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From: herding@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bernd Herding) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help: Setting the default paper-size in NeXTStep 3.0 Date: 30 Jun 1996 13:30:42 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4r5vi2$4bq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> <31C93E2E.26D7@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Peter Pregler wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to configure the default paper-size setup for all accounts >> on the NeXTStep 3.0 system. Currently, it is set to letter-size but we >> here in Austria use A4 as the default size. One can change the >> page-layout in certain applications (under format->page-layout) but >> there are two problems with this: >> >> 1) One has to set it in all user-applications. >> 2) It is not saved over sessions. >> Did you try dwrite -g NXPaperType A4? Good luck, Bernd
From: jhills@unix.infoserve.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting from CDROM Date: 30 Jun 1996 23:02:22 GMT Message-ID: <4r711u$pf2@news.infoserve.net> I have a 68040 cube. How do I boot from the CDROM? I tried bsd(X,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sdXa where X is the relative SCSI drive number but all I get is # badly placed ()'s. Thanks. jhills@unix.infoserve.net
From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: gcc-2.7.2 on NS3.3-Sparcstation 5? Date: 1 Jul 1996 01:13:40 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Message-ID: <4r78o4$h63@news.mty.itesm.mx> Hi: I wanted to compile gcc-2.7.2 on my Sparcstation 5 running NS3.3, both to have a recent version of gcc and to be able to compile g77, the GNU FORTRAN compiler. However, apparently gcc doesn't yet support NEXTSTEP running on sparc processors. Does anybody have any ideas of getting around this problem? Thanks a lot, and best regards. -- Diego Martin Zamboni Jefe del Area de Seguridad en C'omputo diego@conga.super.unam.mx DGSCA, UNAM, Mexico. Tel. (52-5)622-81-69 (NeXTMail ok) Fax. (52-5)622-80-43 WWW home page: http://ds5000.super.unam.mx/~diego/ PGP key: finger diego@conga.super.unam.mx
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: 1 Jul 1996 04:15:16 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4r7jck$744@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, Inc. 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From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Mouse. Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 01:28:52 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <31D77024.EBA@students.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Does NeXT mouse use bus type connector? If not, what type of connector does it use? Does any one know if I could use NeXT mouse for IBM PC system? Thanks in advance. Andrew.
From: charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: basic login question Date: 1 Jul 1996 21:05:11 GMT Organization: MatriX Publishing Network Message-ID: <4r9ei7$69q@nebula.mpn.com> Hi - Can someone tell me the file or database NS 3.3 reads to determine which apps to run when users login? Thx, C. ========================================================================= Charles Ashley charlesa@netventures.co.uk tel.+44.171.603.1267 =========================================================================
From: Yvan Frey <yvan_frey@studio.disney.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Novell connection dies after a while Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 15:31:43 -0700 Organization: Walt Disney Pictures & TV Message-ID: <31D851CF.42F8@studio.disney.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: yvan_frey@studio.disney.com Hi there! We're running NEXTSTEP on Intel and have setup Novell connectivity. (I had to edit /etc/rc and add a frame type parameter to the npsd call. Then it worked.) Unfortuately, now the connection is dropped after a while and the login panel shows up again. I've read about similar, yet quite different problems (connection dies when copying files that are more than 1M on a token ring net). Does or did anybody experience the same? Any hints? NEXTSTEP is running on a Compaq 5133, with the build in ethernet controller and I'm using the latest drivers provided by NeXT on www.next.com. Thanks in advance, Yvan Frey Walt Disney Pictures & TV
From: jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu (John Alegre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Console error messages? Date: 2 Jul 1996 02:16:49 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota Medical School Message-ID: <4ra0qh$j5f@epx.cis.umn.edu> When I log in I find the following entries in the console: Jul 1 20:57:24 libros netmsgserver[25]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102. Jul 1 20:57:24 libros netmsgserver[25]: netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4. I am running a standalone 040 Cube with OS 3.3. I have NeXTPPP 2.2 installed as a LKS and I use UUCP for mail. Any idea why these errors occur? All comments welcome John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################# # NeXTMail preferred. | # alegrej@andante.mn.org | # jalegre@skypoint.com | If you plant ice, # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | you're gonna harvest wind! # drjohn@well.com | Hunter/Garcia #############################################################
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: RAID solution with DPT controller Date: 1 Jul 1996 22:18:54 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4r9ise$qn@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: mburg@twotribes.de Hello, I'd like to meet someone who has experience with a RAID system under Nextstep, driven with a DPT RAID controller. Mainly, I am interested in: - Which RAID level do you use? Which disk type? How big is the cache? - How easy/difficult was the setup? - What about performance and stability? - How do you consider the price/performance ratio compared with an expensive standalone RAID array? - Any caveats? Lots of questions, but I am happy for any information about this topic. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Wanted: Network performance benchmark suite Date: 1 Jul 1996 22:24:52 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4r9j7k$qn@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: mburg@twotribes.de Hello, I am looking for a tool capable of analyzing TCP/IP network performance. Doing ftp with various file sizes gives a first impression, but I'd like to find something which has some builtin logic to compute a mean value of the naked throughput out of a few different transfers. Second question: Is there anyone using Fast Ethernet with Nextstep? Did you make any benchmarks? What were the results? Thanks for any answer. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: dale@wco.com (Dale Tersey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor? Date: 2 Jul 1996 05:10:17 GMT Organization: Computer Recycling Project Message-ID: <4raavp$c7f@news.wco.com> References: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL> In article <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) says: > >If you do, please contact me. I'd like to know your experiences. > >-- >Gerben Wierda, > Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- >en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage > Staff member Advisory Council for Science and >Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands >Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 > >"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can >question." The Computer Recycling Project has received a number of VERY DIM Megapixel monochrome monitors. We were able to successfully refurbish most of them by using a "zapitator" on the CRT to blow the oxides off of the exiter filaments. Apparently these monitors are very prone to oxidation of the filaments which greatly reduces the picture brightness. A few of the monitors, however, didn't come up very far. - Dale
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to Configure an Anonymous FTP Account? Date: 30 Jun 1996 23:40:32 GMT Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <4r739g$eb4@news.its.com> References: <4qtbo1$h39@blackice.winternet.com> markm@winternet.com (Mark Miller) wrote: > I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp account on my NeXTstation > (with NS 3.3 installed) and would appreciate any advice and > suggestions as to how I can do this. Read 'man ftpd'. Also, you might want to look for wu-ftpd via archie or on the standard NeXT archives to replace NeXT's ftp daemon.... -Chuck Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc. --------------------------------+--------------------------------------- CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca (David Downie) Subject: TeX Fonts at 600 dpi Message-ID: <Dtx3Bu.Cqw@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 13:11:53 GMT Hi, Our network printer was just upgraded to 600 dpi from 300 and I changed the D switch in /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps to 600 from 300. The problem is that dvips apparently doesn't know how to handle 600 dpi fonts. This must be a pretty common problem but I can't seem to find the answer. Anyone? -- ====================================================================== David Downie Centre for Advanced Studies in Finance Assistant Professor University of Waterloo dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca 519-888-4567 ext. 5703 http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~dcdownie/new_home2.html.htmld/
From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor? Date: 2 Jul 1996 15:02:04 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rbdlc$4h@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL> <4raavp$c7f@news.wco.com> dale@wco.com (Dale Tersey) wrote: > The Computer Recycling Project has received a number of VERY DIM Megapixel > monochrome monitors. We were able to successfully refurbish most of them > by using a "zapitator" on the CRT to blow the oxides off of the exiter filaments. Doesn't filament oxidation suggest the presence of oxygen which might be due to the reported vacuum leaks of some of these monitors? If so, won't reoxidation occur leading to dimming? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TeX Fonts at 600 dpi Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 16:22:22 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <31D9309E.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <Dtx3Bu.Cqw@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Downie wrote: > > Hi, > > Our network printer was just upgraded to 600 dpi from 300 and I changed > the D switch in /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps to 600 from 300. The problem is > that dvips apparently doesn't know how to handle 600 dpi fonts. This must > be a pretty common problem but I can't seem to find the answer. > > Anyone? > include in MakeTeXPK the 600 DPI ..... if test "$MODE" = "" then if test $BDPI = 300 then MODE=imagen elif test $BDPI = 600 then MODE=hpljivm elif test $BDPI = 200 then .... that's all _________________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI fuer Polymerforschung, Postf. 3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | .. openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ..of the wheel__/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW-Page http://th05.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| \_________________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT Mouse. Message-ID: <DtwCx4.58C@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <31D77024.EBA@students.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 03:41:28 GMT In article <31D77024.EBA@students.wisc.edu> "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu> writes: > Hi, > > Does NeXT mouse use bus type connector? If not, what type of > connector does it use? Does any one know if I could use NeXT mouse > for IBM PC system? Thanks in advance. > Bus mouse with permutated pinout. The permutation is documented in the FAQ, I suppose.
From: Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fun new console messages! Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 11:36:53 -0600 Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960702113344.10547C-100000@raddi> References: <199606281633.MAA15588@nerc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199606281633.MAA15588@nerc.com> On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > >Anyone have any idea what these mean: > >[note: charisma=localhost] > >Jun 28 08:31:14 charisma netmsgserver[23]: >datagram_main.netipc_receive fails, kr = -1. > >Jun 28 09:20:08 charisma netmsgserver[23]: >datagram_main.netipc_receive fails, kr = -1. > >Jun 28 10:58:39 charisma netmsgserver[23]: srr_main.netipc_receive >fails, kr = -1. > >Jun 28 11:12:06 charisma netmsgserver[23]: srr_main.netipc_receive >fails, kr = -1. > > > >Info: These messages appeared while PPP was running, and while I >was connected INto my NeXT (telnet and ftp) from another computer. > I've had these messages show up on my console as well (non-turbo slab running 3.2). As near as I've been able to figure, it seems to coincide with some kind of malfunction with someone connecting to the POP server I have running, as I see a bunch of POP connections from the same host when I do a netstat. Whether or not it's actually POP causing these messages, I don't know. Everything seems to work fine afterwards. At least I haven't been able to detect any side effects on my machine. Eugene ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Subject: Re: basic login question Message-ID: <Dtxq4E.2Do@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Organization: none References: <4r9ei7$69q@nebula.mpn.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:24:14 GMT charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley) wrote: > Hi - > > Can someone tell me the file or database NS 3.3 reads to determine which > apps to run when users login? > WorkspaceManager->Preferences for the apps in the dock. cu Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
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From: Ian_Stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: NEED win 95 client nfs to NXSTP nfs server Date: 1 Jul 1996 22:40:18 GMT Organization: EIT/VeriFone Distribution: world Message-ID: <4r9k4i$jef@bonestorm.eit.com> I am having a hard time getting a Windows 95 NFS product to act as a client to a NEXTSTEP 3.3 system acting as an NFS server. I get read errors on the NEXTSTEP side and blank directories on the Win95 side. What am I doing wrong or what do I need? I am using pcnfsd 2.0 and auth is working fine. Thanks Ian H. Stewart --- NYRO Technix, Inc. 236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341 San Francisco CA 94127 415 664-1170 voice 415 664-5530 fax NYRO Technix, Inc. is proud to announce, NYRO-SPACE(tm), "The Auto-Scrolling Virtual Window Manager!"(tm) for Windows 95. Download your FREE trial version today. http://www.nyro.com/NYRO/
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Active Partition Date: 3 Jul 1996 10:11:02 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rdgvm$igi@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> Hi! After setting the only NeXT-Step Partion with fdisk to active, the system is dead. The command was /usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setasActive. It is NS-3.3 on Intel. The system will not come up. Error from the Bootstrap-NeXT-Loader -> (Sorry guy) NO PARTITION (you are on the dark side of the moon...) Any hints? Henry
From: willi@eitaco.tuwien.ac.at (Wilhelm Pitzeier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TeX Fonts at 600 dpi Date: 3 Jul 1996 14:35:07 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <4re0er$f21@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <Dtx3Bu.Cqw@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: dcdownie@bart.uwaterloo.ca In <Dtx3Bu.Cqw@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> David Downie wrote: > Our network printer was just upgraded to 600 dpi from 300 and I changed > the D switch in /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps to 600 from 300. The problem is > that dvips apparently doesn't know how to handle 600 dpi fonts. This must > be a pretty common problem but I can't seem to find the answer. It's so common, that you can even find it in the FAQ (which should get posted more often): 8.11 How to get TeX with NEXTSTEP to make proper fonts for a 600 dpi laserwriter? 600dpi TeX fonts TeX, 600dpi If you upgrade to a 600 dpi laserwriter then the version of TeX that ships with NEXTSTEP (either 2.X or 3.0) does not know about 600 dpi fonts, i.e. does not know how to make them and will instead use scaled 400 dpi ones (which look significantly worse at 600 dpi than they do at 400 dpi). Some simple modifications to a few Metafont files and rebuilding the metafont bases are all that is needed. What to do to get the 600 dpi stuff working is as follows: Š Edit /usr/lib/mf/inputs/next.mf and add a laserjetIV mode. Simply copy the entire imagen mode, change the name to laserjetIV, and change the pixels_per_inch to 600. Save the changed file. Š Build a new mf.base file by executing the following commands: inimf "plain; input next; dump" (as superuser): cp plain.base /usr/lib/mf/bases/mf.base Š Edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/config.ps and change the `D 400' line to `D 600' (you may have `D 300' or something else if you've set up a different printer.) Š Edit /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK (as superuser), adding the lines elif test $BDPI = 600 then MODE=laserjetIV right before the second `else' in the file. That should do it! You might have to (depending on how you configure NEXTSTEP for the LaserJet IV) select `custom resolution' and set the gadget to 600 in the TeXview print panel, and save Preferences. These instructions are written for an HP Laserjet IV, but they should also work for a QMS printer just fine. Finally, if you have one of these printers and work in a "mixed" environment with perhaps 400 dpi and/or 300 dpi printers that you also print to on a regular basis then you might want to consider getting Type 1 PS version of the Computer Modern fonts instead. They obviate the need for the instructions above, and the savings in disc space will be considerable since having printer fonts for several printers takes lots of room, and the file sizes for 600 dpi are quite large (the files grow roughly as D logD, where D is the resolution). These fonts are made by Blue Sky Research, and work beautifully. Y&Y software is a reseller for BSR and sells a "NEXTSTEP specific" version of them which comes with appropriate instructions and installation scripts. -- ********************* Wilhelm Pitzeier ********************* * Technische Universitaet Wien ** Inst. f. Computergraphik * *************** A-1040 Karlsplatz 13 / 1861 **************** *** E-Mail: pitzeier@eiunix.tuwien.ac.at (NEXT/MIME/ISO) *** ****** Tel. (+43 1) 58801/4109 ** Fax (+43 1) 5042583 ****** ************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hocker@waldo.com (Matthew Hocker) Subject: Re: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor? Message-ID: <Dtxou5.7Bq@waldo.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: The WaldoNet Group References: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL> <4raavp$c7f@news.wco.com> <4rbdlc$4h@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 20:56:29 GMT And what, pray tell, is a "zapitator"? Art Isbell (aisbell@cubicsol.com) wrote: : dale@wco.com (Dale Tersey) wrote: : > The Computer Recycling Project has received a number of VERY DIM Megapixel : > monochrome monitors. We were able to successfully refurbish most of them : > by using a "zapitator" on the CRT to blow the oxides off of the exiter : filaments. -- __ | Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | /\_\ | "Believer in all things well-engineered" | BMW CCA #124947 \/_/ | hocker@waldo.com | AOPA #012475939 NeXTSTEP! | NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here | PP-ASEL
From: gvh@digasylum.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IP Aliasing and FTP Date: 3 Jul 1996 17:59:49 GMT Organization: Digital Asylum Message-ID: <gvh-0307961104120001@emerson.digasylum.com> References: <gvh-0307961102380001@emerson.digasylum.com> In article <gvh-0307961102380001@emerson.digasylum.com>, gvh@digasylum.com (Gordon Van Huizen) wrote: > Hi, > > We're running a recent IP Alias patch on an Indy, and it works well... Oops...wrong newsgroup! <blush> ---- Gordon Van Huizen Digital Asylum gvh@digasylum.com [NeXTmail, MIME ok] http://www.digasylum.com
From: gvh@digasylum.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IP Aliasing and FTP Date: 3 Jul 1996 17:58:15 GMT Organization: Digital Asylum Message-ID: <gvh-0307961102380001@emerson.digasylum.com> Hi, We're running a recent IP Alias patch on an Indy, and it works well. We have our Netscape server set up to handle multiple IP's...all very slick. Question is: is there a way to set up multiple FTP daemons that respond to the various IPs? It'd be great to have anonymous and restricted areas for each IP we define. Thanks for any assistance... Gordon ---- Gordon Van Huizen Digital Asylum gvh@digasylum.com [NeXTmail, MIME ok] http://www.digasylum.com
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor? Date: 3 Jul 1996 18:50:47 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <4refe7$p3v@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL> <4raavp$c7f@news.wco.com> <4rbdlc$4h@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <Dtxou5.7Bq@waldo.com> Cc: hocker@waldo.com In <Dtxou5.7Bq@waldo.com> Matthew Hocker wrote: > And what, pray tell, is a "zapitator"? > > > Art Isbell (aisbell@cubicsol.com) wrote: > : dale@wco.com (Dale Tersey) wrote: > > : > The Computer Recycling Project has received a number of VERY DIM Megapixel > : > monochrome monitors. We were able to successfully refurbish most of them > : > by using a "zapitator" on the CRT to blow the oxides off of the exiter > : filaments. > Sounds like a device right out of a Flash Gordon movie... -- Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C ga ga"
From: dwhosken@students.wisc.edu (Daniel W. Hosken) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Crashing and CD-ROM drive Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 14:40:59 +0100 Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <dwhosken-0307961440590001@144.92.21.167> I have a rather confusing (at least to me!) problem: When we boot up our Intel machine with the external SCSI CD-ROM drive on, the machine will crash within 3 or 4 days (usually when noone is logged in). When we boot up without the CD-ROM drive on (still attached, but not powered up) the machine remains stable. This behavior has been pretty consistent. System: P90 (Neptune chipset?) NeXTSTEP 3.2 user and developer JCEAGLE 1160 PCI SCSI card (symbios driver) NEC 501 external 4x SCSI CD-ROM drive Diamond PCI video Cogent PCI ethernet ISA soundcard Here are the messages from /usr/adm/messages the last time it crashed: Jun 26 20:00:00 martenot mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. Jun 26 20:00:00 martenot mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:861824 blockCount:16 Jun 26 20:15:00 martenot mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. Jun 26 20:15:00 martenot mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:983424 blockCount:16 Jun 26 20:58:29 martenot mach: BUS RESET issued due to 'cFRun: Parity Error' on ha=0 id=3 lun=0 Jun 26 20:58:29 martenot mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. Jun 26 20:58:29 martenot mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:677280 blockCount:14 Jun 26 21:15:31 martenot mach: sc0: Command (0x2a) timed out. Jun 26 21:15:31 martenot mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying. Jun 26 21:15:31 martenot mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write block:983424 blockCount:16 The sd0 unit attention messages and BUS RESET messages continue for a while. The CD-ROM drive is on SCSI id 3. If anybody has any clues, we'd greatly appreciate it! Dan Hosken Computer Music Studio University of Wisconsin-Madison dwhosken@students.wisc.edu -- Dan Hosken dwhosken@students.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199607031959.PAA09552@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 96 15:59:56 -0400 Subject: Re: basic login question Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley) on 1 Jul 1996 wrote: > Hi - > > Can someone tell me the file or database NS 3.3 reads to determine > which apps to run when users login? dread Workspace DockLaunchFlags will give you a number that is incomprehensible to 99.9% of the population. However, you can control that via WorkspaceManager->Preferences for the apps in the dock. as has been pointed out already. I'd like to mention that there is another dwrite that can control this: dwrite Workspace LaunchPaths /path/to/app:/path/to/another/app Which will autolaunch the application without it being on the dock. This dwrite can be controlled manually, or via TickleServices or FSAutoLaunch.preferences module. For more information about hidden or little-known dwrites, send an email to this address with SUBJECT send-ascii dwrites For more information on NeXTInfo via email, send an email with SUBHECT send-ascii info TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info http://www.nerc.com/~luomat [ first stages of construction ]
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2xQ: 4.GB for NS/I 3.3/4.0 ? Monitor ? Date: 02 Jul 1996 19:48:31 -0600 Organization: Computing Research Lab/New Mexico State University Sender: zhao@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu Message-ID: <yeg3f3at8cw.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> I have bought a pentium 200 pro system w/ 4.0GB HD, w/o monitor. Q1. Do I need to partition the 4GB scsi HD into 2x2GB, since I was told that NS/I 3.3 couldn't handle > 2GB HD. Can 4.0? Q2. I am in search of a top-line 20"/21" monitor. I surfed homepage of Nokia and Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi 20H seems to be very good, but not in market. Is Nokia 445x(TCO) the best choice? BTW, I don;t really trust Viewsonic. ;/ I have two Sony 17se's, they are very good, but not in 20". Thanks in advance, zhao
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: basic login question Date: 4 Jul 1996 01:46:34 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rf7pq$rp2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <199607031959.PAA09552@nerc.com> In article <199607031959.PAA09552@nerc.com> writes: >charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley) on 1 Jul 1996 wrote: >> Can someone tell me the file or database NS 3.3 reads to determine >> which apps to run when users login? > >dread Workspace DockLaunchFlags > >will give you a number that is incomprehensible to 99.9% of the >population. So, only 0.1% understands binary numbers? Anyway, its a binary encoded autolaunch flags with LSB representing the launch status for the top-most app on the dock, and MSB for the bottom-most app on the dock. E.g., dread Workspace DockLaunchFlags 19 will autolaunch the first, 2-nd and 5-th apps on the dock. (19 dec = 10011 bin) -Izumi
From: Salvo@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2xQ: 4.GB for NS/I 3.3/4.0 ? Monitor ? Date: 4 Jul 1996 05:23:39 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <4rfkgr$ed2@news.accessone.com> References: <yeg3f3at8cw.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> Cc: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu In <yeg3f3at8cw.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> Z. Zhao wrote: > Q1. Do I need to partition the 4GB scsi HD into 2x2GB, since I was > told that NS/I 3.3 couldn't handle > 2GB HD. Can 4.0? I believe the 2G partition limit remains the same for 4.0. > Q2. I am in search of a top-line 20"/21" monitor. I surfed homepage > of Nokia and Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi 20H seems to be very good, > but not in market. Is Nokia 445x(TCO) the best choice? I am very satisfied with my 445X; I have used it for almost two years. The 21-inch Nanao is worth a look as well. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: fred@mlink.net (Patrique Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to Configure an Anonymous FTP Account? Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 07:33:27 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <31db713c.12482054@nntp.mlink.net> References: <4qtbo1$h39@blackice.winternet.com> On 27 Jun 1996 07:03:29 GMT, markm@winternet.com (Mark Miller) wrote: >I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp account on my NeXTstation >(with NS 3.3 installed) and would appreciate any advice and >suggestions as to how I can do this. > >Thanks in advance. > Hello Mark, here is a simple way of setting it up. If you want you can also copy the following commands to a file give it execute permissions and run it as a shell script under root. First however, create an account called " ftp " (using UserManager.app or nu). Disable the account by puting an " * " as the password. Give it a special home directory, such as /RestrictedAccounts/ftp rm -r ~ftp/* rm -r ~ftp/.* chown ftp ~ftp chmod 555 ~ftp mkdir ~ftp/bin chown root ~ftp/bin chmod 555 ~ftp/bin cp -p /bin/ls ~ftp/bin chmod 111 ~ftp/bin/ls mkdir ~ftp/etc chown root ~ftp/etc chmod 555 ~ftp/etc cp -p /etc/passwd /etc/group ~ftp/etc #remove unneeded information from the passwd and group files chmod 444 ~ftp/etc/passwd ~ftp/etc/group mkdir ~ftp/pub chown ftp ~ftp/pub chmod 577 ~ftp/pub mkdir ~ftp/incoming chmod 777 ~ftp/incoming Hope this helps. Patrique Lalonde pat@sim.qc.ca
From: fred@mlink.net (Patrique Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP, NeXT, Win95 and Samba Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 07:50:03 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <31db717f.12548647@nntp.mlink.net> Bonjour all, I currently have a NeXT station mono with a ZyXEL Elite 2864 fax/modem and a NeXT laser printer connected to it as my server. A NeXTDimension System. And a Pentium System running Win95 with a USR Sposter 28.8 They are all connected over Ethernet. I am able to ftp/telnet from one to another. First of all, I would like to know what would be possible as for connecting to the internet in the following manner. Would it be possible to configure my server (the Station) to dial-up to my provider (PPP) when one of the other systems tried to connect to an IP address outside my local network automatically? Or at least dial-up manually and be able to use services from my NeXT Dimension and from my Win95 system? If so, could I also configure e-mail, IRC and any other internet service as well? What are my options? Any suggestions? I just recently got Samba compiled on NEXSTEP (black) but cant seem to connect from my Win95 system. All I want is to print to my laser printer. I have included my config files below if needed. The testing programs that came with samba seem to have no errors. If you can shed some light on my problem, I would appreceiate any help. P.S. I seem to have quite some problems lately reading my news. So I would appreciate that replies be sent to my e-mail address below as well. Thanks. Patrique Lalonde pat@sim.qc.ca --------------------------BELOW THIS LINE ARE THE SMB.CONF AND MYPRINTCAP FILES------------------------------------- smb.conf [global] printing = bsd printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/myprintcap load printers = yes guest account = pcguest workgroup = Win95 print command = lpr -r -P %p %s lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -P%p %j lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq %p log file = /usr/local/samba/log.%m [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 [printers] comment = All Printers path = /usr/spool/NeXT/black_net_printer browseable = no printable = yes public = yes writable = no create mode = 0700 [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes myprintcap: black_net_printer: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/black_net_printer:rm=cesar:rp=BlackPrinter:lp=: \ :ty=NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer:note=Paint It Black!:lo=lock: ---------------------------------END OF FILES---------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp (SHIROYAMA Takayuki) Subject: Re: Virtualhost Message-ID: <Du0HE8.AKL@fortune.nest.or.jp> Sender: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp (SHIROYAMA Takayuki) Cc: ŸŸŸŸŸ$BzH(J6·jim@acb2.cgs.edu References: <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:08:31 GMT In <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu> Jim Kieley wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that with NS 3.3 it is not possible to assign more > than one ipaddress to the single interface on black hardware? Some OS's > support this. I am interested in virtual hosting in conjunction with an > httpd server I've set up. Mr. Morishita <manmos@stellar.co.jp> made Pseudo network interface driver which make NS virtual hosting. It posted fj.sources. Sorry, I don't have it and don't understand it's detail, please ask him. -- SHIROYAMA-Takayuki : Taisho Osaka, Japan. Psi@fortune.nest.or.jp
From: Paul WINDEY <windey@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: which 2GB hard drive to use? Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 13:16:40 +0200 Organization: Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS VI) Message-ID: <31DBA818.6714@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I would like to replace an old 400 MB internal disk on a NextStation Color and NeXTStation Turbo Color, both running NS 3.3 with new internal disks of 2 GB. I have seen that some are known not to work. Could somebody supply a list (partial or not) of the disks with their model numbers which are known to work with this configuration or a URL where one can find this info. At least does anyone knows the difference between SCSI 2 and 3 and fast and ultra Thanks very much for your time -- Paul Windey, LPTHE Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) Bte 126 4pl Jussieu F-75252 Paris CEDEX 05, FRANCE e-mail: windey@lpthe.jussieu.fr tel: 33-1-4427 7456 (Secretariat: 4427 4121) FAX: 33-1-4427 73 93 ou 7088 -- Paul Windey, LPTHE Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) Bte 126 4pl Jussieu F-75252 Paris CEDEX 05, FRANCE e-mail: windey@lpthe.jussieu.fr tel: 33-1-4427 7456 (Secretariat: 4427 4121) FAX: 33-1-4427 73 93 ou 7088
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtualhost Date: 4 Jul 1996 15:49:09 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4rgp5l$15gn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu> <Du0HE8.AKL@fortune.nest.or.jp> Cc: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp In <Du0HE8.AKL@fortune.nest.or.jp> SHIROYAMA Takayuki wrote: > > In <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu> Jim Kieley wrote: > > Am I correct in assuming that with NS 3.3 it is not possible to assign more > > than one ipaddress to the single interface on black hardware? Some OS's > > support this. I am interested in virtual hosting in conjunction with an > > httpd server I've set up. > > Mr. Morishita <manmos@stellar.co.jp> made Pseudo network interface driver > which make NS virtual hosting. It posted fj.sources. > > Sorry, I don't have it and don't understand it's detail, please ask him. > A copy of this newer driver can be found at: ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/ps_if.tar.gz It should mirror to the other PPP sites soon. See: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ for a list of those sites. Please note that this is unrelated to the PPP work. It is a small driver that specifically gives virutal hosting capabilities. Hope this helps! - Steve --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP, NeXT, Win95 and Samba Date: 4 Jul 1996 16:54:33 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <4rgt09$jol@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <31db717f.12548647@nntp.mlink.net> Cc: fred@mlink.net In <31db717f.12548647@nntp.mlink.net> Patrique Lalonde wrote: > Would it be possible to configure my server (the Station) to dial-up > to my provider (PPP) when one of the other systems tried to connect to > an IP address outside my local network automatically? Or at least > dial-up manually and be able to use services from my NeXT Dimension > and from my Win95 system? If so, could I also configure e-mail, IRC > and any other internet service as well? What are my options? Yes, provided that your ISP will permit a network connection; i.e. will route packets from your network, not just the connecting machine. If you are limited in this way, as is common with dial-up connections, you can still provide mail, web and other services from your NeXT. To do dial on demand, install the custom version of DNS supplied with GateKeeper. If you have a single machine connection, then install the CERN httpd as a proxy server. You will need a proper smtp mailer to send mail from your Win95 machine (i.e. not MS Exchange). The mailer in Netscape is probably OK for the purpose. > I just recently got Samba compiled on NEXSTEP (black) but cant seem to > connect from my Win95 system. All I want is to print to my laser > printer. I have included my config files below if needed. The testing > programs that came with samba seem to have no errors. If you can shed > some light on my problem, I would appreceiate any help. Does Win95 support lpd printing, the same as NT? If so, you can configure printing via the TCP/IP configuration. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Crashed :-( Date: 4 Jul 1996 18:08:45 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4rh1bd$gr@turbocat.snafu.de> Hi! My Intel P100 crashed never in '96 until last monday (I was scrolling a ScrollView) and today (Mail.app checked for mail). It crashed on a 200 Kb NeXTMail. The monitor said: frame 2fc4cf24 called by 150198 args 2fc4f8c 2130490 . . . Memory access exception (1,1,f6e85206) Waiting for remote debugger connection. (Type 'c' to continue 'r' to reboot) The board is a pre-Triton based ASUS with 32 (2*16) MB 70ns FPM RAM. I am using Boot Drivers PS2Keyboard Floppy ISASerialPort EISABus SYM53c8 Intel824X0 PCIBus Drivers: PS2Keyboard at IRQ 1; ports 0x60-0x65 Floppy at IRQ 6; DMA 2; ports 0x3f2-0x3f7 System Serial at IRQ 4; ports 0x3f8-0x3ff System Serial at IRQ 3; ports 0x2f8-0x2ff System Serial at IRQ 5; ports 0x3e8-0x3ef EISABus at IRQ 2; ports 0x00-0x0f 0x20-0x21 0x40-0x4b 0x70-0x71 0x81-0x8F 0x92-0x92 0xc0-0xcf Symbios Logic SCSI controller Intel824X0 PCIBus PS2Mouse at IRQ 12; DECchip 21040 Network Driver SCSI Tape Microsoft Sound System at IRQ 9; DMA 3; ports 0x530-0x537 0x388-0x38b 0x0220-0x22f 0x200-0x207 Port Server Matrox MGA 2064W (2MB) System Parallel at IRQ 7; ports 0x278-0x27f Comments? Help? Thanks. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS Crashed :-( Date: 4 Jul 1996 19:04:49 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4rh4kh$k1c@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4rh1bd$gr@turbocat.snafu.de> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.snafu.de> wrote: : Hi! : My Intel P100 crashed never in '96 until last monday (I was scrolling a : ScrollView) and today (Mail.app checked for mail). : It crashed on a 200 Kb NeXTMail. : The monitor said: : frame 2fc4cf24 called by 150198 args 2fc4f8c 2130490 : . : . : . : Memory access exception (1,1,f6e85206) : Waiting for remote debugger connection. : (Type 'c' to continue 'r' to reboot) [...] If you have a second Intel based NS machine handy, you could track down the error by connecting via remote debugger (it might be that you have to replace the Ethernetcard with an Etherexpress16 before). I once managed to locate an error in a SCSI driver this way. Ok, I admit this sounds very esoteric.... Axel -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: mhovan@BLaCKSMITH.com (Michael A. Hovan III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Wanted: Network performance benchmark suite Date: 4 Jul 96 14:03:52 Organization: /Net/knuth/Users/mhovan/.organization Message-ID: <MHOVAN.96Jul4140352@thompson.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <4r9j7k$qn@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> In-reply-to: mow@navigator.de's message of 1 Jul 1996 22:24:52 GMT >> I am looking for a tool capable of analyzing TCP/ network >> performance. Doing ftp with various file sizes gives a first >> impression, but I'd like to find something which has some builtin >> logic to compute a mean value of the naked throughput out of a few >> different transfers. FTP as a performance test is about worthless... You need to look into netperf. I think you can find information about it on http://www.cup.hp.com someplace. Check yahoo for details... >> Second question: Is there anyone using Fast Ethernet with >> Nextstep? Yes. We are using the cogent EM-110 card. >> Did you make any benchmarks? What were the results? Between 2 133Mhz Pentium's one running NS3.3 and one running NT3.51 Server we got almost 70Mbps using the netperf UDP test. TCP tests were in the mid 30's of Mbps. I am going to be deploying a 30 machine net at the end of the month that is going to be about 50% 100Mbps NS machines. If you need more details let me know. Mike Hovan Mike_Hovan@BLaCKSMITH.com
From: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: gcc-2.7.2 on NS3.3-Sparcstation 5? Date: 4 Jul 96 20:41:26 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <scratch.836512886@sunset.sce.carleton.ca> References: <4r78o4$h63@news.mty.itesm.mx> diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni) writes: >Hi: >I wanted to compile gcc-2.7.2 on my Sparcstation 5 running NS3.3, both to >have a recent version of gcc and to be able to compile g77, the GNU FORTRAN >compiler. However, apparently gcc doesn't yet support NEXTSTEP running on >sparc processors. >Does anybody have any ideas of getting around this problem? Perhaps Openstep/Mach 4.0 provides a recent-enough version of gcc. Does anybody know? Craig -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 520-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 520-5727 (Dept.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXTprinter trouble Message-ID: <Du1D1w.5sI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4rcqh4$c8s@news.acns.nwu.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 20:32:20 GMT In article <4rcqh4$c8s@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) writes: > After a couple of false starts, I have an abandoned NeXTstation up > and working in our department, primarily as a graphical Web client > for downloading preprints. The computer itself is working fine, > but the printer seems to be having trouble feeding paper. It's > not the last inch of output that is the problem, so I don't think > it's the famous fuser gear (generally known as `that damn gear'). > The symptom is that paper starts to feed, and stops after going in > only about two inches...the printer just goes silent, and a few > seconds later the English wench tells us that paper is jammed. > The feeding process sounds just a bit rickety in comparison to my > NeXTprinter at home, but this may be my imagination. Anyone seen > this problem before? Any chance it's something I can fix without > opening the thing up? > Two main causes: 1. insufficient paper; too thin, bended, slippery, etc. 2. spent rubber roller in the intake; dirty, hardened, ground down For 1, get better paper. For 2, try to clean the roller to restore its grip. Someone posted a hint about a product called rubber revitalizer (dunno where to get, sorry) to do this professionally. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtualhost Date: 5 Jul 1996 03:18:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <4ri1hn$ifq@digifix.digifix.com> References: <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu> <Du0HE8.AKL@fortune.nest.or.jp> <4rgp5l$15gn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4rgp5l$15gn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> On 07/04/96, Stephen J. Perkins wrote: >A copy of this newer driver can be found at: > ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/ps_if.tar.gz > >It should mirror to the other PPP sites soon. See: > http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ > >for a list of those sites. Please note that this is unrelated to the PPP >work. >It is a small driver that specifically gives virutal hosting capabilities. > >Hope this helps! > Has anyone used it? Does it work? Is it stable? -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: kinau@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Mosaic 2.6 for NeXT black box Date: 4 Jul 1996 09:23:56 -0700 Organization: California State University, Fresno Message-ID: <4rgr6s$lej@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi folks, Has anyone ever compiled Mosaic 2.6 for NeXT black box? Could anyone send me a Makefile to compile Mosaic 2.6 or give me a hint? Is there a ftp site to keep binary file for NeXT black box? Please send me an email. Thanks in advance!! =) --Kin ****************************************************************************** Kin Hung Au Internet Address: kinau@csufresno.edu Software Specialist California State University, Fresno Tel# 209-278-7509 Computing, Communications & Media Services FAX# 209-278-4660 Fresno CA 93740 http://maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu:8001/Dept/staff/kinau.html ******************************************************************************
From: marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: which 2GB hard drive to use? Date: 5 Jul 1996 06:05:22 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4ribb2$5aa@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <31DBA818.6714@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Paul WINDEY <windey@lpthe.jussieu.fr> writes: [2 GB disks for station?] After my Fujitsu 1 gig (less than 5 years old, where's that #$%!@ invoice?!) started flaking on me, I got a Seagate Hawk 2XL, (simply because it was available quickly. I am very pleased. There were no problems installing, and the drive is certainly fast, fast enough to saturate the cube's SCSI implementation. Then again, most modern drives probably are... There is no point in getting a FAST or WIDE model, as the cube will support neither (will it even work with the WIDE?). One thing I did to make it scream is get BuildDisk to initialize the disk with optimal parameters, the default being way to slow. To do this I renamed the 'disk' command in '/usr/etc/', which BuildDisk uses to initialize new disks, to 'disk1', and install the following script as 'disk'. ---------------------- optimizied disk-script ------------------ #!/bin/sh # call the old disk to format the driver /usr/etc/disk1 $@ # now tune the drive, assuming /dev/rsd1a is being built # (this could be parsed from the arg, but that's not n # necessarily reliable and simply not worth it for a # one-off) /usr/etc/tunefs -a 16 -d 0 -e 512 /dev/rsd1a # I partitioned my disk, so second partition gets optimized, too. # Remove this if you haven't partitioned your disk. /usr/etc/tunefs -a 16 -d 0 -e 512 /dev/rsd1b -------------------------- end ---------------------------------- After running BuildDisk, I restored the old 'disk' command and now have a really snappy sysyem. Measured performance for large files is up to about 1.5 - 2.5 MB/s, up from 700K/s for my old disk with the default parameters (which cause a 2:1 interleaved block layout strategy). The write-cache on the drive was already enabled, but I was not able to reformat to 1024 byte sectors using formatter 1.2. Marcel
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS Crashed :-( Date: 5 Jul 1996 02:13:42 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rhtom$dms@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <4rh1bd$gr@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) writes: > Hi! > > My Intel P100 crashed never in '96 until last monday (I was > scrolling a ScrollView) and today (Mail.app checked for mail). > It crashed on a 200 Kb NeXTMail. [skipping over details of the crash] > Comments? Help? It's not clear to me. Are you saying it always crashes now? Or just that it crashes when reading that one NeXTmail message? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up PPP on white hardware Date: 5 Jul 1996 09:32:29 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <4rj91t$c43@Mercury.mcs.com> I am trying to set up PPP on Intel hardware so that 1 remote system can connect to our internal network. I believe that I have the ppp 2.2 installed correctly and all of the things noted in the README set. Now I want to test it and start getting the scripts and stuff setup. Here is where I ran into the first problem. I have an internal modem set to Comm 4. What do I need to set in the serial driver configuration for this to be recognized? Any tips on setting up the PPP would be appreciated. Peter Richardson
From: "John W. Wooten" <woo@ornl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Formating a HP 3725S? Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 16:44:54 -0400 Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960705164108.3598A-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I just bought a HP 3725S external 2.1 Gigabyte drive, but when trying to connect it to my Cube I get scsi errors. I've tried attaching it to an Intel Next box and am during boot, it's read, but it says no lablel. However, I can't format the drive. What is the sequence you use to format a new drive? i.e. boot single user with drive turned off? Turn drive on? sdform -n /dev/sdXa? BuildDisk never can see the drive. Hints?, Solutions? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp (SHIROYAMA Takayuki) Subject: Re: Virtualhost Message-ID: <Du2ur4.DHA@fortune.nest.or.jp> Sender: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp (SHIROYAMA Takayuki) Cc: sanguish@digifix.com References: <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu> <Du0HE8.AKL@fortune.nest.or.jp> <4rgp5l$15gn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <4ri1hn$ifq@digifix.digifix.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 15:52:16 GMT In <4ri1hn$ifq@digifix.digifix.com> Scott Anguish wrote: > > Has anyone used it? Does it work? Is it stable? Ofcause, Mr.Morishita(this driver's developer) use it. He is one of the greatest NeXTSTEP developer in Japan, so I believe him. -- SHIROYAMA-Takayuki : Taisho Osaka, Japan. Psi@fortune.nest.or.jp
From: "John W. Wooten" <woo@ornl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: slog msg? Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 22:10:30 -0400 Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960705220845.3742A-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am getting the message slog: Unable to send Listerner port to parent when trying to boot as in bsd from the monitor screen. It then fails and puts me in single user mode. What does this mean? What do I do to correct the situation and boot up? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Selfish Windows95 Date: 6 Jul 1996 05:47:09 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <4rkukt$lv4@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hello All, I have one common problem with Windows95.. umm how do I get back NEXTSTEP bootselector once windows95 was installed??? I have just installed win95 on my pentium now.. it hide my NEXTSTEP partition.. I know there is a NEXTAnswer for it... but I did a key word search... and gues what I can't find it!!! Quite annoying.. thanks very much Godwin
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS Crashed :-( Date: 6 Jul 1996 09:06:23 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4rlaaf$au@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <4rh1bd$gr@turbocat.snafu.de> <4rhtom$dms@usenet.rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) wrote: (...) > It's not clear to me. Are you saying it always crashes now? > Or just that it crashes when reading that one NeXTmail message? It used to be VERY stable. It crashed only sometimes with the SoftPC demo. (A neally perfect emulation -- the real windows crashes more often) This week, it crashed two times. Quite often for me. My Intel NEXTSTEP box is running around 16 hours a day. I put a thermometer into the DAT drive that is in the top slot. The thermometer said 30 degrees C. That should not be too much. The 70ns RAM never made trouble. Maybe EOF 1.1 crashed the box? I was using it on these days. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: jeremy@inetnebr.com (Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: gcc-2.7.2 on NS3.3-Sparcstation 5? Date: 6 Jul 1996 14:11:27 GMT Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <4rls6f$85j@duck.inetnebr.com> References: <4r78o4$h63@news.mty.itesm.mx> <scratch.836512886@sunset.sce.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-User: jeremy To: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) In article <scratch.836512886@sunset.sce.carleton.ca>, scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) writes: > diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni) writes: > >>I wanted to compile gcc-2.7.2 on my Sparcstation 5 running NS3.3, both to >>have a recent version of gcc and to be able to compile g77, the GNU FORTRAN >>compiler. However, apparently gcc doesn't yet support NEXTSTEP running on >>sparc processors. > > Perhaps Openstep/Mach 4.0 provides a recent-enough version of > gcc. Does anybody know? > The prerelease does not. I suspect that the final release won't either. -- Jeremy Bettis -*- PGP public key available,send mail with subj "Send pgp key" Home: jeremy@tddi.inetnebr.com Work: jeremy@hksys.com NeXTMAIL/MIME/PGP accepted
From: "John W. Wooten" <woo@ornl.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: slog msg? Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 10:39:27 -0400 Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960706103607.3980B-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960705220845.3742A-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960705220845.3742A-100000@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, John W. Wooten wrote: > Date: Fri, 5 JUL 1996 22:10:30 -0400 > From: John W. Wooten <woo@ornl.gov> > Newgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: slog msg? > > I am getting the message > slog: Unable to send Listerner port to parent > when trying to boot as in > bsd > from the monitor screen. > It then fails and puts me in single user mode. What does this mean? > What do I do to correct the situation and boot up? I've managed to get past that. Apparently the hard drive internally was damaged during my attempts to install a new drive. I did a manual /usr/etc/fsck -p and cleaned the disk. Now I don't get the slog error, but find that my internal disk is getting mounted read-only, even though the /etc/fstab states it should mount rw and the /usr/etc/mount command shows it is mounted rw. Why would I be getting the message that it is mounted read-only when I try to mount a Optical Disk? How do I get the internal drive to mount read-write under these circumstances? > > > - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mr. Morishita's other toys ? (Was: Virtualhost) Date: 6 Jul 1996 17:46:37 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-f-44.usc.edu Message-ID: <4rm8pt$2q0@usc.edu> Cc: sanguish@digifix.com I would be very interested to know what the other stuff is that I saw where the virtualhost driver was generously located. Unfortunately, it had no translated readme's. Looked very interesting though.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: Which programs does NEXTSTEP execute when powering down??? Message-ID: <Du586p.5qA@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <4r7j23$95@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 22:37:37 GMT May be you could use your own WindowSaver bundle run from the Loginwindow.app. The bundle might have a good chance to get the proper message of the system going down? Just an idea. Juergen --- Fon +49 511 92455-51 NeXTMail welcome No Mime Fax +49 511 92455-52 = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: ifeulner@xenon.cube.de (Ingo Feulner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: gcc-2.7.2 on NS3.3-Sparcstation 5? Date: 7 Jul 1996 10:11:37 GMT Organization: Home, sweet home in Boeblingen, Germany Message-ID: <slrn4tv3ap.k0f.ifeulner@xenon.stgt.sub.org> References: <4r78o4$h63@news.mty.itesm.mx> <4rls6f$85j@duck.inetnebr.com> On 6 Jul 1996 14:11:27 GMT, Jeremy Bettis <jeremy@inetnebr.com> wrote: >The prerelease does not. I suspect that the final release won't either. You're right. - Ingo. -- Smail: Ingo Feulner, Wolfacher Weg 19, 71034 Boeblingen, Germany Email: ifeulner@xenon.cube.de
From: M. WILKINS <mwilkins@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.s Subject: I'LL TELL YOUR FUTURE, NOW!!! Date: 7 Jul 1996 22:53:52 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bb6c56.57337d00$3f5bface@mwilkins> I'LL TELL YOUR FUTURE, NOW!!!!! JUST CALL 1-900-868-4100 EXT. 7607 $3.99per min. must be 18yrs Serv-U(619)645-8434
From: "Patrick Ketelaar" <ketelaar@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc Subject: Re: I'LL TELL YOUR FUTURE, NOW!!! Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 22:36:14 -0400 Organization: Netcom Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bb6c76.7bdde120$6589d3c6@#ketelaar> References: <01bb6c56.57337d00$3f5bface@mwilkins> Wait- I can tell my own future- I'm not gonna call, not gonna spend 3.99 a minute, gonna save for the win version of the pilot sdk. pat -- Patrick Ketelaar- Ketelaar@ix.netcom.com Disney Maps for Newton http://www.netcom.com/~ketelaar/orion.html The above is my opinion, I could be wrong, but who cares? > M. WILKINS <mwilkins@earthlink.net> wrote in article <01bb6c56.57337d00$3f5bface@mwilkins>... > I'LL TELL YOUR FUTURE, NOW!!!!! > > JUST CALL 1-900-868-4100 EXT. 7607 > > $3.99per min. > must be 18yrs > Serv-U(619)645-8434 > > >
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mosaic 2.6 for NeXT Black Box Date: 7 Jul 1996 04:34:41 GMT Organization: California State University, Fresno Message-ID: <4rnep1$l0u@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi folks, Has anyone ever compiled Mosaic 2.6 for NeXT black box? Could anyone send me a Makefile to compile Mosaic 2.6 or give me a hint? Is there a ftp site to keep binary file for NeXT black box? Please send me an email. Thanks in advance!! =) --Kin ****************************************************************************** Kin Hung Au Internet Address: kinau@csufresno.edu Student Software Specialist California State University, Fresno Tel# 209-278-2355 Computing, Communications & Media Services FAX# 209-278-4660 Fresno CA 93740 http://maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu:8001/Dept/staff/kinau.html ******************************************************************************
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Which X-Windows Date: 8 Jul 1996 14:13:31 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <4rr52b$6@news.tamu.edu> What commercial version of X-windows seems to be the best for NeXTSTEP. I would like one that doesn't take over the entire screen, and had FAT binaries so I could run on black and intel hardware. Thanks, Jeromy
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Selfish Windows95 Date: 8 Jul 1996 14:06:11 GMT Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland Message-ID: <4rr4kj$179i@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <4rkukt$lv4@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Godwin (godwin@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote: > I have one common problem with Windows95.. umm how do I get back NEXTSTEP > bootselector once windows95 was installed??? I have just installed win95 > on my pentium now.. it hide my NEXTSTEP partition.. I saved this snippet from a News posting some months ago: Anyway,after you install Win95, you have to replace the NEXTSTEP booter by booting from floppy via: boot: fd()mach_kernel rootdev=/dev/sd0a -s And when you get to the shell prompt, do a: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 I hope this helps. Sounds like it is exactly what you need. Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: Mon, 08 Jul 96 14:41:05 GMT Organization: First Chicago - NBD Message-ID: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making it viewable. I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode it. In my case, I now have a file called .tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - so far so good. I remember reading that you next gunzip it, and then un-tar it. But I can't get gunzip to do anything other than fail, saying "corrupt input. Use zcat to recover some data." If I try to 'tar tvf' it, I get: "tar: only 1353 bytes from archive [filename]" I've tried both tar, and gnutar, and no difference has been seen. I think it's all supposed to be a big joke on me - by the entire net community. I can hear you all laughing now... But listen - it isn't my birthday, and no matter what my wife says, I don't like these jokes. Could someone please try to do this procedure, or give me a detailed list of what they actually do, including renaming the files, so that I can try this too? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks a bunch for the help... Hi Ho, Bob (drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com) Member, Elite Architecture Hit Squad We will write no code before it's designed. First Chicago - NBD - Technical Architecture Group Capital Markets Systems - (312)732-3087
From: jheidelo@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Exabyte Tape Drives Date: 8 Jul 1996 15:58:57 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <4rrb81$ncb@speering.alleg.edu> If anyone is using the Exabyte Mammoth Tape Drives or the 8505XL on NEXTSTEP 3.3 machines (NeXT or Intel), please send me e-mail. I would like to hear any experiences with these drives. Thanks, Jason Heideloff Allegheny College
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Compile problems (pgp 2.6.3i) Date: 8 Jul 1996 17:53:55 GMT Organization: RITEH Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rrhvj$6fr@bagan.srce.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I recently downloaded pgp 2.6.3i and found predefined definitions for next, next-inte, next486 and nextHP in the makefile. However, when I make I get an error: pgp.c: In function `ParseRecipients': pgp.c:2922: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast and in linking I get an exit because of undefined symbol: ld: Undefined symbols: _strdup *** Exit 1 Not being a programming genius (not even a programmer :-) I'm not sure where I should be lloking to fix this. I seem to recall a similar problem last time I compiled some generic Unix code which I managed to solve, but I don't remember how.... NeXTSTEP fIP 3.3, Developer 3.2. Regards, Thor Legvold presently in exile in Croatia -- Thor Legvold "Where I'm from is not nearly as relevant as where I've been" -me
From: Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba, Netinfo, & printing Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:19:22 -0700 Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960708111205.2606A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I'm successfully running Samba under NS3.3 to share drives with my Win95 pc. I'm also running Netinfo-- is it possible to print remotely via samba while Netinfo is running? In other words, Netinfo bypasses use of an /etc/printcap file, which samba looks for when it prints. Can someone point me in the right direction to get samba to use the local printer while Netinfo is running? Thanks, Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brad@instep.bc.ca Subject: Trouble poweing off black h/w Message-ID: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> Sender: usenet@instep.bc.ca Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:06:51 GMT I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation. I can no longer power off properly. I press the power button, or click on the power off button, and it commences syncing the disk, the screen goes blank, and then it just sits there with a greyed out screen and the power still on. I then press Command-~ and press the power button on the keyboard and only then does it power off. What gives? -- Brad Head <brad@instep.bc.ca> __ __o Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc. ___ `\<, Atomic Racing Club, Vancouver, BC, Canada -- O/ O
From: jbrathw@ibm.net (Jerome Brathwaite) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 (intel) Disk Partitioning - HELP!! Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 22:42:32 GMT Message-ID: <4rs2mb$1jau@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> I have NS3.3 running on a Primary Partition on Drive C. I would like to create a extra NS Partition on a different drive. I am attempting to create this on an 'Extended Partition'. My problem is - I cannot get NS to 'see' this extra partition. Has anyone out there ever tried this? Do anyone know how to get NS to recognize a 'logical' disk drive in the manner of OS/2, Windows NT etc? Jerome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Trouble poweing off black h/w Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960708192520.25759A-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:34:17 -0400 References: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> To: brad@instep.bc.ca In-Reply-To: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII [please don't cross-post -- TjL] On Mon, 8 Jul 1996 brad@instep.bc.ca wrote: > I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation. I can no longer power off properly. > I press the power button, or click on the power off button, and it commences > syncing the disk, the screen goes blank, and then it just sits there with a > greyed out screen and the power still on. I then press Command-~ and press the > power button on the keyboard and only then does it power off. My guess is that there is some process still running. OmniWeb was known to do this. NXFax might also be a factor. Truth is, it could be a lot of things. Best thing to do is login as 'console' (instead of your login name) and check 'ps' and see if there is anything running still. Try killing/quitting processes and then try the power off again. Let me know if it doesn't work..... > Brad Head <brad@instep.bc.ca> TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
From: scratch@tiros.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: gcc-2.7.2 on NS3.3-Sparcstation 5? Date: 9 Jul 96 02:13:24 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <scratch.836878404@tiros.sce.carleton.ca> References: <4r78o4$h63@news.mty.itesm.mx> <4rls6f$85j@duck.inetnebr.com> <slrn4tv3ap.k0f.ifeulner@xenon.stgt.sub.org> ifeulner@xenon.cube.de (Ingo Feulner) writes: >On 6 Jul 1996 14:11:27 GMT, Jeremy Bettis <jeremy@inetnebr.com> wrote: >>The prerelease does not. I suspect that the final release won't either. >You're right. Strange, someone sent me an e-mail saying that OpenStep uses 2.7.2. Can anybody confirm this, or report which version exactly OpenStep uses. I think that at least OpenStep/NT uses a fairly recent version. Craig -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 520-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 520-5727 (Dept.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <kpc@mcs.com> Message-ID: <v0153050eae0784b8be58@[205.164.39.152]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 21:43:59 -0600 From: kpc@mcs.com (Kevin Coffee) Subject: Apple LaserWriter IIg Hello all, I'm attempting to configure an Apple LaserWriter 2g through the NextStation ('040) serial port and have gotten nowhere. Can anyone who has succeeded in this share info about what's required? According to one technical note I found through NeXT Answers, one should be able to connect the printer to either A or B using an Apple ImageWriter I cable, but this doesn't seem to work... thanks in advance, -Kevin
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trouble poweing off black h/w Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 23:03:10 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul8.230310.2834@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> In article <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> brad@instep.bc.ca writes: > > I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation. I can no longer power off properly. > I press the power button, or click on the power off button, and it commences > syncing the disk, the screen goes blank, and then it just sits there with a > greyed out screen and the power still on. I then press Command-~ and press the > power button on the keyboard and only then does it power off. Typically there is an unkillable process running. One possible cause is NXFax, if you don't have a modem attached to the serial port. The only way to find out for sure is to attempt to shut down while you have a terminal logged in via a serial port. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 (intel) Disk Partitioning - HELP!! Date: 9 Jul 1996 09:09:16 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4rt7js$a76@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4rs2mb$1jau@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> wrote: : I have NS3.3 running on a Primary Partition on Drive C. I would like : to create a extra NS Partition on a different drive. I am attempting : to create this on an 'Extended Partition'. My problem is - I cannot : get NS to 'see' this extra partition. : Has anyone out there ever tried this? Do anyone know how to get NS to : recognize a 'logical' disk drive in the manner of OS/2, Windows NT : etc? No, it is not possible. Make a primary partition for NeXTSTEP (there can be up to four primary partitions on a disk) From the manpage of NeXT's fdisk: fdisk knows nothing about logical partitions, which are sub-partitions of an extended partition. Nor perhaps should it, as these are gross kludges from the Evil OS Company of the North. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: kwiesel@pollux (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 (intel) Disk Partitioning - HELP!! Date: 9 Jul 1996 10:05:56 GMT Organization: RHRZ - Univerity of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <4rtau4$ip6@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <4rs2mb$1jau@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Cc: jbrathw@ibm.net In <4rs2mb$1jau@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Jerome Brathwaite wrote: > I have NS3.3 running on a Primary Partition on Drive C. I would like > to create a extra NS Partition on a different drive. I am attempting > to create this on an 'Extended Partition'. My problem is - I cannot > get NS to 'see' this extra partition. > Has anyone out there ever tried this? Do anyone know how to get NS to > recognize a 'logical' disk drive in the manner of OS/2, Windows NT > etc? > Jerome > This seems to be impossible since Nextstep cant access extended partitions. For instance i have an extended dos partition on the boot drive right behind the Nextstep partition and Nextstep can not access it. Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:36:37 +0200 From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be> Message-ID: <9607090936.AA19063@flexus.fotek.com> Subject: I've lost several mail messages Cc: Lennart_Lovstrand@NeXT.com Dear experts, I have just polled my mail relay from my NeXTstation running NEXTSTEP_3.2 over a UUCP connection, and received 25 messages, as evident from the following sources: /usr/spool/uucp/SYSLOG: 25 pairs with one of 146 bytes every time /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE: 25 times rmail rfschtkt (or RfSchtkt) /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: 25 triplets to=rfschtkt (or to=RfSchtkt) I presume this comes after the rmail. All have stat=Sent Does this deposit the messages directly in /usr/spool/mail? Nothing about this in /tmp/console.log. But I've only got 13 messages in my Active.mbox. My NeXT Announcements Digest 771 is missing, for one (from antigone.com). I searched /tmp for any remains, but nothing there (didn't really expect anything here). Nothing in /cores. I did see a problem somewhere about a file that was not found or something, but I was not very attentive, so I don't really remember. I believe it was something with Mail.app, so I quit that application and relaunched it. Stupid me, for not immediately investigating this and copying files to a secure location! I suspect that this is a problem with /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch? I have a list of people that sent these messages, from /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog, so I suppose I can ask them to resend their mails. (``Sorry, I'm running NEXTSTEP, and...'') Is this one for BugNeXT and KBNS? Any chance it will be cured before the sun becomes a red giant and destroys life on earth? Have any of you encountered something like this? Is there any error handling code in MailFetch? Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think *** The year 2000 will be the last year of the 20th century. *** PS: I have applied the patch for /bin/rmail described in KBNS.32.2.018, but that was a while back, and I haven't had any problems with it.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Notebooks and NeXTSTEP 3.0 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 15:54:35 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <31E2649B.167E@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have any recomendations on which notebookto buy with NeXTSTEP. Two makes we are interested in are NEC and Compac. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has experience of using NeXTSTEP on such machines. We would be interested in a Dock unit aswell. Is there any general information on NeXTSTEP and Notebooks. I have checked NextAnswers and there does not seem to be much information. Are there any notebooks that will definite not work with NeXTSTEP. Mail replies aswell as postings would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance. 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: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: 9 Jul 1996 14:22:24 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rtpv0$bbn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> In article <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D.) writes: > I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of > me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making > it viewable. > > I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode it. > In my case, I now have a file called .tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - so > far so good. > I go through the following procedure from pine with NeXT Mail view the attachment (say's I can't) save to disk as something.uue exit pine uudecode something.uue a file .tar.somebizarre-phrase appears. I have file name completion so I type mv .tar[escape key after the tar] hit a blank and type something.compressed I then from my file viewer highlight the file and select decompress. A file Index.rtf appears (usually all I need to see) plus other parts of the next mail (if sounds, etc. were there) Since compressed files are gnutarred and gnuzipped, then you should be able to gunzip after renaming it to something.tar.gz and then guntar something.tar (haven't done that part yet) -- - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trouble poweing off black h/w Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 14:51:33 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <4rtrtc$t6o@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> References: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> brad@instep.bc.ca wrote: >I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation. I can no longer power off properly. >I press the power button, or click on the power off button, and it commences >syncing the disk, the screen goes blank, and then it just sits there with a >greyed out screen and the power still on. I then press Command-~ and press the >power button on the keyboard and only then does it power off. >What gives? Stuck inode. [disengage propellerhead mode] Somewhere there's a program that is stuck, or just stubborn, and won't quit when the OS tells it to. (which keeps it's disk image marked as being in use, making the kernel wait for it) Take a look at any changes you made shortly before the hangs started showing up. Past experience is that things that muck with the serial ports are great candidates for this sort of problem. Mike Paquette I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com (Roberto Arrocha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz Drive Problems Date: 9 Jul 1996 15:39:57 GMT Organization: WilTel Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rtugd$shu@gateway.wiltel.com> Keywords: iomega jaz NEXTSTEP OPENSTEP I've installed a Jaz Drive on a NS3.3 Intel box. I've got thsi disktab entry from the net and updated /etc/disktab. iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.5512/1:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5394:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: I was able to format a disk with and without this disktab entry. BTW, my version of the drive is not G.5512, it is Rev G.60. After I loaded OPENSTEP, my system would not recognize the formatted drive. It would not even allow me to re-format a disk. I then attached the drive to a HP 715/100 running NS3.3. I modified the disktab entry as above. The system sees the drive: mach: iomega jaz 1GB Rev G.60 as sd1 at sc0 target 4 lun 0 .but is not able to read the contents. Can someone help me figure what the source of the problem might be? Thanks, -- Roberto Arrocha WorldCom Advanced Software Technology 8665 New Trails Drive The Woodlands, TX 77381 Phone: 713.364.4141 Email: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com Fax: 713.362.6415
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Notebooks and NeXTSTEP 3.0 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 17:55:01 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <31E280D5.2781@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <31E2649B.167E@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry the subject line should have been Re: Notebooks and NeXTSTEP 3.3 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: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com (Roberto Arrocha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Drive Problems Date: 9 Jul 1996 16:13:41 GMT Organization: WilTel Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ru0fl$sr1@gateway.wiltel.com> References: <4ru08q$so9@gateway.wiltel.com> Keywords: Iomega Jaz NEXTSTEP OPENSTEP System does not recognize Jaz drive. I get the following error msgs: probing for DOS probing for CDROM init_device: SDIOCGETCAP: I/O error init_device: SDIOCGETCAP: I/O error probing for mac probing for cdaudio and an error Panel with: "The scsi disk is unreadable." on OPENSTEP for Intel and SPARC. The disk was formatted under NEXTSTEP 3.3 on Intel. Any ideas what the problem might be? -- Roberto Arrocha WorldCom Advanced Software Technology 8665 New Trails Drive The Woodlands, TX 77381 Phone: 713.364.4141 Email: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com Fax: 713.362.6415
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Where is 'dcnm'? (was Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960709173031.11570A-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:32:55 -0400 References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> <4rtpv0$bbn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> To: woo@ornl.gov In-Reply-To: <4rtpv0$bbn@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Someone somewhere wrote a nice little program called 'dcnm' (Decode NeXTMail) which you can use in PINE to decode the index.rtf of the message (get a NeXTMail message, hit | for "PIPE" and do 'dcnm', the contents of the message will appear in the PINE window. I did this for many months. However, I can't remember where I got 'dcnm' from in the first place. I am hoping the author is reading this and will let us all know. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat On 9 Jul 1996, John W. Wooten wrote: > In article <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. > Beaty, Ph.D.) writes: > > I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of > > me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making > > it viewable. > > > > I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode > it. > > In my case, I now have a file called .tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - > so > > far so good. > > > I go through the following procedure from pine with NeXT Mail > > view the attachment (say's I can't) > save to disk as something.uue > exit pine > > uudecode something.uue > a file .tar.somebizarre-phrase appears. I have file name completion so I type > mv .tar[escape key after the tar] hit a blank and type something.compressed > I then from my file viewer highlight the file and select decompress. > > A file Index.rtf appears (usually all I need to see) plus other parts of the > next mail (if sounds, etc. were there) > > Since compressed files are gnutarred and gnuzipped, then > you should be able to gunzip after renaming it to something.tar.gz > and then guntar something.tar (haven't done that part yet) > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - > J. W. Wooten > > >
From: erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using fstab to ignore scsi drive Date: 9 Jul 1996 21:32:06 GMT Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc. Message-ID: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> Summary: getting nextstep3.3 to ignore drive Keywords: fstab scsi drive I have a SPARC10 running NextStep3.3. On the SCSI chain, there is a SunOS boot drive. Everytime I log into the console, I get a message saying the SunOS boot drive is damaged (the actual message says scsi drive is damaged) and do I want to initialize. Is there a way to create an fstab entry to cause the machine to ignore that particular drive, i.e. don't flash the message, don't try to mount it, just ignore the drive with scsi id 3. Thanks in advance! -- Erik
From: mib@microweb.com (MIB) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help me. PLease! Date: 9 Jul 1996 23:45:45 GMT Organization: Microweb Communications Message-ID: <mib-1007960444080001@sport27.microweb.com> I created a network useing SimpleNetworkStarter.app, now how do I get rid of it? mib
From: John Schaffer <jschaffer@jestech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail server questions Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 18:03:51 -0700 Organization: JesCo Technical Services, Inc. Message-ID: <31E30177.62E@jestech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone point me to a FAQ or a book on how to setup a NeXT workstation as a mail server? I want to have Windows95 workstations be able to get email off of the NeXT box using Netscape as the front end. Thanks in advance. jschaffer@jestech.com
From: fred@mlink.net (Patrique Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba on NEXTSTEP 3.3 and Windows95 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 01:40:13 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <31e309dc.14696283@nntp.mlink.net> Hello all, I have a NeXT Station running samba and a Pentium120 running Win95. I am using the NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer PPD that I got off Adobe's web site on my Win95. Samba v.1.9.15p6 compiled for NEXTSTEP v.3.3. I just cant seem to print from Win95. After sending another print job from my Win95 system to my server, I checked in the spool directory for the named printer and copied the spooled files to /tmp so I could take a look what was in there. After I determined which file actually contained the postcript information. I examined it and it looked fine. Then I simply printed it out using lpr without any option. It works fine. So I ask myself why wont it print from Win95? The file gets to the server ok. but it seems that it is trying to convert the Postcript file even tho it already is in the right format. Anyway I am giving you the files that I am using to configure samba. Hope this will help. Any suggestions? Patrique P.S. Please reply by e-mail. to the address shown at the end cause I cant always read the newsgroups. ---------------/usr/local/samba/lib/myprintcap-------------- BlackPrinter ---------------/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf---------------- [global] printing = bsd printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/myprintcap load printers = yes guest account = pcguest workgroup = Win95 print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -r -P%p %s lprm command = /usr/ucb/lprm -P%p %j lpq command = /usr/ucb/lpq %p log file = /usr/local/samba/log.%m [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes read only = no create mode = 0750 [printers] comment = NeXT_Laser_Printer path = /tmp printer = BlackPrinter browseable = yes printable = yes public = yes writable = no create mode = 0700 ;[cesar_printer] ; comment = black_cesar ; path = /tmp ; printer = black_net_printer ; browseable = yes ; public = yes ; writable = no ; printable = yes ; create mode = 0700 [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes -----------Error message printed on the outputed page---------------- WARNING: Unable to convert document to Postcript Printer: BlackPrinter User: pat Host: vertigo Filter: "psvf" not available This filter needs to be installed and the appropriate shell scripts need to be edited. Contact your system administrator for assistance. ------------------------------------------------- Patrique Lalonde pat@sim.qc.ca
From: William Briesemaster <wbriesem@parker.bio.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Site for a MUD Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:01:42 -0700 Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960709185059.23512A-100000@parker.bio.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a mud that was compiled and ran on Next 3.2 on BLACK hardware for quite some time before the optic went blewie and took out the hard drive irrepairably. Basicly, I need a site to run it on. I cant afford to pay for an expensive comercial site. We are in the process of buying a machine to run it on, so the account would only be a summer thing. The specs are its MORDOR_3.0 with little modification, meaning its self RAM reducing, and is stable as hell. The space used is about 40 megs of space (DAMN low for any mud but MORDOR). The mud has been in existance for 2 & half years, and has a well established player base. The data base is 100% copywrited by me so legality is not a question, and the src is copywrited by the writer. If you can provide an account for a mud named after Bulwinkle the cartoon moose, let me know. Thanks. Wm William Briesemaster wbriesem@parker.bio.uci.edu God, grant me the serenity to accept the mac I cannot change, the courage to change what little I can, and the willpower not to shoot it. Macintosh Owners Prayer
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba, Netinfo, & printing Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:09:07 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4rt0ij$74j@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960708111205.2606A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: mitchelr@teleport.com In <Pine.SUN.3.92.960708111205.2606A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> Ryan J Mitchell wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm successfully running Samba under NS3.3 to share drives with my Win95 > pc. I'm also running Netinfo-- is it possible to print remotely via samba > while Netinfo is running? In other words, Netinfo bypasses use of an > /etc/printcap file, which samba looks for when it prints. Can someone > point me in the right direction to get samba to use the local printer > while Netinfo is running? nidump printcap / >/etc/printcap or edit a minimal printcap yourself. Patching samba to understand netinfo would be nicer - any volunteers? -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trouble poweing off black h/w Date: 10 Jul 1996 03:33:58 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4rv8b6$5lb@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> <4rtrtc$t6o@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> Cc: mpaque@pacbell.net In <4rtrtc$t6o@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> Mike Paquette wrote: > brad@instep.bc.ca wrote: > > >I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a NeXTstation. I can no longer power off properly. > >I press the power button, or click on the power off button, and it commences > >syncing the disk, the screen goes blank, and then it just sits there with a > >greyed out screen and the power still on. I then press Command-~ and press the > >power button on the keyboard and only then does it power off. > > Somewhere there's a program that is stuck, or just stubborn, and won't > quit when the OS tells it to. (which keeps it's disk image marked as > being in use, making the kernel wait for it) > > Take a look at any changes you made shortly before the hangs started > showing up. Past experience is that things that muck with the serial > ports are great candidates for this sort of problem. > I have found that getty on my cube causes this behavior. I replaced it with mgetty and it now shuts off fine. Further, it doesn't seem to have the 7 bit problem that the standard getty exhibits. Just a thought. - Steve --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: Carl_Lindberg@BLaCKSMITH.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: 10 Jul 1996 04:26:15 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <4rvbd7$fqk@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D.) wrote: > I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I > cannot for the life of me repeat the procedure described > for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making it viewable. > ... > Could someone please try to do this procedure, or give > me a detailed list of what they actually do, including > renaming the files, so that I can try this too? I'd really > appreciate it. > Try this: cat <uuencoded-file> | (uudecode; (cat .tar* ; rm .tar* ) | uncompress | tar xf -) (That command is all on one line). Hope this helps, -Carl Lindberg Carl_Lindberg@BLaCKSMITH.com -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Carl Lindberg Carl_Lindberg@BLaCKSMITH.com (NeXTmail, MIME)
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using fstab to ignore scsi drive Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 05:18:41 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul10.051841.6841@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> In article <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf) writes: > I have a SPARC10 running NextStep3.3. On the SCSI chain, there is a SunOS boot drive. Everytime I log into the console, I get a message saying the SunOS boot drive is damaged (the actual message says scsi drive is damaged) and do I want to initialize. Is there a way to create an fstab entry to cause the machine to ignore that particular drive, i.e. don't flash the message, don't try to mount it, just ignore the drive with scsi id 3. Yes. Create an entry in /etc/fstab with a type of ignore (instead of '4.3'). This only works for 3.3 (or greater). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: caggiano@wtv.com (Alan Caggiano, Psy.D.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor? Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 22:58:22 -0600 Organization: Thin Client Group Message-ID: <caggiano-0907962258220001@sf-027.sfo.com> References: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL> <4raavp$c7f@news.wco.com> <4rbdlc$4h@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <Dtxou5.7Bq@waldo.com> In article <Dtxou5.7Bq@waldo.com>, hocker@waldo.com wrote: > And what, pray tell, is a "zapitator"? Yes, this could extend the lives of a batch o' black boxes yeh? > : > monochrome monitors. We were able to successfully refurbish most of them > : > by using a "zapitator" on the CRT to blow the oxides off of the exiter > : filaments. > -- Alan Rosseland-Caggiano, Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist , "Ease of use means it IS easy to use, not it SHOULD BE easy to use."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "broken" ROM monitor?? From: petcher@covenant.edu (Donald N. Petcher) Message-ID: <31e2df54.0@news.covenant.edu> Date: 9 Jul 96 22:38:12 GMT I have a black color Turbo machine, and whenever I try to get to the ROM monitor the keyboard seems to turn itself off. In other words, I can get to the ROM monitor in the usual ways (through NMI monitor, using unix shutdown, booting with Alt-Command-~) but in each case, when I get the "Next>" prompt, there is no response from the keyboard and I can't do anything. The only key that works is the power key (but when it asks if I really want to power down, the "y" key doesn't work so I can't actually power down without unplugging the machine). Anyone have an idea what is going on? Cheers, Don Petcher
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem adding new machine to the network Keywords: configuration adding Distribution: world Message-ID: <31e36751.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 10 Jul 96 08:18:25 GMT Hello Gurus, we have here a strange problem with a newly added machine in our local netinfo network. Data transfer between this new machine and any other machine of the local network is awefully slooow, but if I initiate a data transfer to a machine not in the local netinfo network, perhaps use ftp to download some remote file, I get normal transfer rates, which can be much higher than transfer rates between this special machine and other machines of the local cluster. This problem does not occur with all other machines, only this new machines shows this behaviour. File copying of nfs mounted filesystems over the net also does not work; it just stops after a few kilobytes. I can ping the machine, and only a very low number of packets are lost (approx. 1%, but for our cluster 0% would be normal) and for some packets it takes a little long to get the answer (10ms, 0ms is a typical value on other machines). I think that the netinfo configuration of this machine is correct. I double checked the machine entry for this machine in the netinfo database, and could not find anything wrong. The local host configuration as done by HostManager also seems to be OK. But I think somewhere in this configuration must lie the solution to the problem. Does anybody know what's going on? Frank frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: Yu-Wen Cheng Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up PPP on white hardware Date: 10 Jul 1996 08:14:05 GMT Organization: University of Arizona, Mathematics Message-ID: <4rvood$o72@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <4rj91t$c43@Mercury.mcs.com> Cc: par@MCS.COM Peter Richardson wrote: > > Here is where I ran into the first problem. I have an internal modem > set to Comm 4. What do I need to set in the serial driver configuration > for this to be recognized? > The new ISASerialPort driver from NeXTanswer allows you to create more than 2 instances for your serial devices. However, it does not support shared IRQ (usually, in an Intel machine, COM2 and COM4 share the same IRQ 3), so in order to get it work, you have to make sure your modem supports different IRQ setting. Yuwen Cheng yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: Jim.Vancheri@mci.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Selfish Windows95 Date: 10 Jul 1996 11:13:17 GMT Organization: InternetMCI Message-ID: <4s038d$sj5@news.internetmci.com> References: <4rkukt$lv4@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <4rr4kj$179i@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> Cc: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM In <4rr4kj$179i@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss wrote: > Godwin (godwin@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote: > > > I have one common problem with Windows95.. umm how do I get back NEXTSTEP > > bootselector once windows95 was installed??? I have just installed win95 > > on my pentium now.. it hide my NEXTSTEP partition.. > > I saved this snippet from a News posting some months ago: > > Anyway,after you install Win95, you have to replace the NEXTSTEP booter > by booting from floppy via: > boot: fd()mach_kernel rootdev=/dev/sd0a -s > And when you get to the shell prompt, do a: > disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 > > I hope this helps. Sounds like it is exactly what you need. > Chris > A simpler way is to run fdisk under DOS and make the NeXT partition the active one. The next time you boot, NeXTStep will fire up. Then go to the shell prompt and type: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Mosaic 2.6 for NeXT black box Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:05:38 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <31E38E82.446B@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <4rgr6s$lej@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kin Hung Au <kinau@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> You can try the version in my ftp site: ftp://ftp.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/pub/next/X11 I think this may be 2.6 and I can not remember if this is one that worked very well. I have compiled 2.7 beta releases with wais support but it is a painful proceedure. You need to change some source code slightly. I gave up trying to port them as Cube-X supply 2.6 with there release 5.0. Ok it does not have wais support included but this is not a problem. Contact me if you want version 2.7 and I will see if I can find the old source code I had compiled. I have compiled a few X windows programs such as mxgdb and xftp (although this has a slight problem reading local directory listings correctly). Perhaps I will make these available aswell. 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: ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: A strange NeXT Printer problem ... Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 10 Jul 1996 10:11:51 GMT Organization: Telecom Finland News Service Message-ID: <4rvvl7$sha@kuikka.inet.fi> Hello, I wonder if anyone might have any clues as to how to solve the following problem: Environment: Color NeXTstation (non-turbo) NeXTstep 3.0 NeXT 400 dpi Printer NeXTstep has been installed from scratch on a new system disk. The printer is new (has been lying unused up until now). At boot time on "Starting Local Services ..." I hear the print engine start and after approx. 3 secs stop (I assume this is normal). The problem: Any attempts to print from any app will result in the print engine starting and immediately stopping. Nothing gets printed and no paper feed (even partial) happens. The UI reports: "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed". The following lines get written to /usr/adm/lpd-errs : Server:Local_Printer[95]: chico: root - start Server:Local_Printer[95]: Cannot open device: No such device (Note that /dev/lpd/printer exists and in general everything is intact as immediately after NeXTstep installation ...) I'd appreciate any ideas on how to solve this. Thanks, -- Timo Lehtinen Kivihaantie 8 c, FIN-00310 Helsinki, Finland Stream Technologies Inc. Tel: +358 0 4774 8020, Fax: +358 0 4774 8021
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: using fstab to ignore scsi drive Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960710081409.1472A-100000@charisma> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:18:38 -0400 References: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> To: Erik Wolf <erikw@wri.com> In-Reply-To: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII man fstab says: If the mnt_type is specified as ``ignore'' the entry is ignored. This is useful to show disk partitions which are currently not used. I would try: /dev/sd2a /SunOS ignore rw,noquota 1 2 (^^^^^^^^ make sure you set this to the appropriate device for your SunOS boot drive) Note: this is what "I" would "try". "I" would also make a backup of /etc/fstab before I mucked with it because "I" have mucked them up before and had to fix it from single-user mode. SO consider the source of the free and unwaranteed suggestion :-) TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat On 9 Jul 1996, Erik Wolf wrote: > I have a SPARC10 running NextStep3.3. On the SCSI chain, there is a > SunOS boot drive. Everytime I log into the console, I get a message > saying the SunOS boot drive is damaged (the actual message says scsi > drive is damaged) and do I want to initialize. Is there a way to create > an fstab entry to cause the machine to ignore that particular drive, > i.e. don't flash the message, don't try to mount it, just ignore the > drive with scsi id 3.
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem adding new machine to the network Date: 10 Jul 1996 11:58:31 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <4s05t7$g9n@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <31e36751.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) wrote: > we have here a strange problem with a newly added machine in our local [...] You don't write what type of hardware you're using. Some of the problems you mention sound very exactly like "the old 3Com Etherlink problem". If your new machines use a 3Com EtherLink III network adapter you should make sure to install the 3.31 version of the driver, _not_ the driver on the NEXTSTEP CD. You can get the driver package as NeXTAnswers Document #2146. Marcel Bresink --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Computer Graphics Lab, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: 10 Jul 1996 12:37:51 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <4s086v$gu7@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> In article <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D.) writes: > I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of > me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making > it viewable. > > I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode it. > In my case, I now have a file called tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - so > far so good. > > I remember reading that you next gunzip it, and then un-tar it. But I can't > get gunzip to do anything other than fail, saying "corrupt input. Use zcat to > recover some data." If I try to 'tar tvf' it, I get: "tar: only 1353 bytes > from archive [filename]" I've tried both tar, and gnutar, and no difference > has been seen. You'll find in /NextApps/Mail.app a decode (and encode) and a safetar to read you message ! -- Xavier NICOLAY Architecte Systeme UNIX Ecole Polytechnique Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX) 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: 10 Jul 1996 12:38:27 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <4s0883$guf@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> In article <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D.) writes: > I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of > me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making > it viewable. > > I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode it. > In my case, I now have a file called tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - so > far so good. > > I remember reading that you next gunzip it, and then un-tar it. But I can't > get gunzip to do anything other than fail, saying "corrupt input. Use zcat to > recover some data." If I try to 'tar tvf' it, I get: "tar: only 1353 bytes > from archive [filename]" I've tried both tar, and gnutar, and no difference > has been seen. You'll find in /NextApps/Mail.app a decode (and encode) and a safetar to read you message ! -- Xavier NICOLAY Architecte Systeme UNIX Ecole Polytechnique Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX) 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: 10 Jul 1996 12:38:43 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <4s088j$gv8@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> Keywords: uudecode In article <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com (Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D.) writes: > I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of > me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making > it viewable. > > I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode it. > In my case, I now have a file called tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - so > far so good. > > I remember reading that you next gunzip it, and then un-tar it. But I can't > get gunzip to do anything other than fail, saying "corrupt input. Use zcat to > recover some data." If I try to 'tar tvf' it, I get: "tar: only 1353 bytes > from archive [filename]" I've tried both tar, and gnutar, and no difference > has been seen. You'll find in /NextApps/Mail.app a decode (and encode) and a safetar to read you message ! -- Xavier NICOLAY Architecte Systeme UNIX Ecole Polytechnique Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX) 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to decode NeXT Mail Messages Date: 10 Jul 1996 12:52:57 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <4s0939$her@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> References: <4rr6lv$s6o@news.cmg.fcnbd.com> Robert E. Beaty, Ph.D. writes ----------------------------------- I saw that this was asked and answered earlier, but I cannot for the life of me repeat the procedure described for decoding a NeXT Mail message and making it viewable. I've saved the message body, which is clearly a uuencoded file. I uudecode it. In my case, I now have a file called .tar.404.Another_NeXTMail_Tes.attach - so far so good. I remember reading that you next gunzip it, and then un-tar it. But I can't get gunzip to do anything other than fail, saying "corrupt input. Use zcat to recover some data." If I try to 'tar tvf' it, I get: "tar: only 1353 bytes from archive [filename]" I've tried both tar, and gnutar, and no difference has been seen. I think it's all supposed to be a big joke on me - by the entire net community. I can hear you all laughing now... But listen - it isn't my birthday, and no matter what my wife says, I don't like these jokes. Could someone please try to do this procedure, or give me a detailed list of what they actually do, including renaming the files, so that I can try this too? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks a bunch for the help... Hi Ho, Bob (drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com) Member, Elite Architecture Hit Squad We will write no code before it's designed. First Chicago - NBD - Technical Architecture Group Capital Markets Systems - (312)732-3087 ----------------------------------- You'll find in /NextApps/Mail.app a decode (and encode) and a safetar to read you message ! -- Xavier NICOLAY Architecte Systeme UNIX Ecole Polytechnique Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX) 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: A strange NeXT Printer problem ... Date: 10 Jul 1996 12:51:16 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <4s0904$heb@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> References: <4rvvl7$sha@kuikka.inet.fi> In article <4rvvl7$sha@kuikka.inet.fi> ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) writes: Hello, I wonder if anyone might have any clues as to how to solve the following problem: Environment: Color NeXTstation (non-turbo) NeXTstep 3.0 NeXT 400 dpi Printer NeXTstep has been installed from scratch on a new system disk. The printer is new (has been lying unused up until now). At boot time on "Starting Local Services ..." I hear the print engine start and after approx. 3 secs stop (I assume this is normal). The problem: Any attempts to print from any app will result in the print engine starting and immediately stopping. Nothing gets printed and no paper feed (even partial) happens. The UI reports: "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed". The following lines get written to /usr/adm/lpd-errs : Server:Local_Printer[95]: chico: root - start Server:Local_Printer[95]: Cannot open device: No such device (Note that /dev/lpd/printer exists and in general everything is intact as immediately after NeXTstep installation ...) I'd appreciate any ideas on how to solve this. Thanks, -- Timo Lehtinen Kivihaantie 8 c, FIN-00310 Helsinki, Finland Stream Technologies Inc. Tel: +358 0 4774 8020, Fax: +358 0 4774 8021 How is your printer device ? crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0 Jul 10 12:01 /dev/np0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 39, 0 Nov 12 1994 /dev/nps0 the port of the NeXT printer is /dev/np (see man 4 np) -- Xavier NICOLAY Architecte Systeme UNIX Ecole Polytechnique Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX) 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sorry Date: 10 Jul 1996 13:00:11 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <4s09gr$hoc@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> NewsGrazer doesn't post correctly !!! -- Xavier NICOLAY Architecte Systeme UNIX Ecole Polytechnique Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX) 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP on a PC from a Floppy disc Message-ID: <1996Jul10.145730.46714@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: kuhn@ifi.unibas.ch (Walter Kuhn) Date: 10 Jul 96 14:57:30 MET Hi, sorry if this is trivial, but i am not very familiar with NeXTSTEP and tricky PC configurations. I want to run NeXTSTEP from a SCSI disc. My PC has a EIDE disc with Win95 which i normally (have to) use :-(, so: Is it possible to boot NeXTSTEP from a floppy disc (as i do not want to change my Windows95)? If this is not possible, do i have to use a bottmanager, and which one? Please reply by email, i will post a summary. Many thanks in advance Walter ---------------------------------------------------------- Walter Kuhn E-mail: kuhn@ifi.unibas.ch Institut fuer Informatik Phone: +41 (61) 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel Telefax: +41 (61) 321 99 15 Mittlere Strasse 142 4056 Basel, Switzerland ----------------------------------------------------------
From: tf@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Fuchs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/disktab entry for Quantum XP32150W Date: 10 Jul 1996 13:41:12 GMT Organization: Computer Science Bonn, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4s0bto$m38@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Hi, can anyone tell me the /etc/disktab entry for the Quantum XP32150W ? Thanks in advance. Thomas +-------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Thomas Fuchs | Tel.: +49-228-550-292 | | System Administration | Fax.: +49-228-550-382 | | Institut f"ur Informatik III | | | Universit"at Bonn | e-mail: | | R"omerstrasse 164 | tf@informatik.uni-bonn.de | | 53117 Bonn | tf@cs.uni-bonn.de | +-------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
From: velcro@escape.com (David Sinclair) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help config GATED -- NS3.2 Date: 10 Jul 1996 14:34:12 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, NY, USA Message-ID: <4s0f14$jj9@news.cloud9.net> hi, all. i'm having a little difficulty configuring gated to do routing between my slab (running 3.2), BeBox, and the internet in general. the next is at 198.180.211.10 (intranet address) and has a ppp connection to the internet. the Be is at 198.180.211.40 on the intranet, and has its router set to the intranet address of the next. i think the only problem is with my gated.conf file, which currently has just a statement rip yes; (turn on rip protocol), and then a static route statement, so that all traffic for the intranet will go through the ethernet interface rather than the default (the ppp interface). now when i do anything on the Be that requires network access (to the internet, outside the intranet), i see modem activity, so i am sure that the packets are being gated *outward*, but there's no reply to the Be's requests, so it seems packets aren't coming *back into* to Be. do i need a line in the gated.conf file to 'announce' the Be to the outside world? traffic between the next and the internet at large flows fine; no problem there. any help greatl;y appreciated; usually i can figure this stuff out from the man pages, but gated-config.8 is leaving me numb... :-) cheers, david
From: sbh@atg.andor.com (Steve Herndon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jobs print in reverse order. Date: 10 Jul 1996 15:24:12 GMT Organization: AltNet - Affordable Usenet Access - http://www.alt.net Message-ID: <4s0hus$8p4@tofu.alt.net> Hi, Can anybody tell me why all of the print jobs from my machine print in reverse order? The printer is an Apple Laserwriter with a network card. I'm running NS 3.3 Intel. The printer is configured at the root netinfo domain and the guy sitting next to me with the same configuration does not have this problem. I've looked at the ppd file on my machine and it is identical to the one on the machine that works. I've looked all over /usr/spool, the admin docs, man pages and can't find any clues as to why this is happening. Any ideas/suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks. -- Steve Herndon AND Interactive Communications Inc. sbh@atg.andor.com (303) 444-4370, x106
From: Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing from NeXT to WfW PC Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:50:53 -0600 Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960710094431.24583B-100000@raddi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Has anyone ever attempted to convince NS/I to print to a WfW PC? Going the other way is pretty easy using Samba, but I need to go the other way (the printer in question is shared among several other WfW machines and isn't mine to move over to the NS/I computer). I've managed to get lpr printing to work over Samba (a bit of work, but pretty easy). Getting NS to print via the Print Panel seems to be non-trivial though. I've set up the printer in question in NetInfo, but when I select it, the print panel complains about not having a PPD. When I try to print anyway, NS complains that I haven't selected a printer. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks Eugene ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using fstab to ignore scsi drive Date: 10 Jul 1996 16:07:53 GMT Organization: Disorganized Bits Message-ID: <4s0kgp$cae@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960710081409.1472A-100000@charisma> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: : : : I would try: : /dev/sd2a /SunOS ignore rw,noquota 1 2 : (^^^^^^^^ make sure you set this to the appropriate device for your SunOS : boot drive) ^^^^^ You definitely do not want fsck or dump to touch this partition. So make these numbers better into '0 0'. On the other hand it may not matter very much as this file is consulted on NeXT only during a boot. Oh, I edited my /etc/fstab many, many times. My machine still lives. :-) --mj
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can multiple local hosts access Web with only 1 IP address? Date: 10 Jul 1996 16:22:38 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4s0lce$m52@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> Several users on different hosts want to Web browse, but we connect to our ISP via PPP with only a single IP address. All hosts are NS machines. Is IP forwarding a solution? Is running a proxy HTTP server a solution? If so, how can these be configured under NS? Thanks! -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/disktab entry for Quantum XP32150W Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:10:43 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <4s168j$gdp@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <4s0bto$m38@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Thomas Fuchs <tf@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : Hi, : can anyone tell me the /etc/disktab entry for the Quantum XP32150W ? I'm using this self-rolled since 1.5 years without problems. Note that it doesn't use the whole disk but makes only one partition of 2 GB. Quantum XP32150:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:ns#109:nt#10:nc#3907:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#300:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#196:\ :pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD: -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: ŸŸŸŸŸúÈ6·jim@acb2.cgs.edu (Jim Kieley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disk mounting problem Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:47:26 GMT Organization: Office of Information Technologies, Pomona College Message-ID: <4s18de$g0v@epcot.pomona.edu> I am having some difficulties mounting disks on black hardware with NS 3.3. More specifically, in one instance I can probe a third device with two large partitions via scsimodes and it shows properly up as /dev/rsd2a. I can't mount sd2a (file or directory not found) but I can mount sd2b. This has reoccurred with different 3.3 systems and different disks. Is this a known bug? Will the 3.3 patch help? Another question: is a Segate 9 gb disk useable with black hardware? Are there any disktabs entries floating around for such a device? Jim Kieley jim@cga.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Erich Champion" <echampio@adobe.com> Subject: Help needed building common lisp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <AE097454-10566@144.7.7.3> Sender: usenet@adobe.com (Times USENET news) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:52:50 GMT Hi, I have a NeXT computer that's been upgraded with a 25MHz 68040, and is running NeXTSTEP 3.0. I found the NeXTSTEP 1.0a optical disk that must have originally come with the machine, and have been trying to get the version of Allegro Common Lisp off of the optical drive to work under NeXTSTEP 3.0. I copied the /usr/cl directory tree from the optical disk onto my hard drive and read the release notes. As written in the lisp release notes, from the /usr/cl/build directory, I ran the following command: sh config I answered the questions that the config script asked, but when the build process actually started, I received the following error: /bin/ld: static2c cputype (3) does not match cputype (6) of objects files previously loaded. /bin/ld: Can't locate file for: -ldsp_s From the message, I'm guessing that the cl sources are set up for a 68030 processor, and the error results from the fact that I'm running on a 68040. Is this the case? Can I build common lisp so that I can use it on my 68040 under NeXTSTEP 3.0? Thanks in advance for any help that I may be about to receive. Erich Champion echampio@adobe.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can multiple local hosts access Web with only 1 IP address? Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:45:46 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul10.204546.8772@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4s0lce$m52@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> In article <4s0lce$m52@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) writes: > Several users on different hosts want to Web browse, but we connect to > our ISP via PPP with only a single IP address. All hosts are NS machines. > > Is IP forwarding a solution? Is running a proxy HTTP server a solution? > If so, how can these be configured under NS? Install a proxy server on the PPP machine. Get the CERN sources, which install easily on NeXT. I believe that the latest Apache release has a proxy module, but I haven't tried to use it. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Complete disk copy Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:50:12 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <31E4B234.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to move my server system disk from one disk to another larger disk. Which would be the best command to do this. dump, tar, dd Complete commands would be useful as a guide. Has anyone experienced problems doing disk to disk copies. Dave -- --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: 105 key keyboards (windows keyboards) Message-ID: <1996Jul11.095835.46718@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 11 Jul 96 09:58:34 MET I've finally com to installing NEXTSTEP on a PC (DEC celebris glst). Everythings fine and working (actually, NEXTSTEP was the *only* system I could install out of the box. All others, win95, winNT, and linux are causing problems in that they won't install according to the book ...) Now, the keyboard shipped with the machine has four more keys than the default keyboard suggested by NeXT (I am using the US keyboard): two of these keys have a windows logo on them, one a menu and the last is a second control key. I would like to use these keys under NEXTSTEP, but the NeXT supplied keyboard layouts and definitions won't let me do this. I've figured out how to define a new keyboard layout for use with the Keyboard.app, but I can't figure out the 'scan codes' (or whatever the key code used in the layout file stands for) of these keys. I want to map both alt keys to the NEXTSTEP alt, both controls to the NEXTSTEP control and both window keys to the NEXTSTEP command keys, and perhaps the menu key to the NEXTSTP HELP key. Can anyone help? Is this a FAQ issue I missed? -Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: Terry Gliedt <tpg@ispn.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can multiple local hosts access Web with only 1 IP address? Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 06:10:39 -0500 Organization: Internet Service Providers Network Message-ID: <31E4E12F.44BE9BCE@ispn.com> References: <4s0lce$m52@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Art Isbell <aisbell@ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell wrote: > > Several users on different hosts want to Web browse, but we connect to > our ISP via PPP with only a single IP address. All hosts are NS machines. > > Is IP forwarding a solution? Is running a proxy HTTP server a solution? > If so, how can these be configured under NS? You certainly can use a proxy HTTP server. I've used the CERN server in this situation. Apache just came out with proxy support also (I have no experience with this). -- =================================================================== Terry Gliedt tpg@fv.com MIME OK 507/356-4512 First Virtual Holdings http://www.fv.com/ http://www.hps.com/~tpg/
From: cpayne@optical.fiber.net (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help config GATED -- NS3.2 Date: 10 Jul 1996 18:02:50 GMT Organization: Fibernet! Satisfy the need for speed Message-ID: <4s0r8a$76e@optical.fiber.net> References: <4s0f14$jj9@news.cloud9.net> Back on 10 Jul 1996 14:34:12 GMT, David Sinclair (velcro@escape.com) wrote in <4s0f14$jj9@news.cloud9.net>: > hi, all. > i'm having a little difficulty configuring gated to do routing between my > slab (running 3.2), BeBox, and the internet in general. > any help greatl;y appreciated; usually i can figure this stuff out from > the man pages, but gated-config.8 is leaving me numb... :-) You get a gated? You get to use a NeXT as a router? Pray, tell how this is done. I add a second NIC and NEITHER network sees the other, PD gated, mgated (I know, Multicast not supported) or mrouted...dunnah matter. I had to incorporate Slowaris to do this (and it doesn't do it well, either). How come YOU get all the good stuff and I can't even get X to run remotely <boo hoo snivel grovel whine> ??? -- Carl Payne cpayne@fiber.net <--NeXTMAIL, MIME, ASCII all OK Cogito Ergo Amicrosoft
From: dirk@object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using fstab to ignore scsi drive Date: 11 Jul 1996 14:26:12 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <4s32u5$7hc@isabella.object-factory.com> References: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960710081409.1472A-100000@charisma> <4s0kgp$cae@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) wrote: > Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: > : > : > : I would try: > : /dev/sd2a /SunOS ignore rw,noquota 1 2 > : (^^^^^^^^ make sure you set this to the appropriate device for your SunOS > : boot drive) > ^^^^^ > > You definitely do not want fsck or dump to touch this partition. So > make these numbers better into '0 0'. On the other hand it may not matter > very much as this file is consulted on NeXT only during a boot. > > Oh, I edited my /etc/fstab many, many times. My machine still lives. :-) Please note that this only works for drives other than the one you boot off. I have been trying to ignore a dos partition on my first SCSI drive, no way. As soon as I log in the Workspace shows me this disk. This behaviour is really annoying. -dirk --- _____________________________________________________________________ Dirk Olmes OBJECT FACTORY Gesellschaft für Informatik und Datenverarbeitung mbH Lohbachstraße 12, 58239 Schwerte, Germany Telephon +49 (0) 2304 945 220 Telefax +49 (0) 2304 945 226 dirk@object-factory.com http://www.object-factory.com/
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can multiple local hosts access Web with only 1 IP address? Date: 11 Jul 1996 15:26:55 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4s36fv$j11@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> References: <4s0lce$m52@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <31E4E12F.44BE9BCE@ispn.com> Terry Gliedt <tpg@ispn.com> wrote: > Art Isbell wrote: > > Several users on different hosts want to Web browse, but we connect to > > our ISP via PPP with only a single IP address. All hosts are NS machines. > You certainly can use a proxy HTTP server. I've used the CERN > server in this situation. Apache just came out with proxy support > also (I have no experience with this). I built Apache with its optional proxy module and do get some proxy behavior, but no images appear in OmniWeb. Also, the Apache logs suggest problems: access_log: nextcube - - [10/Jul/1996:23:45:55 -0700] "GET http://www.netcom.com/ HTTP/1.0" 200 - nextcube - - [10/Jul/1996:23:48:12 -0700] "GET http://www.netcom.com/ HTTP/1.0" 200 - error_log: [Wed Jul 10 23:38:38 1996] Server configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Jul 10 23:40:09 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:42:19 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:45:58 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:45:59 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:46:01 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:46:04 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:46:06 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:46:06 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:46:09 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:46:10 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core [Wed Jul 10 23:47:05 1996] httpd: caught SIGBUS, dumping core Apache docs indicate that the proxy module is incomplete and experimental. Can someone point me to CERN http server sources? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: 105 key keyboards (windows keyboards) Date: 11 Jul 1996 16:59:19 GMT Organization: ALI Message-ID: <4s3bt7$beo@cetus.ali.bc.ca> References: <1996Jul11.095835.46718@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Cc: frank@ifi.unibas.ch In comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer frank@ifi.unibas.ch wrote: > Now, the keyboard shipped with the machine has four more keys than the > default keyboard suggested by NeXT (I am using the US keyboard): two of > these keys have a windows logo on them, one a menu and the last is a > second control key. > > I would like to use these keys under NEXTSTEP, but the NeXT supplied > keyboard layouts and definitions won't let me do this. > ... > Can anyone help? Is this a FAQ issue I missed? The MS-Windows keyboards came out after NS 3.3 shipped and therefore the operating system has no support for the extra keys. As far as it is concerned, these do not exist. OpenStep 4.0 for Mach OS (aka NeXTSTEP 4.0) apparently does support these extra keys and allows them to be re-mapped just like other keys. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can multiple local hosts access Web with only 1 IP address? Date: 11 Jul 1996 18:38:58 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4s3ho2$23k@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <4s0lce$m52@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) wrote: > Several users on different hosts want to Web browse, but we connect to > our ISP via PPP with only a single IP address. All hosts are NS machines. (...) I used CERN. But squid 1.0.0 is MUCH faster and better. It's as pkg on peanuts. (But it compiles out of the box too) Your IP must be up when you start the daemon. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: 105 key keyboards (windows keyboards) Date: 11 Jul 1996 20:21:54 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Message-ID: <4s3np2$1dd@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <1996Jul11.095835.46718@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch wrote: > Now, the keyboard shipped with the machine has four more keys than the > default keyboard suggested by NeXT (I am using the US keyboard): two of > these keys have a windows logo on them, one a menu and the last is a > second control key. > > I would like to use these keys under NEXTSTEP, but the NeXT supplied > keyboard layouts and definitions won't let me do this. > > I've figured out how to define a new keyboard layout for use with the > Keyboard.app, but I can't figure out the 'scan codes' (or whatever the > key code used in the layout file stands for) of these keys. If you knew the scancodes it wouldn't help because the 3.3 keyboard driver simply doesn't provide them. You need to buy OS 4.0 where it's included. Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe Lorscher Strasse 5 D-60489 Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007 E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII) PGP: public key on request Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group) _____________________________________________________________________
From: ted@clark.net (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS crashed NS/white :( Date: 11 Jul 1996 21:30:22 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Message-ID: <4s3rpe$hik@clarknet.clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi. I was recently backing up an NFS mounted Sun Sparc10/Solaris2.4 using SafetyNetv2.5r1 on a NS3.3white/intel P90 machine when things started to slow down and a backup never completing. After several additional tries, after a couple days, the whole machine locked up... SafetyNet was running solely under root. I had this same problem when I backed up an old Linux machine but I thought the problem was associated with a bad NFS implementation in Linux.. Now I'm not so sure... when we put the Sparc box on the LAN, it backed up fast and clean... However, now it's doing the same thing the Linux box did again. Are there diagnositics that could be run on NFS, or a way to find out if processes or full buffers are getting in the way or something else? All help gratefully received.. :) -- Ted --- \ o / _ o __| \ / |__ o _ \ o / o | /\ __\o \o | o/ o/__ /\ | /|\ ../.\...|.\../).|....(.\../o\../.)....|..(\../.|.../.\.../.\. Ted Okada <ted@fh.org> | http://www.fh.org/ Director | gopher://gopher.fh.org Washington D.C. Office | ftp://ftp.fh.org Food For The Hungry | finger ted@cais.com for PGP2.3 public key 202.547.0560--202.547.0523f--NeXTMail Inside Help Africa's Children--Call Food For The Hungry 1-800-2HUNGER ---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: which 2GB hard drive to use? Message-ID: <DuEBt6.32v@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <31DBA818.6714@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <4ribb2$5aa@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 20:34:17 GMT In article <4ribb2$5aa@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, Marcel Weiher <marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >After my Fujitsu 1 gig (less than 5 years old, where's that #$%!@ >invoice?!) started flaking on me, I got a Seagate Hawk 2XL, >(simply because it was available quickly. > > [...] > >The write-cache on the drive was already enabled, but I was >not able to reformat to 1024 byte sectors using formatter 1.2. Did you try using my sdformat utility? It is a replacement for NeXT's sdform, except that it allows specification of sector size for drives which have that capability. Look for the program at: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/sdformat_1.3.MIHS.tar.gz If you tell me the model number for the Hawk 2XL, I can check my database to see if anyone has had success with 1024 byte sectors on your drive. -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA <http://nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/brianw.html>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Appending files to tape Message-ID: <DuED8r.39F@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:05:15 GMT Hello all, I have several backup files between 16MB and 78MB on optical discs that I would like to place on a tape using my new DAT backup drive. My problem is that all of the files together total 613MB, and I do not have that much space free. If I had room for all the files on my fixed disks, then I could just use the "tar" command to combine these files and send them to /dev/rst0 However, what I need to be able to do is insert each optical disc in turn and copy the backups files one by one to the tape, with some hope that I will be able to retrieve a specific file at a later date. I found the "tp" utility and tried to use it, but the tape directory never seemed to work out. Only the first write to the tape would work. After that, the program would complain that it couldn't find or read the directory. (It's been a while, I can't remember the exact message) What I ended up doing is copying a table of contents of my own format (i.e. plain ASCII), followed by each file that I wanted to back up. Using the "mt" utility, I am able to seek back and forth on the tape to individual files, with the expected error messages when I attempt to seek beyond the last file that I wrote to tape. However, I cannot seem to read the files off tape reliably. I used "cpio" to put the files on tape, using a command something like: echo backup.tar.gz | cpio -o > /dev/nrst0 If I copy the file from tape to disk, I can manually extract the header that cpio creates, so I know that it worked, but cpio refuses to read the files in as documented. Bottom line: I really don't care how I get this done, I just want someone to suggest a reliable method and briefly explain how to use the tools necessary to place a set of files onto tape using multiple copy sessions, with the ability to choose any one file and restore it upon demand. Thanks, in advance, to anyone who has a suggestion! -- Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA <http://nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/brianw.html>
From: Andre LALONDE <tralala@mlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing a 4.2 gyg HD startup on a black cube Date: 11 Jul 1996 23:51:34 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <4s4426$ap7@neon.Mlink.NET> Hello, I have a NeXTCube 68040 (with a 50 MgHz Pyro card) running NEXTSTEP 3.3 1- Can anyone please tell me if I can replace my 1.2 gyg startup disk by an internal 4.2 gyg? The new HD is a Hewlett-Packard Model 9B001-043 fast SCSI. Is this supported by NeXT? 2- System Installation: In order not to have to redo all my system configurations, can the contents of the old disk be copied to the new disk safely? Is there any problem in doing this? Any tricks? Thanks in advance for any help on this matter. -Andre
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <eric@cdrom.com> Message-ID: <9607112339.AA01270@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!NPGO6 e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 16:39:15 -0700 Subject: Login (telnet) log? Hi, My computer is on a network and I would like to know if there's anyone who is trying to login (telnet also) to my system? Is there a log somewhere that will tell me who's trying to login to my system. Unsuccessfully... I hope! Eric "E.T." Tremblay eric@cdrom.com
From: bmw@tesla.visgen.com (Bruce Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba, Netinfo, & printing Date: 11 Jul 1996 21:17:57 -0400 Organization: Visible Genetics Inc. Message-ID: <4s4945$fq8@tesla.visgen.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960708111205.2606A-100000@kelly.teleport.com> In article <Pine.SUN.3.92.960708111205.2606A-100000@kelly.teleport.com>, Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> wrote: > >I'm successfully running Samba under NS3.3 to share drives with my Win95 >pc. I'm also running Netinfo-- is it possible to print remotely via samba >while Netinfo is running? Yes. The simplest thing is to do this periodically (eg cron) ... nidump printcap / > /etc/printcap and assuming your Samba config (smb.conf) has smbd looking for printcap in /etc, you're ok. But watch out for printer names longer than 7 chars (breaks WfWg browsing). You should hand-doctor your printcap file for Samba to use. -- Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com | Suite 1000, Box 333 | Phone: 416-813-3240 | 700 Bay Street | FAX: 416-813-3250 | Toronto M5G 1Z6 | Pager: 416-609-6941
From: Robert La Ferla <rdl@cais.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jobs print in reverse order. Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:49:15 -0400 Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960711224545.16644B-100000@cais3.cais.com> References: <4s0hus$8p4@tofu.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4s0hus$8p4@tofu.alt.net> You need to edit the PPD (PostScript Printer Definition) file for your printer model. These files are located in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/*.lproj. You want to modify the "DefaultOutputOrder" line. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant
From: Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: configure.app Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:34:26 -0700 Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960712123027.15790A-100000@linda.teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I recently acquired a used 030 NeXT cube w/NS3.3. There is an application in the /NextAdmin directory called configure, that is damaged on my hard drive. I'm not even sure what this app does yet, but can someone that has an 030 running NS3.3 be so kind as to tar & feather & zip & uuencode that directory and mail it to me? Or just tell me where I can ftp it from? Thanks, Ryan
From: jda@localhost.conglomerate.com (John David Adamski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: switching to own domain Date: 12 Jul 1996 21:29:15 GMT Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276 Message-ID: <4s6g3b$5ak@oxy.rust.net> My internet provider just switched me from thier domain to my own domain and now I can't get mail. I was using jda@jda.rust.net, where jda was my NeXT's host man. My new doman should be conglomerate.com, and email jda@conglomerate.com. When I send mail it goes out as coming from jda@jda.conglomerate.com. I changed my resolv.conf to reflect my new domain. What else do I need to do? I tried removing the HOSTNAME= from /etc/host, but that just got me to send mail with jda@localhost.conglomerate.com. jda ------------------------------------------------------------------------ was jda@jda.rust.net, should be jda@conglomerate.com, is jda@????.???.??
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: catsmeat@netcom.com (Peter Thompson) Subject: Help with Travan Tape drive Message-ID: <catsmeatDuG8Ip.3u1@netcom.com> Summary: Can't access the darn thing Organization: Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew! Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:18:25 GMT Sender: catsmeat@netcom9.netcom.com Hi Folks, I am the new owner of a T1000s (HP) Travan tape drive. The thing has a capacity of 4G (which is why I bought it). Neither tar, gnutar, or tp can communicate with the drive. Mt thinks it can but returns a status of 0 and sense of 0. When I boot up, the system finds the tape drive and appears to understand what it is...I am using the latest ScsiTape from NeXT. Any ideas? Peter Thompson. peter@cruzware.com
From: Jay ankersley <maverick@mcl.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Screen Dimmer Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:42:40 -0700 Organization: UCSB Microcomputer Lab Message-ID: <31E6C6D0.7ABB@mcl.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Recently our NeXTs started automatically dimming their login screens after about 1 second of inactivity. When I look in the Preferences the dimmer is set to 30 minutes. Is there any way to change the dimmer time to a more reasonable value manually? Thanks, Jay
From: Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Building a new disk Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:03:54 -0600 Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960712175916.28016A-100000@raddi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Ok, just got a second hard drive installed on an NS/I machine, and I need to install NS on it. But, according to the NS 3.3 release notes, BuildDisk doesn't work on Intel. So what are my options? Will BuildDisk from 3.2 work? Thanks Eugene ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail) Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/ PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can multiple local hosts access Web with only 1 IP address? Date: 11 Jul 1996 17:03:31 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <4s3c53$nte@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <31E4E12F.44BE9BCE@ispn.com> In article <31E4E12F.44BE9BCE@ispn.com> Terry Gliedt <tpg@ispn.com> writes: > Art Isbell wrote: > > > > Several users on different hosts want to Web browse, but we connect to > > our ISP via PPP with only a single IP address. All hosts are NS machines. > > If you have an old 386 with a network card handy, you can also use a program called IPROUTE that turns your 386 into a router, and just use thinwire ethernet to connect your NeXTs to the 386. IPROUTE will handle your PPP connection and will do IP address translation and port mapping so that your local machines appear to the outside world as a single IP address. It maintains a dynamic table of UDP and TCP port maps so it keeps track of which machines are on what ports. It's not perfect and some services which expect to be on certain ports can break, but it may do what you want. See http://www.mischler.com/iproute for more details. -- Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca) Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Screen Dimmer Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960713005124.22177E-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:52:15 -0400 References: <31E6C6D0.7ABB@mcl.ucsb.edu> To: Jay ankersley <maverick@mcl.ucsb.edu> In-Reply-To: <31E6C6D0.7ABB@mcl.ucsb.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mine is set to 5 minutes, which is this dwrite: NeXT1 AutoDimTime 20400 Might check to see if something else is dimming your screen, like BackSpace.app (which also runs through Fiend.app). TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Jay ankersley wrote: > Hello, > > Recently our NeXTs started automatically dimming their login screens > after about 1 second of inactivity. When I look in the Preferences the > dimmer is set to 30 minutes. Is there any way to change the dimmer time > to a more reasonable value manually? > > Thanks, > > Jay > > >
From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins Date: 13 Jul 1996 05:00:06 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Message-ID: <4s7agm$n5s@life.ai.mit.edu> Keywords: beeper,unix,administration Cc: For a neat tool for Unix system admins, try viewing: http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html --Stuart
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: configure.app Date: 12 Jul 1996 23:12:03 -0700 Organization: The Turbocolor On My Desk Message-ID: <4s7enj$hqu@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960712123027.15790A-100000@linda.teleport.com> Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> wrote: > >Hello, > >I recently acquired a used 030 NeXT cube w/NS3.3. There is an application >in the /NextAdmin directory called configure, that is damaged on my hard >drive. I'm not even sure what this app does yet, but can someone that has >an 030 running NS3.3 be so kind as to tar & feather & zip & uuencode that >directory and mail it to me? Or just tell me where I can ftp it from? > This is for Intel systems, it won't run on Black. The wierd errors you get when running it are perfectly normal (the app usually crashes). About the only interesting thing you can do with it is see the Jack-in-the-box easteregg, if it lets you get that far. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ UX++++>$ P+>+++ L+ !E !W++ N+++ !o-- !K w--- O++$ M+ V PS>--- !PE+ Y+ !PGP- t@ 5++ X+++ R- tv b+>++ DI !D G e>+++ h--- r++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy Lee) Subject: Swapping HELL Message-ID: <andyleeDuH3M6.E2L@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 08:30:06 GMT Sender: andylee@netcom10.netcom.com Hello, Forgive me for the colorful subject :-). I recently switched over to a newer faster machine (P133 with UW SCSI) and now face with this unique problem caused by the higher performance: I don't have time to kill an out-of-control program before it consumes too much memory. With my old P90/SCSI-II, I can tell when the computer enters its eternal swapping stage, I can (albeit very slowly) execute "ps -gux" and "kill -9 <offending PID>". But on my new system, the SCSI is so fast, that by the time I notice it swapping to hell, I have no chance to kill the run-away process before the computer freezes itself. How do I limit each application/program's memory usage? Or can I? Thanks for any suggestions.
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: configure.app Date: 13 Jul 1996 11:11:10 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4s808e$ki@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960712123027.15790A-100000@linda.teleport.com> Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently acquired a used 030 NeXT cube w/NS3.3. There is an application > in the /NextAdmin directory called configure, that is damaged on my hard > drive. I'm not even sure what this app does yet, but can someone that has (...) That app is for configuring drivers. It's not needed on M68k. (only on intel, hp,sun). You can remove it and all drivers in /private/Drivers/i386. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Swapping HELL Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960713095910.28881A-100000@charisma> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:02:06 -0400 References: <andyleeDuH3M6.E2L@netcom.com> To: Andy Lee <andylee@netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <andyleeDuH3M6.E2L@netcom.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, I can't tell you how to limit it, but if you want to kill the top offending PID, try this (all one line) kill -9 `ps -gux | grep -v "USER" | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'` USE WITH CAUTION! A smarter way might be: kill -9 `ps -gux | grep -v "USER" | grep -v "WindowServer" | \ head -1 | awk '{print $2}'` which would prevent the windowserver from being killed if it is the highest PID, as that might be bad :-) TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: configure.app Message-ID: <DuH6Fs.84K@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960712123027.15790A-100000@linda.teleport.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:31:04 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.92.960712123027.15790A-100000@linda.teleport.com> Ryan J Mitchell <mitchelr@teleport.com> writes: > Hello, > > I recently acquired a used 030 NeXT cube w/NS3.3. There is an > application in the /NextAdmin directory called configure, that > is damaged on my hard drive. I'm not even sure what this app > does yet, but can someone that has an 030 running NS3.3 be so > kind as to tar & feather & zip & uuencode that directory and mail > it to me? Or just tell me where I can ftp it from? > Configure.app is only needed on white hardware. Black hardware has the necessary information for kernel autoconf built into it. So just forget about it. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Installing a 4.2 gyg HD startup on a black cube Message-ID: <DuH7Cv.85y@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4s4426$ap7@neon.Mlink.NET> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:50:54 GMT In article <4s4426$ap7@neon.Mlink.NET> Andre LALONDE <tralala@mlink.net> writes: > Hello, > I have a NeXTCube 68040 (with a 50 MgHz Pyro card) > running NEXTSTEP 3.3 > 1- > Can anyone please tell me if I can replace my 1.2 gyg startup > disk by an internal 4.2 gyg? Yes, of course! You must partition into two equally sized filesystems but it would work. > The new HD is a Hewlett-Packard Model 9B001-043 fast SCSI. > Is this supported by NeXT? > Dunno about this particular drive, but if it is able to operate in asynch mode... Some manufacurers don't support this anymore, and some support autosense for this (for instance my new Fujitsu). Older models have a switch or jumper to change. But asynch operation is a prerequisite, otherwise the disk won't be bootable. > 2- > System Installation: > In order not to have to redo all my system configurations, > can the contents of the old disk be copied to the new disk > safely? Is there any problem in doing this? Any tricks? > Partition and write boot block by means of /etc/disk. Make the filesystems using 'newfs'. Then use 'ditto' to make a duplicate of the root filesystem. But you can olso use a pipe of 'gnutar's or dump/restore, just as you like. But if you're out for ease and comfort you can just use BuildDisk.app! -- 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 | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Building a new disk Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 16:05:23 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul13.160523.18189@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960712175916.28016A-100000@raddi> In article <Pine.NXT.3.94.960712175916.28016A-100000@raddi> Eugene Mah <eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> writes: > Hi, > > Ok, just got a second hard drive installed on an NS/I machine, > and I need to install NS on it. But, according to the NS 3.3 > release notes, BuildDisk doesn't work on Intel. > > So what are my options? Will BuildDisk from 3.2 work? The problem with BuildDisk is that it doesn't make the soft links to the device drivers. Devices should appear in /private/Drivers/i386, /NextLibrary/Devices and /user/Devices (check those names, I am typing from memory). One is real, the other two are relative softlinks. Create those, and you have a properly built disk. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: mscott@inlink.com (mscott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXTSTEP for Intel Date: 13 Jul 1996 20:40:27 GMT Organization: Inlink Message-ID: <4s91jr$57l@news2.inlink.com> References: <4s8que$36s@news2.inlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, I have two more problems with NeXTSTEP I have been unable to solve. Problem 6.) Printing, my printer is a Panasonic XK-P1624 Dot Matrix Printer, and I am unable to make it print anything but codes. I think the codes are Post Script codes, and I am assuming that my Dot Matrix isn't Post Script comaptible. How can I setup my printer so the codes will be translated to standard text so I can print everything to my printer in graphics mode? Problem 7.) I am unable to make NXFax, share the fax/modem with any other software, I know I can only use one at a time, but if I tell NXfax I have a fax modem to takes it, and I can't use it as a modem anymore. How can I get the devices to share the one modem? I want it to work so it will monitor for incomeing fax or data, and take the appropriate actions depending on which one comes in, and if I am online and try to send a fax the fax will be queued until the modem is free. Thanks again, Paul shanshir@inlink.com I am using my mom's account to send mail to this list so I can correct these problems, my internet address is on the bottom of the message here. Thanks.
From: rwakeman (Robert Wakeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc Subject: Re: Printing to NeXT B&W Printer from NT - Anyone got it to work? Date: 14 Jul 1996 00:42:23 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <4s9fpg$an1@chinx4.thoughtport.net> References: <31E52D60.602@cytex.com> Cc: mbparker@cytex.com In <31E52D60.602@cytex.com> "Michael B. Parker" wrote: > Thanks kindly, -Mike Parker Is this the famous Mike Parker who helped start Bitstream and was part of the Pages by Pages team? Robert Wakeman rwakeman@thoughtport.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andylee@netcom.com (Andy Lee) Subject: Re: Swapping HELL Message-ID: <andyleeDuIC8t.HxE@netcom.com> Cc: luomat@nerc.com Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <andyleeDuH3M6.E2L@netcom.com> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960713095910.28881A-100000@charisma> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:34:05 GMT Sender: andylee@netcom10.netcom.com Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: > > Well, I can't tell you how to limit it, but if you want to kill the > top offending PID, try this (all one line) > > kill -9 `ps -gux | grep -v "USER" | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'` > When "swapping hell" occurs, it consumes so many CPU cycles that I don't get a chance to activate (or switch over to) a terminal to exceute the kill. It's more of a problem now with faster CPU and SCSI, it only takes ~20 seconds to freeze the computer... before it took minutes...
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swapping HELL Date: 14 Jul 1996 11:51:01 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <4samv6$r8c@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <andyleeDuH3M6.E2L@netcom.com> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960713095910.28881A-100000@charisma> <andyleeDuIC8t.HxE@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Andy Lee <andylee@netcom.com> wrote: : Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@nerc.com) wrote: : > : > Well, I can't tell you how to limit it, but if you want to kill the : > top offending PID, try this (all one line) : > : > kill -9 `ps -gux | grep -v "USER" | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'` : > : When "swapping hell" occurs, it consumes so many CPU cycles that I : don't get a chance to activate (or switch over to) a terminal to : exceute the kill. It's more of a problem now with faster CPU and : SCSI, it only takes ~20 seconds to freeze the computer... before it : took minutes... I think this might help you: Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: killing apps with a mouse click Date: 7 Sep 1995 01:53:21 GMT Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 84 Message-ID: <42ljah$svf@spool.cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun28.cs.wisc.edu Xref: cs.tu-berlin.de comp.sys.next.software:22076 comp.sys.next.programmer:24815 Does anyone want to be able to kill apps with a mouse click (ie without activating them)? Here it is! I should warn you that this will just kill the app -- it will not give you a chance to save files, nor will it bring up a nice panel asking if you really meant to do that. To use it, simple hold down alternate and right click on any window owned by the application or its icon on the dock. This will not kill some apps like Terminal because they run as root. In order to install it, you will have to edit /usr/lib/NextStep/windowpackage.ps. Make sure that you make a backup of this file before editing it! It is owned by root, so not just anyone can do this. Below are the lines that should be inserted (somewhere around line 1319 on 3.3 systems). You end up replacing rmdownEvProc, the procedure that gets executed when a normal window receives a right mouse down. The commented out procedure at the bottom shows what the original looks like. Disclaimer: you should not attempt this if you do not know what you are doing. You may be unable to log in (you will have to boot single user to restore the windowpackage.ps) if you mess it up. You can kill apps that you did not mean to kill. I cannot be responsible for what happens! David Koski dkoski@cs.wisc.edu % about line 1319 % XXX /rmdownEvProc { % windowpackage.ps hack to allow you to kill an app by alt-right clicking % on it. % David Koski % dkoski@cs.wisc.edu % if they are holding down alt, kill it! 4 index //Alternatemask and 0 ne { 3 index currentowner % get the context //CDPid /currentContextData winexec % get its PID dup 0 ne { 9 unixsignal % and kill its other owner for good measure (in case % workspace owns the window) 3 index currentwindowdict dup null eq { % oops, forget it pop } { % got the context, go nuts /otherOwner get //CDPid /currentContextData winexec % get its PID dup 0 ne { 9 unixsignal } { pop } ifelse } ifelse } { pop } ifelse 9 { pop } repeat % get rid of all the event % data } { % else turn it into a menu event 3 index currenteventmask /_NXOldMask 1 index //pkput exec //MenuEvent or 4 index seteventmask true //_postRightEvent exec } ifelse } _NXDefProc % /rmdownEvProc { % 3 index currenteventmask % /_NXOldMask 1 index //pkput exec % //MenuEvent or 4 index seteventmask % true //_postRightEvent exec % } _NXDefProc -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Trouble poweing off black h/w Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 15:02:15 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <AluIEr600iWSI2Jw4O@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <1996Jul8.180651.3452@instep.bc.ca> <4rtrtc$t6o@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <4rtrtc$t6o@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.bugs: 9-Jul-96 Re: Trouble poweing off bla.. by Mike Paquette@pacbell.ne [ ... ] > Somewhere there's a program that is stuck, or just stubborn, and won't > quit when the OS tells it to. (which keeps it's disk image marked as > being in use, making the kernel wait for it) > > Take a look at any changes you made shortly before the hangs started > showing up. Past experience is that things that muck with the serial > ports are great candidates for this sort of problem. I've encountered similar problems getting a clean shutdown (specificly, my machine will power off, but it will need to fsck some drives) almost every time anything compiled with 'cc -posix' is running. By the way, does anyone know whether the POSIX file-append bug is present in OPENSTEP 4.0? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Building a new disk Date: 14 Jul 1996 12:58:58 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.837373558@shellx> References: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960712175916.28016A-100000@raddi> <1996Jul13.160523.18189@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: >In article <Pine.NXT.3.94.960712175916.28016A-100000@raddi> Eugene Mah ><eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca> writes: >> Hi, >> >> Ok, just got a second hard drive installed on an NS/I machine, >> and I need to install NS on it. But, according to the NS 3.3 >> release notes, BuildDisk doesn't work on Intel. >> >> So what are my options? Will BuildDisk from 3.2 work? >The problem with BuildDisk is that it doesn't make the soft links to the >device drivers. Devices should appear in /private/Drivers/i386, >/NextLibrary/Devices and /user/Devices (check those names, I am typing >from memory). One is real, the other two are relative softlinks. Create >those, and you have a properly built disk. Perhaps the following listing is useful. I haven't tried Paul's BuildDisk suggestion (nor have I used BuildDisk for a very long time) lrwxrwxrwx 18 Nov 12 1994 /NextLibrary/Devices -> ../private/Devices@ lrwxrwxrwx 18 Nov 12 1994 /usr/Devices -> ../private/Devices@ lrwxrwxrwx 12 Nov 12 1994 /private/Devices -> Drivers/i386@ drwxr-xr-x 2048 Jul 1 17:05 /private/Drivers/i386/ The drivers on my standalone system are thus really in my /private/Drivers/i386 directory. -sam
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: lpr & lpq work but print from GUI doesn't Date: 14 Jul 1996 20:04:48 GMT Organization: Rockwell Avionics - Collins Message-ID: <4sbjt0$t4s@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <4r9j7k$qn@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> <MHOVAN.96Jul4140352@thompson.BLaCKSMITH.com> Cc: mhovan@BLaCKSMITH.com We have a number of nextstep systems. All can print to network printers via lpr and examine the queue vie lpq. However, printing from the GUI does not work. All I get is the header page and nothing else. It seems like the network printer can not find the nextstep queue ? - Any suggestions ?
From: nickel@widget.ecn.purdue.edu (David A Nickel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: How to run PPP on 3.0 from standalone host? Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:07:09 GMT Organization: Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN Message-ID: <4sbnht$hsl@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> I'm trying to set up a PPP link between my NeXTStation running 3.0 at home (using Alby ppp) and a Solaris machine running SLIRP at work. My current problem is that, by the time I get to the point in rc.local where I start up ppp, the network is down (as evidenced by ppp: write: Network is down). I guess this happens before rc.boot begins, where mach says "The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it." My questions are: What decides "the network is disabled ..." and how? Is this the point at which the network is made "down" ? How might I "up" the network (either restart it or trick it into not deciding the network is down in the first place) Please post (e-mail is OK, but a search through DejaNews indicates that this is a popular, but unanswered question). Thanks, Dave Nickel nickel@ecn.purdue.edu
From: grindrod@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Which X-Windows Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 21:35:29 GMT Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <4sbpbc$93v@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> References: <4rr52b$6@news.tamu.edu> In article <4rr52b$6@news.tamu.edu>, jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote: >What commercial version of X-windows seems to be the best for >NeXTSTEP. I would like one that doesn't take over the entire screen, >and had FAT binaries so I could run on black and intel hardware. > >Thanks, > >Jeromy > Well I would suggest Cube-X version 5.0. This has many programs included in the distribution which are quad binaries. Works well on black, HP and intel hardware. I have not tried Sun hardware. Plus a full implementation of X-windows and motif widgets (both Release 5 and Release 6). You can run cube-X inside and outside of NeXTSTEP and has many different windows managers from motif mwm to fvwm2. It is slightly slower within NeXTSTEP but with any decent NeXTSTEP machine it will be no problem to run it. Dave Dave
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swapping HELL Date: 14 Jul 1996 22:12:41 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <4sbrcp$kvb@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <andyleeDuH3M6.E2L@netcom.com> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960713095910.28881A-100000@charisma> <andyleeDuIC8t.HxE@netcom.com> <4samv6$r8c@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Cc: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de In <4samv6$r8c@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Axel Habermann wrote: > I think this might help you: > .../usr/lib/NextStep/windowpackage.ps hack... Hey, cool stuff... 8-) Do you have any other patches and/or extensions in your collection? -- Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C ga ga"
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From: Ed DeBolt <ed@hanifen.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wordperfect nxhost to NS Intel problems Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 23:32:50 -0700 Organization: Hanifen Imhoff Message-ID: <31E9E612.6915@hanifen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: ed@dcm.com Hi, I am trying to NXHost from a Next Station to a intel system running NS. The program displays fine but the keyboard mappings are all screwed up. I don't have any trouble with other programs like Improv etc but WP is not usable. Has anyone experienced this? Any way to get around it? Both machines are NS 3.3. The Intel machine is a Canon Object Station. The Moto machine is a turbo slab. TIA ed ed@hanifen.com
From: schwett@aimnet.com (Mark Schwettman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS/i boot problems : "read error" Date: 15 Jul 1996 02:54:54 -0700 Organization: Aimnet Information Services Message-ID: <schwett.837424439@aimnet> Summary: Help me boot! Keywords: NS/I NeXTStep/Intel Boot Problem hi ppl I was running NS as my primary intel OS for about 18 months or so, but the need to run Quark XPress 3.3 and Photoshop finall got the better of me, and I've switched to NT 4.0 for a lot of my work. In the process I reorganized some things, and I can't boot anymore. In fact, even if I reinstall I can't boot anymore. THe installation generally boots the first time, and then after that I get the following : NeXT Boot1 (or 0, I forget) 3.3.3.8 read error and then nothing. I used to use System Commander 2.24, which is certified compatible with NeXTStep by the maker, and it never caused problems and was a wonderful solution for a system with NT, '95, DOS, and NeXTStep. I thought this might the trouble, so I removed it, installed to a clean disk (a 2103mb Quantum Capella) and got similar results. Could the >2gb translation modes of the Adaptec 2940 be part of this problem? I did change this setting recently, but unfortunately I can't go back as the translation cannot be specified on a drive by drive basis. Anyway have any ideas? I miss NS. Mark Schwettmann :quit
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Wordperfect nxhost to NS Intel problems Date: 15 Jul 1996 14:21:13 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4sdk4p$14d@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <31E9E612.6915@hanifen.com> Ed DeBolt <ed@hanifen.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to NXHost from a Next Station to a intel system running NS. > The program displays fine but the keyboard mappings are all screwed up. I (...) The programmers were ideots. They did what I call "hardware hacking". _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS/i boot problems : "read error" Date: 15 Jul 1996 10:24:18 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.837450824@shellx> References: <schwett.837424439@aimnet> Keywords: NS/I NeXTStep/Intel Boot Problem schwett@aimnet.com (Mark Schwettman) writes: > (...) and I've switched to NT 4.0 for a lot of my work. > In fact, even if I reinstall I can't boot anymore. THe > installation generally boots the first time, and then after > that I get the following : > NeXT Boot1 (or 0, I forget) 3.3.3.8 > read error > Could the >2gb translation modes of the Adaptec 2940 be > part of this problem? I did change this setting recently, Yes this could be part of the problem. Bios translation changes the interpretation of the values you give the bios to read the disk, and it's possible that the old values are still in the partition table, but they may now be translated to sectors past the end of the disk. In any case they're not taking you to the next partition. The next booter only uses the bios to read the kernel, system configuration and boot drivers; once the drivers are loaded the bios is no longer accessed. I would guess that a reinstall should fix everything, but anything that existed before you turned on translation should be considered no good if it works at all. -sam
From: Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS with OpenStep 4.0 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:31:59 -0500 Organization: University of New Orleans Message-ID: <31EA808F.764C@math.uno.edu> References: <4s3jgt$dp9@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Tuyo wrote: > > I just upgraded a couple of our boxes to Openstep 4.0 and for some reason > NIS has refused to work. When I 'ypwhich' I get the IP address of the NIS > master, and ypcat seems to spit out the right maps. AMD works etc, but the > password is not mapped, i.e. eventhough I have an entry '+:' in the > /etc/passwd , I still can't do a ~user it will complain about not > knowing the user. Anyone have this problem? I had a similar (but I'm not sure if identical) problem which took some tracking down. I was trying to get our SUN SPARC1000 to act as an NIS server. Running a snoop on a machine while it boots showed that the password map was trasmitted but no login window would appear. Anyway, there seemed to be some problem with the protocols maps. If you had a previous setup in which NIS worked, you might try using the old protocols map. Let me know how things go. ============================================================= Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463 Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516 University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA | =============================================================
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disk Quotas Date: 15 Jul 1996 17:43:09 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <4sdvvd$7hq@news.tamu.edu> Is there anyway to setup disk quotas for users home directories? Jeromy jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS with OpenStep 4.0 Date: 15 Jul 1996 19:12:37 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4se575$6hc@news.next.com> References: <31EA808F.764C@math.uno.edu> There's a new lookupd in OpenStep for Mach 4.0, which works a bit differently than the old lookupd. The new lookupd has a number of "agents" that do lookups from various information systems (NetInfo, DNS, NIS, the Flat Files, and the internal cache). You can specify which information sources should be consulted, and in what order. You can also specify which information sources should be consulted for different categories. There is documentation for all this in the file /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf. One change in NIS lookups is that a "+" in the /etc/passwd file does not trigger a NIS lookup. If you want user lookups to consult both /etc/passwd and the NIS passwd maps, you need to tell lookupd to use both Flat File and NIS agents. For example, if you configure all this in your root domain, you could set user lookups to use Cache+NetInfo+Flat Files+NIS like this: niutil -create / /locations/lookupd niutil -create / /locations/lookupd/users niutil -createprop / /locations/lookupd/users LookupOrder \ CacheAgent NIAgent FFAgent NISAgent -- Marc Majka
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Disk Quotas Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960715200115.19051C-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:42:56 -0400 References: <4sdvvd$7hq@news.tamu.edu> To: Jeromy Hollenshead <jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4sdvvd$7hq@news.tamu.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII You might try: ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Tools/system/Quotas.N.bs.tar.gz if the URL is correct, there should be source code, meaning it might be compile-able on non-NeXT machines. However, IMO it is better to send users warnings/etc when they are over the limit (via cron, etc). My reasoning for saying this is that I had severe problems with a "quota-ed" account because I was trying to download files and then move them to floppy disk. Then there is the problem when one tries to retrieve mail and a message puts you over your quota.... Very bad things can happen. Anyhow, it's just my opinion.... TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat On 15 Jul 1996, Jeromy Hollenshead wrote: > Is there anyway to setup disk quotas for users home directories? > > Jeromy > jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu > > >
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NIS and NetInfo? Date: 16 Jul 1996 00:00:48 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4sem3g$362@turbocat.snafu.de> Hello! Soon, I will have to put NIS support into a network of HPs running NS 3.3. Is it possible to use NIS and NetInfo at the same time? I have ~200 users in NetInfo and ~3000 in NIS. When a user not exsists in NetInfo, he should be able to use his NIS-password. Any hints? _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: NIS with OpenStep 4.0 Message-ID: <Dun1oF.K6@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <31EA808F.764C@math.uno.edu> <4se575$6hc@news.next.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:33:51 GMT majka@next.com (Marc Majka) wrote: > /etc/passwd and the NIS passwd maps, you need to tell lookupd to use both > Flat File and NIS agents. For example, if you configure all this in your > root domain, you could set user lookups to use Cache+NetInfo+Flat > Files+NIS like this: > > niutil -create / /locations/lookupd > niutil -create / /locations/lookupd/users > niutil -createprop / /locations/lookupd/users LookupOrder \ > CacheAgent NIAgent FFAgent NISAgent > > -- > Marc Majka Thanx, yet another unknown major improvement in Openstep 4.0. We really should start setting up our own web page to list 4.0 features in detail so that everybody can see why to upgrade. NeXT PR folks don't seem to bother about it...its always those NeXT engineers who do the "underground-marketing". Aloha Tomi
From: Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can NS4.0 Mach handle large partitions Date: 16 Jul 1996 04:32:29 GMT Organization: Genoa Software Systems Message-ID: <4sf60t$2su@saturn.genoa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To date, NeXT Mach has had a limitation where it couldn't hangle partitions greater than 2 GB. Does anyone know if that restriction is removed in the 4.0 release? -- Alex Blakemore alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Wordperfect nxhost to NS Intel problems Message-ID: <DuMpvn.s5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4sdk4p$14d@turbocat.snafu.de> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:18:58 GMT In article <4sdk4p$14d@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) writes: > Ed DeBolt <ed@hanifen.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to NXHost from a Next Station to a intel system > > running NS. The program displays fine but the keyboard mappings > > are all screwed up. > I (...) > > The programmers were ideots. They did what I call "hardware > hacking". Probably not so much a statement on the mental qualities of the programmers but the management ;-) WordPerfect, and also FrameMaker, were successful products on other existing platforms (Windooze and X11, respectively). Then there was a decision to do a port to NEXTSTEP "with minimum effort" (doing Steve a favour without committing too many resources, IMHO). The programmers never had a chance to redesign the GUI stuff in a NEXTSTEP compliant manner (in the WordPerfect case there would probably be nothing but the file format to survive :-). They were just making the necessary changes to "make it run" (with the known less pleasant results). -- 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 | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS and NetInfo? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:20:35 -0700 Organization: CE-CERT Message-ID: <31EBC153.6201DD56@cert.ucr.edu> References: <4sem3g$362@turbocat.snafu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.snafu.de> Although I have far fewer users than you, I have NIS and NetInfo running fine together. Simply use the nidump program to build the usual /etc files (hosts, groups, networks, whatever), then run the server initialization program. Then start the server, with a ypbind client running on the same host (usual way to do things). The only drawback is that you now have to propogate any NetInfo changes to the corresponding /etc file, then run make in the /etc/yp (or wherever the yp directory is) to push the changes out to the NIS domain. The easiest way is to do a nidump of the changed file, filter through grep to get the changed line, then paste that line into the corresponding /etc file. It's been working just fine for me for over a year now, but then again, my system supports only about 1/10th the users you have. -- Ron Wood, Systems Administrator CE-CERT, UCR Ink n.: A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
From: admin@math.unc.edu (Administrative Acct) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Missing root pw on a black cube Date: 16 Jul 1996 18:45:43 GMT Organization: UNC-CH Department of Mathematics Message-ID: <4sgo0n$f7s@newz.oit.unc.edu> We have several NeXTCubes and lack the root passwords. Crack didn't do any good, so we're looking for ideas... Thanks for any assistance, Chris Tucker -- ================================================================= For computer questions, please email: help@math.unc.edu UNC System Admin, Math AT&T Net: (919) 962-9628 =================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Wordperfect nxhost to NS Intel problems Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960716153136.13416A-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:35:30 -0400 References: <4sdk4p$14d@turbocat.snafu.de> <DuMpvn.s5@nidat.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <DuMpvn.s5@nidat.sub.org> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I thought that later versions of NS had handled this more properly. I've got V 1.0.1 (which means nothing) that has a date of 10 June 1993. To the original poster: If your version is earlier than 10 June 1993, let me know. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Missing root pw on a black cube Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960716153707.13416B-100000@charisma> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:40:10 -0400 References: <4sgo0n$f7s@newz.oit.unc.edu> To: Administrative Acct <admin@math.unc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4sgo0n$f7s@newz.oit.unc.edu> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 16 Jul 1996, Administrative Acct wrote: > We have several NeXTCubes and lack the root passwords. Do they have hardware passwords? If yes, remove the battery overnight Then go into single user mode, do: sh /etc/rc then use 'nu -m' to set a new root password. I am trying to remember this from memory, so it might not be exactly that, but that's what I'd try. > Crack didn't do any good, so we're looking for ideas... Hmm... Must have been a decent password, perhaps? > For computer questions, please email: help@math.unc.edu Heck, I've got plenty of my OWN computer questions, why would I need to email for any more? :-) TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
From: macrores@interaccess.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unix system administration opening in Chicago:Recruiter Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:52:19 -0600 Organization: InterAccess,Chicagoland's Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <macrores.91.05C226CF@interaccess.com> Keywords: Unix,C,Solaris We are looking for a system admin. for a client of ours in the Chicago area. The candidate should have Unix,C and Sun experience. Windows NT and Solaris are big pluses. Will oversea a LAN and might get involved in developing new software. The successful candidate should be a permanent resident or US citizen and have good communication skills. Please contact Frank Roti for information at 312-554-8900 or send us a copy of your resume to one of the following: Macro Resources Inc. 47 West Polk Chicago,Il. 60605 Fax 312-663-0883 email macrores@interaccess.com
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using fstab to ignore scsi drive Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 01:13:48 +0200 Message-ID: <31EC222C.7BC4@ibm.net> References: <4ruj4m$gml@dragonfly.wolfram.com> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960710081409.1472A-100000@charisma> <4s0kgp$cae@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have tried using /etc/fstab entries to tell NS to ignore DOS 'logical' drives with no result. NS just keeps saying the drives are damaged and threatening to initialize them. Very annoying .... Jerome
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From: ampriasm@students.wisc.edu (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Mouse Problem. Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:55:44 -0400 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <ampriasm-1707960055440001@f180-175.net.wisc.edu> Hi, Does anyone have pointers how to accelerate NeXT Mouse? My NeXT mouse is so slow compared to my PC mouse even I have already set my NeXT Mouse to the fastest speed in preference. Thanks. Andrew. -- Andrew Priasmoro University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Andre LALONDE <tralala@mlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing a 4.2 gyg HD startup on a black cube Date: 17 Jul 1996 02:09:26 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <4shi0m$hqi@neon.Mlink.NET> References: <4s4426$ap7@neon.Mlink.NET> <DuH7Cv.85y@nidat.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <DuH7Cv.85y@nidat.sub.org> Many thanks to Peter Nitezki and Art Isbell for their help with this problem. -André
From: ampriasm@students.wisc.edu (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Config.app Problem on Black Hardware. Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 00:59:16 -0400 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <ampriasm-1707960059160001@f180-175.net.wisc.edu> Hi, Could anyone tell me what to do if my Config.app icon is in question mark? When I tried to execute it, It said that the application is damage. Is there any way to fix this without having to reinstall the OS? Thanks. Andrew. -- Andrew Priasmoro University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing root pw on a black cube Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:09:24 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul17.070924.3566@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960716153707.13416B-100000@charisma> In article <Pine.NXT.3.94.960716153707.13416B-100000@charisma> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> writes: > On 16 Jul 1996, Administrative Acct wrote: > > We have several NeXTCubes and lack the root passwords. > > Do they have hardware passwords? > If yes, remove the battery overnight > > Then go into single user mode, do: > > sh /etc/rc > > then use 'nu -m' to set a new root password. > > I am trying to remember this from memory, so it might not be exactly > that, but that's what I'd try. passwd root will do it. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compatibility NextStep 3.2 and OpenStep 4.0 Date: 17 Jul 1996 10:09:10 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik 3.3 Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen Distribution: world Message-ID: <4sie46$447@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de> Dear NeXT Users, I am thinking about upgrading our Next Station to OpenStep 4.0 from NextStep 3.2. Are there any applications which *DONT* run on OpenStep 4.0?? We are using Create, Word Perfect, ... For any hints, information and help thanks in advance!! Armin Pollak -----------Armin Pollak----Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen Telefon: 089 / 6004 3502 Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, FAX: 089 / 6004 3560 85577 Neubiberg, Deutschland email: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de
From: Fygir <info@fygir.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] PostScript screendumps ? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:49:47 +0000 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <31ECFD8B.36E3@fygir.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Keywords: grab screendump tiff postscript Summary: How to let Grab.app produce EPS instead of TIFF Does anyone know the trick of getting Encapsulated PostScript screendumps instead of the TIFF files that Grab.app normally produces? I know I read (or heard) it somewhere but for the life of me cannot remember where. Any pointers would be very much appreciated. Please reply by e-mail, if possible. Jan-Willem --- Jan-Willem de Bruijn F Y G I R jwdb@fygir.nl logistic information systems
From: nickel@widget.ecn.purdue.edu (David A Nickel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Q: How to prevent network from being disabled on start-up? Date: 17 Jul 1996 12:11:48 GMT Organization: Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN Message-ID: <4sila4$2di@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> I'm trying to run PPP from a NeXTStation running 3.0. I have no ethernet connections, although the previous owner may have, and config scripts may indicate this. Every time I boot, I get the message "mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it." Later, when I start Alby ppp, I get the message "ppp: write: Network is down." I theorize that the two of these are associated. How might I stop mach from shutting down the network (whatever "the network" is)? I've tried: putting a 50 Ohm terminated BNC cable onto the thinnet port and restarting kill -USR2 <pid for nmserver> manually ifconfig'ing up the ppp0 and ppp1 interfaces without success. Help. Dave Nickel nickel@ecn.purdue.edu
From: bediger@csn.net (Bruce Ediger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Reverse ARP under NeXTStep 3.x? Date: 17 Jul 1996 12:17:54 -0600 Organization: H1DE()U5 MUT4NT5!!1!!! Distribution: world Message-ID: <4sjaoi$r1j@teal.csn.net> For very peculiar reasons, I'd like to net-boot a Sun SPARCstation with a NeXT 25MHz slab as a boot server. I can find the tftp stuff to serve the boot and kernel files with, but I think I need a Reverse ARP daemon (rarpd) for the SPARCStation to get its IP address from. Does such a beast exist for NeXTStep? I found 4.4BSD source code for a rarpd, but it uses "Berkeley Packet Filter" (bpf) to go beneath the raw IP layer. Therefore, that source is pretty useless for my purposes. What's the NeXTStep analog of "bpf" or SunOS's "nit"? Is there some way to listen for RARP packets under NeXTStep? Regards, Bruce Ediger -- Try this in a "DOS Box" for fun and profit!!! echo f 0:0 ffff 0 | debug
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: perl 5.002 segmentation violation problems? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 18 Jul 1996 00:07:18 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4sjv7m$9dk@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN I am observing occasional segmentation faults of perl 5.002 from the ftp-peak archive. They are completely random, and seem to appear mostly right on startup. Is this a known problem? Is there a known fix? /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu ---------------------------- Ivo Welch.............. http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/ UCLA AGSM Finance...... http://www.agsm.ucla.edu/finance/ Int'l WWW/Email Dirctry http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/dir/ -- ---------------------------- --
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: piped ftp? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:10:39 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UlvM3zG00iVG8=7WV7@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4sjbmh$gp3@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <4sjbmh$gp3@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jul-96 piped ftp? by madler@alumni.caltech.ed > Does anybody know of a piped ftp? I want to pipe input into the program to > be written on the remote ftp site. Thanks. You could write an expect, shell, or perl script or a C program that opens a TCP connection to the remote host on the FTP port, logs on, sets binary mode ("TYPE I"), cd's to whereever, and then do a 'STOR filename' and start blasting data. Consult RFC 959. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199607180046.UAA02551@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 20:46:00 -0400 Subject: fsck running on each reboot Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary It seems that 'fsck' has decided to run on each reboot lately. It's rather annoying, as the ol' drive takes about 10 minutes.... Never seen it find more than .0x fragmentation.... Is this because the HD is getting full (~131megs free of 1 gig drive)?? Thanks TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Oliver Nissen <olli@nxcube.augusta.de> Subject: Compiling socks Message-ID: <DupLKr.2wr@nxcube.augusta.de> Sender: news@nxcube.augusta.de Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:38:51 GMT Did anybody out there manage to compile socks4 for NeXTSTEP 3.3? I added -posix for cc and compilations work fine, however, ld claims that it does not know the symbols _socks_fakeID and _socks_self when using the newly built libsocks.a for linking. But: the symbols should be in there... Oliver -- --- 8< -------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Oliver Nissen Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen olli@nxcube.augusta.de -> NeXT-Mail/MIME welcome O.Nissen@rz.unibw-muenchen.de -> Plain text only! _____________________________________________________________________ >>> "...but, why is it black?" - "It should have been perfect..." <<<
From: "Neil N. Dawson" <ndawson@allwest.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wannabe Internet Provider Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:49:35 -0600 Organization: Burgoyne Computers Inc. Message-ID: <31EDA63F.55F6@allwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am looking to become an Internet provider in my area. I would like the server(s?) to be running NEXTSTEP so I need to know how to configure for news (I heard that it was wise to have a seperate news server any truth to this?) and email (must be able to handle messages > 1MB) among other things. I also need to know what hardware I need, and any suggestions for software that will track logins/logouts would be helpful. Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions. -- Neil N. Dawson PO Box 1031 Kamas, UT 84036 E-mail: ndawson@allwest.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- Stamp out and eliminate redundancy.
From: Barry Graham <graham@cans.uab.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Virtual Hosting (black hardware) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:58:57 -0500 Organization: CANS Message-ID: <31EDB67F.30C0@cans.uab.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, How do I configure multiple IP addresses on a Turbo NeXTstation. On the SGI I currently use for outside web servers, it's as simple as: IRIS# ifconfig ec0 alias 127.0.0.1 I would like to use the black box as my internal webserver, WebObjects is really cool, but I must have multiple servers. Any help would be greatly appreciated Barry ************************************* graham@cans.uab.edu Computer Assisted Neurosurgery University of Alabama at Birmingham www.cans.uab.edu *************************************
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Reverse ARP under NeXTStep 3.x? Date: 18 Jul 1996 04:59:14 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <4skgb2$bvp@hermes.is.co.za> References: <4sjaoi$r1j@teal.csn.net> In-Reply-To: <4sjaoi$r1j@teal.csn.net> On 07/17/96, Bruce Ediger wrote: >For very peculiar reasons, I'd like to net-boot a Sun SPARCstation with >a NeXT 25MHz slab as a boot server. I can find the tftp stuff to >serve the boot and kernel files with, but I think I need a Reverse >ARP daemon (rarpd) for the SPARCStation to get its IP address from. > >Does such a beast exist for NeXTStep? I found 4.4BSD source code for >a rarpd, but it uses "Berkeley Packet Filter" (bpf) to go beneath the >raw IP layer. Therefore, that source is pretty useless for my purposes. >What's the NeXTStep analog of "bpf" or SunOS's "nit"? Is there some >way to listen for RARP packets under NeXTStep? I don't know of a RARP for NeXTStep but if you want, you can have a look at the latest PPP on peak, there as a BPF LKS in there. It might help with the BSD 4.4 version you have -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting (black hardware) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 01:21:48 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <ElvQbgq00iWkI=KVpq@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <31EDB67F.30C0@cans.uab.edu> In-Reply-To: <31EDB67F.30C0@cans.uab.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jul-96 Virtual Hosting (black hard.. by Barry Graham@cans.uab.ed > How do I configure multiple IP addresses on a Turbo NeXTstation. On the > SGI I currently use for outside web servers, it's as simple as: > > IRIS# ifconfig ec0 alias 127.0.0.1 The simplest answer is, you can't. NEXTSTEP does not support virtual interfaces. However, it's supposedly possible to get SLIP or PPP software to create their interfaces and then change the routing tables appropriately. I'm of the opinion that you'd be better off running Linux on a PC and using that as a web server platform, but YMMV.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Solaris/NeXT partitions Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:58:16 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <31EE0AB8.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there anyway to make Solaris paritions/disks available under NeXTSTEP and viceversa. There is some software that allows linux to mount NeXTSTEP, but is there something similar for Solaris or NeXTSTEP. Also is there anyway to stop NeXTSTEP automatically trying to mount new hard disks on login? 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: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solaris/NeXT partitions Date: 18 Jul 1996 10:52:29 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Distribution: world Message-ID: <4sl51d$bal@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <31EE0AB8.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Cc: grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE In <31EE0AB8.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod wrote: > Is there anyway to make Solaris paritions/disks available under NeXTSTEP > and viceversa. There is some software that allows linux to mount > NeXTSTEP, but is there something similar for Solaris or NeXTSTEP. No such thing, unfortunately. > Also is there anyway to stop NeXTSTEP automatically trying to mount new > hard disks on login? If you have 3.3 or better, use the ignore type in /etc/fstab. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solaris/NeXT partitions Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:47:40 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <AlvWFQm00iVDI0zItu@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <31EE0AB8.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Jul-96 Solaris/NeXT partitions by David Grindrod@mailhost > Is there anyway to make Solaris paritions/disks available under NeXTSTEP > and viceversa. There is some software that allows linux to mount > NeXTSTEP, but is there something similar for Solaris or NeXTSTEP. I don't believe that exists. NFS works adequately, though. > Also is there anyway to stop NeXTSTEP automatically trying to mount new > hard disks on login? Sure. Change /etc/fstab; from 'man mntent': If the mnt_type is specified as ``ignore'' the entry is ignored. This is useful to show disk partitions which are currently not used. Disks that are specified as as ``ignore'' are also not automounted by the Workspace in NEXTSTEP. This is useful when your disk has data in a for- mat that NEXTSTEP doesn't recognize, and you want it to ignore the disk. Of course, you might as well figure out where to mount the drive and simply have it mounted at boot time instead ignoring the drive, but whatever.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Wannabe Internet Provider Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:06:48 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4lvWXMG00iVDQ0zME2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <31EDA63F.55F6@allwest.net> In-Reply-To: <31EDA63F.55F6@allwest.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jul-96 Wannabe Internet Provider by "Neil N. Dawson"@allwest > I am looking to become an Internet provider in my area. I would like the > server(s?) to be running NEXTSTEP so I need to know how to configure for > news (I heard that it was wise to have a seperate news server any truth > to this?) Pretty much. If you don't have many readers, you might be able to run some other service that's not very CPU or I/O intensive. Make sure you have enough RAM...32 MB plus 2 MB per news reader plus whatever additional memory you need if you run something else is a pretty good rule. Also, you want to have as many physical drives as possible to distribute I/O...consult the INN FAQ. (Needless to say, the I/O that a news server uses demands SCSI drives...IDE just doesn't cut it.) As to configuring news, get INN-1.4sec2 or one of the INN-1.4unoff versions, and _read_ the documentation (all of it, including all of the manpages). You haven't got a prayer of setting up a running the news server otherwise. NEXTSTEP makes an adequate OS for running a small news server. If you are planning on having many readers-- say more than 10 simultaneous-- you should probably think about running some other OS that can do SysV shared memory (for the sharedactive patch, which reduces the per-reader RAM requirements significantly), mmap()/munmap(), and multi-disk striping. Solaris seems to be the OS of preference for large newsservers. > and email (must be able to handle messages > 1MB) among other > things. Install a modern sendmail (version 8.7.x) on all machines that will handle mail. And provide plenty of drive space. :-) > I also need to know what hardware I need, and any suggestions > for software that will track logins/logouts would be helpful. Thanks in > advance for any help and suggestions. I believe Cisco made an accounting package named Tacas that's available for monitoring dialup PPP/SLIP users. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System panics, system "pauses", Intel NS 3.3 [HELP] Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:21:09 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-1807960921090001@128.146.143.148> Hello, While I read many many stories of people running NS for Intel happily, unfortunately this isn't quite the case for me. We have a NS3.3 box which recently has died w/ a system panic, and the message: Panic: (CPU 0) fp not one. Does this means anything to anyone? It *seemed* to be related to a SCSI problem (with both a Jaz drive and a DAT) as it would only occur sometime after they had been in use. However, both the Jaz and the DAT work fine under NS, and were not acting up at all while they were in use. It was only sometime AFTER that the system panic occurred. It may be coincidence, I don't know. (I'm basing my hypothesis on about 4-5 system panics which occurred within the last 2 months). Now, aside from the system panic, we have what I believe is a more severe problem. The machine will go off into never-never-land for periods of 30secs-5minutes for no apparent reason. Since this is our primary web server, it is quite unacceptable. If you're logged in, you can do a "ls", but thats about the only response you can get from the machine until it "regains consciousness." Now, I've checked the logs, and there is *NOTHING* in them that indicates an error. I've installed the DNS patch for NS3.3... I'm at the point where I have a machine that appears to be working perfectly, isn't giving me any error messages, but will stall for indeterminate periods of time. During the stalls I have: 1. Tested for duplicate IP on the subnet - nothing. 2. Tested the DNS - fine. If I send a http request to the machine, I will get a "machine contacted, waiting for reply..." that will last until it comes back to life. If I tried to telnet in, I'll get a connection screen up, but no login prompts until the dead period is over... If anyone has any suggestions on what to do, what could be causing things, diagnostic steps to take, I'd appreciate it. I'm at a complete loss. Thanks, John Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199607181250.IAA16966@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199606230145.VAA07284@nerc.com> From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 08:50:33 -0400 Subject: Re: What the heck happened to my EZ drive? References: <199606230145.VAA07284@nerc.com> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary "Timothy J. Luoma" on Sat, 22 Jun 96 wrote: > sd2: UNIT ATTENTION > sd2 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 > sd2 (2,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29 > SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) Well, this has happened again.... Is this a problem with my EZ? Someone said that the label was something the NeXTOS added, so I don't know what the problem is. Anyway, in case anyone else cares, here's how to fix it without rebooting: If SyQuest disk becomes unreadable: note: "shell>" represents your normal shell prompt "disk>" is the prompt when you are in the disk program shell> disk -l -q /dev/rsd2a disk> label label information: print, write? w enter host name: charisma writing disk label disk> name enter disk label name: Backups disk> quit shell> fsck /dev/rsd2a Of course, you have to replace 'charisma' with your hostname and 'Backups' with the name you want to be on the disk. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- I will be away from July 20-July 27 1996 Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info
From: velcro@escape.com (David Sinclair) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting (black hardware) Date: 18 Jul 1996 14:36:28 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, NY, USA Message-ID: <4sli5d$7us@news.cloud9.net> References: <31EDB67F.30C0@cans.uab.edu> <ElvQbgq00iWkI=KVpq@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jul-96 Virtual Hosting : (black hard.. by Barry Graham@cans.uab.ed : > How do I configure multiple IP addresses on a Turbo NeXTstation. On the : The simplest answer is, you can't. NEXTSTEP does not support virtual : interfaces. However, it's supposedly possible to get SLIP or PPP : Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer anyone know if this is supported in OPENSTEP/Mach 4.0? -velcro
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting (black hardware) Date: 18 Jul 1996 15:10:43 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <4slk5j$e04@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <31EDB67F.30C0@cans.uab.edu> <ElvQbgq00iWkI=KVpq@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <ElvQbgq00iWkI=KVpq@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jul-96 Virtual Hosting > (black hard.. by Barry Graham@cans.uab.ed > > How do I configure multiple IP addresses on a Turbo NeXTstation. On the > > SGI I currently use for outside web servers, it's as simple as: > > > > IRIS# ifconfig ec0 alias 127.0.0.1 > > The simplest answer is, you can't. NEXTSTEP does not support virtual > interfaces. However, it's supposedly possible to get SLIP or PPP > software to create their interfaces and then change the routing tables > appropriately. There is a new kernel server that just provides this capability. It is unrelated to the SLIP or PPP servers. However, it can be found on the same site. See: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html#MultiHome for more details. Or just download the package at: ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/ps_if.tar.gz > I'm of the opinion that you'd be better off running Linux on a PC and > using that as a web server platform, but YMMV.... This would work as well. Hope this helps. - Steve --- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2 NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: jda@jda.conglomerate.com (John David Adamski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: domain name, mail problem and PPP Date: 18 Jul 1996 15:10:05 GMT Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276 Message-ID: <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> Keywords: domain mail PPP About a week ago my internet provider finally set me up on their side to use my registered domain (conglomerate.com). Ever since I been having trouble receiving mail and when I send out mail the from address is not right. I need some suggestion of what I did wrong when I switched my NeXTStation config to use my domain. Before the switch I was jda.rust.net and could send/receive mail from any one of the 5 users (jda,w3artist,flames,root,me) I set up on my NeXT, and life was good. I did not need to use a mail POP to retrieve my mail, it just came. Now my provide say I can receive mail using jda@rust.net or jda@conglomerate.com. So, I changed my /etc/resolv.conf to reflect conglomerate.com as my domain. And, started to use popOver to get my mail. Will I am getting some of my mail I have test sent to jda@conglomerate.com, but not all. Also when I send mail out it says it is from jda@.jda.conglomerate.com (jda is the host name in /etc/hostconfig. What do I have to do to get mail working right? Also is it possible to have my jda@rust.net mail and jda@conglomerate.com mail get retrieved at one time? Instead of changing resolv.conf and rebooting. I will also have to talk to my provide an see how they configure me, that I can't get mail addressed to flames or w3artist anymore. Any and all help would be welcomed. I want to get this resolved before I migrate to OS4.0 and have more headaches ;-) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Natural Figure Photography Honoring the Beauty of the Human Body Owner: John David Adamski URL: http://www.rust.net/~jda email: jda@jda.rust.net should be jda@conglomerate.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <jsowers@lehman.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 11:59:33 EDT From: jsowers@lehman.com (Justin Sowers) Message-ID: <9607181559.AA03580@cfdev1.lehman.com> Subject: The routing blues - help me help my home net Dear NeXT sysadmin gurus, I have set-up a small net at home but seem to be having routing problems. I believe I have done something wrong in setting-up my NeXT for living on my home-net. The following is a diagram of my network: <-WORK | HOME-> | NetBlazer | i386 "router" NextCube (Net v2) | (KA9Q NOS) (NS 3.3) ---------- | -------------------- ---------- - - | - : - - - - 146. - - 192. : 192. - - 192. - - 1. - PPP link - 9. : 9. - thin-net - 9. - - 1. -<============>- 154. : 154. -<==========>- 154. - - 1 - | - 135 : 157 - - 158 - - - | - : - - - - - | - [pp0] : [en0] - - [en0] - ---------- | -------------------- ---------- 146.1.1.1 | 192.9.154.135 192.9.154.158 I have set-up my NeXT using HostManager.app. I set the cube's IP to 192.9.154.158, netmask to 255.255.255.0, broadcast to 192.9.154.255 and specified a router at IP 192.9.154.135 (the pp0 iface of my router, and its IP). Traffic between my router and the router at work via the PPP link is fine. Packets for 192.9.154.158 coming from work are routed to 192.9.154.135 by static route entries on the NetBlazer. My problem seems to be routing between my NeXT and my router. 'traceroute 192.9.154.135' on my NeXT gives only ***s and then times out; same with tracing 192.9.154.157. 'netstat -r' on the NeXT reveals that 192.9.154.135 is its default route target. 'hop check 192.9.154.158' on my router lists 192.9.154.157 as the first hop (its ethernet connection to the NeXT) but then ***s and times out because the NeXT doesn't seem to return any packets. I have no other NeXTs on my net and would rather avoid the complications of a full netinfo set-up. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I would prefer it if my router were a classical one interface in one domain, one interface in another type set-up, but they can't accommodate that at work. Is there something inherently wrong with my network layout, or is it purely software set-up issues with my NeXT? Does anyone out there have a similar configuration up and working? Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. -Justin. (jsowers@lehman.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Solaris/NeXT partitions Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960718141930.4849A-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:20:35 -0400 References: <31EE0AB8.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> To: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> In-Reply-To: <31EE0AB8.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, David Grindrod wrote: > Is there anyway to make Solaris paritions/disks available under NeXTSTEP > and viceversa. There is some software that allows linux to mount > NeXTSTEP, but is there something similar for Solaris or NeXTSTEP. dunno > Also is there anyway to stop NeXTSTEP automatically trying to mount new > hard disks on login? 'man fstab' claims that 'ignore' in /etc/fstab will do this, but others have claimed it doesn't work. You might want to try it. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- I will be away from July 20-July 27 1996 Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info
From: aholiday@dudley (Austin Holiday) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg? Date: 18 Jul 1996 18:55:49 GMT Organization: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. Message-ID: <4sm1bl$pes@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com> Hello, Does anybody know if a newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg exists and where I can find it? I trying to get an AppleTalk connection on my black box running Mach 3.3 and apparently the NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg I have was designed for Mach 3.0. Any suggestions or thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Austin Holiday
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gcc-2.7.2 binaries for NeXTStep? Date: 18 Jul 1996 18:45:43 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4sm0on$lhs@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> I am still running the beta of Openstep 4.0, and I cannot justify $300 for a product that basically does not improve on non-development material over 3.3. Unfortunately, the stage 2 compiler build step fails on my system: stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -o genattr genattr.o rtl.o ` case "obstack.o" in ?*) echo obstack.o ;; esac ` ` case "stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/"@"" in "cc -traditional-cpp"@?*) echo ;; esac ` ` case "" in ?*) echo ;; esac ` ld: warning archive library: stage1/libgcc.a appears after reference to dynamic shared library and will be searched as a dynamic shared library ./genattr config/i386/i386.md > tmp-attr.h sh: 11142 Bus error *** Exit 138 Has anyone managed to build binaries? 2.5.8 is just ancient... Regards, /ivo welch
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail Filter with NeXTStep Mail.app? Date: 18 Jul 1996 19:13:32 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <4sm2cs$7n6@stratus.skypoint.net> Has anyone had any experience using a Mail filter such as the program "filter" with the NeXT Mail.app? Has anyone compiled and used "filter"? Where is "filter" available? Thanks for your help -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################# # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | # alegrej@andante.mn.org | If you plant ice, # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | you're gonna harvest wind! # drjohn@well.com | Hunter/Garcia #############################################################
From: Jan Bratbak <altus@login.eunet.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disk availability on a LAN Date: 18 Jul 1996 18:52:17 GMT Organization: EUnet Norway Message-ID: <4sm151$5qr@elle.eunet.no> Hi, How can I make external disks (not boot disks) on a fileserver available to other hosts on a LAN with machines running NSFIP? I can't seem to get NSFManager to do it. Thanks. Jan -- Jan Bratbak évre Ullern Terr. 82 N±0380 Oslo Norway Tel. +47 2252 4132 Fax. +47 2273 1080 email altus@login.eunet.no (NeXTMail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: domain name, mail problem and PPP Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960718142355.4849C-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:26:10 -0400 References: <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> To: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com> In-Reply-To: <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 18 Jul 1996, John David Adamski wrote: > Also when I send mail out it says it > is from jda@.jda.conglomerate.com (jda is the host name in > /etc/hostconfig. Well, I think this can be solved by getting sendmail 8.7.5 and using the 'masquerade' feature. The installation is explained very well at: http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/ TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- I will be away from July 20-July 27 1996 Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: domain name, mail problem and PPP Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:44:38 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul18.194438.8110@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> In article <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> jda@jda.conglomerate.com (John David Adamski) writes: > Now my provide say I can receive mail using jda@rust.net or > jda@conglomerate.com. So, I changed my /etc/resolv.conf to reflect > conglomerate.com as my domain. And, started to use popOver to get my > mail. Will I am getting some of my mail I have test sent to > jda@conglomerate.com, but not all. Also when I send mail out it says it > is from jda@.jda.conglomerate.com (jda is the host name in > /etc/hostconfig. Assuming you are using standard NeXT sendmail, edit ruleset S6 to get rid of the "canonical hostname" line. You may also wish to set Dm at the start to conglomerate.com. > What do I have to do to get mail working right? Also is it possible to > have my jda@rust.net mail and jda@conglomerate.com mail get retrieved at > one time? Instead of changing resolv.conf and rebooting. Add a Cw line in sendmail.cf, like: Cw rust.net conglomerate.com The mail set via smtp (to rust.net, I assume) will continue to just arrive; and PopOver will grab the mail for conglomerate.com - or whatever your ISP has set up. At least your sendmail won't reject it. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Virtual Hosting (black hardware) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:47:39 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul18.194739.8183@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4sli5d$7us@news.cloud9.net> In article <4sli5d$7us@news.cloud9.net> velcro@escape.com (David Sinclair) writes: > Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: > : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jul-96 Virtual Hosting > : (black hard.. by Barry Graham@cans.uab.ed > : > How do I configure multiple IP addresses on a Turbo NeXTstation. On the > > : The simplest answer is, you can't. NEXTSTEP does not support virtual > : interfaces. However, it's supposedly possible to get SLIP or PPP > : Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > > > anyone know if this is supported in OPENSTEP/Mach 4.0? The alias keyword isn't in ifconfig in 4.0. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: object.station boot problem Date: 18 Jul 1996 21:08:19 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> We have an object.station that doesn't deal with power outages well. Rebooting after a power outage invariably causes some sort of floppy drive check fails just after the SCSI devices are recognized. This prevents the boot process from proceeding. In the past, repeated reboot attempts would finally "correct" the problem, but this time, that hasn't worked and we remain dead in the water :-( If we insert a floppy in the drive, the floppy check seems to pass, but then a floppy read error occurs, again preventing a successful boot. We have attempted to disable the floppy drive in the setup, but that causes a different error. The setup specifies that the boot order is C:/A: and C: is the internal boot drive. We are unable to remove A: totally from the boot order, but we tried the only other option, A:/C:, but that made no difference. Any suggestion would be appreciated. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: marcos@imana.com (Marcos Javier Polanco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Nextstation reboots self! Date: 18 Jul 1996 21:36:28 GMT Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden) Message-ID: <4smaos$cp0@kadath.zeitgeist.net> Hello, I've got a Nextstation on my network, and of late it has chosen to reboot itself every once in a while. Has anyone observed similar behavior before? The only change we've made is that Morningstar PPP is now running, rather than the freeware version. Thanks. -- ========================================================== Marcos J. Polanco Imana 415.436.9700 (voice) 480 Potrero Ave. 415.436.9793 (fax) San Francisco, CA 94110 marcos@imana.com http://www.imana.com/ ==========================================================
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: domain name, mail problem and PPP Date: 19 Jul 1996 00:52:57 +0200 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x7u3v52mye.fsfarkin@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> References: <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> In-reply-to: jda@jda.conglomerate.com's message of 18 Jul 1996 15:10:05 GMT To: jda@conglomerate.com (John David Adamski) Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch Originator: news@nowhere.ethz.ch In article <4slk4e$km7@oxy.rust.net> jda@jda.conglomerate.com (John David Adamski) writes: > Before the switch I was jda.rust.net and could send/receive mail from any > one of the 5 users (jda,w3artist,flames,root,me) I set up on my NeXT, and > life was good. I did not need to use a mail POP to retrieve my mail, it > just came. > I will also have to talk to my provide an see how they configure me, that > I can't get mail addressed to flames or w3artist anymore. ask your provider, why you need pop now. As far as I can tell, your provider is only dropping mail to jda@conglomerate.com to your pop account at jda@Fe3.rust.net. This is why you do not get mail for flames and w3artist. > Now my provide say I can receive mail using jda@rust.net or > jda@conglomerate.com. So, I changed my /etc/resolv.conf to reflect > conglomerate.com as my domain. And, started to use popOver to get my > mail. Will I am getting some of my mail I have test sent to > jda@conglomerate.com, but not all. Also when I send mail out it says it > is from jda@.jda.conglomerate.com (jda is the host name in > /etc/hostconfig. > > What do I have to do to get mail working right? Also is it possible to > have my jda@rust.net mail and jda@conglomerate.com mail get retrieved at > one time? Instead of changing resolv.conf and rebooting. you can leave jda in /etc/hostconfig, you can set resolv.conf to conglomerate.com. It doesn't really matter for the mail stuff anyway. This is what I think you need to do, I haven't tried it. Edit /etc/sendmail.cf, I suppose you're using the NeXT sendmail with the sendmail.mailhost.cf and with a ddn relay mailer (DMddn somewhere at the top) Then add a line like this at the top: Djconglomerate.com This is to make your outgoing mail @conglomerate.com Then add a line like this also somewhere at the top: Cwconglomerate.com rust.net jda.rust.net This is to make your sendmail accept mail for @conglomerate.com, @rust.net and @jda.rust.net and deliver it locally. christian -- Christian Limpach, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. http://nice.ethz.ch/~chris --- System-Administration VIS/NiCE member of the managing board of VIS (http://www.vis.inf.ethz.ch/)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Mail Filter with NeXTStep Mail.app? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960718204034.10447A-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:55:13 -0400 References: <4sm2cs$7n6@stratus.skypoint.net> To: jalegre@andante-systems.com In-Reply-To: <4sm2cs$7n6@stratus.skypoint.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 18 Jul 1996 jalegre@andante-systems.com wrote: > Has anyone had any experience using a Mail filter such as the program > "filter" with the NeXT Mail.app? Has anyone compiled and used > "filter"? Where is "filter" available? I believe that 'filter' is the program that comes with 'elm' If you are interested in using 'procmail' then get: ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz and then get ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/mail/mailapp-utilities.1.5.NIHS.bs.tar.gz There's a really neat place to get this info (links to the above, plus the Mail.app3.3 bundles) http://www.nerc.com/luomat/next/index.html#MAIL TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- I will be away from July 20-July 27 1996 Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can NS4.0 Mach handle large partitions Date: 18 Jul 1996 07:09:01 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4sknud$fa@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> References: <4sf60t$2su@saturn.genoa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: alex@genoa.com In <4sf60t$2su@saturn.genoa.com> Alex Blakemore wrote: > > To date, NeXT Mach has had a limitation where it couldn't hangle partitions > greater than 2 GB. Does anyone know if that restriction is removed in the 4.0 > release? AFAIK, no. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: Constantin Szallies <szallies@energotec.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Reverse ARP under NeXTStep 3.x? Date: 19 Jul 1996 08:39:11 GMT Organization: Tech Net GmbH Message-ID: <4snhjf$njq@ddfservb.technet.net> References: <4sjaoi$r1j@teal.csn.net> bediger@csn.net (Bruce Ediger) wrote: >For very peculiar reasons, I'd like to net-boot a Sun SPARCstation with >a NeXT 25MHz slab as a boot server. I can find the tftp stuff to >serve the boot and kernel files with, but I think I need a Reverse >ARP daemon (rarpd) for the SPARCStation to get its IP address from. > >Does such a beast exist for NeXTStep? I found 4.4BSD source code for >a rarpd, but it uses "Berkeley Packet Filter" (bpf) to go beneath the >raw IP layer. Therefore, that source is pretty useless for my purposes. >What's the NeXTStep analog of "bpf" or SunOS's "nit"? Is there some >way to listen for RARP packets under NeXTStep? > >Regards, >Bruce Ediger Check out man bootpd. The boot protocol daemon gives your SPARCstation it's IP address. Make sure you enter the correct hardware (ethernet) address in the configuration file. Note that the bootpd supplied with next only conforms to RFC 951 and NOT the newer protocol extensions (forgot the RFC number). If your station needs this extension, you have to get a new bootpd form somewhere. -- Constantin Szallies, Energotec GmbH szallies@energotec.de 49211-9144012
From: Constantin Szallies <szallies@energotec.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Reverse ARP under NeXTStep 3.x? Date: 19 Jul 1996 08:59:16 GMT Organization: Tech Net GmbH Message-ID: <4snip4$njq@ddfservb.technet.net> References: <4sjaoi$r1j@teal.csn.net> <4snhjf$njq@ddfservb.technet.net> Constantin Szallies <szallies@energotec.de> wrote: >Check out man bootpd. The boot protocol daemon gives your SPARCstation it's >IP address. Make sure you enter the correct hardware (ethernet) address in >the configuration file. Note that the bootpd supplied with next only conforms >to RFC 951 and NOT the newer protocol extensions (forgot the RFC number). If >your station needs this extension, you have to get a new bootpd form >somewhere. I forgot to mention two points: 1) Tell HostManager.app the IP and ethernet address. A correct ethernet address is mandatory. 2) On your NeXT machine in /etc/hostconfig, put NETMASTER to -YES-. Reboot the NeXT machine and check that there's a daemon process "bootpd" -- Constantin Szallies, Energotec GmbH szallies@energotec.de 49211-9144012
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk availability on a LAN Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 06:34:19 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul19.063419.9675@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4sm151$5qr@elle.eunet.no> In article <4sm151$5qr@elle.eunet.no> Jan Bratbak <altus@login.eunet.no> writes: > How can I make external disks (not boot disks) on a fileserver available to > other hosts on a LAN with machines running NSFIP? I can't seem to get > NSFManager to do it. The disks must be mounted using /etc/fstab, not automounted. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: object.station boot problem Date: 19 Jul 1996 10:34:12 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4snob4$91u@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <4sm943$8sf@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> On 07/18/96, Art Isbell wrote: > We have an object.station that doesn't deal with power outages well. > Rebooting after a power outage invariably causes some sort of floppy drive > check fails just after the SCSI devices are recognized. This prevents the > boot process from proceeding. In the past, repeated reboot attempts would > finally "correct" the problem, but this time, that hasn't worked and we > remain dead in the water :-( > > If we insert a floppy in the drive, the floppy check seems to pass, but > then a floppy read error occurs, again preventing a successful boot. We > have attempted to disable the floppy drive in the setup, but that causes a > different error. > > The setup specifies that the boot order is C:/A: and C: is the internal > boot drive. We are unable to remove A: totally from the boot order, but we > tried the only other option, A:/C:, but that made no difference. > > Any suggestion would be appreciated. > Sorry Art, you're probably screwed. This is what's happened to my object.station too, and seemingly also a number of others'. The floppy controller's knackered (technical term), and unfortunately it's on the motherboard... You could try setting the BIOS to tell it that the floppy isn't installed -- then you might be able to bypass it, but you'd be left with no way of accessing the floppy again. You've tried specifying the boot order -- you should try this in conjunction with the above: it appears to have worked in some cases. You can try setting the jumpers to tell the board the floppy's not there: this didn't work for me. You could try adding an IDE card with floppy controller and connecting that up to the drive: this didn't work for me either (but I may not have configured things properly, although I suspect it was actually still failing at step 1). You could try asking Canon to replace the motherboard, but, oh, they don't seem to be interested. Should I add your name to the letter I'm composing to send to Canon USA (cf my "Canon" thread in csn.advocacy)? Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@colds.ruca.ua.ac.be> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 10:11:05 +0200 From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@colds.ruca.ua.ac.be> Message-ID: <9607170811.AA06860@flexus.fotek.com> Subject: Re: I've lost several mail messages Dear experts, If any of you replied to my message of 1996-07-09 on the newsgroup only without mailing me a copy, I've missed that answer. So there's nothing to be summarised... Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think *** The year 2000 will be the last year of the 20th century. ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Disk availability on a LAN Message-ID: <Durx2I.1Gx@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4sm151$5qr@elle.eunet.no> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 04:42:17 GMT In article <4sm151$5qr@elle.eunet.no> Jan Bratbak <altus@login.eunet.no> writes: > Hi, > > How can I make external disks (not boot disks) on a fileserver > available to other hosts on a LAN with machines running NSFIP? > I can't seem to get NSFManager to do it. > You can't export automounted volumes. I recommend to read the man-page on 'fstab'. -- 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 | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: "John W. Wooten" <woo@scicntr.ortn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Moving a computer Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:25:10 -0400 Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960719181857.2598A-100000@polaris> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I had a NeXTCube working perfectly in one domain. I powered it down correctly and moved it to another domain that is not connected to the outside world via router 160.91.216.1. I carefully brought it up in single user mode. Edited the hostconfig file to change the name, the ip number, then netmask and the broadcast mask to agree with the new domain. The machine in question was configured as the netmaster and there are no other netmasters in the domain. I change resolv.conf to have the new domain name. I connect the ethernet and reboot (not as single user). The machine gets to the section where it is portadd net gateway 160.91.216.1 and hangs. Why? The router 160.91.216.1 is there How do I get it online in a new domain without destroying everything else? What is going on? I can ^C out of the hang (NetInfo doesn't start) and then telnet to the other machines in the domain, copy files back and forth. This should show that the netmask is correct. (I actually copied it via ftp from another NeXTCube in the domain and change two things, the name and the ip last digit to an unused one then rebooted). What magic is required?
From: mbecker@caehbl.uml.edu (Mark Becker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Formatting Maxtor XT-8760 drive on black hardware - Bad Blocks? Date: 21 Jul 1996 03:10:46 GMT Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Design Center Message-ID: <4ss73m$9vg@ulowell.uml.edu> Summary: Drive has bad blocks.. but how to find? Hello - Environment: Black '030 cube, NS 2.1, Maxtor XT-8760 external, 345M internal. Problem: External drive formats to 1024 byte/sector. "disk" initializes the drive. Power the system down and come back a day later. Bad blocks in bad places (found a couple in the inode table with "dd"). I have a copy of the "reasb" (reassign block) program.. but how to find the defective blocks? A long time ago I wrote SASI code (and could do it now). However, could someone point me to a list of SCSI commands and control block structures? Preferably on-line? Barring using "reasb", there should be a way to collect the bad blocks and assign them to a file in lost+found. Your time is appreciated. Regards, Mark mbecker@caehbl.uml.edu
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Moving a computer Date: 20 Jul 1996 23:12:16 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany Message-ID: <4srp4g$1ls@turbocat.snafu.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960719181857.2598A-100000@polaris> "John W. Wooten" <woo@scicntr.ortn.edu> wrote: > What magic is required? Look at hosts in netinfo. Does the computer know himself? _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg? Date: 21 Jul 1996 18:27:34 GMT Organization: frazer.com Message-ID: <jbf-2107961427490001@news.tiac.net> References: <4sm1bl$pes@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com> In article <4sm1bl$pes@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>, aholiday@dudley (Austin Holiday) wrote: > Does anybody know if a newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg exists and where I can > find it? There is a commercial replacement; my impression is that it is too expensive for my needs. You could port CAP (Columbia Appletalk) but I don't know how up to date it is. If you just want to print set up a mac as a print server using lpDaemon. > I trying to get an AppleTalk connection on my black box running Mach 3.3 and apparently > the NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg I have was designed for Mach 3.0. It sort of works under 3.3. Problem is that you can mount the Mac files, but can't then unmount them. Barney
From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Which X-Windows Date: 21 Jul 1996 20:06:56 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Message-ID: <4su2l0$h4a@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> References: <4rr52b$6@news.tamu.edu> To: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote: > What commercial version of X-windows seems to be the best for > NeXTSTEP. I would like one that doesn't take over the entire screen, > and had FAT binaries so I could run on black and intel hardware. I don't know of commercial applications, but I can suggest you take a look at Xnext, by Stefan Leuker. It's latest release is really great, includes a front end, supports b/w, grey scale or colors, and can run in a window or in full-screen mode. It's shareware, with a well-worth-it fee of $20. You can get it from any Peanuts mirror at X11/server/Xnext/ Best regards. -- Diego Martin Zamboni Jefe del Area de Seguridad en C'omputo diego@conga.super.unam.mx DGSCA, UNAM, Mexico. Tel. (52-5)622-81-69 (NeXTMail ok) Fax. (52-5)622-80-43 WWW home page: http://ds5000.super.unam.mx/~diego/ PGP key: finger diego@conga.super.unam.mx
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting dos partition Date: 19 Jul 1996 15:35:01 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <4so9v5$2ou@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I recently added a new hard drive and pci scsi controller. I loaded NS 3.3 on the new hard drive. My old hard drive had a dos partition on it that I need to access occasionally. I changed the mount location of the old hard drive (put in under /private) and now the dos partition is not mounted. My question is how do I mount a dos partition off of my 2nd hard drive (/dev/sd2a)? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Darryl _________________________________________________________________ Darryl L. James | darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted. Texas Tech University | http://www.osci.ttu.edu _________________________________________________________________
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Email address problem Date: 21 Jul 1996 23:59:29 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4sug91$flj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> 3 of our offices use UUCP over a PPP connection to exchange email. UUNET is the ISP. UUNET rewrites UUCP-style addresses to Internet style. These offices use the NS 3.3 sendmail.mailhost.cf with the following changes: Dmtrego.com Cmtrego.com Dwtrego.com Cwtrego.com # my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally #Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$. # if you want the gateway to assume the identity of its parent domain, use: Dj$m DRuunet CRuunet # 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 Mail received from a variety of senders ends up with From and Return-Path header fields that cause problems when mail can't be delivered and needs to be returned: From somewhere!aisbell@ix.netcom.com Fri Jul 19 06:08:36 1996 Return-Path: <somewhere!aisbell@ix.netcom.com> The "somewhere" in these fields appears to be the culprit because "somewhere" seems to be "nowhere" :-) Is anyone else using UUNET's UUCP and NS' sendmail.mailhost.cf for mail exchange? If so, do you see "somewhere" in From and Return-Path fields? What do I need to do to avoid this "somewhere"? Is UUNET's setup the culprit? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Noel Bush <noel@nobumakoe.escape.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How Do You Set the Screen Dim Time in NS3.2? Date: 22 Jul 1996 00:15:12 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, NY, USA Message-ID: <4suh6g$90a@news.cloud9.net> I know there must be an easy answer to this question. The only default I can find (with dread -l) is something called "NeXT1 AutoDimTime", which seems to affect the time-'til-dim for when I'm logged in, but when I'm logged out I have to let my loginwindow sit for about half an hour until it changes to the screensaver (or else just dim the monitor "manually"). What a pain. :::-) Anybody know how this is done? (I know it's in the Preferences in 3.3.....) Thanks ==== Noel Bush <nobumako@escape.com> (NeXTmail, MIME A-OK!) ==== Brooklyn NY
From: wxli@harpy.ualr.edu (Wei Li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 fax modem selection problem Date: 22 Jul 1996 00:38:23 GMT Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Message-ID: <4suihv$mp7@news.ualr.edu> When I tried to selection a fax modem from the FAX panel, I got a blank window with no selections at all. How can I select a fax modem in order to send/receive fax in NS3.3? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -wei, wli@cs.uah.edu
From: wxli@harpy.ualr.edu (Wei Li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: g++ v2.7.2 on NS3.3 problem Date: 22 Jul 1996 03:49:27 GMT Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Message-ID: <4suto7$qg1@news.ualr.edu> Has anyone installed and used g++ version 2.7.2 on NS3.3 successfully? I am having trouble using g++ after the installation. I wonder if I did something wrong during the installation. My problem can be summarized as follow: The steps that I have taken to install the compilers are: %configure %make %make install %make g++ %make g++ instal %cp -R /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.7.2/include/g++/* \ /usr/local/lib/g++-include I then tried to compile the following example program: #include <iostream.h> main() { cout << "Hello World\n"; } I then got the following compiler error messages: g++ main.cc In file included from /usr/local/lib/g++-include/streambuf.h:35, from /usr/local/lib/g++-include/iostream.h:32, from main.cc:6: /usr/local/lib/g++-include/libio.h:36: _G_config.h: No such file or directory Could you please help me figure out what I did wrong? Thanks. -wei, wli@cs.uah.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet Date: 22 Jul 1996 04:15:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4suv8e$c8d@digifix.digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Software, 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 - 150+ ISV company pages - 350+ 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/ 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 Software, Inc. 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From: suzuki@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp (Suzuki Yoshiaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg? Date: 22 Jul 1996 08:06:46 GMT Organization: The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan Message-ID: <4svcqm$lub@uecisb.is.uec.ac.jp> References: <4sm1bl$pes@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com> >> Does anybody know if a newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg exists and where I can >> find it? We use NEXTSTEP as a AppleTalk Server,But not Client. AppleTalk Package that called CAP is somewhere.And you need a patch for NEXTSTEP. The patch works on m68k and Intel Plathome of Version 3.3. But this depends a Ethernet Driver in Intel Plathome. Plese show the URL ( FTP ) ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi/bpf_NeXT
From: Constantin Szallies <szallies@energotec.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Which X-Windows Date: 22 Jul 1996 12:31:37 GMT Organization: Tech Net GmbH Message-ID: <4svsb9$pk8@ddfservb.technet.net> References: <4rr52b$6@news.tamu.edu> <4su2l0$h4a@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni) wrote: >jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote: >> What commercial version of X-windows seems to be the best for >> NeXTSTEP. I would like one that doesn't take over the entire screen, >> and had FAT binaries so I could run on black and intel hardware. > >I don't know of commercial applications, but I can suggest you take a look at >Xnext, by Stefan Leuker. It's latest release is really great, includes a >front end, supports b/w, grey scale or colors, and can run in a window or in >full-screen mode. It's shareware, with a well-worth-it fee of $20. > >You can get it from any Peanuts mirror at X11/server/Xnext/ An older release of Xnext I tried was unuable slow.. What about the newest release?? -- Constantin Szallies, Energotec GmbH szallies@energotec.de 49211-9144012
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <vincent@jupiter> Message-ID: <9607221244.AA00257@jupiter.imaginet.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Vincent NOE <vincent@jupiter> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 13:44:24 +0100 Subject: Use duplex mode on printing Hi, How can I use the duplex mode on a printer (4SIMX or 5SIMX). The PPD file permit it but it doesn't printing on duplex mode. What is the postscript instruction for do it on the PPD file ? Thanks for your help. Vincent NOE noehom@imaginet.fr
From: eb@object.com (Eric Bergerson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Printers and NT Date: 22 Jul 1996 14:42:56 GMT Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc. Message-ID: <4t041g$8sg@chinx4.thoughtport.net> I have three related questions regarding the use of my NeXT Color Printer and my NeXT Laser Printer. How do I do the following. 1.) From an NT machine, how do I use a NeXT Laser Printer, connected to a NeXT cube, on the same network, as a network printer? 2.) Same question, with a NeXT Color Printer? 3.) I have an NT machine with several bootable disks connected to it. Sometimes it is booted under NS3.3, from which it hosts my NeXT Color Printer. Other times, it is booted as an NT machine. How can I use my NeXT Color Printer (which I believe is just a Canon BJC-820) which is still hooked up to that machine when it is booted under NT (or for that matter, under Windows 3.1). Any and all help is greatly appreciated. -- Sincerely, Eric Bergerson Objective Technologies, Inc. email: eb@object.com voice: 212 988 6268 fax: 212 988 6273 web: http://www.object.com
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What is the easiest way for NT and NS to co-exist? Date: 22 Jul 1996 11:22:48 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <4t06c8$457@papoose.quick.com> My current configuration is as follows: Adaptec 2940UW 4+GB Quantum as ID 1 (sd0{a,b,c,d,e}) 2+GB Quantum as ID 2 (sd1{1,b}) (I keep my primary boot drive at ID 1 in order to allow booting from an external drive in an emergency.) I currently have 5 830MB NS partitions on my primary drive, and 2 1GB partitions on my secondary. I would like to install a small (<1GB) NT partition on this box which will be used infrequently. I have heard sketchy stories about how NT does not want to share the boot drive with other OSes. Will I have to redo everything, (install NT, then install NS on top of that) or is it possible to have NT live entirely on sd1? Thanks -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re:Use duplex mode on printing Date: 22 Jul 1996 15:57:41 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <4t08dl$d9@transfer.stratus.com> References: <9607221244.AA00257@jupiter.imaginet.fr> In article <9607221244.AA00257@jupiter.imaginet.fr> writes: > Hi, > > How can I use the duplex mode on a printer (4SIMX or 5SIMX). The > PPD file permit it but it doesn't printing on duplex mode. > > What is the postscript instruction for do it on the PPD file ? > > Thanks for your help. > > Vincent NOE > > noehom@imaginet.fr You'll need to contact NeXT tech support on this. They will send you some new printer drivers (not PPD files) from 4.0 which fix this issue. We just hit this on our 5SiMX last week. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: az070@lafn.org (Bernard Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Calliope won't open Date: 22 Jul 1996 05:00:04 GMT Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net Message-ID: <4sv1sk$as0@zook.lafn.org> Keywords: launch, open Calliope (the musical scoring program) won't open. I can't find anything wrong via the inspector. Can anybody suggest a fix? -- Bernard Mueller az070@lafn.org NeXTMail pine & MIME OK
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS with OpenStep 4.0 Date: 22 Jul 1996 18:29:12 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <4t0h9o$mvv@news.next.com> References: <4s3jgt$dp9@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mike Tuyo asks: > I just upgraded a couple of our boxes to Openstep 4.0 and for some > reason NIS has refused to work. Check the release note for lookupd (/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf). The 4.0 lookupd is vastly more configurable than the old one. To the greatest extent possible, it works exactly the same was as the old lookupd, but enabling NIS is a bit different. The 4.0 lookupd has a set of "agents" for different information systems - NetInfo, NIS, DNS, Flat Files, and an internal cache. When lookupd gets a request for information, it consults with these agents. You can decide which agents should be consulted, and set the order in which they are consulted. For example, you might want to do lookups first in NIS, then in NetInfo, and then in the flat files (/etc/passwd and etc). On top of that, you can also set the lookup order on a per-category basis. The categories are hosts, users, printers, and so on. Thus, you can tell lookupd to look for users from one set of information sources (for example, NIS then NetInfo), while looking for hosts in another set (for example, DNS, then NetInfo, then NIS). The 4.0 lookupd reads all of its configuration options out of the directory /locations/lookupd in NetInfo. You can put the configuration at any level in your NetInfo hierarchy. Put it in a computer's local domain, and it applies to only that one system. Put it in a mid-level domain, and it applies to a subset of your network. Put it in the root domain, and it applies to the whole network. You can use niutil or NetInfoManager to create and manage the configuration. Here's an example, placed in a domain named /sales (I've broken up long lines with "\"): niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd \ LookupOrder CacheAgent NIAgent YPAgent FFAgent This tells lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then NetInfo, then NIS (YP), and finally to read the flat files. Note that the NIS maps are treated as a fully independent information source, not as a network extension of the local flat files. You can use one or the other or both, and in any order you'd like. niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd/hosts niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd/hosts \ LookupOrder CacheAgent DNSAgent NIAgent This overrides the lookup order for hosts, telling lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then DNS, and finally NetInfo. niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd/users niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd/users \ LookupOrder CacheAgent YPAgent NIAgent FFAgent This overrides the lookup order for users, telling lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then NIS, then NetInfo, and finally the /etc/passwd file. The release note has more details on the new features and configuration options. -- Marc Majka
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS & Win/95 Date: 22 Jul 1996 18:49:12 GMT Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA Message-ID: <4t0if8$7ie@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> I need to upgrade my NS system's DOS partition to Win/95. Apparently, Win/95 overwrites the boot sector. Is there an easy way to prevent this from happening? What is the recommended procedure? /ivo welch -- Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu ---------------------------- Ivo Welch.............. http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/ UCLA AGSM Finance...... http://www.agsm.ucla.edu/finance/ Int'l WWW/Email Dirctry http://next.agsm.ucla.edu/dir/ -- ---------------------------- --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How Do You Set the Screen Dim Time in NS3.2? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <Duy76z.BsA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:06:35 GMT References: <4suh6g$90a@news.cloud9.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <4suh6g$90a@news.cloud9.net>, Noel Bush <nobumako@escape.com> wrote: >I know there must be an easy answer to this question. The only default I can >find (with dread -l) is something called "NeXT1 AutoDimTime", which seems to >affect the time-'til-dim for when I'm logged in, but when I'm logged out I >have to let my loginwindow sit for about half an hour until it changes to the >screensaver (or else just dim the monitor "manually"). What a pain. :::-) > The default is in root's defaults database and its owner is loginwindow, name TimeToDim. It's in seconds. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Fstab and DOS partitions on NS 3.3 - Help!! Date: 22 Jul 1996 20:37:36 GMT Message-ID: <4t0oqg$3ovg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> I am running NS 3.3 on a system which also contains some DOS Extended partitions. During 'boot' I ALWAYS receiv the following message from the Workspace: "The hard disk is unreadable" I am given the options 'ignore' and 'initialize'. This message is repeated twice. On the system console the following sequence of messages appear: probing for DOS Unknown device type (hd2) probing for CDROM fs_util: Unknown device type (hd2) probing for mac Unknown device type (hd2) probing for cdaudio probing for DOS Unknown device type (hd3) probing for CDROM fs_util: Unknown device type (hd3) probing for mac Unknown device type (hd3) probing for cdaudio My /etc/fstab contain the following lines: /dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/hd1a /IDE1 ignore ro,noquota 0 2 /dev/hd2a /IDE2 ignore ro,noquota 0 0 /dev/hd3a /IDE4 ignore ro,noquota 0 0 I have no idea why this is happening. I have already executed the statement: 'niload fstab . </etc/fstab'. This does NOT make any difference. Can someone please help me out here?? Jerome Brathwaite
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compuserve Fronend for NS 3.3 ??? Date: 22 Jul 1996 21:17:43 GMT Message-ID: <4t0r5n$3ovg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Is there a frontend for Compuserve access (like WINCIM for Windows) available for NS 3.3? Jerome
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David O. Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] How to use remote tape drive on multiple hosts Date: 22 Jul 1996 23:03:22 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL Message-ID: <4t11bq$kkd@ncar.ucar.edu> We would like to mount a SCSI tape drive on machine_a and have both it and machine_b (both NeXTStep on Sun Sparc) access the tape drive for file backup. The documentation from "Chapter 8: Managing System Backups" indicates that it is possible (using rdump) to do so. All that is needed is "permission to execute the rsh command as root on the computer that has the target output device attached to it. This permission is given by making an entry for your remote computer in the /.rhosts file." This sounds easy and straightforward, but it does not work for us. When the local system tries to run the command and write to the tape drive on the remote system, we get permission denied errors. Am I overlooking something obvious? Is there something else that needs to be done first that is implicitly assumed in the documentation. Thanks for any info. -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ncar.ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: terrible SCSI performance under OPENSTEP for Mach Date: 23 Jul 1996 04:30:52 GMT Organization: EMI Software Engineering Message-ID: <4t1khs$kj4@news2.cais.com> Has anyone else noticed their SCSI performance dropped after upgrading to OPENSTEP for Mach? Here's my before and after benchmarks. NEXTSTEP 3.3 3.23 MB/second for writing 60 MB file 3.74 MB/second for reading 60 MB file OPENSTEP for Mach (FSC) 0.61 MB/second for writing 60 MB file 2.34 MB/second for reading 60 MB file Write performance has dropped 80% and read performance has dropped 37%. I'm running an Adaptec 2940 with a Seagate ST15230N (4 GB Fast SCSI-2). Thanks in advance.
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fstab and DOS partitions on NS 3.3 - Help!! Date: 22 Jul 1996 23:17:43 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.838101946@shellx> References: <4t0oqg$3ovg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> In case it helps... Workspace used to object to the weird DOS cd-roms I would leave in my drive, so I put the following in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/rsd2h /cdrom ignore ro,noquota,noauto 0 2 Note that I have a SCSI system, but perhaps the trick is that I use the raw device (r), live partition (h). Works for me, though it's certainly not well documented. I did not niload this information; go figure... -sam
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: terrible SCSI performance under OPENSTEP for Mach Date: 22 Jul 1996 23:55:03 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.838102907@shellx> References: <4t1khs$kj4@news2.cais.com> emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) writes: > Has anyone else noticed their SCSI performance dropped >after upgrading to OPENSTEP for Mach? Here's my before and after >benchmarks. > Write performance has dropped 80% and read performance has >dropped 37%. I'm running an Adaptec 2940 with a Seagate ST15230N >(4 GB Fast SCSI-2). The important question here probably is how much memory do you have and what is your virtual memory system doing? This is probably a key benchmark for Openstep users: what is the real hot footprint of the new system? On my 3.3 48 meg system tonight: > vm_stat Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 2401. Pages active: 1139. Pages inactive: 1729. Pages wired down: 528. "Translation faults": 36905. Pages copy-on-write: 6561. Pages zero filled: 9322. Pages reactivated: 12956. Pageins: 1781. Pageouts: 0. Well my system hasn't had to page anything out yet; clearly it's just coasting when I read news in a Terminal window. 8^) The pageout number is the interesting one; it indicates a page that you had in RAM needed to get kicked out to make room for another that you need "right now". Too much of this thrashing will send your performance into the toilet since it involves a lot of seeking and I/O that isn't going towards your benchmark. The other interesting number is pages free; This tells you how much new stuff you can bring in without kicking the old stuff. My number here (2401) says I've got about 19 megs of headroom. Coincidentally, last week I added 16 megs of cheap RAM, so before my system was much closer to the pageout point when I first logged in. I was happy with the perforance of 3.3 with 32 megs, but with 48 megs, my disks stay really _silent_! I hope I'm right that your problem is memory contention. I can't believe the kernel or drivers would be significantly slower. It's not great news in any case. 8( cheers, -sam
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] How to use remote tape drive on multiple hosts Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:47:40 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <31F4758B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <4t11bq$kkd@ncar.ucar.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David O. Blanchard,,, wrote: > > We would like to mount a SCSI tape drive on machine_a and have both > it and machine_b (both NeXTStep on Sun Sparc) access the tape drive > for file backup. > > The documentation from "Chapter 8: Managing System Backups" indicates > that it is possible (using rdump) to do so. All that is needed is > "permission to execute the rsh command as root on the computer that > has the target output device attached to it. This permission is given > by making an entry for your remote computer in the /.rhosts file." > > This sounds easy and straightforward, but it does not work for us. > When the local system tries to run the command and write to the tape > drive on the remote system, we get permission denied errors. > > Am I overlooking something obvious? Is there something else that needs > to be done first that is implicitly assumed in the documentation. > > Thanks for any info. > Tape devices can not be distributed by nfs. Give this a try on a remote host. The rsh should have permission to a user (eg. me) on the host with the tape. (~me/.rhost or /etc/host.equiv) gnutar cpf - . | rsh host_where_the_tape_is -l me 'mt rew; \ dd conv=sync of=/dev/rmt0a;mt rewoffl' remember to extract the tape by dd conv=sync if=/dev/rmt0a | gnutar xf - filename This works fine for single machines. A better solution is also the public backup software called amanda. I've seen some patched there for nextstep but I don't use it yet. stef -- _________________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI fuer Polymerforschung, Postf. 3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | .. openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ..of the wheel__/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW-Page http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| \_________________________________________________________________________/
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Calliope won't open Date: 23 Jul 1996 09:16:58 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4t25aa$2ab@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4sv1sk$as0@zook.lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <4sv1sk$as0@zook.lafn.org> On 07/22/96, Bernard Mueller wrote: > > Calliope (the musical scoring program) won't open. I can't find anything > wrong via the inspector. Can anybody suggest a fix? > -- You should probably contact the author, William Clocksin: wfc@cl.cam.ac.uk Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fstab and DOS partitions on NS 3.3 - Help!! Date: 23 Jul 1996 07:24:44 -0400 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <4t2cps$7rb@papoose.quick.com> References: <4t0oqg$3ovg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> In article <4t0oqg$3ovg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> wrote: >partitions. During 'boot' I ALWAYS receiv the following message from the >Workspace: > "The hard disk is unreadable" I am given the options 'ignore' and >'initialize'. This message is repeated twice. On the system console the (munch) >/dev/hd1a /IDE1 ignore ro,noquota 0 2 Use the noauto keyword on each line to ignore the drives you do not want NS to mount. e.g. /dev/hd1a /IDE1 ignore ro,noquota,noauto 0 2 After modifying the fstab, use niload. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk availability on a LAN Date: 21 Jul 1996 20:35:13 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4su4a1$3l8@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <4sm151$5qr@elle.eunet.no> Jan Bratbak <altus@login.eunet.no> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make external disks (not boot disks) on a fileserver available to > other hosts on a LAN with machines running NSFIP? I can't seem to get > NSFManager to do it. > Export the directories from the fileserver, import the directories on the other hosts and reboot all machines. Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen jacob@dannug.dk http://www.dannug.dk/users/jacob/
From: woo@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (J. W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Moving a computer Date: 23 Jul 1996 13:16:16 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <4t2jb0$9cl@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <4srp4g$1ls@turbocat.snafu.de> In article <4srp4g$1ls@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) writes: > "John W. Wooten" <woo@scicntr.ortn.edu> wrote: > > What magic is required? > > Look at hosts in netinfo. Does the computer know himself? Nothing was changed. Netinfo doesn't start. can't look. I've never added my own computer to netinfo before. It wasn't in there before when it worked fine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Message-ID: <9607231339.AA12470@mail.valverde.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Mac Patel <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 06:39:36 -0700 Subject: UserManager & Home Directory Hello We are running NS 3.3 on our servers. I have successfully used Bulk Deletion command available in User Manager, but have problems with Bulk Creation. I have tried several time to create accounts using this feature, but keep getting following alert panel... No directory specified on home directory server... Has any one created accounts using the Bulk Creation feature? Has anyone seen this panel and if so what is the solution? Thanks in Advance. If you like to reply directly, my email is mpatel@valverde.edu Mac Patel
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: terrible SCSI performance under OPENSTEP for Mach Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:37:35 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0lxGbzy00iWUE5wP1r@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4t1khs$kj4@news2.cais.com> <sams.838102907@shellx> In-Reply-To: <sams.838102907@shellx> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 22-Jul-96 Re: terrible SCSI performan.. by Samuel G. Streeper@best. > On my 3.3 48 meg system tonight: > >> vm_stat > Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) > Pages free: 2401. > Pages active: 1139. > Pages inactive: 1729. > Pages wired down: 528. > "Translation faults": 36905. > Pages copy-on-write: 6561. > Pages zero filled: 9322. > Pages reactivated: 12956. > Pageins: 1781. > Pageouts: 0. > > Well my system hasn't had to page anything out yet; clearly > it's just coasting when I read news in a Terminal window. 8^) Looks like you just rebooted. :-) Let me compare those numbers to a 32 MB system that's been up for a while: 1-tertius% uptime 3:19pm up 45 days, 19:17, 8 users, load average: 1.46, 1.10, 1.12 2-tertius% vm_test Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Total pages: 3940 Pages free: 29 ( 0.74 %) Pages active: 2216 (56.24 %) Pages inactive: 1222 (31.02 %) Pages wired down: 473 (12.01 %) Translation faults: 234111814 Pages copy-on-write: 115032275 Pages zero filled: 927063 Pages reactivated: 13811957 Pageins: 170257 Pageouts: 88587 Efficiency ratio: 2642 Object cache: 463317 hits of 526488 lookups (88% hit rate) 'vm_test' is a modified version of vm_stat which shows some additional information that I find helpful. The most interesting number is the "efficiency ratio", which is nothing more than the ratio of translation faults to pageouts. The number provides some estimate of the number of pageouts as compared to the total amount of virtual memory activity. A system with adequate memory has a ratio in the thousands; a ratio of less than 100:1 indicates that the system has been running out of memory; adding more RAM would noticably improve the performance of the system. There's a book entitled "System Performance Tuning" from O'Reilly which describes what to look for (in memory statistics, and otherwise) that I would highly recommend. > The pageout number is the interesting one; it indicates > a page that you had in RAM needed to get kicked out to > make room for another that you need "right now". Too much > of this thrashing will send your performance into the toilet > since it involves a lot of seeking and I/O that isn't going > towards your benchmark. It's perfectly normal to have some level of pageouts, because some pages are only referred to when a program first initializes itself-- especially, programs which have been link-optimized, as I assume all of the important NeXT apps have been. If you (meaning emi@cais.cais.com) want to perform a solid I/O benchmark, you should perform it while running in console mode without the windowserver running. You can do this by typing 'console' at the LoginWindow panel and then logging in at the text-mode login prompt. I'd suggest using IOZone, since it can automatically run with different file and block sizes and get accurate results. It tries larger and larger file sizes until the program is sure that it's handling files that are too big for any caching in RAM to influence the results. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Subject: Re: [Q] How to use remote tape drive on multiple hosts Message-ID: <Dv0HAC.4yF@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology References: <4t11bq$kkd@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:39:47 GMT In article <4t11bq$kkd@ncar.ucar.edu> dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David O. Blanchard,,,) writes: > >We would like to mount a SCSI tape drive on machine_a and have both >it and machine_b (both NeXTStep on Sun Sparc) access the tape drive >for file backup. > Here's how we do it. Suppose "foo" has the tape drive and you want to backup "bar". You'll need three files /.rhosts, and two shell scripts. You need to be logged in to foo. Here is are the contents of the three files: ------------------------------------------------------------ [2]root@foo:/ # cat .rhosts bar.somedomain.edu localhost [5]root@foo:/usr/local/backupdat # cat BarDump0 #! /bin/sh # # Level 0 dump of bar rsh bar /usr/local/backupdat/Rdump0 mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline [6]root@foo:/usr/local/backupdat # cat Rdump0 #! /bin/sh # # Level 0 dump of bar rdump 0ufs foo:/dev/rst0 1200000 / ------------------------------------------------------------ Now if BarDump0 and Rdump0 have execute permission, you can (logged in to foo as root) type cd /usr/local/backupdat ./BarDump0 and the dump will be performed. It's a bit convoluted, but it works. Steven -- Steven M. Boker 804-295-8444 (voice/fax) 804-295-0009 (home) boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 After 8/20 Dept. of Psych., U. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: emi@cais2.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: terrible SCSI performance under OPENSTEP for Mach Date: 23 Jul 1996 22:05:29 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <4t3ib9$6hk@news2.cais.com> References: <4t1khs$kj4@news2.cais.com> EMI Software Engineering (emi@cais.cais.com) wrote: : Has anyone else noticed their SCSI performance dropped : after upgrading to OPENSTEP for Mach? Here's my before and after : benchmarks. : NEXTSTEP 3.3 : 3.23 MB/second for writing 60 MB file : 3.74 MB/second for reading 60 MB file : OPENSTEP for Mach (FSC) : 0.61 MB/second for writing 60 MB file : 2.34 MB/second for reading 60 MB file : Write performance has dropped 80% and read performance has : dropped 37%. I'm running an Adaptec 2940 with a Seagate ST15230N : (4 GB Fast SCSI-2). Following up my own post, here are the results of a series of three consecutive executions of vm_stat followed by IOZone 60. This was done on a freshly rebooted system, a stand-along machine with 64MB of memory, and I logged into "console". All I can glean from this is that the VM system is barely being used and that SCSI performance doesn't change over the course of the tests (it is still slow). Interestingly, I tried IOZone with a very small sized file, 10MB, and got the same slow performance. Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 5452. Pages active: 719. Pages inactive: 1166. Pages wired down: 491. "Translation faults": 21185. Pages copy-on-write: 3084. Pages zero filled: 2453. Pages reactivated: 10230. Pageins: 1307. Pageouts: 0. Object cache: 2333 hits of 2556 lookups (91% hit rate) IOZONE performance measurements: 618217 bytes/second for writing the file 2350158 bytes/second for reading the file ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 6453. Pages active: 938. Pages inactive: 50. Pages wired down: 387. "Translation faults": 37027. Pages copy-on-write: 3127. Pages zero filled: 10149. Pages reactivated: 10580. Pageins: 8998. Pageouts: 89. Object cache: 4281 hits of 4506 lookups (95% hit rate) IOZONE performance measurements: 618353 bytes/second for writing the file 2356932 bytes/second for reading the file ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 6464. Pages active: 930. Pages inactive: 47. Pages wired down: 387. "Translation faults": 52913. Pages copy-on-write: 3167. Pages zero filled: 17844. Pages reactivated: 10695. Pageins: 16693. Pageouts: 94. Object cache: 6223 hits of 6449 lookups (96% hit rate) IOZONE performance measurements: 618165 bytes/second for writing the file 2355031 bytes/second for reading the file ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 6461. Pages active: 930. Pages inactive: 47. Pages wired down: 390. "Translation faults": 68813. Pages copy-on-write: 3208. Pages zero filled: 25539. Pages reactivated: 10809. Pageins: 24388. Pageouts: 99. Object cache: 8165 hits of 8392 lookups (97% hit rate)
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <ced016@email.mot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg? Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:29:41 -0600 Organization: FPDC of Motorola, Schaumburg,IL,USA Message-ID: <31F54445.1E09@email.mot.com> References: <4sm1bl$pes@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com> <jbf-2107961427490001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote: > There is a commercial replacement; my impression is that it is too > expensive for my needs. You could port CAP (Columbia Appletalk) Also check into Netatalk, it's like CAP but seemingly better?! http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/ Eric Dubiel http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk availability on a LAN Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:10:19 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Jul23.221019.960@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <4su4a1$3l8@jnext.dannug.dk> In article <4su4a1$3l8@jnext.dannug.dk> Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> writes: > Jan Bratbak <altus@login.eunet.no> wrote: > > How can I make external disks (not boot disks) on a fileserver available to > > other hosts on a LAN with machines running NSFIP? I can't seem to get > > NSFManager to do it. > > > Export the directories from the fileserver, import the directories > on the other hosts and reboot all machines. A likely reason to have tried it and failed is if the disk doesn't have an entry in /etc/fstab (or has one with noauto specified). Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Do you have Fujitsu DynaMO drive? Date: 23 Jul 1996 22:45:06 -0400 Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Message-ID: <4t42ni$9i5@news.duke.edu> I have had severe but very sporadic problems with my Fujitsu M2512A DynaMO magneto-optical drive, and wonder if it might be due firmware incompatibility. If you have used a DynaMO drive without trouble on a NEXTSTEP/Intel 3.3 system using an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card, I would be grateful if you could e-mail me the following information: 1. The firmware version number of your DynaMO drive. Get this by typing, as root: root# disk -q /dev/rsd2a FUJITSU M2512A 1314Vˆ root# 2. The firmware version of your Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. This is seen during reboot. The problem I get is that every so often while writing to the MO disk, /usr/adm/messages reports SCSI bus errors such as: Apr 14 23:50:10 pueo mach: sd2: NOT READY; Retrying. Apr 14 23:50:10 pueo mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Read block:0 blockCount:1 Jan 23 23:00:08 pueo mach: sd2: SCSI Bus Violation; Retrying. Jan 23 23:00:08 pueo mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Write block:64112 blockCount:10 Nov 29 21:07:42 pueo mach: a2940_0: Data Overrun on target 2 Nov 29 21:07:42 pueo mach: sd2: DMA Over/Underrun; Retrying. Nov 29 21:07:42 pueo mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Request sense Nov 20 21:27:39 pueo mach: sd2: Illegal request; FATAL. Nov 20 21:27:39 pueo mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Mode Sense Soon after this happens, similar errors get reported on the hard disks on the SCSI bus, and the system crashes. When fsck tries to fix the filesystems, it reports reports MEDIA ERRORS not only on the MO disk, but on the hard disks as well. These are confirmed by low-level Adaptec 2940 tests of the disks. But also, I get the following error when I try to format the MO disk in either DOS or MAC format: /usr/filesystems/mac.fs/mac.util -i sd2 "fujitsu_230" removable -d 2 Request Sense command failed ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error /usr/filesystems/mac.fs/mac.util -i sd2 "mo_mac" removable Request Sense command failed ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error Any help would be greatly appreciated. ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), 875-0745 (home), 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <NeXTMail and MIME: altenber@pueo.mhpcc.edu> Web: ¬http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: epson stylus color pro for NEXTSTEP/intel 3.3/4.0? Date: 23 Jul 1996 15:32:04 -0600 Organization: Computing Research Lab/New Mexico State University Sender: zhao@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu Message-ID: <yegafwq3bcb.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> Anyone has made popular epson stylus color pro work for NEXTSTEP/intel 3.3/4.0? If you do, any trick? Thanks in advance, zhao
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: adamm@world.std.com (Adam S. Moskowitz) Subject: Please help: NFS Automounting & printing Message-ID: <Dv10y6.G95@world.std.com> Organization: Menlo Computing, Sunnyvale, CA Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 02:44:29 GMT HELP! I'm a poor Unix SysAdmin, who doesn't know anything about NeXTs, but needs to learn fast. Please help . . . The first problem is the easier of the two: How do we set up the NeXT so it can spool print jobs to a printer hanging off a Unix machine? If it matters, the Unix host is running SunOS 4.1.x. The second problem is one of NFS, automounting and NIS: We want to make the NeXT box use something similar to Unix's automounter, and we also want the NeXT to get the automount map from NIS, so that we don't have to manage the NeXT's mounts by hand. We have been told this can be done, but we can't seem to figure out how. As always, please reply by email (to adamm@interval.com, if possible), and I promise to post a summary to the group (if I get anything useful). advTHANKSance, AdamM
From: Christian Vollmert <b0445889@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swap partition and ppp Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:17:48 -0700 Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <31F6308C.72B5@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi folks ! i =B4ve just installed ns3.3 (intel) and everything runs fine, but i have two big problems: i have a second hardisk (scsi) in my pc with a dos partition and a 50mb = next partition how can i format this partition (which command?) and after this how can i put a swappartition on this (what do i have to = change) my second problem is ppp i have just installed everything, but now im trying to connect to my = university after the modem connects there is no login how can i check it ? how can i start the connection over term/kermit and change than to ppp ? thanx chris no nextmail (till now!)
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I have tried every darn get rich quick scheme out there over the past 12 years. I somehow got on mailing lists for people looking to make money (more like 'desperate stupid people who will try anything for money!'). Well, when I was a teenager, these claims to 'get me rich quick' sounded irresistible! I would shell out $14.95 here, $29.95 here, and another $49.95 there. I had maxed out my new Circuit City Card AND my Visa...I was desperate for money!! So, I gave them all a chance but failed at every one of them! Maybe they worked for some people, but not for me. Eventually, I just tossed that JUNK MAIL in the trash when I got the mail. I recognized it right away. I can smell a money scam from a mile away these days, SO I THOUGHT....I thought I could sniff out a scam easily. WAS I WRONG!!....I LOVE THE INTERNET!!! I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to GET CASH FAST!! I though..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just have to see what schemes could possible be on the internet." The article described a way to MAIL A ONE DOLLAR BILL TO ONLY FIVE PEOPLE AND MAKE $50, 000 IN CASH WITHIN 4 WEEKS! Well, the more I thought about it, the more I became very curious. Why? Because of the way it worked AND BECAUSE IT WOULD ONLY COST ME FIVE DOLLARS (AND FIVE STAMPS), THAT'S ALL I EVER PAY....EVER!! Ok, so the $50,000 in cash was maybe an tough amount to reach, but it was possible. I knew that I could at least get a return of $1,000 or so. So I did it!! As per the instructions in the article, I mailed out ('snail mail'for you e-mail fanatics) a single dollar bill to each of the five people on the list that was contained in the article. I included a small note, with the dollar, that stated "Please Add Me To Your List." I then removed the first position name of the five names listed and moved everyone up one position, and I put my name in position five of the list. This is how the money starts rolling in! I then took this revised article now with my name on the list and REPOSTED IT ON AS MANY NEWSGROUPS AND LOCAL BULLETIN BOARD MESSAGE AREAS THAT I KNEW. I then waited to watch the money come in...prepared to maybe receive about $1000 to $1500 in cash or so.... But what a welcome surprise when those envelopes kept coming in!!! I knew what they were as soon as I saw the return addresses from people all over the world-Most from the U.S., but some from Canada, even some from Australia! I tell you, THAT WAS EXCITING!! So how much did I get in total return? $1000? $5000? Not even!!! I received a total of $23,343!!! I couldn't believe it!! I now have a brand new black Acura Integra to speak for, due to this!! Now after almost 8 months, I am ready to do it again!!! So maybe it was possible to get $50,000 in cash, I don't know, but IT COMPLETELY DEPENDS ON YOU, THE INDIVIDUAL! You must follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think of! The more postings you achieve will determine how much cash will arrive in your very own mailbox!! It's just too easy to pass up!!! Let's review the reasons why you should do this: The only cost factors are for the five stamps, the 5 envelopes and the 5 one dollar bills that you send out to the listed names by snail mail (US Postal Service Mail). Then just simply repost the article (WITH YOUR NAME ADDED) to all the newsgroups and local BBS's you can. Then sit back and, (ironically), enjoy walking (you can run if you like! :o ) down your driveway to your mailbox and scoop up your rewards!! We all have five dollars to put into such an easy effortless investment with SPECTACULAR REALISTIC RETURNS OF $15,000 to $25,000 in about 3-5 weeks! So HOLD OFF ON THOSE LOTTERY NUMBERS FOR TODAY, EAT AT HOME TONIGHT INSTEAD OF TAKEOUT FROM McDONALDS AND INVEST FIVE DOLLARS IN THIS AMAZING MONEY MAKING SYSTEM NOW!!! YOU CAN'T LOSE!! So how do you do it exactly, you ask? I have carefully provided the mostdetailed, yet straightforward instructions on how to easily get this underway and get your cash on its way. SO, ARE YOU READY TO MAKE SOME CASH!!!?? HERE WE GO!!! *** THE LIST OF NAMES IS AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE. *** OK, Read this carefully. Get a printout of this information, if you like, so you can easily refer to it as often as needed. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Take a sheet of paper and write on it the following: "Please add my name to your list". This creates a service out of this money making system and thus making it completely legal. You are not just randomly sending a dollar to someone, you are paying one dollar for a legitimate service. Make sure you include your name and address. I assure you that, again, this is completely legal! For a neat little twist, also write what slot their name was in: "You were in slot 3", Just to add a little fun! This is all about having fun and making money at the same time! 2. Now fold this sheet of paper around a dollar bill , (no checks or money orders), and put them into an envelope and send it on its way to the five people listed. The folding of the paper around the bill will insure its arrival to its recipient. THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT!! 3. Now listen carefully, here's where you get YOUR MONEY COMING TO YOUR MAILBOX. Look at the list of five people; remove the first name from position one and move everyone on the list up slot one on the list. Position 2 name will now move to the position 1 slot , position 3 will now become position 2, 4 will be be 3, 5 wil be 4. Now put your name, address, zipcode AND COUNTRY in position 5, the bottom position on the list. 4. Now upload this updated file to as many newsgroups and local bulletin boards' message areas & file section as possible. Give a catchy description of the file so it gets noticed!! Such as: "NEED FAST CASH?, HERE IT IS!" or "NEED CASH TO PAY OFF YOUR DEBTS??", etc. And the more uploads, the more money you will make, and of course, the more money the others on the list will make too. LET'S ALL TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER BY BEING HONEST AND BY PUTTING FORTH 120 PERCENT INTO THIS PROFITABLE & AMAZING SYSTEM!!! You'll reap the benefits, believe me!!! Set a goal for the number of total uploads you'll post, such as 15-20 postings or more! Always have a goal in mind!!! If you can UUE encode the file when uploading, that will make it easier for the poeple to receive it and have it downloaded to their hard drive. That way they get a copy of the article right on their computer without hassles of viewing and then saving the article from the File menu. Don't alter the file type, leave it as an MS-DOS Text file. The best test is to be able to view this file using Microsoft's Notepad for Windows 3.x or WordPad for Windows '95. If the margins look right without making the screen slide left or right when at the ends of the sentences, you're in business! 5. If you need help uploading, simply ask the sysop of the BBS, or "POST" a message on a newsgroup asking how to post a file, tell them who your Internet provider is and PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE GLAD TO HELP. I would try to describe how to do it but there are simply too many internet software packages with slightly different yet relatively simple ways to post or upload a file. Just ask for help or look in the help section for 'posting'. I do know that for GNN, you simply select 'POST' then enter a catchy description under the subject box, choose 'ATTACH', selecting 'UUE' and NOT 'TXT', then choose 'Browse' to go look for the file. Find your text file CASH.TXT and click on it and choose 'OK'. Place a one line statement in the main body section of the message post screen. Something like "Download this to read how to get cash arriving in your mailbox with no paybacks!" or whatever. Just make sure it represents its true feasibility, NOT something like..."Get one million dollars flooding in your mailbox in two days!" You'll never get ANY responses! 6. And this is the step I like. JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY LIFE BECAUSE CASH IS ON ITS THE WAY!! Expect to see a little money start to trickle in around 2 weeks, but AT ABOUT WEEKS 3 & 4, THE MONEY STORM WILL HIT YOUR MAILBOX!! All you have to do is take it out of the mailbox and try not to scream too load (outside anyway) when you realize YOU HIT THE BIG TIME AT LAST!! 7. So go PAY OFF YOUR BILLS AND DEBTS and then get that something special you always wanted or buy that special person in your life (or the one you want in your life) a gift they'll never forget. ENJOY LIFE! 8. Now when you get low on this money supply, simply re-activate this file again; Reposting it in the old places where you originally posted and possibly some new places you now know of. Don't ever lose this file, always keep a copy at your reach for when you ever need cash. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE TOOL THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS RE-USE TIME AND TIME AGAIN WHEN CASH IS NEEDED! 9. (This step added by Charles Reiley). Hello, This is exciting isn't it?! While I'm on the list, just add a note saying "Please include extra money tips" with your name & E-MAIL address, and I will (FOR FREE) send you some neat methods to increase the money you will receive with this plan. Why?...Why not? I'm not a selfish jerk...I like helping out others. E-mail just makes it a touch easier and cheaper, too! After I drop off the list, I can no longer offer you this advice, obviously, but maybe someone else who gets my tips will offer and simply replace my name on this step number 9. Good luck and give this plan your all, it will definitely pay off! Like Mike said, HAVE FUN WITH IT!!! ************************************************************************************* THE NAMES LIST THE NAMES LIST THE NAME LIST ************************************************************************************* * HONESTY IS WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL!!! * * 1. John F. Bourgeois * 3043 New Oak Lane * Bowie, MD 20716 * * 2. David Maxwell * 1747 Stonybrook Ln. * APT 103 * Brunswick, OH 44212 * * 3. Daniel Henry * 3122-A Dagger Drive * Tyndall AFB, FL 32403-1204 * * 4. Jack Hartsfield * 1900 North Vine #404 * Los Angeles, California 90068 USA * * 5. John Ocava * 1125 N. Harvard Cir. * South Elgin, IL 60177 USA * ************************************************************************************* NOTE: Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you a dollar and always keep an eye on the local postings of this file... Just to make sure that everyone is playing the game fairly. You know where your name should be..... *** AGAIN, HONESTY IS THE BEST THING WE HAVE GOING FOR US ON THIS PLAN. -Mike Dotson, Boulder, CO *** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the money to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and that's after two months). Then he sent the 5 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10000! All the lists are re-distributed as soon as the money is received. end of article
From: mike@starburst.cbl.cees.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: ?How to get 4.0 Academic Bundle in any kind of timely fashion Date: 24 Jul 1996 16:26:28 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Lab. Message-ID: <4t5irk$651@gamera.cbl.cees.edu> Keywords: 4.0,Academic Bundle, where to get I'm trying to find the most expedient way possible to put an order in for the Academic Bundle of Release 4 of NeXTstep OS for Intel. If you call NeXT on this their call routing message will refer you to either: 1) Your campus bookstore (ours goes through another vendor, all told I'm looking at months before they get it in, I checked). 2) Optimal Object (was Object Technologies), however being a University I can only order through Purchase Order and Optimal Object now has a policy whereas they won't accept any PO's under $1,000. I'm sorry, I don't need more than one copy right now, period, end of story, but I do **NEED* that copy. I feel its a little bone headed of NeXT to only have one other reseller for the Academic Bundle aside from your slow as a turtle campus bookstores. Perhaps NeXT should re-examine their relationship with Optimal Object in light of their new policy on POs (which generally speaking is the only process by which Universities can order things). I guess there are no other ordering options?! --Mike -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Mike F. Santangelo, Dept. Head-Computer & Network Systems, UMCEES/CBL Solomons
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has Someone Ported Netatalk to NS ? (Was: newer version of NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg?) Date: 24 Jul 1996 17:24:59 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-46.usc.edu Message-ID: <4t5m9b$j7r@usc.edu> Cc: suzuki@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp Has anyone ported Netatalk to NS? The Netatalk homepage seems to indicate that the creators of Netatalk have not much incentive themselves. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman reichman@usc.edu USC-CNTV NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome =============================================================== PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP" --------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Public Window Server security? Date: 24 Jul 1996 20:03:01 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <4t5vhl$3o9@news.tamu.edu> What exactly is the security weakness with the Public Window Server on? Stephen Johnson srjohnson@tamu.edu
From: root@phcs.phcs.com (S00POR UZER) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <4t5dck$68s@phcs.phcs.com> Control: cancel <4t5dck$68s@phcs.phcs.com> Supersedes: <4t5dck$68s@phcs.phcs.com> Date: 24 Jul 1996 16:14:33 -0400 Organization: Private Healthcare Systems, Inc Message-ID: <4t6079$nib@phcs.phcs.com> SPAM cancelled by jq@phcs.com
From: Bill Keller <bkeller@galstar.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Which sendmail.cf? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:14:13 -0600 Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet Message-ID: <31F69225.7A9A@galstar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I am using PPP2.2 on a standalone machine. I can use PopOver to recieve my mail, but I'm having problems sending mail. If I use mail -v to watch what happens, as it tries to send the mail, the process hangs. The mail gets to my ISP, but I have to kill the process. I am wondering which sendmail config file I should be using, and what (if any) changes I would have to do. If anyone out there is using the same type of setup as me (standalone, ppp, SMTP), I would appreciate info on how you got yours up and running. Thanks!! -Bill
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unknown host message when 'pinging' myself Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 22:54:50 +0200 Message-ID: <31F68D9A.62E@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to integrate my NS 3.3 in a small network. I have assigned a hostname and and ip address to my NS machine. My problem is:- On the NS machine I can ping myself if I use the IP address, but get 'unknown host' if I use the hostname. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong here..?? Jerome
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Public Window Server security? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 18:06:08 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <klxdtEu00iWkQ_81QI@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4t5vhl$3o9@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4t5vhl$3o9@news.tamu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jul-96 Public Window Server security? by Stephen Johnson@ccc1.tam > What exactly is the security weakness with the Public Window Server on? You can send arbitrary PostScript commands to the WindowServer from remote machines. PostScript allows you to do things like read from and write to files. There is no support for encryption (say, Kerberos tokens) or provision for per-host access control (ala xhost). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk availability on a LAN Date: 24 Jul 1996 15:41:02 -0700 Organization: The Turbocolor On My Desk Message-ID: <4t68pu$ic2@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4su4a1$3l8@jnext.dannug.dk> <1996Jul23.221019.960@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >In article <4su4a1$3l8@jnext.dannug.dk> Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> >writes: >> Jan Bratbak <altus@login.eunet.no> wrote: >> > How can I make external disks (not boot disks) on a fileserver >available to >> > other hosts on a LAN with machines running NSFIP? I can't seem to get >> > NSFManager to do it. >> > >> Export the directories from the fileserver, import the directories >> on the other hosts and reboot all machines. > >A likely reason to have tried it and failed is if the disk doesn't have an >entry in /etc/fstab (or has one with noauto specified). Mine refuses to do so, here's my fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd2a /private/Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 /dev/sd0b /private/Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 Neither sd2a nor sd0b can be exported (this was true even when they mounted under / instead of /private). NFS would export them, but the other machine (all black here) can't see it. Directly typing the mount command gives "permission denied" no errors on the console, nothing. Help on this would be greatly appreciated, I have 1 gig free on sd2, and 1 gig free on sd0b, and 150MB free on sd0a, and it's a pain to use the other machine with "?" for all the /Local* directories. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ UX++++>$ P+>+++ L+ !E !W++ N+++ !o-- !K w--- O++$ M+ V PS>--- !PE+ Y+ !PGP- t@ 5++ X+++ R- tv b+>++ DI !D G e>+++ h--- r++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My name in From: of Mail? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:06:01 +0200 Message-ID: <31F69039.1C7E@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How can I get NS Mail to fill in my name and e-mail address in the 'From:' slot of mail I send? At the moment it puts 'me (my Account)' or something there Jerome
From: Jerome Brathwaite <jbrathw@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ET4000W32i color on NS or Driver Sources ?? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:51:18 +0200 Message-ID: <31F69AD6.3A16@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an ET4000W32i display card on my system. This card is capable of producing 'lots' of color on Windows95/NT and OS/2. On NS 3.3 the best it can manage is 2bit grey scale. It must be possible to get it to produce at least some color on NS.!!! The question is - HOW?? Does anyone happen to have this thing working in color on NS? And does anyone happen to have the sources for this Driver on NS? Maybe I can have a go at getting it to work myself... Jerome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spai@netcom.com (Suresh Pai) Subject: Driver for SMC EtherPower PCI Ethernet Adapter? Message-ID: <spaiDv2KII.H3I@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 22:44:42 GMT Sender: spai@netcom22.netcom.com Hello Is there a driver for SMC EtherPower PCI Ethernet Adapter combo in NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0 for mach? Thanks suresh
From: f122092955@mail.chinatrust.com.tw (Cheng-chun Chou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: epson stylus color pro for NEXTSTEP/intel 3.3/4.0? Date: 25 Jul 1996 01:48:11 GMT Organization: Taiwan NeXT User Group, TwNUG Message-ID: <4t6jor$hq7@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> References: <yegafwq3bcb.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <yegafwq3bcb.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>, zhao@crl.nmsu.edu says... > > >Anyone has made popular epson stylus color pro work for NEXTSTEP/intel >3.3/4.0? > >If you do, any trick? > >Thanks in advance, > > zhao try Dots.app or JetPilot.app Both are Software RIP.........:) -- Cheng-chun Chou Taiwan NeXT User Group, TwNUG Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Email Adress: f122092955@mail.chinatrust.com.tw NeXT Mail & MIME Mail are both Welcome...^_^
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with mail received via UUCP Date: 25 Jul 1996 02:25:39 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <4t6lv3$71q@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> Several days ago, I posted a request for assistance with a problem that occurs when mail using domain addressing (foo@bar.com) is received via UUCP under NS. The UNIX From and Return-Path fields contain "somewhere!" that causes problems with bounced mail (somewhere!foo@bar.com). Unless mail bounces, you may not have noticed the problem. With UUNET and probably other UUCP mail forwarders, this can result in an infinite bounce loop with an ever-increasing number of mail messages. The NS version of rmail turns out to be the culprit. The OpenStep 4.0 version of rmail appears likely to solve the problem. A hac.. er, fix recommended by a couple of users is to add the following rule to ruleset 1: # Sender Field Pre-rewriting S1 # Remove "somewhere!" that rmail prepends to domain addresses. Rsomewhere!$* $1 somewhere!foo@bar.com => foo@bar.com What effect this might have on a real UUCP domain named "somewhere" remains to be seen :-) -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Does NEXTSTEP have a /dev/tun0 tunnel interface? Date: 25 Jul 1996 04:43:25 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <4t6u1d$8a8@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> I need a tunnel interface to be able to use the IPIP encapsulation daemon. (I want to use this for an IP-in-IP tunnel to bridge my subnet over an ISDN connection that routes only a single IP address.) The /dev/tun0 appears to be a network interface that can be opened as a stream by a user process to read and write raw IP packets to and from the kernel. Has anyone written such a beast? I'm using the ps_if virtual interface and can route my subnet traffic to it, but I don't know how to get a user-process (the ipip daemon) to read and write raw packets from that interface to encapsulate them. Is that why I need a /dev/tun0 interface? Am I missing something? -- Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca) Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: upgrading disk Date: 25 Jul 1996 04:53:20 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <4t6uk0$mlt@news.tamu.edu> I just purchased a new segate hd for our NeXT's. I am replacing the system disk on the server. I formatted the disk, and then did a ditto command to copy over the present disk. When I rebooted, it starts to boot, and then when I get to Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: en0 at 0x2106000 Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:71:a3 Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000 Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: np0 at 0x200f000 Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: sound0 at 0x200e000 Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: root on sd0 I get Killing all processes and the computer reboots. Any Ideas? Thanks, Jeromy jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: ?How to get 4.0 Academic Bundle in any kind of timely fashion Date: 25 Jul 1996 10:27:00 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4t7i5k$e2b@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <4t5irk$651@gamera.cbl.cees.edu> In-Reply-To: <4t5irk$651@gamera.cbl.cees.edu> On 07/24/96, Michael F. Santangelo wrote: > I feel its a little bone headed of NeXT to only have one other > reseller for the Academic Bundle aside from your slow as a turtle > campus bookstores. Perhaps NeXT should re-examine their relationship > with Optimal Object in light of their new policy on POs (which > generally speaking is the only process by which Universities can order > things). I guess there are no other ordering options?! > Having read Rob Blessin's reply, I feel some sympathy toward Optimal Object on this. I've got so embarassed with the length of time it takes for POs to be processed on this side of the pond that I usually pay for stuff myself and then claim back from the University. If the Finance Office ask why I didn't use a PO, I say it's because I got a good deal from the supplier provided I paid within a week, and in my esperience you're doing *very well* if the University pays with a month. Best wishes, mmalc. --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Mysterious console messages Message-ID: <Dv38zr.80@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 07:33:27 GMT Hello, I have a question. We have a network of about 30 NextStep computers. Most of the machines are running NS3.3. The servers are running NS3.3 witch Patch1 (Improved DNS). In recent times I have encountered an increasing number of these messages in the console of our machines. Especially on the servers. From /usr/adm/messages .. Jul 24 09:40:43 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 Jul 24 09:42:33 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 Jul 24 09:51:23 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 Jul 24 09:53:34 dali netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4 .. Does anyone know what is the meaning of "netmsgserver[28]: port_set_add() returned 4" ? Also I have encountered another strange behavour. We are currently starting to upgrade the clients to NS4.0. I don't know whether this observation is triggered by the upgrade, but I think the network is slowing down, the more machines are equipped with NS4.0. The server are still equiped with NS3.3 Patch1. Has anyone made similar observations ? Thanks for your help, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH Developer Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Public Window Server security? Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:45:27 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <Dv3Kns.MFp@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <klxdtEu00iWkQ_81QI@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <klxdtEu00iWkQ_81QI@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jul-96 Public Window > Server security? by Stephen Johnson@ccc1.tam > > What exactly is the security weakness with the Public Window Server on? > >You can send arbitrary PostScript commands to the WindowServer from >remote machines. PostScript allows you to do things like read from and >write to files. It's actually worse than that (or indeed much simpler). No PS skills are required. Without going into details, you can request Workspace to run an arbitary program, and it runs it as the user on console :-( To make things worse - Private Window Server simply relies on a magic cookie which is passed down from parent to child process, so only decendents of Workspace should know it. However (at least in 3.0) it was trivial to find the magic cookie - once you had that, then you could talk to the Workspace, and bye bye security. $an
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Linux server for NEXTSTEP Date: 25 Jul 1996 08:37:20 -0500 Organization: TYBRIN Corporation Message-ID: <4t7tag$8i@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> I'm thinking about trying a Linux machine as a file server for home directories, /LocalApps, etc. for our network to try and increase performance a bit. Has anyone done this? Was it worth it? It seems like a good way to incorporate an ultra-wide SCSI system into a NS network without the SCSI performance limitations of NS. Any comments? Thanks, Trey -- Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation trey@hsv.tybrin.com Huntsville, AL NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parity on HardDrive Date: 25 Jul 1996 16:09:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <4t867c$hba@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4t6uo7$mn5@news.tamu.edu> jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote: >One more thing. I'm not sure whether I should enable parity on the >harddrive. I have a Seagate ST51080N. > >What should this be set at? > >Thanks >Jeromy > I this is a slab, enable the parity. I'm not familiar with other types of hardware, yet. I have this drive in a both a NeXTstation Color and a Mono NeXTstation. :) Let me know if your have any other questions. --Ryan
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: upgrading disk Date: 25 Jul 1996 16:51:14 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <4t88m2$hba@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <4t6uk0$mlt@news.tamu.edu> jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote: >I just purchased a new segate hd for our NeXT's. I am replacing the >system disk on the server. I formatted the disk, and then did a ditto >command to copy over the present disk. When I rebooted, it starts to >boot, and then when I get to > >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: en0 at 0x2106000 >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:71:a3 >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, >type "10MB Ethernet" >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000 >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: np0 at 0x200f000 >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: sound0 at 0x200e000 >Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: root on sd0 > > >I get Killing all processes and the computer reboots. Any Ideas? > >Thanks, >Jeromy >jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu > Well everything you have listed here seems "normal". Any other information you can supply? Is this an endless rebooting thing or does it actually reboot and give a login window? After the last line you should get somthing like: Jul 24 22:44:55 chenext1 mach: Reboot complete If not, then I would suggest trying to boot in single user mode (bsd -s) and seeing what happens. --Ryan
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 1st login fails after reboot Date: 25 Jul 1996 11:51:02 -0500 Organization: TYBRIN Corporation Message-ID: <4t88lm$ih@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> I've got a machine ( a network netinfo server ) that will hang upon trying to log in after a fresh boot. No strange messages are seen on the console or in /usr/adm/messages. If the windowserver/loginwindow processes are killed via rlogin from another host, everything will work from that point on. Does anyone know what subtle thing could be causing this behavior? -trey -- Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation trey@hsv.tybrin.com Huntsville, AL NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS and NetInfo? Date: 25 Jul 1996 19:57:07 GMT Organization: BDM International, Inc. Message-ID: <4t8jij$nfu@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com> References: <4sem3g$362@turbocat.snafu.de> In article <4sem3g$362@turbocat.snafu.de> dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) writes: > Hello! > > Soon, I will have to put NIS support into a network of HPs running NS 3.3. Is > it possible to use NIS and NetInfo at the same time? > > I have ~200 users in NetInfo and ~3000 in NIS. When a user not exsists in > NetInfo, he should be able to use his NIS-password. > We have NS 3.3 and NIS running concurrently. I keep only local user information in NetInfo (e.g. root on each machine). All Networked user information is kept in NIS. Make sure each of your NeXT machines have the correct YP domain set in their hostconfig file and that their is a "+:" as the last line in the host, passwd, and group files. -- Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not System Administrator | worth chewing through the <jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: terrible SCSI performance under OPENSTEP for Mach Date: 25 Jul 1996 08:42:10 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <4t7c12$kn@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com> References: <4t1khs$kj4@news2.cais.com> <sams.838102907@shellx> <0lxGbzy00iWUE5wP1r@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu A friend with access to a 3.3 and a 4.0 machine just tried to reproduce the posted benchmark figures, but he could not notice a slowdown due to 4.0. Here are his results: 4.0, Adaptec 2940, Quantum Empire (2 GB) Write: 2163 kb/sec Read 2799 kb/sec -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: cello@virgil.harvard.edu (Sean Varah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: terrible SCSI performance under OPENSTEP for Mach Date: 25 Jul 1996 18:57:58 GMT Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Message-ID: <4t8g3m$mqn@decaxp.HARVARD.EDU> References: <4t1khs$kj4@news2.cais.com> <4t3ib9$6hk@news2.cais.com> EMI Software Engineering (emi@cais2.cais.com) wrote: : EMI Software Engineering (emi@cais.cais.com) wrote: : : Has anyone else noticed their SCSI performance dropped : : after upgrading to OPENSTEP for Mach? Here's my before and after : : benchmarks. : : NEXTSTEP 3.3 : : 3.23 MB/second for writing 60 MB file : : 3.74 MB/second for reading 60 MB file : : OPENSTEP for Mach (FSC) : : 0.61 MB/second for writing 60 MB file : : 2.34 MB/second for reading 60 MB file Are you using the NCR controller? I noticed the reverse phenomenon when I upgraded my NCR driver. Using the first version, NeXTStep couldn't see the write cache on my hard drive. It WAS enabled, but it didn't show up with SCSI_Inquirer.app. Then I upgrade the driver, and low and behold, my writes go from 700K to 2.5-3 megs/sec. I also noticed a similar problem with my old DPT 2122 card on my EISA system. The DPT driver for some reason didn't see the write cache, when I moved the disk over to my Pentium, it worked. Of course, I could just be INSANE, but I think your write cache isn't being used. Sean - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sean Varah Harvard Computer Music Studio cello@mario.harvard.edu, http://www-mario.harvard.edu NeXTMail Welcome - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From: wellin@telospub.com (Paul R. Wellin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP and Network Time Protocol (NTP) Date: 26 Jul 1996 00:40:27 GMT Organization: Pagesat, Inc. Message-ID: <4t945r$jqk@jolt.pagesat.net> Does anyone have any experience (positive or negative) with building NTP (ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp/xntp3.5f.tar.Z) on NeXTSTEP 3.3? Before I start trying to build it, I thought I'd see if anyone had run into trouble previously. Any suggestions regarding time services on NS would be appreciated. -- Paul Wellin Editor of Computational Science TELOS/Springer-Verlag 3600 Pruneridge Avenue, Suite 200 Santa Clara CA 95051 USA phone: 408-249-9314 fax: 408-249-2595 email: wellin@telospub.com WWW: http://www.telospub.com/~wellin/
From: ampriasm@students.wisc.edu (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Black Hardware Won't Bootup. Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 23:14:14 -0400 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <ampriasm-2507962314140001@f180-171.net.wisc.edu> Hi, My NeXT machine won't bootup after I tried to install PPP-2.2.0.4.6. Does anyone have pointers how I go to the command interface so that I can restore my original hostconfig and etc. At least I could see the files in etc directory and edit them using vi editor. Thanks in advance. Andrew. -- Andrew Priasmoro University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Network Time Protocol (NTP) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 00:14:20 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kly4MQm00iWRA=wmBS@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4t945r$jqk@jolt.pagesat.net> In-Reply-To: <4t945r$jqk@jolt.pagesat.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Jul-96 NeXTSTEP and Network Time P.. by Paul R. Wellin@telospub. > Does anyone have any experience (positive or negative) with building > NTP (ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp/xntp3.5f.tar.Z) on NeXTSTEP 3.3? > Before I start trying to build it, I thought I'd see if anyone had run into > trouble previously. I've built one of the recent xntp3 versions, and it compiled, installed, and runs without a hitch under NS 3.3. Read the docs, and make sure you find some XNTP servers around that you have permission to peer with. (Talk to your ISP.) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Shea Phillips <wombat@smartt.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: RE: unwanted fsck-ing on my primary SCSI (Windows 95) drive Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:20:53 -0700 Organization: KTK Communications Ltd. (SmarttNet, http://www.smartt.com) Message-ID: <31F847A5.4732@smartt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have an NS box with 2 1GB SCSI drives. The first drive (ID 0) is a Win 95 drive. The other drive is my NS 3.3 drive. I want to be able to boot into NS using a boot disk and specifying sd(1,a)mach_kernel at the "boot:" prompt. I can sort of do it now, but the system always wants to fsck my sd0 (the '95 drive) before completing a boot. This constantly fails (presumably because fsck can only deal with bsd 4.3 file systems). The message is something like : "cannot read disk label". I have also tried running fsck manually with the same result. How do I get the system to skip the fsck on sd0 and boot to NS from sd1? BTW: boot: sd(1,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a does the same thing. Thanks, Shea.
From: emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric Marshall (Faculty)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: looking for config.data for INN Date: 26 Jul 1996 10:18:41 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Message-ID: <4ta621$690@portal.gmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone out there have a config.data file for INN that they'de like to share? Thanks in advance.
From: gerry@wright.iba (Gerry Brush) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP nfs export to Solaris Date: 25 Jul 1996 19:06:49 GMT Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <4t8gk9$ni6@news.ox.ac.uk> I have exported a NeXTSTEP directory that I want to mount under Solaris 2.5. If I cd to /net/machine_name/exported_directory it is there as expected. However, when I try something like ls in the directory nothing happens, and I get repeatedly Jul 25 19:48:22 wright mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed in /usr/adm/messages on my NeXTSTEP machine. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Gerry Brush Institute of Biological Anthropology Tel: +44 1865 274695 University of Oxford Fax: +44 1865 274699 Oxford OX2 6QS, UK Email: gerry.brush@bioanth.ox.ac.uk
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help -- NetInfo died! Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:34:36 +0300 Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Message-ID: <OTTO.96Jul27143431@tukki.jyu.fi> References: <OTTO.96Jul25080801@tukki.jyu.fi> In-reply-to: otto@tukki.jyu.fi's message of 25 Jul 1996 08:08:06 +0300 In article <OTTO.96Jul25080801@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: > I have a mono NeXTstation which mounts several filesystems from remote hosts, > like the news spool and so on. Up till now, I've hard mounted everything > directly to the proper places using NFSManager. Yesterday, I thought I'd > try out mounting things using autonfsmounter and /Net. Bad mistake: when I > tried to log out after this, I got stuck (autonfsmounter not responding) and > had to reboot the damn thing. Now, the NetInfo database seems to have gotten > corrupted or something since at boot time I get a message ala "NetInfo > Problem: Communication failure" and the database seems to be missing. > This means that I don't have userids (except root), printers, hosts etc. ... > All I can do is log in with root and start up a text shell (using Stuart, as > Terminal just starts up and goes away again). > How do I recover the damn thing? Peculiarly enough, when I just decided to start working on it, netinfo started normally without any problems. All seems A-OK. Most strange. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@cc.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 */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: I think my disk is dying Message-ID: <Dv8uII.2p8@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4td104$sj@tybrin1.hsv.tybrin.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:06:18 GMT In article <4td104$sj@tybrin1.hsv.tybrin.com> trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) writes: ...munch... > Thursday and Friday were OK until around 5pm Friday. I noticed > some of this in /usr/adm/messages on the server after a 'cursor-spin' > on a client: > > Jul 26 18:25:29 server mach: sd0 (1,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x28 > sd_state:0 scsi status:0x0 > Jul 26 18:25:32 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 1 > Jul 26 18:25:32 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 2 > Jul 26 18:25:32 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 3 > Jul 26 18:25:32 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 4 > Jul 26 18:25:32 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 5 > Jul 26 18:26:54 server mach: sd0 (1,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x28 > sd_state:0 scsi status:0x0 > Jul 26 18:26:57 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 1 > Jul 26 18:26:57 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 2 > Jul 26 18:26:57 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 3 > Jul 26 18:26:57 server mach: Target 1: BUSY; retry 4 > Jul 26 18:26:58 server mach: sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes > moved = 0xfc1, resid = 0x3f, retry 1 > > > This is the same sort of stuff I've seen earlier this week, except that > one message before a panic had the word 'FATAL' in it. > > So, Is this disk about to die a violent death? Would it be better > to toss it or perhaps would it be worth the time to sdformat it > and reload everything. My only other disk experience is with > the ST1280N line that seemed to die early, but they normally just > gave SCSI errors with the controller that would not even allow > a boot. > > Please let me know what would be a good course of action. > There is still a nonzero chance that you have an SCSI bus error (termination, cabling, etc.). -- 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 | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: IDE support in OS/4.0 Date: 28 Jul 1996 17:06:16 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <4tg6m8$556@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Follow-ups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Is anyone aware of any improvements to installation on IDE drives for OPENSTEP/Mach 4.0? I'm afraid it is quite difficult to find substantive documentation about improvements in the new release on NeXT's WWW site... Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to Solaris Date: 29 Jul 1996 07:18:08 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <4thojg$28l@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <4t8gk9$ni6@news.ox.ac.uk> gerry@wright.iba (Gerry Brush) wrote: > I have exported a NeXTSTEP directory that I want to mount under Solaris > [...] svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed SUN has changed the NFS code for directory access in Solaris 2.4. New implementations use a non-standard block size of 8192 bytes in their READDIR requests. Simply mount the exported disk on Solaris with the options "rsize=1024 wsize=1024" and everything will work fine. Marcel
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I think my disk is dying Date: 29 Jul 1996 00:31:02 -0700 Organization: The Turbocolor On My Desk Message-ID: <4thpbm$d88@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4td104$sj@tybrin1.hsv.tybrin.com> <Dv8uII.2p8@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: [Snip] >> gave SCSI errors with the controller that would not even allow >> a boot. >> >> Please let me know what would be a good course of action. >> >There is still a nonzero chance that you have an SCSI bus error >(termination, cabling, etc.). I wholeheartedly agree... The errors posted looked just like termination /cheap cable problems that plagued me in the past. Was anything added to the system recently? -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve... -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/P/S d-?>pu s+:+> a- C++$>++++ UX++++>$ P+>+++ L+ !E !W++ N+++ !o-- !K w--- O++$ M+ V PS>--- !PE+ Y+ !PGP- t@ 5++ X+++ R- tv b+>++ DI !D G e>+++ h--- r++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to ask for free harddisk space with a line command? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.94.960729085521.1264B-100000@nerc1.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:02:47 -0400 References: <Dv2MsB.1Iv@galileo.pr.net.ch> To: Stefano Unternaehrer <stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch> In-Reply-To: <Dv2MsB.1Iv@galileo.pr.net.ch> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Stefano Unternaehrer wrote: > Does someone of you how to write a shell script that gives as output the > available (free) space on the harddisk? well, I'm not at my NeXT, and I'm not sure if Linux's 'df' output is exactly the same or not, but try this: #!/bin/sh df=`df | grep /dev/sd1a |awk '{print $4}'` echo "Currently available hard drive space: $df" exit 0 Basically this feeds the output of 'df' through 'grep' to just get the info for your hard drive (which is assumed to be '/dev/sd1a') and takes the 4th set (print $4) of info as the available harddrive space. You might just want to look at df's regular output and parse it your own way. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: How to delete-remove-DESTROY emails in mailboxes ???? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.94.960729090334.1264C-100000@nerc1.nerc.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:06:59 -0400 References: <Dv2n2y.1Ku@galileo.pr.net.ch> To: Stefano Unternaehrer <stefano@galileo.pr.net.ch> In-Reply-To: <Dv2n2y.1Ku@galileo.pr.net.ch> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As with many mail readers, Mail.app has 2 steps in removing mail, to prevent accidental deletion. The first step is to delete them, the second step is to 'compact' the mailbox (which is usually COMMAND-k). I believe that Carl Edman's 'EnhanceMail' bundle has an auto-compact feature. The URL for that bundle and the other Mail.app bundles can be found at http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/index.html#MAIL TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted) NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info Now in infancy: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
From: giddings@menominee.menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multiple Intel HW configurations selectable at boot? Date: 29 Jul 1996 16:04:47 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <4tinev$137k@news.doit.wisc.edu> Keywords: intel hardware nextstep boot configuration I have an intel-based notebook system that I use in two different configurations: a) Standalone, using the built-in 640x480 screen in 640x480 8-bit color b) On a desktop with a monitor in 1024x768, 8-bit color I would like to be able to select the mode it will boot into at the boot prompt using something like "config=xxx". Right now I have to boot it, use the device manager to change the screen setting, then re-boot, which is a pain. I played around with the video config files (I tried adding a second config file) and also added reference to a second config in System.config. I couldn't get it to do anything, but that's probably because I didn't know what I was doing. Does anyone know how to do this, or is it in NextAnswers somewhere (I couldn't find it)? Thanks --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Giddings \ For Work: Graduate Studies, Scientific Comp. UW Madison Dept. of Chemistry \ DNA sequencing Technologies Madison, Wisconsin \ DNA Fragment analysis (608) 692-2851 \ giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu \ For Fun: Whitewater Kayaking UW Hoofers Water Safety Board Chair \ And anything else that gets me outdoors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: gerry.brush@bioanth.ox.ac.uk (Gerry Brush) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to Solaris Date: 29 Jul 1996 17:50:54 GMT Organization: Oxford University Message-ID: <4titlu$e7l@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <4t8gk9$ni6@news.ox.ac.uk> <4thojg$28l@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Cc: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de In <4thojg$28l@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Marcel Bresink wrote: > gerry@wright.iba (Gerry Brush) wrote: > > I have exported a NeXTSTEP directory that I want to mount under Solaris > > [...] svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed > > SUN has changed the NFS code for directory access in Solaris 2.4. New > implementations use a non-standard block size of 8192 bytes in their READDIR > requests. > > Simply mount the exported disk on Solaris with the options "rsize=1024 > wsize=1024" and everything will work fine. > > Marcel > > Thanks. I now see this is also covered in Nextanswers. Gerry -- Gerry Brush Institute of Biological Anthropology Tel: +44 1865 274695 University of Oxford Fax: +44 1865 274699 Oxford OX2 6QS, UK Email: gerry.brush@bioanth.ox.ac.uk
From: ŸŸŸŸŸútŸŸŸŸŸzalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help.store files -- why so large? Date: 29 Jul 1996 22:12:54 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <4tjd16$e0j@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Can anyone please tell me what the Help.store files do? We are trying to save some disk space and have done a recursive listing, by size, of all the files on our machine. These Help.store files show up all over the place and they are large. One is 3.8MB. I would like to clear them out if they aren't essential. Thanks for any help you can give me. Ed --- Edward N. Zalta Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Stanford University Home Page URL = http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html
From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help.store files -- why are they so large? Date: 29 Jul 1996 22:19:22 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <4tjdda$e0j@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Can anyone please tell me what the Help.store files do? We are trying to save space on our machine and we did a recursive listing, by size, of all the files. These Help.store files show up all over the place, in App folders (under English.lproj) and some of them are rather large (e.g. 3.8MB). Can we clear these files out? Thanks for any help you can give us. Ed--- Edward N. Zalta Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Stanford University Home Page URL = http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Disk availability on a LAN Date: 27 Jul 1996 20:39:40 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4tduqc$q2@jnext.dannug.dk> References: <4su4a1$3l8@jnext.dannug.dk> <1996Jul23.221019.960@seer.demon.co.uk> <4t68pu$ic2@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) wrote: > Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote: > >A likely reason to have tried it and failed is if the disk doesn't have an > >entry in /etc/fstab (or has one with noauto specified). > > Mine refuses to do so, here's my fstab: > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd2a /private/Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 > /dev/sd0b /private/Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 > > Neither sd2a nor sd0b can be exported (this was true even when they mounted > under / instead of /private). > > NFS would export them, but the other machine (all black here) can't see it. > Directly typing the mount command gives "permission denied" no errors on > the console, nothing. Actually it gives something like: #2:/Users/jacob# /usr/etc/mount jnext:/DiskExt /Testing mount: access denied for jnext:/DiskExt mount: giving up on: /Testing > Help on this would be greatly appreciated, I have 1 gig free on sd2, and > 1 gig free on sd0b, and 150MB free on sd0a, and it's a pain to use the > other machine with "?" for all the /Local* directories. So... I would like to know the answer to that one as well! Now, I just hope I get my prev. reply to Roberts post cancelled before anyone actually sees it... Jacob -- Jacob Nielsen jacob@dannug.dk http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: Help.store files -- why so large? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960729191150.1127A-100000@charisma> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 19:17:20 -0400 References: <4tjd16$e0j@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <4tjd16$e0j@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII [Edward N Zalta, your FROM line is screwed up in a large way -- TjL] On 29 Jul 1996, Edward N. Zalta wrote: > Can anyone please tell me what the Help.store files do? We are trying to > save some disk space and have done a recursive listing, by size, of all the > files on our machine. These Help.store files show up all over the place and > they are large. One is 3.8MB. > I would like to clear them out if they aren't essential. > Thanks for any help you can give me. Well, I believe that they are the information which you access from the Help menu item. I am not sure that you can simply delete them without causing problems (it might want to load when the app loads). You might try creating a zero-size file with the name Help.store if the app complains about not being able to load the help file. Anyway, the answer is you can get rid of them or replace them if you don't need the help for a certain app. TjL -------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat NeXT info via email: send message with SUBJECT: send-ascii info
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <4td977$ii@jnext.dannug.dk> Control: cancel <4td977$ii@jnext.dannug.dk> Date: 27 Jul 1996 20:31:28 GMT Organization: Danish NeXT User Group Message-ID: <4tdub0$q2@jnext.dannug.dk> cancel
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Dove Fax-Modem with intel machine... Date: 29 Jul 1996 13:26:17 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <4tie5p$p12@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hello, I want to connect a Dove Fax-Modem currently used on black hardware to an intel machine. I searched the NextAnswers for drivers for intel machines but didn't find anything. Has anyone ever managed to connect and use tis modem on an intel machine? I know that I'll have to make a special cable to connect the modem to a sub-d 9 connector, but that's not the problem. Thanks... ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to Solaris Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:29:02 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wlzM5yW00iWRQ=dIce@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4t8gk9$ni6@news.ox.ac.uk> <4thojg$28l@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> In-Reply-To: <4thojg$28l@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 29-Jul-96 Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to .. by Marcel Bresink@informati > gerry@wright.iba (Gerry Brush) wrote: >> I have exported a NeXTSTEP directory that I want to mount under Solaris >> [...] svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed > > SUN has changed the NFS code for directory access in Solaris 2.4. New > implementations use a non-standard block size of 8192 bytes in their READDIR > requests. Sun wrote and owns NFS, no? I don't understand how Sun's implementation could ever be described as "non-standard". You're right that non-obsolete versions of NFS (ie, versions 2 or 3, not version 1, which is what NEXTSTEP ships with) use a default READDIR size of 8192, but the reason that is not backwards compatible is because of bugs in NFS v1, not because of anything intrinsicly wrong with Solaris 2.4 or greater. (Add an IMHO if you like. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please help: mail.app problem Date: 29 Jul 1996 17:42:45 GMT Organization: Californi State University, Fresno Message-ID: <4tit6l$656@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi Folks, I have a problem. I can't open mail.app anymore. I have no idea why it is subbenly not working. When I try to run mail.app, my console terminal give me the following message: [Mail: Caught signal #10; terminating safely] Jul 29 08:41:36 lab Mail[13024]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 98de8 Jul 29 08:41:36 lab Mail[13024]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: orderwindow ]%% Does anyone have idea what is going on? Other users in the machine is ok. Only me can't open mail.app. Please Help...=( Thanks in advance! ****************************************************************************** Kin Hung Au Internet Address: kinau@csufresno.edu Instructional Computing Consultant California State University, Fresno Tel# 209-278-3915 School of Natural Science FAX# 209-278-7139 Office of Dean, MS #90 Fresno CA 93740 http://maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu:8001/~kinau/ ******************************************************************************
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "Mount" Help Date: 24 Jul 1996 22:50:47 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <4t69c7$bos@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Can anyone tell me how NS "mounts" the dos file system when a dos partition exists in addition to the NS partition? I know that it does it automatically when the dos partition exists on the boot disk, but it does not show the dos partition if I mount the disk in a different location in fstab. Thanks for any help. -- Darryl _________________________________________________________________ Darryl L. James | darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted. Texas Tech University | http://www.osci.ttu.edu _________________________________________________________________
From: Nick Potkay <npotkay@integ.micrognosis.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: turning on a next station. Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:25:31 -0400 Organization: CSK Micrognosis Distribution: inet Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960730122231.905A-100000@cycle1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Folks, Forgive my ignorance, but I could not find any information regarding turning on a nextstation. This machine has been in the closet for who knows how long and we would like to get rid of it. The keyboard has a power key on it, but just hitting that key doesnt turn the machine on. What is the key sequence to turn on the machine? Also - I am pretty sure that the machine has a root passwd, (which I dont know). How do I go about putting this beast into single user mode? Thanks -Nick
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to Solaris Date: 30 Jul 1996 18:08:34 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <4tlj32$7ka@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <wlzM5yW00iWRQ=dIce@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <wlzM5yW00iWRQ=dIce@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 29-Jul-96 Re: NeXTSTEP nfs > export to .. by Marcel Bresink@informati > > gerry@wright.iba (Gerry Brush) wrote: > >> I have exported a NeXTSTEP directory that I want to mount under Solaris > >> [...] svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed > > SUN has changed the NFS code for directory access in Solaris 2.4. New > > implementations use a non-standard block size of 8192 bytes in their > > READDIR requests. > Sun wrote and owns NFS, no? I don't understand how Sun's implementation > could ever be described as "non-standard". > You're right that non-obsolete versions of NFS (ie, versions 2 or 3, not > version 1, which is what NEXTSTEP ships with) To clarify a point here, NEXTSTEP uses NFSv2, not version 1 as pointed out. And yes, NFSv3 contains enhancements that causes 'some' inconsistencies with previous implementations. These inconsistencies can easily be overcome. -- Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to Solaris Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:17:16 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <klzZywe00iWSQ7WNsN@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <wlzM5yW00iWRQ=dIce@andrew.cmu.edu> <4tlj32$7ka@crcnis3.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <4tlj32$7ka@crcnis3.unl.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 30-Jul-96 Re: NeXTSTEP nfs export to .. by Rex Dieter@math.unl.edu >> Sun wrote and owns NFS, no? I don't understand how Sun's implementation >> could ever be described as "non-standard". >> You're right that non-obsolete versions of NFS (ie, versions 2 or 3, not >> version 1, which is what NEXTSTEP ships with) > > To clarify a point here, NEXTSTEP uses NFSv2, not version 1 as pointed out. Since when? The header files I once looked at strongly implied that they were using NFSv1, but I admit that I haven't checked probably since 2.2 or 3.0. > And yes, NFSv3 contains enhancements that causes 'some' inconsistencies > with previous implementations. These inconsistencies can easily be > overcome. Certainly. From the Solaris 2 FAQ: 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. ------------- -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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