would reveal.
A particularly annoying one here is when Solaris decides not to release
rpcs when programs exit. You have to go in by hand using rpcinfo -d and
delete them. Calling various vendors with somewhat sloppy handing of
rpc resources gets the response "It's a Solaris bug...we don't know what
to do yet but the same code runs on everything else."
[snip]
>: would have to rate then higher than HP's and AIX systems though. DEC's don't
>: really count in the comparison till they get a little closer to UNIX.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Care to explain why OSF/1 does not meet you standards but an OS with the
>problems I listed above does? I tend to think that a system that can't
>even keep track of who is logged in correctly is not a complete Unix!
I don't think that OSF/1 is any less unixy from a users standpoint (we
have one but it's being used as a nice X term at the moment) but our
past porting efforts on the older versions of the OS have been
hellish. Mind you we ported to the alpha a year (more?) ago so things
may be better but code that ported just fine from the sun to hp and
sgi was annoyingly difficult to get running on the alpha.
Hmmm...I'm wondering if that was a port to Ultrix...but I don't think so.
Our Ultrix machine is a Decstation or something or other.
>: Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
>Ben Marcotte ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (503) 346-4592
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jgates@netcom.com (Jeffrey K. Gates)
Subject: Infrastructure Issues
Message-ID: <jgatesD4C6yB.41s@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 06:20:34 GMT
Sender: jgates@netcom.netcom.com
I am currently working on a plan to install a large network of NeXT STEP
Cannon Object Stations through out the US. Each of the 40 locations
will have as few as 1 NeXT STEP computer and as many as 50 NeXT STEP
computers. Each station has a 56KB line back to a central location
where the main database is located. We have come up with some infrastructure
questions that we are trying to solve.
1. Where will application binaries reside? Locally at the station?
Centrally at HQ?
Trade off: software distribution overhead vs WAN bandwidth overhead
(ie: NFS over WAN).
2. Where should home directories reside? Locally at the station?
Centrally at HQ? Issue: Some employees travel often.
3. Is it technically feasible for employees who travel often to have home
directories at many (perhaps all) sites where all home directories are
identical? No matter where they are their home directory is local.
4. Where will mail be spooled? Locally at the station? Centrally at HQ?
Issue: Some employees travel often. Trade off: Accessibility of mail
from any station location (many employees travel often) vs WAN
bandwidth overhead.
5. Does there exist any concept of client/server email in NextMail
where email is spooled on the server and the client piece pulls
over one email at a time?
6. How will we backup data on remote site NextStep and HP/UX servers?
7. Will we backup remote site NextStep and DOS/Windows clients?
8. How will we update versions of the NextStep operating system on
servers at remote sites?
9. How will we update versions of the HP/UX operating system on servers at
remote sites?
10. For remote sites, where will offsite tape storage be?
11. In the event of a server failure at a remote site, what is the processing
of bringing that site back on-line?
12. How can windows applications (ie: MS-Word, MS-Excell, WordPerfect, etc)
be run on a NextStep workstation?
13. How should we integrate DNS with NetInfo? The goal here is to do
data entry once, and migrate data from one directory service to the other.
14. How do we take control of a remote PC? I want to see what they see and
share complete control of their PC. With DOS/Windows or NeXT Step.
15. Are there any high throughput, high bandwidth band printers that talk
TCP/IP and can be driven from a NextStep system?
We do have answers for all of these questions. What we are looking
for are BETTER ANSWERS. Please e-mail me back at jgates@netcom.com
Thanks,
Jeff
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 13:50:17 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>, knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) writes:
|> In article <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil
|> (Butch Deal) writes:
|> |> In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans
|> |> van Hoesel) writes:
|> |> |> Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
|> |> |>
|> |> |> : I think a lot of this is based on familiarity & what you've used
|> |> in
|> |> |> : the past.
|> |> |>
|> |> |>
|> |> |> This easely to improve on when installing SGI.
|> |> |> 1) the system comes pre installed
|> |>
|> |> yeah with everything in one large partition!
|> |>
|>
|> This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
|> remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
|> exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
|> a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
|>
sure but it doesn't beat a small root partition that DOESN'T fill up.
There are a few places all over that anyone can write to. When you have
one partition, what you really have is a large root partition with several
places anyone can write to. Home directories are in the one partition as well.
pretty easy till fill up the large partition with your user partitions there
as well as a few temp dirs.
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: gerald@warbird.usae.bah.com (Gerald G. Washington)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 21 Feb 1995 15:49:01 GMT
Organization: Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
Distribution: global
Message-ID: <3id21e$38l@booz.bah.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <msuzio.792974686@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <D44s7z.3CLp@austin.ibm.com> <D45o47.1I0A@chrh.org>
Paul Jones (pej@chrh.org) wrote:
: In <D44s7z.3CLp@austin.ibm.com> woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
: >I guess some of you haven't seen our Visual System Management tools
: >that ship standard on AIX 4.1 and as a RPQ for AIX 3.2.*, if I
: >remember correctly. Real cool and makes lots of common system admin
: >stuff a breeze especially for people from the PC world, but only for
: >AIX.
: PLUG!! PLUG!!
: And again IBM slips an advertisement into the middle of the discussion!
Drat, and they tried to slip facts in, too! Let's stick to the always
informative "System XXX is better, because I am familiar with it."
-- Gerald
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: anyone know about zsh?
Date: 22 Feb 1995 16:21:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ifoak$h8k@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <9502221515.AA08488@alleg.EDU>
In article <9502221515.AA08488@alleg.EDU> luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J
Luoma) writes:
> [message posted and emailed to original author]
>
> I know where you can find it:
>
Me, too: NS 3.3 User.
258[/externalDisk/Users/art]% zsh
nextcube% echo $VERSION
zsh 2.5.02
---
Art Isbell NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com
NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Trego Systems Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care USmail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
From: emaben@stat.ufl.edu (Egbert Maben)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: login window dissappeared
Date: 20 Feb 1995 17:11:06 GMT
Organization: UF Department of Statistics
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iaifa$8r0@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Keywords: loginwindow windowserver port
We are facing a problem with one of our nextcube machines.
The loginwindow has dissappeared and the monitor is blank.
We can pop up the nmi monitor window and reboot the system.
At the boot time, no system errors are displayed. I checked
in /usr/adm/messages and sometimes (not always) it writes
the errormessage - Can't find windowserver port. I made
sure that there is no hardware failure in the monitor or
mother board, by replacing the hard drive with an old one
we had, and making everything to work.
I checked whether /usr/spool/NeXT/loginwindow exists and
it sure does.
If anyone has any clues about solving this problem (what
files to check? what files to copy from OD etc etc), please
e-mail your responses to me.
Thanks,
--
Egbert Maben
From: hubert@grass (Hubert B. Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The wackiest problem I have ever seen
Date: 23 Feb 1995 00:06:52 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3igjis$2vg@netserv.unmc.edu>
OK,
Here is a problem that has me stumped. There is a small network at one of our
sites of 10 or so NEXTSTEP/Intel boxes running on a 16mb/sec token ring network.
The boxes are a mix of two brands - so the problem I am about to
described isn't attributable to any particular kind of hardware. We have close
to 30 machines on a token ring at another site and NONE of these machines
exhibit this behavior.
Two of the machines "hang" in you hit the escape key while in a shell. The
hang lasts for 10 seconds or so. The two machnes that do this are the Netinfo
server and its clone. The machines that are NetInfo clients do not have
this behavior.
While "hung" the machines are basically dead. Clicking on another window has
no effect until after the 10 or so seconds. One of these boxes is our database
server, so this behavior is not acceptable.
I haven't experienced this problem anywhere else in my four years of NEXTSTEPPin
It doesn't occur on any other machines that I know of. Has any else
experienced this problem?
Hubert Hickman
hubert@hksys.com
(402) 697-1310
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com's message of 22 Feb 1995 02:40:40 GMT
Message-ID: <BZS.95Feb21220330@world.std.com>
Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Organization: The World
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com>
<D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com> <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
<D4DKwI.CL9@world.std.com> <3ie878$g1s@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 03:03:30 GMT
From: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com (Michael I. Gold)
>>I would think /usr/ucb/mail would be Berkeley mail. Isn't it?
>
>Well, since /usr/ucb is not a part of IRIX, you'll have to ask Barry
>what he put in there. :-)
It's just a symlink to /usr/bsd/ to ease the transition.
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD
From: mcguire@cs.umt.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 16:48:20 GMT
Organization: University of Montana
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com> <3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch> <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com>
In article <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com>, woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S.
Woan) writes:
|> In article <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch>,
|> Stefan Monnier <monnier@di.epfl.ch> wrote:
|> >Well, AIX isn't the only unix with an advanced file system.
|> >It's actually getting common to offer a log-structured FS addtionnally
|> >to plain UFS. It's so much faster to reboot and to repartition !
|>
|> IBM was the first of the big players to offer this (contributed this
|> to OSF) and in the latest rev, we also offer inline compression along
|> with some more tuning parameters.
|> --
|> +------All Views Expressed Are My Own And Not Necessarily Shared By
|> IBM-----+
Simply having a Journaled filesystem is a good thing, but IBM's logical
volume manager takes everything one major step forward. The LVM is
probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
The rumors I've heard are that DEC is giving up on supplying anything
like the Logical Volume Management.
Charlie
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Tools or advice for partitioning large SCSI disks? (and creating disktab entries)
Message-ID: <1995Feb21.203227.3092@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3hvt2c$9j5@enst.enst.fr>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 20:32:27 GMT
In article <3hvt2c$9j5@enst.enst.fr> philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre
Prindeville) writes:
> I have a PC that I run UNIX on and although it's NextStep, the
> problem is the same for 386bsd and Linux...
>
> I have partitioned my disk (a 1.038G IBM DPES-31080) into 4 partitions
> of different sizes. These are "DOS" partitions. I need now to
> create a disktab entry that corresponds to the physical characteristics
> of my disk (heads, sectors/track, tracks, cylinders, etc) as well
> as the partition start and size data...
>
> Is there a program that reads the DOS partition information, gets
> the drive characteristics, and generates /etc/disktab entries or
> data suitable for making a disktab entry?
>
> DOS tells me that my partitions are as follows:
>
> Start Size
> 32 704480
> 704512 163840 868352 704512
> 1572864 544768
>
> And that my disk looks like:
>
> Sides = 128 (?) Tracks = 517 Sec/Track = 32
>
> Usable sectors = 2117631
>
> Running scsimodes on the drive tells me otherwise:
>
> SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a Drive type: IBM DPES-31080 !t S31H1
> 512 bytes per sector 108 sectors per track 4 tracks per cylinder
> 4903 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) 50 spare
> sectors per cylinder 8 alternate tracks per volume 2118143 usable
> sectors on volume
>
> Also, the documentation from NeXT (NeXTanswers #1533) that tells
> me that I need to set the front porch to sector #320, and the
> beginning of the boot region to sector #64, which doesn't coincide
> with what DOS is telling me...
>
> I'm dazed and confused. Anyone got a handle on this or a utility
> for creating disktabs? Thanks, and please reply directly...
>
Your confusion seems to come from a misunderstood idea of BIOS disk
support.
MS/DOS has no native concept of SCSI disks. Thus, BIOS (either on chip or
coming with the SCSI adapter) is mapping the linear SCSI address space
into an apparent cylinder/track/sector geometry MessyDOS is expecting. If
you now ask DOS about the geometry of an SCSI disk it is innocently
reporting the fairy tale BIOS is making up for her.
NS is SCSI aware, so you must act according to the data scsimodes is
reading out of the disk drive's conf data.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: ambi@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing Video Resolution Destroyed Preferences
Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:15:45 GMT
Organization: Boston University
Message-ID: <3id3jh$8c0@news.bu.edu>
References: <westesD4C0MH.Ir4@netcom.com>
In article <westesD4C0MH.Ir4@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
> I just changed my ATI Ultra Pro from 1024x768 to 1120x832. After I
> rebooted the machine, every userid that I logged in as had its
> preferences, including the Workspace Manager Preferences that sets
> the all-important toolbar, reset to its defaults.
>
> Does changing the video resolution always reset the values in your
> ~/.NeXT directory? Why!?
>
The Workspace Manager keeps defaults for the dock for all your different
resolution heights. Do a 'dread -l | grep Workspace' in a terminal window
and you'll see all the different defaults for the different resolutions.
It does this (presumably), becuase different resolutions heights can hold
a different number of icons in the dock.
Mike
From: steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (Steve Trainoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unkillable processes under 3.0?
Date: 22 Feb 1995 01:08:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ie2q4$dkh@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
Can anyone explain the existance of unkillable processes?
It sometimes happens that we get an unkillable process. By unkillable, I mean one which ignores "kill -9". I was under the impression that the only processes which ignore SIGKILL are ones which are in an uninteruptible kernal wait, such as an NFS read.
Here is a senario which we just had. We had a process go berserk and spawn lots of subprocesses. I killed most of them and two were left as unkillable. Here they are:
ja
bberwocky:1# ps auxww | grep octave | grep -v grep
mike 396 48.2 0.8 3.94M 240K p1 R 5:05 (octave)
mike 412 45.5 1.0 3.94M 296K p1 R 4:49 (octave)
jabberwocky:2# kill -9 396 412
jabberwocky:3# ps auxww | grep octave | grep -v grep
mike 396 48.4 0.8 3.94M 240K p1 R 5:10 (octave)
mike 412 47.0 1.0 3.94M 296K p1 R 4:55 (octave)
As you can see, they refuse to die. Does anyone know why?
--
..STeve
------------------------------------
Insert pithy maxim here...
steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (NeXT mail)
From: konrad@stieltjes.smc.univie.ac.at (Konrad Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: set up for WWW server
Date: 20 Feb 1995 12:17:20 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Vienna, Dept. of Statistics, OR and Computer Methods
Message-ID: <3ia18g$9et@infosrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
References: <3hir0p$1ka@news.iastate.edu> <3hlc6u$crd@matlock.mindspring.com>
Jeffrey A. Sickel (jsickel@sickel.com) wrote:
: In article <3hir0p$1ka@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
: >
: > I'm trying to get a home page for the WWW set up on my NeXT, but
: when I
: > try to go to it from somewhere else I get a "System call 'connect'
: failed:
: > Connection refused" error. Does anybody know how I can get my
: machine to
: > accept connect calls?
: [chop]
: Are you using an httpd server? If so, make sure your configuration
: scripts are correct. It can be a hassel if they are not. You'll
:
Another problem could be that you did not add the appropriate
settings to services and the inetd configuration. The first has to be
done with netinfo, and you have to add an entry
http 80/tcp
to the services database (of course, in the appropriate format with a
name and a port tag and so forth, but the format should be rather obvious)
and then you have to add a line
http stream tcp nowait user /where/ever/your/server/is.
user is the user id under which the server should be running
(definitely not root). inetd.conf is in /etc btw.
This is the onfiguration i personally recommend as it does not
leave the server running all the time, but only loads it on demand.
You can also have it running standalone, this is much simpler to set up,
but much more inflexible.
Also, you have to watch what port it is running on. ifyou
are ust running it as a user (non-root), then you cannot
access the ports < 1024. WWW browsers usually look at port 80
if not instructed otherwise.
if you have that situation, you can access the server as
http://machine:port/
hope this clears things,
//konrad
WebFreak at large.
--
Konrad Neuwirth Finger me for more information.
------
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea --
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a
source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
-- g. spafford, 1992
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From: stevek@apertus.com (Steve Kappel)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>
Sender: news@apertus.com (Usenet system)
Organization: Apertus Technologies, Inc.
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:55:15 GMT
In article <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)>>bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>>
>>>I used to be a big Sun/SunOS fan, owned a lot of Suns in my day (and a
>>>few Solbourne multis, Sparc, SunOS), but once they went to SVR4 it
>>>didn't seem to matter much compared to something like IRIX (also
>>>SVR4), and it was clear to me Sun was going thru pains changing over
>>>to SVR4 that I didn't want to share that with them. IRIX was about 2
>>>years ahead of them on SVR4 and, more importantly, SVR4/SMP. Maybe
>>>some day when they get it figured out I'll consider a big Sun again, I
>>>think Sun remains an interesting company, it's too bad they managed
>>>the switchover to SVR4 so poorly (IMHO, but follow the money.)
>>
>>This strikes me as odd. SGI was mainly a SVR3, not SVR4 system It was
>>definitely not SVR4/SMP. SGI is SMP as has a more experience with that
>>than Sun. But SGIs MP servers have much the same problems as Suns.
>
>Yer showing yer age, how long has it been since 5.x started shipping?
>A few years?
>
>At any rate, the new IRIX 5.3 seems to have reached a new level of
>maturity in SMP, parallelized networking internals, etc. They still
>need to do some work on their pty performance (probably actually
>related to streams) but this is fine with 200+ people online. I hear
>Sun's SS2000 systems (comparable in market niche to my Challenge XL)
>can't do anything like that tho Solaris 2.4 may have helped, adding
>CPUs doesn't help (ie, money doesn't help, that's frustrating!) There
>are also a lot of niceties like 8GB partitions (and an add-on from
>SGI, XFS, that cranks that up to some unthinkable number as well as
>adding some other features, ask them.)
>
>I also like being able to go to 36 CPUs on the Challenge if and when
>the day comes, vs 20 on the SS2000, tho I'll guess that likely when
>that day comes Sun has figured out a way to double the CPUs so they'll
>be comparable. In all honesty a max of 20 would serve us right now and
>for the next year or so, but hey I like big.
If a 20 processor SS2000 isn't big enough the Cray 6400 (I think that is the
model) goes to 64 SPARC processors on 4 XDbus instead of 2 running
essentially the same O/S.
--
______________________________________________________________________
Steve Kappel Work: stevek@apertus.com
Apertus Technologies, Inc.
7275 Flying Cloud Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: NeXT/Linux file systems
Date: 22 Feb 1995 01:50:37 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3ie59d$7a1@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <D4D1v8.I2x@news.cis.umn.edu>
OK. Given superblocks and endian concerns, could someone who has managed
to modify the ufs-beta to work even read-only please ftp it either to my
computer (next.agsm.ucla.edu; I will handle the rest) or to a public NeXT
site (ftp.cs.orst.edu), please?
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance (ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu)
AGSM at UCLA
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From: bfc@world.std.com (brandon f chubb)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 19:16:53 GMT
Sorry to be jumping into this so late..
In article <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com>,
Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>World.std.com (The World) is an SGI Challenge XL with 8x200MHZ R4400s,
>512MB, 5xSCSI (3 F+W, 2 F), etc. We also have an SGI CHallenge L with
>4x100MHZ, 256MB, 3 SCSI, etc as a news server and a FDDI between them.
>
>We're running IRIX 5.3.
At the risk of Barry cutting me off from World..I must put in two
cents from a user perspective. I'm not addressing the admin part of
it at all.
I much preferred when World was on a Solbourne. I mainly run 2 commands
on this system, mail and trn, both of which have what I think are serious
flaws. It makes it a relief to be back on OSF.
The SGI 'mail' utility has a funny habit of skipping every other message
if I'm reading and deleting each one. This is just berkely mail -- nothing
fancy. Works fine on OSF, Sun OS, Solaris, the Intel Unices, and any other
Unix I've tried.
The newsreader trn has a funny habit of not starting at the beginning of
the unread articles, whether just beginning reading a newsgroup or using
the '^' to go to the first article. (This may happen because of my particular
settings, but hey, it happens.)
So on the basis of using mainly two commands and both of them having
problems I'd wonder how much more is broken on SGI.
It may be that its not SGI's fault -- if someone has seen these problems,
please set me straight!
>AIX? You couldn't pay me enough...
-- brandon
From: jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two questions: Newsgrazer and Printer
Date: 21 Feb 1995 07:36:05 -0500
Organization: The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3icmnl$jht@thor.tjhsst.edu>
I've got two questions: The first is about Newsgrazer. I'm running a NeXT on a
non-NeXT network (Black Hardware, NextStep 2.1). Anyway, the news gets fed to
one machine on our network, and I was wondering if there was any way for me
to configure Newsgrazer to check read all the news from that machine....
The other problem is with our network printer. It's a non-NeXT printer,
connected to a non-NeXT machine. I set it up in NetInfo, and it worked a bit
for a few days, although I could only print from a shell with lpr and such.
All the applications except PrintManager said they couldn't connect to the
print daemon. PrintManager worked fine. But now, lpc and lpq insist that the
machine the printer is connected to is down. The machine IS up, and I've tried
rebooting both machines. Any ideas?
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep and SUN SPARCs
Date: 21 Feb 1995 22:13:45 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Feb21221345@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <matthias.3.51.2F4A1F35@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
To: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
In-reply-to: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:13:25 GMT
<matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
> I had heard and read a lot about OpenStep when I still got NeXTWORLD
>Magazine, but we all know what happened to that! I was wondering, though,
>since I am sure many of you have information on this product, which machines
>it is planned to run on. I know it will be part of the next (no pun intended)
>release of Solaris, but I am not a big SUN person and don't know much about
>when that will be, or even which SUN machines Solaris will run on (All?).
> To the point: if I were to buy a SPARC 1 machine, would OpenStep run on it,
>and does anyone have any information relating to performance. Also, will SUN
>distribute OpenStep, or will NeXT? AND (last thing, really) will OpenStep run
>most NeXTstep apps? I see that people are already including SPARC in their
>MAB files, so I guess it will.... Please, let me know any of this which you
>have knowledge about! Thanks.
>Karl
OpenStep to my knowledge isn't certified to run on anything less than
a SPARC 5. I own a SPARC 2 and would like to hear otherwise.
OpenStep to my knowledge is separate from NS/SPARC and binary
compatibility isn't there. It's a whole new API. hopefully it's not
backward compatible otherwise that will mean the all or any of the ugliness in
NeXTSTEP will be carried over.
--
"Oh no, actually darling I don't have time for games."
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From: bchin@nikita (Bill Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep and SUN SPARCs
Date: 22 Feb 1995 04:47:19 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3iefkn$f5d@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <matthias.3.51.2F4A1F35@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> <ROBERT.95Feb21221345@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
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robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk writes:
><matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>> To the point: if I were to buy a SPARC 1 machine, would OpenStep
>> run on it, and does anyone have any information relating to
>> performance. Also, will SUN distribute OpenStep, or will NeXT?
>> AND (last thing, really) will OpenStep run most NeXTstep apps?
> OpenStep to my knowledge isn't certified to run on anything
> less than a SPARC 5. I own a SPARC 2 and would like to hear
> otherwise.
Actually, this information hasn't been released. While it is true that
the upcoming release of NEXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC will require a
MicroSPARC II or SuperSPARC (that's the 5, 10 & 20), OpenStep is
another animal. According to released information, OpenStep will
become part of some later Solaris release. There has been speculation
that any machine capable of running that Solaris release will be able
to run OpenStep (SPARC, Intel, PPC). At least, we hope. :-) So
there's a chance that older SPARC workstations will someday be able to
run OpenStep. But would you really want to? After all, a SPARC 2 is
about as fast a 486DX2 66Mhz. Finally, Sun will distribute the
OpenStep as part of Solaris. NeXT will sell NEXTSTEP 4.0 as NeXT's
OpenStep reference implementation. What is DEC going to do with
OpenStep? That's a good question.
..Bill
From: bshk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Hosung Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP : Only root can login a machine!
Date: 21 Feb 1995 20:36:25 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Message-ID: <3idis9$8t@news.ecn.bgu.edu>
References: <3i3c82$98q@news.ecn.bgu.edu>
There are already other users in the machine.
When I login the machine as ordinary user, I get following message
"login: no shell : Permission denied"
Hosung Kim (bshk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
: Only root have permission to login a NeXT machine.
: I'd like to give the login permission to other users.
: How can I do that.
: Please help me!
: Thank you.
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 21:26:55 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3idlqv$s1t@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu> <3idhu1$1sr@tabloid.amoco.com>
In article <3idhu1$1sr@tabloid.amoco.com>, cjmace@amoco.com (cjohn mace) writes:
|> In article <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>,
|> Paul 'Shag' Walmsley <ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu> wrote:
|>
|> >How do you suggest setting up a small root partition that doesn't fill
|> >up?
|>
|> No /var, no /tmp and no files or directories with 777 permission, or owned
|> by anyone other than root/bin/sys/.... Thus, a root filesystem that doesn't
|> fill up.
|>
|> ps-of course quotas would probably stop 99% of the full single partition
|> systems.
|>
True but you would have to set up a quota for every user on every system, and
it would have to be restrictive to prevent two or more users from
inadvertantly filling it up.
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: bfc@world.std.com (brandon f chubb)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4DKwI.CL9@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com> <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 00:19:29 GMT
In article <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com>,
Michael I. Gold <gold@puck.esd.sgi.com> wrote:
>bfc@world.std.com (brandon f chubb) writes:
>
>>The SGI 'mail' utility has a funny habit of skipping every other message
>>if I'm reading and deleting each one. This is just berkely mail -- nothing
>>fancy. Works fine on OSF, Sun OS, Solaris, the Intel Unices, and any other
>>Unix I've tried.
>
>Methinks you're running /bin/mail (SYSV) instead of /usr/sbin/Mail
>(BSD). /bin/mail is *not* "berkely" mail. Try:
You're right about Mail working better! (Thank you)
But..
world% which mail
/usr/ucb/mail
world%
I would think /usr/ucb/mail would be Berkeley mail. Isn't it?
I'll stick with "BSD" if I ever have to write that again..
-- brandon
From: bny@crl.com (Bradley Yearwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cannot rdump from NeXT cube (2.1) to Sun tape
Date: 22 Feb 1995 19:48:51 -0800
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest]
Message-ID: <3ih0j3$9tt@crl.crl.com>
When I try to rdump my NeXT cube's disk (machine is running 2.1 - don't
laugh now - I _like_ it that way) to a tape on a Sparc running SunOS
4.1.3_U1, I get the following complaint:
DUMP: Protocol to remote tape server botched (in rmtgets).
rdump: Lost connection to remote host.
Is anyone familiar with the cause and solution to this problem?
Brad Yearwood bny@crl.com
Cotati, CA
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From: adrian@abarnett.demon.co.uk (Ade The Shade)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@ru <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Organization: BorderLine
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 23:51:31 +0000
Message-ID: <9502212351.AA000mt@abarnett.demon.co.uk>
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Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: In article <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
: |> Dirk Grunwald (grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: |>
[snip]
: |> 3) installing the other stuff (C++ fortran, nfs etc) takes another
: |> hour (because the cd ain't any faster; not because the work involved
: |> which is nearly nothing.
: make sure you install them in the right order though.
The installation sequence numbers are printed on them.
--
__ __/__ . __ __ | Pope Adrian IV of the Church of The Holy Lungfish,
(_/(_// / (_// / | Larry the Thrice-blessed. Dew de la BAAWA.
The blade of grass that does not bend with the wind
bends the wind around itself.
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing tapestreamer
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:44:49 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <3i2cp1$kii@gymir.ifi.uio.no>
Hi!
I just received my Tandberg streamer tape station but can't make it
work. Do I need to install it somehow in NS?
The AutoSCSI Utilities config. program for my BT445C SCSI-card reports
the streamer at SCSI id 5 (the default which happens to be free).
When I boot NS the bootprocess doesn't report anything about the
tapestreamer (is it supposed to?).
When I run tar tvf /dev/rxt0 (or rxt1) I get the message "tar:
/dev/rxt0: No such device".
I am running on NS 3.2/FIP and the streamer is external. All configs.
are set to default.
Can someone please help me?
Arne
--
(arneha@ifi.uio.no)
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: remote printing
Message-ID: <1995Feb22.183334.3426@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3iari3$na2@crl8.crl.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 18:33:34 GMT
In article <3iari3$na2@crl8.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
writes:
> I've got a a machine using another machine's printer
> via the usual printcap entries. This is on Black
> hardware, and the printer is a NeXT Printer.
>
> But the print panel that comes up doesn't include
> the manual feed options. Is it possible to include
> these, or does that require that the printer be
> locally connected?
>
If you want all features of NeXT printing to be functional you must
administer the printer through NetInfo not the Unix flat files.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
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From: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS)
Subject: NeXT AppleTalk missing since V3.0 ... any idea ?
Organization: Motorola
Date: 22 Feb 1995 00:56:56 MST
Message-ID: <1995Feb22.102859.18486@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Hi I got another problem, maybe someone could help... In the CD for NeXt
Step V.3 there was a AppleTalk package which enabled the NeXT to see
appletalk zones and exchange files between next and apple and novell
which was very very nice. Now i installed 3.3, and i with the install
appletalk disappeared. With 3.1 and 3.2 the same thing happened but
i was able to reinstall the appletalk package from the old 3.0 disk and
run it with no problems. Now, with 3.3 i still can reinstall, but when
i try to click on preferences to enable the appletalk i get a message
that preferences is not able to open the appletalk prefs or something.
Does anybody know of a way to get appletalk running again on 3.3 ?
I would really love it... Thanks much, Joachim
From: ivanov@iren.jinr.dubna.su (Alexander P. Ivanov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where is CR ?
Date: 23 Feb 1995 16:18:48 GMT
Organization: JINR
Message-ID: <3iich8$jtd@cv.jinr.dubna.su>
I am quite new to Unix an NeXT so may be it's a stupid question, anyway
there is a problem: when I logged in to my host from remote (no matter
if it X-term or dumb vt100) and try to have something printed on a screen
(for example by means of 'ls -la') I see the following:
total 160
drwxr-xr-x 16 ivanov 1024 Feb 23 18:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 1024 Feb 23 14:18 ../
drwxr-x--- 2 ivanov 1024 Feb 6 10:12 .GTools/
drwxr-xr-x 5 ivanov 1024 Feb 23 15:56 .NeXT/
-rw------- 1 ivanov 155 Feb 23 18:01 .article
-r--r--r-- 1 ivanov 240 Mar 4 1992 .commanddict
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 491 Feb 22 12:19 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 19109 Feb 21 16:07 .cv.newsrc
-r--r--r-- 1 ivanov 885 Jul 15 1991 .indent.pro
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 73728 Feb 22 15:26 .index.store
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 180 Sep 13 1993 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 6 Sep 13 1993 .logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 19 Sep 13 1993 .mailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 21009 Feb 23 17:57 .newsrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 20997 Feb 23 17:51 .oldnewsrc
-r--r--r-- 1 ivanov 49 Jul 15 1991 .pipedict
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov
257 Sep 13 1993 .plan
-rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 236 Sep 13 1993
.profile
drwxr-xr-x 4 ivanov 1024 Feb 23 17:51 .tin/
drwxr-xr-x 6 ivanov
1024 Feb 19 18:17 Apps/
drwxr-xr-x 8 ivanov 1024 Feb 22 16:30
Library/
etc...
That is from some point there is line feed but no carriage return!!!
Terminal settings looks like correct.
Any help would be appreciated.
Alex.
P.S. My e-mail address is "ivanov@nf.jinr.dubna.su" (no NeXT mail).
From: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep and SUN SPARCs
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 17:13:25 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <matthias.3.51.2F4A1F35@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I had heard and read a lot about OpenStep when I still got NeXTWORLD
Magazine, but we all know what happened to that! I was wondering, though,
since I am sure many of you have information on this product, which machines
it is planned to run on. I know it will be part of the next (no pun intended)
release of Solaris, but I am not a big SUN person and don't know much about
when that will be, or even which SUN machines Solaris will run on (All?).
To the point: if I were to buy a SPARC 1 machine, would OpenStep run on it,
and does anyone have any information relating to performance. Also, will SUN
distribute OpenStep, or will NeXT? AND (last thing, really) will OpenStep run
most NeXTstep apps? I see that people are already including SPARC in their
MAB files, so I guess it will.... Please, let me know any of this which you
have knowledge about! Thanks.
Karl
From: root@arch-ws3 (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenStep and SUN SPARCs
Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:42:28 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Message-ID: <3ihvrk$dn9@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
References: <matthias.3.51.2F4A1F35@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> <ROBERT.95Feb21221345@steffi.dircon.co.uk> <3iefkn$f5d@clarknet.clark.net>
bchin@nikita (Bill Chin) wrote:
>robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk writes:
>><matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>>> To the point: if I were to buy a SPARC 1 machine, would OpenStep
>>> run on it, and does anyone have any information relating to
>>> performance. Also, will SUN distribute OpenStep, or will NeXT?
>>> AND (last thing, really) will OpenStep run most NeXTstep apps?
>> OpenStep to my knowledge isn't certified to run on anything
>> less than a SPARC 5. I own a SPARC 2 and would like to hear
>> otherwise.
>Actually, this information hasn't been released. While it is true
that
>the upcoming release of NEXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC will require a
>MicroSPARC II or SuperSPARC (that's the 5, 10 & 20), OpenStep is
>another animal. According to released information, OpenStep will
>become part of some later Solaris release.
we asked SUN and they told us that Solaris 2.4 (the shipping release)
will be the last release of Solaris which will run on SPARC
processors.(SUN IPC IPX Sparc 1 Sparc2 etc.) (even with S2.4 we had a
lot of difficulties on our IPC-s ..
We have 10 IPC-s and our SUN server 4/70 has a Sparc proc. as well,
so this is quite a hard news for us.... Since 2.4 does not openstep
compatible (at least to my knowledge) I don't think we will be able to
run openstep on this machines....
Gabor
gabor@architektur.uni-kassel.de
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrading to sendmail 8.6.10
Date: 23 Feb 1995 16:35:21 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3iidg9$gkt@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Summary: Suggestions/Problems/Hints on Upgrading sendmail?
Keywords: sendmail, mail, NeXTMail
I am considerring upgrading sendmail on our NeXT network. I have
a few questions/concerns before doing so, and I would like to here
from anyone who has done or considerred doing the same:
1. What version of sendmail does vanilla NS3.2 use?
2. Can I use the same sendmail.cf file (the one used now), or
does it require upgrading too?
3. Would you recommend or not recommend such an upgrade?
--
| Rex A. Dieter | Research Associate |
| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
From: phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: xanim for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:38:47 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ihvkn$g7l@sun1.uni-essen.de>
References: <3ibpn7$bf@news.iastate.edu> <3ife9r$kb@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Droll Sven (sdroll@troi.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
: In article <3ibpn7$bf@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
: >
: > Does anybody have some form of xanim that will work with NeXTSTEP
: without
: > X-windows?
: > [...]
: Motion.app plays .xmovie- und .anim-files
: MPEG_Play.app plays .mpg-files
: no prog known that plays .mov-files
Try NEXTIME from NeXT. Seems to be an interesting application in
development.
--
Ruediger Oberhage
From: schwett@differencengine (Mark Schwettmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Direct File Copy to LPR/PP0 ??
Date: 23 Feb 1995 09:43:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3ihlc1$3gv@agate.berkeley.edu>
A question for the UNIX experts out there:
One of my ApartmentMates who runs several other NON-NEXTSTEP operating
systems would like to be able to use my printer. We have a minimal
sort of LAN running with TCP/IP - he can telnet in and telnet out
to the rest of the world via my PPP port, ftp works fine, etc. etc.
but NO Netinfo or anything fancy.
He can print to a file, and then ftp the file over here, and then
copy it to /dev/pp0. This works for small documents, but the
parallel port gets overrun easily and is not reliable. lpr
does not overrun, of course, but it does not like printing the
PCL5 codes generated by the Windows LaserJet IV driver. Is there
any mechanism for spooling to a printer that will not mess up the
file or overrung pp0?
Should I just have him printfile to a PostScript printer?
Thanks!
Mark Schwettmann
REPLY TO MSCHWETT@CED.BERKELEY.EDU NOT DIFFERENCENGINE..
(or just followup!)
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From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: anyone know about zsh?
In-Reply-To: luomat@alleg.EDU's message of 22 Feb 1995 09:16:09 -0600
To: luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J Luoma)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.95Feb22230210@freedom.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <9502221515.AA08488@alleg.EDU>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 04:02:10 GMT
In article <9502221515.AA08488@alleg.EDU> luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J Luoma) writes:
I know where you can find it:
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/shell/zsh.2.4pl315.N
I.bs.tar.gz
Actually that is a fairly old version (though functional).
As for whether or not zsh is better, I'll leave that to others who
use it to tell you (I expect Carl Edman to join the conversation
soon ;-)
Don't you theology students learn about not naming the devil ?
The standard archive for zsh is:
ftp://ftp.math.gatech.edu/pub/zsh
There you will find a number of newer versions of zsh. 2.5 should
compile without problems and the current beta version of 2.6 isn't too
difficult to compile.
The WWW page for zsh (with lots of links) is:
http://mal9000.bevc.blacksburg.va.us/zsh/zsh_home.shtml
Zsh also comes with recent versions of NS, if you run 3.3 you needn't
worry about installation at all.
Of course, there is no need to point this out as everybody who knows
anything about UN*X, shells or NeXTs has been running zsh for years
anyway.
Carl Edman
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From: ken@kgcc.demon.co.uk (Ken Green)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4Fz4D.31p@kgcc.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 07:21:48 GMT
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com> <3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch> <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>
Organization: Ken Green Computer Consultancy
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Charlie McGuire (mcguire@cs.umt.edu) wrote:
> Simply having a Journaled filesystem is a good thing, but IBM's logical
> volume manager takes everything one major step forward. The LVM is
> probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
> system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
> or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
> The rumors I've heard are that DEC is giving up on supplying anything
> like the Logical Volume Management.
I thought LVM was part of OSF/1. Certainly the version that ships with HP-UX
is decended from the OSF version. Since DEC uses OSF as their Unix
implementation why would they ant to drop this technology ?
--
__________________email Ken.Green@kgcc.demon.co.uk _____________________
Ken Green Computer Consultancy
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From: esb@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rousseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black 3.3 Problem
Date: 23 Feb 1995 17:10:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iifhk$qq2@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
I used 3.3pr2 in 68K and Intel and found frequent hangs when Backspace
was invoked. I must say that my Intel system is generally robust, but
does frequently hang when Backspace is used with screen locker even under 3.2.
I found 3.3 to be really sketchy under the prerelease version
(like 3.2SPARC prerelease). I understand the full version of 3.3 is better.
My suggestion Use Fiend instead of Backspace. But, YMMV.
Mike Rousseau
SHL Systemhouse
Object Technology Center
Boulder, CO
In <3hm1tn$635@kelowna.awinc.com> pwilson@awinc.com (Peter D. Wilson) writes:
>
>Since installing NS3.3, my system has been hanging quite regularly. It
>seems to be related to NXFax. After installing NXFax 1.04 The problem has
>certainly lessened but is still annoying.
>It has something to do with Modem activity (and maybe Screen Savers ..
>both BackSpace and Next's own. The other day I was dialing in from my NT
>machine to the Next and things were going fine until the Screen Saver
>kicked in .. the Next hung. It also hangs during uucico sessions to my
>mail feed... I get uncompleted XQT's which are processed on the next call
>out.
>
From: r-larkin@uiuc.edu (Ronald P. Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 09:55:59 -0600
Organization: Illinois Natural History Survey
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <r-larkin-1702950955590001@room-11-660.inhs.uiuc.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <STRANGE.95Feb17093045@squeeze.dec.com>
This thread is most useful to someone who needs unix boxes, has no unix
experience yet, and needs perspective. Thanks especially to the
administrators of diverse sites who have compared different systems
directly! Is there any other source of such informed opinion? Perhaps
even the massive crossposting is justified....
Ron Larkin
--
Ron Larkin (r-larkin@uiuc.edu)
Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign IL 61820
From: stanifor@helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New CERT advisories
Date: 23 Feb 1995 17:04:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <3iif7g$i68@mark.ucdavis.edu>
CERT just produced an advisory about new Sendmail bugs (see
comp.security.announce). NeXT is not mentioned one way or the other
in the advisory. Does anyone know if we are vulnerable or not? (And
yes I have installed the previous sendmail patch).
Stuart.
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From: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS)
Subject: HeLp!!* NeXT SMTP mail problems *Please*Help*
Organization: Motorola
Date: 22 Feb 1995 00:56:56 MST
Message-ID: <1995Feb22.082018.16184@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Hello there, i have a big problem with my NeXT (colorStation). The next
was part of a NetInfo network and was turned into a local machine. Now,
i also would like to use e-mail on the machine. At the time the machine
was in the network, mail was working fine. There was a different host acting
as a mail server for my machine, and i had no problems. /usr/spool/mail of
the server was mounted on my machine and i received mail all right.
Now, since the machine is 'stand alone' (it's still connected to the ethernet
of course :-) i would like to use the machine as its 'own' mail server,
so what i did is i unmounted /usr/spool/mail from the mail server and made
my own system (called cssnext1) the mailhost using the host manager application
I created an alias 'mailhost' for cssnext1. After this was done i tried mail,
and i was able to send mail with no problem. But when i try to send mail TO
my next, i got the following problem:
From Mailer-Agent@cssnext1 Wed Feb 22 03:47 CST 1995
Received: from cssnext1.corp.mot.com by eurodc.corp.mot.com.corp.mot.com
(5.61/MCDMAIL IR04 [05/22/90 14:47]/2.1msm) id AA01590; Wed, 22 Feb 95 03:
47:46 -0600
Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
id AA00315; Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Message-Id: <9502220750.AA00315@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>
To: tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com
Status: OR
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mailhost:
>>> HELO cssnext1.corp.mot.com
<<< 553 cssnext1.corp.mot.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com>
Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
id AA00313; Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
Received: from eurodc.corp.mot.com by zwgba.corp.mot.com with SMTP
(1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA07090; Wed, 22 Feb 95 01:53:23 -0600
Received: by eurodc.corp.mot.com.corp.mot.com
(5.61/MCDMAIL IR04 [05/22/90 14:47]/2.1msm) id AA01586; Wed, 22 Feb 95 03:
47:39 -0600
From: "Joachim Franke" <tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com>
........
and so on. This was the reply i got back when trying to send mail to
my account on the next (jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com)
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong ? Any help would be very
appreciated, i really need this going.
I just have another short question, is it possible to use a SUN station
instead as a mail-server for my next ?
Thanks much to all , Joachim
From: esb@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rousseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RFO: 68K NeXT v. Sun mailhost
Date: 23 Feb 1995 17:29:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iigmh$r43@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
I was told by an ex-coworker who may or may not have been a bigwig at NeXT
that a NetInfo network 'likes' having a black NeXT as the mailhost.
I have just suffered the failure of the HP internal on our 040 cube mailhost.
I want to use a mirrored RAID 2+ disc array, and am now wondering "Do I
really want to keep our current host, or use a Sun2 with a Sun RAID pack."
Well, do I <Q-mark doesn't work on my PC>. The NeXT is a solid machine (generally).
It has the advantage of running NetInfo and having enough RAM. It is, however,
six years old. What would you prefer.
Mike Rousseau
Sufferin' SysAdmin
SHL Object Technology Center
Boulder, CO
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Feb 1995 16:33:22 GMT
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3id4ki$t2t@news.ycc.yale.edu>
References: <vwalkerD46q5q.Cv6@netcom.com>
In article <vwalkerD46q5q.Cv6@netcom.com> vwalker@netcom.com (Vic Walker)
writes:
> Wayne, have you worked with NeXTStep (I found this note in a NeXTStep
> newsgroup), and could you give me a comparison with linux? I'm trying to
> set up a NeXTStep-based UNIX network for a high school district. Trying
> to get NeXTStep to do ANYTHING I want has been like pulling teeth.
Could you please provide some details with this flame?
I've found NEXTSTEP to be the easiest Unix to install
and configure without exception in my experience
(HP-UX, Irix, etc). The Admin GUI tools are very good
in the current revision. Where NEXTSTEP falls short is
in keeping the BSD unix utilities up to date, but that
hasn't affected the generic install/config process in
my experience. There are always things I would like
to be better about NEXTSTEP, but isn't that true for
all our favorite OSs?
Cheers,
-Nathan
--
Nathan Janette
Systems Manager, Axel T. Br nger Lab
Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Voice: 203 432 5065
Fax: 203 432 3923
From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 19:22:52 GMT
Organization: MacroModel Development Group, Chemistry, Columbia U., NY, NY
Message-ID: <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com> wrote:
> This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
>remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
>exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
>a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
Very simple: it's not what people know, are used to, and love to
hate. That makes it bad. It's a gratuitous change that serves
no real purpose. If a small root partition fills up daily, make
the root partition bigger.
-P.
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************* If you find a loose thread, don't pull it. *************
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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: peter@nmti.com's message of Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:41:47 GMT
Message-ID: <BZS.95Feb23231516@world.std.com>
Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Organization: The World
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
<17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu>
<3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 04:15:16 GMT
From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
>In article <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com>,
>Will Morse <will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
>> they can be _just_as_good_enough_ and even cheaper. DEC is, at least
>> at present, NOT good enough and certainly not cheap enough. This
>> gives clone makers no where to go.
>
>In what way is DEC "not good enough"? Their machines are blazing fast, their
>UNIX is solid, and the only downside is they're pretty pricey.
I think what he meant was that, as I express it, "good enough" tends
to win.
That is, people won't pay much of a premium for a little or even quite
a bit better if what they can get for less gets what they want done.
So it's "good enough" in that sense, good enough for the job, so I
think what he's saying is, to bring it back into context, you want to
clone systems that are high volume because they're in that "good
enough" category. It's the same reason people buy a lot more honda
civics and toyota corollas and chevys and fords than they do much
better engineered cars; they're good enough (to get them to work and
the shopping etc and back), so why spend $25K-$50K when you can spend
$15K unless you have a special need or some personal obsession with
quality?
When computers all pretty much sucked in performance, performance was
something to get at any price you could manage, even if it stung the
budget. But if you can get a 100MIPS box for $5000 (with disk etc) and
you're not particularly compute-intensive in your uses how much more
would you pay for 150MIPS or 250MIPS? Not much, maybe not anything,
you're happy with what you get for $5000, maybe you'd rather have more
disk or a nicer monitor or something instead of spending on the MIPS.
This is a lot of the reason (IMHBCO) that DOS and Windows does so well
in the marketplace, it sucks (IMHBCO), but for what many people want
to do it's Good Enough (tm), stick it on a 486DX66 with a 540MB IDE
drive and 16MB of memory with a 15" monitor for like $2500 or less,
with some software even, and away you go. And for a large part of the
market a 486DX33 with 4MB and a 340MB disk and a 14" monitor is "good
enough", for barely over $1000 (probably under.)
Every market has its own "good enough" level.
Some markets, like large servers, compute-intensive and serious
graphics (I suppose a form of compute-intensive) aren't anywhere near
their "good enough" level so will still spend a premium on the
absolute best they can manage, mortgage the house, send the kids off
to work, rent out the spouse, we've got multi-media to produce!
And the clones will tend to follow the "good enough" curve because
that's where they expect the volume to be. They're only going to grab
some small percentage of the market, particularly in the beginning, so
may as well grab a small piece of a bigger pie. The resistance to
buying clones is probably less in their specific price/performance
(tho that has to be better than The Real Thing) and more in losing
because of lack of service, sales and distribution channels, name
brand anxiety, fear that they'll vaporize or their hardware will
become obsoleted or be subtly incompatible, etc.
Once it can compute everything you need in the vertical blanking
interval you're done.
--
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Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS)
Subject: HeLp!!* NeXT SMTP mail problems *Please*Help*
Organization: Motorola
Date: 22 Feb 1995 00:56:56 MST
Message-ID: <1995Feb22.094312.17693@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Hello there, i have a big problem with my NeXT (colorStation). The next
was part of a NetInfo network and was turned into a local machine. Now,
i also would like to use e-mail on the machine. At the time the machine
was in the network, mail was working fine. There was a different host acting
as a mail server for my machine, and i had no problems. /usr/spool/mail of
the server was mounted on my machine and i received mail all right.
Now, since the machine is 'stand alone' (it's still connected to the ethernet
of course :-) i would like to use the machine as its 'own' mail server,
so what i did is i unmounted /usr/spool/mail from the mail server and made
my own system (called cssnext1) the mailhost using the host manager application
I created an alias 'mailhost' for cssnext1. After this was done i tried mail,
and i was able to send mail with no problem. But when i try to send mail TO
my next, i got the following problem:
From Mailer-Agent@cssnext1 Wed Feb 22 03:47 CST 1995
Received: from cssnext1.corp.mot.com by eurodc.corp.mot.com.corp.mot.com
(5.61/MCDMAIL IR04 [05/22/90 14:47]/2.1msm) id AA01590; Wed, 22 Feb 95 03:
47:46 -0600
Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
id AA00315; Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Message-Id: <9502220750.AA00315@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>
To: tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com
Status: OR
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mailhost:
>>> HELO cssnext1.corp.mot.com
<<< 553 cssnext1.corp.mot.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com>
Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
id AA00313; Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
Received: from eurodc.corp.mot.com by zwgba.corp.mot.com with SMTP
(1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA07090; Wed, 22 Feb 95 01:53:23 -0600
Received: by eurodc.corp.mot.com.corp.mot.com
(5.61/MCDMAIL IR04 [05/22/90 14:47]/2.1msm) id AA01586; Wed, 22 Feb 95 03:
47:39 -0600
From: "Joachim Franke" <tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com>
........
and so on. This was the reply i got back when trying to send mail to
my account on the next (jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com)
Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong ? Any help would be very
appreciated, i really need this going.
I just have another short question, is it possible to use a SUN station
instead as a mail-server for my next ?
Thanks much to all , Joachim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
Subject: Re: OpenStep and SUN SPARCs
Message-ID: <D4G5xD.H0@shinto.nbg.sub.org>
Keywords: Openstep, SPARC; Sun, Digital, Trademarks
Sender: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
Organization: STEPeople's home. (A NUGI member)
References: <matthias.3.51.2F4A1F35@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:48:48 GMT
Hi!
Well Suns Openstep beat will start 28. Feb. Nobody said what kind of
machine you need. But I guess everything that is able to run Solaris 2.4
or 2.5 should be no problem.
Opentep is a trademark. It defines the API and Look&Fell for a library
that is OpSt complient.
Sun is going to sell it DOE (which includes Openstep), NeXT wil sell its
NeXTSTEP 4.0 + Openstep/Win95-NT and Digital will sell their version for
OSF/1. Everydoy will sell their own stuff...but except for the GNUstep
project everything will be build on the same code (NeXT sources)...only
the changes to get it running under X-Windows or OSF/1 will come from the
single companies. so there should be no big differences on performance and
everything should be bug-to-.bug compatible.
Openstep won't run NeXTSTEP apps. It will run NeXTSTEP 4.0 app after a
recompile if the necessary kits (or frameworks) are available under the
Openstep system you need it for. Using the RenderMan kit (3Dkit) under
NeXTSTEP 4.0 might get you into troubl under Sun/Openstep..if NeXT won't
sell the kit for Solaris.
SPARC inside the MAB files has nothing to do with Openstep/Solaris...only
with the NeXTSTEPfSPARC port..expected for sometimes in April or so.
Aloha
Tomi
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Neptunstr. 9
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Germany
From: luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: anyone know about zsh?
Date: 22 Feb 1995 09:16:09 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9502221515.AA08488@alleg.EDU>
[message posted and emailed to original author]
I know where you can find it:
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/shell/zsh.2.4pl315.N
I.bs.tar.gz
if you are unfamiliar with this notation, it is telling you that zsh
is available in binary and source (the .bs.) for NeXT (black) and
Intel ("white") formats (the NI, where N is for NeXT and I is for
Intel).
You didn't say what version you were using (try the 'arch' command
if you really aren't sure, if it says m68k or i386 it is already
compiled). You may want to post more system info in future posts, so
others will be able to give more specific information.
As for whether or not zsh is better, I'll leave that to others who
use it to tell you (I expect Carl Edman to join the conversation soon
;-)
There is also a readme file:
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/shell/zsh.2.4pl315.README
if you want to know why the authors think it is the best script ever.
From what I've seen, it is quite impressive, I just haven't the time
to learn a new shell, and tcsh has served my needs adequately.
if I can be of any help, let me know
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma Email: luomat@alleg.edu Allegheny College
NeXTStep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: lookupd under 3.3 is broken
Date: 23 Feb 1995 21:53:56 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Message-ID: <3ij05k$nhb@castle.york.ac.uk>
References: <SAMURAI.95Feb16115755@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
> No, the same thing happens to me under 3.2. Sometimes, when messing with
> DNS, the thing will decide that it can't resolve the host names in
> question, but nslookup works fine.
same here - and when lookupd hangs then all TCP activity stops working for
a while ?! This is on white 3.2, doesn't happen under Black 3.0. I'll
find out next week if it does under Black 3.3
-pate.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading to sendmail 8.6.10
Date: 23 Feb 1995 18:54:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iill0$47a@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3iidg9$gkt@crcnis3.unl.edu>
In article <3iidg9$gkt@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes:
>I am considerring upgrading sendmail on our NeXT network. I have
>a few questions/concerns before doing so, and I would like to here
>from anyone who has done or considerred doing the same:
>
>1. What version of sendmail does vanilla NS3.2 use?
NeXT uses a version that originates from 5.67,
but appears to have modified that extensively
internally since then.
>2. Can I use the same sendmail.cf file (the one used now), or
> does it require upgrading too?
You will need a new cf file, and to make new cf file,
you have to update 'm4' macro processor.
>3. Would you recommend or not recommend such an upgrade?
There is are security holes in sendmail that are fixed
in 8.6.10. Whether NeXT's sendmail is vulnerable or
not was not listed in bulletins that are posted
yesterday and today. I suspect that NeXT did not respond
in time for announcement deadline.
------- Forwarded Message
From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.security.unix
Subject: SECURITY PROBLEM; sendmail 8.6.10 released
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 13:57:11 PST
Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project
Lines: 40
Message-ID: <3igbvn$bi5@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: sendmail, security
Xref: agate comp.mail.sendmail:18823 comp.security.unix:12734
A security problem has been found that appears to be present in
ALL versions of sendmail up to and including 8.6.9. This includes
all sendmails based on version 5, which includes most vendor
versions. The vulnerability allows an attacker to read or remove
any file as root, and to run an arbitrary program as any user other
than root.
A CERT Advisory should be out shortly which will detail a general
workaround and available vendor patches, should you be unable to
convert to version 8.
Sendmail 8.6.10, currently available from several places, fixes
this problem. I urge you to install it as soon as possible.
Availability:
FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU /ucb/sendmail
FTP.UU.NET /networking/mail/sendmail/UCB
FTP.CERT.DFN.DE /pub/tools/net/sendmail
FTP.AUSCERT.ORG.AU /pub/mirrors/ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sendmail
Checksums (from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU):
MD5 (sendmail.8.6.10.base.tar.Z) = 4ab8ac267b1eaf8d1725c14cf4b2e885
MD5 (sendmail.8.6.10.cf.tar.Z) = c70c576697bbbf047ed379a7b98633f6
MD5 (sendmail.8.6.10.misc.tar.Z) = 6212390ca0bb4b353e29521f1aab492f
MD5 (sendmail.8.6.10.xdoc.tar.Z) = 8b2252943f365f303b6302b71ef9a841
There's also a wrapper (sendmail_wrapper.c) available from
FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU /ucb/sendmail
FTP.AUSCERT.ORG.AU /pub/auscert/tools
This program will protect version 5 based sendmails from the
problem.
See comp.security.announce for the full CERT advisory, including
availability of vendor patches.
eric
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USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New CERT advisories
Date: 23 Feb 1995 20:27:51 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Feb23202751@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <3iif7g$i68@mark.ucdavis.edu>
To: stanifor@helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen)
In-reply-to: stanifor@helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu's message of 23 Feb 1995 17:04:48 GMT
<stanifor@helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu> writes:
>CERT just produced an advisory about new Sendmail bugs (see
>comp.security.announce). NeXT is not mentioned one way or the other
>in the advisory. Does anyone know if we are vulnerable or not? (And
>yes I have installed the previous sendmail patch).
>Stuart.
Is this sendmail V8?
--
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- imagine how expensive it would be to hire _amatuers_!"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR: VT-100 frondend for NeXT-Mail
In-Reply-To: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com's message of 23 Feb 1995 06:19:53 MST
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Feb23165810@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <1995Feb23.132932.18422@schbbs.mot.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:58:09 GMT
>>>>> "DHEDGES" == DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS <TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com> writes:
DHEDGES> I am looking for a VT-100 front-end for NeXT-Mail,
DHEDGES> something that i can easily read my e-mail from home with
DHEDGES> a dumb emulation.
DHEDGES> Or does anyone have another suggestion what is a good way
DHEDGES> to do this? I was just thinking, how is about setting up
DHEDGES> the next as a POP server and go to my mail via eudorra or
DHEDGES> something ?
DHEDGES> Did anyone do this ? Is that easy? Many thanks for the
DHEDGES> help,
DHEDGES> Joachim
Do you have a NeXT at home? If you have one then it will be easy for
you to read NeXTMAIL's. If not you should stick to ordinary ascii mails.
I did the setup for a NeXT to become a Pop server and it was very
easy to do. All you need is a pre-compiled program available at
ftp.cs.orst.edu in pub/next/binaries/mail/sources/popper.src.*
Follow the instructions...
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Ray Ryan <rjrjr@lighthouse.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Make a Macintosh Drive a NeXT CD-ROM?
Date: 23 Feb 1995 20:59:31 GMT
Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iisvj$35e@lighthouse.lighthouse.com>
Does anyone know what extensions and inits and such I need to let a
Quadra use an old NeXT CD-ROM drive?
Please e-mail responses to rjrjr@lighthouse.com. I'll post anything
interesting that shows up.
--
Ray Ryan, Lighthouse Design, Ltd. +1-415-570-7736
rjrjr@lighthouse.com http://www.lighthouse.com/~rjrjr/
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: abstine@visix.com (Art Stine)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Sender: news@visix.com
Message-ID: <ABSTINE.95Feb23162949@hummer.visix.com>
In-Reply-To: mcguire@cs.umt.edu's message of 22 Feb 1995 16:48:20 GMT
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:29:48 GMT
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com>
<3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch>
<D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>
Organization: Visix Software Inc.
In article <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu> mcguire@cs.umt.edu (Charlie McGuire) writes:
The rumors I've heard are that DEC is giving up on supplying anything
like the Logical Volume Management.
I think you've heard wrong... they already supply it (AdvFS) has been
supplied for quite awhile now on OSF/1.
-art stine
visix software
From: Bryce_Jasmer@NeXT.COM (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: anyone know about zsh?
Date: 24 Feb 1995 01:29:37 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ijcq1$smt@news.next.com>
References: <9502221515.AA08488@alleg.EDU>
Timothy J Luoma writes
->[message posted and emailed to original author]
->
->I know where you can find it:
->
->ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/shell/zsh.2.4pl315.N
->I.bs.tar.gz
->
Here is an even better URL:
file:/usr/bin/zsh
Bryce
irectory.
In order for this to make any sense I should tell you about our
current setup. Originally, we had one machine (NeXTstation color,
NS 3.0) which is connected to the local network as a standalone.
There are only a few (6) users on it and
I do the sysadmin. When I added the new machine
(NeXTstation mono, NS 3.2) I configured it as a standalone also
but had it import (nfs) the home directories from the original
machine. In addition I copied the user and group info onto
the new machine. This seemed to work except when I log into
one of the user accounts on the new machine the getwd procedure
(used by pwd) will not return any value. Much of the other
software uses this command also (Edit, etc.) so it pretty much
makes the system useless.
I would very much appreciate ANY ideas or solutions.
Thank you,
Ryan Scott
scott@ee.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Subject: Mux V1.7 was placed on archive sites in error
Message-ID: <D4HE99.Js@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Organization: UNIX drivers'R'Us
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 01:46:20 GMT
If any of you that use NXFax, and had taken the recent V1.7 Mux sources off
of the following sites:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions.
ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/next/i486/Drivers/3.3/Mux-1.7.tar.gz
bandw.com
or from me personally, I had mistakenly shipped V1.6 (except in a few cases).
If you do not use NXFax, V1.6 is virtually identical to V1.7 for all other
applications, and you need not worry. New sources should be located at these
ftp sites in short order. Contact me if you need an update *now*.
Please accept my apology
Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn
From: jlauret@sbchem.sunysb.edu (Jerome LAURET)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help to kill PhoneConnector
Date: 24 Feb 1995 02:26:04 GMT
Organization: SUNYSB.EDU
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ijg3s$50o@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>
References: <D4HE99.Js@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
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Hi there.
It is the first time I write to this newsGroup so sorry if it is
not the place to post my request.
I have an administration problem with one of our next I dont know
how to solve: I have the PhoneConnector.app running while the LoginPannel is on.
In other word, if I logout from the computer, the loginPannel appear and the
PhoneConnector as well appearing as an active Icon on the bottom rigth corner
of the loginpannel. I can click on it (starting the application) ; I tried to
kill it while running but of course it did not do anything.
So, I confess that I don't know how to remove it (and also how it gets
there).
Any help, hints, explanation will be highly apreciated,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lange@pcs.dec.com (Ralf Lange Digital Equipment GmbH)
Subject: gettytab to allow dialin via modem ?
Message-ID: <1995Feb22.155615.20165@janix.mfr.dec.com>
Keywords: gettytab modem dialup dialin
Sender: lange@obelix.pcs.dec.com (Ralf Lange Digital-PCS GmbH)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:56:15 GMT
I want to offer dialin access to my system via telephone.
The /etc/ttys is setup correctly, so that dialin is allowed
at the port the modem is connected to. My modem allows hardware
flow control and i have choosen the right tty line in /etc/ttys
for that and D9600 for the entry in /etc/gettytab.
This happens when someone tries to dial in:
My modem answers the call and both modems talk to each other
for some seconds. Meaningless characters appear on the screen
of the caller instead of the login prompt.
I tried to change the entry in /etc/gettytab to ensure
data transmission with 8 bit, 1 stopbit and no parity, but
had no success so far.
Has anyone out there configured a system to allow dialin via
modem ? How do the entries in /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab look
like ? Answers can be posted to this group or mailed directly
to lange@pcs.dec.com. In case it helps, i use a CREATIX 14400bps
modem.
Ralf
lange@pcs.dec.com
From: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: 105 Sysquest + DPT 2021 ISA + NS/i 3.2 = ???
Date: 23 Feb 1995 21:08:43 +0100
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <3iiq0b$fgg@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
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jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) writes:
>Has anyone got a syquest drive to work with a DPT card?? Is
>there some magical invocation I forgot? Other than this little
>problem NS seemed to handle the addition nicely.
I had no problems with my 88 MB SyQuest and the 2021 in old 3.2 days.
My suggestion is to low-format the cartridge with the DOS DPTMGR.EXE
and the retry with Workspace->Format or /usr/etc/disk -i /dev/rsd#a.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // Navigator - System administration & Consulting
mail? // mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de
more? // http://s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/wenzel/mow.html
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System crash, help needed! (was Re: File Used By Configure.App?)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 14:43:26 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950224143402.4919E-100000@hphalle4a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <westesD48519.F47@netcom.com> <1995Feb19.131932.42193@cc.usu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <1995Feb19.131932.42193@cc.usu.edu>
On 19 Feb 1995 sldq1@cc.usu.edu wrote:
[long explenation deleted]
Very interesting stuff, but I run into a problem the last two days:
My system crashed _while_ Configure.app was saving the configuration. I
don't know why this happened, but now I'm not able to boot without errors.
I'm running on Intel hardware, and there is nothing very serious, because
the system might get reinstalled quickly, but I want to know what's
exactly happening here:
- couldn't find $LBL --- what does this mean?
- config=Default --- lasts in couldn't load SerialMouse/ParallelPort
- normal boot --- results in errors with the 'sarld' file
(what is it?)
I still can access the drive and it's contents, but booting with
config=Default (8bit crayscale) results in two red big nice lines at the
screen bottom. I reach the login window, but further booting hangs.
Also I can't access the streamer in single user mode just after the 'fsck
not run' message.
Any ideas?
Best regards,
Boerny.
(P.S.: I'll try to mount the diskdrive and backup some critically data,
which wasn't already backed up. But if this doesn't work either: what can
I do?)
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mross@antigone.com
Subject: Re: New CERT advisories
Message-ID: <1995Feb24.020004.4208@antigone.com>
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
References: <3iif7g$i68@mark.ucdavis.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 02:00:04 GMT
Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor@helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: CERT just produced an advisory about new Sendmail bugs (see
: comp.security.announce). NeXT is not mentioned one way or the other
: in the advisory. Does anyone know if we are vulnerable or not? (And
: yes I have installed the previous sendmail patch).
According to Eric Allman, author of sendmail:
------
A security problem has been found that appears to be present in
ALL versions of sendmail up to and including 8.6.9. This includes
all sendmails based on version 5, which includes most vendor
versions. The vulnerability allows an attacker to read or remove
any file as root, and to run an arbitrary program as any user other
than root.
-------
This would therefore include the NeXT versions, based on 5.67.
And again, from Eric:
------
There's also a wrapper (sendmail_wrapper.c) available from
FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU /ucb/sendmail
FTP.AUSCERT.ORG.AU /pub/auscert/tools
This program will protect version 5 based sendmails from the
problem.
------
I have installed the sendmail_wrapper successfully. It's easy and is probably worth your
time (10 minutes as root).
Hint: get it from AUSCERT. Berkeley is swamped to a crawl today, no doubt because
everyone is getting 8.6.10 from the horse's mouth...
--
Michael Ross
Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: +1 415 550 1957
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Axel Rau <axel@chaos1.rhein-main.de>
Subject: Cube runs perfectly with NS 3.3 - was re: 3.3 panics
Message-ID: <1995Feb24.111014.21657@chaos1.rhein-main.de>
Sender: news@chaos1.rhein-main.de
Organization: Computing @ Chaos Claudius
References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.950215231255.300A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:10:14 GMT
In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.950215231255.300A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> Well, so besides the fact that silly 3.3 needs to be rebooted once a week
> or so because the swapfile grows to eat up all three disk space
I have only 2 disks allocated for swapping, but have no problems at all.
Swapspace increases to about 100 MB while doing backup with SafetyNet and
news maintenance during night, but looks reasonable during daytimes:
axel@chaos1@~[104]> cat /etc/swaptab
#
# 16 MB low water, 32 MB high water marks, primary paging file, no compression
/private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216,hiwat=33554432,prefer,nocompress
#
# 0 MB low water, no high water mark, secondary paging file, no compression
/SD4/vm/swapfile lowat=1024,nocompress
#
axel@chaos1@~[105]> ls -l /private/vm/swapfile /SD4/vm/swapfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 10706944 Feb 24 04:26 /SD4/vm/swapfile
-rw------t 1 root 28844032 Feb 24 11:07 /private/vm/swapfile
By the way, this cube is a nntp- mail- and nfs-server and runs perfectly
with NS 3.3:
axel@chaos1@~[101]> uptime
11:10am up 32 days, 13:14, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.25, 0.27
[complains about panic: assert_wait deleted]
--
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Computing @ Chaos Claudius email: axel@chaos1.rhein-main.de
SW-Engineering with NEXTSTEP (Mime and NeXTMail welcome)
From: willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dump|restore vs. tar cf|tar xf
Date: 23 Feb 1995 17:18:13 GMT
Message-ID: <3iig0l$dpc@aragorn.unibe.ch>
I recently had to move partitions from one disk to another.
I first tried
# dump 0f - /dev/rsdxy | (cd /mountedDestPart; restore xf -)
which was terribly slow.
For the next partition I used a
# gnutar cf - . | (cd /destDir; gnutar xf - )
which I thought was faster. I didn't time it though and the partitions weren't of
the same size.
Any comments? Are there caveats?
Thanks for the input,
--
Moritz Willers
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Sidlerstrasse 5
3012 Bern, Switzerland
willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail, MIME)
From: hoff@pluto.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System crash, help needed! (was Re: File Used By Configure.App?)
Date: 24 Feb 1995 14:08:45 GMT
Organization: German Research Center for Information Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ikp9d$u8m@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <westesD48519.F47@netcom.com> <1995Feb19.131932.42193@cc.usu.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.91.950224143402.4919E-100000@hphalle4a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Bernhard Scholz (scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
>On 19 Feb 1995 sldq1@cc.usu.edu wrote:
>[long explenation deleted]
>Very interesting stuff, but I run into a problem the last two days:
>My system crashed _while_ Configure.app was saving the configuration. I
>don't know why this happened, but now I'm not able to boot without errors.
Oh, fun. :-}
>I'm running on Intel hardware, and there is nothing very serious, because
>the system might get reinstalled quickly, but I want to know what's
>exactly happening here:
> - couldn't find $LBL --- what does this mean?
?
> - config=Default --- lasts in couldn't load SerialMouse/ParallelPort
What exactly happens? Errors, or just a hanging system when the SerialPorts
driver loads? If that's the case, make sure SerialPorts can access _both_
ports, not only one; it's totally broken in this regard.
> - normal boot --- results in errors with the 'sarld' file
> (what is it?)
Yikes!
sarld = stand-alone run-time loader, the bootstrap thing that should get you
up and running. If you get non-terminated strings, incomplete segments and
whatnot falling over each other during boot, try the most unobvious thing:
turn off the computer and wait for ~30 minutes, to make the machine cool
down. (I'm not kidding!). This helps _sometimes_.
>I still can access the drive and it's contents, but booting with
>config=Default (8bit crayscale) results in two red big nice lines at the
>screen bottom. I reach the login window, but further booting hangs.
Eek!
Try to add the SerialPorts/SerialMouse drivers via the command line, like
"Active Drivers"="(other drivers) SerialPorts SerialMouse", see NeXTanswers
for more.
>Also I can't access the streamer in single user mode just after the 'fsck
>not run' message.
Yow!
/usr/etc/driverLoader d=SCSITape v (answer yes)
Dynamically loadable drivers are cool..but us Amiga folks have been
preaching that for years, right? :-)
..BUT BEFORE, MAKE SURE YOUR FILE SYSTEM IS 'CLEAN' !
Otherwise you're going to FUBAR your drive. Trust me, I know what I'm
talking about. :-]
>Any ideas?
Congratulations, you're in trouble!
>(P.S.: I'll try to mount the diskdrive and backup some critically data,
>which wasn't already backed up. But if this doesn't work either: what can
>I do?)
Reinstall and make backups the next time..
Holgi
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From: pj@sam.engr.sgi.com (Paul Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 23 Feb 1995 00:36:03 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Research & Development
Message-ID: <3igl9j$5bp@fido.asd.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
In article <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
|> NNTP-Posting-Host: still3.chem.columbia.edu
|>
|> In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
|> Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com> wrote:
|>
|> > What is the exact problem with the one partition layout?
|>
|> Very simple: it's not what people know, are used to, and love to
|> hate. That makes it bad. It's a gratuitous change that serves
|> no real purpose.
Thanks, Peter, for your direct answer to Martin's question.
I am aware of one good purpose that defaulting to a single
root+usr file system serves us. We hear quite a few reports of
customers having difficulty installing into the separate small
root partitions, because they lack enough free space for the
second copy of /unix (unix.install or whatever). This often shows
up in the miniroot, which is for many a most inhospitable
environment for managing disk space. And just significantly
increasing the root partition isn't a pure win either, because
then less skilled or energetic users will be more likely to waste
a significant chunk of disk, as they fill up one partition while
the other lies underutilized.
"It's a gratuitous change" ...
By the same token, changing it back would be gratuitous as well,
right? So we should leave it be, right? <g>
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Software Production Engineer
Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
From: linkphil@aol.com (LinkPhil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anybody got rpc.pcnfsd version 2 for NS 3.2 - 3.3?
Date: 23 Feb 1995 21:53:30 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <3ijhna$g07@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
I have Nextstep 3.3 which is user only, and I need a port of rpc.pcnfsd
version 2
to get PC-NFS 5.0 to provide access to my Next Printer. Next provides
version
1 of the daemon but it doesn't do the job beyond ftp and telnet. Sun
distributes the source code for vesrion 2 and it supports virtual printers
etc. I'm hoping some administrator out there has compiled it and doesn't
mind sharing.
Richard Phillips
801-363-3669
From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz (Hamish Marson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 09:30:26 GMT
Organization: The University of Waikato
Sender: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Message-ID: <3ik8vi$14d7@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com> <3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch> <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu> <D4Fz4D.31p@kgcc.demon.co.uk>
Ken Green (ken@kgcc.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Charlie McGuire (mcguire@cs.umt.edu) wrote:
> > Simply having a Journaled filesystem is a good thing, but IBM's logical
> > volume manager takes everything one major step forward. The LVM is
> > probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
> > system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
> > or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
> > The rumors I've heard are that DEC is giving up on supplying anything
> > like the Logical Volume Management.
DEC told us they were dropping it at last years Uniforum NZ. (May?)
> I thought LVM was part of OSF/1. Certainly the version that ships with HP-UX
> is decended from the OSF version. Since DEC uses OSF as their Unix
> implementation why would they ant to drop this technology ?
It is part of OSF/1 (The reference OSF/1 that is). DEC are dropping
LVM becasue they were either unable or unwilling to integrate into
their version of OSF/1. They have instead supplied a piece of software
called LSM (Logical Storage Manager) which looks just as clunky and
tacked on as their implementation of LVM did.
While IBM's LVM is an integral and smooth part of the operating system,
both LVM and LSM look (From the times I have played with it), like a
poor attempt at copying a well thought out idea. Is LSM going to be dropped
as well? Or are they keeping it?
An Aside...
My favourite DEC release was when they showed the Alpha 2100's, and
asked one member of the audience to pull out any HD from the integrated
cabinet. The system immediately bit the dust. The really foolish part
of it was when the DEC droids asked him to try again....
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===========Disclaimer :- Remember. You heard it here first.===========
From: mcguire@cs.umt.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 15:00:54 GMT
Organization: University of Montana
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iksb6$eri@umt.umt.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch> <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu> <3iio0b$5a8@oslo-it.ti.tele.no>
In article <3iio0b$5a8@oslo-it.ti.tele.no>, md@gated.cornell.edu (Mark Dapoz)
writes:
|> In article <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>, Charlie McGuire <mcguire@cs.umt.edu>
|> wrote:
|> > The LVM is
|> >probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
|> >system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
|> >or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
|>
|> If you want real flexibility in a volume manager then you should take
|> a look at AFS (Andrew Filesystem) from Transarc. It makes the features
|> provided by LVM look primitive in comparison. Of course using AFS just
|> because of its volume management abilities is a bit of overkill since
|> it provides so many other benefits.
|> --
The only problem with that is $$$$$.
Charlie
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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com's message of 22 Feb 1995 07:38:08 GMT
Message-ID: <BZS.95Feb23225349@world.std.com>
Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Organization: The World
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com>
<D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com> <3idjpa$86g@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
<D4DKwI.CL9@world.std.com> <3ie878$g1s@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
<BZS.95Feb21220330@world.std.com> <3iepl0$o9d@fido.asd.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 03:53:49 GMT
From: knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch)
>In article <BZS.95Feb21220330@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry
>Shein) writes:
>|>
>|> From: gold@puck.esd.sgi.com (Michael I. Gold)
>|> >>I would think /usr/ucb/mail would be Berkeley mail. Isn't it?
>|> >
>|> >Well, since /usr/ucb is not a part of IRIX, you'll have to ask Barry
>|> >what he put in there. :-)
>|>
>|> It's just a symlink to /usr/bsd/ to ease the transition.
>|>
>
> Which has no "mail" in it, at least under IRIX-5.2/5.3. So, where
>does "/usr/bsd/mail" come from on your system :-)
/usr/bsd/mail is a symlink to /usr/bsd/Mail, we try to steer people
away from mail_att unless they work at it.
--
-Barry Shein
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From: Gibson_Rory@pcp.ca (Rory Gibson)
Subject: Re: Changing Video Resolution Destroyed Preferences
Message-ID: <1995Feb23.004510.9896@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <westesD4C0MH.Ir4@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 00:45:10 GMT
In article <westesD4C0MH.Ir4@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
writes:
> I just changed my ATI Ultra Pro from 1024x768 to 1120x832. After I
> rebooted the machine, every userid that I logged in as had its
> preferences, including the Workspace Manager Preferences that sets
> the all-important toolbar, reset to its defaults.
>
> Does changing the video resolution always reset the values in your
> ~/.NeXT directory? Why!?
>
> --
> Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
Yes, the Workspace maintains separate dock and shelf defaults for each
screen resolution. I assume this is so your dock doesn't run off the
bottom of the screen when you go to lower resolutions.
Rory.
From: aschaffe@shark.paris.sgi.com (Allan Schaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 16:54:43 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3ifq8j$1td@fido.asd.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <BZS.95Feb18060011@world.std.com> <D4D6w6.F36@world.std.com>
bfc@world.std.com (brandon f chubb) said..
>
>The SGI 'mail' utility has a funny habit of skipping every other message
>if I'm reading and deleting each one. This is just berkely mail -- nothing
>fancy. Works fine on OSF, Sun OS, Solaris, the Intel Unices, and any other
>Unix I've tried.
In a former life I developed a taste for the BSD 'mail' program as
well, & use "capital M" 'Mail' (not lowercase 'mail') on the SGI's.
I haven't noticed any "skipping".
MAIL_BSD(1) Mail - send and receive mail
MAIL_ATT(1) mail - send mail to users or read mail
^
To be truly honest, though, nowadays I use zmail. It can run in both
a GUI-mode and a text-only mode.
> The newsreader trn has a funny habit of not starting at the beginning
> of the unread articles, whether just beginning reading a newsgroup or
> using the '^' to go to the first article. (This may happen because
> of my particular settings, but hey, it happens.)
I use & prefer trn as well, but this problem does not happen to me.
My guess is that 'world' has an old version or as you said, something
wierd in your settings.
Allan
wow, this is going to a lot of unrelated newsgroups. Don't know where
you're reading from, so...
--
Allan Schaffer
Silicon Graphics
aschaffe@sgi.com
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/aschaffe
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tiff whitespace to transparent?
Date: 22 Feb 1995 16:06:44 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ifnek$6mt@castle.york.ac.uk>
References: <3hu752$513@news.iastate.edu>
sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> Does anybody know of a way that I could make the whitespace in a tiff
> transparent. For example, I use grab to grab a tiff that is on a white
> background. How can I convert that white background to a transparent
> background now that it is part of the tiff?
I've always done this by hand in Iconbuilder - if you've got anything
opther than a simple backgroudn then it's a right pain to do though.
Writing a program to load in a tiff and change all of a particular colour
to transparent shouldn't be a problem though - the tiff object is
very easy to use in normal C program (niot Apps).
-bat.
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From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4Hys2.n3q@fulcrum.co.uk>
Sender: news@fulcrum.co.uk (0000-news(0000))
Organization: Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu> <3idq5a$omq@access1.digex.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 09:09:38 GMT
In article <3idq5a$omq@access1.digex.net>,
Nigel Tzeng <nigel@access.digex.net> wrote:
> >Solaris - easy, reliable? You can use those three words in one sentence?
> >It has been the biggest pain in the *ss for us!
>
> Given the choice a lot of sysadmins I know would rather have 4.1.3 machines
> than Solaris machines...
Count us as not agreeing. I've got some years of Sun experience (dating
back to SunOS 3.0) and a wide range of other Unix platforms, so I regard
my opinion reasonably considered. Have around 100 Suns hung off an
Auspex and Solaris is decidedly preferred by the three of us that run
the machines. We are trying to wean the last few 4.1.X users over.
Why? Auto install. Cachefs. SMP. Loads of things.
Yes, Solaris is buggy. But those bugs are in implementation and can be
(and are being) fixed. 4.1.X is reliable, but its problems are
architectural and not so easily fixed.
> In theory 2.4 is stable. We have 2.3 and it's semi-stable...stable enough
> to lull you into a trusting stupor and then crashing on you just before
> a major demo.
We have only one unreliable 2.3 machine, a rather elderly 690/512 with a
mess of odd hardware in it, IPI disks on two controllers and ODS. Our
more standard machines are rock solid. 2.3 + all recommended patches.
Our 10/514 and 20/514 machines are very impressive.
> gets cycled when the MIO card gets flakey. The caveat is our lp is set up
> to go through another machine (a 4.1.3 machine).
Our spoolers point at the lpd on our Auspex and lpshut and lpshed work
fine.
> >4) Lets not forget that Solaris 2.1 was shipped with a completely unusable
> >copy of xdm. I call that releasing your beta copy NOT releasing a
> >"reliable" product.
As was 4.0.
ian
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From: jim@sco.COM (Jim Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Opinions: HP-SGI-SUN-WinNt-Os/2-??
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 14:32:42 GMT
Message-ID: <D4GJ2I.1KL@sco.COM>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3iehhu$h4s@steel.interlog.com>
Sender: news@sco.COM (News administration)
In <3iehhu$h4s@steel.interlog.com> 3sunlife@interlog.com (Wilf Lee) writes:
>In <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
>>what i originally wanted to know also:
>>
>>1. are "standard" machines (pc's) capable to keep track with
>> proprietary risc machines (servers - workstations).
>
>Not a chance as far as up time is concerned. The HP9000 is solid and have
>been up for more than a year without any problems. The Pentium 60 have been
>up and down at least twice a month. For the $$ amount we saved on hardware,
>we paid it right back on down time.
Not that I want to get into an uptime contest...but who was the manufacturer
of the Pentium? Often times I see these type of comparisons between
major, non-intel OEM's and some second or third tier Intel compatible
supplier. Hardly a fair comparison, in my opinion. Of course, the
operating system is part of the equation as well, but you didn't indicate
which OS was in use.
--
Jim Sullivan
SCO Canada, Inc. Toronto, Ontario "Lawyers are for people too gutless
jim@sco.com, ...!uunet!scocan!jim to shoot. I'd rather be shot"
416 960 4042 (922 8397 for fax) -- John Perry Barlow @ SCO Forum 94
--
Jim Sullivan
From: cs@ecs.co.at (Christian Starkjohann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SUBMISSION: new version of ParallelPortDriver
Date: 23 Feb 1995 20:02:10 GMT
Organization: EUnet EDV DienstleistungsgesmbH, Wien
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iipk2$g0u@c2.eunet.co.at>
Originator: cs@servus
Hello,
I submitted version 1.2 of ParallelPortDriver to
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/parallel.
It is intended for those of you who cannot use NeXT's Parallel Port driver,
because it does not work (on some machines NeXT's driver will not load at
boot-time or it will lose bytes when printing).
It works now with NS3.3 and it should not crash systems with certain
configurations any more.
--
Christian Starkjohann <cs@ecs.co.at> or <cs@ds1.kph.tuwien.ac.at>
From: strange@zk3.dec.com (Steve Strange)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 23 Feb 1995 00:00:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <STRANGE.95Feb22190038@squeeze.dec.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2eon$it1@trakker.mcdermott.com>
<3i32qb$9ho@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch>
<D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>
In-reply-to: mcguire@cs.umt.edu's message of 22 Feb 1995 16:48:20 GMT
In article <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu> mcguire@cs.umt.edu (Charlie McGuire) writes:
> Simply having a Journaled filesystem is a good thing, but IBM's logical
> volume manager takes everything one major step forward. The LVM is
> probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
> system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
> or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
> The rumors I've heard are that DEC is giving up on supplying anything
> like the Logical Volume Management.
The rumors you heard were wrong. DEC OSF/1 currently offers LSM,
which is very similar in functionality to IBM's LVM. But what might
be more interesting to you is that Digital's log-based file system,
AdvFS, offers you the management features you talk of here without
needing LVM or LSM! An AdvFS domain can be created from one or more
disk partitions, and any number of filesets can be created in that
domain and mounted as you would mount a UFS partition. New filesets
can be added at any time and mounted, or existing ones unmounted and
deleted. You can then add and remove volumes (partitions) to and from
domains to increase or decrease their size, all while the filesets in
that domain are live and accessible. Note that you can move domains
from disk to disk in this fashion, by adding partitions on the new
disk into a domain, then deleting the partitions from the old one.
There's even a nice GUI interface to do it all. So not only has DEC
not given up on this type of functionalty, they've had it for quite a
while now!
Sorry for sounding like an advertisement, but I just want to set the
record straight.
Steve
--
Steve Strange
Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH
DCE DFS for DEC OSF/1 -- Development
strange@zk3.dec.com
From: ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 25 Feb 1995 01:05:03 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Institute of Neuroscience
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ilvnv$bsl@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <3i7rpe$i99@clarknet.clark.net> <3ikkm6$6he@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <D4GJ2I.1KL@sco.COM> <3ikmt8$pou@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ilo7i$8qn@news.wco.com>
Darryl Trujillo (dmt@pairoducks.com) wrote:
: In article <3i4ukt$crp@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Casper H.S. Dik, casper@fwi.uva.nl writes:
: >>3) Have you followed any of the threads in comp.unix.solaris on setting
: >>up a modem for dial-in? I challenge you to find anyone on that group who
: >>will say that it is easy to "maintain, configure, install, and upgrade" a
: >>bidirectional modem on a Sparc. I've been trying for months to get ours to
: >>work under 2.3 and I have not been able to get anything out of it.
: >
: >Don't use workstations as modem pools or routers. We are in the fortunate
: >position to sue de\dicated quipment for all this sorts of tasks.
: >Serial ports have always given us trouble on Suns. (ever since SunOS 4.0,
: >that is)
: >
: "Let them eat cake" indeed. This is absurd. Although it's nice to work in a
: shop that can afford to buy new hardware all the time (you are indeed
: fortunate!), there are a lot of shops with older systems laying around that
: make *fine* routers and modem pools, all for less money than your solution
: would take.
: Serial ports may have always been a problem with Suns, but with Solaris the
: problem became a lot worse. I use an old system as a router at a remote site, and
: after hassling with Solaris 2.3 serial support for a couple of months, I
: installed 4.1 and have been happy ever since. I've had much better luck with
: SysVr3 and Linux on PC hardware.
: - dmt
Exactly!
Firstly, to respond to Casper. My intent was to set up one host with one
modem on one phone line serving one user at a time. All those ones don't
add up to modem pool or router. But, under Solaris 2.3, one modem is
enough of a problem that as I said, I still can not get it working (even
after using Celeste Stokeley's very informative FAQ guide on this exact
subject).
There are two things that are really frustrating about this situation.
First, the only person that responded that said they had done it, did so
on a machine with an Sbus serial card. I consider this cheating because
it means spending more money upgrading our hardware, to do something it
should have done from the begining, than we spent on the modem!
Second, if I simply took the modem off the sparc and put it on our Linux
box, it would work without any of these problems. This is the ease of
use of Solaris - you learn how easy it is to use other systems! As such,
I would greatly agree with the Linux part of the last line of Darryl's
post (I can't really say anything about SVR3, I haven't used it).
==============================================================================
Ben Marcotte ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (503) 346-4592
==============================================================================
From: David Pascua <dp3m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: 3.3 --> 3.2
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 09:54:44 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <4jGp0oe00YWn813ldD@andrew.cmu.edu>
Hello,
I need to 'downgrade' my NeXT ColorStation from 3.3 User to 3.2 User.
What's the easiest way to do this WITHOUT using the 3.2 installation
floppy? I don't know if there is any easy way with the floppy, I just
know that I spent the better part of last night looking it for without
success.
I don't care if my HD gets totally wiped out -- I've backed up
everything I need.
If I do need the 3.2 installation floppy, how can I go about getting it?
Can I get the necessary files from the net and copy it into a floppy?
I've already tried running the upgrade.app on the 3.2 User CD -- it sez
that it won't upgrade from 3.3.
On a somewhat related note, how do I build a boot floppy? Do I use BuildDisk?
-Dave
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 13:28:08 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ikmt8$pou@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>
In article <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>, russells@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (Russell Street) writes:
|> deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
|>
|> >|> no real purpose. If a small root partition fills up daily, make
|> >|> the root partition bigger.
|>
|> >The problem is that if you put /usr and all the tmp dirs. all in one large
|> >partition, how do you keep it from filling up. if you have a nice small root
|> >partition with seperate partitions or links for all the write-able areas
|> >the root area will not fill up. There is no reason to hate seperate root
|> >partitions.
|>
|> Then what do you do about your or your operators typing
|>
|> tar -cf /dev/mt/tsp0d6 / ...
|>
|> or something similiar?
I have backup scripts for regular backup operations.
for just cutting tapes, users would not be able to create the /dev/mt
directory or the /dev/mt/tsp0d6 file. I tend not to do things myself as root
unless root access is needed, as well.
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 22 Feb 1995 20:00:25 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
In article <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
|> In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
|> Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com> wrote:
|>
|> > This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
|> >remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
|> >exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
|> >a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
|>
|> Very simple: it's not what people know, are used to, and love to
|> hate. That makes it bad. It's a gratuitous change that serves
|> no real purpose. If a small root partition fills up daily, make
|> the root partition bigger.
|>
The problem is that if you put /usr and all the tmp dirs. all in one large
partition, how do you keep it from filling up. if you have a nice small root
partition with seperate partitions or links for all the write-able areas
the root area will not fill up. There is no reason to hate seperate root
partitions.
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: md@gated.cornell.edu (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 23 Feb 1995 20:34:35 +0100
Organization: Televerket AS
Sender: tm1mark@oslo-it.ti.tele.no
Message-ID: <3iio0b$5a8@oslo-it.ti.tele.no>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch> <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>
In article <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>, Charlie McGuire <mcguire@cs.umt.edu> wrote:
> The LVM is
>probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
>system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
>or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
If you want real flexibility in a volume manager then you should take
a look at AFS (Andrew Filesystem) from Transarc. It makes the features
provided by LVM look primitive in comparison. Of course using AFS just
because of its volume management abilities is a bit of overkill since
it provides so many other benefits.
--
Mark Dapoz (md@gated.cornell.edu)
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Uptime of NS Servers [was Re: Cube runs perfectly with NS 3.3]
Date: 24 Feb 1995 16:49:22 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3il2mi$qvr@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <1995Feb24.111014.21657@chaos1.rhein-main.de>
In article <1995Feb24.111014.21657@chaos1.rhein-main.de> Axel Rau
<axel@chaos1.rhein-main.de> writes:
> In article
<Pine.NXT.3.92.950215231255.300A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
> Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> > Well, so besides the fact that silly 3.3 needs to be rebooted once a
week
> > or so because the swapfile grows to eat up all three disk space
>
> By the way, this cube is a nntp- mail- and nfs-server and runs perfectly
> with NS 3.3:
>
> axel@chaos1@~[101]> uptime
> 11:10am up 32 days, 13:14, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.25, 0.27
>
Hmm, we aren't running 3.3, but our 3.2 NS servers (tree is the mailhost,
Master NetInfo server of a 3-level domain, and NFS server, while flower is
our anonymous ftp server, gopher server, NFS server, print server, NetInfo
server & clone, etc) - we have 4200+ users and have 125 clients and our
network is _very_ loaded (tree has seen 230+ million packets in 78 days):
tree:72# rup tree flower
tree up 78 days, 12:33, load average: 2.04, 1.16, 1.22
flower up 107 days, 17:49, load average: 0.36, 0.32, 0.34
tree:73# nidump passwd / | wc -l
4385
tree:74# netstat -i
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
en0 1500 129.7 tree 192601561 0 136450953 0
0
lo0 1536 loopback localhost 11576614 0 11576614 0
0
en0 1500 none none 230183884 98445 136450954 12
13827581
> --
> Axel Rau voice/fax: +49-69--517167, --519354
> Computing @ Chaos Claudius email: axel@chaos1.rhein-main.de
> SW-Engineering with NEXTSTEP (Mime and NeXTMail welcome)
--
Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions)
NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
>>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<<
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cannot rdump from NeXT cube (2.1) to Sun tape
Date: 24 Feb 1995 16:50:03 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3il2nr$3m0@news.next.com>
References: <3ih0j3$9tt@crl.crl.com>
In article <3ih0j3$9tt@crl.crl.com> bny@crl.com (Bradley Yearwood) writes:
> When I try to rdump my NeXT cube's disk (machine is running 2.1 - don't
> laugh now - I _like_ it that way) to a tape on a Sparc running SunOS
> 4.1.3_U1, I get the following complaint:
>
> DUMP: Protocol to remote tape server botched (in rmtgets).
> rdump: Lost connection to remote host.
>
> Is anyone familiar with the cause and solution to this problem?
>
Sure - use rdump.old, which existed on 2.X systems for that very purpose.
There is, of course, a corresponding rrestore.old (as well as a dump.old and
a restore.old.).
Note that these do not exist in 3.X for any platform (unfortunately).
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: filling out /etc/disktab ????
Date: 23 Feb 1995 23:55:30 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3ij79i$2pu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
is there anyone out there who could help me fill out the /etc/disktab for my
SEAGATE ST15150N 4GB drive? i don't know what all the specs mean, and there
seem to be more required than are given by the manufacturer!! thanks and please
reply by email.
From: dwright@omni.voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: 105 Sysquest + DPT 2021 ISA + NS/i 3.2 = ???
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:33:52 LOCAL
Organization: D & G Micro
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <dwright.4.00AF70FC@omni.voicenet.com>
References: <3ib4os$dv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
>Has anyone got a syquest drive to work with a DPT card?? Is
>there some magical invocation I forgot? Other than this little
>problem NS seemed to handle the addition nicely.
> Thanks
> Jehu
>
No, but I had some problems with a Syquest 270 and an Adaptec.
What I had to end up doing was format the drive first as a Mac File system,
and THEN format it as a NeXT File system
Darren
From: don@darth.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: xanim for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 25 Feb 1995 07:28:07 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3imm67$qqk@bones.et.byu.edu>
References: <3ife9r$kb@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Droll Sven writes
) Motion.app plays .xmovie- und .anim-files
) MPEG_Play.app plays .mpg-files
) no prog known that plays .mov-files
NEXTIME.app plays most .mov files, with sound where it is
applicable. Get it from NeXT, if you need that sort of thing...
--
Later,
-Don Yacktman
Don_Yacktman@byu.edu
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fujitsu 230 MO drive
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 18:32:24 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <Z0yak9g.jadamski@delphi.com>
Has anyone connected the Fujitsu 230 MO drive to black hardware? I have a
NeXTstation and am thinking of getting one, but want to know good news, bad news
on it before buying.
jda
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rm@califhistsoc.org (Robert MacKimmie)
Subject: Giving NS demo in Arizona (ASU)--hoping to find loan 21" color monitor
Message-ID: <D4J88p.1HF@califhistsoc.org>
Sender: rm@califhistsoc.org (Robert MacKimmie)
Organization: California Historical Society, San Francisco 415-567-1848
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 01:31:37 GMT
Sorry for chewing up the bandwidth, but I am doing a NEXTSTEP "for the
digital museum world" demo at Arizona State University and nobody there
can find a color monitor that I can use.
Is anyone--- or does anyone know anyone on the ASU Tempe campus who is
driving a NeXT box and would be willing to allow their monitor to be used
on Fri. Mar. 3rd and Sat. Mar. 4th.
This is not a commercial venture and I will be demoing "there is something
better than Mac or PC" with some real solutions for the museum world.
Hopefully some of the more major AZ collection institutions will be there
as audience.
Anybody able to help???
Thanks,
Robert MacKimmie
California Historical Society, San Francisco
RM@califhistsoc.org 415-346-6398
From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain ?????
Date: 24 Feb 1995 00:11:27 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3ij87f$30e@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <3ij4ua$277@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
In article <3ij4ua$277@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin
Andrews) writes:
> i keep getting the following in /usr/adm/messages:
>
> Feb 23 18:13:16 bink syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
actually, i keep getting this message every 3 minutes!!!!!!
From: rmilner@newshost.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 17:41:00 -0700
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Message-ID: <3iluas$1f1@schooner.aoc.nrao.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>
In article <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>,
Russell Street <r.street@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
>
>>if you have a nice small root
>>partition with seperate partitions or links for all the write-able areas
>>the root area will not fill up.
>
>Then what do you do about your or your operators typing
> tar -cf /dev/mt/tsp0d6 / ...
>or something similiar?
Assuming that whoever was typing that could in fact write into /dev, it
really wouldn't matter how big you made your root partition: something
like that could still fill it up.
If you're root, *all* areas are writeable. You learn to be careful and
how to figure out - and fix - your mistakes quickly when you make them. :-)
--
Ruth Milner NRAO Socorro NM
Manager of Computing Systems rmilner@aoc.nrao.edu
From: root@tssnext (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Modems
Date: 21 Feb 1995 06:37:12 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ic1mo$a85@tssnext.TotSysSoft.com>
Hey, bruce...
I need to talk to you about setting up a getty file,
give me your email address
Rick
..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: NeXT Apps To Generate DNS Files?
Message-ID: <westesD4JwED.J2A@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 10:13:25 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom8.netcom.com
Are there any NeXTSTEP apps to help generate, and later maintain, the files
associated with setting up an Internet Domain Name Server on NS 3.2 FIP?
Seems like this would be quite a useful little tool since these
files get updated often, and the syntax for those who don't
configure DNS all the time is a little tricky.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SOS - I can no longer mount my NeXT exports on our SUN!!!
Date: 25 Feb 1995 08:58:54 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <3ind2u$ebt@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Up until now there was no problem. My NeXT CUBE's (OS 3.1) exported harddisk
was happily mounted on our departemntal SUN w/o any problem whatsoever. Then
they updated the SUN (UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (math)) and I can no
longer mount. Here is the error message:
Feb 25 08:52:40 ops mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
Feb 25 08:52:40 ops mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.146.110.30
ops is the name of my cube
Can you help???
Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul
Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu
Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office)
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl (Szymon Sokol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 25 Feb 1995 14:00:06 +0100
Organization: University of Mining & Metallurgy
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3in9km$7m6@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl>
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com> <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com> <3iki66$hnk@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com>
Frank Kraemer (kraem@paris.wi.germany.ibm.com) wrote:
: In article <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>, stevek@apertus.com (Steve Kappel) writes:
: |>
: |> If a 20 processor SS2000 isn't big enough the Cray 6400 (I think that is the
: |> model) goes to 64 SPARC processors on 4 XDbus instead of 2 running
: |> essentially the same O/S.
: There is a song from Supertramp called DREAMER - listen to it and
: think of a running SUN 2000 with 20 CPUs........Solaris can not handle-
: 8 CPUs right so 20 is a real dream....
Yeah, that is probably true, but the CS64000 (the Cray mentioned above) can
really run with 64 CPUs. Uhm... how many CPUs can be put into IBM RS6000,
any model? What was that saying about a kettle and a frying pan? ;-)
--
Szymon Sokol -- Network Manager
U U M M M M University of Mining and Metallurgy, Computer Center
U U MM MM MM MM ave. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Date: 24 Feb 1995 06:41:01 GMT
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
<3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
<3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
| Very simple: it's not what people know, are used to, and love to
| hate. That makes it bad. It's a gratuitous change that serves
| no real purpose. If a small root partition fills up daily, make
| the root partition bigger.
It wasn't a gratuitous change (since I was one of the 3 people that made the
decision, I think I have a fair amount of insight into this!).
As others have said, the support folks got a *lot* fo calls from
"naive" users who didn't understand why they ran out of disk space when
they had lots of spare disk (either tmpfile space, or because they kept
copying stuff to / or files on /, or whatever). At the same time, we
were starting to ship Indy, which was targeted in part, at folks who
were, and *wanted to remain*, naive, in the computer admin sense.
By the way, it's not all that new. Most of the 11/60's and 11/70's I
used, running V6, V7, and BSD 2.8 unix used the entire "system disk"
as a single partition, except for the swap area. It's all in what
works for your environment, and what you are used to.
All the arguments about keeping root 'pure' are just plain silly.
There's nothing sacred about not running out of space on / vs /usr
both have their problems.
--
The most beautiful things in the world are | Dave Olson
those from which all excess weight has been | Silicon Graphics
removed. -Henry Ford | olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>
From: russells@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (Russell Street)
Date: 24 Feb 1995 06:35:06 GMT
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
<3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
<3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Organization: University of Auckland
deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
>|> no real purpose. If a small root partition fills up daily, make
>|> the root partition bigger.
>The problem is that if you put /usr and all the tmp dirs. all in one large
>partition, how do you keep it from filling up. if you have a nice small root
>partition with seperate partitions or links for all the write-able areas
>the root area will not fill up. There is no reason to hate seperate root
>partitions.
Then what do you do about your or your operators typing
tar -cf /dev/mt/tsp0d6 / ...
or something similiar?
Russell
From: veakblad@glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mux V1.7 was placed on archive sites in error
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 25 Feb 1995 00:28:34 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <3iltji$kgb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
References: <D4HE99.Js@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Mark Gregory Salyzyn (mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca) wrote:
: If any of you that use NXFax, and had taken the recent V1.7 Mux sources off
: of the following sites:
: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions.
: ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/next/i486/Drivers/3.3/Mux-1.7.tar.gz
: bandw.com
: or from me personally, I had mistakenly shipped V1.6 (except in a few cases).
: If you do not use NXFax, V1.6 is virtually identical to V1.7 for all other
: applications, and you need not worry. New sources should be located at these
: ftp sites in short order. Contact me if you need an update *now*.
: Please accept my apology
: Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn
You write free software, and made a small goof? No need to apologize.
I salute you. your little driver has made life life a bit easier at
28.8k not perfect as the connection still goes bonkers with other
system/drive activities, but it's about 500% better than the Default
SerialPortDriver
Later.
--
David Wang veakblad@eng.umd.edu,davewang@wam.umd.edu
Grad student- EE/Computer Engineering NSFIP/WARP/DOS
Apprentice Tinker,Basement network administrator.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~davewang/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <@ig1.att.att.com:dfh@guitar.emsr.att.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 12:33:57 -0500
From: Dan F Hurley <dfh@guitar.ho.att.com>
Message-ID: <9502241733.AA01334@guitar.ho.att.com>
Subject: SUMMARY (postscript): Re: Printing to nextprinter from command line
Hi.
M. `Naj' Najarian, who was one of a number of people who responded on
this subject, responded again to my summary by pointing out that I
can , in fact, generate EPS files from the Draw.app by using the
"Save..." button on the Print panel. This means, contrary to my
previous summary, below, I can print Draw files from the command
line, provided I convert them to PS through the Print panel.
Dan Hurley
----------
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:57:11 EST
From: dfh (To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin)
Subject: SUMMARY: Re: Printing to nextprinter from command line
A postscript file (file.ps, for example) can be printed from the
command line with the following command:
lpr file.ps
The reason I was unable to get this to work for me is that I was
trying to print an EPS file:
lpr.eps does NOT work
due to the fact that eps files do not contain a complete description
of the page. As far as I can tell, ps files must be converted to ps
files first. Unfortunately, I need to programmatically print files
generated by "Draw.app" using its "Save to postscript" option (which
are xxx.eps files)... Draw does not seem to be able to make a ps
file.
Thanks,
Dan Hurley
From: ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 24 Feb 1995 19:26:57 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Institute of Neuroscience
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3ilbu1$t75@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu> <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com>
Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: In article <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com>,
: Will Morse <will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
: > they can be _just_as_good_enough_ and even cheaper. DEC is, at least
: > at present, NOT good enough and certainly not cheap enough. This
: > gives clone makers no where to go.
: In what way is DEC "not good enough"? Their machines are blazing fast, their
: UNIX is solid, and the only downside is they're pretty pricey.
: --
: Peter da Silva `-_-'
: Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U`
: 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA
: +1 713 274 5180 "Hast du Heute schon deinen Wolf umarmt?"
Why does everyone keep saying that Dec's are expensive? Both of the
Alphastation 200's (4/166 & 4/233) can outperform the entire Sparcstation
20 (single processor) line. The last time I checked, the Alphastation
200's listed at $10295 and $15595 (I will acknowledge that these prices do
not include a monitor). The SS-20 that is the closest in performance (to
the 4/166) is the model HS11 which listed at $18695 (when I check on Nov
8, 94 - this might have dropped).
The closest SGI (again to the 4/166 not the 4/233) would be the
Indigo2 R4400SC which I have an educational discout price of $15925.
Commercial price is probably much higher.
It is hard to compare the RS/6000's because they have low
SPECint's and high SPECfp's. If I had to take a stab at it, I said that
the Model 3AT and 3BT are somewhere around the 4/233 in performce. I
got educational discount prices on these at $18396 and $21200. Again
commercial prices are much higher.
The HP's are also hard to compare because of a lower int/fp ratio.
The HP 715/100 is probably th closesst to the 4/166. It lists at $19005.
The HP 735 ranks slightly below a 4/233 and it lists at $30395.
So basically, to get the equivallent of the $10k Alpha you have to
pay >$15 elsewhere. To get something like a $16k Alpha, you have to pay
commercial prices of >$20k.
==============================================================================
Ben Marcotte ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (503) 346-4592
==============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: dump|restore vs. tar cf|tar xf
Message-ID: <D4IMqG.6IG@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3iig0l$dpc@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:47:03 GMT
In article <3iig0l$dpc@aragorn.unibe.ch>,
Moritz Willers <willers@butp.unibe.ch> wrote:
>I recently had to move partitions from one disk to another.
>I first tried
># dump 0f - /dev/rsdxy | (cd /mountedDestPart; restore xf -)
>which was terribly slow.
>For the next partition I used a
># gnutar cf - . | (cd /destDir; gnutar xf - )
>which I thought was faster. I didn't time it though and the partitions weren't of
>the same size.
>Any comments? Are there caveats?
>
Can gnutar handle special files? If not you'd get blown away tar'ing a root
partition.
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where is CR ?
Date: 24 Feb 1995 20:33:56 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ilfrk$ahm@news.iastate.edu>
References: <3iich8$jtd@cv.jinr.dubna.su>
Alexander P. Ivanov writes
> I am quite new to Unix an NeXT so may be it's a stupid question, anyway
> there is a problem: when I logged in to my host from remote (no matter
> if it X-term or dumb vt100) and try to have something printed on a
screen
> (for example by means of 'ls -la') I see the following:
>
> total 160
> drwxr-xr-x 16 ivanov 1024 Feb 23 18:00 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root 1024 Feb 23 14:18 ../
> drwxr-x--- 2 ivanov 1024 Feb 6 10:12 .GTools/
> drwxr-xr-x 5 ivanov 1024 Feb 23 15:56 .NeXT/
> -rw------- 1 ivanov 155 Feb 23 18:01 .article
> -r--r--r-- 1 ivanov 240 Mar 4 1992 .commanddict
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 491 Feb 22 12:19 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 19109 Feb 21 16:07 .cv.newsrc
> -r--r--r-- 1 ivanov 885 Jul 15 1991 .indent.pro
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 73728 Feb 22 15:26 .index.store
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 180 Sep 13 1993 .login
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 6 Sep 13 1993 .logout
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 19 Sep 13 1993 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 21009 Feb 23 17:57 .newsrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 20997 Feb 23 17:51 .oldnewsrc
> -r--r--r-- 1 ivanov 49 Jul 15 1991 .pipedict
> -rw-r--r-- 1
ivanov
> 257 Sep 13 1993 .plan
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ivanov 236 Sep 13 1993
> .profile
> drwxr-xr-x 4 ivanov 1024 Feb 23 17:51 .tin/
> drwxr-xr-x 6
ivanov
> 1024 Feb 19 18:17 Apps/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 ivanov 1024 Feb 22 16:30
> Library/
> etc...
> That is from some point there is line feed but no carriage return!!!
> Terminal settings looks like correct.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Alex.
>
> P.S. My e-mail address is "ivanov@nf.jinr.dubna.su" (no NeXT mail).
>
this has to have reached FAQ status by now (Nathan??)
Anyway, put the following in your .cshrc file, or whatever shell init you
use
stty -extproc
I would tell you why it works, but (1) you don't need to know and (2) I'm
not sure I completely understand it myself. Just one of those pieces of
Unix lore gleaned over the years.....
TLM
--
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: packet sniffing on white hardware
Date: 24 Feb 1995 20:49:34 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ilgou$aec@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Black hardware doesn't allow the ethernet interface to be put in
promiscuous mode. (And I heard a rumour to the effect aht the kernel
would panic very fast if you tricked it.)
Has anyone gotten an equivalent to tcpdump running on white
hardware?
Reason: I'm working on a network where 1/5 of the machines are
mine, and am worried about network congestion as the network grows.
Right now performance is acceptable. I'd like a means of counting
packets, between pairs of machines, to constuct a baseline so that next
year I can point to the difference.
If needbe I can do this as a DOS program instead. Any candidate
software?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The wackiest problem I have ever seen
Date: 24 Feb 1995 21:01:58 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3ilhg6$g0q@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <3igjis$2vg@netserv.unmc.edu>
In article <3igjis$2vg@netserv.unmc.edu>,
Hubert B. Hickman <hubert@grass> wrote:
>OK,
>
>Here is a problem that has me stumped. There is a small network at one of our
>sites of 10 or so NEXTSTEP/Intel boxes running on a 16mb/sec token ring network.
>
>The boxes are a mix of two brands - so the problem I am about to
>described isn't attributable to any particular kind of hardware. We have close
>to 30 machines on a token ring at another site and NONE of these machines
>exhibit this behavior.
>
>Two of the machines "hang" in you hit the escape key while in a shell. The
>hang lasts for 10 seconds or so. The two machnes that do this are the Netinfo
>server and its clone. The machines that are NetInfo clients do not have
>this behavior.
>
>While "hung" the machines are basically dead. Clicking on another window has
>no effect until after the 10 or so seconds. One of these boxes is our database
>server, so this behavior is not acceptable.
>
Pure Guess:
Escape in many of the shells is a command to the shell to perform file
name completion on a partially entered filename. I would check your
Path for the shell and ensure there isn't some unresponsive mount
in the path. Also something maybe amiss in the Netinfo setup for
the machines.
--
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: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: Token Ring?
Message-ID: <D4D0Cq.625@cfa.org>
Organization: Communicating For America, Networking Services
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 16:55:37 GMT
Does anyone have any positive experiences with NS on tokrings? I'd really
like it to work on HP 712s, but this is probably too much of a pipe dream.?
If it does work, what hardware config and a reasonable expectation for
performance?
peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: sample fax modem driver (mythical?)
In-Reply-To: scott@geom.umn.edu's message of Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:57:10 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Feb24120411@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <D4H994.719@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:04:10 GMT
>>>>> "Scott" == Scott S Bertilson <scott@geom.umn.edu> writes:
Scott> I have periodically seen notes which mention fax modem
Scott> driver sample code and I think I've sent notes to the
Scott> people who've mentioned it, but I've never heard anything
Scott> back. Is this one of those things that died when NeXT sold
Scott> off a software package (in this case NXFax)? Thanks, Scott
Scott> S. Bertilson --
There is a PD fax driver that supports more modems than NXFax and
it can also support voicemail. It is called mgetty+sendfax and you
can get info on it at:
http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/index.html
This program is designed for a general unix context (so it works from
the command line) but you can also make it work with the printmanager.
If you want this last thing ask me and I will send you instructions.
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: prail@tip.ameslab.gov (Joel Prail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail_wrapper.c - mailhost or all hosts
Date: 24 Feb 1995 21:26:19 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <3ilitr$bgo@news.iastate.edu>
Do I need to install the sendmail_wrapper onto every NeXT I have, or only
on the one mailhost? (as suggested by the recent CERT sendmail advisory)
-Joel Prail
From: root@edie.cprost.sfu.ca (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HeLp!!* NeXT SMTP mail problems *Please*Help*
Date: 24 Feb 1995 22:08:27 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Message-ID: <3illcr$si3@seymour.sfu.ca>
References: <1995Feb22.082018.16184@schbbs.mot.com>
This happens to me, too. Any suggestions?
In article <1995Feb22.082018.16184@schbbs.mot.com>
TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS) writes:
> Hello there, i have a big problem with my NeXT (colorStation). The next
> was part of a NetInfo network and was turned into a local machine. Now,
> i also would like to use e-mail on the machine. At the time the machine
> was in the network, mail was working fine. There was a different host
acting
> as a mail server for my machine, and i had no problems. /usr/spool/mail
of
> the server was mounted on my machine and i received mail all right.
>
> Now, since the machine is 'stand alone' (it's still connected to the
ethernet
> of course :-) i would like to use the machine as its 'own' mail server,
> so what i did is i unmounted /usr/spool/mail from the mail server and
made
> my own system (called cssnext1) the mailhost using the host manager
application
>
> I created an alias 'mailhost' for cssnext1. After this was done i tried
mail,
> and i was able to send mail with no problem. But when i try to send mail
TO
> my next, i got the following problem:
>
> From Mailer-Agent@cssnext1 Wed Feb 22 03:47 CST 1995
> Received: from cssnext1.corp.mot.com by eurodc.corp.mot.com.corp.mot.com
> (5.61/MCDMAIL IR04 [05/22/90 14:47]/2.1msm) id AA01590; Wed, 22 Feb 95
03:
> 47:46 -0600
> Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com
(NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
> id AA00315; Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
> From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>
> Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
> Message-Id: <9502220750.AA00315@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>
> To: tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com
> Status: OR
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While connected to mailhost:
> >>> HELO cssnext1.corp.mot.com
> <<< 553 cssnext1.corp.mot.com config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 <jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>... 554 Service unavailable
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Return-Path: <tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com>
> Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com
(NX5.67e/NX3.0X)
> id AA00313; Wed, 22 Feb 95 08:50:02 +0100
> Received: from eurodc.corp.mot.com by zwgba.corp.mot.com with SMTP
> (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA07090; Wed, 22 Feb 95 01:53:23 -0600
> Received: by eurodc.corp.mot.com.corp.mot.com
> (5.61/MCDMAIL IR04 [05/22/90 14:47]/2.1msm) id AA01586; Wed, 22 Feb 95
03:
> 47:39 -0600
> From: "Joachim Franke" <tzms22@eurodc.corp.mot.com>
>
> ........
>
> and so on. This was the reply i got back when trying to send mail to
> my account on the next (jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com)
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong ? Any help would be very
> appreciated, i really need this going.
>
> I just have another short question, is it possible to use a SUN station
> instead as a mail-server for my next ?
>
> Thanks much to all , Joachim
From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 and Opcode Studio 3
Date: 24 Feb 1995 18:18:03 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3il7sr$e05@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Hi,
I just got my NeXT (black) upgraded to NS 3.3 and I noticed that
I can't use my MIDI interface (Opcode Studio 3) anymore. It runs off the
serial port. Are there any problems known that come from the new OS?
Thanks,
--
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Center for Complex Systems Research, Beckman Institute, Physics Dept. UIUC
405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801,gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu, gmk@igc.apc.org,
gmk@santafe.edu, (217)-244-5877(voice/fax1),x8371(fax2), x1994 (msg)
URLs: http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/~gmk/, ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gmk
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago, ADN Computer Center
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 03:52:34 CST
From: Manish Shah <U53516@uicvm.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <95056.035234U53516@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tin NNTP server?
Anyone know of any NNTP servers I can use for tin -r? The one I was using seems
to be having constant problems.. or, if not, how can I make our system get new
sgroups, et all to be read by tin?
From: ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 25 Feb 1995 18:38:26 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3intf2$g4c@news.missouri.edu>
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com> <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com> <3iki66$hnk@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com> <3in9km$7m6@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl>
Szymon Sokol (szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl) wrote:
: Frank Kraemer (kraem@paris.wi.germany.ibm.com) wrote:
: : In article <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>, stevek@apertus.com (Steve Kappel) writes:
: : |>
: : |> If a 20 processor SS2000 isn't big enough the Cray 6400 (I think that is the
: : |> model) goes to 64 SPARC processors on 4 XDbus instead of 2 running
: : |> essentially the same O/S.
: : There is a song from Supertramp called DREAMER - listen to it and
: : think of a running SUN 2000 with 20 CPUs........Solaris can not handle-
: : 8 CPUs right so 20 is a real dream....
: Yeah, that is probably true, but the CS64000 (the Cray mentioned above) can
: really run with 64 CPUs. Uhm... how many CPUs can be put into IBM RS6000,
: any model? What was that saying about a kettle and a frying pan? ;-)
Just out of curiosity, is everybody out there using benchmarks to
quantify how well a system handles multiple CPUs? ... actual
applications? ... making wild statements based on how fast the system
seems to respond :) ?
We have a four-processor Onyx here that I would qualitatively say is
"really neat, and really fast." However, I don't know how I'd compare
CPU "throughput" to one of our two-processor SS1000 boxes beyond just
testing single-CPU performance ...
Here is where I suspect OS issues really come into play.
I've seen the benchmarks that NASA Ames did with their NAS stuff, which is
apparently some hard-core floating-point code. Great. But let's say I
want to compare the more intensive load :) of having 200 users on at
once, launching various applications, getting impatient because it takes
the system 5 seconds to echo keystrokes, etc.
Our users are fairly willing to tolerate long runtimes for background
jobs, but when it comes to interactive response, if things slow down,
things get nasty really quickly ...
So, any ideas on good ways to test this sort of thing?
--
- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu>
"I'll drink a toast to bold evolution any day!"
From: tg@isye.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sparc 5: NeXT OS 3.3 soon, or wait for OPENSTEP?
Date: 25 Feb 1995 18:59:07 GMT
Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3inulr$4t1@mordred.gatech.edu>
Keywords: NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP
I recently bought a Sparc 5 for running NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP when it becomes
available. Currently I am running Solaris 2.4 on it. Now that NeXT OS 3.3
is supposed to be available in March, I am trying to decide if I should
get NeXT OS 3.3 now or wait for OPENSTEP to become available sometime in
the future (perhaps this summer?).
I have been using NeXT cubes ever since they first became available. I
use them primarily for the applications, even though I do write a little
bit of software now and then. I intend to keep the cube for a while at
home, along with the Sun.
I would like to convert to NeXT OS 3.3 from Solaris if I can run the
following without too much of a hassle:
PPP, LaTeX2e, some WWW client.
I am also hoping for ports of some of my other favorites such as
Virtuoso. In addition, I would like MBONE since I plan to get ISDN
by the end of summer. (If ISDN doesn't support MBONE, I would at
least want to use Audiofile or something like that.)
Ideally I would like to keep the option of being able to have Solaris
and NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
Should I get NeXT OS 3.3 now, or wait for OPENSTEP? Any advice and
suggestions are welcome.
Thank you very much.
govind
T. Govindaraj +1 404 894 3873, 894 2301 (fax) NeXTmail welcome.
ISyE-0205, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA.
Member, League for Programming Freedom (Info from: lpf@uunet.uu.net)
http://isye.gatech.edu/~tg/index.html
From: kraem@paris.wi.germany.ibm.com (Frank Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 12:07:34 GMT
Organization: IBM Wiesbaden, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iki66$hnk@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com>
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com> <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>
In article <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>, stevek@apertus.com (Steve Kappel) writes:
|>
|> If a 20 processor SS2000 isn't big enough the Cray 6400 (I think that is the
|> model) goes to 64 SPARC processors on 4 XDbus instead of 2 running
|> essentially the same O/S.
There is a song from Supertramp called DREAMER - listen to it and
think of a running SUN 2000 with 20 CPUs........Solaris can not handle-
8 CPUs right so 20 is a real dream....
-frank-
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From: hedrick@heidelberg.rutgers.edu (Chuck Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 17:43:51 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR
Message-ID: <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>All the arguments about keeping root 'pure' are just plain silly.
>There's nothing sacred about not running out of space on / vs /usr
>both have their problems.
I think there used to be one good argument: You wanted root to be as
small as possible to minimize the probability that the file system
would be messed up in a crash. Traditionally root had enough files
that a single-user boot used only root. It had the tools needed to
fix the rest of the system. So for the most robust configuration, you
kept it small, and in many cases kept a backup root partition on a
different disk. These days the systems I'm seeing seem to need /usr
in order to come up single user. In that case there seems to be no
real advantage to a separate root. (However I'm inclined to think
that the old idea was good.)
From: Darryl Trujillo <dmt@pairoducks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 22:56:50 GMT
Organization: Occidental Palace
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ilo7i$8qn@news.wco.com>
References: <3i7rpe$i99@clarknet.clark.net> <3ikkm6$6he@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <D4GJ2I.1KL@sco.COM> <3ikmt8$pou@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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In article <3i4ukt$crp@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Casper H.S. Dik, casper@fwi.uva.nl writes:
>>3) Have you followed any of the threads in comp.unix.solaris on setting
>>up a modem for dial-in? I challenge you to find anyone on that group who
>>will say that it is easy to "maintain, configure, install, and upgrade" a
>>bidirectional modem on a Sparc. I've been trying for months to get ours to
>>work under 2.3 and I have not been able to get anything out of it.
>
>Don't use workstations as modem pools or routers. We are in the fortunate
>position to sue de\dicated quipment for all this sorts of tasks.
>Serial ports have always given us trouble on Suns. (ever since SunOS 4.0,
>that is)
>
"Let them eat cake" indeed. This is absurd. Although it's nice to work in a
shop that can afford to buy new hardware all the time (you are indeed
fortunate!), there are a lot of shops with older systems laying around that
make *fine* routers and modem pools, all for less money than your solution
would take.
Serial ports may have always been a problem with Suns, but with Solaris the
problem became a lot worse. I use an old system as a router at a remote site, and
after hassling with Solaris 2.3 serial support for a couple of months, I
installed 4.1 and have been happy ever since. I've had much better luck with
SysVr3 and Linux on PC hardware.
- dmt
From: bshk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Hosung Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: ASSERT ERROR ()
Date: 24 Feb 1995 21:37:53 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Message-ID: <3iljjh$2ar@news.ecn.bgu.edu>
When I run the UNIX command sendmail, I get
"ASSERT ERROR () pid: 4048 (2/24-19:49) CHDIR FAILED /usr/spool/uucp
(-1)" message.
I can mail outside, but I can not get a mail from outside.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scott@ee.ucla.edu (Ryan Scott)
Subject: Can't trace boot error
Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon)
Message-ID: <D4H0BB.GI3@seas.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:45:08 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: UCLA, Department of Electrical Engineering
I am trying to configure a used NeXTstation (NS 3.2 name) I
just picked up(hostname is outlaw). Everything seems to come up
properly except when the rc script tries to run the
autonfsmount process during bootup it comes up with
'...outlaw autonfsmount: can't find my address. inetd ...'
Any ideas as to where it is looking when it can't find the address?
I would appreciate any suggestions as to what is going on here.
Thanks,
Ryan Scott
scott@ee.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,de.comp.sys.next
From: martin@weigele.de (Martin Weigele)
Subject: File Viewer Problem (black hardware, NeXT STep 3.0)
Message-ID: <1995Feb25.203545.238@weigele.de>
Sender: martin@weigele.de
Organization: M. Weigele
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 20:35:45 GMT
I am having a very strange problem with the Workspace Manager.
After some network installation works and use of CD-Rom (I have no idea if
there is any correlation to the problem) it is no longer possible to create
more than one instance of the File Viewer. Otherwise no problems, except that
the machine occasionally seems a bit slower than usual.
The Command Button of the Workspace "New Viewer" has no effect, except for some
activies on the disk(?). No extra Viewer is created.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance
Martin
---
Martin Weigele, Kapellenweg 32, D-53179 Bonn 2
phone +49 228 333252 home, +49 228 9361590 office
fax +49 228 334564 home, email: martin@weigele.de - "Intel outside!"
From: xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Daniel Barlow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 25 Feb 1995 21:39:11 -0000
Organization: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Message-ID: <3io81v$rnp@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu>
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In article <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu>,
hedrick@heidelberg.rutgers.edu (Chuck Hedrick) writes:
>I think there used to be one good argument: You wanted root to be as
>small as possible to minimize the probability that the file system
>would be messed up in a crash. Traditionally root had enough files
>that a single-user boot used only root. It had the tools needed to
>fix the rest of the system. [...]
This still holds for linux, if you get a FSSTND[1]-compliant distribution
(most are, these days). The other point with / vs /usr on linux is
that everything writable in /usr (spool, locks, pids & stuff) is now
supposed to be in /var.
This means that you can have / on a hard disk and /usr mounted over
the net readonly, or on a cdrom or something.
Daniel
[1] File System Standard. Hey, buy Linux, we have longer acronyms
than anyone else ...
--
xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk // Daniel Barlow // daniel.barlow@sjc.ox.ac.uk
``Our single posting of 6,000 was a drop in a huge bucket''
-- Canter & Siegel, to the Tenessee Bar
From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /usr/etc/disk question
Date: 25 Feb 1995 21:43:23 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3io89r$f9i@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
i did a disk initialization, and the /usr/etc/disk program reported back to me:
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 2097152 56 21 8192 1024 8 5 120 4096 s
Warning: 4096 bytes per inode impossible due
to cylinder group size, using 3678 bytes per inode
Reduce cylinder group size to reduce bytes per inode.
should i change things so that this impossiblity does not arise in the first
place? what exactly does it mean? will i have inferior drive performance if i
do nothing more at this point? thanks. please reply by email too.
From: aho+@pitt.edu (Alan F Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: File Viewer Problem (black hardware, NeXT STep 3.0)
Date: 25 Feb 1995 22:17:01 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <3ioa8t$fen@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
References: <1995Feb25.203545.238@weigele.de>
HELP!
I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.0, on black hardware, and my disk space keeps on
shrinking even though/private/vm/swapfile is not growing! It seems to
start happening within five minutes of logging in after a reboot, even
if I run a mild load (e.g. Terminal and Librarian). And it continues
to shrink even if I don't open any other apps or do anything very
demanding on the computer resources.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Does anyone know how to stop (fix?) this?
Thanks,
Alan
(I can create new file viewers though. )
From: oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au (Kai O'Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Modem Setup (Was: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN)
Date: 25 Feb 1995 22:59:00 GMT
Organization: Monash University
Message-ID: <3iocnk$6eh@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
References: <3i7rpe$i99@clarknet.clark.net> <3ikkm6$6he@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <D4GJ2I.1KL@sco.COM> <3ikmt8$pou@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ilo7i$8qn@news.wco.com> <3ilvnv$bsl@pith.uoregon.edu>
ben@chinook.uoregon.edu (Ben Marcotte) writes:
>modem on one phone line serving one user at a time. All those ones don't
>add up to modem pool or router. But, under Solaris 2.3, one modem is
>enough of a problem that as I said, I still can not get it working (even
>after using Celeste Stokeley's very informative FAQ guide on this exact
>subject).
>There are two things that are really frustrating about this situation.
>First, the only person that responded that said they had done it, did so
>on a machine with an Sbus serial card. I consider this cheating because
>it means spending more money upgrading our hardware, to do something it
>should have done from the begining, than we spent on the modem!
>Second, if I simply took the modem off the sparc and put it on our Linux
>box, it would work without any of these problems. This is the ease of
>use of Solaris - you learn how easy it is to use other systems! As such,
>I would greatly agree with the Linux part of the last line of Darryl's
>post (I can't really say anything about SVR3, I haven't used it).
I once wasted 4 days setting up a 9600modem on a SS20's ttyb under Solaris 2.3.
Celeste's guide is a MUST.
Here's my modem profile: (at&v command)
ACTIVE PROFILE:
B0 E1 L1 M1 N1 Q2 T V1 W1 X4 Y0 &C1 &D3 &G0 &J0 &K3 &Q5 &R0 &S0 &T4 &X0 &Y0
S00:002 S01:000 S02:043 S03:013 S04:010 S05:008 S06:002 S07:050 S08:002 S09:006
S10:014 S11:075 S12:050 S18:000 S25:005 S26:001 S36:007 S37:000 S38:020 S44:003
S46:138 S48:007 S49:008 S50:255
Kai
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email: oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au Tel: +61 3 904 4615, FAX: +61 3 904 4124
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From: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 25 Feb 1995 19:31:00 GMT
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3io0hk$e0e@ccserver.cc.ic.ac.uk>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu> <3idhu1$1sr@tabloid.amoco.com> <3idlqv$s1t@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Originator: cmaae47@sg1
- In article <3idhu1$1sr@tabloid.amoco.com>, cjmace@amoco.com (cjohn mace) writes:
- |> In article <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>,
- |> Paul 'Shag' Walmsley <ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu> wrote:
- |>
- |> >How do you suggest setting up a small root partition that doesn't fill
- |> >up?
- |>
- |> No /var, no /tmp and no files or directories with 777 permission, or owned
- |> by anyone other than root/bin/sys/.... Thus, a root filesystem that doesn't
- |> fill up.
- |>
- |> ps-of course quotas would probably stop 99% of the full single partition
- |> systems.
- |>
- True but you would have to set up a quota for every user on every system, and
- it would have to be restrictive to prevent two or more users from
- inadvertantly filling it up.
Err, no, for us that would not wash. Of the 8000 users or so we have
site-wide many are no longer active, do not want to use a computer,
or use it only very infrequently. Buying the disk space to support
all users running at their maximum quota is not feasible, restricting
total allocated quota to the disk space we have would end up in murder
or worse. Thus we allocate more quota than we have disk space, and I
guess the same holds true for many academic sites. Therefore occasionally
file systems do fill up, the only thing we can do is to make this an
annoying incident rather than a catastrophic one.
Thomas
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From: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 25 Feb 1995 19:44:45 GMT
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3io1bd$e4p@ccserver.cc.ic.ac.uk>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Originator: cmaae47@sg1
In article <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal) writes:
- The problem is that if you put /usr and all the tmp dirs. all in one large
- partition, how do you keep it from filling up. if you have a nice small root
- partition with seperate partitions or links for all the write-able areas
- the root area will not fill up. There is no reason to hate seperate root
- partitions.
So what ?
If you have essentially single user workstations, and the disk fills up,
that is tough for that particular user, who usually has only himself or
herself to blame. And most often even those who are not very computer
literate will understand the problem and will be able to deal with it.
If you are running multi-user machines, where one silly mistake can make
the life difficult for many people, and you think it is below your dignity
to devise a repartitioning strategy, you deserve every problem you get.
It is not really on to think that leaving everything as it was pre-installed
will probably work well enough. This is exactly why computers were not
pre-installed in mainframe days, and why (entry level) machines are
pre-installed now.
Thomas
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From: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 25 Feb 1995 20:19:02 GMT
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Distribution: world
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References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3igl9j$5bp@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3igtab$k08@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Originator: cmaae47@sg1
In article <3igtab$k08@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
- There are no pure wins; both "solutions" have problems. Since
- we know what problems to expect when / and /usr are separate file
- systems, and are used to dealing with them, and since having separate
- file systems is the "norm", a change from this seems gratuitous
- to me, unless the change is REALLY A BIG WIN. It's not enough
- for it to be better. It has to be A HELLUVA LOT BETTER. It's
- hard for me to believe that it is, though I am possibly wrong.
While every change should be judged on its merits, and I generally
argue that "small improvements make it worse", switching to a
single partition (for entry level machines) is entirely beneficial.
Just try to explain to a relatively uninitiated user why there is
no diskspace left, when there are obviously many megabytes (just in
the wrong partition). Then try again. Then devise a scheme how, for
this particular situation, the problem can be circumvented.
Then try to work out how somebody else circumvented a similar
problem when it previously came up, and you have to accommodate
those work-arounds. And all that while that very user has a problem,
cannot do anything because the computer is down, and will therefore
sit with you watching the files dumped to tape and re-loaded after
repartitioning. Which you can only do after organising a tape drive.
(User doesn't have one). And you have to stay there - you know
the user is highly like to foul things up by poking around when
the systems comes up again and you are not there to commission it.
And you have to retrieve the tape drive - user will start an
unpostponable job that will run for four weeks, in which the
machine must not be rebooted, so you wait until the system is up
and the user happy - which meeans you will be doing another five
or so system management tasks as well.
Phew - I had to get that off my chest.
Thomas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help PATH error skips singleuser mode
Message-ID: <1995Feb24.103828.42791@cc.usu.edu>
From: mike@hobbs.chem.usu.edu (Michael Emmel)
Date: 24 Feb 95 10:38:28 MDT
Distribution: world
Help I added /Apps to the .path for root and since this directory does not
contain any excutables I get a and error.
When I boot in singleuser mode the boot sequence kicks out when it hits
the .path file unfortunatly the file system is read only.
I have manually set the path variable and exported it but if I exit the
shell the boot goes on to multiusermode and the filesystem is still read
only this cuase Netinfo to lock and I guess the workspace manger does not
load because all I get is a black screen with the mouse cusor.
I hate to admit this but I did this once before and managed to hit control
C at just the right moment to get me back in single user mode. And was
then able to edit the .path file.
I'm open to any suggestions?? Specifically how do I get back to the NeXT
Mach monitor this is on Intel?
Thanks
Mike
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't change volume on NeXT anymore
Date: 25 Feb 1995 20:54:21 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3io5dt$erp@paladin.american.edu>
References: <3ikg4e$k2g@aragorn.unibe.ch>
In article <3ikg4e$k2g@aragorn.unibe.ch> willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz
Willers) writes:
> Some days ago I realized that the volume of the speaker box on my slab
(NeXT Turbo
> Color with NS 3.3) can't be changed anymore.
> --
> Moritz Willers
> Institute of Theoretical Physics
> Sidlerstrasse 5
> 3012 Bern, Switzerland
> willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail, MIME)
I just noticed the same problem. If any one has ideas I would like to hear
them also.
Torrey McMahon
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu NeXTMail, MIME
tm8025a@american.edu Only ASCII
From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 25 Feb 1995 21:00:05 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3io5ol$kmu@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu>
hedrick@heidelberg.rutgers.edu (Chuck Hedrick) writes:
| olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >All the arguments about keeping root 'pure' are just plain silly.
| >There's nothing sacred about not running out of space on / vs /usr
| >both have their problems.
|
| I think there used to be one good argument: You wanted root to be as
| small as possible to minimize the probability that the file system
| would be messed up in a crash. Traditionally root had enough files
I don't buy this. All the OS/filesystem bugs I've seen that would cause
a whole filesystem to be trashed are completely independent of the number
of files or the size; it's true that most of them (but not all!) are
related to the amount of activity, but even more than that, the type
of filesystem activity.
I think most unix systems have been robust against this kind of issue
for a number of years now; that is, the size of the root filesystem isn't
likely to affect whether it will come up single user or not.
| different disk. These days the systems I'm seeing seem to need /usr
| in order to come up single user. In that case there seems to be no
Then they *definitely* shouldn't support a seperate /usr. This sounds
like an out and out bug (and before people attack sgi, yes, I know that
tcsh requires /usr, if you have it as the root shell; that's why we
put comments in the relnotes that you shouldn't do that, unless you
have /usr as part of the root filesystem).
--
The most beautiful things in the world are | Dave Olson
those from which all excess weight has been | Silicon Graphics
removed. -Henry Ford | olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: sample fax modem driver (mythical?)
In-Reply-To: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA's message of Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:04:10 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Feb25205715@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <D4H994.719@news.cis.umn.edu> <MAGNAN.95Feb24120411@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 01:57:14 GMT
>>>>> "Magnan" == Magnan Francois <magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>>>>> "Scott" == Scott S Bertilson <scott@geom.umn.edu> writes:
Scott> I have periodically seen notes which mention fax modem
Scott> driver sample code and I think I've sent notes to the
Scott> people who've mentioned it, but I've never heard anything
Scott> back. Is this one of those things that died when NeXT sold
Scott> off a software package (in this case NXFax)? Thanks, Scott
Scott> S. Bertilson --
Magnan> There is a PD fax driver that supports more modems than
Magnan> NXFax and it can also support voicemail. It is called
Magnan> mgetty+sendfax and you can get info on it at:
Magnan> http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/index.html
Magnan> This program is designed for a general unix context (so it
Magnan> works from the command line) but you can also make it work
Magnan> with the printmanager. If you want this last thing ask me
Magnan> and I will send you instructions.
Since I cannot reach Rob Caljouw by email (his address is not working)
I decided to post to instructions.
Here is how to make mgetty+sendfax with the print manager. This was
written by Mark Gregory Salyzyn.
Francois Magnan
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From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Subject: mgetty+sendfax 0.22 *works* great!
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 08:12:54 GMT
Organization: UNIX drivers'R'Us
I recently compiled mgetty+sendfax, and along with the pbm and ghostscript
support I have had for some time, and find that it works great with my
USR Courier Class 2.0 Triple standard modem for sending FAXes. I have not
set up mgetty to receive faxes yet.
The only hack I did was to have NetInfoManager.app redirect the `if' hander
to the following script and this allowed me to be integrated into the
Print Panel. I also hacked up smail (which replaced sendmail more than a
year ago on my machine) to perform an email to FAX gateway.
I would be interested in any comments about ensuring a level of security to
the programs. For instance, any additional checks on the phone numbers?
Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn
-------------- /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/FAX.psif ---------
#! /bin/sh
# Name: FAX.psif
# Description: lpd printer interface script for postscript files.
#
trap `rm -f /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps ; exit` 1 2 3 15
cat - >/tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
ARGUMENTS="`fgrep '%%NXFax
%%For:' /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps`"
FaxNumber="`echo \"$ARGUMENTS\" | sed -n 's/^%%NXFaxNumber:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p'`"
FaxTo="`echo \"$ARGUMENTS\" | sed -n 's/^%%NXFaxTo:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p'`"
FaxFrom="`echo \"$ARGUMENTS\" | sed -n 's/^%%For:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' | head -1`"
FaxName="`nidump passwd / | sed -n \"s/^$FaxFrom:[^:]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:\([^:]*\):.*/\1/p\"`"
LOGNAME=root
export LOGNAME
chmod 644 /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
/usr/local/bin/faxspool -q -f "$FaxFrom" -F "$FaxName" -D "$FaxTo" $FaxNumber /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
status=$?
rm -f /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
exit $status
---------------- /usr/lib/smail/transports -------------
# @(#)samples/generic/transports 1.11 9/6/92 04:41:55
obscure:
driver=pipe, # pipe message to another program
return_path, # include a Return-Path: field
from, # supply a From_ envelope line
unix_from_hack, # insert > before From in body
# comment out the above line for
# use with the Content-Length
# header fields.
# SVR4 mailbox format: uncomment the below 3 lines
# remove_header="Content-Length",
# append_header="${if !header:Content-Type :Content-Type: text}",
# append_header="Content-Length: $body_size",
local; # use local forms for delivery
cmd="/usr/lib/smail/obscure.sh $user",
parent_env, # environment info from parent addr
pipe_as_user, # use user-id associated with address
# ignore_status, # ignore a non-zero exit status
ignore_write_errors, # ignore write errors, i.e., broken pipe
umask=0022, # umask for child process
log_output, # do not log stdout/stderr
---------------- /usr/lib/smail/routers ----------
# @(#)samples/generic/routers 1.3 8/8/92 16:40:26
. . . . .
obscure_neighbors:
driver=uuname,
transport=obscure;
cmd="echo obscure",
. . . . .
-------------- /usr/lib/mail/aliases ----------
. . . . .
fax: obscure!fax
. . . . .
-------------- /usr/lib/smail/directors --------------
# @(#)samples/generic/directors 1.6 9/6/92 04:41:29
. . . . .
# smart_user - a partially specified smartuser director
#
# If the config file attribute smart_user is defined as a string such as
# "$user@domain-gateway" then users not matched otherwise will be sent
# off to the host "domain-gateway".
#
# If the smart_user attribute is not defined, this director is ignored.
smart_user:
driver=smartuser; # special-case driver
new_user="obscure!${lc:user}",
# do not match addresses which cannot be made into valid
# RFC822 local addresses without the use of double quotes.
well_formed_only,
-------------- /usr/lib/smail/obscure.sh -------------
#! /bin/sh
# Name: obscure
# Description: This shell script is used to programatically handle any
# users that are unknown to this system, and process the messages so
# that they may be handled correctly. The following actions may be taken:
# user.name - mail to news gateway
# phone number(s) - mail to fax gateway
# user name - mail to packet gateway
# Only the fax support is in here at the moment.
#
trap 'rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t ; exit' 1 2 3 15
awk "BEGIN {
in_hdr=1
in_rec=0
}
/^[ ]/ && (in_hdr == 1) && (in_rec == 1) {
next
}
{
in_rec=0
}
/^[A-Z][-a-z][^ :]*:[ ]/ && (in_hdr == 2) {
in_hdr=1
}
/^[ ]*\$/ && (in_hdr == 2) {
next
}
(in_hdr == 2) {
print \"\"
in_hdr=0
}
/^[ ]*\$/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
in_hdr=2
next
}
/^Apparently-To:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Message-I[Dd]:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Status:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Content-Type:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Content-Length:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Content-Transfer-Encoding:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Expires: +1 month/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^M[iI][mM][eE]-Version:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Encoding:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^X-[-a-zA-Z]*:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Lines:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Path:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^N[nN][Tt][Pp]-Posting-Host:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Originator:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Resent-To:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Originally-To:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^Received:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
in_rec=1
next
}
/^In-Reply-To:/ {
in_rec=1
next
}
/^Precedence:/ {
in_rec=1
next
}
/^Errors-To:/ {
in_rec=1
next
}
/^X-Mailer:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
next
}
/^X-Newsreader:/ && (in_hder == 1) {
next
}
{
print
}" > /tmp/obscure$$.t
if test $# -lt 1 -o "X$1" = "Xfax" ; then
return="`sed 's/obscure!//' /tmp/obscure$$.t | sed -n 's/^To:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p'`"
if test ! -z "$return" ; then
set $return
fi
if test $# -lt 1 -o "X$1" = "Xfax" ; then
return="`sed -n 's/^X*-*[Ff]ax:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' /tmp/obscure$$.t`"
if test ! -z "$return" ; then
set $return
else
rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t
exit 2
fi
fi
fi
return="`sed -n 's/^From:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' /tmp/obscure$$.t`"
if test -z "$return" ; then
return="`sed -n 's/^Reply-To:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' /tmp/obscure$$.t`"
fi
name="`echo $return | sed -n -e 's/.*(\(.*\))/\1/p' -e 's/\(.*\)<[^>]*>/\1/p'`"
return="`echo $return | sed -e 's/\([^ ]*\)[ ]*(.*)/\1/' -e 's/.*<\([^>]*\)>/\1/'`"
if test ! -z "$name" ; then
name="-F \"$name\""
fi
# check out the phone number, restrict it to a `name' or 7 digit number.
numbers=
bad_numbers=
multi_bad=no
multi=no
description=
for i in $* ; do
i="`echo $i | sed -e 's/obscure!//' -e 's/@obscure//'`"
case $i in
[a-zA-Z]*)
if test ! -z "`grep \"^$i[ ]\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`" ; then
if test -z "$numbers" ; then
numbers=$i
else
numbers="$numbers $i"
multi=yes
fi
if test ! -z "$description" ; then
description="$description, "
fi
description="$description`sed -n \"s/^$i[ ][ ]*[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`"
else
if test -z "$bad_numbers" ; then
bad_numbers=$i
else
bad_numbers="$bad_numbers $i"
multi_bad=yes
fi
fi ;;
[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])
if test -z "$numbers" ; then
numbers=$i
else
numbers="$numbers $i"
multi=yes
fi ;;
*) if test -z "$bad_numbers" ; then
bad_numbers=$i
else
bad_numbers="$bad_numbers $i"
multi_bad=yes
fi ;;
esac
done
if test ! -z "$bad_numbers" -a ! -z "$return" ; then
( echo "Will not send fax to $bad_numbers"
echo
if test "yes" = "$multi_bad" ; then
echo "This fax server considers the following numbers as not being local calls or to"
echo "be unknown by the system, and will not send the following faxes:"
echo " $bad_numbers"
else
echo "This fax server considers $bad_numbers a long distance call, or unknown to the"
echo "system, and will not send the fax."
fi
echo "please contact postmaster@`sed -n 's/^HOSTNAME=\(.*\)/\1/p' /etc/hostconfig` if you think this is in error"
echo
sed "s/^/} /" /tmp/obscure$$.t
) | mail $return
fi
if test ! -z "$return" ; then
return="-f $return"
fi
if test "yes" = "$multi" ; then
numbers="-m $numbers --"
fi
if test ! -z "$description" ; then
description="-D \"$description\""
fi
LOGNAME=root
export LOGNAME
chmod 644 /tmp/obscure$$.t
/usr/local/bin/faxspool -q -f "$return" -F "$name" -D "$description" $numbers /tmp/obscure$$.t
status=$?
rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t
exit $status
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: making a bootable disk w/o BuildDisk.app
Date: 25 Feb 1995 22:11:49 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3io9v5$fl6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
anyone know how to make a bootable disk w/o BuildDisk.app? i have three
partitions on a 4gb drive and i think i need to do things manually.
From: aho+@pitt.edu (Alan F Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Disappearing Memory Problem (black hardware, NeXT STep 3.0)
Date: 26 Feb 1995 03:55:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <3iou38$gl9@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
References: <1995Feb25.203545.238@weigele.de> <3ioa8t$fen@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
Help!
What is /private/etc/swapfile.front? I just watched it grow from 0 to
20 megs while my file viewer reports I only lost .2 megs!
Moreover, when swapfile.front is selected in the FileViewer, I am told
there are "25.2MB available on _foreign_ disk". (my emphasis). I
didn't realize I had a foreign disk. Is there a way to get rid of it?
When I do 'df' at a terminal prompt, I get the following:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 402253 336264 25763 93% /
/private/vm/swapfile 402253 336264 25763 93% /private/vm/swapfile.front
swapfile should not be a filesystem like sd0a, should it? And why is
it identical to sd0a?
If someone could shed light on what is going on and how to fix this,
I'd much appreciate it. Thank you,
Alan
aho+@pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS)
Subject: LOOKING FOR: VT-100 frondend for NeXT-Mail
Organization: Motorola
Date: 23 Feb 1995 06:19:53 MST
Message-ID: <1995Feb23.132932.18422@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
I am looking for a VT-100 front-end for NeXT-Mail, something that
i can easily read my e-mail from home with a dumb emulation.
Or does anyone have another suggestion what is a good way to do
this? I was just thinking, how is about setting up the next as
a POP server and go to my mail via eudorra or something ?
Did anyone do this ? Is that easy? Many thanks for the help,
Joachim
From: 3sunlife@interlog.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions: HP-SGI-SUN-WinNt-Os/2-??
Date: 26 Feb 1995 04:25:57 GMT
Organization: Interlog Internet Services -Voice (416) 975-2655 -Data 515-1414
Message-ID: <3iovsl$frl@steel.interlog.com>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i493h$1ae@gandalf.pic.net> <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3iehhu$h4s@steel.interlog.com> <D4GJ2I.1KL@sco.COM>
In <D4GJ2I.1KL@sco.COM>, jim@sco.COM (Jim Sullivan) writes:
>In <3iehhu$h4s@steel.interlog.com> 3sunlife@interlog.com (Wilf Lee) writes:
>
>>In <3ib5th$2b4@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner <rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
>>>what i originally wanted to know also:
>>>
>>>1. are "standard" machines (pc's) capable to keep track with
>>> proprietary risc machines (servers - workstations).
>>
>>Not a chance as far as up time is concerned. The HP9000 is solid and have
>>been up for more than a year without any problems. The Pentium 60 have been
>>up and down at least twice a month. For the $$ amount we saved on hardware,
>>we paid it right back on down time.
>
>Not that I want to get into an uptime contest...but who was the manufacturer
>of the Pentium? Often times I see these type of comparisons between
>major, non-intel OEM's and some second or third tier Intel compatible
>supplier. Hardly a fair comparison, in my opinion. Of course, the
>operating system is part of the equation as well, but you didn't indicate
>which OS was in use.
Correct. It's not entirely software or hardware's fault as both manufacturers
blame the other party. I'm simply sick and tired of it. That's another reason
why I like HP over Intel Motherboard running NT. HP made the computer and they
wrote HPUX. There's only 1 company I have to chase for fixes instead of 2 and
end up acting as a liason between the two.
regards,
WL
Disclaimer: views expressed are mine and do not represent my employer.
All other standard disclaimers apply.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain ?????
Message-ID: <3ij4ua$277@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Date: 23 Feb 1995 23:15:22 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
i keep getting the following in /usr/adm/messages:
Feb 23 18:13:16 bink syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
any ideas? i started getting it right after i hooked up a second external,
uninitialized disk. i got the message when running the build-disk program, and
coincidentally, my machine could not initialize successfully. any ideas? please
reply by email. thanks!
From: idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw (JesseH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP on NeXTStep/Intel
Date: 26 Feb 1995 13:21:20 GMT
Organization: Div.Cardiology, National Defense Medical Center
Message-ID: <3ipv8g$8de@aladdin.iii.org.tw>
I have got the unsupported PPP shareware and installed it successfully.
But I could never get it to work- it never upload during restart as the
readme file stated. what should I do next?
Simon Chih-L Han MB
idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw
Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine
National Defense Medical Center
What will be the
future?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
????????????????????The future is
now....................................
From: idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw (JesseH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP on NeXTStep/Intel
Date: 26 Feb 1995 13:26:40 GMT
Organization: Div.Cardiology, National Defense Medical Center
Message-ID: <3ipvig$8de@aladdin.iii.org.tw>
I have got the unsupported PPP shareware and installed it successfully.
But I could never get it to work- it never upload during restart as the
readme file stated. what should I do next?
Simon Chih-L Han MB
idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw
Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine
National Defense Medical Center
What will be the
future?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
????????????????????The future is
now....................................
From: jbettis@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Bettis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3iim04$gv6@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Control: cancel <3iim04$gv6@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 1995 19:28:52 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3iinll$h0b@crcnis3.unl.edu>
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From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mount -va problem
Date: 26 Feb 1995 15:38:52 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3iq7ac$1ae@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
for some reason i can't figure out, mount -va is not mounting any of the disks
i have listed in /etc/fstab, or in the netinfo fstab database. any ideas?
thanks. a /usr/etc/mount works just fine, though.
From: night@b65215.student.cwru.edu (John L. Millard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail
Date: 23 Feb 1995 22:26:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <3ij22i$3i9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Hello all --
In the interest of improving security on my system, I would like to move
sendmail to operating under inetd, and place a tcp wrapper around it,
providing much more control and log information.
Are there any reasons I should not do this? I noticed that one nice option
-- -q[time], which processes the queue every so many [time] -- appears to
only work when sendmail runs as a daemon. Any way I can fix this so that it
processes the queue hourly despite the fact it runs from inetd?
Thanks in advance! Please reply to here or by mail to
night@b65215.student.cwru.edu.
-- John
____________________________________________________________
|
John L. Millard | You can live only once, but
4th Year Computer Engineering | if you do it right, once is
Case Western Reserve Univ. | enough.
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jlm13@po.cwru.edu | -- Unknown
______________________________|_____________________________
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them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with
computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
-- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in
Doctor Dobb's Journal
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <id.TRLH1.B3A@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.Z7GH1.QH3@nmti.com> <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:32:07 GMT
In article <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>,
Butch Deal <deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> |> familiar with BSD. Solaris isn't either. OSF/1 is pretty straight BSD with
> |> a little System V admin stuff on the edge.
> just enough to make it a pain in the...
I'm not sure where you're coming from with this. Virtually all the important
interfaces are BSD, except they dropped the version-7-ish BSD /etc/rc stuff
and went to inittab. I was a little annoyed they put /etc/rc*.d in /sbin
but that's pretty minor.
Perhaps you're trying to think of it as a System V box. It's not. It's a
BSD box with a few System V features.
> this just makes it neither. You can't sit on the BSD/SYSV fence
> forever.
I don't think they are. They've pulled in some good features from System V
but kept the basic BSD interfaces. Solaris has pretty much sucked in the
bad (like the printer configuration) with the good (like inittab).
> It seems that all the people that do well with BSD just have a reall hard time
> with solaris 2.x. Solaris 2.x is one of the closest SYSV OS's.
I have a BSD machine and a System V machine at home. We used to be a complete
System V and Xenix shop. You can't simplify things and just say it's a System
V versus BSD problem. Well, maybe you can but it's not true.
And then there's the Solaris things that are neither SysV nor BSD, like the
whole /usr/ccs tree.
--
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Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U`
1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA
+1 713 274 5180 "Hast du Heute schon deinen Wolf umarmt?"
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to create an account automatically
Date: 26 Feb 1995 20:22:03 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3iqntb$gu0@news.next.com>
References: <MAGNAN.95Feb24130732@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Magnan Francois writes
> I am looking for a script that would take a username and password
> as a command line argument and that would create the corresponding
> account. I need this for a program I am writing in which there will
> be a kind of UserManager.app functionality. Basically, I just need
> to know how the UserManager.app interacts with the nu shell command.
UserManager doesn't talk to the "nu" command. Before NEXTSTEP 3.3,
UserManager contained some code that behaved very similarly to "nu".
UserManager was re-written from scratch for NEXTSTEP 3.3, and the old "nu"
look-alike functionality disappeared to make it possible to have a much
richer set of "hooks" in UserManager.
A User account has 2 basic components: Some administrative information
that's kept in some administrative data-store (could be NetInfo, NIS, or
/etc/passwd, depending on how your system is set up), and a home
directory. UserManager puts administrative records in NetInfo. To do the
same sort of thing in a shell script, all you need to do is use "niutil"
to create a new directory in /users, and create uid, gid, passwd, home,
shell, realname, and _writers_passwd properties:
niutil -create $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME passwd $PASSWD
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME uid $UID
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME gid $GID
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME realname $REALNAME
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME home $HOME
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME shell $SHELL
niutil -createprop $DOMAIN /users/$USERNAME _writer_passwd $USERNAME
You may want to have your script find the next uid. You could use
something like this to find the highest current uid, and add 1 to it:
HIGH_UID=`niutil -list $DOMAIN /users uid | awk '{print $2}' | sort -n |
tail -1`
UID=`expr $HIGH_UID + 1`
A bit more clever shell programming could find the first unused uid.
You might even have your script try to create a user name from the user's
real name (first initial + last name or something like that).
After creating the administrative record, you need to create a home
directory:
mkdirs $HOME
You probably want to put some stuff in the user's new home
cd /usr/template/user
gnutar -cf - . | (cd $HOME; gnutar -xpf -)
And make the user own it all:
chown -R $USERNAME $HOME
chgrp -R $GID $HOME
There are endless variations on this theme. Your script can do lots of
clever things. The essentials are just an administrative record and a
home directory.
--
Marc Majka
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is MAB Getting Out Of Hand?
Date: 23 Feb 1995 22:15:27 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Message-ID: <3ij1dv$odt@castle.york.ac.uk>
References: <3hrths$b0@news1.wolfe.net>
irving@Wolfe.NET (Irving_Wolfe) writes:
> Sorry about this, I know I've lost it. But SEVEN MEGABYTES for a
> silly little system utility! Wow! You guys are nuts!
Hmm, was this stripped ? Normal MAb stuff isn't that big. My latest
MAB app is 6.5MB before stipping and just over 500k affterwards. Its
NeXTs H--U--G--E symbol table which seems to be taking up all the
space. One upon a time when disc was scarce everything was stripped,
nowadays people dont seem to bother :-(
-bat.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:57:12 -0500
From: Dan F Hurley <dfh@guitar.ho.att.com>
Message-ID: <9502232057.AA00849@guitar.ho.att.com>
Subject: SUMMARY: Re: Printing to nextprinter from command line
A postscript file (file.ps, for example) can be printed from the
command line with the following command:
lpr file.ps
The reason I was unable to get this to work for me is that I was
trying to print an EPS file:
lpr.eps does NOT work
due to the fact that eps files do not contain a complete description
of the page. As far as I can tell, ps files must be converted to ps
files first. Unfortunately, I need to programmatically print files
generated by "Draw.app" using its "Save to postscript" option (which
are xxx.eps files)... Draw does not seem to be able to make a ps
file.
Thanks,
Dan Hurley
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu> <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 21:41:47 GMT
In article <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com>,
Will Morse <will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
> they can be _just_as_good_enough_ and even cheaper. DEC is, at least
> at present, NOT good enough and certainly not cheap enough. This
> gives clone makers no where to go.
In what way is DEC "not good enough"? Their machines are blazing fast, their
UNIX is solid, and the only downside is they're pretty pricey.
--
Peter da Silva `-_-'
Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U`
1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA
+1 713 274 5180 "Hast du Heute schon deinen Wolf umarmt?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gunther@vulcan.rhein-neckar.de (Gunther H. Weber)
Subject: Installing term-2.3.3
Message-ID: <D4IxCI.qx@vulcan.rhein-neckar.de>
Organization: Vulcan Science Academy
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 21:36:17 GMT
Hello,
I have installed term-2.3.3 (and term-2.25 before that), so that
I am able to access WWW and other services from home using an ordinary
shell account. After successfully installing term in /usr/local/bin
I encountered a problem. If I dial in my account using the 'at&d0' option
of the ZyXEL (disabling autohangup-when-DTR-low-detected) and tip
(or any other terminal-pogram) to log in and start term at the remote side
I can't start term at home using
term -v /dev/cufa
or
term </dev/cufa >/dev/cufa
All I get is a '/dev/cufa permission denied' if I do this as an ordinary user.
If I am logged in as root, everything works just fine. It seems that only the
users 'root' and 'uucp' may access the serial line directly, because all
programs using the serial line seem to suid uucp. But I fear term won't work
properly if I make it an suid uucp program, because it allows only the owner
of the term proccess to start term-clients (if not compiled in shared mode).
Is there a possibilty to access the serial line as an ordinary user. Can
I compile term in shared mode, create a user term and allow that user to access
the serial line? How is it possible that only uucp may access the serial line?
Is there a mechanism allowing to configure for each user, whether he may or may
not access the serial line?
Thank You in advance!
Gunther H. Weber
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: making a bootable disk w/o BuildDisk.app
Message-ID: <1995Feb26.122716.4556@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3io9v5$fl6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 12:27:16 GMT
In article <3io9v5$fl6@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> mra@mit.edu (Michael
Raskin Andrews) writes:
> anyone know how to make a bootable disk w/o BuildDisk.app? i have three
> partitions on a 4gb drive and i think i need to do things manually.
Write a boot block using '/usr/etc/disk -b <rawdevice>', then
'dump|restore' the root partition (easiest way to make a clone).
Refer to the man-pages for additional info.
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:40:48 GMT
Message-ID: <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com>
I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire filesystem
from my internal drive to it. The drive is connected externally for the
moment, until I put the OS on it, at which time I'll install it as the
only drive on my machine. The reason I want to copy the filesystem is to
avoid having to install everything again! Also, all of my accounts are on
this, and I don't want to hassle my users.
The problems:
1. Links do not copy correctly, as they need to point to files on the new
filesystem.
2. The /dev directory is a nightmare... I don't know how to copy them.
3. How do I make sure that this disk is bootable?
Has anyone done this before? Am I overlooking a way to make this easier?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Matt
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From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup problem. Any suggestions?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:05:39 +0100
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950227151729.10968E-100000-100000-100000-100000-100000@hphalle5a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hello,
I'm using an Intel Plato (Premiere II) with Adaptec 1542CF. I attached an
old TEAC 600MB tape streamer to do backups of an FUJITSU 26xx and Quantum
Maverick drive.
I don't like a to do complete backups (with volcopy) and so
I used tar and gnutar and encountered the following frustrating situation:
backup rate is damned slow!!! About 2-3MB/sec!
I was using this drive on my Amiga for years, and was able to get backup
rates of 12-14MB/sec, which was quite nice.
Then I thought: "hey, perhapes the drives are too slow"? I created a
single file out of /NextLibrary/Documentation/Webster-Dictionary (which I
used for speed tests, because it contains big _and_ small files), and backed
up only this single fat file. The backup rate increased to 12MB. Nice!
But why the hell is this big difference existing? I played a little bit with
the -b option of gnutar and wasn't able to use higher block rates than
256, this is probably because the streamer only has a 128kB buffer.
During testing the -b option I noticed, that there is only synchronous
transfer, which slows down everything, but even with small blocking modes
(32kB) the backup is really slow.
I have to mention that the backup gets slow because the tape always is
rewinding if the data flow stops. With the fat file, mentioned earlier,
reading from disk was probably fast enough not to stop the data flow even
in synchronous mode, but with more small files, you can't prevent
rewinding.
I wanted to test 'enTar' and 'SafetyNet', but these commercial
products weren't usable for doing speed tests, because the 10-20
files/backup restriction isn't worth a test. Any expiriences?
If there is no solution on speeding up backups with an sequential tape
streame, I'll like to write my own asynchronous backup program. Do you
think it might be worth the effort? Would this really speed up backups?
(one task reading/one task writing).
Thanks in advance,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
From: wilkie@cslab.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo rookie question
Date: 27 Feb 1995 09:11:42 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3is50e$8k6@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Hi there!
I've got the following problem with photorealistic renderman on a
standalone machine: it does its job o.k. when called from an application
(i.e. when rendering and delivering TIFF data to the app). If one wants a
"preview" from the print panel (when previewing a page with RIB code on
it), it performs o.k. (i.e. it deposits page & picture in /tmp), but it
doesn't call Preview.app to view the result anymore.
I remember that altering some detail in the netinfo machine (even onb a
standalone box) cures this problem...
Can anyone help?
ys
Alexander Wilkie
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From: yann@dagobah.fdn.fr
Subject: Re: tiff whitespace to transparent?
Message-ID: <1995Feb26.234224.2604@dagobah.fdn.fr>
Organization: Individual
References: <3ifnek$6mt@castle.york.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:42:24 GMT
pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french) writes:
: sela@iastate.edu writes:
: >
: > Does anybody know of a way that I could make the whitespace in a tiff
: > transparent. For example, I use grab to grab a tiff that is on a white
: > background. How can I convert that white background to a transparent
: > background now that it is part of the tiff?
: I've always done this by hand in Iconbuilder - if you've got anything
: opther than a simple backgroudn then it's a right pain to do though.
: Writing a program to load in a tiff and change all of a particular colour
: to transparent shouldn't be a problem though - the tiff object is
: very easy to use in normal C program (niot Apps).
:
: -bat.
How about the following procedure in IconBuilder:
- open your tiff
- Command-Shift-P -> check for alpha channels (transparency bits)
- Command-Shift-C -> uncheck "Paint in Overlay mode"
- select 0% opacity (full transparency)
- Use the fill-tool and click in the white area
- save
- enjoy your transparency !
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___________________________________________________________________________
Yann LECHELLE - Edge Seeker yann@dagobah.fdn.fr | y_lechelle@effix.fr
25, rue Bosquet - Paris, France +NeXT/MIME +m68k/hppa +PS/TIFF/JPG/GIF/..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cavery@netcom.com (Christopher Avery)
Subject: Is MAB Getting Out Of Hand
Message-ID: <caveryD4Mtov.12J@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 00:07:43 GMT
Sender: cavery@netcom14.netcom.com
The answer is, "Yes". I would think an easy solution would be for the
Next ftp sites to have a little program called send_as with the the
architecture and the file name being the arguments. Thus, "send_as -M68
bigfile would unpack the M68 portion of bigfile and send it down the line.
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Date: 27 Feb 1995 11:56:04 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3isekk$jnl@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Matthew Hocker (hocker@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire filesystem
: from my internal drive to it.
[..]
: 1. Links do not copy correctly, as they need to point to files on the new
: filesystem.
: 2. The /dev directory is a nightmare... I don't know how to copy them.
use dump/restore
Mount your new harddrive on /mnt for example and do something like
dump 0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
Make sure you have the restore patch installed (if you're running 3.2)
(Available via NeXTanswers)
: 3. How do I make sure that this disk is bootable?
use the disk command with parameter -i.
: Has anyone done this before? Am I overlooking a way to make this easier?
Yes. Done this successfully several times.
Axel
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From: cs@kau1.kodak.com (Craig Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Intel install w/ DPT2122 figured out
Date: 27 Feb 1995 10:27:10 +1100
Organization: Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <3ir2oe$1bu@bud.kau2.kodak.com>
References: <3i5en7$9lm@matlock.mindspring.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Keywords: DPT, NEXTSTEP 3.3
jsickel@sickel.com (Jeffrey A. Sickel) writes:
>Since I've been having problems with my DPT 2122 4meg cach controler,
>I ended up getting another 3gig disk and wanted to install a fresh
>3.3 version on it. I've finally figured out what to do so the system
>doesn't hang once you reboot to complete the install.
>Details include:
> fixing Default.config, System.config, DPT2000.config
>by entering as single user before finishing the install.
>If anyone want's me to post a more detailed description, let me know.
I'd be interested in knowing exactly what you change, since I'm having
problems with an Adaptec 2742, and I might be able to find a starting
point for mine from looking over your stuff.
--
=============================================================================
Craig Smith cs@kau1.kodak.com
(61 3) 353 2471 | You're looking hale and hearty, little buddy.
Kodak (Australia) Pty Ltd | I'm a coffee achiever, Sam
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (pete french)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Running NeXTStations w/o monitor
Date: 26 Feb 1995 23:28:10 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Message-ID: <3ir2qa$914@castle.york.ac.uk>
References: <3i7o1f$7ui@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) writes:
> Eike Dierks (eike@ilink.de) wrote:
> : The downside:
> : - No windowserver thus no printing or faxing on a headless machine (trying
> : to start the window server crashes the machine)
>
> Not mine. Printing works fine. Haven't tried faxing though.
You probably have no monitor but are still running a window server in that
case. If not there would be no way to interpret the postscript used to
drive the printer (I assume you do mean that the printer is being driven
from this machine). I managed to blow up a NeXT output driver on the
cube used as a server and we ran it "blind" for nearly a year. In the end
we simply fixed the video by shorting out the blown component (an output
filter inductor). But up until then it woorked fine.
-bat.
From: gschwarz@crl.ucsd.edu (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: noisy fans (cube, station)
Date: 27 Feb 1995 01:39:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3iragg$sji@network.ucsd.edu>
I'm sure this subject has come up before, but I could not find an answer in
any of the FAQs. The fans in my cube and my station are getting louder and
louder, and it is getting to the point where the noise is quite distracting.
What can I do to rectify the situation? Are there replacement fans? Where
would I find them?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Georg Schwarz
gschwarz@ucsd.edu
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From: 007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca>
Sender: news@relay.acadiau.ca
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 01:30:16 GMT
I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
not power macs or RS/6000 machines, but Motorola PPCs
you can get a 16mb base workstation (base price! no flames about
insufficient hardware! :-) for less than 5000 (i believe) with a PPC 604
processor, which should give better performance than any other workstation
under 20k..... (argue away, i am NOT standing firm by THAT statement ;-)
AND, you can run WinNT (why?) AIX, or soon OS/2
MUCH cheaper than a sparc, sgi, or pa/risc system......
dana lacoste
007534l@dragon
From: stefan@mms-gmbh.de (Stefan Scheffler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and Opcode Studio 3
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:48:15 +0100
Organization: Steinberg Soft- & Hardware GmbH
Message-ID: <stefan-2702951248150001@193.103.161.1>
References: <3il7sr$e05@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
In article <3il7sr$e05@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu
(Gottfried Mayer-Kress) wrote:
> Hi,
> I just got my NeXT (black) upgraded to NS 3.3 and I noticed that
> I can't use my MIDI interface (Opcode Studio 3) anymore. It runs off the
> serial port. Are there any problems known that come from the new OS?
I didn't check this, but maybe NeXT included the new midi driver from the
MusicKit 4.1.
The CCRMA release notes says that the MIDI port name for Serial A is now
"midi0" and for B "midi1" (I didn't got the release notes at hand, but for
sure something is changed in this way).
Try to change the port name and.
Ciao. Stefan.
---- Steinberg Cubase Lite/Score/Audio for Mac/Atari/Windows ----
Stefan Scheffler, Software Development | s.scheffler@mms-gmbh.de
Steinberg Soft- & Hardware GmbH | Phone: +49 +40 211330
Eiffestr. 596, 20537 Hamburg/Germany | FAX : +49 +40 211598
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Security Monitor App?
Message-ID: <westesD4MyFq.D1I@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 01:50:14 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom16.netcom.com
Is there a NS FIP application that will monitor various events on a
system and set triggers when certain key events take place? I've
been just 'tail'ing the system log and mail log to a root login
window on a remote machine, but I'm really feeling that there should
be something better than this around.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:50:39 GMT
007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste) writes:
>I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
>not power macs or RS/6000 machines, but Motorola PPCs
>you can get a 16mb base workstation (base price! no flames about
>insufficient hardware! :-) for less than 5000 (i believe) with a PPC 604
>processor, which should give better performance than any other workstation
>under 20k..... (argue away, i am NOT standing firm by THAT statement ;-)
>AND, you can run WinNT (why?) AIX, or soon OS/2
>MUCH cheaper than a sparc, sgi, or pa/risc system......
For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
--
*****************************************************************************
* Charles Richmond Integrated International Systems Corporation *
* cmr@asoko.iisc.com cmr@world.std.com *
* Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications. *
From: gerald@warbird.usae.bah.com (Gerald G. Washington)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 27 Feb 1995 14:09:26 GMT
Organization: Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ismem$ltf@booz.bah.com>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>
Charles M Richmond (cmr@world.std.com) wrote:
: 007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste) writes:
: >I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
: [...]
: For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
: of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
Wow! Was that bought new? I haven't used DEC OSF/1, but maybe it is time I
did.
-- Gerald
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@engine.dgcp.doc.ca (Operator)
Subject: PORTS ONLY RESPOND LOCALLY
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.150916.9240@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
Sender: news@clark.dgim.doc.ca (#Usenet News)
Organization: Communications Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 15:09:16 GMT
Help!
I am admining two NeXT slabs. I have successfully installed WWW, GOPHER
and POPmail servers on one machine.
The other machine does not have a developer's system so I am transfering
the binaries from the first machine to it.
I have successfully transfered and configured the CERN HTTPD.
I transfered, installed and configured GOPHER and POPmail server binaries.
Both of these servers respond to INTERNAL queries - ie, I get a response
from the GOPHER server using a gopher-client from the same machine, and
the POPmail responds too - locally.
PROBLEM: Neither the GOPHER nor POPmail responds to/accepts requests from
an outside machine - BUT, the WWW server works fine.
I have checked the /etc/services and inetd.conf multiple times, and the
config is the same as on the first machine.????
Thanks very much for any help/advice.
Tyson
--
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Internet Applications Consultant
CDD/DGCP/Industry Canada
(613) 9904236
email: root@engine.dgcp.doc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com (DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS)
Subject: NetWare: Servers disappeared in 3.3
Organization: Motorola
Date: 27 Feb 1995 05:09:06 MST
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.122020.19385@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Can someone help me or is this known: After i upgraded to NS 3.3
the Novell servers under /Net/NetWare are not there anymore. The
IPX protocol is running OK, i can see it is binding to the ethernet,
also i can go and login to a server with the nwlogin server/uid
command, but i do not see the file-server anywhere afterwards.
I tried to restrict the Novell servers by putting only some in the
/locations/Netware, but this does not help either.
Any idea ?? Thanks much again, Joachim
From: kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 27 Feb 1995 17:44:54 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3it32m$u6e@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.184117@rzri6f.gsi.de>
Organization: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Keywords:
In article <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
|> 007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste) writes:
|>
|> >I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
|>
|> >not power macs or RS/6000 machines, but Motorola PPCs
|>
|> >you can get a 16mb base workstation (base price! no flames about
|> >insufficient hardware! :-) for less than 5000 (i believe) with a PPC 604
|> >processor, which should give better performance than any other workstation
|> >under 20k..... (argue away, i am NOT standing firm by THAT statement ;-)
|>
|> >AND, you can run WinNT (why?) AIX, or soon OS/2
|>
|> >MUCH cheaper than a sparc, sgi, or pa/risc system......
|>
|>
|>
|> For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
|> of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
|> --
|> *****************************************************************************
|> * Charles Richmond Integrated International Systems Corporation *
|> * cmr@asoko.iisc.com cmr@world.std.com *
|> * Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications. *
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I can hardly imagine that you can do some marginally useful image processing
with 16MB memory and a 16" monitor. So either your machine is pretty useless
or you had to pay some extra money you didn't tell us to make it useful.
Michael.
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <id.CQPH1.3L7@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ig54p$a0k@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:54:39 GMT
In article <3ijumq$b80@net.auckland.ac.nz>,
Russell Street <r.street@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Then what do you do about your or your operators typing
> tar -cf /dev/mt/tsp0d6 / ...
> or something similiar?
You write a script called "backup" that makes sure your destination is a
legitimate backup device and wrap tar inside that.
--
Peter da Silva `-_-'
Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U`
1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA
+1 713 274 5180 "Hast du Heute schon deinen Wolf umarmt?"
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Date: 27 Feb 1995 19:08:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3it7uo$ft4@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com>
In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
writes:
> I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire filesystem
> from my internal drive to it. The drive is connected externally for the
> moment, until I put the OS on it, at which time I'll install it as the
> only drive on my machine. The reason I want to copy the filesystem is to
> avoid having to install everything again! Also, all of my accounts are on
> this, and I don't want to hassle my users.
You should use dump/restore as I described in a posting in this newsgroup a few
after yours, but note some of the problems I have... :)
Noam
--
Dr. Noam H. Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice)
University of Pennsylvania 215/898-9348 (FAX)
Director, Information Technology Architecture Info Systems & Computing
Director, Finance, Administration & Systems Data Comm. & Computing Services
Research Associate Leonard Davis Institute
Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street arzt@dccs.upenn.edu
From: night@b65215.student.cwru.edu (John L. Millard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetWare: Servers disappeared in 3.3
Date: 27 Feb 1995 14:09:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <3ismeg$go4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
References: <1995Feb27.122020.19385@schbbs.mot.com>
DHEDGES TP-REQUESTS (TZMSTP@maccvm.corp.mot.com) wrote:
: Can someone help me or is this known: After i upgraded to NS 3.3
: the Novell servers under /Net/NetWare are not there anymore. The
: IPX protocol is running OK, i can see it is binding to the ethernet,
: also i can go and login to a server with the nwlogin server/uid
: command, but i do not see the file-server anywhere afterwards.
: I tried to restrict the Novell servers by putting only some in the
: /locations/Netware, but this does not help either.
Hello Joachim --
I had mailed you a little while ago with a question pertaining to appletalk
for NS, but I'm not sure if the mail ever reached you. :)
If you could, please mail me with either verification that you did/did not
receive the mail I sent you previously, or please post an address which I
can contact you with.
Thanks!
-- John
____________________________________________________________
|
John L. Millard | You can live only once, but
4th Year Computer Engineering | if you do it right, once is
Case Western Reserve Univ. | enough.
night@b65215.student.cwru.edu |
jlm13@po.cwru.edu | -- Unknown
______________________________|_____________________________
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied
them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with
computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
-- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in
Doctor Dobb's Journal
____________________________________________________________
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems copying system disk
Date: 27 Feb 1995 14:15:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3ismpo$k3r@netnews.upenn.edu>
Folks,
I am trying to backup and restore a 100MB NS3.2 system disk onto a larger disk
and I'm having problems. I've done this before without incident, so I'm not
sure what's going on. These are my steps:
1. log in a root
2. initialize the external SCSI volume, name it SysDisk
3. issue the following command to dump and restore:
dump 0f - / | (cd /SysDisk; restore xf -)
Problems:
1. After the dump/restore finishes, I get prompted unexpectedly (at least
unexpected for me) as follows:
set owner/mode for '.'? [yn]
It doesn't seem to matter which way I answer; or better, I'm not sure how to
answer...
2. When all is said and done (no matter how I answered above), programs that
should have set group id or set uid priviledge don't. For example,
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace does not have setuid/gid set (you can
imagine how I found out the hard way after booting from this volume.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Please respond via e-mail...
Thanks...
Noam
--
Dr. Noam H. Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice)
University of Pennsylvania 215/898-9348 (FAX)
Director, Information Technology Architecture Info Systems & Computing
Director, Finance, Administration & Systems Data Comm. & Computing Services
Research Associate Leonard Davis Institute
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,sci.math,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: How to make amslatex work on a NeXT?
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.221714.1011@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 22:17:14 GMT
I just installed NeXTstep 3.1 and the NeXTTeX distribution 3.141. (Gee, I
wonder where they got that version number from?!) Now I can't process
amslatex files.
The solution with NeXTTex version 3.1a was to put '%&amslatex' at the
beginning of the file. Now, that immediately results in
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
Whereas if you leave it off, you get
This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141
(crpa.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992>
(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amsart.sty
AMS-LaTeX document style `AMSART' (1.1b, 31-JUL-1991)
(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amstex.sty
AMS-LaTeX option `amstex.sty' (1.1, 21-JUN-1991)
(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amstext.sty
AMS-LaTeX option `amstext.sty' (1.1, 21-JUN-1991)
! The style option `amstext' does not make sense if you do not use a
format wit
h the new font selection scheme..
<argument> ...with the new font selection scheme.}
\endinput
\@ifundefined ...fx \csname #1\endcsname \relax #2
\else #3\fi
l.44 {}
?
------
g.
From: weiqi@gao.stlouis.mo.us (Weiqi Gao)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,sci.math,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to make amslatex work on a NeXT?
Date: 27 Feb 1995 23:46:10 GMT
Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
Message-ID: <3ito82$ep9@nntp.crl.com>
References: <1995Feb27.221714.1011@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
In article <1995Feb27.221714.1011@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf@math.rochester.edu> wrote:
>I just installed NeXTstep 3.1 and the NeXTTeX distribution 3.141. (Gee, I
>wonder where they got that version number from?!) Now I can't process
>amslatex files.
>
>The solution with NeXTTex version 3.1a was to put '%&amslatex' at the
>beginning of the file. Now, that immediately results in
>
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
>Whereas if you leave it off, you get
>
>This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141
>(crpa.tex
>LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992>
>(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amsart.sty
>AMS-LaTeX document style `AMSART' (1.1b, 31-JUL-1991)
>(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amstex.sty
>AMS-LaTeX option `amstex.sty' (1.1, 21-JUN-1991)
>(/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amstext.sty
>AMS-LaTeX option `amstext.sty' (1.1, 21-JUN-1991)
>! The style option `amstext' does not make sense if you do not use a
>format wit
>h the new font selection scheme..
><argument> ...with the new font selection scheme.}
> \endinput
>\@ifundefined ...fx \csname #1\endcsname \relax #2
> \else #3\fi
>l.44 {}
>
>?
Is it just my imagination that someone somewhere have saved all the
postings of two to three years ago, and is putting them out in the net
as new articles---one at a time?
Anyway, the LaTeX and AmSLaTeX mentioned in this post are outdated.
Free upgrades are available from the CTAN (ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive).
--
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao@crl.com
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,sci.math,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to make amslatex work on a NeXT?
Date: 28 Feb 1995 00:40:21 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Message-ID: <3itrdl$3b7@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>
References: <1995Feb27.221714.1011@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk) writes:
>I just installed NeXTstep 3.1 and the NeXTTeX distribution 3.141. (Gee, I
>wonder where they got that version number from?!) Now I can't process
>amslatex files.
(1) amslatex is a LaTeX package.
You use it by saying eg
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
(2) You need to have latex.fmt for the current LaTeX = LaTeX2e.
If you get all the files in .../latex/base or .../latex/unpacked
you can probably just say "make" or "make -f Makefile.unx".
And then "make install".
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Simple Network Question
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Feb27112149@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:21:49 GMT
Hi,
I have root access on a machine (machine A in the folowing) that is on
internet. I do not have access to the network server of this machine. I
would like to create a slip account on the machine A for my machine at home
(machine B) (using TransysPNI for example). My question is:
Is there a way to tell the network a new IP address for which all the packets
would go to machine A and so that machine A would redirect those packets
to machine B?
I suppose this question is equivalent to the following:
Is it possible to start a sub-network having only access to one machine
on the internet (and this machine not being the one resposible for it's
network)?
I know how to install TransysPNI but I don't know very much about Nets.
The administrator of the whole network won't help me so I am left alone
and I am trying to figure out how to make such a SLIP account with only
root access to one machine.
I would appreciate any help. Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HeLp!!* NeXT SMTP mail problems *Please*Help*
Date: 27 Feb 1995 07:31:22 -0500
Organization: The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3isgmq$st7@thor.tjhsst.edu>
References: <1995Feb22.082018.16184@schbbs.mot.com> <3illcr$si3@seymour.sfu.ca>
In article <3illcr$si3@seymour.sfu.ca>,
Operator <root@edie.cprost.sfu.ca> wrote:
>This happens to me, too. Any suggestions?
>> my next, i got the following problem:
>> Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com
>> >>> HELO cssnext1.corp.mot.com
>> <<< 553 cssnext1.corp.mot.com config error: mail loops back to myself
>> 554 <jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>... 554 Service unavailable
Well, I'm not too sure how sendmail does it, but with smail, in your
/usr/lib/smail/config, you should have a line saying
hostname=your.full.host.name
So that it knows that's local...
From: fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com (Marc J. Fraioli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 27 Feb 1995 22:14:03 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3itirb$bq@news0.cybernetics.net>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3itcuo$nqc@news.duke.edu>
In article <3itcuo$nqc@news.duke.edu>, gallatin@hpdemo.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) writes:
|>While we're on the subject, what's the OSF/1 kernel flag telling the
|>kernel to pretend it has less memory than it really does. For
|>example, a collegue has a 96M demo machine, & he wants to see how
|>usable 48M would be w/o opening the box & pulling SIMMS.
|>
I never realized that there was such a flag. I think I simulated
the effect once by creating a memory filesystem of appropriate size,
mounting it on /tmp, and filling it up. Of course, if you need
space in /tmp for your demo, you can mount it somewhere else. This
is probably not quite exact, but it was close. It yielded a lot
of swapping, at any rate.
--
Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- "
Data General Corp | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
From: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 24 Feb 1995 14:08:26 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Message-ID: <3ikp8q$bb@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i75o9$100@info.epfl.ch> <D4AzFJ.1tnC@austin.ibm.com> <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu> <3iio0b$5a8@oslo-it.ti.tele.no>
md@gated.cornell.edu (Mark Dapoz) writes:
>In article <3ifpsk$7f4@umt.umt.edu>, Charlie McGuire <mcguire@cs.umt.edu> wrote:
>> The LVM is
>>probably one of the biggest time/resource savers I've seen in any "Unix"
>>system. No more staying up late at night to repartition some silly disk
>>or create new filesystems, or extend live ones. All with no downtime.
>If you want real flexibility in a volume manager then you should take
>a look at AFS (Andrew Filesystem) from Transarc. It makes the features
>provided by LVM look primitive in comparison. Of course using AFS just
>because of its volume management abilities is a bit of overkill since
>it provides so many other benefits.
>--
>Mark Dapoz (md@gated.cornell.edu)
Of course, you want to have an OS locally, too, which is where AIX
comes in... AFS + AIX is a *very* nice combination - never newfs again!
Unfortuantely, there are all those _other_ OSes that handle disks in
primitive ways...
Imagine having to guess how big a partition is going to want to be
when you format a disk! What do those folks use - crystal balls?
:->
--
Pat Wilson
paw@coos.dartmouth.edu
From: fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com (Marc J. Fraioli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 27 Feb 1995 17:48:55 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>
In article <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
|>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
|>of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
How well does it run? I tried running DEC OSF/1 on a 3000/600 with
32MB of RAM, and it was pretty pathetic, swapping constantly. It was
much happier in 64MB, although I was told that 48MB was also usable
(never tried it myself). I can't imagine how bad it would have been
in only 16MB. Of course, this was DEC OSF/1 v1.3-- perhaps it's been
slimmed down (a lot) since then?
--
Marc Fraioli | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- "
Data General Corp | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
From: Eric_Litman@nxstep.com (Eric A. Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SURVEY: Network simulation and modelling package
Date: 27 Feb 1995 12:08:49 -0600
Organization: Viaduct, Inc.
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9502271804.AA11620@nxstep.com>
I'm working with a company who produces a high-end network simulation and
modelling tool. The package is currently available under Solaris, HP/UX, and
IRIX, and will soon be expanding to support other platforms. I am looking for
market support to justify a port of this product to OpenStep as both a tactical
and strategic maneuver for the organization, and would like to get some
feedback from the USENET-reading NeXTSTEP community. If your job, or the job of
a colleague of yours, is network engineering, management, design, planning, or
implementation, please take a moment to read about the product and respond as
appropriate.
Thank you.
Eric Litman
Product Information
This application allows one to model at the protocol layer a network of ANY
size or degree of complexity to a very fine grain of detail. Simulations can be
built manually using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, or automatically
by the simulator given a few rapid inputs for the user.
Currently supported protocols include:
o Ethernet o IP
o FDDI o TCP
o Token Ring o UDP
o X.25 o ICMP
o HDLC o OSPF
BGP4, RIP, ATM, Frame Relay, SMDS, wireless and satellite protocols are
planned for upcoming releases, as is interoperability with HP OpenView.
This tool is ideally suited to an organization with a new, growing, or changing
network. Applications for the tool include modelling the effects of a new
database on a given LAN segment, viewing how the addition of a new remote site
on your WAN will change overall bandwidth requirements, etc.
If you have use for such a tool, and are interested in its availability
under OpenStep, please reply to this message at elitman@nxstep.com, or call
me at (301) 587-0600.
From: me@skink.uwa.edu.au (Jim Blevins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System unable to read or initialize internal drive at startup [long]
Date: 28 Feb 1995 05:09:17 GMT
Organization: Centre for Linguistics, UWA, Australia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ME.95Feb28130918@skink.uwa.edu.au>
Recently, I have received a `SCSI disk unreadable' error when I reboot my
non-turbo slab. The disk in question is the original 100MB Quantum internal; my
boot disk is a 1GB Seagate, and I am running 3.2 (user & developer). When I
select the default `initialize' option, I get a `initialization failed' message.
Sporadically, the error does not occur and the disk appears to be successfully
mounted in the filesystem. On these occasions I can also run BuildDisk, though
the `unreadable disk' problem regularly recurs on a subsequent reboot.
I am not aware of any changes that might have prompted this behaviour, and I
cannot interpret the messages in the console log, which I have attached below.
Any help (especially via email) would be greatly appreciated.
-Jim
<>Begin console.log<>
Software Version 3.2 (Lightning5S)
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
probing for CDROM
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x200, retry 1
probing for DOS
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x200, retry 1
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x1000, retry 1
Warning: lisp library (/usr/local/lib/emacs/19.22/lisp) does not exist.
probing for HFS_XFer
/usr/etc/disk -i -h skink.arts.uwa.edu.au -l "Quantum100" /dev/rsd1a
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x200, retry 1
disk name: QUANTUM LP105S 910109405
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 102620 25 4 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s
Warning: 80 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a: 102620 sectors in 1027 cylinders of 4 tracks, 25 sectors
105.1Mb in 65 cyl groups (16 c/g, 1.64Mb/g, 384 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 1648, 3280, 4912, 6416, 8048, 9680, 11312, 12816, 14448,
16080, 17712, 19216, 20848, 22480, 24112, 25616, 27248, 28880, 30512,
32016, 33648, 35280, 36912, 38416, 40048, 41680, 43312, 44816, 46448,
48080, 49712, 51216, 52848, 54480, 56112, 57616, 59248, 60880, 62512,
64016, 65648, 67280, 68912, 70416, 72048, 73680, 75312, 76816, 78448,
80080, 81712, 83216, 84848, 86480, 88112, 89616, 91248, 92880, 94512,
96016, 97648, 99280, 100912, 102416,
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 3
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 4
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 5
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 6
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 7
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 8
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 9
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
read error: 24
rdfs: I/O error
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1)
<>End console.log<>
--
Jim Blevins jblevins@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Centre for Linguistics phone: +61-9-380-1882
University of Western Australia fax: +61-9-380-1154
Nedlands, W.A. 6009
From: edwardb
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3isgcj$s45@crl4.crl.com>
Message-ID: <cancel.3isgcj$s45@crl4.crl.com>
Date: 27 Feb 1995 17:34:33 GMT
Control: cancel <3isgcj$s45@crl4.crl.com>
spam
From: tokumaru@spock.usc.edu (Phillip Tokumaru)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: pop3 (popper1.831beta) fixed for use with HPPA (+others?).
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 27 Feb 1995 14:44:21 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: tokumaru@spock.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3itkk5$mu2@spock.usc.edu>
Keywords: popper, pop3, hppa
I have submitted a version of popper 1.831beta (to ftp.cs.orst.edu) that
fixes a bug (in popper) that caused it to break on HP (and perhaps other?)
systems running NEXTSTEP. The files are called: popper-NeXT.README,
popper-NeXT.compressed (source), popper-NeXT.H.compressed (HPPA binary),
popper-NeXT.MIH.compressed (3fat binary).
---
Phillip Tokumaru
ptok@cave.usc.edu
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Southern California
From: bff@csn.net (Brendan Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TransSys and Dynamic Slip
Date: 27 Feb 1995 22:08:06 GMT
Organization: Colorado Supernet
Message-ID: <3itig6$jpo@news-2.csn.net>
Is there a way to configure TransSys to handle dynamic slip ip number
addressing?
I've tried commenting out the TTY line in the pni0.config file, subsequently
using kermit to connect to the term server to obtain the ip address
and then edit the pni0.config file and setting the Config:(ipxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
to the new address and starting pnid, but it doesn't appear to work.
I could use TCL to parse the address but how would I pass the ip address
back to the pnid once it has started?
Thanks
Brendan
From: willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dump/gnutar question
Date: 28 Feb 1995 09:18:37 GMT
Message-ID: <3iuppd$855@aragorn.unibe.ch>
References: <1995Feb27.214339.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes
> I've got two IDE drives in an Intel box and want to use dump to backup the
> drives (I'd use tar, but the 100 character restriction will affect me). Is
> there a way to have dump follow a link? I've got all the Local stuff on a
> second hard drive and don't really want to do two backups.
>
> Or, does the 100 character restriction hold true for gnutar?
>
I copied a filesystem with gnutar. There is no 100 character restriction.
I wouldn't however recommend to set following the links (you can, option h, I think)
but it will follow any link, and this may result in infinite loops ! Better do two
back ups. And for a backup I would certainly recommend dump and not gnutar - then
again: certainly gnutar and not tar. Tar doesn't handle special files, I think
gnutar can, e.g I didn't have problems with named pipes.
However don't rely on my answer, I just about asked the same question - out of
curiosity in this newsgroup. People haven't been that sure about gnutar's ability to
reproduce a correct image of a root partition.
--
Moritz Willers
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Sidlerstrasse 5
3012 Bern, Switzerland
willers@butp.unibe.ch (NeXTMail, MIME)
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Errors while installing 3.3/3.2 DEV
Date: 28 Feb 1995 01:42:59 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3itv33$f3@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
After removing all the old pckg's that were installed on this
machine (we were running NS3.0 before upgrading to 3.3)
I've tried a number of times to install the developer
cd. I keep getting this:
Installing DeveloperTools.pkg into / ...
[...]
Installing /usr/lib/emacs/info/emacs-11 ... OK.
**** directory checksum error (4665 != 42726)
**** There were errors while installing DeveloperTools.pkg.
Any ideas why?
cpu: nextstation color
almost 200 megs free
installed only NEXT version of dev (not the intel architecture).
And yes, of course, I'm logged on as root. ;)
--
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WWW: http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane.html
NeXTMail: shane@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 105 Sysquest + DPT 2021 ISA + NS/i 3.2 = ???
Date: 28 Feb 1995 01:42:32 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3itv28$i52@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
As someone pointed out the trick was to first format the disk as
a mac disk and then reformat for the next. I wish they wouldn't
sell the disk preformatted, what a hassle. Other than that the
syquest drives are real nice.
John Stanhope
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: Re: Opinions: HP-SGI-SUN-WinNt-Os/2-??
References: <3iovsl$frl@steel.interlog.com>
Organization: none
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 19:22:33 +0000
Message-ID: <793826553snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <3iovsl$frl@steel.interlog.com> 3sunlife@interlog.com writes:
>Correct. It's not entirely software or hardware's fault as both manufacturers
>blame the other party. I'm simply sick and tired of it. That's another reason
>why I like HP over Intel Motherboard running NT. HP made the computer and they
>wrote HPUX. There's only 1 company I have to chase for fixes instead of 2 and
>end up acting as a liason between the two.
If you buy hardware that is officially supported by the OS and/or from a
manufacturer which supplies/supports the OS for their hardware this isn't
a major problem.
--
-----------------------------------------
Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
-----------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger)
Subject: NFS and pathnames
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.085828.8087@aplki.toppoint.de>
Keywords: NFS, pathnames, DL, DigitalLibrarian
Sender: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger)
Organization: Andreas Ploeger
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 08:58:28 GMT
Hi,
When I drag the folder '/Net/aplki/Users/ploeger/Notes' into a Bookshelf of
DigitalLibrarian the target name gets changed to '/Users/ploeger/Notes'.
Not a problem on my home directory server (aplki), but this becomes a problem
when logging in on a different machine that does a NFS mount of my home
directory (unknown target /Users/ploeger/Notes).
There is a similar problem with precompiled header files:
On one machine the path '/private/Net/aplki/Users/ploeger/someHeader.h' is
used, on the other /Users/ploeger/someHeader.h. So the precompiled header file
become useless when switching machines.
Any suggestions?
Thanks & greetings,
A. Ploeger
--
Andreas Ploeger E-Mail: ploeger@tpki.toppoint.de
Kiel University Phone: (49) 431 597 1757
Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology FAX: (49) 431 597 1828
Schwanenweg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany *** NeXT Mail welcome ***
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4pp7p.FA7@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:23:49 GMT
fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com (Marc J. Fraioli) writes:
>In article <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>|>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>|>of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>How well does it run? I tried running DEC OSF/1 on a 3000/600 with
>32MB of RAM, and it was pretty pathetic, swapping constantly. It was
>much happier in 64MB, although I was told that 48MB was also usable
>(never tried it myself). I can't imagine how bad it would have been
>in only 16MB. Of course, this was DEC OSF/1 v1.3-- perhaps it's been
>slimmed down (a lot) since then?
>--
Since it takes industry standard 72 pin SIMMs (8 or 32 meg), I upgraded it
to 64 meg and added an RZ58 (1.4 gig) that I had on a DS3100. It does swap
way too much with 32 meg , was mostly ok with 48 and screams with 64.
Charlie
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4ppEF.GrC@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3itcuo$nqc@news.duke.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:27:50 GMT
gallatin@hpdemo.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) writes:
>In article <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net>,
>Marc J. Fraioli <fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com> wrote:
>>
>>In article <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>>|>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>>|>of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>>
>>How well does it run? I tried running DEC OSF/1 on a 3000/600 with
>>32MB of RAM, and it was pretty pathetic, swapping constantly. It was
>>much happier in 64MB, although I was told that 48MB was also usable
>>(never tried it myself). I can't imagine how bad it would have been
>>in only 16MB. Of course, this was DEC OSF/1 v1.3-- perhaps it's been
>>slimmed down (a lot) since then?
>It may have gotten a little better between 1.3 and 2.0, but your
>opinions hold at least up to OSF/1 3.0. I'm still waiting for 3.2, so
>I cannot comment on it.
>I can say that I'm running a few 300LX's with 48M and they seem to be
>quite usable. But I can't imagine trying to do anything in 16M
>either...
There will be a "lite" version out this year of DEC OSF/1 4.x . It should
arrive prior to the full release. I don't remember the dates and probably
would be bound not to tell anyway (-:!
Charlie
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From: oliver@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Oliver Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: How do I install NS on a HP 9000/720?
Date: 28 Feb 1995 17:00:03 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <3ivkqj$ebi@news.rwth-aachen.de>
Summary: How do I install NS 3.2 on a HP 9000/720, if possible at al?
Keywords: HP 9000/720 720 Installation
Hi Everbody!
Is it possible to install NextStep 3.2 on a HP 9000/720?
We have a few HP 9000/720 at our university and like to install NS 3.2 on at least one of them.
We already bought a student version for HP, but unfortunately we can't install the OS.
After booting from the CD (id=2) and pressing return at the boot prompt a few configuration tables get loaded, 'STARTING Nextstep' appears and then the system halts, stops, doesn't do ANYTHING.
The hardware compatibily guide doesn't claim NS to work on a 720, but is it really impossible?
Any help is appreciated.
Bye Oliver Meyer
From: steve@test.bader.org (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ntp troubles
Date: 28 Feb 1995 17:36:07 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. 414-476-4266
Message-ID: <3ivmu7$o8h@beta.inc.net>
Keywords: time clock ntp ntpd
I'm having troubles getting the system clocks on all the NeXT machines on
our network to sync up. ntpd is running and I have tried simply turning
on the sync function. Is there something in the way that the daemon
starts up that may be keeping the clocks from syncing? Also, I have tried
setting up each machine on our network as a clone and the server as the
master clock. Thanks...
- Steve White
System Admin, Helen Bader Foundation
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login messages
Date: 27 Feb 1995 15:14:36 -0600
Organization: TYBRIN Corporation
Message-ID: <3itfbs$g6f@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com>
Does anyone know how to specify a message to present just after a correct
username and password have been supplied? I know /etc/motd is a
possibility, but something a bit more permanent is desired.
In /etc/gettytab, the 'im' is the initial message. 'lm' is the login
message, although it doesn't seem to do anything.
Ideas?
Trey
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4pqCB.9np@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu> <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com> <3iuhq8$sim@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:48:11 GMT
alex@bach.cis.temple.edu (alex) writes:
>Man, I'm gonna bite you. Whatever you call OSF/1, it is not solid. I'm really
>sick of a bunch of zombies it creates just when it feels like it. (we have 3
>major servers running on DEC Alpha and OSF/1 2.x and 3.0). I'm not even mentioning
>features of OSF (or maybe just DEC's portion of OS) that deal with
>licenses, system administration.
I have one DEC OSF/1 3.0 system of my own and access to some others.
A quick peek at mine 3000/300X and one other , reveals that they have
been up 19/18 days respectively and have *no zombies*. A quick look
at a couple of systems running 3.2 (3days and 25 days) also reveals no
zombies. The last two are multi-purpose servers.
Re: the sysadmin issue... I am installing 4 hp9000s for a customer and
SAM is incredibly bad and as slow as it would be on an Apple II+. Several
times there are "working" waits of minutes while it does trivial tasks like
enabling/disabling ethernet adpters. I have also attempted to build some
PD s/w and the DEC OSF builds them much easier than than the HP.
Charlie
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Subject: Novell Installation help?
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.115938.8728@roper.uwyo.edu>
From: ezimmerm@UWYO.EDU
Date: 27 Feb 95 11:59:38 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Wyoming, Laramie
Salutations!
I've got an extra 286 laying around and am thinking of pluggin
in an old ethernet card and configuring Novell on it and my
'030 Cube. I can handle the DOS Novell configuration, but
how hard is it to configure the NeXT Novell peer to peer connection?
I've done the NeXT tcp/ip with a breeze...
My reasons for doing this are twofold. First, I want to
access 3.5 and (to a lesser degree) 5.25 inch drives on my 286.
also, I'd like to know more about Unix/Novell connections.
So, how hard is Novell on Next?
Gene
ezimmerm@uwyo.edu
http://cs.uwyo.edu/~ezimmerm/gene.html
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Time service
Date: 28 Feb 1995 16:36:35 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ivjej$148i@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <D4nF56.MME@eunet.ch>
Eric Chaubert (ericc@asteroid.lysis.ch) wrote:
: I'd like to synchronize my network of NextStep machines (running NetInfo)
: with an external time server.
: Any idea ?
xntp 3.0. Compiles right out of the box. I one machine syncronizing
with several servers, and have it broadcast to my network. Time
differences typically run about 15 milleseconds from one host to
another.
And once it synchronizes, it only takes 1 packet every 64 seconds to
keep the rest of the network happy, so it's not exactly a network
blocker.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
References: <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> <1995Feb27.093309.4661@free.fdn.org>
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 14:36:04 GMT
Message-ID: <D4psK5.JF2@ritz.mordor.com>
In article <1995Feb27.093309.4661@free.fdn.org>,
Fabien Roy <fabien@free.fdn.org> wrote:
>In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew
>Hocker) writes:
>> I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire filesystem
>> from my internal drive to it. The drive is connected externally for the
>> moment, until I put the OS on it, at which time I'll install it as the
>> only drive on my machine. The reason I want to copy the filesystem is to
>> avoid having to install everything again! Also, all of my accounts are
>on
>> this, and I don't want to hassle my users.
>>
>> The problems:
>>
>> 1. Links do not copy correctly, as they need to point to files on the
>new
>> filesystem.
>>
>> 2. The /dev directory is a nightmare... I don't know how to copy them.
>>
>> 3. How do I make sure that this disk is bootable?
>>
>> Has anyone done this before? Am I overlooking a way to make this easier?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> --
>> ====== Matthew Hocker, B.Eng [W]-cooled Volkswagen fanatic ****
>Canadian
>> NeXT hocker@mordor.com GTI, Scirocco 16V, Jetta 16V * \/ *
>+American
>> mail This posting is recyclable! ...Amiga forever... *\/\/*
>==========
>> Welcome "Believer in all things well designed & engineered" ****
>spam'n'ehs
>Assuming that the new disk is mounted on a drectory named "/MyNewDisc"
>type:
>cd /MyNewDisc
>dump 0f - / |restore -xf -
>
>Answer yes at the end of restore.
>
>Hope that helps
>
>Fabien
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>NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant, SYBASE DBA
>10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France
>Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 45 28 32 23
Thanks for all the great ideas. It looks like I'll try a dump/restore
tonight.
Wish me luck!
Matt
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From: levine@oclc.org (Eugene Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: PNI slip and portmapper
Date: 28 Feb 1995 12:59:33 -0500
Organization: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ivoa5$lfv@oclc.org>
Hi
I have PNI (1.13) working on a Gateway 2000 P5-90 runing NSI 3.3. However, I
have to reboot everytime I bring up pnid a second time. The first time pnid
starts and works just fine. The second time it gives the portmapper error
msg, see below:
------------------debug output-------------------------
+ /etc/pni/pnid -c -n pni0 -f /etc/pni/config/pni0.config -t -d
TransSys PNI 1.13 ($Id: pnid.m,v 1.29 1994/10/10 03:43:55 louie Exp $)
Copyright (c) TransSys, Inc. All rights reserved.
...
Loaded bundle /etc/pni/Dialer.bundle for class Dialer
tty: Default to UUCP-style locking protocol
-slip stats: 0 packets, 0 compressed, 0 searches, 0 misses
- 0 uncompressed in, 0 compressed in, 0 error in, 0 tossed
Uptime is 1 second (since Mon Feb 20 04:10:06 1995 UTC)
287 TCL commands executed, 0.140 user, 0.130 system
Configuration complete
PNI pni: pni0 open on fd 4
=== TCL Error: Starting Encaps (phase1):
> cmdregister: cannot register with portmapper
=== errorCode
> NONE
=== errorInfo
> cmdregister: cannot register with portmapper
> while executing
> "cmdregister $i"
> invoked from within
> "if {$i>0} {
> cmdregister $i
> }"
> invoked from within
> "if {[info exists Config(CMD:prog)]} {
> cmdregister $Config(CMD:prog)
> } else {
> set i [getrpcbyname [[lindex $encapList 0] interface]]
> if ..."
> invoked from within
> "if {[string compare $phase phase1]==0} {
> #
> # Invoked to set registration of RPC command handler and
> # portmapper binding.
> #
> if {[info exists Co ..."
> (procedure "start_encaps" line 49)
> invoked from within
> "start_encaps phase1"
=== [end error dump]
------------------end debug output---------------------
I've tried restarting portmap, inetd, nibindd; but no luck in getting PNI
working again without a reboot. Any help or suggestions at all would be
appreciated.
thanks for your time,
-gene
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From: esb@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rousseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3pr2 on SPARC --> Solaris
Date: 28 Feb 1995 18:06:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ivona$73h@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
I installed 3.2/3.3prerelease 2 on a Sun SS20. It worked for our eval
purposes (hung like a 'possum when used as a Mailhost). Now my problems begin.
NS apparently uses a contiguous partitioning scheme for /dev/rsd0a. When I try
to reinstall Solaris 2.4 on this machine, the installation program claims that
it cannot reinitialize my internal sd3. NS has effectively locked off my root
hard drive. Booting singleuser from the CD and doing disk -i -F will format the
disk. But, unlike NS-Intel or 68K, I cannot repartition via an fdisk install
utility.
Am I missing something or do I need to pull the SCSI disk and wail on it with an
Intel box.
Anyone with NSsparc experience, please respond (Mr. Majka :-D).
Mike Rousseau
SHL Systemhouse
Boulder, CO
rousseau@bou.shl.com
"Where the prairie dogs meet the mountain lions."
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up anonymous FTP user
Date: 28 Feb 1995 17:55:24 GMT
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-2802951303210001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>
I was reading in the O'Rielly book "Managing Internet Information
Services" about setting up an anonymous ftp user. It said to edit
/etc/passwd and add the ftp user there. Now, on two other NS systems we
have running, both have anonymous ftp, but neither has anything in
/etc/passwd about ftp. Do I need to create this user in UserManager? Where
do I remove the password from? I also did a man on ftpd, and it said the
same thing. HELP! By the way, the machine is running wu-ftpd-2.4.
-David A. Rarick
david-rarick@uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: How to create an account automatically
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Feb24130732@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 18:07:32 GMT
I am looking for a script that would take a username and password
as a command line argument and that would create the corresponding
account. I need this for a program I am writing in which there will
be a kind of UserManager.app functionality. Basically, I just need
to know how the UserManager.app interacts with the nu shell command.
Thank you in advance,
Francois Magnan
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Can't trace boot error
Message-ID: <1995Feb28.165036.5203@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <D4H0BB.GI3@seas.ucla.edu>
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 16:50:36 GMT
In article <D4H0BB.GI3@seas.ucla.edu> scott@ee.ucla.edu (Ryan Scott)
writes:
> I am trying to configure a used NeXTstation (NS 3.2 name) I
> just picked up(hostname is outlaw). Everything seems to come up
> properly except when the rc script tries to run the
> autonfsmount process during bootup it comes up with
> '...outlaw autonfsmount: can't find my address. inetd ...'
>
The obvious downside of purchasing used computers ;-)
This is normally caused by not properly taking the station out of the
network it was configured to belong to. Now it is missing information
that used to reside in the NetInfo server that is no longer present.
Proper deinstallation uses SimpleNetworkStarter to build a standalone
machine while the machine is still hooked up to the net it was configured
for.
The most unproblematic cure (in terms of what can go wrong) is to replace
/etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo/* with the files from
/usr/templates/client/etc. After a reboot you can run SNS to configure
the network, or, in case of standalone, just HostManager to customize your
machine.
The downside is complete NetInfo amnesia. So you must redo all the system
management that goes into the NetInfo database. There is also a expert
way to heal this, namely a way to hack NetInfo. But that goes beyond my
capacities - at least teaching it over the Net (fishing for compliments
:-)
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From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to know from which machine I am logged on?
Date: 28 Feb 1995 19:37:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3ivu2a$hhe@news.service.uci.edu>
Suppose I am sitting at a DEC machine and logged on a NeXT remoetly.
In the rlogin session on the NeXT, how can I determine that I logged on
the NEXT from the DEC and possibly the user ID that originated the rlogin?
Same question applies if one logs on a DEC from a NeXT.
I would like to use this information to automate X window and terminal
type settings in the .cshrc file.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-824-3105 Fax: 714-824-8585
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AFS and NFS
Date: 28 Feb 1995 19:59:50 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ivvbm$2g4@news.iastate.edu>
I have an account here at school on an afs server. Is there anyway I can
mount it to a Net directory on my NeXT?
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From: dcl@panix.com (David Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PROBLEM with freeWAIS-0.4 on NS/I 3.2
Date: 28 Feb 1995 15:08:07 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3ivvr7$3tu@panix.com>
Hi.
Has anyone managed to get freeWAIS-0.4 working properly on
NS/I 3.2? A few tweaks to the Makefile, and it compiles
more or less cleanly, but I get bus errors during the
testing phase of the build.
(This is freeWAIS-0.4.tar.gz pulled from ftp.cnidr.com).
Any pointers appreciated, and actual test log output available
on request.
- David C. Lambert
dcl@homer.uu.panix.com
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <id.5CRH1.B01@nmti.com>
Followup-To: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.admin
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com> <3iuhq8$sim@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 04:47:07 GMT
In article <3iuhq8$sim@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>,
alex <alex@bach.cis.temple.edu> wrote:
> Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
> : In what way is DEC "not good enough"? Their machines are blazing fast, their
> : UNIX is solid, and the only downside is they're pretty pricey.
> Man, I'm gonna bite you. Whatever you call OSF/1, it is not solid. I'm really
> sick of a bunch of zombies it creates just when it feels like it.
Indeed? I haven't observed this behaviour. We are running several large 4000
and 2100 servers.
> (we have 3
> major servers running on DEC Alpha and OSF/1 2.x and 3.0). I'm not even mentioning
> features of OSF (or maybe just DEC's portion of OS) that deal with
> licenses, system administration.
The licensing is a pain, but all the commercial vendors pull that stuff. It's
no more of a big deal than Sun's.
As for system administration, what particularly don't you care for?
I've narrowed followups considerably.
--
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From: Sam@chinet.com (Subodh Munzani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem in unzipping a .gz file
Date: 1 Mar 1995 06:05:03 GMT
Organization: Compu Electronics
Message-ID: <3j12qf$9ec@News1.mcs.com>
Hellow There!
I got a little trouble on my INTEL based NeXT.
I am planning to set SLIP sialer for NeXT (Transsys). I did
download compressed TransSys.____.gz. I have gzip-FAT-1.2.3.gz (Not
sure about exact file name). Under terminal when I use following
string to unzip that .gz file I get following error.
gzip -d [File name with .gz extension]
I got an error message " Could not uncompress the file. File does not
have a .z suffix.
If I download a .gz file under OS2 (Thats what I do all the time) and
unzip under OS2 then it works for other .gz files but with this SLIP
dialer I can not do because of file size. If I unzip under OS2 it becomes
1.9MB which can not fit on a high density disk.
I tried gunzip -d [File name] ..did not work either.
I am runnning NeXT 3.1 on 486DX2 66 INTEL.
If I need some other version on gzip for NeXT would you give me an ftp
site name?
I am really eager to set NeXT with SLIP sialer, OmniWeb, and FTP.
Thanks in advance.
***************************************************************
Sam Munzani
Compu Electronics Inc.
6512 N Lincoln Ave.
Lincolnwood. TL 60645
Phone : 708-679-2667
Fax : 708-679-2681
e-mail: sam@chinet.chinet.com
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting up anonymous FTP user
Date: 28 Feb 1995 20:51:41 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
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References: <david-rarick-2802951303210001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>
In article <david-rarick-2802951303210001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>
david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick) writes:
>
> I was reading in the O'Rielly book "Managing Internet Information
> Services" about setting up an anonymous ftp user. It said to edit
> /etc/passwd and add the ftp user there. Now, on two other NS systems we
> have running, both have anonymous ftp, but neither has anything in
> /etc/passwd about ftp. Do I need to create this user in UserManager? Where
> do I remove the password from? I also did a man on ftpd, and it said the
> same thing. HELP! By the way, the machine is running wu-ftpd-2.4.
>
From an old posting:
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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: anonymous FTP login configuration
Message-ID: <1860@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 91 00:16:29 GMT
References: <1991Jul16.221827.28207@news.media.mit.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jul16.221827.28207@news.media.mit.edu>
adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes:
>How can you configure your NeXT to accept anonymous FTP logins?
Create a user called "ftp" (*not* "anonymous"); the easiest
way to do this is from the command line:
echo "ftp:*:9:-2:Anonymous FTP:/ftp:/bin/false"|niload passwd .
(yes, you can specify a different NetInfo domain, it doesn't
have to be the local one)
Create a home directory--the name doesn't matter. If you
have a 2-partition system, it's probably a good idea to
create it on /clients. This directory should be owned by
root (not ftp).
Create the following directories:
~ftp/bin
~ftp/etc
~ftp/etc/zoneinfo
These should all be owned by root, and protected 555.
On 2.x systems:
# cp -p /bin/ls ~ftp/bin
If you're still running 1.0/1.0a, retrieve pub/NeXT-ls.tar.Z
by anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230]--NeXT's
version won't work on 1.x systems.
# cp -p /etc/zoneinfo/localtime ~ftp/etc/zoneinfo
ls needs this to display times properly.
You may wish to create a ~ftp/.hidden file and/or a ~ftp/.forward
file.
Create other subdirectories as needed. I don't recommend
making ~ftp world-writeable!
>Is it possible to allow, say, only 10 anonymous users FTP'ing at once?
This takes more effort (you'd have to modify ftpd to keep track
of the number of anonymous logins). 4.3-reno's ftpd adapted for
NeXT 1.0/1.0a/2.0/2.1 is available from sutro.sfsu.edu as
pub/ftpd-src.tar.Z
Deciding which criteria to base restrictions on is a more
difficult exercise. Limiting the number of concurrent FTP
sessions is probably only a win if there's a very narrow IP pipe
between you and the outside world; I doubt it would provide any
significant conservation of machine resources.
-=EPS=-
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From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Organization: Steve's SCO Box at Home
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 19:34:58 GMT
Message-ID: <D4q6EA.GF4@robobar.co.uk>
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References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3itcuo$nqc@news.duke.edu> <3itirb$bq@news0.cybernetics.net>
Guys and Gals as exciting as this discussion is please could you remove
biz.sco.general from the distribution: as sad as it might be SCO's current
offerings do not run on any of the platforms being discussed.
Thanks.
Steve
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From: Richard Schroeder <rschroe@cello.gina.calstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 28 Feb 1995 21:18:36 GMT
Organization: Teacher
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j03vc$b55@cello.gina.calstate.edu>
References: <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <D4nyEC.56G@fulcrum.co.uk> <id.SPPH1.A27@nmti.com> <id.CQPH1.3L7@nmti.com>
fdgfdg;lsd
From: Ray Ryan <rjrjr@lighthouse.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Make a Macintosh Drive a NeXT CD-ROM? Resolved!
Date: 28 Feb 1995 20:19:44 GMT
Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
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In article <3iisvj$35e@lighthouse.lighthouse.com> I wrote:
> Does anyone know what extensions and inits and such I need to let a
> Quadra use an old NeXT CD-ROM drive?
Anthony Floyd <floyd@leland.Stanford.EDU> suggested I buy CD-ROM
Toolkit, by FWB Inc. He was right. The Mac and the CD drive are getting
along famously.
rjrjr
--
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4qBJF.Dp3@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it32m$u6e@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 21:26:03 GMT
kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
>|>
>|> For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>|> of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>|> --
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I can hardly imagine that you can do some marginally useful image processing
>with 16MB memory and a 16" monitor. So either your machine is pretty useless
>or you had to pay some extra money you didn't tell us to make it useful.
>Michael.
Sorry, a small typo, the machine came with 32meg for 3975.00. I did upgrade
to 64meg as mentioned in another post. However 1280x1024 is perfectly
acceptable for image processing. What wouldn't be acceptable is an 8 bit
limitation on a frame buffer.. In comparison with the Motorola system
(which only had 16meg) the advantages of the DEC box is obvious.
Charlie
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* Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications. *
From: lprice@itsnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Novell Installation help?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 06:41:56 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <lprice.16.2F541733@itsnet.com>
References: <1995Feb27.115938.8728@roper.uwyo.edu>
> I've got an extra 286 laying around and am thinking of pluggin
>in an old ethernet card and configuring Novell on it and my
>'030 Cube. I can handle the DOS Novell configuration, but
>how hard is it to configure the NeXT Novell peer to peer connection?
Isn't this a triple entendre?.......^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Firstly, what version of Netware? 2.15, and the '030 will puke. Anything
else isn't peer-to-peer (even remotely) anyway, so you'll build a server by
which your m68k is a client...of sorts. NovellDOS 7 is p->p, but the NeXT
isn't, so you can't use that either.
>I've done the NeXT tcp/ip with a breeze...
> My reasons for doing this are twofold. First, I want to
>access 3.5 and (to a lesser degree) 5.25 inch drives on my 286.
>also, I'd like to know more about Unix/Novell connections.
mounting the floppies as NFS or Netware disks is the improbable. I expect if
you just want to
> So, how hard is Novell on Next?
My experience has been a plus, but I had an awesome teacher. I think you'll
enjoy success, but only if you use the networking tools of the two the way
they were intended. On the NeXT side, it's pretty painless (be sure to check
those caps on login).
From: lprice@itsnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with Netware
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 06:45:49 GMT
Message-ID: <lprice.17.2F54181D@itsnet.com>
References: <1995Feb27.015944.3273@weston.com>
>We have a Netware 3.12 server on the net. When we try to attach to it, we
>can login in, but upon acessing a file, the system spins for a couple of
>minutes, then asks you to login again. I have tries logging in to the
>Novell system as a regular user and a supervisor.
Check your capitalization on login. Also, try "arrowing" through your NS tree
in listing mode, go through /Net, then your Netware mount. Don't push too
far. Try logging in, then sit there and make sure it works for a sec. The
problem may be that your tree thinks you're pushing into your Netware mount
(especially true in 3.1), and prompts you again. I suspect it has nothing to
do with accessing a file. If so, I've been wrong before, but this I've seen,
too.
From: robert@cs.anu.edu.au (Robert Cohen)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 1 Mar 1995 21:17:55 +1100
Organization: Australian National University
Message-ID: <3j1hkj$5c4@chara.anu.edu.au>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu> <3io81v$rnp@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <D4nyEC.56G@fulcrum.co.uk> <3j0rvd$f05@jhunix1.hcf.jhu.edu>
szgyula@hoplite.pha.jhu.edu (Gyula Szokoly) writes:
> I kinda like the OSF concept of single user mode (i.e. you can boot
>without any /usr, and a damaged / partition -- not true for suns) as
>being an emergency state, not a system management state.
Sun does have an emergency boot.
I think its boot -b.
It gives you a really minimal environment though.
No ls for example. Its hard to see what you can achieve in it.
--
Robert Cohen email: robert@cs.anu.edu.au
PhD Student, Dept of Computer Science,
Australian National University. ===============================
----------------------> Code fast, crash young, and leave a pretty core!
From: szgyula@hoplite.pha.jhu.edu (Gyula Szokoly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 1 Mar 1995 04:08:13 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Message-ID: <3j0rvd$f05@jhunix1.hcf.jhu.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu> <3io81v$rnp@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <D4nyEC.56G@fulcrum.co.uk>
In article <D4nyEC.56G@fulcrum.co.uk>, Ian G Batten <igb@fulcrum.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <3io81v$rnp@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
>Daniel Barlow <xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>> This means that you can have / on a hard disk and /usr mounted over
>> the net readonly, or on a cdrom or something.
>
>This isn't rocket science. Suns have run that way since 3.0 (1986) to
>my certain knowledge. Auspexen even go to the lengths of mounting their
>local /usr ro, just to be on the safe side.
You can also do that under OSF/1. I did that under 1.3b, 2.0 and I'm doing
it under 3.0b. It's not supported by Dec, but the changes are trivial.
I can not use 2 features, though, on dataless clients (using the Sun
terminology):
1. No automatic savecore script
2. No 'init 2' state (I think since 2.0 -- a script does not work without
/usr)
Both would be a trivial thing to get working, but I did not feel the need
for those.
I kinda like the OSF concept of single user mode (i.e. you can boot
without any /usr, and a damaged / partition -- not true for suns) as
being an emergency state, not a system management state.
Gyula
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|to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom|
|because that is according to my principles. -- Frank Herbert|
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From: gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Does PPP 2.2 dial-on-demand?
Message-ID: <D4qEtn.10L@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 22:36:59 GMT
See subject.
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: dmogge@herald.Berkeley.EDU (Dru Mogge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help - Lost User Login
Date: 1 Mar 1995 00:31:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Sender: dru@cni.org
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Message-ID: <3j0f9h$f46@agate.berkeley.edu>
Our NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a Dell Intel machine has decided to not let us log
in with the normal username. It lets us log in a root and seems normal.
If, as root, we open a terminal window, we cannot su to the normal
account either. At the graphical login window, we don't get the "shake"
indicating a bad password - the window goes blank and then the login
window returns.
This problem seems to have been caused by making what seemed a pair of
trivial changes to the NetInfo database. The system is the only
NEXTSTEP machine on a mid-sized network of Macs and DOS computers.
Thus, it uses a local NetInfo. It prints to a Mac which runs an
lp-daemon to send the job to an Apple Laserwriter.
We needed to change the Mac acting as the print server, so we defined a
new host name/IP address pair, and then defined a remote printer on that
host. On re-booting, we could print but could no longer log in with the
non-root account.
So:
o What did we do wrong, in order to avoid doing it again; and
o How to fix it? We have a plentiful supply of tape
backups. However, strangely, overwriting the NetInfo
database directory with a diskette copy from yesterday
(and rebooting) does *not* fix the problem.
Thank you for your help.
Dru
dru@cni.org
From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 23 Feb 1995 02:52:59 GMT
Organization: MacroModel Development Group, Chemistry, Columbia U., NY, NY
Message-ID: <3igtab$k08@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3igl9j$5bp@fido.asd.sgi.com>
In article <3igl9j$5bp@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>In article <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>|> NNTP-Posting-Host: still3.chem.columbia.edu
>|>
>|> In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
>|> Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com> wrote:
>|>
>|> > What is the exact problem with the one partition layout?
>|>
>|> Very simple: it's not what people know, are used to, and love to
>|> hate. That makes it bad. It's a gratuitous change that serves
>|> no real purpose.
>
>Thanks, Peter, for your direct answer to Martin's question.
>
>I am aware of one good purpose that defaulting to a single
>root+usr file system serves us. We hear quite a few reports of
>customers having difficulty installing into the separate small
>root partitions, because they lack enough free space for the
>second copy of /unix (unix.install or whatever)....
>.... And just significantly
>increasing the root partition isn't a pure win either....
There are no pure wins; both "solutions" have problems. Since
we know what problems to expect when / and /usr are separate file
systems, and are used to dealing with them, and since having separate
file systems is the "norm", a change from this seems gratuitous
to me, unless the change is REALLY A BIG WIN. It's not enough
for it to be better. It has to be A HELLUVA LOT BETTER. It's
hard for me to believe that it is, though I am possibly wrong.
It reminds me a bit of what IBM did with AIX. They made many,
many changes which make any UNIX administrator not used to their
particular platform feel, well, not at home. It is quite possible
that these changes, taken quite objectively, are each for the better.
But their betterness, even if assumed, is not, IMHO, and in the HO of
many others, sufficient to warrent the deviation from general practice
and from what one expects when one sits down at a putative UNIX machine.
> "It's a gratuitous change" ...
>By the same token, changing it back would be gratuitous as well,
>right? So we should leave it be, right? <g>
At this point, perhaps so. 0.5*<g> Just don't do it again. 0.25*<g>
-P.
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From: fehrin@math.TU-Berlin.DE (Franz Fehringer)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 01 Mar 1995 14:39:11 GMT
Organization: FB3, TU-Berlin, Germany.
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In-reply-to: 007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca's message of Mon, 27 Feb 1995 01:30:16 GMT
In article <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> 007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste) writes:
I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
not power macs or RS/6000 machines, but Motorola PPCs
you can get a 16mb base workstation (base price! no flames about
insufficient hardware! :-) for less than 5000 (i believe) with a PPC 604
processor, which should give better performance than any other workstation
under 20k..... (argue away, i am NOT standing firm by THAT statement ;-)
AND, you can run WinNT (why?) AIX, or soon OS/2
MUCH cheaper than a sparc, sgi, or pa/risc system......
dana lacoste
007534l@dragon
Are these boxes available or have you to wait for months,
if you buy one?
Greetings
Franz Fehringer
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Telefax +49 30 314 21110
From: okerson@ndadsa.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Okerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Only root can log in ...
Date: 27 Feb 1995 06:22 EDT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <27FEB199506222148@ndadsa.gsfc.nasa.gov>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
I would very much appreciate your help in understanding a problem
which has now attacked us a second time (on almost precisely the
anniversary of the first trouble).
I have NEXTSTEP 3.2 running on a Dell Intel computer. The system
is a singlet, so it is a "local" NetInfo setup.
Although there are no other NEXTSTEP machines, it is connected to
a mid-sized network of Macintosh and DOS/Windows machines. In order
to print, one of the Macintoshes acts as a remote print server,
sending the output to an Apple Laserwriter.
The problem is that what should have been a trivial change to the
NetInfo database has caused the NEXTSTEP system to only permit me
to log in as root. An attempt to log in through the window system
is not treated as a mistyped password would show; rather, after a
short plain screen, the login window comes back again. If as root
I open a terminal window, I find I can su to several usernames, but
without being asked for a password. Trying to su to my usual name
produces a return to the root prompt.
What's going on?
All this happened after using the icon tools to:
(1) Define a new host name for a different Macintosh which I
wanted to use as the printer server; and
(2) Defining a remote printer at that new host name.
Thank you very much for your help.
From: buzz@marvin.FB10.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: SysV Streams for NS?
Date: 1 Mar 1995 11:06:01 +0100
Organization: Marvins Home, a small place in Universe
Sender: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Message-ID: <3j1gu9$29i@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Hello Netters,
does anybody know of a SystemV Streams implementation/emulation for
Nextstep?
Ciao
Bastian
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: how to know from which machine I am logged on?
Message-ID: <1995Mar1.083151.4934@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3ivu2a$hhe@news.service.uci.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 08:31:51 GMT
In article <3ivu2a$hhe@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
writes:
> Suppose I am sitting at a DEC machine and logged on a NeXT remoetly.
> In the rlogin session on the NeXT, how can I determine that I logged on
> the NEXT from the DEC and possibly the user ID that originated the
rlogin?
> Same question applies if one logs on a DEC from a NeXT.
>
> I would like to use this information to automate X window and terminal
> type settings in the .cshrc file.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Feng Liu
> Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
> University of California, Irvine
> Irvine, CA 92717
> phone: 714-824-3105 Fax: 714-824-8585
I use this in my .cshrc
# make the prompt palatable
if( ${?prompt} ) then
set host=`hostname`
set user=`whoami`
set prompt="${user}@${host}> "
set history=50
# put aliases and other things down here
alias ls ls -F
endif
Fabien
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From: gabor@architektur.uni-kassel.de (Gabor Freivogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Mounting files with Solaris 2.4 from a NEXSTEP computer?
Date: 1 Mar 1995 17:12:29 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Distribution: world
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Hallo
we setup a new server running NEXSTEP and tried to mount the Directories
on some SOLARIS 2.4 suns. We simply have not managed to do this.
We can mount the files from othe NS computers from suns running SUNOS
4.1.3 and from SGI-s, but not from the SOLARIS 2.4 (International release
) suns.
Actually the suns mount the files, but if you cd to the mounted dir. on
the S 2.4 machines and type ls it takes appr. 2-5 minutes (!) until you
got some result.... and you get a lot of NFS server ... not responding
massages on the sun
and following massages on the NEXTSTEP NFS server:
xdr_bytes: bad size FAILED
svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.4
svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.4
svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.4
svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.4
.....
(the machine with this IP is the Solaris computer)
is this a sun or a next bug?
what could we do (besides reformating the disks again and go back to a
SUNOS 4.x server)?
Please help.
Thanks
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From: dfraser@muss.cis.McMaster.CA (Doug Fraser)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 28 Feb 1995 21:15:33 -0500
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Message-ID: <3j0lc5$gkc@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com> <3iki66$hnk@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com> <3in9km$7m6@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl> <3intf2$g4c@news.missouri.edu>
In article <3intf2$g4c@news.missouri.edu>,
Paul 'Shag' Walmsley <ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu> wrote:
>
>Just out of curiosity, is everybody out there using benchmarks to
>quantify how well a system handles multiple CPUs? ... actual
>applications? ... making wild statements based on how fast the system
>seems to respond :) ?
stuff deleted
>I've seen the benchmarks that NASA Ames did with their NAS stuff, which is
>apparently some hard-core floating-point code. Great. But let's say I
>want to compare the more intensive load :) of having 200 users on at
>once, launching various applications, getting impatient because it takes
>the system 5 seconds to echo keystrokes, etc.
The 5 seconds to echo keystrokes sounds all too familiar to me and is
caused by a design flaw (imho) in the operating systems of two vendors
that I know of. This is the pinnacle of open systems - you can move from
vendor to vendor and the design flaws stay the same. Both of the vendors
that I know of are addressing or have addressed the problem. I am not
sure how good the solutions are but ...
>
>Our users are fairly willing to tolerate long runtimes for background
>jobs, but when it comes to interactive response, if things slow down,
>things get nasty really quickly ...
>
>So, any ideas on good ways to test this sort of thing?
Mercury International (I believe the company is) has a set of programs to
do load testing in a client server environment. It can test some types
of loads easily (sql I believe). I don't believe that it can test mail
easily.
I have heard someone else say that they use c-kermit script to do this.
I have not tried this myself.
You could also write an application to open a telnet session and the
issue various commands. I have done this for a pc using socket level
programming. It was more difficult than I thought. I have not finished
yet :-(
My first effort would type at a rate between 1 and 17 characters a
second. I fired up different numbers of pcs typing different rates and
watched the load average. It was great fun. I tried two O/Ss on one
type of machine (we were upgrading) and two O/Ss on two other machines.
I would login and vi a new dataset and then save it. Altogether there
were a thousand keystrokes in the dataset (actually more I think). I
would have multiple logins (each one with unique datasets names of course
:-)). The keystrokes are in a file. It does not check to make sure the
output coming back is correct (except for the login).
The results on the old O/S were repeatable and sad. I could easily make
the load average soar. The results on the newer O/S and the two other
machines were suspicious. When I did further checking, I could not find
all of the datasets that should have been created. Hmmm.
I changed the program to type faster (better timer found) and now can
type up to 250 keystrokes a second (actually, it should be able to do up
to 1024 if the timer is the limitation but my edit check says 250). This
was most interesting. I would watch the traffic with the sniffer. On
the Saturday, there would be a pronounce slowdown or delay after a
certain number of packets. This number would fluctuate slightly. On the
Sunday, this didn't happen. The load was not heavy on either day.
Hmmm. I started to change the program to use none blocking i/o but have
not worked on it for some weeks.
I was doing it as an extra curricular activity. I have found another
extra curricular activity for the next while. I am sorry if I was a bit
vague about some parts but I don't have my test results at home and it
was several weeks ago.
Doug Fraser
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From: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Defaults database problems
Message-ID: <D4n8FI.107@blackmaus.com>
Sender: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: Blackmaus Design, Inc.
References: <D4n7Gx.ts@blackmaus.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 05:26:05 GMT
Folks,
What can cause a user's default database to be trashed?
I don't know what happened that now none of my defaults are being saved. Unluckily for me
it happens to be root's defaults! I've tried copying the defaults files:
~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.D
~/NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L
from my own user account into root's but it doesn't work. When I log in as root I get the
standard new-user look.
When I issue a dread -l from a terminal window, I get the following message:
dread: Can't open defaults database
I've checked the permissions against mine but they seem to be fine. These are the
permissions on the (corrupted?) files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 20 Feb 26 23:31 .NeXTdefaults.D
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 8192 Feb 26 23:41 .NeXTdefaults.L
I've tried deleting the 2 files mentioned above, to allow WM to make new ones and start
from scratch, but as soon as I log out, everything is lost again.
I also noticed that no services are getting registered either since this happened! In
other words, my Services menu is empty in every app!
I've checked the online help to no avail :(
I have no clue how to fix this. Any of your ideas are better than any of mine right now.
Please email me and I'll summarize for the benefit of others.
Thank you in advance.
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From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Help with Netware
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.015944.3273@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 01:59:44 GMT
We have a Netware 3.12 server on the net. When we try to attach to it, we
can login in, but upon acessing a file, the system spins for a couple of
minutes, then asks you to login again. I have tries logging in to the
Novell system as a regular user and a supervisor.
Has anyone seen anything similar, or are there tricks to try with Novell?
Thanks
Wes
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.093309.4661@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 09:33:09 GMT
In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew
Hocker) writes:
> I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire filesystem
> from my internal drive to it. The drive is connected externally for the
> moment, until I put the OS on it, at which time I'll install it as the
> only drive on my machine. The reason I want to copy the filesystem is to
> avoid having to install everything again! Also, all of my accounts are
on
> this, and I don't want to hassle my users.
>
> The problems:
>
> 1. Links do not copy correctly, as they need to point to files on the
new
> filesystem.
>
> 2. The /dev directory is a nightmare... I don't know how to copy them.
>
> 3. How do I make sure that this disk is bootable?
>
> Has anyone done this before? Am I overlooking a way to make this easier?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Matt
>
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Assuming that the new disk is mounted on a drectory named "/MyNewDisc"
type:
cd /MyNewDisc
dump 0f - / |restore -xf -
Answer yes at the end of restore.
Hope that helps
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From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to know from which machine I am logged on?
Date: 1 Mar 1995 16:05:40 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
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In article <3ivu2a$hhe@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
writes:
}~ Suppose I am sitting at a DEC machine and logged on a NeXT remoetly.
}~ In the rlogin session on the NeXT, how can I determine that I logged
on
}~ the NEXT from the DEC and possibly the user ID that originated the
rlogin?
}~ Same question applies if one logs on a DEC from a NeXT.
}~
}~ I would like to use this information to automate X window and terminal
}~ type settings in the .cshrc file.
}~ Any help is appreciated.
}~ Thanks in advance.
Well, there are a number of possibilities...
probably the easiest unless you also have to deal with LOCAL
logins is:
set loginfrom=`last -1 $USER | tr '.' ' ' | awk '{ print $3;}'`;
Then treat all of the "day-of-the-week" abbreviations to substitute
"localhost" for the value.
The bad thing is that opening a terminal generally does NOT generate a
wtmp entry, so this is a hack, at best.
On the other hand, you can use...
setenv PARENTAPP `pedigree $$|head -3|tr ' ' '\012'|tail -1`;
To see if your current shell is a subshell, is running under rlogind,
or Terminal.app, etc. Personally, using tcsh, I use $PARENTAPP as part
of my normal tcsh prompt.
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From: gallatin@hpdemo.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:33:28 GMT
Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke U.
Message-ID: <3itcuo$nqc@news.duke.edu>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net>
In article <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net>,
Marc J. Fraioli <fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com> wrote:
>
>In article <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>|>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>|>of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>
>How well does it run? I tried running DEC OSF/1 on a 3000/600 with
>32MB of RAM, and it was pretty pathetic, swapping constantly. It was
>much happier in 64MB, although I was told that 48MB was also usable
>(never tried it myself). I can't imagine how bad it would have been
>in only 16MB. Of course, this was DEC OSF/1 v1.3-- perhaps it's been
>slimmed down (a lot) since then?
It may have gotten a little better between 1.3 and 2.0, but your
opinions hold at least up to OSF/1 3.0. I'm still waiting for 3.2, so
I cannot comment on it.
I can say that I'm running a few 300LX's with 48M and they seem to be
quite usable. But I can't imagine trying to do anything in 16M
either...
While we're on the subject, what's the OSF/1 kernel flag telling the
kernel to pretend it has less memory than it really does. For
example, a collegue has a 96M demo machine, & he wants to see how
usable 48M would be w/o opening the box & pulling SIMMS.
Drew
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From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: SoftPC and TCP/IP ?
Message-ID: <D4ryqp.DK@fritz.snafu.de>
Organization: dasburo Berlin
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 18:44:48 GMT
Can anybody help me with SoftPC and TCP/IP :
I put the drivers into AUTOEXEC.BAT as described in the manual. They
all load fine, including ISTCPIP.COM.
When ETHERSPC.COM loads it prints out that it is using the protocol
ETHERNET_802.3. That's fine for IPX, but IP should be on ETHERNET_II.
Do I have to create a NET.CFG and bind ETHERNET_II to ETHERSPC ?
When ISTCPIP.COM loads, it does not complain, though.
If this all works, how can I test my setup. I could not find any PING.EXE,
so I downloaded a program called WSPING.EXE from a pc archive.
This starts o.k. and is able to do names resolving with hostnames in netinfo,
but when pinging it prints out : Cannot create raw socket (10013).
In WSPING's readme it says that some WINSOCK.DLL implementations do not
support raw sockets.
Is that the case for the WINSOCK.DLL that comes with SoftPC ?
Is there another PING.EXE which works with SoftPC ?
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 05:24:08 GMT
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca>
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks
Is Motorola actually shipping their POWER Stacks (sp?) in quantity now?
Just curious...
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From: cdl@triton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dump/restore
Date: 1 Mar 1995 10:23:33 -0800
Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
Message-ID: <3j2e35$n5t@triton.ucsd.edu>
I would like to remind everyone that the ability of dump/restore to
deal with setuid/setgid permissions was somehow lost in the original
release of NS3.2. Revised versions of these programs are available
by anonymous ftp from ftp.next.com. The index information for them
looked like:
1555 RestorePatch.pkg 129k 94-05-09
1554 RestorePatch.ReadMe 3k 94-05-09
This should help all those people who are trying to move whole file
systems from one disk to another.
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Linux file systems
Message-ID: <D4rrKD.8n6@info.swan.ac.uk>
Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk
Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology
References: <3i3jsb$e8g@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 16:09:49 GMT
In article <3i3jsb$e8g@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
>Is there hope for Linux in the future to be able to read the BSD 4.3
>FFS that NeXT uses? (Unlikely for NeXT to support linux file systems,
>I guess.) I just cannot go back to 8+3 filename limitations by making
>the volume a DOS FAT system.
With the UFS-0.2 patch it can read UFS. I don't know if anyone has done
writable FFS yet. also beware of the fact that not everyones FFS uses the
same precise layout or byte order so while UFS-0.2 reads FreeBSD disks it
may not work with Next.
Try gnu tar and
tar cvMf /dev/fd0 .............
for file shuffling on floppies.
Alan
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: 105 Sysquest + DPT 2021 ISA + NS/i 3.2 = ???
Message-ID: <jpanicoD4oGtp.GFH@netcom.com>
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Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3ib4os$dv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:25:00 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom20.netcom.com
john stanhope (jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone got a syquest drive to work with a DPT card?? Is
: there some magical invocation I forgot? Other than this little
: problem NS seemed to handle the addition nicely.
Yes, we are using the Syquest Marlin (105) with the DPT 2022 SCSI-- it
works quite nicely.
I think that only SCSI removable media work under NS 3.2, so if your
disk adapter is ISA you mayh have a prob.
: Thanks
: Jehu
:
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Default Boot manager selecti?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD4oHDB.Hqz@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:36:47 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom20.netcom.com
Hi,
I'm running NSI 3.2 on a Dell XPS 90, 1G SCSI HD hooked up to Adaptec
1740. The HD is partitioned in 2-- the first 500Mb is NS, the second is
DOS. Both OSs run fine, but I would like to know how to change the default
OS the bootmanager selects to run.
Right now it says something like:
Boot OS n for NeXTSTEP d for DOS and if I just wait for the timeout,
it boots DOS. Instead I would like it to boot NS by default. Anyone know
how to do this?
Any info appreciated.
Thanks.
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4rr2K.8FJ@info.swan.ac.uk>
Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk
Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology
References: <WAYNE.95Feb15070747@suni202.larc.nasa.gov> <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 15:59:07 GMT
In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil writes:
>Suns with Solaris 2.x are about the easyest to maintain, configure, install,
>upgrade, etc, etc. and are about the most reliable.
Any sun salesman want to produce figures for the reliability of
sunsite.unc.edu ftp archive before and after it switched to Solaris.
Nothing more to add on that, and I can't comment on SGI's.
Alan
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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com's message of 25 Feb 1995 21:00:05 GMT
Message-ID: <BZS.95Feb27015846@world.std.com>
Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Organization: The World
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>
<3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
<3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
<3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu> <3io5ol$kmu@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 06:58:46 GMT
From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
>hedrick@heidelberg.rutgers.edu (Chuck Hedrick) writes:
>| I think there used to be one good argument: You wanted root to be as
>| small as possible to minimize the probability that the file system
>| would be messed up in a crash. Traditionally root had enough files
>
>I don't buy this. All the OS/filesystem bugs I've seen that would cause
>a whole filesystem to be trashed are completely independent of the number
>of files or the size; it's true that most of them (but not all!) are
>related to the amount of activity, but even more than that, the type
>of filesystem activity.
>
>I think most unix systems have been robust against this kind of issue
>for a number of years now; that is, the size of the root filesystem isn't
>likely to affect whether it will come up single user or not.
I've had the misfortune of a system refusing to come up because the
passwd file was gone, probably being modified when the system crashed
and that was that. It was usually in /lost+found but you can't even
get into single user to fix that w/o one, we now have a check in our
boot scripts which copies in minimal passwd, group and shadow files if
any aren't found. You don't need much trashed to have a hassle on your
hands.
I think it's fair to say that a possibly laudable goal is that / and
perhaps /usr should ideally be mountable read only and the few files
that must change should be symlinks pointing elsewhere. Or at least /
should be, in theory, mountable read-only. This won't avoid the
disappearing passwd (&c) file syndrome since it just moves it
somewhere else and the same thing could happen on that file sys but it
would help stabilize things.
I'll guess that's roughly what Chuck Hedrick is getting at (btw, as a
recommendation, on a scale of 1-10 on understanding system design
issues I'd give Chuck an 11, he's been known as a bright light in the
systems community for decades.)
Also, a common problem of a root partition filling up is the passwd or
similar file being truncated or trashed. Not all utilities check
carefully enough.
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From: Langche Zeng <lzeng@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: new mail notification at login
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 10:29:27 -0800
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950301102440.13310A-100000@darkwing>
References: <3j0f9h$f46@agate.berkeley.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <3j0f9h$f46@agate.berkeley.edu>
Forgive me if this is a real simple and stupid question... But:
How to get a user notified at his login that he has NEW mail?
Currently he sees "You have mail" whether it's new or not.
I am running NEXTSTEP/Intel.
E-mail responses are most appreciated (lzeng@darkwing.uoregon.edu) Thanks!
Langche
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TransSys and Dynamic Slip
Date: 1 Mar 1995 10:42:33 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j1j2q$4sh@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3itig6$jpo@news-2.csn.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In article <3itig6$jpo@news-2.csn.net> bff@csn.net (Brendan Forsyth)
writes:
}~ Is there a way to configure TransSys to handle dynamic slip
}~ ip number addressing?
}~
}~ I've tried commenting out the TTY line in the pni0.config
}~ file, subsequently using kermit to connect to the term
}~ server to obtain the ip address and then edit the pni0.config
}~ file and setting the Config:(ipxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) to the new
}~ address and starting pnid, but it doesn't appear to work.
}~
}~ I could use TCL to parse the address but how would I pass
}~ the ip address back to the pnid once it has started?
Brendan,
We're still using the 1992 (black) pre-PNI version, but
dynamic slip works well parsing the presented IP number
with the TCL startup script, and presenting it to an
ifconfig slip0 <dynamicip> <destip> metric 1 netmask <approp value>
Command. To configure routes at the same time, we moved
ALL of it out of the tcl to a single bourne shell script
which is executed BEFORE returning success to the tcldiald.
Whether this will work with your PNI, I can't say for sure.
+-+
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We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
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Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
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From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4nyEC.56G@fulcrum.co.uk>
Sender: news@fulcrum.co.uk (0000-news(0000))
Organization: Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu> <3io81v$rnp@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:47:00 GMT
In article <3io81v$rnp@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>,
Daniel Barlow <xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> This means that you can have / on a hard disk and /usr mounted over
> the net readonly, or on a cdrom or something.
This isn't rocket science. Suns have run that way since 3.0 (1986) to
my certain knowledge. Auspexen even go to the lengths of mounting their
local /usr ro, just to be on the safe side.
ian
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT printer on slab won't work
Date: 2 Mar 1995 05:33:01 GMT
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-0203950041010001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>
References: <david-rarick-0103951322160001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>
In article <david-rarick-0103951322160001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick) wrote:
> I am having trouble setting up a NeXT printer on my color slab. It is plugged
> into the printer port, but when I try to set up the printer in PrintManager, I
> can only choose between Serial A or B, and the NeXT 400 dpi Level II printer
> option is greyed out. Is something not installed properly?
>
Never mind, I got it to work. Don't know why it wasn't working before, but
it worked just fine today.
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From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Novell Installation help?
Date: 1 Mar 95 10:12:57
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95Mar1101257@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
References: <1995Feb27.115938.8728@roper.uwyo.edu>
In-reply-to: ezimmerm@UWYO.EDU's message of 27 Feb 95 11:59:38 MST
Only Novell Netware Lite does point-to-point networking. Does the
Netware in NEXTSTEP need a server to run? Can you configure your
286 to be a Netware server?
zhao
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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <id.SPPH1.A27@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com> <BZS.95Feb23231516@world.std.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:33:40 GMT
In article <BZS.95Feb23231516@world.std.com>,
Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
> >In article <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com>,
> >Will Morse <will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
> >> they can be _just_as_good_enough_ and even cheaper. DEC is, at least
> >> at present, NOT good enough and certainly not cheap enough. This
> >> gives clone makers no where to go.
> >In what way is DEC "not good enough"? Their machines are blazing fast, their
> >UNIX is solid, and the only downside is they're pretty pricey.
> I think what he meant was that, as I express it, "good enough" tends
> to win.
> That is, people won't pay much of a premium for a little or even quite
> a bit better if what they can get for less gets what they want done.
I'm familiar with the concept, but I don't think that's what he meant
or why would he say DEC was "not" good enough?
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From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch) (Felix Rauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 00:32:41 GMT
Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <D4sEuH.123@harka>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com>
Originator: HARKA@nice.ethz.ch
Michael E.. Crawford (crawford@nesteggs.com) wrote:
> I'm rather partial to
> gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
> from root. It's quick & painless, (well, until otherDisk begins copying
> itself onto itself).
[complicated description deleted]
Why not use the --exclude option? This would be a bit easier ;-)
So the command should look like:
gnutar -cvf - --exclude /otherDisk / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar -xvf -)
I haven't tested this exact command, but I think it should work
quite well. The original poster has already copied his disk by this
time anyway, I guess ;-)
- Felix
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From: Max Hadersbeck <max@cis.uni-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo in 3.3 crashes unpredictable
Date: 2 Mar 1995 10:25:15 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j46eb$7jq@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Hi
Here we have some NeXT's and a cube as server.
We have big problems with netinfo and 3.3 on the server.
From time to time (sometimes every day) netinfo crashes. Only reboot
helps.
Is there a known bug in netinfo ?
Let me know.
MAX
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Maximilian Hadersbeck
Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet
Wagmuellerstr. 23
80538 Muenchen
(089) 2110672, FAX (089) 2110674
max@cis.uni-muenchen.de
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4sM25.Msp@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3ismem$ltf@booz.bah.com> <rpj.794105491@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 03:08:28 GMT
rpj@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Roger P Johnson) writes:
>>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 32meg
>>of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1. ^^
>>Wow! Was that bought new? I haven't used DEC OSF/1, but maybe it is time I
>>did.
>Yes. I wondered about this too. Was this one machine or a bulk purchase of 100+
>machines? If it was only one, do us all a favor and give us you VAR's name and
>phone number please.
>Roger
Ok , I confess! (-: It was a single unit price that anyone can get, but...
I placed the order with DEC Direct and the order number was B2-PE32B-BA.
This in theory was refurbished, but since they were just beginning to ship
it was actually new. The "new" number is PE32B-BA and its price was $5000.
Note that I corrected my typo of "16" . The machine comes with 32 meg.
If you call 1-800-digital then they can give you all of the recent prices.
The standard monitor is now the 17 inch (vs my 16 inch). Be sure to ask
for the cheaper of the 2 prices list/standard. I also spent $405 for the
external RRD43 cdrom.
Charlie
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From: esb@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rousseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RAID 1, 5 on 040 Cube
Date: 27 Feb 1995 18:22:57 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3it5a1$c5e@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Does anyone have input on RAID solutions that can be used a bootable volumes
on a black cube. I need mirrored 1GB for my NeXT mailhost.
I also want a RAID solution that will be portable to different platforms (HP
9000, Sun SPARC10, 20, Intel maybe).
Any preferred *proven* product endorsements by actual users and SysAdmins would
be very helpful.
Mike Rousseau
Struggling SysAdmin
SHL Systemhouse, Boulder, CO
rousseau@bou.shl.com
From: gthomas@fraser.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HeLp!!* NeXT SMTP mail problems *Please*Help*
Date: 28 Feb 95 21:30:27 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Message-ID: <gthomas.794007027@sfu.ca>
References: <1995Feb22.082018.16184@schbbs.mot.com> <3illcr$si3@seymour.sfu.ca> <3isgmq$st7@thor.tjhsst.edu>
jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John Harding) writes:
>In article <3illcr$si3@seymour.sfu.ca>,
>Operator <root@edie.cprost.sfu.ca> wrote:
>>This happens to me, too. Any suggestions?
>>> my next, i got the following problem:
>>> Received: from zwgba.corp.mot.com by cssnext1.corp.mot.com
>>> >>> HELO cssnext1.corp.mot.com
>>> <<< 553 cssnext1.corp.mot.com config error: mail loops back to myself
>>> 554 <jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com>... 554 Service unavailable
>Well, I'm not too sure how sendmail does it, but with smail, in your
>/usr/lib/smail/config, you should have a line saying
>hostname=your.full.host.name
>So that it knows that's local...
Or much more simply, using sendmail :)
Usualy sendmail sets the $j macro to be your FQDN
via a call to 'gethostname' and then a call to gethostbyname
If by chance the gethostname returns only the machine name
( or something else ) you have to do some juggling.
On my system I have the following lines in my sendmail.cf
# local domain name
#
Dmnative-ed.bc.ca
# my official hostname
Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $.
Translated this says
Define a macro j where j is $w.$m if m is defined otherwise use $w
where $m is the domain part of the FQDN and $w is whatever appears
before the first dot of of $j
The upshot is that with this configuration sendmail will recognize
user
user@raven
user@native-ed.bc.ca
user@raven.native-ed.bc.ca
as local addresses.
See. Who says sendmail is hard :-)
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From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Herseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup/streamer/device-problem in NS-3.3 ?
Date: 2 Mar 1995 11:18:43 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <3j4623$te@nyi.ifi.uio.no>
After installing NS-3.3 I also installed a Tandberg 2.5GB QIC streamertape
station. If I don't do a dummy "mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind" I get an
I/O-error (timeout) when taking/restoring backup with dump/restore or
tar with device /dev/rst0. Is this a bug in NS-3.3 or what?
I have tried setting fixed blocksize with a program running IOCTL and
with stblksize -s 512 /dev/rst0 but it doesn't help (and makes the
streamer incompatible with previous written tapes and tapes from other
WSs).
I have installed the SCSI-tape in Config.app.
The streamer only fails for 2.5GB tapes NOT 150MB tapes.
Has anyone got the same problem with large QIC-tapes?
Arne
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From: ericc@asteroid.lysis.ch (Eric Chaubert)
Subject: Time service
Message-ID: <D4nF56.MME@eunet.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 07:51:06 GMT
I'd like to synchronize my network of NextStep machines (running NetInfo)
with an external time server.
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance
--
Eric Chaubert Software Engineer
Lysis SA Cotes de Montbenon 8
Radio Software Development 1003 Lausanne / Switzerland
Phone: (+ 41 21) 312-91-91 E-Mail: ericc@lysis.ch (NextMail Ok)
From: ts110@emu.pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Secondary swapfile won't compress
Date: 1 Mar 1995 20:39:31 GMT
Organization: DPMMS University of Cambridge
Message-ID: <3j2m23$6lc@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Last August I installed an additional external hard disk to my NeXT
(running NextStep 3.0). When I did that, I created a directory
private/vm on the drive and added the following line to /etc/swaptab:
/users/private/vm/swapfile prefer,lowat=16777216
The new swapfile has worked fine, except that every time my NeXT boots up,
the console shows (roughly) the following lines:
mount: device busy
mount: giving up on /users/private/vm/swapfile.front
and, as expected, running ls -l /users/private/vm shows no compressed
swapfile.front. Is there any way of avoiding this error?
Thank you very much.
Yours sincerely,
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT printer on slab won't work
Date: 1 Mar 1995 18:14:18 GMT
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-0103951322160001@diablo.weeg.uiowa.edu>
I am having trouble setting up a NeXT printer on my color slab. It is plugged
into the printer port, but when I try to set up the printer in PrintManager, I
can only choose between Serial A or B, and the NeXT 400 dpi Level II printer
option is greyed out. Is something not installed properly?
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From: dougm@azrael (Douglas McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need disktab for ST15150N
Date: 2 Mar 1995 00:24:52 GMT
Organization: Abbott Laboratories
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Message-ID: <3j338k$opb@kelso.abbott.com>
Reply-To: dougm@woodstock.abbott.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: akira.add.abbott.com
I'm looking for a disktab for a ST15150N Seagata 4GB Barracuda. For some
reason, whenever I try to initialize this drive, I get a message about it
"Only using BIOS-accessible sectors" and then it goes off and completely
ignores my disktab and formats it into two partitions for me. Not what I
wanted. Maybe this needs some other kind of solutions. Has anyone got
one of these beast formatted with more than two partitions?
-d
From: rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Microphone and soundblaster 16
Date: 2 Mar 1995 15:10:50 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j4n5q$eqj@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Keywords: sound microphone
I've installed a Creative Labs sound blaster 16 on my NS 3.3 Pentium
and it seems to work fine for playing sound files. Recently,
I've added a microphone to the sound card (A Labtec AM-22).
When trying to do Lip Service the Mike input seems to be ignored.
I've tried another mike (From a Sparcstation) with the same result.
Is there any configuring that's needed in software assuming my sound
card appears to work ok?
Regards,
Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
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From: peisch@cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Subject: Re: PORTS ONLY RESPOND LOCALLY
Message-ID: <D4t94D.CnF@cfa.org>
Organization: Communicating For America, Networking Services
References: <1995Feb27.150916.9240@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:26:36 GMT
Sounds like a job for DNS-Admin! Try adding the hosts to netinfo and see if
it makes a difference.
peter
Operator (root@engine.dgcp.doc.ca) wrote:
: Help!
: I am admining two NeXT slabs. I have successfully installed WWW, GOPHER
: and POPmail servers on one machine.
: The other machine does not have a developer's system so I am transfering
: the binaries from the first machine to it.
: I have successfully transfered and configured the CERN HTTPD.
: I transfered, installed and configured GOPHER and POPmail server binaries.
: Both of these servers respond to INTERNAL queries - ie, I get a response
: from the GOPHER server using a gopher-client from the same machine, and
: the POPmail responds too - locally.
: PROBLEM: Neither the GOPHER nor POPmail responds to/accepts requests from
: an outside machine - BUT, the WWW server works fine.
: I have checked the /etc/services and inetd.conf multiple times, and the
: config is the same as on the first machine.????
: Thanks very much for any help/advice.
: Tyson
: --
: Tyson Macaulay
: Internet Applications Consultant
: CDD/DGCP/Industry Canada
: (613) 9904236
: email: root@engine.dgcp.doc.ca
--
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From: rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Parallel Port Interface
Date: 2 Mar 1995 18:32:54 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j530m$ern@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
In order to add a local printer to my Gateway Pentium with the
Printmanager app, I've added the On-board Parallel Port driver (v3.30) to
my NS 3.3 kernel. After rebooting, the Printmanager allowed me to specify
the Parallel interface option where it hadn't before, telling me that the
Printmanager now finds the proper support in the kernel. However, if I
try to redirect output to /dev/pp0, I get 'No such device'. Needless to
say the print queue does not work. Anyone experienced anything like this?
Regards,
Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Talk Problems
Date: 27 Feb 1995 21:02:42 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <3iteli$c81@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hello,
when someone logs onto my machine from remote, that person can't use CR or
^C in talk; instead of CR a visible ^M shows up, and ^C is simply printed.
Backspace works, and in the shell or other apps, ^C and CR do what they
should. The same is the case when I installed 2.1 talk (I am running 3.3
now). Also, it doesn't matter whether talk is called from csh, zsh, or sh.
Is there a special mapping for talk or such?
Thanks a lot,
- Stan
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: cancel
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 09:23:11 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar2.092311.2128@proximus.north.de>
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From: sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dump/gnutar question
Date: 27 Feb 95 21:43:39 EST
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <1995Feb27.214339.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
I've got two IDE drives in an Intel box and want to use dump to backup the
drives (I'd use tar, but the 100 character restriction will affect me). Is
there a way to have dump follow a link? I've got all the Local stuff on a
second hard drive and don't really want to do two backups.
Or, does the 100 character restriction hold true for gnutar?
Any ideas are appreciated.
Scott
Scott Davenport / sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu / NeXTMail OK!
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: REPOST: (HELP) NS and MultiSession CDs?
Date: 1 Mar 1995 18:57:13 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3j2g29$5d8@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <3itljc$au5@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Question:
If I connect a multi-session PhotoCD capable CD-Drive (e.g. Apple 300+) to
my NeXTStation running NS 3.3 will I be able to view multi-session PhotoCD
disks? I cannot test this because I don't have (yet) multi-session PhotoCD
discs, but I am thinking of adding more images to my CD and thus
converting it to multi-session.
Please respond by EMail. Thanks.
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From: matthias@amg.de(Matthias Schuerhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with Quantum LPS540
Date: 2 Mar 1995 08:05:28 GMT
Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH
Message-ID: <3j3u88$bof@hagen.amg.de>
Keywords: Quantum, bios error
Hi everybody,
I've a problem preparing a Quantum LPS540 harddisk for use with
NeXTstep/Intel. Up to now the drive has been used for OS/2 and I tried to
install NS 3.2 with Builddisk.
During initialisation (Builddisk or disk -i) I get the message 'Limited
sectors to those bios-accessible, from 1057616 to 48949' and the hint,
that there are only 24.8 MB ( = 48949 blocks) available on disk. fdisk
(NeXT) shows the same when I want to create a partition. It doesn't matter
how much and which partitions I create on the drive (fdisk/DOS uses the
whole size) - under NeXTstep (fdisk) I always get the same result - 24.8
MB!.
I tried to format the drive with different tools using an Adaptec 1542CF
or a NCR53C810:
sdform: Formats for three seconds and then finishs.
SCSI-Tool in Adaptec-BIOS: Formats for three seconds and then stops with
an error message (media error or something like that...)
scsifmt from NCR: Formats for three seconds and then finishs.
It seems as if the tools only format the 24.8 MB om the drive. format/DOS
formats the whole disk/partition.
I even tried to override the first two blocks on the drive to wipe out all
information stored there - no effect. The disk itself is recognized
correct (Quantum, 540 MB).
fdisk/NeXT sometimes showed the following: 'bogus information in BIOS -
check SCSI card...'.
What is going on here? Which BIOS is mentioned in the message - the
SCSI-BIOS from the Adaptec/NCR? A bios on the drive? Makes it sense to
format the drive with sdformat? And what would be the parameters for
sdformat and a block size of 1024 byte?
Btw - I want to reformat my Fujitsu M2694 (1 GB) with 1024Byte/sector. Do
I have to use all parameters mentioned in the disktab and with which
values?
Any help would be great!
With best regards
Matthias Schuerhoff
AMG Industrie Consulting GmbH
Email: matthias@amg.de
Phone 0231 / 7 58 92 - 0
Fax 0231 / 7 58 92 - 90
From: shipley@ecfi (Kirk A. Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 2 Mar 1995 18:41:28 GMT
Organization: NASA/Johnson Space Center
Message-ID: <3j53go$49s@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3ismem$ltf@booz.bah.com> <rpj.794105491@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <D4sM25.Msp@world.std.com>
Charles M Richmond (cmr@world.std.com) wrote:
: rpj@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Roger P Johnson) writes:
: >>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor,
: >> 32meg of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
: Ok , I confess! (-: It was a single unit price that anyone can get,
: but... I placed the order with DEC Direct and the order number was
: B2-PE32B-BA. This in theory was refurbished, but since they were just
: beginning to ship it was actually new. The "new" number is PE32B-BA
: and its price was $5000. Note that I corrected my typo of "16" . The
: machine comes with 32 meg.
: If you call 1-800-digital then they can give you all of the recent
: prices. The standard monitor is now the 17 inch (vs my 16 inch). Be
: sure to ask for the cheaper of the 2 prices list/standard. I also
: spent $405 for the external RRD43 cdrom.
: Charlie
: --
: * Charles Richmond Integrated International Systems Corporation
: * cmr@asoko.iisc.com cmr@world.std.com
: * Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.
Hm. This is confusing. In the 1995 DECDirect Full-Line catalog, this
system (with 16-inch monitor) lists for $7777, order #PE32B-BA/KGY.
Are you saying there is another version somewhere else in the catalog,
or do you not have the KGY catalog?
Kirk
----
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shipley@l13kk.jsc.nasa.gov
Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Company
My opinions are only my own.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: 3.3 panics
Message-ID: <jpanicoD4oG7t.EsG@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.950215231255.300A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:11:53 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom20.netcom.com
Mark Crispin (mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU) wrote:
: Well, so besides the fact that silly 3.3 needs to be rebooted once a week
: or so because the swapfile grows to eat up all three disk space, there's
3.2 does this also. :)
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PGP source?
Date: 2 Mar 1995 16:33:30 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3j4s0q$5bv@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Summary: Where is pgp source?
Keywords: pgp
Could someone point out to me where I can get the source code
for pgp-2.6? (Or newer, if it is available).
Please reply via e-mail. Thank you.
--
| Rex A. Dieter | Research Associate |
| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to modify LPR to work with HP4si
Date: 27 Feb 1995 21:57:17 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ithrt$5sj@news.iastate.edu>
Hi, here's a little quiz. My black NeXTstation, running NS 3.2, has been
moved to a new office where my default printer is a standalone HP4si.
Wonderful 600 dpi resolution and all, 12 ppm output, etc. etc. However,
on each and every print job I get a #$%$&$& banner page. Putting an :sh:
in the NetInfo entry did not fix this. Is there some way to get around it
by modifying lpr?
While we're on the subject, I get a lot of mail here that needs to be
printed out, but using the "p" option from elm causes it to be piped to
lpr as stdin, and if the mail was sent from a Mac it turns into one really
long line which runs off the page, so all I get for my trouble is one line
of text to the right margin, and then, ha ha, the @#%#$^%$^ banner page.
Saving the mail to a file, bringing it up in Edit, and then printing works
(again, but for the $^&%*%%#@ banner page) but seems like a lot of effort
for something so simple. Suggestions are invited.
Thanks in advance --- Tom
--
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Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Help! Can't creat new SwapDisk!
Message-ID: <schwettD4oItr.Hus@netcom.com>
Summary: /etc/swaptab tribulations
Keywords: swap intel
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:08:15 GMT
Sender: schwett@netcom12.netcom.com
Hi All.
I'm having trouble setting up a new swapdisk.
I'm running a Pentium/90 with a 2940 W.
The disk has one 312mb NeXTStep partition, labeled "Neuromancer"
I added the following line to /etc/swaptab:
/Neuromancer/Swap/swapfile lowat=33554432,prefer
However, on boot it fails to swap on that file. I tried creating
the file beforehand (touch), but that had no effect.
Running mach_swapon gives me:
stat: No such file or directory
mount: Device busy
mount: giving up on:
/Neuromancer/Swap/swapfile
Please Help!
Thanks...
Mark Schwettmann
mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
--
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"
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"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: foerster@dial.eunet.ch (Roland Foerster)
Subject: Re: reading multi-session CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <D4uC2C.1A2@eunet.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
References: <3j49su$9st@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 01:27:47 GMT
In article <3j49su$9st@nntp.Stanford.EDU> stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan
Jirman) writes:
> "J. Michael Ashley" <jashley@cs.indiana.edu> writes
> > I have a multi-session CD-ROM that I am trying to read. Each session
> > has data written in ISO 9660 format with Rockridge extensions. When I
> > put the CD into my drive, the CD mounts with the first session
> > visible. I cannot, however, figure out how to mount the second
> > session.
> >
>
> Under current NS, it is impossible to read the second session. This from
a
> semiofficial position. Voices told me however that this should be a part
> of 4.0 - whenever that may be...
>
> Cheers,
> - Stan
> --
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
> | Stan Jirman -- The Swiss Guy | |
> | SU Computer Science | When you find yourself |
> | Box 2642, Stanford, CA (415) 497 HEXO | in a hole, stop digging |
> | stanj@cs.stanford.edu NeXTmail / MIME | |
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
I am currently using a Sony CD-ROM drive and can access multisession CD's
(Photo CD's). This worked with NS 3.1, 3.2 and now with 3.3, but ... you
need an additional driver to access the sencond+ session. This driver is
part of a software package called PapaerOut which allows you to access
Electronic Books. The software is produced by a German comany called Tools
GmbH. Maybe you can purchase the driver separately. Here's the addess:
Tools GmbH
Adolfstra e 5
D-53111 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 985800
Fax: +49 228 697543
Email: info@Tools.DE
Part of the help text says:
The PaperOut package includes a CD-ROM XA-driver, which supports the
following drives: Sony CDU-8012 (SunCD), Sony CDU-541 (NeXT CDROM), Sony
CDU-561, Toshiba XM3301B/BC, and Toshiba XM3401B. This driver supports the
multisession and double-speed capabilities of the Toshiba XM3401B.
Yours
Roland Foerster
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Die Zeit ist so gross, wie man sie sieht, und an der
Groesse der Zeit waechst der Mensch" C.G. Jung
-----------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Roland E. Foerster, Management Consulting & Development
Bueelisackerstr. 28, CH-5622 Waltenschwil, Switzerland
voice: ++41-57-23 14 68, fax: ++41-57-22 83 65
e-mail: foerster@dial.eunet.ch (NeXT & MIME-Mail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4tyHr.Hx3@world.std.com>
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3ismem$ltf@booz.bah.com> <rpj.794105491@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <D4sM25.Msp@world.std.com> <3j53go$49s@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:34:38 GMT
shipley@ecfi (Kirk A. Shipley) writes:
>Charles M Richmond (cmr@world.std.com) wrote:
>: rpj@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Roger P Johnson) writes:
>: >>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor,
>: >> 32meg of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>: Ok , I confess! (-: It was a single unit price that anyone can get,
>: but... I placed the order with DEC Direct and the order number was
>: B2-PE32B-BA. This in theory was refurbished, but since they were just
>: beginning to ship it was actually new. The "new" number is PE32B-BA
>: and its price was $5000. Note that I corrected my typo of "16" . The
>: machine comes with 32 meg.
>: If you call 1-800-digital then they can give you all of the recent
>: prices. The standard monitor is now the 17 inch (vs my 16 inch). Be
>: sure to ask for the cheaper of the 2 prices list/standard. I also
>: spent $405 for the external RRD43 cdrom.
>: Charlie
>: --
>: * Charles Richmond Integrated International Systems Corporation
>: * cmr@asoko.iisc.com cmr@world.std.com
>: * Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.
>Hm. This is confusing. In the 1995 DECDirect Full-Line catalog, this
>system (with 16-inch monitor) lists for $7777, order #PE32B-BA/KGY.
>Are you saying there is another version somewhere else in the catalog,
>or do you not have the KGY catalog?
There are *2* prices for everthing, and the cheaper price comes with less
help and docs , eg if it is broken then you take it to the service center.
Charlie
--
*****************************************************************************
* Charles Richmond Integrated International Systems Corporation *
* cmr@asoko.iisc.com cmr@world.std.com *
* Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications. *
From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch) (Felix Rauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Format of NEXTIME-CD?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 23:13:40 GMT
Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <D4oLus.u0@harka>
Summary: Of what format is the NEXTIME-CD?
Keywords: NEXTIME, CD
Originator: HARKA@nice.ethz.ch
Does anybody know what kind of CD-format or filesystem the NEXTIME-CD
is?
I was visiting a friend today who has a PC running linux and we tried
to mount that CD to watch some of the movies, but we couldn't. Linux
didn't recognise the CD. Surprisingly we could mount the IMPULSE-CD with
the 'Openstep Catalogue' which I got with my copy of NS 3.3.
Any hints?
- Felix
--
Felix Rauch, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
From: rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Parallel Port Interface
Date: 2 Mar 1995 22:23:07 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j5ggb$es5@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
References: <3j530m$ern@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
In article <3j530m$ern@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US> rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us
(Roger E. Masse) writes:
> In order to add a local printer to my Gateway Pentium with the
> Printmanager app, I've added the On-board Parallel Port driver (v3.30)
> to my NS 3.3 kernel. After rebooting, the Printmanager allowed me to
> specify the Parallel interface option where it hadn't before, telling me
> the Printmanager now finds the proper support in the kernel. However,
> if I try to redirect output to /dev/pp0, I get 'No such device'.
> Needless to say the print queue does not work. Anyone experienced
> anything like this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
> 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
> Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
> Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
Thanks to Dick Silbar <SILBAR@lampf.lanl.gov>, I found that my
Parallel port interface was actually disabled as part of my BIOS
configuration... Anyway, this was apparent during a -v bootup
when the PP driver complains about no device at address 0x378
(for my pentium)... However, now I'm getting the following error
from lpd...
Local_Printer[252]: Cannot open output device '/dev/pp0': Device busy
...the device (an HP 4P has the READY light on, the Parallel
interface set and the cable tests out on another host/printer combo).
Also if I cat the group file to /dev/pp0 followed by a few ^L's,
a slightly messed up copy of the group file does print (no CR's)
Any thoughts on what's got lpd confused?
Roger E. Masse
From: ernie <ebaca@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hostname/Mail.app question
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 23:40:20 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <JU75Vw0.ebaca@delphi.com>
I just noticed in the documentation that Hostnames should be no longer
than 8 characters long! I named my machine when I installed PPP and used
a 10-character name. Could this be causing my Mail delivery problems? If
so, how can I change it? I tried SimpleNetworkStarter.app, which is what
I used the first time, but it would not let me do it.
Thanks again for your help.
--Ernie Baca
--ebaca@delphi.com (ASCII only)
--ebaca@icsi.net (being debugged, can receive but cannot deliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com> <D4sEuH.123@harka>
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 19:12:53 GMT
Message-ID: <D4tupH.991@ritz.mordor.com>
In article <D4sEuH.123@harka>,
Felix Rauch) (Felix Rauch <felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> wrote:
>Michael E.. Crawford (crawford@nesteggs.com) wrote:
>> I'm rather partial to
>
>> gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
>
>> from root. It's quick & painless, (well, until otherDisk begins copying
>> itself onto itself).
>[complicated description deleted]
>
>Why not use the --exclude option? This would be a bit easier ;-)
>So the command should look like:
>gnutar -cvf - --exclude /otherDisk / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar -xvf -)
>
>I haven't tested this exact command, but I think it should work
>quite well. The original poster has already copied his disk by this
>time anyway, I guess ;-)
>
>- Felix
>--
>Felix Rauch, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Actually, yes I have. I used NS3.3 and the dump/restore with a pipe
method. It took about one hour for the 450MB that I had to transfer, but
everything worked fine. I used boot to put a bootblock on the disk, and
off I go!
My planned next step is to attach my old, original Quantum 105 as an
external drive, and put /tmp and the swapfile on it. I started this last
night, but I accidentally typed rm -r * on the root (caught it in about
three seconds, but who knows what damage has occurred!) of the entire
filesystem, so I guess I'll be doing that dump/restore again... <sigh>
Again, thanks for all the help. I learned quite a bit from this, and I
suppose I'm going to learn more still when I do the swapfile thing.
One question: What do people think of "Essential System Administration"
from O'Reilly? It looks like a good reference book for this kind of work.
Does it cover BSD in enough depth to make it worthwhile for NeXTSTEP.
Matt
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From: mark_bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Parallel Port Interface
Date: 3 Mar 1995 03:22:35 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j621r$f9d@news.next.com>
References: <3j530m$ern@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
In article <3j530m$ern@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US> rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us
(Roger E. Masse) writes:
> In order to add a local printer to my Gateway Pentium with the
> Printmanager app, I've added the On-board Parallel Port driver (v3.30)
to
> my NS 3.3 kernel. After rebooting, the Printmanager allowed me to
specify
> the Parallel interface option where it hadn't before, telling me that
the
> Printmanager now finds the proper support in the kernel. However, if I
> try to redirect output to /dev/pp0, I get 'No such device'. Needless to
> say the print queue does not work. Anyone experienced anything like
this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
> 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
> Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
> Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
Yep, I've seen this before - on my Gateway at home, actually. Try using
the CMOS setup to change the printer address to LPT2. That will
_actually_ set it to LPT1, and the NEXTSTEP driver should see it then.
Don't ask me why setting the port to LPT1 makes it LPT2 and vice versa -
it's just one of the joys of the low-end PC clone world.
Hope this helps,
-Mark
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Software Quality Assurance
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From: atlas@alpha.bin-sixx.com (Atlas Computer Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WD_1_GIG_DRIVE
Date: 2 Mar 1995 17:09:39 -0500
Organization: Binary Sixx Systems, Inc.
Message-ID: <3j5fn3$d6d@alpha.bin-sixx.com>
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From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dump/restore
Date: 3 Mar 1995 09:00:57 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3j6ls9$13rj@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3j2e35$n5t@triton.ucsd.edu>
Carl Lowenstein (cdl@triton.ucsd.edu) wrote:
: I would like to remind everyone that the ability of dump/restore to
: deal with setuid/setgid permissions was somehow lost in the original
: release of NS3.2. Revised versions of these programs are available
: by anonymous ftp from ftp.next.com. The index information for them
: looked like:
: 1555 RestorePatch.pkg 129k 94-05-09
: 1554 RestorePatch.ReadMe 3k 94-05-09
: This should help all those people who are trying to move whole file
: systems from one disk to another.
However, Nextstep writes 3.3 these days.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
motd? // Vertrauen ist der Anfang von allem.
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Secondary swapfile won't compress
Date: 3 Mar 1995 09:02:30 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3j6lv6$13rj@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3j2m23$6lc@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Tomaz Slivnik (ts110@emu.pmms.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: Last August I installed an additional external hard disk to my NeXT
: (running NextStep 3.0). When I did that, I created a directory
: private/vm on the drive and added the following line to /etc/swaptab:
: /users/private/vm/swapfile prefer,lowat=16777216
: The new swapfile has worked fine, except that every time my NeXT boots up,
: the console shows (roughly) the following lines:
: mount: device busy
: mount: giving up on /users/private/vm/swapfile.front
: and, as expected, running ls -l /users/private/vm shows no compressed
: swapfile.front. Is there any way of avoiding this error?
It's a feature, not a bug. Only one swapfile can be compressed.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
motd? // Vertrauen ist der Anfang von allem.
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS and MultiSession CDs?
Date: 27 Feb 1995 23:01:00 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3itljc$au5@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Question:
If I connect a multi-session PhotoCD capable CD-Drive (e.g. Apple 300+) to
my NeXTStation running NS 3.3 will I be able to view multi-session PhotoCD
disks? I cannot test this because I don't have (yet) multi-session PhotoCD
discs, but I am thinking of adding more images to my CD and thus
converting it to multi-session.
Thanks.
--
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Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-2069
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: rpj@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Roger P Johnson)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <rpj.794105491@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3ismem$ltf@booz.bah.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 00:51:31 GMT
>: For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>: of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>Wow! Was that bought new? I haven't used DEC OSF/1, but maybe it is time I
>did.
Yes. I wondered about this too. Was this one machine or a bulk purchase of 100+
machines? If it was only one, do us all a favor and give us you VAR's name and
phone number please.
Roger
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: "J. Michael Ashley" <jashley@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: reading multi-session CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <1995Mar1.204641.12732@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 20:46:38 -0500
I have a multi-session CD-ROM that I am trying to read. Each session
has data written in ISO 9660 format with Rockridge extensions. When I
put the CD into my drive, the CD mounts with the first session
visible. I cannot, however, figure out how to mount the second
session.
The on-line docs and NeXT's printed CD-ROM documentation wasn't any
help. If there really is a way to get at the second session, could
someone please clue me in.
Thanks
Mike Ashley
P.S. I do realize that multi-session CD-ROMs are unusual. We created
this one using a write-once drive and intentionally created the second
session to see if we could get a NeXT to access sessions after the
first. We haven't had much luck under SunOS, either.
From: dcl@mercury.interpath.net (Tech Support--Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: swapper grows radically - why? (NS3.0, 030 cube)
Date: 2 Mar 1995 14:14:33 -0500
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
Message-ID: <3j55ep$s2s@mercury.interpath.net>
I've got an 030 Cube that stays online 24 hrs/day, via ethernet. It's
currently been up for 6 days, 20 hrs. About 4 days into it, the swapper
grew above the 16 megs, hit 18, stayed there for a while, then went to 19
megs. Then it was 22, then 25. Now, the swapper is 28 megs. Now, I have
16 megs RAM on my cube (as I said, it's running NS 3.0). I've kept the
same things running--OmniWeb, BackSpace, 5 telnet sessions--for days now.
The only things that have started and stopped are telnet sessions. A
friend telnets in every now and again, and all he does is "talk me" and
I do "talk him"...
What would cause the swapper to grow like this? It eats terribly at the 20
megs I have free on the drive (which is now down to less than 8 megs).
Is this a known bug in 3.0? I hate having to reboot the thing every week.
Daniel
--
Daniel C. L'Hommedieu / dcl@Interpath.net / http://www.interpath.net/~dcl/
Interpath Technical Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Stephane LUNATI <slunati@improve.fdn.org>
Subject: Re: SoftPC and TCP/IP ?
Message-ID: <1995Mar3.104014.4338@improve.fdn.org>
Sender: news@improve.fdn.org
Organization: improve SA - La Defense, Paris, France.
References: <D4ryqp.DK@fritz.snafu.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 10:40:14 GMT
In article <D4ryqp.DK@fritz.snafu.de> ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst
Kloecker) writes:
>
> Can anybody help me with SoftPC and TCP/IP :
>
[...PROBLEMS WITH TCP/IP under SOFT PC...]
> Thanks for any info, Ernst.
> --
> --------------------------------------------
> Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
> --------------------------------------------
Hi,
we've got the same problems. One solution <thanks Jake from Insignia for
the information>, is to get Lan Workplace for DOS.
Don't forget to replace the TCP/IP program that is installed by Lan
Workplace with ISTCPIP.
Hope that helps,
Stephane
---------------------------------------------------------------
Stephane LUNATI <Stephane_LUNATI@improve.fdn.org>
IMPROVE - PARIS LA DEFENSE - FRANCE
From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP POP3 client?
Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:59:30 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3j7hti$mns@mars.earthlink.net>
References: <3j77js$e6a@piglet.ny.shl.com>
nwc@tamu (Nicholas Christopher) wrote:
>Is there a mail app that supports POP3 as a client? I want to try
>connecting to the Internet via PSI's Interramp using ppp2.2 but PSI
>provides mail via POP3...
PopOver.App v1.2
available at:
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de /pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail
From: jreniker@galileo.csun.edu (Josh Reniker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 2 Mar 1995 19:06:27 GMT
Organization: Cal State Northridge, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j54vj$72k@dewey.csun.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3igl9j$5bp@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3igtab$k08@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3io3bm$evb@ccserver.cc.ic.ac.uk>
Question: How do you crash a Sun?
Answer: Turn it on.....
Just for fun....
Josh
From: stefan@fostam.franken.de (Stefan Stammler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FaxModem port problem
Date: 3 Mar 1995 11:20:14 +0100
Organization: private
Message-ID: <3j6qgu$ac@fostam.franken.de>
I run mgetty on my machine, so I have to access my serial ports via ttyfa
and ttyfb. Now I'd like to use the the NeXT FaxModem capability for
comfortable faxing, but I have a problem: the faxmodem-daemon always
uses /dev/cufb (it creates a LCK-file for cufb) although I specified
"/dev/ttyfb" as device in NetInfo. Does anybody know what to do ?
Ciao, Stefan.
--
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# IRC: Stammi # WWW: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/snstamml #
# PGP-Key: pgpkey@fostam.franken.de (subj.'stefan') # NeXTMail/MIME welcome #
From: nwc@tamu (Nicholas Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP POP3 client?
Date: 3 Mar 1995 14:03:40 GMT
Organization: SHL Systemhouse Corp, New York, NY
Message-ID: <3j77js$e6a@piglet.ny.shl.com>
Is there a mail app that supports POP3 as a client? I want to try
connecting to the Internet via PSI's Interramp using ppp2.2 but PSI
provides mail via POP3...
\n
From: atlas@alpha.bin-sixx.com (Atlas Computer Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3j5fn3$d6d@alpha.bin-sixx.com>
Message-ID: <cancel.3j5fn3$d6d@alpha.bin-sixx.com>
Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:06:15 GMT
Control: cancel <3j5fn3$d6d@alpha.bin-sixx.com>
spam
From: ugap300@alpha.qmw.ac.uk (C.Kobdaj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 and AIC-7770
Date: 2 Mar 1995 12:44:04 -0000
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
Message-ID: <3j4eik$pvc@alpha.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi,
We have tried to install NeXTStep 3.3 on a Pentium machine with
Intel logic EISA board (comes with a built-in Adaptec AIC-7770 ) but
NeXTStep 3.3 cannot get the slot number right. The Adaptec is on Slot 9.
We don't have any clues of how to make NeXTStep 3.3 work on this
machine. Any hints would be appreciated.
Regards,
C.Kobdaj
Physics Dept. ,
Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London,
E-mail: C.Kobdaj@qmw.ac.uk
From: bchin@nikita (Bill Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Parallel Port Interface
Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:00:33 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3j7ef1$bf6@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <3j530m$ern@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US> <3j5ggb$es5@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Also if I cat the group file to /dev/pp0 followed by a few ^L's,
> a slightly messed up copy of the group file does print (no CR's)
You should not directly dump to /dev/pp0... that doesn't work right.
There's no flow control and it won't resend dropped portions. I
contacted NeXT technical support and they walked me through altering a
PrintManager installed printcap so that I could dump non-postscript to
it (I was using a NS/FIP box as a print server for a HP LaserJet III
for PC's running PC-NFS under DOS/Windows). The NeXT tech support
person asked me not to distribute the solution and instead refer
people to them since the workaround used undocumented features and may
or may not have changed for NS 3.3.
Of course, if you are not trying to print text/PCL and want to use it
for general NEXTSTEP printing, you should get a postscript cartridge
or buy software like Dots (and the NeXT Printing License which is $75)
or EXTRAPRINT, both of which will rasterize postscript into HP-PCL and
handle the printer for you.
..Bill
From: Jeff Sickel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo in 3.3 crashes unpredictable
Date: 3 Mar 1995 00:39:25 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <3j5oft$v63@matlock.mindspring.com>
References: <3j46eb$7jq@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Summary: NetInfo crashing on 3.3
Keywords: netinfo
Max Hadersbeck <max@cis.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>Hi
>Here we have some NeXT's and a cube as server.
>We have big problems with netinfo and 3.3 on the server.
>From time to time (sometimes every day) netinfo crashes. Only reboot
>helps.
>Is there a known bug in netinfo ?
>Let me know.
>MAX
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Dr. Maximilian Hadersbeck
>Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet
>Wagmuellerstr. 23
>80538 Muenchen
>(089) 2110672, FAX (089) 2110674
>max@cis.uni-muenchen.de
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Does Netinfo 'crash' or is it just hung and never really comes back?
If for some reason one of your machines is looking for a parent that
doesn't exist, I've seen netinfo be kicked of and then just sits,
which basically means having to do a reboot to clean it.
Do a search on http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/ for netinfo. I know
they do have some documentation on Netinfo domains and ways to clean
them up (if they are hanging).
Jeff Sickel
Sehjas, Inc.
jsickel@sickel.com
From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTTIME under 3.1?
Date: 28 Feb 1995 20:13:26 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j0056$2u2@news.iastate.edu>
Does NeXTIME run under NS 3.1 or is it a 3.3 only thing?
--
*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
* --------------------------------------------------------- *
* He who throws mud loses ground. *
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From: ad934@lafn.org (Chris Horton)
Subject: Urgent UUCP problem...
Message-ID: <1995Mar3.083848.1260@lafn.org>
Sender: news@lafn.org
Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 08:38:48 GMT
Hi, I'm trying to get uucp to work on a black machine running NS3.2. I've
followed the sys admin manual and have L-devices, /etc/remote, and L.sys
all configured. I can get to the uucp site with tip and the site's phone
number , but if I try to uupoll, I get a message in /usr/spool/uucp/Log
from uucico that says that the remote site is unknown. If i type uuname,
the name of the remote system is returned. If I try giving uupoll any
other remote host name (ie not the one in L.sys) it returns a completely
different error in my terminal. This leads me to beleive that its at least
finding the information in L.sys.
All the files in /etc/uucp are owned by uucp, group of daemon. Running
uucico -r1 -x9 -sremotehost only causes another error message in uucp/Log.
If I compose/send a message from the Mail.app, it does get queued in the
proper directory.
Since it is important that I get the machine up ASAP, I'm willing to send
$50 to the first person who has the right answer. I'll be out of the
office in the morning and since email there is down, you'll have to fax me
at (818) 762-6455. After Friday, you can email me at ad934@lafn.org.
Thanks in advance!
-Chris Horton
--
Chris Horton
ad934@lafn.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Help - Lost User Login
Message-ID: <1995Mar3.163618.1096@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3j0f9h$f46@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 16:36:18 GMT
In article <3j0f9h$f46@agate.berkeley.edu> dmogge@herald.Berkeley.EDU (Dru
Mogge) writes:
> Our NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a Dell Intel machine has decided to not let us log
> in with the normal username. It lets us log in a root and seems normal.
> If, as root, we open a terminal window, we cannot su to the normal
> account either. At the graphical login window, we don't get the "shake"
> indicating a bad password - the window goes blank and then the login
> window returns.
>
I know this behaviour from a case of bad copy management when I lost the
s-bit on WorkspaceManager.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Simple Network Question (Repost)
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Mar3013035@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 06:30:35 GMT
Hi,
Here is a question I asked some time ago but I got no answer.
Thank you.
--------------------------------------------------------------
I have root access on a machine (machine A in the folowing) that is on
internet. I do not have access to the network server of this machine. I
would like to create a slip account on the machine A for my machine at home
(machine B) (using TransysPNI for example). My question is:
Is there a way to tell the network a new IP address for which all the packets
would go to machine A and so that machine A would redirect those packets
to machine B?
I suppose this question is equivalent to the following:
Is it possible to start a sub-network having only access to one machine
on the internet (and this machine not being the one resposible for it's
network)?
I know how to install TransysPNI but I don't know very much about Nets.
The administrator of the whole network won't help me so I am left alone
and I am trying to figure out how to make such a SLIP account with only
root access to one machine.
I would appreciate any help. Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: alex@bach.cis.temple.edu (alex)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 28 Feb 1995 07:02:32 GMT
Organization: CIS Laboratories, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3iuhq8$sim@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i2hrv$akl@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <17FEB199509354440@seqvax.caltech.edu> <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com> <id.1SLH1.KAA@nmti.com>
Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: In article <3i864q$89a@starbase.neosoft.com>,
: Will Morse <will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
: > they can be _just_as_good_enough_ and even cheaper. DEC is, at least
: > at present, NOT good enough and certainly not cheap enough. This
: > gives clone makers no where to go.
: In what way is DEC "not good enough"? Their machines are blazing fast, their
: UNIX is solid, and the only downside is they're pretty pricey.
Man, I'm gonna bite you. Whatever you call OSF/1, it is not solid. I'm really
sick of a bunch of zombies it creates just when it feels like it. (we have 3
major servers running on DEC Alpha and OSF/1 2.x and 3.0). I'm not even mentioning
features of OSF (or maybe just DEC's portion of OS) that deal with
licenses, system administration.
Best wishes,
Alex
=============================================================================
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ayuriev@yoda.cis.temple.edu
USA Tel: 1-800-DEV-NULL
=============================================================================
From: Jeff Sickel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Microphone and soundblaster 16
Date: 3 Mar 1995 00:42:34 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <3j5olq$v63@matlock.mindspring.com>
References: <3j4n5q$eqj@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse) wrote:
>I've installed a Creative Labs sound blaster 16 on my NS 3.3 Pentium
>and it seems to work fine for playing sound files. Recently,
>I've added a microphone to the sound card (A Labtec AM-22).
>When trying to do Lip Service the Mike input seems to be ignored.
>I've tried another mike (From a Sparcstation) with the same result.
>Is there any configuring that's needed in software assuming my sound
>card appears to work ok?
I finally go mine working by plugging my headphones in to the mic port
and speaking really loudly into them. After that, I found a
microphone (from the Apple Macintosh) that has the same 'stereo' jack
as my headphones. Everything works well now.
Jeff Sickel
Sehjas, Inc.
jsickel@sickel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mark@alcar.com (Mark Storrie)
Subject: how can I play .au files automatically
Message-ID: <D4rqI7.5z@demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 15:46:54 GMT
Can anyone tell me how to make sndplay play files with a .au extension
automatically rather than having to rename them so the extension is .snd?
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swapfile size
Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:15:42 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Keywords: swapfile
I would like to know if I can change the size of the file
"swapfile.front".
It is currently 272meg which seems very large to me. It appears this is
fixed at boot up. Any advice here on the new recomended size, and how to
impliment this change?
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
From: bernhard@pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Bernhard Mayr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NFS_in3.3_SLOW
Date: 3 Mar 1995 16:21:50 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3j7fmu$av@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Since I upgraded our little network (2 black, 5 white) there is a severe
problem: the NFS seems not to work properly.
For various reasons we have all home directories on the black machines and
export them via NFS. Since the upgrade 3.2 -> 3.3 the messages - files of
the clients are full with messages like:
"Feb 24 16:56:49 charon mach: NFS create failed for server
pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at: RPC: Timed out"
i.e. the NFS does not work properly. It did well with 3.2 however.
I'd be grateful for any hint which brings us to a solution of this timing
problem.
--Bernhard Mayr
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Institut f. Nachrichtentechnik u. Hochfrequenztechnik, TU-WIEN
mail: bmayr@email.tuwien.ac.at; tel: 58801/3513
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From: tmeyer@mcs.com (Tom Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: formatting/booting external disk for DOS
Date: 26 Feb 1995 22:10:11 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <3iqu84$ron@News1.mcs.com>
After having recently bought a new internal drive, I put my old one in an
enclosure and would now like to format it for DOS (plus a backup NeXTSTEP
partition). I reformatted it totally and tried using fdisk (as well as
BuildDisk.app), but I couldn't get it to work. The disk is mounted as
sd1a, but when I try to use fdisk to create a DOS partition, I get :
sparkalepsy:1# fdisk /dev/rsd1h
NeXT fdisk v1.02
fdisk: bogus bios info
some bios' can't handle non-sequential targets
Can someone help me out ?? Also, I've totally blanked out on how to
install DOS on the allocated partition. Lastly, if someone could give me
the command to boot to DOS from this disk once I get it formatted
correctly, I'd appreciate it ( the help in the Boot program is pretty
unclear ).
Not too tough, but I don't wanna screw my system up big time (again :-)
thanks,
-tom
tmeyer@mcs.com
tmeyer@il.us.swissbank.com
From: gregf@fpl91.Berkeley.EDU (Greg C. Foliente)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: securing harddisk + taking NS out of network
Date: 3 Mar 1995 18:44:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3j7o1i$9fg@agate.berkeley.edu>
These may be general (stupid, very trivial) questions, _but_ I don't know
how:
Q1: I'm transporting my EPSON NX by air to Melbourne. What should I do to
secure my harddisk?
I remember reading about this in my EPSON NX hardware manual but I've
already shipped all my other stuff (everything) last month.
Q2: I've had my NX (running NS3.2) on the Berkeley network, with all the
IP and other addresses needed to be in the network defined, but when I get
to Melbourne, I'll keep it at home so I guess I need to redefine them. If
so, to what? And are there other things I need to be aware of?
If you know the answer to any or both Qs, please send me a step-by-step
how-to. I would _really_ appreciate any help,
Greg
P.S. I'm sending my machine o6 Mar, Mon. I need help soon!
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FPL, UC-Berkeley (NeXTMail) gregf@fpl91.berkeley.edu
1301 South 46th St, Richmond, CA 94804 phone: (510) 215-4282
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From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NewsGrazer crash
Date: 3 Mar 1995 19:06:37 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j7pbt$3ig@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Keywords: news
I have recently experienced a problem with NewsGrazer. Everything fine
until I try to open any group titled marketplace, then the app just shuts
down. It will do it under any group that has a "marketplace" and the
problem is new as I have posted to marketplaces in the past. Any ideas?
Thanks Jim
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
From: tg@isye.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 on Sparc questions
Date: 3 Mar 1995 21:02:18 GMT
Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j804q$sc8@mordred.gatech.edu>
Keywords: Sparc, OpenStep, SunVideo, MBONE, multicasting
I run Solaris 2.4 on a Sparc 5 with a SunVideo card. I have a 24 bit
frame buffer, 32 Meg, etc.
I am trying to decide if I want to order NeXT OS 3.3 now or wait for
OpenStep. I have been a NeXT user since it first came out, and still
keep a NeXT cube at home. If I can run NeXT OS on the Sparc, and if I
can use the SunVideo card, I would switch to NeXT OS as soon as it
becomes available.
It is necessary for me to have PPP, some WWW client (i.e., OmniWeb?),
and LaTeX (preferably LaTeX2e), as well as be able to do multicasting
since I plan to get ISDN by the end of summer. (I will have an ethernet
bridge when I get ISDN.)
Is there a driver for the SunVideo card, built into NS 3.3? Any ideas
how involved the PPP set up would be (I have been using TranSys SLIP
on the cube for over two years, and now PPP on the Sparc)?
It will be nice if there is a driver for the Wacom tablet too, which
has been gathering dust because of the serial port interference on
the cube (when using SLIP).
Any ideas, suggestions, and especially comments from any pre-release
users are welcome.
govind
T. Govindaraj +1 404 894 3873, 894 2301 (fax) NeXTmail welcome.
ISyE-0205, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA.
Member, League for Programming Freedom (Info from: lpf@uunet.uu.net)
http://isye.gatech.edu/~tg/index.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dog Kennels & Dog Houses f/s
From: TRISH@CARTOON.CARTOON
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <1.10577.2593.0N27F343@CARTOON.CARTOON>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 07:01:00 -0640
Organization: DSC/Voicenet * Ivyland, PA * (215) 443-9434
Newsgroups: nj.forsale
Path: nova.voicenet.com!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1
news.pop.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net
uunet!world!news.bu.edu!gw1.att.com!nntpa!not-for-mail
From: trish@cartoon.cartoon (Rears Patricia A)
Subject: Dog Kennels & Dog Houses f/s
Message-ID: <D4vA20.BFI@nntpa.cb.att.com>
Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration)
Nntp-Posting-Host: cartoon.lc.att.com
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 13:41:59 GMT
Lines: 25
I'm posting this for a friend, so please call Chris Bliss with any
questions on (908) 580-8116 (days) or (908) 369-8690 (eves).
She just moved into a home that property contained a licensed dog
kennel, but now she has no use for.
She has the following for sale:
Quantity Footage
3 40 x 150 dog runs (equivalent to over 700 feet of
nylon coated chain link.
2 luxury dog houses (they're not like a standard dog
house, you have to see them, they look like little
castles).
The previous owner paid over $10,000 for these. Please call with
questions. No reasonable bid will be turned away.
Posted for
Chris Bliss
(908) 580-8116 -d
(908) 369-8690 -e
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Subject: Re: sample fax modem driver (mythical?) NOT!!!!
Message-ID: <D4wrDC.LL6@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca>
Organization: UNIX drivers'R'Us
References: <D4H994.719@news.cis.umn.edu> <MAGNAN.95Feb24120411@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> <MAGNAN.95Feb25205715@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 08:53:35 GMT
There has been some recent postings and mailings requesting additional
information on the mgetty+sendfax V0.22 server I have compiled on my machine.
I do hope this resolves most of the questions and allows many of you to
integrate the package into their machine. This is *no* NXFax package, but for
those cheap bastards amoungst us, it is close enough for jazz.
I recently compiled mgetty+sendfax, and along with the pbm and ghostscript
support I have had for some time, and find that it works great with my
USR Courier Class 2.0 Triple standard modem for sending and receiving FAXes.
The received FAXes are sent to the postmaster (which is me on my machine),
but can be changed in the new_fax file. I have not tried to integrate this
package into the FaxReader yet, but Christian Starkjohann <cs@ecs.co.at> has
started some work on this, I believe (I have not even unpacked some of his
work yet to integrate it into mine).
The only hack I did was to have NetInfoManager.app redirect the `if' hander
to the FAX.psif script and this allowed me to be integrated into the
Print Panel. I also hacked up smail (which replaced sendmail more than a
year ago on my machine) to perform an email to FAX gateway.
I would be interested in any comments about ensuring a level of security to
the programs. For instance, any additional checks on the phone numbers?
Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn
---- Cut Here and feed the following to sh ----
#!/bin/sh
# This is a shell archive, produced by shar 3.49.
# To extract the files from this archive, save it to a file, remove
# everything above the "!/bin/sh" line above, and type "sh file_name".
#
# made 03/04/1995 08:48 UTC by mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
# Source directory /User/tmp/k
#
# existing files will NOT be overwritten unless -c is specified
#
# This shar contains:
# length mode name
# ------ ---------- ------------------------------------------
# 749 -rw-r----- FAX.psif
# 428 -rw-r----- Manifest
# 962 -rw-r----- README
# 39 -rw-r----- aliases
# 599 -rw-r----- directors
# 2553 -rwxr-x--- faxq
# 1943 -rwxr-x--- faxrm
# 6835 -rwxr-x--- faxrunq
# 18800 -rwxr-x--- faxspool
# 10973 -rw-r----- mgetty.patch
# 3955 -rwxr-x--- new_fax
# 2954 -rwxr-x--- obscure.MIME.sh
# 681 -rwxr-x--- obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh
# 378 -rwxr-x--- obscure.PS.sh
# 586 -rwxr-x--- obscure.UUENCODE.sh
# 7907 -rw-r----- obscure.sh
# 149 -rw-r----- routers
# 930 -rw-r----- transports
#
# ============= FAX.psif ==============
if test -f 'FAX.psif' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping FAX.psif (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'FAX.psif' &&
#! /bin/sh
trap `rm -f /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps ; exit` 1 2 3 15
cat - >/tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
# cp /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps /tmp/FAX.psif.input
# echo $* >/tmp/FAX.psif.arguments
ARGUMENTS="`fgrep '%%NXFax
%%For:' /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps`"
FaxNumber="`echo \"$ARGUMENTS\" | sed -n 's/^%%NXFaxNumber:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p'`"
FaxTo="`echo \"$ARGUMENTS\" | sed -n 's/^%%NXFaxTo:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p'`"
FaxFrom="`echo \"$ARGUMENTS\" | sed -n 's/^%%For:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' | head -1`"
FaxName="`nidump passwd / | sed -n \"s/^$FaxFrom:[^:]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:\([^:]*\):.*/\1/p\"`"
LOGNAME=root
export LOGNAME
chmod 644 /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
/usr/local/bin/faxspool -q -f "$FaxFrom" -F "$FaxName" -D "$FaxTo" $FaxNumber /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
status=$?
rm -f /tmp/FAX.psif.$$.ps
exit $status
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 FAX.psif ||
echo 'restore of FAX.psif failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'FAX.psif'`"
test 749 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'FAX.psif: original size 749, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= Manifest ==============
if test -f 'Manifest' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping Manifest (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'Manifest' &&
/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/FAX.psif
/usr/lib/mail/aliases
/usr/lib/smail/directors
/usr/lib/smail/obscure.MIME.sh
/usr/lib/smail/obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh
/usr/lib/smail/obscure.PS.sh
/usr/lib/smail/obscure.UUENCODE.sh
/usr/lib/smail/obscure.sh
/usr/lib/smail/routers
/usr/lib/smail/transports
/usr/local/bin/faxq
/usr/local/bin/faxrm
/usr/local/bin/faxrunq
/usr/local/bin/faxspool
/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/new_fax
mgetty.patch
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 Manifest ||
echo 'restore of Manifest failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'Manifest'`"
test 428 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'Manifest: original size 428, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= README ==============
if test -f 'README' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping README (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'README' &&
I recently compiled mgetty+sendfax, and along with the pbm and ghostscript
support I have had for some time, and find that it works great with my
USR Courier Class 2.0 Triple standard modem for sending and receiving FAXes.
X
The received FAXes are sent to the postmaster (which is me on my machine),
but can be changed in the new_fax file. I have not tried to integrate this
package into the FaxReader yet, but Christian Starkjohann <cs@ecs.co.at> has
started some work on this, I believe.
X
The only hack I did was to have NetInfoManager.app redirect the `if' hander
to the FAX.psif script and this allowed me to be integrated into the
Print Panel. I also hacked up smail (which replaced sendmail more than a
year ago on my machine) to perform an email to FAX gateway.
X
I would be interested in any comments about ensuring a level of security to
the programs. For instance, any additional checks on the phone numbers?
X
Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 README ||
echo 'restore of README failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'README'`"
test 962 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'README: original size 962, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= aliases ==============
if test -f 'aliases' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping aliases (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'aliases' &&
X . . . . .
fax: obscure!fax
X . . . . .
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 aliases ||
echo 'restore of aliases failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'aliases'`"
test 39 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'aliases: original size 39, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= directors ==============
if test -f 'directors' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping directors (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'directors' &&
# @(#)samples/generic/directors 1.6 9/6/92 04:41:29
X . . . . .
# smart_user - a partially specified smartuser director
#
# If the config file attribute smart_user is defined as a string such as
# "$user@domain-gateway" then users not matched otherwise will be sent
# off to the host "domain-gateway".
#
# If the smart_user attribute is not defined, this director is ignored.
smart_user:
X driver=smartuser; # special-case driver
X
X new_user="obscure!${lc:user}",
X # do not match addresses which cannot be made into valid
X # RFC822 local addresses without the use of double quotes.
X well_formed_only,
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 directors ||
echo 'restore of directors failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'directors'`"
test 599 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'directors: original size 599, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= faxq ==============
if test -f 'faxq' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping faxq (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'faxq' &&
#! /bin/sh
#
# faxq program
#
# like "lpq" or "mailq", show jobs waiting in the output queue
#
# SCCS: @(#)faxq.in 1.10 94/10/02 Copyright (C) 1994 Gert Doering
#
FAX_SPOOL=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes
FAX_SPOOL_OUT=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes/outgoing
X
#
# echo program that will accept escapes (bash: "echo -e", sun: /usr/5bin/echo)
#
echo="echo"
X
#
# an awk that is not stone-old-brain-dead (that is, not oawk...)
#
AWK=awk
X
if cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT
then :
else
X $echo "cannot chdir to $FAX_SPOOL_OUT..." >&2
X exit 1
fi
X
jobs="*/JOB */JOB.locked"
X
for flag
do
X case $flag in
X -v) verbose="true" ;;
X -o|-a) jobs="*/JOB*" ;;
X *) for i in *$flag* ; do
X for j in $i/*.g3 ; do
X name="/tmp/`basename $j .g3`.pbm"
X g3topbm <$j >$name
X chmod 666 $name
X done
X for j in /tmp/*.pbm ; do
X size=`wc -c $j | sed 's/^ *\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
X if [ $size -eq 7 ] ; then
X rm $j
X fi
X done
X wait
X if [ ! -z "$verbose" ] ; then
X echo opening /tmp/*.pbm
X fi
X open /tmp/*.pbm
X ( sleep 15 ; rm /tmp/*.pbm )&
X done ;;
X esac
done
X
jobs=`ls $jobs 2>/dev/null`
[ -z "$jobs" ] && $echo "no jobs."
for i in $jobs
do
X USER=""; PHONE=""; PAGES=""; MAILTO=""; VERBTO=""; INPUT=""
X
X if [ -z "$verbose" ]
X then
X eval `$AWK '$1=="user" { printf "USER=%s;", $2 }
X $1=="phone" { printf "PHONE=%s;", $2 }
X $1=="pages" { printf "PAGES=%d;", NF-1 }' $i`
X $echo "$i: queued by $USER. $PAGES page(s) to $PHONE"
X else
X eval `$AWK '$1=="user" { printf "USER=%s;", $2 }
X $1=="mail" { printf "MAILTO=\"%s\";", substr( $0, 6 ) }
X $1=="phone" { printf "PHONE=%s;", $2 }
X $1=="verbose_to" \
X { printf "VERBTO=\"%s\";", substr( $0, 12 ) }
X $1=="input" { printf "INPUT=\"%s\";", substr( $0, 7 ) }
X $1=="time" { printf "TIME=\"%s:%s\";",
X substr( $0, 6, 2 ), substr( $0, 8,2 ) }
X $1=="pages" { if ( NF==2 ) printf "PAGES=\"%s\";", $2
X else if ( NF==3 )
X printf "PAGES=\"%s %s\";", $2, $3
X else
X printf "PAGES=\"%s ... %s\";", $2, $NF
X }' $i`
X $echo "$i:"
X $echo "\tQueued by: $USER"
X if [ -z "$VERBTO" ]
X then
X $echo "\t to: $PHONE"
X else
X $echo "\t to: $VERBTO ($PHONE)"
X fi
X test ! -z "$MAILTO" && \
X $echo "\t E-Mail: $MAILTO"
X test ! -z "$INPUT" && \
X $echo "\t Input: $INPUT"
X $echo "\t Pages: $PAGES"
X $echo "\tSend time: $TIME"
X sed -e '/Status/!d' -e 's/Status/ Status:/' $i
X expr $i : ".*done$" >/dev/null ||
X $echo "\t Status: not sent yet"
X fi
done
X
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 faxq ||
echo 'restore of faxq failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'faxq'`"
test 2553 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'faxq: original size 2553, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= faxrm ==============
if test -f 'faxrm' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping faxrm (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'faxrm' &&
#!/bin/sh
#
# faxrm <job ids>
#
# remove faxes with job_id passed on the command line (if writable)
#
# There are still a lot rough edges - but it works, and should give you an
# idea how to improve it
#
# SCCS: @(#)faxrm.in 1.5 94/08/24 Copyright (C) 1994 Gert Doering
X
FAX_SPOOL=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes
FAX_SPOOL_OUT=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes/outgoing
#
# echo program that will accept escapes (bash: "echo -e", sun: /usr/5bin/echo)
#
echo="echo"
X
if [ ! -d $FAX_SPOOL_OUT ]
then
X echo "$FAX_SPOOL_OUT does not exist" >&2
X exit 1
fi
X
cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT
X
interactive=""
if [ "X$1" = "X-i" ]
then
X interactive="i"
X shift
fi
X
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
X echo "usage: faxrm [-i] file ..."
X exit 1
fi
X
for jobid
do
X if [ ! -d "$jobid" ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: no such job found." >&2
X continue
X fi
#
# check directory permissions
#
X if [ ! -w $jobid ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: permission denied, job not removed." >&2
X continue
X fi
#
# old job?
#
X if [ -f $jobid/JOB.done ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: job already sent." >&2
X continue
X fi
X
#
# check for suspended jobs
#
X if [ -f $jobid/JOB.suspended ]
X then
X if [ ! -w $jobid/JOB.suspended ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: permission denied, job not removed." >&2
X continue
X fi
X rm -f $jobid/*
X rmdir $jobid
X continue
X fi
#
# not an old / suspended job
#
X
#
# lock it
#
X if mv $jobid/JOB $jobid/JOB.locked 2>/dev/null
X then
X trap "mv -f $jobid/JOB.locked $jobid/JOB" 0
#
# it's locked, now remove it
#
X if [ ! -w $jobid/JOB.locked ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: permission denied, job not removed." >&2
X continue
X fi
X rm -f $jobid/*
X rmdir $jobid
X else
#
# locking didn't work
#
X if [ -f $jobid/JOB.locked ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: job is locked, try again later." >&2
X continue
X fi
X if [ ! -f $jobid/JOB ]
X then
X echo "$jobid: no JOB file, job already clean." >&2
X rmdir $jobid
X fi
X fi
#
# end for (all jobs)
done
X
trap "" 0
X
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 faxrm ||
echo 'restore of faxrm failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'faxrm'`"
test 1943 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'faxrm: original size 1943, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= faxrunq ==============
if test -f 'faxrunq' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping faxrunq (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'faxrunq' &&
#! /bin/sh
#
# faxrunq
#
# look for outgoing fax jobs, send them via sendfax, if succesful, remove
# them from the outgoing queue (and send a mail to the originator of the
# job)
#
# There are still a lot rough edges - but it works, and should give you an
# idea how to improve it
#
# SCCS: @(#)faxrunq.in 1.15 94/10/21 Copyright (C) 1994 Gert Doering
#sleep 30
X
BASH=/usr/local/bin/bash
BASH_VERSION=1.12.1
CFLAGS="-O -Wall"
EUID=0
EXINIT="set ai aw"
HISTFILE=/User/mark/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HOME=/usr/spool/uucppublic
HOSTTYPE=NeXT
IFS="
"
MAILCHECK=60
MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/root
OLDPWD=/tmp
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1
PAGER=less
PATH=/User/mark/bin:/usr/local/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sybase/bin:/LocalApps:/NextApps:/NextAdmin:/NextDeveloper/Demos:/usr/games:.
PPID=1367
PS1=root:
PS2="> "
PWD=/tmp
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
TERM=vt100
TERMCAP="d0|vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100: :do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED: :le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A: :ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m: :md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:is=\E[1;24r: :rf=/usr/lib/tabset/vt100: :rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>: :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H: :ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=2*\EM:vt#3:xn: :sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:"
TERM_PROGRAM=NeXT_Terminal
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=66
UID=0
USER=root
_=JOB
X
FAX_SPOOL=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes
FAX_TTY=cudfc
FAX_SPOOL_OUT=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes/outgoing
FAX_SENDER="/usr/local/bin/sendfax -x 0 -l $FAX_TTY"
FAX_CLOSE="stty 0"
FAX_ACCT=$FAX_SPOOL/acct.log
X
MAILER="/usr/lib/sendmail"
X
#
# echo program that will accept escapes (bash: "echo -e", sun: /usr/5bin/echo)
#
echo="echo"
X
#
# awk program that is not stone-old-brain-dead (that is, not oawk...)
#
AWK=awk
X
#
# command line arguments
#
usage="usage: $0 [-q]"
X
while :
do
X case "$1" in
# quiet operation
X -q) exec >/dev/null ; shift ;;
X -*) $echo "$0: unknown option: $1" >&2
X $echo "$usage" >&2
X exit 1
X ;;
X *) break
X esac
done
X
if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
X $echo "$usage" >&2
X exit 1
fi
X
#
# go to fax spool directory, process all JOB files
#
X
cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT || exit 1
X
jobs=`ls */JOB 2>/dev/null`
for job in $jobs
do
X cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT/`dirname $job`
X $echo "processing $job..."
#
# lock JOB file (by 'mv'ing it to JOB.locked)
#
X # make sure it will get moved back in case the shell aborts
X trap "mv -f JOB.locked JOB 2>/dev/null" 0
X trap "mv -f JOB.locked JOB 2>/dev/null ; exit 20" 1 2 3 15
X
X mv -f JOB JOB.locked 2>/dev/null
X if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
X $echo "already locked"
X trap 0 1 2 3 15
X continue
X fi
#
# get user to notify (->$MAIL_TO), phone number (->$PHONE) and
# earliest send time (->$TIME)
#
X eval `$AWK 'BEGIN { user=""; mail=""; verbto=""; time=""; }
X $1=="user" { user=$2 }
X $1=="mail" { mail=substr( $0, 6) }
X $1=="phone" { printf "PHONE=%s;", $2 }
X $1=="time" { time=$2 }
X $1=="verbose_to" { verbto=substr($0,12) }
X END { if ( mail != "" ) printf "MAIL_TO=\"%s\";", mail
X else printf "MAIL_TO=\"%s\";", user
X printf "TIME=\"%s\";", time
X printf "VERBOSE_TO=\"%s\"", verbto }' JOB.locked`
X
#
# check whether send time is reached
#
X if [ ! -z "$TIME" ] ; then
X if [ `date +10/21/94M` -lt $TIME ] ; then
X echo "...send time not reached, postponing job"
X mv JOB.locked JOB
X continue
X fi
X fi
X
#
# construct command line to execute
#
X command=`$AWK 'BEGIN { phone="-"; flags=""; pages="" }
X $1=="phone" { phone=$2 }
X $1=="header" { flags=flags" -h "$2 }
X $1=="poll" { flags=flags" -p" }
X $1=="normal_res" { flags=flags" -n" }
X $1=="pages" { for( i=2; i<=NF; i++) pages=pages$i" " }
X END { printf "'"$FAX_SENDER"' -v%s %s %s", \
X flags, phone, pages }' JOB.locked`
X
#
# execute faxsend command
#
X $echo "$command"
X eval $command
#
# handle return values
#
X status=$?
X $FAX_CLOSE > /dev/$FAX_TTY
X if [ $status -ne 0 ] ; then
X $echo "command exited with status $status"
X fi
X
#
# string to include in subject line
#
X if [ -z "$VERBOSE_TO" ] ; then
X subject="your fax to $PHONE"
X else
X subject="your fax to $VERBOSE_TO ($PHONE)"
X fi
X
#
# evaluate return codes, if success, remove fax job from queue
#
X if [ $status -eq 0 ] ; then
X # transmission successful
X $echo "Status "`date`" successfully sent" >>JOB.locked
X ( $echo "To: $MAIL_TO"
X $echo "Subject: $subject"
X $echo "From: root (Fax Subsystem)\n"
X $echo "Your fax has been sent successfully at: \c"
X date
X $echo "\n\nJob / Log file:"
X cat JOB.locked
X tries=`grep Status JOB.locked | sed -e '1d' | wc -l`
X $echo "\nSending succeeded after" $tries "unsuccessful tries."
X ) |
X $MAILER "$MAIL_TO"
X
X # update accounting log
X $echo "$MAIL_TO $PHONE "`date`" success" >>$FAX_ACCT
X
X # job is done -> remove it from the queue
X mv JOB.locked JOB.done
X
X # if you want to delete the job directory that has just been
X # processed, uncomment the following two lines.
X #
X # cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT
X # rm -rf `dirname $job`
X
X elif [ $status -lt 10 ] ; then
X # error before starting to transmit (try again)
X why="unknown" ; case $status in
X 1) why="errors in command line" ;;
X 2) why="cannot open fax device (locked?)" ;;
X 3) why="modem initialization error" ;;
X 4) why="dial failed - BUSY" ;;
X esac
X $echo "Status "`date`" failed, exit($status): $why" >>JOB.locked
X else
X # error while transmitting, considered fatal
X why="unknown" ; case $status in
X 10) why="dial failed - NO CARRIER" ;;
X 11) why="protocol failure, waiting for XON" ;;
X 12) why="protocol failure sending page" ;;
X esac
X $echo "Status "`date`" FATAL FAILURE, exit($status): $why" >>JOB.locked
X
X # update accounting log
X $echo "$MAIL_TO $PHONE "`date`" fail: $why" >>$FAX_ACCT
X
X # if failed five times, supend job
X if [ `grep "FATAL FAILURE" JOB.locked | wc -l` -gt 4 ] ; then
X $echo "Status "`date`" job suspended: too many FATAL errors" >>JOB.locked
X ( $echo "To: $MAIL_TO"
X $echo "Subject: $subject failed"
X $echo "From: root (Fax Subsystem)\n"
X $echo "It was not possible to send your fax to $PHONE!\n"
X $echo "The fax job is suspended, you can requeue it with the command:"
X $echo " cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT/"`dirname $job`
X $echo " mv JOB.suspended JOB\n"
X $echo "log file follows:"
X cat JOB.locked ) |
X $MAILER "$MAIL_TO"
X #
X # suspend job (but do not delete it)
X #
X mv JOB.locked JOB.suspended
X fi
X fi
#
# unlock job (ignore errors, the JOB.locked file may have been moved
# to JOB.suspended or JOB.done)
#
X mv -f JOB.locked JOB 2>/dev/null
done
X
trap 0 1 2 3 15
X
#
# touch the time stamp, to make faxspool happy
#
date >$FAX_SPOOL_OUT/.last_run
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 faxrunq ||
echo 'restore of faxrunq failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'faxrunq'`"
test 6835 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'faxrunq: original size 6835, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= faxspool ==============
if test -f 'faxspool' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping faxspool (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'faxspool' &&
#!/bin/sh
#
# faxspool - sample script how to spool fax input data to a spool
# directory, creating jobs to be run by faxrunq
#
# sccsid: @(#)faxspool.in 2.11 94/11/02 (c) Gert Doering
#
# syntax: faxspool [flags] <phone-number> <job(s)>
#
# <job(s)> may be any number of files. The file type has to be guessed -
# for now, the following file extensions are recognized:
#
# .ps -> PostScript
# .t -> plain ascii text
# .dvi -> TeX device independent output file (use dvips, then like .ps)
# .pbm -> PortableBitMap (use pbmtog3)
# .pgm -> PortableGrayMap (use pgmtopbm | pbmtog3)
# .ppm -> PortablePixMap (use ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtog3)
# .g3 -> raw G3 fax data
# .lj -> HP Laserjet PCL4 (use hp2pbm)
# .xwd -> xwindow-dump (by xwd program, use xwdtopnm)
# .gif -> Graphics Interchange Format (use gif2oppm | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm
# | pbmtog3)
# .pcx -> (use pcxtoppm | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtog3)
# .tif
# .tiff
#
# ChangeLog:
# 3.6.93: use dvips instead of dvialw now (GD)
# 15.9.93: use g3cat to concatenate header and page (GD)
# 3.10.93: use "hp2hig3" for hp-pcl4-files (cl)
# 19.10.93: phone directories (caz)
X
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin
FAX_SPOOL=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes
FAX_SPOOL_OUT=/usr/spool/NeXTFaxes/outgoing
FAX_SEQ=$FAX_SPOOL_OUT/.Sequence
X
# fax phone directories - format: <alias> <fax phone number>
GLOBAL_PHONE_DIR=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases
PRIVATE_PHONE_DIR=$HOME/.faxnrs
X
# permissions - see the "crontab" or "faxspool" manual page for a
# description how the files have to be set up
#
FAX_ALLOW=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/fax.allow
FAX_DENY=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/fax.deny
X
# you have to adapt this to your local system!
#
# this is the file with the fax header - @T@ / @P@ / @M@ / @U@ stand for
# telephone / page number / maximum page number / user name, respectively
FAX_HEADER=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/faxheader
#
# for creating the fax page header, pbmtext is used, and this specifies
# the font file to use (fine/normal res.)
PBMFONT_HEADER_F=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/cour25.pbm
PBMFONT_HEADER_N=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/cour25n.pbm
#
# if you want to use pbmtext for converting ASCII texts, use these fonts:
PBMFONT_BODY_F=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/cour25.pbm
PBMFONT_BODY_N=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/cour25n.pbm
X
#
# program that will generate fax coverpage (see "man coverpg")
#
MAKE_COVER_PG=/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/make.coverpg
X
#
# local fax number
#
FAX_STATION_ID="1 403 437 0494"
X
#
# echo program that will accept escapes (bash: "echo -e", sun: /usr/5bin/echo)
#
echo="echo"
X
AWK=awk
X
#### end of configuration section
X
#
#### shell functions for conversions
#
X
# naming scheme: fs_cvt_$type()
# converts a $type file ($1) to g3 file(s), named $2.$i, where "i"
# should be the page number. Can be omitted if $1 has only one page.
# $3 can be a flag argument, "-n" for normal resolution
X
#
# convert portable bitmap (not scaled) - see pbm(5), pbmtog3(1)
#
fs_cvt_pbm()
{
X pbmtog3 $1 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert portable greymap (not scaled) - see pgm(5)
#
fs_cvt_pgm()
{
X pgmtopbm $1 | pbmtog3 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert portable pixmap (no scaling) - see ppm(5)
#
fs_cvt_ppm()
{
X ppmtopgm $1 | pgmtopbm | pbmtog3 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert PCX
#
fs_cvt_pcx()
{
X pcxtoppm $1 | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtog3 >$2.1
}
X
#
# "convert" G3 file
# actually, it's just copied, but I want the interface to be the same
# later on, one could do page resizing, resolution changing, ... here
#
fs_cvt_g3()
{
X g3cat $1 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert a X11 xwd file - scaled to fill the whole page width
# since we do not know whether it's colour or grey or what, we have
# to do *all* the conversions *all* the time - ugly. FIXME.
#
X
fs_cvt_xwd()
{
X REDUCE="cat"
X test X$3 = X-n && REDUCE="pnmscale -yscale 0.5"
X
X xwdtopnm $1 |\
X pnmscale -xysize 1728 2000 |\
X $REDUCE |\
X ppmtopgm |\
X pgmtopbm |\
X pbmtog3 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert a CompuServe GIF file, also properly scaled
# problem: a GIF file can contain multiple images - FIXME
#
X
fs_cvt_gif()
{
X REDUCE="cat"
X test X$3 = X-n && REDUCE="pnmscale -yscale 0.5"
X
X giftoppm $1 |\
X pnmscale -xysize 1728 2000 |\
X $REDUCE |\
X ppmtopgm |\
X pgmtopbm |\
X pbmtog3 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert TIFF file
# problem1: conversion always via ppm, pgm
# problem2: multipage TIFFs
#
fs_cvt_tif()
{
X REDUCE="cat"
X test X$3 = X-n && REDUCE="pnmscale -yscale 0.5"
X
X tifftopnm $1 |\
X pnmscale -xysize 1728 2000 |\
X $REDUCE |\
X ppmtopgm |\
X pgmtopbm |\
X pbmtog3 >$2.1
}
X
#
# convert HP laserjet input files
# needs Chris Lewis' hp2pbm package (ftp.uunet.ca)
#
fs_cvt_lj()
{
X if [ X$3 = X-n ]
X then
X hp2log3 -r$2 <$1
X else
X hp2hig3 -r$2 <$1
X fi
}
X
#
# convert postscript data
# needs GNU GhostScript installed, with the "dfaxhigh" driver compiled in
# (for normal resolution, the "dfaxlow" driver is used)
#
fs_cvt_ps()
{
X driver=dfaxhigh
X test X$3 = X-n && driver=dfaxlow
X
X cat $1 | gs -sDEVICE=$driver -sOutputFile=$2%02d -dNOPAUSE -q -dSAFER -
}
X
#
# convert ASCII text files
# go via GhostScript and gslp.ps
# (could also used hp2hig3 or nenscript -> gs or pbmtext)
#
fs_cvt_ascii()
{
#####
# via Ghostscript:
X
# driver=dfaxhigh
# test X$3 = X-n && driver=dfaxlow
#
# gs -sDEVICE=$driver -sOutputFile=$2%02d -dNOPAUSE \
# -dSAFER -- gslp.ps $1
X
#####
# via hp2pbm:
# (convert "LF" to "CR+LF" via awk)
X
# pgm=hp2hig3
# test X$3 = X-n && pgm=hp2log3
#
# $AWK '{ printf "%s\r\n", $0 }' $1 | $pgm -r$2
X
#####
# via pbmtext (not really recommended):
# use the "pgx" program in contrib/ to split pages
X
## Select appropriate font
X font=$PBMFONT_BODY_F
X test X$3 = X-n && font=$PBMFONT_BODY_N
# Determine how many pages text will be split in to. Uses default pagelen.
X nr=`pgx -80 < $1`
# Convert each page into a separate G3 file. Uses default pagelen (60).
X page=1
X while [ "$page" -le "$nr" ]; do
X pgx -80 $page < $1 | pbmtext -font $font | pbmtog3 >$2.$page
X page=`expr $page + 1`
X done
}
X
#
# convert TeX DVI files
# needs GhostScript and dvips installed.
# alternatively, one could use dvialw.
#
fs_cvt_dvi()
{
X if [ X$3 = X-n ]
X then
X driver=dfaxlow ; dvipscfg="-P dfaxlow"
X else
X driver=dfaxhigh ; dvipscfg="-P dfaxhigh"
X fi
X
X driver=dfaxhigh
X test X$3 = X-n && driver=dfaxlow
X
# if you have the dfaxlow/dfaxhigh dvips modes configured, call
# dvips as "dvips $dvipscfg $1 ..." instead.
X
X dvips $1 -o \
X !"gs -sDEVICE=$driver -sOutputFile=$2%02d -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -"
#
# dvialw <$file |
# gs -sDEVICE=$driver -sOutputFile=$target%02d -dNOPAUSE \
# -dSAFER -
X
}
X
#
#### "main" function
#
X
#
# setup defaults / get values
#
X
# user name (for authentification)
##########
X
user=`logname 2>/dev/null`
if test -z "$user" ; then
X id=`id`
X user=`expr "$id" : "[^( ]*(\([^)]*\)"`
fi
test -z "$user" && user=$LOGNAME
test -z "$user" && user=$USER
X
if [ -z "$user" ]
then
X $echo "cannot determine user id. fix program." >&2
X exit 1
fi
X
# email (for return mail)
##########
X
test -z "$USER" && USER=$LOGNAME
test -z "$USER" && USER=$user
X
# everything else is initialized empty
##########
poll_req=""
verbose_to=""
normal_res=""
TIME=""
X
#
# get command line arguments (overriding some of the values above)
##########
#
usage="Usage: $0 [options] [faxphone] [page data]
Options:
\t-p\t\tpoll request
\t-n\t\tnormal resolution
\t-C <pgm>\tset cover page program (\"-\" for none)
\t-D <dest>\tset verbose destination name
\t-F <full name>\tset full name of sender
\t-h <file>\ttext file for page header
\t-f <email>\tset address for status mail
\t-t <hh:mm>\tset earliest possible send time
\t-q\t\tshut up"
X
while :
do
X case "$1" in
# enable polling
X -p) poll_req=true ; shift
X ;;
# use normal resolution (as opposed to fine resolution)
X -n) normal_res="-n" ; shift
X ;;
# set cover page program to use
X -C) case "$2" in
X '') $echo "$usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
X "-") MAKE_COVER_PG="" ;;
X /*) MAKE_COVER_PG="$2" ;;
X *) MAKE_COVER_PG=`pwd`/"$2" ;;
X esac
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# set verbose destination address
X -D) case "$2" in
X '') $echo "$usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
X esac
X verbose_to="$2"
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# set verbose origination address ("fullname")
X -F) case "$2" in
X '') $echo "$usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
X esac
X FULLNAME="$2"
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# set page header text file
X -h) case "$2" in
X '') $echo "$usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
X /*) FAX_HEADER="$2" ;;
X *) FAX_HEADER=`pwd`/"$2" ;;
X esac
X if [ ! -f "$FAX_HEADER" ] ; then
X echo "$0: no such file: '$2'" >&2
X exit 2;
X fi
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# set e-mail return address
X -f) case "$2" in
X '') $echo "$usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
X esac
X USER="$2"
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# set user name for authorization purposes (only allowed for ``trusted'' users
X -u) case "$2" in
X '') $echo "$usage" >&2 ; exit 2 ;;
X esac
X if [ "$user" = "root" -o "$user" = "fax" -o \
X "$user" = "lp" -o "$user" = "daemon" ]
X then
X user="$2"
X else
X $echo "not authorized to use \`\`-u $2'' switch." >&2
X exit 3
X fi
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# set first time to send fax
X -t) if expr "$2" : "[0-2][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]$" >/dev/null
X then
X h=`expr "$2" : "\(..\)"`
X m=`expr "$2" : "..:\(..\)"`
X if [ "$h" -gt 23 -o "$m" -gt 60 ]
X then
X $echo "Invalid time specified: $h:$m" >&2; exit 2
X fi
X TIME="$h$m"
X else
X $echo "Time must be in <hh:mm> format." >&2; exit 2
X fi
X shift ; shift
X ;;
# shut up
X -q) exec >/dev/null ; shift
X ;;
# unknown options
X -*) $echo "unknown option: $1" >&2
X $echo "$usage" >&2
X exit 1
X ;;
# anything else: leave loop
X *) break
X esac
done
X
#
# if not yet set, get full name from /etc/passwd
#
if [ -z "$FULLNAME" ]
then
X FULLNAME=`grep "^$user:" /etc/passwd | cut -f5 -d:`
fi
X
#
# validate user
#
if [ -r $FAX_ALLOW ]
then
X if cut -d" " -f1 $FAX_ALLOW | grep "^$user$" >/dev/null
X then :
X else
X $echo "You ($user) are not allowed to use the fax service. Sorry." >&2
X exit 1
X fi
elif [ -r $FAX_DENY ]
then
X if grep "^$user$" $FAX_DENY >/dev/null
X then
X $echo "You ($user) are not allowed to use the fax service. Sorry." >&2
X exit 2
X fi
elif [ "$user" != "root" ]
then
X $echo "Neither $FAX_ALLOW nor $FAX_DENY exist," >&2
X $echo "so only root may use the fax service. Sorry." >&2
X exit 2
fi
X
#
# check syntax
#
X
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
X $echo "$0: phone number missing" >&2
X $echo "$usage" >&2
X exit 3
fi
X
phone=$1 ; shift
if expr "$phone" : "[-0-9TtPpW,;]*$" >/dev/null ; then :
else
X alias="$phone"
X phone=""
X awkpgm='$1 == "'"$alias"'" { printf "phone=\"%s\"; vto=\"", $2;
X for ( i=3; i<=NF-1; i++ ) printf "%s ",$i;
X printf "%s\"\n", $i; exit }'
X if [ -r $PRIVATE_PHONE_DIR ]
X then
X eval `$AWK "$awkpgm" $PRIVATE_PHONE_DIR`
X fi
X if [ -z "$phone" -a -r $GLOBAL_PHONE_DIR ]
X then
X eval `$AWK "$awkpgm" $GLOBAL_PHONE_DIR`
X fi
X if [ -z "$phone" ]
X then
X $echo "$0:\nNon-numeric characters in phone number and" >&2
X $echo "'$alias' not found in fax directories\n$usage" >&2
X exit 4
X fi
X
X [ -z "$verbose_to" ] && verbose_to="$vto"
X [ -z "$verbose_to" ] && verbose_to="$alias"
X
X $echo "sending fax to '$verbose_to' using phone number '$phone'..."
fi
X
#
# check, if all the files exist & are readable
#
X
for file
do
X if [ ! -r $file -a x$file != x- ]
X then
X $echo "$0: cannot open '$file'!" >&2 ; exit 5
X fi
done
X
#
# if no file specified on command line, use stdin
# (only if not polling and no cover page)
#
X
if [ $# -eq 0 -a -z "$poll_req" -a -z "$MAKE_COVER_PG" ]
then
X # if stdin is connected to a tty, notify user
X #
X tty -s && \
X $echo "spooling text from standard input. End typing with ^D" >&2
X set -- -
fi
X
X
#
# check spool directory permissions
#
X
if [ ! -d $FAX_SPOOL_OUT ] ; then
X if mkdir $FAX_SPOOL_OUT ; then :
X else
X $echo "cannot create $FAX_SPOOL_OUT" >&2 ; exit 6
X fi
X chmod 1777 $FAX_SPOOL_OUT
X chgrp 0 $FAX_SPOOL_OUT 2>/dev/null
X chown 0 $FAX_SPOOL_OUT 2>/dev/null
fi
X
if [ ! -w $FAX_SPOOL_OUT ] ; then
X $echo "cannot write to $FAX_SPOOL_OUT!" >&2 ; exit 6 ; fi
X
if [ ! -f $FAX_SEQ ] ; then $echo 000000 > $FAX_SEQ ; chmod 666 $FAX_SEQ ; fi
X
if [ -f $FAX_SEQ -a ! -w $FAX_SEQ ] ; then
X $echo "cannot write to $FAX_SEQ!" >&2 ; exit 6 ; fi
X
#
# get unique directory name (well, at least: try to)
# FIXME: one should worry about concurrent processes here! This is a clear
# race condition!
#
X
new_seq=`$AWK '{ printf "%06d", $1 + 1 >"'$FAX_SEQ'";
X printf "%06d", $1 + 1 }' $FAX_SEQ `
X
spooldir=$FAX_SPOOL_OUT/F$new_seq.$$
X
if [ -d $spooldir ] ; then
X $echo "Ummm, strange - $spooldir exists (FIX THE SOURCE!)" >&2 ; exit 6
fi
X
umask 022
if mkdir $spooldir ; then :
else $echo "Cannot make $spooldir" >&2 ; exit 6 ; fi
X
#
# now: spool all the files to $spooldir
#
$echo "spooling to $spooldir..."
X
#
# remember input files (to be put in JOB file)
#
input_data="$*"
X
#
# process all input files
#
for file
do
#
# if filename is "-", use stdin
#
X if [ x$file = x- ]
X then
X $echo "spooling $file (stdin)..."
X trap "rm /tmp/faxsp.$$" 0
X cat - >/tmp/faxsp.$$
X file=/tmp/faxsp.$$
X else
X $echo "spooling $file..."
X fi
X
X format=""
X base=`basename $file`
X
#
# try to determine file type by extention (won't work for print spooler!)
#
X case $file in
X *.g3) format="g3" ; base=`basename $file .g3` ;;
X *.ps) format="ps" ; base=`basename $file .ps` ;;
X *alw) format="ps" ; base=`basename $file alw` ;;
X *.dvi) format="dvi"; base=`basename $file .dvi`;;
X *.pbm) format="pbm"; base=`basename $file .pbm`;;
X *.pgm) format="pgm"; base=`basename $file .pgm`;;
X *.ppm) format="ppm"; base=`basename $file .ppm`;;
X *.t) format="ascii"; base=`basename $file .t`;;
X *.txt) format="ascii"; base=`basename $file .txt`;;
X *.lj) format="lj"; base=`basename $file .lj`;;
X *.xwd) format="xwd"; base=`basename $file .xwd`;;
X *.gif) format="gif"; base=`basename $file .gif`;;
X *.tif) format="tif"; base=`basename $file .tif`;;
X *.tiff) format="tif"; base=`basename $file .tiff`;;
X *.pcx) format="pcx"; base=`basename $file .pcx`;;
X esac
X
# if we don't know the file type now, let's try something more esoteric
X
X if [ -z "$format" ]
X then
#
# ask "file"
# (extend /etc/magic if necessary!)
#
X case "`file $file`" in
X *"English text"*) format="ascii" ;;
X *"ascii text"*) format="ascii" ;;
X *"News text"*) format="ascii" ;;
X *"commands text"*) format="ascii" ;;
X *"c program text"*) format="ascii" ;;
X *"script text"*) format="ascii" ;;
X *PBM*) format="pbm" ;;
X *PGM*) format="pgm" ;;
X *PPM*) format="ppm" ;;
X *GIF*) format="gif" ;;
X *Digifax*) format="g3" ;;
X *DVI*) format="dvi" ;;
X *postscript*) format="ps" ;;
X *PostScript*) format="ps" ;;
X *TIF*) format="tif" ;;
X esac
X
# if file told us, it's an ascii text, or if we still don't know, try
# looking at the first few bytes (do not use "head", it may break on
# binary data)
X
X if [ -z "$format" -o "$format" = "ascii" ]
X then
X case "`dd if=$file bs=1 count=4 2>/dev/null`" in
X %!*) format="ps" ;;
X P1*|P4*) format="pbm" ;;
X P2*|P5*) format="pgm" ;;
X P3*|P6*) format="ppm" ;;
X GIF*) format="gif" ;; # hmmm.
X II*) format="tif" ;;
X MM*) format="tif" ;;
X esac
X fi
#
# detect dvi by directly looking at bytes 16...25
#
X if [ -z "$format" ]
X then
X if [ "`dd if=$file bs=1 skip=16 count=11 2>/dev/null`" \
X = "TeX output " ]
X then
X format="dvi"
X fi
X fi
X fi
X
#
# ok, now we should *really* know what the file type is.
#
X if [ -z "$format" ] ; then
X $echo "$file: cannot determine file format (extend source)" >&2
#
# if stdin is a tty, ask the user for the file type
#
X if tty -s
X then
X $echo "$file: please enter type: " >&2
X read format
X else
X exit 7
X fi
X fi
X
X $echo "$file is format: $format"
X
X target=$spooldir/$base
X
X if
X case $format in
X ps | ascii | pbm | pgm | ppm |\
X g3 | dvi | lj | xwd | gif | tif |\
X pcx )
X fs_cvt_$format $file $target $normal_res
X ;;
X *) $echo "$0: unknown format: $format!" >&2 ; exit 8 ;;
X esac
X then : ; else
X $echo "\n$0: error spooling \"$file\" - aborting!" >&2 ; exit 8
X fi
X
done
X
#
# OK, all files are done now.
#
# Now let's create the work file
#
X
job=$spooldir/JOB
X
#
# conversion complete. Post-process G3 files
#
X
pages=`ls -rt $spooldir`
#
# get list / number of pages
#
cd $spooldir
X
nr=0
maxnr=`ls | wc -l | tr -d " "`
X
#
# generate cover page
#
# dispose arguments (-C "pgm args")
PGM=`expr "$MAKE_COVER_PG" : "\([^ ]*\)"`
#
if [ ! -z "$PGM" ]
X then
X if [ -x "$PGM" ]
X then
X $echo "\nGenerating cover page..."
X export normal_res
X
X maxnr=`expr $maxnr + 1`
X $MAKE_COVER_PG $maxnr "$FAX_STATION_ID" "$FULLNAME" \
X "$phone" "$verbose_to" "`date +%D`" "`date +%T`" >cover.g3
X if [ -s cover.g3 ]
X then
X pages="cover.g3 $pages"
X else
X echo "generating cover page failed!" >&2
X maxnr=`expr $maxnr - 1`
X fi
X fi
fi
X
#
# concatenate header with pages
#
$echo "\nPutting Header lines on top of pages..."
X
hdrfont=$PBMFONT_HEADER_F
test -z "$normal_res" || hdrfont=$PBMFONT_HEADER_N
X
finalpg=""
for f in $pages
do
X nr=`expr $nr + 1`
X
X cat $FAX_HEADER | sed -e "s;@T@;$phone;g" -e "s;@P@;$nr;g" \
X -e "s;@M@;$maxnr;g" -e "s;@U@;$USER;g" \
X -e "s;@N@;$FULLNAME;g" \
X -e "s;@D@;$verbose_to;g" \
X -e "s;@ID@;$FAX_STATION_ID;g" \
X -e "s;@DATE@;`date`;g" \
X | pbmtext -font $hdrfont | pbmtog3 \
X | g3cat - $f > f$nr.g3 \
X && rm $f
X finalpg="$finalpg f$nr.g3"
done
X
if [ -z "$finalpg" -a -z "$poll_req" ]
then
X $echo "\nnothing to do (no cover page, no data)." >&2
X cd $FAX_SPOOL_OUT
X rmdir $spooldir
X exit 52
fi
X
$echo "phone $phone" >$job.q
$echo "user $user" >>$job.q
[ "$user" != "$USER" ] &&
X $echo "mail $USER" >>$job.q
X
$echo "input $input_data" >>$job.q
$echo "pages " $finalpg >>$job.q
X
[ -z "$verbose_to" ] || \
X $echo "verbose_to $verbose_to" >>$job.q
X
[ -z "$poll_req" ] || \
X $echo "poll" >>$job.q
X
[ -z "$normal_res" ] || \
X $echo "normal_res" >>$job.q
X
[ -z "$TIME" ] || \
X $echo "time $TIME" >>$job.q
X
mv $job.q $job
X
if [ -z "`find $FAX_SPOOL_OUT/.last_run -ctime -1 -print 2>/dev/null`" ]
then
X cat <<HERE
X
Fax queued successfully.
X
WARNING: faxrunq hasn't been run in the last 24 hours.
X Faxes only get sent out when faxrunq runs! Contact Fax administrator.
X
HERE
else
X $echo "\nFax queued successfully. Will be sent at next \`\`faxrunq'' run.\n"
fi
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 faxspool ||
echo 'restore of faxspool failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'faxspool'`"
test 18800 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'faxspool: original size 18800, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= mgetty.patch ==============
if test -f 'mgetty.patch' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping mgetty.patch (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'mgetty.patch' &&
*** mgetty-0.22/Makefile Sun Nov 13 05:56:16 1994
--- mgetty-0.22.patched/Makefile Fri Nov 25 14:13:21 1994
***************
*** 94,100 ****
X # USTAT - ustat(), no statfs etc.
X #
X #CFLAGS=-Wall -O2 -pipe -DSECUREWARE -DUSE_POLL
! CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe
X #CFLAGS=-O -DSVR4
X #CFLAGS=-O -DSVR4 -DSVR42
X #CFLAGS=-O -DUSE_POLL
--- 94,100 ----
X # USTAT - ustat(), no statfs etc.
X #
X #CFLAGS=-Wall -O2 -pipe -DSECUREWARE -DUSE_POLL
! # CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe
X #CFLAGS=-O -DSVR4
X #CFLAGS=-O -DSVR4 -DSVR42
X #CFLAGS=-O -DUSE_POLL
***************
*** 103,109 ****
X # networking library and gcc.
X #CFLAGS=-D_3B1_ -D_NOSTDLIB_H -DUSE_READ -DSHORT_FILENAMES
X #CFLAGS=-std -DPOSIX_TERMIOS -O2 -D_BSD -DBSD # for OSF/1 (w/ /bin/cc)
! #CFLAGS=-posix -DBSD # for NeXT
X
X #
X # LDFLAGS specify flags to pass to the linker. You could specify
--- 103,109 ----
X # networking library and gcc.
X #CFLAGS=-D_3B1_ -D_NOSTDLIB_H -DUSE_READ -DSHORT_FILENAMES
X #CFLAGS=-std -DPOSIX_TERMIOS -O2 -D_BSD -DBSD # for OSF/1 (w/ /bin/cc)
! CFLAGS=-O -posix -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DBSD # for NeXT
X
X #
X # LDFLAGS specify flags to pass to the linker. You could specify
***************
*** 127,138 ****
X # For FreeBSD, add "-lutil" if the linker complains about
X # "utmp.o: unresolved symbod _login"
X #
! LDFLAGS=
X #LDFLAGS=-lprot -lsocket
X #LDFLAGS=-s -shlib
X #LDFLAGS=-lsocket
X #LDFLAGS=-lbsd # OSF/1
! #LDFLAGS=-posix # NeXT
X #
X #
X # the following things are mainly used for ``make install''
--- 127,138 ----
X # For FreeBSD, add "-lutil" if the linker complains about
X # "utmp.o: unresolved symbod _login"
X #
! #LDFLAGS=
X #LDFLAGS=-lprot -lsocket
X #LDFLAGS=-s -shlib
X #LDFLAGS=-lsocket
X #LDFLAGS=-lbsd # OSF/1
! LDFLAGS=-s -posix # NeXT
X #
X #
X # the following things are mainly used for ``make install''
***************
*** 168,174 ****
X #
X # the fax spool directory
X #
! FAX_SPOOL=$(spool)/fax
X FAX_SPOOL_IN=$(FAX_SPOOL)/incoming
X FAX_SPOOL_OUT=$(FAX_SPOOL)/outgoing
X #
--- 168,174 ----
X #
X # the fax spool directory
X #
! FAX_SPOOL=$(spool)/NeXTFaxes
X FAX_SPOOL_IN=$(FAX_SPOOL)/incoming
X FAX_SPOOL_OUT=$(FAX_SPOOL)/outgoing
X #
*** mgetty-0.22/locks.c Sun Aug 21 08:48:30 1994
--- mgetty-0.22.patched/locks.c Sat Nov 26 14:34:02 1994
***************
*** 173,180 ****
--- 173,210 ----
X *
X * if lockfile found, return PID of process holding it, 0 otherwise
X */
+ #ifdef NeXT
+ int checklock _P1( (device), char * device)
+ {
+ char name[8] ;
+ char *names[] = {
+ "ttydf%c", "ttyd%c", "ttyf%c", "tty%c",
+ "cudf%c", "cuf%c", "cud%c", "cu%c", (char *)0
+ } ;
+ register int i ;
+ char c ;
+ char ** cp ;
X
+ /*
+ * Try each type of lock name in case we are using another.
+ */
+ if ((i = do_checklock (device)) != NO_LOCK)
+ return (i) ;
+ for (cp = names; *cp; ++cp)
+ if (sscanf (device, *cp, &c) == 1)
+ break ;
+ for (cp = names; *cp; ++cp) {
+ (void)sprintf (name, *cp, c) ;
+ if ((i = do_checklock (name)) != NO_LOCK)
+ return (i) ;
+ }
+ return (NO_LOCK) ;
+ }
+
+ int do_checklock _P1( (device), char * device)
+ #else
X int checklock _P1( (device), char * device)
+ #endif
X {
X int pid;
X struct stat st;
*** mgetty-0.22/login.c Fri Nov 4 15:39:54 1994
--- mgetty-0.22.patched/login.c Sat Nov 26 00:30:01 1994
***************
*** 23,28 ****
--- 23,32 ----
X #include "policy.h"
X #include "mg_utmp.h"
X
+ #ifdef NeXT
+ # include <sys/ioctl.h>
+ #endif
+
X #ifdef SECUREWARE
X extern int setluid();
X #endif
***************
*** 284,289 ****
--- 288,301 ----
X Device, getpid(), CallerId, Connect, CallName,
X cmd, user );
X
+ # ifdef NeXT
+ { struct sgttyb t ;
+
+ (void)ioctl (0, TIOCGETP, &t) ;
+ t.sg_flags |= EVENP | ODDP ;
+ (void)ioctl (0, TIOCSETN, &t) ;
+ }
+ # endif
X /* execute login */
X execv( cmd, argv );
X
*** mgetty-0.22/mgetty.c Wed Nov 2 11:21:44 1994
--- mgetty-0.22.patched/mgetty.c Wed Nov 23 08:03:24 1994
***************
*** 16,21 ****
--- 16,22 ----
X #include <pwd.h>
X #include <sys/types.h>
X #include <sys/times.h>
+ #include <sys/fcntl.h>
X
X #include <sys/stat.h>
X #include <signal.h>
*** mgetty-0.22/sendfax.c Tue Oct 4 03:35:21 1994
--- mgetty-0.22.patched/sendfax.c Sun Dec 18 10:48:30 1994
***************
*** 51,56 ****
--- 51,57 ----
X char * fax_tty, boolean use_stdin )
X {
X char device[MAXPATH];
+ extern char *ttyname() ;
X int fd;
X
X if ( use_stdin ) /* fax modem on stdin */
*** mgetty-0.22/tio.c Sat Oct 22 09:27:41 1994
--- mgetty-0.22.patched/tio.c Sat Nov 26 00:21:44 1994
***************
*** 9,15 ****
X #include <unistd.h>
X #include <sys/types.h>
X
! #ifdef _AIX
X #include <sys/ioctl.h>
X #endif
X
--- 9,15 ----
X #include <unistd.h>
X #include <sys/types.h>
X
! #if (defined(_AIX) || defined(NeXT))
X #include <sys/ioctl.h>
X #endif
X
***************
*** 32,38 ****
X # include <sys/modem.h>
X #endif
X
! #if defined( M_UNIX ) && defined( MAM_BUG )
X #include <fcntl.h>
X #endif
X
--- 32,38 ----
X # include <sys/modem.h>
X #endif
X
! #if (defined( M_UNIX ) && defined( MAM_BUG )) || defined(NeXT)
X #include <fcntl.h>
X #endif
X
***************
*** 152,158 ****
X
X int tio_set _P2( (fd, t), int fd, TIO * t) /*!! FIXME: flags, wait */
X {
! #ifdef sunos4
X int modem_lines;
X #endif
X #ifdef SYSV_TERMIO
--- 152,158 ----
X
X int tio_set _P2( (fd, t), int fd, TIO * t) /*!! FIXME: flags, wait */
X {
! #if (defined(sunos4) || defined(NeXT))
X int modem_lines;
X #endif
X #ifdef SYSV_TERMIO
***************
*** 178,183 ****
--- 178,202 ----
X ioctl(STDIN, TIOCMSET, &modem_lines);
X }
X #endif /* sunos4 */
+ #ifdef NeXT
+ /*
+ * Search out device types, if it is flow style device then we are on
+ * the money ...
+ */
+ { char buffer[30] ;
+ extern char * ttyname ();
+
+ strcpy (buffer, ttyname (STDIN)) ;
+ buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] = '\0' ;
+ if (index (buffer, 'f'))
+ {
+ /* make sure RTS is asserted!!!!!! */
+ ioctl(STDIN, TIOCMGET, &modem_lines);
+ modem_lines |= (TIOCM_RTS | TIOCM_DTR);
+ ioctl(STDIN, TIOCMSET, &modem_lines);
+ }
+ }
+ #endif
X #endif /* posix_termios */
X
X #ifdef BSD_SGTTY
***************
*** 292,299 ****
X | LOBLK
X #endif
X );
! t->c_cflag|= CS8 | CREAD | HUPCL | ( local? CLOCAL:0 );
! t->c_lflag = ECHOK | ECHOE | ECHO | ISIG | ICANON;
X
X #if !defined(POSIX_TERMIOS)
X t->c_line = 0;
--- 311,326 ----
X | LOBLK
X #endif
X );
! t->c_cflag|= CS8 | CREAD | HUPCL | ( local? CLOCAL:0 )
! #ifdef PAR1
! | PAR1
! #endif
! ;
! t->c_lflag = ECHOK | ECHOE | ECHO | ISIG | ICANON
! #ifdef IEXTEN
! | IEXTEN
! #endif
! ;
X
X #if !defined(POSIX_TERMIOS)
X t->c_line = 0;
***************
*** 387,393 ****
X t->c_oflag &= ~ONLCR;
X }
X #else
! #include "not implemented yet"
X #endif
X }
X
--- 414,427 ----
X t->c_oflag &= ~ONLCR;
X }
X #else
! if ( perform_mapping )
! {
! t->sg_flags |= CRMOD ;
! }
! else
! {
! t->sg_flags &= ~CRMOD ;
! }
X #endif
X }
X
***************
*** 413,419 ****
X t->c_lflag &= ~XCASE;
X }
X # else
! # include "not implemented yet"
X # endif
X #endif /* BSDI */
X }
--- 447,460 ----
X t->c_lflag &= ~XCASE;
X }
X # else
! if ( perform_mapping )
! {
! t->sg_flags |= LCASE ;
! }
! else
! {
! t->sg_flags &= ~LCASE ;
! }
X # endif
X #endif /* BSDI */
X }
***************
*** 434,440 ****
X t->c_cflag |= CLOCAL;
X }
X #else
! #include "not implemented yet"
X #endif
X }
X
--- 475,481 ----
X t->c_cflag |= CLOCAL;
X }
X #else
! # include "not implemented yet"
X #endif
X }
X
***************
*** 507,513 ****
X if ( type & FLOW_XON_OUT )
X t->c_iflag |= IXON | IXANY;
X #else
! #include "not yet implemented"
X #endif
X /* SVR4 came up with a new method of setting h/w flow control */
X /* unfortunately, it's broken in 4.2 and Solaris2! */
--- 548,554 ----
X if ( type & FLOW_XON_OUT )
X t->c_iflag |= IXON | IXANY;
X #else
! # include "not yet implemented"
X #endif
X /* SVR4 came up with a new method of setting h/w flow control */
X /* unfortunately, it's broken in 4.2 and Solaris2! */
***************
*** 606,612 ****
X #if defined(SVR4) && defined(TIOCMBIS) /* SVR4 special */
X int mctl = TIOCM_DTR;
X
! #ifdef sun
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIC, &mctl ) < 0 )
X #else
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIC, (char *) mctl ) < 0 )
--- 647,653 ----
X #if defined(SVR4) && defined(TIOCMBIS) /* SVR4 special */
X int mctl = TIOCM_DTR;
X
! #if (defined(sun) || defined(NeXT))
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIC, &mctl ) < 0 )
X #else
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIC, (char *) mctl ) < 0 )
***************
*** 615,621 ****
X lprintf( L_ERROR, "TIOCMBIC failed" ); return ERROR;
X }
X delay( msec_wait );
! #ifdef sun
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIS, &mctl ) < 0 )
X #else
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIS, (char *) mctl ) < 0 )
--- 656,662 ----
X lprintf( L_ERROR, "TIOCMBIC failed" ); return ERROR;
X }
X delay( msec_wait );
! #if (defined(sun) || defined(NeXT))
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIS, &mctl ) < 0 )
X #else
X if ( ioctl( fd, TIOCMBIS, (char *) mctl ) < 0 )
***************
*** 653,659 ****
X /* The "standard" way of doing things - via speed = B0
X */
X TIO t, save_t;
! #ifdef sunos4
X int modem_lines;
X #endif
X int result;
--- 694,700 ----
X /* The "standard" way of doing things - via speed = B0
X */
X TIO t, save_t;
! #if (defined(sunos4) || defined(NeXT))
X int modem_lines;
X #endif
X int result;
***************
*** 670,682 ****
X cfsetispeed( &t, B0 );
X #endif
X #ifdef BSD_SGTTY
! t.sg_ispeed = t.sg_ospeed = B0
X #endif
X
X tio_set( fd, &t );
X delay( msec_wait );
X
! #ifdef sunos4
X /* on SunOS, if you hangup via B0, the DTR line will *stay* low.
X * So: enable it manually again.
X */
--- 711,723 ----
X cfsetispeed( &t, B0 );
X #endif
X #ifdef BSD_SGTTY
! t.sg_ispeed = t.sg_ospeed = B0 ;
X #endif
X
X tio_set( fd, &t );
X delay( msec_wait );
X
! #if (defined(sunos4) || defined(NeXT))
X /* on SunOS, if you hangup via B0, the DTR line will *stay* low.
X * So: enable it manually again.
X */
***************
*** 686,692 ****
X #endif
X result = tio_set( fd, &save_t );
X
! #if (defined(M_UNIX) && defined(MAM_BUG)) || defined (sysV68)
X /* some Unix variants apparently forget to raise DTR again
X * after lowering it. Reopening the port fixes it. Crude, but works.
X */
--- 727,733 ----
X #endif
X result = tio_set( fd, &save_t );
X
! #if (defined(M_UNIX) && defined(MAM_BUG))
X /* some Unix variants apparently forget to raise DTR again
X * after lowering it. Reopening the port fixes it. Crude, but works.
X */
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 mgetty.patch ||
echo 'restore of mgetty.patch failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'mgetty.patch'`"
test 10973 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'mgetty.patch: original size 10973, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= new_fax ==============
if test -f 'new_fax' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping new_fax (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'new_fax' &&
#! /bin/sh
# Description: The following arguments are placed in the command line:
# hangup code 0 successful
# non-zero for failure
# sender id Fax identification string
# number of pages The number of file name pages that follow
# file name page The file that resulted from this reception
#
#echo $* >/tmp/new_fax.arguments
#
# Now that looks really like a problem for a shell, not C. Look at my
# faxnotifier, it does almost the same thing you want, but I think a
# little easier....
AREACODE=403
COUNTRYCODE=1
ID="`/bin/sh -c \"echo $2\" | sed -e 's/[\"- ()]*\([0-9]\)[\" ]*/\1/g' -e \"s/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\$/$AREACODE&/\" -e \"s/^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\$/$COUNTRYCODE&/\"`"
X
SHORT_ID="`echo $ID | sed \"s/$COUNTRYCODE$AREACODE//\"`"
VERBOSE_ID="`( grep \"[ ]$ID[ ]\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases ; grep \"[ ]$SHORT_ID[ ]\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases ) | head -1 | sed 's/^[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*\([^ ][^ ]*\)/\1/'`"
if [ ! -z "$VERBOSE_ID" ] ; then
X VERBOSE_ID=" $VERBOSE_ID"
fi
X
#
# we could, based on the ID, find out where to send the message to, these are
# the defaults.
#
WHO=postmaster
TYPE=NeXTMail
# if [ "$ID" = "14034393036" ] ; then
# WHO=4393036
# TYPE=uuencode.tiff
# fi
X
# first notify some people directly....
for i in $WHO; do
X { echo "A new fax has been received..."
X echo "Hangup Code: " $1
X echo "Remote Id: " $ID$VERBOSE_ID
X echo "Pages: " $3
X echo "1st Filename:" $4
X } |write $i 2>/dev/null # ignore errors if someone is not logged on
done
X
shift 3
X
cd /tmp
X
if [ "$TYPE" = "NeXTMail" ] ; then
X FILES=
X for i in $@ ; do
X # find out resolution
X case $i in
X */faxn|faxn*|*/fn*|fn*) STRETCH= ;;
X *) STRETCH="-yscale 0.50"
X esac
X
X # convert fax files to tiff
X name=`basename $i`
X if [ -s $i ] ; then
X /usr/local/bin/g3topbm $i | /usr/local/bin/pnmscale -xscale 0.50 $STRETCH | /usr/local/bin/pnmtotiff > $name
X [ $? -eq 0 -a -s $name ] && gzip -9 $i
X
X #
X # The following increases the size of the `NeXTMail' but decreases it once
X # it is justified in the mailbox.
X #
X /usr/local/bin/tiffcp -lzw $name $name.tiff
X [ $? -eq 0 -a -s $name.tiff ] && /bin/rm -f $name
X FILES="$FILES $name.tiff"
X fi
X done
X if [ ! -z "$FILES" ] ; then
X ( echo "From fax_server `date`"
X echo "`/usr/lib/news/bin/RFC1036.date`"
X echo "To: $WHO"
X echo "From: fax_server@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca ($ID$VERBOSE_ID)"
X echo "Subject: Received Fax ($ID$VERBOSE_ID)"
X echo "Next-Attachment: .tar.$name.attach, 99713, 1/1, 137148, 0"
X echo
X ( /bin/echo "{\rtf0\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}"
X /bin/echo "\margl120"
X /bin/echo "\margr120"
X /bin/echo -n "{"
X j=0
X for i in $FILES ; do
X /bin/echo "{\attachment$j $i"
X /bin/echo "}"
X j=`expr $j + 1`
X done
X /bin/echo "}"
X ) >index.rtf
X tar cf - index.rtf $FILES | compress -c | uuencode .tar.$name.attach
X rm -f index.rtf $FILES
X ) | rmail $WHO
X fi
elif [ "$TYPE" = "uuencode.tiff" ] ; then
X if test ! -z $@ ; then
X ( echo "From fax_server `date`"
X echo "`/usr/lib/news/bin/RFC1036.date`"
X echo "To: $WHO"
X echo "From: fax_server@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca ($ID$VERBOSE_ID)"
X echo "Subject: Received Fax ($ID$VERBOSE_ID)"
X echo
X for i in $@ ; do
X # find out resolution
X case $i in
X */faxn|faxn*|*/fn*|fn*) STRETCH= ;;
X *) STRETCH="-yscale 0.50"
X esac
X
X # convert fax files to tiff
X name=`basename $i`
X /usr/local/bin/g3topbm $i | /usr/local/bin/pnmscale -xscale 0.50 $STRETCH | /usr/local/bin/pnmtotiff > $name
X [ $? -eq 0 -a -s $name ] && gzip -9 $i
X
X /usr/local/bin/tiffcp -lzw $name $name.tiff
X [ $? -eq 0 -a -s $name.tiff ] && /bin/rm -f $name
X uuencode $name.tiff < $name.tiff
X rm -f $name.tiff
X done
X ) | rmail $WHO
X fi
else
X # Do nothing
X echo mama
fi
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 new_fax ||
echo 'restore of new_fax failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'new_fax'`"
test 3955 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'new_fax: original size 3955, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= obscure.MIME.sh ==============
if test -f 'obscure.MIME.sh' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping obscure.MIME.sh (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'obscure.MIME.sh' &&
#! /bin/sh
#
# Name: obscure.MIME.sh
# Description: Check for MIME encoding, and extract the pieces. The
# standard input is the mail file, the output is the filenames
# collected. If this is not `MIME' mail, then nothing should be
# output.
#
FILES=""
awk "BEGIN {
X ContentType=\"\"
X ContentTransferEncoding=\"\"
X ContentID=\"\"
X ContentDescription=\"\"
X MimeVersion=\"1.0\"
X FileNum=1
X FileName=\"/tmp/obscure$$.1\"
X Boundary=\"\"
X printf (\"%s \", FileName)
}
/^Content-Type: / {
X ContentType=\$2
X j=length(ContentType) - 1
X String=substr(ContentType, 1, j)
X print String
X for (i = 3; i <= NF; i++) {
X ContentType=ContentType \" \" \$(i)
X String=substr(\$(i), 1, 9)
X if (\"BOUNDARY=\" == String) {
X j=length(\$(i)) - 11
X Boundary=\"--\" substr(\$(i), 11, j)
X }
X }
X print \"Mime-Version: \" MimeVersion >> FileName
}
(Boundary == \$0) {
X close FileName
X ++FileNum
X FileName=\"/tmp/obscure$$.\" FileNum
X printf (\"%s \", FileName)
X next
}
/^Content-Transfer-Encoding: / && (inhdr == 1) {
X ContentTransferEncoding=\$2
}
/^Content-ID: / && (inhdr == 1) {
X ContentID=\$2
}
/^Content-Description: / && (inhdr == 1) {
X ContentDescription=\$2
}
/^$/ && (inhdr == 1) {
X ++inhdr
}
/^Mime-Version: / && (inhdr == 1) {
X MimeVersion=\$2
X next
}
X {
X print >> FileName
}
END {
X close FileName
}" | ( while read FileName Content ; do
X awk 'BEGIN {
X inhdr=1
X }
X /^$/ && (inhdr == 1) {
X ++inhdr
X next
X }
X (inhdr == 1) {
X next
X }
X {
X print
X }' $FileName | if grep -s -i base64 $FileName ; then
X /usr/local/bin/base64tobinary
X else
X cat -
X fi > $FileName.1
X rm -f $FileName
X case `echo $Content | tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz` in
X multipart*) rm -f $FileName.1 ;;
X text/plain) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.t
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.t" ;;
X message/rfc822) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.t
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.t" ;;
X application/postscript)
X mv $FileName.1 $FileName.ps
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.ps" ;;
X application/remote-printing)
X mv $FileName.1 $FileName.t
X FILES="$FileName.t $FILES" ;;
X image/tiff) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.tiff
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.tiff" ;;
X image/x-tiff) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.tiff
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.tiff" ;;
X image/gif87) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.gif
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.gif" ;;
X image/pcx) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.pcx
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.pcx" ;;
X image/pbm) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.pbm
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.pbm" ;;
X image/pgm) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.pgm
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.pgm" ;;
X image/ppm) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.ppm
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.ppm" ;;
X image/g3) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.g3
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.g3" ;;
X image/xwd) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.xwd
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.xwd" ;;
X *) mv $FileName.1 $FileName.t
X FILES="$FILES $FileName.t" ;;
X esac
done
if test -z "$FILES" ; then
X rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.[0-9] /tmp/obscure$$.[0-9][0-9]
else
X echo $FILES
fi )
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 obscure.MIME.sh ||
echo 'restore of obscure.MIME.sh failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'obscure.MIME.sh'`"
test 2954 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'obscure.MIME.sh: original size 2954, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh ==============
if test -f 'obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh' &&
#! /bin/sh
#
# Name: obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh
# Description: Check for NEXTMAIL encoding, and extract the pieces. The
# standard input is the mail file, the output is the filenames
# collected. If this is not `NEXTMAIL' mail, then nothing should be
# output.
#
Xexit 0
TARFILE="`tee /tmp/obscure$$.t | sed -n 's/Next-Attachment: \([^,]*\),.*/\1/p'`"
if test -z "$TARFILE" ; then
X exit 0
fi
cd /tmp
mkdir NeXTMail.$$.rtfd
cd NeXTMail.$$.rtfd
uudecode </tmp/obscure$$.t
rm /tmp/obscure$$.t
compress -d < .*.compressed >obscure$$.tar
rm -f .*.compressed
tar -xvf obscure$$.tar 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
rm -f obscure$$.tar
# Core dump ...
rtf2ps *.rtf /tmp/obscure$$.ps
echo /tmp/obscure$$.ps
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh ||
echo 'restore of obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh'`"
test 681 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh: original size 681, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= obscure.PS.sh ==============
if test -f 'obscure.PS.sh' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping obscure.PS.sh (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'obscure.PS.sh' &&
#! /bin/sh
#
# Name: obscure.PS.sh
# Description: Check for PS encoding, and extract the piece. The
# standard input is the mail file, the output is the filenames
# collected. If this is not `PS' mail, then nothing should be
# output.
#
sed -n '/%!PS-Adobe-3.0/,$p' >/tmp/obscure$$.ps
if test -s /tmp/obscure$$.ps ; then
X echo /tmp/obscure$$.ps
else
X rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.ps
fi
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 obscure.PS.sh ||
echo 'restore of obscure.PS.sh failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'obscure.PS.sh'`"
test 378 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'obscure.PS.sh: original size 378, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= obscure.UUENCODE.sh ==============
if test -f 'obscure.UUENCODE.sh' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping obscure.UUENCODE.sh (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'obscure.UUENCODE.sh' &&
#! /bin/sh
#
# Name: obscure.UUENCODE.sh
# Description: Check for UUENCODE encoding, and extract the pieces. The
# standard input is the mail file, the output is the filenames
# collected. If this is not `UUENCODE' mail, then nothing should be
# output.
#
trap 'rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t ; exit' 1 2 3 15
FILENAME="`tee /tmp/obscure$$.t | sed -n 's/^begin [0-7][0-7][0-7] \(.*\)/\1/p'`"
if test ! -z "$FILENAME" ; then
X FILENAME="/tmp/$FILENAME"
X trap 'rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t $FILENAME ; exit' 1 2 3 15
X ( cd /tmp ; uudecode < /tmp/obscure$$.t )
X rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t
X echo $FILENAME
fi
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0750 obscure.UUENCODE.sh ||
echo 'restore of obscure.UUENCODE.sh failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'obscure.UUENCODE.sh'`"
test 586 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'obscure.UUENCODE.sh: original size 586, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= obscure.sh ==============
if test -f 'obscure.sh' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping obscure.sh (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'obscure.sh' &&
#! /bin/sh
# Name: obscure
# Description: This shell script is used to programatically handle any
# users that are unknown to this system, and process the messages so
# that they may be handled correctly. The following actions may be taken:
# user.name - mail to news gateway
# phone number(s) - mail to fax gateway
# user name - mail to packet gateway
#
echo $* >/tmp/obscure.arguments
trap 'rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t ; exit' 1 2 3 15
awk "BEGIN {
X in_hdr=1
X in_rec=0
}
/^[ ]/ && (in_hdr == 1) && (in_rec == 1) {
X next
}
X {
X in_rec=0
}
/^[A-Z][-a-z][^ :]*:[ ]/ && (in_hdr == 2) {
X in_hdr=1
}
/^[ ]*\$/ && (in_hdr == 2) {
X next
}
(in_hdr == 2) {
X print \"\"
X in_hdr=0
}
/^[ ]*\$/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X in_hdr=2
X next
}
/^From / && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Apparently-To:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Message-I[Dd]:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Status:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Expires: +1 month/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Encoding:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^X-[-a-zA-Z]*:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Lines:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Path:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^N[nN][Tt][Pp]-Posting-Host:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Originator:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Resent-To:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Originally-To:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Received:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X in_rec=1
X next
}
/^In-Reply-To:/ {
X in_rec=1
X next
}
/^Precedence:/ {
X in_rec=1
X next
}
/^Errors-To:/ {
X in_rec=1
X next
}
/^X-Mailer:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^X-Newsreader:/ && (in_hder == 1) {
X next
}
X {
X print
}" > /tmp/obscure$$.t
#
# Check for file format
#
FILENAME=
if test -z "$FILENAME" -a -f /usr/lib/smail/obscure.MIME.sh ; then
X FILENAME="`/usr/lib/smail/obscure.MIME.sh </tmp/obscure$$.t`"
fi
if test -z "$FILENAME" -a -f /usr/lib/smail/obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh ; then
X FILENAME="`/usr/lib/smail/obscure.NEXTMAIL.sh </tmp/obscure$$.t`"
fi
if test -z "$FILENAME" -a -f /usr/lib/smail/obscure.UUENCODE.sh ; then
X FILENAME="`/usr/lib/smail/obscure.UUENCODE.sh </tmp/obscure$$.t`"
fi
if test -z "$FILENAME" -a -f /usr/lib/smail/obscure.PS.sh ; then
X FILENAME="`/usr/lib/smail/obscure.PS.sh </tmp/obscure$$.t`"
fi
if test -z "$FILENAME" ; then
X mv /tmp/obscure$$.t /tmp/obscure$$.ps
X awk "BEGIN {
X in_hdr=1
X in_rec=0
}
/^M[iI][mM][eE]-Version:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Content-Type:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Content-Type:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Content-Length:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Content-Transfer-Encoding:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Content-Description:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^Content-ID:/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X next
}
/^\$/ && (in_hdr == 1) {
X ++inhdr
}
X {
X print
}" /tmp/obscure$$.ps > /tmp/obscure$$.t
X rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.ps
X FILENAME=/tmp/obscure$$.t
fi
HOSTNAME="`sed -n 's/^HOSTNAME=\(.*\)/\1/p' /etc/hostconfig`"
SITENAME="`echo $HOSTNAME | sed 's/^\([^\.]*\)\..*/\1/'`"
if test $# -lt 1 -o "X$1" = "Xfax" ; then
X return="`sed -e 's/obscure!//' -e 's/@obscure//' -e \"s/$HOSTNAME!//\" -e \"s/@$HOSTNAME//\" -e \"s/$SITENAME!//\" -e \"s/@$SITENAME//\" /tmp/obscure$$.t | sed -n 's/^To:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p'`"
X if test ! -z "$return" ; then
X set $return
X fi
X if test $# -lt 1 -o "X$1" = "Xfax" ; then
X return="`sed -n 's/^X*-*[Ff]ax:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' /tmp/obscure$$.t`"
X if test ! -z "$return" ; then
X set $return
X else
X rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t $FILENAME
X exit 2
X fi
X fi
fi
return="`sed -n 's/^From:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' /tmp/obscure$$.t | head -1`"
if test -z "$return" ; then
X return="`sed -n 's/^Reply-To:[ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p' /tmp/obscure$$.t | head -1`"
fi
name="`echo $return | sed -n -e 's/.*(\(.*\))/\1/p' -e 's/\(.*\)<[^>]*>/\1/p'`"
if test -z "$name" ; then
X name=Unknown
fi
return="`echo $return | sed -e 's/\([^ ]*\)[ ]*(.*)/\1/' -e 's/.*<\([^>]*\)>/\1/'`"
# check out the phone number, restrict it to a `name' or 7 digit number.
numbers=
bad_numbers=
multi_bad=no
multi=no
description=
for i in $* ; do
X user="`echo $i | sed -e 's/[@%].*//' -e 's/.*!//'`"
X case $user in
X remote-printer.*)
X description="`echo $user | sed -e 's/^remote-printer.//' -e 's/_/ /g' -e 's#/#, #g'`"
X i="`grep To: /tmp/obscure$$.t | head -1 | sed -e 's/^To:[ ]*//' -e 's/ (.*//' -e 's/.*<\(.*\)>/\1/'`"
X user="`echo $i | sed -e 's/^[^%@]*[%@]//' -e 's/!.*//' -e 's/.tpc.int.*//' | awk 'BEGIN {
X FS = \".\"
X }
X {
X j=\"\"
X for (i = NF; i > 0; i--) {
X j=j $(i)
X }
X print j
X }'"
X j="`echo $user | sed -n -e 's/-//' -e \"\`sed -e 's/(/\\\\\\\\(/g' -e 's/)/\\\\\\\\)/g' -e 's:.*:s/&/\\\\\\\\1/p:' /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/efrc\`\"`"
X if test -z "$j" ; then
X if test -z "$bad_numbers" ; then
X bad_numbers=$user
X else
X bad_numbers="$bad_numbers $user"
X multi_bad=yes
X fi
X else
X if test -z "$numbers" ; then
X numbers=$j
X else
X numbers="$numbers $j"
X multi=yes
X fi
X if test -z "$description" ; then
X description="$description`sed -n \"s/^[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*$j[ ][ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`"
X fi
X fi ;;
X [a-zA-Z]*)
X #
X # This is my security hole to allow one to send a
X # FAX over a long distance.
X #
X if test ! -z "`grep \"^$user[ ]\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`" ; then
X if test -z "$numbers" ; then
X numbers=$user
X else
X numbers="$numbers $user"
X multi=yes
X fi
X if test ! -z "$description" ; then
X description="$description, "
X fi
X description="$description`sed -n \"s/^$user[ ][ ]*[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`"
X else
X if test -z "$bad_numbers" ; then
X bad_numbers=$user
X else
X bad_numbers="$bad_numbers $user"
X multi_bad=yes
X fi
X fi ;;
X [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]|[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])
X if test -z "$numbers" ; then
X numbers=$user
X else
X numbers="$numbers $user"
X multi=yes
X fi
X user=`echo $user | sed 's/-//g'`
X if test ! -z "$description" ; then
X description="$description, "
X fi
X description="$description`sed -n \"s/^[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*$user[ ][ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`"
X ;;
X *)
X j="`echo $user | sed -n -e 's/-//' -e \"\`sed -e 's/(/\\\\\\\\(/g' -e 's/)/\\\\\\\\)/g' -e 's:.*:s/&/\\\\\\\\1/p:' /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/efrc\`\"`"
X if test -z "$j" ; then
X if test -z "$bad_numbers" ; then
X bad_numbers=$user
X else
X bad_numbers="$bad_numbers $user"
X multi_bad=yes
X fi
X else
X if test -z "$numbers" ; then
X numbers=$j
X else
X numbers="$numbers $j"
X multi=yes
X fi
X if test ! -z "$description" ; then
X description="$description, "
X fi
X description="$description`sed -n \"s/^[^ ][^ ]*[ ][ ]*$j[ ][ ]*\(.*\)/\1/p\" /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/aliases`"
X fi
X ;;
X esac
done
if test ! -z "$bad_numbers" -a ! -z "$return" ; then
X ( echo "Will not send fax to $bad_numbers"
X echo
X if test "yes" = "$multi_bad" ; then
X echo "This fax server considers the following numbers as not being local calls or to"
X echo "be unknown by the system, and will not send the following faxes:"
X echo " $bad_numbers"
X else
X if test `echo $bad_numbers | wc -c` -gt 13 ; then
X echo "This fax server considers $bad_numbers"
X echo "a long distance call, or unknown to the system, and will not send the fax."
X else
X echo "This fax server considers $bad_numbers a long distance call, or unknown to the"
X echo "system, and will not send the fax."
X fi
X fi
X echo "please contact postmaster@$HOSTNAME if you think this is in error"
X echo
X sed "s/^/} /" /tmp/obscure$$.t
X ) | mail $return
fi
if test "yes" = "$multi" ; then
X numbers="-m $numbers --"
fi
LOGNAME=root
export LOGNAME
chmod 644 /tmp/obscure$$.t $FILENAME
if test -z "$description" ; then
X description=Unknown
fi
echo /usr/local/bin/faxspool -q -f "$return" -F "$name" -D "$description" $numbers $FILENAME >/tmp/faxspool.arguments
/usr/local/bin/faxspool -q -f "$return" -F "$name" -D "$description" $numbers $FILENAME
status=$?
rm -f /tmp/obscure$$.t $FILENAME
exit $status
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 obscure.sh ||
echo 'restore of obscure.sh failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'obscure.sh'`"
test 7907 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'obscure.sh: original size 7907, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= routers ==============
if test -f 'routers' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping routers (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'routers' &&
# @(#)samples/generic/routers 1.3 8/8/92 16:40:26
X . . . . .
obscure_neighbors:
X driver=uuname,
X transport=obscure;
X
X cmd="echo obscure",
X . . . . .
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 routers ||
echo 'restore of routers failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'routers'`"
test 149 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'routers: original size 149, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
# ============= transports ==============
if test -f 'transports' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then
echo 'x - skipping transports (File already exists)'
else
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'transports' &&
# @(#)samples/generic/transports 1.11 9/6/92 04:41:55
X
obscure:
X driver=pipe, # pipe message to another program
X return_path, # include a Return-Path: field
X from, # supply a From_ envelope line
X unix_from_hack, # insert > before From in body
X # comment out the above line for
X # use with the Content-Length
X # header fields.
# SVR4 mailbox format: uncomment the below 3 lines
# remove_header="Content-Length",
# append_header="${if !header:Content-Type :Content-Type: text}",
# append_header="Content-Length: $body_size",
X local; # use local forms for delivery
X cmd="/usr/lib/smail/obscure.sh $user",
X parent_env, # environment info from parent addr
X pipe_as_user, # use user-id associated with address
# ignore_status, # ignore a non-zero exit status
X ignore_write_errors, # ignore write errors, i.e., broken pipe
X umask=0022, # umask for child process
X log_output, # do not log stdout/stderr
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0640 transports ||
echo 'restore of transports failed'
Wc_c="`wc -c < 'transports'`"
test 930 -eq "$Wc_c" ||
echo 'transports: original size 930, current size' "$Wc_c"
fi
exit 0
From: ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New CERT advisories
Date: 4 Mar 1995 03:18:47 GMT
Organization: Wah Rung Bott Communications and Artificial Intelligence, Inc.
Message-ID: <3j8m6n$jnr@kei.com>
References: <3iif7g$i68@mark.ucdavis.edu> <1995Feb24.020004.4208@antigone.com>
<RDL.95Mar3213727@world.std.com>
In-reply-to: rdl@world.std.com's message of Sat, 4 Mar 1995 02:37:27 GMT
RLF> == Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com>
RLF> Correct me if I'm mistaken but I don't believe NeXT's sendmail
RLF> implementation uses the IDENT protocol which is the problem that
RLF> affects versions < 8.
Not *the* problem, just *a* problem. It is believed that all sendmail
variants of 5.x (including IDA and all vendor versions) have the problem
noted below:
RLF> 8.6.10/8.6.10 95/02/10
RLF> SECURITY: Diagnose bogus values to some command line flags that
RLF> could allow trash to get into headers and qf files.
This allows local users to do all sorts of nasty things which will allow
them to get root sooner or later.
--
Christopher Davis * <ckd@kei.com> * <URL:http://www.kei.com/homepages/ckd/>
512/03829F89 = D7 C9 A7 80 8C 84 3F B2 27 E1 48 61 BF FC 18 B4
1024/66CB73DD = 46 8E FD F5 12 8E 13 4C 2C 8A 92 A3 B0 D5 2A 5E
[ Public keys available by finger, WWW, or keyserver ]
From: thomas@arnold.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (Thomas Traexler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile size
Date: 4 Mar 1995 10:36:04 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j9fqk$qp3@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In article <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu
(JIM KOCH) writes:
>
> I would like to know if I can change the size of the file
> "swapfile.front".
> It is currently 272meg which seems very large to me. It appears this is
> fixed at boot up. Any advice here on the new recomended size, and how to
> impliment this change?
> --
> If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
The file swapfile.front is only a virtual file. So you have no need to do
something
Thomas
--
Thomas Traexler Email:
TH-Darmstadt thomas@arnold.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (NeXTmail)
Institut fuer dd3i@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de (non NeXTmail)
Festkoerperphysik
From: jjhuang@server.cm.nctu.edu.tw (Jiunn-Jye Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to use remote Printer ?
Date: 4 Mar 1995 07:32:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Message-ID: <3j951q$ic8@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Hello,all,
As far as I know, UNIX can use remote printer which connect to other
host,but in NeXTSTEP,when I use PrintManager.app,I can only choose
Serial,Parallel,and HP JetDirect. But my PostScript Printer is connected
with my Linux in other room. How could I use remote Printer? Thanks.
--
Jiunn-Jye Huang (6@+T3G) E-mail:u8213006@cc.nctu.edu.tw
%f$j9q+H$K$;/E jjhuang@cm.nctu.edu.tw
-7(F(S+e 'Z,0'A
4?8g(:<K2`2`.I$U*:=u/A
-7(F9L+a ,0$0;r
A`7|&3(G-+-n*:2S8`3Q'A?r:| !P!P!P.u<}.e .I%z$E=g >z%v3U*+@]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <crawford@nesteggs.com>
Message-ID: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v112.1)
From: "Michael E.. Crawford" <crawford@nesteggs.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 01:21:10 -0600
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
writes:
> I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire >filesystem
snip-snip-snip
I'm rather partial to
gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
from root. It's quick & painless, (well, until otherDisk begins copying
itself onto itself).
So paste
gnutar cvf -
into root's command line in Terminal.app, type in an open parenthesis, then
move to the File Viewer. There, with all the dot files visible, select *all*
the files under /, and (shift-click) unselect the otherDisk entry, and then
drag the fistful of files from the File Viewer into the Terminal window.
Voila! Now a close parenthesis, and paste in the rest of the command:
| (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
It should now look something like this:
gnutar cvf - ( /.login /NextApps /LocalLibrary /.cshrc /NextAdmin /.path
/mach /sdmach /.NextTrash /private /Mailboxes /usr /LocalApps /odmach
/Library /etc /NextLibrary /bin /Net /.NeXT /.hidden /tmp /NextDeveloper /dev
/.dir.tiff /.profile /lost+found /me ) | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
If you've got stuff mounted on /Net, `twould be a good idea to (shift-click)
unselect /Net from the File Viewer before you dragged them over. (Be sure to
recreate it with correct permissions later!)
Braced?
Hit return.
Methinks you'll smile with an humble sense of mastery and satisfaction as you
watch the files zip over.
After it's done (recreated /Net yet?), swap the drives, reboot & you're off
to pursue happiness in life & liberty.
Michael Crawford
nesteggs
Houston
From: pls@getnet.com (Paul Schauble)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 17:52:20 -0500
Organization: Network 99, Inc.
Message-ID: <agFLlyiw1yz6079yn@getnet.com>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca>
<D4n8C8.1Fq2@austin.ibm.com>
In article <D4n8C8.1Fq2@austin.ibm.com>,
woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) wrote:
>
>Is Motorola actually shipping their POWER Stacks (sp?) in quantity now?
>Just curious...
>--
Motorola is having a grand product showing here in Phoenix next week. I'm
going and I'll report what I see.
Aside from that, I'm late coming into this discussion. Could someone please
summarize? I'm interested in finding a machine to be used as a department
server where reliability is primary. What's currently best
1. if cost is no object
2. Best price/performance
3. Best system using Intel hardware
++PLS
From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 4 Mar 1995 16:46:01 GMT
Organization: Solaris 2.4 research kitchen, D-41469 Neuss
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ja5g9$bh5@knobel.GUN.de>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>
Martin Knoblauch (knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com) wrote:
: [ concerning SGI's way to install everything in one large partition ]
: This is the second time that I see this kind of negative
: remark on this particular topic in this thread. What is the
: exact problem with the one partition layout? Definitely beats
: a small root partition that fills up every second day :-)
I think it's really difficult for an OS Vendor to preinstall
a partition layout that meets everybodys needs. But in nowadays.
where a 1 GB drive has become standard, it shouldn't be to difficult
to do a partition layout like that:
root - 32 MB
swap - 128 MB
usr - 256 MB
var - 64 MB
opt - the rest....
/tmp and /var/tmp could be "put" into memory filesystem ...
Ok, this one is a bit Solaris2'ish ... and perhaps a bit too "multiples
of 8" .... But infact with tha tpartitioning one could live with that
configuration on a personal workstation as well as on a workgroup server.
I like small roots, because of faster access to /etc/passwd's and such, ok ?
I think SGI had problems in former times to install the whole bunch onto
a machine with only 500 MB harddisk ... I think it's a bit braindamaged
to sell so small drives if you have tons of nice appl. software, that
comes with the OS.
All ideas of marketing gurus, eh ?! '-)
Andreas ///
--
andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH
Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de -
*** apsfilter - irgendwie clever ***
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/Linux/local/packs/APSfilter/aps-49...:-)
From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: strange swapfile ?
Message-ID: <1995Mar3.221227.44547@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 3 Mar 95 22:12:27 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
Hello,
I read in the low resolution pictures from a ProPhotoCD with
the PhotoAlbum.app without problems. Then I tried to display
a high resolution (ca. 32 MB) picture with a 'old' NeXTstation
running NS 3.2. The machine was completly occupied and all
(mouse) actions and responses were slowed down. After I while
I decied to kill this app.
When I rebooted I realized, that the /private/vm/swapfile was
still several hundereds MB long, which couldn't be true, because my
Disk has only 1 GB and is 80 % full.
After studying the /etc/rc.boot I deleted the /private/vm/swapfile
and the directory /private/vm directory. After the following reboot
I found the following *two* entries in /private/vm:
-rw------t 1 root 147456 Mar 3 12:48 swapfile
-rw------t 1 root 385024 Mar 3 12:48 swapfile.front
I checked the message at boot time an dicovered that the swap
file is: /private/vm/swapfile.front. I didn't find this filename
in any script.
After rebooting my NeXT several times it look s like:
-rw------t 1 root 16777216 Mar 3 21:47 swapfile
-rw------t 1 root 12738560 Mar 3 21:47 swapfile.front
Does anybody know how to cure this strange situation, without
rebuilding the disk ?
bye Markus Wildi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: eike@ilink.de (Eike Dierks)
Subject: Re: NFS_in3.3_SLOW
Message-ID: <D4xz7v.7q5@ilink.de>
Sender: usenet@ilink.de
Organization: i.link Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, Berlin
References: <3j7fmu$av@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 00:40:42 GMT
Take a look at
(NS3.3)/NextLibrary/Documentation/NEXTSTEP_In_Focus/1993Fall/NFS_Performan
ce_Tuning.rtfd
In article <3j7fmu$av@news.tuwien.ac.at> bernhard@pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at
(Bernhard Mayr) writes:
> Since I upgraded our little network (2 black, 5 white) there is a severe
> problem: the NFS seems not to work properly.
> For various reasons we have all home directories on the black machines
and
> export them via NFS. Since the upgrade 3.2 -> 3.3 the messages - files
of
> the clients are full with messages like:
>
> "Feb 24 16:56:49 charon mach: NFS create failed for server
> pluto.nt.tuwien.ac.at: RPC: Timed out"
>
> i.e. the NFS does not work properly. It did well with 3.2 however.
> I'd be grateful for any hint which brings us to a solution of this
timing
> problem.
>
>
> --Bernhard Mayr
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Mag.rer.nat. D.I. Bernhard J. MAYR
> Institut f. Nachrichtentechnik u. Hochfrequenztechnik, TU-WIEN
> mail: bmayr@email.tuwien.ac.at; tel: 58801/3513
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Novell Installation help?
Message-ID: <1995Mar4.165531.1459@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <ZHAO.95Mar1101257@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 16:55:31 GMT
In article <ZHAO.95Mar1101257@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z.
Zhao) writes:
> Only Novell Netware Lite does point-to-point networking. Does the
> Netware in NEXTSTEP need a server to run? Can you configure your
> 286 to be a Netware server?
>
The Netware in NS is a 3.x client. So you need a 3.x server to connect
to. A 4.1 server might be a bit tricky, but I've not checked.
As Netware 3.x (server?) was once dubbed Netware 386 you can imagine it
won't load on 286. And it won't be much fun, either.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 21:11:02 -0500
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Message-ID: <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <danpop.794272239@rscernix>
In article <danpop.794272239@rscernix>, danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
> In <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>
> >007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste) writes:
> >
> >>I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
> >
> >>not power macs or RS/6000 machines, but Motorola PPCs
> >
> >>you can get a 16mb base workstation (base price! no flames about
> >>insufficient hardware! :-) for less than 5000 (i believe) with a PPC 604
> >>processor, which should give better performance than any other workstation
> >>under 20k..... (argue away, i am NOT standing firm by THAT statement ;-)
> >
> >>AND, you can run WinNT (why?) AIX, or soon OS/2
> >
> >>MUCH cheaper than a sparc, sgi, or pa/risc system......
> >
> >
> >
> >For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
> >of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>
> And how much did you pay for the extra 48 meg of RAM needed to get any
> decent response time from DEC OSF/1 on that box?
Since this is an Alpha group, I will prolong this "mine is bigger than
yours" discussion by noting what a little bird told me: a new Alphastation
with a 266 MHz 21064A chip, 64 Mbyte of memory, a 1 Gbyte drive, 2 (or was
it 3) PCI slots, a ZLX graphics card, and a 21-inch color monitor will be
announced very soon.... and it will run something like 260 SPECfp92. List
price so configured: US$22K. Price most university and corporate accounts
would pay: well < $20K.
That speed, by the way, is faster than the DEC 3000 Model 900.
Joe Gurman
--
Joseph B. Gurman / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Solar Data Analysis Center / Code 682 / Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov
| Federal employees are still prohibited from holding opinions while at work. Any opinions expressed herein must therefore be someone else's. |
From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 01 Mar 1995 17:19:16 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Mar1121917@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com>
In-reply-to: "Michael E.. Crawford"'s message of Wed, 1 Mar 95 01:21:10 -0600
<crawford@nesteggs.com> writes:
>In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
>writes:
>>I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire >filesystem
>snip-snip-snip
>I'm rather partial to
>gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
>from root. It's quick & painless, (well, until otherDisk begins copying
NOOOOO!!! Do *not* do this. This is a VERY BAD HABIT. The code above
uses absolute pathnames, which are removed by gnutar. If you use any
other tar, your absolute pathnames will NOT be extracted, and you'll begin
overwriting the source files. If you do this to something like
/usr/shlib, you'll very soon have a big problem on your hands.
Be very careful when using tar, and derivative versions, and do NOT get
in the habit of specifying absolute pathnames.
- db
--
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er
so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. Gentlemen in England now abed
shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods
cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sean@tcel.com (Sean Watkins)
Subject: Sendmail 8.6.9 Binaries?
Organization: Telnet Canada Enterprises (403) 245-1882
Message-ID: <1995Mar4.203421.5613@tcel.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 20:34:21 GMT
Hi
I have been given the task of getting Sendail 8.6.9 running on a i386
Next Machine.
Does anyone have binaries for this machine? It will save me tonnes and
tones of time.. I don't WANT to compile it.
Sean Watkins
PS: A uu-encoded sendmail or ftp site would be great!
--
Sean Watkins Telnet Canada Enterprises (403) 245-1882
sean@tcel.com Penthouse, 1812 4th St. S.W.
http://www.tcel.com/~sean Calgary, Alberta, Canada
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AFS and NFS
Date: 5 Mar 1995 03:45:45 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3jbc59$na6@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3ivvbm$2g4@news.iastate.edu>
sela@iastate.edu writes:
>I have an account here at school on an afs server. Is there anyway I can
>mount it to a Net directory on my NeXT?
You need to buy the NEXTSTEP AFS client from Transarc.
(or go through a NFS->AFS gateway running on another UNIX machine
with an AFS client)
--
David Lemson (217) 244-8833
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: deviant@sehjas (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.6.9 Binaries?
Date: 4 Mar 1995 23:31:21 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <3jat89$ne7@matlock.mindspring.com>
References: <1995Mar4.203421.5613@tcel.com>
sean@tcel.com (Sean Watkins) wrote:
>Hi
>I have been given the task of getting Sendail 8.6.9 running on a i386
>Next Machine.
First suggestion, don't bother with 8.6.9, CERT has issued an advisory on
that version. Grab 8.6.10 and go with that.
>Does anyone have binaries for this machine? It will save me tonnes and
>tones of time.. I don't WANT to compile it.
>Sean Watkins
>PS: A uu-encoded sendmail or ftp site would be great!
>--
>Sean Watkins Telnet Canada Enterprises (403) 245-1882
>sean@tcel.com Penthouse, 1812 4th St. S.W.
>http://www.tcel.com/~sean Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I might get around to compiling and testing it for NEXTSTEP fip. If I do
and you haven't gotten it yet, then I'll look towards posting the binaries.
Jeff Sickel
jsickel@sickel.com
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: does rwhod work?
Date: 4 Mar 1995 19:23:18 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jaen6$1l1@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3j8foe$81m@cobber.cord.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In article <3j8foe$81m@cobber.cord.edu> doroin@cobber.cord.edu (Jon
Doroin) writes:
}~
}~ My rwhod doesn't work. I've tried rwhod in NS3.2 and NS3.3 (intel) on
}~ a mixed net of machines running SunOS, FreeBSD, and BSD/i. Does
anywone
}~ have it working or know of a patch/fix/replacement?
}~
}~ Thanks in Advance.
It's worked for a couple years (when the SLIP link is up ;-)
for us. You *do* have to have /usr/spool/rwho/ already
in existance and launch the daemon on all hosts that will
be reporting.
Also there's a sun/rpc replacement that uses "who" or "w',
as I recall, on each host to be polled. This gives a more
up-to-date display, albeit more slowly.
Also, finger @host1 @host2 @host3 @host...
works on 3.2, and probably all versions of NEXTSTEP.
As I recall, Eric P Scott posted an invitiation to ftp an App
for the same purpose a couple of months ago.
+-+
Bruce Gingery Total System Software Cheyenne, WY USA
We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
NEXT IN LINE magazine staff technical writer
Bruce Gingery <bgingery@Wyoming.COM> OR <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Re: reading multi-session CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <D4xzsu.Iv@blackmaus.com>
Sender: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: Blackmaus Design, Inc.
References: <1995Mar1.204641.12732@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 00:53:18 GMT
In article <1995Mar1.204641.12732@news.cs.indiana.edu> "J. Michael Ashley"
<jashley@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
> I have a multi-session CD-ROM that I am trying to read. Each session
> has data written in ISO 9660 format with Rockridge extensions. When I
> put the CD into my drive, the CD mounts with the first session
> visible. I cannot, however, figure out how to mount the second
> session.
If you are trying to do this using NeXT's CD-ROM drive, you'll never be able to do it,
since NeXT's drive doesn't support multi-session CDs.
I believe that if you use any multi-session compatible CD-ROM drive, you'll be able to
access all partitions.
Anyone else know from first-hand experience?
---
Dino Bagdadi
Blackmaus Design
dino@blackmaus.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
From: richard@runner.uucp@usc.edu (Richard Ruth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Document Icon Picture Lost
Date: 4 Mar 1995 08:59:14 -0800
Organization: runner
Message-ID: <3ja692$3f7@runner.uucp>
Summary: Lost gif document icon picture
Keywords: document icon
When I select (single click) a .gif file in the File Viewer I
no longer get the .gif icon, instead I get an almost blank white
icon. How do you select what Document Icon is attached to
what file extender (ex: .gif, .tiff, .ps). (Or where do I look
in the documentation or FAQ)
Thanks
--
Richard
richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
(ok to send NeXT Mail)
From: salmon@susu.hnc.re.kr (Lee Kyunghoon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I use JetDirect on NeXT?
Date: 5 Mar 1995 08:07:40 GMT
Organization: Hangul & Computer Co., Ltd.
Message-ID: <3jbrgc$h80@news.kreonet.re.kr>
We use HP LJ4 with JetDirect.
Please let me know, how I can add the printer to print manager Printers list.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rwach@quads.uchicago.edu (Chip Ach)
Subject: Sendmail piping to a perl script?
Message-ID: <D4yM0D.Hou@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Information Technologies
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 08:53:01 GMT
I would like to feel a perl script I wrote a message to a certain
address. I've set up /etc/sendmail/aliases with:
send-to-here: "|/path/to/working/perl/script"
and I've done newaliases... The permissions are set on the script for
global execute... I don't THINK it's anything realllllly stupid I've
done wrong, but I very well may be mistaken. :)
Why, I ask, do I get bounces with:
Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1
To: rwach@quads.uchicago.edu
----- Transcript of session follows -----
./badsub.shell: ./badsub.shell: cannot open
554 "|/path/to/working/perl/script"... 554 unknown mailer error 1
-Chip
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone ever use Fujitsu 230 MO drive?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 95 07:50:49 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <h4+bdNJ.jadamski@delphi.com>
I'm thinking of getting the Fujitus 230 MO drive, but want any pros/cons from
someone already using one with NS. I have a NeXTstation.
Please e-mail me.
jda
jadamski@delphi.com
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From: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: root's defaults database woes
Message-ID: <D4y19n.17L@blackmaus.com>
Sender: dino@blackmaus.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: Blackmaus Design, Inc.
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 01:24:59 GMT
Folks,
I'm in need of some HELP ASAP!
By mistake, I deleted root's NeXTdefaults.D and NeXTdefaults.L files. Now all of root's
defaults are gone. But the worse part of it is that for some reason, root is not able to
write/save its own defaults anymore! So even if I try to save new defaults, it won't
preserve them next time I log in!
This is what I get when I try to read the defaults database:
# dread -l
dread: Can't open defaults database
I checked root's file permissions on both the directory and the files themselves and they
seem OK.
Here's the output:
#ls -l /.NeXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 20 Mar 3 17:34 .NeXTdefaults.D
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 8192 Mar 3 17:37 .NeXTdefaults.L
I've tried copying my own defaults into root's account; no go.
I've tried erasing the entire /.NeXT directory (where root's defaults files reside); no
go.
Any other suggestions? PLEASE, I'm open to any suugestions!
Thank you very much.
---
Dino Bagdadi
Blackmaus Design
dino@blackmaus.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
From: jbragin@jupiter.uucp (joe bragin 04-22-92)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to change servers
Date: 5 Mar 1995 15:45:21 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <3jcmah$hrh@nic-nac.CSU.net>
I have a network of 5 machines (some 486's and some Pentiums,
some running 3.2 and some 3.3, if these matter). The server is
"curie". I want to bring in a new machine with a larger internal
hard drive than "curie" - let's call this new machine "meitner"
- and I would like to make "meitner" the master server and "curie"
the clone server. How do I go about doing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Vicki Bragin
(Posted for Vicki Bragin by J. Bragin)
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <danpop.794272239@rscernix>
Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System)
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:10:39 GMT
In <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>007534l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dana Lacoste) writes:
>
>>I wonder if anyone here know about the Motorola PowerPC boxes?
>
>>not power macs or RS/6000 machines, but Motorola PPCs
>
>>you can get a 16mb base workstation (base price! no flames about
>>insufficient hardware! :-) for less than 5000 (i believe) with a PPC 604
>>processor, which should give better performance than any other workstation
>>under 20k..... (argue away, i am NOT standing firm by THAT statement ;-)
>
>>AND, you can run WinNT (why?) AIX, or soon OS/2
>
>>MUCH cheaper than a sparc, sgi, or pa/risc system......
>
>
>
>For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
And how much did you pay for the extra 48 meg of RAM needed to get any
decent response time from DEC OSF/1 on that box?
Dan
--
Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Date: 5 Mar 1995 15:51:34 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3jcmm6$j3f@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com>
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Michael E.. Crawford (crawford@nesteggs.com) wrote:
: In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
: writes:
: > I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire >filesystem
: snip-snip-snip
: I'm rather partial to
: gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
: from root. It's quick & painless, (well, until otherDisk begins copying
: itself onto itself).
[... directions deleted ....]
No need to do it like this.
Simply do
gnutar cvlf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
The -l parameter prevents gnutar from switching over to a different
filesystem.
Cheers,
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 5 Mar 1995 15:53:41 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3jcmq5$j4q@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com> <SAMURAI.95Mar1121917@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
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Darcy BROCKBANK (samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
: <crawford@nesteggs.com> writes:
: >In article <D4Mpo1.1rx@ritz.mordor.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
: >writes:
: >>I just got a new hard drive, and I'd like to copy my entire >filesystem
: >snip-snip-snip
: >I'm rather partial to
: >gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
: >from root. It's quick & painless, (well, until otherDisk begins copying
: NOOOOO!!! Do *not* do this. This is a VERY BAD HABIT. The code above
: uses absolute pathnames, which are removed by gnutar. If you use any
: other tar, your absolute pathnames will NOT be extracted, and you'll begin
: overwriting the source files. If you do this to something like
: /usr/shlib, you'll very soon have a big problem on your hands.
Yes. That's right. So rather do
cd /; gnutar cvf - . | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
: Be very careful when using tar, and derivative versions, and do NOT get
: in the habit of specifying absolute pathnames.
Yes.
Axel
--
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Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to change servers
Date: 5 Mar 1995 16:00:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3jcn6e$jab@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3jcmah$hrh@nic-nac.CSU.net>
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joe bragin 04-22-92 (jbragin@jupiter.uucp) wrote:
: I have a network of 5 machines (some 486's and some Pentiums,
: some running 3.2 and some 3.3, if these matter). The server is
: "curie". I want to bring in a new machine with a larger internal
: hard drive than "curie" - let's call this new machine "meitner"
: - and I would like to make "meitner" the master server and "curie"
: the clone server. How do I go about doing this?
: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Set up the new host (meitner) first.
Then change the 'master' property in / of the master netinfo database
from curie/network to meitner/network. Next, copy all files from
/etc/netinfo from curie to the new master. Shut down curie and reboot
the new master. Reboot all clients.
This should be all.
Cheers,
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rwach@quads.uchicago.edu (Chip Ach)
Subject: Re: Sendmail piping to a perl script?
Message-ID: <D4z5uM.KMB@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Academic Inforformation Technologies
References: <D4yM0D.Hou@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 16:01:34 GMT
In article <D4yM0D.Hou@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Chip Ach <rwach@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>I would like to feel a perl script I wrote a message to a certain
>address. I've set up /etc/sendmail/aliases with:
>send-to-here: "|/path/to/working/perl/script"
[and so on... see previous message]
In my somewhat asleep state when I wrote this, I forgot to mention the
system I'm dealing with... NS 3.0, real^H^H^H^HMotorola hardware
(slab), Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0M...
Thanks,
Chip
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <danpop.794418805@rscernix>
Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System)
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <danpop.794272239@rscernix> <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 15:53:25 GMT
In <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov> gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
>In article <danpop.794272239@rscernix>, danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>> In <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>> >
>> >For $3975.00 I bought an AXP 3000/300LX with 16 inch 1280x1024 monitor, 16meg
>> >of RAM , a 535 Meg hd and DEC OSF/1.
>>
>> And how much did you pay for the extra 48 meg of RAM needed to get any
>> decent response time from DEC OSF/1 on that box?
>
> Since this is an Alpha group, I will prolong this "mine is bigger than
Which one of the dozen groups this thread is crossposted to? :-)
>yours" discussion by noting what a little bird told me: a new Alphastation
>with a 266 MHz 21064A chip, 64 Mbyte of memory, a 1 Gbyte drive, 2 (or was
>it 3) PCI slots, a ZLX graphics card, and a 21-inch color monitor will be
>announced very soon.... and it will run something like 260 SPECfp92. List
>price so configured: US$22K. Price most university and corporate accounts
>would pay: well < $20K.
Let's compare the new system with the 3000/300LX mentioned above:
2X the memory (the original poster corrected the 16 MB figure).
1.7X the display area.
2X the disk capacity
3.4X the SPECfp92 performance.
5.5X the price.
I'm affraid DEC made more $$$ selling the 3000/300LX than it will ever
make selling the new (unannounced == vapourware) system, at the above
mentioned price.
Dan
--
Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
From: jk@tools.de (Juergen Keil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mounting files with Solaris 2.4 from a NEXSTEP computer?
Date: 05 Mar 1995 16:55:53 GMT
Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Message-ID: <JK.95Mar5175553@leo.tools.de>
References: <3j29tt$isk@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
In-reply-to: gabor@architektur.uni-kassel.de's message of 1 Mar 1995 17:12:29 GMT
In article <3j29tt$isk@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
gabor@architektur.uni-kassel.de (Gabor Freivogel) writes:
> we setup a new server running NEXSTEP and tried to mount the Directories
> on some SOLARIS 2.4 suns...
> Actually the suns mount the files, but if you cd to the mounted dir. on
> the S 2.4 machines and type ls it takes appr. 2-5 minutes (!) until you
> got some result....
For some reasons, Nextstep (and I think some old versions of Ultrix,
too) has problems with NFS READDIR requests for more than 1024 bytes
of directory data. SunOS retransmits the READDIR requests and
eventually changes the rsize and wsize values for the mount
dynamically to smaller values. This can be verified on the sun with
'nfsstat -m'. After 2-5 minutes it reaches rsize=wsize=1024 and the
READDIR requests to the Next start working!
> what could we do (besides reformating the disks again and go back to a
> SUNOS 4.x server)?
For now, just mount the Next filesystems with rsize=1024 on the sun.
--
Juergen Keil jk@tools.de ...!{uunet,mcsun}!unido!tools!jk
From: doroin@cobber.cord.edu (Jon Doroin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: does rwhod work?
Date: 3 Mar 1995 19:28:46 -0600
Organization: Concordia College, Moorhead Minnesota
Message-ID: <3j8foe$81m@cobber.cord.edu>
My rwhod doesn't work. I've tried rwhod in NS3.2 and NS3.3 (intel) on
a mixed net of machines running SunOS, FreeBSD, and BSD/i. Does anywone
have it working or know of a patch/fix/replacement?
Thanks in Advance.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
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doroin@cobber.cord.edu | Plan 9 on a NeXTstation
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: New CERT advisories
In-Reply-To: mross@antigone.com's message of Fri, 24 Feb 1995 02:00:04 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Mar3213727@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3iif7g$i68@mark.ucdavis.edu> <1995Feb24.020004.4208@antigone.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 02:37:27 GMT
Correct me if I'm mistaken but I don't believe NeXT's sendmail implementation
uses the IDENT protocol which is the problem that affects versions < 8. In any
case, you can get a patch yourself from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu. BTW - I
misspelled "berkeley" in my last post about this.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
8.6.10/8.6.10 95/02/10
SECURITY: Diagnose bogus values to some command line flags that
could allow trash to get into headers and qf files.
Validate the name of the user returned by the IDENT protocol.
Some systems that really dislike IDENT send intentionally
bogus information. Problem pointed out by Michael Bushnell
of the Free Software Foundation. Has some security
implications.
Fix a problem causing error messages about DNS problems when
the host name contained a percent sign to act oddly
because it was passed as a printf-style format string.
In some cases this could cause core dumps.
Avoid possible buffer overrun in returntosender() if error
message is quite ling. From Fletcher Mattox of the
University of Texas.
Fix a problem that would silently drop "too many hops" error
messages if and only if you were sending to an alias.
From Jon Giltner of the University of Colorado and
Dan Harton of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Fix a bug that caused core dumps on some systems if -d11.2 was
set and e->e_message was null. Fix from Bruce Nagel of
Data General.
Fix problem that can still cause df files to be left around
after "hop count exceeded" messages. Fix from Andrew
Chang and Shau-Ping Lo of SunSoft.
Fix a problem that can cause buffer overflows on very long
user names (as might occur if you piped to a program
with a lot of arguments).
Avoid returning an error and re-queueing if the host signature
is null; this can occur on addresses like ``user@.''.
Problem noted by Wesley Craig and the University of
Michigan.
Avoid possible calls to malloc(0) if MCI caching is turned
off. Bug fix from Pierre David of the Laboratoire
Parallelisme, Reseaux, Systemes et Modelisation (PRiSM),
Universite de Versailles - St Quentin, and Jacky
Thibault.
Make a local copy of the line being sent via senttolist() -- in
some cases, buffers could get trashed by map lookups
causing it to do unexpected things. This also simplifies
some of the map code.
From: jason_fosback@psca.com (Jason Fosback)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP POP3 client?
Date: 4 Mar 1995 00:41:03 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <3j8cuv$h0f@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
References: <3j77js$e6a@piglet.ny.shl.com>
In article <3j77js$e6a@piglet.ny.shl.com> nwc@tamu (Nicholas Christopher)
writes:
>
> Is there a mail app that supports POP3 as a client? I want to try
> connecting to the Internet via PSI's Interramp using ppp2.2 but PSI
> provides mail via POP3...
>
> \n
Try PopOver.app. You can find it on several FTP sites, including:
ftp.cs.orst.edu:/software/NeXT/binaries/mail/PopOver.v1.2.NIH.bd.tar.gz
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail/apps/PopOver.
v1.2.NIH.bd.tar.gz
-jason
_____________________________________________________________________
Jason Fosback, Sr. Software Engineer | Magic: The Gathering
--- Paradigm Systems Corp --- | 'Uhhh, who'd spend lot's of
Internet: jason_fosback@psca.com | money on a stupid card game?'
NeXT mail: jason_fosback@psca.com | 'Shut up Beavis, Magic's cool!'
From: ibhan@husc7.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Serial Printers with NeXTSTEP?
Date: 5 Mar 1995 19:58:07 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Message-ID: <3jd54f$38m@decaxp.harvard.edu>
Do serial printers work with NeXTSTEP? Any problems?
--
Ishir Bhan http://www.digitas.org/ibhan/
ibhan@fas.harvard.edu
From: wen@bnr.ca (Robert Wen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HELP!! Only root can log in!!
Date: 5 Mar 1995 13:34:08 -0600
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jd3ng$dh3@crchh9c2.bnr.ca>
O.K here's the story...
I have a NeXT cube (BLACK FOREVER!) with 16 meg and the original 330 meg hard
drive. This weekend I replaced it with a 1 gig HP C2247. I used the "infamous"
dump/restore trick to copy files from one drive to another. Now after connecting
the 1 gig drive, only root is able to log on. All other accounts are stopped
after login. (ie. Workspace Manager doesn't seem to come up).
Right now I'm stumped.
I would appreciate any advice.
Please post or e-mail to wen@bnr.ca
thanx in advance
--
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*Home: (214)692-9345 * Daily Planet and...uh Sam, what ARE you wearing?" *
*Work: (214)684-1235 * Quantum Leap meets Lois and Clark *
*E-mail:wen@bnr.ca * My opinions are mine, all mine. *
From: doyle@zeke.lanl.gov (Mark D. Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dump on NeXT, restore on Sun
Date: 4 Mar 1995 03:45:31 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3j8nor$8r7@newshost.lanl.gov>
Hi,
A friend of mine writes: (prufrock is a NeXT running 3.3)
We're preparing to backup prufrock and I've run a test
dump. Regarding prufrock as a non-trusted host we rsh the
appropriate dump command from one of our systems on
prufrock, creating standard output. This standard input back
on our system (Sun) is dd'd to a tape. To insure tape
readability and to generate a database of file names with
dates dumped we then run restore against the dump, on the
Sun. Well, this restore aborts. The dump manual page on
prufrock says that this is known and to use dump.old to
create dumps that are restore'able on other vendors'
systems. So, I tried /usr/etc/dump.old but with the same
results. Do you have any ideas?
So, anyone have any ideas?
Cheers,
Mark
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I use JetDirect on NeXT?
Date: 5 Mar 1995 22:53:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jdfds$pe0@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3jbrgc$h80@news.kreonet.re.kr>
In article <3jbrgc$h80@news.kreonet.re.kr> salmon@susu.hnc.re.kr (Lee Kyunghoon) writes:
>We use HP LJ4 with JetDirect.
>Please let me know, how I can add the printer to print manager Printers list.
Use NS3.3 that has support for JetDirect.
OR
For NS3.2 or earlier,
get JetDirectDriver* package from the archives (source+binary).
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Parallel Port Interface
Date: 5 Mar 1995 23:44:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jdida$qqp@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3j7ef1$bf6@clarknet.clark.net>
In article <3j7ef1$bf6@clarknet.clark.net> bchin@nikita (Bill Chin) writes:
>> Also if I cat the group file to /dev/pp0 followed by a few ^L's,
>> a slightly messed up copy of the group file does print (no CR's)
>
>You should not directly dump to /dev/pp0... that doesn't work right.
>There's no flow control and it won't resend dropped portions. I
>contacted NeXT technical support and they walked me through altering a
>PrintManager installed printcap so that I could dump non-postscript to
>it (I was using a NS/FIP box as a print server for a HP LaserJet III
>for PC's running PC-NFS under DOS/Windows). The NeXT tech support
>person asked me not to distribute the solution and instead refer
>people to them since the workaround used undocumented features and may
>or may not have changed for NS 3.3.
Sure, for a few hundred $'s of Tech Support for giving out an undocument
answer!
What's the big deal here? NeXT's printing system works just like
most BSD stuff for non-PS printers. You can niload a printcap by
# niload printcap . < locallpt.printcap
-- locallpt.printcap --
Local_LPT: \
:of=/usr/lib/lpf:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_LPT:_ignore:_writers=*: \
:note=Non-PS label printer:af=/usr/adm/label.acct:lp=/dev/pp0: \
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sh:mx=0:sf:
-- cut --
The above is assuming the /dev/pp0 driver has been fixed. I am
using an "if" filter on NS3.2 to work around a NeXT's pp0 driver bug
as below.
Local_LPT: \
:of=/usr/lib/lpf:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_LPT:_ignore:_writers=*: \
:note=Non-PS label printer:af=/usr/adm/label.acct:lp=/dev/pp0: \
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sh:mx=0:sf:if=/usr/local/lib/lf2crlf:
and "lpr -PLocal_LPT filename" works just like any other printers.
Note that "_ignore" property makes this printer NOT appear on the
PrintPanel, as I believe that non-PS printers should not be accessible
via the standard PrintPanel. May be this is the undocumented feature
they are referring to?
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aris@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Aris Theocharides)
Subject: booting nextstep from SCSI ID 2 drive
Message-ID: <9506512.18990@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU (CS-Usenet)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 01:56:32 GMT
I have a problem: I have OS/2 and Windows NT on one SCSI drive,
SCSI ID = 0, and NeXTSTEP on another SCSI drive, SCSI ID = 1.
On the OS/2 and WinNT drive I have the OS/2 bootmanager, where I can boot
either OS/2 or WinNT. To boot NeXTSTEP I have to use the floppy and boot
with, "sd(1,a)mach_kernel".
How can I have one method of booting all of the operating systems?
That is, I do not want to use a floppy disk to boot.
Aris
... Aris Theocharides ..................................aris@maths.mu.OZ.AU
... Department of Mathematics .............................................
... The University of Melbourne ...........................................
... Parkville 3052 Australia ..............................................
From: greg@Decisionware (Greg Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Accuracy of time zone file.
Date: 5 Mar 1995 22:00:29 GMT
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney, +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jdc9t$570@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Keywords: tzfile
Well its Daylight Saving change over time here in Australia and my NeXT
has got it wrong again. Ohh, it will be right probably next week but I
would like to fix it.
I have found about the time zone compiler 'nic' but what information do I
put into it. Is there a utility out there which will decompile the
approximately right time zone file I currently have, allow me to adjust it
and then recompile the right data? I know the tzfile format and am
currently writing a little utility to do the above but was wondering if
something already existed.
Thanks in advance, Greg Shaw.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: sendmail 8.6.10 Makefile
In-Reply-To: deviant@sehjas's message of 4 Mar 1995 23:31:21 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Mar6005001@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1995Mar4.203421.5613@tcel.com> <3jat89$ne7@matlock.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 05:50:01 GMT
I think you'll find this handy. Please note that this Makefile assumes
that you have the new Berkeley db (from ftp.berkeley.edu) installed on
your system for the user database. I've been meaning to post this for
some time now.
Of particular interest should be the fact that this generates a QUAD-FAT
binary...
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NEXTSTEP Developer / Consultant / Trainer
[ and occasionally knowledgable system/network admin. :-) ]
#
# This Makefile is designed to work on the old "make" program. It does
# not use the obj subdirectory. It also does not install documentation
# automatically -- think of it as a quick start for sites that have the
# old make program (I recommend that you get and port the new make if you
# are going to be doing any signficant work on sendmail).
#
# This has been tested on NeXT 2.1.
#
# @(#)Makefile.NeXT 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/11/94
#
# use O=-O (usual) or O=-g (debugging)
O= -O
# define the database mechanisms available for map & alias lookups:
# -DNDBM -- use new DBM
# -DNEWDB -- use new Berkeley DB
# -DNIS -- include NIS support
# The really old (V7) DBM library is no longer supported.
# See READ_ME for a description of how these flags interact.
#
DBMDEF= -DNEWDB
# environment definitions (e.g., -D_AIX3)
ENVDEF= -DNeXT -DNETINFO
# see also conf.h for additional compilation flags
# include directories
INCDIRS=-I/usr/local/include
# library directories
LIBDIRS=-L/usr/local/lib
# libraries required on your system
LIBS= -ldb
# location of sendmail binary (usually /usr/sbin or /usr/lib)
BINDIR= ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
# location of sendmail.st file (usually /var/log or /usr/lib)
STDIR= ${DESTDIR}/etc/sendmail
# location of sendmail.hf file (usually /usr/share/misc or /usr/lib)
HFDIR= ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
# additional .o files needed
OBJADD=
# additional pseudo-sources needed
BEFORE= unistd.h dirent.h
################### end of user configuration flags ######################
RC_CFLAGS= -arch m68k -arch i386 -arch hppa -arch sparc
CFLAGS= -I. $O ${INCDIRS} ${DBMDEF} ${ENVDEF} ${RC_CFLAGS}
OBJS= 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 ${OBJADD}
LINKS= ${DESTDIR}/usr/ucb/newaliases ${DESTDIR}/usr/ucb/mailq
BINOWN= root
BINGRP= kmem
BINMODE=6555
ALL= sendmail aliases.0 mailq.0 newaliases.0 sendmail.0
all: ${ALL}
sendmail: ${BEFORE} ${OBJS}
${CC} ${RC_CFLAGS} -o sendmail ${OBJS} ${LIBDIRS} ${LIBS}
unistd.h:
cp /dev/null unistd.h
dirent.h:
echo "#include <sys/dir.h>" > dirent.h
echo "#define dirent direct" >> dirent.h
NROFF= nroff -h
aliases.0: aliases.5
${NROFF} -mandoc aliases.5 > aliases.0
mailq.0: mailq.1
${NROFF} -mandoc mailq.1 > mailq.0
newaliases.0: newaliases.1
${NROFF} -mandoc newaliases.1 > newaliases.0
sendmail.0: sendmail.8
${NROFF} -mandoc sendmail.8 > sendmail.0
install: install-sendmail install-docs
install-sendmail: sendmail
install -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m ${BINMODE} sendmail ${BINDIR}
for i in ${LINKS}; do rm -f $$i; ln -s ${BINDIR}/sendmail $$i; done
# install -c -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 644 /dev/null ${STDIR}/sendmail.st
install -c -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 444 sendmail.hf ${HFDIR}
# doesn't actually install them -- you may want to install pre-nroff versions
install-docs: aliases.0 mailq.0 newaliases.0 sendmail.0
clean:
rm -f ${OBJS} sendmail aliases.0 mailq.0 newaliases.0 sendmail.0
# dependencies
# gross overkill, and yet still not quite enough....
${OBJS}: sendmail.h conf.h
From: gwillem@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (WILLEM VAN SCHAIK (INTERNET: GWILLEM@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Date: 6 Mar 95 15:00:08 +0800
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
Message-ID: <1995Mar6.150008@alpha.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com> <D4sEuH.123@harka> <D4tupH.991@ritz.mordor.com>
In article <D4tupH.991@ritz.mordor.com>, hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker) writes:
>
> Actually, yes I have. I used NS3.3 and the dump/restore with a pipe
> method. It took about one hour for the 450MB that I had to transfer, but
> everything worked fine. I used boot to put a bootblock on the disk, and
> off I go!
>
Couldn't you share with us what you learned? Or in other words, what was
the exact syntax of what you describe here as "dump/restore" and "I used
boot". Please let us know.
Thanks, Willem
W i l l e m v a n S c h a i k
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gintic - Singapore gwillem@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
From: mgais@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at (Mansuet Gaisbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Keyboard shortcuts
Date: 06 Mar 1995 08:27:29 GMT
Organization: IICM, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MGAIS.95Mar6092729@pluto.tu-graz.ac.at>
Hi out there!
I am new at NeXT HW and i have some very basic questions.
How can i use the keyboard to scroll text or other scrollable things?
Mainly i can't find a "page up" and "page down" key or other cursor
positioning keys like "start/end of line". The help pages of NS
explain only cursor positioning with the arrow keys and the mouse.
Another related question, how can i delete a word/line at once in
the Edit application.
Can anyone help me. By the way, i use NS 3.0 on a 040 cube.
Thanks in advance
Gaisbauer Mansuet
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| IICM TU-Graz, Austria |
| Schieszstattgasse 4a |
| A-8020 Graz |
|-------------------------------------|
| E-mail: mgais@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at |
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 6 Mar 1995 05:15:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3je5os$ds7@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
*** NEED INFORMATION ***
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
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comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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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
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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
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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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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, read them on the world-wide
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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
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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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and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
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If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
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If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
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Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
Written by:
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Additions from:
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From: rjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rupert Hollom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help setting up NS Printer please .
Date: 6 Mar 1995 10:29:18 GMT
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Message-ID: <3jeo5u$9tj@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Hi all,
I've got an 030 cube running NS 3.0 with a NeXT printer
attached. I can print OK from a terminal window by doing an LPR
<filename> but when I try to print from any NeXT app such as edit the
job appears in the queue as zero bytes long and never appears.
I have suid root and sgid wheel all the printing type progs I can find
and /usr/spool/appkit is everything to everyone. I am now at a
complete loss as to what the problem is - if anyone has any ideas I
would be extremely grateful 'cos I want to be able to print stuff out
!
Cheers Rupert.
E-Mail : rjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk
From: gabor@arch-ws2 (Gabor Freivogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mounting files with Solaris 2.4 from a NEXSTEP computer?
Date: 6 Mar 1995 13:30:51 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Message-ID: <3jf2qb$f0i@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
References: <3j29tt$isk@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de> <JK.95Mar5175553@leo.tools.de>
jk@tools.de (Juergen Keil) wrote:
>For some reasons, Nextstep (and I think some old versions of Ultrix,
>too) has problems with NFS READDIR requests for more than 1024 bytes
>of directory data. SunOS retransmits the READDIR requests and
>eventually changes the rsize and wsize values for the mount
>dynamically to smaller values. This can be verified on the sun with
>'nfsstat -m'. After 2-5 minutes it reaches rsize=wsize=1024 and the
>READDIR requests to the Next start working!
>> what could we do (besides reformating the disks again and go back
to a
>> SUNOS 4.x server)?
>For now, just mount the Next filesystems with rsize=1024 on the sun.
>--
>Juergen Keil jk@tools.de ...!{uunet,mcsun}!unido!tools!jk
Danke fuer die Antwort, aber es hilft leider nicht.
Auserdem es erklaert nicht wieso Solaris 2.3 oder Irix5.3 und die
anderen tadellos arbeiten, ohne irgend eine Fehlermeldung...
Sun hat uns damit getroestet dass es wielleicht in zwei wochen schon
ein Pach geben kann...
Wir gehen aber erstmal zurueck zu Solaris2.3.... und warten alles ab..
Gabor
From: petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch (Marc Petitmermet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP problem
Date: 6 Mar 1995 16:20:16 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[2497]
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jfco0$ot3@elna.ethz.ch>
Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name.
I just installed SLIP on my NeXTstation. The slip connection comes up
without any problems. When I ftp/telnet/etc. to an other host I receive
the message that I am connected to the specified host. But that's all!
I do not get any further messages such as username, password, etc. from
the other hosts.
What's wrong with my installation? Any ideas?
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks
Marc Petitmermet
Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: djc@vnp.com (Dan Crimmins)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP POP3 client?
In-Reply-To: jason_fosback@psca.com's message of 4 Mar 1995 00: 41:03 GMT
Message-ID: <DJC.95Mar6102433@nwk118_ocachi.vnp.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: VNP Software, Inc.
References: <3j77js$e6a@piglet.ny.shl.com> <3j8cuv$h0f@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:24:33 GMT
hi,
PopOver works nicely, but does anyone know where i can find a command-line
pop3 client, preferably with source? i'd like to integrate this into a
SLIP/PPP management tool that i'm going to make freely available.
thanks!
--dan.
--
dan crimmins
vnp software
chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: Document Icon Picture Lost
Message-ID: <1995Mar6.151246.25751@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3ja692$3f7@runner.uucp>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:12:46 GMT
Richard Ruth writes
> When I select (single click) a .gif file in the File Viewer I
> no longer get the .gif icon, instead I get an almost blank white
> icon. How do you select what Document Icon is attached to
> what file extender (ex: .gif, .tiff, .ps). (Or where do I look
> in the documentation or FAQ)
Select the file in your File Viewer and go to Tools->Inspector. At the
top of the window that appears there's a popup button; pull it down to
Tools. There you'll see the icons for all apps which understand the file
extension. The current default app is the one highlighted. To change
this, select another app in the mini-window and click the Set Default
button.
Denise
--
Denise Howard \/ howardd@swissbank.com
Swiss Bank Corporation \/ deniseh@mcs.com
Chicago, IL \/ [NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail welcome]
(312) 554-6298 \/ "Older and Bolder!"
From: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu (Thomas Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 6 Mar 1995 20:58:05 GMT
Organization: Dept. Math & Computer Science, Shippensburg Univ. of Penn, USA
Message-ID: <3jft0t$2qp@battle.ship.edu>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <danpop.794272239@rscernix> <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov>
: price so configured: US$22K. Price most university and corporate accounts
: would pay: well < $20K.
^^^^^^^^^^
That, right there is the sum problem with this! 20K is what some Comp.
Sci departments have for their yearly budgets! Sure its nice to say
"oooh, look at the pretty machine, it can run really fast", but
ultimately, for a university setting, you have to look at your budget and
say "Ummm, yeah, it would be nice to afford a 20k machine, but we've got
286's and 386's that need replaced, memory needs upgrades, printers
purchased, compiler licenses purchased, grad students paid, and etc, etc,
etc."
So, while a few of the *big* universities might be able to afford 20k,
its not going to be possible for most of the rest to afford a lab full of
them.
--
Tom Briggs,
Student of Shippensburg U. of P.
primary email address: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu
secondary email address: tbriggs@saturn.csee.lehigh.edu
From: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu (Thomas Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 6 Mar 1995 21:06:13 GMT
Organization: Dept. Math & Computer Science, Shippensburg Univ. of Penn, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jftg5$2qp@battle.ship.edu>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ja5g9$bh5@knobel.GUN.de>
: I think it's really difficult for an OS Vendor to preinstall
: a partition layout that meets everybodys needs. But in nowadays.
: where a 1 GB drive has become standard, it shouldn't be to difficult
: to do a partition layout like that:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - keep the above two lines in memory....
: /tmp and /var/tmp could be "put" into memory filesystem ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---- sun-ism....
: I like small roots, because of faster access to /etc/passwd's and such, ok ?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - eh? You honestly think that having a
small root partition is going to make a dent in the processing of a huge
ascii text file? If you are a Sun, /etc/passwd isn't even really the
passwd file, its YP or NIS(+), and if you are on a large non-NIS machine,
/etc/passwd could be 1000+ lines, and itsn't going to make too much of a
difference in the long run..... Yes, there is going to be a few cpu
cycles burned by having a few extra INODE blocks to serach through, but
hey, thats why you have *decent* hard drives, and not some old
MiniScribes salvaged out of the dumpster....
: I think SGI had problems in former times to install the whole bunch onto
: a machine with only 500 MB harddisk ... I think it's a bit braindamaged
: to sell so small drives if you have tons of nice appl. software, that
: comes with the OS.
That may be , but remember when they started releasing machines! 1GB
disk drives used to cost more than open-heart surgery :-)
As far as partioning goes, partitioning is really useful to break apart
critical and non-critical file systems, as well as local / non-local.
like /usr/spool should have its *own* partition on a busy
system...someone gets too much mail, and /usr would be filled up, and
thats where /usr/tmp and /usr/adm and other fun directories are....
Thats the real reason to mess with partitions.... that and some error
recovery.... you can always recover one partition or only loose one (if
you are lucky :-))
And now, thats not even a problem with journalized file systems like
AIX's jfs and Sys V's Veritos file system.....
--
Tom Briggs,
Student of Shippensburg U. of P.
primary email address: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu
secondary email address: tbriggs@saturn.csee.lehigh.edu
From: rnielsen@everest.everest.com (Robert D. Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: non-PS printers and HP OfficeJet Printer-Fax-Copier
Date: 6 Mar 1995 20:42:46 GMT
Organization: TLGnet, a division of RGNet, Inc.
Message-ID: <3jfs46$10d@kadath.zeitgeist.net>
Greetings,
I have read that NSFIP 3.3 supports PS and non-PS printers. I am not sure
what to expect when one uses a non-PS printer. Would anyone like to share
their experiences?
Also, HP has an all in one non-PS printer-fax-copier for about $800. Has
anyone got this working on the NSFIP 3.3? If so, how?
Cheers,
Robert D. Nielsen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: HELP!! Only root can log in!! (Ye ol'e restore bug)
Message-ID: <1995Mar6.183125.2479@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3jd3ng$dh3@crchh9c2.bnr.ca>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 18:31:25 GMT
In article <3jd3ng$dh3@crchh9c2.bnr.ca> wen@bnr.ca (Robert Wen) writes:
> O.K here's the story...
>
> I have a NeXT cube (BLACK FOREVER!) with 16 meg and the original
> 330 meg hard drive. This weekend I replaced it with a 1 gig HP
> C2247. I used the "infamous" dump/restore trick to copy files
> from one drive to another. Now after connecting the 1 gig drive,
> only root is able to log on. All other accounts are stopped
> after login. (ie. Workspace Manager doesn't seem to come up).
>
Now, to all who haven't heard about this yet (can't be too many ;-)
There is a bug in 'restore' (until NS 3.3) that makes s-bits to get lost
on the way. There is a patch on NeXTAnswers to fix this.
Now Bob, you just have to restore the s-bit on WorkspaceManager and the
thing is fixed. BTW, you lost numerous other s-bits too. Don't be
shocked to learn that there are other problems of that sort around the
next corner.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: How to change servers
Message-ID: <1995Mar6.183553.2537@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3jcmah$hrh@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 18:35:53 GMT
In article <3jcmah$hrh@nic-nac.CSU.net> jbragin@jupiter.uucp (joe bragin
04-22-92) writes:
> I have a network of 5 machines (some 486's and some Pentiums,
> some running 3.2 and some 3.3, if these matter). The server is
> "curie". I want to bring in a new machine with a larger internal
> hard drive than "curie" - let's call this new machine "meitner"
> - and I would like to make "meitner" the master server and "curie"
> the clone server. How do I go about doing this?
>
Make 'meitner' a clone first and the reverse the order.
P.S.: It's some time past that I last saw a .uucp pseudo domain in an
E-mail address. I mistakenly thought they had died out. Sigh...
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mark_bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTTIME under 3.1?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 00:33:24 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jg9kk$jt@news.next.com>
References: <3j0056$2u2@news.iastate.edu>
In article <3j0056$2u2@news.iastate.edu> sela@iastate.edu writes:
>
> Does NeXTIME run under NS 3.1 or is it a 3.3 only thing?
It should work on 3.2 or 3.3. I seriously doubt it'll work correctly
under 3.1.
-Mark
--
Mark Bessey
NeXT Computer, Inc
Software Quality Assurance
-->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: smith@nextone (Howard Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: MAX supported getty speed
Date: 6 Mar 1995 17:54:09 GMT
Organization: NIEHS
Sender: Howard Smith <smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov>
Message-ID: <3jfi81$hgm@huron.eel.ufl.edu>
Summary: getty wont allow 57600 baud
Keywords: getty zs
Anyone know what the max speed the
Zilog 8530 SCC (black hardware) is really capable of?
I can get the following gettytab entry to work:
DMAGNUM:MAGfast:\
:ap!:p8:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT / magnum (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400:
but at 57600 getty hangs. Is the next-supplied getty an old version
with limited speed support or what? I can dial out via Kermit
at 57600 with no problem!
I notice that the NXFax product uses a getty
speed of 38400 as well...
--
Howard C. Smith
smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov
From: blanford@nacm.com (Ron Blanford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to know from which machine I am logged on?
Date: 6 Mar 1995 20:54:11 GMT
Organization: Nicholas|Applegate Capital Management, San Diego, CA
Message-ID: <3jfspj$5l5@nacm.com>
References: <3ivu2a$hhe@news.service.uci.edu>
Feng Liu writes
> Suppose I am sitting at a DEC machine and logged on a NeXT remoetly.
> In the rlogin session on the NeXT, how can I determine that I logged on
> the NEXT from the DEC and possibly the user ID that originated the
rlogin?
> Same question applies if one logs on a DEC from a NeXT.
>
> I would like to use this information to automate X window and terminal
> type settings in the .cshrc file.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
I can't help with the originating username, but the originating host
appears in the output of 'who am i' (note the spacing). I use the
following in my .cshrc to set the X-Windows DISPLAY environment variable:
# set DISPLAY to point to the host I logged in from
set displayHost=`who am i | sed -e 's/.*(//' -e 's/[)\.\\!].*//'`
if ( $#displayHost == 1 ) then
setenv DISPLAY ${displayHost}:0.0
else
setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0.0
endif
-- Ron
From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Urgent UUCP problem...
Date: 6 Mar 1995 18:04:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3jfir8$hh3@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <1995Mar3.083848.1260@lafn.org>
The easiest long-term solution is to replace NeXT's UUCP with Taylor UUCP.
Kurt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ad934@lafn.org (Chris Horton)
Subject: Re: Urgent UUCP problem... SOLVED(?)
Message-ID: <1995Mar6.071930.22888@lafn.org>
Sender: news@lafn.org
Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
References: <1995Mar3.083848.1260@lafn.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 07:19:30 GMT
In a previous article, ad934@lafn.org I (Chris Horton) said:
>
>Hi, I'm trying to get uucp to work on a black machine running NS3.2. I've
>followed the sys admin manual and have L-devices, /etc/remote, and L.sys
>all configured. [stuff deleted]
Thanks to everyone who replied. Unfortunately nobody had a solution that
worked, but I think that the problem is a bad uucico binary since it
appears my L.sys, sendmail and other config files work on someone elses
machine. Thanks again!
-chris
--
Chris Horton
ad934@lafn.org
From: robert@audrey.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem!
Date: 06 Mar 1995 22:42:42 GMT
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <ROBERT.95Mar6224242@audrey.dircon.co.uk>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com>
To: "Michael E.. Crawford" <crawford@nesteggs.com>
In-reply-to: "Michael E.. Crawford"'s message of Wed, 1 Mar 95 01:21:10 -0600
Lesson to be learnt here is
"Don't use Dump :-)"
I'm use the following for nightly backups to DAT
trap "rm -f /tmp/$$* 2> /dev/null; echo tar backup aborted >/dev/console; exit" 1 2 3 15
trap "rm -f /tmp/$$* 2> /dev/null" 0
/bin/echo $0 `date` >/dev/console
OUTPUT=/usr/tmp/tar-output
if [ -f $OUTPUT ] ; then
/bin/rm $OUTPUT
fi
ROOT=/
# create file for end of archive marker.
/usr/bin/touch /tmp/$$
# backup External disk and SYBASE
/usr/bin/gnutar --create --exclude-from /usr/local/lib/exclude_files --same-order --sparse --block-size 126 --verbose --totals $ROOT /usr/sybase /tmp/$$ 2>&1
# verify
/usr/bin/gnutar --list --same-order --block-size 126 --verbose tmp/$$ >/tmp/$$.1
if [ -s /tmp/$$.1 ]; then
/bin/echo "tar backup performed and verified." >/dev/console
else
/bin/echo "tar backup verification FAILED" >/dev/console
fi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This has always proved rather reliable... and who knows one day I may
just get wise and buy SafetyNet :-)
--
"Mary had a little lamb and punk rock isn't dead"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help,gnu.g++.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: install gcc/g++ 2.6.0 for NEXTSTEP
Date: 6 Mar 95 15:26:10
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95Mar6152610@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
The cc and cc+++ in my NS3.2 for intel are gcc/g++ 2.2.2. I get
gcc-2.6.0 source, but cannot install it. After running
# sh ./configure
in the first round of compiling, I got the following message
.
.
.
{\rtf0\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}
\paperw15620
\paperh10200
\margl120
\margr120
\pard\tx711\tx1423\tx2135\tx2846\tx3558\tx4270\tx4981\tx5693\tx6405\tx7116\f0\b0\i0\ulnone\fs32\fc0\cf0 cc -traditional-cpp -DIN_GCC -g -o genattr genattr.o rtl.o ` case "obstack.o" in ?*) echo obstack.o ;; esac ` ` case "cc -traditional-cpp"@"" in "cc -traditional-cpp"@?*) echo ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo ;; esac ` \
./genattr md > tmp-attr.h\
move-if-change tmp-attr.h insn-attr.h\
Make: Cannot load move-if-change. Stop.\
*** Exit 1\
Stop.\
I don't get it. Do you know the trick to install gcc/g++ on PC for NEXTSTEP?
Thanks in advance,
-- zhao
From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile size
Date: 06 Mar 1995 22:58:30 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Mar6175832@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> <3j9fqk$qp3@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
In-reply-to: thomas@arnold.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de's message of 4 Mar 1995 10:36:04 GMT
<thomas@arnold.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> writes:
>In article <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu
>(JIM KOCH) writes:
>>
>>I would like to know if I can change the size of the file
>>"swapfile.front".
>>It is currently 272meg which seems very large to me. It appears this is
>>fixed at boot up. Any advice here on the new recomended size, and how to
>>impliment this change?
>>--
>>If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to view all problems as nails!
>The file swapfile.front is only a virtual file. So you have no need to do
>something
Though is swapfile.front is that big, his swapfile is also very big
(which isn't a virtual file). There is only one solution under NEXTSTEP,
and that's to reboot the system.
Or have 256M of RAM.
- db
--
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er
so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. Gentlemen in England now abed
shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods
cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrading floppy-less '030 to NS 3.3
Date: 6 Mar 1995 19:18:55 GMT
Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation
Message-ID: <3jfn6v$3t@news.jf.intel.com>
I'm upgrading an old '030 floppy-less NeXT Cube from
NS 2.1 to 3.3, and I know that I need to get a program to
allow the Cube to boot the CD (according to FAQ Subject G15).
My question is, where can I find this program on the
ftp archives? What's it called exactly? If I can get the files
on the floppy over to my hard drive somehow will I be o.k., or
do I absolutely need to boot off of a floppy drive?
I remember this subject being beaten to death when NS 3.0
came out a few years ago, but now that I'm interested, I can't
find the info...
Scott
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From: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com> <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com> <3iki66$hnk@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com> <3in9km$7m6@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl>
Sender: usenet@devetir.qld.gov.au (Network News)
Organization: DEVETIR, QLD, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 03:24:11 GMT
Message-ID: <sysseh.794546651@pandora>
szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl (Szymon Sokol) writes:
>Frank Kraemer (kraem@paris.wi.germany.ibm.com) wrote:
>: In article <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>, stevek@apertus.com (Steve Kappel) writes:
>: |>
>: |> If a 20 processor SS2000 isn't big enough the Cray 6400 (I think that is the
>: |> model) goes to 64 SPARC processors on 4 XDbus instead of 2 running
>: |> essentially the same O/S.
>: There is a song from Supertramp called DREAMER - listen to it and
>: think of a running SUN 2000 with 20 CPUs........Solaris can not handle-
>: 8 CPUs right so 20 is a real dream....
The ICL Goldrush goes to 250+ Sparc CPUs, the base model having
16.
Stephen
--
I do not speak for the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland -
They don't pay me enough for that!
From: deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil (Butch Deal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 6 Mar 1995 14:32:48 GMT
Organization: AIT NRL
Sender: deal@enterprise (Butch Deal)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jf6eg$feb@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3f53a1$9rn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <GRUNWALD.95Feb17225933@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3icr2p$b5c@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>
In article <3id92a$l7o@news.missouri.edu>, ccshag@sgi2.phlab.missouri.edu (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley) writes:
|> I was going to forgo this particular religious war, but ... I'm feeling
|> masochistic ..
|>
|> Butch Deal (deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
|> : In article <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com>, knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) writes:
|> : |> In article <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil
|> : |> (Butch Deal) writes:
|> : sure but it doesn't beat a small root partition that DOESN'T fill up.
|> : There are a few places all over that anyone can write to. When you have
|> : one partition, what you really have is a large root partition with several
|> : places anyone can write to. Home directories are in the one partition as well.
|> : pretty easy till fill up the large partition with your user partitions there
|> : as well as a few temp dirs.
|>
|> How do you suggest setting up a small root partition that doesn't fill
|> up?
I have posted it twice now. please read through the thread a bit more.
I have had no problems with root filling up on anything but an SGI.
--
#include <std/*>
The Butcher
Butch Deal deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil
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From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to know from which machine I am logged on?
Date: 6 Mar 1995 22:20:22 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jg1r6$mu7@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <3jfspj$5l5@nacm.com>
>
> I can't help with the originating username, but the originating host
> appears in the output of 'who am i' (note the spacing). I use the
> following in my .cshrc to set the X-Windows DISPLAY environment
variable:
>
> # set DISPLAY to point to the host I logged in from
> set displayHost=`who am i | sed -e 's/.*(//' -e 's/[)\.\\!].*//'`
> if ( $#displayHost == 1 ) then
> setenv DISPLAY ${displayHost}:0.0
> else
> setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0.0
> endif
>
I also have a script that does this. However, it also provides a tad more
support for host names that were long enough to get partially cut off by
the output of who am i. I'm no script programmer so please no flames.
#
# For X, if the display is already set (for instance with the use
# of 'xon') then leave it alone. Else, try to figure out which
# host you are coming from (if from an rlogin). If nothing else,
# set it to the current host.
#
# Careful with the && operator. It does not short circuit.
if ( $?TERM ) then
if ( $TERM == "xterm") then
echo
echo Determing value of DISPLAY environment variable...
if ( !( ${?DISPLAY} ) ) then
set host = `who am i | awk '{if (NF != 6) exit 0; else printf
substr ( $6,2,length ( $6 ) -2) ; exit 1;}'`
if ( $status == 0) then
setenv DISPLAY "`hostname`:0"
else
if ( host == "" ) then
setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
else
setenv DISPLAY `ypcat hosts | grep -i $host | awk
'{printf $2; exit}'`:0
endif
endif
unset host
else
setenv DISPLAY "`hostname`:0"
endif
echo DISPLAY set to $DISPLAY
echo
endif
endif
- Steve
--
=================================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | perkins@cps.msu.edu |
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP |
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 |
From: robert@cs.anu.edu.au (Robert Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 7 Mar 1995 15:14:26 +1000
Organization: Australian National University
Message-ID: <3jgq3i$7kn@chara.anu.edu.au>
References: <BZS.95Feb18181458@world.std.com> <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com> <3iki66$hnk@grappa.ak.munich.ibm.com> <3in9km$7m6@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl> <sysseh.794546651@pandora>
sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking) writes:
>szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl (Szymon Sokol) writes:
>>Frank Kraemer (kraem@paris.wi.germany.ibm.com) wrote:
>>: In article <D4B044.JxL@apertus.com>, stevek@apertus.com (Steve Kappel) writes:
>>: |>
>>: |> If a 20 processor SS2000 isn't big enough the Cray 6400 (I think that is the
>>: |> model) goes to 64 SPARC processors on 4 XDbus instead of 2 running
>>: |> essentially the same O/S.
>>: There is a song from Supertramp called DREAMER - listen to it and
>>: think of a running SUN 2000 with 20 CPUs........Solaris can not handle-
>>: 8 CPUs right so 20 is a real dream....
> The ICL Goldrush goes to 250+ Sparc CPUs, the base model having
>16.
Yeah and the Fujitsu AP1000 goes to 1024 Sparc CPU's (theres a 128
node machine down the hall from my office).
But is the ICL a general purpose multi user machine eg
shared memory SMP machine running Unix.
The AP1000 is a distributed memory machine running single user jobs
in batch mode with programs written using a message passing library.
It couldnt exactly fulfill the needs of the general purpose multi
user environment which is what this thread originally started with.
--
Robert Cohen email: robert@cs.anu.edu.au
PhD Student, Dept of Computer Science,
Australian National University. ===============================
----------------------> Code fast, crash young, and leave a pretty core!
From: Alejandro Diaz <diaz@egr.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Experience with LaserWriterSelect 360 & Nextstation?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 01:45:16 GMT
Organization: Mech. Engr., Michigan State U.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jgdrc$r9n@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Please, if you have any experience connecting an
Apple LaserWriter Select 360 to a Nextstation
Turbo, I would very much like to hear from you.
I simply cannot get these two to work together.
Alejandro
-------------------------------------------------
Alejandro Diaz diaz@egr.msu.edu
Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 23:35:39 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950306233539.282AACUL.malc@daneel>
References: <D4rqI7.5z@demon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Can anyone tell me how to make sndplay play files with a .au
> extension automatically rather than having to rename them so the
> extension is .snd?
>
sndplay seems to work fine under 3.3...
If you're using something other than 3.3 maybe you could just write a
replacement for sndplay? It's pretty straightforward.
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: joe@msri.org (Joe Christy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstation NS3.0 won't boot - / full
Date: 7 Mar 1995 00:38:42 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
Message-ID: <3jg9ui$lep@overload.lbl.gov>
Keywords: file system full IO error on pageout vnode_pageout failed
We have a NeXTstation running NS3.0 which crashed and won't boot, even
single user. It getspart way through /etc/rc then hangs with the following
errors:
/: file system full
IO error on pageout
vnode_pageout:failed
What I'd like to do is boot single user and clear the cruft out of /. Any
ideas how to do this? And why is it swapping when it boots single user,
any way?
--
Joe Christy | Head of Mathematical Computing |Two wrongs
joe@msri.org |Mathematical Sciences Research Institute|don't make a
(510)643-6069| 1000 Centennial Drive #5070 |right, but
FAX 642-8609| Berkeley, CA 94720-5070 |three lefts do
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP Printers and NeXT
Date: 6 Mar 1995 23:56:30 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3jg7fe$n8q@paladin.american.edu>
In the process of getting our NeXT printers fixed, tuned up, etc. the
thought of buying a big ole HP printer dawned on us. One of those big
white infernal looking things that can print 600 DPI, put out a gazillion
PPM and duplex.
If anyone has experience with these networked or other wise please drop me
a line or post after this. If anyone knows wether they duplex would be
really good info also.
Torrey McMahon
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu NeXTMail, MIMEMail, OldMail
tm8025a@american.edu Old Mail only
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I use JetDirect on NeXT?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 04:30:02 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jgnga$qbo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3jbrgc$h80@news.kreonet.re.kr>
In article <3jbrgc$h80@news.kreonet.re.kr> salmon@susu.hnc.re.kr (Lee
Kyunghoon) writes:
> We use HP LJ4 with JetDirect.
> Please let me know, how I can add the printer to print manager Printers
list.
Just add it to Netinfo with NetinfoManager. Make a copy of an existing
printer entry, or add a new one. In the rm field, enter the DNS name or IP
of the JetDirect. We did this with a LJ4 and JetDirect, and it works
great.
--------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!)
From: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 6 Mar 1995 19:43:24 +0100
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <3jfl4c$1s9@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com> <SAMURAI.95Mar1121917@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
>>snip-snip-snip
>>I'm rather partial to
>>gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
cd /
gnutar cf - / | gnutar xvpCf /otherDisk -
>NOOOOO!!! Do *not* do this. This is a VERY BAD HABIT. The code above
>uses absolute pathnames, which are removed by gnutar. If you use any
>other tar, your absolute pathnames will NOT be extracted, and you'll begin
>overwriting the source files. If you do this to something like
>/usr/shlib, you'll very soon have a big problem on your hands.
I wouldn't use any other tar but gnutar.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // Navigator - System administration & Consulting
mail? // mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de
more? // Member of WiNG
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From: jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com (Joachim Franke)
Subject: MS-Win printer driver for 400Dpi NeXT
Organization: MOTOROLA
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:14:40 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar7.121440.16207@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Hi, i need a printer driver to run under MS-Windows to use my NeXT-Laser
printer which i talk to with LPR. It is all working fine, exept i have no
driver which supports 400 DPI.
Any idea ?
--
Joachim Franke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com (Joachim Franke)
Subject: GNU C compiler missing
Organization: MOTOROLA
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:16:08 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar7.121608.16298@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Maybe a stupid question, i installed NS 3.3 on my black ColorStation,
but now when i do a make install it does not find 'cc' anymore.
How can i get it back in ?
Many thanks,
--
Joachim Franke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: GNU C compiler missing
Message-ID: <1995Mar7.160949.9167@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <1995Mar7.121608.16298@schbbs.mot.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:09:49 GMT
Joachim Franke writes
> Maybe a stupid question, i installed NS 3.3 on my black ColorStation,
> but now when i do a make install it does not find 'cc' anymore.
>
> How can i get it back in ?
You probably installed only 3.3 user. The compiler (as well as all other
development tools) is in 3.3 developer.
Denise
--
Denise Howard \/ howardd@swissbank.com
Swiss Bank Corporation \/ deniseh@mcs.com
Chicago, IL \/ [NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail welcome]
(312) 554-6298 \/ "Older and Bolder!"
From: et@max.ae.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Laserwriter Select 360
Date: 7 Mar 1995 15:12:17 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <3jht4h$45b@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Summary: Any experience with Laserwriter Select 360 and NFIP
Has anyone had success with the installation of an Apple Laserwriter
Select 360 connecting to an Intel system with NextStep 3.3?
Specifically: Does a parallel connection work? How about serial?
Which PPD file do you use? I notice that PrintManager in 3.3 includes
entries for the following (but not the newer Select 360):
Apple Laserwriter Pro 630
Apple Laserwriter Pro 810
Apple Laserwriter Select 610
Apple Laserwriter Select 310
Thank you in advance for your help!
Eric Taleff
From: henning@i4get.enet.dec.com (John L. Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 7 MAR 95 09:37:53
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <3jhrdp$kfo@peavax.eng.pko.dec.com>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <danpop.794272239@rscernix> <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov>
In article <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes...
> a new Alphastation with a 266 Mhz 21064A chip [snip] will be
>announced very soon.... and it will run something like 260 SPECfp92. [snip]
>
> That speed, by the way, is faster than the DEC 3000 Model 900.
While not commenting on the accuracy or not of your SPECulation about
future workstations, I just thought it might be useful to point out that
the DEC 3000 Model 900 is rated 189.3 SPECint92, and 264.1 SPECfp92. It
uses the 21064A chip at 275 Mhz.
/John Henning
CSD Performance Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
henning@i4get.enet.dec.com
Speaking for myself, not Digital
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: Q: Keyboard shortcuts
References: <MGAIS.95Mar6092729@pluto.tu-graz.ac.at>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:23:14 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar7.162314.2935@proximus.north.de>
In article <MGAIS.95Mar6092729@pluto.tu-graz.ac.at>,
Mansuet Gaisbauer <mgais@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at> wrote:
>How can i use the keyboard to scroll text or other scrollable things?
>Mainly i can't find a "page up" and "page down" key or other cursor
>positioning keys like "start/end of line". The help pages of NS
>explain only cursor positioning with the arrow keys and the mouse.
This depends on the application you're using.
>Another related question, how can i delete a word/line at once in
>the Edit application.
Check developer mode in the preferences for Edit.app. Now some emacs key
bindings work. The documented ones are:
Command Action
Control-B Moves back one character
Control-F Moves forward one character
Alternate-b Moves back one word
Alternate-f Moves forward one word
Control-A Moves to beginning of line
Control-E Moves to end of line
Control-D Deletes next character
Control-H Deletes previous character
Alternate-d Deletes to end of current (or next) word
Alternate-h Deletes to beginning of current (or previous) word
Control-K Deletes forward to end of line
Alternate-< Moves to beginning of text
Alternate-> Moves to end of text
Control-N Moves down one line
Control-P Moves up one line
The undocumented ones are
Control-V Moves down one page
Alternate-Backspace Deletes previous word
Unfortunately I haven't found a key binding for moving up a page... Maybe
you did?
Gerhard.
From: buzz@marvin.FB10.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTstation NS3.0 won't boot - / full
Date: 7 Mar 1995 18:57:09 +0100
Organization: Marvins Home, a small place in Universe
Sender: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de
Message-ID: <3ji6pl$c9u@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3jg9ui$lep@overload.lbl.gov>
In-reply-to: joe@msri.org's message of 07 Mar 1995 01:38:42 MET
In article <3jg9ui$lep@overload.lbl.gov> joe@msri.org (Joe Christy) writes:
> We have a NeXTstation running NS3.0 which crashed and won't boot, even
> single user. It getspart way through /etc/rc then hangs with the following
> errors:
> /: file system full
> IO error on pageout
> vnode_pageout:failed
>
> What I'd like to do is boot single user and clear the cruft out of /. Any
> ideas how to do this? And why is it swapping when it boots single user,
> any way?
At the bootprompt try:
bsd(0,0,0)sdmach -sb ( the b prevent the kernel from executing rc.boot)
When you get the shellprompt type:
mount -o remount /
now remove the swapfile or some other stuff.
reboot.
Hope this helps.
Bastian
--
Bastian Schlueter TEL.: +49 030 / 314 25 973 (uni)
Fehrbellinerstr. 39 44 34 01 35 (priv) __o
D-10119 Berlin e-mail: buzz@cs.TU-Berlin.DE _`\<,_
Germany buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (_)/ (_)
-- Radfahrer haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten -- ~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: spp@squid.vx.com (Stephen Potter)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
In-Reply-To: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu's message of 6 Mar 1995 20:58:05 GMT
Message-ID: <SPP.95Mar7142027@squid.vx.com>
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Sender: usenet@vx.com
Organization: Varimetrix Corporation
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com>
<danpop.794272239@rscernix>
<gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov>
<3jft0t$2qp@battle.ship.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 19:20:27 GMT
In article <3jft0t$2qp@battle.ship.edu> tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu (Thomas Briggs) writes:
: price so configured: US$22K. Price most university and corporate accounts
: would pay: well < $20K.
^^^^^^^^^^
That, right there is the sum problem with this! 20K is what some Comp.
Sci departments have for their yearly budgets! Sure its nice to say
What kind of school are you talking about, a highschool? Most CS
departments should have mucho money coming in from grants if nothing else.
Heck, I went to a small school for awhile up in Ohio and it had far more
than a 20k budget. UF probably dropped a cool 100k/yr into new hardware for
the CS dept the three years I was there.
Followups cut to comp.unix.admin, unless someone can come up with a more
reasonable place for it. This thread does not need the crossposting it is
getting at the moment, especially all the divergent threads.
Steve
--
Stephen P Potter spp@vx.com Varimetrix Corporation
2350 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 4 Palm Bay, FL 32905
(407) 676-3222 CAD/CAM/CAE/Software
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From: lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams)
Subject: Mail app help
Message-ID: <1995Mar7.195431.6434@leo.vsla.edu>
Organization: Virginia State Library
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 19:54:31 GMT
Hi! Newbie to NeXT here.. :)
Question: I currently am working on a NEXTSTEP
machine that has logins for three different users, plus the
root. Whenever I go into one of the user logins, I cannot use
the mail application...I get
Fatal Error #500---Invalid Mail Directory://Mailboxes
Is there something that I forgot to set somewhere to allow my
users access to their mailboxes? (I can access mail through
the root...)
Help! Any ideas? :) I tried the NeXTAnswers (found nothing),
the manual (for what it was worth), and even the online help
(didn't help either). So...
Lucette :) New NeXT User...please be explicit!
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (ASCII mail please!)
The Library of Virginia
Richmond, VA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: P.W.Gould@liv.ac.uk (Paul Gould)
Subject: Sendmail bouncing incoming mail on 3.2
Message-ID: <D50yF4.ErL@liverpool.ac.uk>
Sender: news@liverpool.ac.uk (News System)
Organization: The University of Liverpool
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:16:16 GMT
I have an '040 Cube running NS 3.2 connected to the campus Ethernet here at
Liverpool. I'm using the unmodified sendmail.subsidiary.cf file, and I've
aliased the Liverpool mail server to mailhost in NetInfo. I can send mail
from the NeXT without any problems, but when I try to receive mail, it
always bounces with the following error:
While connected to ctibiol2.bioc:
>>> HELO ctibiol2.bioc.liv.ac.uk
<<< 553 ctibiol2.bioc.liv.ac.uk config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <paulg@ctibiol2.bioc.liv.ac.uk>... 554 Service unavailable
Can anyone please suggest how this can be fixed?
Paul
--
Paul Gould, Network Support Officer +44 151-794 5118 (Tel)
CTI Biology, Donnan Laboratories +44 151-794 4401 (Fax)
University of Liverpool, PO Box 147 P.W.Gould@liv.ac.uk
Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gag@netcom.com (Glen A Graffius)
Subject: sendmail relay host
Message-ID: <gagD53nyK.Es9@netcom.com>
Keywords: sendmail relay host
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 02:23:08 GMT
Sender: gag@netcom19.netcom.com
I would like to know how I get mail sent to another machine for distribution
if the address is not on the local (NeXT) machine.
I am running NeXTStep 2.1 and the machine that I want to distribute the mail
to is a non-NeXT. I am assuming that something has to be done with the
sendmail.cf or sendmail.mailhost.cf file, but do not know what.
I have added DR <hostname> to the sendmail.mailhost.cf and restarted the
sendmail daemon to no avail. The other machine is on the same tcpip network
so what do I put for the DM (relay mailer) - not uucp?
Thanks for any help.
Glen
From: wen@bnr.ca (Robert Wen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solution for root login only problem
Date: 7 Mar 1995 16:24:35 -0600
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jimf3$qd3@crchh9c2.bnr.ca>
OK. here's the solution
Apparently NEXTSTEP 3.2 has a bug in its /etc/restore that incorrectly sets the
suid and sgid bits for certain files (one of them being Workspace Manager).
The patch to restore is NeXTAnswers #1554
I was also able to make it behave by "re-upgrading" to 3.2. This apparently
copies all the files with the bits set correctly.
Thanks to all who responded.
--
*Robert Wen * "Your name is Clark Kent. You're a reporter for the *
*Home: (214)692-9345 * Daily Planet and...uh Sam, what ARE you wearing?" *
*Work: (214)684-1235 * Quantum Leap meets Lois and Clark *
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From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: Motif on NeXT box via graphic terminal on VAX?
Message-ID: <D52st4.36M@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:10:15 GMT
Ok, I know this is a stretch, but has anyone done this.
From a VT240 type terminal (hi res graphics capable) logged on
to a VAX/VMS system, remotely login to the NeXT machine start an
X session with Motif graphical windows appearing on the
terminal?
My MIS (on the VAX) says he has support for X but is not sure
what I want to do can be done - so he's not willing to set up
the X environment on the VAX. So, anyone know this is possible?
What are some the details, like, is the VAX an X server or
client, how to set display, etc.
thanks for the help.
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: djc@vnp.com (Dan Crimmins)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP POP3 client?
In-Reply-To: djc@vnp.com's message of Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16: 24:33 GMT
Message-ID: <DJC.95Mar7153941@nwk118_ocachi.vnp.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: VNP Software, Inc.
References: <3j77js$e6a@piglet.ny.shl.com> <3j8cuv$h0f@ftp-p.mccaw.com>
<DJC.95Mar6102433@nwk118_ocachi.vnp.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 21:39:41 GMT
yesterday, i wrote:
> PopOver works nicely, but does anyone know where i can find a command-line
> pop3 client, preferably with source? i'd like to integrate this into a
> SLIP/PPP management tool that i'm going to make freely available.
well, yesterday was not my day, apparently. :-) within the distribution
package for PopOver, a command-line utility (slyly named 'popOver') is
included to do exactly this. i would still be interested in source for
such a beast, if anyone knows where it might be found.
--d.
--
dan crimmins
vnp software
chicago
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Unique font IDs? (HELP!)
Date: 8 Mar 1995 03:29:48 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <3jj8bc$52d@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <3jigoe$75@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
This font problem is driving me crazy.
Here are the symptoms. I installed the new FontSearch preference module
off the net, and it seems to work wonderfully: I can break my fonts up
into umpteen different directories, and set the FontPath dwrite with a
mouse-click, automagically updating the .fontlist, .fontdirectory, and
afmcache at the same time.
Everything seems to work...except that ALL my fonts that once lived in
~/Library/Fonts (and that now live in ~/Library/Commercial/Fonts) have
ceased to work. The buildafmdir and cacheAFMData both go through with
no errors, I reboot to make sure everything is clean, and the fonts
show up in the font panel. But they all display as Courier! They
seem to have their own font metrics working, because if I try to type
in one of these fonts, the cursor rapidly gets out of whack relative
to the Courier letters being displayed. TypeView.app shows a full
font table (of Courier) labelled with the name of the font selected.
This is not the "unusable font" behavior that a corrupted font usually
produces: the programs using the fonts think they are valid.
These are not random shareware fonts with possible corruption. They
are all my real, commercial PostScript fonts, such as Sonata and
NewCenturySchoolbook and Futura. They diff as identical to backed-up
copies from last month, which worked then but which don't work now
when restored from the backup. They all have UniqueID's of their own.
The only thing I know of that has changed since they last worked is
the directory they are in...and putting them back does NOT fix the
problem. Does the font-becomes-Courier symptom suggest anything to
anyone...PLEASE? I'm about at my wit's end.
Never trust a man |========================================================
who can count to 1023 | Joshua W Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
on his fingertips. |========================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gag@netcom.com (Glen A Graffius)
Subject: sendmail relay host - answered
Message-ID: <gagD53r42.2ov@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 03:31:13 GMT
Sender: gag@netcom2.netcom.com
Sorry for the wasted post. I didn't realize that the sendmail.mailhost.cf
was supposed to be the new sendmail.cf - problem solved.
Thanks,
Glen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com (Joachim Franke)
Subject: Novell NetWare servers invisible in file viewer
Organization: MOTOROLA
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 13:14:28 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar8.131428.17136@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Hi, Maybe somebody can help. Since we converted the LAN cabling from
thin-net to 10BaseT i am not able to see the Novell servers under
/Net/NetWare anymore. The encapsulation for IPX on the router we set for
Novell's 802.3. The funny thing is i am still able to logon to the
novell servers using the 'nwlogin' command from the NeXT.
It's a black NeXTColor. IP is no problem.
Any idea wheere to start ?
--
Joachim Franke
From: smith@nextone (Howard Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: possible getty speeds
Date: 7 Mar 1995 18:06:27 GMT
Organization: NIEHS
Sender: Howard Smith <smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov>
Message-ID: <3ji7b3$lmv@huron.eel.ufl.edu>
Summary: getty zs
Keywords: getty zs maxspeed
Anyone know if 57600 baud is supported on black hardware
via getty? Seems to work great at 38400, but at 57600 getty
is unresponsive. Terminal dialouts work fine (via kermit) at the
57k rate.
Thanks
--
Howard C. Smith
smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Subject: Re: VirtSpace: where is Pinnacle Inc?
Message-ID: <D53s5G.2q7@nyro.com>
Sender: ian@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Organization: NYRO Technix, Inc. - markets VirtSpace(tm), Faxcess(tm), UUCP-EZ(tm) and other NEXTSTEP software.
References: <3jirb4$hup@apollo.it.luc.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 03:53:39 GMT
They are no longer in business.
VirtSpace is available from:
NYRO Technix, Inc.
236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341
San Francisco CA 94127
415 664-1170 voice
415 664-5530 fax
NYRO Technix, Inc. markets VirtSpace(tm),
Faxcess(tm), UUCP-EZ(tm),
On-Vacation(tm), ReadReceiptPlus(tm) and
other NEXTSTEP software.
In article <3jirb4$hup@apollo.it.luc.edu> dreed@orion.it.luc.edu (Dale F.
Reed) writes:
> I'm looking for a virtual space manager and happened across VirtSpace.
> It is a limited-time demo but can be purchased for relatively little
> money. The only problem is there is no one to buy it FROM anymore.
>
> I can't find Pinnacle Research, Inc. either through their e-mail
address,
> or phone number. The latest information I had for them (which doesn't
> work) is:
> Pinnacle Research, Inc.
> 4725 E. Sunrise Dr. #435
> Tucson, AZ 85718
>
> virtspace@pri.com (NeXT mail)
> (602)529-1135 (Voice)
> (602)299-9133 (FAX)
>
> Anyone know where I can get ahold of them? Thanks!
>
> Dale Reed
> reed@math.luc.edu
>
From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to install MS-DOS on DOS partition ?
Date: 8 Mar 1995 13:42:16 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <3jkc7o$e7l@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
I installed NEXTSTEP on an Intel machine and on that occasion made a DOS
partition. Now I would like to install MS-DOS on this partition. In the
german news group de.comp.sys.next I got the warning that the setup
programm of MS-DOS 6.2 destroys the NEXTSTEP partition (it formats the
entire disk - all partitions). Now I would like to know:
- Is it safe to boot from a DOS boot diskette and do a `format c: /s'?
- Is it safe to install MS-DOS 5.0? How to upgrade from 5.0 to 6.2?
- Other options or tricks?
--
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unique font IDs?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 20:47:10 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <3jigoe$75@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
After over five years with NeXTstep, I still am being plagued with font
flakiness. This nonsense has been going on since NS 0.9, and I'm still
having troubles in 3.2. Fonts that used to work suddenly become unusable,
or show up as Ohlfs or Helvetica, or kill the windowserver....
First of all, is there _anyone_ out there who keeps over 500 fonts around
and NEVER experiences any of these problems? If so, please send me email,
so that I can try to track down what you're doing right.
Second, there was one trick that worked back in NS 2.1 days (or maybe it
was 3.0, and the 2.1 fix was rebuilding the afmcaches every time you
logged out; I can no longer keep track of them). The problem was that
the Lexi font had a very low /UniqueID (3, I think), and that other fonts
without a defined UniqueID would get assigned to the same one, thereby
screwing things up. Does anyone remember the details of this problem,
and the precise fix? It was tricky---just resetting the UniqueID on
Lexi to a random high number wasn't enough. It's not in the FAQ, alas,
and though I thought I kept a note to myself about it at the time, it
seems I did not. Does anyone remember how this worked?
Third, if anyone else can figure out why all the fonts in ~/Library/Fonts
should suddenly begin showing up as Helvetica, after I installed a new
font in /LocalLibrary/Fonts---removing the new font and rebuilding the
caches doesn't get them back---I'd be most grateful. This is getting to
be tiresome....
For every complex problem |===================================================
there is a simple solution,| Joshua W Burton (401)435-6370 burton@het.brown.edu
and it's wrong. |===================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran)
Subject: "/" as homedirectory for root impossible?
Message-ID: <1995Mar8.203958.6032@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Sender: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de
Organization: Volker Safran, Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 20:39:58 GMT
Hi,
if you have your root homedir set to "/" and make any changes within
usermanager with the root account, then, if you want to save your
changes, the "/" is always changed ro "/root".
Is this a (known) bug or is it a (very strange) feature of 3.3 ???
CIAO Volker
--
************************************************************
* Volker Safran, FB13, TU Berlin, PHONE: +49 30 4542303 *
* EMail: FAX: +49 30 4537157 *
* volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de ( NeXTMail welcome ) *
* safran@fb3-s7.math.TU-Berlin.DE ( No NeXTMail, sorry ) *
************************************************************
From: Neil Corlett <neil.corlett@vegauk.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 8 Mar 1995 19:28:56 GMT
Organization: VEGA Group PLC, Arden Grove, Harpenden, Herts AL5 4SJ, UK
Message-ID: <3jl0ho$rc8@hamlet.vegauk.co.uk>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.Z7GH1.QH3@nmti.com> <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.TRLH1.B3A@nmti.com>
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To: peter@nmti.com
> In article <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>,
> Butch Deal <deal@ait.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> > |> familiar with BSD. Solaris isn't either. OSF/1 is pretty straight BSD with
> > |> a little System V admin stuff on the edge.
> > just enough to make it a pain in the...
>
> I'm not sure where you're coming from with this. Virtually all the important
> interfaces are BSD, except they dropped the version-7-ish BSD /etc/rc stuff
> and went to inittab. I was a little annoyed they put /etc/rc*.d in /sbin
> but that's pretty minor.
It takes time to find /usr/sbin/rc*.d. On 3 separate occasions I have
found guys tripped up by this. Each occasion it was a 20 minute job to
discover the problem. As a small group of engineers was gathered on
each occasion I guess it was expensive.
It's also a _big_ pain the arse. Somebody please justify this one to
me? My preference is for SVR4 based UNIXes. I find them structured
better. Finding my way around OSF/1 is proving a pain. Providing several
differnet snvironments (AES, SVID3, XPG, POSIX) may be nice on a marketing
ticklist, but it makes maintenance a hassle.
Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <rk@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 15:52:43 -0500
From: Bob Kurhajetz <rk@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Message-ID: <9503082052.AA02208@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Subject: NetWare Manager issue - de-authenticate
Hi
I'm trying to get as much info as I can on the various approachs taken
to access NetWare servers from NEXTSTEP - mostly I'm wondering if
there is an ability to de-authenticate a user from a NetWare as the
NEXT user logouts - rather than having to go thru the NetWare
Manager server menu.
Thanks for looking this over
Bob Kurhajetz
USN CD NSWC
Bethesda, MD 20084-5000
From: Max Hadersbeck <max@cis.uni-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo with NeXTstep 3.3 on cubes is BULLSHIT !!!
Date: 9 Mar 1995 13:29:35 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jmvrv$9qs@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Hi
Since the beginning of this year we have installed 3.3 and
netinfo is crashing and crashing.
Almost every second day. We can't get any support from NeXT, and
as it seems they don't have only ideas but no solution.
They know that there are several bugs and tell, that those bugs
are only on the "black-hardware".
They gave me the advice to wait for 3.4.
I think NeXT forgets their own hardware.
Where are the clever softwaredevelopers ! Don't they have time to
fix errors in their operating system ?
I think they just think of a more fancy design of the login panel.
Maybe this is more important !!
So don't install 3.3 with a lot of "blackhardware" and netinfo
running on a cube server.
I think it's time to look for another company !
MAX
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Maximilian Hadersbeck
Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet
Wagmuellerstr. 23
80538 Muenchen
(089) 2110672, FAX (089) 2110674
max@cis.uni-muenchen.de
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: 9 Mar 1995 01:52:24 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3jln0o$cpt@news.next.com>
References: <950306233539.282AACUL.malc@daneel>
In article <950306233539.282AACUL.malc@daneel> mmalcolm Crawford
<m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
> > Can anyone tell me how to make sndplay play files with a .au
> > extension automatically rather than having to rename them so the
> > extension is .snd?
> >
> sndplay seems to work fine under 3.3...
>
> If you're using something other than 3.3 maybe you could just write a
> replacement for sndplay? It's pretty straightforward.
You could also wrap sndplay in a shell script that copied the .au sound to
/tmp, renamed it with a .snd extension, and played it from there, and then
(optionally) deleted it from /tmp.
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Solution for root login only problem
Date: 9 Mar 1995 13:56:28 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jn1ec$jvu@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3jimf3$qd3@crchh9c2.bnr.ca>
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Robert Wen (wen@bnr.ca) wrote:
: OK. here's the solution
: Apparently NEXTSTEP 3.2 has a bug in its /etc/restore that incorrectly sets the
: suid and sgid bits for certain files (one of them being Workspace Manager).
: The patch to restore is NeXTAnswers #1554
: I was also able to make it behave by "re-upgrading" to 3.2. This apparently
: copies all the files with the bits set correctly.
I once repaired lost setuid-files by making use of the lsbom command.
This lists all files with original permissions, so it's easy
to turn them back to the right settings by using a little awk or
perl script.
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: mt problem
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Mar8115549@darwin.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Department of Ecology & Evolution, The University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:55:49 GMT
Hi,
I have some problem with "mt". I have a WangDAT 3100,
NEXTSTEP 3.3 with a BusLogic SCSI adapter. The tape drive is set to
SCSI-1 and the BusLogic is not using fast SCSI nor sync. mode.
I use
gnutar -c -b 126 -f /dev/nrst0 directory
to create backups, one after the other, on the same tape. If I have to rewind the tape (for instance due to a reboot), I usually have problems finding the end, i.e. if there are n backups on the tape,
mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf n-1
works, but
mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf n
returns
mt: /dev/nrst0: I/O error
Messages such as these appear in /private/adm/messages:
Mar 8 11:10:08 darwin mach: st0, target 2, lun 0: op Read data (6-byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid
Mar 8 11:10:08 darwin mach: Sense key = 0x8 Sense Code = 0x0
Mar 8 11:43:40 darwin mach: st0, target 2, lun 0: op Space records/filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid
Mar 8 11:43:40 darwin mach: Sense key = 0x8 Sense Code = 0x0
I sometimes get a similar error when I read a backup (with gnutar) and
get to the end of the backups. There does not appear to be any
problems with the actual files, it just seems that eof is missed. Do
I need to use "mt" to add eof marks after the last volume, or? Any
other clues?
-Magnus
--
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
email: Magnus_Nordborg@uchicago.edu
tel: +1.312.702-1093 (office)
tel: +1.312.667-5331 (home)
fax: +1.312.702-9740
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com (Joachim Franke)
Subject: Edit Address Book entries
Organization: MOTOROLA
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 13:49:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar8.134915.17934@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
Here is something stupid, i want to add users/aliases so i can go and
send mail to 'joe' instead of joe@jwb.qfqf.qwfqf.qfrfreg.com
The manual says that i have to do it by using the NetInfoManager. I cant
belive that. There is also a Names.address file in my ~/Library/Addresses
which seems to have the same kind of information.
- Is it possible to use this file from within Mail ?
- how do i edit this file ??
Many thanks,
--
Joachim Franke
From: rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: root login refused?
Date: 8 Mar 1995 14:34:45 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <3jkfa5$qqm@news.iastate.edu>
When I try "rlogin machine -l root" from a terminal window, I get the
message "root login refused on this terminal." on three of my computers
running NEXTSTEP. What causes this? What must I do to permit logging in
as the root account?
When I started the job as sys admin, my predecessor had installed NEXTSTEP
on 33 NeXT computers; one of those computers refuses root logins. Since I
started the job I have installed NEXTSTEP on two Intel and reinstalled it
on a replacement hard drive on one of the NeXT computers; all of those on
which I have installed NEXTSTEP refuse me to login remotely as root.
I try to change the root password of each computer monthly, by loging into
them remotely - it works for most of them...
What NetInfo parameters or UNIX file controls root login?
Thanks for your help!
--
Rod Ragner, UNIX/NEXTSTEP Systems Administrator/Programmer
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
Voice: (515) 294-4751, FAX: (515) 294-3564, (NeXT Mail accepted)
Email: rragner@stallion.vm.iastate.edu or stryder@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gag@netcom.com (Glen A Graffius)
Subject: Reply_To:
Message-ID: <gagD55oyK.LCL@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 04:39:55 GMT
Sender: gag@netcom4.netcom.com
Still having problems with sendmail...
Is there anyway to have the Reply_To option default to something?
I want to change the Reply_To to a machine other than my NeXT and I can
do this with the Option Reply_To, but I want it to be the same everytime.
That is - my return address is now glen@glennext, but I want it to always
say glen@other_machine. Is this possible?
I am running NeXTStep 2.1 with its original version of sendmail.
Thanks,
Glen
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: 9 Mar 1995 19:39:59 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3jnlif$ih5@news.next.com>
References: <3jln0o$cpt@news.next.com>
In article <3jln0o$cpt@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
writes:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to make sndplay play files with a .au
> > > extension automatically rather than having to rename them so the
> > > extension is .snd?
> > >
>
> You could also wrap sndplay in a shell script that copied the .au sound to
> /tmp, renamed it with a .snd extension, and played it from there, and then
> (optionally) deleted it from /tmp.
Darcy Brockbank pointed out that in my sleep-deprived state I had overlooked
the even easier solution of symlinking the sound file instead of copying it
to /tmp (which works much better in the case of multi-MB sounds files). :)
- Mark "CoffeeCoffeeCoffee" Dadgar
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Unique font IDs? (Solved!)
Date: 8 Mar 1995 19:56:19 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <3jl253$3o0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <3jj8bc$52d@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
Yesterday I reported a problem with recently moved fonts:
> Everything seems to work...except that ALL my fonts that once lived in
> ~/Library/Fonts (and that now live in ~/Library/Commercial/Fonts) have
> ceased to work. The buildafmdir and cacheAFMData both go through with
> no errors, I reboot to make sure everything is clean, and the fonts
> show up in the font panel. But they all display as Courier! They
> seem to have their own font metrics working, because if I try to type
> in one of these fonts, the cursor rapidly gets out of whack relative
> to the Courier letters being displayed. TypeView.app shows a full
> font table (of Courier) labelled with the name of the font selected.
> This is not the "unusable font" behavior that a corrupted font usually
> produces: the programs using the fonts think they are valid.
The problem is solved, but still not completely understood. In
fumbling around to fix it, I eventually tried LINKING the fonts
back to /LocalLibrary/Fonts, and rebuilding the .afmcache THERE as
well. This restored them to full functionality.
Apparently, a font has to be in a directory listed in your NXFontsPaths
default, or it won't appear in your font panel. However, it has to be
in ~/Library/Fonts, /LocalLibrary/Fonts, or /NextLibrary/Fonts, no
excuses or alternatives, or else applications will be unable to read
the outlines. (They read the afm's correctly, and therefore you get
Courier, with whatever spacing your font would have had.) The workaround
if you want your fonts in other locations is to link them back into
/LocalLibrary/Fonts. If you exclude /LocalLibrary/Fonts from your
NXFontsPaths, then you won't have to have all the fonts in your panel
at once, and can add or remove them one directory at a time with a
dwrite. But they HAVE to be at least linked in a canonical location.
Followups to c.s.n.bugs, unless someone can convince me this is the
proper behavior....
There's an art to knowing when. +--------------------------------------+
Never try to guess. | Joshua W. Burton (401)435-6370 |
Toast until it smokes and then | burton@het.brown.edu |
Twenty seconds less. -- Piet Hein +--------------------------------------+
From: aetc@cerfnet.com (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 10 Mar 1995 05:46:39 GMT
Organization: AETC
Message-ID: <3jop3v$i3i@news.cerf.net>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.TRLH1.B3A@nmti.com> <3jl0ho$rc8@hamlet.vegauk.co.uk> <id.38_H1.BS8@nmti.com>
Summary: SYSV printing is easy
Keywords: printing
In <id.38_H1.BS8@nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>(speaking of which... I'd love to see something that's a little more
>flexible than BSD printing, without the baroque complexity of the System
>V stuff)
What could be more simple than a shell script that cats file contents to the
printer device?
Tony Burzio
AETC
San Diego, CA
From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 07 Mar 1995 16:23:30 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Mar7112330@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com> <SAMURAI.95Mar1121917@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
<3jfl4c$1s9@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
In-reply-to: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de's message of 6 Mar 1995 19:43:24 +0100
<mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de> writes:
>samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
>>>snip-snip-snip
>>>I'm rather partial to
>>>gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
>cd /
>gnutar cf - / | gnutar xvpCf /otherDisk -
>>NOOOOO!!! Do *not* do this. This is a VERY BAD HABIT. The code above
>>uses absolute pathnames, which are removed by gnutar. If you use any
>>other tar, your absolute pathnames will NOT be extracted, and you'll begin
>>overwriting the source files. If you do this to something like
>>/usr/shlib, you'll very soon have a big problem on your hands.
>I wouldn't use any other tar but gnutar.
Yes, but would you teach other people bad habits that *aren't* using
gnutar? Or, if you stepped into a client site that said "We don't want
any GNU software here" (it's happened to me), would you refuse to do the
work for them? There's a myriad of situations in which you, or someone
else, will have to work, and the tool they'll select will be tar.
Getting used to the tool stripping absolute pathnames, or worse yet NOT
REALIZING that this is a special feature of gnutar, and assuming that
all tars work like this (as some people do) will cause a large amount of
misery in the future.
It's not all that hard to avoid using absolute pathnames, or at least
(as you have above) make it explicit that you're removing them (rather
than just letting the tool do your thinking for you).
- db
--
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er
so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. Gentlemen in England now abed
shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods
cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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From: cdubuque@t-rex.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Chadwick A. Dubuque)
Subject: Re: Q: Keyboard shortcuts
Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login)
Message-ID: <D56y8o.vGw@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 20:57:59 GMT
References: <MGAIS.95Mar6092729@pluto.tu-graz.ac.at> <1995Mar7.162314.2935@proximus.north.de>
Organization: Chaos. Try it. I think you'll like it.
In article <1995Mar7.162314.2935@proximus.north.de>,
Gerhard Moeller <gemoe@proximus.north.de> wrote:
>In article <MGAIS.95Mar6092729@pluto.tu-graz.ac.at>,
>Mansuet Gaisbauer <mgais@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at> wrote:
>
>>Another related question, how can i delete a word/line at once in
>>the Edit application.
>
>Check developer mode in the preferences for Edit.app. Now some emacs key
>bindings work. The documented ones are:
In NS3.2 Edit.app, one also needs to select "Emacs key bindings on". (Global
preferences)
--
Chadwick A. Dubuque cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu
http://www.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu/~cdubuque/ finger for PGP pub. key
From: kbradley@130.35.1.6 (Kirk Bradley - Mainframe and Integration Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: possible getty speeds
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 9 Mar 1995 21:30:42 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA
Message-ID: <3jns22$paa@dcsun4.us.oracle.com>
References: <3ji7b3$lmv@huron.eel.ufl.edu>
Don't know if it's supported (the 56KB item is commented
out in the h file) but I'm running PPP at this speed.
I do have a leased line though.
Howard Smith (smith@nextone) wrote:
: Anyone know if 57600 baud is supported on black hardware
: via getty? Seems to work great at 38400, but at 57600 getty
: is unresponsive. Terminal dialouts work fine (via kermit) at the
: 57k rate.
: Thanks
: --
: Howard C. Smith
: smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov
--
Kirk Bradley
Oracle Corporation
Mainframe and Integration Technologies Group
From: bias@inslab.uky.edu (Brian Bias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: 9 Mar 1995 20:00:45 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9503100158.AA10429@inslab.uky.edu>
I've written a little applet (soundCheck) that plays .au files (cmd-drag onto
app Icon). It also controls mute, balance, volume, has relatively cool GUI
(like pseudo-live o-scope sound view), does time based muting, allows instant
mute/vol. status, etc. It used to be located on cs.orst somewhere and the
current rev. is version 3.1 (intel + moto).
enjoy,
Brian Bias
Whetstone, Inc.
e-mail: brian@whetstone.com (NeXTmail/MIME gladly accepted)
(temporarily this is brian%whetstone.com@ms.uky.edu due to nameserver problem)
alt.e-mail: bias@inslab.uky.edu
phone: 606.273.1752
From: elmct@hk.super.net (Mr Elm Ct)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 10 Mar 1995 01:15:27 GMT
Organization: Hong Kong Supernet
Message-ID: <3jo97f$kgi@hk.super.net>
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i5odn$gc0@rugch4.chem.rug.nl> <3iarfd$c03@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3ic4ue$oht@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3ig2uc$b7v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <3igl9j$5bp@fido.asd.sgi.com>
Paul Jackson (pj@sam.engr.sgi.com) wrote:
: I am aware of one good purpose that defaulting to a single
: root+usr file system serves us. We hear quite a few reports of
: customers having difficulty installing into the separate small
: root partitions, because they lack enough free space for the
: second copy of /unix (unix.install or whatever). This often shows
: up in the miniroot, which is for many a most inhospitable
: environment for managing disk space. And just significantly
: increasing the root partition isn't a pure win either, because
: then less skilled or energetic users will be more likely to waste
: a significant chunk of disk, as they fill up one partition while
: the other lies underutilized.
Since you cross this post to AIX group. AIX would not have this problem
particular for installing software since the installation process can
be set (it is default) to automatically increase the /usr file system.
: "It's a gratuitous change" ...
: By the same token, changing it back would be gratuitous as well,
: right? So we should leave it be, right? <g>
: --
: I won't rest till it's the best ...
: Software Production Engineer
: Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com), x1373
From: gcl@beavis.im.med.umich.edu (gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: VirtSpace: where is Pinnacle Inc?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 9 Mar 1995 01:07:15 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Medical Center
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3jlkc3$4m3@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <3jirb4$hup@apollo.it.luc.edu> <D53s5G.2q7@nyro.com>
Since I love VirtSpace so much, I'll add my $.02
I couldn't live without it... The program is so awesome...
If you don't have it, you are really missing out.
It's the most useful app I own...
Gary
-and no, I am not affiliated with the company, just a satisfied user.
Ian H. Stewart (ian@nyro.com) wrote:
: VirtSpace is available from:
: NYRO Technix, Inc.
: 236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341
: San Francisco CA 94127
: 415 664-1170 voice
: 415 664-5530 fax
: NYRO Technix, Inc. markets VirtSpace(tm),
: Faxcess(tm), UUCP-EZ(tm),
: On-Vacation(tm), ReadReceiptPlus(tm) and
: other NEXTSTEP software.
--
__________________________________________________________________
gcl@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu no NeXTmail yet please
Founder of the NeXTSTEP for Intel Processors HomeBrew mailing list
__________________________________________________________________
From: jim@ws8.sri.com (Jim Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk under NSIP?
Date: 8 Mar 1995 22:18:20 GMT
Organization: SRI International
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jlafc$cef@unix.sri.com>
I was wondering if it is possible to access AppleShare volumes via
AppleTalk/Ethernet on a machine running NeXTStep for Intel Processors?
In chapter 11 of the System Administration book it says that "NeXT
computers come with client software that allows you to access Files
and Printers on an Appletalk Network." NeXT Answers document 1069
"Inroads in Connectivity" mentions installing the "Appletalk Package"
onto your hard disk from the Release 3 CD-ROM disc.
I have begun to suspect that this is only available on a NeXT computer
(i.e. not an Intel Based computer). Why the System Administration book
that comes with NSIP version 3.3 contains a reference to this I do not
know. If anyone knows if AppleTalk can be made to work with NSIP version
3.3, please let me know.
Thanks in advance
Jim Carpenter
jim@std.sri.com
SRI International
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Network printers for Next
Date: 9 Mar 1995 20:47:29 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3jnph1$1bf6@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I want to put a network printer on my Next at home. I'm considering a
LexMark Optra, which has an available ethernet interface.
How do I convince my Next that this is a reasonable?
Can I just give it an IP number and and a host named "Lexmark" to
netinfo, and tell my next that LexMark is a remote printer?
--
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=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni)
Subject: Re: Netinfo with NeXTstep 3.3 on cubes is BULLSHIT !!!
Message-ID: <D571H4.EBL@prosoft.wimsey.com>
Sender: glen@prosoft.wimsey.com (Glen Biagioni)
Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc.
References: <3jnbuf$k9e@transfer.stratus.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 22:07:51 GMT
R. Craig Dodson writes
> In article <3jmvrv$9qs@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Max Hadersbeck
> <max@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> > Hi
> > Since the beginning of this year we have installed 3.3 and
> > netinfo is crashing and crashing.
>
> We've also noticed that 3.3 seems to have broken support for NeXT's own
> internal ODs (remember those?). I hope 3.4 isn't too far off . . .
>
> Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
>
Yipes! Is this really true? Does anyone else have anything to say about
internal Next OD support in 3.3?
--
Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com> (NeXTmail accepted)
Vancouver BC Canada
From: steve@test.bader.org (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: 10 Mar 1995 16:09:32 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. 414-476-4266
Message-ID: <3jptjs$i8t@beta.inc.net>
References: <3jnlif$ih5@news.next.com>
In article <3jnlif$ih5@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
writes:
> Darcy Brockbank pointed out that in my sleep-deprived state I had
overlooked
> the even easier solution of symlinking the sound file instead of copying
it
> to /tmp (which works much better in the case of multi-MB sounds files).
:)
I'm not familiar with symlinking. Would you please describ this for the
group? Thanks...
Steve White
System Admin, Helen Bader Foundation
From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: where can I get NeXTTime?
Date: 10 Mar 1995 12:28:27 -0800
Organization: UCLA Physics Department
Message-ID: <3jqcpb$p2u@gluon.physics.ucla.edu>
Where can I get NeXT time from???
From: ts110@emu.pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get a DNS name and IP address.
Date: 10 Mar 1995 15:13:40 GMT
Organization: DPMMS University of Cambridge
Message-ID: <3jpqb4$hfj@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Last November I installed SLIP on my NeXT, however so far I have not
yet managed to get my own DNS name and IP address (I use an address
dynamically allocated to me by the SLIP server). Which means I am not
able to send mail directly from my NeXT, post news, talk and the like.
I would be very grateful if anyone could suggest how I could obtain my
own IP address and DNS name.
Thank you.
Tomaz Slivnik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: matthew@marble.com (Matthew Stecker)
Subject: OD Cleaning info wanted
Message-ID: <D531B3.CnG@marble.com>
Sender: news@marble.com
Organization: Marble Associates, Inc.
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:13:51 GMT
Can someone email me the directions on cleaing the old NeXT OD?
I've seen them posted here before, but I can't find my copy
(and have a flock of dirty drives!)
matthew stecker
matthew@marble.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: wolfgang@sunspot.nosc.mil (Lewis E. Wolfgang)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D4r0MJ.D4z@sunspot.nosc.mil>
Sender: usenet@sunspot.nosc.mil
Organization: NRaD Code 541, San Diego California, USA
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3ijv1t$rl5@gazette.engr.sgi.com> <3ilnf7$nq@heidelberg.rutgers.edu> <3io5ol$kmu@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 06:27:55 GMT
In article <3io5ol$kmu@gazette.engr.sgi.com>,
Dave Olson <olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>hedrick@heidelberg.rutgers.edu (Chuck Hedrick) writes:
>| >All the arguments about keeping root 'pure' are just plain silly.
>| >There's nothing sacred about not running out of space on / vs /usr
>| >both have their problems.
>|
>| I think there used to be one good argument: You wanted root to be as
>| small as possible to minimize the probability that the file system
>| would be messed up in a crash. Traditionally root had enough files
>
>I don't buy this. All the OS/filesystem bugs I've seen that would cause
>a whole filesystem to be trashed are completely independent of the number
>of files or the size; it's true that most of them (but not all!) are
>related to the amount of activity, but even more than that, the type
>of filesystem activity.
>
>I think most unix systems have been robust against this kind of issue
>for a number of years now; that is, the size of the root filesystem isn't
>likely to affect whether it will come up single user or not.
This old rule-of-thumb had nothing to do with the reliability of
filesystems, but with reliability of DISKS. By minimizing the size
of root, you lowered your cross-sectional exposure to random sector
errors. Ah, I fondly remember my old SMD disks. They developed what
I called "sector creep" at regular intervals, a condition requiring
a low-level format to push things back into place. And you didn't
want to have to boot off of the durned QIC tape drive cuz you had a
flat root!
We have all gotten spoiled with modern SCSI disks and CDROMs.
I still like to keep my roots small, and mount /tmp and /var on
other partitions.
Regards,
Lew Wolfgang
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <id.38_H1.BS8@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <94122858192@microserve.com> <3i54g0$ah6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <id.TRLH1.B3A@nmti.com> <3jl0ho$rc8@hamlet.vegauk.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 15:38:27 GMT
In article <3jl0ho$rc8@hamlet.vegauk.co.uk>,
Neil Corlett <neil.corlett@vegauk.co.uk> wrote:
> It takes time to find /usr/sbin/rc*.d.
You only need to do it once.
> My preference is for SVR4 based UNIXes. I find them structured
> better. Finding my way around OSF/1 is proving a pain. Providing several
> differnet snvironments (AES, SVID3, XPG, POSIX) may be nice on a marketing
> ticklist, but it makes maintenance a hassle.
I don't think they designed OSF/1 for a marketing ticklist, or they'd have
gone and stuck the System V printer system in there and all the other spam.
(speaking of which... I'd love to see something that's a little more
flexible than BSD printing, without the baroque complexity of the System
V stuff)
--
Peter da Silva `-_-'
Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U`
1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA
+1 713 274 5180 "Hast du Heute schon deinen Wolf umarmt?"
From: alex@talus.com (Alex Kolesov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUENCODE/UUDECODE for DOS
Date: 11 Mar 1995 01:47:13 GMT
Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jqvf1$chv@news.blkbox.com>
Keywords: UUENCODE, UUDECODE, mail
Does anybody know if there are UUENCODE / UUDECODE programs available for
DOS ? Or where I can find the sources ?
Thanks a lot in advance.
-ak
From: ecesys <ecesys@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under NSIP?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 95 00:49:10 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <ZcxbuCG.ecesys@delphi.com>
References: <3jlafc$cef@unix.sri.com>
Jim Carpenter <jim@ws8.sri.com> writes:
>
>I have begun to suspect that this is only available on a NeXT computer
>(i.e. not an Intel Based computer). Why the System Administration book
>that comes with NSIP version 3.3 contains a reference to this I do not
>know. If anyone knows if AppleTalk can be made to work with NSIP version
>3.3, please let me know.
Jim:
IPT has a product called Partner, which works fine under 3.3 and mounts
AppleShare Volumes, supports AT printing, etc. Good Product!
Contact: 805-541-3000
San Luis Obispo, CA
Hope this helps,
Marty
From: drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUENCODE/UUDECODE for DOS
Date: 11 Mar 1995 07:10:55 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jridv$fm3@mordred.gatech.edu>
References: <3jqvf1$chv@news.blkbox.com>
Alex Kolesov (alex@talus.com) wrote:
: Does anybody know if there are UUENCODE / UUDECODE programs available for
: DOS ? Or where I can find the sources ?
They are available, but I'm not sure from where. I think I got a copy a
long time ago, I might be able to dig it up and NeXTMail it to you, if you
want.
--
Dave Rinker
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
CSX Transportation. Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Internet: gt2780a@prism.gatech.edu -- NeXT Mail welcome
.forward -> drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu -- Until 3/18/95
From: et@et1.ae.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Latex2e on NS/FIP 3.3 Directory Macro
Date: 10 Mar 1995 21:55:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <3jqht1$94n@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
I have successfully (I think, at this point) installed Latex2e on a
new NS/FIP 3.3. Unfortunately I had to alter the macro for the
current directory. The generic definition Latex2e assumes doesn't
work and the "generic UNIX" definition (\def\@currdir{./}) chokes the
test file also (ltxcheck.tex). I end up having to define the macro as
null (\let\@currdir\@empty) to test OK, and am wondering if Latex not
knowing about the directory structure might cause some problems in the
future. I had this same problem installing Latex2e on my black Next
running 3.1, but it still seemed to compile my thesis fine so I am not
worrying too much.
If anyone has a pointer on how to fix this, I would appreciate it.
Also, if anyone wants the necessary files for Latex2e, they might
suggest where I could upload them to.
-rw-r--r-- 1 et 984192 Mar 10 15:41 Latex2e.gtar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 et 203187 Mar 10 15:40 Latex2eFonts.gtar.gz
(I think that I got most of the font files necessary, but bad output
in the future might prove me wrong)
Much thanks,
Eric
et@et1.ae.utexas.edu
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo with NeXTstep 3.3 on cubes is BULLSHIT !!!
Date: 11 Mar 1995 07:20:57 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jrj0p$k8t@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <1995Mar10.142024.3016@il.us.swissbank.com>
In article <1995Mar10.142024.3016@il.us.swissbank.com> (Raul Alvarez)
writes:
> Glen Biagioni writes
> > R. Craig Dodson writes
> > > We've also noticed that 3.3 seems to have broken support for NeXT's
> own
> > > internal ODs (remember those?). I hope 3.4 isn't too far off . . .
> > >
> >
> > Yipes! Is this really true? Does anyone else have anything to say
about
> > internal Next OD support in 3.3?
> > --
>
> All this is news to me; especially considering that I'm using 3.3 on my
> cube. I just used my OD three days ago! If only I had known it was
> broke!
>
I've continued using my MO drive for daily backups since I upgraded to
NS 3.3 in mid-December with no apparent change in operation or support.
But I haven't tried to initialize a MO disk, but then I don't seem to be
getting too many new disks these days :-)
---
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NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Trego Systems Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care USmail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUENCODE/UUDECODE for DOS
Date: 11 Mar 1995 07:35:54 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3jrjsq$hsf@news.tamu.edu>
References: <3jqvf1$chv@news.blkbox.com> <3jridv$fm3@mordred.gatech.edu>
In article <3jridv$fm3@mordred.gatech.edu>,
Dave Rinker <drinke@wc187.residence.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Alex Kolesov (alex@talus.com) wrote:
>: Does anybody know if there are UUENCODE / UUDECODE programs available for
>: DOS ? Or where I can find the sources ?
>
> They are available, but I'm not sure from where. I think I got a copy a
>long time ago, I might be able to dig it up and NeXTMail it to you, if you
>want.
I definitely have both the executables and the sources at work.
I can send them to you on Monday if you don't get them before then.
Lusty
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so soft, so silky-coated-
Her very mew had quality!
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From: luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Keyboard shortcuts
Date: 11 Mar 1995 02:31:08 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9503110829.AA14158@alleg.EDU>
How can i use the keyboard to scroll text or other
scrollable things? Mainly i can't find a "page up"
and "page down" key or other cursor positioning keys
like "start/end of line". The help pages of NS explain
only cursor positioning with the arrow keys and the
mouse.
I don't think you can. If so, I don't know how.
Another related question, how can i delete a word/line
at once in the Edit application.
when Edit.app is not running:
dwrite Edit KeyBindings YES
dwrite Edit Programmer YES
or you can do it through the Preferneces panel of Edit.app (Developer
mode and Emacs on [under global options])
Emacs key binding will let you do this (where is the list of what
keys do what?) They also work in Mail.app
Delete left word is CONTROL-h, Control-a brings you all the way to
the left of the line, and control-k will delete from cursor to right
margin.
There are more, I'm just not sure where they are found.
TjL
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NeXTStep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: MEDIA ERROR; how to handle ?
Date: 11 Mar 1995 10:32:19 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <3jru7j$pak@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
Recently, I found the message
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 69822H retry 1
pop up in the console window. Accompany with
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
SCSI Block in error = 272072; Partition a F.S. sector 271912
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
sparsely.
I had an 400MB HD (come with original NeXTcube), and a Fuji 1GB.
I found that when I gzip a 20MB files, several line of the error messages
come out, the .gz becomes a 36 bytes file and gzip quit. Or, when I gzip
a 60MB tar file for backup, the file becomes as small as 10MB (which should
be 20MB when no error messages was popped up). Definitely, the files were
dead.
I think when I first tar a file, NeXT (Unix) just blindly written it out
to the 1GB HD (there seems no problem with the 400MB boot disk) without
verifying. Then when read error is encountered, everything goes wrong.
I just want to know how should I do now ? Should I reformat the 1GB ?
Could the problem be solved by reformatting ? Since 70% of the HD were
occupied, reformat the HD is a headache (I don't have tape back up).
Or is there any such kind of magic shareware which can be used to check
for the defected sectors, hide them from being used by the system ?
From this experience, if my guess (Unix just blindly writes to a device
without read back check (which is logical)) was not wrong, is there any
utility which can tailor the system to run more rigidly by doing a verify
after a write. I don't know whether that may or may not be possible.
If it is only slow down the machine by half, I think it is justifiable.
Thanks for any comments.
Mr.Sai-kee Wong
From: gee@csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Progress ->Re: terminal server program needed???
Date: 9 Mar 1995 18:52:37 GMT
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Sender: gee@obelix (Gregory W. Gee)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jnipl$fr4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Well, I got a lot of good suggestions that seemed to work differently.
One solution was to do this:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" vt100 on
This allowed a connection, but the connection speed was 9600 and I got
strange characters instead of what should have been there. The login sequence
was activated because, even though the characters were messed up, I could still
make out certain parts.
Another solution was:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on
This solved the problem of speed and connected at 14400, but after that,
a line of strange characters spewed across the screen and that was the end of
that. Both of these solutions were done in the /etc/ttys file and pulled
in with "kill -HUP 1". Should I have restarted my NeXT instead?
Additional help would greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Greg.
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Honours Computer Science, gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario gee@syslab.csd.uwo.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann)
Subject: Re: "/" as homedirectory for root impossible?
Message-ID: <1995Mar10.194831.13989@kurt.in-berlin.de>
Sender: news@kurt.in-berlin.de
References: <1995Mar8.203958.6032@abulafia.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 19:48:31 GMT
Volker Safran writes
>> Hi,
>>
>> if you have your root homedir set to "/" and make any changes within
>> usermanager with the root account, then, if you want to save your
>> changes, the "/" is always changed ro "/root".
>>
>> Is this a (known) bug or is it a (very strange) feature of 3.3 ???
>>
Hi Volker,
seems to be a bug. Change the home directory of root with NetInfoManager.
CU, Gerald
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From: enf@cisco.com (Eric Fronberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CAP and printing from a MAC
Date: 11 Mar 1995 19:31:19 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, Ca.
Distribution: ba
Message-ID: <3jstq7$dig@cronkite.cisco.com>
Any Ideas....
I'm trying to get printing from a MAC to a NeXT laser printer
I've got a Black NeXT with a NeXT laser printer connected to a MAC.
The NeXT is running Cap (with lwsrv). The Mac sees the NeXT laser
printer and can start a job. When I try to print, though, I get a pop
up panel on the NeXT indicating that there are postscript errors.
On the mac I can direct the print job to a file and then transfer that
to the NeXT. When I try to view that file (via Preview), I get
Error in Conforming PostScript file /Net/steggie/usr2/h/eric/macsw/PostScript.ps:
Bad format for %%BoundingBox.
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: %%[ Error: undefined;
OffendingCommand: ]%%
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: *Mar 11 09:03:39 teradon
Preview[6060]: DPS client library error: Invalid tag in returned
object, DPSContext 250d8, data 868356
Mar 11 09:03:40 teradon Preview[6060]: DPS client library error:
Invalid tag in returned object, DPSContext 250d8, data 876644
rror: undefined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Mar 11 09:04:20 teradon
Preview[6060]: DPS client library error: Invalid tag in returned
object, DPSContext 250d8, data 909928
rror: undefined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Nrror: undefined;
OffendingCommand: T ]%%
%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ]%%
on the console. What am I doing wrong, and how can I make printing
from the Mac to the NeXT work?
Details:
Next is running 3.3
Mac is running 7.1
Cap60 patched to patch 192
(Gator Box hooked up to the NeXT and the Mac, files transfered from
Mac to next via Gaterbox, Split file format)
-- eric -- enf@cisco.com
(email preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mreynold@netcom.com (Marc B. Reynolds)
Subject: Re: UUENCODE/UUDECODE for DOS
Message-ID: <mreynoldD5AqKF.DE0@netcom.com>
Keywords: UUENCODE, UUDECODE, mail
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3jqvf1$chv@news.blkbox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 22:02:39 GMT
Sender: mreynold@netcom6.netcom.com
In article <3jqvf1$chv@news.blkbox.com>, Alex Kolesov <alex@talus.com> wrote:
>Does anybody know if there are UUENCODE / UUDECODE programs available for
>DOS ? Or where I can find the sources ?
oak.oakland.edu /SimTel/msdos/djgpp
Both source and exes are available.
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(No NeXT-mail)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: Netinfo with NeXTstep 3.3 on cubes is BULLSHIT !!!
Message-ID: <1995Mar10.142024.3016@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <D571H4.EBL@prosoft.wimsey.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:20:24 GMT
Glen Biagioni writes
> R. Craig Dodson writes
> > In article <3jmvrv$9qs@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Max Hadersbeck
> > <max@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> > > Hi
> > > Since the beginning of this year we have installed 3.3 and
> > > netinfo is crashing and crashing.
> >
> > We've also noticed that 3.3 seems to have broken support for NeXT's
own
> > internal ODs (remember those?). I hope 3.4 isn't too far off . . .
> >
> > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
> >
>
> Yipes! Is this really true? Does anyone else have anything to say about
> internal Next OD support in 3.3?
> --
> Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com> (NeXTmail accepted)
> Vancouver BC Canada
All this is news to me; especially considering that I'm using 3.3 on my
cube. I just used my OD three days ago! If only I had known it was
broke!
From: steveh@FirePower.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP Printers and NeXT
Date: 10 Mar 1995 16:12:08 GMT
Organization: FirePower Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jptoo$6nq@enquirer.FirePower.COM>
References: <3jg7fe$n8q@paladin.american.edu>
In article <3jg7fe$n8q@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes:
> In the process of getting our NeXT printers fixed, tuned up, etc. the
> thought of buying a big ole HP printer dawned on us. One of those big
> white infernal looking things that can print 600 DPI, put out a
gazillion
> PPM and duplex.
>
> If anyone has experience with these networked or other wise please drop
me
> a line or post after this. If anyone knows wether they duplex would be
> really good info also.
>
> Torrey McMahon
> tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu NeXTMail, MIMEMail, OldMail
> tm8025a@american.edu Old Mail only
We have a couple of those printers (HP 4Si/MX and 4M Plus). The problem
I've run in to with NeXT machines printing to them is that the options
don't seem to work under the print panel (can't turn duplexing off) and if
you specify more than one print copy you still only get one. Some Fonts
that are on nextstep aren't in the printer ... I don't know how to get
them downloaded to the printer (other than buying a font cartridge).
Also, banner pages print out... I'm not an expert on printing and haven't
really looked in to all the problems yet, but you might be interested in
the caveats.
If anyone knows how to fix the above problems, I'd greatly appreciate a
few pointers.
thanks.
From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo with NeXTstep 3.3 on cubes is BULLSHIT !!!
Date: 9 Mar 1995 16:55:43 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3jnbuf$k9e@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <3jmvrv$9qs@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
In article <3jmvrv$9qs@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Max Hadersbeck
<max@cis.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> Hi
> Since the beginning of this year we have installed 3.3 and
> netinfo is crashing and crashing.
We've also noticed that 3.3 seems to have broken support for NeXT's own
internal ODs (remember those?). I hope 3.4 isn't too far off . . .
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Mach: Memory Mapping
Message-ID: <D5C5t1.n1E@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 16:29:24 GMT
Does Mach allow you to map memory differently than the default
installation setup? I would like to bump my system from 48MB to 64MB,
but would have no room for my Number Nine GXEL16 video card which
cannot be addressed outside the 64MB address range; this limitation
appears to be coming from either the video driver or my AMI Enterprise
IV BIOS.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: terminal server program needed???
Date: 7 Mar 1995 03:11:44 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario
Message-ID: <3jgitg$np2@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
I was wondering if there was some type of terminal server available
for a black NeXT. I was trying to dial from my parent's PC to my NeXT,
when the connection get established then nothing happened. I assume
it needs some sort of login program. Connecting worked fine. I set the
modem to auto answer and it picked it up and connected, then did nothing.
Any help on finding some program that will allow me to do this
would be greatly appreciated, especially if it was free.
Thanks.
Greg.
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Honours Computer Science, gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario gee@syslab.csd.uwo.ca
From: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: 12 Mar 1995 16:49:54 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Mar12114954@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3jnlif$ih5@news.next.com> <3jptjs$i8t@beta.inc.net>
In-reply-to: steve@test.bader.org's message of 10 Mar 1995 16:09:32 GMT
<steve@test.bader.org> writes:
>In article <3jnlif$ih5@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
>writes:
>>Darcy Brockbank pointed out that in my sleep-deprived state I had
>overlooked
>>the even easier solution of symlinking the sound file instead of copying
>it
>>to /tmp (which works much better in the case of multi-MB sounds files).
>:)
>I'm not familiar with symlinking. Would you please describ this for the
>group? Thanks...
LN(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual LN(1)
NAME
ln - make links
SYNOPSIS
ln [ -s ] sourcename [ targetname ]
ln [ -s ] sourcename1 sourcename2 [ sourcename3 ... ] tar-
getdirectory
DESCRIPTION
A link is a directory entry referring to a file; the same
file (together with its size, all its protection informa-
tion, etc.) may have several links to it. There are two
kinds of links: hard links and symbolic links.
###
What you want to do is to make a symbolic link, because it's very low
overhead (it's like a pointer to the file). A symbolic link differs from
a hard link, in that a symbolic link records information that redirects
the operating system to a specific path. A hard link actually shares a
reference to the file data. Once you make a hard link, you can delete
either it, or the original, and the left over one will be fully
operational still (ie. it's a bit like reference counting). So, in order
to make a symbolic link, and play your sound, you do:
ln -s original-file.au my-copy.snd
sndplay my-copy.snd
rm my-copy.snd
Now, you could make a little script which runs with almost zero
overhead... or, you could name your script to be "sndplay" and put it
first in your path. It can check to see if the extension is .au first,
and if so, make a symlink before calling the real sndplay.
Symlinks are cool, and useful.
- db
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From: robert@audrey.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 12 Mar 1995 17:26:56 +0000
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <robertzngpznkwalqv@audrey.dircon.co.uk>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com>
<SAMURAI.95Mar1121917@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
<SAMURAI.95Mar7112330@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
To: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
In-reply-to: samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca's message of 07 Mar 1995 16:23:30 GMT
<samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca> writes:
><mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de> writes:
>>samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
>>>>snip-snip-snip
>>>>I'm rather partial to
>>>>gnutar cvf - / | (cd /otherDisk; gnutar xvf -)
>>cd /
>>gnutar cf - / | gnutar xvpCf /otherDisk -
>>>NOOOOO!!! Do *not* do this. This is a VERY BAD HABIT. The code above
>>>uses absolute pathnames, which are removed by gnutar. If you use any
>>>other tar, your absolute pathnames will NOT be extracted, and you'll begin
>>>overwriting the source files. If you do this to something like
>>>/usr/shlib, you'll very soon have a big problem on your hands.
>>I wouldn't use any other tar but gnutar.
>Yes, but would you teach other people bad habits that *aren't* using
>gnutar? Or, if you stepped into a client site that said "We don't want
>any GNU software here" (it's happened to me), would you refuse to do the
>work for them? There's a myriad of situations in which you, or someone
>else, will have to work, and the tool they'll select will be tar.
Sure but given that gnutar supports long filenames and regular tar
doesn't and that NeXTSTEP apps let alone data can have very deep
trees.
If I was asked to use tar I'd immediately ask "Do you value your data?" I
believe as the person tasked with ensuring a secure and reliable
backup solution it's your responsbility to voice your concerns.
>Getting used to the tool stripping absolute pathnames, or worse yet NOT
>REALIZING that this is a special feature of gnutar, and assuming that
>all tars work like this (as some people do) will cause a large amount of
>misery in the future.
Point taken.
>It's not all that hard to avoid using absolute pathnames, or at least
>(as you have above) make it explicit that you're removing them (rather
>than just letting the tool do your thinking for you).
I believe this is an oversimplification. Gnu tar does more than just
strip absolute pathnames.
Hell, most sites I know would have taken tar out of the equation all
together and gone with a commercially supported application like
SafetyNet if platform choice was NeXTSTEP.
--
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From: mra@mit.edu (Michael Raskin Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: syslog/netinfo problem
Date: 12 Mar 1995 18:25:07 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3jvea3$1sm@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
in my /usr/adm/messages file, i periodically get the "can't open netinfo parent
domain" error and i have no idea why. any ideas?
in my /usr/adm/messages:
Mar 11 20:15:56 bink syslog: (re)reading /etc/bootptab
Mar 11 20:15:56 bink syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stan@netcom.com (Stanley Perkins)
Subject: Can't boot NSFIP 3.3 from 2nd SCSI disk
Message-ID: <stanD5CE4K.BCB@netcom.com>
Summary: I can't get NSFIP 3.3 to boot from 2nd SCSI disk
Keywords: boot NSFIP SCSI
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 19:29:08 GMT
Sender: stan@netcom19.netcom.com
I just installed NSFIP 3.3 on the 2nd SCSI disk (ID=1) in my 486.
When I boot NS from the floppy and issue the command:
sd(1,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a
the machine boots form the correct disk, but I am left in the
"terminal" mode with a # prompt. On the bootup display just
prior to this, it indicates that /dev/sd0a (the first SCSI disk
with Windows/DOS installed) has an unreadable label, then indicates
that I should fsck the disk (which one?) and reboot. The actual
messages are as follows:
Checking disks
Can't read label on /dev/rsd0a.
(null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
(null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
Reboot failed...help!
sd0a: Read attempt with no valid label
mount: /dev/sd0a on /: I/O error
mount: giving up on:
/
Faking root mount entries
erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
#
Apparently NSFIP was installed correctly on the 2nd SCSI disk (no
error messages on installation), but NS can't get past the DOS disk
at ID=0. What can be done to allow me to boot NS from the 2nd disk?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Stan (stan@netcom.com)
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| Stan Perkins | ASMG, Inc. |
| stan@netcom.com | 619-490-9074 |
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From: vanfosse@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andy VanFossen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 Upgrade Problem
Date: 13 Mar 1995 03:50:18 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3k0fdq$k0a@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
During the latter stages of my recent upgrade to 3.3 (Intel), I attempted to
hide the Upgrader.app, resulting in a total system hang. Now, when I
try to boot, I get the following messages:
Config file "/private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Default.table" not found
System config file 'System' not found.
My question: Do I have to totally install 3.3 from the ground up, or is
there a way to load the drivers from the CD (or floppy) and still have
access to my hard drive?
Thanks in advance!
--
Andy Van Fossen | Ohio State University | "I read it on the net,
andy+@osu.edu | std disclaimers apply | so it must be true..."
From: powell@tropic (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panics after 3.3 Intel upgrade
Date: 13 Mar 1995 14:38:25 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <3k1ld1$f4c@wave.aoml.erl.gov>
One of our users has been experiencing system panics on his Canon
Objectstation 41 after having upgraded to 3.3 (our other Canon with
3.3 has not had problems). The problem seems to occur when he has
several apps going at onec. I was wondering if there is some type of
configuration parameter for the maximum number of processes that are
allowed. I remember some discussion on this when 3.2 first came out
but could not find any references to it using the digital librarian
for sys admin and unix references. Could that possibly be the cause
of the problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Dr. Mark Powell
NOAA Hurricane Research Division
Miami, Fl.
powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 13 Mar 1995 05:15:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3k0kcs$fus@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
*** NEED INFORMATION ***
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
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From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I use JetDirect on NeXT?
Date: 13 Mar 1995 17:26:36 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3k1v8c$eaq@news.next.com>
References: <3jgnga$qbo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
In article <3jgnga$qbo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary
Finley) writes:
> In article <3jbrgc$h80@news.kreonet.re.kr> salmon@susu.hnc.re.kr (Lee
> Kyunghoon) writes:
> > We use HP LJ4 with JetDirect.
> > Please let me know, how I can add the printer to print manager Printers
> list.
>
> Just add it to Netinfo with NetinfoManager. Make a copy of an existing
> printer entry, or add a new one. In the rm field, enter the DNS name or IP
> of the JetDirect. We did this with a LJ4 and JetDirect, and it works
> great.
Keep in mind that this only works with the newer JetDirectII card, which
supports lpd protocol natively. The original JetDirect card uses its own
software driver which talks to tcp port 9100 (as I recall), instead of 515
(lpd).
If you have an original JetDirect, you have a couple of options:
A) you can upgrade to 3.3 - we support it in PrintManager.app
B) you can get the public domain JetDirectDriver from the archives
C) you can replace your JetDirect card with a JetDirectII or an Emulex
NetJet card (which I've had good experiences with).
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't boot NSFIP 3.3 from 2nd SCSI disk
Date: 13 Mar 1995 15:29:42 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <3k1od6$3pd@sun1.uni-essen.de>
References: <stanD5CE4K.BCB@netcom.com>
Stanley Perkins (stan@netcom.com) wrote:
: I just installed NSFIP 3.3 on the 2nd SCSI disk (ID=1) in my 486.
: When I boot NS from the floppy and issue the command:
: sd(1,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a
: the machine boots form the correct disk, but I am left in the
: "terminal" mode with a # prompt. On the bootup display just
: prior to this, it indicates that /dev/sd0a (the first SCSI disk
: with Windows/DOS installed) has an unreadable label, then indicates
: that I should fsck the disk (which one?) and reboot. The actual
: messages are as follows:
: Checking disks
: Can't read label on /dev/rsd0a.
: (null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
: (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
: Reboot failed...help!
: sd0a: Read attempt with no valid label
: mount: /dev/sd0a on /: I/O error
: mount: giving up on:
: /
: Faking root mount entries
: erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
: #
: Apparently NSFIP was installed correctly on the 2nd SCSI disk (no
: error messages on installation), but NS can't get past the DOS disk
: at ID=0. What can be done to allow me to boot NS from the 2nd disk?
I'm posting this, because I think I know the reason, but have no way
for an easy(!) solution: NS always expects to be on the first(!) device
(hd0 or sd0) and makes an unconditional entry in /etc/fstab about this
device being the root device. You have to manually edit fstab to reflect
the '1'.
This sounds easier than it is, because if you start in single user mode
you normally can't edit the device because it's not mounted. So start from
the CD, but then the system is r/o and your harddisk still is not mounted.
We had this problem with two IDE-drives on a machine, where NS was to be
installed on the second drive. I don't think there's much difference between
SCSI and IDE installation concerning this point.
Our solution: Boot from CD in single-user mode. Single user mode skips
fsck! Make a new(!) directory (e.g. in '/') and mount your drive manually
to this directory, using the 'make no entry in fstab (r/o!!!)'-option.
Let's call this mount-directory '/mnt'.
cd /mnt/etc
mv fstab fstab.orig
Then look at /mnt/etc/fstab.orig and take the offending line and do a
echo "[line from fstab with 1 put in for the 0]" > fstab
. Then
cd /
and unmount the drive (/mnt) and try a reboot like above. It should work
now (did it for us at least).
Greetings
Ruediger Oberhage
Uni-GH Essen, FB7 (Physics)
phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how can I play .au files automatically
Date: 13 Mar 1995 17:21:17 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3k1uud$ean@news.next.com>
References: <3jptjs$i8t@beta.inc.net>
In article <3jptjs$i8t@beta.inc.net> steve@test.bader.org (Steve White)
writes:
> In article <3jnlif$ih5@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
> writes:
> > Darcy Brockbank pointed out that in my sleep-deprived state I had
> > overlooked the even easier solution of symlinking the sound file instead
> > of copying it to /tmp (which works much better in the case of multi-MB
> > sounds files).
> > :)
>
> I'm not familiar with symlinking. Would you please describ this for the
> group? Thanks...
>
That would be "ln -s /foo/bar /baz", right? A symbolic link. Has the
enormous advantage of being able to cross filesystems, which a hardlink
cannot do.
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: Thomas Briggs <tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 08:56:20 -0500
Organization: Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, USA
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950313085436.29213A-100000@cutter.ship.edu>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <danpop.794272239@rscernix> <gurman-0303952111020001@arrowroot.gsfc.nasa.gov> <3jft0t$2qp@battle.ship.edu> <9503120859.AA22171@mingus.synopsys.com>
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In-Reply-To: <9503120859.AA22171@mingus.synopsys.com>
On Sun, 12 Mar 1995, Rich Holland wrote:
> In comp.unix.aix you write:
>
> >: price so configured: US$22K. Price most university and corporate accounts
> >: would pay: well < $20K.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >That, right there is the sum problem with this! 20K is what some Comp.
> >Sci departments have for their yearly budgets! Sure its nice to say
>
> ...the typical discount is 40% however, which is something just over 13k.
> That's very affordable to most federally funded institutions I've known.
> --
>
Actually, welcome to the world of state schools. We are hardly federally
funded, we are state funded. Read my line, we run on a 486-33 to support
550 users. Its not pretty, but it works. A lot of schools are in the
same prediciment we are. And PA just cut our budget back even more. :-<
+-----------+ "Cutter has crashed, again!" - Scott Hooper, 1994
|Tom Briggs +----------------------------+ Cutter: probably the most heavily
|Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | loaded i486-33 machine ever made.
|primary address: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu+---------+ Linux 1.1.94, 600 users
|secondary address: tbriggs@saturn.csee.lehigh.edu| telnet,Aftp,gopher,http
+--------------------------------------------------+ nfs,identd,pine,rtin...
From: wuj9@wfu.edu (joe wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Seagate ST1480N Spec
Date: 13 Mar 1995 15:24:27 GMT
Organization: Wake Forest University
Message-ID: <3k1o3b$icn@eis.wfunet.wfu.edu>
Keywords: jumpers, configuration, hard disk
Help! Does anyone know how to set the jumpers on a Seagate ST1480N?
Or does anyone know how I can get the information from Seagate? Thanks.
Please send help to wuj9@wfu.edu.
Sincerely yours,
Joe
From: gwillem@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (WILLEM VAN SCHAIK (INTERNET: GWILLEM@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone ever use Fujitsu 230 MO drive?
Date: 14 Mar 95 00:22:27 +0800
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Message-ID: <1995Mar14.002227@alpha.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <h4+bdNJ.jadamski@delphi.com>
In article <h4+bdNJ.jadamski@delphi.com>, John David Adamski <jadamski@delphi.com> writes:
> I'm thinking of getting the Fujitus 230 MO drive, but want any pros/cons from
> someone already using one with NS. I have a NeXTstation.
Yes I have one and I am very satisfied.
Willem
gwillem@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
From: grahj@gagme.wwa.com (jim graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Gremlins? Mysterious problems with NeXT (black hardware)
Date: 13 Mar 1995 14:57:59 -0600
Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 708-367-1871
Message-ID: <3k2bkn$q7h@gagme.wwa.com>
NOTE: Reply-To set to forward mail to me at work
(graham@tybj3.eglin.af.mil).
Ok, so it probably isn't gremlins, but the problems we've been seeing
certainly do seem to defy explanation.
Background: The NeXT in question is currently running NS 3.3. AFAIK, none
of these problems started until after 3.3 was installed, but that could
easily be coincidence.
Problem 1: The monitor refused to have an intensity greater than zero.
When the user logged in (blind) as himself, still nothing. He did get an
audible indication (soundcard stuff) that he really was logged in, however.
When he logged in as root, the intensity suddenly went full-scale, but
refused to be turned down *AT ALL*. Using the dimmer key on the keyboard
would work, but the intensity jumped right straight back up. Using a
``control-panel'' type interface worked, but was instantly reset to
full-scale as soon as the mouse was let off of the control.
Problem 2---a few days later: This doesn't appear to be related until we
get to the next item (#3).... The netinfo configuration lost its brains
somewhere, and we'd get the following messages on boot-up (date/time,
etc., removed to fit on line):
netinfod[95]: checking NetInfo database network.nidb
netinfod[94]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb
netinfod[94]: cannot read ID=138: ID is invalid
lookupd[99]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping
At that point, it would hang indefinitely. We managed to get it back up
by blowing away the entire netinfo database and re-installing from scratch,
but this is obviously not the right way to do it. What is, I don't know,
as the netinfo files don't seem to resemble anything I've ever seen under
any other UNIX.
NOTE: These messages were logged via syslog to a remote system, so the
network was at least partially active. Telnet, ping, ftp, etc., however,
were all dead (both incoming and outgoing).
Problem 3---about 2 weeks later (this morning): The system had apparently
been down since some time Saturday. When I came in this morning, the
monitor intensity was down again, but this time it wasn't coming back up
for anything. The system itself was also dead, and refused to reboot into
multiuser mode. I really don't know if, at the time, it was booting into
single user mode, because I had no monitor to tell me. :-)
Upon looking at /usr/adm/messages on the Sun 630MP (SunOS 4.1.2) that's
logging stuff from syslog, I saw the following familiar (though not
particularly helpful) messages:
netinfod[94]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb
netinfod[94]: cannot read ID=32: ID is invalid
lookupd[98]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping
Well, not knowing what else to do, we decided to check and see if there
was something wrong with either the keyboard or the monitor, and swapped
(one at a time) each with a working NeXT. Both worked fine. When put
back on the dead NeXT, they worked fine. The cables weren't loose---I'd
already checked that (several times, in fact).
If anyone has run into any problems like this, or if you know of a better
solution (i.e., a solution that isn't just random, and doesn't involve
re-installing the system from scratch), I'd love to know.....
Thanks,
--jim
--
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Phone (office): 904-864-4080 Packet: --OFFLINE-- (Ft. Walton Beach, FL)
From: "st3@inrs.fr" <st3@inrs.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help : trouble with SNMP agent
Date: 13 Mar 1995 15:10:28 GMT
Organization: CIRIL, Nancy, France
Message-ID: <3k1n94$ghp@arcturus.ciril.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I've recently tried to enable SNMP agent on a Nextstep v3.0 station
with NetInfo Manager and it did not respond to snmpnetstat requests.
Is anybody who share the same problems ?
(and did he success in managing it ? :-) )
Thank you.
--
From : maillet@inrs.fr
Fabien MAILLET
French student
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: How to get Enet address? Should I have to?
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 16:27:21 GMT
Message-ID: <D5E0DM.Ev1@ritz.mordor.com>
I'm still trying to track down that problem with my NS/FIP machine and
the stubbornness to connecting to the office IP network. The NetWare
works fine, but the IP causes random hangs and general unusability of the
system. I can ping other machines just fine, but no one can ping me, and
there seems to be no way to telnet/ftp in either. The network is
heterogeneous, with no other NeXT machines on it (damn!).
In trying to resolve this really irritating problem, I was going through
NetInfoMgr checking my values for my local machine,
and I ran across the "en_address" field. Apparently, something somewhere
didn't set the value (it's "0:0:0:0:0:0" right now) and I'm curious if
this could be the source of my problems. If so, how do I get this value?
Thanks
Matt
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From: gkj@jacobs (Gary K. Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Gremlins? Mysterious problems with NeXT (black hardware)
Date: 13 Mar 1995 22:14:16 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Message-ID: <3k2g3o$1nh@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
References: <3k2bkn$q7h@gagme.wwa.com>
I had a similiar experience. I returned to my office after a couple of
hours and my monitor appeared to be dead. The disk drive was running
so I knew the system had not been turned off. I could not go into
single user mode since I had no screen either. I had to unplug the
system (scary!); no other shutdown commands worked. Upon powering up,
all was fine and has been for a about a week.
First time I ever had such an event. I upgraded to 3.3 about 3 months
ago.
gary
From: msp@metronet.com@metronet.com (Michael S. Peacock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Keyboard shortcuts
Date: 14 Mar 1995 03:32:53 GMT
Organization: Everest Software Corp.
Message-ID: <3k32p5$pb4@feenix.metronet.com>
References: <9503110829.AA14158@alleg.EDU>
In <9503110829.AA14158@alleg.EDU>, luomat@alleg.EDU (Timothy J Luoma) writes:
> How can i use the keyboard to scroll text or other
> scrollable things? Mainly i can't find a "page up"
> and "page down" key or other cursor positioning keys
> like "start/end of line". The help pages of NS explain
> only cursor positioning with the arrow keys and the
> mouse.
>
>I don't think you can. If so, I don't know how.
>
>
> Another related question, how can i delete a word/line
> at once in the Edit application.
>
>when Edit.app is not running:
>dwrite Edit KeyBindings YES
>dwrite Edit Programmer YES
>
>or you can do it through the Preferneces panel of Edit.app (Developer
>mode and Emacs on [under global options])
>
Emacs Key bindings gets you half way there but to make home, end, delete,
page-up, and page-down work by pressing the keys labeled as such (what a concept),
you need to create a custom keymap, place it in ~/Library/Keyboards and select
the keymap in Preferences. This works well for Edit, Mail, Terminal, and several other
applications. There's probably a keymap available on cs.orst.edu but if not, I'll
upload mine.
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michael@eversoft.com Ph: 214.437.7631
From: rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu (Randy Rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Copying Entire Filesystems part II!
Date: 14 Mar 1995 00:51:25 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <3k2pad$lu8@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
I've followed this thread for a while and have no problems backing up MY root
partition. Either with gnutar, or dump (I prefer gnutar for some strange reason.)
The question I have is the following: (on black Hdware)
There are times that I'd like to backup someone elses NeXT Filesystem (typically
their root partition). If they are running NS3.0 or beyond I have no problems since
I can just use their disk as the boot disk and then do a gnutar under 3.0 up to 3.2..
I did a test trying gnutar with the disk I wanted to copy mounted as /Disk1 and
copying it to /Optical1 with the following command.
cd /Disk1;gnutar clvf - . | (cd /Optical1;gnutar xvf -) &
And all hell broke loose. I'm still trying to figure out if my HD just decided
to crap out (need to do a low level reformat.. No help from NS on this one.. Not
even with sdformat (thanks Brian)) or if there was a problem with certian files
or what?!
But what I'm looking for is a way to backup any filesystem that usually becomes
root if it's the only device, on to another device (provided it has sufficient space).
And I want to be able to use NS3.2 (preferrably) to back up (NS3.0, NS2.1,
NS1.0 etc.).
So the question is does anyone have any solutions to this one, or any comments.
AND would SafetyNet do the job? Say if I mounted the disk as Disk1 and then
Backed up the entire disk (would it catch that Disk1 is a bootable disk, but not
mounted under root) and then shutdown booted with another HD called Disk1 and
then did the restore?
Thanks for any comments or discussion that ensues. And if indeed the above
command should work let me know!
Randy Rencsok
rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to get Enet address? Should I have to?
Date: 14 Mar 1995 08:13:36 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3k3j7g$7ec@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Matthew Hocker (hocker@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: I'm still trying to track down that problem with my NS/FIP machine and
: the stubbornness to connecting to the office IP network. The NetWare
: works fine, but the IP causes random hangs and general unusability of the
: system. I can ping other machines just fine, but no one can ping me, and
: there seems to be no way to telnet/ftp in either. The network is
: heterogeneous, with no other NeXT machines on it (damn!).
This should not be a problem. Are you going through a router?
: In trying to resolve this really irritating problem, I was going through
: NetInfoMgr checking my values for my local machine,
: and I ran across the "en_address" field. Apparently, something somewhere
: didn't set the value (it's "0:0:0:0:0:0" right now) and I'm curious if
: this could be the source of my problems. If so, how do I get this value?
I don't know if this is the cause of your problems, but you
will see the ethernet adress when booting in 'verbatim' mode,
during the startup of the ethernet card driver.
For NS3.2, just press <RETURN> at the boot prompt, for NS3.3, you'll
have to enter -v at the boot prompt to make the machine tell it to you.
You could also take a look at /private/adm/messages, the information should
also be in there like:
...
Mar 8 08:38:13 bonsai mach: EtherExpress16 at port 300 irq 10
Mar 8 08:38:13 bonsai mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type
"10MB Ethernet"
Mar 8 08:38:13 bonsai mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:aa:00:2c:bb:4d
...
Cheers,
Axel
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From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: NewsGrazer and gzip compression ?
Message-ID: <D5CKDt.DG@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 21:44:17 GMT
Hi,
Right now, I'm using flat files with NewsGrazer and it works fine. So far,
I'm receiving all News with no compression at all. It works great, but as
I subscribed to more and more Newsgroups, it takes a long time to download
from my provider through a 14400bps line. I asked him about how to improve
the speed of the transmission and he told me he could gzip all the news if
only I could make sure that I'm able to receive and decompress them.
So here is my question : how do I tell NewsGrazer (or whoever) to
decompress the News with gzip ? What would be available for me to receive
all my news gziped and still being able to read them with NewsGrazer ?
Thanks to e-mail me all the answers, even the ones you find too simple.
Jacques Garbi
From: john@wpa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Turbo stations hang on reboot or power-down attempt
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 08:02:25 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
Message-ID: <950314020225.726AABoI.john@nimno>
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Somewhere along the line I've gotten something in /etc or /usr hosed up so
that an attempt to reboot or simply to power down results in a hung
computer. I am pretty sure it is simply software or configuration related
since the problem does not exist after a fresh rebuild of NS. However, when
I restore some of my old files (I've tracked them problem down to somewhere
under /etc or /usr) I end up reinstating the problem by bringing back
whatever file is responsible.
Basically, the system can't complete the sync which means two things:
1) I have to apply the VDG (Vulcan Death Grip) and power down from the
monitor
2) I get the pleasure of waiting about 20 minutes which multiple fscks are
done (I have an external drive attached to the machine.
I've got exactly the same problem on two different machines (both of which
have inherited the same "bad" file from the same source.) This also
convinces me that it is not a hardware problem.
How can I best go about diagnosing what the system is objecting to? I would
probably have it fixed by now, but there are never really any error messages
- it just sits there looking at me! :-)
Please reply to: john@wpa.com
Thanks.
From: federico@heinz.com (Federico Heinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP Printers and NeXT (Let's get religious: Dots is the answer?)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:05:35 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar13.170535.5596@heinz.com>
References: <3jptoo$6nq@enquirer.FirePower.COM>
Organization: F. HEINZ Consultora
Sender: usenet@heinz.com
In article <3jptoo$6nq@enquirer.FirePower.COM> steveh@FirePower.COM writes:
> We have a couple of those printers (HP 4Si/MX and 4M
> Plus). The problem I've run in to with NeXT machines
> printing to them is that the options don't seem to work
> under the print panel (can't turn duplexing off) and if
> you specify more than one print copy you still only get
> one. Some Fonts that are on nextstep aren't in the
> printer ... I don't know how to get them downloaded to
> the printer (other than buying a font cartridge).
You have just named a few of the problems that support my campaign "keep
PostScript out of your printer!".
OK, with everybody running Windoze on 4 Meg '386 PCs, we all agree that they
will need a better computer to get decent output in reasonable time, and
these guys are used to kludges anyway, so why not just hide this more
powerful computer *inside* the printer, away from their fingers so they can't
refuse to buy it just because it doesn't have an "intel inside" sticker on
it?
But if you are running NEXTSTEP, you already have a decent machine on your
desktop (otherwise, you are _waiting_ for NEXTSTEP, not running it). Why do
you want to put 4 Meg RAM inside your printer, where they will sit doing
nothing most of the time? Think of your swap file, and you'll certainly agree
that you can put them to better use. Even these 4 Meg aren't a guarantee that
your print jobs will not run out of PostScript VM if you include big pictures
or your applications do certain nasty tricks in their PostScript code. And
then there's the font problem, and...
On the other hand, you can use NEXTSTEP's PostScript interpreter to print to
a dumb bitmap printer. It has access to all the resources your computer has,
including virtual memory, fonts, processor power, you name it. Sure, it will
steal a few processor cycles from the user working on the machine, but a
careful implementation of the driver will place no noticeable load on the
machine, and besides the print engines are usually so slow relative to
processor speed that only once in a while the machine will actually have to
do something. And you will want a fast interface to the printer, like
parallel, SCSI or ethernet (serial is not completely out of the question, but
try to avoid it, if for no other reason just to spare yourself the RS-232
wiring nightmare).
As a side effect of having the printer driver as software for your computer
(don't let the name "PostScript cartridge" fool you, what you get is a
printer driver burnt into a few ROMs), you also gain flexibility, as the
driver can be more closely integrated in your work environment, and it can be
more intelligent in the option handling department. I have also tried to get
a PostScript LaserJet to switch its duplex setting by using the Options
panel---and failed miserably. I still have no clue as to what enchantment I
should have added to get it to work (yes, I did cross my fingers and shake my
nephew's dead hamster over the monitor and CPU, but it didn't help either).
Doing it from PCL in my driver, on the other hand, worked perfectly.
As a matter of fact, I think this is just an instance of a more general
principle: intelligent peripherals are a Bad Idea. Do you remember
"intelligent terminals," those beasts with hundreds of escape codes? I'm glad
I haven't seen one for years (yes, I think X terminals are a Bad Idea too).
We need open, intelligent, universal, fast interfaces that don't place a
heavy load on the processor (a la SCSI, ethernet, FDDI, etc). The processing
power needed for the driver is better provided by the computer itself.
Using the NEXTSTEP PostScript interpreter is easy, there are several packages
available that will do it for you. Some of them are PD, some commercial. Of
the latter, Dots is my favorite, maybe because I wrote most of it :-)
I hope this helped,
Federico
DISCLAIMER: read the last paragraph again.
From: "Robert R. Borchers" <borchers@nsf.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Expanding zone non-kernel map entries
Date: 14 Mar 1995 21:11:26 GMT
Organization: National Science Foundation
Message-ID: <3k50pu$bb7@y.nsf.gov>
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To: all
Does anyone know what the console message in the subject line means? It
usually portends a panic and reboot with fsck. I would like to know if
there is a fix or something I should do differently. I am running a
cube, 3.3 and ND. Bob
From: "Robert R. Borchers" <borchers@nsf.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Expanding zone non-kernel map entries
Date: 14 Mar 1995 21:11:57 GMT
Organization: National Science Foundation
Message-ID: <3k50qt$bb7@y.nsf.gov>
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To: news
Does anyone know what the console message in the subject line means? It
usually portends a panic and reboot with fsck. I would like to know if
there is a fix or something I should do differently. I am running a
cube, 3.3 and ND. Bob
From: piou@clark.net (Edward Piou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Having problems compiling zmailer 2.99.13 under NS 3.0
Date: 14 Mar 1995 17:41:59 -0500
Organization: Edarchy First!
Message-ID: <3k563n$943@explorer.clark.net>
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Howdy.
In order to eliminate the load sendmail puts on NetInfo, I'm
trying to compile zmailer version 2.99.13 on black hardware, but am
having - problems.
Does anyone have any general advice for installing zmailer on a
NeXT, or are there any binaries available? Or a way to get around my
current problem? I thought I'd gotten past the major problems involved,
then started getting the following set of errors - multiple definitions
of various malloc-associated variables.
dante> make all
cd router ; make router-a
cd ../libs ; make
cd ../libauth; make libauth.a
cd ../router/libdb; make libdb.a
cd ../libsh; make libsh.a
cd ../transports/libta; make libta.a
cd ../lib; make libz.a
cd ../libc; make libzc.a
cc -g -O -DSTDC_HEADERS -DHAVE_STRING_H -I../include -I../libsh -o
router router.o dateparse.o conf.o functions.o db.o shliaise.o rfc822.o
rfc822hdrs.o rfc822walk.o version.o -L../libs -ldb -lsh -lz -lzc
-lmalloc_d -ldbm
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _calloc
../libs/libmalloc_d.a(malloc.o) definition of _calloc in section
(__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(malloc.o) definition of absolute _calloc (value 0x500220a)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _realloc
../libs/libmalloc_d.a(malloc.o) definition of _realloc in section
(__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(malloc.o) definition of absolute _realloc (value 0x5002d7a)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _malloc
../libs/libmalloc_d.a(malloc.o) definition of _malloc in section
(__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(malloc.o) definition of absolute _malloc (value 0x50028fa)
/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _free
../libs/libmalloc_d.a(malloc.o) definition of _free in section
(__TEXT,__text)
/lib/libsys_s.a(malloc.o) definition of absolute _free (value 0x5002546)
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
===
I tried to remove the definitions from zmailer's source files,
but ended up getting other errors.
Thanks for any help.
ep
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From: fred@improve.fdn.org (Frederic STARK)
Subject: Re: 2Gig limit makes NS look like DOS
Message-ID: <1995Mar10.142544.11737@improve.fdn.org>
Sender: news@improve.fdn.org
Organization: improve SA - La Defense, Paris, France.
References: <3hthj9$oqo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:25:44 GMT
In article <3hthj9$oqo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes:
[deleted]
> : On a side note, it seems that the 2gig limitation will remain with us
even
> : into NS4. Why, well it seems as though NeXT's profiled customer
either has
> : a huge server which in fact can have a great big partition--which is
net
> : mountable onto a NS client--and so has no need for larger local
partition !)
>
> I sure hope not. We have a 10 GB raid on a server, and both workspace
> and df treat it strangely depending on how much space is used.
> Basically sizes wrap around so that you end up with crazy things like
> -121% used, -12344567 blocks free.
>
We shared NFS disk from DataGeneral Aviions server (to NS 3.2 clients). No
way to delete an empty folder from within the Workspace (Something like
'xxxx/.' unreadable due to an optimisation of DG/UX). rmdir worked well
from Terminal. And as more and more program use WorkspaceRequest protocol
to delete file, any recursive operation that deleted a hierarchy that
contains a empty folder failed miserabily, and the workspace was quite
strange after (example: Creation of directories in a place different of
the one selected).
The Good Thing (tm) is that OpenStep will solve all theses problems ...
:-)
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frederic stark -- New address fred@improve.fdn.org
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From: kdarmawa@ix.netcom.com (Kurniawan Darmawangsa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Losing root password ..!!!!!!
Date: 14 Mar 1995 21:33:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3k522c$1ha@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <3k50qt$bb7@y.nsf.gov>
Hi, I am just starting playing with my new NeXTStep OS. I learn to try
to create several user. For a while I start on changing the root
password, but now I forgot the root password.
I ask my co worker, he told me to bring up the system as single user
mode. However he didn't explained what to do next.
Can somebody help me ?
Thanks
Leon
From: vanfosse@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andy VanFossen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 Upgrade Problem - Urgent
Date: 14 Mar 1995 14:03:25 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3k47nd$1be@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
During the latter stages of my recent upgrade to 3.3 (Intel), I attempted to
hide the Upgrader.app, resulting in a total system hang. Now, when I
try to boot, I get the following messages:
Config file "/private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Default.table" not found
System config file 'System' not found.
My question: Do I have to totally install 3.3 from the ground up, or is
there a way to load the drivers from the CD (or floppy) and still have
access to my hard drive? Also, if I do have to re-install, will I lose
the contents of my existing DOS partition?
The reason for the urgency is that my NS is currently unusable.
Thanks in advance!
--
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andy+@osu.edu | std disclaimers apply | so it must be true..."
From: Gerd Gueldenpfennig
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP Printers and NeXT (use QMS for all options)
Date: 14 Mar 1995 19:53:02 GMT
Organization: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH, Waldbronn, Germany
Message-ID: <3k4s6u$4b3@balu.ixpoint.de>
References: <1995Mar13.170535.5596@heinz.com>
Federico Heinz writes
> In article <3jptoo$6nq@enquirer.FirePower.COM> steveh@FirePower.COM
writes:
> > We have a couple of those printers (HP 4Si/MX and 4M
> > Plus). The problem I've run in to with NeXT machines
> > printing to them is that the options don't seem to work
> > under the print panel (can't turn duplexing off) and if
>
> You have just named a few of the problems that support my campaign "keep
> PostScript out of your printer!".
>
Frederico,
have you ever heared about real intelligent network printers? Some of the
kind you can log in and do administration right on the printer over the
network?
That are intelligent periperals ! And the use of Postscript Level II is a
part of it.
To everybody: There are very good Postscript level II printers. There are
printers with perfectly working options in NEXTSTEP in Postscript. Try the
professional QMS family and it will work. Forget your problems with HP
printers.
DISCLAIMER (in Fredericos style): We made QMSprint: the network printing
solution for NEXTSTEP.
---
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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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 and MIME) +
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From: petergun@coffeehaus.com (Stephane I. Matis)
Subject: Modifying "groups" ...
Organization: >> cofeehaus << " Satisfying your Digital Caffeine needs. "
Message-ID: <D5G75M.7EE@coffeehaus.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 20:48:57 GMT
I need to chnage the values of the "groups" on my NeXT to follow the ones
on my Linux box. Actually, it could be either way, but I digress.
What I need is a way to rotate a whole slew of files to remain in their
respective "groups" for ownership.
My solution so far was to write a series of 'find' like :
find / -group 1 -exec chown 22 {} \;
find / -group 3 -exec chown 1 {} \;
find / -group 2 -exec chown 3 {} \;
find / -group 22 -exec chown 2 {} \;
Yes, I needed to rotate a bunch of them around ... sigh. But, to my
dismay, it didn't work out well.
Anybody have a better solution ?
Thanks
Steph
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From: Thomas Briggs <tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:15:31 -0500
Organization: Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, USA
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950314165806.2836C-100000@cutter.ship.edu>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 1995, Kurt M. Hockenbury wrote:
> You might (when you get a chance to reboot) want to try using Stephen Tweedie's
> new kswap patches with the 1.2.0 kernel - seems to improve interactive
> performance when swapping starts. I can send you pointers to them (or the
> patches themselves) if you want.
>
Sure, I'll install them on my own personal machine... I test everything
out thourghly before I install it on Cutter itself.
> I'm curious - how much ram, disk, etc do you have on the system? How many
> simultainious logins do you support?
>
The system is based on 20MB of RAM and a nice Western Digital Caviar 340
and a Seagate old 100Mb disk. The Caviar is really what makes the system
usuable, its a FAST disk drive (IMHO). In addition, I've got an NFS
mountable partition on an old machine with terrible NFS throughput, but
it does have another 300MB of disk space for User's home dirctories.
The machine supports, on the average, 20+ users logged in, but they are
usually reading email with Pine or Rtin and such, and not really clogging
too much up. The number drops to about 10-15 Emacs/C programmers, and
drops to about 8-10 Emacs/Common Lisp programmers. But, thats fine,
Cutter is also an NFS server, I've set up a seal where other 486-33's in
our CS labs can do a LOADLIN.EXE and load up a kernel from dos, mount a
small (< 5MB) UMSDOS partition and boot off of Cutter for the rest, so
that has worked out well also, that is where all the stations run
Xwindows and Emacs and LISP and all the heavy hitting stuff thta soaks up
memory and the like, and NFS isn't really all that big of a system load.
Further, Cutter is its own Gopher / HTTP server, the HTTP is coming
along, I just put it up and found a volunteer to set it up today. The
gopher is a bit more mature.
Also, if you are bored, FTP to Cutter via anonymous FTP and check out
/pub/Wuarchive. You can FTP from Wuarchive via Cutter through an NFS
mount to WuArchive. I've been averaging about 5-10k per second which is
comparable to Wuarchive itself :-)
We do have a machine upgrade on Order however, its going to be a
pentium-90 with 2Gig of space, and PCI scsi, etc, etc, etc... bit of a
nicer machine. I'm thinking of making a directory for the Linux
community to install Linux via the NFS options, so it would mean people
could install this way instead of FTPing all the stuff over and making 50
floppy disks :-) Anyone have any thoughts about this? I think it would
be pretty cool.
+-----------+ "Cutter has crashed, again!" - Scott Hooper, 1994
|Tom Briggs +----------------------------+ Cutter: probably the most heavily
|Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | loaded i486-33 machine ever made.
|primary address: tbriggs@cutter.ship.edu+---------+ Linux 1.1.94, 600 users
|secondary address: tbriggs@saturn.csee.lehigh.edu| telnet,Aftp,gopher,http
+--------------------------------------------------+ nfs,identd,pine,rtin...
From: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 14 Mar 1995 22:26:39 +0100
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <3k51mf$4i5@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
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samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
>Or, if you stepped into a client site that said "We don't want
>any GNU software here" (it's happened to me), would you refuse to do the
>work for them?
Hm. I would tell them that it could be very uncool if the non-GNU-tar
cuts all pathnames down to 100 chars... if they still stick to tar.orig
-> their problem. I get paid for solving problems. If they want some...
>It's not all that hard to avoid using absolute pathnames, or at least
>(as you have above) make it explicit that you're removing them (rather
>than just letting the tool do your thinking for you).
I admit it is a cleaner way to specify all directories below / explicitely
to be copied to /newdisk. But I would never use the original tar to do this.
BUGS
[...]
The current limit on file name length is 100 characters.
(from 'man tar').
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // Navigator - System administration & Consulting
mail? // mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de
more? // Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stephan@OneVision.de
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under NSIP?
Message-ID: <D5G36B.xp@onevision.de>
Sender: usenet@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <ZcxbuCG.ecesys@delphi.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 19:22:59 GMT
In article <ZcxbuCG.ecesys@delphi.com> ecesys <ecesys@delphi.com> writes:
> Jim Carpenter <jim@ws8.sri.com> writes:
>
> >
> >I have begun to suspect that this is only available on a NeXT computer
> >(i.e. not an Intel Based computer). Why the System Administration book
> >that comes with NSIP version 3.3 contains a reference to this I do not
> >know. If anyone knows if AppleTalk can be made to work with NSIP
version
> >3.3, please let me know.
>
> Jim:
> IPT has a product called Partner, which works fine under 3.3 and mounts
> AppleShare Volumes, supports AT printing, etc. Good Product!
> Contact: 805-541-3000
>
> San Luis Obispo, CA
>
> Hope this helps,
> Marty
I wonder if there is a PD product that can access AppleShare?
Stephan
---
Stephan Schlecht
From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with PNI 1.11 with NS 3.3
Date: 15 Mar 1995 12:57:45 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3k6o89$8ds@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I've been having problems with PNI with NEXTSTEP 3.3 intel. I am able to make
a connection without problems, but after closing the connection, pni will never
work again until the computer is rebooted.
I noticed that once booted up in NEXTSTEP, the pnid that should be started
from rc.local is not running. I'm not doing anything fancy with pni - it is
straight off the pni 1.11 package.
I've been using pni for many months under 3.2 without problems, so this is a
new problem with 3.3. I have included the log from /usr/adm/pni.log when
trying to connect.
Anybody had this problem also and know how to solve it? Thanks in advance,
Varun
------
TransSys PNI 1.11 ($Id: pnid.m,v 1.27 1994/08/13 17:51:51 louie Exp $)
Copyright (c) TransSys, Inc. All rights reserved.
license key: serial number 1 version 0 keyversion 0 features 0x49
license key: licensed to Plain Slip User
Loading package initialization file in /etc/pni/pnid.tcl
pnid: Operation mode is CLIENT
pnid: Test mode
pnid: using configuration in /etc/pni/config/pni0.config
Loaded bundle /etc/pni/PNI.encap for class PNI
Load TCL initialization from /etc/pni/PNI.encap/PNI_objInit.tcl
Loaded bundle /etc/pni/SLIP.encap for class SLIP
Load TCL initialization from /etc/pni/SLIP.encap/SLIP_objInit.tcl
Encap: loading class initialiation code from /etc/pni/TTY.encap/TTY_Init.tcl
Loaded bundle /etc/pni/TTY.encap for class TTY
Load TCL initialization from /etc/pni/TTY.encap/TTY_objInit.tcl
--> configure: pni
--> configure: slip
--> configure: tty
Loaded bundle /etc/pni/Dialer.bundle for class Dialer
tty: Default to UUCP-style locking protocol
-slip stats: 0 packets, 0 compressed, 0 searches, 0 misses
- 0 uncompressed in, 0 compressed in, 0 error in, 0 tossed
Uptime is 0 seconds (since Wed Mar 15 01:33:08 1995 UTC)
283 TCL commands executed, 0.130 user, 0.080 system
Configuration complete
PNI pni: pni0 open on fd 4
=== TCL Error: Starting Encaps (phase1):
> cmdregister: cannot register with portmapper
=== errorCode
> NONE
=== errorInfo
> cmdregister: cannot register with portmapper
> while executing
> "cmdregister $i"
> invoked from within
> "if {$i>0} {
> cmdregister $i
> }"
> invoked from within
> "if {[info exists Config(CMD:prog)]} {
> cmdregister $Config(CMD:prog)
> } else {
> set i [getrpcbyname [[lindex $encapList 0] interface]]
> if ..."
> invoked from within
> "if {[string compare $phase phase1]==0} {
> #
> # Invoked to set registration of RPC command handler and
> # portmapper binding.
> #
> if {[info exists Co ..."
> (procedure "start_encaps" line 48)
> invoked from within
> "start_encaps phase1"
=== [end error dump]
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help wanted on copying entire filesystem! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Date: 15 Mar 1995 14:49:11 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Mar15094911@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <9503010721.AA01280@nesteggs.com> <SAMURAI.95Mar1121917@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
<3jfl4c$1s9@marsu.pilhuhn.de> <SAMURAI.95Mar7112330@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
<3k51mf$4i5@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
In-reply-to: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de's message of 14 Mar 1995 22:26:39 +0100
<mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de> writes:
>samurai@marge.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
>>Or, if you stepped into a client site that said "We don't want
>>any GNU software here" (it's happened to me), would you refuse to do the
>>work for them?
>Hm. I would tell them that it could be very uncool if the non-GNU-tar
>cuts all pathnames down to 100 chars... if they still stick to tar.orig
->their problem. I get paid for solving problems. If they want some...
>>It's not all that hard to avoid using absolute pathnames, or at least
>>(as you have above) make it explicit that you're removing them (rather
>>than just letting the tool do your thinking for you).
>I admit it is a cleaner way to specify all directories below / explicitely
>to be copied to /newdisk. But I would never use the original tar to do this.
>BUGS
> [...]
> The current limit on file name length is 100 characters.
Yes, yes, yes. I'm aware of this... I'm NOT debating whether or not
gnutar is a good tool. What I'm debating is whether you should get into
bad habits about usage, or worse, teach those bad habits to people who
don't know any better, and will end up erasing part of their disk.
Because you *will*, whether you believe it or not, have to use good old
packaged out-of-the-box tar one day, again. And, there's a whole lot
more people out there using plain-old-tar rather than gnutar, for a
myriad of reasons.
---> Yes, tar is buggy, but that's my point!!! <---
If tar were any better, than I'd not have to post messages warning
people about encoding absolute paths into tarfiles. What's more, it'a
actually a security breach, as well as a general data-unsafe way of
doing things.
- db
--
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops. -- Veruca Salt -- Baldric, you
wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on
top of a harpsichord singing, "Subtle Plans Are Here Again" -- Atkinson --
The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: Help: Losing root password ..!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1995Mar15.140110.20013@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3k522c$1ha@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 14:01:10 GMT
Kurniawan Darmawangsa writes
> Hi, I am just starting playing with my new NeXTStep OS. I learn to try
> to create several user. For a while I start on changing the root
> password, but now I forgot the root password.
>
> I ask my co worker, he told me to bring up the system as single user
> mode. However he didn't explained what to do next.
>
> Can somebody help me ?
>
> Thanks
> Leon
If you can get in as another user, I would suggest reading 15_Trouble.rtfd
in the NextAdmin online documentation. It has a section entitled Lost
Root Password.
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bizaar Netinfo problem?
Date: 15 Mar 1995 15:03:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3k6vkm$uk@netnews.upenn.edu>
Folks,
I am running NS 3.3 on a mono NeXTstation. For some time I have had some bizaar
behavior, and a new clue has surfaced that makes me want to ask for advice
again.
Briefly, for some time I have been unable to run a variety of /NextAdmin apps.
I can run NetInfoManager (thank God, or else I'd be really screwed), but cannot
run HostManager, UserManager, SimpleNetworkStarter, and some of the others run
a little funky. When I launch these from a Unix prompt, they also fail but I
get a "bus error" back from the command line.
Now the new piece: when I upgraded from NS3.2 to NS3.3, the update log reported
the following:
Postprocessing / for upgrade beginning at Tue Mar 14 12:51:37 EST 1995 ...
Updating NetInfo database local.nidb:
...but this isn't the master server for it. Skipping.
Now, this begs 2 questions:
1. Is my system somehow hosed since the NetInfo database was not updated?
Everything seems fine...
2. Can anyone tell me generally what is going on, and whether these two things
are related, and how I might fix it all?
Please respond via e-mail.
Regards,
Noam
--
Dr. Noam H. Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice)
University of Pennsylvania 215/898-9348 (FAX)
Director, Information Technology Architecture Info Systems & Computing
Director, Finance, Administration & Systems Data Comm. & Computing Services
Research Associate Leonard Davis Institute
Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street arzt@dccs.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Problem in a Mixed Environment (TCP/IP)
Message-ID: <1995Mar15.142913.1073@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 14:29:13 GMT
I have 7 NEXTSTEP machines on a network with an RS/6000. I actually have
an entry in netinfo for the RS/6000. All I need to do at this point is to
telnet to this machine.
With the entry in netinfo, I can telnet to this machine from any machine
except the netinfo server. I can do this by name, and it works very well.
Further, I can go in the reverse direction from the RS back to every
machine except the netinfo server.
Nor can I ping to or from the rs/6000 <--> netinfo server. This would not
be a problem, except that over time, I may want to exchange mail between
the two, and the netinfo server is also the mailhost. Does anyone have
any suggestions or pointers?
When I try to ping or telnet, the message is connection timed out.
Thanks
Wes
--
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From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Duplex Printing on HP w/ JetDirect (was Re: How can I use JetDirect on NeXT?)
Date: 15 Mar 1995 21:58:38 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3k7nue$qbb@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <3k1v8c$eaq@news.next.com>
In article <3k1v8c$eaq@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
>
> If you have an original JetDirect, you have a couple of options:
>
> A) you can upgrade to 3.3 - we support it in PrintManager.app
Cool. It just works... almost...
Now if I could get it to print Duplex... I have a duplexing
HP4mSIx printer, with the original JetDirect card. I have been
routing NeXT LPR to it through a Sun box here, and it was working
except for duplexing... I blamed it on NeXT not have 'direct' control
of the printer. I just installed a 3.3 test queue with PrintManager
and voila, it printed (very fast too). Then I tried duplex: Cmd-P
click on Options, select long-side binding, click okay, and click print.
Dash to Printer... Damn. Same results: Front side prints, paper
is 'reversed', nothing is printed, paper reversed again, and paper
is output. So, in duplex mode, I get a lot of paper path motion, but
still only one side per page printed (all the PS is printed mind you,
I don't get pages 1,3,5... I get 1,2,3,..., I just get them on 1,2,3...
pieces of paper).
Anybody got duplex printing working with an original HP JetDirect
Card?
---
- 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: aoki@physics.ucla.edu (Ken-ichiro Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cheap PS level II printers for NextStep
Date: 16 Mar 1995 01:38:21 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics, UCLA
Distribution: comp
Message-ID: <AOKI.95Mar15173824@gauss.physics.ucla.edu>
References: <9503152155.AA03823@guitar.ho.att.com>
In-reply-to: Dan F Hurley's message of Wed, 15 Mar 95 16:55:57 -0500
This isn't exactly what you asked for, but I think it does what
you want: How about getting a InkJet and just using
commercial/free driver with it? (i.e. do the bitmapping on the
computer.) HPDJ or CanonBJ series are pretty affordable even in
color. The point is, NS understands PSII, so why buy a PSII
printer? (and pay more.)
As for drivers,
free: GhostHPDJ, djf (color version might or might not exist.)
Commercial: JetPilot (HPDJ), Dots (supports a lot of printers
incl. HPDJ, Canon BJ). They cost like $200 for color, I
think. You can still make it under $500 total, maybe.
Couple of points:
1. It is *slow*. I am not kidding. 1p/min or slower for color.
2. It will use your cpu for bitmapping. (don't care but some
people might.)
I use djf (mono) with HPDJ500 at home. Works fine. At work, we
use JetPilot with HPDJ1200C (color, bit $$ side). Have no
complaints about that either.
All the drivers exist on the net (commercial ones as demo) so
take a look and use the one you like.
Hope this helps.
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan F Hurley <dfh@guitar.emsr.att.com> writes:
Dan> Can anyone recommend a cheap ($500) PS printer for NS? I am especially
Dan> interested in a color printer so I will consider inkjets.
Dan> Panasonic has a balck/white "page printer" which claims to be PS level II.
Dan> Anyone know about it's performance, reliability, compatibility, etc...?
Dan> Thanks,
Dan> Dan Hurley
--
___Kenichiro Aoki (ken@th.phys.titech.ac.jp)
Dept.of Physics,Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
.... on the road oDo .......
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: tip, cufa, ATT dataport, NEXTSTEP?
Date: 15 Mar 95 14:21:17
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95Mar15142117@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
I followed the instruction in NeXTLibrary/Documentation:Attaching-Modems
and modified /etc/remote, but cannot make 'tip' working with a ATT
dataport 14.4/fax modem. After seeing the LEDs flashing for few seconds,
all I got is "Cannot synchronize with hayes ...". Anybody knows the
trick to use dataport modem for NEXTSTEP?
I have another CHEAP modem, USRobots Sport14.4, will it work?
Regards,
zhao
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Message-ID: <9503152155.AA03823@guitar.ho.att.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Dan F Hurley <dfh@guitar.emsr.att.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 16:55:57 -0500
Subject: Cheap PS level II printers for NextStep
Hi.
Can anyone recommend a cheap ($500) PS printer for NS? I am especially
interested in a color printer so I will consider inkjets.
Panasonic has a balck/white "page printer" which claims to be PS level II.
Anyone know about it's performance, reliability, compatibility, etc...?
Thanks,
Dan Hurley
From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: SUMMARY: How to install MS-DOS on DOS partition ?
Date: 16 Mar 1995 11:44:46 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <3k98bf$ekd@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Some time ago I had the Problem:
# I installed NEXTSTEP on an Intel machine and on that occasion made
# a DOS partition. Now I would like to install MS-DOS on this
# partition. ...
I got several answers - thanks to all who replied.
wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) wrote, that MS-DOS 6
formats all accesible partitions. Better install first DOS then NEXTSTEP.
Karsten Heinze <Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE> wrote the same,
and that MS-DOS 6 even formats all accessible hard disks, and that MS-DOS
5 is harmless.
From Douglas McClure <dougm@woodstock.abbott.com>:
% 1) It is safe to do a format c: /s. I did it, well, without the
% /s, but it worked fine. I think the message about
% formating your entire disk is not quite true. I installed
% DOS on a system at work using the DOS install and it worked
% fine with the partition. If you are at all worried, just
% make a backup of the NeXT side to be sure, but I'm fairly
% confident that it would work okay. I think they are just
% trying to scare you that it IS going to erase the DOS
% partition/disk because most DOS folks probably need the
% extra warning.
% 2) Yeah, it's probably safe to install 5.0, but probably
% preferable to put 6.22 on there. I don't know if 5.0 would
% have any problems with it, but I always like to have the
% latest stuff installed.
From everhart@alterlife.com (Dwight Everhart):
& I recently (a week or so ago) installed DOS 6.22 after
& re-installing NS 3.2, and I didn't have any problems. I
& just booted the DOS installation floppy and followed the
& instructions. My NS partition is fine.
From Tom Meyer <tmeyer@mcs.com>:
$ About 2 months ago I destroyed my entire hard disk trying
$ to install DOS !!
Mario Stargard <mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca>:
> I've set up several NSFIP. Always install the Dos
> partition first. Dos 6.2 fdisk destroys access to the
> NeXT partition. You might have better luck with Dos 5.0,
> but I honestly haven't tried it. Furthermore, do not
> upgrade to dos 6.2 if you have dos 5.0 on the dos partition.
> Again, dos 6.2 will destroy access to the NeXT side. Your
> best bet is to archive the NeXT side, low level format the
> disk, and install dos first. When the dos install program
> comes up, exit it and use fdisk manually to create a
> partition of the wanted size and set it active. Then
> restart the computer and let dos finish installing
> itself. Then reinstall NeXT and restore from the
> archive.
Chris Miner <chris@opensource.com>:
= I have commonly installed MS-DOS 6.22 without
= clobbering my nextstep partion on the same drive.
= However, one time I did have an external drive connected
= as I went about installing DOS. A very bad thing happened.
= My external drive was formated as well as the extra
= partition on my internal drive. Also, 3.2 had a problem
= with nextstep overwriting the DOS partition, but there
= is a patch for this defect. So to answer your question, I
= have never had the nextstep partition on a disk with a DOS
= partition overwritten. However, I have had external
= drives clobbered.
What I did:
I booted MS-DOS from a disk, did a `format c: /s', and then copied the DOS
files to c:. Then I installed MS-Windows by `setup'. Now I have a working
MS-DOS partition.
--
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: MEDIA ERROR; still waiting for help.
Date: 16 Mar 1995 00:21:59 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <3k80b7$hc@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
References: <3jru7j$pak@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
I had received only one response (via mail) from Kristopher Magnusson.
He had reformatted the HD with an Adaptec 2940 PCI scsi card (I think
its low level format). Is it the only way ? I don't have a PC but
have a Mac with FWD HD toolkit PE. May be I could use this config to
do the same thing but I just want to recover the HD without reformat
it.
skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant)) writes:
>Recently, I found the message
> Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 69822H retry 1
>pop up in the console window. Accompany with
> sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
> SCSI Block in error = 272072; Partition a F.S. sector 271912
> IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
>sparsely.
>I had an 400MB HD (come with original NeXTcube), and a Fuji 1GB.
>I found that when I gzip a 20MB files, several line of the error messages
>come out, the .gz becomes a 36 bytes file and gzip quit. Or, when I gzip
>a 60MB tar file for backup, the file becomes as small as 10MB (which should
>be 20MB when no error messages was popped up). Definitely, the files were
>dead.
>I think when I first tar a file, NeXT (Unix) just blindly written it out
>to the 1GB HD (there seems no problem with the 400MB boot disk) without
>verifying. Then when read error is encountered, everything goes wrong.
>I just want to know how should I do now ? Should I reformat the 1GB ?
>Could the problem be solved by reformatting ? Since 70% of the HD were
>occupied, reformat the HD is a headache (I don't have tape back up).
>Or is there any such kind of magic shareware which can be used to check
>for the defected sectors, hide them from being used by the system ?
>From this experience, if my guess (Unix just blindly writes to a device
>without read back check (which is logical)) was not wrong, is there any
>utility which can tailor the system to run more rigidly by doing a verify
>after a write. I don't know whether that may or may not be possible.
>If it is only slow down the machine by half, I think it is justifiable.
>Thanks for any comments.
>Mr.Sai-kee Wong
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: MEDIA ERROR; still waiting for help.
Date: 16 Mar 1995 00:23:08 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <3k80dc$hr@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
References: <3jru7j$pak@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
I had received only one response (via mail) from Kristopher Magnusson.
He had reformatted the HD with an Adaptec 2940 PCI scsi card (I think
its low level format). Is it the only way ? I don't have a PC but
have a Mac with FWD HD toolkit PE. May be I could use this config to
do the same thing but I just want to recover the HD without reformat
it.
skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant)) writes:
>Recently, I found the message
> Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 69822H retry 1
>pop up in the console window. Accompany with
> sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
> SCSI Block in error = 272072; Partition a F.S. sector 271912
> IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
>sparsely.
>I had an 400MB HD (come with original NeXTcube), and a Fuji 1GB.
>I found that when I gzip a 20MB files, several line of the error messages
>come out, the .gz becomes a 36 bytes file and gzip quit. Or, when I gzip
>a 60MB tar file for backup, the file becomes as small as 10MB (which should
>be 20MB when no error messages was popped up). Definitely, the files were
>dead.
>I think when I first tar a file, NeXT (Unix) just blindly written it out
>to the 1GB HD (there seems no problem with the 400MB boot disk) without
>verifying. Then when read error is encountered, everything goes wrong.
>I just want to know how should I do now ? Should I reformat the 1GB ?
>Could the problem be solved by reformatting ? Since 70% of the HD were
>occupied, reformat the HD is a headache (I don't have tape back up).
>Or is there any such kind of magic shareware which can be used to check
>for the defected sectors, hide them from being used by the system ?
>From this experience, if my guess (Unix just blindly writes to a device
>without read back check (which is logical)) was not wrong, is there any
>utility which can tailor the system to run more rigidly by doing a verify
>after a write. I don't know whether that may or may not be possible.
>If it is only slow down the machine by half, I think it is justifiable.
>Thanks for any comments.
>Mr.Sai-kee Wong
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.unix
Subject: 120M DDS Tapes - Do they exist in Germany!
Date: 16 Mar 1995 11:01:53 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3k95r1$1j4@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi,
Can anyone tell me were I can obtain 120M DDS DAT tapes in Germany.
We here tried most suppliers but can not get them to be delivered.
Even tried Sony but with no success. Everyone will let
you order them but none can supply them. We have not had these tapes
on order for nearly three months now?
Is there a problem or dispute with these tape?
Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry)
Subject: NETWARE Disconnection during copy
Message-ID: <1995Mar16.122350.11515@ares.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.fr
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 12:23:50 GMT
Hello
I try to connect our NeXTs to our PC Novell Netware Server since 3 month.
The connexion is OK but no way to copy file or exchange data > 2K
I tryed with different frames (ethernet_ii or ethernet_802.3)
the problem persist ... NEXTSTEP lost the connexion during the copy
if someone can help ???
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
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From: gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry)
Subject: NETWARE Disconnection during copy
Message-ID: <1995Mar16.122528.11728@ares.fdn.fr>
Keywords: Netware
Sender: news@ares.fdn.fr
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 12:25:28 GMT
Hello
I try to connect our NeXTs to our PC Novell Netware Server since 3 month.
The connexion is OK but no way to copy file or exchange data > 2K
I tryed with different frames (ethernet_ii or ethernet_802.3)
the problem persist ... NEXTSTEP lost the connexion during the copy
if someone can help ???
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
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From: jtodd@ss2.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under NSIP?
Date: 16 Mar 1995 05:10:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Express
Message-ID: <3k8h89$o0p@news3.digex.net>
References: <ZcxbuCG.ecesys@delphi.com> <D5G36B.xp@onevision.de>
stephan@OneVision.de wrote:
: In article <ZcxbuCG.ecesys@delphi.com> ecesys <ecesys@delphi.com> writes:
: > Jim Carpenter <jim@ws8.sri.com> writes:
: >
: > >
: > >I have begun to suspect that this is only available on a NeXT computer
: > >(i.e. not an Intel Based computer). Why the System Administration book
: > >that comes with NSIP version 3.3 contains a reference to this I do not
: > >know. If anyone knows if AppleTalk can be made to work with NSIP
: version
: > >3.3, please let me know.
: >
: > Jim:
: > IPT has a product called Partner, which works fine under 3.3 and mounts
: > AppleShare Volumes, supports AT printing, etc. Good Product!
: > Contact: 805-541-3000
: >
: > San Luis Obispo, CA
: >
: > Hope this helps,
: > Marty
: I wonder if there is a PD product that can access AppleShare?
: Stephan
: ---
: Stephan Schlecht
From what I understand, AFS will do this. However, AFS is a huge program to
compile, and THEN you need to have a GatorBox or something on your Ethernet
to talk both AppleTalk and TCP/IP. I looked at it, shuddered, and turned to
InterCon for NFS/Share, which at $200 is a pretty darn good bargain for
mounting UNIX filesystems as if they were Macs on the network. I got a free
demo license by calling Intercon, I was happy with the product, and I've now
set myself up to buy it. (Intercon: 800 468 7266) It'll work with any
more-or-less standard UNIX machine, and any Mac.
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From: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo 3.3 <-> 3.2 compatibility ?
Date: 16 Mar 1995 14:59:44 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3k9jp0$b7q@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Are the netinfo database files in NS 3.2 binary compatible to
those in 3.3 ?
I tried to install a clone server (for the domain network) by
adding ./network to the serves-property of the clone machine
and then copying network.nidb from master to clone and setting
MASTER to -YES- in /etc/hostconfig.
But after rebooting the clone system hung when starting netinfo.
The want-to-be clone is running NS 3.2 while the master is running
NS 3.3.
I performed the same procedure to create a clone server
on a 3.3 machine before, and it worked just fine.
So I guess the netinfo database files are not binary
compatible between 3.2 and 3.3.
Maybe I should also mention that the 3.2 machine which is
supposed to become a clone, is in a different subnet than
the master. But this should not be a problem, as there
is a router between the subnets, ping and ftp works when
I boot the 3.2 machine with a standalone configuration.
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Turbo stations hang on reboot or power-down attempt
Date: 16 Mar 1995 15:09:15 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3k9kar$b2u@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <950314020225.726AABoI.john@nimno>
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john@wpa.com wrote:
: Somewhere along the line I've gotten something in /etc or /usr hosed up so
: that an attempt to reboot or simply to power down results in a hung
: computer.
Seems you got an unkillable process hanging around. Check the output
of ps auxww and look for processes marked with 'U'.
Something accessing a not connected or switched off modem are likely
to cause the problem you describe, but I might well be something completely
different.
Axel
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From: gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry)
Subject: Re: NETWARE Disconnection during copy
Message-ID: <1995Mar16.132807.12399@ares.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.fr
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
References: <1995Mar16.122528.11728@ares.fdn.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:28:07 GMT
In article <1995Mar16.122528.11728@ares.fdn.fr>
gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry) writes:
>
> Hello
>
> I try to connect our NeXTs to our PC Novell Netware Server since 3
month.
>
> The connexion is OK but no way to copy file or exchange data > 2K
>
> I tryed with different frames (ethernet_ii or ethernet_802.3)
>
> the problem persist ... NEXTSTEP lost the connexion during the copy
>
> if someone can help ???
>
> 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
>
>
>
and if I launch npsd manually with verbose option
I get
ares:1# /usr/netware/etc/npsd -v
NPSD: Novell Protocol Suite Streams Architecture daemon.
NPSD: Trying Ethernet_II ...<got reply from ARES>
NPSD: Binding to network 00000001 using Ethernet_II frames.
NPSD: Configuring: LAN 0 00000001 /dev/nwen0
NPSD: NotifyIpxOfLan failed: Invalid argument
NPSD: ConfigureLan 0 notify of ipx failed
what is wrong ??
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
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From: maclure@cvsrf1.arc.nasa.gov (MacLure)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 16 Mar 1995 15:56:54 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
Message-ID: <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net>
fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com (Marc J. Fraioli) writes:
[SNIP]
>How well does it run? I tried running DEC OSF/1 on a 3000/600 with
>32MB of RAM, and it was pretty pathetic, swapping constantly. It was
>much happier in 64MB, although I was told that 48MB was also usable
>(never tried it myself). I can't imagine how bad it would have been
>in only 16MB. Of course, this was DEC OSF/1 v1.3-- perhaps it's been
>slimmed down (a lot) since then?
[SNIP]
We have an ALPHA sitting in our office with something like 300Meg RAM.
The amount of paging that goes on is more a function of the speed of the
chip and cache size than memory. There is a drawback to the screamingly
high clock rates that some companies use in that if you "blow" cache your
system performance takes an enormous hit.
IBM, for instance has chosen to get their performance increments by
reworking the S/W and running the chips at quite modest speeds ( at
least for the RS6000 ). If and when they choose to start boosting the
clock rates, performance will increase dramatically.
IBM
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From: dmedhi@CSTP.UMKC.EDU (Deep Medhi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Monitor display problem. HELP!
Date: 10 Mar 1995 21:52:05 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City, CSTP
Message-ID: <3jqhm5$2c0@kasey.umkc.edu>
Help,
When I as trying to reboot my machine today,
I could NOT get my Console Window after reboot (ie. I could
not get next username/passwd display; however, the arrow
showed up.) I tried rebooting a couple of times.
I can remote login to my machine from another host, though.
I have appended the messages that showed up in /usr/adm/messages
file.
Is there anyway to fix this problem? Or, is my monitor
shot?
Please HELP.
Thanks.
Deep Medhi
Email: dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu
====
file: /usr/adm/messages:
Mar 10 14:54:48 aazoli reboot: rebooted by dmedhi
Mar 10 14:54:49 aazoli syslogd: going down on signal 15
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: Remote debugging enabled
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: FPU version 0x40
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: available memory = 30.82 megabytes.
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: SEAGATE ST1480 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: Disk Label: NeXT_2.1_Ext
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: Disk Capacity 406MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:db:b3
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: root on sd0
Mar 10 14:55:35 aazoli mach: master cpu at slot 0.
Mar 10 14:55:38 aazoli ntpd[82]: bind() fails: Address already in use
Mar 10 14:55:45 aazoli automount: Master yp map: args to yp function are bad
Mar 10 14:56:37 aazoli syslog: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
Mar 10 14:56:38 aazoli WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: Remote debugging enabled
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: FPU version 0x40
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: available memory = 30.82 megabytes.
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: SEAGATE ST1480 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: Disk Label: NeXT_2.1_Ext
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: Disk Capacity 406MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:db:b3
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: root on sd0
Mar 10 15:04:47 aazoli mach: master cpu at slot 0.
Mar 10 15:04:52 aazoli ntpd[82]: bind() fails: Address already in use
Mar 10 15:04:58 aazoli automount: Master yp map: args to yp function are bad
Mar 10 15:05:51 aazoli syslog: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port!
Mar 10 15:05:53 aazoli WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
Mar 10 15:05:54 aazoli -[136]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 2213c, data -102
Mar 10 15:05:54 aazoli -[136]: exiting due to unknown DPS error, code 1103
Mar 10 15:05:55 aazoli WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
Mar 10 15:05:57 aazoli -[138]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 2213c, data 0
Mar 10 15:05:57 aazoli -[138]: exiting due to unknown DPS error, code 1103
Mar 10 15:05:57 aazoli netmsgserver[55]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102.
Mar 10 15:05:58 aazoli WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
Mar 10 15:19:24 aazoli reboot: rebooted by dmedhi
Mar 10 15:19:25 aazoli syslogd: going down on signal 15
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: Remote debugging enabled
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: FPU version 0x40
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: available memory = 30.82 megabytes.
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: SEAGATE ST1480 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: Disk Label: NeXT_2.1_Ext
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: Disk Capacity 406MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:db:b3
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: root on sd0
Mar 10 15:20:10 aazoli mach: master cpu at slot 0.
Mar 10 15:20:13 aazoli ntpd[81]: bind() fails: Address already in use
Mar 10 15:20:29 aazoli WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 2213c
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Commandoask ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: and ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: stackunderflow; OffendingCommand: index ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: } ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: bind ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: "_NXDefProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: lmdragWinDragEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: stackunderflow; OffendingCommand: roll ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /_dragInitY ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: } ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: bind ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /keyDownEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /keyUpEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /flagsChEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /sysDefEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: put ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /sysDefEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: put ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /lmdownWSEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /lmupWSEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /lmdragWSEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /keyDownEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /keyUpEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /sysDefEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: put ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /lmupWinDragEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /lmdragWinDragEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /sysDefEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: put ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /keyDownEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /keyUpEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: /sysDefEvProc ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: put ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: deskWinHandler ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: seteventprocedures ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: _dragWindowHandler ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: seteventprocedures ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setshared ]%%
Mar 10 15:20:31 aazoli -[130]: exiting due to unknown DPS error, code 1002
Mar 10 15:20:32 aazoli netmsgserver[54]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102.
Mar 10 15:20:33 aazoli WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing.
---end of /usr/adm/messages---
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,
Subject: Q:Pentium/PCI/Serial bug applicable to NeXTstep/Mux?
Date: 15 Mar 1995 15:14:13 GMT
Organization: WHU Koblenz
Message-ID: <3k7085$bbg@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de>
Hello,
does anybody know if the Pentium/PCI/Serial bug (see below) is applicable
to NeXTstep and/or the Mux driver, too?
If yes, solutions?
Please answer by email,(too) since my incoming news connections is four
days behind and throwing away article because of the lag.
Thank you in advance,
Wolfgang
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SYMPTOMS
========
Pentium-based machines with a peripheral component interface (PCI) bus and
a 16550 UART chip stop responding (hang) or exhibit other unexpected
behavior when you use communication applications, such as Microsoft At
Work
PC Fax or Microsoft Terminal.
In some cases, you may be able to run the software successfully once but
then experience problems when you try to run it a second time (before
Windows is restarted).
CAUSE
=====
The PCI bus uses a new universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART)
chip that identifies itself as a 16550 chip but does not handle the 16-bit
buffer the same way that the 16550 UART chip does.
These problems occur if there is data in the chip when the serial
communications application attempts to open the communications port. A
problem with the chip implementation causes the chip to become trapped in
a
mode in which data is always detected in its FIFO buffer.
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From: steve@test.bader.org (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: time synchronization not happening
Date: 16 Mar 1995 16:32:12 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. 414-476-4266
Message-ID: <3k9p6c$6bm@beta.inc.net>
Keywords: time, ntpd, network
I have set up HostManager to use network time and am using my server for
the Master time server. Having the other hosts on our network set as
Clone servers makes no difference. I can't get the network to sync up
time-wise. I've also made sure to set the time on each computer by using
the date command at a shell prompt. What am I missing?
Steve White
System Admin, Helen Bader Foundation
From: PETERS@BoysTown.ORG (Jo Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exabyte 8505XL on Next 3.0
Date: 15 Mar 1995 22:59:52 -0000
Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems.
Sender: daemon@cass.ma02.bull.com
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <102432@BoysTown.ORG>
We have a NeXT box running NextStep 3.0. We've been backing up to an
Exabyte 8200, which has died. We're planning to replace it w/ an
Exabyte 8505XL drive. If anyone is using this, how happy is the NeXT
with this device, and are you satisfied w/ performance? Do I need to do
anything special to configure it? THanks for any advice you can provide.
Jo Peters Boys Town National Research Hospital
peters@boystown.org 555 N. 30th St., Omaha, NE 68131
(402) 498-6672
From: spencer@bonita.lighthouse.com (Tim Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk under NSIP?
Date: 16 Mar 95 17:20:38
Organization: /Homes/spencer/.organization
Message-ID: <SPENCER.95Mar16172038@bonita.lighthouse.com>
References: <ZcxbuCG.ecesys@delphi.com> <D5G36B.xp@onevision.de>
<3k8h89$o0p@news3.digex.net>
In-reply-to: jtodd@ss2.digex.net's message of 16 Mar 1995 05:10:33 GMT
In article <3k8h89$o0p@news3.digex.net> jtodd@ss2.digex.net (John Todd) writes:
: I wonder if there is a PD product that can access AppleShare?
From what I understand, AFS will do this. However, AFS is a huge program to
compile, and THEN you need to have a GatorBox or something on your Ethernet
to talk both AppleTalk and TCP/IP. I looked at it, shuddered, and turned to
InterCon for NFS/Share, which at $200 is a pretty darn good bargain for
mounting UNIX filesystems as if they were Macs on the network.
For black machines only, there was a very clever person in Japan who
enhanced the berkeley packet filter code so that it ran in conjunction
with cap60 and allowed macs to mount unix filesystems, and all of the
other things that cap60 can do with appletalk. His email is:
adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp. It is in beta, but all of my
experiences with it have been very good. You might wish to contact
him for more information. Have fun!!
--
Tim Spencer: Sysadmin/Toolsmith/Release Engineer for Lighthouse Design
spencer@lighthouse.com (415)570-7736x27... Have fun!!!
From: ksm@rainyday.sas.upenn.edu (Ken MacFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS hanging in 2.4
Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:07:24 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3ka9ac$gi0@netnews.upenn.edu>
I'm trying to mount a filesystem from our NeXT NFS server on our SPARC
20 machine running Solaris 2.4, with not much success. Once the
filesystem is mounted, I can do simple operations on individual files
(cat, ls, etc.) but an ls on the entire directory hangs. For example:
sparc# mount -F nfs -o rw,bg,intr next:/home/users /home/users
sparc# ls /home/users/ksm
/home/users/ksm
sparc# ls /home/users
[hangs]
Once I try the ls, /var/adm/messages reports "NFS server not
responding". On the NeXT, we got about 100 of these messages:
Mar 16 15:13:11 next mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
Mar 16 15:13:11 next mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from [ip address]
Yet this worked without a problem on our Solaris 2.3 machine.
For the record, we're running the 11/94 version of Solaris 2.4, with
that set of patches installed. The NeXT is running NeXTstep 3.2.
Please e-mail responses to me, I'll post a summary once I've got it
figured out.
Thanks,
-Ken.
--
Ken MacFarlane + email: ksm@rainyday.sas.upenn.edu
SAS Computing -- Workstation Services | phone: (215) 898-7318
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 322A | fax: (215) 573-3166
Philadelphia, PA 19104 + www: http://rainyday.sas.upenn.edu/
From: henning@i4get.enet.dec.com (John L. Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 16 MAR 95 16:34:47
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <3kaa59$1jg@jac.zko.dec.com>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>
In article <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>, maclure@cvsrf1.arc.nasa.gov
(MacLure) writes...
>We have an ALPHA sitting in our office with something like 300Meg RAM.
>The amount of paging that goes on is more a function of the speed of the
>chip and cache size than memory.
Beg pardon, but I think you should say that it is a function of the
application. If you have an application which is hungry for virtual memory,
and the supply of physical memory on the system is less than what the
application needs, you will page. This applies to every system, not just
Alpha.
But what is true about DEC OSF/1 is that it is a 64-bit operating system on
a 64 bit machine. That doesn't mean you have to use all 64 bits; but if you
wish, you can address amazing amounts of virtual memory and therefore create
high demand for physical memory. (For one example, see our joint press
release with ORACLE about the demonstration of an 8-gigabyte in-memory
database.)
>There is a drawback to the screamingly
>high clock rates that some companies use in that if you "blow" cache your
>system performance takes an enormous hit.
>IBM, for instance has chosen to get their performance increments by
>reworking the S/W and running the chips at quite modest speeds ( at
>least for the RS6000 ). If and when they choose to start boosting the
>clock rates, performance will increase dramatically.
Hmm. I've read some of the IBM papers. It doesn't seem fair to say that
they have done just software changes, the RS/6000 is much more interesting
than that!
But on the other hand it is not fair to suggest that they could just
"choose" to boost clock rates. They have designed around the modest clock
rates, and they *do* more operations in a single cycle. They wouldn't be
able to just turn the clock up, because there are too many complicated
things happening. (Alpha is a more pure-RISC approach with simple
operations that are amenable to higher clock rates.)
/John Henning
CSD Performance Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
henning@i4get.enet.dec.com
Speaking for myself, not Digital
From: circe@id.wing.net (David Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A few swapping policy questions
Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:09:15 GMT
Organization: Wilder InterNet Gateway (wing.net)
Message-ID: <3ka9dr$7hb@news1.WING.NET>
Hello, all.
I have recently added another, faster device to the SCSI chain on my
'slab, and would like to create a second swapfile there. I have saved a
190meg partition of the device for this purpose.
My questions are:
*1 is there any danger or significant performance decline in having a
swap file reside on a SCSI device which is not first in the SCSI chain?
*2 if I mark this new swapfile as preferred, and for some reason it
cannot be used when the system is rebooted (for example, if the disk is
damaged or offline) will mach_swapon() fall back cleanly on the other
swapfile?
*3 is adding this new swapfile as simple as editing /etc/swaptab, or is
there other stuff one must do? when creating the swapfile, should root
'touch' the file to make it exist, or will mach_swapon() create it?
*4 will there be any problem with the fact that the new swapfile does
not get the entire SCSI device? (it will get the entire partition, but
the device is 4.3gig, and I don't want all of that to be swap space!! :-)
I'd really like to setup a preferred swapfile of about 175meg on this
partition, and stop swapping on my internal disk; I'm hoping that having
a swapfile with the lowwat mark set this high will improve system
performance in areas where swapping is necessary.
Thanks for any advice and/or comments.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: petergun@coffeehaus.com (Stephane I. Matis)
Subject: Re: Modifying "groups" ...
Organization: >> cofeehaus << " Satisfying your Digital Caffeine needs. "
Message-ID: <D5KJzy.Ms5@coffeehaus.com>
References: <D5G75M.7EE@coffeehaus.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 05:16:45 GMT
Stephane I. Matis (petergun@coffeehaus.com) wrote:
: find / -group 1 -exec chown 22 {} \;
Yup ... I typed in 'chown' instead of 'chgrp' when posting this message
... but in life ... I didn't do that mistake ...
Anybody got any ideas ... still ?
thanks
Steph
--
petergun
R-name : Stephane I. Matis
E-mail : petergun@coffeehaus.com
From: Boyan Biandov <boyan@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet + SLIP question
Date: 17 Mar 1995 07:43:39 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kbejb$dte@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <95Mar16.093431@ee.stanford.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: boyan
Linux has to be compiled with enabled option for packet forwarding. If
not it will not route stuff at all. To verify this try to access the PC
from outside. If you can not do so it means that NeXt bbox does not
forward packets and you have to do make config and re-compile the kernel!
(I assume the diagram is just incorrect - you MUST have a diffrent IP
address for your ethernet canrd and the serial port. If yuor config is
like in the diagram it WILL never work)
--
Boyan Biandov <boyan@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry)
Subject: Re: NETWARE Disconnection during copy
Message-ID: <1995Mar16.170331.13666@ares.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.fr
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
References: <1995Mar16.132807.12399@ares.fdn.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:03:31 GMT
In article <1995Mar16.132627.12275@ares.fdn.fr>
gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry) writes:
> In article <1995Mar16.122415.11578@ares.fdn.fr>
> gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry) writes:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I try to connect our NeXTs to our PC Novell Netware Server since 3
> month.
> >
> > The connexion is OK but no way to copy file or exchange data > 2K
> >
> > I tryed with different frames (ethernet_ii or ethernet_802.3)
> >
> > the problem persist ... NEXTSTEP lost the connexion during the copy
> >
> > if someone can help ???
> >
> > Thanks by advance
> >
> > Gery DIVRY
Hello Folks
I got a lot of answers, thanks to all the contributors
but the last answer was the good one
Ralf Weber from Koblenz in Germany ( Thanks again Ralf)
Suggest me to change the value of :
'maximum physical receive packet size'
to 1514 ( my previous value was 4202 )
in the startup.ncf file of my Novell server.
AND EVERYTHING WORK FINE NOW .....
Thanks again
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
From: federico@heinz.com (Federico Heinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP Printers and NeXT (use QMS for all options?---nah, not for all)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:30:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Mar16.153054.829@heinz.com>
References: <3k4s6u$4b3@balu.ixpoint.de>
Organization: F. HEINZ Consultora
Sender: usenet@heinz.com
Keywords: PostScript printers
In article <3k4s6u$4b3@balu.ixpoint.de> Gerd Gueldenpfennig writes:
> Frederico,
There's an 'r' too many in there. I keep having nightmares that the german
government tries to get back all the 'r's added to my name by german
citizens, and I go broke trying to pay for them. :-)
> have you ever heared about real intelligent network
> printers? Some of the kind you can log in and do
> administration right on the printer over the network?
Sure I have. I was sysadmin at a site that used one of these QMS beasts in a
former life. It was indeed a fine printer, fast, robust, but every time I
looked at it, I had two thoughts: 1) "Boy, am I glad I didn't have to pay for
it!" and 2) "And all this processing power is just sitting there idly just
because no one is printing?"
Mind you: I think they are very good printers, and they do have some features
that are not available on other printers of any kind, in particular the tray
handling is very good (and we still haven't got around to build sophisticated
tray handling into Dots yet), so if you need one of these features you won't
mind the price. Yet they do have the typical shortcomings of intelligent
peripherals: the font problem still is there (you may have fonts in your
computer that the printer doesn't have, and vice versa), the idle-sitting
resources problem is still there, the double-upgrade problem is still there
(if you use your machine's PostScript interpreter, your computer and printer
are always in sync, and you get a PostScript upgrade for free every time you
upgrade your OS).
> That are intelligent periperals ! And the use of
> Postscript Level II is a part of it.
Sure they are. And sure it is. But I for one will avoid them if at all
possible, thank you, exactly on the same grounds I try to avoid any
"intelligent" peripherals---I just don't like them. I warned in my version of
the Subject: line that these are rather philosophical/religious options.
> DISCLAIMER (in Fredericos style):
See what I mean? I already owe you two 'r's! :-)
Federico
DISCLAIMER (in my very own style): we make Dots, so probably the above is
biased. Anyway, I want to stress that I DO dislike intelligent peripherals.
Had I liked them, I would probably have developed QMSPrint, not Dots :-)
From: psanders@srd.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Perl and libwww-perl on NS3.3
Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:49:14 GMT
Organization: BTnet, BT Public Internet Service
Message-ID: <3k9tmq$d2i@news.bt.net>
I am trying to get the libwww-perl-0.40 software to run on my Intel
NS3.3 machine. When I run the get script that comes with it I get
"Connection refused" for every host I try.
I have used libwww extensively under SunOS so I know that I'm using
the library correctly so I am suspicious of the Perl application I am
using. I got this from the Dutch NS server in a package - I tried building
it myself from the source but could not get it to work :(
Can anyone offer some advice ? Better still, tell me how to get Perl to
build properly from source ?
Paul.
--
Paul Sanders, Information Systems | Phone: +44 1473 645716
BT Laboratories, Ipswich IP5 7RE | Fax: +44 1473 642299
psanders@srd.bt.co.uk (NeXTmail welcome)| "Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead"
From: anstine@sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Limit to sendmail aliases in Netinfo?
Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:55:37 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3k9u2p$2q1@netnews.upenn.edu>
Is there a limit to how many members can be in a sendmail alias in
Netinfo? Or is it a character limit for the total alias.
I have an alias in Netinfo with 470 members and total characters of 16069.
When I telnet to port 25, VRFY tells me the user is unknown. As a test I
cut the alias down to 350 members and 11924 characters. VRFY works now,
but it is extremely slow. What's the deal?
-dave
From: park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.sysadmin
Subject: Ethernet + SLIP question
Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:46:03 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <95Mar16.093431@EE.Stanford.EDU>
Hello.
I have two machine ehternet at home (NeXT cube + PC running Linux) and
wanted to add the SLIP connection to it. The following is my set up.
Linux NeXT SLIP server
111.22.33.10 <- Ethernet -> 111.22.33.1 <- SLIP -> 36.173.0.1 <-- Internet
Before adding SLIP connection, Linux and NeXT communicated well.
After adding SLIP (dynamic IP address assignment by server), I
still don't have any problem except one thing.
From NeXT, I can ping, telnet, etc to my Linux PC and beyond SLIP server
without any problem. But I cannot access anything beyond the NeXT
computer from Linux. I set 111.222.333.1 as the gateway to Linux PC.
I even tried to set the gateway to the dynamically assigned IP address of
NeXT. But still Linux can see only NeXT and cannot see anything
beyond.
Is there any solution to above problems ? Or should I live with it ?
I'm not very familiar with the networking stuff and I read Linux
manual and NeXT manual to find any clue but none explains such
mixed set up.
Any clue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: DMA Buffer Overrun
Message-ID: <westesD5KxHt.G1G@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:08:17 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom6.netcom.com
During receipt of a UUCP file, our server is getting this message:
mach: Scc(com0): Rx: DMA Buffer Overrun
Up to now, UUCP has been working great for months. What does this
message indicate? Is flow control turned off or failing? We
replaced the modem, but it did not make a difference.
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Scripts attached to icons?
Date: 16 Mar 1995 19:09:02 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ka2ce$rt2@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I have a bunch of naive users who really hate commandlines. In one case
I have a script that will run Scott Hess's 'soil' program which messages
Stuart and tells it to open a new window telneting to the U of A online
library catalog.
That script works.
Now, I'd like to stuff that into a directory named Library.app,
drop an icon into the directory to make it look pretty, and let them
go at it.
Of course this doesn't work.
I suspect that there is a quick hack that would work for this, but I'm
not up on programming NextStep yet. Pointers?
From: nmh1@ccdaw1.cc.rl.ac.uk (Nick Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 17 Mar 1995 12:12:07 GMT
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Labs, Oxon, Uk.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kbuan$5kik@unixfe.rl.ac.uk>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>
In article <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>, maclure@cvsrf1.arc.nasa.gov
(MacLure) writes:
>
>We have an ALPHA sitting in our office with something like 300Meg RAM.
>The amount of paging that goes on is more a function of the speed of the
>chip and cache size than memory. There is a drawback to the screamingly
>high clock rates that some companies use in that if you "blow" cache your
>system performance takes an enormous hit.
>IBM, for instance has chosen to get their performance increments by
>reworking the S/W and running the chips at quite modest speeds ( at
>least for the RS6000 ). If and when they choose to start boosting the
>clock rates, performance will increase dramatically.
>
>IBM
>--
>################ No Times Like The Maritimes, Eh! ######################
># IBM aka # Ian_Maclure@QMGATE.arc.nasa.gov (desk) #
># Ian B MacLure # maclure@(remulak/cvsrf1).arc.nasa.gov(currently) #
>########## Opinions expressed here are mine, mine, mine. ###############
>################ No Times Like The Maritimes, Eh! ######################
># IBM aka # Ian_Maclure@QMGATE.arc.nasa.gov (desk) #
># Ian B MacLure # maclure@(remulak/cvsrf1).arc.nasa.gov(currently) #
>################ No Times Like The Maritimes, Eh! ######################
>########## Opinions expressed here are mine, mine, mine. ###############
I think the last line:
>########## Opinions expressed here are mine, mine, mine. ###############
says it all. Would Ian MacLure like to explain why the amount of paging and
swapping a virtual memory system performs depends on the clock speed of the
CPU. I always thought it was related to the amount of virtual memory in use
in relation to the physical memory in the box.
--
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From: trefz@moa.ims.uni-stuttgart.de (Ralf Trefz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating shared libraries
Date: 17 Mar 1995 13:56:01 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <3kc4dh$17m9@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Hello,
recently I tried to generate shared libraries on NeXT-Step 3.2.
But there is no documentation on how to do that.
I tried to use "ld" but it didn't work.
Is there a possibility to create custom host and run-time
shared libraries?
Thanks in advance.
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!usenet
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet + SLIP question
Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:29:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Message-ID: <3kaajs$rf8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <95Mar16.093431@EE.Stanford.EDU>
Ola!
Sang Ju Park writes
..
> Linux NeXT SLIP server
>
> 111.22.33.10 <- Ethernet -> 111.22.33.1 <- SLIP -> 36.173.0.1 <-- Internet
>...
> without any problem. But I cannot access anything beyond the NeXT
> computer from Linux. I set 111.222.333.1 as the gateway to Linux PC.
I would bet that data can go from the Linux machine out the Internet, but
packets cannot get back. The usual problem is that the SLIP server does not
know that packets headed for 111.22.33.10 are supposed to be passed on
through 111.22.33.1. So, you just need the set up the SLIP server to
recognize the NeXT box as a gateway (subnet maybe?) to the Linux box.
Good luck trying to get the SLIP server sys admins to allow you to do this,
though...
--
Alvin Jee
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
Using the Internet since 1984
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <1995Feb18.220958.1356@newshost.atk.com>
From: pmealey@unix.atk.com
Date: 17 Mar 95 12:12:14 MEZ
Sender: news@newshost.atk.com
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Organization: Alliant Techsystems Inc.
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In article <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, <deal@enterprise.ait.nrl.navy.mil>
writes:
> In article <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>, Rupert Thurner
<rthurner@x11srv.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at> writes:
> |> wayne@suni202.larc.nasa.gov (C Wayne Huling) wrote:
> |> what do admins of other systems think of this?
> |>
> |> rupert
SGIs bite!
My staff and I manage a collection of about 40 SGIs, 40+ HP700s, 10+ HP800s,
and about 90 Suns. I personally spend about 5 hrs a week on the Suns, 2 other
admins work on the HPs, and myself and another admin work on the SGIs. The
man-hours devoted to HPs are a little skewed because on the 800s and about
10 of the 700s we run "production" databases that we seem to be constantly
moving around --both the database and the hardware. The other 30 or so 700s
are in use for engineering applications and don't need much attention.
The SGI and Sun hours are also a little skewed because a bunch of them are
in "closed" secure areas --so no network, auditd running, we have to go in
there to work on them, etc.
Anyway, we spend a disproportionate amount of time on SGIs just keeping them
running. We have been trying to migrate to 5.2 and then 5.3 for a few months
now without much success. The objectserver has a memory leak (real bad in 5.2,
not so bad in 5.3) that requires us to reboot the boxes on a very regular
basis (once a day at 5.2, once or twice a week at 5.3). SGI tells us that we
are unique with the problem at 5.3 and it has something to do with our NIS
environment. I have a hard time believing that our environment is unique.
All our boxes (Sun, HP, SGI) are in the same NIS domain and we make heavy
use of the automounter, so you can log into anything and you only have one
homedir. We have a few Indys which only run version 5, and 4.0.5whatever was
not really intended to be run on Indigo 2s, so we really need to do this
migration. We have replaced about 15 monitors, 4 motherboards, and a power
supply on the 18 Indigo 2s we have. We also spend about $80,000 annually on
SGI software support. Yikes. I am happy with all of our older SGI hardware
running 4.0.5x, they run like champs with little or no attention needed, its
just the new stuff that sucks.
My gripes with HP mainly have to do with their high cost and trouble getting
third party stuff to work on their hardware --although they have been getting
much more "open" lately. I also tend to complain about the difficulty getting
common freeware tools to compile --although it is getting much easier and
there is a great archive site at ftp.cae.wisc.edu for already ported HP stuff.
I don't have too many complaints about Sun, but that probably is because we
haven't done the Solaris thing yet --we haven't needed to. But because I
haven't upgraded yet, I will probably benefit from all the pain that others
have gone through. I have been running Solaris 2.x for about a year on my
workstation, but I'm the only one who has it. I should be well trained by
the time we do migrate, and I don't forsee a huge problem.
SGI does a great job running ProEngineer and some of our mechanical analysis
tools, but the admin time on them is big. Sun CPU performance stinks, but
I am hoping they do something about that before our price/performance manager
types overrun us with HP and SGI purchases ( 3 news Suns, 20+ SGIs, 20+ HPs
in the last three years). I would have to give HP the thumbs up for overall
usability. They kick butt on the apps we run, and their 9.0[3,5] is pretty
easy to take care of. Lets hope they don't screw it up with version 10.
From: rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP LaserJet 4P support?
Date: 17 Mar 1995 15:30:17 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kc9u9$pad@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
I have an HP LaserJet 4P *without* the postscript personality installed.
Is there any way to force my NEXTSTEP 3.3 machine to do all the postscipt
processing to support this printer?
From: rjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rupert Hollom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Registering new applications ?
Date: 17 Mar 1995 12:44:45 GMT
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Message-ID: <3kc07t$o9f@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
I am running a NeXT cube with NS 3.0, recently I have got a couple of
new applications, each of which has there own specialised file format.
So how do I tell NS which application to use to view the files, at the
moment these file types are opened by Edit if I double-click them.
Cheers Rupert.
P.S. Could you e-mail me directly with the answers.
E-Mail : rjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 120M DDS Tapes - Do they exist in Germany!
Date: 17 Mar 1995 08:24:11 GMT
Organization: GMD-FOKUS
Message-ID: <3kbgvb$6lb@stern.fokus.gmd.de>
References: <3k95r1$1j4@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> writes
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me were I can obtain 120M DDS DAT tapes in Germany.
> We here tried most suppliers but can not get them to be delivered.
> Even tried Sony but with no success. Everyone will let
> you order them but none can supply them. We have not had these tapes
> on order for nearly three months now?
>
> Is there a problem or dispute with these tape?
>
> Dave
Amazing, I have got a five-pack of HP DDS2 (!) 120m DAT tapes from my NeXT
dealer here in Berlin, but my HP DAT drive spit them out. So I have to made an
exchange for 90m DDS tapes. Is it 'cos of DDS2 instead of DDS?
Robert.
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From: ksm@rainyday.sas.upenn.edu (Ken MacFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS hanging in 2.4...fixed!
Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 17 Mar 1995 16:01:26 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3kcbom$2nk@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <3ka9ac$gi0@netnews.upenn.edu>
This was the problem:
Ken MacFarlane (ksm@rainyday.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: I'm trying to mount a filesystem from our NeXT NFS server on our SPARC
: 20 machine running Solaris 2.4, with not much success. Once the
: filesystem is mounted, I can do simple operations on individual files
: (cat, ls, etc.) but an ls on the entire directory hangs. For example:
: sparc# mount -F nfs -o rw,bg,intr next:/home/users /home/users
: sparc# ls /home/users/ksm
: /home/users/ksm
: sparc# ls /home/users
: [hangs]
And here's a fix, thanks to Juergen Keil:
> Nextstep has problems with SunOS 5.4's NFS-READDIR requests for more
> than 1024 bytes of directory data. Since SunOS never gets anything
> back from the next nfs server, it dynamically adjusts the parameters
> rsize/wsize down. When rsize reaches 1024 things start to work ok.
>
> You can avoid the problems by mounting the next nfs filesystem with
> '-o rsize=1024' under SunOS 5.4.
> --
> Juergen Keil jk@tools.de ...!{uunet,mcsun}!unido!tools!jk
Thanks, all.
-Ken.
--
Ken MacFarlane + email: ksm@rainyday.sas.upenn.edu
SAS Computing -- Workstation Services | phone: (215) 898-7318
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 322A | fax: (215) 573-3166
Philadelphia, PA 19104 + www: http://rainyday.sas.upenn.edu/
From: object@crl.com (Robert Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Chicago Sysadmin Wanted
Date: 17 Mar 1995 10:57:05 -0800
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest]
Message-ID: <3kcm21$b5b@crl3.crl.com>
PPP guru wanted for a few hours to solve some problems in Chicago area.
If you are interested e-mail me your resume (no NeXT mail...it's only a
resume!).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams)
Subject: Strange shutdown behavior
Message-ID: <1995Mar17.142050.19069@leo.vsla.edu>
Organization: Virginia State Library
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:20:50 GMT
Hi!
We just received our new Intel-based Pentiums (Dec 560's and
590's) running NeXTSTEP 3.3. We've booted them up, took a
quick look to see what's there, and then shut them down (our
vendor is coming in a week to install our new software and
assist in network setup).
On shutdown, the pixels in the little message box seem to go
haywire! The NEXTSTEP at the top of the box looked like it was
a marquee, and the black letters that tell you "It is safe to
shut down the computer" all but disappear within 15-20
seconds! Anyone else ever seen this? The monitors that we
have, BTW, are ViewSonics 17G's...
Thanks!
Lucette (and Pat, too!)
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu
Richmond, VA
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: tip, cufa, ATT dataport, NEXTSTEP?
Date: 17 Mar 95 11:31:49
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95Mar17113149@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
References: <ZHAO.95Mar15142117@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
In-reply-to: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu's message of 15 Mar 95 14:21:17
Thanks for the replies and suggestions I received. However, my
'dial-out' still doesn't work.
I did some modification for /etc/remote and tried
tip dialer
tip fa38400 xxx-xxxx(phone#)
cu -s 38400 -l /dev/cufa
cu xxx-xxxx -s 38400 -l /dev/cufa
What I got now is
/dev/cufa: Device busy
link down
Still no good luck. I even tried MuxV1.7 driver.
Why do the two LEDs, TD and RD (or SD and RD), on the modem keep on
flashing after rebooting the system?
So much for this serial port!
zhao
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
From: pyron@dvorak.amd.com (Dillon Pyron)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D5Ltqu.5oH@txnews.amd.com>
Originator: pyron@bianca
Sender: news@txnews.amd.com
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin TX
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1995Feb18.220958.1356@newshost.atk.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 21:44:52 GMT
Which is a better religion? This is the same level of question. There are no
absolute answers to relative questions.
Even though I drive an HP for a living, my heart is still attached to the "One
True OS", VMS :-)
See, I told you so.
dillon
dillon.pyron@amd.com
PADI AI-54909 USPSA A-26031
"Don't be an idiot, the fall will probably kill you"
From: Matt_Watson@next.com (Matt Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't boot NSFIP 3.3 from 2nd SCSI disk
Date: 17 Mar 1995 20:40:48 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3kcs4g$a9v@news.next.com>
References: <3k1od6$3pd@sun1.uni-essen.de>
In article <3k1od6$3pd@sun1.uni-essen.de> phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de
(H.-R. Oberhage) writes:
[...problems changing /etc/fstab when booted from sd1...]
It's actually much easier. You just need to do this:
boot: sd(1,a)mach_kernel -sb rootdev=sd1a
Then, when you get the shell prompt:
# mount -o remount /dev/sd1a /
This will mount /dev/sd1a read-write, then you can edit your /etc/fstab
file with your favorite editor
--
Matt Watson
Sherwood Forestry Division
NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to setup a user NOT to login
Date: 18 Mar 1995 10:52:43 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney, +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis
Message-ID: <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Keywords: NetInfo Login
Hi,
I am trying to set up a user login id on my system but without the
facility to login on that id. Don't worry there is a reason for it.
I know that the _normal_ way to do it is to put an '*' in the encrypted
section of the /etc/passwd file but with NetInfo that file isn't used.
So where can I put this '*' now. I have used UserManager to set the user
up and entered '*' as their password but of course all that happened was
that an encrypted '*' was put as their password.
Any hints???
Cheers, Greg Shaw.
From: hsla@irene.mit.edu (HOSEONG LA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to format external HDD for sectorsize 1024?
Date: 17 Mar 1995 12:55 EST
Organization: MIT Lab for Nuclear Science
Sender: hsla@irene.mit.edu (HOSEONG, LA)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <17MAR199512551727@irene.mit.edu>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50
I have Seagate ST5660N 545MB formatted with sectorsize 512 at the factory and
want to reformat for sectorsize 1024. I have connected this drive as external
drive. Currently I get 452 MB after initialization, would I get more with
sectorsize 1024? Whatelse advantages would I get? BTW, my internal drive came
as formatted with sectorsize 1024 when I bought.
Thanks in advance.
hs
From: Joerg Kesselmeier <73064.3475@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LaserJet 4M+ DUPLEX with NeXTSTEP
Date: 17 Mar 1995 22:38:04 GMT
Organization: CONNEXT GmbH
Message-ID: <3kd30c$pkr$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>
Hi there!
I do not get the duplex option of a LaserJet 4M+ to work with
NeXTSTEP 3.3.
Everything else (e.g. tray selection) works just fine. The printer
is equipped with the memory expansion that is needed to print on
both sides at 600 dpi and the correct PPD file is installed.
I am not at all familar with the NeXTSTEP printer driver - Is it
possible that it sends multiple pages as a series of single page
print jobs?
Joerg.
(joerg@connext.de)
--
Joerg.
(joerg@connext.de)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bob@anasazi.com (Bob Carroll)
Subject: White hardware and 2.0+ GB SCSI Disk ?
Message-ID: <D5JpDF.IHn@anasazi.com>
Sender: usenet@anasazi.com (News System)
Organization: Anasazi, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona USA
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:15:12 GMT
Newbie question:
Given a 2.0+ (2.1 I think) GB SCSI HD Formated/Partition by DOS, what kind
of problems will I encounter when I try to install NEXTSTEP v3.3 Intel on
the 1.8 GB partition ?
Curretly, I have everything up and running on a smaller drive and would like
to make the new drive the boot device.
Many thanks,
Bob
--
bob@anasazi.com
Robert Carroll
Anasazi, Inc. 7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120 Phoenix, Az 85020 USA
From: jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com (James W. Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Archive Python commands?
Date: 18 Mar 1995 01:44:30 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3kddtu$33v@remus.wat.hookup.net>
I've attached an archive python to my next machine. I was trying to do a
simple backup with:
find . -depth -print | cpio -ocvB > /dev/rst0
But I get the following response from the system:
Library/Addresses/Example.addresses/AddressBook.table
Library/Bookshelves/Librarian.bshlf
Library/OmniWeb/Bookmarks.html
errno: 5, Can't write output
With larger files, the errno statement comes immediately. Would anyone
have any wisdom?
Thanks,
Jim.
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ftp logging
Date: 18 Mar 1995 01:49:44 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3kde7o$lv5@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
How do I set up ftpd logging? Just adding
--
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/ftpd ftpd -l
--
to inetd.conf and rebooting does not seem to log logins anywhere.
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rwach@quads.uchicago.edu (Chip Ach)
Subject: Re: How to setup a user NOT to login
Message-ID: <D5MFr1.KwE@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: NetInfo Login
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Cc: gshaw@zeta.org.au
Organization: uchicago strn fanclub
References: <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 05:40:13 GMT
In article <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
Greg Shaw <gshaw@zeta.org.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>I am trying to set up a user login id on my system but without the
>facility to login on that id. Don't worry there is a reason for it.
If you want them to be able to ftp, use a shell of /bin/false.
Otherwise, I believe simply using a shell which is not in /etc/shells
will prohibit login and ftp.
This is untested because my NeXT is 300 miles away and I'm dialing in
on a 2400 modem. *sigh*
-Chip
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile size
Message-ID: <1995Mar15.110004.44589@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 15 Mar 95 11:00:04 MET
References: <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> <SAMURAI.95Mar6175832@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
> Though is swapfile.front is that big, his swapfile is also very big
> (which isn't a virtual file). There is only one solution under NEXTSTEP,
> and that's to reboot the system.
>
> Or have 256M of RAM.
>
This is not correct, cause I often have a swapfile.front with about 300 megs
and my swapfile still is on the default size of 16 megs (and with only 80 megs
available on my harddisk, 300 megs would be funny). So don't worry about the
virtual swapfile.front... :)
Daniel Haas
haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch
From: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Daniel Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Autolauch? / external swapfile?
Message-ID: <1995Mar15.110746.44590@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 15 Mar 95 11:07:46 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
Hi,
I have a problem with my external disk: How can I autolauch apps from
the external disk? The disk has no mount entry in etc/fstabs cause I don't
need the disk everyday. But I have some links from /LocalApps and some
other dirs to the external disk, and I want to launch some applications
from the external disk if it's running on login.
Another problem is with the swapfile: I know that I can split the swapfile
on two disks, but how can I make a correct entry to determine, if the second
disk is running or not. So I can have a sort of (don't remember exact syntax)
if only internal disk is running
... swapfile lowat=16000000
and if both are running
... swapfile lowat=16..,hiwat=56..,nocompress
..extern/swapfile lowat=1024,compress
or something like that
Daniel Haas
haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dmm0t@watt.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Meyer)
Subject: help selecting tape drive
Message-ID: <D5n56s.5xn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Followup-To: poster
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 14:49:40 GMT
We're in the process of looking for a large (8+ Gb) 8mm tape drive
that works well with NeXTStep, and I'm hoping that people can give me
both positive and negative recommendations on brands and specific
models. I've looked around NeXTAnswers, but it hasn't been very
enlightening.
Dave
From: rueiwun@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ruei-wun Tu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Question]: Need suggestions for SCSI Tape Backup...
Date: 17 Mar 1995 22:09:45 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Unix Users Group
Message-ID: <3kd1b9$t7k@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Hello,
I have posted this question in comp.sys.next.hardware several days.
Only one people gives me an answer. Hope someone in this group can tell
me more about it. I am running NS/FIP 3.2 and have DPT2122 SCSI
Controller.
Thanks in advance...
Rueiwun Tu
rueiwun@gas.uug.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: How to format external HDD for sectorsize 1024?
Message-ID: <1995Mar18.194549.385@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center
References: <17MAR199512551727@irene.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 95 19:45:49 GMT
In article <17MAR199512551727@irene.mit.edu> hsla@irene.mit.edu (HOSEONG
LA) writes:
> I have Seagate ST5660N 545MB formatted with sectorsize 512 at the
> factory and want to reformat for sectorsize 1024.
Some Seagate drives use 'ZBR' (Zone Bit Recording) which is a special way
to get more sectors on the outer tracks than on the inner tracks. Such
drives should not be low-level-formatted by the user, or you will lose the
extra capacity that ZBR gives you. I don't know if your drive is one of
these, but I have the ST31200N which is a 1GB drive with ZBR.
There is nothing wrong with having 512-byte sectors. That is a very
low-level thing which doesn't affect anything at the file system level.
The NeXT automatically pretends that the sectors on the disk are 1024-byte
blocks. (That's the difference between a 'block' and a 'sector'.)
g.
From: mark@nextstep.dorm6.nctu.edu.tw (Lin Yi-chih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4P support?
Date: 18 Mar 1995 20:16:41 GMT
Organization: Dep. Computer Sci. & Information Eng., Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kff39$83s@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
References: <3kc9u9$pad@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
In article <3kc9u9$pad@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US> rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us
(Roger E. Masse) writes:
> I have an HP LaserJet 4P *without* the postscript personality installed.
> Is there any way to force my NEXTSTEP 3.3 machine to do all the
>postscipt processing to support this printer?
I use Dots.app, or you can use JetPilot.app
I think JetPilot.app works better than Dots for HP LaserJet 4P.
Mark
From: GH Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail queue problems
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:16:27 -0600
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950315180911.318K-100000@avocado>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi,all
I manage a set of NeXT boxes (slabs) running NS 3.2 (black) and the
Sendmail given by NeXT (5.67, I believe).
Can someone help me diagnose this problem?:
Recently, one of our machines, coconut, has been having enormous loads:
coconut:/usr/spool/mqueue root# uptime
6:12pm up 23:09, 1 user, load average: 10.53, 10.86, 10.95
... and the processes running are:
coconut:/usr/spool/mqueue root# ps gaux | head
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 14878 7.7 1.7 1.62M 416K ? R 31:15 -AA14878
clarion.cec.wustl.
root 15349 7.7 1.7 1.62M 408K ? R 24:15 (sendmail)
root 18744 7.5 2.2 1.62M 536K ? R 3:15 -AA18744
netspace.students.
root 17429 7.4 1.9 1.62M 464K ? R 8:44 -AA17429
mail02.mail.aol.co
root 16676 7.4 1.7 1.62M 416K ? R 12:16 -AA16676
relay1.geis.com: D
root 17861 7.2 2.2 1.62M 536K ? R 7:27 -AA17861 bi.fish.com:
DATA
root 16340 7.1 1.7 1.62M 416K ? R 14:44 -AA16340
eith.biostr.washin
root 18530 7.1 2.2 1.62M 536K ? R 4:34 -AA18530
amethyst.omg.org:
root 19248 7.1 3.0 2.05M 736K p3 R 0:00 ps gaux
.... and the size of the /usr/spool/mqueue is:
coconut:/usr/spool root# du -s mqueue
2037 mqueue
2.037 Mb!
What's happening here?
Please email me: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
___ __________________________________________________________
/\__\ G. Hussain Chinoy
\/__/
NEXTSTEP, hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
baby http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~hussain/
From: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet + SLIP question
Date: 17 Mar 1995 17:57:24 GMT
Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe
Message-ID: <3kcii4$gap@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <95Mar16.093431@EE.Stanford.EDU>
park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park) wrote:
>Hello.
>I have two machine ehternet at home (NeXT cube + PC running Linux) and
>wanted to add the SLIP connection to it. The following is my set up.
> Linux NeXT SLIP server
> 111.22.33.10 <- Ethernet -> 111.22.33.1 <- SLIP -> 36.173.0.1 <-- Internet
[problem about linux box not seen behind the NeXT deleted ]
I think there is no solution. The SLIP server doesn't know your linuy box. So when you ping any host
behind the NeXT the answer will never come back. Your SLIP server (and additionally any other host
behind it) would have to know how to route the 111.22.33.10.
Greetings
Bastian
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A few swapping policy questions
Date: 18 Mar 1995 12:35:25 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kek2d$3lf@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3ka9dr$7hb@news1.WING.NET>
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In article <3ka9dr$7hb@news1.WING.NET> circe@id.wing.net (David Sinclair)
writes:
[portions snipped]
}~ *2 if I mark this new swapfile as preferred, and for some reason it
}~ cannot be used when the system is rebooted (for example, if the disk
}~ is damaged or offline) will mach_swapon() fall back cleanly on the
}~ other swapfile?
Two quick comments. If the swapfile is damaged while in use it *will*
severely affect performance - such as machine lockup or kernel panic.
Second, I certainly *thought* so, but experience over the past day or so,
where for some reason swapfile.front could not be mounted from my
'preferred' swapfile, I got NO swap, as nearly as I can tell.
}~ *3 is adding this new swapfile as simple as editing /etc/swaptab,
nearly so.
}~ or is there other stuff one must do? when creating the swapfile,
}~ should root 'touch' the file to make it exist, or will mach_swapon()
}~ create it?
No - don't 'touch' it. If the partition is to be dedicated to swap,
it should be mounted and used if it is named 'swapdisk'. If you prefer
to use a 'swapfile' to a 'swapdisk', use mkfile(8) and add it to swaptab.
Remember that only ONE swapfile will use swapfile compression. The
*first* one for which it is specified or defaulted.
Corrections welcomed!
+-+
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We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
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Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating shared libraries
Date: 18 Mar 1995 12:42:25 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kekfh$3lh@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3kc4dh$17m9@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
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In article <3kc4dh$17m9@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
AND <3kc4c8$fbv@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
trefz@moa.ims.uni-stuttgart.de (Ralf Trefz) writes:
}~ Hello,
}~
}~ recently I tried to generate shared libraries on NeXT-Step 3.2.
}~ But there is no documentation on how to do that.
[snip]
Followed up in csn.programmer <3ke9id$3fo@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to setup a user NOT to login
Date: 18 Mar 1995 12:49:00 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kekrs$3lo@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In article <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au> gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg
Shaw) writes:
}~ Hi,
}~ I am trying to set up a user login id on my system but without the
}~ facility to login on that id. Don't worry there is a reason for it.
}~
}~ I know that the _normal_ way to do it is to put an '*' in the
}~ encrypted section of the /etc/passwd file but with NetInfo that
}~ file isn't used.
.. when NetInfo is running. It *is* used normally during single user
mode. Open NetInfoManager - Users directory and you'll find the passwd
entries. Change the encrypted password to '*', just as you would with
/etc/passwd.
}~ So where can I put this '*' now. I have used UserManager to set the
}~ user up and entered '*' as their password but of course all that
}~ happened was that an encrypted '*' was put as their password.
Right. Same thing would have happened if you'd used 'nu'.
}~ Any hints???
In *most* cases, flatfile configuration elements have a one-to-one
correspondance in NetInfo. Sometimes ya gotta hunt around to find 'em.
+-+
Bruce Gingery Total System Software Cheyenne, WY USA
We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
Homepage under construction <URL:http://turnpike.net/metro/bagingry/>
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Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
From: Jim De Arras <jmd@WestLab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Fujitsu M2694 help, please!
Date: 19 Mar 1995 00:41:16 GMT
Organization: WestLab Consulting.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kfujcINN2a2@clem.WestLab.com>
Does anyone know the switch settings to get a Fujitsu M2694 1 gb drive to
boot on an '030 cube? I assume the '030 is not signifigant, as the FAQ
points to an identical problem with another Fujitsu drive, that is
switch-setting related.
I have successfully built 3.2 black on it, and the system will mount the
drive fine.
The file Fujitsu.recipe mentions (for the M2263):
On Jumper Block "CNH2" remove:
[1-2] INQUIRY DATA
[15-16] Synchronous Mode Transfer
[...]
You will be able to perform BuildDisk with these two jumpers on,
and will be able to mount and use the drive if it is not used as
the boot disk.
However, the cube will not boot when you try to boot from the
new SCSI drive later in step [8].
[...]
If the ROM monitor complains:
SCSI unexpeced msg:1
sc: Unexpected msg
.... repeated many times...
Then, you must have not set the jumpers correctly in step [1](b).
This exactly describes the problem I have, down to the error messages from
the rom monitor.
Any help? Reply to me directly, jmd@westlab.com, as the feed is very slow!
Thanks!
Jim
From: armes@tds.com (Jim Armes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next,
Subject: Re: Q:Pentium/PCI/Serial bug applicable to NeXTstep/Mux?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 23:51:43
Organization: MeSelf
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <armes.4.0017DD67@tds.com>
References: <3k7085$bbg@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de>
In article <3k7085$bbg@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de> wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes:
>does anybody know if the Pentium/PCI/Serial bug (see below) is applicable
>to NeXTstep and/or the Mux driver, too?
>SYMPTOMS
>========
>Pentium-based machines with a peripheral component interface (PCI) bus and
>a 16550 UART chip stop responding (hang) or exhibit other unexpected
>behavior when you use communication applications, such as Microsoft At
>Work
>PC Fax or Microsoft Terminal.
This was primarily a problem with Dos/Windows - most unix-based drivers do the
correct thing. The problem is usually caused by the os/driver not clearing
the buffer in the chip when the system goes to 16550 mode from the default
16450 (?) mode. I think Nextstep keeps the ports in 16550 mode all the time,
if it can, so this wouldn't apply anyway. I've been using mine without any
problems- I switch on and off the modem all the time to use PNI.
Jim
armes@tds.com
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile size
Date: 19 Mar 1995 17:18:40 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Mar19121840@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3j7fbe$2s1@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> <SAMURAI.95Mar6175832@marge.cs.mcgill.ca>
<1995Mar15.110004.44589@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
In-reply-to: haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch's message of 15 Mar 95 11:00:04 MET
<haasd@ubaclu.unibas.ch> writes:
>>Though is swapfile.front is that big, his swapfile is also very big
>>(which isn't a virtual file). There is only one solution under NEXTSTEP,
>>and that's to reboot the system.
>>
>>Or have 256M of RAM.
>>
>This is not correct, cause I often have a swapfile.front with about 300 megs
>and my swapfile still is on the default size of 16 megs (and with only 80 megs
>available on my harddisk, 300 megs would be funny). So don't worry about the
>virtual swapfile.front... :)
How does *that* happen? The swapfile.front is the uncompressed image of
the swapfile, which sits on the harddisk compressed (in most
configurations). If your swapfile.front is 300M and your swapfile is
16M, then you must have something that's easily compressable (ie. a run
of 280M of null characters, or something... very wierd).
In general, the ratio of swapfile to swapfile.front is going to be
something more like 2:3, rather than 1:18, which is why I mentioned
that if his swapfile.front were big, then his swapfile would also be
big. I've not heard of this swapfile wierdness, so I'll amend my
statement to "most likely."
- db
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From: steveh@FirePower.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Duplex Printing on HP w/ JetDirect (was Re: How can I use JetDirect on NeXT?)
Date: 19 Mar 1995 18:11:40 GMT
Organization: FirePower Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3khs4s$k73@enquirer.FirePower.COM>
References: <3k7nue$qbb@fermat.mayo.edu>
In article <3k7nue$qbb@fermat.mayo.edu> brunkhorst@mayo.edu writes:
> In article <3k1v8c$eaq@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
> >
> > If you have an original JetDirect, you have a couple of options:
> >
> > A) you can upgrade to 3.3 - we support it in PrintManager.app
>
>
> Cool. It just works... almost...
>
> Now if I could get it to print Duplex... I have a duplexing
> HP4mSIx printer, with the original JetDirect card. I have been
> routing NeXT LPR to it through a Sun box here, and it was working
> except for duplexing... I blamed it on NeXT not have 'direct' control
> of the printer. I just installed a 3.3 test queue with PrintManager
> and voila, it printed (very fast too). Then I tried duplex: Cmd-P
> click on Options, select long-side binding, click okay, and click print.
> Dash to Printer... Damn. Same results: Front side prints, paper
> is 'reversed', nothing is printed, paper reversed again, and paper
> is output. So, in duplex mode, I get a lot of paper path motion, but
> still only one side per page printed (all the PS is printed mind you,
> I don't get pages 1,3,5... I get 1,2,3,..., I just get them on 1,2,3...
> pieces of paper).
>
> Anybody got duplex printing working with an original HP JetDirect
> Card?
>
> ---
> - 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
I'm have a similar problem except that when I turn duplexing on, EVERY
print job comes out duplex. Regardless of the setting in the print panel.
I think NeXTStep ignores the settings in the Print Panel (options).
This is pretty annoying, if anyone from NeXT can help, it'd be
appreciated. It's not the printer because we can print 600dpi, duplex
from NT machines fine.
thanks.
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to format external HDD for sectorsize 1024?
Date: 19 Mar 1995 18:54:25 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3khul1$18m@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <1995Mar18.194549.385@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
-> There is nothing wrong with having 512-byte sectors. That is a very
-> low-level thing which doesn't affect anything at the file system level.
Well, on my Seagate 43400N, reformatting to 1024bytes/sector (don't
remember how I did this, unfortunately) gave me 300MB more disk space and
faster access. Good deal, IMHO.
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance (ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu)
AGSM at UCLA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Subject: What fax-modem, fax software for Nextstation, NS 3.2?
Message-ID: <1995Mar18.144450.8276@Princeton.EDU>
Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 14:44:50 GMT
I would like to buy a 14.4K V.32bis fax-modem (such as
the Global Village Teleport Gold II) for my nextstation,
running NS 3.2.
Will any such fax-modem work? If not, which ones?
Will I need any extra drivers/software? I see
NXFax.app mentioned at times, but it seems like
fax capability is built into the NextStep.
Thanks!!
Tim
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Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to format external HDD for sectorsize 1024?
Date: 19 Mar 1995 19:43:00 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3ki1g4$16i@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <1995Mar18.194549.385@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <3khul1$18m@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Ivo Welch (ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: -> There is nothing wrong with having 512-byte sectors. That is a very
: -> low-level thing which doesn't affect anything at the file system level.
: Well, on my Seagate 43400N, reformatting to 1024bytes/sector (don't
: remember how I did this, unfortunately) gave me 300MB more disk space and
: faster access. Good deal, IMHO.
1024 bytes/sector gives higher capacity. Get the program:
'sdformat' from your nearest NeXT archive, it allows for changing
sector sizes. Unfortunely, NS/FIP requires 512 byte sectors if you
also want it for use in DOS (if such an evil thing should ever have to
pass...)
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| rdieter@math.unl.edu | UN-L Mathematics Dept. |
From: dsinn@dsinn.seanet.com (F. David Sinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Free space error under NS3.0
Date: 19 Mar 1995 21:48:55 GMT
Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA
Message-ID: <3ki8s7$7s6@kaleka.seanet.com>
I have a NeXTstation running NS3.0, and reciently I noticed that df was
reporting the free space of my root volume incorrectly....
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 992982 520558 373125 58% /
As you can see, the free space does not match up with the used space.
When I run fsck, all is ok. It reportes the correct free space at around
47000+.
Any ideas why?
Thanks.
--
David Sinn Sinn Industries.
dsinn@dsinn.seanet.com If it's a sinn, it's gotta be
good.
NeXT mail OK
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rsh in an NEXT network
Date: 19 Mar 1995 21:47:59 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3ki8qf$i2g@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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hello
here comes another stupid old question form berlin.
what is the trick to login as root in a NeXT nework?
also with /.rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv correctly set I get a :
thishost:1# rsh thathost
root login refused on this terminal.
login:
no, giving all the pseudottys in /etc/ttys the secure flag doesnt do
the job
thanx
later
Stephan
--
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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Free space error under NS3.0
Date: 20 Mar 1995 00:02:23 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology, UW-Madison
Message-ID: <3kigmf$g76@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <3ki8s7$7s6@kaleka.seanet.com>
In article <3ki8s7$7s6@kaleka.seanet.com>,
F. David Sinn <dsinn@dsinn.seanet.com> wrote:
>I have a NeXTstation running NS3.0, and reciently I noticed that df was
>reporting the free space of my root volume incorrectly....
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 992982 520558 373125 58% /
>As you can see, the free space does not match up with the used space.
The sum of used and available is 90% of the disk. This
is exactly what one would expect; Unix file systems usually
reserve 10% of the disk and say it's full when it's only
90% full.
--
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whole or in part prohibited except for direct response on Usenet.
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<> greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than
<> the men of 1776.
<> -- Susan B. Anthony
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From: schmidt@wburg.hanse.de (Andre Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Problems with HP DAT C1533A
Date: 19 Mar 1995 22:07:32 GMT
Organization: ISLAND wburg, Hamburg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ki9v4$g8f@wburg.hanse.de>
Keywords: hp dat hardware
Hello,
last weekend I made a fatal experience: my HP DAT stopped reading backups
from one hour to the other.
I can still write new tapes and read them, but old tapes or tapes written
by an other streamer (i.e. Archive Dat 2000) cannot be read. There's no
difference between DDS and DDS2 tapes.
The streamer doesn't seem to find the beginning of the archive. Trying to
wind or read makes the same sound and gives nothing but IO error.
When ejecting the tape there's a very strange LED flashing: 4 short 1 long
6 short.
Anyone with similar experiences?
Andre
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From: precipi!neekibo (Hugues RICHARD)
Subject: Re: How to setup a user NOT to login
Message-ID: <1995Mar19.161343.6687@precipice.fdntytruyu.fr>
Sender: neekibo@precipice.fdntytruyu.fr
Organization: Individual - Dijon, France.
References: <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 16:13:43 GMT
In article <3kdasr$1ri@godzilla.zeta.org.au> gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw)
writes:
> Hi,
> I am trying to set up a user login id on my system but without the
> facility to login on that id. Don't worry there is a reason for it.
>
> I know that the _normal_ way to do it is to put an '*' in the encrypted
> section of the /etc/passwd file but with NetInfo that file isn't used.
> So where can I put this '*' now. I have used UserManager to set the user
> up and entered '*' as their password but of course all that happened was
> that an encrypted '*' was put as their password.
>
> Any hints???
>
> Cheers, Greg Shaw.
you must put the '*' in your netinfo database... Use NetInfo manager and edit the 'passwd' property in the user directory.
You can also destroy the 'shell' property in the user netinfo directory. The effect will be 'no shell' at any login attempt.
Hugues.
ion of the /etc/passwd file but with NetInfo that file isn't used.
> So where can I put this '*' now. I have used UserManager to set the user
> up and entered '*' as their password but of course all that happened was
> that an encrypted '*' was put as their password.
>
> Any hints???
>
> Cheers, Greg Shaw.
you must put the '*
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------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 20 Mar 1995 05:15:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3kj30s$d21@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
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================
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============================
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From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Free space error under NS3.0
Date: 20 Mar 1995 03:33:00 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3kit1c$ni6@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <3ki8s7$7s6@kaleka.seanet.com> <3kigmf$g76@news.doit.wisc.edu>
In article <3kigmf$g76@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
Jess Anderson <anderson@doit.wisc.edu> wrote:
>In article <3ki8s7$7s6@kaleka.seanet.com>,
>F. David Sinn <dsinn@dsinn.seanet.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a NeXTstation running NS3.0, and reciently I noticed that df was
>>reporting the free space of my root volume incorrectly....
>
>> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
>> /dev/sd0a 992982 520558 373125 58% /
>
>>As you can see, the free space does not match up with the used space.
>
>The sum of used and available is 90% of the disk. This
>is exactly what one would expect; Unix file systems usually
>reserve 10% of the disk and say it's full when it's only
>90% full.
Mortals can use only the 90%. The last 10% is usable only
root. Its generally a useful technique, but understand the
that exhaustion of free space on any dynamic, multi-tasking
virtual memory systems is a bad thing. Things break in
unfriendly ways. In this arrangement User tasks break first,
followed by root things.
If you look in the man pages for tunefs, you can see how
to change the percentage. Use at your own risk. I would
not set it to 0.
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
%SYSTEM-S-PHALOKTARG, Phasers Locked on Target, Ready to Fire
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Home (Freiburg)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 17:58:32 GMT
Message-ID: <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de>
MacLure (maclure@cvsrf1.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: fraioli@dg-rtp.dg.com (Marc J. Fraioli) writes:
: [SNIP]
: >How well does it run? I tried running DEC OSF/1 on a 3000/600 with
: >32MB of RAM, and it was pretty pathetic, swapping constantly. It was
: >much happier in 64MB, although I was told that 48MB was also usable
: >(never tried it myself). I can't imagine how bad it would have been
: >in only 16MB. Of course, this was DEC OSF/1 v1.3-- perhaps it's been
: >slimmed down (a lot) since then?
It hasn't been. I don't think it even runs in 16Mb.
: [SNIP]
: We have an ALPHA sitting in our office with something like 300Meg RAM.
: The amount of paging that goes on is more a function of the speed of the
: chip and cache size than memory. There is a drawback to the screamingly
: high clock rates that some companies use in that if you "blow" cache your
: system performance takes an enormous hit.
: IBM, for instance has chosen to get their performance increments by
: reworking the S/W and running the chips at quite modest speeds ( at
: least for the RS6000 ). If and when they choose to start boosting the
: clock rates, performance will increase dramatically.
Haha. Are you saying that IBM could raise the clock speed, they just
don't want to? IBM reworking their software isn't going to buy me much
if I use third party software.
Face it, the fastest processors around are Alphas with HP close
behind. I'm not saying that they are the most cost effective.
Probably a PowerPC from Motorola with 604/100 MHz and 140 SPECints
gets that prize at the moment. Or a Pentium 75 with about 75
SPECints.
--
Erik Corry, Freiburg, Germany, +49 761 406637 erik@kroete2.freinet.de
From: szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl (Szymon Sokol)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: 20 Mar 1995 12:27:50 +0100
Organization: University of Mining & Metallurgy
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kjorm$k64@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <3kbuan$5kik@unixfe.rl.ac.uk>
Nick Hill (nmh1@ccdaw1.cc.rl.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>, maclure@cvsrf1.arc.nasa.gov
: (MacLure) writes:
: >
: >We have an ALPHA sitting in our office with something like 300Meg RAM.
: >The amount of paging that goes on is more a function of the speed of the
: >chip and cache size than memory. There is a drawback to the screamingly
: >high clock rates that some companies use in that if you "blow" cache your
: >system performance takes an enormous hit.
: >IBM, for instance has chosen to get their performance increments by
: >reworking the S/W and running the chips at quite modest speeds ( at
: >least for the RS6000 ). If and when they choose to start boosting the
: >clock rates, performance will increase dramatically.
[snip]
: I think the last line:
: >########## Opinions expressed here are mine, mine, mine. ###############
: says it all. Would Ian MacLure like to explain why the amount of paging and
: swapping a virtual memory system performs depends on the clock speed of the
: CPU. I always thought it was related to the amount of virtual memory in use
: in relation to the physical memory in the box.
I do not see anything about VM, swapping or paging in Ian's posting. He was
speaking about CPU-RAM, not RAM-swap congestion. I believe the 'pages' were
meant to be 'data in cache' rather than 'data in virtual memory'.
And indeed, chips that run at very high frequencies tend to rely heavily on
caches, since RAM usually has much longer access times; thus RAM access
creates bottleneck.
--
Szymon Sokol -- Network Manager
U U M M M M University of Mining and Metallurgy, Computer Center
U U MM MM MM MM ave. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND
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From: phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't boot NSFIP 3.3 from 2nd SCSI disk
Date: 20 Mar 1995 10:27:43 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3kjlav$tn@sun1.uni-essen.de>
References: <3k1od6$3pd@sun1.uni-essen.de> <3kcs4g$a9v@news.next.com>
Matt Watson (Matt_Watson@next.com) wrote:
: [...]
: It's actually much easier. You just need to do this:
:
: boot: sd(1,a)mach_kernel -sb rootdev=sd1a
: Then, when you get the shell prompt:
: # mount -o remount /dev/sd1a /
: This will mount /dev/sd1a read-write, then you can edit your /etc/fstab
: file with your favorite editor
Thanks for the tip. Without the 'b' in -sb it certainly won't work (with
NS 3.3). We tried it.
Ruediger Oberhage
phy070@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.unix
From: bodemer@transtec.de (Dieter Bodemer)
Subject: Re: 120M DDS Tapes - Do they exist in Germany!
Message-ID: <1995Mar20.080029.27533@transtec.de>
Sender: news@transtec.de (News Admin)
Organization: transtec AG, Waldhoernlestrasse 18, 72072 Tuebingen, Germany
References: <3k95r1$1j4@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 08:00:29 GMT
David Grindrod <grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> writes:
>Hi,
>Can anyone tell me were I can obtain 120M DDS DAT tapes in Germany.
>We here tried most suppliers but can not get them to be delivered.
>Even tried Sony but with no success. Everyone will let
>you order them but none can supply them. We have not had these tapes
>on order for nearly three months now?
We have these tapes on stock. In past times, it was hard to get
them, but now, it should be no problem anymore.
Best regards,
Dieter
--------------------------------------------------------
Dieter Bodemer email: dieter.bodemer@xeltec.de
XELTEC GmbH Tel: (49) 7071 974 451
Waldhoernlestr. 18 Fax: (49) 7071 974 499
72072 Tuebingen, Germany
From: jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bizarre Printer Behavior
Date: 16 Mar 1995 11:35:51 -0500
Organization: The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3k9pd7$fhh@thor.tjhsst.edu>
The Problem:
Erratic behavior when printing from applications to our network printers.
One is an IBM LaserWriter, the other a DECLaser 1100.
The Setup:
Next slab running Nextstep 2.1. Netinfo entries for our two network printers,
each on a different machine on our network.
The Details:
Both printers work fine from the command line using the standard lpr, etc...
I'll admit, however, that I don't know too much about printer setup, so..
I've got the DEClaser's sd=/usr/spool/lpd and the LaserWriter spooled to
/usr/spool/thor (thor's the machine it's on). Sometimes, when I print from an
applicaton, it just goes to the DEC no matter which printer I select...
Most of the time, however, it will print to the LaserWrite if I select taht
one, but if I select the DEC, it just disappears. It claims it printed ok, but
it never gets sent to the machine that the printer's on, never gives me an
error, and never shows up in any queues...
The plea:
Help? Or at least an explanation of why it won't work? I could accept the fact
that the applications can only be set up to print to one printer, althouh that
doesn't make any sense... Thanks in advance...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gregors@edo025pc.pipe.nova.ca (Chris Gregors)
Subject: unable to access netware servers after 3.3 upgrade
Message-ID: <D5r18t.Ao8@nextedm.uucp>
Sender: usenet@nextedm.uucp (Chris Gregors)
Organization: Nova Corp. of Alberta
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:14:52 GMT
Has anybody else experienced problems accessing netware servers
after doing the 3.3 upgrade? This is what happens to me:
edo025pc>
edo025pc> /usr/netware/bin/nwlogin edo2/supervisor
Password:
edo025pc> cd /Net
edo025pc> ls
NetWare/ agtdsun1@ nextedm@
edo025pc> cd NetWare
edo025pc> ls
BKS2/ EDO1/ FIN01/ IAF98/ MME01/ NICI2/ SAP02/
CEP02/ EDO2/ FRVW1/ IAF99/ MPM01/ NOC01/ SCE01/
edo025pc> cd EDO2
edo025pc> ls
SYS@ USR@
edo025pc> cd USR
USR: Not owner
edo025pc> cd SYS
SYS: Not owner
edo025pc> ls -lg
total 1
lr-xr-xr-t 2 root wheel 1024 Mar 20 07:55 SYS -> (automount)@
lr-xr-xr-t 2 root wheel 1024 Mar 20 07:55 USR -> (automount)@
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <danpop.795727549@rscernix>
Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System)
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:25:49 GMT
In <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) writes:
>Face it, the fastest processors around are Alphas with HP close
>behind. I'm not saying that they are the most cost effective.
Have you looked at the performance of the RS6000/590 before writing this?
Which _existing_ HP is faster than the 590?
Dan
--
Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slight problem with GNU Emacs on Nextstep-sparc
Date: 20 Mar 1995 23:12:45 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Message-ID: <PD.95Mar21001245@horus.sics.se>
I have configured and installed GNU emacs version 19.28.1 for Nextstep
on a SPARCstation 5 (NeXTstep 3.3risc Prerelease 1 (Rose1W))
with the following configuration:
./configure sparc-next-mach3.3 --with-ns --prefix=/LocalApps/Emacs.app
It alls seems to work quite well except for a couple of small
problems:
1. When I try to use the menus I get an error message ("Wrong type
argument: symbolp, 98nnnn", where n is a digit) and no function
gets called.
2. The mode line is not displayed in reverse video (actually nothing
that depends on faces seems to work). However, when running emacs
from a terminal with the option -nw the mode line is displayed in
reverse video.
Has anyone else tried to install emacs on Nextstep-sparc? Any hints?
Please reply to me with email as well as to the newsgroups, if
possible, since I'm not a regular reader of the emacs newsgroups.
Thanks,
PD
--
Per Danielsson pd@sics.se
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
N59.24.20, E17.56.53 "Another free program offline."
From: olin@cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 20 Mar 1995 22:51:40 GMT
Organization: Cornell University School of Chemical Engineering
Sender: smt7@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <3kl0ts$ag9@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> <danpop.795727549@rscernix>,<3kknvh$vdh@uwm.edu>
In article <3kknvh$vdh@uwm.edu>, zhao@bloch.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao) writes:
>>In <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) writes:
>>Face it, the fastest processors around are Alphas with HP close
>>behind. I'm not saying that they are the most cost effective.
>>
>fast as judged by what ? A higher SPEC rating is not a reliable indication.
>Alpha is a nice machine, but its performance as far as number crunching
>(in general for real programs) goes does not even come close to the
>performace of a RS6000/590.
Well, we have an RS/6000-590, and a collection of DEC 3000/600's. We
run Molecular Dynamics simulations on them. The code employed is very
similar, albeit more sophisticated, to that in the mdljdp2 component
of the SPECfp92 suite (I am the author of mdljdp2). Just yesterday
I compared the performance of these two machines, after having
upgraded the Alpha to OSF/1 3.2 and DEC Fortran 3.6. The RS/6000
is running AIX 3.2.5, xlf 3.1. Compiling with:
IBM: xlf -c -O3 -qarch=pwr2 -qipa -Q prog.f
xlf -o prog -qipa prog.o
DEC: f77 -o prog -O prog.f
I find that the 590 is just about 6% faster than the 3000/600. So
you're right; a higher SPEC rating is not a reliable indicator.
YMMV.
-steve
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From: henning@i4get.enet.dec.com (John L. Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 20 MAR 95 21:19:11
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <3kle7m$672@jac.zko.dec.com>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> <danpop.795727549@rscernix> <3kknvh$vdh@uwm.edu>
In article <3kknvh$vdh@uwm.edu>, zhao@bloch.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao) writes...
>A higher SPEC rating is not a reliable indication.
>Alpha is a nice machine, but its performance as far as number crunching
>(in general for real programs) goes does not even come close to the
>performace of a RS6000/590.
Hmm, I would have said it the other way, but perhaps I'm prejudiced :-)
-- the /590 is a nice machine, though perhaps a bit expensive; but it
doesn't come close to Alpha for real programs. At least, not if you're
comparing similar price points.
Wait a minute -- we're in danger of debating the term "real" here. Let
me just quickly concede that there's probably a definition of "real"
that makes you really like the /590; and invite you to try Alpha again
sometime at your convenience.
Once upon a time, Alpha was brand new, DEC OSF/1 had not had time to
become mature, the Alpha compilers had just shipped their first
versions, the /590 held SPECfp leadership, and nobody was quite sure
that they would ever need more than 32 bits. All these things have
changed.
/John Henning
CSD Performance Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
henning@i4get.enet.dec.com
Speaking for myself, not Digital
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From: zhao@bloch.phys.uwm.edu (T.C. Zhao)
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Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 20 Mar 1995 20:18:57 GMT
Organization: Surface Labs, Dept. of Physics -- UW-Milwaukee
Message-ID: <3kknvh$vdh@uwm.edu>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> <danpop.795727549@rscernix>
>In <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) writes:
>
>Face it, the fastest processors around are Alphas with HP close
>behind. I'm not saying that they are the most cost effective.
>
fast as judged by what ? A higher SPEC rating is not a reliable indication.
Alpha is a nice machine, but its performance as far as number crunching
(in general for real programs) goes does not even come close to the
performace of a RS6000/590.
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From: baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HPPA RISC locks up
Date: 20 Mar 1995 21:08:08 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Message-ID: <3kkqro$81b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
I've installed NS 3.2 HPPA Risc on a HP 715/100 configured as follows:
64 MB RAM
Color graphics display
Seagate ST31200N (1GB) boot drive
Seagate ST24000N (2GB) 2 partitions 1GB each
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
3.5 DAT DDS drive
When booting up the machine it will lock at the "NEXTSTEP will start in 5
seconds" message if I do not hit the return key immediately.
After running for a while (sometimes for days) the computer will lock up with
out giving any clue to why its locked. I have to pull the plug to reboot the
system. There are no messages in /usr/adm/messages.
I've reinstalled NS from scratch three times so far and I still get the same
behavior. Has anyone an idea of what might be the problem.
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From: solovian@axcrna.cern.ch (Oleg Solovianov)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D5rEKB.969@news.cern.ch>
Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System)
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de>,<danpop.795727549@rscernix>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:02:35 GMT
In article <danpop.795727549@rscernix>, danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
>In <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) writes:
>>Face it, the fastest processors around are Alphas with HP close
>>behind. I'm not saying that they are the most cost effective.
>Have you looked at the performance of the RS6000/590 before writing this?
>Which _existing_ HP is faster than the 590?
Well, Dan is right, look at those values from performance database
server (http://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/performance/html/PDStop.html):
Machine SPECint92 SPECfp92
------------------------------------------------
DEC Alpha 7000/710 193.8 292.6
DEC Alpha 3000/900 189.3 264.1
SGI PowerChallenge 111.7 310.8
IBM RS/6000 590 117.0 255.7
IBM RS/6000 990 125.9 260.4
HP 9000 735/125 135.7 201.3
SUN SPARCstation 20/612 ??? 127.1
I've arranged them just by sum of the marks just to make a
simple order criteria, which is *obviously* wrong.
What *is* obvious also, that most of the leading computer
companies like DEC^H^H^HDigital,HP,IBM,SGI are very close
to each other in terms of a raw power. That's a good thing
to my mind. So if someone have any addictions to any brand
name, he could find out a computer with he/she likes,
without worry that it will be 2-3 times slow that the
ones from competing companies. But still, lots of people
still playing silly games like perf/buck, perf/MHz, etc, etc...
Cheers,
Oleg.
P.S. What I am curious about, is poor SUN performance, (where that
prominent UltraHyperSPARCs ?)...
From: root@kingsbench (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Number 9 GXE level 12 PCI
Date: 21 Mar 1995 04:20:12 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3klk5s$pvf@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Would some kind soul who has managed to get the beta #9GXE level 12
drivers to work please e-mail clues/information on how to do the same.
I can't seem to get anything but a black screen on all resolutions and
color depths; on occasion the machine just hangs. Messages on startup
reveal that card initialization sequence invalid, something about
trying to receive VPcode...The LED on the back of the card turns red
every time [usually green under windows].
Hardware:
Dell XPS 60 [Pentium]
Number 9 GXE level 12 PCI [3MB VRAM]
NEC 5FGe Multiscan monitor
Software:
NeXTStep 3.2 Intel
Video Drivers from NeXTAnswers, beta 3.2 distribution
Thanx,
drew.
Please reply to drew_s@lsa.lan.mcgill.ca
From: im@stokes.Stanford.EDU (Hong Geun Im)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! No swap(?) space with my NeXT
Date: 21 Mar 1995 06:38:27 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kls93$gus@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Let me first describe what happened. I tried to open a jpg file using
ImageViewer, and it took forever to open it. Finally my Next refused to work
at all, not even a move of cursor. I just plugged it out and turned it
back on. Now the rebooting process stops at the line of "Erase ^? Kill ..."
and I have to type Ctrl-D to proceed. After it is booted, things look almost
fine, but is not quite right. One problem I have found is that while I
edit a file (just a several lines), it give a message that there is
no more memory. When that happens, I have to save/escape the file and 'vi'
again.
What can be the problem and what should I do to fix this problem? Any comments
are welcome. Thank you.
Hong
--
===============================================================
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Stanford, CA 94305-3030 im@stokes.stanford.edu
===============================================================
From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDRom player
Date: 21 Mar 1995 01:45:17 -0800
Organization: UCLA Physics Department
Message-ID: <3km77d$5au@schwinger.physics.ucla.edu>
s there someone on the net that might be able to help me with a small problem t
hat I am having with my NeXT CD Rom player.
When I try to run CD Player from an account diffrent than root, I get an error,
can't acces cdutil???
I have tried everything can some one help
Rick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
From: rau@fr.bosch.de (Axel Rau -- Bosch - QI/SYS23)
Subject: Needing disktab entry with 400k inodes
Message-ID: <1995Mar21.100144.838@fr.bosch.de>
Keywords: disktab 2694
Sender: news@fr.bosch.de
Organization: Robert Bosch GmbH
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:01:44 GMT
Hello--
I have a news disk which frequently runs out of inodes. It's a Fujitsu M2694
and I use the following disktab-entry, which givs me over 200k inodes:
M2694ES-1024|FUJITSU M2694ES-1024|FUJITSU M2694ES-1024 w/1024 byte sectors as 1
partition:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#1819:nt#15:ns#41:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:r0=a:\
:pa#0:sa#1120535:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#1:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
I need a version, which gives me 400k inodes. Any proposals ?
The system is a NeXTcube (33MHz) with NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Thanks,
Axel
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From: vaxinf@chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de (Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 Mar 1995 14:06:07 GMT
Organization: Univ.Konstanz,Fak.f.Chemie,Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kmmgf$9o1@eurybia.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <D4nq8F.I7r@world.std.com> <3it3a7$qf6@news0.cybernetics.net> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de>,<danpop.795727549@rscernix> <D5rEKB.969@news.cern.ch>
In article <D5rEKB.969@news.cern.ch>, solovian@axcrna.cern.ch (Oleg
Solovianov) writes:
some lines deleted .
|>Machine SPECint92 SPECfp92
|>------------------------------------------------
|>DEC Alpha 7000/710 193.8 292.6
|>DEC Alpha 3000/900 189.3 264.1
|>SGI PowerChallenge 111.7 310.8
|>IBM RS/6000 590 117.0 255.7
|>IBM RS/6000 990 125.9 260.4
|>HP 9000 735/125 135.7 201.3
|>SUN SPARCstation 20/612 ??? 127.1
|>
|>I've arranged them just by sum of the marks just to make a
|>simple order criteria, which is *obviously* wrong.
|>
|>What *is* obvious also, that most of the leading computer
|>companies like DEC^H^H^HDigital,HP,IBM,SGI are very close
|>to each other in terms of a raw power. That's a good thing
|>to my mind. So if someone have any addictions to any brand
|>name, he could find out a computer with he/she likes,
|>without worry that it will be 2-3 times slow that the
|>ones from competing companies. But still, lots of people
|>still playing silly games like perf/buck, perf/MHz, etc, etc...
But our new PowerChallenge 111 SPECint / 310 SPECfp performs as slow as
our
DEC alpha 3000/400 (133 MHz) in a real application
(Quantum Chemistry/Solid state calculation). My explanation:
the usual mixture between integer- and floating point operation is
2/3 integer 1/3 floating point.
eberhard
From: henning@i4get.enet.dec.com (John L. Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 21 MAR 95 07:28:03
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <3kmh6r$kdt@jac.zko.dec.com>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <3k9n46$j5i@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <D5p8LK.8C@kroete2.freinet.de> <danpop.795727549@rscernix>,<3kknvh$vdh@uwm.edu> <3kl0ts$ag9@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
In article <3kl0ts$ag9@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, olin@cheme.cornell.edu
(Steve Thompson) writes...
>I find that the 590 is just about 6% faster than the 3000/600. So
>you're right; a higher SPEC rating is not a reliable indicator.
>YMMV.
Just to clarify (if anyone reading this doesn't remember which models
have which ratings), the RS6000/590 is rated at 260 SPECfp92 and the DEC
3000/600 is rated at 162. But they have similar SPECint ratings.
Suggestion: SPEC is *an* indicator, but is not alone enough. Look at a
variety of benchmarks, for example TPC and AIM.
/John Henning
CSD Performance Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
henning@i4get.enet.dec.com
Speaking for myself, not Digital
From: kelley@kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA RISC locks up
Date: 21 Mar 1995 14:54:10 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <3kmpai$2dsn@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
References: <3kkqro$81b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <3kkqro$81b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
writes:
> I've installed NS 3.2 HPPA Risc on a HP 715/100 configured as follows:
>
> 64 MB RAM
> Color graphics display
> Seagate ST31200N (1GB) boot drive
> Seagate ST24000N (2GB) 2 partitions 1GB each
> PS/2 keyboard and mouse
> 3.5 DAT DDS drive
>
> When booting up the machine it will lock at the "NEXTSTEP will start in
5
> seconds" message if I do not hit the return key immediately.
>
> After running for a while (sometimes for days) the computer will lock up
with
> out giving any clue to why its locked. I have to pull the plug to
reboot the
> system. There are no messages in /usr/adm/messages.
>
> I've reinstalled NS from scratch three times so far and I still get the
same
> behavior. Has anyone an idea of what might be the problem.
FINALLY... someone else with my problem!!!! geez.
hi don. yes. i have a similar problem. in fact, i have 2 similar
problems:
715/75 locks up, no messages, etc etc. hp came out, took out the
cpu and mother boards, replaced them, found the replacements to be
bad, but in the process we left our 3rd party 32mb of kingston mem
out. machine stayed up w/ the 32mb of hp memory in there for almost
2 days! so we thought, it's got to be the memory! just to be certain,
i threw the kingston back in there. it froze during the next night.
and the next. then the next noon. it got down to freezing every
other hour. so i said enuf. took out the kingston. THEN IT FROZE
WITHIN THE NEXT 30MIN! so it is NOT the memory. something is not
working in there. it is now freezing every 15-30min. unusable, as
it was before hp came out. i will stay in touch cos hp is coming
back out here for this one...
the system looks like this:
64 MB RAM (32mb hp - 4 8's ; 32mb kingston - 2 16's)
Color graphics display
Seagate ST11900N (1.7GB) NeXTSTEP boot drive at scsi.1
Seagate ST31200N (1GB) hpux boot drive at scsi.6
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Thin lan xceiver out the back
machine is hooked up to our network and file serves things like
LocalLibrary, etc. also exports user's directory.
my other problem is/was this: 715/100 would not even load NeXTSTEP.
after the above problem seemed to be memory, i took out all the kingston
in this machine and was able to load the os no problem. after 24hrs,
i put the kingston back in. it's been up and down in hpux/NeXTSTEP mode
so was unable to see if NeXTSTEP was going to hang or not after extended
periods. kept it up in NEXTSTEP last night and it's still up. my
thought at this point is that i had a simm that was not seated well
before the NS install... don't know. hpux has NO PROBLEMS AT ALL
on both of these machines. anyway, so far so good w/ this 715/100
except for the booting problem you mention. this problem is known
to NeXT. has to do w/ the graphics boot display not being able to
function w/ the 715/100 architecture or something. i dont remember
if there is a permanent fix as i was more concerned at the time w/
my 715/75. so i just hit return everytime we boot it NeXTSTEP at
the boot prompt. here is the 715/100's configuration.
128 MB RAM (32mb hp - 4 8's ; 96mb kingston - 2 16's , 2 32's)
Color graphics display
Seagate ST31230N (1GB) NeXTSTEP boot drive at scsi.1
Seagate ST12400N (2GB) hpux boot drive at scsi.4
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Thin lan xceiver out the back
to summarize, we don't know yet if our 715/100 is affected yet as
it's not been up long enough in NeXTSTEP boot. our 715/75 is hosed.
sounds like similar, if not identical problem to yours. i guess i'm
suprised that this is happening on 2 different architectures (as i
understand it, 715/75 is the older arch. and the 715/100's are the
newer 712 arch. - actually, we could test this by knowing what
messages we get when hitting <esc> at boot time to get to the
hp boot commands - lemme know if you want to do this).
i've got a call out to hp. i can either post to the net or let
you know via email what we find out.
kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
From: wkulecz@cyberspace.com (Walter B. Kulecz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next Cube as web server?
Date: 21 Mar 1995 09:11:45 -0800
Organization: C y b e r S p a c e - (206) 505-5577
Message-ID: <3kn1ch$d60@case.cyberspace.com>
We have a "surplus" cube running system software 2.0 that I was asked to
find out if it could be used as web server. I saw entries for Next in
the Makefile for NCSA httpd-1.3 so the general answer is yes, but I need
to know if 2.0 software is up to the task. I was told this machine can't
boot the 2.1 disk. I have no Next experience, this cube has no CDROM
although assuming NFS works I can export a "rock-ridge" CDROM from my
Pentium running BSD/OS (I've done this from A/UX 3.0). The bean
counters are less than thrilled with the idea of spending more money on
this "turkey" for NextStep 3.x (I'm not bad mouthing next, the people who
bought this machine should have got something else for what they wanted
to do).
Any advice would be helpful. I found a reference to three next ftp sites
but so far have been unable to connect to any of them.
--wally.
From: Nick Boris <nmboris@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP dial-in e-mail
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:11:30 -0600
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950320220644.3098A-100000@mulberry>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
HI,
In the hopes of avoiding a kluge i'm looking for some help on UUCP on
NeXT 3.2 for x86 archetecture.
We're running on a 56K line for our connection and have clients that want
e-mail. The easiest thing, conceptually, is to set them up with a UUCP
connection through cc:Mail or Pegasus mail or some such thing.
The question is how is this configured on NeXT. i.e. have people dial in
and upload out going, download incoming, etc. IS this handled or am I
barking up the wrong tree.
I hope this doesn't sound to idiotic but you'll have to excuse me, I'm in
a new pond where I have to do everything rather than just deal with
figuring out the logistics of httpd...
Any help or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick
nick@nite.net --- @nite.net Music Resource, NYC
nmboris@purelogic.com --- Pure Logic Computers, NYC
nmboris@artsci.wustl.edu --- Washington University in St. Louis
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~nmboris/ White Noise
As ever, the opinions expressed are not those of my employer, though
they should be.
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From: fabien@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Needing disktab entry with 400k inodes
Message-ID: <1995Mar21.155450.27945@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <1995Mar21.100144.838@fr.bosch.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:54:50 GMT
In article <1995Mar21.100144.838@fr.bosch.de> rau@fr.bosch.de (Axel Rau --
Bosch - QI/SYS23) writes:
> Hello--
>
> I have a news disk which frequently runs out of inodes. It's a Fujitsu
M2694
> and I use the following disktab-entry, which givs me over 200k inodes:
>
> M2694ES-1024|FUJITSU M2694ES-1024|FUJITSU M2694ES-1024 w/1024 byte
sectors as 1
> partition:\
> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#1819:nt#15:ns#41:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
> :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:r0=a:\
> :pa#0:sa#1120535:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#1:oa=time:\
> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:
>
> I need a version, which gives me 400k inodes. Any proposals ?
> The system is a NeXTcube (33MHz) with NEXTSTEP 3.3.
>
> Thanks,
> Axel
>
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Try ca#16
Hope this helps
Fabien
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From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NEXTSTEP 3.3 Have a License Daemon?
Date: 23 Mar 1995 23:22:48 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ksvs8$juj@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <3ksi4q$i0u@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
In article <3ksi4q$i0u@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Christopher_Lane@Med.Stanford.EDU writes:
> Garance A. Drosehn writes
> > I, personally, have three NeXT machines and one NS/Intel machine.
> > I have always bought upgrades for each machine before I've upgraded
> > it (or I've bought a right-to-use license, back when they had those).
> > It's irritating to think that while I'm going broke making sure I'm
> > following the license that came with the product, Stanford has
> > the gall to sit around and claim it's too poor to bother with
> > such details, and sluffs off any responsibility by saying "Yeah,
> > well, someday we'll all be judged by the great Ito in the sky".
>
> Garance, please be more focused in your attacks. ;-) "Stanford" has
> the software piracy policy that you'd expect -- it's not allowed. I
> look after a dozen and a half black and white NeXTs and we purchase
> licenses for each one -- I've got a box full of 3.0, 3.1 & 3.2 CDs.
>
> - Christopher
Yes. PLEASE don't judge Stanford by us. Please see comp.sys.next.advocay
for an explanation by me of how this came about. I didn't mean we KNEW we
stealing. We didn't. NeXT knew what we were doing. They approved it over
the phone. I meant by justice maybe it should be 1 license / 1 upgrade.
Ok. Now I know it IS that way. This whole furvor caught me off guard. I
mean, if we KNEW we were staealing, would I be stupid enough to broadcast
it to everybody in the world? We've been in the NeXT community since the
beginning. I think NeXT didn't really care for a long time all that much
about academics, which led to our misperception.
Sorry. We'll get multiple copies in the future.
Greg
From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with pcnfs and NeXT 3.2
Date: 23 Mar 1995 23:26:23 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kt02v$u58@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <3krf4e$8rl@cc.joensuu.fi>
In article <3krf4e$8rl@cc.joensuu.fi> rasanen@cc.joensuu.fi (Jari R{s{nen)
writes:
>
> I have a NextStation M68040 and NextStep 3.2. The problem is that
> when I try to mount Next disk from pcnfs or xfs (shareware winsocket
nfs)
> it works only partially. I can copy files from pc to Next and
> I can use TYPE command to type file from Next. But if I
> try DIR on mounted disk or COPY files from Next to local disk on PC it
> does not work. In console (Next) I get an error message
> svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
> nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.214.14.135
>
> I am very grateful if someone could help me.
>
> Jari Rasanen
> University of Joensuu
> Department of physics
> email: rasanen@cc.joensuu.fi
We get this behavior on NEXTSTEP 3.0 also when connecting with Wollongong
pcnfs from a PC to a NeXT. I was hoping 3.2 or 3.3 (which we haven't
loaded yet) would fix it. Sounds like no.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
From: powell@tropic (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA Risc locks up
Date: 24 Mar 1995 14:53:16 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <3kumcs$5r1@wave.aoml.erl.gov>
References: <3kst4l$rll@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
We have two 712' 60's running pre-release 3.3 (the server of our 7
machine group however is a Canon Objectstation) and one has exhibited
this same problem (as it did also under 3.2). The other one is
independent of our group but shares apps and disk space via NFS and
has NFS implemented differently. The two disks are mounted in
background and use the "intermittent "try if failure" option to avoid
getting hung up. This works for him. I'll have to try it on the
other machine to see if that helps.
We should have 3.3 final release soon but I hope you will keep
posting so the rest of the net can keep informed on this problem. We
may be installing on a 715 in the next couple of months so we are very
interested in this thread.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
From: jwa2n@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1995Feb18.220958.1356@newshost.atk.com> <D5Ltqu.5oH@txnews.amd.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:27:01 GMT
After reading a plethora of messages on this thread, my feeling is that
to answer the floating point question: If you want a supercomputer, why
are you discussing workstations?
There are different categories of computers precisely because people
have different requirements.
Cray (both of them), CONVEX (my personal favorite in this class),
Fujitsu, NEC, Intel and a variety of others offer machines which are
optimized to run large, compute-intensive floating point apps.
Workstation vendors are marketing to the desktop. Sun, in particular,
has chosen to aim at the business/corporate desktop. Others, such as
SGI, target 3-D graphics-intensive applications. All of these markets
overlap, but there are significant distinguishing characteristics to
each one. No one company answers all of them. Each company has a
different vision. There is no "One True Way." Computers are tools to
do work, not religious icons.
That said, one point I would like to make is that very few people
recognize the potential of vector supercomputers as general-purpose
timeshared compute servers. The vector hardware can also tremendously
accelerate scalar iterative processes where the individual iterations
are independent. The memory bandwidth of these cacheless systems,
combined with their high-performance I/O, can support incredible numbers
of simultaneous users without the degradation of interactive response
seen with the cache-dependent parallel microprocessors found in the
servers marketed by workstation companies.
--
James W. Adams Medical Center Computing
Box 512, HSC jwa2n@virginia.edu
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone made a boot disk for 3.2 Intel?
Message-ID: <1995Mar23.160644.45522@cc.usu.edu>
From: Deanox Group <deanox@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 95 16:06:43 MDT
References: <3kpo1q$1g0@remus.wat.hookup.net>
jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com (James W. Cassidy) wrote:
>
>
> I've tried to make a boot disk for NS 3.2 Intel using the script
> found on orst. But it assumes a 2.88 floppy.
>
> Has anyone managed to create a boot floppy for NS 3.2 Intel? If so
> could they send/post their technique.
>
> Regards,
> Jim.
If you haven't already, check out NextAnswers Document #1561.
Regards,
Kimball
From: schmidt@wburg.hanse.de (Andre Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with pcnfs and NeXT 3.2
Date: 24 Mar 1995 08:39:01 GMT
Organization: ISLAND wburg, Hamburg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ku0f5$a4g@wburg.hanse.de>
References: <3krf4e$8rl@cc.joensuu.fi>
Jari R{s{nen writes
>
> I have a NextStation M68040 and NextStep 3.2. The problem is that
> when I try to mount Next disk from pcnfs or xfs (shareware winsocket
nfs)
> it works only partially. I can copy files from pc to Next and
> I can use TYPE command to type file from Next. But if I
> try DIR on mounted disk or COPY files from Next to local disk on PC it
> does not work. In console (Next) I get an error message
> svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
> nfs_server: bad sendreply from 128.214.14.135
>
> I am very grateful if someone could help me.
>
A patch from Sun (102068-01) fixed that problem for pcnfs, don't know
about xfs.
Cya
Andre
--
# Andre Schmidt *** NeXTmail: schmidt@wburg.hanse.de #
# "Rhythm is the Sense of Life." #
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: Adaptec AHA Timeout ?
Message-ID: <D5ztoq.DF@fritz.snafu.de>
Organization: dasburo Berlin
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 11:10:02 GMT
Has anybody seen this before :
I was trying to install NS 3.3 on an IDE system. So I installed
an Adaptec 1542 for the CD-ROM. During boot from the installation
floppy the Adaptec controller was recognized and the driver
was installed correctly. Then the SCSI bus was reset and nothing
happened for a minute or two.
Then the message "AHA timeout" was printed and the system hung.
I get the same message when trying to boot 3.2. I dont't think it's
a problem with the CDROM drive as we tried three different ones already.
(Tried with SCSI-IDs 0 and 4).
We also tried all sorts of termination combinations : Only Adaptec
internally, both Adaptec and CD-ROM, only CD-ROM externally (cable is
about 40 cm long, no internal HD connected).
The SCSI bus reset gets recognized by the CD-ROM.
Any suggestions ?
Cheers, Ernst.
--
--------------------------------------------
Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
--------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: BIG Problems with slip
Message-ID: <D5z0Iv.2uM@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 00:40:06 GMT
Hello there,
I have a very big problem, stealing my time for now 4 weeks
and I still have no answer to my questions.
I do have a little network at home with 2 Macs and 2 nextcubes
running as a Non-NeXT-Network. from a NeXTcube with the IP-Number
192.42.172.1, I have installed Louis A. Mamakos SLIP-package to have
access to the internet to use ftp, telnet, OMNIWeb and all this nice
stuff. The IP-Number for the SLIP-remote is 193.141.69.1. my SLIP
adress is 193.141.69.243.
If I PING to any machine outside my net, or using telnet or ftp
with the IP-Number of the box, I wanna contact to, it works without
any problems. NSLOOKUP, traceroute an netstat -r ends with a
very long timeout and doesn t give me the result, I normally
would expect. As the docs tell me to select not to
"Bind to network NetInfo server" but "Use local domain only" with
a checkmark in "Readable only by local net", I am not able
to talk to any machine outside my net using names.
Before starting /usr/dialupip/config/rc.slip, nslookup tells me,
that the nameserver is not respondig, netstat -r works correct
until the time I install the slip-configuration. If I then
start nslookup, the modem starts and makes a connection to my
Internet-Provider, but it doesn t goe ahead with the work.
I tested several configurations of /etc/hostconfig and /etc/resolf.con,
but I am not able to fix the problem.
It would be nice, if some of guys could help me.
this is my hostconfig:
HOSTNAME=muaddib
INETADDR=192.42.172.1
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.240
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
and this the config.slip-file
# SLIPxDEFAULT
# default route? Should be set to YES or NO
# ------------------------------ slip0
SLIP0LOCAL=193.141.69.243
SLIP0REMOTE=193.141.69.1
SLIP0NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#SLIP0CONFIG=SLIP
SLIP0CONFIG=CSLIP
SLIP0DEFAULT=YES
resolv.conf
domain m.isar.de
nameserver 193.141.69.1
Nice Greetings from Munich
mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel | Email: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (NeXTmail, MIME, ASCII)
KARSTADT AG Muenchen | Tel: +49-89-652818
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Anyone ever use Fujitsu 230 MO drive?
Message-ID: <D5uxvH.xK@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <h4+bdNJ.jadamski@delphi.com>
Distribution: nymphe
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 19:52:29 GMT
In article <h4+bdNJ.jadamski@delphi.com> John David Adamski
<jadamski@delphi.com> writes:
> I'm thinking of getting the Fujitus 230 MO drive, but want any pros/cons
from
> someone already using one with NS. I have a NeXTstation.
>
> Please e-mail me.
>
> jda
>
> jadamski@delphi.com
Yes, tested it out, works without any problems, but the drive
is a little bit noisy.
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
Michael Maximilian Goedel | Email: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (NeXTmail, MIME, ASCII)
KARSTADT AG Muenchen | Tel: +49-89-652818
From: dbeausan@Mines.Colorado.EDU (David G. Beausang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lpr -#copies file to remote printer doesn't work
Date: 23 Mar 1995 21:16:46 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines - Test News Server
Message-ID: <3ksofu$1rr@magma.Mines.Colorado.EDU>
Keywords: lpt repeat count remote printer
lpr -#copies file to remote printer doesn't work
We have an HP LaserJet 4si MX, with a direct ethernet connection, serving
RS/6000, Macintosh, PC DOS/Windows, and NeXT machines. When the multiple
copy parameter is specified on the lpr command (-#count) from the NeXT
command line, or when the copies field is used on a NeXT's Print panel,
the LaserJet only prints a single copy. Other platforms do not have this
problem. Additionally, the NeXTs do not have a problem when printing to a
NeXT printer attached to a NeXT. Any hints or solutions??
(The NeXTs are running NS3.2, both black and white hardware.)
Regards,
David Beausang
dgb@mines.colorado.edu
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 prerelease sparc netstat -ain bus errors
Date: 25 Mar 1995 00:52:32 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3kvpgg$pmc@potogold.rmii.com>
Keywords: ethernet sparc netstat ns 3.3
Hallo jederman,
I have a sparc box with an AUI interface. I installed NS3.3 prerelease
for sparc on it, but after booting it cannot find the network. Further
typing netstat -ain at a terminal prompt produces a bus error. The
logging information seems to show that the hw interface is recognized as
le0, an AUI interface. Any suggestions?
Chris
From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Quick question, command for stripping arch types??
Date: 25 Mar 1995 20:06:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario
Message-ID: <3l1t4t$n7n@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Quick question. What is the command to strip other architectures from
MAB binaries?
Thanks.
Greg.
--
****************************************************************************
Greg Gee The G-Man gee@csd.uwo.ca
Honours Computer Science, gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario gee@syslab.csd.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Re: Does NEXTSTEP 3.3 Have a License Daemon?
Message-ID: <D5zEtM.45K@trapac.com>
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
References: <3knl17$hcg@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 05:48:57 GMT
In article <3knl17$hcg@nntp.Stanford.EDU> gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes:
>My first question is this: How does Next expect to enforce this new policy
>of theirs?
Honesty?
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerti@BITart.com (Gerd Knops)
Subject: arp returns 'Network is unreachable'
Message-ID: <D60uzp.DFJ@BITart.com>
Sender: usenet@BITart.com
Organization: BITart, NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consulting
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 00:35:49 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to get PPP to work. On the remote side I need to use arp,
but a call like:
arp -s 192.42.172.1 00:00:0f:00:aa:bb pub
returns:
192.42.172.1: Network is unreachable
What gives?
Please answer by EMail, my newsfeed is pretty slow.
Gerd
gerti@BITart.com
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with SLIP: cannot ping/ftp outside the slip server area
Date: 26 Mar 1995 03:34:19 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <3l2nbr$hgr@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
I have been sticked to the problem for over 6 months, I tried posting
inquiries but got no helpful response.
I am using a NeXT black, connecting to my college through TransSys PNI
SLIP. I can do ftp/telnet/rlogin machines within the campus LAN but
failed to directly ftp/telnet/rlogin outside. I had tried many many
different config setting but still failed.
The nameserver for address resolution should work, because I had try
something like
/usr/etc/arp ftp.cs.orst.edu
it returns
ftp.cs.orst.edu (128.193.36.32) -- no entry
And I had tried ftp with numeric address but failed.
It is also impossible that the slip server doesn't let slip clients telnet
outside the LAN because when I use InterSlip from Mac to the slip
server, I can ftp to remote site (e.g., sumex-aim) directly.
Thank you for any help..
Best Wishes
Mr.Sai-kee Wong
From: olson@anchor.engr.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 26 Mar 1995 06:49:30 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3l32pq$p2l@gazette.engr.sgi.com>
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1995Feb18.220958.1356@newshost.atk.com>
pmealey@unix.atk.com writes:
| Anyway, we spend a disproportionate amount of time on SGIs just keeping them
| running. We have been trying to migrate to 5.2 and then 5.3 for a few months
I won't say we are perfect, but this certainly isn't common.
| now without much success. The objectserver has a memory leak (real bad in 5.2,
| not so bad in 5.3) that requires us to reboot the boxes on a very regular
I don't doubt that there are still some memory leaks at 5.3, but
none that get triggered at all commonly, unlike 5.2.
But if you do see one, and it's causing you problems, turn it off
until you get a fix or workaround, if it's really causing the problems
that you say. It certainly isn't necessary to anything but the fancy
icons (and unfortunately, some of the GUI admin tools).
--
The most beautiful things in the world | Dave Olson, Silicon Graphics
are those from which all excess weight | http://reality.sgi.com/employees/olson
has been removed. -Henry Ford | olson@sgi.com
From: harrap@geol.queensu.ca (Rob Harrap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help me with a Sendmail problem, please
Date: 26 Mar 1995 20:24:06 GMT
Organization: Queens University, Dept. of Geological Sciences
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3l4ih7$kkv@knot.queensu.ca>
Hello all:
I have a problem with being able to send email from my NeXT.
I had it working, for 9 months, largely because of a tip on how to set up
my sendmail.cf file that I recieved when I initially connected to the
network. It involved adding something about a relayer near the top of the
file.
The problem is, I crashed the machine and much to my embarrasment realized
that I'd saved the note on how to fix the connect on the machine ;<}, so
obviously I'm s.o.l., and rather annoyed at myself to boot.
I am NOT on a NetInfo network, but am instead trying to send via a Sun running
SunOS. I seem to recall that I need to put the name of that machine on
some line in sendmail.cf.
If you could help me out, I'd appreciate it.
And this time I'll print out the solution (and paste it to my forehead?) :<}
Regards,
Rob Harrap
harrap@geol.queensu.ca
harrap@rockcube.geol.queensu.ca
BTW:
(I) I recieve mail just fine.
(II) DNS is set up and works for ftp etc.
(III) I'm SURE that the fix was a line in a sendmail file, and it did the trick
last time around.
From: pmarinac@slip.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS a MOD on Black?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:44:36 LOCAL
Organization: Slip.Net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <pmarinac.5.0065D6EC@slip.net>
References: <1995Mar21.100144.838@fr.bosch.de>
Summary: Is it possible
Keywords: NFS
I'm sure this has been covered before but I thought thought that it might be
easier to ask again rather than scan through the archived newsgroup.
Is it possible to make a cube's optical disk available for NFS to other
machines (PCs) on the network. When I try this, the MOD doesn't show up, even
if I use my own account to mount the MOD on the cube.
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail or NetInfo? Help please!
Date: 26 Mar 1995 22:21:43 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3l4pdn$6nk@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: Sendmail, NetInfo
Hello,
I have a network of three NS machines. I Seem to have been
succesful at setting up the net in the beginning. However, I recently
added another machine. I added this machine essentially so that it could
use some of the apps on the fileserver. All my users have been network
users except the user of the added machine, he is local to that machine.
All the file stuff seems to be ok but mail is broken. The new machine can
send mail to other machines but replies get bounced with a user unknown
message. The root mail to the machine is fine, and I think the mail spool
is exported. I'm guessing that the problem is due to the fact he is not a
network user so the mail program doesn't know who he is. Is there a way
to fix this without making the new machine's user network wide? Also, the
new user wants to keep his machine as the sender of mail (or at least
append its name) not the networks mailserver. Please reply to me via
email. Thanks in advance!
Alan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: ISDN Kit
Message-ID: <D5ytEp.4Az@ex-nihilo.com>
Sender: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: ex nihilo, inc.
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 22:06:25 GMT
Now that NeXT is not supporting the ISDN Kit, who is/will?
You'd think that now that ISDN service is becoming so widely available (and VERY cost
effective), NeXT would want to support it. Go figure.
---
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netgroup: does it work?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 00:05:49 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3l4vgt$6hm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3krvq9$ov6@exit.thi.nl>
Annard Brouwer <annard@thi.nl> writes:
>Hello fellow sysadmins,
>> In NEXTSTEP In Focus, Spring 1993 (Volume 3, Issue 2) Marc Majka
>> writes:
>> Configure NFS servers to export only to trusted systems.
>>
>> Never set up an NFS server to export directories to client
>> computers that are untrustworthy. To make server configuration
>> easier, create a netgroup and export only to the group. Use
>> HostManager to create and manage netgroups.
>>
>But I didn't find this feature in a working state (at least on NS3.0). I also
>tried to use the netgroup feature in tcp_wrappers (that was under NS3.3) and it
>didn't work there either.
>What are your experiences with this feature? Should we send a bug report to
>NeXT (or is this the same kind of problem as the rlogind "bug")?
Works fine for me in NEXTSTEP 3.0 and 3.2 used for NFS exports.
However, note that there is an unexpected "feature" -- you cannot
export with root permission to a netgroup. You must list each hostname
in the -root= list separately.
I haven't tried to use netgroups anywhere else, as you might use
them in other OS's.
--
David Lemson (217) 244-8833
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: How@Panix.com (Howard Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting additional Partitions
Date: 27 Mar 1995 00:30:31 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <How-2603951929070001@how.dialup.access.net>
Hi everyone:
I am trying to deal with a Barracuda 4 (4 gig) while being new to NeXT. I
have a color turbo (3.3) and am booting from a 1 gig (scsi id 1). I also
have the 4 gig internal at scsi id 5. I used build disk and cut it into
two equal partitions. It mounts the first partition and the entry in
fstab seems fine. The 2nd partition is nowhere to be found. How do I
mount it?
Any and all help would be much appreciated.
Howie Schneider
From: root@charles.panix.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Services - OmniImageFilter
Date: 27 Mar 1995 02:16:47 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3l576f$1rb@news.panix.com>
I have Omniweb 1.0 and OmniImageFilter (the latest I think) and
Omniweb works fine. What I'm wondering is why I can't convert other
images in other programs automatically. I want to use Gopher and when
I click on an image and load it it comes up as garble. I think I put
OmniImageFilter in all the right places, but maybe not. Shouldn't it
work automatically?
I have the filter in NextLibrary/Services and LocalLibrary/Services
and anywhere else where it says services...
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Charles.
(NextMail is happily accepted)
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 27 Mar 1995 05:15:07 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3l5hkr$mnt@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
*** NEED INFORMATION ***
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news: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.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
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.
Archives are available by ftp at
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
news: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.
news: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.
news: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.
news: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!!!
news:comp.sys.next.programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
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.
news:comp.sys.next.software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
on NEXTSTEP systems.
news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
will spill over into .programmer or .software.
Related Newsgroups
==================
news: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.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news: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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
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
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
Written by:
Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: stephan@lotus.nifix.schwaben.de (Stephan Gelhaus)
Subject: Re: CAP and printing from a MAC
Message-ID: <D62I24.BEE@nifix.schwaben.de>
Sender: stephan@nifix.schwaben.de (Stephan Gelhaus)
Organization: NiFiX dental neural interfaces
References: <3jstq7$dig@cronkite.cisco.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 21:51:38 GMT
In article <3jstq7$dig@cronkite.cisco.com> enf@cisco.com (Eric Fronberg)
writes:
> Any Ideas....
>
> I'm trying to get printing from a MAC to a NeXT laser printer
>
Use InterPrint from InterCon. It is a Mac Printer driver patch for the
original LaserWriter driver. Very easy using and no broblems with
printing.
Bye,
Stephan
--
internet: stephan@nifix.schwaben.de
NiFiX___________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Automatic login in to NetWare (via LoginHook), can it be done?
Message-ID: <D6477L.16r@RnA.NL>
Keywords: NetWare LoginHook
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 19:52:33 GMT
I have been trying to set up automatic NetWare login for users. I decided that
the best way was to use a script that gets the password for a user from the
file ~/.nwpasswd. (I know about the security aspects...).
Anyway, here is the script:
#!/bin/csh -f
if ( $1 == "" ) then
set nwuser=`whoami`
else
set nwuser=$1
endif
set nwpassfile="~$nwuser/.nwpasswd"
if ( -r $nwpassfile ) then
if ( $nwuser == root ) then
set nwuser=supervisor
endif
/usr/netware/bin/nwlogin NWSERVER/$nwuser <$nwpassfile
endif
This works, when the passwd of the used is in the file ~user/.nwpassw, since
the user names in NetWare are equivalent to those in NEXTSTEP.
Anyway, I tried to let this script run at login time via the LoginHook dwrite
from loginwindow. But it seems not to work. I can't figure out why. Does
NetWare login need Workspace around? (since LoginHook is executed by root
before the user is known with the name of the user as parameter). Or is there
something else I am forgetting? Does anyone know a way for this?
Any help welcome.
Yours,
--
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: croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Well, well, well. What do you know...
Date: 27 Mar 1995 09:41:42 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <3l618m$3p8@cs.ubc.ca>
Yet another way to crash your HP 712 (3.2). Type the following at a
shell prompt:
niutil -list / .
This causes the local netinfod to crash. Once it's gone, all its
associated services (name lookups, etc) consequently also fail. So
unless you're logged in as root already, you basically have to reboot
since even a 'su' causes a name lookup.
Any user can execute this and bring your machine to an essentially useless
state. My machine is not part of a NetInfo network, so I don't know if
it crashes on NetInfo clients. And on m68k and i486 machines everything
works ok.
Anyone know if this is fixed in 3.3?
WORKAROUND:
Best solution I can think of is to run a cron job that periodically checks
if there's a netinfod running and if not, send nibindd a SIGHUP signal.
Or just to make sure, kill lookupd and nibindd (in that order) and
restart nibindd and lookupd (in that order).
Any other ideas?
Something like:
#!/bin/sh
#
# ninurse -- resuscitate NetInfo services if it ever croaks
#
LOG="logger -t ninurse -p daemon.err"
ps cax | grep -s netinfod
if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
$LOG "Error: No netinfod running; restarting netinfo services"
if ps cax | grep -s lookupd; then
lookupd=`ps cax | grep lookupd | awk '{print $1;}'`
$LOG "killing lookupd (${lookupd})"
(kill ${lookupd} 2>&1) | $LOG
fi
if ps cax | grep -s nibindd; then
nibindd=`ps cax | grep nibindd | awk '{print $1;}'`
$LOG "killing nibindd (${nibindd})"
(kill ${nibindd} 2>&1) | $LOG
fi
sleep 1
/usr/etc/nibindd
/usr/etc/lookupd
fi
You'll probably have to make some modifications if you're running NIS or
more than one NetInfo domain on your machine. Also, I'm not running this
yet, so I make no guarantees that it works :-)
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@cs.ubc.ca)
Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
2366 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
From: torl@oslonett.no (Tor Langballe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Install NextStep 3.3 from NEC CDROM?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 19:17:10 +0100
Organization: Cutting Edge
Message-ID: <torl-2703951917100001@novex-1.novex.com>
Can I Boot from a floppy then install NeXTStep 3.3 on black hardware with
a NEC CD-ROM? Does it need any special drivers to be recognised like on a
Mac?
Thanks,
Tor Langballe
Cutting Edge Technologies
Norway
Tor Langballe
Cutting Edge Technologies
Norway
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Network is down - how to reset?
Message-ID: <D648Dt.HG@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Keywords: slip, lookupd
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 20:17:52 GMT
When establishing a slip-connection to local provider fails, further requests yield
'Network is down' and the likes.
From what I understand after studying the docs, sending a SIGHUP to the lookup-daemon (lookupd) as
root should force the daemon to forget gathered information and start anew.
This definitely fails for me.
I have a /etc/resolv.conf stating 3 nameservers (reachable via my slip connection) if that matters.
Any ideas?
Juergen
---
Fon ++49 511 4406-88 NeXTMail welcome Fax ++49 511 4406-17
== What time do we live in when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee,
== when a politician's idea of social change is changing names?
From: benji@bag-end.advis.com (Benjamin Cline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with SLIP: ping yes, ftp NO
Date: 27 Mar 1995 16:36:54 GMT
Organization: Advanced Information Solutions, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <BENJI.95Mar27113654@bag-end.advis.com>
References: <D5tH9w.9t@euler.hnv.icem.de> <3kocjj$9ph@newshost.lanl.gov>
<3kp5ed$e8h@news3.digex.net>
In-reply-to: jtodd@ss2.digex.net's message of 22 Mar 1995 12:33:17 GMT
>
> Sounds more like a problem with compression to me. If your provider and you
> are mismatched with compression flags (eg: they're thinking that the
> connection is compressed, and your machine is thinking that the connection
> is uncompressed) Try changing the flags on your SLIP/PPP program to
> whatever they are not, and re-connect. The thing is that PING packets
> (ICMP echo requests) are quite small, and fall under the compression
> threshhold set by most SLIP/PPP programs, while a data packet get
> compressed. This also explains why you get the "connection" part of an ftp
> or a telnet, but then no banner.
>
I agree with the diagnosis, but your statement that "The thing is that
PING packets (ICMP echo requests) are quite small, and fall under the
compression threshhold set by most SLIP/PPP programs, while a data packet get
compressed" is incorrect. SLIP/PPP compression (aka Van Jacobsen
header compression) is only done for TCP packets (ftp is built on top
of TCP, which is in turn built on top of IP). Since ping uses ICMP (a
separate, distinct protocol also built on top of IP), it's packets are
not compressed.
benji
--
Benjamin Cline Site administrator,
benji@advis.com (NeXTmail) Advanced Information Solutions, Inc.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
From: park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS exporting CDROM files ?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 22:01:35 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <95Mar27.135645@EE.Stanford.EDU>
I have a 040 NeXT cube with CDROM and a PC running Linux.
I want to put the InfoMagic's CDROM in the CDROM drive attached
to the NeXT and want to access it from the PC via NFS.
I can see all the files on the hard disk wihtout any problem
(if I remember correctly, I could see the NEXTSTEP CDROM
also). But I cannont access the Linux CDROMs. I tried
this with DOS CDROMs but no avail. Is there any way to
NFS export these CDROMs from NeXT ?
Thanks.
--- Sang Ju Park
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!gee
From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3l1t4t$n7n@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Control: cancel <3l1t4t$n7n@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 27 Mar 1995 16:00:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
Message-ID: <3l6nes$68o@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
<3l1t4t$n7n@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> was cancelled from within trn.
--
****************************************************************************
Greg Gee The G-Man gee@csd.uwo.ca
Honours Computer Science, gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario gee@syslab.csd.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!usenet
From: dma9w@broca.med.Virginia.EDU (Dawn M. Adelsberger)
Subject: General failure
Message-ID: <D63vH8.B47@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:39:08 GMT
We have a nextwork of Nexts and one of them is acting really flakey (don't
think its a network problem tho).
It seems to have lost some very basic file handling information. For
example when a user wants to run Adobe Illustrator - the application
"comes up" but the user can neither open a open an existing file or
create a new file. If the user chooses mathematica - it will run but the
user can not save the worksheet nor load in an old one. When you run the
next editor you can not load in an old file nor create a new one (get the
trend).
When I tried to save a test file using the next editor I observed the
errors (using the console):
Assertion failed: loadNIBSection could not find data
Cannot load interface builder file.
Other oddities : when you push log out -it doesn't verify (are you sure
you want to log out) - don't know if thats parts of the same problem or
not. Any clues, suggestions, HELP
dawn
PS I tired to run our most recent upgrade (hoping the upgrade would be
smart enuf to find the hole in our system and fill it in) but I can't load
the software to prep the machine to ugrade from a CD (same error messages
as above.)
From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing groups
Date: 28 Mar 1995 00:42:35 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3l7m1r$r6l@news.panix.com>
This may sound simple to some, but I would like to change my User
(clannes) to me part of group 'wheel' so that I can su to root from
the terminal. Currently, it is in the group other.
How do I do this safely? I am the only user on my computer
(standalone) with no ethernet. I just want to have permissions to
shut down certain operations and write to most files.
Thanks.
Please email if possible.
Charles.
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From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Hårseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone made a boot disk for 3.2 Intel?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 16:56:14 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <3l6jme$ifa@byleist.ifi.uio.no>
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In-reply-to: Deanox Group's message of 23 Mar 95 16:06:43 MDT
In article <1995Mar23.160644.45522@cc.usu.edu> Deanox Group <deanox@cc.usu.edu> writes:
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>jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com (James W. Cassidy) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I've tried to make a boot disk for NS 3.2 Intel using the script
>> found on orst. But it assumes a 2.88 floppy.
>>
>> Has anyone managed to create a boot floppy for NS 3.2 Intel? If so
>> could they send/post their technique.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jim.
>
>If you haven't already, check out NextAnswers Document #1561.
If you check that out it descibes how to copy the instalation-floppy
and that is NOT what we (well I anyway) want! We would simply like to
make a bootable floppy. If I could just figure out how the
Driver-floppy is supposed to look like (NS will not read the
Driver-floppy that comes with NS-3.3)???
Arne
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From: eb@marcus (Eric Bergerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with UUCP to PANIX
Date: 27 Mar 1995 15:47:51 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3l6mn7$4cc@news.panix.com>
References: <3kv4tg$jn2@news.panix.com>
Thanks to everyone for their quick responses. Special thanks to Tim
Reed, Richard Myers, and Steve Hayman.
The solution to the problem is two part. Firstly, you must include:
"" P_ZERO
in the L.sys script, before it dials, to indicate to uucico to use
zero parity on future send strings.
Secondly, the login id must be followed by "\n\c". This sends a new
line and cancels the default return sent after every send string
(solving the problem of the two returns noted in my post).
Tim sends an example as follows:
... service uucp ogin:~25-BREAK-ogin:~7-BREAK-ogin:
Uyour_uucp_login\n\c word: your_password
Thank you all again. If anyone tries to use this info and it is not
clear or doesn't work, please contact me and I will try to be of
assistance.
- Eric Bergerson
eb@panix.com
eb@marcus (Eric Bergerson) wrote:
> I have been trying to get my NeXT (NS3.2) to connect correctly
>negotiate the login for PANIX (a local NYC internet access provider).
>I have set up uucp connections for my machine before and it works
>perfectly. The problem is in writing the correct L.sys script for
>uucico to negotiate a strange login procedure at PANIX.
>PANIX requires three simple things to be sent: uucp, userid, and
>password. Each of these has a clear prompt indicating when it should
>be sent (please?, login:, password:). Writing a script for this
>should be a no brainer.
>The problem seems to be in that, unlike any other systems I have
>connected to, PANIX does not echo back any characters after the
login:
>prompt. Most systems I have seen start inhibiting echo after
>password:.
>What I experiance is an inability to get past the login: prompt.
>uucico sends my userid in response to getting "ogin:", but it appears
>to hang at that point. Same thing happens if I had a "\r" after my
>userid. When I follow the userid with "\n", I seem to get past the
>login, but then it appears that this ends up sending a second return
>to the password: prompt, resulting in a null password and a prompt
"NO
>CARRIER".
>Panix is running under SunOS 3.4.2 and I am using NS3.2 uucp. I know
>that Taylor uucp will solve this problem but I would prefer to
>continue to run with the uucp that is 'out of the box' despite the
>improvements in Taylor.
>Has anyone seen this problem? Solved it? Have any suggestions on how
>to solve it?
>I would also appreciate any feedback on whether your experiance is
>that the choice to refuse to echo back userid info is standard. If
>the bulk of you feel that this is non-standard, it will be a
>pursuasive argument to get panix to start echoing the userid.
>Thanks for your time.
>Eric Bergerson
>eb@panix.com
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: autonfsmount docs?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 17:03:31 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3l6r53$14e@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Summary: More docs for autonfsmount?
Keywords: autonfsmount, nfs
I've been trying to use autonfsmount to mount user directories
now for a couple of days without success. I have been able to
get the standard 'autonfsmount /Net -fstab' map to work, but I
can't get the special 'autonfsmount /homes -passwd' map to work.
Using the '-passwd' map is appealing because it apparently
(according to the man page) will dynamically mount home
directories while also placing them in a standard place like
/homes/user instead of /Net/server/homes/user.
When I create a user with home: /homes/server/joeblow, issue
command: 'autonfsmount -m /homes -passwd', then try to
'cd /homes/joeblow', I get an error: 'I/O error'.
Has anyone been able to get this work? Is this a bad idea?
Could someone direct me to a more comprehensive source of
documentation for autonfsmount besides the man page (the man
page talks about -passwd for a mere 1 paragraph)?
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From: lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams)
Subject: SysAdmin 3.3 Manual Info?
Message-ID: <1995Mar27.154224.14715@leo.vsla.edu>
Organization: Virginia State Library
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:42:24 GMT
Hi!
I'm looking for some information on how to order the
"NeXTSTEP Networking and System Administration Manual"
for version 3.3...does anyone have the price, the ISBN
number, and where to order it from? (Sure, I could read
it online, but where would I be if the system crashed? :) )
I just finished a class in NeXT System Administration, so
this book has suddenly become a necessity... :)
Thanks!
Lucette
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu
The Library of Virginia
Richmond, VA
From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Proxy server ala CERN for NeXT ???
Date: 28 Mar 1995 01:50:24 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3l7q10$d11@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
An office I support would like to setup a minimal cost internet access
for their collection of NeXTstations (vintage). The plan that seems to
be best (for low cost) is to have one machine with a modem that can
dial into a single IP address account at a service provider (essentially
a "personal account"). The other machines in the office would have to
telnet into the modem's machine to access terminal stuff, but OmniWeb
appears to support Proxy and Gateway assignments, so it sounds like
they could each run OmniWeb on their own machines rather than have
to sit in front of the machine with the modem.
I understand (well, I've heard) that the CERN stuff supports proxy
serving, and that "all" I'd have to do is set up a server in proxy mode
for the office on the machine with the modem. Once running, everything
should be user-transparent.
Anyone have any opinions on the fool-hardiness of all this? Sounds like
an ideal setup for a low budget office, but I'm concerned about sinking
them with my consulting time to maintain it (not to mention getting it
up, although I've spoken with someone who has done this on a network of
SPARCs, and will probably have him do the proxy server stuff).
Also, anyone know if the CERN package simply supports NeXT (we're 3.x
in the office, although I'm expecting to upgrade at least one or two
of the newer machines to 3.3 sometime soon).
Finally, is a 25 MHz '040 machine adequate for this sort of operation?
There is one color Turbo in the office, but it's presently also serving
things like mass-faxing (how much burden is a proxy server tied to a PPP
dial in?)?
Thanks-
tec
From: mccollam@Arizona.EDU (Donald E McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Have you built a tri-bootable system?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 23:03:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <3l7g76$180c@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Hi.
I have a P90 all SCSI system. (And a cube, too.)
I have NS3.3 on a 1G drive; DOS/Windows on another 1G drive (D: believe
it or not); and a third 550MB drive - the boot drive - that is 50/50 NS3.3
and DOS/Windows (C:).
I have a forth drive (550MB) which is idle most of the time (it's on my cube
which also has the standard 660MB drive).
So, two questions come to mind:
1) How can I make a tri-bootable system (with the addition of, say, OS/2)
with that idle 550 MB drive (moved to the P90).
2) Since, so much of the boot drive is empty space: how can I put the NS
swap file on the NS partion of the "boot drive" [sd0a] instead of
the "boot disk" [sdna]? (i.e. on the 50/50 550 instead of the
NS3.3 1G). Is it worth the bother?
While, I'm at it, let me ask one more question. Has anyone succeeded in
making the Windows swap file a "permanent" file on a dual boot system? I'm
told the Windows won't allow a "permanent" swapfile if it detects ANY
non-DOS partitions on ANY disk attached to the system. (???) If not, can I
put the Windows swapfile on the 50/50 550 DOS partion? Is it worth the
bother?
Thanks.
Don McCollam
snow.ccit.arizona.edu
From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FROZEN WORKSTATION! HELP!
Date: 28 Mar 1995 02:15:55 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Message-ID: <3l7rgr$9nd@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
i tried configuring my new NeXt workstation to communicate with our ethernet lan
and the spinning disk icon for 'checking system files' won't go away! what
should i do? do i need to reinstall the OS? (i've never used one of these
things before and was admittedly poking around in ignorance.)
From: trance9@clark.net (Trance 9)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Dynamic SLIP under 3.0?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 14:52:37 -0500
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3l7525$7k5@clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello All,
I've just been supplied with a slip account from my university, but the
problem is that it uses dynamic adressing only. Is there a way to get
dynamic slip running under NS 3.0. I seem to recall that PNI works with
latter system versions only. Any info would be greatly appreciated. PEace,
James
From: dover@pinot.callamer.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for UUCP software
Date: 27 Mar 1995 14:10:25 -0800
Organization: Call America, San Luis Obispo CA USA Earth Sol
Sender: dover@callamer.com
Message-ID: <3l7d4h$o2s@pinot.callamer.com>
I'm looking for software that will simplify the set-up and management of
a UUCP connection that runs on Intel NEXTSTEP. Any pointers would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
John A Kusters, jr.
Dover Pacific Computing, inc.
From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT printing WinNT stuff ???
Date: 28 Mar 1995 01:38:51 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3l7pbb$9ed@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Windows NT machines know how to talk directly to the printer spool on unix
machines, and we've got this working to the spool on our duty NeXT (which
is also the sole printer for the office).
However, we keep getting only the last page printed, and the rest seems
to disappear in a Postscript error complaint.
Any ideas on what to do about this? Is it just a matter of choosing the
right (of myriad) WinNT driver (anyone know which one, or where to get
one?)?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks-
Tim Cushing
(tec@alta.com)
From: Eric_Litman@nxstep.com (Eric A. Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOS and mult. NS partitions on ST15150N
Date: 27 Mar 1995 22:48:26 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9503280448.AA01801@nxstep.com>
I've just purchased a Seagate ST15150N 4GB drive, and would like to
have a single DOS partition and multiple NS partitions. The partitions
I would like are as follows:
1 1024MB DOS partition
1 400MB NS partition for the OS
1 148MB swap partition
1 1024MB NS partition
1 1500MB NS partition
I can easily chunk this up using mkfs, but how do I convince DOS to
use one of these? DOS's fdisk will only allow 2 partitions (as will
NS's now that I try it), so where to go from here?
Any suggestions appreciated.
</eal>
From: skwong@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: >Help with SLIP: cannot ping/ftp outside the slip server area
Date: 28 Mar 1995 04:01:14 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <3l81ma$cm0@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
I had received 2 response by email. I haven't fix the problem yet.
My nn server starts up with:
Notice: nnmaster has not updated database in 85 hours
I think it will not update for several days. In order not to waste your
effort on reponse, please forward a copy of your response post to me via
email.
Thanks in advance.
Mr.Sai-kee Wong
From: wli@linus (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: problem sending fax on black slab
Date: 27 Mar 1995 20:55:38 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <3l78oa$58q@news.ualr.edu>
I would appreciate some help on sending fax on a black
NeXTStation. I am running NeXTStep 2.1 and using USRobotics
Sportster 14.4 Fax modem. I have selected "class 2 fax
modem" from the "PrinterManager". But the modem was never
dialed by the NeXTStation. Thanks.
-wei,
From: jacobsen@arundel.cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kerberos authentification
Date: 28 Mar 1995 02:17:43 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3l7rk7$8q7@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Keywords: kerberos
Please excuse me if you see this posting twice, I'm having difficulties
with my news software.
I would like to get Kerberos authentification working on a NeXT (m68k)
machine running NS User 3.3 and NS Developer 3.2. The FAQ does not have
any suggestions and I would like to know if anyone here has done this
succesfully and if so, how? I understand that NS 3.3 is supposed to
provide support for Kerberos, but have not found it so far.
Thank you for any help.
Erik
From: a1schnyd@pws7.itr.ch (Schnyder Alois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: nfswatch for NeXT?
Date: 28 Mar 1995 06:52:49 GMT
Organization: ITR (Interkantonales Technikum Rapperswil)
Message-ID: <3l8bo1$ohc@sky.itr.ch>
Mime-Version: 2.6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Keywords: nfswatch
Hi,
I'm looking for nfswatch for NeXT. Does anybody know where to get a NeXT
version of this tool or where to get a similar one?
Thanks,
Alois Schnyder
a1schnyd@itr.ch
From: pguth@uclink.berkeley.edu (Paul Guth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting a 3.0 Cube from a floppy
Date: 28 Mar 1995 20:43:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3l9sdg$8it@agate.berkeley.edu>
Summary: Make me a boot floppy
Our '040 Cube won't boot. It hangs at the "waiting for drive to come
ready" part of the ROM boot up. I tried to boot from an old optical
disk, but that doesn't work. It just sits there forever. I think either
the optical drive or the cartridge is screwed. So I'm trying to boot
from a floppy, but we don't HAVE a boot floppy. It seems that the
default kernel the thing looks for on a floppy is fdmach. All I have is
sdmach and odmach, so I tried using sdmach and I get a panic after most
of the boot process is done. All I want to do is figure out whether or
not the hard drive in there is dead, but it's hard if I can't bring the
system up at all. Does anybody have any brilliant ideas for making a
NeXTSTEP 3.0 boot floppy? Or for figuring out why an optical disk
doesn't work? Or anything else that might help? Like ideas on why the
sd0 device hangs at "waiting for drive to come ready?" It's weird
because when I boot from the floppy (with sdmach) it probes the hard
drive and gets the model# and so forth from it, and seems to find the
drive. (The waiting for drive to come ready prints about eight periods
and then moves on). And since the floppy is SCSI, it seems the SCSI bus
is still functional. Is there a way to send a start unit command to a
hard drive in a Cube manually?
Please email this account or gunther@vivid.com with any and all suggestions.
--------------------------pguth@uclink.berkeley.edu--------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Proxy server ala CERN for NeXT ???
Message-ID: <D66D2r.FF@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3l7q10$d11@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 23:54:27 GMT
In article <3l7q10$d11@gap.cco.caltech.edu> tec@alumni.caltech.edu
(Timothy E. Cushing) writes:
> An office I support would like to setup a minimal cost internet access
> for their collection of NeXTstations (vintage). The plan that seems to
> be best (for low cost) is to have one machine with a modem that can
> dial into a single IP address account at a service provider (essentially
> a "personal account"). The other machines in the office would have to
> telnet into the modem's machine to access terminal stuff, but OmniWeb
> appears to support Proxy and Gateway assignments, so it sounds like
> they could each run OmniWeb on their own machines rather than have
> to sit in front of the machine with the modem.
>
> I understand (well, I've heard) that the CERN stuff supports proxy
> serving, and that "all" I'd have to do is set up a server in proxy mode
> for the office on the machine with the modem. Once running, everything
> should be user-transparent.
>
> Anyone have any opinions on the fool-hardiness of all this? Sounds like
> an ideal setup for a low budget office, but I'm concerned about sinking
> them with my consulting time to maintain it (not to mention getting it
> up, although I've spoken with someone who has done this on a network of
> SPARCs, and will probably have him do the proxy server stuff).
>
> Also, anyone know if the CERN package simply supports NeXT (we're 3.x
> in the office, although I'm expecting to upgrade at least one or two
> of the newer machines to 3.3 sometime soon).
>
> Finally, is a 25 MHz '040 machine adequate for this sort of operation?
> There is one color Turbo in the office, but it's presently also serving
> things like mass-faxing (how much burden is a proxy server tied to a PPP
> dial in?)?
>
> Thanks-
> tec
>
I compiled cern hhtpd on a NeTcube running NS 3.2 without any problems.
Just a 'make' away :-)
Nice Greetings from Munich - Germany
--
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KARSTADT AG Muenchen | Tel: +49-89-652818
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From: baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA Risc locks up
Date: 28 Mar 1995 21:33:28 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Message-ID: <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
I've a little more information about the lock up I'm experiencing with my HP
715/100. I get the following exception error:
Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode 1d16dc
Waiting for RDP connection...
(type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
Does anyone have an idea what this error means?
+--------------------------------+
| Don Baker |
| Technical Services Coordinator |
| IU School of Journalism |
| Tel: (812) 855-4918 |
| baker@journalism.indiana.edu |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: Help: host configuration problem
In-Reply-To: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA's message of Wed, 29 Mar 1995 02:53:05 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Mar28232940@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <MAGNAN.95Mar28215305@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 04:29:40 GMT
Please forget my last post. I was able to work it out myself.
Thanks,
Francois
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: jacobsen@arundel.cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: kerberos
Date: 28 Mar 1995 15:59:20 GMT
Organization: Division of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3l9boo$s00@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Keywords: kerberos
Please excuse me if you see this posting twice, I'm having difficulties
with my news software.
I would like to get Kerberos authentification working on a NeXT (m68k)
machine running NS User 3.3 and NS Developer 3.2. The FAQ does not have
any suggestions and I would like to know if anyone here has done this
succesfully and if so, how? I understand that NS 3.3 is supposed to
provide support for Kerberos, but have not found it yet.
Thank you for any help.
Erik
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can the NeXT (black) OS mount tape drives at times other than during reboot?
Date: 27 Mar 1995 19:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3l75ak$abi@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: SCSI, DAT
I have a DAT that I use to backup files on my system. If I have the DAT
powered up during a system reboot I am able to use it fine thereafter. However
if I have it powered down during a reboot (yet still connected by SCSI cable) I
am not able get the system to mount it. Is there a trick involved in doing so
or is the only way to mount a DAT to make sure that it is powered up during
reboot? Thanks!
Jim
--
James C. Luby
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98105
From: jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp (Jim Kieley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help me with a Sendmail problem, please
Date: 28 Mar 1995 06:42:56 GMT
Organization: Miyazaki International College, Miyazaki Japan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3l8b5g$dn2@kokusai.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp>
References: <3l4ih7$kkv@knot.queensu.ca>
In article <3l4ih7$kkv@knot.queensu.ca> harrap@geol.queensu.ca (Rob
Harrap) writes:
> Hello all:
>
> I have a problem with being able to send email from my NeXT.
>
> I had it working, for 9 months, largely because of a tip on how to set
> up my sendmail.cf file that I recieved when I initially connected to the
> network. It involved adding something about a relayer near the top of
> the file.
>
> I am NOT on a NetInfo network, but am instead trying to send via a Sun
> running SunOS. I seem to recall that I need to put the name of that
> machine on some line in sendmail.cf.
>
You probably just need to change the idenity of the major relay host
field in the appropriate sendmail.cf config file. In your case the
file may be /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf. sendmail.cf should
be a link backed to the appropriate file.
default values
DRmailhost
CRmailhost
change to
DRmachinename.domainname
CRmachinename.domainname
Note for people running netinfo: sendmail.cf is typically a link.
The actual file used as a config file is identified within netinfo.
The name may be the actual file name rather than simply sendmail.cf
This can cause problems for the unsuspecting.
Jim Kieley
Miyazaki International College
jim@roshi.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp
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From: sml001@aol.com (SML001)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help attach 3480 tape drive to NeXT Cube
Date: 28 Mar 1995 19:22:41 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
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I recently inherited a NeXT cube running 3.0 and I've attached a 3480 SCSI
tape drive (Fujitsu Model M2485B/IBM type 200 mb cartridges). Accessing
the available /dev/rst0 file (e.g. dd if=/dev/rst0) makes the drive spin
but won't result in records read. /dev/rxt0 won't cut it either. There
also doesn't seem to be any good "mknod" instructions to create my own
device files.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Stephen Libster
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From: smurp@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca (Shawn Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to enable 10baseT on a mono slab?
Date: 22 Mar 1995 20:22:36 -0700
Organization: Alberta SuperNet Inc
Message-ID: <3kqphs$i4b@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca>
Gotta problem: I had a nice little thin-net network set up, but wanted to
to convert it over to 10baseT. The other machines on the network (a Mac,
a Linux box and a DOS laptop) are all chatting together nicely, but the
old mono non-turbo slab just doesn't seem to recognize the 10baseT.
Yes! I *did* disconnect the thinnet. Symptoms: can't ping other
machines from the slab, but the slab pings itself on the ethernet address
correctly.
Is there some trick to telling the slab to use its RJ-45 rather than its
BNC connector?
Thanks
========================================================================
Shawn Murphy smurp@supernet.ab.ca
========================================================================
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From: Eric Baenen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: External SCSI tape drive recommendations?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 01:19:12 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3lacig$q14@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Keywords: external SCSI tape NS cube
I am looking for an External SCSI tape drive to use with my 040 Cube -
something probably in the 500 MB to 1 Gig range. Can anyone recommend
anything for use with NS 3.3?
Has anyone had any experiences (good or bad) using any of the following
with NS?
Brand Model Capacity
Exabyte FS1GI 750MB-1.5GB
EXB2501 750MB-1.5GB
Conner 2525NS 525MB
IBM 70G8503 650MB
Please reply to ebaenen@mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil
If there are significant replies I will post a summary.
Thank you,
Eric B
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 prerelease sparc netstat -ain bus errors SOLVED
Date: 28 Mar 1995 21:23:56 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3l9upc$om8@potogold.rmii.com>
Keywords: netstat network sparc ns3.3
I posted on 03/25/94 a request for help with a netstat -ain causing a bus
error on my sparc running 3.3 prerelease.
Monday I installed my newly arrived copy of NS3.3 for sparc, and all my
problems went away. =^) =^) My initial impression is that it runs faster
as well.
Thanks for all the help,
Chris
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From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Help: host configuration problem
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Mar28215305@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 02:53:05 GMT
I had the bad idea to start playing around with SimpleNetWorkStarter.app
and some related apps. It seems that I have messed things a little bit.
My machine is standalone (I do not use the enet port). Since my last reboot
my ppp connection doesn't work anymore. I think I know why. Now, when I
do a "netstat -rn" I get:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 228 lo0
132.204 132.204.23.66 U 4 748 en0
It seems that there is an address assigned to en0. In fact, if I do a
"ifconfig -a" I get:
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 132.204.23.66 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 132.204.255.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ppp0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
ppp1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
How can I remove this IP address for en0? Now that all trafic for 132.204
goes through en0 I cannot use the ppp interface.
Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
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From: vanfosse@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andy VanFossen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA Timeout ?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 14:09:29 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3lbpmp$jmd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <D5ztoq.DF@fritz.snafu.de>
In article <D5ztoq.DF@fritz.snafu.de>,
Ernst Kloecker <ernst@fritz.snafu.de> wrote:
>Has anybody seen this before :
<< deletia >>
>Then the message "AHA timeout" was printed and the system hung.
<< more deletia >>
Do you have a sound card in the system? If so, yank it out and try
again. I got the "AHA timeout" when there was an apparent conflict
between my SoundBlaster/16 and my 1542B. After I removed the sound
card all was well.
--
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andy+@osu.edu | std disclaimers apply | so it must be true..."
From: kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 29 Mar 1995 13:45:32 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lbo9s$jcj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1995Feb18.220958.1356@newshost.atk.com> <D5Ltqu.5oH@txnews.amd.com> <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Message-ID: <1995Mar29.153929@rzri6f.gsi.de>
Organization: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Keywords:
In article <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jwa2n@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (James W. Adams) writes:
|> After reading a plethora of messages on this thread, my feeling is that
|> to answer the floating point question: If you want a supercomputer, why
|> are you discussing workstations?
|>
|> There are different categories of computers precisely because people
|> have different requirements.
|>
|> Cray (both of them), CONVEX (my personal favorite in this class),
|> Fujitsu, NEC, Intel and a variety of others offer machines which are
|> optimized to run large, compute-intensive floating point apps.
|>
|> Workstation vendors are marketing to the desktop. Sun, in particular,
|> has chosen to aim at the business/corporate desktop. Others, such as
|> SGI, target 3-D graphics-intensive applications. All of these markets
|> overlap, but there are significant distinguishing characteristics to
|> each one. No one company answers all of them. Each company has a
|> different vision. There is no "One True Way." Computers are tools to
|> do work, not religious icons.
|>
|> That said, one point I would like to make is that very few people
|> recognize the potential of vector supercomputers as general-purpose
|> timeshared compute servers. The vector hardware can also tremendously
|> accelerate scalar iterative processes where the individual iterations
|> are independent. The memory bandwidth of these cacheless systems,
|> combined with their high-performance I/O, can support incredible numbers
|> of simultaneous users without the degradation of interactive response
|> seen with the cache-dependent parallel microprocessors found in the
|> servers marketed by workstation companies.
|>
The problems are 1. $$$$ and 2. psychology. If there are 50 users demanding
raw computer power it's more likely that they buy 50 different machines for
their own use. The general believe is that having a small computer for personal
use is better than to share a big one with others. I won't subscribe to that
opinion but that's the way life goes. It's one of the reasons for the decline
of the mainframes.
Michael.
From: blunney@gateway.bsis.com (Bob Lunney - Imonics Corporation)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hayes ISDN Adapter and Phone Kit
Date: 28 Mar 1995 22:30:19 GMT
Organization: Imonics Corporation
Sender: blunney@gateway.bsis.com (Bob Lunney - Medaphis Development)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3la2lr$19t@netprod1.gateway.bsis.com>
Where can I find a Hayes ISDN Adapter for my NeXT Turbo Station? Also, will I need PhoneKit to make it work and are these pieces compatible with NS 3.2 for Motorola? Enquiring minds want to buy...
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From: kelley@kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA Risc locks up - Raise RDP exception
Date: 29 Mar 1995 14:14:31 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <3lbq07$3ied@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
References: <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
writes:
> I've a little more information about the lock up I'm experiencing with
my HP
> 715/100. I get the following exception error:
>
> Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode 1d16dc
> Waiting for RDP connection...
> (type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
>
> Does anyone have an idea what this error means?
yes, i got this as well. not on my machine that had NeXTSTEP already
installed and is freezing, but on the 715/100 that i was attempting
to install NeXTSTEP on from cdrom.
neither NeXT tech support nor HP had any ideas to what this was. on
this machine, i took out the kingston memory, was able to install
w/o the error, and then after installation, i put the kingston back in
and have not yet had any freezing problems w/ the 715/100. it may
be because it is up between hpux and NS many times during a day.
on my STILL freezing 715/75, hp did a board replace and the thing
froze w/in 2 hrs...
where did you happen to see this error don?
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From: iscpgp@rama.ucop.edu (pat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS Mount of NeXT CD-ROM?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 15:59:24 GMT
Organization: Your Organization
Message-ID: <3lc04s$9qu@agate.berkeley.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
I'm trying to mount a CD in my NeXT attached CD-ROM as a NFS file system
on my PC using FTP Software's TCP/IP stack. I succeed in the mount, see
the CD files on my PC, but can't execute (PC returns "Can't load
application" or read any files even tho I've granted all kinds of
permissions on my NeXT.
Copying the same files to my NeXT's hard drive and mounting that as a
file system on mmy PC let's me execute and read the same files I couldn't
when accessing the CD directly.
All suggestions comments welcome.
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From: hocker@samizdat (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: BIG Problems with SLIP
Message-ID: <D65z8s.48t@samizdat>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
References: <D5z0K1.2w4@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:55:39 GMT
: Nice Greetings from Munich
: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de
: --
: Michael Maximilian Goedel | Email: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (NeXTmail,
MIME, ASCII)
: KARSTADT AG Muenchen | Tel: +49-89-652818
To add to this post, I have a setup where I will be adding a Mac through IP
to my NextStation running SLIP-920904 (Mamakos' SLIP package) and I currently
can't get it to do demand dialing at all. I use "slipup" and "slipdown" to
get the network connected from the command line, and I've tried using SLIP-
Commander (it worked, but it's faster just to open a terminal window) from
the Workspace. This is fine on a local machine, but for a network it's not
very elegant.
If I try something like "ftp ftp.cs.orst.edu", it gives me an error of
"Network down". I can get it to dial if I telnet/ftp to the system I get
the SLIP connection from, it doesn't connect properly (I suspect because it
thinks the network is down, although it doesn't give that message) to it.
At any rate, I'm wondering what could be wrong. I'll post any files
neccesary to solve this, but in the interest of bandwidth, I'm not
posting them all right now!
Are there changes to NetInfoManager that need to be done?
Thanks!
Matt
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From: mtuteja@clark.lcs.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Why does shutdown fail with: Root Unmount Failed?
Date: 30 Mar 1995 00:22:15 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3lctjn$ipf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hi, I've got an annoying problem with all of my NS3.3 Intel machines.
When I attempt to shutdown the systems--with numerous syncs--the process
eventually fails with something like this:
Continuing...
/LocalApps Unmounted.
/LocalLibrary Unmounted.
/usr/spool/mail Unmounted.
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Root Unmount Failed.
When I restart the machine, I have to sit through a fsck that I'd rather
not sit through. I don't know what the string of 5s means. (The number
is different every time.)
The machines will shutdown cleanly if I haven't mounted any disks using
the auto mounter. But alas, we use the auto mounter all the time on all
of our machines.
Two questions. Has anyone else seen this occurr on other NS machines?
And of course, any solutions or suggestions?
Thanks much,
Manish
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 09:54:20 -0500
From: Bob Kurhajetz <rk@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Message-ID: <9503291454.AA07836@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Subject: using Toshiba or NEC CD drives with Black NEXT HW?
Hello
My question is - I've got Toshiba 3401 and NEC CDR-77 CD-ROM drives and I want to use them
to do upgrades on Black NEXT HW from NS3.0 to NS3.3 - if anyone has experience with these
issues - please e-mail to me directly - I'll summarize and post that to the list --
thanks :-}
Bob Kurhajetz
USN CARDEROCKDIV NSWC
Bethesda, MD 20084-50000
From: ergo@merlin.s.bawue.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SysAdmin 3.3 Manual Info?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 20:39:18 GMT
Organization: Delos Stuttgart, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lcgi5$pqt@delos.s.bawue.de>
References: <1995Mar27.154224.14715@leo.vsla.edu>
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams) wrote:
>Hi!
>I'm looking for some information on how to order the
>"NeXTSTEP Networking and System Administration Manual"
>for version 3.3...does anyone have the price, the ISBN
>number, and where to order it from? (Sure, I could read
>it online, but where would I be if the system crashed? :) )
ISBN 0-201-63254-3
$32.95 (USA)
$42.95 (Canada)
I've bought it at the local bookstore (here in Germany ;-)).
From: rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 2 Gig SCSI bug
Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:19:51 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
According to NeXTanswers there in a bug that prevents installation
of NeXTSTEP to SCSI disks larger than 2 GBytes in NS 3.2. Does
anyone know if it matters if the disk is partitioned to less than
2 GB (per partition) or if installation works through BuildDisk?
Has this been fixed in NS 3.3?
I don't recall if NeXTanswers mentions which architectures it applies
to but I'm mainly interested in the above for NeXTSTEP for Intel.
- Robert Ling <rling@u.washington.edu>
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From: willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (Wilhelm Pitzeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get rid of DOS?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 13:43:48 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3lbo6k$aqn@news.tuwien.ac.at>
I'm running DOS/Windows on the first partition of my HD and NS486 3.3 on the second. Is there any (secure!) way to get rid of the DOS Partition and donate the space to NS without having to reinstall NS?
- Willi Pitzeier
TU Vienna, Austria
willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (NeXT/MIME/ASCII)
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From: will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 29 Mar 1995 13:58:27 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
Message-ID: <3lce53$f2g@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <D5Ltqu.5oH@txnews.amd.com> <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <3lbo9s$jcj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Taking this thread in a slightly different direction, I am interested in
putting together a Rosetta Stone of various flavors of Unix to be published
in the energy Related Unix Users Group (ERUUG) Unix Cookbook. I originally
planned to do a SunOS / Solaris / AIX version, but if there is something
out there or someone wants to throw something in about SGI, OSF/1, HP,
and whatever else I'd look at putting it all in.
What I am thinking of is just columns that say things like
_____ SunOS _______ ____Solaris____ ____ AIX_____
/etc/fstab /etc/vstab /etc/filesystems
and so on. If anyone emails me enough to go on, I will post the result.
Will
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#
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From: gerry@wright.iba.ox.ac.uk (Gerry Brush)
Subject: Beame & Whiteside nfs daemon
Message-ID: <1995Mar29.194723.4237@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 19:47:22 BST
I've compiled the Beame & Whiteside nfs daemon, bwnfsd, only to
discover that it wants entries from /etc/exports and /etc/printcap.
Has anyone modified bwnfsd to be Netinfo-aware? Thanks for any help.
--
Gerry Brush
Institute of Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford
58 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6QS, UK
<gerry.brush@bioanth.ox.ac.uk>
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Quota
Date: 30 Mar 1995 07:37:54 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3ldn4i$sid@clarknet.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Does anyone know of any quota program for NeXTStep 3.2 ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: Proxy server ala CERN for NeXT ???
Message-ID: <D67t2J.49L@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <3l7q10$d11@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:37:31 GMT
In article <3l7q10$d11@gap.cco.caltech.edu> tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E.
Cushing) writes:
[munch]
> I understand (well, I've heard) that the CERN stuff supports proxy
> serving, and that "all" I'd have to do is set up a server in proxy mode
> for the office on the machine with the modem. Once running, everything
> should be user-transparent.
>
> Anyone have any opinions on the fool-hardiness of all this? Sounds like
> an ideal setup for a low budget office, but I'm concerned about sinking
> them with my consulting time to maintain it (not to mention getting it
> up, although I've spoken with someone who has done this on a network of
> SPARCs, and will probably have him do the proxy server stuff).
It was real easy. Just follow the instructions. It works reasonably well,
though I have sometimes problems with ftp-like stuff.
Install the cern httpd somewhere. Create /usr/spool/WWW or something like it.
Create the config file and put the following line in rc.local
/usr/local/WWW/bin/httpd -r /usr/local/WWW/config/rna.conf >/dev/console 2&1
You can see where my stuff is located, you can put it anywhere, just change the
startup line too. My config is here, adapted from the example:
=================================================================
#
# Sample configuration file for cern_httpd for running it
# as a proxy server WITH caching.
#
# See:
# <http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Config/Overview.html>
#
# for more information.
#
# Written by:
# Ari Luotonen April 1994 <luotonen@dxcern.cern.ch>
#
#
# Set this to point to the directory where you unpacked this
# distribution, or wherever you want httpd to have its "home"
#
ServerRoot /usr/local/WWW/server_root
PidFile httpd-pid
Pass /* /usr/local/WWW/server_root/*
#
# Set the port for proxy to listen to
#
Port 80
#
# General setup; on some systems, like HP, nobody is defined so
# that setuid() fails; in those cases use a different user id.
#
UserId nobody
GroupId nogroup
#
# Logging; if you want logging uncomment these lines and specify
# locations for your access and error logs
#
AccessLog /usr/local/WWW/proxy-log
ErrorLog /usr/local/WWW/proxy-errors
LogFormat Common
LogTime LocalTime
#
# Proxy protections; if you want only certain domains to use
# your proxy, uncomment these lines and specify the Mask
# with hostname templates or IP number templates:
#
# Protection PROXY-PROT {
# ServerId YourProxyName
# Mask @(*.cern.ch, 128.141.*.*, *.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
# }
# Protect * PROXY-PROT
#
# Pass the URLs that this proxy is willing to forward.
#
Pass http:*
Pass ftp:*
Pass gopher:*
Pass wais:*
#
# Enable caching, specify cache root directory, and cache size
# in megabytes
#
Caching On
CacheRoot /usr/spool/WWW
CacheSize 100
#
# Specify absolute maximum for caching time
#
CacheClean * 12 months
#
# Specify the maximum time to be unused
#
CacheUnused http:* 3 months
CacheUnused ftp:* 1 month
CacheUnused gopher:* 1 month
#
# Specify default expiry times for ftp and gopher;
# NEVER specify it for HTTP, otherwise documents generated by
# scripts get cached which is usually a bad thing.
#
CacheDefaultExpiry ftp:* 2 months
CacheDefaultExpiry gopher:* 2 months
#
# Garbage collection controls; daily garbage collection at 9am;
#
Gc On
GcDailyGc 9:00
#
# Keep files around for standalone (fills cache up to maximum)
# Toggle these for standalone mode.
#
KeepExpired On
CacheExpiryCheck On
=================================================================
>
> Also, anyone know if the CERN package simply supports NeXT (we're 3.x
> in the office, although I'm expecting to upgrade at least one or two
> of the newer machines to 3.3 sometime soon).
1. It supports 3.2.
2. Look out for the 3.3 serial driver on older black hardware. It is known to
have serious problems.
>
> Finally, is a 25 MHz '040 machine adequate for this sort of operation?
> There is one color Turbo in the office, but it's presently also serving
> things like mass-faxing (how much burden is a proxy server tied to a PPP
> dial in?)?
All this is not very heavy stuff wrt computing power.
>
> Thanks-
> tec
>
Note: some sites like NeXT and Pages use an old HTTPD server that does not
support conditional get. So, caching won't work for information from that
sites. I sure wish they would move to CERN httpd 3.0
Also, I expect that several clients going through the proxy which uses a
relative slow modem link is probably not very usable.
Success,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: RARP for Packet Drivers?
Message-ID: <D67t6v.4AE@RnA.NL>
Keywords: RARP, BOOTP, Packet Drivers, PC, DOS
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:40:06 GMT
I want to run RARP on NEXTSTEP, so I can maintain a small local PC network with
TCP/IP access through packet drivers on one machine. I know, NEXTSTEP supports
BOOTP, but I don't want to boot the other machines, I just want to load the
packet drivers on already booted PC's. SO, I want RARP.
Anybody know where I can get RARP or how I can do this with BOOTP?
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.
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: BIG Problems with SLIP
Date: 30 Mar 1995 09:20:36 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ldt55$rp@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <D65z8s.48t@samizdat>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In article <D65z8s.48t@samizdat> hocker@samizdat (Matthew Hocker) writes:
}~ To add to this post, I have a setup where I will be adding a Mac
}~ through IP to my NextStation running SLIP-920904 (Mamakos' SLIP
}~ package) and I currently can't get it to do demand dialing at all.
}~ I use "slipup" and "slipdown" ...
You need BOTH a default route out the link *and*
duioctl <interface> enablecall
Both can be set in config.slip
+-+
Bruce Gingery Total System Software Cheyenne, WY USA
We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
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From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to convert Next fonts to ATM for Windows?
Date: 30 Mar 1995 10:30:07 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3le17f$1bcg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Hi folks,
just a short question:
How can I convert Nextstep Type1-Fonts to use them in a Windows-ATM
environment? Are there any tools for this conversion available?
Thanks,
Markus.
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From: ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch (E. Baranzini)
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendation for Nextstation
Message-ID: <1995Mar30.201030.793@muscat.pr.net.ch>
Sender: ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch
References: <3lc96p$f78@fnnews.fnal.gov>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 20:10:30 GMT
In article <3lc96p$f78@fnnews.fnal.gov> romero@fnal.gov writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Nextstation Turbo running system release 3.0
> I want to do backups using the standard UNIX utils
> (dump, tar ..)
>
> Will an Exabyte 8505XL work with my system ?
Yes, it will work (I have one on a NeXTstation).
> Will I need special device drivers ?
No special drivers, it will use /dev/rxt0 (and /dev/nrxt0). However, it
is difficult to change the default settings for writing tapes (mode
8500, compression ON) to other (mode 8200, compression OFF, for
instance). Reading tapes produced on other Exabyte's (8200, 8205, 8500)
is without problem (the drive adapts itself automatically).
>
> If the 8505XL won't work; what do you recommend ?
Exabyte is really good (if you clean the heads when needed :-) and for
uncritical use you can use cheap Video 8 Sony tapes (and Exabyte
Data-grade tapes for critical archiving).
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
> romero@fnal.gov
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From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to get rid of DOS?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 20:56:07 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <3lchh7$4md@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <3lbo6k$aqn@news.tuwien.ac.at>
In article <3lbo6k$aqn@news.tuwien.ac.at> willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (Wilhelm
Pitzeier) writes:
> I'm running DOS/Windows on the first partition of my HD and NS486 3.3 on the
second. Is there any (secure!) way to get rid of the DOS Partition and donate
the space to NS without having to reinstall NS?
>
Boot the system from a DOS floppy that you've copied the "fdisk" command
to. Run fdisk and get rid of the DOS partition on your hard drive.
Read the manual on fdisk first so you don't accidentally do something
drastic (like wipe out the NS partition instead).
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andrew@ellcia.demon.co.uk (andrew)
Subject: Elegant PPP Shutdown Question
Keywords: PPP, Comms
Organization: Arzana Limited
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 22:38:48 +0000
Message-ID: <D69ywo.JH@ellcia.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
I'm having a small problem getting ppp to "come-down" after it's started.
At present I have to wait until my internet provider drops the line, or I
issue a kill on the pppd demon (yuk!).
I spotted the "pppd disconnect ..." switch, but I don't think the modem
likes what I'm sending it .. basically it ignores it. So how do you shut
down ppp in an elegant fashion ?
thanks in advance
Andrew D. Forkes
From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing fonts(NS3.2black) question
Date: 31 Mar 1995 01:37:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3lfmce$lp4@agate.berkeley.edu>
I learned about NS font installation from a manual page
for an old utility called font_update_2.0. It claims that
for release 2.0 or later of NS that font info is all kept
in a single directory, *.font. Is there any reason to believe
this has changed since 2.0?
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*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
NeXTmail: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
"Life is what happens when you're making other plans."
--John Lennon
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: (3.2black)Framemaker 2.0d prob: crashes on nonstandard fonts
Date: 31 Mar 1995 01:43:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3lfmo1$ls6@agate.berkeley.edu>
--
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
NeXTmail: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
"Life is what happens when you're making other plans."
--John Lennon
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: (3.2black)Framemaker 2.0d prob: crashes with nonstandard fonts
Date: 31 Mar 1995 01:44:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3lfmpb$ls6@agate.berkeley.edu>
Whenever I try to switch from the standard 5 fonts in Frame-
Maker to ones I just installed (albeit without manual pages)
FrameMaker crashes neatly.
Has anyone ever encountered this problem? Is there a FAQ on
font installation somewhere? My fonts work in Create and Write-
Now just fine and will print. They're in a standard directory.
--
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
NeXTmail: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
"Life is what happens when you're making other plans."
--John Lennon
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
From: pehowland@taz.dra.hmg.gb (Paul E. Howland)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 30 Mar 1995 12:19:04 GMT
Organization: Defence Research Agency
Message-ID: <3le7jo$o6g@trog.dra.hmg.gb>
References: <1995Feb27.013016.5711@relay.acadiau.ca> <danpop.795727549@rscernix> <D5rEKB.969@news.cern.ch> <3kncbi$ppc@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> <3koraj$3ti@info.epfl.ch>
In article <3koraj$3ti@info.epfl.ch>, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@di.epfl.ch> writes:
>In article <3kncbi$ppc@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk>,
>Thomas Sippel - Dau <vulture@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>] Sunos 4.1.3 6440656 Jul 11 1994 mathexe
>] OSF1 V2.0 25026560 Jun 3 1994 mathexe
>] AIX 3.2 6583062 Jun 1 1994 mathexe
>] IRIX 5.3 7249984 Nov 15 11:09 mathexe
>
>Mmmhh, almost 4 times the size, that *really* weird. Are you quite sure the
>OSF/1 version was "native" and dynamically linked ? I have the impression that
>it's a binary-compiled version of the Ultrix executable.
On my DEC3000/400 OSF/1 V3.2, Mathematixa V2.2.4, mathexe is only 14009480
bytes in size...
Paul.
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NeXTstep Developer CD fat?
Date: 31 Mar 1995 08:38:18 GMT
Organization: WHU Koblenz
Message-ID: <3lgf1q$qba@obelix.WHU-Koblenz.de>
Hi,
does anybody know, if the NeXTstep developer CD ist fat like the 3.2
(NeXT/Intel) or are there multiple CDs?
Please answer per email, as my incoming news-connection is a bit weird. I
will give a summary here.
Thank you in advance,
Wolfgang
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From: wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DAT dump/restore problem
Date: 31 Mar 1995 13:16:05 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3lgval$obv@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3lf3nq$ou1@dewey.csun.edu>
Ed Skochinski (ac11111m@huey.csun.edu) wrote:
> I have an APS Python DAT hooked up to an '040 slab. I can run dump
> apparently without errors:
> #dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/sd0a
> but I am unable to view the contents of the tape via
> #restore tf /dev/rst0
> Tape/disk read error: I/O error
Get mtset from the scsitools suite (ftp.cs.orst.edu,
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) and perform a 'mtset -i' before the
restore command. restore will ignore illegal length reports due to
variable block size mode then and read your data.
--
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work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
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From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: HPPA Risc locks up - Raise RDP exception
Message-ID: <1995Mar30.115322.8829@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <3lbq07$3ied@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:53:22 GMT
In article <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, you wrote:
>I've a little more information about the lock up I'm experiencing
with my HP
>715/100. I get the following exception error:
>Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode 1d16dc
>Waiting for RDP connection...
>(type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
>Does anyone have an idea what this error means?
>+--------------------------------+
>| Don Baker |
>| Technical Services Coordinator |
>| IU School of Journalism |
>| Tel: (812) 855-4918 |
>| baker@journalism.indiana.edu |
What the SCSI address of your boot disk (address 6 is prefered)?
Have you set the default boot path from th HP boot monitor to reflect
the address of your boot disk?
Hope this helps
Fabien
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From: romero@fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tape drive recommendation for Nextstation
Date: 29 Mar 1995 18:34:01 GMT
Organization: FNAL
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lc96p$f78@fnnews.fnal.gov>
Hello,
I have a Nextstation Turbo running system release 3.0
I want to do backups using the standard UNIX utils
(dump, tar ..)
Will an Exabyte 8505XL work with my system ?
Will I need special device drivers ?
If the 8505XL won't work; what do you recommend ?
Thanks
Andy
romero@fnal.gov
From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing groups
Date: 1 Apr 1995 07:47:05 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3lj0dp$2s7@news.panix.com>
References: <3l7m1r$r6l@news.panix.com>
Thanks to all that helped. I got it changed.
For those interested:
As root, use UserManager.app in /NextAdmin and open your user.
Then click on the pull down menu and select 'groups'
Click on the arrow and select which group you want to be a part of
and click on 'add'. Then save.
That's it.
Charles.
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From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wrong 'From' field in Mail
Date: 1 Apr 1995 07:50:07 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3lj0jf$2t1@news.panix.com>
To All,
I had my Mail configured properly to say From: Charles de Montebello
<clannes@panix.com> but now it only says: Charles de Montebello <clannes>.
All I have changed is: adding the group 'wheel' to that user and changing
the name of that user from c_de_m to clannes. Could that be the problem.
Maybe I didn't change the name properly....
Any help would be appreciated.
Charles.
From: jbaugher@amadeus.glenqcy.glenayre.com (Jason Baugher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: KSH for Next m68 and Intl
Date: 1 Apr 1995 08:49:34 GMT
Organization: Glenayre Electronics
Message-ID: <3lj42u$3b2@babylon5.glenqcy.glenayre.com>
I am trying to find ksh to compile on NextStep 3.2 on Intel and Motorola.
So far, the only thing I have found is pdksh5.1.0, which compiles ok.
The problem is that when I use it as my shell, it seems to cause problems
with things that want to write to stdout.
ex. more .profile
[1] stopped (tty output) more .profile
su seems to do the same thing, as well as starting a new shell with
csh.
If I knew what was wrong with this, I could use it. Otherwise, I need
to find different source.
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From: aalto@nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto)
Subject: Re: Gremlins? Mysterious problems with NeXT (black hardware)
Message-ID: <1995Mar30.041448.25238@nmt.edu>
Organization: New Mexico Tech
References: <3k2bkn$q7h@gagme.wwa.com> <3k2g3o$1nh@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 04:14:48 GMT
Gary K. Jacobs (gkj@jacobs) wrote:
: I had a similiar experience. I returned to my office after a couple of
: hours and my monitor appeared to be dead. The disk drive was running
: so I knew the system had not been turned off. I could not go into
: single user mode since I had no screen either. I had to unplug the
: system (scary!); no other shutdown commands worked. Upon powering up,
: all was fine and has been for a about a week.
: First time I ever had such an event. I upgraded to 3.3 about 3 months
: ago.
: gary
I had a similar thing happen to me yesterday, except that my mouse cursor
still displayed! I had a totally black screen, with only a mouse cursor showing.
I logged in from another machine and rebooted, and everything was fine.
I was suspicious of backspace, which i had just installed. (I'm running NS 3.0
on black hardware) Has anyone has this happen? what caused it?
Eugene Aalto
aalto@nmt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: company network now availlable problem
Message-ID: <D6BuwC.n00@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 23:07:23 GMT
Hi all,
I got some good news and bad today. Good news is my
company has a new T1 connection to the net. Bad news, my NeXT
'040 cube isn't connecting to the net via the TI (only get out
over uucp via my modem)
I changed the resolv.conf to add the company nameserver,
and can nslookup names and ip's. When I ping an outside the
company address I either get host not found or unknown host
(something like that). When I use the ip address the error for
ping changes to 'network down'.
Ok someone must have a next setup within a company
network of non-next machines. What should I check next or look
for so I can get this NeXT box on the fast line?
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: NEW SURVEY + RESULT prev: NS 3.3 stability/serial ports/Taylor UUCP (Long)
Message-ID: <D69pBo.63E@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 19:11:48 GMT
A couple of months ago, I started a survey trying to find out if NS 3.3 was
stable or not wrt the serial driver.
After the initial flood of answers I mailed many people back, trying to get
specifics about their setup, trying to find the characteristics about what made
machines prone to the problem. I haven't had any succes in really finding it,
but I have some clues. I'll add the survey results to the end of this message.
The clues are:
Most people do not experience problems (very large majority)
It happens to 25MHz 040 machines
They run Taylor UUCP directly on the serial port (not over tcp/ip)
They are older machines maybe (system type 0x2, board revision 0x0)
So I am now doing a second more narrow survey:
The new survey is only for people running NS 3.3 on black hardware, or people
who have run NS 3.3 on black hardware.
1. I would like all people who DID have problems with their machine (freezes
and panics) and who suspect their serial drivers to be the culprit to mail me.
What I want to know from them is:
What software do you use on your serial port?
2. I would like all people who use Taylor UUCP on black hardware at high speeds
(>=19k2) directly to the serial port to mail me. My qeustions:
Are you experiencing/have you experienced panics/freezes?
BOTH CATEGORIES: I need to have the output of the 'hostinfo' command on the
system that you are reporting about. And give me the machine type (i.e. 25MHz
040 mono slab, 33MHz 040 color slab, etc)
I want to make a list of system types, board revisions and yes/no problems that
could bring us further in this issue.
People who participated in the previous survey and are friendly asked to
resubnit if they fall in one or both categories above. Also: this tine I will
not be mailing everyone, that takes too much of my time. So incomplete entries
are not taken into account.
Thanks in advance,
---
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.
Coordinator NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Groups International
Here are the results of the previous query.
==============================================================
Problems galore. Solved by setting ResetDelay from NXFax to 10secs. Uses
ordinary UUCP now.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 85 tasks, 129 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 4.41, Mach factor: 0.18
==============================================================
Your system does a lot of stuff, but does it also use the serial driver much?
Yes. All mail and news come via (the NeXT-supplied version 2) uucp.
Also a the mix fax-Gateway from i*link is running on this host.
-> And if so (and you evidently don;t have the serial driver problem)
could you send me the output of the hostinfo command for my survey?
Sure:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 28.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 64 tasks, 128 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.72, Mach factor: 0.51
root@%m:%c3[%h]>
==============================================================
"Rock solid".
Crashes after using a demo of SBook to dial out (so when using SBook
regularly "Very unstable"
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
I use UUCP, PNI 1.12 SLIP, NXFax and TipTop for communication purposes. None
of them have given me any problems. They are all using /dev/cufa. I don't use
Taylor UUCP.
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: 3
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 64 tasks, 97 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.07, Mach factor: 0.97
==============================================================
"Rock solid"
Turbo station color
==============================================================
> x pretty stable
My machine has 32 MBs of RAM, an internal 400 MB and extern 1G drive
and I'm using taylor-uucp 1.04 as well as ppp2.1.2 (both programs were
_not_ active when the machine crashed).
harka> hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 3
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 51 tasks, 84 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 1.70, Mach factor: 0.65
I'll give you all the details:
When I use my machine, I always do 1 - 3 uucp-connections (taylor-uucp 1.04).
Sometimes I also bring up a ppp-2.1.2 connection. Both of them are on /dev/cufa
(therefore with rts/cts).
The panics happened after starting to power down my machine (I usually type
'power' in the login-panel). The panel disapeared, there was some (not much)
disk activity, everything as normal. But then, the machine didn't power down,
it kept doing nothing for a bit longer then normal (if I remember correctly,
this was about 10-20 sec). Then suddenly a panic-window appeared, but it was
immediately replaced with the boot-window, so I haven't seen what was written
in the window (if anything at all). I didn't find anything in
/usr/adm/messages.
This behaviour happened 2 times some weeks ago, but it hasn't happened again
since then. I didn't make any major changes on my system, I'm still running
taylor-uucp 1.04 and ppp-2.1.2, which am using in the same way as before the
two crashes.
=================
I thought you would be interested in this. The following sequence of commands
lets my system panic:
online (shell 1)
CTRL-] ! (same shell)
ot (in another shell-window, could possibly be the same)
fg %1 (shell 1)
Some explanations:
online is an alias for "kermit -l /dev/cua"
my ~/.kermrc looks like this:
set line /dev/cufa
set speed 19200
define ot -
!/usr/local/bin/term < \v(line) > \v(line)
connect
So after the 'online' command I'm directly connected to the modem. With 'CTRL-]
!' I escape to a shell.
Then I try to 'ot' in another shell. 'ot' stands for 'open term' and is an
alias for 'term > /dev/cua < /dev/cua'. I'm using term 1.12. This gives an
error-msg in the first shell, something like:
I/O error
operaton would block
[1] + Suspended (tty input) ....
and the shell prompt appears. When I then try to return to kermit with 'fg %1',
the system most often panics (yesterday once, today 2 times out of 3 tries (in
one test it did not panic, but when I repeated the whole sequence, it did)).
Some excerpts from /usr/adm/messages:
Feb 26 04:21:07 harka mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
Feb 26 04:21:08 harka syslogd: going down on signal 15
Feb 26 04:27:33 harka mach: Killing all processes
Feb 26 04:27:33 harka mach: continuing
Feb 26 04:27:33 harka mach: unmounting /internal ... done
Feb 26 04:27:33 harka mach: Root unmount FAILED
Feb 26 04:27:33 harka mach: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 rebooting
Mach...
Feb 26 13:24:17 harka mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
[rest is the same as above]
Feb 26 13:33:49 harka mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
In the panic-Window I remember to have seen something like '... during table
walk...'.
==============================================================
> rock solid
Arg. Well, to my previous message, add the information that the
machine with NS-3.3 on it does *nothing* via the serial port. It
is ethernet connected (thinnet), and the only SCSI device on it is
a CD-ROM drive. Absolutely no activity goes on the serial ports.
==============================================================
At home I have 3.3 on a 25MHz slab. One serial port doing TranSys
dialupIP and the other has a DeskJet 500 (ick).
At work I have 3.3 on a 33MHz slab. Both serial ports running TranSys
dialupIP, and a couple extra drives hanging off the scsii.
For 2 weeks, 24 hours a day, I have not had a single problem (that I
would attribute to 3.3...). I'd say its "rock solid".
My DBKit stuff and DO stuff , perl and web stuff recompiles/works just
fine.
==============================================================
Rock solid.... but I have had two unexplained crashed in the last week. I'm
running NS3.3 with NS3.3DevPR1, tayloruucp 1.04 every 10 minutes, transsys pni
1.11.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 3
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 75 tasks, 115 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.63, Mach factor: 0.79
==============================================================
ROCK solid.
Hardware: NeXTstation mono 25Mhz, 400dpi printer, 8MB RAM, 500 MB HD.
No network
Supra 14.4 Modem on serial A, using SLIP-920904 package.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 8.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 43 tasks, 73 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.09, Mach factor: 0.94
==============================================================
running daydream half the time as well
turbo color station 16mb
no serial activity
==============================================================
My NS 3.3/m68k system is:
pretty stable
Remarks:
I have an '040 cube, 16MB RAM, ~340MB external SCSI, NeXT CD-ROM, internal
optical and 2.88 floppy.
no serial activity
hostinfo:
anthracite> hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 16.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 36 tasks, 67 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.33, Mach factor: 0.88
==============================================================
rock solid
The 040/25 Cube....newly built 3.3 boot device, NOT upgraded, I used BuildDisk
on the 3.3 CD.
*This is connected to an Ethernet which actually is a switched 10mb 10Base-T
segment.
*The unit has 64mb of RAM.
*Internally I boot off a Fujitsu 2634 SCSI drive (405mb) and also have a
Quantum 1.08gb drive inside.
*There is a PLI Super Floppy on the SCSI bus.
*A Telebit WorldBlazer modem on serial port A.
*An Abaton/HSD FAX-modem on serial port B.
The modem is lightly used, the FAX is used several times a day.
==============================================================
rock solid
NXFax 1.04.1 ( ZyXEL 1496 E+ on port b )
Taylor 1.04
Dialup IP v 920904
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x1
Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 58 tasks, 93 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.13, Mach factor: 0.96
==============================================================
My systems have been rock solid
My black setup is vanilla slab; external 1G drive, CD300, Tecmar tape, NeXT
printer; 32Mb memory; B&W. Only mucking with "np_off" gets me into
unrecoverable trouble. (I also use dialupIP from Louis)
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x1
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 58 tasks, 97 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.97, Mach factor: 0.03
==============================================================
rock solid
P.S.: Only client TurboColor upgraded, server still runs NS 3.2!
Rene' Kulschewski <rene@prz.tu-berlin.de>
rock solid
I have running a 25 MHz MonoStation at home and a 25 MHz ColorStation at work.
At home i have no ethernet, all 'networking' is done via modem/PPP. At work we
heave much traffic on our net, including mbone and so on.
> Could you tell me what serial software runs on the 3.3 system.
>
None, everything on my server where I run NXFax 1.03 and Taylor UUCP 1.3
> And could you send me the output of the hostinfo command?
>
otherone> hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 5
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 48 tasks, 79 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.07, Mach factor: 0.95
==============================================================
Rock solid. The only problem I've had is that I had to reinstall NXFax.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 16.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 47 tasks, 91 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 1.78, Mach factor: 0.24
==============================================================
Well, I won't hesitate to designate my non-turbo colorslab running
NS3.3 as "rock solid". No problemos yet.
>What SCSI-devices?
-> The internal 105 Mb disk (only used for swap/tmp),
1 external HP C2247 1Gig/3.5" disk,
the occasional CD-ROM drive
>What activity on the serial port?
-> A Zyxel U-1496E modem
>Any network attached?
-> Nope
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 3
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 50 tasks, 88 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 3.04, Mach factor: 0.50
==============================================================
My system is Rock Solid. 3.3 has not even crashed once.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 63 tasks, 104 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.06, Mach factor: 0.98
I have an additional SCSI disk and a CDROM on the SCSI bus. I use serial port
A for a SLIP connection over modem running at 19200.
==============================================================
"Rock solid"
Doesn't use any communication program
==============================================================
"Rock solid"
Taylor UUCP 1.04 (I think, maybe 1.05) and PPP2.?? (2.1.4?)
Other than the occasional stalled serial port it's fine.
==============================================================
rock solid.
No troubles! Have had the machine maybe 4 years now, upgraded from
NSv1.1 all the way up to 3.3, changed hardware configuration, it
just works! 040 cube, 16/1GB, NeXTPrinter, ZyXEL modem, NeXT CD ROM.
I use regularly Frame, Diagram, Virtuoso, Dataphile, Stuart, SLIP,
OmniWeb, etc without problem.
TransSys SLIP 920904 at highest baud rate (38.4, I beleive) through
a ZyXEL U1496E.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 16.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 55 tasks, 90 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.64, Mach factor: 0.86
==============================================================
Serial activity? heheh I run PPP virtually all the time. Yea, I definitly have
a ton of that
going on, no question about it. Probably close to 24/7 time wise. The load of
course
varies, but it's allways there.
This is with light serial activity:
vampire:40> ping fusion
PING fusion: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=0. time=508. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=1. time=274. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=2. time=274. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=3. time=268. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=4. time=284. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=5. time=290. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=6. time=281. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=7. time=312. ms
64 bytes from 129.174.124.24: icmp_seq=8. time=216. ms
^C
----fusion PING Statistics----
9 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 216/300/508
And this is my hostinfo taken during the "ping" & while on IRC, with 10 active
App's, & a MUD running in the background (Note, the mud's only got a few users
on it at this point, I checked):
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x1
Primary memory available: 20.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 63 tasks, 107 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.54, Mach factor: 0.87
Here's output from df:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 1442278 1191919 106131 92% /
/dev/sd1a 98907 21593 72368 23% /private/swapdisk
/private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile
98907 21593 72368 23%
/private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile.front
/dev/sd2a 661156 551836 43204 93% /Blood
==============================================================
Rock solid.
NeXTstation turbo b/w
2GB baracuda at id 1
Toshiba 3401 CDROM at id 2
No serial port connection
(although we do have a turbo color with a Zyxel running fax software
and its rock solid too)
twisted pair network
==============================================================
Pretty stable.
Sure. I get occasional panics during serial port activity which I didn't get
before, however otherwise I've had no problems and my desktop systems have
stayed up. The systems that panic are going to be replaced by a Sun with lots
of serial ports - incredible as it seems, Solaris is now a much more stable
operating system than NEXTSTEP is. Other than that, the systems work, which is
why I say that they're pretty stable.
karubi:treed (treed): hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 33 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 5
Board revision: 0xf
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 57 tasks, 94 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.00, Mach factor: 0.99
==============================================================
--> rock solid
It is just a home machine with 4 users.
Taylor UUCP 1.05 running (calls every hour, 24 hours/day)
TipTop and term running sometimes so I can use Omniweb
and NCFTP.
It was really unstable (the windowserver) after I just used
Upgrade.app to go from 3.2 to 3.3. As soon as you gave the
windowserver alot to do(played Xox or scrolled a window fast) it
would start to lurch (everything got real jumpy) and act up. A
couple of times it wouldn't even let me log on, until I typed exit
first.... But a full install fixed that right up.
It is a color turbo too, so only a single internal floppy drive....
The only external device is another harddrive.
==============================================================
I've only had it installed on our network for a few days, so I can hardly
say I have had much time for problems to appear. So far, however, it
seems 'rock solid'.
The system I use here is a SL/IP machine (cufb @ 38400) that also does UUCP
(cufa @ 38400) duty on the other serial port. It is also the mailhost, but the
mail spool is NFS mounted from another machine.
Here is hostinfo:
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 20.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 57 tasks, 95 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.85, Mach factor: 0.65
==============================================================
pretty stable
1 Panic in 2 weeks.
I do not use the serial port at the moment.
NeXT CD-ROM
3 Internal disks (400 Mb, 250 Mb, 1 GB)
The Panic was caused when I inserted a Mac floppy however the system managed
to sync the disks so no harm was done., I have not been able to recreate the
problem.
I have also experienced 2 or 3 Workspace manager errors during this time.
==============================================================
My NS 3.3/m68k system is rock solid
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 3
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 42 tasks, 74 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 2.21, Mach factor: 0.21
==============================================================
My NS 3.3/m68k system is:
rock solid
Q1. Is your system engaged in any serial port activity?
A1. Only XyXel modem
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 24.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 37 tasks, 70 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.80, Mach factor: 0.83
next 52%
==============================================================
pretty stable
All problems (kernel panics) I had seem to have to do with the serial port.
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.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: 1
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 20.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 48 tasks, 81 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.17, Mach factor: 0.92
--
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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: shepherd@pathfinder (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ever seen this??
Date: 30 Mar 1995 16:51:27 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <3lenif$a2q@news.onramp.net>
I've got two different sets of messages that have started appearing
in my servers /usr/adm/messages file. I haven't made any changes to
this machine in months but these messages and occasional lockups
started occurring a couple weeks ago. Here they are...
Mar 30 01:22:02 bilbo mach: 275484416 no more space to queue packets. Dropping packet.
Mar 30 01:22:33 bilbo mach: 275869696 no more space to queue packets. Dropping packet.
Mar 30 01:23:03 bilbo mach: 275681408 no more space to queue packets. Dropping packet.
Mar 30 01:23:18 bilbo mach: 275734784 no more space to queue packets. Dropping packet.
Mar 30 01:23:48 bilbo mach: 275869696 no more space to queue packets. Dropping packet.
Mar 30 01:24:18 bilbo mach: 275510912 no more space to queue packets. Dropping packet.
I just noticed the pattern or recurrence roughly every half hour. Don't know if that means anything... Heres the other scary message. I left this one in context because this is the first time I noticed it immediately after a reboot...
Mar 30 10:01:21 bilbo reboot: Reboot complete
Mar 30 10:01:35 bilbo mach: audio kernel server initialized
Mar 30 10:01:41 bilbo mach: enrx: no network buffers <<<<<============
Mar 30 10:01:43 bilbo last message repeated 4 times
This message frequently repeats and the machine hangs, but it didn't this time.
Any ideas as to what this is or how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.
Scot
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From: baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA risc lockup - followup
Date: 30 Mar 1995 16:59:35 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Message-ID: <3leo1n$93a@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Fabien wrote:
> What the SCSI address of your boot disk (address 6 is prefered)?
> Have you set the default boot path from th HP boot monitor to reflect
> the address of your boot disk?
>
My primary boot device is set to scsi.6.0.
I removed the following directories from netinfo:
service->remotefs
protocols->rdp
I rebooted the system and I am still getting the same exception error:
Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode 1d16dc
Waiting for RDP connection....
I did notice a new symptom this morning. The system locked up with the above
error, I rebooted and went to the john. On my return the machined had finished
its check disk and had rebooted. Because I was not around to press the return
key with in the first 5 seconds of the NEXTSTEP boot the machine continued the
boot automatically. This is the first time it has ever happened and so far the
only time. However it locked up during the boot with an RDP exception error.
Raise RDP exception 6 code 1 subcode 18d968
Waiting for RDP connection
This time I was not able to press 'r' to reboot or 'c' to continue. I had to
do a power cord reset.
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From: precipi!neekibo (Hugues RICHARD)
Subject: Re: How to convert Next fonts to ATM for Windows?
Message-ID: <1995Mar31.221604.4062@precipice.fdn.fr>
Sender: neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - Dijon, France.
References: <3le17f$1bcg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 22:16:04 GMT
In article <3le17f$1bcg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> just a short question:
>
> How can I convert Nextstep Type1-Fonts to use them in a Windows-ATM
> environment? Are there any tools for this conversion available?
You need to convert the file to a binary type and it should work.
For that you have to reverse the pfb2ps or unfont utility that is
available on all good NeXTish ftp servers...
You may just have a problem : ATM may need some PFM files (not sure
but...)
Hugues.
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From: Mark G. Tacchi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone made a boot disk for 3.2 Intel?
Date: 30 Mar 1995 17:32:24 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lepv8$gqr@news.next.com>
References: <1995Mar23.160644.45522@cc.usu.edu>
In article <1995Mar23.160644.45522@cc.usu.edu> writes:
# jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com (James W. Cassidy) wrote:
# >
# >
# > I've tried to make a boot disk for NS 3.2 Intel using the script
# > found on orst. But it assumes a 2.88 floppy.
# >
# > Has anyone managed to create a boot floppy for NS 3.2 Intel? If so
# > could they send/post their technique.
# >
# > Regards,
# > Jim.
#
# If you haven't already, check out NextAnswers Document #1561.
#
# Regards,
# Kimball
And while you are there, look at 1884_3.2_Boot_Floppy_Image_README. But note
that you won't be able to boot off only the floppy. You'll need the help of
the CD-ROM.
-=Mark
From: dwright@omni.voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 Gig SCSI bug
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 13:54:16 LOCAL
Organization: D & G Micro
Distribution: usa
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References: <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
In article <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu> rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling) writes:
>From: rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling)>Subject: 2 Gig SCSI bug
>Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:19:51 GMT
>According to NeXTanswers there in a bug that prevents installation
>of NeXTSTEP to SCSI disks larger than 2 GBytes in NS 3.2. Does
>anyone know if it matters if the disk is partitioned to less than
>2 GB (per partition) or if installation works through BuildDisk?
>Has this been fixed in NS 3.3?
>I don't recall if NeXTanswers mentions which architectures it applies
>to but I'm mainly interested in the above for NeXTSTEP for Intel.
>- Robert Ling <rling@u.washington.edu>
Before you even attempt this install let me tell you my ordeal of the last 4
months:
In November of 1994, I started a school project on a 2GB DEC drive, and
decided to use NeXTstep as an OS. After talking with NeXT and making sure
that the hardware would work, we bought NS 3.2. Well, needless to say, the
install did NOT work, in fact, the DEC drive wasn't recognized at all. So we
bought a Seagate drive, and that had problems too. After 4 months of talking
to tech support, the finally said Nope, sorry cannot do. (We wanted 1.5 GB
for NeXT and 500Mb for DOS). They said that the 3.3 upgrade would fix it, but
that it would be another $200 to upgrade.
I have filed a formal complaint with the BBB, because this whole mess should
have been taked care of. $200 for a student is alot of cash, but for them,
they should have satisifed the customer.
I'd like to know if anyone else had any bad experiences...
like: ever tried to get a boot disk, when the original goes bad?
I am not impressed at all at the level of professionalism that NeXT has
shown....no wonder why they have failed miserably....
(Go figure...I'm, the owner of a full NeXTDimension system....will I ever
learn???)
-Darren
From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextDeveloper demos
Date: 1 Apr 1995 23:06:44 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3lkma5$4df@news.panix.com>
To All,
Idiotically, I deleted some of the demos that I thought I didn't like and
now I want to get them back. I can't seem to. When I reinstall the
DeveloperTools.pkg they don't reappear...
Then I de-installed the tools and reinstalled them and that didn't work
either. Do I need to de-install all parts of NextDeveloper for this to
work and, if so, will this screw with my other Apps?
All that comes back from the tools .pkg are two demos: Appinspector and
DDMModeler.
Any ideas?
Thanks. Charles.
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From: jason@jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson)
Subject: identd?
Message-ID: <D6B7Mn.3vK@jlc.net>
Organization: John Leslie Consulting
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 14:44:46 GMT
I've been looking for identd, and archie has been no help. Does anybody know
where there might exist such a thing for NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Jason T. Nelson jason@jlc.net
http://www.jlc.net/Local/Jason.html NeXT/MIME mail ok!
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: OS/2 & NSI on same SCSI HD?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD6E0HK.2G2@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 03:03:19 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom8.netcom.com
Hi,
I realize that there was a long thread concerning this topic a while back,
but I didn't follow it then because I wasn't OS/2 bound at the time.
Can someone summarize what was said before?
or
I have NSI and MS-DOG/Windoze installed on the same SCSI HD. Right now,
at boot time the NeXT boot manager asks me which OS I would like to
boot. If I install OS/2 is it smart enough not to blow away my NeXT
partition? Can the NeXT boot manager boot OS/2? Can the OS/2 boot
manager boot NSI? Which boot manager is better? (I have heard that
the OS/2 boot manager is very good).
Any info appreciated.
Thanks.
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: identd?
Date: 2 Apr 1995 03:21:58 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ll58m$apa@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <D6B7Mn.3vK@jlc.net>
jason@jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson) writes:
> I've been looking for identd, and archie has been no help. Does
> anybody know where there might exist such a thing for NEXTSTEP
> 3.2?
Try picking up:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/pidentd-2.1.README
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/pidentd-2.1.tar.Z
I *believe* are the files that will get you ident capability.
I seem to remember some kind of difficulty with these, which I
may have solved by poking around in an earlier release that
was called nident. Right now I only see nident available at:
ftp://sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/2.0/source/nidentd2.0.tar.Z
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From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: Elegant PPP Shutdown Question
In-Reply-To: andrew@ellcia.demon.co.uk's message of Thu, 30 Mar 1995 22:38:48 +0000
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Mar31114403@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <D69ywo.JH@ellcia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 16:44:03 GMT
>>>>> "andrew" == andrew <andrew@ellcia.demon.co.uk> writes:
andrew> I'm having a small problem getting ppp to "come-down"
andrew> after it's started. At present I have to wait until my
andrew> internet provider drops the line, or I issue a kill on the
andrew> pppd demon (yuk!).
andrew> I spotted the "pppd disconnect ..." switch, but I don't
andrew> think the modem likes what I'm sending it .. basically it
andrew> ignores it. So how do you shut down ppp in an elegant
andrew> fashion ?
andrew> thanks in advance Andrew D. Forkes
Here is the way it should be done. Have a script (I call it pppdown) that
contains only the lines:
#!/bin/sh -f
kill -INT `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`
The -INT option will do a clean interruption of the program. The script in
/etc/ppp/ip-down will be executed if you have one. Heres mine:
#!/bin/sh
# -*- Fundamental -*-
#
# args: interface-name tty-device speed local-IP remote-IP
PATH=/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
#
# Stop Pop Client. It currently doesn't behave well
# when it can't contact the server.
#
if [ $2 = /dev/cufa ]; then
kill `ps -ax | egrep "PopOver" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/`
fi
#
# Change le sendmail pour qu'il mette les messages en attente
#
cp /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf.down /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf
the last line replaces the sendmail.cf file for a modified sendmail.cf file
that queues the outgoing mail while ppp link is down. Hope it helps,
Francois
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From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 Gig SCSI bug
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 2 Apr 1995 14:28:46 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3lmcau$n34@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <dwright.9.04CDB190@omni.voicenet.com>
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Darren Wright (dwright@omni.voicenet.com) wrote:
: In article <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu> rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling) writes:
: >From: rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling)
: >Subject: 2 Gig SCSI bug
: >Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:19:51 GMT
: Before you even attempt this install let me tell you my ordeal of the last 4
: months:
[...story of not being able to install NS3.2 on a 2GB disk deleted...]
I can't believe this is true. I haven't done any install on a drive >= 2GB,
but I'm administering an Intel machine having a 1 GB disk as a boot device
and three additional 2 GB disks. It should be possible to partition the
drive in a way that enables you to do what you want.
Please tell me your system configuration (which drive/adapter do you use).
Axel
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From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Changing the mouse pointer color.
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 2 Apr 1995 14:38:26 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3lmct2$n66@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3lfq36$r0t@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
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Pred Bundalo (pred@eecs.nwu.edu) wrote:
: When using NS in color, especially with darker shades, on a high-res
: monitor, the mouse pointer becomes hard to find.
: I want to change the mouse pointer color to, say, bright red, and
: I searched for the right tiff image but couldn't find it, although
: I did find the images for the copy, link, etc mouse pointers.
Maybe this could point you into the right direction.
Pipe it to pft and see what happens....
------------- cut here --------
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 16 16
%%EndComments
0 0 16 16 Retained window
dup windowdeviceround
gsave
16 16 scale
16 16 4
[16 0 0 -16 0 16]
{<
ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
ffff0d0fffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
ffff0d0f0d0fffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
ffff0d0ffd0f0d0fffff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
fffffd0ffd0ffd0ffd0fffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
fffffd0ff50ff50ff50ffd0fffff000000000000000000000000000000000000
fffff50ff50ff50ff50ff50ff50fffff00000000000000000000000000000000
fffff50fd00fd00fd00fd00fd00f908fffff0000000000000000000000000000
ffffd00fd00fd00fd00fd00fd00f908f908fffff000000000000000000000000
ffffd00fd00fd00f908f908fffffffffffffffffffff00000000000000000000
ffff908f908fffff00ff00ffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000
ffff908fffff0000ffff00ff00ffffff00000000000000000000000000000000
ffffffff00000000ffff00ff00ffffff00000000000000000000000000000000
ffff0000000000000000ffff00ff00ffffff0000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000ffff00ff00ffffff0000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000ffffffff00000000000000000000000000000000
>} false 3 alphaimage
grestore
gstate
nextdict /_NXSharedGrayAlpha get
NX_TwelveBitRGB 1 index setwindowdepthlimit
windowdeviceround
0 0 16 16 5 4 roll 0 32 Copy composite
nulldevice
termwindow
------------- cut here again --------
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From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextDeveloper demos
Date: 2 Apr 1995 14:39:35 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3lmcv7$n68@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3lkma5$4df@news.panix.com>
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Charles de Montebello (clannes@panix.com) wrote:
: To All,
: Idiotically, I deleted some of the demos that I thought I didn't like and
: now I want to get them back. I can't seem to. When I reinstall the
: DeveloperTools.pkg they don't reappear...
: Then I de-installed the tools and reinstalled them and that didn't work
: either. Do I need to de-install all parts of NextDeveloper for this to
: work and, if so, will this screw with my other Apps?
/NextDeveloper/Demos is on the User-CD. You can copy it plainly off the CD.
Axel
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From: kojun@nri.com (Kojun Terai)
Subject: WindowServer port?
Message-ID: <D6CB52.A90@nri.com>
Sender: news@nri.com
Organization: NRI Pacific Inc.
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 04:58:13 GMT
Hi, I need some advice from NEXTSTEP expert --
I'm installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my DELL computer.
The installation itself has completed smoothly, but the system never
comes up in normal multi-user mode --- the login window never comes
up. I checked the console window using -v option when booting, and
found that the messgage "localhost loginwindow[PID]: could not find
WindowServer port!" is repeating every 40-50 seconds after entering in
the multi-user mode.
Does anybody have encountered this problem? Any advice will be
appreciated.
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From: foster@news.unr.edu (Steve Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help IDE install: LBA or not ???
Date: 31 Mar 1995 22:30:13 GMT
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno Department of Computer Science
Message-ID: <3lhvpl$nhl@umbra.unr.edu>
Hello,
If I install NS 3.3 on Intel hardware, using an EIDE drive
> 504 MB, should I use LBA translation in the system BIOS, or
not ??
I intend to put some DOS into a primary DOS partition in the
low several hundred MB of the disk; thus for DOS's sake I think
the disk could be LBA-ed or not - is that correct?
Is NS/intel 3.3 happy with more than 1024 cylinders ??
Seems to me that if LBA were enabled, NS might:
1. ignore the BIOS translation, and talk to the disk in its
native addressing.
OR
2. use the LBA translation ( inherit it from the BIOS ) and
do just fine with it.
OR
3. object to LBA and not coexist with it.
Can some kind person please tell me which strategy NS would prefer,
before I get all fouled up with having to re-partition and re-install
in all combinations ...
Thank you MUCH!
Steven Foster
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendation for Nextstation
Message-ID: <D6BGwn.o9@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <1995Mar30.201030.793@muscat.pr.net.ch>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 18:05:11 GMT
Old QIC 24 SCSI-Tapedrives simply seem not to work on black h/w.
But you would not want to buy one anew anyway as it is only good for 60MB per tape. This might be
of some importance if you were looking for a used drive though.
Juergen
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From: robert@audrey.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: vgetty under NS ...
Date: 02 Apr 1995 12:58:21 +0100
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <robertznftysdmvsvj@audrey.dircon.co.uk>
Right, we'll I've compiled up vgetty under NS and it runs sort of.
Interestingly, when I compiled without DBROKENVTIME it definately was
doing some strange stuff. ie. when somebody leaves a message they get
two tones rather than one tone and basically it misses their message
and a file with 16 bytes gets left in incoming. Also in the log itself
there was large occurences of consecutive spaces.
I've recompiled with BROKENVTIME and hopefully that will fix things.
I've another question though... I'm no POSIX termios god but it seems
that mgetty can be compiled using sgttyb instead of using termios. I
think this is the right thing to do under NeXTSTEP given it's strange
posix support. The only other posix dependency seems to be uname.
Anyway, am I right in assuming that vgetty doesn't allow this
ie. vgetty is specifically written to use termios because it accesses
members of the termios struct?
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From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextDeveloper demos
Date: 2 Apr 1995 16:24:41 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3lmj4a$h4n@news.panix.com>
References: <3lkma5$4df@news.panix.com>
Thanks to all those who responded. I found them!
It's weird when you install something and then when you lose it you have
absolutely no idea where you got it...
Charles.
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From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: NeXT OS Magopt?
Message-ID: <D6Eqqs.4B1@cryton.demon.co.uk>
Organization: The Serial Port
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 12:30:27 GMT
I've acquired a NeXT '030 cube (mono) complete minus HDD, but the boot MagOpt
is corrupt and won't start the machine. Is there anywhere I can refresh
my copy? I believe it's the original version which shipped with 030 cubes.
Hugo
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From: manish@clark.lcs.mit.edu (Manish Tuteja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Switch to tcsh locks me out of system
Date: 2 Apr 1995 21:38:56 GMT
Organization: MIT
Message-ID: <3ln5hg$igj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <westesD6FD47.H5y@netcom.com>
Sounds like you need to add tcsh to your /etc/shells file.
That should do the trick.
Manish
From: sanguish@digifix.com
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Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 3 Apr 1995 04:15:07 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3lnsob$2fn@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally the NEXTSTEP there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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===========================================
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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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Switch to tcsh locks me out of system
Message-ID: <westesD6FD47.H5y@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 20:33:43 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom14.netcom.com
I downloaded a compiled tcsh for Intel from cs.orst.edu, and put it
in /usr/local/bin. I switced roots default login shell to
/usr/local/bin/tcsh, instead of /bin/csh. Now when I try to do a
console login, I get the error dialog:
This account does not have a user shell.
/usr/local/bin/tcsh will be executed and all output will be
ignored. Do you still want to execute this
command?
Cancel OK
What does this command mean? I was able to use tcsh after
installing it without a problem.
What is worse, it does not matter whether I press OK or Cancel.
Either way the login does not take place! I am kicked back to the
login prompt. Is this a bug in NS FIP 3.2?
Finally, how do I manually change just the default login shell for a
particular user? I assume there is a command-line substitute for
the User Login application?
--
Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to enable 10baseT on a mono slab?
Date: 3 Apr 1995 02:35:15 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3lnmt3$gs9@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3kqphs$i4b@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca>
smurp@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca (Shawn Murphy) writes:
>Gotta problem: I had a nice little thin-net network set up, but wanted to
>to convert it over to 10baseT. The other machines on the network (a Mac,
>a Linux box and a DOS laptop) are all chatting together nicely, but the
>old mono non-turbo slab just doesn't seem to recognize the 10baseT.
>Yes! I *did* disconnect the thinnet. Symptoms: can't ping other
>machines from the slab, but the slab pings itself on the ethernet address
>correctly.
>Is there some trick to telling the slab to use its RJ-45 rather than its
>BNC connector?
No, no trick. Just disconnect the 10Base2 and connect the 10BaseT.
I would suspect that you have some problem with your 10BaseT wiring.
Try plugging one of the other machines' RJ-45's into the NeXT's
slot. Maybe your RJ-45 connector is bad on your NeXT?
--
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University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Switch to tcsh locks me out of system
Date: 3 Apr 1995 02:38:38 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3lnn3e$hc3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <westesD6FD47.H5y@netcom.com>
westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>I downloaded a compiled tcsh for Intel from cs.orst.edu, and put it
>in /usr/local/bin. I switced roots default login shell to
>/usr/local/bin/tcsh, instead of /bin/csh. Now when I try to do a
>console login, I get the error dialog:
> This account does not have a user shell.
> /usr/local/bin/tcsh will be executed and all output will be
> ignored. Do you still want to execute this
> command?
> Cancel OK
>What does this command mean? I was able to use tcsh after
>installing it without a problem.
>What is worse, it does not matter whether I press OK or Cancel.
>Either way the login does not take place! I am kicked back to the
>login prompt. Is this a bug in NS FIP 3.2?
Add /usr/local/bin/tcsh to the list of allowed shells in
/etc/shells. You may have to log in as "root" or some other user in
order to get in.
>Finally, how do I manually change just the default login shell for a
>particular user? I assume there is a command-line substitute for
>the User Login application?
nu -m <username>
select the shell item, then type in the new shell to use.
--
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University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA Risc locks up - Raise RDP exception
Date: 3 Apr 1995 02:40:26 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3lnn6q$hir@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <3lbq07$3ied@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1995Mar30.115322.8829@free.fdn.org>
Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy) writes:
>In article <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, you wrote:
>>I've a little more information about the lock up I'm experiencing
>with my HP
>>715/100. I get the following exception error:
>>Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode 1d16dc
>>Waiting for RDP connection...
>>(type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
>>Does anyone have an idea what this error means?
>What the SCSI address of your boot disk (address 6 is prefered)?
>Have you set the default boot path from th HP boot monitor to reflect
>the address of your boot disk?
I would guess that this is your problem exactly: change your
internal disk address to 6. (I've seen this exact problem on a
machine that had its internal address set to 0 and the boot monitor
thought it should be 6) Kind of a cryptic message.
Welcome to HP.
--
David Lemson (217) 244-8833
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: SLIP and Popover
Message-ID: <1995Apr3.044422.3599@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 04:44:22 GMT
Does anyone have a description of how they have their system establich a
SLIP connection then use popover to get their mail -- Automatically.
THe problem I have in trying to set up a script from crontab is that PNI
must be run as root, and popover as a user.
What pointers can you give?
THanks
Wes
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From: Hugh Ashton <hugh@twics.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MST PPP and named
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 11:59:04 +0900
Organization: Twics Co. Ltd., Japan
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950331115332.25428F-100000@gecko1.twics.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I'm using MorningStar's PPP to connect through to the big wide world
outside my black box (standalone at the moment, but that's going to
change). As long as I had a static address provided by the remote end, I
could run named (secondary server) and everything worked OK. Now the
remote end has gone on to providing dynamic addresses. However, since my
PPP no longer has a static IP address, named tells me that 0.0.0.0 is
already in use and refuses to load. I therefore reset /etc/resolv.conf
to provide passive name service.
I use a 2-hop route to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of
the remote router and set this as the default gateway. Of course (??)
nslookup takes about 1 minute or more to wander round the (non-existent)
NetInfo LAN and resolve the address before invoking pppd on the "auto"
option to consult the name server.
Any way round this problem?
+-----------------------------------------------+
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| Internet access in Tokyo: Tel (03)-3351-8244 |
| http://www.twics.com/~hugh/home.html |
+-----------------------------------------------+
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: curious fuse/gauge on Motorola internal OD
Message-ID: <1995Apr3.072228.5919@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3lncpc$3ef@parsifal.nando.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 07:22:28 GMT
Lewis Downey <downeyL@iia.org> wrote:
>This question relates to an '040 cube and NeXTDimension board.
>...
>I have an Optical Drive that is not working. It has the a piece
>that looks like a cross between an automobile fuse and a thermometer.
>See drawing below:
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>{ | | | | | | | | }
>{ Silver | 0 2 4 6 8 10 | Silver }
>{ Cap | | Cap }
>{ |======= ======================================| }
>{ | ^ ^ Gap in Mercury-like substance | }
>{ | Mercury-like | }
>{ | substance | }
>------------------------------------------------------------------
THis little thing is _NOT_ a fuse. It mesures how many hours (Kilo)
the drive has been powered up.
>Dimensions" approx 1.25 x .25 inches.
>The 'fuse' appears to be 'blown'. But the break in the
>material is exactly at the "Zero" mark on the fuse (or is
>a gauge). Does anyone know about this funny device and
>whether it might need replacing?
>Another question, on the 040 motherboard, there is a slot that
>looks like a cache card slot for an Macintosh II Ci. The slot
>is white and about 4" long with a single row of contacts.
This is the DSP memory expansion slot.
>On the ND board, there is a slot that looks similar to an
>internal SCSI cable connector. It is also 4"-5" long but
>has about 3 (maybe 4) rows of pins.
This is the Advertised but Never Delivered (thanks to Steve Jobs)
CCUBE hardware JPEG copression option for the NeXT Dimension :-(
>Could someone clue me in about the functions of these connectors.
>All help very much appreciated. As a recent post stated,
>"I'm a new father, it's a cube!"
>Thanks in advance,
Hope this helps.
>Lewis-------------------------------------------------------------
>Lewis Downey (h) 919 833-4490
>P.O. Box 33280 downey@nando.net
>Raleigh, NC 27636
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From: derekc@tss.com (Derek Collison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrading hp712 3.2 pre-release to 3.3?
Date: 29 Mar 1995 22:31:43 GMT
Organization: Teknekron Software Systems, Inc.
Distribution: all
Message-ID: <3lcn4f$1ai@newsflash.tss.com>
I am trying to upgrade to NEXTSTEP 3.3 on an hp712, I am running
pre-Release 3.2 right now. The upgrade app says that another program has
control of the SCSI BUS and therefore can't upgrade.
Any info appreciated.
Thanks,
=derek
--
Derek Collison <---> collison@tss.com (NeXTMail welcome)
Tekenekron Software Systems, Inc.
From: cairoli@deis65.com (Claudio Cairoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lpd problem
Date: 2 Apr 1995 10:09:04 GMT
Organization: Cineca
Message-ID: <3llt40$2b0@sirio.cineca.it>
Hi,
I have a little problem running 3.3 on INTEL , from a couple of days when
lpd starts deletes all my spool directory, with my mail, news , everything.
In /usr/adm/lpd-errs I get :
Mar 27 18:08:54 crystal lpd[225]: Removing spool directory for uucppublic
Mar 27 18:09:11 crystal lpd: Name /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr Msg connect "/dev/lpd/printer" No such file or directory
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for NeXTFaxes
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for appkit
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for at
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for fnet
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for lpd
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for lpd.lock
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for mail
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for mqueue
Mar 28 14:12:07 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for news
Mar 28 14:15:14 crystal lpd: Name /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr Msg connect "/dev/lpd/printer" No such file or directory
Mar 28 14:15:43 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for uucp
Mar 28 14:15:43 crystal lpd[234]: Removing spool directory for uucppublic
Mar 29 12:36:09 crystal lpd[312]: Removing spool directory for NeXTFaxes
Mar 29 12:36:10 crystal lpd[312]: Removing spool directory for appkit
.....
and so on
Can you please help me ?
Bye
Claudio Cairoli
From: Lewis Downey <downeyL@iia.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: curious fuse/gauge on Motorola internal OD
Date: 2 Apr 1995 23:42:36 GMT
Organization: Lewis Downey
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lncpc$3ef@parsifal.nando.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This question relates to an '040 cube and NeXTDimension board.
...
I have an Optical Drive that is not working. It has the a piece
that looks like a cross between an automobile fuse and a thermometer.
See drawing below:
------------------------------------------------------------------
{ | | | | | | | | }
{ Silver | 0 2 4 6 8 10 | Silver }
{ Cap | | Cap }
{ |======= ======================================| }
{ | ^ ^ Gap in Mercury-like substance | }
{ | Mercury-like | }
{ | substance | }
------------------------------------------------------------------
Dimensions" approx 1.25 x .25 inches.
The 'fuse' appears to be 'blown'. But the break in the
material is exactly at the "Zero" mark on the fuse (or is
a gauge). Does anyone know about this funny device and
whether it might need replacing?
Another question, on the 040 motherboard, there is a slot that
looks like a cache card slot for an Macintosh II Ci. The slot
is white and about 4" long with a single row of contacts.
On the ND board, there is a slot that looks similar to an
internal SCSI cable connector. It is also 4"-5" long but
has about 3 (maybe 4) rows of pins.
Could someone clue me in about the functions of these connectors.
All help very much appreciated. As a recent post stated,
"I'm a new father, it's a cube!"
Thanks in advance,
Lewis-------------------------------------------------------------
Lewis Downey (h) 919 833-4490
P.O. Box 33280 downey@nando.net
Raleigh, NC 27636
From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetBooting a NS 3.3 Client
Date: 3 Apr 1995 14:30:30 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Message-ID: <3lp0q6$4ii@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Keywords: netboot
Hi,
I'm trying to install NeXTSTEP 3.3 on our network of original (68040)
NeXTs. A number of our machines netboot and only have 40 MB swap drives.
The netboot server is a 040 cube with 200 MB client partition. (All the
machines booted under 3.2).
My plan was to upgrade the server, delete the client directories, and then
run "newclient" for each netboot client. Well, the upgrade of the server
went well, and it boots fine; "newclient myclient" also went well. The
client machine boots (when booting in verbose mode, I even see a "reboot
complete" message), but the workspace app doesn't get started. It turns
out that the machine is trying to run /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app rather than
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app. I've set the "me" passwd by telneting to
the machine, and now I get a login panel to show up, but when I login
(with any account, including network accounts), the machine tries to run
BuildDisk rather than Workspace.
Anyone have any suggestions? (other than buying boot disks for each of
the clients =)
By the way, I only nuked one client directory. The rest of the clients
boot and seem to run fine with client directories created under 3.2, but
this doesn't seem very wise.
Yep, I've even nuked this particular client from netinfo, and I've started
over (I've even tried creating another netboot server), but it keeps
running builddisk.
-mtie
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Michael N. Tie mtie@carleton.edu
Department of Math/CS phn: (507) 663-4067
Carleton College fax: (507) 663-4312
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RAM in NeXTCube 040
Date: 3 Apr 1995 18:50:26 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <3lpg1i$al9@nic-nac.CSU.net>
Can you use the following Chip in a NeXTCube 040??
1MB SIMM ( 1x8 (2 Chip) 80ns )
I know that some Macs/PCs have problems with SIMMS with 2 or 3 chips.
Does anyone know if I can put these chips in a NeXTCube040?
-Thanks
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: sfeldman@red.seas.upenn.edu (Sharon M. Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New FaxModem types?
Date: 3 Apr 1995 18:54:37 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3lpg9d$5ro@netnews.upenn.edu>
Posted-For: nagelc1@sb.com (Christopher Nagel)
Hi,
Is there a way to add new FaxModem types to the
PrintManager's "Configure New Modem" screen? The only
ones I get are HSD and Interfax.
I looked in /usr/lib/NextPrinter/ppd/ (from memory
I think that's the path), but I couldn't decipher the
format of the faxmodem ppd's.
I've upgraded from a generic chinese faxmodem to
a USRobotics and now I can't send faxes...
Any help greatfully appreciated!
Thanks,
Chris
nagelc1@sb.com
(Thanks Sharon!)
From: pdell@cs.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 Server for NeXT
Date: 03 Apr 95 09:52:16
Organization: Boston University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <pdell.95Apr395216@nanoii.bu.edu>
References: <bwk100.1.2F7C2693@psu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
I use PopOVER. Which I believe is on the ftp.cs.orst.edu archive.
Paul Dell
Boston University
From: Wilbur Gayle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UserManager 3.3 Hooks
Date: 3 Apr 1995 21:03:01 GMT
Organization: US West !nterprise Networking Systems
Message-ID: <3lpnq5$qte@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
I've written a simple shell script for use with UserManager. This shell
simply copies files to the new account once it's been created and performs
a dwrite or two. Here's my problem, If I startup UserManager and create a
new user, the program hook gives the following error (from
/usr/adm/nu.log):
--------------------------------------------------
didCreateHome: return value 0
willCreateUser: test 2017 20 "" /Net/borg/home01/csc/test /bin/csh English
user /
didCreateUser: test 2017 20 "" /Net/borg/home01/csc/test /bin/csh English
user /
willCreateHome: test 2017 20 "" /Net/borg/home01/csc/test /bin/csh English
user /
didCreateHome: test 2017 20 "" /Net/borg/home01/csc/test /bin/csh English
user /
calling hook: /usr/local/bin/usermanager test 2017 20 ""
/Net/borg/home01/csc/test /bin/csh English user /
> Setting Mail Reply to test@reliant.mnet.uswest.com
>
> Stopped (tty output)
----------------------------------------------------
UserManager then hangs until I kill it. If I relaunch UserManager and try
the whole thing again, it works fine. Any hints? Please send directly to
my email address below. Here's a copy of my script:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Hook for UserManager
# This script further sets up new user information.
#
USER=$1
UID=$2
GID=$3
REALNAME=$4
HOME=$5
SHELL=$6
LANGUAGE=$7
TEMPLATE=$8
DOMAIN=$9
export USER UID GID REALNAME HOME SHELL LANGUAGE TEMPLATE DOMAIN
#
# Set proper ReplyTo for mail
echo "Setting Mail Reply to $USER@reliant.mnet.uswest.com"
echo "dwrite Mail ReplyTo $USER@reliant.mnet.uswest.com" | su - $USER
#
# Install 3270Vision Preferences
echo "Installing 3270Vision Preferences"
echo "cp -r /LocalLibrary/3270Vision/.3270Pref3 ." | su - $USER
#
# Install co-Xist Preferences
echo "Installing co-Xist files"
echo "cp /LocalLibrary/co-Xist/.twmrc ." | su - $USER
echo "cp /LocalLibrary/co-Xist/.Xdefaults ." | su - $USER
echo "cp /LocalLibrary/co-Xist/.xinitrc ." | su - $USER
echo "cp /LocalLibrary/co-Xist/.xserverrc ." | su - $USER
#
--
Regards,
Wil Gayle<wegayl@reliant.mnet.uswest.com>
Manager - Systems Development & Support
!nterprise Networking Services
U S West Communications
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: company network now availlable problem
Date: 3 Apr 1995 16:20:25 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Message-ID: <3lp789$sr0@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <D6BuwC.n00@chemelex.com>
Fred Schenkelberg (fms@chemelex.com) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I got some good news and bad today. Good news is my
: company has a new T1 connection to the net. Bad news, my NeXT
: '040 cube isn't connecting to the net via the TI (only get out
: over uucp via my modem)
: I changed the resolv.conf to add the company nameserver,
: and can nslookup names and ip's. When I ping an outside the
: company address I either get host not found or unknown host
: (something like that). When I use the ip address the error for
: ping changes to 'network down'.
: Ok someone must have a next setup within a company
: network of non-next machines. What should I check next or look
: for so I can get this NeXT box on the fast line?
Have you checked that /etc/hostconfig contains a line such as
ROUTER=129.128.72.1
where the IP address is the address of the company gateway machine.
: Fred Schenkelberg
: NeXTmail enjoyed
: fms@chemelex.com
: Redwood City, CA
: --
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@khaos.com (Karl Hanzel)
Subject: 'pcnfsd' on black hw?
Message-ID: <1995Apr2.043446.303@khaos.com>
Sender: karl@khaos.com
Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 04:34:46 GMT
Before i invest too much more effort, is there hope? Has it been done?
...By you?
I finally got a relatively clean compile, but upon invocation 'rpc.pcnfsd'
bombs with "bus error", & exit code 138.
My next step of course is running under a debugger, but i'm lacking
confidence in that area.
The purpose of this exercise is to get a PC on the same chunk of coax to
be "authenticated", such that i might do some printing or faxing from the
gear hanging off the NeXT.
Thanks,
pax,
Karl
*----->
--
Karl Hanzel
Boulder, Colorado...
Home: karl@khaos.com (NeXT/MIME compliant); (303)443-6602
From: fehrin@math.TU-Berlin.DE (Franz Fehringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login problems
Date: 04 Apr 1995 15:20:20 GMT
Organization: FB3, TU-Berlin, Germany.
Message-ID: <FEHRIN.95Apr4172020@wronski.math.TU-Berlin.DE>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Dear netters,
We have a login problem with Nextstep 3.2 on black hardware.
Everytime a user logs in, a message is written to /usr/adm/messages
saying
loginwindow: failed to exec /usr/etc/pbs
Problems may be encountered, pbs not in bootstrap(Netnameserver: name not checked in)
This message does however not show up, when root logs in.
The effect of this problem is
1) Long duration of the login process
2) Some users are unable to login; for them the login mask vanishes
and reappears after a short pause.
Is this a known problem?
Greetings
Franz Fehringer
--
Franz Fehringer
fehrin@math.TU-Berlin.DE
Telefon +49 30 314 23607
Telefax +49 30 314 21110
From: eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app problem
Date: 3 Apr 1995 05:39:04 GMT
Organization: WhyaNeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <3lo1lo$cqv@news1.svc>
NeXTMail friends,
I have Mail.app setup to point to one of my PINE mail folders by filling in
these fields in the Preferences box:
Mail Dir: ~/Mailboxes
Spool Dir: ~/mail/nextmail
Mailer: /usr/lib/sendmail
It's possible that I've accidentally made a trivial change to the above data,
but basically this used to work fine. I would just click the "Get Mail"
button and it would read my PINE folder called 'nextmail' where I transfer
all my NeXTmail.
But it has stopped working. I click "Get Mail" and it just beeps. I've tried
scrapping the 'nextmail' and starting over, but get the same result.
Any ideas?
Eric
--
"SleepWorld? Isn't that an amusement park for college students?"
-- Eric Schwartz
eric@whyanext.com (http://whyanext.com/~eric)
NeXTmail OK
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendation for Nextstation
Date: 3 Apr 1995 17:53:39 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3lpcn3$1an2@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3lc96p$f78@fnnews.fnal.gov> <1995Mar30.201030.793@muscat.pr.net.ch>
: Exabyte is really good (if you clean the heads when needed :-) and for
: uncritical use you can use cheap Video 8 Sony tapes (and Exabyte
: Data-grade tapes for critical archiving).
I used to do this, and ended up after 6 months of daily backups shelling
out 600 bucks to have the drive fixed. And that was with cleaning
weekly (would have been roughly every 20hours of operation)
I do NOT recommend video grade tapes.
-------
I have both exebyte and DAT drives. The HP 35480A drive is great. Much
less hassle, and while a tad slower than the EXB, it ends up being
faster for backing up NFS directories.
I also parse the mtset status messages and look at the recoverable
errors. The Exebyte typically return 1-5 errors/megabyte. The HP never
does. (Which may mean there is a difference in their implementation of
the status page.)
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
From: baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HPPA Risc locks up -Raise RDP exception
Date: 3 Apr 1995 15:40:13 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Message-ID: <3lp4st$ef0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3lnn6q$hir@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> you wrote:
>Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy) writes:
>
>>In article <3l9vb8$dvh@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, you wrote:
>>>I've a little more information about the lock up I'm experiencing
>>with my HP
>>>715/100. I get the following exception error:
>
>>>Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode 1d16dc
>>>Waiting for RDP connection...
>>>(type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
>
>>>Does anyone have an idea what this error means?
>
>
>>What the SCSI address of your boot disk (address 6 is prefered)?
>>Have you set the default boot path from th HP boot monitor to reflect
>>the address of your boot disk?
>
>I would guess that this is your problem exactly: change your
>internal disk address to 6. (I've seen this exact problem on a
>machine that had its internal address set to 0 and the boot monitor
>thought it should be 6) Kind of a cryptic message.
>Welcome to HP.
>--
>David Lemson (217) 244-8833
>University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
>Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
The boot drive IS set to scsi.6.0 as it should be and I still have the same
problem.
--
+--------------------------------+
| Don Baker | "Necessity never made a
| Technical Services Coordinator | good bargain."
| IU School of Journalism | -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
| Tel: (812) 855-4918 |
| baker@journalism.indiana.edu |
| baker@indiana.edu |
+--------------------------------+
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: OEM Disk whines
Date: 3 Apr 1995 16:24:10 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3lp7fa$sr0@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
My home Next has an OEM disk, a 1 GB DEC 3105 1 GB disk. Of late it's
started to make a lot more noise. From experience, I know that some
disks just like to make noise, and will run for years in this state.
Others are shrieking, "I'm going to fail, and screw all your data"
Currently I'm making frequent backups, and eventually I'll have to bite
the bullet and buy another disk, but financially this is not a good time
to buy a disk.
Any experiences with this particular disk?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: Installing fonts(NS3.2black) question
Message-ID: <1995Apr3.132902.23782@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3lfmce$lp4@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:29:02 GMT
Jessica L Mosher writes
> I learned about NS font installation from a manual page
> for an old utility called font_update_2.0. It claims that
> for release 2.0 or later of NS that font info is all kept
> in a single directory, *.font. Is there any reason to believe
> this has changed since 2.0?
>
I use buildafmdir to build the index for the fonts.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: NeXT CD drive skipping
Message-ID: <1995Apr3.133152.23842@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3lhk69$fc@corporate.hesta.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:31:52 GMT
Michael Verruto writes
> I am having a problem with my drive skipping while playing music CD's
> using CDPlayer.app.....ANyone have any suggestions..?
>
> --
> Michael Verruto - michael@hesta.com
The CD might be dirty or scratched.
If it's a scratch and it's not too deep, you can use rubbing compound,
followed by polishing compound, and car wax to fix it.
The CD players head might be dirty.
Blow some compressed air into it.
From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: identd?
Date: 3 Apr 1995 17:50:05 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lpcgd$s20@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3ll58m$apa@usenet.rpi.edu>
In article <3ll58m$apa@usenet.rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A.
Drosehn) writes:
> jason@jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson) writes:
> > I've been looking for identd, and archie has been no help. Does
> > anybody know where there might exist such a thing for NEXTSTEP
> > 3.2?
>
> Try picking up:
>
> ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/pidentd-2.1.README
> ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/pidentd-2.1.tar.Z
>
> I *believe* are the files that will get you ident capability.
> I seem to remember some kind of difficulty with these, which I
> may have solved by poking around in an earlier release that
> was called nident. Right now I only see nident available at:
>
> ftp://sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/2.0/source/nidentd2.0.tar.Z
I have sucessfully installed pidentd-2.5.1 on my NeXTstation.
There is even a make target for NeXTstep.
The following is from the README file:
--------------------------------------
MAILING LISTS
There is a mailing list for users of the IDENT(RFC1413)/TAP protocol
called
'ident-users@lysator.liu.se' that you may want to consider joining.
Send mail to the address 'ident-users-request@lysator.liu.se' to
join it. This list is intended for generic discussions on using this
protocol and it's associated tools.
If you only want to receive news about new (non-alpha/beta) releases of
Pidentd then you can join the 'ident-announce@lysator.liu.se' mailing
list. Send mail to the address 'ident-announce-request@lysator.liu.se' to
join it. No discussions will take place on this list.
I also run a small mailing list for people who wants to act as testers
of new alpha/beta-versions of Pidentd. If you wish to join, please send
mail to the address 'pidentd-testers-request@lysator.liu.se'. (I can
always
use more testers, so don't hesitate :-)
It's a human (namely me :-) that reads the letters sent to *-request.
Please include the full email address to which to wish to have the
letters sent.
--------------------------------------
--
Peter Karbaliotis - University of Alberta - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: gerard_s@meson.epita.fr (stephan gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mail problem
Date: 4 Apr 1995 13:52:56 GMT
Organization: Epita (French Computer Science school)
Sender: gerard_s@meson (stephan gerard)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lrivo$df8@boson.epita.fr>
Hi,
I have a problem since I installed NS 3.3 on my NeXTstation, with an UUCP
connection. I can receive but I can't send mail. I get on my console the following
message:
NOQUEUE: SYSERR: cannot chdir (/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
But I checked mqueue, its permissions are correct.
Thank you in advance for your help.
--
Stephan Gerard
Stephan.Gerard@epita.fr (NO NeXTmail)
stephan@sgh.fdn.org (NeXTmail, MIME accepted)
From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem with BuildDisk (3.2 black)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 22:13:09 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950404220502.972A-100000@pear>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I am trying to build an external boot disk with a black NeXT running
3.2. When I click on the BuildDisk icon I see the following error:
Find Disks
Another program has control of the SCSI bus. Hard
disks, SCSI floppy disks, and other SCSI devices
can't be built.
I have many mounts, six of them on the local machine. I am trying to
build /blueberry from /NEXTSTEP_3.2:
pear:/# df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
lime:/tangerine 1919187 1693590 33678 98% /tangerine
/dev/sd2a 2046009 1724233 117175 94% /boysenberry
/dev/sd3a 2046009 842528 998880 46% /cranberry
/dev/sd0a 2046009 1465150 376258 80% /
/dev/sd5a 2046009 262423 1578985 14% /blackberry
mango:/Mathematics 983578 399924 485296 45% /Mathematics
papaya:/Bottom 946702 638323 213708 75% /Bottom
papaya:/Top 946702 827194 24837 97% /Top
/dev/sd1a 235953 160362 51995 76% /peardisk
banana:/ 1025658 847881 75211 92% /private/Net/banana
avocado:/ 1102985 621030 371656 63% /private/Net/avocado
mango:/raspberry 2046009 1244187 597221 68% /raspberry
/private/vm/swapfile 2046009 1465150 376258 80%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
/dev/sd4a 2046009 1505768 335640 82% /blueberry
/dev/sd6a 297150 289938 0 108% /NEXTSTEP_3.2
Any suggestions or explanation of this error? I have more information for
anyone who would be so kind as to aid me in this moment of confusion.
thanks,
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
From: ac11111m@huey.csun.edu (Ed Skochinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting 2nd scsi disk
Date: 5 Apr 1995 02:31:36 GMT
Organization: California State University, Northridge
Message-ID: <3lsve8$sf4@dewey.csun.edu>
I have reconfigured an '040 slab with an external 500MB drive as the boot
device and the interal drive for use as /usr/local. I have modified the
fstab entry for the internal drive to contain:
/dev/sd1a /InternalHD 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
Yet the device will not mount "automatically" unless there is a console
login. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Ed Skochinski, graduate grunt
edsko@calstate.edu
From: mcanji@fractal.phys.unt.edu (Mirko Canji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I copy Macintosh (TM) Resource "fork" from a Mac floppy?
Date: 4 Apr 1995 03:45:59 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3lqfdn$ot5@hermes.unt.edu>
I seem to recall that there is a way to copy the "invisible" Resource fork
of the Mac files with a line command even i.e. without a commercial
utility such as HFS-Xfer or FloppyWorks.
Something about ... cp #rsrc# filename or similar... Can you help?
Thanks for your time!
Mirko Canji
University of North Texas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@samizdat (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: SLIP always tries to deliver mail immediately!
Message-ID: <D6JK4J.76A@samizdat>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 02:55:30 GMT
... which is a problem. First off, if I write a mail while my UUCP feed is
doing its stuff, my slip connection gets set to "FAILCALL" state, meaning
that any attempt to connect to an outside site (using dial-on demand)
fails with "network is down". I have to manually CLRERR this, which is done
periodically when I "popOver" and get my mail, but it makes using the
dial-on-demand pretty useless from any other machine in my local network.
I, therefore, have two questions:
(1) Is there any way to keep sendmail from sending immediately?
(2) Is there any way that a busy signal or port in use could not cause
a "FAILCALL" status to be set on SLIP?
One other thing. I have a small program in the Mamakos 920904 distribution
which is called "slipsend" which I presume sends mail previously queued,
although I don't see any reference to it in the documentation. However,
when run, it gives the following error:
"Permission denied: Address already in use"
when it is not run as su. Should I setuid this program?
Thanks for any help! I'd be happy to supply more information, if needed.
Matt
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From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 Server for NeXT
Date: 4 Apr 1995 10:00:52 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lr5ck$1ju@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <pdell.95Apr395216@nanoii.bu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In article <pdell.95Apr395216@nanoii.bu.edu> pdell@cs.bu.edu writes:
}~ I use PopOVER. Which I believe is on the ftp.cs.orst.edu archive.
PopOver, of course, is a POP2/POP3/IMAP2 *client* application.
As I recall, it is distributed with a POP3 server archive as well.
Bruce
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP and Popover
Date: 4 Apr 1995 10:04:50 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3lr5k2$1o4@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <1995Apr3.044422.3599@weston.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In article <1995Apr3.044422.3599@weston.com> jspears@weston.com (Wes
Spears) writes:
}~ Does anyone have a description of how they have their system establich
}~ a SLIP connection then use popover to get their mail -- Automatically.
}~
}~ The problem I have in trying to set up a script from crontab is that
}~ PNI must be run as root, and popover as a user.
The script should be able to bring up SLIP as root, then
execute popOver with /bin/su userid -c path/popOver
+-+
Bruce Gingery Total System Software Cheyenne, WY USA
We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
Homepage construction area:<URL:http://turnpike.net/metro/bagingry/>
NEXT IN LINE magazine staff technical writer
Bruce Gingery <bgingery@Wyoming.COM> OR <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
From: willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (Wilhelm Pitzeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to get rid of DOS?
Date: 4 Apr 1995 07:52:42 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3lqtsa$607@news.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <3lbo6k$aqn@news.tuwien.ac.at> <3lchh7$4md@transfer.stratus.com>
R. Craig Dodson (cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com) wrote:
> In article <3lbo6k$aqn@news.tuwien.ac.at> willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at
> (Wilhelm Pitzeier) writes:
> > I'm running DOS/Windows on the first partition of my HD and NS486 3.3
> > on the second. Is there any (secure!) way to get rid of the DOS
> > Partition and donate the space to NS without having to reinstall NS?
>
> Boot the system from a DOS floppy that you've copied the "fdisk" command
> to. Run fdisk and get rid of the DOS partition on your hard drive.
Yes, I can get rid of DOS this way.
But how do I donate the new free space to NS? (without reinstalling!)
- Willi
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NewsGrazer Shutdown Bug
Date: 4 Apr 1995 12:41:19 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Message-ID: <3lrepf$1cu@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
My NewsGrazer will shutdown similar types of newsgroups for one or two
days then work without a problem. e.g. At time i con open no newsgroup
that is a marketplace. Like comp marketplace or cars marketplace this
happens across the board for any group ending in marketplace. It has also
happened with pictures. Strange huh? Any ideas.
Thanks Jim
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From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with tar.gz files
Date: 4 Apr 1995 13:10:35 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Message-ID: <3lrggb$1rm@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Would someone explain the difference between "tar.z" and "tar.gz" files.
My NeXT knows what to do with the tar.z files but neither of us knows what
to do with the tar.gz files Thanks Jim
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Subject: Re: Help with SLIP: ping yes, ftp NO
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 07:50:54 PDT
Message-ID: <000A40CC.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
<<I am just trying to setup my slip IP account for my black box using dialup-ip.
Now I can ping my provider's gateway-machine (name is 'gataball') or any other
machine (like ftp.next.com) alright, but I cannot ftp to any site (or
telnet) for that matter. All I get is 'connected to <site> (resp. 'trying
<site>' for telnet) and no further response.>>
A similar thing was happening for me when I first configured our dynamic IP SLIP
account. It seems that I was not properly parsing and setting my local IP
address for the PNI interface. This would let me send packets out (initiate an
FTP or telnet session) but not get any packets back (because my service provider
was routing to a different IP than I was using).
If you have a SLIP account with a dynamic IP (one that changes for every
session, for ours both the remote and local addresses change) I can email you my
login script to use as an example. It parses for the two addresses and sets
these before establishing the connection.
I've also had problems with the CSLIP/SLIP mismatching. On our dynamic IP
account, my service provider's host does not automatically configure for one or
the other. I had to contact them directly and have it changed (it was
previously CSLIP and I needed SLIP).
- Gary Affonso
gaffonso@iqinc.com
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From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail secure?
Date: 4 Apr 1995 18:04:34 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3ls1ni$gtr@netnews.upenn.edu>
Folks,
I upgraded to NS3.3 and I assume the 3.2 sendmail patch is already applied. I
am concerned that while next is shipping a patched V5.67 of sendmail, CERT
recommends V8.6.10. What do you think?
Please respond via e-mail.
Regards,
Noam
--
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University of Pennsylvania 215/898-9348 (FAX)
Director, Information Technology Architecture Info Systems & Computing
Director, Finance, Administration & Systems Data Comm. & Computing Services
Research Associate Leonard Davis Institute
Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street arzt@dccs.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Message-ID: <9504050751.AA05870@alleg.EDU>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v116.1)
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 03:51:38 -0400
Subject: Re: identd?
Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com
I've been looking for identd, and archie has been no
help. Does anybody know where there might exist such
a thing for NEXTSTEP 3.2?
I don't know if this will help, but this is a close as I could come
# in () are sizes
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/network/nidentd.2.0a
.README (1273)
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/network/nidentd.2.0a
.s.tar.gz (57326)
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/network/pidentd.2.1.
bs.tar.gz (56999)
ftp://129.187.249.15/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/network/pidentd.README (4524)
TjL
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Timothy J. Luoma Email: luomat@alleg.edu Allegheny College
NeXTStep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: rick@sq.sq.com (Rick Innis)
Subject: Replacement internal hard drives for NeXT cubes
Message-ID: <1995Apr4.164110.10241@sq.sq.com>
Followup-To: poster
Summary: Good replacement HD for Cube?
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <3lf549$2hc@usenet.rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 16:41:10 GMT
Garance A. Drosehn writes:
:
>I find myself suddenly thinking it would be a good idea to replace
>the hard disk in one of my NeXTstations (it's working OK, but it's
>not sounding all that great).
I find myself suddenly thinking it would be a good idea to replace
the hard disk in my NeXT cube, mainly because it ground to a halt the other
night and hasn't come back to life since. (The only clue prior to this
happening was an occasional high-pitched whining noise, about 20 seconds in
duration, about every 60 to 80 seconds, for a few minuteas after booting.)
If anyone can recommend a good internal HD to plug into a cube I'd
appreciate hearing about it. Prices and suppliers would be useful too.
--Rick.
PS: followups set to poster; I'll summarise responses.
--
Rick Innis
SoftQuad Inc. "Have you seen the secret of the Universe?" said
rick.innis@sq.com Zebedee, arriving. "I know I left it here somewhere."
+1 (416) 239 4801 x251
From: Wilbur Gayle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Xedoc Netinfo 2.03
Date: 4 Apr 1995 14:51:55 GMT
Organization: US West !nterprise Networking Systems
Message-ID: <3lrmeb$ai5@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
Is anyone using the Xedox Netinfo 2.03 software with AuspexOS 1.6.1M? I
need to upgrade to 1.6.1M and need to verify the netinfo software won't
break. Please send replies directly to me.
--
Regards,
Wil Gayle<wegayl@reliant.mnet.uswest.com>
Manager - Systems Development & Support
!nterprise Networking Services
U S West Communications
From: baker@keeper.. (Don Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer Shudown Bug
Date: 4 Apr 1995 22:14:36 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Message-ID: <3lsgcc$s6b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3lrepf$1cu@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> you wrote:
>
>My NewsGrazer will shutdown similar types of newsgroups for one or two
>days then work without a problem. e.g. At time i con open no newsgroup
>that is a marketplace. Like comp marketplace or cars marketplace this
>happens across the board for any group ending in marketplace. It has also
>happened with pictures. Strange huh? Any ideas.
> Thanks Jim
I've seen the same problems with with NewGrazer. For me its not been related
to any particular news group, it just happens. If I open NG from the command
line, I get a "segmentation fault" when it crashes. This error is not reported
in the console when NG is launched from the Workspace.
My guess is that since NG hasn't been updated in over 2 years, it might not
handle the newer nntp servers (ie. post-c-news) too well? Just a hunch.
_____________________________________________________
|- Don Baker
|- Technical Services Coordinator
|- IU School of Journalism
|- Tel: (812) 855-4918 Fax: (812) 855-0901
|- baker@journalism.indiana.edu or baker@indiana.edu
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't determine current directory
Date: 5 Apr 1995 11:16:33 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3ltu6h$30b@clarknet.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I run into a problem I can't figure out. If anyone have similar
experiement and know why might be the cause, please help me.
In the aliases for sendmail, I defined an alias to run a program instead
of deliver the incoming mail to a user like this :
<fake-user-name>: "|/the whole path to that program"
When I sent a test mail to that fake-user-name, I got a return message
from Mailer-Agent with unknown Mailer error. The message showed that
it expand into the program path fine but got :
'sh: Can't determine current directory'
The program was not executed. Any one knows what can cause this ?
BTW, anyone know when a program like mentioned above was executed in
working condition, what user-id and group-id will it be using ? At this
time, I have to set execution bits for all to make it even try to execute
the program. If I take away the execution form the other, I got "Can't not
be executed" error instead. My Mailer-Agent is alias to postmaster and
postmaster it alias to root.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Re: NeXT CD drive skipping
Message-ID: <D6IJ80.IMu@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1995Apr3.133152.23842@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:38:23 GMT
In article <1995Apr3.133152.23842@il.us.swissbank.com> (Raul Alvarez) writes:
> Michael Verruto writes
> > I am having a problem with my drive skipping while playing music CD's
> > using CDPlayer.app.....ANyone have any suggestions..?
> >
> > --
> > Michael Verruto - michael@hesta.com
>
> The CD might be dirty or scratched.
> If it's a scratch and it's not too deep, you can use rubbing compound,
> followed by polishing compound, and car wax to fix it.
>
> The CD players head might be dirty.
> Blow some compressed air into it.
A scratched cd is a probable cause only if it always skips in the
same place. If the player skips on several disks in random places, and more
so towards the end of the disk, then you've probably got a hardware problem.
Hardware problems include a dirty pickup laser, but more likely, some
mechanical component has gone out of tolerence. Insufficient lubrication is
a biggy.
--
Mario Stargard
School of Optometry
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
N2L 3G1
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mail problem
Date: 5 Apr 1995 01:39:16 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3lssc4$91l@paladin.american.edu>
References: <3lrivo$df8@boson.epita.fr>
In article <3lrivo$df8@boson.epita.fr> gerard_s@meson.epita.fr (stephan gerard)
writes:
:Hi,
:
:I have a problem since I installed NS 3.3 on my NeXTstation, with an UUCP
:connection. I can receive but I can't send mail. I get on my console the
following
:message:
:
: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: cannot chdir (/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
:
:But I checked mqueue, its permissions are correct.
:
:Thank you in advance for your help.
:--
:Stephan Gerard
:
:Stephan.Gerard@epita.fr (NO NeXTmail)
:stephan@sgh.fdn.org (NeXTmail, MIME accepted)
:
:
I had this problem also but it was the permissions.
It seems that when 3.3 is installed it changes the directory above to
non-writeable by anyone but people in the wheel group. Just
chmod a+w /usr/spool/mqueue
fixes it. You may also want to make it non-readable for the short time that
mail may sit in there.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: mconners@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael R Conners)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adding recycler to external SCSI drive
Date: 4 Apr 1995 13:55:28 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3lrj4g$sd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Yup, I want to put a recycler on my external 520meg drive. But, I have
misplaced the command that was posted on c.s.n.s. a while back.
Thanks, folks.
--
*** Michael Conners - THE Ohio State University ***
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cut
Date: 5 Apr 1995 11:07:56 GMT
Organization: world
Message-ID: <3lttmc$30b@clarknet.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Anyone know where can I find a implementation of cut for NeXTStep 3.2 ?
Cut is a small utility program found in System V type of UNIX.
From: dbowling@gcrc.ufl.edu (Dan Bowling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,baker@journalism.indiana.edu
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer Shudown Bug
Date: 5 Apr 1995 15:25:22 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Message-ID: <3lucp3$57l@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
References: <3lsgcc$s6b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Don said ...
>
> I've seen the same problems with with NewGrazer. For me its not been
> related to any particular news group, it just happens. If I open NG
> from the command line, I get a "segmentation fault" when it crashes.
> This error is not reported in the console when NG is launched from
> the Workspace.
Has anyone got a solution for this? I've seen the same thing.
I believe the problem is with NewsGrazer reading the .newsrc file in the
user's home directory. I've found the problem goes away if I rm the .newsrc
file and start NG up again. Of course, then you have to resubscribe to all
your newsgroups again.
I think the problem has to do with a "-1" showing up in the line of a
newsgroup in .newsrc. If you're having this problem, try this at the
command line:
cd
grep -v ' -1' .newsrc > .newsrc.bak
cp .newsrc.bak .newsrc
then fire up NG and see if the problem goes away. There's something screwy
about the .newsrc, but I'm not sure if the above is the answer.
later,
dan
--
Dan Bowling Data Services Mgr
dbowling@gcrc.ufl.edu GCRC, Univ of Florida
From: cello@virgil (Sean Anthony Varah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SATAN
Date: 5 Apr 1995 15:29:29 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Message-ID: <3lud0p$gk9@decaxp.harvard.edu>
Could it be, SATAN?
There's lots of hype around Harvard about SATAN. Is there a
FAQ for security holes in NeXTStep? Any basic holes I should
be worried about, or is it just hype?
Sean
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Harvard Computer Music Studio
cello@mario.harvard.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer Ripoff???
Date: 5 Apr 1995 23:03:13 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3lv7jh$abn@news.panix.com>
Maybe I'm being a bit oversensitive but it strikes me as obscene
that after spending an enormous amount of money on NextStep 3.3 and
Developer 3.2 that I have to PURCHASE a driver and/or program to
allow me to print on a printer other than a NextStep printer!!! I
have a Canon Bubblejet and I am considering buying a new printer
but I know it won't be one of the four or so on the list. How can
this be? How can I have this much difficulty printing, a feature
that should be, without question, supported....
I appreciate that programs like Dots are available but I don't
think they should have to be.
If anyone has any suggestions don't hesitate to respond. I'd love
to see how many people think that I am off the wall on this issue -
I don't think I am.
Thanks for your attention.
Charles.
PPI Recording, NYC
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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From: (Charles de Montebello) clannes@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wrong 'From' field in Mail
Date: 5 Apr 1995 23:06:10 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3lv7p2$adc@news.panix.com>
References: <3lj0jf$2t1@news.panix.com>
In article <3lj0jf$2t1@news.panix.com> (Charles de Montebello)
clannes@panix.com writes:
> To All,
>
> I had my Mail configured properly to say From: Charles de Montebello
> <clannes@panix.com> but now it only says: Charles de Montebello
<clannes>.
> All I have changed is: adding the group 'wheel' to that user and
changing
> the name of that user from c_de_m to clannes. Could that be the
problem.
> Maybe I didn't change the name properly....
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Charles.
Thanks to all... I fixed it.
Charles.
From: steve@ion.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 'pcnfsd' on black hw?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 00:34:29 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Message-ID: <3lvcul$mb5@larry.rice.edu>
References: <1995Apr2.043446.303@khaos.com>
Karl Hanzel (karl@khaos.com) wrote:
: Before i invest too much more effort, is there hope? Has it been done?
: ...By you?
: I finally got a relatively clean compile, but upon invocation 'rpc.pcnfsd'
: bombs with "bus error", & exit code 138.
: My next step of course is running under a debugger, but i'm lacking
: confidence in that area.
: The purpose of this exercise is to get a PC on the same chunk of coax to
: be "authenticated", such that i might do some printing or faxing from the
: gear hanging off the NeXT.
Actually rpc.pcnfsd is included with NeXTStep, there just isn't a man page
for it. I've been using it successfully with XFS on a pc for months now. All
you have to do is tack it into your rc.local file and you're set. It's
in /usr/etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Ludtke | Physics Dept., Rice Univ.
steve@ion.rice.edu |
stevel@alumni.caltech.edu | "Don't just sit in silence when you
72335,1537 @ compuserve | know what to do."
From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Hårseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP, NetInfo problem!
Date: 5 Apr 1995 20:56:21 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <3lup4l$3cu@gymir.ifi.uio.no>
I have installed NS-3.3/FIP and used it for a while. When I tried to
start UserManager today I got the error-message "Can't contact NetInfo
Server for local domain". The same happens when I run NetInfoManager
and SimpleNetworkStarter, but when I start up the latter I get an
aditional message in the log window:
Error: NetInfo configuration error!
No directory for master:/machines/localhost (No such directory)
I am not sure whether this has been a problem all the time since I
installed NS-3.3, but restoring /etc/netinfo and /etc/hostconfig from
a backup taken right after installing NS-3.3 did not help.
How do I fix this?
Arne
--
(arneha@ifi.uio.no)
--
(arneha@ifi.uio.no)
From: laurie@Sun.COM (Laurie Roshak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.databases,comp.databases.object,comp.databases.sybase
Subject: Want to participant in a usability study?
Date: 5 Apr 1995 22:11:49 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3lv4j5$hek@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
The Human Computer Interaction group at SunSoft is looking for
individuals to participate in an upcoming usability study for
DOE (Distributed Object Environment). We are currently looking
for individuals who:
- Have used a UNIX-based operating system at least weekly for
the last 2 years
- Have successfully developed client-server applications, developed
database applications, administered database applications, or
administered UNIX systems
- Are willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement
- Are willing to be video taped during the study (your identity will
be kept in confidence)
- Are available for 2 to 3 hours on 1 day between Tuesday, 4/18 and
Friday, 4/21 (these dates may be extended)
- Work/live within driving distance to Mountain View, CA
The study will be conducted at SunSoft's Usability Engineering
Center in Mountain View. The hours of the study are flexible to
fit your schedule. During the study, you will:
- Perform system management tasks
- Discuss your likes, dislikes, concerns, and ideas
If you are interested in participating in this study, or know
of someone who is please contact:
Nancy Moreno
Lab Coordinator
Usability Engineering
SunSoft, Inc. (A Sun Microsystems, Inc. subsidiary)
(415) 336-3945 (phone)
(415) 691-1024 (FAX)
nancy.moreno@Eng.Sun.COM
From: jorice@tcd.ie (Jonathon Otto Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20
Date: 5 Apr 95 11:03:03 GMT
Organization: TCD, Computer Science
Message-ID: <jorice.797079783@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie>
My NeXT Cube won't reboot. This followed my installation of Christopher
Wolf's SCSI_Inspector application and running its diagnostics and benchmarks
as root on the Cube's single 661Mb HP 97548S. Those tests ran fine, it
seemed, but after that, the system didn't power down cleanly, relaunching
into the "Loading System" phase. Hitting the power key *did* power it down,
after which I connected an external disk and attempted reboot again. No go.
Power-down again. Disconnect external disk. Boot now gives the
following:
...
HP 97548S Rev N104 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun0
Disk Label: NeXT_2.1_Ext
Disk Capacity 661Mb, Device Block 512 bytes
Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
...
sound0 at 0x200e000
root on sd0
master cpu at slot 0
Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20, trying /etc/init
Load of /etc/init failed, errno 20
trap: type 0cx fcode 8450 rw 8192 faultaddr 0x2081
...
This looks rather bad to me. Is there any magic which might fix it?
Assuming there isn't, might I be able to mount the disk on another
(non-NS?) machine to pull off some of the user files? Or is it likely
that the whole file-system is a write-off?
I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.0, which I should really upgrade anyway. This may
be the time to do it. But I'd like to get back those user files if I can.
-- Jonathan Rice
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From: steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich)
Subject: NeXT + Linux on same HD howto ?
Message-ID: <D6LEpw.IyB@europa.com>
Sender: news@europa.com
Organization: Europa |||| Portland, OR
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 02:53:56 GMT
I have just finished installing linux on a small partition on my hd and
was wondering if the LILO boot manager works with NeXTStep. If it does how
do I configure LILO.. Or what is the best way to do this config?
Thanks
--
Steven Kornreich
Kornreich Communications
NeXTMail OK
email: steve@eps.com
From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SATAN
Date: 5 Apr 1995 22:00:36 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Message-ID: <3lv3u4$9s0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
References: <3lud0p$gk9@decaxp.harvard.edu>
Sean Anthony Varah writes
> Could it be, SATAN?
>
> There's lots of hype around Harvard about SATAN. Is there a
> FAQ for security holes in NeXTStep? Any basic holes I should
> be worried about, or is it just hype?
Speaking of which...I downloaded SATAN myself this morning, and with a
bit of tweaking managed to get it compiled. (Fix the reconfig script
to put /LocalApps/Net/OmniWeb.app, or wherever your OmniWeb lives, in
your path, and OmniWeb in the list of preferred WWW browsers. Fiddle
with the include flags a bit; some utilities expect bsd stuff, and
others want ansi.) It seems to almost run with OmniWeb---it starts
a WWW browser when you run it from the command line, although it
doesn't point the browser at satan.html correctly. When you get the
page pointed properly, there is a path problem that keeps you from
getting to the target selection page. Fix the relevant .html page
by hand, and SATAN appears to interrogate hosts. However, the only
report I can get it to generate about my own system is basically
null (hello, you're running NS 3.2 on a NeXT, blah, blah, no
vulnerabilities found), and when I try to investigate friends over
my SLIP line (with permission!) SATAN clobbers OmniWeb and dies.
As you can tell, I have only the remotest idea of what I am doing.
Has anyone gotten this beast up and running properly using OmniWeb?
I grant you, I attacked your foe; +--------------------------------+
But this, I feel you ought to know | Joshua W Burton (401)435-6370 |
Is something you should not construe | burton@het.brown.edu |
To mean that I agree with you. -- Piet Hein +--------------------------------+
From: dennisg@news-srvr.CyberSAFE.COM (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kerberos
Date: 5 Apr 1995 17:36:13 -0700
Organization: CyberSAFE Corporation, Redmond WA
Message-ID: <3lvd1t$9cm@kerby.ocsg.com>
References: <3l9boo$s00@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Keywords: kerberos
In article <3l9boo$s00@news.doit.wisc.edu>, <jacobsen@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>
>Please excuse me if you see this posting twice, I'm having difficulties
>with my news software.
>
>
>I would like to get Kerberos authentification working on a NeXT (m68k)
>machine running NS User 3.3 and NS Developer 3.2. The FAQ does not have
>any suggestions and I would like to know if anyone here has done this
>succesfully and if so, how? I understand that NS 3.3 is supposed to
>provide support for Kerberos, but have not found it yet.
>
Kerberos Version 5 does run under NeXTSTEP 3.2, at least our
product does. I have compiled MIT Kerberos Version 5 beta 4.3
under NeXTSTEP too. There are some custome hacks you have to
make. "configure" gets you close.
I can't speak for any of the MIT distributed utilities such as
rlogin but the MIT libraries worked.
I run Kerberos Version 5 under 3.2 both m68k and Intel all of
the time. I don't know about NS 3.3.
-dpg
--
Dennis P. Glatting / CyberSAFE Corporation
Network and Security Infrastructure Architect
From: thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 08:33:59 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca.
Message-ID: <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net>
References: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
Ack!
Shouldn't Santa have lots of security holes (lack of features)
with regard to NeXTStep because of the way that NFS works?
I found a copy of the passwd file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People
today. I was wondering... why would NFS put the passwd file
there! {&-o
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 Gig SCSI bug
Message-ID: <1995Apr5.104423.44662@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Date: 5 Apr 95 10:44:23 MET
References: <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <dwright.9.04CDB190@omni.voicenet.com>
dwright@omni.voicenet.com (Darren Wright) wrote:
>In article <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu> rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling) writes:
>>From: rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling)
>>Subject: 2 Gig SCSI bug
>>Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:19:51 GMT
>>According to NeXTanswers there in a bug that prevents installation
>>of NeXTSTEP to SCSI disks larger than 2 GBytes in NS 3.2. Does
>>anyone know if it matters if the disk is partitioned to less than
>>2 GB (per partition) or if installation works through BuildDisk?
>>Has this been fixed in NS 3.3?
Should be no problems!
>>I don't recall if NeXTanswers mentions which architectures it applies
>>to but I'm mainly interested in the above for NeXTSTEP for Intel.
>>- Robert Ling <rling@u.washington.edu>
>Before you even attempt this install let me tell you my ordeal of the last 4
>months:
>In November of 1994, I started a school project on a 2GB DEC drive, and
>decided to use NeXTstep as an OS. After talking with NeXT and making sure
>that the hardware would work, we bought NS 3.2. Well, needless to say, the
>install did NOT work, in fact, the DEC drive wasn't recognized at all. So we
>bought a Seagate drive, and that had problems too. After 4 months of talking
>to tech support, the finally said Nope, sorry cannot do. (We wanted 1.5 GB
>for NeXT and 500Mb for DOS). They said that the 3.3 upgrade would fix it, but
>that it would be another $200 to upgrade.
[...]
>I'd like to know if anyone else had any bad experiences...
I'll tell you that I had only GOOD experiences, with both seagate and DEC drives!
I had no problems with two quantum empire 2G drives. Installation was smoot, no glitches.
But then, all this was with the good old black hardware.
I also had no problems with HP drives in HP stations (running NEXTSTEP).
-Robert
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From: igerard@shadok (Gerard Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot in single user and network
Date: 5 Apr 1995 16:38:48 GMT
Organization: INA, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, Bry-sur-Marne, France
Message-ID: <3luh2o$50e@wolfy.ina.fr>
Hello,
I would like to connect on network for ftp in single user, because I
want to retrieve somme file on a PC/NEXTSTEP which can't boot.
Now I can boot from cdrom, read and write on the IDE disk, and I have
loaded driver for IDE, EtherExpress and Floppy.
I am under 3.3.
It's the upgrade by network which has failed in writing
/usr/standalone/i386/boot
Thanks in advance.
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NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP on SGI !!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: ken@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kenichi Kurasawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with tar.gz files
Date: 05 Apr 1995 05:07:21 GMT
Organization: YITP
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <KEN.95Apr5140722@hp03.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
References: <3lrggb$1rm@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In-reply-to: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu's message of 4 Apr 1995 13:10:35 GMT
>>>>> "JIM" == JIM KOCH <jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu> writes:
JIM> Would someone explain the difference between "tar.z" and "tar.gz" files.
JIM> My NeXT knows what to do with the tar.z files but neither of us knows what
JIM> to do with the tar.gz files Thanks Jim
They are both gzipped files. To unpack them, you can say
% gnutar -zvxf foo.tar.gz (or foo.tar.z)
in the terminal. You can also unpack them using Operner.app (by
launching the app) or by using Services menu thru
TickleServices. You can rename it to .compressed and change the
dwrite for the Workspace (un)compressor also, probably.
The reason gzipped files have two extensions is historical. When
gzip was originally released, the default extension was .z.
However, there was another (little-know) compression routine
that used the same letter. Then, there was a big debate,
surveys went out and people finally settled on .gz.
--
Kenichiro Aoki (ken@phys.titech.ac.jp), Department of Physics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
... posting from kyoto....
From: thiel@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Thiel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WS-Manager hangs on accesss to NFS-server
Date: 6 Apr 1995 09:32:06 GMT
Organization: Institute for Electronics, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m0cem$l86@elna.ethz.ch>
Until yesterday everything worked fine and I had access to an NFS filesystem on
a NFS server. It's mounted in /Net. I've created and used several files on this
server successfully with different NeXTStep-applications (Edit, PB, IB,..) in the
past.
Now I can *only* access the filesytem through a Shell-Window cd-ing through
the NeXT directories to /Net/servername/directoriesOnRemoteServer/ and edit them
using edit, but access through WorkspaceManager fails. Every application
which tries to open one of the remote files will also fail. Even copying
and moving on the remote server don't work. However, the sysadmin
of the NFS server claims not to have performed any modifaction of access rights
during last night.
Now the big and *urgent* question:
What's wrong?
Thank's
Andy
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Electronics Laboratory | Institut fuer Elektronik
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | ETH Zuerich
Gloriastrasse 35 | Gloriastrasse 35
|
CH-8092 Zurich | CH-8092 Zuerich
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From: hakan@foxie.ne.kth.se (Hakan Wennerstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with tar.gz files
Date: 6 Apr 1995 09:35:17 GMT
Message-ID: <3m0ckl$h2e@news.kth.se>
References: <3lrggb$1rm@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Get Opener.app from ftp.cs.orst.edu, and your NeXT will know what to do
with tar.gz-files.
/Hakan Wennerstrom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: l111@sun1.hrz.uni-giessen.de (Alexander Otterbein)
Subject: 8514 driver
Sender: news@muster.hrz.uni-giessen.de
Message-ID: <D6L7u7.18nn@muster.hrz.uni-giessen.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 00:25:19 GMT
Organization: Uni-Giessen
Hi,
I am looking for a 8514 driver for NS 3.3. Where can I ftp this beast ?
Ciao...
Alex.
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From: sfeldman@red.seas.upenn.edu (Sharon M. Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SysAdmin survey done yet?
Date: 5 Apr 1995 18:28:43 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3lungr$r8g@netnews.upenn.edu>
Posted-for: nagelc1@sb.com
Hi,
Awhile back, someone was collecting questions to put
into a sysadmin survey. The questions went like, "Have you
ever stayed up all night because one of your users removed
all the symbolic links in / ?" "Was that user you?", etc.
I was wondering if the survey was ever collated into
a single document? Does anyone remember or know?
Thanks!
Chris
nagelc1@sb.com
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From: wrb@biostr.washington.edu (William Barker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 5 Apr 1995 20:04:53 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
Subject says it all. I tried, but it isn't preconfiged for NS, and I
didn't want to re-invent the wheel. Besides, I've also got SGIs, and it
builds cleanly out of the box on them.
Thanks in advance.
bb
--
Bill Barker
Biological Structure, SM-20
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
(206) 543-7315
"In Wine there is Wisdom, In Beer there is Strength; In Water is
Bacteria." --Old German Saying.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: 'pcnfsd' on black hw?
Message-ID: <1995Apr6.160652.29817@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3lvcul$mb5@larry.rice.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 16:06:52 GMT
Steve Ludtke writes
> Actually rpc.pcnfsd is included with NeXTStep, there just isn't a man
page
It's version 1.0 though, and doesn't authenticate printers with Sun PCNFS
5. I too want to get version 2.0 compiled on my black next to get printers
to work.
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SATAN
Date: 6 Apr 1995 16:18:12 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m1484$kg6@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <3lv3u4$9s0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
In article <3lv3u4$9s0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W.
Burton) writes:
> Sean Anthony Varah writes
> > Could it be, SATAN?
> >
> > There's lots of hype around Harvard about SATAN. Is there a
> > FAQ for security holes in NeXTStep? Any basic holes I should
> > be worried about, or is it just hype?
>
> Speaking of which...I downloaded SATAN myself this morning, and with a
> bit of tweaking managed to get it compiled. (Fix the reconfig script
> to put /LocalApps/Net/OmniWeb.app, or wherever your OmniWeb lives, in
> your path, and OmniWeb in the list of preferred WWW browsers. Fiddle
> with the include flags a bit; some utilities expect bsd stuff, and
> others want ansi.) It seems to almost run with OmniWeb---it starts
> a WWW browser when you run it from the command line, although it
> doesn't point the browser at satan.html correctly. When you get the
> page pointed properly, there is a path problem that keeps you from
> getting to the target selection page. Fix the relevant .html page
> by hand, and SATAN appears to interrogate hosts. However, the only
> report I can get it to generate about my own system is basically
> null (hello, you're running NS 3.2 on a NeXT, blah, blah, no
> vulnerabilities found), and when I try to investigate friends over
> my SLIP line (with permission!) SATAN clobbers OmniWeb and dies.
>
I have been trying to get it to work all morning. I build Perl5 and it
passed all the tests. I configured satan and did the make and I finally
got it compile properly. However, when it runs, bin/timeout always gives
a "Segmentation fault". Here is what I did to get timeout.c to compile:
# make all
cc -g -I. -DAUTH_GID_T=int -D_NEXT_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -o
./../bin/timeout timeout.c -lposix
# ./timeout 1 /bin/ls
Segmentation fault
and in gdb:
# gdb timeout
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.7 (NeXT 3.1), Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
Reading symbols from /usr/local/src/satan-1.0/bin/timeout...done.
(gdb) run 1 /bin/ls
Starting program: /usr/local/src/satan-1.0/bin/timeout 1 /bin/ls
Program generated(1): Memory access exception on address 0x1e114 (invalid
address).
0x8afa in cthread_set_errno_self ()
I even grabbed the file "unistd.h" from another system since it wanted
that file, but it didn't have any effect...
Help!!!!!
> As you can tell, I have only the remotest idea of what I am doing.
> Has anyone gotten this beast up and running properly using OmniWeb?
>
> I grant you, I attacked your foe;
+--------------------------------+
> But this, I feel you ought to know | Joshua W Burton
(401)435-6370 |
> Is something you should not construe | burton@het.brown.edu
|
> To mean that I agree with you. -- Piet Hein
+--------------------------------+
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"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
******* I do not represent the University of Houston *********
From: alec@inc.net (Alec Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Popper Compile For SPARC
Date: 4 Apr 1995 04:46:31 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. 414-476-4266
Message-ID: <3lqiv7$j76@blinky.inc.net>
Hello SPARC NeXTStep Users,
Could anyone out there in NetLand please compile popper for NSSPARC so I
can set up a test on our SPARC Server? I would really appreciate it.
I'd be glad to upload it to the appropriate ftp sites!
Thanks in advance,
Alec Ellsworth
alec@inc.net
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From: asoto@wsc.com ( Andre L. Soto )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panic: Help!
Date: 5 Apr 1995 21:08:37 GMT
Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3lv0sl$qh@cerberus.wsc.com>
I believe our machines are afraid of this one user. At different
occasions, upon logging in or shortly there after, the machine panics.
The messages below are copied from /usr/adm/messages:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos 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
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: Killing all processes panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos 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
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos 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
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: FPU version 0x40
eos mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos 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
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: Killing all processes panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos 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
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach:
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos 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
Apr 5 09:25:50 eos mach: FPU version 0x40
....
The significant message here is the panic message. I swapped his machine
but the same problem still appeared. The first machine was a NeXTstation
color and the second machine is a NeXTcube.
What is going on? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Andre L. Soto
andre.soto@wsc.com
From: ac11111m@huey.csun.edu (Ed Skochinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting 2nd scsi disk
Date: 6 Apr 1995 19:19:20 GMT
Organization: California State University, Northridge
Message-ID: <3m1ero$8n4@dewey.csun.edu>
References: <3lsve8$sf4@dewey.csun.edu>
Ed Skochinski (ac11111m@huey.csun.edu) wrote:
> I have reconfigured an '040 slab with an external 500MB drive as the boot
> device and the interal drive for use as /usr/local. I have modified the
> fstab entry for the internal drive to contain:
> /dev/sd1a /InternalHD 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
> Yet the device will not mount "automatically" unless there is a console
> login. What am I missing?
> Thanks,
> Ed Skochinski, graduate grunt
> edsko@calstate.edu
From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 20:24:02 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3m1il2$koj@mars.earthlink.net>
References: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net> <Pine.NXT.3.91.950406121628.12071F-100000@pear>
Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
[snip]
>I was trying to install satan 1.0 today but had problems relating to
typedefs
>not defined in sys/types.h because _POSIX_SOURCE is not defined on my
system
>(black 3.2). I don't know what _POSIX_SOURCE is or how to define it,
etc.
>Can someone help me on this one? What the hell is POSIX anyway?
>
POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) is the IEEE standard for
portable code. It is based on UNIX but other OS's can be POSIX
compliant.
As I previously had trouble compiling a short snip of POSIX code I am
not sure how truly POSIX compliant NeXTStep is.
BTW, does anyone know where I can get the SATAN source code?
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
far@earthlink.net # one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
Agoura Hills, CA # to be without faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can aquire power
# but not glory.
#
(NeXTmail prefered) # --Nicolo, Machiavelli
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From: jim.anderson@cyberstore.ca (Jim Anderson)
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Subject: comdex on cd-rom
Date: 6 Apr 1995 21:04:53 GMT
Organization: Cyberstore Systems
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From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: Help with tar.gz files
Message-ID: <1995Apr6.204147.1588@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3m1cju$ic1@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 20:41:47 GMT
Dan Bowling writes
> Files ending in tar.z
> are tar files that have been compressed with the "compress"
> command. You can uncompress them with (you guessed it)
> "uncompress". See the man page.
That is incorrect--lower case 'z' signifies a file compressed with "gzip".
Upper case 'Z' signifies a file compressed with "compress".
> Files ending in tar.gz
> are tar files that have been compressed with GNU's "gzip"
> command. You can uncompress them with (you may have guessed it)
> "gunzip". See the man page.
That is correct.
>
> FTR, I think gunzip works on "compress"ed files too. See the man page.
That is also correct.
--
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From: gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry)
Subject: Re: 2 Gig SCSI bug
Message-ID: <1995Apr6.121511.2068@ares.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.fr
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
References: <1995Apr5.104423.44662@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:15:11 GMT
In article <1995Apr5.104423.44662@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> writes:
> dwright@omni.voicenet.com (Darren Wright) wrote:
> >In article <3ldii7$60e@nntp3.u.washington.edu> rling@u.washington.edu
(Robert Ling) writes:
> >>From: rling@u.washington.edu (Robert Ling)
> >>Subject: 2 Gig SCSI bug
> >>Date: 30 Mar 1995 06:19:51 GMT
>
> >>According to NeXTanswers there in a bug that prevents installation
> >>of NeXTSTEP to SCSI disks larger than 2 GBytes in NS 3.2. Does
> >>anyone know if it matters if the disk is partitioned to less than
> >>2 GB (per partition) or if installation works through BuildDisk?
> >>Has this been fixed in NS 3.3?
>
> Should be no problems!
>
> >>I don't recall if NeXTanswers mentions which architectures it applies
> >>to but I'm mainly interested in the above for NeXTSTEP for Intel.
>
>
> >>- Robert Ling <rling@u.washington.edu>
>
> >Before you even attempt this install let me tell you my ordeal of the
last 4
> >months:
>
> >In November of 1994, I started a school project on a 2GB DEC drive, and
> >decided to use NeXTstep as an OS. After talking with NeXT and making
sure
> >that the hardware would work, we bought NS 3.2. Well, needless to say,
the
> >install did NOT work, in fact, the DEC drive wasn't recognized at all.
So we
> >bought a Seagate drive, and that had problems too. After 4 months of
talking
> >to tech support, the finally said Nope, sorry cannot do. (We wanted
1.5 GB
> >for NeXT and 500Mb for DOS). They said that the 3.3 upgrade would fix
it, but
> >that it would be another $200 to upgrade.
>
> [...]
>
> >I'd like to know if anyone else had any bad experiences...
>
> I'll tell you that I had only GOOD experiences, with both seagate and
DEC drives!
>
> I had no problems with two quantum empire 2G drives. Installation was
smoot, no glitches.
> But then, all this was with the good old black hardware.
>
> I also had no problems with HP drives in HP stations (running NEXTSTEP).
>
> -Robert
I do have problems with HP drives In black Hardware station ... scsi
timeout several times in a day ( about 20 seconds)
Gery DIVRY ( ZZVolume Daddy )
ARES Publisher
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69007 LYON Fax: (+33) 72 80 16 32
France Email: gery@ares.fdn.org
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From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Solution] Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 23:00:51 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m1rr3$597@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <3m1il2$koj@mars.earthlink.net>
In article <3m1il2$koj@mars.earthlink.net> root@terra (Operator) writes:
> Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >I was trying to install satan 1.0 today but had problems relating to
> typedefs
> >not defined in sys/types.h because _POSIX_SOURCE is not defined on my
> system
> >(black 3.2). I don't know what _POSIX_SOURCE is or how to define it,
> etc.
> >Can someone help me on this one? What the hell is POSIX anyway?
> >
>
> POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) is the IEEE standard for
> portable code. It is based on UNIX but other OS's can be POSIX
> compliant.
>
> As I previously had trouble compiling a short snip of POSIX code I am
> not sure how truly POSIX compliant NeXTStep is.
>
> BTW, does anyone know where I can get the SATAN source code?
>
>
This was posted on the net in comp.security.unix. It solves the compiling
problems...
>
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> From: bbense@spelljammer.stanford.edu (Booker C. Bense)
> Newsgroups: comp.security.unix
> Subject: Re: SATAN on NeXT anyone?
> Date: 6 Apr 1995 06:25:22 -0700
> Organization: Stanford Networking
> Lines: 18
> Message-ID: <3m0q42$nv1@spelljammer.stanford.edu>
> References: <1995Apr5.230001.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: spelljammer.stanford.edu
>
> In article <1995Apr5.230001.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>,
> <sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> wrote:
> >Anyone attempt to get Satan compiled on NeXT 3.3? Majorly bombed on me
(as I
> >anticipated). Still trudging through code....any help appreciated.
> >
> >Scott
> >
> >Scott Davenport / sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu / NeXTMail OK!
> >
>
> - You'll need to get an implementation of putenv somewhere. The other
key
> is to use
>
> cc -posix
>
> as the compiler.
>
> - Booker C. Bense: bbense@networking.stanford.edu
>
--
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The University of Houston * <URL:http://www.egr.uh.edu/~sears/>
Engineering Computing Center * SSI Diving Certification #755020059
NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
******* I do not represent the University of Houston *********
From: knobi@arch-ws6 (Frank Knobloch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing NetInfo-Entries
Date: 6 Apr 1995 09:07:58 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Message-ID: <3m0b1e$iaf@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
Dear netters,
i`ve got a question on how to change a hostname from an already
installed NeXT-Machine.
The problem ist the following:
Here is an machine, called arch-ws3 an it`s working as the mailhost
in our NetInfo Database. Now this machine should shutted down and
another machine, which is still new configured has to do these things.
The new machine should get the name arch-ws3, now it`s called
arch-dummy.
The machine arch-ws3 serves a middle domain and the local domain.
What have i to do for changing the machines???
Bye
...Frank
email: knobi@architektur.uni-kassel.de
From: dbowling@gcrc.ufl.edu (Dan Bowling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with tar.gz files
Date: 6 Apr 1995 18:41:02 GMT
Organization: University of Florida
Message-ID: <3m1cju$ic1@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
References: <3lrggb$1rm@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In article <3lrggb$1rm@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu
(JIM KOCH) writes:
> Would someone explain the difference between "tar.z" and "tar.gz" files.
> My NeXT knows what to do with the tar.z files but neither of us knows
what
> to do with the tar.gz files Thanks Jim
Files ending in tar.z
are tar files that have been compressed with the "compress"
command. You can uncompress them with (you guessed it)
"uncompress". See the man page.
Files ending in tar.gz
are tar files that have been compressed with GNU's "gzip"
command. You can uncompress them with (you may have guessed it)
"gunzip". See the man page.
FTR, I think gunzip works on "compress"ed files too. See the man page.
later,
dan
--
Dan Bowling Data Services Mgr
dbowling@gcrc.ufl.edu GCRC, Univ of Florida
From: emarshal@osf1.gmu.edu (ERIC R. MARSHALL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disk(8) fails to format disk
Date: 6 Apr 1995 01:26:25 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <3lvg01$e9a@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have an old 100MB Quantum drive from a slab which I would like
to use as a swap disk. It currently has a DOS file system on it and I would
like to format it with a NEXTSTEP file system. Running disk(8) interactively
on my NSFIP 3.3 system produces the following output:
disk> init
DESTROYS ALL EXISTING DISK DATA -- really initialize? y
enter host name: juggler
enter disk label: SwapDisk
writing disk label
can't write label -- disk unusable!: I/O error
I get the same result whether the disk is mounted or not. Any help
would be appreciated!
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SysAdmin 3.3 Manual Info?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 17:49:22 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m19j2$dd4@news.next.com>
References: <3lcgi5$pqt@delos.s.bawue.de>
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams) wrote:
> I'm looking for some information on how to order the
> "NeXTSTEP Networking and System Administration Manual"
> for version 3.3.
ergo@merlin.s.bawue.de replied
> ISBN 0-201-63254-3
> $32.95 (USA)
> $42.95 (Canada)
>
> I've bought it at the local bookstore (here in Germany ;-)).
What you've purchased is the 3.0 manual. There were minimal
changes between 3.0 and 3.2. There were lots of changes
between 3.2 and 3.3.
Alas, no one's publishing the 3.3 book in hard copy.
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
http://www.NeXT.COM/~amarcum/
From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:26:13 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950406121628.12071F-100000@pear>
References: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net>
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In-Reply-To: <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net>
On 6 Apr 1995, Thomas Poff wrote:
> Ack!
>
> Shouldn't Santa have lots of security holes (lack of features)
> with regard to NeXTStep because of the way that NFS works?
We just corrected some NFS security problems with default access not being
defined and being assumed for 'unknown' machines to be read/write! Make sure
your exports have an explicit access= property, along with any root= property
(though I'm sure I'm the only one who didn't know this!).
I was trying to install satan 1.0 today but had problems relating to typedefs
not defined in sys/types.h because _POSIX_SOURCE is not defined on my system
(black 3.2). I don't know what _POSIX_SOURCE is or how to define it, etc.
Can someone help me on this one? What the hell is POSIX anyway?
> I found a copy of the passwd file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People
> today. I was wondering... why would NFS put the passwd file
> there! {&-o
Got one too, now that you mention it. It is short and I too have no idea
why it is there.
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
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From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Very strange 3.3 behaviour? (dbm files appearing from nowhere)
Date: 05 Apr 1995 21:35:52 +0100
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <robertznfpxu5w3fer@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
Yesterday I was on a friends 3.3 Intel machine and I noticed that when
I did. (in single user mode. ie. no netinfo)
ls -al /
I got.
root:/Users/robert/archives/for_sendfax/tools>ls -al / 21:32
total 1594
dr-xr-xr-x 17 # 1024 Apr 5 16:15 .
dr-xr-xr-x 17 # 1024 Apr 5 16:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 # 1024 Apr 2 20:32 .NeXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 82 Sep 25 1994 .crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 460 Mar 4 1992 .cshrc
drwx------ 2 # 1024 Oct 9 16:27 .elm
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 20 Oct 23 1993 .hidden
-rw------- 1 # 6967 Apr 5 20:41 .history
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 187 Mar 21 1989 .login
-rw------- 1 # 1468 Jan 27 20:38 .ncrecent
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 554 Jan 27 19:44 .newsrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 554 Jan 27 19:43 .oldnewsrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 150 Dec 8 1992 .path
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 125 Dec 8 1992 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 53 Jan 27 19:44 .rnlast
-rw-r--r-- 1 # 91 Jan 27 19:43 .rnsoft
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 21 Mar 5 15:56 .zshenv -> /Users/robert/.zshenv
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 20 Mar 5 15:56 .zshrc -> /Users/robert/.zshrc
drwxr-xr-x 6 # 1024 Apr 4 23:51 External1
drwxr-xr-x 4 # 1024 Jan 16 21:58 Library
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 29 Apr 2 18:54 LocalApps -> /External1/nextstep/LocalApps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 34 Apr 2 18:42 LocalDeveloper -> /External1/nextstep/LocalDeveloper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 32 Apr 2 18:42 LocalLibrary -> /External1/nextstep/LocalLibrary
drwx------ 2 # 1024 Apr 5 20:41 Mail
drwx------ 3 # 1024 Oct 23 1993 Mailboxes
dr-xr-xr-x 1 # 512 Apr 5 16:15 Net
drwxr-xr-x 3 # 1024 Dec 27 18:38 News
drwxr-xr-x 11 # 1024 Oct 22 1993 NextAdmin
drwxr-xr-x 14 # 1024 Jun 7 1994 NextApps
drwxr-xr-x 10 # 1024 Oct 11 01:03 NextDeveloper
drwxr-xr-x 22 # 1024 Oct 11 01:05 NextLibrary
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 16 Apr 2 18:46 Users -> /External1/Users
drwxr-xr-x 2 # 2048 Sep 25 1994 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 11 Oct 22 1993 dev -> private/dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 11 Oct 22 1993 etc -> private/etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 # 1024 Oct 20 1993 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 9 Oct 22 1993 mach -> $BOOTFILE
-r--r--r-- 3 # 779288 Oct 19 1993 odmach
drwxrwxr-x 12 # 1024 Jan 1 02:52 private
-r--r--r-- 3 # 779288 Oct 19 1993 sdmach
-rwxr-xr-- 1 # 252 Apr 2 17:13 tarcomp
-rwxr-xr-- 1 # 766 Apr 2 17:13 tarcreate
-rwxr-xr-- 1 # 147 Apr 2 17:13 tarextract
-rwxr-xr-- 1 # 53 Apr 2 17:13 tarlist
lrwxrwxrwx 1 # 11 Oct 22 1993 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 17 # 1024 Apr 2 18:43 usr
guess what `whoami` returned
That's right. "#"
So I look at /etc/passwd and noticed nothing wrong. then I changed the
uucp owner to buucp and tried chowning a file buucp and low and behold
it didn't accept buucp as the owner. Upon closer inspection I noticed
that there was a passwd.dir and passwd.pag files in /etc look at the
pag files I could see that the regular /etc/passwd file had somehow
been used to build these dbm files and the comment character was
causing the trouble.
Two questions..
1. How was that file created.
2. More importantly, why was it even consulted by the OS at all? (getpwent)
--
"Mary ate a little lamb and punk rock isn't dead"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
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From: sfeldman@red.seas.upenn.edu (Sharon M. Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20
Date: 6 Apr 1995 15:42:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3m125s$rj7@netnews.upenn.edu>
References: <jorice.797079783@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie>
(Posted for a friend)
Jonathon Otto Rice (jorice@tcd.ie) wrote:
: Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20, trying /etc/init
: Load of /etc/init failed, errno 20
: trap: type 0cx fcode 8450 rw 8192 faultaddr 0x2081
:
: This looks rather bad to me. Is there any magic which might fix it?
: Assuming there isn't, might I be able to mount the disk on another
: (non-NS?) machine to pull off some of the user files? Or is it likely
: that the whole file-system is a write-off?
Don't sweat too hard. I inherited a system that was given to a
retarded monkey who stuffed the filesystem to capacity (0 bytes free)
and then decided to obtain disk space by deleting /etc, /bin, and so on.
The system, needless to say, crashed into an unbootable state!
The error I was getting was similar to the one you're getting, though
the code was different. Putting the disk into another system and
mounting it allowed me to see all the files, but I could never get
the system to boot. I copied the files I wanted and then used the
CD to install a clean 3.2. It's worked like a charm ever since.
Except, that is, for the braindead FAX drivers, but that's another
story...
You've probably mounted the disk in another system by now, but if not
try it. You should have "no tribble at all." Good luck,
Chris
nagelc1@sb.com
From: jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 07:48:03 -0400
Organization: The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m0kdj$o6k@thor.tjhsst.edu>
References: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net>
In article <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net>,
Thomas Poff <thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu> wrote:
>I found a copy of the passwd file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People
>today. I was wondering... why would NFS put the passwd file
>there! {&-o
That's because of how Mail.app works with displaying the pictures of users
who send you mail. For some reason, it couldn't possibly just use the
/etc/passwd, it has to have its own special copy...
From: wli@linus (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: gcc2.6.3 installing problem
Date: 7 Apr 1995 02:13:47 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <3m274r$ejj@news.ualr.edu>
Summary: gcc2.6.3 installing failure
Keywords: GNU, gcc
Please help me! I am experiencing problems while installing
the GNU gcc2.6.3 compiler on my black NeXTstation running
NeXTStep 2.1. The "make" process would abort in the middle
due to some missing file. Thanks.
-wei,
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From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: problem with BuildDisk (3.2 black)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 13:17:57 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950406131535.12071J-100000-100000-100000@pear>
References: <9504061812.AA24973@mathlab01.unl.edu>
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On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Rex Dieter wrote:
> I don't think this filesystem can be mounted when you run BuildDisk,
> ie. 'umount /blueberry' and try again.
Nope. Same message and BuildDisk exits. I'll try mounting the disk on
another machine this weekend and see if I can build it there.
Bapi
From: dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au (Richard West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: PhotoCD drivers under NS3.3?
Date: 7 Apr 1995 08:10:06 GMT
Organization: Monash University
Message-ID: <3m2s0u$b1a@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Summary: Do the PhotoCD drivers still come with NS3.3?
Keywords: driver NEXTSTEP 3.3 PhotoCD
Hi,
I'm posting this for a friend (mark@giaia.gcs.oz.au) who has NS3.3 running
on black hardware. He says that he could view PhotoCD's under 3.2, but that
now he's upgraded to 3.3, he can no longer read them. Can anyone shed some
light on this? Please mail any responses to mark as I'm not sure if he'll
get this newsgroup.
Thanks in advance,
Richard dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au
From: jk@tools.de (Juergen Keil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: bad sendreply's between NextStep 3.3 and Solaris 2.4 NFS
Date: 07 Apr 1995 18:42:47 GMT
Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <JK.95Apr7204247@leo.tools.de>
References: <3m3ifc$14c@ren.ny.psca.com>
In-reply-to: rfrancis@tsiny.psca.com's message of 7 Apr 1995 14:33:16 GMT
In article <3m3ifc$14c@ren.ny.psca.com> rfrancis@tsiny.psca.com (Rob
Francis) writes:
> ... he gets "svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed" under Nextstep
> when SunOS 5.4 mounts a NextStep exported NFS filesystem.
> well as Solaris 2.3 machines --the mounts work fine. Is there
> something about 2.4 I should know?
SunOS 5.4 doesn't include some bug workarounds for ancient SunOS 3.x
systems any more. Unfortunatelly these workarounds are still
necessary for NextStep systems.
Mount the NextStep NFS filesystems with an NFS read size of 1024 bytes
(-o rsize=1024) on your SunOS 5.4 NFS client.
--
Juergen Keil jk@tools.de ...!{uunet,mcsun}!unido!tools!jk
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From: engelsma@remote1.it.gvsu.edu (Ben Engelsma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Will the Adaptec 1522A work for installation?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 18:56:03 GMT
Organization: Grand Vally State University
Message-ID: <3m1dg3$39q@news.it.gvsu.edu>
Hi,
I know the compatibility guide doesn't mention it, but has anyone
every had any luck with the 1522A SCSI adaptor from Adaptec for
installing 3.2?
Thanx for any info.
Ben
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From: fletcher@nova.umuc.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POPmail, telnet/SLIP and name resolution: Need help
Date: 6 Apr 1995 14:42:14 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Message-ID: <3m1cm6$51r@nova.umuc.edu>
Keywords: POPmail, SLIP
I have a NeXTstation (running 3.3) that has a SLIP configuration
to dial out via a modem. Also connected to this machine are several
PC via ethernet. I installed a POPmail server and I noticed that whenever
one of the PC accesses their mail, the modem will dialout for a SLIP
connection. For some reason, the name of the NeXT is not being resolved
locally but is being sent out (and then back). I have checked the
NetInfo, sendmail, resolv.conf, and other configuration files, and
everything seems fine. Anyone got any ideas what might be happening
and what I need to do to fix the situation?
Thanks in advance,
Charlie
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From: stanifor@shasta.cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Difficulty logging in on console
Date: 5 Apr 1995 21:09:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3lv0v4$rk8@mark.ucdavis.edu>
I'm having an intermittent problem logging in at the console of my
machine. Symptoms are that the login window accepts my username
and password, then the spinning "wait" cursor comes up for ten seconds or
so, and then I land back at the loginwindow instead of in my workspace.
This happens over and over, but maybe one time in five, the machine logs
me in normally. I haven't figured out any common factor in the occasions
when it works normally.
Anyone seen anything like this?
I'm running NS 3.2 on an Ecesys Pentium. Remote logins work normally. I
have checked and none of my system programs have been trojaned.
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From: kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 7 Apr 1995 18:24:35 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m4013$jqi@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1995Feb18.220958.1356@newshost.atk.com> <D5Ltqu.5oH@txnews.amd.com> <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <3lbo9s$jcj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <3lcuuq$4ui@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>
Message-ID: <1995Apr7.201355@rzri6f.gsi.de>
Organization: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Keywords:
In article <3lcuuq$4ui@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>, scottm@killer.cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel) writes:
|> Michael Kraemer (kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de) wrote:
|> : The problems are 1. $$$$ and 2. psychology. If there are 50 users demanding
|> : raw computer power it's more likely that they buy 50 different machines for
|> : their own use. The general belief is that having a small computer for personal
|> : use is better than to share a big one with others. I won't subscribe to that
|> : opinion but that's the way life goes. It's one of the reasons for the decline
|> : of the mainframes.
|>
|> I wouldn't characterize the psychological problem the way you have. It
|> has nothing to do with sharing computer resources, although, one could
|> argue that one gets better response from a PC than from a mainframe under
|> certain conditions. More to the point is data ownership -- a PC allows one
|> to own and keep the data one is playing with, and transform it any way one
|> likes. A mainframe isn't generally structured that way; and have you dealt
|> with the incipient priesthood that maintains mainframes?
|>
Yes, I've worked on both types of systems for years,
mainframes (IBM/MVS) and personal systems (RS/6000/AIX and Amiga).
Sure, any personal computer gives you better response when you press
the enter key and their graphics capabilities don't need further discussion.
As far as ownership of data is concerned: on mainframe systems I'm still
"owner" of my data. What I always liked on the mainframe systems I've used so
far is that I don't have to care so much where my data actually are and if
they are backed up. I'm used to hierarchical storage systems and regular
automatic backups.
On a personal system for sure I've more freedom what to do with my data,
including messing things up and forgetting regular backups.
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 6 Apr 1995 19:37:00 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m1fss$1lu@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3m0kdj$o6k@thor.tjhsst.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In article <3m0kdj$o6k@thor.tjhsst.edu> jharding@thor.tjhsst.edu (John
Harding) writes:
}~ In article <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net>,
}~ Thomas Poff <thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu> wrote:
}~ >I found a copy of the passwd file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People
}~ >today. I was wondering... why would NFS put the passwd file
}~ >there! {&-o
}~
}~ That's because of how Mail.app works with displaying the pictures of
}~ users who send you mail. For some reason, it couldn't possibly just
}~ use the /etc/passwd, it has to have its own special copy...
There is NO good reason for the passwd file used for pictures
to have passwords, shells, home directories intact. At the same
time there's no good reason to have user@otherhost.dom entries
(or user.otherhost.dom for that matter) in /etc/passwd nor its
NetInfo equivalent.
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We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
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NEXT IN LINE magazine staff technical writer
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Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
From: cdb@xedoc.com.au (Cameron Bromley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UserManager 3.3 Hooks
Date: 7 Apr 1995 05:49:17 GMT
Organization: Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <3m2jot$db2@yarrina.connect.com.au>
References: <3lpnq5$qte@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
There is another way to do this, (if you want ALL new users
to receive CoXist defaults, or whatever). Simply modify
the files in /usr/template/user. As far as I can tell,
the UserManager simply copies this directory into the
new user's home directory and chowns the files.
I used this to modify the initial contents of the Active.mbox
and to set a few defaults (A4 paper, etc). I found the easiest
way to get everything correct was to create a new user, set the
defaults, send some mail to the new user, etc, then copy this
back to /usr/template/user.
Hope this helps,
Cameron.
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From: fletcher@nova.umuc.edu (Charles Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 Server for NeXT
Date: 7 Apr 1995 08:38:29 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Message-ID: <3m3bo5$e05@nova.umuc.edu>
References: <bwk100.1.2F7C2693@psu.edu> <pdell.95Apr395216@nanoii.bu.edu> <3m32i6$d6k@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>
Keywords: POPmail
I picked up the POPmail distribution on orst the other day -- it compiled
and installed without problems, and seems to be running just fine.
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From: rfrancis@tsiny.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: bad sendreply's between NextStep 3.3 and Solaris 2.4 NFS
Date: 7 Apr 1995 14:33:16 GMT
Organization: Paradigm Systems
Message-ID: <3m3ifc$14c@ren.ny.psca.com>
NextStep 3.3 machine:
rfrancis@gollum (3): exportfs
/ -root=spaceghost
Solaris 2.4 machine:
spaceghost[15]#mount gollum:/ /mnt
spaceghost[16]#ls /mnt
^C
spaceghost[17]#umount /mnt
spaceghost[18]#
So when I do an ls of /mnt, then the 2.4 machine hangs, and I see the
following in the NextStep machine's messages file:
Apr 7 10:21:42 gollum mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
Apr 7 10:21:42 gollum mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from
192.246.114.6
Apr 7 10:21:43 gollum mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
Apr 7 10:21:43 gollum mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from
192.246.114.6
Apr 7 10:21:44 gollum mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
Apr 7 10:21:44 gollum mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from
192.246.114.6
Now, I've exported / from the NextStep machine to other NeXT's, as
well as Solaris 2.3 machines --the mounts work fine. Is there
something about 2.4 I should know? I sure can't find anything in the
release notes or FAQ's.
Thanks in advance,
-rob
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From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: What did 3.3 do to lookupd?
Message-ID: <D6Cqvv.487@sounds.wa.com>
Summary: 3.2 lookupd works better
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 10:38:19 GMT
I have an isolated machine at my home office which has access to the Internet
via SLIP. After upgrading to NEXTSTEP Release 3.3, ftp and Web programs
stopped automatically resolving machine names. nslookup was still functioning,
so I decided to read all the relevant man pages and found a note that lookupd
can be restarted with SIGHUP "if the network gets turned on later".
After typing:
kill -HUP `cat /etc/lookupd.pid`
I found that network name resolution was restored.
Can anyone tell me what changed in 3.3?
Is there any way to return the setup for lookupd such that it will work each
time I reboot?
I diff'd /etc with /NEXTSTEP_3.2/etc and found nothing fishy.
I would hate to have to remember to restart lookupd every time I boot,
and adding the above line to rc.local sounds like a bad idea (but I may try it).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 25 MHz
System type: 2
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 40.00 megabytes.
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From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: bogus NetInfo directory: how do I delete it?
Message-ID: <D6DsxD.9sI@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:20:01 GMT
I have a directory in NetInfo which does not seem to belong in the /users
directory. It happens to be an old NXFax entry, sounds_fax, and is not in the
correct format for a /users item (i.e. the command "nidump passwd ." shows
"sounds_fax::::::")
In the main window of NetInfoManager for my root domain (local @ sounds), I can
select "sounds_fax" in the "/users" directory and then type Command-r or click
on the Delete menu item in the Edit menu. The result is a popup with the
following error message: "NetInfo write failed! (Object is not child of parent: cannot destroy)"
The directory was probably originally created by one of the beta versions of
NXFax, as I participated in their beta test program. On the other hand, it may
be there as a result of file system corruption since my SCSI bus has suffered a
couple of times when I put too many cable extensions and the boot drive
crashed.
If anyone can suggest how I might remove this thing from my NetInfo database,
I would certainly appreciate it.
In addition, while I have your attention, I am curious to know if there are any
consistency checks which can be executed on a NetInfo database. If my problem
is due to corruption, I would like to be able to detect any hidden damage in
other areas of NetInfo where I have not looked.
Thanks,
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From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer Shudown Bug
Message-ID: <D6Jzvo.A03@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <3lsgcc$s6b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:35:47 GMT
Don Baker <baker@journalism.indiana.edu> wrote:
>In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3lrepf$1cu@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu> you wrote:
>>My NewsGrazer will shutdown similar types of newsgroups for one or two
>>days then work without a problem. e.g. At time i con open no newsgroup
>>that is a marketplace. Like comp marketplace or cars marketplace this
>>happens across the board for any group ending in marketplace. It has also
>>happened with pictures. Strange huh? Any ideas.
>
>I've seen the same problems with with NewGrazer. For me its not been related
>to any particular news group, it just happens. If I open NG from the command
>line, I get a "segmentation fault" when it crashes. This error is not
>reported in the console when NG is launched from the Workspace.
>
>My guess is that since NG hasn't been updated in over 2 years, it might not
>handle the newer nntp servers (ie. post-c-news) too well? Just a hunch.
In the past, when I have experience this problem with NewsGrazer, it has been
due to some sort of "unexpected" data in an article within a newsgroup.
Usually, I have been able to look through the newsgroup directory under
/usr/spool/news in the newsgroup having the problem and have found the "bad"
article. Look for very long header lines. For me, the fix was to hand edit
~/.newsrc so that the problem article was marked as already read - then
NewsGrazer just skips it and has no crashing problem.
Of course, I realize that this workaround is the most painful thing compared
to the usual ease-of-use with NewsGrazer. That's why I've switched to trn,
which comes with source and can be "fixed" when such bugs are discovered.
One of these days, someone with initiative will write a NEXTSTEP GUI for the
threaded-newsgroups that trn provides.
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From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: mounting 2nd scsi disk
Message-ID: <D6n0y5.11F@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3lsve8$sf4@dewey.csun.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 23:51:40 GMT
In article <3lsve8$sf4@dewey.csun.edu> ac11111m@huey.csun.edu (Ed
Skochinski) writes:
>
> I have reconfigured an '040 slab with an external 500MB drive as the
boot
> device and the interal drive for use as /usr/local. I have modified the
> fstab entry for the internal drive to contain:
>
> /dev/sd1a /InternalHD 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
>
> Yet the device will not mount "automatically" unless there is a console
> login. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Skochinski, graduate grunt
> edsko@calstate.edu
Hi Ed,
I use the following entry in my /etc/fstab to mount my second
1 GB drive automatically to /usr/mnt.
[...]
/dev/sd1a /usr/mnt 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2
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From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Adding recycler to external SCSI drive
Message-ID: <D6n17D.133@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3lrj4g$sd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 23:57:12 GMT
In article <3lrj4g$sd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
mconners@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael R Conners) writes:
>
> Yup, I want to put a recycler on my external 520meg drive. But, I have
> misplaced the command that was posted on c.s.n.s. a while back.
>
> Thanks, folks.
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Hi Michael
Try this:
machine# mkdir .NextTrash
machine# chown root.wheel .NextTrash
machine# chmod 1777 .NextTrash
machine# ls -ldg .NextTrash
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From: jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com ( (Jeff Wishnie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: NCR Scsi driver?
Date: 7 Apr 1995 09:32:49 GMT
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation, High Timber St, London, UK
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
Thanks,
Jeff
jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Duplicate messages in /usr/adm/messages
Date: 7 Apr 1995 16:45:17 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <3m3q6t$gci@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
I administer a small network of 5 68040 NeXTs, and I work on the main server.
I just noticed that many of the messages in /usr/adm/messages are exact
duplicates, with the same timestamp -- as if they were being printed twice:
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio deallocating
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio deallocating
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot mach_init[2]: Service _NXAudioOut failed - deallocate
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot mach_init[2]: Service _NXAudioOut failed - deallocate
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot mach_init[2]: Service _NXAudioIn failed - deallocate
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot mach_init[2]: Service _NXAudioIn failed - deallocate
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Adding server with relocatable /usr/lib/kern_loader/Audio/audio_reloc
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Adding server with relocatable /usr/lib/kern_loader/Audio/audio_reloc
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio linking relocatable "/usr/lib/kern_loader/Audio/audio_reloc"
Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio linking relocatable "/usr/lib/kern_loader/Audio/audio_reloc"
Apr 5 16:33:31 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio loading
Apr 5 16:33:31 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio loading
Does anyone know why? Is there a problem here?
Thanks.
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From: sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next 3.3 Intel won't booKT! Need Help!
Date: 6 Apr 95 21:11:54 EST
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <1995Apr6.211154.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
Help! I'm running NS 3.3 on a Gateway and now it won't bgoot.
It get's as far as :
Starting NeXT Services: pcb(?) exec_faxes
and then hangs there. I'vem tried booting in single user mode and copying the
execfaxes form the CD, but taht didn't help.
If anyone can suggest a course of action, I'd greatly appreciate.
I need Next - at least to prevent all these basd spelling errors I wouldn't
have with a decent editor.
Scott
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From: v1wynnyt@vaxa.stevens-tech.edu (Victor Wynnytsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Network installation of NX3.3
Date: 7 Apr 1995 02:38:50 GMT
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3m28jq$js6@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
Hi:
I am thinking about to use network installation to install my
NX 3.3 on my new notebook computer. right now, I have Cogent PCMCIA
network adapter and seems all possible to have network install !!
Is there someone ever doing the network installation ? and can
show me how to do it!!
I am actually want do by following steps( but some problems )
1. make a floopy root disk ( what files shall I copy into ?? )
2. Boot by the boot disk and mount the rootdisk as root dir.
3. mount the notebook harddrv .
4. Config the network and mount NFS CDROM server ( how ?? )
5. fdisk.
6. mkfs
7. run install program to setup everything ( what is that program??)
8. end ( I think?? )
Anyone who can help, I will be really appreciate!! thanks
Tony.
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From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "lcp_rprotrej" ppp problems on cube
Date: 7 Apr 1995 13:16:42 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Message-ID: <3m3dvq$gcf@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Please HELP!
I am using a cube that is set up as a netinfo server for a small net in
the office, and have installed ppp2.2-0.1.9. After connection is
established the ppp2.2.debug file reports:
> Apr 6 19:23:07 kybos pppd[260]: ipcp: up
> Apr 6 19:23:07 kybos pppd[260]: local IP address 204.91.136.102
> Apr 6 19:23:07 kybos pppd[260]: remote IP address 204.91.136.51
> Apr 6 19:23:07 kybos pppd[260]: rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0x2 80 fd 01 01 00
07 21 03 2a]
> Apr 6 19:23:07 kybos pppd[260]: lcp_rprotrej.
> Apr 6 19:23:07 kybos pppd[260]: lcp_rprotrej: Rcvd Protocol-Reject
packet for 80fd!
>
While on this state ifconfig and netstat respond:
> kybos:12# ifconfig ppp0
> ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
> inet 204.91.136.102 --> 204.91.136.51 netmask ffffff00
> kybos:13# netstat -rn
> Routing tables
> Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
> 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 404 lo0
> 204.91.136.51 204.91.136.102 UH 0 0 ppp0
> default 204.91.136.5 UG 0 0 en0
> 204.91.136 204.91.136.102 U 8 1403 en0
>
I can ping myself (204.91.136.102) and my provider's terminal server
(204.91.136.51) but nothing else. The router that he gave me I'v put in
the /etc/hostconfig.
Any ideas how can I fix this?
Anxiously waiting for a reply
--jm
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From: stan@netcom.com (Stanley Perkins)
Subject: Re: Will the Adaptec 1522A work for installation?
Message-ID: <stanD6n9M6.GK7@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3m1dg3$39q@news.it.gvsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 02:58:54 GMT
Sender: stan@netcom13.netcom.com
engelsma@remote1.it.gvsu.edu (Ben Engelsma) writes:
>I know the compatibility guide doesn't mention it, but has anyone
>every had any luck with the 1522A SCSI adaptor from Adaptec for
>installing 3.2?
I installed NS3.3 on my 486 with an Adaptec 1522 SCSI adaptor, and
by trial and error, I found that using the Adaptec 6X.. driver
worked just fine (I'm sorry I can't remeber the full designation
of the driver, but it's the only Adaptec driver on the list in the
6000 series). Never having had NS3.2, I don't know if this driver
is present in that version.
Hope this helps!
Stan
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From: lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams)
Subject: Re: SysAdmin 3.3 Manual Info?
Message-ID: <1995Apr7.204454.27160@leo.vsla.edu>
Organization: Virginia State Library
References: <3m19j2$dd4@news.next.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 20:44:54 GMT
Oh wonderful...no hard copy? Why is this? Whose cost-
cutting idea was this? (no wonder people are leaving the
NeXT platform!)
Then what the heck are we supposed to do when our machines
are locked up and we can't access the wonderful group here? :)
Blessings! (In the form of a NS SysAdmin manual would be nice!)
Lucette :)
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu
Richmond, VA
From: rfrancis@ny.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: bad sendreply's between NextStep 3.3 and Solaris 2.4 NFS
Date: 7 Apr 1995 10:53:50 -0400
Organization: Paradigm Systems
Message-ID: <3m3jlu$3no@tsi-srvr.ny.psca.com>
References: <3m3ifc$14c@ren.ny.psca.com>
Whoops. News software was configured incorrectly. The previous email
addr would bounce on a reply. Sorry about that.
-rob
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From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WP 6.0 to 5.1 translator
Date: 7 Apr 1995 19:39:05 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3m44cp$srf@paladin.american.edu>
Since WordPerfect orphaned Next WP as anyone written or thought of writing a
translator for WP 6.0 documents into 5.1 documents? I work at a University that
uses WP for Next every day. No day goes by that I am asked to convert a 6.0 PC
document to 5.1 and I am starting to get tired of walking to the nearest PC
with 6.0, starting up WP...you get the picture.
What does anyone think it would entail? Programming is not my forte but would
be an educational process and worth any work I would do. Any pointers would be
great.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: psanders@srd.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 Server for NeXT
Date: 7 Apr 1995 10:01:42 GMT
Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m32i6$d6k@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>
References: <bwk100.1.2F7C2693@psu.edu> <pdell.95Apr395216@nanoii.bu.edu>
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pdell@cs.bu.edu wrote:
: I use PopOVER. Which I believe is on the ftp.cs.orst.edu archive.
PoPOVER is just a POP client - I haven't seen any specific POP servers for
NeXT but having installed it under SunOS I don't see any reason why the
standard distribution wouldn't work under NeXTSTeP.
Haven't tried it though so I could be wrong....
Paul.
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From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 14:45:47 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950407144000.22875E-100000@papaya>
References: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu> <3m091n$71b@nic-nac.CSU.net> <199504071504.AA158647086@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 1995 jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu wrote:
> Someone in our IS group mentioned to me that SATAN reported our NeXTs had
> exported / and other filesystems to everyone. I checked the exports:
>
> bogart> /usr/etc/exportfs
> / -access=,root=hepburn:lucas:meena:siqin,anon=-1
> /clients -access=,root=hepburn:lucas:meena:siqin,anon=-1
>
> Which I thought were correct. I've tried to mount these from
> supposedly unauthorized machines and cannot. Is this a false postive
> from Sata or , a misconfigure of NFSmanager by me or just a plain security
> hole in NS 3.2?
Before we added the -access parameters to our mounts we did in fact have
friendly reports of several people mounting our disks on their systems
with root access!
All reports from the same sources indicate this is no longer possible
after the -access was added. We also changed most of our access to be
read/write instead of root. I haven't gotten satan to run yet, but I do
think it is a false positive.
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
From: treed@bmt.gun.com (Timothy Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bad sendreply's between NextStep 3.3 and Solaris 2.4 NFS
Date: 8 Apr 1995 16:38:53 GMT
Organization: Black Market Technologies, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m6e6t$gd2@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
References: <3m3ifc$14c@ren.ny.psca.com>
On the Solaris client, add -rsize=1024 and -wsize=1024 to your mount options.
Juergen Keil and I discovered the problem and posted a fix at the same time,
but Juergen provided a much better analysis of the problem.
Regards,
Tim
Begin included message:
In article <3j29tt$isk@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
gabor@architektur.uni-kassel.de (Gabor Freivogel) writes:
> we setup a new server running NEXSTEP and tried to mount the Directories
> on some SOLARIS 2.4 suns...
> Actually the suns mount the files, but if you cd to the mounted dir. on
> the S 2.4 machines and type ls it takes appr. 2-5 minutes (!) until you
> got some result....
For some reasons, Nextstep (and I think some old versions of Ultrix,
too) has problems with NFS READDIR requests for more than 1024 bytes
of directory data. SunOS retransmits the READDIR requests and
eventually changes the rsize and wsize values for the mount
dynamically to smaller values. This can be verified on the sun with
'nfsstat -m'. After 2-5 minutes it reaches rsize=wsize=1024 and the
READDIR requests to the Next start working!
> what could we do (besides reformating the disks again and go back to a
> SUNOS 4.x server)?
For now, just mount the Next filesystems with rsize=1024 on the sun.
--
Juergen Keil jk@tools.de ...!{uunet,mcsun}!unido!tools!jk
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WP 6.0 to 5.1 translator
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 17:41:41 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950408184141.213AACUR.malc@daneel>
References: <3m44cp$srf@paladin.american.edu>
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> Since WordPerfect orphaned Next WP as anyone written or thought of
> writing a translator for WP 6.0 documents into 5.1 documents? I
> work at a University that uses WP for Next every day. No day goes
> by that I am asked to convert a 6.0 PC document to 5.1 and I am
> starting to get tired of walking to the nearest PC with 6.0, starting
> up WP...you get the picture.
>
In case there's nothing else available, how about getting a copy of
SoftPC...? I had a bit more than just a quick play with the demo recently,
and was pleasantly surprised at how well it seemed to run (on an
object.station). I'll probably see if I can get a copy soon, for just this
sort of thing. Plus it means that others here get to see Windows running
inside NEXTSTEP -- which often causes them to think awhile! :-)
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer Shudown Bug
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 17:45:06 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950408184506.213AACUS.malc@daneel>
References: <3lsgcc$s6b@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <D6Jzvo.A03@sounds.wa.com>
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> One of these days, someone with initiative will write a NEXTSTEP
> GUI for the threaded-newsgroups that trn provides.
>
Well, Eloquent is threaded, and runs on NeXT, Intel, HP and Sparc.
Might be worth a look at... :-)
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: eugene@raddi (Eugene Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages in /usr/adm/messages
Date: 8 Apr 1995 17:45:33 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3m6i3t$1fve@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3m3q6t$gci@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) wrote:
->I administer a small network of 5 68040 NeXTs, and I work on the
main server.
->I just noticed that many of the messages in /usr/adm/messages are
exact
->duplicates, with the same timestamp -- as if they were being printed
twice:
> Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio deallocating
> Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot kern_loader: Server audio deallocating
> Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot mach_init[2]: Service _NXAudioOut failed -
deallocate
> Apr 5 16:33:30 foxtrot mach_init[2]: Service _NXAudioOut failed -
deallocate
[some log messages deleted]
->Does anyone know why? Is there a problem here?
->Thanks.
I've found the same type of messages in one of my syslogs after
beefing up syslog reporting and I'd like to know the same thing.
Should I be worried?
Thanx
Eugene
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Department of Radiology Brain, and long words bother
University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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From: sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: exec_faxes locking bootup procedure (3.3)
Date: 7 Apr 95 23:36:10 EST
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <1995Apr7.233610.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
Ok - I'm still having boot problems with exec_faxes enabled. Currently, I've
commented it out in /etc/rc.
I recall a while back postings refering to a boot/lock problem with NXFax if
the fax modem didn't have power during startup (or shutdown?). Well, I do have
a fax modem connected, but I don't use NXFax and all has been fine since
December.
If anyone has any clues, I'd greatly appreciate them.
Scott
Scott Davenport / sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu / NeXTMail OK!
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From: root@os-d.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendation for Nextstation
Date: 7 Apr 1995 01:38:55 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company
Message-ID: <3m253f$7hj@cnn.isc-br.com>
References: <1995Mar30.201030.793@muscat.pr.net.ch> <D6BGwn.o9@euler.hnv.icem.de>
In article <D6BGwn.o9@euler.hnv.icem.de> js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell) writes:
>Old QIC 24 SCSI-Tapedrives simply seem not to work on black h/w.
They do, I've used one. You do need to issue an ioctl to them first
to put the driver into block mode. I put a teensy C program into an
rc file somewhere, and forgot all about it.
>But you would not want to buy one anew anyway as it is only good for 60MB
>per tape. This might be
Some are 120 MB drives. (Like mine.)
From: paul@pth.com (Paul Tognato-Haddad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to build satan on 3.2 system
Date: 7 Apr 1995 14:36:25 GMT
Organization: Primenet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m3il9$svc@news.primenet.com>
Howdy,
Well since I haven't seen a good answer to this one yet I think I'll try
to answer it. If you have 3.3 just skip this post and go compile with
posix...
The files that need to be modified are src/misc/timeout.c &
src/misc/safefinger.c.
In timeout.c you should remove
static void terminate(sig)
int sig;
{
kill(0, kill_signal);
}
in its place add
typedef int pid_t;
static pid_t child_pid;
static void terminate(sig)
int sig;
{
kill(child_pid, kill_signal);
kill(getpid(), kill_signal);
}
also in the main function remove these lines
pid_t child_pid;
setsid();
In safe_finger.c you need to add a putenv function, here's one I hacked
up in a few minutes, just add it right before main
extern char **environ;
int putenv(char *env)
{
int x = 0;
int env_length;
env_length = (int)strchr(env, '=') - (int)env;
while(environ[x])
{
if (!strncmp(environ[x], env, env_length)) {
realloc(environ[x], strlen(env)+1);
strcpy(environ[x], env);
break;
}
x++;
}
return 0;
}
After this run reconfig then make bsd. And it should compile correctly.
BTW - I'm running it under X windows, don't feel like trying to figure out
how to get OmniWeb to work with it...
Also I haven't been able to test this on any machines other than my own,
the light & normal tests work ok, but the heavy test gets screwed up when
it gets to the tcpscan & udpscan parts, haven't really looked at it yet
but killing those processes seems to make the test finish...
It didn't find anything on my machine, but it did print out tons of
warning messages...
See ya,
--
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# Paul R. Tognato-Haddad (paul@pth.com)
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 15:06:12 -0500
From: Bob Kurhajetz <rk@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Message-ID: <9504082006.AA19104@priscilla.dt.navy.mil>
Subject: setting up a new boot disk
Hello
I'm working on setting up a new 2.1 GB Seagate disk on aTurbo NS running NS 3.0 that currently has a 200 MB
system disk -- we are going to yank the 200 MB disk and install the 2.1 GB disk as the boot volume and as part of
this effort we are installing NS 3.3 - I'm posting this message looking for folks who have gone thru this type of
procedure before especially with regard to reinstalling network configs. thanks :-)
Any and all help much appreciated
Bob Kurhajetz
USN CARDEROCKDIV NSWC
Bethesda, MD 20084-5000
From: thiel@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Thiel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WS-Manager hangs on accesss to NFS-server
Date: 7 Apr 1995 16:07:53 GMT
Organization: Institute for Electronics, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m3o0p$lq@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <3m0cem$l86@elna.ethz.ch>
In article <3m0cem$l86@elna.ethz.ch>, thiel@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Thiel) writes:
>
>
>Until yesterday everything worked fine and I had access to an NFS filesystem on
>a NFS server. It's mounted in /Net. I've created and used several files on this
>server successfully with different NeXTStep-applications (Edit, PB, IB,..) in the
>past.
>
>Now I can *only* access the filesytem through a Shell-Window cd-ing through
>the NeXT directories to /Net/servername/directoriesOnRemoteServer/ and edit them
>using edit, but access through WorkspaceManager fails. Every application
>which tries to open one of the remote files will also fail. Even copying
>and moving on the remote server don't work. However, the sysadmin
>of the NFS server claims not to have performed any modifaction of access rights
>during last night.
>
>
That's not the whole story. What's going on is that NFS access has become
**extremely** slow.
This is caused by a huge number of timeouts in rpc (200 out of 5000 calls
have timeouts). Nevertheless rpc's from annother client 10 inches away on the
ethernet (a Sparc5) to the same server at the same time have nearly no timeouts
(approx. 1 in 100,000 rpc's). May there still exist a hardware problem in my
Intel Box?
How to check out what's going on? (Analyzing interrupts etc.)
Configuration:
486 ISA, 33MHz, 32 MB RAM, 430 MB IDE Disk
EtherLink III, ET4000, BusMouse
I apologize for my misleading infos
Andy
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Subject: Re: How to build satan on 3.2 system
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950408174529.183A-100000@lipschitz>
From: "J. Kelly Cunningham" <deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 17:47:20 -0600
References: <3m3il9$svc@news.primenet.com>
Organization: As little as I can get away with...
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On 7 Apr 1995, Paul Tognato-Haddad wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Well since I haven't seen a good answer to this one yet I think I'll try
> to answer it. If you have 3.3 just skip this post and go compile with
> posix...
>
> The files that need to be modified are src/misc/timeout.c &
> src/misc/safefinger.c.
>
[..snipage..]
>
> After this run reconfig then make bsd. And it should compile correctly.
>
> BTW - I'm running it under X windows, don't feel like trying to figure out
> how to get OmniWeb to work with it...
>
It seems to work with lynx too.
-- kc finger deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu | pgp -fka
From: ray@mayo.edu (Ray Ghanbari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UserManager 3.3 Hooks
Date: 8 Apr 1995 16:22:14 GMT
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m6d7m$o8k@fermat.mayo.edu>
References: <3m2jot$db2@yarrina.connect.com.au>
In article <3m2jot$db2@yarrina.connect.com.au> cdb@xedoc.com.au (Cameron
Bromley) writes:
[...]
> I used this to modify the initial contents of the Active.mbox
> and to set a few defaults (A4 paper, etc). I found the easiest
> way to get everything correct was to create a new user, set the
> defaults, send some mail to the new user, etc, then copy this
> back to /usr/template/user.
What I've done is create a user named 'proto' with a home directory
/User/proto I then made /usr/template/user a symbolic link to /User/proto
That way, I can log in as user proto, configure everything in some
standard way (nntp servers, shelf, dock applications, preferences for some
key apps, .cshrc files, etc.), and have new users have a common starting
point. A lot easier than copying files around...
--
Ray Ghanbari
Mayo Foundation
ray@mayo.edu
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrading to 3.3 on Black hardware
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 18:00:16 -0600
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-0804951800160001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>
I am considering upgrading from 3.2 to 3.3 on my colorstation. It is
currently part of a network, and gets its NetInfo stuff from another
machine. I am the only local user that gets exported from this machine,
but all users on the NetInfo server get exported to it. What I am
concerned about is that the whole setup was done when I acquired the
machine, and I am afraid that if I upgrade, I will not be able to
reproduce the current setup. Is there an FAQ or NeXTanswer that walks a
person through this scenario? I can't be the only person in this
predicament, can I? I guess that binding back to the NetInfo server is my
biggest hangup. If I can get that part figured out, the rest should be ok.
Can anyone help me out here?
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From: precipi!neekibo (Hugues RICHARD)
Subject: Re: HELP! Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20
Message-ID: <1995Apr8.102726.1284@precipice.fdn.fr>
Sender: neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - Dijon, France.
References: <jorice.797079783@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 10:27:26 GMT
In article <jorice.797079783@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie> jorice@tcd.ie (Jonathon
Otto Rice) writes:
>
> Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20, trying /etc/init
> Load of /etc/init failed, errno 20
> trap: type 0cx fcode 8450 rw 8192 faultaddr 0x2081
> ...
from header errno.h file, errno 20 is :
> #define ENOTDIR 20 /* Not a directory*/
So may be /etc has been damaged or even /
Do you have a boot floppy disk (on a 2.88Mb disk) ?
Boot with your floppy and then try to mount your disk and inspect /, /etc/ ...
Hugues.
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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 13:35:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Help with tar.gz files
Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com
Would someone explain the difference between "tar.z"
and "tar.gz" files. My NeXT knows what to do with
the tar.z files but neither of us knows what to do
with the tar.gz files Thanks Jim
What version of 'gzip' are you using? (type 'gzip -V' to see). If
you are using NeXT 3.1, then that gzip is probably gzip 1.0.7 (18 Mar
93), and that gzip used '.z' as its extention. Then someone realized
that '.z' had been used with another form of compression already, so
they changed gzip's extention to '.gz'. This took place with 3.2 on
NeXTStep, I believe
So either 1) you are using an older version of gzip which still uses
'.z' or 2) your '.z' files have been archived with the other
compression method that originally used '.z'.
Either way, you can (I believe) renam the .z files to .gz, since
gunzip knows how deal with it.
TjL
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Timothy J. Luoma Email: luomat@alleg.edu Allegheny College
NeXTStep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gjackson@cozumel (Gary Jackson)
Subject: PNI Server help needed
Message-ID: <D6qAtA.Gp4@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 18:18:06 GMT
I have been running PNI on white boxes at work ( server ) and home (client)
for about a year. Something seems to have gone wrong with the work (server)
side. I can connect and do fine for about 5 mins. News,ftp,mail, etc all
work as expected...then my server side "loses" it. At this point I can ping
myself, the server side and the whitebox the server runs on. I can not ping
any farther either by name or IP. When I go into work the next morning I
have to reboot by doing the alt-numlock or the machine freezes and I have to
power cycle to reboot. There are no error messages in pni.log and the usual
last message in /usr/adm/messages is lookupd multi-call timeout sleeping.
I have re-installed NS 3.2, PNI, checked everything I can think of many
time over the last month...no luck. The white box that is the server works
fine while I am using it at work...and I can tip in with no problems.
Any and all ideas welcome...as I have run out :-)
Thanks....Gary
gjackson@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu
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From: jseymour@medar.com (James Seymour)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Message-ID: <D6q9C5.LIz@medar.com>
Organization: Medar Inc.
References: <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <D5Ltqu.5oH@txnews.amd.com> <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <3lbo9s$jcj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 17:45:40 GMT
In article <3lbo9s$jcj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
>Message-ID: <1995Mar29.153929@rzri6f.gsi.de>
>Organization: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
>Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
>Keywords:
>
>In article <D5z5H1.Inn@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jwa2n@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (James W. Adams) writes:
>|> After reading a plethora of messages on this thread, my feeling is that
>|> to answer the floating point question: If you want a supercomputer, why
>|> are you discussing workstations?
>|>
>|> There are different categories of computers precisely because people
>|> have different requirements.
>|>
[snip]
>|>
>
>The problems are 1. $$$$ and 2. psychology. If there are 50 users demanding
>raw computer power it's more likely that they buy 50 different machines for
>their own use. The general believe is that having a small computer for personal
>use is better than to share a big one with others. I won't subscribe to that
>opinion but that's the way life goes. It's one of the reasons for the decline
>of the mainframes.
>
>Michael.
[Seems this thread is going off on a tangent anyway, so I might
as well help it along :-)...]
In regards to jwa2n's point #2: it may be psychology, all right,
but some of that attitude on the part of users is sometimes
justified, IMHO. It's much like flying the commercial airlines,
there's always been a segment of society that didn't trust
flight (I'm not talking about fear-of_heights folks, I'm
speaking of the fear-of-loss-of-control folks). With the spate
of commercial airliner disasters over the last few years (or
simply the increased reporting of same--doesn't really matter
in the perceptions the public gets), the marginally loss-of-
control phobics now become less marginal--on the side of
realizing their fears. Perhaps much the same psychology is
at work wrt personal computers (total control) vs. multi-
user systems (little *real* control). And, as with the
airliner failures, systems manufacturers and vendors, and
systems/network administrators must shoulder a good deal of
the blame.
We are suffering from this at my site. The non-computer-
oriented types (i.e.: mostly non-engineers) have little
patience for systems services that are, in their perception,
unreliable. NFS and NIS(+) services that fail (even
*temporarily* denying service), CD-ROM jukeboxes that go
off in the weeds, weak, or even non-existent, integration
between common and well-known UNIX services and X, the list
is long. A lot of folks care little about the infrastructure
advantages of a secure (or, at least securable [is that a
word?]) system--they just want to get their job done. And
they have a valid point: what good is data security and
efficient distribution if the folks that must work on it
can't reliably get to it to work on it themselves?
Now I'll be the first to admit that I've got a *long* way to
go before I'll be happy with my abilities as a system and
network admin (in spite of my .sig line :-)), so keep that in
mind whilst reading the following...
The subject line of this thread is what caught my attention.
I'm truly interested in all input regarding that subject.
The reason why, in short, is as follows: we've got a mix of
systems here. I plan to abandon (completely, if possible)
one of those types because I've found them to be poor
performers, the software support (O/S *and* applications) is
generally lousy (so lousy that I've allowed it all to expire),
and the hardware support is a joke. I had originally planned
to change everything over to the second type of systems that
we have. But wrt these: while the performance of these
systems is far better, and the software and hardware support
as well (for the *most* part), the day-to-day reliability does
not seem to be all that much better.
If I can't manage to create an integrated environment that is
reliable with UNIX systems, I fear that, one day, management
will simply say "to hell with it" and instruct me to change
everything over to an architecture that consists of a boat-
load of PeeCees networked together. (In some respects, it's
already headed that way :-(.) I'm trying to do my part to
avoid this (including lots of homework on "my own time"), but
it matters little how hard *I* work at it if the systems are
inherently unstable. Or they have unstable components.
You'll observe that I've kept my "list of complaints" purposely
vague and not specified manufacturers/vendors. My comments are
not meant to be a condemnation of a particular product, or even
of UNIX itself. These are simply the observations and musings
(ramblings?) of a "SysAdmin-in-training". (Read: I'm not really
sure how much of the undependable functionality is *my* fault.)
Regards,
Jim "I'm sure you've heard it all before" Seymour
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Systems & Network Administrator | 38700 Grand River Ave.
...uunet!medar!jseymour | Farmington Hills, MI. 48335-1563
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From: lcs@shore.net (Harold H. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing from NS to Windows NT server
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 23:04:28
Organization: Legal Computer Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <lcs.4.00282F10@shore.net>
We have a Windows NT server 3.5 running NetBEUI and TCP/IP. From my NeXT
Pentium I can transfer files to the server using FTP. However, I would like
to print on the printer hooked up to the server. The Windows NT manual
indicates this is possible using lpr, and the NeXT sysadmin manual gives hints
on how to hack a file to set the remote printer parameters. I
configured NT to run the printer server service. Unfortunately, I can't seem
to get the NeXT to recognize the NT printer.
Has anyone accomplished this, or can anyone offer any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Harold Leach (lcs@shore.net)
From: wjs@foom.omnigroup.com (William Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (3.2black)Framemaker 2.0d prob: crashes with nonstandard fonts
Date: 7 Apr 1995 12:29:15 -0700
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <3m43qb$1t9@foom.omnigroup.com>
References: <3lfmpb$ls6@agate.berkeley.edu>
Jessica L Mosher writes:
>Whenever I try to switch from the standard 5 fonts in Frame-
>Maker to ones I just installed (albeit without manual pages)
>FrameMaker crashes neatly.
>Has anyone ever encountered this problem? Is there a FAQ on
>font installation somewhere? My fonts work in Create and Write-
>Now just fine and will print. They're in a standard directory.
I'm not an expert, but as I recall an old version of Frame depended
on fonts being installed in a wierd way in NEXTSTEP.
Some history; under 1.0, each font used to be installed in three
different subdirectories of the Fonts directory; an afm directory, a
bitmap directory, and an outline directory. In fact, if you look at
/NextLibrary/Fonts, these directories still exist, although they just
contain symbolic links to the real files.
Under 2.0, they changed it so that each font is a file package (a new
concept in 2.0), and so the ".font" directory contained the three
files that were previously in three different subdirectories. This
made installing and removing fonts much easier. (Drag'n'drop!)
However, this broke some old programs (Frame) that depended on the
directory structure, so they included a program that would run through
all your fonts and build symlinks from the afm/ bitmap/ and outline/
directories into the fonts you'd installed.
I don't know if this program is still in 3.3. I do know that Frame
3.2 now handles fonts correctly, and in fact is much faster because of
it. (It now just uses the standard Font object, whereas before it
used to scan over all the files in the font dir to validate them; a
slow process if you've installed 800 typefaces.)
So, you can either make a bunch of symlinks, find the program that
does it for you, or upgrade to Frame 3.2 and make Frame happy (and
increase the chances they'll continue to support NEXTSTEP).
I know which I'd prefer.
-Wil Shipley
DISCLAIMER: This article is based on my memories of how Frame works
based on my using it, not based on my looking at the code. So, I
could be totally wrong.
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From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone built SATAN 1.0 on NS/3.2 (moto)?
Date: 7 Apr 1995 23:52:06 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3m4j76$m5g@news.next.com>
References: <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
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Versions: makemail 2.6p5
In article <3lut55$mao@nntp3.u.washington.edu>,
William Barker <wrb@biostr.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>Subject says it all. I tried, but it isn't preconfiged for NS, and I
>didn't want to re-invent the wheel. Besides, I've also got SGIs, and it
>builds cleanly out of the box on them.
See NeXTanswer #1893_Building_SATAN_for_NEXTSTEP.rtfd
--Dan
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From: robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Very strange 3.3 behaviour? (dbm files appearing from nowhere)
Date: 09 Apr 1995 09:11:56 +0100
Organization: me organized? That's a joke!
Message-ID: <robertznfkyquqyjia@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
References: <robertznfpxu5w3fer@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
<1995Apr8.101841.1219@precipice.fdn.fr>
In-reply-to: precipi!neekibo's message of Sat, 8 Apr 1995 10:18:41 GMT
To: precipi!neekibo (Hugues RICHARD)
<precipi!neekibo> writes:
>In article <robertznfpxu5w3fer@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
>robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>>
>>So I look at /etc/passwd and noticed nothing wrong. then I changed the
>>uucp owner to buucp and tried chowning a file buucp and low and behold
>>it didn't accept buucp as the owner. Upon closer inspection I noticed
>>that there was a passwd.dir and passwd.pag files in /etc look at the
>>pag files I could see that the regular /etc/passwd file had somehow
>>been used to build these dbm files and the comment character was
>>causing the trouble.
>May be it has something to do with NIS ?
>Hugues.
>N$BV4(J
>--
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>neekibo@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK)
>------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
If it was NIS like somebody else suggested why were the files /etc and
not /etc/yp
Is NIS running in single user? I don't think it is. ie. why were these
files being consulted at this time?
By my recollection YPDOMAIN was always -NO-
# If we are in an NIS domain, start up the appropiate services.
if [ "$YPDOMAIN" != "-NO-" -a $NETWORKUP = "-YES-" ]; then
fbshow -B -I "Starting YP services" -z 36
# ypserv is run on NIS servers - machines with an /etc/yp/XXX dir
if [ -f /usr/etc/ypserv -a -d /etc/yp/$YPDOMAIN ]; then
/usr/etc/ypserv && (echo -n ' ypserv') >/dev/console
fi
if [ -f /usr/etc/ypbind ]; then
/usr/etc/ypbind && (echo -n ' ypbind') >/dev/console
fi
fi
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From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Command line multipart mime
Date: 9 Apr 1995 13:21:13 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m8n09$fiu@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Does anybody have a utility that will, from the command line, allow me to
mail a multipart MIME/NeXTMAIL message? I want something similar to:
mimemail -u user@whereverv -s "Hi" <file1> <file2> ...
I especially need this to be received on a NeXT as a MIME/NeXTMAIL
document with the files (they are uuencoded or gziped) having the proper
icons in the body.
Any info sincerely appreciated!
- Steve
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Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.2 using PPP-2.2
From: v1wynnyt@vaxa.stevens-tech.edu (Victor Wynnytsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT + Linux on same HD howto ?
Date: 9 Apr 1995 01:00:56 GMT
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3m7bk8$ilf@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
References: <D6LEpw.IyB@europa.com>
In article <D6LEpw.IyB@europa.com>, steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich) says:
>
>I have just finished installing linux on a small partition on my hd and
>was wondering if the LILO boot manager works with NeXTStep. If it does how
>do I configure LILO.. Or what is the best way to do this config?
>Thanks
Since the linux lilo can only boot dos, OS2 and linux
...The way I am doing is using the OS/2 boot manager ( you don't
have to install all the OS/2 but just need the first and second
install diskete.
Or you can install linux in UMDOS file system, and you will
able to boot up linux under dos !!
the other way is using the boot floopy diskete !!
Tony.
From: tlee@vaxa.stevens-tech.edu (Tony Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: boot in single user and network
Date: 9 Apr 1995 18:05:28 GMT
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3m97l8$v7d@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
References: <3luh2o$50e@wolfy.ina.fr>
In article <3luh2o$50e@wolfy.ina.fr>, igerard@shadok (Gerard Iglesias) says:
>
>Hello,
>
>I would like to connect on network for ftp in single user, because I
>want to retrieve somme file on a PC/NEXTSTEP which can't boot.
Do the ifconfig ....then you should able to connect to the network !!
Lee.
From: disc@vector.casti.com (David Casti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.unix.admin
Subject: xinetd or httpd throttle?
Date: 7 Apr 1995 19:19:36 GMT
Organization: Casti Consulting
Message-ID: <3m4388$apu@news3.digex.net>
Hi folks,
I need a way to throttle my NCSA httpd (running out of inetd)... right
now, it just forks the hell out of my machine until the system crashes.
So far as I can tell, there are no compile-time or run-time directives to
limit the number of httpd processes which fork.
So, someone told me about xinetd, but so far as I can tell, it won't
compile under NeXTStep. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
Thanks,
David.
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From: antony@datatext.co.uk (Antony Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help - mail config problems
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 03:24:45 GMT
Organization: Data Text Processing Ltd
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3m9mo1$5cn@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
I seem to have a mail config problem on my NextStation, NextStep V. 3.0
I can mail to another host, I don't however receive any mail, and can't mail another user on the same machine.
Here's the output from "mail -v". Can anybody tell me what the problem might be.
black> mail -v root
Subject: test
test
.
Cc:
root... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)...
220 black. Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0X ready at Sun, 9 Apr 95 21:33:09 -0900
>>> HELO black.
553 black. config error: mail loops back to myself
>>> QUIT
221 black. closing connection
root... 554 Service unavailable
antony... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)...
220 black. Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0X ready at Sun, 9 Apr 95 21:33:10 -0900
>>> HELO black.
553 black. config error: mail loops back to myself
>>> QUIT
221 black. closing connection
antony... 554 Service unavailable
black>
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
====================================
Antony Freeman
Data Text Processing Ltd
Data Capture - Electronic Publishing
====================================
Tel: +44(0)1892 861222
Fax: +44(0)1892 861211
Regards
Antony
====================================
Antony Freeman
Data Text Processing Ltd
Data Capture - Electronic Publishing
====================================
Tel: +44(0)1892 861222
Fax: +44(0)1892 861211
From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Weird kernel page fault error panic under 3.2, black
Date: 09 Apr 95 19:31:04
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <cooncat.95Apr919314@wombat>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Hi all,
I was in the tail end of making a copy of /private onto an OD when this panic error occurred:
Apr 9 14:13:40 wombat mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
Apr 9 14:13:40 wombat mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x1112cb6c
Apr 9 14:13:40 wombat mach: trap: pc 0x408ec96 sp 0x17ff04 sr 0x2504
Apr 9 14:13:40 wombat mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x10153c74 proc 0x10148ce8 pid 157 pcb 0x11112010
Apr 9 14:13:40 wombat mach: traceback: fp 0x11112e44
Apr 9 14:13:40 wombat mach: called from pc 0x0408d3a6 fp 0x11112e78 4-args 00000000 00000200 00000007 00000180
I halted the system, which proceeded to reboot itself (when it should have just given me a monitor prompt for me to execute bsd). After recovery I was able to perform the copy without incident.
Has anyone seen this before? Could something have failed during my 3.2 upgrade that went unreported, two months ago? Or did my NeXT just slip on a banana peel?
Please email cooncat@wombat.mills.edu, and thanks in advance for any insight.
From: ngustilo@aol.com (NGUSTILO)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems dialing into Office NeXTstation
Date: 9 Apr 1995 15:55:18 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <3m9e36$l86@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Hi, I am having problems dialing into my office NeXTstation. When I logon
I get the following message, "incomplete termcap.." and I am logged in
with read only permissions. Does anyone know what could cause this and
how to fix it so I can login with both read and write permissions. By the
way, we also are running NXFax. Any ideas would be appreciated.
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.3 on Black hardware
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 13:45:57 -0600
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-0904951345570001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>
References: <david-rarick-0804951800160001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>
In article <david-rarick-0804951800160001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick) wrote:
> I am considering upgrading from 3.2 to 3.3 on my colorstation. It is
> currently part of a network, and gets its NetInfo stuff from another
> machine. I am the only local user that gets exported from this machine,
> but all users on the NetInfo server get exported to it. What I am
> concerned about is that the whole setup was done when I acquired the
> machine, and I am afraid that if I upgrade, I will not be able to
> reproduce the current setup. Is there an FAQ or NeXTanswer that walks a
> person through this scenario? I can't be the only person in this
> predicament, can I? I guess that binding back to the NetInfo server is my
> biggest hangup. If I can get that part figured out, the rest should be ok.
> Can anyone help me out here?
>
Ok, I found the Upgrader.app on the 3.3 CD, and I ran that. But now, I
can't run UserManager, SimpleNetworkStarter, or NetInfoManager, even when
logged in as root. What gives? These are kind of important, so I need to
get them running again,
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From: jstuker@dial.eunet.ch (Juerg Stuker)
Subject: MAC to NeXTstation Network via ethernet (how?)
Message-ID: <jstuker-0904952125320001@193.72.1.134>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 19:25:18 GMT
May sound easy to you, but I didn't succeed...
I am using my NeXT computer (black hardware, os ver. 3.2) as a printer for
postscript files that are created on a MAC PowerBook. To evade the
laborious file transfer via disks, I now want to set up a network. I
already have all the necessary hardware.
According to the NeXT handbook, there should be a 'apple option' in the
preferences application. But even though the ethernet is connected and
running, it doesen't show up. What am I doing wrong?
Thanking you for any hints in advance,
Juerg Stuker.
**************************************
Juerg Stuker, Zurich, Switzerland
Email: jstuker@dial.eunet.ch (no NeXT)
Fax: +41 1 262 35 49
**************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jstuker@dial.eunet.ch (Juerg Stuker)
Subject: Loading from network... (how to remove ?)
Message-ID: <jstuker-0904952125470001@193.72.1.134>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 19:25:29 GMT
Trying to hook my MAC up to a NeXTstation via ethernet (which I didn't
succeed doing), I ended up killing my configuration.
Everytime I turn on my NeXT, it now tries to load the os from the network.
How to I turn that off?! I don't have a network!
I have already reinstalled the os (Ver. 3.2) and I have followed the
procedure 'replacing a corrupted NetInfo DB' in the handbook. Both didn't
help.
Thanking you for any hints in advance,
Juerg Stuker.
**************************************
Juerg Stuker, Zurich, Switzerland
Email: jstuker@dial.eunet.ch (no NeXT)
Fax: +41 1 262 35 49
**************************************
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to recover DOS partition as a second NS partition?
Date: 9 Apr 1995 19:37:37 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3m9d21$t2q@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: DOS, partition, re-use
Hello,
I need to free up some unused space on a 1gig SCSI drive. I
thought I might need 200mb for DOS so I set up the drive that way. But
the DOS space is completely waisted and never used :>), and now I want to
use the 200mb partion for a dedicated spot for tmp and swap. I tried
using fdisk and disk but they will not allow two NS partitions or didn't
know what /dev/rsd0b is. I know I can use at least two NS partitions
because I have done it on black hardware but can't remember the details; I
think I just answered some questions when I built the disk! Can somebody
point the way for me? I would like to avoid re-formating the entire disk
if at all possible. I checked www.next.com in the FAQ but I didn't seem
to find the right keyword. Thanks in advance and please respond to me.
Alan
From: khader@vnet.net (R. D. Khader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q:Slip-Dynamic IP, telnet failure?
Date: 9 Apr 1995 20:50:49 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779
Message-ID: <3m9hba$deg@ralph.vnet.net>
Subject: Re: Help with SLIP: ping yes, ftp NO
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 09:52:33 PDT
Message-ID: <000A8C92.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Cc: khader@vnet.net.iqinc.com, sperkins@andromeda.rutgers.edu.iqinc.com
Organization: ImagingQuest
I've gotten several requests for my PNI login script and it is small enough that
I thought I'd post it here. I've also had some more conversation with Louie at
TransSys regarding dynamically setting IP addresses and he has the following
warning:
Louis A. Mamakos @ TransSys, Inc. writes:
>PNI doesn't support dynamic IP address assignment. If you fiddle
>around a bit (like you did), you can approximate something that works.>
>
>Part of the problem is that starting with 3.3, the netinfod and
>lookupd daemons have an open TCP connection between them. If you
>change the address of the interface out from under what they were
>using, this can cause you deep pain.>
Since I'm using 3.2 I've had no problems (that I know of :-) switching my IP's
on the fly.
My login script follows. It assumes the remote machine reports the local and
remote addresses for each session in a format that looks similar to the
following:
Connection from (128.129.110.0) to 128.129.110.1 established
The important part is that the remote IP address for the session is in
parenthesis and that the local IP address immediatelly follows it and the word
'to'.
Good luck,
Gary Affonso - ImagingQuest
gaffonso@iqinc.com
>>
#
# Login script for NWNexus Personal (dynamic IP) account.
#
proc login-NWNPersonal { DIALER cfg } {
global Config
syslog LOG_INFO "Start of NWNexus login script"
if {[info exists Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)] &&
[file exists $Config($cfg:SECRETFILE)]} {
if {[file exists $Config($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)
}
}
# In case autobaud
$DIALER xmit "\r"
$DIALER sleep 1
$DIALER xmit "\r"
$DIALER sleep 1
# 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"} "*word:*"
$DIALER sleep 1
$DIALER xmit "$password\r"
# Wait for connection
set timeout 60
$DIALER expect timeout {error "waiting for NWNexus startup"} "*SL/IP*"
set timeout 20
# Parse local and remote IP addresses
syslog LOG_INFO "parsing for local and remote IP address"
$DIALER rexpect {([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\) to
([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)}
syslog LOG_INFO "remote address: '$1'"
syslog LOG_INFO "local address: '$2'"
#Set local and remote IP address
syslog LOG_INFO "setting local and remote IP addresses"
exec /etc/ifconfig pni1 $2 $1
#wait a bit for server to switch to SLIP mode
$DIALER sleep 3
syslog LOG_INFO "SLIP mode enabled"
# That's all
return 1
}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gjackson@cozumel (Gary Jackson)
Subject: Re: NeXT + Linux on same HD howto ?
Message-ID: <D6sJzu.3p0@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <D6LEpw.IyB@europa.com> <3m7bk8$ilf@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 23:31:39 GMT
Victor Wynnytsky (v1wynnyt@vaxa.stevens-tech.edu) wrote:
: In article <D6LEpw.IyB@europa.com>, steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich) says:
: >
: >I have just finished installing linux on a small partition on my hd and
: >was wondering if the LILO boot manager works with NeXTStep. If it does how
: >do I configure LILO.. Or what is the best way to do this config?
: >Thanks
Another way is to use OS-BS. This is a boot manager that works well with
Linux,DOS and NeXTStep...don't know about OS/2 though. It is available
by ftp. If you have access to archie that would be the easiest way to find
a server that has it.
Hope that helps....Gary
gjackson@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu
From: Pascal Thibaudeau <pascal>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dip sources running on a NeXT
Date: 9 Apr 1995 11:39:50 GMT
Organization: CRIBX1 , Universite de Bordeaux I , France
Message-ID: <3m8h26$j3d@serveur.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
I a looking for the dip sources running on a NeXT (Intel based) computer.
Where can I get a package ?
Thank you.
Pascal THIBAUDEAU
pthibaud@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 10 Apr 1995 04:15:14 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3mabci$mj6@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news: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.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
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.
Archives are available by ftp at
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
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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.
news: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
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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 not be
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news:comp.sys.next.misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here
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crossposting!!!
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
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.
news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
will spill over into .programmer or .software.
Related Newsgroups
==================
news: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.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news: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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff, but very short on disk space
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.next.com: See the below
ftp://ftp.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/sci-tools/eduStep
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
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
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
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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:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
Written by:
Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: swap file strategy
Date: 10 Apr 1995 09:52:32 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3mav50$rdb@clarknet.clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
We finally got a chance to replace our boot hard drive with a larger one.
We frequently got / file system full, pausing message and it looks like
that swap file is a major cause. It doesn't seem to like to shrink at
all. Now we will have a 1.8 G as boot drive. Can any one suggest what
will be a good swap file allocation strategy ?
In our previous system, we do have a much larger secondary external SCSI
drive but can't find a way to put the swap file on it without major
rearrangement of files on it. We were hoping that we can create a swap
file on that secondary drive just it is on boot drive and make that one
the prefer swap space instead of the one on primary drive. So far, the
impression we got is we have to dedicate entire drive for swapping, not
exactly what we want to do. Can any one tell us, step by step, how to do
this ? We found some information from time to time but can't connect them
together to make it work. Is the answer hidden in one of those NeXTAnswer
file ?
Some information seems to indicate to have a swap file on a drive, that
drive must have a label "swap...". But the boot drive on our system
doesn't seem to have a label like that and yet is has a swap file mounted
under it. How come ?
If sharing data with swap space on the same drive is not possible on
drive besides the boot drive, how does one inexperienced
programmer-not-trying-to-be-administrator decide how to allocate swap
space knowing the total size of boot drive ? high and low water mark ? or
is there any justification on dedicate entire 400M drive ( original boot
drive ) as swap space on a system that will only have aobut 3.4 G total
disk space ? In MSDOS, a physical hard disk can be break into partitions
that will be treated as many separate logical disks so full on one will
not hang operation ( almost infinite pausing even when logout ) that only
access the other. Can we play the same trick with NeXTStep on NeXT Box ?
If so, exactly how ?
From: wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 10 Apr 1995 10:29:18 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
(Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
> A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
> anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
Of course NeXTanswers doesn't! The whole Nextstep-on-i386 community is
waiting for such a beast. Next scheduled back the driver for Q2/95, despite
it was already planned for Q1.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
else? // Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Duplicate messages in /usr/adm/messages
Date: 10 Apr 1995 14:12:13 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mbebt$gu4@potogold.rmii.com>
References: <3m6i3t$1fve@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
[stuff about duplicate log messages deleted]
Might you be redirecting logging from minor hosts to major ones via the
/etc/syslog.conf on some of your hosts?
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help - mail config problems
Date: 10 Apr 1995 14:19:54 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mbeqa$h8u@potogold.rmii.com>
References: <3m9mo1$5cn@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
Antony Freeman writes
>
> I seem to have a mail config problem on my NextStation, NextStep V. 3.0
>
> I can mail to another host, I don't however receive any mail, and can't
mail another user on the same machine.
>
> Here's the output from "mail -v". Can anybody tell me what the problem
might be.
>
[mail loops back to myself problem deleted]
I asked this same question earlier, and the best answer I recieved
suggested defining the 'w' class in my sendmail.cf file as such:
# options that you probably want on a mailhost:
Cw local1 local2 local3 local4
Perhaps this helps,
Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Subject: Re: Mail.app problem
In-Reply-To: eric@whyanext.com's message of 3 Apr 1995 05:39:04 GMT
To: eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz)
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.95Apr8110612@freedom.princeton.edu>
Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU
Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
Organization: Princeton University
References: <3lo1lo$cqv@news1.svc>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 15:06:11 GMT
In article <3lo1lo$cqv@news1.svc> eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz) writes:
I have Mail.app setup to point to one of my PINE mail folders by filling in
these fields in the Preferences box:
Mail Dir: ~/Mailboxes
Spool Dir: ~/mail/nextmail
Mailer: /usr/lib/sendmail
It's possible that I've accidentally made a trivial change to the above data,
but basically this used to work fine. I would just click the "Get Mail"
button and it would read my PINE folder called 'nextmail' where I transfer
all my NeXTmail.
But it has stopped working. I click "Get Mail" and it just beeps. I've tried
scrapping the 'nextmail' and starting over, but get the same result.
Don't ever use '~' to refer to your (or others) home directory in the
Mail.app defaults. Under some circumstances they work with Mail.app
3.3, but why take a chance ? Always use absolute paths. This is
easily the number one reason for problem reports with the
mailapp-utilities.
Carl Edman
From: rfrancis@ny.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: bad sendreply's between NextStep 3.3 and Solaris 2.4 NFS
Date: 10 Apr 1995 10:20:33 -0400
Organization: Paradigm Systems
Message-ID: <3mberh$91t@tsi-srvr.ny.psca.com>
References: <3m3ifc$14c@ren.ny.psca.com> <3m6e6t$gd2@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>
In article <3m6e6t$gd2@nobugs.bmt.gun.com>,
Timothy Reed <treed@bmt.gun.com> wrote:
>On the Solaris client, add -rsize=1024 and -wsize=1024 to your mount
>options. Juergen Keil and I discovered the problem and posted a fix
>at the same time,
Indeed, that fixed the problem. The weird thing is that I have been
NFS mounting NextStep partitions onto Solaris 2.3 machines w/o that
problem. It just creeped back into 2.4 I guess.
Thanks for the help.
-rob
---
Rob Francis -- Rob_Francis@ny.psca.com -- Paradigm Systems
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Date: 10 Apr 1995 14:24:30 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mbf2u$hbt@potogold.rmii.com>
References: <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Markus Wenzel writes
> (Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
> > A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
> > anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
>
> Of course NeXTanswers doesn't! The whole Nextstep-on-i386 community is
> waiting for such a beast. Next scheduled back the driver for Q2/95,
despite
> it was already planned for Q1.
Well, not quite the *whole* group of people using NEXTSTEP FIP. ;^)
Cheers
Chris
From: tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 10 Apr 1995 15:21:34 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mbidu$5aa@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com>
(Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
/ A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
/ anyone know of such a thing?
The NCR 810 chip is supported by REC (Russian Electronic Company)
Internet: serge@osd.glas.apc.org
/ NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
NeXT is working on such a driver, but it's not ready yet.
There is a document about it in NeXTanswers:
http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1754.htmld/1754.html
--
Martin Michlmayr | tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at | tbm@fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at
GNU OpenStep Development Team, Manager of the Documentation Department
http://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/gnustep/gnustep.html
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT + Linux on same HD howto ?
Date: 10 Apr 1995 11:51:24 -0000
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mb63s$9i@filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <D6LEpw.IyB@europa.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Steven Kornreich (steve@eps.com) wrote:
: I have just finished installing linux on a small partition on my hd and
: was wondering if the LILO boot manager works with NeXTStep. If it does how
: do I configure LILO.. Or what is the best way to do this config?
I'm using Linux on the same HD as NeXTSTEP and LILO to boot NeXTSTEP without a p
roblem.
Filip
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From: sela@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fonts
Date: 10 Apr 1995 23:54:43 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mcgg3$6qr@news.iastate.edu>
This is a repost of a posting to comp.sys.next.software from which I got
next to no reply. I am reposting it here in hopes of a better reply.
> I am looking for more fonts (other than the ones on ftp.cs.orst.edu)
> that are already configured to work under NS. Anybody?
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*******************IOWA***STATE***UNIVERSITY********************
* Brian Morrison sela@iastate.edu (NeXT Mail welcome!) *
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From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: PhotoCD drivers under NS3.3?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:52:42 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950411145126.12183C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <3m2s0u$b1a@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <3m2s0u$b1a@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Please inform me, too!
I also do have this problem with my NS 3.3 on Intel Hardware. It seems as
if there is just no photocd.driver available, true?
Greetings,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
On 7 Apr 1995, Richard West wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm posting this for a friend (mark@giaia.gcs.oz.au) who has NS3.3 running
> on black hardware. He says that he could view PhotoCD's under 3.2, but that
> now he's upgraded to 3.3, he can no longer read them. Can anyone shed some
> light on this? Please mail any responses to mark as I'm not sure if he'll
> get this newsgroup.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Richard dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au
>
>
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for cpio and tar format description
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:59:03 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950411145529.12183D-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sorry, maybe the wrong group to post to, but I couldn't fint any
informations with archie, WAIS etc.
I'm thinking about writing a new archiving tool. The tools should be able
to read/write cpio/tar archives as well. The problem is: I can't find
informations about the format written by these two tools. Reverse
engineering of the PD afio and gnutar is a pain.
Thanks in advance,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
From: rajaram@ces.cwru.edu (Palaniappan Rajaram)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,biz.sco.general,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: HP vs SGI vs SUN
Date: 10 Apr 1995 18:44:19 GMT
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mbua3$nl2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
References: <3hvfrk$col@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> <3i05fo$l8u@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <3i31ra$870@pith.uoregon.edu>
Hi,
I'm having a network of PCs running NextStep OS. There are two persistent problems that I'm encountering viz.,
1. Every machine goes on an autonfsmount and an entry is seen as below,
when the mount command is executed
beta:(autonfsmount[130]) on /Net type nfs (ro,intr,port=729) .
Also, at times there is heavy harddisk activity even though nobody has
used the machine in the last day or two. When the machine is disconnected
from the network, the harddisk activity ceases.
2. SWAPFILE PROBLEM : The swapfile grows with time and at one point all of
the harddisk space gets used up ( at times 50-60 MBytes gets used up ).
Since, the application we develop has a lot of windows which frequently
close and open up, I think there is an increase in the swapfile size.
Also, if the machine is left running overnight or over the weekend, the
same problem occurs. Due to this, we are having to reboot the machine
every couple of hours or so. When I checked with developers who develop
similar applications, I was told that even if the machine is left running
for days together, the swapfile doesn't pose a problem.
Can anybody help ?!
Thanks
-Raj
( Practisys Inc. )
PS. : If you can, please email me at rajaram@fox.ces.cwru.edu or
rajaram@practisys.com
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 10 Apr 1995 19:38:04 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Apr10153804@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com> <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
In-reply-to: wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de's message of 10 Apr 1995 10:29:18 GMT
<wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>(Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
>>A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
>>anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
>Of course NeXTanswers doesn't! The whole Nextstep-on-i386 community is
>waiting for such a beast. Next scheduled back the driver for Q2/95, despite
>it was already planned for Q1.
Buy a JCEagle 825 SCSI card from JCIS.
This card costs a measly $150.00 (compared to the adaptec 2940 @ $400),
and JCIS ships you a driver that works with 3.2 or 3.3. The card is
based on the NCR 825 chip, and performs equivalently to the Adaptec 2940
(I have both).
I have been pleased with the support JCIS offers, and have had no
problems with the driver. What's more, their driver supports more
options than NeXT's is planned to have. JCIS's is based on the Talus
driver, from whom they've purchased a source code license, and has been
shipping for almost a year.
- darcy (satisfied customer)
Try "info@jcis.com" for pricing, etc. For a human, try:
JCIS
Bob Lee
bobl@jcis.com
1-510-659-8440
4487 Technology Drive
Fremont, CA 94538
--
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops. -- Veruca Salt -- Baldric, you
wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on
top of a harpsichord singing, "Subtle Plans Are Here Again" -- Atkinson --
The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer Shutdown Bug
Date: 10 Apr 1995 02:03:58 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ma3me$n60@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3lrepf$1cu@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH) writes:
> My NewsGrazer will shutdown similar types of newsgroups for one
> or two days then work without a problem. e.g. At time i con open
> no newsgroup that is a marketplace. Like comp marketplace or
> cars marketplace this happens across the board for any group
> ending in marketplace. It has also happened with pictures. Strange
> huh? Any ideas.
If you are seeing the same problem with several groups at once,
then the most likely culprit is a usenet article that someone
has cross-posted to "too many" groups. I'm not quite sure what
the measure of "too many" is, but you will have newsgrazer problems
if a single article is posted to many newsgroups.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: antony@datatext.co.uk (Antony Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail problems - please help
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 01:18:51 GMT
Organization: Data Text Processing Ltd
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mc3l5$6fk@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
My Next (black o/s v.3.0) can't receive mail. I send mail to tother hosts on the mixed
nfs net, but it does not seem to receive any mail. Nor can you mail to another
user on the same machine.
Output from mail -v is:
black> mail -v root
Subject: test
test
.
Cc:
root... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)...
220 black. Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0X ready at Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:51:56 -0900
>>> HELO black.
553 black. config error: mail loops back to myself
>>> QUIT
221 black. closing connection
root... 554 Service unavailable
antony... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)...
220 black. Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0X ready at Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:51:57 -0900
>>> HELO black.
553 black. config error: mail loops back to myself
>>> QUIT
221 black. closing connection
antony... 554 Service unavailable
black>
black>
Any ideas??
Regards
Antony
====================================
Antony Freeman
Data Text Processing Ltd
Data Capture - Electronic Publishing
====================================
Tel: +44(0)1892 861222
Fax: +44(0)1892 861211
Regards
Antony
====================================
Antony Freeman
Data Text Processing Ltd
Data Capture - Electronic Publishing
====================================
Tel: +44(0)1892 861222
Fax: +44(0)1892 861211
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can/does NeXTStep 3.2 support multicast IP?
Date: 10 Apr 1995 15:59:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3mbkl5$fm9@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: NeXT, multicast
Does anyone know of a system patch, init or whatever that will allow a NeXT
(680x0) to support IP multicast capabilities? Thanks!
Jim Luby
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98105
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dan York <ldy@edserv.cicc.com>
Subject: Booting NeXT into single-user mode?
Message-ID: <D6uCII.7KA@mv.mv.com>
Sender: usenet@mv.mv.com (System Administrator)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 22:44:42 GMT
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I was recently given a NeXT box that someone was no longer using. The
problem is that no one remembers what the passwords are for any of the
accounts... in fact, no one remembers what accounts were on the system!
Normally, I use Sun workstations and I could (until Solaris 2.x) get
around this dilemma by re-booting the machine into "single-user mode".
At that point, I can edit the passwd file, etc., etc. Does such a
capability exist on a NeXT? (I was, of course, given no documentation!
And I've looked around for a FAQ, but couldn't find one.)
The machine looks like an original NeXT cube - hardware tags are dated
1989 and 1990 and the optical OS disk is NeXTStep 1.0a. There is no
floppy drive, either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
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From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: Mail.app problem
Message-ID: <D6up0o.7Eq@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <3lo1lo$cqv@news1.svc> <CEDMAN.95Apr8110612@freedom.princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 03:14:47 GMT
Carl Edman (cedman@princeton.edu) wrote:
: Don't ever use '~' to refer to your (or others) home directory in the
: Mail.app defaults. Under some circumstances they work with Mail.app
: 3.3, but why take a chance ? Always use absolute paths. This is
: easily the number one reason for problem reports with the
: mailapp-utilities.
Could you expand on this. Doesn't Mail.app properly expand '~'?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: WP 6.0 to 5.1 translator
Date: 11 Apr 1995 04:22:00 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3md059$gik@paladin.american.edu>
References: <3m44cp$srf@paladin.american.edu>
In article <3m44cp$srf@paladin.american.edu> tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
(Torrey McMahon) writes:
:Since WordPerfect orphaned Next WP as anyone written or thought of writing a
:translator for WP 6.0 documents into 5.1 documents? I work at a University
:that uses WP for Next every day. No day goes by that I am asked to convert a
:6.0 PC document to 5.1 and I am starting to get tired of walking to the
:nearest PC with 6.0, starting up WP...you get the picture.
:
:What does anyone think it would entail? Programming is not my forte but would
:be an educational process and worth any work I would do. Any pointers would be
:great.
I am afraid I forgot to add some pertinent info. Please forgive me.
SoftPc would be great but....
1) The machines are 8 meg's a piece, Motorala Turbo Stations. Soon to be
increased hopefully but right now have problems, sometimes, with memory. SoftPc
makes things worse, much worse. I have installed ver. 3.0 and it runs like 3
toed sloth on Valium, Vicadine AND morphine.
2) We handle about 1000 users. Setting up a harddisk file for all of them would
be really disk consuming.
3) It would not be worth the time and expense of buying the new version of
SoftPc, setting it up, and administrating it just to convert the documents. We
have no other need, at the moment, for SoftPc.
Also...I would like to put some programming to actual use. That is a minor one
reason but a reason none the less.
Thanks to the people that have responded. Any more info out there? (I know
about WriteUp from AFS and am looking into it in case anyone had that idea.)
---
Torrey McMahon
From: steve@talus.com (Steve Sarich III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Date: 11 Apr 1995 04:03:20 GMT
Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mcv28$c69@news.blkbox.com>
References: <3mbidu$5aa@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at>
In article <3mbidu$5aa@osiris.wu-wien.ac.at> tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin
Michlmayr) writes:
> (Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
> / A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
> / anyone know of such a thing?
>
> The NCR 810 chip is supported by REC (Russian Electronic Company)
> Internet: serge@osd.glas.apc.org
>
> / NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
>
> NeXT is working on such a driver, but it's not ready yet.
> There is a document about it in NeXTanswers:
> http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1754.htmld/1754.html
>
> --
The driver being distributed by REC is a pirated version of the Talus 3.3
beta driver. Anyone purchasing this driver is risking serious damage to
their hardware and the risk of wire transfering money to a Russian bank
account, hoping to receive a product that, if received, may or may not
work, should not need explanation.
Steve Sarich
From: wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 11 Apr 1995 09:14:30 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3mdh9m$qut@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com> <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <SAMURAI.95Apr10153804@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> <D6uEEE.DzB@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> And if you're still running 3.2, and if you can still get ahold of it now that
> NeXT has driven Talus to other (hopefully greener and more friendly), the
> original Talus NCR drivers work just swell too...
Be careful: The Talus 3.2 driver does not work together with some CD ROMs,
e.g. the Apple CD 150.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
else? // Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
From: Karsten Heinze
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with SATAN 1.1
Date: 11 Apr 1995 21:15:38 GMT
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3merhq$10b@pyrrhus-f.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Today I have compile SATAN 1.1 on a PC with NeXTSTEP 3.3 for Intel.
After I start SATAN as root on my computer and click on Target
Selection comes on Console:
Illegal URL:
/theMD5string/usr/local/bin/satan-1.1/html/running/satan_run_form.pl
received from: my IP
With SATAN 1.0 I haven't the problem.
- Karsten
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Tel.: +49/172/3763092
Fax: +49/37296/15056
e-mail: Karsten.Heinze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (NeXT-Mail/MIME)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Can/does NeXTStep 3.2 support multicast IP?
Message-ID: <D6uF10.EuC@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Keywords: NeXT, multicast
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3mbkl5$fm9@nntp3.u.washington.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:38:59 GMT
In article <3mbkl5$fm9@nntp3.u.washington.edu>,
James C. Luby <jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a system patch, init or whatever that will allow a NeXT
>(680x0) to support IP multicast capabilities? Thanks!
>
Nope--that was added in 3.3 (for all architectures, I believe).
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: ras@nextras.zko.dec.com (Robert A. Surtees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI Tape drive on black hardware
Date: 11 Apr 1995 11:45:56 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Message-ID: <3mdq5k$ju9@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Is it possible to access SCSI tape drives connected to a black box? I
have connected 4MM tape drive to my NeXT Dimension Cube but can't seem to
access it via /dev/r[sx]t[01]. I really don't understand how these
devices match up with SCSI id numbers, how to find out what SCSI devices
are attached to my system, or any documentation on this subject.
Can anyone clue me in? Is there any program similar to SCSIProbe on the
Macintosh that looks at one's SCSI devices and reports on each device?
I am running NeXTSTEP V3.3.
Thanks,
Bob Surtees
Digital Equipment Corporation
From: kelley@kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cube Ate My Optical... (film at eleven?) help.
Date: 11 Apr 1995 16:07:45 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <3me9gh$2m5a@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Keywords: optical
hi all!
my cube experienced an optical drive problem and it looks like
it ate the label from the disk that was in it. it was a data
optical that i need...
attempts to fsck the thing fail because "there is no label".
i don't get a "repair" option when i put the disk in another
cube's drive. just eject or initialize.
the only thing i can find in the FAQ is to /usr/etc/mount /dev/od0a /FoO
but this complains about no such device (yes, optical is in the drive):
rollnrok:9# /usr/etc/mount /dev/od0a /FoO
mount: /dev/od0a on /FoO: No such device or address
mount: giving up on:
/FoO
would any kind soul out there know how i might be able to retrieve
the data from this disk???
thanks.
kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 11 Apr 1995 15:31:05 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Apr11113105@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com> <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
<SAMURAI.95Apr10153804@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
<D6uEEE.DzB@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
<3mdh9m$qut@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
In-reply-to: wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de's message of 11 Apr 1995 09:14:30 GMT
<wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>>And if you're still running 3.2, and if you can still get ahold of it now that
>>NeXT has driven Talus to other (hopefully greener and more friendly), the
>>original Talus NCR drivers work just swell too...
>Be careful: The Talus 3.2 driver does not work together with some CD ROMs,
>e.g. the Apple CD 150.
This is true! The driver shipped by JCIS works under 3.2 and 3.3, but
will not work properly with the NeXT CD-ROM. It works just fine with my
NEC triple speed CD-ROM though.
If you do buy one, ask JCIS which CD-ROMs they know work with their card
and driver.
- darcy
--
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops. -- Veruca Salt -- Baldric, you
wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on
top of a harpsichord singing, "Subtle Plans Are Here Again" -- Atkinson --
The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Three-level NetInfo setup?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:33:25 -0600
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-1104951233250001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Does anyone out there have any experience with a three-level NetInfo
setup? I am trying to add a machine to one of the mid-level domains, and
for some reason, after I edit the /etc/hostconfig file, apps like
UserManager and NetInfoManager don't run. My guess is that somewhere they
are not finding the mid-level domain, or are getting confused by the
three-level setup, so they just die. The machine that has the dying apps
was just upgraded to 3.3, while the rest of the machines are 3.0 - 3.2.
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From: sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reversing page order in print job?
Date: 11 Apr 95 16:29:34 EST
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <1995Apr11.162934.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
I've got an HP IIIP LaserJet and am using JetPilot 1.8 to print on an Intel
box...works fine except that the pages always come out in reverse order (using
the paper tray feed). Is there any way to reverse the order of the output?
Maybe in NetInfo?
Thanks for any help.
Scott
Scott Davenport / sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu / NeXTMail OK!
From: ser@ix.cs.uoregon.edu (Sean Elliott Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail.cf problems
Date: 10 Apr 1995 21:10:33 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <3mc6s9$4sr@pith.uoregon.edu>
I've been trying to get sendmail to set a proper return address for my
outgoing mail (over a PPP link).
Right now I'm getting something like:
From: ser%discordia@cisco-ts5.uoregon.edu
Which is not a valid address. What I want is:
From: ser@cs.uoregon.edu
What I did was modify /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf to:
# Sender Field Pre-rewriting
S1
R<ser%discordia@$+> <ser@cs.uoregon.edu>
but this is not working. Any ideas? Is my rule syntactically invalid? Am
I a fish?
--
# Sean Russell | "It's like the first time you had sex.
# ser@cs.uoregon.edu | Sometimes you have to look up and ask:
# www.cs.uoregon.edu:80/~ser | 'Daddy, is this right?'"
# Finger Me for PGP Key | --- Tank Girl
Subject: Re: Problems dialing into Office NeXTstation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 08:31:31 PDT
Message-ID: <000A9E5E.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.ak.net!nwnexus!iqinc.com!Gary_Affonso
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
<<Hi, I am having problems dialing into my office NeXTstation. When I logon
I get the following message, "incomplete termcap.." and I am logged in
with read only permissions. Does anyone know what could cause this and
how to fix it so I can login with both read and write permissions. By the
way, we also are running NXFax. Any ideas would be appreciated.>>
I was having a similar problem (the "incomplete termcap.." message) but
different behavior. I could write files fine, but the various editors did not
work in 'full-screen' mode. I fixed this by adding an entry to my .login file
that setup my terminal definition based on how I connected. The entry looked
something like this:
set noglob; eval `tset -Q -s -m 'dialup:vt102'`; unset noglob
(The difference in tick marks above is significant)
My understanding of this (which is hardly complete) is that my terminal type
will be setup as VT102 when I'm logged in over the 'dialup' TTY and will be
autoset (used the TERM environment variable to derive a TTY) when I'm not. How
the TERM environment variable is set correctly when I'm logged in locally (via
the Terminal app say) is still beyond me. Things do seem to work with this
configuration though.
If you're running the 'SH' shell you'll need to use the .profile file to set
your terminal type (as well as a slightly different set of commands). The same
applies to ZSH and possibly other shells such as BASH or TCSH.
- Gary
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reversing page order in print job?
Date: 12 Apr 1995 04:54:39 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mfmef$4u3@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1995Apr11.162934.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
In article <1995Apr11.162934.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> sdavenpo@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
>I've got an HP IIIP LaserJet and am using JetPilot 1.8 to print on an Intel
>box...works fine except that the pages always come out in reverse order (using
>the paper tray feed). Is there any way to reverse the order of the output?
>Maybe in NetInfo?
This info should be in the PPD file for the printer.
I believe JetPilot ships with its own PPD's for supported printers, so
if that's the case, they are shipping the PPD file that is wrong.
Ask for the corrected file.
To fix it yourself:
If you find the following line, take or comment it out.
If it's not there, insert it. See other PPD files (e.g. NeXT 400 dpi) as to where.
*DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse
PPD files should be in PrinterTypes directory in ----Library directories.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: Ok, now we have a T1 connection, news?
Message-ID: <D6uBn5.AoB@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 22:25:52 GMT
Yes, the company I work for has a T1 connection, finally. But,
I'm maintaining a uucp connection for the mail/news feed. Is
there a way to get the news feed via the T1 connection? What
are the options? I'd really like to drop the monthly fee for
the uucp feed.
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver?
Message-ID: <D6uEEE.DzB@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com> <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <SAMURAI.95Apr10153804@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:25:26 GMT
In article <SAMURAI.95Apr10153804@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>,
Darcy BROCKBANK <samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
><wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>
>>(Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
>>>A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card. Does
>>>anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
>
>>Of course NeXTanswers doesn't! The whole Nextstep-on-i386 community is
>>waiting for such a beast. Next scheduled back the driver for Q2/95, despite
>>it was already planned for Q1.
>
>I have been pleased with the support JCIS offers, and have had no
>problems with the driver. What's more, their driver supports more
>options than NeXT's is planned to have. JCIS's is based on the Talus
>driver, from whom they've purchased a source code license, and has been
>shipping for almost a year.
And if you're still running 3.2, and if you can still get ahold of it now that
NeXT has driven Talus to other (hopefully greener and more friendly), the
original Talus NCR drivers work just swell too...
Jerry
(Who ain't getting 3.3 until
more of the performance eating
bugs are gone and the NCR support
is done)
--
Jerry Kuch EMail: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
From: klaus Kunze <klaus@chemlab.unm.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MAC to NeXTstation Network via ethernet (how?)
Date: 11 Apr 1995 20:33:25 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mep2l$i6k@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <jstuker-0904952125320001@193.72.1.134>
Juerg Stuker writes
> May sound easy to you, but I didn't succeed...
>
> I am using my NeXT computer (black hardware, os ver. 3.2) as a printer
for
> postscript files that are created on a MAC PowerBook. To evade the
> laborious file transfer via disks, I now want to set up a network. I
> already have all the necessary hardware.
>
> According to the NeXT handbook, there should be a 'apple option' in the
> preferences application. But even though the ethernet is connected and
> running, it doesen't show up. What am I doing wrong?
>
>
>
>
> Thanking you for any hints in advance,
> Juerg Stuker.
>
>
> **************************************
> Juerg Stuker, Zurich, Switzerland
> Email: jstuker@dial.eunet.ch (no NeXT)
> Fax: +41 1 262 35 49
> **************************************
Your handbook is probably Version 3.0 and bundled with NS 3.0 was
NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg, that after installing provides the corresponding
option in Preferences.app. So get this package from the NeXT CD 3.0.
NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg is not available on CD's 3.1 and higher, to the best of
my knowledge.
Klaus
---------
Klaus Kunze <klaus@chemlab.unm.edu>
University of New Mexico, Dept. of Chemistry, Albuquerque NM 87131
(NeXT Mail ok)
From: skp@ix.netcom.com (SANJAY PURI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: NEED TRAINING IN DC OR CBT
Date: 12 Apr 1995 13:54:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mgm28$p4i@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Need to find companies that provide Unix Systems Administration Training
or preferably a CBT on it so that we can have our staff trained on it.
The training has to be in the DC metro area.
Please email or fax info to (703) 709-9707. Thanks.
From: mgragv@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Alexander G. Vybornov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NewsGrazer shutdown thing
Date: 11 Apr 1995 01:55:37 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3mcnip$934@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
mk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH) writes:
> My NewsGrazer will shutdown similar types of newsgroups for one
> or two days then work without a problem. e.g. At time i con open
> no newsgroup that is a marketplace. Like comp marketplace or
> cars marketplace this happens across the board for any group
> ending in marketplace. It has also happened with pictures. Strange
> huh? Any ideas.
Try going to Preferences/Article Summary and turn off "Prefetch article titles."I used to have the same kind of problems. So far the fix works.
--
Alex Vybornov - Assistant Unix Manager
Waters Computing Center
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Box# 945, 5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47803, U.S.A.
Phone: (812) 877 - 8262
e-mail: mgragv@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (NeXT mail welcomed).
From: Brian Valente <bvalente@rmdudley.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD-ROM 3.1 Upgrade on Cube not working!
Date: 12 Apr 1995 20:06:13 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3mhbrl$njn@hustle.rahul.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have an Apple CD-ROM drive connected to an old cube running 2.1. I
finally got the 3.1 upgrade (and I'm still not up to date!) on CD-ROM -
problem is, the cube says "this disk is unreadable" - I've used many ISO
CD-ROMs successfully, but the 3.1 upgrade CD doesn't even mount on my
Mac or Windows machine - what gives? Is this some weird proprietary
format?
Thanks in advance.
========================================================================
===
Brian Valente | bvalente@rmdudley.com
R.M. Dudley Corporation | mrlizard@crl.com
1799 Old Bayshore Suite 200 | http://www.rmdudley.com/rmdudley/
Burlingame, CA 94010 | 415-697-1650 tel. 415-697-1816 fax.
========================================================================
===
From: tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Tariq Hamid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting from hda1
Date: 12 Apr 1995 20:08:49 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
Message-ID: <3mhc0h$si6@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>
Help,
I have installed NS 3.2 on my second IDE drive which is also known as hd1a.
On Boot-up I specify the following boot parameters, when using the
system installation floppy:
boot: hd(1)mach_kernel
Unfortunately the boot procedure freaks because it can't handle the fact
that hd0a (my first IDE drive) is a DOS disk. hd1a is then mounted as
read-only.
Please would you let me know how to boot up successfully.
Thanks
tariq.
--
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32 Vivian Road | JANET: tariqh@uk.ac.qmw.dcs
Bow | Telephone\Fax: +44 81-980 1483
LONDON, E3 5RF, UK |
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Ad/$38hr/-----DC Area
Date: 12 Apr 1995 23:10:31 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3mhml7$11m@news1.channel1.com>
Position-------------------System administrator
Platform-------------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position-----------Long term contract
Experience required--------NEXTSTEP--2yrs+ commercial
Rate of pay----------------$38hr+
Start date-----------------ASAP
To be considered-----------Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: NetInfoMgr: root is read-only?
Message-ID: <D6xtyw.543@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 19:54:31 GMT
As root, I cannot update NetInfoMgr. NetInfoMgr offers a single
domain with a title bar that reads as such:
local @ No Host Name Registered -- /
Perhaps I have to register "/" in order to change it? Whatever I try
to do, I end up with one of the two following messages:
No write allowed: all objects are read-only.
or
This Netinfo connection is read only. You cannot
save the changes you have made. Please open the
domain via the Open command, or open a direct
connection to the master server for this database.
Needless to say, I tried explicitly open the "/" domain, but got no
further. How do I discover what the "master server" is?
I *have* to be missing a fundamental point here. Can someone point me
in the right direction?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: ubs!hadar@uunet.uu.net (Hadar Pedhazur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NFS delays on remote non-NeXT file
Date: 12 Apr 1995 20:12:20 GMT
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland, New York site
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <HADAR.95Apr12161220@uunet.uu.net>
Sorry for not actually RESPONDING to the above mentioned post, but for
some reason gnus is not happy with automatically generating the news
group for this one post (first time it has failed on me ...).
About 9 months ago, when we upgraded from NeXTs to HPs (running NS), we
experienced very similar problems. We were using SOFT mounts for most of
our filesystems. This had worked flawlessly for 4 years in a mixed NeXT
and Sun environment. NeXT told us to change them to hard mounts which
indeed corrected the problem. I HATE the solution since soft mounts are
much more flexible and don't lock users out of their machines as much as
hard mounts, but in this case we had no choice. We no longer have the
problem.
If you are using SOFT mounts, I would suggest switching and would guess
that this will solve your problem ...
--
Hadar Pedhazur
Global Equity Derivatives
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Zomby ftp processes cluttering up machine
Date: 11 Apr 1995 14:50:36 GMT
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B.
Message-ID: <3me4vs$68@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
I manage an anonymous ftp site on one of our NeXTs.
With the advent of ftp via web browsers, I have noticed that many ftp
processes spawned by the browsers (PWD, LIST, etc.) do not exit when they
are finished, and end up staying in the process table for days unless I go in
and kill them off.
What causes this to happen, and is there anything to do about it?
Thanks.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | University of California, Santa Barbara
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/
From: schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: chown
Date: 12 Apr 95 14:50:41
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <schaefer.95Apr12145041@syrtis>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
How come on my HP running NeXTSTEP 3.2, when I chown a file or directory, it doesn't stay chown'ed? This is on a permanently mounted hard disk. And it happens apparently all by itself, it is not necessary to reboot to make it happen.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Martha W. Schaefer
Yale University Department of Geology and Geophysics
P.O.Box 208109
New Haven, CT 06520-8109
203-432-3116(office)
203-432-3134(fax)
schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu (NeXTMail accepted)
From: rfrancis@ny.psca.com (Rob Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fax receipts just stopped working!
Date: 11 Apr 1995 11:19:59 -0400
Organization: Paradigm Systems
Message-ID: <3me6mv$dih@tsi-srvr.ny.psca.com>
Config: NextStep 3.2 M68K, HSD Fax Modem
I'd like to say I haven't changed anything, but that's always a bad
way to start off....
Let me just say I don't *think* I've changed anything for quite
awhile but obviously something changed, as all of a sudden no one
gets receipts for faxes sent out anymore.
The faxes seem to go through just fine.
Here's a snippet from the log file:
R 03/27/95 09:45 3pg 2:59 OK. rm=" "
R 03/27/95 09:54 1pg 0:35 OK. rm=" "
R 03/27/95 10:03 2pg 2:26 OK. rm="xxx-xxx-xxxx"
R 03/27/95 11:03 4pg 2:29 OK. rm=" "
Where xxx-xxx-xxxx is the phone number dialed by the fax modem.
The fax modem entry in Netinfo:
rfrancis@tsi-srvr (2): niutil -read / /fax_modems/PSCNY_FAX
name: PSCNY_FAX
modem: Class2 Fax Modem
rm: minnie
device: /dev/cub
daemon_port: VISUSDAEMON_TTYDB
protocol: VISUS_1
rfrancis@tsi-srvr (3):
I can't find anything in the logs or any docs as to what makes the
software decide to send a receipt, so I don't know where to start
looking other than log files. Anyone have more experience at this
than me? Any pointers would be much appreciated.
-rob
---
Rob Francis -- Rob_Francis@ny.psca.com -- Paradigm Systems
From: ryley@gauss.cl.uh.edu (RICHARD A RYLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NewsGrazer Shutdown Bug
Date: 11 Apr 1995 16:52:50 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3mec52$kci@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <3lrepf$1cu@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
JIM KOCH writes
>
> My NewsGrazer will shutdown similar types of newsgroups for one or two
> days then work without a problem. e.g. At time i con open no newsgroup
I've tried three times to post a responce here, and my News Grazer crashes
every time. As if to demonstrate the problem. Hmph.
From: jehu@blackbox.cl.ee.vt.edu (John Stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need some help with Turbo's serial ports
Date: 12 Apr 1995 14:39:07 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mgomb$vc@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I am using the misckits serial port object and having some
problems with the serial ports. It seems to think that
the ports are all ways busy (errno = 16). The way I have
stuff setup the file descriptor for the port should always
get closed when the program ends. Is there a way, without
rebooting, to refresh the serial ports?
FYI, I am trying to use the misckit example TinyTerm to connect
with a 68hc11 board.
This works just fine on intel hardware (hard to believe) but
I also had to make the cable to connect the NeXT with the serial
port on the board. I used the schematic NeXT-to-Modem Cable
(MiniDIN-8 to DB-25) in the admin docs. On intel I just used my
regular modem cable. Any comments?
Thanks
John Stanhope
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UserManager: Communication Error..
Date: 13 Apr 1995 01:06:00 -0400
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mibfo$kit@digifix.digifix.com>
I'm unable to delete a user or modify a user from UserManager.app...
I get an error
Unable to delete user from NetInfo database. Error was 'Communication
failure'.
It seems to occur only when I'm trying to edit a user in /digifix, and not when
I try and edit a user in /
I've checked NextAnswers 1380 which gives some info, but this isn't the
problem..
(I'm sure this is some legacy Netinfo misconfiguration on my part, but I'm not
sure what to do to fix that!)
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
From: peter@cse.ucsc.edu (Hans-Peter Dommel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: modem cable for 68040 cube
Date: 13 Apr 1995 05:17:45 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Message-ID: <3mic5p$77l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
I would appreciate any input on sources/types of
modem cables to use with a 68040 cube. I have a
Hayes compatible pocket modem at home, with a
weird 9-pin Minidin. All cables that I tried
to connect the 8pin serial port to that modem
failed. With kermit and an activated port the
modem lights reflect typing on the keyboard
but I cannot dial out.
What modems, cables and software do you guys out
there use for that cube? I want to get this thing
connected ASAP and ideally use a PPP connection.
Thanks a lot for any hint!
Peter
_______________________________________________
peter@cse.ucsc.edu
From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: chown
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:08:47 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950412140156.3673C-100000@pear>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu
In-Reply-To: <schaefer.95Apr12145041@syrtis>
By permanently mounted, do you mean that you have modified your /etc/fstab
file to include them? It's important for correct mounts, but NeXTStep
will find and incorrectly mount this disks without it. When we didn't
have the changes to /etc/fstab, we saw very strange ownership problems.
My /etc/fstab (with three external disks, one being the boot disk) looks
like this:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 1 1
/dev/sd1a /peardisk 4.3 rw,bg,noquota 1 2
/dev/sd2a /boysenberry 4.3 rw,bg,noquota 1 3
/dev/sd3a /cranberry 4.3 rw,bg,noquota 1 4
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
On 12 Apr 1995 schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu wrote:
> How come on my HP running NeXTSTEP 3.2, when I chown a file or
> directory, it doesn't stay chown'ed? This is on a permanently mounted
> hard disk. And it happens apparently all by itself, it is not necessary
> to reboot to make it happen.
From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: alerting MIS staff automatically of system problems using alpha beepers...
Date: 12 Apr 1995 18:13:38 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Message-ID: <3mh58i$g5o@life.ai.mit.edu>
I have designed a computer-alert system (called MISalert) running at a
large Unix site that self-diagnoses a bunch of Unix computer
systems, sending alphanumeric pages to MIS staff beepers whenever
red-flags like daemons dead, important services down, networks
unavailable, hosts down, databases unavailable, processes hogging
system, filesystems filling up, etc. occur.
Recently my boss gave me permission to let the net know of it. MIS
staff like it because now they can spend their time doing high-level
design, project-planning, and "real work", instead of wading monk-like
through reams of reports or watcher-style outputs or constantly being
"on the edge" for that next embarrassing upset user e-mail or having
to learn ridiculously complex "observer" systems in order to maintain
a complex site in an orderly manner. Efficiency per staff member has
increased since the introduction of this tool in 1994.
MISalert can be especially effective for organizations with only a
small staff and a large number of computers or services provided to
the user base. Also, it would very likely be effective for large
staff sites that must trade off responsibilities in terms of a daily
"hot seat" or "system help desk" as the transport layer it uses
permits call-schedule times for on-call people.
An "agent" is the name for a small piece of code which checks for the
desired condition that normally an MIS staff person would have to be
paid to check for. Instead, now they can be paid to fix more of these
and do other higher-level things than scanning for errors. New agents
can be written rapidly with only a small familiarity with Perl
required. Your on-site Perl person should be able to handle this.
Right now, the site I mentioned has about 15 agents (see below) and a
granularity of 15 minutes for wakeups.
Writing a typical agent takes 10 minutes, including testing. It is
far, far easier, than coding an agent for SUN's SUNNET manager or
other similar systems. Basically, anything you can do with standard
existing Unix tools in terms of tracking system events can be tracked
using MISalert agents, the difference being that MISalert runs everything
and reports it elegantly to your pager with minimal effort on your part.
Agents can be configured, based on type or class, for transmission to
beeper or via E-mail. To keep beeper activity (and charges low), high
volume alerts like cpu or disk conditions, are typically configured as
E-mails, with everything else configured as beeps.
A master log with timestamp for each alert is maintained by MISalert
The system can turn itself off and on at specific times depending
upon MIS availability/committments to your overall organization.
Expansion to hundreds of agents and a shorter granularity is possible
The system is efficient in that expensive statistics gathering is done
once per pass, and, of course, because of Perl.
Current agents are:
# Tape devices no tape
Complains if no tapes are loaded in tape units for day's backup
# Tmp directory
Checks permissions of tmp directory
# Systems down
Reports if other systems are down. Cross-check by all hosts
# Link to Internet down
Checks if Internet link is down
# High load averages
When load average goes above a high-watermark, this raises a flag.
# Dead wordperfect or lotus 1-2-3 daemons
Or other standard daemons, so that users can always depend on
third party software that runs lmgrd-based license daemons being
available
# Financials production
Oracle database financials production confirmed running
# Production company database
Oracle database regular company production database confirmed running
# specialized line printer daemons not running
Various lp daemons
# Line printer daemon not running
Standard Berkeley daemons
# Fax server
Check that fax services are up
# Check disk.
Ensure that disk filesystems don't go above a certain high watermark
# XDM server
Ensures X processes are up
# Runaway processes
Flags any user or system processes above a high watermark in
terms of system utilization
The software is run from crontab every 15 minutes on all hosts on a site's net.
The system consists of about 425 lines of Perl code and makes full use
of IxoBeep/Tpage for the transport layer. Since it is written in Perl,
it is extremely easy to add agents to. It is all currently running on
SUN systems but other systems should be able to run it. It does not
have any "hard-coding" dependency on the alphanumeric transport layer
it uses.
There is also an optional "cookie" feature to send out a motivational fortune
cookie if no problems are found, to keep MIS staff motivated and interested
(just kidding, we're all that way already, aren't we?)
If people think they would be interested in this capability, send me a
message. While I won't give it away free, I am willing to underprice
anyone else offering a similar service.
--Stuart
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From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: emacs init error
Date: 11 Apr 1995 22:08:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3meula$n7i@news.service.uci.edu>
I would post this to emacs groups, but I suspect it's a NS setup prob.
Using the stock emacs on NS 3.2 White:
When any user starts emacs it gives the message
"Error in init file"
I've checked site-start.el, default.el, and even moved all of lib/emacs
into an archive. Still the error.
I wouldn't care, but it keeps the ~/.emacs file from loading (and I would
like to do some site stuff as well).
Anyone know what the deal is?
Thanks,
Kurt
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From: pait@lac.usp.br (Felipe M. Pait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: kernel exception panic
Date: 11 Apr 1995 22:04:20 GMT
Organization: Universidade de Sao Paulo / Brasil
Message-ID: <3meud4$7u3@bee.uspnet.usp.br>
I just had a kernel exception panic. In fact I've been having them every
once in a while on my Intel 486DX66 computer made by GEC and running NS
3.2. Before I had just sighed and rebooted, but this time I lost some
messy equations I was typing with TeX.
So my point is that I wasn't doing anything too crazy with the machine,
but still I had this dreaded kernel panic. Can anyone tell me of something
I can to do prevent such behavior in the future?
Thanks,
Felipe M pait
pait@lac.usp.br
From: chris@quetzal.unice.fr (Taggiasco Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: PPP On HP-PA running NS 3.3
Date: 12 Apr 1995 07:50:29 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mg0o5$akq@taloa.unice.fr>
Keywords: ppp, hp-pa, NS3.3
I've a very import problem (for me and I think for other people) and I
hope that somebody help me. I've installed a PPP package on my HP 712-60
with the special patch for the serial port, on NS 3.2. It worked very well
until I've upgraded to NS 3.3. With NS 3.3 I've removed the patch and
installed the serial port driver for NS 3.3. I've tried tip, cu, uucp with
no problem. The next step was ppp. I've tried without changing my ppp
config and this is the result :
until the connection and login on the remote "host", it's Ok. I remove the
route to the ethernet port (like with 3.2). I try a ping with a ip
adresse, it's work. If I try any other thing (ftp, telnet, www connection,
ping with a hostname) I've a panic error message from the kernel in the
MNI monitor, and I've to reboot. So H E L P !!!! I'm no sure, but I
think that the problem come from the serial port driver, or something like
that because I can't use Fax modem, and this version of ppp works on a
NeXT station under NS 3.3.
Please, if you could help me, send me e-mail answer. Thanks
T.C.
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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app problem
Date: 11 Apr 1995 17:53:51 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mefnf$rqk@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <CEDMAN.95Apr8110612@freedom.princeton.edu>
cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
> Don't ever use '~' to refer to your (or others) home directory
> in the Mail.app defaults. Under some circumstances they work
> with Mail.app 3.3, but why take a chance ? Always use absolute
> paths. This is easily the number one reason for problem reports
> with the mailapp-utilities.
It's a pity the mailapp utilties can't be fixed to figure out
what ~ is. RPI policy is to have people use ~ (or $HOME) to
refer to files in one's home directory, because we reserve
the right to move the absolute paths of home directories around.
I don't think we've done it, or at least we haven't done it
very often, but I don't see why it's "intelligent" to have
people hardcoding in paths that they may not have control
over. It isn't all that hard to implement ~ correctly.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Subject: Applying sdform to my boot disk
Message-ID: <1995Apr10.200048.26203@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 20:00:48 GMT
Organization: Mostly dis
I have a 1 Gb DEC drive with 512 byte sectors which is my boot drive.
I thought it might be a good idea to change this to 1024 prior to
installing NS 3.3, but I want to be careful not to screw anything up.
I have the internal 330 Mb drive available, and I can back up everything
to DAT with SafetyNet. I also have an old version of NS on a bootable
OD. I have used this on occasion when I have menaged to badly clobber
my boot drive. I think I am pretty well covered for emergencies.
I propose to backup everything and have a copy of the SafetyNet stuff on
the 330. If I can, I will umount that drive in single user. Then I
will format the DEC. Query. what strange things will that do? In other
words, once I scribble on the boat device I pretty much blow the OS
away. Will sdform even work on a boot device?
Assuming I can reformat, I can then do a clean load of NS3.3 and then
restore the modified stuff from tape or the 330.
Does it appear this will work? What might I be missing?
Thanks.
BOB
--
Bob Peirce Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)]
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well
please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take
the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mapdjb@bath.ac.uk (D J Batey)
Subject: NFS delays on remote non-NeXT files
Message-ID: <D6xCH0.CtE@bath.ac.uk>
Followup-To: duncan@perihelion.co,uk
Organization: Perihelion Distributed Software Ltd.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 13:36:35 GMT
Hi,
I have NeXTStep 3.3 installed on an Intel machine, crossmounted via
NFS with a network of non-NeXT Unix machines (specifically in this
case an IBM RS6000 and a DEC Alpha).
Transferring small (<= 1K) files or listing small directories is
not a problem.
Attempting to transfer larger files from the non-NeXT file servers
across NFS to the NeXT system causes long delays, varying from 35
seconds for an 8K file, to half an hour for a 6 Mb file.
Attempting to read the 8K file again immediately after the delay
results in no delay (it's been cached?).
Similarly, attempting to list directories with a large number of files
and/or subdirectories also causes long delays.
In the very bad cases, after about 5 minutes, I get the message
> NFS server <blah> not responding still trying
*immediately* followed by
> NFS server <blah> ok
followed by a further delay.
Looking at netstat, the only thing that looks out of order is that in
each case a number of ip fragments have been dropped due to timeout.
No idea what is causing this though.
The NeXT system is the only one in the network that experiences these
delays.
Any clues? Please cc replies to duncan@perihelion.co.uk
Duncan Batey,
Perihelion Distributed Software Ltd.
duncan@perihelion.co.uk
From: emstech@sound.music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need a Newsgrazer!
Date: 13 Apr 1995 15:58:42 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3mjhni$lcj@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
this is a little suggestion for all of you who have problen with "newsgrazer" .. have a look at "tin", it's probably the best newsreader around .. works perfectly on various platform.
--
Alain Terriault, System Operator Email: emstech@music.mcgill.ca
Music Faculty, Mcgill University Voice: (514) 398-4552
From: dougm@akira (Douglas McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need a Newsgrazer!
Date: 13 Apr 1995 18:25:49 GMT
Organization: Abbott Laboratories
Message-ID: <3mjqbd$b0b@kelso.pprd.abbott.com>
References: <3mjhni$lcj@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
In article <3mjhni$lcj@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> emstech@sound.music.mcgill.ca
(Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician) writes:
> this is a little suggestion for all of you who have problen with
"newsgrazer" .. have a look at "tin", it's probably the best newsreader
around .. works perfectly on various platform.
Personally, I would suggest 'nn' as being the best newsreader. I know I
could blitz through thousands of articles much faster with it than any
other newsreader. But that's just personal preference too. Both 'tin'
and 'nn' are great newsreaders that really help speed up newsreading.
-d
From: Wil Gayle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CERN WWW Server on PA-RISC
Date: 13 Apr 1995 19:13:36 GMT
Organization: US West !nterprise Networking Systems
Message-ID: <3mjt50$9ti@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
Has anyone compiled the CERN WWW Server for NS3.2 or 3.3 HP PA-RISC
systems? Please send replies to wegayl@reliant.mnet.uswest.com. Thanks.
--
Regards,
Wil Gayle
!nterprise Networking Services
U S West Communications
From: devin@suite.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Segate ST32430N Disktab
Date: 13 Apr 95 14:17:12
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <devin.95Apr13141712@dogpatch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Does anyone know where I can find a disktab for a seagate ST32430N ?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Devin Cambridge
Suite Software-Anaheim
devin@suite.com
devo@ocf.berkeley.edu
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: Ferri_Peter@DCS-Systems (Peter Ferri)
Subject: Xedoc Question
Message-ID: <1995Apr13.151611.22539@pcp.ca>
Keywords: Xedoc NIS
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 15:16:11 GMT
A client is looking into merging Sun and NeXT home directories. One of the
options to simplify administration would be to run Xedoc's Netinfo. Briefly
looking thru the Xedoc documentation, the product interoperates with NIS
and BIND the same as if NI/NIS/BIND are running on NeXT machines: ie.;
NI---->NIS---->BIND--->local files
Question: if a Sun NIS client (not running Xedoc) completed a call to the
NIS server, lets say during a login for a passwd entry, would the NIS
server (also running Xedoc - perhaps as a clone) look in NIS and if the
lookup failed consult NI and then return correct information to the calling
program and then to the client? I know this is backward to the normal fall
thru?
This would have certain advantages in an environment with 250+ Sun's
Solaris 1.x and 2.x) , whereby we would not have to maintain Xedoc client
side libraries. Even if we could use this just for the users entries it
would simplify things greatly.
I would appreciate any information.
--
Peter Ferri \/// DCS Systems Limited
_______________________ooO_(o o)_Ooo_______________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: NetInfoMgr: root is read-only?
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <D6xtyw.543@eskimo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 21:25:57 +0000
Message-ID: <1995Apr13.212557.25072@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <D6xtyw.543@eskimo.com> salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
writes:
> This Netinfo connection is read only. You cannot
> save the changes you have made. Please open the
> domain via the Open command, or open a direct
> connection to the master server for this database.
The master server (the only one that can update netinfo) is mentioned in
the / directory of the domain, under the master property.
Change the hostname (in /etc/hostconfig) of your machine to match, and
reboot.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: jjhuang@atm.cm.nctu.edu.tw (Jiunn-jye Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NXTerminal?
Date: 14 Apr 1995 04:52:35 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Message-ID: <3mkv2j$va@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Hello,all,
I manage an NeXTSTEP/FIP,and I will manage another NeXTSTEP/SPARC
but the 2 machines are put in different building,so I want to access
the NeXTSTEP/FIP on NeXTSTEP/SPARC just like X-Terminal,i.e. access
NeXTSTEP/FIP as if I were on its console,but acctually I am on SPARC's
console. How to do this? Thanks....
Albert Jiunn-jye Huang
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From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files?
Date: 13 Apr 1995 23:34:15 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3mkcdn$sn1@mars.earthlink.net>
References: <3mijqn$qg9@nyheter.chalmers.se>
md1hakan@mdstud.chalmers.se (H}kan Jonsson) wrote:
>Hi!
>How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files as compressed? I know
how to change
>the methods used by Workspace to uncompress, but that doesn't help if
it cannot
>recognize them as compressed.
> /hakan
The easiest way is to get Opener.app from: ftp.cs.orst.edu
From: alex@talus.com (Alex Kolesov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need HELP with resolver under 3.3 !!!
Date: 13 Apr 1995 10:27:26 GMT
Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3miuae$m11@news.blkbox.com>
Keywords: netinfo, Internet, resolver
I just set up new domain server, but I have a serious problem with setting
up resolver directory in setver's netinfo. Without it host works Ok
(without any idea where to find the nameserver), but after creating
resolver directory it reboots normally, without any error messages, but
after final words "Reboot complete." I have only black screen with cursor
but without login panel. Cursor is not spinning and reacts to the mouse.
Does anybody know what's the problem here ?
Thanks a lot in advance for any help.
~~~
Alex A. Kolesov || Talus Systems
alex@talus.com || 710 Queensmill Court
Phone: (713) 531-0006 || Houston, TX 77079
Fax: (713) 513-1546 || NeXT & MIME mail accepted
From: ahkilpat@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Andrew H Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TurboTax never delivered, me only?
Date: 13 Apr 1995 21:50:01 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3mk6a9$agc@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com>
Keywords: Intuit TurboTax ChipSoft fraud
Originator: ahkilpat@koptsw57
I paid (by check - I know, dumb) for TurboTax (ChipSoft/Intuit)
back in 1994. The check cleared, but never received delivery.
Intuit, who now owns TurboTax, will not answer calls
about my order, or respond to letters or fax's about the order.
The postal inspector says that they do not consider it a postal
fraud problem, unless they get many complaints.
So my question to the world is: did anyone else send Intuit or
ChipSoft a check in 1994 for software they never received?
Please let me know if it happened to you, and maybe the postal
inspector will get involved. AK
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need HELP with resolver under 3.3 !!!
Date: 14 Apr 1995 07:23:53 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ml7u9$8ir@news.next.com>
References: <3miuae$m11@news.blkbox.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: netinfo, Internet, resolver
Versions: makemail 2.7
In article <3miuae$m11@news.blkbox.com>, Alex Kolesov <alex@talus.com> wrote:
>I just set up new domain server, but I have a serious problem with setting
>up resolver directory in setver's netinfo.
You always just use /etc/resolv.conf if you are having trouble.
--Dan
--
Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in Bld1, back, Rside
From: md1hakan@mdstud.chalmers.se (H}kan Jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files?
Date: 13 Apr 1995 07:28:23 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics and Computing Science
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mijqn$qg9@nyheter.chalmers.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi!
How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files as compressed? I know how to change
the methods used by Workspace to uncompress, but that doesn't help if it cannot
recognize them as compressed.
/hakan
From: a-prince@ix.netcom.com (Frank Bellino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape drive on black hardware
Date: 14 Apr 1995 12:21:34 GMT
Organization: DataSet/Prisoner of Logic
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mlpce$gar@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <3mdq5k$ju9@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
In <3mdq5k$ju9@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> ras@nextras.zko.dec.com (Robert A. Surtees)
writes:
>
>Is it possible to access SCSI tape drives connected to a black box? I
>have connected 4MM tape drive to my NeXT Dimension Cube but can't seem to
>access it via /dev/r[sx]t[01]. I really don't understand how these
>devices match up with SCSI id numbers, how to find out what SCSI devices
>are attached to my system, or any documentation on this subject.
We have been using an HP 4-mm DDS-DAT for some time via 'tar -cf /dev/rst0'.
I think the problem you encountered is in the logical device ID; tapes start
a new number sequence, so no matter how many drives you have on the SCSI
chain the tape will start a new sequence as 0.
BTW, the device logical numbers are assigned sequentially (in two sets,
one for drives and one for tapes -- I don't know how other devices like
scanners are handled), in the same order as the device ID's but without
regard for missing numbers. As on all SCSI chains, each device must
have a unique number and physical device 7 is the controller (CPU) and
must be avoided. The machine will try to boot from the drive with
logical ID 0, most people I have talked to set the internal drive to
physical 1 so that they can over-ride the boot to an external physical
0 in an emergency.
A WORD OF WARNING --- We once had catastrophic data loss caused by
having two drives at ID 1. I think the system tried to do fsck to two
drives at once, it caused a *lot* of grief.
>Can anyone clue me in? Is there any program similar to SCSIProbe on
the
>Macintosh that looks at one's SCSI devices and reports on each device?
If you shutdown and boot from the monitor "Command+Command+`" on the
old style keyboard, there is a character based display of each physical
device located by the system upon boot. I think you can make this the
default boot mode, but I'm not sure how.
Hope this isn't more than you wanted to know.
Frank Bellino
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Administrator/NEXTSTEP/Career Position/ILL
Date: 14 Apr 1995 12:28:13 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3mlpot$2dk@news1.channel1.com>
Position---------------------System administrator
Platform---------------------NEXTSTEP
Experience required----------2yrs+ commercial
Type of position-------------Career Position
Type of company--------------Major
Opportunity------------------Outstanding
Benefits---------------------Excellent
Area-------------------------ILL
To be considered-------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
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From: radium@fox.nstn.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: EIDE Driver Information
Date: 13 Apr 1995 22:55:52 -0300
Organization: RADium Technology Centre (Canada)
Sender: news@nstn.ns.ca
Message-ID: <radium.13.0015EB0A@fox.nstn.ca>
Keywords: EIDE Driver
I am in DESPERATE need of an EIDE driver for NS. I know that NeXT is
working on one which will be released [some day] but I don't have time to wait
for the finished product.
If anyone could direct me to where I could find a EIDE driver (alpha, Beta, or
Gold) I would be very grateful.
If you require further incentive, I'll even send out a Beta copy of the RADium
CASE tools for NS / OPENSTEP to be released late Q2.....
Tom MacSween
RADium Technology Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
From: conley@bats.com (James Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Print Problems with NT->NeXT
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 07:37:56 GMT
Organization: BreakAway Technology Services
Message-ID: <3mik74$6lg@news1.best.com>
I'm having problems printing from Intel NT 3.5 to a NeXT (black)
running NS3.2. The last page prints, but an error occurs on the
NeXT--invalid Postscript, offending command "MF". I've got this to
work under WFWG using the LPRS40B software on the net, but figure this
should work "just fine" as the NeXT is running Level II Postscript.
I'm using the "Adobe Cartridge" as the print driver, but it also has
the same problem with various Apple LaserWriter drivers.
Any help would be appreciated. E-mail is probably the best way to go,
but if enough people are interested, I'll post the answer to the net.
--James "Mike" Conley
conley@bats.com
From: fraserjo@nic.cerf.net (Jody Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTprinter toner cartridges
Date: 14 Apr 1995 01:48:00 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer
Sender: fraserjo@cerf.net
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3mkk8g$feq@news.cerf.net>
Keywords: toner cartridge
Looking for manufacturer, part# and sources of
the NeXTprinter toner cartridge.
Thanks!
-jaf
=====================================================================
Jody Fraser email: FraserJo@CERF.net
"Of all the roads that wind and wind, the best of all leads home we find."
=====================================================================
--
=====================================================================
Jody Fraser email: FraserJo@CERF.net
"Of all the roads that wind and wind, the best of all leads home we find."
=====================================================================
From: skp@ix.netcom.com (SANJAY PURI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Need Trainer for Unix Sys Admin. in DC
Date: 14 Apr 1995 16:35:19 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mm887$j0c@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
Need a trainer to provide training to a class of 3-5 every month. Can be
off hours or weekends.Training will be on Unix Systems Administration.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni)
Subject: Problems with sendmail
Message-ID: <D716qE.8sI@prosoft.wimsey.com>
Sender: glen@prosoft.wimsey.com (Glen Biagioni)
Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 15:23:01 GMT
I'm having a problem with sendmail getting hung while delivering mail. I
think the problem may have started after upgrading the NS 3.3 (Black
hardware).
Here is /usr/spool/mqueue with stuff left there:
#ls -lg /usr/spool/mqueue
total 48
-rw------- 1 root wheel 87 Apr 14 04:49 dfAA10652
-rw------- 1 root wheel 462 Apr 14 04:49 qfAA10652
-rw-r----- 1 root staff 19861 Apr 14 05:09 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 26026 Apr 14 01:19 syslog.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Apr 14 04:49 xfAA10652
The processes that should have cleared this out seem to be running still:
#ps aux | grep sendmail
root 11281 2.7 0.7 1.66M 200K p1 S 0:00 grep sendmail
root 6728 0.0 1.1 1.70M 304K ? S 0:00 -accepting connections
(sendmail)
root 10656 0.0 1.6 1.70M 448K Db SW 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -ee
-fvancouver!root -i glen
uucp 10657 0.0 0.9 1.70M 272K Db S 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -ee
-fvancouver!root -i glen
Something regarding the spooled mail is in the log file
(/usr/mqueue/syslog):
Apr 14 04:49:30 gbnext sendmail[10652]: AA10652:
message-id=<9504141130.AA01640@instep.wimsey.com>
Apr 14 04:49:30 gbnext sendmail[10652]: AA10652: from=vancouver!root,
size=351, class=0, received from local
Missing is the normally occurring third line as in:
Apr 14 05:08:34 gbnext sendmail[10964]: AA10964:
message-id=<9504141208.AA10964@prosoft.com>
Apr 14 05:08:34 gbnext sendmail[10964]: AA10964: from=news, size=188,
class=0, received from local
Apr 14 05:08:37 gbnext sendmail[10974]: AA10964: to=glen, delay=00:00:04,
stat=Sent
If I kill the three processes (6728 10656 10657) and restart sendmail as a
daemon (as in /etc/rc), the mqueue is properly dealt with.
Also, it seems as if new mail coming can get things rolling again.
Any clues? Also, what is the -ee flag on sendmail?
--
Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com> (NeXTmail accepted)
Vancouver BC Canada
From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3meula$n7i@news.service.uci.edu>
Control: cancel <3meula$n7i@news.service.uci.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 1995 21:53:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3mmqs6$cqg@news.service.uci.edu>
<3meula$n7i@news.service.uci.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lawillia@leo.vsla.edu (Lucette A. Williams)
Subject: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Message-ID: <1995Apr14.183725.5585@leo.vsla.edu>
Organization: Virginia State Library
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:37:25 GMT
Hi!
I recently received my first NeXTSTEP (Intel-based) machines.
I currently have them configured to print to our Novell network
printer, but I can't print anything from NeXTSTEP; only from
SoftPC. (Example: I can print a Word document from SPC, but
not an Edit file from NS.) Any suggestions on this problem?
Now, the real reason for this post. My supervisor has given me
permission to order a printer for my machine. My vendor has
told me that I can use any PostScript printer. Is this true?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good laser printer
for NeXTSTEP? And can this printer be networked (I will have
10 machines using this printer after a while.)?
I've looked into an HP LaserJet 4 Plus, with PostScript...
6 MB RAM, 12 ppm. Any comments? :)
Thanks bunches! Look forward to hearing what you suggest!
Post or email, doesn't matter!
Lucette
lawillia@leo.vsla.edu
The Library of Virginia
Richmond, VA
From: benji@haven.boston.ma.us (Benjamin Cline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WS-Manager hangs on accesss to NFS-server
Date: 14 Apr 1995 17:41:22 GMT
Organization: Sanctuary
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mmc42$6ub@xensei3.xensei.com>
References: <3m0cem$l86@elna.ethz.ch> <3m3o0p$lq@elna.ethz.ch>
In article <3m3o0p$lq@elna.ethz.ch> thiel@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Thiel) writes:
>That's not the whole story. What's going on is that NFS access has become
> **extremely** slow.
>This is caused by a huge number of timeouts in rpc (200 out of 5000 calls
>have timeouts). Nevertheless rpc's from annother client 10 inches away on the
>ethernet (a Sparc5) to the same server at the same time have nearly no
>timeouts
>(approx. 1 in 100,000 rpc's). May there still exist a hardware problem in my
>Intel Box?
>How to check out what's going on? (Analyzing interrupts etc.)
>
>Configuration:
>
>486 ISA, 33MHz, 32 MB RAM, 430 MB IDE Disk
>EtherLink III, ET4000, BusMouse
>
Yes, I think you have a hardware problem. It's been my experience that the
EtherLink III (aka 3c509) can't deal with the standard 8 KB NFS packets very
well. You can either get another network card, or adjust the packet sizes for
reads and writes, using NFS manager.
benji
--
Benjamin R. Cline Large Furry Mammal benji@haven.boston.ma.us
Never set sail with two opinions, always take one or three.
Government should be like bamboo: strong, light, flexible
From: jjhuang@atm.cm.nctu.edu.tw (Jiunn-jye Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXTerminal?
Date: 15 Apr 1995 01:17:49 GMT
Organization: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Message-ID: <3mn6rt$kii@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
References: <3mkv2j$va@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Jiunn-jye Huang (jjhuang@atm.cm.nctu.edu.tw) ´£¨ì:
: Hello,all,
: I manage an NeXTSTEP/FIP,and I will manage another NeXTSTEP/SPARC
: but the 2 machines are put in different building,so I want to access
: the NeXTSTEP/FIP on NeXTSTEP/SPARC just like X-Terminal,i.e. access
: NeXTSTEP/FIP as if I were on its console,but acctually I am on SPARC's
: console. How to do this? Thanks....
: Albert Jiunn-jye Huang
Some kind people told me that use %App -NXHost hostname
I knew this way,but I don't need just one application's access,I mean
whole *OS*,i.e. although I am using SPARC's console,but what I am doing
is *all* on FIP,such that I can administrating conveniently.
And it is said that there is an AP whose name is RBrower.app,it seems
to be able solve my problem,but still not enough,I will confuse whether
the AP is on SPARC or on FIP. So,is there any good way? Thanks again.
Albert
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Date: 14 Apr 1995 21:05:05 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu>
References: <1995Apr14.183725.5585@leo.vsla.edu>
Lucette A. Williams writes
> Hi!
>
> I recently received my first NeXTSTEP (Intel-based) machines.
>
> I currently have them configured to print to our Novell network
> printer, but I can't print anything from NeXTSTEP; only from
> SoftPC. (Example: I can print a Word document from SPC, but
> not an Edit file from NS.) Any suggestions on this problem?
>
> Now, the real reason for this post. My supervisor has given me
> permission to order a printer for my machine. My vendor has
> told me that I can use any PostScript printer. Is this true?
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a good laser printer
> for NeXTSTEP? And can this printer be networked (I will have
> 10 machines using this printer after a while.)?
>
> I've looked into an HP LaserJet 4 Plus, with PostScript...
> 6 MB RAM, 12 ppm. Any comments? :)
>
> Thanks bunches! Look forward to hearing what you suggest!
> Post or email, doesn't matter!
I'd say that's an excellent choice. We use an HP 4P with out Intel NeXT
machine, and once we got past the #$%$%&%* problems with the parallel port
driver in NS3.1 (solution: upgrade to 3.2) it worked just fine. Networking
the printer should not be a major problem (details will depend, of course,
on your local net). NS comes with proper PPD files for the HP printers.
Can provide more specifics if you're interested. Hope this helps
Tom
--
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
From: silbar@cantina.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Are kerberos and NEXTSTEP compatible?
Date: 14 Apr 1995 16:35:50 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9504142134.AA06096@cantina.lanl.gov>
Greetings,
This is probably a FAQ, but I've looked through there and all the
other materials I've collected over the years, and can find nothing
about kerberos for NEXTSTEP. Are the two compatible? If so, how
does one proceed?
Thanks in advance,
Dick Silbar
From: rwong@direct.ca (Robert Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTprinter toner cartridges
Date: 15 Apr 1995 06:20:06 GMT
Organization: Internet Direct, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3mnoim$gkf@stud.Direct.CA>
References: <3mkk8g$feq@news.cerf.net>
Jody Fraser writes
> Looking for manufacturer, part# and sources of
> the NeXTprinter toner cartridge.
You can use the Canon EP-S or the HP 92295A toner cartrige. Both
will work.
RWW.
--
Robert W. Wong Jr. rwong@direct.ca (NeXTmail capable)
Crasher of Automated Banking Machines, Keeper of the ZyXEL modem FAQ,
University of British Columbia NeXT Users Group Leader and
collector of titles.
From: Hugh Ashton <hugh@twics.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fonts
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 14:37:04 +0900
Organization: Twics Co. Ltd., Japan
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950413143626.13874F-100000@gecko1.twics.com>
References: <3mcgg3$6qr@news.iastate.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <3mcgg3$6qr@news.iastate.edu>
On 10 Apr 1995 sela@iastate.edu wrote:
>
> This is a repost of a posting to comp.sys.next.software from which I got
> next to no reply. I am reposting it here in hopes of a better reply.
>
> > I am looking for more fonts (other than the ones on ftp.cs.orst.edu)
> > that are already configured to work under NS. Anybody?
>
Trilithon.com sell them. Also, tim@dancingbear.com often has some fonts
available.
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Hugh Ashton, TWICS Co. Ltd. |
| Internet access in Tokyo: Tel (03)-3351-8244 |
| http://www.twics.com/~hugh/home.html |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| vanilla and MIME to hugh@twics.com |
| NeXT, MIME, Sun, MS and vanilla to |
| hugh@furuike.twics.com |
+-----------------------------------------------+
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail.cf From: header
Date: 14 Apr 1995 23:58:28 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Message-ID: <3mnqqk$qcc@crl11.crl.com>
The sendmail group apparently only wants to talk about
sendmail 8, so:
I'm a sendmail.cf novice and want to rewrite one uucp outgoing
connection such that the from: line is user@domain.com, while the
other outgoing uucp connection retains the bang path.
Any suggestions for getting this to work?
--
Don McGregor |"Not to like Jane Austen is to put oneself under suspicion of
mcgredo@crl.com| a general personal inadequacy and even--let us face it--
| a want of breeding." --L. Trilling
From: comm@sci.fi (Juha Tuominen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WWW/FTP problems via PPP
Date: 15 Apr 1995 06:20:42 GMT
Organization: Scifi Communications International Oy, http://www.sci.fi/, helpdesk@sci.fi, (931)3186277
Message-ID: <3mnojq$sh4@tron.sci.fi>
I installed PPP-2.2-0.1.6 successfully and all domestic connections via
WWW and FTP from my machine to inet work just fine, but when I try to
connect outseas nameserver finds the name, then tries to connect the site
and fails to get respond to the first html request. Ftp connections to
outseas fail as well. When I telnet to the site where I connect via PPP
and try to connect the same sites using lynx and ftp, the connections
form without problems!
PPP doesn't make any mental notes to debug log, so I don't think the
protocol is the problem. Any ideas what might be the problem here?
The system I'm using is black 040/NS 3.3 + Supra FAX modem v.32bis.
-Juha
From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with sendmail
Date: 14 Apr 1995 18:35:13 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3mmf91$lm0@news.tamu.edu>
References: <D716qE.8sI@prosoft.wimsey.com>
In article <D716qE.8sI@prosoft.wimsey.com>,
Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com> wrote:
>
>Any clues? Also, what is the -ee flag on sendmail?
No clue why it's hanging, but according to the O'Reilly sendmail
book, -ee sets the error mode for sendmail handling of delivery
errors. Specifically, the 'e' error mode means:
Mail error notification to the sender no matter what. This mode tries to
find the most rational way to return mail. All aliasing is disabled to
prevent loops. Nothing is ever saved to ~/dead.letter. sendmail will
always exit with a zero exit status. This mode is intended for use from
the command line. This 'e' mode is used by the rmail(8) program when
it invokes sendmail.
Lusty
--
So fine she was,
so soft, so silky-coated-
Her very mew had quality!
-Jean de la Fontaine
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: PhotoCD drivers under NS3.3?
Date: 14 Apr 1995 21:36:54 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mmptm$3mb@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950411145126.12183C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
On 7 Apr 1995, Richard West wrote:
> I'm posting this for a friend (mark@giaia.gcs.oz.au) who has
> NS3.3 running on black hardware. He says that he could view
> PhotoCD's under 3.2, but that now he's upgraded to 3.3, he can
> no longer read them. Can anyone shed some light on this? Please
> mail any responses to mark as I'm not sure if he'll get this
> newsgroup.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Richard dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au
Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> replied:
> Please inform me, too!
>
> I also do have this problem with my NS 3.3 on Intel Hardware. It
> seems as if there is just no photocd.driver available, true?
To which Garance now adds:
PhotoCD's work fine for me under NeXTSTEP 3.3, on both NS/Intel
and NS/m68k platforms. On NS/Intel I'm using a Toshiba-based
CD-ROM drive, on the NeXT hardware I'm using the CD-ROM drive
that NeXT used to sell. As long as you have single-session
PhotoCD's, you shouldn't have any problem.
The most likely source of trouble is if you have a Toshiba-based
CD-ROM drive, or something similar to those. In that case, there's
some SCSI command that has to be sent to the drive before everything
will work right under NeXTSTEP. There is a program to do this, called
"XAmode".
If this used to be working for you before you upgraded to NS-3.3,
then you probably have the program somewhere, but you let the
upgrade replace /etc/rc.local. You were probably running XAmode
from /etc/rc.local, and either the location of the program moved
during your install, or you lost that part of /etc/rc.local which
checked for and ran XAmode. Hmm. Another possiblity is that you
happened to change the SCSI ID # of your CD-ROM drive, and thus
the run of XAmode isn't able to find the drive anymore.
Hope this helps. I do know that PhotoCD's work OK under NS-3.3.
I'd like to see better support, but the support that was there
has not disappeared.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jhall@barbados.umhc.umn.edu (Jeff Hallgren)
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Message-ID: <D734uu.18y@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:38:31 GMT
In article <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu> tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro) writes:
> Lucette A. Williams writes
> > Hi!
> >
> > Now, the real reason for this post. My supervisor has given me
> > permission to order a printer for my machine. My vendor has
>
> I'd say that's an excellent choice. We use an HP 4P with out Intel NeXT
> machine, and once we got past the #$%$%&%* problems with the parallel port
>
> Tom
>
I agree the HP 4P printers are really good. If you have NEXTSTEP 3.3 and the
printer has a JetDirect card in it, you can put the printer anywhere on your
network. This gets rid of the problem of the printer being only a parallel cable
length away from the host. It also keeps all that traffic out of your office. Its
easy to do and frees up your parallel port.
---
Jeff Hallgren
jhall@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (NeXT/MIME Mail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
In-Reply-To: lawillia@leo.vsla.edu's message of Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:37:25 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Apr15153614@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1995Apr14.183725.5585@leo.vsla.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:36:14 GMT
I recommend the Lexmark Optra L printer. For the same price of an HP, you
get TRUE 1200 DPI. I have the PPD to use it with NEXTSTEP too. USA Flex and
CDW sell the Lexmark Optra L for $1800-$2200. The Optra R is $1400.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: getty in 3.3 on black intermittently fails to respond
Message-ID: <D72A49.A3J@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 05:33:45 GMT
I have a modem on /dev/ttydfb configured for remote login (including UUCP,
SLIP and regular shell access). Everything worked flawlessly for the entire
life cycle of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2
Now that I have updated to Release 3.3 (USER+DEVELOPER), remote users have
started complaining that they get no login prompt or any other response from
my computer after the modem emits its CONNECT string. However, the problem
is intermittent, and I can find no reason why it stops working when it does, or
why it starts working again. It seems that my getty process has decided that
it will not accept logins every afternoon late in the day!
I also access my NeXT box, a NeXTdimension, from work whenever I need to check
mail or do something that Windows 95 is incapable of (i.e. I try to connect
often :-) What I have noticed when it doesn't work is that characters are
echoed back (which is very surprising) but no login prompt ever appears. I
cannot send the break character, because Win95's HyperTerminal seems to have no
support for this.
I am still using the /etc/gettytab file that I modified to include 19200 and
38400 baud in addition to the default entries for Fast dialup terminals.
My /etc/ttys is pointing to D38400, as it did under 3.2 when everything worked
without fail. These two files worked under 3.2, and my usual upgrade
procedure involves running diff on every file I have customized, just to make
sure that I roll in any changes that NeXT Co. has made to the new release. As
far as I can remember, there were no changes in 3.3 to /etc/gettytab.
I have heard of other NEXTSTEP users having this trouble with the NXFax getty
replacement, but their modems never fixed themselves. Restarting exec_faxes
was required to enable dialup logins again, for them. I have not been
rebooting or doing anything else and 3.3's getty seems to fix itself, but only
temporarily.
If anyone can offer help, I would like to do what it takes to get dialup
working as reliably as it did under 3.2 - perhaps I should copy over the getty
program from my 3.2 CD-ROM? Would that cause major problems when mixed with
everything else in 3.3?
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
From: Jeffrey T Eaton <je2i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making a swap drive?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:59:16 -0400
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <wjY2KI_00iV7Q2Tq5_@andrew.cmu.edu>
I have a ~250 meg scsi drive just sitting here that I figured I could
throw it into my NS/FIP machine to use as a swap drive...
Problem is, how do I initialize it? I know BuildDisk is supposedly able
to see when the drive is too small to use it for a boot disk, but it
doesn't. I want to basically "force" BuildDisk into making it a swap
drive...
How can I initialize the drive for swapping?
---
Jeffrey T. Eaton je2i@andrew.cmu.edu
Sophomore, Computer Science/Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
---
From: dennisg@news-srvr.CyberSAFE.COM (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Are kerberos and NEXTSTEP compatible?
Date: 15 Apr 1995 15:31:07 -0700
Organization: CyberSAFE Corporation, Redmond WA
Message-ID: <3mphfb$5p9@kerby.ocsg.com>
References: <9504142134.AA06096@cantina.lanl.gov>
In article <9504142134.AA06096@cantina.lanl.gov>,
Dick Silbar <silbar@cantina.lanl.gov> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> This is probably a FAQ, but I've looked through there and all the
>other materials I've collected over the years, and can find nothing
>about kerberos for NEXTSTEP. Are the two compatible? If so, how
>does one proceed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
Yes they are compatible. I use it every day. In fact,
I ported Kerberos Version 5 to NeXTSTEP 3.2 on Intel
and Motorola. We are a commercial implementation. If
interested send e-mail to sales@CyberSAFE.COM.
-dpg
--
Dennis P. Glatting / CyberSAFE Corporation
Network and Security Infrastructure Architect
From: devin@dogpatch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fax receipts just stopped working!
Date: 15 Apr 95 17:18:48
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <devin.95Apr15171848@dogpatch>
References: <3me6mv$dih@tsi-srvr.ny.psca.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I had the same problem. If you look at the console, you should see that the faxreader is trying to write to /usr/spool/mail but can't. I think it's a SUID problem with the fax spooler. I can't tell you exactly how to fix it since I had to reinstall NeXTstep on the fax server due to another reason (this fixed the problem). I would probably look at fax daemon and comare it to another machine's fax daemon's permissions.
Devin Cambridge
From: Jochen Richter <jr@sade.schiele-ct.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Are kerberos and NEXTSTEP compatible?
Date: 16 Apr 1995 06:49:20 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <3mqelg$9i9@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
References: <9504142134.AA06096@cantina.lanl.gov> <3mphfb$5p9@kerby.ocsg.com>
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To: dennisg@news-srvr.CyberSAFE.COM
Please, send me informatiion and pricing of your product.
Thanks.
Jochen Richter
From: Bruce Gingery <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail.cf - eliminating bang addressing for UUCP connection
Date: 16 Apr 1995 03:54:04 GMT
Organization: Total System Software
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mq4cs$23d@tssslab.TotSysSoft.com>
References: <3mnqqk$qcc@crl11.crl.com>
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In article <3mnqqk$qcc@crl11.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R.
McGregor) writes:
}~ The sendmail group apparently only wants to talk about
}~ sendmail 8, so:
}~
}~ I'm a sendmail.cf novice and want to rewrite one uucp outgoing
}~ connection such that the from: line is user@domain.com, while the
}~ other outgoing uucp connection retains the bang path.
}~
}~ Any suggestions for getting this to work?
Yes. This tip is based on PSI's 'standard' distribution.
(well the more complex one is)...
If you only have ONE host doing UUCP, merely change the
UUCP mailer to *not* switch around to bang addressing...
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n,
A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhu, S=14, R=24, E=\n,
A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
Note the capital 'U' flag in the F= flags. That forces
bang-pathing, and remove the call to ruleset 5 from rulesets
13 and 23, by placing a '#' in front of the two lines that
invoke ruleset 5, and then process bang addressing...
Comment out ALL rules in rulesets 13 and 23 as distributed
in v3.2 sendmail.mailhost.cf (and probably others, I didn't
check) and put one to strip @LOCAL in ruleset 13...
R$*@LOCAL $1
Now for the MORE COMPLEX SETUP...
If you have multiple UUCP conversations over which you
pass mail, add another 'clone' of the UUCP entry using
different rule and rule numbers, of course.
I'm using 'suucp' for 'smart' UUCP, as PSI does. The
'smart' UUCP domains understand internet style addressing
AND the '.uucp' pseudodomain. Because my host talks to more
'smart' UUCP mailers than 'backwards' ones, I added a
class to sendmail cf to hold the 'backwards' ones, and
merely check for them first, passing default UUCP traffic
to the 'suucp' mailer, (full entries below)...
=============[ portion of sendmail.cf ]================
############################################################
#####
##### 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!$1 stick on real host name
# Convert uucp recipient (To, Cc) fields
S23
R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style
############################################################
#####
##### Smart UUCP Mailer specification
#####
##### Understands Internet domain addressing
#####
#####
Msuucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhu, S=14, R=24, E=\n,
A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u)
# Convert suucp sender (From) field
S14
#R$+ $:$>5$1 commented out convert-no ruleset 5
R$*@LOCAL $1
#R$*@$=w $1 strip local name
#R$+ $:$w!$1 don't preappend hostname
#R$*<$+>$* $1$2$3 defocus
# Convert suucp recipient (To, Cc) fields
S24
#R$+ $:$>5$1 commented out convert-no ruleset 5
#R$*<$+>$* $1$2$3 defocus
======================[ munch ]==========================
The 'uucp' mailer above (as opposed to suucp) and its
related rulesets 13 and 23 are unmodified from the
NEXTSTEP 3.2 distribution. Note the commented out lines
for the 'suucp' mailer in BOTH rulesets 14 and 24.
The '#R$*@$=w' line is parsed out in ruleset 0 where
it's replaced by '@LOCAL', hence the change in ruleset 14.
Just what other ruleset changes you might need will vary
according to what you have now, and what you NEED to do.
UUCP hosts are normally found in class 'V' as piped in
from a /usr/bin/uuname command. I used class 'U'
to hold traditional UUCP hostnames since that was the
smaller group (one MS-DOS host couldn't handle .uucp
pseudodomain).
==========[ normal distribution code sendmail.mailhost.cf ]===========
# local UUCP connections - output from the uuname command
FV|/usr/bin/uuname
======================================================================
[munch]
======================================================================
# resolve UUCP domain
R<@$=V.uucp>:$+ $#uucp $@$1 $:$2 @host.uucp:...
R$+<@$=V.uucp> $#uucp $@$2 $:$1 user@host.uucp
R<@$-.uucp>:$+ $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1
R$+<@$-.uucp> $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2
=======================================================================
Replace with
==========[ normal distribution code sendmail.mailhost.cf ]===========
# local UUCP connections - output from the uuname command
FV|/usr/bin/uuname
CU smarthost
======================================================================
[munch]
======================================================================
# resolve UUCP domain
R<@$=U.uucp>:$+ $#uucp $@$1 $:$2 dumb uucp needs bang
R$+<@$=U.uucp> $#uucp $@$2 $:$1 dumb uucp needs bang
R<@$=V.uucp>:$+ $#suucp $@$1 $:$2 @host.uucp:...
R$+<@$=V.uucp> $#suucp $@$2 $:$1 user@host.uucp
R<@$-.uucp>:$+ $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1
R$+<@$-.uucp> $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2
======================================================================
Reverse the dumb and smart according to WHICH you place in class U.
You indicated that you only have one that you DON'T want to bang out.
Bruce
+-+
Bruce Gingery Total System Software Cheyenne, WY USA
We do consulting over Internet. E-Mail
tss@TotSysSoft.com for quotes or more info.
Homepage construction area:<URL:http://metro.turnpike.net/bagingry/>
NEXT IN LINE magazine staff technical writer
Bruce Gingery <bgingery@Wyoming.COM> OR <bruce@TotSysSoft.com>
Multimedia: NeXTmail(tm) preferred MIME-mail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Applying sdform to my boot disk
Message-ID: <D74o1z.GsG@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <1995Apr10.200048.26203@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 12:29:59 GMT
In article <1995Apr10.200048.26203@investor.pgh.pa.us>,
Bob Peirce #305 <me@venetia.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>I have a 1 Gb DEC drive with 512 byte sectors which is my boot drive.
>I thought it might be a good idea to change this to 1024 prior to
>installing NS 3.3, but I want to be careful not to screw anything up.
You'll need my sdformat utility because NeXT's sdform is incapable of
changing your drive to 1024 byte blocks. Version 1.3 is the latest, and can be
found at:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz
[...]
>I propose to backup everything and have a copy of the SafetyNet stuff on
>the 330. If I can, I will umount that drive in single user. Then I
>will format the DEC. Query. what strange things will that do? In other
>words, once I scribble on the boat device I pretty much blow the OS
>away. Will sdform even work on a boot device?
I cannot say I've ever tried formatting the boot device, but I would say that
you don't really need to play with fire either. Why not just run BuildDisk.app
to create a bootable drive out of your 330. Use the Monitor to boot from the
330 after building it, and then you'll be sure of success in formatting the
1 GB that is normally your boot drive. Alternatively, you could boot from that
Optical you mentioned, or use the boot floppy to run single-user off the 3.3
CD-ROM. And remember: as root, you have permission to get into a lot of
trouble.
Don't forget to make a copy of sdformat on the 330 so you have it available
when it comes time to wipe the 1 GB. If the first attempt doesn't work, you
can always try sdformat again, but not if you try running sdformat from the
drive that you're formatting!
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Restoring autonfsmount behavior?
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Apr16135648@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 17:56:48 GMT
Hello,
I have had this problem for months now. My NeXT CUbe is not on the
network (I use ppp to get it on). When I reboot the machine
It stops for a minute at : "Starting file service daemons:" and
then I get an error from "autonfsmount". As I understand it, it
seems that the variable $NETWORKUP has value "-YES-". If I look
where this value is assigned I see that this is due to the fact
that my en0 interface has an IP address assigned to it. When I do
"ifconfig -a" I get :
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 132.204.2.65 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 132.204.2.255
lo0: flags=69<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
How can I remove this to restore the default behavior of my machine?
Thank you,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: fonts
Message-ID: <1995Apr16.110807.1509@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950413143626.13874F-100000@gecko1.twics.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 11:08:07 GMT
In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.950413143626.13874F-100000@gecko1.twics.com>
Hugh Ashton <hugh@twics.com> writes:
On 10 Apr 1995 sela@iastate.edu wrote:
> >
> > This is a repost of a posting to comp.sys.next.software from
> > which I got next to no reply. I am reposting it here in hopes
> > of a better reply.
> >
> > > I am looking for more fonts (other than the ones on
> > > ftp.cs.orst.edu) that are already configured to work under
> > > NS. Anybody?
> >
> Trilithon.com sell them. Also, tim@dancingbear.com often has
> some fonts available.
>
Sorry to say this but some weeks ago Trilithon sent all its prior
customers a postcard stating that tey're out of the NEXTSTEP retail
business for an indefinite period of time. No idea where the Adobe fonts
went from there.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: p7002bs@hp21.lrz-muenchen.de ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bootdisk on NeXT Black
Date: 17 Apr 1995 10:09:51 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mtepf$dqh@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Summary: Bootdisk on Black HW
Keywords: Bootdisk
Hi !
I have recently set up a new boot disk for my slab. I have encountered two problems which I cannot solve on my own it seems. Can you help
1. Although I chose "German" and installed "germanessentials.pkg" it starts up the computer with the english booting messages and when I try to configure a new user it says "language german not available for new user ". Did I miss something ??
2. Swapdisk: My swaptab entry is lowat 16M. After about 6 hours of idling my machine has used up 500 MB of free disk space and I need to shut down the computer to regain this disk space. What is wrong ?? (I have 32 MB of Main Memory !).
Please help me !!!
Thanks in advance for your replies...
Marc
PS: I am installing NS3.3
____________________________________________________
Marc Haberland
Am Bogen 13
85521 Ottobrunn
Germany
Tel. ++49 89 6090917
p7002bs@hpmail.lrz-muenchen.de
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 17 Apr 1995 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3msq0e$oah@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
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===========================================
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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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=====================================
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Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: rameri@cs.uwa.edu.au (Rameri Paul Salama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Gremlins? Mysterious problems with NeXT (black hardware)
Date: 17 Apr 1995 14:49:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Message-ID: <3mtv5l$vnu@styx.uwa.edu.au>
References: <3k2bkn$q7h@gagme.wwa.com> <3k2g3o$1nh@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <1995Mar30.041448.25238@nmt.edu>
Eugene Aalto (aalto@nmt.edu) wrote:
:I had a similar thing happen to me yesterday, except that my mouse cursor
:still displayed!I had a totally black screen, with only a mouse cursor showing.
:I logged in from another machine and rebooted, and everything was fine.
:I was suspicious of backspace, which i had just installed. (I'm running NS 3.0
:on black hardware) Has anyone has this happen? what caused it?
This has happened to me. It was after I had set up the 486 to mount
/NextLibrary, /NextApps, and /NextDeveloper off another machine on
our network. Unfortunately, I had not exported them from
that machine. The client machine worked fine, it just couldn't find
the Login application or the Window Server. After I exported the
file systems all worked well. So, I guess in my case it was a simple
network error.
Rameri
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From: Brad Van Orden <Brad.VanOrden@rssi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Need Trainer for Unix Sys Admin. in DC
Date: 17 Apr 1995 15:54:27 GMT
Organization: Rapid Systems Solutions, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mu2vj$r6j@rssi.rssi.com>
References: <3mm887$j0c@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
skp@ix.netcom.com (SANJAY PURI) wrote:
>
> Need a trainer to provide training to a class of 3-5 every month. Can be
> off hours or weekends.Training will be on Unix Systems Administration.
Sanjay,
I have done some UNIX system admin classes, but our main coordinator
of training is Jay Miller. Our company name is Rapid Systems
Solutions, Inc. Our phone number is 410-312-0777 or 301-621-8477.
Please call either Jay or myself to discuss your particular needs.
Thanks,
Brad Van Orden
Rapid Systems Solutions, Inc
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: HELP: Problem with Magneto-Optical Drive!!
Followup-To: poster
Date: 17 Apr 1995 17:12:44 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <3mu7ic$4io@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Keywords: Magneto-Optical, Problem, HELP
Hi, I am having some trouble with my Magneto Optical drive. I just
got some brand new disks and what seems to be happening is that when I
insert one into the drive the drive tries to read it a couple of times
and then spits the disk back out. The disk is okay, because I have
tried inserting it into the drive of another cube at college whose
configuration is similar to my machine. The machine at school
recognizes that the disk is unreadable and then asks me if I want to
format it, where my machine does *NOT* ask.
Also, I can read previously formatted disks. I have disks which were
formatted onmy machine and disks which were formatted on other
machines and they all work okay. A few have some errors though.
Does anybody have even the slightest idea as to what is going on
here???
Thanks,
--
Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu
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existence. Please see http://www.phantom.com/~slowdog for details.
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From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstep/System Admin Positions/$45hr/Long term/
Date: 17 Apr 1995 22:28:37 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3muq2l$1jj@news1.channel1.com>
Position-----------------------System Administrator
Platform-----------------------Nextstep
Experience required------------2yrs+
Type of position---------------Contract
Rate of pay--------------------$45hr
Length of assignment-----------Long term
Area---------------------------DC Area
Start date---------------------ASAP
To be considered---------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
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The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Message-ID: <9504171937.AA12263@alleg.EDU>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v116.1)
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 15:37:02 -0400
Subject: Re: How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files?
Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com
How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files as
compressed? I know how to change the methods used by
Workspace to uncompress, but that doesn't help if it
cannot recognize them as compressed.
1) put Opener.app on your dock (that will allow Opener.app to
recognize .gz files as compressed) You might just be able to put
Opener in your AppPath somewhere.
2) Get TickleServices. I think there is a service out there which
will gzip/gunzip files on the fly (without starting another app)
3) If you don't like either of those, I think all you can try is
renaming .gz files to .compressed (after entering this dwrite:
dwrite Workspace uncompress /usr/bin/gunzip
)
That might work..... might not. Haven't tried it. Just made it up.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma Email: luomat@alleg.edu Allegheny College
NeXTStep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
From: root@cnw.wichitaks.ncr.com (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 20
Date: 17 Apr 1995 20:57:05 GMT
Organization: Symbios Logic
Message-ID: <3mukn1$mf2@jupiter.WichitaKS.HMPD.COM>
References: <jorice.797079783@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie>
> ...
>
> This looks rather bad to me. Is there any magic which might fix it?
> Assuming there isn't, might I be able to mount the disk on another
> (non-NS?) machine to pull off some of the user files? Or is it likely
> that the whole file-system is a write-off?
>
> I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.0, which I should really upgrade anyway. This may
> be the time to do it. But I'd like to get back those user files if I -
> I doubt if you will ever be able to boot from this but you should be
able to mount the drive on a next system. In other words, Install on a
nouther disk and mount your bad one. I have had a similar problem with a
Barracuda. The OS might tell you that the disk is damageed. if it does,
I would tell it to ignore, and then open a shell and do a fsck -p on it
(it will probably be dev rsd1a, if you only have two files systems.) Then
you can mount it. Note than you CAN mount a 'dirty' FS and get the info.
Before that, however, I would try booting up in single-user mode and see
what that gets you.
Thomas Wells,
Engineer,
Symbios Logic (formerly NCR)
From: parkhill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Robert Parkhill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SMTP server over PPP?
Date: 17 Apr 1995 21:24:01 GMT
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
Message-ID: <3mum9h$ltn@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Hi Everyone:
A while back I set up a PPP link with a local provider here in
Calgary. I have managed to get everything to work except for mail. My
provider has an SMTP server which I can connect to, but I have no idea
how to do what I want.
My account on my local machine is rob (rob@hobbes). My account with
the PPP provider is parkhill (parkhill@cadvision.com). There is no
user-account with the provider, only the PPP account (pppd fires up
automatically when you log in). All mail sent to parkhill@cadvison.com
sits on their SMTP server until I retreive it. What I want to do is
retreive the mail for parkhill@cadvision.com, and read it while in my
rob@hobbes account. (Or better yet, have it stored in the mail spool
on my local machine so I can read it a a later date without firing up the
PPP connection again) I really have no idea where to start with this one!
Any help is muchly appreciated.
thanks
Rob
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<\__,\ | /\, |\\ \\// //| CPSC Guy, University of Calgary
"> | | -|~(*)/ | \\//\\// | http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~parkhill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: tini@gurke.ping.de (Constantin Szallies)
Subject: Re: Command line multipart mime
Message-ID: <D770M9.17w@gurke.ping.de>
Sender: usenet@gurke.ping.de
Organization: Legalize THC
References: <3m8n09$fiu@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 18:56:33 GMT
perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) wrote:
>Does anybody have a utility that will, from the command line, allow me to
>mail a multipart MIME/NeXTMAIL message? I want something similar to:
> mimemail -u user@whereverv -s "Hi" <file1> <file2> ...
>I especially need this to be received on a NeXT as a MIME/NeXTMAIL
>document with the files (they are uuencoded or gziped) having the proper
>icons in the body.
>Any info sincerely appreciated!
I guess MPACK will do the job.
Here is part of the README file:
DESCRIPTION
The mpack program encodes the named file in one or more
MIME messages. The resulting messages are mailed to one or
more recipients, written to a named file or set of files, or
posted to a set of newsgroups.
And here is some information form the mime newsgroup FAQ (old!):
Name: mpack
Product: MUA/utility
Platform: Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Amiga
FTP: ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.4-src.tar.Z
Sources for all versions
FTP: ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.4-pc.zip
MS-DOS binaries
FTP: ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.4-mac.hqx
Macintosh binary
FTP: ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/mpack-1.4-amiga.lha
Amiga binaries
Author: John Gardiner Myers, Chris Newman (Mac), Mike Meyer (Amiga)
Comments:
[ John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU> 1-Jun-1994 ]
Mpack is a minimal implementation of MIME, designed for encoding and
decoding binary files in MIME messages. In short, it is the MIME
equivalent of uuencode and uudecode. For backwards compatibility,
it can also decode messages in split-uuencoded format. The Macintosh
port can also handle AppleSingle, AppleDouble, and BinHex.
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From: ghost@ghost.neosoft.com (Mark C. Allman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bootdisk on NeXT Black
Date: 17 Apr 1995 21:53:54 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3muo1i$e22@uuneo.neosoft.com>
References: <3mtepf$dqh@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Keywords: NeXT, boot, swap
In article <3mtepf$dqh@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de> p7002bs@hp21.lrz-muenchen.de
() writes:
> Hi !
>
> I have recently set up a new boot disk for my slab. I have encountered two
problems which I cannot solve on my own it seems. Can you help
>
> 1. Although I chose "German" and installed "germanessentials.pkg" it starts
up the computer with the english booting messages and when I try to configure a
new user it says "language german not available for new user ". Did I miss
something ??
>
> 2. Swapdisk: My swaptab entry is lowat 16M. After about 6 hours of idling my
machine has used up 500 MB of free disk space and I need to shut down the
computer to regain this disk space. What is wrong ?? (I have 32 MB of Main
Memory !).
>
> Please help me !!!
>
> Thanks in advance for your replies...
>
> Marc
>
> PS: I am installing NS3.3
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Marc Haberland
> Am Bogen 13
> 85521 Ottobrunn
> Germany
> Tel. ++49 89 6090917
> p7002bs@hpmail.lrz-muenchen.de
For the language problem I can't help. But for the swap space
problem: what do you have running? An idle NeXT box (or any other)
should _not_ eat 0.5Gb of swap space when idle! Perhaps something
running (e.g., network news) is causing the problem.
-- Mark Allman
-- Grad. Student, Physics, Univ. of Houston
-- ghost@ghost.neosoft.com
From: Stanley Wong
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing n-copies
Date: 17 Apr 1995 23:50:55 GMT
Organization: York University, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID: <3muusv$pp5@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>
Is it possible to print multiple copies of documents without having the
Postscript being ripped each time? We have large Postscript documents,
usually 10meg in size, that we cannot photocopy. We need originals.
Everytime we choose 5 copies, it rips the image 5 times. Isn't there a
way to embed multiple copy information into the postcript document?
There was a mention of an application dwrite in one of the release notes,
NXMustPrintCollated which would embed this multiple copy information into
the postscript, but I haven't been able to get it to work. I am using an
HP4M Plus (PSLevel 2) printer.
Any sugestions appreciated.
stan
--
swong@circus.yorku.ca [NeXTmail, MIME, ASCII]
epas.utoronto.ca!nextwave!champ!stan [NeXTmail, MIME, ASCII]
From: gwillem@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (WILLEM VAN SCHAIK (INTERNET: GWILLEM@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing n-copiesREAD/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Date: 18 Apr 95 10:20:47 +0800
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Message-ID: <1995Apr18.102047@alpha.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <3muusv$pp5@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>
In article <3muusv$pp5@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>, Stanley Wong writes:
>
> Is it possible to print multiple copies of documents without having the
> Postscript being ripped each time? We have large Postscript documents,
> [...]
Did you try already "/#copies 5 def", to be put in the postscript file. A
good place is just before the showpage command.
Willem
W i l l e m v a n S c h a i k
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root@ideal.muc.de
Subject: Posting from NewsGrazer via cnews ends in dead.article since I installed Taylor 1.5
Message-ID: <1995Apr17.180449.3792@ideal.muc.de>
Sender: me@ideal.muc.de (Klaus Bscheid)
Organization: Eversmile
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 18:04:49 GMT
Hi everybody
Since I installed Taylor UUCP 1.5 I couldn't post from my acount anymore.
Posting from root acount works normal.
I have debuged inews an I found out that relaynews come back with a status of 1, but I
couldn't find out why this happend.
I use cNews and flat files.
Maybe someone has an idea what I can do.
thanks
-klaus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: SMTP server over PPP?
In-Reply-To: parkhill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca's message of 17 Apr 1995 21:24:01 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Apr17231623@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <3mum9h$ltn@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 03:16:23 GMT
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Parkhill <parkhill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> writes:
Robert> Hi Everyone: A while back I set up a PPP link with a local
Robert> provider here in Calgary. I have managed to get everything
Robert> to work except for mail. My provider has an SMTP server
Robert> which I can connect to, but I have no idea how to do what
Robert> I want.
Robert> My account on my local machine is rob (rob@hobbes). My
Robert> account with the PPP provider is parkhill
Robert> (parkhill@cadvision.com). There is no user-account with
Robert> the provider, only the PPP account (pppd fires up
Robert> automatically when you log in). All mail sent to
Robert> parkhill@cadvison.com sits on their SMTP server until I
Robert> retreive it. What I want to do is retreive the mail for
Robert> parkhill@cadvision.com, and read it while in my rob@hobbes
Robert> account. (Or better yet, have it stored in the mail spool
Robert> on my local machine so I can read it a a later date
Robert> without firing up the PPP connection again) I really have
Robert> no idea where to start with this one!
Robert> Any help is muchly appreciated.
Robert> thanks Rob
Robert> -- o/\_ | o | \\ // | Rob "Damn near graduation" Parkhill
Robert> <\__,\ | /\, |\\ \\// //| CPSC Guy, University of Calgary
Robert> "> | | -|~(*)/ | \\//\\// |
Robert> http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~parkhill : | |(*) /-' | \/ \/
Robert> | parkhill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
If your mail is on the mail server and your machine is not linked to
the net via ppp then the server will try periodically to send you your
mail. When you actually bring up the ppp link it will be able to actually
transfer you your mail and you will receive it normally (as if your
machine was always hooked to the net). If you don't login for three days
though the mail sent to you will bounce back to the sender. This is why
it is not a very good solution to handle incoming mail this way.
The other solution is much better. Instead of sending you mail directly
at your home machine (rob@hobbes) you should ask peoples to send mail
at an account that is permanently connected to the net like:
parkhill@cadvision.com where your mail will be acumulated. I know that
you don't have a user-account there but you don't need one. What
you need is that the machine cadvision.com supports a special type
of connection. Ask your provider if it supports some POP3 server. If
it does, you will use a program called PopOver.app (ftp.cs.orst.edu) to
retreive your mail. This program can log into a POP server and get your
mail into a spool directory.
Francois Magnan
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______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Wil Gayle <wegayl@reliant.mnet.uswest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 and DECpc XL560
Date: 18 Apr 1995 04:12:28 GMT
Organization: US West !nterprise Networking Systems
Message-ID: <3mve7c$ibc@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone had "Window Server Death" problems with NeXTSTEP 3.3 on the
DECpc XL560? I have a number of DEC systems with NS3.3 unexpectedly log
users off then display the log in prompt.
Looking in /usr/adm/messages, I see multiple DPS Client error and Window
Server Death messages prior to the WM terminating.
I called NeXT and got the standard reply that NS3.3 is more sensitive to
internal cards and they suggested I reseat all internal cards and memory.
Unfortunately, this didn't work. Until I find a solution, I'm reloading
NS3.2. Any hints?
Wil Gayle
Minneapolis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chase@stumpy.home.marble.com
Subject: set bitmap: Invalid argument
Message-ID: <D76oJs.1x7@marble.com>
Keywords: disk, SCSI, bitmap
Sender: news@marble.com
Organization: Marble Associates, Inc.
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 14:35:51 GMT
I'm having trouble creating a disktab entry for the Pinnacle Micro Tahoe
230 (Fujitsu is the OEM).
With the following disktab entry:
PINNACLETAHOE-230:\
:ty=removable_rw_optical:nc#17850:nt#1:ns#25:ss#512:rm#3600:\
:fp#160:bp#256:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#446250:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
The following error is reported on the Console ( NeXTSTEP 3.3 )
Apr 14 20:07:30 Workspace: Unmounted scsi disk at /ChaseScratch
/usr/etc/disk -i -h bizanos -l "test" -d 228510720 /dev/rsd1a
disk name: PINNACLETAHOE-230
disk type: removable_rw_optical
set bitmap: Invalid argument
What parameter of the disktab entry would lead to a 'set bitmap: invalid argument'? Alternatively, am I overlooking an argument or value required in the disktab entry? Please Note: the Pinnacle Micro's response to SCSI page modes 3 and 4 is to return 0 values (see profile below):
Inquiry Command
SCSI Target #: 3
Device Type: Hard-Drive
Vendor ID: PINNACLE
Product ID: TAHOE-230
Revision: 1403
ANSI Standard: X.131-1986 (SCSI-1)
Relative Addressing: Yes
32 Bit Wide Transfers: No
16 Bit Wide Transfers: No
Synchronous Transfers: Yes
Linked Commands: Yes
Tagged Command Queuing: No
Soft Reset: No
Read Capacity Command
Number of Blocks: 446325
Block Size: 512
Disc Capacity: 223162 K (217 MB)
Mode Parameter Header
Medium Type: Unrecognized (no standard) (03h)
Write Protected: No
Rigid Disk Geometry Page
Number of Heads: 0
Number of Cylinders: 0
Medium Rotation Rate: 0 rpm
Format Device Page
Sectors per Track: 0
Bytes per Physical Sector: 0
Interleave: 0
Tracks per Zone: 0
Alt. Sectors per Zone: 0
Alt. Tracks per Zone: 0
Alt. Tracks per Logical Unit: 0
Track Skew Factor: 0
Cylinder Skew Factor: 0
Soft Sector Formatting: Not supported
Hard Sector Formatting: Not supported
Removable Media: Not supported
NACLETAHOE-230
disk type: removable_rw_optical
set bitmap: Invalid argument
What parameter of the disktab entry would lead to a 'set bitmap: invalid argument'? Alternatively, am I overlooking an argument or value required in the disktab entry? Please Note: the Pinnacle Micro's response to SCSI page modes 3 and 4 is to return 0 values (see profile below):
Inquiry Command
SCSI Target #: 3
Device Type: Hard-Drive
Vendor ID: PINNACLE
Product ID: TAHOE-230
Revision: 1403
ANSI Standard: X.131-1986 (SCSI-1)
Relative Addressing: Yes
32 Bit Wide Transfers: No
16 Bit Wide Transfers: No
Synchronous Transfers: Yes
Linked Commands: Yes
Tagged Command Queuing: No
Soft Reset: No
Read Capacity Command
Number of Blocks: 446325
Block Size: 512
Disc Capacity: 223162 K (217 MB)
Mode Parameter Header
Medium Type: Unrecognized (no standard) (03h)
Write Protected: No
Rigid Disk Geometry Page
Number of Heads: 0
Number of Cylinders: 0
Medium Rotation Rate: 0 rpm
Format Device Page
Sectors per Track: 0
Bytes per Physical Sector: 0
Interleave: 0
Tracks per Zone: 0
Alt. Sectors per Zone: 0
Alt. Tracks per Zone: 0
Alt. Tracks per Logical Unit: 0
Track Skew Factor: 0
C
From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: fonts
Date: 18 Apr 1995 07:11:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3mvons$lub@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <1995Apr16.110807.1509@nidat.sub.org>
In article <1995Apr16.110807.1509@nidat.sub.org>
[clip]
> > > > I am looking for more fonts (other than the ones on
> > > > ftp.cs.orst.edu) that are already configured to work under
> > > > NS. Anybody?
[clip]
--
Recently I bought The Fatted Calf from Dancing Bear and it came with
loads of nifty NS fonts. Contact tim@dancingbear.com for more info.
BTW, I don't work for them or anything like that. =)
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
NeXTmail gladly accepted
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need Trainer for Unix Sys Admin. in DC
Date: 18 Apr 1995 01:40:03 GMT
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3mv59j$il3@news.ycc.yale.edu>
References: <3mu2vj$r6j@rssi.rssi.com>
In article <3mu2vj$r6j@rssi.rssi.com> Brad Van Orden <Brad.VanOrden@rssi.com>
writes:
> skp@ix.netcom.com (SANJAY PURI) wrote:
> > Need a trainer to provide training to a class of 3-5 every month. Can be
> > off hours or weekends.Training will be on Unix Systems Administration.
> I have done some UNIX system admin classes, but our main coordinator
> of training is Jay Miller. Our company name is Rapid Systems
> Solutions, Inc. Our phone number is 410-312-0777 or 301-621-8477.
Looks like the folks at Rapid Systems Solutions, Inc,
need to take some USENET training classes. Lesson
number one: the difference between replying with email or
by posting to the entire freaking world.
--
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Systems Manager, Axel T. Br nger Lab
Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Voice: 203 432 5065
Fax: 203 432 3923
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: PPP dial on demand?
Message-ID: <D7867K.FCt@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:54:56 GMT
Hello world!
I have missed the developmentsd lately. As I recall there was a
Japanese PPP version that does dial-on-demand, but with Japanese manuals.
And there was ppp-2.2 which does not dial on demand. ppp-2.3 is supposed
to do dial on demand. Does anybody know what the status of ppp-2.3 is?
Thanks,
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: adding a third tape drive
Message-ID: <1995Apr18.114310.44698@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Date: 18 Apr 95 11:43:10 MET
Keywords: SCSI tape drive
Hello everybody,
I'd like to add a third tape drive (Archive streamer) to a black NeXT
cube. NEXTSTEP 3.3 only has two entries for tape drives in the MAKEDEV
script and guessing the major/minor numbers for a third drive failed.
Is it possible to add a third drive? If so, what are the major/minor
numbers to use?
No hints found in NeXTAnswers.
The drive works, I've verified that on another machine.
Thanks very much for any pointers
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSITape, Adaptec and NSFIP 3.3
Date: 18 Apr 1995 22:28:22 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney, +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis
Message-ID: <3n0b96$6to@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Keywords: SCSITape bug Adaptec
Hi all,
I have a problem with the above components.
At NSFIP 3.2 I could safely run SCSITape driver and the Adaptec 1542b driver
and do backups easily with an ArchiveViperUpdate file supplied with the
following credits:
written by Max Boehm (boehm@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de)
updated by Jorge Gustavo Rocha (jgr@di.uminho.pt)
Thanks guys.
At NSFIP 3.3 I can't even get the thing to boot the Adaptec controller
conflicts with the SCSITape driver bringing up some AHA error. The
solution has been to remove SCSITape driver from the config.
Normally I would report this as a bug but I have to break my machine to
get the kind of detailed info I would like to send with a bug report.
And at this point in proceedings I really am loathed to break the
machine. I am very reliant on it at the moment. And yes I would be even
more disadvantaged if I needed to go back to a non-existent tape back-up.
So my question is has anyone else had this conflict? If so have you
reported it and is there a solution? If you don't have this conflict but
you do have this configuration I would love to know the particulars of
your interrupts and the like to give me a hint as to the problem.
Thanks for any help, Greg Shaw.
From: parkhill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Robert Parkhill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SMTP server over PPP?
Date: 18 Apr 1995 13:15:26 GMT
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
Message-ID: <3n0e1e$oe7@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
References: <3mum9h$ltn@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Hi Everyone:
Thanks for all the leads. I snagged PopOver.app off of
one of the ftp sites and it does exactly what I was looking
to do. It even puts the incoming mail into the right mail folder!
thanks...
Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Subject: Re: Gremlins? Mysterious problems with NeXT (black hardware)
Message-ID: <1995Apr18.125725.16449@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 12:57:25 GMT
References: <3k2bkn$q7h@gagme.wwa.com> <3k2g3o$1nh@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <1995Mar30.041448.25238@nmt.edu> <3mtv5l$vnu@styx.uwa.edu.au>
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
In article <3mtv5l$vnu@styx.uwa.edu.au> rameri@cs.uwa.edu.au (Rameri Paul Salama) writes:
>Eugene Aalto (aalto@nmt.edu) wrote:
>:I had a similar thing happen to me yesterday, except that my mouse cursor
>:still displayed!I had a totally black screen, with only a mouse cursor showing.
>:I logged in from another machine and rebooted, and everything was fine.
>:I was suspicious of backspace, which i had just installed. (I'm running NS 3.0
>:on black hardware) Has anyone has this happen? what caused it?
>
>This has happened to me. It was after I had set up the 486 to mount
>/NextLibrary, /NextApps, and /NextDeveloper off another machine on
>our network. Unfortunately, I had not exported them from
>that machine. The client machine worked fine, it just couldn't find
>the Login application or the Window Server. After I exported the
>file systems all worked well. So, I guess in my case it was a simple
>network error.
>
This happens all the time on my Cube. I reported it to NeXT a couple of
years ago. My machine is stand-alone and this has nothing to do with
adding or removing apps or anything like that. this problem has
existed from 2.0 through 3.2. Sometimes cmd-cmd-~ will work and I can
re-boot. Other times, you just have to pull the plug.
I think there is an array or malloc in the OS that gradually expands
until it tromps on the OS code itself. Having written programs that do
that I know it can happen and is a real chore to track down. However, I
have no way to know if that is what is happening in NEXTSTEP.
--
Bob Peirce Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)]
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well
please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take
the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SCSITape, Adaptec and NSFIP 3.3
Date: 18 Apr 1995 13:34:40 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3n0f5h$ivr@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <3n0b96$6to@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Greg Shaw (gshaw@zeta.org.au) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I have a problem with the above components.
I have SCSITape (Sony DAT), an Adaptec 1542, and NSFIP 3.3 working
with SafetyNet.app with no problems.
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
Research Associate Voice: (402)472-9747
Department of Mathematics and Statistics FAX: (402)472-8466
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (Royce Howland)
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and DECpc XL560
Message-ID: <1995Apr18.135818.26225@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <3mve7c$ibc@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 13:58:18 GMT
In article <3mve7c$ibc@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com> Wil Gayle
<wegayl@reliant.mnet.uswest.com> writes:
> Has anyone had "Window Server Death" problems with NeXTSTEP 3.3 on the
> DECpc XL560? I have a number of DEC systems with NS3.3 unexpectedly log
> users off then display the log in prompt.
>
> Looking in /usr/adm/messages, I see multiple DPS Client error and Window
> Server Death messages prior to the WM terminating.
Were the users in question running SoftPC by any chance? I've been
running NS 3.3 on a DELL OmniPlex 590 for several weeks, with no
noticeable problems. When I started using SoftPC recently, I experienced
a rash of Window Server deaths. I'm laying off SoftPC now, and so far
haven't had another death. It's not conclusive proof of a causal
relationship, especially since a number of the crashes occured when SoftPC
was not running (but had been run earlier), but I'm suspicious.
--
Royce Howland, Object Systems Group
howlandr@cadvision.com (home, NeXT mail OK)
Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (PanCanadian Petroleum, NeXT & MIME mail OK)
I speak, but not necessarily for OSG or PCP.
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POPmail server?
Date: 18 Apr 1995 19:49:11 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3n153n$lrj@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I'm looking for a simple POPmail daemon for our NS3.3 mail
server machine - so we can snag our mail when we slip/ppp.
If anyone can tell me where (ftp?) I can get such a beast
I'd be grateful!!
--
The Atomic Playground BBS -=- a Futurenet Gateway BBS (614) 297-7031 USRv.all
WWW: http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane.html
NeXTMail: shane@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu
From: mccollam@Arizona.EDU (Donald E McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3+Adaptec2940+WangDAT3100+SafetyNet?
Date: 18 Apr 1995 16:08:46 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <3n0o6e$ol2@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Hi. I have a P90+NS3.3+Adaptec2940+WangDAT3100 dual boot system. I can
use "mt" and "tar" to access the WangDAT. I can access the drive from
DOS/Windows. However, when I try SafetyNet, the system apparently loses
access to the SCSI bus (perhaps via a bus reset?) as soon as SafetyNet tries
to access the tape drive (i.e. the root/swap drive is no longer accessible to
the OS). [I'm not having any other SCSI problems.]
I'm stumped. (Could this be a SafetyNet vs PCI incompatibility? Should I
try rst0 instead of nrst0? Etc. ???)
Any and all advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu (Post via e-mail; since our SA's don't seem to
be able to get news post "reply to" addresses correct.)
From: gee@csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: anonymous ftp setup
Date: 18 Apr 1995 19:28:37 GMT
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Sender: gee@obelix (Gregory W. Gee)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n13t5$6u6@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Plain and simple question. Could someone give me pointers to
or hints on how to set up an anonymous ftp on my black NeXT.
Thanks.
Greg.
--
****************************************************************************
Greg Gee The G-Man gee@csd.uwo.ca
Honours Computer Science, gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario gee@syslab.csd.uwo.ca
The power of the NeXT generation *NeXTMail, MIME, ASCII mail accepted*
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/mandas/uwo/members/gee/
http://obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca:8080/~gee
****************************************************************************
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Remote Upgrading to 3.3
Date: 18 Apr 1995 23:39:43 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n1ijv$a87@paladin.american.edu>
I have read the two documents found on the CD-ROM on how to install 3.3 via the
network instead of plodding to each computer with a CD. But when I add the
rhosts file, temporarily of course, it does not work. I put it in the root
directory of the machine. I put the name of the machine that I want to give
access to, the upgrade server, in the file. I make sure their is a return after
the name, and I am still prompted for a password when I rsh or rlogin. I have
tried both the name and the full canocial name.
Any ideas?
--
Torrey McMahon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: POPmail server?
In-Reply-To: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of 18 Apr 1995 19:49:11 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Apr18192817@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <3n153n$lrj@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:28:17 GMT
>>>>> "Shane" == Shane M Zatezalo <szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
Shane> I'm looking for a simple POPmail daemon for our NS3.3 mail
Shane> server machine - so we can snag our mail when we slip/ppp.
Shane> If anyone can tell me where (ftp?) I can get such a beast
Shane> I'd be grateful!!
Shane> -- The Atomic Playground BBS -=- a Futurenet Gateway BBS
Shane> (614) 297-7031 USRv.all WWW:
Shane> http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane.html NeXTMail:
Shane> shane@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu
You can get one at ftp.cs.orst.edu in
/software/NeXT/binaries/mail/popper*
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Contract System Admin positions/Long Term $45HR
Date: 18 Apr 1995 22:00:14 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3n1cpe$505@news1.channel1.com>
The Omni Group currently has several NEXTSTEP system admin
positions. These are contract positions offering $45hr. Both
positions are long term. One is in the DC area and the other
in Michigan.
To be considered--Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Periodic slowdowns of NFS
Date: 18 Apr 1995 23:45:00 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3n1its$195o@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Riddle me this:
Machine called lungs. If located in one room, it has no
problems. Located in another room on a different repeater, but same
subnet, it acts very oddly.
Case in point: I set up a script that did a .5 meg filecopy
from and to it's server. Most of the time it took 6-10 seconds, which
since the server's nothing special, I figured was par for the course.
Now an then it takes minutes.
I graphed this, and found that the time spiked every 65 minutes.
There are no at jobs or cron jobs.
According to the people who run the wire, there are no spikes in
network traffic. In fact, although it has a very large number of hosts,
network traffic typically is running between 3-6% of capacity. Most of
thehosts are PC's exchanging email. (Watch this change when they
discover the WWW...)
Another machine on the same repeater acts the same way. I just
had an event where ls -s <something on server> took several minutes to
respond, but I didn't get an 'nfs server nshade timed out' message.
Implication is that it got stuck before making the nfs request.
While waiting for this, I ping that host from another host. (I
love GUI's with their hoards of virtual terminals.) It responded in the
usual time.
The following loop:
while (1)
date
time ls -s > /dev/null
sleep 60
end
run against a 40 item directory typically produces the following:
Tue Apr 18 17:17:30 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:02 2% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:18:32 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:00 4% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:19:33 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:01 2% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
NFS server nshade not responding still trying
NFS server nshade ok
Tue Apr 18 17:20:35 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 1:05 0% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:22:40 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:04 0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:23:45 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:00 6% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:24:46 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:03 1% 0+0k 17+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:25:50 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 6:45 0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
NFS server nshade not responding still trying
NFS server nshade ok
Tue Apr 18 17:33:34 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:08 0% 0+0k 2+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:34:44 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:15 0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:36:00 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:17 0% 0+0k 2+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:37:17 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.1s 0:10 1% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:38:28 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:07 0% 0+0k 2+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:39:36 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:00 10% 0+0k 2+0io 0pf+0w
Tue Apr 18 17:40:37 MDT 1995 0.0u 0.0s 0:00 2% 0+0k 3+0io 0pf+0w
It's not like the server was loaded.
=>w
5:44pm up 5 days, 1:32, 2 users, load average: 0.43, 0.51, 0.45
Besides, the other dozen machines that use this server don't show the
problem.
Hints please. I'm puzzled.
The repeaters are Ungerman Bass, I don't know the model number.
Network from repeaters is 10baseT. I don't know how repeaters are
linked.
I think it's a problem with the repeaters, but I want to check
all other options before casting nasturtiums at the people who run the
network. (They insist, "No one else is complaining". No one else is
running unix. on that segment.)
Ideas folks?
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
From: Wil Gayle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and DECpc XL560
Date: 18 Apr 1995 22:17:33 GMT
Organization: US West !nterprise Networking Systems
Message-ID: <3n1dpt$t3d@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
References: <1995Apr18.135818.26225@pcp.ca>
In article <1995Apr18.135818.26225@pcp.ca> Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (Royce
Howland) writes:
> In article <3mve7c$ibc@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com> Wil Gayle
> <wegayl@reliant.mnet.uswest.com> writes:
> > Has anyone had "Window Server Death" problems with NeXTSTEP 3.3 on the
> > DECpc XL560? I have a number of DEC systems with NS3.3 unexpectedly
log
> > users off then display the log in prompt.
> >
> > Looking in /usr/adm/messages, I see multiple DPS Client error and
Window
> > Server Death messages prior to the WM terminating.
>
> Were the users in question running SoftPC by any chance? I've been
> running NS 3.3 on a DELL OmniPlex 590 for several weeks, with no
> noticeable problems. When I started using SoftPC recently, I
experienced
> a rash of Window Server deaths. I'm laying off SoftPC now, and so far
> haven't had another death. It's not conclusive proof of a causal
> relationship, especially since a number of the crashes occured when
SoftPC
> was not running (but had been run earlier), but I'm suspicious.
>
> --
> Royce Howland, Object Systems Group
> howlandr@cadvision.com (home, NeXT mail OK)
> Howland_Royce@pcp.ca (PanCanadian Petroleum, NeXT & MIME mail OK)
> I speak, but not necessarily for OSG or PCP.
No, we haven't been using SoftPC (waiting for OpenStep for Windows NT). I
should also point out we have about 230 DECpc XL560s with about 40 of
these loaded with NS3.3 - this problem is ocurring with only 5 - 8
systems.
--
Regards,
Wil Gayle
Manager - Systems Development & Support
!nterprise Networking Services
U S West Communications
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Applying sdform to my boot disk
Date: 19 Apr 1995 05:44:52 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <3n280k$lbc@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <1995Apr10.200048.26203@investor.pgh.pa.us> <D74o1z.GsG@sounds.wa.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Brian Willoughby (brianw@sounds.wa.com) wrote:
...
: You'll need my sdformat utility because NeXT's sdform is incapable of
: changing your drive to 1024 byte blocks. Version 1.3 is the latest, and can be
: found at:
: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz
...
We recently have some trouble with internet boot drive on a NeXT black
hardware and replaced it with a 2.* G Seagate hard drive. It turn out
NeXTStep 3.2 Builddisk.app and disk program can handle a partition larger
than 2.0G and we have to add an entry in disktab. Did your sdformat put
this problem into consideration ? Because, from the entry it is showing
when we tried it on this 2.* G drive, it looks like it will use entire
drive as one partition larger than 2.0G.
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Segate ST32430N Disktab
Date: 19 Apr 1995 06:04:52 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <3n2964$lbc@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <devin.95Apr13141712@dogpatch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
devin@suite.com wrote:
: Does anyone know where I can find a disktab for a seagate ST32430N ?
I got information about this drive from someone ( can't remember the
name; it was email to another machine ). It has something to do with
NeXTStep 3.2's bug in disk and Builddisk. So if you have NeXTStep 3.3,
you probably don't need this ( so they said ).
ST32430N|ST32430N-512|SEAGATE ST32430N-512:\\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3992:nt#9:ns#117:ss#512:rm#5400:\\
: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#2780:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
The second partition is only about 1.3M, not very useful. I think you can
adjust sa ( == pb ) and sb to make it better. We run sdformat on it, use
above disktab for the disk command to partition it, and then Builddisk.app
is able to build a clean system on it ( but you probably don't want to
touch that partition button in Builddisk.app; we did that and it ruin it
and we had to do the disk command again ).
We are now stuck at how to set those jumpers so it can be used as the
internal boot hard drive in a black hardware at SCSI 1. Have you figure
out how to do this ?
From: sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: problems with NS 2.1 AND NXfax
Date: 19 Apr 1995 13:55:18 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3n34o6$57a@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
hallo
we are still working with a Nextstep 2.1 network.
we used NXFax on local machines
not in the net
now we want to read incoming faxes networkwide
but the old 2.1 faxreader sw needs a locally installed
fax (thats what it says, when you start it on a client machine,
the faxmodem correctly installed)
what is wrong
do I have to import the /usr/spool/Nextfax dir
from the faxserver to red faxes??
there is no problem with this under 3.0 or better!
is there anybody out there, who can still remember
the good old 2.1 days AND NXFax in a network??
thanx for any hint
later
Stephan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: howardd@il.us.swissbank.com (Denise Howard)
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp setup
Message-ID: <1995Apr19.144645.14511@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3n13t5$6u6@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:46:45 GMT
Gregory W. Gee writes
> Plain and simple question. Could someone give me pointers to
> or hints on how to set up an anonymous ftp on my black NeXT.
Look up the man page for ftpd.
--
Denise Howard \/ howardd@swissbank.com
Swiss Bank Corporation \/ deniseh@mcs.com
Chicago, IL \/ [NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail welcome]
(312) 554-6298 \/ "Older and Bolder!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: christo1@fmi.ch (Christen Tobias)
Subject: no boot after wrong ethernet driver installation
Message-ID: <1995Apr19.144746.7990@ciba-geigy.ch>
Sender: news@ciba-geigy.ch
Organization: Friedrich Miescher Institut (FMI), Basle, Switzerland
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:47:46 GMT
Hi,
Configuration: HP Vectra 486 50 MHZ ; WD 8013 Ethernet Card; Nextstep 3.3
I installed the "SMC Etherlite 16"-driver on the above mentioned system,
no the system will no more boot, because it doesn't find all those network
related sources. During boot (with -v) I get an error message that this is
the wrong driver for the ethernet card but still the system tries to mount
all the network related services...
How can I get rid of the driver configuration..., shall I boot from the CD?
but how? and then wouldn't the system try to change configurations on the
CD instead of the boot HD?
Thanks for every comment!
Cheers
Toby
Tobias Christen
tobias.christen@chbs.ciba.com
--
Christen Tobias
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Re: POPmail server?
Message-ID: <D7A490.2sp@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <3n153n$lrj@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:07:47 GMT
In article <3n153n$lrj@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu says...
>
>
>I'm looking for a simple POPmail daemon for our NS3.3 mail
>server machine - so we can snag our mail when we slip/ppp.
>
ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next
contains a Pop3d distribution with sources and including a binary for
m68k and i486. As soon as I have time I will include hppa and sparc
binaries (probably tonight). Unpack and run "make just-install" on any
system (even just a user system) will install. Follow the instructions in
the readme for adding the service in NetInfo.
--Gerben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mapdjb@bath.ac.uk (D J Batey)
Subject: adding new shells to NeXTstep 3.3
Message-ID: <D7AJtr.GKu@bath.ac.uk>
Followup-To: duncan@perihelion.co.uk
Organization: School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:44:15 GMT
I just installed tcsh on NeXTstep 3.3 (on an Intel box), but am having
difficulty in changing my users' accounts to use tcsh -- the error I
get when I try to save the altered account in User Manager is
'/usr/local/bin/tcsh not in /etc/shells', when it most definitely
is...
Any clues to duncan@perihelion.co.uk, please, I'm using a remote
account for this newsfeed.
Thanks,
Duncan.
------------------------------------
Duncan Batey,
Perihelion Distributed Software Ltd,
UK.
From: jkv@sware.com (Joseph K. Vossen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: using pop server....
Date: 19 Apr 1995 17:20:07 GMT
Organization: Internet Atlanta
Message-ID: <3n3go7$a52@metro.atlanta.com>
I have pulled down the pop server s/w and have built and installed it on
NS 3.0 running on a slab. The pop server pulls mail from
/usr/spool/mail/<login>. Since Mail.app copies the user's mail from
/usr/spool/mail/<login> to Active.mbox, the pop server is not very useful,
unless you quit Mail.app prior to your mail delivery. What I would like
to do is for my mail at work to continue to be processed by Mail.app, and
then use pop to read my mail at home, i.e., the pop server would get the
mail from Active.mbox, not /usr/spool/mail. Is it as simple as changing
the directory that is defined in the pop server and rebuilding or is there
something else that needs to be done?
thanks
--
Joe Vossen
jkv@sware.com
From: root@cnw (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver? I have it....
Date: 19 Apr 1995 18:06:23 GMT
Organization: Symbios Logic
Message-ID: <3n3jev$k4d@jupiter.WichitaKS.HMPD.COM>
References: <3m30s1$3vs@gpo.gb.swissbank.com> <3mb19u$1gv3@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) wrote:
>(Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
>> A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card.
Does
>> anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
>Of course NeXTanswers doesn't! The whole Nextstep-on-i386 community
is
>waiting for such a beast. Next scheduled back the driver for Q2/95,
despite
>it was already planned for Q1.
I am one of the test engineers for the NCR PCI SCSI series driver.
There is a present driver that runs on 3.2 and 3.3 and IS NOT
supported by NeXT. Matter of fact, NeXT will not support any 3.2
driver. I, of course, have the driver. (It has tested as faster than
the AHA2940 overall.) If you are interested in the driver, e-mail me
and I will either get it to you or tell you where to get it.
Thomas Wells
Engineer
Symbios Logic, formerly NCR
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: talking from black NeXT
Message-ID: <D7Apqz.HK@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Organization: private NeXT
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 18:52:11 GMT
Hi,
I read the FAQ and the manuals, but was not able to find an answer to my
question:
Why is it impossible to talk from a black NeXT to let's say a sun? I tried
with /usr/ucb/talk and with ytalk 3.2 (2), but everytime it is not possible to
talk.
Who knows a solution to this problem?
Thanks, tommi
-----
Thomas Pfleiderer
tommi@balou.rhein.de
voice: +49 2225 701332
fax/data: +49 2225 4657
BOING-admin@balou.rhein.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gibson_Rory@pcp.ca (Rory Gibson)
Subject: Re: Remote Upgrading to 3.3
Message-ID: <1995Apr19.155806.9982@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <3n1ijv$a87@paladin.american.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 15:58:06 GMT
In article <3n1ijv$a87@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes:
> I have read the two documents found on the CD-ROM on how to install
3.3 via the
> network instead of plodding to each computer with a CD. But when I add
the
> rhosts file, temporarily of course, it does not work. I put it in the
root
> directory of the machine. I put the name of the machine that I want to
give
> access to, the upgrade server, in the file. I make sure their is a
return after
> the name, and I am still prompted for a password when I rsh or rlogin.
I have
> tried both the name and the full canocial name.
Make sure the permissions on the .rhosts file are 755.
Rory.
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail HELP
Date: 19 Apr 1995 10:27:27 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3n3h5v$ik8@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: Can I route mail from one Net acct to different boxes?
Keywords: Mail routing
Hello out there! I am connected into the net through one account at my university. But I have four local accounts on my Turbo slab and I would like to be able to route incoming mail to their respective homes. I am running NS3.3 on my Turbo slab and use PopOver to retrieve my mail. I do not have a developer system on my machine.
Any suggestions/help would be extremely appreciated.
In addition, another problem I am having is that I cannot post to newsgroups from my slab using either NewsGrazer or Alexandra. I get an error message #480 ostensible from the university's news server. UNFORTUNATELY, the sysadmins at school always say the same thing to me -- "We only support mac and pc software and system questions, good'bye."
I don't have any problem reading news (tho NewsGrazer crashes all the time). Would anyone care to comment?
Thanks very much in advance.
Matthew
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 22:15:17 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel>
References: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu> <D734uu.18y@news.cis.umn.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> I agree the HP 4P printers are really good. If you have
> NEXTSTEP 3.3 and the printer has a JetDirect card in it,
> you can put the printer anywhere on your network. This gets rid of
> the problem of the printer being only a parallel cable length away
> from the host. It also keeps all that traffic out of your office.
> Its easy to do and frees up your parallel port.
>
Hmm, so how fast are these things?
We may be looking for a printer soon: my first choice would be for something
from the PrinterWorks -- 16/17ppm, sort of industrial strength NeXT Laser
Printer (the CPU does the rendering) -- but they may be too expensive ($4000
or so, a bargain nevertheless). Trouble is we've been papmered by the NeXT
printers for almost five years now, and getting something s-l-o-w (i.e. <
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From: Jeffrey T Eaton <je2i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Forcing verbose boot on NS/I?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:24:23 -0400
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Message-ID: <MjZL5rC00iWQ8_JrhR@andrew.cmu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: po6.andrew.cmu.edu
I am running NeXTStep/Intel and want to force the system to do a verbose
(-v) boot by default instead of the oh-so-uninformative default screen.
I know that on black hardware, you can do this in the monitor, but is
such a feat possible on intel?
---
Jeffrey T. Eaton je2i@andrew.cmu.edu
Sophomore, Computer Science/Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files?
Message-ID: <1995Apr13.155023.6880@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3mijqn$qg9@nyheter.chalmers.se>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:50:23 GMT
md1hakan@mdstud.chalmers.se (H}kan Jonsson) wrote:
>Hi!
>How can I make Workspace recognize .gz files as compressed? I know
how to change
>the methods used by Workspace to uncompress, but that doesn't help if
it cannot
>recognize them as compressed.
> /hakan
get Opener.app
Fabien
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Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 45 28 32 23
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: NXTerminal?
Message-ID: <1995Apr14.181033.9934@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3mkv2j$va@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 18:10:33 GMT
jjhuang@atm.cm.nctu.edu.tw (Jiunn-jye Huang) wrote:
>Hello,all,
> I manage an NeXTSTEP/FIP,and I will manage another NeXTSTEP/SPARC
>but the 2 machines are put in different building,so I want to access
>the NeXTSTEP/FIP on NeXTSTEP/SPARC just like X-Terminal,i.e. access
>NeXTSTEP/FIP as if I were on its console,but acctually I am on
SPARC's
>console. How to do this? Thanks....
> Albert Jiunn-jye Huang
see man open, man rsh and DgitalLibrarian NextAdmin "Pblic window
server"
example
rsh <NsFipMachineName> /LocalApps/<SomeApp>.app/<SomeApp> -NXHost
<NsSparcMachineName> &
Fabien
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Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 45 28 32 23
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mapdjb@bath.ac.uk (D J Batey)
Subject: Re: adding new shells to NeXTstep 3.3
Message-ID: <D7BsI7.Bxy@bath.ac.uk>
Followup-To: duncan@perihelion.co.uk
Organization: School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK
References: <D7AJtr.GKu@bath.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:49:18 GMT
'Twas a simple mistake -- I'd added /usr/local/bin/tcsh to the end
of /etc/shells, but hadn't terminated with a newline, confusing the
reader, which discarded the line, so as far as it was concerned,
tcsh was not in /etc/shells.
Thanks,
Duncan.
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrade Woes
Date: 20 Apr 1995 08:42:28 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3n56pk$l5p@paladin.american.edu>
I have been trying to get a 3.0 machine to upgrade to 3.3 All of the other
similar machines, 40 or so, have all worked except for this particular one. The
only difference is that it is an ADB machine. When I run the Upgrade program I
get a panel saying, "No Disk to Upgrade." Then the program quits.
Any help is a appreciated.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Date: 20 Apr 1995 10:16:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n5caf$mng@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel>
In article <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel> mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
writes:
>> I agree the HP 4P printers are really good. If you have
>> NEXTSTEP 3.3 and the printer has a JetDirect card in it,
>> you can put the printer anywhere on your network.
>>
>Hmm, so how fast are these things?
>
>We may be looking for a printer soon: my first choice would be for something
>from the PrinterWorks -- 16/17ppm, sort of industrial strength NeXT Laser
>Printer (the CPU does the rendering) -- but they may be too expensive ($4000
>or so, a bargain nevertheless). Trouble is we've been papmered by the NeXT
>printers for almost five years now, and getting something s-l-o-w (i.e. <
>6ppm, on ~ any PostScript you throw at it) would be mind-numbing.
The real bottle-neck for speed of non-NeXT printer for black hardware
is the communication channel. Since NeXT hardware lacks parallel port,
the only viable replacement printers are those with Ethernet channel
(or SCSI though that's rare).
A good test of a replacement printer is to try printing a few pages of
FAX file. At least with Ethernet PS printers, the comm channel does not
make the rest of the printer wait if PS code is sent down the channel.
If the CPU does the rendering (as with Dots and JetPilot) and
bitmaps are sent down the comm channel, the problem of comm channel
bottle-neck is generally far worse (more bits in rendered bitmap
than in PS code). You will really need a Ethernet printer.
HP printers with JetDirect Ethernet can handle FAX printing well.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
From: shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: How to create a netgroup
Date: 20 Apr 1995 20:24:42 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3n6fua$f99@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I'd like to use a netgroup to limit access to the NFS mounted directories,
but I can't find how to create the group. I can add hosts to the group fine,
using HostManager, but when I specify the name of the netgroup in NFSmanager,
it gives a warning that there is no host of that name. The purchased manuals
are not helpful, they just show how to add to the group and how to use it.
Thanks
--
Steen Hansen (Hviid) E-mail: hansen+@osu.edu
Computer Specialist, The Ohio State University
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the earth as if it was
a business in liquidation. -- Herman Daly, quoted in "Earth in the Balance"
From: pgeiss@gauguin.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot manager lost
Date: 20 Apr 1995 17:50:57 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n66u1$3p5@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi everybody,
I have a PC running Nextstep
and DOS. After upgrading from
DOS 6.0 to 6.2 the NeXT boot
manager got lost. How can
I get it back ???
Thanx in advance
Peter Geissler
pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
NEXT MAIL WELCOME
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: dual-boot switcher for Intel: reinstallation
Message-ID: <D78r4M.1ww@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:26:46 GMT
I had NEXTSTEP 3.2 running on a Compaq SCSI along with NT and Windows 95.
After installing a newer build of Windows 95, I find that NeXT's dual-boot
switcher has been overwritten. Can anyone tell me how to reinstate this?
Basically, I need to put the boot program which asks: Press 'n' for NEXTSTEP
and 'd' for DOS.
For the immediate solution, I can upgrade to 3.3, but I have a feeling that I
am going to get bit by this one again, so I would like to know what files need
to be backed up to ensure that I can easily restore the NeXT boot block if it
ever gets pushed aside again.
Thanks!
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: dual-boot switcher for Intel: reinstallation
Message-ID: <D7A2C7.4L8@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <D78r4M.1ww@sounds.wa.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:26:31 GMT
I now have a bigger problem because the workaround that I thought I had turned
out not to work!
After losing the boot program, I cannot upgrade from NEXTSTEP 3.2 to NEXTSTEP
3.3 because the install boot floppy does not have an upgrade option. I have
user files installed on the NEXTSTEP partition, but cannot boot NEXTSTEP to
back them up, and the only option provided by the install boot floppy is to
erase the NEXTSTEP partition and install from scratch. At least it recognizes
the existing NEXTSTEP partition.
I realize that I should run the Upgrade.app, but this seems impossible if I
cannot boot from the hard disk.
I tried typing hd(0,b) at the boot: prompt provided by the install floppy,
because my NEXTSTEP partition is th second one on the only IDE drive, but this
did not work.
Is there any way to boot NEXTSTEP from the CD-ROM in single user mode?
Is there any way to use the install boot floppy to boot from an already
installed volume?
Does anyone have a boot floppy for Intel NEXTSTEP which will redirect to my IDE
drive for booting?
P.S. My NeXTdimension is at home, so I could back up the install boot floppy
and change some files on it to accomplish a boot of the IDE drive at work, but
only if someone can help me figure out what need to be done.
Thanks for any help,
Brian Willoughby
In article <D78r4M.1ww@sounds.wa.com>,
Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> wrote:
>I had NEXTSTEP 3.2 running on a Compaq SCSI along with NT and Windows 95.
Actually, the boot drive is IDE, not SCSI.
>After installing a newer build of Windows 95, I find that NeXT's dual-boot
>switcher has been overwritten. Can anyone tell me how to reinstate this?
>Basically, I need to put the boot program which asks: Press 'n' for NEXTSTEP
>and 'd' for DOS.
>
>For the immediate solution, I can upgrade to 3.3, but I have a feeling that I
>am going to get bit by this one again, so I would like to know what files need
>to be backed up to ensure that I can easily restore the NeXT boot block if it
>ever gets pushed aside again.
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Date: 20 Apr 1995 22:05:19 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3n6lqv$mt2@news.next.com>
References: <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel>
In article <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel> mmalcolm Crawford
<m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
> > I agree the HP 4P printers are really good. If you have
> > NEXTSTEP 3.3 and the printer has a JetDirect card in it,
> > you can put the printer anywhere on your network. This gets rid of
> > the problem of the printer being only a parallel cable length away
> > from the host. It also keeps all that traffic out of your office.
> > Its easy to do and frees up your parallel port.
> >
> Hmm, so how fast are these things?
I've had had really good experiences (at another company) using an Emulex
NetJet card with an HP 4M printer. It's fast (12 PPM or something like
that), high res (600dpi), and the Emulex card does lpd emulation, so it looks
just like a remote printer to the NEXTSTEP boxes.
The HP 4M was about $1800 at the time (with the optional PS support), and
this was about 2 years ago.
The Emulex card will work in any printer with a MIO slot (Lexmark, for
examplke). Emulex makes stand-alone ethernet/lpd boxes that connect to the
printer with a serial or parallel cable, too, but they're not as fast.
Very cool.
As an example, putting an Emulex card in a HP 3si that had previously been
running via serial cut a major print job from 2.5 hours to about an hour.
Given that this user had two of these printers, the Emulex cards made his
day. :)
- Mark "No relation to Emulex except as a satisfied customer" Dadgar
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: kdarmawa@ix.netcom.com (Kurniawan Darmawangsa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to tar files
Date: 20 Apr 1995 06:48:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n504l$s2b@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
References: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu> <D734uu.18y@news.cis.umn.edu> <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel>
Hi I am sorry if the question is too dumb :-(
I am having problem in "tar" several files. It kept give me error
"cannot open /dev/rxt0". Is there anyway to archive it to the files
rather than to the tape.
Please email me, I fell bad to waste the internet bandwith
Thanks in advance
Kurniawan
From: denefaa@master.ceat.okstate.edu (The Adventurer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NCR SCSI driver for NeXTStep 3.2 (intel)
Date: 20 Apr 1995 14:32:36 GMT
Organization: CEAT
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3n5ra4$m93@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>
Keywords: SCSI NCR Intel NeXtStep
I am interested in getting a copy of the NCR SCSI driver for my Intel NextStep 3.2
Please email if that is most convenient. I have ftp and Web access so feel
free to pass on information using those services.
Thanks in advance ..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mapdjb@bath.ac.uk (D J Batey)
Subject: WWW browser for NeXTStep Intel?
Message-ID: <D7C63r.188@bath.ac.uk>
Followup-To: duncan@perihelion.co.uk
Organization: School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 13:43:02 GMT
Hi,
I've been searching hi and lo, but nowhere can I find a version of
Netscape or Mosaic ported to NeXTStep for Intel (I've found a couple
of m68k versions though). Anyone?
Followups to duncan@perihelion.co.uk, please, I'm using this account
remotely.
Thanks,
Duncan.
------------------------------------
Duncan Batey
Perihelion Distributed Software Ltd.
UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: apache@swcp.com(Mark Wauchope)
Subject: Exporting CDROM drives across a mixed network
Message-ID: <D7CuK6.Kpu@swcp.com>
Sender: news@swcp.com
Organization: Southwest Cyberport
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 22:31:17 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to export a CDROM from a NeXTSTATION across a mixed network. Is
there a way to have the automounter mount the drive on the same directory every
time without using the volume label? If so, how does the filesystem get
exported without ending up with stale NFS filehandles every time the CD is
removed and another put in?
Thanks in advance for the help,
--
Mark Wauchope, Director of Engineering - Apache Digital Corporation
DOS, Windows, Unix and NeXTSTEP PC's, sales, service and support
e-mail: mgw@apache.com, www: www.apache.com, ftp: ftp.apache.com
From: Lionel Tinguely <ltinguely@ping.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: where to find a WWW server fon NeXTSTEP intel
Date: 20 Apr 1995 18:48:09 GMT
Organization: Ping, A. Fink, Mettmenstetten
Message-ID: <3n6a99$rg6@server.ping.ch>
Hello !
Would you please tell me where I can find
a WWW server for NeXTSTEP intel ???
thank's
Lionel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gibson_Rory@pcp.ca (Rory Gibson)
Subject: Re: Remote Upgrading to 3.3
Message-ID: <1995Apr19.224305.13810@pcp.ca>
Sender: news@pcp.ca
Organization: PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.
References: <1995Apr19.155806.9982@pcp.ca>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 22:43:05 GMT
In article <1995Apr19.155806.9982@pcp.ca> Gibson_Rory@pcp.ca (Rory
Gibson) writes:
> In article <3n1ijv$a87@paladin.american.edu>
> tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes:
> > I have read the two documents found on the CD-ROM on how to install
> 3.3 via the
> > network instead of plodding to each computer with a CD. But when I
add
> the
> > rhosts file, temporarily of course, it does not work. I put it in
the
> root
> > directory of the machine. I put the name of the machine that I want
to
> give
> > access to, the upgrade server, in the file. I make sure their is a
> return after
> > the name, and I am still prompted for a password when I rsh or
rlogin.
> I have
> > tried both the name and the full canocial name.
>
> Make sure the permissions on the .rhosts file are 755.
>
Oops... I meant to say the permissions should be 711. They will
actually both work, you just have to make sure that the .rhosts file
does not have write access to group or other.
Rory.
From: dnw@ponder.csci.unt.edu (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: INN on NeXTstep3.3?
Date: 20 Apr 1995 15:53:33 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3n601t$qds@hermes.unt.edu>
Has anyone built the INN news server under NeXTstep 3.3? The lack of
lint is killing the compile. Any answers on this?
email preferred
Dave Williams
dwilliam@dallas.bozell.com
From: m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk (mmalcolm Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WWW browser for NeXTStep Intel?
Date: 20 Apr 1995 13:26:35 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <950420192413.1195AACUd.malc@daneel>
> I've been searching hi and lo, but nowhere can I find a version of
> Netscape or Mosaic ported to NeXTStep for Intel (I've found a couple
> of m68k versions though). Anyone?
>
Neither is ported to NEXTSTEP as far as I'm aware...
...there are much better apps available instead!
1/ OmniWeb from Lighthouse. Each site is allowed to use one free copy,
thereafter it's around $200 a time, if memory serves me right.
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/next/collections/ftp.cs.orst.edu/bi
naries/wide-area-info/OmniWeb-1.0.app.tar.gz.
2/ SpiderWoman from Sen:Te. This is free, but you need NS 3.3 or EOF to use
it.
ftp://sente.epfl.ch/pub/software/SW/SpiderWoman.app.NIHS.tar.gz
3/ Netsurfer from Netsurfer Inc. This is currently in beta, but should be
available by the end of the month. It's likely to be around $200 a copy.
Each of these takes a different approach, and each, IMHO, is better than
anything I've yet seen on other platforms.
Have fun,
mmalc.
posn. research facilitator
where institute for language speech and hearing
sheffield university
c/o department of computer science
regent court
211 portobello street
sheffield s1 4dp
england
vox (+44) 114 282 5594
fax (+44) 114 278 0972
email m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail routing HELP
Date: 20 Apr 1995 09:09:04 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3n60v0$dpm@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: Need to route out dif mail accounts on local
Keywords: mail routing help
Hello
Here's my problem
I have only one net acount with my university and it is a pop1 & pop3 type setup (geared for pcs and macs). It also implements a dynamic address system.
The only way I could get my mail.app to work properly with the system was by renaming my localhost as the host name of the university net, (specifically the mailhost name) and by naming my account on my machine with the same name as I am using on my university account. This fools the system somehow into properly recognizing my name in outgoing mail sessions.
NOW, I have two more accounts besides mine on my local computer and I would like to let them get mail through my university net account. The problem is keeping all the mail separate so that we all have privacy. I followed the setup for creating their popover log files in their home directories, and I altered the crontab file to distribute the mail properly
Then I tried sending mail to one of the other local accounts using the syntax xxx%myhostname@schooldomain but it was bounced back to me saying my name not recognized in the school domain (which is what my renaming of my localhost, etc. as I mentioned above had solved for my own mailing). So I don't know what to do.
Any ideas? If you need any more information to help figure this out I would be more than happy to come forth with it.
Thanks much in advance
Matthew
From: lasergod@ix.netcom.com (Jer Kahala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help
Date: 21 Apr 1995 04:02:46 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n7ap6$rnk@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
I use a next computer at work...its in a 2 in by 20 in black
box...there is a hard drive inside and 16 meg of mem....its networked
to other next stations...I have some questions about the system....I
pretty good with dos/windows, but i'm lost with this thing....Is there
some1 that could help me with my questions?...Thanx
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 Upgrade Mail problems
Date: 21 Apr 1995 04:10:06 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3n7b6u$djr@paladin.american.edu>
After upgrading to 3.3 our site lost mail for a day before I noticed the
permissions on the directory were set incorrectly to non-executable for
"other". Since it is owned by root.wheel that meant all of our outgoing mail,
with a couple exceptions, got wiped out with no errors except for lines in the
console and the log files.
Did sendmail change or was it just an error in the upgrade script?
To fix this I made the mail queue directory 744. But doesn't sendmail run as
root? Shouldn't I be able to make it 700 so no one can write random garbage to
it and sendmail will still run correctly?
Any ideas appreciated.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cluster: black 3.0 account server + black 3.2 print server == ???
Date: 20 Apr 1995 19:23:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3n6car$7v6@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
We completely lost all data on our print server's hard drive and must
start completely from scratch with a new one. I was thinking that
this was a fine opportunity to upgrade the machine, but we don't have
the resources to do all of the machines in the cluster. The main
server will remain at 3.0.
Are there any serious problems people have encountered running:
1) a 3.2 client in a 3.0 network
2) a 3.2 printer server in a 3.0 network
3) a 3.2 NeXT Dimension client in a 3.0 NeXTcube network
--or all of the above, as this is what we're considering doing.
All NeXTs in this cluster are Motorolla based
Please share any experiences you've had by mail to
cooncat@mingus.mills.edu. Thanks in advance!!!
--
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
NeXTmail gladly accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: optical disks broken?
Message-ID: <1995Apr20.151651.16634@guvax>
From: squier@cs.cosc.georgetown.edu (Richard Squier)
Date: 20 Apr 95 15:16:51 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: Georgetown University, Washington DC
I've got about a dozen new (still sealed) 1.0 optical disks that
my 2.1 cube can't seem to read: they get popped out of the drive
every time I put them in. I want to use them to dump
stuff onto. Anybody know why they're unusable? Can these disks be
salvaged?
Thanks.
Rich
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dual-boot switcher for Intel: reinstallation
Date: 21 Apr 1995 13:33:22 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3n8c72$2dh@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <D78r4M.1ww@sounds.wa.com> <D7A2C7.4L8@sounds.wa.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Brian Willoughby (brianw@sounds.wa.com) wrote:
: I now have a bigger problem because the workaround that I thought I had turned
: out not to work!
: After losing the boot program, I cannot upgrade from NEXTSTEP 3.2 to NEXTSTEP
: 3.3 because the install boot floppy does not have an upgrade option.
To get you up and running under NeXTSTEP (only) again for a start,
it should be enough to boot from a dos floppy (or boot a dos on
the harddrive) and make the NeXTSTEP partition the active partition.
It should then boot into NeXTSTEP.
From NeXTSTEP you should try /usr/etc/disk -b /dev/hd_whatever
to reinstall the bootblock. I think you have to use hdXh, as device
which means the whole disk and not only the partition a...g
Hope that helps.
Usual disclaimers apply.
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: boot manager lost
Date: 21 Apr 1995 13:34:32 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3n8c98$2dk@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3n66u1$3p5@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Peter Geissler (pgeiss@gauguin.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote:
: Hi everybody,
: I have a PC running Nextstep
: and DOS. After upgrading from
: DOS 6.0 to 6.2 the NeXT boot
: manager got lost. How can
: I get it back ???
See my reply on the article titled
dual-boot switcher for Intel...
in this newsgroup
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Backing up Novell server via NEXTSTEP NetWare client?
Message-ID: <D7Dunz.6Iu@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 11:31:11 GMT
Hello World,
Small administrativia, not all groups of this crosspost are carried
here, so answers by email preferred. Also, if something useful comes from this,
I'll make a summary.
Situation: I have a NEXTSTEP (Mach/Unix) NetWare client which can
connect to a netware server. I am investigating the possibilities of backup. I was
wondering if I can backup the NetWare server from the NEXTSTEP client
reliably. I was thinking about a DAT drive to the NEXTSTEP machine and using
something like dump/restore, tar or SafetyNet.
Question: What are my options? Can this be done, or more precise,
is someone already doing it?
Yours,
--
Gerben Wierda
From: ghost@ghost.neosoft.com (Mark C. Allman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail routing HELP
Date: 21 Apr 1995 02:00:13 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
Message-ID: <3n73jd$pua@uuneo.neosoft.com>
References: <3n60v0$dpm@phakt.usc.edu>
Keywords: NeXT, sysadmin
In article <3n60v0$dpm@phakt.usc.edu> reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel
Reichman) writes:
> Hello
>
> Here's my problem
>
> I have only one net acount with my university and it is a pop1 & pop3 type
setup (geared for pcs and macs). It also implements a dynamic address system.
>
> The only way I could get my mail.app to work properly with the system was by
renaming my localhost as the host name of the university net, (specifically the
mailhost name) and by naming my account on my machine with the same name as I
am using on my university account. This fools the system somehow into properly
recognizing my name in outgoing mail sessions.
>
> NOW, I have two more accounts besides mine on my local computer and I would
like to let them get mail through my university net account. The problem is
keeping all the mail separate so that we all have privacy. I followed the
setup for creating their popover log files in their home directories, and I
altered the crontab file to distribute the mail properly
>
> Then I tried sending mail to one of the other local accounts using the syntax
xxx%myhostname@schooldomain but it was bounced back to me saying my name not
recognized in the school domain (which is what my renaming of my localhost,
etc. as I mentioned above had solved for my own mailing). So I don't know what
to do.
>
> Any ideas? If you need any more information to help figure this out I would
be more than happy to come forth with it.
>
> Thanks much in advance
>
> Matthew
This is probably a very stupid question, but...
Why not just set up a .forward file is the home directory of your
other accounts? The content of the file is one line with the full
internet address where mail should be forwarded. This is the only
way I can survive in this multi-acccount, multi-system world ;-).
-- Mark Allman
-- Grad student, Physics, Univ. of Houston
-- ghost@ghost.neosoft.com
-- allman@uhphys.phys.uh.edu (forwarded from a VAX)
-- allman@gauss.cl.uh.edu (forwarded from a NeXTstation)
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP dial on demand?
Date: 21 Apr 1995 13:15:38 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Message-ID: <3n8b5q$gdj@castle.york.ac.uk>
References: <D7867K.FCt@AWT.NL>
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda) writes:
> Hello world!
>
> I have missed the developmentsd lately. As I recall there was a
> Japanese PPP version that does dial-on-demand, but with Japanese manuals.
> And there was ppp-2.2 which does not dial on demand. ppp-2.3 is supposed
> to do dial on demand. Does anybody know what the status of ppp-2.3 is?
Give us a chance ! We're still porting 2.2 out here. This is not yet
finalised as the 2.2 code is not yet finalised either. I have not
seen of heard any talk of a 2.3 as yet, though there has been some
discussion of the hooks for dial-on-demand being added.
-bat.
From: t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk speed
Message-ID: <3427@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 21 Apr 95 12:23:29 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Can anybody shed some light on the following:
I have a program that does many calculations and makes big intermediate
files. It does this rather than depend on the swapping mechanism, because
the program `knows' exactly when it needs what. On most computers this
works very well and other users are hardly inconvenienced (unlike for
instance programs that use much virtual memory). On a SPARC 10 or SGI I
measure that CPUtime/REALtime > 90%. On my NeXTstep machines I get numbers
that are more like 70%. That seems quite a loss in efficiency. Some
technical info:
Opening, reading and writing are done with `open', `read' and `write'.
The SPARC 10 has 32 Mbytes, My Pentium NeXTstep systems have 24 Mbytes and
are from various manufacturers. The difference in memory should have not
much influence, because we are talking about files of hundreds of
Megabytes, so it would not fit anyway. The disks are SCSI disks with an
apparently good transfer rate (at least for NeXTstep is seems maximal).
What could be the reason?
Is it a transfer rate problem anyway?
Is NeXTstep buffering on `read' and `write' like one can have with `fread'
and `fwrite' (where one can turn it off)?
Is there some parameter in NeXTstep that controls this?
Or is it the fact that somehow the memory manager sticks its nose
inbetween in an inefficient way?
I would appreciate it very much if I would understand all of this better.
Jos Vermaseren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni)
Subject: Re: 3.3 Upgrade Mail problems
Message-ID: <D7E82G.7r7@prosoft.wimsey.com>
Sender: glen@prosoft.wimsey.com (Glen Biagioni)
Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc.
References: <3n7b6u$djr@paladin.american.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:20:39 GMT
Torrey McMahon writes
> After upgrading to 3.3 our site lost mail for a day before I noticed the
> permissions on the directory were set incorrectly to non-executable for
> "other". Since it is owned by root.wheel that meant all of our outgoing
mail,
> with a couple exceptions, got wiped out with no errors except for lines
in the
> console and the log files.
>
> Did sendmail change or was it just an error in the upgrade script?
>
> To fix this I made the mail queue directory 744. But doesn't sendmail
run as
> root? Shouldn't I be able to make it 700 so no one can write random
garbage to
> it and sendmail will still run correctly?
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
> --
> Torrey McMahon
Sendmail switches from root to user privilege under circumstances where
security might be compromised.
Apparently CERT recommends 700 but others recommend 711 (searchable).
Writable should not be needed. O'Reilly and Associates book entitled
sendmail discusses this in Chapter 19 The Queue. I got into it because of
a sendmail problem that began with 3.3 and appeared to be related to
permissions. Possibly you are in the same position. Let me tell what I
know; if not for you, then for others.
My symptom was that flow through uucp mail, and mail forwarded over uucp
from another host was getting hung in mqueue with sendmail and a sendmail
forked child running. The parent sendmail was running as root, the child
was running as user uucp or as the recipient of the forwarded mail. Thus
the red herring about permissions. However, adjusting permissions didn't
help. I even discovered how the force sendmail to run as root always (F=S
in the delivery agent specifications of sendmail.conf, I think). No luck.
Another interesting symptom was that new mail coming in along the same
path would release and deal with the hung mail, but get hung itself.
Jim_Brownfield@Radical.Com responded to a posting of mine last week with a
copy of an earlier posting of his. It pointed to the fact that these hung
sendmails had not properly detached from the controlling terminal. He was
using Taylor uucp and could look at the source code. He found a problem
with the detaching and fixed it (in uuxqt, I think. uuxqt runs runs on the
receiving host, spawning rmail which runs sendmail...).
Jim says the problem of detaching was there even in 3.2, but it didn't
seem to cause a problem. In 3.3 something new gets sendmail hung if it is
not detached. He thought maybe in the device driver, or in sendmail. I
tried NS3.2 rmail and sendmail to no avail. It would be interesting to
know why the child sendmail hangs. Anyone have any idea?
Well, I seem to have fixed the problem without compiling uuxqt (I have no
source code). I wrote a program that detaches properly from the
controlling terminal, and then execs the existing uuxqt. I moved uuxqt to
uuxqt.std. I put my program in its place with the same ownership and
permissions.
# cd /usr/lib/uucp
# mv uuxqt uuxqt.std
# mv ~/tmp/uuxqt .
# chown uucp.daemon uuxqt
# chmod a-rw,o-x,ug+xs uuxqt
ls -lg
total 188
---s--s--x 1 uucp daemon 98304 Oct 19 1994 uucico*
---s--s--x 1 uucp daemon 11112 Oct 19 1994 uuclean*
---s--s--- 1 uucp daemon 49808 Apr 20 12:15 uuxqt* <--new
---s--s--- 1 uucp daemon 32768 Oct 19 1994 uuxqt.std* <--old
Here's the source code. I don't guarantee it works. I only know that mail
hasn't hung in the 24 hours since I did the fix.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
/* detach from controlling terminal, and run /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt.std */
void main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
int fileId = open ((char *) "/dev/tty", O_RDONLY);
(void) ioctl (fileId, TIOCNOTTY, (char *) NULL);
close(fileId);
execve("/usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt.std", argv, envp);
}
--
Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com> (NeXTmail accepted)
Vancouver BC Canada
From: wenzel@s.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN on NeXTstep3.3?
Date: 21 Apr 1995 11:14:01 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3n841p$vch@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3n601t$qds@hermes.unt.edu>
David Williams (dnw@ponder.csci.unt.edu) wrote:
> Has anyone built the INN news server under NeXTstep 3.3? The lack of
> lint is killing the compile. Any answers on this?
Just forget the lint stuff and comment it out :-)
Get my private port of INN for Nextstep from ftp.uni-stuttgart.de,
/pub/systems/next/ (don't know the exact path, maybe ../Usenet or
../Source), compiles just fine.
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
else? // Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextMail
Date: 21 Apr 1995 18:12:01 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Message-ID: <3n8shh$a4e@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Can someone send me a copy of "Sendmail Installation and Administration
Guide" or tell me something about "@(#)main.mc 1.0 88/10/26 NeXT; from
SMI 3.2/4.3 NFSSRC" ?
I cannot receive mail on my next so please respond here or mail to
koch@lurch.eng2.uconn.edu. I would like to make connact with someone out
there who could help me solve my mail problems
Thanks Jim
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you view all problems as nails!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cdubuque@t-rex.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Chadwick A. Dubuque)
Subject: ftpd / inetd / syslog problems
Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login)
Message-ID: <D7DIoJ.IKu@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 07:12:19 GMT
Organization: Chaos. Try it. I think you'll like it.
I'm running NS 3.2 on Motorola hardware, and have a ftp server set up. I
would like to configure the ftpd to log where logins are coming from, but,
even though I'm firing from inetd as "/usr/etc/ftpd -l" and am sysloging
*.debug, I'm still not getting any entries in the syslog from ftpd. I'm
getting lots of debug info from sendmail, but none from ftpd, rshd, fingerd,
or anything fired from inetd.
So, is there something I'm missing here? Do I have to fire each of these
daemons seperately, instead of from inetd? Or, do I have to specify the -d
option for inetd?
Finally, will just installing the tcp wrappers finx the whole situation, and
allow better logging? I have the source, and am wrestling with getting it
installed and configured.
Thanks for any and all help.
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http://www.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu/~cdubuque/ finger for PGP pub. key
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fix broken black mouse?
Date: 21 Apr 1995 05:47:03 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <3n7gsn$ul@newsreader.wustl.edu>
Summary: fix for broken NeXT mouse?
Hi, all,
Does anyone know how to fix a broken black hardware mouse? The
cursor doesn't respond to any mouse movements & the rollers are clean,
clean, clean.
This is really awful, because it basically renders one black machine
useless.
Are there any hardware people out there that sell black mice?
Any help would be appreciated
Hussain Chinoy
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
Arts & Sciences Computing
Washington University in St. Louis
From: hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: where to find a WWW server fon NeXTSTEP intel
Date: 21 Apr 1995 05:51:07 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <3n7h4b$ul@newsreader.wustl.edu>
References: <3n6a99$rg6@server.ping.ch>
Lionel Tinguely <ltinguely@ping.ch> wrote:
>Hello !
>Would you please tell me where I can find
>a WWW server for NeXTSTEP intel ???
>thank's
>Lionel
Lionel,
Check out NCSA's httpd. Very nice and installs "outta the box."
See http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/Overview.html
or
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/httpd_1.3R+
hussain chinoy
arts & sciences computing
washington university in st. louis
hussain@artsci.wustl.edu
From: fraenzi@next.ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de (Francoise Baernreuther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: baud-rate
Date: 21 Apr 1995 10:45:30 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <3n82ca$88e@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello there,
does anybody know how I could slow down the baud-rate to 2400 for the
8-pin interface on Next 3.1?
Thanks,
Francoise
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
In-Reply-To: mmalcolm Crawford's message of Wed, 19 Apr 1995 22:15:17 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Apr21205004@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu> <D734uu.18y@news.cis.umn.edu>
<950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 00:50:04 GMT
I forget if I already mentioned this but Lexmark, a former division of IBM,
sells a true 1200x1200 DPI PostScript Level II printer called Optra for $1800.
USA Flex, CDW, and DellWare all carry it. If you need the PPD, contact me.
I paid $2200 for the Optra L with 20MB. The output is phenomenal. PC Magazine
recently had an editorial on the Optra entitled "1200 ways to worry HP."
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sowens@nosc.mil (Steven Owens)
Subject: Remote access to NeXT apps
Message-ID: <1995Apr21.124349.16244@nosc.mil>
Sender: news@nosc.mil
Organization: NISE Japan
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 12:43:49 GMT
Is it possible to launch a NeXT app from a non-next client? Our office
LAN has a next server which is tied into the corporate network.
Unfortunately, we only have one NeXT terminal to run the apps from. I would
like to find a way to run some of the apps from PC clients on the LAN. I
know that X apps can be remotely run from a client running X software, but
is it possible to accomplish the same thing with display postscript?
Any thoughts on this subject would be appreciated.
Thanx ... Steve
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Forcing verbose boot on NS/I?
Date: 21 Apr 1995 23:52:44 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <CEDMAN.95Apr21195245@freedom.princeton.edu>
References: <MjZL5rC00iWQ8_JrhR@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Jeffrey T Eaton <je2i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-reply-to: Jeffrey T Eaton's message of Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:24:23 -0400
In article <MjZL5rC00iWQ8_JrhR@andrew.cmu.edu> Jeffrey T Eaton <je2i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
I am running NeXTStep/Intel and want to force the system to do a verbose
(-v) boot by default instead of the oh-so-uninformative default screen.
I know that on black hardware, you can do this in the monitor, but is
such a feat possible on intel?
Change the Boot Graphics line in
/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table on your Boot disk to this:
"Boot Graphics" = "No";
No magic.
Carl Edman
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail routing HELP
Date: 22 Apr 1995 09:35:09 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3nbb7t$6jm@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: ".forward" files ???
Keywords: mail routing help
Mark Allman wrote:
>This is probably a very stupid question, but...
>Why not just set up a .forward file is the home directory of your
>other accounts? The content of the file is one line with the full
>internet address where mail should be forwarded. This is the only
>way I can survive in this multi-acccount, multi-system world ;-).
Mark - I'm not sure I understand. If I'm trying to have the other two accounts on my machine (mine works properly) able to post and receive mail off of my internet account - then what exactly would the forward files do for me? If I put User1's full internet address (user1%myusername@mynetacctdomain) into their forward address, then mail that PoPover picks up wouldn't pick them up as user1 but would try to forward it somewhere else. ?? I tried out a couple of variations, and then sent from my domain mail to user1 through the internet only to find the mail wouldn't get past name recognition (I think at school). Would there be another way whereby if the sender had user1's name in the subject line that a filter could pick that out? That I think would solve the name recognition problem.
One further complication to solving the problem is that my localhost (on my machine at home) name = scf (my mailserver at school = scf.usc.edu) I had to do this to get my net mail server to properly resolve me. (Don't ask me why - I had to try a lot of things). Anyway - I also had to name my domain on my home machine the same as my username at school. So at home I am reichman@scf, while at school I am reichman@scf.usc.edu.
If you could give me some specific examples of how to implement the forward files (and I guess aliasses, too?) -- if that is really the solution for my problem -- then I would be very grateful.
Matthew Reichman NeXTStep v.3.3 - 68k
Univ. of So. Calif. PPP2.2 (perkins)
reichman@scf.usc.edu NeXTMail, Mime, ASCII
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: NS 3.3 as SLIP server?
Message-ID: <D7G0MM.Auv@samizdat>
Sender: news@samizdat
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 15:35:09 GMT
I'd like to set up my NeXTstation running 3.3 to be a SLIP server... where can
I get the required software? I believe that "slattach" is the program used,
although I'm not sure since I use TIA at my service provider.
The purpose of this is to link my roommate's Macintosh to the Next so he can
access my newsfeed.
Thanks
Matt
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From: dchan@dchan.earthlink.net (Derek Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail -sig files and replies
Date: 23 Apr 1995 08:21:54 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net>
I've got two questions about NeXTMail V3.3:
Does anyone know how to get NeXTMail to append a signature file to
e-mails? And if you're sending MIME or NeXTMail can the sig file be an
rtf?
Is there anyway to get NeXTMail to incorporate the original message in a
reply where the original messages lines are preceded by a character (eg.
">" )? I currently use the Forward option then click on Reply to get the
senders address. But this isn't the norm and sometimes confuses people.
Thanks,
Derek
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no boot after wrong ethernet driver installation
Date: 21 Apr 95 19:09:54
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95Apr21190954@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
References: <1995Apr19.144746.7990@ciba-geigy.ch>
In-reply-to: christo1@fmi.ch's message of Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:47:46 GMT
I just got a similar problem like this: no boot after installing new
DPT2000 series driver. The error message is "mount root failed." How
can I change back the scsi driver without hurting my system? I tried
"boot: -s", "boot:config=Default", ... neither would work.
> How can I get rid of the driver configuration..., shall I boot from the CD?
> but how? and then wouldn't the system try to change configurations on the
> CD instead of the boot HD?
Thanks in advance,
zhao
From: nagendra@cs.bu.edu (nagendra mishr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dead NEXTStation: help!!!!
Date: 23 Apr 1995 18:59:48 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Message-ID: <3ne834$dvc@news.bu.edu>
I recently bought a NEXTStation at an auction and when I start up the
machine, I get a dialog which says, checking system files with a
spinning disk. This never goes away and I have no idea what the
problem is.
I have ordered the general documentation from NEXT and it should
arrive in about a week, however, until it gets here I have no idea
what specs are inside this machine.
I would appreciate any help I can get in finding what I have here and
in trying to diagnose the problem.
thanks
Nagendra Mishr
nagendra@csa.bu.edu
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Upgrade Mail problems
Date: 23 Apr 1995 20:17:13 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3neck9$nlb@paladin.american.edu>
References: <D7E82G.7r7@prosoft.wimsey.com>
Thanks for the help from everyone that sent mail and messages.
It seems that the /usr/spool/mqueue directory, actually a link from
/private/spool/mqueue, has to be set to writeable and executable by everyone
for mail to work correctly in 3.3.
That seems really risky, and dangerous actually, but there is not much to be
done about it. Everyone has to be able to write and execute that directory, but
not read its contents. It still allows for people in the know to just fill it
up with rubbish and perhaps use it as a denial-of-service attack. So watch out
for it.
---
Torrey McMahon
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver? I have it....
Date: 23 Apr 1995 19:40:28 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <3neafc$ir3@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
References: <3n3jev$k4d@jupiter.WichitaKS.HMPD.COM>
In article <3n3jev$k4d@jupiter.WichitaKS.HMPD.COM> root@cnw (Operator)
writes:
> wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) wrote:
> >(Jeff Wishnie) (jwishnie@gb.swissbank.com) wrote:
> >> A colleague at work is looking for a driver for an NCR SCSI card.
> Does
> >> anyone know of such a thing? NeXTanswers makes no mention of it.
>
> >Of course NeXTanswers doesn't! The whole Nextstep-on-i386 community
> is
> >waiting for such a beast. Next scheduled back the driver for Q2/95,
> despite
> >it was already planned for Q1.
>
>
> I am one of the test engineers for the NCR PCI SCSI series driver.
> There is a present driver that runs on 3.2 and 3.3 and IS NOT
> supported by NeXT. Matter of fact, NeXT will not support any 3.2
> driver. I, of course, have the driver. (It has tested as faster than
> the AHA2940 overall.) If you are interested in the driver, e-mail me
> and I will either get it to you or tell you where to get it.
>
> Thomas Wells
> Engineer
> Symbios Logic, formerly NCR
I tried mailing so this post wouldn't go world-wide and clutter up the
news, but the mail bounced. Therefore, would you be kind enough to send
me the NCR driver for 3.3, or its location; NeXTmail of MIME ok. Thanks
Alan
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 24 Apr 1995 04:15:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3nf8kg$omj@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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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 again OOP allows one to be a
programmer/philosopher.
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it.)
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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
next-announce-d
next-bugs-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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com: See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
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
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Message/Partial specification
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
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(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
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address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
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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
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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
Written by:
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Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: SLIP + Ethernet
Message-ID: <1995Apr23.201336.620@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 20:13:36 GMT
I have a user who wants to get on the Net. He does this from his home
machine.
At the office, he is on our network. The question is can a NEXTSTEP
machine have two IP addresses? Can he be on the network, establish a slip
connection to outside, be assigned a dynamic IP address, and have things
work?
If you are doing this, please let me know.
Thanks
Wes
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
In-Reply-To: rdl@world.std.com's message of Sat, 22 Apr 1995 00:50:04 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Apr24021026@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu> <D734uu.18y@news.cis.umn.edu>
<950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel> <RDL.95Apr21205004@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 06:10:26 GMT
I forgot to mention performance: 16 PPM @ 600 DPI and 12 PPM @ 1200 DPI. The
Ethernet interface will give you the best performance but the parallel
interface is adequate for most tasks. It also has a serial interface but we
all know what that's like. :-)
Robert La Ferla
HTI
In article <RDL.95Apr21205004@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes:
I forget if I already mentioned this but Lexmark, a former division of IBM,
sells a true 1200x1200 DPI PostScript Level II printer called Optra for $1800.
USA Flex, CDW, and DellWare all carry it. If you need the PPD, contact me.
I paid $2200 for the Optra L with 20MB. The output is phenomenal. PC Magazine
recently had an editorial on the Optra entitled "1200 ways to worry HP."
Robert La Ferla
HTI
From: smg@orb.com (Sam_Goldberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP--Mail.app appears broken
Date: 24 Apr 1995 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <3nfi9g$ll5@nntp.crl.com>
After many years of working flawlessly, I appear to have broken Mail.app
under 3.3 motorola. The symptom is that while incoming mail is properly spooled
to /usr/spool/mail/<username>, it doesn't get taken into Active.mbox for any
user.
Any thoughts/solutions? Please send mail--I'll read it the old-fashioned way.
--
Samuel M. Goldberger
smg@orb.com
Spherical Solutions
47 Myrtle Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415-383-2919--voice
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: schwett@netcom.com
Subject: Bringing up PPP automagically; with REDIALING. HELP!
Message-ID: <schwettD7J578.1Do@netcom.com>
Summary: This is a pain.
Keywords: ppp redial
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 08:06:44 GMT
Sender: schwett@netcom19.netcom.com
Hi all...
I am trying to write a script to bring up a ppp connection on my NeXTStep
machine (Pentium, etc..) via UC Berkeley's Annexen.
I was doing it manually (with tip), but that got a little old, so I used the
following pppd command:
pppd defaultroute connect 'chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ""
ATZ "OK" ATDT6439600 "==>" ppp "sername:" differencengine "assword:"
password' /dev/cufb 38400
Which works fine, I assume
The problem is that the annexen are almost always busy, and fast redialing
is required to get through in a reasonable amount of time.
chat itself does not seem to have the capability to deal with this, so I
tried to write a csh script that would, using some while loops and temp
variables, keep running pppd until it connected.
However, all I succeeded in doing was making a BIG mess. I got redialing,
yes, but at the expense of a few thousand processes.
I DO NOT want to use sleep commands; this is counter to the whole point of
speedy redialing.
If pppd didn't fork itself (?) into the background, then this would be a
very simple task. However, it does (or something like that) so I cannot
simply make a loop that invokes pppd as step 1, checks for a connection as
step 2, and then either quits or repeats.
What can I do? I realize there must be a thousand ways to do this... I'm
looking for a fast, simple one!
Thanks a million,
Mark Schwettmann
--
schwett@netcom.com --- mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
"
a smile cartooned tooth for tooth, you said irony was the shackles of youth
"
From: David Grindrod <grindrod>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: BIOS setup for Intel NeXTSTEP on ISDE/SCSI disks
Date: 24 Apr 1995 08:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3nfogv$9ij@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I would like to set up my home PC to boot NeXTSTEP off a SCSI disk and
DOS/Windows/OS2 of a ISDE disk. Is it possible to do this and what software do
I need to install inorder to do this. Is there no alternative to creating a 7MB
partition on the ISDE disk? This is very inconvenient as it means remaking the
DOS disk. I did read something about OS2 having a boot manager that was quite
good.
Which is the best boot manager for NeXTSTEP/Windows on seperate disks?
Dave
---------------------------------------------------------------
David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg.
Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: Erland.Wittkoetter@uni-konstanz.de (Erland Wittkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Kyocera F1200 to NSI3.3 ?
Date: 24 Apr 1995 08:40:16 GMT
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nfo5g$97n@eurybia.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
Keywords: Laser Printer,Installation
Hello
I want to connect a Kyocera LaserPrinter to my NSI. I have
installed 3.3, but for this Printer I have found no ppd-File.
Does anyone know, where do I get this Files? Or does anyone
know which Printer description File I can use instead?
Thank you very much
Erland Wittkoetter
--
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Erland Wittkoetter -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
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 (NeXTMail o.k.)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Re: OmniWeb suggestion.. remove caching.
Message-ID: <D7JAo8.Ho@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <robertznezy68y8aqm@steffi.dircon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:04:56 GMT
In article <robertznezy68y8aqm@steffi.dircon.co.uk>, robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk
says...
>me. IMHO: Caching shouldn't be the role of the browser.
Well, I would agree (as I am running a caching proxy WWW server myself,
which itself is using another proxy...). But not all WWW servers (noticably
WWW.NeXT.com and WWW.Pages.com) are recent. They use the real old
server from the httpd1.3 package out on the net. That server package should be
removed as soon as possible IMHO, since it doesn't support the conditional get
that caching servers rely on. And it spreading over the NEXTSTEP community
only makes matters worse.
Current NCSA httpd and CERN httpd both support conditional get.
Follow-ups should be to comp.sys.next.sysadmin, though, since this is posted
from WinVN, I cannot set the follow-up header myself. So, this is posted to both,
sorry.
--Gerben
From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: BIOS setup for Intel NeXTSTEP on ISDE/SCSI disks
Date: 24 Apr 1995 11:30:11 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3ng243$6jo@mars.earthlink.net>
References: <3nfogv$9ij@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
David Grindrod <grindrod> wrote:
>I would like to set up my home PC to boot NeXTSTEP off a SCSI disk
and
>DOS/Windows/OS2 of a ISDE disk. Is it possible to do this and what
software do
>I need to install inorder to do this. Is there no alternative to
creating a 7MB
>partition on the ISDE disk? This is very inconvenient as it means
remaking the
>DOS disk. I did read something about OS2 having a boot manager that
was quite
>good.
>Which is the best boot manager for NeXTSTEP/Windows on seperate
disks?
>Dave
Its not an elegant solution, but you could make a boot floppy.
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
far@earthlink.net # one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
Agoura Hills, CA # to be without faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can aquire power
# but not glory.
#
(NeXTmail prefered) # --Nicolo, Machiavelli
(MIMEmail welcome) #
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: 2 BIND/named/resolver technical questions
Message-ID: <D7JJ5p.uz@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:08:13 GMT
[comp.unix.questions is not carried here, so answers please by e-mail, thanks!]
I have installed locally a named, which serves a local domain (AWT.NL). This
machine is not connected to the outside world. The machine itself is called
NeXT.AWT.NL and has IP address 192.2.2.1. The machine also acts as BOOTP
server for a small network of PC's. The machine is a Pentium PC running
NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Now, I installed the named.boot and the zone file. Named starts and it seems to
work. Until I try to run some programs, like NetInfoManager.app. This hangs
indefinitely. As it turns out, it is sending the following resolver request:
ns_req()
HEADER:
opcode = QUERY, id = 23, rcode = NOERROR
header flags: rd
qdcount = 1, ancount = 0, nscount = 0, arcount = 0
QUESTIONS:
1.2.2.192.in-addr.arpa, type = PTR, class = IN
My zone file doen't contain this information, so named tries to find it out on the
outside world. This doesn't work and it hangs indefinitely.
Adding the following line to my zone file solves this problem:
1.2.2.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR NeXT.AWT.NL.
The request is seen more often.
At another location I have almost the same setup. The difference is: no local
network of PC's (nothing on en0 at all), no BOOTP and NEXTSTEP 3.2 on black.
Here, it works *without* the PTR entry in the zone file.
I have the following questions:
1. There are small differences between both setups, the major one is
that on the other setup there is not ethernet active (at boot time detected and the
interface is not turned on). Does this explain the behaviour?
2. Nor RFC882, nor RFC883 nor the man page of named tells me
what the format is of the file for these reverse IP-to-hostname searches. Can
anybody tell me what the format of file awthosts.rev is if I want a line like
primary 2.2.192.IN-ADDR awthosts.rev
in my named.boot file (like the man page suggests)? And should that read
IN-ADDR, IN-ADDR.ARPA or IN-ADDR.ARPA. (note the dot)?
Of course, it is solved as it runs now, and I have to add one entry in the zone file
for every PC on the local net, but I am curious, why these reverse searches
happen and how the file format is.
As an afterthought:
3. Running netstat -r quickly shows both interfaces (en0 and lo0) on
the unconnected machine. But on the connected machine lo0 appear
immediately, but the information on en0 only shows up after 30 secs or so.
What is netstat doing in that time?
Thanks,
--Gerben
From: Sean Hill <shill@iphysiol.unil.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Time synchronizing between HPUX and NEXTSTEP
Date: 24 Apr 1995 13:30:56 GMT
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)
Message-ID: <3ng96g$54c@cisun2000.unil.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is probably pretty simple, but how can I synchronize the times for
two NEXTSTEP workstations with an NFS serving HPUX machine.
Thanks for your info-
Sean
shill@iphysiol.unil.ch
From: steve@abraham.bader.org (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: trouble with dialup modem
Date: 24 Apr 1995 18:31:48 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. 414-476-4266
Message-ID: <3ngqql$alr@blinky.inc.net>
We have a Hayes 9600 modem connected to serial port A of one of our
NeXTStations. Upon dialup all I get is garbage. Even simply connecting a
terminal to serial port A I get the the same thing. Here are the
accordant ttys entries:
ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" vt100 on
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" vt100 on
I'm also not sure as to which entry I should be considering as the correct
one. Any help will be appreciated.
Steven White
System Admin, Helen Bader Foundation
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Date: 24 Apr 1995 18:45:44 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3ngrko$f58@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3mmo21$hpk@news.iastate.edu> <D734uu.18y@news.cis.umn.edu> <RDL.95Apr24021026@world.std.com>
You may want to consider getting Central Data's scsi expander to talk to
this critter. Gives you 1 parallel port and 2 115,000 baud serial ports
for about 2/3 of what Lexmark charges for their network card.
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> Physics Dept, U of A SysAdmin, Space Physics Group <=
=> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-0714 <=
=> Contract sysadmin, tech writing, & unix troubleshooting. <=
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Upgrade Mail problems
Date: 24 Apr 1995 17:18:54 GMT
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ngmhu$3gv@news.ycc.yale.edu>
References: <3neck9$nlb@paladin.american.edu>
In article <3neck9$nlb@paladin.american.edu> tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
(Torrey McMahon) writes:
> Thanks for the help from everyone that sent mail and messages.
>
> It seems that the /usr/spool/mqueue directory, actually a link from
> /private/spool/mqueue, has to be set to writeable and executable by everyone
> for mail to work correctly in 3.3.
Incorrect.
newton> pwd
/private/spool
newton> ls -ldg mqueue
drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 1024 Apr 24 11:19 mqueue/
--
Nathan Janette
Systems Manager, Axel T. Br nger Lab
Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Voice: 203 432 5065
Fax: 203 432 3923
From: jbn@mystery-train.cu.soltec.com (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb suggestion.. remove caching.
Date: 24 Apr 1995 19:28:21 GMT
Organization: Sol Tec, Inc.,
Message-ID: <3ngu4l$o8@sparkle.soltec.com>
References: <robertznezy68y8aqm@steffi.dircon.co.uk> <D7JAo8.Ho@AWT.NL>
robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk writes:
>IMHO: Caching shouldn't be the role of the browser.
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>Well, I would agree (as I am running a caching proxy WWW server myself,
>which itself is using another proxy...).
I'm still learning all the issues involved, but so far I don't agree.
I think that this should be an option (turning on and off all cache
and setting the cache policies if it's turned on). This way everyone
is happy.
It seems a lot easier and a lot more convenient to me if users get
control over the caching such as what could be provided in the web
browser (for instance, putting limits on cached data like in Netscape,
and being able to force a flush of the cache at any time).
If the browser had no caching at all, and all the caching for the
machine were handled by some application or process that the user
running the browser could not control, how would the user flush the
cache or tell that application they don't want to make the cache grow?
When the cache is stored in memory or on /tmp, this situation could
come up since the disk would fill up and possibly cause the entire
machine to crash.
I think the controls provided in Netscape are a good idea (being able
to put a limit on the cache) and I suggest one enhancement--the limit
shouldn't be on the total cache, but on the amount that user adds to a
shared cache. This way, if the caching is in the browser, there is a
more intuitive GUI control and each user can set something they like
(anywhere from "add nothing to the cache--only read from the cache" to
"add everything to the cache" and all points in between).
I cross-posted to both since I'm not sure if this is (or rather,
should be) strictly a sysadmin issue or if this should be something
that users should be allowed to control for themselves.
From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: scary boot problem
Date: 24 Apr 1995 19:04:15 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3ngsnf$7i9@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Several times now my Cube (68040, NS 3.3) locked up during reboot
(I had to literally pull the plug)
after the message
"Setting hostname to gulag"
or
"Reinitializing nmserver's network portion"
both from /etc/rc.net
After we sort of looked at the files from single user mode
it suddenly booted o.k we have no idea what the problem
was.
Did anyone have a similar experience?
--
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Center for Complex Systems Research, Beckman Institute, Physics Dept. UIUC
405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801,gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu, gmk@igc.apc.org,
gmk@santafe.edu, (217)-244-5877(voice),x5493(fax1),x8371(fax2), x1994 (msg)
URLs: http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/~gmk/, ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gmk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: UNIX-HatersTool.app : It doesn't work ! Why ?
Message-ID: <D7GCsw.4q7@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:58:08 GMT
Hi,
I'd really like to make UNIX-HatersTool.app work since it can do all that
I want. The only problem is that none of the options that are available
work, except the Diskspace !
I do have UUCP connections for both my mails and my news, but
UNIX-HatersTool.app shows nothing. Whenever I click on a button, either it
does nothing or it beeps.
I thought about doing something in the Preferences panel to fix that, but
in the Info menu, Preferences is grayed out so I can't use that either.
And yes, I am using it as root.
Can anyone help ? Please e-mail me directly your answers. I'll post a
summary later on.
Thanks
---
Dr. Jacques GARBI
TOUGA MANAGEMENT Ltd.
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone/Fax : 011 41 21 648 44 07
NeXTMail : jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: Bringing up PPP automagically; with REDIALING. HELP!
Message-ID: <D7K4FC.GD@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <schwettD7J578.1Do@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:47:35 GMT
In article <schwettD7J578.1Do@netcom.com> schwett@netcom.com writes:
> The problem is that the annexen are almost always busy, and fast redialing
> is required to get through in a reasonable amount of time.
Well, not that it is of any help, but one of the reasons that most
auto-redialing stuff in Computer programs use some kind of sleep in between
(i.e. UUCP which uses an exponential backoff algorithm) is that your strategy
only works when you are the only one to use it. If all your colleagues use the
same strategy, you're again nowhere.
So, not that there is not a possible way to achieve what you want, it is a
strategy that is somewhat shortsighted as it forces other people to do the
same. Better complain with your provider to install more lines, that seems to
be the problem. And if they don't, switch provider.
I know this doesn't help you, but your 'solution' is worse than the problem, if
you get the big picture...
--
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: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail -sig files and replies
Date: 24 Apr 1995 22:12:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3nh7p6$7si@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net>
In article <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net> dchan@dchan.earthlink.net
(Derek Chan) writes:
> I've got two questions about NeXTMail V3.3:
>
> Does anyone know how to get NeXTMail to append a signature file to
> e-mails? And if you're sending MIME or NeXTMail can the sig file
be an
> rtf?
>
> Is there anyway to get NeXTMail to incorporate the original message
in a
> reply where the original messages lines are preceded by a character
(eg.
> ">" )? I currently use the Forward option then click on Reply to
get the
> senders address. But this isn't the norm and sometimes confuses
people.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Derek
I would like to know, too--sometimes my .mailrc works, sometimes not,
and today I noticed that my .signature stopped working.
--
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
NeXTmail gladly accepted
This account is scheduled to disappear May 22, 1995.
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Upgrade Mail problems
Date: 25 Apr 1995 00:23:48 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3nhfek$689@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3neck9$nlb@paladin.american.edu> <3ngmhu$3gv@news.ycc.yale.edu>
nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
>In article <3neck9$nlb@paladin.american.edu> tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu
>(Torrey McMahon) writes:
>> Thanks for the help from everyone that sent mail and messages.
>>
>> It seems that the /usr/spool/mqueue directory, actually a link from
>> /private/spool/mqueue, has to be set to writeable and executable by everyone
>> for mail to work correctly in 3.3.
>Incorrect.
> newton> pwd
> /private/spool
> newton> ls -ldg mqueue
> drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 1024 Apr 24 11:19 mqueue/
Your sendmail has to be setuid root so that it can write into this
directory. Maybe the original poster's /usr/lib/sendmail somehow
lost its setuid bit.
--
David Lemson (217) 244-8833
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu (Michael A. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.convex
Subject: ANNOUNCING: SYSINFO version 3.0.2
Date: 24 Apr 1995 17:24:56 -0700
Organization: USC Computing Services, Los Angeles
Sender: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nhfgo$k1i@acamar.usc.edu>
SYSINFO version 3.0.2 is now available as
<ftp:/usc.edu/pub/sysinfo/sysinfo.tar.gz>
This is a maintanance release. Some minor runtime and a few silly
install-time bugs have been fixed.
Here's the README file:
SYSINFO 3.0
Michael A. Cooper
Research, Development, and Systems Group
University Computing Services
University of Southern California
mcooper@usc.edu
$Id: README,v 1.27 1995/04/25 00:23:34 mcooper Exp $
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 about system
hardware devices (disk drives, frame buffers, tape drives, etc.),
kernel variables, and system configuration information. 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.
RELEASE INFORMATION
The 3.0 release features a number of major changes in platform support
and in additional classes of information that are shown. I would
really like to do device support for HPUX 9.x, but 9.x is such a mess
that device support is difficult and ugly. I'm not sure whether I
will go ahead with device support for 9.x or wait for and hope that
10.x improves things.
The information shown for the Kernel class is not very complete and
may be inaccurate in some cases. I'm open to input as to what kernel
variable info is important enough that Sysinfo should check for it.
This may be the last release that supports Ultrix and NeXTStep. I
probably won't support those platforms after summer, 1995.
SUPPORTTED PLATFORMS
Sysinfo has been tested on the platforms listed below. Sysinfo
may work under OS versions or platforms not listed below.
INFORMATION CLASSES SUPPORTED
PLATFORM General Device Kernel SysConf
============================== ======= ====== ====== =======
Sun SPARC / SunOS 4.1.3 X X X X
(SunOS 4.1.3 /usr/ucb/cc)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Sun SPARC / SunOS 5.3 X X X X
(SunC 3.0)
---------------------------------------------------------------
IBM RS6000 / AIX 3.2.5 X X X
(XLC ??)
---------------------------------------------------------------
DEC MIPS / Ultrix 4.2A X X X X
---------------------------------------------------------------
NeXT NeXTcube / NeXTStep 3.1 X X X
---------------------------------------------------------------
HP 9000/700 / HP-UX 9.03 X X X
(HP-UX C)
---------------------------------------------------------------
Convex SPP / SPP-UX 2.0.2 X X
(Convex C 6.0.2)
CHANGES
A list of major changes from version to version is listed below.
For more details, please read the `ChangeLog' file.
CHANGES FROM 3.0 to 3.0.2
Most changes are small bug fixes that won't affect most users. Various
bugs in installing sysinfo of been fixed. HP-UX and Solaris 2.x users
may want to upgrade.
CHANGES FROM 2.1.3 TO 3.0
A number of major changes have been made between 2.1.3 and 3.0:
Almost all configuration information is now read from externel
configuration files at runtime. This allows easier modifications
and greatly simplified end-user customization.
Add support for showing simple arbitrary kernel information.
Add support for showing system configuration information.
Revamp -show option to work in conjuction with new -class option
to specify specific classes (General, Kernel, Device).
Add ability to show information about a specific list of items
for each class of informatin (Device, Kernel, General, SysConf).
Major cleanup of internel code and instructions.
Add basic support for HP-UX 9.x and Convex SPP-UX 2.x.
Update device information for Sun hardware.
Modify device information on AIX hosts to show better hardware info.
Miscellaneous bug fixes.
CHANGES FROM 2.0 to 2.1.3
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.
WHERE TO GET IT
The latest/greatest version of sysinfo is available via anonymous ftp
on `usc.edu' in `/pub/sysinfo'. If you did not obtain sysinfo from there,
then it's always a good idea to check to see if there's a newer version
available before proceeding.
INSTALLATION
1) Read the comments in `Makefile' and make any necessary changes.
You almost certainly will want to change the CONFDIR variable.
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) STOP! DO NOT run `make install' or `make installmeta' without _FIRST_
running `make'. The command `make' is the only way to compile Sysinfo
for your platform.
4) To install the sysinfo program, you can either use `make installmeta'
(read the file `metasysinfo' for details) or you can run `make install'.
5) Run `make install.man' to install the man page.
BUG FIXES
Please send bug fixes, suggestions, and comments to mcooper@usc.edu.
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
fixed in Solaris 2.3.
HP HP 9000 800 series machines are not supported.
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 $LANG environment
variable must be set correctly. If it is not, SYSINFO may fail
to find most device information.
SPP-UX In SPP-UX 2.0.2 you may see these errors at compile-time::
cc: Warning on line 109 of /usr/include/sys/wait.h: a \
bit field must have type int or unsigned int
These errors are due to a bug in <sys/wait.h> and/or Convex C.
Convex is aware of the problem and promises a fix at some point.
The errors can safely be ignored.
--
Michael A. Cooper E-MAIL: mcooper@usc.edu
Manager of Systems Administration PHONE (VOICE): 213-740-2957
University Computing Services PHONE (FAX): 213-740-9312
University of Southern California
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Applying sdform to my boot disk
Message-ID: <D7JAIu.3t4@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <1995Apr10.200048.26203@investor.pgh.pa.us> <D74o1z.GsG@sounds.wa.com> <3n280k$lbc@clarknet.clark.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:01:42 GMT
In article <3n280k$lbc@clarknet.clark.net>,
Rivendell Communications <olorin@clark.net> wrote:
>Brian Willoughby (brianw@sounds.wa.com) wrote:
>...
>: You'll need my sdformat utility because NeXT's sdform is incapable of
>: changing your drive to 1024 byte blocks. Version 1.3 is the latest, and can
>: be found at:
>: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz
>...
>
>We recently have some trouble with internet boot drive on a NeXT black
>hardware and replaced it with a 2.* G Seagate hard drive. It turn out
>NeXTStep 3.2 Builddisk.app and disk program can handle a partition larger
>than 2.0G and we have to add an entry in disktab. Did your sdformat put
>this problem into consideration ? Because, from the entry it is showing
>when we tried it on this 2.* G drive, it looks like it will use entire
>drive as one partition larger than 2.0G.
It seems apparent that you do not understand the difference between low-level
formatting of a drive and file system initialization of a disk volume. I may
not have the terminology precisely correct myself, but I do know for a fact
what the technology is.
sdformat sends SCSI commands to any device accepting the format command. The
limit of sdformat's effect is that it can potentially change the block size.
This is an operation which is not limited by the total size of the drive, nor
is it dependent upon partitioning. The process of formatting, whether to
change the block size or to just start with a clean slate, is also independent
of the file system that may eventually be used: e.g. FAT, MacIntosh, BSD,
ISO-9660, ProDOS :-), etc. Therefore, it is impossible for sdformat to do
anything but treat the entire drive as one contiguous sequence of blocks, since
partitioning information is a file system dependent data structure.
All of the problems you describe above are related to the procedure of
initializing a volume with a given file system. While DOS/FAT and MacIntosh
file systems may not support 1024 byte blocks, I understand that the Berkeley
Fast File System used by NeXT is limited by it's data structures to 2 GB per
partition. I would assume that this is due to the use of 31 bits to express
the size.
There is no way that your problems are due to anything 'put into consideration'
by sdformat. You must use the right tool for the job and understand how to use
it correctly. Unfortunately, I am not an expert on disk initialization, so I
can offer no assistance beyond the format process which ends before a file
system is chosen.
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: dual-boot switcher for Intel: reinstallation
Message-ID: <D7JAyw.3xp@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <D78r4M.1ww@sounds.wa.com> <D7A2C7.4L8@sounds.wa.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:11:20 GMT
I have found the solution. Although I tried using hd(0,b)mach_kernel as well
as the command below, the real problem was that the NEXTSTEP boot program does
not seem to count the DOS/FAT partition at the beginning of my drive. I was
assuming that since NEXTSTEP was installed on the second partition, I would
need to refer to that as "b" since I would think the DOS partition is "a".
It turns out that the boot command hd(0,a)mach_kernel was successful in booting
my Intel machine. Following NeXTanswers #1470 allowed me to restore the
NEXTSTEP boot program.
I don't know if anyone else followed up to my article, since there is a problem
on my system with random missing articles - perhaps I should update to a newer
C-News package other than the one on ORST since I am now running the very buggy
Release 3.3 on my NeXTdimension.
In article <D7A2C7.4L8@sounds.wa.com>,
Brian Willoughby <brianw@sounds.wa.com> wrote:
>I tried typing hd(0,b) at the boot: prompt provided by the install floppy,
>because my NEXTSTEP partition is th second one on the only IDE drive, but this
>did not work.
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: chase@marble.com
Subject: Advice on configuring a SCSI device for a NeXT Color Workstation
Message-ID: <D7GJzx.44L@marble.com>
Keywords: SCSI, NeXT
Sender: news@marble.com
Organization: Marble Associates, Inc.
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:33:33 GMT
What configuration is best for a SCSI device (a Fujitsu 230
Magneto-Optical Drive) given the following option pairs?
SCSI data bus parity check {Enabled, Disabled}
Synchronous data transfer request {Drive, Host}
Spindle automatic stop mode {Enabled, Disabled}
Write Cache mode {Enabled, Disabled}
Write verify {Disabled, Enabled}
SCSI type {SCSI 2, SCSI 1}
Save Data Pointer {Enabled, Disabled}
Thanks in advance
Chase Turner <chase@marble.com>matic stop mode {Enabled, Disabled}
Write Cache mode {Enabled, Di
From: Sean Hill <shill@iphysiol.unil.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Time synchronizing between HPUX and NEXTSTEP
Date: 25 Apr 1995 08:03:24 GMT
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)
Message-ID: <3niacc$dp5@cisun2000.unil.ch>
References: <3ng96g$54c@cisun2000.unil.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: cmh@spiff.ccs.carleton.ca
To summarize the responses to my question:
How do I synchronize NEXTSTEP to an HPUX server?
The answer is to get xntpd running on the HP machine or to use
rdate in a cron entry.
Thanks for all the info!
-Sean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <rene@frodo.ped.muni.cz>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 07:10:23 +0100
From: Rene Michalek <rene@frodo.ped.muni.cz>
Message-ID: <9504250610.AA00247@frodo.ped.muni.cz>
Subject: Re: NCR Scsi driver? I have it....
Yesterday i looked to Next ftp server (ftp.next.com) and in
some directory i found that NCR driver for NS 3.3 is under
development and probably will be released in Q2 1995.
Rene
--
-----------------------------------------------
Rene Michalek
UDTaI pedagogical faculty of Masaryk University
Porici 31
Brno
Czech republic
NeXTmail : rene@frodo.ped.muni.cz
tel : (+42 5) 43321218
fax : (+42 5) 43211217
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From: duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Date: 25 Apr 1995 05:48:28 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Message-ID: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
it seems simple, but I don't know how :
I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
a black NeXT or a white one. Is there a clean way to do this from
the command line, or do I have to use some sort of hack like looking at
what drives are mounted (because white & black systems happen to mount
different disks for things like /LocalApps) in the filesystem? Any hints
would be very much appricated
thanks in advance,
Josh.
--
Josh DuBois
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
duboisj@mathcs.carleton.edu (NeXT mail!!)
duboisj@carleton.edu (lame mail address)
From: duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rz and sz on Intel
Date: 25 Apr 1995 05:55:27 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Message-ID: <3ni2sf$js4@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
hello all :
Has anyone compiled Chuck Forsberg's rz and sz zmodem comm programs for
NS 3.3 on Intel? The Makefile suggests that I "make any necessary hacks"
to get them working on all but a handfull of supported sytems (of course,
NeXTSTEP is not one of these), so I thought I'd ask if anyone had done it
already 'ere I took a whack at it myself.
thanks for any help!
Josh.
--
Josh DuBois
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
duboisj@mathcs.carleton.edu (NeXT mail!!)
duboisj@carleton.edu (lame mail address)
From: jkv@sware.com (Joseph K. Vossen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: using NeXTSTEP as a firewall??
Date: 25 Apr 1995 10:12:08 GMT
Organization: Internet Atlanta
Message-ID: <3nihto$k03@metro.atlanta.com>
With all of the connections to the internet being added everyday, a lot of
companies are putting firewalls in place to protect their corporate
network. I realize that it might be considered a waste of a good
gui-based system for this [and that there are more specialized systems out
there to perform this task], but has anyone considered using a
NeXTSTEP-based system for a firewall? If you considered this and are
using it, what changes did you have to make? If you considered this and
used something else, I would be interested in knowing why.
The reason I am interested is that we have some extra cubes laying around
and someone suggested we use them as a firewall and someone else said that
was a bad idea for various reasons. I was just curious to see if anyone
in netland actually tried this.
thanks
--
Joe Vossen
jkv@sware.com
From: duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail -sig files and replies
Date: 25 Apr 1995 07:15:17 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3ni7i5$kfm@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
References: <3nh7p6$7si@agate.berkeley.edu>
In article <3nh7p6$7si@agate.berkeley.edu> cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
(Jessica L Mosher) writes:
> In article <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net> dchan@dchan.earthlink.net
> (Derek Chan) writes:
> > I've got two questions about NeXTMail V3.3:
> >
> > Does anyone know how to get NeXTMail to append a signature file to
> > e-mails? And if you're sending MIME or NeXTMail can the sig file
There was a program called MailHelper availible from
ftp.cs.orst.edu a while back which I belive did what you want :
it was nice but not as nice as having NeXTMail handle such things
automatically. I havn't tried it with NS 3.3. Quite possible it won't
work, but mabey the author has/will update it
hope this helps.
Josh.
------
Josh DuBois
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
duboisj@mathcs.carleton.edu (NeXT mail!!)
duboisj@carleton.edu (lame mail address)
From: stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Robert Stabl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Date: 25 Apr 1995 12:56:47 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <3nirif$1bj@antigone.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
References: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
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In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
>
>
> it seems simple, but I don't know how :
>
> I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
> a black NeXT or a white one.
Try /usr/bin/machine.
rbs.
--
Robert Stabl email: stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Computer Science Institute http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~stabl/
University of Munich
Leopoldstr. 11B Tel: +(49) 89 2180 6316
D-80802 Muenchen FAX: +(49) 89 2180 6310
Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dead NEXTStation: help!!!!
Message-ID: <1995Apr25.125515.1121@ittpub>
From: jurgen@ittpub.nl (Jurgen Hildebrand)
Date: 25 Apr 95 12:55:15 WET
References: <3ne834$dvc@news.bu.edu>
Distribution: world
> I recently bought a NEXTStation at an auction and when I start up the
> machine, I get a dialog which says, checking system files with a
> spinning disk. This never goes away and I have no idea what the
> problem is.
>
> I have ordered the general documentation from NEXT and it should
> arrive in about a week, however, until it gets here I have no idea
> what specs are inside this machine.
>
> I would appreciate any help I can get in finding what I have here and
> in trying to diagnose the problem.
>
>
> thanks
>
> Nagendra Mishr
> nagendra@csa.bu.edu
I need more about info whats wrong here.
Here is how to get it.
While booting, just after the message "loading from disk"
Hold down the two command keys and press "~"
You wil get into rom monitor.
After that type "b" followed by return.
The NEXT will boot now and all steps of boot process will now be shown.
I need to have the last couple of lines printed, just before it hangs.
It happens sometimes that the if the swapfile claims all disk space,
for some reason a next station refuses to boot.
Truncating the swapfile solves this.
Have Fun (Jurgen)
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: APC UPS help needed
Date: 25 Apr 1995 08:17:57 -0400
Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3nip9l$s23@king.mathworks.com>
Maybe someone in netland can help me... I'm trying to get an APC
Smart UPS 600 to talk to a NeXT cube (when the power fails). I did
find a ups daemon on one of the NeXT ftp sites (upsd). The README in
the source suggested making a cable connecting ups pin 2 to serial 2
(DCD) and ups 9 to serial 4 (GND). No problems here.
The trouble is that the status on the line does not register as changing. The
meat of the ups daemon looks like
ups_fd = open("/dev/ttya, O_RDONLY, 0);
while(1)
{
stat = ioclt(upsd_fd, TIOCMGET, &modembits);
if (modembits != oldbits)
/* then the power failed */
}
I've written a test routine to execute the TIOCMGET a finite number
of times. The annoying thing is, the status doesn't change! I have
tryed the test routine with a modem connected, and the status does
change for that.
Do I need to connect DTR, CTS, or RTS ? If so, tied to what? I've already
attempted switching ports, cables (and coffee). I have also clipped on a
DVM, and the DCD does indeed go to a RS-232 high when the power is cut.
Any help would be appreciated. It's a little useless having a UPS if the
machine can't shut itself off. Also, if anyone has one of these hooked up
to anything else (like a SUN) I'd really like the cable configuration that
you're using.
thanx,
-peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
In-Reply-To: stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de's message of 25 Apr 1995 12:56:47 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNUS.95Apr25090552@darwin.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Department of Ecology & Evolution, The University of Chicago
References: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
<3nirif$1bj@antigone.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:05:52 GMT
In article <3nirif$1bj@antigone.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Robert Stabl) writes:
> In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
> duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
> >
> >
> > it seems simple, but I don't know how :
> >
> > I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
> > a black NeXT or a white one.
> Try /usr/bin/machine.
Or /usr/bin/hostinfo or /usr/bin/arch
--
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
email: Magnus_Nordborg@uchicago.edu
tel: +1.312.702-1093 (office)
tel: +1.312.667-5331 (home)
fax: +1.312.702-9740
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:22:35 +0000
Message-ID: <1995Apr25.132235.9487@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
> I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
> a black NeXT or a white one. Is there a clean way to do this from
> the command line, or do I have to use some sort of hack like looking at
> what drives are mounted (because white & black systems happen to mount
> different disks for things like /LocalApps) in the filesystem?
arch.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: NeXTMail -sig files and replies
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <3ni7i5$kfm@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:24:16 +0000
Message-ID: <1995Apr25.132416.9551@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <3ni7i5$kfm@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
> In article <3nh7p6$7si@agate.berkeley.edu> cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
> (Jessica L Mosher) writes:
> > In article <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net> dchan@dchan.earthlink.net
> > (Derek Chan) writes:
> > > Does anyone know how to get NeXTMail to append a signature file to
> > > e-mails? And if you're sending MIME or NeXTMail can the sig file
>
> There was a program called MailHelper availible from
> ftp.cs.orst.edu a while back which I belive did what you want :
> it was nice but not as nice as having NeXTMail handle such things
> automatically. I havn't tried it with NS 3.3. Quite possible it won't
> work, but mabey the author has/will update it
> hope this helps.
I sometimes use the script from Carl Edman's mailapp utilities package.
It automatically appends ascii, rtf/rtfd sigs, and will deal in customer
headers if you want.
Paul
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Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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From: Jim_Brownfield@radical.com (Jim Brownfield)
Subject: Re: 3.3 Upgrade Mail problems
Message-ID: <1995Apr25.004231.12412@Radical.Com>
Sender: news@Radical.Com
Organization: Radical System Solutions, Inc.
References: <3neck9$nlb@paladin.american.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:42:31 GMT
Torrey McMahon writes
> Thanks for the help from everyone that sent mail and messages.
>
> It seems that the /usr/spool/mqueue directory, actually a link from
> /private/spool/mqueue, has to be set to writeable and executable by everyone
> for mail to work correctly in 3.3.
>
> That seems really risky, and dangerous actually, but there is not much to be
> done about it. Everyone has to be able to write and execute that directory,
but
> not read its contents. It still allows for people in the know to just fill it
> up with rubbish and perhaps use it as a denial-of-service attack. So watch
out
> for it.
My /private/spool/mqueue directory is 770 (root = owner, wheel = group), and
everything works fine under 3.3 (after fixing the terminal detaching problem).
--
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System/Network/Database Design, Development, Consulting
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From: Colin Wu <wucolin@McMaster.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring a swapfs
Date: 25 Apr 1995 14:31:00 GMT
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (NewServer)
Message-ID: <3nj134$b83@informer1.cis.McMaster.CA>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Recently I had an (unexpected) opportunity to reformat one of my disks so I
thought I would create a swap partition on this drive a la Suns. Trouble is I
can't figure out how to tell NeXTstep to use the new partition as the swap
space. Anyone know how to do this? Is this a good thing to do?
Any help and/or discussion much appreciated.
--
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Message-ID: <D7LK0G.8rI@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:21:51 GMT
In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>,
Josh DuBois <duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu> wrote:
>
>
> it seems simple, but I don't know how :
>
>I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
>a black NeXT or a white one. Is there a clean way to do this from
>the command line, or do I have to use some sort of hack like looking at
>what drives are mounted (because white & black systems happen to mount
>different disks for things like /LocalApps) in the filesystem? Any hints
>would be very much appricated
> thanks in advance,
>
You can use the "arch" command, which will return such things as "m68k",
"i386", and I presume "hppa" and "sparc" as well. So something like
if (`arch` == m68k) then
doblackstuff
else if (`arch` == i386) then
dowhitestuff
else if (`arch` == hppa) then
dogreenstuff
endif
My shell syntax may not be totally correct, but that's the idea.
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring a swapfs
Date: 25 Apr 1995 16:54:44 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3nj9gk$an2@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <3nj134$b83@informer1.cis.McMaster.CA>
Colin Wu (wucolin@McMaster.CA) wrote:
: Recently I had an (unexpected) opportunity to reformat one of my disks so I
: thought I would create a swap partition on this drive a la Suns. Trouble is I
: can't figure out how to tell NeXTstep to use the new partition as the swap
: space. Anyone know how to do this? Is this a good thing to do?
Configure the swapping via /etc/swaptab. Of course, remember to put
an entry in /etc/fstab to mount the extra drive at boot.
These suggestions are only educated speculation, for I've only slightly
experimented using my own suggestions.
--
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From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: 3.3 locks up while showing std login screensaver
Message-ID: <D7JCq3.48J@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:49:15 GMT
My NeXTdimension has locked up at least twice, perhaps three times, while
waiting at the login panel. When I say that it locked up, I mean that the
machine did not respond to Command-~ or Command-Command-~, the only way to
recover was to use Alternate-Command-*. I believe that I had logged in
remotely over the modem each of these times, with no problems detected from
the remote machine.
I have the following in the root account's defaults database:
loginwindow DefaultUser guest
loginwindow TimeToDim 15
loginwindow HostName SoundS.WA.com
This is very strange, I have never come across so many bugs after upgrading in
the past. Except when I was using the undocumented -nbuf kernel flag beyond
it's designed limits.
I will try removing the DefaultUser entry, since the 3.3 ReleaseNotes have it
listed as DefaultName, but I wonder if anyone else has walked up to their
NeXT m68k hardware and found that the screensaver would not go away to let them
log in.
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
From: gthomas@newsserver.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cant telnet into machine after upgrade to 3.3 Sound familiar?
Date: 25 Apr 1995 14:48:28 -0700
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Message-ID: <gthomas.798846105@sfu.ca>
Summary: cant rlogin after upgrade to 3.3
Keywords: telnet rlogin 3.3
I am stumped.
Users can no longer login over the network. The problems have begun
since upgrading to 3.3 but I cant confirm the date. Both rlogind and
telnetd get listed in /etc/inetd.conf. Both rlogins and telnets are
able to take a username and password but it seems that when they exit
and try to exec a shell the message "Connection closed by foreign
host" appears. Is there some NetInfo magic that I need to know about?
Hints gladly followed.
--
Guy Thomas
gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca (NeXTmail here )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: aalto@nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto)
Subject: Re: talking from black NeXT
Message-ID: <1995Apr22.074510.9497@nmt.edu>
Organization: New Mexico Tech
References: <D7Apqz.HK@balou.rhein.de>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 07:45:10 GMT
Thomas Pfleiderer (tommi@balou.rhein.de) wrote:
: Hi,
: I read the FAQ and the manuals, but was not able to find an answer to my
: question:
: Why is it impossible to talk from a black NeXT to let's say a sun? I tried
: with /usr/ucb/talk and with ytalk 3.2 (2), but everytime it is not possible to
: talk.
: Who knows a solution to this problem?
: Thanks, tommi
: -----
: Thomas Pfleiderer
: tommi@balou.rhein.de
: voice: +49 2225 701332
: fax/data: +49 2225 4657
: BOING-admin@balou.rhein.de
It is probably the Sun's fault, I have had problems talking to many types
of non-Sun machines from suns, including DEC Vaxen and Alphas. I have been
told that it is a known problem with SunOS.
Haven't tried with my NeXT yet though, I don't have SLIP going yet.
Good Luck,
Eugene Aalto
aalto@nmt.edu
From: manish@clark.lcs.mit.edu (Manish Tuteja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cant telnet into machine after upgrade to 3.3 Sound familiar?
Date: 25 Apr 1995 22:00:09 GMT
Organization: MIT
Message-ID: <3njrd9$7kv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <gthomas.798846105@sfu.ca>
Keywords: telnet rlogin 3.3
Upgrade probably wiped out your additions to /etc/shells. Make sure /etc/shells
lists all the shells your users use.
Manish
From: reichman@girtab.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login Window Name ???
Date: 25 Apr 1995 16:39:47 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@girtab.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3nk183$1qc@girtab.usc.edu>
Summary: How to have local host name on login window
Keywords: login window name
I was changing around the name of my localhost andn oticed that the login window had its name on it. I changed it later on and then the name on the login window dissappeared -- how can I get it back on again - it was quite nice.
Matt
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mcgowan@emerald.physics.utoronto.ca (Patrick McGowan)
Subject: NS3.2 for Intel stall hangs early on
Message-ID: <D7LE6B.Hp1@info.physics.utoronto.ca>
Sender: news@info.physics.utoronto.ca (System Administrator)
Organization: University of Toronto - Dept. of Physics
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:15:45 GMT
I am trying to install NS3.2 on a P90. Configuration:
Intel P90
Quantum Empire 1400S SCSI set SCIS ID 0
NCR 53C810 SCSI contoller set SCIS ID 2 (tried 1,3 and 4 as well)
NeXT (sony) CDROM drive
I am not sure whether my CDROM drive is being read properly. Note that I
am using the new NCR driver from Symbios which seems to be loaded
correctly. The CDROM drive is identified as SCSI ID 2 (or whatever number
I set to be) at the early pat of the install diagnosis but I am wondering
if the NCR contoller board is itself terminated. Would a SCSI device still
be recognized with incorrect termination but then send crap along the bus?
It appears that there are a strip of resistors near the connector, but
which look like termination resistors, but they are soldered in. I see no
obvious jumpers to override the resistors.
My intall hangs after the prompt
"Registering sc0:"
It sits for a while then displays:
"kernel trap"
"unexpected kernel trap d eip 229789"
"failed instruction exception (2,d,0)"
"waiting for remote degugger connection"
"type c to continue or r to reboot"
I then type c and get
"kernel panic exception (6,3,1)"
"waiting for remote degugger connection"
"type c to continue or r to reboot"
and I must then reboot.
Any information would be helpful as I am no hardware whiz kid.
Patrick
mcgowan@emerald.physics.utoronto.ca
From: font@MCS.COM (Font)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NS/FIP 3.2 wants to init 2nd IDE disk
Date: 25 Apr 1995 19:32:36 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <3nk4b4$6ge@Mercury.mcs.com>
The problem:
NS 3.2 believes my second IDE disk is unreadable, and wants to
initialize it. It won't mount it.
The setup:
First IDE has NS partition which passes control to sd(0)mach_kernel,
plus DOS partition. (DOS partition won't mount either.)
Second IDE has DOS partition (504M) which Norton Disk Doctor says is
fine, except for the unused space on the end (it's a Maxtor 540).
First and only SCSI has all the NS stuff on it, including updated
Adaptec 1542CF driver and updated DOS file system driver. SCSI drive
is more than one gigabyte. Adaptec is set for extended translation,
plus support is on for more than two drives under MS-DOS 5.0+
(otherwise NS won't pass boot to the SCSI). There is only the NS
partition on the drive.
How Do I Know It's the Second IDE Drive?
When I disable the second IDE drive in BIOS, NS is happy and doesn't
bring up the panel with Ignore/Initialize... Of course it still won't
recognize and mount the DOS partition of the first IDE drive.
What I want to accomplish:
Ideally, I would like NS to recognize and mount the second IDE disk,
and, if possible, recognize and mount the DOS partition on the first
IDE disk as well. I don't want to have to press "Ignore" every time I
(or someone else) logs in. Just a few accidental clicks and that
drive is a goner.
I'm mostly a novice to manually mounting things, but I've tried stuff
like "mount -t dos /dev/hd0b /dosdisk" and the like without much
success. Hopefully if I'm doing something wrong there, it's obvious.
Thanks for any responses and tips. If you can, please Cc: me as well
as posting.
--
font@mcs.com Wishes are like dishes.
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3 Upgrade Mail Problems
Date: 26 Apr 1995 00:36:20 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3nk4i4$m5g@paladin.american.edu>
For all those that are/were wondering our sendmail program is running
non-setuid root. I trust people to not fill up the spool directory more then
deal with a sendmail process running as root.
They only need write and execute to the directory so I have remove read acess.
Wouldn't want anyone to look at other people's mail.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@art.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer for NeXTSTEP machines?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 16:01:56 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950424155728.2027H-100000@apricot>
References: <950419231517.1195AACUE.malc@daneel> <3n5caf$mng@agate.berkeley.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <3n5caf$mng@agate.berkeley.edu>
If you want a new NeXTLaser for $395 contact these guys:
the Printer Works
3481 Arden Road
Hayward, CA 94545
1-800-225-6116 (phone)
tpw@netcom.com
http://www.stepwise.com/ThirdParty/ThePrinterWorks.htmld/
They also trade in "dead" NeXTLasers and will send you new replacements
for $295. It was pretty darn excited when I found out about this offer.
We have ordered three since and they are the real thing.
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
From: chang@panix.com (Ray Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT laser printer timeouts while printing then hangs
Date: 25 Apr 1995 23:06:11 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3nkdb3$fut@panix2.panix.com>
Hello,
I recently got a '040 cube and am trying to get NeXT laser printer to work.
The problem is that no matter what I send to the printer, only one garbage
page (with very thick/dark lines on entire paper) prints out, and then
the printer will hang. Console message shows:
np0: Timeout waiting for Print Complete
and lpq says the job is active, then the printer hangs.
I know the printer was working before someone sent it to me without taking
out the toner cartridge and made a big mess. I also used a different toner
cartridge with the same result. I have NS 3.0 installed. System is configured
as a standalone with own ip address. I have ppp running.
Any idea what may be wrong?
Thanks,
Ray
chang@panix.com
Subject: Re: trouble with dialup modem
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 03:09:26 PDT
Message-ID: <000B8BB1.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
<<We have a Hayes 9600 modem connected to serial port A of one of our
NeXTStations. Upon dialup all I get is garbage. Even simply connecting a
terminal to serial port A I get the the same thing. Here are the
accordant ttys entries:
ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" vt100 on
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" vt100 on
I'm also not sure as to which entry I should be considering as the correct
one. Any help will be appreciated.>>
I had some similar problems. I use 'dialup' instead of 'vt100' and had to set my
terminal software for 7-1-even. When I log in initially I get some garbage,
tapping the spacebar gives me the login prompt. I don't think I want to know yet
why this works for me, but it does.
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Date: 25 Apr 1995 18:44:45 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software
Message-ID: <3njfut$njc@digdug.pencom.com>
References: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
:
:
: it seems simple, but I don't know how :
:
:I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
:a black NeXT or a white one. Is there a clean way to do this from
:the command line, or do I have to use some sort of hack like looking at
:what drives are mounted (because white & black systems happen to mount
:different disks for things like /LocalApps) in the filesystem? Any hints
:would be very much appricated
: thanks in advance,
Try this:
/usr/bin/arch
Alternately, you can use "hostid", or "hostinfo".
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From: wli@linus (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStations <--> Mac
Date: 26 Apr 1995 04:08:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <3nkh08$d4b@news.ualr.edu>
Summary: connect a NeXTStation and a Mac at home
Keywords: NeXT and Mac
I would like to connect a NeXTStation running NS 2.1 and a
Mac Quadra 605 so that the Mac could share the printer
connected with the NeXT. This is for home use, not
commercial site. I would like to keep the connection as
simple as possible. I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thanks.
-wei,
From: Hugh Ashton <hugh@twics.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: MST ppp on a minimal network and name resolution
Date: 26 Apr 1995 02:13:30 GMT
Organization: Twics Co. Ltd., Japan
Message-ID: <3nka8a$ft1@misc.twics.com>
References: <schwettD7J578.1Do@netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
After some work and some very useful advice from members of this newsgroup,
I managed to configure my MST PPP so that it would dial from a single-host
"network" (the trick lay in not defining a default route at boot time, but
defining it after the pppd had been started, and then sending a single
64-byte packet to the gateway terminal server to bring up the connection).
The gateway (remote terminal server) is then reachable through the dynamic
address assigned to the du0 by the terminal server.
Having recently added another host to my NetInfo root domain, I am faced
with some more problems. I can bring up the ppp connection in the old way,
and it goes through just fine. However, the DNS seems to be completely
out to lunch. I am using a /etc/resolv/conf file - I do not have (and
don't need??) an NIC-assigned domain name, so the domain has been commented
out. I have the IP addresses of 3 known good nameservers in there. The IP
addresses of both machines are non-NIC authorized, as I assume that the
gateway will be the du0 address, which is NIC-authorized (but see below).
If I try to ftp ftp.cs.orst.edu, say, no packets go out of du0 while
lookupd does its thing, and then times out after sending a burst of domain
packets to the DNS servers. nslookup ftp.cs.orst.edu, however, brings back an
instant answer, and I can ftp by IP address without problems.
What ways are there to set the lookupd at boot time so that it doesn't
waste its time on NetInfo? I am not sure if this is the entire problem, but
I think there's at least some connection. (filters may be connected, as
may subnet masks).
Incidentally, packets originating from the pppd-running host seem to originate
from the du0 address, and packets from the non-gateway machine appear from
this machine's en0 address as they pass through the modem. Interesting??
Any light that can be shed on all of this would be welcome...
Many thanks
hugh
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From: rswillia@csc.com (Robert S. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: BIOS setup for Intel NeXTSTEP on ISDE/SCSI disks
Date: 25 Apr 1995 08:20:43 -0400
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation
Message-ID: <3niper$dc8@explorer.csc.com>
References: <3nfogv$9ij@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
David Grindrod <grindrod> writes:
>I would like to set up my home PC to boot NeXTSTEP off a SCSI disk and
>DOS/Windows/OS2 of a ISDE disk. Is it possible to do this and what software do
>I need to install inorder to do this. Is there no alternative to creating a 7MB
>partition on the ISDE disk? This is very inconvenient as it means remaking the
>DOS disk. I did read something about OS2 having a boot manager that was quite
>good.
>Which is the best boot manager for NeXTSTEP/Windows on seperate disks?
>Dave
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg.
>Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
>HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
I use the BIOS setup to set my IDE drives to "Not installed." The
system will then boot from the SCSI drive. Of course, the IDE drives
are not then visible from NeXTSTEP.
Bob Williams
From: pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login Problem
Date: 26 Apr 1995 07:26:36 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nksjc$fkv@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi everybody,
I have a strange problem with a
Next PC. After loggin in, the
machine doesnt react for a couple
of minutes. It isnt really dead,
but I can only move the mouse
cursur which is in the rotating
wheel shape. When the normal
cursor appears, the same happens
after the first user input, e.g.
clicking on a directory in the
workspace manager. Then, after
2-3 minutes, evrything is ok.
During this timeouts no harddisk
accesses are performed, and the
CPU doesnt work hard (shown by
the TimeMon application).
The PC isnt connected to a network.
Any help welcome !!!
Peter Geissler
pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
NEXT MAIL WELCOME
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] NS 3.3 and HP Laserjet III
Message-ID: <1995Apr26.100425.44728@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: krampe@hoopy (Dirk Krampe)
Date: 26 Apr 95 10:04:25 MET
I have a HP Laserjet III _without_ PS-Cartridge and would like to know
if there is a printer driver for NS 3.3 available.
Thanks
Dirk
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Remote AIX machine Printing -> lj2ps -> NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <1995Apr26.055837.285@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 05:58:37 GMT
I have a remote machine. The output from one of the applications on that
machine is in HP PCL format. I found a NEXTSTEP utility that will convert
this to postscript. What I need to do is print from the remote machine
through this program to one of my printers. The desired printer is
asctually a HPLJ2 driven by DOTS.
So, what is the best way to make this happen?
Thanks
WEs
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From: paul@xexos.com (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login Window Name ???
Date: 26 Apr 1995 10:52:16 GMT
Organization: Xexos Ltd, London
Message-ID: <3nl8l1$7j8@xexos.xexos.com>
References: <3nk183$1qc@girtab.usc.edu>
Matthew Nathaniel Reichman writes
> I was changing around the name of my localhost andn oticed that the login
> window had its name on it. I changed it later on and then the name on
> the login window dissappeared -- how can I get it back on again - it was
> quite nice.
Login as root, bring up Preferences, there will be an extra little box for
settings you can only change whilst root.
Check the display hostname box, you will have to reboot for it to take
effect.
-Paul-
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From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login Window Name ???
Date: 26 Apr 1995 13:16:11 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <3nlh2r$pm@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <3nl8l1$7j8@xexos.xexos.com>
In article <3nl8l1$7j8@xexos.xexos.com> paul@xexos.com (Paul Civati) writes:
> Matthew Nathaniel Reichman writes
> Login as root, bring up Preferences, there will be an extra little box for
> settings you can only change whilst root.
>
> Check the display hostname box, you will have to reboot for it to take
> effect.
Note that you don't really have to reboot, just login as "exit" and the
windowserver will restart with new settings.
Robert
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: NS3.2 for Intel stall hangs early on
Message-ID: <jpanicoD7n8H4.G2o@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <D7LE6B.Hp1@info.physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 13:07:52 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom19.netcom.com
Patrick McGowan (mcgowan@emerald.physics.utoronto.ca) wrote:
: I am trying to install NS3.2 on a P90. Configuration:
: Intel P90
: Quantum Empire 1400S SCSI set SCIS ID 0
: NCR 53C810 SCSI contoller set SCIS ID 2 (tried 1,3 and 4 as well)
: NeXT (sony) CDROM drive
Didn't I read somewhere in the installation instructions that the SCSI
controller card MUST be set to SCSI ID 5?
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: NS3.2 for Intel stall hangs early on
Message-ID: <jpanicoD7n8pK.GGD@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <D7LE6B.Hp1@info.physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 13:12:56 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom19.netcom.com
Patrick McGowan (mcgowan@emerald.physics.utoronto.ca) wrote:
: I am trying to install NS3.2 on a P90. Configuration:
: Intel P90
: Quantum Empire 1400S SCSI set SCIS ID 0
: NCR 53C810 SCSI contoller set SCIS ID 2 (tried 1,3 and 4 as well)
: NeXT (sony) CDROM drive
: I am not sure whether my CDROM drive is being read properly. Note that I
: am using the new NCR driver from Symbios which seems to be loaded
: correctly. The CDROM drive is identified as SCSI ID 2 (or whatever number
: I set to be) at the early pat of the install diagnosis but I am wondering
: if the NCR contoller board is itself terminated. Would a SCSI device still
: be recognized with incorrect termination but then send crap along the bus?
Yes, absolutely. ANYTHING is possible if your bus is incorrectly terminated.
When my bus was incorrectly terminated, NS would work flawlessly for an
half hour of so before crashing with a Kernel panic like the one you are seeing.
Is your SCSI controller ISA EISA OR PCI? If its EISA or PCI, then the on
board termination may be set through software.
Which of your devices are internal, and which are external? In other words,
what is the precise configuration of your SCSI Bus, and where is it
terminated?
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Subject: Re: NeXTMail -sig files and replies
Message-ID: <1995Apr26.125102.78@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 12:51:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
References: <3nh7p6$7si@agate.berkeley.edu> <3ni7i5$kfm@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
In article <3ni7i5$kfm@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu> duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
>In article <3nh7p6$7si@agate.berkeley.edu> cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
>(Jessica L Mosher) writes:
>> In article <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net> dchan@dchan.earthlink.net
>> (Derek Chan) writes:
>> > I've got two questions about NeXTMail V3.3:
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how to get NeXTMail to append a signature file to
>> > e-mails? And if you're sending MIME or NeXTMail can the sig file
>
> There was a program called MailHelper availible from
>ftp.cs.orst.edu a while back which I belive did what you want :
If you have Pastry.app, you can lock a copy of your .rtf sig in it and
just paste it into your mail. Works great under NS3.2 and, I assume, it
will work just as well under NS3.3.
--
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rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)]
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please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Setting Domain-name?
Message-ID: <D7n92y.1po@waldo.com>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 13:20:57 GMT
I'd like to set the domainname (so that the command "domainname" returns it)
my Nextstation running 3.3/3.2dev, but I can't figure out how to do it. It's
not an NIS domain (as I was foolish enough to blindly fill in that field in
Simple Network Starter and discover that the machine hung on reboot) but
rather the domain that I am going to use to route mail to my machine.
I'm connected to the Internet with a UUCP connection, and that's how my mail
will be coming in, once I get the configuration right. My domain is registered
and is on a nameserver here in New York, but I still haven't been able to get
any mail. "rmail" is enabled in my L.cmds file. I'm hoping that configuring
the domain name over here will fix it. My service provider seems to think that
I don't need to do anything, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for any help! I'm looking forward to ditching this POP connection so
that other users on my machine can get mail directly...
Matt
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From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail Filters
Date: 26 Apr 1995 08:58:18 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3nlqiq$9io@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: How can one exclude mail from certain parties?
Keywords: mail filter
How can one exclude mail from certain parties? If I'm running on a time sharing account at my university and have PopOver to retrieve my mail - how can I effectively filter out unwanted mail and protect myself from getting flamed and losing access to my mail service for a while until the bombs end?
Thanks in advance for advice.
Matthew
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From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Incremental Backups
Date: 26 Apr 1995 15:59:05 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nlqk9$1gtk@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
I have recently decided its time I think seriously about incremental
backups of my system. Currently I go through about once a month and do a
full compressed backup to my Optical Disk. My configuration is that I
have 2 machines, a cube and an Intel, connected via ethernet. I typically
mount the cube's OD on my Intel and then do somethings similar to:
tar cfv - ./usr/local | gzip --best > /OD/whatever.tar.gz
I do this for those directories that I deem "important". I.e. those that
are not on the CDROM with the OS dist.
There has to be a better way... I am currently checking into SafetyNet,
but its looking rather expensive. Since my disk is partitioned into just
one large partition, I'm not sure that the standard UNIX's "dump/restore"
utiltiy would work so well.
Does anybody have comments on how they successfully manage their backups?
Especially in the area of incremental backups?
TIA for any hints.
- Steve
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==============================================================
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Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Success: Conner CFP4207S, 1024bytes/sector (+Query)
Date: 26 Apr 1995 16:55:23 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3nlttr$h3h@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
I just wanted to report my experience with this nice 3.5" 4.3GB disk 7200RPM
drive, for about $1,400+enclosure, despite some minor gremlins. First,
after booting into single-user mode, I build a file system on it as it came,
with
disk -i -l label -p 1422036 /dev/rsd0a
this worked, so I interrupted it to do it with 1024bytes/sector. I used
sdformat, which worked quite nicely and easily. Highly recommended. However,
the same disk statement as above now claimed a couple of
"read of sector 0 failed" and "sd0: DMA Over/Underrun"
and failed with some message from my *Adaptec 2940*. Strange, I thought, so I
reformatted back to 512bytes/sector to see if this was the problem. It
turns out, disk now worked again. So, I had the ingenious idea to try out
whether 1,024bytes/sector works under DOS, used sdformat again (this time in
multi-user boot), and then for kicks tried "disk" again. And guess what: now
it all of a sudden worked @!@#@!.
Next, I experimented with the largest feasible file system size. I got
disk -i -l label -p 2097153 /dev/rsd0a
to just work, but this gave me a warning of unused sectors. Decreasing to
disk -i -l label -p 2096640 /dev/rsd0a
made the warning go away, and still gave me 2,147MB. The disk program also
automatically built two more partitions and set each of them to about 1GB.
**> QUESTION: How do I tell "disk" to combine the two filesystems?
on /dev/rsd0b and /dev/rsd0c.
In any case, now I have
/dev/sd0a 2082207 1247425 626561 67% /Local
/dev/sd0b 1041390 590305 346946 63% /usenet
/dev/sd0c 1041391 282855 654396 30% /Local/Users/ivo/various
The basic bonnie benchmark is telling me:
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 749 42.5 737 25.0 539 21.2 1460 75.0 1922 55.3 63.4 42.4
which is up from about 598/591/419/1258/1742/52.8 which happened on my old
hard disk that was spinnning at 5400RPM.
So, after some worries, this one worked. Please don't ask me for more details;
I am not an expert at this stuff.
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
From: arrouye@petole.imag.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.
Subject: Loginwindow and NS 3.33: help please!
Date: 26 Apr 1995 17:49:14 GMT
Organization: Institut IMAG, Grenoble, France
Message-ID: <3nm12q$coc@cosmos.imag.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi,
Since I upgraded to 3.3 (on Intel), my loginwindow does not anymore
1/ show the name of my machine,
2/ honor the -ImageFile and -LoginHook command-line options.
My /etc/ttys console line looks like:
console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -ImageFile
/LocalLibrary/Images/Login/nex
tlogin.calvin.tiff -LoginHook /LocalApps/loginhooks" NeXT on
secur
e window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"
Can anybody help me on this?
Thanks in advance,
Yves.
From: searchsa@ix.netcom.com (Mark L. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXT PROGRAMMER
Date: 26 Apr 1995 18:02:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nm1r8$ppf@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
POSITION: NEXT PROGRAMMER
COMPANY: One of the largest shipping companies on the West Coast
COMPENSATION: Open depending upon experience
REQUIREMENTS: Seeking individual with NEXT Programming skills or will
hire recent college graduate who studied “NEXT” or will consider
recent
college graduate with “C” Programming skills.
Outstanding opportunity to join this leading transportation
company who uses the latest technology. Excellent opportunity for
growth and advancement.
If you are interested in this position, please contact Mark
Robbins, Search Solutions Associates, (415) 898-1800 or FAX resume to
(415) 898-2439 or E-mail us at searchsa@ix.netcom.com.
From: searchsa@ix.netcom.com (Mark L. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXT PROGRAMMER
Date: 26 Apr 1995 18:03:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nm1tp$pqi@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
POSITION: NEXT PROGRAMMER
COMPANY: One of the largest shipping companies on the West Coast
COMPENSATION: Open depending upon experience
REQUIREMENTS: Seeking individual with NEXT Programming skills or will
hire recent college graduate who studied “NEXT” or will consider
recent
college graduate with “C” Programming skills.
Outstanding opportunity to join this leading transportation
company who uses the latest technology. Excellent opportunity for
growth and advancement.
If you are interested in this position, please contact Mark
Robbins, Search Solutions Associates, (415) 898-1800 or FAX resume to
(415) 898-2439 or E-mail us at searchsa@ix.netcom.com.
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disabling reboot and power off
Date: 26 Apr 1995 20:57:51 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nmc4f$cph@natasha.rmii.com>
Does anyone have pointers to disabling rebooting and power off by anyone
but the root user? For example I don't want the power or the reboot
button in the logout panel or the login panel to work.
Thanks
Chris
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!mr.net!skypoint.com!pm1-16.skypoint.net!user
From: scott@imaginet.com (Scott Litman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Crontab Help
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 13:53:41 -0500
Organization: 3M
Message-ID: <scott-2604951353410001@pm1-16.skypoint.net>
I would like to make an entry into my crontab file that will allow for
automatic polling to the internet. I am uncertain about the exact syntax
of the entry as my first few attempts have not worked and I am unsure if I
should be modifying the crontab or crontab.local files.
If anyone could provide me with an example of a crontab entry that would
automatically poll for mail several times a day every day of the week, it
would be a great help.
Thanks,
Scott Litman
Imaginet, Inc.
scott@imaginet.com
From: grisu@utata.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (G. A. Pohl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to setup kernel flags longer 12 characters on black hardware?
Date: 26 Apr 1995 22:43:31 GMT
Organization: UTATA International club
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nmiaj$c5i@utata.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In order to boot permanently from a second or third SCSI disk I need
following boot command:
bsd(1,0,0)- rootdev=sd1a
But the EROM gives me only the chance to put in 12 characters.
Is there any workaround or do I have to open the cube to set some
jumpers...?
Appreciate your suggs!
--
. viel Spasz!
G.R.I.S.U.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Subject: Re^2: talking from black NeXT
Message-ID: <D7nxxK.B92@balou.rhein.de>
Sender: tommi@balou.rhein.de (Thomas Pfleiderer)
Organization: private NeXT
References: <1995Apr22.074510.9497@nmt.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 22:17:42 GMT
Eugene Aalto writes
>> It is probably the Sun's fault, I have had problems talking to many types
>> of non-Sun machines from suns, including DEC Vaxen and Alphas. I have
been
>> told that it is a known problem with SunOS.
>> Haven't tried with my NeXT yet though, I don't have SLIP going yet.
Yes several people told me. But I am not able to change all the talkd's on
every sun I mabe want to talk to in the future.
So, is there any possibility to make my NeXT compatible to the existing talk
daemons of sun?
No, also ytalk does not work. It quits with the message "No talk daemon on..."
etc. :-(
tommi
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voice: +49 2225 701332
fax/data: +49 2225 4657
BOING-admin@balou.rhein.de
From: gottliej@mathcs.carleton.edu (Jeremy "Burlap" Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bootstrap errors at login/out
Date: 26 Apr 1995 20:57:54 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Message-ID: <3nmc4i$dqs@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Hello. We keep getting the following errors on some of our i486 NeXTs.
from /usr/adm/messages:
Apr 18 10:25:23 mccarthy loginwindow[218]: creating new loginImage
Apr 18 11:22:12 mccarthy loginwindow[218]: bootstrap_register failed -
-102
Apr 18 11:22:12 mccarthy loginwindow[218]: bootstrap_register failed -
-102
Apr 18 11:22:13 mccarthy loginwindow[346]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Apr 18 11:22:13 mccarthy Workspace[346]: logged in
Apr 18 11:39:31 mccarthy loginwindow[218]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0
rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
Apr 18 11:39:32 mccarthy loginwindow[218]: bootstrap_register failed -
-102
Apr 18 11:39:32 mccarthy loginwindow[218]: bootstrap_register failed -
-102
You'll note that we get these bootstrap_register failed messages
whenever someone logs in or logs out of the window server.
Does anyone know what this means? Is it bad?
--
_______________________________________________________________
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Carleton College gottlie@sgi.siemens.com
Northfield, MN 55057 gonzo@imsa.edu
"Consider how stupid the average American is. Now keep in mind
that half the people are dumber than that!"--George Carlin
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Carleton College gottlie@sgi.siemens.com
Northfield, MN 55057 gonzo@imsa.edu
"Consider how stupid the average American is. Now keep in mind
that half the people are dumber than that!"--George Carlin
_______________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Dialin to a NeXT...
Message-ID: <D7Msu8.I6@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 07:30:07 GMT
Anybody any setup stats to allow for a NeXT to allow for
dialin (Shell) access on port A? I just can never seem to get it to
work for a 28.8k
-Alby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Login Window Name ???
Message-ID: <D7ntK3.MvG@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3nk183$1qc@girtab.usc.edu> <3nl8l1$7j8@xexos.xexos.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 20:43:14 GMT
In article <3nl8l1$7j8@xexos.xexos.com>, Paul Civati <paul@xexos.com> wrote:
>Matthew Nathaniel Reichman writes
>
>> I was changing around the name of my localhost andn oticed that the login
>> window had its name on it. I changed it later on and then the name on
>> the login window dissappeared -- how can I get it back on again - it was
>> quite nice.
>
>Login as root, bring up Preferences, there will be an extra little box for
>settings you can only change whilst root.
>
This is in 3.3 only, correct?
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Login Window Name ???
Message-ID: <D7o7G1.96D@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3nk183$1qc@girtab.usc.edu> <3nl8l1$7j8@xexos.xexos.com> <D7ntK3.MvG@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 01:43:13 GMT
David Evans (dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: >Login as root, bring up Preferences, there will be an extra little box for
: >settings you can only change whilst root.
: This is in 3.3 only, correct?
Yup. That's something that's needed re-organisation for some time, now,
and was finally fixed up.
There's preferences for hostname showing, screen saver time, login hooks,
etc... that only appear when logged in as root.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
computerActive, Inc |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Loginwindow and NS 3.33: help please!
Message-ID: <D7o7uy.A3B@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3nm12q$coc@cosmos.imag.fr>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 01:52:10 GMT
Yves Arrouye (arrouye@petole.imag.fr) wrote:
: Since I upgraded to 3.3 (on Intel), my loginwindow does not anymore
: 1/ show the name of my machine,
: 2/ honor the -ImageFile and -LoginHook command-line options.
The loginhooks and machinename options are configurable from
Preferences.app, when you run it as root (only!).
There is a dwrite you can make (also as root) to tell the system where to
take the loginwindow picture from:
"dwrite loginwindow ImageFile foobar.tiff".
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | "Can I tell you what makes love
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | so frightening?
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Its that you don't own it.
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | It owns you."
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computerActive, Inc |"The eternal silence of these infinite|
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | spaces terrifies me." -Blaise Pascal|
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh ------------------:-o-----------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: trouble with dialup modem
Message-ID: <1995Apr27.095224.1135@ittpub>
From: jurgen@ittpub.nl (Jurgen Hildebrand)
Date: 27 Apr 95 09:52:24 WET
References: <000B8BB1.fc@iqinc.com>
Distribution: world
writes
> <<We have a Hayes 9600 modem connected to serial port A of one of our
> NeXTStations. Upon dialup all I get is garbage. Even simply
connecting a
> terminal to serial port A I get the the same thing. Here are the
> accordant ttys entries:
>
> ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" vt100 on
> ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" vt100 on
>
> I'm also not sure as to which entry I should be considering as the
correct
> one. Any help will be appreciated.>>
>
> I had some similar problems. I use 'dialup' instead of 'vt100' and had
to set my
> terminal software for 7-1-even. When I log in initially I get some
garbage,
> tapping the spacebar gives me the login prompt. I don't think I want to
know yet
> why this works for me, but it does.
try the entry:
# /etc/ttys
# tty "getty prog + entry in /etc/gettytab term enable
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 on
#
# or ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.19200" vt100 on
# Fix the speed on the modem to 19200 (Interspeeder on, cts flowcontrol)
# Set all other related ttys like (ttya,ttyda) to off.
#
Look at /etc/gettytab at the entry D9600 and std.19200, you did choose
rotary speed (D9600), i prefer to do not (std.9600).
With the default entry in /etc/gettytab you can set parity
and 7 or 8 bit mode 8n is set by:
default:\
:p8:im=\r\n\r\nthe FooBar company (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\
:er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#19200:
---------
BYE
From: paul@xexos.com (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disabling reboot and power off
Date: 27 Apr 1995 10:49:24 GMT
Organization: Xexos Ltd, London
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nnsrk$mdt@xexos.xexos.com>
References: <3nmc4f$cph@natasha.rmii.com>
chris@opensource.com writes
> Does anyone have pointers to disabling rebooting and power off by anyone
> but the root user? For example I don't want the power or the reboot
> button in the logout panel or the login panel to work.
This can be set. I think from Preferences, only as root.
There will be an extra config box if you login as root, I think there you
can disable power off (not sure about reboot), although it doesn't remove
the buttons from the login window (but that too can be hacked I think).
-Paul-
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From: arneha@ifi.uio.no (Arne Christian Hårseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fsck, restore and mt questions
Date: 25 Apr 1995 22:43:11 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Message-ID: <3njmsv$4u@gymir.ifi.uio.no>
Is it safe to use the -n option with fsck in a dump/restore-script?
If not, has somone made a expect script that will handle interaction
with interactive fsck in NS?
After issuing a extract in a interactive restore session you get at
"set mode for ..?" question. In the NS sys.adm. manual it says that
answering 'y' to this means "set ownership to the user performing the
restore and permission to their defaults". Does this mean that the
opposite, answering 'n', will restore the original ownership and
permissions (which is what you normally want, isn't it?)?
Does this question pop up after a normal full restore? (I did a full
restore once before I new about this question, and I think I answered
'Yes' which left the restore hanging so I had to reset)
Is "mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 99" the only way to wind the tape to the end?
How do you "wipe out" a "file" at the end of a tape (put there with
dump)?
Arne
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From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: chown [correct nfs mounts & exports]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 15:21:13 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950425134949.20448H-100000@pear>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: jt <zzz@netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504240540.WAA22795@netcom7.netcom.com>
On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, jt wrote:
>
> >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 1 1
> >/dev/sd1a /peardisk 4.3 rw,bg,noquota 1 2
> >/dev/sd2a /boysenberry 4.3 rw,bg,noquota 1 3
> >/dev/sd3a /cranberry 4.3 rw,bg,noquota 1 4
>
> Hi, sorry to bother you, but I was wondering what the bg did... I
> followed the examples in the documentation and don't remember seeing
> bg.
In /etc/fstab, 'bg' backgrounds the mount, so that if there's a delay it
doesn't slow down your boot time. I don't think it's a critical
parameter, but it is recommended in most sources I have seen. I use the
noquota and noauto parameters as listed in /etc/fstab.sd660 but don't know
what purpose they serve.
The place where 'bg' is really useful is in the /fstab entry of netinfo
where you define remote mounts. I mount the previously mentioned disks
above on another machine as follows:
pear:/ /Net nfs bg,soft,net,mnttimeo=2 0 0
pear:/boysenberry /boysenberry nfs bg,soft,mnttimeo=2 0 0
pear:/cranberry /cranberry nfs bg,soft,mnttimeo=2 0 0
The 'net' parameter on the first mount create a mount point at /Net/pear
on the remote machine, while the others mount simply at the root directory
as /boysenberry and /cranberry.
The 'bg' parameter backgrounds the mount if the remote machine fails to
respond. The is very useful when you have interdependent machines. Say
two machines each exports a disk and both mount each other's disk
remotely. If both machines are down and you reboot them, then without the
backgrounded mounts both will wait for each other are will lock up, since
neither will get beyond this point and actually export. Seems to me that
the sequence is wrong here, but the backgrounded mounts solve any harm.
I add the 'mnttimeo=2' parameter (can be modified with NFSManager.app in
Expert Options...), so that mounts are attempted for only 2 seconds
(default is 20 seconds) and then backgrounded if there is a delay. My
experience is that most normal mounts do respond in two seconds anyway.
It saves a little time when several machines reboot, but is not critical.
The 'soft' parameter keeps your machine running when an nfs mount is or
becomes unavailable. If you're using NFSManager.app to set these things,
it is described as 'If server doesn't respond: Return an error'. Without
this parameter we were often seeing 'NFS server x not responding: still
trying', which tied up all clients while the server was down.
To make the conversation complete, you should be sure you are doing safe
and correct exports. This is from my /exports directory in netinfo on
the server machine:
/ -access=,root=apricot:avocado:banana
/cranberry -access=apricot:banana,root=avocado
/boysenberry -access=apricot:banana,root=avocado
This exports my root directory with root access to my three clients and
exports the mounted disks with read/write access to apricot and banana and
with root access to avocado only. No other machines can mount these disks
in any way.
To explicitly grant access only to your select set of machines, you should
always use the access= parameter for read/write instead of the rw=
parameter. rw= grants read/write to the listed machines but also
implicitly grants read only access to all others! Even worse, if you omit
access= entirely, then read/write is implicitly granted!
The root= and ro= parameters are optional - they grant more or less
access, but should be options *in addition* to access= or the implicit
access provision apply. For example, the following export entry grants
three machines root access and implicitly grants read/write to anyone
else:
/ -root=apricot:avocado:banana # BAD!
I unfortunately had this mistake and was hit by a hacker awhile back...
Adding the option, anon=-1, apparently provides some added security but I
don't quite understand it. Maybe someone else can help here. In any
case, the default of not adding it doesn't have clearly problematic
implications, as with the omission of access=.
/cranberry -access=apricot:banana,root=avocado,anon=-1
This can be set up using NFSManager.app also, but be sure to mark 'Default
access for hosts not listed below is: none' or you will be very exported!
> Thank you,
> -jt
> zzz@netcom.com
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: seaside!nwc (Nick Christopher)
Subject: Re: using NeXTSTEP as a firewall??
Message-ID: <D7n80A.3yB@orc-ny.com>
Sender: nwc@orc-ny.com (Nick Christopher)
Organization: Organization Resources Counselors, Inc.
References: <3nihto$k03@metro.atlanta.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 12:57:45 GMT
I guess the first question is are you trying to start or stop fires?
NEXTSTEP is pretty good at one of them ;-)
\n
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Setting Domain-name?
Message-ID: <D7pH6y.IG@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <D7n92y.1po@waldo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 18:11:21 GMT
In article <D7n92y.1po@waldo.com> hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker) writes:
> I'd like to set the domainname (so that the command "domainname" returns it)
> my Nextstation running 3.3/3.2dev, but I can't figure out how to do it. It's
> not an NIS domain (as I was foolish enough to blindly fill in that field in
> Simple Network Starter and discover that the machine hung on reboot) but
> rather the domain that I am going to use to route mail to my machine.
>
> I'm connected to the Internet with a UUCP connection, and that's how my mail
> will be coming in, once I get the configuration right. My domain is registered
> and is on a nameserver here in New York, but I still haven't been able to get
> any mail. "rmail" is enabled in my L.cmds file. I'm hoping that configuring
> the domain name over here will fix it. My service provider seems to think that
> I don't need to do anything, but I'm not sure.
>
> Thanks for any help! I'm looking forward to ditching this POP connection so
> that other users on my machine can get mail directly...
If the only thing you are concerned about is getting your mail, just add your fully qualified
domain name as an alias using HostManager.app's local window.
If your hostname is ritz, desired domainname is mordor.com, add an alias of 'ritz. mordor.com'.
It works, I did exactly that.
Otherwise read the man page for domainname and add a line to /etc/rc.local.
Juergen
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Raul Alvarez)
Subject: Re: NEXT PROGRAMMER
Message-ID: <1995Apr26.193806.23515@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <3nm1tp$pqi@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 19:38:06 GMT
Mark L. Robbins writes
> COMPANY: One of the largest shipping companies on the West Coast
I guess that narrows it down to at least 1000 miles.
From: paul@xexos.com (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login Window Name ???
Date: 27 Apr 1995 10:51:10 GMT
Organization: Xexos Ltd, London
Message-ID: <3nnsuu$mfj@xexos.xexos.com>
References: <D7ntK3.MvG@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
David Evans writes
> >Login as root, bring up Preferences, there will be an extra little box
> >for settings you can only change whilst root.
>
> This is in 3.3 only, correct?
It's definately in 3.3, TBH no I don't know if it's in <=3.2
-Paul-
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Problems doing dump on ST32550N
Message-ID: <D7pGn1.Ewt@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:59:25 GMT
I'm having problems doing a dump from a Seagate Barracuda ST32550N. I
have the drive connected up to a NeXT '040 Cube, and it is set to SCSI
ID 2. The DAT drive is set to SCSI ID 3. I have not have any problems
with the drive in use, but when I go to perform a level 0 dump with
the dump command provided with the operating system, it goes for a
while, and then this error is reported on the console:
reselect timeout - target 2
st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 2H
Sense key = 0x6 Sense Code = 0x0
The DAT drive I'm trying to backup to is a WangDAT Model 2600. After
the failure the DAT drive spazzes and rewinds the whole tape. Is there
some sort of SCSI command conflict with the drive? I've never had a
problem doing a dump of any other SCSI hard drive (several of which
are also Seagate).
This is the info returned for the Barracuda:
Vendor Identification: 'SEAGATE '
Product Identification: 'ST32550N '
Product Revision Level: '0012'
Vendor Specific: '00027445'
Reserved: ''
Vendor-Specific Parameters: '\000Copyright (c) 1994 Seagate All rights
reserved'
And this is the info for the WangDAT:
Vendor Identification: 'WangDAT '
Product Identification: 'Model 2600 '
Product Revision Level: '01.6'
Vendor Specific: 'BFW05.20AFW01.60'
Reserved: ''
Vendor-Specific Parameters: ''
Is this a problem with the SCSI driver in NeXTStep 3.3? I was able to
do a dump from the Seagate to the optical drive, but I can't do it to
the DAT. What's the problem, and how do I fix it?
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From: ser@ix.cs.uoregon.edu (Sean Elliott Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] NS 3.3 and HP Laserjet III
Date: 27 Apr 1995 19:20:31 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <3noqpv$fkl@pith.uoregon.edu>
References: <1995Apr26.100425.44728@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> <D7o7ns.9o3@cunews.carleton.ca>
Chris Saldanha (csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca) wrote:
: Dirk Krampe (krampe@hoopy) wrote:
: : I have a HP Laserjet III _without_ PS-Cartridge and would like to know
: : if there is a printer driver for NS 3.3 available.
...
: There's also a way to do this by hacking GhostScript into your system.
: I understand it works quite well, but haven't done it myself...
I know that there is a doc out there for how to do this; could someone
point to where it is located?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: UUCP mail in OK, out not!
Message-ID: <D7p4pJ.1uJ@waldo.com>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:41:42 GMT
My UUCP mail is working "inbound" properly now, since I changed my
sendmail.cf to point to sendmail.mailhost.cf and put the name of my UUCP
mail feed in there. However, the outbound mail still tries to use TCP/IP
and not UUCP, as witnessed by the dial-on-demand of Louis Mamakos' SLIP
package kicking off whenever I send mail. If I disable the SLIP connection,
no mail gets through.
What am I missing in my configuration? Writing mail to my domain from another
machine doesn't fail, it just doesn't get through.
Any help appreciated!
Matt
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From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: Crontab Help
Message-ID: <D7p4tF.1vE@waldo.com>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
References: <scott-2604951353410001@pm1-16.skypoint.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:44:03 GMT
Scott Litman (scott@imaginet.com) wrote:
: I would like to make an entry into my crontab file that will allow for
: automatic polling to the internet. I am uncertain about the exact syntax
: of the entry as my first few attempts have not worked and I am unsure if I
: should be modifying the crontab or crontab.local files.
: If anyone could provide me with an example of a crontab entry that would
: automatically poll for mail several times a day every day of the week, it
: would be a great help.
Your best bet would be to get PopOver and have that kick off every couple of
hours or so. Naturally, you'd need a SLIP connection, so make sure you have
that configured first.
Your other option, one that I'm trying to debug right now, is getting a UUCP
feed from your service provider. It's a pain to set up, but offers the
advantage of moving many things local to your machine such as news and mail.
Matt
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From: jfranke@cssnext1.corp.mot.com (Joachim Franke)
Subject: Original NS3.3 LoginWindow tiff
Organization: MOTOROLA
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 06:31:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Apr28.063150.12783@schbbs.mot.com>
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
I replaced my LoginWindow in a previous NS version with a different one.
Now, i want to use the NS3.3 original LoginWindow tiff. Can someone tell
me where i find it on the install CD since it is not on the disk ?
Thanks,
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From: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it (pisati stefano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OniWeb ???
Date: 27 Apr 1995 16:13:53 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Message-ID: <3nofs1$58e@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Hi, I've a little problem with OmniWeb, I've version 1.0 Prerelease 1 but
it doesn't read inline image... it display a white square with a little
gray square on right corner and I don't know how to convinve it to work
properly... any idea ???
TIA
PS: Please, reply via email.
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Black hardware freeze...
Date: 27 Apr 1995 16:59:51 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3noii7$elo@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
One of my nexts periodically locks up, with a time constant ranging from
3 hours to 5 days. When it does lock, it really locks, totally ignores
keyboard, rodent, and I'm reduced to pulling the plug.
This is the only machine of my 18 nexts that does this.
Is there any way to identify what is causing this? I suspect a hardware
problem since the software setup is identical on this machine to the
others, but I don't have any means of testing the hardware.
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From: emstech@sound.music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS Technician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: You have mail ?
Date: 27 Apr 1995 15:23:01 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3nocsl$edd@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Hi,
For some unknown reason some of our machines (ns3.2 & 3.3) no longer show the "You have mail" message when we login .. of course their is new mail.
Does anyone know how I can reactivate that option ?
Or how it could have been disable ?
thanks,
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Updating Netinfo from NIS
Date: 27 Apr 1995 22:13:34 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3np4ue$idc@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
In doing some housekeeping today, I found that my patch to NIS makefile
doesn't work for deleting users, as NetInfo insists on this info
directory for each user.
So I wrote the following script:
This script has to be either before running make in /etc/yp
or it must be included in the makefile.
This solution is not acceptable for really large userbases, as it
simplistically deletes the info entry for every user. Then when niload
puts the entries back in, it re-creates the info directory.
More later.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
open (INFILE, "nidump passwd / |");
while(<INFILE>) {
($user,$rest) = split(/:/,$_,2);
print "... looking at $user ...\n";
system("niutil -destroy / /users/$user/info");
}
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From: MROP Development <mt1!stwo@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9504272016.AA03041@mt1.mantech.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 13:16:00 -0700
Subject: Need a SyQuest disk SCSI driver!!
I need to attach a SyQuest SCSI disk to my 486DX-2 running NeXTSTEP 3.2 and the
system has only three SCSI drivers available. Do I need a fourth for the SyQuest?
Thanks for your help.
Dennis Warn
From: blumoose@bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu (David William Gotthold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with Mail and 3.3
Date: 28 Apr 1995 00:04:14 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3npbdu$ljj@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Keywords: mail 3.3 upgrade problems
Help!!
I just installed 3.3 on my Motorola machine, and now I can't send
mail out. I'm sure I'm just missing something small, but I don't know
what it is.
I can telnet in and out, I can ping, I can read news, and I can even
receive mail. I just can't send it out.
If anybody has an idea, please let me know ASAP! (either by
posting or mail)
Thanks!
David
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From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using NeXTSTEP as a firewall??
Date: 28 Apr 1995 02:04:38 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3npifm$289@paladin.american.edu>
References: <D7n80A.3yB@orc-ny.com>
In article <D7n80A.3yB@orc-ny.com> seaside!nwc (Nick Christopher) writes:
:
:I guess the first question is are you trying to start or stop fires?
:NEXTSTEP is pretty good at one of them ;-)
:
:\n
Think of all the fun you could have getting a cube to burn. All that magnesium.
What a fire that could be! Light em up!
On a more serious note. I think it is possible. I am not sure about NeXT's
routing software and its robustness though. You really have to use non-OS
software to get the firewall set up anyway so most OS with good routing
software should work.
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: You have mail ?
Date: 27 Apr 1995 23:24:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3np93h$l5@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3nocsl$edd@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
In article <3nocsl$edd@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> emstech@sound.music.mcgill.ca (Alain Terriault -- EMS
Technician) writes:
>For some unknown reason some of our machines (ns3.2 & 3.3) no longer
>show the "You have mail" message when we login .. of course their
>is new mail.
>
>Does anyone know how I can reactivate that option ? Or how it could
>have been disable ?
No version of NS supports this feature out of the box. You must have had
Christopher Lane's MOTD (message of the say) application invoked
as the loginHook to loginwindow. If you do a fresh install of
NS system, this will get lost. If you lost MOTD.app, you have to install
it again, and do specify the loginHook for the root account.
MOTD was done ages ago, but it probably still works.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail -sig files and replies - TickleServices
Date: 28 Apr 1995 03:48:53 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3npoj5$b0o@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3nd2n2$jfg@mars.earthlink.net>
dchan@dchan.earthlink.net (Derek Chan) writes:
> I've got two questions about NeXTMail V3.3:
>
> Does anyone know how to get NeXTMail to append a signature file
> to e-mails? And if you're sending MIME or NeXTMail can the sig
> file be an rtf?
>
> Is there anyway to get NeXTMail to incorporate the original
> message in a reply where the original messages lines are preceded
> by a character (eg. ">" )? I currently use the Forward option
> then click on Reply to get the senders address. But this isn't
> the norm and sometimes confuses people.
For me, the answer to both questions is to pick up TickleServices
from the standard ftp archives. That would be at:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/programming/
demos/TickleServices1.11.tar.gz
& demos/TickleServices1.11.README
This will allow you to append your signature by hitting
command-period, or append an RTF signature by hitting
command-single_qoute
You can quote some text by selecting the text your
interested in, and hitting command-greater_than. You
can unquote a section by selecting it and hitting
command-less_than. There's another service to reformat
a selection of text (even quoted-text) such that it's
not going to wrap horribly.
TickleServices comes with a lot of other services too. It's also
setup so it's fairly easy to write your own services, if the ones
it provides don't do enough for you. It's not free, but the version
you pick up has everything enabled. You're expected to send in
your payment for it if you find it's useful, and my experience is
that it's very very useful.
I expect the version on ftp.cs.orst.edu is probably compiled
for NeXT and Intel platforms, but if you contact Scott Hess
I'm sure he's got it compiled for HP and Sparc platforms too.
Contacting Scott might be a trick, as his email address has
changed since he last uploaded TickleServices (or Stuart).
I believe his current email address is shess@winternet.com
--
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ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: jtodd@ss2.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disabling reboot and power off
Date: 28 Apr 1995 03:31:45 GMT
Organization: Digital Express
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3npnj1$iuc@news3.digex.net>
References: <3nmc4f$cph@natasha.rmii.com>
chris@opensource.com wrote:
: Does anyone have pointers to disabling rebooting and power off by anyone
: but the root user? For example I don't want the power or the reboot
: button in the logout panel or the login panel to work.
: Thanks
: Chris
As root:
dwrite System PowerOffDisabled YES
That should do the trick... remember, this only works on Moto hardware as
far as I know.... though I suspect that it may disable the reboot icon on
non-Motorola machines, if there is such an icon.
--
John Todd - Field Sales/Technical Entropy Supervisor - jtodd@digex.net
Digital Express Internet Providers - 1-800-969-9090 x5167 = sales info
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXT PROGRAMMER
Date: 28 Apr 1995 04:25:27 -0700
Organization: Idiom Consulting
Message-ID: <3nqjb7$pu7@idiom.com>
References: <3nm1tp$pqi@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <1995Apr26.193806.23515@il.us.swissbank.com>
It's skyway freight, in case anyone didn't realize it.
-jcr
From: dalia@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Apurva F. Dalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mouse problem
Date: 28 Apr 1995 21:04:29 GMT
Organization: CASE Center, Syracuse University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nrl8v$mv5@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi,
I have a 486 running NS3.1. It had a round port PS2 interface
Microsoft 2 button mouse which broke. I have now got a new
3 Button LOGITECH serial mouse which I have now connect to the round
mouse port using a PS2/Mouse Port to Logitech Mouse adapter. The
mouse does not work. Could somebody please help me with this.
Thankyou in advance.
- Apurva F. Dalia
dalia@cat.syr.edu
Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet
From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] NS 3.3 and HP Laserjet III
Date: 28 Apr 1995 06:37:09 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3nq2el$7ht@mars.earthlink.net>
References: <1995Apr26.100425.44728@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> <D7o7ns.9o3@cunews.carleton.ca> <3noqpv$fkl@pith.uoregon.edu>
ser@ix.cs.uoregon.edu (Sean Elliott Russell) wrote:
>Chris Saldanha (csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca) wrote:
>: Dirk Krampe (krampe@hoopy) wrote:
>: : I have a HP Laserjet III _without_ PS-Cartridge and would like to
know
>: : if there is a printer driver for NS 3.3 available.
>...
>: There's also a way to do this by hacking GhostScript into your
system.
>: I understand it works quite well, but haven't done it myself...
>I know that there is a doc out there for how to do this; could
someone
>point to where it is located?
You will want to pick up the ghostHPDJ0.2.tar.gz (contains
instructions and an app for HP color desk jet printers as well as
partial instructions for a laserjet)package at orst. While you are
there pick up ghostscript.2.6.1.N.bs.tar.gz (actual ghostscript
package).
The netinfo settings have changed from NS3.2 to 3.3. The following
are my netinfo settings.
-- Bios setup on Intel Premiere II should be set for EPP type parallel port
otherwise NeXTStep might not find parallel port hardware and therefore not
create /dev/pp0
-- Netinfo settings for a Canon BJ200
name BJ200
lf /usr/adm/lpd-errs
sf
sb
lp /dev/null
mx 0
if /usr/local/bin/filt.sh
cf /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf
df /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf
gf /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf
nf /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf
rf /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf
tf /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf
vf /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf
ty Unknown
note This is a new printer
nxformat 3.0
sd /usr/spool/NeXT/BJ200
af /usr/adm/BJ200.acct
--Admin
name Admin
CoverSheet 0
--Comm
name Comm
CommClass NXParallelPSComm
CommType Parallel
UniqueName NXPSParallel
InitJobFiles NXShared/ehandler.ps
SendingInterruptable NO
MaxWriteBlockSize 4096
OutputPath /dev/null
--Device
name Device
FormatList PostscriptPages
DriverClass NXPSDriver
#
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
# one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
far@earthlink.net # to be without faith, without mercy,
# without religion; by these means one can
# aquire power but not glory.
(NeXTmail prefered) #
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo, Machiavelli
#
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: How do I make getty do 57600?
Message-ID: <D7rDr2.Buy@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:52:14 GMT
How do I make getty answer at 57600 on NS 3.2 on Black hardware? I was
able to recompile kermit to do 57600, but I'd also like to be able to
do dialin at 57600.
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558
<fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> MIME ok, NeXTMail tolerated
From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Date: 28 Apr 1995 22:05:07 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nroqj$bvi@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <3nrid0$h93@news.next.com>
In article <3nrid0$h93@news.next.com> Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) writes:
> In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
> duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
> # I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
> # a black NeXT or a white one. Is there a clean way to do this from
> # the command line, or do I have to use some sort of hack like looking
> # at what drives are mounted (because white & black systems happen to
> # mount different disks for things like /LocalApps) in the filesystem?
> # Any hints would be very much appricated
>
> Use the hostinfo(1) command and grep the output for the Processor Type
> field:
>
That's really doing it the hard way.
try /usr/bin/arch, which I think has been there since 3.1.
Best,
Pete
--
***************************************************************************
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SunSoft Object Products Group | sees a comedy. The feeling man looks
Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (NeXTMail) | at the world and sees a tragedy.
***************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Subject: NS3.3/hppa and HP-UX fs?
Sender: news@prz.tu-berlin.de (Newsadmin Elwood-PRZ)
Message-ID: <D7rMoy.8C9@prz.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 22:05:21 GMT
Organization: PRZ TU-Berlin
Hi,
could someone please tell me if NS 3.3 for HP supports already
mounting of HP-UX file systems (on other disks)?
Thanks,
Thomas
--
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EANTC WWW: http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de:/~wolf
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Sendmail.cf question
Message-ID: <D7roow.3Ip@waldo.com>
Sender: news@waldo.com
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 22:48:31 GMT
I'd like to thank everyone who helped me with my UUCP mail questions... it
seems to be working properly now!
However, the final issue is with sendmail. Now that I have my own domain-name
("Waldo.com") I find that my machine is placing my machine's name "samizdat"
and making it fully-qualified. This name, "samizdat.waldo.com", isn't
recognized by the nameserver, so all my mail is bouncing. I've searched through
all the documentation I have, but I can't figure out how to modify sendmail.cf
to give my name as "hocker@waldo.com" and ignore the machine name.
Does anyone know how to do this? I'm using sendmail.mailhost.cf from the NeXT
3.3 distribution as my sendmail.cf.
Thanks!
Matt
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From: agrignon@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (A. Grignon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please help on [easy?] PPP setup!
Date: 29 Apr 95 03:39:54 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <agrignon.799126794@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Greetings,
I administer a PC NeXTStep system at work, and people have begun to demand
PPP service. Compiling and installation was a breeze, however I have a bit of
a peculiar problem. After a user successfully establishes an inbound modem
PPP session, they are unable to access any of the nameservers. In fact, the
only thing they can really do is open a terminal session to the numeric IP
of the server machine, and then access DNS. Once you have a prompt for this
machine, you can work with the network just as normal, however it's of limited
use unless they can telnet/www/ftp to any other address except the numeric
IP of the server! I've gone over my resolv.conf file which seems to work
just fine. The name service problem only applies to inbound PPP sessions.
Hmmm. Does anyone have any suggestions to offer?
Thanks for any help,
Andy
--
Andrew Grignon "Real programmers don't document.
Second-Look Computing, Programmer If it was hard to write, it should
University of Iowa be hard to understand."
Andrew-Grignon@uiowa.edu
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I on Intel or Motorolla? from .cshrc
Date: 28 Apr 1995 20:15:28 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3nrid0$h93@news.next.com>
References: <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
In article <3ni2fc$jrl@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
duboisj@bachman.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois) writes:
# it seems simple, but I don't know how :
#
# I'd like to be able to tell from my .cshrc whether I'm logging into
# a black NeXT or a white one. Is there a clean way to do this from
# the command line, or do I have to use some sort of hack like looking
# at what drives are mounted (because white & black systems happen to
# mount different disks for things like /LocalApps) in the filesystem?
# Any hints would be very much appricated
Use the hostinfo(1) command and grep the output for the Processor Type
field:
dazzle> hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:31:49 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: I386 (Intel 486)
Processor active: 0
Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 59 tasks, 134 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.47, Mach factor: 0.71
From: mbparker@cytex.com (Michael Benjamin Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: telneting to self (cytex.com) requires ppp link to be up - how to fix?
Date: 29 Apr 1995 09:04:04 GMT
Organization: Cytex Corporation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nsve4$obd@mars.earthlink.net>
Problem: telneting to myself (cytex.com) requires my cytex.com PPP link to be
up.
I have a NeXTcube which is known on it's LAN as share (204.250.34.17), and
known via it's PPP link with the domain name cytex.com (204.250.34.189).
I am trying to get it so one can ``telnet cytex.com'' (from share, or from
another machine on the LAN), without having to bring up the PPP link. (This
is not just asthetic - it's so the other PC hosts on the LAN can access the
DNS on share. The reason the link need to be up is so that some packet can
be sent out and replied to. But the PCs don't have real Internet IPs.
Consequently, if accessing share's DNS requires performing some query on the
Internet, then they just can't do it.)
Now I can telnet to share no problem:
share/# telnet share
Trying 204.250.34.17... Connected to share.
Escape character is '^]'.
NeXT Mach (share) (ttyp3)
:
But when I telnet (or do any connection) to cytex, I'm hung:
share/# telnet cytex.com
Trying 204.250.34.189... ^Cshare/#
So I tried adding the route:
share/# route add cytex.com localhost 0
add host cytex.com: gateway localhost
share/# netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 3 803 lo0
*cytex.com localhost UH 0 0 lo0
204.250.34 share U 19 4094 en0
Now it would seem that a telnet to cytex would go directly to localhost as
we'd want it to, but it still hangs! :
share/# telnet cytex.com
Trying 204.250.34.189... ^Cshare/#
But once I bring the PPP up, everything works fine:
share/# pppup
share/# telnet cytex.com
Trying 204.250.34.189... Connected to cytex.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
NeXT Mach (share) (ttyp2)
:
Note if this matters, the PPP adds a few more routes:
share/# netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 3 879 lo0
* tsa-oc.earthlink cytex.com UH 0 0 ppp0
cytex.com localhost UH 1 259 lo0
* default tsa-oc.earthlink.n UG 0 0 ppp0
204.250.34 share U 20 5884 en0
Know what's wrong? Thanks!
Mike Parker <mbparker@cytex.com>
Cytex Corporation
506 N. Maplewood St., Orange, CA 92667-6917 * 1-800-33CYTEX (332-9839)
Dial 800#, then enter extension (pin): SALES (7253), TECH (8324), FAXX
(3299)
From: mbparker@cytex.com (Michael Benjamin Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cant telnet into machine after upgrade to 3.3 Sound familiar?
Date: 29 Apr 1995 09:25:37 GMT
Organization: Cytex Corporation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nt0mh$ohl@mars.earthlink.net>
References: <gthomas.798846105@sfu.ca>
In article <gthomas.798846105@sfu.ca> gthomas@newsserver.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
writes:
> I am stumped.
>
> Users can no longer login over the network. The problems have begun
> since upgrading to 3.3 but I cant confirm the date. Both rlogind and
> telnetd get listed in /etc/inetd.conf. Both rlogins and telnets are
> able to take a username and password but it seems that when they exit
> and try to exec a shell the message "Connection closed by foreign
> host" appears. Is there some NetInfo magic that I need to know about?
>
The upgrade probably wiped out your /etc/ttys file (old might be now
/UpdatedFiles/ttys). Add ``secure'' to the tty{p,q,r,s}* entries; in
otherwords, replace:
ttyp0 none network
ttyp1 none network
ttyp2 none network
:
with
ttyp0 none network secure
ttyp1 none network secure
ttyp2 none network secure
:
Save and reload (possibly `kill -HUP -1'' if I recall), or, to be safe,
reboot.
--
Michael Benjamin Parker
PARKER CONSULTING, custom software development & database design
PERMANENT CONTACT INFO (always forwards to my current address):
721 E. Walnut Ave., Orange, CA 92667-6833 USA; mbparker@mit.edu (NeXTmail
ok)
800-MBPARKER (800-627-2753) ext: LIVE (5483), MESG (6374), and FAXX (3299)
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/$40hr---DC Area
Date: 29 Apr 1995 12:16:25 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3ntamp$o46@news1.channel1.com>
Position----------------------System Administrator
Platform----------------------NEXTSTEP
Experience required-----------2yrs+
Type of position--------------Contract
Length of assignment----------Long, long term
Area--------------------------Greater DC Area
To be considered--------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de (Rainer Sokoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cant telnet into machine after upgrade to 3.3 Sound familiar?
Date: 29 Apr 1995 14:08:07 +0100
Organization: Thueringen Net, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ntdnn$5m@rainix.jena.thur.de>
References: <gthomas.798846105@sfu.ca> <3nt0mh$ohl@mars.earthlink.net>
Michael Benjamin Parker (mbparker@cytex.com) wrote:
: In article <gthomas.798846105@sfu.ca> gthomas@newsserver.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
: writes:
: > I am stumped.
: >
: > Users can no longer login over the network. The problems have begun
: > since upgrading to 3.3 but I cant confirm the date. Both rlogind and
: > telnetd get listed in /etc/inetd.conf. Both rlogins and telnets are
: > able to take a username and password but it seems that when they exit
: > and try to exec a shell the message "Connection closed by foreign
: > host" appears. Is there some NetInfo magic that I need to know about?
: >
: The upgrade probably wiped out your /etc/ttys file (old might be now
: /UpdatedFiles/ttys). Add ``secure'' to the tty{p,q,r,s}* entries; in
: otherwords, replace:
: ttyp0 none network
: ttyp1 none network
: ttyp2 none network
: :
: with
: ttyp0 none network secure
: ttyp1 none network secure
: ttyp2 none network secure
: :
: Save and reload (possibly `kill -HUP -1'' if I recall), or, to be safe,
: reboot.
No, that's not the problem. The entry "secure" only allows the user root to
log in the appropriate tty. Without this entry, the user root gets the
message "root logins not allowed on this terminal". Normal users (if network
users, of course) can login with or without the secure-entry. I think
(hope), the /etc/shells was the problem.
Greetings,
Rainer
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From: cooncat@wombat.mills.edu (Jessica L Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: new hard drive questions with black non-adb hardware
Date: 29 Apr 1995 17:14:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3nts5t$ch0@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hi all,
I am planning on setting up my system with two half-gig or so hard
drives, one full height internal boot drive, and one external
half-height SCSI drive.
Here are my questions:
1-What brands of half-height drives jive well with black hardware?
2-Are there any NeXT-specific issues with external, SCSI drives?
3-What is a good procedure to duplicate my boot drive and then set up
the new one as the boot drive? I was thinking of just putting the
new drive in the OD's slot and somehow duplicating drive-to-drive.
4-Anything else I should know (besides standard SA things like as
SCSI ids, backing up, etc.)?
Any assistance would be appreciated. Please send mail to the address
below up until May 22, 1995. The account is going to disappear that
day. Thanks in advance!
Oh--the environment is a non-adb cube running 3.2, currently with one
of those old Maxtor 340s as its boot drive. =)
--
*******************************************************
Jessica L. Mosher
cooncat@wombat.mills.edu
NeXTmail gladly accepted
From: hcole@zia.nrcabq.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: GS Corp CD not mountable?
Date: 29 Apr 1995 21:59:21 GMT
Organization: Engineering International Inc., Public Internet Access
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3nucrp$plq@mack.rt66.com>
Folks,
What formats are supposed to be read by a black NeXT
CDROM? I have no trouble reading NeXT CDROM's (ie
upgrade CD's etc), and no trouble playing music CD's
with CDPlayer, however, I just received the Solutions
Suite CD from GS Corp, and it refuses to mount. Ditto
for a Symantec CD for PC's.
In the console window, I can see the software checking
for the different formats. Console output:
Disk is Write Protected
probing for CDROM
probing for DOS
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
at which point the disk is ejected.
GS isn't sure what is causing this behavior, and I don't think
it's a problem with the hardware.
Any suggestions, comments, or even snide remarks are
welcome.
- HRC -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones)
Subject: IOMEGA Tape 250 question
Message-ID: <cjonesD7tv53.JKr@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 03:03:02 GMT
Sender: cjones@netcom16.netcom.com
Can anyone help me (a NeXTSTEP user but not really a Unix user!)
with how I can use the Iomega tape drive which works from my DOS
partition to back up my NeXTSTEP environment?
You can answer here or send me email at: cjones@netcom.com
thanks,
carl jones
From: jjhuang@atm.cm.nctu.edu.tw (Jiunn-jye Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3/SPARC to be a multi-server,HOWTO?
Date: 30 Apr 1995 04:08:37 GMT
Organization: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Message-ID: <3nv2g5$5v4@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
Hello,all,
I manage a SPARC5 which is a name server,mail server,and NFS server,and
I want to install NS3.3 on it,so I have to install sendmail 8.6.9,majordomo,
and I can't find sendmail 8.6.9 for NeXTSTEP/SPARC or majordomo for NS/SPARC
Can anyone help me? If I can't install these 2 packages,then I can't play
NS on SPARC...:-(
Thanks in advance.
Albert
From: stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Robert Stabl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3/SPARC to be a multi-server,HOWTO?
Date: 30 Apr 1995 12:25:55 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <3nvvkj$bsl@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
References: <3nv2g5$5v4@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>
jjhuang@atm.cm.nctu.edu.tw (Jiunn-jye Huang) writes:
> I manage a SPARC5 which is a name server,mail server,and NFS server,and
>I want to install NS3.3 on it,so I have to install sendmail 8.6.9,majordomo,
>and I can't find sendmail 8.6.9 for NeXTSTEP/SPARC or majordomo for NS/SPARC
>Can anyone help me? If I can't install these 2 packages,then I can't play
>NS on SPARC...:-(
Just compile sendmail.8.6.x on your NS3.3 machine. If you also want to
access netinfo aliases from this sendmail use the patches available from
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/mail/sendmail8.6.9+Netinfo-Aliases.s.tar.gz
Robert.
--
Robert Stabl email: stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Computer Science Institute http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~stabl/
University of Munich
Leopoldstr. 11B Tel: +(49) 89 2180 6316
D-80802 Muenchen FAX: +(49) 89 2180 6310
Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf question
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <D7roow.3Ip@waldo.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 10:24:28 +0000
Message-ID: <1995Apr30.102428.27963@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
In article <D7roow.3Ip@waldo.com> hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
writes:
> However, the final issue is with sendmail. Now that I have my own
domain-name
> ("Waldo.com") I find that my machine is placing my machine's name
"samizdat"
> and making it fully-qualified. This name, "samizdat.waldo.com", isn't
> recognized by the nameserver, so all my mail is bouncing. I've searched
through
> all the documentation I have, but I can't figure out how to modify
sendmail.cf
> to give my name as "hocker@waldo.com" and ignore the machine name.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this? I'm using sendmail.mailhost.cf from the
NeXT
> 3.3 distribution as my sendmail.cf.
Set the hostname with the Dj macro, and comment out the "canonical
hostname lookup" in ruleset 6.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Iomega Zip drives?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD7unqF.KJE@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 13:20:39 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom7.netcom.com
Is anyone using the new 105MB Iomega Zip, removable cartridge, drive
under NS 3.2 for Intel? How is the performance?
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
From: klui@corp.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: NS3.3/hppa and HP-UX fs?
Date: 30 Apr 1995 17:10:49 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <3o0gap$5i1@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
References: <D7rMoy.8C9@prz.tu-berlin.de>
In article <D7rMoy.8C9@prz.tu-berlin.de>,
Thomas Wolfram <wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>could someone please tell me if NS 3.3 for HP supports already
>mounting of HP-UX file systems (on other disks)?
No it does not. Although you can get around this by using NFS and
remote mounting it from an HP-UX machine.
Ken
--
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Computing & Technology Services Palo Alto, CA 94304-1112 USA
Client/Server Engineering 1.415.857.3230 FAX 1.415.857.5518
From: julie5000@aol.com (Julie5000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ===>> Call *internationally* SUPER-CHEAP/ from any country!!!
Date: 30 Apr 1995 14:02:44 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <3o0jc4$o2i@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
===>> Call *internationally* SUPER-CHEAP/ from any country!!!
Hi,
My name is Julie Conners. I make a lot of calls overseas . Six months
ago I just found a USA international long distance company that charges
very, very cheap rates for all calls originating in any country and
terminating in any other country.
If you forward this completed form back to them at:
rajesh@freenet.fsu.edu
they will send you email describing all their savings programs.
Please do not email me as I am just a happy customer and a *busy* student.
I don't have time to even complete my thesis in time, let alone run my
part-time software business! Email them directly at:
rajesh@freenet.fsu.edu
If you sign-up, I get a $2.00 finder's fee from their agent. :)
*-----------------------cut here--------------------------------*
Request for more free info on International Calling Plans:
email this form back to: rajesh@freenet.fsu.edu
(sorry, but no form sent back = no response)
my name is:
my internet email address is:
the main 2 countries I would be calling between:
30 Julie Conners
*-----------------------cut here--------------------------------*
he will send you a full description on the company's savings plans for
international long distance, without any obligation to sign-up. If you
like what you see you can send back the application and he will get you
set-up within 2-30 days after he gets your application back by fax or by
mail. It only took 2 days for him to set me up and my parents up (who are
overseas).
Please don't forget to fill-in and forward back the above form. Requests
for info without the form filled in will go unanswered. Sorry. :(
They can also arrange it so my family (who still lives overseas) can call
me for a lot less than they would pay through the long distance tel.
company there. My family can even call their friends in other countries
for less than they would pay from the loca telco. The local telco.
overseas can do nothing about this nice way of *bypassing* them. :)
They bill in 6 second increments, with a 30-second minimum (great for
quick faxes). This means that if I talk for 1 minute and 6 seconds I pay
only for 1.1 minutes, not 2 minutes.
But the best part of all is that it is a flat rate pricing. I can call
*anytime* at all for the same price. I don't have to wake someone up
there or wait till the weekend to call.
Here are their rates in US Dollars to *all* countries *from the USA*
(NOTE: from countries other than the USA back to the USA with their
call-back program, add 10 cents per minute to the below rates; for calls
originating in a country other than the USA and terminating in a country
other than the USA, add the two countries rates below together and then
add on 20 cents to calculate the total cost from one country to another)
COUNTRY $/Minute
------- -----------
AFGHANISTAN 1.37
ALBANIA 1.10
ALGERIA 1.00
AMERICAN SAMOA .80
ANDORRA .54
ANGOLA 1.60
ANGUILLA .66
ANTIGUA .66
ARGENTINA .75
ARMENIA 1.20
ARUBA 1.10
ASCENSION ISLAND 1.59
AUSTRALIA .41
AUSTRIA .45
AZERBAIJAN 1.10
BAHAMAS .38
BAHRAIN 1.06
BANGLADESH 1.75
BARBADOS .66
BELARUS .85
BELGIUM .45
BELIZE .75
BENIN 1.55
BERMUDA .66
BHUTAN 3.64
BOLIVIA .75
BOTSWANA 1.38
BRAZIL .75
BRITISH VIRGIN ISL .66
BRUNEI .99
BULGARIA .85
BURKINA FASO 1.92
BURUNDI .92
CAMBODIA 2.08
CAMEROON 1.85
CANADA .22
CAPE VERDE ISLAND 1.61
CAYMAN ISLANDS .66
CENTAL AFRICAN REP 3.40
CHAD 3.52
CHILE .75
CHINA 1.40
CHRISTMAS ISLAND 2.68
COLOMBIA .75
COMOROS ISLAND 3.52
CONGO 1.18
COOK ISLANDS 3.71
COSTA RICA .75
CROATIA .85
CUBA 1.20
CYPRUS 1.27
CZECHOSLOVAKIA .85
DENMARK .45
DJIBOUTI 1.82
DOMINICA .66
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC .72
ECUADOR .75
EGYPT 1.02
EL SALVADOR .75
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 3.30
ESTONIA .85
ETHIOPIA 1.72
FAEROE ISLANDS .45
FALKLAND ISLANDS .75
FIJI ISLANDS 1.76
FINLAND .45
FRANCE .41
FRENCH ANTILLES .75
FRENCH GUIANA .75
FRENCH POLYNESIA 1.60
GABON, REP OF 1.43
GAMBIA 1.20
GEORGIA 1.10
GERMANY, EAST .41
GERMANY, WEST .41
GHANA 1.00
GIBRALTAR 1.30
GREECE .50
GREENLAND .97
GRENADA .66
GUADELOUPE .75
GUAM .66
GUANTANAMO BAY .75
GUATEMALA .75
GUINEA 2.02
GUINEA BISSAU 2.38
GUYANA .75
HAITI .75
HONDURAS .75
HONG KONG .51
HUNGARY .85
ICELAND .45
INDIA .98
INDONESIA 1.21
IRAN 1.88
IRAQ 1.64
IRELAND, REP OF .45
ISRAEL .89
ITALY .45
IVORY COAST 1.54
JAMAICA .66
JAPAN .45
JORDAN .95
KAZAKHSTAN 1.95
KENYA 1.30
KOREA .74
KYRGYZSTAN 1.10
KUWAIT 1.06
LAOS 2.94
LATVIA .85
LEBANON 1.33
LESOTHO 1.42
LIBERIA .79
LIBYA 1.39
LIECHTENSTEIN .45
LITHUANIA .85
LUXEMBOURG .45
MACAO 1.45
MACEDONIA 1.30
MADAGASCAR 3.41
MALAWI 1.20
MALAYSIA 1.10
MALDIVES 2.79
MALI 2.27
MALTA 1.42
MARSHALL ISLANDS 1.71
MAURITANIA 2.34
MAURITIUS 2.38
MAYOTTE ISLAND 2.33
MICRONESIA 1.70
MOLDOVA 1.40
MONACO .45
MONGOLIA 2.65
MONTSERRAT .66
MOROCCO 1.47
MOZAMBIQUE 1.56
MYANMAR 3.17
NAMIBIA 1.23
NAURU 1.36
NEPAL 1.99
NETHERLANDS .45
NETHERLANDS ANT .75
NEVIS 1.19
NEW ZEALAND .55
NICARAGUA .75
NIGER 2.02
NIGERIA .88
NIUE 2.73
NORWAY .45
OMAN 1.48
PAKISTAN 1.49
PALAU 2.71
PANAMA .75
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1.44
PARAGUAY .75
PERU .75
PHILIPPINES .89
POLAND .85
PORTUGAL .50
QATAR 1.11
REUNION ISLAND 2.34
NEW CALEDONIA 1.55
ROMANIA 1.15
RUSSIA (CIS) .85
RWANDA 2.43
SAIPAN 1.05
SAN MARINO 1.20
SAO TOME & PRINCIPE 1.95
SAUDI ARABIA .89
SENEGAL 1.10
SERBIA .85
SEYCHELLES ISLANDS 1.70
SIERRA LEONE 3.24
SINGAPORE .41
SLOVENIA 1.05
SOLOMON ISLANDS 1.66
SOUTH AFRICA .69
SPAIN .50
SRI LANKA 1.21
ST. HELENA 2.33
ST. KITTS .66
ST. LUCIA .66
ST. PIERRE & MIQUEL .75
ST. VINCENT .66
SUDAN 2.76
SURINAME .75
SWAZILAND 1.38
SWEDEN .35
SWITZERLAND .45
SYRIA 2.15
TAIWAN, REP OF .61
TAJIKISTAN 1.20
TANZANIA 1.16
THAILAND 1.10
TOGO, REP OF 1.56
TONGA 2.12
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO .66
TUNISIA 1.14
TURKEY 1.11
TURKMENISTAN 2.35
TURKS & CAICOS .66
TUVALU 2.82
UGANDA 1.40
UKRAINE .85
UNITED ARAB EMIRATE .92
UNITED KINGDOM .35
URUGUAY .75
UZBEKISTAN 1.20
VANUATO 3.45
VATICAN CITY .85
VENEZUELA .75
VIETNAM 2.07
WALLIS 3.01
YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC 1.03
YEMEN DEM REP 1.03
YUGOSLAVIA .85
ZAIRE 1.34
ZAMBIA 1.12
ZIMBABWE 1.45
MEXICO:
Rate PER
Step MIN
---- ---
1 .36
2 .36
3 .57
4 .71
5 .71
6 .91
7 .95
8 1.06
Please don't forget to fill-in and forward back the form near the top of
this message. Requests for info without the form filled in will go
unanswered. Sorry. :(
Sincerely,
Julie Conners
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using NeXTSTEP as a firewall??
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 19:12:49 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950430201249.1240AACUH.malc@daneel>
References: <D7n80A.3yB@orc-ny.com> <3npifm$289@paladin.american.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Think of all the fun you could have getting a cube to burn. All
> that magnesium. What a fire that could be! Light em up!
>
Actually, somebody from NeXTWorld did this -- and it proved a lot more
difficult to start than was anticipated. It's magnesium alloy rather than
the pure stuff, I think, and maybe that makes it more heat resistant...
after torching it for a while though, eventually it caught and, judging by
the oictures, was quite spectacular.
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: julie5000@aol.com (Julie5000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3o0jc4$o2i@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Control: cancel <3o0jc4$o2i@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 20:23:51 GMT
Organization: OpenVision Technologies, Inc.
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <cancel.3o0jc4$o2i@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Cancelling spam. See explanation in news.admin.net-abuse.misc.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 1 May 1995 04:15:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3o1n8d$qda@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
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discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news: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
===========================================
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
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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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com: See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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
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To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
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and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using
this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
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If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
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Written by:
Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: OniWeb ???
Message-ID: <D7vEo5.3os@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3nofs1$58e@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:02:29 GMT
In article <3nofs1$58e@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it> pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it
(pisati stefano) writes:
> Hi, I've a little problem with OmniWeb, I've version 1.0 Prerelease 1
but
> it doesn't read inline image... it display a white square with a little
> gray square on right corner and I don't know how to convinve it to work
> properly... any idea ???
> TIA
>
> PS: Please, reply via email.
>
> --
>
> 73 de -_ Stefano _-
> "Stat rosa pristina nomine nomina nuda tenemus"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Stefano Pisati IW2JXK email: pisati@dsi.unimi.it
> NeXTmail: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it PGP-Key on request
Get OmniImageFilter.service from ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
and put in your LocalLibrary/Services.
Nice Greetings from Munich - Germany
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/\_\ KARSTADT AG Haus Oberpollinger Muenchen | 81543 Muenchen
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Setting Domain-name?
Message-ID: <D7vEvp.3pL@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <D7pH6y.IG@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:07:01 GMT
In article <D7pH6y.IG@euler.hnv.icem.de> js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen
Sell) writes:
> In article <D7n92y.1po@waldo.com> hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
writes:
> > I'd like to set the domainname (so that the command "domainname"
returns it)
> > my Nextstation running 3.3/3.2dev, but I can't figure out how to do
it. It's
> > not an NIS domain (as I was foolish enough to blindly fill in that
field in
> > Simple Network Starter and discover that the machine hung on reboot)
but
> > rather the domain that I am going to use to route mail to my machine.
> >
> > I'm connected to the Internet with a UUCP connection, and that's how
my mail
> > will be coming in, once I get the configuration right. My domain is
registered
> > and is on a nameserver here in New York, but I still haven't been able
to get
> > any mail. "rmail" is enabled in my L.cmds file. I'm hoping that
configuring
> > the domain name over here will fix it. My service provider seems to
think that
> > I don't need to do anything, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > Thanks for any help! I'm looking forward to ditching this POP
connection so
> > that other users on my machine can get mail directly...
>
> If the only thing you are concerned about is getting your mail, just add
your fully qualified
> domain name as an alias using HostManager.app's local window.
> If your hostname is ritz, desired domainname is mordor.com, add an alias
of 'ritz. mordor.com'.
> It works, I did exactly that.
>
> Otherwise read the man page for domainname and add a line to
/etc/rc.local.
>
> Juergen
> ---
> Fon ++49 511 4406-88 NeXTMail welcome Fax ++49 511 4406-17
> == What time do we live in when spontaneity and freedom get associated
with instant coffee,
> == when a politician's idea of social change is changing names?
If it is a mail problem, give your machine the name in /etc/hostconfig
without the domain.
Insert the following entry to your sendmail.cf-file for domain
recognition:
----------&---------------------&--------------------------
# 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
Dmfoo.foo.edu
Cmfoo.uucp foo foo.foo.edu
Nice Greetings from Munich - Germany
--
__ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10
/\_\ KARSTADT AG Haus Oberpollinger Muenchen | 81543 Muenchen
\/_/ mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de | Tel.: +49 89 65 29 18
NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail und MIME erwuenscht! | Work: +49 89 29 02 54 18
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: How do I make getty do 57600?
Message-ID: <D7vExp.3qC@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <D7rDr2.Buy@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:08:13 GMT
In article <D7rDr2.Buy@nvc.cc.ca.us> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
writes:
>
> How do I make getty answer at 57600 on NS 3.2 on Black hardware? I was
> able to recompile kermit to do 57600, but I'd also like to be able to
> do dialin at 57600.
>
> --
> Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
> Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
> 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558
> <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> MIME ok, NeXTMail tolerated
57600 is no valid gettytab entry. If your Modem does 14.400 use
38400, that works for me without any problems
Nice Greetings from Munich - Germany
--
__ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10
/\_\ KARSTADT AG Haus Oberpollinger Muenchen | 81543 Muenchen
\/_/ mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de | Tel.: +49 89 65 29 18
NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail und MIME erwuenscht! | Work: +49 89 29 02 54 18
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: using NeXTSTEP as a firewall??
Message-ID: <D7vF2r.3r3@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3npifm$289@paladin.american.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:11:15 GMT
In article <3npifm$289@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes:
> In article <D7n80A.3yB@orc-ny.com> seaside!nwc (Nick Christopher)
writes:
> :
> :I guess the first question is are you trying to start or stop fires?
> :NEXTSTEP is pretty good at one of them ;-)
> :
> :\n
>
> Think of all the fun you could have getting a cube to burn. All that
magnesium.
> What a fire that could be! Light em up!
>
> On a more serious note. I think it is possible. I am not sure about
NeXT's
> routing software and its robustness though. You really have to use
non-OS
> software to get the firewall set up anyway so most OS with good routing
> software should work.
>
> --
> Torrey McMahon
FTP the fwtk.tar.gz (FireWallToolKit) and compile it to your system.
Then you can use a NeXT as a firewall-gateway for telnet, ftp, http
e.g.
There is also a complete documentation about the functions of firewalls
and how they can help you preventing other people having access to your
net.
Nice Greetings from Munich - Germany
--
__ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10
/\_\ KARSTADT AG Haus Oberpollinger Muenchen | 81543 Muenchen
\/_/ mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de | Tel.: +49 89 65 29 18
NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail und MIME erwuenscht! | Work: +49 89 29 02 54 18
From: reichman@alcor.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app
Date: 1 May 1995 01:50:52 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@alcor.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3o27dc$kd@alcor.usc.edu>
Summary: start font in compose
Keywords: mail.app
Is there a way to set a chosen font to be the startup font in a compose window?
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
From: GH Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: stty 24 lines not 25!
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 12:47:12 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950430124518.2893C-100000@avocado>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi, all,
We're all NeXTstations w/ 3.2...
One of my users is having this problem:
Also, some weird interaction between my 25-line telnet/rlogin programs
and the artsci login causes the terminal to get limited to the top 24
lines, while stty size still shows 25 lines. This is especially
annoying when it messes up programs like Pine or Emacs; and the only
fix it is either to type stty rows 24 or to suspend the session and
reset the terminal from my end. What could possibly be doing this?
I'm not sure what to look for, as the user has already tried forcing
stty to be 25 lines.
Is there a problem w/ the 3.2 rlogind or telnetd? Suggestions for a
fix or workaround?
Answers or suggestions greatly appreciated!
Hussain
___ __________________________________________________________
/\__\ G. Hussain Chinoy
\/__/ 314/591-4955 vox
NEXTSTEP, 314/935-5799 fax
baby hussain@artsci.wustl.edu net
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~hussain/ web
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: jbright@stimpy (Jason Bright)
Subject: Re: using NeXTSTEP as a firewall??
Message-ID: <D7wM1E.Fz8@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3nihto$k03@metro.atlanta.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 14:39:14 GMT
Joseph K. Vossen (jkv@sware.com) wrote:
: With all of the connections to the internet being added everyday, a lot of
: companies are putting firewalls in place to protect their corporate
: network. I realize that it might be considered a waste of a good
: gui-based system for this [and that there are more specialized systems out
: there to perform this task], but has anyone considered using a
: NeXTSTEP-based system for a firewall? If you considered this and are
: using it, what changes did you have to make? If you considered this and
: used something else, I would be interested in knowing why.
</cloak>
Personally, I wouldn't for a number of reasons:
_Does NS support Dual-homed hosts? As far as I know, no.
_It isn't that widely used, so the security implications arent' well
known (except for a bunch of folks in Black Hats that don't say much)_
_Not very easy to rip extraneous stuff out (Interface, NetInfo, etc).
_Other stuff
Personally, I'd take the extra next systems that you have and use them as
mail or news servers, or maybe a web server. Put the firewall on a
dual homed machine with an OS that you can completely gut (or use a
commercial implementation- The TIS firewall toolkit was good for it's
day, but since it doesn't have multihomed support, I don't have that much
trust for it). When I say gut, I mean tear out everything that you don't need
...the firwalls that I set up have things like X,NFS,RPC,UUCP all gone...
not a trace....but then again I'm paid to be paranoid.
later
j
<cloak>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Message-ID: <9505011406.AA20047@alleg.EDU>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v116.1)
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@alleg.EDU>
Date: Mon, 1 May 95 10:05:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Who makes "Eloquent"; where do I get it?
Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com
I've heard of a NEXTSTEP based newsreader called
"Eloquent". It is supposed to support threads, and
other nice stuff. I'd like to know where to get it,
and who makes it. Anybody?
from the document:
ftp://santiam.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.01.README
"If you have a question that this document does not answer, direct
questions to Eloquent_support@take3.com"
"Eloquent is a trademark of Take Three"
There is a demo available at:
ftp://santiam.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.01.NIHS.tar.gz
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma Email: luomat@alleg.edu Allegheny College
NeXTStep 3.2 m68k UNIX workstations Shell=tcsh 6.05.01
Allegheny College No Root/super-user access 1 Peter 3:15-16
If I understood the man page I wouldn't have asked the question.
From: Lennart_Lovstrand@NeXT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app
Date: 1 May 1995 19:07:03 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Message-ID: <3o3bgn$lo2@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <3o27dc$kd@alcor.usc.edu>
In article <3o27dc$kd@alcor.usc.edu> reichman@alcor.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel
Reichman) writes:
> Is there a way to set a chosen font to be the startup font in a compose
> window?
Yes, set the font using the Font Panel in the normal mail reader window and
the compose window will follow.
Note that Mail.app uses two different fonts for rich text and plain text
messages (normally Helvetica and Ohlfs, respectively). It has a third font
for the summary section of the mail reader window too. All of these are
individually settable. To set the summary font, make sure that your selection
is in the summary view. To change the "rich text" font, select a NeXTmail or
"enriched" MIME message, click in the text body, and change the font. Ditto
for a "plain text" message, but be aware that it has to be sent from something
else than Mail.app for it to *really* be considered plain. For historical
(and practical) reasons, "Plain Text" messages sent by Mail.app are actually
the same as unformatted NeXTmail messages.
Cheers,
--Lennart Lovstrand
NeXT Software Engineering
(Yes, I know. There really ought to be a UI in Mail's preference panel for
this...)
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Success: Conner CFP4207S, 1024bytes/sector (+Query)
Date: 1 May 1995 18:32:48 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3o39gg$62g@news.next.com>
References: <3nlttr$h3h@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
In article <3nlttr$h3h@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
Welch) writes:
#
# **> QUESTION: How do I tell "disk" to combine the two
# filesystems on /dev/rsd0b and /dev/rsd0c.
#
# /dev/sd0a 2082207 1247425 626561 67% /Local
# /dev/sd0b 1041390 590305 346946 63% /usenet
# /dev/sd0c 1041391 282855 654396 30% /Local/Users/ivo/various
You can't. The combination of the two is OVER the limit. The
algorithm that 'disk' uses is to keep choping off max sized (or the
size you specify) chunks until the amount left would be smaller than
what you want, in which case it splits the remainder. Or something
like that. You've got a 4+gig disk, and you told it to take 2 gig for
partition a. So it split what was left.
joe
From: dalia@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Apurva F. Dalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Public Window Server (preferences)
Date: 1 May 1995 22:05:37 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o3lvh$cfl@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi,
I am trying to run an application remotely from another machine.
For this I tried to set "Public Window Server" option in the
Expert Preferences (UNIX) in the Preferences Application.
However, the preferences window which i get when i click
on "Expert Preferences" button DOES NOT HAVE any "Public Window
Server" checkbox !!! It also does not have any "Public Sound Server"
checkbox. It only has the "Display EPS Securely" checkbox.
My configuration here is NeXT h/w running NS3.2.
Does somebody have an explanation ?
Thankyou
-apurva dalia
dalia@cat.syr.edu
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HTTPD stats analyzer??
Date: 1 May 1995 21:32:00 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3o3k0g$bmo@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Anyone know where I can grab a program that will analyze the
HTTPD logs? If it helps, we're using NS 3.3 & httpd v1.3
Thanks,
Shane
--
The Atomic Playground BBS -=- a Futurenet Gateway BBS (614) 297-7031 USRv.all
WWW: http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane.html
NeXTMail: shane@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I make getty do 57600?
Date: 1 May 1995 18:05:46 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3o37tq$185g@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <D7rDr2.Buy@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Chris Osborn (fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us) wrote:
: How do I make getty answer at 57600 on NS 3.2 on Black hardware? I was
: able to recompile kermit to do 57600, but I'd also like to be able to
: do dialin at 57600.
Black hardware is unrealalbe at 57600. (Can't process interupts fast
enough)
Central Data makes a SCSI-Serial box that allows you to put multiple
serial ports on your scsi bus, with port speeds up to 115Kb.
information at ftp.cd.com
--
=> Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <=
=> University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=
=> tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rwach@quads.uchicago.edu (Chip Ach)
Subject: Re: HTTPD stats analyzer??
Message-ID: <D7xBq6.4Dz@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Cc: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Organization: University oF Chicago
References: <3o3k0g$bmo@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 23:54:06 GMT
In article <3o3k0g$bmo@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Shane M Zatezalo <szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>Anyone know where I can grab a program that will analyze the
>HTTPD logs? If it helps, we're using NS 3.3 & httpd v1.3
The NextStep is irrelevant... :) Try looking at:
http://siva.cshl.org/wusage.html
It compiled easily under NS 3.0...
-C
From: blumoose@bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu (David William Gotthold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with Mail and 3.3 - Fixed
Date: 2 May 1995 00:21:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o3tuv$2es@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <3npbdu$ljj@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Keywords: solution mail upgrade
Thanks for the help.
It turns out I was needed to use a different sendmail.cf than the one
installed by default. Sendmail.cf was linked to sendmail.subsidiary.cf,
and since there's no standard mail server here, I needed to use
sendmail.mailhost.cf.
That's the problem with trying to remember all the customizations done
over the last several years...
--
David Gotthold
University of Texas at Austin, Microelectronics Research Center
blumoose@bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu (NeXT Mail)
blumoose@pobox.com........................office (512) 471-5383
http://bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu..............fax (512) 471-8575
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jdd7555@cs.rit.edu (John D Dyer)
Subject: MST PPP on NS3.2 hostname problem
Message-ID: <1995May1.164858.26935@cs.rit.edu>
Keywords: MST PPP hostname
Sender: news@cs.rit.edu (USENET News Admin)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 16:48:58 GMT
Fellow PPP'ers,
I'm trying to run MST PPP on NS3.2 to dial into my local university.
I believe my setup script is correct for my modem. I also believe that
I've installed and configured MST PPP properly.
I haven't yet achieved a successful connection, so I still use pppd
on the command line as so:
# pppd :univ-ip-add auto passive vjcomp debug 9
# route -f
# route add default univ-ip-add
univ-ip-add is an actual university address.
I read the pppd.log as the modem is connecting. It appears that everything
is working correctly until I get:
"Fatal Error: Hostname not configured" (or something close to this),
and the pppd exits immediately.
If I use the command: # pppd fishbone:univ-ip-add..., I get error output
from pppd right away: "Unknown host:fishbone".
I had previously set up my machine as a standalone using HostManager.app.
I didn't touch SimpleNetworkStarter.app or NetInfo.app. Using this method
my hostname does appear on the login screen and also appears on a `hostname`
command.
I thought that maybe if I set up my machine as a network of one, then
maybe the hostname info that pppd is looking for would be in the NetInfo
database. I tried SimpleNetworkStarter.app and set my host up as the master
server that bassically had no services to be exported. After configuration
and a reboot I have some trouble during boot. During the "Configuring
Network" stage, a error window comes up and says that it can't access
the NetInfo database and to hit "c" to continue with no network users.
I hit "c" and then start up SimpleNetworkStartup.app again. Looks like all
edits wre lost. I do this several times with the same results.
So, is my problem with the ppp software or just with administrating my own
machine? Do I have to have an actual network with a cable attaching
to my machine?
Any and all suggestions welcome.
Sincerely confused and frustrated,
John Dyer
jdyer@eng.mc.xerox.com
jdd7555@cs.rit.edu
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb suggestion.. remove caching.
Date: 1 May 1995 17:24:21 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3o35g5$5fr@news.next.com>
References: <robertznezy68y8aqm@steffi.dircon.co.uk> <D7JAo8.Ho@awt.nl>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: makemail 2.7
In article <D7JAo8.Ho@awt.nl>, Gerben Wierda <G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL> wrote:
>Well, I would agree (as I am running a caching proxy WWW server myself,
>which itself is using another proxy...). But not all WWW servers (noticably
>WWW.NeXT.com and WWW.Pages.com) are recent. They use the real old
>server from the httpd1.3 package out on the net. That server package should be
>removed as soon as possible IMHO, since it doesn't support the conditional get
>that caching servers rely on. And it spreading over the NEXTSTEP community
>only makes matters worse.
NeXT is not running NCSA's httpd1.3. We aren't running an NCSA server at
all.
--
Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in Bld1, back, Rside
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POP Mail server for NeXTStep
Date: 27 Apr 1995 14:43:24 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Subscriber Account, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet!
Message-ID: <3nos4s$fd7@Mercury.mcs.com>
We have a number of PCs connected to the network. They are running
TCP & NFS software. The software included an E-Mail program that is
supposed to let them access their mail from the network. Is needs a
POP2 or POP3 server running on the host system. Unfortunately the
POP3 server that I FTPed from the maker of the software appears to
use structures that are not available on NeXtStep. I can only assume
that they are for Unix System V.
Does anybody know where I can get a POP server that will run on
NeXTStep 3.2 and 3.3, Black and White hardware?
Thank you for any replies.
Peter Richardson
par@mcs.com
From: lwallyci@onramp.net (Leslie Connally)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wuffo needs help please
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 21:40:16 -0600
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <lwallyci-0105952140160001@dal44.onramp.net>
I've already screwed something up on my 040 cube (3.2) and it will only
boot up now if something is plugged into the SCSI port! It is too hard to
explain how I screwed it up) I'm pretty wet behind the ears on this whole
UNIX thing (I'm a mac guy who picked up a black cube for fun !(?) yikes!)
and need help.
Thanks!
Anyone in Dallas who wants a free dinner for consulting? I have *several*
other questions!!!!
Les Connally
lwallyci@onramp.net
From: Mark Schwettmann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: HELP! Disk unreadable...
Date: 2 May 1995 04:01:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3o4ark$bl1@agate.berkeley.edu>
HELP! HELP!
This afternoon I was reinstalling Windows NT on my system,
and something horrible has happened to one of my NS
partitions.
My setup is as follows :
1 1033 MB Quantum (Empire 1080)
1 520 MB Maxtor (MXT540SL)
I have a 600mb NS Partition on the Quantum, and a 330MB
NS Partition (WITH ALL MY DOCUMENTS) on the Maxtor.
The Quantum originally had a small dos partition and
a large WinNT partition. Today I removed both of those
with fdisk and the WinNT 3.51 setup created a new dos
partition in the space. I don't think anything touched
the Maxtor.
However. On boot I get the following:
May 1 20:48:29 differencengine mach: sd1: MAXTOR MXT-540SL H1.2
May 1 20:48:29 differencengine mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0
May 1 20:48:29 differencengine mach: Registering: sd1a
May 1 20:48:29 differencengine mach: sd1: No Valid Disk Label
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
May 1 20:48:29 differencengine mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
May 1 20:48:29 differencengine mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 521 MB
I used to get this:
May 1 18:29:42 differencengine mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0
May 1 18:29:42 differencengine mach: Registering: sd1a
May 1 18:29:42 differencengine mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
May 1 18:29:42 differencengine mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 521 MB
May 1 18:29:42 differencengine mach: sd1: Disk Label: Neuromancer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NeXT's fdisk is confused now about the maxtor, reporting:
Device: /dev/rsd1h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 200 -
BSDI 200 321 Active
instead of
NEXTSTEP 200 321 Active
The workspace refuses to mount the partition, as follows:
>looking for block 0 label
>probing for DOS
>Filesystem name: DOS
>May 1 20:49:03 Workspace: Mounted DOS disk at /unlabeled
>looking for block 0 label
>probing for DOS
>May 1 20:49:03 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /unlabeled_2
>looking for block 0 label
>probing for DOS
>Filesystem name: DOS
>mount: /dev/rsd1h on /unlabeled_3: Device busy
>mount: giving up on:
> /unlabeled_3
Please, please, please... can somebody help me?
Mark Schwettmann
mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sriram@bc (Sriram Kalyanasundaram)
Subject: Printing RTF on to laser printers
Message-ID: <D7x59v.3pn@marble.com>
Sender: news@marble.com
Organization: Marble Associates, Inc.
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 21:34:43 GMT
Guys,
I am trying to format a document using RTF library. I am trying
to embed the formfeed char in the RTF document and print it. I haven't
been able to acheive this. The only way I am able to embed form feed is
using a simple ascii file and printing the file using lpr from command
line.
I am wondering if anyone out there knows the solution to this
problem.
Thanks,
Sriram K.
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position/ILL
Date: 2 May 1995 11:43:38 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3o55ta$7uc@news1.channel1.com>
Position------------------------System Administrator
Platform------------------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position----------------Career Position
Opportunity---------------------Outstanding
Benefits------------------------Excellent
Area----------------------------ILL
Relocation----------------------Company assistance
To be considered----------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetWare printer access automation
Date: 28 Apr 1995 10:11:25 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3nqf0d$mpg@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
We're running a NEXTSTEP and a NetWare network parallel. The best
printer is connected to a NetWare printer server. We have a dummy
account on the Novell server that allows users just to login and print
their jobs from NEXTSTEP. On the other hand, some poeple have accounts
on both networks, and want to access their NetWare directories from
NEXTSTEP.
I think a fine way to handle this transparently for the users, would
be to automatically log them into the NetWare server as 'printer user'
during NEXTSTEP login (LoginHook), _IF_ they are not yet connected to
their own NetWare account (NetWare connections aren't lost on NEXTSTEP
logout, only on reboot or explicit nwlogout).
But to implement this, I have to check for an existing NetWare
connection for the user. If this is done while the user is working at
the console ('-r /Net/NetWare/MATHI-SV1/SYS'), the NetWare
authentification panel pops up and urges the user to manually log in.
Is there any way to test for an existing NetWare connection without
causing this login panel ? At the moment, cshrc.std looks like this:
if ( ! -r /Net/NetWare/NWSERVER/SYS ) then
if ( ! -r /Net/NetWare/NWSERVER/SYS ) then
echo Logging into NetWare as 'pr-user'
/usr/netware/bin/nwlogin mathi-sv1/pr-user >/dev/console
<< EOF
EOF
endif
endif
Gregor
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| MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 |
| INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 56-3812 |
| EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail) |
From: giammy@artemide.dei.unipd.it (Gianluca Moro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help for serial port installation and network setup
Date: 2 May 1995 12:31:20 GMT
Organization: DEI - University of Padua -- ITALY
Message-ID: <3o58mo$c07@maya.dei.unipd.it>
Hi all,
I've found some problems while installing additional serial ports
on a Next Station installed on Intel systems, running NextStep 3.3,
and configuring the network.
SERIAL PORTS:
In the present configuration there are 2 serial ports (the first
used for a serial mouse), and are correctly accessed by Next.
I added a second serial card, with 2 additional serial ports,
getting the following hardware configuration:
- 4 serial port mapped as
- COM1 COM2 COM3 COM3
- 3F8 2F8 3E8 2E8
- IRQ4 IRQ3 IRQ4 IRQ3
(the same configuration works correctly under DOS - I don't know
if this is meaningful for Next)
When installed the card I tryed to modify the the software configuration
thru' CONFIGURE application - expert menu, adding new I/O ports
(3E8 and 2E8), and two new path (/dev/ttyc-d as path 2 and path 3).
The system boots correctly, and correctly sees the /dev/ttya (for
the mouse) and /dev/ttyb, but I can't see the two additional ports:
The installation steps I followed are correct? Did I miss something?
Does NeXT support additional serial ports?
By the way, while testing after a bootstrap I had some messages from
/dev/ttyb (I wasn't able to repeat the test, so I can say what
generated them):
...
(SYNC 215 32 )print statusdict/pagecount 2 copy known {get exec}
{pop pop 0} ifelse = ( ESYNC)print%!
(SYNC 215 33 )print statusdict/pagecount 2 copy known
{get exec} {pop pop 0} ifelse = ( ESYNC)print%!
...
they seems debug messages: does anyone knows what are used for, and
what's their meaning?
NETWORK INSTALLATION
I tried to connect two Next, both installed on intel machine (a Pentium
90MHz and a 486-33DX, using as interface an SMC Ethernet card).
I followed step by step the indication of Chapter 2 "Setting up a
NetInfo Network" present in the on line documentation
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin.
I set up a server indicating the name and the IP number, checking
the option for automatically adding new hosts to network.
(By the way, I checked Run network time server, but when I try to set
the time, Next says it must be syncronized thru' network - is this
correct? )
When I starts the second Next, after checking for network, it says that
there's no network - "Press Control-C to start up without network".
The Next which should be server is running, and I see some signal on
the cable connecting the two machines.
Both machine are configured with SMC EtherCard Plus Elite 16 Ethernet
Adapter (v3.30). Any idea?
Thanks for the attention
Gianluca Moro
giammy@artemide.dei.unipd.it
From: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is there any FAQ for this group?
Date: 2 May 1995 14:59:00 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3o5hbk$3n@hecate.umd.edu>
Please tell me if anyone knows where I can find a copy.
Thanks!
Newbie NeXT Sys-Ad
From: sysop@kitana.org (JL Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace Manager not ignoring HD
Date: 2 May 1995 02:06:32 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <199411121736.JAA00131@kitana.org>
I'm running NS 3.3 for Intel.
I have 3 SCSI HD's at SCSI ID's 0, 1, and 2.
NS is installed on the first drive at SCSI ID 0.
I've added the following entries in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sd1a /other1 ignore ro,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /other2 ignore ro,noquota 0 2
It's true I do not get 2 messages about the disks not being initialized but
I still get a message about one of them not being initialized.
How do I *really* get rid of that message about the drive not being
initialized?
Thanks for the help!
--
sysop@kitana.org
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3/hppa and HP-UX fs?
Date: 2 May 1995 15:26:05 GMT
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o5iud$5du@news.ycc.yale.edu>
References: <3o0gap$5i1@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
->> could someone please tell me if NS 3.3 for HP
->> supports already mounting of HP-UX file systems
->> (on other disks)?
-> No it does not.
It's a regrettable lack of functionality. What
are the technical issues that would prevent NeXT
from writing the appropriate filesystem driver
for HPUX disks?
--
Nathan Janette
Systems Manager, Axel T. Br nger Lab
Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Voice: 203 432 5065
Fax: 203 432 3923
US Mail: Yale Univ Dept MB&B / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
266 Whitney Ave BCMSB 437
New Haven, CT 06520-8114
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rm@califhistsoc.org (Robert MacKimmie)
Subject: Any Listserv software compiled for NS??
Message-ID: <D7xAqJ.In1@califhistsoc.org>
Sender: rm@califhistsoc.org (Robert MacKimmie)
Organization: California Historical Society, San Francisco 415-567-1848
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 23:32:42 GMT
Just wondering if the Listserv.serving beast exists---it is an upcoming
organizational venture.
Thanks,
Robert MacKimmie
RM@califhistsoc.org
From: Michael Pizolato <michael@afs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting directories from local disk when off net
Date: 2 May 1995 18:26:51 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o5thb$fv2@shelob.afs.com>
At home, I have an extra monitor/keyboard/mouse for my NeXTstation,
and I take the pizza box home so I can work there. I used to be
able to simulate portions of our office's network environment at
home, by mounting local directories like this:
mount -o bg,intr localhost:/LocalNet/Foo /Foo
/LocalNet contains copies of some of our network directories.
Something must have changed recently, but I can't say what - my
machine has gone through several different changes, the largest of
which is upgrading to NS3.3. The above mount command doesn't work
anymore. Instead, I get this when I issue the command as root:
NFS getattr failed for server localhost: RPC: Authentication error
mount: localhost:/LocalNet/Foo on /Foo: Invalid argument
mount: giving up on:
/Foo
Also, since I have my machine set up to do these mounts at boot
time(*), when the machine is booting at home I get this message
prior to the above one:
nfs_server: weak authentication, source IP = 127.0.0.1
Anybody know what these messages mean, and what I can do to fix
this problem?
Thanx,
Michael
(*) I have a pretty cool system, based on rdist, that manages this
home-to-office setup. E-mail for a copy if you're interested.
From: DRQuarrie@LBL.Gov (David R. Quarrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AFS on white (Intel) hardware?
Date: 2 May 1995 16:14:29 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o5lp5$h90@overload.lbl.gov>
Keywords: AFS Transarc
Does AFS exist for Intel hardware? Transarc says that only 3.2 is
available for black hardware, but nothing at all exists for Intel
hardware. Is this the final word or is there another source for this?
Thanks in advance.
David
---------------------------------------------------------------------
David R. Quarrie Lawrence Berkeley Lab MS 50B-3238
(NeXTmail ok) 1 Cyclotron Road
Internet: DRQuarrie@LBL.Gov Berkeley, CA 94720
DECnet : lbl::drquarrie Tel: (510) 486-4868
From: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: QLIPO
Date: 2 May 1995 15:05:51 GMT
Organization: University of Connecticut
Message-ID: <3o5hof$k0v@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
Can anyone help me find a site for a copy of qlipo? Will this allow me to
complete the installation of Omniweb? I am getting no icons or graphics.
Thanks -Jim-
--
If your only tool is a hammer, you view all problems as nails!
From: rad@spinoza.cse.ucla.edu (Robert Dennis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP IIP nonpostscript to Station?
Date: 2 May 1995 23:32:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <3o6ff5$dqo@saba.info.ucla.edu>
Keywords: printers, nonpostscript
I looked through the FAQs for an answer to this. If I missed it then
please forgive. I need to know if I can connect up an HP IIP laser (non
postscript) printer to a NeXT station (and expect it to print). I have
found details on how to configure the correct cable for connecting older
HP laser printers to NeXT computers, but they all seemed to refer to
Postscript versions of these printers. The printer I hope to connect is
the base model. No Postscript cartridge and only 512k RAM. Is this
possible? And if so could someone clue me onto a printcap file that will
facilitate? Maybe a software package that makes this possible?
Please, please please??
If I get any replies, I will summarize and post a solution (hopefully).
many thanks up front
regards
robert
From: kris@xmission.xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3/hppa and HP-UX fs?
Date: 3 May 1995 03:27:41 GMT
Organization: XMission Public Access Internet (801 539 0900)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o6t7d$4jf@news.xmission.com>
References: <3o0gap$5i1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <3o5iud$5du@news.ycc.yale.edu>
Nathan F. Janette (nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu) wrote:
: ->> could someone please tell me if NS 3.3 for HP
: ->> supports already mounting of HP-UX file systems
: ->> (on other disks)?
: -> No it does not.
: It's a regrettable lack of functionality. What
: are the technical issues that would prevent NeXT
: from writing the appropriate filesystem driver
: for HPUX disks?
The same goes for writing the appropriate file system driver for NTFS,
especially when OpenStep/NT will probably have to run on such a filesystem.
........................kris
--
Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope you're hungry. They're serving SPINY LOBEFISH in the commons area.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul F. Kunz)
Subject: Re: AFS on white (Intel) hardware?
In-Reply-To: DRQuarrie@LBL.Gov's message of 2 May 1995 16:14:29 GMT
Message-ID: <PFKEB.95May2211051@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <3o5lp5$h90@overload.lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 04:10:51 GMT
>>>>> On 2 May 1995 16:14:29 GMT, DRQuarrie@LBL.Gov (David R. Quarrie) said:
> Does AFS exist for Intel hardware? Transarc says that only 3.2 is
> available for black hardware, but nothing at all exists for Intel
> hardware. Is this the final word or is there another source for
> this? Thanks in advance.
Since Transarc owns AFS I think they have the final word.
Not only does AFS not exist for Intel exist, but it doesn't exist
for NS for Sparc or HP as well. And one can wonder if it works with
NS 3.3 on Motorola and if so, whether it will work with NS 4.0.
--
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
From: Tim Pugh <tpugh@oce.orst.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP Mail server for NeXTStep
Date: 2 May 1995 16:40:15 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University
Message-ID: <3o5n9f$e92@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
References: <3nos4s$fd7@Mercury.mcs.com>
You can find POP, POP3, and IMAP servers for NEXTSTEP at
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-3.5.tar.Z or imap-3.6.BETA.tar.Z
The compressed tar file includes pop, pop3, and imap source code that needs to
be compiled on a NEXTSTEP system. After compiling, move pop, pop3, and imap to
/usr/local/etc and register the pop, pop3, or imap server
in /etc/services:
pop3 110/tcp
imap 143/tcp
and /etc/inetd.conf:
#
# Mail servers
#
pop stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/etc/ipop2d ipop2d
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/etc/ipop3d ipop3d
imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/etc/imapd imapd
and in NetInfo services directory for the machine:
pop3 110/tcp
imap 143/tcp
I'm running IMAP and it works great. I only had one problem installing the
IMAP server. I had not added the IMAP socket info to NetInfo's services
directory in the machine's domain. (It's not in the documentation.)
At the above ftp site is a free app called MailManager.app that works nicely
with IMAP under NEXTSTEP for viewing and transfering remote mail. Note, it
does not support NEXTmail. A better NEXTSTEP mail application that works with
POP and IMAP is Eloquent. Both apps work well across slip or ppp links.
(See Eloquent demo on
ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.01.NIHS.tar.gz )
- Tim -
In article <3nos4s$fd7@Mercury.mcs.com> par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson) writes:
> We have a number of PCs connected to the network. They are running
> TCP & NFS software. The software included an E-Mail program that is
> supposed to let them access their mail from the network. Is needs a
> POP2 or POP3 server running on the host system. Unfortunately the
> POP3 server that I FTPed from the maker of the software appears to
> use structures that are not available on NeXtStep. I can only assume
> that they are for Unix System V.
>
> Does anybody know where I can get a POP server that will run on
> NeXTStep 3.2 and 3.3, Black and White hardware?
>
> Thank you for any replies.
> Peter Richardson
> par@mcs.com
--
--------------------------------------------------------------
Tim F. Pugh email: tpugh@oce.orst.edu
Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences voice: 503-737-2270
Oregon State University fax: 503-737-2064
NeXTmail ok!
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP server
Date: 2 May 1995 21:20:47 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <3o67nf$mt2@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Hello there. There is still a problem with our PPP server setup. We can
make successful connections between remote and server machines. From the
remote we can ping the server, the local network, machines within our
domain (ucsf.edu), but NOT anything outside of the domain. Anyone got any
clues for us?
Still playing in my own backyard, Karen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy Lee)
Subject: NS 3.3 Hangs
Message-ID: <andyleeD7z6r7.4A4@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 00:01:55 GMT
Sender: andylee@netcom14.netcom.com
Hello, All,
I have been running NeXTstep (3.3 User / 3.2 Dev) on my Intel system
for a few days now. About once everyday, as the mouse pointer turns
into a spinning disc animation, the spinning disc stops and gets
stuck. At which point I can't move the mouse, nor can I use the
Alt-Alt-NumLock to enter Monitor for a graceful "halt". It also
doesn't respond to network pings. So after 5 minutes of trying
everything, I have to "harsh reboot" the system by hitting the reset
button.
This problem isn't isolated with running any one single program. It
happend first in OmniWeb as I was enlarging the view window. Next
time when I was doing a search in Digital Librarian. And 3rd time
while I was browsing in the 3rd Party Product Browser on the Demo
disc. Now I am getting weary everytime the cursor turns into a
spinning disc.
This is my first Intel system, purchased a few weeks ago just to run
NeXTstep. It has a Intel Plato motherboard (with rev. II Neptune
chipset), P90 CPU, 24 MB RAM, Diamond Stealth 64, 3Com EtherLink III,
SoundBlaster 16, Adaptec 2940, and 2 hard drives, Conner 1080S and
Fujitsu 2624FA formatted with 1024 byets/sector.
Is this type of problem common in the Intel environment? Has anyone
run into similar problem? I'd appreciate any pointer or suggestions
on this matter, as I hope to solve this problem before I rely on the
system to do real work.
Thanks!
Andy Lee
andylee@netcom.com
andylee@cs.ucla.edu
From: teb@blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help for a NeXT convert
Date: 3 May 1995 16:59:00 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Message-ID: <3o8cok$rcn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
A plea for help -
I've inherited a NeXT cube running NS 3.0 with the
following problem. If anyone has information or
suggestions for a remedy, please enlighten me.
Internet services (ftp, telnet, etc..) will
recognize IP numbers, but not the text
(node name?) equivalent.
e.g. ftp 128.219.16.9 works but
ftp blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov doesn't
(message "unknown host")
I have Sys Admin privileges. Where / How do I
correct this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Tim Burch
ORNL/CASD
Oak Ridge, TN
teb@blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov
(615(574-4533
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Bill E Eickmeier)
Subject: printer doesn't print
Message-ID: <D7zC28.GtG@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 01:56:32 GMT
Hi all,
I have NeXTstation Turbo slab with a NeXT printer attached. Things have
worked fine until the other day when the janitor dusted the machine and
accidently shut things down... :-(
Anyway, the printer no longer prints. If I go into the PrintManager,
things look right. If I try to print a test page with the PrintManager,
the Queue status shows that the job is 'Printing', but nothing actually
gets printed - the status remains 'Printing' indefinitely.
At this point, if I delete the job from the queue with the PrintManager
a panel pops up saying:
> Printing
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Some or all of the pages in print request couldn't be printed
>
> OK
and the following appears on the console:
> May 2 21:50:38 nextofkin lpd236: abortpr
> May 2 21:50:39 nextofkin Server:Local_Printer237: Select error
> while writing: Interrupted system call
One other tidbit - `nppower on` and `nppower off` work as expected.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mixed NeXTstation-Canon object.station network problems
Date: 2 May 1995 19:39:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o61qc$82f@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
A couple of months ago, we added a 10baseT hub and a single Canon
object.station 41 (NS 3.3 User/3.2 Developer, NetInfo client) to our small
network of NeXTstations (NS 3.2 User/Developer, one of which is the
NetInfo server). Since this change, we have been experiencing occasional
equipment problems like the object.station becoming very sluggish or
experiencing kernel panics and one of the NeXTstations freezing up and
refusing to reboot (it wouldn't even complete the diagnostic tests - the
monitor remained blank even though the disk started up when the power was
switched on).
Removing the NeXTstation from the network restored its ability to
reboot. We also cleaned out a lot of dust from inside the case thinking
that overheating may have been a problem.
I seem to recall hearing that the Ethernet card in object.stations may
be "too fast" (whatever that means) for NeXTstations, so that problems can
occur in a mixed network. But I haven't been able to find any information
about this.
Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?
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NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
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From: steve@xray.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Problem with pr renderman cannot connect to localhost.
Date: 2 May 1995 20:56:52 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Message-ID: <3o66ak$bjr@larry.rice.edu>
I have a standalone machine set up running 3.3 intel. For some reason when I
try to do a photorealistic render (by printing for example) it doesn't work.
The render panel comes up, and 'localhost' is listed, but
when I tell it to start I get an error panel with
'cannot connect to localhost'. I checked and all of the other
rpc services seem to be working fine with loopback networking. It's just the
renderd that won't work properly. Oh, also, it also works ok if I run
/usr/prman/prman manually on a rib file.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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steve@ion.rice.edu |
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72335,1537 @ compuserve | know what to do."
From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lost password for network domain in NetInfo
Date: 02 May 1995 20:20:07 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JACOB.95May2222007@jnext>
Dear netters,
I have a small (?) problem: in a network consisting of 3 NeXTs,
NetInfo insist that there is a password for the the root domain ('/')
--- and no, it isn't roots password :-( Apart from the annoying
problem of losing a password, it means that I cannot make a fax modem
available to all users (i.e. to the root domain).
Anyone know how to:
1: Remove/alter the password for the root domain, when I do not know
the old one?
or (if all else fails)
2: how to make the fax modem available to all users without having to
use the infamous password for the root domain?
PS: All the computers are running NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Thanks in advance,
Jacob
--
Jacob Nielsen
jacob@dannug.dk
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: QLIPO
Date: 02 May 1995 21:00:58 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95May2170058@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3o5hof$k0v@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
In-reply-to: jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu's message of 2 May 1995 15:05:51 GMT
<jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu> writes:
>Can anyone help me find a site for a copy of qlipo? Will this allow me to
>complete the installation of Omniweb? I am getting no icons or graphics.
>Thanks -Jim-
>--
You can get the latest version (1.3, I think) from:
ftp://hasc.ca/pub/next/qlipo-1.3.S.tar.gz
I don't know if it will help you with OmniWeb, but it will strip quad
fat files on pre 3.3 systems. Heck, it'll even let you use 3.3 developer
on your 3.2 system, and save the upgrade cost. I know, I'm a client as
well as the programmer ;-).
- db
--
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops. -- Veruca Salt -- Baldric, you
wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on
top of a harpsichord singing, "Subtle Plans Are Here Again" -- Atkinson --
The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
From: psmith@lis001.lis.wwu.edu (Peter Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login freezes for dial-up access
Date: 3 May 1995 16:38:10 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University
Message-ID: <3o8bhi$cvk@ra.cc.wwu.edu>
Using 3.2 on an Intel 486 and have never been able to get
the getty working for dial-up. Bought a new modem, and now
can get to the login prompt, and the password prompt displays,
but nothing else happens, everything locked up until the modem
times out. Everyone tells me UNIX was made for this type of
connection, but they can't make it work either.
Any suggestions are happily welcome!
--Peter
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk and Netware
Date: 4 May 1995 00:11:06 GMT
Organization: The American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <3o962q$bcn@paladin.american.edu>
As any one got AppleTalk running on 3.3? I have the 3.0 disk and have installed
the package but it says it doesn't work. "Could not load AppleTalk" or
something like that.
The reason I want to do that is to have access to Novell 4.1 servers through
Novells AppleTalk emulation. If any one can connect to 4.1 Novell servers with
the built in NeXT Novell apps I would love to hear how!
--
Torrey McMahon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dirk@cicero.ping.de (Dirk Olmes)
Subject: Re: Please help on [easy?] PPP setup!
Message-ID: <D7zzoD.91@cicero.ping.de>
Sender: dirk@cicero.ping.de (Dirk Olmes)
Organization: NeXT Club Schwerte, Germany
References: <agrignon.799126794@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:26:36 GMT
In article <agrignon.799126794@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
agrignon@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (A. Grignon) writes:
> Greetings,
Hello Andy,
> I administer a PC NeXTStep system at work, and people have begun
> to demand PPP service. Compiling and installation was a breeze,
> however I have a bit of a peculiar problem. After a user
> successfully establishes an inbound modem PPP session, they are
> unable to access any of the nameservers. In fact, the only thing
> they can really do is open a terminal session to the numeric IP
> of the server machine, and then access DNS. Once you have a
> prompt for this machine, you can work with the network just as
> normal, however it's of limited use unless they can telnet/www/ftp
> to any other address except the numeric IP of the server! I've
> gone over my resolv.conf file which seems to work just fine.
> The name service problem only applies to inbound PPP sessions.
> Hmmm. Does anyone have any suggestions to offer?
No suggestions, sorry.
But the probolem you described seems to be not only limited to PPP but may
be a general configuration problem. I am experiencing just the same effect
you describe, trying to configure a SLIP connection to my provider. The
link comes up and all I can do is to log into the host machine. No
nameserver, no pinging of other machines, nothing.
Anybody any suggestions ??
-dirk
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* * (NeXT-Mail please) Germany
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: xxx@imperia.fh-konstanz.de (Michael "MACH" Bach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP-DAT drive...
Date: 3 May 1995 22:46:09 GMT
Organization: Imperia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o913h$au9@eurybia.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
Can anyone tell me exactly what one has to do to get a HP-DAT drive to
work on a NS/fIP machine?
Hardware is set up and recognized correctly by the controller (AHA2940).
Where would I tell NS SCSI ID and so on? I stumbled over "st" but
cannot seem to make much sense of it.
Any help is appreciated!!!
Regards from Germany,
Mike.
--
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PaperNet: Bodenseestr.119 / 88682 Salem / Germany
VoiceNet: +49-7553-7915
InterNet: Michael.Bach@uni-konstanz.de / xxx@fh-konstanz.de
FlameNet: >> /dev/null
* A.C.Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
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From: black@iglou.com (Benjamin J. Black)
Subject: MST PPP system boot timeout
Message-ID: <D816F6.C19@iglou.com>
Sender: news@iglou.com (News Administrator)
Organization: IgLou Internet Services
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 01:49:54 GMT
I am running MST PPP with a dynamic IP address assigned by my provider
when I connect. How do I stop my machine from timing out and then calling
my provider before it will finish booting? I assume it is a nameserver
problem, but I could be wrong.
Also, for the gurus out there, I have a program that will change the IP
address on a machine while it is running (so all IP's are the same for all
interfaces when ppp connects). Which daemons do I need to kill and
restart? I do lookupd, nibindd, and inetd, but the system won't let me
log back in after I log out unless I reboot. Yes, I change the IP in
NetInfo, /etc/hostconfig, and at en0.
Thanks,
Ben
black@iglou.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lacsap@sledge-hammer.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Subject: answer: using iomega ZIP drives with NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <1995May3.215133.10570@news.media.mit.edu>
Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 21:51:33 GMT
I just purchased one of the ZIP drives from the local computer
store. I set it to SCSI ID#5 and terminated at the end of the
SCSI chain.
Per the instructions, I reformatted the disk using
the disk utility provided by NeXT. You need to specify
the raw device name (ie /dev/rsd1a)... Issue the Format
command, then the init command.
Works fine.
I smoked one already, so reliablilty should be a question
mark at this point.
Hope this helps.
pasc
From: wli@linus (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HTML on NeXT
Date: 4 May 1995 04:35:07 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <3o9lhr$797@news.ualr.edu>
How can I view a HTML file on a NeXTstation? Thanks.
-wei,
From: sysop@kitana.org (JL Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ignoring SCSI HD ID 1,2
Date: 3 May 1995 09:09:52 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <199505031315.GAA12275@kitana.org>
I've added the following lines to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sd1a /other1 ignore ro,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /other2 ignore ro,noquota 0 2
After rebooting, I still get the message "SCSI disk not initialized."
/dev/sd0a is the NS hard drive.
Thanks for any help!
--
sysop@kitana.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: HD: Where did this 660MB go?
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95May3141554@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 18:15:54 GMT
Hello everyone,
I have a NeXTCube with a 660MB hard-disk. When I do a "df"
something strange happens I get:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 612794 384175 167339 70% /
/private/vm/swapfile 612794 384175 167339 70% /private/vm/swapfile.front
If I add used space and avail space I get 551514. But the total capacity
is 612794 as you can see it. There is therefore around 61 megabytes missing.
Where are they? Am I missing something?
Thank you,
Francois Magnan
P.S.: My swapfile is only 16MB if that helps.
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position--South East
Date: 4 May 1995 11:48:23 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3oaeu7$fmm@news1.channel1.com>
Position-----------------------System Administrator
Platform-----------------------NEXTSTEP
Experience required------------1yr+
Type of position---------------Career Position
Opportunity--------------------Exceptional
Benefits-----------------------Excellent
Area---------------------------South East
Relocation---------------------Company assistance
To be considered---------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: How can I change the "From:" field in sendmail?
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95May3144909@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 18:49:08 GMT
I have a PPP connection. My mail must be redirected to a pop server.
I sucessfully changed the Reply to: field in my sendmail.cf file. How
can I change the From field?
I did the two following changes (obvious):
(...)
### 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: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca
(...)
(...)
### Standard macros
# name used for error messages
DnMailer-Agent
# UNIX header format
DlFrom $g <magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca>
(...)
It didn't work. Is it possible to do it?
Thanks,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: mcarling@rahul.net (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Please help on [easy?] PPP setup!
Date: 4 May 1995 18:32:46 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3ob6kh$b2f@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <D7zzoD.91@cicero.ping.de>
In article <D7zzoD.91@cicero.ping.de> dirk@cicero.ping.de (Dirk Olmes)
writes:
> In article <agrignon.799126794@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
> agrignon@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (A. Grignon) writes:
>
> > I administer a PC NeXTStep system at work, and people have begun
> > to demand PPP service. Compiling and installation was a breeze,
> > however I have a bit of a peculiar problem. After a user
> > successfully establishes an inbound modem PPP session, they are
> > unable to access any of the nameservers. In fact, the only thing
> > they can really do is open a terminal session to the numeric IP
> > of the server machine, and then access DNS. Once you have a
> > prompt for this machine, you can work with the network just as
> > normal, however it's of limited use unless they can telnet/www/ftp
> > to any other address except the numeric IP of the server! I've
> > gone over my resolv.conf file which seems to work just fine.
> > The name service problem only applies to inbound PPP sessions.
> > Hmmm. Does anyone have any suggestions to offer?
>
> No suggestions, sorry.
> But the probolem you described seems to be not only limited to PPP but
may
> be a general configuration problem. I am experiencing just the same
effect
> you describe, trying to configure a SLIP connection to my provider. The
> link comes up and all I can do is to log into the host machine. No
> nameserver, no pinging of other machines, nothing.
If PPP is working to the machine that is directly connected, but other
machines cannot be pinged, I would suspect a routing problem. See that you
have a default route. The command 'netstat -nr' will display your routing
table, and the route command may be used to modify it.
M Carling
Chairman, Bay Area NeXT Group
From: richards@igor.music.qc.edu (David Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mac and NeXT
Date: 3 May 1995 21:41:54 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/University Computer Center
Message-ID: <3o8tb2$10pb@news.cuny.edu>
Hello - Desparately seeking help in connecting a
Mac to our NeXT network - HOW????
Dave
--
==========================================
David Richards
The Aaron Copland School of Music
at Queens College
E-mail: richards@aaron.music.qc.edu
From: richards@aaron.music.qc.edu (David Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT and Mac
Date: 3 May 1995 23:08:57 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/University Computer Center
Message-ID: <3o92e9$u7l@news.cuny.edu>
I'm trying to connect a Mac to a NeXT net running
NeXTStep 3.2 - Basic question is HOW?? Being that
I'm not a pro at this I'd appreciate details!!
Dave
--
==========================================
David Richards
The Aaron Copland School of Music
at Queens College
E-mail: richards@aaron.music.qc.edu
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AFS on white (Intel) hardware?
Date: 4 May 1995 03:45:46 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o9ila$eaf@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <PFKEB.95May2211051@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul F. Kunz) writes:
> DRQuarrie@LBL.Gov (David R. Quarrie) said:
> Not only does AFS not exist for Intel exist, but it doesn't
> exist for NS for Sparc or HP as well. And one can wonder if it
> works with NS 3.3 on Motorola and if so, whether it will work
> with NS 4.0.
I'm wondering if it'd work on NS-3.2 on NeXT hardware. Anyone
try it? I'd like to upgrade eclipse to 3.3, but I can't risk
doing that if it means I lose AFS.
(I imagine it's only a matter of time before I lose AFS anyway,
as various things get upgraded. Anyone know what the schedule
is like for DCE/DFS on NeXTSTEP?)
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: dboylin@cayenne.net.uky.edu (Dan Boylin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question: formating a partition
Date: 4 May 1995 12:55:52 GMT
Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services
Message-ID: <3oaiso$l95@service1.uky.edu>
I cut my 1 gig drive into 2 partitions when I installed NS. A 600 meg
partition and a 400, I would now like to use the 400 meg partition as a NS
partition, but I don't know how to format it. I tried using BuildDisk and
it said there were not any drive available. I tried using fdisk and it
would not setup the partition. Any ideas?
DanB
From: sfoy@bcu.ubc.ca (Shaun Patrick Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT and ISDN
Date: 5 May 1995 01:08:50 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <3obtr2$sb9@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Can anyone tell me what I will need to set my NeXT up with ISDN??
TIA,
Shaun
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From: rwach@quads.uchicago.edu (Chip Ach)
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp setup?
Message-ID: <D82L3B.MIs@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: redtape strn fanclub
References: <ANDERSON.95May4095525@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 20:04:22 GMT
In article <ANDERSON.95May4095525@sapir.ling.yale.edu>,
Stephen Anderson <anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu> wrote:
>I've seen various references to a step-by-step guide to setting up
>anonymous ftp under NeXTstep (3.3, if it makes a difference), but I
>never paid any attention, because I didn't want to get into that. Now
This is an old post to c.s.n.sysadmin... It worked for me! :)
(I'm in a hurry, otherwise I'd delete some of the headers... sorry!)
-Chip
From Hal.Varian@umich.edu Wed Jan 18 01:39:51 CST 1995
Article: 20729 of comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to setup an anonymous ftp
Date: 17 Jan 1995 19:54:02 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Lines: 72
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3fh78q$niu@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu>
Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: alfred.econ.lsa.umich.edu
In article <3ffpig$1df@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes:
> This must be a FAQ. But could you point to me where I can find
> instructions to
> set up an anonymous ftp site?
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Francisco State University
Lines: 56
In article <1991Jul16.221827.28207@news.media.mit.edu>
adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes:
>How can you configure your NeXT to accept anonymous FTP logins?
Create a user called "ftp" (*not* "anonymous"); the easiest
way to do this is from the command line:
echo "ftp:*:9:-2:Anonymous FTP:/ftp:/bin/false"|niload passwd .
(yes, you can specify a different NetInfo domain, it doesn't
have to be the local one)
Create a home directory--the name doesn't matter. If you
have a 2-partition system, it's probably a good idea to
create it on /clients. This directory should be owned by
root (not ftp).
Create the following directories:
~ftp/bin
~ftp/etc
~ftp/etc/zoneinfo
These should all be owned by root, and protected 555.
On 2.x systems:
# cp -p /bin/ls ~ftp/bin
If you're still running 1.0/1.0a, retrieve pub/NeXT-ls.tar.Z
by anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230]--NeXT's
version won't work on 1.x systems.
# cp -p /etc/zoneinfo/localtime ~ftp/etc/zoneinfo
ls needs this to display times properly.
You may wish to create a ~ftp/.hidden file and/or a ~ftp/.forward
file.
Create other subdirectories as needed. I don't recommend
making ~ftp world-writeable!
>Is it possible to allow, say, only 10 anonymous users FTP'ing at once?
This takes more effort (you'd have to modify ftpd to keep track
of the number of anonymous logins). 4.3-reno's ftpd adapted for
NeXT 1.0/1.0a/2.0/2.1 is available from sutro.sfsu.edu as
pub/ftpd-src.tar.Z
Deciding which criteria to base restrictions on is a more
difficult exercise. Limiting the number of concurrent FTP
sessions is probably only a win if there's a very narrow IP pipe
between you and the outside world; I doubt it would provide any
significant conservation of machine resources.
-=EPS=-
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Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian
voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics
fax: 313-764-2364 Univ of Michigan
http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Help for a NeXT convert
Message-ID: <D81BLx.5Lt@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3o8cok$rcn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 03:41:56 GMT
In article <3o8cok$rcn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>,
<teb@blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov> wrote:
>
>
>
>A plea for help -
>
>I've inherited a NeXT cube running NS 3.0 with the
>following problem. If anyone has information or
>suggestions for a remedy, please enlighten me.
>
>Internet services (ftp, telnet, etc..) will
>recognize IP numbers, but not the text
>(node name?) equivalent.
>
>e.g. ftp 128.219.16.9 works but
> ftp blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov doesn't
> (message "unknown host")
>
>I have Sys Admin privileges. Where / How do I
>correct this problem?
>
There's a file called "/etc/resolv.conf". In there you put something like
this (taken from a cube running 3.2 that I used to administer):
domain cis.uoguelph.ca
nameserver 131.104.48.1
nameserver 131.104.48.7
nameserver 131.104.92.96
nameserver 131.104.96.20
The IP addresses after the "nameserver" lines represent machines that will
serve you with domain name service (DNS) requests. Ask somebody around your
site for some if you don't know which machines to use. The "domain" line
indicates the domain of your machine (the above information came, for example,
from "tempest.cis.uoguelph.ca".)
The DNS system will ask the first nameserver; it will ask the second one if
*the first does not respond*, not if the name is unknown to the first.
Have I forgotten anything, anyone?
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Bob Lunney <blunney@gateway.bsis.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Moving system disk back to Black
Date: 3 May 1995 21:03:17 GMT
Organization: Imonics Corporation
Message-ID: <3o8r2l$n63@netprod1.imonics.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I'm trying to move a system disk from a PC that ran NEXTSTEP FIP back to a
black mono turbo. NEXTSTEP recognizes the disk on boot up, but says the disk
is damaged with I try to mount it. Running fsck tells me the superblock is bad
(duh), but since this disk is configured for dual boot, I don't know where to
find a good alternate superblock. I don't want to lose all of the data on this
disk. What can I do to mount this disk?
--
Bob Lunney | Building tomorrow's legacy
Imonics, Inc. | systems today. (tm)
bob.lunney@imonics.com | #include <std_disclaimer.h>
From: anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu (Stephen Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anonymous ftp setup?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 04 May 1995 13:55:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Linguistics, Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ANDERSON.95May4095525@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
I've seen various references to a step-by-step guide to setting up
anonymous ftp under NeXTstep (3.3, if it makes a difference), but I
never paid any attention, because I didn't want to get into that. Now
I find I have to. I can't find anything in NeXTanswers, or in the
Network and System Administration manual. Can someone please point me
to a source?
Thanks,
--Steve Anderson
<anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de(Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Please help on [easy?] PPP setup!
Message-ID: <D82o3w.Ix@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <D7zzoD.91@cicero.ping.de>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 21:09:31 GMT
Did you ensure the system ever reads your altered resolv.conf file? Apart from proper
owner/permissions, if I remember correctly, you need to force a running sytem to re-read the file.
You have to look that up in the man pages, sorry.
(Rebooting should work as well.)
Juergen
---
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== What time do we live in when a wine's class matters more than its taste,
== when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee,
== when a politician's idea of social change is changing names?
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IDE -> IDE
Date: 4 May 1995 16:59:42 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3ob15u$2ln@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
I am plannint to change my machine from a DELL P90 to a P120. NS is
currently installed on a 540MB IDE drive, and is planned to go onto a 1GB
IDE drive. I have made a couple of modifications, so I would rather not
reinstall a vanilla NS system on the 1GB drive, but instead would prefer to
transfer the system from one IDE drive to another.
What is the preferred way of doing this? Can one build a bootdisk with
"restore" functionality on NS/FIP?
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Asst Prof of Finance (ivo@128.97.74.50 = next.agsm.ucla.edu)
AGSM at UCLA
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP client/server setup using same subnet number?
Date: 3 May 1995 16:32:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3o8b76$c0d@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: PPP, proxyarp, proxy ARP
I am using ppp2.2-0.1.9 from ftp://ftp.duq.edu/pub/next/ppp/
on Black NeXT NS3.2 and it's working great with Annex dialup
lines with fixed assigned IP address. (Kudos to people who
have ported the sotware!)
However, I am also trying setup an alternate line to campus with a
modem directly connected to port-A of a NeXT cube to act as a PPP
server on a subnet according to the following configuration in the
PPP FAQ-3 of 8. Basically, my client NeXT at home tries to use
an IP number on the same subnet as the PPP server on campus. But
it fails. This should be possible with proxy ARP according to
the FAQ below.
The debug log complains that Serial PPP line appears to be a
loop-back and the modem disconnects. Console shows warnings about
MTU being set to 298, and blurbs about this not being supported on
the NeXT, but a workaround is in place, etc. I never get this
message when connecting to Annex.
Could someone sends me the scripts that you use for both ends
(PPP client and server) with such a setup?
Thanks.
Here's the relevant section of PPP FAQ:
------
>Subject: comp.protocols.ppp part3 of 8 of frequently wanted information
>Archive-name: ppp-faq/part3
>
>3.1 connect a single host to a network without needing a new subnet.
>
> If you have only one single machine on the other side, the easiest way
> is to give it a IP address belonging to the local ethernet/IP subnet,
> and to tell the ppp gateway machine to advertise (proxy arp) its own
> ethernet address as the other machines'. Works like a charm here. Of
> course, for a large group or complicated network on the other side, you
> would get more management problems.
>
> On the gateway do:
>
>
>arp -s othermachinesipaddress myownethernetaddress permanent public
>ifconfig pppNUMBER myipaddress othermachinesipaddress [other params] up
>
> on remote machine:
>
>
>ifconfig pppNUMBER gatewaysipaddress [other params] up
>route add default gatewaysipaddress 1
>
> pppNUMBER might be spelled as dpNUMBER for dialup IP.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <jhuff@next.mc.maricopa.edu>
Message-ID: <9505031600.AA02231@next.mc.maricopa.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Jeffrey Huff <jhuff@next.mc.maricopa.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 May 95 09:57:34 -0700
Subject: NeXT Cube DMA interupt errors????
Cc: sims@next.mc.maricopa.edu, bouhouch@next.mc.maricopa.edu
We have been using our NeXTCube for a NetInfo server for several years and I
have never noticed these messages that are being logged to the
/usr/adm/messages before. Has anyone ever seen these messages before on a
NeXT machine? We have also been switching part of our network that was
thinwire to twisted pair, and the RJ-45 port which used to work, is not
working over a throughly tested cable and segment. Is this a problem with our
NeXT's network ports on the motherboard or something else? I have searched
NeXTAnswers and all of the docs that I could find and can't seem to come up
with anything.
Any thoughts and theories would be appreciated.
May 2 13:24:56 next1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
May 2 13:25:13 next1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel
0x2000110
May 2 13:27:06 next1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
May 2 13:49:54 next1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
May 2 14:21:23 next1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel
0x2000110
May 2 14:36:52 next1 mach: en0: transmitter not ready
May 2 14:36:58 next1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
---
Jeff Huff
jhuff@next.mc.maricopa.edu
Mesa Community College Information Services Tech
BioApps Project Team Member
President PheNUG (Phoenix Area NeXTSTEP Users Group)
Out Here in AZ we love NeXTMail!!!
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD: Where did this 660MB go?
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 15:48:11 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950505154551.1763I-100000@hphalle5b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <MAGNAN.95May3141554@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <MAGNAN.95May3141554@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Hello,
I remember an option for mkfs which reserves 10% of diskspace for system
use (e.g. time optimized access). Maybe your drive is formatted using
this option. You should be able to use 'tunefs' to reset 10% to 0%.
See the man pages for further details on format, mkfs and tunefs.
Best regards,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
On Wed, 3 May 1995, Magnan Francois wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a NeXTCube with a 660MB hard-disk. When I do a "df"
> something strange happens I get:
>
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a 612794 384175 167339 70% /
> /private/vm/swapfile 612794 384175 167339 70% /private/vm/swapfile.front
>
> If I add used space and avail space I get 551514. But the total capacity
> is 612794 as you can see it. There is therefore around 61 megabytes missing.
> Where are they? Am I missing something?
>
> Thank you,
> Francois Magnan
>
> P.S.: My swapfile is only 16MB if that helps.
> --
> ______________________________________________________
> Francois Magnan
> Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
> Universite de Montreal
> email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
>
>
From: helge@haddock.cd.chalmers.se (Markus H|rnkvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Superblock
Date: 04 May 1995 22:51:29 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <HELGE.95May5005129@haddock.cd.chalmers.se>
When I access my hard drive, I get the message:
Bad superblock magic:0
Bad superblock magic:0
From the manpage, disk is supposed to locate backups of the superblock
which are kept in every cylinder group. Strangely, disk can't find any
such alternate blocks. Even more strange is that it can't even find
any on a disk that is OK. Since I only have a partial backup, I would
like to avoid having to reinstall the whole system. Is there any
utility out there that can do the job that disk and fsck obviously
can't do?
/Markus
From: athan@sait276.morgan.com (Andrew C Athan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUN SS/20 w/ 2 1G drives
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 04 May 1995 18:15:27 GMT
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
Message-ID: <ATHAN.95May4141527@sait276.morgan.com>
I'm having trouble getting a SUN SparcStation 20 to boot when two 1G drives
are installed. The machine correctly boots off of physical device 3, which
is the bottom drive and has NeXTSTEP. However, it then attempt to mount sd1a
as root!?
Giving rootdev=sd0a or rootdev=sd0 does not help. The messages regarding
resetting the SCSI bus etc. repeat a few times and then the kernel hangs with
vfs_mountroot error=22
I get a prompt that asks me if I want the monitor or do I wish to reboot.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
aca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <a-gain.hanse.de!stefan@ccwnoc.hanse.de>
Message-ID: <m0s7HU2-000btOC@a-gain>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@a-gain.hanse.de>
Date: Fri, 5 May 95 08:07:27 +0100
Subject: SysAd - FAQs, anyone?
Can some kind soul out there mail me the FAQ for SystemAdmin?
Thanx in advance = | : - )
from Stefan
----------------------------------------------------------------------Stefan
Huelf
stefan@a-gain.hanse.de ( NeXTmail favorized / MIME o.k.! )
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Ethernet Troubleshooting
Date: Tue, 2 May 95 09:11:32 PDT
Message-ID: <000BF6C9.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
I'm having a problem getting our cube up on our Ethernet network and connected
to our newly installed router. I've tried everything I can think of that won't
cost me a bunch of money and I'm hoping someone may have some more suggestions.
Here's the situation:
----------
SYSTEM INFO
----------
NeXT 25mhz 68040 Cube
NEXTSTEP 3.2
Thin Ethernet network running TCP/IP and EtherTalk (1 next, 10 Macs)
Our Class C network is subnetted into 8 - 32 host subnets
Cisco 2514 router currently configured to use 1 of its ethernet ports.
--------
SYMPTOMS
--------
* The NeXT will not see the router (can't ping it).
* The router will not see the NeXT (can't come in through the Internet side and
ping).
* The NeXT will not see any AppleTalk hosts with the 3.0 appletalk software
installed.
* The machines hangs for awhile on bootup before telling me that AutoNFS mount
can't find a host address (or something like that)
* The AppleTalk software tells me it can't mount /Net/Appleshare
* Occasionally I get the "your computer is not connected to the network" message
at bootup.
* ifconfig reports that the en0 interface is UP and RUNNING.
* The router is p
--------
I'VE TRIED
--------
* Bunches of different routing configurations trying to get some packets through
and back from the router. I can get packets to route fine through a SLIP
interface.
* Different network drop cables from machines that work.
* Pinging the NeXT from the Internet, through the router, from a different
service provider
* Using the netmask that should actually work for our subnetting system
* Contacting our Internet provider (and subsequently CISCO) to find out if this
is a router issue. Both tell me that the router is 100% OK. We even tried
moving over to router port #1 (instead of port 0) to avoid a potential problem
with the router not being able to address a subnet with all 1's.
---------------
GENERAL COMMENTS
---------------
At this point I figure something is wrong with the hardware or I have
misconfigured things. I guess my question is how do I determine which? I tried
installing the AppleTalk software so that I could try talking to the Mac's on
this network. I was hoping it would sorta be an integrity check for the
hardware, figuring if I could talk with AppleTalk then I'd know the hardware was
good but my TCP/IP configuration was bad. Well, it didn't work, but
unfortunatelly AppleTalk was so flakey under 3.0 I still don't trust having it
not work under 3.2 is conclusive evidence that my ethernet hardware is hosed.
Any suggestions about what configurations I can try to get a better handle on
what my problem is?
I'm still not willing to blame the next since nobody has been able to prove to
me that the Router is doing its job on the ethernet ports. The service techs
can telnet in via the frame relay port and all online router info says the ports
are doing their jobs, but they have not yet been out to physically verify this
is the case.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Gary
From: willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (Wilhelm Pitzeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NS486V3.3: Power Management ("Green" PC)
Date: 5 May 1995 10:46:54 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3ocvmu$9ip@news.tuwien.ac.at>
I am running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a so-called "Green PC".
It's using AMIBIOS (1993), Green Rev. B3,
SIS Power Manager Version 1.0B
If I enable the APM interface in the BIOS setup, NEXTSTEP
says "Power management enabled" while booting.
But when I klick on the new Preferences module (with the
battery icon), all I get is the message: "There was an error
loading this module". No further explanation, no message
in the console window...
So what?
Any experiences welcome,
Willi Pitzeier
Vienna, Austria
willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at
From: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail b/w NeXT and UNIX
Date: 4 May 1995 19:00:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3ob893$nj4@hecate.umd.edu>
I have a HP-UX server and bunch of NeXT machines.
Question is: how can I tune the mail servers on both sides such that
I can exchange mails between the HP box and NeXT machines?
Thanks in advance ...
Yibing Wu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: Controlling 'Request To Send' on the serial lines.
Message-ID: <D82JFu.5AE@ecf.toronto.edu>
Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 19:28:42 GMT
I want to control Request to Send and Data Terminal Ready independently.
From the man pages on ioctl, and from ioctl.h, I have worked out how
to set and clear DTR. There are also magic numbers related to RTS
and it appears that both DTR and RTS should be controlled through
either the line discipline requests TIOCGETD/TIOCSETD
or the modem state requests TIOCMODG/TIOCMODS
or the line parameter requests TIOCGETP/TIOCSETP
However, nothing that I do with the set requests or by clearing
or setting DTR has any effect on the parameters returned by the
above three get requests.
Staggering blindly through the source code for kermit and tip
didn't get me anywhere either.
I am running NS2.1 on a 68040 NeXTstation, mono.
Can anyone help me out here?
Thanks.
Colin Walsh
No NeXTmail, walshc@ecf.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: UUCP mail in OK, out not!
In-Reply-To: hocker@waldo.com's message of Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:41:42 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May5223024@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D7p4pJ.1uJ@waldo.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 02:30:24 GMT
You need to specify the UUCP mailer in the sendmail.mailhost.cf file.
DMuucp
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Problem with Mail and 3.3
In-Reply-To: blumoose@bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu's message of 28 Apr 1995 00:04:14 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May5223344@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3npbdu$ljj@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 02:33:44 GMT
Try sending mail in a shell using:
% mail -v user@host.domain
This will help you debug the problem.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Need a SyQuest disk SCSI driver!!
In-Reply-To: MROP Development's message of Thu, 27 Apr 95 13:16:00 -0700
Message-ID: <RDL.95May5223747@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <9504272016.AA03041@mt1.mantech.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 02:37:47 GMT
Your Syquest drive is a SCSI device that is attached to a single SCSI
controller. You SCSI hard drive, SCSI scanner, etc... all attach to the
same SCSI controller. Thus, you only need a SCSI driver for the controller
and your Syquest should work. In addition, you'll need to give it a unique
SCSI ID, enable parity and make sure your SCSI chain is terminated properly.
BTW I've used a Syquest 270 on NS 3.3 with an Adaptec 2940 controller.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gery@ares.fdn.fr(Gery_Divry)
Subject: Re: Help! Problem with pr renderman cannot connect to localhost.
Message-ID: <1995May5.120619.9008@ares.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.fr
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
References: <3o66ak$bjr@larry.rice.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 12:06:19 GMT
In article <3o66ak$bjr@larry.rice.edu> steve@xray.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke)
writes:
> I have a standalone machine set up running 3.3 intel. For some reason
when I
> try to do a photorealistic render (by printing for example) it doesn't
work.
> The render panel comes up, and 'localhost' is listed, but
> when I tell it to start I get an error panel with
> 'cannot connect to localhost'. I checked and all of the other
> rpc services seem to be working fine with loopback networking. It's just
the
> renderd that won't work properly. Oh, also, it also works ok if I run
> /usr/prman/prman manually on a rib file.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> --
open a console
and type
nidump -r /locations/renderers /yourmachinename
you should obtain
name = renderers;
_writers = "*";
CHILDREN = {
name = localhost;
_writers = "*";
note = "Local Renderer";
sharedTo = /;
};
if not
use NetinfoManager to modify the value
_writers should be *
if you have a domain with more than one machine
the netinfo should be configured properly
ex :
nidump -r /locations/renderers /
name = renderers;
CHILDREN = ({
name = ares;
_writers = "*";
note = "from ares";
sharedTo = /;
}, {
name = gery;
_writers = "*";
note = "from gery";
sharedTo = /;
});
I hope it can help
Gery DIVRY ( ZZVolume Daddy )
ARES Publisher
8, rue Victor Lagrange Phone: (+33) 72 80 16 30
69007 LYON Fax: (+33) 72 80 16 32
France Email: gery@ares.fdn.org
Earth, Solar System, Galaxy MW1 NeXT Mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: Question: formating a partition
Message-ID: <jpanicoD83tF9.IID@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3oaiso$l95@service1.uky.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 12:01:57 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom.netcom.com
Dan Boylin (dboylin@cayenne.net.uky.edu) wrote:
: I cut my 1 gig drive into 2 partitions when I installed NS. A 600 meg
: partition and a 400, I would now like to use the 400 meg partition as a NS
: partition, but I don't know how to format it. I tried using BuildDisk and
: it said there were not any drive available. I tried using fdisk and it
: would not se####################################################################
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From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: Controlling 'Request To Send' on the serial lines.
Message-ID: <D82pns.Cws@ecf.toronto.edu>
Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 21:43:04 GMT
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I want to control Request to Send and Data Terminal Ready independently.
From the man pages on ioctl, and from ioctl.h, I have worked out how
to set and clear DTR. There are also magic numbers related to RTS
and it appears that both DTR and RTS should be controlled through
either the line discipline requests TIOCGETD/TIOCSETD
or the modem state requests TIOCMODG/TIOCMODS
or the line parameter requests TIOCGETP/TIOCSETP
However, nothing that I do with the set requests or by clearing
or setting DTR has any effect on the parameters returned by the
above three get requests.
Staggering blindly through the source code for kermit and tip
didn't get me anywhere either.
I am running NS2.1 on a 68040 NeXTstation, mono.
Can anyone help me out here?
Thanks.
Colin Walsh
No NeXTmail, walshc@ecf.toronto.edu
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Forwarding mail over a firewall
Date: 5 May 1995 19:56:47 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <3odvtv$qgp@shelob.afs.com>
We have a firewall machine connected to the Net with a SLIP connection.
It is running a 'named' with MX records that force mail "over the wall"
to our actual post office machine inside. As long as both machines are
up and running, all is well. If the firewall goes down, sendmail on
other mailhosts cannot contact us (they time out), and the mail gets
queued on _their_ side until our firewall is running again. At least
the mail eventually gets delivered without user intervention, unless we
are down for so long that their queue times out in 48 or 72 hours.
The problem occurs if the firewall is running, but the internal post
office host goes down. In that case, the mail is deliverable as far as
the firewall, but it can't make it inside. In that case, the sender gets
a message that "service is unavailable," and the mail bounces straight
back to the user rather than being held for later delivery.
Is there a way to fix this so that either (1) the firewall accepts the
mail and holds it until the post office reawakens; or (2) the other
side's sendmail can be fooled into thinking that we are not contactable,
and holds it in their queue until we are?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer. I promise never to
lose another message about WriteUp or PasteUp if we find a solution. 8^)
--
Gregory H. Anderson | "Honey, there're few programming
Gaffer/Best Boy/Key Grip | problems that can't be solved
Anderson Financial Systems | with duct tape." -- 'Father' Duke
greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | (paraphrased), Doonesbury, 2/17/95
From: teb@blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help for a NeXT convert
Date: 5 May 1995 15:25:41 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Message-ID: <3odg1l$771@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
References: <3o8cok$rcn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
In article <3o8cok$rcn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> teb@blencoe2.chem.ornl.gov
writes:
>
> Internet services (ftp, telnet, etc..) will
> recognize IP numbers, but not the text
> (node name?) equivalent.
>
>
Thanks to all who responded. The /etc/resolv.conf file
was missing.
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Glimpse 2.1
Date: 6 May 1995 11:05:19 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3ofl5f$ota@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Has anyone successfully compiled Glimpse 2.1 on the NeXT?
mark
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HTML on NeXT
Date: 6 May 1995 02:45:46 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3oensr$l12@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3o9lhr$797@news.ualr.edu>
wli@linus (Wei Li) writes:
> How can I view a HTML file on a NeXTstation? Thanks.
Look for something called OmniWeb. It's from Lighthouse Design.
Another application that might be of interest is SpiderWoman,
but I forget where to pick that up.
It'd also be very useful if you'd include a signature on your
articles, one which gave your real email address. The "From"
field in your article is pretty useless for others trying to
contact you...
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: QLIPO
Date: 6 May 1995 02:48:28 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3oeo1t$l16@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3o5hof$k0v@bellboy.ucc.uconn.edu>
jimk@anchor.eng2.uconn.edu (JIM KOCH) writes:
> Can anyone help me find a site for a copy of qlipo? Will this
> allow me to complete the installation of Omniweb? I am getting
> no icons or graphics.
qlipo is useful in some situations, but it has nothing to do with
getting omniweb to work.
What you want to do is pick up the latest versions of
OmniImageFilter, and install that. If you have that installed,
and graphics are still not working, then you have a problem
with some *other* services that you have installed (most likely
in some other application), services which claim to work for
those image types but which aren't setup correctly.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smorris@tuzo.erin (Stephen Morris)
Subject: Need help with SLIP client and server configuration!
Message-ID: <D84A6M.B78@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Sender: news@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Usenet News)
Organization: Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 18:03:57 GMT
Greetings
I am trying to set up TransSys PNI to SLIP together two NeXT intel machines,
one on a network, one at home. I have matched ZyXel modems and fixed
IP numbers, one for the server and one for SLIP. The two IP numbers are
on the same subnet, with netmask 255.255.255.0, and their names are properly
registered with the local name server.
This should be trivial, but I can't get it to work!
I have configured PNI at both the client and the server end, according
to the book. I reproduce the config files at the end of this message.
From the client slipped machine I can't get any names resolved. If I
ping out by name, I get unknown host. I have the right resolv.conf info
(same file as works on the other machines on the same subnet). I can
however ping the server host on the other end of the slip link, but only
by IP number, not by name. I can't ping anything past the other end of
the slip link, either by name or number.
From the server end, I can ping the client either by name or IP number OK.
The packets clearly return from the client, not someplace else.
From an outside host, not the server or the client, If I ping the client, I
I get packets returning in a few ms which seem to be bouncing back from the host.
They are not showing on the modem LEDS as getting through to the client
- and they get back too fast to be getting there anyway. If I telnet or ftp
to the client , I get connection refused. In fact, *even after I hang up the
phone*, I can still ping the client from anyplace and get packets back in a
few ms.
It appears that the client can't resolve names because its queries stop at
the server on the way back. The server continues to pretend it has both
its own and the client's IP address even after the line is dropped.
It even does it after rebooting! The pnid deamon is not running except when
user pni0 is logged in.
Another annoying thing: if I try to bring the link down on the client using
pnirun -down pni0, I get an error saying that it can't bind to the deamon. If
I use pnistat -c down pni0 the link goes down OK, but I can't restart it with
pnirun without doing a reboot.
I have a feeling I have something simple wrong here.
Any help appreciated!
---
+=================================================================+
+ Prof. Stephen Morris + The optimist proclaims that we live in +
+ U. Toronto Physics + the best of all possible worlds; +
+ phone:(416) 978-6810 + and the pessimist fears +
+ fax: (416) 978-1545 + this is true. -- James Branch Cabell +
+=================================================================+
+ http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/department/faculty/morris.html +
+=================================================================+
From: rworne@primenet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help: Cube and NS upgrades...
Date: 6 May 1995 16:19:38 GMT
Organization: Primenet
Message-ID: <3og7iq$bca@news4.primenet.com>
I was just wondering...
I picked up a B&W cube, complete, and NS 3.3. What I was wondering was
exactly how to install the new OS to the cube if it does not have a floppy
drive??!?!
If it needs one, where do I get a SCSI 2.88 floppy for this system?
From: marc@lore.acs.calpoly.edu (D. Marc Stearman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS: read errors
Date: 5 May 1995 18:40:21 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Message-ID: <3odrel$9uk@isnews.calpoly.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: marc
Hello, I was wondering if someone had a list of all the NFS read errors,
and could send me a copy. Recently, I have been getting a couple of
read errors of the format:
NFS read error 4 on pagein
NFS read error 13 on pagein
and was curious as to what the numbers correspong to.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-Marc
--
D. Marc Stearman \___ ___/ I used to have a
marc@lore.acs.calpoly.edu \___ ___/ job as a mannequin, but they
http://phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu \___/ said I didn't look real enough.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yzhao@netcom.com (Yi Zhao)
Subject: Problem with SafetyNet
Message-ID: <yzhaoD868LL.1qA@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 19:24:57 GMT
Sender: yzhao@netcom20.netcom.com
I am trying to use SafetyNet 2.3 for back up for several weeks without
success. It always goes this this
1). After clicking Back-Up, a window pops up, saying "Mounting Volumn..."
for 25-30 minutes. (why takes so long?)
2). Then it says that the tape does not have a valid SafetyNet label, and asks
if I want label it, I always say yes and erase the previous content
(even though it is a new tape), then takes 10-15 minutes to label the
volumn
3). Then it says "Please insert the volumn with label so-and-so", which is
the label I give to the volumn for the archieve. It has only 3 options
there, "OK", "Quit", and "Abort", none of them is doing anything good.
4). If in this cycle of 30 minutes of waiting, there is some luck, the
SafetyNet windows actually says it is backing up some files, then
always stops at the middle either having a scsi write error or media
error.
I tried the above procedures repeatedly using different HP DAT drives and
on both NeXT and Intel boxes.
And another thing is some people before me apparently had better luck than
me and managed to produce a SafetyNet backup. When I try to restore the files
after one hard drive went bad, I found that the archive and profile files
were on the bad disk, so I can not restore it anyway since SafetyNet uses
files you expect it to restore. Is there any way to force it restore the
files without these archive definition files?
BTW, can someone recommend a better and easier to use backup utility on
NeXT?
From: andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com (Andrew Abernathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: answer: using iomega ZIP drives with NEXTSTEP
Date: 4 May 1995 21:23:05 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <3obgjp$m32@nwestmail.entp.mccaw.com>
References: <1995May3.215133.10570@news.media.mit.edu>
In article <1995May3.215133.10570@news.media.mit.edu>
lacsap@sledge-hammer.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
> Per the instructions, I reformatted the disk using
> the disk utility provided by NeXT. You need to specify
> the raw device name (ie /dev/rsd1a)... Issue the Format
> command, then the init command.
Per what instructions?
I just got mine today. I only have one spare disk, so I haven't
done tons of experimentation, but formatting for DOS doesn't seem
to be an option. (Neither could it read the DOS pre-formatted
disk.) Formatting for NeXT simply didn't work, either from the
Workspace or with sdform from the command line. Formatting for Mac
was fine - took about ten minutes. After that, it formatted for
NeXT fine, and it only took a couple of seconds (simply putting
down a new filesystem, apparently). I did a builddisk on it, but
couldn't boot from it on this NS/I system. I'll try it on black
hardware tonight.
Seems to work well, and performance is decent. Running NeXTIME
movies (copied from the NeXTIME cd) off of the disk worked fine.
(15fps, 320x240?) Copying a single, 42 MB file gave transfer rate
of about 13 MB / minute.
> I smoked one already, so reliablilty should be a question
> mark at this point.
Talk in the Mac groups implies that there's a decent number of
disks that either don't work or go bad real quick. (And a decent
number of drives that either don't work or are real loud.) Iomega
has apparently been extremely good about replacing these - shipping
new drives overnight, and including a prepaid box for shipping back
the broken drives.
Formatted usable capacity: 89.8 MB. (BuildDisk reports 96 MB -
presumably the filesystem is reserving the other 6 MB, as BSD
filesystem is wont to do, though I would have expected it to
reserve 10 MB.) For Mac filesystem, formatted capacity of 94.4 MB.
Something else people might want to be aware of, is that there's no
write protect tab - write protection is done via software. Meaning,
of course, you can't do it under NeXTstep. Making the disk
non-writable via unix permissions doesn't keep someone from working
in some subdirectory, unfortunately.
The one disk that comes with the drive has about 45 MB of software
on it, and the disk comes write protected, so if you want to blow
away the contents and use it for your own data, you'll need to put
it on a Mac or PC to un-protect it. (I assume - I haven't actually
done so.)
If there are other questions, I will try to summarize to the net.
--
andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com (Seattle area)
14335 Northeast 24th Street Bellevue, WA 98007
(NeXTmail / MIME / MS Mail spoken here)
I don't speak for McCaw. I can barely speak for myself.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smorris@tuzo.erin (Stephen Morris)
Subject: Re: Need help with SLIP client and server configuration!
Message-ID: <D84HKr.Drs@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Sender: news@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Usenet News)
Organization: Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada
References: <D84A6M.B78@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 20:43:36 GMT
In article <D84A6M.B78@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>,
Stephen Morris <smorris@jurgen.physics.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Greetings
>
>I am trying to set up TransSys PNI to SLIP together two NeXT intel machines,
>one on a network, one at home. I have matched ZyXel modems and fixed
>IP numbers, one for the server and one for SLIP. The two IP numbers are
>on the same subnet, with netmask 255.255.255.0, and their names are properly
>registered with the local name server.
>
>This should be trivial, but I can't get it to work!
>
>I have configured PNI at both the client and the server end, according
>to the book. I reproduce the config files at the end of this message.
>
>From the client slipped machine I can't get any names resolved. If I
>ping out by name, I get unknown host. I have the right resolv.conf info
>(same file as works on the other machines on the same subnet). I can
>however ping the server host on the other end of the slip link, but only
>by IP number, not by name. I can't ping anything past the other end of
>the slip link, either by name or number.
>
>From the server end, I can ping the client either by name or IP number OK.
>The packets clearly return from the client, not someplace else.
>
>From an outside host, not the server or the client, If I ping the client, I
>I get packets returning in a few ms which seem to be bouncing back from the host.
>They are not showing on the modem LEDS as getting through to the client
>- and they get back too fast to be getting there anyway. If I telnet or ftp
>to the client , I get connection refused. In fact, *even after I hang up the
>phone*, I can still ping the client from anyplace and get packets back in a
>few ms.
>
>It appears that the client can't resolve names because its queries stop at
>the server on the way back. The server continues to pretend it has both
>its own and the client's IP address even after the line is dropped.
>It even does it after rebooting! The pnid deamon is not running except when
>user pni0 is logged in.
>
>Another annoying thing: if I try to bring the link down on the client using
>pnirun -down pni0, I get an error saying that it can't bind to the deamon. If
>I use pnistat -c down pni0 the link goes down OK, but I can't restart it with
>pnirun without doing a reboot.
>
>
>I have a feeling I have something simple wrong here.
>
>Any help appreciated!
>
>---
>+=================================================================+
>+ Prof. Stephen Morris + The optimist proclaims that we live in +
>+ U. Toronto Physics + the best of all possible worlds; +
>+ phone:(416) 978-6810 + and the pessimist fears +
>+ fax: (416) 978-1545 + this is true. -- James Branch Cabell +
>+=================================================================+
>+ http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/department/faculty/morris.html +
>+=================================================================+
>
>
Ooops;
I forgot to include my config files: here they are.
this is the client:
#
# Pretty close to minimal configuration file for just plain SLIP using
# a ZyXEL modem dialing into a Xylogics Annex SLIP servier.
#
# Modified.
#
# $Header: /local/SRCS/slip2/pnid/support/config.slip,v 1.5 1994/05/16 02:31:20 louie Exp $
## PART I.
set Config(pni:INTERFACE) pni0
set Config(pni:MTU) 1006
set Config(pni:ADDRESS) 128.100.75.139
set Config(pni:REMOTEADDRESS) 128.100.75.103
set Config(pni:NETWORKMASK) 255.255.255.0
set Config(pni:DEFAULT) 0
set Config(slip:MODE) slip
set Config(tty:DEVICE) /dev/cufb
set Config(tty:SPEED) 38400
set Config(tty:MODEMTYPE) zyxel
set Config(tty:SERVERTYPE) pni
set Config(tty:SERVERNAME) jurgen
set Config(tty:NUMBER) 9-978-1245
set Config(jurgen:DIALTYPE) TONE
set Config(jurgen:USERNAME) pni0
set Config(jurgen:PASSWORD) SomeSecretWord
# PART II.
stack PNI pni
stack SLIP slip
stack TTY tty
set Config(callLog) "/usr/adm/pni.call-log"
# PART III.
proc LINK_start { encap } {
log "LINK $encap connected"
}
proc LINK_stop { encap } {
log "LINK $encap disconnected"
}
Here is the server side:
# Sample configuration file for use in a SERVER role (incoming SLIP/CSLIP)
# calls.
# set the name of the interface to configure (pni0, pni1, etc..)
set Config(pni:INTERFACE) pni0
# set the MTU (maximum transmission unit) to be used. Since we're going to
# be using TCP header compression, set this down low. Other wise use something
# like 1006 or 1500 bytes for "normal" SLIP.
set Config(pni:MTU) 1006
# set OUR (local) IP address for the network interface
set Config(pni:ADDRESS) 128.100.75.103
# for a point-to-point link (SLIP or CSLIP), configure the REMOTE IP address
set Config(pni:REMOTEADDRESS) 128.100.75.139
# set the network mask to be used.
set Config(pni:NETWORKMASK) 255.255.255.0
# install a default route pointing to this interface? If so, set non-zero
# set Config(pni:DEFAULT) 1
set Config(pni:DEFAULT) 0
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# SLIP/CSLIP encapsulator. Used to take an IP packet and perform SLIP/CSLIP
# encapsulation upon it. Only parameter is to select between "slip", "cslip"
# or "auto_cslip" which will switch into "cslip" modem if a compressed packet is
# received from the other side.
#
# change slip1 here
#
# set Config(slip1:MODE) slip
set Config(slip:MODE) slip
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# IP packet filter configuration. Used to filter incoming and outgoing
# traffic
# Set filter expression for packets being received which will be dropped.
# set Config(filter:INPUTFILTER) {}
# Set list of RPC protocols which will be dropped on input
# set Config(filter:INPUTFILTER_RPCS) {
# nfs netinfobind
# }
# Set filter expression for packets being received which will be logged
# check for SYN|FIN|RST with zero
# set Config(filter:INPUT_LOG) {
# (tcp[13] & 3 != 0) or (tcp[13] & 7 != 0 and tcp[8:4]==0)
# }
# Set filter expression for packets being transmitted which will be dropped
# set Config(filter:OUTPUTFILTER) {
# }
# Set list of RPC protocols which will be dropped on output
# set Config(filter:OUTPUTFILTER_RPCS) {
# }
# Set filter expression for packets being sent which will be logged
# set Config(filter:OUTPUT_LOG) {
# }
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# TTY configuration. This encapsulator uses tty devices to send and
# receive characters on a serial port. TTY configuration is null,
# and assume default values for "server" mode operation.
# See TTY.encap/TTY_objInit.tcl for details.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# Finally, actually configure the encapsulators to be used in order. The
# stack command is used to do this.
#
# The first argument is the name of the encapsulator module (which are
# ALL in UPPER CASE).
#
# The second argument is the label that we use to reference the
# encapsulator. The label is necessary because it is possible to use
# the same encapsulator more than once in a configuration, and it is
# necessary to be able to refer to each one.
#
# These are specified in order, from the "top" level encapsulator, which
# is always PNI (the kernel network interface driver) with successive
# encapsulators ending with a real "device" such as TTY or a pseudo
# device like LOOP (for looping back) or TUNNEL for building IP tunnels.
stack PNI pni
# stack FILTER filter **** old config
# stack SLIP slip1
stack SLIP slip
stack TTY tty
#
# User hooks
#
proc LINK_start { encap } {
log "LINK $encap connected"
}
proc LINK_stop { encap } {
log "LINK $encap disconnected"
}
# -- that's all
From: jef@best.com (Jonathan E. Flamm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with disktab
Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 13:48:13 -0800
Organization: Sega of America
Message-ID: <jef-0505951348130001@jef.vip.best.com>
Hello,
I am trying to use a Seagate ST12400N 2G disk as the second disk on
NS3.3. I would like to split it 1G NS and 1G DOS. I have tried using the
fdisk utilities under NS3.3 but I get something about a bad reading from
the BIOS. I have tried using fdisk under DOS and this works fine. When
I reboot NS it says the same thing. Tech support told me to use disktab
to partition the drive. I am attempting to do this but am having
trouble. Does anyone have an example disktab entry for this purpose?
Thanks!!
-jonathan
--
Jonathan E. Flamm
jef@best.com
From: ptuomola@xs4all.nl (Petri Tuomola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mach: Expanding zone kalloc.1024
Date: 5 May 1995 21:05:46 GMT
Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses
Message-ID: <3oe3va$41v@news.xs4all.nl>
For some reason my wonderful black NeXTstation adds the abovementioned
entry to syslog once every hour. If the load on the system is heavy, then
it happens even more often. The system functions perfectly, I'm just
interested to know what is causing it. I would not mind allocating
a lot of memory once for that "zone kalloc.1024" so that it would not have
to be expanded all the time - if I just knew how.
My system is a Mono NeXTstation with 1GB disk and 100MB swap, unfortunately
only 8MB ram (that is probably what is causing the messages). Running NeXTstep
3.1.
If anyone knows what is causing the message, please mail me at
ptuomola@xs4all.nl. Thanks.
Petri
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AFS on white (Intel) hardware?
Date: 6 May 1995 02:42:54 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3oenne$l08@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <D84L67.2MK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook) writes:
> Garance A. Drosehn writes
> > I'm wondering if it'd work on NS-3.2 on NeXT hardware. Anyone
> > try it? I'd like to upgrade eclipse to 3.3, but I can't risk
> > doing that if it means I lose AFS.
>
> We run it on about 20 3.2 NeXTs, using the 3.0 AFS version of
> loginwindow.app. Every once in a while something funny happens
> that looks like it MIGHT be AFS-related, but I've only seen it
> on four machines. Unfortunately, one of those is my machine.
> I recently upgraded three of the four to the last AFS version
> for NeXTs. The problem has occurred since then, but it seems to
> be less often. But I need more time to evaluate this, since it
> didn't happen very often before.
Whoops. Stupidity on my part. I already have the latest AFS
running on NeXTSTEP-3.2 on NeXT hardware. Eclipse is running
NS-3.2. What I'm wondering is if anyone has had the nerve to
try running the latest AFS on NeXTSTEP-3.3.
In my case I don't care of loginwindow.app works. I log in
using the regular NeXT login setup (logging into a userid that
is local to my machine, not an AFS userid), and then I klog
to the AFS userid if I need to access files in /campus. I
just need AFS itself to work, not the loginwindow changes
that would be specific to NeXTSTEP.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook)
Subject: Re: AFS on white (Intel) hardware?
Message-ID: <D84L67.2MK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
References: <3o9ila$eaf@usenet.rpi.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 22:01:18 GMT
Garance A. Drosehn writes
>I'm wondering if it'd work on NS-3.2 on NeXT hardware. Anyone
>try it? I'd like to upgrade eclipse to 3.3, but I can't risk
>doing that if it means I lose AFS.
We run it on about 20 3.2 NeXTs, using the 3.0 AFS version of loginwindow.app.
Every once in a while something funny happens that looks like it MIGHT be
AFS-related, but I've only seen it on four machines. Unfortunately, one of
those is my machine. I recently upgraded three of the four to the last AFS
version for NeXTs. The problem has occurred since then, but it seems to be
less often. But I need more time to evaluate this, since it didn't happen very
often before.
--
Bob Cook (415) 926-2769 bobcook@slac.stanford.edu
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
PGP public key: ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/bobcook/pgp.publickey
From: Nick Boris <nmboris@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: DNS under NS3.2/3.3
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 17:10:16 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950504170751.385A-100000@mulberry>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I have seen in teh SYS Admin manual some talk of running a secondary DNS
under NS 3.3 (soon to be upgraded to 3.3).
I am wondering if it is possible to setup a primary DNS under NS.
This is all on White hardware.
Thank you greatly in advance,
Nick
{ postmaster@, webmaster@, ftp@ --- purelogic.com}
{ --- nite.net}
{ --- lineartech.com}
nick@nite.net --- @nite.net Music Resource, NYC
nmboris@purelogic.com --- Pure Logic Computers, NYC
nmboris@artsci.wustl.edu --- Washington University in St. Louis
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~nmboris/ White Noise
As ever, the opinions expressed are not those of my employer, though
they should be.
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3ogsvq$e3l@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Control: cancel <3ogsvq$e3l@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 May 1995 22:30:47 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3ogtan$e73@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
cancel <3ogsvq$e3l@gap.cco.caltech.edu> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin
This article was cancelled from within NN version 6.5.0 #12 (NOV)
From: ltinguely@ping.ch (Lionel Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: !!! URGEN who knows a mother board with a non bugged PCI chipset !!!
Date: Sat, 06 May 1995 17:38:41 GMT
Organization: Ping Net Sarl, Lausanne
Message-ID: <3ogjbr$g3p@server.ping.ch>
Hello !
Do you know a 100Mhz Dual or Single Pentium MotherBoard EISA/PCI
with a non bugged PCI chipset !!!
see: NeXTanswer entry No 1823
Thanks
****************************************************
Lionel Tinguely Rue Orient-Ville
1005 Lausanne
Switzerland
E-mail: ltinguely@ping.ch (MIME, BinHex)
PS: don't use UUCP
****************************************************
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with SafetyNet
Date: 7 May 1995 06:21:28 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995May6.224436.19919@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <yzhaoD868LL.1qA@netcom.com>
In article <yzhaoD868LL.1qA@netcom.com> yzhao@netcom.com (Yi Zhao) writes:
[timing problems snipped, which I have never seen before]
> And another thing is some people before me apparently had better luck
than
> me and managed to produce a SafetyNet backup. When I try to restore the
files
> after one hard drive went bad, I found that the archive and profile
files
> were on the bad disk, so I can not restore it anyway since SafetyNet
uses
> files you expect it to restore. Is there any way to force it restore the
> files without these archive definition files?
Yes. Use the menu option to Rebuild an Archive. The slightly confusing
part is that you have to enter a volume prefix, which is then ignored.
Make it read your tape, and it will recreate the archive details based on
the contents of your tape.
> BTW, can someone recommend a better and easier to use backup utility on
> NeXT?
No.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: Wesley C. Smith <wes@take3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I change the "From:" field in sendmail?
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 17:10:50 GMT
Organization: Take 3
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <950506131050.981AAABF.wes@sherlock.take3.com>
References: <MAGNAN.95May3144909@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
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>I have a PPP connection. My mail must be redirected to a pop server.
>I sucessfully changed the Reply to: field in my sendmail.cf file. How
>can I change the From field?
An easy way to achieve this is to run Eloquent instead of Mail.app. Eloquent
lets you set the From: and other header lines -- just type in the from line
you want. If you use Eloquent with the SMTP option to your providers
mailhost your sendmail will never get a chance to change the From: line.
Alternately you can edit your version of sendmail to just leave alone the
From line that Eloquent sets.
For more info on Eloquent, including educational pricing, send e-mail to
eloquent_info@take3.com
Wesley C. Smith
wes@take3.com NeXT, MIME, ASCII, SUN, Microsoft
Take 3 (616) 228-6556 phone
P.O. Box 40
Cedar, MI 49621-0040
From: Wesley C. Smith <wes@take3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Filters
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 17:16:31 GMT
Organization: Take 3
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <950506131631.981AAABG.wes@sherlock.take3.com>
References: <3nlqiq$9io@phakt.usc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: mail filter
>how can I effectively filter out unwanted mail
Eloquent has sorting rules that you could set-up so that it would
automatically delete mail from specific e-mail addresses. It wouldn't stop
you from being bombed but it would keep you from having to ever see the
messages. It could also send an automatic reply to the person who sent the
bomb, telling him that it wasn't appreciated.
For more info about Eloquent send a e-mail message to
eloquent_info@take3.com
Wesley C. Smith
wes@take3.com NeXT, MIME, ASCII, SUN, Microsoft
Take 3 (616) 228-6556 phone
P.O. Box 40
Cedar, MI 49621-0040
From: Wesley C. Smith <wes@take3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail routing HELP
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 17:26:10 GMT
Organization: Take 3
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <950506132610.981AAABH.wes@sherlock.take3.com>
References: <3nbb7t$6jm@phakt.usc.edu>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: mail routing help
>Mark Allman wrote:
>>Why not just set up a .forward file is the home directory of your
>>other accounts? The content of the file is one line with the full
>>internet address where mail should be forwarded. This is the only
>>way I can survive in this multi-acccount, multi-system world ;-).
Another way to "survive" is to use a mail program that can access multiple
inboxes that reside on different computers -- like Eloquent ;-) You can set
it up so that when it gets mail it will get it from up to three different
mailboxes that can be on different computers using POP, IMAP, or Local file.
Wesley C. Smith
wes@take3.com NeXT, MIME, ASCII, SUN, Microsoft
Take 3 (616) 228-6556 phone
P.O. Box 40
Cedar, MI 49621-0040
From: infospan@infospan.com. (Max Tardiveau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD: Where did this 660MB go?
Date: 7 May 1995 03:52:31 GMT
Organization: Realm Internet Systems Newport Beach, CA USA (714) 261-1116
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ohg5v$549@realm.net>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950505154551.1763I-100000@hphalle5b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
In article
<Pine.HPP.3.91.950505154551.1763I-100000@hphalle5b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I remember an option for mkfs which reserves 10% of diskspace for system
> use (e.g. time optimized access). Maybe your drive is formatted using
> this option. You should be able to use 'tunefs' to reset 10% to 0%.
> See the man pages for further details on format, mkfs and tunefs.
--
Bad idea. The Berkeley file system really needs free space to do things
like defragmentation and optimization. Lowering the 10% threshhold is
not recommended, and it should NEVER be set to 0%. Read any book on the
internals of BSD if you don't believe me.
In other words, don't second-guess McKusick, he knows what he's doing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Max Tardiveau - Registered alien
E-mail : max@realm.net
Quote of the day : "Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!"
-- W. C. Fields
From: boyd@ducky.idbsu.edu (Boyd Wold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP 920904 (telnet-ok, ftp-ok, finger-ok, ***MAIL-NOT OK***)
Date: 7 May 1995 18:47:57 GMT
Organization: Boise State University
Message-ID: <3oj4kt$5n0@euskadi.idbsu.edu>
I have installed slip 920904 and it works fine. I can't seem to get any
sort of mail program to work though. I have studied sendmail a little but
don't understand how to configure it.
Is there something I need to do that will let Mail.app know where to send
mail?
Once I do get it working, is there a way to get the From: prompt to show
another address besides the defualt? I am using a Dynamic Slip account
and the From: address is not valid all the time. I want to be able to
give a permament address to reply to.
Thanks in advance.
Also, there seems to be more and more questions concerning Slip and PPP.
I can condense the answers to my questions and will be happy to repost
them to comp.sys.next.sysadmin. Or to anyone who would like them emailed.
-B
REPLY TO: bwold@envirolink.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: help with disktab
Message-ID: <D88G6K.9Dr@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <jef-0505951348130001@jef.vip.best.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 00:03:55 GMT
Jonathan E. Flamm (jef@best.com) wrote:
: I am trying to use a Seagate ST12400N 2G disk as the second disk on
: NS3.3. I would like to split it 1G NS and 1G DOS. I have tried using the
: fdisk utilities under NS3.3 but I get something about a bad reading from
: the BIOS. I have tried using fdisk under DOS and this works fine. When
: I reboot NS it says the same thing. Tech support told me to use disktab
: to partition the drive. I am attempting to do this but am having
: trouble. Does anyone have an example disktab entry for this purpose?
NeXTAnswers 1533 will get you where you need to go, Jonathan.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 8 May 1995 00:15:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3ojnqc$3uv@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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===========================================
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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:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
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ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
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=====================================
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From: idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Satan
Date: 8 May 1995 07:14:21 GMT
Organization: Seednet, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
Message-ID: <3okgcd$qac@aladdin.iii.org.tw>
Keywords: Satan
Dear NeXT Users,
Does anyone know where to find a copy of Satan for NeXStep/Intel?
I would be very appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
From: willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (Wilhelm Pitzeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NS486V3.3: Power Management ("Green" PC)
Date: 8 May 1995 09:56:29 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <3okpsd$df@news.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <3ocvmu$9ip@news.tuwien.ac.at> <3odhhj$q5n@fu-berlin.de>
<thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE> wrote in comp.sys.next.misc:
> In article <3ocvmu$9ip@news.tuwien.ac.at> willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at
> (Wilhelm Pitzeier) writes:
> > I am running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a so-called "Green PC".
> > It's using AMIBIOS (1993), Green Rev. B3,
> > SIS Power Manager Version 1.0B
> >
> > If I enable the APM interface in the BIOS setup, NEXTSTEP
> > says "Power management enabled" while booting.
> > But when I klick on the new Preferences module (with the
> > battery icon), all I get is the message: "There was an error
> > loading this module". No further explanation, no message
> > in the console window...
> >
> > So what?
> There is an error in the German.bundle
> Use the English.bundle instead ...
Yes, you are right, it really works in English.
I have now fixed this bug.
I have put the new German bundle to
ftp://eitaco.tuwien.ac.at/pub/GermanPowerManagement.rtfd.compressed
- Willi
From: md1hakan@mdstud.chalmers.se (H}kan Jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: gcc-2.6.3
Date: 8 May 1995 09:57:41 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics and Computing Science
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3okpul$8qa@nyheter.chalmers.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi!
I am trying to build gcc-2.6.3 on my pentium. Since I am a beginner at this I
have a couple of beginners questions that I have not found the answers to in any
FAQ.
1) Where should I put gcc sources and executables? Is usr/local the standard
place to them on NS also?
2) When I am building gcc it stops with an exit 1 after a while when it can't find
makeinfo.But I don't see why it asks for makeinfo since the info files are there.
3) How do I build gcc to look for headers in /usr/include? There is a
localdir flag in the makefile but I don't want to change that. There is
also a tooldir but I am not sure if I should use it.
I apologize for asking these beginners questions but I have to find out some way
and I have not been able to find it elsewhere.
Yours,
Hakan Jonsson
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing from Windows on PC to NeXT printer?
Date: 7 May 1995 17:03:24 GMT
Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Message-ID: <3oiugs$bn@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Keywords: print, NeXT laser printer, Windows, PC
Hello,
I'm new to the NSFIP world. In fact, I am only now
starting to look for hardware to buy for home. I plan
to buy something that will work well with both NEXTSTEP
(for me) and DOS/WINDOWS (for my wife). I'm sure I
will have lots of questions, but at the moment I have
one particular question that really concerns me. The
question relates to black hardware and white hardware
sharing the same NeXT printer when the PC is running
Windows. I apologize in advance if this topic has been
discussed ad naseum. If so, perhaps someone can at
least point me to the appropriate place or forward the
solution to me. Here are the details:
CURRENT SETUP: a NeXT cube and a NeXT laser printer
FUTURE ADDITION: an Intel-based, NEXTSTEP-compatible PC
If I buy the appropriate Ethernet card, I assume that I
should be able to connect the PC to my cube via coaxial
cable and print to the NeXT laser printer from within
NEXTSTEP running on the PC.
QUESTION 1: Can I do the same from within DOS/WINDOWS
running on the PC?
QUESTION 2: If so, how?
That is, if my wife is working on a document on the PC
using Windows, can she print directly to the NeXT laser
printer via the ethernet connection? My guess is "NO",
but I'd love to be wrong. If the answer is "YES", then
what do I need to do to set things up?
In case it's not totally obvious, I have never used DOS
or Windows. Assuming we can not print directly (say by
selecting print in some menu), can all (most, some, any)
Windows apps save files as postscript? If so, would this
postscript file be compatible with NEXTSTEP, in the sense
that it could be moved to my cube and printed from there?
Assuming this feature is not built-in to many (any?)
Windows apps, is there software available (from Adobe?)
to transform standard Windows output (is this an oxymoron?)
into NEXTSTEP-compatible postscript? If so, what is it
called, where do I get it, and how much does it cost?
Is there some other simple solution that I'm overlooking?
I'd appreciate any help I can get with this. Obviously,
we would like to avoid buying a second printer. Thanks
in advance for any and all help.
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: mp@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Pruefer DL8OAU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp setup?
Date: 6 May 95 16:03:05 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <mp.799776185@maud>
References: <ANDERSON.95May4095525@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu (Stephen Anderson) writes:
>I've seen various references to a step-by-step guide to setting up
>anonymous ftp under NeXTstep (3.3, if it makes a difference), but I
>never paid any attention, because I didn't want to get into that. Now
>I find I have to. I can't find anything in NeXTanswers, or in the
>Network and System Administration manual. Can someone please point me
>to a source?
Read man page for ftpd:
4) If the user name is ``anonymous'' or ``ftp'', an
anonymous ftp account must be present in the password
file (user ``ftp''). In this case the user is allowed
to log in by specifying any password (by convention
this is given as the client host's name).
In the last case, ftpd takes special measures to restrict
the client's access privileges. The server performs a
chroot(2) command to the home directory of the ``ftp'' user.
In order that system security is not breached, it is recom-
mended that the ``ftp'' subtree be constructed with care;
the following rules are recommended.
~ftp)
Make the home directory owned by ``ftp'' and unwritable
by anyone.
~ftp/bin)
Make this directory owned by the super-user and unwrit-
able by anyone. The program ls(1) must be present to
support the list commands. This program should have
mode 111.
~ftp/etc)
Make this directory owned by the super-user and unwrit-
able by anyone. The files passwd(5) and group(5) must
be present for the ls command to work properly. These
files should be mode 444.
~ftp/pub)
Make this directory mode 777 and owned by ``ftp''.
Users should then place files which are to be accessi-
ble via the anonymous account in this directory.
SEE ALSO
ftp(1C), getusershell(3), syslogd(8)
>Thanks,
>--Steve Anderson
><anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: roland@onevision.de
Subject: Re: SUN SS/20 w/ 2 1G drives
Message-ID: <D8946w.Gn@onevision.de>
Sender: usenet@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <ATHAN.95May4141527@sait276.morgan.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 08:42:32 GMT
In article <ATHAN.95May4141527@sait276.morgan.com> athan@sait276.morgan.com
(Andrew C Athan) writes:
>
> I'm having trouble getting a SUN SparcStation 20 to boot when two 1G drives
> are installed. The machine correctly boots off of physical device 3, which
> is the bottom drive and has NeXTSTEP. However, it then attempt to mount sd1a
> as root!?
>
> Giving rootdev=sd0a or rootdev=sd0 does not help. The messages regarding
> resetting the SCSI bus etc. repeat a few times and then the kernel hangs with
>
> vfs_mountroot error=22
>
> I get a prompt that asks me if I want the monitor or do I wish to reboot.
Hi.
Before booting enter the SUN ROM-Monitor with <STOP>+<A> and then type
setenv boot-device disk3
(if your boot-disk is SCSI-ID 3)
then type
boot.
This helped for me.
Roland
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From: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it (pisati stefano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reduce application size ?
Date: 8 May 1995 14:22:49 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Message-ID: <3ol9fp$22l@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Hi, I'm working on black hardware and I wan't to know if there is the
possibility to eliminate other plattaform support from the various
application that I've found on the net... I'm not out of space but I think
that it's better to have this space free... any idea on this ???
TIA
--
73 de -_ Stefano _-
"Stat rosa pristina nomine nomina nuda tenemus"
----------------------------------------------------------------
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NeXTmail: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it PGP-Key on request
From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: making Maxtor 540SL HD bootable
Date: 8 May 1995 18:48:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3olp2q$ejh@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <D84zFo.6HJ@sju.edu>
In article <D84zFo.6HJ@sju.edu> dcarpent@sju.edu (David Carpenter) writes:
> I have been trying to install a Maxtor MXT-540SL SCSI
> drive in my (non-Turbo) NeXT slab. I've formatted it
> using disk -F, initialized it using disk -i, and loaded
> the system software using the NeXT CD-Rom for NS3.2.
> Everything seems to work fine until I try to boot from
> the drive (/dev/sd0a) which is an internal drive
> replacing the Quantam 105MB drive that shipped with the
> slab. When I try to boot I get the following error message:
>
> Bad version 0x70000600
> Bad cksum
> Bad cksum
> Bad cksum
> Bad label
>
I've had the same problem. You need to have rom version j1.5; you probably have
1.3. You can call Maxtor's BBS and download this version of the firmware, or
perhaps take the drive back to the vendor and ask them to replace it with one with
the right firmware version.
You can see the firmware version when the system boots from a different drive and
scans the SCSI bus.
The drive boots fine on my cube with the newer firmware; and it's mighty fast.
Best,
Pete
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SunSoft Object Products Group | sees a comedy. The feeling man looks
Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (NeXTMail) | at the world and sees a tragedy.
***************************************************************************
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD: Where did this 660MB go?
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 11:47:09 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950509113958.4870C-100000@hphalle1j.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950505154551.1763I-100000@hphalle5b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <3ohg5v$549@realm.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <3ohg5v$549@realm.net>
On 7 May 1995, Max Tardiveau wrote:
> In article
> > I remember an option for mkfs which reserves 10% of diskspace for system
> > use (e.g. time optimized access). Maybe your drive is formatted using
> > this option. You should be able to use 'tunefs' to reset 10% to 0%.
> > See the man pages for further details on format, mkfs and tunefs.
> --
>
> Bad idea. The Berkeley file system really needs free space to do things
> like defragmentation and optimization. Lowering the 10% threshhold is
> not recommended, and it should NEVER be set to 0%. Read any book on the
> internals of BSD if you don't believe me.
>
I only wanted to show, where the 60MB of the original poster went. By
the way I tested mkfs and tunefs on my NSFIP systems and went around the
following things:
- you can't set the limit down to 0%. The system alway keeps a minimum
of 1%
- I simply can't recognize differences between 10% and 1% on access
time of the disk (I didn't turn on the optimize time option of the
filesystem.)
I'm currently wondering wether this optimization space af 10% is really
needed on a single user system or if less would be acceptable too. I
don't know UNIX very well, but maybe these optimizations are ony
noticeable on multiuser systems? (E.g. several people working on the disk
the same time?)
Can anybody give me a hint, how to messure the speed penalty several
people mentioned?
Best regards,
Boerny.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Bernhard Scholz (IRC: (Boerny) #amiga, #next) Opinions are my own!
scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (prefered) Computers can do everthing
scholz@gsocmail.rm.op.dlr.de (emergency) better than human ---
http://www.leo.org/~scholz/scholz.html especially doing mistakes.
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Public Key PGP ???
Date: 8 May 1995 12:52:12 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3olspc$jn9@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: Where can I find out about and how to use PGP?
Keywords: PGP
I would like to know more about PGP which (?) is the same as having a Public Key or encryption??
Where can I get more info, how to and how to set up. I know I've seen PGP software?? on certain FTP sites. But i have no idea how to use . If someone says finger me for my key I still wouldn't know how to use it.
Much thanks in advance.
matthew
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
From: duboisj@rabin.mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with NeXT's make?? (was Re: gcc-2.6.3)
Date: 8 May 1995 21:38:18 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3om30a$knv@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
References: <3okpul$8qa@nyheter.chalmers.se>
In article <3okpul$8qa@nyheter.chalmers.se> md1hakan@mdstud.chalmers.se
(H}kan Jonsson) writes:
> 2) When I am building gcc it stops with an exit 1 after a while when it
can't find
> makeinfo.But I don't see why it asks for makeinfo since the info files
are there.
>
> Hakan Jonsson
This may be an unrelated problem, but I've had trouble compiling
gcc as well. The Makefile for gcc requires a file called move-if-change
in the gcc source directory. It references this file as follows :
$(srcdir)/move-if-change tmp-attr.h insn-attr.h
with srcdir defined at the top of the Makefile as :
srcdir = .
If the user performing the make does not have . in the path (as root might
well not) then the make will bomb complaining that move-if-change was not
found. Appending . to the path solves the problem, but the makefile looks
like it should make this an unecessary hassle. Is this a problem with
NeXT's make? Or am I misunderstanding the Makefile? It'd be nicer not to
have to append . to root's path when compiling things like gcc.
--
Josh DuBois
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
duboisj@mathcs.carleton.edu (NeXT mail!!)
duboisj@carleton.edu (lame mail address)
From: bjohnson@euclid.verity.com (Brett M. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help installing NS 3.3 on Seagate ST15150N 4GB drive?
Date: 9 May 1995 18:44:09 GMT
Organization: Verity Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ood5p$p5e@toucan.verity.com>
Keywords: Seagate, barracuda, ST15150N, install, fdisk, SCSI
I am trying to install NEXTSTEP v3.3 on a DELL OmniPlex 590 with a Seagate
BARRACUDA ST15150N 4.1GB drive using the Symbios Logic SYM53c8 driver for
NCR 8100, 8150, 8250 and 8251S. After asking which device to install
NEXTSTEP onto (but before asking any partitioning information), the
install process bails with the following error:
fdisk: Bogus disk information BIOS
You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make sure that
the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NEXTSTEP will be unable to
get proper disk information.
I do not believe my SCSI BIOS is disabled because I see the SCSI BIOS
display its version string at cold boot time. Is there something special
I have to do to boot NEXTSTEP 3.3 off of this big disk?
NS 3.2 had problems installing the OS on large hard disks (> 2GB) but
that was supposed to be fixed in 3.3.
(NS 3.2 sees my 1.7GB Micropolis drive just fine on this same machine.)
--
Brett M. Johnson
bjohnson@verity.com
Verity Inc.
1550 Plymouth Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Does MorningStar PPP run under NS 3.3?
Message-ID: <D8BxqC.8nA@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 21:15:48 GMT
See sbject. I'd like to know. MorningStar self, won't say a thing.
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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cdubuque@t-rex.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Chadwick A. Dubuque)
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp setup?
Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login)
Message-ID: <D8ByLK.v0w@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 21:34:32 GMT
References: <ANDERSON.95May4095525@sapir.ling.yale.edu> <mp.799776185@maud>
Organization: Chaos. Try it. I think you'll like it.
In article <mp.799776185@maud>,
Martin Pruefer DL8OAU <mp@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote:
>anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu (Stephen Anderson) writes:
>
>>I've seen various references to a step-by-step guide to setting up
>>anonymous ftp under NeXTstep (3.3, if it makes a difference), but I
>>never paid any attention, because I didn't want to get into that. Now
>>I find I have to. I can't find anything in NeXTanswers, or in the
>>Network and System Administration manual. Can someone please point me
>>to a source?
>Read man page for ftpd:
[...]
> ~ftp/pub)
> Make this directory mode 777 and owned by ``ftp''.
> Users should then place files which are to be accessi-
> ble via the anonymous account in this directory.
This is a *big* security risk. This allows anyone logging in anonymously
(and therfore user 'ftp') to write to, or delete from, this area. I urge
extreme caution in this area.
In my own case, I've made a group, 'nerds,' and given that group ONLY write
permission in the pub directory.
User 'ftp' is NOT a member of the group 'nerds'!
------------------------------------------------
Then, I set my pub directory up as owned by root, and set to group 'nerds,'
with the group sticky bit on. That way, any time a user in the 'nerds' group
enters that directory, his/her effective gid changes to 'nerds'.
Basically, make sure that user 'ftp' can't write in any directory, and
you'll be OK. (That is, unless you *want* someone to write there...)
This allows only the users on your system who you've explicitly given
permission (via making them a member of the group 'nerds') the ability to
alter your ftp area.
Enjoy.
--
Chadwick A. Dubuque cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu
http://www.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu/~cdubuque/ finger for PGP pub. key
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Message-ID: <jpanicoD8C062.6qL@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <D8BErG.p7@softpac.com.au> <3oolbr$ojc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 22:08:25 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom3.netcom.com
weintz steven cortelou (indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: BTW, Bernoullis work very well under NS. We use them for sneakernet
: between the Mac network and the NS network, in conjunction with a
: DayDream box, as emergency boot disks, and as sneakernet-via-FedEx :-)
: The 150MB drivesd can be had for under $400 now, and cartridges cost
: around $80.
Thought I'd also point out that the Iomega Zip drives also work quite well
under NS. With Zip you can achieve near Bernoulli performance for a small
fraction of the cost.
Zip drive = $200-$170
100 Mb Zip disk = $17.
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
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: (217) 355-6322 * (217) 355-5032 (fax) * http://www.melvin.com/
: indy@melvin.com * 41 E. University Ave., Suite 201 * Champaign, IL 61820
: -= Crass Announcement of a Commercial WWW Publication Goes Here =-
From: matthias.3@osu.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SMTP with sendmail
Date: 9 May 1995 23:55:18 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3oovd6$i5k@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
A friend and I both own black NeXT machines and are using Marble
Teleconnect to CSLIP into the local gateway. We got POP mail working with
PopOver and can thus read our mail of the net, but we cannot figure out
how to make sendmail work with SMTP so that we can reply onto the net. It
continues to try and send it locally, and returns NeXT mailer daemon
errors saying that users are not found. I looked through the sendmail
docs in the System Admin manual, but it was one of the most cryptic things
I have ever seen. Can any one tell me what I need to do? Is it simple?
I hope so... Thanks. BTW, I can read e-mail replies because I am still
doing e-mail off my Windoze PC. Hopefully not for long, however! Thanks
Karl
Ohio State University
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing from Windows on PC to NeXT printer?
Date: 10 May 1995 05:54:46 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3opkf6$8q3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3oiugs$bn@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Gregg E. Dinse (dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov) wrote:
[...about printing from a Windows-PC to a Black NeXT
via Ethernet....]
: QUESTION 1: Can I do the same from within DOS/WINDOWS
: running on the PC?
Yes.
: QUESTION 2: If so, how?
What you need is some software which takes the Postscript output
(Windows has a Postscript driver) from a virtual Printer-Port and
sends it to the lpd-daemon on your NeXT.
To make up the ethernet-connection you will need a packet driver
for your ethercard (available via ftp at ftp.crynwr.com). To
actually print, you can use xfs, which is available at
XFS:
ftp: lwfws1.uni-paderborn.de:/pub/xfs
at is shareware (xfs is what I'm actually using to perform the
printing task, but it's actually an NFS client to mount directories
from the NeXT to the PC).
Axel
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From: Iacopo E. Inghirami <iacopo@ec.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next & Mac (CAP & UAR)
Date: 9 May 1995 07:09:44 GMT
Organization: Dip. Ec. Aziendale - Pisa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3on4fo$7g2@serra.unipi.it>
Hi,
did anybody tried to use an Intel station as an Appleshare server with
CAP & UAR?
Eventually, are there some other chances to use my Next as Appleshare
server?
TIA, Iacopo
Iacopo E. Inghirami - Faculty of Management - University of Pisa
E-Mail: iacopo@ec.unipi.it - NeXT Mail: iacopo@sidea.ec.unipi.it
From: schurch@best.com (Sean Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for cooking NFS servers with NeXTSTEP...
Date: 9 May 1995 07:06:42 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378
Message-ID: <3on4a2$m0c@news1.best.com>
Hi folks.
Bear with me...
;-)
OK, what platforms running NeXTSTEP really perform for NFS file serving?
(Yeah, yeah, I know about NeXTSTEP, I need to know about hardware
here...).
Please help me start my underhanded effort at converting my new employer
in a NeXT NFS file server site. (Auspexes are far too pricey... and who
want's to use LINUS or SCO when you can use NeXTSTEP, anyways?)
I needs to know the differences, or what your experience has been (non
black hardware, please... I am real familiar with black hardware as NFS
servers...).
It's this, or SUN's running Solaris with no NS... or... god help me... we
keep on doing it with SGI's...
See?
(SGI's implimentation of NFS basically sucks. According to my TD's at
work...).
So, email me if you want to . Thanks! I don't read news that much...
PS... has anyone lined up some kind of bench marks to compare all these
Intel systems / SPARCS/ HP's against for various uses? Just wondering...
Sean
schurch@best.com
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: answer: using iomega ZIP drives with NEXTSTEP
Date: 9 May 1995 22:29:24 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <3ooqc4$3fn@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <1995May3.215133.10570@news.media.mit.edu> <3obgjp$m32@nwestmail.entp.mccaw.com>
Andrew Abernathy (andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com) wrote:
: Something else people might want to be aware of, is that there's no
: write protect tab - write protection is done via software. Meaning,
: of course, you can't do it under NeXTstep. Making the disk
: non-writable via unix permissions doesn't keep someone from working
: in some subdirectory, unfortunately.
: The one disk that comes with the drive has about 45 MB of software
: on it, and the disk comes write protected, so if you want to blow
: away the contents and use it for your own data, you'll need to put
: it on a Mac or PC to un-protect it. (I assume - I haven't actually
: done so.)
So if there's no write protect tab, then how is it write protected? Does
the disk contain a marker which the drive reads for write protection? If
so, then is this only possible with propriatary Iomega software?
--
......................................................................
: Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin :
: kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 :
:....................................................................:
From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WHY DOES MY BOOTUP HANG?
Date: 9 May 1995 23:26:41 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Message-ID: <3ootnh$erd@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
my bootup hangs on this line in file 'rc':
/usr/etc/ntp -F > /dev/null
i only have one other host listed in /etc/hosts. what else should i be checking?
even when i comment out this line, the bootup hangs on other network related
tasks. what gives?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: Dave THOMAS <dave@softpac.com.au>
Subject: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Message-ID: <D8BErG.p7@softpac.com.au>
Keywords: Emergency kit
Sender: dave@softpac.com.au (Dave Thomas)
Organization: Softpac Pty. Ltd., Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 14:26:04 GMT
Has anyone built an Emergency Start-Up kit for NS on Intel?
We need to do so, but would not like to re-invent the wheel. I expect that
it should be made up in such a way so as to rectify this problem:
Suppose you have deleted the fstab by accident (which of course is damn
silly) BUT having done the silly thing you reboot the machine. You would
get a read only file system which looks at and nothing else...
How could you bring the system back without reinstalling the whole thing
and losing the hours of hard work you have put in?
Any suggestions from out there, would be appreciated..
Needless to say, this kit would have to fit on to a floppy !! ??
Rgds dave t
From: konrad@stieltjes.smc.univie.ac.at (Konrad Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing from Windows on PC to NeXT printer?
Date: 10 May 1995 08:50:20 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Vienna, Dept. of Statistics, OR and Computer Methods
Message-ID: <3opuoc$se0@ftp.univie.ac.at>
References: <3oiugs$bn@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <3opkf6$8q3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Axel Habermann (kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Gregg E. Dinse (dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov) wrote:
: [...about printing from a Windows-PC to a Black NeXT
: via Ethernet....]
:
We're also running a setup like that. And therefore, I can offer you
the following word of advice: DO*NOT* use the microsoft postscript
driver. It generates a non-conformant postscript document (it includes
an addtional header) which makes lpd on NeXTstep believe that you're trying
to print an ascii document and prints the text of the postscript file.
Get a decent PPD for your printer and build a postscript driver with
the adobe postscript thing. available from ftp.adobe.com somewhere.
For the HP LJ 4 (PS) I guess I can provide that driver.
cheers,
//konrad
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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HD: Where did this 660MB go?
Date: 9 May 1995 23:27:33 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ootp5$8q@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950509113958.4870C-100000@hphalle1j.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
> On 7 May 1995, Max Tardiveau wrote:
> > Bad idea. The Berkeley file system really needs free space to
> > do things like defragmentation and optimization. Lowering the
> > 10% threshhold is not recommended, and it should NEVER be set
> > to 0%. Read any book on the internals of BSD if you don't
> > believe me.
>
> I only wanted to show, where the 60MB of the original poster
> went. By the way I tested mkfs and tunefs on my NSFIP systems
> and went around the following things:
>
> - you can't set the limit down to 0%. The system alway keeps
> a minimum of 1%
> - I simply can't recognize differences between 10% and 1% on
> access time of the disk (I didn't turn on the optimize time
> option of the filesystem.)
You won't notice it, until the system is using that last 9%. Any
test you do over a few hours are not going to show why that space
is reserved. It's optimized for the effects of real-world usage,
not for benchmarks. The problems come up when that last 9% are
used up, and you're busy modifying files (reading in, changing,
writing out, or adding on to the end of multiple files).
> I don't know UNIX very well, but maybe these optimizations are
> ony noticeable on multiuser systems? (E.g. several people working
> on the disk the same time?)
I believe the reasoning for the way it's implemented is written up
somewhere, but I forget the reference. I'd suggest you find the
writeups and read them before assuming your benchmarks are valid,
particularly if you don't know Unix very well.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: shivers@lcs.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POSIX advisory file locking
Date: 10 May 1995 03:32:36 GMT
Organization: Lab for Computer Science, MIT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SHIVERS.95May9233236@neil-armstrong.lcs.mit.edu>
This simple test program obtains an advisory lock on a little piece of
/usr/dict/words, and exits. It works on other computers, but on my NeXTSTEP
3.3 system, the syscall errors out, returning errno 22 (EINVAL "Invalid
argument").
Could some NS wizard explain to me what the problem is here?
-Olin
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
extern int errno;
main()
{
struct flock lock;
int f = open("/usr/dict/words", O_RDONLY);
int ret;
printf("f %d\n", f);
lock.l_type = F_RDLCK;
lock.l_whence = 0;
lock.l_start = 0;
lock.l_len = 10;
ret = fcntl(f, F_SETLK, &lock);
printf("ret %d, errno %d\n", ret, errno);
}
From: clowenstein@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 quirks
Date: 9 May 1995 21:10:34 GMT
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <3ooloa$l7f@network.ucsd.edu>
A couple of observations from my yesterday's experiences installing
NS3.3 on a 68040 Cube.
There seems to be no way to do an installation from the CDrom onto a
partitioned but otherwise empty hard disk. (new drive, because the
previous one failed completely.) Eventually I did a NS3.0 BuildDisk
from the OD onto partition "a" of the hard disk, and then upgraded it
to 3.3. Seems like the long way around, but it worked.
With everything up and running, I was adding another external disk,
and wanted to refresh my memory about /etc/fstab. The manual page for
fstab(5) has disappeared from NS3.3.
carl
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clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does MorningStar PPP run under NS 3.3?
Date: 10 May 1995 10:34:31 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Subscriber Account, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet!
Message-ID: <3oqme7$b0u@Mercury.mcs.com>
References: <D8BxqC.8nA@RnA.NL>
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL wrote:
: See sbject. I'd like to know. MorningStar self, won't say a thing.
: Thanks,
We have it running on intel hardware. We are using the Mux serial driver.
we had been using version 1.4 under NS2.2. This failed in glorious and
disheartening ways. We started using version 1.7 and it is working
perfectly thus far.
Peter Richardson
par@mcs.com
From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does MorningStar PPP run under NS 3.3?
Date: 10 May 1995 16:06:54 GMT
Organization: Yale University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3oqoau$52k@news.ycc.yale.edu>
References: <D8BxqC.8nA@RnA.NL>
In article <D8BxqC.8nA@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL writes:
> See sbject. I'd like to know. MorningStar self, won't say a thing.
We are running mst-next-3.2-ppp-1.4.1.6 on some NeXTs running
both NEXTSTEP 3.2 and 3.3 without problems (other than the cost
of the product and support).
--
Nathan Janette
Systems Manager, Axel T. Br nger Lab
Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Voice: 203 432 5065
Fax: 203 432 3923
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: conan@world.std.com (kurt keville)
Subject: Need help on NFS
Message-ID: <D8DFzB.n2B@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:47:35 GMT
From: indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (weintz steven cortelou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Date: 9 May 1995 21:03:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3oolbr$ojc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <D8BErG.p7@softpac.com.au>
Keywords: Emergency kit
Dave THOMAS <dave@softpac.com.au> writes:
>Has anyone built an Emergency Start-Up kit for NS on Intel?
>We need to do so, but would not like to re-invent the wheel. I expect that
>it should be made up in such a way so as to rectify this problem:
>Suppose you have deleted the fstab by accident (which of course is damn
>silly) BUT having done the silly thing you reboot the machine. You would
>get a read only file system which looks at and nothing else...
>How could you bring the system back without reinstalling the whole thing
>and losing the hours of hard work you have put in?
>Any suggestions from out there, would be appreciated..
>Needless to say, this kit would have to fit on to a floppy !! ??
Actually, we use an external Bernoulli drive. I built a complete NS
User system, sans all the languages and some of the extensions, onto
a 150MB Bernoulli cartridge, with enough room for the swapfile and /tmp.
Then, when disaster struck, I simply reset the SCSI id of the Bernoulli
to 0, accessed the ROM monitor, and did a 'bsd'. I put copies of our
SafteyNet archives and other administrative tools, as well as copies
of modified disktab, fstab, etc. files on the Bernoulli, too.
Thus, you can boot off the Bernoulli, run a complete repair job
including restoring from tape, and get back to work without opening
the main case and changing jumpers.
BTW, Bernoullis work very well under NS. We use them for sneakernet
between the Mac network and the NS network, in conjunction with a
DayDream box, as emergency boot disks, and as sneakernet-via-FedEx :-)
The 150MB drivesd can be had for under $400 now, and cartridges cost
around $80.
--
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(217) 355-6322 * (217) 355-5032 (fax) * http://www.melvin.com/
indy@melvin.com * 41 E. University Ave., Suite 201 * Champaign, IL 61820
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From: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (No) problems with SafetyNet
Date: 10 May 1995 18:29:13 GMT
Organization: Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX
Message-ID: <3or0lp$esb@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
References: <yzhaoD868LL.1qA@netcom.com> <cpayne.25.2FB04D45@fiber.net>
In article <cpayne.25.2FB04D45@fiber.net> cpayne@fiber.net (Carl Payne) writes:
>>I am trying to use SafetyNet 2.3 for back up for several weeks without
>>success. It always goes this this
>
>Yep! Same here. Not a rare tale.
You should talk with Systemix and find out what's wrong-- they are
very helpful.
We use SafetyNet to back up around 4 Gigabytes every night onto an Exabyte
8500 from a NextStation Color Turbo. It works very well and at least
one grad student claims SafetyNet has greatly improved his quality of
life. Before we got SafetyNet we used gnutar for the whole-lab
backup, and individual users backed up their data with a mixture of
gnutar and mt (for tape positioning) to put multiple archives on each
Exabyte tape. SafetyNet is much easier for both archiving and
restoring files.
rick
--
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Houston, Tx 77030 | Phone:(713) 798-3346 | Fax: (713) 799-8544
Internet: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu | NeXTMail accepted
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with lookupd and system freezes:
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 17:39:23 -0700
Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.950510173144.328A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
References: <3ore9e$4ea@moe.cc.emory.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: wmorse@law.emory.edu
In-Reply-To: <3ore9e$4ea@moe.cc.emory.edu>
On 10 May 1995, William Morse wrote:
> In NeXTSTEP, lookupd is *the* daemon that the system uses to find out
> information about itself from its own database (Netinfo) and from the
> outside world through DNS. Unfortunately, lookupd appears to be single
> threaded and the result for us is that sometimes a bad request to
> lookupd can freeze the entire computer for a minute or more. This is
> not a good thing.
>
> What I want to know is that if anyone has a work around for this? It
> is very annoying and is the only blip on an otherwise wonderful and
> reliable OS... even under extremely heavy use.
I've been complaining about this problem for 5 years.
NeXT doesn't care. They don't even admit that there is a problem.
The only people I've known who've worked around it did so by rebuilding
all of the network software, using private versions of the host lookup
routines that only use the DNS. You can't do a shared library version of
this either, since NeXT doesn't allow you to make shared libraries either.
The bottom line is that you're screwed, and you'll stay screwed until you
trash NEXTSTEP in favor of software from a reputable vendor. If you are
lucky enough to have Intel hardware, run something like BSDI. If you are
unlikely enough to have NeXT's proprietary (black) hardware, too bad.
-- Mark --
DoD #0105, R90/6 pilot, FAX: (206) 685-4045 ICBM: N 47 39'35" W 122 18'39"
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
From: wmorse@erasure-sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with lookupd and system freezes:
Date: 10 May 1995 22:21:34 GMT
Organization: Emory University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ore9e$4ea@moe.cc.emory.edu>
In NeXTSTEP, lookupd is *the* daemon that the system uses to find out
information about itself from its own database (Netinfo) and from the
outside world through DNS. Unfortunately, lookupd appears to be single
threaded and the result for us is that sometimes a bad request to
lookupd can freeze the entire computer for a minute or more. This is
not a good thing.
Here is the specific situation: we are using NeXTSTEP on an HP 712/80
as our main server. A lot of what that server does is mail processing
and Web work. Both of these tasks require a *lot* of DNS name resolution.
Once in a while (and more often than I would like because of the heavy
use of our system), lookupd will get an IP number that can't be traced
back or resolved into a name. This will cause the entire system to
freeze for upwards of a minute as lookupd awaits a DNS resolution.
Why does it freeze? Well, because lookupd is single threaded and because
Netinfo *needs* lookupd to pass information (such as user name and
process ownership... passwords, group information, aliases and more)
back to the system, a locked lookupd will *prevent* the system from
getting any of its questions answered. The result is that the system
will *wait* for lookupd to be free... and the result of that is that
the system freezes.
What I want to know is that if anyone has a work around for this? It
is very annoying and is the only blip on an otherwise wonderful and
reliable OS... even under extremely heavy use.
Thanks for your help!
---
William Morse
ITS
Emory Law School
From: olsen@menext3.engr.ucdavis.edu (Tom Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer failure to feed
Date: 9 May 1995 22:40:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <3oor0t$sar@mark.ucdavis.edu>
Hello,
We have a NeXT printer which fails to feed the paper properly
most of the time. The paper will feed about a third of the way and then
stop. The usual message that the printer is jammed appears. Then, we
simply open and close the cover to get the print out. Does anybody have
any idea of what the problem might be, and how to fix it?
Thomas Olsen
From: bestor@spam.cs.wisc.edu (Gareth Bestor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: latest NEXTTIME version?
Date: 11 May 1995 01:32:54 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Message-ID: <3orpg6$2ku@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
What's the latest version of NEXTTIME and how does one go about upgrading
an earlier version (short of buying the whole thing again)?
Thanks,
- Gareth
From: sherwood@jupiter.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp setup?
Date: 10 May 1995 22:55:25 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3org8t$13gq@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <ANDERSON.95May4095525@sapir.ling.yale.edu> <mp.799776185@maud> <D8ByLK.v0w@ns1.nodak.edu>
If you are setting up anonymous ftp, run, don't walk, and get wuftpd.
This allows you much better control, and logging, and has a rep for being
more secure.
Also, on comp.security there is a monthly FAQ on setting up anonymous
ftp that addresses a raft of security issues. (It has pointers to the
sources for wuftpd, as well as means of verifying that you have an
authentic copy.)
--
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Physics Dept # Tech writing, Desktop Publishing.
University of Alberta # Image processing.
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1 # 492-3713 sherwood@space.ualberta.ca
From: sherwood@jupiter.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP-DAT drive...
Date: 10 May 1995 23:05:05 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3orgr1$13gq@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3o913h$au9@eurybia.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
Michael "MACH" Bach (xxx@imperia.fh-konstanz.de) wrote:
: Can anyone tell me exactly what one has to do to get a HP-DAT drive to
: work on a NS/fIP machine?
: Hardware is set up and recognized correctly by the controller (AHA2940).
: Where would I tell NS SCSI ID and so on? I stumbled over "st" but
: cannot seem to make much sense of it.
: Regards from Germany,
If it works on white hardware like it does on black, just set the SCSI
id so that it won't conflict with any other device.
On boot up, it will recongnize it at assign it a pair of devices,
/dev/rst0 and /dev/nrst0
rst0 rewinds on file close. nrst0 stays put -- you have to manualy
rewind it.
There is no block device that I know of (No /dev/st0)
typical use would be
gnutar -cf /dev/rst0 list-of-directories
--
If it works you owe me a fine German beer...
Sherwood Botsford # Contract Unix system admin & troubleshooting
Physics Dept # Tech writing, Desktop Publishing.
University of Alberta # Image processing.
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1 # 492-3713 sherwood@space.ualberta.ca
From: athan@sait136.morgan.com (Andrew C Athan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUN SS/20 w/ 2 1G drives
Date: 10 May 1995 06:00:01 GMT
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
Message-ID: <ATHAN.95May10020001@sait136.morgan.com>
References: <ATHAN.95May4141527@sait276.morgan.com> <D8946w.Gn@onevision.de>
In-reply-to: roland@onevision.de's message of Mon, 8 May 1995 08:42:32 GMT
Thanks for all the replies on this problem. The situation was resolved as
follows:
Turns out SS20's set up the first (bottom) drive as target 3, but the top
drive as target 1. Secondly, SS20's boot off of the device specified in the
ROM monitor (Stop-A).
So, you really have two choices:
(1) Put your boot drive on the bottom and go with the "default" boot
configuration; i.e., off of target 3. In this case, you must specify
rootdev=sd1 on NeXT's boot line since the top drive (target 1) will be
assigned sd0. You will also need to change /etc/fstab so that /dev/sd1a
instead of /dev/sd0a is specified. In my case, I have two lines in
/etc/fstab:
/dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0a /export 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
(2) Put your boot drive on top, leave /etc/fstab as is, and change the ROM
boot parameter to boot off of target 1. I haven't tried this one, but it
should be simpler!
My original confusion came from the fact that the "bad" original fstab would
cause the kernel to panic upon trying to mount /dev/sd0a. This was because
the second drive had a Solaris file system on it (i.e., garbage to
NeXTSTEP--man mount mentions that this will panic the system).
aca
From: shivers@lcs.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POSIX advisory file locking
Date: 10 May 1995 22:27:20 GMT
Organization: Lab for Computer Science, MIT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SHIVERS.95May10182720@neil-armstrong.lcs.mit.edu>
References: <SHIVERS.95May9233236@neil-armstrong.lcs.mit.edu>
In-reply-to: shivers@lcs.mit.edu's message of 10 May 1995 03:32:36 GMT
I posted yesterday about a problem with Posix advisory file-locking
under NeXTSTEP. After iterating with some hackers today, we finally
determined the problem: the file locking calls do *not* work on NFS-mounted
files, only on local ones. So it depends on the file you use. NeXT says
they intend to fix this for NS release 4.
This problem is documented in some NeXTAnswer database somewhere, but not
mentioned anywhere in the man page for the syscall. Thanks, NeXT.
The bottom line is if you want to do general, portable file-locking,
you're hosed, unless you want to code up kludges like opening related
lock files with the exclusive bit set, etc., etc.
Rob Kedoin, Art Isbell, Otto Lind, and Manish Tuteja helped me isolate this
little piece of lossage.
-Olin
From: cpayne@fiber.net (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with SafetyNet
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 05:21:10 GMT
Organization: Fibernet: Satisfy the need for speed!
Message-ID: <cpayne.25.2FB04D45@fiber.net>
References: <yzhaoD868LL.1qA@netcom.com>
>I am trying to use SafetyNet 2.3 for back up for several weeks without
>success. It always goes this this
Yep! Same here. Not a rare tale.
>BTW, can someone recommend a better and easier to use backup utility on
>NeXT?
Beleive it or not, I use enTar. Sounds wonkie, I know, but it's pretty
cakewalk for doing odd stuff like backing up hews heirarchies without the
history files. I honestly beleive it was $89 very well spent (satisfaction
endorsement; I'm not affiliated with them)
I think the whole backup process needs a complete re-vamp. Who's up to the
task?
From: Iacopo E. Inghirami <iacopo@ec.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Really no Appleshare?
Date: 11 May 1995 11:14:07 GMT
Organization: Dip. Ec. Aziendale - Pisa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3osrhv$7ib@serra.unipi.it>
Hi,
I can't believe that nobody tried to use an Intel station as an
Appleshare server!
With CAP & UAR or some other commercial software...
Eventually, are there some other chances to use my Next as Appleshare
server?
TIA, Iacopo
Iacopo E. Inghirami - Faculty of Management - University of Pisa
E-Mail: iacopo@ec.unipi.it - NeXT Mail: iacopo@sidea.ec.unipi.it
From: sherwood@jupiter.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: KernLoader failure -- help
Date: 10 May 1995 22:49:27 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3orftn$13gq@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I've started getting the following errors on loading a CD under NS 3.2
(black hardware)
May 10 16:43:35 localhost kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed
May 10 16:43:35 localhost kern_loader: kern_loader: server CDROM won't
link
The user insists that it worked before, a few eons ago.
I've compared the contents of /usr/filesystems to those on the CD.
The installed copy has a few extra files.
The following may or may not be related:
On loading a NextDev CD, I get:
Disk Label: NEXTSTEP_Dev_3.2
Disk Capacity 192MB, Device Block 2048 bytes
Disk is Write Protected
May 10 16:44:31 Workspace: Mounted floppy disk at /NEXTSTEP_Dev_3.2
floppy? Say what?
Ideas?
Thanks
--
Sherwood Botsford # Contract Unix system admin & troubleshooting
Physics Dept # Tech writing, Desktop Publishing.
University of Alberta # Image processing.
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1 # 492-3713 sherwood@space.ualberta.ca
From: andy@pbs.plym.ac.uk (Andy McMullin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 4 GB disk onto Black Hardware
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 14:36:10 GMT
Organization: Plymouth Business School
Message-ID: <3ot7d2$g0b@auntie.bbcnc.org.uk>
Greetings,
I seem to be having a real problem adding a Seagate ST-15230N to my
(black) NeXT system.
I have referred to NeXT Answers, but am still having a problem. The
disk is 4GByte. I created a disktab (based on QA890 - modified by
"Adding On without Flipping Out").
I would prefer the disk to be one large partition - but understand
that BSD 4.3 implies a partition limit of 2 GByte. Is this really
true?
Once I created the disktab entry, I ran "disk -i /dev/rsd1a". It
initialised the first partition, but failed on the second!
My disktab (currently) looks like:
ST15230N|SEAGATE ST15230N:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3992:nt#19:ns#111:ss#512:rm#5411:\
:fp#320:bp#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#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:\
:ob=time:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
The error was
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1b
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1b 4194304 111 19 8192 1024 32 10 90 4096 t
seek error: 4194303
wtfs: Error 0
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1b failed (status 1)
Anyone got any ideas?
----------
Regards
Andy
===============================================================================
Andy McMullin - G8TQH
Technical Support, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Message-ID: <jpanicoD8Eo91.10o@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <D8BErG.p7@softpac.com.au> <3oolbr$ojc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <jpanicoD8C062.6qL@netcom.com> <andylee-1105950113390001@idtech.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 08:43:49 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom11.netcom.com
Andy A. Lee (andylee@netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <jpanicoD8C062.6qL@netcom.com>, jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
: wrote:
: > weintz steven cortelou (indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: >
: > : BTW, Bernoullis work very well under NS. We use them for sneakernet
: > : between the Mac network and the NS network, in conjunction with a
: > : DayDream box, as emergency boot disks, and as sneakernet-via-FedEx :-)
: >
: > : The 150MB drivesd can be had for under $400 now, and cartridges cost
: > : around $80.
: >
: >
: > Thought I'd also point out that the Iomega Zip drives also work quite well
: > under NS. With Zip you can achieve near Bernoulli performance for a small
: > fraction of the cost.
: >
: > Zip drive = $200-$170
: > 100 Mb Zip disk = $17.
: >
: > Joe Panico
: > jpanico@netcom.com
: >
: >
: > : --
: > : Steve Weintz * Art Director & Coding Manager * New Media Publishing, Inc.
: > : (217) 355-6322 * (217) 355-5032 (fax) * http://www.melvin.com/
: > : indy@melvin.com * 41 E. University Ave., Suite 201 * Champaign, IL 61820
: > : -= Crass Announcement of a Commercial WWW Publication Goes Here =-
: Please correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't the drive limited to being SCSI
: ID #5 or #6? In other words, not bootable in most systems (my system only
: boot from SCSI ID #0 or #1, or the floppy).
Oops, that's right. I guess you can't boot from it. Sorry for the
misunderstanding.
: Andy Lee
: andylee@netcom.com
: andylee@cs.ucla.edu
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
From: hlin@hntp2.hinet.net (Heng-Yi Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ethernet, TCP/IP, PPP, subnet & router (with Mac) questions
Date: 11 May 1995 10:38:18 GMT
Organization: HiNet
Message-ID: <3ospeq$32c@serv.hinet.net>
Hi,
I have a rather silly question. I have a small setup consisting of a
standalone NeXTCube, Power Mac 6100, and an Apple LW Select 320 that I
want to network together. So far I've gotten a BNC transceiver for
the PowerMac and strung the two computers together with thin ethernet
coaxial cable.
My simple question is - how do I test if the two computers are REALLY
connected? That is, to see if ethernet (TCP/IP) packets are going
back and forth between the NeXT and the PowerMac? What do I need to
set up in terms of software on either end to start doing something as
simple as telnet and ftp? I tried telnet from the Mac to the NeXT but
nothing happens. Ping doesn't show a 'live' connection from either
side.
(BTW, the LW320 is connected to the PowerMac via LocalTalk; Ethertalk
is chosen as primary network connection; Apple's LaserWriter Bridge
software runs on the PowerMac to route atalk packets so printing is
OK).
My more complicate questions are: my NeXT is on a leased line PPP; the
PowerMac dials up for a different PPP connection. Since our network
will be growing still, I've applied with my provider (hinet.net) for a
subnet. Can I use the NeXT as a router/gateway? I would like to
ideally run leased-line PPP on the NeXT, with the other machines
ethernetted to the NeXT for 'direct' Internet connection. Is this
possible? Which pages of 'FM' should I read for specific setup
procedures?
I am stepping into some very unfamiliar territory and would like some
experienced advice. Thanks!
--
Best regards,
Heng-Yi Lin
Young Ray Co., Ltd.
Fengyuan, Taiwan 420
hlin@young-ray.hinet.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Message-ID: <D8CDCH.Gy3@eskimo.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <D8BErG.p7@softpac.com.au>
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 02:53:04 GMT
Dave THOMAS (dave@softpac.com.au) wrote:
: Has anyone built an Emergency Start-Up kit for NS on Intel?
: How could you bring the system back without reinstalling the whole thing
: and losing the hours of hard work you have put in?
: Needless to say, this kit would have to fit on to a floppy !! ??
I'm at that stage of addressing that question for myself, Dave. I
started with the easiest choice, which is probably not a choice for
others: I installed NS on a 128MB MO disk.
Another option will arrive once I get my second hard drive installed,
I plan to install NS(bare bones) on it so that I can use it as an
alternative boot drive.
I'm just beginning to look at what I can do with a floppy/CD-ROM
combination. I'm not certain how far I can go with this last idea,
but I heard that if I boot in single user mode, and load the floppy
driver with the driver loader(d=../../private/Drivers/i386/Floppy), I
can mount the floppy on /temp with the following command:
/etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp
If this allows me to copy and edit files, then I should do well to
mount other devices such as sd0a.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: David Grindrod <grindrod>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: gcc 2.5.8 or later for HP
Date: 11 May 1995 12:46:01 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3ot0ua$2a1@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone configured gcc to compile on HP hardware. If so can you tell me how
you did this or let me have the configured distribution. A related question is
it posible to create a triple binary for gcc by compiling on NeXT or Intel
hardware.
Dave
---------------------------------------------------------------
David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg.
Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: michael@wolfgang (Michael Rutchik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NS486V3.3: Power Management ("Green" PC)
Date: 11 May 1995 19:17:39 GMT
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
Message-ID: <3otnsj$8kv@nntp.crl.com>
References: <3ocvmu$9ip@news.tuwien.ac.at> <3odhhj$q5n@fu-berlin.de> <3okpsd$df@news.tuwien.ac.at>
>> > If I enable the APM interface in the BIOS setup, NEXTSTEP
>> > says "Power management enabled" while booting.
I just installed 3.3 on a "Green PC" (75Mhz Pentium PCI w/Adaptec and
Diamond Stealth64) which ran 3.2 fine. The upgrade appeared to go well
but when I rebooted the system it hung right after the message "Power
Management Enabled."
I attempted "Config=Default" and also tried booting up in single user
mode but never made it past that message. Does anyone know of any way
to disable power management? Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Michael Rutchik
michael@mmgraph.com
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Fax Cover Sheet Archiving?
Date: 11 May 1995 10:05:34 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3otg4u$6ir@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: Is there a way to archive the contents of the fax cover sheet?
Keywords: fax cover sheet archiving
I would like to ideally have the contents of the fax cover sheet (including the main body text and any other fields) be included in the standard "fax sent successfully in xx minutes" mail message.
Any ideas or solutions?
Matthew
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Displaying "too many users" msg with wu-ftpd daemon
Date: 11 May 1995 18:21:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3otkjm$9dg@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
I am using the ftp daemon from the wu-archive as a replacement on our NeXT
fileserver which also functions as an anonymous ftp site. I want to display a
message to users who attempt to login but who exceed the max users threshold.
Is someone out there using wu-ftpd on a NeXT who has configured this to work?
I have a ftpaccess line:
limit remote 10 Any /etc/msgs/msg.toomany
And a file ~ftp/etc/msgs/msg.toomany, but no message gets displayed.
Thanks for any help.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | University of California, Santa Barbara
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/
From: charles@manta.cs.vt.edu (Charles M. Esterbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 Printer Problem (help)
Date: 11 May 1995 20:09:54 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Message-ID: <3otqui$6g5@server.cs.vt.edu>
Keywords: nextstep hp laserjet problem
Hello,
We have an HP LaserJet 4M and an Intel Pentium running NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Our printer configuration is:
HP LaserJet 4 PostScript 600 DPI
Access: Public, Domain: /
Communications: Serial
Port: Serial A
Baud: 9600
Hardware handshaking: none
Printed jobs will show up in the Print Manager and the status of the
printer is reported as "Printing" but nothing happens. I've done the
usual things such as checking that the computer and printer
configurations match and that the cables are secure and that
everything is turned on. :)
Any insights and advice are appreciated in advance!
-Chuck
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing from Windows on PC to NeXT printer?
Date: 11 May 1995 18:06:29 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3otjn5$rfg@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3oiugs$bn@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Gregg E. Dinse (dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov) wrote:
: Hello,
: CURRENT SETUP: a NeXT cube and a NeXT laser printer
: FUTURE ADDITION: an Intel-based, NEXTSTEP-compatible PC
: If I buy the appropriate Ethernet card, I assume that I
: should be able to connect the PC to my cube via coaxial
: cable and print to the NeXT laser printer from within
: NEXTSTEP running on the PC.
: QUESTION 1: Can I do the same from within DOS/WINDOWS
: running on the PC?
Yes
: QUESTION 2: If so, how?
My solution:
1. On the PC, I installed NCSA telnet package, which includes an lpr.
2. Windoze puts a control D at the beginning of the printer file.
In order to not have this happen you need to edit win.ini by hand and
put a line such as CntrD=0 in the printer stanza. The syntax is
mentioned in PRINTERS.WRI or some such doc in the windows installation.
NOTE on any line that is [text] do NOT put a space after the ]. It gets
windoze confused.
3. The windows PS driver does not produce compliant code. I trick this
by adding a line %!PS before the regular file. This makes the Next
think that it's dealing with a non DSC postscript file, and it usually
works, although pages are not printed in reverse order.
4. In windows I print to a file, always called print.prn, always in
C:\TEMP. A batch file called ALDUS.BAT adds the PS hack, and calls lpr
to send it to the Next.
5. I've associated this batch file with an icon so that the user only
needs to double click the icon to send the job to the printer.
: In case it's not totally obvious, I have never used DOS
: or Windows. Assuming we can not print directly (say by
: selecting print in some menu), can all (most, some, any)
: Windows apps save files as postscript? If so, would this
: postscript file be compatible with NEXTSTEP, in the sense
: that it could be moved to my cube and printed from there?
: Assuming this feature is not built-in to many (any?)
: Windows apps, is there software available (from Adobe?)
: to transform standard Windows output (is this an oxymoron?)
: into NEXTSTEP-compatible postscript? If so, what is it
: called, where do I get it, and how much does it cost?
: Is there some other simple solution that I'm overlooking?
: I'd appreciate any help I can get with this. Obviously,
: we would like to avoid buying a second printer. Thanks
: in advance for any and all help.
: Gregg Dinse
: 919-541-4931
: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
--
Sherwood Botsford # Contract Unix system admin & troubleshooting
Physics Dept # Tech writing, Desktop Publishing.
University of Alberta # Image processing.
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1 # 492-3713 sherwood@space.ualberta.ca
From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ???
Date: 11 May 1995 10:56:40 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
References: <3olspc$jn9@phakt.usc.edu>
In article <3olspc$jn9@phakt.usc.edu> reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew
Nathaniel Reichman) writes:
# I would like to know more about PGP
#
http://www.mantis.co.uk/pgp/pgp.html
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~staalesc/PGP/home.html
http://www.ramp.com/~lcs/winpgp.html"
news:alt.security.pgp
There's also a FAQ in the news group.
There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
--
Klaus Pommerening
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55101 Mainz, Germany
From: haas@inf.ethz.ch (Thomas Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing from Windows on PC to NeXT pr
Date: 12 May 1995 07:38:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <3ov39h$dbn@neptune.ethz.ch>
References: <3otjn5$rfg@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Hi
Most questions were already answered. I have the same configuration as you have.
I think the most convient is to install Windows Sockets, so you have a TCP/IP stack (there are a lot of good winsock packages out there, commercial, share- and freeware ones).
If you have Windows for Workgroups you can ftp a TCP/IP package from Microsoft which is easy to install and integrates very well.
If you install some TCP/IP stack you may be able to use other services like telnet, mail, nfs, ... with the same basic installation.
For printing the best I found till now is a package called wlprs40c.zip which can be found in the winsock ftp archives.
If you use PC-NFS for printing or other lpr spooler the NeXTstation must run at the moment you print. wlprs spools the files on the pc and checks for the NeXT avaible.
Drop a mail if you would like more infos
- tom
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NS486V3.3: Power Management ("Green" PC)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Date: 12 May 1995 13:57:15 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <3ovpfr$qju@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <3ocvmu$9ip@news.tuwien.ac.at> <3odhhj$q5n@fu-berlin.de> <3okpsd$df@news.tuwien.ac.at> <3otnsj$8kv@nntp.crl.com>
Michael Rutchik (michael@wolfgang) wrote:
: I attempted "Config=Default" and also tried booting up in single user
: mode but never made it past that message. Does anyone know of any way
: to disable power management? Any other ideas?
Can't you disable the power manangment from the BIOS setup?
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
Research Associate Voice: (402)472-9747
Department of Mathematics and Statistics FAX: (402)472-8466
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
From: jmb@sma.ch (Jean-Marie Bettems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sdformat
Date: 11 May 1995 08:19:40 GMT
Organization: Swiss Meteorological Institute
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3oshasINN3f3@maz4.sma.ch>
Hello net!
I think about reformatting my 1GB DEC internal boot disk using the sdformat utility to expand the block size from 512 to 1024 bytes. I am running NEXTSTEP3.3/M68k.
Has anybody good/bad experience with such reformatting? Are there any pitfalls to avoid? Is it necessary to reconfigure some system files before proceeding? What is the disk place gain, the rapidity increase?
Any information welcomed
Jean-Marie Bettems
jmb@sma.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy A. Lee)
Subject: Re: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Message-ID: <andylee-1105950113390001@idtech.com>
Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com
Organization: Idealicus Technologies
References: <D8BErG.p7@softpac.com.au> <3oolbr$ojc@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <jpanicoD8C062.6qL@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 08:13:39 GMT
In article <jpanicoD8C062.6qL@netcom.com>, jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
wrote:
> weintz steven cortelou (indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>
> : BTW, Bernoullis work very well under NS. We use them for sneakernet
> : between the Mac network and the NS network, in conjunction with a
> : DayDream box, as emergency boot disks, and as sneakernet-via-FedEx :-)
>
> : The 150MB drivesd can be had for under $400 now, and cartridges cost
> : around $80.
>
>
> Thought I'd also point out that the Iomega Zip drives also work quite well
> under NS. With Zip you can achieve near Bernoulli performance for a small
> fraction of the cost.
>
> Zip drive = $200-$170
> 100 Mb Zip disk = $17.
>
> Joe Panico
> jpanico@netcom.com
>
>
> : --
> : Steve Weintz * Art Director & Coding Manager * New Media Publishing, Inc.
> : (217) 355-6322 * (217) 355-5032 (fax) * http://www.melvin.com/
> : indy@melvin.com * 41 E. University Ave., Suite 201 * Champaign, IL 61820
> : -= Crass Announcement of a Commercial WWW Publication Goes Here =-
Please correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't the drive limited to being SCSI
ID #5 or #6? In other words, not bootable in most systems (my system only
boot from SCSI ID #0 or #1, or the floppy).
Andy Lee
andylee@netcom.com
andylee@cs.ucla.edu
From: hlin@hntp2.hinet.net (Heng-Yi Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Print to Apple LW320; InterPrint Server (not client) experience
Date: 12 May 1995 07:17:55 GMT
Organization: HiNet
Message-ID: <3ov233$8gp@serv.hinet.net>
Hi there again,
I have a NeXT and PowerMac with an Apple LW Select 320. The LW320 is
connected to the PowerMac via LocalTalk cabling (no Ethernet
possible). The PowerMac and the NeXT are on thin ethernet. The
PowerMac prints to the LW320 just fine, as I run Apple's LaserWriter
Bridge software to route atalk packets. However, I would also like
the NeXT to print to the LW320, primarily to auto-print received faxed
on NXFax.
InterCon Sales tells me that the 'server' portion of their InterPrint
software does the trick. Has anyone experience setting up this
software? Does it work well? Any pointers to other possibilities are
welcome. Thanks!
--
Best regards,
Heng-Yi Lin
Fengyuan, Taiwan 420
hlin@hntp2.hinet.net
From: mcarling@rahul.net (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (No) problems with SafetyNet
Date: 11 May 1995 21:55:41 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3ou14t$atf@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <3or0lp$esb@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
In article <3or0lp$esb@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu
(Rick Gray) writes:
> In article <cpayne.25.2FB04D45@fiber.net> cpayne@fiber.net (Carl Payne)
writes:
> >>I am trying to use SafetyNet 2.3 for back up for several weeks without
> >>success. It always goes this this
> >
> >Yep! Same here. Not a rare tale.
>
> You should talk with Systemix and find out what's wrong-- they are
> very helpful.
I have also found Systemix to be very helpful. Both times I've had a
problem, they resolved it quickly. Once I was just not patient enough (one
directory had several thousand files) and the other time there was a bug
(they had the new, fixed version to me in less than an hour).
I voted SafetyNet the best overall NEXTSTEP app for NeXTWORLD's Best of
Breed awards in 1993. Enough of the other judges voted likewise for
SafetyNet to win the top honors.
M Carling
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with lookupd and system freezes:
Date: 12 May 1995 15:50:08 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3p003g$ae@news.next.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.950510173144.328A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
William Morse wrote:
> In NeXTSTEP, lookupd is *the* daemon that the system uses to find out
> information about itself from its own database (Netinfo) and from the
> outside world through DNS. Unfortunately, lookupd appears to be single
> threaded...
Yes, lookupd is single-threaded. It's a weakness of the current
implementation.
Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes
> NeXT doesn't care.
NeXT cares. We're working on possible solutions. If we're lucky,
we might have something to solve this problem relatively soon
(i.e., sooner than 4.0, folks).
- Alan
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
http://www.NeXT.COM/~amarcum/
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SOS - some error message needs to explained...
Date: 12 May 1995 16:03:08 -0400
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <3p0ets$ci6@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Please tell me what does this mean? Do I have a defective hard disk?
May 12 15:49:35 ops mach: sd1 (3,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
May 12 15:49:35 ops mach: sd1 (3,0): sense key:0xb additional sense code:0x4e
May 12 15:49:35 ops mach: SCSI Block in error = 1679802; Partition b F.S. sector 15421
May 12 15:49:37 ops mach: IO error on pagein (bread)
Please respond by email. Thanks. Best regards...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: matthias.3@osu.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SMTP HELP!
Date: 13 May 1995 05:09:14 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3p1etq$n8a@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I posted earlier about my inability to send mail out over my CSLIP
connection through SMTP. I received suggestions that I try smail-3.1.28
and smail-3.1.29 from several sites, and I was unable to get either of
those to compile properly as I am no guru with Makefiles. I know sendmail
has the capability to send mail via SMTP, but it is too cryptic for me to
figure out. Can any one tell me what I need to change in its configs to
make it use SMTP? Also, how is SMTP related to UUCP? Not related at all?
Please, this is something I have been trying to get working for about 8
months now, and I'd really appreciate the help. Thanks
Karl N. Matthias
The Ohio State University
-------------------------
NeXTstation 68040 25Mhz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Problem with SafetyNet
In-Reply-To: yzhao@netcom.com's message of Sat, 6 May 1995 19:24:57 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May12135912@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
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References: <yzhaoD868LL.1qA@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 17:59:12 GMT
FYI - I recently helped Brian Cuthie from Systemix pinpoint a mounting
problem in SafetyNet. On certain Intel configurations, it would panic the
system. It was a concealed bug that didn't rear it's head until I used it
with an Adaptec 2940 and a Archive Python DAT.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: WHY DOES MY BOOTUP HANG?
In-Reply-To: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu's message of 9 May 1995 23:26:41 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May12140159@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
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References: <3ootnh$erd@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:01:59 GMT
Take a look at your /etc/hostconfig file and make sure that every parameter
is correct. In particular IPBROADCAST, IPNETMASK, and ROUTER.
Robert La Ferla
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: !!! URGEN who knows a mother board with a non bugged PCI chipset !!!
In-Reply-To: ltinguely@ping.ch's message of Sat, 06 May 1995 17:38:41 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May12140334@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
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References: <3ogjbr$g3p@server.ping.ch>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:03:34 GMT
The Dell Dimension XPS-P100 has the new A1 stepping of the PCI chipset.
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sdformat
In-Reply-To: jmb@sma.ch's message of 11 May 1995 08:19:40 GMT
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Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
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References: <3oshasINN3f3@maz4.sma.ch>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:11:42 GMT
It should work fine on a NS/Motorola system. You can't use it as a boot
disk on NS/Intel systems. You may or may not need to modify /etc/disktab to
fine tune performance.
Robert La Ferla
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Subject: Re: Ethernet, TCP/IP, PPP, subnet & router (with Mac) questions
Date: Sat, 13 May 95 09:14:48 PDT
Message-ID: <000C98F1.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
<<I have a rather silly question. I have a small setup consisting of a
standalone NeXTCube, Power Mac 6100, and an Apple LW Select 320 that I
want to network together. So far I've gotten a BNC transceiver for
the PowerMac and strung the two computers together with thin ethernet
coaxial cable.>>
That should do it as far as the physical connection goes. Make sure, of course,
that you have the proper terminators at both ends of the cable. If you wanted to
be really carefull, you could double check that the cable was IEEE 802.3
compliant (I think that's the correct IEEE specification, don't have the spec in
front of me) and that it is properly grounded.
<<My simple question is - how do I test if the two computers are REALLY
connected? That is, to see if ethernet (TCP/IP) packets are going
back and forth between the NeXT and the PowerMac?>>
I'd start with a ping tool on both ends. See if you can ping your NeXT from your
Mac then see if you can ping your Mac from your next. For the NeXT ping is built
in, for the Mac you can you MacPing (from Apple I think) or Eric Behr's (sp)
MacTCP watcher.
<<What do I need to set up in terms of software on either end to start doing
something as simple as telnet and ftp? I tried telnet from the Mac to the NeXT
but nothing happens. Ping doesn't show a 'live' connection from either
side.>>
The first thing to make doubly sure of is that you have TCP/IP support for the
Mac properly installed. It comes in a package from apple called MacTCP. This
comes free with system 7.5 (I think), at a cost for 7.1 and earlier. If you
have 7.1 or earlier the cheapest way I know of to get it is to upgrade to 7.5 or
buy 'The Internet Starter Kit' by Adam Engst which has it included. Make sure
you have the latest version (2.0.6 I think).
Once you get MacTCP installed on your system you'll need to get it properly
configured. There are many different ways this can be done so you'll need to
make some decisions up front:
* How will your Mac and NeXT be getting their IP addresses? Manually,
Dynamically or from a Server?
Based on my understanding of your setup, I'd recommend configuring this
manually. You'll need to come up with a valid IP address for your Mac and your
NeXT. These machines should share an address family if they will be on the same
physical network. Probably the easiest thing to do is use a class C address for
these machines. The class C address will dictate the first 3 octects of the IP
address to you and you'll be able to choose values in the last octect for each
of your machines.
Something like this:
If your class C address is: 128.129.130 (The first three octets cannot be
changed) then you get to assign the last octect (values 0-254) to each of your
machines. So you might decide that your NeXT is 128.129.130.1 and that your Mac
is 128.129.130.2, etc.
**WARNING** If you'll be connecting your machines to the Internet you need to
have your class C address assigned to you by an official Internet body (service
provider, Internic, etc.). It is considered VERY RUDE to connect your machine
to the Internet and use an address that probably belongs to someone else. If,
and only if your machine won't be connected to the Internet you can go ahead and
make up an address yourself.
* What subnet mask is being used on your network?
The subnet mask is used to determine when the host computer should attempt to
deliver the packet on the local LAN or forward it to a router for delivery. It
compares the subnet mask to the packet it is attempting to deliver and makes a
determination based on that comparison. If you follow the Class C address
recommendation above, then a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 should work for you.
* What is your router address?
You'll notice that MacTCP wants a router address even though you probably don't
have a router. Since you shouldn't be sending any packets to any addresses
outside of your local Class C (assuming you only want to talk to your NeXT),
MacTCP shouldn't ever be faced with having to use the router address to deliver
a packet. Just to be on the safe side, though, set the MacTCP router address to
that of your NeXT.
<<(BTW, the LW320 is connected to the PowerMac via LocalTalk; Ethertalk
is chosen as primary network connection; Apple's LaserWriter Bridge
software runs on the PowerMac to route atalk packets so printing is
OK).>>
Are you expecting to print to this device from the NeXT? I have a feeling that
Apple's briding software isn't going to route and convert TCP/IP packets between
your NeXT and the printer.
<<My more complicated questions are: my NeXT is on a leased line PPP; the
PowerMac dials up for a different PPP connection. Since our network
will be growing still, I've applied with my provider (hinet.net) for a
subnet.>>
Great! That makes setting the IP addresses and the netmasks less arbitrary.
Adding a subnet can be more confusing, though, as it makes the netmask more
confusing to calculate. Be sure that your service provider gives you an
appropriate netmask along with your subnet address.
<<Can I use the NeXT as a router/gateway?>>
*BS Alert* I've never setup a NeXT as a router so the following is speculation:
Yep. From the Mac side you should be fine with the setup described above. Put
the NeXT's IP in for the MacTCP gateway entry.
From the NeXT side, things get more complicated
The NeXT will need a default gateway router to deliver any packets it sends that
are outside of your subnet. This route should get added by your PPP software.
The trick is getting it to do the same for packets that do not originate on your
NeXT (packets from your Mac).
It seems like I remember that there was some way to get the NeXT to think it is
a router, but I'm not sure how to do it. I've seen posts here about how to do
this, so hopefully someone else can help you out with this part.
<<I would like to ideally run leased-line PPP on the NeXT, with the other
machines ethernetted to the NeXT for 'direct' Internet connection. Is this
possible?>>
Should be possible, maybe not easy.
<<Which pages of 'FM' should I read for specific setup procedures?>>
On the NeXT, I'd get familiar with ipconfig, netstat, ping, and your PPP
software.
On the Mac, you should get a program called MacTCPWatcher. It is a very helpfull
diagnostic tool and comes with a READ ME by Eric Behr (sp) that is can provide
more insight into things on that side.
<<I am stepping into some very unfamiliar territory and would like some
experienced advice.>>
I'm pretty new at this stuff myself and have only done this a couple of times so
I don't know that the above is experienced advice. Hope you find it helpfull,
though.
Regards,
Gary Affonso
ImagingQuest
gaffonso@iqinc.com
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From: dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca (David Downie)
Subject: Problem With Anon. FTP
Message-ID: <D8J3yx.HpH@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 18:13:44 GMT
I'm trying to set up an anonymous FTP site with NS 3.3 (SPARC) by
following Hal Varian's post of a few year's back. It sets the account
up fine but once I try it out the following happens:
% ftp bart.uwaterloo.ca
Connected to bart.uwaterloo.ca.
220 bart FTP server (Version 5.1 (NeXT 1.0) Tue Feb 7, 1995) ready.
Name (bart.uwaterloo.ca:dcdownie): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
550 Can't set guest privileges.
Login failed.
I'm stumped. Any suggestions?
David Downie (NeXTmail OK)
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Netboot
Message-ID: <D8J51G.7uH@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <robe0149.800326645@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 18:36:52 GMT
robe0149@gold.tc.umn.edu wrote:
: Is there someone out there who has tried resource sharing on a NeXT
: network? I'm running a network of five NeXT's centered on a cube with
: 16mb ram with 3 or so gb of storage. I would like to scavenge ram from
: some of the clients and have them netboot (?) off of the server like
: terminals. This way I can ramp up the memory up to higher levels. I
: don't know how to go about this though. Netboot as I previously
: mentioned is my train of thought right now. Any ideas?
Netboot is not for conserving memory, but for allowing clients to boot up
from the network. It allows you to boot a NeXT machine diskless, or with
a damaged disk. The machine does not become a terminal; all that happens
is that it gets its root partition (including configuration info) over the
network via NFS, rather than from a local disk.
This will not increase the performance of your "client" systems, as they
will have to load all parts of NeXTSTEP over the network. Since NeXTSTEP
has raised lazy-loading to a fine art, the system will always be loading
bits and pieces (inspectors+panels+windows, NextApps, UNIX tools) off a
remote disk over the highly-efficient (HAH!) NFS.
Netboot has made my life easier many times, but I don't think it's suited
to what you want.
--Chris
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From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Next Laser not working on colorstation
Message-ID: <D8IzMD.B2@waldo.com>
Sender: news@waldo.com
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 16:39:49 GMT
I recently bought a colorstation to replace my mono machine, and simply swapped
the hard drives (with NS 3.3, 3.2dev) into it. Other than fixing the login
panel (I had a custom one which didn't seem to work with this machine... I just
reset the dwrite to be the standard login panel) I've had no problems. The OS
works fine with no mods.
However, I tried printing a test page to my Next 400DPI laser printer, and it
came out munged (just the top part of the test page, repeated on three pages,
then the next page stopped in the printer) and the machine said "Some or all of
the pages were not able to print", and this info came up on the console:
np0: spurious packet received, cmd = 87
error
I've tried to delete the printer through PrintManager, but I can't as the
delete button is disabled.
What can I do? Is this machine at fault, or am I? Is it a hardware error?
I've got to find out if FedEx damaged my machine in the shipment, as the hard
drive was destroyed when I got the machine on Thursday.
Matt
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From: petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethy.ch (Marc Petitmermet)
Subject: boot problems
Message-ID: <petitmermet.1.0013E53B@biocomp.mat.ethy.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 17:54:35 GMT
When I boot my NeXT computer, I get error messages:
checksum error
bad magic
The boot process stops and I have to change to the ROM monitor. A simple "b"
boots the computer without problems.
Any hint is appreciated to solve this problem.
Thanks.
Marc Petitmermet
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From: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Installing a 2nd SCSI disk (not the boot disk) w/ a DOS partition
Message-ID: <D8GzEv.B3q@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 14:40:07 GMT
Howdy, all. I'm currently running NEXTSTEP 3.2 on a white system. At the
moment I have a DEC 3053DSP SCSI-2 disk as my boot drive on SCSI ID 0. It
has only one partition, which is used entirely for NEXTSTEP.
In the near future I'm going to be installing another 730MB SCSI disk. What
I'd like to do it install that one with about 500MB partitioned as additional
space for NEXTSTEP, and the other 200MB or so set aside for use with DOS.
When reading through the installation notes and the on-line admin docs,
I couldn't see if it's possible to make the DOS partition on the new disk
optionally bootable so that the NEXTSTEP boot manager would prompt me with
something like "Do you want to boot from NEXTSTEP on partition whatever
on the boot drive or from MS DOS on partition whatever off on some disk
that's not the normal boot drive at SCSI ID 0?" Is this straightforward?
If so, can someone give me a hint as to how to do it? Making fstab entries
for the new partitions at the appropriate mount points, and using BuildDisk
to partition things is no mystery to me in pure NS, but with this DOS goop
floating around I don't feel that I know very much.
Thanks in advance for any replies. I can post a summary of whatever I learn
to the group if interest merits.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position/ILL
Date: 13 May 1995 19:45:39 GMT
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From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: How do I Get my 4mm Backup working?
Message-ID: <D8J854.M86@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
References: <3p1868$c0u@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 19:43:51 GMT
1. Use Configure.app to install the tape device driver.
2. Either use gnutar or dump (if you want something free and already
on your system.
gnutar cvf /dev/rst0 YourDirectory
will back up YourDirectory onto the tape.
dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 1200000 /
will perform a level zero dump of your hard disk to the tape drive.
For more info on tar and dump, look at the manual page for each
program.
Good luck!
Steve
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From: butler@world.std.com (Bryan Butler)
Subject: Boot hangs looking for rc.boot
Message-ID: <D8JBto.71C@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 21:03:24 GMT
After dealing with a synchronous transfer problem and a bad disk label,
I still can't get my system to boot from my Fujitsu drive.
Right now it hangs after the "master cpu at slot 0" message. I determined
by watching my working boot disk that the next thing it does is try
to execute the rc.boot file. I placed a message at the beginning of my
rc.boot, which is not being echoed to the screen, which tells me that
the system is not finding rc.boot.
What I have tried:
1. Verified that the symbolic link from /etc points to /private/etc
2. Removed the /etc symlink and created a hard /etc directory, like on a
Sun workstation.
3. Verified the ownership and permissions on all the rc.* files, and on
the containing directories.
4. Verified the existence, ownership and permission on the swapfile.
5. Verified that fstab reflects reality.
This is for NS2.1 on black hardware.
Any ideas?
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From: kwang@lore.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin Wang (The Scarecrow))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with lookupd and system freezes:
Date: 13 May 1995 06:18:40 GMT
Organization: The Outland Riders
Message-ID: <3p1j00$oas@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu>
References: <3ore9e$4ea@moe.cc.emory.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: kwang
In comp.sys.next.bugs wmorse@law.emory.edu writes:
>Here is the specific situation: we are using NeXTSTEP on an HP 712/80
>as our main server. A lot of what that server does is mail processing
>and Web work. Both of these tasks require a *lot* of DNS name resolution.
>Once in a while (and more often than I would like because of the heavy
>use of our system), lookupd will get an IP number that can't be traced
>back or resolved into a name. This will cause the entire system to
>freeze for upwards of a minute as lookupd awaits a DNS resolution.
>Why does it freeze? Well, because lookupd is single threaded and because
>Netinfo *needs* lookupd to pass information (such as user name and
>process ownership... passwords, group information, aliases and more)
>back to the system, a locked lookupd will *prevent* the system from
>getting any of its questions answered. The result is that the system
>will *wait* for lookupd to be free... and the result of that is that
>the system freezes.
One possible workaround - (at least for sendmail)...compile bsd
sendmail, which does exclusive DNS queries (no calls to gethostbyname()),
so that will resolve that source of problems.
as for web and tcp_wrapper's type stuff, hard call. you could compile
your own version of gethostbyname() and such. They're available
out there...
also, a minute seems to be an awfully long time for a dns lookup timeout.
nslookup under ns3.0 itself times out in under 8 seconds (which would
still be unacceptable, true).
You can also hack and put more entries in your 'nidump hosts /' database.
- Kevin
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Reduce application size ?
In-Reply-To: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it's message of 8 May 1995 14:22:49 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May13231435@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3ol9fp$22l@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 03:14:35 GMT
The utility "lipo" allows you to manipulate MAB or fat files. Alternatively,
you can use Metrosuction.app or some of the other tools from the ftp sites.
Robert La Ferla
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ???
In-Reply-To: reichman@phakt.usc.edu's message of 8 May 1995 12:52:12 -0700
Message-ID: <RDL.95May13232013@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3olspc$jn9@phakt.usc.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 03:20:13 GMT
O'Reilly and Associates has an excellent book entitled "PGP: Pretty Good
Privacy". It is written by Simson Garfinkel, the author of "NEXTSTEP
Programming Step One." ISBN 1-56592-098-8
It is available from Quantum Books:
VOICE: 617-494-5042 FAX: 617-577-7282
EMAIL: quanbook@world.std.com
WWW URL: http://www.shore.net/~quantum
Robert La Ferla
HTI
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From: dale@pegasus (Dale Brisinda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple Hosts w/ NeGeN Taylor-UUCP
Date: 14 May 1995 03:37:29 GMT
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3p3ttp$1h1@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
I've installed the NeGeN Taylor-UUCP package on my system and it works
without problems -- nice package. However, I would like to have email
for a specific host sent directly to that host (i.e., call up
directly), rather than through the mailhost. I've already got the
proper entries in the 'sys' and 'call' files. I "just" need some way of
telling sendmail that when it sees a specific hostname (non-local), to
call the appropriate system in the 'sys' file, instead of the mailhost.
Has anyone done something like this?
I've heard something about a mailer table that would allow this, but I
believe this would require specific support in the sendmail
configuration file distributed with NeGen Taylor UUCP. I'm not so
masochistic as to make anything more than minor changes to the
distributed sendmail configuration file...
Dale
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From: lukeh@stang.netspace.net.au (Luke Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple IP addresses on one interface?
Date: 14 May 1995 05:17:43 GMT
Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
Message-ID: <3p43pn$n0o@otis.netspace.net.au>
Cc: lukeh@auswired.net,bpja@xedoc.com.au
Does anyone know if it's possible to assign multiple IP addresses
to one physical interface under NS 3.3 (white hardware)? I'm interested
in running multiple http daemons binding to different IP addresses,
or using tcpwrappers to acheive the same thing.
Failing that, is there a dummy interface driver available?
thanks,
luke
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ???
Date: 14 May 1995 00:49:58 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems
Message-ID: <3p4cn6$cd3@crl7.crl.com>
References: <3olspc$jn9@phakt.usc.edu> <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
In article <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
:>There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
There's also a very nice drop-in PGP crypto bundle that works
with NeXTMail.
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From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel Netboot ?
Date: 14 May 1995 13:00:52 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3p4uu4$drm@ni1.ni.net>
I am trying to Netboot an Intel client from an Intel Netboot server.
To this end I have judiciously followed the instructions in the
Network and System Administration manual chapter 13.
All goes per the instructions until I try to Netboot the client. The
documentation seems geared towards black hardware at this stage.
I type "?" to get to the advanced boot options. I then try "ben" ,but
get "loading Nextstep" followed by "can't find ben". I tried a couple
of other variations but none seems to work. Typing "rootdev=en0" at
first looks promising, but then a kernel panic occurs indicating
something like "error initrootnet".
The computers in question are properly networked and work fine
otherwise.
I have done keyword searches of the system administration manuals as
well as Nextanswers but can find no clue as to what I am doing wrong.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
root@terra.ni.net # one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
Agoura Hills, CA # to be without faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can aquire power
# but not glory.
#
(NeXTmail prefered) # --Nicolo, Machiavelli
(MIMEmail welcome) #
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rvs@vnp.com (Ronald V. Simmons)
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ??? (legally)
Message-ID: <1995May14.133804.23756@vnp.com>
Sender: news@vnp.com (News account)
Organization: VNP Software
References: <3p4cn6$cd3@crl7.crl.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 95 13:38:04 GMT
In article <3p4cn6$cd3@crl7.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
writes:
> In article <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
> :>There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
>
> There's also a very nice drop-in PGP crypto bundle that works
> with NeXTMail.
There's also a 3-fat NS version of PGP itself available for purchase from
ViaCrypt in Phoenix. They actually licensed the RSA algorithm from PKP
and the IDEA algorithm from Ascom Tech, then just used Zimmerman's code
(in large part), so their version of PGP is legal for use in comercial
environments. Last I saw, it cost $149, which seemed like a pretty
reasonable price to me if you were using it in a commercial setting.
They can't export it outside the US, of course, but for people who want
really secure mail, web servers, etc. in a commercial setting, this
actually gives you a way to use it that doesn't violate patents, etc.
rvs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rvs@vnp.com (Ronald V. Simmons)
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ??? (legally)
Message-ID: <1995May14.135901.24099@vnp.com>
Sender: news@vnp.com (News account)
Organization: VNP Software
References: <1995May14.133804.23756@vnp.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 95 13:59:01 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Oops, forgot to sign that last article. :^) Note the use of PGP v2.7 (the
commercial one), rather than 2.6.2 :^)
rvs
In article <1995May14.133804.23756@vnp.com> rvs@vnp.com (Ronald V. Simmons)
writes:
> In article <3p4cn6$cd3@crl7.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
> writes:
> > In article <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
> pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
> > :>There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
> >
> > There's also a very nice drop-in PGP crypto bundle that works
> > with NeXTMail.
>
> There's also a 3-fat NS version of PGP itself available for purchase from
> ViaCrypt in Phoenix. They actually licensed the RSA algorithm from PKP
> and the IDEA algorithm from Ascom Tech, then just used Zimmerman's code
> (in large part), so their version of PGP is legal for use in comercial
> environments. Last I saw, it cost $149, which seemed like a pretty
> reasonable price to me if you were using it in a commercial setting.
>
> They can't export it outside the US, of course, but for people who want
> really secure mail, web servers, etc. in a commercial setting, this
> actually gives you a way to use it that doesn't violate patents, etc.
>
> rvs
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Ronald V. Simmons
Principal
VNP Software
180 Franklin St.
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Van_Simmons@vnp.com
(617) 661-4292 (voice)
(617) 864-6768 (fax)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Does the HP Vectra XU has the bugged PCI chipset?
Message-ID: <D8KM3C.210@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 13:42:47 GMT
See subject.
Thanks in advance,
--
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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: butler@world.std.com (Bryan Butler)
Subject: Re: Boot hangs looking for rc.boot
Message-ID: <D8Ko07.1IE@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D8JBto.71C@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 14:24:07 GMT
Bryan Butler (butler@world.std.com) wrote:
> After dealing with a synchronous transfer problem and a bad disk label,
> I still can't get my system to boot from my Fujitsu drive.
> Right now it hangs after the "master cpu at slot 0" message. I determined
> by watching my working boot disk that the next thing it does is try
> to execute the rc.boot file. I placed a message at the beginning of my
> rc.boot, which is not being echoed to the screen, which tells me that
> the system is not finding rc.boot.
Fixed it. I forgot to run MAKEDEV after rebuilding the disk from tape.
It actually came to me in a dream last night.
--
-------
Bryan Butler
butler@world.std.com
From: michael@mvhome (Michael Verruto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Fax Cover Sheet Archiving? PLEASE!!!
Date: 14 May 1995 14:54:22 GMT
Organization: Hesta Properties, Inc.
Message-ID: <3p55iu$nnt@corporate.hesta.com>
References: <3otg4u$6ir@phakt.usc.edu>
reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman) wrote:
>I would like to ideally have the contents of the fax cover sheet
(including the main body text and any other fields) be included in the
standard "fax sent successfully in xx minutes" mail message.
>Any ideas or solutions?
>Matthew
>--
>"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
This would be a truly USEFUL thing to have!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: (No) problems with SafetyNet
In-Reply-To: mcarling@rahul.net's message of 11 May 1995 21:55:41 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May14123636@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3or0lp$esb@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <3ou14t$atf@hustle.rahul.net>
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 16:36:36 GMT
SafetyNet is a nice backup application but the GUI could stand improvement.
It violates several of the NeXT GUI guidelines. On the other hand, it has
a lot of nice GUI features. In addition, Systemix has provided good
technical support.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: answer: using iomega ZIP drives with NEXTSTEP
In-Reply-To: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu's message of 9 May 1995 22:29:24 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May14124354@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1995May3.215133.10570@news.media.mit.edu>
<3obgjp$m32@nwestmail.entp.mccaw.com>
<3ooqc4$3fn@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 16:43:54 GMT
I have looked at both the IOMega ZIP drive ($195 + $20 / disk) and the Fujitsu
DynaMO ($595 + $35 / disk.) If you can afford the extra $, go with the
Fujitsu. It does 230MB on a 3.5" optical. It has a much higher transfer rate
and an access time of 30ns. The media is guaranteed last 30 years. While
the price of the ZIP is attractive, I don't think it's worth the hassle. Too
many gotchas and 100MB disks aren't exactly up to snuff when most hard drives
are 1 or 2 GB.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position/ILL
Date: 14 May 1995 19:33:43 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3p5lun$kmj@news1.channel1.com>
Positi
Position-----------------------------------------System Administrator
Platform----------------------------------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position-------------------------------Career Position
Opportunity-----------------------------------Outstanding
Benefits-------------------------------------Excellent
Area----------------------------------------ILL
Relocation---------------------------------Company assistance
To be considered----------Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position/ILL
Date: 14 May 1995 19:54:05 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3p5n4t$kmj@news1.channel1.com>
Position-----------System Administrator
Platform------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position-----Career position
Opportunity-----------Outstanding
Benefits---------------Excellent
Area--------------------ILL
Relocation---------------Company assistance
To be considered----------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: Multiple Hosts w/ NeGeN Taylor-UUCP
Message-ID: <D8L7In.2pG@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <3p3ttp$1h1@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 21:25:34 GMT
In article <3p3ttp$1h1@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> dale@pegasus (Dale Brisinda)
writes:
> I've installed the NeGeN Taylor-UUCP package on my system and it works
> without problems -- nice package. However, I would like to have email
> for a specific host sent directly to that host (i.e., call up
> directly), rather than through the mailhost. I've already got the
> proper entries in the 'sys' and 'call' files. I "just" need some way of
> telling sendmail that when it sees a specific hostname (non-local), to
> call the appropriate system in the 'sys' file, instead of the mailhost.
>
> Has anyone done something like this?
>
> I've heard something about a mailer table that would allow this, but I
> believe this would require specific support in the sendmail
> configuration file distributed with NeGen Taylor UUCP. I'm not so
> masochistic as to make anything more than minor changes to the
> distributed sendmail configuration file...
I can help you.
At least you can use the address system.uucp, where system is the system name
in the sys file. That will make sendmail use uux. So, use: user@system.uucp as
address for direct uucp connections. If these uucp connections have domain
names, you need something more fancy.
Anything more fancy? ask!
--
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.
Coordinator NEXTSTEP/OpenStep User Groups International
--
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: "Sean M. Willson" <premise@engin.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Multiple fax modem question ...
Date: 14 May 1995 22:26:03 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Message-ID: <3p601r$1ad@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have a question to pose to the NeXT community. I am working on an
application that will send a fax to one of many (say 17 differant)
fax modems. The question I have is this, can NeXTStep handle this
using the print objects faxing methods, and if so, do all of the fax
modems have to be on the same machine? Can anyone who has worked with
multiple fax modems provide a possible path toward a solution or
give me a yes or no if it can be done?
I looked in Next Answers and the only thing I found was a reference
to the faxes being stored in a directory under the fax modems name.
Are their any other places I could do some searching on this topic?
Sean Willson
_________________________________________________________________________
| Sean M. Willson "Chance favors a prepared mind..." |
| University of Michigan College of Engineering |
| ASCII: premise@umich.edu NeXTMail: premise@pluto.eecs.umich.edu |
| http://www.engin.umich.edu/~premise/ WWW Page (NeXT Stuff) |
| NeXT Programmer (Artist) in training! |
|_______________________________________________________________________|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Adding Another SCSI Disk Under NSFIP
Message-ID: <D8L9DG.8vz@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 22:05:39 GMT
I'm currently trying to install a second SCSI drive into a NEXTSTEP for
Intel processors machine. My configuration is:
ASUS 486SP3G motherboard
Onboard NCR 53C810 SCSI-2 controller
32MB of RAM
NEXTSTEP 3.2
I currently have a DEC 5035DSP, 535MB drive connected and set to SCSI ID 0.
NEXTSTEP 3.2 is installed on the drive and has booted happily from it for
a few months.
Today I tried to install a second disk, a Quantum LT730S. I followed the
yellow brick road as laid out in the NextAdmin documentation. I made
sure the new disk was properly termianted, assigned it the SCSI ID of 1,
powered the system down and did the cabling, and then logged in as root.
When the "This Disk is Unreadable" dialog appeared, I clicked on "Initialize"
and waited. After it ran for a little bit it mounted.
Then I proceeded to try and make it into a bootable disk. I logged in
as root and ran BuildDisk. I selected the new disk for building. I
then fiddled with the partition information, as I eventually want about 550MB
of this drive to be used for NEXTSTEP with the remainder being used for a
minimal DOS partition. Once this was done I clicked build, confirmed, and
let it run. When it was finished, I exited BuildDisk. Back when BuildDisk
was running I clicked next to each of the packages that it offered me, as
I want the new disk to boot just as my older one did. Then I powered down,
changed jumpers so that the Quantum would be device 0 and the DEC device 1,
and then rebooted.
Immediately things started to go wrong. mach_init and init couldn't be found
on the new disk. When I switched things back and rebooted using the old drive,
it turned out that these files, as well as many of the other system files had
not been moved over by BuildDisk.
My questions:
- Isn't that BuildDisk's function? To move over enough
of the system files that the new disk will serve as
a boot drive?
- What should I have done differently to get the Quantum
working properly as my boot drive?
- Can I later on go and install DOS onto the small 200MB
partition and have it bootable into DOS from there,
without reaming any of the NEXTSTEP setup information?
Any suggestions are very welcome. I have this machine open and gutted
on a bench right now with cables and drives hanging out everywhere...
--
Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
From: robe0149@gold.tc.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netboot
Date: 12 May 1995 20:01:53 -0500
Organization: University of Minnesota
Message-ID: <robe0149.800326645@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Is there someone out there who has tried resource sharing on a NeXT
network? I'm running a network of five NeXT's centered on a cube with
16mb ram with 3 or so gb of storage. I would like to scavenge ram from
some of the clients and have them netboot (?) off of the server like
terminals. This way I can ramp up the memory up to higher levels. I
don't know how to go about this though. Netboot as I previously
mentioned is my train of thought right now. Any ideas?
Joe Robertson
Plz reply to joe@mrdc.lib.umn.edu
From: Dane Spearing <dane@rescomp.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Loooooooong reboot times. HELP!
Date: 12 May 1995 18:19:11 GMT
Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3p08qv$52m@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I'm having a real severe problem with the 40 NeXTs that I
maintain in the Residential Computing clusters here at Stanford.
Some of them are taking upwards of *10 hours* to reboot, and
I'll be damned if I can find the cause.
Here is the system info:
Black Hardware (mix of cubes, slabs, and turbos)
NeXTStep 3.0
also running Transarc's AFS
about 23,000 usernames (yes, 23,000)
No NetInfo domains set up
The stage at which the boot hangs for a long period of time is at
the network_init stage.
The strange thing is that only some of them take this long to reboot.
Others reboot in minutes.
I'm really stuck on this one. Any help or suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. (And upgrading to NS 3.3 is *not* an option,
since we'll be getting rid of this hardware in a couple of months,
and I have no desire to sink a large sum of money into a new OS).
Dane Spearing --- Residential Computing --- Stanford University
dane@rescomp.stanford.edu -- (415) 723-4800
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~dane/dane.html
From: patron_david@bah.com (David Patron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing NS on second drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 16:39:39 -0400
Organization: BAH
Message-ID: <patron_david-150595163940@128.229.166.24>
Hello:
I am trying to install NextStep for Intel Processors in a machine that has
two identical hard disks. Each one is 400K. I intend to use the first one
for DOS and the second disk for NextStep.
When I try to install NS, everything goes fine, until the installer asks me
to remove the installation disk from the disk drive. The system reboots
and DOS kicks in. I tried to reboot with the installation disk with the
command "fd(1)mach_kernel" at the "boot" prompt. The system then seems to
reboot, but it hangs after a while, with error messages about file systems
check failed.
Any ideas would be appreciated
Thanks
From: amir@titan.matrix.chnet.ch (Amir Guindehi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with lookupd and system freezes:
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 11 May 1995 16:58:44 GMT
Organization: the matrix subnet
Message-ID: <3otfo4$qbu@hamiller.matrix.chnet.ch>
References: <3ore9e$4ea@moe.cc.emory.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.950510173144.328A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Mark Crispin (mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU) wrote:
: The bottom line is that you're screwed, and you'll stay screwed until you
: trash NEXTSTEP in favor of software from a reputable vendor. If you are
: lucky enough to have Intel hardware, run something like BSDI. If you are
: unlikely enough to have NeXT's proprietary (black) hardware, too bad.
Right !!!!!
And it's realy the BIG, BIG, BAD point of NeXTStep.
Lookupd and NetInfo are the bottleneck of the nice OS.
NeXT !!!!! Please DO something !!!!!
- Amir
--
Guindehi Amir amir@matrix.chnet.ch
I know you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I am sure, you realize,that what you heard is not what I meant.
From: wolfe@vina.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Wolfe)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installation of g++ on 68k-next-nextstep3
Date: 16 May 1995 05:11:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3p9c6f$r8c@agate.berkeley.edu>
I have installed libg++-2.6.2 and gcc-2.6.3 on my NeXT
(68k-next-nextstep3), and am having some trouble. Tried compiling:
#include <iostream.h>
main() {
cout << "Enter two numbers\n";
return 0;
}
And got the errors:
% g++ prog.cc
ld: Undefined symbols:
_S_ISREG
_S_ISCHR
Is there something else I need to install? I took a guess that I
needed newer C library routines as well, but glibc-1.09.tar.gz isn't
supported on the platform.
Thanks!
David
P.S. I make decent truffles and... well... you know the rest.
From: soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu (John Soward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ???
Date: 15 May 1995 14:20:15 GMT
Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services
Message-ID: <3p7nuv$jko@service1.uky.edu>
References: <3p4cn6$cd3@crl7.crl.com>
In article <3p4cn6$cd3@crl7.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
writes:
> In article <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE
(Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
> :>There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
>
> There's also a very nice drop-in PGP crypto bundle that works
> with NeXTMail.
There's another front-end that's still Beta, but it looks slicker than NXPGP,
drop a note to brian@whetstone.com if you're really interested.
--
John Soward <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~soward">JpS</a>
Systems Programmer 'The Midnight sun will burn you up.'
University of Kentucky (NeXT and MIME mail OK) -R. Smith
:::I'm not speaking for UK. I may not even be speaking for myself:::
From: erbalch@aol.com (ERBalch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I Get my 4mm Backup working?
Date: 12 May 1995 23:14:16 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <3p1868$c0u@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Problem:
I have a SCSI 4mm DAT tape drive an I would like to get it working under
NSFIP Ver. 3.2. I have failed in my attempts to use tar and dump.
Basicly the problem with both these commands is that an NS driver needs to
be loaded some how (I think its called st0 or some darn thing). To tell
you the truth I wouldent mind at all having a NS app to do backups with...
Can any one recommend one? Possibly a PD or SW app? Can anyone tell me
how to get the st0 driver working so I can use tar and/or dump?
Thanks in advance for any advise you can give!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Michael Rousseau <rousseau@indra.com>
Subject: NetInfo winding across WAN
Message-ID: <D8n2I4.3pw.0.server@indra.com>
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Has anyone had experience with getting netinfo to bind across subnets,
especially wide-area schemes.
What I have is an existing NeXTSTEP network and I am adding home offices
to it, connected through 56KB Frame-Relay. My host site has a T1
connecting the main router to the frame-relay cloud. Each of the home
offices will be a subnet with up to 6 hosts, plus interface address and
broadcast address (eight address spaces per subnet site).
The problem is getting the NI netmasters on the client sites to bind
with the root NetInfo domain. We have ping and telnet connectivity, but
the bind requests from subnet master to root are failing. What have we
missed or what suggestions do you have.
Responses can be sent directly to rousseau@bou.shl.com.
I secretly hope Marc Majka will generously reply to this as father of 3.3
NetInfo. But no pressure...
Thanks for your consideration,
Mike Rousseau
Stressed SysAdmin
SHL OTC
From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: do I have to modify sendmail ???
Date: 16 May 1995 06:22:12 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3p9gak$608@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
I'm converting an office of several NeXTs from a uucp connection to ppp, and
I've got the basic connection happy (can telnet, browse the web, etc.). To
move the email routing from the uucp link to the ppp link without breaking
the uucp link is my present concern (they get real unhappy when they loose
their email for even a few hours...;).
It looked like I'd have to customize a sendmail.cf file to do this (especially
since some long-gone sysadmin did a customized one to get the office *on*
uucp--was that really necessary?). But the more I read into the O'Reilly &
Assoc. book the more I'm thinking that I really should be able to just use
a stock NeXT-supplied file with appropriate stuff elsewhere (haven't gotten
far enought yet to figure out where all that would be, though).
Or is this just wishfull thinking? Will I need to customize my .cf? Is there
an archive out there somewhere with "known-good" .cf files for this sort of
thing, like all the "Don't do it!" references allude to???
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks-
tec
From: faustex@infinity.ccsi.com (Mike Cheselka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP problem: device busy/locked( /dev/cufa)...how to fix?
Date: 16 May 1995 01:18:11 -0500
Organization: Commuter Communication Systems
Message-ID: <3p9g33$cbc@infinity.ccsi.com>
PPP has exited on my NeXT cube '40 running 3.2 and ppp 1.03( I think) in
such a way that I cannot not login or ppp-on out. It's very strange
because rebooting does not fix the problem, so a lokck file is present, or
the device is saving it's state somehow. How do I get out of this?
'fix-cufa' doesn't work either.
Thanks!
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses on one interface?
Date: 16 May 1995 06:26:09 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
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In article <3p43pn$n0o@otis.netspace.net.au>,
Luke Howard <lukeh@inter.net.au> wrote:
>Does anyone know if it's possible to assign multiple IP addresses
>to one physical interface under NS 3.3 (white hardware)?
This is not possible with NEXTSTEP 3.3 (or any previous version)
>Failing that, is there a dummy interface driver available?
I use dialup-ip for this, and just don't connect the du* devices
to anything. I assume any slip or ppp software that enables
IP-forwarding will work.
--Dan
--
Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in Bld1, back, Rside
From: hml@llnl.gov (Martin Lades)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Tadpole/NCR SCSI/Fat Boot Disk
Date: 16 May 1995 08:38:00 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NCD
Message-ID: <3p9o98$lj2@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Keywords: Fat Bootdisk NCRSCSI
My problem is to find a way to install
NS/I for a Tadpole P1000 notebook.
Here are the constraints:
The unit has PCI/SCSI from the BIOS (but inaccessible in
hardware since the dock is on backorder). The adapter is an NCR type
(integrated on board). I also have a PCMCIA 1460 Adaptec SlimSCSI adapter
available. The PCMCIA adapter is a Cirrus Logic 6729 PPHA.
I can hook the notebook drive up to a NeXT cube but no
other PC is available to perform the installation.
Is there a way to write the intel disk from
the NeXT?
Does anybody out there run Nextstep on a Tadpole?
How was it installed?
Cheers to any suggestions that help.
They are greatly appreciated.
Martin
hml@llnl.gov
From: not-for-mail@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (anonymous )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail routing via SLIP ?
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:53 MDZ
Organization: RZ Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <19950516125344.not-for-mail@cd41021.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
I've installed TranssysPNI and established a working SLIP-system.
Anything works fine but what's lacking now is the use of true NeXT-mail.
I have an account on the remote machine and can copy the mail over by
ftp. This allows fine mail-reading. My actual problem is to send mail
from my local NeXTstation. My aim is to compose my mail offline, spool it
and when going slipUp to have it mailed. Spooling works well by using
the -q option to sendmail. When being online I issue sendmail -q to flush
mails. However mails come back undeliverd. I haven't seen the proper
impact on /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf now. How is this or the related files
to be set up to route mail correctly?
Thanks in advance.
Please reply (also) via email to boehrsbu@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: not-for-mail@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (anonymous )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: store-and-forward-news?
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:58 MDZ
Organization: RZ Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <19950516125839.not-for-mail@cd41021.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
I want to access NNTP-news in a store and forward manner via SLIP.
One way would be to read all news from choosen newsgroups and store
them on a local nntp-server just when going online.
A problem would be to hand over news I would have written to the world however.
Is there such a solution available ?
Thanks in advance.
Please (also) reply via email to boehrsbu@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: jahn@hamlet.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.com (Armin Jahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dvips responds 'broken pipe' while printing with TeXViev
Date: 16 May 1995 11:09:35 GMT
Organization: debis Network Services GmbH
Message-ID: <3pa15f$i9r@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
Is there any known fix for my problem? On PA-Risc machines TeXView doesn't Work proper. While trying to print from TeXview.app dvips doesn't work and responds 'broken pipe'. Is there anybody out there who can help me?
Please send answers via e-mail to:
Armin.Jahn@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.com
Thanx a lot
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Calling all tar or gnutar experts
Date: 16 May 1995 14:38:49 GMT
Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Message-ID: <3paddp$ub4@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Keywords: tar, gnutar, backup, I/O error, disk failure
Hello,
Are there any tar or gnutar experts out
there who can help me restore some lost data?
My hard drive failed and I lost about two weeks'
worth of work, though I think it can be salvaged
with the proper expertise. Here are the details:
BACKGROUND:
My hard drive bit the dust, citing media failures.
I restored most files from a backup made 2 weeks ago.
Also, I had made a gnutar backup the day before the
failure, using the -cBf options.
The gnutar file is roughly the same size (in MB)
as the collection of files backed up.
ACTION:
I tried to extract the entire contents of this
latest gnutar backup, using the -xBvf options.
The "verbose" mode listed all files (although 1%
of them indicated I/O errors).
Only 5% of all files (based on MB) were restored.
QUESTION:
Can anyone suggest a way to retrieve the other 95%
of the files (or at least all but the 1% that
showed I/O errors in the verbose listing)?
COMMENT:
From the (large) size of the gnutar file and the
fact that all files showed up in the verbose
listing during the attempted extraction, I'm
hoping that except for the few (1%) corrupted
files, all other files can be salvaged somehow.
I'd really appreciate any help in retrieving
the work that I've done in the past 2 weeks. Thanks
in advance for any suggestions.
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: Luis Miguel Pinho <deec30>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Integrating Next Cube on a NIS Network
Date: 16 May 1995 15:32:11 GMT
Organization: Universidade do Porto
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Hi again.
We have succede compiling tcsh 6.06 in the Next cube, the problem was with the
tc.const.h file which should be made by makef, and we're trying to make without
it.
We're still trying to get the Ksh, and XDM and Choice. If someone could help us
we would apreciate.
Thanks
Luis Miguel Pinho
Grupo de Automacao Industrial
Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica - Porto
Portugal
lmp@tormentas.fe.up.pt (Non-NeXT Mail)
lmp@magalhaes.fe.up.pt (NeXT Mail)
From: gfin@chrome.psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (No) problems with SafetyNet
Date: 16 May 1995 15:06:28 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3paf1k$1lsk@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3ou14t$atf@hustle.rahul.net>
M Carling wrote:
> > In article ... Carl Payne writes:
> > >>I am trying to use SafetyNet 2.3 for back up for several weeks
without
> > >>success...
> > You should talk with Systemix and find out what's wrong-- they are
> > very helpful.
>
> I have also found Systemix to be very helpful. Both times I've had a
> problem, they resolved it quickly.
> I voted SafetyNet the best overall NEXTSTEP app for NeXTWORLD's Best of
> Breed awards in 1993. Enough of the other judges voted likewise for
> SafetyNet to win the top honors.
I've gotta jump in here, too. I think SafetyNet is a fine product, and
I've had excellent service and advice from Systemix. They helped me
overcome some trouble with a balky Exabyte drive (which was the hardware's
fault, not SafetyNet's), and also gave me help with the installation of a
DAT drive on my new Intel box. SafetyNet is one of those excellent
software products that show what a skilled software developer can do in
the NeXSTEP environment. The results are something that make most Windows
apps look truly pathetic.
----------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta
Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/finleyg.htmld/index.html
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From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: public ntp site available?
Message-ID: <D8n8np.3x3@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 23:45:25 GMT
Hi, I've got a lone NeXT (unix box) on our company network,
which just got a T1 connection to the net... but, no ntp server
on our net.... so, does anyone know of a site that will allow me
to pick up the current time with ntp?
TIA,
Regards,
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Michael Rousseau <rousseau@indra.com>
Subject: TYPO: should be NetInfo Binding across WAN
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Maybe that misspelled title gave the wrong impression. Once again, any
assistance, as always, is highly appreciated.
>Has anyone had experience with getting netinfo to bind across subnets,
>especially wide-area schemes.
>
>What I have is an existing NeXTSTEP network and I am adding home offices
>to it, connected through 56KB Frame-Relay. My host site has a T1
>connecting the main router to the frame-relay cloud. Each of the home
>offices will be a subnet with up to 6 hosts, plus interface address and
>broadcast address (eight address spaces per subnet site).
>
>The problem is getting the NI netmasters on the client sites to bind
>with the root NetInfo domain. We have ping and telnet connectivity, but
>the bind requests from subnet master to root are failing. What have we
>missed or what suggestions do you have.
>
>Responses can be sent directly to rousseau@bou.shl.com.
>
>I secretly hope Marc Majka will generously reply to this as father of
3.3
>NetInfo. But no pressure...
>
>Thanks for your consideration,
>
>Mike Rousseau
>Stressed SysAdmin
>SHL OTC
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: s9udzw@harpoon (Damien Weiss)
Subject: Re: ** Emergency Startup Kit for NSFIP**
Message-ID: <1995May16.174846.19270@almserv.uucp>
Sender: usenet@almserv.uucp
Organization: Fannie Mae
References: <jpanicoD8Eo91.10o@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:48:46 GMT
Joe Panico writes
>
> : Please correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't the drive limited to being SCSI
> : ID #5 or #6? In other words, not bootable in most systems (my system only
> : boot from SCSI ID #0 or #1, or the floppy).
>
> Oops, that's right. I guess you can't boot from it. Sorry for the
> misunderstanding.
Why not just have a boot floppy that points to an external SCSI drive
(under /usr/Devices/System.config, kernel flags=rootdev=sd0a).
Damien
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: do I have to modify sendmail ???
Date: 16 May 1995 20:18:38 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
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References: <3p9gak$608@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
In article <3p9gak$608@gap.cco.caltech.edu> tec@alumni.caltech.edu
(Timothy E. Cushing) writes:
> It looked like I'd have to customize a sendmail.cf file to do this
(especially
> since some long-gone sysadmin did a customized one to get the office
*on*
> uucp--was that really necessary?). But the more I read into the O'Reilly
&
> Assoc. book the more I'm thinking that I really should be able to just
use
> a stock NeXT-supplied file with appropriate stuff elsewhere (haven't
gotten
> far enought yet to figure out where all that would be, though).
>
> Or is this just wishfull thinking? Will I need to customize my .cf? Is
there
> an archive out there somewhere with "known-good" .cf files for this sort
of
> thing, like all the "Don't do it!" references allude to???
I have invariably found that a NeXT stock sendmail.cf can get a single
machine or small office on the net, with either no or trivial
modifications.
The basic rule is that you should have just one outgoing mail route; mixes
of uucp and SMTP can work out, but multiple SMTP routes require extra
hacking.
Use the /locations/sendmail netinfo directory to configure variables for
client machines in your higher level netinfo domains.
Customise this in the local domain of your mail server.
On the mail server, edit the sendmail.cf to specify the mail-relay.
Change the comments at the end of the file to forward on to your
intelligent mail-relay all non-local mail. You will probably have to
override either or both of the Dj and Dm macros to specify hostname and
domain name. In most cases, I also have to modify the ruleset 6 to
comment out the "canonical hostname look-up", which messes up any
mailserver renaming.
Anything else is unusual.
Paul
--
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Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: wolfe@vina.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <3p995v$ppm@agate.berkeley.edu>
Control: cancel <3p995v$ppm@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 16 May 1995 05:12:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3p9c85$r91@agate.berkeley.edu>
<3p995v$ppm@agate.berkeley.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
From: root@abraham.bader.org (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: filtering mail
Date: 16 May 1995 21:20:58 GMT
Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI
Message-ID: <3pb4vq$il1@homer.alpha.net>
Keywords: mail, filter
Has anyone had any luck getting a filtering system working for e-mail
within NeXTStep? A number of employees here are now becoming interested
in mailing lists but the volumes of e-mail puts them off (and our hard
disk, too ;-). If it's a NeXTStep app, all the better.
---
Steven J. White
System Administrator, The Helen Bader Foundation
steve@bader.org
From: Lars Immisch <limmisch@t42.ppp.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP problem: device busy/locked( /dev/cufa)...how to fix?
Date: 16 May 1995 23:04:16 GMT
Organization: myself
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pbb1g$44b@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <3p9g33$cbc@infinity.ccsi.com>
In article <3p9g33$cbc@infinity.ccsi.com> Mike Cheselka,
faustex@infinity.ccsi.com writes:
>PPP has exited on my NeXT cube '40 running 3.2 and ppp 1.03( I think) in
>such a way that I cannot not login or ppp-on out. It's very strange
>because rebooting does not fix the problem, so a lokck file is present,
or
>the device is saving it's state somehow. How do I get out of this?
>'fix-cufa' doesn't work either.
>
>Thanks!
It might be a lock. They typically are in a subdir under /usr/spool/uucp.
Look out for a LCK directory and simply remove the file. The uucp
documentation
says a word about this.
Cheers,
Lars
From: root@abraham.bader.org (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ???
Date: 16 May 1995 21:23:18 GMT
Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI
Message-ID: <3pb546$ilv@homer.alpha.net>
References: <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
In article <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
> There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
Is this public domain or commercial?
---
Steven J. White
System Administrator, The Helen Bader Foundation
steve@bader.org
From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOH! how do i get back my windows?
Date: 16 May 1995 23:07:10 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Message-ID: <3pbb6u$a92@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
i boot up my NeXT turbostation to a command prompt and login as
root. i then want to type a command to get me into the environment where
everything is done by gui/windows, but i don't know the command. i dug through
the documentation, but it assumes i'm already using the gui interfacing.
(thanks guys.) i just started hacking on this beauty. someone help me out.
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail routing via SLIP ?
Date: 17 May 1995 04:07:46 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pbsqi$ll7@clarknet.clark.net>
References: <19950516125344.not-for-mail@cd41021.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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anonymous (not-for-mail@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) wrote:
: I've installed TranssysPNI and established a working SLIP-system.
: Anything works fine but what's lacking now is the use of true NeXT-mail.
: I have an account on the remote machine and can copy the mail over by
: ftp. This allows fine mail-reading. My actual problem is to send mail
: from my local NeXTstation. My aim is to compose my mail offline, spool it
: and when going slipUp to have it mailed. Spooling works well by using
: the -q option to sendmail. When being online I issue sendmail -q to flush
: mails. However mails come back undeliverd. I haven't seen the proper
: impact on /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf now. How is this or the related files
: to be set up to route mail correctly?
I am posting this followup instead of e-mail to you because I don't know
how to get pine to send reply email of a newsgroup besides the sender
address and that sender address above say not-for-mail.
We are using TransPNI for SLIP connection as well. Not sure why you want
to ftp your mail inseatd of receiving mail the regular way. Does incoming
email works on your machine when you connecting through SLIP ?
After we crashed out boot disk, rebuilt it and reinstalled TransPNI, there
were a period of time outgoing mail doesn't work. It turned out the
symbolic link of /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf was pointing to the wrong file.
There are two sample config files in /etc/sendmail. One for mailhost and
one for the other. Our /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf was pointing to the one
for the other. Not sure if SLIP connection should be considered on
network, but once I redirect the pointer to the one for mailhost, outgoing
mail went out without any problem. See if this is your problem, too. My
guess is that NEXTSTEP went to its ethernet interface looking for any
machine there that's a mailhost.
From: olorin@clark.net (Rivendell Communications)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Talk stop working.
Date: 17 May 1995 04:20:45 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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Not sure what happened but talk on my NeXT box running NeXTSTEP 3.2
doesn't work any more. It keep coming back with
Can't figure out network address
Even when trying to reply talk request form other machines. We are
connecting to Internet through SLIP using TransPNI and nothing on ethernet
interface. I suspect ethernet interface is activated somehow because when
I check for interface ( using a command showup in rc.boot or rc.standard
where it decide it the machine is on a network ), besides the PNI
interface, ethernet is also there. What file(s) and how do I return the
machine back to stand alone ( on ethernet side ) status like before the
first time SimpleNetwork was used ? Woul like to keep the hostname ( on
the login window, in browser instead of 'home' icon, etc ) if possible.
From: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: How to attach a service?
Date: 16 May 1995 14:08:28 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3pabks$q3k@hecate.umd.edu>
Forgive me if this is a next101 question---I am new to NeXT and can
find FAQ at nowhere...
How can I attach an application to a service menu?
Currently, I am trying to attach a third party app. onto my
workspace menu under "services". I don't know how to do it.
Any help?
thanks,
Yibing Wu
From: jmb@sma.ch (Jean-Marie Bettems)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: back up solution
Date: 17 May 1995 07:00:27 GMT
Organization: Swiss Meteorological Institute
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pc6ubINN1pc@maz4.sma.ch>
Hi netizen !
I am the owner of a NeXTStation with NS3.3 installed. I use SafetyNet to do back up and I plan to buy a streamer (DAT, 8mm). Any suggestion/experience (possibly not too expensive :-) ?
Thanks a lot
Jean-Marie Bettems
From: tom@hukatronic.cz (Tomas Hurka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: driverLoader broken on 3.3 if booted from NEXTSTEP CD-ROM
Date: 17 May 1995 05:52:55 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9505170922.AA00590@hukatronic.cz>
Hi All,
yesterday I discovered, that 'driverLoader' was unusable if you are starting
up in single-user mode from NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. There is a missing symbolic link
on NS 3.3 CD in /private directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 12 Mar 4 15:10 Devices -> Drivers/i386/@
On 3.2 the drivers was in /usr/Devices directory and on 3.3 the drivers are
in the /private/Drivers/i386 directory. On the hard disk there is a link from
usr/Devices to /private/Drivers/i386 so everything works Ok, but on the CD due
to a missing link above the 'driverLoader', which has hardcoded the
/usr/Devices directory in its executable, cannot find the correct directory
even with the suggestion from the release notes addendum.
The 'driverLoader' is needed when you are recovering from catastrophic
failure and you are not able to boot from your hard disk. In such case you
need to load the Floppy driver and mount the floppy disk on /tmp directory to
be able copy recovered files from your hard disk. With 3.3 you are lost with
this approach, since you quickly discover that you are not able to load Floppy
driver and there is no way out of this, since you cannot boot from your hard
disk.
The only solution is to put the floppy driver (Floppy.config directory) in
advance on the separate floppy in the /private/Drivers/i386 directory and load
it as external driver, when you are booting from NeXT floppies.
Note: All above is valid for NS 3.3 on Intel hardware. I don't have access to
other platforms running 3.3, so I don't know about situation there.
---
Tomas Hurka
tom@hukatronic.cz
NeXTMAIL and MIME OK (international mail <50 KB accepted)
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 16 May 1995 21:48:58 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pb6ka$1nga@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
One of my colleagues is interested in installing NS 3.3 on a few old
Suns. He has a Sparcstation 1+ with at least 16 (maybe it's 24) MB of
RAM and a color monitor, and a couple of little mono SLCs with 16 MB
each. I'm wondering if we would get adequate performance from these old
machines under NS/Sparc. By "adequate", I mean something comparable with
the non-Turbo NextStaions I have in my graduate lab. Those aren't
what you'd call fast, but they're good enough for student consoles.
If any of you have experience with NS on this generation of Sun hardware,
I'd appreciate hearing your impressions and advice, by posting here or by
email. Thanks.
----------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta
Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/finleyg.htmld/index.html
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Perm/ILL
Date: 17 May 1995 07:19:23 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3pc81r$9p@news1.channel1.com>
Position----------System Administrator
Platform------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position------Career Position
Opportunity-------------Outstanding
Benefits------------------Full
Area------------------------Illinois
Relocation--------------------Company assistance
To be considered----------------Fax resumeor mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: filtering mail
Date: 17 May 1995 08:29:04 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995May17.071031.28855@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <3pb4vq$il1@homer.alpha.net>
In article <3pb4vq$il1@homer.alpha.net> root@abraham.bader.org (Operator)
writes:
> Has anyone had any luck getting a filtering system working for e-mail
> within NeXTStep? A number of employees here are now becoming interested
> in mailing lists but the volumes of e-mail puts them off (and our hard
> disk, too ;-). If it's a NeXTStep app, all the better.
Procmail installs very easily on NeXTSTEP. It is a free, command line
type filtering package, which you can use with mailapp-utilities to direct
mail to NeXT mailboxes.
Eloquent is a commercial app that lets you do much the same things.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu (Stephen Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NCSA httpd 1.4 problem
Date: 17 May 1995 12:08:36 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Linguistics, Yale University
Message-ID: <ANDERSON.95May17080836@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
I recently installed version 1.4 of the NCSA httpd on my '040 cube
running NS 3.3. No problems getting it built and installed under
3.3. developer (I turned off optimization, since it seems that gcc has
an optimization bug that affects this code). But now I find that
occasionally one of the httpd processes goes berserk, and starts
consuming large amounts of cpu time while doing nothing apparent.
After the most recent incident, the end of the error log contained
[Wed May 17 04:36:36 1995] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
[Wed May 17 07:20:24 1995] child error: child connection closed
Has anyone else had problems with this? I haven't seen anything
relevant in in the WWW UNIX servers group, and I thought I'd ask here,
in a NeXT-specific group, before posting there myself.
--Steve Anderson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha?
Message-ID: <D8q4yM.6xy@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:18:22 GMT
A HP 712 has this color recovery which comresses (lossy) 24 bit to 8 bit and
decompresses back to 23 bit.
A NeXTDimension does 24bit colour + 8 bit alpha
A PC can do many things, but most interestingly 16 bit and 32 bit.
I am confused:
When the PC does 16bit is this 12bit colour and 4bit alpha? Or is this
16 bit colour and is alpha handled by NEXTSTEP?
The same question for 32bit?
This 24bit colour from the HP, is that with or without alpha? Should I
compare this to PC 32bit?
Can a kind sould explain to me how I can compare these options?
--
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: vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be (Christian Van Oudenhove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Q: 68k mother board in trouble ...
Date: 17 May 1995 15:24:07 GMT
Organization: Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pd4en$aev@sci3.sri.ucl.ac.be>
Hi, everyone
I get the following System Panic message, hanging my 25 Mhz
Black Next under NS 3.3 and connected to BNC Ethernet:
..
panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994;
root (rcbuilder):mk-171.9 obj~m68k/RELEASE_M68K
assert_wait: already asserted event 0x106b55ae
panic: (Cpu 0) assert_wait
Problem arrise when I transfer a big file (~ 20 MB) through
the net, using NFS; The problem does n t appear when I connect that
machine in the same way, trough the RJ45 port
So, I suspect the Thin circuitry on my motherboard to become
weak after 2 1/2 years non-stop use !
MY QUESTIONS :
1. How to decode the Panic message ? (doc anywhere about that ?)
and to be secure the problem is that one ?
2. Any way to solve myself the problem with my tester and iron ?
3. Any possible vendor in Europe (or US) for a black 68k
motherboard (new or repair) ?
Thanks for help
--------------------------
Christian Van Oudenhove - Universite Catholique de Louvain
Institut de Statistique - Voie du Roman Pays, 34
B-1348 Louvain-La-Neuve - BELGIUM
Tel : 32-10/47.30.48 - Fax 32-10/47.30.32
E-mail : vanou@stat.ucl.ac.be - (NeXTmail welcome)
From: clake@ny.psca.com (Chad Lake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP4 JetDirect Burst Page
Date: 17 May 1995 12:49:51 -0400
Organization: Paradigm Systems Corp
Message-ID: <3pd9ff$8nk@spaceghost.ny.psca.com>
I recently installed an hp4+ with a jetdirect card and brought
it up on our network, which is mix of Suns, NeXTs, and PCs. The install
was a piece of cake, and within minutes everything was working fine.
However, I cannot seem to surpress the burst page when printing
from the NeXT machines. I do not get any such pages when I print from
the Suns and PCs. The page looks like:
User: <username>
Host: <machine-name>
Class: <machine-name>
Job: <file-name or such>
I've tried adding sh to the printer definition in netinfo, but
this page still comes out (as the last page) of every print job coming
from the a next machine. Does anybody have any ideas about how I can
surpress this wily burst page?
Thanks-
chad
--
Chad Lake
Paradigm Systems Corporation
(212) 850-8100
clake@ny.psca.com
From: nweaver@madrone.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nicholas C. Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: The continuing saga of the sick NeXT...
Followup-To: poster
Date: 17 May 1995 17:54:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <3pdd9e$5bm@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3p86fc$9bk@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: The Saga of the Sick NeXT CONTINUES!
Background: My nice classic 68040 Slab is struggling for life!
Thanks to everyone's help on the subject, (I recieved lots of
useful stuff, and a nice kind person who sent me an electronic copy of
the portion of the FM I wanted to RT). HOwever, there was something I
missed during the boot process: It was failing the memory check. SO
now it is time to pull the memory and hope that it is just a 1mb SIMM
that has failed.
SO I open the case (A dream to open, really. I didn't even
bother looking for my screwdriver, I just removed the single screw
with my thumb, lift open, and look inside. I wish other computer
makers would take a lesson here on how to build a GOOD case!). And
now I am presented with two problems:
1) They don't label the motherboard, so although the memory check
says that it is SIMM #1 (Count from 0), I don't know which side to
count from. Any ideas?
2) I now remember how hard it was to remove those SIMMs when
upgrading memory. They are the slots where the simm enters and stays
vertically. How can I get the SIMMs out? I want to see if it is the
SIMMS or the motherboard, and which kind it is (1 mb, or 4mb).
Also, does it care which banks of SIMMS are filled?
--
Nicholas C. Weaver nweaver@madrone.cs.berkeley.edu
It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing
Fun with anagrams: computer science > coerce inept scum.
From: tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 17 May 1995 18:20:22 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Salzburg
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pdep6$g3r@esel.cosy.sbg.ac.at>
References: <D8q4yM.6xy@RnA.NL>
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL wrote:
/ When the PC does 16bit is this 12bit colour and 4bit alpha?
Yes. It`s 4096 (2^12) colors then, and not 65536 (2^16).
--
Martin Michlmayr | tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at | tbm@gnu.ai.mit.edu
GNUStep Volunteer Coordinator, http://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/gnustep/index.html
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Contract-3mon+/DC area
Date: 17 May 1995 19:16:51 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3pdi33$29b@news1.channel1.com>
Position--------------------System Administrator
Platform--------------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position------------Contract
Length of assignment--------Approx 3 months
Start date------------------Immediate
Area------------------------Greater DC Area
To be considered------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: answer: using iomega ZIP drives with NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <jpanicoD8p6A2.Dor@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <1995May3.215133.10570@news.media.mit.edu> <RDL.95May14124354@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:49:14 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom10.netcom.com
Robert La Ferla (rdl@world.std.com) wrote:
: I have looked at both the IOMega ZIP drive ($195 + $20 / disk) and the Fujitsu
: DynaMO ($595 + $35 / disk.) If you can afford the extra $, go with the
: Fujitsu. It does 230MB on a 3.5" optical. It has a much higher transfer rate
Yes, the DynaMO has a higher transfer rate than zip.
: and an access time of 30ns. The media is guaranteed last 30 years. While
This is the same access time as zip (if you mean 30ms). In fact, zip has
a faster access time than Dynamo for writes, because apparently MO drives
require 2 passes to do a write.
: the price of the ZIP is attractive, I don't think it's worth the hassle. Too
: many gotchas and 100MB disks aren't exactly up to snuff when most hard drives
I haven't had any problems with zip yet. Some people on the net have reported
frying disks, but supposedly Iomega is good about replacing fried disks.
: Robert La Ferla
: Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcomcom
From: rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de (Rainer Sokoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Calling all tar or gnutar experts
Date: 17 May 1995 20:54:16 +0100
Organization: Thueringen Net, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pdk98$8o@rainix.jena.thur.de>
References: <3paddp$ub4@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Gregg E. Dinse (dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov) wrote:
: Hello,
: Are there any tar or gnutar experts out
: there who can help me restore some lost data?
: My hard drive failed and I lost about two weeks'
: worth of work, though I think it can be salvaged
: with the proper expertise. Here are the details:
: BACKGROUND:
: My hard drive bit the dust, citing media failures.
: I restored most files from a backup made 2 weeks ago.
: Also, I had made a gnutar backup the day before the
: failure, using the -cBf options.
: The gnutar file is roughly the same size (in MB)
: as the collection of files backed up.
: ACTION:
: I tried to extract the entire contents of this
: latest gnutar backup, using the -xBvf options.
: The "verbose" mode listed all files (although 1%
: of them indicated I/O errors).
: Only 5% of all files (based on MB) were restored.
: QUESTION:
: Can anyone suggest a way to retrieve the other 95%
: of the files (or at least all but the 1% that
: showed I/O errors in the verbose listing)?
: COMMENT:
: From the (large) size of the gnutar file and the
: fact that all files showed up in the verbose
: listing during the attempted extraction, I'm
: hoping that except for the few (1%) corrupted
: files, all other files can be salvaged somehow.
: I'd really appreciate any help in retrieving
: the work that I've done in the past 2 weeks. Thanks
: in advance for any suggestions.
: Gregg Dinse
: 919-541-4931
: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
Maybe --ignore-failed-read helps?
Greetings,
Rainer
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| e-mail private Rainer.Sokoll@Jena.Thur.De work rainer@con.de (NeXTMail ok) |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position/ILL
Date: 16 May 1995 13:00:47 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <3pa7lv$qua@news1.channel1.com>
Position-----------------------System Administrator
Platform------------------------NEXTSTEP
Type of position-----------------Career Position
Opportunity-----------------------Outstanding
Benefits---------------------------Excellent
Area--------------------------------Illinois
To be considered---------------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: How to attach a service?
Message-ID: <D8p5H1.1Is@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3pabks$q3k@hecate.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:31:49 GMT
XiaoJun Li (xli@delphi.umd.edu) wrote:
: How can I attach an application to a service menu?
: Currently, I am trying to attach a third party app. onto my
: workspace menu under "services". I don't know how to do it.
You don't. The apps do it themselves, if they have a service to offer.
All apps installed in your path (/NextApps /LocalApps, ~/Apps, etc...)
will be scanned when you log in, and will declare their services to
NeXTSTEP then.
If you wish to add your own custom services, there is a package
(TickleServices) which will let you do that. Email Scott Hess
<scott@nic.gac.edu> for details on that package. I use it, and find it
very helpful.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | "Can I tell you what makes love
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | so frightening?
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Its that you don't own it.
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | It owns you."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: Installing a 2nd SCSI disk (not the boot disk) w/ a DOS partition
Message-ID: <D8JJnq.FEz@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <D8GzEv.B3q@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 23:52:38 GMT
Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: In the near future I'm going to be installing another 730MB SCSI disk. What
: I'd like to do it install that one with about 500MB partitioned as additional
: space for NEXTSTEP, and the other 200MB or so set aside for use with DOS.
Use NeXTStep's fdisk tool, Jerry, to create those partitions.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Subject: Re: Calling all tar or gnutar experts
Message-ID: <1995May18.092029.381@silicium.fdn.fr>
Sender: yannick@silicium.fdn.fr (Yannick Cadin)
Organization: MICRO REPONSE - MONTIGNY, FRANCE.
References: <3pdk98$8o@rainix.jena.thur.de>
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 09:20:29 GMT
In article <3pdk98$8o@rainix.jena.thur.de> rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de
(Rainer Sokoll) writes:
> Gregg E. Dinse (dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov) wrote:
> : Hello,
>
> : Are there any tar or gnutar experts out
> : there who can help me restore some lost data?
> : My hard drive failed and I lost about two weeks'
> : worth of work, though I think it can be salvaged
> : with the proper expertise. Here are the details:
>
> : BACKGROUND:
>
> : My hard drive bit the dust, citing media failures.
> : I restored most files from a backup made 2 weeks ago.
> : Also, I had made a gnutar backup the day before the
> : failure, using the -cBf options.
> : The gnutar file is roughly the same size (in MB)
> : as the collection of files backed up.
>
> : ACTION:
>
> : I tried to extract the entire contents of this
> : latest gnutar backup, using the -xBvf options.
> : The "verbose" mode listed all files (although 1%
> : of them indicated I/O errors).
> : Only 5% of all files (based on MB) were restored.
>
> : QUESTION:
>
> : Can anyone suggest a way to retrieve the other 95%
> : of the files (or at least all but the 1% that
> : showed I/O errors in the verbose listing)?
>
> : COMMENT:
>
> : From the (large) size of the gnutar file and the
> : fact that all files showed up in the verbose
> : listing during the attempted extraction, I'm
> : hoping that except for the few (1%) corrupted
> : files, all other files can be salvaged somehow.
>
> : I'd really appreciate any help in retrieving
> : the work that I've done in the past 2 weeks. Thanks
> : in advance for any suggestions.
>
> : Gregg Dinse
> : 919-541-4931
> : dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
>
> Maybe --ignore-failed-read helps?
>
> Greetings,
> Rainer
> --
>
I think it's not a solution because the problem does not come from gnutar
or files created by gnutar, but it's a "SCSI" problem.
I encounter a similar problem with an Archive Viper 150 DAT. I saved many
files on many cartridges in NEXTSTEP 2.1 - no probem, I even tried to read
the tape. But after I have installed NEXTSTEP 3.3, there are many I/O
errors with the DAT (with or without modification of block length in rc
file).
The console shows cmd=0x8, sr_io_status = 2h
sense_key=0x1, sense_code=0x0.
I'm rather sure it's never a tape nor a gnutar problem. If I try to read
the tape many times, errors don't occur at the same places.
If anyone can help us (Gregg E. Dinse and me ;-)
Yannick Cadin
--
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3, rue Jacques Daguerre - 95370 MONTIGNY - FRANCE
Tel : 33 (1) 34.50.89.39 - Fax : 33 (1) 34.50.09.08
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] writing direct to /dev/cub on N.stn
From: apl@kcbbs.gen.nz (Andrew Lindesay)
Date: 18 May 95 10:04:11 GMT
Message-ID: <17495137.36251.6296@kcbbs.gen.nz>
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
I have recently purchased a NeXTstation running NS 3.0. I also have a
Canon CaPSL printer. Having tried to source a driver for NS and failing
I went down another track...
I take the file in /tmp from preview and pop that into ghostscript when
(luckily) has a CaPSL driver of sorts. So, now I have a CaPSL
compressed bitmap on a file (which is full functional I've dumped it to
the printer via another machine.)
So everything is marvellous until I try to dump the CaPSL binary to the
serial port in order to render it onto the page via the printer. I've
edited the printcap file, but it's ignored even after I dis-enable
NetInfo. I can get stuff to the printer via:
andrewnext > cat /LocalFiles/example > /dev/cub
but that has it's settings set to 7bit, odd parity, 1 stop bit and this
truncates top-bit-set bytes in the binary file! How can I change the
settings for a serial port????
I've tried using /usr/getty etc..., but alas if I turn anything 'on' it
tried to access the printer as a terminal (which it isn't). So I'm not
in a good way!
Has anybody had any such experiences or can lend any advice; I've read
many a 'man' page!
Andrew (apl@kcbbs.gen.nz)
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo winding across WAN
Date: 18 May 1995 16:34:37 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3pfsut$8ad@news.next.com>
References: <D8n2I4.3pw.0.server@indra.com>
Michael Rousseau <rousseau@indra.com> writes
> Has anyone had experience with getting netinfo to bind
> across subnets...
> The problem is getting the NI netmasters on the client sites
> to bind with the root NetInfo domain. We have ping and
> telnet connectivity, but the bind requests from subnet master
> to root are failing.
You don't say why the children aren't binding to their parent
servers (i.e., the symptoms, or evidence from a sniffer). Is
it really the binding that's failing, or is it the connection?
(How to tell the difference? If you have a 3.3 niutil around,
send the child server an RPARENT request. E.g.,
niutil -rparent -t sabre/network
will send an RPARENT to netinfod network on sabre. The answer
should look something like this:
super21/Rhino
which means that sabre/network found a parent server, tagged Rhino,
running on super21. If you see this, then the server has bound.
If the child server has bound and you're getting things like
lookupd timing out when trying to connect to a server, then you
have a connecting problem. Typically, successful binding in
conjunction with failed connections is a trusted_networks problem.
I just worked with a Customer last week on exactly this issue:
binding across the subnet was fine, but, because the parent
domain had an overly-restrictive value for the trusted_networks
property (in the root directory of that parent domain), the
connection failed.
(Incidentally, I consider it inappropriate that binding ignores
trusted_networks.)
So, assuming you have successful binding, verify that the
trusted_networks property in the parent domain isn't catching
you.
If it's not trusted_networks, then you might be missing the
"down-link" serves reference in the parent domain. In order
for binding to work correctly, the child must have an up-link,
and the parent must have a down-link. E.g., in the domain
tagged network in the above example, we'll see this excerpt
from a subdirectory of /machines:
name: super21
ip_address: ...
serves: ../Rhino
And, in the domain tagged Rhino, we'll see this excerpt:
name: sabre
ip_address: ...
serves: ts/network
If you're missing the down-link, binding will fail.
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
From: matthias.3@osu.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: SMTP and POP for NeXT
Date: 17 May 1995 20:32:03 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3pdmg3$ri4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Keywords: SMTP, POP, NeXTmail
I have been working on trying to get my machine up on the net for
awhile, and mail has been one of the big hurdles. After much complicated
and incorrect advice (though well-intentioned) I have finally reached some
answers and instructions on how to do this properly. Here they are:
1.) Open the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf file
2.) Near the top of the file you will see some lines that look like this:
# major relay mailer
DMether
# major relay host
DRmailhost
CRmailhost
3.) All you need to do to make sendmail work with SMTP (I suppose this is
the type of mail protocol that you wat to use) is change the lines that
say "mailhost" to the name of the machine on the network that will be
spooling your mail. THAT'S IT.
4.) To get mail off of the net, if you are using a POP server, ftp
PopOver from ftp.cs.orst.edu. I'm sure it's on one of the European sites,
too, like nic.funet.fi or ftp.uni-stuttgart.de. It's pretty easy to
understand and not hard to set up.
5.) The only problem left is that when you send mail from your machine,
it will show up as having come fom root@nextmachine.domain.name. I have
figured out that you can at least change it to root@domain.name by
searching through the sendmail.mailhost.cf file and uncommenting the line
where it says DmPodunk.edu, and changing Podunk.edu to your domain name.
One possibility to get the username right is to make an account with the
same name as your account on the spooler. Then just su to that name every
time you want to mail. But, I think there must be another, easier way.
Hope that helps,
Karl
--------------------------
The Ohio State University
NeXTslab 25Mhz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: 4 GB disk onto Black Hardware
Message-ID: <D8JJBJ.F2s@eskimo.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <3ot7d2$g0b@auntie.bbcnc.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 23:45:18 GMT
Andy McMullin (andy@pbs.plym.ac.uk) wrote:
: Once I created the disktab entry, I ran "disk -i /dev/rsd1a". It
: initialised the first partition, but failed on the second!
I haven't had to face this issue yet, but I suspect you need to repeat
the command for rsd1b, Andy.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 17 May 1995 06:30:48 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pc56o$f69@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <3pb6ka$1nga@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Gary Finley (gfin@psych.ualberta.ca) wrote:
: One of my colleagues is interested in installing NS 3.3 on a few old
: Suns. He has a Sparcstation 1+ with at least 16 (maybe it's 24) MB of
: RAM and a color monitor, and a couple of little mono SLCs with 16 MB
: each. I'm wondering if we would get adequate performance from these old
: machines under NS/Sparc. By "adequate", I mean something comparable with
: the non-Turbo NextStaions I have in my graduate lab. Those aren't
: what you'd call fast, but they're good enough for student consoles.
: If any of you have experience with NS on this generation of Sun hardware,
: I'd appreciate hearing your impressions and advice, by posting here or by
: email. Thanks.
I know that the older Sun4's (SS1,SS1+,IPC,IPX,SS2,ClassicLX,SS10/40) are
not supported by NS/SPARC. I do not know whether they will actually run on
this equipment or not. If not, is it because the NS kernel doesn't have
drivers for the devices in the old Suns, or is it strictly a performance
issue?
Kurt :-)
--
......................................................................
: Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin :
: kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 :
:....................................................................:
From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 17 May 1995 07:29:36 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pc8l0$6fd@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <3pb6ka$1nga@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
NS will only work on SPARCstation 4, 5, 10, 20 and the Voyager.
Geert
Gary Finley writes
> One of my colleagues is interested in installing NS 3.3 on a few old
> Suns. He has a Sparcstation 1+ with at least 16 (maybe it's 24) MB of
> RAM and a color monitor, and a couple of little mono SLCs with 16 MB
> each. I'm wondering if we would get adequate performance from these old
> machines under NS/Sparc. By "adequate", I mean something comparable
with
> the non-Turbo NextStaions I have in my graduate lab. Those aren't
> what you'd call fast, but they're good enough for student consoles.
> If any of you have experience with NS on this generation of Sun
hardware,
> I'd appreciate hearing your impressions and advice, by posting here or
by
> email. Thanks.
> ----------------------------------------------
> Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta
> Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
> gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
> http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/finleyg.htmld/index.html
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Calling all tar or gnutar experts
Date: 18 May 1995 14:59:37 GMT
Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Message-ID: <3pfncp$urc@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
References: <1995May18.092029.381@silicium.fdn.fr>
Hi,
[delete stuff about my problems restoring files from
a gnutar archive]
Several people suggested the "--ignore-failed-read"
option in gnutar. I tried this, but it did not help.
Here are some further details:
1. The size of my gnutar file is large (about 900 MB).
I had archived about 25,000 files!
2. When I tried to restore __everything__, I only got
a fraction of the original files (50 MB's worth).
Question 1: Shouldn't the size of the gnutar file be
approximately the same as the size of the
original collection of files I archived?
If so, the fact that the restored part is __much__
smaller (50/900 = 5.5%) than the original collection
suggests to me that there is a lot of stuff on the
gnutar file that is not being restored. If so, I was
hoping that someone could figure out a way to recover
some of the other 94.5%.
I think one part of my previous message was a bit
confused. I said that I created a verbose listing
while doing a restore (-xBvf). I believe the verbose
listing was really created while doing the initial
archiving (-cBvf). This listing shows all 25,000
files, of which about 250 (1%) mention I/O errors.
This suggests to me that almost all of the files
(24,750 of them) were not corrupt and might somehow
still be recoverable from the gnutar file.
Yesterday I tried to restore a particular directory
that I knew I had worked on lately (and thus was not
included in the two-week-old set of files that I was
able to restore). I was only able restore a small
fraction of them. I also tried to restore a single
file (that was listed without an I/O error on the
verbose listing), but gnutar claimed it could not
find this file in its archive.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me
know. Thanks,
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex .com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: SF Bay Area ntp public servers?
Message-ID: <D8ozxH.13G@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 22:32:04 GMT
Hi all, are there any local (San Francisco Bay Area) time
servers available? I've a lone NeXT and would like to automate
the time keeping now that we have a net connection.
Fred
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
--
From: tjallen@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu (TED ALLEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: second disk file ownership question
Date: 18 May 1995 16:53:57 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <009908C9.132757F8.19@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu>
I'm having a problem that is frustrating me no end! We have a new NEXTSTEP
machine that has a second SCSI disk installed. I added the disk to the fstab
and loaded the fstab information into netinfo as well. The ownership of the
files is always tjallen instead of root when I log in and when I try to change
them (as root) to the correct permissions, they change back! All by
themselves! Needless to say, if I log in as one of the regular users, the
permissions are set to tjallen for all the files, the whole disk included!
Does anyone recognize this problem and what to do about it? Please help me
keep my last shreds of sanity a while longer!
Thanks,
Ted Allen
Assistant Scientist
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS report wrong size of a NFS mounted 3G disk
Date: 18 May 1995 17:18:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <3pfvi3$8ek@news.service.uci.edu>
NS 3.2 Nextstation mounted a 3G partion of a remote disk connected to
a DEC alpha.
On workspace of the next it reports `no space on remote disk` and does not
allow copying any file to that disk(I can do the copying under Terminal
window using cp though). In fact, df shows negative total and available
spaces for the disk.
I wonder if this is a bug of NS, or I did something wrong.
Will I do any damage to the files on that disk by accessing it from NS?
Thank you for your attention. Any help will be appreciated.
--
Feng Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
phone: 714-824-3105 Fax: 714-824-8585
From: mark@bohica.net (Mark Gregory Salyzyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Dev, disk space?
Message-ID: <D8np8K.3Lp@bohica.net>
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 05:43:31 GMT
References: <3p7q7n$8lo@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Organization: UNIX drivers'R'Us
willers@butp.unibe.ch (Moritz Willers) writes:
>Has anybody installed the 3.3 Dev upgrade on his next with the 400 MB
>hard disk inside?
Well, after you install, you may wish to do the following if you are not
going to compile `fat':
root> cd /lib
root> rm -rf i386
root> rm -rf sparc
root> rm -rf m68k
root> rm -rf hppa
Removing the above lines for the architectures you want to keep (if you
don't know what rm -rf does, then try out "cd / ; rm -rf *" for a good lesson
on how fast you can ruin your machine. Please Please Please, if you don't know
what is happening with the above, *don't* do it, I will not be held
accountable!). The installation, unfortuneatly, even if you chose just one
architecture, still includes the entire cc processor for all the other
architectures. In addition, you will find some of the (much smaller) include
files for the other architectures sitting around. If you use just one
architecture, you will save 8.4Mb by doing thee above (with caution, if you
want, move them to another `scratch' directory first to check out if I am
lying ...)
Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo winding across WAN
Date: 19 May 1995 01:08:50 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3pgr32$ahi@news.next.com>
References: <D8n2I4.3pw.0.server@indra.com>
Michael Rousseau <rousseau@indra.com> writes
> I secretly hope Marc Majka will generously reply to this as father of
> 3.3 NetInfo. But no pressure...
Looks like Alan Marcum beat me to it! If telnet and ping will connect,
the the problem is most likely
(a) trusted_networks - the top-level domain servers won't talk to the
subdomain servers because they are on an un-trustworthy network.
(b) serves and ip_address properties in the root domain are incorrect.
(c) serves and ip_address properties in the subdomains are incorrect.
The best source for information that will help you troubleshoot binding
problems is in the Summer 1993 NEXTSTEP In Focus:
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NEXTSTEP_In_Focus/1993Summer/NetInfo_Binding_an
d_Connecting.rtf on the 3.3 CD-ROM, or point your web browser at
http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1274.htmld/1274.html.
--
Marc Majka
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: SMTP and POP for NeXT
Date: 18 May 1995 15:16:50 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995May18.074935.2768@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <3pdmg3$ri4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
In article <3pdmg3$ri4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> matthias.3@osu.edu
(Karl N. Matthias) writes:
> 3.) All you need to do to make sendmail work with SMTP (I suppose this
is
> the type of mail protocol that you wat to use) is change the lines that
> say "mailhost" to the name of the machine on the network that will be
> spooling your mail. THAT'S IT.
OK if you are changing sendmail.cf anyway, but not recommended. First,
this only applies to sendmail.subsidiary.cf or
sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf. sendmail.mailhost.cf is slightly different,
and needs an extra comment line swapped around at the end of the file.
Next, the recommended way of doing this is to use the /locations/sendmail
directory, and set the mailhost property to the name of your smart mail
server.
> 5.) The only problem left is that when you send mail from your machine,
> it will show up as having come fom root@nextmachine.domain.name. I have
> figured out that you can at least change it to root@domain.name by
> searching through the sendmail.mailhost.cf file and uncommenting the
line
> where it says DmPodunk.edu, and changing Podunk.edu to your domain name.
> One possibility to get the username right is to make an account with the
> same name as your account on the spooler. Then just su to that name
every
> time you want to mail. But, I think there must be another, easier way.
You can always just set your replyto address in Mail.app preferences.
This sometimes has an unfortunately interaction with the canonical
hostname lookup in ruleset 6, but should be OK.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: UUCP problem: many errors, transmission time
Message-ID: <D8sov2.3nr@waldo.com>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 22:23:25 GMT
I've got a problem with my UUCP feed.
I have a very small feed (about 25 newsgroups) to a local number, over a
14.4kbps modem. Up until recently, it has been working fine, with an average
download taking about 5-15 minutes, including mail. However, it now is taking
almost 30 minutes, and I'm not really getting any more news! It's getting to
a point where I don't want to run UUCP every hour anymore...
I did a uulog dump for one transaction, and it is attached at the end of this.
What seems odd is that there are many "MAIL FAIL" errors, and all my mail is
getting through fine. Furthermore, mail is running far too often, considering
this transaction takes place in the middle of the night when I'm asleep, and I
only got two mail messages over the entire night (these messages come up
every time UUCP connects!)
Basically, I suspect something wrong, but I don't know where to start.
Any suggestions?
Matt
Here's my uulog:
uucp ritz (5/18-02:12-1243) SUCCEEDED (call to ritz )
uucp ritz (5/18-02:12-1243) OK (startup cufa 38400 baud)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:12-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC4539 D.ritzC4539 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:15-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4553 X.ritzN4553 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:15-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC453c D.ritzC453c daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:18-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4554 X.ritzN4554 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:18-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC453f D.ritzC453f daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:21-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4555 X.ritzN4555 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:21-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC4542 D.ritzC4542 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:24-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4556 X.ritzN4556 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:24-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC4545 D.ritzC4545 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:27-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4557 X.ritzN4557 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:27-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC4548 D.ritzC4548 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:31-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4558 X.ritzN4558 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:31-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaC454b D.ritzC454b daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:34-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN4559 X.ritzN4559 daemon)
daemon ritz (5/18-02:34-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdad4536 D.ritzd4536 news)
news ritz (5/18-02:34-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN455a X.ritzN455a news)
news ritz (5/18-02:34-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdad454e D.ritzd454e news)
news ritz (5/18-02:35-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN455b X.ritzN455b news)
news ritz (5/18-02:35-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdad4551 D.ritzd4551 news)
news ritz (5/18-02:35-1243) REQUESTED (S D.samizdaN455c X.ritzN455c news)
news ritz (5/18-02:35-1243) OK (conversation complete)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:35-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:35-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:35-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:35-1285) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
agent ritz (5/18-02:35-1289) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1302) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
agent ritz (5/18-02:36-1310) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1319) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
agent ritz (5/18-02:36-1327) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1336) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
agent ritz (5/18-02:36-1344) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1353) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
agent ritz (5/18-02:36-1361) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1268) MAILER-DAEMON@uunet.uu.net XQT (rmail Mailer-Agent@w
aldo.com)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:36-1370) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
agent ritz (5/18-02:37-1378) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:37-1268) rmail (signal 0, exit 67) from ritz!MAILER-DAEMON@uu
net.uu.net (MAIL FAIL)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:37-1268) news XQT (rnews)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:37-1387) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!ritz!MAILER-DAEMON)
agent ritz (5/18-02:37-1393) XQT QUE'D (rmail uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEM
ON)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:37-1268) news XQT (rnews)
uucp ritz (5/18-02:37-1268) news XQT (rnews)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: UUCP problem: many errors, transmission time
In-Reply-To: hocker@waldo.com's message of Thu, 18 May 1995 22:23:25 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May18222649@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D8sov2.3nr@waldo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 02:26:49 GMT
Get rid of that lousy NeXT UUCP. Get GNU UUCP. You can ftp the source from
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu Also, there's a compiled version on one of the NeXT
ftp sites that a European user group put together.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
From: John David Adamski <jadamski@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: newbie needing guidience (reconfig stand-alone NeXT to one on the net)
Date: Thu, 18 May 95 20:52:43 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <5ux9rvb.jadamski@delphi.com>
I would like some guidence on what I have to do to take a stand-alone
NeXTstation and reconfiger it to run PPP and connect to the internet.
I assume some of the steps will be as follows, but not sure what I'm missing
and in which order to do them.
* run the SimpleNetworkStarter.app
* load PPP
* configure PPP
* configure network
* get 'mail' running
* get news running
I'm sure I missed a biggy and doubt this is the order. So, any and all help
will be appreciated. Either email me or reply here.
Thanks!
John
jadamski@delphi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: magnan@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha?
In-Reply-To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL's message of Wed, 17 May 1995 13:18:22 GMT
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95May17212919@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: <D8q4yM.6xy@RnA.NL>
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 01:29:19 GMT
>>>>> "Gerben" == Gerben Wierda <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> writes:
Gerben> A HP 712 has this color recovery which comresses (lossy)
Gerben> 24 bit to 8 bit and decompresses back to 23 bit.
Gerben> A NeXTDimension does 24bit colour + 8 bit alpha
Gerben> A PC can do many things, but most interestingly 16 bit and
Gerben> 32 bit.
Gerben> I am confused: When the PC does 16bit is this 12bit colour
Gerben> and 4bit alpha? Or is this 16 bit colour and is alpha
Gerben> handled by NEXTSTEP? The same question for 32bit? This
Gerben> 24bit colour from the HP, is that with or without alpha?
Gerben> Should I compare this to PC 32bit?
Gerben> Can a kind sould explain to me how I can compare these
Gerben> options?
Gerben> -- gerben@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you
Gerben> don't know where you're going, any road will take you
Gerben> there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from
Gerben> the Talmud.
What is alpha? Could someone explain it to me?
Thank you,
Francois
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Ralph_Zazula@next.com (Ralph Zazula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: How to attach a service?
Date: 18 May 1995 20:11:45 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pg9m1$972@news.next.com>
References: <D8p5H1.1Is@cunews.carleton.ca>
Chris Saldanha writes
> XiaoJun Li (xli@delphi.umd.edu) wrote:
> : How can I attach an application to a service menu?
> : Currently, I am trying to attach a third party app. onto my
> : workspace menu under "services". I don't know how to do it.
>
> You don't. The apps do it themselves, if they have a service to offer.
> All apps installed in your path (/NextApps /LocalApps, ~/Apps, etc...)
> will be scanned when you log in, and will declare their services to
> NeXTSTEP then.
>
> If you wish to add your own custom services, there is a package
> (TickleServices) which will let you do that. Email Scott Hess
> <scott@nic.gac.edu> for details on that package. I use it, and find it
> very helpful.
>
> --Chris
> Chris Saldanha | "Can I tell you what makes love
> Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | so frightening?
> csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Its that you don't own it.
> http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | It owns you."
You may also want to check Preferences.app (the clock/calandar). There is
a section in there for enabling/disabling preferences.
Z
--
Ralph Zazula
NeXT Computer, Inc.
Ralph_Zazula@next.com
(415) 780-2893
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smorris@tuzo.erin (Stephen Morris)
Subject: PNI-SLIP name resolution (a fix). SLIP up/dn (a problem)
Message-ID: <D8s5xx.F46@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
Sender: news@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Usenet News)
Organization: Erindale College, University of Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 15:34:44 GMT
Greetings
I asked a while ago about some problems getting PNI-SLIP going
at both the client and server ends. I believe I now have it
working.
To do this I issued the following command on the server (actually,
I put it in rc.local on the server):
arp -s 128.101.75.139 00:00:d0:76:7a:4e pub
128.101.75.139 is the IP of the client and 00:00:d0:76:7a:4e is the
ethernet address of the server. "pub" is supposed to "publish" this fact.
This made it possible for the nameserver to reach the client through
the server's ethernet port. This would be a good thing to include
in the manual!
I still have the other problem: if I try to bring the link down on
the client using pnirun -down pni0, I get an error saying that it
can't bind to the deamon. If I use pnistat -c down pni0 the link
goes down OK, but I can't restart it with pnirun without doing a
reboot. It says it can't reach the portmapper.
Are there some well-known scripts for bringing PNI up/down cleanly?
Any help appreciated!
---
+=================================================================+
+ Prof. Stephen Morris + The optimist proclaims that we live in +
+ U. Toronto Physics + the best of all possible worlds; +
+ phone:(416) 978-6810 + and the pessimist fears +
+ fax: (416) 978-1545 + this is true. -- James Branch Cabell +
+=================================================================+
+ http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/department/faculty/morris.html +
+=================================================================+
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha?
Date: 18 May 1995 16:01:26 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95May18120127@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <D8q4yM.6xy@RnA.NL>
In-reply-to: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL's message of Wed, 17 May 1995 13:18:22 GMT
<Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> writes:
>A HP 712 has this color recovery which comresses (lossy) 24 bit to 8 bit and
>decompresses back to 23 bit.
It works *very* well. Surprisingly well. The difference between 8 bit
w/o cc and 8bit w/ cc is very noticable.
>A NeXTDimension does 24bit colour + 8 bit alpha
>A PC can do many things, but most interestingly 16 bit and 32 bit.
>I am confused:
> When the PC does 16bit is this 12bit colour and 4bit alpha? Or is this
>16 bit colour and is alpha handled by NEXTSTEP?
> The same question for 32bit?
> This 24bit colour from the HP, is that with or without alpha? Should I
>compare this to PC 32bit?
>Can a kind sould explain to me how I can compare these options?
16bit == 12bit color + 4 bit alpha
32bit == 24/8
8bit == 6/2 ???
2bit (is actually 4 bit) == 2/2
- db
--
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops. -- Veruca Salt -- Baldric, you
wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on
top of a harpsichord singing, "Subtle Plans Are Here Again" -- Atkinson --
The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
From: jcr@best.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOH! how do i get back my windows?
Date: 19 May 1995 05:20:12 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
Message-ID: <3pi2ed$njp@shell1.best.com>
References: <3pbb6u$a92@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
You should be able to just type 'exit' and have the system continue its
normal multi-user boot up sequence.
If this doesn't work, you might try manually running
/usr/lib/NextStep/LoginWindow.app/Loginwindow, or
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace.
You haven't been mucking with the rc files have you?
Good Luck!
-jcr
From: rbz@eversoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: SMTP and POP for NeXT
Date: 19 May 1995 13:19:57 GMT
Organization: Texas Metronet, Inc (login info (214/705-2901 - 817/571-0400))
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pi5tt$juc@feenix.metronet.com>
References: <3pdmg3$ri4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Keywords: mail mailhost smtp
matthias.3@osu.edu (Karl N. Matthias) wrote:
> I have been working on trying to get my machine up on the net for
>awhile, and mail has been one of the big hurdles. After much complicated
>and incorrect advice (though well-intentioned) I have finally reached some
>answers and instructions on how to do this properly. Here they are:
>
>1.) Open the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf file
>2.) Near the top of the file you will see some lines that look like this:
># major relay mailer
>DMether
># major relay host
>DRmailhost
>CRmailhost
>3.) All you need to do to make sendmail work with SMTP (I suppose this is
>the type of mail protocol that you wat to use) is change the lines that
>say "mailhost" to the name of the machine on the network that will be
>spooling your mail. THAT'S IT.
Another way is to alias the machine to mailhost. This is
what SimpleNetworkStarter.app does for you.
---
Rodger (NeXTMail & MIME Welcome!)
-----------------------------------------------------------
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Everest Software Corporation Work (214) 437-7636
4347 W. Northwest Hwy, #851 Fax (214) 437-7600
Dallas, TX 75220-3864 Home (214) 517-4884
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From: Michael Pizolato <michael@afs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: THIS IS REALLY TICKING ME OFF!!! (SUMMARY)
Date: 19 May 1995 14:43:12 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3piaq0$ke@shelob.afs.com>
References: <3p7v35$59b@shelob.afs.com>
Michael Pizolato <michael@afs.com> (that's me) writes
:I've been a sysadmin forever, and I CAN'T BELIEVE I CAN'T FIGURE
:THIS OUT! We have a gateway machine. On one side is our internet
:provider, connected via a PNI SLIP dialup. On the other side is
:our net, connected via ethernet. We can telnet, ftp, etc. to
:the rest of the world when we're logged on the gateway, but not
:from any other machine on our net.
:
:How do I set things up so I can ftp or whatever from one of our
:inside machines to somewhere out on the internet (e.g.
ftp.next.com)?
:I've tried a lot of things but I don't want to describe what I've
:done so far, so that I don't prejudice anyone's answer.
:
:PLEASE HELP - I'M QUICKLY LOSING MY SANITY! Reply by e-mail and
:I'll summarize.
Thanks to everyone who replied. Unfortunately, nobody got it right.
That's not to say that what anyone suggested was wrong, just that
I had already done almost all those things correctly.
The solution is this: our firewall machine has to be set up as a
proxy server for all the network services we want to provide to
the machines behind the firewall. There is no routing from the
internet to our private IP addresses (and we want it that way),
but the firewall is known to the internet by an address that is
part of our provider's address space, and it's known to our internal
net by an address in our own space. I have to set up proxy servers
on the firewall that, in essence, fool the internet into thinking
all the traffic from behind the firewall comes from the firewall
itself. There are a number of implementations available, such as
the TIS firewall kit (I have a copy).
Thanks again for all the help,
Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Is the S3 968 version of Diamond Stealth supported yet?
Message-ID: <D8sKrH.96z@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 20:54:53 GMT
The newer Diamdn cards use a S3 968 chip. I was under the impression that a
driver was available (or had become available) but I cannot find it on
NeXTanswers.
Am I mistaken?
--
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: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: second disk file ownership question
Date: 19 May 1995 17:50:15 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3pilon$m4@news.next.com>
References: <009908C9.132757F8.19@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu>
In article <009908C9.132757F8.19@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu>
tjallen@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu (TED ALLEN) writes:
> I'm having a problem that is frustrating me no end! We have
> a new NEXTSTEP machine that has a second SCSI disk installed.
> I added the disk to the fstab and loaded the fstab information
> into netinfo as well. The ownership of the files is always
> tjallen instead of root when I log in and when I try to change
> them (as root) to the correct permissions, they change back!
> All by themselves! Needless to say, if I log in as one of the
> regular users, the permissions are set to tjallen for all the
> files, the whole disk included!
I'll bet you've got the 'noauto' option set in /etc/fstab for your
second disk. That's a typo in the printed System Admin manual. It'
corrected in the on-line docs.
BTW - having the info in NetInfo does you no good at all.
joe
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: second disk file ownership question
Date: 19 May 1995 19:43:16 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3pisck$14e@news.next.com>
References: <3pilon$m4@news.next.com>
tjallen@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu (TED ALLEN) wrote:
> I added the disk to the fstab and loaded the fstab information
> into netinfo as well
Joe Keenan replied:
> BTW - having the info in NetInfo does you no good at all.
The reason for this is that the mounting of the local hard disks
(the "type 4.3" filesystems) is done in /etc/rc BEFORE NetInfo is
started. Without NetInfo running, the only information available
to mount (through libc's getmountent() routine) is in /etc/fstab.
The command is
mount -vat 4.3
The mounting of remote filesystems ("type nfs") is done AFTER
NetInfo is started, with the command
mount -at nfs
So, the only remote filesystems that matter are those in NetInfo.
You can modify all this behavior if you want to add mount commands
to /etc/rc. Typically, one doesn't want to modify it. Typically,
one should be aware of it, though.
--
Alan M. Marcum
NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
From: mcarling@rahul.net (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 19 May 1995 18:25:41 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pinr5$7gd@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <3pc56o$f69@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
NEXTSTEP doesn't run on the older Sparcs because it is only configured to
run on Sparcs with the 4m kernel architecture.
M Carling
Chairman, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha?
References: <D8q4yM.6xy@RnA.NL> <3pdep6$g3r@esel.cosy.sbg.ac.at>
Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (TWI News Administration)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 18:46:10 GMT
Message-ID: <D8u9Gz.C5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
In article <3pdep6$g3r@esel.cosy.sbg.ac.at>,
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> wrote:
>Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL wrote:
>/ When the PC does 16bit is this 12bit colour and 4bit alpha?
>
> Yes. It`s 4096 (2^12) colors then, and not 65536 (2^16).
Don't think so. Most display modes do 555/16 which means (I guess) that
15 bits are permanently used for color information. This alpha business is
something a PC card knows nothing about; it's merely a software
convention. So when alpha is needed, the same color info is
interpreted in a different way, but still 15 bits per pixel are sent
to the video card. (I wonder whether that last bit is used for
anything...)
The 8 bit modes just give 256 colors without alpha. When alpha is
needed, the color info is just interpreted differently.
Dimitri
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
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+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
From: sandhoff@csus.edu (John F. Sandhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Can't install NS3.3 on HP735
Date: 20 May 1995 01:32:15 GMT
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pjgqv$peg@news.csus.edu>
Keywords: NS3.3, HP
Originator: sandhoff@syscube.ccs.csus.edu
We're trying to install NS3.3 on an HP 735/99 with 80 meg of
main memory and a Toshiba (HP-supplied) XM-3401TA CD-ROM. We've
tried both a Connor CFP1080S (1030MB) and Micropolis 2210 (~1000MB)
hard disk. CD-ROM is at SCSI ID 2, the hard disk at SCSI ID 6 (per
the installation notes; we tried others too). The CD boots fine, we
get thru the first 2 questions and the NeXT kernel starts. But when
the screen 'Press 1 to install, press 2 for advanced options' comes up,
we're hung. No KB input, no activity, the HP appears to lock (the
lights stop flashing). Has anyone else experienced this? Has NS3.3
been successfully installed on a 735?
And as an aside, NS3.3 does not recognize the HP fast-wide SCSI. Nowhere
is anything said about FW so we assume that NeXT just ignored the
possibility that anyone buying a screamer CPU would want to run screamer
disks as well :-(. Are we missing something here?
John F. Sandhoff, University Network Support
California State University Sacramento
sandhoff@csus.edu
From: michael@protease.bchs.uh.edu (Michael Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Public Key PGP ???
Date: 18 May 1995 20:09:43 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <3pg9i7$68i@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> <3pb546$ilv@homer.alpha.net>
Operator (root@abraham.bader.org) wrote:
: In article <3osqh8$nhi@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes:
: > There's a NextStep frontend to PGP called NXPGP.
: Is this public domain or commercial?
: ---
: Steven J. White
: System Administrator, The Helen Bader Foundation
: steve@bader.org
--
Michael A. Rice mrice@uh.edu
University of Houston 713-743-8355
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intellegent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: second disk file ownership question
Date: 19 May 1995 20:55:42 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pj0ke$4ug@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <009908C9.132757F8.19@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu>
tjallen@wisthy.physics.wisc.edu (TED ALLEN) writes:
> I'm having a problem that is frustrating me no end! We have a
> new NEXTSTEP machine that has a second SCSI disk installed. I
> added the disk to the fstab and loaded the fstab information into
> netinfo as well.
It's the fstab copy that's important for hard disks. I don't think
the netinfo copy will be referenced by much of anything (although
*nfs* mounts have to be in netinfo...).
I expect you followed one of the examples for an fstab in some
writeup. I forget which writeup has the error, but one of them
has "noauto" for the second disk mount, and that's wrong. Many
people before you have run into this problem, thanks to the error
in the documentation.
Here are two entries in my fstab. These work:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /ZSwapdisk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: answer: using iomega ZIP drives with NEXTSTEP
In-Reply-To: andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com's message of 15 May 1995 01:45:01 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May20113033@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <RDL.95May14124354@world.std.com> <3p6bmt$69b@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 15:30:33 GMT
30 ns would be nice. I meant 30 ms. In any case, you should know that ISO has
a new 3.5" MO standard that will offer 640MB in the near future. Sony/3M are
coming out with a 650MB 3.5" MO in the near future that is faster and they will
be able to store gigabytes of data on these disks in the future.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha? (almost there)
Message-ID: <D8vJwn.Bq5@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <D8u9Gz.C5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 11:29:11 GMT
In article <D8u9Gz.C5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl
(Dimitri Tischenko) writes:
> Don't think so. Most display modes do 555/16 which means (I guess) that
> 15 bits are permanently used for color information. This alpha business is
> something a PC card knows nothing about; it's merely a software
> convention. So when alpha is needed, the same color info is
> interpreted in a different way, but still 15 bits per pixel are sent
> to the video card. (I wonder whether that last bit is used for
> anything...)
>
> The 8 bit modes just give 256 colors without alpha. When alpha is
> needed, the color info is just interpreted differently.
So, since the PC video hardware does nothing with the alpha, it is NEXTSTEP
that calculates internally what the result of the alpha-overlays are and sends
the end reslut to the video card? That seems right, but then the question is,
NEXTSTEP sometimes does RGB:444 and sometimes RGB:555 in 16bit. As seomeone
pointed out, the difference in picture quality is not great and the performance
quality is noticeable (for RGB:555). This I cannot confirm. But where do the
Alpha calculations take place?
Is it:
RGB:444/16: 12 bit colour information + 4 bit alpha handled by NS intern
12 bit colour result sent to video
RGB:555/16: 15 bit colour information + 1 bit alpha handled by NS intern
15 bit colour result sent to video
or
RGB:555/16: 15 bit colur information + n bit alpha handled by NS intern
15 bit colour result sent to video
Take for instance a card which handles 16 bit colour information in 2MB in a
resolution of 1152*864. Do I understand it correctly that when Video mode
RGB:444/16 is used, only 12bit of the available 16 is used? Probably yes.
So, in the end:
NeXTDimension does 24bit colour (RGB:888) plus 8bit alpha in hardware.
This frees NEXTSTEP from doing the alpha calculations itself to get to 24bit
colour. It does have to move 32 bits per pixel around, but luckily, that is
left to the NeXTDimension card too.
A video card in a PC does 24bit colour, but no alpha. This means that
NEXTSTEP will have to do alpha itself and it therefore calculates with
32bit/pixel.
A video card in a PC does 16bit colour, but no alpha. Does NEXTSTEP
also calculate with 16bits here, or does it just always use 24bit/8bit alpha?
So, when using a 16bit card NEXTSTEP either (RGBa = Red Green Blue alpha):
1. Uses 32bits internally always and calculates from RGBa:8888 to
RGB:444 or RGB:555 and sends the result to the video card.
2. Uses 16bits internally and does RGBa:4444 to RGB:444 or RGB:5551 to
RGB:555 and sends the result to the video card.
Probably number 2, right?
--
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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha? (8bit = 6bit?)
Message-ID: <D8vLFB.Bv9@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <SAMURAI.95May18120127@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 12:01:59 GMT
In article <SAMURAI.95May18120127@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
> >I am confused:
> > When the PC does 16bit is this 12bit colour and 4bit alpha? Or is this
> >16 bit colour and is alpha handled by NEXTSTEP?
> > The same question for 32bit?
> > This 24bit colour from the HP, is that with or without alpha? Should I
> >compare this to PC 32bit?
>
> >Can a kind sould explain to me how I can compare these options?
>
> 16bit == 12bit color + 4 bit alpha
> 32bit == 24/8
> 8bit == 6/2 ???
> 2bit (is actually 4 bit) == 2/2
(RGBa = RGB+alpha in mmy terminology)
Hold it. 8bit = RGBa:2222 is used internally by NEXTSTEP running in 8bit mode?
Now, how is this passed to the hardware? RGB:222 or RGB:332? The first would
imply that 8bit under NEXTSTEP means 6bit (64 colours) and the latter that the
extra bits for Red and Green are concocted out of nowhere or out of alpha
calculations (rounding?). Now alpha is mostly not there, so that would imply
'concocted'.
So, is NEXTSTEP's 8bit really 8bit and is alpha handled on top of it? Or is
NEXTSTEP 8bit actually 8bit and does that mean only 6bits go the the video
hardware?
NEXTSTEP (RGB-a) Video (RGB-a)
NeXTDimension 888-8 888-8 +)
PC card at 24 bit 888-8 888-0
PC card at 16 bit 555-1 555-0
444-4 444-0
444-4 555-0 %)
555-n 555-0 *)
PC card at 8 bit 222-2 222-0
222-2 332-0 %)
322-n 322-0 *)
+) The only one to do alpha in the graphics subsystem
%) The extra bits per color come from alpha calculations and will therefore
mostly be unused.
*) implies NEXTSTEP 8bit is actually internally 12bit, and NEXTSTEP intern
16bit is actually intern 20bit.
So, either NEXTSTEP is using more bits than advertised internally, or using
less bits than available externally (video). Right?
Why is all this so interesting? Well, knowing how much NEXTSTEP handles
internally will give you an idea about performance boosts and penalties for
different setups (i.e. moving from 8bit SunSPARC to 24bit Sun SPARC).
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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.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Is there a list of NXBench figures/NS benchmarks available somewhere?
Message-ID: <D8vMMy.Bz7@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 12:28:09 GMT
I am looking for an overview of NEXTSTEP specific benchmarks, i.e. NXBench or
the benchmarks used in NeXTworld, (NIL?) or anything else that is reasonable.
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: Wesley C. Smith <wes@take3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: filtering mail
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 13:30:08 GMT
Organization: Traverse Communication Company
Message-ID: <950520093008.642AAABE.wes@sherlock.take3.com>
References: <3pb4vq$il1@homer.alpha.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: mail, filter
>Has anyone had any luck getting a filtering system working for e-mail
>within NeXTStep? A number of employees here are now becoming interested
>in mailing lists but the volumes of e-mail puts them off (and our hard
>disk, too ;-). If it's a NeXTStep app, all the better.
Eloquent is a replacement for Mail.app that (among other things) does
filtering of incoming mail to different mailboxes. Information about
Eloquent is available from eloquent_info@take3.com. A demo of Eloquent is
also available:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/demos/mail/Eloquent.2.01.NIHS.tar.gz
Wesley C. Smith
wes@take3.com NeXT, MIME, ASCII, SUN, Microsoft
Take 3
P.O. Box 40
Cedar, MI 49621-0040
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Dev, disk space?
Message-ID: <D8w8r8.3ME@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3p7q7n$8lo@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 20:25:56 GMT
Moritz Willers (willers@butp.unibe.ch) wrote:
: Has anybody verified this? Is my calculation correct?
The insatller packages on my white box show:
Tools: 20.6MB (Intel architecture only, should be about same for m68k)
Libs: 73.4MB (Quad-FAT for m68k, i486, sparc, hppa)
Docs: 43.3MB
also,
EOF 1.1 User: 11.3MB (Quad-FAT)
EOF 1.1 Dev: 11.6MB (Quad-FAT)
--Chris
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From: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Getting NeXTMail to Work Over PPP
Message-ID: <D8wAIn.9tu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 21:03:59 GMT
I'm currently rebuilding my system after a nasty disk wiping incident
inspired by MS-DOS's crummy set-up program. At any rate, I know have PPP
2.2.2 running once again, and my system is back to sanity except for one
thing.
Previously, I had been using PopOver.app to suck my mail in from a university
machine, read and reply to it on my white system, and then send the stuff back
out. As far as I recall, it just worked. Since my re-install of pretty much
everything though, this doesn't happen. When I send mail to sites off of
our local domain, it gets bounced back to me... for instance I get returned mail with headers like the following:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Date: Sat, 20 May 95 15:15:17 -0400
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
To: gdkuch
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
554 darcy@amber.hasc.ca... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
I'm not versed in the inner inanities of sendmail. What have I failed to
re-do in the new installation? I can nslookup the target machine for the
mail, so it's visible from my machine. But the mailhost (ether) seems to
be disconcerting. Any suggestions?
I'll post a summary of any responses I get if others are having any
similar problems....
--
Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
From: cpayne@optical (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Emergency! 3.3 dies: table is full
Date: 20 May 1995 20:48:16 GMT
Organization: Fibernet! Satisfy the need for speed
Message-ID: <3plkig$gq@optical.fiber.net>
I'm hoping somebody can help me with this extremely odd condition.
We're running 3.3 on Intel, and every few hours, the system will grind
to a halt, forcing a reboot. The console messages are:
May 20 14:10:27 optical mach: proc; table is full
It will repeat ad nauseum. When I called NeXT, they were kind enough to
tell me that "since NeXT was never meant to be a server operating system,
there's nothing built in that says NeXTSTEP _has_ to run more than 100
processes at a time."
Apparently, when it does, that causes the crash. I've had at least this
many processes running on black hardware and 3.1; should I go back?
What I'm hoping for is some administrative or 3rd party solution that will
make this all better. All help appreciated.
--
Carl Payne
V.P., Technical Services
Fibernet Corporation
cpayne@fiber.net <--NeXTMAIL, MIME, PGP all OK
From: cpayne@fiber.net (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: table is full update
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 00:10:49 GMT
Organization: Fibernet: Satisfy the need for speed!
Message-ID: <cpayne.33.2FBE8509@fiber.net>
Nothing like Microslug Windoze to screw up a perfectly good posting attempt...
Anyway, the Pentium server does the following:
news
DNS
mail
wu-ftpd
Nothing else! Also, users do NOT have tty access, nor is rsh or exec or
telnet or tftp or anything enabled! There's no way there could be 100
processes running on this computer! Users attach through a terminal server
and have all those funky Windoze tools for pretending to do Internet stuff.
And, if that's not enough, the P90 has been working fine since March 1st. In
fact, the last uptime before all this crap started showed 23 days
uninterrupted.
As if a coincidence, lookupd and NetInfod are acting up. NeXT sent me a new
NetInfod (which is actually 3.2's).
I realize this post is half tirade and half cluesearch, but I'm out of
options. The Parent Conpany won't help, and a hired gun just goes "Don't know
what to tell ya. I'm a Sun man myself."
Thanks
Carl
"My wife and I always agree...however, never at the same time."
From: jwright@blarg.com (Jon Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "MailFetch: No such file or directory" error
Date: 20 May 1995 18:18:37 -0700
Organization: Blarg! Online Services - 206/784-9681
Message-ID: <jwright.801019041@blarg1>
Summary: I am stumped
Keywords: NeXT mail
I have just added a Pentium running NEXTSTEP 3.3 to my network at home.
I have a Linux box that is my main server. I am trying to use the NeXT
mail app, but I cannot read my mail using NeXT mail.
Here are the details...
The Linux box (named sloppy) is exporting /usr/spool/mail and /home.
On the NeXT box (named booji), these file systems are mounted as
/usr/spool/mail and /Net/sloppy/home, respectively. I have created
a jwright account on booji; the home directory is /Net/sloppy/home/jwright.
I have read and write access to both the nfs-mounted file systems. If
I use the command-line mail utility, I can see that jwright does,
in fact, have mail. But when I invoke the graphical NeXT mail app,
I get a message in the console window "MailFetch: No such file or directory."
~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox exists and I have read and write access to it.
From root on booji, I can read mail using the NeXT mail app. Root has
its home directory on a local file system.
I have read the the NextAdmin documentation paying special note to the
chapter on using NEXTSTEP in a mixed network. I've checked everything
on the list and now I'm stumped. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you for the help.
Jon
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I'm a potato and I'm so hip
From: piotr@FreeFall.com.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HTTPD, ISDN on NS3.2M?
Date: Sun, 21 May 95 11:01:58 PDT
Message-ID: <3pm3d5$5jo@world.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I'd be grateful for advice as to httpd on black hardware.
I've installed ncsa's, it seems to work fine in a local setup,
but I can't tell how it behaves under load, and what are the
alternatives.
Also, how a black box can be connected to ISDN line?
Please e-mail me, I'll summarise.
Thanks,
Piotr
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From: James Pooton <james@netrix.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep News Server ???'s Please ?
Date: 17 May 1995 05:04:33 GMT
Organization: Wisconsin Internet Services
Message-ID: <3pc051$cu@newsie.wis.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I took the CNews.pkg.tar.Z from ftp.cs.orst.edu and have installed it
per its instructions. Well the NNTPD that comes with it can't read
articles that are referenced by message-id... (And I think it is quite
out dated, ie. doesn't support XOVER - treading)
I think that all I need is a new copy of NNTPD that works (I believe the
Cnews portion was compiled for DBZ?) If you have one that works could
you PLEASE NeXTmail it to me at: james@netrix.net
If you have no idea about the above problem, but run a news server under
NeXTStep clould you PLEASE write to me! I don't care if is INN or
CNews/NNTP, I just need to get a server up. (FAST) (And I don't mind
paying for a copy of your compiled software and time :-) )
P.S> I am running NS 3.3 Intel ...
Thanks a bunch...
James Pooton
james@netrix.net
NeXTMail Welcome!!!
Control: cancel <D8wAIn.9tu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: cancel
Message-ID: <D8wnB2.12o@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 01:40:14 GMT
<D8wAIn.9tu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> was cancelled from within trn.
--
Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
From: eclark@indy.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep 3.2 not talking to WfWG, help.
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 04:35:05 GMT
Organization: IndyNet Indianapolis - InterNet Gateway
Message-ID: <eclark.3.2FBEC2F9@indy.net>
A problem, and a request for advice.
Goal: Network a 486 running NextStep 3.2 and ChameleonNFS 4.01 on top of
Windows for Workgroups.
Other Hardware: three 3C509-B cards, a 3COM LinkBuilder TP/8 hub, and TP to
connect everything.
Symptoms: The cards are OK. All low-level tests (especially the network echo
tests) pass perfectly, so they're talking when I use the latest diagnostics
(this week from www.3com.com). No IRQ or base I/O conflicts on any machine,
PnP disabled, and I understand every configuration setting on the cards. The
two machines running Chameleon network fine with each other, but the NextStep
machine is off in its own private world. Neither WfW machine can ping the NS
machine, and vice versa (if I try pinging continuously concurrently, the NS
machine still gets nothing, but the pinging WfW machine reports maybe 5%
packet replies. Garbage, but the NS activity is perturbing the network
somehow). The hub channel LEDs behave strangely. The LEDS for the WfW
machines stay on continuously, except for a rare quick wink off when the
machine in question is pinging. The LED for the NS machine winks slowly in a
steady pattern, 20% on, 80% off, when there is traffic from the NS machine;
otherwise the LED stays off. This was also the behavior seen when the
low-level echo-testing diagnostics were run, when the echo machine showed
unambiguously that it was hearing the packets it echoed. When the NS machine
pings continuously and the WfW machines are silent, the NEWT monitoring
statistics on the WfW machines report zero network traffic. The TraceAgent
monitor also reports nothing detected. As far as I can tell, the IPs.
submasks, and domains are all consistent.
I and the other network newbies at our office are buffaloed. I can't help but
suspect it's something really basic that everyone who does this sort of thing
learns the first time round--and it's now my turn. Any enlightenment would be
tremendously appreciated (even if it's fifty copies of the FAQ I've not seen
yet with "see number XX" comments. Send them to eclark@indy.net).
--Ernest Clark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Albatross)
Subject: Re: UUCP problem: many errors, transmission time
Message-ID: <D8x8D8.540@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Organization: The Empire Organization {TEO}
References: <RDL.95May18222649@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 09:15:07 GMT
Robert La Ferla writes
> Get rid of that lousy NeXT UUCP. Get GNU UUCP. You can ftp the source from
> prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu Also, there's a compiled version on one of the NeXT
> ftp sites that a European user group put together.
>
> Robert La Ferla
> HTI
I recommend Taylor UUCP... ftp.uu.net:/networking/uucp/taylor if I
remember correctly...
-Alby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Subject: Anyone with IBM 0663 E12 disk??? Need help...
Sender: news@prz.tu-berlin.de (Newsadmin Elwood-PRZ)
Message-ID: <D8xJ2D.90L@prz.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 13:06:12 GMT
Organization: PRZ TU-Berlin
Hi,
is there anyone who uses a IBM 0663 E12 disk?
After a low-level "sdformat" this disk doesn't get ready
anymore during booting. Probably the sdformat changed
something in the Mode Pages of the disk but I don't
know what...
Could please some kind soul who uses this disk send me the
output of
sense -t <scsi id of 0663E12> -p 63
and
sense -t <scsi id of 0663E12> -p 0
(the second command is necessary because the IBM 0663 E12 doesn't
return page 0 if it's requested to return all pages by referring
to page 0x3F (=63)).
The "sense" command is included in the scsitools available
on many ftp servers.
Alternativly: does anyone have the documentation of the Mode
Page 0 from IBM or doesn anyone who I could get it?
Thank you very much in advance,
Thomas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha? (almost there)
References: <D8u9Gz.C5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> <D8vJwn.Bq5@rna.nl>
Sender: news@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (TWI News Administration)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 14:30:23 GMT
Message-ID: <D8xMyq.99L@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
In article <D8vJwn.Bq5@rna.nl>, <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> wrote:
...
>Is it:
>RGB:444/16: 12 bit colour information + 4 bit alpha handled by NS intern
> 12 bit colour result sent to video
>RGB:555/16: 15 bit colour information + 1 bit alpha handled by NS intern
> 15 bit colour result sent to video
1 bit? As in "Completely transparent" or "Completely opaque"? Don't
think so.
>or
>RGB:555/16: 15 bit colur information + n bit alpha handled by NS intern
> 15 bit colour result sent to video
I'd vote for this one.
>Take for instance a card which handles 16 bit colour information in 2MB in a
>resolution of 1152*864. Do I understand it correctly that when Video mode
>RGB:444/16 is used, only 12bit of the available 16 is used? Probably yes.
Agreed.
>So, in the end:
>
> NeXTDimension does 24bit colour (RGB:888) plus 8bit alpha in hardware.
>This frees NEXTSTEP from doing the alpha calculations itself to get to 24bit
>colour. It does have to move 32 bits per pixel around, but luckily, that is
>left to the NeXTDimension card too.
Right.
> A video card in a PC does 24bit colour, but no alpha. This means that
>NEXTSTEP will have to do alpha itself and it therefore calculates with
>32bit/pixel.
Yep.
> A video card in a PC does 16bit colour, but no alpha. Does NEXTSTEP
>also calculate with 16bits here, or does it just always use 24bit/8bit
> alpha?
>So, when using a 16bit card NEXTSTEP either (RGBa = Red Green Blue alpha):
>
> 1. Uses 32bits internally always and calculates from RGBa:8888 to
>RGB:444 or RGB:555 and sends the result to the video card.
> 2. Uses 16bits internally and does RGBa:4444 to RGB:444 or RGB:5551
>to RGB:555 and sends the result to the video card.
>
>Probably number 2, right?
Well, actually, I suspect it's number 1. This 32/16 bit dithering has
become much slower in 3.3 because of the inefficient PCI driver.
Dimitri
--
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Dimitri Tischenko | D.B.Tischenko@TWI.TUDelft.NL | NeXTmail preferred! |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Delft University of Technology | NeGeN |
| Fac Applied Math & Computer Science| NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland |
| Dep of Statistics, Probabilitistics| NiNe |
| and Operations Research | NEXTSTEP In the Netherlands |
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: UUCP problem: many errors, transmission time
Message-ID: <D8xnKo.DtD@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <D8x8D8.540@empire.org>
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 14:43:36 GMT
In article <D8x8D8.540@empire.org> (Albatross) writes:
> Robert La Ferla writes
> > Get rid of that lousy NeXT UUCP. Get GNU UUCP. You can ftp the source
from
> > prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu Also, there's a compiled version on one of the
NeXT
> > ftp sites that a European user group put together.
> >
> > Robert La Ferla
> > HTI
>
>
> I recommend Taylor UUCP... ftp.uu.net:/networking/uucp/taylor if I
> remember correctly...
>
> -Alby
And ftp.nl.net:/pub/comp/next for an easy-install version especially for
NEXTSTEP. Courtesy of NeGeN/NiNe, the dutch NEXTSTEP/OpenStep user group and
R&A.
--
Gerben_Wierda@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: moto@cs.cmu.edu (Motonori Shindou)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP on GATEWAY P5-100XL??
Followup-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000
Date: 21 May 1995 15:53:10 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MOTO.95May21115310@T.cs.cmu.edu>
Hi,
Is there anyone out there who's running NEXTSTEP on GATEWAY P5-100XL?
For me, the installation went OK but when the machine boots up from
the hard drive, it just panics. Here is my configuration:
CPU: GATEWAY P5-100 XL
Memory: 32MB
Video: ATI Graphics WinTurbo (2M VRAM)
CRT: Vivitron 1776
SCSI: Adaptec 2940
SCSI Disk: Micropolis 3221 (entirely used for NEXTSTEP)
CD-ROM: Toshba 3501
Network: SMC EtherPower (I'm not sure this is supported or not)
Sound: SoundBlaster 16
NEXTSTEP: 3.3.3.8
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
--
==============================================================================
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e-mail: moto@cs.cmu.edu, NiftyServe: GEG04056
WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/moto/WWW/moto-home.html
TEL: 412-362-9636 FAX: 412-362-9634
==============================================================================
From: aeg@nuance.com (Anthony E. Glover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does NS require an ethernet card?
Date: 21 May 1995 15:32:17 GMT
Organization: Nuance Network Services, Huntsville, Alabama
Message-ID: <3pnme1$kn6@drogheda.nuance.com>
I am having problems with my PPP connection which I believe stem from
the fact that I do not have an ethernet card. When connected to my
internet provider I run into a lot of 'netinfo sleeping while trying to
connect to local host' when I try to print or send mail. Does NS require
you to have an ethernet card in some situations like mine? Is there any
way to fake it the OS out and make it think I have an ethernet for
purposes of using PPP. I am running from home and I would rather not
have to buy an ethernet card just to make print and sendmail work while
connected. Any ideas?
Thanks
Tony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: 2 HDs, each with own OS, in intel box?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD8xuBy.3sH@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 17:09:33 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom11.netcom.com
Hi,
I have an Intel box with 2 SCSI HDs in it. I would like to put NS 3.3 on
one of the disks, and MS-DOG/Windoze/Win96 on the other, AND I would like
to be able to dynamically select either OS for boot upon a hardware reset
(reboot). Is this possible? Must both OSs have a partition on SCSI id 0?
Is there a way to put both the NS partition and a tiny DOS partition
on SCSI id 0, and have the DOS partition point to SCSI ID 1?
Any help/clues much appreciated.
Thanks
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
--
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
From: aeg@nuance.com (Anthony E. Glover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NS require an ethernet card?
Date: 21 May 1995 16:21:01 GMT
Organization: Nuance Network Services, Huntsville, Alabama
Message-ID: <3pnp9d$l3q@drogheda.nuance.com>
References: <3pnme1$kn6@drogheda.nuance.com>
Sorry, but I forgot to include the important stuff:
Micron P90 PCI PowerStation
NS 3.3
ppp-2.2-0.1.9
Intel 14.4 FaxModem
Hope that helps...
Tony
From: moto@cs.cmu.edu (Motonori Shindou)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP on GATEWAY P5-100XL??
Followup-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000
Date: 21 May 1995 18:59:26 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <MOTO.95May21145926@T.cs.cmu.edu>
References: <MOTO.95May21115310@T.cs.cmu.edu>
In-reply-to: moto@cs.cmu.edu's message of 21 May 1995 15:53:10 GMT
Let me follow up to myself :-)
>>>>> "moto" == Motonori Shindou <moto@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
moto> Hi, Is there anyone out there who's running NEXTSTEP on GATEWAY
moto> P5-100XL? For me, the installation went OK but when the machine
moto> boots up from the hard drive, it just panics.
This was just caused by a misconfiguration of a network card. I'm
using SMC EtherPower but Configure.app recongnized it as a "Cogent
EM960 PCI Ethernet Adapter". I naively accepted this configuraiton,
which brought me a panic when booting. I deleted the Cogent network
driver and succeeded to boot the machine up properly.
The next problem I encountered is the display mode. I'm using ATI
Graphics WinTurbo (2M VRAM) and I selected "ATI Ultra Pro" as my
display driver with the mode 1024x768x16bpp at 60Hz. But it does only
640x480 grayscale. I left the Port Address (0x100) and Mapped Memory
(0x7e00000) unchanged as default in Configure.app. It might be
necessary to play with these values so that the video card works as
expected. Could any kind soul teach me how to set these values
correctly? Thanks in advance!
--
==============================================================================
Motonori Shindou Carnegie Mellon University SCS Graduate Student
e-mail: moto@cs.cmu.edu, NiftyServe: GEG04056
WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/moto/WWW/moto-home.html
TEL: 412-362-9636 FAX: 412-362-9634
==============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: "MailFetch: No such file or directory" error
In-Reply-To: jwright@blarg.com's message of 20 May 1995 18:18:37 -0700
Message-ID: <RDL.95May21153702@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <jwright.801019041@blarg1>
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 19:37:02 GMT
Look at your defaults for Mail.app using dread -o Mail. Your "Expert Options"
may be set incorrectly. Also, if you're launching Mail.app as root, you need
to export /usr/spool/mail with root= access. I assume that when you say you
have read and write access you mean the settings in /etc/exports and not just
file permissions. That would cause the problem since the MailFetch needs to
write out a lock file to get the mail from the spool.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NeXTStep News Server ???'s Please ?
In-Reply-To: James Pooton's message of 17 May 1995 05:04:33 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May21153831@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3pc051$cu@newsie.wis.com>
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 19:38:31 GMT
You're better off running INN.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: eclark@indy.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep 3.2 not talking to WfWG, help.
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 02:16:14 GMT
Organization: IndyNet Indianapolis - InterNet Gateway
Message-ID: <eclark.4.2FBFF3ED@indy.net>
References: <eclark.3.2FBEC2F9@indy.net>
>Goal: Network a 486 running NextStep 3.2 and ChameleonNFS 4.01 on top of
>Windows for Workgroups.
>Other Hardware: three 3C509-B cards, a 3COM LinkBuilder TP/8 hub, and TP to
>connect everything.
....a useful extra datum I forgot to include in my earlier posting describing
my symptoms: the NextStep machine was set up as a server using the
simple network startup application. No error messages or untoward diagnostics
when it boots.
--Ernest Clark
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 22 May 1995 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <3pp34e$bkk@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news: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.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
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.
Archives are available by ftp at
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
news: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.
news: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.
news: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.
news: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!!!
news:comp.sys.next.programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
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.
news:comp.sys.next.software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
on NEXTSTEP systems.
news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
will spill over into .programmer or .software.
Related Newsgroups
==================
news: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.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news: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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: In Germany.
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com: See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
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
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
Written by:
Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Iacopo E. Inghirami <iacopo@ec.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Workspace setup lost
Date: 22 May 1995 06:59:19 GMT
Organization: Dip. Ec. Aziendale - Pisa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ppco7$ima@serra.unipi.it>
Well, it's easy: I set up the workspace in the way I like it (I use
Monstershelf, ...),
then I logout & login, and everything is as back as Mother NeXT put it...
TIA, Iacopo
Iacopo E. Inghirami - University of Pisa
EMail: iacopo@ec.unipi.it - NMail: iacopo@sidea.ec.unipi.it
From: "M.T. Carrasco Benitez" <m.carrasco-benitez@mhsg.cec.be>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 28.800 FaxModem
Date: 22 May 1995 09:54:40 GMT
Message-ID: <3ppn10$2pc@caladan.restena.lu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am trying to connect a Creatix 28.800 FaxModem to a 040 Cube.
I have several problems. Anybody tried before ?
Regards
Tomas
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrade to 3.3, UUCP gone
Date: 22 May 1995 15:44:52 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3pqbhk$eus@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I've upgraded from 3.0 to 3.3 (black)
Now my UUCP doesn't (quite) work right:
1) rc.local isn't being run (I used to poll my server at boot time)
2) Mail comes in, but won't go out (when I run uupoll, eg).
L.sys, L-devices are unchanged, as is rc.local.
I suspect that these are two entirely different problems....
yours,
Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <cfctech!network.cfc.com!t6882tm@msen.com>
Message-ID: <9505221326.AA13888@serve.network.cfc.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Timothy Mills <t6882tm@network.cfc.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 95 09:27:45 -0400
Subject: DDS2 DAT and dump/restore
I've got a 90 MHz Pentium machine at home running NEXTSTEP 3.2 with a 1GB
Quantum disk (with a 100MB DOS partition) and an Archive Python DDS-2 DAT
drive. I have not yet been able to figure out the correct parameters to pass
to dump to backup my hard drive.
Can someone please give me the correct command line syntaxes for dump to
backup to this DAT drive while using a 120 meter tape and also while using a
90 meter tape? Do I need to specify both the length of tape and the density
or just the length of an equivalent reel-to-reel tape or what? And what
values would those be?
Thanks for any help. Please mail me directly at timothy@telf.com or at
mills_timothy@network.cfc.com. Thanks.
From: duboisj@mathcs.carleton.edu (Josh DuBois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Text-based NeXTMail reader?
Date: 22 May 1995 17:36:54 GMT
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Message-ID: <3pqi3m$pqh@chuangtsu.acns.carleton.edu>
Hey, all
is there any sort of mail reader out there that handles NeXTMail from
a terminal in some sort of intelligent way? I guess I'd at like to at least
be able to tell which messages were NeXTMail and which weren't, and ability
to actually read the text of NeXTMail and just see some sort of message
like <attachment here> where attatchments appeared would be nice. Ability to
actually save the various attachments into files while reading the mail would
be good, too. I've looked through cs.orst and purdue, but didn't see anything.
Does anyone know if any mail reader in this vein exits?
Thanks a lot,
Josh.
--
Josh DuBois
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
duboisj@mathcs.carleton.edu (NeXT mail!!)
duboisj@carleton.edu (lame mail address)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Does NS require an ethernet card?
Message-ID: <D8zwy8.Fny@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3pnme1$kn6@drogheda.nuance.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 20:01:20 GMT
In article <3pnme1$kn6@drogheda.nuance.com>,
Anthony E. Glover <aeg@nuance.com> wrote:
>I am having problems with my PPP connection which I believe stem from
>the fact that I do not have an ethernet card. When connected to my
>internet provider I run into a lot of 'netinfo sleeping while trying to
>connect to local host' when I try to print or send mail. Does NS require
>you to have an ethernet card in some situations like mine? Is there any
>way to fake it the OS out and make it think I have an ethernet for
>purposes of using PPP. I am running from home and I would rather not
>have to buy an ethernet card just to make print and sendmail work while
>connected. Any ideas?
>
I can't help you much directly with your problem, but I know that an ethernet
card is not necessary--a friend of mine is merily running PPP on his NS/I box
with no Ethernet card in sight.
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: NS/HPPA doesn't recognize NS partition on removable media
Message-ID: <D8zznw.29C@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <D8n4vM.99o@prz.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 20:59:56 GMT
Thomas Wolfram (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: I just discovered a behavior of NS/HPPA 3.3 I consider a bug.
: [...]
: Someone might think that this doesn't matter and PC-partitions
: have a broken concept anyway. But: first, it's kind of standard
: and useful because I could split a big 270MB SyQuest cartridge
: for use with DOS and NS - often I don't need that much space
: if I carry files - and second, more imported, the behavior of NS
: on all supported architecures should be consistent.
This also occurs with hard disks that use fdisk partitions, when plugged
into black hardware. I have made NS 3.2 and 3.3 crash with System Panics
when trying to mount both the DOS and NS partitions on a disk on black
hardware.
I consider this lack of consistency between platforms running NeXTSTEP to
be absolutely stupid. It means that I can read Mac disks easier than NeXT
disks on black hardware (and SPARC and PA-RISC too, I imagine).
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by |
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3rd serial port on NS Intel
Date: 22 May 1995 19:29:54 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software
Message-ID: <3pqoni$i66@digdug.pencom.com>
I just installed NS 3.2 on an Intel machine. I have 3 serial ports. (ports
1 and 3 are on INT3, port 2 is on INT4). I can switch these around if I
like, but I'd prefer to leave the hardware alone.
How do I setup the 3rd port for use with a modem?
While I'm at it, I can't seem to re-assign my mouse to use COM_B... I set it
through "Configure.app" (twice now), and it won't recognize it when it boots
back up.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin D. Wilson robin@pencom.com Pencom Software
701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
From: kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu (Ken Overton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: DSP on Black '030
Date: 22 May 1995 23:04:23 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Message-ID: <3pr59n$ier@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Keywords: DSP, 030
I have recently purchased an 030 Cube, hoping to use the
DSP for real-time audio applications. I have done this
successfully on an 040 Cube with an Ariel DM-N digital
microphone for input to the DSP port. When I tried the
same programs on the 030 they fail.
The simplest application (a talkthrough) produces extremely
loud clicky noise which almost drowns out the real signal
which sounds like it's being severely lowpassed.
Both systems run Nextstep 3.2 with developer and both
systems were installed from the ground up. Is the 030
and/or its DSP running at a clock speed other than 25MHz?
Are there any known problems with 3.2 for 030 hardware
that may be related to this problem? Does anyone else
out there program the DSPs on black hardware at all?
Please e-mail any suggestions,
Ken Overton
kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu | NeXTMail OK
kov@dartmouth.edu | NeXTMail would be weird
--
************************************
* Ken Overton *
* kov@dartmouth.edu *
* kov@onyx.dartmouth.edu *
From: tjyang@cc (Tyng-Jing Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Parallel port driver of NS3.3/Sparc is Working ?
Date: 23 May 1995 01:15:19 GMT
Organization: National Sun,Yet-sen Uni. News Server
Message-ID: <3prcv7$kng@news.nsysu.edu.tw>
hi,
Is there any one sucessfully printing from parallel port Sparc 20 machine ?
I could do that when the OS was NS3.3/RISC beta. But after I upgrade to
the formal NS3.3/RISC it can't work. The reason I am not sure it's NEXT's
fault is that the Sparc 20 mother board had been change to a new one for the
sake of OBP weriness
I can't check parallel port in OBP, but I try to do a "echo test >/dev/pp0"
and I get "zsh: device busy: /dev/pp0"
Please let me know if you have no problem on the parallel port
May be I have a defective parallel port ?
Here is my /usr/adm/messages
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: root on sd0
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: PCPointer0
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: fdattach: 82077 msr/dsr at 0xf1ab2004
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: fc0
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: fd0
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: fd0a
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Leaving bpp_identify, ACCEPTED (#1)
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: SUNW,bpp0 at SBus slot f 0x4800000 pri 3 (sbus le
vel 2)
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: pp0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Driver loading is ok
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: st: major number 7
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Configuring DBRI Audio
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: SunAudio
May 22 17:41:49 kymis3 mach: Registering: zsm0
--
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#221 Sec. 2 Chin-Nein Rd.
Fong-Shang City 830,Taiwan
FAX/Phone: +886-7-7423118
tjyang@cc.kyit.edu.tw (Work,07-6968121ext56)
tjyang@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (Exwork)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: 3rd serial port on NS Intel
In-Reply-To: robin@pencom.com's message of 22 May 1995 19:29:54 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May23011836@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3pqoni$i66@digdug.pencom.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 05:18:36 GMT
You need the Mux driver.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Workspace setup lost
In-Reply-To: Iacopo E. Inghirami's message of 22 May 1995 06:59:19 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May23012143@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3ppco7$ima@serra.unipi.it>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 05:21:43 GMT
Check the ownership and permissions of the .NeXT subdirectory in your home
directory.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: DDS2 DAT and dump/restore
In-Reply-To: Timothy Mills's message of Mon, 22 May 95 09:27:45 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95May23012322@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <9505221326.AA13888@serve.network.cfc.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 05:23:22 GMT
You might want to check out SafetyNet from Systemix Software. E-mail
info@systemix.com
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: UUCP problem: many errors, transmission time
In-Reply-To: 's message of Sun, 21 May 1995 09:15:07 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May23012415@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <RDL.95May18222649@world.std.com> <D8x8D8.540@empire.org>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 05:24:15 GMT
GNU UUCP is Taylor UUCP.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
From: roberth@frappe.ugcs.caltech.edu (Robert Cresswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo of death
Date: 23 May 1995 06:10:23 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3pru8f$435@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Summary: ack... thhpt.
Keywords: Netinfo
I'm pretty okay at adminning SunOs, Irix, Solaris, and AIX, so i wasn't
too dismayed when the little black box came into my life. Here i was wrong.
I recently took over admining for a cluster of alot of SGIs and one NeXt.
i've got some questions:
1.)Do i have to run Netinfo?
2.)Whats the reasoning for this dual set of conf files:
ie: /etc/passwd and the Netinfo database for it [both of which
are used, but in different situations]
3.)Is the only way to change the NeXt databases thorugh their silly GUIs?
4.)How do i allow printer access to other hosts?
5.)Does Netinfo information supercede any "normal" conf info when they overlap?
please respond thorugh email, as I'm not an avid comp.sys.next reader.
Maybe I should be ;-)
thanks in advance,
-rob
<roberth@ugcs.caltech.edu>
From: jwright@blarg.com (Jon Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "MailFetch: No such file or directory" error
Date: 22 May 1995 20:59:36 -0700
Organization: Blarg! Online Services - 206/784-9681
Message-ID: <jwright.801201035@blarg1>
References: <jwright.801019041@blarg1> <RDL.95May21153702@world.std.com>
rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes:
>I assume that when you say you have read and write access you mean the
>settings in /etc/exports and not just file permissions. That would
>cause the problem since the MailFetch needs to write out a lock file to
>get the mail from the spool.
File (or rather directory) permissions were indeed the problem.
I had read+write access to /usr/spool/mail/jwright, but not to
/usr/spool/mail. Apparently, Mail.app tries to write a lock file
to /usr/spool/mail. Since I didn't have permission, the lock file
didn't get written and I got the oh-so-informative "No such file
or directory" message.
I changed the permissions on /usr/spool/mail on the Linux box and
Mail.app works perfectly now.
Many thanks to Mr. La Ferla for his help.
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
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fax 206-635-0339
I'm a potato and I'm so hip
From: Stefan.Boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 and TransSys 1.13?
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 13:50 MDZ
Organization: Ruhr-Uni-Bochum
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <19950523135021.Stefan.Boehringer@cd41022.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
I've just installed NS3.3 and I'm suddenly cut off from
the Internet - due to TransSys1.13 usage. Is a patch or
other workaround available other than reinstalling NS3.2?
Thanks in advance.
Please (also) reply via email to: boehrsbu@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: indexing Mailbox
Date: 23 May 1995 14:56:22 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3pst2m$e4s@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello
why is it impossibel to index my Mailbox?
Or what do I do wrong
I always get a list of mboxes, nothing more.
any clues ?
later
SfR
From: Charles Ashley <71333.624@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mbone apps for NS?
Date: 20 May 1995 19:10:53 GMT
Organization: MatriX Publishing Network
Message-ID: <3plert$s1s$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>
Hi -
Anyone know of any Mbone apps for NeXTSTEP? NS 3.3 now supports
mrouted, but what about the apps? Anyone working on anything?
TIA
Charles
charlesa@mpn.com
From: rmasse@unix.cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 4 GB disk onto Black Hardware
Date: 23 May 1995 16:08:41 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pt1a9$i6@news.CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
References: <D8JJBJ.F2s@eskimo.com>
What ever happened with the ATI Mach-64 dimmness on some cards-and-
not-others driver fix from NeXT? Was that problem ever resolved?
Regards,
Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: The definitive question on NEXTSTEP and colordepth?
Message-ID: <D91EIw.A1@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:18:32 GMT
For people who haven't followed an earlier thread on NEXTSTEP and color, here
is a short reminder:
The question is: how does NEXTSTEP handle color internally? For a
NeXTDimension it is simple: RGBa:8888, or Red-Green-Blue all 8 bits per pixel
and alpha (transparency) also 8 bits.
When we see a screen picture, how is NEXTSTEP handling it? At least it has
the capability to handle RGBa:8888. But what about the NexTstation color? It's
screen supports RGBa:4444. Does that mean internally RGBa:8888 is used
and it is dithered to RGBa:4444? Or is it genuine RGBa:4444 inside? Since one
can handle RGBa:8888, also on a RGBa:4444 station, it is suggested that
NEXTSTEP always works in 32bit color mode, even on systems that do not
support it with their display. So:
If I use mode RGB:555 on a Weitek card, is NEXTSTEP really using
RGBa:8888 and dithering to RGB:555?
If I use mode RGB:444 on an Canon ObjectStation, is NEXTSTEP
really using RGBa:8888 and dithering to RGB:444? Or is NEXTSTEP really
using RGBa:4444?
The why of this question:
A SPARCstation 5 is a relatively slow machine, but on the outside it
seems fast. The SS5 has 8bit graphics and a special 8bit accelerator card, so
the snappyness comes to no big surprise. But the question is: suppose we
would make that SS5 use 14bit color? Would the performance of only the
display driver take a hit, or would the Window Server itself take a hit? Or: how
does colordepth influence NEXTSTEP (Window Server) performance?
And why isn't this properly explained somewhere in the documentation?
--Gerben
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo of death
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 08:39:16 -0700
Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.950523082848.3100B-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
References: <3pru8f$435@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Robert Cresswell <roberth@frappe.ugcs.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3pru8f$435@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
On 23 May 1995, Robert Cresswell wrote:
> 1.)Do i have to run Netinfo?
Yes, unless you like not having DNS.
> 2.)Whats the reasoning for this dual set of conf files:
> ie: /etc/passwd and the Netinfo database for it [both of which
> are used, but in different situations]
The designer of NetInfo was a cretin who didn't know how to design
software.
Just wait until the first time just about everything on the NeXT hangs
because NetInfo is busy doing DNS resolution!
> 3.)Is the only way to change the NeXt databases thorugh their silly GUIs?
niload, niload, and niutil sort of work most of the time, although you
have to get used to their little quirks, and recognize that there are a
lot of things you simply can not do with NetInfo in the way.
> 4.)How do i allow printer access to other hosts?
Making the entry in /etc/hosts.lpd seems to work.
> 5.)Does Netinfo information supercede any "normal" conf info when they
> overlap?
Yes.
-- Mark --
DoD #0105, R90/6 pilot, FAX: (206) 685-4045 ICBM: N 47 39'35" W 122 18'39"
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,xomp.sys.next.marketplace
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: What's the best (and not too expensive) color printer for NS 3.3 ?
Message-ID: <D8vpu3.Dx@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 13:37:15 GMT
Hi all,
I'm still trying to find somebody who had any experience with Fargo Color
printers under NS !
Since there seems to be no one (at least no one who wanted to tell me
about it) does anyone know of a very good, high quality color printer for
NS ? I don't want to spend more than $1000 - $2000 for it, drivers for NS
included in that price range. And I want good quality so I can print
photos that really look close to real photos.
Please, e-mail me everything you know about those.
Thanks a lot
---
Jacques GARBI
TOUGA MANAGEMENT Ltd.
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone/Fax : 011 41 21 648 44 07
NeXTMail : jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha?
Message-ID: <D8tJyr.MB3@isltd.insignia.com>
Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com (Usenet News)
Organization: Insignia Solutions Ltd
References: <SAMURAI.95May18120127@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 09:35:15 GMT
In article <SAMURAI.95May18120127@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
> <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> writes:
>
> >Can a kind sould explain to me how I can compare these options?
>
> 16bit == 12bit color + 4 bit alpha
> 32bit == 24/8
These are true if you're talking about a TIFF file. The NeXT dimmension
is also 888+8alpha (8red 8green and 8 blue). However you only need alpha
in hardware if you're doing video overlays. Hence sixteen bit on Intel
is normally 555. The extra bit is wasted.
> 8bit == 6/2 ???
8 bit gray scale is exactly that (on intel hardware). When alpha is
added into a tiff file of this nature its held in a seperate plane,
rather than interlieved into the main bitmap.
I haven't looked at 8 bit colour yet, but its likly to be 332 (2 being
blue).
> 2bit (is actually 4 bit) == 2/2
like 8 bit grey, the 2 bits represent entirly greyscale in hardware. If
alpha to a tiff is added its stored in an additional plane.
Ian
From: cedman@freedom.princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: indexing Mailbox
Date: 23 May 1995 21:31:39 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <3ptk7r$m7q@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <3pst2m$e4s@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In article <3pst2m$e4s@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, S. F. Ruehauf <sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> why is it impossibel to index my Mailbox?
> Or what do I do wrong
> I always get a list of mboxes, nothing more.
An excellent question. The simple answer is of course that the
Indexing Kit by default indexes contents by file. As each mailbox
(apart from NeXTmail messages) is one file, such an index is not very
useful.
The next question is, why not write a tool which uses the Indexing Kit
to create an index by message. It turns out that this isn't quite
trivial to do without the assistance of Mail.app. The reason for that
is that Mail.app likes to add, delete and move messages inside
mailboxes. The indexer can of course notice the change in
modification time, but if it had to reindex an entire 10000 message
mailbox every time you append a message to the end, it would hardly be
worth the trouble. Fortunately you can write some fairly efficient
and safe hacks around that.
Searchmail, the program I wrote to be part of the mailapp utilities,
could spew forth all messages containing a specific word in a 7000
message 15 MByte mailbox within a second or so on a NeXTstation. But
in the end the kludginess of it all got to me and I decided that the
only way to do indexing reasonably and elegantly was integrated into
(or at least in cooperation with) the Mail User Agent itself.
Searchmail never got beyond the working prototype stage.
Carl Edman
From: mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo across subnets?
Date: 23 May 1995 21:45:21 GMT
Organization: National Outdoor Leadership School
Message-ID: <3ptl1h$961@ecl.wustl.edu>
Apologies in advance if this is an FAQ, but I haven't seen it
anywhere yet...
I have a single netinfo server in one subnet. I want a machine in
a different subnet to be able to be a client just as if it were in the
local subnet to the server. How do I do this?
I have hostname and IP address, etc. configured on the client machine,
so I don't need a broadcast-based boot server... But I never paid
attention to netinfo - how does a client find a server? Broadcast
requests? Can a specific IP be specified instead for the server?
Thanks,
Mike Bray
mike.bray@nols.edu
307-332-1279
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: karl@trapac.com (Karl Kraft)
Subject: Print Shortcut for non-NeXT printers
Message-ID: <D91vMz.2KK@trapac.com>
Organization: Trans Pacific Container Service Corporation
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 21:28:11 GMT
From the printing release notes for 3.2:
> All of these printers use the same "print
> shortcut" that the NeXT Laser Printer uses: the
> job starts printing when the first page of the
> job is spooled, rather than waiting for the entire
> job to be delivered to the spooling system. Note
> that the job must be held up if the page order
> is different from the printer stacking order.
Does anyone know how to make a different printer, such as an
HP-LaserJet 4 take advantage of this feature? For our MCCA, this
would save several minutes per printout, as the prining of a 32
page document takes less than 4 minutes, but generation is taking
another 4 minutes. We do a lot of printing with this particular
MCCA, and when we need to print, we need to print ASAP, so that a
runner can take the paper to a different building.
--
Karl Kraft
Karl_Kraft@trapac.com
Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com
[My opinions are my own]
From: sirius@interconnect.com.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Oracle on black hardware - problems with NS 3.3
Date: Wed, 24 May 95 19:14:43 PDT
Organization: Interconnect Australia
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.21579.801368443.sirius@sirius.syd.interconnect.com.au.syd.interconnect.com.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Regarding: Oracle 6 problems on NEXTSTATION
Oracle Version: Oracle 6.0.33.2.1 ( for NEXTSTEP 2.1 )
Hardware: NEXT Station Motorola
Operating System: NEXTSTEP 3.3
Please email any replies to: sirius@interconnect.com.au
I am running an version 6 of Oracle on a an old NeXTStation, and have done so
successfully until I upgraded the NEXTSTEP Operating system from version 3.2 to
3.3 ( even though the Oracle version was developed for NEXTSTEP 2.1 )
With the NEXTSTEP upgrade which I belive had some upgrades of the Mach Kernel,
I suddenly had problems with the Oracle database.
This was obvious just running the SQL*DBA application as the following
transscript displays:
SQL*DBA: Version 6.0.33.2.1 - Production on Sat May 20 09:48:59 1995
Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1989. All rights reserved.
ORACLE RDBMS V6.0.33.2.1 - Production
SQLDBA> connect system/polarbear1
ORA-09751: pw_attachPorts: server call pws_attach failed.
SQLDBA>
The console output was:
May 20 09:49:21 localhost (Oracle helper)[1082]: pws_attach(oracle) fails for
process 5, port rights still out
I have tried to reinstall the Oracle from scratch but no improved result.
One thing I noticed in the reinstallation that the 'pws.daemon' (which is the
(Oracle helper) process ) was not relinked as most of the other executables in
the $(ORACLE_HOME)/bin directory had been !!
Is anybody still using Oracle on NEXTStations out there and have they any
problems with it running 3.3 of NEXTSTEP.
Any help would be appreciated !!!
Please email direct to sirius@interconnect.com.au
Regards
Michael
From: jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk (Jeffrey Holdgate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Repartition of Intel Nextstep system disk
Date: 24 May 1995 10:52:03 +0100
Organization: BZW
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <3puvk3$pfc@imp.demon.co.uk>
Is trhere any way I can alter the size of the Nextstep system partiion
( I want to make it smaller ) without having to re-install Nextstep ?
If not, then is there a way to save the system via tar (or whatever)
and restore it to an empty partition ? Is it possible to boot a
functional Nextstep from a Floppy disk ?
Any help MUCH appreciated.
Regards
Jeff
Jeffrey Holdgate Jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk
From: jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk (Jeffrey Holdgate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 24 May 1995 10:57:06 +0100
Organization: BZW
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <3puvti$plc@imp.demon.co.uk>
References: <3pc56o$f69@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <3pinr5$7gd@hustle.rahul.net>
mcarling@rahul.net (M Carling) wrote:
>NEXTSTEP doesn't run on the older Sparcs because it is only configured to
>run on Sparcs with the 4m kernel architecture.
>M Carling
>Chairman, Bay Area NeXT Group
Will it run on a Sparc 2 ?
Jeffrey Holdgate Jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk
From: fnord@nyc.pipeline.com (Andrew E. Harasty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 24 May 1995 10:38:18 -0400
Organization: The Pipeline
Message-ID: <3pvgcq$r0l@pipe3.nyc.pipeline.com>
References: <3pc56o$f69@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <3pinr5$7gd@hustle.rahul.net> <3puvti$plc@imp.demon.co.uk> <3pv4l2$e40@crl4.crl.com>
In article <3pv4l2$e40@crl4.crl.com>,
Donald R. McGregor <mcgredo@crl.com> wrote:
>In article <3puvti$plc@imp.demon.co.uk>,
>Jeffrey Holdgate <jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>:>Will it run on a Sparc 2 ?
>
>No. Sparc 4, 5, 10, and 20.
>
BUT....you can make do a nifty little hardware upgrade for your
Sparc 2,1+, or 1...
There are two companies that make Replacment borads that give
you preformance of a Sparc 5. They are the Alix Acellerate Board
and the Cycle 5 Borad from Cycle Corp.
Both boards user you existing Memory and other hardware.
And they Run Next 3.3 Quiet fine. (We have it turning away
nicely for a while.)
Costs are resonalble, and are less then a straight Sparc 5 upgrade.
I would highly recomend them if you have a handful of old 4c type
hardware (2,1+, 1) and you want to upgrade.
Share and enjoy.
-fnord@eek.sbi.com
-fnord@nosferatu.sbi.com (NeXT Mail here :)
From: rasmussn@jupiter.eecs.umich.edu (Craig E Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP NeXTSTEP insall question?
Date: 24 May 1995 14:53:23 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
Message-ID: <3pvh93$i76@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
I am trying to install NeXTSTEP on an HP and I can't get the HP to boot
from the NeXT CD-ROM drive I'm using. The documentation says that one
must use an official HP CD-ROM drive. Has anyone been able to install
NeXTSTEP on an HP (712/80) without using an HP CD-ROM drive?
Craig Rasmussen
University of Michigan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: summary: ntp from a good source
Message-ID: <D936sC.2Hz@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:26:35 GMT
Thanks to all that responded. I eventually found that the
source of my problem is not a good ntp server closed enough not
to timeout, but a firewall that will permit ntp traffic. But,
in the vein of a summary here's some great messages that others
may find useful.
Basically what I did was hunt for ntp hosts in the following
way:
1. Went to the Australian Hospital "World-Time gopher"
2. Found the host in the URL for my area (Denver).
3. Used /usr/etc/nslookup to dump their host list
4. Tried them in order with "/usr/etc/ntp -v"
until one responded.
5. Followed the listed ntp chain back until I got one
that was straight from WWVB in Boulder (NIST - used
to be NBS).
About a month ago, for about a week, 192.43.244.9 was
down, or their ntpd was down... so I followed my ISP's
feed path back to Sprint and that's when I ended up with
128.8.10.6 as an alternative.
192.43.244.9 has worked several times today for me, but
ntp
is particular about delays (as only makes sense). You
are better off with a CLOSE site (in net topology) than
being directly connected to a WWV fed site, as each
site handles the time individually.
I'm not particularly up on my California geography.
You're in "Menlo Park". Venera.isi.edu accepts ntp
polls, in Marina del Rey.
VENERA.ISI.EDU 128.9.0.32
# /usr/etc/ntp -v venera.isi.edu
Packet from: [128.9.0.32]
Leap 0, version 1, mode Symmetric Passive, poll 6, precision -7
stratum 2 [132.249.16.1]
Synch Distance is 0000.099d 0.037552
Synch Dispersion is 0000.0408 0.015747
Reference Timestamp is b3656bc1.a5f53824 Thu May 18 00:46:25
1995
Originate Timestamp is b3656beb.46a66dbc Thu May 18 00:47:07
1995
Receive Timestamp is b3656be8.fac8a372 Thu May 18 00:47:04
1995
Transmit Timestamp is b3656be8.fad7a56c Thu May 18 00:47:04
1995
Input Timestamp is b3656beb.bb61cbcc Thu May 18 00:47:07
1995
venera.isi.edu: delay:0.455754 offset:-2.524230 Thu May 18
00:47:04 1995
That's "stratum 2", so follow it back...
132.249.16.1 SHOULD be stratum 1 and MIGHT even
be closer to you. Netcom sure isn't much use to
you unless they'll let you slave off their ntp
host (whichever of the dozens of A records that is).
See, ISI.edu's sync distance is only 0.037552, while they're
0.455754 from me, over an order of magnitude higher,
ESPECIALLY
when you take into account my SLIP connection. If you've got
a T1 connection, you certainly don't want LONG delays in your
ntp sync.
Once you've located the host you want to use, THEN actually
SET your host's clock using an -s flag with ntp. That'll
get you started. Again, if you're going to hit a host's
ntpd OFTEN (every minute or two), you should contact the
adminstrator of that host asking permission to add to their
load. Since ntp is a connectionless protocol, it's only
a brief contact each time-poll, but still.
Bruce
I use the naval observatory, I think they have a cessium
clock
or some other real accurate timekeeping device. (Of course I
could
just be dreaming this...)
Mike Hovan
Mike_Hovan@id.com (Home)
Mike_Hovan@blacksmith.com (Work)
#
# Synch clock with the naval observatory.
#
/usr/etc/ntp -s -f 192.5.41.40
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Testing integrity of NS Intel system hardware
In-Reply-To: jpanico@netcom.com's message of Wed, 24 May 1995 14:20:41 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May24113110@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <jpanicoD936II.Fn4@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:31:10 GMT
APS sells SCSI Sentry, which is a small device that you attach to your SCSI
chain that monitors and corrects certain problems. They have two models
selling for between $49 and $79.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: moving my mailhost to a new machine...
In-Reply-To: tec@alumni.caltech.edu's message of 24 May 1995 05:21:23 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May24113601@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3pufoj$evg@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:36:01 GMT
You're better off running sendmail 8.6.12. It will be easier to configure and
maintain. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/sendmail
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: beckman@primenet.com (Zacharias J. Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! sendmail configuration woes...
Date: 24 May 1995 18:47:13 GMT
Organization: DREAMS.COM
Message-ID: <3pvuvh$cb@news4.primenet.com>
Summary: Can't get sendmail (NeXT 3.3) to work right
Keywords: sendmail configuration sendmail.cf
I'm having problems configuring sendmail. Currently, the basic
functionality is working (sending and receiving mail). However,
receipients of my messages indicate that the headers are wrong. Typically
they receive mail from <zac@dreams>, which then maps into a local domain
name (such as <zac@dreams.somewhere.com>) when it should have originally
been <zac@dreams.com>.
This was working once upon a time with a custom built sendmail and a
sendmail configuration file I pulled from the net. But, since upgrading
to 3.3 and a new PPP connection, this configuration was lost... I'm now
trying to use the generic NeXT sendmail. Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated!
--
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DREAMS.COM / 520 Washington Boulevard, Ste #339 / Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure!
To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy... and
dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
-- R. A. Heinlen
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From: ser@ix.cs.uoregon.edu (Sean Elliott Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail user pictures question
Date: 25 May 1995 00:06:46 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <3q0hmm$ntb@pith.uoregon.edu>
The docs are pretty clear about how to set up images for users on a
network, but I can't seem to get NM to accept an image for an external
source. If I have an address <dummy@computer.uni.edu>, how do I attach an
image to that source?
Thanks,
--
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ser@cs.uoregon.edu \ about cutting them down? Maybe, if they
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~ser ) screamed all the time, for no good reason.
Finger Me for PGP Key / --- Jack Handy
From: kennedy@b0ru01.fnal.gov (Robert Daniel Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changed uid, cannot su root anymore (NS 3.3, m68k)
Date: 24 May 1995 18:54:43 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3pvvdj$ku4@fnnews.fnal.gov>
Hello,
After having no problems with NS 3.3 and related items, I decided
to reconfigure the filesystem a little and change user ids to match work
usage (minor convenience in case NFS export of disk via PPP). The file
system involved copying /usr/local to another partition to free up some
space in the /NeXT program area... and went with few hitches. However,
when I tried to change my user id, the User Manager program seemed to have
problems aplenty. I ended up deleting my user account, then remaking it
with the new user id. I changed all my file ownerships to reflect this.
I exported the change to the / domain (which failed many times or left a
thread eating CPU and making no apparent progress. After a reboot or two,
I succeeded in getting my new uid (1056) into the system.
Except that I can longer 'su root'. I have tried su.wheel and my
personal account is also in the wheel group. I have tried su.nowheel. I
have tried everything I can think of. Su complains 'setgroups: not owner'.
OK, this is probably just a simple gotcha that I have tripped, but
I'm tired and could use help in selecting where to read or whatever.
Any help appreciated, thanks,
Rob Kennedy
Rutgers/CDF/Fermilab
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From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Re: Printer problem
Message-ID: <D93Er8.9nE@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3pvh67$qb7@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 17:18:43 GMT
In article <3pvh67$qb7@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it> pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it
(pisati stefano) writes:
> Hi, I have a problem and I don't know how to solve it. Here there is a
> laser printer (an Apple LaserWriter II NX) attach to a ws that run as
> a print server but I can't make it running correctly. I can print only
> with a cat nomefile | remsh ipaddress -l -rlp but it isn't very
> usefull... how can I say to Printmanager to work on this printer ???
>
> TIA !
> ---
> 73 de -_ Stefano _-
> "Stat rosa pristina nomine nomina nuda tenemus"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Stefano Pisati IW2JXK email: pisati@dsi.unimi.it
> NeXTmail: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it PGP-Key on request
> http://www.dsi.unimi.it/Users/Students/pisati/home
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
In order to get a NeXT to use network printers you need to first
create a printcap file and then load it into the netinfo database. Here's my
printcap to use as a template:
research1: \
:_nxfinalform:lp=:rm=quark:rp=research1: \
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/research1:ty=Apple LaserWriter II NT:
Research1 is the remote printer I'm trying to print to. _nxfinalform puts
the postscript into a form that the printer can understand directly. The ty
is the type and is found in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj. When
you have it edited, copy it into /etc and then as root do a
niload printcap / < printcap
and then either reboot or as root, do a kill -HUP for nibind's process id.
Ok, now you need to set the permissions on the remote machine (the
one hosting the printer). To do this, simply add the name of your client
machine to /etc/hosts.lpd. Now you have permissions; no need to reboot.
BTW, couldn't resolve your email address.
--
Mario Stargard | NeXTMail Welcome.
School of Optometry |
University of Waterloo | "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Waterloo, Ontario | -- Bill Gates '81
Canada, N2L 3G1 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Subject: Re: (No) problems with SafetyNet
Message-ID: <1995May24.192407.5937@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 24 May 95 19:24:07 GMT
References: <3or0lp$esb@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <3ou14t$atf@hustle.rahul.net> <RDL.95May14123636@world.std.com>
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
In article <RDL.95May14123636@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes:
>SafetyNet is a nice backup application but the GUI could stand improvement.
>It violates several of the NeXT GUI guidelines. On the other hand, it has
>a lot of nice GUI features. In addition, Systemix has provided good
>technical support.
>
Except when it comes to providing a "find" feature to locate file names
in the archive. If you don't know exactly where to look, you are stuck.
Other than that it is great and in spite of that I couldn't live without
it.
--
Bob Peirce Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)]
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well
please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take
the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
From: jstock@next.com (Jim Stockford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I Get my 4mm Backup working?
Date: 25 May 1995 04:39:14 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q11li$8db@news.next.com>
References: <3p1868$c0u@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
In article <3p1868$c0u@newsbf02.news.aol.com> erbalch@aol.com (ERBalch)
writes:
> Problem:
> I have a SCSI 4mm DAT tape drive an I would like to get it working under
> NSFIP Ver. 3.2. I have failed in my attempts to use tar and dump.
> Basicly the problem with both these commands is that an NS driver needs
to
> be loaded some how (I think its called st0 or some darn thing). To tell
> you the truth I wouldent mind at all having a NS app to do backups
with...
> Can any one recommend one? Possibly a PD or SW app? Can anyone tell me
> how to get the st0 driver working so I can use tar and/or dump?
>
For Exabyte 4mm tape drives, use /dev/rst? or /dev/nrst? (rewind or
norewind and where ? is a number, e.g. /dev/rst0).
Also check man pages for st and stblocksize (a program that you can run
to set the tape drive to fixed block size).
--jim
From: guenther@gac.edu (Philip Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo of death
Date: 25 May 1995 00:43:16 GMT
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN USA
Message-ID: <GUENTHER.95May24194316@solen.gac.edu>
References: <3pru8f$435@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
In-reply-to: roberth@frappe.ugcs.caltech.edu's message of 23 May 1995 06:10:23 GMT
In article <3pru8f$435@gap.cco.caltech.edu> roberth@frappe.ugcs.caltech.edu (Robert Cresswell) writes:
> I'm pretty okay at adminning SunOs, Irix, Solaris, and AIX, so i wasn't
> too dismayed when the little black box came into my life. Here i was wrong.
> I recently took over admining for a cluster of alot of SGIs and one NeXt.
> i've got some questions:
> 1.)Do i have to run Netinfo?
No.
> 2.)Whats the reasoning for this dual set of conf files:
> ie: /etc/passwd and the Netinfo database for it [both of which
> are used, but in different situations]
You need something to use before NetInfo is started (i.e., before lookupd
is started). The flat files are used if lookupd can't be contacted,
Netinfo isn't running, or yp is enabled.
> 3.)Is the only way to change the NeXt databases thorugh their silly GUIs?
You can always use niload, nidump and niutil. Beware, as of NS3.0 niload
couldn't delete entries from the password database because they have
subdirectories.
> 4.)How do i allow printer access to other hosts?
If they're running BSD lpd, then you need to put an entry in their
printcaps, and they need to be in the NeXT's /etc/hosts.lpd. This is
assuming you're printing to the NeXT. For printing from the NeXT to
another machine, create the printcap entry, then load it into NetInfo with
"niload printcap . < foo"
> 5.)Does Netinfo information supercede any "normal" conf info when they overlap?
Mostly. NetInfo is always checked first, YP is if the you've set the
ypdomain (with "domainname" or /etc/defaultdomain). For host lookups, DNS
is checked if /etc/resolv.conf exists.
> please respond thorugh email, as I'm not an avid comp.sys.next reader.
> Maybe I should be ;-)
If you post a question, expect a posted answer. I've both mailed and
posted this response, as you made no mention of posting a summary (that's
about the only real good reason for requesting that people mail you their
responses). If you can't be bothered to read the newsgroup for a couple
weeks, why should someone else bother to not only read your posting, but
respond to it?
Philip Guenther
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Internet: guenther@gac.edu Phonenet: (507) 933-7596
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I am _not_ a representative sample of the Gustavus Community. Yeah, right...
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NS require an ethernet card?
Date: 25 May 1995 11:11:28 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Message-ID: <3q1ol0$407@mailer.york.ac.uk>
References: <3pnme1$kn6@drogheda.nuance.com>
aeg@nuance.com (Anthony E. Glover) writes:
> have to buy an ethernet card just to make print and sendmail work while
> connected. Any ideas?
yes - it due to the way iftab works. It's probably allocating your
hostname to lo0 incorrectly. try outting the following line in /et/iftab
before the others
lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 -trailers up
-bat.
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From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: NFS Error
Message-ID: <1995May24.205820.322@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:58:20 GMT
I am getting the following error on a consistant basis on a machine that
is not the host smedley.
NFS write error 13 on host smedley fh 600 0 80000 f91e5b6e ca290000 80000
f848101f 6dc10000
I get no corresponding errors on other machines, or on smedley. I would
love some thoughts on how to best approach getting to the bottom of this.
THanks
WEs
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! sendmail configuration woes...
Date: 25 May 1995 07:05:09 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995May25.060108.28951@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <3pvuvh$cb@news4.primenet.com>
In article <3pvuvh$cb@news4.primenet.com> beckman@primenet.com (Zacharias
J. Beckman) writes:
> I'm having problems configuring sendmail. Currently, the basic
> functionality is working (sending and receiving mail). However,
> receipients of my messages indicate that the headers are wrong.
Typically
> they receive mail from <zac@dreams>, which then maps into a local domain
> name (such as <zac@dreams.somewhere.com>) when it should have originally
> been <zac@dreams.com>.
If you edit your sendmail.cf to specify the Dj macro near the top, and
delete the "canonical hostname lookup" line from ruleset 6, you should be
OK.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP/Sparc on older Sparctations
Date: 24 May 1995 04:17:54 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems /|\
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References: <3pc56o$f69@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <3pinr5$7gd@hustle.rahul.net> <3puvti$plc@imp.demon.co.uk>
In article <3puvti$plc@imp.demon.co.uk>,
Jeffrey Holdgate <jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:>Will it run on a Sparc 2 ?
No. Sparc 4, 5, 10, and 20.
--
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From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Dots.app with Epson Color Stylus?
Date: 22 May 1995 14:32:35 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <3pq7a3$gu2@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Originator: gpmenos@sysof2
Hello. Anyone using the Epson Color Stylus with the Dots driver? Can
you get up to 7200x720 print resolution? Are you getting the
"jaggies?" I'm interesting in buying the driver, but it seems
expensive (about $180) unless it really works well....
Thanks for any information (by email please)...
Phil
G. Philippe Menos
gpmenos@princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Testing integrity of NS Intel system hardware
Message-ID: <jpanicoD936II.Fn4@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:20:41 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom13.netcom.com
Hi,
Last night one of our NS Intel boxes hosed the boot disk. I suspect that
it has something to do with the SCSI subsystem, perhaps termination
related, but I'm not sure. Are there any tools, like the Norton Utilites,
which will test the integrity of system components. Are there any hardware
or software tools that sniff out SCSI problems, particulary termination
problems?
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
--
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it (pisati stefano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer problem
Date: 24 May 1995 14:51:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Message-ID: <3pvh67$qb7@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
Hi, I have a problem and I don't know how to solve it. Here there is a
laser printer (an Apple LaserWriter II NX) attach to a ws that run as
a print server but I can't make it running correctly. I can print only
with a cat nomefile | remsh ipaddress -l -rlp but it isn't very
usefull... how can I say to Printmanager to work on this printer ???
TIA !
---
73 de -_ Stefano _-
"Stat rosa pristina nomine nomina nuda tenemus"
----------------------------------------------------------------
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From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: more sendmail.cf questions...
Date: 24 May 1995 05:07:54 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3pueva$ead@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
In converting from an old (but working, mostly) uucp setup to smtp over
ppp, I'm finding several things in the .cf file that I'd like some
feedback on (as to whether or not to preserve them). This is comparing
the hacked .cf file running uucp to the stock sendmail.mailhost.cf file
(NS3.3, that is).
Added near the top of Rule Set 3 is:
> # strip erroneous "somewhere!" (thanks to john@oceania.com)
> Rsomewhere!$+@$+ $:$1@$2 remove "somewhere!"
Is this relevant in general? The stock NeXT .cf's don't include it, but I
do recall a problem at one time with mail bouncing in loops due to one
end of the other directing stuff to "somebody" (I think).
Then, at the end of S3, I find what looks like simply a new way of doing
something, but I'm not sure if the old sysadmin simply forgot to comment
on changing something...
<uucp setup>
< R$+%$+ $@$>3$1@$2 user%host
---
>stock NeXT<
> R$+%$+ $:$1%%$2 user%host
> R$+%%$+%$+ $1%$2%%$3 move gaze right
> R$+%%$+ $@$>3$1@$2 re-canonicalize
If anyone knows whether NeXT simply improved on their previous rules, I
like to go with the later rule set just to keep the changes to a minimum.
It kind of looks like the newer setup would just end faster, with a call
for another pass only if it's needed?
Lastly, there are some stray error trapping (?) rules at the bottom of S0:
> # insert mc 10/24/91
> R$*<@$+.$->$* $#error $:Unknown domain $3
> R$*<@$+>$* $#error $:Never heard of $2 in domain $m
> R$*@$* $#error $:I don't understand $1@$2
Would anybody know if these are "good" or "motherhood" or something that
I should carry over to the new setup? It's all the same office, just moving
from uucp to smtp, so I'd suspect that error sources would stay the same.
(There were a lot of stray rule changes in the uucp .cf that involved
rewriting uucp addresses (with ! structures). Since they're not in the
stock NeXT .cf's I trust I shouldn't go adding them for an SMTP setup.
There was also some things "pre-defined for Sun" according to O'Reilly,
which the uucp .cf used but I trust are useless on a NeXT;).)
There is one stock NeXT thing that has me puzzled, though. Towards the
end of S0, it says:
> # If you want to pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder
> # to our forwarder then uncomment the following line.
> #R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$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
But, "ddn" is what the PPP/SMTP service provider says to use for the
relay mailer (of course, everything else he said is looking to be wrong:(.
So, should I edit that DMuucp to say DMddn at the top, and use the $#$M
line??? It looks to my novice eye like I have to do that so that I get
$@$R (which is defined in DR... to be their mail machine), yes?
Any advice, feedback, or whatnot on these would be appreciated...
Thanks-
Timothy Cushing
tec@slate.alta.com
From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: moving my mailhost to a new machine...
Date: 24 May 1995 05:21:23 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3pufoj$evg@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
I'm converting an office from uucp to smtp/ppp, and when I started I thought
it'd be a good idea to move the mailhost to a new machine. This poses two
questions that I'm hoping for some advice on:
1) I'd like to keep the uucp running on the existing mailhost for incoming
mail during the transition, but point all the subsidiary folk to the new
mailhost for outgoing mail. Is the uucp dial-up and incoming mail feed
separate from sendmail? It kind of looks so, which would mean I could just
change the system over to the new mailhost and nothing would break (for
incoming mail). Is this likely? And this means that there really only is
one mailhost, that being the new machine?
2) Presently, /usr/spool/mail is exported to the office by the mailhost,
which also is the server for homes and everything else (which is why I
wanted a new mailhost). Is there anything unreasonable about leaving the
/usr/spool/mail export as-is, and just letting the new host queue mail
on and off the old server? If I have uucp and smtp sharing access to it,
it shouldn't really matter where it is? (Or is there a chance of losing
mail should the server be down when smtp goes looking for the spool?)
Thanks-
tec
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Path updates
Date: 23 May 1995 22:33:25 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems /|\
Message-ID: <3pugf5$ir1@crl10.crl.com>
It appears that NeXT is caching the contents of my search
path in some strange ways, and the cache isn't being updated.
Eg, drop an application into /LocalApps/foo/myApp.app Then
'mv' it up a level to /LocalApps. Attempts to do something
like 'open' with a doc from the command line will fail; it appears
to be looking for the application in the old directory, and
becomes upset when it isn't found.
Logging out and logging back in updates the cache. Is there a
better way to do this from the command line?
--
Don McGregor | "Mrs Asquith remarked indiscreetly that if Kitchener was
mcgredo@crl.com | not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster."
From: roberth@chop.ugcs.caltech.edu (Robert Cresswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: many thanks
Date: 24 May 1995 15:42:01 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3pvk49$b2c@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Keywords: netinfo thanks
Wow.
I had too many responses to reply to all by email, so I'll send a
thanks here. I'm used to receiving one or two questionable responses
to usenet posts ; this was quite different.
thanks again for the help. looks like i'm gonna spend a few evenings
in front of our "black-box" ;-)
-rob
From: meyergru@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to use a NeXT mono w/o monitor
Date: 26 May 1995 10:27:38 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q4aeq$1qt@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Hi Folks,
me again. Since many of us may be using their old NeXT non-ADB monostations now
as fax servers or the like, the following question comes up again with even
more importance:
"How can I use my NeXT mono without the monitor?"
Every solution I have seen has its own disadvantages (and so has mine).
First, some facts:
There is more in the NeXT monochrome monitor than one should think. The whole
keyboard and mouse I/O system and part of the sound circuitry, including but
not limited to the microphone and the loudspeaker are in there.
There are solutions available which simply shorten pin 6 of the 19pin DB
connector to ground (preferably through a 330 Ohm resistor). That way, the
computer can be switched on (it can still be switched off using
"shutdown -h -p" via a remote login). You have to remember to switch off the
"sound out test" in the rom monitor, or otherwise the boot may fail. If you can
live without the windowserver, you can even disable it in /etc/ttys, but then
faxing and printing will not work, since nobody will render the postscript
image for you. Even another trick is to actually _disable_ the "port A is
alternate console setting", unless you want somebody with a modem (that happens
to be connected to port A) to fiddle with your boot settings...
However, newer versions of NEXTSTEP (like 3.3) even crash if sound output is
sent to a system without the sound circuitry. If you do not want to afford a
soundbox (which would have to be adapted to the mono connector as well, and
that differs quite a bit from the color connector the sound box was designed
for), here is a solution which I find quite nice.
The underlying idea is to keep the sound, keyboard and other logic going but
to shut off merely the video part with its CRT heating and high-voltage
generation (yes, that is being generated from the +-12 Volts which are the
sole operating powers provided to the monitor).
If you open the monitor (by loosening four screws at the rear), you will find
a metal shielding case with some openings for several video adjustment
possibilities (Ah, there they are!). This case can be taken away after another
few screw have been removed. Now you can look into the monitor. At the back
wall, there is a large, vertical circuit board. Down at the bottom, there is
the smaller audio board with the loudspeaker in front. Leave them in place.
Take a look at the 9-wire cable that connects these boards. There is one wire
that is black, I will call it #1. The assignments are as follows:
#1 +12V
#2 +12V
#3 GND
#4 -12V
#5 -12V
#6 HSYNC
#7 Video GND
#8 VSYNC
#9 Video GND
Pull out both connectors of the cable (the audio side is blue, the video
side is grey). Cut wires #1, #2, #4 and #5. Connect #1 with #2 and #4 with #5
on both sides. Now you have something like:
Blue (audio = in) side Grey (video = out) side
#1 -+ +- #1
| |
#2 -+------------- +12Vin +12Vout --------+- #2
#3 ------------------------(GND)---------------------- #3
#4 -+ +- #4
| |
#5 -+------------- -12Vin -12Vout --------+- #5
#6 --------------------------------------------------- #6
#7 --------------------------------------------------- #7
#8 --------------------------------------------------- #8
#9 --------------------------------------------------- #9
Buy a momentary switch and a 12 Volt relay and wire them as follows (the relay
is shown in the "off" position!):
Switch
+--------------------------------+
T | |
+---+ | |
| | | +12Vout -12Vout |
| | | O
O O--------------------O O O O +-----+
| / / | |
| X============X==========| |=
| / / | |
+----------------------------O O +-----+
| | O
| | |
+12Vin -12Vin GND
Relay
Now, normally, if you power on the NeXT, the monitor will go on as before.
Once you push the switch, the relay will activate, thus switching off the
video power. Furthermore, the relay will keep itself going after you
release the switch (which is a "Good Thing", because the NeXT's power
supply would break down if you reactivated the video power while the system
is running). To get video again, you will have to power down the system
completely, starting the sequence again. Powering down can now be done by
pressing the power key and then the return key (as usual, but you cannot
watch what happens).
The switch can be built into the plastic back cover on the left side (seen
from the front) (make the cables long enough), about 2 inches from the bottom
(as not to touch the metal frame nor the shielding). At the back, the beautiful
black design we all like so much is not messed up too badly. There is a small
gap where the cable for the microphone is running through. You can put your
connecting cable for the button here, too. Also, remember to insulate
everything properly!
Back
+----------+ +----+++++++-+
+ + | ||||||| |
Switch -->/ \ | ||||||| |
/ \ | ||||||| |
/ \ (seen from top) | ||||||| | Front
/ \ | ||||||| |
++ ++ | . ||||||| |
| | +----+++++++-+
+--------------------+ /
Front / "." is Switch
---------
(seen from top) (seen from left)
Take care, folks, no guarantees. Don't ask me anything (like: "My cable is
_all_ white, which wire is #1?"). And please note: you may lose your warranty
;-), and also: there is high voltage in the monitor, so leave it if you don't
know what you are doing.
cheers, Uwe
From: runge@gdl.msu.edu (Mike A Runge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exporting directory...
Date: 26 May 1995 01:32:25 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
/etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
/directory/subdir -ro
I used -ro just to keep it simple and see if it would work. Then
I ran exportfs -a and looked at /etc/xtab. To my surprise, there
was nothing in xtab. Am I doing something wrong?
Michael Runge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dsanders@Trimark.com (Doug Sanders)
Subject: Re: 2 HDs, each with own OS, in intel box?
Message-ID: <1995May24.114539.3763@trimark.com>
Sender: news@trimark.com
Organization: Trimark Investment Management, Toronto
References: <jpanicoD8xuBy.3sH@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:45:39 GMT
In article <jpanicoD8xuBy.3sH@netcom.com> jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an Intel box with 2 SCSI HDs in it. I would like to put NS 3.3 on
> one of the disks, and MS-DOG/Windoze/Win96 on the other, AND I would
like
> to be able to dynamically select either OS for boot upon a hardware
reset
> (reboot). Is this possible?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yup.
Must both OSs have a partition on SCSI id 0?
Yup.
> Is there a way to put both the NS partition and a tiny DOS partition
> on SCSI id 0, and have the DOS partition point to SCSI ID 1?
Put DOS on the first drive and NEXTSTEP on the second... It works better
that way (IMHO).
> Any help/clues much appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> Joe Panico
> jpanico@netcom.com
>
See NeXTanswers Document #1487 "Booting From An Alternative Hard Disk
Drive". It tells you everything you need to know on this subject.
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Doug Sanders Trimark Investment Management Inc.
dsanders@Trimark.com One First Canadian Place, Ste 5600
NeXTmail, MIME mail OK Toronto, ON M5X 1E5 CANADA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Scott Byer <byer@mv.us.adobe.com>
Subject: Re: The definitive question on NEXTSTEP and colordepth?
In-Reply-To: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL's message of Tue, 23 May 1995 15:18:32 GMT
Message-ID: <pseo1p6zjw.fsf_-_@birch.mv.us.adobe.com>
Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA
References: <D91EIw.A1@AWT.NL>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 03:26:59 GMT
Gerben Wierda writes:
Gerben> When we see a screen picture, how is NEXTSTEP handling it? At least
Gerben> it has the capability to handle RGBa:8888. But what about the
Gerben> NexTstation color? It's screen supports RGBa:4444. Does that mean
Gerben> internally RGBa:8888 is used and it is dithered to RGBa:4444? Or is
Gerben> it genuine RGBa:4444 inside? Since one can handle RGBa:8888, also on
Gerben> a RGBa:4444 station, it is suggested that NEXTSTEP always works in
Gerben> 32bit color mode, even on systems that do not support it with their
Gerben> display. So: If I use mode RGB:555 on a Weitek card, is NEXTSTEP
Gerben> really using RGBa:8888 and dithering to RGB:555? If I use mode
Gerben> RGB:444 on an Canon ObjectStation, is NEXTSTEP really using
Gerben> RGBa:8888 and dithering to RGB:444? Or is NEXTSTEP really using
Gerben> RGBa:4444?
Depends. The screen bits themselves are whatever they claim to be. A
NeXTStation color really is using 12bpp color in the framebuffer. Things
that are drawn to it are dithered as they are drawn.
Offscreen buffers are whatever. Usually they'll start out as 2bpp and get
promoted as needed. Usually they will get promoted to match the deepest
screen depth, which if you're on a NSC, means the offscreen buffers are
really 12bpp (16, really, with 4 bits alpha).
What happens when you composite is a best effort sort of thing. If it's
depth-to-depth, the obvious thing happens. If not, there are several
potential optimized paths, such as 2-bit to whatever. The general case is,
well, general.
Note that the window server must have certain depth concepts compiled into
it - if the window server hasn't ever been taught to address 14bpp, it
won't. HOWEVER, note that 14bpp, 15bpp, and 16bpp are generally the same in
terms of addressing - they just have a different color table. The window
server _IS_ prepared to handle an arbitrary color cube. That information
must be fed to the windowserver when it cranks up a new device. I don't
remember if NeXT provided a way to feed an arbitrary color cube spec to DPS
or not.
Assuming that they did, and you figure out how to do that, then the only
problem is compositing performance. There are fancy inverse-lookup tricks
you can do to speed up 15 and 16bpp compositing, but I don't know if those
tricks were generalized to handle the arbitrary color cube case, or whether
they relied on certain color cube configurations. For example, 16bpp
usually means the same as 15bpp - a 5 by 5 by 5 color cube. That's a pretty
easy inverse lookup to optimize. Generalizing that is hard.
IF the server starts up and is happy with 14bpp, generalized drawing
shouldn't suffer (ralative to 15 or 16bpp. It does necessarily suffer
relative to 8 - more data to deal with). If you never use the alpha
channel, you should be okay. If you do do compositing with alpha values
(say, like dragging around icons!) the server may suffer quite noticably.
As to why it isn't documented, that should be obvious by now :-).
--
Scott Byer E-Mail: byer@mv.us.adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated These are my opinions, and
1585 Charleston Road, P.O. Box 7900 do not necessarily reflect
Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 the opinions of my employer.
=== ===
C++: Take one part C, 5 parts "bad hacks", 6 parts "bad language features", 9
parts "unclear on the concept", and blend. Has taste and consistency of vomit.
From: roberth@chop.ugcs.caltech.edu (Robert Cresswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: where to find a mouse
Date: 24 May 1995 16:13:23 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3pvlv3$cnm@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Keywords: mouse
A little while ago, I saw a post along the lines of:
"Where can i find a mouse ... this renders a station useless..."
Email me. [roberth@ugcs.caltech.edu]. We can get black-mice here,
but I hear they're QUITE expensive.
*shrug*
-rob
From: beerli@evolution.genetics.washington.edu (Peter Beerli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 and PNI
Date: 24 May 1995 17:34:19 GMT
Organization: University of Washington Genetics
Sender: beerli@genetics.washington.edu
Message-ID: <3pvqmr$j14@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: PNI NS3.3 NetInfo
Hi netters, there was a similar post which I just remember,
but I have lost it, concerning problems with PNI and NS3.3:
I have also problems but they seem
not quite the same:
I installed PNI 1.13, I changed all necessary scripts and hooked to the net,
the installation was tedious, but finally my slip connection was OK,
but doing the following sequence produced a strange result to me:
pni0_startup , slipping (rlogin, ftp, www-browsing worked fine), pni0_shutdown,
,.. something else done locally..., pni0_startup -> ERROR: portmapper couldn't
connect/find port -> no connection, after a system restart I can do exactly
one slip-connection, using somethin like pni1 failed because I didn't manage
to talk to the net (ifconfig problem?),
I tried a restart of netinfo (in the app or by killing with -1 the nibbind),
but than the netinfo could connect to the localhost [?] after this netinfo
restart. I had to boot the system because of the hanging of lookupd which
blocked me to do anything else (e.g. ps aux -> kill the lookupd process).
Is this a simple PNI problem? Is this a simple netinfo problem? How can I
fix this [I didn't fiddle around with domain entries] ? Is there a problem
with PNI wich does not clean up properly? Hints concering interactions of
PNI with ifconfig and the routing are also appreciated.
thanks
Peter
beerli@genetics.washington.edu
From: hadar@amazon (Hadar Pedhazur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP NeXTSTEP insall question?
Date: 25 May 1995 19:30:56 GMT
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland, New York site
Message-ID: <3q2ltg$er7@ns2.ny.ubs.com>
References: <3pvh93$i76@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Craig E Rasmussen (rasmussn@jupiter.eecs.umich.edu) wrote:
: I am trying to install NeXTSTEP on an HP and I can't get the HP to boot
: from the NeXT CD-ROM drive I'm using. The documentation says that one
: must use an official HP CD-ROM drive. Has anyone been able to install
: NeXTSTEP on an HP (712/80) without using an HP CD-ROM drive?
: Craig Rasmussen
: University of Michigan
Way back in the beta PR1 days of HP NS, we successfully installed off of a
*non-approved* HP cd-rom by daisy chaining it after the NeXT cd-rom. In other
words, it could *not* be connected directly to the scsi port. However, we
still used a real HP cd drive even though it too could not be booted directly.
If you have another external scsi device that you can connect between your
machine and the NeXT cd, it is worth the few minutes of effort to see if that
solves your problem. Of course, we simply (at great expense :-() bought the
supported drives and they work perfectly ...
--
Hadar Pedhazur
Global Equity Derivatives
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Date: 26 May 1995 11:01:27 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3q4ce7$ntg@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Mike A Runge (runge@gdl.msu.edu) wrote:
: I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
: when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
: export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
: /etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
[...]
/etc/hosts is the wrong place to modify.
If the machine is running NetInfo, just launch NFSManager from
/NextAdmin and set up the export from the local machine.
Hope that helps.
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: telnetd closing connection
Date: 26 May 1995 11:04:10 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3q4cja$ntl@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi,
on an Intel 3.3 system, telnetd closes the connection after
having transmitted the 'Last login:...' line.
On an other 3.3 system, everything works fine. All .-files
(.login, .cshrc etc. are identical on both systems).
I don't have any clue where to look.
Any ideas?
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 23 281 (uni) \~/
From: suzawa@suzawa.anatomy.emory.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Dots.app with Epson Color Stylus?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 26 May 1995 16:43:54 GMT
Organization: Emory University
Message-ID: <3q50ga$eko@moe.cc.emory.edu>
References: <3pq7a3$gu2@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Gerard Philippe Menos (gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU) wrote:
: Hello. Anyone using the Epson Color Stylus with the Dots driver? Can
: you get up to 7200x720 print resolution? Are you getting the
: "jaggies?" I'm interesting in buying the driver, but it seems
: expensive (about $180) unless it really works well....
: Thanks for any information (by email please)...
: Phil
: G. Philippe Menos
: gpmenos@princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.]
: Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries
: voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
I'm using in the exact combination with NS/FIP. The only problem is that
when I print at 720x720 dpi, the swapping gets enourmous and slows down
the system preformance. I'm uisng 486DX2/66 with 32MB RAM. Everything other
than swapping (just natural for printing true color at 720 dpi, you know),
is fine and I'm really saticified with the print-outs. Of course, it's not
compalable to a thermal wax or other high end color pritnters, though.
I don't know what you mean by "jaggies" since we are in NeXTSTEP world
whrer all outputs are postscript.
Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@unix.cc.emory.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Tim Pugh <tpugh@oce.orst.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rdump and rrestore problem
Date: 24 May 1995 19:21:27 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University
Message-ID: <3q00vn$mjs@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
I'm using rdump to backup an external drive to a Sun IPX with a Exabyte 8500
8mm tape drive. Rdump appears to work fine. However, I can not restore
anything from the tape using rrestore from NS3.2.
I also copied the NS3.3 rdump and rrestore files and installed them on my NS3.2
system. It did not make a difference. Would a NS3.3 system have a better
chance at working correctly than NS3.2 system?
What am I doing wrong? Is anyone doing the same thing but are able to restore
files from the tape? Let me know what your experiences are and how you are
doing it.
- Tim -
Additional info:
NeXTstation Turbo Color running NS3.2
Sun IPX running SunOS 4.1.3 with Exabyte 8500
Backup and Restore output:
tsunami# rdump 2usbf 500000 63 archivehost:/dev/rst0 /usr3
DUMP: Date of this level 2 dump: Wed May 24 11:34:10 1995
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Tue May 23 10:13:20 1995
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd1a (/usr3) to /dev/nrst0 on host beloye
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 20252 tape blocks on 0.00 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: DUMP: 20484 tape blocks on 1 tape(s)
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
DUMP: level 2 dump on Wed May 24 11:34:10 1995
DUMP: Tape rewinding
tsunami# rrestore if archivehost:/dev/rst0
read: Invalid argument
Tape read error: Unknown error
--------------------------------------------------------------
Tim F. Pugh email: tpugh@oce.orst.edu
Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences voice: 503-737-2270
Oregon State University fax: 503-737-2064
NeXTmail ok!
From: marc@lore.acs.calpoly.edu (D. Marc Stearman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Date: 26 May 1995 22:51:31 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Message-ID: <3q5m1j$c69@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu>
References: <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3q4glf$r0e@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: marc
Mike A Runge <runge@gdl.msu.edu> wrote:
>Mike A Runge (runge@gdl.msu.edu) wrote:
>: I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
>: when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
>: export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
>: /etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
>
>oops. I meant to say /etc/exports
>
>: /directory/subdir -ro
>
>: I used -ro just to keep it simple and see if it would work. Then
>: I ran exportfs -a and looked at /etc/xtab. To my surprise, there
>: was nothing in xtab. Am I doing something wrong?
>
You need to make the changes to netinfo instead of the flatfile.
Try doing the following:
1) >nidump exports . > tempexports // This will write the contents of the
exports dir in Netinfo to a file.
2) >cp tempexports tempexports.orig // Make a backup copy in case you screw
up.
3) >vi tempexports // Edit the file as if it was /etc/exports.
4) >su to root // You must be root to load files into Netinfo.
5) >niload exports . > tempexports // Load the file back into Netinfo.
6) >exportfs -av // Re-export the filesystem
7) >exit // Exit from the root shell.
Hope this helps.
-Marc
--
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marc@lore.acs.calpoly.edu \___ ___/ job as a mannequin, but they
NeXT mail gladly accepted \___/ said I didn't look real enough.
http://phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu/~dstearma
From: tg2@prism.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Help me! (uucp problems)
Date: 26 May 1995 22:19:46 -0400
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Sender: tg2@prism.gatech.edu
Message-ID: <3q6282$h8l@acmey.gatech.edu>
I have been trying to get uucp to work from a Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.4
and a NeXT cube running NS3.3. These are "thendral" and "malgudi"
respectively. thendral or malgudi call isye (my server) which is a Sparc20
running Sun OS 4.1.3.
It appears that when either thendral or malgudi calls, isye fails to
synchronize with the client. While I am not exactly a Unix guru, I have
used uucp successfully for nearly ten years. However, I did not have to
use it for almost 2.5 years since I have had SLIP/PPP. For reasons that
are irrelevant, I will be unable to use PPP reliably for a few months
(when I will get ISDN at home). Enough background.
Can someone provide hints as to what I am doing wrong? My suspicion is
that thendral and malgudi (both at home) are configured and behaving
fine, but the problem is with isye (my server at school). We have set
the right permissions in /etc/uucp/Permissions, or so we believe.
I am appending the log when I use uucico. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thank you very much.
govind
______
thendral is a Sparc5 running Solaris 2.4
thendral root> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -f -r1 -x9 -sisye
aliasFind (isye) FAIL
force flag set (ignoring uucico limit)
mchFind called (isye)
list (rmail) num = 1
name (DEFAULT) not found; return FAIL
list (rmail) num = 1
_Request (TRUE), _Switch (TRUE), _CallBack (FALSE), _MyName (), _NoSpool
(FALSE), _Commands rmail
attempting to open /var/uucp/.Admin/account
chdir(/var/spool/uucp/isye)
stat /var/spool/uucp/isye/Z
ulockf name /var/spool/locks/LCK..isye.Z
stat /var/spool/uucp/isye/F
ulockf name /var/spool/locks/LCK..isye.F
Job grade to process - F
chdir(/var/spool/uucp/isye/F)
conn(isye)
Trying entry from '/etc/uucp/Systems' - device type ACU.
Device Type ACU wanted
Trying device entry 'cua/a' from '/etc/uucp/Devices'.
processdev: calling setdevcfg(uucico, ACU)
fd_mklock: ok
fixline(8, 38400)
gdial(microcom) called
Trying caller script 'microcom' from '/etc/uucp/Dialers'.
expect: ("")
got it
sendthem (AT&F&D3^M<NO CR>)
expect: (OK^M)
AT&F&D3^M^M^JOK^Mgot it
sendthem (ATDP1234567^MDELAY
<NO CR>)
expect: (CONNECT)
^JATDP1234567^M^M^JCONNECTgot it
getto ret 8
expect: (in:)
38400^M^J^M^Jisye login:got it
sendthem (Uthendra^M)
expect: (word:)
Uthendra^M^JPassword:got it
sendthem (mypassword^M)
imsg >Login timed out after 60 seconds^M^J^M^JNO CARRIER^M^JLOGIN FAILED -
failed
exit code 101
Conversation Complete: Status FAILED
_______________________________
Trying uucico again, but timeout prevents any attempts.
thendral root> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -f -r1 -x9 -sisye
aliasFind (isye) FAIL
force flag set (ignoring uucico limit)
mchFind called (isye)
list (rmail) num = 1
name (DEFAULT) not found; return FAIL
list (rmail) num = 1
_Request (TRUE), _Switch (TRUE), _CallBack (FALSE), _MyName (), _NoSpool
(FALSE), _Commands rmail
attempting to open /var/uucp/.Admin/account
RETRY TIME (82800) NOT REACHED
exit code 101
Conversation Complete: Status FAILED
_______________________________
malgudi is a NeXT cube running NEXTSTEP 3.3, again calling isye
malgudi root# /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x99 -sisye
root isye (5/26-21:51-447) DEBUG (Local Enabled)
root isye (5/26-21:51-447) NO CALL (RETRY TIME NOT REACHED)
RETRY TIME (600) NOT REACHED
root isye (5/26-21:51-447) continuing anyway (debugging)
finds (isye) called
ifadate returns 177
getto: call no. cufa for sys isye
Using DIR to call
Opening /dev/cufa
login called
wanted """"
got: that
send "AT&FM"
wanted "OK~10"
AT&FM
OKgot: that
send "AT&D3%C0%M3S0=0"
wanted "OK"
AT&D3%C0%M3S0=0
OKgot: that
send "ATMDP1234567\r"
RETURN
wanted "CONNECT"
ATMDP1234567
CONNECTgot: that
send "\d\r\d\r"
DELAY
RETURN
DELAY
RETURN
wanted "ogin:"
9600
\021
isye login:got: that
send "Umalgudi"
wanted "sword:"
Umalgudi
Password:got: that
send "mypassword"
root isye (5/26-21:52-447) SUCCEEDED (call to isye )
imsg looking for SYNC<Login timed out after 60 seconds
(X\17?\21]\0$'D&\4M%\22\177
NO CARRIER
________
Logfile looks like this:
root isye (5/26-21:51-447) DEBUG (Local Enabled)
root isye (5/26-21:51-447) NO CALL (RETRY TIME NOT REACHED)
root isye (5/26-21:51-447) continuing anyway (debugging)
root isye (5/26-21:52-447) SUCCEEDED (call to isye )
malgudi root#
--
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School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
765 Ferst Drive, ISyE-0205, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205.
From: "Brian J. Cardanha" <bc2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting GGC 2.5.8 to compile under NS 2.0
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:22:37 -0400
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <AjlRMRy00VIbMy2mt3@andrew.cmu.edu>
I just recently acquire a NeXT cube, with almost nothing on it. Before
I started to compile software on it, I check which version of GCC was on
it, and it was 1.3.6. That had to go.
Everytime I do the config for 2.58, that's fine, but then we I try make,
it gets stuck on:
./enquire -f > tmp-float.h
and freezes.
And words of advices? Should I try 2.6.3?
Thanks,
Brian Cardanha
bc2t@andrew.cmu.edu
bcard@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones)
Subject: Re: 2 HDs, each with own OS, in intel box?
Message-ID: <cjonesD981qs.H3q@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <jpanicoD8xuBy.3sH@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 05:25:40 GMT
Sender: cjones@netcom15.netcom.com
get next doc 1487!
carl
Joe Panico (jpanico@netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi,
: I have an Intel box with 2 SCSI HDs in it. I would like to put NS 3.3 on
: one of the disks, and MS-DOG/Windoze/Win96 on the other, AND I would like
: to be able to dynamically select either OS for boot upon a hardware reset
: (reboot). Is this possible? Must both OSs have a partition on SCSI id 0?
: Is there a way to put both the NS partition and a tiny DOS partition
: on SCSI id 0, and have the DOS partition point to SCSI ID 1?
: Any help/clues much appreciated.
: Thanks
: Joe Panico
: jpanico@netcom.com
: --
: Joe Panico
: jpanico@netcom.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP NeXTSTEP insall question?
Date: 27 May 1995 06:49:27 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995May27.054509.4688@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <3q2ltg$er7@ns2.ny.ubs.com>
In article <3q2ltg$er7@ns2.ny.ubs.com> hadar@amazon (Hadar Pedhazur)
writes:
> Craig E Rasmussen (rasmussn@jupiter.eecs.umich.edu) wrote:
> : I am trying to install NeXTSTEP on an HP and I can't get the HP to
boot
> : from the NeXT CD-ROM drive I'm using. The documentation says that one
> : must use an official HP CD-ROM drive. Has anyone been able to install
> : NeXTSTEP on an HP (712/80) without using an HP CD-ROM drive?
>
> Way back in the beta PR1 days of HP NS, we successfully installed off of
a
> *non-approved* HP cd-rom by daisy chaining it after the NeXT cd-rom. In
other
> words, it could *not* be connected directly to the scsi port. However,
we
> still used a real HP cd drive even though it too could not be booted
directly.
We normally borrow one of the listed drives when we need to install on HP.
However, at one point we used a generic Toshiba 3401 to install from.
Fine, except that the install took 10+ hours for just NeXTSTEP/User.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones)
Subject: Re: Installing NS on second drive
Message-ID: <cjonesD981nn.Gvs@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <patron_david-150595163940@128.229.166.24>
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 05:23:47 GMT
Sender: cjones@netcom15.netcom.com
isn't it "hd(1)mach_kernel" ??
also get next doc 1487
carl
David Patron (patron_david@bah.com) wrote:
: Hello:
: I am trying to install NextStep for Intel Processors in a machine that has
: two identical hard disks. Each one is 400K. I intend to use the first one
: for DOS and the second disk for NextStep.
: When I try to install NS, everything goes fine, until the installer asks me
: to remove the installation disk from the disk drive. The system reboots
: and DOS kicks in. I tried to reboot with the installation disk with the
: command "fd(1)mach_kernel" at the "boot" prompt. The system then seems to
: reboot, but it hangs after a while, with error messages about file systems
: check failed.
: Any ideas would be appreciated
: Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: bmhahn@poseidon.knoware.nl (Bernhard Hahn)
Subject: Help with Morning Star PPP
Sender: news@knoware.nl (News Account)
Message-ID: <D98vFz.A0D@knoware.nl>
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 16:07:11 GMT
Organization: Knoware Nederland
Hi,
Anyone out there who has experience with setting up a (PPP) connection to
the Internet for a standalone NEXTSTEP Intel system with Morning Star PPP?
The User Guide coming with MST PPP might be very useful for system
administrators or network experts, but it is hard to understand for end
users, it also gives very little attention to NEXTSTEP specific
configuration issues like HostManager etc.
Any information that might help me to get things up and running is highly
appreciated.
Initial state is a 'clean' standalone NS 3.3 Pentium/PCI system, a ZyXEL
1496E+ (soon ZyXEL Elite 2864) modem and the MST PPP 1.4.1.5 package.
1.
2.
3.
..
Final state should be a full dialup access connection to the Point Of
Presence of my access provider.
Many thanks in advance,
Bernhard
---
Bernhard M. Hahn
Buntlaan 13
3941 MG Doorn
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-(0)3430-13321
Fax: +31-(0)3430-13321
Email: bmhahn@poseidon.knoware.nl (NeXTmail Welcome!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: NS3.3 and TransSys 1.13?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD98w5o.HBn@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <19950523135021.Stefan.Boehringer@cd41022.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 16:22:36 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom4.netcom.com
Stefan Boehringer (Stefan.Boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) wrote:
: I've just installed NS3.3 and I'm suddenly cut off from
: the Internet - due to TransSys1.13 usage. Is a patch or
: other workaround available other than reinstalling NS3.2?
: Thanks in advance.
: Please (also) reply via email to: boehrsbu@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Hi,
Did you ever solve this problem? I too would like to run PNI-slip on 3.3.
Thanks for any info.
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
--
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Printer alerts under NS/Intel?
Message-ID: <RDL.95May27142911@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 18:29:11 GMT
I've answered my share of questions in this group... Here's a question:
On NeXT hardware, when you printed using manual feed, a panel used to come up
and the system would say "Your printer is waiting for paper." Does this work
on Intel hardware for non-NeXT printers? If so, what needs to be done to the
PPD/NetInfo to make this happen?
Thanks,
Robert
Subject: Re: Netinfo Death
Date: Tue, 23 May 95 15:46:51 PDT
Message-ID: <000D3915.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
To: roberth@ugcs.caltech.edu.iqinc.com
Organization: ImagingQuest
>>1.)Do i have to run Netinfo?
Well, yeah. I haven't found a way to get completely around it that doesn't
involve recompiling many standard (and fundamental) unix binaries, particulalry
the networking stuff. That isn't to say that for your particular needs you can't
override or avoid it. For example, lookupd can be configured so that NetInfo
information, while still consulted, is basically null and void.
Netinfo is so pervasive on the NeXT that it really depends on what resource
you're interested in as to whether you can avoid it. From an overall
perspective, though, I think it would be safe to say you're stuck with it.
>>2.)Whats the reasoning for this dual set of conf files:
>> ie: /etc/passwd and the Netinfo database for it [both of which
>> are used, but in different situations]
** BS ALERT** The following is pure speculation:
I think the reasoning here was that you could use NetInfo to administrate many
NeXT machines and still hook them up with non-NetInfo machines. A kind of
automated 'mirroring' can occur between the NetInfo databases and their
corresponding flatfiles where necessary. If you take a look at some of the
System Admin docs NeXT ships with, they have a whole section that talks about
integrating a NeXT into a non-NeXT network.
>>3.)Is the only way to change the NeXt databases thorugh their silly GUIs?
Not at all. Check out the nidump, niload, niutil, etc. commands. They are very
handy!
>>4.)How do i allow printer access to other hosts?
It's possible but I've forgotten how I did this (it's been a few years). It
seems like it was some pretty standard stuff with printcap, lpr, etc. Maybe
some NFS too, memory is a bit fuzzy.
>>5.)Does Netinfo information supercede any "normal" conf info when they
>>overlap?
For the most part, NetInfo is always consulted first, sometimes exclusively,
depending on the resource the underlying software is looking for. lookupd for
example will check NetInfo, then the defined DNS Server (if /etc/resolv.conf has
been created) and then NIS (I think). So in this case a NetInfo entry for a
particular host would be returned without any calls to a DNS server that could
potentially have more current info.
The best thing I could recommend would be to checkout the included NeXT docs on
"Configuring NeXT's for non-NeXT environment" (or some-such name) and then going
and getting the appropriate NeXTAnswers. There are a bunch you'd find helpfull,
particularly those that detail the differences between standard Un*x and the
NeXT flavor.
Also, to get a good summary of the types of resources NetInfo tracks, do an
'nidump' from the command line. It isn't a valid nidump command (unless you
consider the "not a valid nidump command" message valid :-) but the help text
gives you a nice summary of the types of things NetInfo is tracking/affecting.
Some resources are obvious, like passwd, hosts, etc., while others will take a
little more digging. I think it was the NetInfo 'machines' entry that was
equivalent to a resource of a different name on most Un*x boxes.
You probably already have this URL, but if not add it to your list and visit
the NeXTAnswers section therein:
http://www.next.com
As a general comment, I'd have to say that NetInfo was a pretty ambitious and
well implemented approach to managing the resources that have been traditionally
stored in flat-files or other database schemes (NIS). My two biggest
frustrations are:
* While flat-files or other resource-database schemes may not have been perfect,
there were tons of resources available in figuring out what was going on.
(books, net wisdom, online help, etc.)
* Seems to me that NetInfo gets better and better as both the number of NeXTStep
machines you have AND the degree to which the machines are isolated from other
resource management systems increases. Since we have only one NeXTStep machine
and it is networked to the Internet, DOS/WINDOWS, and Macintoshes, I think most
(all?) of the benefits of the system are lost for us.
I must say that trying to do Un*x admin on our NeXT has most certainly provided
(and will continue to provide) a depth of education I don't think I would have
gotten otherwise.
Hope that helps (and I haven't said anything too untrue :-),
- Gary
From: alex_s@ix.netcom.com (alexander stewart )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Urgen MST PPP question
Date: 27 May 1995 18:44:42 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q7ruq$k34@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
anyone know how to configure MST
PPP on a NEXTSTEP system to allow
the client (remote) system to ftp,ping,www etc other
systems on the network other than the
PPP server. The connection to the PPP
server is working great (POP,FTP, Ping etc),
but I need to be able to reach other systems
other than the PPP server.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Ian
From: scott@ntplx.net (scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q]NIS C2 passwds and NSI3.3
Date: 26 May 1995 14:56:18 GMT
Organization: NETPLEX
Sender: scott@jumbo.ntplx.net
Message-ID: <3q4q6i$6d7@jumbo.ntplx.net>
Hi,
I use (SunOS 4.1.3) C2 security on my master NIS server. Is it possible
to make NS3.3 work with this scheme?
scott douglass
scott@ntplx.net
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: filtering mail
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:50:33 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950525105033.215AACUS.malc@daneel>
References: <3pb4vq$il1@homer.alpha.net> <950520093008.642AAABE.wes@sherlock.take3.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: mail, filter
>Has anyone had any luck getting a filtering system working for e-mail
>within NeXTStep? A number of employees here are now becoming interested
>in mailing lists but the volumes of e-mail puts them off (and our hard
>disk, too ;-). If it's a NeXTStep app, all the better.
>
I'd recommend Eloquent too! :-)
You can almost achieve similar results with a handful of PD programs (e.g.
procmail), but I suspect it'll be a lot quicker, easier and flexible to just
get Eloquent.
If a large number of employees are wanting to get the *same* lists, maybe
you might consider setting up a mail-news gateway, and have the lists appear
as newsgroups.
I know this is possible, but I don't know what s/w is available to set this
up -- pointers would be appreciated! :-)
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: w and kmem
Date: 26 May 1995 20:12:31 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q5cnf$1ke@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I have several Next Stations operating in a domain. all but one of the
stations react correctly if I type "w" in a csh
One of them gives the message "No kmem"
I've checked that kmem is present, same protection, etc. What could be
causing theis behavior?
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Jacques Garbi
Subject: UUCP accouting
Message-ID: <D8xIFK.FG@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Sender: jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Organization: Touga Management SA
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 12:52:32 GMT
Hi,
I receive a few mail a week that are simply UUCP accounting. It tells me
how many dials up I made, for how long, etc... and try to calculate the
overall cost. Only it takes a null value for the cost per minute,
therefore, the overall cost is zero (which is unfortunately not true).
Does anyone know where (in what file) I could change this null value so it
could really calculate the overall week cost ?
Thanks a lot
---
Dr. Jacques GARBI
TOUGA MANAGEMENT Ltd.
Av. Davel 18
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone/Fax : 011 41 21 648 44 07
NeXTMail : jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Tom Marchioro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Date: 26 May 1995 22:42:15 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q5lg7$19f@news.iastate.edu>
References: <3q4glf$r0e@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Mike A Runge writes
> Mike A Runge (runge@gdl.msu.edu) wrote:
> : I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
> : when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
> : export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
> : /etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
>
> oops. I meant to say /etc/exports
>
> : /directory/subdir -ro
>
> : I used -ro just to keep it simple and see if it would work. Then
> : I ran exportfs -a and looked at /etc/xtab. To my surprise, there
> : was nothing in xtab. Am I doing something wrong?
>
To put in a little plug......
One of the really nice tools added to NeXTstep of late is NSFManager.app,
which should be in /NextAdmin Hack around with it for a minute or two,
pretty much self-explanatory. Go to the "exported directories" panel,
click "add" and select the directory in question. I suggest you also use
the panels to go to specify the machines that are allowed to access this
directory, and under what condition.
Been too long since I played with 2.0 to remember how to mount it on the
other end, but the command line mount should work fine.
Hope this proves helpful --- Tom
--
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Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
Executive Director:
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changed uid, cannot su root anymore (NS 3.3, m68k)
Date: 25 May 1995 13:15:19 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
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Robert Daniel Kennedy (kennedy@b0ru01.fnal.gov) wrote:
: Hello,
[...]
: Except that I can longer 'su root'. I have tried su.wheel and my
: personal account is also in the wheel group. I have tried su.nowheel. I
: have tried everything I can think of. Su complains 'setgroups: not owner'.
Maybe you lost the setuid bit on su.wheel / su.nowheel
Try the following (as root):
chown root.wheel /bin/su.*
chmod u+s /bin/su.*
: OK, this is probably just a simple gotcha that I have tripped, but
: I'm tired and could use help in selecting where to read or whatever.
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From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: summary: ntp from a good source
Date: 25 May 1995 01:33:49 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95May24213349@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <D936sC.2Hz@chemelex.com>
In-reply-to: fms@chemelex.com's message of Wed, 24 May 1995 14:26:35 GMT
<fms@chemelex.com> writes:
>Thanks to all that responded. I eventually found that the
>source of my problem is not a good ntp server closed enough not
>to timeout, but a firewall that will permit ntp traffic. But,
>in the vein of a summary here's some great messages that others
>may find useful.
>Basically what I did was hunt for ntp hosts in the following
>way:
> 1. Went to the Australian Hospital "World-Time gopher"
> 2. Found the host in the URL for my area (Denver).
> 3. Used /usr/etc/nslookup to dump their host list
> 4. Tried them in order with "/usr/etc/ntp -v"
> until one responded.
> 5. Followed the listed ntp chain back until I got one
> that was straight from WWVB in Boulder (NIST - used
> to be NBS).
Um, I might be out of context here, but I think that "time.nist.gov" is
an atomic clock synced server put up for net hosts to sync with.
- db
--
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops. -- Veruca Salt -- Baldric, you
wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on
top of a harpsichord singing, "Subtle Plans Are Here Again" -- Atkinson --
The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nxcube.augusta.de!olli (Oliver Nissen)
Subject: CSLIP-package
Message-ID: <D93KDn.23q@nxcube.augusta.de>
Sender: olli@nxcube.augusta.de (Oliver Nissen)
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 19:20:10 GMT
I'm looking for a CSLIP-package for the black hardware that supports
NS 3.3. I'd be interested in getting information about commercial and
free products. Maybe you can recommend a certain CSLIP-solution, which
you probably tested yourself. If you think, you can help me, please
drop me a line.
Oliver Nissen
From: david-rarick@uiowa.edu (David A. Rarick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Pentium w/3.3 not finishing startup
Date: 25 May 1995 20:27:29 GMT
Organization: Second Look Computing
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <david-rarick-2505951528590001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Keywords: login startup NEXTSTEP
I am running NS3.3 on our 90 MHz pentium. For some reason, when I boot in
NEXTSTEP, I am not getting the login panel any more. Whether I start up
with or without verbose messages, the screen goes gray, the cursor changes
to color and starts spinning, and I have mouse control, but no matter how
long I wait, I never get the panel. I can telnet to the machine no
problem. Any ideas?
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From: Iacopo E. Inghirami <iacopo@ec.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dread in trouble!!!
Date: 25 May 1995 08:29:16 GMT
Organization: Dip. Ec. Aziendale - Pisa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q1f4s$11ni@serra.unipi.it>
As root, if I issue "dread -l" , I get a "Can't open defaults database"
message...
If I do the same as another user, everything is fine...
I already tried to copy .NeXTdefaults.D and .NeXTdefaults.L from "good"
users,
but with no result. I also tried a forced "fsck", but all is OK...
*HELP*, Iacopo
Iacopo E. Inghirami - University of Pisa
E-Mail: iacopo@ec.unipi.it - NeXTMail: iacopo@sidea.ec.unipi.it
From: kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with Sybase interfaces file
Date: 28 May 1995 09:19:48 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <3q9f7k$1h6@miwok.nbn.com>
I've been using Sybase quite happily on my local machine
for a long time. But now I want to use a database on a
remote machine, over a SLIP connection. How do I set up the
Sybase interfaces files (on both machines) to make this
work?
When I try to connect with an app such as DBInspector or
SchemaE, the app immediately crashes.
Do I need to set up /etc/hosts files on each machine?
Any help appreciated. Please reply by email.
Here's the two /usr/sybase/interfaces files:
REMOTE HOST
DATAINFO
master tcp next-ether fooport 3696
query tcp next-ether fooport 3696
console tcp next-ether fooport 4696
LOCAL HOST
SYBASE
master tcp next-ether fortuity 3696
query tcp next-ether fortuity 3696
console tcp next-ether fortuity 4696
DATAINFO
master tcp next-ether fooport 3696
query tcp next-ether fooport 3696
console tcp next-ether fooport 4696
Regards,
Daniel Kehoe
ex-NeXTWORLD
415-488-9142
kehoe@fortuity.com
From: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: problems with loginwindow dying
Date: 25 May 1995 15:10:26 GMT
Organization: Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q26l2$efe@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
We've recently had a series of problems on many of our Nextstep
machines. The problem is independent of hardware (occurring so far on
a 25 MHz cube, 25 MHz slab, Color turbo, and 100 MHz Pentium). In each
case, upon logout, no login window appears. Checking
/usr/adm/messages shows they all contain similar messages:
May 24 12:53:33 slide loginwindow[267]: loginwindow: Workspace exited
ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
May 24 16:14:22 mossy loginwindow[186]: loginwindow: Workspace exited
ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
May 24 15:13:49 spike loginwindow[186]: loginwindow: Workspace exited
ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
May 24 15:30:17 dendrite loginwindow[249]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0
rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
May 24 15:30:19 dendrite loginwindow[249]: creating new loginImage
All the machines are running 3.2, except the 100 MHz Pentium which is
running 3.3. The problems started occurring shortly after receiving
and adding the 3.3 Pentium to our network; we have 3 other Intel-based
machines (2 Pentiums's and 1 486). The hardware on the new Pentium is a
little different from our other Intel machines (Symbios Logic SCSI
Adapter, eMASTER+ EM960 PCI, ELSA WINNER Display Adapter), but I don't
see how that could affect other machines. I'm also not sure how a 3.3
machine could cause a problem on those running 3.2. There have been
no changes to applications running on any of the machines. The
problem is also independent of who was logged in last and what
applications they ran.
In short, I'm baffled and am asking for help to try to correct this
problem.
Thanks,
rick
--
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Houston, Tx 77030 | Phone:(713) 798-3346 | Fax: (713) 799-8544
Internet: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu | NeXTMail accepted
From: Gerald McMullon <gfg@info.bt.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing NS on second drive
Date: 25 May 1995 16:13:45 GMT
Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK
Message-ID: <3q2abp$62n@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>
References: <patron_david-150595163940@128.229.166.24>
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patron_david@bah.com (David Patron) wrote:
>
> I am trying to install NextStep for Intel Processors in a machine that has
> two identical hard disks. Each one is 400K. I intend to use the first one
> for DOS and the second disk for NextStep.
Try a 2Mb DOS partition on drive C: leaving the rest for NS.
Install the DOS applications on drive D:, your second drive.
To avoid this problem I purchased a 2Gb drive for 738 GBP.
Gerald McMullon Cambridge GBR
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: 2 HDs, each with own OS, in intel box?
In-Reply-To: dsanders@Trimark.com's message of Wed, 24 May 1995 11:45:39 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May26153630@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <jpanicoD8xuBy.3sH@netcom.com> <1995May24.114539.3763@trimark.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 19:36:30 GMT
WARNING! Be very careful when you install DOS because it may automatically
format your other SCSI disk without asking you. When you install DOS, it
automatically scans your system for disks. If it encounters a non-DOS disk,
it thinks it's unformatted so it tries to "help" you by formatting it. Evil.
Evil. Evil. Some would say it's another Microsoft strategy to eliminate
the competition.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
From: runge@gdl.msu.edu (Mike A Runge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Date: 26 May 1995 12:13:35 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <3q4glf$r0e@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Mike A Runge (runge@gdl.msu.edu) wrote:
: I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
: when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
: export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
: /etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
oops. I meant to say /etc/exports
: /directory/subdir -ro
: I used -ro just to keep it simple and see if it would work. Then
: I ran exportfs -a and looked at /etc/xtab. To my surprise, there
: was nothing in xtab. Am I doing something wrong?
: Michael Runge
--
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From: gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu (George B. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: httpd CPU usage
Date: 26 May 1995 22:31:23 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu>
I was thinking of installing the httpd package from
ftp.cs.orst.edu on my NeXT Turbo Cube with NeXTdimension.
What kind of load increase should I expect to see on my CPU
for WWW pages that are accessed about 30 times a day and
are mostly text. Will I see a drastic slowdown of my own
computational work (small numerical problems tested before
being shipped off to bigger machines) or will it be hard
to see any difference?
-george
George B. Ross
gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu (NeXTmail welcome) http://www.nd.edu/~gross/
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame
From: danie@nxtvad.core.org.za (Danie Malan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted: Copy of Kermit or TIP to run with PPP2.2 on NeXTSTEP INTEL
Date: 28 May 1995 21:49:55 GMT
Organization: PiX - Proxima information X-change
Message-ID: <3qar64$egv@foxbat.pix.za>
Keywords: Kermit TIP
I am busy setting up a NS for Intel standalone machine to run an App
communicating with a set of networked machines across a modem.
I got hold of PPP2.2 and Gatekeeper (Looks great !), but can't seem to get
hold of a copy of either Kermit or tip for NS Intel. Can anybody help ?
Am I at least on the right track with the deadline looming ??!!
(A freeware product would be preferrable as this is a R&D exercise)
Any other suggestions or experiences shared in similar setups would be
appreciated.
Regards
Danie Malan
MS CAIRO = NT + OPENSTEP !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hiroshi@vnus.org(Hiroshi Takahashi)
Subject: Re: UUCP accouting
Message-ID: <D97HnH.15E@vnus.org>
Sender: hiroshi@vnus.org (Hiroshi Takahashi)
Organization: A Sound Mind Production
References: <D8xIFK.FG@touga.vd.alphanet.ch>
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 22:11:40 GMT
Put the prices in a file called /etc/uucp/L-costs
#
# L-costs has a list of sites and cost in $/minute. e.g.
# sun cost 0.34
# housun cost 0.40
# keyword 'cost' is required.
site1 cost 0.15
site2 cost 0.15
In article <D8xIFK.FG@touga.vd.alphanet.ch> Jacques Garbi writes:
> Hi,
>
> I receive a few mail a week that are simply UUCP accounting. It tells me
> how many dials up I made, for how long, etc... and try to calculate the
> overall cost. Only it takes a null value for the cost per minute,
> therefore, the overall cost is zero (which is unfortunately not true).
>
> Does anyone know where (in what file) I could change this null value so
it
> could really calculate the overall week cost ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> ---
> Dr. Jacques GARBI
> TOUGA MANAGEMENT Ltd.
> Av. Davel 18
> 1004 Lausanne
> Switzerland
> Phone/Fax : 011 41 21 648 44 07
> NeXTMail : jacques@touga.vd.alphanet.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: creating a boot disk?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD9Awzt.Ew2@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 18:35:52 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom7.netcom.com
Hi,
I would like to create a bootable diskette for crash recovery on an NS 3.3
Intel system. Using dump, I made a copy of the CD-ROM installation diskette,
but regardless of what boot options I give it, in booting from the fd kernel,
the boot insists on trying to reinstall NS. Thus, if the sd kernel was
damaged and could not be booted from, I don't see how I could boot off
the installation disk kernel, mount sd0 and go into single user mode (which is
what I am trying to achieve). Have I missed an installation diskette
option which allows this? Simpler-- does anyone have a recipe for creating
a generic boot floppy , without the installation junk?
Any suggestions (well almost any ;) welcome.
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
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Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: allenlee@iguana.be
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail via PPP
Date: 29 May 95 00:10:17
Organization: INnet NV
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <root.95May2901017@white>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
I have just setup up my PPP account on NS. But when I mail
to a majordomo the reply comes an hour or so after. On my
Windows setup I had the reply immediately. Any ideas???
Thanks,
allen
From: john@getafix.demon.co.uk (John Shirlaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Services on NS 3.3 and black hardware.
Date: 29 May 1995 00:38:48 +0100
Organization: Demon Internet News Service
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <3qb1i8$1kp@imp.demon.co.uk>
I have a problem with the services menu on NS 3.3 running on black
hardware (turbo colour) and was hoping someone could help me.
I have just installed 3.3 on my next station, and now can not use the
services menu. When I go into preferences menu to select what apps I want
there are no apps listed in the menu to select from.
What is relly puzzling is that the preferences are there as root but not
as a normal user.
In additon I can not use mathematica as a user because it can't use
mathlink, which I suspect is a simptum of the same problem.
Any help would be greatfully appreachiated.
Regards
John Shirlaw.
From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HOW DO I GET MY WORKSPACE MANAGER BACK?
Date: 29 May 1995 02:50:03 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Message-ID: <3qbcor$pc@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
i am able to login to a command prompt in multi-user mode, but i can't
get my gui windowing interface to start up. loginwindow doesn't work? what
should i check? my next is the only next on an ethernet lan.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail via PPP
Date: 29 May 1995 08:56:03 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Distribution: fj
Message-ID: <1995May29.073211.11445@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <root.95May2901017@white>
In article <root.95May2901017@white> allenlee@iguana.be writes:
> I have just setup up my PPP account on NS. But when I mail
> to a majordomo the reply comes an hour or so after. On my
> Windows setup I had the reply immediately. Any ideas???
Run (/usr/lib/sendmail -q) as soon as you connect. That normally runs
hourly to reprocess the mail queuue, so is the most likely event to cause
a one hour delay.
Paul
--
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Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de (Rainer Sokoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Date: 27 May 1995 10:13:32 +0100
Organization: Thueringen Net, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3q6qfs$53@rainix.jena.thur.de>
References: <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3q4ce7$ntg@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Axel Habermann (kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Mike A Runge (runge@gdl.msu.edu) wrote:
: : I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
: : when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
: : export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
: : /etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
: [...]
: /etc/hosts is the wrong place to modify.
: If the machine is running NetInfo, just launch NFSManager from
: /NextAdmin and set up the export from the local machine.
Without netinfo, /etc/exports were the right place. exportfs -av exports the
directories verbosly.
: Hope that helps.
Dito,
Rainer
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From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: httpd CPU usage
Date: 29 May 1995 06:23:40 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3qbp9c$a3t@news.next.com>
References: <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu>
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Versions: makemail 2.8b
In article <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu>,
George B. Ross <gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu> wrote:
>I was thinking of installing the httpd package from
>ftp.cs.orst.edu on my NeXT Turbo Cube with NeXTdimension.
>What kind of load increase should I expect to see on my CPU
>for WWW pages that are accessed about 30 times a day and
>are mostly text. Will I see a drastic slowdown of my own
>computational work (small numerical problems tested before
>being shipped off to bigger machines) or will it be hard
>to see any difference?
You'll never even notice.
--Dan
--
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From: R. BENCE <drblackrock@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Routing problems with 3.2 Turbo :o(
Date: Sun, 28 May 95 19:24:17 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <Zy+-0TJ.drblackrock@delphi.com>
I have been running a 3.2 Turbo slab on a small net with an Intel
3.3 (NS) on a small net for some time. I changed the IP addresses
on both machines and the router a few days ago to our new domain
and, after some tribulation have everything back up, almost.
I can ping/traceroute/ftp/telnet etc between the two hosts,
the 3.3. machine is master and the 3.2 machine boots up fine,
it is the mail host and is getting mail off the net, but -
from the 3.2 machine I can't reach the router! I can't touch
it from the 3.2 host at all, and I can't touch that host from
outside through the router, but I can reach the master no problem,
and the master can reach the world. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HOW DO I GET MY WORKSPACE MANAGER BACK?
Message-ID: <1995May29.131720.1231@ittpub>
From: jurgen@ittpub.nl (Jurgen Hildebrand)
Date: 29 May 95 13:17:18 WET
References: <3qbcor$pc@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
Keywords: world
writes
> i am able to login to a command prompt in multi-user mode, but i
can't
> get my gui windowing interface to start up. loginwindow doesn't work?
what
> should i check? my next is the only next on an ethernet lan.
checkout the file /etc/ttys
The next two lines after the comment header might give a clue.
# console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" ...
console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow ....
is ok, if the lines are like:
console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" ....
# console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow ....
comment the first and uncoment the second.
Reboot and you're login panel appears (hopefully).
From: rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de (Rainer Sokoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Pentium w/3.3 not finishing startup
Date: 28 May 1995 18:30:31 +0100
Organization: Thueringen Net, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qabvn$66@rainix.jena.thur.de>
References: <david-rarick-2505951528590001@viper.weeg.uiowa.edu>
David A. Rarick (david-rarick@uiowa.edu) wrote:
: I am running NS3.3 on our 90 MHz pentium. For some reason, when I boot in
: NEXTSTEP, I am not getting the login panel any more. Whether I start up
: with or without verbose messages, the screen goes gray, the cursor changes
: to color and starts spinning, and I have mouse control, but no matter how
: long I wait, I never get the panel. I can telnet to the machine no
: problem. Any ideas?
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Hi,
some times ago I had the same problem. Look for an incorrect
nfs-mount-entry.
Greetings,
Rainer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: mount Peculiarities
Message-ID: <D9BnKw.9I9@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 04:10:07 GMT
NS3.3 installed without incident. Three partitions, each about 2GB in
size, are defined in fstab as follows:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0b /me 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd1a /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
The /LocalApps mount has me concerned because it causes my system to
undergo a considerable amount of I/O, even when I am doing nothing at
the keyboard. If I change /LocalApps to something else, such as
/Marc, the extraneous activity goes away.
Can someone help me understand why this is so?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Preferences.app ignores *some* changes?
Message-ID: <D9Bnru.A1u@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 04:14:18 GMT
As root, I have been able to set NS3.3 unix preferences, such as UNIX
Expert. However, all Mouse Prerences settings, such as Right Menu Button
Enabled, are ignored.
Any ideas why this is so?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Workspace Inconsistencies
Message-ID: <D9Bo2o.Axu@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 04:20:47 GMT
NS3.3 Workspace will not remember my moving an app icon from one
position of the application dock to another, even if I do this as
root. Any ideas why?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: sanguish@digifix.com
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Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 29 May 1995 04:15:10 GMT
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From: roberth@off.ugcs.caltech.edu (Robert Cresswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Netinfo of Death
Date: 30 May 1995 05:19:04 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3qe9s8$hja@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Keywords: netinfo summary
First off, I'm very grateful for all the responses I got to my post.
Below is a summary of my questions and the replies i received:
1.)Do I have to run Netinfo?
Yes and no: you don't _have_ to do anything, but no netinfo means no DNS
and that's a pain. One reply did talk about some serious
reconfiguration to avoid netinfo, but it seems _much_ easier to
just deal with netinfo and it's quirkiness.
---
2.)What's the reasoning for this dual set of files/databases:
ie: /etc/passwd and the netinfo database for [both of which are
used, but in different situations]
I received a variety of opinions here:
"....The designer of NetInfo was a cretin...."
"....They probably would have liked to eliminate flat files, but
some of them are used early in boot process before netinfo starts...."
"....It's supposed to be mac-like...."
"....Most of the people who condemm NetInfo just don't know anything about it.
It's not THE solution, I admitt, and it has several deficiencies, but of
all the systems I've tried, it is the easiest to administer - provide you
don't have any other non-netinfo machines on the network...."
One of the replies spoke of two guys adminning ALOT of NeXts alone, and having
a good time of it, loving Netinfo all the way .... *shrug*
Netinfo seems unfortunate for my situation (one NeXt, lots of SGIs and 2 RISCs)
---
3.)Is the only way to change the NeXt databases through their silly GUIs?
here, i did get blasted a bit for saying 'silly' ... sorry I'm just not a
GUI kinda guy.
niload, niload, and/or niutil are key. and then restart nibind with a HUP
there's also: nidump, nifind, nigrep, and nireport.
---
4.)How do I allow printer access to other hosts?
I got alot of /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/printcap pointers, which I thought I'd
already tried.
---
5.)Does Netinfo information supercede any "normal" conf info when they overlap?
yes. well, almost yes. someone said that sendmail aliases were an exception.
---
-rob
<roberth@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: 1887_3.3_Driver_Floppy.floppyimage
In-Reply-To: John Bartley's message of Tue, 30 May 1995 00:26:24 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May30012538@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <950529192624.1561AABoE.john@nimno>
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 05:25:38 GMT
John,
I ran into that problem recently. You need to boot your system with
the floppy. This does *not* mean using the bfd() command. It means enabling
booting from the floppy in the Dell/AMI BIOS, putting the floppy in the drive
and turning the machine on.
BTW - Your e-mail address is missing a domain.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Preferences.app ignores *some* changes?
In-Reply-To: salvo@eskimo.com's message of Mon, 29 May 1995 04:14:18 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May30012838@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D9Bnru.A1u@eskimo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 05:28:38 GMT
Here are some suggestions:
1. Look at the permissions and ownership of all files/subdirectories of
/.NeXT:
# ls -aglR /.NeXT
2. While logged in as root, look at the defaults database using:
# dread -l
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: roberth@off.ugcs.caltech.edu (Robert Cresswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: that printer question...
Date: 30 May 1995 05:31:47 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3qeak3$i7o@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Summary: can't export printer. help?
Keywords: printer lpd PrintManager
Hello again!
So, I just can't stay away ...
my "netinfo of death" questions were posted, primarily cause i was having
a hard time exporting a NeXt printer for use by other UNIX boxes. Anyone
have any ideas?
here's specifics:
NeXt400dpi laser printer.
the non-next hosts are in /etc/hosts.lpd
the non-next hosts' printcaps have the correct entry.
the next is not in a NIS domain [nor are the hosts i want to print from]
when i try an lpq -Pprinter_name on one of the non-nexts, i get:
"bicnext: /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer
access"
{bicnext is the next's hostname}
So, the NeXt amnuals we have tell me to use PrintManager and to set the
access button to "public" [it's on private now]. But I get the error:
"Alert: Printer cannot be exported to this same computer"
What does this mean? Have any ideas for things I've forgotten?
thanks in advance,
-rob
<roberth@ugcs.caltech.edu>
ps: oh yeah, post replies, as I'm now reading the newsgroup daily ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: creating a boot disk?
In-Reply-To: jpanico@netcom.com's message of Sun, 28 May 1995 18:35:52 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95May30013406@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <jpanicoD9Awzt.Ew2@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 05:34:06 GMT
Edit the Instance0.table in /3.3BootFloppy/private/Drivers/i386/System.config
and change "Install Mode" to "No"
Also, if you boot in single-user mode using the -s flag without doing the
above fix, it won't install NS even though it says that it will.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mross@antigone.com
Subject: CAP6.0 and NeXTSTEP 3.1?????
Message-ID: <1995May30.055626.11186@antigone.com>
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 05:56:26 GMT
I am trying to install CAP 6.0pl194 on a NeXTcube running NeXTSTEP 3.1.
It looks like the configure script is trying to work with NeXTSTEP 2.0, and does
not try to even compile anything in the support/ethertalk directory.
However, I thought that NeXTSTEP 3.0 added support for Ethertalk in which case
shouldn't I be compiling aarpd? Or should I be compiling UAB? The Appletalk
support that came with NeXTSTEP 3.0 definitely did not require a hardware bridge,
and CAP is said to be a good replacement for the now-defunct NeXT implementation
of Appletalk.
I am very lost and any pointers would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Michael Ross
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Subject: Help Configure Network
Message-ID: <D9DsHG.L89@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 07:51:16 GMT
I've recently upgraded our old NeXTStation to NextStep 3.3 and
have a small problem with the ethernet network: for some reason
the NeXT will not recognize any remote systems.
The Next is the only Next nearby and lives on a subnet
(***.math.ohiou.edu). It does recognize other unix machines
on this subnet, but will not recognize machines outside this
subnet (e.g., ***.cs.ohiou.edu) -- including the university
name server.
Tools like "ping" and "telnet" reply "Host is Unreachable" when
pointed at machines outside the local net. Conversely, machines
outside the local net cannot telnet to the Next.
No doubt I've done something wrong configuring the new machine.
Any ideas what?
Thanks very much for your help!
--Walter
_____________________________________________________________________________
Walter C3arlip **** carlip@ace.cs.ohiou.edu ****
(the "3" is silent) **** c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu ***
_____________________________________________________________________________
From: Simon Durrant <zack@silly.tau.ac.il>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Making a bootable disk
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 13:21:57 +0300
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91-heb-2.05.950530132113.5013A-100000@silly.tau.ac.il>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Return-Receipt-To: zack@silly.tau.ac.il
Does anyone know how to make a disk bootable, once all the software in
the root partition has been placed on the disk. In other words how do you
build the bootblock area in the disk partition, so that at booting the
kernel can be found on the disk.
Any help appreciated
SCD.
From: "Gurevich Vladimir A." <vag>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Urgen MST PPP question
Date: 29 May 1995 08:51:24 GMT
Organization: GlasNet
Message-ID: <3qc1uc$6o6@bird.glas.apc.org>
References: <3q7ruq$k34@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: alex_s@ix.netcom.com
alex_s@ix.netcom.com (alexander stewart ) wrote:
>
>anyone know how to configure MST
>PPP on a NEXTSTEP system to allow
>the client (remote) system to ftp,ping,www etc other
>systems on the network other than the
>PPP server. The connection to the PPP
>server is working great (POP,FTP, Ping etc),
>but I need to be able to reach other systems
>other than the PPP server.
>
>Any and all help is appreciated.
>
>Ian
>
>
Dear Ian,
I think that you should setup proper routing rather than MST (or any other
PPP).
You should make sure that both your remote clients and hosts on your LAN
have your PPP host set as their default router (actually the configuration
could be much more complex, this is the easiest one).
In this case your clients will be able to reach hosts on your LAN.
If you want more complex and flexible configuration, I would like to recommend
you running a routing daemon on your hosts. My choice is gated(8) available
from cornell.edu (as far as I remember). BTW, Morning Star recommends it also.
I will be happy to help you, if you have any further questions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Message-ID: <1995May27.223320.26128@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3q4glf$r0e@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 22:33:20 GMT
runge@gdl.msu.edu (Mike A Runge) wrote:
>Mike A Runge (runge@gdl.msu.edu) wrote:
>: I'm helping someone out with their NeXT, and I'm far from expert
>: when it comes to NeXT. It's a P5 running NS3.2 and she wants to
>: export a directory to an old cube running 2.0. I went into
>: /etc/hosts and set the directory to be shared like:
>oops. I meant to say /etc/exports
>: /directory/subdir -ro
>: I used -ro just to keep it simple and see if it would work. Then
>: I ran exportfs -a and looked at /etc/xtab. To my surprise, there
>: was nothing in xtab. Am I doing something wrong?
>: Michael Runge
>--
>Michael Runge
You should use NFSManager.app it is located at:
/NextAdmin
Hope that helps
Fabien
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From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: w and kmem
Message-ID: <1995May28.084926.27020@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3q5cnf$1ke@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 08:49:26 GMT
woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) wrote:
>I have several Next Stations operating in a domain. all but one of
the
>stations react correctly if I type "w" in a csh
>One of them gives the message "No kmem"
>I've checked that kmem is present, same protection, etc. What could
be
>causing theis behavior?
>- - - - - - - - -
>J. W. Wooten
w must be "set user id root"
root@free> ls -l /usr/ucb/w
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root 5884 Oct 19 1994 /usr/ucb/w*
^
Fabien
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Re: CSLIP-package
Message-ID: <D9BsJA.Ao1@ex-nihilo.com>
Sender: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: ex nihilo, inc.
References: <D93KDn.23q@nxcube.augusta.de>
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 05:57:10 GMT
In article <D93KDn.23q@nxcube.augusta.de> nxcube.augusta.de!olli (Oliver Nissen) writes:
> I'm looking for a CSLIP-package for the black hardware that supports
> NS 3.3. I'd be interested in getting information about commercial and
> free products. Maybe you can recommend a certain CSLIP-solution, which
> you probably tested yourself. If you think, you can help me, please
> drop me a line.
>
> Oliver Nissen
SLIP packages I know of:
1. Marble Teleconnect (commercial; not supported anymore- no CSLIP support)
2. TranSys SLIP (public/commercial; commercial version supports CSLIP)
3. Morningstar SLIP/PPP (commercial)
I could be wrong on some of the above details (if so, perhaps someone can expand?)
Although you've asked for CSLIP, maybe you can use PPP instead?
If so, you can grab the latest PPP (2.2; public) for NEXTSTEP by Stephen Perkins from the
official NEXTSTEP-PPP site:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Have fun.
---
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ad244@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Orrin C. Kerr)
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Message-ID: <D9E9M7.2rL@freenet.carleton.ca>
Sender: ad244@freenet3.carleton.ca (Orrin C. Kerr)
Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
References: <1995May27.223320.26128@free.fdn.org> <3q3b39$194k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3q4glf$r0e@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 14:01:19 GMT
Here's 2 cents more on the subject of mounting directories.
NFS Manager is the simplest way of exporting (and importing) directories.
There is a `gotcha' to watch out for.
Exporting directories is fairly straight forward. It is on the imports
that problems can arise (and I've been nailed a couple of times.)
When setting up the imports, in the NFS Mgr Import window, there are two
buttons on the bottom part of the window of particular concern. The one
that has the label "Mount file system in:" has two options: Background or
Foreground. The other button labelled "If server doesn't respond:" has
the choices Retry interruptably or Retry until it does or Return an error.
I have found that if you do not pick "Background" and "Retry
interruptably" and the server that the directory is mounted from is
offline, you will have the devil of a time getting the network up and
running.
In the hopes that this hint will help prevent LAN Manager's
Syndrome....
--
Orrin C. Kerr
ad244@freenet.carleton.ca
All opinions expressed are my own and not the responsibility of
my innocent employer (who shall remain nameless)(but it's gummint).
From: suzawa@suzawa.anatomy.emory.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: creating a boot disk?
Date: 30 May 1995 15:57:52 GMT
Organization: Emory University
Message-ID: <3qffa0$43c@moe.cc.emory.edu>
References: <jpanicoD9Awzt.Ew2@netcom.com>
Joe Panico (jpanico@netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi,
: I would like to create a bootable diskette for crash recovery on an NS 3.3
: Intel system. Using dump, I made a copy of the CD-ROM installation diskette,
: but regardless of what boot options I give it, in booting from the fd kernel,
: the boot insists on trying to reinstall NS. Thus, if the sd kernel was
: damaged and could not be booted from, I don't see how I could boot off
: the installation disk kernel, mount sd0 and go into single user mode (which is
: what I am trying to achieve). Have I missed an installation diskette
: option which allows this? Simpler-- does anyone have a recipe for creating
: a generic boot floppy , without the installation junk?
: Any suggestions (well almost any ;) welcome.
: Joe Panico
: jpanico@netcom.com
: --
: Joe Panico
: jpanico@netcom.com
Edit /private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table as follows.
Add your SCSI or IDE driver to
"Boot Drivers" = "......."
Adding Floppy here enables you to mount a floppy in single user mode without
using driverLoader command. Also delete Drivers which are not in your system.
Add your Active Drivers to
"Active Drivers" = ""
They can be found in your Instance0.table on hard drive.
Change Kernel Flags option as
"Kernel Flags" = "rootdev=sd0a"
Turn off Install Mode by editing
"Install Mode" = "No"
As the SCSI or IDE driver will be loaded in "Boot Drivers" option, delete
"Installation Driver Families" = "Disk SCSI"
"DRIVER_FAMILIES_1" = "SCSI"
"DRIVER_FAMILIES_2" = "SCSI Disk"
and change these lines
"Driver Disk Prompts" = "1"
"DRIVER_ASK_1" = "Yes"
Then add drivers to Device Driver Floppy which you specified in "Boot Drivers".
All of these chages can be override at boot: prompt so this floppy can be
used as a general boot floppy. I'm using this floppy to boot my Intel system
with 1024 bytes/secter drive as rootdev. Good luck.
Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@unix.cc.emory.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solaris and NEXTSTEP on same disk ?
Date: 30 May 1995 18:31:58 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qfoau$482@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
Has anyone tried to set up a dual boot SPARC machine yet ?
I'm facing this task next week and would like to hear of
any experiences made so far.
Detlev
--
Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Email:droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Message-ID: <1995May30.190106.16190@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <D9E9M7.2rL@freenet.carleton.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 19:01:06 GMT
In article <D9E9M7.2rL@freenet.carleton.ca> ad244@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
(Orrin C. Kerr) writes:
> When setting up the imports, in the NFS Mgr Import window, there are two
> buttons on the bottom part of the window of particular concern. The one
> that has the label "Mount file system in:" has two options: Background
or
> Foreground. The other button labelled "If server doesn't respond:" has
> the choices Retry interruptably or Retry until it does or Return an
error.
>
> I have found that if you do not pick "Background" and "Retry
> interruptably" and the server that the directory is mounted from is
> offline, you will have the devil of a time getting the network up and
> running.
I knew a NeXT "consultant" who always used to set up two machines mounting
off each other that way; it was almost imposible to reboot the network. I
think he did it deliberately, to get called back to 'rescue' his users.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help me! (uucp problems)
Date: 30 May 1995 18:25:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qfnv5$9pa@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
References: <3q6282$h8l@acmey.gatech.edu>
In article <3q6282$h8l@acmey.gatech.edu> tg2@prism.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj)
writes:
]
] I have been trying to get uucp to work from a Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.4
] and a NeXT cube running NS3.3. These are "thendral" and "malgudi"
] respectively. thendral or malgudi call isye (my server) which is a Sparc20
] running Sun OS 4.1.3.
]
] It appears that when either thendral or malgudi calls, isye fails to
] synchronize with the client. While I am not exactly a Unix guru, I have
] used uucp successfully for nearly ten years. However, I did not have to
] use it for almost 2.5 years since I have had SLIP/PPP. For reasons that
] are irrelevant, I will be unable to use PPP reliably for a few months
] (when I will get ISDN at home). Enough background.
]
] Can someone provide hints as to what I am doing wrong? My suspicion is
] that thendral and malgudi (both at home) are configured and behaving
] fine, but the problem is with isye (my server at school). We have set
] the right permissions in /etc/uucp/Permissions, or so we believe.
]
] I am appending the log when I use uucico. Any help will be greatly
] appreciated. Thank you very much.
]
[ scripts showing uucp connnection failure deleted ]
My guess is that your uucp account passwords are incorrect. The trouble is
that uucico does not understand that it has not successfully logged in, and so
it looks as though the failure occurs after the connection is made. Try
logging into these uucp accounts by hand, typing the passwords, etc. I bet you
will be refused. I have seen these exact messages before.
--
Douglas Scott | Senior Development Engineer
Tel: (805) 893-8352 | Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
Internet (NeXTMail ok): | University of California, Santa Barbara
<doug@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> | http://www.ccmrc.ucsb.edu/
From: guptaa@alleg.edu (ANI )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Pentium90 NS 3.3, DOS config query
Date: 30 May 1995 21:43:24 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qg3hs$rp@mustang.alleg.edu>
Hello all,
I am new to networking. I need to know how to get this information from my
machine which is an Intel Pentium 90, 16M RAM and 800+M HD, running NS3.3, with
a DOS partition. It has an EtherExpress 16C ethernet card at port 300, IRQ 11.
If anyone is familiar with this configuration please send me this info to my
account (I do not visit this newsgroup often.)
How do I find :
1. The name of the "packet driver" with the ethernet card?
2. The packet vector number (In Hex, like 0x <number>)?
3. The I/O number/address (Hex, same, 0x <number>)?
4. Name server IP address (For DNS searches)?
In case you didn't realize I am trying to set up Trumpet Winsock 2.0 to be able
to connect DOS to the network, which is a TCP/IP 56kps connection. If anyone
else has ever tried to do the same, for whatever reason, your help would be
invaluable.
Thanks.
-Ani.
guptaa@alleg.edu
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: HELP: printer on Sparc for NEXT
Date: 30 May 95 15:24:40
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95May30152440@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
I have an HP laserjet 4 attached to a sparc10/sunos4.1.3. Can I setup this
sparc to be a printing server for a NeXTSTEP/intel 3.3 system, though,
the sparc is configured as a standalone?
I created /etc/printcap on the NEXTSTEP and the remote printer on the
sparc is shown up at PrintManager.app. I have the host name of
nextstep/intel added in /etc/hosts.lpd for sparc. But, when I sent
out print job from NEXTSTEP and check the print queue on NEXTSTEP, it
always tells me
sparc: /usr/lib/lpd: Host name for your address (888.888.888.888)
(nextstep ip address) unknown
nextstep: Waiting for sparc to come up
Whose fault is it?
Thanks in advance,
zhao
From: dalia@puma.cat.syr.edu (Apurva F. Dalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Subnet - Networking problem !!
Date: 30 May 1995 22:35:12 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qg6j0$q9p@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi,
We have a network of NeXTs on our campus with IP addresses
beginning with 128.230.13. This is a class B network with
subnetting and IPNETMASK 255.255.255.0. Now we have got 2 new
NeXTs and these have been assigned IP addresses beginning with
128.230.161 ! My problem is how can I configure these machines
to work with the central NetInfo server (which has accounts
and software) and is on subnet 128.230.13. These
machines are on subnet 128.230.161 and hence they reside in multiple
segments ??
Thankyou in advance.
-apurva.
*********************************************************
Apurva F. Dalia Office:
dalia@cat.syr.edu Systems Administrator
dalia@math.syr.edu Mathematics Dept.
Grad. Student - CE Syracuse University,
Tel:(315)-443-1588 (o) 317A Carnegie,
FAX:(315)-443-1475 (o) Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
*********************************************************
URL: http://www.cat.syr.edu/~dalia
*********************************************************
--
Thankyou
-apurva.
dalia@cat.syr.edu
From: robe0149@gold.tc.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GDI For System Stats
Date: 30 May 1995 16:20:19 -0500
Organization: University of Minnesota
Message-ID: <robe0149.801868790@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Does anyone know abt a GDI that shows data related to system usage?
Something along the lines of X-Windows tool that shows a constantly
updated graph of system usages.
Plz reply to: mrdc@mrdc.lib.umn.edu
Joe Robertson
From: John Bartley <john>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 1887_3.3_Driver_Floppy.floppyimage
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 00:26:24 GMT
Organization: iCON, a service of St. Louis Internet Connections
Message-ID: <950529192624.1561AABoE.john@nimno>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I tried installing NS 3.3 on my Dell Pentium the other night and made it
only as far as a prompt for a "driver diskette." I don't remember getting
such a beast, but I suppose if I did, I lost it or simply don't recognize it
among the 472,000 other diskettes I have lying around in my junk heap
^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h office.
Anyway, I set about trying to reconstruct one and haven't been very
successful. I tried grabbing the floppy image from NeXT Answers but the
install complained and hung the machine. I then got the compressed file and
had exactly the same result. Tried the process a number of times, varying
the login, using different diskettes, etc. I came to the conclusion that
NeXT Quality Assurance must have been on vacation when those files were
created, because they seem to be poison. It looks like the Adaptec config
file that I need is missing (well, zero length actually and not a directory)
and install complained about the PS2keyboard driver not being linked and not
being a Mach-O file, whatever that means.
What irks me is that I get the right sum result, per the instructions, but
the files are not being laid down on the disk properly. I created the
diskette on my Turbo color and just the simple act of clicking on one of the
screwed up files in the file viewer would cause an immediate and spectacular
panic, culminating in hundreds of entries saying something along these
lines:
bad block -1, /3.3_Drivers: bad block
bad block -1, ino 70
I tried multiple floppies and got the same result, so I'm pretty sure this
is due to an error in the floppy image and not a physical defect in the
diskettes.
Any suggestions on what I could do to create a workable driver diskette that
would allow me to continue the installation?
John
From: cpayne@fiber.net (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Pentium90 NS 3.3, DOS config query
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:47:47
Organization: Fibernet means business!
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <cpayne.46.0015CC36@fiber.net>
References: <3qg3hs$rp@mustang.alleg.edu>
>In case you didn't realize I am trying to set up Trumpet Winsock 2.0 to be able
>to connect DOS to the network, which is a TCP/IP 56kps connection. If anyone
>else has ever tried to do the same, for whatever reason, your help would be
>invaluable.
Why would somebody want to do this?
Reminds me of the time my brother had to sell his Ferrari 264. The buyer said
he'd only buy a running car, not a non-running project. So, my bro popped in
a VW Type IV engine. He sold it because it ran, but...
I didn't understand my brother, either, so maybe it's a bad example...
Carl
From: m94dwa@albireo.tdb.uu.se (David Wallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ghostscript 3.33 with NS3.2
Date: 30 May 1995 19:16:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University, Sweden
Message-ID: <3qfquj$8kd@columba.udac.uu.se>
The other day I thought I should replace ghostscript 3.12 with version 3.33
on my NSFIP 3.2 system. I use it as a printer driver for my dot-matrix.
Now compiling it was a breeze, only problem, it doesn't work, at all.
Anybody had any success with it under NS or is it broken?
--david.
d94dwa@student.csd.uu.se
m94dwa@sttudent.tdb.uu.se
From: m94dwa@albireo.tdb.uu.se (David Wallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sz/rz with crash recovery
Date: 30 May 1995 19:21:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University, Sweden
Message-ID: <3qfr8n$k2h@columba.udac.uu.se>
Anybody know of a rz/sz package that have crash recovery AND compiles under
NSFIP 3.2 ? Currently I'm using 3.03 from 89, and I would really like something
better (newer)
--david.
d94dwa@student.csd.uu.se
m94dwa@student.tdb.uu.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: Preferences.app ignores *some* changes?
Message-ID: <D9FIEw.5M9@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <D9Bnru.A1u@eskimo.com> <RDL.95May30012838@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 06:08:56 GMT
Thanks for the feedback, Robert.
: 1. Look at the permissions and ownership of all files/subdirectories of
: /.NeXT:
: # ls -aglR /.NeXT
Everything belonged to root.wheel with one exception:
drwxrwxrwt 17 me other 1024 May 30 21:12 ../
This look very strange. I have no idea how it got this way. Could it
be that, after installing NS3.3, I defined a password for me before
defining a password for root?
: 2. While logged in as root, look at the defaults database using:
: # dread -l
Probably because of the above ownership, I end up with the following:
localhost:5# dread -l
dread: Can't open defaults database
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mount Peculiarities
Date: 31 May 1995 03:45:48 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3qgopc$o8k@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <D9BnKw.9I9@eskimo.com>
In article <D9BnKw.9I9@eskimo.com>, Marc Salvatori <salvo@eskimo.com> wrote:
>NS3.3 installed without incident. Three partitions, each about 2GB in
>size, are defined in fstab as follows:
>
>/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
>/dev/sd0b /me 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
>/dev/sd1a /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
>
>The /LocalApps mount has me concerned because it causes my system to
>undergo a considerable amount of I/O, even when I am doing nothing at
>the keyboard. If I change /LocalApps to something else, such as
>/Marc, the extraneous activity goes away.
>
>Can someone help me understand why this is so?
My guess is that /LocalApps is in your path. NS loves to search path's
for executable files and files types the apps function on. So when you
double click a .Mesa file it knows to launch Mesa (which may not be
on your doc for instance). Its run in background, but does slow things
down for a short (highly variable, YMMV) time when you log in.
/Marc isn't in the path enviormental and hence is not searched.
--
Jerry S. Weiss
j-weiss@nwu.edu
Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
%SYSTEM-S-PHALOKTARG, Phasers Locked on Target, Ready to Fire
From: ryanm@tech.atsg.yorku.ca (Ryan W. McRonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System abends overnight
Date: 31 May 1995 13:39:11 GMT
Organization: York University, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qhrhv$jh0@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca>
Lads,
My NeXT 3.3 for Intel system seems to hang quite frequently overnight.
What can I do to track down the source of this problem? I have removed
the httpd server which seemed to help a bit - hung quite frequently after
that was installed. I was also afraid it was the Power-Saving feature of
my PC which I have disabled and it still happens.
The only thing I have found so far is /usr/adm/messages:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
May 30 11:53 loginwindow[221]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss
0).
May 30 11:54 loginwindow[221]: creating new loginImage
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This seems to be the last thing that happens as it hangs?
Any suggestions for tracking errors??
Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jason@jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson)
Subject: INN 1.4 on NSFIP 3.2
Message-ID: <D9GAFI.4zC@jlc.net>
Organization: John Leslie Consulting
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:14:06 GMT
I'm having a bear of a time trying to get INN to work on this machine running
NSFIP 3.2. Does anybody have some preset config.data and other files, or point
to someplace where I could find some help on compiling and installing it?
Jason T. Nelson jason@jlc.net
http://www.jlc.net/Local/Jason.html NeXT/MIME mail ok!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Making a bootable disk
In-Reply-To: Simon Durrant's message of Tue, 30 May 1995 13:21:57 +0300
Message-ID: <RDL.95May31135245@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <Pine.SGI.3.91-heb-2.05.950530132113.5013A-100000@silly.tau.ac.il>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:52:45 GMT
You need to use the disk -b command.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: ckirsch@eng.clemson.edu (Chuck Kirschman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printer repair
Date: 31 May 1995 17:38:29 GMT
Organization: Clemson University College of Engineering
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qi9il$q3e@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Well, I've just become the proud administrator of a big black cube, about
which I know very little. I have it up and spinning, but all of my
manuals say "preliminary version" and are missing chapters (and probably
books). Online docs are equally sketchy. And the printer doesn't work.
So, starting with the simple questions, is there any place that can
fix the printer without hauling the cube over there? Our local guy
says stuff like "How do you turn it on?"
Next, is there a way to automatically empty eveyone's trash? Most of
my disk space is filled by NeXTtrash. I'd think mach should have some
sort of technique for this.
Finally, are real manuals actually available for this antique? It seems
like a great computer even by today's standards, but manuals for a 6 year
old box are not always easy to come by.
Thanks
chuck
---
Chuck Kirschman ckirsch@eng.clemson.edu
http://www.eng.clemson.edu/~ckirsch/
"I don't NEED to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway." - Calvin
From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: YPBIND BLUES...
Date: 31 May 1995 15:52:44 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Message-ID: <3qi3cc$9f3@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
my bootup gets me to a command prompt in multiuser mode. i am then
able to rlogin, telnet, and mount other non-NeXT boxes on our ethernet lan.
but when i do a ypwhich, it times out and fails. when i do a ypcat hosts, it
says it can't communicate with the portmapper, even though the portmapper,
ypbind and inetd were all started in rc during bootup. what gives?
if i do a "rpcinfo -p <mybox>" it says it can't communicate with the
portmapper. if i then start portmapper and try again, it says can't communicate with ypbind. if i start ypbind and try again, not only does the command not
return at all, but if i ^C out of it and do an ls, for example, it doesn't
return either. nothing behaves normally at this point until i kill ypbind.
From: mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (brendan mcdougall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: back-up
Date: 31 May 1995 15:58:41 GMT
Organization: Brandeis University
Message-ID: <3qi3nh$6qq@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
hi,
do you have a favorite back-up technique? what works well for black
hardware? i am actually interested in hearing about your experience with
hardware and pricing. do you have recommendations for dat, exabyte,
optical, and zip drives.
has anyone tried the 270M syquest drives for the macintosh with the NeXT
machines? how does "dump" handle running into a eot on these non-NeXT
devices? for example, if i used a zip drive with 100M floppym, what
happens at the end of the floppy? can dump spit out the floppy or am i
lost in a loop at this point because i can't swap new zip floppies?
then again there are the price/convenience issues as well. we have a 1G
hard disk, a 500M internal on a CUBE and whatever ???M is on the
NeXTStation internal harddrive. that's a lot of zip media as opposed to
one dat tape.
thanks alot for your advice,
brendan mcdougall
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From: R. BENCE <drblackrock@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Routing problems with 3.2 Turbo :o(
Date: Tue, 30 May 95 19:37:58 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
Message-ID: <pcy8EJW.drblackrock@delphi.com>
References: <Zy+-0TJ.drblackrock@delphi.com>
BTW - the router is a cisco 2501. Nothing special in the config.
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app Images for People not in Netinfo
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 30 May 1995 23:33:55 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95May30193355@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <D9Enr2.Bt8@seas.ucla.edu>
In-reply-to: scott@ee.ucla.edu's message of Tue, 30 May 1995 19:06:37 GMT
<scott@ee.ucla.edu> writes:
>I saw a post last week to one of the NeXT newsgroups about this question
>but I never saw any replies.
>Q: How do you assign images (used by Mail.app) to people who do not have
> accounts in the netinfo? i.e., Mail.app recognizes user 'scott', but not
> scott@foobar.ee.ucla.edu.
>If the answer was posted and I missed it, could some please email it (them)
>to me.
>Thanks,
As long as /LocalLibrary/Images/People/{aliases,passwd} are there,
you'll see the correct thing in Mail.app. I configure ours using a
script which generates the passwd file based on the contents of the
directory. So, an image called joe.user.tiff would create an entry:
joe.user:*:-1:-1:::/bin/true
Now, in the aliases file I write in by hand all the places joe.user
sends email from:
joe.user@joe.com:joe.user
joe.user@joes.old.edu:joe.user
joe.loser@aol.com:joe.user
Note that mailDBUpdate (or whatever) normally plays with these files
based on the contents of netinfo, I think.
- db
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From: james@emerald.netrix.net (James R. Pooton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel machine crashing every day or two?
Date: 31 May 1995 16:49:29 GMT
Organization: Netrix Internet System Design, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qi6mp$bs@ruby.netrix.net>
We now have 4 machines running NeXTStep here (3 Intel, 1 Motorola). One of
which (an Intel Penitium 100) seems to have two problems:
1) Its real time clock (date & time) jump ahead every so often.
2) It seems to completely hang up and crash out of the blue every
couple of days.
Basic config: Penium 100, Adaptec 2940, AMD PCNet 32, Diamond Stealth 64
2VRAM, Sound Blaster 16
I remeber someone posting something about another Intel box crashing quite
often, and then getting cured... (maybe just a dream :-( )
Anyway, I have another motherboard being set out, but I was just wondering
if anyone else has any suggestions.
Thanks
--
James Pooton
james@netrix.net
(NeXTmail, MIME)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: woden@asgard.csuohio.edu (A. P. Santilli)
Subject: ppp server under NS 3.3 Intel
Message-ID: <1995May31.184722.29825@news.csuohio.edu>
Keywords: ppp
Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Cleveland State University
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 18:47:22 GMT
Hello All !
I am trying to use the PPP2.2 package (v 0.1.9) to set up a ppp dial-up on
my NS 3.3 Intel workstation (Dell Optiplex)...
Anyone do this yet ?????
The PPP2.2 package seems to work pretty good, I have been able to use it
on both black and white hardware under NS 3.3 to call into our campus
service (Xylogics Annex Servers), but have been unable to set up a ppp
connection dialing from my home machine (classic black w/NS 3.3) or my
laptop (NEC Versa w/MSWIN and FTP's PCTCP v3.1) to my work machine (the
aforementioned Dell Optiplex w/NS 3.3).
I have been able to dial into the Dell and login to my regular account,
but unable to login and get ppp started.
The following is a list of the actions that I have taken and modifications
that have been made to standard files:
1) I modified /etc/gettytab, adding with following line
m|D19200|Fast-Dial-19200:\
:nx=9600:tc=19200-baud:
2) I modified /etc/ttys
ttyfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on secure
3) I customized the "pppup.remote" included in the distibution,
4) I created a group "ppp"
5) I created a user "ppp" with the default group ppp and "pppup.remote" as
the shell
6) I replaced the ifconfig statement in the rc.local with the one
suggested in the ppp faq
"arp -s othermachinesipaddress myownethernetaddress permanent public
ifconfig pppNUMBER myipaddress othermachinesipaddress [other params] up"
7) I modified the "routed" setup in the rc from -q (quiet option) to -g
(gateway option) - I use this on my home machine to connect my laptop
through my old cube to the campus network.
and it didn't work... so
8) I tried to comment out the "arp -s othermachinesipaddress
myownethernetaddress permanent public" line that I added to the rc.local
(not knowing if the NeXT would handle arp).
9) I moved the ttyfa entry made in the /etc/gettytab to ttyfb, ttydfa, and
ttydfb... trying both references to D19200 and the std.19200
and every concievable combination of the above =:0
The modem answers fine, and if I use a regular terminal program I am able
to login to my normal user account with absolutely no difficulty (as I
said before)... If I try to login as ppp (to start off the pppd with my
pppup.remote shell) the login process locks up after asking for a
password, and the whole thing hangs until the login process times out (5
minutes later).
I think that my problem is in this "pppup.remote" shelll I am trying to
use, but haven't the foggiest notion of where to look next (having
exhausted myself on the man pages, faq, readme's etc).
Is there is something that I am missing here or are the NS 3.3 drivers so
bad that I can't use my Dell as a ppp server ??????
If anyone has had success with this, or from the provided information sees
a mistake I made, or understands what I am trying to do here and feels
inclined to give me a hand PLEASE DROP ME A LINE !!!!!
they say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and mine is going to be
totally wasted if I can't figure out if this is possible and what I am
doing wrong.
Thanks (in advance)
--
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woden@asgard.csuohio.edu * NeXTMAIL/MIME * woden@max.net23.csuohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: HELP -- Proper way to mount extra SCSI disks and NFS export them
Message-ID: <1995May30.154709.13701@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:47:09 GMT
I have two external disks. One has LocalLibrary and Users, the other has
a directory that I want to NFS mount under LocalLibrary.
What is the most proper method to do this. Right now I have them mounted
as /External and /External/Localibrary/mydirectory respectively.
I then export /External/LocalLibrary
/External/Users
/External/LocalLibrary/mydirectory
to the net and mount them at
/LocalLibrary
/Users
/LocalLibrary/mydirectory
My problem is that I do not think that this the correct way to do it. I
get an NFS error accasionally, and have a very difficult time getting a
SafetyNet backup. Let me know your experiences, or point me to some good
documentation.
Thanks
Wes
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From: steffens@pumba.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Stefan Steffens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/PA-RISC Ethernet Performance
Date: 31 May 1995 07:57:57 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <3qh7i5$jcr@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
After installing NEXTSTEP3.3 on a HP 712/80 I've just noticed bad network
performance. Analysis with a network sniffer (from Network General) showed
a NFS transfer rate of 32 kB/s with a delay of 2s between two following
requests. I'v used the default params for nfs mounts (rsize, wsize, timeo).
When doing a rlogin/telnet to another machine character echo is only
displayed after a rather long delay (.5s) i.e. typing feels more like a
slow modem connection than like an ethernet.
Ftp transfers of large files give a transfer rate of more than 750 Kb/s
which is ok.
When I boot the same machine under HP-UX I don't see any of the performance
degradation I see under NEXTSTEP. As we have 5 additional workstations and
X-Terminals connected via the same ethenet cable in my office it can't be
a physical problem with the ethernet.
Thanks for any help
Stefan Steffens
Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: petergun@coffeehaus.com (Stephane I. Matis)
Subject: Trying to setup *rsh*
Message-ID: <D9GGx5.BpC@coffeehaus.com>
Organization: >> coffeehaus << " We percolate great ideas. "
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 18:34:17 GMT
I need some quick pointers.
I tried to use 'rsh' and gnutar, so that I could backup using another
machine. So far, I haven't had any success in cofiguring, as all I get is
"Premission Denied".
I need pointers for NeXT and standard Unix setups ... as I'll use a Linux or
SunOS box for the 'rsh' service.
Pointers to net based docs would great too ...
Thanks,
Steph
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Subnet - Networking problem !!
In-Reply-To: dalia@puma.cat.syr.edu's message of 30 May 1995 22:35:12 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun1011625@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3qg6j0$q9p@newstand.syr.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 05:16:25 GMT
Apurva,
You need a configuration server for each subnet. Make one of them the master
and the rest clones.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: gdunn@math.ucr.edu (greg dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: MST PPP and NextStep 3.3
Date: 31 May 1995 19:41:32 -0700
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <3qj9cs$t1u@math.ucr.edu>
Summary: netinfo- what to do?
Keywords: PPP NextStep 3.3 NetBlazer netinfo
Hi all-
I'm using a laptop running Nextstep 3.3 and Morningstar's ppp
to dial into a Telebit Netblazer. The Netblazer has a dynamic
ppp login which I'm able to login with no problem. Once I set
up routing on the laptop (Netblazer as default gateway) I'm able
to see everything on my WAN.
I know I've got to rebind netinfo to my server through the netblazer
now, but I don't know what steps to take. Could some kind soul
point me in the right direction? I've searched NextAnswers and
couldn't find anything detailed on ppp connections.
Thanks!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Greg. gdunn@ucrmath.ucr.edu * * * * * gdunn@costamesa.bozell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: how to tell is anyone is logged on?
In-Reply-To: fms@chemelex.com's message of Wed, 31 May 1995 00:16:10 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun1004715@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D9F22z.EL5@chemelex.com>
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 04:47:15 GMT
There is a UNIX command that does exactly what you want. It's called
"shutdown" Type "man shutdown" for instructions.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
HTI
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
s on the system without
shutting it down.
Robert La Ferla
HTI
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: how to tell is anyone is logged on?
Message-ID: <D9F22z.EL5@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 00:16:10 GMT
Hi all, now that I have a few remote users and nntp on my
machine, how do I tell if anyone is active on the system?
Occasionally, I want to power down or reboot the system and I'd
like to warn anyone online, but not waste my time if no one is
online...
Any slick unix commands for this? Well, maybe not slick
but does the job?
Regards, Fred
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: petergun@coffeehaus.com (Stephane I. Matis)
Subject: (GNU)Tar
Message-ID: <D9H61D.Eqv@coffeehaus.com>
Organization: >> coffeehaus << " We percolate great ideas. "
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 03:36:48 GMT
I have a technical question.
I used gnutar on my NeXT running 3.2 to backup onto my Archive (Conner)
Python DDS-2 compatible tape drive. Now I tried to read the tapes under
Linux, using the same tape drive.
I get :
tar: read error on /dev/nst0: I/O error
My question is, if a 'dd if=/dev/nst0 conw=swab | tar xf -' gives the same
results, what is going on ?
Is it a block size problem ? If so, what is the blocking difference ?
Sigh ...
HELP!
Thanks.
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R-name : Stephane I. Matis
E-mail : petergun@coffeehaus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: Help me! (uucp problems)
Message-ID: <gergD9HABH.8x5@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3q6282$h8l@acmey.gatech.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 05:09:17 GMT
Sender: gerg@netcom22.netcom.com
tg2@prism.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) writes:
>
>^JATDP1234567^M^M^JCONNECTgot it
>getto ret 8
>expect: (in:)
> 38400^M^J^M^Jisye login:got it
>sendthem (Uthendra^M)
>expect: (word:)
> Uthendra^M^JPassword:got it
>sendthem (mypassword^M)
>imsg >Login timed out after 60 seconds^M^J^M^JNO CARRIER^M^JLOGIN FAILED -
>failed
>exit code 101
>Conversation Complete: Status FAILED
>
Notice the message received after the password was sent:
Login timed out after 60 seconds
Followed by the modem's disconnect message.
What would make a Unix machine issue that message? Because the
login process wasn't completed. But your machine sent the
password and the carriage return afterward? So the Unix machine
acted as if you didn't send the carriage return.
What would make a Unix machine fail to detect a carriage return?
Parity.
The answering machine is almost certainly using 7 data bits and
even parity, but your calling machine is using 8 data bits and
no parity. When your calling machine sends the carriage return,
the parity mismatch causes the answering machine to not recognize
the keystroke. On many systems that default to 7E1, the tty driver
*throws those characters away*, so the getty process never even
sees them.
You have a choice:
1. Make the calling machine use the same parity as the answering
machine during the login process (probably 7E1).
2. Make the answering machine use 8N1 when it answers the phone.
#2 is the better option, though it's usually a little harder to do.
It's better because eventually you'll have other uucp machines trying
to dial in, or someone else trying to log in for file transfers,
and the 7E1 default will cause trouble for them, too.
-Greg
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From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Am I just seeing double?
Date: 31 May 1995 23:46:17 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3qjnnp$f2@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: Why does it seem like there are two of me?
Keywords: double user info?
If someone could please elucidate why it seems like there are two of me on my standalone machine. See below:
scf> who
reichman console May 31 18:51
reichman ttyp1 May 31 19:42
scf> w
11:43pm up 5:06, 2 users, load average: 0.47, 0.35, 0.64
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
reichman console 6:51pm201days -
reichman ttyp1 7:42pm 1 -csh
scf> users
reichman reichman
scf> finger reichman
Login name: fey In real life: Fey Manuela Reichman
Directory: /Users/fey Shell: /bin/csh
Never logged in.
Plan:
This .plan file has not been set up by its owner yet. He or she might
want to do something like this:
Work: <phone number>
Home: <phone number optional>
Office Location:
Basic schedule: <hours or days at work>
Then again, variety is the spice of life.
Login name: reichman In real life: Matthew N. Reichman
Directory: /Users/reichman Shell: /bin/csh
On since May 31 18:51:40 on console 200 days Idle Time
Plan:
A dream within a dream within a dream.
Login name: reichman In real life: Matthew N. Reichman
Directory: /Users/reichman Shell: /bin/csh
On since May 31 19:42:45 on ttyp1
Plan:
A dream within a dream within a dream.
----------------------------------------------------
Thanks very much in advance,
Matthew
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From: wenzel@w2.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN 1.4 on NSFIP 3.2
Date: 1 Jun 1995 09:50:45 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3qk2hl$rn7@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <D9GAFI.4zC@jlc.net>
Jason T. Nelson (jason@jlc.net) wrote:
> I'm having a bear of a time trying to get INN to work on this machine running
> NSFIP 3.2. Does anybody have some preset config.data and other files, or point
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/next/Sources/INN-1.4.*
Have fun,
Markus.
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 and PNI
Date: 1 Jun 1995 02:39:37 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3qj999$lf8@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <3pvqmr$j14@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: PNI NS3.3 NetInfo
In article <3pvqmr$j14@nntp5.u.washington.edu>,
Peter Beerli <beerli@evolution.genetics.washington.edu> wrote:
>Hi netters, there was a similar post which I just remember,
>but I have lost it, concerning problems with PNI and NS3.3:
>I have also problems but they seem
>not quite the same:
>I installed PNI 1.13, I changed all necessary scripts and hooked to the net,
>the installation was tedious, but finally my slip connection was OK,
>but doing the following sequence produced a strange result to me:
>pni0_startup , slipping (rlogin, ftp, www-browsing worked fine), pni0_shutdown,
>,.. something else done locally..., pni0_startup -> ERROR: portmapper couldn't
> connect/find port -> no connection, after a system restart I can do exactly
>one slip-connection, using somethin like pni1 failed because I didn't manage
>to talk to the net (ifconfig problem?),
Don't drive yourself crazy. There's a simple fix.
>=== errorInfo
>> cmdregister: cannot register with portmapper
>> "if {$i>0} {
>> cmdregister $i
>> }"
Bug in pni under 3.3. To make a long story short,
just comment out the cmdregister line above. It
works the first, but not the second attempt. Its only needed
to use pnistat to shutdown things neatly. I use
kill -HUP processnumber under a shell as temporary
substitute.
--
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From: 1hschulz@rzdspc42.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Heiko Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I just seeing double?
Date: 1 Jun 1995 13:29:01 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Message-ID: <3qkfat$csg@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <3qjnnp$f2@phakt.usc.edu>
Matthew Nathaniel Reichman (reichman@phakt.usc.edu) wrote:
: If someone could please elucidate why it seems like there are two of me on my standalone machine. See below:
: scf> who
: reichman console May 31 18:51
: reichman ttyp1 May 31 19:42
Well first guess is that console is your WorkspaceManager and on ttyp1
runs Terminal.app with your shell.
Try this:
- login Workspace
- start Terminal.app
- quit Terminal
- start Treminal again
- in Terminal execute the 'last' command
Bye, Heiko
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EMail> 1hschulz@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (ASCII only)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Quick CD-ROM Questions
Message-ID: <D9Etuw.94r@waldo.com>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 21:18:31 GMT
I've got an NEC 3Xp (the portable one that looks like a DiscMan) and I'm get-
ting a little frustrated with the way, when I log out, the disc "ejects". Of
course, on a portable CD-ROM, there is no mechanical eject, so the disc just
stays in the player, unrecognized.
Thus, I have two questions:
1) What is the command to mount the CD-ROM drive, from the command-line?
2) Is there a file, like .cshrc, which gets executed everytime Workspace
Manager starts? That way, I could mount the CD-ROM on startup.
Thanks for any help.
Matt
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From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Subnet - Networking problem !!
Date: 1 Jun 1995 22:38:55 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Message-ID: <3qlfhv$a7j@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <3qg6j0$q9p@newstand.syr.edu> <RDL.95Jun1011625@world.std.com>
In article <RDL.95Jun1011625@world.std.com>,
Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote:
>Apurva,
>
>You need a configuration server for each subnet. Make one of them the master
>and the rest clones.
>
>Robert La Ferla
>Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
>+ 1 (617) 252-0088
That's the best solution. If you cannot/do not want to do that you
can help the remote subnets find the master server. Someone
from Next posted a rather nice description of the solution a few
weeks ago. Unfortunately I did not save it. Basically you need to
do two things:
1) Under netinfo for the master server (ie: /) edit the property
trusted_networks to include the stub address for the remote subnet
ie: 192.105.225 for remote NeXT's on 192.105.226.xxx
a niutil -read / / should look something like this when done
master: hostnameofmaster/master
trusted_networks: 192.105.225 subnet2 subnet3 (for however many you need).
2) Under netinfo for the remote machines local domain add some the
following properties and values to /machine under the new folder
broadcasthost (I usually duplicate broadcasthost and rename things)
niutil -read /remotehostname /machines/remote_broadcasthost should
resemble the following when done.
name: remote_broadcasthost
ip_address: [ip address or subnet of master server]
serves: ../network
I home this helps.
--
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From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Out Of Memory - Message
Date: 1 Jun 1995 12:27:33 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Message-ID: <3qkbnl$674@fu-berlin.de>
Hi!
The NSFIP_3.3-Boot-Loader brings up after sizing the memory
the following error-message:
Out of Memory
and stops ...
What is wrong with this Machine ( 486dx66 / 16MB ) ?
BTW: 3.2 runs fine !!?
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exporting directory...
Date: 31 May 1995 07:58:16 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qh7io$5b7@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <1995May30.190106.16190@seer.demon.co.uk>
If machines A and B does cross-mounting and the mounts are Foreground, you
can do the following:
Boot A, it will wait for B
Boot B, it will wait for A
Ctlr-C on B, it now completes booting and A mounts from B
Reboot B, A is now running and B can do mounts from A
The best strategy is, of course, to Background such mounts.
Geert
Paul Lynch writes
> In article <D9E9M7.2rL@freenet.carleton.ca> ad244@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
> (Orrin C. Kerr) writes:
> > When setting up the imports, in the NFS Mgr Import window, there are
two
> > buttons on the bottom part of the window of particular concern. The
one
> > that has the label "Mount file system in:" has two options: Background
> or
> > Foreground. The other button labelled "If server doesn't respond:"
has
> > the choices Retry interruptably or Retry until it does or Return an
> error.
> >
> > I have found that if you do not pick "Background" and "Retry
> > interruptably" and the server that the directory is mounted from is
> > offline, you will have the devil of a time getting the network up and
> > running.
>
> I knew a NeXT "consultant" who always used to set up two machines
mounting
> off each other that way; it was almost imposible to reboot the network.
I
> think he did it deliberately, to get called back to 'rescue' his users.
>
> Paul
> --
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> Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
> Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
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From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy Lee)
Subject: Re: Intel machine crashing every day or two?
Message-ID: <andyleeD9IvBD.8wA@netcom.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3qi6mp$bs@ruby.netrix.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 01:40:25 GMT
Sender: andylee@netcom14.netcom.com
James R. Pooton (james@emerald.netrix.net) wrote:
> We now have 4 machines running NeXTStep here (3 Intel, 1 Motorola). One of
> which (an Intel Penitium 100) seems to have two problems:
> 1) Its real time clock (date & time) jump ahead every so often.
> 2) It seems to completely hang up and crash out of the blue every
> couple of days.
> Basic config: Penium 100, Adaptec 2940, AMD PCNet 32, Diamond Stealth 64
> 2VRAM, Sound Blaster 16
> I remeber someone posting something about another Intel box crashing quite
> often, and then getting cured... (maybe just a dream :-( )
I posted recently about my Pentium-90 crashing daily. The problem
turned out to be the SoundBlaster driver from the 3.x CD-ROM. I
replaced it with the most recent version (3.32) found in NeXTanswers
and the machine hasn't crashed since. This might be your problem as
well... also check other drivers in your system for updates.
I can't help you with the first problem though. Perhaps the battery
on your motherboard needs a replacement.
From: zeno@news.abstractsoft.com (Sean T. Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What's the maximum addressable size of the black SCSI controller?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 1 Jun 1995 02:44:28 -0700
Organization: Abstract Software
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3qk25s$5dk@zebu.serv.net>
I'm trying to chase down a problem I'm having. I've just got
a micropolis 1936 disk (3600, formats to ~3000). I'm not too sure if this
is a problem with limitations of the software, the controller or the disk,
but these are the symptoms:
* Newfs fails with the info retrieved from the disk.l
* Newfs succeeds using a lesser number of sectors than the full disk.
* The cutoff point is ~209710 sectors (2147MB - sound like a familiar size?)
* Partitioning the disk into a 2.1M disk and an 800K disk on sd4a and sd4b
works like a charm.
Can anyone shed some light on this Problem?
Thanks.
Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet)
Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development
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From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Edit.app does not recognize its "own" files
Message-ID: <1995May31.202524.44906@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 31 May 95 20:25:24 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
Hello,
I have a problem with Edit.app. On one account I can not double click
a (text) file nor open it with the shell command open -a Edit filename.
Error message from open:
nausikaa> open /tmp/t.txt
open: unable to open file: /tmp/t.txt
nausikaa> open -a Edit /tmp/t.txt
open: can't open connection to Edit on local host.
When I use the Tools Inspector (Workspace) Editt.app does not recognize
files I even have created with it a second ago.
On all other accounts there are no such problems. Im running NS 3.2 on
NeXT-HW.
bye Markus Wildi
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help me! (uucp problems)
Date: 1 Jun 1995 14:15:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qki1o$6qr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <gergD9HABH.8x5@netcom.com>
In article <gergD9HABH.8x5@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
writes:
> tg2@prism.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) writes:
> >
> >^JATDP1234567^M^M^JCONNECTgot it
> >getto ret 8
> >expect: (in:)
> > 38400^M^J^M^Jisye login:got it
> >sendthem (Uthendra^M)
> >expect: (word:)
> > Uthendra^M^JPassword:got it
> >sendthem (mypassword^M)
> >imsg >Login timed out after 60 seconds^M^J^M^JNO CARRIER^M^JLOGIN
FAILED -
> >failed
> >exit code 101
> >Conversation Complete: Status FAILED
> >
>
> Notice the message received after the password was sent:
>
> Login timed out after 60 seconds
>
> Followed by the modem's disconnect message.
>
> What would make a Unix machine issue that message? Because the
> login process wasn't completed. But your machine sent the
> password and the carriage return afterward? So the Unix machine
> acted as if you didn't send the carriage return.
>
> What would make a Unix machine fail to detect a carriage return?
>
> Parity.
>
Or in my case, my machine sends the password before the remote machine
is apparently ready to receive it even though it has sent the "password:"
prompt, so it acts like it never received the password. Wierd as this
might seem, simply prepending a delay to the returned password string
fixed the problem.
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From: nkawai@postman.riken.go.jp (Nobuyuki Kawai)
Subject: NS/Sparc with SUN OS disk
Message-ID: <NKAWAI.95Jun2135752@postman.riken.go.jp>
Sender: news@postman.riken.go.jp (News Administrator)
Organization: Institute of Physical & Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama,Japan
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 04:57:51 GMT
I have a Sun Workstation (SS 5) running SUN OS 4.1.4 on the two
internal disks. I would like to run NEXTSTEP on this SS5, but I would
also like to keep the two internal disk untouched so that I can boot
this machine with the SUN OS at occasions.
Can I install the NS/Sparc on a external disk, and keep the two
internal SUN-OS disks untouched while using NS?
I would appreciate if you could show me how to install NS for such a case.
Thank you for your advice.
Nobu
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From: jake@haydn.physics.mcgill.ca (Jason Breckenridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating boot drive
Date: 1 Jun 1995 20:35:44 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3ql8b0$hn9@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Keywords: swap space, builddisk, swapdrive
Hello everyone,
I plan to build a new, larger (much larger) boot drive
for my mono station running NS 2.1 . This is easily
done with the buildisk application. However, I wish
to allocate a larger space for swap than the 16 MB which
is the current norm in the /etc/BLD.* scripts.
First, can I just change the number from 16 to, say, 64?
Second, will this make a difference, ie is swapping
performance any better if this is done?
Third, how can one configure a second drive as a
dedicated swap drive on 2.1 systems, and will
this move result in better swap performance?
Thank you very much in advance.
jake
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sb6fcb@sb601 (Francois Bourgeois)
Subject: Mail on NEXT in non-NEXT Unix environment
Message-ID: <D9Jp5x.EFJ@rivm.nl>
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, Bilthoven, NL
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 12:25:09 GMT
I have a question about configuring e-mail on a (Intel) NEXT
machine in a (non-NEXT) UNIX environment.
Until recently I had the following situation:
Company <---> Department <----> Terminal emul.
mailserver Unix mach. in MS-Windows
Now I want one of the following (A or B):
A.
Company <---> Department <----> NEXT machine
mailserver Unix mach. (via sendmail)
B.
Company <---> NEXT machine
mailserver (via sendmail)
For the near future I prefer situation A. because the NEXT
machine will not always be up, whereas the Department Unix
machine will.
I configured my NEXT machine as a "subsidiary" machine, that
is, I have defined the file /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf
in the Netinfo database.
I am not able to create the situation A. I cannot make my NEXT
machine send to the Dept-Unix, although I have tried several
things such as:
- in Netinfo, directory /locations/sendmail, set mailhost
to Dept-Unix
- edit the sendmail.subsidiary.cf so that in the lines
"DRmailhost" and "CRmailhost" 'mailhost' is replaced by
Dept-Unix
My NEXT machine keeps sending to the Company mailserver, which
has i.a. the aliases: 'mailhost', 'mail' and 'smtp'
I am also not able to create situation B. The Company mailserver
answers with a message:
>>>MAIL From:<sb6fb@sb636>
<<<550 Unknown domain 'sb636'
(sb636 is my hostname). The Company mailserver _is_able_ to
send _to_ my machine, si seems to know about my machine sb636.
I have tried to solve this problem by uncommenting the second
of the following lines in the
sendmail.cf file:
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
#Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
or by modifiyng it to:
Dj$w$m
and by adding the following line to the sendmail.cf file
Dmrivm.nl
But this does not help.
Who can help? Must I modify something in Netinfo ?
What items in Netinfo does sendmail retrieve?
And: the variables in the sendmail.cf files (like 'mailhost'),
are they taken by sendmail 'as such' or are they looked up
in the Netinfo database and are the Values in Netinfo taken?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Primary File System Ownership Is Me?
Message-ID: <D9J9x6.D4s@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 06:55:53 GMT
In my primary file system, / is owned by me.other. How could this be?
And how do I correct it to root.wheel?
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP connection management
Date: 2 Jun 1995 15:01:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qn945$r0u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
I've completed the installation of ppp2.2 under NS 3.3 black. I've
opened a PPP account from a local Internet provider and am able to
establish a PPP connection manually using TipTop.
However, GateKeeper and PPPMeter seem to offer a superior means of PPP
connection management - if I could only figure out how to use them (I'm
sure this is my fault, not the authors' - thanks for your efforts, guys).
My problem may be related to the fact that I compiled PPP to use
/usr/local/etc/ppp as it's ETCDIR instead of the default /etc/ppp (that's
where NeXT-supplied, not locally-supplied, stuff should go, IMHO).
GateKeeper seems to have hardcoded /etc/ppp as the PPP directory and I
wonder whether PPPMeter may have done something similar.
If GateKeeper's usable with /usr/local/etc/ppp, what should be there?
I'm confused by the reference to a ".Gate" file package which seems to be
optional. I included the pppup.zyxel example included with the ppp2.2
release, but it includes so many modem commands that it's quite slow to
dial. And when it finally tries to dial, the modem brings the phone line
off-hook and then immediately hangs up without dialing. Removing all the
modem configuration commands doesn't change this behavior. NXFax
configures the modem, so are any of these configuration commands
necessary?
Then there's the ppp log file created by GateKeeper. Ever tried to
view a FIFO in your favorite editor? Don't :-) Is using this FIFO log
more or less convenient than using a standard log file?
PPPMeter seems to get a little farther. It dials and connects, but
then nothing else happens. The modem indicates that packets are being
received from the remote PPP, but the local pppd doesn't seem to respond.
What should be in PPPMeter's "connect" script? Mine is just a shell
script containing "pppd" as the only command (I assume all the pppd
options can be recorded in the "options" file).
Which do you use and why?
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From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS app to play on an IPX network?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 18:03:30 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3qnjpi$j5g@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
I'm helping to tie a cluster of NeXT's (Intel H/W) into a campus network
that presently uses IPX for all machines to tie into a FireFox (which
then talks to a Cisco to go "downtown").
Politics say that we shouldn't disturb the people in charge of the Cisco
and most preferable we shouldn't even distrub the FireFox admin folk.
The setup is intended for anyone to just hang an IBM on the 10Base-T line
to their desk, and things are happy.
Is there an app available that will let a NeXT cluster (networked with
ethernet, but using IP I trust) work with this system? I would expect that
we would not want the NeXT cluster to all share the 10Base-T line to the
local hub (in the phone closet on that floor:), but would want the server
for the cluster to also be a gateway to the campus line.
Is it workable to just add a second ethernet card to the server (being as
it's white hardware)? Is there an app that'll gateway over a second
etherport using IPX in lieu of IP?
Any help or pointers to information would be appreciated. Especially, any
word from people actually running this sort of mixed setup would be good
(even if only a "we do it but I don't know how", to let me know it's a
feasible thing;).
Thanks-
tec
From: james@emerald.netrix.net (James R. Pooton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 22:39:50 GMT
Organization: Netrix Internet System Design, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net>
Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
NeXTstep? (basically I want to automatically send a piece of mail back to
anyone sending a piece of e-mail to foo@netrix.net)
Any help, pointers, or compined binaries :-) would be great !!
Thanks in advance..........
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From: mcarling@rahul.net (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: back-up
Date: 2 Jun 1995 23:33:35 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3qo74f$rna@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <3qi3nh$6qq@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
In article <3qi3nh$6qq@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (brendan mcdougall) writes:
> hi,
>
> do you have a favorite back-up technique?
I was the system administrator for NeXTWORLD magazine, so I saw most of
what was available for NEXTSTEP. My preferred solution is SafetyNet
(info@systemix.com) and an HP DAT drive.
M Carling
From: rollie@next.com (Matt Rollefson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo across subnets?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 17:42:37 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3qniid$17g@news.next.com>
References: <3ptl1h$961@ecl.wustl.edu>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin mrb@earth.wustl.edu (Mike Bray) writes:
>I have a single netinfo server in one subnet. I want a machine in
>a different subnet to be able to be a client just as if it were in the
>local subnet to the server. How do I do this?
What you should really do is make that machine a clone. But, if you
want to do it the other way, read on.
>I have hostname and IP address, etc. configured on the client machine,
>so I don't need a broadcast-based boot server... But I never paid
>attention to netinfo - how does a client find a server? Broadcast
>requests? Can a specific IP be specified instead for the server?
A netinfod server finds its parent by checking for a subdirectory of
/machines with a serves property of ../foo. It then sends a bind
request to the ip address of the machine with the ../foo serves
property. All local domains are configured out of the box with a
/machines/broadcasthost, serves property ../network, ip address
255.255.255.255. Thus netinfod local tries to bind to netinfod network
by sending out a local broadcast request. If you want netinfod local
to try to bind to a specific ip address, you should create
/machines/servername, give it the correct ip address, and give it a
serves property of ../network. This should take care of your problem.
Matt Rollefson (Rollie)
NEXTSTEP Training
Disclaimer: You know the drill.
From: jq@phcs.phcs.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Print Shortcut for non-NeXT printers
Date: 26 May 1995 08:06:14 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <3q4g7m$3v8@papoose.quick.com>
References: <D91vMz.2KK@trapac.com>
In article <D91vMz.2KK@trapac.com>, Karl Kraft <karl@trapac.com> wrote:
(munch)
>another 4 minutes. We do a lot of printing with this particular
>MCCA, and when we need to print, we need to print ASAP, so that a
>runner can take the paper to a different building.
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but why not just install a printer
in the other building?
A number of WAN or LAN options are available depending on price
performance, and distance constraints. Thick net bridge between
the buildings, fiber optic, PPP/SLIP on a dedicated pair of modems
leased line (56KB), ISDN, RF links.
The savings in labor cost (for the runner) and a reduction in
lag time for the recipient should enable you to justify both the
capital and operating costs of some 'sneaker-less' networking
technology.
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From: jq@phcs.phcs.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Path updates
Date: 26 May 1995 08:13:38 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <3q4gli$40m@papoose.quick.com>
References: <3pugf5$ir1@crl10.crl.com>
In article <3pugf5$ir1@crl10.crl.com>,
Donald R. McGregor <mcgredo@crl.com> wrote:
(munch)
>Eg, drop an application into /LocalApps/foo/myApp.app Then
>'mv' it up a level to /LocalApps. Attempts to do something
>like 'open' with a doc from the command line will fail; it appears
>to be looking for the application in the old directory, and
>becomes upset when it isn't found.
Sounds like you are still using the csh. The csh makes a static
hash table of all executables, and treats it as gospel for the
rest of the session. When you add a new command to the path
run the built-in command 'rehash' and the hash tables will be
re-calculated.
Newer shells like bash don't have this problem. I think - but
do not know for sure - that zsh would avoid this as well.
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From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: NS3.3 Installs root home directory as /root?
Message-ID: <D9KMxo.Iu1@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 00:34:36 GMT
I discovered the source of my defaults difficulties. NS installed
root's home directory as /root instead of /. If this was intentional,
it makes no sense to me since root owns the primary file system.
After making the correction, /.NeXT functioned properly.
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From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS/Sparc with SUN OS disk
Date: 2 Jun 1995 17:42:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qnihe$dcj@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <NKAWAI.95Jun2135752@postman.riken.go.jp>
In article <NKAWAI.95Jun2135752@postman.riken.go.jp> nkawai@postman.riken.go.jp
(Nobuyuki Kawai) writes:
> I have a Sun Workstation (SS 5) running SUN OS 4.1.4 on the two
> internal disks. I would like to run NEXTSTEP on this SS5, but I would
> also like to keep the two internal disk untouched so that I can boot
> this machine with the SUN OS at occasions.
>
> Can I install the NS/Sparc on a external disk, and keep the two
> internal SUN-OS disks untouched while using NS?
Yes. I can explain how to do this for Solaris 2.x, but I don't know how to do it
for SunOS.
Best,
Pete
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From: gjackson@mbuna.umhc.umn.edu (Gary Jackson)
Subject: Help Needed for NSFIP on Quantum SCSI Drive
Message-ID: <D9KrLC.Hp2@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 02:16:16 GMT
Received an external 2 gig quantum scsi drive from APS technologies this
morning. I have a home built intel box with an ASUS 486-DX4-100 cpu, adaptec
1542CF, mediavision PAS and a NEC 3X internal CD. I have been using 2 WD 540
meg IDE drive and would like to replace them with the quantum. APS said to
low loevel format the drive as their drive are set up to be used with Mac's.
That was no problem. Installed DOS and Linux after the format with no
problems.
NextStep has been a baffler ( v 3.2 ). I have tried a variety of SCSI
settings and ID's for the CD and the hard drive. If I set the HD to SCSI #0,
and the CD to a higher number I get the following error when the installer
is booting...
:thread: waitForInterrupt: returns -735
this messages cascades endlessly down the screen until I reboot.
If I set the drive id so it is higher than the CD ID...say CD at #2 and
the drive at #3, I get the following error when NSFIP is about to list
the drives I can install on....
NextStep cannot be installed on any disks.
You must have a 512 bytes/sector disk with at least 120 MB of free space.
The CD-ROM disk lable could not be read.
Installation can't continue.
even though while the installer was booting it displayed the info for the
drive and that it was 512k block size.
I have been working on this for about 10 hours now and am stumped..
Thanks....Gary
Date: 1 Jun 1995 18:19:13 GMT
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From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP connection management (GateKeeper v0.8)
Date: 2 Jun 1995 19:32:18 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3qnp02$qtb@ni1.ni.net>
References: <3qn945$r0u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
> However, GateKeeper and PPPMeter seem to offer a superior
> means of PPP connection management - if I could only figure
> out how to use them (I'm sure this is my fault, not the
> authors' - thanks for your efforts, guys). My problem may
> be related to the fact that I compiled PPP to use
> /usr/local/etc/ppp as it's ETCDIR instead of the default
> /etc/ppp (that's where NeXT-supplied, not locally-supplied,
> stuff should go, IMHO). GateKeeper seems to have hardcoded
> /etc/ppp as the PPP directory and I wonder whether PPPMeter
> may have done something similar.
>
Hmmm. GateKeeper does not have /etc/ppp hardcoded. GateKeeper 0.8
exec's pppd with the command line as specified in its preferences (the
default is "pppd -detach"). If you can get pppd to establish the
connection by typing the aformentioned command line in a shell it
should also work for GateKeeper. Once started pppd looks for its
option file at /etc/ppp/options. The options file should point to a
chat script which the chat program will use to dial and log you into
your provider.
Their are at least two ways to setup pppd's options and pppup files.
GateKeeper only works with the more modular of the two as described
above. The following are my scripts (Boca 28.8k) and will probably
work with most Hayes compatible modems (i.e. Zyxel).
16. Create a script for the "chat" program (which is included) so
that the ppp link can be established automatically. A typical chat
script will look something like:
ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR"
""
AT&F "OK"
AT&K3 "OK"
AT&D2 "OK"
ATM3 "OK"
ATDT7895621
CONNECT "" ogin: myLogin assword: myPassWord
""
**See the chat program man page for more info regarding scripts.
11. Start "pppd" with appropriate command line or "/etc/ppp/options"
parameters. My option's file upon completion of all steps looks like
this:
/dev/cufb 57600 crtscts debug
connect "chat -v -f /etc/ppp/pppup"
defaultroute 214.118.122.180:
> If GateKeeper's usable with /usr/local/etc/ppp, what
> should be there? I'm confused by the reference to a ".Gate"
> file package which seems to be optional.
>
A doc with extension ".Gate" is GateKeeper's compound document format.
Within the ".Gate" wrapper there should be an options file and a pppup
script (these will be used in launching pppd). This allows you to
launch GateKeeper and dial into a provider merely by double clicking
on a ".Gate" doc. In this way you can easily dial multiple providers.
Check your ppp2.2 configuration, that is where your problem lies.
Remember, you should be able to get ppp connected just by typing
"pppd" in a shell.
> Then there's the ppp log file created by GateKeeper.
> Ever tried to view a FIFO in your favorite editor? Don't
> :-) Is using this FIFO log more or less convenient than
> using a standard log file?
>
You can replace the FIFO with a file of the same name for
troubleshooting purposes. GateKeeper will not work correctly unless
this is a FIFO (just toggle Display Diagnostics in Preferences to
recreate). The reason for the FIFO is that GateKeeper's child will
block on a read of the FIFO until syslogd writes to it. This
eliminates the polling which the first version of GateKeeper used and
which wastes CPU cycles.
> I've completed the installation of ppp2.2 under NS 3.3
> black. I've opened a PPP account from a local Internet
> provider and am able to establish a PPP connection manually
> using TipTop.
>
BTW, the next version of GateKeeper will have a manual dial and login
feature. Gatekeeper does this through a Multi-tasked, Multi-threaded
tool which acts as a frontend for "tip", as a rearend for Terminal.app
and which avails itself to GateKeeper through the Distributed Objects
mechanism.
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
far@ni.net # one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
Agoura Hills, CA # to be without faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can aquire power
# but not glory.
#
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(MIMEmail welcome) #
From: rollie@next.com (Matt Rollefson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I just seeing double?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 17:51:58 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3qnj3u$18v@news.next.com>
References: <3qjnnp$f2@phakt.usc.edu>
Keywords: double user info?
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman) writes:
>If someone could please elucidate why it seems like there are two of me on my standalone machine. See below:
>scf> who
>reichman console May 31 18:51
>reichman ttyp1 May 31 19:42
[More deleted.]
You almost certainly have Terminal.app open with a shell running.
That's another user process that will show up as a logged in user,
just like the console login.
Matt Rollefson (Rollie)
NEXTSTEP Training
From: park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Big SCSI HD on NeXT Cube ?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 18:20:01 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <95Jun02.111443@EE.Stanford.EDU>
Hello.
I have a NeXT Cube with 660MB Maxtor HD. That HD is now outdated
and very slow and more importantly, I'm running out of disk
space. So I'm considering replacing it with another bigger
hard disk. Local vendor is selling 4.0 G SCSI hard disk
(I don't remember the brand name) at $799.
Before purchasing it, I want to know if there is anything
I need to worry about. In Intel Hardware for example, I heard
540MB limit and then another 2.0GB limit. Is there such bad
things on Motorolla hardware also ? Or is it just a matter
of hooking things up.
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks.
--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP connection management (GateKeeper v0.8)
Date: 3 Jun 1995 03:10:36 GMT
Organization: The SenseMedia Network, http://sensemedia.net/, info@sensemedia.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qojrc$9ng@emerald.oz.net>
References: <3qnp02$qtb@ni1.ni.net>
Well, I'm now reading and posting news via my new PPP account. I was
able to get PPPMeter working first (I merely needed to "exec pppd" rather
than run pppd as a subprocess of sh in PPPMeter's connect script).
In article <3qnp02$qtb@ni1.ni.net> root@terra (Operator) writes:
> Hmmm. GateKeeper does not have /etc/ppp hardcoded. GateKeeper 0.8
> exec's pppd with the command line as specified in its preferences (the
> default is "pppd -detach"). If you can get pppd to establish the
> connection by typing the aformentioned command line in a shell it
> should also work for GateKeeper. Once started pppd looks for its
> option file at /etc/ppp/options. The options file should point to a
> chat script which the chat program will use to dial and log you into
> your provider.
>
pppd supports other locations than /etc/ppp if you build pppd yourself
and change the ETCDIR define as I did. So it's good to hear that
GateKeeper doesn't hardcode /etc/ppp although I never found a way to get
GateKeeper to look in /usr/local/etc/ppp to edit the ppp files. That's no
big deal though because Edit works quite well :-)
> A doc with extension ".Gate" is GateKeeper's compound document format.
> Within the ".Gate" wrapper there should be an options file and a pppup
> script (these will be used in launching pppd). This allows you to
> launch GateKeeper and dial into a provider merely by double clicking
> on a ".Gate" doc. In this way you can easily dial multiple providers.
>
This seems like a good feature that I may need to use, so I'll look
into using GateKeeper again.
> Check your ppp2.2 configuration, that is where your problem lies.
> Remember, you should be able to get ppp connected just by typing
> "pppd" in a shell.
>
There's nothing obviously wrong with my ppp configuration because I'm
using it right now :-)
> You can replace the FIFO with a file of the same name for
> troubleshooting purposes. GateKeeper will not work correctly unless
> this is a FIFO (just toggle Display Diagnostics in Preferences to
> recreate). The reason for the FIFO is that GateKeeper's child will
> block on a read of the FIFO until syslogd writes to it. This
> eliminates the polling which the first version of GateKeeper used and
> which wastes CPU cycles.
>
This may be the source of my problem with GateKeeper. I had already
created a regular ppp log file, not a FIFO, and thought I might want to be
able to read the log file later to troubleshoot potential problems. Is
this possible with a FIFO (not using an editor, apparently ?-)
> BTW, the next version of GateKeeper will have a manual dial and login
> feature. Gatekeeper does this through a Multi-tasked, Multi-threaded
> tool which acts as a frontend for "tip", as a rearend for Terminal.app
> and which avails itself to GateKeeper through the Distributed Objects
> mechanism.
>
Any release date estimate?
Thanks for your contribution to the NS community.
---
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From: cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Chadwick A. Dubuque)
Subject: Re: httpd CPU usage
Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login)
Message-ID: <D9KCMt.DDp@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 20:52:05 GMT
References: <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu> <3qbp9c$a3t@news.next.com>
Organization: Chaos. Try it. I think you'll like it.
In article <3qbp9c$a3t@news.next.com>, Dan Grillo <grio@next.com> wrote:
>In article <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu>,
>George B. Ross <gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu> wrote:
>>I was thinking of installing the httpd package from
>>ftp.cs.orst.edu on my NeXT Turbo Cube with NeXTdimension.
>>What kind of load increase should I expect to see on my CPU
>>for WWW pages that are accessed about 30 times a day and
>>are mostly text. Will I see a drastic slowdown of my own
>>computational work (small numerical problems tested before
>>being shipped off to bigger machines) or will it be hard
>>to see any difference?
>
>You'll never even notice.
I'll second that. Our httpd has used 1:27 CPU time (in ~5 days), according
to ps(1), and according to the logs in that time has served 6349 files and
559 failed attempts. Plus the process is niced, so it shouldn't interrupt
regular processes.
--
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From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Date: 3 Jun 1995 16:34:13 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems /|\
Message-ID: <3qqrhl$b6f@crl9.crl.com>
References: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net> <D9Ln6A.1Ky@midway.uchicago.edu>
:>>Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
:>>NeXTstep? (basically I want to automatically send a piece of mail back to
:>>anyone sending a piece of e-mail to foo@netrix.net)
You can use vacation and the .forward file for the account. Maybe
run it through a perl script if you want some fancy processing.
--
Don McGregor | "Let not England forget her precedence of teaching
mcgredo@crl.com | nations how to live." -- Milton
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I just seeing double?
Date: 3 Jun 1995 09:19:04 +0100
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995Jun3.072635.648@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <3qnj3u$18v@news.next.com>
In article <3qnj3u$18v@news.next.com> rollie@next.com (Matt Rollefson)
writes:
> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel
Reichman) writes:
> >If someone could please elucidate why it seems like there are two of me
on my standalone machine. See below:
>
> >scf> who
> >reichman console May 31 18:51
> >reichman ttyp1 May 31 19:42
>
> [More deleted.]
>
> You almost certainly have Terminal.app open with a shell running.
> That's another user process that will show up as a logged in user,
> just like the console login.
Given that he's used the who command, Matthew *has* to have a Terminal
window (of some sort) open.
Paul
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Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de (Rainer Sokoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: INN 1.4 on NSFIP 3.2
Date: 3 Jun 1995 22:02:37 +0100
Organization: Thueringen Net, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qqild$52@rainix.jena.thur.de>
References: <D9GAFI.4zC@jlc.net>
Jason T. Nelson (jason@jlc.net) wrote:
: I'm having a bear of a time trying to get INN to work on this machine running
: NSFIP 3.2. Does anybody have some preset config.data and other files, or point
: to someplace where I could find some help on compiling and installing it?
: Jason T. Nelson jason@jlc.net
: http://www.jlc.net/Local/Jason.html NeXT/MIME mail ok!
Some times ago, I've put a compiled INN for NSFIP on our ftp-Server. Don't
know the version, because I'm at home now. Try
ftp://ftp.con.de/pub/next/infosystems/news (if I remember right).
Hope that helps,
Rainer
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From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.com (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Re: NS app to play on an IPX network?
Message-ID: <1995Jun3.085128.1015@seer.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Organization: P & L Systems
References: <3qnjpi$j5g@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 08:51:28 GMT
In article <3qnjpi$j5g@gap.cco.caltech.edu> tec@alumni.caltech.edu
(Timothy E. Cushing) writes:
> Is there an app available that will let a NeXT cluster (networked with
> ethernet, but using IP I trust) work with this system? I would expect
that
> we would not want the NeXT cluster to all share the 10Base-T line to the
> local hub (in the phone closet on that floor:), but would want the
server
> for the cluster to also be a gateway to the campus line.
You can just add IP hosts to an IPX network, and they won't interfere. I
don't know about the FireFox, but the Cisco should certainly tolerate
mixed IP/IPX. It is normally considered polite, however, to let the
campus net police know that you are going to do this, and to ask them to
allocate IP addresses for you. I'd expect them to get *really* pissed if
you didn't alert them first.
This can be done by attaching the 10base-T line to a hub, or to a bridge
of your own. Dedicated hardware for this is reasonably cheap, and it
works, and has useful flashing lights on the outside so that you can see
it is still working.
> Is it workable to just add a second ethernet card to the server (being
as
> it's white hardware)?
Can be done, depending upon the network driver you use. NeXT don't
support it, though.
Paul
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From: rwach@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Chip Ach)
Subject: Re: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Message-ID: <D9Ln6A.1Ky@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Cc: james@netrix.net
Organization: UChicago strn fanclub
References: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:37:22 GMT
In article <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net>,
James R. Pooton <james@netrix.net> wrote:
>Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
>NeXTstep? (basically I want to automatically send a piece of mail back to
>anyone sending a piece of e-mail to foo@netrix.net)
I believe procmail can do this if you set it up correctly. Procmail,
the source, is around on many ftp sites and, as I recall, compiled
easily on my machine. I have a binary for NS 3.0 on real (black)
hardware if you or anyone else wants it. (If you do, speak quickly;
my NeXT goes bye bye from the net on Weds morning for the summer. :/
-C
From: root@terra (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP connection management (GateKeeper v0.8)
Date: 3 Jun 1995 14:24:09 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3qpra9$l41@ni1.ni.net>
References: <3qnp02$qtb@ni1.ni.net> <3qojrc$9ng@emerald.oz.net>
art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
>>
> pppd supports other locations than /etc/ppp if you build pppd
yourself
>and change the ETCDIR define as I did. So it's good to hear that
>GateKeeper doesn't hardcode /etc/ppp although I never found a way to
get
>GateKeeper to look in /usr/local/etc/ppp to edit the ppp files.
That's no
>big deal though because Edit works quite well :-)
Yes, in the latest release I hardcoded where the ppp2.2 files are
located as far as GateKeeper's editor facility is concerned. "pppd"
does not, however, rely on the locations specified in GateKeeper's
editor. In the next release the example files exist in a
predetermined folder within GateKeeper. Based on your comments I will
change the ppp2.2 editor facility to allow the user to again choose
the location of the actual files.
>> You can replace the FIFO with a file of the same name for
>> troubleshooting purposes. GateKeeper will not work correctly
unless
>> this is a FIFO (just toggle Display Diagnostics in Preferences to
>> recreate). The reason for the FIFO is that GateKeeper's child will
>> block on a read of the FIFO until syslogd writes to it. This
>> eliminates the polling which the first version of GateKeeper used
and
>> which wastes CPU cycles.
>>
> This may be the source of my problem with GateKeeper. I had
already
>created a regular ppp log file, not a FIFO, and thought I might want
to be
>able to read the log file later to troubleshoot potential problems.
Is
>this possible with a FIFO (not using an editor, apparently ?-)
Unfortunately, no. A FIFO is just a UNIX communication mechanism
disguised as a file (it has length 0). However, one of the main
reasons I developed GateKeeper is so that I could observe the login
progress as it occurs in GateKeeper's main window. When you first
select Display Diagnostics in GateKeeper's preferences your log file
is replaced with a FIFO. Henceforth, GateKeeper's main window will
display the login process as reported by pppd through the syslogd
daemon. If you want to save the info just cut and paste.
>> BTW, the next version of GateKeeper will have a manual dial and
login
>> feature. Gatekeeper does this through a Multi-tasked,
Multi-threaded
>> tool which acts as a frontend for "tip", as a rearend for
Terminal.app
>> and which avails itself to GateKeeper through the Distributed
Objects
>> mechanism.
>>
> Any release date estimate?
Essentially its done except for the doc's (I always put off the
tedious). The doc's will be especially important because the
aformetioned feature requires that pppd's default options file not
start a chat script automatically. Which means you will no longer be
able to establish a ppp connection just by typing "pppd" in a shell.
Hopefully everything will be ready within 2-3 weeks.
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
far@ni.net # one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
Agoura Hills, CA # to be without faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can aquire power
# but not glory.
#
(NeXTmail preferred)# --Nicolo, Machiavelli
(MIMEmail welcome) #
From: bryce@sthelens.com (Bryce Jasmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Am I just seeing double?
Date: 3 Jun 1995 16:18:51 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378
Message-ID: <3qq21b$ii2@news1.best.com>
References: <3qjnnp$f2@phakt.usc.edu>
In article <3qjnnp$f2@phakt.usc.edu> reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew
Nathaniel Reichman) writes:
>If someone could please elucidate why it seems like there are two of me on
my standalone machine. See below:
>
>scf> who
>reichman console May 31 18:51
>reichman ttyp1 May 31 19:42
Start up a bunch more Terminal windows (cmd-n) and you'll see yourself logged
in many times.
Bryce
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From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: Help Needed for NSFIP on Quantum SCSI Drive
Message-ID: <D9nwEA.9IJ@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <D9KrLC.Hp2@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 18:51:45 GMT
Gary Jackson (gjackson@mbuna.umhc.umn.edu) wrote:
: Received an external 2 gig quantum scsi drive from APS technologies this
: morning. I have a home built intel box with an ASUS 486-DX4-100 cpu, adaptec
: 1542CF, mediavision PAS and a NEC 3X internal CD. I have been using 2 WD 540
: meg IDE drive and would like to replace them with the quantum. APS said to
: low loevel format the drive as their drive are set up to be used with Mac's.
: That was no problem. Installed DOS and Linux after the format with no
: problems.
I assume you partitioned the drive if you installed DOS and Linux
after the format? Try removing all partitions, and install NS first.
I don't have that experience with NS3.2 to say if this will do the
trick. I *do* know that NS3.3's installation will allow me to set
aside space for other OS's.
If NS continues to have difficulty with the SCSI bus, consider
terminating the bus with an active(as opposed to the typical passive)
terminator, which does a better job at "loading" the SCSI bus. This
was mandatory for my AMI 486DX2-66 and BusLogic card to work with NS3.2.
: I have been working on this for about 10 hours now and am stumped..
Believe me, Gary, your investment in time has only *just* begun. ;-)
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Subject: Re: Pentium90 NS 3.3, DOS config query
Message-ID: <D9oA3z.CMJ@cunews.carleton.ca>
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Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3qg3hs$rp@mustang.alleg.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 23:47:59 GMT
ANI (guptaa@alleg.edu) wrote:
: I am new to networking. I need to know how to get this information from my
: machine which is an Intel Pentium 90, 16M RAM and 800+M HD, running NS3.3, with
: a DOS partition. It has an EtherExpress 16C ethernet card at port 300, IRQ 11.
: If anyone is familiar with this configuration please send me this info to my
: account (I do not visit this newsgroup often.)
: How do I find :
: 1. The name of the "packet driver" with the ethernet card?
: 2. The packet vector number (In Hex, like 0x <number>)?
: 3. The I/O number/address (Hex, same, 0x <number>)?
: 4. Name server IP address (For DNS searches)?
The packet driver comes on the DOS install disk taht came with your
EtherExpress.
The I/O number is also called the "Port Adress", which you said is 300,
above.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
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chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: bootstrap_register failed
Message-ID: <D9o0xG.MpA@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 20:29:40 GMT
This message is consistently turning up in my messages file:
Jun 4 13:11:18 localhost reboot: Reboot complete
Jun 4 13:11:23 localhost loginwindow[173]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 4 13:11:23 localhost loginwindow[173]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 4 13:11:29 localhost loginwindow[173]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk
Jun 4 13:11:32 localhost loginwindow[173]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 4 13:11:32 localhost loginwindow[173]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 4 13:11:33 localhost loginwindow[176]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Jun 4 13:11:34 localhost Workspace[176]: logged in
On the surface, my system appears to be running fine. I noticed that
/etc/bootptab refers to /private/tftpboot/mach as the default
bootfile. The only files I see in /private/tftpboot are mach_kernel and a directory called private.
Any ideas what this message means?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: 2 Adaptec controllers in 1 Intel box under 3.3?
Message-ID: <jpanicoD9o2EG.BEH@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 21:01:28 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom11.netcom.com
Hi,
Has anyone attempted the death-defying feat of running 2 separate SCSI
controllers in the same Intel box, under NS 3.3? Should this work, or is
their not a hope in hell? If it actually works, are there any special
configuration considerations?
Thanks for any info in this area
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
--
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jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori)
Subject: Re: NS3.3 Installs root home directory as /root?
Message-ID: <D9MFA5.Ly7@eskimo.com>
Sender: usenet@eskimo.com (News User Id)
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
References: <D9KMxo.Iu1@eskimo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 23:44:29 GMT
Marc Salvatori (salvo@eskimo.com) wrote:
: I discovered the source of my defaults difficulties. NS installed
: root's home directory as /root instead of /. If this was intentional,
: it makes no sense to me since root owns the primary file system.
: After making the correction, /.NeXT functioned properly.
I confirmed that NS installs user root with / for a home directory.
The culprit is UserManager, which changes the home directory to /root
when I assigned a password to root. :-(
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | No NeXTMail yet. I'm gettin' there! ><
>< salvo@eskimo.com | Searching for .eps/.tiff images ><
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Stop _automatic_ mounts of extra SCSI Disks...
Date: 5 Jun 1995 12:35:41 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software
Message-ID: <3qutmt$1d03@digdug.pencom.com>
I have an unusual NEXTSTEP setup... I have a DOS/Windows system with an
internal IDE disk. I also have a SCSI controller (Adaptec 1542C -- if it
matters) with the following disks on it:
ID 0: 668MB Quantum -- 100% NEXTSTEP 3.2
ID 2: 339MB Maxtor -- 3 Partitions: 16MB "linux swap",
173MB "linux native", 150MB "DOS/Windows"
ID 3: 668MB Quantum -- 3 Partitions: 16MB "linux swap",
552MB "linux native", 100MB "free"
ID 6: Sony SCSI CDROM
Here is the problem: I currently have to shut off the IDE drive to boot
NEXTSTEP (I can live with that -- but I'm hoping to fix this with Linux's
"LILO" boot manager). So I end up with a "totally SCSI" system when I boot
NEXTSTEP. The problem stems from the fact that NEXTSTEP can't seem to
recognize the partitions on the 339MB Maxtor (esp. the DOS/Windows
partition), and the partitions on the ID 3: 668MB Quantum. There are 2
issues:
1) NEXTSTEP insists on offering the unintelligable SCSI disks for
"Initialize" (or "Ignore") each time I login. I don't really like
the idea that a simple slip-up could cost me one of my other OS's.
(To attempt to correct this problem, I tried to add them to
"/etc/fstab" with an fstype of "ignore" -- but that didn't help.
2) I would like to access the DOS/Windows partition from NEXTSTEP,
and I would like to use the 100MB of free space on the ID 3: 668MB
Quantum (the second one) for NEXTSTEP...
Has _anybody_ got any ideas?
FYI, I have been using a NeXT (black) box for 4 years. I have administered
many NEXTSTEP machines -- I just haven't had much experience with Intel based
NEXTSTEP and it's quirks related to "multiple OSes"...
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From: trebels@Theorie.Physik.UNI-Goettingen.DE (Stephan Trebels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 Installs root home directory as /root?
Date: 4 Jun 1995 10:36:26 GMT
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Message-ID: <3qs2ba$nbv@gwdu19.gwdg.de>
References: <D9KMxo.Iu1@eskimo.com>
Marc Salvatori wrote:
>I discovered the source of my defaults difficulties. NS installed
>root's home directory as /root instead of /. If this was intentional,
>it makes no sense to me since root owns the primary file system.
>After making the correction, /.NeXT functioned properly.
1) As far as I know, NS3.3 does not make root's homedir /root.
Mine has been /, so I changed that myself, and just works.
Perhaps you didn't install 3.3 but rather upgraded a computer,
that already had root's home at /root?
2) What's wrong with /root ?
Of course, /.NeXT does not work any longer, but I don't care
as long as /root/.NeXT works. I never had problems...
I use /Users/root, because I don't want root's Mailboxes,
Library, Apps, etc. to appear in /. Before that, I had all these
files in /.hidden and Unix Expert on for root.
Ciao, Stephan
P.S. I use root homedirs != / on HP-UX, NEXTSTEP, and Linux,
expected problems, but NEVER had any.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 5 Jun 1995 04:15:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3qu0cj$sjl@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news: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.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
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.
Archives are available by ftp at
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
news: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.
news: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.
news: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.
news: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!!!
news:comp.sys.next.programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
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.
news:comp.sys.next.software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
on NEXTSTEP systems.
news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
will spill over into .programmer or .software.
Related Newsgroups
==================
news: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.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news: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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany.
ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com: See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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, read them on the world-wide
web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS.
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
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
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 VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM
To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965.
Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you
can download NeXTanswers documents.
FOR MORE HELP...
If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available
from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S.
call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician.
If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must
make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a
pay-per-call basis.
Thanks for using NeXTanswers!
Written by:
Eric P. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:Michael_Pizolato@afs.com)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: charlesa@mpn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: 3.3 serial driver
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 95 16:49:43 gmt
Organization: BTnet, BT Public Internet Service
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi -
Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
progress? NeXTANSWERS claims there is a completely rewritten one for 3.3 due
in Q2, but has anyone seen it? Or anyone else got a patch?
Thanks in advance,
C.
From: samurai@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stop _automatic_ mounts of extra SCSI Disks...
Date: 05 Jun 1995 14:46:54 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill Univ.
Message-ID: <SAMURAI.95Jun5104654@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <3qutmt$1d03@digdug.pencom.com>
In-reply-to: robin@pencom.com's message of 5 Jun 1995 12:35:41 GMT
<robin@pencom.com> writes:
> 1) NEXTSTEP insists on offering the unintelligable SCSI disks for
> "Initialize" (or "Ignore") each time I login. I don't really like
> the idea that a simple slip-up could cost me one of my other OS's.
> (To attempt to correct this problem, I tried to add them to
> "/etc/fstab" with an fstype of "ignore" -- but that didn't help.
I think you want to specify the "noauto" option.
- db
--
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The Lord loves a hanging, that's why he gave us necks! -- Hoek and Cat --
From: dcoffin@essex.softeng.lamrc.com (Dave Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Usenet (nntp) on a NeXT
Date: 5 Jun 1995 15:30:36 GMT
Organization: Lam Research Corporation, Wilmington MA
Message-ID: <3qv7us$ig@internal.lamrc.com>
I've installed news software on the SPARCs (running
SunOS) and PCs (running NextStep) in my office. From a
Sun, I do this:
telnet news 119
list
This gives me a list of > 10000 active newsgroups.
Since the news server is 5000 km away, it takes 2-3 min-
utes to download the whole 400K file (over a frame-relay
line). Trn always does a "list" at startup, so I wait
patiently.
When I try the same from a PC, it starts downloading
quickly, then stops, spits out a few dozen lines, stops
again, etc. After five minutes, it stops completely.
After another five minutes, the news server disconnects.
This happens on both an Epson NX (486) and an HP
Vectra XU (Pentium). Maybe PCs lack the I/O bandwidth
of a SPARC? We use them for NFS all the time without
any trouble.
Dave Coffin 6/5/95
--
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From: jq@phcs.phcs.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Big SCSI HD on NeXT Cube ?
Date: 5 Jun 1995 12:46:51 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <3qvcdr$735@papoose.quick.com>
References: <95Jun02.111443@ee.stanford.edu>
In article <95Jun02.111443@ee.stanford.edu>,
Sang Ju Park <park@isl.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
(munch)
>I need to worry about. In Intel Hardware for example, I heard
>540MB limit and then another 2.0GB limit. Is there such bad
>things on Motorolla hardware also ? Or is it just a matter
>of hooking things up.
All implementation of NS share the same limitation on partitioning
SCSI drives >2GB. In order to use these drives you need to create
disktab entries to define partitions (all of which must be <= 2GB).
You should read the NeXTanswers bulletin
1533_initializing_and_partitioning_big_disks
.
This will step you through the configuration process.
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From: alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardwarersh
Subject: HP 700 and Micropolis 2210 and 2217 Incompatible
Date: 31 May 1995 03:29:41 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <3qgnr5$pi@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
Keywords: SCSI Incompatible
Hi everyone,
The HP 700 series SCSI is incompatible with Micropolis 2210 and 2217 (at
least) disk drives. This is a problem with HP and not NEXTSTEP
Problem: The system writes blocks in the wrong place.
Symptoms:
Files are written with portions missing in some cases, in other cases
existing files have blocks overwritten. The errors do not result in
reported problems, nor does fsck detect any inconsistencies. Eventually,
an essential system file gets damaged, and the system either panics, or
becomes un-bootable.
According to the HP response center in Australia, problems have also been
reported with regards to these drives on HP/UX systems, in this case, the
HP/UX driver reports errors in some cases. The conclusion from the HP
response center was that there is an incompatibility between the 221X
drive's firmware and the HP 700 series SCSI.
This problem has been logged with NeXT and will (with luck) appear in the
PA-RISC FAQ.
Alastair
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: "Dynamic" PPP connections...
Message-ID: <D9pIo0.Mtw@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3qusvk$105a@digdug.pencom.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 15:50:23 GMT
In article <3qusvk$105a@digdug.pencom.com>,
Robin D. Wilson <robin@pencom.com> wrote:
>MorningStar has a nice "feature" in their PPP implementation -- "dynamic"
>dialing of the connection when a connection request takes place. I would
>like a similar capability from PPP2.2. Does it exist (and I just haven't
>read enough of the docs), or is there an add-on utility to provide this
>capability? (Linux has "diald" to do the same thing...)
>
It doesn't exist in the version I have (.19? Can't remember.) I know I read
something in the documentation about its future, but I think it was something
like "some day..."
--
David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie "Default is the value selected by the
University of Waterloo composer overridden by your command."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to move an existing Netinfo server to another machine?
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 09:56:14 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <950605105614.354AACUK.malc@daneel>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
This was covered in January sometime, and somebody wrote:
: 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'm just in the process of moving a Netinfo server, and it seems to me there
may be a couple of things missed out of this explanation (I'm not trying to
flame the author, BTW, it's quite possible I didn't see/save the full text,
mea culpa). Could somebody please let me know if there is more to it than,
this, and if so what?
In addition, though, does anything have to be done to any clone servers to
notify them of the change?
I'd be grateful if replies could be cc-ed by email, since we sometimes seem
to lose news articles here :-(
Have fun,
mmalc.
posn. research facilitator
where institute for language speech and hearing
sheffield university
c/o department of computer science
regent court
211 portobello street
sheffield s1 4dp
england
vox (+44) 114 282 5594
fax (+44) 114 278 0972
email m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
NeXTMail, SunMail, MIME welcome
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CAP6.0 and NeXTSTEP 3.1?????
Date: 5 Jun 1995 05:16:18 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qu3v2$q3i@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <1995May30.055626.11186@antigone.com>
mross@antigone.com writes:
> I am trying to install CAP 6.0pl194 on a NeXTcube running NeXTSTEP 3.1.
In general, I'd recommend running NS-3.2 over NS-3.1, though it's
been so long that I don't remember what it was about 3.1 that made
me stay away from it (I went from 3.0 to 3.2, skipping 3.1).
> It looks like the configure script is trying to work with NeXTSTEP
> 2.0, and does not try to even compile anything in the support/ethertalk
> directory.
There are some changes to the configure or makefile setup to get CAP
to work correctly on NS-3.x. I don't have the changes right here,
but I can dig them up if you need them. If I remember right, I have
the updates for CAP patch level 100, or maybe 126, and the patches
need to be slightly different for patch level 192.
(I don't want to dig up the updates right now, but I want to reply
to your article before it disappears from our usenet hub...)
> However, I thought that NeXTSTEP 3.0 added support for Ethertalk
> in which case shouldn't I be compiling aarpd? Or should I be
> compiling UAB? The Appletalk support that came with NeXTSTEP
> 3.0 definitely did not require a hardware bridge, and CAP is said
> to be a good replacement for the now-defunct NeXT implementation
> of Appletalk.
I've only run CAP by bouncing it off fastpaths (as the hardware
bridge). There was someone, in Japan I think, who was working
on native ethertalk support for CAP on NeXTSTEP. I don't know
how far along that got. The fact that NeXTSTEP 3.0 does not
require a hardware bridge is not relevent to CAP. NeXT did not
give any source code to the people maintaining CAP, so CAP is
pretty much in the same state it was before NS-3.0.
> I am very lost and any pointers would be appreciated.
I hope this is of some help...
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mcarling@rahul.net (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to move an existing Netinfo server to another machine?
Date: 5 Jun 1995 18:54:07 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qvjsf$f7@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <950605105614.354AACUK.malc@daneel>
In article <950605105614.354AACUK.malc@daneel> mmalcolm Crawford
<m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
> This was covered in January sometime, and somebody wrote:
>
> : 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'm just in the process of moving a Netinfo server, and it seems to me
there
> may be a couple of things missed out of this explanation (I'm not trying
to
> flame the author, BTW, it's quite possible I didn't see/save the full
text,
> mea culpa). Could somebody please let me know if there is more to it
than,
> this, and if so what?
>
> In addition, though, does anything have to be done to any clone servers
to
> notify them of the change?
The original post made some assumptions (e.g. database tags) which may not
be true.
If you have a machine running 3.3, the best way to move the master server
for any non-local domain is to 1) use NetInfoManager to make a clone
server for the domain on the machine which is to be the new master, 2) Use
NetInfoManager to make the new server the master (Domain --> Servers...).
Note that the servers do not need to be running 3.3 for this method to be
used. This can be done from any machine on the network running 3.3.
M Carling
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gjackson@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Gary Jackson)
Subject: Re: Help Needed for NSFIP on Quantum SCSI Drive
Message-ID: <gjackson.1.000C863F@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <D9KrLC.Hp2@news.cis.umn.edu> <D9nwEA.9IJ@eskimo.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 18:41:25 GMT
In article <D9nwEA.9IJ@eskimo.com> salvo@eskimo.com (Marc Salvatori) writes:
Mark,
>I assume you partitioned the drive if you installed DOS and Linux
>after the format? Try removing all partitions, and install NS first.
>I don't have that experience with NS3.2 to say if this will do the
>trick. I *do* know that NS3.3's installation will allow me to set
>aside space for other OS's.
Did another low level format and started over.
With an IDE drive v3.2 also did the same. I understand that
3.3 has enhanced large drive features, although with a non
certified home built system...my milage MIGHT vary :-)
>If NS continues to have difficulty with the SCSI bus, consider
>terminating the bus with an active(as opposed to the typical passive)
>terminator, which does a better job at "loading" the SCSI bus. This
>was mandatory for my AMI 486DX2-66 and BusLogic card to work with NS3.2.
This was one area that I lucked out and did get an active terminator.
>Believe me, Gary, your investment in time has only *just* begun. ;-)
You are right there....and things don't always work ot the way
you want..
Thanks for the advice....Gary
PS....one thing that is interesting...BuildDisk.app shows the correct
size of the drive...except as a negative number ie -2050 megs and
that it will tale something like -308 megs to build.....hmmmmm
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Dynamic" PPP connections...
Date: 5 Jun 1995 12:23:16 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software
Message-ID: <3qusvk$105a@digdug.pencom.com>
MorningStar has a nice "feature" in their PPP implementation -- "dynamic"
dialing of the connection when a connection request takes place. I would
like a similar capability from PPP2.2. Does it exist (and I just haven't
read enough of the docs), or is there an add-on utility to provide this
capability? (Linux has "diald" to do the same thing...)
--
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Date: 5 Jun 1995 21:45:03 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3qvtsv$moh@news.next.com>
References: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net>
In article <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net> james@emerald.netrix.net (James R.
Pooton) writes:
> Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
> NeXTstep? (basically I want to automatically send a piece of mail back to
> anyone sending a piece of e-mail to foo@netrix.net)
>
> Any help, pointers, or compined binaries :-) would be great !!
There's a commercial package to do this as well, called MailBack. I have a
demo I snarfed off the company's server. However, I can't remember the name
of the company or the server address. :)
Can anyone else help?
(I added a cross-post to comp.sys.next.software)
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET SPROCKET?!
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kelman@ncifcrf.gov (David Kelman)
Subject: This really should ne in the FAQ... (dynamic IP)
Message-ID: <D9pLvx.Mz5@ncifcrf.gov>
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 16:59:57 GMT
I know that this has been posted on before, but I, like many, have a
tendency not to read what doesn't directly affect me. So I'm looking for info
on how to set up TransSys's DialUp IP for dynamic IP. I've fooled around some
with PNI, but could never get it to work for me, while DialUP IP works like a
champ. If anyone could prove me a solution. I would be quite grateful.
Thanks in advance,
David Kelman
kelman@ncifcrf.gov (No NeXTMail, yet)
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disabling ip forwarding (how??)
Date: 6 Jun 1995 03:56:31 GMT
Organization: What are you kidding???
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3r0jlf$bg9@natasha.rmii.com>
The subject says it all. I want to have my machine on two subnets, but
not send any packets out one interface that came in the other. I
believe this is termed ip forwarding and is typically diabled in the
kernel. I couldn't find any mention of how this is done in nextAnswers
or the general sysAdmin docs. Any ideas!?
imDankeVoraus,
Chris
From: sandrac@unixg.ubc.ca (Sandra Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 5 Jun 1995 23:27:25 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r03st$moc@nnrp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net>
James R. Pooton (james@emerald.netrix.net) wrote:
: Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
: NeXTstep? (basically I want to automatically send a piece of mail back to
: anyone sending a piece of e-mail to foo@netrix.net)
: Any help, pointers, or compined binaries :-) would be great !!
: Thanks in advance..........
: --
: -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
: James R. Pooton President/Techincal Director
: mailto:james@netrix.net Netrix Internet System Design, Inc.
: (NeXTmail & MIME Welcome) http://www.netrix.net
: -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
How about Eloquent (Take Three) or On Vacation (Nyro)....
From: mccollam@Arizona.EDU (Donald E McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NCSA HTTP v 1.4.1?
Date: 6 Jun 1995 04:52:23 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <3r0mu7$asi@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Hi. I like to bring up NCSA's HTTP server on either my NeXTcube or my NS/I
box. Unfortuately "NeXT" is not a make option. I'd appreciate any guidance
on this. [Or, Feel free to suggest any other HTTP server that offers the same
basic features as v 1.4.1. I will need to be using Perl5 scripts to access
Sybase via sybPerl. I don't know anything about those at this point either!]
Thanks!
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu
From: ccwf@locke.klab.caltech.edu (Charles Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha? (almost there)
Date: 6 Jun 1995 02:20:38 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <3r0e1m$ld4@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <D8u9Gz.C5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> <D8vJwn.Bq5@rna.nl>
>In article <D8u9Gz.C5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> dimitri@duti609a.twi.tudelft.nl
>(Dimitri Tischenko) writes:
>> Don't think so. Most display modes do 555/16 which means (I guess) that
>> 15 bits are permanently used for color information....
In video RAM, yes.
>> (I wonder whether that last bit is used for anything...)
It's not. If you bypass DPS and twiddle it, you will see it does nothing.
(Bypassing DPS can be accomplished by using an Interceptor app, such as an X
server.)
In article <D8vJwn.Bq5@rna.nl>, <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> wrote:
> That seems right, but then the question is, NEXTSTEP sometimes does RGB:444
> and sometimes RGB:555 in 16bit.
Yes, but DPS only does 4 bits per sample. If you look at the Red book, you
will see that the PS image operators can't handle 5 bits per sample.
> As seomeone pointed out, the difference in picture quality is not great and
> the performance quality is noticeable (for RGB:555).
If you work a lot with high-quality graphic images, the difference between 444
and 555 is considerable. Even the difference between 555 and 565 is
noticeable, especially if you don't dither. In fact, I'm quite annoyed that
NeXT doesn't support 565 video modes: it looks like NS is using a look-up table
to figure out the value to send to the hardware, so there would be no overhead
for using 565 instead of 555; and it would make an extra bit of green available
when not using DPS.
> RGB:555/16: 15 bit colur information + n bit alpha handled by NS intern
> 15 bit colour result sent to video
DPS stores 12 bit color information + 4 bit alpha. Alpha is handled in
software, and the final 12-bit result is converted via a look-up table into a
15 bit value which is sent to the video hardware.
Non-DPS apps store 15 bit color information + 1 bit padding. 15 bits color + 1
bit padding is sent to video. The 1 bit of padding has no effect.
BTW, I am curious if the Interceptor works in RGB:444/16 video mode (possible
with the Canon Objectstation and Number9GXE 64Pro drivers?). Could someone
with such a machine test an X server or SoftPC to see if the Interceptor works?
-ccwf
From: idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Building satan
Date: 6 Jun 1995 12:17:04 GMT
Organization: Seednet, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r1h00$1fr@aladdin.iii.org.tw>
Dear Readers,
I have installed the latest perl5 bin for intel and m68k successfully on
my intel-based PC. While trying to build satan 1.0 as NeXTanswer receipe
stated, I failed . I always get the following message while running
reconfig:
jesse:21# reconfig*
/usr/local/bin/perl: Command not found.
Anyone who can tell me how to solve this problem, I would be very
appreciated.
Simon Chih-L Han
idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw
From: jason_fosback@psca.com (Jason Fosback)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail on NEXT in non-NEXT Unix environment
Date: 6 Jun 1995 22:23:13 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <3r2kgh$hqi@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>
References: <D9r066.Ly0@rivm.nl>
In article <D9r066.Ly0@rivm.nl> sb6fcb@sb601 (Francois Bourgeois) writes:
> I am also not able to create situation B. The Company mailserver
> answers with a message:
> >>>MAIL From:<sb6fb@sb636>
> <<<550 Unknown domain 'sb636'
> (sb636 is my hostname). The Company mailserver _is_able_ to
> send _to_ my machine, si seems to know about my machine sb636.
>
> Who can help? Must I modify something in Netinfo ?
> What items in Netinfo does sendmail retrieve?
> And: the variables in the sendmail.cf files (like 'mailhost'),
> are they taken by sendmail 'as such' or are they looked up
> in the Netinfo database and are the Values in Netinfo taken?
>
There are a couple of magic lines you can add to the sendmail.cf file to
fix this problem:
DNromulus.pscwa.psca.com
Cw localhost localhost.pscwa.psca.com
This example changes localhost (and localhost.pscwa.psca.com) to
romulus.pscwa.psca.com. All your outbound mail can be corrected to point
to a specific machine, or a specific domain.
-jason
_____________________________________________________________________
Jason Fosback, Sr. Software Engineer | Magic: The Gathering
--- Paradigm Systems Corp --- | 'Uhhh, who'd spend lot's of
Internet: jason_fosback@psca.com | money on a stupid card game?'
NeXT mail: jason_fosback@psca.com | 'Shut up Beavis, Magic's cool!'
From: wenzel@w3.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 serial driver
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Date: 6 Jun 1995 09:15:15 GMT
Organization: Uni-Stuttgart, 1.Physikalisches Institut
Message-ID: <3r16b3$146p@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
charlesa@mpn.com wrote:
> Hi -
> Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
> modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
> progress? NeXTANSWERS claims there is a completely rewritten one for 3.3 due
> in Q2, but has anyone seen it? Or anyone else got a patch?
There is Mux, and this is really a FAQ.
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/serial/Mux.1.7.s.tar.gz
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // 1st Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
mail? // wenzel@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de
more? // Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dkasprza@midway.uchicago.edu (Don Kasprzak)
Subject: Mac <-> NeXT data transfer
Message-ID: <dkasprza-0606951620330001@muscalgb.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Cancer and Leukemia Group B
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 22:20:33 GMT
Hello,
This is my first post to this group. If someone could point me in the
direction of net info resources I would be very happy! I have two
individuals in my office who are beginning to pick up info from NeXT based
mail systems and Improv spreadsheets. What is the best way to transfer
the information to Mac based eudora and microsoft excel?
--
Donald Kasprzak
Manager User Services
Cancer and Leukemia Group B
Cancer Research Center
The University of Chicago
208 South LaSalle Street Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60604-1104
312-702-6731 Phone
312-345-0117 Fax
dkasprza@midway.uchicago.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
From: rjevridg@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Robert Bob J Evridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mac Printing on a NEXT Network
Date: 6 Jun 1995 14:55:59 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Message-ID: <3r1q9v$pj0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I have a Mac on a NEXT network. I need to be able to print from the Mac
to the NEXT printer. If you can help, please send email to:
rjevridg@sacam.oren.ortn.edu
--
Thanx,
Bob
******************************************************************************
Bob Evridge User Support Services
Oak Ridge Educational Network Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 615-241-3257
******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sb6fcb@sb601 (Francois Bourgeois)
Subject: Mail on NEXT in non-NEXT Unix environment
Message-ID: <D9r066.Ly0@rivm.nl>
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, Bilthoven, NL
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:06:05 GMT
I suspect my last posting on this subject didn't come through.
So here is it again.
I have a question about configuring e-mail on a (Intel) NEXT
machine in a (non-NEXT) UNIX environment.
Until recently I had the following situation:
Company <---> Department <----> Terminal emul.
mailserver Unix mach. in MS-Windows
Now I want one of the following (A or B):
A.
Company <---> Department <----> NEXT machine
mailserver Unix mach. (via sendmail)
B.
Company <---> NEXT machine
mailserver (via sendmail)
For the near future I prefer situation A. because the NEXT
machine will not always be up, whereas the Department Unix
machine will.
I configured my NEXT machine as a "subsidiary" machine, that
is, I have defined the file /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf
in the Netinfo database.
I am not able to create the situation A. I cannot make my NEXT
machine send to the Dept-Unix, although I have tried several
things such as:
- in Netinfo, directory /locations/sendmail, set mailhost
to Dept-Unix
- edit the sendmail.subsidiary.cf so that in the lines
"DRmailhost" and "CRmailhost" 'mailhost' is replaced by
Dept-Unix
My NEXT machine keeps sending to the Company mailserver, which
has i.a. the aliases: 'mailhost', 'mail' and 'smtp'
I am also not able to create situation B. The Company mailserver
answers with a message:
>>>MAIL From:<sb6fb@sb636>
<<<550 Unknown domain 'sb636'
(sb636 is my hostname). The Company mailserver _is_able_ to
send _to_ my machine, si seems to know about my machine sb636.
I have tried to solve this problem by uncommenting the second
of the following lines in the
sendmail.cf file:
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
#Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
or by modifiyng it to:
Dj$w$m
and by adding the following line to the sendmail.cf file
Dmrivm.nl
But this does not help.
Who can help? Must I modify something in Netinfo ?
What items in Netinfo does sendmail retrieve?
And: the variables in the sendmail.cf files (like 'mailhost'),
are they taken by sendmail 'as such' or are they looked up
in the Netinfo database and are the Values in Netinfo taken?
--
Francois Bourgeois, postbak 15, Risk Assessment | e-mail: sb6fcb@rivm.nl
Division, National Institute of Public Health |
and Environmental Protection , P.O.Box 1, | voice: +31 30 742962
3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands | fax: +31 30 291492
From: Alexander.Hauer@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Alexander Hauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Solution -- Q: Solaris24 - NS32 NFS automounting very slow
Date: 7 Jun 1995 15:11:52 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <3r4fjo$1126@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
References: <3r3s9b$17bc@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
That's what I got from Rob:
> From: Rob Francis <rfrancis@ny.psca.com>
> What's happening is the Sparc is figuring out the read/write
> sizes. It keeps trying different sizes until it figures it out, which
> can take a few minutes.
>
> The trick is to do the mount like this on your Solaris box:
>
> SUN#mount -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 server:/export /next
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -rob
> ---
> Rob Francis -- Rob_Francis@ny.psca.com -- Paradigm Systems
>
And it helped very much!!! Thanks Rob.
By the way isn't this stuff for the FAQ's?
--
___________________________________________________________________
Dipl.-Phys. Alexander A. Hauer Institute of Flightmechanics
Systemadministration and Flight Control
Phone: (+49)711-121-1432 University of Stuttgart, Forststrasse 86
Fax: (+49)711-634856 D-70176 Stuttgart
From: jq@phcs.phcs.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 serial driver
Date: 5 Jun 1995 16:28:32 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <3qvpdg$7cv@papoose.quick.com>
References: <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
In article <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>,
<charlesa@mpn.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
>modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
>progress?
Forget the patch. Use Mux. It's been working at high speed since NS3.1.
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/drivers/MuxV1.7.tar.gz
--
___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@phcs.com
/ / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K.
\_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343
) | - My other car has a mouse.
From: schwett@differencengine (Mark Schwettmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Why Don't I exist?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 21:32:47 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3r55tv$1fg@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Hopefully this is not a FAQ (said document doesn't seem to be floating around
at the moment...)
I get the following when I try to talk:
differencengine> talk someone
You don't exist. Go away.
w reveals the following:
differencengine> w
2:41am up 2:38, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.46, 1.19
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
schwett console 12:33am14days -
(this is despite the fact that I have many terminal windows open)
Does anybody have any clues regarding this odd behavior?
Thanks in Advance,
Mark Schwettmann
mschwett@ced.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca (David Downie)
Subject: KFC Compile--help
Message-ID: <D9r9oG.Bz@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Summary: KFC compile for SPARC
Keywords: KFC, miscKit, SPARC
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:31:27 GMT
I don't have the MiscKit installed so I can't compile KFC.app for
NS/SPARC. If someone has compiled it quad-fat or would compile it for
me, I'd appreciate it very much.
Thanks,
David Downie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to exclude files in level > 0 dumps
Message-ID: <1995Jun6.174659.44936@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: krampe@hoopy (Dirk Krampe)
Date: 6 Jun 95 17:46:59 MET
I would like to create incremental dumps of a disk and write the dumps in
dump-files located on the disk to backup. These dump-files should then be excluded
during the next dumps but this seems to be not possible because I would have to
modify the time of the last inode-change of these dump-files.
Any suggestion on this problem?
Thanks
Dirk
---
===================================================================
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Universitaet Basel ++49 7621 77909 (private)
Institut fuer Informatik / WWZ fax: ++41 61 267 3251
Petersgraben 51 email: krampe@ifi.wwz.unibas.ch
CH-4051 Basel (NeXT-Mail accepted)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/4 States
Message-ID: <1995Jun6.194045.11821@norden1.com>
Sender: news@norden1.com (Net News Admin)
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 19:40:45 GMT
Position-------------------System Administrator
Platform-------------------NEXTSTEP
Type of positions----------Career positions
Type of companies----------Major
Level of experience--------Various
Opportunity----------------Excellent
Areas----------------------Mid-West/South-east/Mid_Atlantic
To be considered-----------Fax resume or mail a hard copy
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: besler@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com (Steve Besler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Date: 06 Jun 1995 17:13:00 GMT
Organization: Motorola - Wireless Data Group; Seattle, WA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <BESLER.95Jun6101301@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com>
References: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net> <3qvtsv$moh@news.next.com>
In-reply-to: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM's message of 5 Jun 1995 21:45:03 GMT
In article <3qvtsv$moh@news.next.com> Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar) writes:
> In article <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net> james@emerald.netrix.net (James R.
> Pooton) writes:
>> Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
>> NeXTstep?
>
>There's a commercial package to do this as well, called MailBack. I have a
>demo I snarfed off the company's server. However, I can't remember the name
>of the company or the server address. :)
>
>Can anyone else help?
Yes. The company's name is Dancing Bear Enterprises. (Pretty easy name to
remember, I'd say! :-) The name of the software is MAiLBACK. I just cut 'n
pasted the following from their web Page:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
How To Contact Dancing Bear Enterprises...
Orders: Order Form E-mail: orders@dancingbear.com
Sales Support: sales@dancingbear.com
General Information (human) info@dancingbear.com
Product & Service Information: DBE's MAiLBACK server provides the most
up-to-date information on DBE's products and services. To use this
service, simply send an email message to mailback@dancingbear.com.
Please specify help on the subject line and you will receive complete
instructions on how to use the MAiLBACK server. A message with a
subject of index will return an overview of available information.
For Product Demos and General Information via FTP:
ftp://ftp.maui.com/pub/dancingbear/
World Wide Web (WWW) Home Page
http://www.dancingbear.com/
Street Address
Dancing Bear Enterprises, Inc.
Maui Research and Technology Center
590 Lipoa Parkway
Kihei, Hawaii 96753
USA
808 875-2456 (voice)
808 874-3650 (fax)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Have fun!
Steven Besler
--
Steven Besler, Coop Student "I do not speak for Motorola."
Motorola Wireless Data Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dag Hasvold <boots@falch.no>
Subject: Converting fonts from Windows to NEXTStep
Message-ID: <1995Jun7.075914.13606@falch.no>
Organization: Falch Infotek, Oslo, Norway
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 07:59:14 GMT
Hi,
Is there any tools/methods for converting Windows fonts to NEXTStep 3.2?
Best Regards,
--
--------------------- http://www.falch.no/~boots/ ----------------------
--- Dag Hasvold <boots@falch.no>, NeXT Mail: <boots@dream.falch.no> ---
--- Falch Infotek, PO.Box 130 Kalbakken, N-0902 Oslo, Norway ---
------------ Phone: +47 22 90 27 31, Fax: +47 22 90 25 99 -------------
From: james@emerald.netrix.net (James R. Pooton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: How do I increase my I-NODE count further?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 22:26:00 GMT
Organization: Netrix Internet System Design, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r591o$1sa@ruby.netrix.net>
Hello all,
I have a Seagate Barracuda 4GB drive (ST15150N) that I am using for a
Usenet news spool drive. I followed various sources to create a disktab
for it with 2 2GB partitions. I got it up and running and soon found that
drive space wasn't going to a limiting factor for news service, but rather
the # of available i-nodes was. (I only had around 250,000 total on both
partitions combined.)
Well, I then reformatted it, tweaking the ca# and cb# (partition
cylinders-per-group) in the disktab to 16 which doubled my count.
I then began adjusting da# and db# (partition density (bytes-per-inode))
in my disktab to be around 2-4K to try and increase it further (I would
like around 1,500,000 i-nodes). But every time I tried formatting it would
say that that size wasn't possible, and would default back to a da# and
db# of about 7K.
Is there any way to crank up the number of I-nodes on this drive up
further?
Is their some equation I should be using to calculate da# and db# that is
acceptable?
Here is a copy of my disktab currently (have tried quite a few):
ST15150N|ST15150N-512|SEAGATE ST15150N-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3711:nt#21:ns#99:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=mach_kernel:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#2048:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#4194304:sb#4184304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#16:db#2048:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
ANY help is greatly appreciated...
Have a good one :-)
--
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James R. Pooton President/Technical Director
mailto:james@netrix.net Netrix Internet System Design, Inc.
(NeXTmail & MIME Welcome) http://www.netrix.net
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From: tec@alumni.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS app to play on an IPX network?
Date: 6 Jun 1995 20:41:15 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Alumni Association
Message-ID: <3r2ehb$rv4@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <3qnjpi$j5g@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <1995Jun3.085128.1015@seer.demon.co.uk>
In article <1995Jun3.085128.1015@seer.demon.co.uk>,
Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com> wrote:
>You can just add IP hosts to an IPX network, and they won't interfere. I
>don't know about the FireFox, but the Cisco should certainly tolerate
>mixed IP/IPX. It is normally considered polite, however, to let the
>campus net police know that you are going to do this, and to ask them to
>allocate IP addresses for you. I'd expect them to get *really* pissed if
>you didn't alert them first.
>
It's not really an issue of alerting them, since we've been given a line
into the hub and told we're free to tie in thru the FireFox just like any
random PC. The FireFox dynamically assigns one of a (very) few addresses
to people on demand, and apparently *all* traffic goes thru the FireFox
to the Cicso (it's really a campus-wide PC network that also has a
gateway downtown (big 56k) for general internet access.
For us to talk to the Cisco would certainly be ideal, but that's under
control of a different department and they apparently have no interest
or incentive to support us (after all, that's what the FireFox is for...).
So, I would most like to find an app that lets a NeXT gateway for the
NeXT cluster into the IPX world of the FireFox. I don't need to look like
a random PC for covert purposes, only for the practical purposes of that
being all they know how to deal with!
>This can be done by attaching the 10base-T line to a hub, or to a bridge
>of your own. Dedicated hardware for this is reasonably cheap, and it
>works, and has useful flashing lights on the outside so that you can see
>it is still working.
>
There is a hub provided that we have a 10Base-T line to. Maybe I just need
to call tech support at FireFox and find out if it'll dynamically understand
IP chat without the FireFox admin folk having to sweat any configuration
changes or other high-brow things;).
>> Is it workable to just add a second ethernet card to the server (being
>> as it's white hardware)?
>
>Can be done, depending upon the network driver you use. NeXT don't
>support it, though.
>
It's all just stock NeXT at this point, so I guess that's out. Maybe if
the FireFox happily reads IP and/or ignores stray IP on our 10base-T line
into the local hub...guess I'm still back to doing the other guy's work
for him..:(.
Any more ideas or pointers would be welcome!
Thanks-
tec
From: Jesus M. Izquierdo <72332.3705@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.alt.binaries.next,de.alt.sources.next,de.comp.sys.next,fr.comp.sys.next
Subject: NEXT PEOPLE NEEDED IN MADRID
Date: 5 Jun 1995 09:10:57 GMT
Organization: KROP AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEMS
Message-ID: <3quhn1$g8c$3@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>
Need people with experience in NextStep for Intel in Madrid for
occassional projects. English/Spanish languages.
Please answer with personal E-mail to:
72332.3705@compuserve.com
Or Tel: 34 1 6779774
Fax: 34 1 6772649
Jesus Izquierdo
From: besler@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com (Steve Besler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Differential SCSI Questions
Date: 06 Jun 1995 23:56:49 GMT
Organization: Motorola - Wireless Data Group; Seattle, WA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <BESLER.95Jun6165650@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com>
Can a NeXTSTATION Turbo use "differential SCSI" drives?
What is the benefit of differential SCSI?
Thanks in advance
Steve.
--
Steven Besler, Coop Student "I do not speak for Motorola."
Motorola Wireless Data Group
From: jcr@best.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screwy PPP behaviour.
Date: 6 Jun 1995 17:44:41 -0700
Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378
Message-ID: <jcr.802485500@shell1.best.com>
Summary: It's up, but I can't ping the gateway!
I'm getting very strange behaviour from PPP-2.2.
I can call up my ISP and the link apparently happens, 'ifconfig ppp0'
reports that the link is up, and netstat shows me all the right entries,
the echo packets are getting exchanged every few seonds, but I CAN'T PING
THE PEER!
Anyone else seen this problem?
advTHANKSance,
-jcr
Further details:
NeXT slab, 25mzh, USR Sportster 28,800 modem, using /dev/cufb @ 38400 baud,
the connect script works, nothing on my ethernet port, and ping claims
that the network is down.
AAAARRRGGGH!
From: dmedhi@aazoli.cstp.umkc.edu (Deep Medhi +1 816 235 2006)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Q - Why /dev/sd0a identical to swapfile in NS 3.3 on Black?
Date: 6 Jun 1995 18:33:03 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Message-ID: <3r270v$1og@kasey.umkc.edu>
While I did 'df' on my NeXTstation which I loaded very recently with NS 3.3,
I got the following:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/private/vm/swapfile 402253 294450 67577 81%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
/dev/sd0a 402253 294450 67577 81% /
Q: why is sd0a identical to swapfile? I don't think I had it this way when I
was running NS 2.1. Should I be concerned about it?
Thanks.
Deep Medhi
Univ of Missouri-Kansas City
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: me coming from nowhere?!
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:04:58 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <950608000458.2811AACUa.malc@daneel>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
For some reason one of our machines seems to think the "me" account exists,
and so because it hasn't got a passwd, immediately after rebooting it logs
straight in as "me". Now "me" doesn't exist anywhere on the network,
honest, and I can't give "me" a passwd as the account doesn't exist. The
only way I can get round this is by *creating* "me" and then choosing a
passwd. Things work OK thereafter, but I don't want a "me", passwd or no
passwd. Has anybody else come across this? Any suggestions? Should I just
hose NetInfo and start over? (This has nothing to do with moving the
NetInfo master I asked about earlier... many thanks for replies to that
one.)
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Librarian NS 3.3 chokes!
Date: 7 Jun 1995 19:46:50 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3r5oaq$cjv@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: When I do searches Librarian chokes
Keywords: Librarian stalls
When I run a search, say through the unix and man pages, Librarian chokes after it coughs up a list of pages, but still races through more files.
Console says:
Jun 7 19:45:33 scf Librarian[1692]: filter dispatch: message receive error (-203)
(repeatedly)
Does anyone have idea as to problem?
Matthew
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk
Subject: Re: xx bit colour: confused, what about alpha? (almost there)
Message-ID: <D9tAzq.5F9@isltd.insignia.com>
Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com
Organization: Insignia Solutions plc
References: <3r0e1m$ld4@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 16:55:01 GMT
In article <3r0e1m$ld4@gap.cco.caltech.edu> ccwf@locke.klab.caltech.edu
(Charles Fu) writes:
>
> BTW, I am curious if the Interceptor works in RGB:444/16 video mode
(possible
> with the Canon Objectstation and Number9GXE 64Pro drivers?). Could
someone
> with such a machine test an X server or SoftPC to see if the
Interceptor works?
>
Interceptor works in those modes, but NOT transparently ie the developer
has to recognise the mode, and program differently for the two different
systems.
I haven't actually looked into this stuff much (at least not the low
level stuff), but if you look in the SoftPC wrapper you will find
msw12444 and msw12555 - different versions of the windows driver for the
different interceptor depths.
Ian
From: robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adresse von Daydream ?
Date: 8 Jun 1995 11:58:20 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Berne, Switzerland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r6oks$1ei@aragorn.unibe.ch>
References: <3r5r25$7v6@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Salut!
Weiss jm hier die Adresse von DAYDREAM? Waere froh darum....
---
sweet dreams
Philippe Robert
,,,
(o o)
------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo------------------------------
robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch PRO@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch
From: droux@info.isbiel.ch (Nicolas Droux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NEXTSTEP/Intel machine as a gateway
Date: 8 Jun 1995 12:23:17 GMT
Organization: Biel School of Engineering, CH-2501 Biel, Switzerland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r6q3l$5ev@vega.info.isbiel.ch>
Hi there,
We are about to install a network of 18 NEXTSTEP machines based on
Pentium-100. In order to reduce the network traffic, we'd like to
"isolate" this network by using some kind of gateway.
We don't want however to buy a separate router but we'd like to know if it
would be possible to use the NetInfo server for this network as a gateway
by installing two network interfaces (Intel EtherExpress) in it.
I now that this should be possible but we'd be very thankful if somebody
could tell us more about this procedure, especially if there's something
particular we should take care about.
We'd be glad to hear from you if you're already working with a similar
architecture.
Thanks,
Nicolas.
---
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Biel School of Engineering CH-2501 Biel-Bienne
Computer Science Dpt Switzerland
droux@info.isbiel.ch (MIME/NeXTMail) Tel: +41 32 266 314
http://www.isbiel.ch/~don/ Fax: +41 32 266 523
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From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to move an existing Netinfo server to another machine?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 16:32:16 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r4kag$epd@news.next.com>
References: <950605105614.354AACUK.malc@daneel>
Here is a standard pre-NEXTSTEP 3.3 way to move the master server of a
domain from host aardvark to host zippy. This method uses command-line
utilities, since that's easier for me to type.
If you have NEXTSTEP 3.3, you can skip all this and use the "Servers"
panel (see the "Domain" menu) to re-organize servers. You can still do it
the old way if you prefer.
I'll assume that the database tag for this domain on aardvark is network,
and that larry, curly, and moe all have clones, all with the tag network.
I'll also assume that zippy doesn't have a clone, but that zippy's name
and IP address are properly recorded in the domain.
Step 1: Make a clone of aardvark's network database on zippy.
aardvark:1# niutil -createprop -t aardvark/network \
/machines/zippy serves ./network
zippy:1# nidomain -c network aardvark/network
Step 2: Make sure larry, curly, and moe are running
aardvark:2# niutil -read -t larry/network /
master: aardvark/network
aardvark:3# niutil -read -t curly/network /
master: aardvark/network
aardvark:4# niutil -read -t moe/network /
master: aardvark/network
Step 3: Make zippy/network the master
aardvark:5# niutil -createprop -t aardvark/network \
/ master zippy/network
Step 4: Wait for larry, curly, moe, and zippy to get the update
aardvark:6# niutil -read -t larry/network /
master: zippy/network
aardvark:7# niutil -read -t curly/network /
master: zippy/network
aardvark:8# niutil -read -t moe/network /
master: aardvark/network
aardvark:9# niutil -read -t moe/network /
master: aardvark/network
aardvark:10# niutil -read -t moe/network /
master: zippy/network
aardvark:11# niutil -read -t zippy/network /
master: zippy/network
Step 5: Reboot aardvark, larry, curly, moe, and zippy
aardvark:12# reboot
larry:1# reboot
curly:1# reboot
moe:1# reboot
zippy:2# reboot
Step 5 (alternate): If a server is running NEXTSTEP 3.3, you can
easily restart NetInfo with:
aardvark:12# kill -HUP `cat /etc/nibindd.pid`
The biggest cause of problems is not waiting for the changed "master"
property to propagate to all the servers, or doing this when one of the
clones is down. It's critical to make sure all clones are up, and that
they all have been updated before restarting them.
If an update seems to be taking much too long, you can force a database
re-synchronization with:
aardvark# niutil -resync -t aardvark/network
Do this only once! It will start a new round of update propagation.
Repeating it will just hammer on the server, and slow everythng down.
--
Marc Majka
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lacsap@sledge-hammer.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Message-ID: <1995Jun8.135154.194@media.mit.edu>
Keywords: serial drivers
Sender: news@media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:51:54 GMT
NeXT just put their new serial port drivers on their
WWW site...
http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2001.htmld/2001.html
There are three parts:
- ISAserial driver which you instantiate one per physical
device (com1...) These can be on board or PCMCIA
- Portserver which maps the physical devices to appropriate
unix TTY devices
- SerialMouse driver for this ensemble
I am running all three, and it is nice.
pasc
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 serial driver
Date: 7 Jun 1995 23:33:25 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r5r25$7v6@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
charlesa@mpn.com writes:
>Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
>modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
>progress? NeXTANSWERS claims there is a completely rewritten one for 3.3 due
>in Q2, but has anyone seen it? Or anyone else got a patch?
There seems to be a whole bunch of new port drivers in the beta section of
NextAnswers. Numbers 1942 thru 1947 are the ones you want to get.
Later, John
From: Alexander.Hauer@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Alexander Hauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Q: Solaris24 - NS32 NFS automounting very slow
Date: 7 Jun 1995 09:42:03 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <3r3s9b$17bc@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Keywords: NFS Solaris24 automounting
Hi,
I have a problem connecting a Sparc Solaris2.4 system with black NS32 systems.
Other systems ( as SGI Indigo running IRIX 4.05 or IRIX 5.3 ) work fine.
The NeXTs are running Netinfo and the other machines get their information with
NIS (as an extract of the unix files from the netinfo database and one of the
Silicons is the NIS master).
The different systems are automounted on the clients and the directories are
exported on the servers.
On the NeXT the command
next> ls /Net/sparc
works fine without delay,
on the Sparc the command
sparc> ls /net/next
returns NFS server next not responding still trying...
and after about 3 minutes and 2 retries the connection is established.
The rpcinfo command returns:
next> rpcinfo -u sparc nfs
program 100003 version 2 ready and waiting
sparc> rpcinfo -u next nfs
program 100003 version 2 ready and waiting
NeXT | Sparc | what happens
-------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------
client | server | works fine
server | client | NFS server not responding still trying (2 or 3 times ) then
| | the connection is established and works fine until
| | the NeXT gets unmounted again
Does anybody know what I am missing?
ANY HELP IS WELCOME!!!
Thanks in advace.
Alex.
P.S.: Pleas reply also by e-mail
From: gfoulon@gfoulonhome (Gael Foulon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: non NextPrinters...
Date: 8 Jun 1995 08:51:15 GMT
Organization: ImagiNET Public Access Internet Service
Message-ID: <3r6dm3$1jl@avalon.imaginet.fr>
Dear NeXTStep users & administrators,
I have a little problem to replace our NextLaser printers with
some new and faster PostScript Printers.
I think, I'm not the only one who have this problem so...
Do you use or know some printers which well-recognize
a network connection (like AppleLaserWriter16-600PS or
HP LaserJet4MPlus) and fully-usable with NextStep ???
I'm trying to use the LaserWriter16-600PS which run perfectly
when you just have to print documents on A4 Tray (yes I'm french)
and there's paper in the printer and you don't want to kill
a previous request or use manual feed...
I declare the printer in NetInfo (ip adress in /machines and I copy
a standard exported printer in /printers using the printername in rm
parameter).
Please, if you have a NonNext-Printer connected via network,
can you tell me how (or if you can it actually with specific
configurations) :
* Handling manual-feed ?
* Ask for more than one copies on the PrintPanel ?
* Access and manage the print queue through PrintManager ?
* Have the print alerts panels (such as paper-out or paper-jammed) ?
Thanks you for your help.
Gael FOULON
gfoulon@imaginet.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: me coming from nowhere?!
In-Reply-To: mmalcolm Crawford's message of Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:04:58 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun8142352@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <950608000458.2811AACUa.malc@daneel>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 18:23:52 GMT
Try this:
% nidump passwd /
% nidump passwd .
% cat /etc/passwd
% ypcat passwd
If "me" isn't in any of those places, you probably should replace NetInfo with a virgin copy and rebuild it.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: mconners@coil.com (Michael Conners)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Majordomo problem NS3.0 black
Date: 7 Jun 1995 21:08:54 -0400
Organization: Central Ohio Internet Link, Inc. (614)242-3814
Message-ID: <3r5ij6$fvs@bronze.coil.com>
I've installed majordomo 1.93 on my NS3.0 black station, and get the
following message when I try to test the system...
aegis:270# echo help | mail -v majordomo
majordomo... aliased to "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
"|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"... Connecting to (prog)...
sh: 1649 Memory fault
"|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"... 554 unknown mailer error 139
owner-majordomo... aliased to mconners, nobody
nobody... aliased to /dev/null
/dev/null... Sent
mconners... Connecting to (local)...
mconners... Sent
I get the following message emailed to me...
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"... 554 unknown mailer error 139
Anyone?
--
Michael Conners *** mconners@bronze.coil.com ***
"Giving power and money to Congress is like giving liquor and keys to
the car to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
http://www.coil.com/~mconners/
From: csp@colada.ohm.york.ac.uk (Colin Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: problems with loginwindow dying
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 8 Jun 1995 09:23:06 GMT
Organization: CSEG, University of York, UK.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r6fhq$hlh@mailer.york.ac.uk>
References: <3q26l2$efe@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
In article <3q26l2$efe@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Rick Gray (rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu) wrote:
>We've recently had a series of problems on many of our Nextstep
>machines. The problem is independent of hardware (occurring so far on
>a 25 MHz cube, 25 MHz slab, Color turbo, and 100 MHz Pentium). In each
>case, upon logout, no login window appears. Checking
>/usr/adm/messages shows they all contain similar messages:
We've got the same problem here (only happened once to us so far
though....). In our /usr/adm/messages we got the following (edited to
remove date/hostname so it fits on one line):
loginwindow[219]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
loginwindow[219]: error loading packages
loginwindow[219]: netinfo problem 9999, - Communication failure
loginwindow[219]: creating new loginImage
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: invalidid; OffendingCommand: currentwindowdict ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: winexec ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: windowdeviceround ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setgstate ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: currentgstate ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: winexec ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setgstate ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: winexec ]%%
loginwindow[219]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: activeApp ]%%
This machine is our netinfo master, and the other machines on the net
are running fine, so I find it a little odd that the errors suggest
netinfo problems.
>In short, I'm baffled and am asking for help to try to correct this
>problem.
Baffled too..... Anyone got any ideas?
>--
>Rick Gray, Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine,
>Houston, Tx 77030 | Phone:(713) 798-3346 | Fax: (713) 799-8544
>Internet: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu | NeXTMail accepted
--
Colin Perkins
Computer Systems Engineering Group, Email: csp@ohm.york.ac.uk
Department of Electronics, Phone: (+44) 1904 432379
University of York, York, UK. WWW: http://asegweb.ohm.york.ac.uk/csp/
Date: 7 Jun 1995 20:47:50 GMT
From: ts4@iis.joanneum.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <cancel.ts4_470@piis10.joanneum.ac.at>
Control: cancel <ts4_470@piis10.joanneum.ac.at>
Subject: cmsg cancel <ts4_470@piis10.joanneum.ac.at>
Excessive multi-posting (aka spam) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: 3.3 serial driver
Date: 7 Jun 1995 21:13:01 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3r54ot$g04@news.next.com>
References: <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Versions: makemail 2.8b
In article <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>,
<charlesa@mpn.com> wrote:
>Hi -
>
>Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
>modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
>progress? NeXTANSWERS claims there is a completely rewritten one for 3.3 due
>in Q2, but has anyone seen it? Or anyone else got a patch?
NeXTanswers
1942_ISA_Serial_Port.pkg.compressed
1943_ISA_Serial_Port_Driver_Overview.rtf
1944_SerialPointingDevice.pkg.compressed
1945_Serial_Pointing_Device_Driver_Overview.rtf
1946_PortServer.pkg.compressed
1947_Port_Server_Driver_Overview.rtf
--Dan
--
Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in Bld1, back, Rside
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 7 Jun 1995 23:02:13 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software
Message-ID: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>
What are the odds you could simply replace the default SerialPorts driver
with Mux... I know some people have tried, but what did they do? Did they
simply re-name "Mux" to SerialPorts? (I understand that part of the problem
has to do with the name "SerialPorts" being hard-coded into the
Configure.app...) Why wouldn't this work? How can we _make_ it work?
The reason I'm asking is due to the _crappy_ support the standard SerialPorts
driver provides. Besides the fact that it won't handle higher speeds, it
doesn't allow me to set IRQs other than 3,4 for COM1/COM2. Since I need to
setup a third serial port, and the only other available IRQ _it_ supports is
used either by my SoundBlaster (IRQ5) or my parallel port (IRQ7), I can't
really use it without disabling one of the first two ports (which is not
really what I _want_ to do). So the _best_ answer would be to replace
"SerialPorts" with a driver that actually _works_, and is at least as
configurable as the hardware it supposedly supports.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin D. Wilson robin@pencom.com Pencom Software
701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Q - Why /dev/sd0a identical to swapfile in NS 3.3 on Black?
In-Reply-To: dmedhi@aazoli.cstp.umkc.edu's message of 6 Jun 1995 18:33:03 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun6231022@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3r270v$1og@kasey.umkc.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 03:10:22 GMT
You need not worry. This is normal. It is telling you that your swapfile
resides on your primary SCSI disk. If you have a secondary hard drive, you
can make it a swapdisk or put the swapfile on it. Depending on the speed of
the secondary drive, it should improve performance and provide a small degree
of protection should your disk ever fill up.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Stop _automatic_ mounts of extra SCSI Disks...
In-Reply-To: robin@pencom.com's message of 5 Jun 1995 12:35:41 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun6231755@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3qutmt$1d03@digdug.pencom.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 03:17:55 GMT
Robin,
Someone already answered the first question. Here's a stab at the second...
You need to create a small 7MB partition on your IDE drive. This will allow
you to choose between NEXTSTEP and DOS/Windows without having to disable your
IDE controller. I think the other systems will show up on the boot manager
but I'm not sure. See NeXTanswers for more details.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Jeff_Sickel@sickel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Perl5.001e for HP PA-RISK anyone
Date: 7 Jun 1995 03:47:23 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
Message-ID: <3r37gb$3pj@news3.digex.net>
Keywords: Perl5, NeXTSTEP, HP
Hello,
I've been running into some problems trying to install (build)
perl5.001 on my HP with NeXTSTEP 3.3. The build worked flawlessly on
the Intel I built it on, but fails out within the av.h files.
The error is that Ssize_t is undefine after the long and painfull
configure process. Ssize_t is #defined all over the place in the
source that is built, but a make pukes on it.
Any suggestions?
Jeff_Sickel@sickel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Subject: NEXTSTEP/Sr System Admin/DC Area
Message-ID: <1995Jun7.133245.3936@norden1.com>
Sender: news@norden1.com (Net News Admin)
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:32:45 GMT
Position-------------System Administrator
Platform--------------NEXTSTEP
Experience required----3yrs+ commercial --Design experience.
Type of position--------Carer position
Type of company----------Major
Opportunity---------------Excellent
Area-----------------------DC area
To be considered------------Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax]
The Omni Group (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Date: 7 Jun 1995 19:19:18 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r4u3m$clm@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I've got a small local area network with a Mac running 7.5.1 and a
white Nextstep machine with 3.2. I have the Mac connected to the LAN
using a small box from the SCSI port. I normally have Ethernet
connection selected in the Chooser on the Mac.
I never see the touted Appletalk icon appear in the Preferences on the
Nextstep machine. I've rebooted, etc. I've turned on Appletalk on the
Mac, selected Ethertalk, etc., but still no icon on the Nextstep
machine. How do I get appletalk to work between them?
Do I need Appleshare? Where do I get that?
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring sendmail for sending mail via ppp
Date: 7 Jun 1995 14:58:04 GMT
Organization: The SenseMedia Network, http://sensemedia.net/, info@sensemedia.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r4ept$iom@emerald.oz.net>
I need some guidance converting my uucp mail feed to ppp. I've
installed ppp-2.2 and PopOver which both work to retrieve mail. But I
really don't want to dive into sendmail.cf until I understand what I'm
trying to accomplish :-)
Can someone send me a "recipe"? My ppp client machine is configured
as a NetInfo mail server and uses sendmail.mailhost.cf with uucp. Which
sendmail.*.cf should I use with ppp? How do I need to modify the supplied
sendmail.*.cf?
It would also be nice to be able to configure sendmail.cf to fire up
pppd immediately when it sees certain email addresses being sent. I have
my uucp sendmail.cf set up this way so that when I send mail to someone in
my company, the message leaves immediately which all other outgoing mail
waits for my next cron-driven poll.
Thanks for your help.
---
Art Isbell NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com
NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Trego Systems Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care USmail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
From: Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: httpd CPU usage
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:40:24 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950607003635.15001C-100000@avocado>
References: <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu> <3qbp9c$a3t@news.next.com> <D9KCMt.DDp@ns1.nodak.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <D9KCMt.DDp@ns1.nodak.edu>
Hi, all,
I was running NCSA's httpd 1.4 on our P5/60 NS 3.2 1gb/32mb NEC
machine with the pre-forking ON and it beat my machine black and blue.
It's the university's Arts & Sciences web server so I suppose it had a
relatively high access count.
I'd start it up in the am and w/i 8 hrs the load would skyrocket to
10+ and panic. I played kill-the-process for about two weeks and then
said "forget it" and turned off the pre-forking option.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm very very pleased with NCSA's httpd and
I've used it on our black hardware since 1.0. I was astounded by the
performance increase w/ 1.4 pre-forking and would have liked to use it,
but it EATS my NSI 3.2 machine up. Our vendor said "get 3.3" as a
solution. Oh well. I'll try again when we upgrade. Until then it's 1.4
no-pre-forking.
PS. I have NCSA's httpd 1.4 w/ preforking working just fine on black.
Just my 2 bits.
__________________________________________________________
___ G. Hussain Chinoy
/\__\ Head Consultant, Postmaster, & Webmaster
\/__/ Arts & Sciences Computing
NEXTSTEP Washington University in St. Louis
net hussain@artsci.wustl.edu 314/935-4353 vox
web http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/ 314/935-5799 fax
On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Chadwick A. Dubuque wrote:
> In article <3qbp9c$a3t@news.next.com>, Dan Grillo <grio@next.com> wrote:
> >In article <3q5krr$9k4@news.nd.edu>,
> >George B. Ross <gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu> wrote:
> >>I was thinking of installing the httpd package from
> >>ftp.cs.orst.edu on my NeXT Turbo Cube with NeXTdimension.
> >>What kind of load increase should I expect to see on my CPU
> >>for WWW pages that are accessed about 30 times a day and
> >>are mostly text. Will I see a drastic slowdown of my own
> >>computational work (small numerical problems tested before
> >>being shipped off to bigger machines) or will it be hard
> >>to see any difference?
> >
> >You'll never even notice.
>
> I'll second that. Our httpd has used 1:27 CPU time (in ~5 days), according
> to ps(1), and according to the logs in that time has served 6349 files and
> 559 failed attempts. Plus the process is niced, so it shouldn't interrupt
> regular processes.
>
>
> --
> Chadwick A. Dubuque cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu
> http://www.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu/~cdubuque/ finger for PGP pub. key
> postal:USA/58105-5164/ND/Fargo/IACC 258 NDSU Box 5164/Chad Dubuque
>
>
From: deviant@sehjas (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP 712/80 Serial woes on NeXTSTEP 3.3
Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:04:58 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
Message-ID: <3r837a$q26@news3.digex.net>
Has anyone out there been able to attach anything to the serial port
on the HP 712/80 running NEXTSTEP 3.3?
I've tried, but then a 'tip fa9600' locks up the whole machine.
That pretty much wipes any posability of putting a modem or printer on
the machine.
All suggestions appriciated.
Jeff Sickel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: 10BaseT and Coax at the same time?
In-Reply-To: mickey@va.pubnix.com's message of 8 Jun 1995 11:25:37 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun8210627@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3r74ph$49i@pub01.va.pubnix.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:06:27 GMT
No. There is only one Ethernet interface in the system. You can only select
between the two jacks.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: anyone had any luck w/dvips -D600?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:49:33 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Message-ID: <JBRYANS.95Jun8174933@tern.csulb.edu>
I tried editing MakeTeXPK to replace the 635 w/600, not knowing what to use
as a MODE string for 600. It kind'a worked, but quite a few fonts couldn't
be made at 600 dpi, so metafont backed off to 480. A few got backed off as
far as 100!
If it matters, the stuff being dvips'd were various gnu .dvi's.
Jack
From: mikef@flood.xnet.com (Mike Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NCSA HTTP v 1.4.1?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 02:34:24 GMT
Organization: XNet - A Full Service Internet Provider - (708) 983-6064
Message-ID: <3r8bvh$koi@flood.xnet.com>
References: <3r0mu7$asi@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Donald E McCollam (mccollam@Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: Hi. I like to bring up NCSA's HTTP server on either my NeXTcube or my NS/I
: box. Unfortuately "NeXT" is not a make option. I'd appreciate any guidance
: on this. [Or, Feel free to suggest any other HTTP server that offers the same
: basic features as v 1.4.1. I will need to be using Perl5 scripts to access
: Sybase via sybPerl. I don't know anything about those at this point either!]
Yeah, I was going to submit my patches for the makefile for a "make next"
It's really easy. Try "make netbsd" This will fail because it will
attempt to link in a library: "-lcrypt". Simply remove this, and the
program will compile and run perfectly.
: Thanks!
: Don McCollam
Mike Fleming
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
From: tom@icgned.nl (Tom Hageman)
Subject: Re: 3.3 serial driver
Message-ID: <D9sKHD.1uA@icgned.nl>
Sender: news@icgned.nl
Organization: IC Group
References: <3r16b3$146p@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 07:22:24 GMT
In article <3r16b3$146p@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
wenzel@w3.pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel) writes:
> charlesa@mpn.com wrote:
>
> > Hi -
>
> > Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
> > modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
> > progress? NeXTANSWERS claims there is a completely rewritten one for 3.3 due
> > in Q2, but has anyone seen it? Or anyone else got a patch?
>
> There is Mux, and this is really a FAQ.
>
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/serial/Mux.1.7.s.tar.gz
This is the source distribution. If you don't have a developer system, an
easy-to-install binary package of Mux is available at:
ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/comp/next/NeGeN-1.0_Mux-1.7.I.b.tar.gz
From: patrickg@success.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NEXTSTEP/Intel machine as a gateway
Date: 8 Jun 1995 20:03:33 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
Message-ID: <3r7l2l$js2@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <3r6q3l$5ev@vega.info.isbiel.ch>
In <3r6q3l$5ev@vega.info.isbiel.ch>, droux@info.isbiel.ch (Nicolas Droux) writes:
<snip>
>We don't want however to buy a separate router but we'd like to know if it
>would be possible to use the NetInfo server for this network as a gateway
>by installing two network interfaces (Intel EtherExpress) in it.
My understanding of NextStep for Intel is that (as of 3.2 anyways) more than
one ethrenet card per machine is not supported. So, that probably means that
you are out of luck. It is however possible that this has changed in NS 3.3.
Another solution would be to use an old PC, even something as lowly as a 286
with 256K of RAM, with two net cards to achieve the same objective.
There is free software available on the Net to accomplish this, though I personally
have no experience using it. It is called PCRoute; there is another package that is
supposed to be similar, as well, called KBridge, or something like that.
I was surprised when I first found out that something as advanced as NS wouldn't
support two net cards...
Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrickg@success.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: non NextPrinters...
In-Reply-To: gfoulon@gfoulonhome's message of 8 Jun 1995 08:51:15 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun8142119@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3r6dm3$1jl@avalon.imaginet.fr>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 18:21:19 GMT
You need to specify a PPD in the "ty" field in NetInfo.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Converting fonts from Windows to NEXTStep
In-Reply-To: Dag Hasvold's message of Wed, 7 Jun 1995 07:59:14 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun9004437@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1995Jun7.075914.13606@falch.no>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 04:44:37 GMT
I seem to remember that Henry McGilton (info@trilithon.com) had such a utility.
Whether or not he is still in business, I don't remember.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates)
Subject: Help! Poor performance on Sparc floppy drive
Message-ID: <lorgbD9vG5C.7M1@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:41:35 GMT
Sender: lorgb@netcom9.netcom.com
It took 45 minutes to remove 1.2 meg file from the floppy.
I guess you get the picture.
Here is my configuration:
SPARCstation 20, 160M RAM, 1Gig Disk
Nextstep 3.3
I will appreciate if anyone has a hint/patch to speed up
the drive.
Thanks.
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:04:15 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r8h7v$139@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com> <1995Jun8.135154.194@media.mit.edu>
Keywords: serial drivers
lacsap@sledge-hammer.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
>There are three parts:
> - ISAserial driver which you instantiate one per physical
> device (com1...) These can be on board or PCMCIA
> - Portserver which maps the physical devices to appropriate
> unix TTY devices
> - SerialMouse driver for this ensemble
>I am running all three, and it is nice.
Could you please tell us how WELL (namely do they work well at 57kbps and
115kbs?) these new drivers work as compared to Mux?
Mux has been working really well, and before I go about disturbing sleeping
dogs, I'd like to make sure the new drivers are worth it.
I'd really appreciate an evaluation from anyone who has made the transition
from Mux to the new drivers. Do the new drivers have any annoying problems?
Thanks very much for any info,
Later, John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lacsap@sledge-hammer.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Message-ID: <1995Jun9.120139.25009@media.mit.edu>
Sender: news@media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
References: <3r8h7v$139@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 12:01:39 GMT
I have run the driver at 57,6k no problem, I can not comment
about higher than that. I can say I also needed the functionality
of serial mouse (seems smoother now), and pcmcia (works fine)...
If you are happy with Mux, that's great. This mainly for the
folks who complained about NeXT's shipped serial driver and
wanted it fixed (which I think they did a great job).
pasc
In article <3r8h7v$139@gandalf.rutgers.edu> kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu
(John Kheit) writes:
> Could you please tell us how WELL (namely do they work well at 57kbps
and
> 115kbs?) these new drivers work as compared to Mux?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Message-ID: <jlemonD9uzv0.Dz9@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 14:49:48 GMT
Sender: jlemon@netcom22.netcom.com
In article <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>,
Robin D. Wilson <robin@pencom.com> wrote:
>What are the odds you could simply replace the default SerialPorts driver
>with Mux... I know some people have tried, but what did they do? Did they
>simply re-name "Mux" to SerialPorts? (I understand that part of the problem
>has to do with the name "SerialPorts" being hard-coded into the
>Configure.app...) Why wouldn't this work? How can we _make_ it work?
Just install Mux, and use that instead of SerialPorts. The only case in
which you will still need SerialPorts is if you use a serial mouse -- the
mouse driver has hardcoded references to SerialPorts. But this isn't a
problem, since mice aren't high speed devices in the first place.
I have a machine here that is configured:
COM1: SerialPorts, SerialMouse
COM2,3,4: Mux, with a 28.8k modem on each port
Alternatively, NeXT appears to have released another batch of serial port
drivers via nextanswers -- I don't know how well these work, and am not
going to find out in the near future. (What I have works, so why switch?)
--
Jonathan
From: jahn@hamlet.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.com (Armin Jahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mount FS Netwide without portmapper
Date: 9 Jun 1995 15:10:14 GMT
Organization: debis Network Services GmbH
Message-ID: <3r9o8m$gpm@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
I want to mount several Filesystems without portmapper, because satan1.1.1 identified this method as a security hole. For any suggestions please mail to :
=====================================================================
Armin Jahn, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm,
Institute of Information Technology, Department of Text Understanding
Address: Wilhelm-Runge-Str.11, P.O. Box 23 60, 89013 Ulm, Germany
Fax: +49 731 505 4113
Email: armin.jahn@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
=====================================================================
Thanx in advance
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: me coming from nowhere?!
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 13:05:47 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950609140547.2811AACUo.malc@daneel>
References: <950608000458.2811AACUa.malc@daneel> <RDL.95Jun8142352@world.std.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
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Thanks for suggestions both posted and private. Some suggested I should
just give me a passwd and then log in as root then delete the user. I'd
actually done that first time round... I hadn't actually been able to give
me a passwd, though, as me didn't exist in the NetInfo database (local or
network). I had to create the account, then give it a passwd, then log out,
then delete it as root. I know I deleted it, because... What was odd was
that the account reappeared after the machine was rebooted... once again
without an entry in NetInfo, and no passwd!
I just tried Robert La Ferla's suggestion, and as soon as I tried nidump
passwd .
(as opposed to using NetInfoManager/UserManager) the account "appeared".
Now this is just plain odd! Has anyone ever seen anything like this at
all?!
Is the bit fairy just out to trash my sanity?
Maybe I just messed up months ago when I first removed the me account (as is
our standard practice as soon as macnines are installed) and for some reason
the problem's just surfaced?
Whatever, I think the suggestion of hosing the local NetInfo database
wins...
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: danie@nxtvad.core.org.za (Danie Malan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems with PPP2.2 and GateKeeper (and me?)
Date: 9 Jun 1995 14:21:26 GMT
Organization: PiX - Proxima information X-change
Message-ID: <3r9ld6$hl@foxbat.pix.za>
Keywords: PPP GateKeeper chat
Using tip to dial into the server from the client machine and overriding DTR as specified I get the 2 pppd processes to handshake just fine.
However, when I try to link using a chat script (with the same AT commands on both
modems) the modem on the client side drops the line when the server pppd process starts. It looks as if the chat process doesn't terminate properly.
I've had a look through the chat, uucico(1) and uucp(1) manual pages but no hints.
Any suggestions...?
Discounting above, ping, FTP,Telnet etc works fine until I start using modem speeds above 9600bps.
At 14400 the link seems to be ok but the moment I ping from the client things go funny.... and hang. The following messages appear on the client console:
Jun 8 17:28:30 localhost lookupd[106]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Jun 8 17:28:35 localhost lookupd[106]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Here's the PPP debug file:
====================================================================
un 8 17:27:59 localhost pppd[347]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Jun 8 17:28:01 localhost pppd[347]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cub
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0x2fdb1b33> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (296)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (a34172a6)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (296)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (a34172a6)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0x2fdb1b33> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 2f db 1b 33]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 296> <magic 0x57a4a4ba> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (296)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (a34172a6)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296> <magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 296> <magic 0x57a4a4ba> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 0
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x2 <addr 196.11.62.214>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: local IP address 196.11.62.214
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr 196.11.62.214> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 196.11.62.210> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: received ADDR
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (196.11.62.210)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: received COMPRESSTYPE
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (45)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: returning Configure-ACK
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr 196.11.62.210> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr 196.11.62.214> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 <addr 196.11.62.214> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: up
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: local IP address 196.11.62.214
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: remote IP address 196.11.62.210
#########################
#### Connected at:
#########################
#### local IP address is: 196.11.62.214
#########################
#### remote IP address is: 196.11.62.210
#########################
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ConfAck id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: Compression enabled
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 1
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:27 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x3]
Jun 8 17:28:27 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x3]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 2
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:40 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x4]
Jun 8 17:28:40 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x4]
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 3
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:57 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x5]
Jun 8 17:28:57 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x5]
Jun 8 17:29:03 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x6]
Jun 8 17:29:03 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x6]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 4
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 a3 41 72 a6]
====================================================================
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Danie Malan
CAIRO=NT+OPENSTEP
Using a dialup modem connection between a standalone and a server machine
I get (am the cause of ?) the following 2 problems:
Using tip to dial into the server from the client machine and overriding
DTR as specified I get the 2 pppd processes to handshake just fine.
However, when I try to link using a chat script (with the same AT commands
on both
modems) the modem on the client side drops the line when the server pppd
process starts. It looks as if the chat process doesn't terminate
properly.
I've had a look through the chat, uucico(1) and uucp(1) manual pages but
no hints.
Any suggestions...?
Discounting above, ping, FTP,Telnet etc works fine until I start using
modem speeds above 9600bps.
At 14400 the link seems to be ok but the moment I ping from the client
things go funny.... and hang. The following messages appear on the client
console:
Jun 8 17:28:30 localhost lookupd[106]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Jun 8 17:28:35 localhost lookupd[106]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC:
Timed out
Here's the PPP debug file:
====================================================================
un 8 17:27:59 localhost pppd[347]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Jun 8 17:28:01 localhost pppd[347]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cub
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0x2fdb1b33> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (296)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (a34172a6)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (296)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (a34172a6)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0x2fdb1b33> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 2f db 1b 33]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr
0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:02 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 296>
<magic 0x57a4a4ba> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MRU
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (296)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (a34172a6)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFACK.
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 296>
<magic 0xa34172a6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 296>
<magic 0x57a4a4ba> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr
0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 0
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x2 <addr
196.11.62.214>]
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: local IP address 196.11.62.214
Jun 8 17:28:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr
196.11.62.214> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr
196.11.62.210> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: received ADDR
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (196.11.62.210)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: received COMPRESSTYPE
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (45)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: (ACK)
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: returning Configure-ACK
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr
196.11.62.210> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr
196.11.62.214> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:07 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 <addr
196.11.62.214> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: ipcp: up
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: local IP address 196.11.62.214
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: remote IP address 196.11.62.210
#########################
#### Connected at:
#########################
#### local IP address is: 196.11.62.214
#########################
#### remote IP address is: 196.11.62.210
#########################
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ConfAck id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ConfAck id=0x2 <bsd v1 10>]
Jun 8 17:28:08 localhost pppd[347]: Compression enabled
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 1
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:19 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:27 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x3]
Jun 8 17:28:27 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x3]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 2
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:34 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:40 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x4]
Jun 8 17:28:40 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x4]
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 3
Jun 8 17:28:49 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:28:57 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x5]
Jun 8 17:28:57 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x5]
Jun 8 17:29:03 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [CCP ResetReq id=0x6]
Jun 8 17:29:03 localhost pppd[347]: sent [CCP ResetAck id=0x6]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 a3 41 72 a6]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: lcp: Echo-Request, Rcvd id 4
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 57 a4 a4 ba]
Jun 8 17:29:04 localhost pppd[347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 a3 41 72 a6]
====================================================================
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Danie Malan
CAIRO=NT+OPENSTEP
From: pait@lac.usp.br (Felipe M. Pait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: clone Netinfo server
Date: 9 Jun 1995 13:33:31 GMT
Organization: Universidade de Sao Paulo / Brasil
Message-ID: <3r9ijb$110@bee.uspnet.usp.br>
I have just installed the second Intel machine running NEXTSTEP in our
network. I didn't understand exactly what a clone Netinfo server is.
Specifically, I would like to know if it is possible to use the two
machines independently. For instance, if the master is sleeping (say
because someone decided to run MeSsydos on it for a while against my
better judgement...), can a network user log on to the clone server?
We didn't manage to do that, maybe we are making a mistake in the
configuration, or maybe it makes a difference in which order the machines
are booted? Or maybe that's not what a clone server is supposed to do?
The question is important, even with only two machines, because we're
considering moving some administrative tasks from NIS on a Sparc to
Netinfo - I'm asking a question about that on a separate posting, and
would appreciate hearing about any experiences.
Thanks,
Felipe M Pait
pait@lac.usp.br
From: pait@lac.usp.br (Felipe M. Pait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: moving system administration from NIS to NeXT's Netinfo
Date: 9 Jun 1995 13:33:33 GMT
Organization: Universidade de Sao Paulo / Brasil
Message-ID: <3r9ijd$11a@bee.uspnet.usp.br>
We have a network of eight Sparcstations and two 486 machines running
NEXTSTEP. Currently all administration - users, filesystems, and mail - is
done on the master Sun computer, except that the NeXT machines have their
own users. We are considering moving part of the administrative tasks -
user management specially - over to the NeXT machines under Netinfo.
The reasons are as follows:
1 - Our system administrator is leaving, with no prognosis of us being
able to hire a replacement.
2 - We are total amateurs, forced to do sysadmin work just because someone
has to do it, and I myself am taking a sabbatical next September.
3 - The system is pretty stable and works by itself, except we have a fair
number of grad and undergrad students coming in and out as users. Disk
space is being shared alright, and mail service works smoothly.
4 - Thanks to NeXT's admin tools, I believe I can explain to anyone in 15
minutes how to add and delete users. On the Sun the process is
nightmarishly mysterious to me, and no one in our group has the time or
inclination to learn, or the resources to hire someone.
NeXT's manuals describe how to do such a switchover, and it seems pretty
straightforward. Before doing so, I would like anyone who has experience
with such a setting - Netinfo as master for a network of Sparcstations -
to share her or his experience and advise me whether I should do that.
I'll try to post a compilation if there's interest.
Thanks in advance,
Felipe M Pait
pait@lac.usp.br
From: dean@thrall.com (Dean Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Panic message?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 16:42:42 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r9tm2$ans@news.halcyon.com>
Can someone tell me what this erro message means. I got up this moring and saw
a panic window at the login screen. It went as:
panic: (CPU 0) MMU invalid descripto during table walk
Any info appreciated,
dean
P.S. I think I am having HD problems. Could that cause this?
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From: jbf@mitre.org (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Differential SCSI Questions
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 16:04:41 -0500
Organization: Mitre
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <jbf-1006951604410001@mbppp2.mitre.org>
References: <BESLER.95Jun6165650@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com>
In article <BESLER.95Jun6165650@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com>, besler@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com (Steve Besler) wrote:
> Can a NeXTSTATION Turbo use "differential SCSI" drives?
> What is the benefit of differential SCSI?
SCSI drives have either a non-differential or a differential
interface circuit. For Seagate drives, the presence of a
D at the end of the drive model number indicates a
differential interface.
NeXT and Mac machines are designed for a non-differential
interface. Differential drives can be used with an adapter
card, not generally available. (Bason Computer @ 800-238-4453
sold some with a card they apparently designed and manufactured.
I have no idea if they would sell one without a drive that
needed it.)
My impression is that the differential interface is better
suited to long cable runs, but I have no idea what machines
actually require the technology. I have noticed that when I
use my differential drive (with adaptor) as a boot drive, it
spins down at the beginning of the boot sequence. Our Sparc 10
drive also does this. Seagate doesn't seem to know
why the spindown occurs. If anyone does, I'd be interested in the
answer. (It could also be something new in NS 3.3, but I
haven't found any mention of a SCSI command that has this
effect.)
Barney
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Subject: Re: Trying to setup *rsh*
References: <D9GGx5.BpC@coffeehaus.com>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:03:02 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Jun10.120302.8578@proximus.north.de>
In article <D9GGx5.BpC@coffeehaus.com>,
Stephane I. Matis <petergun@coffeehaus.com> wrote:
>I need some quick pointers.
>
>I tried to use 'rsh' and gnutar, so that I could backup using another
>machine. So far, I haven't had any success in cofiguring, as all I get is
>"Premission Denied".
Let's make an example:
Suppose your machine with the Tape is called "tapemach" and you want to
backup the directory hierarchy "dump_it" on the machine "private". You are
user "newby"
* You need an account on both machines.
* You need on the machine "tapemach" a file called .rhosts in your home
directory with this line in it:
private newby
* Go to the parent directory of "dump_it" on machine "private". (You are
logged in on "private"...)
* Type:
tar cvf - dump_it | rsh tapemach dd obs=126b of=<your_device>
What you have to know, of course, is what device you want to write the
backup onto. On a NEXTSTEP System, this could be "/dev/rst0", on a Slowlaris
machine, this could be "/dev/rmt/1".
So the two points are:
--> You need a .rhosts entry on each machine for each machine where you want
to execute r-commands. (Careful, though)
--> You execute the backup command locally and pipe it into a rsh.
Gerhard.
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From: matthews@fortress.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ghostscript printing
Date: 8 Jun 1995 22:05:44 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University
Message-ID: <3r7s7o$95e@ra.cc.wwu.edu>
If you have a non-postscript printer on a parallel port
nextstep-intel, and you rasterize your image with
ghostscript for your printer, how do you tell
nextstep to blast the bits to the printer?
Can you set this up to work with the print panel?
From: eek93@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Eren Kotan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Umount does not unmount root fs properly
Date: 11 Jun 1995 01:04:09 +0100
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Message-ID: <3rdbtp$nrj@davinci.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Hi all, recently my NeXTCube has started to exhibit this strange behaviour:
When I shut down the computer, and reboot, the initialization sequence
always performs a fsck disk check on my root(/) file system, even when
there is nothing wrong with it. It then reboots, OK.
Having had a browse in /usr/adm/messages, I can see a message from mach
saying that umount has failed to unmount the root file system:
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: Killing all processes
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: continuing
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: unmounting /Net ... done
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: unmounting galactus ... done
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: Root unmount FAILED
Jun 6 14:47:06 darkside mach: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
rebooting Mach...
Any help on this matter will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Eren Kotan
NeXTmail welcome at root@darkside.aladdin.co.uk
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disabling ip forwarding (SOLUTION)
Date: 8 Jun 1995 20:36:58 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r7n1a$id6@natasha.rmii.com>
net,
I posted a question a while back about disabling ip forwarding under NS.
I mistakenly thought that if I had a machine with two interfaces and a
default route pointed to one of them that only packets originating at this
machine would go out the default interface if ip_forwarding was turned
off. Paul Lynch explained this was not correct. Routing happens at the
application layer and has nothing to do with ip forwarding which is at the
kernel layer. I guess I still don't know what ip forwarding is, but I am
happy that my machine isn't doing it. ;^)
Here are the replies:
Paul Lynch:
IP forwarding is disabled in the kernel by default. I beleieve
(but haven't tested) that there is a boot: line kernel variable that
you can use, called ip_forwarding, that can be used to explicitly
set IP forwarding on or off.
and from Joel McClung
( source code to a simple program which opens /dev/kmem and adjusts the
setting of ip_forwarding )
From: mickey@va.pubnix.com (Mickey A. Lasky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 10BaseT and Coax at the same time?
Date: 8 Jun 1995 11:25:37 -0400
Organization: Pubnix Access Systems (Virginia)
Message-ID: <3r74ph$49i@pub01.va.pubnix.com>
Can the 10BaseT and the Coax ethernet plugs on a Turbo slab be both used
at the same time? I have never seen this done before (not to say that this
does not exist).
I am currently using the coax plug with my LAN and wanted to hook another
router up and the new router has a 10BaseT plug. Does anything special need
to be done to make the two plugs coexist peacefully?
------
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mickey@ita.org (NeXTMail welcomed)
http://www.ita.org/~dokk
"I like my meat so rare a skilled veterinarian would have a good chance of
bringing it back to life."
--- Bad beer commercial hear on the interstate.
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Run-away httpd processes
Date: 9 Jun 1995 15:17:58 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <3r9on6$10g0@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Hi
I've got NCSA's 1.4.1 httpd running on my slab, and I've been
having problems with the httpd processes running wild
and gobbling up cpu whenever someone aborts a connection
or an error occurs in a connection. The httpd runs as
nobody. Has anybody else encountered this and is there an
easy way to fix this?
Thanks
Eugene
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From: dean@thrall.com (Dean Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with NeXT slab
Date: 8 Jun 1995 21:13:54 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r7p6i$at7@news.halcyon.com>
I have been having a problem with my mono slab yesterday and today.
I got up this morning and noticed that the nmi window was stating that it
was killing all process. I tried to reboot from there, but it did nothing.
I had to eventually unplug the whole computer. It was the only thing that
worked. Coming back up it gave my a message that I did not understand.
I ran fsck again and here it is:
thrall:3# fsck
** /dev/rsd0a
** Currently Mounted on /
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
UNREF FILE I=9321 OWNER=root MODE=100644
SIZE=6685 MTIME=Jun 8 12:50 1995
CLEAR? n
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
11473 files, 153889 used, 43389 free (1237 frags, 5269 blocks, 0.6%
fragmentation)
File system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean.
Can someone tell me if it is ok to let fsck delete the offending file. Or how
to find out what that inode number contains. Could my HD be going bad? I did
hear some weird noise from it.
Any info that anyone could provide would be much appreciated.
Thanks in adance,
dean johnson
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From: suzawa@suzawa.anatomy.emory.edu (Satoru Uzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Converting fonts from Windows to NEXTStep
Date: 9 Jun 1995 16:16:38 GMT
Organization: Emory University
Message-ID: <3r9s56$and@moe.cc.emory.edu>
References: <1995Jun7.075914.13606@falch.no>
Dag Hasvold (boots@falch.no) wrote:
: Hi,
: Is there any tools/methods for converting Windows fonts to NEXTStep 3.2?
: Best Regards,
: --
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: --- Falch Infotek, PO.Box 130 Kalbakken, N-0902 Oslo, Norway ---
: ------------ Phone: +47 22 90 27 31, Fax: +47 22 90 25 99 -------------
Try MagicType.app. It converts both Windoz and Mac type 1 Postscript fonts
into NeXTSTEP fonts. It's quitck and neat program. The distributer is
Cube Informationssysteme GmbH. They can be reached at info@cube.de. A demo
is on 3rd Party Application CD-ROM from NeXT.
Enjoy
Satoru Uzawa, suzawa@unix.cc.emory.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: ella@stieltjes.smc.univie.ac.at (Emanuela Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: anyone had any luck w/dvips -D600?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 16:18:34 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Vienna, Dept. of Statistics, OR and Computer Methods
Message-ID: <3r9s8q$4tj0@ftp.univie.ac.at>
References: <JBRYANS.95Jun8174933@tern.csulb.edu>
Jack Bryans (jbryans@csulb.edu) wrote:
: I tried editing MakeTeXPK to replace the 635 w/600, not knowing what to use
: as a MODE string for 600. It kind'a worked, but quite a few fonts couldn't
: be made at 600 dpi, so metafont backed off to 480. A few got backed off as
: far as 100!
:
Unfortunately, it is not that easy. For dvips to generate
the fonts at the appropriate resolutions for another device, you need
to generate a new metafont base file (which is roughly the same as a
TeX format file). Luckily, this sounds harder than it actually is.
First, you need to go to /usr/lib/mf/inputs and edit next.mf (usually
you need to do this as root) and add the following for your device
(I'm just copying the definitions I use for my HP LaserJet 4, they may
not be perfect but they're good enough for me :-)
mode_def hpljiv = % Konrad's addition for an HP LaserJet 4.
proofing:=0; % no, we're not making proofs
fontmaking:=1; % yes, we are making a font
tracingtitles:=0; % no, don't show titles in the log
pixels_per_inch:=600;
blacker:=0; % Canon engine is black enough
fillin:=.2; % and it tends to fill in diagonals
o_correction:=.6; %
enddef;
and then dump a new plain.base. For that, do an
inimf plain
[konrad@maybreeze:/tmp] inimf plain
This is METAFONT, C Version 2.71 (INIMF)
(/usr/lib/mf/inputs/plain.mf
Preloading the plain base, version 2.0: preliminaries,
basic constants and mathematical macros,
macros for converting from device-independent units to pixels,
macros and tables for various modes of operation,
macros for drawing and filling,
macros for proof labels and rules,
macros for character and font administration,
and a few last-minute items.)
*
here, type
input next.mf
*input next.mf
(/usr/lib/mf/inputs/next.mf)
And after this, you're ready to dump a new base!
*dump
Beginning to dump on file plain.base
(base=plain 95.6.9)
1461 strings of total length 23388
5678 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1737&3802
548 symbolic tokens
Transcript written on plain.log.
TAHDAH! you just produced your new base file. this goes into
/usr/lib/mf/bases as mf.base and you're all set.
Now, edit MakeTeXPK accordingly, like in
elif test $BDPI = 600
then
MODE=hpljiv
else
put in after the line MODE=linosuper.
You now have all you need to generate the new fonts and
they should come out in the right resolution.
cheers,
//konrad
ps: there probably is a better mode_def for your device. You
might look into one of the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network)
sites for Karl Berry's mode_def list and look up your device.
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From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IT'S WORKING!!!!
Date: 10 Jun 1995 02:39:27 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Message-ID: <3rb0kv$ku2@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
my NeXT is now working! i managed to procure a NEC CDROM player and
reinstalled my OS. i successfully hooked up to our Ethernet LAN and all is
well. i'd like to thank those of you who attempted to assist me during my
period of frustration. on to OTHER problrems! :)
thanks! gracias! xiexie! merci!
From: kostya@osd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NEXTSTEP/Intel machine as a gateway
Date: 9 Jun 1995 19:13:28 GMT
Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA
Message-ID: <3ra6go$dh8@kaleka2.seanet.com>
References: <3r7l2l$js2@ralph.vnet.net>
In article <3r7l2l$js2@ralph.vnet.net> patrickg@success.net writes:
#In <3r6q3l$5ev@vega.info.isbiel.ch>, droux@info.isbiel.ch (Nicolas Droux)
writes:
#<snip>
#>We don't want however to buy a separate router but we'd like to know if it
#>would be possible to use the NetInfo server for this network as a gateway
#>by installing two network interfaces (Intel EtherExpress) in it.
#
#My understanding of NextStep for Intel is that (as of 3.2 anyways) more than
#one ethrenet card per machine is not supported. So, that probably means that
#you are out of luck. It is however possible that this has changed in NS 3.3.
#
# <other stuff removed>
This is not true. I have configured several Intel machines running both 3.2 and
3.3 as gateways using different network cards (Intel EtherExpress, Cogent
EM960, 3Com Etherlink III). You can configure as many network interfaces as you
want, as long as you have enough IRQs. You can connect both NetInfo and
non-NetInfo networks. There are some configuration tricks however: you have to
correctly configure drivers (IRQs etc), then configure interfaces using
/etc/iftab, then configure NetInfo, and finaly enable IP forwarding (make
kernel forward packets between interfaces). Then you can use routed or static
routes to configure your routing.
Kostya Martynenko
OSD Inc.
From: mccollam@Arizona.EDU (Donald E McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sybPerl5?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 20:00:03 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <3ra983$qeo@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Hi, If you've got sybperl5 (sybperl for perl5) up and running will you
please drop me a few "how to" lines of advice.
Thanks.
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Help! I hosed my printer with PrintManager
In-Reply-To: klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu's message of 9 Jun 1995 23:47:52 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun11010516@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3ramj8$g5n@epx.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 05:05:16 GMT
It's kept in NetInfo so your best bet is to use NetInfoManager. I seem to
remember setting up Novell->NS printing when I was at Lotus Development.
Unfortunately, I don't remember how I did it.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Q: Solaris24 - NS32 NFS automounting very slow
Date: 9 Jun 1995 17:38:27 +0200
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r9ptj$t3s@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
References: <3r3s9b$17bc@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Keywords: NFS Solaris24 automounting
Alexander.Hauer@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Alexander Hauer) writes:
>I have a problem connecting a Sparc Solaris2.4 system with black NS32 systems.
>Other systems ( as SGI Indigo running IRIX 4.05 or IRIX 5.3 ) work fine.
>The NeXTs are running Netinfo and the other machines get their information with
>NIS (as an extract of the unix files from the netinfo database and one of the
>Silicons is the NIS master).
>The different systems are automounted on the clients and the directories are
>exported on the servers.
The NeXT has a broken NFS implementation.
(the patch hasn't been released yet, so you need to use rsize=)
The solaris FAQ says:
5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs.
In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit
NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default.
This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations
(such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT)
There are two workarounds. The first one works and is:
mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024.
The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696 is:
Edit /etc/system and add:
set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1
and reboot.
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Questions marked with a * or + have been changed or added since
the FAQ was last posted
The most recently posted version of the FAQ is available from
ftp.fwi.uva.nl in directory /pub/solaris
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Opinions expressed here are mine (but you're welcome to share them with me)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How to set Taylor UUCP to uupsi
In-Reply-To: xiaomin@ets.com's message of Fri, 9 Jun 1995 21:08:36 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun11011124@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <D9xC2D.1tA@ets.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 05:11:24 GMT
Xiaomin,
Try this:
Run uucico in debug mode to help you diagnosis the chat:
# /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x 2 -s uupsi
Look in /usr/spool/uucp/Debug for debugging messages.
When you determine the cause, you will need to edit your
/usr/local/conf/uucp/sys file.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: douglay@wam.umd.edu (Douglas Kenneth Lay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WAIS-type search engines for NeXT?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 20:45:36 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <3rabtg$63g@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
I am working on a WWW site, located on a NeXTSTEP server, and would like
to include a decent search engine. Does anyone know of WAIS-type search
engines that will successfully compile on a NeXTSTEP machine?
Douglas K. Lay
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: best way to duplicate a file system
In-Reply-To: jason@news.jlc.net's message of 9 Jun 1995 17:57:03 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun11011418@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rag3f$no9@handel.jlc.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 05:14:18 GMT
I believe you want to use "dd". Also, you can always make a disk bootable
with the "disk -b" command.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: jason@news.jlc.net (Jason T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: best way to duplicate a file system
Date: 9 Jun 1995 17:57:03 -0400
Organization: John Leslie Consulting - Milford, NH
Message-ID: <3rag3f$no9@handel.jlc.net>
A faithful 1 Gb hard drive is dying, and we replaced it with a newer drive, but
we're faced with the task of duplicating the file system so as to make the new
disk bootable. I've tried piping the output of a find to cpio, but this didn't
make a disk that was bootable. Tar is iffy since some of the pathnames get to
be over 100 characters long! Should this be a FAQ? At any rate, I hope somebody
can give me a hint before the old disk dies completely.. :)
Jason T. Nelson jason@jlc.net
http://www.jlc.net/~jason NeXT/MIME mail ok!
From: klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (James P Klett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! I hosed my printer with PrintManager
Date: 9 Jun 1995 23:47:52 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota
Message-ID: <3ramj8$g5n@epx.cis.umn.edu>
I accidentally gave my Local_Printer the same name as my Network_Printer
in Print Manager and now Both PrintManager and NetwareManager crash
whenever I try to access them.
What UNIX file do they modify?
By the way, does anybody know how to set it up so that users on the Novel
side of the network can print to the NeXT Laser printer? They are both
on the same 10BT network.
Thanks, JIM
replies > klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 9 Jun 1995 07:30:15 GMT
Organization: Technical Support, NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3r8ta7$pue@news.next.com>
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>
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In article <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>,
Robin D. Wilson <robin@pencom.com> wrote:
>What are the odds you could simply replace the default SerialPorts driver
>with Mux... I know some people have tried, but what did they do? Did they
>simply re-name "Mux" to SerialPorts? (I understand that part of the problem
>has to do with the name "SerialPorts" being hard-coded into the
>Configure.app...) Why wouldn't this work? How can we _make_ it work?
>
>The reason I'm asking is due to the _crappy_ support the standard SerialPorts
>driver provides. Besides the fact that it won't handle higher speeds, it
>doesn't allow me to set IRQs other than 3,4 for COM1/COM2. Since I need to
>setup a third serial port, and the only other available IRQ _it_ supports is
>used either by my SoundBlaster (IRQ5) or my parallel port (IRQ7), I can't
>really use it without disabling one of the first two ports (which is not
>really what I _want_ to do). So the _best_ answer would be to replace
>"SerialPorts" with a driver that actually _works_, and is at least as
>configurable as the hardware it supposedly supports.
Check out the new NeXT Intel serial port driver in NeXTanswers.
--Dan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates)
Subject: Help! Poor performance on Sparc floppy drive
Message-ID: <lorgbD9xnzu.8IL@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:26:18 GMT
Sender: lorgb@netcom12.netcom.com
It took 45 minutes to delete 1.2 meg file from the floppy.
I guess you got the picture.
Here is my configuration:
SPARCstation 20, 160M RAM, 1 Gig Hard Drive
Nextstep 3.3
I will appreciate if anyone give me a hint/patch to speed up
the floppy drive.
Thanks.
From: steve@xray.rice.edu (Steve Ludtke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ghostscript printing
Date: 10 Jun 1995 01:46:26 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Message-ID: <3rathi$ef4@larry.rice.edu>
References: <3r7s7o$95e@ra.cc.wwu.edu>
Geoffrey Matthews (matthews@fortress.cs.wwu.edu) wrote:
: If you have a non-postscript printer on a parallel port
: nextstep-intel, and you rasterize your image with
: ghostscript for your printer, how do you tell
: nextstep to blast the bits to the printer?
Look at GhostHPDJ at ion.rice.edu in pub/next/wordproc (also @ orst and
peanuts).
: Can you set this up to work with the print panel?
Just to print, yes, to set options: possible, but not trivial.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Subject: Help with NFS Exports/Mounts from 2nd and 3rd Disks
Message-ID: <1995Jun11.165314.740@weston.com>
Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 16:53:14 GMT
I have directories on sd1a and sd2a that I need to mount across the
network. I have them in fstab.
sd1a has LocalLibrary and Users directories
sd2a has a directory that needs to be located under Locallibrary
I currently mount them on the attached system as /External for sd1a and at
/External/LocalLibrary/mydirectory for sd2a.
Everything is fine till now. It can be changed if necessary, but I have
no problem to this point.
Where I beleive my problems stem is from NFS exporting and mounting these
directories. I export:
Directory Mount Point
/External/LocalLibrary /LocalLibrary
/External/Users /Users
/External/LocalLibrary/mydirectory /LocalLibrary/mydirectory
This seems to act funny. When I try to access these directories on the
machine to which the drives are attached, I get workspace manager errors.
This also happens on remote machines when logged in as root.
I have been told that I should mount them to /Net/whatever and then
created a link on each machine from /Net/whatever to /whatever.
I want to get this cleaned up. If you have any suggestions or ideas,
please let me know.
Thanks
Wes
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From: xiaomin@ets.com (Xiaomin Wu)
Subject: How to set Taylor UUCP to uupsi
Message-ID: <D9xC2D.1tA@ets.com>
Keywords: UUCP
Sender: xiaomin@ets.com (Xiaomin Wu)
Organization: ETS, Inc.
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 21:08:36 GMT
I've got a problem with setting uucp contact uupsi.
I use Taylor UUCP for uunet is works fine. but I want to switch to uupsi.
Using basic uucp setting all got fail.
Here's my uulog:
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-09 14:13:49.51 656) Calling system uupsi (port
cufa)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-09 14:14:46.30 656) ERROR: Timed out in chat
script
I don't know where to start.
Any suggestions?
Xiaomin
xiaomin@ets.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Message-ID: <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub>
From: miked@ittpub.nl (Mike Davis)
Date: 9 Jun 95 10:12:58 WET
References: <3r4u3m$clm@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) wrote:
>I've got a small local area network with a Mac running 7.5.1 and a
>white Nextstep machine with 3.2. I have the Mac connected to the LAN
>using a small box from the SCSI port. I normally have Ethernet
>connection selected in the Chooser on the Mac.
>I never see the touted Appletalk icon appear in the Preferences on the
>Nextstep machine. I've rebooted, etc. I've turned on Appletalk on the
>Mac, selected Ethertalk, etc., but still no icon on the Nextstep
>machine. How do I get appletalk to work between them?
>Do I need Appleshare? Where do I get that?
>- - - - - - - - -
>J. W. Wooten
I don't believe it comes for free with 3.2. You can buy a third party solution.
We've used "Partner" with *alot* of problems. We have ten or eleven NeXTs (all
intel) and a couple of NeXT black pizza boxes (servers) and have *real*
problems. Infact, I've given up with it and use ftp on my Mac or copy files by
floppy disk.
The software allows the NeXT to be a client on the AppleTalk network but not a
server. This will allow printing and mounting of Macintosh disks on the NeXT
but you won't be able to file share a bit of the NeXT's disk (like you can a
Macintosh).
If you want the NeXT as a server for your Macs then think about getting Mac
NFS. This will allow you to mount the NeXTSTEP machine as a Macintosh disk.
You'll probably need someone who's savvy with UNIX to setup the NeXT machine.
You're in for some fun...
From: Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NCSA HTTP v 1.4.1?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:28:27 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950610012705.1178G-100000@avocado>
References: <3r0mu7$asi@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <3r8bvh$koi@flood.xnet.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3r8bvh$koi@flood.xnet.com>
Hi, all,
Isn't it even easier than that? If you look at src/Makefile
closely, you'll notice a commented out NeXT section:
# For NeXT
#AUX_CFLAGS= -DNeXT
Just uncomment that line and let it fly....
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On 9 Jun 1995, Mike Fleming wrote:
> Donald E McCollam (mccollam@Arizona.EDU) wrote:
>
> : Hi. I like to bring up NCSA's HTTP server on either my NeXTcube or my NS/I
> : box. Unfortuately "NeXT" is not a make option. I'd appreciate any guidance
> : on this. [Or, Feel free to suggest any other HTTP server that offers the same
> : basic features as v 1.4.1. I will need to be using Perl5 scripts to access
> : Sybase via sybPerl. I don't know anything about those at this point either!]
>
> Yeah, I was going to submit my patches for the makefile for a "make next"
>
> It's really easy. Try "make netbsd" This will fail because it will
> attempt to link in a library: "-lcrypt". Simply remove this, and the
> program will compile and run perfectly.
>
> : Thanks!
>
> : Don McCollam
>
> Mike Fleming
>
>
>
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why Don't I exist?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 15:17:36 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3r9omg$1m8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3r55tv$1fg@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
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Mark Schwettmann (schwett@differencengine) wrote:
: Hopefully this is not a FAQ (said document doesn't seem to be floating around
: at the moment...)
: I get the following when I try to talk:
: differencengine> talk someone
: You don't exist. Go away.
: w reveals the following:
: differencengine> w
: 2:41am up 2:38, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.46, 1.19
: User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
: schwett console 12:33am14days -
: (this is despite the fact that I have many terminal windows open)
Seems as if your Terminal.app (or whatever you're using for
displaying your terminal windows) has lost its setuid root
bit and therefor can't write to utmp.
Hope that helps
Cheers,
Axel
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From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 9 Jun 1995 15:20:27 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3r9orr$1nc@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com> <1995Jun8.135154.194@media.mit.edu> <3r8h7v$139@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
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John Kheit (kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu) wrote:
[...]
: Could you please tell us how WELL (namely do they work well at 57kbps and
: 115kbs?) these new drivers work as compared to Mux?
: Mux has been working really well, and before I go about disturbing sleeping
: dogs, I'd like to make sure the new drivers are worth it.
Can't tell anything about high speed - going to test this soon -
but the SerialMouse feels _very_much_ better now.
Axel
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From: schwett@differencengine (Mark Schwettmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Benchmarks" : Mux 1.7 vs New NeXT drivers...
Date: 9 Jun 1995 07:31:23 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3r8tcb$623@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Here are some (fairly informal) performance numbers
regarding mux 1.7 and the new NeXT serial drivers.
In all cases, the machine is a 90mhz Pentium (ASUS +
Triton Chipset). The modem is a Zoom v.fast 28.8k,
and it is connecting at 26400 (???) to a local PPP
service provider.
Basically, the differences are extremely slight...
38400 57600
mux NeXT mux NeXT
Ping 1 (ms)
minimum 209 209 209 189
average 217 226 215 196
maximum 259 259 249 259
Ping 2 (ms)
minimum 209 199 199 209
average 214 211 200 210
maximum 239 249 209 219
ftp (bytes/sec)
uuencode text 3696 3686 3768 3758
noncompressible 1 2488 2488 2447 2509
noncompressible 2 2652 2632 2652 2632
noncompressible 3 2652 2632 2652 2642
noncompressible 4 2601 2570 2591 2580
noncompressible avg 2624 2610 2627 2618
(the uuencoded file was around 400k, and the
(mostly) noncompressible files ranged from 20k to
200k)
Mark Schwettmann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: clone Netinfo server
In-Reply-To: pait@lac.usp.br's message of 9 Jun 1995 13:33:31 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun9130206@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3r9ijb$110@bee.uspnet.usp.br>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:02:06 GMT
A clone NetInfo server serves two purposes. It can give you better performance
since clients can access either the master or the clones and it gives you
better reliablity since if one server goes down, the clone takes over.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: trail@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Trestrail )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help Needed for NSFIP on Quantum SCSI Drive
Date: 11 Jun 1995 07:06:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3re4ls$c3i@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
References: <D9KrLC.Hp2@news.cis.umn.edu>
In <D9KrLC.Hp2@news.cis.umn.edu> gjackson@mbuna.umhc.umn.edu (Gary
Jackson) writes:
>
> Received an external 2 gig quantum scsi drive from APS technologies
this
>morning. [...]
>
> NextStep has been a baffler ( v 3.2 ). I have tried a variety of
SCSI
>settings and ID's for the CD and the hard drive. If I set the HD to
SCSI #0,
>and the CD to a higher number I get the following error when the
installer
>is booting...
>
>:thread: waitForInterrupt: returns -735
>
>this messages cascades endlessly down the screen until I reboot.
>
Your problem is that the Adaptec driver on the v3.2 CD doesn't work
well with the 1542CF. You need to get the updated driver from
NeXT -- either from NeXTanswers or via ftp, and then put the
uncompressed package on a NeXT formatted floppy; get a copy of
NeXTanswers # 1541, and follow the installation instructions given
there. It worked fine for me.
Regards,
Jeff Trestrail
trail@ix.netcom.com
From: manish@clark.lcs.mit.edu (Manish Tuteja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Umount does not unmount root fs properly
Date: 12 Jun 1995 04:08:01 GMT
Organization: MIT
Message-ID: <3rgej1$374@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <3rdbtp$nrj@davinci.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Hi,
I don't know the answer to your NeXT shutdown troubles. But I've had
the exact same problem on our machines. I've diagnosed the problem down
to autonfsmount. If I don't use the automounter to mount files, our
machines will shut down properly. But if the automounter was used to
mount filesystems--then the shutdown will result in the behavior you
described--requiring a fsck on reboot. This sucks.
I'm dying to hear of a remedy.
Manish
From: sanguish@digifix.com
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Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 12 Jun 1995 04:15:14 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3rgf0i$m1m@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
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From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: best way to duplicate a file system
Date: 12 Jun 1995 06:53:43 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rgo9n$15k@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <RDL.95Jun11011418@world.std.com>
I would suggest something like, assuming you want to copy / onto e.g.
/Disk (a mounted, empty and big enough disk):
dump 0f - / | (cd /Disk; restore xf -)
Geert
Robert La Ferla writes
> I believe you want to use "dd". Also, you can always make a disk
bootable
> with the "disk -b" command.
>
> Robert La Ferla
> Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
> + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com (Andrew Abernathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP 712/80 Serial woes on NeXTSTEP 3.3
Date: 9 Jun 1995 02:09:19 GMT
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <3r8agf$reh@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>
References: <3r837a$q26@news3.digex.net>
In article <3r837a$q26@news3.digex.net> deviant@sehjas (Jeffrey A. Sickel)
writes:
> Has anyone out there been able to attach anything to the serial port
> on the HP 712/80 running NEXTSTEP 3.3?
>
> I've tried, but then a 'tip fa9600' locks up the whole machine.
> That pretty much wipes any posability of putting a modem or printer on
> the machine.
If your serial cable doesn't support hardware flow control, I think
this is the expected behavior. (It certainly is for my black
hardware.) Does 'tip a9600' work fine?
--
andrew.abernathy@mccaw.com (Seattle area)
14335 Northeast 24th Street Bellevue, WA 98007
(NeXTmail / MIME / MS Mail spoken here)
I don't speak for McCaw. I can barely speak for myself.
From: dino@ex-nihilo (Dino Bagdadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Taylor UUCP frontend
Date: 12 Jun 1995 07:23:58 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rgq2e$95k@anshar.shadow.net>
Does anyone know of any app similar to UUCon, UUMon or CheckUUCP that
will work with Taylor UUCP?
Thanx.
---
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
From: dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au (Richard West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: VideoConferencing & RemoteDemos
Date: 12 Jun 1995 09:06:29 GMT
Organization: Monash University
Message-ID: <3rh02l$20q@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Summary: What to buy & how to configure it for Video Conferencing & Demonstrations
Keywords: Video Conferencing Demonstrate Screen Capture Networking
I'm talking with someone about being able to do video conferencing and
demonstrations across the InterNet. As far as I can see - there are 2 parts
to this :
1. Being able to set up real-time video compression/decompression
and transceiving. I've been looking at some of the ScreenMachine and Movie
Machine literature, and am wondering if it would be possible to use them
for this application (I know there are drivers and editing software, but is
there any videoconferencing sw?).
2. Being able to see what is going happening on another screen across
the net. I remember seeing an ad for software that does this - does anyone
know the name.
3. Being able to do 1 & 2 above at the same time so I can talk with
someone and see what is happening on their screen (and vica-versa) would be
the ultimate.
If anyone knows anything about this could they please e-mail me at :
dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au
and I'll collate the responses and post them back to the net.
Thanks,
Richard
:-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Is there software for the HP Scanjet 3C
Message-ID: <DA28qG.3JA@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:44:40 GMT
Hello, World!
I am looking for a way to use a HP Scanjet 3c scanner under
NEXTSTEP 3.3/i486 or a way to get to that scanner through SoftPC 4.0 on that
system (fat chance...).
Does anybody know a way.
Thanks in advance,
--Gerben
From: smcdow@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart McDow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo and nis
Date: 12 Jun 1995 15:11:21 GMT
Organization: The Church of The Type 259 Flat-Twin Engine
Message-ID: <3rhlep$jj5@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu>
Originator: smcdow@mamba
I have some probably naive questions about the co-existance of netinfo
and NIS.
We have two Next machines in a sea of Suns, SGIs, HPs, and other
asundery machines. We'd really like these machines to be NIS
clients. Somehow, there is a conflict between netinfo and
NIS. Problems arise when NIS maps are updated and pushed. The Nexts
don't seem to reconize the changes. ypcat(1), etc, work ok, but it
seems that any program that needs NIS maps use the netinfo maps
instead. Is there a way to make the machine 'prefer' the NIS maps
instead of the netinfo maps?
We tried to alleviate the problem by disabling netinfo. Now, the user
cannot print from Edit or other applications. What gives?
One more thing: automounter doesn't seem to reconize the shortcuts in
automount entries. For example: the entry 'user machine:/foo/path:&'
is completely ignored in an indirect automount map. I had to make
separate files (egad) for home directories automount maps. I usually
forget to change these files when I change and push the NIS home dir
automount map, and the Next machines get out of sync with the
map. This can be a real pain sometimes.
I'm a Next novice, so any solutions will be really helpful. I'm hoping
that I can configure netinfo just to serve the printer information and
let the NIS master serve everything else. Is this possible? Is it
possible to force applications to refer to files instead of netinfo?
Is it possible to include NIS maps inside a netinfo map?
Thanks.
--
Stuart McDow Applied Research Laboratories
smcdow@arlut.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin
From: woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (J. W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Date: 12 Jun 1995 14:56:47 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rhkjf$bid@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
References: <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub>
In article <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub> writes:
> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) wrote:
> >I've got a small local area network with a Mac running 7.5.1 and a
> >white Nextstep machine with 3.2. I have the Mac connected to the LAN
> >using a small box from the SCSI port. I normally have Ethernet
> >connection selected in the Chooser on the Mac.
>
> >I never see the touted Appletalk icon appear in the Preferences on the
> >Nextstep machine. I've rebooted, etc. I've turned on Appletalk on the
> >Mac, selected Ethertalk, etc., but still no icon on the Nextstep
AppleTalk
In the Librarian for 3.2 it states ...
NeXT computers come with client software that allows them to access files and
printers on an AppleTalk network. To take advantage of these features. you must
connect your NeXT computer(s) to an AppleTalk network running EtherTalk.
I've done this and rebooted both machines. Then I do not see the Apple icon
that shows so clearly in the 3.2 Librarian Documentation for NextAdmin
According to the information in the 3.2 Librarian, I don't need special
software to connect to an appletalk network that is running Ethertalk.
What gives!
From: dougm@akira (Douglas McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 12 Jun 1995 18:06:39 GMT
Organization: Abbott Laboratories
Message-ID: <3rhvnf$meq@kelso.pprd.abbott.com>
References: <1995Jun8.135154.194@media.mit.edu>
In article <1995Jun8.135154.194@media.mit.edu>
lacsap@sledge-hammer.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
> NeXT just put their new serial port drivers on their
> WWW site...
> There are three parts:
> - ISAserial driver which you instantiate one per physical
> device (com1...) These can be on board or PCMCIA
> - Portserver which maps the physical devices to appropriate
> unix TTY devices
> - SerialMouse driver for this ensemble
>
> I am running all three, and it is nice.
I will second this. I just installed the new serial drivers and they work
as they should. I faxed a 21 page document to Honolulu from Chicago on
Friday, and it went across just perfectly. Kudos to NeXT for finally
getting the driver right.
-d
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: netinfo and nis
In-Reply-To: smcdow@arlut.utexas.edu's message of 12 Jun 1995 15:11:21 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun12143104@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rhlep$jj5@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 18:31:04 GMT
Add "+:" to the end of your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
This tells NEXTSTEP to use NIS.
Also, you are always better off keeping NetInfo running.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: root@terra (Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using tip Terminal.app and cua as dumb terminal
Date: 12 Jun 1995 18:38:42 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3ri1ji$qd@ni1.ni.net>
References: <3rhtgc$jra@natasha.rmii.com>
> chris@opensource.com wrote:
>
> I have this piece of hardware which only supports console
> logins. The manufacturer provides a nifty converter which
> plugs into a serial port. I don't see any reason why I
> souldn't be able to plug this into the serial port of my
> machine and use tip or MicroPhone to talk to my serial port
> and thus my piece of hardware. Unfortunately hasn't yet
> worked. Does anyone have advice on using a NSFIP macnine as
> a dumb terminal in this fashion?
>
You are quite correct it should work. I used the same technique to talk to a serial stock
quote unit before I wrote an app to do the same.
First make sure the unit you want to talk to is really RS232 compatible with the addition of
said nifty converter. I would then check baud rate, parity etc to be the same as the unit
with which you wish to communicate (the tip man page contains info on how to set these).
If you still have problems make a NULL modem cable and try to communicate with
another computer over said serial port. If this does not work you probably have a bad
serial port .
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's
Agoura Hills, CA # fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without
far@ni.net # faith, without mercy, without religion; by these
# means one can aquire power but not glory.
#
(NeXTmail prefered) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
(MIMEmail welcome) #
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brad@instep.bc.ca
Subject: Re: clone Netinfo server
Message-ID: <1995Jun12.193033.8979@instep.bc.ca>
Sender: usenet@instep.bc.ca (usenet)
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
References: <RDL.95Jun9130206@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 19:30:33 GMT
Robert La Ferla writes
>A clone NetInfo server serves two purposes. It can give you better
performance
>since clients can access either the master or the clones and it gives you
>better reliablity since if one server goes down, the clone takes over.
>
Doesn't really buy you much when, in addition to losing the master netinfo
server, you lose nfs mounts when the server crashes.
Some mounts are so critical, i.e. home directories or LocalApps, that losing
the master and having the clone take over doesn't get you very far... i.e.
it's not transparent.
--
Brad Head <brad@instep.bc.ca>
Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <printing@demand.com>
From: Demand Direct Printing <printing@demand.com>
Message-ID: <9506121932.AA12016@demand>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 14:30:18 -0500
Subject: FTP problem
Hi:
We have an unusual problem involving ftp on the in-house network.
There is a [buggy] client that wants to assume ftp starts up in
binary mode, but in NEXTSTEP, it defaults to ascii transfer mode.
So, if there are sources out there anywhere, we can solve the
problem by a [very] simpile modification and recompiling.
Question is, how do you find the sources for ftp?
We looked in the UNIXFORUM and in couple of ftp sites,
but there were no "standard", plain old ftp sources.
Any ideas? Please e-mail directly to david@demand.com as we no
longer subscribe to this list. Thanks!
David Ison
Demand Printing
From: bestor@spam.cs.wisc.edu (Gareth Bestor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: UPS recommendations?
Date: 12 Jun 1995 23:20:15 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Message-ID: <3rii3f$13m@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Does anyone have any recommendations on a good UPS
(Uninterruptible Power Supply) for a PC-based NEXTSTEP file
server? Obviously we'd prefer one that has a NEXTSTEP monitor
program if possible, but if there isn't one what's the best PC/Mac
UPS? The UPS doesn't have to be really high watt/hours or
anything, just enough to live through "short" blackouts of
say 10-20 minutes or at least enough time to do a graceful
shutdown.
I recall seeing a UPS that came with either a bundled NEXTSTEP
monitor program or one who someone wrote a shareware program
for. Anyone heard of this beast?
Thanks in advance,
- Gareth
bestor@cs.wisc.edu
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Pine or Elm
Date: 12 Jun 1995 22:18:25 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3riefh$1572@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Well... I'd like to hear some opinions on Pine vs Elm. I like to use
NeXTMail, but I find that now I must sometimes dial in to read mail. So I
have set the NeXTMail 'get mail' option to Manual. I want to now be able
to log in remotely, read my mail, and when done, leave the messages in the
spool folder so that when I come in I can manually import them into
NeXTMail.
I've used Elm in the past but have heard many nice things about pine.
Comments and opinions regarding which would better suit my need are
greatly appreciated!
TIA,
Steve
--
==============================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.2 using PPP-2.2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu
Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950612184316.534AAEiX.chuck@kant.jhuapl.edu>
Sender: usenet@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins Continuing Professional Programs
References: <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub> <3rhkjf$bid@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 22:43:16 GMT
>From: woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (J. W. Wooten)>Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
>Date: 12 Jun 1995 14:56:47 GMT
> [...material deleted...]
>In the Librarian for 3.2 it states ...
>
Would that be in the 3.2 Release Notes portion of the Librarian? My
recollection is that either the 3.1 or 3.2 Release Notes said that the
built-in AppleTalk support wasn't there anymore.
> [...material deleted...]
___
cfwaltrip
email: waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu
NeXTmail welcome.
//////////////////////////////////////Opinions expressed are my own.
If I said anything that made you think I might know what I'm talking
about, please disregard it./////////////////////////////////////////
From: peter@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Peter Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 12 Jun 1995 23:56:48 GMT
Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760
Message-ID: <3rik80$f14@turing.mathworks.com>
References: <3rii3f$13m@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Gareth Bestor (bestor@spam.cs.wisc.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone have any recommendations on a good UPS
: (Uninterruptible Power Supply) for a PC-based NEXTSTEP file
: server? Obviously we'd prefer one that has a NEXTSTEP monitor
: program if possible, but if there isn't one what's the best PC/Mac
: UPS? The UPS doesn't have to be really high watt/hours or
: anything, just enough to live through "short" blackouts of
: say 10-20 minutes or at least enough time to do a graceful
: shutdown.
: I recall seeing a UPS that came with either a bundled NEXTSTEP
: monitor program or one who someone wrote a shareware program
: for. Anyone heard of this beast?
: Thanks in advance,
: - Gareth
: bestor@cs.wisc.edu
Hmmm, I'd have to recommend PowerGuardian from Benatong. I installed it
two weeks ago, the first real thunderstorm of the spring hit a few days
ago. Works like a charm. I'm currently working on a Macintosh client,
so that they too, can shutdown on queue from a NeXT.
just a satisfied customer,
-peter
From: peter@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Peter Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations?
Date: 13 Jun 1995 00:00:35 GMT
Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760
Message-ID: <3rikf3$f14@turing.mathworks.com>
References: <3rii3f$13m@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <3rik80$f14@turing.mathworks.com>
Peter Greis (peter@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE) wrote:
: Gareth Bestor (bestor@spam.cs.wisc.edu) wrote:
: : Does anyone have any recommendations on a good UPS
: : (Uninterruptible Power Supply) for a PC-based NEXTSTEP file
: : server? Obviously we'd prefer one that has a NEXTSTEP monitor
: : program if possible, but if there isn't one what's the best PC/Mac
: : UPS? The UPS doesn't have to be really high watt/hours or
: : anything, just enough to live through "short" blackouts of
: : say 10-20 minutes or at least enough time to do a graceful
: : shutdown.
: : I recall seeing a UPS that came with either a bundled NEXTSTEP
: : monitor program or one who someone wrote a shareware program
: : for. Anyone heard of this beast?
: : Thanks in advance,
: : - Gareth
: : bestor@cs.wisc.edu
: Hmmm, I'd have to recommend PowerGuardian from Benatong. I installed it
: two weeks ago, the first real thunderstorm of the spring hit a few days
: ago. Works like a charm. I'm currently working on a Macintosh client,
: so that they too, can shutdown on queue from a NeXT.
: just a satisfied customer,
: -peter
Gads. I've got to pay more attention here. PowerGuardian is the software
I use; personally I use a Smart-UPS 600 by APC.
-regards,
-peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: xiaomin@ets.com (Xiaomin Wu)
Subject: Help me! (Taylor uucp setup)
Message-ID: <DA2ztE.1vy@ets.com>
Keywords: uucp
Sender: xiaomin@ets.com (Xiaomin Wu)
Organization: ETS, Inc.
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 22:29:37 GMT
I have been trying to get Taylor uucp to work with UUPSI. It appears that
after sended password, got unexpected "\r". then log file got:
{
uucico uupsi - (1995 1278) Calling system uupsi (port cufa)
uucico uupsi - (19951278) ERROR: Timed out in chat script
}
I am appending the debug file when I use uucico. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thank you very much.
Xiaomin
xiaomin@ets.com
---------------------------------
Config setting
sys file:
-----------
#
# UUPSI - main uucp mail relay
#
system uupsi
call-login uu1010
call-password paswd
time any
phone 8423393
speed 9600
port portuupsi
port file:
-------------
# All ports are this type
type modem
#
# UUPSI Port
#
port portuupsi
device /dev/cufa
dialer dialuupsi
protocol-parameter i packet-size 4095
dial file:
------------
#
# UUPSI Dialer
#
dialer dialuupsi
chat "" ATX3 OK ATDT9\T CONNECT \r\d\r\d\r\d\r name: uu1010 word: paswd
ts> term\sdown\r ts> term\sno\sescape-char\r ts> uupsi\s540\s/stream ogin:
uu1010 word: paswd
chat-fail BUSY
chat-fail NO\sCARRIER
chat-fail NO\sDIAL\sTONE
chat-timeout 70
complete +++\dATH\r\cATZ\r\c
abort +++\dATH\r\cATZ\r\c
Debugging messages.
--------------------------------
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.03 354) DEBUG: fconn_open: Opening
port portuupsi (speed 9600)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.04 354) Calling system uupsi (port
cufa)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.10 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing
"ATX3\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.10 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 2
"OK"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.10 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got
"ATX3\r\r\nOK" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.15 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "ATDT9"
\T "8423393\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.15 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 7
"CONNECT"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:35:51.15 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got
"\r\nATDT98423391\r\r\nCONNECT" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:12.70 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "\r"
sleep "\r" sleep "\r" sleep "\r\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.70 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"name:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.70 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "
9600\r\n\r\nThis is Indiana(1).ts.psi.net\r\n\r\n\r\nUser Access"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.72 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "
Verification\r\n\r\nUsername:" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.72 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing
"uu1010\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.72 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"word:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.72 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "
\r\nUsername: \r\nUsername: \r\nUsername: uu1010\r\nPassword:" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.85 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing
"paswd\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.85 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 3
"ts>"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:18.86 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "
\r\npsinet_ts>" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.07 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "term
down\r\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.07 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 3
"ts>"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.07 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "term
down\r\n\r\npsinet_ts>" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.29 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "term
no escape-char\r\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.29 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 3
"ts>"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.29 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got
"\r\n\r\npsinet_ts>" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.30 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "uupsi
540 /stream\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.30 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"ogin:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.30 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "term no
escape-char\r\n<BREAK> is the escape character\r\npsinet"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.58 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got
"_ts>\r\n\r\npsinet_ts>uupsi 540 /stream\r\nTrying uupsi (38.8.39."
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.65 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "2,
547)... Open\r\nlogin:" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.92 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing
"uu1010\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.93 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"word:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:19.93 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "
Password:" (found it)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:20.28 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing
"paswd\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:20.29 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:20.29 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"ogin:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:20.29 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "
\020Shere=uupsi\000" (timed out)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:31.35 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing break
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:33.35 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"ogin:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:33.35 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got
"\r\npsinet_ts>" (timed out)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:43.76 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing break
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:45.77 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Looking for 5
"ogin:"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:45.77 354) DEBUG: icexpect: Got "" (timed
out)
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:56.17 354) ERROR: Timed out in chat
script
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:56.18 354) DEBUG: fconn_close: Closing
connection
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:36:56.18 354) DEBUG: fcsend: Writing "+++"
sleep "ATH\rATZ\r"
uucico uupsi - (1995-06-12 11:37:02.23 354) DEBUG: Call failed: 3 (Login
failed)
uucico - - (1995-06-12 11:37:02.40 354) DEBUG: Forking
/usr/glocal/lib/uucp/uuxqt -s uupsi
----------------------------------------
From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 12 Jun 1995 23:59:01 GMT
Organization: Pencom Software, Austin, TX
Message-ID: <3rikc5$pkd@digdug.pencom.com>
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com> <3r8ta7$pue@news.next.com>
OK, next question... Will the new drivers work on 3.2? (The NextAnswers
stuff says they need 3.3...)
FYI, I got Mux and SerialPorts working together by disabling the COM2 port on
my box. This wasn't really what I wanted to do, but there was no other way to
do it without IRQ conflicts for the one of my other OSes (Windows, Linux).
(I'm having a pretty hard time believing that so many people have bought PCs...
But then, I'm doing a _lot_ with mine too!)
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin D. Wilson robin@pencom.com Pencom Software
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: VideoConferencing & RemoteDemos
In-Reply-To: dickw@dino.eng.monash.edu.au's message of 12 Jun 1995 09:06:29 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun12213852@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rh02l$20q@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 01:38:52 GMT
WatchMe by OtherWise Software is an excellent product for item #2. Try
info@otherwise.com.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Date: 13 Jun 1995 05:52:36 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3rj934$arf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub> <3rhkjf$bid@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <950612184316.534AAEiX.chuck@kant.jhuapl.edu>
waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu writes:
>>From: woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (J. W. Wooten)
>>Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
>>Date: 12 Jun 1995 14:56:47 GMT
>> [...material deleted...]
>>In the Librarian for 3.2 it states ...
>>
>Would that be in the 3.2 Release Notes portion of the Librarian? My
>recollection is that either the 3.1 or 3.2 Release Notes said that the
>built-in AppleTalk support wasn't there anymore.
NEXTSTEP removed the included AppleTalk client software from NEXTSTEP
when it went from 3.1 to 3.2. The version that was shipped was an
early version from IPT. They decided that since it was so buggy
(locked up many a machine), it made sense to pull it and let IPT
sell a bug-free version to those that needed it.
IPT's client includes AppleShare and AppleTalk Printer support. IPT
also sells servers to make your NeXT an AppleTalk Printer server and/or
an AppleShare server. (these are pricey and I have seldom heard good
things about them, given the price)
It can be a client on an AppleTalk network if it only uses IP stuff,
without any special software. (ie, you can get to the machine via
NCSA Telnet and Fetch from the Macs)
The NeXT can be an AppleShare SERVER on an EtherTalk network with
the freely-available CAP software. (sorry, no LocalTalk)
--
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University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu
Subject: Re: using tip Terminal.app and cua as dumb terminal
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Message-ID: <950612183724.534AAEiW.chuck@kant.jhuapl.edu>
Sender: usenet@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 22:37:24 GMT
>From: chris@opensource.com>Subject: using tip Terminal.app and cua as dumb terminal
>Date: 12 Jun 1995 17:28:44 GMT
>
>
>I have this piece of hardware which only supports console logins.
>The manufacturer provides a nifty converter which plugs into a serial
>port.
Would this be a NULL modem cable? If it is, you're part way there.
Next thing you have to know is what cable pin signals are present
and, what signals your "piece of hardware" expects. That will tell
you where to begin on setting up your software on NEXTSTEP to recognize
the presence of the device on the port, respond with a login prompt, etc.
If you have all the info about the cable pin and "piece of hardware" pin
assignments, then you might want to pass that on in a followup post and
also describe what you have done on setting up your NEXTSTEP to handle
that cable/hardware setup.
> I don't see any reason why I souldn't be able to plug this into the
>serial port of my machine and use tip or MicroPhone to talk to my serial
>port and thus my piece of hardware. Unfortunately hasn't yet worked.
>Does anyone have advice on using a NSFIP macnine as a dumb terminal in
>this fashion?
>
>Chris
>
>
>
From: hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Pine or Elm
Date: 13 Jun 1995 05:30:46 GMT
Organization: GMD Darmstadt, Germany
Message-ID: <3rj7q6$iqs@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <3riefh$1572@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) wrote:
> Well... I'd like to hear some opinions on Pine vs Elm. I like to use
> NeXTMail, but I find that now I must sometimes dial in to read mail. So I
> have set the NeXTMail 'get mail' option to Manual. I want to now be able
> to log in remotely, read my mail, and when done, leave the messages in the
> spool folder so that when I come in I can manually import them into
> NeXTMail.
Can't you use PPP? I heard it's really great.. :-)
> I've used Elm in the past but have heard many nice things about pine.
> Comments and opinions regarding which would better suit my need are
> greatly appreciated!
I suggest Pine. It has the possibility to perform key sequences, sort of like macros,
and also handles multiple mail folders much more comfortably. Other goodies include
the built-in pico editor, desaster recovery, postponed composition of mails and much
more.
Holger
--
Holger Hoffstaette ___ "X was designed to run three programs:
hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de /\__\ xterm, xload, and xclock."
[NeXTmail: YES]; \/__/ - The UNIX Haters Handbook
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo and nis
Date: 13 Jun 1995 05:54:07 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <3rj95v$b3i@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <3rhlep$jj5@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu> <RDL.95Jun12143104@world.std.com>
rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes:
>Add "+:" to the end of your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
>This tells NEXTSTEP to use NIS.
>Also, you are always better off keeping NetInfo running.
Note that doing this makes your machine use NIS when looking for
information in the group and passwd maps only. It does indeed use
NetInfo for stuff like printers, which is what you want.
--
David Lemson (217) 244-8833
University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: afied1@pblea.uni-paderborn.de (Alfred Fiedler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: best way to duplicate a file system
Date: 13 Jun 1995 06:51:48 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Message-ID: <3rjci4$7fr@news.uni-paderborn.de>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <3rag3f$no9@handel.jlc.net> you wrote:
: A faithful 1 Gb hard drive is dying, and we replaced it with a
: newer drive, but
: we're faced with the task of duplicating the file system so as to
: make the new disk bootable.
:
: Jason T. Nelson jason@jlc.net
Dear Nelson,
I did a similar task a few weeks ago and found the manual about "restore"
very helpful (type "man restore" in a terminal).
Assume that your old disk is the device "/dev/sd0a" and mounted at /.
Furthermore, assume your new disk is for example "/dev/sd1a" and mounted
on something like "/newdisk".
1) cd /
2) mkdir newdisk
3) mount /dev/sd1a /newdisk
4) cd /newdisk
Then the following line should do the work, if typed in a terminal window:
5) dump 0f - /dev/sd0a | restore rf -
Note: There is a patch, which 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. You can get this patch from
ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/CompressedFiles/Patches/RestorePatch_3.
2/1555_RestorePatch.pkg.compressed
Hope that helps,
A. Fiedler
(SysAdmin)
From: flight@fenchurch (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Unaccessible files in Workspace
Date: 13 Jun 1995 10:23:20 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3rjouo$ka1@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
A user at our site is experiencing the following: From time to time, he gets errors from
Workspace (XXX cannot be opened. This file doesn't exist) when he tries to open files on
a NFS mounted disk. Just as if you remove a file, and try to open it from Workspace while
the file browser is not yet updated). But in his case the file is definitely there, and can be
accessed e.g. from a shell. The file is then there again after some time (sometimes just a
few moments, sometimes minutes).
If the file wasn't accessible from a shell, too, I would have suspected NFS problems (is it
possible to increase to number of nfsd without rebooting ? ;-), but the problem seems to be
related to Workspace. He's running NEXTSTEP 3.2/black btw.
Has anybody else experienced something like this ?
Gregor
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NCSA HTTP v 1.4.1?
Date: 13 Jun 1995 16:24:29 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3rke3t$r7k@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <3r0mu7$asi@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <3r8bvh$koi@flood.xnet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.91.950610012705.1178G-100000@avocado>
In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.950610012705.1178G-100000@avocado>,
Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
>Hi, all,
>
> Isn't it even easier than that? If you look at src/Makefile
>closely, you'll notice a commented out NeXT section:
>
># For NeXT
>#AUX_CFLAGS= -DNeXT
>
> Just uncomment that line and let it fly....
That's how I did it, it compiled ok. One question though -
you guys running it as standalone or under inetd?
I've noticed since our url's are getting more traffic httpd
is core dumping a lot more often. (we're running ns3.3 on a Nextcolor
station w 32 megs ram).
[Tue Jun 13 12:01:16 1995] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
[Tue Jun 13 12:01:16 1995] child error: child connection closed
[Tue Jun 13 12:01:22 1995] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core
any ideas? I'm running as standalone, which the dox suggest.
--
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NeXTMail: shane@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu
From: wxli@harpy.ualr.edu (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FS: external SCSI CD-ROM Drive
Date: 12 Jun 1995 18:45:19 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <3ri1vv$8nn@news.ualr.edu>
I have a new external SCSI CD-ROM drive for sale. The drive
is a single speed Hitachi CDR-1750S that works with NeXTStation.
Asking: $80 + shipping.
Thanks.
-wei,
wxli@ualr.edu
From: meyergru@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Uwe Meyer-Gruhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP 712/80 Serial woes on NeXTSTEP 3.3
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 13 Jun 1995 12:23:43 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rk00f$ke7@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References: <3r837a$q26@news3.digex.net>
Originator: meyergru@hpradigf.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
In article <3r837a$q26@news3.digex.net>, deviant@sehjas (Jeffrey A. Sickel) wrote:
|> Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
|> Lines: 10
|> Message-ID: <3r837a$q26@news3.digex.net>
|> NNTP-Posting-Host: bac07233.slip.digex.net
|>
|> Has anyone out there been able to attach anything to the serial port
|> on the HP 712/80 running NEXTSTEP 3.3?
|>
|> I've tried, but then a 'tip fa9600' locks up the whole machine.
|> That pretty much wipes any posability of putting a modem or printer on
|> the machine.
|>
|> All suggestions appriciated.
|>
|> Jeff Sickel
Please check your e-mail address, "deviant@sehjas (Jeffrey A. Sickel)" is bad.
You are absolutely right. If you have anything connected to the serial
port during boot, any operation that opens the device will hang the system,
be it 'tip' or anything else. The problems with the serial port for HP
machines is known to NeXT since 3.2 Prerelease and has gotten worse ever
since. My cure was to buy an old NeXTstation mono and use that as a modem
server. Yuck! Sorry, there is no better news.
You could possibly downgrade to 3.2, which works apart from the fact that
a lot of serial overruns occur, and that the dial-in speed should not
be set to more than 19200 baud in order to work correctly.
Sadly, there are also a few other _serious_ bugs in the HP drivers, e.g. the
tape driver cannot write more than 2 GByte onto a tape (and no tape
should be in the drive during boot). NeXT seems to fix only those bugs
in which their biggest HP customer is interested in. And apparently,
this customer doesn't care about modems, >4 GByte hard disks, decent sound
support nor DAT tapes.
not particularly pleased, 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: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Disk partition
Date: 13 Jun 1995 13:09:10 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3rk2lm$6e8@hecate.umd.edu>
Hi, there:
I have over 20 Intel stations running NeXT and a HP box as a NFS
server. Each Intel has some extra disk space upto 1GB while the
HP has 4GB only and yet has couple of database to support.
So, I am now trying to find a way to fully utilize all the disk
resources available on the Intel boxes: I doubt if there is
anything either from NEXT or HP that can provide "Distributed"
Network File access. If not, I'd be settled with export disk
spaces on Intels to NFS. However, it would be nice if I can
further partition a NEXT-formated disk, or somehow create a
directory with a fixed size.
Has anyone out there done this before?
Thanks in advance!
Yibing Wu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates)
Subject: Help! Poor performance on Sparc floppy drive
Message-ID: <lorgbDA495F.4L0@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 14:48:51 GMT
Sender: lorgb@netcom6.netcom.com
It took 45 minutes to delete 1.2 meg file from the floppy.
I guess you got the picture.
Here is my configuration:
SPARCstation 20, 160M RAM, 1 Gig Hard Drive
Nextstep 3.3
I will appreciate if anyone give me a hint/patch to speed up
the floppy drive.
Thanks.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Pine or Elm
Date: 13 Jun 1995 15:00:07 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3rk95n$sqq@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <3riefh$1572@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have been using elm on my network here for three years and there has never
been a complaint as yet. It is fully functional and if you install the MIME
stuff correctly can handle multimedia mail aswell. I did have pine installed on
the cluster for a little while but removed it in the end because everyone used
elm.
Dave
---------------------------------------------------------------
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Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu (Sharad Shanbhag)
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations?
Message-ID: <DA4D51.C5E@news.cis.umn.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
References: <3rii3f$13m@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <3rik80$f14@turing.mathworks.com> <3rikf3$f14@turing.mathworks.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:16:57 GMT
I also use PowerGuardian with an APC SmartUPS 600 on my
'Station and have found it to be a more than satisfactory
combination.
sharad
sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: using tip Terminal.app and cua as dumb terminal
Date: 12 Jun 1995 17:28:44 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3rhtgc$jra@natasha.rmii.com>
I have this piece of hardware which only supports console logins.
The manufacturer provides a nifty converter which plugs into a serial
port. I don't see any reason why I souldn't be able to plug this into the
serial port of my machine and use tip or MicroPhone to talk to my serial
port and thus my piece of hardware. Unfortunately hasn't yet worked.
Does anyone have advice on using a NSFIP macnine as a dumb terminal in
this fashion?
Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: laz@curly.sed.stel.com (John Lazorisak)
Subject: RARP...
Message-ID: <DA4GC8.Htu@sed.stel.com>
Summary: RARP on a NS Intel box
Keywords: RARP
Sender: news@sed.stel.com (News Service Owner)
Organization: Stanford Telecom, Inc. Reston, VA
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 17:24:08 GMT
Does anyone know how to get a intel based NS to
provide RARP?
I have a diskless Sun 3/60 which needs to get its ip
via RARP and I was hoping that my NS box could do this...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Lazorisak Stanford Telecom laz@sed.stel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Desperate UUCP help needed!
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 17:58:12 GMT
Message-ID: <DA4Hx1.190@ritz.mordor.com>
Hi all. I've got a serious problem with my UUCP feed, and I'm in
desperate need of assistance, as my sysadmin is going to cut it if I
don't get it fixed IMMEDIATELY [caps his!].
I'm running NS3.3, and using the NeXT UUCP. I have a small feed with
about 25 medium-traffic newsgroups, and there are two users at my end,
neither of whom use mail or post very often. However, for about 75% of the
connection (which amounts to about 45 minutes!), the "SD" light is lit on
my machine. Furthermore, there appear in the UULOG a lot of references to
"agent ritz (6/13-13:04-21692) XQT QUE'D (rmail
uunet.uu.net!somewhere!MAILER-DAEMON)" which do not look healthy. I've
been told that there is a problem with the NeXT sendmail, but I'm not
sure if this is a manifestation of it. I suspect that these bogus
messages are being sent every time I connect, but I don't know how to
track them down.
Another hypothesis is that I'm "bouncing" all the news I receive right
back. How would I check for this?
This is desperate, folks. I'm new to this UUCP game, I've read the
O'Reilly book, but I think I've gotten in over my head. The worst part
is, if I don't fix this, I won't be able to get another feed again from
this guy, and that would be a real shame as I enjoy the services.
I won't post any config files, but I'll be happy to send them.
Thanks for any and all help in advance!!!
Matt
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From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WANTED: NSFIP3.3 Boot selector pgm
Followup-To: poster
Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:35:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <3rklq7$okd@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Keywords: NSFIP3.3, Boot
Hi, I am making this posting for a friend of mine, so please direct
all replies to 75034.1444@compuserve.com. I am looking for a program
or device which will allow him to select which hard drive he wants to
boot off of. The configuration of his computer is as follows:
Gateway 2000 P590 Tower w/ 16MB of RAM, 2 IDE Hard Drives one is 540MB
and the other is 725MB, ATI Ultra Pro Mach32 (PCI) Video card, and a
Soundblaster compatible (ISA) sound card, and a CD-ROM drive.
Also, when he tries to add "ISA Bus Support" he gets conflicts. Is
there any way around this. He needs PCI support for the Video card,
but ISA support for the sound card. Also we are having some trouble
getting the CD-ROM card working. Is there anyone who has a similar (or
pehaps identical) configuration who can give us some pointers on how
to correct some of these problems?? Even if you don't have a similar
config then please send any ideas you might have.
Thanks,
--
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Subject: "install -c ..." and /dev/null
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 09:49:49 PDT
Message-ID: <000E5F0F.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
I ran into a Makefile recently (for the latest sendmail) that calls "install -c
... /dev/null ..." to create a file in the installation directory. Makes
complete sense to me and seems to be a good way to create a new file from
scratch and set owner, group and permissions all in one shot (with some more
command-line options for "install", of course). Problem is, "install -c..."
gives me a "can't open /dev/null" or some such. Is this a known problem and/or
incompatibility? "cp" works just fine on /dev/null.
I've installed things by hand as a workaround and can rewrite the makefile to
use touch (or cp /dev/null), chown, chgrp, and chmod but this seems like the
hard way out.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Gary Affonso
gaffonso@iqinc.com
Subject: NROFF Variable For "man"
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 10:59:37 PDT
Message-ID: <000E5F23.fc@iqinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com (Gary Affonso)
Organization: ImagingQuest
I recently compiled and installed the latest version of "groff". Now I want
"man" to called "gnroff" instead of "nroff" so that I get the benefit of the new
mandoc macros. The man page for man states that the TROFF environment variable
can be used to set the troff program but makes no mention of being able to
change the nroff program. I tried setting and NROFF environment variable to see
if maybe this would work, but it had no effect.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Gary Affonso
gaffonso@iqinc.com
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: routing destination unreachable, but default route exists
Date: 13 Jun 1995 20:15:58 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rkrlu$e8r@natasha.rmii.com>
I have a question I am pretty sure is stupid, but here goes:
I have a machine on a simple network, and I ping a machine off my local
net. The ping fails, but I see why: (I don't have a default route
installed and I am not running routed.) So I add the default route and
verify my connectivity to that gateway using ping. Then I use ping to the
host off my local network, and again it fails.
I su to root on the machine and try to ping the 'off-net' host. It works!
But I see why: the kernel routing tables (I don't really know if there is
such a thing, but I ssume there must be =^) ) have been refreshed and
the entry which claimed the off-net host wasn't accessable are flushed and
the new routing facts are available.
I exit the su shell and try the ping to the off-net host. Again the ping
fails.
Recap
- ping to the off-net host did not work
- added default route to local net gateway
- ping to local net gateway worked
- ping to the off-net host did not work
- su root
- ping to the off-net host works!
- exit root shell
- ping to the off-net host doesn't work
- /etc/shutdown -r now
- all pings work
I always pinged IP addresses. Does anyone know why I could ping the
machine as root, but not as my regular user? Also is there some less
drastic way to recover than rebooting? Does this mean that I could have a
situation where nslookup will find a host, but sendmail will not from a
given machine?
Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: Desperate UUCP help needed!
References: <DA4Hx1.190@ritz.mordor.com>
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 20:00:47 GMT
Message-ID: <DA4nLC.H5r@ritz.mordor.com>
Matthew Hocker (hocker@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: Hi all. I've got a serious problem with my UUCP feed, and I'm in
: desperate need of assistance, as my sysadmin is going to cut it if I
: don't get it fixed IMMEDIATELY [caps his!].
: Another hypothesis is that I'm "bouncing" all the news I receive right
: back. How would I check for this?
Sorry for following up to myself, but I found this:
Date: Sat 10-Jun-1919 08:18:2995
Return-Path: <news>
Received: by samizdat.waldo.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0M)
id AA02023; Sat, 10 Jun 95 08:18:28 -0400
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 08:18:28 -0400
From: <news>
Message-Id: <9506101218.AA02023@samizdat.waldo.com>
Subject: newsdaily report
Apparently-To: usenet
Status: R
leading five sites sending news with bad headers:
1 samizdat
...
when I checked mail for root. What does it mean by "bad headers"?
Matt
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From: lowell@SchemaResearch.com (Lowell Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail, domain name
Date: 13 Jun 1995 22:12:31 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3rl2gf$ilo@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
My outgoing email had a from field of:
lowell@ernie.SchemaResearch.com
I wanted it to read
lowell@SchemaResearch.com
After trying numerous things, the following change in sendmail.mailhost.cf
worked.
originally commented: Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
uncommented and modified: Dj$?m$m$|$w$.
I'm not happy however, because this following comment preceeded the
commented-out Dj macro definition.
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
This comment makes me feel that I shouldn't have defined the macro, let
alone change it. If it's set internally, how do I change it "internally"?
Can anyone offer clarification? Thanks in advance.
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: cpayne@optical (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 8.6.12 on NeXT ??
Date: 13 Jun 1995 20:52:21 GMT
Organization: Fibernet! Satisfy the need for speed
Message-ID: <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net>
Has anyone gotten sendmail 8.6.12 to build for NS?
I'd appreciate a quick pointer, if you have. TIA
--
Carl Payne
V.P., Technical Services
Fibernet Corporation
cpayne@fiber.net <--NeXTMAIL, MIME, ASCII all OK
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: "unknown mailer unknown" with sendmail.8.6.12
In-Reply-To: hocker@ritz.mordor.com's message of Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:38:36 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun14143242@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DA63CC.211@ritz.mordor.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:32:42 GMT
That's because the uucp mailer is not defined. Use "uudom" instead.
BTW - You can use the GNU m4 with NEXTSTEP.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: "unknown mailer unknown" with sendmail.8.6.12
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:38:36 GMT
Message-ID: <DA63CC.211@ritz.mordor.com>
I have a NeXT machine running NextStep 3.3, and I have recently built
sendmail.6.8.12 for it. I'm running UUCP, and I'm "masquerading" as a
domain of "waldo.com". My uucp provider is "ritz".
The build went fine, although I had to borrow
another machine to use m4 as the NeXT m4 is braindead. However, no mail is
moving out of my machine, nor back in. I'm continually getting these errors:
Jun 14 10:18:06 samizdat sendmail[4061]: KAA04057: SYSERR(uucp): buildaddr:
unknown mailer unknown
Why is this?
Here are the first few lines of my sendmail.mailhost.cf file, showing how
I built it (I used the uucpproto file from the distribution).
##### @(#)cf.m4 8.4 (Berkeley) 12/24/93 #####
##### @(#)uucpproto.mc 8.3 (Berkeley) 8/21/93 #####
##### @(#)nodns.m4 8.1 (Berkeley) 8/6/93 #####
##### @(#)proto.m4 8.45 (Berkeley) 3/4/94 #####
# level 5 config file format
V5
##################
# local info #
##################
Cwlocalhost
CP.
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSritz
# who I send unqualified names to (null means deliver locally)
DR
# who gets all local email traffic ($R has precedence for unqualified names)
DH
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
DMwaldo.com
# class L: names that should be delivered locally, even if we have a relay
# class E: names that should be exposed as from this host, even if we
masquerade
#CLroot
CEroot
# operators that cannot be in local usernames (i.e., network indicators)
CO @ % !
# a class with just dot (for identifying canonical names)
C..
# dequoting map
Kdequote dequote
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Re: Building satan
Message-ID: <D9zxwr.13n@ex-nihilo.com>
Sender: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: ex nihilo, inc.
References: <3r1h00$1fr@aladdin.iii.org.tw>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 06:55:39 GMT
In article <3r1h00$1fr@aladdin.iii.org.tw> idpt820@tpts1.seed.net.tw writes:
> Dear Readers,
> I have installed the latest perl5 bin for intel and m68k successfully on
> my intel-based PC. While trying to build satan 1.0 as NeXTanswer receipe
> stated, I failed . I always get the following message while running
> reconfig:
> jesse:21# reconfig*
> /usr/local/bin/perl: Command not found.
>
> Anyone who can tell me how to solve this problem, I would be very
> appreciated.
I just noticed that the perl5 package installs perl as perl5.001 (I have no clue WHY!!!
Does anyone out there know?).
So either try renaming the binary to "perl" or make a link from perl5.001 to a new binary
called "perl". The linking approach is the safest (IMHO), in case you need to erase or
compress the perl5 package.
Hope this helps.
---
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail, domain name
In-Reply-To: lowell@SchemaResearch.com's message of 13 Jun 1995 22:12:31 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun13194209@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rl2gf$ilo@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 23:42:09 GMT
One of the benefits of using the latest sendmail (8.6.12) from
ftp.cs.berkeley.edu rather than the ancient version that NeXT ships (5.67),
is that you don't need to muck with .cf files. You just add this to
your .mc file:
MASQUERADE_AS(SchemaResearch.com)dnl
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail, domain name
In-Reply-To: lowell@SchemaResearch.com's message of 13 Jun 1995 22:12:31 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun13194404@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rl2gf$ilo@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 23:44:04 GMT
But if you really want to run 5.67 :^)
Dj$m
Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Mail help needed
In-Reply-To: peter@mathworks.com's message of 12 Jun 1995 16:01:07 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun13161202@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3ri6e3$dmg@king.mathworks.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 20:12:02 GMT
In sendmail 8.x, add this to your /etc/sendmail.cf file:
# file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
Fw/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cw
And list the domains in /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cw:
freethinker.com
nextlectic.tiac.net
I think this applies to sendmail 5.x, if it doesn't let me know.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Does diagnostics software for black hardware exist?
Message-ID: <DA4uKo.B7@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 22:31:35 GMT
See subject. I was wondering if this was available somewhere so I can check
black hardware setups.
Yours,
--
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Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail help needed
Date: 12 Jun 1995 16:01:07 -0400
Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3ri6e3$dmg@king.mathworks.com>
OK netters, I'm trying to avoid grief, so I'm asking
here first.
This is one of those "how do I get incoming mail working"
questions. The flavor: SMTP (not Pop).
Basically, I have a single cube that calls a service provider
(tiac). I got the incoming mail working previously by adding
a few host alises. The name of the machine is "nextlectic",
so I added "mail", then "nextlectic.tiac.net". This, all said
and done, allowed mail to reach me. I am quite sure that this
is not 100% kosher.
Now the landscape is changing; I have a registered domain,
namely "freethinker.com". So what do I have to do (changes to
sendmail.cf) to get incoming mail arriving, and out-going
mail having the proper reply-to ? This all looks very, very
cryptic...
Is this as easy as adding a host alias of "freethinker"?
thanx for the help,
-peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NROFF Variable For "man"
In-Reply-To: Gary_Affonso@iqinc.com's message of Tue, 13 Jun 95 10:59:37 PDT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun13230522@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <000E5F23.fc@iqinc.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 03:05:22 GMT
man does not have a NROFF variable. I compiled groff and had the same problem.
I wrote the following csh script called "gman" that replaces "man".
#!/bin/csh
set command = $1
set mandir = `whereis -M /usr/local/man/man* /usr/man/man* -f -m $command | awk '{ print $2 }'`
gnroff -man $mandir | $MANPAGER -s
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: chuck@racine (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail help needed
Date: 14 Jun 1995 16:11:41 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rn1nt$mli@www.its.com>
References: <3ri6e3$dmg@king.mathworks.com>
In article <3ri6e3$dmg@king.mathworks.com>, Peter Greis wrote:
> This is one of those "how do I get incoming mail working"
> questions. The flavor: SMTP (not Pop).
[ ... ]
> Now the landscape is changing; I have a registered domain,
> namely "freethinker.com". So what do I have to do (changes to
> sendmail.cf) to get incoming mail arriving, and out-going
> mail having the proper reply-to ? This all looks very, very
> cryptic...
You won't get mail sent to freethinker.com until someone who is authoritative for that
domain creates an MX (mail exchange) record which will send mail to the correct
destination. If your internet service provider is cool, they may be able do this for you.
If they aren't, you'll need to pick up the "DNS and BIND" O'Reilly book (ISBN
1-56592-010-4) and learn how to administer a domain yourself.
> Is this as easy as adding a host alias of "freethinker"?
No, although you will need to do something along those lines too or else your machine's
sendmail will bounce incoming mail sent to "freethinker.com".
> thanx for the help,
> -peter
-Chuck
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NROFF Variable For "man"
In-Reply-To: rdl@world.std.com's message of Wed, 14 Jun 1995 03:05:22 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun14000617@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <000E5F23.fc@iqinc.com> <RDL.95Jun13230522@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 04:06:17 GMT
Of course, you can always:
% su
# cd /usr/bin
# mv nroff nroff.orig
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/gnroff nroff
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: chuck@racine (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ARP...
Date: 14 Jun 1995 15:29:24 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rmv8k$mli@www.its.com>
References: <DA4G7p.HK1@sed.stel.com>
laz@curly.sed.stel.com (John Lazorisak) wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get intel based NS to provide
> RARP services?
> I have a diskless Sun 3/60 which gets its ip via RARP and
> I was hoping that I could get my NS box to do this...
Sure. Edit /etc/rc and enable the bootpd, which gets started in these lines:
# If /etc/bootptab file exists, become a BOOTP server. Note
# that bootpd gets information from /etc/bootptab even when
# NetInfo is running (the per-client information comes from
# NetInfo; the global information comes from /etc/bootptab).
if [ -f /usr/etc/bootpd -a -f /etc/bootptab ]; then
/usr/etc/bootpd && (echo -n ' bootpd') >/dev/console
fi
Normally, only a machine with NETMASTER=-YES- will run this, but you can change this
if you wish. Note that you need to create the /etc/bootptab file with the appropriate
information; consult the manpages and/or the Sysadmin documents.
-Chuck
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: Can a ROM on an 040 motherboard be replaced?
Message-ID: <DA65tu.8DG@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:32:18 GMT
Just wondering if I could replace the ROM on my motherboard for a newer
version.
While I'm at it. Does anybody know if you can upgrade 040 boards from 25MHz
to 33Mhz ones?
Thanks,
--Gerben
From: chuck@racine (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail, domain name
Date: 14 Jun 1995 15:43:28 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rn030$mli@www.its.com>
References: <3rl2gf$ilo@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
> My outgoing email had a from field of:
> lowell@ernie.SchemaResearch.com
> I wanted it to read
> lowell@SchemaResearch.com
What you want to do is known as "masquarading"; you wish to map
<user@machinename.your.site> to <user@your.site>.
> [ ... ] This comment makes me feel that I shouldn't have defined the macro, let
> alone change it. If it's set internally, how do I change it "internally"?
The hack you've done will work, but it is really not the right way of doing it. :-) It's simpler
to directly set the "j" macro via:
Dj$m
...or...
DjSchemaResearch.com
Although this isn't really the right thing to do either. You may find it worth your while to
upgrade to sendmail 8.6.12; it will work noticably better than NeXT's antiquated version of
sendmail (NeXT's version doesn't support ESMTP). This will also require a higher level
of effort on your part. Make sure, at least, that you have installed the sendmail patch from
NeXT.
Note that you will need to patch the alias.c file if you wish to obtain mail aliases from
NetInfo.
-Chuck
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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Building satan
Message-ID: <1995Jun14.161414.455@netlabs.com>
Organization: NetLabs, Inc., Los Altos, California.
References: <3r1h00$1fr@aladdin.iii.org.tw> <D9zxwr.13n@ex-nihilo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:14:14 GMT
In article <D9zxwr.13n@ex-nihilo.com>, Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com> wrote:
: I just noticed that the perl5 package installs perl as perl5.001 (I have no clue WHY!!!
: Does anyone out there know?).
So that scripts can put #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.001 if they want to pick
which version they run with and be "safe" from future upgrades.
: So either try renaming the binary to "perl" or make a link from perl5.001 to a new binary
: called "perl". The linking approach is the safest (IMHO), in case you need to erase or
: compress the perl5 package.
The "installperl" script is supposed to do the link for you. If it doesn't
something is busted.
Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
From: wmullen@eecs.nwu.edu (Willie Mullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do you enable root rlogin on a NeXT, (3.0.3)?
Date: 14 Jun 1995 12:27:36 GMT
Organization: EE/CS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Message-ID: <3rmkjo$419@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
i get a refusal when i try from a non-NeXT box on our Ethernet LAN.
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: ARP...
In-Reply-To: chuck@racine's message of 14 Jun 1995 15:29:24 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun14142746@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DA4G7p.HK1@sed.stel.com> <3rmv8k$mli@www.its.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:27:46 GMT
Actually, you should NOT edit /etc/rc. Just edit /etc/hostconfig and
change NETMASTER to YES. The only function of NETMASTER is to run
bootpd. You should never need to make custom changes to /etc/rc. Any
additions can be made to /etc/rc.local.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: 8.6.12 on NeXT ??
In-Reply-To: cpayne@optical's message of 13 Jun 1995 20:52:21 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun14142906@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:29:06 GMT
I have. In fact, I have a quad-fat binary that is compiled with the user
database. Let me know if you need a copy.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Adaptec 2840 vs. 1542?
Message-ID: <jpanicoDA6DtI.64v@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:24:54 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom.netcom.com
Hi,
I currently have an Adaptec 1542 (actually a 1740 running in 1542 mode)
in my Intel box and I find it to be pretty pokey. Does anyone know
firsthand if the 2840 (VL Bus) is significantly faster than the 1540;
a big enough improvement to justify spending $300 on the new card?
Any opinions welcomed.
Thanks.
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
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/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <vincent@hal.imaginet.fr>
From: <vincent@hal.imaginet.fr>
Message-ID: <199506141234.OAA16410@hal.imaginet.fr>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:23:51 +0100
Subject: Trouble with FrameMaker on HP712
Hello all,
Every day i have trouble with FrameMaker on NeXTSTEP 3.2 HP712. I
get lost and come back again to login panel.
Tanks for HELP !!!
/-----------------------------------------------------\
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B2W
49, rue de Mundolsheim
B.P. 79
F-67302 SCHILTIGHEIM
FRANCE
EMAIL : noehom@imaginet.fr (NeXTMAIL - MIME - ASCII)
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From: mross@antigone.com
Subject: Re: Why Don't I exist?
Message-ID: <1995Jun14.202454.20215@antigone.com>
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
References: <3r55tv$1fg@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3r9omg$1m8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 20:24:54 GMT
Axel Habermann (kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Seems as if your Terminal.app (or whatever you're using for
: displaying your terminal windows) has lost its setuid root
: bit and therefor can't write to utmp.
I don't think so: my Terminal.app stil has setuid and has the same problem:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 196608 Jul 24 1992 Terminal*
"talk anybody" produces "You don't exist. Go away".
However installing Ytalk lets me request anyone.
The problem remains, though, that anyone requesting to talk to me gets
"mross@antigone refusing messages" even though I have not turned mesg off.
All these problems go away if, when I first launch Terminal.app, I telnet to
localhost and log in at the login: prompt. Then all works (requesting and being
requested) as it should.
Any other ideas, anyone?
--
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Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: +1 415 550 1957
From: jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 8.6.12 on NeXT ??
Date: 14 Jun 1995 23:55:56 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Message-ID: <JBRYANS.95Jun14165556@tern.csulb.edu>
References: <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net>
In-reply-to: cpayne@optical's message of 13 Jun 1995 20:52:21 GMT
To: cpayne@optical (Carl Payne)
In article <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net> cpayne@optical (Carl Payne) writes:
> Has anyone gotten sendmail 8.6.12 to build for NS?
> I'd appreciate a quick pointer, if you have. TIA
I made it like this:
O='-O2 -g -arch m68k -arch i486' \
> DBMDEF=-DNEWDB \
> INCDIRS=-I/usr/local/include \
> LIBDIRS='-g -arch m68k -arch i486' \
> LIBS='-ldb -lresolv -l44bsd -lsys_p' \
> BINDIR=/usr/local/etc \
> HFDIR=/usr/local/etc \
> make -ekf Makefile.NeXT
After editing conf.h like this:
diff -c conf.h~ conf.h
*** conf.h~ Thu Feb 9 12:22:03 1995
--- conf.h Thu Mar 30 14:42:59 1995
***************
*** 355,361 ****
# endif
# define NEEDGETOPT 1 /* need a replacement for getopt(3) */
# define WAITUNION 1 /* use "union wait" as wait argument type */
- # define sleep sleepX
# define setpgid setpgrp
# ifndef LA_TYPE
# define LA_TYPE LA_MACH
--- 355,360 ----
***************
*** 367,376 ****
# undef WIFEXITED
# endif
# ifndef _PATH_SENDMAILCF
! # define _PATH_SENDMAILCF "/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf"
# endif
# ifndef _PATH_SENDMAILPID
! # define _PATH_SENDMAILPID "/etc/sendmail/sendmail.pid"
# endif
#endif
--- 366,375 ----
# undef WIFEXITED
# endif
# ifndef _PATH_SENDMAILCF
! # define _PATH_SENDMAILCF "/usr/local/etc/sendmail.cf"
# endif
# ifndef _PATH_SENDMAILPID
! # define _PATH_SENDMAILPID "/etc/sendmail.pid"
# endif
#endif
Some of those edits had to do w/our using the new db library, & some w/local
path preference.
Jack
From: chuck@racine.its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 8.6.12 on NeXT ??
Date: 14 Jun 1995 19:03:55 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rnbqr$pfb@www.its.com>
References: <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net>
In article <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net>, Carl Payne wrote:
> Has anyone gotten sendmail 8.6.12 to build for NS?
> I'd appreciate a quick pointer, if you have. TIA
Sure. Copy Makefile.NeXT to Makefile. I made the following changes to build triple-FAT:
*** Makefile.NeXT Thu Feb 9 14:23:00 1995
--- Makefile Fri May 19 08:51:55 1995
***************
*** 13,15 ****
# use O=-O (usual) or O=-g (debugging)
! O= -O
--- 13,15 ----
# use O=-O (usual) or O=-g (debugging)
! O= -g -pipe -W -O3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -arch hppa -arch m68k -arch i386
***************
*** 25,27 ****
# environment definitions (e.g., -D_AIX3)
! ENVDEF= -DNeXT
--- 25,27 ----
# environment definitions (e.g., -D_AIX3)
! ENVDEF= -DNeXT -Dregister=''
***************
*** 36,38 ****
# libraries required on your system
! LIBS= -ldbm
--- 36,38 ----
# libraries required on your system
! LIBS= -g -ldbm -arch m68k -arch i386 -arch hppa
Also, here is a patch to apply to alias.c which will allow you to get mail aliases from
NetInfo. This has more safety checking than another patch I know of on the archives,
which will prevent sendmail from coredumping.
*** alias.c_old Thu Feb 9 14:22:17 1995
--- alias.c Sun Jun 4 15:09:02 1995
***************
*** 35,40 ****
--- 35,44 ----
# include "sendmail.h"
# include <pwd.h>
+ #ifdef NeXT
+ #include <aliasdb.h>
+ #endif
+
#ifndef lint
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)alias.c 8.25 (Berkeley) 4/14/94";
#endif /* not lint */
***************
*** 185,190 ****
--- 189,230 ----
register int dbno;
register MAP *map;
register char *p;
+ #ifdef NeXT
+ aliasent *theAlias;
+ char *newname;
+ #endif
+
+ #ifdef NeXT
+ /* look in the NetInfo database first. If there's no matches there,
+ * then continue as normal, by looking first at YP, if enabled, and
+ * then the aliases database.
+ */
+
+ if (theAlias = alias_getbyname(name)) {
+ int temp=0, length=2;
+
+ /* perform a little more safety checking of the returned alias -CWS */
+ if ((theAlias->alias_members_len == 0) ||
+ (theAlias->alias_members == NULL)) {
+ syserr("NetInfo database wrong; mail alias bad.");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ for (temp=0; temp<theAlias->alias_members_len;
+ length += (strlen(theAlias->alias_members[temp++])+1));
+ newname = (char *)xalloc(length);
+ strcpy(newname, theAlias->alias_members[0]);
+
+ for (temp=1; temp<theAlias->alias_members_len; temp++)
+ /* perform a little more safety checking of the returned alias -CWS */
+ if (theAlias->alias_members[temp] != NULL) {
+ strcat(newname, ",");
+ strcat(newname, theAlias->alias_members[temp]);
+ }
+
+ return newname;
+ }
+ #endif
for (dbno = 0; dbno < NAliasDBs; dbno++)
{
-Chuck
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From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why Don't I exist?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:24:17 GMT
Organization: None
Message-ID: <3ro5kh$lbf@news.tamu.edu>
References: <3r55tv$1fg@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3r9omg$1m8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1995Jun14.202454.20215@antigone.com>
In article <1995Jun14.202454.20215@antigone.com>, <mross@antigone.com> wrote:
<content irrelevant, as I'm just responding to the subject>
This is something I often wonder myself.
Lusty
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so soft, so silky-coated-
Her very mew had quality!
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From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates)
Subject: Help! Poor performance on Sparc floppy drive
Message-ID: <lorgbDA6zqy.H16@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 02:18:34 GMT
Sender: lorgb@netcom20.netcom.com
It took 45 minutes to delete 1.2 meg file from the floppy.
I guess you got the picture.
Here is my configuration:
SPARCstation 20, 160M RAM, 1 Gig Hard Drive
Nextstep 3.3
I will appreciate if anyone give me a hint/patch to speed up
the floppy drive.
Thanks
From: skwong@se.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 02:53:31 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <3ro7bb$5dm@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
References: <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub> <3rhkjf$bid@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <950612184316.534AAEiX.chuck@kant.jhuapl.edu> <3rj934$arf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
> the freely-available CAP software. (sorry, no LocalTalk)
Where is the free s/w which turns NS 3.2 into AppleShare server ?
From: gideon@black_albatross.otago.ac.nz (Gideon King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Forcing swapfile compression
Date: 15 Jun 1995 03:48:15 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Message-ID: <3roahv$dn6@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
Is there any way to force swapfile compression to happen? I don't appear
to have swapfile compression happening (there is no swapfile.front), and I
want to enable it. I don't have it specifically turned off in /etc/swaptab
or /etc/rc, so why isn't it compressing?
Machine details:
HP712/60, 32MB RAM, OS 3.3risc (Rose2L)
---
Gideon King | Phone +64-3-479 8347
University of Otago | Fax +64-3-479 8529
Computer Science Applied | e-mail gideon@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz
Research Centre | NeXT mail ok
Department of Computer Science |
P.O. Box 56 | For people who like peace and quiet:
Dunedin | a phoneless cord.
New Zealand |
WWW access: http://farli.otago.ac.nz:805/PersonalHomePages/Gideon.htmld/
From: strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why Don't I exist?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 10:16:29 GMT
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Message-ID: <3rp19t$7tq@gwdu19.gwdg.de>
References: <3r55tv$1fg@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3r9omg$1m8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1995Jun14.202454.20215@antigone.com>
mross@antigone.com wrote:
>Axel Habermann (kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
>: Seems as if your Terminal.app (or whatever you're using for
>: displaying your terminal windows) has lost its setuid root
>: bit and therefor can't write to utmp.
>I don't think so: my Terminal.app stil has setuid and has the same problem:
>-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 196608 Jul 24 1992 Terminal*
>"talk anybody" produces "You don't exist. Go away".
>However installing Ytalk lets me request anyone.
>The problem remains, though, that anyone requesting to talk to me gets
>"mross@antigone refusing messages" even though I have not turned mesg off.
>All these problems go away if, when I first launch Terminal.app, I telnet to
>localhost and log in at the login: prompt. Then all works (requesting and being
>requested) as it should.
So, lets trace it down to the roots.
1) Did you check "make shell a login shell" in Preferences?
If you didn't, you don't have any utmp entry other than console
and noone can talk to you.
2) Terminal might not be allowed to write to utmp. but it _is_ setuid root...
3) if you did both, check utmp using finger and who. if you just see console
then there would be a bug in Terminal, but this bug does not exist in
NEXTSTEP 2.1 -- 3.3
Ciao, Stephan
P.S. I'm astonished ytalk can talk without an utmp entry. Something, I have
to try...
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 05:03:45 GMT
Organization: University of Calgary CPSC
Message-ID: <3roevh$tl2@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
References: <3rii3f$13m@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <3rik80$f14@turing.mathworks.com> <3rikf3$f14@turing.mathworks.com> <DA4D51.C5E@news.cis.umn.edu>
:Does anyone have any recommendations on a good UPS
:(Uninterruptible Power Supply) for a PC-based NEXTSTEP file
:server? Obviously we'd prefer one that has a NEXTSTEP monitor
:program if possible, but if there isn't one what's the best PC/Mac
:UPS? The UPS doesn't have to be really high watt/hours or
:anything, just enough to live through "short" blackouts of
:say 10-20 minutes or at least enough time to do a graceful
:shutdown.
:I recall seeing a UPS that came with either a bundled NEXTSTEP
:monitor program or one who someone wrote a shareware program
:for. Anyone heard of this beast?
:Thanks in advance,
:- Gareth
:bestor@cs.wisc.edu
In article <DA4D51.C5E@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Sharad Shanbhag <sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu> wrote:
>I also use PowerGuardian with an APC SmartUPS 600 on my
>'Station and have found it to be a more than satisfactory
>combination.
>
>sharad
>
>sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu
>
>
The NeXT specific UPS that comes with a monitor for the NeXT is
the StediWatt "Stedi-LAN-Ding Power protection system, by
Advanced Electronics Systems Inc.
2005 Lincoln Way East
Chambersburg PA 17201
1-800-345-1280 (HelpLine)
1-800-345-1280 (Orders)
1-717-263-1040 (Fax)
It costs a little over US$1000 as far as I remember.
I bought one a while back and am pleased with it. It is
a new experience to continue computing through the regular thunderstorms
we get in Calgary (though there's no-one to talk to cos they've all
logged out and shut down!! ;-) It does more than prevent unexpected
power loss. It also cleans up the power, filtering out crud and voltage
fluctuations. I think it will probably extend the life of my equipment
(especially disks), but don't expect it to run your laser printer -- those
draw around 750 watts all by themselves. They do a range of models, with
different power capacities. I went for overkill partly for expansion,
partly for a longer period of power up after a power failure, and
partly because I think running the UPR ("uninterruptable ower refinery" --
their term) at less than capacity helps it do its job and last longer.
They'll help you figure out which capacity you need.
david
---
--
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Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 403-220-6315 | important than knowledge.
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NeXTMail: hill@trillium.ab.ca (Preferred) | Kill your television!
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From: cdubuque@cadaver.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Chadwick A. Dubuque)
Subject: Looking for recursive ftp client under NS3.2
Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login)
Message-ID: <DA7116.o4p@ns1.nodak.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 02:46:18 GMT
Organization: Chaos. Try it. I think you'll like it.
I need to mirror an ftp site, and am looking for a good piece of software to
do this. Basically, I need something that I can say to, "go copy this" and
it will, and I don't have to do much.
If you know of an ftp client that will recursively get (and make on the
client's side) directories and the files in them, please tell me.
I know that the new ncftp (version 2.+) will do this, but I can't get it to
compile. Before I hack on it to get it to compile too much more, I was
wondering if anyone out there had it.
Alternately, if anyone can get ncurses compiled (I tried the 1.8.0 version,
and that didn't seem to work) on NS 3.2, that'd probably do it for me.
Basically, I need some help. Do you have any? :-)
--
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From: mccollam@Arizona.EDU (Donald E McCollam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sybperl documentation?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 06:51:10 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <3rol8u$d3k@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Hi. I've just finished bringing up sybperl-2b1.
If you know where I can find a sybperl reference
manual, please send e-mail (or post here).
Thanks!
Don McCollam
mccollam@snow.ccit.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mross@antigone.com
Subject: Re: Appletalk between Mac and next?
Message-ID: <1995Jun15.074220.24313@antigone.com>
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
References: <1995Jun9.101258.1260@ittpub> <3rhkjf$bid@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <950612184316.534AAEiX.chuck@kant.jhuapl.edu> <3rj934$arf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <3ro7bb$5dm@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:42:20 GMT
Wong Sai Kee (Graduate Assistant) (skwong@se.cuhk.hk) wrote:
: > the freely-available CAP software. (sorry, no LocalTalk)
If anyone has successfully built CAP on a NeXT without a hardware router, please
let us all know!!! It is my understanding that this requires kernel modification.
--
Michael Ross
Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: +1 415 550 1957
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Poor performance on Sparc floppy drive
Date: 14 Jun 95 18:14:42
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Message-ID: <ZHAO.95Jun14181442@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
References: <lorgbD9xnzu.8IL@netcom.com> <henry-1106951448030001@trilithon.com>
In-reply-to: henry@trilithon.com's message of Sun, 11 Jun 1995 14:48:03 -0700
Many people suggested: use 'mtools'.
zhao
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange Console message at Boot up
Date: 15 Jun 1995 04:09:31 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3rp4db$g3o@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: I'm all of a sudden getting a disturbing message
Keywords: console
Seemingly out of the blue I'm getting the following message in my console window upon boot up. I don't remember doing anything to my machine for a long time besides normal writing letters, etc.
Message:
rld(): Undefined symbols:
_exp
_log
rld(): Undefined symbols:
.objc_class_name_NXBundle
------------------------------
Also, have noticed of late that logging in to my home directory takes quite a bit longer than I remember, but I don't know how to view what processes are consuming my hard drive (I can hear it churning away, long after WM is up). How can i find out what is happening?
I'm running NS v.3.3 on Turbo Slab m68k.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Matthew
reichman@scf.usc.edu
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: 8.6.12 on NeXT ??
References: <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net> <JBRYANS.95Jun14165556@tern.csulb.edu>
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 13:35:06 GMT
Message-ID: <DA7v2I.2t8@ritz.mordor.com>
Jack Bryans (jbryans@csulb.edu) wrote:
: In article <3rktq5$knc@optical.fiber.net> cpayne@optical (Carl Payne) writes:
: > Has anyone gotten sendmail 8.6.12 to build for NS?
: > I'd appreciate a quick pointer, if you have. TIA
Could this be posted to ftp.cs.orst.edu? I think that there's a real need
for this, especially for people without compilers. Also, if anyone has
working configuration files (hint hint... how about one for UUCP-only
sites like myself, perhaps?) I think that would be useful, too.
Matt
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From: dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu (Deep Medhi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sy.next.misc
Subject: mail aliases not case insensitive on NS 3.3; Q- how to fix it?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 15:26:40 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Message-ID: <3rpjfg$bct@kasey.umkc.edu>
Keywords: mail, alias
I found out this morning that if there is an all_lower_case alias in mailing
list (e.g. loaded from /etc/sendmail/aliases using niload), it is NOT case
insensitive. That is, if you send to this same alias but type it
all_upper_case, the mail will bounce with (550 User unknown). However, this is
not a problem in case of username. This is on black NS 3.3.
Is there a way to fix it, say, by changing some parameter value in sendmail.cf?
(I am pretty sure it was NOT a problem when I had NS 2.1).
Thanks.
Deep Medhi
dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu
Univ of Missouri-Kansas City
From: brian@moo-kea (Brian Griswold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: E-mail Autoresponder for NS?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 20:05:09 GMT
Organization: Maui Research and Technology Center (MRTC)
Message-ID: <3rq3pl$mjl@kahu.mrtc.maui.com>
References: <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net> <3qvtsv$moh@news.next.com>
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar) wrote:
>In article <3qo3vm$bpt@ruby.netrix.net> james@emerald.netrix.net
(James R.
>Pooton) writes:
>> Is anyone out there using any e-mail autoresponder software under
>> NeXTstep? (basically I want to automatically send a piece of mail
back to
>> anyone sending a piece of e-mail to foo@netrix.net)
>>
>> Any help, pointers, or compined binaries :-) would be great !!
>There's a commercial package to do this as well, called MailBack. I
have a
>demo I snarfed off the company's server. However, I can't remember
the name
>of the company or the server address. :)
>Can anyone else help?
>(I added a cross-post to comp.sys.next.software)
>- Mark
>--
>Mark Dadgar | If we had thought something this big was
>Network/Systems Admin. | going to happen to us, do you think we would
>NeXT Computer, Inc. | have called ourselves TOAD THE WET
SPROCKET?!
>Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | - Toad the Wet Sprocket
> Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
Dancing Bear Enterprises developed and sells MAILBACK.
You can get more information by sending an email message to
mailback@dancingbear.com with a subject of mailback.
Information is also available from our WWW server at:
http://www.dancingbear.com
Anyone can download a demo of the latest version from
ftp://ftp.maui.com/pub/dancingbear/demos/MAiLBACK.tar.gz
Requests for a demo copy of MAiLBACK can also be sent to:
demos@dancingbear.com.
For users without NeXTmail or FTP access, a demo floppy with of
MAiLBACK can be requested by calling 1-808-874-3650 or by fax at
808-874-3650.
Please note, there is a charge of $5 for shipping and handling for the
demo floppy.
---
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Dancing Bear Enterprises brian@dancingbear.com
590 Lipoa Parkway 808-875-2456 (VOICE)
Kihei, Maui, Hawai'i 96753 808-874-3650 (FAX)
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From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Token Ring problems with NS and Novell hosts
Date: 15 Jun 1995 20:11:47 GMT
Organization: Cubic Solutions - NEXTSTEP software development and consulting
Message-ID: <3rq463$575@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Our newest customer is an IBM mainframe shop who prefers to run Token Ring
rather than Ethernet networks. NeXT's hardware compatibility guide lists a
Token Ring network card as an option.
After finally giving up on a bunch of new Dell PC's they bought to run NS
due to hardware driver problems, our customer replaced the Dells with a bunch
of Canon object.stations equipped with Token Ring network cards. These
apparently work fine with the Token Ring-equipped HP 9000 database server, but
fail once Novell Token Ring hosts are added to the network. The Novell Token
Ring hosts work fine themselves, so it's the mix of NS and Novell hosts that
seems to be the problem.
Has anyone come across this problem? Is there a solution? Unfortunately,
NeXT support apparently tried to discourage our customer from running a Token
Ring network rather than trying to solve the problem which has made the IS
department anxious to get rid of NS in favor of a system that works within
their environment.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Art Isbell NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com
NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Trego Systems Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care USmail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
--
Art Isbell NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com
NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Trego Systems Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care USmail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
From: Paul.Janssens@ping.be (Paul Janssens a.k.a JPA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to repair hostmanager screwup?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 22:12:35 -0500
Organization: AISB Belgium
Message-ID: <Paul.Janssens-1506952212350001@dialup12.antwerp.eunet.be>
I installed an httpd server on my standalone nextmachine, and tried to
access it from a webbrowser. Things didn't go smoothly...
Ha! I thought, I never got around configuring DNS. I launched the
hostmanager chose local... and inserted a bozo ip address, hostname and
domainname.
After messing with the hostmanager, I pressed OK and the system rebooted.
It went as far as 'Checking system files'. and kept on spinning. and
spinning...
:-(
Q: if I get the thing booted, either standalone or from an external
harddisk, what files must I look for and modify to put humpty-dumpty back
together again?
Cheers,
JPA
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Low-level format utility?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 14:12:30 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems /|\
Message-ID: <3rq7nu$r9r@crl12.crl.com>
Does anyone have a recommendation for a low-level disk
formatter utility? It's for a 1 gb Quantum.
--
Don McGregor | "Riot Nrrrd"
mcgredo@crl.com | --D. Coupland, _Microserfs_
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 21:57:12 GMT
Organization: The SenseMedia Network, http://sensemedia.net/, info@sensemedia.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rqabo$jk3@emerald.oz.net>
References: <3roevh$tl2@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
In article <3roevh$tl2@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
(David Hill) writes:
> The NeXT specific UPS that comes with a monitor for the NeXT is
> the StediWatt "Stedi-LAN-Ding Power protection system, by
> Advanced Electronics Systems Inc.
>
> I bought one a while back and am pleased with it.
>
Different strokes for different folks. I bought one of these 2.5
years ago when it was the only UPS that included NS monitoring software.
It has been unacceptably unreliable and Advanced Electronics Systems just
doesn't seem eager to deal with the problems.
The battery failed at 1 year. Advanced Electronics replaced it under
the warranty but tried to get me to pay for the round-trip shipping
between CA and PA which is substantial considering the weight of a UPS
(lead-acid batteries). I agreed to split the shipping cost.
At the 2-year mark, the UPS started just shutting down output power
abruptly without notice and without any AC power failure, just the very
thing it's supposed to prevent! Advanced Electronics doesn't have a clue
about what might be causing this and wants me to pay to ship it back to PA
and to pay time and materials to fix it. I'll trade it in on a new APC
Smart UPS before I'll put more money into this dog.
And about the monitoring software. That's really a misnomer. There's
no GUI app that monitors things like PowerGuardian does: current power
draw, battery discharge state, etc. The only GUI with the Stedi-LANding
system is a monthly battery test app which failed to detect the
deterioration of my battery the month before it failed. A monitoring
daemon runs that opens an Alert panel and plays recorded messages when
power is lost (well, for the first year, my monitor pestered me with
several false warnings each week, but this was fixed with an upgrade that
was installed when my battery was replaced).
In my research for a replacement unit, I've decided that the best
UPS's are APC models. APC has recently added several new models which
allow users to replace bad batteries without shipping the UPS back to the
factory, a real plus.
Get an APC; don't waste your time with a Stedi-LANding system, even
though it is painted black :-)
---
Art Isbell NeXTmail: art@cubicsol.com
NeXT Registered Consultant Voice: +1 408 335 1154
Trego Systems Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care USmail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
From: chuck@its.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Low-level format utility?
Date: 15 Jun 1995 22:45:46 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rqd6q$p5k@www.its.com>
References: <3rq7nu$r9r@crl12.crl.com>
In article <3rq7nu$r9r@crl12.crl.com>, Donald R. McGregor wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a low-level disk
> formatter utility? It's for a 1 gb Quantum.
How about /usr/etc/disk and /usr/etc/newfs and/or /usr/etc/mkfs?
RTFM "man disk", "man newfs", and "man mkfs".
-Chuck
--
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Techology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+--------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RARP...
Date: 15 Jun 1995 23:48:26 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rqgsa$gl0@news.next.com>
References: <DA4GC8.Htu@sed.stel.com>
In article <DA4GC8.Htu@sed.stel.com> laz@curly.sed.stel.com (John Lazorisak)
writes:
> Does anyone know how to get a intel based NS to
> provide RARP?
Unfortunately, we don't support RARP on NEXTSTEP.
> I have a diskless Sun 3/60 which needs to get its ip
> via RARP and I was hoping that my NS box could do this...
I'd recommend using another Sun box, if you have one lying around (and that
is, in fact, what we do here).
- Mark
--
Mark Dadgar | "If English was good enough for Jesus
Network/Systems Admin. | Christ, then it's good enough for me."
NeXT Computer, Inc. | - Arkansas congressman to Joint
Mark_Dadgar@NeXT.COM | National Committee on Language
Here I am, NOT speaking for NeXT.
From: korillis@socrates.ceid.upatras.gr (Christos Korillis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: VAX/ALPHA SERVER MEMORY!!!
Date: 15 Jun 1995 23:55:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Patras, Greece
Message-ID: <3rqha0$fno@kronos.cti.gr>
Memory for Digital machines forsale.
REAL BARGAIN!!!!
80pins/2simms 16mb each,70ns,parity,golden plated pins
Made in Canada.
Almost unused
Tested and working finely!!
Send e-mail to:korillis@ceid.upatras.gr
I am waiting!!!
Any offer acceptable!!!
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RARP...
Date: 16 Jun 1995 00:18:35 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rqil2$got@news.next.com>
References: <3rqgsa$gl0@news.next.com>
RARP is supported on NEXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC systems.
--
Marc Majka
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: s9udzw@harpoon (Damien Weiss)
Subject: Re: best way to duplicate a file system
Message-ID: <1995Jun15.150326.1305@almserv.uucp>
Sender: usenet@almserv.uucp
Organization: Fannie Mae
References: <3rag3f$no9@handel.jlc.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:03:26 GMT
Jason T. Nelson writes
> A faithful 1 Gb hard drive is dying, and we replaced it with a newer drive,
but
> we're faced with the task of duplicating the file system so as to make the
new
> disk bootable. I've tried piping the output of a find to cpio, but this
didn't
> make a disk that was bootable. Tar is iffy since some of the pathnames get to
> be over 100 characters long! Should this be a FAQ? At any rate, I hope
somebody
> can give me a hint before the old disk dies completely.. :)
If you're running 3.3, use the "ditto" command, with the following
syntax:
ditto -V src dest
Hope this helps
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: djc@vnp.com (Dan Crimmins)
Subject: Multiple boot choices on Sparc Hardware?
Message-ID: <DJC.95Jun15115257@nwk92_ocachi.vnp.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: VNP Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 17:52:57 GMT
hi there!
is it possible to build sparc hardware in such a way that i can select from
different partitions or drives at boot time? i'd like to install NEXTSTEP,
Solaris, and SunOS and be able to select among them when starting up, as
is possible with Intel hardware.
has anyone set up this kind of installation?
thanks in advance,
--dan.
--
dan crimmins
vnp software
chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Low-level format utility?
In-Reply-To: mcgredo@crl.com's message of 15 Jun 1995 14:12:30 -0700
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun15234444@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rq7nu$r9r@crl12.crl.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 03:44:44 GMT
sdform will perform a low level format. It's what "disk -i" uses. There is
a better version of sdform called sdformat on the ftp sites that allows you to
format with 1024 byte blocks. This is assuming that your Quantum is a SCSI
disk.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: how to repair hostmanager screwup?
In-Reply-To: Paul.Janssens@ping.be's message of Thu, 15 Jun 1995 22:12:35 -0500
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun15234738@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <Paul.Janssens-1506952212350001@dialup12.antwerp.eunet.be>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 03:47:38 GMT
Restart your system in single-user mode using bsd -s. Edit the /etc/hostconfig
file.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: RE: Dell Dimension XPS 120s parallel port
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun15235458@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 03:54:58 GMT
I have no problems printing from my Dell XPS P90. You need to go into
the BIOS and change the type of your parallel port.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: Dell Dimension XPS 120s parallel port
Message-ID: <jpanicoDA8s82.92o@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
References: <m0sLn31-000alFC@oa.guild.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 01:31:14 GMT
Lines: 36
Sender: jpanico@netcom9.netcom.com
Mark Onyschuk (mark@oa.guild.org) wrote:
: Hmm, switching to a new 120MHz. Dell Dimension XPS machine has
: brought on 2-1/2 problems. Can anyone suggest fixes:
: 1. the PAS16 driver is broken (sound simply repeats)
PAS16 works without problem on my XPS 90.
: 2. the parallel port driver is broken (I can print, but the LJ4M
: printer "busy" flashing light just continues to flash unless I
: manually kill the job <<pardon the scientific terminology>>)
HOORAH!! I was wondering when someone else was going to run into
this problem-- I was worried it was just me;). I have had a lot of
trouble with the NS postscript printing through the parallel port
on my Dell. I know the problem isn't with the software, because I
don't have any problems at all on the DEC boxes.
: 2-1/2 the PD alternative parallel port driver is broken even worse
: (It doesn't print anything, and I get a flashing light that I can't
: kill -- the machine subsequently fails to shut down cleanly)
Yep, same here.
My solution was to stop printing from my Dell :).
: -Mark
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
--
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mrdc@next2.acs.umn.edu (mrdc)
Subject: GCC Installation
Message-ID: <DA8F4M.JIp@news.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: GCC
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 20:50:38 GMT
I give up!!! I just don't have the thought processes to install this damn thing. I
know someone out there has done it. Plz send me a dummy's guide to installing the
current GCC on NS 3.2, black hardware. Finally I have the developer installed, and
now GCC is intent on not being installed.
Help,
Joe Robertson
mrdc@mrdc.lib.umn.edu
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I watch myself login?
Date: 16 Jun 1995 00:31:40 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3rrc0s$rrj@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: I would like to know why logging in takes so much time
I think something weird is going on when I login to my home directory on my slab and would like to watch the processes (console isn't enough) to explain why one of my drives works so so much.
How should I go about this?
Matthew
--
"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
From: Iacopo E. Inghirami <iacopo@ec.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep on SUN
Date: 16 Jun 1995 08:11:14 GMT
Organization: Dip. Ec. Aziendale - Pisa
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rreb2$fa1@serra.unipi.it>
I would like to know the actual situation of NeXTStep for SUN,
eventually official and unofficial.
TIA, Iacopo
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From: robert@iam.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Forcing swapfile compression
Date: 16 Jun 1995 08:06:23 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Berne, Switzerland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3rre1v$b4n@aragorn.unibe.ch>
References: <3roahv$dn6@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
Insert the option 'compress' in your swaptab ( NO spaces between the otions!!!! )
---
sweet dreams
Philippe Robert
,,,
(o o)
------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo------------------------------
robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch PRO@ezinfo.vmsmail.ethz.ch
From: robe0149@gold.tc.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GCC Installation
Date: 15 Jun 1995 16:58:30 -0500
Organization: University of Minnesota
Message-ID: <robe0149.803253316@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Help! I know someone out there has installed GCC on their system. I
have a NeXT based network and would like to put it on my server. It is a
Cube with NS 3.2. If possible could some one send me a dummy sheet
explaining in simple english how to install the compiler. Something
about the exigencies of Makefiles has sailed clean over my head.
Thanks In Advance,
Joe Robertson
mrdc@mrdc.lib.umn.edu
From: pisati@app.lacd.dsi.unimi.it (Pisati Stefano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAQ for NeXTStep security ?
Date: 16 Jun 1995 12:51:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Message-ID: <3rrup1$5dl@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>
There is somewhere a faq concerning security (and possibly patches of course!) for
NeXTStep 3.3 ?
TIA
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From: alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing to ethernet printer
Date: 12 Jun 1995 03:44:55 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <3rgd7n$jjp@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
Hi,
We have a Xerox 4900 colour printer with ethernet option installed. How do
we send print jobs to it? The docs say it supports lpr on port 2000.
Telneting to port 2000 on it, and then sending it the PostScript code
seems to make it work, but is there a way I can do it using the printcap
entries in NetInfo. I've tried using the printcap entry given by Xerox
with no joy, all I get is files sitting there.
Alterntively I could write a small program that send a file to port 2000
on the printer, but this seems like a nasty hack,
Alastair.
From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why Don't I exist?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:29:09 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <950616142909.227AACUK.malc@daneel>
References: <3r55tv$1fg@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3r9omg$1m8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1995Jun14.202454.20215@antigone.com> <3ro5kh$lbf@news.tamu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> <content irrelevant, as I'm just responding to the subject>
>
> This is something I often wonder myself.
>
But of course you exist -- even after you've gone you'll live on in our
hearts and minds.
Have fun,
mmalc.
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dial up on NS3.3.
Date: 16 Jun 1995 11:43:23 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <3rs8qr$vo9@Vir.com>
Hello ,
I'm trying to get dial up running on NS3.3 (intel), but I'm having
problems getting a login prompt.
I've connected my modem to serial port a and modified the
/etc/ttys file entry to use ttyda, the parameter passed to getty is
std.9600 then vt100, and turned it on. Do I have to modify anything
else beside the /etc/ttys file? Are there any books that will
explain this in an indepth way? Any hints on how I could pin point the
problem of why it is not working would be apreciated.
Thanks,
stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <abhanson@cca.rockwell.com>
From: <abhanson@cca.rockwell.com>
Message-ID: <9506161314.AA04988@jaco.cca.rockwell.com>
Organization: Unix System Administration, Rockwell International/CCA
Subject: No floppy drive
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 08:14:23 -0500
Sender: abhanson@cca.rockwell.com
We have just recieved and installed our first
NextStep OS on a new Sun. We finally got it
talking nicely to the rest of the 350 other UNIX
boxes in our net.
We can not get it to see its own 3 1/2 floppy
disk. I click on the "check disks" option in one
of the menus, but nothing there.
I tried to tar a file to the drive in a "c-shell"
using the following command:
tar -cvf /dev/fd0a /etc/hosts
but that does not work.
I do not have any "sys admin manuals" to work from.
The /dev/fd0a does exist. On our other sun
systems, the floppy is /dev/fd0. Can someone tell
me if I have the wrong device for the floppy or
what to do to check out the floppy?
Perhaps, I have a bad floppy drive? I will be
swapping it with a known good one this weekend.
Thanks in advance.
From: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Change server
Date: 16 Jun 1995 18:04:05 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3rsh2l$ii@hecate.umd.edu>
I have an existing NEXT only network, with one machine running as a
NetInfo server while others keep clone ones. Now, we have to remove
the server machine and use another one in the net as a master.
I know that at least I can remove all the /etc/hostconfig and
/etc/netinfo directories on each machine and start setting a whole
new net. However, is there any easier way to do so?
Thanks in advance!
Yibing Wu
From: lowell@SchemaResearch.com (Lowell Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: time of day
Date: 16 Jun 1995 18:22:11 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3rsi4j$mft@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
I'm having problems with the time on my NEXTSTEP/SPARC system.
The date command says it is 12:21.
The clock in the dock says it is 11:21.
A compile leaves a timestamp of 11:17 (the time on a SunOS NFS server).
A link leaves a timestamp of 12:21.
A save in Edit.app leaves a timestamp of 12:21.
A 'touch' command leaves a timestamp of 11:17.
Everytime I boot the sparcstation (controlled and otherwise), it's date
and time are off by a day or by an hour.
In the clock in preferences panel, when I choose an hour such as 11 and
hit the "Set" button, the time is immediately changed to 10. The minute
and day are not effected.
Needless to say this is playing havok with my builds. I've reported this
to NeXT and received no response.
I've check NeXTAnswers without finding anything appropriate. Thanks in
advance for any clues to my mystery.
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: ssiebert@ixpoint.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can a ROM on an 040 motherboard be replaced?
Date: 16 Jun 1995 17:19:00 GMT
Organization: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH, Waldbronn, Germany
Message-ID: <3rsee4$2sf@balu.ixpoint.de>
References: <DA65tu.8DG@AWT.NL>
In article <DA65tu.8DG@AWT.NL> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
writes:
> Just wondering if I could replace the ROM on my motherboard for a newer
> version.
>
Yes, no problem. If you find somebody who still has a new version.
> While I'm at it. Does anybody know if you can upgrade 040 boards from
25MHz
> to 33Mhz ones?
No, no way. Buy the accelerator board instead.
---
+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Stefan Siebert |
| iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH |
| Daimlerstr. 3 76275 Ettlingen Germany |
| phone: ++49 7243-37750 |
| Email: ssiebert@ixpoint.de (NeXTmail & MIME welcome) |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
From: dino@ex-nihilo (Dino Bagdadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Building satan
Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:09:54 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rs3bi$j5r@anshar.shadow.net>
References: <3r1h00$1fr@aladdin.iii.org.tw> <D9zxwr.13n@ex-nihilo.com> <1995Jun14.161414.455@netlabs.com>
lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) wrote:
> The "installperl" script is supposed to do the link for you. If it doesn't something is busted.
Larry,
I installed the perl5 (patch level e) NEXTSTEP package distributed by NiNe (which doesn't include any
source, just the compiled binaries and necessary perl libs), and unfortunately, it didn't create the
link :(
I hope nothing else was left out. I hope the guys at NiNe (hello out there!) are listening so that they
can jump right in and let us know.
Thanx for perl Larry!
---
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: time of day
In-Reply-To: lowell@SchemaResearch.com's message of 16 Jun 1995 18:22:11 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun16154838@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rsi4j$mft@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 19:48:38 GMT
You should run "ntp" to avoid problems like this. It keeps all the clocks
on your network in sync. Use HostManager to change the Time Standard to
Use Network Time. You'll also need a ntp server.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Printing to ethernet printer
In-Reply-To: alastair@Black_Albatross.otago.ac.nz's message of 12 Jun 1995 03:44:55 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun12112102@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rgd7n$jjp@celebrian.otago.ac.nz>
Distribution: World
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 15:21:02 GMT
It would help if you posted your printcap but I'll give it a stab. I
would imagine that you edited the /etc/printcap file and not the printers
database in NetInfo. The latter should do the trick.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Change server
In-Reply-To: xli@delphi.umd.edu's message of 16 Jun 1995 18:04:05 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun16162617@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rsh2l$ii@hecate.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 20:26:17 GMT
Here's how:
1. Reboot all your clones to ensure they contain everything that the master has.
2. Go into NetInfoManager and open the master root domain. Change the "master" property so that it references the new server.
3. Wait 30 minutes for this to propagate.
4. Reboot ALL computers in your domain.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: piou@clark.net (Edward Piou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Q: running black hardware without monitors (and another question)
Date: 16 Jun 1995 16:55:36 -0400
Organization: Edarchy First!
Message-ID: <3rsr48$7qm@clark.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
We're trying to move people at our organization away from using
the NextStep interface, and will be using our Next machines (Next
hardware) as servers (serving Macs and PCs), not desktop machines. These are
NextStations currently running NS 3.0.
Is there any hardware or software solution which will allow us to
unplug the monitors and keyboards from the CPUs, so that those CPUs can
just be stacked in a corner out of the way, but kept running?
Or, alternatively, a solution which will let us share 1 keyboard
and monitor among all 4 machines (1 at a time, of course)?
Thanks for any help.
Also - it may be a while before we implement such a plan.
Meanwhile, I've got 4 copies of NextStep 3.3, but I don't want to upgrade
the operating systems if the new interface will require our employees to
be retrained in using the Nexts (especially Mail). Does the installer
give an option of installing everything but the Mail.app
upgrade/interface change? (I hear hierarchical mailboxes are part of the
new Mail.app.)
thanx
ep
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kkitts@his.com (Kevin Kitts)
Subject: Next 2.0 Boot Prob
Message-ID: <kkitts-1606951723520001@isda108.cc.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: Universal Hi-Tech Development
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 22:23:52 GMT
Hello,
I've inherited an old Next Cube. No Floptical. It was surplused so I
have limited support - when I boot the machin I get:
yp: server not responding for domain "xxxx-xxx"; still trying...
Is there a way to escape out of that; also - is there a good manual out on
the net that talks about booting into single user/installation etc.
Any help much apprec.
Thanks
--
Kevin L. Kitts e-mail: kkitts@his.com
20 West Gude Drive www: http://www.his.com/~kkitts
Rockville, MD 20850
From: dino@ex-nihilo (Dino Bagdadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can a ROM on an 040 motherboard be replaced?
Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:27:40 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <3rs4cs$j5r@anshar.shadow.net>
References: <DA65tu.8DG@AWT.NL>
Hello Gerben!
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda) wrote:
> Just wondering if I could replace the ROM on my motherboard for a newer version.
When I upgraded my ColorTurbo station to ADB, I had to replace the ROM (and the monitor,
mouse, keyboard, sound box). So it is possible. What I don't know is if the new ROM will work with
non-ADB keyboard/monitor/sound box. Now that I think of it, the guys at NeXT told me that the
new ROM might cause problems with the non-ADB (Sony) monitor.
> While I'm at it. Does anybody know if you can upgrade 040 boards from 25MHz to 33Mhz
ones?
Yeah, just trade (or buy) your 25MHz motherboard for a 33MHz motherboard and put it in your
machine :)
I had heard of someone (an engineer from Daystar, known for their CPU hardware upgrades on
the Macintosh) some time ago, working on a 68060 piggy board for NeXT hardware. The way it
would work is you'd send your machine, they would replace the 68040 with a socket. Then they
would put your 68040 and a 68060 (either 40 MHz, $1700 or 50 MHz, $2000) on this piggy
board which plugs into the motherboard socket. Finally, they would load a custom kernel to route
68040 specific instructions to the 68040 and other instructions to the 68060. The result, a
machine with 2X (33MHz) to 3X (25MHz), depending with what you started with.
I could never find more info on this though :( Maybe he's still out there.
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Next 2.0 Boot Prob
In-Reply-To: kkitts@his.com's message of Fri, 16 Jun 1995 22:23:52 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun16184334@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <kkitts-1606951723520001@isda108.cc.nih.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 22:43:34 GMT
Assuming your system is not networked, you need to edit your /etc/hostconfig
file and change it to say YPDOMAIN=-NO-
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: using tip Terminal.app ...(SOLUTION)
Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:54:27 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3rkmt3$cvg@natasha.rmii.com>
References: <950612183724.534AAEiW.chuck@kant.jhuapl.edu>
waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu writes
>
> If you have all the info about the cable pin and "piece of hardware" pin
> assignments, then you might want to pass that on in a followup post and
> also describe what you have done on setting up your NEXTSTEP to handle
> that cable/hardware setup.
>
> > I don't see any reason why I souldn't be able to plug this into the
My original post was about how to connect through terminal.app and tip as
a console of a 'piece of hardware'. The deal is I have this router which
can only be talked to via a console port. Further investigation showed I
had a hardware level problem. After resolving the hardware problem I
added an entry to my /etc/remote file as such:
acc:dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:pa=none
then from the comand line in Terminal.app I simply type 'tip acc' which
opens the connection to my router. As a somewhat irrelevant side point,
since I have these two machines to interact with and limited desk space I
wanted to use just one monitor. I attached the bnc connections of my
monitor to one machine and the dsub to the other. By toggling the input
mode of the monitor I can switch between consoles. (Okay it is pretty
lame, but does solve a problem) Now if I could get my keyboard and mouse
to do the same.
Chris Miner
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Replacement for getty needed.
Message-ID: <1995Jun16.224931@titan.sfasu.edu>
From: a_browntw@titan.sfasu.edu
Date: 16 Jun 95 22:49:31 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University
Could someone please tell me if there is a possible replacement
for the getty that ships with next. Is mgetty or mgetty_ps available
for next? And where can I find them?
Thanks,
Terry B.
From: golden@cady.sscnet.ucla.edu (Miriam Golden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: BinHexing on NeXTstation
Date: 15 Jun 1995 17:33:44 GMT
Organization: UCLA, Social Sciences Computing
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3rpqto$fbp@hegel.sscnet.ucla.edu>
Keywords: BinHex, Mac
I am looking for a GUI utility that will quickly and easily BinHex
multiple files on my NeXTstation 3.1 for file transfer to a Mac
environment. I would appreciate any leads. Thanks, Miriam
--
____________________________________________________________________
|
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Professor of Political Science| tel: (310) 206-8166 or 825-4331
UCLA | fax: (310) 825-0778
405 Hilgard Ave. |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <@mail.uunet.ca,@beltrix:mark@oa.guild.org>
Message-ID: <m0sMpsP-000alFC@oa.guild.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Mark Onyschuk <mark@oa.guild.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:52:56 -0400
Subject: mrouted anyone?
Has anyone compiled mrouted [and other associated programs] for
NEXTSTEP 3.3? If so, where is it available?
Regards,
Mark
---
M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 15 LaRose Ave, Ste 702
NEXTSTEP Software Development Toronto CANADA, M9P1A7 (416)241-3076
From: besler@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com (Steve Besler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: running black hardware without monitors (and another question)
Date: 16 Jun 1995 23:40:10 GMT
Organization: Motorola - Wireless Data Group; Seattle, WA
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <BESLER.95Jun16164010@nova.mdd.comm.mot.com>
References: <3rsr48$7qm@clark.net>
In-reply-to: piou@clark.net's message of 16 Jun 1995 16:55:36 -0400
In article <3rsr48$7qm@clark.net> piou@clark.net (Edward Piou) writes:
> We're trying to move people at our organization away from using
> the NextStep interface, and will be using our Next machines (Next
> hardware) as servers (serving Macs and PCs), not desktop machines. These are
> NextStations currently running NS 3.0.
> Is there any hardware or software solution which will allow us to
> unplug the monitors and keyboards from the CPUs, so that those CPUs can
> just be stacked in a corner out of the way, but kept running?
I believe this capability comes with the OS. You may have to hook up an
ascii terminal to one of the serial ports, but even that may not be required.
> Or, alternatively, a solution which will let us share 1 keyboard
> and monitor among all 4 machines (1 at a time, of course)?
> Thanks for any help.
Again, I believe you can do this already. Just use NXHosting or "OpenSesame.app"
(which comes with NS 3.3).
> Also - it may be a while before we implement such a plan.
> Meanwhile, I've got 4 copies of NextStep 3.3, but I don't want to upgrade
> the operating systems if the new interface will require our employees to
> be retrained in using the Nexts (especially Mail).
I recently I doubt the users will even notice the changes.
>Does the installer
> give an option of installing everything but the Mail.app
> upgrade/interface change?
Not that I know of.
>(I hear hierarchical mailboxes are part of the
> new Mail.app.)
It really makes very little difference.
--
Steven Besler, Coop Student "I do not speak for Motorola."
Motorola Wireless Data Group
From: borrel@abdallah (Borre Ludvigsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't write to defaults
Date: 17 Jun 1995 21:45:35 GMT
Organization: UniNett
Message-ID: <3rvidv$2n0@ratatosk.uninett.no>
I keep getting error messages on the console like:
Jun 17 15:44:23 hostname FrameMaker [10111]: Couldn't save window
NXPrintPanel in defaults
or
.............
OWController in defaults
I can't find any "defaults" file to look at permissions. What's going
on?
- Barre
Børre Ludvigsen - http://www.hiof.no/~borrel - finger: borrel@abdallah.hiof.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Can't write to defaults
In-Reply-To: borrel@abdallah's message of 17 Jun 1995 21:45:35 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun17222436@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rvidv$2n0@ratatosk.uninett.no>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 02:24:36 GMT
Look in ~/.NeXT.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Dial up on NS3.3.
In-Reply-To: stefanos@Vir.com's message of 16 Jun 1995 11:43:23 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun17223106@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3rs8qr$vo9@Vir.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 02:31:06 GMT
Did you restart getty or your system? Also, you probably want to use hardware
flow control (ttydfa).
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can a ROM on an 040 motherboard be replaced?
Date: 18 Jun 1995 04:43:01 GMT
Organization: Primenet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3s0asl$1kg@nnrp2.primenet.com>
References: <3rsee4$2sf@balu.ixpoint.de>
In article <3rsee4$2sf@balu.ixpoint.de> ssiebert@ixpoint.de writes:
> Yes, no problem. If you find somebody who still has a new version.
>
> > While I'm at it. Does anybody know if you can upgrade 040 boards from
> 25MHz
> > to 33Mhz ones?
> No, no way. Buy the accelerator board instead.
>
That's odd, Actually I got my new Cube ROM from Bell Atlantic. About $30.
Works great as well... Is there something different on obtaining slab vs.
Cube ROM's?
From: b0445889@smail1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christian Vollmert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: workspacemanager error!!!
Date: 18 Jun 1995 07:31:52 GMT
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
Message-ID: <3s0kp8$qkj@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
From: mcarling@407 (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to repair hostmanager screwup?
Date: 18 Jun 1995 08:05:29 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3s0mo9$bpp@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <Paul.Janssens-1506952212350001@dialup12.antwerp.eunet.be>
Paul.Janssens@ping.be (Paul Janssens a.k.a JPA) wrote:
> I launched the
> hostmanager chose local... and inserted a bozo ip address, hostname and
> domainname.
> After messing with the hostmanager, I pressed OK and the system rebooted.
> It went as far as 'Checking system files'. and kept on spinning. and
> spinning...
> Q: if I get the thing booted, either standalone or from an external
> harddisk, what files must I look for and modify to put humpty-dumpty back
> together again?
Copy /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig to /etc/hostconfig and
/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo to /etc/netinfo. Then reboot.
M Carling
From: borrel@abdallah (Borre Ludvigsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netmsgserver error?
Date: 18 Jun 1995 09:49:01 GMT
Organization: UniNett
Message-ID: <3s0sqd$btf@ratatosk.uninett.no>
What in the world is this? Sometimes (quite often sometimes) my Cube
goes into a spin, nothing happens in the window manager (shells are
OK, but slow) and the console says:
Jun 18 09:20:45 (myhostname) netmsgserver[23]:
crypt_decrypt_packet.km_get_dkey fails, host id = 9e242202
What's happening - what do I do to revive the thing. Sometimes I have
to reset the machine, because it just won't quit spinning.
- Barre
Børre Ludvigsen - http://www.hiof.no/~borrel - finger: borrel@abdallah.hiof.no
From: yarbroug@atc.ameritel.net (Yarbrough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: For System Administrators
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 13:25:49 -0500 (EST)
Organization: American TeleCom
Message-ID: <3s1o4b$pod@news.ameritel.net>
Now on Undernet IRC a channel specifically for you the
Network Administrator. If you are involved in the daily
operations of networked computers then you should be
involved with us.
#NetAdmin is a place for Network people to gather and
share ideas, problems, war stories, etc. Our focus is
on Network Administration on all platforms.
#NetAdmin is also a great place to hang out with people
who understand where you are coming from.
So come on in and check us out!
You can find #NetAdmin on Undernet IRC
Connected to the Undernet via a server near you!
Undernet server list
======================
NORTH AMERICA (some of these also run on ports 7000/7777)
=============
CANADA
------
Montreal.QU.CA.undernet.org 6667
USA
---
Pasadena.CA.US.undernet.org 6667
Norman.OK.US.undernet.org 6667
Boston.MA.US.undernet.org 6667
Albany.NY.US.undernet.org 6667
Manhattan.KS.US.undernet.org 6667
Milwaukee.WI.US.undernet.org 6667
Ames.IA.US.undernet.org 6667
StGeorge.UT.US.undernet.org 6667
Tampa.FL.US.undernet.org 6667
Davis.CA.US.undernet.org 6667
Austin.TX.US.undernet.org 6667
Mexico
------
Puebla.MX.undernet.org 6666
CHILE
-----
Santiago.CL.undernet.org 6667
EUROPE (most of these also run on port 7000)
=======
Lausanne.CH.EU.undernet.org 6667
Crete.GR.EU.undernet.org 6666
Caen.FR.EU.undernet.org 7000
Paderborn.DE.EU.undernet.org 6667
Delft.NL.EU.undernet.org 6667
Vienna.AT.EU.undernet.org 6667
Ljubljana.Si.Eu.undernet.org 6668
Oslo.No.EU.undernet.org 6667
Gothenburg.Se.EU.undernet.org 6667
Krakow.PL.EU.undernet.org 7000
Uxbridge.UK.EU.undernet.org 6667
ASIA
=====
Taipei.tw.undernet.org 6667
AUSTRALIA
=========
Wollongong.NSW.AU.undernet.org 6667
Undernet Telnet Servers
=======================
wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu 6677
vinson.ecn.uoknor.edu 6677
sci.dixie.edu 6677
cricinfo.cse.ogi.edu 6677
caen.fr.eu.undernet.org 6677
obelix.wu-wien.ac.at 6677
(Telnet is a bad way to IRC, use it only as a last resort
if there is no way possible that you can run a real IRC
Client)
From: hoff@lache.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Weird PPP Troubles
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 18 Jun 1995 17:37:45 GMT
Organization: GMD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <3s1o99$kqc@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <DADLL7.6A9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
(..long tale of woe..)
>When I switched to another terminal window and tried an 'ls' on a local
>directory on my own machine, I got the 'total 37' (or whatever) as the
>first line of the directory output, but then it apparently hung. In
>some cases the rest of the directory would eventually get printed but
>only after insanely long waits (more than a minute). I could do a 'ps'
..
>I can reboot and get my system back to normal. But once I try to reconnect
>with PPP, this screwy behavior returns.
Rest easy: it has nothing to do with your PPP setup. This behaviour is
usually caused by the single-threaded lookupd. This daemon performs
network-related lookups (who'd guess?), and in it's current incarnation,
it's single-threaded, i.e. it queues the requests and performs them one
after another. If a NetInfo-related call gets stuck (DNS lookups are the
most frequent failure reasons) you see the described behaviour: a spinning
cursor and 'blocked' system. The call will eventually time out, and
everything will continue. However, for an interactive system, this behaviour
is just plain unacceptable. NeXT is aware of this problem and promised a fix.
When? Dunno.
Holger
--
Holger Hoffstaette ___ "X was designed to run three programs:
hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de /\__\ xterm, xload, and xclock."
[NeXTmail: YES]; \/__/ - The UNIX Haters Handbook
From: peter@barbakane (Piotr Twarecki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Weird PPP Troubles
Date: 18 Jun 1995 20:43:39 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3s235r$oqi@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
References: <DADLL7.6A9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3s1o99$kqc@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
hoff@lache.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette) wrote:
> Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> (..long tale of woe..)
> >When I switched to another terminal window and tried an 'ls' on a local
> >directory on my own machine, I got the 'total 37' (or whatever) as the
> >first line of the directory output, but then it apparently hung. In
> >some cases the rest of the directory would eventually get printed but
> >only after insanely long waits (more than a minute). I could do a 'ps'
> ..
> >I can reboot and get my system back to normal. But once I try to reconnect
> >with PPP, this screwy behavior returns.
> Rest easy: it has nothing to do with your PPP setup. This behaviour is
> usually caused by the single-threaded lookupd. This daemon performs
> network-related lookups (who'd guess?), and in it's current incarnation,
> it's single-threaded, i.e. it queues the requests and performs them one
> after another. If a NetInfo-related call gets stuck (DNS lookups are the
> most frequent failure reasons) you see the described behaviour: a spinning
> cursor and 'blocked' system. The call will eventually time out, and
> everything will continue. However, for an interactive system, this behaviour
> is just plain unacceptable. NeXT is aware of this problem and promised a fix.
> When? Dunno.
> Holger
> --
> Holger Hoffstaette ___ "X was designed to run three programs:
> hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de /\__\ xterm, xload, and xclock."
> [NeXTmail: YES]; \/__/ - The UNIX Haters Handbook
I think the problem Jerry is experiencing is not nearly that severe. I had identical
behaviour with PNI when the routing tables were not setup properly. What I would
suggest is that Jerry ensures he has 'defaultroute' as an argument to pppd in his setup.
Second, he should check his host setup, as described in the ppp docs. As an example,
my /etc/hostconfig looks like this:
# /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=barbakane
INETADDR=127.0.0.1
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
And my pppup script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh -f
# -*- Fundamental -*-
#
# kdebug 1 is SC_DEBUG
# 2 is SC_LOG_INPKT
# 4 is SC_LOG_OUTPKT
# 8 is SC_LOG_RAWIN
# 16 is SC_LOG_FLUSH
#
# add together to get debugging you want
# Remember: for HW flow control you must you /dev/cufa or /dev/cufb
#
#
# This is an example that dials a modem, logs into a remote Annex terminal
# server and starts ppp.
#
exec /usr/local/bin/pppd bsdcomp 10,10 mtu 1500 lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-fa
ilure 3 crtscts modem lock defaultroute -pap -chap connect '/usr/local/bin/chat
-f /usr/local/ppp/scripts/login-mcgill' /dev/cufa 38400
I never had a 'lockup' problem since I figured out that it was the routing which was
responsible for my problems with SLIP setup. One thing I'm glad is that PPP has a
wanderful support for dynamic IP number assignment. In PNI it took me a while to get it
working. The only thing that PPP needs now is dial-on-demand and hangup after preset
line inactivity...
-----
Piotr Twarecki
(Please reply in this newsgroup, if possible)
--
Piotr Twarecki
(Please reply in this newsgroup, if possible)
From: cavery@cais.cais.com (Cavery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Satan and Tripwire
Date: 18 Jun 1995 20:48:25 GMT
Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470
Message-ID: <3s23eq$ecf@news.cais.com>
Has anyone run Satan against a stanard Motorola NextStation running 3.2? Would you be will to
share your results? Also, has anyone compiled and run Tripwire on 3.2 that would be will to share
the compiled code and experience?
Thanks -
If you have trouble responding to the reply to address, try cavery@cais.com.
From: cavery@cais.cais.com (Cavery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cannot Launch Program HotLinkPort
Date: 18 Jun 1995 21:00:37 GMT
Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470
Message-ID: <3s245l$ecf@news.cais.com>
I am starting to see the message Cannot Launch Program HotLinkPort on my console shortly after
bootup and I think after starting up PPP2.2. Anyone know what is going on here?
Thanks -
If you have trouble with the reply to address, try cavery@cais.com - Thanks
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 19 Jun 1995 00:15:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3s2fid$ilu@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
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news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
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Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT
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===========================================
Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are
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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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany.
ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next/ eduStep
ftp://ftp.next.com: See below
ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com
=====================================
[from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help]
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
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To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the
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can download NeXTanswers documents.
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Written by:
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From: fsannier@sloop.univ-lr.fr (Frederic Sannier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: wrong printed colours
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:03:32 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <3s403k$n89@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
when printing on HP color Laserjet (and also on the canon CLC 350) colours
we see on screen are (far) different from what is printed. Pure RGB colour
blue (255 blue) gives a purple and red (255 red) produces orange. How to
correct that problem.
Thank you.
From: Rodger Zeisler <rbz@eversoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wrong printed colours
Date: 19 Jun 1995 13:37:24 GMT
Organization: Everest Software Corporation, Dallas, TX USA
Message-ID: <3s3uik$o4o@feenix.metronet.com>
References: <3s403k$n89@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
fsannier@sloop.univ-lr.fr (Frederic Sannier) wrote:
> when printing on HP color Laserjet (and also on the canon CLC 350) colours
> we see on screen are (far) different from what is printed. Pure RGB colour
> blue (255 blue) gives a purple and red (255 red) produces orange. How to
> correct that problem.
> Thank you.
It has to do with the RGB vs. the CMYK color model. When RGB
gets converted to CMYK, it changes from Red-0/Green-0/Blue-255 to
Cyan-100/Magenta-100/Yellow-0/Black-0. You can see this
using the Color inspector on Edit.app (or any other app).
When you print Cyan and Magenta, you get purple, not blue.
The answer is to use the CMYK color model and don't worry about how it
looks on the screen (colorwise, that is). Instead mix your colors with CMYK
and see on a test page with a dozen differrent squares with different mixes
how the colors look.
Going back to your orignal question, you can back off of the CM a little to
get a truer blue.
---
Rodger (NeXTMail & MIME Welcome!)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Rodger B. Zeisler Internet rbz@eversoft.com
Everest Software Corporation Work (214) 437-7636
4347 W. Northwest Hwy, #851 Fax (214) 437-7600
Dallas, TX 75220-3864 Home (214) 517-4884
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Re: Weird PPP Troubles
Message-ID: <DAF6sL.4H4@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <DADLL7.6A9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3s1o99$kqc@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <3s235r$oqi@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:31:32 GMT
In article <3s235r$oqi@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>,
Piotr Twarecki <twarecp@mtrmp001.allied.com> wrote:
>hoff@lache.darmstadt.gmd.de (Holger Hoffstaette) wrote:
>> Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>
>I think the problem Jerry is experiencing is not nearly that severe. I had
>identical
>behaviour with PNI when the routing tables were not setup properly. What I wo>uld
>suggest is that Jerry ensures he has 'defaultroute' as an argument to pppd in >his setup.
>Second, he should check his host setup, as described in the ppp docs. As
>an example,
>my /etc/hostconfig looks like this:
>I never had a 'lockup' problem since I figured out that it was the routing
>which was
>responsible for my problems with SLIP setup. One thing I'm glad is that PPP
>has a
>wanderful support for dynamic IP number assignment. In PNI it took me a while>to get it
>working. The only thing that PPP needs now is dial-on-demand and hangup after> preset
>line inactivity...
Piotr, thanks for your reply. Your config files and routing look very
much like what mine do. My ultimate fix was editing one line of resolv.conf
and picking a name server that hadn't been destroyed sometime Saturday
afternoon. :-) With that done things worked just fine.
As for the severity of the symptoms... they were quite awful. Any time
a network operation was attempted it would take forever to return with
a failure report. During this almost interminable period, I couldn't
even 'ls' my directories and trying to open new terminal windows
generated spinning disc disease... yeeeeghghgh...
But it's fixed now, and wasn't a problem of PPP at all. (I wouldn't
want people to be scared off of Stephen's great PPP implementation).
--
Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Weird PPP Troubles
Message-ID: <DADLL7.6A9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 15:55:54 GMT
Yesterday, something utterly baffling started happening to me.
Since Feburary or so, I've been running Steve Perkins's very good PPP 2.2
package, without any problems. In fact, it works wonderfully. Yesterday,
however, something weird started happening. I was able to use my machine
and PPP normally in the morning but when I tried reconnecting later in the
evening (without having made any configuration changes to my hardware or
software), the following happened.
First off, I ran my 'pppup' script. I used 'tail -f' to watch the connection
happen. Our local annex paused for an unusually long time before finally
getting around to giving me my IP address and completing the connection.
Next, however, something really weird started happening. I tried a
straight finger. I got back the results. I tried a finger to the
hostname that my PPP provider gives me, i.e. finger @mfcfnet-ts13.uwaterloo.ca.
The modem lights flashed a bit and I got the finger info back as I would have
expected in roughly the right amount of time. Then I tried fingering
some other campus hosts. I tried rlogin to some of them.
Now for the scary part.
When I switched to another terminal window and tried an 'ls' on a local
directory on my own machine, I got the 'total 37' (or whatever) as the
first line of the directory output, but then it apparently hung. In
some cases the rest of the directory would eventually get printed but
only after insanely long waits (more than a minute). I could do a 'ps'
and get back the normal result but doing a 'ps -aux' printed the header
line of the ps report but never printed any more process information.
These kind of peculiarities were all over the place. Trying to open a
new Terminal.app window gave me a spinning disk cursor (something that
I've never seen while doing that before) for an awfully long time, up
to several minutes, before a terminal window either appeared or before
I gave up on it.
I can reboot and get my system back to normal. But once I try to reconnect
with PPP, this screwy behavior returns.
This is puzzling since I've been running my current hardware and software
configuration without changes since February and haven't had any problems
at all. Could our sysadmins have changed something that could have screwed
things up in this way? Does anybody have any idea as to what's happening
here and how I can remedy it? It leaves me with my formerly functional
PPP set-up completely useless, since it's suddenly become incapable of doing
any real network work, and it addles my machine in the process.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
--
Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: Can a ROM on an 040 motherboard be replaced?
Message-ID: <DADu7J.28t@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <3s0asl$1kg@nnrp2.primenet.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:02:06 GMT
In article <3s0asl$1kg@nnrp2.primenet.com> rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne)
writes:
> In article <3rsee4$2sf@balu.ixpoint.de> ssiebert@ixpoint.de writes:
> > Yes, no problem. If you find somebody who still has a new version.
> >
> > > While I'm at it. Does anybody know if you can upgrade 040 boards from
> > 25MHz
> > > to 33Mhz ones?
> > No, no way. Buy the accelerator board instead.
> >
> That's odd, Actually I got my new Cube ROM from Bell Atlantic. About $30.
> Works great as well... Is there something different on obtaining slab vs.
> Cube ROM's?
>
My boot process says:
> Jun 16 19:38:56 Mr_Ed mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
I'd like to get the newest ROM on this system, but without changing Monitor
(non-ADB and stuff).
What version should I get?
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: RARP...
Message-ID: <DADuBK.29M@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <DA4GC8.Htu@sed.stel.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:04:31 GMT
In article <DA4GC8.Htu@sed.stel.com> laz@curly.sed.stel.com (John Lazorisak)
writes:
> Does anyone know how to get a intel based NS to
> provide RARP?
> I have a diskless Sun 3/60 which needs to get its ip
> via RARP and I was hoping that my NS box could do this...
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Lazorisak Stanford Telecom laz@sed.stel.com
NS doesn't have RARP, but it does have BOOTP. Can't the Sun use that? If not,
try to find RARP code from some PD Unix.
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ARP...
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:50:26 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3s42ri$bh2@news.next.com>
References: <3rmv8k$mli@www.its.com>
In article <3rmv8k$mli@www.its.com> chuck@racine (Chuck Swiger) writes:
>laz@curly.sed.stel.com (John Lazorisak) wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to get intel based NS to provide RARP services?
>> I have a diskless Sun 3/60 which gets its ip via RARP and
>> I was hoping that I could get my NS box to do this...
>Sure. Edit /etc/rc and enable the bootpd, which gets started in these
> lines:
NOT. bootp != rarp.
The NS/FIP kernel does not support rarp.
joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: embuck@sherman.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck)
Subject: Help Printing To non-Next printers
Message-ID: <DAFCxz.Gxu@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>
Sender: news@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com
Organization: Rockwell Avionics - Collins
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:44:22 GMT
Help with printing to non-Next printers:
We have a single Sparc-Station 20 running NS 3.3 on a UNIX (NIS) network. On the whole, the NS system works well, but we can not get network printing to work. lpr from a command line works flawlessly, but when we print from the print panel, only a cover page comes out. We are reaching the network printers (or the cover page would not come out). The print panel even correctly identifies the different printer types available on the network. Any ideas ?
/usr/adm/lpd-errs says the following:
Jun 16 14:18:51 palmer lpd[740]: /usr/adm/lperr/laser2: No such file or directory
Is it a permissions problem? Why does lpr work and the print panel not work ?
From: lowell@ernie (Lowell Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: time problems on NEXTSTEP/SPARC
Date: 19 Jun 1995 15:02:21 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3s43ht$ooq@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Hello All,
I previously posted about my problem with the time on my computer. To repeat, here is
the strange situation.
The date command says it is 12:21
The clock in the dock says it is 11:21
A compile leaves a timestamp of 11:17
A link leaves a timestamp of 12:21
A save in Edit.app leaves a timestamp of 12:21
A 'touch' command leaves a timestamp of 11:17
The difference between 11:17 and 11:21 is because I don't run NTP. I should and I will.
But if I eliminate that complexity, I still have this problem:
The date command says it is 12:21
The clock in the dock says it is 11:21
A compile leaves a timestamp of 11:21
A link leaves a timestamp of 12:21
A save in Edit.app leaves a timestamp of 12:21
A 'touch' command leaves a timestamp of 11:17
This is all on the same computer. A result of this behavior is that once I edit a source file,
it continues to recompile every build within the next hour.
Is anyone else having this same problem? Know of any solutions?
Thanks,
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: chris@michelob.wustl.edu (chris cleeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I watch myself login?
Date: 19 Jun 1995 04:44:46 GMT
Organization: St. Louis Users' Groups
Message-ID: <3s2vbu$itq@cerberus-138.wustl.edu>
References: <3rrc0s$rrj@phakt.usc.edu>
In article <3rrc0s$rrj@phakt.usc.edu>,
Matthew Nathaniel Reichman <reichman@phakt.usc.edu> wrote:
>I think something weird is going on when I login to my home directory on my slab and would like to watch the processes (console isn't enough) to explain why one of my drives works so so much.
>
>How should I go about this?
Compile a copy of top (search Archie for source locations), then set up
a terminal out of one of the serial ports and log in as root. Run top, which
will show you the top 20 processes by CPU usage (you can set other
criteria), then log in on the console. Observe. Diagnose. Fix.
-cj
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Help Printing To non-Next printers
In-Reply-To: embuck@sherman.cca.rockwell.com's message of Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:44:22 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun19132208@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAFCxz.Gxu@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:22:08 GMT
What does your printcap entry look like?
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: chris@michelob.wustl.edu (chris cleeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Replacement for getty needed.
Date: 19 Jun 1995 05:18:45 GMT
Organization: St. Louis Users' Groups
Message-ID: <3s31bl$j5a@cerberus-138.wustl.edu>
References: <1995Jun16.224931@titan.sfasu.edu>
In article <1995Jun16.224931@titan.sfasu.edu>,
<a_browntw@titan.sfasu.edu> wrote:
>Could someone please tell me if there is a possible replacement
>for the getty that ships with next. Is mgetty or mgetty_ps available
>for next? And where can I find them?
>
I have a thin black binary built currently. I can build a fat version
and distribute if necessary. And I'm currently trying to get the
fax portion of it working, but am having some problems getting the
raw G3 format that it requires (anybody wanna help?).
Let me know if you're still interested,
-cj
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Low-level format utility?
In-Reply-To: robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch's message of 19 Jun 1995 08:47:01 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun19132519@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <RDL.95Jun15234444@world.std.com> <3s3di5$n67@aragorn.unibe.ch>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:25:19 GMT
This is unfortunately true. I recently tried this on my Quantum 210 and
could only get it to use 512 byte blocks. In any case, what I said was
valid with the caveat that you can't format with 1024 byte blocks on a
Quantum.
Robert
From: rbeswick@pomona.edu (I am _NOT_ doing evil...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo Question...
Date: 19 Jun 95 13:06:02 PDT
Organization: Pomona College
Message-ID: <1995Jun19.130602@pomona>
I am Unix SysAdmin at the Claremont colleges and I am trying to
transition a local stand-alone Next station, running NeXTStep 3.0 into a
NetInfo server for two other machines. Alas, I have only a limited familiarity
with the NetInfo server package. I have set up the server and have managed
to get it to boot client machines across the network. However, for some reason,
the client machines can not find their parent Netinfo administration server
in the final stages of the boot process (for network user accounts). My user
accounts are setup to be network wide and I have set up appropriate entries
for the two machines in the "/" local domain via HostManager, however, when I
tried to use automatic host addition, I receved the somewhat cryptic response
"this is a Local Domain and therefore unsutable for Automatic host addition."
Is it possible to boot a client machine without a networkwide NetInfo process
running on the server machine (which is what I _think_ may be happening) and
if so, how do I go about transitioning the server
so that it does export the appropriate network user accounts?
-any help on this would be greatly appreciated-
Robert Beswick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch)
Subject: Re: Weird PPP Troubles
Message-ID: <DAEH0v.HqI@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <DADLL7.6A9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3s1o99$kqc@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 03:14:55 GMT
In article <3s1o99$kqc@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
Holger Hoffstaette <hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de> wrote:
>Jerry Kuch (gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>(..long tale of woe..)
>
>Rest easy: it has nothing to do with your PPP setup. This behaviour is
>usually caused by the single-threaded lookupd. This daemon performs
>network-related lookups (who'd guess?), and in it's current incarnation,
>it's single-threaded, i.e. it queues the requests and performs them one
>after another. If a NetInfo-related call gets stuck (DNS lookups are the
>most frequent failure reasons) you see the described behaviour: a spinning
>cursor and 'blocked' system. The call will eventually time out, and
>everything will continue. However, for an interactive system, this behaviour
>is just plain unacceptable. NeXT is aware of this problem and promised a fix.
>When? Dunno.
Holger... thanks very much for the information. This turned out to be
exactly the problem. Sometime on Saturday the machine in VLSI that I
usually use as my name server bought the farm. The weirdness that
the single-threaded nature of the daemon causes (I hadn't previously
known of its single-threaded nature) had me somewhat puzzled. Being
unable to resolve addresses is one thing... suddenly becoming unable
to read my own local directories was a source of considerable annoyance! :-)
I switched to another name server today and everything is happily back to
normal...
Thanks again,
Jerry
--
Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU KESSEN
brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
From: pote@benjamin.tch.harvard.edu (Dr. Kenneth Gene Pote)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How does one set up a nextstation as a PPP server?
Date: 19 Jun 1995 20:45:19 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Office of Information Technology
Message-ID: <3s4nkv$13@netope.harvard.edu>
Could some kind soul please instruct me in the ins and outs of setting
up a next station as a PPP provider?
Thanks
-Ken
From: peter@barbakane (Piotr Twarecki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Weird PPP Troubles
Date: 19 Jun 1995 21:38:01 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Message-ID: <3s4qnp$nqk@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
References: <DADLL7.6A9@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3s1o99$kqc@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <3s235r$oqi@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <DAF6sL.4H4@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca (Jerry Kuch) wrote:
[...snap...]
> Piotr, thanks for your reply. Your config files and routing look very
> much like what mine do. My ultimate fix was editing one line of resolv.conf
> and picking a name server that hadn't been destroyed sometime Saturday
> afternoon. :-) With that done things worked just fine.
[...snap...]
You are welcome, although I was not mych help ;-)... This is very interesting though, I
could have sworn I knew the problem. The symptoms were identical to what was
happening with my cube and PNI. I'm glad you have it corrected...
> --
> Jerry Kuch, EMail: gdkuch@mercator.math.uwaterloo.ca, NeXTMAIL acceptable.
> IMPORTANT NEWS: As reported in VARIETY, GAMERA - DAIKAIJU KUCHU
KESSEN
> brought in $751,805 in thirteen theaters in Tokyo during its second
> week of release. This brings the film's two-week total to $1,633,888.
--
Piotr Twarecki
(Please reply in this newsgroup, if possible)
From: doug@Glue.umd.edu (Douglas N. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 19 Jun 1995 22:22:51 -0400
Organization: Project Glue, University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3s5bdr$4pg@stochastic.eng.umd.edu>
Keywords: need some info on this
hello.
how does one free the serial port on a NeXT.
config: NeXT workstation running 3.2
problem:
trying to connect a modem to the b port and talk to it:
now the tip won't let go of the port.
transcript:
[rivendel-ppp: /] tip cufb38400
connected
ate1
OK
atz
OK
at&f
OK
ati4
OK
ati6
OK
at?
000
OK
at:t?
040
OK
atz
OK
at&f
OK
ati4
OK
atT
OK
at\s
IDLE 000:00:00
LAST DIAL
ID:
NET ADDR: 0000900253A9
MODEM HW: SA 2W United States
4 RTS 5 CTS 6 DSR - CD 20 DTR - RI
Current User Profile
[blah blah blah]
BELL ON ATB1
OK
y}$B115200
after the last garbage, we tried to free it, and it would not let go so
i opened a 2nd window, killed the process and then tried to connect again
(tip cufb115200) and we got a "all ports busy"
how do you free up this port without logging out of the root window or
rebooting....
thanks....
doug
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>:< doug >:< root@rivendel-ppp.clark.net >:< root@lorien.umd.edu >:<
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>:< Rivendell homepages: http://umbc8.umbc.edu/~akhatt1/rivendel.html >:<
>:< http://alexandria.sjsu.edu/a/u/bblaust/home.html >:<
>:< http://web.sjsu.edu/a/u/bblaust/home.html >:<
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Subject: How can one install NS 3.3 on this Dell Dimension XPS90 setup?
Message-ID: <DAGvJ4.7qz@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 10:23:28 GMT
I am posting this for a friend without news access.
This Dell Dimension XPS90 has one EIDE hard disk and a Adaptec 2940 SCSI
with a SCSI hard disk attached to it (and a CD-ROM).
The NS Installation instructions tell you (after the first part has been completed)
to make the SCSI disk bootable. But how can one do that on this Dell, apart
from removing (physically) the EIDE disk? If you set the EIDE disk to not
available in the BIOS setup, the system complains about the disk after startup.
Does anyone know how to install NS succesfully to a SCSI disk (and boot from
it) when there is also a EIDE disk available in the system?
I hope I have understand him correctly when he asked me. This is what I
understood form his words. Any help welcome.
Thanks,
--Gerben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,ba.jobs.offered
From: peter@pdh.com (Peter Murray)
Subject: Job: System Administrator
Message-ID: <DA8C2v.LKv@pdh.com>
Keywords: unix, sybase, oracle, next, nextstep, solaris, sun
Sender: news@pdh.com (USENET News Account)
Organization: PDH, Inc.
Distribution: BA
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 19:42:28 GMT
Company: PDH, Inc.
Position: NEXTSTEP/ Sun System Administrator and
Database Administrator
Hiring: June 1995
Location: San Jose, California (near the San Jose Airport)
Qualifications:
Required:
**** US CITIZENSHIP ****
Full time (not summer hire)
BS in Computer Science or related field
2+ years experience with UNIX preferably SUN
Desired:
NeXT, SUN, Oracle, Sybase backup procedures
Building kernels
Knowledge of NeXT Mail and Net Info
NeXT Graphical User Interface for system administration
SLIP and modem access
SUN Yellow Pages and TCP/IP Networking
SUN patches
Software and hardware installation
UNIX, Solaris, SUN O/S, NEXTSTEP, Oracle and Sybase knowledge
Oracle/Sybase database administration
PDH has an exceptional opportunity for a system/database administrator. This job requires
both NeXT and SUN system administration experience as well as Oracle and Sybase DBA
experience. We are looking for immediate SUN/UNIX system administration support and can
provide NeXT, Sybase, and Oracle training.
You will provide system and database administration support for a group of engineers.This
position involves performing backups, maintaining network integrity, supporting remote
access, maintaining current software releases, and supporting configuration requirements for
PDH engineering needs. You will have the authority to purchase and install software and
hardware from third party vendors. In general, you will be required to support our internal
network .
Environment:
PDH, Inc. is a small software development company specializing in object-oriented,
client-server, systems solutions using NeXTSTEP. You will support a network of less than 20
Next/Intel workstations, 2 SUN SPARC servers, and remote access.
This is an excellent opportunity to be immediately challenged. PDH provides excellent
vacation, health, 401K and disability benefits. The work attire is casual and the hours are
flexible.
PDH, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Contact:
Please send your resume and salary information to:
Personnel Department
Vox: (408) 428-9596 Fax: (408) 428-9599
E-mail: personnel@pdh.com (NeXT Mail welcome)
From: Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "short read" error on boot
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:41:08 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950619233849.13131B-100000@avocado>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi, all,
I've got a black NeXT, running 3.2. When I boot it I get this
odd error... what's going on here?
Boot command: sd
boot sd(0,0,0)
booting SCSI target 1,lun0
READ: sdcmd bad state:0
short read
READ: sdcmd bad state:0
short read
Can't load blk0 boot
... and then it drops to the NeXT> prompt.
I can't make it boot in single user either.
Any suggested fixes?
___ __________________________________________________________
/\__\ G. Hussain Chinoy
\/__/ 314/591-4955 vox
NEXTSTEP, 314/935-5799 fax
baby hussain@artsci.wustl.edu net
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~hussain/ web
From: bbehtash@crl.com (Behzad Behtash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: How can one install NS 3.3 on this Dell Dimension XPS90 setup?
Date: 20 Jun 1995 20:03:39 GMT
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
Message-ID: <3s79ir$mob@nntp.crl.com>
References: <DAGvJ4.7qz@AWT.NL>
In article <DAGvJ4.7qz@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.NL (Gerben Wierda) says:
>
>I am posting this for a friend without news access.
>
>This Dell Dimension XPS90 has one EIDE hard disk and a Adaptec 2940 SCSI
>with a SCSI hard disk attached to it (and a CD-ROM).
>
>The NS Installation instructions tell you (after the first part has been completed)
>to make the SCSI disk bootable. But how can one do that on this Dell, apart
>from removing (physically) the EIDE disk? If you set the EIDE disk to not
>available in the BIOS setup, the system complains about the disk after startup.
>
>Does anyone know how to install NS succesfully to a SCSI disk (and boot from
>it) when there is also a EIDE disk available in the system?
>
>I hope I have understand him correctly when he asked me. This is what I
>understood form his words. Any help welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Gerben
>
As far as I know, the only way to boot from the SCSI device with the Adaptec 2940
controller, is to have your IDE controller turned off. In other words, if you are
accessing the IDE drive, it will always boot from that drive no matter what the
SCSI IDs are. You have to turn off the IDE controller in the BIOS setup.
Behzad
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From: olsen@menext3.engr.ucdavis.edu (Thomas Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! HD died
Date: 18 Jun 1995 01:52:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <3s00t5$f87@mark.ucdavis.edu>
On Thursday, the hard drive in one of our NeXT Cubes crashed.
This is a non-turbo machine without a floppy drive. I was wondering, how
could we load the system from CD-ROM without a floppy drive? We do have
a colorstation. So, is it possible to use the floppy drive from the
colorstation?
If we do need to replace the hard drive, does anyone have
recommendations on what brand to get?
Thanks,
Tom Olsen
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 22:26:23 +0100
Subject: test, please ignore
test, please ignore
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Organization: Unix System Administration, Rockwell International/CCA
Subject: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:46:06 -0500
Sender: abhanson@cca.rockwell.com
On all the other UNIX platforms, we perform "uname" to determine the
platform type for software compiles, which binaries to execute, etc.
Now, we do not know what or how to determine what system we are using
to run our programs, etc.
Can anyone assist me in determining if I am on a next OS or something
else?
What would be the equivalent of "uname"?
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From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with dialing up to a NS 3.3 (intel).
Date: 18 Jun 1995 23:57:48 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <3s2sjs$4k2@Vir.com>
Hello,
It's me again.:) I'm still having trouble dialing in to NS3.3
Intel. I'm using cu to dial to NS3.3 Intel machine. My problem is the
modems seem to make the connection but the CD (carrier detect) light
does not go on. But when I use the same command to dial up to my Internat
provider the CD light on my modem lights up sometimes and not others?
When it lights up I can make the connection when it doesn't I can't?
It seems to be some type of initialization problem with my
modem (but I'm new at this so I could be totally wrong , not that it's
ever happened before :). I have a US Robotics Sportster 28800.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx in advance,
stef
Here's my /etc/remote file. There is a hayes varible set with the at command.
Where is it defined? How can I send commands to initialize the modem with
cu?
===========================================================================
BASIC|Basic setup:\
:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:
#
a9600|cua9600|Dial-out on cua at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
b9600|cub9600|Dial-out on cub at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
fa9600|cufa9600|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cufa:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
fb9600|cufb9600|Dial-out on cufb at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/cufb:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
ttya9600|Hardwire on ttya at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/ttya:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
ttyb9600|Hardwire on ttyb at 9600 baud:\
:dv=/dev/ttyb:br#9600:tc=BASIC:
#
# General dialer definitions used below
#
dial19200|19200 Baud Hayes attributes:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#19200:at=hayes:du:
dial1200|1200 Baud Hayes attributes:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:at=hayes:du:
dial300|300 Hayes attributes:\
:dv=/dev/cua:br#300:at=hayes:du:
#
# UNIX system definitions
#
UNIX-19200|19200 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\
:el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial19200:
UNIX-1200|1200 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\
:el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial1200:
UNIX-300|300 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\
:el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial300:
#
tip0|tip1200:tc=UNIX-1200:
tip300:tc=UNIX-300:
cu0|cu19200:tc=UNIX-19200:
#cu1200:tc=UNIX-1200:
#dialer:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
#The attributes are:
#
#dv device to use for the tty
#el EOL marks (default is NULL)
#du make a call flag (dial up)
#pn phone numbers (@ =>'s search phones file; possibly taken from
# PHONES environment variable)
#at ACU type (vadic, ventel, hayes, courier)
#ie input EOF marks (default is NULL)
#oe output EOF string (default is NULL)
#cu call unit (default is dv)
#br baud rate (defaults to 300)
#fs frame size (default is BUFSIZ) -- used in buffering writes
# on receive operations
#tc to continue a capability
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: FTP problem
In-Reply-To: Demand Direct Printing's message of Mon, 12 Jun 95 14:30:18 -0500
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun19013922@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <9506121932.AA12016@demand>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 05:39:22 GMT
I'm a bit unclear as to what your problem is but I think you need to look
at either modifying or creating a ~/.netrc file that turns on/off binary
transfers upon startup. You don't need to recompile - that would be drastic.
Also, try looking at the manual for "ftp" using "man ftp"
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: robert@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Philippe Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Low-level format utility?
Date: 19 Jun 1995 08:47:01 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Berne, Switzerland
Distribution: world
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References: <RDL.95Jun15234444@world.std.com>
>sdform will perform a low level format. It's what "disk -i" uses. There is
>a better version of sdform called sdformat on the ftp sites that allows you to
>format with 1024 byte blocks. This is assuming that your Quantum is a SCSI
>disk.
Quantum HDs are often not usable with 1024 byte blocks... Sp pay attention!
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Replacement for getty needed.
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:39:59 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3s427v$ln5@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <1995Jun16.224931@titan.sfasu.edu> <3s31bl$j5a@cerberus-138.wustl.edu>
chris@michelob.wustl.edu (chris cleeland) wrote:
> In article <1995Jun16.224931@titan.sfasu.edu>,
> <a_browntw@titan.sfasu.edu> wrote:
> >Could someone please tell me if there is a possible replacement
> >for the getty that ships with next. Is mgetty or mgetty_ps available
> >for next? And where can I find them?
> >
> I have a thin black binary built currently. I can build a fat version
> and distribute if necessary. And I'm currently trying to get the
> fax portion of it working, but am having some problems getting the
> raw G3 format that it requires (anybody wanna help?).
Well, there are at least three or four people working on the complete integration of mgetty
into the NEXTSTEP Fax environment. As far as I can see, almost all necessary tools have
been done by someone (g3totiff, pstog3, ...) in the meantime, and most of them are
running their system, what would be necessary is to merge these things together in a
reasonable manner, test it out and submit it into the mgetty distribution as another
frontend.
My big problem with mgetty was/is that it required to be compiled as POSIX application
for NEXTSTEP, and that - as we all now ;-) - POSIX was seriously broken in 3.1, and still
seems to have major bugs or at least flaws in 3.2 and 3.3. Because of the broken
SerialPorts driver, I switched over to Mux, and was quite glad that Mark Salyzyn (father of
Mux) was also using mgetty and tried to make it play with Mux as good as possible.
Therefore, there exist some patches that make mgetty work with Mux, but probably break
mgetty with NeXT's new serial ports driver.
Also, there are still some strange behaviors from mgetty, which keep me from propagating
it as getty replacement (I've still big problems with 8-bit logins, probably due to a flaw in
NeXT's /bin/login).
Anyway, I'd propose that we try to set up a mgetty/NEXTSTEP mailing list for those
interested in developing and testing.
Gregor
From: rworne@primenet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: computer time
Date: 21 Jun 1995 03:20:51 GMT
Organization: Primenet
Message-ID: <3s836j$j2@nnrp2.primenet.com>
References: <3s6rf8$7u0@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
lowell@ernie (Lowell Schneider) wrote:
> More information on the 'time' problem.
> I started using a network time service, as recommended by Robert La Ferla, and the
> service interacts badly with a bug I previously presented to this group. Specifically:
> If you use a network time service, you must set the time using the 'date' command
> line tool. Then you can go into the Preferences panel, choose the clock, and then click
> on 'Synchronize'. The preferences panel then takes the time you set with the date
> command, and offsets it by one hour.
Never fear, I had the same problem on my Intel box. I cannot remember if my cube did
the same thing as well...
All I did was set the clock an hour ahead, and it seemed to work fine, but then again,
usually when I did that, it decided to "work" properly...
Ah well....
From: mbecker@neptune.cs.uml.edu (Mark Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI cartridge tape drive under 030/NS 2.1 - How to change blocksize?
Date: 20 Jun 1995 23:10:43 GMT
Organization: Working on it.
Message-ID: <3s7khj$fhv@ulowell.uml.edu>
Hello *
I've wired a QIC-80 tape drive (it came with a SCSI adapter) to my '030 cube
and believe I've run into an old problem.
Specifically, the NeXT tape driver uses (by default) a different block size
than the tape interface adapter can handle.
A long time ago someone posted a snippet of code that could change the default
tape driver block size. Does anyone have that snippet available?
Regards,
Mark
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
In-Reply-To: doug@Glue.umd.edu's message of 19 Jun 1995 22:22:51 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun20014602@world.std.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3s5bdr$4pg@stochastic.eng.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 05:46:02 GMT
Typing "Return" "~" "." will quit out of tip.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NetInfo Question...
In-Reply-To: rbeswick@pomona.edu's message of 19 Jun 95 13:06:02 PDT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun20015509@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1995Jun19.130602@pomona>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 05:55:09 GMT
It's been a long time since I've used 3.0 so I'll give you generic pointers
instead:
1. You need a two-level domain. It sounds like you have a one level domain
where "/" = "."
2. Check the /etc/hostconfig files on your clients. You can e-mail me a copy
if you'd like.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: computer time
In-Reply-To: rworne@primenet.com's message of 21 Jun 1995 03:20:51 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun20233509@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3s6rf8$7u0@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3s836j$j2@nnrp2.primenet.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 03:35:09 GMT
This is a bug in Preferences. Please report it to bug_next@NeXT.com.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: Ron Pomeroy <rop@al.esec.ch>
Subject: Kernel panic woes
Message-ID: <DAH8H8.Jqz@eunet.ch>
Sender: usenet@eunet.ch
Organization: EUnet AG, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:03:07 GMT
Hello net folks,
My system is as follows:
JCIS Cougar 486DX/4-100Mhz
PCI w/NCR810 chipset on motherboard
JCIS MACAW Soundcard (Microsoft Sound System compatable)
JCIS Shark graphics card (Weitek P9100 PCI based - 2meg VRAM)
32 meg RAM
1 GIG harddrive
540 meg harddrive
I'm getting kernel panics quite often and I can't seem to
identify a pattern of usage which points to the culprit.
It even hangs sometimes right after the reboot following
the panic (I'm waiting for the day when I get caught in
an infinite panic->reboot->panic loop :-( )
When mach panics, does it leave some kind of stack retrace
or log anything which will allow me to get some idea of which
process is causing the problem ???? I tend to lean towards
blaming a device driver - but I have no method of narrowing
the cause.
The really sad thing is, I purchased this machine from a
company which is familiar with NEXTSTEP (they supplied
Crystler Financial with their NEXTSTEP PCs), installed
NEXTSTEP at the factory, and I got a system which isn't
as stable as my friend's no-name-put-it-together-myself-for
-less-than-half-the-cost-of-your-system PC.
I'm really bummed!
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
Ron Pomeroy
pomeroy@al.esec.ch
From: lowell@ernie (Lowell Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: computer time
Date: 20 Jun 1995 16:02:48 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3s6rf8$7u0@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
More information on the 'time' problem.
I started using a network time service, as recommended by Robert La Ferla, and the
service interacts badly with a bug I previously presented to this group. Specifically:
If you use a network time service, you must set the time using the 'date' command
line tool. Then you can go into the Preferences panel, choose the clock, and then click
on 'Synchronize'. The preferences panel then takes the time you set with the date
command, and offsets it by one hour.
This is really a problem for me, and I'm concerned that no one else seems to be having
the same symptoms. ??? What is going on ???
I'm running NEXTSTEP-SPARC.
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
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From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: Re: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
Message-ID: <DAHAMv.JCs@waldo.com>
Organization: The 341 Monmouth St. Network
References: <3s5bdr$4pg@stochastic.eng.umd.edu> <RDL.95Jun20014602@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:49:42 GMT
Robert La Ferla (rdl@world.std.com) wrote:
: Typing "Return" "~" "." will quit out of tip.
: Robert La Ferla
: Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
: + 1 (617) 252-0088
And to unlock a port, just delete the file
/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..<your port name, such as ttydfa>
Matt
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From: root@terra (Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
Date: 20 Jun 1995 19:28:33 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3s77h1$miu@ni1.ni.net>
References: <3s5bdr$4pg@stochastic.eng.umd.edu>
doug@Glue.umd.edu (Douglas N. Cohen) wrote:
> hello.
> how does one free the serial port on a NeXT.
> config: NeXT workstation running 3.2
> problem:
> trying to connect a modem to the b port and talk to it:
> now the tip won't let go of the port.
> transcript:
> [rivendel-ppp: /] tip cufb38400
> connected
> ate1
> OK
> atz
[snip]
> after the last garbage, we tried to free it, and it would not let go so
> i opened a 2nd window, killed the process and then tried to connect again
> (tip cufb115200) and we got a "all ports busy"
> how do you free up this port without logging out of the root window or
> rebooting....
> thanks....
> doug
tip sets up a *.LCK file to avoid conflicts with uucp. If you did something within tip that
required you to terminate tip with extreme prejudice it probably did not remove the lock
file. This has happened to me more than a few times while messing around with tip.
Look for a file /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/cufb.LCK corresponding to a lock on serial port b with
hardware flow control. If you find it simply delete it and the lock is gone.
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
far@ni.net # one's fellow citizens, to betray friends,
Agoura Hills, CA # to be without faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can aquire power
# but not glory.
#
(NeXTmail prefered) #
--Nicolo, Machiavelli
(MIMEmail welcome) #
From: nurban@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: dual drive issues
Date: 20 Jun 1995 15:36:18 -0400
Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Message-ID: <3s77vi$48k@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
Summary: dual swap, SCSI vs. IDE, booting
Keywords: swap,SCSI,IDE
I am planning to get two 1.2-gig drives for my new computer (white
hardware). They will probably be identical in specs. I have a lot of
questions. Any insight would be appreciated.
How should I utilize the drives? Should I put the system stuff on one
drive and local/user stuff on the other? Are there performance
advantages in doing so? I plan on having multiple OS'es installed,
including Linux, DOS, probably Windows, maybe OS/2. How will this
affect booting? (Will I need to put all my boot partitions on one drive?)
Some kernels let you have multiple swapfiles on different physical
drives, and can interleave access to them for greatly increased swap
performance. I know that the NS Mach kernel supports multiple
swapfiles. Does it also do this interleaving, or does it just fill one
up and then start using the other? Supposing I put the NS system stuff
on one drive and the local/user stuff on the other. Which one should
have my primary swapfile? Maybe the less-used one..? Or maybe the
user one, so that you can be loading an app from the system drive and
swapping out to the user drive at the same time? (I guess this is
asking: what makes you swap the most?) If I have two swapfiles, then
what should the relative sizes of primary and secondary swap be?
Also, there is the SCSI vs. IDE issue. IDE is obviously cheaper. What
better performance advantage will SCSI give you? Also, I guess I have the
choice of 2 SCSI drives, 2 IDE drives, or 1 SCSI and 1 IDE. If I do one
of each, how would this affect where I put things? For example, would
it be better to put the primary swapfile on the SCSI, or the system
stuff, or what?
Whew. Anyone have any real experience with these issues?
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Having problems install NS on Gateway P5-75
Message-ID: <DAHLHq.HHx@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:44:14 GMT
I get it booted up to the point where it asks me which partition to
put NeXTSTEP on, and then it starts the install onto it.
After a while, I get a Bus Error, from /private/etc/rc.cdrom. This
doesn't make any sense, because rc.cdrom is a shell script.
I've tried several times, and the Bus Error comes at different points
in the install. I was able to get the little slider almost halfway
through the first time, but now it dies just a few files in.
Is this some sort of BIOS config problem?
--
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Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
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From: nathan@nai.net (Nathan F. Janette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Non Next-Printers
Date: 21 Jun 1995 04:04:14 GMT
Organization: North American Internet Company
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3s85nv$jbd@a3bsrv.nai.net>
References: <3s7mtj$6db@avalon.imaginet.fr>
In article <3s7mtj$6db@avalon.imaginet.fr> gfoulon@gfoulonhome (Gael Foulon)
writes:
Please fix your From: address, it is not valid.
> I can't still print more than one copies with my non-Next Printers,
> the option in PrintPanel is simply ignored and only one copy is
> printed !?
I saw the same problem with an Emulex NetJet ethernet card in an
HP printer. The card couldn't handle the number of copies option
sent by lpr. The factory techs said it wasn't possible for them
to spoof this behavior due to the way they emulated lpr/lpd.
My work-around was to print to a file, and then use the csh
"repeat" loop to send multiple copies. It was a cheap hack,
but it worked fine.
--
Nathan Janette
NEXTSTEP & Unix Systems Management Consultant
Internet: nathan@nai.net
From: gfoulon@gfoulonhome (Gael Foulon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Non Next-Printers
Date: 20 Jun 1995 23:51:15 GMT
Organization: ImagiNET Public Access Internet Service
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Thank you to people who answer to my questions about using Non-Next printers.
I resolve some problems :
adding _nxfinalform to the netinfo printer allow to use fonts which are not present on the
printer (no more downloading fonts before printing).
adding in the netinfo printer's dir Admin the property ReversePageOrder with a the value
2 : correct the page ordering to get a document in the correct order.
BUT...
I can't still print more than one copies with my non-Next Printers, the option in PrintPanel
is simply ignored and only one copy is printed !?
Does anyone suceed to do this ?
Thank for your help.
Gaël FOULON
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
In-Reply-To: 's message of Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:46:06 -0500
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun20200834@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <9506201946.AA09700@jaco.cca.rockwell.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:08:34 GMT
The command is "arch".
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How can one install NS 3.3 on this Dell Dimension XPS90 setup?
In-Reply-To: bbehtash@crl.com's message of 20 Jun 1995 20:03:39 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun20201318@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAGvJ4.7qz@AWT.NL> <3s79ir$mob@nntp.crl.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:13:18 GMT
Unless you want to have a dual boot system where you partition your EIDE drive
into a small 7 MB NEXTSTEP partition and the rest for whatever (DOS/Windows)
You can then boot from the EIDE and choose whether you want to boot from the
2nd partition or from the SCSI drive. This is how I have my Dell XPS set up.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
In-Reply-To: hocker@waldo.com's message of Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:49:42 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun20201605@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3s5bdr$4pg@stochastic.eng.umd.edu> <RDL.95Jun20014602@world.std.com>
<DAHAMv.JCs@waldo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:16:05 GMT
Exiting tip should do this automatically.
Robert
From: gbrown@wv.mentorg.com (Greg Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: floptical problem
Date: 21 Jun 1995 01:58:08 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3s7ubg$t13@hpmos.wv.mentorg.com>
--
Please excuse some rather neophyte questions, but I am trying to help somebody
troubleshoot over the phone who is not UNIX/sysadmin literate and I have never
used nor have access to a NeXt machine.
He lives about 500 miles from me, so I have no direct access to his machine.
The problem is that his optical floppy will not stay in. The symptoms are:
1) optical floppy is put in the drive.
2) It spins up to speed, appears to do some checking, then
3) it shuts down and ejects.
Is this a mechanical problem with the drive?
How does NeXt mount/umount these things? Does it handle the mounting
automagically?
This problem just appeared one day.
Another question I have has to do with networking. His machine was pulled off of
a small network that had 3 total NeXt cubes. The business went down the tubes
and his partners dismantled the computer system (who are also not sysadmin
literate). His machine appears to understand itself as most things are set to
automatic in his hostmanager (?). He does a
'hostname' and it says it is localhost (its name was "dimensia" on the network.
The hostmanager says things are
congfigured as broadcasthost. Is "broadcasthost" a special "mode" of the NeXt? I
find no reference to this in the /etc/hosts file. Is the NeXt capable of
figuring out it is no longer on a network and configuring itself correctly as a
standalone node? Things appear to run correctly (according to him).
Any help is greatly appreciated. Again, please accept my apologies for such a
neophyte set of issues.
System Configuration:
NeXt Cube 040 25MHz system type 2
16MB
400MB hard drive
NeXt Step v3.0
Internal optical floppy
gbrown@wv.mentorg.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Subject: faster baud with black
Message-ID: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com>
Sender: fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg)
Organization: Chemelex Division of Raychem Corporation
Distribution: ba,na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:40:42 GMT
All the recent talk about MUX and new serial drivers prompted me
to take another look at my modem speed - which is 9600, I do
have a 14,400 modem, but am not able (at least I'm not sure how)
to connect faster.... any suggestions?
Also, I have access to a T1 connection to the net, and wonder
what I need to do to direct my uucp dialup to work over the T1?
TIA, Fred
Fred Schenkelberg
NeXTmail enjoyed
fms@chemelex.com
Redwood City, CA
From: trail@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Trestrail )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Partition table gone--can it be resurrected??
Date: 21 Jun 1995 04:37:57 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3s87n5$42c@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
References: <3s7ubg$t13@hpmos.wv.mentorg.com>
I am running NS 3.2 intel and have a problem with the NeXT partition
on my external hard disk -- it disappeared from the partition table.
I redid the partitions with fdisk, but now I get the message box
for "Disk unreadable -- ignore or initialize ??" when I login. Is there
any way to get back my data (some of which was not backed up) ??
TIA
Jeff Trestrail
trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones)
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Message-ID: <cjonesDAI9uq.L84@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com> <3r8ta7$pue@news.next.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 04:30:26 GMT
Sender: cjones@netcom2.netcom.com
Dan Grillo (grio@next.com) wrote:
: Check out the new NeXT Intel serial port driver in NeXTanswers.
: --Dan
: Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in Bld1, back, Rside
I just tried, got 1208 and 1948 which were not really a help.
Do you know the doc number?
thanks,
carl
From: rworne@primenet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 21 Jun 1995 06:17:09 GMT
Organization: Primenet
Message-ID: <3s8dh5$nn@nnrp1.primenet.com>
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com>
fms@chemelex.com (Fred Schenkelberg) wrote:
> All the recent talk about MUX and new serial drivers prompted me
> to take another look at my modem speed - which is 9600, I do
> have a 14,400 modem, but am not able (at least I'm not sure how)
> to connect faster.... any suggestions?
I don't know what I must be doing wrong... my setup runs ppp 2.2
at 57600 serial rate with a 28.8 connection off my USR modem.
All this off my black cube off of ttya, and cufa. (I later built a NeXT
modem cable)...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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From: Mark Onyschuk <mark@oa.guild.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:49:38 -0400
Subject: RE: Dell Dimension XPS 120s parallel port
Here's an update regarding the Dimension P120c parallel port, for
those that are interested in purchasing one:
* I've managed to get the port to work with the PD parallel port
driver, after realizing that its PB.project file compiled the driver
to the filename Mux_reloc rather than Par_reloc (it's the sort of
thing you don't expect, so don't check...).
* the sound still fails to work.
Robert La Ferla posts that his Dell P90 has both a working parallel
port as well as PAS sound card. I can verify this as our own Dell
P90 works perfectly too :-)
The P120 motherboard and chipset seem to be sufficiently different
from that of the Dell P90 to cause some problems unfortunately.
Printing, the most important problem we were faced with, is now
resolved.
---
M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 15 LaRose Ave, Ste 702
NEXTSTEP Software Development Toronto CANADA, M9P1A7 (416)241-3076
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: killing popmail fossils
Date: 21 Jun 1995 15:08:11 GMT
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3s9ckr$10m2@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I run a small Intel NeXT as a mailhost, running zmailer and a pop server
that delivers mail to a bunch of PCs and Macs around my Dept. To keep
users from messing with the machine, I have *'d the passwords of all users
except root and myself in the dot-domain password database.
Once in a while, a popmail session is terminated abnormally, typically
when a dialup connection gets broken. This leaves a fossil popserver
session running for the user who broke the connection. When a user has
one of these, he can't fetch any more mail because the pop login process
finds that he's already logged in and rejects a new login attempt.
Since I don't allow users to log in to the machine manually, I can't have
them delete their own popmail fossil processes with the kill command.
I've been thinking of ways to automate the process of finding and killing
off popmail fossils. Something like a Perl script run by cron every hour
that finds these leftovers and disposes of them. However, it sounds a but
tricky (even dangerous) to turn such a beast loose inside my mailhost. If
the thing makes a mistake about which processes are to be killed, things
could come to a halt very quickly.
If anyone else has encountered this situation and can suggest a good
solution that I could use, I'd be glad of some advice, preferably by
Email. Thanks.
----------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta
Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/finleyg.htmld/index.html
From: Frank Knobloch <knobi@architektur.uni-kassel.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS-Server hangs
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:53:30 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Message-ID: <3s431a$kt4@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
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We just get problems with our NFS-Server running NeXTSTEP 3.3.
It's a Sun Sparc 10/40 with 32MB RAM.
Sometimes ( really more often than we like) the server hangs and sometimes it's
not possible to reboot. The keyboard doesn' respond.
The messages files says the following:
Waiting for any kind of help...
--
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{ Frank Knobloch *C * Tel.: +49-561-283969 }
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Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 520 MB
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: MICROP 3243-19MZ 10204 HT01
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1b
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 4095 MB
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: SEAGATE ST43400N 0116
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2a
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2b
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Capacity: 2777 MB
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Disk Label: Seagate-1
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: IMPRIMIS 94601-15 4614
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3 at Target 6 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3a
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Capacity: 992 MB
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Disk Label: Seagate-2
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: TYPE5Keyboard0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: event0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: root on sd0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: PCPointer0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: fdattach: 82077 msr/dsr at 0xf1aa4004
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fc0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0a
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: st: major number 1
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Leaving bpp_identify, ACCEPTED (#1)
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: SUNW,bpp0 at SBus slot f 0x4800000 pri 3 (sbus level 2)
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: pp0
Jun 14 11:20:51 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: zsm0
Jun 14 11:21:12 arch-ws6 reboot: Reboot complete
Jun 14 11:21:25 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 14 11:21:25 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 14 11:21:25 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 14 12:25:15 arch-ws6 loginwindow[313]: running LoginHook /LocalLibrary/Templates/.login
Jun 14 12:25:16 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Jun 14 12:25:16 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 14 12:25:16 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: loginwindow: _NXAudioIn service already registered.
Jun 14 12:25:16 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 14 12:25:16 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 14 12:25:17 arch-ws6 loginwindow[316]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Jun 14 12:25:18 arch-ws6 Workspace[316]: logged in
Jun 14 13:51:05 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 13:54:26 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 13:57:47 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.11
Jun 14 14:00:03 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 14:00:16 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 14:00:20 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.11
Jun 14 14:00:25 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 14:04:10 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:12:04 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 14:12:22 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 14:12:52 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 14:14:39 arch-ws6 last message repeated 5 times
Jun 14 14:30:17 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 14:30:18 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 14:38:05 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 14:38:22 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:43:55 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 14:44:46 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:46:03 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 14:46:54 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:47:23 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 14:47:58 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:50:06 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:52:14 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 14:53:18 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:54:22 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:55:26 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 14:58:38 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 15:00:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Jun 14 15:00:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection failed for server 141.51.36.6/local
Jun 14 15:00:33 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connected to 141.51.36.6/local
Jun 14 15:00:50 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.3
Jun 14 15:02:51 arch-ws6 last message repeated 4 times
Jun 14 15:03:32 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.11
Jun 14 15:03:58 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:08:14 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:10:22 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 15:11:26 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:12:30 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:14:38 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 15:15:42 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:16:46 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:21:02 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:26:22 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:28:30 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:30:38 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:31:42 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:32:17 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.2
Jun 14 15:32:46 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:34:54 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 14 15:35:58 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:36:58 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.11
Jun 14 15:37:02 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:38:06 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:38:37 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
Jun 14 15:38:39 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Jun 14 15:38:39 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 14 15:38:39 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: loginwindow: _NXAudioIn service already registered.
Jun 14 15:38:39 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 14 15:38:39 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 14 15:38:39 arch-ws6 loginwindow[461]: running LogoutHook /LocalLibrary/Templates/.logout
Jun 14 15:38:40 arch-ws6 loginwindow[215]: creating new loginImage
Jun 14 15:39:09 arch-ws6 reboot: rebooted by root
Jun 14 15:39:10 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 14 15:39:10 arch-ws6 syslogd: going down on signal 15
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Killing all processes
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: continuing
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting AdminNext ... done
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting /NetSpool ... done
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting /NeXTApps ... done
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting home2 ... done
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting SunApps ... done
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting home ... done
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: NeXT Mach 3.3: Tue Feb 14 21:04:17 PST 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-172.3.32.obj~5/RC_sparc/RELEASE_SPARC
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of memory
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: available memory = 27.95 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = dfa
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Ethernet address = 08:00:20:1d:8d:41
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: espdma0 at SBus slot f 0x400000
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: esp0 at SBus slot f 0x800000 pri 4 (onboard)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: ledma0 at SBus slot f 0x400010
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: zs0 at obio 0x100000 pri 12 (onboard)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: zs1 at obio 0x0 pri 12 (onboard)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: SPARC bus support enabled
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: DriverKit version 330
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: CG6: Map address f1214000
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: H/w resetting
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: cgsix0 at SBus slot 2 0x0 pri 9 (sbus level 5)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Version check
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: cgsix0: screen 1152x900, single buffered, 1M mappable, rev 0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Display: Mode configured: 1152 x 900 (RGB:256/8)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: Display0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: en0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: en0: lopattach
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: le0: AUI Ethernet
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: en0: Ethernet address 08:00:20:1d:8d:41
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: CONNER CP30540 SUN0535 B0BB
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 3 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd0a
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 520 MB
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: MICROP 3243-19MZ 10204 HT01
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1b
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 4095 MB
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: SEAGATE ST43400N 0116
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2a
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2b
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Capacity: 2777 MB
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Disk Label: Seagate-1
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: IMPRIMIS 94601-15 4614
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3 at Target 6 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3a
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Capacity: 992 MB
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Disk Label: Seagate-2
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: TYPE5Keyboard0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: event0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: root on sd0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: PCPointer0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: fdattach: 82077 msr/dsr at 0xf1aa8004
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fc0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0a
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: st: major number 1
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Leaving bpp_identify, ACCEPTED (#1)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: SUNW,bpp0 at SBus slot f 0x4800000 pri 3 (sbus level 2)
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: pp0
Jun 14 15:39:50 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: zsm0
Jun 14 15:41:08 arch-ws6 reboot: Reboot complete
Jun 14 15:41:18 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 14 15:41:18 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 14 15:41:18 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 15 09:32:44 arch-ws6 reboot: rebooted by root
Jun 15 09:32:45 arch-ws6 syslogd: going down on signal 15
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Killing all processes
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: continuing
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting AdminNext ... done
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting /NetSpool ... done
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting /NeXTApps ... done
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting home2 ... done
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting SunApps ... done
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting home ... done
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: NeXT Mach 3.3: Tue Feb 14 21:04:17 PST 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-172.3.32.obj~5/RC_sparc/RELEASE_SPARC
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of memory
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: available memory = 27.95 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = dfa
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Ethernet address = 08:00:20:1d:8d:41
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: espdma0 at SBus slot f 0x400000
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: esp0 at SBus slot f 0x800000 pri 4 (onboard)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: ledma0 at SBus slot f 0x400010
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: zs0 at obio 0x100000 pri 12 (onboard)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: zs1 at obio 0x0 pri 12 (onboard)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: SPARC bus support enabled
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: DriverKit version 330
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: CG6: Map address f1214000
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: H/w resetting
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: cgsix0 at SBus slot 2 0x0 pri 9 (sbus level 5)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Version check
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: cgsix0: screen 1152x900, single buffered, 1M mappable, rev 0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Display: Mode configured: 1152 x 900 (RGB:256/8)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: Display0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: en0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: en0: lopattach
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: le0: AUI Ethernet
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: en0: Ethernet address 08:00:20:1d:8d:41
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: CONNER CP30540 SUN0535 B0BB
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 3 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd0a
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 520 MB
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: MICROP 3243-19MZ 10204 HT01
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1b
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 4095 MB
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: SEAGATE ST43400N 0116
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2a
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2b
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Capacity: 2777 MB
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Disk Label: Seagate-1
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: IMPRIMIS 94601-15 4614
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3 at Target 6 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3a
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Capacity: 992 MB
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Disk Label: Seagate-2
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: TYPE5Keyboard0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: event0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: root on sd0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: PCPointer0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: fdattach: 82077 msr/dsr at 0xf1a9e004
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fc0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0a
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: st: major number 1
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Leaving bpp_identify, ACCEPTED (#1)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: SUNW,bpp0 at SBus slot f 0x4800000 pri 3 (sbus level 2)
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: pp0
Jun 15 09:35:33 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: zsm0
Jun 15 09:34:55 arch-ws6 reboot: Multi-user startup complete
Jun 15 09:35:02 arch-ws6 loginwindow[214]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 15 09:35:02 arch-ws6 loginwindow[214]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 15 09:35:02 arch-ws6 loginwindow[214]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 15 10:43:17 arch-ws6 netmsgserver[23]: port_set_add() returned 4
Jun 15 10:43:19 arch-ws6 netmsgserver[23]: port_set_add() returned 4
Jun 15 10:54:46 arch-ws6 syslogd: going down on signal 15
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Killing all processes
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: continuing
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting AdminNext ... done
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting /NetSpool ... done
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting /NeXTApps ... done
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting home2 ... done
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting SunApps ... done
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: unmounting home ... done
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: NeXT Mach 3.3: Tue Feb 14 21:04:17 PST 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-172.3.32.obj~5/RC_sparc/RELEASE_SPARC
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: using 81 buffers containing 0.63 megabytes of memory
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: available memory = 27.95 megabytes. vm_page_free_count = dfa
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Ethernet address = 08:00:20:1d:8d:41
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: espdma0 at SBus slot f 0x400000
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: esp0 at SBus slot f 0x800000 pri 4 (onboard)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: ledma0 at SBus slot f 0x400010
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: zs0 at obio 0x100000 pri 12 (onboard)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: zs1 at obio 0x0 pri 12 (onboard)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: SPARC bus support enabled
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: DriverKit version 330
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: CG6: Map address f1214000
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: H/w resetting
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: cgsix0 at SBus slot 2 0x0 pri 9 (sbus level 5)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Version check
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: cgsix0: screen 1152x900, single buffered, 1M mappable, rev 0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Display: Mode configured: 1152 x 900 (RGB:256/8)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: Display0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: en0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: en0: lopattach
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: le0: AUI Ethernet
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: en0: Ethernet address 08:00:20:1d:8d:41
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: CONNER CP30540 SUN0535 B0BB
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 3 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd0a
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 520 MB
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd0: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: MICROP 3243-19MZ 10204 HT01
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 4 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd1b
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Device Capacity: 4095 MB
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd1: Disk Label: Disk
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: SEAGATE ST43400N 0116
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 5 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2a
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd2b
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Device Capacity: 2777 MB
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd2: Disk Label: Seagate-1
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: IMPRIMIS 94601-15 4614
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3 at Target 6 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sd3a
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Block Size: 512 bytes
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Device Capacity: 992 MB
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: sd3: Disk Label: Seagate-2
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg0 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg1 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg2 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: sg3 at sc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: TYPE5Keyboard0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: event0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: kmDevice0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: root on sd0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: PCPointer0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: fdattach: 82077 msr/dsr at 0xf1aa4004
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fc0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: fd0a
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: st: major number 1
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Leaving bpp_identify, ACCEPTED (#1)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: SUNW,bpp0 at SBus slot f 0x4800000 pri 3 (sbus level 2)
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: pp0
Jun 15 10:56:06 arch-ws6 mach: Registering: zsm0
Jun 15 10:56:19 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection failed for server 141.51.36.6/network
Jun 15 10:56:42 arch-ws6 reboot: Reboot complete
Jun 15 10:56:50 arch-ws6 loginwindow[219]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 15 10:56:50 arch-ws6 loginwindow[219]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 15 10:56:50 arch-ws6 loginwindow[219]: register_port_with_nmserver, netname_check_in failed - -102
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From: Frank Knobloch <knobi@architektur.uni-kassel.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep on SUN
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:57:26 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Message-ID: <3s438m$kt4@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
References: <3rreb2$fa1@serra.unipi.it>
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NeXTSTEP on Sun is avaiable e.g. in Germany for one month in the version 3.3
It works fine, but there maybe little problems with the SX-Graphic.
The Developer is also avaiable in 3.3
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 21 Jun 1995 15:50:32 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com>
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com>
In article <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com>, Fred Schenkelberg wrote:
> All the recent talk about MUX and new serial drivers prompted me
> to take another look at my modem speed - which is 9600, I do
> have a 14,400 modem, but am not able (at least I'm not sure how)
> to connect faster.... any suggestions?
If you have a 68040 machine, you should certainly be using hardware (RTS/CTS) flow
control. If you do that, you should be able to run at at least 19,200 baud, if not faster.
If you have a 68030 machine, I'm afraid 9600 baud is as fast as that system will go.
> Also, I have access to a T1 connection to the net, and wonder
> what I need to do to direct my uucp dialup to work over the T1?
If you're going to be connected via a T1, you should stop using a uucp feed. You should
switch to having your mail delivered and sent via (E)SMTP. You'll get and send mail
faster and considerably more robustly.
-Chuck
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Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Techology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+--------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
Date: 21 Jun 1995 15:56:37 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3s9ffl$hbb@www.its.com>
References: <9506201946.AA09700@jaco.cca.rockwell.com>
Alan B. Hanson wrote:
> Can anyone assist me in determining if I am on a next OS or
> something else?
Sure. An quick method is to see whether something like "/mach" or "/NextApps" is
around. Or you could write your own version of uname for NEXTSTEP and have it
display whatever you wish.
> What would be the equivalent of "uname"?
"hostinfo", perhaps?
-Chuck
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Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Techology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+--------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: dalia@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Apurva F. Dalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Accurate Time on NeXT
Date: 21 Jun 1995 16:53:37 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3s9iqi$755@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi,
I am sure this question has been asked several times but
I have missed it. How do you set up in netinfo so that
the master server gets accurate time from Government
time servers and other clients on the network get their
time from the master. Inshort how do I make sure that
all machines on the network have the same time.
Thanks
-apurva dalia
dalia@cat.syr.edu
--
Thankyou
-apurva.
dalia@cat.syr.edu
From: paul@stonewall.umsl.edu (Paul J. Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: error using default print cover sheet!
Date: 21 Jun 1995 16:39:54 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <PAUL.95Jun21113954@stonewall.umsl.edu>
I recently made a printer publicly available - no problems there.
However, now that traffic can come from other hosts, I decided to
enable the CoverSheet option. It prints the pale gray NeXT cube and
the bounding box, but produces the error message:
ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: NXCalibratedRGBColorSpace
STACK:
0
0
0
/NXCalibratedRGB
/NXCalibratedRGBColorSpace
The actual print job disappears into limbo.
CoverSheet works fine on my m68k machine running 3.3. The error
occurs on an i486 machine running 3.3.
It's possible to live w/o cover sheets, but it would be nicer to have
them work. Any help would be appreciated.
--
--paul paul@whimsy.umsl.edu
=================================================================
Families, when a child is born want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence, having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life by becoming
a Cabinet Minister.
-- Su Tung-p'o
=================================================================
From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: Joe's ppp and Mail.app
Date: 21 Jun 1995 10:08:42 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@phakt.usc.edu
Message-ID: <3s9jmq$m1d@phakt.usc.edu>
Summary: ppp and Mail.app
I had same problem.
Here's a 'quick' fix that I DON'T RECOMMEND (that I have done and am too lazy to do the right thing which I will mention afterward):
rename your localhost to the name of your mail server and rename your login on your home computer to the name on your ppp account.
This works perfect for me.
BUT
THE CORRECT WAY is to get the latest release of sendmail and implement it's imposter function (or whateer it's called). See previous threads in this group orc.s.n.software or misc (I forget) - there was a good discussion of all of this.
Matthew
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"Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
From: hari@ilios (H A R I)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: finger[login shows multiple days]
Date: 21 Jun 1995 17:04:54 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Arlington
Message-ID: <3s9jfm$apl@utaipx02.uta.edu>
When anybody fingers anyone else on our Next stations it shows the following
Login: hari Name: Hariharan Neelakantan
Directory: /user/hari Shell: /bin/tcsh
On since Wed Jun 21 09:53 (CDT) on console, idle 20 days 1:31
On since Wed Jun 21 09:58 (CDT) on ttyp4, idle 0:02
On since Wed Jun 21 10:32 (CDT) on ttyp7, idle 1:23
Plan:
The problem is when that person is loged in the console shows an arbitray idle time.
The actual idle time is only that shown on the other ttyp's .
The console always shows some arbitrary idle time, sometimes its 148days
sometimes 30 days.
If the person is not logged in it shows the correct time and date the person last logged in as shown below
Login name: hari In real life: Hariharan Neelakantan
Directory: /user/hari Shell: /bin/tcsh
Last login Tue Jun 20 23:24 on ttyp0 from ilios
Is there some way to correct it.
please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
--
Hariharan N.
From: Christopher_Lane@Med.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
Date: 21 Jun 1995 17:39:45 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <3s9lh1$6im@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <9506201946.AA09700@jaco.cca.rockwell.com>
<abhanson@cca.rockwell.com> writes:
> On all the other UNIX platforms, we perform "uname" to determine the
> platform type for software compiles, which binaries to execute, etc.
> ...
>
> What would be the equivalent of "uname"?
Robert La Ferla replies:
> The command is "arch".
The command 'arch' isn't at the same level as 'uname'. On other Unix
systems, 'uname' returns the OS name, like 'SunOS', 'IRIX', 'HP-UX',
etc. whereas 'arch' returns the hardware type, e.g. 'i386' which might
be the case on any of several Unix platforms.
You can implement the uname command on a NeXT, if this is a local
software configuration problem, via the uname system call:
#include <c.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/utsname.h>
void main() {
struct utsname name;
if(uname(&name) == CERROR) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
(void) puts(name.sysname);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
make sure to compile this with '-posix'. This command will return
'NEXTSTEP', the OS name, not the hardware platform.
More ambitious folks might want to add switches to the program to
return the nodename, release, version & machine fields of the utsname
structure. (Note that the 'machine' field of the utsname structure
doesn't return the same thing as 'arch'. On my Pentium system, arch =
'i386' but machine = '586 AT'.)
- Christopher
From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
Date: 21 Jun 1995 17:48:41 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <3s9m1p$un3@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <RDL.95Jun20200834@world.std.com>
> On all the other UNIX platforms, we perform "uname" to determine the
> platform type for software compiles, which binaries to execute, etc.
> Robert La Ferla writes
> > The command is "arch".
> >
> > Robert La Ferla
> > Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
> > + 1 (617) 252-0088
> >
/usr/bin/hostinfo gives you a lot of information about what version of
system software you are running, configuration, processor type and so on.
/usr/bin/arch gives you the processor family you are running NextStep on
(which might be enough for your purpose).
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: me@wintermute (David Wallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Joe's ppp and Mail.app
Date: 21 Jun 1995 17:33:43 GMT
Message-ID: <3s9l5o$bie@news.kth.se>
References: <3s9jmq$m1d@phakt.usc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman) wrote:
> I had same problem.
> Here's a 'quick' fix that I DON'T RECOMMEND (that I have done and am too lazy to do
the right thing which I will mention afterward):
> rename your localhost to the name of your mail server and rename your login on your
home computer to the name on your ppp account.
> This works perfect for me.
> BUT
> THE CORRECT WAY is to get the latest release of sendmail and implement it's imposter
function (or whateer it's called). See previous threads in this group orc.s.n.software or
misc (I forget) - there was a good discussion of all of this.
> Matthew
> --
> "Show disorder to make them take a chance" -- Sun Tzu
I had the same problem
I changed two lines in sendmail.cf:
DRmailhost
CRmailhost
I changed 'mailhost' to the name of the SMTP-server. It works but I have no idea if this is
a 'correct' solution. I did not have to update my sendmail program.
--david
--
--
"most people are fools, most authority is malignant,
God does not exist, and everything is wrong." - Ted Nelson's four maxims.
Name : david wallin :)
e-Mail : d94dwa@student.csd.uu.se (:
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ppp and Mail.app
Date: 21 Jun 1995 19:32:49 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3s9s51$jf0@www.its.com>
References: <jpanicoDAItLx.FFF@netcom.com> <jpanicoDAIw7q.688@netcom.com>
In article <jpanicoDAIw7q.688@netcom.com>, Joe Panico wrote:
> 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> 554 jpanico@netcom.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name
> server)
Looks suspiciously like DNS isn't working. Can you ping/telnet/etc to netcom.com from
the machine you're setting up? If not, you need to set up /etc/resolv.conf to point to your
domain's nameservers.
If you don't have nameservers available, you either need to contact your ISP and use
theirs and/or set up your own nameservers.
-Chuck
--
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Techology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+--------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
In-Reply-To: chuck@its.com's message of 21 Jun 1995 15:50:32 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun21162819@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com> <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 20:28:19 GMT
On a 25MHz 68040, you can run the DTE rate as high as 38400. On turbos,
it can go faster (57600?)
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: "S.Wood" <woods@ge.cdnnuc.ge.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do YOU do Backups?...
Date: 21 Jun 1995 21:18:57 GMT
Organization: General Electric Company
Message-ID: <3sa2c1$qb1@alva.ge.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
How do you do backups in your hybrid networked environment? What works and
does not work? Please offer any good sys admin advice you might have.
We have Vax Servers, about 150 pc's and a few Sun's all networked using DEC
Pathworks. We are hoping to integrate and automate our current bu systems.
Thanks for any help, S.Wood.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Message-ID: <DAJLH0.29q@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 21:39:00 GMT
In article <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) writes:
> If you're going to be connected via a T1, you should stop using a uucp feed.
You should
> switch to having your mail delivered and sent via (E)SMTP. You'll get and
send mail
> faster and considerably more robustly.
Not faster if you use Taylor UUCP. NeXT UUCP is old and inefficient. Taylor
with 1024 byte packets and a window of 6 is almost 100% effective. Hardly any
overhead, which you do have when using PPP/IP/TCP
Just my $0.02
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: Lowell_Schneider@SchemaResearch.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: access to name servers
Date: 21 Jun 1995 23:06:36 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3sa8lt$mn0@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
I've got three NEXTSTEP machines, two of which correctly access an internet name
server. The third can't resolve names to ip addresses.
Here's some information on the machine, elmo, that isn't able to resolve names:
% nslookup java.sun.com
Server: elmo
Address: 0.0.0.0
res_mkquery(0, java.sun.com., 1, 1)
recvfrom: Connection refused
recvfrom: Connection refused
*** elmo can't find java.sun.com: No response from server
% niutil -read / /locations/resolver
name: resolver
domain: SchemaResearch.com
nameserver: 204.247.0.18 204.118.83.18 199.245.73.2 199.245.73.3
% ping 204.247.0.18 (... the first nameserver ...)
64 bytes from 204.247.0.18: icmp_seq=4. time=908. ms
64 bytes from 204.247.0.18: icmp_seq=5. time=34. ms
I have the same configuration for all three machines (except that one of the two that works
is the netinfo master). Why does one of them not work?
I'm using M68k & sparc NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: dbowling@gcrc.ufl.edu (Dan Bowling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD Expected after 3.3 Upgrade
Date: 21 Jun 1995 20:45:25 GMT
Organization: Gen. Clinical Research Ctr, Univ of Florida
Message-ID: <3sa0d5$psf@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>
I've recently installed 3.3 on one of our XL 560's. Now it seems to expect a CD to be in the drive when I
reboot the machine.
At the boot prompt I do "-v" to get the verbose commands and I see all the usual statements and a bunch
of errors messages like this:
Sc0: OP:0x0, SCSI Status:0x2
When I put a CD into the drive these messages go away. I haven't seen anything in the /etc/fstab file
except for the hard drive (sd0a) which is supposed to be there.
Why does my machine think that there is supposed to be a CD in the CD drive? How can I convince it
that it's worng?
later,
dan
Dan Bowling Data Services Mgr
dbowling@gcrc.ufl.edu GCRC, Univ of Florida
From: tjspiel@mn2.mnet.uswest.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help !!! having problems with NeXT Step/Sparc Serial Ports
Date: 22 Jun 1995 01:27:16 GMT
Organization: US West !nterprise Networking Systems
Message-ID: <3sagtk$e32@acsnews.uswc.uswest.com>
Anyone having problems with using serial ports in NeXT Step/Sparc? We're
still running the BETA version. When I try this:
tip a9600
I get this:
/dev/cua: No such device
link down
even though there is a cua device.
Any Ideas ?
Thanks,
- Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: charlie@vv (Charlie Younghusband)
Subject: Re: NCSA HTTP v 1.4.1?
Message-ID: <DAJpo3.G4B@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
References: <3r0mu7$asi@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <3r8bvh$koi@flood.xnet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.91.950610012705.1178G-100000@avocado> <3rke3t$r7k@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <neuss.803729858@coricopat>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 23:09:39 GMT
Christian Neuss (neuss@igd.fhg.de) wrote:
: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
I had a problem with the new min servers and max servers settings...
I would get many resident httpd files that would start fighting with
each other...eventually, I decided just to limit the min and max
to 1 server (instead of 20) and it has worked just fine since...(just a
hint)
Charlie
From: jdevlin@umich.edu (John Devlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Backup with rdist
Date: 22 Jun 1995 02:31:45 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <3sakmh$q4e@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I would like to use rdist to back up certain directories onto a second
scsi hard drive mounted *locally*. Is this possible? I keep getting the
message
updating myhost
Permission denied.
rdist has so many nice features (incremental backup, extraneous files
removed, notification by email, ...), I'm hoping I won't have to resort to
ditto. Ideas?
Thanks for your time and advice. My sample distfile follows.
TEST_SOURCE = (dir1 dir2)
TEST_DESTINATION = myhost
test: ${TEST_SOURCE} -> ${TEST_DESTINATION}
install /dir3;
notify john;
rdist -n test [no error reported]
rdist test [above error reported]
--
John Devlin
Department of Philosophy
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: eric@skatter.usask.ca (Eric Norum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 02:51:13 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <3salr1$lo9@tribune.usask.ca>
References: <RDL.95Jun20200834@world.std.com> <3s9m1p$un3@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Here's the shell script I use:
begin 755 uname
M(R$O8FEN+W-H"B,*(R!U;F%M90HC"B,@075T:&]R.B!*:6T@5FQC96LL($)Y
M=&5787)E($-O;G-U;'1I;F<@*'5U;F5T(6UO;&QY(79L8V5K*2`S($1E8R`Q
M.3DS"B,@5'=E86ME9"U">3H@3&%R<GD@0FQI<V-H92`H;&MB82%L:V)`=75N
M970N=74N;F5T*0HC"B,@06X@871T96UP="!T;R!I;7!L96UE;G0@82!3>7-6
M+6ES:"`B=6YA;64B('5N9&5R($YE6%13=&5P(#,N,`HC"B,@3W!T:6]N<PHC
M"B,@+7,@("`@4')I;G0@=&AE(&]P97)A=&EN9R!S>7-T96T@;F%M90HC("UN
M("`@(%!R:6YT('1H92!N;V1E(&YA;64@*&5S<V5N=&EA;&QY+"!T:&4@:&]S
M=&YA;64I"B,@+78@("`@4')I;G0@=&AE(&]P97)A=&EN9R!S>7-T96T@=F5R
M<VEO;@HC("UR("`@(%!R:6YT('1H92!O<&5R871I;F<@<WES=&5M(')E;&5A
M<V4*(R`M<"`@("!0<FEN="!T:&4@:&]S="!M86-H:6YE)W,@<')O8V5S<V]R
M('1Y<&4*(R`M;2`@("!0<FEN="!T:&4@;6%C:&EN92!H87)D=V%R92!N86UE
M"B,@+6$@("`@4')I;G0@86QL('1H92!A8F]V92!I;F9O<FUA=&EO;@HC"B,@
M3F]N+5-Y<U8@;W!T:6]N<PHC"B,@+6D@("`@4')I;G0@=&AE(&AO<W0@:61E
M;G1I9FEC871I;VX@;G5M8F5R("AH;W-T:60I"B,*"FEF(%L@)",@/2`P(%T*
M=&AE;@H@("`@("`@('-Y<W1E;3TB3D585%-415`@(@IF:0H*9F]R(&%R9PID
M;PH@("`@("`@(&-A<V4@)&%R9R!I;@H@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@+7,I("`@
M("!S>7-T96T](DY%6%135$50("(@.SL*("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("UN*2`@
M("`@;F]D93TB8'5U;F%M92`M;&`@(B`[.PH@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@+7(I
M("`@("!R96QE87-E/2)@:&]S=&EN9F\@?"!S960@+6X@)W,O+BI.95A4($UA
M8V@@7"A;,"TY7"Y=*EPI+BHO7#$O<"=@("(@.SL*("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
M("UM*2`@("`@;6%C:#TB8&AO<W1I;F9O('P@<V5D("UN("=S+RXJ4')O8V5S
M<V]R('1Y<&4Z(%PH6UX@72I<*2XJ+UPQ+W`G8"`B(#L["B`@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`M<"D@("`@('!R;V-E<W-O<CTB8&AO<W1I;F9O('P@<V5D("UN("=S
M+RXJ4')O8V5S<V]R('1Y<&4Z(%M>(%TJ("A<*%M>*5TJ7"DN*B]<,2]P)V`@
M(B`[.PH@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@+78I("`@("!V97)S:6]N/2)@=&%I;"`M
M,2`O=7-R+VQI8B].97AT4W1E<"]S;V9T=V%R95]V97)S:6]N8"`B(#L["B`@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`M:2D@("`@(&AO<W1I9#TB8&AO<W1I9&`@(B`[.PH@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@+6$I("`@("!E>&5C("0P("US("UN("UV("UR("UP
M("UM(#L["B`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`J*2`@("`@(&5C:&\@)#`Z(%5S86=E
M.B`D,"!;+6%S;G9R<&U=(#XF,B`[(&5X:70@,2`[.PH@("`@("`@(&5S86,*
M9&]N90H*96-H;R`D<WES=&5M)&YO9&4D=F5R<VEO;B1R96QE87-E)'!R;V-E
@<W-O<B1M86-H)&AO<W1I9"!\('-E9"`G<R\@)"\O)PIR
`
end
--
Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca
Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308
University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058
Saskatoon, Canada. NeXTMail accepted.
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Message-ID: <m0sMbQU-000btOC@a-gain>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@a-gain.hanse.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 14:27:10 +0100
Subject: remote pwr-off?? - How to?
Hi there folks!
How do I power-off a machine through a remote-csh (rsh) on a
NetInfo-LAN???
Pls. e-mail / I will summarize on the net!
Thanx!
---
.. Stefan ..
Life has many different colors, but ------ REAL Computing is black!
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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voice + 49 - 40 - 480 79 19 <---> fax + 49 - 40 - 480 11 92
stefan@a-gain.hanse.de ( NeXTmail favorized / MIME o.k.! )
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Dell Dimension XPS 120s parallel port
In-Reply-To: Mark Onyschuk's message of Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:49:38 -0400
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun22043038@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <m0sO9Ip-000amiC@oa.guild.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 08:30:38 GMT
Actually, I'm using a SoundBlaster 16 not a PAS. Did you look at the
BIOS options for the parallel port?
Robert
From: kay@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Cameron Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reading files of a DAT drive
Date: 22 Jun 1995 09:57:31 GMT
Organization: Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <KAY.95Jun22215731@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
Hi, a friend of mine has loaded me an external DAT drive so I can
transfer some files I copied onto a tape from a Sun. The problem is
that I haven't had much experience with using DAT drives under UNIX or
NEXTSTEP and was wondering if someone could email me the shell
commands I need to get the files of the tape.
I'm also got a floppy disk containing a tar file. How do I extract the
files off the floppy. I tried
tar xf /dev/rsfd0a
or something similar, and all I get back is an error about device not
found.
Thanks in advance
- Cameron
--
Email Cameron.Kay@kauri.vuw.ac.nz Post Computer Science Department
Phone + 64 4 472 1000 x7032 (Work) Victoria University
+ 64 4 237 5895 (Home) P.O.Box 600
Fax + 64 4 495 5232 Wellington, New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: ppp and Mail.app
Message-ID: <jpanicoDAItLx.FFF@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 11:37:09 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom7.netcom.com
Hi,
ppp works flawlessly on my system to dial into a shell account that is
running Slirp (a Term like program). Names get resolved so that I can
telnet or ftp from my local machine to any valid domain name on the Net.
However, if I use Maill.app to send mail out from my home box, it
bounces back, never having left the local machine. The mailer daemon
complains that it cannot find the address.
Anyone know how I configure Mail.app (or sendmail) to work under
ppp?
Any tips appreciated.
Thanks
--
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: access to name servers
Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:55:59 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3sbspf$k2k@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <3sa8lt$mn0@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
In article <3sa8lt$mn0@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
Lowell_Schneider@SchemaResearch.com writes:
> I've got three NEXTSTEP machines, two of which correctly access an
internet name
> server. The third can't resolve names to ip addresses.
>
> Here's some information on the machine, elmo, that isn't able to resolve
names:
> % nslookup java.sun.com
> Server: elmo
> Address: 0.0.0.0
>
> res_mkquery(0, java.sun.com., 1, 1)
> recvfrom: Connection refused
> recvfrom: Connection refused
> *** elmo can't find java.sun.com: No response from server
>
> % niutil -read / /locations/resolver
> name: resolver
> domain: SchemaResearch.com
> nameserver: 204.247.0.18 204.118.83.18 199.245.73.2 199.245.73.3
>
> % ping 204.247.0.18 (... the first nameserver ...)
> 64 bytes from 204.247.0.18: icmp_seq=4. time=908. ms
> 64 bytes from 204.247.0.18: icmp_seq=5. time=34. ms
>
> I have the same configuration for all three machines (except that one of
the two that works
> is the netinfo master). Why does one of them not work?
>
> I'm using M68k & sparc NEXTSTEP 3.3.
>
Check to see if there is a /etc/resolv.conf file. Btw, we don't use
NetInfo for this, we use /etc/resolv.conf and never have any problems. I
am not sure for this particular case if NetInfo overrides the flatfile...
> Lowell
>
> Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
--
Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
The University of Houston * <URL:http://www.egr.uh.edu/~sears/>
Engineering Computing Center * SSI Diving Certification #755020059
NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
******* I do not represent the University of Houston *********
From: kay@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Cameron Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trouble installing new version of SMCUltraNetworkDriver.pkg
Date: 21 Jun 1995 11:37:47 GMT
Organization: Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <KAY.95Jun21233747@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
Hi, I've ftp the new version of the SMC Ultra Ethernet driver down
from www.next.com and am having trouble installing it. The file
decompresses OK, but when you run Install.app on it, a error message
comes up saying I'm missing a file ending in .info - (I don't exactly
what the file was).
Can any one help me out. Or is NeXT's copy of the driver corrupted on
their server?
Thanks in advance.
- Cameron
--
Email Cameron.Kay@kauri.vuw.ac.nz Post Computer Science Department
Phone + 64 4 472 1000 x7032 (Work) Victoria University
+ 64 4 237 5895 (Home) P.O.Box 600
Fax + 64 4 495 5232 Wellington, New Zealand
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 22 Jun 1995 16:26:14 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3sc5j6$bel@www.its.com>
References: <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com> <DAJLH0.29q@RnA.NL>
In article <DAJLH0.29q@RnA.NL>, Gerben_Wierda wrote:
> In article <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) writes:
>> If you're going to be connected via a T1, you should stop using a uucp feed.
>> You should switch to having your mail delivered and sent via (E)SMTP.
>> You'll get and send mail faster and considerably more robustly.
>
> Not faster if you use Taylor UUCP. NeXT UUCP is old and inefficient. Taylor
> with 1024 byte packets and a window of 6 is almost 100% effective. Hardly any
> overhead, which you do have when using PPP/IP/TCP
While it is true that Taylor UUCP has less *transmission* overhead, consider what
actually happens while using it:
The typical case is that you feed and receive UUCP mail to someone directly
connected on the Internet. These people must unbatch the UUCP mail and then
send it themselves via (E)SMTP. If you are lucky, they will try to send the mail
when it is received; if you aren't lucky, they'll drop your mail into a spool for
processing at some later time. If someone sends you mail, it'll get spooled at your
UUCP counterpart until your machine connects in.
Using (E)SMPT yourself is faster, and it is more reliable.
(All of these comments ignore the fact that UUCP is fundamentally broken is
several crucial ways. Like bang-paths, which assume that intervening machines
are bidirectional and that the best route from one point to another is static, neither
of which is true. The fact that setting up UUCP means that you must configure
yourself to match the remote end. The fact that using a communication link for
pure UUCP [and not UUCP over TCP/IP] means you can't put other data through
the link at the same time.)
-Chuck
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kkitts@pop.cc.nih.gov (Kevin Kitts)
Subject: NeXTStep 2.0A remote booting
Message-ID: <kkitts-2206951141160001@isda108.cc.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: Universal Hi-Tech Development
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 16:41:16 GMT
Hello,
I am in the process of configuring two NeXT workstations. Workstation 1
boots and runs v. 2.0A of the OS. Workstation 2 does not boot. Both
workstations are of the 030 Cube variety. I am attempting to configure
Worskstation 1 as a boot server by following the directions in
NeXTLibrary/Documentstion/NextAdmin. The steps include 1) newclient
hostname - which worked 2) modify exports 3) run NetManager and create a
new entry for the client.
When I select save as per the directions I get an error message to the
effect..."Aborting... Unable to update property list...objects are read
only"..
Any suggestions?
Thanks
--
Kevin L. Kitts e-mail: kkitts@his.com
20 West Gude Drive www: http://www.his.com/~kkitts
Rockville, MD 20850
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NCSA HTTP v 1.4.1?
Date: 21 Jun 95 10:17:38 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.803729858@coricopat>
References: <3r0mu7$asi@news.ccit.arizona.edu> <3r8bvh$koi@flood.xnet.com> <Pine.NXT.3.91.950610012705.1178G-100000@avocado> <3rke3t$r7k@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
>That's how I did it, it compiled ok. One question though -
>you guys running it as standalone or under inetd?
Generally, if you get alot of traffic (more then 1 URL/min),
you should run standalone. Also, play with the setup. 1.4 introduces
a new way of starting up several servers in order to improve speed,
which can be configured. I haven't much experience with 1.4 yet,
but Brian Pinlerton reported problems. Please let us know about
your experience.
>I've noticed since our url's are getting more traffic httpd
>is core dumping a lot more often. (we're running ns3.3 on a Nextcolor
>station w 32 megs ram).
>[Tue Jun 13 12:01:16 1995] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
>[Tue Jun 13 12:01:16 1995] child error: child connection closed
>[Tue Jun 13 12:01:22 1995] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core
This, however, should not happen. You should analyze the core
with gdb in order to find out what causes this condition.
Regards,
Chris
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"I ride tandem with a random.."
Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de http://www.igd.fhg.de/~neuss/me.html
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 21 Jun 95 10:23:30 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.803730210@coricopat>
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com>
robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson) writes:
>What are the odds you could simply replace the default SerialPorts driver
>with Mux... I know some people have tried, but what did they do? Did they
>simply re-name "Mux" to SerialPorts? (I understand that part of the problem
>has to do with the name "SerialPorts" being hard-coded into the
>Configure.app...) Why wouldn't this work? How can we _make_ it work?
Only if you have a bus mouse. Otherwise, you don't want to do it, unless
you really really know ypur way around.
Chris
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Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de http://www.igd.fhg.de/~neuss/me.html
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: me coming from nowhere?!
Date: 21 Jun 95 10:26:23 GMT
Organization: IGD Darmstadt
Message-ID: <neuss.803730383@coricopat>
References: <950608000458.2811AACUa.malc@daneel>
mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:
>For some reason one of our machines seems to think the "me" account exists,
>and so because it hasn't got a passwd, immediately after rebooting it logs
>straight in as "me". Now "me" doesn't exist anywhere on the network,
>honest, and I can't give "me" a passwd as the account doesn't exist. The
>only way I can get round this is by *creating* "me" and then choosing a
>passwd.
There's a dwrite that sets the default user. Sorry, but I can't find the
info right now. Maybe if you check out the FAQ (no flame)? Otherwise,
play around. I seem to remember it was "loginwindow DefaultUser".
Kind regards,
Chris
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"I ride tandem with a random.."
Christian Neuss # Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Wilhelminenstr.7 # 64283 Darmstadt # Germany
e-mail: neuss@igd.fhg.de http://www.igd.fhg.de/~neuss/me.html
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: access to name servers
Date: 22 Jun 1995 18:05:12 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3scbco$bel@www.its.com>
References: <3sa8lt$mn0@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3sbspf$k2k@masala.cc.uh.edu>
Paul S. Sears writes:
> Check to see if there is a /etc/resolv.conf file. Btw, we don't use
> NetInfo for this, we use /etc/resolv.conf and never have any problems. I
> am not sure for this particular case if NetInfo overrides the flatfile...
I am almost certain that NetInfo only provides DNS information about machines
in the NetIfno database. NetInfo shouldn't have anything to do with non-local
hostname lookups.
This is a huge blessing, because lookupd-- which does NetInfo caching-- is badly
broken in NEXTSTEP 3.3 (because NeXT tried to multithread it and failed to
properly lock portions of shared data, so it will corrupt NetInfo data), and is only
single-threaded in earlier releases of NEXTSTEP (which means lookupd would
become even more of a system bottleneck than it was before if it tried to handle all
queries to the resolver routines).
Hey, perhaps I'm being a little harsh to NeXT, but then I've watched a 2-machine
NEXTSTEP 3.3 network completely corrupt the NetInfo databases in under 24
hours. That simply isn't acceptable.
-Chuck
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Fast serial on Turbo?
Message-ID: <DAL692.3oD@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 18:05:25 GMT
I know this has been covered lately, I just missed those, sorry. Maybe someone
can write a small overview?
I am interested in using Euro-ISDN from a Turbo, for instance with an ELSA TA.
The serial will go to 57k6. ISDN goes to 64k, and I was wondering if there are
good & reliable solutions to get higer serial speeds.
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.
From: justin_higgins@csgi.com (Justin Higgins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NeXT Fonts on a Mac
Date: 22 Jun 1995 19:46:42 GMT
Organization: Just BOB Macintosh and NeXT Consulting
Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3696]
Message-ID: <3schb2$159@news2.dn.net>
Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name.
I am working on a PDF using Adobe Acrobat and am having a problem. I
am using eps files from a NeXTStation and they are using special fonts.
Is there a way I can use a NeXT font on the Mac, and if so, could you
tell me? Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: charlie@vv (Charlie Younghusband)
Subject: Suggestions for Anon Ftp servers?
Message-ID: <DAL8sI.1C2@cunews.carleton.ca>
Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 19:00:18 GMT
I'd like to set up some anonymous ftp on my server, however
I have no idea how such a thing is set up, but if someone could recommend
a good place to start...either a binary for NeXT or something that would
actually compile without too many hassles and is pretty secure.
thanks,
Charlie Younghusband
Carleton University
From: dcl@mercury.interpath.net (Tech Support--Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Anon Ftp servers?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 16:42:42 -0400
Organization: Interpath -- Public Access UNIX for North Carolina
Message-ID: <dcl.803853502@mercury>
References: <DAL8sI.1C2@cunews.carleton.ca>
charlie@vv (Charlie Younghusband) writes:
>I'd like to set up some anonymous ftp on my server, however
>I have no idea how such a thing is set up, but if someone could recommend
>a good place to start...either a binary for NeXT or something that would
>actually compile without too many hassles and is pretty secure.
If you can FTP to your machine, you can easily set up anonymous FTP to it.
I believe the correct method is in the FAQ, but all I remember doing myself
was creating a user "ftp" and then giving it a login shell of
"/bin/nologin" (I think). If you want file times to come out correctly,
you need to copy /etc/zoneinfo into ~ftp/etc/zoneinfo. Copy /bin/ls into
~ftp/bin/ls. chown ~ftp to somebody else. chmod it to 755. If you want
people to be able to PUT files, create a directory with perms 777 but that
should be the ONLY one with permissions||022.
Good luck, and have fun!
Daniel
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From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with hidden files
Date: 22 Jun 1995 23:18:31 GMT
Organization: California State University, Northridge
Message-ID: <3scto7$m5m@dewey.csun.edu>
Keywords: Hidden files
I need a bit of help, I just installed a new hard disk for my black
hardware and am tring to get everything back to normal. I am tring to re
=install my accounts and have everything almost perfect. The help I need
is now I am unable to view the hidden files in the browers when I click
unix expert. Can some one please help.
Rick
UCLA Physics
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kkitts@pop.cc.nih.gov (Kevin Kitts)
Subject: Boot problem
Message-ID: <kkitts-2206952014050001@isda108.cc.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: Universal Hi-Tech Development
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 01:14:05 GMT
While booting my 030 cube I got the following message...
.
.
.
odc0 at 0x20122000
od0 at odc0 slave 0
od1 at odc0 slave 1
drive Rom v8, servo ROM V8
panic:ccpu0 od: empty q
Next ROM Monitor 1.0 V41
panic:NeXT Mach 2.0.....
I think that the OD may be bad... Is there any way I can get past this to
see if the machine would then boot?
Any Ideas much apprec...
Thanks
--
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20 West Gude Drive www: http://www.his.com/~kkitts
Rockville, MD 20850
From: gabor@arch-ws4 (Gábor Freivogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serious Problems With NEXTSTEP-NFS server, Please HELP
Date: 22 Jun 1995 11:46:17 GMT
Organization: University of Kassel - Germany
Message-ID: <3sbl69$dnk@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
Hallo
we are totally frustrated about our NFS server.
We changed the OS on our SUN SPARC server from Solaris 1.1 to NEXTSTEP,
first beta and the final release now. We have a mixed network NeXT, Intel and various
sparcs running Solaris 2.4 and/or NEXTSTEP3.3...
unfortunatelly we have a lot of problems.
It started whith the well known Solaris 2.4 Problem which we finaly solved (more or less)
but we have a more serious problem from the begining on (first we hoped, that it is a beta
problem only , but ...):
the server (sparc 10/40 48MB NEXTSTEP) stops serving approx. once a day. The
machine itself works and you can do mostly everything localy but it "just" does not do any
nfs serving for the other machines.... (somtimes in 1 of 10 cases appr. it also hungs, it is
dead, but totally not even the hotkeys for the mini-monitor or the SPARC hotkey stop-A
are working - just the poverswitch....
For me the pattern seems to be:
Heavy NFS load ->
loosing connection to the local Netinfo-domain ->
NFS dead.....
to avoid the netinfo dependency we changed the Computer to a standalone one, but it still
loosing connection to its (own) local domain....
we dont know what else can we do (besides formating 10GB of disks and go to Solaris ).
We desperately need help.
some examples from the messages of the server:
Jun 20 10:00:28 arch-ws6 syslog: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping
Jun 20 10:00:32 arch-ws6 syslog: NetInfo connection to local domain waking
Jun 20 10:00:39 arch-ws6 lookupd[117]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Jun 20 10:00:45 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.12
Jun 20 10:02:00 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.12
Jun 20 10:04:53 arch-ws6 last message repeated 5 times
Jun 20 10:04:57 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.12
Jun 20 10:05:45 arch-ws6 last message repeated 2 times
Jun 20 10:08:07 arch-ws6 mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 141.51.36.12
Jun 20 10:15:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[117]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Jun 20 10:15:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[117]: NetInfo connection failed for server
141.51.36.6/local
Jun 20 10:15:18 arch-ws6 lookupd[117]: NetInfo connected to 141.51.36.6/local
Jun 20 10:15:29 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
Jun 20 10:15:30 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: bootstrap_register failed - 1103
Jun 20 10:15:30 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: register_port_with_nmserver,
netname_check_in failed - 1004
Jun 20 10:15:30 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: loginwindow: _NXAudioIn service already
registered.
Jun 20 10:15:30 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 20 10:15:30 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: register_port_with_nmserver,
netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 20 10:15:30 arch-ws6 loginwindow[1812]: running LogoutHook
/LocalLibrary/Templates/.logout
Jun 20 10:15:31 arch-ws6 loginwindow[217]: creating new loginImage
---------------
Jun 22 02:43:29 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
Jun 22 02:45:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Jun 22 02:45:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection failed for server
141.51.36.6/local
Jun 22 02:46:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connected to 141.51.36.6/local
Jun 22 03:15:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out
Jun 22 03:15:05 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connection failed for server
141.51.36.6/local
Jun 22 03:17:10 arch-ws6 lookupd[115]: NetInfo connected to 141.51.36.6/local
Jun 22 03:18:41 arch-ws6 ntpd[123]: sendto: 141.51.36.11 No buffer space available
-----------------
Thanks
Gabor
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GhK- University of Kassel/ Germany
Dept. of Architecture
Henschelstr. 2
34109 Kassel
Germany
E-mail: gabor@architektur.uni-kassel.de (nextmail)
Phone : +49 561 804 3506
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From: berger@zeus.digital.net (Willi Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MEDIA ERROR ?
Date: 23 Jun 1995 04:21:52 GMT
Organization: FLORIDA ONLINE, Florida's Premier Internet Provider
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3sdfh0$68m@ddi2.digital.net>
Has anyone seen these error messages before. I'm not much of a SA, but
this sound like i'm in for rough times.
target 3 & 1 are fujitsu and seagate drives. Any help as to what this
means and what I can do to fix this or research it some more would be much
appreciated!
Thanks for your time and interest. Please respond to this e-mail address
below
- willi
berger@digital.net
Jun 5 22:19:28 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 1
Jun 5 22:19:29 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 2
Jun 5 22:19:29 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 3
Jun 5 22:19:30 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 4
Jun 5 22:19:30 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 5
Jun 5 22:19:30 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 6
Jun 5 22:19:31 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 7
Jun 5 22:19:31 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 8
Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 9
Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: sd1 (3,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense
code:0x11
Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 3454135; Partition
a F.S. sector 1726907
Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 1
Jun 5 22:19:33 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 2
Jun 5 22:19:33 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 3
Jun 5 22:19:34 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 4
Jun 5 22:19:34 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 5
Jun 5 22:19:34 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 6
Jun 5 22:19:35 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 7
Jun 5 22:19:35 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 8
Jun 5 22:19:35 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 9
Jun 5 22:19:36 resadv mach: sd1 (3,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense
code:0x11
Jun 5 22:19:36 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 3454135; Partition
a F.S. sector 1726907
Jun 5 22:19:36 resadv mach: IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
Jun 6 01:25:29 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b6ebH retry 1
Jun 6 01:25:47 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 1
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 2
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 3
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 4
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 5
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 6
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 7
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 8
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 9
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense
code:0x11
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 1094698; Partition
a F.S. sector 1094538
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b447H retry 1
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b447H retry 2
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 1
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 2
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 3
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 4
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 5
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 6
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 7
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 8
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 10b42aH retry 9
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense
code:0x11
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 1094698; Partition
a F.S. sector 1094538
Jun 6 01:26:03 resadv mach: IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
Jun 6 08:00:33 resadv loginwindow[815]: loginwindow: running
berger@digital.net
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From: Brad Lunsford <toughguy@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MEDIA ERROR ?
Date: 23 Jun 1995 03:42:09 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <3sdd6h$2qr@news.panix.com>
References: <3sdfh0$68m@ddi2.digital.net>
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I just had the same problem. Target 0 is a MAxtor HD (black hardware).
There is also on OD in the cube. Any help appreciated.
THANKS
Brad Lunsford
berger@zeus.digital.net (Willi Berger) wrote:
>Has anyone seen these error messages before. I'm not much of a SA, but
>this sound like i'm in for rough times.
>code:0x11
>Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 3454135; Partition
>a F.S. sector 1726907
>Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 1
>Jun 5 22:19:33 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 2
>Jun 5 22:19:33 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 3
>Jun 5 22:19:34 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 4
>Jun 5 22:19:34 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 5
>Jun 5 22:19:34 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 6
>Jun 5 22:19:35 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 7
>Jun 5 22:19:35 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 8
>Jun 5 22:19:35 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 9
>Jun 5 22:19:36 resadv mach: sd1 (3,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense
>code:0x11
>Jun 5 22:19:36 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 3454135; Partition
>a F.S. sector 1726907
From: Lowell_Schneider@SchemaResearch.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: summary of response to "name server problems"
Date: 23 Jun 1995 14:18:12 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3seif4$ksj@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
I reported in an earlier message, that I was having problems getting my machine to
access a name server. I was able to ping ip addresses around the world, but I was not
able to ping domain names.
Most responses I received told me to create the file /etc/resolv.conf. I reinstated that file
and it worked.
My goal was to use Netinfo's /locations/resolver subdirectory instead of a file, so that I
could set it once for the entire network. This has not yet been resolved. It works on two
machines and not on a third.
Thanks for all the help.
Lowell
LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fast serial on Turbo?
Date: 23 Jun 1995 15:15:20 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <3selq8$4kc@www.its.com>
References: <DAL692.3oD@RnA.NL>
Gerben_Wierda writes:
> I am interested in using Euro-ISDN from a Turbo, for instance with an ELSA TA.
> The serial will go to 57k6. ISDN goes to 64k, and I was wondering if there are
> good & reliable solutions to get higer serial speeds.
Well, there are good and reliable methods for getting high speed net connections, but
they'll cost you a lot of money. For anything faster than what you can run off of your
serial port (or TTYDSP perhaps, if you have that), you'll need to set up a LAN with a
router such as a Cisco or a Wellfleet, and you'll need to look at leasing something like a
fractional or full T1 line.
A T1 will probably run you on the order of $500 - $1500 per month (in US dollars, here in
the USA anyway...your situation may differ).
-Chuck
--
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Techology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+--------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MEDIA ERROR ?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 23:30:20 -0700
Organization: YoyoDyne Propulsion Systems /|\
Message-ID: <3sdn1s$h3b@crl7.crl.com>
References: <3sdfh0$68m@ddi2.digital.net> <3sdd6h$2qr@news.panix.com>
:>>Has anyone seen these error messages before. I'm not much of a SA, but
:>>this sound like i'm in for rough times.
:>
:>>code:0x11
:>:>Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: SCSI Block in error = 3454135; Partition
:>>a F.S. sector 1726907
:>>Jun 5 22:19:32 resadv mach: Target 3: MEDIA ERROR; block 34b4b7H retry 1
[...]
It's a media error. Your drive is attempting to read a sector and
not having any success. when the initial failure occurs it cycles
through 10 retries.
See 'man reasb' for details. That will attempt to read the data
at the block and reassign it to a new block. Reads to the old
block will be re-directed to the new one.
--
Don McGregor | "For King, Promotion, and Loot"
mcgredo@crl.com |
From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: 2nd SCSI HD mounting problem on Cube !!!
Date: 23 Jun 1995 17:37:54 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3seu5i$eu1@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <95Jun23.094231@EE.Stanford.EDU>
In article <95Jun23.094231@EE.Stanford.EDU> park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju
Park) writes:
> Hello.
>
> I added a 2nd SCSI disk (1.3GB Hitachi, if that matters).
> Everything went smoothly as explained in the system admin
> guide until the point of disk initializing. I named the disk
> as Hitachi, and after the initialization, it was mounted
> as /Hitachi. After initializing the disk in the Workspace,
> I added the following line to /etc/fstab file
>
> /dev/sd1a /mnt/hd2 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
^^^^^^^
remove the "noauto" from the entry in fstab and it will then mount
/mnt/hd2..
>
> But when I reboot the machine, it still mounts
> the new hard disk to /Hitachi. >
>
> --- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
>
--
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The University of Houston * <URL:http://www.egr.uh.edu/~sears/>
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NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC
"Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
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From: LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: access to name servers
Date: 23 Jun 1995 18:29:11 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <3sf15n$p4e@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
I discovered the reason one of my machines didn't make use of the Netinfo directory
/locations/resolver. The one machine on my network that didn't work had NS 3.2 installed.
Many people told me it would only work on 3.3, but I didn't check. I remembered
upgrading all machines to 3.3, but I didn't remember de-grading the one machine back to
3.2 (for other reasons).
Since I must have this machine at level 3.2, I'm using the file /etc/resolv.conf instead of
netinfo, just for that machine.
Sorry for the wasted bandwitdh. Thanks for all the help.
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MEDIA ERROR ?
Message-ID: <1995Jun23.095107.45030@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@woodstock (Robert Frank)
Date: 23 Jun 95 09:51:06 MET
References: <3sdfh0$68m@ddi2.digital.net>
berger@zeus.digital.net (Willi Berger) wrote:
>Has anyone seen these error messages before. I'm not much of a SA, but
>this sound like i'm in for rough times.
>target 3 & 1 are fujitsu and seagate drives. Any help as to what this
>means and what I can do to fix this or research it some more would be much
>appreciated!
>Thanks for your time and interest. Please respond to this e-mail address
>below
>- willi
>berger@digital.net
[bad block messages deleted]
>berger@digital.net
It means your disk(s) have the hiccups. You can try a low level format (SCSI format) using the sdformat program
available on the network. This will, of course, destroy all your data.
A low level format will cause the drive to map any bad blocks internally so that the newly formatted drive will
again appear error-free (but with one or more blocks less of free space).
I once had three disks which spontaneously went bad after an aupgrade, and, of course, had no latest backups.
I first mounted the 'bad' drives and saved all I could to both tape and a 'good' disk, then did the lowlevel foramt
followed by the soft format and reinstalled the software I had saved. The backups were done with my own backup
program to tape and cpio to disk. Cpio, though, doesn't seem to handle hardlinks all too well. Several (but not
all) hardlinks no longer existed after restoring.
-Robert
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Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15
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Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok)
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From: park@isl (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Help: 2nd SCSI mounting problem !!!
Date: 23 Jun 1995 09:30:31 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Message-ID: <3se1jn$6bu@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hello.
I added a 2nd SCSI disk (1.3GB Hitachi, if that matters).
Everything went smoothly as explained in the system admin
guide until the point of disk initializing. I named the disk
as Hitachi, and after the initialization, it was mounted
as /Hitachi. After initializing the disk in the Workspace,
I added the following line to /etc/fstab file
/dev/sd1a /mnt/hd2 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
But when I reboot the machine, it still mounts
the new hard disk to /Hitachi.
What am I doing wrong here ? The big trouble due to
this problem is the fact that I cannot NFS export
the new hard disk.
Did anyone had similar problems before ?
Please help.....
--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: Re: ppp and Mail.app
Message-ID: <jpanicoDAIw7q.688@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <jpanicoDAItLx.FFF@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 12:33:25 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom9.netcom.com
Joe Panico (jpanico@netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi,
: Anyone know how I configure Mail.app (or sendmail) to work under
: ppp?
A little more info on my previous post. The returned mail looks like this:
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
Message-Id: <9506211223.AA00347@continuity.netcom.com>
To: me
Status: R
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
554 jpanico@netcom.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server)
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <me>
Received: by continuity.netcom.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
id AA00231; Wed, 21 Jun 95 08:15:01 -0400
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 08:15:01 -0400
From: My Account <me>
Message-Id: <9506211215.AA00231@continuity.netcom.com>
To: jpanico@netcom.com
Subject: test
--
Joe Panico
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: park@isl.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Help: 2nd SCSI HD mounting problem on Cube !!!
Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:43:15 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <95Jun23.094231@EE.Stanford.EDU>
Hello.
I added a 2nd SCSI disk (1.3GB Hitachi, if that matters).
Everything went smoothly as explained in the system admin
guide until the point of disk initializing. I named the disk
as Hitachi, and after the initialization, it was mounted
as /Hitachi. After initializing the disk in the Workspace,
I added the following line to /etc/fstab file
/dev/sd1a /mnt/hd2 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
But when I reboot the machine, it still mounts
the new hard disk to /Hitachi.
What am I doing wrong here ? The big trouble due to
this problem is the fact that I cannot NFS export
the new hard disk.
Did anyone had similar problems before ?
Please help.....
--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: wrong printed colours
Message-ID: <DAHKGo.1HJ@onevision.de>
Sender: usenet@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <3s3uik$o4o@feenix.metronet.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:22:00 GMT
In article <3s3uik$o4o@feenix.metronet.com> Rodger Zeisler
<rbz@eversoft.com> writes:
> fsannier@sloop.univ-lr.fr (Frederic Sannier) wrote:
> > when printing on HP color Laserjet (and also on the canon CLC 350)
colours
> > we see on screen are (far) different from what is printed. Pure RGB
colour
> > blue (255 blue) gives a purple and red (255 red) produces orange.
How to
> > correct that problem.
> > Thank you.
>
> It has to do with the RGB vs. the CMYK color model. When RGB
> gets converted to CMYK, it changes from Red-0/Green-0/Blue-255 to
> Cyan-100/Magenta-100/Yellow-0/Black-0. You can see this
> using the Color inspector on Edit.app (or any other app).
> When you print Cyan and Magenta, you get purple, not blue.
>
> The answer is to use the CMYK color model and don't worry about how
it
> looks on the screen (colorwise, that is). Instead mix your colors
with CMYK
> and see on a test page with a dozen differrent squares with different
mixes
> how the colors look.
Sorry, but this is completly wrong!
With Postscript Level2 ( which these printers should support) RGB
colors are the second best option after any CIE base color.
The problem must be n a different area!
What software do you use?
What RIPs or drivers are you using?
=======================================================================
Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH
Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11
Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg
(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: danie@nxtvad (Danie Malan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble installing new version of SMCUltraNetworkDriver.pkg
Date: 23 Jun 1995 13:12:20 GMT
Organization: PiX - Proxima information X-change
Message-ID: <3seejl$a6g@foxbat.pix.za>
References: <KAY.95Jun21233747@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
This is just a hunch, but I've had similar problems with some packages:
The installer seems to be unable to install a package if it has undergone a name change.
ie. if a package should be called (or originally was called) XYZ.pkg and you renamed it to
123_XYZ.pkg it will complain about the info file on installation.
Open the package from File -> Open as folder and look at the names of the component
files of the package. IF they are called XXX.xxx rename your pkg.folder to XXX.pkg
ie. the same basis name and try the installer again.
Danie Malan
CAIRO = NT + OpenStep
From: tiggr@es.ele.tue.nl (Pieter Schoenmakers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swapping performance v. CPU cycles
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 23 Jun 1995 13:06:59 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <TIGGR.95Jun23150659@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl>
According to the manpage, a compressed swapfile provides a higher swapping
performance than an uncompressed swapfile. Does this increased performance
cost any CPU cycles? [I expect so; it is an old trick which was also used
with Acorn's RISCiX to increase the single-user mostly-single-tasking paging
performance with its ARM's 32k pagesize]. If this is true, then in case the
machine runs multiple time-critical daemons, a compressed swapfile might not
be such a good idea. --Tiggr
From: rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: 2nd SCSI mounting problem !!!
Date: 23 Jun 1995 13:32:34 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <3sefpi$3ne@news.iastate.edu>
References: <3se1jn$6bu@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
In article <3se1jn$6bu@nntp.Stanford.EDU> park@isl (Sang Ju Park) writes:
> Hello.
>
> I added a 2nd SCSI disk (1.3GB Hitachi, if that matters).
> Everything went smoothly as explained in the system admin
> guide until the point of disk initializing. I named the disk
> as Hitachi, and after the initialization, it was mounted
> as /Hitachi. After initializing the disk in the Workspace,
> I added the following line to /etc/fstab file
>
> /dev/sd1a /mnt/hd2 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
>
> But when I reboot the machine, it still mounts
> the new hard disk to /Hitachi.
>
> What am I doing wrong here ? The big trouble due to
> this problem is the fact that I cannot NFS export
> the new hard disk.
>
> Did anyone had similar problems before ?
>
> Please help.....
>
>
> --- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
Try taking the ",noauto" off, then it should work...
--
Rod Ragner
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
Voice: (515) 294-4751, FAX: (515) 294-6961 or 3564, (NeXT Mail accepted)
Email: rragner@stallion.vm.iastate.edu or stryder@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Serious Problems With NEXTSTEP-NFS server, Please HELP
In-Reply-To: gabor@arch-ws4's message of 22 Jun 1995 11:46:17 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun23111231@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3sbl69$dnk@hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:12:31 GMT
While I can't accurately diagnose your problem without more information, here
are a few things to try:
1. Increase the number of NFS daemons in /etc/rc
Change: /etc/nfsd 6 && (echo -n ' nfsd') >/dev/console
To: /etc/nfsd 8 && (echo -n ' nfsd') >/dev/console
2. Send me your /etc/hostconfig.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Swapping performance v. CPU cycles
In-Reply-To: tiggr@es.ele.tue.nl's message of 23 Jun 1995 13:06:59 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun23120309@world.std.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <TIGGR.95Jun23150659@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:03:09 GMT
While it is true, keep in mind that memory also has a significant impact on
performance. The idea behind swapfile compression is that CPU cycles are
less costly than memory/disk. If you are running real-time processes, you
should consider adding more RAM.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: david@nd.com (David Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Modem login on NeXT
Date: 20 Jun 1995 13:52:00 GMT
Organization: University of Florida College of Engineering
Distribution: WORLD
Message-ID: <3s6jq1$8hu@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu>
Keywords: modem
Hello,
I have been having trouble with logging into a NeXT station via modem. I
have a ZyXEL modem connected to the cub port and I though I configured the
gettytab and ttys files correctly, but I get the following garbage when I
try to login...........
----------
neurodim# tip bneuro
dialing...connected
s+sc <{sLsjs+[c <{ssjs+{c <{ssjs+sc
<{ssjs+scW<{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+{c
<P{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{sXsjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{sXsjs+{c
<r{ssjs+sc <{ss{s+sc <{ss{s+sWc <{ss{s+sc <{ssjs+sc
<{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{sLsjs+sc <{ssjs+sc
<{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+{c <p{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+scW<{ssjs+sXc
<{ssjs+sc <{ssjs+sc <{ss{s+s* <{ssj~
disconnecting...
[EOT]
Does anyone have a clue what this is??? Some kind of terminal codes????
Please send me some e-mail, if you can help.
Thanks in advance.
--
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| \o)/ | david@nd.com 720 SW 2nd Ave | \o)/ |
| | NeXT Mail OK!! Gainesville, FL 32601 | |
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Easy way to import standard unix .mailrc info. to NeXT mail program?
Date: 20 Jun 1995 18:31:05 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <3s7459$ikl@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: email, NeXTMail, aliases, .mailrc
Does anyone know of a way to import email alias information stored in a
standard unix ".mailrc" file into the NeXT email program?
Thanks,
Jim Luby
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98105
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000
From: robdoss@nvc.cc.ca.us (Robert C. Doss)
Subject: Re: Having problems install NS on Gateway P5-75
Message-ID: <DAMzvJ.DKB@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <DAHLHq.HHx@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 17:42:55 GMT
Has anyone out there been able to successfully install NEXTSTEP on a
Gateway 2000 Pentium system by any means? Is it possible to install it
on a Gateway. I am seriously considering buying a Gateway 2000 Pentium
system if and *only* if it is possible to install and run NEXTSTEP.
Any response to my dilemma would be appreciated.
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|Napa Valley College|Fax: (707) 253-3063 |MIME mail preferred|
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From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using 2 Ethernet cards on an HP 712
Date: 21 Jun 1995 08:17:07 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3s8ki3$3bc@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Howdy:
I've got an HP with a second ethernet card installed. The idea is to use the machine as a
gateway for a local Novell network of PCs, so they need not be connected to our
institute's main network.
The thing is, when I observe the boot process, NextStep doesn't seem to find the
additional network card. Is NS able to support this at all, or did I waste the money?
all info appreciated,
Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: honk!jan (Jan Husak)
Subject: SLIP dialup problems
Message-ID: <DAHFnJ.7Jo@honk.nug.ch>
Sender: jan@honk.nug.ch (Jan Husak)
Organization: Jan Husak, Aesch, SWITZERLAND
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:38:07 GMT
Hi there,
I desperately try to connect my NeXTstation with NeXTstep 3.3 via dialup-link over 9600 with my internet provider. Ie go
t the SLIP_920994-A release with the documentation of January 1993.
I don think so that I will be able to get a newer version at this moment. I need to make this version work.
I can dial-up my provider, log into his POP and get the SLIP function worked. After that and very immediately, the connection breaks down. Ie installed SLIP with the debug function, so that any activity is logged into /usr/dialupip/log/syslog and /usr/dialupip/log/trans. In /usr/dialupip/log/call.log are the calls logged. This tells me, that from my SLIP-view it looks, like the link was established.
If anybody could help me, please don hesitate. You can mail me for the log files.
Thanks in advance
-Jan
---
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+ ,,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Aaah, ein Stadtmensch! Sie denken wohl auch, dass wir ein +
+ bisschen altmodisch sind. Aaaaber vorsicht! It cool man +
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+ ,,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: honk!jan (Jan Husak)
Subject: Re: 3.3 serial driver
Message-ID: <DAHFoF.7KH@honk.nug.ch>
Sender: jan@honk.nug.ch (Jan Husak)
Organization: Jan Husak, Aesch, SWITZERLAND
References: <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:38:39 GMT
In article <NEWTNews.802371226.12916.charlesa@stratos.mpn.com>
charlesa@mpn.com writes:
>
> Hi -
>
> Does anyone know the status of the new serial driver for 3.3? I can't get a
> modem on a 3.3 box to work better than 19.2 - is there a patch, or is one in
> progress? NeXTANSWERS claims there is a completely rewritten one for 3.3 due
> in Q2, but has anyone seen it? Or anyone else got a patch?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> C.
>
>
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+ ,,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
---+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Aaah, ein Stadtmensch! Sie denken wohl auch, dass wir ein +
+ bisschen altmodisch sind. Aaaaber vorsicht! It cool man +
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+ ,,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: honk!jan (Jan Husak)
Subject: test
Message-ID: <DAHFq6.7LB@honk.nug.ch>
Sender: jan@honk.nug.ch (Jan Husak)
Organization: Jan Husak, Aesch, SWITZERLAND
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 17:39:41 GMT
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+ ,,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
+
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)-,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
---+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-OOo-----+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
+
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)-,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
---+
+ jan@honk.nug.ch (NeXTmail encouraged, MIME ok) +
+ CHBASJHU@ibmmail.com (no NeXTmail, MIME ok) +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Aaah, ein Stadtmensch! Sie denken wohl auch, dass wir ein +
+ bisschen altmodisch sind. Aaaaber vorsicht! It cool man +
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+ ,,, +
+ Jan Husak, Aesch, 4147 - SWITZERLAND (o o) +
+ ----------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <mdaniels@wnjlaw.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 14:37:41 -0500
From: mdaniels@wnjlaw.com (Mike Daniels)
Message-ID: <9506231937.AA00204@wnjlaw.com>
Subject: Upgrading to 3.3
I'm a systems administrator for a 20-computer law firm. The company
was without a systems administrator for several months before I was
hired. We are currently running NeXTStep 3.2 on a mostly-Motorola
based network with two Intel servers.
Is it worth the cost to upgrade to 3.3? And if so, how will we
benefit from it?
Thanks for any advice you might provide.
Mike Daniels
mdaniels@wnjlaw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (Fabien Roy)
Subject: Re: Help: 2nd SCSI mounting problem !!!
Message-ID: <1995Jun24.222552.2401@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3se1jn$6bu@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 22:25:52 GMT
park@isl (Sang Ju Park) wrote:
>Hello.
>I added a 2nd SCSI disk (1.3GB Hitachi, if that matters).
>Everything went smoothly as explained in the system admin
>guide until the point of disk initializing. I named the disk
>as Hitachi, and after the initialization, it was mounted
>as /Hitachi. After initializing the disk in the Workspace,
>I added the following line to /etc/fstab file
>/dev/sd1a /mnt/hd2 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
remove this________________________^^^^^^
>But when I reboot the machine, it still mounts
>the new hard disk to /Hitachi.
>What am I doing wrong here ? The big trouble due to
>this problem is the fact that I cannot NFS export
>the new hard disk.
>Did anyone had similar problems before ?
>Please help.....
>--- Sang Ju Park (park@isl.stanford.edu)
Fabien
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Fabien Roy Consultant
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA
10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France
Tel: 33 1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 1 48 55 09 90
From: olsen@menext3.engr.ucdavis.edu (Thomas Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! HD died
Message-ID: <gate.i5Rw7c1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Date: 18 Jun 1995 01:52:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ethomson@wri.com (Ed Thomson)
Subject: Re: remote pwr-off?? - How to?
Message-ID: <ethomson.804013955@fiji.wri.com>
Sender: news@wri.com ( )
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
References: <m0sMbQU-000btOC@a-gain>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 17:12:35 GMT
Stefan Huelf <stefan@a-gain.hanse.de> writes:
>How do I power-off a machine through a remote-csh (rsh) on a
>NetInfo-LAN???
shutdown -hp NOW
do a man shutdown
Ed
-A release with the documentation of January 1993.
dialupip has been discontinued. Use PNI. Try archie'ing for it, and if
you can't find it, I might be able to dig you up an ftp site.
(BTW, PNI is by the same author(s) as dialupip. I haven't had any problems
with PNI on black hardware. On Intel NextStep, I got a strange problem;
if it doesn't make a connection (bombs halfway through connecting), it
won't work again until you reboot.)
Ed
From: john@nextdoor (John McCracken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 24 Jun 1995 18:55:19 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378
Message-ID: <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com>
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com> <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com> <RDL.95Jun21162819@world.std.com>
rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote:
> On a 25MHz 68040, you can run the DTE rate as high as 38400. On turbos,
> it can go faster (57600?)
Has anyone tried running the serial ports at 57600 on 25MHz '040 systems?
I know that getty has the 38400 limitation, but what about outbound connections
which lock the DTE at 57600?
John McCracken
john@nextdoor.com
NeXTMail welcome
From: lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Peter S. Lakanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Host Unknown (But Nameserver Works!)
Date: 24 Jun 1995 18:58:29 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <3shn8l$m8a@mailer.fsu.edu>
I am very confused.
I have a NeXT cube. I can ftp/telnet/ping wherever want, but whenever I
send e-mail outside our subnet, it is returned with the lovely:
Returned mail: Host unknown
Our topology is...we have a sun running solaris that acts our way out
to the net. The sun is otto.cmr.fsu.edu (mail aliased to cmr.fsu.edu,
however that works). I have an account on otto and on vina (the NeXT).
If I mail to lakanen@otto it goes fine, but if I mail to
lakanen@cmr.fsu.edu (the address anyone on the net should use to get
to me) then it gets bounced back.
My hostconfig is:
HOSTNAME=vina
INETADDR=128.186.54.6
ROUTER=128.186.54.1
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
IPBROADCAST=128.186.54.255
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
My resolv.conf is:
domain cmr.fsu.edu
nameserver 128.186.6.103
nameserver 128.186.121.10
nameserver 144.174.128.3
Can anyone help me with this?
Please either post or e-mail me at lakanen@cmr.fsu.edu
Thank you very much for your assistance in this matter.
Peter Lakanen
Center for Music Research
The Florida State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nlee@s6.math.umn.edu (Namyong Lee)
Subject: NeXTSTEP on Zeos Pantera - nicely work!
Message-ID: <nlee.804034573@s6.math.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 22:56:13 GMT
Zeos Pantera Pentium90 works very nicely with NeXTSTEP, Linux, Windows95 etc.
We have used
Diamond Stealth 64 2VRam + NEC 17" monitor
Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller + NEC 3x SCSI CD
SoundBlaster16 Pro, serial mouse
However, whenever I boot the system, it boots NEXTSTEP as a default.
Is there any way that I can change the default as DOS/Windows?
nlee@math.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
In-Reply-To: john@nextdoor's message of 24 Jun 1995 18:55:19 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun24193348@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com> <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com>
<RDL.95Jun21162819@world.std.com> <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 23:33:48 GMT
You can't. 38400 is the max DTE for a 25MHz 68040.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant / Developer / Trainer
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.3
In-Reply-To: mdaniels@wnjlaw.com's message of Fri, 23 Jun 95 14:37:41 -0500
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun24193519@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <9506231937.AA00204@wnjlaw.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 23:35:19 GMT
It's worth it to upgrade the Intel systems to 3.3. It doesn't make sense
to upgrade the Motorola systems unless you have a large network.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: ken@darwin.mbb.sfu.ca (Ken Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SerialPorts driver vs. Mux...
Date: 25 Jun 95 03:36:00 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Message-ID: <ken.804051360@darwin>
References: <3r5b5l$tjk@digdug.pencom.com> <3r8ta7$pue@news.next.com> <cjonesDAI9uq.L84@netcom.com>
cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones) writes:
>Dan Grillo (grio@next.com) wrote:
>: Check out the new NeXT Intel serial port driver in NeXTanswers.
>: --Dan
>: Dan Grillo dan_grillo@next.com (415) 780-2963 now in Bld1, back, Rside
>I just tried, got 1208 and 1948 which were not really a help.
>Do you know the doc number?
>thanks,
>carl
Hi. They are 1924, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947. You can
find them at
ftp.next.com:/pub/NeXTanswers/CompressedFiles/Drivers/3.3_Drivers/Beta
I just grabbed them today and they are incredible. I have been waiting
2 years from these. I used to get crashes all the time and didn't
even bother with speeds >9600. I now get 1300CPS at 19.2, with a
compile in the background, and no crashes. Way to go NEXT!
I hope that Next releases the technical details of these drivers, as
I need a mux on my machine and would like to use their new
layered scheme.
These new drivers are required reading for anyone with a modem, IMO.
- Ken
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP dialup problems
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 00:16:48 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1995Jun25.001648.436@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <ethomson.804014200@fiji.wri.com>
In article <ethomson.804014200@fiji.wri.com> ethomson@wri.com (Ed Thomson)
writes:
> dialupip has been discontinued. Use PNI. Try archie'ing for it, and if
> you can't find it, I might be able to dig you up an ftp site.
No it hasn't; or rather, Louis has dropped support for both TransSys SLIP
and PNI.
There are a number of reasons why SLIP is better than PNI on black
hardware for a simple dial-up connection.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.com
Tel: (01494)671501 9 Stable Lane, Seer Green,
Fax: (01494)680228 Bucks, HP9 2YT, UK
From: far@ni.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP on Zeos Pantera - nicely work!
Date: 25 Jun 1995 07:51:00 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3sj4h4$kit@ni1.ni.net>
References: <nlee.804034573@s6.math.umn.edu>
In article <nlee.804034573@s6.math.umn.edu> nlee@s6.math.umn.edu (Namyong
Lee) writes:
>
> Zeos Pantera Pentium90 works very nicely with NeXTSTEP, Linux,
Windows95 etc.
> We have used
> Diamond Stealth 64 2VRam + NEC 17" monitor
> Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller + NEC 3x SCSI CD
> SoundBlaster16 Pro, serial mouse
>
> However, whenever I boot the system, it boots NEXTSTEP as a default.
> Is there any way that I can change the default as DOS/Windows?
>
> nlee@math.umn.edu
Type "fdisk" in a Terminal shell. Choose option #3 "set the active
partition". The rest will be self explanatory.
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity
Agoura Hills, CA # to kill one's fellow citizens,
# to betray friends, to be without
far@ni.net # faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can
# aquire power but not glory.
From: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 25 Jun 1995 20:28:18 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3skgt2$ick@sunserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com> <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com> <RDL.95Jun21162819@world.std.com> <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com> <RDL.95Jun24193348@world.std.com>
rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote:
> You can't. 38400 is the max DTE for a 25MHz 68040.
Oh really ? Then why am I running ppp and uucp with 57600 on my 25 cube without any problems for
months now ? (Only outgoing, don't know about dialin)
Marc
From: lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Peter S. Lakanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Questions About 3.3 Upgrade
Date: 25 Jun 1995 17:39:53 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <3sk719$h7v@mailer.fsu.edu>
We have a NeXT cube that is currently running 2.1 extended. We have ordered
NS 3.3 and are expecting it anyday now. How does the installation work?
I am concerned about losing the mail configuration and everything else...
how smart is the installation? Are there any booby traps I should know
about?
Any feedback you have on this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Peter Lakanen
The Center for Music Research
The Florida State University
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 25 Jun 1995 22:09:32 +0200
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT
Message-ID: <x77n6ayxkz.fsfarkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch>
References: <DAHz7v.1nz@chemelex.com> <3s9f48$hbb@www.its.com>
<RDL.95Jun21162819@world.std.com> <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com>
<RDL.95Jun24193348@world.std.com>
In-reply-to: rdl@world.std.com's message of Sat, 24 Jun 1995 23:33:48 GMT
To: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch
In article <RDL.95Jun24193348@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes:
> You can't. 38400 is the max DTE for a 25MHz 68040.
you can, at least my modem reported a DTE rate of 57600 when I tried
it... A colleague made some tests and zmodem file transfer at this
rate between two driectly connected machines use allegedly up to 50%
cpu time. I think that TipTop lets you choose the higher rates...
christian
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: getting cmd-M in Edit to search /usr/local/man
Date: 23 Jun 1995 20:58:16 GMT
Organization: OpenSource Inc.
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <3sf9t8$5nh@trane.opensource.com>
Keywords: manpath edit man pages
Does anyone know the trick to having cmd-M work for man pages in the
/usr/loca/man location. I know if the MANPATH env var is set before Edit
launches this works. Is there some default, or something I can do from
workspace to make this happen when Edit is launched from my doc or from
the workspace?
Thanks,
Chris
From: jbn@mystery-train.msilink.com (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 26 Jun 1995 01:20:01 GMT
Organization: Organizing Organisms & Organs
Message-ID: <3sl201$c9l@ill.msilink.com>
References: <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com> <3sl30o$dvm@emerald.oz.net>
In article <3sl30o$dvm@emerald.oz.net>, art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
>Running at 57600 with
>frequent packet retransmissions may actually be slower than 38400 with no
>retransmissions.
Why not get TTYDSP for your black hardware and run your high-speed serial
hardware from that?
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 26 Jun 1995 04:15:11 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <3slc8f$ca1@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list
ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
===============================================
This online community resource includes
- 200+ ISV company pages
- 400+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@stepwise.com
Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com
If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise,
please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com.
eduSTEP WWW site
================
http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/
eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on:
- NextStep tools and projects for scientists.
- Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific
community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist).
- A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with
customers in the educational community.
- Conferences, meetings, workshops
- Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a
NextStep scientific work environment
- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news: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.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
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.
Archives are available by ftp at
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
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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.
news:comp.sys.next.hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with
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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 not be
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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
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
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newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach,
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
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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.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news: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
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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
=============
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu: The main site for North American submissions
ftp://nova.cc.purdue.edu: Lots of older stuff
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany.
ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next Peanuts mirror in the US
ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) and
ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Subject: ZyXEL Driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950623091800.346AAEYF.pmt@a22459>
Keywords: fax modem zyxel driver
Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System)
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (Austin,TX)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:18:00 GMT
Bonjour All,
I have a ZyXEL U-1496E+ and was disappointed that none of the NS 3.3
supplied drivers were compatible with that type of fax-modem to send faxes.
ZyXEL has voice capabilities but, to my knowledge, no commercial nor none-
commercial products uses that last capability.
I know NXFax from B&W Software does just fax-modem stuff without the
answering machine-like capability. Any other suggestions on other non-
commercial and commercial products? URLs I could point to get that (demo)
software?
Mille mercis.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Subject: ZyXEL Driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950623092041.346AAEYH.pmt@a22459>
Keywords: fax modem zyxel driver
Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System)
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (Austin,TX)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:20:41 GMT
Bonjour All,
I have a ZyXEL U-1496E+ and was disappointed that none of the NS 3.3
supplied drivers were compatible with that type of fax-modem to send faxes.
ZyXEL has voice capabilities but, to my knowledge, no commercial nor none-
commercial products uses that last capability.
I know NXFax from B&W Software does just fax-modem stuff without the
answering machine-like capability. Any other suggestions on other non-
commercial and commercial products? URLs I could point to get that (demo)
software?
Mille mercis.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Subject: ZyXEL Driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950623091915.346AAEYG.pmt@a22459>
Keywords: fax modem zyxel driver
Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System)
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (Austin,TX)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:19:15 GMT
Bonjour All,
I have a ZyXEL U-1496E+ and was disappointed that none of the NS 3.3
supplied drivers were compatible with that type of fax-modem to send faxes.
ZyXEL has voice capabilities but, to my knowledge, no commercial nor none-
commercial products uses that last capability.
I know NXFax from B&W Software does just fax-modem stuff without the
answering machine-like capability. Any other suggestions on other non-
commercial and commercial products? URLs I could point to get that (demo)
software?
Mille mercis.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Subject: ZyXEL Driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950623095453.346AAEYK.pmt@a22459>
Keywords: fax modem zyxel driver
Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System)
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (Austin,TX)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:54:53 GMT
Bonjour All,
I have a ZyXEL U-1496E+ and was disappointed that none of the NS 3.3
supplied drivers were compatible with that type of fax-modem to send faxes.
ZyXEL has voice capabilities but, to my knowledge, no commercial nor none-
commercial products uses that last capability.
I know NXFax from B&W Software does just fax-modem stuff without the
answering machine-like capability. Any other suggestions on other non-
commercial and commercial products? URLs I could point to get that (demo)
software?
Mille mercis.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Subject: ZyXEL Driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950623092614.346AAEYI.pmt@a22459>
Keywords: fax modem zyxel driver
Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System)
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (Austin,TX)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:26:14 GMT
Bonjour All,
I have a ZyXEL U-1496E+ and was disappointed that none of the NS 3.3
supplied drivers were compatible with that type of fax-modem to send faxes.
ZyXEL has voice capabilities but, to my knowledge, no commercial nor none-
commercial products uses that last capability.
I know NXFax from B&W Software does just fax-modem stuff without the
answering machine-like capability. Any other suggestions on other non-
commercial and commercial products? URLs I could point to get that (demo)
software?
Mille mercis.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Subject: ZyXEL Driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <950623093325.346AAEYJ.pmt@a22459>
Keywords: fax modem zyxel driver
Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (Integrity News System)
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (Austin,TX)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:33:25 GMT
Bonjour All,
I have a ZyXEL U-1496E+ and was disappointed that none of the NS 3.3
supplied drivers were compatible with that type of fax-modem to send faxes.
ZyXEL has voice capabilities but, to my knowledge, no commercial nor none-
commercial products uses that last capability.
I know NXFax from B&W Software does just fax-modem stuff without the
answering machine-like capability. Any other suggestions on other non-
commercial and commercial products? URLs I could point to get that (demo)
software?
Mille mercis.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
From: ta@trinity.uk.sun.com (Tim Addison - Sun UK - Senior Systems Engineer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep 3.3 screen hangs
Date: 26 Jun 1995 14:48:15 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems (UK)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3smhbf$11t@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>
Hi,
I have nextstep 3.3, and have noticed that periodically I can get the screen
to hang. One cause of this is hitting the backspace key 4 times in succession,
this cause a "plonk" sound to be played and then the screen freezes.
Is this some environment setting I have accidentally enabled or perhaps a
known bug ? BTW I am new to the NextStep environment.
Thanks in advance for any help
Tim
ps Please reply to me direct
From: rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.3
Date: 26 Jun 1995 17:04:30 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <3smpau$34m@news.iastate.edu>
References: <RDL.95Jun24193519@world.std.com>
In article <RDL.95Jun24193519@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
Ferla) writes:
> It's worth it to upgrade the Intel systems to 3.3. It doesn't make
sense
> to upgrade the Motorola systems unless you have a large network.
>
> Robert La Ferla
> Registered NS Consultant
> + 1 (617) 252-0088
You may be right, but we may end up upgrading all of our 41 NeXTstation
computers to NEXTSTEP 3.3 to get EOF installed on them.
The reason is Database Kit versus EOF. All of our custom application are
currently written using Database Kit. Fortunately, DBKit is part of 3.2
and 3.3, but we have been told that it will not be part of NEXTSTEP 4.0
when it is released next year.
Therefore, we are beginning to convert all of our DBKit-based applications
to EOF. This, of course, requires us to install EOF on all of our NeXT
computers. The academic price of adding EOF to NS 3.2 is $299! Strangely
enough, the academic bundle, which includes User 3.3, Developer 3.3 and
EOF 1.1, is also $299!!!
While it may not be necessary for us to upgrade our NeXTstations from User
3.2 to 3.3 when we install EOF 1.1, we might as well, since it does not
cost us any more that buying EOF...
Once we have upgraded all of our NeXTstations to User 3.3 and EOF 1.1,
then we can continue to use our old DBKit-based applications while we
convert and redeploy their EOF-based replacements. Once all of our
applications have been converted to EOF, we then have the ability to
upgrade to User 4.0 in the future. If we do not convert all of our
applications to EOF, then we can never upgrade to User 4.0 or later or
even think about using any of our applications with OpenStep.
NEXTSTEP 4.0 is supposed to be OpenStep with the operating system
implemented by NeXT and probably the only way of running OpenStep
applications on old NeXT computers.
Whether academic users think that the academic pricing is fair does not
change the fact that it is significantly less than the commercial pricing
for the exact same products.
In conclusion, it actually does make sense for academic users to upgrade
their NeXTstations to User 3.3, but only if they require EOF.
Things sure do get complicated around here (in NeXTland)!
--
Rod Ragner, UNIX Systems Administrator/NEXTSTEP Application Developer
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
Voice: (515) 294-4751, FAX: (515) 294-6961 or 3564, (NeXT Mail accepted)
Email: rragner@stallion.vm.iastate.edu or stryder@iastate.edu
From: strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What is NEXT equivalent to "uname"?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:09:46 GMT
Organization: GWDG, Goettingen
Message-ID: <3sbq2q$eeu@gwdu19.gwdg.de>
References: <9506201946.AA09700@jaco.cca.rockwell.com> <3s9ffl$hbb@www.its.com>
Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Alan B. Hanson wrote:
>> Can anyone assist me in determining if I am on a next OS or
>> something else?
>Sure. An quick method is to see whether something like "/mach" or "/NextApps" is
>around. Or you could write your own version of uname for NEXTSTEP and have it
>display whatever you wish.
>> What would be the equivalent of "uname"?
>"hostinfo", perhaps?
>-Chuck
>--
Hi,
there is no problem to compile your own uname, as the lib function
is available to be posix compliant. posix support is buggy, but
this particular function is ok.
i don't think, arch is a replacement, as normally you'd like to have
a command, that is guaranteed to exist, and determines the current
software and hardware. have the same login dir for both NeXTSTEP and
any other os, and you'll agree.
case `uname` in
NEXTSTEP) bla ;;
HP-UX) yup ;;
esac
looks just cleaner than
if [ -d /NextAdmin ]; then bla; fi
Ciao, Stephan
From: root@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Printer prints empty pages...
Date: 26 Jun 1995 17:14:26 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Budapest
Message-ID: <3smpti$qmb@goliat.eik.bme.hu>
Keywords: printing problems
Hello,
I tried to print a PostScript file from MS Word. So far it was no problem
with it. But this time there probably was a not correct font used in the
file. The previewer showed the first page but failed to forward-paging
hanging the performance of the whole black box. i decided to print it as
it is. I got the last page out of the printer similar to what I saw in the
Previewer but the following was just empty pages.
After that it was the same whatever file I print. I restarted the box and
tried TEST from the PrintMng but it do not help. The .ps file appears in
the /usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer and disappears after the printer feed
the exact number of empty pages as it is in the document.
I have just installed NS3.3 and had problems with that user could not
delete the print job from the queue- "Permission denied". i could guess
that I need to change file attributes somewhere but had no time to make
around.
However, for last week printing was ok (except the queue management).
And I cannot believe that this is the way the powder ends in the printer.
Then, what is wrong with it?
I would appreciate any hint,
Sergey Odinets
Budapest Technical University
Moscow University of Technology
odinets@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu
From: ta@trinity.uk.sun.com (Tim Addison - Sun UK - Senior Systems Engineer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep 3.3 screen hangs
Date: 26 Jun 1995 17:49:13 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems (UK)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3smrup$2t4@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>
References: <3smhbf$11t@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>
In article 11t@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com, ta@trinity.uk.sun.com (Tim Addison - Sun UK - Senior Systems Engineer) writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have nextstep 3.3, and have noticed that periodically I can get the screen
> to hang. One cause of this is hitting the backspace key 4 times in succession,
> this cause a "plonk" sound to be played and then the screen freezes.
>
> Is this some environment setting I have accidentally enabled or perhaps a
> known bug ? BTW I am new to the NextStep environment.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
I think I sorted this one. On install NextStep defaults to Sun type 5 keyboard
Unix layout, whereas I had Sun type 5 PC layout. I have changed this and now
everything seems to work.
It would probably be a good idea for this to be mentioned in the install notes.
cheers,
Tim
From: ta@trinity.uk.sun.com (Tim Addison - Sun UK - Senior Systems Engineer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep configured on the net
Date: 26 Jun 1995 17:51:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems (UK)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3sms39$2t4@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>
Hi,
What steps do I have to go through to make NextStep appear on the network.
I have so far made an entry for the hostname/IP address in netinfo, and
changed the hostname line in /etc/rc.boot to reflect this. However the
machine still does not initialise the port automatically I have to do an
ifconfig after it has booted.
cheers,
Tim
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT Printer prints empty pages...
Date: 26 Jun 1995 18:43:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3smv54$n4n@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3smpti$qmb@goliat.eik.bme.hu>
In article <3smpti$qmb@goliat.eik.bme.hu> root@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu (Operator) writes:
>I tried to print a PostScript file from MS Word. So far it was no problem
>with it. But this time there probably was a not correct font used in the
>file. The previewer showed the first page but failed to forward-paging
>hanging the performance of the whole black box. i decided to print it as
>it is. I got the last page out of the printer similar to what I saw in the
>Previewer but the following was just empty pages.
A lot of problems with printing PS files that originate from Windoze (NT)
are due to brain-dead PS that they generate, where each page of PS
is not independent of each another (despite %!PS-Adobe-3.0 they claim
in the first line). And the PS just breaks when the printing system
reverses the page order so that the output is collated in the right order.
Try making the first line of the PS file to just:
%!
then the printing system will not try to reverse the page order.
You will have to reverse pages by hand.
If you print a lot of these PS files, disabling page reversal is an option.
This can be done by editing the PPD file or setting a flag in NetInfo.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 26 Jun 1995 19:06:21 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Message-ID: <3sn0fd$ki4@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>
References: <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com> <3sl30o$dvm@emerald.oz.net>
art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) writes:
>In article <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com> john@nextdoor (John McCracken)
>writes:
>> Has anyone tried running the serial ports at 57600 on 25MHz '040
>systems?
>> I know that getty has the 38400 limitation, but what about outbound
>connections
>> which lock the DTE at 57600?
>>
> Under NS 3.2, I ran Taylor uucp and TipTop (using term to read news)
>at 57600 on my 25 MHz Cube with no problems.
> After upgrading to NS 3.3, I can no longer read news either via
>TipTop/term or PPP at 57600 without experiencing frequent serial port
>buffer overruns :-( I still seem to be able to run uucp at 57600, but
>maybe I just don't know where to look for the buffer overrun error
>messages :-)
> If I didn't see the error messages in the console, I probably wouldn't
>be aware of the packet retransmissions that are occurring. Fortunately,
>these buffer overruns didn't cause kernel panics, but I slowed everything
>down to 38400 to avoid possible problems :-( Running at 57600 with
>frequent packet retransmissions may actually be slower than 38400 with no
>retransmissions.
I am running 3.3 on my 25MHz color slab, and have been using PPP 2.2 for
months at 57600 with no problems at all. Runs flat out both in and out at
5.5K/sec max when ftping text over a 28.8K connection, never saw anything
to indicate any problems with that port speed.
--
Doug Siebert || "Usenet is essentially Letters to the Editor
University of Iowa || without the editor. Editors don't appreciate
dsiebert@isca.uiowa.edu || this, for some reason." -- Larry Wall
From: cello@virgil (Sean Anthony Varah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing IP + Netinfo remotely
Date: 26 Jun 1995 20:12:01 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Message-ID: <3sn4ah$if8@decaxp.harvard.edu>
I've just found out that the University is moving me to a new
hub, and I will be assigned to a new subnet, and thus need to
change the ip addresses of my machines.
My question is: can I re-configure this stuff remotely by modem?
I don't seem to be able to get at the right information with
nidump. Basically, I need to change the stuff in the HostManager.app.
Is there a command-line equivalent of HostManager??
Thanks very much
Sean
--
- -
Sean Varah
Harvard Computer Music Studio
cello@mario.harvard.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: cello@virgil (Sean Anthony Varah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing IP + Netinfo remotely
Date: 26 Jun 1995 20:16:30 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Message-ID: <3sn4iu$if8@decaxp.harvard.edu>
Sorry, just to provide a little more infomation.
I'm running Netinfo off one server, and there are
two other machines which get their ip address from
the server. All three machines see each other's disks
by way of NFS.
Sean
--
- -
Sean Varah
Harvard Computer Music Studio
cello@mario.harvard.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: wxli@harpy (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Writing in the root directory
Date: 26 Jun 1995 20:21:04 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <3sn4rg$mi@news.ualr.edu>
I have just noticed that any user in my NeXTStation can
write in the root ("/") directory. I am running NS2.1. How
can I remedy this? Thanks.
-wei,
wxli@ualr.edu
From: szatezal@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: server w/ 2 names?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:43:26 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <3sn69e$one@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
We would like to change our server's name, along w/ re-defining our subdomain
name, yet keep the old ones around for a few months until everyone gets it
right. (ie if it was michaelsmachine.oursubdomain.ohio-state.edu we want to
change it to mike.our.ohio-state.edu).
Anyone know how to do this efficiently and correctly under NS3.3?
(besides informing osu's nameservers, etc etc)
The Atomic Playground BBS -=- a Futurenet Gateway BBS (614) 297-7031 USRv.all
http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/home.htm
From: far@ni.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin as root?
Date: 27 Jun 1995 03:46:05 GMT
Organization: Network Intensive
Message-ID: <3snutt$24k@ni1.ni.net>
References: <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu>
In article <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu> xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
writes:
> Has any of you had this problem before:
>
> I tried to login to a remote NeXT machine as root(trust me, I have to),
but I
> kept on getting messages like "root login refused on this terminal."
>
> How can I turn that off?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yibing Wu
In /etc/ttys you should add the "secure" switch to the top psuedo terminal
entries (one or two). See the man page for more info.
--
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Agoura Hills, CA # to kill one's fellow citizens,
# to betray friends, to be without
far@ni.net # faith, without mercy, without
# religion; by these means one can
# aquire power but not glory.
From: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I rlogin as root?
Date: 26 Jun 1995 23:04:36 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu>
Has any of you had this problem before:
I tried to login to a remote NeXT machine as root(trust me, I have to), but I
kept on getting messages like "root login refused on this terminal."
How can I turn that off?
Thanks,
Yibing Wu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: Host Unknown (But Nameserver Works!)
Message-ID: <DAsxrC.BKx@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3shn8l$m8a@mailer.fsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:42:47 GMT
In article <3shn8l$m8a@mailer.fsu.edu> lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Peter S.
Lakanen) writes:
> I am very confused.
>
> I have a NeXT cube. I can ftp/telnet/ping wherever want, but whenever I
> send e-mail outside our subnet, it is returned with the lovely:
>
> Returned mail: Host unknown
>
> Our topology is...we have a sun running solaris that acts our way out
> to the net. The sun is otto.cmr.fsu.edu (mail aliased to cmr.fsu.edu,
> however that works). I have an account on otto and on vina (the NeXT).
> If I mail to lakanen@otto it goes fine, but if I mail to
> lakanen@cmr.fsu.edu (the address anyone on the net should use to get
> to me) then it gets bounced back.
>
> My hostconfig is:
>
> HOSTNAME=vina
> INETADDR=128.186.54.6
> ROUTER=128.186.54.1
> NETMASTER=-NO-
> YPDOMAIN=-NO-
> TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
> IPBROADCAST=128.186.54.255
> IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
>
> My resolv.conf is:
>
> domain cmr.fsu.edu
> nameserver 128.186.6.103
> nameserver 128.186.121.10
> nameserver 144.174.128.3
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> Please either post or e-mail me at lakanen@cmr.fsu.edu
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance in this matter.
>
> Peter Lakanen
> Center for Music Research
> The Florida State University
>
What's in your /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf file ?
Nice Greetings from Munich
--
__ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10
/\_\ KARSTADT AG Haus Oberpollinger Muenchen | 81543 Muenchen
\/_/ mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (NeXTmail) | Tel.: +49 89 65 29 18
NeXTSTEP! CompuServe ID: 100663,25 | Work: +49 89 29 02 54 18
From: Paul Kim <trout@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: access to name servers
Date: 27 Jun 1995 04:57:52 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3so34g$hn3@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <3sa8lt$mn0@aimnet1.aimnet.com> <3sbspf$k2k@masala.cc.uh.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: trout
In article <3sbspf$k2k@masala.cc.uh.edu>, Paul S. Sears <sears@uh.edu> wrote:
>In article <3sa8lt$mn0@aimnet1.aimnet.com>
>Lowell_Schneider@SchemaResearch.com writes:
>> I've got three NEXTSTEP machines, two of which correctly access an
>internet name
>> server. The third can't resolve names to ip addresses.
>>
[munch]
>>
>> % niutil -read / /locations/resolver
>> name: resolver
>> domain: SchemaResearch.com
>> nameserver: 204.247.0.18 204.118.83.18 199.245.73.2 199.245.73.3
>>
[munch]
>>
>
>Check to see if there is a /etc/resolv.conf file. Btw, we don't use
>NetInfo for this, we use /etc/resolv.conf and never have any problems. I
>am not sure for this particular case if NetInfo overrides the flatfile...
>
I believe the hooks in the resolver library to look into Netinfo for resolver
information was only fairly recently introduced into the BIND distribution
(v4.9.3). I haven't checked the BIND version that ships with NS 3.3 but I
believe it's still at 4.8.
Because of this, even if you compiled the latest BIND distribution, you
wouldn't be able to really take advantage of having resolver info in Netinfo
unless you recompile every program that does host name lookups, so, as noted
above, you are best off just sticking with the resolv.conf file.
paul kim
trout@rahul.net
trout@denizen.com
--
Paul Kim <trout@rahul.net>
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 3.3
Date: 26 Jun 1995 19:56:46 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <3sn3du$gsv@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <RDL.95Jun24193519@world.std.com> <3smpau$34m@news.iastate.edu>
rragner@stingray.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner) wrote:
> In conclusion, it actually does make sense for academic users to
> upgrade their NeXTstations to User 3.3, but only if they require
> EOF.
Hmm. I'd word that the other way around. If an academic user
wants EOF, then it certainly makes sense to upgrade to NS-3.3.
Academic users who don't want EOF might still want to upgrade, for
other reasons (MIME mail, or expanded OpenStep support). EOF isn't
the *only* reason that would justify the upgrade.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin as root?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 04:15:09 -0500
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.950627041109.3461G-100000@avocado>
References: <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu>
Yibing,
Just don't do it (I know that's not a solution, but a work around is...)
Log in as yourself and then just type "su -", which will ask you for
the root password.
Would anyone like to comment on passwords over telnet? Can they be
sniffed out? Is there any encryption? Any security considerations?
___ __________________________________________________________
/\__\ G. Hussain Chinoy
\/__/ 314/591-4955 vox
NEXTSTEP, 314/935-5799 fax
baby hussain@artsci.wustl.edu net
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~hussain/ web
On 26 Jun 1995, XiaoJun Li wrote:
> Has any of you had this problem before:
>
> I tried to login to a remote NeXT machine as root(trust me, I have to), but I
> kept on getting messages like "root login refused on this terminal."
>
> How can I turn that off?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yibing Wu
>
>
From: diego@conga.dgsca.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't run X11R5 on NS 3.3.
Date: 27 Jun 1995 05:32:21 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu
Message-ID: <9506271031.AA00230@conga.dgsca.unam.mx>
Hi:
I just finished compiling X11R5 on my Sparc 5 running NS
3.3. I used the X11R5 patches by Douglas Scott. It seemed to compile
fine, but when I run it I get the following error:
Unable to open /dev/vid0 for read/write.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I already changed permissions for /dev/vid0 to 666, but it doesn't
seem to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
(I'm sending this through an e-mail gateway to Usenet, since I
don't have access to a working Usenet server right now. Please
answer by e-mail if possible)
---
Diego Martin Zamboni Depto. de Administracion de Supercomputo
diego@conga.dgsca.unam.mx DGSCA, UNAM, Mexico. Tel. (52-5)622-85-29
(NeXTMail ok) Fax. (52-5)622-80-43
WWW home page: http://ds5000.dgsca.unam.mx/~diego/
From: lakanen@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Peter S. Lakanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Host Unknown (But Nameserver Works!)
Date: 27 Jun 1995 13:10:42 GMT
Organization: FSU Experimental INN Server
Message-ID: <3sp00i$sr@news.acns.fsu.edu>
References: <3shn8l$m8a@mailer.fsu.edu> <DAsxrC.BKx@muaddib.m.isar.de>
: What's in your /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf file ?
It's kinda big, but here it is:
###########################################################
#
# Sendmail configuration file for SUBSIDIARY NeXT machines.
#
# You should install this file as /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf if
# your machine is a subsidiary machine (that is, some other
# machine in your domain is the main mail-relaying machine).
# You should not need to edit this file to customize it for your
# network configuration. If you do, then you probably want to
# use sendmail.main.cf.
#
# See the paper "Sendmail Installation and Administration Guide"
# for more information on the format of this file.
#
#
# local UUCP connections -- not forwarded to mailhost
# The local UUCP connections are output by the uuname program.
FV|/usr/bin/uuname
# my official hostname
Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $.
# major relay mailer
DMether
# major relay host
DRmailhost
CRmailhost
############################################################
#####
##### General configuration information
#####
# local domain name
#
# This is now set from the resolver configuration call. If the domain
# name you would like to have appear in your mail headers is different
# from your Internet domain name, edit and uncomment the following to
# be your mail domain name.
# DmPodunk.EDU
# Version number of configuration file
DVNeXT-2.0
### Standard macros
# name used for error messages
DnMailer-Agent
# UNIX header format
DlFrom $g $d
# delimiter (operator) characters
Do.:%@!^=/[]
# format of a total name
Dq$g$?x ($x)$.
# SMTP login message
De$j Sendmail $v/$V ready at $b
### Options
# Remote mode - send through server if mailbox directory is mounted
OR
# location of alias file
OA/etc/sendmail/aliases
# default delivery mode (deliver in background)
Odbackground
# rebuild the alias file automagically
OD
# temporary file mode -- 0600 for secure mail, 0644 for permissive
OF0600
# default GID
Og1
# location of help file
OH/usr/lib/sendmail.hf
# log level
OL9
# default messages to old style
Oo
# To Cc postmaster on error replies I generate, uncomment the next line
# OPPostmaster
# queue directory
OQ/usr/spool/mqueue
# read timeout for SMTP protocols
Or15m
# status file -- none
# OS/etc/sendmail/sendmail.st
# queue up everything before starting transmission, for safety
Os
# return queued mail after this long
OT3d
# default UID
Ou1
### Message precedences
Pfirst-class=0
Pspecial-delivery=100
Pjunk=-100
### Trusted users
T root agent uucp
### Format of headers
H?P?Return-Path: <$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>
HErrors-To:
###########################
### Rewriting rules ###
###########################
# Sender Field Pre-rewriting
S1
# None needed.
# Recipient Field Pre-rewriting
S2
# None needed.
# Name Canonicalization
# Internal format of names within the rewriting rules is:
# anything<@host.domain.domain...>anything
# We try to get every kind of name into this format, except for local
# names, which have no host part. The reason for the "<>" stuff is
# that the relevant host name could be on the front of the name (for
# source routing), or on the back (normal form). We enclose the one that
# we want to route on in the <>'s to make it easy to find.
#
S3
# handle "from:<>" special case
R<> $@@ turn into magic token
# basic textual canonicalization
R$*<$+>$* $2 basic RFC822 parsing
# make sure <@a,@b,@c:user@d> syntax is easy to parse -- undone later
R@$+,$+:$+ @$1:$2:$3 change all "," to ":"
R@$+:$+ $@$>6<@$1>:$2 src route canonical
R$+:$*;@$+ $@$1:$2;@$3 list syntax
R$+@$+ $:$1<@$2> focus on domain
R$+<$+@$+> $1$2<@$3> move gaze right
R$+<@$+> $@$>6$1<@$2> already canonical
# convert old-style names to domain-based names
# All old-style names parse from left to right, without precedence.
R$-!$+ $@$>6$2<@$1.uucp> uucphost!user
R$-.$+!$+ $@$>6$3<@$1.$2> host.domain!user
R$+%$+ $@$>3$1@$2 user%host
# Final Output Post-rewriting
S4
R$+<@$+.uucp> $2!$1 u@h.uucp => h!u
R$+ $: $>9 $1 Clean up addr
R$*<$+>$* $1$2$3 defocus
# Clean up an name for passing to a mailer
# (but leave it focused)
S9
R@ $@$n handle <> error addr
R$*<$*LOCAL>$* $1<$2$m>$3 change local info
R<@$+>$*:$+:$+ <@$1>$2,$3:$4 <route-addr> canonical
#############################################################
#####
##### Rewriting rules
#####
# special local conversions
S6
R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts
R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname
R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain
############################################################
#####
##### Local and Program Mailer specification
#####
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeuP, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
S10
# None needed.
S20
# None needed.
############################################################
#####
##### Ethernet Mailer specification
#####
##### Messages processed by this configuration are assumed to remain
##### in the same domain. This really has nothing particular to do
##### with Ethernet - the name is historical.
Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuCX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h
S11
R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok
R$+ $@$1<@$w> tack on our hostname
S21
# None needed.
############################################################
#####
##### General code to convert back to old style UUCP names
#####
S5
R$+<@LOCAL> $@ $w!$1 name@LOCAL => host!name
R$+<@$-.LOCAL> $@ $2!$1 u@h.LOCAL => h!u
R$+<@$+.uucp> $@ $2!$1 u@h.uucp => h!u
R$+<@$*> $@ $2!$1 u@h => h!u
# Route-addrs do not work here. Punt til uucp-mail comes up with something.
R<@$+>$* $@ @$1$2 just defocus and punt
R$*<$*>$* $@ $1$2$3 Defocus strange stuff
############################################################
#####
##### UUCP Mailer specification
#####
Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=msDFMhuU, S=13, R=23,
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!$1 stick on real host name
# Convert uucp recipient (To, Cc) fields
S23
R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style
############################################################
#####
##### RULESET ZERO PREAMBLE
# Ruleset 30 just calls rulesets 3 then 0.
S30
R$* $: $>3 $1 First canonicalize
R$* $@ $>0 $1 Then rerun ruleset 0
S0
# On entry, the address has been canonicalized and focused by ruleset 3.
# Handle special cases.....
R@ $#local $:$n handle <> form
# For numeric spec, you can't pass spec on to receiver, since rcvr's
# are not smart enough to know that [x.y.z.a] is their own name.
R<@[$+]>:$* $:$>9 <@[$1]>:$2 Clean it up, then...
R<@[$+]>:$* $#ether $@[$1] $:$2 numeric internet spec
R<@[$+]>,$* $#ether $@[$1] $:$2 numeric internet spec
R$*<@[$+]> $#ether $@[$2] $:$1 numeric internet spec
# now delete redundant local info
R$*<$*$=w.LOCAL>$* $1<$2>$4 thishost.LOCAL
R$*<@LOCAL>$* $1<@$m>$2 host == domain gateway
R$*<$*$=w.uucp>$* $1<$2>$4 thishost.uucp
R$*<$*$=w>$* $1<$2>$4 thishost
R$*<$*.>$* $1<$2>$3 drop trailing dot
R<@>:$* $@$>30$1 retry after route strip
R$*<@> $@$>30$1 strip null trash & retry
################################################
### Machine dependent part of ruleset zero ###
################################################
# resolve names we can handle locally
R<@$=V.uucp>:$+ $:$>9 $1 First clean up, then...
R<@$=V.uucp>:$+ $#uucp $@$1 $:$2 @host.uucp:...
R$+<@$=V.uucp> $#uucp $@$2 $:$1 user@host.uucp
# non-local UUCP hosts get kicked upstairs
R$+<@$+.uucp> $#$M $@$R $:$2!$1
# optimize names of known ethernet hosts
R$*<@$+.LOCAL>$* $#ether $@$2 $:$1<@$2>$3 user@host.here
# hosts in no domains are assumed to be local
R$*<@$->$* $#ether $@$2 $:$1<@$2>$3 user@host
# other non-local names will be kicked upstairs
R$+ $:$>9 $1 Clean up, keep <>
R$*<@$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2>$3 user@some.where
R$*@$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2> strangeness with @
# Local names with % are really not local!
R$+%$+ $@$>30$1@$2 turn % => @, retry
# everything else is a local name
R$+ $#local $:$1 local names
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Why does power down/reboot hang? (NS/i486)
Message-ID: <DAu74o.1qH@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:02:47 GMT
On a machine I administer, powering off or rebooting from the login panel will
hang indefinitely with spinning disk cursor and the screen in VGA mode and with
a panel saying, wait until it is safe to turn the computer off. When I press
alt-numlock I see the cursor freeze, but no window appears. The I press 'r' for
restart as if the window is there, and magically a couple of seconds later the
system shuts down. This is stupid and this is not something I can let people
do, they can't see what happens and they will probably do something drastically
(like just pulling the plug).
NS 3.3, Pentium 90, PCI, Diamond Viper, Adaptec 154x, Logitech bus mouse.
Thanks,
--
Gerben_Wierda@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: ftoth@cybernetics.net (Fred Toth)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CAP on NeXT
Date: 27 Jun 1995 15:23:26 GMT
Organization: Cybernetx, Inc.
Message-ID: <3sp7pe$11@news0.cybernetics.net>
I have heard that domeone has ported the Columbia AppleTalk Package to
the NeXT. If so, I'd very much like to acquire a copy of that port.
I'm running Motorola hardware with NextStep 3.3.
Can anyone give me a pointer?
Thanks,
Fred Toth
ftoth@cybernetics.net
From: doyle@zeke.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin as root?
Date: 27 Jun 1995 16:18:40 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <3spb10$hsd@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.950627041109.3461G-100000@avocado>
Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Yibing,
> Just don't do it (I know that's not a solution, but a work around is...)
> Log in as yourself and then just type "su -", which will ask you for
> the root password.
>
> Would anyone like to comment on passwords over telnet? Can they be
> sniffed out? Is there any encryption? Any security considerations?
Just don't do that either! We got burned badly here because someone broke into another
machine on our LAN and sniffed just about everyone's password. You are vulnerable to
every packet sniffer installed on any network your packets pass through. Our response
was to install skey (see http://www.cs.sandia.gov/mpcrl/GI_firewall.html for instance).
Included is an su command that works with skey so that you only type encrypted one-time
passwords over the net. It works well, and isn't inconvenient since I made a service that
allows me to highlight the skey challenge, enter my skey "secret" password locally, and
paste the result of the encryption into the Terminal window I am working in.
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. If you try and install the skey login.c, there is a bug in it that prevents logins from
hosts that have names that are too long. Easy one line fix though.
From: joransen@hq.af.mil (Timothy W. Joransen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin as root?
Date: 27 Jun 1995 19:05:24 GMT
Organization: Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency, Wash D.C.
Message-ID: <3spkpk$cp9@hq.hq.af.mil>
References: <3spb10$hsd@newshost.lanl.gov>
Keywords: skey next
In article <3spb10$hsd@newshost.lanl.gov> doyle@zeke.lanl.gov writes:
> Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> > Yibing,
>
> > Just don't do it (I know that's not a solution, but a work
> > around is...) Log in as yourself and then just type "su
> > -", which will ask you for
> > the root password.
> >
> > Would anyone like to comment on passwords over telnet?
> > Can they be
> > sniffed out? Is there any encryption? Any security considerations?
>
> Just don't do that either! We got burned badly here because
> someone broke into another machine on our LAN and sniffed just
> about everyone's password. You are vulnerable to every packet
> sniffer installed on any network your packets pass through. Our
> response was to install skey (see
> http://www.cs.sandia.gov/mpcrl/GI_firewall.html for instance).
> Included is an su command that works with skey so that you only
> type encrypted one-time passwords over the net. It works well,
> and isn't inconvenient since I made a service that allows me to
> highlight the skey challenge, enter my skey "secret" password
> locally, and paste the result of the encryption into the Terminal
> window I am working in.
>
> Cheers, Mark
>
> P.S. If you try and install the skey login.c, there is a bug in
> it that prevents logins from hosts that have names that are too
> long. Easy one line fix though.
Are you running skey under NEXTSTEP? Tried (maybe not hard enough) to get
it running on a black box to no avail. Any tips or patches you can
provide to guide me along?
Thanks,
- tim -
--
Capt Timothy W. Joransen, USAF AFPCA/XPE
joransen@hq.af.mil 703.614.6121
From: me@wintermute.nada.kth.se (David Wallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3 driver under 3.2?
Date: 27 Jun 1995 19:41:40 GMT
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Yesterday I installed a SoundBlaster 16 Card in my intelbox. The
system has hanged itself twice since that. I believe it's the driver
so the question is could I and should I use the 3.3 SoundBlaster driver
under my NSFIP 3.2 system?
...or is there another SB16 driver for NS 3.2 that works better?
--david
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From: reichman@phakt.usc.edu (Matthew Nathaniel Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Renaming Localhost & Home Easily + Sendmail
Date: 27 Jun 1995 13:04:36 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Summary: How can I rename Localhost & Home easil
Keywords: Localhost & home renaming & sendmail
Right now my my setup =
localhost is called "scf"
home = "reichman"
what I want =
localhost = "reichman"
home = "matt"
(1) I'd like to do this without having to create a new home and copy everything over to it and then have to change all the permissions
PROBLEM:
The reason I had to name them the first way was in order to be able to use Mail.app with my school's mail server so that I could get the right host attached to the domain and the right user name so that I would be recognized and not get the "unknown host" message.
I'm using the version of Sendmail that came with NS 3.3.
Now, I understand that the latest version of Sendmail (8.12?) has something like an imposter function so that you can specify what the outgoing username and hostname should be.
If this is so then I'd rather do that and keep my system simple.
Is this feasible? How can I do this.
ALSO - I do not have a developer system, and can't compile anything on my black beauty, so, would this inhibit me from being able to install the latest version of Sendmail?.
BTW - I'm running a '040 black beauty slab with NS 3.3 and PPP v 2.2 (perkins)
Any help for the above would be much appreciated. I'd rather not have to spend an entire day having to reconfigure if that's possible (if there's an easier way).
Thanks in advance
Matthew
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 27 Jun 1995 20:15:18 GMT
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In article <3sn0fd$ki4@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu> dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu
(Doug Siebert) writes:
> I am running 3.3 on my 25MHz color slab, and have been using PPP 2.2 for
> months at 57600 with no problems at all. Runs flat out both in and out
at
> 5.5K/sec max when ftping text over a 28.8K connection, never saw
anything
> to indicate any problems with that port speed.
>
I've never seen any problem with buffer overruns using ftp (although,
if you don't look in the console periodically, you probably wouldn't
notice). Only reading news causes buffer overruns. Almost every time a
news article is retrieved, buffer overruns occur. I can't come up with a
reasonable explanation for this. But it happens consistently day after
day even using different nntp servers at different sites. It happens
using term and ppp both.
Anyone got any ideas how I might solve this or why others might not be
seeing the same behavior (other than not checking for console messages :-)
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From: erik@naggum.no (Erik Naggum)
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Date: 26 Jun 1995 21:36:30 GMT
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From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin as root?
Message-ID: <1995Jun27.222317.12724@free.fdn.org>
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Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <3snee5$2ac@hecate.umd.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.950627041109.3461G-100000@avocado> <3spb10$hsd@newshost.lanl.gov>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 22:23:17 GMT
doyle@zeke.lanl.gov wrote:
> Hussain Chinoy <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> > Yibing,
> > Just don't do it (I know that's not a solution, but a work around
is...)
> > Log in as yourself and then just type "su -", which will ask you
for
> > the root password.
> >
> > Would anyone like to comment on passwords over telnet? Can they be
> > sniffed out? Is there any encryption? Any security considerations?
> Just don't do that either! We got burned badly here because someone broke
into another
> machine on our LAN and sniffed just about everyone's password. You are
vulnerable to
> every packet sniffer installed on any network your packets pass through.
Our response
> was to install skey (see http://www.cs.sandia.gov/mpcrl/GI_firewall.html
for instance).
> Included is an su command that works with skey so that you only type
encrypted one-time
> passwords over the net. It works well, and isn't inconvenient since I
made a service that
> allows me to highlight the skey challenge, enter my skey "secret"
password locally, and
> paste the result of the encryption into the Terminal window I am working
in.
> Cheers,
> Mark
> P.S. If you try and install the skey login.c, there is a bug in it that
prevents logins from
> hosts that have names that are too long. Easy one line fix though.
Possible solution:
Modify rlogin and deamon to use PGP
Example:
local-> rlogin machine.some.domain -l root (or any user's name)
remote->send PGP public key
local-> encrypts password string with remote public key and send encrypted
remote->decode encrypted string with private key and validate login
Should be easy to implement and secure enough to be used.
Have fun
Fabien
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From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Writing in the root directory
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 11:54:23 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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On 26 Jun 1995, Wei Li wrote:
> I have just noticed that any user in my NeXTStation can
> write in the root ("/") directory. I am running NS2.1. How
> can I remedy this? Thanks.
I don't know wether this is true for NEXTSTEP: on BSD systems there has
to be at least _one_ user in the wheel group. If not, all users are
assumed to be in group wheel and allowed to su root or write to the root
filesystem.
Best regards,
Boerny.
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From: Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cc can't find headers
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 22:27:28 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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I've been wrestling with an odd problem on a Black NeXT (NS 3.2)
that I inherited. Cc cannot find the standard include files even though
they are in /usr/include. Also executables in the current directory can
only be run by typing "./foo" even though "." is in the path. Other quirks,
such as sh scripts having problems with relative pathnames lead me to
believe that something is wrong with the NeXTs ability to handle pathnames.
I have another NeXT which works fine and I have compared thier /etc
directories finding no differences in any of the configuration files
(aside from hostname and such). I copied the cc (and /lib directory)
from the working machine and that made no difference. I compiled a newer
version of gcc but that made no difference.
At first I would just work around this problem by sticking "-I- -I"s in
the Makefiles, but I'm finding most newer programs use Configure scripts
which, or course, break on this machine, and the whole thing is becoming
quite frustrating.
The only possible difference I can think of between the two machines is
that their OSs were seperately maintained before I took them over and
upgraded them both to NS 3.2 (without completely reinstalling).
Will I have to completely reinstall the OS to correct this, or am I
missing something?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Randy Jay Yarger | Department of Physics, Michigan State University
randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu | http://hs1.hst.msu.edu/randy/randy.html
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Mpller)
Subject: Re: getting cmd-M in Edit to search /usr/local/man
Keywords: manpath edit man pages
References: <3sf9t8$5nh@trane.opensource.com>
Organization: German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:34:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Jun28.083453.26441@proximus.north.de>
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In article <3sf9t8$5nh@trane.opensource.com>, <chris@opensource.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know the trick to having cmd-M work for man pages in the
>/usr/loca/man location. I know if the MANPATH env var is set before Edit
[...]
gemoe@proximus 868> grep 'local' /NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/UI.strings
/NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/UI.strings:"MAN_COMMAND" = "man -M /usr/local/man:/usr/man %s | editFilter";
Easy, eh?
Gerhard.
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From: szatezal@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bbs under NS3.3??
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 06:34:00 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
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Anyone running a bbs under NS3.3?
If so, I'd love to know how you're doing it. Thanks!
The Atomic Playground BBS -=- a Futurenet Gateway BBS (614) 297-7031 USRv.all
http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/home.htm
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From: magnan@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA (Magnan Francois)
Subject: Device Locking Mecanism???
Message-ID: <MAGNAN.95Jun27183612@maths1.MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>
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Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 22:36:12 GMT
Hello everyone,
I am currently trying to compile mgetty+sendfax, a program that
uses the devices cufa and ttydfa. I don't know how this is happening
but when I put an entry in "/etc/ttys" for "mgetty" and then do a
"kill -HUP 1" to update init mgetty seems to keep a lock on the cufa
and ttydfa ports. Mgetty needs to lock the port for some seconds but
it then should release it. The port is still locked even though
mgetty didn't leave a file like "/usr/spool/uucp/LCK/ttydfa".
What is actually locking the port??? How can I force the lock to be
released. I change the file access of /dev/cufa /dev/ttydfa so that
everybody can read and write to them but it didn't work. What is
the lock actually doing?
Thank you,
Francois
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From: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NeXT Fonts on a Mac
Date: 26 Jun 1995 07:04:40 GMT
Organization: ex nihilo, inc.
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justin_higgins@csgi.com (Justin Higgins) wrote:
> Is there a way I can use a NeXT font on the Mac, and if so, could you tell me? Thanks.
You need to convert the NeXT font to Mac font using a Mac program called MetaPro (by
Altsys). It converts all types of Adobe Type 1 fonts from NeXT --> Mac --> Windows. It also
converts TrueType fonts between Mac <--> Windows.
Good luck.
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From: weiyao@ipswichcity.qld.gov.au
Subject: Solairs vs NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <DAvJMz.94r@ipswichcity.qld.gov.au>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:30:35 GMT
Organization: Global Infolinks Internet Server, Ipswich Qld Australia
isn't this a VERY interesting question?
**** Solairs for intel VS. NEXTSTEP for intel ****
I want to know what u all think about!
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: faster baud with black
Date: 26 Jun 1995 01:37:27 GMT
Organization: The SenseMedia Network, http://sensemedia.net/, info@sensemedia.net
Distribution: world
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In article <3shn2n$mek@news1.best.com> john@nextdoor (John McCracken)
writes:
> Has anyone tried running the serial ports at 57600 on 25MHz '040
systems?
> I know that getty has the 38400 limitation, but what about outbound
connections
> which lock the DTE at 57600?
>
Under NS 3.2, I ran Taylor uucp and TipTop (using term to read news)
at 57600 on my 25 MHz Cube with no problems.
After upgrading to NS 3.3, I can no longer read news either via
TipTop/term or PPP at 57600 without experiencing frequent serial port
buffer overruns :-( I still seem to be able to run uucp at 57600, but
maybe I just don't know where to look for the buffer overrun error
messages :-)
If I didn't see the error messages in the console, I probably wouldn't
be aware of the packet retransmissions that are occurring. Fortunately,
these buffer overruns didn't cause kernel panics, but I slowed everything
down to 38400 to avoid possible problems :-( Running at 57600 with
frequent packet retransmissions may actually be slower than 38400 with no
retransmissions.
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From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy A. Lee)
Subject: Some DOS<->NeXT Questions
Message-ID: <andylee-2806950255030001@idtech.com>
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Organization: Idealicus Technologies
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:55:03 GMT
I'd really appreciate answers to the following questions:
(1) What does /usr/Dos/gonext.com do?
(2) Is there an unix version of PKUNZIP? (To decompress .zip files.)
(3) Why can't I copy files named in upper case to DOS volume?
Example: cp FILE.DAT /dos/somedir gives error, while
cp file.dat /dos/somedir is okay.
Thanks in advance!
Andy Lee
andylee@netcom.com
andylee@cs.ucla.edu
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From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy A. Lee)
Subject: Is This Group Archived?
Message-ID: <andylee-2806950257190001@idtech.com>
Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com
Organization: Idealicus Technologies
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:57:19 GMT
I'd like to know if this group is archived somewhere. I already checked
cs.orst.edu and StepWise web sites. I've only found archive of
comp.sys.next.announce... what about the other groups?
Andy Lee
andylee@netcom.com
andylee@cs.ucla.edu
From: tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Is This Group Archived?
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Date: 28 Jun 1995 14:12:55 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Salzburg
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Andy A. Lee (andylee@netcom.com) wrote:
/ I'd like to know if this group is archived somewhere.
Yes. It is:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Usenet/news/1995/Prog*
^^^^^
The year you want.
PS. I am looking for the comp.sys.NeXT.advocacy archive...
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From: paul@griffin.plsys.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Some DOS<->NeXT Questions
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 14:08:23 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd
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In article <andylee-2806950255030001@idtech.com> andylee@netcom.com (Andy
A. Lee) writes:
> (1) What does /usr/Dos/gonext.com do?
It's a DOS program that you can run from a DOS partition to boot into your
NeXTSTEP partition.
> (2) Is there an unix version of PKUNZIP? (To decompress .zip files.)
gunzip will do this. You can also download Opener, which offers a decent
GUI interface to all sorts of decompression utilities.
> (3) Why can't I copy files named in upper case to DOS volume?
> Example: cp FILE.DAT /dos/somedir gives error, while
> cp file.dat /dos/somedir is okay.
It's a NeXT "feature". They introduced it for 3.0, IIRC.
Paul
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Writing in the root directory
In-Reply-To: wxli@harpy's message of 26 Jun 1995 20:21:04 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun26164954@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <3sn4rg$mi@news.ualr.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:49:54 GMT
Try this:
% su
# chmod +t,o=rx /
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NextStep configured on the net
In-Reply-To: ta@trinity.uk.sun.com's message of 26 Jun 1995 17:51:37 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun26165342@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
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References: <3sms39$2t4@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 20:53:42 GMT
You should never have to edit /etc/rc.boot. I would restore it to the
original. You should either use SimpleNetworkStarter.app or HostManager.app.
You can also look at /etc/hostconfig which HostManager.app modifies.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
In article <3sms39$2t4@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com> ta@trinity.uk.sun.com (Tim Addison - Sun UK - Senior Systems Engineer) writes:
Hi,
What steps do I have to go through to make NextStep appear on the network.
I have so far made an entry for the hostname/IP address in netinfo, and
changed the hostname line in /etc/rc.boot to reflect this. However the
machine still does not initialise the port automatically I have to do an
ifconfig after it has booted.
cheers,
Tim
From: chris@opensource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: getting cmd-M in Edit to search /usr/local/man (SOLUTION)
Date: 28 Jun 1995 16:14:44 GMT
Organization: OpenSource Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3srv5k$ogo@trane.opensource.com>
References: <3sf9t8$5nh@trane.opensource.com>
First the oringinal problem:
chris@opensource.com writes
>
>
> Does anyone know the trick to having cmd-M work for man pages in the
> /usr/loca/man location. I know if the MANPATH env var is set before
Edit
> launches this works. Is there some default, or something I can do from
> workspace to make this happen when Edit is launched from my doc or from
> the workspace?
>
And the Winner is!!!!: Gerhard Moeller who won with this reply:
(paraphrased) Edit your /NextApps/Edit.app/English.lproj/UI.strings file.
You need to change the line:
"MAN_COMMAND" = "man %s | editFilter";
to
"MAN_COMMAND" = "man -M /usr/local/man:/usr/man %s | editFilter";
An also ran is this response
So set your MANPATH in your ~/.cshrc!
Conclusions:
The .cshrc fix will work for Terminal.app, but not for Edit.app
since Edit.app isn't neccessarily invoked from csh. The Hack to the
Edit.app strings file is certainly not cricket, but if one doesn't
typically shy away from patching binaries, this is clearly the route to
take. I wonder a little if there isn't a more supported approach to this
fix. (I also wonder what other features can be adjusted via the strings
files of various applications)
Thanks for playing
Chris
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From: <tomaz.sustar@uni-lj.si>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:13:19 +0100
Message-ID: <0099290B.4FEF47F6.66@uni-lj.si>
Subject: Conner CFP1080S
Hi,
I'm trying to initialize Conner CFP1080S on IntelGX running NeXTStep 3.2.
The system is booting from IDE drive which has the folowing partitions :
100 MB DOS
400 MB NeXTStep
Conner is my first external SCSI HD. After sucessful formating under DOS (two
partitions 534 MB + 540 MB ) I tried to initialize the disk under NeXTStep.
Messages from Console window :
Software Version 3.2 (Thunder5S)
probing for DOS
Filesystem name: DOS
Jun 28 16:40:39 Workspace: Mounted DOS disk at /dos_c
probing for CDROM
probing for DOS
Jun 28 16:40:41 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /conner_d
probing for DOS
Filesystem name: DOS
mount: /dev/rsd0h on /conner_d_2: Device busy
mount: giving up on:
/conner_d_2
probing for CDROM
probing for DOS
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
Jun 28 16:41:08 Workspace[174]: DeviceInitPanel - Cannot select the default
(choosing NeXT instead)
Jun 28 16:41:30 Workspace: Unmounted foreign disk at /conner_d
/usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "conner_d" /dev/rsd0a
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 2110812 to 41412
disk name: CONNER CFP1080S 4040
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
can't write label -- disk unusable!: I/O error
Results of fdisk :
localhost:2# fdisk /dev/rsd0h -diskSize
20
The disk size is only 20 MB !!??
After rebooting I got the panel with options :
Initialize or Repair I chose Repair and here are the results :
/usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rsd0a
(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/rsd0a
(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.
Next time I chose Initialize aand these are the results :
probing for CDROM
probing for DOS
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
/usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "Conner" /dev/rsd0a
Limiting sectors to those bios-accessible, from 2110812 to 41412
disk name: CONNER CFP1080S 4040
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 60 6 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s
Warning: 334 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd0a: 20546 sectors in 58 cylinders of 6 tracks, 60 sectors
21.0Mb in 4 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.90Mb/g, 1216 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
16, 5840, 11664, 17488,
initialization complete
Jun 28 17:24:03 Workspace: Mounted hard disk at /Conner
probing for DOS
What I'm doing wrong ? Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Morningstar PPP, lookupd and named problems
Message-ID: <DAwCou.qJ@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:58:06 GMT
comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions are not carried here, so please reply by
mail if you can help me.
I installed MST PPP, just to try it out. I got it working reasonably well (and
it looks like a great package to me), with the exception of name resolving.
Suppose I have started ppp and it is idle. I have a local named running,
because we use internally a network with addresses I the range 192.168
(reserved for private nets). My Filter file says:
#
# /etc/ppp/Filter - PPP configuration file binding packet types
# to actions.
#
#193.78.249.34
default
bringup !ntp !3/icmp !5/icmp !11/icmp !who !route
pass nntp/193.78.240.11 !nntp
!telnet/syn/recv
!ftp/syn/recv !login/syn/recv !shell/syn/recv !who
!sunrpc !chargen !tftp !supdup/syn/recv !exec !syslog
!route !6000/tcp/syn/send
keepup !send !ntp !3/icmp !5/icmp !11/icmp !who !route
log rejected
Which is close to the default firewall setup from MST PPP. Now, I run nslookup,
which will be unable to resolve the name locally and it will try to get it
through/via one of the world's root name server.
I type:
/usr/etc/nslookup ftp.let.rug.nl.
I see:
su@Mr_Ed 55) nslookup ftp.let.rug.nl.
Server: Mr_Ed
Address: 0.0.0.0
res_mkquery(0, ftp.let.rug.nl, 1, 1)
timeout (4 secs)
timeout (8 secs)
*** Request to Mr_Ed timed-out
Which is logical, since the connection was not established within 8 secs. As
soon as the connection (say 30 secs) is up I can type it again, and I will get
an answer. So question one is: how can I make named/BIND use a longer timeout?
The second question has to do with lookupd. Lookupd is set to use the local
named. IN /etc/resolv.conf it says so. Now, when I use an app that uses lookupd
and the ppp link is down, it first hangs for a minute and then reports that it
cannot resolve the name. But funnily, at the same moment lookup failes the
pppd.log says:
6/28-20:38:57-885 udp 0.0.0.0/domain -> 192.16.202.11/domain 64 bringup
and happily the link is initiated, after it was necessary. This, however, might
of course be another case of short timeout of named. Does lookupd indeed query
named at the end of a 1 minute Netinfo timeout? Can this be changed?
For your info:
When PPP is running and connected, my routing says:
su@Mr_Ed 87) netstat -r -n
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 3332 lo0
193.78.249.34 193.79.255.26 UH 0 0 du0
default 193.78.249.34 UG 1 32 du0
192.168.1 192.168.1.1 U 6 7990 en0
When PPP is running but not connected, my routing says:
su@Mr_Ed 71) netstat -r -n
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 3252 lo0
193.78.249.34 0.0.0.0 UH 0 0 du0
default 193.78.249.34 UG 1 7 du0
192.168.1 192.168.1.1 U 5 7556 en0
And when it is off it says:
su@Mr_Ed 74) netstat -r -n
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 3252 lo0
default 193.78.249.34 UG 1 7 du0
192.168.1 192.168.1.1 U 5 7556 en0
The default route to the host I connect to, is added by hand when MST ppp is
started. What is a 0.0.0.0 gateway? My dynamic assigned IP address is more like
193.79.255.26, as can be seen when ppp is connected.
So, in short:
Can I extend the timeout of named/BIND? I cannot find it in the docs I
have.
Will that solve my lookupd problem? Probably yes, but you might know
better.
Thanks,
--
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Named
Message-ID: <DAwGEz.114@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <DAwCou.qJ@RnA.NL>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:18:35 GMT
comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions are not carried here, so please reply by
mail if you can help me.
Can somebody point me to the source of a modern named (one that survives
dial-on-demand ppp links)?
I'll create a ready to install package for NEXTSTEP, if I find one.
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.
From: doyle@mmm.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin as root?
Date: 28 Jun 1995 20:40:21 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <3ssenl$up@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <3spb10$hsd@newshost.lanl.gov> <3spkpk$cp9@hq.hq.af.mil>
joransen@hq.af.mil (Timothy W. Joransen) wrote:
> Are you running skey under NEXTSTEP? Tried (maybe not hard enough) to get
> it running on a black box to no avail. Any tips or patches you can
> provide to guide me along?
Yup we are. I'll have to take a look, it has been a while. We did need to add putenv.c and
monkey with the compilation flags, as well as fix a bug in storing long hostnames in utmp.
I'll take a look and see if I can write a summary. It might be a few days though.
Cheers,
Mark
From: m@bang.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing IP + Netinfo remotely
Date: 28 Jun 1995 20:53:54 GMT
Organization: a2i network
Message-ID: <3ssfh2$eml@hustle.rahul.net>
References: <3sn4ah$if8@decaxp.harvard.edu>
cello@virgil.harvard.edu (Sean Anthony Varah) wrote:
> I've just found out that the University is moving me to a new
> hub, and I will be assigned to a new subnet, and thus need to
> change the ip addresses of my machines.
> My question is: can I re-configure this stuff remotely by modem?
> I don't seem to be able to get at the right information with
> nidump. Basically, I need to change the stuff in the HostManager.app.
> Is there a command-line equivalent of HostManager??
Most of the information accessible to HostManager is stored in /etc/hostconfig.
M Carling
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From: hwong@hsii.ccare.com (Henry Wong)
Subject: NFS mount problem
Message-ID: <DAwH4o.DoJ@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Organization: Health Systems Integration, Inc.
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:36:00 GMT
Hi there,
I have been trying to mount a nfs directory on a NEXT system from a
client system (HP) but everytime when I issued the mount command to mount
the nfs directory, it would return an access denied error. The command
that I used and the exact error message are shown below:
On the HP system:
$ mount remote-system-ip:/directory /mount-point
mount: access denied for remote-system-ip:/directory
I used nfsmanager.app to configure the nfs server on the Next system and
the exported directory can be mounted and accessed (read only) only by
the HP system by root. All other users or anonymous users have no access
right at all.
Has anyone seen/experience this before? You assistance is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks
Henry
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From: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Subject: Re: bbs under NS3.3??
Message-ID: <DAwG61.E0M@muaddib.m.isar.de>
Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Michael Maximilian Goedel)
Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel
References: <3sqt8p$5pg@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:13:12 GMT
In article <3sqt8p$5pg@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
szatezal@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane) writes:
> Anyone running a bbs under NS3.3?
>
> If so, I'd love to know how you're doing it. Thanks!
>
> The Atomic Playground BBS -=- a Futurenet Gateway BBS (614) 297-7031 USRv.all
> http://galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/home.htm
>
>
Yessa, running xbbs on my NeXT. It is a bourne-shell-script.
Nice and modificable.
Where one find?
On PrimeTime CDROM Number 1
Nice Greetings from Munich
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From: graham@tybj3.eglin.af.mil (Jim Graham)
Subject: printing to network HPLJ4 Si/MX in duplex ... does it work?
Message-ID: <DAn6Cs.6FL@jocasnext3.eglin.af.mil>
Sender: news@jocasnext3.eglin.af.mil
Organization: Tybrin Corporation, Shalimar, FL
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:02:52 GMT
We have several NeXT systems (all at 3.3) in our network. We also have a
central printer that most everyone uses, an HPLJ4 Si/MX. The MX version,
for anyone that may not know, is the one that comes stocked with just
about everything...PostScript, a network card, extra RAM, and so on. We
also have a duplex add-on.
We can print duplex from any of the Suns on our network to this printer,
both through its network queue and the serial line to one of the Suns.
When we try to print duplex to this printer from one of the NeXTs (they're
using Framemaker, in case that matters), however, the printer does switch
to duplex, but then *IMMEDIATELY* switches back and prints normal.
Has anyone ever gotten this to work properly? If so, what did you do?
Thanks,
--jim
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From: shivers@lcs.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Posix lossage
Date: 29 Jun 1995 00:09:06 GMT
Organization: Lab for Computer Science, MIT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SHIVERS.95Jun28200906@amelia-earhart.lcs.mit.edu>
I keep tripping over bugs in NS's Posix implementation. Could anyone shed
light on these problems?
My first bug is exemplified by the following program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pwd.h>
main()
{
struct passwd *pwd;
pwd = getpwnam("shivers"); /* <- substitute your login id here. */
if(pwd)
printf("uid: %d\n", pwd->pw_uid);
}
If you compile this program -posix, it will cleverly report to you that the
uid of the user in question is zero. Please try to imagine the implications of
this particular failure mode. My network server starts up as root, and
immediates changes its privilege status by doing a setuid() to user ftp or
user nobody. NeXTSTEP's getpwnam() routine tells my server that ftp's uid is
zero, so we setuid(0). My server runs with root privileges, thinking that it
is running with minimal privileges. This is a security disaster, and it is
exactly the situation in which I encountered the bug: an Internet Web server
that allows the client to upload Scheme code into the server for execution.
My second bug is exemplified by the following program:
#include <stdio.h>
extern int errno;
main()
{
char char;
int j;
j=read(0, &char, 1);
fprintf(stderr, "j=%d, errno=%d\n", j, errno);
}
If you compile this, and run it in background from the csh, as
a.out &
the process should receive a SIGTTIN signal when it tries to read
from the control tty, suspending it. However, *if the program was compiled
-posix*, it won't get the SIGTTIN. It will instead get an EIO error return
from the read call and continue to run.
In the application I have, this causes ugly infinite looping.
NeXTSTEP has a pretty UI, but these frequent Posix bugs make it just about
impossible to consider using the OS as a tool for serious Unix programming.
-Olin
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From: mehul@harlequin.co.uk (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: HELP !!!!
Message-ID: <MEHUL.95Jun27151434@tesla.harlqn.co.uk>
Sender: usenet@harlequin.com (Usenet Maintainer)
Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Cambridge UK
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 19:14:34 GMT
'allo,
i have never worked on a NeXT as a sysadmin before, so if this is trivial
i apologise in advance. i made some chenges to some prefrences and now i cant
login, either as root or myself. i can get into to single user mode, but what
to do then ??? the system seems to be looking for NetInfo stuff. what is
NetInfo ??? this is a 68040 NeXT running NeXTStep 2.xx ???is there anyway to
get back to the point where i can login to thge system from the login prompt
?? what is the equivalent of startx or X on next ?? xdm ?? how do i get the
window manager to start ?? what is it called and where does it recide ??
please email to mehul@harlequin.com.
thanx,
mehul sanghvi
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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decided that no one could study, use or do research on it without paying
a royalty to Newton's designated heirs."
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email work: mehul@harlequin.com Mehul Sanghvi (Unix SysAdmin)
home: msanghvi@cs.uml.edu or aol.com Harlequin, Inc.
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From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: getting cmd-M in Edit to search /usr/local/man (SOLUTION)
Date: 29 Jun 1995 01:13:14 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3ssuna$kq7@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <3sf9t8$5nh@trane.opensource.com> <3srv5k$ogo@trane.opensource.com>
chris@opensource.com wrote:
: First the oringinal problem:
: chris@opensource.com writes
: > Does anyone know the trick to having cmd-M work for man pages in the
: > /usr/loca/man location. I know if the MANPATH env var is set before
[...]
Which brings me to a question I'm already quite sometime thinking about.
What I would like is the possibility to double-click on a ".1", ".2",
etc. file with the result that some script would open a terminal window
(may also be edit-window) and do something like "nroff -man <file> | more".
But I don't know if and how it is possible to associate shell-scripts with
file-extensions.
Willem
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NFS mount problem
In-Reply-To: hwong@hsii.ccare.com's message of Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:36:00 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun28233337@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAwH4o.DoJ@news.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 03:33:37 GMT
When you do an exportfs on the server side, did you specify
root=client_host_name? If not, you will not be able to mount it as root
but as any other user on the system.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: printing to network HPLJ4 Si/MX in duplex ... does it work?
In-Reply-To: graham@tybj3.eglin.af.mil's message of Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:02:52 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun28233622@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAn6Cs.6FL@jocasnext3.eglin.af.mil>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 03:36:22 GMT
E-mail or post your printcap entry from NetInfo...
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Named
In-Reply-To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL's message of Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:18:35 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.95Jun28234731@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DAwCou.qJ@RnA.NL> <DAwGEz.114@RnA.NL>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 03:47:31 GMT
You want the lastest BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) from
ftp://ftp.uu.net:/networking/ip/dns/bind/4.8.3.tar.Z
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant
Boston, MA
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: gabe@netcom.com (gabe@netcom.com)
Subject: NS 3 Mach64 driver freezes system
Message-ID: <gabeDAx3xG.6Kq@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 04:46:28 GMT
Sender: gabe@netcom9.netcom.com
Hello.
I've installed NS 3 on my 486/66 with 2 meg ATI Pro Turbo (Win Turbo actually
seeing that it's an OEM 2 meg upgradable). I installed it on a 4 gig
Quantum (1 gig partition). I have an AHA-2940W. AFter installing the video
driver from ftp.next.com in
/pub/NeXTanswers/Files/Drivers/3.3_Drivers/Released.
However, the second the hi res blue screen pops up, everything freezes,
and I don't even get the login screen.
Has anyone ever had any problems with this setup? Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.
BTW, I tried this card on another pentium 100 also with a 2940W controller
and it worked just fine (same driver).
Thanks,
Gabe
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From: Gerd Gueldenpfennig
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printing to network HPLJ4 Si/MX in duplex ... does it work?
Date: 29 Jun 1995 06:57:26 GMT
Organization: iXpoint Informationssysteme GmbH, Waldbronn, Germany
Message-ID: <3stism$j0@balu.ixpoint.de>
References: <DAn6Cs.6FL@jocasnext3.eglin.af.mil>
Jim Graham writes
> We have several NeXT systems (all at 3.3) in our network. We also have
a
> central printer that most everyone uses, an HPLJ4 Si/MX. The MX
version,
> for anyone that may not know, is the one that comes stocked with just
> about everything...PostScript, a network card, extra RAM, and so on. We
> also have a duplex add-on.
>
> We can print duplex from any of the Suns on our network to this printer,
> both through its network queue and the serial line to one of the Suns.
> When we try to print duplex to this printer from one of the NeXTs
(they're
> using Framemaker, in case that matters), however, the printer does
switch
> to duplex, but then *IMMEDIATELY* switches back and prints normal.
>
> Has anyone ever gotten this to work properly? If so, what did you do?
>
> Thanks,
> --jim
>
> --
A QMS 1725 will work properly with QMSprint on NEXTSTEP.
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Date: 29 Jun 1995 07:15:40 GMT
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From: fred@improve.fdn.org (Frederic STARK)
Subject: Re: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
Message-ID: <1995Jun28.163041.4119@improve.fdn.org>
Sender: news@improve.fdn.org
Organization: improve SA - La Defense, Paris, France.
References: <RDL.95Jun20201605@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:30:41 GMT
In article <RDL.95Jun20201605@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
Ferla) writes:
> Exiting tip should do this automatically.
>
> Robert
Here we have sometimes serial port problems (NS3.2 black) that behave
like:
(simulation:)
tip fb1200
<things>
~.
<nothing appends>
^C
^Z
^\
<still nothing>
so, in another terminal
ps -aux | grep tip
--> 1234 tip fb1200
kill -9 1234
ps -aux | grep tip
--> 1234 tip fb1200
Looks like the tip is hanged in the serial driver, so will never receive
the signal.
No way to kill the process, but to reboot the machine. And no way to
reboot the machine without a checking disk, (cause the kernel way for that
process to disapear ?)... A very bad thing...
Cheers
Tip on tip: When you rlogin somewhere and do a tip from here, it is
difficult to exit the tip without exiting the rlogin. but... there is a
way:
rlogin exits when it recevie the sequence '\n' '~' '.' and tip exits when
it receive '\n' '~'* '.', so \n~~. exits the tip and not the rlogin....
-----------------------------------------------------------------
frederic stark -- fred@improve.fdn.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------
From: jeff@speedy.demon.co.uk (Jeffrey Holdgate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nexstep on Toshiba 2150 CD
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 22:39:49 GMT
Organization: BZW
Message-ID: <804436687.15852@imp.demon.co.uk>
Anyone tried to get this to work ?
J
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: freeing ports on a NeXT wkstn.
Date: 29 Jun 1995 16:32:18 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3sukii$ohg@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Frederic STARK (fred@improve.fdn.org) wrote:
: In article <RDL.95Jun20201605@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
: Ferla) writes:
: > Exiting tip should do this automatically.
: >
: > Robert
: Here we have sometimes serial port problems (NS3.2 black) that behave
: like:
: (simulation:)
: tip fb1200
: <things>
: ~.
: <nothing appends>
: ^C
: ^Z
: ^\
: <still nothing>
: so, in another terminal
: ps -aux | grep tip
: --> 1234 tip fb1200
: kill -9 1234
: ps -aux | grep tip
: --> 1234 tip fb1200
: Looks like the tip is hanged in the serial driver, so will never receive
: the signal.
: No way to kill the process, but to reboot the machine. And no way to
: reboot the machine without a checking disk, (cause the kernel way for that
: process to disapear ?)... A very bad thing...
I think this is related to the device you're using. I had this
occasionally when using ttydfa with a simple modem cable to capable
to do hardware handshaking. Maybe your cable is bad or a Macintosh
modem cable. Try to use ttya to see if your problems go away and
check the cable.
: Cheers
: Tip on tip: When you rlogin somewhere and do a tip from here, it is
: difficult to exit the tip without exiting the rlogin. but... there is a
: way:
: rlogin exits when it recevie the sequence '\n' '~' '.' and tip exits when
: it receive '\n' '~'* '.', so \n~~. exits the tip and not the rlogin....
Ahhh. Thanks for the tip :-)
I always used to redefine the escape character in either tip or rlogin
(with -ec option, where c is the new escape character), but you have to
remember it in advance. I'm no longer using tip anymore :-(
Axel
--
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Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 24 764 (uni) \~/
From: gt0938b@prism.gatech.edu (Staying Alive)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NextStep with SMP?
Date: 29 Jun 1995 14:16:20 -0400
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Sender: gt0938b@prism.gatech.edu
Message-ID: <3suqlk$qld@acmex.gatech.edu>
References: <gabeDAx3xG.6Kq@netcom.com>
When or will NextStep ever support multiple processors?
--
Staying Alive
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Subject: Fast, Fast/Wide and Ultra hard drives with NS
Message-ID: <DAxBn9.CFn@ex-nihilo.com>
Sender: dino@ex-nihilo.com (Dino Bagdadi)
Organization: ex nihilo, inc.
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 07:33:09 GMT
Has anyone tried (or maybe know about) using a Fast and Wide SCSI Hard Drive with black
hardware? How about Ultra (SCSI-3) hard drives?
I'm looking into upgrading to one of the 4GB drives offered by Seagate, Quantum, or IBM
and I can get either Fast, Fast/Wide, or Ultra.
I know that I won't get better throughput because of NeXT's built-in SCSI implementation,
but I want to get this drive _now_ for my NeXTstation and then use it with another NS
machine that does take advantage of such device.
Any comments? Any Hardware vendors with suggestions or plugs? :)
---
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@shadow.net'
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
From: Gary Longsine <glongsi>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Backup with rdist
Date: 28 Jun 1995 00:27:21 GMT
Organization: USWest SA news server
Message-ID: <3sq7l9$n5i@sanews.uswc.uswest.com>
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To: jdevlin@umich.edu
The most common cause of a "permission denied" message when setting up rdist
jobs is a lack of an appropriate entry in the user's ".rhosts" file.
rdist and rcp are part of the "r" utilities, where "r" stands for remote. They
all require .rhost files.
In your case, in the top level of the home directory of the user which owns the
rdist job, you'll make a file called ".rhosts" and in that file you'll have one
entry:
myhostname myusername
I know it seems kind of silly to have to do this when your on the same machine,
but it's likely the source of your trouble.
/gary longsine
jdevlin@umich.edu (John Devlin) wrote:
>I would like to use rdist to back up certain directories onto a second
>scsi hard drive mounted *locally*. Is this possible? I keep getting the
>message
>
> updating myhost
> Permission denied.
>
>rdist has so many nice features (incremental backup, extraneous files
>removed, notification by email, ...), I'm hoping I won't have to resort to
>ditto. Ideas?
>
>Thanks for your time and advice. My sample distfile follows.
>
--
____/| | Gary W. Longsine
\ o.O| GPF! | UNIX Systems Analyst, PARANET
=(_)= CTLALTDEL! | <glongsi@nma.mnet.uswest.com>
U (Bill Gates, The Cat) | "I don't do Windows."
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux Reading NeXTStep file system
Date: 29 Jun 1995 18:49:24 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <3susjk$t3k@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
I know that someone has written a patch that allows a linux computer to read
(but not write) the NeXTStep Berkeley-based file system.
If you know where I can get this software INCLUDING THE PATCH, please let me
know, or even better, please email it to me, or even better post in on
ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next and let me know.
Your help would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
From: dougm@akira (Douglas McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to auto-reboot upon panic?
Date: 29 Jun 1995 19:05:00 GMT
Organization: Abbott Laboratories
Message-ID: <3sutgs$nfg@kelso.pprd.abbott.com>
Yesterday, my home machine paniced while I was dialed into it from work.
Unfortunately, the panic process pretty much assumes that you are in front
of your machine to be able to restart it and move on. That isn't the case
when I'm at work. Is there any way to make NS do an auto-reboot when the
machine panics?
-d
From: roffel@biw-ag.de (Lee Roffel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why does power down/reboot hang? (NS/i486)
Date: 29 Jun 1995 19:21:32 GMT
Organization: BIW Systemhaus
Message-ID: <3suufs$55q@next01.biw-ag.de>
References: <DAu74o.1qH@RnA.NL>
In article <DAu74o.1qH@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL writes:
> On a machine I administer, powering off or rebooting from the login
panel will
> hang indefinitely with spinning disk cursor and the screen in VGA mode
and with
> a panel saying, wait until it is safe to turn the computer off.
///////
>
> NS 3.3, Pentium 90, PCI, Diamond Viper, Adaptec 154x, Logitech bus
mouse.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
I have also noticed this on many occasions.. with various combinations of
hardware...
.. any suggestions?? (those gig fsck's are a pain!!)
ciao...
--
Lee Roffel NeXTMail: roffel@biw-ag.de
From: jmeacham@scott.skidmore.edu (james meacham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to set nameserver for ethernet NeXT?
Date: 29 Jun 1995 17:07:52 -0400
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY 12866
Message-ID: <3sv4n8$cs1@scott.skidmore.edu>
Hi all,
I recently got myself a studly ethernet connection for my turbo
colorstation, and I'm all up and running...EXCEPT that I have to type
in full IP numercial addresses (xxx.xx.xx.xx) 'cause I don't know how
to make my machine refer to the nameserver on campus. If anyone has
any suggestions, I'd be in your debt. Thanks in advance,
Peace,
James
From: mathrich@showme.missouri.edu ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need disktab for seagate st32550N (please?)
Date: 29 Jun 95 20:52:20 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
Message-ID: <mathrich.804459140@showme.missouri.edu>
Does anyone know how to set this up? BuildDisk doesn't know what to
do with it.
Hopefully,
Rich
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Reading NeXTStep file system
Date: 29 Jun 1995 21:39:25 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <3sv6id$fqk@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <3susjk$t3k@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
> I know that someone has written a patch that allows a linux
> computer to read (but not write) the NeXTStep Berkeley-based
> file system.
> If you know where I can get this software INCLUDING THE PATCH,
> please let me know, or even better, please email it to me,
> or even better post in on ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next and let
> me know.
I suspect that a number of people would be interested in
this patch, if it's available.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: naj@fraxinus.fast.net (M. `Naj' Najarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail.8.6.12
Date: 30 Jun 1995 00:14:48 GMT
Organization: via FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet Services
Message-ID: <3svflo$rtb@nn.fast.net>
Well, mucking with the rulesets in NeXT's 5.x version of sendmail isn't really all that bad,
once ya get the hang of it (and, yes, it helps if you cheat with Costales' reference book at
your side). But setting up 8.6.12 has been a surprising bear. It compiles fine, but I can't
seem to bring it up into even debugging mode unless I change my hostname to
"localhost" with /bin/hostname. Until I do that, it immediately barfs with a "My host name
(insert-name-here) does not seem to exist!", no matter how else I try to reset the hostname
(including to nothing) or how I try to fool sendmail with Cw's or Dw's or even Dj's in my
*.mc. I've tried compiling it three different ways: the default NeXT makefile, and two
slightly (one VERY slightly) different variations posted here in the last 6 months, but
always with the same result. I'm not sure whether errors are coming from faulty
compilation or faulty *.cf. Once I change my hostname to "localhost", I can go about
testing the rulesets to make sure I have the rest of the *.mc set up correctly, but I'll still
always be stymied by its inability to recognize my hostname.
This might be a red herring, but it seems as if sendmail's call to gethostname() isn't
working, and it's substituting the string "localhost". But that can't be the case (can it?),
because it must be getting gethostname() correctly every time, because that's what it's
putting in the error msg.
Am I missing something? (Ans: yes, of course. Why else would I be posting here?). OK,
so the real question is: any suggestions?
P.S. Nothing strange or antique, just NS3.2 black.
With puzzlement,
Naj.
M. `Naj' Najarian ``If you weren't there, you missed it.''
Fraxinus Research Services vox (hah!): 610.756.6888
P.O. Box 65 fax/data: 610.756.6400
Kutztown, PA 19530 USA ee: fraxinus@fast.net (MIME, NeXT, whatever)
From: rollie@next.com (Matt Rollefson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing IP + Netinfo remotely
Date: 29 Jun 1995 21:11:49 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <3sv4ul$dnq@news.next.com>
References: <3sn4iu$if8@decaxp.harvard.edu>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin cello@virgil (Sean Anthony Varah) writes:
>Sorry, just to provide a little more infomation.
>I'm running Netinfo off one server, and there are
>two other machines which get their ip address from
>the server. All three machines see each other's disks
>by way of NFS.
If you know what to change in NetInfo using NetInfoManager, you can
use niutil (see the man page) to do the same things. If you don't know
what you need to change in NetInfo, you'll need to run the graphical
tools from console or remotely displayed on another NEXTSTEP machine.
Rollie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu
Subject: Re: NextStep with SMP?
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>From: gt0938b@prism.gatech.edu (Staying Alive)>Subject: NextStep with SMP?
>Date: 29 Jun 1995 14:16:20 -0400
>
>When or will NextStep ever support multiple processors?
>--
>Staying Alive
>
Well, OpenStep will be supported on OSes (Solaris, DEC UNIX, NT)
that support SMP. Don't know whether NEXTSTEP ever will but I
personally question the wisdom of putting any of NeXT's scarce
resources into NEXTSTEP until OpenStep has made some real market
penetration.
Not that NEXTSTEP should die or not progress but real effort can
be put into its improvements if there is a large base of OpenStep
apps out there that can run on it. I doubt that much argument
would be generated by saying that NEXTSTEP is clearly superior as
an OS to Windows 95 and Mac Copland...though it is certainly
arguable whether, given the body of software available for these
platforms, they are preferable choices for most persons. Other
popular OSes such as NT and OS/2 are aguably as good or better
than NEXTSTEP. But I don't believe NeXT's primary objective ever
was to build the best OS. NeXT had a vision about what a User and
Development environment should be and they needed to provide a
suitable OS and hardware to host it.
Windows 95 will be the first time a mass market platform
acceptable for OpenStep has appeared. If OpenStep succeeds, there
will soon be a large body of applications that will run on both
OpenStep and NEXTSTEP. When that happens, NEXTSTEP will be in a
position to succeed in a mass market. And that means it
will make sense to enhance it with features such as SMP
I can't say whether that's NeXT's vision...but it works for me.
___
cfwaltrip
email: waltrip@zephyr.jhuapl.edu
NeXTmail welcome.
//////////////////////////////////////Opinions expressed are my own.
If I said anything that made you think I might know what I'm talking
about, please disregard it./////////////////////////////////////////
From: abraham@vmi.vismath.org (ralph h abraham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CAP and next printers used by Macs
Date: 30 Jun 1995 03:58:09 GMT
Organization: scruz-net
Message-ID: <3svsoh$7cs@news.scruz.net>
Dear Next Gurus,
I have been trying for some time (unsuccessfully) to
get CAP running under NS3.3 on black hardware.
I can use all the apps, but they don't do what I expect.
I have a Mac and a next sitting side by side on
my little thin-net network.
I can use ftp http gopher, news and such to/from
both machines.
I can not get the cap software to make the NeXT printer
available in the MacTCP/Ethertalk-Chooser (or what have you)
on the Mac.
Any help appreciated, consulting arrangements are OK too.
Please send mail mail at:
will@natsci.ucsc.edu
Thanks.
From: Geert Jan van Oldenborgh <gj@rulgm0.LeidenUniv.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why does power down/reboot hang? (NS/i486)
Date: 30 Jun 1995 06:48:21 GMT
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <3t06nl$838@highway.LeidenUniv.nl>
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roffel@biw-ag.de (Lee Roffel) wrote:
>In article <DAu74o.1qH@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL writes:
>> On a machine I administer, powering off or rebooting from the login panel
>> will hang indefinitely with spinning disk cursor
>I have also noticed this on many occasions.. with various combinations of
>hardware ... any suggestions??
The most useful thing I found is to log into a back door (ethernet, serial) and
do a 'ps axu' to see what is still running. Apparently the WS manager only
kills apps very gently, to give them time to ask about unsaved files etc, and
does not follow up with a definite kill (9). On one occasion I found it was a
badly behaved app (STedi), on another an uncompleted printer job (printer ran
out of paper before printing the last empty line).
This definitely belongs in a FAQ...
> (those gig fsck's are a pain!!)
Do like me & try to squeeze your whole life in 400MB!
--
G.J. van Oldenborgh,
Lorentz Instituite for Theoretical Physics
Leiden University
gj@rulgm0.LeidenUniv.nl
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Reading NeXTStep file system
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 30 Jun 1995 07:21:52 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3t08mg$6fm@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
: > I know that someone has written a patch that allows a linux
: > computer to read (but not write) the NeXTStep Berkeley-based
: > file system.
: > If you know where I can get this software INCLUDING THE PATCH,
: > please let me know, or even better, please email it to me,
: > or even better post in on ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next and let
: > me know.
: I suspect that a number of people would be interested in
: this patch, if it's available.
Hi,
I've put ufs-0.3.tar.gz and ufs.tar.gz onto
ftp://buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de/pub/
I never tried this, but a friend of mine has. He says it works.
Cheers,
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
D-13353 Berlin (Wedding) \ | /
Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 24 764 (uni) \~/
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP & sendmail, how?
Date: 30 Jun 1995 06:22:53 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3t0j9t$8qh@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
Hi all,
I just got PPP going (Thanks to everyone for all the help !-) and
everything works except mail going to and from my machine. I have static IP
so I figure I can just put in a .forward file on my account at my service
provider. So that leaves setting up, I'm guessing sendmail, on my end.
I checked the NeXT-PPP-2.2 FAQ and it has a section regarding setting
up sendmail with nothing under the section heading (this is at their WWW site).
So, I was hopine either someone could provide me with a FAQ on how to do this,
or help me out. (If sendmail works with config files, I would appreciate
getting those as well, makes it much easier to use other people's already
working config files :)
Oh, and on a side note, my NewsGrazer keeps on bombing after it reads
in some article subject lines. I think I've heard other people complaining
about this bug, is there a FAQ on how to get around this bug?
Thanks again for any/all info,
It was and greatly is appreaciated %->
Later, John
From: mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Solairs vs NEXTSTEP
Date: 29 Jun 1995 11:58:43 +0200
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <3sttgj$b3@marsu.pilhuhn.de>
References: <DAvJMz.94r@ipswichcity.qld.gov.au>
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weiyao@ipswichcity.qld.gov.au wrote:
> isn't this a VERY interesting question?
> **** Solairs for intel VS. NEXTSTEP for intel ****
> I want to know what u all think about!
Solaris doesn't make sense until OPENSTEP is released.
Or is anyone here who really wants to use X11? OpenLook?
Poor chap...
--
who? // Markus Wenzel
work? // Navigator - System administration & Consulting
mail? // mow@marsu.pilhuhn.de
more? // Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
From: kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Can't get dialin to work
Date: 30 Jun 1995 10:54:25 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <3t0l51$apf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Hi all,
trying to do dialin on NSI. Set up (copied from working black machine)
configuration, dialed in, getty prompted, I entered my login and then,
instead of Password: I saw P8^w'dw
From there, nothing more. Keystrokes are not echoed (they should not,
so this is coorect), but even RETURN produces nothing. After a short
time, I get this:
LwiQi; Wtf/rM0Me\gd^$~
NO CARRIER
Tried 19200 and 38400 already, it's the same.
I'm using the beta serial/tty drivers from NeXT on NSI 3.3
What's going on here? Someone changing the communications parameters
on the fly (during login)? Maybe the switch to NON_ECHO mode disturbs
the driver?
Has anyone gotten dialup login to work in this configuration?
Any hints appreciated.
Axel
--
Axel Habermann kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de \\|//
Muellerstr. 145 kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de )o o(
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Fon: +49 30 45478986 (privat) 030 314 24 764 (uni) \~/
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Named
Date: 30 Jun 1995 12:07:37 GMT
Organization: TerraNet, Inc., Boston, MA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3t0pe9$dp7@dalesbred.terra.net>
References: <RDL.95Jun28234731@world.std.com>
There is also a newer 4.9 version.
Robert
In article <RDL.95Jun28234731@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert
La Ferla) writes:
> You want the lastest BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) from
> ftp://ftp.uu.net:/networking/ip/dns/bind/4.8.3.tar.Z
>
> Robert La Ferla
> Registered NS Consultant
> Boston, MA
> + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to auto-reboot upon panic?
Date: 30 Jun 1995 12:12:34 GMT
Organization: TerraNet, Inc., Boston, MA, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3t0pni$dvc@dalesbred.terra.net>
References: <3sutgs$nfg@kelso.pprd.abbott.com>
I don't think you can. However, you can purchase remote power control
hardware that allows you to call in and reset your system.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NS Consultant
Boston, MA
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
In article <3sutgs$nfg@kelso.pprd.abbott.com> dougm@akira (Douglas
McClure) writes:
> Yesterday, my home machine paniced while I was dialed into it from
work.
> Unfortunately, the panic process pretty much assumes that you are in
front
> of your machine to be able to restart it and move on. That isn't the
case
> when I'm at work. Is there any way to make NS do an auto-reboot when
the
> machine panics?
>
> -d
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Reading NeXTStep file system
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 30 Jun 1995 12:53:18 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <3t0s3u$62m@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <3susjk$t3k@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <3sv6id$fqk@usenet.rpi.edu>
Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
: > I know that someone has written a patch that allows a linux
: > computer to read (but not write) the NeXTStep Berkeley-based
: > file system.
: > If you know where I can get this software INCLUDING THE PATCH,
: > please let me know, or even better, please email it to me,
: > or even better post in on ftp.cs.orst.edu:/pub/next and let
: > me know.
: I suspect that a number of people would be interested in
: this patch, if it's available.
Ok, I seem to be one of the few people that actually have this ufs
patch. I tried to locate the original ftp server, but was unlucky, so
I finally decided to put it on ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de. Have a
look in their next/1 directory, I hope it'll show up there soon.
But beware: the ufs doesn't work with Linux 1.3.x yet, and you have to
recompile your kernel to utilize it.
Gregor
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